So, yeah, my name is Stephen Jones. Good evening. I'm a psychologist and my education also a sports scientist and I currently work as a neurofeedback therapist in medical practice here in the center of Munich. As the word neurofeedback would imply, we're working with processes within the brain that we're trying to influence in a positive way by generating feedback about them to improve certain the brain's regulation, the brain's self-regulation. So, first question, by a show of hands, how many of you have heard of neurofeedback? That's quite a few. That's good. That's sort of what I was expecting, about almost maybe 60-40%. So, let's go and take a look at what it actually is. Very simply put, it's an EEG technique for training the regulation of unconscious activities in the brain. So, what we do is we place electrodes on the scalp. As you can see, our volunteer has one on the back of his head here. You can't see them so well from there. And we measure the electrical activity that goes on on the top layer of our brain, which is sent through an amplifier to a screen that you can see over there.  And we try and generate feedback about this activity. So, the most basic form would be to say, okay, we show the person the lines and say, improve them. That won't work very well, though. So, what we use is music, videos, or games that are based on a threshold and react to the activity. So, every time a certain activity goes below the threshold, sorry, above the threshold, we reward our client or our patient. For example, by the music getting louder or the video, as in this example, getting bigger. And every time it's below the threshold, the music will get quieter and smaller. So, we're rewarding positive behavior in the brain, basically. You may have heard of operant conditioning. I'm not going to go into detail, but it's based on that. So, why do we think this is important? Why do we do it? Here, you can see the number of lost working days per 100 employees over the last 20 years. And you can see it's tripled over 20 years. And we do suspect that there's a much larger dark figure, obviously because people don't like to talk about psychological problems, as it's often seen as a weakness, unfortunately. And so, we also see people who come to us and won't tell us what's wrong with them. I don't want to have neurofeedback training, but three or four weeks later, they'll start opening up and telling us about problems they may have. So, that's why we suspect that these numbers aren't quite accurate. So, that's why we believe we need to find a way to interact with the brain rather than just handing out pills that help with the symptoms but don't actually solve the problem. So, can neurofeedback solve the problem? Well, it's not a magical cure. It's been around for half a century and it hasn't managed to break through completely yet. But it is a very useful tool in treating the symptoms severity, treating comorbid symptoms, and also for improving the quality of life and general well-being. I mean, we all go to the gym because we know physical activity is going to make us feel better, it's going to make us more healthy, it's probably going to have longer lives and we're going to prevent certain issues when we're older. So, why don't we do the same for the brain? And that's pretty much what we're trying to do here. We're trying to train the brain to have a more healthy regulation. So, let's go into a bit more detail of how it works. This is an EEG.  There are 19 channels here. There are 19 different points on our head. And as you can see, at the same time, we have different types of activity depending on the location. And it's when these patterns fall out of balance, the symptoms start to occur. So, let's just go and have a look exactly what we're measuring here, what these lines actually mean in the brain. So, this is a neuron. And we have the line underneath is a so-called action potential. Some of you may have heard of this in school. You may remember it from biology classes. A neuron has a resting potential of minus 70 microvolts. And when there's a certain exchange in positively and negatively charged molecules, what happens is an action potential is created. That means that the cell suddenly depolarizes and you get sort of a line like this if you measure it with one electrode. Anyway, it's just a picture of a cell basically. So, we have positively charged molecules, negatively charged molecules inside and outside the cell. They're constantly changing and for whatever reason, the sudden increase within the cell, or outside the cell and then you see this action potential. That's basically what we're measuring. So, we'll skip that slide.  We work with two features in your feedback on EEG generally, I guess. We have the amplitude, which is the height of the brain wave, measured in microvolts. And that represents the strength. So, the number of neurons doing exactly the same thing at the same time on a certain location. And we have the frequency which we work with, which is the speed of the brain waves. So, that's measured in hertz. It's the number of cycles per second. And based on the frequency, we can separate or divide the raw EEG into frequency bands, as you can see here. So, you can see at the bottom we have the delta activity which are slower waves and larger amplitudes. This is something that we measure predominantly when we're asleep. And for example, if we're sort of concentrating, working hard on an exam or just work focused very strongly, we have lots of high-better waves, the faster ones with a smaller amplitude. And that's a good thing. We need these brain waves for different mental states that we're in. It's just when we have the certain frequencies at the wrong location, I guess, or a location that we don't want to see them over a long period of time when we have problems. But just to make this whole thing a little bit more clear, this is why I've hooked up our volunteer here, is to go into a quick demonstration. So, this is what you're going to see in a second. I'll just have to walk over here to change a few things. But I'll just show you over here right now. So, here you can see, well, this white line is the raw EEG, all the frequencies are contained in here. We've filtered out the alpha. You'll see why in a second for demonstration purposes. And that's the alpha amplitude it represents. And here we also have the alpha amplitude. Now, we want to report the alpha activity every time it goes above a certain threshold, which is here, this little arrow. I don't know if you can't see it as well. There's a small arrow here. Every time the brain activity goes above the alpha, this number here, which is the percentage of time above threshold, will go up. And the case of the game that I'm going to show you in a second, the monk will also react to it. So, I'll just switch screens quickly to walk around. So, this would be the game. So, you can see the monk's going sort of quite low right now, but he's going up and down a little bit. And that's the reaction to his brain activity. So, I ask our volunteer now to close your eyes for a couple of seconds. Now, you can see the monk rising up very quickly. And that's the alpha activity suddenly shooting up. It's a healthy, normal reaction to when we close our eyes. So, that's good. So, we go back to the screen here. So, you close your eyes one more time. Yeah, you can see the alpha shooting up the top of the thermometer now. Yeah, so that's basically what we work with.  So, back to the brain waves. It's very simplified, but it gives sort of a rough idea of how it works. The slower waves are present or dominant when we're more calm. And the faster ones, as we get more stressed or more focused or concentrated on things. It's important though to understand that all these frequencies happen parallel. There's no good waves or bad waves. They're all happening at the same time. And it's the dominance that varies. What we tend to see a very concrete example would be burnout. When people suffer burnout, often it's work related. And they're working their 12-hour days, 6 days a week, week after week, month after month. So, they're using the front part of the brains and generating a lot of this high beta activity, which they need. But if it's constantly there, the brain starts to make that the new normal regulation. So, they're not able to switch off anymore and relax. So, with those people, we try and turn things around or teach them, train them to be able to switch off their brain waves and to control and regulate their brain waves more consciously. This is an example of one of our patients. Ah, something's happened here. Okay, it's supposed to be delta theta alpha beta gamma. This is typical for depression. This is a so-called quantitative EEG. It's a resting EEG of a whole brain of the 19 electrodes or 19 points that I showed you earlier. And we compare the EEG to a large database. And it sort of shows you, compared to the database, how many standard deviations or how do you compare to what we'd expect in a healthy person of that age and that gender. So, red means we have too much of something compared to what we'd expect. And blue is too little. So, here we see lots of too much theta, too much alpha and too much beta, particularly in the frontal areas. And that would suggest the theta is associated with anxiety, for example. Alpha is associated with the frontal areas with lack of focus, lack of concentration. And the high beta would be constant stress, basically, or circling thoughts, which we see in depression. So, with this person, we did about two months of training. He asked if we could do another quantity of EEG, which we don't always do. We're trying to do more and more now to generate more evidence for what we do. And we saw something like this. SMR training, that just basically means that we're training the theta down whilst we're training some more relaxing frequencies up. I'm not going to go into detail on this, but we're basically training theta down and we'd also add an alpha training as well.  So, there's a great improvement here. And this often matches what the people are telling us as well when they come and see us. After certain... Well, surprisingly, it doesn't go back so quickly. No, the effects are lasting once you reach a state. So, we do recommend that the people come back to us for like another boost session. But, yeah, the effects are pretty good. I'm pretty lasting. So, who is nearer feedback for? We say it's for everyone. So, I've talked to you about the patients just now, but we also see lots of businessmen, you know, top managers who are stressed all the time and we try and sort of do vaccination trainings with them or concentration trainings, focus trainings to increase productivity. So, that's more preventative training. However, we are working towards taking this into health management and we have some big projects going on there. It's nothing new to the world of sports to be around for decades and particularly in the field of golf, it's a very... a very useful tool because when they're putting, they have to be focused in the moment and every movement has to be, you know, carried out carefully. And there are some interesting studies there as well if you're interested. We see a lot of students who come to us who have difficulty taking exams because they get nervous and even though they've learned everything, they fail. So, we'll combine the nearer feedback with example questions perhaps from the exam and just go through it with them. And we also see artists. So, we have a project going on with classical musicians in Augsburg. It's surprising how competitive it is. If you've gone through the whole classical training in music, classical music training, you end up competing against 500 other people for one job in an orchestra and you have to audition so you're playing, you know, behind a curtain so you don't even see your face whilst you're playing. So, they need to be able to perform in the moment and we actually receive feedback from one of the people we're doing a study with saying that he got a job and he says it's only due to nearer feedback that he was able to perform. And that might be a slightly extreme statement. I mean, I wouldn't say we can, as I said earlier, we can't cure everything but he associated it with nearer feedback, which is a very positive thing so it's definitely a helping tool. So, that's pretty much about nearer feedback itself, like the basis of nearer feedback, I guess. Now, where do we see the future of nearer feedback? And these are things we're doing at the moment in our practice. We're sort of trying to develop new technology and new methods and we're working with virtual reality so we're creating whole environments that will react to your brain activity which would make the whole experience more intensive and it also takes away the distraction because you're sitting in the room, you know, in your chair, doing your feedback on a screen, you always have a therapist sitting next to you looking at you, watching you. So, this is probably going to, we hope, lead to stronger effects and a more fun experience. Now, you also have the mobile training systems that we hand out as an addition to the therapy. It doesn't replace therapy but people are using it at home, for example, maybe to help and sleep. So now, before going to bed, they might do a new feedback training to sort of calm themselves down and then fall asleep easier. Yeah, so that's pretty much nearer feedback in 50 minutes. As said before, there's a break now. You're all welcome to come and have a go and test it out for yourself. Yeah, thanks for coming out and listening this evening. Thank you. Thank you very much, Stephen. And as always, we have time for some questions. So, robotics, the goal is to read mind or one of the things is to read mind in such a way that it can be, for example, applied for controlling machine or something. It doesn't have anything in common. I mean, there are some things in common but we're not trying to read minds. We're just giving feedback about the brain's activity and we're using computers to do that. Yeah, so it's not quite the same thing. It's not quite the same. So one question. Somebody who's bipolar or other disorder, how can this help? Right, I didn't mention this. So we see a whole range of disorders and I showed you the brain map just now, the colorful pictures of the brain of the head and with different disorders, so like, for example, the depression or with bipolar or a whole range of disorders, you come up with the same patterns over and over again. So based on these pictures, we create a training protocol to decide which frequencies are we going to train or which location on the brain and then we just work towards it. But it's not sort of like a psychotherapy we're not talking through their problems. It's more of a training. It's more of a training rather than therapy to keep it positive. Yeah, in general, this is more than an addition to treatment they already have. It just sort of helps that. So it doesn't replace other treatments for serious disorders. It's an addition for that. Okay, from this side? Yes, you are on the back. What do you mean by fixed, external? Yeah, that's basically what we're doing. So we're rewarding the frequencies or the amplitude of the frequencies that we want to see in a healthy functioning brain. No, we don't generate frequency. No, we're just measuring. We're measuring the frequency in the brain and we're feeding that back. That's all we're doing. It's much more simple. It's a long theory, but we don't do that. I have done it in the past, but that's not what we do. Yes, please? Yes, and then after that. Yeah, well first of all, when people come with depression, they're in treatment with a psychiatrist. This isn't replacing other forms of therapy. It's an addition to what is already being done. The thing is, the typical person with depression is someone who has gone through all the medication and we know it's trial and error process until you find the one that works for you and they say it's just not working and they want to try something different. Then they come to us. We have a doctor in the practice as well who I work for. We do also contact the people who are already treating them. We are very careful with this and we are very responsible. Okay, I have to cut the discussions because I promised him to get the questions, but Steven is also available during the break. The feedback can be a game. It can be a film. We always combine it with music or sound of some kind, so they've got the visual and the auditory. In theory, it can be anything you can feel. It could be a massaging chair that vibrates in theory. The feedback that reacts to the threshold that you're going over, right over low. That's pretty much how it works. Yeah. No. No. Okay, thank you everyone. Thank you, Steven. One more time.


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My last question before we have a few audience questions. I was very struck by what I think is your latest New Yorker column, where you wrote about what is parallel and not parallel between the cases of Edward Snowden and Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers case. And in my reading of the Pentagon Papers case, here's what really struck and astonished me. And I'd like your view on how it's changed. When the Pentagon Papers became public in, I think, 1971, first, they were incredibly boring. But when you did read them or read excerpts, one of the things that startled so many people is it came out that there were accords dating back to 1954, where it turned out America had broken the accords and not North Vietnam. And this shocked people and caused them to reassess their whole sense of the Vietnam War. And that's 1954, which was then from 1971, a long time ago. So there was a sense of history embedded in how people understood that episode that seems to me entirely lacking today to get someone to care that much about something done under other administrations. 17 years earlier, seems virtually impossible. And what is it about America that's changed so that history now doesn't matter the way it did then? So this is, you've touched on the thing about the Pentagon Papers controversy, which is, in retrospect, so unbelievable. Viewed it through a present-day lens, the whole thing is bananas. It makes no sense whatsoever. It's the most hilariously wonky, nerdy exercise. So even step back. What is the Pentagon Papers? It is Robert McNamara saying in, whatever, 69 or 68, whatever, what we really need is to get the smartest historians in the room to write me a 10-volume set on historical analysis going back 20 years on this conflict we're involved in. So right from the start, we're in a kind of rarefied academic realm.  And you have Ellsberg, who is the central player in this whole thing. And what is Ellsberg? He is the wonkist of the wonks. So he wrote a bit of it. And his great complaint as he takes, he gets a copy of the Pentagon Papers, he's trying to get everyone to read it. And by reading it, he means, I need you to go away for however many months it'll take you and work your way through all 10 volumes. And there's these hilarious conversations he has with Kissinger, where he's trying to get, Kissinger just wants a summary. He's like, no, you can't do a summary. You've got to read the whole thing. You've got to get a couple thousand words in before. Page is in before it makes any sense. And it's just like, there's no contemporary.  It's not just 2017 and 1971, viewed through the lens of the Pentagon Papers controversy. They belong on different planets. I mean, we're not even the whole. And when the New York Times gets the copies, I mean, remember, it takes them like a year or whatever to photocopy all of it, because it's enormous and the copies are really slow. And the great year, the great story, which is the woman who is now Linda Resnick, who's now a billionaire and lives in the great, you know, when you're driving down Wilshire in Beverly Hills, there's like those massive houses to your left, where you drive into Beverly Hills. She lives in one of those houses. She's the one who has the pomegranate juice, palm juice, anyway. She was the girlfriend of Ellsberg's best friend. And she ran an ad agency on Beverly Boulevard, and she had a Xerox machine, which is a huge deal in 1971. So he does it. He goes, she's the one who provides this, which I just think is up. I once ran into her at some event in LA. I was like, you had the Xerox machine. What a great role to play in history. But every part of it is all about people who took history so seriously that they were willing to spend all night photocopying for months on end. And then Ellsberg took copies. He went around the Capitol also trying to get senators to read it.  And over and over again, the complaint that drove him to Lincoln to the New York Times was that no one's taking this seriously. And what does the New York Times do when they get the copies? They rent a room, two rooms, in the Hilton, like right next to the New York Times headquarters, put a guard out front, and then spend months reading it. Again, months reading it, months. Like, it's just this kind of thing that it's just, I mean, imagine today if this thing dropped. I didn't even know how we would, people would have to do takes that would come out within six hours. I mean, there isn't, they'd have to do an executive summary of the executive summary in order to be able to, like, yeah, the whole age doesn't, it belongs to a different era. I almost feel like it's the last, it feels like it is the final act in an intellectual era in American life when institutionalized government was expected to comport itself according to standards and norms that came from the academy, right? That's what's, the whole thing is about people who came out of elite schools and had a certain expectation about what it meant to be a public servant and what your intellectual responsibilities were as a public servant. And they carried those norms with them from graduate school to Washington, right? And that's the whole, and the fact that Ellsberg is a PhD in decision sciences and wrote papers with Thomas Schelling is not a peripheral fact, it's the core fact, right? That's who they were, right? So when you, we go fast forward and you have Edward Snowden, who is a community college dropout, which I don't say is a snobbish thing, I'm contrasting him to his predecessor who was a PhD from MIT, right? And Snowden's intellectual understanding of what he was engaged in is just, it is a fraction of, he used a search engine, just to pluck stuff at random from the NSA files and hand it over to people. That's not what Ellsberg was doing. And in the gap between those two figures is the story of the last 50 years of the changes of the last 50 years in American life.


What's up everybody, Jayce here for jayspeakscasebreak.com 2022 hit parade baseball limited edition series 15 just sold out This is a dual case break random teams number one where it's 20 boxes guys So a lot of hits to dish out remember you get one Autograph per box it's either autograph card remember really autograph card or dual autograph cards and then there's a cell sheet hits potentially there and then of course we have the Names in here and the pack winners as well and then I forgot to put the teammates, but I've got the teams really quick roll it two and a six eight times One two three four five six seven eight Craig down to Zach I Don't know just talk this Arnold Palmer get royalties for any time we say his name at a restaurant, and we want his drink I know he gets sponsors just probably Arizona Two and a six eight eight. Let's go here one Two three four five six seven Eight I really don't every restaurant's gonna get charged for saying Arnold Palmer All he did was just mix in two different types of liquid drinks together Don't be wrong. It was magical But I would assume Tommy John potentially maybe gets a royalty, but I think he's just happy they named something after him I mean Two eight Alright, so Craig with the Tigers Alan with the Pirates, Brett with the D-backs, John with the Dodgers, Ryan with the Giants, Tyler with the Marlins, Brett with the Mets, Steve Guardians, Gary, Brace, Bill, Nationals, Gary, Padres, Ryan, Red Sox, Jarrett, Brewers, Charles with the Rays, Steve Bridge with the Astros, Marvin with the Reds, Brett with the Rangers, Gary with the Cubs, Steve Bridge with the White Sox, Stephen Kendra with the Mariners, Nester with the Phillies, Gary with the Orals, Ken Bottom, you have the A's, Ryan with the Rockies, James with the Angels, Alan with the Royals, Eddie with the Yankees, James with the Twins, Brandon with the Cardinals, and Zach with the Toronto Blue Jays. I'll leave the page up for about a minute guys. Remember, I don't really pause the video, so I'll let you guys trade. If you guys need to see your teams. Alright, anybody want to trade or no? TWC thing guys. I was actually working on the R&B, so I was giving you guys extra time. Alright, coolio. Kids said no for that. Our kids are smart, right? Kids nowadays are very very smart. They know what they want. They know what they got. Yeah, if there's one thing, man, it probably just loves the Houston Astros. And I get it, you know, they're not as popular as they once were because of the whole, you know, cheating stuff. But they still have great players and obviously cards obviously aren't too expensive to purchase and resell. 92 out of 100, good luck. Let's go. Most people probably don't want it anymore, but there's no Angel fans. I mean, there's still Astro fans out there. I know a few. Jacob DeGrom, 6 of 10. Mets. I don't know if the Mets are on the block with Brett. You're on the board. Yellich is another popular brewer that's always in hip-rate stuff too. Dynasty. Wow, well this guy actually is not a bad one to get out of all the Houston Astro players. 2 out of 10. Top's Dynasty, Yordan Alvarez. 2021 Dynasty. There you go, Steve. On the board. Robin Yell, 4-mil Wauke, 7 out of 99. I know try to trade, couldn't trade Mojo for sure right there, right? I think, I don't think he's had the best couple of seasons or at least wasn't really out there, same thing with the team. But early on this year, I mean, he had another, he had another cycle, which I'm sure helped his market a little bit. Inception for the Dodgers, Gavin Lux to 50. John, the Dodgers. For the Angels, Rob Caru, 10 out of 18. Angels, that's going to James. There you go, Jimmy. Out of 99, Matt Olson for the A's. Ken Bong. The Labor Torres, someone had mentioned to me that he's been having a much better year this year than last year or two, right? I think he has more home runs already than he did last year. 33 out of 50. And that's Yankee's Eddie. We have a Ozzy Albee's. Gypsy Queen rookie autograph there for the Atlanta Braves, Gary with that one, and a Kyle Lewis rookie. 2020 Bowman Sterling rookie autograph, Speckler refractors. And if it wasn't for the Surfers at 8.5, even if it was a 9, that would have been a 9.5. So there you go, it's a 99. Mariners. That is going to Stephen Kendrick. Last one here is a Joey Bart rookie for the Giants. That is going to Ryan, and that'll be our last hit of the case right there. So I don't know if Nick put up all the cell sheet hits, but it seems that we didn't get one of those. Oh, yeah, we did. The Yordon was the cell sheet hit, actually. It's right at the bottom corner, so that Yordon was one of the bigger hits. So there you go, nice one, Steve. Luckily, this is a dual case, right? So we still got another case to go. Also, let me check this out before I forget. I don't know, man, that Kyle Lewis is just so injured, right? Like, he's fragile. Flauels had two spots left, now there's 10. I'd never seen it down to two left. It was always at 10 for me. So it might have been a glitch on your side, Joe. It's always been at 10 for me. Jared Kalanick to 199 for the Mariners. I'm going to random number block the last 10 teams though, right now, after these breaks. Are you sure, Joe? Are we talking to the right Flauels?  Yes. So you guys sold out the straight up spots quickly. So instead of having to do two fillers, because the first one isn't moving as quickly as I thought it was, I put back spots. Gotcha. I think you're talking about Flauels football. I was like, what? Whoa. Joe Adele and Alex Kierlov. 14 out of 25. Dual Flauels patch autographs. So that's Angels, James, Minnesota, James. Wow. I don't even have to randomize this. Yeah. So there is still 10 left, but that's because I canceled a filler. So instead of doing two fillers, now we just got to sell 10 spots in one filler. If the filler sells out really fast all of a sudden, then I will take out those 10 spots again and do the second filler. But that's just because you guys are buying the spots straight up first. So why do two fillers when we just have to do one and just sell 20 spots straight up? Sorry, you got me confused for a second. So yeah, if anybody's wondering for that Flauels baseball, just one filler that's on the website and those 10 spots. I'd rather have not left. I didn't want to leave it at zero and have to do two fillers because then the filler wasn't really moving. Chris Bryant to 25. That is for the Chicago Cubs. Cubs is Gary. Chris Sale for Boston. One out of 25. No, you're good, man. The way we do things here is that we pre-take out spots and account them for for fillers because there's times where some breaks sell out instantly through pack fillers because they don't want to pay the full price. But then there's times where this full spot sell much quicker than the pack filler. So we practically take out spots beforehand and if they're selling one way faster, then we cancel one or the other. So you're good, man. We don't also want to oversell. So we have to take them up prehand or take them on as we go. A six pack material signatures of Christian Pache. And because this isn't a real seal, this is just a hip parade seal. Let's just show you guys what this looks like. That is a Christian Pache for Atlanta. And there you go. So Atlanta Braves. It's another one for Gary. Hidden Hunter. I don't think we have absolute NFL. If you're talking MLB, baseball, we did that earlier. It should be uploaded already. Alec Boehm to 99. If it's not, I'll double check on it. But it should be on the website already or on YouTube. That's for the Phillies to 99. That's going to Nestor. Francisco Landofer Cleveland, 7 of 10. Cleveland. Steve Birch. A one of one Gary Sheffield. How about that for the Miami Marlins? Tyler. There you go. Marlins Uno of Uno from Signature Series Archives. I don't even know the year, but there you go. I don't know if it's 2021, 2022. Usually says somewhere there, but it doesn't. 2021, sorry. There you go. Very nice. Conan Ward to 50. That's for the Padres. Padres, that is Gary. All right. Last box year of the break, guys. Good luck. And another yard on Alvarez, archival autographs. Sorry. Archival autographs, 25 out of 50. So I don't know. Did we hit a sell sheet on this one too? I don't think so. I don't think Nick displayed all of them because there's only showing one, two, three, four, five, six. So you probably only had enough for six of them. Although that one was really nice though. All right, guys. Well, there you go. That was the break. So I appreciate it, guys. So I didn't really need to randomize that dual autograph, right? Jimmy, you have both, right? Angels and twins. Yep. Perfect. Appreciate it, guys. That was dual case break number one. We don't got no more, but hopefully we get another series worth. Appreciate it, guys. Jaspy's Case Breaks.com.


Hi, my name is Rhys Oxner, I'm the Director of the Customer and Field Engagement team here at Red Hat. We're responsible for strategic customer engagement and technical marketing for hybrid platforms. In this short video I'm going to give you a quick demonstration of Red Hat's OpenShift Assisted Installer, a component that has been evolving over the last couple of years but has recently become generally available. For those that aren't familiar with the Assisted Installer, it's a SaaS-based utility that helps with the deployment of OpenShift, simplifying the provisioning of the cluster from the ground up with minimal external dependencies via console.redder.com. For the purpose of keeping this video as short as possible, many sections have been heavily sped up. To get started, users need to navigate through to console.redder.com. Select OpenShift, select the Data Center tab given that this solution is typically suited to on-premise clusters and you'll see the Assisted Installer option at the top. I'll select Create Cluster and it'll take me through to the cluster creation wizard. It'll first ask me for my name for my cluster, which I'll call RDO, my initials, and then fill out the base domain, which matches the environment that I'll be deploying into. Now I can select the OpenShift version where a range of releases are supported but I'll go with the latest 4.10.11 version. I then have the option to deploy single-node OpenShift, suitable for the smallest possible footprints comprising of a single server.  There's also some additional options for manually updating the pull secret and enabling encryption for my nodes, but I'll leave these for today. When ready, I'll hit Next Proceed. I'm then presented with the host discovery screen where I'm able to provide further configuration, such as enabling additional functionality like OpenShift Virtualization or OpenShift Data Foundations, which I'll skip for now. Provisioning nodes within the Assisted Installer couldn't be easier. We need only Generate an ISO based on my configuration, attach it to our target nodes and boot them up. They'll then appear in the UI for our use. I'll select the Add Hosts option where a new pane will show up. I can optionally configure HTTP proxy, pull in my secure shell key for troubleshooting before having the choice of a minimal disk image or a full disk image created, and given that I'm going to boot my target nodes via virtual media, I'll select this option as it's a much smaller image. Now I'll select Generate Discovery ISO and one will be made available for me to download. I'll copy the link to this image and jump over to my remote desktop session where I have virtual media access to the target bare metal systems. I'm going to run through this section really quickly for the purposes of the video, but I'm downloading the generated disk image, attaching it to the virtual media on the Dell blades that I've got access to and powering them on. This is the extent of the work I need to do to get these machines registered via the Assisted Installer. These machines will boot up into a CoreOS disk image, start up an agent, and will allow us to remotely configure and deploy the OpenShift cluster with the chosen options. After a few minutes, each of these hosts will report in, and we can view the discovered specifications of the systems, including CPU, memory, disks, and networking configuration. Now that all three have reported in, we can click next to proceed. On the following page, we're asked to configure networking for our cluster. It's automatically detected the single subnet I have available and is defaulted to the DHCP-based virtual IP application, which I wish to override as I preconfigured my DNS with different IP addresses. I'll skip advanced networking for now as the default suit by environment. If I scroll down, you'll see that the UI is complaining that my cluster is insufficient, primarily due to networking access and NTP, but after a few seconds, these issues are resolved and we can proceed further. I'll click next and it'll take me to a review page. This all looks good to me, so we'll select create cluster. Now the cluster will be deployed. I can watch all of the various different steps and view a detailed log of cluster events by clicking on the button at the bottom of the page. As you can see, the nodes have now progressed into a starting installation phase. And you'll also witness that one of the nodes has been selected as the temporary bootstrap node. The deployment process simply deploys a temporary two node cluster on the other two nodes, where the third stand in bootstrap machine helps establish the cluster. Then when the cluster is up, it pivots and gets deployed as a full third cluster node. The deployment process takes approximately 30 minutes end to end within this environment, and we can watch the various steps again individually on one of the nodes or by looking at the detailed cluster events panel. So there we go. Installation is complete. I will copy the Kubeb impasto that it provides and select the console URL and validate that my cluster is up and running. It all looks good. The dashboard is presented. And if I navigate over to the node section, you can see all three of my machines reporting in. That concludes today's demonstration. Thank you for watching. I hope that it gave you a better understanding of the assisted installer.


Okay, all right, so we're back from our breakout rooms. I hope you guys had an opportunity to chat and think about some of the things we learned in the course and possible applications. So I'm just gonna take one question, you know, and while I answer this question, we haven't seen too many questions, so please chat and throw them in the chat so that we can begin to answer them. So the first question we had was from Naeson and it was really, you know, what is a supply chain controller? How is this purchase set up? Where do we begin to obtain one? So, you know, at this point, the supply chain control towers is really, it's a very popular term in consulting. So I've seen it talked about with Accenture and Capgemini and other consulting firms and what it's proposed to do, and you know, there's a couple, you know, businesses offering supply chain control towers, but it's really integrating all the different pieces of the supply chain systems. So it really tries to bring together the end-to-end supply chain, make it collaborative, aligned, agile, demand-driven. So what it's trying to do is pull real-time data from your, from a company's existing integrated data management and transactional systems and really kind of facilitate a more real-time, real, you know, real information, one truth kind of information together. So of course this is ideal, so your existing supply chain systems have to have good data, you know, they have to be in a certain amount of time. And the other part is really, you know, the fact that it's collaborative, there has to be a sign-on from your suppliers and customers to provide that kind of information to integrate into a supply chain control tower. So a lot of the ways that I've seen at this point with control towers is really, you know, it's sort of a 3PL or a third-party managing the control tower and bringing together all those pieces, possibly a consulting firm implementation.  There are many and, you know, figuring out exactly what each provides, you know, you know, obviously we've given you the tools now at this point to look out what are sort of the pros and cons and various needs within different supply chain solutions. And, you know, whether a supply chain control tower can be, you know, the right solution for your business. The other challenge is that because it's real time, it requires very independent management. So you need people manning the, you know, that control tower as opposed to some of the other supply chain systems that sort of have preferable management by different departments, you know, this is very much control, you know, executing real time, making sure that the data is being, you know, managed appropriately so that you can get that real time and kind of very sophisticated analytics. So it's still sort of an early days kind of topic, but I know that it's coming in more popularity as, especially as companies are starting to think more about, you know, end to supply chain for, you know, possibly omnichannel or visibility upstream. So definitely something I would do, you know, some of your own due diligence on learning about it. So I hope that answers that question on supply chain control tower. And then we're just, you know, feel free to throw in some questions now. Hopefully, you know, whether it be just an anecdote or a question about the course and, you know, we're happy to address them now. So I think the question that just came on, what are the current applications within the supply chain world for blockchain? Okay, so that's a doozy. So there's a blockchain is, you know, I'm sure, if you haven't heard blockchain, then, you know, of course sure it's been, it's been floated, that word's been floating around everywhere, right? So it's really the system that Bitcoin is built on as we all learned and sort of the overview for blockchain and some of the immediate applications, some of it is supply chain contracts. So really, you know, digitizing supply chain contracts and sort of automating some of that process. So if you want more insight, you know, we have the video with Professor Abel Sanchez on blockchain. So I definitely recommend watching that because he has some really nice kind of recap on where it's gonna be applications in supply chain. But the other factor that's really driving, you know, and of course I have a personal interest in this for blockchain is this visibility issue. So as we all know, there's really a lot of challenge in data management and supply chains, right? There's ownership problems, you know, so I don't wanna share my data with my buyer because they might be able to use it against me to figure out costs and things like that. So although that limits sort of this ability to do a lot of very strategic supply chain planning and ensuring, you know, reduced risk and things like that. So one thing that the blockchain does is sort of serve as this neutral data ledger, right? So then you can access to that information about possibly a product or a specific supply chain and, you know, have that accessibility and continuity of that information as well as that it can't be, you know, modified or, you know, changed anyway. So, you know, some of this is really enabling traceability for products so that you can have a chain of custody in terms of, you know, from possibly raw material to end of life and being able to have that information shared and jointly across the supply chain. There's a lot of different challenges that also Abel talks about, you know, about permissions. So who's allowed to access that data, who's allowed to, you know, because there's permission less systems and there's permission systems. So again, this is some of the very in-depth information on how blockchain specifically works. So I'll say some of the, you know, big pieces are very much on visibility and traceability and then on contract. So I recommend going to that video. If you haven't seen it, then there's, you know, obviously a lot of information there and the wealth of information out there about blockchain and its applications. Okay, so then we have, Param has a question on real-time rerouting of trucks based on weather issues or road disruptions. So, you know, I think that this is something that is in currents now, right? So you have sort of these transportation optimization systems that are based on dated data. So I think that it's very much something actually, you know, Matias hopefully touched on in his, I believe. Yes, I believe he touched on a little bit but I'd definitely look into Matias, Dr. Matias Winkenbach, he has a lab called the MegaCity Logistics Lab and this is actually some of the very much information that they're looking on right now. So looking at sort of this real-time logistics management. So whether you're getting that information about disruptions in the supply chain and possibly making decisions on the ground, I don't, I hesitate to say, you know, that's active in many transportation systems but I know that sort of this real-time, you know, kind of GPS tracing on trucks and translating that back to headquarters and having, being able to reroute based on real-time information is very much a, you know, an active issue emerging right now where if you want real efficiency in your transportation management then you are starting to think about that. So I think that that's very much in discussions now and some companies are beginning to really take that into account and use real-time information. So we have a, so we have an experience sort of an anecdote from Robert and, you know, the great, we love to hear this kind of anecdote that he's really been able to use a lot of the supply chain course because he has sort of a limited experience in the supply chain field. So he's a project manager for IoT and a blockchain project for supply chain called Smart Log. So, you know, it sounds like Robert's expert we should be talking to about blockchain applications and supply chain because he's obviously managing a project directly on that.  And so, you know, hearing how you can use this every day is really, really what drives us and what really gets us up in the morning with a big cup of coffee. So I think, I don't see Arthur, let's see if there's any other questions. Connor, do you have any comments you wanna throw in? I'm not seeing any, we're kind of coming down to the end here.  No, I think I'm all set here. So I really appreciate the time that I've had here with you guys. And I really appreciate you inviting me out to do this with you guys. Great, thanks Connor, thanks for joining. You know, Connor's been such a key component of this course. He's been essential to so many of the things you guys touch every day in this course. So we're so lucky to have him. So we're just glad that you're able to join us today and just as a, you know, re-re-re-recap. If I haven't recapped enough, final exam opens next Wednesday, 1500 UTC. So, you know, as far as this week is sort of the prep week, take some time to recap the course. You know, that was part of why we held this session here to kind of refresh, spend, you know, a long 10 weeks. So what we've done throughout the course, it's going to be equally split between the two courses, obviously with a little bit extra emphasis on the latter half of the course, but the weeks one through four will also be tested on as well. So, you know, go back through the key concepts. We've uploaded, you know, a new version that includes all of the lessons, excluding week 10 since you won't be tested on that. As far as, you know, a graded assignment due tomorrow. And then also, if you had a chance to do the open response assessment, your peer assessment is due tomorrow on that. So if you had a chance to take a look at that, please do, you know, make sure to submit that tomorrow. And the last final note is that we will have the CFX session next week, Monday at 1600 UTC with Dr. Ponce and myself. Please join that if you're planning to take the CFX, which will be held early February of next year. And, you know, at that point we'll answer a lot of those questions. And so I think we'll wrap it up for the day and thanks a lot and we will see you again soon.


All right, Bola buddies. Let me know in the comments if this is you. Do you check the wallets? I don't normally, but if they're right there in the hard goods, I'll check them. No luck here. Hey, Bola buddies. Thanks for watching. Amazing, right? All right, let's get started. All right, so here we are. We are at the Goodwill Benz and I love it. And I got to tell you, it's been over a month since I have been there because I have been listing like a machine to get these videos out for you guys. And I'm getting a lot listed. You're going to see quite a few items that I picked up to sell. So how I do my Goodwill Benz videos is I show you the footage. I do a voiceover and I pop up screen shares of everything that I list. If I do not pop up a screen share, that means I threw the item back and I did not buy it or I have not listed it yet. So the game you just saw me put in the bottom of my cart, I ended up looking up comps and throwing that item back. Sometimes I will part games out. It really just depends on the situation, but that one I did not keep. What I also like to do in my Goodwill Benz videos is ask the viewers to tell me what I miss and timestamp it in the comments. So let's say I missed something at three minutes and 20 seconds. You can put the timestamp and then say you missed this. I've done really well with those. I picked them up all the time. They sell for good money or something like that. I did pick up that little bunnies on the bay. It was a little rattle and I could not find any comps on that exact item. So I listed that high and I'm hoping that the right buyer is going to come along for that. I have found with plush, particularly the lovies, the little blankets, there is always someone looking for a replacement. So definitely be on the lookout for those. I'm hoping that little rattle is going to be kind of the same concept. There is one thing I throw in my cart. Actually there's a couple things that I just have not listed yet and we'll talk about it when we get to those items. I do pick up all little Legos. I pretty much am a Lego hoarder and I have totes and totes upon Legos. I use them to complete sets and from time to time I will dig at them and list them individually. I did a bear the other day with a little sign and that one sold really quickly. Just little different things. I have some of them bagged on Poshmark so I also pick up any shoes, 18 inch shoes and I will pick them up and throw them in my bag and if I don't find the match, if it's an American girl, I will sell it individually. That shoe listing you just saw was a single shoe and I already sold a single shoe this year that I picked up from the Benz that was American Girl. So it is definitely possible. Just make sure you disclose that they are only getting one shoe and the reason people buy those is because their kids lose a shoe and they just want the replacement. So a lot of those items are discontinued and you can't just go buy them again at the store so people turn to eBay for those replacements. If you watch my channel you will see I do a lot of replacement parts, a lot of bread and butter, a lot of long tail items. I'm okay with that. I am a listed and forget it type of eBay sales lady. I guess you can call me sales lady. Oh my goodness. Did I say that? But anyway, if you check out my other videos you will definitely see what I'm talking about. I do sell high dollar items also. I just list what I can find. I have what sold videos for my bread and butter and then what sold videos for my big money Bolo. So you can check those out as well if you want to see what I'm selling. But I have tons and tons of Bolo content on my channel. Alright, you can see here I grabbed a bucket. The reason I did that is because I pick up a lot of small toys and they fall through the cart. And so I usually grab a bucket and put it in my top area of the cart and fill it with all those small toys. Small toys. I will either list them individually or I will list them in small lots. But I do pretty much grab anything that I know is like a name brand or something that is current and or vintage. So small toys, they're just they're cheap. They're cheap. And a lot of times you can get 15 to 20 bucks for one of those small toys. Some of them surprise me. But I do spend some time looking them up.  If you're not familiar with Google Lens it is free. It's an app and you can download it and you can take a picture of something and then it will pull up items that are the same and this will help you identify your item. I do have a video that I did on that. And let me pop that up for you guys. You guys, Google Lens is free. Definitely put it on your phone. Every reseller needs it. Oh my goodness, it has saved me so much time researching. It's definitely awesome. That Duplo Lego, I always pick up the Duplo Legos. I've talked about that in my other videos. I don't know what that little bear was. I'm wondering now if maybe I should have grabbed it. It seemed kind of special now that I'm looking back. How many times do you guys do that?  But I'm looking back and I'm watching and I'm like maybe I should have grabbed that. So thank you guys all so much for being here. If you're new to the channel I would love for you to subscribe. I just hit 30,000 subscribers not long ago and super excited about that. So I thank you all so much for being here and watching and supporting the channel. We are going to look through this bin now and I'm not sure what that was. Was that Ryan's place? A lot of times I leave the bigger stuff behind just because I don't want to ship it. I have told you guys in the past that like board games and bigger heavier things I like to put on Poshmark because they have that set rate shipping and it's cheaper on Poshmark to ship than any other platform for those five pound items. So definitely check out Poshmark if you have not already. I start my items on eBay and then I cross-post with List Perfectly to Mercari and Poshmark. So those are the three platforms I'm on. I use List Perfectly because I want to do it faster. I do not want to manually cross-post. If you guys are not familiar with List Perfectly I do have a demo video down below. You can check that out. If it looks like something you'd be interested in you can get 30% off your first month with coupon referral code BOLOBuddy's all one word. And I have been using that since 2019 and I still love it. One of the best things I've ever purchased or that I purchased on a monthly basis for my business. I did pick up this right here and I have not listed it yet. It's like a robe and it just had this really really pretty print and I think I can sell it. I don't know. I just haven't done anything with it. I need to put it in the washing machine. So that is in my cart and that is sitting in the other room waiting for me to either I guess wash it or list it or I gotta look it over. So I have to decide if it's list worthy. If not I will donate it. All right what else did we find? There's one item I found that sold within like I don't know an hour. I can't remember. It was super fast. I did pick this up. I don't know if this was a good buy or not. It had a lot of damage when I got home. I was hoping it was going to be like a home run but no it wasn't that great. So I've got that priced you know at like 15-16 bucks and I will definitely take an offer on that. I just really hope the thing sells. I did not comp it out while I was there. A lot of times if I'm at the Goodwill Bins I will not search comps. It really just depends on how heavy the item is. If it's a lightweight item I just usually will buy it because I assume I can make my money back. I'm not sure what that was but thinking maybe I should have picked it up. I do love to sell plush and I really didn't pick up a whole lot of plush in this video but there are some videos coming soon where I scored big on the plush. So stay tuned for those and we're looking, looking, looking. All right I think we're about to come upon another item that I found and that I picked up. Ooh a little Mickey doorknob. Should I grab that doorknob? I think it goes on your doorknob. I don't know what that thing is. Lots and lots of junk this time. You can see I'm just digging and digging and not finding a whole lot and sometimes that's how it goes. I've got a naked Ken. Now how does that work with Ken? Is every male doll Ken? I can't remember. I just called them all Ken. All right here they are these big old light bulbs. Now I'm not sure if these are supposed to have stakes in them and then they fit like in your yard but I just called them replacements to be safe because I was not sure. I keep looking at that peppermint and I'm like should I have grabbed that? That's kind of cool. I usually pick up animated things. I don't think I picked this one up. I think it had some damage on the back of it so some staining. So I left that one behind but I do love animated toys. I put those over on my reseller testing volo products channel and this little guy is over on my reseller testing volo products channel. I have never seen this one. He is a oh I can't think of what he's called now Fisher Price laugh and learn monkey and he had that little backpack on and he actually talked and I have never seen that one so I listed that one a little bit high and I am hoping that's going to sell. All right right here I don't remember. I feel like I might have looked up the brand on this because it was really really pretty and I left it behind just I really don't do a whole lot of clothes. I have a tendency to pick them up and then never list them but this was really really pretty. Would you guys have picked this up or left it behind? Did I make a mistake? I put it in my cart and then I looked it up and put it back. I feel like I couldn't find comps if I remember correctly and I'm still over in the hard goods I think so I believe somebody threw these in the hard goods section and whenever there's throwbacks I always look at the throwbacks and at the end of the video you're going to see why I look at the throwbacks because I had a nice little score a tote of throwbacks at the end of the video where I I think I cleaned up I was super excited about it so definitely things that I like to buy and they were just sitting there waiting on me. All right let's check in here oh nope I think I need to start picking up those cases just to ship things and that would be nice. Oh my goodness I just went and stopped the video and I made my thumbnail real quick because I had an idea and literally I came back and it looked like my complete voiceover was gone don't don't don't but it was okay I found it so I did not have to start from scratch. All right you guys saw me pick up a movie or a DVD I do pick those up if they are sealed they are sitting in a pile and I need to list them I have not listed those yet those are typically a bread and butter um I do okay with them usually they are long tail items not a lot of people do DVDs anymore but there are still people out there that will buy them especially like kids DVDs I will grab those for sure and just anything sealed pretty much I'll grab it if they are Christian based like veggie tails those are definitely usually a win but again they are still long tail items but they are lightweight and they do not cost much so the return is good on those all right we are going to keep looking there up that was a veggie tails I don't think I've listed that one yet either I actually just recently sold I think two veggie tails DVDs right here here it is here's a bolo I think I undersold it um and then I dropped it so I sold this for $22 plus shipping I want to say it sold within an hour of listing and it's kind of like one of those Boppets but it's called Zingit I had no idea what it was I just thought it looked cool and I threw it in my cart and it paid off I did search solds I'm not sure if I went over to worth point I think I probably should have checked worth point on that one because it sold so quickly that I just feel like I undersold it or maybe I had it priced just right I do use worth point I love it if you guys are looking for ways to figure out what your items valued at worth point is a great tool there is Terrapeak Terrapeak is free through eBay but worth point goes back further and I think it's worth it and I have some videos that tell you why I think worth point is worth it and you can check those out and I do have a referral link down below for worth point um I did grab that brush and then I donated that brush I don't know what I was thinking grabbing that brush I think I was thinking that maybe it was vintage but um I don't think it was so I ended up putting that in my donate bag there's a lot of things that I bring home and I end up donating and I'm not afraid to tell you guys when I mess up because you know that's how we all learn I'm sure you guys come home with things in your cart that you're like why on earth was this in my cart um let me know in the comments if you can think of something that you recently brought home that you were like what just happened there was this one time I brought home a I think it was like either a CD or a DVD set and I ended up selling it but I should not have bought it this right here is a Kinects battery operated motor for Kinects play set I'm guessing that was incomplete it's just thrown in a bag and I took the motor and just the motor so what do you guys think about that do you think that's wrong do you think that's okay this bin has been picked over and picked over and from what I understand those items if they don't part them out to go to certain areas they just go to the dump so I feel like I saved a toy I saved a replacement part it's not a big money item but they do sell so the Kinects motor that's the little gear that makes it go forward and backwards always pick them up and their long tail that little ball right there it's a ball they have them in blocks I always pick those up and lot them up these right here are vintage and so so cool I can't believe they haven't sold yet it's a Halloween prop so you can like grab your salad or whatever you want to stick them in but they're like teeth I love it cracks me up so I thought that was a super fun find I do have those listed kind of high but I'm willing to take a best offer for sure so just waiting on the right buyer to come along Pokemon cards you will find them loose on in the bins that's another thing that I kind of just collect and sit to the side for when a day I have time to look them up or figure out if they're worth any money and you know the longer they sit the more money they are worth right that's what I always say about my money pile hey it's just getting more vintage and if you don't know about my money pile you can check that out in some of my reseller vlog videos I usually show my money pile oh my goodness we won't talk about that but I'm working on it I'm working on it I just like to shop I like to source we'll call it sourcing it sounds more professional I don't know what these are but I feel like I should have got them just because they look so funky all right you guys I look forward to seeing your comments down below of the things that you would have picked up that I missed I feel like I did okay I mean it wasn't like a home run day this is part one there's going to be a part two typically when I go to the Goodwill bins I am there for four or five hours so I try to get as much footage footage as I can until my phone runs out of battery there's one time my phone ran out of battery and they told me they were bringing out Christmas items and I'm like oh my goodness I have got to go back in even if I don't have a battery and I can't record so I went back in and I loaded my cart and I went out to the car I plugged in my phone and I recorded my shopping cart for you guys so I do have that video and it's already posted and I really did pretty well it was a lot of breakables and some of the items were actually broken and we don't get a lot of breakables at our Goodwill bins so I was kind of excited about it not that I like breakables but just that it was something different and so you guys can go check out that video to see what I found and what I've already sold I've sold quite a few things um from that from that haul so it was a good score I'm glad I went back in all right I'm thinking I probably should have got those and I left them behind they go to some sort of place that they would have been replacement parts they probably would have been long tail I probably would have had a hard time identifying them but they probably would have sold so someone is always looking for those replacement parts and they're good to pick up all right this right here is a little I think it's a girl scout set I put those over on whatnot I am utilizing the buy it now feature so I'm kind of using it as a marketplace so you just saw my pop up if not you can rewind that is my what not I'm Bolo buddies over there I guess it's my what not platform what do you call it it's an app so I'm Bolo buddies over there if you guys want to check out what not I highly recommend it I am linked down below that is a referral link and you will get $15 to shop that's free money $15 when you join what not with my referral link and like I said I'm putting things in the buy it now section and I did a video on that telling you guys how to utilize that to make more money if you're selling on what not it's a great feature and a lot of people aren't using it and there's different ways that you can use it so check out that video I will try to remember to link it down in the description all right we are looking through some of these clothing items which I don't typically do but I did find this guy it's a dragon and it's a costume and it comped out pretty well it's a size six seven so that is available in my eBay store and I'm unzipping it here to check the size and to look at the brand a lot of times I will do that while I'm at the store to help me determine if I want to pick the item up or not and I did decide to pick that up now that was a heavier item so that one probably cost me about three four bucks but I've got it listed at around 40 so I have best offer on all of my items and most of my items sell with best offer option okay and like I said at the end of the video I go to the sides and I check what people have thrown back in and I find a tote full of goodies goodies I like so stay tuned for that we are getting pretty close here thank you guys so much for being here I don't know what this is it looks leather but it was pretty beat up do you guys pick up things like that and if so how do you do with them oh guess who called Donatella Bottolino if you're not following Dona definitely check her out on YouTube her channel is her name Donatella Bottolino and she sells to resellers and she is now also over on what not under her first name only Donatella and I ignored her call don't tell no I think I called her back on the way home but anyway I was too busy shopping and that little watch that I have on it is an iPhone watch is that what they're called I got that at a garage sale and I don't wear it very often I do wear it sometimes when I go to the bins because I'm recording with my phone so it lets me know if somebody's calling or if I have a message that I need to respond to on eBay but for the most part I don't love it as much as I thought I would so I'm really glad that I did not pay full price and that I found it at a garage sale and it's really nice it works great um let's see what else we can find here yeah that was one of those things where I'm like I really think I want and what are they called an iPhone watch that's not what they're called I'm like I really want one of those watches I kept telling my husband and I kept thinking I was going to get one and then I was like I just don't know if I'd wear it and then I found one at a garage sale charger and all I was so excited and I got it for a really good deal I can't remember how much um I think I talked about it in another video but I'm not a hundred percent sure but that was definitely a super score I am looking at these belts looking for anything super special um I know butterfly hustles check her out her youtube channel she always finds great belts all right here we are here we are this is the stuff that everybody left behind and you know what I'm grabbing it so we've got some monster trucks which I liked a lot up and we have some blaze in the monster machine I did grab these spoons I haven't listed them yet I don't know if I'm going to they were a little worse for wear than I 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Welcome to this 22nd session where we continue our discussion on discrete systems and we continue from where we stopped in the previous session on discussing one of the properties. Now in the context of discrete systems, we need to build the same properties as we had for continuous variable systems namely homogeneity, shift invariance, causality, stability and of course you could talk about memory. The properties are essentially the same, they have the same broad connotation but there are minor differences in the way we define the properties and those need to be therefore written down explicitly. So we shall take it upon ourselves in this session to put down explicitly all these properties making those little changes that are required to bring it to the context of discrete variable systems. So let us begin by looking at homogeneity as a property. Now recall that homogeneity in the context of continuous variable systems involves scaling the input by a constant. If you are to, we take a discrete system, let us call the discrete system S, we give to it the input x of n. Now please note that x of n is a whole sequence, it is a discrete signal as you might call it, a whole sequence producing the output y n, again a sequence. Now it is a sequence mapped to a sequence. I must emphasize this point again, of course in continuous variable system we encountered this point. A system is a mapping from signals to signals, it is not a point to point mapping, if it is a point to point mapping it becomes a system without memory. The moment a system has memory there is no point to point mapping there. It is a whole signal mapped to a whole signal and it is a mapping from all input signals to all corresponding output signals. The same is true of discrete systems, it is a mapping from the whole sequence to the whole sequence here. I am emphasizing this because when we talk about homogeneity I am talking about scaling the sequence not individual points though they mean essentially the same thing they are different in context or in connotation. So let us now scale this sequence X or the input by a constant alpha. The question is what happens here and that is what determines whether the system is homogeneous or not based on what happens for all possible X and for all possible alpha. Now remember that we have also allowed complex alpha with good purpose. Well in case alpha times Xn also produces alpha times Yn and this happens for all possible alpha this is very important for all possible alpha and for all possible Xn then we say the system is homogeneous. Another way of saying it is the system obeys the property of scaling or it is a system that obeys the property of homogeneity whatever you like to say they all mean the same thing simple enough. Now how do we understand this let us again go back to the tax context population and tax context. So for whatever reason suppose you had double the number of people for example in that state the tax collection could double that is what homogeneity says. In fact double is just one example of an alpha any multiple multiply the population by any factor and the tax gets multiplied by the same factor. Now please note if you multiply the input by alpha homogeneity insists that the output be multiplied by alpha and no other constant that is important alright. Now let us take the next problem we can go a little faster here because we have defined these properties in the context of continuous variable systems and we do not need to go through all the explanation again. However we should be careful to bring out the salient points. So next property is shift invariance. Now here we have to be a little careful because when we talk about shifting the input there are only certain possible shifts namely discrete shifts. So unlike the continuous variable case where you could shift by any tau, tau being any real number here you can only shift by integers that is the little point of difference. So suppose you have this discrete system s and you give to it the input x of n and observe the output y of n and then you shift the input by shift in the input what we mean is we give it x of n minus d where d is any integer this is important it has to be an integer. We ask what is the output in that case and if it is true that s when given x of n minus d produces y of n minus d for every possible x and every possible d this is very important then we say the system is shift invariance. So what is important here is that this should happen for every possible x and for every possible d it is not enough that it happens for some values of the shift and not for others. Now again let us go back to the tax example what shift invariance essentially says is that the taxation rules remain as they are in time what was the taxation rule now remains so next month remains so next year remains so after 10 years. Now of course you will appreciate from this example that shift invariance is a big demand on a system to insist that rule of taxation remain the same over many years is demanding a lot from the government. So therefore in practice too in real life shift invariance systems are going to be rare in the true sense and if you ask me no system really is shift invariant forever and ever that means for all possible d yes in a reasonably big range of d you could have the system behaving in a shift invariant manner but beyond a certain point that shift invariance could be lost. Now the same as true of homogeneous if I scale the population by 100 if we use the same taxation rules of course the tax collected would also scale by 100 but then in a certain sense realistic systems behave differently when you have a larger population all of which pays tax very honestly perhaps the taxation rules could be made a little more liberal and therefore the system would lose homogeneity that liberalization is introduced this is what you would mean in this context by losing homogeneity. So if you kept the same taxation rule no matter what how large the population is then homogeneity is obeyed but if you try and base your taxation rules on the size of the population then homogeneity could be destroyed. Now you could similarly construct other example but what I am trying to bring out is that although we define idealistic properties here we also bring down to reality how far it is reasonable to assume these properties to hold it and I would like you to think more on this after you listen to this session and discuss among yourself too and come back with your own observations on to what extent these properties can be assumed of systems taking different examples and when it becomes unreasonable to demand that they hold forever. We shall look at some more properties in the next session.


Hello everyone. I am very happy to be here this morning with Minister Anand, Major-General Fortin, and Dr. Tamé and Dr. Niu. Before I get started, I want to address the news we got last night that Master Sailor Dwayne Earl of the HMCS Winnipeg is believed to have gone overboard in the Pacific. As Minister Sajjan has said, we are dedicating every resource to the search. To Master Sailor Earl's family and loved ones, we're keeping you in our thoughts during this incredibly difficult time. And to everyone aboard HMCS Winnipeg, we're standing with you. I know that this has already been a very challenging year for those serving in the Canadian Armed Forces. This morning, I just came from visiting the Ottawa Hospital. I spoke to nurses, doctors, and staff about delivering vaccine doses. I also thank them for their outstanding work day in, day out throughout the months of this pandemic, for everything they're doing to keep us and our loved ones safe. It was a great pleasure for me this morning to go and see the Ottawa Hospital, to meet the first-line workers, to thank them directly for the incredible work they are doing. We're starting at the beginning of the end, with the arrival of the vaccines, but there's still a lot of work to be done to keep Canadians safe for the next few months. I know they will continue to be there for us. On Sunday night, the very first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Canada. Less than 24 hours later, vaccinations had already started for the most vulnerable and frontline workers. This morning, I have even more good news to share. I can announce that Canada has secured our second agreement for early doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Canada is now contracted to receive up to 168,000 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine before the end of December, pending Health Canada approval. These doses are part of the guaranteed 40 million doses we have secured from Moderna, and deliveries could begin within 48 hours of regulatory approval. Like the co-founder of Moderna pointed out a few weeks ago, Canada was among the very first to pre-order their vaccine. That, combined with our solid plan for vaccine rollout, is why we have an agreement for early doses. As with the early shipments of the Pfizer vaccine, this moves us even further forward on getting Canadians protected as quickly as possible. The regulatory process for the Moderna vaccine is ongoing, but again, I want to assure Canadians that any vaccine approved in Canada will be both safe and effective. I am happy to announce today that Canada has concluded its second attempt to receive early doses of vaccines against COVID-19. Once it is approved by Health Canada, the intent is to release 168,000 doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine before the end of December. These doses are part of the 40 million doses we have secured from Moderna. The delivery could begin up to 48 hours after the vaccine was approved, as was the case for the Pfizer vaccine deliveries that began earlier. This news means that we will be able to take even more progress to protect Canadians. The approval process is still ongoing for the Moderna vaccine. I want to once again assure Canadians that any vaccine approved in Canada will be both safe and effective. We know what and no community will be left behind. We have a plan to reach everyone who wants a vaccine no matter where they live. Of course, shipping in the winter, especially to the far north, isn't without its challenges. The Moderna vaccine does not need some of the extra special handling requirements of the one from Pfizer, including ultra-cold freezers, and that makes it a better option to ship over long distances to more remote areas. So doses of this vaccine will be directed to the north, as well as to remote and indigenous communities. The territories are scheduled to receive doses of the Moderna vaccine in the coming weeks pending Health Canada approval. We're working to ensure the logistics planning is ready when vaccines are available and have already shipped medical grade freezers to the north. As soon as we get the green light, we'll be ready to go. On Pfizer, I also have an update to share. We've now confirmed that next week we will receive about 200,000 of our total early doses from Pfizer. As well, we will have 70 sites ready to administer these doses up from 14 sites this week. Speaking of Pfizer, I can also share other news. We have now confirmed that next week, we will receive 200,000 doses, taking part of the total forecast with Pfizer. Furthermore, we will have 70 vaccine sites for these doses, so 56 more than this week. Canada has now received up to 417,000 doses before January 1. I'd like to thank Minister Anand for his incredible leadership in this matter, but I would also like to emphasize the remarkable work that Major-General Fortin has done, his team, and all the employees of the Public Health Agency to ensure the deployment of vaccines. This is an effort by Canada. Our government will continue to work with the provinces and territories through the Intermediary of the National Operations Centre to check whether the doses are distributed to the people as quickly as possible. As I announced in the meeting of the Prime Minister last week, the federal government will cover 100% of the cost of the vaccines and the necessary supplies to administer them. The doses will be free for Canadians, and the provinces and territories will not have to rely on their budgets to pay them no more. In addition to vaccines, we're also continuing to invest in treatments for COVID-19. Today, I can announce that we are providing up to $6.7 million for the Canadian company ArchBio Partners to support the development of their leading drug candidate to treat severe cases of COVID-19. This new funding was provided on the advice of Canada's leading experts in the field who are serving on our COVID-19 therapeutics task force. Progress on made-in-Canada treatments, a second agreement for early delivery of vaccine doses, the most vulnerable already starting to receive these life-saving shots, this is the good news we all needed. This pandemic will end. We will get through this. But for now, we need to be incredibly careful. Keep each other safe, keep your grandparents safe, keep our doctors and nurses safe. Do the things you know that are going to help us get through this long winter. Vaccines are coming, vaccines are already here, but we need to make it through this winter in the best possible situation without seeing more tragedies, without seeing more losses. That means we all have to do our part. Our first vaccines are coming. It's not the time to make gatherings during holidays. We need to be very careful and continue our efforts. Keep your distance, wear a mask, use the COVID alert application, avoid gatherings, wash your hands, continue to do everything we need to do to protect each other. It was a long year, 2020, but we will be able to celebrate in 2021 when we are done with this pandemic. We see the end that comes with the vaccines, but from now on, we must stay safe, we must do everything we know we can to protect our dear ones. Job one for our government is protecting Canadians. That's why we've been working around the clock on procuring everything from PPE to rapid tests to safe, effective vaccines. But let's remember, this is a global pandemic. To end COVID-19 anywhere, we have to end it everywhere. To quickly get rid of COVID-19, we have to make sure that people everywhere get access to vaccines as quickly as possible. Yesterday, the Minister for Gold and the Minister for Canada announced that Canada would invest an additional $485 million in a global collaboration to accelerate the access to fighting vaccines against COVID-19. This investment will provide treatment and vaccines, as well as health resources to developing countries. In order to continue to protect the health of the most vulnerable, the Minister for Gold announced that Canada will also provide funding to help different nutrition and food security programs. The fight against COVID-19 is a common effort. We have to work together to win this virus and build a stronger and safer future for everyone. Finally, I want to end this morning by recognizing that today marks the fifth anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report. The residential school system was one of the darkest chapters in our history. It has left a tragic legacy that continues to this day. To the survivors, family members, and all those who shared their truth, your courage and strength is remarkable. I also want to recognize the leadership of Senator Murray Sinclair, who's retiring from the Senate in January. His work as the Chief Commissioner changed Canada for the better. Senator Sinclair, like so many others who were part of the Commission, showed us the path forward, and it's up to all of us to walk the path of reconciliation. Together with survivors and communities, we have made important progress on the Commission's calls to action. 80% of the calls that are the sole or shared responsibility of the federal government are now completed or well underway. In the last few weeks alone, we invested half a billion dollars to support indigenous communities in exercising their jurisdiction over child and family services. We introduced legislation to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Our government will continue to work in partnership on everything from closing gaps in infrastructure to ending inequalities in the criminal justice system. We have moved forward, but we're not done yet. The national tragedy of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls must finally end. Over the last five years, we've worked with partners and communities to put a stop to violence against indigenous women, girls, LGBTQ, and two-spirit people. Today, the Minister Bennett has signed the investments that will allow us to continue moving forward, especially in terms of establishing new refugees and a global strategy for prevention of violence. Our government will continue to be a partner in the framework of the efforts deployed to achieve reconciliation and build a better future for all.


In, there were 85. You too, team keeping clean, what's going on? It's Ingraven here with another video. And in this video, the Ravens officially get down to 85 men on the roster. They made some cuts, also placed somebody on Inja Reserve. And we're gonna talk about all that first and foremost. I hope that y'all are doing really, really good. I hope everything is going great for y'all. Today for me was a different kind of day because I was just sitting back, thinking about some stuff that was bothering me a little bit. Can't lie, and it's business stuff. But when I was sitting there thinking about it, I'm like, man, it is frustrating, and some days are more frustrating than others, but you just gotta realize that life isn't fair and you just gotta keep pushing. You just gotta keep pushing. Despite what happens, despite what doesn't happen too, you just gotta keep pushing and being the best version of you. So y'all keep doing that. I love y'all, I appreciate y'all. Now let's talk about these Baltimore Ravens. So they had to make five roster moves to clear five roster spots to go from 90 to 85 people. Now, I don't think any of these moves were really surprising, but the one that sort of shocked me the most wasn't really a shock, but the only thing I was surprised about was how early it happened. I thought there was gonna be a little more competition throughout, it was a quarterback. Cause the Ravens, they released Brett Hunley. And I know there had been some confusion on Twitter with some NFL reporters, they were like, oh man, there's a shocker, that the Ravens actually released backup quarterback, Brett Hunley, but they had got him confused with Tyler Hunsley, and that's easy for a lot of people to do. But anyway, so I didn't expect him to make the team. I didn't expect him to make the roster, not even the practice squad, but I thought that the competition was gonna go a little further than the first round of cuts. I guess like, and we did say it like when we were watching the pre-season game live, when he fumbled that ball, I said, oh boy, it's like with Devon Williams, when he fumbled the ball and when Brett Hunley, when he fumbled the ball, I was like, oh yeah, they out of there. They out of there. But then I watched the replay of the Brent Hunley fumble and Tyree Phillips had just got beat. So I was like, okay, that ain't Hunley's fault. But he's still out of there. And Anthony Brown, I was just rewatching the part of the game where he was playing. I'm like, hold up now. This dude like undrafted rookie free agent, he looked really comfortable out there. He looked really comfortable out there. And he did look better than Hunley. He just looked comfortable and he was completing the short passes, the deep passes too, he was doing it all. And I was like, okay now. And something that stuck out to me. And I was like, hey, maybe it's a big deal, but probably not. But something that stuck out to me in that first pre-season game was how they played him. Because first they played Tyler Hunley, obviously he's a backup quarterback. But then I expected them, all right, they gonna play Hunley first. Cause he's the veteran. He done been in the NFL for what, six years and whatnot, six, seven years. They gonna play him next. Nope. They played Anthony Brown. And I was like, oh, okay now. They actually playing the undrafted rookie free agent before the veteran. All right now. And that was apparently how they had the roster set up, how they had their depth shot. Cause now Hunley, who was the last quarterback to play, he's gone. So it's Anthony Brown, it's his job to, not even necessarily lose. Cause I think they just gonna sign him to the practice squad.  Think obviously Lamar Jackson and Tyler Hunley would be the backup. And then Anthony Brown, he'll be on the practice squad. Will he get plucked off the practice squad? Let's see. But anyway, that was one of the moves that they made, releasing Brent Hunley. Now, Trent Harris, who they, they literally just signed, literally just signed him. I think he might have practiced like maybe one, maybe two practice, they just signed him. But they're putting him on in your reserve. So his season is literally over before it got, like they literally just brought this guy in, but his season is over now. Now it's a wrap. So they got the same amount of depth at outside linebacker that they had a couple of days ago before they signed him. So now they, not starting from scratch, but back to square one with that. A couple of other moves that they made, yesterday they released Robert Jackson, cornerback Robert Jackson, number 17. And Robert Jackson, it was rough for him. It was rough for him, no last year. And he was put in a really tough position too, because he came to a team that was obviously depleted by injuries. I think they signed him to the practice squad initially then they put him on the active roster and it just, it was rough. It was really rough. And he struggled. He struggled now. I mean, he had to cover some pretty good wide receivers, especially when like, I can't complain that you struggle with the best wide receiver in the game last year. And you had just got signed to the team.  But it had been a struggle. And then in camp it was kind of up and down for him. Everything that we had been hearing about kind of up and down a lot of downs. I think more downs and ups. So it's tough, it's tough. And again, with the secondary, we knew that like they weren't gonna keep everybody. When they signed him to the future reserve deal last year after last season ended, they signed both him and Kiva and Seymour. Even though they signed them to those deals, you know, it wasn't anything that was guaranteed. So now they've officially cut Robert Jackson, but then they cut Corey Clement too. So that was another one. They cut Corey Clement and with him, that was one where it wasn't surprising either. I know we talked about it in our post game thoughts video about the Ravens and Titans preseason game that I just felt like with Justice Hill, how he was running, or Mike Davis, pretty much being a roster lock. Tyler Beatty, I think he'll be a roster lock too. And not Justice Hill, J.K. Dobbins on his way back with Corey Clement. I just felt like he was on the outside looking in. Now I did, I did like the signing. It was again, stay ready so you ain't gotta get ready. J.K. Dobbins was coming back from injury. Gus Edwards not ready yet, gonna be a while for him. But with, I did like the signing because it was them, the Ravens being proactive instead of reactive. Them trying to take care of business ahead of time instead of them getting caught slipping. So I really did like the signing because it was quality depth.  That's quality depth. But with him, I just felt like he was more so on the outside looking in. Justice Hill and his limited action. He looked good on a Thursday night. Mike Davis, same thing. And Beatty, Beatty looked decent too. But Beatty was a draft pick this year. So I didn't, I don't envision them cutting him. So Corey Clement being, him being out, I just, no shocker there either. Now, these other two moves, well actually other three moves that will, yeah, I guess three moves, they end up really equal in one roster spot. So just a quick recap. So they cut Corey Clement, Robert Jackson, Trent Harris to IER and Brett Hundley. They released him. So that's four roster spots that they cleared up. But now if you go back a couple of days, remember when they waved Denzel Williams who was an undrafted rookie free agent cornerback. And they also waved Devon Williams who I was hoping was gonna be more in the mix at Y Receiver in the Y Receiver competition. But you just, you never really heard much about him. You never really heard his name called like that. You never really heard really anything about him in training camp. So the Ravens, they just, they cut him. They cut him. And so with that, with them cutting Denzel Williams and Devon Williams, that's two cuts that they had made a couple of days ago. But when they signed Trent Harris, that kind of eliminates one of those cuts. So it's almost like they only cut one person. So only one roster spot was eliminated. You get what I'm saying? Cause it's the process of elimination. Cause you waved two people, but you signed one. So it's like two minus one equals one. So there we go. Anyway, that's the five roster moves that the Ravens made to get down to 85. So next week, next week, they have to get down to 80 men on the roster so that it gets tougher.  And you still got some guys, you got a lot of guys on your roster. Like you can only keep what 53. So you still got a while to go. And yeah, you only having to cut five. Yeah, that does make it kind of easier. But at the same time, it's like the big cuts coming soon to where you really got to make tough decisions. You know, we are entering stash season. I wonder if Trent Harris was a stash. Cause it was like, he just got here and he already injured, man, I don't know. We'll see what happens with Tylen Wallace because the Ravens, they can take their time with him now depending on the severity of his injury. But I think whatever they do with Tylen Wallace is going to be a last minute. It's going to be at the very last round of cuts and roster moves that they got to do to get down to 53. Whatever they're going to end up doing with him. They do not, I don't see it unless he had like a season ending injury, which I don't think it will be. I hope it won't be. That's the only way that they made a move on him early. But with things out of y'all right now, they can wait. They got some time. So yeah, man, I just, what I'm hoping, and I mean, even with Tylen Wallace too, what I'm hoping is that no rosters, and I say this every year, but it doesn't always end up like that, especially last year. But what I'm hoping is that no roster spots are determined by injury. That's what I hope. But I mean, let's see how it goes. But anyway, team keep it clean. Appreciate y'all. I love y'all. Thank you for supporting. Thank you for watching the videos and thank you for really, really, like seriously supporting the channel because y'all are like crazy, super crazy with y'all level of support. And I appreciate you all's time every single day, sometimes two times a day, sometimes three times a day. I appreciate y'all always coming through literally every single day. Thank you for that. I appreciate y'all. I will see you all tomorrow, unless you know what, the Ravens end up doing something else crazy tonight. We'll see. But I love y'all. I appreciate y'all. Thank you for rocking with us and we out.