Live from the Congress Center in London, England it's the Cube at MIT and the digital economy the second machine age Brought to you by headline sponsor MIT MIT IDE conference the initial digital economy MIT's two professors Eric Bruny-Alson and Andrew McAfee wrote this great book the second machine age really innovative book The first machine age is basically the premise and was the steam engine And now the second machine age is the computer interestingly it took decades after the steam engine was introduced To act to really have an impact on society It wasn't until the Watt steam engine decades later that productivity really started to pick up and with computing We have now entered according to the authors the second machine age and the second half of the chessboard Google second half of the chessboard Ray Kurzweil and they talk about the power of Exponents of exponential growth and that's really what we've been talking about all day We've been talking about the impact on jobs our machines have always replaced jobs But now they're replacing not only manual labor, but they're replacing cognitive tasks, so I'm here with Stu Miniman We're also happy to welcome Steve Chambers Stevie underscore chambers on Twitter gentlemen. Good day Steve What's your take you were watching all along you're watching the crowd firing questions in from the crowd chat What'd you make today has just blown my mind it's absolutely blown my mind I mean the four main themes which were incredibly well presented mean these guys clearly know that stuff You know you hear about all the deep research they do anything. It's going to be quite dry. Oh my god They're really engaging and they and they came out with Slides and charts and messages. I just kind of made sense of everything you see right why Apple are doing so well Why some companies are struggling we went through pricing went through alternation I mean it was so much to take any one day. I'm just really glad I'm here a technology guy by background. You're in the UK you've seen the the gap between Technology adoption in the United States what happens in Silicon Valley versus sort of rest of world What's your take on the situation in Europe generally the UK specifically in terms of technology adoption and their ability to Capitalize on the second machine. Yeah, and I think What I was thinking before I came here today It also came out in a bunch of questions both on the crowd chat, which was great and I'm from the room You know people are kind of they're excited by this second You know, you know, but they're also worried about their jobs. They're worried about being left behind They're worried about the whole market changing. There was some great charts today showing how I think it was income was Splitting away from gross domestic products, you know, and you see all the and you couldn't they just did such a great job Visualizing what's happening today and why things are going although they're also very honest And they said we don't know where it's going to be in a few years either, right? You know, that's the thing and I and we heard several questions from the floor today saying, you know, what about the people that were kind of You know antagonizing Google about the buses and things like that, you know, these people felt I think the word was disempruntial, you know, so people are clearly feeling this threatened as Excited by what these guys were talking about. So I should have I should have done a proper introduction I'm sorry. Steve is our newest cloud analyst. He's based in the UK with Wikibon and we're really excited to have you on board Thank you. You know, Stu Another fundamental premise was over historically if if productivity increases median income increases That's not been happening in the last several years certainly subsequent to the great Recession we didn't see about we've seen a bounce back as dramatic bounce back in productivity But not in median income since 1999 median income in the United States has dropped from 54,000 to 50,000 Quite stark. What was your take on you know that information and just the day in general? Yeah, so first on the day in general Dave, you know I had kind of high expectations coming in and they were met we were talking as technologists We kind of say understanding technology and being an enthusiast for it means that you're optimistic about the future and what this could bring That being said, you know, I've got kids and I'm worried about jobs From the productivity piece is the one thing that I'm a little bit, you know Still not satisfied with the answers that I heard today We heard that you know free things in the economy aren't measured as well And maybe we're not understanding it as much but that being said I think you've got the you know average kind of middle-class person. They're worried about their job They have many jobs the careers are changing so often and that hollowing out of the middle is a little bit dangerous That being said, I think Eric Brigham, you know, I'm sin gave a great answer as to you know It's not like all jobs are going to be gone in a couple of years I do worry about you know Hey all these great people that are driving ubers today Well is uber just going to be a self-driving car in a few years because I don't know if need that the whole Service industry is going to go through change, but there's lots of room for people to work with people and There should be a shift. There should be retraining, but you know things are changing so fast The closing line that I heard towards the end of this summed it up so great for me We can either protect the future from the past or the past from the future And I always want to be optimistic for where we can go and I think there was a great dialogue started here today And I want to you know chew on it some more Well stew I loved what you were saying to Eric and Andy about you know You drive down the highway you can always tell when somebody's texting They're swerving in your lane. You have to be so careful. I always tell my kids that just got their licenses You got to be so careful and such a defensive driver and you got that guy's sure enough You go by and they're texting or they're hiding their phone or so, you know I think that the day will come where a self-driving car is safer than a human powered vehicle But so many implications of what we talked about today Again, so Steve is a technologist the big thing is digital products are different right if you eat a piece of fruit It disappears if you consume a digital product doesn't disappear I can buy it stew can buy it you can buy it and then millions of other people can buy it You think when you talk to companies when you talk to CIOs IT practitioners CTOs Are they focused on the issue of digitization? Are they? Intensively focused enough on digitizing their businesses and do they understand what that takes what organizational changes what skill sets are required I think I think it's definitely a mixed five right, so you'll meet In some enterprise that they think the chief digital officer is just another name conjure up another fad It's not really real, you know that you hear that you see on Twitter You see it from some clever people as well right though It's just another name, but some other people are really embracing it right some big companies are saying You know this is where we need to move and change our model, and I thought it was really well explored when we went through the platform Presentation today, and I really encourage people to look at that as well because he told us something We all knew you know you talk about Apple and the way they built the eco system And it all looks kind of obvious, but it wasn't obvious a few years ago And I thought the guys did an excellent way of taking that apart why it happened why it made sense They brought in some great knowledge tips from venture capitalists who spend all day thinking about this stuff I don't think they also answer some of the questions. Well, you know, so I think there was one of the questions in the crowd chat When it said well if someone's already got an eco system in place a platform in place Is there no room for anyone else in the market? You know if I come next to the market, right, Stu? Is there any point? Oh, yeah, Steve great point actually John Furrier is banging away in the crowd chat right now I'm talking about some of the dominance of some of the big players Yeah, you know we use the example of ways here a bunch of times ways is some great stuff Up it's bought by Google great platform company Google sucking up a bunch, you know Apple Amazon They talk mostly on the consumer side, but Amazon huge platform obviously in that market I'm curious, you know, we were saying that there's lots of Innovation happening in UK around the world, but a lot of those platforms started in the US What's the viewpoint you see both from this event and just your experience on that? Is there concern about that? We have a whole Snowden effect, you know Sowering some people about about cloud and US based clouds in general on but kind of US based platforms Well interestingly enough one of the one of the attendees today He'd been working with MIT on the platform piece for a few years And they were trying to apply it to their product set in Europe And he said the strange thing strangest thing happened They thought the best way to have a cloud product was to build their own cloud and then go to market without But what they found was that took quite a lot of time to do quite a lot of money to do So they started going to market with services that were kind of running on someone else's cloud But they were kind of owning the billing and the contractual relationship So from the outside they had several cloud services while they were building that you know They were using the platform place saying it was more important to get customers using the kind of platform system Even if all the platform wasn't in place now I wouldn't have thought that would have made sense a few years ago But you know here's obviously a forward-thinking customer which the MIT said this might work and it has So they've got revenue coming in which he's funding them building their new platform Who'd have thought about that a few years ago? Marshall Van Austin gave a talk today talking about the platform Thou shalt have a platform And you think about it think about the companies that we follow and we were talking We're talking off-camera to Eric and Andy about Dell. You know what you think about Dell? But obviously we love what Michael Dell has done to take the company private What's the platform play there and make you think about that? You know what Watson was the big one today got mentioned a lot and of course Watson It's a platform that they're trying to go into lots of verticals IBM's reorganized the company and one of the divisions is platform so Ginny flattened out the organization and whether Watson analytics is under Pitchana, but but Watson is its own division So presumably that's a huge potential for IBM is quite unique in the industry VMware is a platform Amazon has a platform I guess anybody with an API has the potential to be a platform, but It was interesting listening to Marshall you start to think about and evaluate companies in that context and of course This is nothing new, right? I mean Furrier is always talking about Platforms and the Silicon Valley crowd is always talking about it But when you start to evaluate in the context of the digital economy it starts to come into clearer focus The imperative it was a great quote today And I think it was Andy that said it towards the end, but there were so many great Statements out today.  I think the falling up And he said you know if you think about if you think about your business from the perspective of You know new digital economy you start seeing all the things that just don't work in that new world And I think there are a lot of and I was just talking to another one in attendees today saying You're going to come up against people problems, right? At the end of the day, it's going to be the culture of your company So Kevin a CDO the chief digital officer saying this is the brave new world and you've got 50,000 stuff That's a people problem So It's not just a product problem. So I think there's a lot of words if you don't right sue platforms products We'll give you the final word what you take on today or anything else you want to share So wow, I think that the gentleman we had on from the BBC Summed it up well is What we like about this audience in this discussion here is we don't have all the answers yet What we know is it's changing really fast as we know oftentimes As long as we don't you know come after the computers with hammers because you know, we can't let the Luddites win You know the technology is going to move forward and innovation is you know rampant It's you know, there's always oh we've reached the end of the life cycle of this technology But there's something new it's the combinatorial pieces that are come together So, you know, I'm excited about the opportunities. I'm concerned about things like education You know if people don't understand the basics and have more building blocks, they can't build those combinations You know that the most read article that I ever wrote was about the Nicholas Carbo about Google And it just you know, it shallows their mind and makes it stupid and you know an event like this where we can really dig Deeper and have people that want to debate and discuss it is great And I think Andy McAfee made a great point He's like people always say like oh, you know that security issue I'm not worried about it because I understand it and by the way most people do too They're not sitting there like oh, yeah, we all click the I accept button real easy But that doesn't mean that we don't understand what happens to our information So people do think about it more than we give them credit to the average person You know it can handle it and we think the average person has some good future You know possibilities in the job market if they learn to run with a machine I can see today's got your brain going stew So we'll we'll enjoy talking about this digital imperative It's alive and well it doesn't matter speaking of Nick Carr I just always love to throw that in jump for it. I love that. Yeah Well, I think Andy actually did a debate once with it with Nick Carr because Nick is such the pessimist on all this stuff And Andy is just the ever-optimist, but you know, it's always good debate. All right. Well, Sue Thanks very much for a co-hosting Stevie appreciate you helping us out with the crowd chas today Matthew Collin good job Brendan. Thanks for coming over Andrew great job We ship all this equipment around our ruggedized gear to worship flawlessly other than the crummy internet in London But not much you could do about that, but good stuff We were able to go live all day and that's fantastic. I really appreciate it Bert Lattimore back home John Furrier in the in the crowd chats and the rest of the team Kristen Nicole and her team really appreciate it. So this is the Cube everybody. We love the collaboration with MIT We do a couple of conferences with them a year. We'll be at the chief data officer conference in July Really appreciate MIT inviting us here and hosting the Cube. I mean the content is always fantastic But thanks to you everybody check out wikibonnet.org and premium.wikibonnet.com our new site Silicon Angle TV and as always Silicon Angle.com and As always appreciate the input hit us up on crowd chat net go to crowd chat net slash MIT IDE and you'll see the crowd chat from today and a previous one that we did. Thanks for watching everybody We'll see you next time


Section 23 of the Byzantine Empire, this is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org, recording by Diana Meilinger. The Byzantine Empire, the rearguard of European civilization by Edward Ford. Section 23 Byzantine Society, the Empire's Place in History Upon the whole, it may be said that the Society of the Late Roman Empire has received more unmixed and misplaced condemnation than that of any other state of which we possess the records.  Given, as anti-Christian as Voltaire, practically echoes him, though more guardedly. Lacky is more blameworthy than either, since he not only launches a series of unfounded charges, but makes an appeal to a non-existent universal verdict of history in support of them. A common fault among historians, as the writer sees them, is to study and describe court society under the impression that it is a reflex of that of a nation. Nothing can be further from the truth. Court life neither reflects that of the people, nor does it influence it, except in a very slight degree. It was, and is, and will be, apart from it. Courtiers live in a little world of their own. Court society in the Byzantine Empire was, we are frequently assured, corrupt and vicious. That may well be the case. Satan always finds mischief for idle hands, and the average court is very idle, busy doing nothing. No doubt Byzantine courtiers were as idle, corrupt and vicious as the courtiers of every age, not accepting our own, are likely to be. A good deal of abuse is often leveled at the court ceremonial and the employment of eunuchs. The latter feature is one peculiarly repulsive to the modern European mind, but the eunuchs as a class seem to have been good public servants. As regards to court ceremonial, there is no reason to think that the emperors usually insisted upon its observance, except on state occasions, and, after all, the difference between it and that of modern England or Germany is only in degree. I doubt very much whether Constantinopolitan newswriters were more fulsomely idolatry of their emperors than journalists today, speaking of personages who have little of kingship about them save their sounding titles, often are. Be this as it may, the Byzantine court society was no worse and often better than many of which I have read and heard, I consider it utterly dissociated from that of the people. Nor do I see that the Eastern Empire had a taint of weakness derived from its oriental origin. Its peoples as a whole were not by any means weak or degenerate. The elaborate and gorgeous court, with its degrading ceremonial, was the outcome of the ideas of a western Roman emperor of peasant birth. It is highly probable that Constantinopolitan court life was far from being unmitigatedly bad. The nobles who surrounded and often influenced the emperor were for the most part busy public men, statesmen, soldiers, administrators. They might often be intrigers. Doubtless there were many bad men among them, but they were not the ideal debutis who surrounded Charles II of England or Louis XV of France. However exaggerated, and as regards monarchism ill-founded, their religious ideas might be, they were usually sincere. Both iconoclasts and iconodules were ready to suffer for their belief. More than one Byzantine noble laid down his life rather than abjure his faith. Religious spirit was certainly strong. The church, despite its faults and errors, rendered human service in holding together the many races of the empire. Religious controversy may have filled a disproportionate part of the East Roman's intellectual horizon, but seeing that it was the one theme which could be discussed freely with full knowledge, this was inevitable. Probably religious dogma is fully as elevating a subject for discussion as the poultry party political squabbles, which are the chief topic of conversation in England today. So, too, with sport. True, the British factions have never named themselves ruggers and sockers, but as a matter of taste it might be as well, since Tory signifies a brigand and wig a way-face. And otherwise party politicians find it convenient to pander to the craze for watching football matches. Perhaps the chariot races of the hippodrome occupied too large a part of the Constantinopolitan citizens' time, but it is doubtful, and no one born in horse racing, price fighting, cock fighting, bear baiting England can for shame cast stones at them. Englishmen do not, as a whole, take delight in witnessing savage sports, though this was not the case in the past, but they are not in essence very much above the Roman of the 4th century who, very likely in most cases after a hard day's work, went to see a score or so of slaves kill each other, since they flocked by tens of thousands to see twenty-two hired men creak a ball about. Patriotism, in the modern sense of the word, hardly existed. The races of the empire were so various that it was impossible that it should be otherwise. Religious feeling compensated for it in some respect, but on the whole it consisted only in local attachment. The general tone of society was democratic. Ability was the one necessary passport to office and court society. It is also worthy of notice that the people commonly had the last word, a fact strange to those who regard the government as a mere crushing despotism. On several occasions we hear of them interfering in public affairs, generally with success, and on the whole very much to their credit. When the issue was plain, the so-called weak, degenerate, servile populace of Constantinople expressed itself with great decision and was very ready to shed its blood liberally for a popular sovereign. The infrequency of popular rebellion is a testimony to general well-being and good government, not to servility. The idea that the populations of the empire were weak and degenerate is flatly contradicted by the general character of its rulers, of whom a large majority were of humble origin, and whose general level of ability, energy and public spirit, as well as morality, was high. From 395 to 1204 a great crisis never failed to produce the requisite strong man, a convincing proof that there was plenty of good material in the people and the public services. Treachery, cowardice, luxury, frivolity, immorality and cruelty are commonly supposed to be the characteristic Byzantine vices. Treachery, after all, was attributed by Romans to Greeks and Phoenicians, but the record of the supposedly honest Roman is so that his testimony is worthless, and treachery and bad deceit must, I fear, be attributed, more or less, to every diplomatist since diplomatists were. Probably, in dealing with foreign powers, the Byzantine government was neither better nor worse than governments usually are, that is to say, of course, very bad and contemptible. But whether Greeks, Slavs, Armenians, Phrygians and Isorians were generally treacherous is another matter. As to cowardice, I have certainly written to small purpose if I have not shown that it was decidedly not a besetting Byzantine vice. The charges of luxury and frivolity are the easiest of all to bring. Frivolity was doubtless as common in the empire as it is everywhere. There was much luxury, no doubt, often vulgar and tasteless, among those who could afford it. Romanian, these respects, much resembled modern England, France, Germany or America. John Chrysostom had much to save on the wickedness of his times, but one finds that it showed itself mainly insufficiently trifling fashion. The writer fears that, if all his female acquaintances who make the best of their natural advantages be bad, he hardly knows a single estimable woman, but he is quite prepared to set his judgment on this point against Christensoms. That there was much immorality in the cities is probable. Constantinople and her humbler sisters resembled great modern cities in this respect, but there is not the smallest reason to believe that the people at large were otherwise than moral, sober and industrious. The charge of cruelty is often brought against the imperial administration. There were a good many isolated acts of barbarity, and more than one emperor employed grim methods of terrorizing or cursing rebels. But then, only two centuries ago, criminals in England were cut down half strungled from the gibbet to be disemboweled and dismembered, and women were burnt alive for witchcraft. On the continent, up to a much later date, punishments were far more barbarous even than this, the horrible torture of breaking on the wheel being common in France and Germany. The nations of modern Europe are the Pharisees of history, but even they can hardly venture to cast dirt at the eastern empire on this charge. To gain a proper impression of Byzantine society, it must be compared with those existing contemporarily with it. As we make our way through its troubled history, we cannot but feel that we are dealing with a civilized community. There is a highly elaborated governmental system, a complex and intricate social order. Commerce and industry flourish, and are ordinarily and generally pursued as a means of livelihood. Life and property are secure and carefully protected. Whatever forms of vice be secretly indulged in, immorality is stringently legislated against, and it is condemned by the popular voice. Many of the worst features of pagan society, infanticide for example, have disappeared, others, notably slavery, have enormously diminished. Though the state is commonly and indeed incessantly fighting for existence, militarism is not rampant. The bully of his boots does not hide the march of men from us. War is carried on in an astonishingly humane fashion. Not merely are the troops cared for as troops have not been in Europe down to the 19th century, but cruelty to enemies is the exception, not the rule. There is a regular cartel for exchange of prisoners. The latter are indeed often reduced to slavery, but facilities are given for redemption. Instruction, in the cities at least, is common. There are institutions for higher education. If there are too many monasteries, and an ecclesiastic tone often pervades society, there are hospitals and orphanages everywhere. When we find a postmaster general and a minister of charitable institutions among the officials, we feel that we are indeed in a state which, with all its faults, is civilized in the true sense of the word. The one state of Byzantine times, which, like it, was founded upon several ancient civilizations, was the Ceresan Caliphate. And no one who compares the two can doubt for a moment that, for all its ephemeral and merititious splendor, the empire was greatly its superior. The Omayyad and Abbasid Caliphs showed all the characteristics of barbarism. The best of them could not maintain order in their dominions. Their satesmanship and administration were crude and ineffective. Their culture was distinctly superficial. It is more than probable that they owned much of it to the despised Greeks of New Rome. The Caliphate stood for war, and even in war it was not successful in the long run against the Eastern Empire. To compare Byzantine society with the chaotic barbarism of Western Europe is merely absurd. A morality of a kind which was warred against at Constantinople was rife among the upper classes of the West, whose ignorance of all things save war, repine and hunting was profound and pitiable. Female drunkenness was common. Charles the Great, a man far in advance of his times in most things, lived openly with several concubines at one time.  Kings like Alfred the Great of England were rare. The chivalry of which so much is made shows itself on examination to have been a very paltry thing after all, chiefly class prejudice in fact. No one and nothing were safe against feudal violence. In the thirteenth century in England a body of gentlemen rode forth and deliberately sacked Boston during a great fair. Trade and commerce hardly existed. The utmost efforts could not wring a modest revenue from the miserable population. Prosperity in the West would have been the depth of wretchedness in the Eastern Empire. Even when the administration of the law was best it was fearfully barbarous. As a rule anarchy reigned with slight check. The task accomplished by the much maligned Eastern Empire was the most vitally important, the most glorious and the most thankless that a nation could achieve. For two centuries while the old majestic order crumbled away in the West it remained a center of peaceful culture. For eight hundred years it was the shield of Europe. Heraclius beat back the great westward advance of the new Persian Empire, an advance not less dangerous than that of the old. His descendants made good the defense of Europe's Eastern Gate against the raging torrent of Mohammedanism. Leo III hurled it back beyond Taurus and gained five centuries wherein the European states might make some small progress towards strength and solidity. Much is said today of the splendor of European civilization. Some, the writer among them, believe that it is largely material and superficial and out of all proportion to the actual moral progress made. But such as it is, it owes its existence to the desperate fight waged by Rome's Eastern Empire against the barbarian hordes which were pressing from the East. In an age of utter darkness the Empire preserved the traditions of science, art and literature and seeing how badly its works have suffered at barbarian hands and that its best blood was needed for the vital tasks of defense and administration. We are not justified in stating that they were of slight merit. For many centuries it provided for the security and well-being of its people in a manner that has not been equaled in Western Europe until very late times. During the whole period of its existence it waged a bitter struggle against the enemies of all that is best in the world. And when at last its time came, when its realm had almost dwindled to the walls of its capital it died as it had lived, deserted and betrayed, but in its last agony as in the days of its splendor and glory the rearguard of Christian civilization. End of section 23 and end of the Byzantine Empire The Rearguard of European Civilization by Edward Ford


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Should I make this bigger? Let me let me try a couple things here. Let me try a couple things. Sorry guys one sec. I'm gonna try to make this bigger for you so you can see it because I feel like with the blue here it was kind of hard to see. There is that a little bit better? Okay sorry everybody. So let's start this again. You are a dental professional working in a dental clinic. A patient arrives for a routine checkup and reveals that they are experiencing severe pain and discomfort in their mouth. Upon examination you notice multiple signs of advanced periodontal disease. The patient admits to neglecting their oral hygiene routine and avoiding dental visits for the past few years. According to the Dental Hygiene Code of Ethics what should be your initial course of action? So I'll let you guys read through the answers on your own. Think about it. Feel free to pause this video before I go over the answer. Okay so pause the video now if you don't want to know the answer yet. I'm going to discuss it with you. Okay moving on. So C is the best answer. So let's go through the question again a little bit.  Your patient has come in. They are experiencing severe pain and discomfort in their mouth. You notice multiple signs of advanced perio. They probably didn't realize they had perio because they've been afraid to go to the dentist and they've been avoiding dental visits. But what do you do? So you will you will offer supportive care including pain relief and temporary solutions while educating the patient about the consequences of neglecting oral hygiene. So this is the best answer. A is not correct because you don't just want to go through with a normal checkup. There's so much more involved here. You don't necessarily want to just refer the patient to a perio specialist because you don't just want to send them on their way right? Like you you want to let them know you care about them. You don't just want to say uh-oh you have perio. I'm going to refer you right away. They're coming to you in pain so you want to offer them something. Maybe it's as simple as saying if you take Advil every six hours this will help but we need to talk about why regular dental hygiene visits are important. You probably want to start cleaning the teeth as soon as possible too. And then D is not correct to inform the patient that their condition requires extensive treatment and dismiss them from the clinic. So does everybody understand why C was the best answer? When somebody comes in you don't just want to ignore them and send them away. You don't just want to lecture them either and say well there's nothing we can do you have severe perio. Anytime a patient comes in you want to look at their chief complaint and if they're in pain like that is the biggest unmet human need that we have to deal with as dental professionals is anxiety and pain because that's the first. Okay if they're more concerned with teeth waiting but they're so scared to go to the dentist and they're in pain yes they want their teeth wiped but you first have to address their pain their anxiety and this is it in a nutshell. They didn't go to the dentist for several years they have been neglecting their oral health too so who knows have they been brushing daily who knows but it's good to get them out of pain give them education on why this happened in the first place so it doesn't happen again because they might not know they might not realize like oh that's why I have to go to the dentist because I had gum disease and since it wasn't treated it's gotten worse maybe they didn't know that so don't always assume that they know everything because they probably don't and again you don't just want to send them on their way you don't just want to refer them but then you don't also want to continue on so remember A. A was to basically proceed with the routine checkup so you don't just want to go ahead with their like examination today and then whatever you had planned you might want to say okay you had planned an emergency visit today or perhaps they they planned a new patient exam today and although those are good things to do but you need to do more you need to add in the education you need to add in okay we're going to educate you first on why this happened let's take a bunch of x-rays so we can show you what's happening they probably have bone mods if they're in pain but we need to book a cleaning right away this gum disease is here it's not going to get better until we make it better by going through cleaning you might have to refer them to a periodontist it didn't say if there's any bone loss it doesn't say how much so you might still have to refer them but you want to go through those stages first so does that make sense why C is the best answer so this is part of our case studies our ethics case studies there are tons of case studies inside the VIP board exam prep academy we go over them all every single week because I tell my students I want you guys so take ethics as an example I want everybody to study ethics first study it until you know it like okay Andrea I got it I think I'd get a hundred percent on the exam then I want you to take the quizzes and then the case studies to really see like okay do you know it or do you have to go back and study it again because it's one thing to think you know it but then you see the questions in another way and then you might go okay I didn't really know it I have to go back and study it again and that's okay that's what mock exams and case studies are there for so I hope this helped you guys let me know if any questions I'm very happy to help we are now enrolling new students into the VIP board exam prep academy so definitely check it out at dental oil.com you will have me the entire time I'm the only one that teaches everybody and you will pass your first attempt on the board exam that is my goal I still maintain a 99 plus percent success rate it's 99.6 to 99.8 depending on the dental hygiene or the dental assisting courses but that is still very high so I know you guys can pass okay so thank you for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one


What's up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebreak.com. We just sold out 2021, Panini, Clearly Donnerous, Basketball. This is a 12 box hobby case break. Picker teams number two. Fresh new brand new release guys, and we're giving away a box if you buy two or more teams. So again, if you buy two teams, you get one entry. If you buy four teams, you get two entries. If you buy six teams, you get three entries, etc. Top name will win the box. All-Card ship. So here you go. Fresh case and PJ got last by Mojo Hawks and Celtics. All right, so we're going to win four boxes at a time. And again, this stuff looks pretty nice this year, guys. Here we go guys. First four boxes. Let's get ourselves some nice hits in this case as well. Good luck everybody. First off, killing Hayes to 99. Rated rookie. Isaiah Stewart, Malachi. Got a gold, Bama DeBiles, CJ Elevee. Sam Merrill. Zion Stargazing. Sadiq Bey, Kira Lewis Jr. Theo Maladon, Isaac Acoro, and Odoka, Azabuc. So again, we will be penny sleeping all the rookies and all the inserts. But of course, only the rookies, only the bigger rookies that we have on our list will be top-loaded. So, you know, like Wiseman, Edwards, Ball, you have a list over here. Haliburton, Bay, Toppin. All the way down, it's like McDaniels. It's a pretty big list, but... And then of course, the rest of the rookies will be just left in penny sleep. So at least have a little extra layer of protection right there. Of course, all the numbered cards, bigger rookies, all that will be top-loaded. And how about a little Yanis, Antutekompo to 99. Very nice. Canyon Martin. For the Rockets. Desmond Bay. Devin Vassel. James Wiseman. I know, Matthew, you got all your pistons in the first box. Jayce Jontaites. Lebron. Donovan Mitchell. Naismith. Hookah Sveski. Jayce and Tatum. That's a purple. That's nice. Jordan Nora and Danny Avicia. And again, guys, like I said, we have eight picker teams up on the website. So... We can still do a lot of these picker teams tonight with me and Sean, you know? So I'm on here for about another three and a half hours. So... Like I said, these breaks probably take about 30 minutes. 40 minutes in total, uploading video, print out labels. So we can easily still squeeze in a couple more tonight before Sean gets here at seven. Onyaka Akangu. That's a nice one there for the Hawks. Purple. Bane. Stefan Curry. James Wiseman. Jayce Jontaites. Lebron. Zero Gravity Zion. Hookah Sveski. Oh, yeah, better to do this one. Hookah Sveski. It looks like a Reapy Box. Jayce Jontaites. Jordan Nora and Danny Avicia. Once I already grabbed that one. John Collins. Kylian Hayes. Isaiah Joe. Yannis. Tyrese Halliburne. That's a gold. Mania Quickley. Cole Anthony. We got a Ben Simmons. That is a little tribute throwback. Rated rookie. That's sweet. 76ers going to Eric. Stuart Terry. Trey Jones. A little Lamello Ball. And Cassius Winston. Yeah, well, back in the day, yeah, the only the only rookie cards you were able to get in his officially licensed uniform with those sixers was, yeah, it was just all the base stuff from 1617. So, yeah, back in the day, any numbered card of Ben Simmons, rookies, the silvers and that stuff was expensive, super expensive, just as autographs were numbered, like, yeah. But again, that just made it more desirable, you know, it's like, you're never going to see Ben Simmons, you know, rookies, unless it was Panini with, you know, just that. But the autographs, of course, were upper deck. He's kind of falling off, man. Hopefully, you know, hopefully if he does get traded or, you know, release whatever the case may be. I think he's still very talented. I just think, man, I think he needs to get out of Philly, get a fresh start. He's still pretty young, too. So I think it's more mental for Ben Simmons than anything.  All the criticism and everything. So I think it would do him good to just get out of Philly and start fresh somewhere else. All right, still no autographs in the first four boxes. Let's see if we got some in here. Usually in a case, I think they only, I think they only put no more than like four. Hopefully we can get some here, guys. We have a Joelle and Bede. Number 299. 76ers. Sadiq Bay, Kira Lewis, Jordan Noir of Gold, O'Coral, Zabuki, John Morant, My House, Donovan Mitchell, Campazo, Tyrese Maxie, CJ Elibi, Zeke, and Moses Brown. And Moses Brown to 49 for the Thunder. Ooh, I'm with that one. Nico Mannion, Mason Jones. I feel like I haven't seen the rookies insert. Jada McDaniels, speaking of the rookies insert, there it is. Tyrese Halliburton's our first one. Skyler Maze, Cassia Stanley, Josh Green, CJ Elibi, Onyeka Okongu. Ben Simmons to 99, what a break for the 76ers. RJ Hampton, Paul Reed. And look at that, Peyton Pritchard. There you go, PJ. Go Ducks. Very nice, brother. Last spot mojo, PJ got the Celtics and the Hawks. That is sweet, bro. Purple Fasundo, Josh Green, Zeke. Wow, look at this. Even a rated rookie, Tatum. Little tribute. Ooh, told you guys Celtics could be a really big team. It was meant to be, PJ. Centering on this looks great too. It's just usually the surface that's always kind of messed up with that. Nathan Knight, another little Pritchard right there. LeBron Gold, Precious Chua, Trey Jones. Stephen Curry Purple, Kenyan Martin, Desmond Bain. James Wiseman, Jay Sean Tate. My House, Devin Booker. Nate Smith, Pukasaveski. CJ Elibi, Jordan Nora, and Denny Avdija. What? Is there any way that you took the iPhone? I took it? No, I'm just saying, but could it be in your backpack? I can check. I don't think so, though. Why would it say? I mean, I'll check. The ID cabinet though, just the one right behind you, right? Yeah, that's the only other place. The lounge back room, that's the black back room. Yeah, we can tell that maybe we can look, but. Right behind the bar, or a check bar, or a check cabinet. I just told her that we'll check it later when we get home. I mean, I know before in the past I did take it, but I don't think I took it in my backpack, but. I mean, maybe I did, I don't know. You can check there, I doubt it'd be there though. Like I said, either Nick or Mike carried it. Like we did when we first got this for Vegas. And then either we put it in the chest, or yeah, it could be in my backpack or in our next backpack. Barefoot's on the low limit. I've been like that for the last two years. We're flying out on Tuesday, Malibu. Like I said, it could either have been in the crate, it could have been in Nick's car with Mike and Nick like it was the first time, or yeah, it could be in my backpack too. I'll have to find out when I get home. I'll search it. Whoa. Jalen Brown to 25 green. What a break for the Celtics. PJ, look at that man. Zeke, Moises Brown. And Trey Young, update as well. Little tribute. PJ with a monster break. Those are the last two teams taking us. Payne Prichard as well. Should I go now to there first? I mean, it's not a big deal if we do find it and then we take it, right? You're gonna ask me like, do you want me to go back or do you want me to check for now? I mean, I doubt it though. It was just a phone, so then we have until Monday to figure out what we do. Sam Merrill, Trey Jones, Nathan Knight, Zion, a little Shea Gildes, Alexander the 49, Halliburton, Precious, and Mason Jones rated rookie autograph for Philadelphia. 76 is gonna Eric. So is that our second autograph? We've had two, I think. We have the Payne Prichard and Mason Jones. Last case, I think we had four. Paul George, number 249 for the Clippers. Malachi, Russell Westbrook, Sadiq Beg, Kira Lewis. Wow, Luga Donchich rated rookie. Very nice. And the centering on this is not bad at all too. Clean. Dallas Mavericks, look at that, Katie. Okoro, Zabuki. And Yanisanta de Compo, the 49. Wow, you know what? This case is a lot different compared to the first case. First case had four autographs, had that nice Anthony Edwards at a 10 and only one little tribute reprint. This one so far, we've already had like four reprints. Simmons, Young, Luka, and Tatum. So that goes to show you the cases are a lot different then. Then more of the same. Small check is still regardless, but as you can see. All right, good luck everybody. Last box, Bama DeBio, Cassius Winston, Terry. Wow, and for the Hawks, Onyeka, Kongu. Last spot, Mojo. PJ got a Payne Prichard rated rookie autograph and now Onyeka, Kongu. And that's pretty much who you're chasing when you get the Hawks and Celtics. Like I said, besides the tributes, look at that. Last spot, Mojo's paying off big time. Lamello, my house, imagine if PJ were to win the box too. That'd definitely be last spot Mojo right there. What did you just miss, PJ? I will give you a recap right now. And PJ, you're on fire together today. All right, so I'm gonna top a little of these for sure, but like I said, Luka, Lamello rated rookie, Giannis to 49, Paul George to 49, Halliburton, Shay Gildes, Alexander to 49, Payne Prichard rated rookie, my house, James Wiseman, Prichard again, Ben Simmons to 99, Onyeka, Halliburton, the Ruggies, Moises Brown to 49, my house, Donovan Mitchell, Joel and B to 99, Lamello Ball base, Halliburton, Gold, Zion Zero Gravity, Wiseman, Onyeka, Purple, Wiseman, Giannis to 99, Zion, Stargazing and Killian Hayes to 75. And here you go, so here's your autograph, Mason Jones, we got a tribute update, rookie, Ben Simmons, Payne Prichard rated rookie autograph, Jason Tatum tribute, Jalen Brown to 25, a Trey Young rated rookie tribute, Onyeka Kongu rated rookie autograph, and a little Luka Donchich, great, there you go guys, so this one only did have three autographs, but it's like three to four, it looks like per case, but this one definitely had a lot more tributes than I was expecting, so again, we have number three, four, five, six, seven, eight on the website, again three, four, five are legit in single digits, so if we can get those done guys, let's do it, and let's give away a free box now. So again, if you've got two or more teams, you are entered to win. David, Eric got two, that's an entry, Eric with just one, Jason, Jesse with just one, but Jason has two, Jose two, Josh X line two, Katie with two, Matthew with just one, Patrick Davis two, PJ two, Ryan Redman, you have four, so that's two entries, Sean Allure with two, Shane with two, that's one entry each, all right, it's out of the possible 15, there's 13 names. So there you go guys, good luck everybody. Name it number one after three and a five gets a free box, one, two, three, four, five. And Eric, I think that's back to back boxes for you buddy, three and a two, boom, congratulations man, so I'll give you another box there, again number three is on the website guys, coming up next is some diamond icons though, the R&B did sell out, but if we don't sell any other team straight up in numbers three and four, I'm probably gonna put those in a quick little team filler, team random or something, just so we can knock them out as quickly as possible, but again, looks like five left here, we still have the Hornets available at 350, Celtics, Nets, Nuggets and Warriors at 120, and again guys, pretty inexpensive teams, they got to grab two more teams, so if you have a chance to win a free box, Jaspy's casebreaks.com.


A little bit about me, as was introduced, my name is Shwetank. I work in the developer relations team in Opera. How many people have used Opera in the past? Use it? Awesome. And the ones who don't, download it now. I'm also part of the extensions team. So if you have any extensions and you want to put it to Opera or something, let me know. My Twitter is Shwetank. Just my first name. And in case you want to talk to me later on on email, it's Shwetanktee at opera.com. So first of all, welcome. Welcome to day two. We'll have a lot of good talks in day two. And if you look at the talks in day two, you'll see that a lot of them are actually doing the same thing. They're diving deep into the topic, going a little bit extra ahead, showing a little bit more detail. And the same thing will be in my talk as well. We'll talk about CSS blend modes. But more than that, we'll also talk a little bit about computer graphics and how and why we need blend modes in the first place. But first, I want to ask you a question. What were your favorite cartoons when you were growing up? Tom and Jerry? Oh, let me just preface. How many of the people who were born before 1995, and this makes me feel very old, what were your favorite cartoons? Swatcats? Dexter? Oh, nice. Johnny Quest? Almost all of those cartoons were probably using something like this. They were probably using something like traditional cell animation. And what exactly is this? Well, before this, and this is way, way before, when animation was in a very, very primitive stage, you used to draw each and every frame. Each and every frame, you had to draw it. Because you had to flip through it. Each and every detail in each and every frame had to be the exact same thing. And it required a lot of effort. So then people came up with this, which was cell animation, which was, you had these transparent plastic cells. And you used to draw on top of that. So what happened was, whenever you had an animation, there were some parts which were moving, like the characters, they were moving. But some parts were not moving, like the background. So in those cases, you just painted one cell for the background, and then for each and every moving thing, you only animated that. And you only painted one cell for the background. So it looked a little bit like this, in which the moving parts you paint for each and every cell on top. And when you compose it in front or at the back of a background, you have an effect like this. So the reason why I talked about this is because to introduce you to the concept of layers, layers is extremely important. And it's a fundamental concept when you're talking about image composition and when you're talking about graphics in general. And this concept of layers and how we deal with different layers is at the heart of blending and composition. About modern graphics, once again, you have the same thing. How many people have used Photoshop or GIMP or any other image processing? And how many people have used layers in them? Everyone, right? Any kind of non-trivial thing they need to do in all these image processing apps, you need to use some kind of layers and mix and match and that kind of stuff. Over there, you might notice there are options like this, screen or something like this. These are the blend modes that we're going to talk about. And what did they do? For example, take a look at the poster at the very left. It's a little bit dark in the projector, but basically, you cannot get this effect with just having a red background on top of a picture and decreasing the opacity. You can't really have that. You need to apply something more. And how you do this is what blending modes is all about. And we now have it in CSS. So we as web developers now have the power that we previously only had in Photoshop or other image editing software. So first, let's talk about compositing, because the spec is about compositing and blending. So compositing is basically how to deal with displaying overlapping objects. Overall compositing, it deals with something called PorterDuffComposting and Blending. So we'll first take a small look, a brief look, at what PorterDuffComposting is. Now, Porter what? So PorterDuffComposting is actually named by, you know, it's based on a very seminal paper by these two people, Thomas Porter and Tom Duff. These two people in the early 80s, they used to work for a very famous iconic company called Lucasfilm. And they were working on all kinds of various things for digital graphics over there. And one of the things they did was come up with stuff like this. It's called the PorterDuffComposting modes. So basically, if two elements are overlapping, there's pretty much just four things you can do. One, you show on that overlapping part, you don't show anything. Second, you show the source, which is the layer on top. The third is you show the layer on bottom. And the fourth is you have a mix of both the bottom and the top layers. Somehow, you do something over there. So the blend modes will work over there.  But the ones that we are interested in specifically is something called source over. It's the most intuitive way to deal with overlapping images. Like, for example, you have a piece of paper, and you have another piece of paper overlapping it. And you look from top, then you'll see the source eclipsing the destination layer. The one on top eclipsing the one on the bottom. This is the default compositing mode when it comes to blend modes and other things. So this was about compositing. But what do we actually mean by blending? Blending is simply blending the colors of the layer on top with the layer on bottom in some way or the other. So there is some calculation happening, or some function or some algorithm happening through which you blend the colors from the top layer and the bottom layer when those two are overlapping to create some kind of effect. For example, you have this layer, and then you have the green layer overlapping it. So in this portion, the yellow portion over here, something must be happening. Some function must happen to get an overall effect, which is different. Or another way to deal with it is like this. On the top, you have the source image. On the bottom, you have the destination image. And according to some function or the other, you get the resulting image, which is on the bottom. So when it comes to blend modes, we basically have about 16 blend modes. And the first one, normal, is pretty much just no blend mode is applied, actually. So it's pretty much just 15 blend modes that you have. In other image editing softwares, you have slightly more blend modes as well. And in CSS, you use it like this. This is the stuff that needs to be paid attention to, which is mixed blend mode and background blend mode. And we'll take a closer look over there. So with mixed blend mode, how you use it, you just say mixed blend mode multiply, or if you're using it in a div, you just say in the div, mixed blend mode multiply, what will happen is that if that div is overlapping something else, then the colors of that div will be mixed with the colors of that background layer in the overlapping portion. So to give you a brief demo of this, let me just pull this out. So you have this, right? But this is actually two different images, right?  And now all I've done is I've used mixed blend mode on the image, that's it, on the IMG element.  It's actually two different images. You're just combining them together and applying some kind of effect. And this is just, you know, very simple CSS. So this is what I mean by, you know, mixed blend modes and how you apply them. I'll show you one more demo, which might be, might work, might not work. I think it should work. Let's go to the meta-refresh side itself. We go over here. We have images over here, right, of the speakers. Let's just select one image over here. Apply a mixed blend mode. Let's try hard light, right? So you can see there's this different kind of effect applied to the image. You can do something else as well. You can do screen, or overlay, or even multiply, right? So using this, you can just have different effects on top of your existing images, or on top of even other divs or any kind of block-level elements. So this is pretty nice. How many people know about the stacking context in CSS? How many people have used Zindex? Everyone. So everyone over here has created a stacking context of their own in the browser. So what a stacking context is, think of it as a stack of books, right? Every time you create a Zindex, you create one stack of, one book on top of that stack as well, right? And this is how different layers are interpreted in the browser itself. So this is a little bit like, this is not even a complete list, but whenever you use Zindex, you create a stacking context. If you use opacity, less than one, you get a stacking context. Transitions, FlexItem, Filter, will change. How many people know about will change? So there's a good article on devopra.com, Sarah Swedin has written it about will change. Check it out. All these things will create a separate stacking context. A separate layer on top, right? So this turns out to be a little bit important when you're talking about blending, because we have a property called isolation, right? And what it does is, there are certain times in which you use mixed blend modes and it will mix all the layers which are overlapping it, right? All the layers which are beneath it, basically, right? But sometimes you want that, I just want certain few layers for those colors to mix, but I don't want all of those underneath stacking context to be mixed, right? You just want a few certain things to be mixed. So in those cases, you can actually do it. This image is straight from the spec. So to take an example, on the left you have blending happening normally, right? In which all of the background layers, the colors are mixed, right? On the right, what you have is, I've done dev isolation, isolate, in which only the elements required to make that plane, only the elements of those are mixed. Only the colors of the elements of those are mixed and not the background color, right? So in some certain cases, you want isolation to happen and you can create a container div and say isolation, isolate, in those cases, only the child elements of that container div, those will be mixed together, not the entire thing. The thing, after mixed blend modes, you also have background blend mode. So a lot of times you have background images, right? And you want to add extra style to it, extra possess to it. In those cases, you can actually use background blend mode. So you can define a background image over here, you can define a background color, and you can define background blend mode, multiply or screen or whatever. And in those cases, it'll mix the background image with the background color to create something, to create a certain effect. Now keep in mind, this is also isolated, which means that if there's, say, a div or if there's even a body with a certain background color behind it, the mixing will not happen with those layers. It will only happen within this particular div or whatever thing you're having. You can also have multiple background images. And you can have multiple blend modes for those multiple background images. In this case, sample1.png will have the screen blend mode applied to it and sample2.png will have the overlay blend mode applied to it. Now this is all good and fine, but when it comes to actually understanding blend modes, a lot of people who are really, really good at CSS, even them, they cannot struggle with how to make sense of it. But there are ways to actually make sense of it. You don't have to always do trial and error. Certain amount of trial error is always going to be required, but there are ways to actually make sense of it a little bit more. So blend modes, the ones in CSS, they can be categorized according to these five categories, darkening, lightening, contrast, comparative, and component. And we'll take a look at one blend mode in detail from each of those categories. So before I start that, a little bit about RGB and notations. So when it comes to RGB, there are different notations to define or to specify them. The most common is digital 8-bit, 0 to 255. But you can also define them in, say, percentages, 80%, 0%, 80%, something like this. And when it comes to mathematical analysis or talking about algorithms of functions, then it's a little bit easier to do it in terms of 0 and 1. So instead of 80%, you say 0.8. So when we're talking and when we're going to analyze these blend modes in terms of the functions, we're going to use the mathematical notation of the RGB values. So let's take a look at the first category, which was darkening. So in this case, we take a look at the blend mode called multiply. It's a very simple thing. It's just multiplying the color channel of the source with the background. That's it. But the thing to consider over here is the fact that we're taking a look at the mathematical RGB notation, which is between 0 and 1. So whenever you multiply a fraction with another fraction, you will get a number which is lower than the original ones. So in this case, a number which is closer to 0 is darker. And a number which is closer to 1 will always be lighter. So whenever you multiply 0. something with 0. something, you always get something closer to 0. So in this case, you always get something which is a little bit darker. So that's why it's in the darkening category. Screen does a little bit of the opposite. So in this case, it takes the complements of those and multiplies them together, and once again does the complement of it. The result is you get something closer to 1. And it creates more of a lighter, more of a washed out kind of a look, which sometimes you kind of desire. So this is how you take a look at the lightning category, in this case, screen. Now this is very, very, very interesting. This is the hard light belongs to the contrast category. So in this case, what it's saying is if the color, if the source color is dark, which is 0.5 or less, then use the multiplier blend mode. Otherwise, use the screen blend mode. Multiplier makes things darker. Screen makes things lighter. So in this case, what's happening is if the source color is dark, it'll make it darker. If it's light, it's going to make it lighter. So this is very, very interesting.  The next category, one of those is difference. This is very simple. It basically subtracts the darker of the two colors and create a mod of it. Whatever the difference is, that's going to be the final color value of that channel. Now the interesting thing about the difference color blend mode is that if your backdrop is black, then no effect will be applied. Because when you subtract 0 from something, you still get that original number. So no effect will be applied at that time. However, if the background is closer to white, then it'll be like an invert of that image. So it'll be almost like a negative of that image. And hue, hue, color, luminosity, all those kind of blend modes, they come under the category of non-separable blend modes, which means that they don't work exactly on the RGB values. The RGB values have to be converted into HSL values. And it works over there. So in this case, in the hue blend mode, what happens is it creates a color with the hue of the source color and the saturation and luminosity values of the background color. So it works over there like this. So luminosity, it does the same thing with luminosity and stuff like this. So this is how you can make sense of blend modes. You can take a look at how they work. And you can see that my image or my div, the background is this, the foreground is this. So I probably will need to use something with high contrast. I'll go with hard light. So you can kind of make sense and have an idea of where you want to go with blend modes. Now, blend modes can work with other technologies as well. That's the power of the web, that you can mix and match different technologies to create some really, really cool stuff. So one of the most exciting things for me is that you can use blend modes with gradients to create something really nice. So for example, this is just a normal radial gradient. And keep in mind, this is a white to black one, not a transparent to black one. And then you have another image over here. But if you overlap them and apply a blend mode, you can have an effect like this, which cannot really be achieved with anything else. And this can be used in image galleries and all kind of stuff like this. So in terms of practical uses, it's very, very nice that you can use gradients with blend modes on images. It's a little bit out of the scope, but so I won't explain what exactly are masks and animation filters, but you can use all of those things to create something really, really nice. In terms of CSS masks, if you're using them, if you know them, keep in mind that the mask will be the highest layer in the stacking context. So for example, if you have these three images and you want to create something with just these three images, which looks a little bit nice, just using normal, simple CSS masks and animations and all that kind of stuff, let's go over here and try to see what a simple thing that I made. So you can make something like this in which the mask is the Batman image or the Batman symbol. It's doing a CSS animation. And if you hover over it, then you get this text. And this text is using blend modes. So it's blending with the background, not just Batman, but also the Joker image behind it. And all I did was pretty much just with these three images. So you can combine and mix and match all these kind of things to create some really cool stuff. Animated GIFs or GIFs. I don't know how you pronounce it. I pronounce it GIF sometimes, and sometimes it goes ahead and I say GIFs. Anyways, in those cases, you can actually combine them as well, because if you can combine JPG images together using background blend modes or PNG, then GIF images are also game. In this case, I can actually use this three line code to make something like this. Let's just go over here. If you saw this image, and you didn't saw the previous two GIFs, then you would probably expect that this is one single GIF. Instead, these are just two different GIFs that I've combined together using blend modes, using just three lines of CSS. No JavaScript, nothing else. No image editing software required. Just three lines of CSS. I'll talk about that. So the next thing is that the next step is, if you can do it with GIFs, can you do it with videos? And of course, you can. You can do it with videos as well. But the thing which I find really cool is that you can also do it with real time video. How many people over here have worked or played with GetUserMedia, or WebRTC or whatever? A few of you, right? So with GetUserMedia, with GetUserMedia, you can actually get the webcam input. So over here in real time, let's see, here in real time, I can apply a mask and then I can apply a blend mode over here. All of this is working in real time. So using Photoshop or something, you can only do it with images. But with the power of the web, you can actually do it with live video. So this is pretty cool. Let's go back. Of course, you can also use blend modes in Canvas. You're not just restricted to HTML or just in CSS. You can use it in Canvas as well. There's a particular thing called the global composite operation. And it takes, as a value, it takes either a composite operation like source over or destination over or something. Or you can put in a blend mode. For example, over here, you can say context.globalCompositeOperation is equal to screen. So the screen blend mode will be applied over there. Blend modes can also be used in SVG, which is kind of like coming full circle because blend modes actually started out in SVG. SVG had blend modes all the time. So even if you don't use CSS in SVG, you can use blend modes by using FEImage and FEBlend over there. But if you want to use CSS, you can in SVG. So in this case, I've just selected the rectangle element and said, mix blend mode, multiply. And the blend mode will be applied over there. Actually, I'm going really fast, so that's pretty nice. Browser support. So browser support, when I actually started researching and doing stuff on blend modes like a year ago, browser support was actually not very good. But now, browser support is pretty nice. Opera, all the latest versions I'm talking about, the latest stable versions, Opera, Chrome, Firefox do support blend modes. When it comes to Safari, Safari also supports blend modes, but not all of them. The non-separable blend modes that I was talking about, in which the RGB values have to be converted to HSL, those ones right now are not supported by Safari yet. When it comes to IE, IE doesn't support blend modes right now. But the Spartan project, which Microsoft is working on, Adobe has contributed a lot of stuff over there, including compositing and blending. So whenever the Spartan project comes out, it will have support for blend modes over there. Of course, the beauty with blend modes is the fact that it degrades very, very nicely, because it's just extra sugar on top.  This is just extra styling on top. So it degrades very, very nicely. It's not like your content will not be there if you don't use blend modes. It's just that if it is there, it'll look extra nice. So when it comes to feature detection, there are multiple ways to do it. In JavaScript, you can do CSS.supports and check for that property over there. Using CSS, you can use the add support property, say add supports, mix blend mode screen, or background blend mode screen over there. You can also use Modernizer, which I do in some of my demos. So you can use the test prop function over there. So it'll return true if it's supported, return false if it's not supported. You can use the test prop function for a lot of stuff, not just detecting blend modes. So yeah, I think I finished early, actually. To recap, we've taken a look at compositing. We've taken a look at blending. We've taken a look at categorizing different blend modes. We took a look at the mathematical notation for RGB, the algorithms of certain blend modes. We talked about mix blend mode, background blend modes, stacking context, the isolation, working with different web technologies as well. Browser support and feature detection we talked about right now. And also we had a kickass animation or kickass animated GIF of Snoop Dogg Nancing. So we have that as well. Or in case you're a little bit more Indian-slayer, but we have Sunny Pajee over here. Anyways, further reading, of course, take a look at the spec. The spec is something which you always have to take a look at whenever you want to go deep into a particular topic, especially in CSS. Take a look at the various algorithms or the various functions which are being used over there, not just for blending, but also for compositing. There's also an article written by me on dev.opper.com, getting to know CSS blend modes. I talked about a lot of stuff that I've talked about over here, even though I've talked a little bit more in detail over here. There's a guy called Bennett Feely, which has also done a lot of work in evangelizing blend modes. Of course, there's an article by Sarah Swaden, which also goes very in-depth into compositing and blending. So take a look at all those things. If you have any questions regarding blending, compositing, or how to use this in CSS, crowd support, and all that kind of stuff, I'm here. Cheers. Hello. I'm considering three different types of content, one being raster images, which is JPEG, PNG, and GIF. The other being SVG kind of vector images, and the third being video and live video. Do you have any information or data around the performance impact of using blend modes on all the three of these? It does use quite a lot of the GPU. So especially on mobile right now, the performance is lagging, especially in Firefox for some reason. But this is being worked on by the browser makers right now, especially, I can say, we're taking a look at also memory optimization and that kind of stuff. We know that it is a little bit intensive, but at the same time, if you have that kind of thing that I want a particular effect applied, I think it's worth the effort to actually go, especially if you're not doing real time video and that kind of stuff. It's just a static image. I think it's OK if you don't overuse it. Thank you. Hi. First of all, thanks for the wonderful talk. I do have a question. So you explained about the different blend modes, right? So say I use one of the blend mode and it matches as close to my design, but it's not the exact one. So can I apply some more CSS parameters like opacity? We apply some values, right? Is there anything that I can do? Instead of just saying blend mode, I can apply some more number so that I can fine tune it. Is that possible? Yes and no. You cannot change the actual function of the blend mode. What you can do is apply certain effects on top. You can add, for example, filters or something on top or you can use opacity to tweak it a little bit. So you can do those things on top, but you cannot change the actual functions being used for a particular blend mode. You can't do that. OK. Thank you.


hi guys welcome back to my channel today's video is another adoption video and i know i don't do a lot of adoption videos and i'm coming out with a video about why um it's nothing super deep or maybe it's deep but i want to just share with you guys why so that's coming out pretty soon i wanted to drop this video before that just because it wouldn't like make a lot of sense but if you guys have any suggestions ideas questions leave them in the comments down below because i would love to know and it will give me some inspiration about what to film next if you guys are new here make sure you are subscribed and turn on the little bell icon thank you guys so much for being here and clicking on my video it means the absolute world to me and i guess without further ado let's just get on into the video so in this video i'm going to be talking about what it's like telling people you're adopted and the reactions you get so this is what it's like telling people you are adopted so typically i tell people i'm adopted from the get go because i don't know i just don't want them to be weirded out or just i don't know make assumptions because i am with two white women you know what i'm saying so i just like to be straightforward and it is kind of big in my life again i'll touch on this in the other video but it's not that big of a deal to me it's just it is what it is and it's my life so it's not anything crazy but i like to be upfront with people especially if they have an issue with gay people or adoption which most people are okay with like adoption but i don't know if you're gonna hate me like i want you to hate me from the get go like i want you to not like me from the start not like you know develop some sort of friendship or something and then have the person be like oh i don't agree with that or whatever so i'm just really straightforward i always have been so when i tell someone i'm adopted they typically go like oh wow like that's cool do you want to meet your real parents and it's so interesting because i always get this question and i always have to correct them it's like birth parents like come on people like i don't know i feel like all adoptees that's again kind of weird because i don't necessarily think of myself as adopted half the time so again fellow adoptees can relate to this but like do you want to meet or find your real parents is a big question and it's just really annoying and just don't ask that if you want to ask that just typically say oh would you like to meet your birth family or anything like that because you never know how someone might take that another thing too is they always seem to be really cool with adoption and they think it's really cool and then they also ask like do you remember anything from china and i'm all like no not really because i was a baby now some people actually do so that's a good question maybe to ask but again i wouldn't like ask that sorry the lighting is changing i film with natural light so that's just what we get today the next thing that people ask adoptees is do you know your medical history and i've got a lot of comments about like oh you should find out your medical history blah blah blah and i don't fully disagree with that i think that's great but also i'm at the point where again i don't really care to know that i already have like higher level cholesterol and i think that's hereditary because like i'm pretty healthy i'll just blame the genetics the next thing that people always ask really is do you speak chinese and the answer to that is no um i feel like you shouldn't be obligated just because you look a certain way to like speak a certain language um so no i don't but some people might speak the native language from where they were born because their adoptive family um signed them up for classes or felt the need to incorporate them more into the culture but the thing is like i'm american like i'm going to embrace like more american culture sorry um but a lot of people have differing opinions on that which is totally fine um but i'm kind of glad that my parents didn't do that with me another question i always get asked and it's just really annoying when i tell people i'm adopted is well actually i don't even need to tell them that i'm adopted because i always just get this question in general and i don't think it's rude but it's just annoying and i'm gonna just flat out say that because like to me it's annoying but they always go like oh where are you from and then i go like columbus ohio and they're like no like where are you from and i'm like oh well i was adopted from china and then i go on my spiel about like i was adopted from china when i was one out of two gay moms you know all of that but like come on just except the fact that i'm am really from ohio and that like that's kind of like where i associate being from my hometown though is definitely like obviously celebration because i grew up there but like the where are you from question just like is crazy like you wouldn't go up to some random like i don't know someone who looked hispanic or someone who looked black someone who was just a plain white person and be like oh where are you from and then they say like minnesota and you're like no where are you really from like you wouldn't do that but i feel like i don't know being a asian person in america like they're expecting some like exotic country like china which i am from but still like no not really because i don't associate with that you know what i'm saying so that's definitely a question it's not even like i have to tell someone i'm adopted to get that question but it's just like so wild to me another reaction i get when i tell people i'm adopted is oh i'm adopted too which is like so cool because like i have already found a connection a something something in common with someone to develop a friendship a level of um familiar familiarity i don't know if i'm saying that right but you know something you talk about and then we always well not always but like from when i've met other adoptees we always talk about like the things that i'm telling you like what people ask or the reactions we get which is kind of funny a lot of people say oh i'm adopted too so then it just like already there's a connection there which is super cool another question i always get when i tell people i'm adopted is do you ever want to go back to china like to see it and my response always is well if i could afford it yeah like that'd be kind of cool like i mean if you want to front the bill that would be great um but uh as of now that's not my top priority of where i want to go in the world if i got to travel and see places but there's always a question like do you want to go back to china that's something that's like always brought up as well when i tell people i'm adopted another question i always get when i tell people i'm adopted is do you want to adopt too and i'm like no not really and the thing is like being on one side of it like is great like obviously i'm so blessed in life and i'm so grateful but like no i really want to bear my own children which i don't know why i guess because the i think it's called like the white savior complex is all like oh well you were saved so like do you want to save save another child and whereas i will always donate to organizations like adoption agencies and everything like but that shouldn't automatically make you or the adopty feel like they need to adopt you know what i'm saying i feel like that's a big misconception in the world of adoption in the world of like people just not knowing like no you do not have to feel obligated to adopt another child because like you shouldn't have to do that just like you know adopting an animal like i mean even though it's probably better to adopt children and animals like people still obviously bear their own children and obviously shop for a dog you know what i'm saying so i don't feel like anyone should feel obligated just because they're adopted to want to adopt obviously i want to make a positive impact in you know it sounds horrible to say but like orphans lives or children waiting for um their adopted families you know what i'm saying or families in general so um i definitely think that you should give back in ways that you feel is right for yourself and your financial situation your time obviously um but you shouldn't feel obligated at all to adopt a child you know what i'm saying so like i don't know i've been wanting to make a blog post about that just because i feel like i want to say more but like i don't know how to be interpreted by like the average viewer um but yeah like that's really where i come from and like my viewpoints of like i think if you want to adopt and you're adopted like that's so cool like you can relate on so many levels and i don't know be there for that for your child at that time you know if they're going through something but you should never feel like obligated just because you're adopted to adopt that question always presents itself as well um i don't know if i'd ever want to foster that would be like a cool opportunity and like i would hope to make a positive impact in a child's life like that but i don't know if i would actually be like the best like foster parent especially when the child you know was reunited with their biological family and stuff so i don't know i'm still like thinking about that i think that that would be a good opportunity and i feel like i would be a good influence on a kid that was in foster year hopefully i don't know but that's a different question like i don't really get asked like do you want to foster the question more is do you want to adopt and um the answer would be no um just because i want to have the experience of varying my own children another response i get when i tell people i'm adopted is oh i know my cousin sue is adopted oh my dad was adopted or my mom was adopted so there's also another connection built and some similarity um when i meet someone because they know someone that's adopted that's really cool i always like when people say oh so and so that i know is adopted because it's like cool but then i don't really know what to say after that so it's kind of awkward but yeah they always say that they know someone that's adopted though it's kind of funny a lot of the times when i tell people i'm adopted they are a little bit hesitant to ask questions but i'm always the person that's like yeah ask the questions because i feel like i can inform in a nice way so if they say something then i will just correct them such as like real parents versus birth parents so i just reiterate or restate that question and then end it with like not end it but started with my biological parents you know what i'm saying or the people that donated the egg and sperm um you know just like that so i correct them but i'm always willing to ask questions and even though this video is kind of like funny in some sense to like oh my gosh it's so annoying when i get the same questions like as an adoptee i still want to be the one to give true information and like my experience so i'm not hesitant or um i it's not like i don't want questions but like it's just funny and i just wanted to share all the reactions that i do get when i tell people i'm adopted i also answered this question in another video so check out my adoption playlist um in my playlist section if you want to see it but i always get the question when i tell people i'm adopted and i have gay moms they always say like oh were you bullied in school for like any of that and like what was it like growing up and i always say surprisingly i have never really gotten bullied for having two moms like there was only a couple instances i can actually remember when um like girls in my elementary school would be like oh that's kind of weird but that was as bad as it got so and i didn't really care because like i didn't really hang out with those people really know them but like whatever they're off living their lives now so i really don't care and i didn't really care back then because again i wasn't friends with them or hang out with them they were just like kids in my class you know what i'm saying so i didn't really care back then but the surprising thing is when i um tell people the answer to that question is always it's more about my race it's more about like being asian you know like having you know smaller eyes it's not necessarily that i have two moms or that i was adopted it was more like not like people when i was like younger making fun of my eyes but like i i still joke around about my eyes today because i just think it's funny and so do my friends in high school and like middle school you know like i don't care i'm not that sensitive but it was more so focused like my difference was that like i was chinese rather than i was adopted or that i had two moms so if that answers any of your questions then um that's definitely one that i always got was like what's harder and i did answer that in um that video but that's another question that i wanted to share in this video so it was more so my race than how i grew up and where i came from i think that's all the things i can really think of like the questions that adoptees like always get if there's anything else that i can remember that comes up when i tell people i'm adopted i will leave them in the description box down below i wanted to just share because i did have this this is my last like video idea about adoption in my notes section so anyway um i hope you guys enjoyed it for what it was i hope i could start some conversations and you guys enjoyed it so if you guys enjoyed make sure you give this video a thumbs up don't forget to subscribe to my channel and i'll see you guys in my next video bye


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Fire Watch Program is a grant that we were able to get this year for our community. What we do is, we go out and we do assessments of individual homes. And in those assessments, we look at different areas. Things like what the home is made of, what type of roof it may have, shingles or metal roofing. Different things which will allow us to be able to talk with the homeowners in the next phase. In the end, it basically gives the homeowner a really good grasp of the things that they probably don't realize that may be an issue.


Welcome! This is Melissa Arma with the Stocks, Washington Reviewing, P-F-E. This was the Stocks with Shell Play of the Day and let me tell you that this is going to fall into the close and go to an enormous target, the biggest target in the world. Dream target, as I like to call it. This was super duper weak and a really nice call here. It's just like out of the blue. Solid late. Didn't get the first trade in this. Kind of scouts the first one and this is kind of keep going. 3780, 3760, 3750. All right, let's go over what happened with this puppy today. So we kind of like make shifted an entry here because it was super late and then we scalped it boom really quickly out because I knew it was going to bounce because we didn't get the first one. Then it pushed back. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful trade that is still going right now.  Now while it's unusual to still be in something this late in the day, it's almost three o'clock. I was sitting here and doing work today and here it is. So we did 95 by 15. Now just for people that don't understand that 95, which is 38, 95 is the entry and 38, 95 is the entry. 3915 is the stop. So that's 20 cents. So for example, 20 cents times a thousand shares is $200, 20 cents times 2000 shares was $400. So this has moved almost a buck since I called it and it's going to break the low. This is a really nice move. So anyways, we did the first one. We scalped it. It was late. Then we did the second one with a gorgeous entry and you could have done 17 ads in here. So you can be more aggressive with the ads. I didn't think today was the day to be aggressive, but I'm kind of like wondering if we should have been aggressive. Because you could have added here like 70 times. But if you want to hold something down, then it can be much, much more relaxed because this is so much into the money here that it's much more relaxed, not taking more size and not adding. And to be honest, this was good size to begin with. Now let's just take you here. Look at the market. So the market could fall from three into four. So great trade here today. I don't know if anyone is still in this from the room. I told everybody what the targets were. Really 38 was the dream target, which is clearly going to get to and fall right here now. Look at this. This could actually fall actually down to 3780, 3760, 3750. So this week it looks like it's going to fall at least into 330 or possibly four o'clock. So great call today. Strong day. Wonderful day. I'll go over the next trade we did today in another video. Congratulations everyone. I'm looking forward to a huge week this week with earnings season. First biggies out tonight, which is Apple. Don't know what it does, but I'll be watching it. Have a great night everyone.