Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I have two statements I would like to make this afternoon, after which I'd be very happy along with Mr. Vance to try to answer your question. Bill will be copied to the LBG. Yes, yes, it will be. First, on Thursday and Friday of this week, I shall be meeting here in Washington with the defense ministers of Canada, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and the United Kingdom, along with the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. These ministers comprise the new NATO nuclear planning group, which together with the Nuclear Defense Affairs Committee was established as a permanent body of NATO by the Council of Ministers meeting in Paris last December. This body is to advise NATO on matters of nuclear policy. I'm especially pleased to be host to this meeting. It represents, I think, a significant new approach and an achievement after more than a decade of persistent endeavor by many representatives of this government and many nations of NATO. Bring all members of the Alliance into full partnership in the planning of nuclear strategy and nuclear affairs. It is, I think, a milestone in the history of NATO. The personal participation of the seven defense ministers reflects the intimate involvement of nationally responsible government leaders in NATO planning activities. Such active participation by top defense authorities is both new and also essential, I think, to assure realism in our work and the vigorous support of the member governments in carrying out NATO's plans. It is, I think, largely responsible for the very great progress that we've made in the past two years in the field of nuclear planning. As you know, the foundation of the security of the Alliance is nuclear power. And it's only natural, therefore, that the non-nuclear members of NATO have always felt a need to be informed about nuclear matters and nuclear planning, and particularly to participate in nuclear planning. They've been uncertain of their role in this field. They've felt that the organization's structure of NATO and particularly the behavior of the United States did not take proper account of that role. They believed, and I think rightly so, that they should have had a greater voice in assessing the nuclear threat to the Alliance, determining what forces were required to meet them and in working out how and under what conditions those nuclear forces would be employed. For more than 10 years, the NATO nations, including the United States, have struggled with this problem. A number of suggestions have been made as to how to solve it. I've listed eight. I won't go into them now, but I'll be happy to answer questions on them later. It's only been in the last year and a half, however, that substantial progress in Spanish-speaking countries and substantial progress in expanding the role of the non-nuclear powers in nuclear affairs has been accomplished. The meeting this week stems from a proposal by the United States government in June of 1965 made to a meeting of the NATO defense ministers at that time. The proposal provided for consultation by a small group of defense ministers about the problems of nuclear planning. That group was set up. It met first in Paris in November of 1965. It met four times last year, once in Washington, once in London, once in Paris, and once in Rome. The five defense ministers acting as members of that group were viewed and discussed the strategic and tactical nuclear resources of the alliance, potential circumstances, and consequences of the use of nuclear weapons, and the way in which the alliance should organize to carry on future discussions of these subjects. These, I think, were by far the most substantive and the most far-reaching discussions of nuclear affairs in the history of the alliance. One of my colleagues stated just last month that there had been more progress in NATO nuclear matters in the past 12 months than in the preceding 17 years. In any event, this working group of five defense ministers recommended that a permanent organization be created to carry on this work. And the Nuclear Affairs Committee opened to all NATO members that the nuclear planning group were established by the foreign and defense ministers of NATO last December in Paris. At this week's meeting, the nuclear planning group will continue to examine NATO nuclear strength in all of its aspects, including the plans for the development of nuclear weapons, for the production of nuclear weapons, for the possible use of nuclear weapons, and for the analysis of the consequences of such use. In addition, we shall discuss the recent steps taken by the Soviet Union to deploy an antibiotic missile system as well as the status of the antibiotic missile program of our own country. And we shall also discuss the effort being made by this country to persuade the Soviet Union to join with us in holding down the spiral of a ruthless arms race. And that, of course, is perhaps the most important subject on the agenda. And I'll be very brief in summarizing for you another matter. I want to report today on the completion on the target date set one year ago of the massive relocation of U.S. armed forces to France. That relocation, which, as you will recall, was prompted by a desire of the French government will result in millions of dollars in the economy for our forces in Europe without significantly degrading combat effectiveness. This relocation began in April of 1966, just a year ago. At that time, there were in France 32,000 U.S. military and civilian personnel, about 38,000 of their dependents, and 15,000 French nationals employed by the Department of Defense, a total of some 85,000 personnel associated with U.S. defense activities. They were assigned to over 186 installations. Additionally, we leased about 250 installations and sites for our activities. The total cost for these physical facilities was huge, about $850 million. And when the relocation began, there were over 820,000 tons of material that we were using or had stored in France, material which had a value of about $1,200 million. Initially, it was estimated that the relocation of these men in facilities would cost over $1 billion. We've been able to do the job for less than $150 million. Of that $150 million, only $50 million will be paid out in foreign exchange. We now estimate that it will actually be budgetary savings of perhaps $50 million a year resulting from this program and foreign exchange savings in excess of $100 million per year. Perhaps between $110 million and $120 million. Of course, these major economies would mean very little to us if the relocation had significantly or adversely affected our military strength and capability, but such is not the case. Combat effectiveness and fulfillment of NATO commitments we believe has and will be maintained. In some instances, because of changes in the logistics net and warehousing facilities, there will actually be modernization gains. And in addition, headquarters organizations have been streamlined. As a result, the relocation has permitted us to save about 16,000 of the military personnel formerly located in France and about 2,000 of those located in Germany, a reduction of about 18,000 in military personnel. The dependence of those personnel will be moved out of Europe, total 19,000 from France and 2,000 from Germany. So there's 18,000 military personnel plus about 21,000 dependents that will be saved. Total of 39,000 U.S. personnel moving from Europe to the U.S. In addition, in contrast to the 15,000 French nationals formerly employed by the Department of Defense in France where our activities will require only 4,000 European nations. So there will be a saving of about 11,000 European nations. Total of 50,000 people, therefore, will be associated from U.S. defense activities in Europe. Because we wish to ease the personal hardships as much as possible, arrangements were made for about 6,000 U.S. personnel, a large number of them, either students or those associated with dependent schools serving those students to remain in France with the approval of that government till the end of this month. I should say till the end of June. We've moved more than 380,000 tons of the material we had in France to Germany. More than 145,000 tons to the U.K. About 90,000 tons have been returned to this country because they were accessed to our requirements in Europe. We've either consumed or disposed of another 170,000 tons of excess material. And there's now less than 10,000 of the former 820,000 tons of U.S. material in France. Both of this 10,000 tons is connected with the dependent school. So for all practical purposes, the relocation has been completed. I think it's been a magnificent job. Great credit to the officers and men of our European forces who participated in it, directed that. We think the job has been done and done expeditiously and effectively. And now, Mr. France and I, I'd be very happy to try to answer your questions. Mr. Secretary, there is a letter of service story today that says the Defense Department has started to study the profits of the defense industry that actually would be a problem more. No, there's no substance to that whatsoever. About five or six years ago, we began a study of the profits of the defense industry, which we're continuing to carry on in order to relate profits to performance. Initially, it became very clear that because of the heavy emphasis on cost plus type contracts in prior years, there was very little variation in profit rates by contractors. We are seeking to change that. As you know, the cost plus type contract doubled about 19% of total defense awards in 1956 to about 38% in 1961. We cut that back to about 10%. As we did so, we sought to give the defense contractors greater incentive before more efficiently. This meant that we tried to change the profit rates by type of contracts so that those contracts which carried with them greater risk would also carry with them greater profit potential. In order to do this, in order to make these studies, in order to monitor our performance, we, of course, needed more information on defense contracts and profits. We're continuing to seek that, solicit it, and I suspect that it's those requests which have led to the comments of the current practice. The savings you mentioned would be moved out of France. How are they realized? Let me tell you first the combat or operation units we had in France. They were limited to two air transport squadrons which had been moved to the United Kingdom. Three reconnaissance squadrons also moved to the United Kingdom. Two reconnaissance squadrons moved back to the United States with dual bases, bases in the U.S. and also bases forward in Western Europe which they will move periodically for exercises during the year. And one reconnaissance squadron in France on temporary duty during a transition from one type of aircraft to another which had been permanently back to the United States. This movement of air squadrons permitted a very substantial reduction in the number of Air Force personnel associated with our activities in France without any significant change in the effectiveness of our air capability. In the case of the Army, there were no operational units what I would call operational units in France rather that it was staff with personnel designed to support our line of communication through France. We've been able to move that line of communication to the Low Countries and to Western Germany. Now true, it's more vulnerable. It's more exposed in the Low Countries than it would have been in France. But since the strategy of NATO is a strategy of forward defense this slight increase in the vulnerability or exposure of that line of communication we believe does not significantly weaken NATO. It does result in a very substantial saving because the line is shorter and it's more efficiently located in relation to rail and road nets than was the line of communication in France. This has led to a very substantial reduction in the number of personnel necessary to maintain and man that line of communication. Yes. Before the Senate answers this committee about two months ago at the end of January there are a couple of things you've talked about in relation to the Soviet anti-polisic missile system. One of the things you said was that the systems deployed around Moscow were not at that time operational and another thing you weren't too sure about whether the Second Edition was really an ABM in fact I think you said that the trend was away from suspecting it was an ABM. Can you answer now whether in the last 60 days do you have any information of the system around Moscow as operational? I don't wish to add to what I said at that time other than to perhaps clarify a point that may have been confused. I've noticed in the press the number of statements indicating that there was controversy inside the Department of Defense whether the Second System was an anti-polisic missile system was or was not an anti-polisic missile system. Frankly I don't think it makes very much difference what the evidence indicates at the present time because I believe we must assume for our planning purposes that if that Second System is not an anti-polisic missile system that the Soviets may at some time in the future deploy an anti-polisic missile system to protect those forces in their country outside the Moscow area. This is essentially the same statement I made to you a year ago and two years ago I think when you questioned me then about intelligence information on Soviet anti-polisic missile deployments I said that I wasn't going to comment upon intelligence data but I would tell you that we must assume finding our future offensive forces that the Soviets would deploy a country-wide anti-polisic missile system that I attended to say in January and I may not have said it earlier. Yeah. Secretary, the Russians have tried to tie together the ABM issue with the offensive as far as discussions on the ABM freeze or whatever you might call it. Do you as Secretary of Defense consider it conceivable that we would be able to negotiate on our offensive missile force as part of the attempt to get the forego of the ABM? I don't wish to speculate on what conclusions might come out of negotiations with the Soviet Union on the subject of nuclear forces. There has been some indication they would wish to discuss both offensive and defensive forces and we're certainly willing for discussion purposes to include both on the agenda. This meeting that you're going to have with the NATO official sounds very good but have you actually concerned with the legal to give away this information to these non-usual employees? We as you imply operate under legislative restrictions what kind of information we can expose to foreign nationals and we're hearing very strictly to those legislative restrictions in all our discussions with the NATO. Mr. Secretary, as I would say to the scholarly that you said that the NATO relocation meant that it would not be grading the combat effectiveness of our forces. Yes, that's correct. Why didn't we do it a long time ago? I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. I've asked myself that as a matter of fact and I think the answer is that conditions have changed significantly since the French base structure was established. For example, our aircraft along the French aircraft. The aircraft we moved to transport aircraft were not the aircraft in which the transport bases were established in France. The transport bases were established for C-119 aircraft which are very short range aircraft. The aircraft that we now have deployed in western Europe particularly those that we moved from France to the UK or C-130 aircraft. Similarly, the aircraft for which the bases were established for reconnaissance purposes in France were short range aircraft. Those we moved to the United Kingdom were long range reconnaissance aircraft. F-4 is having replaced RF-101s which in turn had replaced a still shorter range aircraft earlier. But having said all of that I do want to emphasize that conditions today are much different than those years ago when those bases were established. Having said all that, I don't want to imply that there isn't any penalty associated with moving our lines of communication out of France. It's not a significant penalty. It doesn't, in a major way degrade the combat effectiveness but it is a penalty. It shortens the line of communication but it results in a more vulnerable line of communication. Let's make this a paper question. Yes. If our allies are going to participate now in nuclear policy I was wondering why there are 7 rather than 15. I think that the members of NATO realize what we have learned in trying to carry out these discussions that these subjects require the most intimate participation by the defense ministries themselves and we have simply found it impossible to do that with 14 or 15 members present plus their staff so that it has been agreed after a year and a half or two of experimentation that we should start with a small group of nations and this group of 7 nations should report back periodically once every six or 12 months to the larger group at any time the larger group has the prerogative of asking if a small group expands. The whole purpose of the meeting is to expose the non-nuclear nations more fully and more intimately to the entire spectrum of nuclear activity starting with the analysis of the threat of the development programs necessary to assure weapons will be developed to meet that threat effectively the determination of the size of the force structure the strategy to provide for the use of that structure and tactical and operational plans contemplating such use. Yes. Will these discussions include possible use of nuclear weapons in areas other than in NATO? The discussion will be limited to let me take one over here. Mr. Secretary, have the talks with the UK and Germany reached a point where you now say that the U.S. will be able to keep the presence of divisions in Europe? I don't want to comment upon the trilateral talks. These are the discussions with the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic relating to force requirements and certain associated financial problems. These trilateral discussions are still underway. They haven't been concluded and any tentative conclusions of those trilateral discussions must later be discussed with NATO, with the full membership of NATO before final decisions are made by any of the members of NATO and that includes the United States and certainly the United States. Does your statement that we have a forward strategy without an offensive tip to France from the planning now being an earlier use of nuclear weapons then was the case at some prior time? No, I think not. I think what it emphasizes is that the deployment of troops and tactical plans are associated with a defensive territory of Western Europe far forward. Eastern boundaries is not kind of played a withdrawal or giving up a territory in a movement to a defensive depth, such as during World War II. I don't believe that the future conflict would evolve as did World War II in a world in which each side possesses large numbers of nuclear weapons and conceivables to me that there would be such a contract. I think I've mentioned to you before the stockpile of nuclear weapons in Western Europe provided for the use of NATO has doubled in the last six years and now in the order of 7,000 weapons. It's inconceivable to me that you would have a long extended three or four year conflict under those circumstances. Yes. Yes, this is a very serious problem. It's one that Mr. Vance and I are both concerned with. He in particular has been working on it. I'd like to This is a very serious and difficult question. We are at the present time giving intensive study to the problem in 13 selected areas on the basis of this intensive work which is going forward we hope that we will be able to move forward more rapidly eliminating this discrimination. It's a problem with which we are seized and with which we much make progress. Mr. McNamara and I are devoting a great deal of time to this along with Secretary Morris and hope that we can come forward with some constructive action in the not too distant future. Do you have a report, sir? I have no deadline at this point. 13 areas? Yes, I don't have them on hand but I'd be happy to make that file. Mr. Secretary, Senator Simon is saying that our failure to bomb the Northgate airfield is costing us hundreds of planes of air. Is our decision not to bomb them based on military reasons or diplomatic reasons? It's based on our desire to avoid widening the war. To seek to obtain our political objective which is a very limited objective the smallest possible cost in American life. We think the present tactics are best suited to those two objectives. As you know, we have lost about 500 aircraft attacking the lines of communication of other targets in North Vietnam. Of that 500 something on the order of 40 have been lost to surface-to-air missile attacks. Today, there have been over 1900 such attacks. In the past roughly a year and a half or a year and eight months. It's only a small percentage of the losses have been lost from this. Part of this accounts for the fact that only a small percentage of our sorties are directed against surface-to-air missile sites. Only a small percentage of the total 500 aircraft have been lost to mega-tacks. I believe it's on the order of 10 U.S. aircraft that have been lost to mega-tacks compared to roughly 40 mega-aircraft that have been shot down in air battles with mega-tacks. We think that at least under present circumstances and this belief can change as time goes by, but we think that at least under present circumstances the loss in U.S. lives will be less if we pursue our present target policies than they would be where we would attack those aircraft. It's always a balancing of gains and losses in terms of U.S. lives and U.S. political objectives. The administration of the groups in France said that Senator Greening recently came out with a report that he was familiar with saying that our government lost one billion dollars with this relocation and one billion dollars loss with air forts and hospitals. He said the fault is that we had not negotiated with France and then he said that by saying that this will happen that deriving his conclusion from the fact that the value of U.S.-occupied bases and facilities in France approximated $850 million, a great close to his billion. The portion of that, by the way, had been financed by NATO infrastructure payments, and in a sense, was a multilaterally financed facility. But it is true that we did occupy facilities in France, costing about $850 million. And that no financial settlement relating to those facilities has yet to be made. But negotiations are underway both by the United States and other members of NATO, with France seeking such a financial solution. And I can't predict now either when they will be concluded or what the conclusion will be following the determination of the negotiations. Let me take a question here. Could you tell us when we might expect the release of the status report on the ammunition from the Home Security Regime? I believe that the staff of the committee and members of the department are still discussing the issues. I know there was a meeting last Friday on it, and I don't think either the staff or the committee are working in the department and completed on that date. So I can only tell you that work is proceeding but hasn't been completed. One from last year, sir. Thank you. All right. That's a good time. The answer to your question is I don't know. I don't think that the report is going. I'll get one clarification.


Thanks everybody for hanging out to the bitter end of Keynotes this morning. I did want to thank you all for coming to Summit again. Having you all here means a lot to me and really being able to spend time with the community and our contributors, our committers, and our members is a really important time for me and for the Foundation. I want to share a few stats with you. We've had an amazing summit that had 144 keynotes, breakouts, and lightning talks. So thank each and every one of you for submitting, giving, and participating in those. We have 63 member companies, which we talked quite a bit about over the last couple of days, eight certified platforms, and we had 1,525 of you come to this event. On Wednesday, I showed a little bit about our velocity, and I want to really reiterate that. We are a high-growth open-source platform that spans 40 projects, and we've seen an increase in both pull requests and commits. And one of the numbers I want to highlight up here is that this doesn't all come from our committer base and our maintainer base. A lot of this comes from contributors and people like you that submit pull requests. And so I'm going to continue to ask for each and every one of you to be part of that and give back either through pull requests for code or documentation, or just participating in and amplifying and sharing the stories we've done here today this week. We had two new certified platform providers join us this week, Susie, and then of course Cloud.gov. We've got 63 members now with Alibaba Cloud joining as a Gold member, which was a great announcement and makes me really, really excited about the rest of 2018. So thank each and every one of the 63 members for being part of and continuing to be a part of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. So I have some news, hackathon. Thank you all for participating. It's super awesome. We've had some amazing projects come out of the hackathon. Last year there was some great work on serverless, which I think has actually been an incubated project. Am I right? No. It should be. Chips saying no. But Team Blockhead is the winner. Congratulations to Team Blockhead. Team Blockhead developed a Blockhead service broker, which I like that name. I feel like we should definitely work this one into the incubation projects. Is Ethereum blockchain that deploy smart contract applications on Cloud Foundry? And I feel like this is going somewhere. AI and ML have been a big conversation this week. But I don't think we've talked about blockchain up here. And I feel like we're missing that term. Huge shout out to the team that did this for the IBMers. Jonathan, Swetha, Nima, and Morgan, thank you all for developing such an awesome one. Morgan, I see you in the middle. Thank you all for developing an awesome solution. And we're excited to see this. And I want to see more work on this. So this year, we were blessed to have Swarna join us and lead our community. And I want to reiterate that again. And one of the things Swarna has brought to us is something that we were missing and we didn't spend enough time doing, which is thinking our community. And so we've created the community awards. And the community awards are nominated and voted on by our community. It really reflects the people that are doing amazing work in our community. And so we're starting it off at this particular summit and it's going to come up at each and every one. But our first winners of the champions award are Greg Otto from Comcast and Dr. Nick from Stark and Wayne. Dr. Nick, I worked really, really hard for a joke and I couldn't come up with one, so thank you anyway. For those of you that know Dr. Nick, I should have had something in here, but I couldn't come up with anything. Also, most valued contributors, and again, this is voted on and nominated by our community. We have a lot of amazing contributors, close to 3,200 if you've saw the number. But this year, we really wanted to pay special recognition to Dr. Jules, Dr. Max, and Huey who have really led the way in doing so much of the transformative work around Cloud Foundry and the code. And so we wanted to give a special shout out to each and every one of you. So that's for the community awards. And then the foundation wanted to recognize some of the work that's going on in our community as well. We wanted to give a special shout out and a really big thank you to the GE Digital Security Team. The GE Digital Security Team has been super helpful and keeping our platform secure. They are the most active and responsible reporters of discovered vulnerabilities and continue to feed those back into the community and into the upstream. So we wanted to give a huge thank you to the GE Digital Security Team. And of course, I really need to thank our sponsors. Our sponsors are what make this possible. You're the ones that allow us to have this event. We are a very small non-profit, I want to reiterate that a lot. We're a very small non-profit and we cannot put this event on without our sponsors. So a huge thank you to our platinum sponsors, Dynatrace, IBM, Pivotal, and VMware. But also our gold sponsors, AWS, Google, Microsoft, SAP, and Sousa, and then our silver sponsors. And the rest of you that have really contributed so much of your time and effort to make this event happen. It doesn't happen without our sponsors and those of you that make it possible. Another thank you and one that's near and dear to my heart is Cognizant. Thank you Cognizant for sponsoring our diversity scholarship and allowing us to fund and bring other people and include other people in this event and in our community. So thank you Cognizant. And finally, a couple of news items, Cloud Foundry in the news. We got a lot of pick up this week on the news, Tech Crunch. Thank you, Frederick. I'm gonna thank Frederick because he's sitting right up front. But obviously, we got a lot of interest in both Alibaba joining, but also cloud.gov and Sousa's announcements. And we're really excited to talk more about those. And we get really, we're really grateful when the press recognizes the momentum and the excitement and the enthusiasm in our community. Also, we were trending on Twitter. So thank all of you for tweeting, hashtag CFSemmit. We were trending and it was nice to see so much conversation and communication going on. And that's a huge thanks to all of you that are here at the event and participating and driving that effort. And I would be remiss if not thinking all of our ambassadors. Those people with the nice red ribbons on. You have been such an instrumental part in this event. You've answered questions. You've participated in events. You've led conversations. And you continue to be an active and engaged member of our community. And without you, this event would be really impossible to do. So thank you all to the ambassadors. And finally, thank you to the team at Cloud Foundry Foundation. This event is put on by a very small number of people who work really, really hard all week to make sure that you're having a good time, that we have good content, and that we have food. And then most importantly, we have coffee. So thank you all for making this event possible and successful. And finally, if you're wondering, when can I go to summit after today? What am I going to do with my time? Well, you can join us in Basel, Switzerland in October and do this all over again. We'll be back in Basel for the second time. We're really excited to be back there. If you haven't been to Basel, this is a good excuse to go visit Basel. And then today, I want to remind everyone, we have an amazing set of content, sessions, and tracks going on today. Find a track, find a session, and learn a little bit more about Cloud Foundry. And lunchtime, 12.20 today. We have the diversity lunch, and we will be screening the Chasing Grace project, which is a documentary that's put on by Jennifer Cloer. She's going to be here. We're going to screen it, and then we're going to talk to her a little bit about the efforts behind this documentary. And this is her first in the series. It's 80.20 addressing the gender pay gap. So if you can make it, please come by, have lunch, and join us for some conversation. And with that, I will see you all in Basel. Thank you.


Imagine a move to earn game that's a mix of Pokemon Go and Tamagotchi that you can start playing completely for free on the Solana blockchain. That is exactly what Geno Pets is. Because the community has been so interested in this project, we decided to reach out to the Geno Pets team and do our very first projects AMA slash interview directly with the team. Almost every single question in this interview came directly from the community. So if you dropped a question under my Twitter post, you might have a shout out in this video. Now the interview is over an hour long, so we decided to break this down into a five part series where we cover what Geno Pets is, Geno Pets gameplay, how you can earn money playing Geno Pets, some of the exciting new features come into Geno Pets like skill based battles, and of course our favorite tokenomics and sustainability for this project. In this five part series, we will be talking with Geno Pets COO Kevin Kim, who goes into great detail on everything that you need to know about this new move to earn game, or should I say the original move to earn game, including some major alpha on what he thinks the demand is going to be growing for in the future. They're going to be the most important and necessary ingredient. Oh, and one more thing, Geno Pets was nice enough to give me 100 activation codes. So stay tuned to the end to find out exactly how you can get one. Let's jump right into part one of this five part series where Kevin will introduce himself, Geno Pets, and share some background on the team who put it together. Alrighty guys, I am here with the surprise guests that I have for today's video, which is Kevin, and if you guys don't know who Kevin is, he is the COO of Geno Pets. Kevin, how are you doing today? How's everything going? Doing well, man. Things are hectic, but super exciting. Very excited to be here, and thank you for having me on. For those who don't know, I'm Kevin. I actually joined the project, I think, as the first full-time employee after the three co-founders, and that was back in November or very early November of last year. So a long time ago, but also a very short time ago, all things considered. Wow, that's amazing. And how did you get involved? How did you hear about Geno Pets? How did you get involved in the project? Personally, I've been a crypto enthusiast since, in fact, back in 2013 or so. Back then I didn't realize I had no idea how big the whole category would ever become, but that's when I first started to sniff around Bitcoin and learn about things. I never thought it would become a professional pursuit. My background over the last eight years has been in a different sort of gaming, the sports betting, online casino, and online skill games. I worked in that industry for between seven and eight years. Around last year, a very close friend of mine who I had never worked with professionally, but had always been a close friend, kind of floated this idea by me of a startup that he was starting to raise for that individual as Albert Chen, our CEO and CTO. And he started describing the concept to me. And even before we even talked about the crypto or NFT side of it, I was immediately intrigued because I'm a gamer, much like many other people on the team. And they were hiring. It was a big change for me to shift not only industries, but enter essentially a startup environment versus a more established corporate environment that I was at. But you know, that was about 10 months ago and I haven't looked back. So for someone who is completely brand new to GenoPets, they've never heard of GenoPets. What is GenoPets and how did it come about? We're at the intersection of many things. And there's a lot of different phenomenons, concepts, technologies that are coming together for our game. But if I had to start somewhere with and I was explaining it to someone who had never heard of it before, I would describe it as a free to play game, a free to play mobile game that makes it fun and rewarding to live an active lifestyle. It is a virtual pet care and evolution game where the GenoPet is your digital pet. It's your own spirit animal. It's a representation of you and your efforts within our game universe. And, you know, just like any other virtual pet care game out there, the game is about evolving that pet, building a bond with it, going on adventures with it, customizing it, battling it, and really just progressing through the game experience and the journey provided by the game alongside this virtual animal, this creature that really represents all the work that you've put into pursuing an active lifestyle. And the way we've done that is by integrating step counting so that the app tracks the number of steps that you take and ports it into the game as energy for your pet. Basically, if you want to do anything within our game, you need to move first and generate that energy so that your pet can evolve, battle, explore, become customized. And for you to unlock any feature in the game, you have to move. And so in some ways, it's like a Tamagotchi or a Pokemon Go. But the way that I like to kind of frame it for people is that it's a Tamagotchi. If you've ever heard of this game where you take care of a pet, it's a Tamagotchi for the 21st century. It's for us today. As in, it's a Tamagotchi you take care of by taking care of yourself. That was definitely a very popular game back then. And Pokemon Go, I think everybody's heard of Pokemon Go. And that was a phenomenon, like a few years back, that took the world basically by storm. I'm sure that you know this, but there's a lot of projects all of a sudden that are, you know, move to earn. What is it true that GinoPet was the original move to earn game? Yeah, I mean, look, we didn't file a patent and I don't even think you can trademark stuff like this. Certainly when you're a startup, that's not what you're thinking about. But if I look back on the documented materials, if you look back at our initial pitch deck, that we were floating around to our, the people that would become our seed investors as early as summer of last year, you'll see that the term that was there, and I mean, it may have been used before, but as far as we're concerned, we actually went through the process of coining that term. And the way we got there was initially we were inspired by the success or the meteoric rise of, you know, games like Axie and others that really led the way in the play to earn space. But what kind of really attracted us almost separately was this idea of move to play. So this idea that, you know, it's a game that requires you to be away from the screen in order to progress. And from there, combining move to play and play to earn is what got us to move to earn. How's GinoPet's differentiating itself from its competitors in both move to earn and the player in space? I think the first point I'd make is that we don't actually view the other players or projects in the space as competitors, or at least not as direct competitors. For one, you can, for move to earn, you can play all the games at the same time. I will say what makes us unique is first and foremost, it's a pet care RPG. It's an actual role playing game or similar to it where this pet is an NFT, yes, but that and the NFT technology is basically what allows this pet to evolve and grow and take on mutable and immutable characteristics as a result of the work that you've put in. And I think that's a little bit different from what anyone else is doing in the move to earn space, maybe even to a great extent in the play to earn space, because we're essentially leveraging the time-honored gamification mechanics from these traditional RPGs and virtual pet care games and subverting them for this process of pursuing a more active lifestyle. Most other plays in the space that I've seen are more centered on how can we get you to walk more or how can we reward you for this very specific behavior? We've taken a less direct path. We focused more on creating an end-to-end game experience that leverages what games can do to change behavior for something like pursuing a more active lifestyle. And the best way we've, and the way we've landed on is by pursuing this idea of the NFT is a pet, a living breathing pet within our world that you have to take care of by taking care of yourself. And that distinction is important because I think when it's all about the individual and the individual walking more to earn more, it's a very self-centered sort of journey. Whereas with this pet, this avatar that you're kind of taking care of, sometimes you do things, if there are any pet owners out there, you do things for your dog, your cat, you'll get up and walk your dog, you'll do things for them that you wouldn't necessarily do for yourself. And that idea is sort of central to what we're doing. Can you elaborate a little bit more on the rest of the team's background and experience prior to GenoPets? Yeah, absolutely. We've got a very eclectic mix of experience, specialties, expertise within the team, as well as in a more narrow sense within the leadership team. And my other C-level officers are Albert, he's our CEO and CTO. He comes from a long and very established background of e-commerce, as well as, you know, participating in and leading software projects, mostly passion projects, because that's where I think that's really what drives him, his interest in the technology and the possibilities they're in. On the product and design side, we've got Ben, who has had an award-winning career, actually, I should call out, in product design and UI and UX design. And so he's the artistic mastermind behind the look and the feel of the game. And then we've got Jay, our Chief Marketing Officer, who, you know, he's a crypto veteran, oversaw and contributed to the rise of Block 1 and just has been involved in a number of crypto and token related projects and has a number of successful token launches to his credit. I hope you guys have enjoyed part one of this five-part interview with GenoPets COO Kevin Kim. If you guys want a free activation code, I have 100 to give away. Drop a comment below referencing your favorite part of this video with your thoughts or comments on it. And of course, make sure you subscribe to the channel, goes without saying. Now make sure to watch part two of this interview where we talk about GenoPets gameplay. We go through the entire process of getting started and creating your unique GenoPets, including a personality quiz that you have to take in order to create your GenoPets. I think it is going to blow your mind. If you're not already, make sure to hit subscribe. I'll see you on the next one. Peace and love.


Hey everybody, this is Brett, and today I'm going to show you how to put your roof rack rails on your Jeep Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer. I'm talking about the cross members that go across the rails up there. I'm going to show you how to put those on the proper way and all the tools that you're going to need. If you didn't get them from Jeep in your vehicle, you're going to need a couple different tools and bolts to do it. This is going to be good for 2022, 23, and 24 Jeep Wagoneers and Grand Wagoneers. If you would have got the convenience group, you would have got the roof rack rails, but if you didn't get the convenience group, you're going to have to order those rails and you can get that through any of your local Jeep dealers. So let's get right into it, and if the video helps you out, remember to like, subscribe, and share on the YouTube channel as well as considering the super thanks button if I helped you out and saved you some time. So let's get right to it. So back here is going to be where your roof rack rails are located. You may want to grab a step stool before you start your project here to put these rails on, but they're going to be located right under this cover and they come packaged like this in their Styrofoam and they're always placed right in here. To get these out, you're going to want to make you get this Styrofoam out and kind of remove them like so. That'll go down nice and slowly. So you get two rails with the roof rack kit. You only get two. You could get a third if you wanted, if you really needed it. So you can see that these come out like so. So these are exactly the same. There's no difference between one or the other. They're exactly the same. The biggest difference is how you're going to adjust them. So there is an adjustment bolt right there. There's also an adjustment bolt right here, and that will determine where you put those on the top of the vehicle. I have them loosened up already and they slide like so. Then you can slide them out like that. So if you slide both of them out, that is for the front. If you slide one of them in and one of them out, that's for the middle. And if you slide both of them in, that's for the back of the vehicle. Once you do that, they also give you a kit back here where they give you this tool. This is a Torx 30 and it's also a Torx wrench. So when you're tightening them, you can make sure you're not over tightening them and wrecking the screws. And then you get eight screws. So these are special screws. Obviously they're Torx 30 on the top and they are M6 by 1.0. That has to do with the thread and the length of the screw. And there's my notes right there. If you didn't get these or you needed to replace them, that's what you're going to want to replace them with. So you get those and your Torx wrench. The next thing that you're going to want to do, we're going to do it on the front here. So I'm going to put them all the way out, tighten these down so that they can't move. You just want to get them snug. You don't want to over tighten them. You just want to get them nice and snug because once they're on the roof, they'll be locked into place. And then the next thing you do is these pieces right here spin and then they snap into place. So then that's locked into place and can't move. You're going to want to do that with the other side as well. Careful not to pinch your fingers. And now you're ready to put them on top of the roof. So let's go do that. All right. So we're all ready to install our front roof rack rail. I've got both ends all the way out to accommodate for the front because it's wider in the front than it is the back. First thing you're going to want to do is make sure you got all your tools. I got my Torx 30. I've got my bolts here and I got two out already. So you're going to want it. There's these push pins that are in where the bolts go and they just pop right out of there like so. Bring your bag up for your bolts so you can put the push pins in there and not lose them because if you're like me and you don't put them in a certain spot, they get lost and you don't know there. So now that we got those out, you're going to want to position your roof rack rail in the right position. There's actual triangles on here. That means that this has to be facing forward. The triangle has to be facing forward to go on here. So you're just going to want to get it into place, kind of set it up like so. And once we get the other side, those will go in. Now you're not going to want to use the torque wrench right away. You're just going to want to get these started up here. With metric bolts you got to always get it nice and straight so that they thread properly. It's always tricky getting them to thread. All right, we got both of them threaded. Now I'm going to do the other side so that you can see when it goes in how it looks and that's really all that's to it. Then we got to use the torque wrench to torque it down a little bit and you should be good to go. So the reason you don't want to torque those down is so that you can get these out and kind of get this out of the way. You want it a little bit loose so that you can adjust it. And you're sometimes you're going to have to push in just a little bit to get the bend right. And you can grab your other bolts like so. Put your push pins away so they don't get lost. And once again we're just going to want to hand tighten these for right now because as you can see I have to adjust this as I'm doing this so we don't cross thread these bolts. They really don't make this extremely easy. Like you'd think the people that made the Wrangler would understand quickness and ease. I guess not so much. It's not too bad. They're just kind of a pain to get to. All right so now you're going to want to use once you get them tight. There's a torque wrench so there's a line right there and once you get it in there you're just going to if you if you're pressing and it's and you're pressing that plastic piece past that you've already got them tight enough I believe. You just don't want to over tighten them. Once again I think just getting them snug is probably pretty good and that's really all that's to it. All right that does it for this video. Pretty easy, short, and simple. Thank you so much for checking out the video and remember to like, subscribe, and share on the YouTube channel. And if I saved you any time and money consider the super thanks button. I really appreciate it. It helps me out personally a lot. And if you have any comments, questions, concerns, scathing, rebuttals, leave them in the comments section below. I love reading them. I love answering them helping you guys out. Again, like, subscribe, and share on the YouTube channel. In fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to my YouTube channel in the upper left. A link to all the demonstration videos I've done in the upper right. A link to all of our wagon-ear videos in the lower left. And a link to one of our latest YouTube videos in the lower right. Click those, check us out, subscribe, share. Thanks again for checking out the video. I really appreciate it. Peace out.


The titles that you're using for your products on eBay have a strong and significant effect on how many times you're going to sell that specific product. That is because eBay's search engine optimization all lies around the title that you're using for your product. Now, many times you could be selling the perfect product, but you have the wrong title so people are not gonna get to it and your title is not gonna get to the front page on eBay. In other times, all you have to do is do a little bit more twitching to your title and that way instead of getting some sales or no sales, you could be getting some to many sales. That all has to do with eBay's title and that is why here you're gonna learn how to generate the perfect title for your products on eBay. Using our free eBay generator tool, you will create the best titles that you can for your eBay products, outshine your competition, get to the front page and start scaling your sales and profits. Here is how our eBay title generator works. Now, to use this title builder, you're gonna have to search for the basic term of the product that you wanna add to your store. So first of all, here, for example, on the marketplace, I'm gonna keep it on eBay.com because that is where I'm gonna list my products and I can also exclude phrases. In other words, I can keep some words out of my keywords, out of my title if I don't wanna use them. In this case, I won't add any and I'll keep it on eBay.com and my general search term, the item that I wanna add to my store is, for example, a pet bowl. Okay, so that is the item that I wanna sell.  I'm not gonna write down the variations, the colors, just very specifically, what is the item that you are trying to sell in general. So here, for example, we're gonna go for pet bowl and click on search. Now, Autodesk is using eBay's database of the most common keywords. It's checking the competition. It's checking the average search volume and sales for these keywords. And here are the results that we got. So for the keywords pet bowl, we've got 97 and a half thousand average searches per month with an eight in competition, the higher the number is on the competition, the more competition there is on this item and how many average sales this keyword has per month, which is almost 1,500 sales for people who are purchasing anything that has the keyword pet bowl in it. Now, how do we generate a good title with for this pet bowl? Here are the keywords that we have. So we've got pet bowl food. Two pack set. So try searching for two packs of pet bowls because some people may have a cat and a dog. Some people may have two dogs or two cats. Some people may want one to be for food and the other to be for water. So the two pack set, as you can see here, has 47,000 average searches. It has a low competition and it has 712 sales per month. That's just the word two pack set. It doesn't have to do with pet bowls, but that is how you can get the information of the keywords that you're adding inside your title. So next, we also have pack set dog. So more two pack, three pack set dog portable. So we're seeing the word dog more than we're seeing the word cat, which means that dog is being searched more than cat. Set dog portable. So we're also looking at portable dog bowls and portable sets. Dog portable pet, portable pet bowl. So we're just, it's just a mix and match with these keywords that customers are searching on eBay. Bowl food and food and water and water collapsible. Water collapsible dish. So you can add all of these words to your title. Then we can move on to page two and continue seeing more keywords that we can add to our title. Now let's generate a title together. Let's this time go for a different product. Let's go for LED lights just to see another example. Now I'm gonna search for LED lights. So here we have the most used search terms for LED lights. We've got 50 foot LED lights. So many customers are searching for LED lights that are 50 feet long. Here we've got almost 55,000 average monthly searches with low competition and pretty nice sales. 824 sales per month is a good number. Next we've got LED lights strip. So people are looking for strip LED lights that are 50 feet long. Then we've also got light strip 5050. That's one of the color modes that you have. Strip 5050 RGB, red, green, blue. So all of the colors. 5050 RGB, Bluetooth. So many people are also looking for the Bluetooth feature inside these LED lights. And that just helps you understand also what other products inside the general product that you're looking for, what other products or what features inside that product are many people searching for every month. So this is also gonna help you find more products relevant and similar to those that you're trying to add to your stores. Therefore, multiplying and increasing your chances of making more sales and profits. So here for example, let's search for a 50 foot LED lights strip because that is where we're getting the biggest number of searches. Of course we've also got it on Bluetooth and everything else that we see down here. If we move to page two, remote for bar and for bar rooms, LED strip lights for bar rooms, makes sense. Let's now go to Walmart for example and search for 50 foot LED strip lights. Now I'm gonna go to this listing right here. It's just $12.49, very cheap for LED strip lights 50 feet. Let's add it to the draft section of our stores and optimize this title. So I'm gonna go to auto.ts, add products, single product, suppliers, Walmart, add the URL right here and click on edit now. And now the product is on my drafts page and I can optimize the title. And as you see here, the supplier came out with a really long title. 137 characters are filled in out of the 80 characters that I can have on my eBay title. So let's start optimizing this title together. So let's take a look at our keywords. So we've got 50 foot LED lights. Let's start with that. So we've got 50 foot right here. Put it in the beginning. So 50 foot LED strip lights. We're gonna also keep strip lights because we know that that keyword is good. Then we've got for bedroom, color changing, RGB. Let's see what we're gonna do with the rest of these words. So 50 foot LED lights, strip, we've also got that. We also need the 50 50 in there and Bluetooth. Let's see if all of that is relevant. So here on the supplier's website, I'm gonna search for 50 50. And as you can see right here in the description, it says our 50 50 RGB LED chips allow the red lights to blah, blah, blah. So we know that it has it, therefore we're gonna add it. So 50 foot LED strip lights, 50 50. Now let's search for the Bluetooth function. And it looks like it may not have it because this is the cheap version. And that is why it only cost $14.99. But as I can see right here, it's just used by a remote control. It doesn't have the Bluetooth feature. So we're not gonna add that. We're not going to say to our customers that this has something that it doesn't. So as we can see right here, 44 key infrared remote control. That is what it comes with and that is fine. RGB, we know that it has that. So let's add RGB. And let's see what else we're getting here. Color change. So people are looking for the words color change too. So let's add that also. And by the way, another thing that you would wanna do here is add another LED strip light that does have the Bluetooth feature. That's how you're gonna get more ideas for similar products to the niche that you're looking at for what could sell. So RGB, and we wanted to add color change or color changing. It doesn't have an app, but it does have a remote. Okay, so we still have some more room here. 50 foot LED strip lights, 50-50 RGB color change with remote control. And as you see, we filled in 64 out of the 80 characters that we have on our eBay titles. Now we do wanna take full advantage of our eBay titles and write as many relevant words as possible. The more relevant they are to the product, the better. And the stronger they are, the more people are actually searching for them, then of course, the better. The higher the chances that you're gonna make great sales from this product. Okay, so let's continue. We wanna make it to the first page on eBay. Let's see what other words people are searching for. Let's go over to the second page. And then we've got for bar, for bar rooms. It's also for rooms. So now that we're out of features that people are searching for when searching for LED lights, let's add all of the four. What is this product for? So we know that people are searching for bars. People are searching for bar rooms. So let's add that because you can add this product to bars. So for bar rooms. Okay, I wanna have bar and rooms separately. So if people are just searching for rooms, they're also gonna get to this listing. And that pretty much takes up all of the main keywords that people are searching for. So now we can get more ideas from the supplier's website and better yet, even from the reviews that people are writing. So people are saying love the different color options. Exactly the way I wanted it.  Good colors. People are using the word colors a lot. You see, we got the word color here, color here, colors here. The colors here are really important for people but we already have the word color in the title. We have color changing. The light works, giving atmosphere to a room and lights on my car, the lights on my staircase. So someone is also using it for their staircase. Let's take that idea, okay? Cause it's always good to brainstorm new ideas that no one else has thought of that no database is gonna give you that info because it simply doesn't have it yet and you can be the first one to test it out. So here's something that I would add here. It's for bar rooms, staircase and we ran out of room. So now we need to eliminate the words that are not so strong, which is the last ones that I added cause I'm just testing them out. I'm not completely sure yet. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna delete the word case and stairs. Yeah, actually after bar rooms, we're pretty much out of room. So there's no reason to look for more words after for bar rooms. I didn't notice that we're at 77 out of 80 characters. That is enough. This is a good title. 50 foot LED strip lights, 50-50 RGB color change with remote control for bar rooms. We filled up the title in the best way possible according to the eBay title builder, according to what we saw on the supplier's website, what we can also read down in the reviews. This plus that can give you the perfect title for your products. Now, if you have enough keywords inside the title builder to build the whole title out of it, then go ahead and do so. But if you still have some more room and you're looking for what else you need to add, look for more features that the supplier has, look for what people are writing in the reviews, that is gonna help you generate a perfect title for your eBay products. Now, the last thing is you can use the title builder to generate the title from there and then copy the title to your listing. So here, for example, I could click on 50 foot LED lights and up here, it added it to the title. Okay, now let's continue. Let's also add LED lights strip. Okay, now we already have LED lights twice, so we're gonna remove that and keep strip. 50 foot LED lights strip. Okay, next we also want the 50-50, so let's add that there and remove the duplicate words. So we got 50-50 and RGB. And let's say you had Bluetooth here, so you would also add Bluetooth color change. Here, since we don't have it, we're going to remove the word Bluetooth and keep color change. And now we're at 43 out of 80 characters and you're gonna continue this. So app remote, here we don't have an app but we do have a remote, so we're gonna add with remote. And continue creating your title like this. Once you're done, you can click here on copy to clipboard or even if you're halfway done, then go to your product title, paste it here and continue adding in your words. I hope that this eBay title builder will help you create and generate the perfect titles for your eBay listings, therefore increasing your sales and increasing your profits. Good luck creating your eBay titles and enjoy this wonderful free service.


We have recently seen signs of recovery from the effects of COVID-19. Economic, social and cultural impacts of a pandemic cannot be ignored and we must be prepared to handle similar situations in the future. Recent cases of monkeypox have raised concerns about potential pandemics, requiring proper protocols and methods to deal with them effectively. Early detection and treatment are essential to prevent further spread of the disease. To address this issue, we propose an ensemble learning-based framework to detect the presence of the monkeypox virus from skin lesion images. First, we use three pre-trained base learners, inception V3, inception and dense net 169, to fine-tune on a target monkeypox dataset. Then, we extract probabilities from these deep models and feed them into the ensemble framework. Finally, we combine the results using a beta-function-based normalization scheme and a sum rule-based ensemble.  The results show that it achieved an average of 93.39%, 88.91%, 96%. This article was authored by Reshav Pramannik, Bihann Banerjee, George Fomenko, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


People trying to lose weight or control their diabetes can drink or not drink certain things to increase their chances of success. This is true even if they're attempting to practice intermittent fasting and or follow a keto or half keto whatever the diet you're on the drinks you consumed or consume can make or break your efforts to control your blood sugar or lose weight. Hello you're watching SugarMD channel. My name is Dr. Ahmed Ergin. I'm a diabetologist and a hormone specialist. Some beverages can help you to improve your metabolism, reduce insulin resistance and lower insulin levels. We'll get to the best ones right now. We will also discuss what not to drink. Majority of people have heard the intermittent fasting, right? Even though it has received a lot of attention recently, intermittent fasting is not a new concept. Fasting has been practiced for a long time for a variety of reasons including spiritual health or survival etc. It is a way of eating that is usually associated with high protein or ketogenic diets if those work for you. However, it raises a number of questions particularly if you are unfamiliar with the concept of intermittent fasting. You may be wondering if you can drink coffee, water or any other beverages during your fasting periods. It is possible to undermine the weight loss benefits of intermittent fasting if you consume any beverages containing carbohydrates, proteins or even fats while you're fasting. You already know that intermittent fasting diets have been linked to lower insulin resistance and better sugar control both of which may lower your risk of diabetes. If you consume a lot of liquid calories at a time when you should be fasting these advantages may be quickly lost unless you are conducting a dry fast which is quite difficult on your body. Follow the steps that I'm gonna talk in this video today. They are one of the most popular things that we are gonna talk about today that you may want to drink while fasting. Whether or not they will cause you lose your fast we'll talk about. Number one is coffee. Now if you prefer it black drink it black drink it that way. Coffee as you may have heard also can raise the blood sugar if you have type 1 diabetes or if you are very insulin resistant. However, because black coffee contains no calories it is permissible to consume during the fasting period. It is best not to add sugar, cream or milk to your coffee because it will increase the calorie content which will cause you to lose your fasting state. If you're doing keto instead of intermittent fasting then you can add a little heavy cream. Add calorie-free cinnamon guys. The spice flavoring to your coffee makes it taste a lot better if you don't want to add extra calories. Save the coffee add-ons when you're not on a fast. I am also occasionally asked about MCT oil. In general depending on who you ask this can be a little more contentious at least you know open to interpretation. But adding fats to your coffee including MCT oil according to strict fasting rules yes it breaks your fast. I recommend high quality MCT dough for people who follow intermittent fasting programs on a regular basis especially if their goal is to keep blood glucose low and give the body time to rest and digest. Fats don't have as much impact on your fast as carbohydrates or protein do as long as you don't overdo it. This is true if your goal is to improve your overall insulin sensitivity as long as you don't overeat. Because at the end of the day calories are calories. They add up quickly if you don't pay attention. One gram of fat for example contains nine calories while one gram of carbohydrate contains four calories. Now consuming too many carbohydrates can lead to insulin resistance and it's a lot easier to consume too much compared to fats and that will lead to insulin resistance. The fat in the solid foods keep you full longer for example but drinking calories make you less likely to notice or feel full. The fat in the solid foods keep you full longer but drinking calories make you less likely to notice that fullness. People who drink coffee with MCT oil claim also that they have better morning concentration because of the medium chain fats that are found in MCT oil and they are quickly converted into ketones which is an alternative source of energy for your brain. MCT oil is available in healthful stores and of course on the internet. If you're fasting I also just limiting yourself to one cup of coffee per day and if possible drink decaf coffee. Caffeine especially when consumed on an empty stomach can make you also feel jittery making you want to eat or snack more because of the jittery feeling. Drinking more than one cup of coffee would only make someone jittery that's all if you're sensitive to it of course but caffeine also raises cortisol levels in your body which is not good either for fasting. To refresh your memory cortisol is body's stress hormone and increasing the cortisol during fasting may set off a chain reaction of hormones that leads to increase in your blood glucose which is what we don't want to happen right. One of the most important advantages of fasting is that it allows you to keep your blood sugar and insulin levels low and drinking too much caffeine can be counterproductive for this goal. Now number 10 the list is a steaming cup of tea. If you are fasting you can drink tea as long as it is brewed with tea bags leaves or flakes rather than an instant tea which contains you know a lot of calories and you have to make it taste better etc and the bottled iced tea is frequently overly sweetened so stay away from that. If you have to just choose the unsweet ones right adding honey milk or cream to your coffee or tea should only be done after you're done with fasting. It's not a big deal to use stevia or monk fruit as a sweetener though if you have to have the sweetness but Splenda or sweet and low not so much. Because tea contains less caffeine than the coffee you can drink a little more of it while fasting however I believe it is still best to limit your intake of caffeine and it beverages as much as possible. Number three what about a glass of water? Well you don't need to limit your drinking unless you have a low sodium level in your blood some people do but drinking water while fasting is generally a good idea because it keeps you hydrated, fills your stomach and keeps your hunger at bay. However there are some exceptions because bottled water for example has already been thoroughly cleaned and stripped of its nutrients. Adding electrolytes to plain water may actually help you stay hydrated for a longer period of time. You could instead drink mineral water a splash of lemon or lime juice can be okay, a few fruit slices or even another juice like a tablespoon can improve the flavor of that water. As long as the amount of the juice is true splash rather than a pour okay. Approximately that would be like one tablespoon for 12 pounds of water. Carbonated water or seltzer can be thought as pretty much the same way as a regular water most of the time as long as it is not artificially flavored and has no calories. How about apple cider vinegar? Because apple cider vinegar contains only a trace of carbohydrates it is unlikely to really disrupt your fast. It may also make you feel fuller while keeping your blood sugar stable. When it comes to apple cider vinegar less is more in terms of how much you consume though. To get the best results just use 1 to 2 tablespoons in a bottle of water. You can also make the bottle of water tasty by adding some lime juice etc to make it taste a little bit better. So then which liquids you should really be avoiding during the keto and in terms of the fasting plan? Now first one is the milk. Milk is in the you know some people say it's in the gray area there's quite a bit of disagreement about it whether it should be consumed during a fast or not. But the answer is largely determined by how much and what type of milk you consume. If you do like a splash of milk to your morning coffee or tea it may not be horrible. This should be low in calories and carbohydrates so you can at least fast all day but to begin you may find a splash of milk kind of helps to elevate the hunger if it is a high-fat milk. A cup of coffee with milk will not interrupt your fast as we discussed but dairy products that contain a lot of sugar and carbs it can adapt to your calories that includes your milk. For example a milk has 100 calories per cup 12 grams of carbohydrates. It makes no difference that milk contains protein or fat as long as it has carbohydrates in it right? Like I said a splash of milk in your coffee in the morning may not break it totally but you have to be careful about the carbohydrates. Now how about the bone broth? Well hold on there if you enjoyed drinking bone broth in a warm mug you should wait until your fast is over my friend. Bone broth is very high in protein which is great it's popular among people following the paleo diet or even keto diet but like we discussed in previous videos how protein actually can raise your blood sugar as well although it's much lower rate than carbohydrates but it can definitely still increase your insulin levels which is not we want in a fasting state but if you're not fasting and you're on a ketogenic diet I will still keep an eye on your total protein intake while drinking this drink because ketogenic diet still calls for 80 fat and adding too much protein in your diet may not be the best. Now number three drink that you should be avoiding is coconut water. Although coconut water has a lot of health benefits it's not best liquid to drink while fasting. Now coconut water is more than just water it contains carbohydrates as we know but it has a lot of electrolytes as well however the carbs are broken down quickly so if you're drinking or enjoying the coconut water you should do so when you're breaking your fast. It is definitely unquestionably preferable to soda or your juice. Now alcohol is totally harmful to your health we don't want to even talk about that but I'm gonna talk about it. Not to consume alcohol at all if you're going to have a drink now and then it is best to avoid doing so when you're fasting so alcohol and fasting does not go together. Why? Because it's high in calories also it begins to dehydrate you and even raise your blood sugar levels as soon as it enters your body. Now a small amount of alcohol at dinner can actually help your blood sugar control by lowering the glucose produced from your liver. This is true as long as you limit yourself to one or two drinks at dinner and stay hydrated without adding extra juice or sugars in a cocktail or something like that. You cannot drink alcohol while fasting because it won't help you get the benefits from your fast. Number five drink that you should not be touching is a fruit juice. That's a definite no no and here's a quick reminder of what you should be doing. When you eat a piece of fruit you get the fiber as well as the juice from it. You can also consume fruit juice but the juice contains no fiber which is absorbed very quickly and definitely destroys your fasting immediately. Even when you're not fasting in between the fast when you're eating you should be preferring the fruit over fruit juice. Number six is soda. Well that's a no brainer. We're gonna avoid that. Nutritional value is close to nothing. They're always high in calories and sugar or the sweeteners that are not good for you. As we discussed before studies show that consuming too many artificial sweeteners found in sodas and stuff can cause you actually to crave and want more food and it can lead to weight gain even if there's no calories in them.  It can make you crave sweets in addition to removing the effects of fasting. Now many studies also show that drinking diet soda can cause weight gain even if you don't consume any extra calories while drinking it. Another thing that may be bad is your gut health. The flora from diet soda the gastric flora is affected and bad bacteria takes over your entire gut. So guys these are your drinks you should and should not be drinking if you are trying to achieve a successful intermittent fasting regimen. I hope you like this video. If you did give it a thumbs up share and like and subscribe. See you in the next video. Hey guys I hope you're enjoying this channel so far and I hope you subscribed already. 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This is one of those things. To make that great comedy, you gotta find a way to perform. I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies in general. Welcome to the very first episode of Movie Feuds Presents Real Time Reviews. Much like the great Siskel and Ebert, Cory and I are going to give you our thoughts in movies, playing in theaters. You get two reviews for the price of none. Because our show is free. Yeah. I'm going to let Cory kick it off by telling you all why you should run out and see Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Actually, I didn't see the movie. What? I didn't see it. We were supposed to go out and see the movie this weekend. Yeah, I know. It was between that, the Smurfs and the change-up. That's fine. I'll take it. I'll tell everybody why they need to run out and see this movie immediately. This film has great pacing and the focus stays tight on the main monkey Caesar, played by Andy Serkis. Andy Serkis, the same guy who was King Kong and I think Gollum? Correct. That guy only plays CGI characters? Correct. And he plays them well. Stick with what you know. He's been around the jungle for a few years and he owns this picture. This thing's got great character development with bits of action sprinkled throughout. All I saw in the trailer was action. So if that's the way the movie went, the pacing's pretty far-reached. You were talking about the original full trailer and I agree with you. It was very action-heavy, but they did come out with the second one later on. You probably missed that it was a lot slower and it really told a better story. And that was the story that was on the screen. From what I know of Planet of the Apes, it's kind of like iRobot and the fact that maybe we train the animals versus training or building the robots and then eventually they go haywire. Let's just say unlike iRobot, this one builds a much stronger foundation and it's one that doesn't have a conclusion. So don't go into this thinking there's a beginning, middle and end. It's much like the first part of Deathly Hollows. They're building up for something much bigger in the future. Fox's new cash cow, in other words. Are there any other characters in this? I mean besides CGI monkeys, John Lithgow is in this, right? I mean he's pretty solid. Yeah, he plays the dad of the main scientist and he's got Alzheimer's and basically the entire plot revolves around them trying to find a cure for this so they're injecting it into monkeys. Wait, wait, wait. The deep blue sea plot instead of sharks to monkeys? It's exactly the deep blue sea plot. The monkeys are getting stronger, smarter. If Ella Cool J makes an appearance, I'm through the doors. Spoiler, he doesn't. So Lithgow did a suitable job and the computer generated monkeys looked like real monkeys. Unfortunately, Sir James Franco didn't bode so well. Not a sir, but I can see James Franco being a little startled because he's only got Spider-Man under his belt when it comes to CGI. Yeah, that's true. 127 hours he did a phenomenal job and I thought, but I think where he struggled was he's acting in front of imaginary pixie dust in a green screen. You know, he can't see anything so he can't really react. Kind of like us. Kind of like us. There's really no other human characters to speak of other than like Draco Malfoy who plays Draco Malfoy, very one-dimensional. He's a nice tip to the Potter fans, that's about it. He's got a decade of being Draco Malfoy under his belt so he can't really break them up that easily. No, he does a good Draco Malfoy impression. So I was pleasantly surprised by this film. In fact, it was my breakout blockbuster of the summer that wasn't in the Potter series, of course.  You know, so there's a couple of dumb plot points that are not gonna spoil like a major plot hole early on in the film but just go see the thing, you'll like it, you'll have a good time and I'm gonna leave you there. More than just reviews, this is Movie Feuds. Presents real-time reviews.


Hi, and welcome to our session. Let us discuss the following questions. The question stage shows that the function given by fx equals to log x divided by x as maximum at x equals to e. Let's now begin with the solution. We are given that fx is equal to log x divided by x. Differentiating both sides with respect to x, we get that x equals to x into derivative of log x, that is 1 by x minus log x into derivative of x, that is 1 divided by x squared. And this is equal to 1 minus log x divided by x squared. For maximum or minimum value, so we have 1 minus log x divided by x squared equals to 0. This implies 1 minus log x is equal to 0. This implies log x is equal to 1, x is equal to e dash x. And this is equal to derivative of 1 minus log x. Using quotient rule, minus log x divided by x squared is equal to 1 minus log x. That's 1 divided by n to derivative of x squared to e divided by e to the power 4 to minus e divided by e to the power 4. And this is equal to minus 1 by e to the power 3. And this is less than 0, e dash x is, we can say that, maximum. So we have shown that fx equals to log x divided by x as maximum.