Hey guys swinging in here again at the end of March to do my channel shout out for the month and this theme is the letter B Yes, we're kind of going down to Sesame Street sort of antics for this, but these three actually are the first three Subscriptions I ever got on YouTube. These are the first channels. I ever subscribed to and I'm still subscribed to them They're the only ones that will ask it throughout all of the 14 years I've been on YouTube now. I've been on YouTube since 2006 and these guys were the first ones I ever subscribed to So without further ado, let's talk about some of the oldest channels I know first one being blame society now if any of you remember who this is Do you guys remember Chad Vader? You remember that series about Vader's brother running a grocery store? It's funny how few people remember this because this was one of the most popular channels on YouTube at one point because of this They even did a cover of chocolate rain. It was a really fun series It had some cool funny antics. The story writing was actually pretty decent I don't even know how they were able to film all of this in a grocery store and the fact that they had a loyal cast and very decently well acted characters for a YouTube sitcom I thought that was quite impressive and I'm still impressed admittedly the high days of Chad Vader are long long long gone And this is the two main guys who do different videos talking about board games kind of fan reactions They also do reviews of older movies. They're the guys who actually gave my friend an idea inspiration to review Tough guys don't dance. They were the ones who first reviewed it And I even make a reference to it in the review of that video was that you guys who watched their version They do a lot of really funny little antics about different movies So I would definitely suggest you guys check them out number two is blunty blunty actually again This guy I actually subscribed to him for a different reason is he did some Lego music videos Bob Bob something I can't remember. It's got several million views I came out at the beginning of his channel, but ever since then it's literally just a Kind of Kevin Smith looking Australian guy who talks about tech talks about video game consoles the guy has been Consistent on YouTube ever since it started and I'm very impressed by that considering just the pedigree length of his channels Life span the fact that he just keeps going as though. It's just every day. I'm very impressed with that I really don't watch as much of his videos as I used to but if you're ever looking for really good tech reviews Are good insights on to tech I would definitely suggest one T and then finally number three This is actually probably one of my favorite YouTube channels of all time these guys were the first ones I've ever subscribed to and it's the Bentley bros production these Brothers I can't remember how many there are these at first. I thought there was four that I think there's five These guys have been making videos on YouTube ever since the beginning And they have definitely become more sparing with videos in the last little while obviously because they all have lives now But their first videos Were extraordinary they made their own film version of Resident Evil 4 and it's probably one of the most popular Video game parody videos. I feel that's ever been made by actual people just regular everyday people Because you can see how it was shot these guys somehow made a 42 minute video and It was originally only 24p, but it's a great parody of Resident Evil 4 they would also do videos of the other Resident Evil movies they would do other horror movies and Other little shorts all in their house.  Anyways guys, that's all for me. I hope you guys enjoyed these shout outs Please check out these channels. Please subscribe to them. Give them your support I bet that would be much appreciated for all of them. Anyways guys, that's all for me. I'll see you guys next time Thanks for watching the video. My name is Nits and you might remember me from the animated cult classic TV show Undergrads it's been a while But I'm happy to say the click is finally getting back together in an all-new movie Thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign But we are still asking for your support to see any and all updates about the upcoming Undergrads movie be sure to check out and like the bring back undergrads Facebook page and with any luck We'll see you guys soon


Remote sensing has become the primary source of data for generating digital elevation models, DEMs. DEM analysis is used in numerous applications, such as geomorphological studies, urban planning, and archaeology. The most commonly used relief visualization technique is hill shading, which has two main disadvantages, difficulty in representing deep shadows and inability to accurately depict linear features parallel to the light beam. Other techniques have been proposed to address these issues, including moving the light source or filtering. This paper presents a novel relief visualization technique based on diffuse illumination, using the SkyView factor, a parameter related to the amount of sky visible from a given point on the terrain. This technique is particularly beneficial for archaeologists, as it allows for improved recognition of small-scale features from high-resolution DEMs. This article was authored by Ziga Kokolj, Clemens Zaksek, and Christoph Oster. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Hi team we're here today to talk about heredity and we're starting a three lecture sequence in different aspects of heredity. Of course in a lecture called Mendelian genetics we probably want to spend a little bit of time looking at Gregor Mendel and I will talk about him but before we talk about Gregor we probably should bring back our human life cycle to frame the context of what we're going to talk about and where we're going to spend our time. We've done almost every part of the human life cycle. We've looked at the process of meiosis, we've looked at mitosis and now we're going to focus in here at this place where sperm and eggs combine. We're going to look at the rules that determine what our zygote is going to look like. This is going to rely on our understanding of meiosis so do I say this every time? If you don't have a solid understanding of the previous content make sure you go back and get it before we move forward because meiosis is the source of genetic diversity that allows us to actually predict some qualities or observations about the offspring that we're going to produce. Okay so we started with Mendel and Gregor Mendel was this now very very famous scientist then completely unknown to everyone. He was actually a monk and didn't he wasn't a scientist I feel like I read somewhere that he didn't even get to finish going to school and but he really wanted to be a scientist so while he was doing his monthly things that monks do he also was super into plants and he did all these crazy studies on pea plants. He basically made a gajillion pea babies, baby pea plants, looked at the parent characteristics and then counted pea offspring and we're gonna look at the the research that he did and the observations that he made. Before we do that before we look at his peas and sort of talk about what he why is he in there counting all these pea babies we have some vocabulary that we need to nail down and it's vocabulary that hopefully will be familiar we've hopefully seen stuff before but we're gonna start talking about genes and flavors of genes in a really very frequent manner so getting a good solid basis with the vocabulary is going to be important. Okay so let's do vocabulary first.


Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of the 94th Congress, the State of the Union is not good. When President Ford spoke those words at the 1975 State of the Union address, it signaled an honesty in the executive branch, to which the country was not accustomed. The only way to talk about Ford is to talk about things like integrity and trust. It is just a great honor to be able to introduce to you Mr. Frank Zarb. Having served as the energy czar during the Ford administration, Frank Zarb came to the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy to engage with students in discussions about the president, ethics, and energy strategy. In terms of oil, with so much oil coming from Canada nowadays, do you see coal in the tar sands in Canada as oil as important parts of America's energy independence now? Yes. The formulas change somewhat. Today more than ever we need political leaders who care about what's right and are prepared to take pain because what right is not politically popular. How do we counter the public fear of radiation and basically how easy it is to quantify the risks of nuclear energy as opposed to other energies? There are things that nuclear power do for the country that are very good for the American people. It helps get us off oil. Secondly, it's very good for the environment. Nuclear power, which was part of the Ford program, has some real benefits. Nothing is risk-free, but it's getting to be very close in the regulatory regime around nuclear power. Part of the failure and lack of trust within the public is the failure of the government to regulate and dispose. It's going to take courageous political and public service thinking to surface the options and then cause the body politic to make a selection. The government's role in nuclear power has mostly been on the research side and if anything on subsidizing loans or guaranteeing loans. What role do you think the U.S. government should play to bring about this change in our electricity landscape? First of all the initial decision to do it and the political decision to do it. They are obviously smart young people and they wouldn't be here. They are at a stage in life where they really want to do the right thing. Can we use the context of relations with Iran or the debt crisis to kind of facilitate an energy policy? The crisis as long as it lasts. This is the time for them to understand that to do the right thing you're often time going to have to take some of the hard medicine and there's no other way to do it. So I see these young minds thinking in those terms. The most unforgettable part of Ford was the quality of his character and personality. He was just a good human being. In the sense that here this school seems to have adopted a culture that emphasizes harmony and team. You don't see in many places. I do pick up that vibration and I think it's very very valuable. Ford approached the issues honestly and surfaced them honestly. He set the stage. Now we need the young people here to take it over the finish line.


Environmental crime is now an international phenomena, one that is generating between 70 and 213 billion dollars annually for criminal networks. Tackling environmental crime, including illegal wildlife trade, is fundamental for us to be able to achieve the lofty, sustainable development goals, the aspirations that heads of states have agreed to. And being able to do that requires partnerships, partnerships of the frontline officers, partnerships of police and enforcement agencies, partnerships of the environmental community who have to come together and deal with this in a holistic manner. No one agent can deal with environmental crime in its entirety, but together UNEP, Interpol and our partners can begin to turn the lofty aspirations for reducing wildlife trade and environmental crime down to zero.


a lot of the degradation of the norms and the institutions is coming from the other side, and it happens in a more, perhaps more subtle way than Trump's blatant claims of election fraud and conspiracy. One thing I'm continually fascinated and horrified by is the extent to which Democrats and some of the hardcore anti-Trump Republicans who constantly sermonized about how our hallowed democracy is in trouble if the MAGA movement gains ground are actually willing to prop up MAGA candidates. In fact, we know from the WikiLeaks email, yeah, I know it happened to you and I want to talk about that in a second, but on the biggest scale it happened. The WikiLeaks dump showed that that was a strategy of the Hillary Clinton campaign to push as much media attention as they could towards Trump. They called it the Pied Piper strategy. And yeah, it happened in your election race. Let me just pull up the New York Times article on it. Democrats aid far-right candidate against Republican who backed impeachment, that being you. And they note that $425,000 of advertising went from Democratic groups, went to your basically it was an ad that was kind of pretending to attack your opponent, but really was just like highlighting all the attributes that would be appealing to a hardcore conservative. So it's this kind of like sneaky advertising in favor of your opponent because they thought he would be easier to beat in the general and turned out they did beat him in general. So their political calculation might have been right, but the moral calculation is what's more troubling and interesting to me and what I'd like you to comment on. Yeah, I mean, to me, just for the record, so I lost by my primary by three points. It was not exactly a blowout. Ultimately, I take responsibility for that loss, but I thought it was very rich the way that I would hear the Democrats rail against what a threat these guys are and at the same time doing everything to boost, right? And that's where I am very much a kind of pox on all houses mentality. I think it's there's a sort of I think both sizing something gets a bum rap because it's often, well, it's fine if we do this because they do it too. And my point is no, like, everyone here has has some blood on their hands in terms of producing the moment that we're in. There may be degrees of difference in terms of who's done more in this case or more in that case. But ultimately, both parties and all folks are living in glass houses on this.  And that can become a hard thing if I spent the whole time condoning or making excuses for, you know, January 6th, right? Like, because consistency matters to me. And that's not going to say that I'm, you know, there aren't places where I look back and say, Oh, well, I probably should have done this, or how do I find that thread? You know, I'm not going to pretend to be perfect in that, but that is my aspiration. That is my goal. And that stands in contrast to a political system who's, I mean, the amount of times I've seen the post and I've or somebody's comment, and I'm like, I cannot tell sincerely, if you were being sarcastic or not, because I could I could find the rationalization for, you know, a sincere interpretation of this tweet, or for it to be entirely tongue in cheek, because, you know, it's all unmoored, right? And again, getting back to the beginning of this conversation, that feeling of like, you know, what actually matters, who actually believe something? Where are we actually going? Or are we just, you know, all these whirling dervishes, you know, spinning around and staying in the same place?   I'm sure there's some happy topics we can kind of wrap up on, but that broader trend, and, you know, this week, the Supreme Court, the case about whether or not Donald Trump can be thrown off the Colorado states, the Colorado ballot, the Maine ballot. The 18th Amendment argument that we've covered a little bit before on this show, yeah. No, and I mean, the thing I just, I want to grab some of the folks who are advocating for this and saying like, well, so what would you, what would your defense be if that same argument was applied to you? You know, and it's always, this is different or Trump is unique or X or Y or Z. It's like, okay, but, you know, that's a value judgment. You're saying that you're setting a precedent. How would you like it if that was, you know, used against you or what, what would you say?  And that's all well and good, but eventually you're going to be in the minority and, you know, you're going to get good and hard, whatever you gave to somebody else.   When you first learned about Democrats backing and supporting, you know, the person who was trying to primary you and was ultimately successful in doing that, who was very far to the right of you, when you first learned about that, A, did you feel like a conspiracy theorist? Like, did that feel too crazy to be true? And B, like, how did you process that? What did that feel like in that moment? I mean, I wasn't surprised. I was surprised that it came through the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. That was actually their first independent expenditure of the 2022 midterms. It's pretty blatant, right? Like, they're not even trying to hide it. It didn't come through some, you know, kind of, you know, like, it was, it was blunt, paid for by DCCC. And I have my own conspiracy theory behind that, that they make it blunt to basically send the bat signal to, you know, Democratic voters in the district to say, hey, you know, there's really no competitive Democratic primaries. You can vote in either.  And what you believe, you know, be willing to be held consistent to it. So it, I should put it this way, very few things that happened while I was in Congress came as a surprise to me in terms of me just objectively being like, I can't believe this is happening so many times where I would look at, you know, the, you know, possible kind of decision trees and events and I was like, you know, what is probably the least inspiring or the dumbest or the, the outcome that would make me say, yeah, that feels about right. That ended up being the outcome nine times out of 10. So a lot of my worst assumptions or worst predictions or just, you know, most my lowest estimation assumptions ended up being affirmed, but I was rarely surprised.  Like the, the latest example of that that struck me was our colleague Matt Welch wrote an article about kind of the third party challenges that are likely to appear this cycle, between RFK and the Libertarian party and the no labels group that there's very likely going to be a sizable percentage of voters that are, that are voting for neither Trump or Biden, possibly, you know, covering the spread. And that's got these, that's got the Democratic party and probably the Republican party to panic and their surrogates are engaging in these kinds of behaviors. They're trying to, you know, one of the, Matt describes a vicious level of interest in the no labels party. There's these tactics that third party watchers are very familiar with, you know, denying ballot access, engaging in lawfare, the normal, you know, routes of political running political ads. So it is more of this like kind of undermining democracy to supposedly protect democracy. I'm reading a book right now that was recommended by one of our listeners by Emily Finley about this concept she calls democratism, where, which is more of a romanticized version of democracy that isn't just a mechanism for selecting political leaders, but is actually an ideology that leads to certain social outcomes. So I guess my question for you is, is there any antidote to that kind of establishment Tarianism that that do you think that, first of all, I guess do you think that's real and be, can it be contained? Are there any methods to counteract that?  So defend what you guys are doing in Illinois, defending what you're doing in New York. I think it needs to be called out. It needs to be pointed out.  This time is different. You know, we need to throw the rules out the window up and until the time where we want those ruled back because they protect us like up and until the next time is even worse. And now trust us now.  It's always extreme mega Republicans.  And I think that is certainly not helpful. It undercuts whatever argument. And I think just drives us back into a cynical polarization where, you know, you don't feel like you're going to have a home. But boy, is it more comfortable to, you know, at least be in one shelter or the other than in the middle and the wilderness. Hey, thanks for watching that clip from our new show, Just Asking Questions. You can watch another clip here or the full episode here. New episodes drop every week. So subscribe to ReasonTV's YouTube channel to get notified when that happens or to the Just Asking Questions podcast on Apple, Spotify, or any other podcatcher. See you next week.


Hi, everybody. Welcome back on the Porkus demo. In this demo, I'm going to showcase and talk a little bit about Porkus 3 natively integrated edge-of-functions. Let's get started. As you probably know, and you have some experience with Porkus 4.0, since the very beginning of the day of the Porkus community, Porkus offered edge-of-function extensions for developers to write deployable cloud-neighbor market services with various endpoints, such as REST-AGE Reactive and Undertow and Reactive Rows and Funky HTTP on edge-of-function runtime. And that journey didn't end, but we just arrived in the new era of the Porkus 3. A new edge-of-function class is you want to write with the CDI vins, like context-dependence injection with arc vins, automatically integrated Porkus, which means when developer wanted to write some code for edge-of-functions using inject annotation with the Porkus, the Porkus will be automatically bootstrapped in the end. Developer can also select the function's lifecycle scope, such as application and request, but select normal Java vins. So you might have one question if I'll just talk a little bit about Porkus 3, the native edge-of-function. So here's the question I just expected. What is the difference between Porkus Funky and the edge-of-function is? And why do I need to use the new edge-of-function with the Porkus rather than the Porkus Funky? So here's the answer. The Porkus Funky can be only invoked by edge-of-function triggers at this moment. However, edge-of-function has various different types of events, which can be invoked, such as edge-of-function trigger, and then Rob trigger, and then CosmoDB trigger. And there are more many triggers, so edge-of-function provides both triggering and binding capability. In the end, the developer have more flexibility to implement your function application of edge-of-function, which allows you to invoke that function by many different edge-of-services on top of the cloud. And one more thing, Porkus Funky was designed with the most common denominator to be portable and simple function layer across multiple suppress platforms, such as not only edge-of-function, but also for AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Function, and Kubernetes KNM, et cetera. Okay, let's get right into demo how it works, how to develop new edge-of-function on top of the Porkus. So I'm going to use Quarkus CLI, as always, and I'm going to try to add a new extension like Quarkus dash edge-of-function. It automatically generates a bunch of files, for example, Maven project, and then Maven wrapper, and configuration, backup file, et cetera. Let me try to change my directory, open the working folder. So today I'm going to try the cloud IDE. Sometimes you don't have enough time to install a bunch of the tools, for example, the Java, Maven, et cetera. The cloud IDE, which is a good option for you, just gets done in day one. So here is my Quarkus project, like a Porkus edge-of-function, it's a project name. When you go to Palm XML, you can take a look at that, which version you're going to use right now. So when I created this demo, we just write for release Quarkus 3. That's why you can see the CR2 version I'm going to use for this demo. And when you scroll down a little bit, you can find it's already installed, your Maven dependency, we can say Quarkus extension. The Quarkus edge-of-function, which allows me to run my application locally and deploy my application edge-of-function and the Quarkus CDI injection capability and also edge-of-function Java library going to be used for packaging application. So here's the edge-of-function Maven plugin, which allows the packaging application as well. And you can say the configuration for a function name and the resource group on edge-of-cloud and then your sub-supply plan. And then here's the one interesting you need to understand. You may be already using more than a Java 11 version, like a higher version, like a 17, 19, et cetera. But at this moment, Quarkus and edge-of-function integration only support Java 11. And also we're going to use edge-of-function core to the race version four. So you're going to install locally when you deploy this application. Okay, let's go to generate sample application, which is a function Java file. As you can see, it's very simple. The function name, this is a super interesting part. If you have some experience to develop Quarkus Funkey to deploy your application to edge-of-function previously, you just need to use your phone annotation, which allows your function method more make it portable and then not only edge-of-function to other serverless platform. However, when you go to just edge-of-function implementation as an example, Bigstar and the blog post, they already ask you if you need to use a function name annotation, which you make your method and the class as an edge-of-function. We're going to do the same thing, but we automatically start as a bootflip server as a Quarkus runtime with your function application. So first of all, we're going to add, we already add edge-of-function name, method, annotation. And then we're going to use the trigger edge-of-function trigger. You can change that like a custom edge-of-function to bunch of the other trigger and by the edge-of-function provide. We have a one interesting part. We're going to add a new content is body context using CGI injection, which is already specified in this example with the Quarkus CGI injection. As long as we're going to use this Quarkus injection in your function, automatically Quarkus runtime bootstrap in the end, which is a really convenient way for developers. Let's take a look at that, how to implement greeting service. It's a pretty simple just return like a hello world. Let me try to change that more pre-proper way. So welcome to edge-of-function with the Quarkus with your name with a parameter in the URL program. Now back to my function name. And then let me try to function name like a greeting, just like a service name. And then once you change there, you're going to ask the endpoint already start with the API slash your function name. In this case, I just changed to my function name greeting, which means I'm going to need to access my endpoint API slash the end. So how to run my application to the local text? Well, experience Quarkus, you probably expecting, okay, I'm going to run Quarkus demo, which you give me a live coding capability, which is super awesome. However, as an integration with this kind of stuff, you cannot use a Quarkus live coding capability at this moment. So that's why you're going to use your Mabel packaging tool and then edge-of-function Mabel problem in the run. It literally simulated your function capability on your local machine. So this is another cool feature in Quarkus 3. So we have a bunch of steps to packaging jar and then just simulated local environment. Now you can see that your endpoint with the 7071 port and the API slash your endpoint like a greeting. And then I'm going to try to run using Quarkman, the Daniel and the local host API greeting. And just break up the edge-of-function with Quarkus and Daniel. And then when you go back to actually runtime row, you can find which trigger you just invoke your function. As you can see, the edge-of-trigger just plus edge-of-function. That's really happening in the edge-of-cloud in the production environment. Okay, so before I deploy this function to my edge-of-cloud, which is edge-of-function apps, I need to load in edge-of-cloud from my local cloud using edge-of-command line, edge-of-loving. And then you're going to select which account. I'm not showing my super password. Okay, so here's my edge-of-portal. You can see a function in apps. I'm just request and make sure there's nothing in there. And I'm going to deploy new function using same edge-of-maven plugin. I'm going to use it called long deploy. It's pretty simple. And then it's the same packaging job file, which is your faster and Quarkus. And then deploy this application to that file with the task unit case. And then once I see, I'm going to deploy this application. If you're going to get the logs in runtime, you can find it's interesting just starting creating a function M, just create it. And then the your function M should be unique. That's why there's a random, rather than just attending at the function name. And then you're going to be started in the soonest moment. It depends on how big your application function is. Now we got to deploy and then HP trigger URL here. And then the URL is automatically generated. You are the edge-of-cloud URL. I'm just a copy of this URL when you testify by application. Then back to the edge-of-portal, now we can have a new function here. So when you select the function name, you can find the detail page here. For example, data bunching separation, edge-of-example URL. And then here is interesting, the edge-of-modular actually observable your metric data. Let me try to invoke the new parameter like a Daniel on edge-of-cloud and then the new URL in actual edge-of-cloud. And now you can see, welcome to edge-of-function with the partners Daniel on edge-of-cloud. So this is a literary function. So if you don't have any incoming natural traffic in this function, that function will be hibernated, just like an ideal mode. And then you invoke that function again, it automatically starts just based on query to start strategy. It takes us a couple of seconds to start up. But in this case, I just invoke that endpoint right after deploying my function. That's why you can see immediately the find-out return code. Welcome to edge-of-function with the partners Daniel on edge-of-cloud. We go back to the function app. There are realizations like a memory for free and a number of count of a function. It takes some time together of formation. And then you can invoke several times. It will put together and scrap all information in your monitor, which is really helpful for the developer to figure out, okay, how many resources are you actually using for this function and vocation in that. I hope you enjoyed this video. And thanks for watching this video again. And please let me know if you have any question. I'm more than happy to address. And thanks all. Have a good rest of the day.


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If we can get a gap down tomorrow, I think that what's gonna happen is we're going to trap some very, very late, aggressive, naive shorts, and we're gonna start the rally. And the reason why I say that, number one, again, we balance off a technical level here. Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, good evening everybody. Welcome to another edition of the AccessToTrader.com nightly wrap up show. So let's dive into it. I was going to lead with kind of a technical view of the markets, and then I was gonna tell you exactly what happened to me right around 10 o'clock, between 10 30 and 11 o'clock on Tesla, and there would have been a kind of a whole, whole thingy-majiggy I was gonna talk about there, certain losses that you can't explain that you really can't put a finger on why a stock didn't cooperate off technical levels. And one of those things, you know what? Let's just move forward and go ahead. And other times, you realize that there's somebody in this market that always knows something. And before we get to Tesla, I wanna go about the technical view, just kind of give an idea of what we're in store for tomorrow. I think that's the big picture and then we'll kind of tackle what happened here on Tesla. This is the first day that I can remember in the last three weeks or so that had two things happening.  All the time I always talk about on any gab down, especially aggressive ones in the market, the value initially is always to the upside because again, we always talk about that 90, 95% of the value of the average range is already in that dump pre-market or in that dump at the open. So you're going to have some sort of significant bounce, whether it's a bounce prolonged or a short balance, but you're going to get some aggressive short covering if not real buying. And what we noticed today was the first time that I can remember in the last three weeks that number one, the dip did get bought, okay? There was a lot of strength at the open despite the NASDAQ composite being down 200, 250 points. And the most important part is, and this is where you kind of have an idea of what's going to happen next. This is the first time we saw in three weeks that buyers was stepping in deep into blood, deep into the shark infested waters, buying names deep out of the money calls with short term expiration. Amazon, Netflix, NVIDIA, okay? Facebook, Apple, right? So we had a lot of really big buyers stepping in with speculation money, first time around. And slowly but surely what you started seeing is a lot of these names went from being down a lot to being down a little bit and ultimately going green in a day. And again, we'll get to the individual pivots in a second. So what I like going into tomorrow's session is every single time we start seeing these deep out of the money calls coming in, okay? Especially from lower levels. Usually what follows is speculation price per share increases. And that's what we saw today. And it was very, very bullish. And if you look at the Twitter feed, I'll show you that in a second. When you look at the Twitter feed today, I believe we only had one short set up. Like literally one short set up. I still believe that it's going to go low. I still believe, I think we only had one short set up on this whole big gap up. Everything else was to the long side. And what I think is going to happen, if the market doesn't gap up tomorrow, and I really hope the market doesn't, if we can get a gap down tomorrow, I think that what's going to happen is we're going to trap some very, very late, aggressive naive shorts and we're going to start the rally. And the reason why I say that, number one, again, we bounce off a technical level here, this linear regression line of 260. More important is we started to reclaim levels. So if you notice, this is a whole big trend line here and we reclaimed this on the close. So again, we're not out of the water. Nobody's talking about we're going to rally to all time highs, but this is a really good initial first step, which is very, very important. And again, can we get a snapback rally for the next day or so, back to the 10 day moving average of 272 and change? I believe we can, okay? I like what I'm seeing here. I like what I saw in the afternoon towards the close. I like that I saw a lot of names that were really, really beaten up, not only cash option flow, but really started reclaiming very, very big levels, macro levels. So that was very, very bullish. So I think going into tomorrow, if we get a dip lower, right? If we open up lower tomorrow, I think shorts will get trapped. I think we will rally. And I think we measure potential, least initial move, 272.40s on the queues, where then it gets interesting is the bulls really need to reclaim this 10 day. Again, for me, the five and the 10 day, the five day is short-term sentiment. The 10 day is the birth of the trade. And if you look at the queues, the five and the 10 are right next to each other, like literally kissing cousins. So if the bulls can somehow reclaim the 272.40 level, then we start talking about 276. And then we start talking about going back into the upper range here. If you look at the S&P 500, kind of the same thing. Again, we put in a very, very aggressive hammer on this rising support of 32.30, super bullish. Again, nobody's talking about, we're going to all-time highs. This is not, we're trying to put the cart in front of the horse. We're talking about day by day, trade by trade. So again, can we get a decad balance from next couple of days back to this 33.50s level? Absolutely. Again, a hammer for all you guys who are brand new trading. This is the most basic, absolute basic thing in Japanese candlesticks, a hammer off of rising support is super bullish. So again, fingers crossed tomorrow that we can have a down open traps of shorts and often off an odd. That's what I want to talk about. I want to go over the pivots really quickly. And then I want to tell you what happened to me on Tesla today. So Zoom, right? Zoom, very, very aggressive. 438, it gapped down. 438, sneaky area, rejected pre-market. 442 is Friday's highs, needs to build. Zoom went absolutely nuts. I mean, nuts. I mean, there's nothing really you could say. So here is the whole sneaky pivot right over here, right? 438, it took out Friday's high of 442 and just absolutely exploded. Crazy move on Zoom. Again, we're not going to dwell on the stocks that went. There was just one trade today. I really want to talk about it. I'll get that in a second. Peloton, sneaky area, 88, 75, 89, also needs to confirm Friday's highs of 90. Again, use 90 as you guide just in case it gets rejected there. Again, here's Peloton, absolutely one nuts, right? So here's Peloton, took out this whole sneaky area right here, 88, 75, 89, took out Friday's highs, went to almost 97, huge move on Peloton. Okay, these two stocks never even came to confirm. Not even close. Zoom going nuts, 92 on deck. Again, these things were going absolutely nuts. NVIDIA actually helped me out twice that I caught in NVIDIA twice. They first from that 480 to the 490s and then I caught it from the 490s and for the 492s. NVIDIA was great, really, really big move in NVIDIA. Again, here's a perfect example. Again, they were coming for the 500 calls, 510 calls with a lot of size. And again, here is NVIDIA, right? Here is NVIDIA. So here is the whole area right here, this whole area right here, 488, went to 90, reclaimed 90 and went all the way up to the 503 area. Again, big, big move. Again, I don't wanna dwell on that. Amazon, I know, never got there. I still like this 1850 level. Guys, send an alert on this thing. 1850s got rejected twice. If this thing starts building over the 1850, this thing could wake up. Amazon, we saw some ridiculous call buying today. When the stock was like 2,900, we saw like 3,800 calls. We even saw the January February, the March 5,300 calls going in size. And we talked about here a 2955 supply. If it can reclaim, it can wake up. Here was Amazon, let me show you Amazon for, right? So here's the whole 55 level here. And just stock really started going, really, really started going very, very strong. I still obviously like it for tomorrow. Apple 108, here, Apple 108 needs to build. Here's Apple, right? Here's the 108. I'm sorry, again, it's just Apple and Tesla, for some reason just has not updated on East single. So this whole channel here, 10780 was the high here. 10780 was the high here. So it took out the 108, traded all the way up back to 101070, big, big move on Apple. So again, you can see beta, very, very strong. FSLY, $95 weekly repeat, call buyers were coming in. 92 and needs to reclaim, not a big move. But again, I still like it for tomorrow. So here was the 92 that it reclaimed, right? Here's the 92 that it reclaimed right over here. And still gonna stop with the 93. I still like it tomorrow. I think, again, those guys were coming in very, very aggressively for those 95s. This is the only short that we had that didn't, well, didn't work. 28 last week loads of it builds below can flush. You trade it down to like 2760s and it rallied back again. And here's kind of my point here. This was three hours ago. So this was around two o'clock. Started seeing really good premium setups setting up for tomorrow. And I said, it looks like a possible premium day is setting up for tomorrow. Good beta channels, a lot of out-of-the-money call buying coming in, very good, very good stuff here. So again, NOX just didn't work out. So you kind of get the point. I think tomorrow, I think tomorrow we're definitely in a situation that I think we could take advantage of some really good channels. Okay, that's for sure. I think if the market gots gonna help us out a little bit, just give us a nice red open, wash out, reclaim red to green and off and running. So let me tell you what happened to me, Tesla. I was really calm about it, very, very calm because I do understand if you have a bad trade, right? It's part of the game. There's nothing you could do.  Short memory, get the hell out of dodge, come back strong tomorrow, right? Here's the problem. So we were watching Tesla and I just want to kind of run you through this, kind of run you through this trade, okay? So the majority of volume that was doing, again, there was a lot of buyers coming in for battery day and for all you guys who are, you know, big Tesla followers, just see what Elon Musk just tweeted out about 15 minutes ago, okay? And this is why I'm a little agitated. Wasn't agitated up to this recording? I got a little agitated now. So if you notice here, forget about this big candle down, right? If you notice here, you see these three candles here? This is the first three hours of trading, okay? So the average volume, the average price per share for this channel, okay, for this mini channel was from 441, right? That's the low of this rising support all the way up to 455. So right, so you got 441 to the downside, you have 455. And usually what happens is when the stock is very, very strong and there's incredibly big distribution going on, okay? If the stock dips to its rising 60-minute support, again, we've been doing this trade for years, okay? If a stock dips into rising 60-minute support, what usually happens is eager shorts will get trapped, okay? We'll get trapped very, very aggressively and the stock tends to go back to the highs of the day. So I got long, right? I got long right here, right? Right over here, I get long and the stock goes up maybe a dollar, right? Nothing, nothing, nothing crazy, maybe a dollar. And next thing I see some ridiculous volume coming in, okay? When I'm telling you ridiculous volume coming in, it was like the last day to sell Tesla stock, okay? So I can't even blink, okay? I can't even blink. So I lose about five points on it, okay? Like this, I'm talking about you can't even blink before this happens. So I start to say to myself, okay, maybe shorts, excuse me, maybe stops got triggered, a fat thing or whatever the case may be, you know what? Let me see if I can remount it again, okay? Cause things happen like this all the time. Let me see if I can remount it again off the next support, right? The next support was this rising wedge here. You see this? Rising wedge right here. So then I get long at 437. Again, if I told you that the first wave of selling was aggressive, the second wave of selling on Tesla was like, it's like Moses parted the Red Sea, right? It was the most aggressive thing I've seen. Yada, yada, yada. The stock goes through, okay? Just to give you an idea, the stock goes through the five day, the linear regression line, the lower Bollinger band, and winds up all the way to the 10 day moving average. And basically yada, yada, yada, it puts in about a $45 candle, okay? I wound up losing net net about 13 bucks in the trade. It sucks, okay? Don't get me wrong. And the problem was I couldn't figure out why. Okay? I just couldn't figure out why. And I chalked it up to, you know what? It's just part of the business.  Whether I cheated a little bit or I didn't use a second entry or I didn't wait for the second confirmation candle. So I always know, there was always, you know, I always know why I lose, pretty much a lot of times I lose money in the trade. I didn't have an answer.  And then I started thinking throughout the day. I go, maybe there was a fund that needed to be liquidated, you know, God knows. I have all these, you know, all these things spinning through my head. And I just couldn't figure out why there was so much volume. And again, when you look at your charts and you look at the five minute, here's like a five minute chart. Here's, let me show you a five minute. So here's a five minute chart of the disaster. They were literally selling 10 million shares, literally 10 million shares from 1030, okay? From 1030 to about, I don't know, 1030 to about, I'm sorry, I know it looked crazy. Here it is. You see these three candles, right? They were selling from 1030. I know it wasn't crazy. From 1030 all the way to 1040. So this was 10 minutes, guys. This was 10 minutes. Somebody dumped 10 million shares of Tesla in 10 minutes, taking it through, 60 minute support, linear aggression line, lower Bollinger Band, the five day moving average, all the way through the 10, okay? Somebody wanted out. There was absolute panic. And the most amazing part was, I said to myself, you know what? I usually figure, configure things out. I didn't figure anything out. There was no lesson that I learned here. It's just one of those things that you're gonna turn around and say, remember when Tesla dumped, it was a crappy trade, it was terrible, but you know what, life goes on. And as I start the record, right? As I start the record, you start seeing Elon Musk tweeting.  If you guys wanna go through his Twitter feed, you'll see he was tweeting about, he was tweeting about the battery event that's gonna be for tomorrow, okay? And the first couple of headlines, again, you could tell they weren't great. They weren't exciting. There wasn't anything about them that made somebody come out and say, let's go buy the stock. And obviously yada, yada, yada, they'd take down Tesla from roughly 454 after hours all the way down to 427. Again, $27 move and a couple of tweets. So the moral of the story is guys, and it's something, there's two things that I really want to emphasize here. Number one, you know that theory? Somebody always knows something, right? Like somebody always knows something, right? Somebody obviously did. And number two, ish is gonna happen, okay? The faster you can accept that and just understand that it's part of the course of doing business, you know, again, it's over. You can't get back your money. The more you sit there and think about it, it's going to unfortunately spill over to the next trading day. The difference between a trader's been trading for 20 years and a trader's been trading for two years, I could really remove that into the next trading session. Unfortunately, if you're a new trader and you're dwelling on this and you're thinking about this over and over and over, it's not fair. Yeah, no kidding, it's not fair. But you know what it is? It's the course of doing business. Is it gonna happen again? Absolutely, somebody will always know something more than anything others. And this is why we always say, it's all great about technical analysis. It's all great about macro fundamental, but if somebody wants out, there's a reload seller, reload buyer, depending which side of the market you're trading on, they are going to win. Obviously, somebody knew something. You could see it in price action after hours. Again, I don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow, right? But again, price action is speaking incredibly loud.  I'm gonna relax. At least I understand why it didn't work. And I think I would have been much more frustrated trying to figure out why levels that I've been trading for years and years and years didn't hold. Now at least we know why. It is what it is. Life goes on. Life's not fair. Sometimes trading is not fair. God bless. All right guys, have a great night everybody. Tomorrow's a new day. Short memory, we'll get them again. Take care guys.


Hello, and welcome to Beyond the Diagnosis, a podcast that features stories of people with lived experiences as a patient or caregiver. I'm your host, Monica, a neuroscience graduate and current medical student in Canada. Today's story centers around a highly impactful neurological disease. According to Alzheimer's Disease International, there is an estimated 55 million people worldwide living with dementia. And this number is set to rise. But its true impact extends beyond just the person with dementia, but also to their family members and their caregivers. So with effects this profound, I believe it's our priority to discuss some of the unseen challenges and also provide some resources to support dementia care partners. So I had the very memorable opportunity to hear from a dementia care partner herself, Ms. Webster. Not only does she bring lived expertise, she's also a certified dementia care consultant and the founder and ambassador of the Dementia Education Program at McGill University. Welcome, Ms. Webster. Thank you for having me. Thank you so much for joining me. I just remember back in med one, med two, when I first heard of your story, it was so impactful. It stuck to me even though some years have passed now.  So I thought for those who might not be familiar yet, could you please speak to what is dementia and how does that differ from Alzheimer's disease? Dementia is really an umbrella term similar to cancer being an umbrella term. It's really a complex condition that affects cognitive functions, including memory, communication, decision making, as well as our activities of daily living. And there are different types of diseases that cause dementia. The most common ones are called Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, frontal temporal dementia, among others. So with so many intricacies that could be involved, I wonder whether you could also speak to some of the experiences that you have been through as a dementia care partner. Well, a lot of people think that dementia equals memory loss. And while in fact it does impact the memory, it has, there are very, there's a whole bunch of different symptoms that present. So for example, so persistent memory loss. So memory loss that will impact daily life, constantly forgetting people's names, constantly forgetting what time it is, appointments, that type of thing. Challenges with problem solving. So like specifically with regards to following instructions, following recipes, pain bills, lots of confusion with time and place. So thinking that it's nighttime when it's still only the afternoon or waking up at two o'clock in the morning thinking it's time to start the day, forgetting the days of the week. It really impacts a person's language and communication. So as the disease progresses, people start to forget words, commonly used words. In my case, for example, my mother was Finnish and she would start mixing up Finnish and English in the same sentence. And as it progresses more and more, they really have to hard time putting together sentences. Lack of judgment. Today we're exposed with all kinds of fraudulent emails and phone calls and even healthy people sometimes have a hard time differentiating. But it's really the loss of judgment, loss of judgment with regards to even sometimes getting dressed. So if it's in the summertime, people may be dressing like it's in wintertime. And then when I mentioned earlier, it could also cause a significant change in a person's personality and moods. Somebody that may have been very mild mannered becomes extremely aggressive. It has an impact on how people could react verbally using words that they would have never used before, becoming physically aggressive at times. And then just difficulty completing like everyday tasks. What we call our activities of daily living. So being able to get dressed, being able to just prepare a regular meal. As I mentioned earlier, doing your banking, grooming. And then finally, it also, because of all of these different factors, it often causes people to become more socially isolated. They become overwhelmed. Like everything makes them feel overwhelmed. Conversations make them feel overwhelmed. So they become socially isolated. What's challenging with the symptoms is that there are too many public awareness campaigns out there right now. If we look on a global scale about dementia. And so it could often be confused as somebody being depressed. It could often be confused as somebody being taking drugs, being drunk under the influence of different things. But because there are so many little symptoms that present people really don't know, you know, what's going on with the person.  How does this present kind of temporally in terms of progression? So really the beginning, it really affects a person's cognitive skills. So exactly at the beginning, it'll be everything to do with, you'll see changes in their personality, changes in their mood, slight changes in their memory. So from outward appearances, they look fine. And that's what's hard for family members or for colleagues or friends. I remember with my mom, one of her friends would say to me, your mother, she looks fine. There's nothing wrong with her because outwardly, she still looked very, very good. However, the way the disease progresses is that over time, it really starts to impact the activities of daily living. So at the beginning again, it's very cognitive. They may be repeating themselves over and over again, but they're still able to get up and get dressed. Some of them can, people still can still drive, cook, et cetera. But as time goes on, all of those tasks start to become affected.  They're not maybe putting on the makeup. They're wearing the same clothes all the time. They're not preparing their meals. They're having difficulty managing their bills. They're forgetting to pay bills. Their handwriting might start to change. And as, as the disease progresses more and more, you really start seeing the toll it takes on a person physically. So dementia itself is a terminal illness. You know, there are people who may have preexisting health conditions. So you could have a person that has dementia, but also has cancer, heart disease, diabetes for which they may, you know, pass away from one of those illnesses prior to dementia. But if a person doesn't have any preexisting health conditions, dementia itself is a terminal illness. So as, as the disease evolves, it really has an impact on, on the person physically. And essentially by the end, the body starts just really starts to begin to shut down where they have more and more difficulty swallowing. It impacts their mobility. And so at the end, everything just begins to shut down. It feels very, it feels very sad to hear. And I wonder if you could also speak to your experience about like the whole emotional aspect of it throughout the progression. The impact, the impact on the, on the care partner is really one of what we call anticipatory loss, right?  It's a shock. And so for the care partner, you're constantly in a state of grieving because at the beginning, with all the changes that are taking place with your family members communication, I see, especially with regards to couples, for example, where, you know, you're sitting down having a meal, you're able to have these conversations and communicate, that starts to disappear. So you're starting to, to mourn the loss of these communication skills and the conversations. But then as time goes on, what's so hard is you're witnessing these physical changes. And when I say physical changes, the person is really becoming more and more frail, right? You start noticing how they're not, you know, you have to be careful how they walk. You want to reduce the risk of falls. You want to reduce the risk of injury and you're witnessing the decline.  In terms of how she's, how she's looking at you. Like it's almost as if she's, she's disappearing, right?  You know, there are other cases, depending on the type of dementia where a person could become very verbally and physically aggressive. And that becomes very hard because here, once upon a time, you had this loving relationship with a person and then they become so verbally aggressive towards you. So there are all kinds of emotions that, that are brought upon the care partners as a result of this illness. But sadness, I have to say, is probably one of the most overriding emotions that we feel. It's, it's the sadness to constantly witness this loss over, you know, a period of, could be many years. The anticipatory emotions that you mentioned, I wonder whether this ties into the idea of early diagnosis and how perhaps that could help. Because I remember back in our lectures, you mentioned that it's quite difficult to get the person you're taking care of to access the healthcare service in the first place when you first notice some signs of dementia. So how do you initially advocate for a loved one who you suspect might have dementia with these challenges in mind? Okay, so that question will have multiple answers. So the first, the first part is it is important to try to get a diagnosis as early as possible. Okay, that's, that's important. Because now there are some new drugs that are coming out on the market, not available yet in Canada, but soon to be, that could, could slow down the progression. There is no cure, but there are drugs that could potentially slow down the progression. So there is some hope. But, but in order for these drugs to work, they, you have to be diagnosed in the early stages. The challenge is, as I mentioned earlier, there is no public awareness campaign. And the majority of people do not recognize the signs and symptoms. So most of the time by the time you brought your family member to see a doctor, the disease has already advanced quite a bit. But by, by having a diagnosis, it provides the family with a bit of a sense of relief in terms of saying, okay, there is, there is in fact something wrong. Okay. Because prior to the diagnosis, you're really wondering like what's going on, why are they behaving this way? So by naming it, okay, it does provide some, a sense of maybe, I mean, relief is a difficult word to say, but at least here's the, here's the situation. And now how do we move forward, right? Also a diagnosis is extremely important, because as the disease progresses, it may bring on some responsive behaviors where medications would be needed. So for example, if the person starts to become depressed or starts to become aggressive, anxious, there are medications that could manage all of that. And again, as a disease evolves and the person is no longer able to manage their finances or drive, they, the family really needs to have a doctor sign off on a letter stating that the person is becoming incapacitated. You need that for financial legal issues. The other challenge, however, is, is the fact that the disease brings forth another illness called anosognosia. And anosognosia means that the person that is suffering these symptoms has a total loss of insight. They are not aware at all that anything is wrong. So the family members, friends, neighbors are seeing the changes, but the person themself doesn't recognize that there's anything wrong. And that makes it hard, because like in my case, I wanted to take my mom to see the doctor when she didn't believe she needed to see a doctor because she didn't think anything was wrong. So that's always a very difficult step. You know, I always suggest to families to use what I call a compassionate lie where you tell your loved one, we are both going for an annual physical checkup to see the doctor. We are both going to, for a flu shot, but we have to see the doctor first for a checkup, right? So you've got to try to use a little bit of tricks. But with this illness, the pathway to getting a diagnosis isn't always so clear because in some cases there are family doctors who have the necessary training to be able to do a proper assessment in their office. So the families will leave with an assessment. Then there are the family doctors who are unfortunately may have not received the education and training that they needed to do the assessment. So what happens then is that the family has to be referred to either a geriatrician or a neurologist. And so it's the journey of getting that diagnosis could be complex. It's not just seeing one person and then knowing what's up. And there are a few tests that also have to be performed in order to get that proper assessment. And finally, I have to say that the doctor, probably the information that is most important to the doctor is what the family members are going to share, the signs and symptoms that were witnessed, that the family members witnessed. So in addition to doing some perhaps scans and blood tests, the doctor really needs the family members to arrive. And I would suggest send this list before the appointment. Because it's very hard to talk about a person in front of the person when they have anus and nausea. But really what the family members can share is really, really key to doing an assessment. I see. So kind of just to summarize, it's from what I understand, quite variable depending on the experience of the practitioner themselves. For example, a GP who is equipped to make the necessary investigations for dementia versus someone who is not, which would lead to a referral. And then from there, you would still need to help the loved one get the care that they need. Yeah. And to do a proper assessment, I mean, it takes about a good hour, hour and a half.  So that's 10 minutes per patient. So it's very hard for a family doctor to be able to conduct a true proper assessment like cognitive testing and all everything that they need, you know, in a 10 minute time. But that's the healthcare system. That's where it's going. They want the family doctors to be able to do more assessments. But considering how many patients in the amount of time, I don't know how that that's possible to get a true proper assessment. So it really sounds like it's complex to make the diagnosis. And so a follow-up question that I have regarding one point that you mentioned. I know Psygnothia, the lack of awareness. How does then receiving the diagnosis impact the patient and also the care partner, given that they might not even be aware that they could have dementia? Yeah. That could become very challenging. And I was just at a conversation with Alzheimer's Society of Canada about this before talking to you. But, you know, first of all, before making any type of diagnosis, the doctor has to be sure that there is no potential for what we call a catastrophic reaction on the patient's behalf. So you don't want to make sure that the patient is able to receive this type of diagnosis. And that doesn't happen after just one. It should not happen after one appointment. Myself, I had one appointment and my neurologist announced to my mother that she had Alzheimer's disease and she became furious. And she wasn't able to accept it. I have to be honest. So that's why it's very important that when you are going, when there is a doctor's appointment, that the person be accompanied by a family member. You should, the person who is being assessed should not be on their own because, yes, there are some people that are aware that there are changes happening and that they are aware of, you know, of what's happening. There's a big stigma around the word Alzheimer's disease or dementia. But it's very advisable that you always have to be accompanied with a family member because it could come as a shock. As could the disclosure of any other, you know, difficult disease like cardiovascular illness or cancer, right? So people react differently and it really depends on their level of awareness and what is going on with them. I'm wondering as well, how often do you, and if you interact with other healthcare professionals, for example, like a social worker to support the kind of after effects of receiving the diagnosis or someone like a psychologist, geriatrician, you name it. In the perfect world, it takes a multidisciplinary team to surround the patient, right? And so what happens, for example, in Quebec is if a person is diagnosed with any form of, any form of dementia, depending where they are, like at what stage they're at, families are often recommended to be in touch with a CLSC social worker. So the social worker is really the one that would come and that would assess the living situation at home and, you know, maybe recommend some home care support if needed. And then again, in Quebec, if they need to transition to long-term care to the public system, it needs to be done by a social worker. You know, in some cases, the family doctor is able to manage the case as a whole. Otherwise it will be, the case will be sent to a geriatrician, right? And oftentimes a person will see a geriatrician if they have other pre-existing health conditions. You may have an older adult who has, you know, heart issues and diabetes and high blood pressure. So if they can most be managed by a geriatrician to specialize in dementia, that's ideal, right? If it's required that the person have, they want to do some more investigation and have more scans and have more precise details on what type of dementia then they would probably be seen by a neurologist. And then, you know, because the disease affects a person's, again, activities of daily living along the way, ideally you would have an occupational and physical therapist that's involved that comes and does a home assessment and ensures that the person is safe at home. You know, you may have a nutritionist that could be involved. Definitely a psychologist, but I, like in my case, I had a psychologist for myself blending me support. But it's, you know, it, as we see, it's harder and harder in our current health care system to access all of these resources. The majority of people also don't have the finances. It's a very expensive disease to manage financially because the more the disease evolves, the more care that you need. So oftentimes if you want to have access to different resources, because of the waiting list and the public system, people may have to go privately and that's something that's not always attainable for many people. Due to the barriers to accessing care, I could imagine that as the owners on the caregiver, the care partner as well is quite high. And this could perhaps look like creating like a safe environment for the person living with dementia, offering emotional support. So I'm just wondering if you could speak to some of the strategies that you use to, or that you offered for other people to create a safe and supportive environment for people living at home. Exactly. For me, what's most important whenever I hear that a person is still living at home, especially if they're in the early to mid stages, it's kind of like I said, that grey zone where you always say, are they safe? And there are certain areas of a home that cause more danger than other. So for example, the bathroom, you should always have the bath mats outside of the shower. You really want to avoid any types of falls. You may want to have a handle bar in the shower. Be aware of not keeping medications lying around because as the disease progresses, the person really needs to be administered their medication because if they take it on their own, they could forget to take their medications or they double up. So medications like that are in medicine cabinets or lying around on kitchen tables or bedside tables should be removed, right? And I really look at everything that's going on in the room. So if a person starts to narrow and it really affects the mobility, the person starts to develop a bit of a shuffle, you have to imagine that if a person wakes up in the middle of the night, is there any risk of them falling? So are the hallways well lit? Is there a nightlight in the bathroom? Are there any cords that they could potentially fall over or lifted carpets, loose carpets or something like that? So I would recommend how to go up and down stairs. Whenever I do home assessments, I look, are the stairs, are the runners on the stairs? How steep are the stairs? Because what happens is as time progresses, if a person wants to remain at home for as long as possible and their mobility is affected, I often recommend that they move their bedroom onto the main floor because if they want to have a good shuffle, she had to have hip replacement surgery and unfortunately it did not go well and she was also not able to be rehabilitated because she didn't understand the instructions on the exercises to do and so she ended up being once upon a time a very physically fit woman but then had to use a walker, then she forgot how to use the walker, she started falling and then I had to use the walker, sometimes a spouse will say, I have just gone out for a couple of hours and I have left them, they are okay alone but are you sure they are okay alone? Are you sure they don't go into the kitchen and forget and turn on the stove and forget the stove is turned on? A microwave could also be dangerous where they are putting something into the microwave for too long or that they shouldn't go into the microwave. If not properly supervised. With many considerations I feel like there's so many subtle things, like the bath mats or the microwaves, I couldn't imagine that as the disease progresses there could be a point where it's no longer safe to be at home especially if the caregiver has other responsibilities, how would you approach the conversation about assisted living if that's something that comes up? I think what caregivers have a hard time realizing is really assessing our own abilities. Nobody wants to move to a residence or we try to encourage people to try to have home care support at the beginning but at some point it becomes not only no longer safe for the person living with dementia but it becomes no longer safe for the care partner and with this type of illness a lot of the care partners are over the age of 75, some are in their state themselves may have some physical limitations and because the disease progresses where the care partner has to help them go to the washroom, get into the shower, do the transfers they start to become incontinent they have trouble eating, they get up multiple times in the evening perhaps wandering, for a care partner if you're on the verge of complete burnout and exhaustion or anger it's a lot of them to become extremely angry you just can't I see these families all the time especially it's very hard for spouses you know you've had this for better or for worse marriage then you have to wake up and realize I just can't take care of my husband or my wife anymore and it's a devastating decision to have to make but at the same time it's an important one because you think that you're doing your best to care for your loved one at home at a point where you may not be able to the disease could present as I mentioned earlier where the person could become very verbally or physically abusive towards their spouse it could become very very dangerous where they just can't be home and so care partners end up filling tremendous amount of guilt but they shouldn't because you know as the disease progresses it becomes harder on the care partner than it is on the person because the person is losing their insight more and more we start as care partners witnessing all those physical changes that take place and so the number one priority as a care partner has to be the person's safety their cleanliness you know and their happiness for what happiness is worth and you know there are times where people think oh my husband my father's never going to residence but by moving them to a residence I have a recent case where my husband was just moved to residence he's actually doing better because he's getting a lot of social stimulation while he was at home he was just in the living room just in front of the television which he couldn't even really understand anymore but by being in a good residence he's socially stimulated because he's surrounded by activity all day long I can imagine that with all these challenges it's hard for the caregiver themselves to look after themselves so I'm just wondering as you speak about that how do you as a caregiver take care of yourself well the majority of people that I meet were like myself you know I suffered a very very severe burnout and it wasn't just from being a care partner because the truth is anybody who's caring for somebody who's not well you also have a life right I represented the sandwich generation where I had three young kids and I had a job and I had society's expectations and I believed I made the mistake of believing that I was super woman or super human where I can just go and go and go and unfortunately a lot of care partners don't believe that they have permission to have a life I find that often times with spouses where they say well because my husband can't do this any more than I can't and they feel like the guilt is so overwhelming for them that they just have permission to have any time so sadly it often takes a burnout or a close to burnout for a care partner to realize okay it's time for me and what I say is look even if you can just find like one hour a day to go for a walk just a walk I'm not telling you to go to a gym not telling you to just just a walk breathe get some fresh air I always say like set boundaries so I had to do whatever for my burnout I really had to do a triage of my life and look at what was working and what was not working and who were the people in my life that were adding positive vibes and those that weren't and I had to really dig deep and get rid of like some toxic friends or sometimes it could be family members that are not positive and so you can't really get rid of family members but you can make the decision to say I'm not having dinner with these people but I'm going to do lunch because lunch is short it's an hour an hour and 15 minutes it normally doesn't involve alcohol hopefully doesn't and then that's it or the friend that would get mad and say well why aren't you calling me what you really have to give yourself permission to say to really preserve your energy and not give your energy away to people or to commitments as a society I find we have a really hard time saying no so people will ask us could you do this could you do that the answer is no and we don't have to apologize I would also suggest that if you're starting to feel overwhelmed it's important to seek professional help like if you can get professional help from a social worker a psychiatrist a psychologist a group therapy but don't wait until you're burning out to seek help and I think probably the two most important things is that oftentimes you know anger, stress, burnout comes when you feel that you don't have control so education is key it's really important to become as educated as possible about the disease whatever disease that you're dealing with but become as educated as possible be one step ahead of it at all times and also become educated as soon as possible about all the community resources that could help you and the person that has the illness and don't wait a lot of times we say oh I'm not there yet wait until you're there and then you're crying for help right you've got to do your research and become educated as early as possible you speak to the importance of acting early to be educated to be proactive and to have boundaries in order to care for yourself and I wonder just to conclude whether you have any resources you'd like to share for people who are also dementia care partners well I would love to share the McGill University Dementia Education Program which I proudly founded in 2017 as a result of my own journey of being a care partner and not being educated or supported by the healthcare system and you know I had no prior affiliation to McGill but I knew that we had one of the best medical schools in the world in our city and you know approached them and said you know how would you like to create this community program with me and the Dean said yes and so we've really developed a comprehensive range of resources they're all free you go to McGill.ca I'm sure you'll share the link with the listeners and we have various resources so one of the most important ones that I would recommend is our dementia companion guide it's available in 10 different languages and you can download it for free if people want printed copies it's about $20 on Amazon and it supports our program but it's available in 10 different languages and many more to come because dementia doesn't discriminate and it's important for us to really educate a really multicultural population about this disease and then we have a webcast series called McGill Cares where I've produced about 100 webcasts with all kinds of leading healthcare professionals on various topics not only related to dementia but other things like ALS, Parkinson's even cancer I have experts, I have caregivers, I have survivors so that's a really great webcast series and we're also I would also recommend that people go and read the 2021 and 2022 World Alzheimer reports produced by Alzheimer's disease international which is on our website the first one is on a journey through a diagnosis of dementia and the other one is all about post-diagnostic management and again really it's experts from all around the world that have contributed to these reports and we have some support groups in partnership with Alzheimer's Society in Montreal, we've got virtual support groups we have a young Cares support group we also have a wonderful program called Caring Conversations with two pioneer social workers where every month there's a different topic they present and the caregivers could just register and interact with the social workers which is great and we're currently developing activity modules leisure and recreational modules to teach care partners all kinds of activities that they could do at home to stimulate a person living with dementia and hopefully in 2024 we'll also be launching our online education program so they're all there for you and people to access for free thank you so much for all that you do it's really amazing to share that your dementia companion guide has been translated to so many different languages, I love how you're making everything very accessible, thank you very much Ms. Webster for your time and for sharing your expertise well thank you for having me Monica, glad to be here I'd also like to thank you the listener for tuning into one of the first episodes of the beyond the diagnosis podcast if you have a story you'd like to share or some feedback you'd like to give then please reach out to me directly at highmonicamaranda at gmail.com see you in the next episode