Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel! For today's video, I knew I couldn't leave my review alone. I wanted to do a part two of the Pat McGrath and Bridgerton collection because I used the entire collection in the traditional way that it's supposed to be used. But I was feeling so inspired by the products that I just wanted to use them in a little bit more of an unconventional way to create a different style of look. Here's the look right now. You can see how it turned out. So you'll see I utilized some of the highlights on the eyes. I utilized some of the eye shadows as blushes. I really wanted to see the versatility in this collection, create a different look for you guys than what I did. But if you missed it, I did do a full review on this collection. I will link it down below for you guys if you're interested in seeing that. The look in that video was also stunning if I do say so myself. But without further ado, let's get to playing, shall we? So I'm sitting here editing this and I'm like, the looks look the same. Both looks that I did kind of look the same. But the techniques and the products I used are different. I used them in different ways. If anything, this was a way for me to test out using the products in different ways and seeing how versatile they are in that way. But color story wise, it's not that versatile apparently or I'm uncreative. But anyways, it's still worth watching. I promise you. We play around with the products in different ways on different places. So for the look, I wanted to do something a little bit more icy. I wanted the blue to be all over my eyelid. So let me show you. I just wish there was like a matte baby blue in this palette or a navy. One or the two or both. But I'm committed to staying within these colors. So I'm going to start off with a fluffy Alomar cosmetics brush and we're going into this shade right here. And I don't really care too much about this shade. I just want a little pinky haze because I think it will be pretty because I want to use this as a blush as well. So I do think it will be pretty just for cohesion purposes to have this kind of as that transition shade. So I don't need it to be too prominent or anything in the look, but I'm just going to blend it out. You can blend it out pretty far if you want. But this shade doesn't give like a ton of color. So it's great just for a really simple wash with a BK beauty 202. We're going into this shade. This is such a pretty matte. It's quite plummy. And I'm going to start off by focusing this in the outer corner. And I'm going to use the tip of this brush. This is why I like this brush because you can get a little bit more precise than you think. I'm going to use those windshield wiper motions and I'm going to blend it in the crease and then blend the eyeshadow out just like this. I'm also going to take that along my lower lash line as well. I love that this shade is a little bit more cool. Next up I'm going to take my Pat McGrath Labs Intensifies Artistry Wand. So this is essentially like a mixing medium, but you can use a glitter glue, whatever you have, you don't need to have this. But I am putting it all over my lid because I want the lid colors to be nice and bright. This is the part that I've been waiting for. I've been wanting to use this shadow for this purpose. So this is actually the highlight. This is the Divine Glow Highlighter in the shade Incandescent Gold. And this just to me, it's screaming to be used on the eyelids. I'm going to use a denser brush. This is an Esum W21. And I am just going to place this literally all over the lid. Now when you pack it onto the lid, you'll see it's quite gold. There's a strong gold shift. But how pretty is this all over the lid? And then also while we're at it, just sneak it into the inner corner because this will work as our highlight today. Just like that. You can even leave the look here. I think it's so pretty, but Pat didn't add a blue for no reason. And I want to place the blue over top. So the reason why I chose to use this as a base for the blue is because the blue is more of a lid topper anyways. So I wanted an icy underlayer to keep everything feeling brighter in this eye. So next I'm going in with my finger and we're going into Regency Blue, which is that glittery blue that I talked about. You can see how it has more of a sheer base. And I'm just going to pop this right on top. I just think that this is so pretty layered on top. And having that icy base just kind of awakens the eye and keeps the look nice and bright. I feel like though it's experimentation time. So I'm going to actually wet my brush. I just put that blitz shade on my brush and we might as well just go in with it. So I normally don't apply my shadows wet, but this particular video, I just wanted to see the true capacity of this palette. So that's what we're going to do. And you can see if you wet it, it is even more blue. So essentially the stick I used helped the white stick be more vibrant. And then the wet brush going to help the blue be more vibrant. I'm also taking some of the blue and I'm running it along the inner half of my lower lash line right on top of the matte shade. These two also layer really good on top of each other.  Because I think those two would be pretty layered on top of one another as well. And then just to finish up the eyes, going back into that matte shade. And I'm just going to redefine the outer corner. So I'm definitely going to use some of Celeste from Gucci, which is a light baby blue pastel eyeliner in my water line. And then I'm going to keep everything else pretty light. And then we'll be back for the cheeks. Alright, so here's the look with liner and lashes. So special trick. Like I said, I used the Gucci Celeste liner in the water line. It's like a baby blue. And then I actually used a navy liner. And like I said, this palette needed a navy. I just think the navy liner looks so good. So this is the Colourpop liquid liner in CRZY. Crazy. And it's really cute. I also just did a little inner corner wing to make my eyes look a little bit more elongated. And then I have, I don't know, Yasqueen lashes by Lily Lashes. I don't think you can get these anymore. But love the eye look. But I did want to move into the cheeks. And one of the things I've been looking most forward to trying was using these two baked gelay formulas from the Bridgerton palette. Yeah, these just seem like blushes to me. They're very, very sheer on the eyelid as you saw in the beginning. And I've just been envisioning seeing how these work on the cheek. So I'm going to use a refer number four brush. And we're going to start off with the lighter one. I'm trying to stay away from the blitz astral shade. Let's see how that goes. But I have it coated on my brush. And I'm going to focus it towards the back of my cheek. And I'd even argue that this is prettier on the cheek than it is on the eyes. She did originally say, I don't know if you remember this, but it's an eye and face palette. So of course I've been imagining using this as a blush. And honestly, I prefer using this shade in this fashion. You know, if you didn't want to get the blush palette in this collection, like you can absolutely use this because this is a similar shade to the pinks here. This is from the collection.  So this is from the blush palette. This is the lighter of the pink shades in the eye palette. This is the darker. They're different, but nonetheless, like you're getting a pink look on your cheek with both of these. So this is just with a little bit of that lighter pink. How pretty is that? And do you see what I mean? Why I wanted the pink to pop through? Because now it's blending in seamlessly with the blush. And I just want to try the darker one just for fun. I mean, I think this is better probably. If you have a more rich skin tone than me, I'm going to focus that towards the back. So this one is a little bit too pink for me, a little bit too bright. I prefer the lighter one. But this is literally like a Bake Gelay blush. This darker shade though, I am having a little bit of a harder time blending. So be very, very careful with that. It's doable there as I expected. I'm really happy about that. Now for highlight, we're going to kind of do what we did on the eyes, but with our cheeks. So we're starting off with the incandescent gold highlight. This is beautiful. Now the other highlight, Extreme Gold 002. As much as I wanted to incorporate it into this look, it just is too gold. You know, I wanted the look to lean a little bit more pinky and icy. So you can leave the highlight here. I think that this is so stunning. This is such a pretty ice queen winter type of look. But we're going to amp it up. I'm going to see how this looks. I'm not sure, but I'm going to use the Blitz Astral shade Regency Blue. And this is going to get glitters on your face. So if you don't want glitters, don't do this. I'm just going to put it right on top. And yeah, it does add a little bit of iciness to the look. And I think it really completes the look if you're into this kind of makeup. Because like I said, there's some glitter on my cheeks now. But I think just because of what we have going on the eyelid, it totally passed. I wouldn't put on too much. Starting to look a little frostbite with that second layer. So be careful. But just a hint of that blue, I think is super duper pretty. This is what I've been envisioning. And I still have other looks that I can see myself creating with this collection. But I've been wanting to do something more icy and blue, honestly. I almost would take away the pink next time and just have the blue all over the lid and forget the pink. I think that would be pretty too, but I did just want to use it again. For lips, I'm just going to use Pat McGrath Labs Lip Liner in Buff. It's just a pinky shade. And let's just fill in the lips. Whatever pinky shade you have, this is honestly a little bit peachier than I wanted it to be. But okay, I have two lip glosses that would go perfect with the look. If you want to stick true to the theme, Astral Moonflower.  But I also have Gold Allure, which looks like a lip gloss version of the highlight. But let's see how Astral... Wow. This is fun. This is a little bit more out of my comfort zone. It almost looks purple against this lip liner. How fun. And then I'm going to actually top it off with a little bit of Gold Allure. I love Pat's glosses. They're the best. How fun. I love that. Alright, let me get myself together and I will be back to show you the final look. Alright guys, so we have completed the look. I really love this one. I think it's very, very pretty. Again, I mean, I feel like the colors in this collection are limited, but at the same time, there are so many different ways that I want to utilize and layer the colors that we got. But this one is a fun one. I definitely wanted to do one with the blue all over the eyelid to be the star here. And I am very, very happy with how it turned out. So let me know your thoughts down below. Did you pick up this collection? Have you been having fun creating looks? As always, I hope you guys enjoyed this video. I found that helpful. If you aren't subscribed to my channel already, I would love it if you would consider taking the time to do so. And I will see you guys in the next one. Bye guys. Have a good one.


So, it's April of 2019 and I wanted to make a updated, concise list of the software that runs my company, Lauren Systems. And I made this list because there's a lot of questions from old videos. I was running something else back then, so this is what I'm running now. Now, my plan is actually going to be if we make any major changes to make an updated video. And this will be my response video because when I can, I'll reply with the video link when people just ask that question. This comes up in the forums and comes up, of course, in the contact form. What software do you run for this, for that? And I just want to send the list because I never reply and just satisfy that person. They want to know what else you run for this. Now I also don't understand other companies who are secretive about it. If you run the same software as me, that does not mean you do the same things as me. Or even if a competitor is seeing my software list, I don't think I have some competitive advantage based on the software choices I made. The effectiveness is in the execution of using said software to run your business effectively. So I made a list and we're going to start with how the video got to you. So the first software is Kaden Live, Audacity, and GIMP. There's over 700 videos on my YouTube channel here and those are the tools used for the majority of them. I think Kaden Live, I edited probably over 700 of the videos with. I still like it. They're always updating that software. Now of course that's not exactly core to the business. It's core to the YouTube channel. It's not necessarily an IT business but I thought I'd mention it that I'd use an open source editing workflow and you can find a video on that. I'll leave a link below. Now let's talk about the server stack, the server rack in the back and things like that. Now this isn't things not run in digital ocean. I will throw out there that we have servers spun up in digital ocean. We have other stuff we manage for clients and other platforms but stuff that we have is in digital ocean such as our forums. The forums run on discourse which is open, runs inside of a docker image. I mentioned that before if you look for my discourse video but if you're on the forums that is an open source platform there. XCPNG is the core of what runs our stack here in our server case. Now this is run on a pair of servers in a pool as they call a resource pool so there is the ability to just swap the VMs back and forth between each other and model the VMs I'm going to mention the ones that we host internally are all run on XCPNG. Now I did previous videos on Citrix on server and someone had asked me about that if we run Citrix anymore. We moved everything including clients or all moved off of Citrix and over to XCPNG. I think I have one or two left that we need to migrate over which we have some plans in place to do because the XCPNG platform I really do feel superior. I didn't take down any of my Citrix videos because they're still relevant. They're still accurate to the how XCPNG works. You just replace where the download link comes from because Citrix made some really poor choices in my opinion on licensing and the way they handle things. Now where are all those VMs stored besides running on those servers? They do have some local storage on those servers and I've done some videos about this in depth about how our lab and our rack is set up but FreeNAS is what handles some of the backend storage. Now I run both FreeNAS 11.2 and 11.1. We have two FreeNAS servers. One backs up to the other. I keep an older one for clients and consulting jobs we do where people ask me things and a lot of times it seems like some of the consulting is with the older ones. So having a system running the older legacy version is helpful because if I have to test something because a lot of this is very important in a lab environment to me because we get clients, can I do this or can I do that having the same tools here in our office both in our rack and even more of them sitting behind me. We do a lot of lab testing experiments and learning to make sure we do this and I even set my employees on task. This is how they learn. They'll take some of the lab things and spin it up in either in our main stack of server environment or back here to make sure they understand our product or a detail out a specialized project where a client has an unusual request. Now PF Sense, you can run or virtualize. That question comes up. I do not though. My preference is running it on hardware especially even at home now they're really still smaller boxes. I really like those work wonderful. But PF Sense on hardware to me just feels better because that way if I'm ever troubleshooting something going on or have to restart the stack, I don't have to wait for the internet to come back. Of course, you could go HA and then there's less worry about it. But I just like it being a separate piece of hardware. That's my preference. There's no little gotchas when you run it in solid hardware. I know it does effectively run in other places, but this is my preference.  I run it as hardware. Ubuntu Pop OS on the desktop. So Ubuntu based distributions for desktop slash workstations work really well. I switched to Ubuntu around 2008 or 2009 and got rid of Windows 7. I want to say I went full time in about 2012 where I absolutely didn't use Windows at all anymore. So now I have seven plus years of running nothing but that. As my desktop I do and you may have seen videos like I did with SolarWinds 1 where you see it inside of Windows. I run VirtualBox and that's how I run my Windows 10, which is licensed. That's how Windows 10 works for me if I need to use it. And it's not very often, but there are certain tools that may only require Windows. So we don't really run any Windows. We have no Windows servers in the building, but we run Ubuntu desktops. And I have run other desktop software before. But I kind of like the Ubuntu based ones. I see Ubuntu based in because I'm specifically running PopoS. I like the polished PopoS puts on things. So it's been happy for me. It's been very, very stable, very easy to manage. And I like it. Debian servers. I really like Debian for a server operating system. Did I ever used to use Red Hat? Yeah, I started with Red Hat actually in the 90s. That's when my Linux admin days started was around 1999, 1998. I was dabbling with it. And then I was an AIX admin in the Unix world. But then I moved over to Debian around 2002, so I'm 17 years of using it. So I'm familiar with the environment. I'm comfortable with that environment. So that's what we base most of our servers on. I like it. It's lightweight. It's predictable. I like apt-get, update all the things. It works really well. And most of the servers that we run, that we spin things up on in XEP and JR, mostly based on Debian as well. Now FreePBX is gonna be an exception to Debian because we get the Sangoma spin of it. I know Asterix will run in Debian, but I like the whole Sangoma package, which is mostly open source, but it has some modules on there that are paid for if you want those, but you can download the open source version of it. I'm really happy. That's what makes your phones ring. And it's been a great system. Chris from Crosstalk, I have a video we co-opted. He's the one that helped me set some of that up. I'm not, I like FreePBX. I can manage it, but I'm not a go-to expert in all things FreePBX. But yeah, definitely watch Chris's channel. He's got a lot of great tutorials on setting it up. Xabix, running in Debian, Xabix, I've done a video on, that's how we monitor our infrastructure. No, that's not how we monitor Windows infrastructure for clients. I'm using SolarWinds for that, but Xabix is a great tool for infrastructure monitoring. I say monitoring, because some people say, does it do this or does it do, it's made for monitoring. Yes, you can add some more features to it, but it does keep an eye on all of our servers for us so I can have a dashboard and see how all of my infrastructure internal and external is doing. So that works really well. Security, OSAC, I know I'm not gonna do a video on OSAC, maybe I'll do a video on Wazoo because we're looking at moving to Wazoo. OSAC is very difficult. I had a friend help me set some of that up and it's a little bit challenging. I get it, it's hard to setting up, it's really effective for security. Sometimes it's so effective, it stopped me from doing things, but I was actually happy it did. I was trying to edit a table and it thought me as a threat. And it's really interesting to dig into a little bit if you haven't read about OSAC and Wazoo, they're really cool. They are effective at stopping attacks to an extent, all security's best effort, but I will say they're a pretty good product out there if you wanna check it out. I may do some videos on Wazoo if we do do a full migration to it. Wazoo's pretty cool. It's like a fork of OSAC but making it a little bit easier to manage. MediaWiki, we're still running. I have some videos on MediaWiki. I really like it, it's a great tool. It does our documentation management. It's very locked down, it has 2FA on it. It's only accessible internally across the VPN inside of our network and only a handful of people have access to it because it's a documentation management but I've done videos on this. It's still a great product for managing it. It's easier than a lot of the other ones I've tried but yes, it still has a learning curve. Yes, knowing some markup language and how Wikipedia works is helpful. But once you kind of templateize it, it makes it easy and effective to be able to find documentation, keep up with documentation, manage all the config files we have across many, many clients when we do updates. Now, money-wise, there's two tools we use. We have KMI Money, which is how I manage the bank accounts. We have several bank accounts and I use a QIF file, if you're not familiar, it's a standard for interchange, quick and interchange format. Maybe I don't know what the acronym stands for. I know most banks offer it as a download and we bring that into KMI Money and that's how we do our accounting based on actuals. I've got a video on that. It's hard to do a good tutorial on that because dumping all my financials and all the details out to the internet seems like a bad idea and a real security risk because if you knew exactly how much certain amounts where you'd be able to call a bank and et cetera, et cetera and try to pretend to be me. So it's hard to do videos on it but that is what we're using for ledger management. So our general ledger, profit and loss, monthly statements. I have an outside accounting firm that audits and checks all this against bank statements because IRS is a headache here in the US. You use best to avoid them and best to pay an accountant to do it right. But invoicing we do with invoice ninja. Invoice ninja has some ledger features but we don't use any of them. We just use it for invoicing and quoting and it works great for that keeping track of who owes us money, how much they owe us and sending out invoices fast and effectively I've got a handful of videos on it. I love it as a product, it's really great. It's actually really well written. I'm really happy with all the updates and all the features it's added from the time we started using it to a year later and we've got right now like 22 or 23,000 invoices in it. So we've used it like a lot and it's still a great product. These are a couple of proprietary pieces of software. Yes, I know there's mail servers out there. Someone's going to link about 10 different open source mail servers out there. The problem with mail servers is getting mail out just seem to go into spam systems a lot. I ran a mail server for years. I was a mail server admin for a few companies. That was something I did early into 2000. In my opinion between G Suite and Office 365, the war is over with email. They do an effective job. They're great for business and I don't have to spend any time trying to figure out why someone didn't get my invoice. And first you think it's an excuse then you find out it's reality. They didn't get the invoice because you are somehow on a blacklist by forms of internet magic and then you can't contact the company that's blacklisted you because they have no easy way to contact because they're bombarded by spammers that are also contacting them. So we moved to G Suite. That's the short answer there. That's why G Suite also in terms of document management, being able to collaborate from my phone. Yes, I know there's other softwares like NextCloud that offer this. I tried it. I don't feel as though it worked near as good as G Suite does. Sorry, I mean, I really like those products but when it comes to running my business that on critical things, sharing documents, sharing spreadsheets in real time with the staff that are on site and working with even remote people and working with other clients. Hands down, it just works really well. Making sure all of your emails get there especially because we use G Suite as the back end to send invoices out through invoice ninja works. Every time they get it, it doesn't tell them that the PDFs attached with an invoice are some type of crazy threat. It just works. And that's an important aspect for this. Other proprietary software, Screen Connect. That's how we handle remote access to take control of our clients' computers. It works wonderfully. Yes, it's proprietary. It's a ConnectWise product. I think it's actually called ConnectWise Connect. It was called Screen Connect. We bought it way back then. We use a self-hosted version of it. I'll leave links to all these in below so you can check it out but it's a good software. I've not found anything and I've tried a handful of them. Open Source, it's been a long time since I tried everything. So once I switched to Screen Connect, it works so well. Their license fee seemed reasonable to me. I pay it every year. Cost to do in business but boy, does it work well. SolarWinds, I have not come close to finding an open source solution that works as well as SolarWinds for the overall. Yes, I know the updates because someone always complains they don't update well for things. Yeah, no one really does update well because Microsoft doesn't update well. So they're all dealing with the chaos that is the Microsoft Windows update system.  Lastly, you know, primary to our business at least is gonna be Unify. No, Unify is not open source. Yes, Unify is a proprietary system that runs cameras, that runs the Unify software to find networking tools for all the Wi-Fi. We really like it. I think it's a great product. We have it installed, you know, hosting it ourselves to manage clients and we do install it for clients.  We do a lot of other software that's not quarter our business in terms of what supports our company, but we are familiar with a lot of other proprietary products out there. So, but I wanted to cover this as the software that runs our business here in April of 2019. So I can just send this as a reply when people say, do you still run this or this from some old video I did? And like I said, I'll update this video if anything changes and go from there. All right, leave links below and everything and continue the conversation on the forums. Thanks. Thanks for watching. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up. If you want to subscribe to this channel to see more content, hit that subscribe button and the bell icon and maybe YouTube will send you a notice when we post. If you want to hire us for a project that you've seen or discussed in this video, head over to LawrenceSystems.com where we offer both business IT services and consulting services and are excited to help you with whatever project you want to throw at us. Also, if you want to carry on the discussion further, head over to forums.lauranceystems.com where we can keep the conversation going. 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Save 10% with my code Bobby10 on raw, organic, grass-fed and grass-finished, freeze-dried organ meats from grassland nutrition. Link in the description box. All right guys, welcome back to the channel if you're new man with Bobby guys. Lately we've been reacting to many Islamic videos, however plenty of them were very emotional, very motivational in nature. I personally prefer the logical, rational, even stoic approach. This is why a subscriber of mine, WebBro, reached out to me and recommended this video called The Koran, a very serious book for those who have knowledge, by there is no clash. If you guys have more relaxed, rational videos for me to react to, please post them in the comments section below. And now let's have a look. There's a book that sits on my bookshelf that is unlike any other. It invites people to go out and learn about the world in order to better make sense of what was written in it and in order to prove its own authenticity beyond a shadow of a doubt. In fact, the book encourages its readers to read, learn, ponder and question things so much so that the first world revealed from the book was read. But it doesn't stop there. The book goes on to challenge its readers, especially the scientists and scholars among them, with statements such as we will show them our signs in the universe and in their own selves until it becomes manifest to them that this is the truth. She remembered the Koran quite well, I am surprised. These similes we put forward for mankind but none will understand them except those who have knowledge. The author of this book gives us the total freedom to either believe or disbelieve in what he wrote, but at the same time the author tells us that he also has the freedom to determine our fate after death with either eternal happiness in paradise or an eternal painful punishment in hell. There is no third option. The following is just one quote from the book's many profound passages, given as a quick and simple example to help you understand what I mean. The author swears that indeed what is written inside this book is very serious and is not a joke. The way that I understood the Koran whilst reading it was that it came as a warning. It is that the author swears by two phenomena that at the time the book was revealed 1400 years ago were completely unknown to man in any way. The quote is as follows. By the sky which has the bounce, by the earth which has the crack. Indeed what is written inside the book is very serious and it's not ingest. Do you know what these two phenomena are? I will tell you. Simply put when space is stretched out it bounces while when the earth is stretched out it cracks. Although we can't see a bounce in the sky, in 1916 Einstein's game-changing theory of relativity determined that spatial bodies move in the fabric of space in much the same way as a child bounces on a stretchy trampoline and although we've always intuitively known that rocks are incredibly strong and can't be stretched apart. In 1789 when Iceland's Silphra Fisher was opened and in 1927 when the first crack in the earth was recorded in the Arizona desert it was confirmed just how fragile and changeable our earth really is. A book from 1962 entitled Notes on Earthfishes in Southern Arizona by Geraldine Robinson and Dennis Peterson published the information about the cracks in the earth that were first recorded in Arizona. Who is this woman? I'm really impressed with her knowledge and I didn't know those facts about the earth cracking for example. One thing I want to add to my previous comment about the Quran being a warning. When we look around we definitely see that there is something very very wrong with society nowadays. As Christians we say we have fallen very very far. We have fallen from grace. I think everybody can agree no matter what the religion that there is something extremely off with society nowadays. Now if we look into the biblical history and we look at Sodom and Gomorrah for example we see that when people got very very boastful, very proud, very degenerate this is when God punished them and so the Quran came as a reminder to us people so we don't stray off the narrow path and get God's punishment. Only in 1916 that science learned that the sky space has a bounce to it which is at the heart of Einstein's theory of relativity and it was only in 1927 that science learned that the earth has cracks. Yet not unsurprisingly the ancient book that I speak of contains numerous proofs in the form of scientific facts and natural wonders that were only discovered by scientists centuries later. How is this possible? How could a book revealed so long ago before the advent of basic modern tools and technologies contain such accurate information about scientific phenomena? There is only one explanation for such a thing. The author of the book is the creator of the universe. The book was written by God himself. Do you know the book that I'm talking of? It's called The Holy Quran and is such an impressive book that it would forever change the cause of the world. The Quran was revealed to the prophet Mohammed over the course of 23 years in the sixth century. It was a miracle back then and remains a miracle to this day. Though the prophet Mohammed received the revelation and transmitted it to the people he did not have any part in writing it. In fact the prophet Mohammed was illiterate. He never learned to read or write. What makes the Quran so unique is that it contains wisdom and knowledge that never gets outdated and for a book from the sixth century that's pretty exceptional. Not only has the Quran stood the test of time and remained accurate even with all the modern advancements mankind has been able to accomplish with the help of cutting-edge technologies the Quran has in numerous chapters challenged anyone who doubts its authenticity to come up with something that can stack up against it. This is a crucial fact the Quran truly always asks the reader to reflect, to question, to think. Reading any other book I never felt so personally addressed by the author personally questioned to use my reasoning to think. Many disbelievers at the time of the prophet like to spread the lie that the Quran was written by the prophet himself instead of God Almighty. This is how the Quran responded to their false claims or do they say he, prophet Mohammed, has forged it this Quran? No, they believe not. Let them then produce a recitation like it if they are truthful and if you are in doubt as to what we have revealed from time to time to our servant then produce a chapter like their unto and call your witnesses or helpers if there are any besides Allah if your doubts are true. In short the Quran challenged them just as it has challenged scholars, intellectuals and scientists for the past 1400 years to refute the messages and declarations contained within it. None have yet been able to meet this challenge and that's for a good reason. The word of God is foolproof. So join us as we delve into the fascinating pages of the Holy Quran, the miracle that keeps on giving. All right guys and this is it, the video cuts off here. I really wish it would continue. Wow, I'm really mind blown by the presentation. I would never expect a western woman to speak so highly about the Quran to speak so highly about prophet Mohammed. I'm especially amazed with the scientific facts here. This is why in the near future I would really love to react to a video that compiles all the scientific miracles in the Quran. If you guys know any type of video like that please let me know in the comment section. Thanks again to Webbro for recommending this video. This is absolutely my style of video. I love doing reactions to such rational material. All right guys but this is it for today's video. If you liked it leave it a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already guys please do so and if you want to support this channel all the links in the description box below. Thank you very much. As always may God bless you all. Much love and peace.


Tab in go. I'm very curious. The stage is yours. Thank you So hello, I'm Floremon and this is Tom and René. We are all three part of the emitter team and Today I'm going to introduce to you emitter I'm going to show you a few use cases and then I'm going to answer a few questions But if we don't have time for all your questions, please remember that we have a stand at building K level 2 So you can always visit us have some candy and ask us all your questions But first who are we we are a young and dedicated company based in the Benelux in Singapore and What we are dedicated to is preventing you from reinventing the wheel. We notice that in this field a lot of people try to reinvent the wheel and We all know that your drizer instead of reinventing it perfect it That's why we created emitter and we made it open source So what's the problem? We are trying to solve The problem is a basic communication and problem is that I want to talk to Tom over the internet to have a chat with him. So what could I do? I could just use a simple socket that would be easy enough That's a well-known mechanism, but still I would need to know Tom's address and I would need to be available at the same time as him on the over the internet and Also, we would need maybe to have a secure connection between us with TLS for example So that's not too bad, but that's already three problems to solve and but more problem arise if More people want to join the conversation if it's a group conversation with a third or fourth or fifth person now everybody in the group has to know the address of everybody else in the group and Everybody in the group has to remember to forward messages to everybody else in the group and then what happens if we want some kind of Authentication because we don't want anybody that has the address of some someone in the group to be able to join the conversation So that's why usually we Common solution is to introduce some space decoupling by using a published subscribe system In a published subscribe system client don't send messages to each other directly anymore they send messages to a central server called a broker and In this system, they don't need the client don't need to be aware of each other anymore they communicate through channels, which is It's a virtual pass to To a resource it looks like this. It's like a slash hello slash world slash something and The the broker takes care of authentication of authenticating people of forwarding messages to everybody and maybe of storing messages to deliver them later and Things like that. So it's a nicer solution But it's still not perfect because what happens if you have a very successful application with Millions of messages exchanged every second then maybe one server is not enough anymore You need a cluster of brokers to work together to deliver them all those messages So you need as soon as you have several servers You need to to have some some message routing to be sure that messages arrive at destination You maybe don't want to have an interruption of servers of service just because one server breaks down or even multiple server breaks down You need to be able to scale efficiently to scale up and scale down to not waste resources when you don't need that many server anymore So that's a lot of things to think about and that can become very complex very fast So wouldn't it be nice if there was enough the shelf solution to all those problems? Well, that's why we created emitter. It's a publish subscribe platform written in go and it uses the MQTT protocol As I said, it's scalable. It's built to scale horizontally. It's designed to handle high throughput It's secure. It uses TLS encryption and expirable channel keys and permission attached Persistence it's we currently provide the two mechanism for persistence one is an in-ram Store so as the name suggests it's stored messages in RAM Which means it's very fast, but messages are lost if the server breaks down the other mechanism is SSD optimized store that uses badger It's lightweight because it uses the MQTT protocol So it was designed with IOT in mind and the API is very easy to use I'm going to show you the API just after showing you a few use cases The first use case that we could think about is a real-time chat. So that's basically what we discussed so far There is not much to say about it. That's a chat You can imagine that you have a sub channel per rooms and people subscribe and publish two rooms That's by the way a sample that we have on our website So you can try it on our website and maybe use it on your own website Another use case is smart cities.   So we had that guy is at the crematorium so a crematorium as a various piece of machinery and Each machinery at the various sensors for example There is a silo that is a temperature sensor and there there is also a chambers that is a temperature sensor So the silo would publish to slash silo slash temperature and the chamber would publish to slash chamber slash temperature and This guy wrote dashboard in python because we have a python SDK That as for example one gouge that subscribed to plus Temperature plus is another wildcard that we use that means it replaces one level basically So it means any any level Slash temperature so it's subscribed to all temperatures and source Another use case is online games. This is a demo I wrote to demonstrate that emitter is It's very low latency. It's a bomber man. I guess we all played that game here. I'm playing with that With my brother over the internet and as you can see there is very it's very fluid And I'm using almost no pass prediction So it's really the real-time messages that are sent very fast Here I made it so there is one sub channel per game ID and one sub channel per game ID per player and each player and published to its own channel and each player also subscribed to the game ID slash all which means that Which means that they all receive messages from each other player Messages mainly of position updates Finally I'm going to show you a bit of the API So this is how the API looks like in JavaScript. You just do emitter.subscribe to subscribe You provide the key a channel of course that you want to subscribe to and and You can have an option which is the last which Provide the X number of message that you want to receive which were stored on the channel To publish you just do an emitter.publish which Where you provide the API key again that may not be the same key that could be another key with other permissions Here I publish to chat slash Floremo and of course I provide my message Which here is a string but it could be a binary message any kind of message actually and There is an option the TTL which is the number of seconds. I want the message to be stored So that that's all you need to to do to start exchanging messages with the brokers There is another Thing I want to talk about is the presence feature. It allows you to monitor Which person which devices are subscribed to a child which is of just leave very useful for lobbies for example To call presence you just do emitter of the presence you provide once again an API key Then the channel you want to monitor and then you have two Options two parameters The first parameter is status if it's set to true you will receive immediately a list of people that are subscribed to the channel The other parameter is Changes if it's set to true you are going to receive events once a person Subscribe to the channel and once a person unsubscribe to the from the channel So emitter is open source It's under a GP a license. It's not free software, but it's still free as in free beers It you can set it up in minutes using the care container and host it on your own servers Otherwise, you can use our cloud if you don't want to care about server about scaling and then you pay per usage Recently since last year we've enjoyed a lot of attention on get up As you can see it's a graph of the stargazer on github and We enjoyed a sharp increase since last year and that brought us a lot of contribution Some small some bigger some as small as type of fixes in our documentation But that's still nice to have some bigger like to the core emitter to the core of emitter so currently at the time we only had for example Keys per root channels now we we and we have keyed per sub channel So that's was an external contributions that brought us there So that that's very nice another kind of contributions that we like is Is SDKs? We currently have five SDKs in go C sharp by turn Java script and Java Some of them were extensively reviewed by the community, which is very very cool But we would like to have more SDKs So if you're interested in the project and you have a favorite language that is not listed there Please visit our website where we have a page where we describe How to communicate with our server and it's very easy so you can contribute and we'll be very happy to share your SDK now I Don't know if we have time for questions But please remember that we have the stand at level two of the building K Thank you very much. We have yes first an applause of course We have time for one burning question if someone has otherwise you can visit them at the stand Anyone who really desires to ask something? no, okay, thank you very much and Can we ask the next speaker to come to the front, please? Also another request as you see a lot of people entered the room by now Try to compress yourself as much as possible sit next to people that you don't know it's good to meet them during this event And make sure that everyone can have a seat I Use this yeah, sure. I will still need it to introduce you Afterwards if there's like time we can ask one or two questions we can run around and give the mic to the people in the audience


What's up everybody, once again, it's Brand Man Sean and this video is brought to you by brandmannetwork.com because I signed myself. Now I gotta say, this video is not legal advice. Just gotta make that clear. All right. Ownership. Ownership. Ownership. Ownership. That's something that so many artists are pretty too. They really love the idea of ownership and that's been great. But we talk about it from the standpoint of your masters and your company and all those kind of things. But one of the things that's traditionally been so important to artists is owning their ideas.  Well, it is my firm belief that legal ownership is not the final ownership and maybe not even the most important ownership. Let me explain. Well, let's take Kanye West for an example. A few years ago, you know, a lot of people could remember that he did the floating stage. And when he did his floating stage, people thought it was this extremely dope concept. Oh man, never seen anything like this before. And then after that, it started to come out that there was a South African artist by the name of Casper who actually did a floating stage as well. But before that, it was a smaller scale, right? But it was a floating stage. You know, nonetheless, Kanye just took that and did it on a bigger scale like so many other things he does, right? He sees them and then he maxes them out in one way or another. Let's just say that there was a way that the guy could legally own that concept. I'm not sure if it could be, but let's just say it was a way he could legally own that concept and let's say he was an American artist and he did it. But then Kanye did it on a far bigger scale. And then what happened was, Kanye is a way bigger artist and people found this concept through Kanye. And after people find out through Kanye, then just like happen in real life, there's a lot of people to find out that there's a other artist that did this too.  Well, that's cool, right? That's the series of events. But at the end of the day, you got to think about the fact that most of the public, for one, doesn't even find out that Kanye took this idea or allegedly took this idea from another artist. So one, most of those people believe Kanye owns that concept, right? He invented that concept in their mind. He introduced that concept in their mind. And even after that, after people find out that he took it, some people will be upset, you know, you're going to have that small fan base that say, you know what, man, he's wrong, he took this from these other people. But a lot of people who find out, they're still going to think about Kanye first. They're going to credit him mentally just because that's the way the mind works. So the ultimate ownership is the ownership in people's minds because that real estate, right, no matter what you can do from a legal structure will not change. So it may be encouraging if you can't afford legal bills, but it might be discouraging if you're like, yo, somebody else might take my idea and put it in front of other people before me. Yeah, there's a pro and a con to it. There's both sides to it. But at the end of the day, the greatest ownership is the ownership within people's minds because that is the hardest thing to move once they're presented with something. They're angered towards that energy that, that opinion. And at the end of the day, even if they cannot acknowledge you for doing it, particularly acknowledging you for doing it first before this other person, it's still diluted. Your impact is diluted in a lot of ways because I was still introduced from somebody else in the way that other person did it, still all of me. It gave me this feeling of, yo, this is amazing who even thought of this. And now I found out who thought about it. And then I even see your version of it. And I'm like, eh, I kind of like that other version better. And that's why I'm so passionate about marketing brand. Because at the end of the day, if you don't know how to get to people, and then if you don't know how to give them your message, give them the thing that you want them to have to stick with them, then you're playing a losing game. Yes, from a legal standpoint, somebody might have the money, of course. And that's one thing that's obviously important, right? I'm not one of those people that say, hey, let's get well known and then not be collecting the money because that's a very real situation. Even if you look at Juice World having that song that popped off. I can't remember the name right now, but he's paying Sting 95% of the royalties on that song. That's wild. However, this perspective is so important as well, because especially for artists, right, people who care about their work, people who are creative and spend time just going through and fleshing out ideas, you want ownership of the idea. You want credit as well. That's one of the most important things to artists because in this creative space, right, that's the only real ownership there is. So if that is the ultimate ownership for a creative, then you have to figure out how you actually make that happen, how you actually get that thing packaged and branded and known by the right people so then you can get that credit. And I'm not saying don't do the legal stuff. I'm not saying that at all. But remember that just getting your copyrights is not enough, right? Just getting your trademark is not enough. If you really want to truly own a concept, then you have to make sure you get it into people's minds as well. That's it. This video is brought to you by BrandManNetwork.com. 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Namaskar thank you for taking my question I was wondering if you could speak a little bit about the role of the artist or arts role after you take up this practice or pursuit this path. When you move into this surrender state or the more you move into it it's not like a goal you reached it's a growing and deepening and widening and increasingly vibrant and potent process the more every layer of consciousness deepens, widens, strengthens and therefore the expressions of each of those layers of consciousness deepens, widens and strengthens. So when you tune in to the source the very materiality of your system becomes more pliable. The cells of your body become more conscious because you're present here and now and you're you're moving with awareness into the cells of the body into the materiality and it goes laterally outward rather than leaving the system and going out of the system you're in here and now and making the cells of your body more conscious and therefore the entire body is more pliable more flexible stronger also moving upward from that materiality you move into the emotional part of the being so the ability to master the emotions and yet experience them in a depth and a strength and a vibrancy which is impossible to imagine otherwise it really is because what happens is that the awareness is sort of infusing itself into that realm of consciousness so when you have an experience in the emotional it will become much more much deeper much more vibrant much more powerful the same will happen to the thinker you're a writer you're a creator of concepts of whatever kind it may be from being a mathematician to being a physicist all of those abilities at conceptual clarity strengthen the very rational in itself becomes more powerful stronger more capable more precise more alert and then moving up further into the transformative into the supraconceptual the ability at art the ability in the occult these are all the areas of the supraconceptual an artist is not a thinker for an artist to actually be an artist they have to stop thinking in a way they have to become transformative and this tuning into source will just make you more of an artist in the sense that you will know how to express the artist in you in a more precise coherent and relatable way but give you an example like a painter who wants to express the spiritual experience would in a non self-realized state paint and an angel with wings flying in a beautiful landscape an artist that is in self-realization process needs just to draw one single line that can be a mountain or a rose turn the other way around much more expressive much more precise much more able to to transmit something which is not conceptual whether it's music or poetry even in poetry the more you are in a state of self-realization in that process consciously and in awareness the more that poetry becomes potent it translates something and transmits something that conceptual words literature can't do so the artist becomes more of an artist more capable of that kind of a translation actually of a transformative experience to the other person people who could barely write a sentence properly are eloquent because they're able to tune in and in that state of surrender these faculties are just magnified and and and I've seen it I've seen it happen in front of my eyes over the years you cannot really be an artist of greatness if you're not in a self-realization process and I don't mean the greatness of the number of people who know your work because that fades away with time in my own lifetime I've seen artists who are very very big and now they're like forgotten because it's not timeless it's not able to hold through over the decades and over lifetimes centuries that's only possible for those who have some self-realization some form of it or some degree of it and if you're conscious about it try to imagine where you'll reach whatever you are painter writer whatever it may be musician so bend down surrender surrender surrender tune into your center that is crucial in this sadhana in this process thank you


Hi everybody. My name is Rob Lanny and I am the Learning Technologist at Hibernia College. I'm here today to share our story, our journey in moving to using Moodle to host and manage all of our continuous assessments. Unfortunately my colleague Hilary Roach was unable to join me today but she has provided her voice to the presentation so we're going to hear from her first. Hello everyone. My name is Hilary Roach and I am head of teaching learning and assessment on the primary program in Hibernia College. Since the year 2000 Hibernia College has been providing both blended and online learning programs leading to professionally accredited qualifications. We provide initial teacher education for graduate students wishing to pursue a career in teaching. There are professional masters in education or PME programs for both primary and post primary levels. The programs are two years in duration. 45% of the PME program is delivered in an online environment via content and webinars. 55% of the program comprises face-to-face experiences at day-long seminars principally on Saturdays. There are also 24 weeks of school placement over the course of the program. Students are located in all areas of the country as you can see from the map. We provide online continuous professional development courses for practicing teachers. We have recently received the go-ahead to introduce a BSC program in general nursing and we also offer a PhD program. There are two intakes each year in each of the teaching programs in spring and in autumn. So we don't adhere to the traditional academic calendar. Our 1600 students are located throughout the country as I mentioned. And in addition, because of the nature of the program, we have some 300 assessors who are also located nationwide and beyond. Assessors can access student uploads from wherever they are in the world. There is one person located in the Middle East currently. We engage continually in continuous assessment. Assessors provide lengthy, specific, descriptive, qualitative feedback which is tightly aligned to module learning outcomes. So where have we come from? Students used to upload their completed assessments to Moodle. Assessors conducted a bulk download of the approximately 30 submissions that had been assigned to them and embarked on the grading process. They completed individual feedback forms in Word. The marks for individual sections of the submissions and any word count penalties to be applied were entered on Excel spreadsheets. The feedback forms and the spreadsheets were returned to the program administrator as attachments by email. The administrator then compiled the spreadsheets and manually cross-checked the feedback forms of which there could have been up to 400. Submissions were selected for moderation. These included the work of failing students as well as a representation of the variety of grade levels assigned by different assessors. These were then emailed to the moderator. The moderator completed the relevant report, amended student feedback as appropriate and completed another Excel spreadsheet. This was then returned to the program administrator. Lake penalties where appropriate were applied. The program administrator dragged and dropped the individual feedback forms to Moodle. The results were then released to students. There was a lot of manual work involved with the associated potential for errors, particularly when dealing with such large numbers. Thank you very much Hilary. So clearly our process was not as efficient as it could or should have been and therefore it needed to change. So we looked to Moodle for that change and in particular what we wanted to do was we wanted to make the grading process smoother for assessors, module leaders, moderators and program administrators, the key stakeholders in the process. Very importantly we wanted to reduce the reliance on the myriad of documents for capturing and storing feedback and marks. And then we also wanted to create a sense of a shared space, the shared ownership of the continuous assessment process so that all of those parties could see the role that they played in the process and so that the communication between them and the college could be strengthened because as we know the college is based in Dublin and our assessors are located around the country. So how did we do it? Firstly we mapped our own college assessment processes that stem from our academic policies and procedures to Moodle's own capabilities and as part of that we decided to use marker allocation in assignment to make it easy for the assessors to locate the submissions that they needed to grade and we also used marking workflow to control the various stages of the CEI process. On our old Excel spreadsheets on which we were very, very reliant it was quite easy for an assessor to apply penalties when a student exceeded a word count and they submitted late because they just used a formula in Excel to do that. So on Moodle we had the assessor alter the marks to apply a word count penalty by reducing the original mark they gave the student and then they would insert frequently used comments into the field to indicate that they had done so and then we had the program administrator at the end of the process apply an override in the grade book to indicate a penalty for late submission. We decided to use the marking guide advanced grading method with assignment because that allowed the assessors to write plenty of feedback as Hilary already mentioned they provide very lengthy qualitative feedback per student and the marking guide was perfect for that. We also converted all our old Excel spreadsheets and word feedback forms to marking guides. Providing training was and remains a huge part of the project providing training to 300 assessors located around the country was vital. We gave them step-by-step written instructions, various training webinars we offered one-on-one support sessions as well. We showed them how to use the various features of assignment and the marking guides and we also trained them in how to use the Erkan text matching tool which we also deployed to Moodle during this period. Similarly our program administrators are key people in this process and they needed step-by-step guides, they needed training workshops and ongoing support and troubleshooting in using assignment and grade book. Our academic, administrative, technical and finance staff members all came together in a working group to develop new SOPs and processes to document and agree a streamlined process for using Moodle to handle continuous assessments. Many of our modules contain multiple part assignments and we needed a way to see what a student's projected result would be where more than one Moodle assignment was involved. So we developed bespoke grading reports in Microsoft Power BI using data that was extracted from our nightly Moodle backup. We used the SQL code from the plugin Export Component Grades as a basis for the report because it could show the kind of the low-level individual marks that the assessor had awarded students. It was really, really useful plug and I think Marcus Green is talking about it at some stage as well. Grade moderators required ongoing training and training sessions and how to edit the marks and the feedback. And then lastly we decided to use the manual grade items in the grade book to make non-continuous assessment grades available to students so things like written exam results, school placement results and so on that didn't involve an uploading from the student's point of view. So what did we learn? We learned a lot. We learned a lot about what Moodle can do and what it can't do and we developed a few workarounds and some tips and tricks that I'd like to share with you. Developing clear instructions for our 300 strong team of assessors is incredibly important and in addition to the written instructions they received and the training webinars we also used the description for markers in the criterion not just to explain what that criterion was in the grading form but also just to signpost and signal to the assessors how they should complete the feedback for that particular criterion. As I've already mentioned our assessors complete lengthy descriptive qualitative feedback per student. They take them several hours to write all the required feedback into the marking guide grading form. So understandably they would want to take a break from time to time and return to their feedback at a later point in time but we discovered the marking guide grading form doesn't allow you to save your progress unless there's a number in each of the mark fields so we had to instruct our assessors to kind of enter a zero dummy placeholder in each mark field and then switch the marking workflow state to in marking so that they could return and they could see that they had not yet completed that particular student. The feedback, the lengthy feedback that our assessors provide is structured and they are required to use certain headings to break up their various blocks of text and we decided to use frequently used comments actually as headings not as comments and we required each of the assessors to use each one of the frequently used comments to give their relevant part of the grading form. Our academic policies require us to award a grade of 0% to students who do not submit an assessment so we don't leave their grade blank or empty we have to award them a zero. We discovered that Moodle doesn't accept a zero as a grade for some reason it wouldn't write it to the database so our work around was to give a student a mark of one in one of the mark fields save the change then go back in and change the one to a zero and then save that and then Moodle would accept the zero percent. There may possibly be a better way if anyone can help with that that would be fantastic but that was our work around for the time. You've gotten a sense of the number of different parties that touch the students' marks and feedback during the process an assessor, a moderator and a member of staff can all be involved at various stages but when grades are released the feedback table that the students see shows two fields it shows graded on and graded by and the graded on displays the date and time the feedback was last edited and the graded by displays the name of the last person who edited the feedback which might not necessarily be the assessor it could be a moderator, it could be a staff member etc. So as a temporary work around we had to ask the assessor to write their name in the general feedback comments area at the bottom of the grading form so that the student can actually see in there who their assessor was. And then lastly our academic policies allow for students to be granted submission extensions under certain circumstances so the existing extension feature works perfectly fine in assignment for that but students also have a right to make a late submission on top of an extension and in order to enable that we used a combination of user overrides and extensions to give students a cutoff date on top of an extension. So we'll just hear from Hilary one last time. We replicated the original feedback form online so as to minimize the change initially for the assessors. We were interested to hear that fears we may have had for the adoption of the new format did not materialize. Module leaders can now drop in as the work is in progress to consider how the assessors are doing. This is particularly useful where first time assessors are involved and can be provided with some ongoing feedback as they complete the first few assignments. Where an assessor may be having difficulty with an aspect of a student's work then both the module leader and assessor can look at the same work from their various locations and engage in a professional conversation. The role of the moderator is still the same as it was but emailing attachments to and fro no longer occurs. Moderators can access and amend feedback and marks where appropriate. The role of the program administrator has changed with more focus on the efficient progress of the work and less on the manual inputting of grades. And you can see there just a selection of some of the comments from the assessors which were generally very, very positive. They found it more efficient, user friendly, time saving and less likely to make a mistake because they weren't jumping between all these various different documents. The project obviously resulted in increased use of Moodle which was great to see. So we had 300 more active users among our faculty and it was great to see that Moodle was able to bring these different faculty members closer together. They were dispersed around the country but they were brought together in a shared workspace fulfilling different roles. And then this obviously had a related effect on their own digital capacity. So the digital capacity of our faculty improved. It became much more comfortable with using technology and therefore this also helped them develop their own skills. And then lastly, now that we're using Moodle to handle all of our continuous assessments and grading, it's kind of, it's a later foundation where we can do more with assessment on our modules and this is where we're looking to go now. So already we've planned to kind of divide up our assessments into smaller assignments and award different weightings and have the grade book handle all of that. We want to introduce some formative assessments that a student needs to complete before doing some sort of assessment. We're interested in looking at outcomes and bringing that into the grading as well. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has experience of using outcomes. So this is kind of, it's really just the beginning. Now we're kind of looking to the future and looking at enhancing our assessments with Moodle. So we're Amila Mahogwilf-Galer and happy to take some questions now. Can I be greedy and ask two questions? Of course. So the first one's quite quick. That thing about not saving a zero grade immediately, that's just a bug. If you don't know how to report a bug to Moodle Core come and find me afterwards and I'll take you through the process because we need to make sure that's reported to get me fixed. That's the easy one. The other one, I may have missed this just because I was making notes. You said you were using additional custom grade items to show students grades earned outside Moodle. I missed how those grades were getting into the grade book. Was that an import or manual rekeying? Yeah, that was just an import. So they were already in an Excel spreadsheet from elsewhere and then they were just obviously formatted in the right way and imported straight into the grade book. Great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Hi Rob, if you have assessors around the country how do you do training for them? Do you just provide documentation or was there online training or did you bring them all into a room? It was online training mostly so they received various different documents and instructions. We held regular training webinars.  So we scheduled a lot of webinars and then we had one-on-one sessions with anyone else that needed some additional assistance and that could have been over the phone or over Skype or something like that. Those combination of different things. Hi there. In the grade book are you just putting the final module mark or have you got room to put in component parts to make up a final module mark as well? Sorry, I didn't quite get that. Sorry, in the grade book are you just putting the final module mark like the overall mark or is there opportunities to put in multiple things that might make up a module mark if you see what I mean? I mean like individual ILO marks and things like that. Yes, so say in one of our modules for example four different assignments make up the module total and all different weightings applied so they're seeing all of the component marks in the grade book and then the final module mark as well. All that information lives in the grade book and then gets published to the students through that process as well. Exactly, and that's where students go. They don't go into an SIS to get their grades or something like that. They only do it in Moodle. Brilliant, thank you. Thank you. I think we're going to have to move on. So, Ross, thank you so much. Thank you very much Bob. Thank you.


Today is the James P. Madonna from the Facebook group Everything Is Food. I'm here at the Royal Hibachi Buffet, Route 46 West out of Brooklyn, Jersey. Here's the king of Mongolian barbecue, and that food that you're seeing right now on the grill is mine. That's my food. I got lots of Cameroons, as they say in Spanish, a lot of shrimp. I got Ongyons, as they say in Louisiana, Ongyons, Snow Pea Pods, lots of mushrooms, because I am a fun guy. Oh, I lost a couple of my mushrooms. I got to remind them. A couple of my mushrooms fell off the griddle, but it's not good, it's not good. As long as he doesn't lose any shrimp. And there he is, the Vapors of Life, Commodore Jeff Zanbello, my buddy, longtime friend. Oh, don't lose any more, oh, don't lose any more. Be careful the mushrooms don't fall. Yeah, be careful. I like a mushroom, I'm a fun guy, I'm a fun guy, that's why I love mushrooms. Ah, thank you, gracias. I'm a fun guy. Just being funny. Oh, look there, another mushroom went flying off the griddle, what's going on here? I lost a mushroom. So does that mean I'm less of a fun guy than I normally am? I call them extra hot, spicy chili sauce, extra garlic sauce, and soy sauce on mine. But he's got to be, he's got to be careful man, don't lose any of my ingredients. I got the snow pea pods, which I love. As you can see. Oh, I forgot, I got rice noodles. I got the chow fen, I mean the fen rice noodle. Angel hair rice noodles. There's the Vapors of Life, ascending into heaven. He's getting ready for somebody else. He's lubricating up his grill while mine is cooking. They make a fantastic Mongolian barbecue. You just have to add extra ingredients because once he starts flipping and flopping those spatulas around, man. But look at that, somebody wants eggs, you know a lot of people here. They bring raw eggs to the Mongolian barbecue. I guess they want to be an ecstasy, you know? Exact ecstasy. Maybe they forgot to have breakfast or, you know, well if you're going to come here it's all you can eat. So you don't really need any breakfast, to have any breakfast at all or a lunch. Or even dinner, maybe a late night snack. And the shrinking in size, there we go. Now all the food I brought him. The thin rice noodles, the mushrooms, the snow pea pods, the onions. Everything is reduced. And as you can see it's all coming together in a wonderful medley. Beautiful, beautiful. That's mine right there that he's working on. James Pimodan. All right, yep, yep, yep. This person here is getting beef. Very, very skimpy little entrees to say the least. Man, I would say a moderate amount of beef. A tiny bit of broccoli. A tiny bit of mushrooms and onions. Not really very smart in her selection actually. But she's got two eggs. Sitting right over there. Mine is almost done. Mine is almost done. A little more spicy. A little more, yeah, a little more of that, a little more garlic. Thank you, thank you. Grasses. All right, there you go. That's all right, Adam. I don't have any dates today, so I don't have to worry. But I will be doing a, I believe a Fandango Friday tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern time with Ronald J. Tyrion. It is a craft beer fine wine or fine hard liquor review show. It is a live stream show on YouTube on Ronald J. Tyrion's channel. I'm the one that invented Fandango Friday and Thundering Thursday and maniacal Monday. But it's on his YouTube channel, not mine. His last name is spelled T-H-E-R-I-O-T, Tyrion. And he is from southern Louisiana. Which is enjoying Mardi Gras, or they just did. Fat Tuesday. And now it's time for my fat Mongolian barbecue. This has been Omega Lab 21 production.