The two pillars of religious humanism that we're going to be interacting with is humans are limited and religion is powerful. I'm going to begin with the humans are limited note. Our minds are cozy comfortable places to live. With our own thoughts for company we are always right. We have staggeringly powerful mechanisms to prevent us from self-correction. We have confirmation bias to help us find those sources that best agree with us and we have the backfire effect to protect us from those opposing views we can't manage to avoid. David McRainy points out that when someone tries to correct you tries to dilute your misconceptions it backfires and strengthens those misconceptions instead. Yay humans! Over time the backfire effect makes you less skeptical of those things that allow you to continue seeing your beliefs and attitudes as true and proper. Yes we humans can learn but mostly we want to learn that we don't need to learn after all. In our heads everyone agrees with us that is until we talk to them and anyone who disagrees with us well that's their problem. As in they must have a problem if they can't see how right we are.  It is our duty to correct them. We should get on Facebook and do just that and after every debate we can convince ourselves that we won. The best way to convince us the best ways to get around these limitations is priming and suggestion so we don't know that we're being persuaded. We need checks and balances fear and trembling and ironically what we are combating so heroically and diligently is our own misplaced comfort and misleading assurance. That is why we have methods and disciplines science and scholarship but even with our best efforts we still get it wrong. Feeding ego and following funding instead of rigorously and responsibly questing truth but it gets worse. If we humans are limited in the best of circumstances we are pretty much hopeless in most. Cognitive biases meet religion. The mind has probably never met a more powerful cultural force than religion. Can you think of any aspect of human culture that has convinced humans that it's not an aspect of human culture? Just think about that. Religious significance saturates human limitation. If we are religious nothing can possibly challenge that. Our kids will never leave surely. If we are non-religious the demise of religion is inevitable and imminent.  After all if we ourselves believe doesn't everyone and if we ourselves doubt doesn't everyone this is the false consensus effect or just general myopia and lack of consideration. So again my take home message is humans are limited religion is powerful religion is thus not going away so we might as well understand it harness its power and potential. And the Mormon Transhumanism Association pertinent question that ties this presentation into the others is the desperate question and that is how do we facilitate the continuation of civilization infrastructure until we can get to the singularity. Until we can get to that fundamental transformation. In other words we are in a race to the death between innovation and cataclysm. So as a corrective of the limitations that we are so prone to I am going to provide context. This is not coincidentally the very context that broke me out of my own Mormon mindset. I just rewrote Mormonism all through graduate school until I started teaching world religions and world religions gave me the whole puzzle and I saw how permeated by humanity religion was and I really love that puzzle and I've been enjoyed gauging with it. So past present religion. It's funny there's a comment I don't know if the commenters here and the Facebook group that this is a very negative view of religion but this is pro religion. If anything it's very sobering around humanity. So in the past religion scared us into cooperating and it worked. I'll unpack that. In the present religion sucks. I'll nuance that and saying it's actually an outdated cultural technology. The future is up in the air. As I said it is a race to the death between innovation and cataclysm. Well not a race to the death more a race back to the stone age without the fossil fuels to rebuild. I like the Edwards Deming quote it is not necessary to change survival is not mandatory. If we want to be highly uncomfortable we don't need to change anything we can continue. Okay how to make religion what are the ingredients of religion. So we have belief ritual community and transcendent reality. I've said before that religion is the interconnected system of beliefs and rituals in the context of community and reference with reference to transcendent reality. Beliefs there are explanations and myth taboos and morality and then ritual there are daily rituals that organize our days years lives rights of passage communal ritual. Religion requires community and again it has reference to a transcendent reality. Religion passed well why are we religious why is religion so pervasive ubiquitous in fact and then where did religion come from I'm going to be talking about some turning points tribal religion agricultural religion the axial age and then a conquering we go or conquering religions which are the monotheists ones. So why are we religious in the beginning there is not the happy helper god there were evil spirits and as best as we can tell I am building on the work of Pascal Boyer religion developed out of an a need to manage belief in evil spirits and this is how it worked there are type one faults positive and type two faults negative errors and this is why believing in evil spirits was evolutionarily advantageous and increased our chance to survive I'll explain. So a false positive if there's a rustling in the bush and you think it's a leopard or a wolf for the predator of the day and you're wrong you're just stressed you know you're going to be hyper worked up and anxious but that's a type one error you think there's a predator there's not you think there's an agent but there's not type two errors are where you don't think there's an agent and there is you're going to end up dead because the tiger wolf or whatever is going to eat you therefore the people who were more anxious and who over attributed an over assumed agency because like lightning can strike you trees can fall on you but the thing that can hunt you down and eat you is the most dangerous force in your environment well no the most dangerous force in your environment are other humans and so our brains needed to develop hyper agency detection devices which meant that we personify we over attribute the amount of agents in our environment and this is where animism comes from animism is the world view that believes everything has a spirit everything has feelings if you ask a toddler how things got someplace like leaves or boulders many times they will assume that someone put them there in the middle of the night you wake up what is the first thing you think not oh that box fell over it's who's there this is because we need to survive we need to protect ourselves and we need to protect ourselves from agents um but we also have social mirroring um when other humans approach us when other agents approach us it is essential to our survival well-being status the next you know a tinder date whether we can accurately read their intentions are they aggressive are they interested it's really important whether you know uh Daniel Dennett has you know he answered a question that i never even thought to ask he said where did religion evolve from and he proposed that religion is domesticated superstition so what happened was superstition required ritual to manage that superstition so individuals developed rituals whether they're spells dances or so forth to protect yourself against the evil spirits and this ritual became shared ritual so when a predator comes to the tribal camp everyone cooperates and gets together to protect the tribe from the predator but how often does that happen but when they're evil spirits they are always dangerous and so this shared ritual as protection against probably false dangers became a uniquely powerful cultural technology to facilitate cooperation identity and all sorts of other goods that religion provides religion also provided what i'm calling ritual health insurance this is the placebo effect if you believed in the rituals you had real beneficial outcomes because of the way that our physiology psychology and culture all have co-evolved and then as a bonus anyone who doesn't believe like you you kick them out and they die that's really great you know and so religion has this unique power to facilitate cooperation unity and again it helps if you kill everyone who disagrees with you but then this is kind of how it played out you have harvest festivals you have the the commemoration of death as agriculture dies you have the rebirth in the spring and you will see those organizations in pretty much all religions if you want to blow a shot well it works better with teenagers and above ask someone around Easter which it is right now what eggs and bunnies have to do with Jesus well their fertility symbols because the spring festival celebrates sex basically you know reproduction and the return of life and of course the resurrection of Jesus and Jesus coming back to life that works kind of but there is definitely dissonance there and then we have the axial age i propose that all current religious technologies are axial age technologies Mormonism is a very interesting fan fiction science fiction update of Christianity masonry and so forth and so it has a lot of robustness that traditional Christianity does not but we're all working with the basic structure of axial age technologies this is basically 700s to 300s BCE about it's really fascinating we don't really know why but during this couple centuries we have Confucianism Buddhism Taoism Zoroastrianism Judaism Greek philosophy there are all of these developments that transformed culture and then we have the religious conquerors that changed the entire face of world civilizations we have the Aryans that invaded the Indus Valley civilization Buddhists were conquering to a degree Zoroastrians that conquered nicely and then of course we have the Greek Romans and finally Christianity and Islam that led us into the monotheistic age well or at least monotheistic western civilization so this is what's shaped the past so religion present where are we who is religious where is religion increasing where is religion decreasing why are people religious uh and i'll again i'll talk about why religion sucks but no religion sucks harder and i really did debate whether i could say sucks harder in a conference like this we need to be aware and cautious of the fallacy of assuming that everyone agrees with us and as i as i have taught college i have definitely seen this seen this phenomenon young americans will discount the power of religion it's not that important to them unless it is again we just if if we're religious we think religion is going to be around forever if we're not religious we wonder why anyone possibly would be let's look at what actually is going on in the world right now yes the nuns and on yes the non-believing sure it's increasing but even in and there are secular countries socialism really helps it turns out if you take care of humans they don't need to rely on um magical helpers so much so who's religious around 85 plus percent of people in the world are still are still religious now this is where it gets i could go into this but in the interest of time i'll move forward the interesting thing is projected change in religion by 2050 you have to love pew the religious profile is going to change and it will the world will continue to be religious in 2050 yes it's possible that we could hit these tipping points and things could completely change in unanticipated ways again technology is the biggest question mark i personally think that once Manhattan floods will really start changing things um you know like oh there's there's a problem here how could we possibly address it and then i think like the Elysium model will happen where people with control over resources will create city states that may maintain that infrastructure but we still can't get avocados okay so with religious profile i do think that civilization globalization interconnection it's really fragile right now and the next decades are going to determine the degree of well-being and civilization that we're able to maintain so this is what's going to happen by 2050 at least the number of muslims so again islam is the fastest growing religion as i've been thinking about how to address religion how to redirect religion that's my goal with religious humanism i have to ask myself what can compete with islam that's kind of my my target um atheists agnostics and other people who do not affiliate with any religion though increasing in countries such as united states and france will make up a declining share of the world's population that that should be sobering um for a lot of us global buddhist population will be about the same as presently hindu and jewish populations will be larger muslims will make up 10 of the overall population in europe india will retain a hindu majority but will have the largest muslim population of any country in the world surpassing indonesia in the united states christians will decline for more than three quarters of the population to two-thirds in 2050 Judaism will no longer be the largest non-christian religion and muslims will be more numerous in the in the us than jewish and four out of every 10 christians in the world will live in sub-saharan africa so things are shifting in really important ways but religion as long as there is a foreseeable future as in we have the current civilization structure religion is roughly going to stay the way it is what time the do i have how many more minutes right does anyone have a time count i think two minutes at least but maybe more great okay um there we go i'll i'll wrap up why are people religious and this is the religion sucks no religion sucks harder when it comes to individual and collective well-being psychological and social goods religion outperforms secularism that's it um i live by the buckminster fuller quote that in order to effect change don't attack existing systems create an alternative that outperforms the existing system um so we've talked about perma before positive emotions engagement relationships meaning achievement collective well-being motivation cooperation productivity stability um let's think about a wellness report card uh fundamentalism progressivism and secularism basically fundamentalism if you fit in the box it works very well for you it makes you feel good it gives you a very strong sense of meaning um if i can have a bit of salty language liberals have really good idea conservatives get shit done and usually conservatives get distressing things done like things that are distressing to the liberals but again we have to take seriously the power that fundamentalist conservative social structures have i propose and i think this is why the mta is so robust it's interesting like why other religious and you know transhumanist groups haven't succeeded as much but i think that progressive movements have to piggyback on and cooperate with current religious structures it's very telling that during the um pride parade for example mormons building bridges where there's a very ambivalent relationship in the lgbtq community it's still the biggest and so with for all its shortcomings mormons building bridges has a force and a horsepower and a sustainability that other smaller groups didn't i think atheists of utah have like 10 people um so awareness motivation and change i'll wrap up in just a minute um this is something i i'm applying to be a humanist chaplain and i was really amused as i was applying to be a humanist chaplain because this isn't this is just a thought exercise not really representative because i can't make the circles that as small as they would need to be to actually be accurate so we have the people who are aware of what humanism is i don't know 20 percent it's again these these circles are too big as they are people who care what humanism is which is way smaller the people who care what humanism are secular humanists um and then the people who are engaged in humanism are secular humanists but they're tiny it's easy to be a passive secular humanist and then the humanists who are open to be a religion i mean open to religion we're dealing with a tiny tiny group and the humanists who are open to religion who want to invest in religion and i'm going to be their chaplain anyway to quote arrested development there are dozens of us so the future of religion again to finish up i think that current religions will continue to move full steam ahead and as civilization and current infrastructure gets more fragile these axial age religions will get only stronger because it especially islam you know people will lean on what is familiar what they know the future of near religions by near religions i mean things like popular culture sports the military government uh advertising uh consumerism these are not really great alternatives you know we have secularized badly they will get more and more and more of the resources you don't come up with new saints you have football saints that's basically how it works the future of future religions that depends on us but again i think that one area where the mta is really succeeding is progressive movements including innovative creative new religions are disproportionately ethical disproportionately impactful so for the dozens and dozens of us you know we do a lot of good but we're never going to get that critical mass we're never going to get that tipping point we're never going to be able to compete with the existing religion until we can get them on our team and come up with something better thank you


Hi guys, it's Monica. I am going to, I guess you could call this a, what's in my trash type of a video, but you know what, I never have like a ton of trash. So when I like watch other ladies that do their trash videos, they like these big pretty buckets actually, but they get these buckets full of stuff. I never get that way. So I have a few things to share with you. So I like to call it the best of my trash in a little bit of a chitty chat and some things that are going on, I guess. So today is actually St. Patrick's Day and Jay and I have been sick ever since we came home. We came home from Texas and we started to feel poorly. We had my mom's birthday party and it was the following day, that Monday, that we really started to feel bad. And then by Tuesday, Wednesday, we were down for the count. We both still had to work. I had to teach classes, but we've been dragging all week. And today, I feel pretty decent today, although I'm still very foggy and things of that nature, but we've been taking decongestants and trying to decongest tense and trying to clear our brains and function a little bit better. So I thought I would just share with you a couple of things that are in my trash and I'm gonna start with hair care because many of you know I've been on a quest for hair. Now I don't know if there's going to be a tried and true hair regrowth method for anyone or something that's gonna work for everyone, but I've tried a number of different things. And one of the things that I've tried, I believe, I think it was Laura for Makeup Shake Up. I'm not too sure, I'll have to look it up, but this I believe in ELF, ELF Living. I think both of them have used this and have really raved about this product. So I've been using this for quite a while now. This is empty and this is my replacement, my second bottle of it. I also use the conditioner and I also use the serum. So have I noticed a tremendous amount of difference? Yeah, I know. My hair feels good, it feels healthy. I'm not seeing the massive fallout in the drain. I do think sometimes that my hair, my hairdresser says my hair feels thicker, looks thicker. She's seeing a little bit of regrowth, but nothing major, nothing like everyone else has been really talking about. So I have been using this in the conditioner and the serum. The serum I use twice a day, I'm all done. I've gone through several bottles of the serum. This is the one I'm just starting now, but I've gone through several bottles of this because I use this twice a day. So I also dermarole my scalp. I dermarole my scalp one night a week. That's about what the average is. And then I will put this on after dermaroleing as well. I think if anything, the serum is going to make the difference. So I like this enough. I've noticed enough of a difference in my hair to rebuy it, to rebuy it. And that to me is huge.  This is gonna really work. I'm sticking with this because it has worked. The other thing I've just replaced is, and this takes me, it took me a long time to empty this guy out, but mainly because I'm not really hung up on facial cleansers because I figure whatever you put on your skin, if it feels good, if it has decent ingredients, and then it's only on there for a moment.  So it never stays on a long time. It's taken me a long time to go through this because I buy all sorts of different things in TJ Maxx. I see something that sounds interesting, that I like, I try it. So, yeah, but I like this enough that I replaced it with the whole brand new bottle. This works really good for me, for my skin.  I don't, but this is the hydrating facial cleanser for normal to dry skin. And that's really what I need. I have more dry skin than anything. The other thing that I finally finished, and I already have my replacement, I actually won my replacement. So finally finished, this is the second bottle of this that I've gone through. Since I've been turned on to this from Natalie the Beauty Diva, and this is the body-married glycolic acid. I love washing my face with this and have bought this twice. This one I won in a giveaway from a life with Lily, Sheila's channel, and she sent it to me, so I was absolutely thrilled because I knew this was a product that I used, have repurchased and really like. The other thing that I finally finished was my rosehip seed oil. Now, I've been using rosehip seed oil for a while, but I've also been using the, I wanted to finish the organic, the ones that I bought, and I finally finished this completely. And I have also tried the rosehip seed oil from the ordinary, and I really like this, but I wanted to finish this out before I really tackled this completely. So what I do is I use rosehip seed oil on my neck and down into my decolletage area, the neck area, the chest area. I usually put a dropper on the palm of my hands and I mix it with my weakest retina, my 0.2, 0.25, and I mix it all up. And yes, rosehip seed oil is vitamin A, as is retinae, but I mix it all up and I just put it all the way down to my neck, to my chest area. And I do this every single night. So I really like rosehip seed oil or cacay oil. So whichever one you like, think about putting it on your neck. You don't have to mix it with retinae. Just because I do it, it doesn't mean it's gonna work for you, but that's what I do. So I replaced it, I have it, I like it. The other thing I finally ran out of is my Metrixyl Sync 6 Serum from Timeless. And I knew I was running low. So when they had their 50% off, I bought the big bottle of it. I am not going to buy the Metrixyl 3000 anymore. I'm just gonna stick to the Metrixyl Sync 6. I really, really like this. I think it works well for my skin. I'm not gonna bother with the other, any of the others.  My two Timelesses, my Vitamin C plus C, plus Ferulic Acid, and my Metrixyl. And of course my Hyaluronic Acid. So that's what I, you know what I have. And the other thing that I've finally almost done, to the point where I had to go and buy my replacement. This is my Boots number seven, Lift and Luminate. I bought the replacement in wheat color. I opened up the wrong way. I bought my replacement in the wheat color because this is a perfect color match, man, never would have figured that. But it's a perfect color match for me. And summer and all of that, I think is coming. Although with a two feet of snow outside, who knows, you know? But, so I bought this as a replacement. I do all winter and I fall. I have mixed it with a lighter shade to lighten it up for the off season. But I know it's getting low, so I wanted to replace it. So I got my replacement. The other thing that I wanted to mention that was not in my trash, but about a month ago, I had finished up doing the Lash Tonic. I tossed it. But I had done a collaboration, a comparison collaboration with Carol from The O'Carroll Show. And one of the things that I noticed in that, that when we're using the Lash Tonic, I wasn't seeing any growth. I wasn't seeing any, you know, quick, they say in two weeks you're gonna notice this and that. So I didn't see any of that. So I've been using this product called Blink, which you will remember if you watch that video, I'll link that video. This was sent to me. I am a care post user. I've used my care post. I love my care post. Care post is the wonders of my lashes. I thought that I would give it a break when I ran out of care post and I tried Lash Tonic. Lash Tonic was an epic fail. About that same time, I got contacted by this company called Blink.  And without an obligation, I said, sure. So I've tried it. So it has been almost five weeks, still early. But I can honestly tell you that in that five week period, I have noticed that, I mean, normally I have like these rogue lashes that shoot up and I have to trim them. I've actually trimmed my eyelashes before I even started my Lash Tonic. But what I've noticed is that all the shorter lashes are all growing long. And the other thing that I've noticed is that when I take my mascara off, which you're not gonna see by the way, but when I take my mascara off, I think my eyelashes are slightly darker. Now my very blonde eyelashes, very blonde eyelashes, I think they're slightly darker. So, so far, five weeks into this, this is reacting to me just like I believe a care post would have. And so I think they're the same type of ingredients. You can check it out, I'll link the website. But I'm really pleased with the response of with how my eyelashes have been responding to this. I think that's pretty cool. So I'm gonna continue on with this. I'm gonna take some pictures, close up pictures of my eyes and do a full report. But a lot of you have asked how it's going and I just wanna tell you I'm really pleased with it so far. The other thing I wanted to mention, as many of you know, we went to Texas and I will tell you, Texas was amazing. I was really surprised. Now we only went to San Antonio. We did the Riverwalk.  I was really surprised at how clean the city was. It was, the Riverwalk was immaculate. And even the streets, the city streets that we walked on in that area, they were all really clean. I'm sure there were areas that were probably not, but we didn't see any like graffiti, any garbage hanging around, anything like that. I was like really amazed at the condition of the city. And one night we went to a rodeo. I know, Texas, a rodeo. Many of you probably have done rodeos and you know all about it, but I've never been to a real life rodeo.  I can't remember the name of the band, but I'll link it. And it's a country band. And so I was like really super excited about seeing cowboys in real life, I guess. But in the rodeo, there were these front row seats and we thought, wow, cool, we can sit front row, we'll get really good views, blah, blah, blah. Well, little did we know that, yeah, you could just about pat the romp of the horse going by, not the cowboy, but of the horse going by, that close. But little did we know or expect that when they really got going, they were gonna shoot up stuff from the ground. And so I got sprinkled. And so I swear, I was sniffing it. I think it was mixed with, you know what? So my rodeo experience at front row seats was not the best. And the other thing that really cracked me up, every time we went on an Uber ride or we talked to anyone, they all remarked on my accent. And everyone pegged me as a Yankee from up north, you know, and from Boston and all that stuff. And I thought that was really hysterical because, oops, I don't hear the accent. I think they all had an accent. So, yeah, people talked a little slower. They walked a little slower. Life seemed to be a little bit more calmer, but, and they all thought I had an accent. Hey, it was a fun trip. I didn't like getting horse dung sprouted at me. Pretty sure it was dung mixed into that. And they really have mixed feelings about the rodeo in general, but I'll save that for another time. But it was just, it was just a really, really fun trip. Now, if Jay and I can get healthy, I'll tell you, getting sick, I think we probably caught someone's germs on the airplane ride, that's what I think. But hey, guys, thanks so much. Again, I apologize for my best of my trash being such a small amount, but I just don't go through a lot of products, I guess. So that's it, guys, thanks so much. Please like the video, leave me a comment. And if you haven't subscribed, please subscribe to the channel. I truly appreciate it. Oh, and you can also share me around. That wouldn't be a bad idea if you share me to Twitter or to anything of that nature. I would really, really like that a lot. Bye, guys.


Effective January 27th, the cost of sending packages and letters through all fleet mail centers and U.S. post offices will increase worldwide, along with adding new services. The Naval Station Road to Fleet Mail Center leading petty officer highlights one of the benefits for customers. Now mailers can use either customs decorations for them, mailing material to or from APOs, FPO's, or DPO's locations. It's going to provide greater flexibility to the mailer. While prices are increasing, Gutierrez says there's no need for alarm because changes like these are usually for the benefit of the mailer. It's just something that U.S.P.S., whenever they decide they want to increase their prices and offer more services, it's not going to affect negatively us over here in Rota. The previous price increase happened last year, though these changes are not annual. Petty Officer Talonboric wrote it a Spain.


An actress has won a pregnancy discrimination case after being dropped by a minor role in a TV adaptation of one of JK Rowland's criminal novels. Antonia Kinley appeared in the 2018 adaptation of Carrier of Evil and had expected to return in the follow-up, but her role was recast after she became pregnant because producers feared audience would be confused if a character had a visible baby bomb. An employment tribunal had upheld her claim and awarded an £11,000 payout. Brunfilm and TV, the production company behind the BBC TV adaptations of Rowland's Camoran strike novels, claimed it would have cost £25,000 to digitally remove Ms Kinley's baby bomb from the footage, but the tribunal judges said it would have been possible to conceal Ms Kinley's pregnancy through the use of costume, camera angle, props, the positioning of other actors and make-ups, if appropriate.


Ladies and gentlemen, the national anthems of the Netherlands and the United States of America. Nancy and I take great pleasure in welcoming Her Majesty Queen Beatrix and His Royal Highness Prince Klaus of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This visit couldn't take place at a more appropriate moment. Today marks the 200th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between our countries. We're delighted that you honor us with your visit, Your Majesty, the visit that coincides with this historic occasion. The bonds between our two peoples represent the longest, unbroken, peaceful relationship that we have had with any other nation. When we were seeking our independence 200 years ago, your country was one of the first to which our forefathers turned. At that time, the Netherlands was a bastion of freedom and tolerance on the European continent, having fought its own long and costly war for independence. John Adams, who later was to become our second president, was dispatched to your country and reported, the origin of the two republics are so much alike that the history of one seems but a transcript from that of the other. This parallel course did not end with the birth of our republic. Throughout the years, the Dutch and the Americans were the world's quintessential free traders, men and women of enterprise and commerce traversing the world in pursuit of peaceful trade. Today, we recognize not only the 200th anniversary of our relations, but also the lasting imprint your country has made on America. Your Majesty, who can forget that New York was first New Amsterdam? Later Dutch families helped settle the frontier and investors from the Netherlands played an indispensable role in producing the American economic miracle. Even today, our citizens build upon this heritage, remaining a major source of foreign investment capital for each other, interacting peacefully and constructively in mutually beneficial commerce. Few nations have had the goodwill that is the hallmark of the relations between the United States and the Netherlands. Our shared values extend beyond the commercial vigor that built our standard of living, that developed in both our countries, a respect for the rights of the individual, a recognition of human dignity more valuable than wealth generated by commerce, industry, and a desire for peace more powerful than a tyrant's threat. In only a few places on this planet do people enjoy the treasures of liberty and tranquility. Those who do must be ever mindful of the cost of such well-being. If totalitarian nations are permitted to achieve military superiority, liberty and peace will depend only on the goodwill of tyrants. The American people, the people of the Netherlands, Your Majesty, traditionally have been advocates of peace. Today, our challenge lies not only in a desire for peace or in its advocacy, but in accepting the responsibility to do that which is necessary to maintain peace. It is an arduous task, often a thankless one. In 1942, Queen Wilhelmina came to Washington and spoke to a joint meeting of our Congress. She said, democracy is our most precious heritage. We cannot breathe in the sullen atmosphere of despotic rule. Your Majesty, as we stood and heard the cannons welcome you a moment ago, I couldn't help but think back to the early years of our fledgling republic. In 1776, shortly after we declared our independence, a tiny American fighting ship sailed into the Dutch port of St. Eustatius in the windward islands of the Caribbean. Our new nation's flag flying proudly on the mast. No powerful government had yet recognized us, but the cannons of the Dutch fort bellowed out the first foreign salute to the American flag flown by a naval vessel. Today, we return the honor. We've been side by side for 200 years. Such friendship is appreciated here. Your Majesty, welcome to the United States. Mr. President and Mrs. Reagan, my husband and I thank you for your warm welcome.  In a certain sense, we can regard our visit as a milestone on a journey that started some 200 years ago, the end of which is not yet in sight. Many Dutch people have also taken part in this journey to the new world. Hundreds of thousands have come to this great country to settle and build up a new future. Others have come to seal the bonds of friendship. My grandmother did so in 1942 when our countries were joining hands to preserve freedom for the world and human dignity for mankind. In 1952, my mother came here to pay tribute to what the United States had done for us during the Second World War and in the subsequent period of reconstruction. Now, as we jointly celebrate 200 years of uninterrupted diplomatic relations, we pause to reflect on the support our peoples have given each other since the very beginnings of this great and proud nation, both in times of danger and in times of joy. We have looked forward to this official visit, which we realize will be altogether too short to cover such a vast area as the United States of America. We welcome the opportunity to become better acquainted with the American people later this year, when my husband and I will be touring in an official visit to mark the bicentennial and celebrate, again, our very good relations. You, Mr. President, have officially proclaimed the 19th of April as Dutch American Friendship Day. It marks the beginnings of our state visit today, a promising beginning, and an appropriate moment to dwell on the value of our lasting friendship, of the very good ties between the United States and the Netherlands in the past, in the present and in the future. Thank you.


So people, I am back with another Outriders video and today guys, I bring you this great method in building up those anomaly builds with this crazy scaling glitch, thanks to a certain mod that stacks when it shouldn't. It will make certain anomaly builds so much better and so much more effective, so let's get into it. How's it going guys? My name's DPJ and if you enjoyed the video, leaving a like really helps out and if you'd like to see more Outriders on a daily basis be sure to subscribe. So firstly, credit for this find goes to Tony Untap who hit me up showcasing this glitch. You'll also see some of his footage within today's video so credit to Tony Untap for this find, his channel if you'd like to go check him out and show him some love is linked in the video description. So this method is pretty crazy, it works in a way that shouldn't and to be honest is probably somewhere down the line going to get patched, but for now you are free to use and experiment with this. Now believe it or not, I still haven't really experimented with a pyromancer yet or to be honest a technomancer or even a devastating but the footage you see on screen now thanks to Tony Untap you see gets his pyromancer's anomaly power upwards of 400k using middle tree by the way. I myself have tried this on my trickster and I'm certain I can get it over 500k maybe even close to 600k if I take full advantage of it. So how this works is pretty simple, there are certain mud you can use which buff anomaly power. Here we stack up to 5 of that one mud and use another mud at the same time to buff it further. So the first mud you want to be using is no resistance against the 45, what this does is increases your resistance piercing by 50% of your armor piercing value. So let me explain why this is important and why it's beneficial to have as much armor piercing as you possibly can on your build, because basically the way the other mud stacks the more armor piercing the more anomaly power you get and this is why. There's also another mud called unstoppable force increases your anomaly power by 50% of your resistance piercing. So with no resistance against a 45 buff in your resistance based on armor piercing, combined two muds and in reality your armor piercing will in turn buff anomaly power. So here is the trick, the unstoppable force mud actually stacks. So depending on how many pieces of the armor you have this mud on, for each mud you gain increased anomaly power based on 50% of your resistance piercing and your resistance piercing is increased by 50% of your armor piercing value thanks to the no resistance against a 45 mud. And yeah guys these muds do indeed stack with each other and to prove this although I don't feel I need to because you will see for yourselves how high anomaly power goes but either way if I switch out the exact same piece of boots which have unstoppable force on if I take this off you will witness my anomaly power drop. Now with the way I have this setup on my trickster you can in reality go way higher in terms of anomaly power by finding a piece of epic armor which has unstoppable force on it as it's default mud then apply no resistance against a 45 to it that way you can be rocking five times the unstoppable force mud which will make that anomaly power even crazier. I right now on my trickster have the unstoppable force mud stacked four times same as Tony on taps on his pyro. So now is the question of what can you do to buff your armor piercing as like I said the more you have the more anomaly power you will end up having. Now what I will state is armor piercing on weapons I do feel has an effect on this as if you see changing to a weapon without it my anomaly power does indeed drop.  Now in terms of what you can do to use skill trees to buff armor piercing mud is quite a few muds here. On my trickster there are many armor piercing nodes problem is if you're going to use anomaly you want to go bottom three so these armor piercing nodes don't really help but there are many different nodes here which do indeed help when paired with abilities which will both both armor piercing and resistance piercing in turn buffing anomaly power or damage. These are obviously what you can see here also I have a build centered around this which I'm working on which will bring to you guys pretty soon. I'm certain I can get closer to that 600k anomaly damage on it with my trickster. Under parallel months there are nodes you can use to benefit this for sure and the same with the other classes I'm certain too. So yeah guys this is something you want to experiment with or have an anomaly build you want to make more powerful use this method. I will state you don't have to stack unstoppable force five times or even four times you can stack it three times or even twice and you'll still see a buff to that anomaly power because using it five times you're obviously taken away from your classes or your builds damage resistance basically it's defenses so yes using five times the unstoppable force mud yes you will get insane anomaly power but unless you're lucky with your rolls and have great defensive muds on them you have to play it super smart in the later stages of the expeditions i.e. challenge year 13 14 and 15 but me right now on my trickster rocking four of these unstoppable force muds i can easily get through a 15 because my anomaly power is just that much better but yes a build will come soon for my trickster and what i'm using right now but yes guys experiment with this like i said the unstoppable force mud does indeed stack with itself when you use the no resistance against the 45 and because like i said the no resistance against the 45 increases your resistance piercing by 50% of your armor piercing value the higher the armor piercing you can get the more resistance piercing you will get and thanks to the stacked muds of unstoppable force this increases your anomaly power by 50% of your resistance piercing so it's just one big stack towards that anomaly power and what this has resulted in now is basically as i made a cyclone build an anomaly cyclone build about two weeks back now i am with this method getting closer to triple my anomaly power because of this stacked mud so it definitely works guys experiment with it i'm not sure how long it will be here so take advantage of it while you can and i hope it helps you out i'll leave you with a little bit of gameplay footage now of the damage numbers i am hitting and this is without venus's knife i could add venus's knife to this and double my temporal blades damage if i wanted to i mean there's a lot of work around you can do and like i said i will explain this in the build video as soon as it's finished and you'll find out here on my channel so subscribe if you're new around here and enjoy outrider's videos i mean there's not many of us still posting about this game because a lot of people are thinking it's dying but i ain't giving up just quite yet i do believe people come from i've got something up their sleeves but we will see in the near future guys but yes if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out if you're new around here want to see more outriders on a daily basis be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video upload can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button but guys thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully and we'll see you on that next one


Join me in a series of live webinars where I'll dive into each section of my new book and highlight some of the most important points. On January 25th, 2024, I'll cover Part 1, Slowing 11 Pathways of Aging. On February 2nd, I'll cover Part 2, the Optimal Anti-Aging Regimen. On February 9th, Part 3, Preserving Function, covering everything from bones through vision. And on February 16th, Part 4, Dr. Gregor's Anti-Aging 8, I'm not to age in such a big book that I'll have to move pretty fast in the webinar. So, I encourage you to read the sections ahead of time and come with your questions at the ready.


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Something about me, I have no idea I don't know if you have seen it or not I don't know It matters that I don't know anything I just ask the topic that I'm always thinking about Why does React Canvas Understand the rendering process that happens behind the browser While I concentrate on something On your page How to optimize your scrolling performance Going to the React Canvas Pulted by the keys If you want to implement Canvas to the React And this will make you achieve That vision on the way So you say, it's nothing but a Jack So Jack is very clever If you're a softwareless That means you experience this When there's a motion on the screen Like when you're scrolling But browser is your normal So the Jack is basically Jack For example, it's basically created To be of interest So whenever the user interacts with your page And the land gene experiences A lot of words, a lot of good Jack Which will occur to you By the land force of the user Because this will work But I need my practice So each device Your pressure will see 60 and a half seconds more So the browser needs to master the device This device is refresh rate That is, it has to come up with When you create a new lecture For each of those impressions So if you calculate It's up to 30 seconds by 60 Which is roughly as 60 But browser internally has to go a lot more So that's really the only thing That you can do in a sentence To render a particular page on each of those Now, when the browser pays to do that That is when you experience the Jack That is when you experience that Jack So in this example, it's not as important It's not the same So you're going to understand That work is very expensive So the browser actually follows the series of steps In order for you to see something That has to go through all these steps So there are basically four steps The first one is the mathematics So in this step, the browser basically determines All the CSS rules The CSS rules apply for each element That is something for the category Once it's done for the category It moves on to the layout phase So the layout phase of the browser Is the professional dimension of Each of the elements of the category That means you see something on the screen You know During the page phase, it only adds color And it paints a concrete layer But these layers are not here That means you cannot see anything on the screen To see everything happens in the Commodal phase that is when the browser Actually follows it And not vice-versa But I mean by that If suppose you're calling your CSS Rule for style So there's four steps It has to follow through the layout And then come to the stage All of these levels So technically the browser Has to go like this Obviously It has to go like this It means less work Means more of the magic So why do you think That this is a rolling issue You know all the problems When you are doing today You are not required to do it Because what is the problem Or what is the problem A user has to scroll through this A user has to scroll through Now can see the layout Can see So it has to be smooth Now even the users are very good They can see the difference You are not able to deliver it So I said the layout But what can keep the mind Trying to find something First thing is You have to avoid it's persistence So we know this You know As the main developer We use all the styles and you know And then in both the versions You say okay Something is not working This thing is not working This thing is slow You should avoid it's persistence So let me give you a example From layout So when you actually Pivot top and left Topically on a particular element The browser acts to the whole layout To give you the correct answer So it has to go to the layout It has to paint It has to fill in the questions And then finally it renders it Such is something that For this minus 100% You can use it Using the transform property The transform property Only if there is a component there It pays to win So let me say What? Defaults and rebates Consider the offset top property So let me give you an element It gives us rebates And if by chance You want to change properties Of some other element Then it causes rebates So it creates a vicious cycle Of rebates, rebates, rebates So the browser's actually stuck You won't realize that when you put But when you actually see behind the scenes The browser's stuck With rebates and rebates So you should see the rebates And rebates to meanwhile One way to show How it works Very much as you can use Because animation paint Is debauching a scroll This is one of the major things Which I think you should keep in mind Generally there are ways On how to scroll an animation Which is Which used to work But now it came out Because When you do that Your view How this can actually go User is scrolling the page So the visual aspect Really not necessarily Is the same with the scroll You can What we're going to instead Is debauching a scroll You can just keep Making scroll position and variable And then Apply what you actually Want to do base on animation So that means the browser Doesn't have to Reveal everything in animation This is very good But it's actually Because of these They make how we optimize scrolls So why should we do canvas? 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Many eras in life result from an inability to sit still long enough to read what God has written. A man whose life was notoriously cluttered and confused asks that this epitaph be etched on his tombstone, organized at last. If you sometimes have trouble planning ahead for challenging situations, you may find Moses' example in today's reading very helpful. He greatly served Israel by giving the people clear directions and anticipation of a number of difficult situations. What can you learn from him? Take the matter of potentially sinful situations. Perhaps you have a child with disciplinary problems or a boss or fellow employee who irritates you. Why not think of a biblical, God-honoring response you can make the next time that situation arises? Make three columns on a sheet of paper and write down, one, the anticipated situation, two, your natural response, and three, your prayerful, intended response. Keep that sheet handy and with God's help, plan ahead to glorify him in the midst of a difficult situation.


So many people try to build a business in the opposite way that I would recommend. They try to clarify their message first, they try to build an amazing looking website, they try to figure out their niche, and then after spending months doing that or sometimes years and sometimes thousands of dollars, then they come to me and go, George, I have this great looking website, I have great written content, now I need you to make my stuff sell. I'm like, okay, but how do you know your stuff will sell? If you haven't yet been in touch with the audience and the market to know what they're buying. So my recommendation to all of you is to build an audience first, and then after you have an audience, you then figure out your niche, and then figure out your message, and then figure out your branding, and then create your website, but build an audience first, because you can simply show up just as who you are on Instagram, on YouTube, on Facebook, or whatever tool you like to use. You can simply show up today to talk about whatever you want to talk about. Today you might want to talk about puppies, tomorrow you might want to talk about the environment, tomorrow the next day you might want to talk about nutrition, the next day you might want to talk about relationships. You can actually build an audience who just likes you to talk about whatever you like to talk about. Wouldn't that be great? Yes, you can do that. That's called a personal brand. You may have heard of that before.  And that is also the most secure and fulfilling business going forward into the future. Because in the future, you know what? More and more artificial intelligence and automation is going to take all of our work, all of our jobs. Anything that human beings can do right now, robots will be able to do tirelessly in the future, and many of them can do it now. A lot of jobs are being lost now. But the most secure work in the future will be for those who have an audience.  If you have the attention of people who like you for just who you are, then you can find out what they're buying, basically where they are spending their money, and then you can create your version of whatever they're spending their money on, or you can get someone else, some other company to sell whatever it is that your people are spending their money on, and you'll be able to make money forever that way if you have an audience. And the best kind of audience is not where you have to pretend and show up, and you have to work so hard to be something you're not. The best kind of audience is where you show up, just whatever you typically wear. I wear this all day long, okay? Whatever you typically wear, however you typically talk to people, when you're interested in something, when you're talking to somebody about something you're interested in, how do you show up? How do you talk? Maybe you don't talk like me, maybe you talk very slowly, and you'll have an audience for that, those kinds of people who like to hear people talk slowly.  Build an audience of people who like just who you are, and then you will always have a secure business. I hope this is encouraging for you. Step one, don't build a website, don't clarify your niche, don't figure out your message, don't figure out your product, don't figure anything out. Step one is to show up authentically and consistently, and thereby build an audience of people who just like who you are. I hope this is helpful, and I wish you consistency and authenticity. And until the next video, wish you well. Take care.


Good afternoon from Las Vegas, Lisa Martin, not the Cosmopolitan. Here on day two of the CUBE's coverage of CUPA Inspire 2022, I'm excited to be joined by one of CUPA's many successful customers. Jaime Robles joins me, the Chief Procurement Officer at KC's General Storage. You're going to be talking about building a technology hub with source to pay and interconnecting ecosystem platforms. Welcome Jaime. Thank you Lisa, it's a pleasure to be here today and this week hearing about CUPA and all the fabulous things that we can do around technology. CUPA is amazing in terms of their innovation, I don't know if you had a chance to see the keynote this morning, but the slides of that Raja show with just the arrow going up and to the right. Talk to us a little bit about KC's General Storage. This is the US's fourth largest convenience store retailer, but just for the audience who may not know, give us a background. So just a little bit about KC. So KC's is, as you said, one of the largest convenience store chains out there. We've got more than 2,500 locations in 16 states in the Midwest in the US and just out of curiosity, we are the fifth largest pizza company as well. Is that right? We make a great pizza and our guests love it. So we are in two business, we are in a convenience store, we are in fuel and also we are in the food business because we got a kitchen in the inside every single store that we got out there. So for us has been a fabulous journey with procurement because we came to the company, joined the company two years ago in the middle of pandemic and the whole idea was to build the procurement function from the ground up. KC's didn't have a formal procurement function. So pretty much all the spend was done by the functions, by themselves, but no formal process, no technology, no platforms, nothing, very old school.  A procurement tech house, so talk to me. And so I know that KC's goes jades back to 1959 and what you described sounds like a lot of paper-based manual processes, technology really wasn't in the mix. Is that what attracted you to take the role going? I want to bring technology and build this powerhouse. Yes, that was amazing. So over my career I've been doing this for several companies, such as in the past, in Philips, GE, and recently with Walmart. And then what attracted me for this opportunity was, well, everything is paper, everything is manual. There's nothing digital in this company. There's no team, there's no sourcing, no process, no policies. It's like building everything from the ground up. So it was very attractive. It's huge opportunities for the company and we were going through this massive transformation to digitize the company all across the operations. So procurement wasn't the core of those strategies for the CEO of the company. And that's what the opportunity lies. It was like, how do we move from manual transactions to all this digital world and where now everything is frictionless that we move from 80%, 85% that it was all manual. Now we are plus 65%, everything is digital now in the company and just within one year of moving all over. So the savings, the cost, the leakage, all the waste on the processes that we have is just amazing after one year. Sounds like the company had a cloud of digitization strategy brought you on board to help make that a reality for procurement. So the appetite was there at Casey's from a cultural perspective, it wasn't like battling uphill to get folks to go, let go of the paper, let's go to Kuba. That's total, that's the truth. So it was the whole digital transformation for the company, not only on the procurement, span side, but all the processes in the company. So as COVID hit or stores and the whole world, right? So we have to move into more digital ordering, into more digital transaction, into more how my guests can interact with my stores without going to the stores, how they can order from the app, how they can get their food directly to their house and all the stuff. And procurement was right there hand to hand as part of those strategies from the very beginning. And we were, I would say very lucky to be on time to make all those digital transformations for the company. So when the COVID really hit, we were ready and prepared to take over. That's good, being ready and prepared, oh my gosh. Some of the few people I've talked to. Talk to me about the core technology requirements that you had for the right BSM solution and why Kuba ticked all those boxes. Yeah, so for us it was one of the most important ones is, as I said, bring the digital across the whole source to pay. Another big element for us it was how do we bring transparency into the process? How do we bring transparency on how much we pay? How do we spend our money? Which areas, which categories? How do we build a model in cases that I call is a self-service model? And this self-service model is, I put the technology in its core, which is Kuba, and I give my users and my internal stakeholders all the power to take those decisions. So now they can see how much they spend in different categories with different suppliers for the preferred vendors. What type of contracts do we have? And how do we manage that spend versus their budgets as well? They have all that ability to take those decisions and they don't need a procurement team. As I like to call in my, a couple speaker notes during this week, we like to make procurement invisible. We are in the back, they don't see us and they got all the power to use the technology out there to do the job for us. Transparent but empowered at the same time. Exactly, exactly. That's what we want moving forward for this company and I believe that is the vision that we got in the procurement 2.0. Procurement 2.0, talk to me about some of the solutions that you implemented. You talked about source to pay, but give us kind of an idea if you double click on that and then we'll kind of unpack what you talked about on your sessions. Yeah, pretty much for Coupa, we implemented the whole source to pay. So from sourcing, procurement, invoicing and payment. So we implement all that at the core of the Coupa. I believe in an ecosystem of procurement technologies that are interconnected with Coupa to interact for other needs like counter-life cycle management, tailspin management, TNE, and some others that we're going after like now for us is going after supplier data hop, which for us is very important also to get it right. And that procurement ecosystem of different technologies connected is going to give us the ability to move faster, to be more lean and to have better data and technology accessible for the team that is in charge of procurement to operate under that environment. You mentioned a few minutes ago that when the pandemic hit, Casey's was ready from a digital perspective. I imagine that was a huge advantage going into such unknown times that we're still kind of in. Well, when I said ready, it's like we were ready to go and we were in the flying, implementing everything. And what the pandemic did is to accelerate all this. So as many companies did, we were already in the process of going this direction. And when the pandemic start hitting, we accelerate everything and we made it happen. So we went live in three, four months and a year later, we were completely live since we joined the company and we were starting all this pain coming towards. So 18 months later, we are pretty much hitting best in class levels in terms of transactional, operational, tactical, savings, visibility, span, transparency, risk management. Now we're going to take it to the next level on the maturity. It's like, how do we go for ESG? How do we go for, you know, supply diversity? How do we manage risk management, right? And all those things. Right. You had a couple of presentations here at Inspire. Talk to me about those and some of the top takeaways that the audience gleaned from you. Yeah, one of the most important ones yesterday was about how to build a procurement organization from the ground up or how to go through a digital transformation in procurement. That is something that has been on the topic on procurement community for years now. Everybody talks about procurement transformation, et cetera. And I just showed to them a journey in the companies that I've been doing this for the last two decades across the world in many different countries and the things that work and the things that doesn't work really and how they need to build for the future of procurement, a technology procurement house on the core. And that's how you operate it today. Yeah, and for us, our decision was Coupa. And then on top of that, you need to build a procurement ops model, right? How you want to operate your procurement operating model. So it's centralized, decentralized, a hybrid model. And it all depends about the type of company, the type of industry you are, how mature is your organization, et cetera. And another big, big piece element in all your strategy is how you're going to serve your customers, right? What type of service model do you have in place? If you're going to be like full service mode, or you're going to be in a strategic direction, or you're going to be a self-service mode. And pretty much what we have chosen as the best way to move forward in the future is, let's put the technology in the middle. Let's give the support our users need, but let them be self-service. And let's make our job invisible in the back where we have all these sourcing events, all these beautiful negotiations, all these great deals, contracts, et cetera. So by the time they use the technology, they know where to buy, how to buy, what's the right level, how to make it happen. And they don't need us, they can do it by their own. And they've got that visibility that before it sounds like they didn't have it at all. Exactly, so now we know how much we spend, where do we spend it, where are the opportunities, where are some gaps that we can go after as well. And I think one of the most important aspects in these transformations that many of my colleagues are going through is, then you have a model that you can repeat year over year and evolve with the company. So it's agile and it's flexible because companies keep evolving.  And how that model is going to shape around. So by the time you're done, it's not obsolete. So technology is going to keep evolving with your model. And that for me is the key part. Do you feel like this is a marketing term future proof? And it always is one of those things that, well what does that actually really mean? Do you feel though that what you've put in place is future proof that it's going to be able to grow and scale as the company changes? Totally, totally because as I said before, we put the technology on the core. And for us, having that technology on the core and plugging different technologies around that and sourcing around that with an amazing sourcing team is going to evolve whatever the company needs. If we expand into different regions, we're ready. If we expand into different business types, we're ready. I believe what we need to keep evolving as well is there will be new emerging technologies. There's going to be way more AI. There's going to be way more machine learning. It's going to be more predictive analytics sourcing stuff. How do we keep pulling those technologies into our platforms to keep giving us that advantage and that edge to the market? I think we have the model and I think this is one of the most advanced procurement functions that I've seen in the industries around.  Yeah, we are disruptors by nature. We love change, we love speed and that is, I will say my procurement brand. We make it happen and we make it fast. That's how we do it. We keep momentum. That's incredibly important. I mean, one of the things that we've learned many things the last two years is that access to real-time data, a couple things, access to real-time data is no longer a nice to have. It's absolutely business critical. The patience of many people, including myself, was quite thin the last two years. But also, every company has to be a data company. Keysies has to be a data company. If I have the ability to order from my app or order things, I want them to know what I'm here for, what I ordered before, make my visit personalized, efficient, easy. So that data strategy, having that data at the core is nowadays you have to have it. It is essential. We're building a data hub for the company completely showing us all that information as you can imagine being in those three business on the food industry, on the retail convenience store and in the fuel. So data for us is our living breath every single day. And not only having the data now is like what type of decisions we're taking with all this data and how fast we are adapting to all that in pricing and cost and margin and availability and inventory and logistics and transportation and your whole supply chain. So that is extremely important for us. Not only having the data, but what kind of decisions we're taking with the data and everything starts with the transparency, right?  You should be able to act. But to your point, you have to have that visibility. You have to be able to see it and act on it. Talk to me about what it's like being a Koopa customer. I know how I've been to many inspires and I always love seeing all the customer success stories everywhere across industries. What's it like being a Koopa customer in terms of having the ability to influence, say the roadmap? Is that something that you're able to work on in partnership with Raj's team? Yeah, that's great. So Koopa has been a great company to work with and I know them for some years now. And not only they've been able to support or vision of what we're trying to build, but at the same time they're taking many of our feedback to make Koopa better in many of the different models. Listen, Koopa's not perfect, right? So I don't think any tool out there is going to be perfect. But being in so many different industries and with so many opportunities in different areas, they've been able to take our feedback and make those improvements for ourselves. We have so many conversations with the Koopa product development team when we were going through the transformation asking them for things that we thought it was very valuable to have in the tool that it was in our eyes, no brainer. And they were very fast to react and make the change. And we are, I think, one of the most lousy customers, guilty as charged about that, but we just wanted to make it better because it's in benefit of the whole community. Everything that we've been talking this week about community AI, it's amazing. All the things that we're sharing during this week, all the ideas that we are getting about things that we can do, that's amazing. That's the value. It's huge value and that's that sort of flywheel of the community and the power and the insights. Last question for you. You talk to peers or when you talk to peers who are maybe starting their procurement digitization journey, what advice do you give them? Don't take a no as an answer. Make it happen. Own it, own it. I think you need to have a vision, you need to put a strategy in place, you need to build a business case, you need to earn your seat at the table at the C suite, but you need to own it. You can let the IT function, finance community to own and decide how you want to operate and how you want to move your function as procurement or build, how you operate. You need to own it and you need to build a business case and you need to make it happen. You need to, yeah, to struggle with that, but if you're a hustler as we are in cases, we are disruptors and if you don't disrupt, it's not going to happen. I completely agree. Own it, make it happen. Jaime, great to have you on the program. Thanks so much. Thanks for sharing what Casey's is doing, how you're really leading the charge and how you owned it and made it happen. That's awesome. Thank you, Lisa. Thank you for being here. Thanks. For Jaime Robles, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE's coverage day two, Coupa Inspire 22 from Las Vegas. Join me with my next guest coming up shortly.


Hey everybody, this is Brian. Welcome to the 22nd C-Sharp tutorial. Once again we're going to make a Windows Form application and let's move this down today. We've already learned the button object. So let's just throw a button on there and what we're going to learn next is called the text box. Now you notice how it has these in the tool box here. Sorry, let's back up. It says all Windows Forms. You can collapse these little panes here. So you can get into various things. What we're going to really be discussing first are in the common controls. They're called common controls because they're pretty common to pretty much all Windows applications. Let's actually throw a label on here and let's throw a text box in here too. Today really what we're going to be covering is the text box. Now as you move controls around, you notice how you can click, drag, and select and move them around. You can select others and as you move you see that blue line that just appeared. You notice how it turns pink. That pink means it's aligned. So if you're not sure about your alignment, you're moving this button around, you're like, I really want to hit that text box. You can see how it aligns it.  Just play around with those a little bit. See how you like, now if you try to center vertically, that's what it does. And that's what it does. So vertical horizontal. Pretty simple. I'm just going to move these back up here and let's resize our form a little bit. Now let's actually just tick this button. We're going to copy and paste that on there. Yes, you can copy and paste objects. We're just going to play around a little bit here. Let's just make something really goofy. Oops, if you're wondering why I changed the floor, I got my gaming mouse hooked up. Sorry about that. I'll say set time and get time. Time is, I'm just kind of whipping through here. If you're wondering what a label is, a label is just quite literally a control that displays text. You can do other neat things with a label, but it's beyond the scope of this tutorial. Really what we want to do with this is just display the text time is. Then we've got our text box. And there's a thing called Windows Design Patterns. You notice how it looks much, much better if it's like that. So when you're designing an application try to adhere to the Windows Design Patterns. In other words, don't put a button on top of your text box or put a button above it or something like that. Look at applications you've used and you've loved and try to design them.  Copy them. Just design them in a similar pattern. You notice how there's menus, toolbars, there's status bar, things like that. It's called a Windows Design Pattern. Anyways, getting way ahead of myself here. Let's just select time and...or I'm sorry, the form and we'll just say time demo. That's in the text property of form one in case you're wondering. Notice how it changes the title. And we're just going to play around with this form just for a few minutes here. And we're going to say minimize box, false. Maximize box, false. You notice how they disappear here. Now when we...actually let's do the startup position. Make it easy on us. Center screen. Save this. Run it. And there is our beautiful little form. Now you notice that min and max buttons are gone but we can still resize the form. Let's fix that problem real quick here. Scroll up. And what we're looking for here is form border style. Instead of sizable, we want fixed single. And there's other things like fixed dialogue size, bull, etc, etc, kind of play around with these. Like there's fixed 3D, fixed dialogue, etc, etc. I just want fixed single just for the sake of argument here. Now when we run this, notice how you can't resize it anymore. You can still move it around. No min and max button. We change the title. Alright. Now what we want to do is we want to change the properties of this text box. So let's say set text. Or we're set time. Sorry, what we're going to say. Text box 1. Text. Equal. Date time. Now. Two string. We're just getting this system date time and we're setting it into the text box. So when we click set time, it's just going to put the date and time here. And we should probably actually expand this out because it's going to be fairly long. And get time. We're just going to display message box, we're going to say. So text box 1. And let's just set time. And there is the current system date time. And if we press get time, it shows a message box, which is just the contents of the text box itself. I mean this could be anything like, dear kitty please don't bite my feet ouch while I am recording. Yes, the kitten has been under my desk recording my feet the whole tutorial. Dear kitty, please don't bite my feet while I'm recording. So that's how a text box works. I'm sure you've seen these before so we're not going to spend a ton of time on here.  Wow. This cat ignores me until I start recording and then he just loves my feet. Anyways, sorry. Text box you can enter things into it and you can get the contents from it. Pretty simple. Pretty easy. Very complex control, so not a very complex tutorial. Thank you for watching. I hope you found this educational and entertaining.


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Alright what is happening guys so today I'm just kind of running some errands doing a little bit of thrift shopping actually because my friend Nicole is wanting to do some thrift shopping so I'm gonna go pick her up right now should be an exciting day hopefully a good vlog because I have not been making good vlogs in a while. Thrift shopping was kind of an L and Nicole didn't get what she wanted but I got some really good clothes today like this cat's cold jacket it's like seven bucks so we got is some denim stuff we're gonna try and paint a little arts and crafts day what's going in I think I should just drop you off at home so right now we're doing some arts and crafts Nicole's got the brush EIY made this myself it's so eco-friendly alright today we're back in downtown Dallas with the squad Julia we're gonna be doing a little bit of photo shooting just getting some flicks it's cute all right so we're at the bar first location now heading to another location


Learn welcome to the International Daily Roundup with People's Dispatch where we bring you some of the top stories from across the globe. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Protests continue across Haiti against the US back regime of criminal moist. Ecuadorian Electoral Council announces partial recount on the run-off elections, uncertain to. US Senate equits Donald Trump on incitement of insurrection charge in impeachment trial. Protests in Bahrain to commemorate 10th anniversary of Arab Spring. Protests against the regime of de facto President Havana and moist are continuing across Haiti, thousands gathered in the capital of Port-au-Prince on Sunday under the banner of the March Against Dictatorship. Haitians are demanding that moist step down and transfer power to a transitional government in accordance with the Constitution. The US back moist has been ruling by decree since 2020 after suspending parliamentary elections. He has also set up a committee to draft a new constitution which will reportedly be put to a referendum next month. Though his term was supposed to end on February 7th, 2021, he has refused to step down until 2022. Protests are gathered at the airport crossroads in the Del Mar's commune and marched onto road 60, which returned to the capital. It was here that the Haitian National Police forces attacked protesters with tear gas. Officers also fired live ammunition into the crowd, leading to at least two injuries and one death. Journalists covering the march were also attacked with rubber bullets causing three to be injured. Meanwhile, opposition parties have agreed on the plan to appoint a transitional government for a two-year period. This is following a declaration on February 8th that moist's term had ended according to Article 134, Section 2 of the Constitution. The opposition has also appointed Supreme Court Judge Joseph Messini Jean-Louis to serve as interim president. The National Electoral Council of Ecuador has announced a partial recount of the votes cast in the February 7th presidential elections. The council made the announcement on Saturday amid continuing uncertainty regarding who will be the second candidate in addition to Andrea Rao's another round of elections on April 11th. The recount will take place following requests from second place contenders Jacopérez and Valermo Lasso. However, Lasso later issued a statement on February 14th, partially retracting the terms of his request. Reports from tells the state that Lasso from the right-wing Triando Opportunidades Movement and Social Christian Party Alliance received 19.66% of the votes as per recent partial counts. Jacopérez from the Indigenous Pachacutic Party received 19.61% of the votes, placing him in the technical tie with Lasso for second place. Both candidates held a meeting with the magistrates of the Electoral Council and election observers from the Organization of American States as a result of the agreement signed in the meeting, a partial recount will take place in 17 out of the 24 provinces in Ecuador. 100% of the votes in Gaias province and 50% of the votes in the other 16 provinces will be recounted. Lasso has now issued a statement saying that he will support a full recount in Gaias and a partial recount in six other provinces if there is a consensus among candidates. Progressive candidate Andrea Araus from the Union of Hope Alliance emerged the leading candidate in the first round securing 32.06% of the votes. The US Senate has acquitted from President Donald Trump on the charge of incitement to insurrection. Seven Republicans joined the Democrats to vote to convict the majority of 57 to 43 votes on February 13th. However, they felt 10 votes short of the two-thirds majority necessary for a conviction. This is the second time Trump has been acquitted by the Senate after being impeached by the House of Representatives. The central argument presented by Trump's defense team was that the impeachment charge and subsequent trial were unconstitutional. They argued that a foreign president could not be put on trial for impeachment. This was echoed by a majority of the Republican party which had voted that a trial was unconstitutional on February 9th. However, Democrats, along with six Republicans, had defeated that vote with the 56 to 44 majority. The Democrats had argued that Trump must be held accountable for the actions he committed in office. The focus was on the January 6th riot in the US Capitol building and Trump's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud. His defense team argued that Trump was exercising his First Amendment rights to free speech, meanwhile several Trump supporters who participated in the Capitol riot have admitted to law enforcement that they were broadly following his call. While Trump has been acquitted by the Senate, he will now face an investigation in the state of Georgia over an attempt to overturn the election results. This follows a phone call between Trump and Georgia state election officials in January. Trump was heard threatening and pressurizing officials to decarbonize electoral votes to swing the election in his favor. For a final story, we go to Bahrain where several protests were held to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring, a uprising of 2011. Protesters gathered on February 13 and 14 to demand the removal of the ruling al-Khalifa dynasty and for the establishment of democracy. The al-Khalifa dynasty has been accused of stifling political dissent and persecuting citizens on the basis of sectarian differences. A majority of the people in Bahrain belong to the sheer sect of Islam, whereas the ruling dynasty belongs to the Sunni sect. widespread protests for democracy in Bahrain had started in 2011, following similar uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, the way which is known now as the Arab Spring. However, the Bahraini state suppressed the protests by deploying armed forces from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies. The regime has since then led a sustained crackdown on all forms of dissent, including the imprisonment of pro-democracy human rights activists. The Bahraini state is also a close ally of the US and hosts its fifth fleet. The state also signed the US-mediated Abraham-A-Cords normalizing relations with Israel. This has spurred the increase in civil interposition to the regime that demands for democratic reforms to continue to grow. 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