So just like Susan, this next email speaker was someone that I found through someone else. I asked for help to find female speakers and Giles came through and suggested Megan Millard. And I looked at her work online and we talked a little bit, seemed like a good fit. So here she is. So back in Toronto, I run a, also I'm going to say, you know a lot, it's kind of like the Torontonian egg that everyone else gets in Canada. So I apologize in advance, I'm going to say a lot. But back in Toronto, I partner at a web consultancy called Unspace, as well as a co-partner and a little label called Brilliant Teeth. And today, with these credentials, I kind of want to talk about the correlations I see existing between the music industry as well as our tech, you know, corridor that we sort of inhabit. And mostly how Unspace says use that because it's my only point of reference to really, you know, entertain and engage our community and how you might be able to take that to inspire your own as well. And after hearing Leia's talk, this is basically the very, very juvenile detention center version of that talk. So I apologize in advance. But Unspace is a web and application development firm, you know, short and succinct, but we enjoy it and we're really good at it. But more importantly, we're completely and utterly in love, like maybe in fact situated with the Toronto developer community. I've traveled a lot and it's one of the biggest ones I've encountered in the world. Our mailing list is 700 people in the GTA. So it's a pretty large swath of people. And we consistently run three events for them. This has relevance, I promise. Six years ago, we started this thing called Rails Pub Night, mainly because we were the first grouping on Rails firm in Canada and there were no others. And you can't have a business without competition.  And six years later, there are lots of them and we're still here. So it worked out pretty good. Next, we created technology primarily because I was bored, but event planning sort of rooted in my DNA at this point. But also because the monthly circuit of, you know, tech speaker events in the city was kind of getting corporate and rigid. And that's fine, like everyone has a different flavor. But we're just, you know, once again kind of immature and we kind of want something with more of a conversation piece and a focal point to it. So what we're about to do is fly in one speaker every month. Giles is actually our speaker for June 2nd if anyone is remotely close to Toronto. And we give them carte blanche to talk about whatever they want for 30 to 45 minutes.  Yeah, June 2nd next time. But yeah, we create a theme party around it. Just make sure that there's lots of installation or things like that because we want a conversation piece for all of the attendees. We want to create a dialogue that doesn't start with, hey, what do you do?  Because that's really boring and it doesn't give you the tingles when you go home and think about all the awesome people you met. You had those nights in college where you went home and you were just like sweating. You were so excited about all of the conversations you had. So if you give people the premise to talk about something interesting upon first meeting, you're going to get a lot better outcome. And there's going to be lots more ideas generated than on, you know, a standard like stuffy mixer or on an IRC channel. Third, we do an annual job fair. And there's not a lot of mystique or ammo behind this. Getting your friends employed makes you even more friends. And on top of that, you know, there is a drought of rubious as we've said a lot of the time today. So we just try to get everyone in one room and do a very unorthodox sort of mixer so that people can get better acquainted and hopefully, you know, gain better employment. But I'd say the biggest feather in our cap to date would have been Ruby Fringe and then Future Ruby, the latter one being staged two years ago, which is hard to believe right now. We created these two conferences more like gigs because we were disillusioned with the other conferences that were in the market at the time. You know, we'd go down to any given conference in the States and find us and everyone else in our mother, you know, spending most of their time in the lobby.   It was messy. But everyone really bought and we curated our speakers really well and they delivered, you know, amazing talks. And it proved us right. We felt kind of vindicated about this, that restriction isn't necessarily pragmatic. We wanted people to be excited about being developers again, which in 2008 it was sort of taking on a somber tone. And we wanted to bring people together and have that exciting moment in the same way like say if you were at a party and you find out that four other people were painters and then you excitedly start collaborating on how you could possibly have an art show in the fall. Or if you went to a jazz show and, you know, you found the four people in there that were really crazy about noise rock and then you make plans to book a rehearsal studio or record the EP. It gave everyone an environment where they could find other people to play with. And play is extremely important. And the resounding message at the end of the day is that if your work doesn't facilitate that play, you should probably quit your job. I realize that that's not, you know, a realistic tone to take for everyone and it's kind of a privileged point of view too. But the statement however inflammatory might help if you've got some context about me because I kind of reflect the standard person that works at Unspace.  I grew up moderately nerdy, as I'm sure everyone else here did, you know, but I got thrown into my fair share of lockers because I came from rural Ontario and, you know, smacked out in the middle of the Bible Belt there, because it was just up north. And when that wasn't occurring, I, you know, slink off to the library to build scale models of Thomas Hardy's Canterbury or, you know, preside over the comic book club that I helped co-found. But most embarrassingly, well as background, like I did manage to meet other record nerds in Woodstock, most notably and conveniently my father. And when I was 15, I decided to take it upon myself to go on GeoCities and coordinate the world's first Anglophile Index of Every Band and Existence from 1991 to 1996. I'm so embarrassed to ever admit this in public. But, you know what, it was a very fruitless, you know, completionist effort. And I ended up catching the attention of some record execs and street team managers that obviously smelled free labor. And I started creating fan sites for pittance, which meant free concert tickets and praise from people I didn't have a snowbells chance in hell of meeting. I thought I would one day. But I was really enthusiastic to do it because at the time I really wanted to be something, a part of something bigger. And I wanted, you know, to taste self-respect because I didn't really have it at the time because I had no sterling example where I grew up. And, you know, all of this encouraged me to focus more on my, you know, painting, picking up different musical instruments and most importantly to me at the time, writing. And this effort in writing ended up getting me all the way to England where I studied English, which seems apropos, in the hopes of one day becoming a journalist.  This is what happens when you give an 18-year-old unlimited freedom. But at some point, actually I think it was in Paris when I had two euros left, my dad's fiscal conservatism kind of kicked in inside me and I realized that I, if I wanted to continue this exploratory travel process throughout my life I should probably pick a vocation that was, you know, a little easier to wrangle my way into and, you know, a little more viable economically. And not being the cleverest of teenagers I picked the music industry. I don't know how I got to England and into a school in the first place but no matter. So to get my feet wet, I ended up first going for a co-op position at the HMV HQ in Nottingham where I was unanimously hated for being plucky, having kind of a nasally accent and being enthusiastic about what was essentially a glorified, you know, retail gig, stacking CDs. But because I was operating on a notion, this fantasy, I was completely in love with the industry and I didn't care what tasks were assigned to me because I saw it as a place of unlimited potential and, you know, the beacon of social capital that everyone wants when they're a teenager.  I wanted to do that and I wanted eccentricity to be my biggest asset because, you know, when you're 18 you're also more original than anyone can even see. Your deaths are so profound. I didn't like me at 18. I followed up with that. But anyway, so I ran out of money. We're still functioning on that level. And so I moved back to Canada and probably enrolled in this Toronto school that's a total armpit known as the Travis Institute for the Recording Arts, but of course in artist management. And it was a joke the entire time. On the first day that after we submitted our tuition checks the teachers just started laughing and were like, there are no jobs. And generally we're too hungover to show up to class. There were no supplies, no pens, nothing. And, you know, if you got really bored there was one loan desk you were doing the institution that you could look out of and watch smack deals go down on the broadest area of this Toronto if you got really bored. So after innumerable depressive episodes, eight months and, you know, 12k intuition fees I was under no illusion that I wouldn't be able to get hired at a job. And being an industrious little runt for 19 I thankfully had the skills and credentials thanks to moonlighting with labels and, you know, working, you know, internship positions with various PR companies to start my own PR firm. I did a lot of one sheets, I didn't work for labels and stuff but I primarily specialized in college radio promotion which I don't think is a big deal in Canada as it is here anyway. But I think that I did well at it because A, I probably should have gone to real college and B, I was so close to the program managers and DJ's age that I think I understood them more and I think they appreciated the fact that I was still enthused and I wasn't entirely jaded yet. But I did this for two years and I'm of success, but a lot of abject poverty and kind of clung to my ideals of what the music industry could be in order to keep myself warm at night because my hybrids they did cut off twice. And then I started managing bands and doing tour promotion and things like that and by age 22 I had actually gotten pretty successful at it and... Not bad.  After about three years I didn't even think I liked musicians anymore. That's obviously changed. I said I could partner with a label right now but at the time I felt like that because I never got to focus on my own internal and self-development and life was always people who were like 10 to 15 years older than me. And so, you know, when that happens you start to resent the flock inevitably and so I churned out a lot of bad work and, you know, made a less than graceful exit as anyone young and dramatic and having my first major deduction would be. So for the next six months I kind of lived like Wayne Campbell with my extensive collection of headsets and hair nets and through a bunch of convoluted weird circumstances I ended up meeting a company called Unspace which were just fresh and minted and every single person in my organization had a background formerly in the music industry.  I actually think I got welcomed into the fold one night when I was drunkenly rambling about Chicone music, so there you go that's like the foundation of my entire career. But for people who are still in existence today that have interesting stories when I actually started at Unspace Pete had just made it my business partner, Pete Board had just made his own exit out of the music industry where he was a drummer and served as manager and a moderately successful band in Canada and I think we connected because we both had like that sense of nostalgia and we kind of enjoyed, I don't know the emotional equivalent of light shows and we were also kind of resentful at the time for what the industry did to us how it made us jaded. Our director of development can also put on a CV that he punched a Gallagher brother in the face at Gassenbury 1996 which was the most awesome guy to have ever especially if you know Mike because he's like really lovely and you know, passive and wonderful and there's actually some serendipity with Mike too but at the same label I was promoting when I was doing those GeoCities pages as a kid and now I come in every day after you know, being in touch with this guy who I wanted to be through a pot mail mailing list you know, when I was a kid and now we get to be excited about another industry the idealistic about that and so that kind of makes me feel good every day I'm pretty chopped about where I worked for that reason so yeah, Unspace back then was you know, unjaded and intoxicating and incredibly messy you'll be glad to know we've stopped running our business like Tony Wilson and factory records at this point that part we've unmascified but everything else still kind of works in some sort of chaos theory and that's not for everyone but it works for us because you know, we still have our client projects to keep the lights on and our hobby ends up playing the dividend at the end of the day so we do okay but primarily our environment is set up for play and what I mean by that is it's not engineered but it's a playroom it's not a ball pit a video game room or a candy room or any of those other weird things I've read about we don't want to build a more comfortable prison for people we don't want it to be so, you know amenable that people feel guilty for leaving unless they put it in 10 hours we want people to go out for lunch we want them to go home after they've committed 5 or 6 hours of work we want them to get in the rock climbing we want them to, you know, be really into cycling or, you know, play in two bands at the same time because otherwise you're not dealing with well rounded people you're not working with someone you want to be friends with because you all have just one same interest and one thread that binds you together so we don't want any of that but we kind of come together but really like a garage band because for all intents and purposes Unspace is like a studio not a clubhouse but we don't have set hours and, you know, the ground rules that generally go through the organization is just to have focus and creativity and, you know, at the end of the day all you want is a space where people want to drop in and work and then go home as they do when they please we tend to support their independent projects and facilitate introductions to the people who can assist after, you know, the Buddha was saying that the weekly stand-ups have been of, you know, and we feel the same way we recently incited those and the management team at Unspace sort of serves as pro bono managers in that light, like, we don't, you know the things that our developers work on are not Unspace projects but their success is our success like, A, for, you know, the publicity about that generates beliefs because these are our family members and we love them so of course we do that work, you know, on the back end that's really what it comes down to okay, after that ramble why do we create in this fashion and honestly the answer's short it's because you can only do what you know and this is all I've actually ever known like, I'm not a very structured rigid person in general and I don't think anyone else is on space either and this is as much for the developers as it is for the expatriated music business both music and programming are both rooted in math, you know one is no less important to the other than the other to you and you're in love with both so you know this in doing research for this talk I came across a pretty cool guide named Rob Burwell who ended up being a developer musician hybrid and he wrote it really, well actually he's only ever written one blog post but it was really interesting about how music is like programming and so, you know if someone's wrote it down more eloquently than you know, I believe you should quote so I actually wrote down the points even though I've basically been reading the whole time I'm sorry, it's my first talk to share with you guys today so his first point was musicians become programmers and generally not the other way around simply because those gigs actually pay the bills pretty straight forward two, creating music and software are simultaneously collaborative and individualistic undertakings three, musicians regardless of era are generally technically engaged the instruments themselves, the hardware often interface with other devices amps, mixers and needs to achieve different sounds composers often deal with an array of technology to get their music written and performed and or produced four, music is an abstract medium the printed note requires interpretation and execution like the written line of code there is often much more than meets the eye and five, music is a form of dismay of corporate managers try to express themselves through their code I see other co-relations here that he has an outline but I'm more of a cynical person I think than he is anyway the only analogy I can really give for this is you know that awesome band that you saw locally at one point and you know either their album or their show blew your minds and then you see them at the same Burger King for the eight consecutive years looking really sad the main thing with your developer friend who is incredibly brain gifted and creates an app that changes the world and instead it goes directly to the iTunes store and sells 100 copies and at the end of the day we come around yet again to the whole good art of ship theory and that doesn't mean that developers need to be business managers ever in fact I don't condone that it sucks but you do need the enthusiasm communication the same way a band does if they ever want to get off of life the lowest tier level of stage or actually move the 500 units they got manufactured at the plant of records the feel of failure has to be abolished so that you can be connected with the people who matter it doesn't mean that you have to speak eloquently but you do have to speak passionately but there's always people that need help and so what we try to do at the end of the day is facilitate that kind of environment for those artists aka developers we give them face time with people who matter we give them tools and we try to you know spark something that they can inevitably run it despite it's in this sense tries to be the velvet underground it wasn't just a band, it was an organization and it represented a creative community of different facets it was artists and facilitator and it was a network of stepping stone for so many of the artists that we have very deep in the archives of our iTunes and of course you know regardless of taste, big grandfathered every artist that's out there today and I realize obviously that velvet underground is like a bit pretentious thing to aspire to but we do work really hard at it and we are making good with everyone that we try to do this for so it's okay but we do know that you have to work in the right to show about so we at the end of the day we work hard to ensure that our industry is glamorous as it is productive because that helps people aspire and strive to something sort of like the way you rehearse guitar well you know depends on what era you know whether it was David Lee Roth or Johnny Greenwood that you were like eyeing on the wall you could just rehearse and you had something to aspire to and we find that glamour also helps us to explain and promote our art outsiders you know Elvis added glamour to rock and roll things like Ruby Fringe and Future Ruby help us demonstrate to the outside that what we do is exciting and so that's why we created it too is because it gave us something to exemplify outside of our community and I think everyone should be doing that and with all of this stuff that I'm saying I know we're not reinventing the wheel here just like in music nothing is completely original but everyone wants to be able to apply meaning to what they do at the end of the day and they want to sense a pride and we're not doing it for any particular MO because at the end of the day none of this comes easy and none of it is ever as profitable as it would be if you were just like whatever and focused on being an insultancy so if you're in make money don't but you know if we lose sight of that we just you know we muddle our agendas we just become kind of fixed and we become like ass hats and ruin everything that we set out to create in the first place because we're not ready to let go of that ideology yet and cream and dawn is expired early in any industry and even then you know we have a short window of time here and nothing lasts forever and so we create it's like others have to create because if no one else is going to see it then it's over so when I shield this talk originally and it wasn't meant to go off on that many tangents I was using a Hunter S. Thompson quote that he said in either the late 70s or the early 80s but whatever the case it was like the time of like coke float silver pants with the music industry and it was the music industry is a money trench a long plastic hallway where thieves and dogs there is also a negative side and the statement of this vinegar and resentment is kind of typical in the reformist parts of any industry segment and so in this respect we kind of you know refute all of the methods that came before us of how to plan events and engage our community and we you know prefer to create a myth instead because when you give people a stage you know or a potential audience they can't lose sight of why they create because someone is listening someone is watching and it's always inevitably going to mean something to someone and you know when you see your benefactors having fun you can enjoy it more too and conferences like farmhouse are actually really great for this like we're engaging with one another and I think that everyone's going to go home tonight and have something to write or something to create you don't get that with your standard mixer they remind us that we're part of a creative community and they make us feel like we're part of something bigger again and so you know at the end of the day if you want to build an inspiring environment for developers you'll see evidence that something bigger to speak that you were kind of burning for in high school is right in front of you the only things to remember with it is to not spin meals don't try to measure it in this circumstance because you can't be nice always make sure you play and have plenty of toys and you can show that hard results are attached I only have one question when are you going to put on another great event? Well we are doing Technologic right now we decided to scale it down because after it was a weird phenomenon because with Ruby Fringe and Future Ruby like we had you know promotion at the Aspart and everyone seemed really excited about it and I think that on one end it's like Toronto is really accessible but it feels inaccessible to some people and each year there's been some sort of you know wretched natural disaster coinciding with our conference it's like an airline strike garbage strike economic crash whatever people end up like bulking at the last minute so we got kind of frustrated with doing these things because our conferences well I can be you know basically open here it's like $100,000 and we don't sell that many tickets like they're an expensive undertaking and we also kind of went the anarchist approach and didn't allow any sponsors which was weird it's really hard to put these things on and honestly I've got the disease again so I'm going to go out of the live and say hopefully next year but we're not sure yet we want to like test the waters first so come to Technologic


Hello everybody E here welcome back to happy holidays before we jump in to today's review I want to let you guys know I have a bunch of sales going on for my own books both the Edward Lorne name and My Ward Nernlow name Maiden right now is only 299 in e-book. I think everywhere At internationally as well and the paperback is only 999 so you can get the this for 10 the paperback for $10 or the e-book for 299. I also have two short stories available Secret Santa under the Edward Lorne name and oh holy shit under the Ward Nernlow name and as before Hang on let me move this around so I don't drop my mic War on Christmas is out in both paperback and e-book the e-book is only 99 cents for three full stories It's basically a novelette about Santa Claus saving the day. It's a dark fantasy. I really really like it But anyways on to the review all those links will be down there in the doobly-doo if you guys want to go Check them out No problem if you're not interested. Let's just get back into the review So today we are talking about one of my favorite Christmas novels, which is Krampus by or Krampus the Eulord by Brom I went back and read my review. I have not reread it since but the the book If the book seems better to me now in hindsight than it was in my review I only gave it four stars and I'm unsure why I didn't give it the full five The same thing happened when I read the library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins That's an easy five-star read for me for some odd reason I knocked off a star or a half a star or something like that And I can't remember why even after reading my review But I mentioned those two together because they're kind of the same. They're very brutal Even though Krampus is a Christmas story and the library Mount Char isn't they both have the same vibe like a very brutal visceral vulgar Neil Gaiman is how I would describe these There's not a whole lot of subtext in Brom's work. So don't go in expecting high literature But you will find high art especially if you get the e-book or you get the The hardcover or paperback and you get to see the pictures that he drew along with the book I think that is the main draw of Brom's stories While Krampus is a hell of a lot of fun to read There are there are some some complaints that I have read in other reviews that I'm okay I can see where they're coming from like several women have noted that there are no strong female characters in the book One even mentioned a tone of misogyny that I didn't catch when I read it, but that doesn't mean it isn't there So if you're looking for something with a stronger female presence This probably ain't the book for you. In fact, I don't remember a single female character from the book So obviously there wasn't any good ones For me is what I'm saying now as far as the rest of the story is concerned. It's about Jesse This down on his luck dude. I believe he has baby mama drama. I'm pretty sure I put that in my review But he the book opens with well actually the book opens with a letter or not a letter a monologue to Santa Claus From Krampus, and I thought that was a very creepy effective way to open it up right off the bat You you're like this is not the Santa Claus that we know and love. He's a thief. He's a murderer He's all these, you know terrible things Krampus also is a bad guy. I I screwed up when I said I was going to review the book I screwed up and said that he was a good guy. He's not really good If anything, he's chaotic good because they they're both villains in their own right But Krampus is kind of the hero of this story if you ignore Jesse One of the big things I remember about this book is the bells nickels. Sorry my heater came on. I had to turn it off Anyways, so I remember the bells nickels I had a lot of fun with those those guys all of the Christmas lore all of the Repurposed pagan yule even Christian lore for Santa Claus that all that stuff I enjoyed immensely, but as with the library of Mount Char I think the thing that I like the most about this is how fucking brutal it is It is a very dark fantasy horror novel And as long as you go in knowing that and it's vulgar to vulgar language So this is definitely not a kid's book, but I can't imagine looking at that cover and thinking that it's a kid's book It's whatever not out not all Not all Christmas stories are for children The characters like I said the only characters I really remember are Jesse Krampus and Santa Claus I thought they were all effective everyone else just kind of slipped through the cracks for me But it has also been several years since I read this and I need to go back and reread it again But as far as the pacing is concerned, I was never bored. I remember listening to the book I got it on audible. I remember listening to it. I was never bored. I never wanted to to speed up But I have read some reviews that say that you know Well, especially one from my friend Cindy who said I don't have the pay on the DNF at 20% She liked the way the guy wrote, but she didn't have the patience for it I don't remember there being ever being any lulls other than you know normal character development So take that with a grain of salt and as far as the dread is concerned. That's this that's not this kind of story I don't think I think it's more of it's almost Along the lines of like a slasher. It's it's horror adjacent in that this book isn't really meant to scare you It's more dark fantasy. It's more really cool adult content Not sex and all that stuff, but definitely the the violence and the blood and gore It's definitely a genre piece. Just don't go into this looking for subtext But have you read Krampus by Braum if you have let me know down there in the doobly-doo whether or not you loved it You hated it. You felt meh about it But if you felt any of those things let me know in detail so that we can have a discussion But until next time I have any you have been you this has been another episode of happy holidays I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye


We usually discuss the science of aging on lifespan news, but what are the economic benefits of slowing, stopping, or even reversing human aging? Stick around to find out. And be sure to watch to the end of this video to get my take on this paper and learn what you can do to help make human aging old news. A trio of prominent scientists have argued that slowing aging can bring gargantuan economic benefits, an order of magnitude bigger than many people previously thought. The paper was published in Nature Aging on July 5th, 2021, and uses a powerful economic model to investigate the financial aspects of increased longevity. Coauthored by one of the leaders in geroscience, David Sinclair, and two prominent economists, Andrew J. Scott of the London Business School and Martin Ellison of the University of Oxford, the paper is built around a model known as the Value of Statistical Life, or VSL. While this question had been raised before by the proponents of the longevity dividend, or LD theory, such as J. Olszanski, the new paper employs a different methodology and arrives at different results, albeit reinforcing LD's point. The authors offer four scenarios corresponding to four different hypothetical ways in which life expectancy can be increased, cleverly naming the scenarios after famous fictional characters. The first one is named after Strolled Brugs, one of the many strange peoples Jonathan Swift's Gulliver encounters during his travels. The name Strolled Brug is given to those humans in the nation of Lugnag who are born seemingly normal, but are in fact immortal. Just one minor detail, though. Strolled Brugs have discovered the secret of eternal life, but not of eternal youth or health. Therefore, Strolled Brugs' health diminishes indefinitely as they age, making them miserable and longing for death. This first scenario is about extending the human maximal lifespan without a similar effect on health span. The authors then analyze the economic value of this particular type of life extension according to VSL. The second is the Dorian Gray scenario, named after Oscar Wilde's character who retained good health and youthful looks until his timely death. This scenario corresponds to increasing health span without noticeably affecting lifespan. The third scenario is named after Peter Pan, a character who ages, albeit very slowly. In this scenario, both health span and lifespan are increased, which corresponds to slowing aging. This scenario is the preferred one in terms of VSL and is precisely what geroscience is all about. The fourth scenario, called Wolverine, named after the X-Men character, imagines treatments that reverse aging. Some novel approaches currently in development such as parabiosis, synelytics, thymic rejuvenation, stem cells, exosomes, gene therapy, and cellular reprogramming aim specifically at repairing the damages of aging. The authors apply their model to an actual intervention that most probably works according to the Peter Pan scenario, Metformin. According to the paper, if Metformin, a cheap, safe, and readily available drug, lives up to current estimates, its use as an anti-aging drug can bring enormous economic benefits. The authors have calculated that just one year of average lifespan extension done by the Peter Pan way, i.e. by slowing aging, will bring the U.S. economy a benefit of 38 trillion U.S. dollars, and a 10-year gain would be a staggering 370 trillion U.S. dollars. This is an order of magnitude larger than the previous estimates done by the LD theorists. The main reason for the difference is a positive feedback loop when we slow aging, older people stay healthier for longer, which means they value the next extension of their healthy lifespan even more. Andrew Scott said to Lifespan.io, quote, we consider the economic value of various improvements in health and show that whilst longer lives are valuable, most valuable of all is making sure that both health span and lifespan increase, end quote. If you want to learn more about this paper, then check out Lifespan.io's article by Arcady Maison and read the paper. Both links are in the video description. Arcady's article includes a few extra questions about the paper that co-author Andrew Scott answers. Philanthropic and governmental resources are both limited and distributed among many different social and economic programs. Causes compete for finances and attention, and this important paper aims to place fighting aging high on that list by arguing that fighting aging brings along enormous economic benefits. Honestly guys, the general conclusions of this paper had been painfully obvious to me for many years, which is why I'm so obsessed with solving the human aging problem ASAP. So we hope you'll consider sharing this video on social media and or with somebody who's not yet interested in healthy life extension. So we're not just preaching to the choir in our little longevity bubble. Sharing is caring and it really can help. Thanks and we'll see you in the next video.


All right, good morning cyber traders welcome back Everybody hopefully a window hopefully not everybody missed me and gone for about two days right good to see you Randy Raymond good to see you Andrea. Good to see you all everyone you too. Welcome back I was out down in Florida, Orlando went to meet a bunch of fellow mastermind traders of mine We do like an annual conference looked out great looking forward to we got two big events I'm doing today actually with some of those partners I don't know if everybody got the email on it, but look hopefully the phone everyone's registered and will be able to join us If you didn't join us you watching on YouTube Facebook You always welcome just like us and friend is down at the bottom and we'll go from there But I'll tell you it's always nice to meet everyone in a group and meet a lot of these traders that that a lot Of you probably see here at cyber trade adversity that are great mentors and great educators Because you know, we will you know with COVID.  You know what I mean and and it's just nice not the whole positions I actually I couldn't hold I couldn't resist myself I know there was one stock that a lot of guys here were trading it yet in the trading room But I did do it. I did do it overnight when I was there. I trade the CLO V I know you guys did really really well with this stock CLL V went from literally went from like $12 all the way up to about 24 and I did it overnight, you know, I ended up jumping in, you know on this day I was at that day right there on the 8th and I held it overnight it backed off I saw a nice little fowl still flag being built I jumped back into it and they got out yesterday around Right at the open. I saw it starting to trend down a little bit Let me just bring this up so you guys can see a little bit better on the Swinked on the day trading stock side right here. There you go So here it is right here the stock right here had a nice push so I saw a nice little fowl still flag being built right here and You know, I mean a lot of you guys did really really well with this stock, but when it came down hard Right here 22 is really a major support level. It broke that didn't broke down But then I broke it just broke down. We're right here. I sort of think started to hold up So I kind of jumped in Right around $20 and 50 cents. I saw a thing like holding holding holding I positioned to hold the position overnight went up. I got out in the middle of my conference Right at the open. I saw it when went all up to here went to 28 But then it started trending down and says that let me get out of it So I took a nice little profit on there made about six points on that stock, but um There's times when we know how to swing train day trade and but listen look where it went right now It dropped all the way down to 16 another stock I do want to point out that a lot of it was another reddit stock that a lot of people would you know Just got to be careful like wish here was another one that did really really well the other day a lot of you guys out There were trading it had a nice little push It started early in the morning and went from like 780 all the way up and then it kind of took off around 2 o'clock had a nice push was a nice overnighter But the same thing that happened with wish is the same thing happened with CL oV kind of hit that resistance Wall right here started trending down and once you started seeing that happening Game over and you could see where it's holding so it looks like it's it's got some supports right here Remember the longer it trades there the longer it builds that foundation the more volume of trades or everything else once again a lot of stuff we're gonna talk about today, you know at the 11 11 o'clock hour and the 12 o'clock hour at those webinars are going to be hosting but But let's go on talk about what happened this morning because this morning was Phenomenal a lot of you guys made a lot of money You came in early you did great and the stock that we did really well on was this one in pre-market now I know a lot of people you know they still today you guys come in here on and you watch these Videos and you might be watching this later whatever it is But you keep looking at this and like how do you guys trade in pre-market? It's because you got the wrong brokers account, okay? Get in our trading room talk to our education advisors. Let us help you because this one was Phenomenal so this thought gap down really nicely you could see it I don't know what happened around 7 30 this morning But just the thing just collapsed and it went from like 9 20 and it started building and it started bouncing right around here 479 a Lot of us got in here right around right around this time around 550 Usually wait around the 8 o'clock That's that's a program training time hour and a lot of you guys did really well I mean the thing really went from like 550 and all the way up to about you know when on some as high as 7 650 was even max I mean I want to show you something that a lot of you guys all also know a lot about and And what happened here? I deleted it. Oh, no, I didn't leave. Sorry, so I'm gonna bring up the level 4 and Which by the way everyone at the at the trade show is just you know when I was at the that convention this week They said fast we're getting more and more people really interested like my own my my own Other traders are asking me about level 4 now. They're like, you know, I heard about this level for you keep talking about Things was working out great. Well, it is and you could see it right here, you know, just going back to it We had a major resistance levels around here 550 big buyers came in they're still out there You got a 276 Thousand share buyer right here at five bucks But when in that cellar got done right there that was basically where a lot of you guys saw the pop on that resistance The guy got done and then obviously, you know, it took this guy out right here at 6 6 30 But that really pretty much does it when it went to that I think we just made our days pay and that was game over but listen, it's not over the market did not open up yet This is just was a really good pre-market trading stock. We did really really well with the stock Remember you have to follow the money now a couple of the stocks. I'm moving pretty well There's another one that we found this morning. So if you missed out on the OCG N Some of you came in a little bit late MEDS is doing really well. Look how nice this stock is moving Let me go pop up over here and bring up my level 4 MEDS I kind of ecstatic by accident, but MEDS a little bit bigger spread You know a little bit more volatile the stock but look at a 840 at 840 this thing ran from 450 It's already at $6. What a really nice move on a stock right there now Let's go bring level 4 over here so you guys could see a little bit better There was a big iceberg order right around here around $6. So you could see kind of held on to it There's a guy right now. I mean, it's not a big iceberg order It's not like the one we saw earlier where we had 278,000 me talking about like 6,700 So can't really trade too many shares of the stock very very tight float very small tier sizes But it is obviously going the direction that we like like it to go and that's up so that one very very nice stock OCG and we already know about this is another one. That's a pretty cheap you right here It's up 15% 1.5 billion shares as SGNX those stock that you know had a nice little trend filled in the gap that happened in early May and Now it's you know, you know looks like a level one stock, but that one looks a really nice and MDL why? Little bit more of a volatile stock tier sizes very very small Remember the biggest thing we teach you and if you're here new at Cybertrain University is Risk It's not about making money. It's about controlling your losses, you know So whenever we go into a trade remember, we always talk about the three T's Tratable trend and trap if the stock is not tradable be very careful. You have to make sure you know If you could even get the stocks that the tier size is very very critical, but she's volatile She's moving pretty nicely. She's probably in a category. I'm gonna say worst-case scenario Maybe a four, but probably in the three XIN another stock that looks that I found in pre-market's moving pretty well two million shares 13 13% Very cheap small tier sizes, too Doesn't look like it's good It's not moving as pretty as you saw the OCG N or the ME the MEDS But you never know these stocks all of a sudden come out of nowhere SLOV I know a lot of you guys are calling out this one in the cybergroup room Phil you made about 20 cents on it Good job in It's kind of holding here pretty strong just out of nowhere. I had a nice pop from 16 all the way to 18 Nice little trend nice little spread. A lot of us did really well on it But once again, it's on a downtrend. All right. I personally I mean, I'm not gonna swing trade it I mean unless I really see something different Anything could change, you know what I mean? But as of right now, she looks pretty damn strong I mean she's coming out of the out of somewhere, but she's moving pretty nicely So we all know we traded a couple of days ago, you know, how you did, you know, what level it was Just just don't get too greedy and cocky with the stock. All right And yet Tina we did talk about the the MD LOI on there is no news on it. Listen, it's It's all momentum. That's what it is. All right guys anything that I did not call out anything I did not call out The rich is saying the stock symbol. Let me just bring it out here The AE the AEMD just came out with some news. They reported a 1.3 million share offering at $9. I Hate when they do that, you know that that's not a good sign Whenever they do a secondary offering Not a good time when they do that You can see why things just drop but that was a nice little pop right there It just went from like 870 almost down to seven and came right back. All right traders So listen, we'll be back here at 230. There's our watch list I'm glad to be back and I'm glad and like I said Josh is gonna be out for the next two days We gave him a break. He need to go on vacation too So you're gonna have me and rich in here working with you guys for the next two days and then and then like I said Don't forget about today 11 and 12 o'clock our open house event You can register on our website and if you miss it Just look on our YouTube channel. You could always watch it later. All right guys happy trading be safe We'll be back here at 230 for the afternoon meeting cyber traders Like I always say you see something you say something trial members use it if you're in the cyber group room Just sit back and watch don't trade what we're trading Just see if everybody else how they do because that's how it's all about you want to make sure this is something for you right guys good luck and See you back then


Man, why don't they get some drank here? He like, man, I got a little three and a half or four right here. He say, let me see it. And he like, here you go, man. And he took that bitch, he say, that is about three and a half, huh?   I'm going to go back to that. Like, do you agree with, with that being a portion of something? Cause I, I heard it was no testing, nothing like that. No, autopsy. Was it an autopsy or do you remember? I believe it was. It was. Okay. Yeah, I believe it was. But it didn't show no traces of nothing. Uh, I believe what they were looking for, they found small traces of it. Okay. And they wanted to attribute that to, uh, towards his death. But we just, I don't believe that personally from the conversations with me and mama, um, I'm glad you brought that back up. Cause this the part I was going to tell you when we were leaving Dallas that day, um, heading back to the high rise to cut those records and all that me, him and I repeat was sitting in the, um, hotel parking lot right in front of the hotel. And he, you know, he said a little drank whenever he felt like it, but he wasn't no frequent drank here. You know what I mean? So he was like, uh, P man, uh, wouldn't it get some drank? Yeah. Man, R.I.P. I repeat, man, when they get some drank at he like, man, I got a little, a three and a half for four right here. He said, let me see it. He like, here you go, man.  He said that he is about three and a half, huh?  Wow. Yeah. So the whole trip back from Dallas to Houston, he was in a van.  And so when we got back to the high rise, we get outside the corner, everybody talking congregating. They're like, what are we going to do?  Let's wake them up and help them up. Stas. So we woke them up, helped them upstairs. He was really groggy. His voice was like really gravelly. And so when we got them upstairs, he was like, man, we finna record and we finna do this and we finna do that. And I'm like, this nigga voice is out of there.  And I had this little slim reindeer looking little pretty.  I had a little mama waiting on me, man. Couldn't wait till I get home. So I'm like, man, I'm, I'm finna go to the crib. Y'all niggas ain't finna drop no records.  And I was shot out, you know what I mean? Got my cagoga in my car. So great school got to have it. Don't talk about it. So the next day them niggas call me like, man, you should have came back. I'm like, why? He said, man, we cut by three four records. I'm like, how y'all cut three four records, man? That nigga voice was out of there.   Jump back into the lack and smash back and finish cutting the records. And what he did that made me feel so inclusive and so loved.   We still fighting to kick it. No, I'm talking about. Yeah, y'all. So when I got back, man, he like, he's, man, we left these verses open for you, man, go and write your verses. Almost cry. Are you serious, man? Because I am what I'm going to tell you this that really mess with me. And here's the deal. When you say it some another day, when last time we was on here, me, you, Mr. Lee and Bobo, remember that?  Was that some of the verses that you was exactly? So it meant so much to you. Exactly. You see what I'm saying? And they took you off because they found bigger names, of course, to try to business, but at the same time, intimate moments like that.  But that's something you tie to for the rest of your life. So I didn't ever feel like, oh, I'm going to run to the public and try to get the arms of the angel hug on me to make me feel better.   They left me on to and I might have traces and remnants of the ones that I was on.  Man. So in this, that's the game. You know, some bun said that sticks out to me is that he said once he's gone, that there's going to be a lot of stuff that's going to start coming out. But he said he feel like people right now are not going to do it with him being still alive. It's harder for a lot to die than the truth to live. You know what I'm saying? That's and so and then one day I'm going to be gone and I'm telling you, I can tell you right now it's going to be niggas coming out to Woodworks.   Right. I would I would agree with that because they they they know the repercussions that come behind it. I would agree with that. That makes sense, huh? It happens with everybody. Wow. But the thing is, we're not going to even be here that long. So we got to love each other, man. We got to start heartening each other while we hear my nigga. I mean, the people you didn't last like that. And I just lost the homeboy the other day.   I'm going to have fun with the rest of this motherfucking time I got on this earth and I'm a heart my people and I'm a help as many as I can.  Wow, man. So how does you find this stuff in the comments? He's just niggas telling you that.  Man, niggas is man. These niggas is not that. And sometimes it ain't even niggas.    He's still hating on a nigga. Eighteen years. Really?  So when you go back to Port Arthur. Is there anything signifying like a mule or stuff or P.M.C.? I think they did a new one. OK.   And I'm glad you asked that because that brings me to what I'm doing right now. I got this OK, OK, Trio stories, original gangsters and hustlers. I'm taking the goddamn covers back and showing you why the word Trio was even uttered. I'm showing you the niggas, the stories. I'm showing you all of the bottom, the slugs, the bugs, the bombs. The niggas went dead all that time. The bona fide street Trio niggas that made that whole motherfucking city move the way it moved and made motherfuckers interested in wanting to hear them raps and that content. Wow. Man, and when is this when is this going? We already shot the first episode.   Then I got all kind of other niggas. And these are people that bun know.  Gang bangers, niggas who didn't got shot six, seven, eight, nine, ten time. Like I'm not going trying to explore their stories.   What could they really do in this world? All these opportunities are abundant. They keep niggas like that out of corporate America because they know they're going to excel. They want that type of nigga, knuckle dragon.   You see what I'm saying?  And the show ain't going to be me.  Yeah.


Wouldn't you know it was a volatile night on Bond markets alongside. It's got a Jonathan Sheridan for you at fig Welcome into the show net net more dovish right the statement but perhaps no surprise in light of all the Global events which did find their way in as well to the statement. Good afternoon Carson. Yeah, you're right I think from my read anyway at least it was it was an overall bit more dovish statement than expected with the With the addition of the consideration of the global events and yet we saw the equity markets sell off And we saw bonds rally after the statement was published So obviously the market took that to be to be the opposite which I found a little bit surprising because you know if you If you've spent a year saying that you're going to write raise rates Then you know it doesn't hesitate one one month for you to turn around on that view And when you put in you know things that you've not put in before about global markets and weakness and so on then I think that's a bit dubious and what was equally bizarro was that economists learned economists are still Pointing to those four hikes this year The likes of Westpac indeed even saying we will see At least one before the end of the first half Yeah, I look I mean I don't want to comment on it on other people's forecasts and so on I try not to give those kind of forecast myself, but the markets definitely not pricing in four hikes this year It's more like sort of one and a half I think that the point that one of those commentators made about they need to look at the data And it's probably going to take longer than than two or three months for them to get a clearer picture I think that's very valid and you know you you don't want to run the risk of going too early I think they're very aware of that that the economic recovery is still fragile We're looking at a potential GDP number of less than one for the US economy when they come out in the next few days And you know that really just doesn't give you any case to raise rates in the short term Let's talk about the issuance locally and the spread and the doubling of it since last year so banks Coming to the table are at least with their own issuance, but it really is it's only looking at less attractive than it might have a year ago Absolutely from the issuance perspective I mean January has been the worst year the worst sorry the worst January for about six or seven years in terms of primary issuance We've only had and this sounds like a big number, but we've only had about 300 billion of issuance in January So far which is as I said the worst year for about six years and that really kind of puts a lid on the banks funding program So you know they need to get these things done because they've got other bonds rolling off So we saw what CBA do a one and a quarter billion euro covered bond Which is the highest place in their capital structure So triple A rated and last year when they issued bonds They paid a spread of 17 basis points and this one that they recently did they paid 35 basis points So you know from point one seven to point three five percent may not sound a lot But when you're doing you know half a billion euros, that's that's a decent amount of money to come off your P&L Anything else that you're watching with avidly in terms of even data pending. I Don't think there'll be any surprises really like I said, we're looking at a low US GDP number I think that's the big one that we'll be looking at coming up that obviously supports lower longer bond rates And you know, we've been on that to a low off a longer theme for a while here But we also do actually like inflation trades at the moment You know inflation is pretty benign at the moment But history tells us that you need to get in early on that in that score because you know It'll come on and bite you in the bum before you know it That will be something that you would not wish to submit to thank you so much Thanks, Carson Jonathan that's Sharon live from FIG


Again, I'm Julia Patrick here with Jarrett Ransom, the intrepid nonprofit nerd. Okay, Jarrett, talk to us about who our special guest is, kicking off our first live remote. Well, I wish you could see this because we have so many people filling the hall right now. We have some of our best friends from fundraising academy standing just off the camera. But on camera is Mike Diger, AFP president, host of this Icon event. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you so much. So AFP is really all about helping fundraisers become more effective for their causes. And we do that in lots of different ways. And one of the ways we do it is all of the different partners that we have. So you gave a great shout out to Blumerang. They are a great partner of AFP and we really appreciate them and what they do for our space because they work with us, but they also work with other great associations that are in our space. And there are many wonderful associations. But we are almost 30,000 members around the world. We are 240 chapters. That's how we're set up. We have in Canada, we had Canada alone. We have almost 3,500 members, 20 chapters. And it's just an incredible organization to work for. I've been here almost five years. I come from a non-traditional fundraising background, which we can talk about in a little bit. But it's just amazing the community that AFP really is. There's no organization out there. There's no organization that people look to for the type of community that AFP brings. And we only bring it because of our members. Like if I could pick up this laptop and turn it around, you would see how busy it is here. And how many people are milling around. And it may be hard to hear us every now and then because there is so much chatter going on. People are so excited to be back in person.  And while it's not AFP doing this, it's all of our partners. All of our members have really responded. And we have almost 3,000 people here. It started, we actually had a free conference today before. Started yesterday, goes through today, goes through tomorrow. And it's just, I don't have enough words for how exciting this is. And the buzz, the buzz is absolutely, absolutely incredible. Yeah, it is vibrating. The whole place is just buzzing, vibrating. So many people here, 33,000, how many? Almost 3,000 people here. 3,000 people, so amazing. Now, Mike, part of this conference is really a push towards education, right? So during the conference, attendees have the opportunity to really hear some amazing thought leaders from the nonprofit sector, speak and teach. Talk to us a little bit about that. Yeah, so there are two primary reasons why fundraisers join AFP, and they are both here today. They are the networking opportunity, connecting, reconnecting, and then education. Those are the two main reasons people join AFP. And we do it through the fundraising lens. There's lots of great organizations out there that do different parts of that, but none of them do it the way we do it with the fundraising lens. So what we have here over these three days, we have 140 educational sessions, one for zero. And when people registered, obviously they can't attend all 140, so what we do is we record almost all of them. And then when you register, as it is with every AFP icon event, actually every AFP event, you have access to all of the sessions when you leave. So you really, if you wanted to, and you were really dedicated, and you had enough caffeine, you could plow through those 140 sessions and really get the maximum education out of this. I love it. And these speakers are phenomenal. So many speakers here, so many different, diverse perspective, all with that lens of fundraising. It is fantastic.


10. In response, the Department of Infrastructure Ports and Transport activated its Emergency Response Plan immediately following the event, with the deployment of various zooner technical teams and cleanup crews. So today, another day of visiting some of the places hardest hit, so we visited the Impolet Louisi Primary School, House of the Current Secondary School. Spent time with those in the town in a place affectionately known as the Coco Pe and visited some of the other areas hit. 9. Preliminary assessments indicate that we have moved from a level 1 disaster to a level 2 disaster. The National Emergency Management Organization, NIMO, distributed drinking water daily to affected households, along with emergency food boxes, bedding and sanitizing agents. The Prime Minister, Hon. Philip J. Pierre, activated $200,000 both at food and sanitizing vouchers to be distributed to affected households through the National Emergency Organization, NIMO, and constituency offices which have had affected residents. The Prime Minister has also been in dialogue with international donor agencies as saying Lucia will require both technical and financial assistance to respond to this crisis. 8. I think the help need to be in time, so that's why we are doing this afternoon. We try to provide a small fund and I hope that this small fund will bring relief to the school. We want to invite other persons who are concerned to really show their concern by providing some form of assistance, monetary or in-kind. 7. And Lucia's Forensic Science Laboratory has officially been granted accreditation from the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation. This makes our laboratory the only forensic laboratory within the OECS and one of two within Paracom to achieve this milestone. 6. The Royal Fishing Port was built by the Japanese government. In 2001, the Senusha government has spent the last two decades routinely conducting dredging operations to alleviate the sedimentation density at the port entrance. An effective post-COVID economic recovery strategy in this country requires the easing of the limitations on fiscal space. Men's grants, like the one that you have pledged to assist Senusha, will ease the dead burden of our country. I must also commend the nature of the cooperation grants, which demonstrates that our advocacy as seeds is not falling on deaf ears. I must commend the Ministry of Agriculture and its trust for promoting food security. Food security is something that we hear and speak about all the time. And when we speak of food security, most times people think of what we grow online. But we must also remember the blue economy, which is something I know that all governments are focusing on now. And with the facilities that we are going to be receiving from the Japanese government, it will make life a lot easier for our fishermen to promote and maybe get bigger catches and start longer because they know when they come in now, they will not have to go down into the water to cool their boots. Agriculture Minister Honourable Alfred Prosper had the opportunity to seek first hand, the shipment of small machinery brought in under the second phase of the Seven Crops project to reduce farmers' reliance on labour while increasing efficiency and optimizing land use, ultimately improving farmers' quality of life. Performance-based financing is a new financing mechanism being introduced by the World Bank. The project will be piloted in St. Lucia. The performance-based financing is a very important mechanism, financing mechanism that propels changes in provider behaviour and also quality of care. We are very proud to be engaged on that. This is running under the HUD system strengthening project. And the PPF is focusing on two diseases, namely hypertension and diabetes malitus. I want to send the United Nations office in Barbados in the eastern Caribbean for convening this meeting which brings together developmental partners in one room so that we can discuss the opportunities for the Government of St. Lucia and have a time to dialogue with multiple development organisations with a view to improve the delivery of developmental assistance to St. Lucia. Two, then seeking to reduce unemployment and to promote higher productivity among young people on the island. And this is an area that I have attempted to push as minister as much as I can. And I'm not doing it because TVET has become a fashionable term in the educational lexicon. I'm doing it because I understand that there is a meaningful and significant rule for TVET. Third San tuba symposium provided a platform that got together key stakeholders at national and international levels to foster, stimulate and support the improvement of tropical root crop production and utilisation.


The following is a production of New Mexico State University. Gardeners all over the southwest are selecting more and more ziric plants to create unique and water-wise landscapes. Today we're back in the Colorado Springs Zir Escape Demonstration Garden where Valerie Club Conservation Specialist will introduce us to a variety of beautiful ziric plants. Some will be more appropriate for high mountain areas and some for low-lying desert areas. Valerie gardeners here in the southwest have to realize how diverse, how varied and extreme this gardening climate is. We range from high mountain plants down to low desert plants. You've got a pretty good collection here. We do. We've got a lot that will go even higher up than what we are right now, such as the caragana, the pea shrub, which has a beautiful yellow bloom on it. The bur oak is a very sturdy tree. We've got the three-leaf sumac, which is a wonderful shrub. It comes down pretty far into lower elevations too. Yes, it does. Yes, it does. It's a wonderful fall color. And then we've got, as we come down the slope here, we see some of the wildflowers that we might see in the southwest, penstemons, the grasses. Yes, we've tried to incorporate a lot of different ornamental grasses because of their value in the winter. And Artemisia in one form of the sagebrush. Yeah, the blue color is wonderful. And as we come further down, we see some ground cover plants. Yeah, the soap ward of the saponaria. This is really our ground cover kind of demonstration area. We've got the soft landing time, which has been a wonderful time. And a couple of different kinds of Veronica that give us a lot of color. And really a striking show of penstemon in here. We also have, I don't know if you noticed, the dwarf rabbit brush, which is a little two feet, two foot tall one. So it's really appropriate for this area. And as you go further down into the low desert, rubber rabbit brush is one of the common plants. In fact, sometimes called chemisa. As we come down out of the mountains, then we leave the ponderosa forest behind on spruce or far above that. And we come into the pineon forest, the pineons and junipers. And the big western sage, you can see. And the lower Artemis is here. And don't forget the choyas. They're very popular, even as high up as we are. And when they bloom, they're beautiful. But when you step on them, they hurt. Yuccas, another one you want to watch. Lots of yuccas, yes. They're beautiful. They've bloomed a lot this year. They ran down into the rubber rabbit brush. Yes, lots of rabbit brush. And this is really a wonderful thing that we have in our garden here. In terms of the whole garden gold in the fall, doesn't it? Beautiful, just beautiful.  And you've got some representatives of that here as well. The low desert is the realm of the cacti. You'll see some yucca and other things as well. But that's really where we think of the cacti. Absolutely, but we don't want to confuse the cactus and the rocks with zero skate. Right, this is still zero skate. Yes, it is. If you had only cactus and rocks, you might have a true zero skate. Zero skate, yes. But if you bring the native plants in, add to them some adapted plants. Absolutely. Some design and put together the principles of zero skate. You've got a zero skate. And the lowest water using zero skate. Yes. The lowest water-wise. We've got the holodiscous dimosus rock spray, which is very pretty with the little soft peach color flowers. Yes. The patchy plume is a beautiful plant all four seasons. Both of these are natives. Absolutely, yeah. And some ornamental grasses. The blue ravina is very pretty. You've got the woods rose, which is in the forest that comes down. Smaller elevations with very little water. And does very well wherever it goes. And then some non-native but adapted plants you can use. The lilac. The hawthorns. Yes. You've got the philodelfus. The mock oranges. Mock oranges are beautiful. They're in bloom right now. You've got the amorphous, the false indigos. So there's so many things you can bring in and design it properly. Absolutely. You'll have a landscape that looks good, uses relatively little water, but it's easy to take care of. True zero skate, yes.


Originally, I was attracted to the University of Alabama, to be honest, because I wanted warm weather. However, once I came down here, it was pretty obvious that this was going to be the place for me to go. I vividly remember my mom stepping foot on campus and turned to me and was literally about to cry. And I looked and I asked her, why are you upset? She goes, because I know you're going to come here and it's eight hours away. So that was originally the biggest thing for me. Of course, scholarships helps a ton, especially being an out-of-state student. It's pretty hard to turn that down. And then once I got into the fellows program, that pretty much sealed the deal for me. I really would like to encourage all out-of-state students to consider Alabama, because I can honestly say that I was really worried coming from out-of-state that I wouldn't be considered for things as highly as the in-state students would. I can testify that that is absolutely not the case. I never in my life would have dreamed that I would have been given the opportunity to be the student government association president, especially as an out-of-state student as a female. But that has never been a hesitation for anybody. Nobody ever thinks twice whether in-state or out-of-state. So I hope that all students out-of-state consider the University because it's not a roadblock for them. Being out-of-state, you have just as many opportunities. You get to meet people from all over the country, all over the world. And I think that that is something that I would never trade anything for. My name is Jillian Fields and I'm a senior from Dayton, Kentucky. Roll Time!


Hey everybody, welcome back to another edition of what I've been reading or manga first impressions. This time we got five different books. We're sort of combining everything into one big video here. So let's get started. Sword of the Demon Hunter Kijin Gintosho Volume 1. The story is by Motu Nakanishi and the art by Yu Satomi. This one's actually pretty interesting. I got excited when I read the plot description and the solicit when it was first revealed and I was eagerly anticipating it and I think it didn't disappoint. Obviously there's more to the story here. This volume follows the young samurai warrior called Jinta and he has dedicated his life to protecting this mountain village and he is best friends with the priestess. Now these two have a very loving relationship. They can't be together because of their obligations and roles in life, but the wholesomeness is pretty evident when they have some alone time and they can just relax and talk and you see the warmth and care that they have for each other. Could there be a romance brewing there? Maybe. There are some branches thrown in that path so we'll see how that story develops. But the biggest thing about this manga is that the solicit already spoils it so I'm not brewing anything for you guys. There is time travel involved. At the start of the book it begins in 2009 but then we go back in time 170 years with the same character. So yeah, the description talks about him finding this weird forest as he's trying to protect his village from an incoming assault from these demon characters and I guess the forest will lead into this magical time warp or something. We'll have to see. Once that happens in volume 1 we mostly get set ups of the village, the characters, the bad guys, standard stuff like that. Another thing to mention is the sister of the main character who is present here in the front cover. Their relationship is pretty unique. There is a secret to his sister and I did appreciate that it is also a very wholesome relationship happening and the village seems to be aware of the difference between the two characters. I don't make a fuss about it even though secretly it might bother some in this village. I think the biggest selling point for sort of the demon hunter has to be the art by Yu Satomi. I love that the character models are not as defined but when it matters it cranks it up to 11 and you get some really dynamic fluid scenes whether it's the character of Jinta swinging a sword or the demon character is just being on panel and just looking really menacing. Everything looks top notch. It has that loosey feel to it if that makes sense but overall the characters and backgrounds it's stylized enough that I really enjoyed and made it a fun experience to check out. I'm eagerly awaiting volume 2 which as of this video I did place an order for it so I should be getting it soon and I can continue my adventure with this series. So if you like a samurai story with monsters and a cool little twist with the whole possible time travel stuff then go ahead and pick up Sword of the Demon Hunter volume 1. Next one is level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero. This is a story and art by Tofu. I hope I said that right. In this one level 1 Demon Lord the Demon Lord of this fantasy earth has been slain and it's been like a decade of peace and tranquility. The world has advanced. It looks a lot more like our modern earth and at the start of the series the Demon Lord is unfortunately reborn but prematurely and he shows up as a young brat.  Now the Demon Lord was defeated by the main hero Max so now the Demon Lord wants to track him down after 10 long years to see how his biggest enemy is doing and to his surprise and everybody myself included the hero is not what anybody anticipated instead he is a shell of his former self sort of a has been a hero down on his luck out of a job in these times of peace and tranquility there's no room for a hero and his adventuring and all that stuff because there's no threats and unfortunately Max got into some hot scandals that sort of tarnished his reputation with the public eye so he's just laying low drinking a lot lazing about in his apartment building and not really doing much until the Demon Lord shows up they're both equally shocked for different reasons and essentially without going too much into the plot of the book as we'd be here all day it turns into this buddy adventures slash episodic series of these two polar opposite characters now forming a kind of a weird friendship of sorts of relationship the main hero is not someone you want to root for but he has that hebroxide to him so we know that he is going to get better as the series progresses or at least I like to think so there are a lot of jokes here that are a bit raunchy there's some not safe for work moment so I know it's not going to be for everybody but if you don't mind it obviously this is I would say this is a an older teen and up comedy series and you want that fantasy story and tropes aspect to it I think you'll be right at home with level one demon lord and one room hero that name doesn't roll off the tongue as smooth as you would like but the one cool thing that I wanted to mention is that I was initially intrigued by this book because of the art and in all honesty I don't think level one demon lord deserves the amazing art that tofu is giving it holy smokes this impressed the heck out of me it has very detailed character designs simplistic backgrounds that create a very sharp contrast with the highly detailed characters and when you get the cool reveals and splash pages I couldn't help but think that this book reminded me of more of the whimsical comedy manga series from the late 80s early 90s it had that vibe going for it and I was really digging it so yeah I'm definitely going to be checking out more of this series I did enjoy volume one if you're in the mood for a comedic slice of life fantasy series with some raunchy humor then you'll be right at home with level one demon lord and one room hero okay so for this next one we're going to talk about both books at the same time here tatsuki Fujimoto before chainsaw man we got the first one here 17 to 21 and the second one 22 to 26 that's a mouthful so essentially these are eight short stories created by tatsuki Fujimoto the mangaka of famous series such as fire punch and chainsaw man in these four stories we get small adventures that the creator made back when he was younger and just starting out as a mangaka the first book here has four stories a couple clucking chickens were still kicking in the schoolyard which is a really inventive twist on an alien invasion with a nice twist towards the end that I really loved sasaki stopped a bullet is a romantic comedy story about a kid with the insane ability to stop a bullet as he saves his teacher from being murdered by a gunman love is blind follows this wholesome dim-witted protagonist as he's trying to confess his love to his friend in the student council even when chaos and potential armageddon is happening around them uh shikaku follows the story of this young girl who is a really savage hitman and she now is involved with this spoiler vampire character that wants to die want somebody to kill him so it goes into crazy mode with hyper violence a lot of blood and just good old-fashioned action that if you're a fan of chainsaw man only fujimoto can provide the second book has four more stories the first one here is mermaid rhapsody which follows a young kid in a seaside town and lately we've been talking about mermaids a lot on this channel so I thought that was pretty wild in this short story we follow this kid like I mentioned his mom was a mermaid unfortunately she passed away and he sort of wants to explore the ocean and reconnect somehow with his deceased mother the next one is woke up as a girl syndrome this one is kind of wacky this couple is facing a dilemma when the guy suddenly wakes up the next day and finds out that he's been turned into a girl and now the couple has a decision to make are they gonna split up are they gonna look for an answer is he going to explore a way to turn back into a guy are they going to continue like this so obviously you know the metaphors are pretty on the nose but it's cool and I like that fujimoto takes these big swings with concepts like this and even though they might not be the most revolutionary they are a way to engage the audience and and talk about these things from a fantastical side if that makes sense to you guys now yuta of the prophecy which is one of the longest stories on this collection follows a young girl she is prophesized to be this demon girl that will bring about the apocalypse and the destruction of the world her only family is an older brother so he's doing everything possible to keep her safe while the world wants her dead and it's very dramatic and there's a lot of violent images because of my yuta and obviously she is a little bit different her speech and actions and she's very macabre in what she's doing there's a purpose to it as you find out towards the end I thought it was a pretty heartwarming scene and I like that fujimoto stated in this book that he considers an yuta to be his favorite character so hopefully we get more of that in the future I would like to read more about their adventures in another book possibly the final one is sisters which follows an unconventional little story of an older sister and a younger one and sort of their rivalry the younger one looks up to the older one and decides to make a fake nude portrait of the older one and it ends up wowing everybody at school and it wins a prize and it gets displayed so the older sister is now extremely angry and embarrassed so she's trying to get back at her and do the same thing and you know at that point it's full crazy fujimoto mode in my opinion I didn't really dig it but it was certainly unique I'll say that much I love short stories because you can tell like little story capsules and you don't have to explain the world or the world building I should say you don't have to go too in depth with the characters it's just a small moment in a character's life and what they're doing etc etc you can go all out and do crazy ideas with unexpected twists and endings without a huge commitment for fans I like that about short stories and with this you get that obviously some are misses but most are kind of hits in my opinion I would say my favorite stories would be mermaid nayuta and the first one with the chickens I'd like to see the progress of the art especially compared to the first one with the chickens and to the last one with sisters which more closely resembles what we've seen with chainsaw man so overall it's a nice little package if you're a fan of the mangaka I would suggest picking it up for your collection if not I don't think it's a must get unless you're in the mood for short wacky interesting stories and even then I wouldn't say you need to rush out and get this but if you're interested yeah go check it out tatsuki fujimoto before chainsaw man one and two here the final book that we're going to talk about is insomniacs after school by makoto ojiro this is a drama slice of life series about two characters that are suffering from insomnia now at this school there was a rumor that the astronomy club was haunted by several dark things that happened there so it was closed down and one of the characters whose name is magari she finds that it's a pretty sweet spot to just chill out and sleep the other character ganta nakami is the main lead and he is suffering from insomnia and other mental health issues and they're just tired they want peace and quiet and they can't get it at home so the two sort of by chance meet up at the astronomy club they don't really know each other that well they're in the same class but they don't really talk to each other and it comes off as a surprise but they quickly find common ground with their predicament and a relationship and friendship starts to form unfortunately they can't stay in the club as it is so the teachers suggest that they reactivate or reinstall the astronomy club and the two of them participate in it so it evolves from a slice of life potential romance into a school life series with nighttime photography and astronomy and all that wonderful stuff i really like this first volume i think it's pretty cool i love the artwork even though it's not the most complex thing there's a really nice craftsmanship here when you take a look at the details in the characters faces the aesthetic is very mid cartoonish if you will but there is some really nice details like i mentioned so that sort of contrast or dynamic between the two styles i thought was pretty nice and gave it a really distinct look it's a very fast-paced read this volume won't take you long to read and you'll be wanting to check out more fortunately volume two i think it's like two months away from me making this video and there's also the anime adaptation that's currently airing which i've also been enjoying so yeah highly recommended if you're in for some slice of life and potential romance i think this is a really fun series to try insomniacs after school do check it out i think it's worth your time in my opinion okay so that was sort of a supersized edition of what i've been reading first impressions video if you've read any of these stories let me know in the comment section down below but that is going to be it for now thank you everybody for liking commenting and being a part of the manga geekdom here on youtube truly do appreciate it you guys are the best god bless stay safe out there i will catch all of you on our next episode


Hello and welcome to the session. My name is Mansi and I'm going to help you with the following question. The question says, find the derivative of the following function that is secant x. Now we find out the derivative of this function by using the first principle. According to the first principle f dash x is equal to limit h approaching to 0 function at x plus h minus function at x divided by h. So let us start with the solution to this question. Here fx is equal to secant x and secant x can be written as 1 by cos x. So function at x plus h will be 1 upon cos of x plus h. Therefore from the first principle we can say that f dash x will be equal to limit h approaching to 0 function at x plus h minus function at x divided by h. This we have already seen. So we simply put in the values now limit h approaching to 0 1 upon cos of x plus h minus 1 upon cos x the whole divided by h. Now this can be written further as limit h approaching to 0 the numerator we will have cos x into cos of x plus h and here we will have cos x minus cos of x plus h the whole divided by h. This is equal to limit h approaching to 0 to sin x plus x plus h by 2 into sin x plus h minus x by 2 divided by h into cos x into cos of x plus h. This happens because there is an identity that cos a minus cos b is equal to 2 sin a plus b by 2 into sin a minus b by 2. This is sin b minus a divided by 2. So we get this. Now this can be further written as here we see that plus x gets cancelled with minus x. So we have limit h approaching to 0 to sin h by 2 into sin 2x plus h by 2 divided by h into cos x into cos x plus h. Now we can take this separately and this separately we get limit h approaching to 0 to sin h by 2 divided by h into sin x plus h by 2 divided by cos x into cos of x plus h. Now multiplying the numerator and denominator by 1 by 2 we get limit h approaching to 0. Now 1 by 2 multiplied in the numerator this gets cancelled with 2. We have sin h by 2 divided by h by 2 into sin x plus h by 2 divided by cos x into cos of x plus h. This is equal to now we know that limit h approaching to 0 sin h by 2 by h by 2 is equal to 1. So we have 1 into sin x because here also we have applied limit h approaching to 0. So we are left with sin x divided by cos x into cos x because h is 0. So this is same as tan x into secant x. So our answer to this question is secant x tan x. I hope that you understood the question and enjoyed the session. Have a good day.