Hi there, it's Sandy Alnock and today I've got two fabulous drawings for you. Aren't these beautiful? Can you see them? It's time to try using more useless art supplies because there are some that I don't really find to use for. I've got two different papers and I'm going to use some of this Black Light ink because I found it fascinating and I thought I'd try it and I'm going to use my glass pens with it. Glass pens are really inexpensive. They're dip pens as opposed to pens with cartridges in them and I needed a Black Light. So I found this tiny Black Light flashlight. I don't know what I'm going to use that for either. I hear you can find cat pee with it if that's what you're looking for. But I bought it for this project because I wanted to see how this would work. So I have dipped my pen into the Black Light ink and I'm drawing on the white paper.  So I went for the Kansan XL because it's got a little tougher surface and held up better to the ink. So I tried a whole bunch of different ones and this is what I found worked best. And started drawing a river with fish in it because with everything going on in the world right now, if you're watching this in the time frame in which it actually went live, you'll know that we have been looking for justice. And I kept thinking about the verse from Scripture that talks about justice flowing like a river. So I had rivers on my mind. So I've got some fish swimming down a river in my doodle. The other drawing on the Black Paper, I was trying to think of an animal that was something I could draw on Black. And since the ink is light, then how is that going to play out on Black? And I realized I would have to draw something where the ink would be the light parts. And what would be a Black animal that I could draw? And a Black Panther was one of the first ones that came to mind. And so I drew that. I did give myself a couple of dots of reference. You can see little dots for the nose down there. And I put dots in the corners of the eyes because I'm not that good. I can't just totally make this up and make the line drawing come out evenly and that sort of thing. So I did give myself a little bit of cheaters, but just started working through making the fur and the eyes and all the features of the cat. One of the things I found out after I'd finished the drawing, which was a little surprised, but kind of seemed to make sense, is that a Panther, when you talk about characteristics that animals represent, one of the characteristics of a Panther is justice that it represents. I have no idea how or why anyone would come up with that, but it also makes sense with the Black Panthers, like why they would have chosen that animal back in the 60s when they were fighting for justice. So there's that regardless of whether you like or dislike what that means. That was just a little tidbit that I found out about Panthers as I was doing after I was finished with this drawing. So with this ink on black paper, one of the things that you need to think about is that it's going to dry back to that sort of purpley color. You can tell which parts are still wet because they're more that brighter green color and it all dulls out a little bit down to that purplish once it's completely dry. So you can even see that the nib of the pen is is much greener than everything else because that's the one that's been dipped into the fresh ink. And every time I make fresh marks on it, it tends to be brighter. So watch your hand if you use this ink. Don't lean in anything because you can't really see what you're doing. But when you are finished, you may find that you have glow in the dark fingers. I had a little bit of that going on myself. So there's that. But it was fun to play around with this ink.  If you used it on a card, the person receiving the card would have to have a black light to shine on it.  But if you have any idea on how one might use a black light ink, let me know. I'd like to do more with it because it was fun. But I have no idea what to use it for. So it might be the most useless art supply that I own, even if it was really fun and I might do it again sometime. It does not seem particularly helpful. So there you go. Supplies are listed in the doobly-doo. If you have an idea and you want to try it out yourself, there's also black light markers that I'll link down there. If you want to try colored black light markers, they look like they could be fun too. I might pick some up. And I will see you again in another video coming up soon.


welcome to today's lecture on the topic of radiometry. So, what exactly radiometry is? Radiometry is defined as the quantitative measurement of electromagnetic radiation. But in remote sensing, we will be interested in measuring the amount of energy coming in towards an object or going out from an object essentially. So, we will be measuring from satellites, what is the amount of energy that is being reflected or emitted by any object. So, for us to quantify the amount of energy coming out of an object, we need to know the various principles and the various terms associated with radiometry. So, radiometry essentially is quantitative measurement of EMR in various wavelengths. Before going into the concepts of radiometry, we will first revisit some basics that we learnt in our high school mathematics. One of the major important concepts to know is solid angle. So, we know what a plane angle is. A plane angle like when defined in like two dimensions, that is why we call it as a plane angle is defined as the ratio of the length of the arc l divided by the radius of the circle with the arc subtens at the center. Say if you have a circle and if you want to measure like any angle like this, let us say this is theta, let us label it as theta. So, this particular angle theta from the center point, it will subtend like one particular angle and the arc length that it subtends will have certain length. So, the length divided by the radius of the circle will give us the two-dimensional angle or the plane angle. Extension of plane angle into three dimensions is what we call the solid angle. In solid angle means we are going to do our angular measurements in the three-dimensional space where instead of a circle around a point, we are going to construct a sphere around a point. So, this particular sphere is going to again have a radius r. So, what we are going to calculate is if we take any surface area s on the surface of the sphere, what is the solid angle subtended by this surface area at the center of the sphere? So, you just take analogy with the plane angle. In plane angle, we are calculating the angle subtended by the length of this arc at the center for a circle with radius r. Similarly, in three-dimensional space, we are going to consider the solid angle subtended by the area like a small surface area on the surface of the sphere at the center of the sphere. So, the solid angle, it will be indicated either as omega. If two symbols will be used basically, different textbooks will use different symbols is defined as the area on the sphere divided by square of the radius. So, as per the definition, the solid angle any one notation you can use is given by s by r square. So, essentially a solid angle is a three-dimensional extension of a plane angle. In plane angle, we will be talking about circles and arcs. In solid angle, we will be talking about a sphere and the surface area of the small element that is there on the sphere which is subtending a given solid angle. In order to make it more clearer, now let us take two live examples. Normally, what we will do like during daytime or evening time, we will stand outside and try to observe the sun or the moon from with our eyes. So, when we see them, they will appear as like a disc to our eyes and that particular disc will actually subtend a solid angle in our eyes. So, when we see them, we perceive all objects in three dimensions. So, that particular sphere be it like a sun or moon, it will subtend a solid angle when we look up at them. So, what are we going to calculate now is we are going to calculate what is a solid angle subtended by sun or moon on our eyes when we stand on surface of earth and we observe them. So, now just look at this particular figure, assume we are standing at the point O. The point O is where the observer is standing and the observer is observing either the sun or the moon. It will appear as a disc to our eyes basically, we will see it as like a circle when we look up in the sky. So, what we essentially want to calculate is when we look up at those celestial objects, what is the solid angle subtended by them in our eyes. In order to know them, we need two quantities. One is the surface area of the disc that is visible to our eyes and the distance between that particular celestial object be a sun or moon and our point. So, if we know these two quantities, we will be able to calculate the solid angle subtended. First, let us start with the moon like here the question as this, calculate the solid angle subtended at earth by sun and the moon. The data is given is the mean distance of moon from earth quantity is given, radius of the moon is given to us and the mean distance of the sun from earth is given. Similarly, the radius of sun is given. So, first we will start with moon. So, we know the solid angle if we call it as like omega is given by the area of the disc divided by square of the distance the D is the distance. So, area of the disc essentially it will appear to our eyes as a circle. So, we all know that area of a circle is pi r square that is equal to pi into for moon the radius given is 1.74 into 10 power 3 kilometers. So, we are squaring it divided by the D given is the distance between earth and the moon is 3.84. So, this is like average distance if you stand on like different points on earth during different times in a year this distance will change, but this is the average distance all throughout the year we can assume. So, this distance squared. So, if we calculated we will get the value of 6.45 into 10 power of minus 5 stradian. The unit of solid angle is stradian whereas, the unit of plane angle is radians that also we know like for plane angle we call it as radians for solid angle the units are stradians. So, you essentially have to append your answer with the unit of s r stradian. So, what essentially it means moon when we look up into the sky it essentially subtends solid angle of around 6.4 into 10 power minus 5 stradian.  In circle if you draw a circle around a point we say the total angle within the circle is 2 pi radians. Similarly, when we consider a three-dimensional space for a solid angle the total solid angle within a full sphere is 4 pi stradians. So, here in this case if we look at the answer that we got for moon we can see the angle is very small 6.4 into 10 power minus 5. So, moon actually subtends a extremely small angle in our eyes when we see them. Now, next we will calculate what is the solid angle subtended by sun exactly the same thing solid angle subtended by sun at earth is equal to area of sun's disk divided by distance between sun and earth whole square. So, area of sun discuss again sun we will see it as a circle when we look up at it and the distance given is 6.96 into 10 power 5 kilometers whole square divided by the distance between sun and earth as given as 1.496 into 10 power 8 kilometers. So, we are squaring it if we calculate it we will get 6.79 into 10 power minus 5 stradians. So, if you compare the results or the answers of the solid angle subtended by sun and moon you can see both of them are quite similar with moon the solid angle subtended by moon is little bit smaller that is on an average days like when the earth and sun are its average distance the sun will appear bigger to our eyes because it is subtending like a biggest largest solid angle it will appear bigger to our eyes. Just imagine once in a year we heard about total solar eclipses right total solar eclipse are the days in which the moon will completely obscure the sun. We have seen such days like in news channels they will telecast how it is happening I think in the year 2018 or 2019 it happened over like US there are many people witnessed it lot of things happen it is like a important celestial event. So, what it will happen when we look up at it we would not see an object when something before it completely hides it essentially that is the idea. So, we all know what solar eclipses solar eclipses sun is behind moon is in front the moon completely abstract the sun that is what solar eclipses you look at the solid angle values given here the moon's solid angle is 6.45 into 10 power minus 5 radian sun's solid angle is 6.79 into 10 power minus 5 radian. So, sun naturally should appear larger to our eyes when we look at it. So, sun is larger moon is smaller but total solar eclipses also occur can you please think of it is in why please pass the video for a second and think and then you can play the video for the answer. The answer for the question is the distance that we have used here is the mean distance between earth and the sun. So, the distance between sun and earth and moon and earth will be keep on varying based on where the where those objects are where the earth sun and moon are with respect to their individual orbits each of them have their own orbits sometimes some earth goes closer to the sun in its orbit sometimes moon comes closer to the earth during its orbit. So, this distance that we have used is not constant it will vary with season or different days during total solar eclipses the moon comes very closer to us so the d square term in the denominator will go down and the solid angle will increase. So, that is because as the distance changes that radius of the moon is going to remain the same the moon disk or the solar disk area is going to remain the same that is not going to change but as the distance changes with different days moon will appear bigger to our eyes on certain days like full moon super moon and all we are seeing right. So, those days moon will come closer to us moon will appear much bigger actually. So, on those days what will happen moon will subtend the largest solid angle than sun that is why moon is able to obscure sun during total solar eclipses. So, solid angle is essentially what how much area and object covers in our vision when we look at it simply put. So, larger the solid angle larger the area an object will cover in our vision when we see if it is very small it will subtend a very small solid angle. So, as the object is growing bigger and bigger or as the object comes nearer to us it will appear larger to our eyes naturally and hence it will subtend a larger solid angle that is the concept how much area and object covers in our vision that is all. Now, we have seen the basics about plane angle and solid angle have solved a problem also. Now, we are going to get into the radiometric terms and its definitions. So, what are these radiometric terms or radiation quantities? In the earlier lectures I was repeatedly mentioning energy, radiation, radiant flux, radiant flux density all these terms. Those terms may appear similar when we hear them for the first time, but the way in which they are defined the way in which they are measured actually is very different. So, in this particular lecture we are going to talk in detail about the different quantification of this energy measurement. The first and basic quantity in energy measurement is energy itself. So, what energy is? Energy is the ability of ability to do some work say I am going to push some heavy object and move it. That means I am spending some energy from the body, I am transferring it through my hands to the object and I am moving it. So, energy is the capacity to do work. Similarly, for radiation also what is coming from the sun or what is emitted by earth, the radiation also has energy. So, the basic term is energy. So, unit of energy we all know joule. So, that is the basic quantity say whatever be the object, whatever be the time frame, what is the total energy content within it, we can like define or calculate using some extent. Now, let us say rather than energy we need to know what is the amount of energy coming in per unit time. That is I have some like what to say I have lit up a stove, I am keeping a pot of water filled over it. So, what I want to calculate what is the amount of heat energy being transferred from the stove to the pot of water I kept on top of it. If I switch on the gas stove, leave it for so much time and measure everything together, I would have calculated the total energy content. The heat energy supplied is this much. On the other hand, if I want to calculate the energy per unit time, so what I should do, I should measure the total energy transfer from the stove to the pot of water, somehow I should measure it. Simultaneously I should measure the time taken for this heat transfer say the water was cool and then I stopped the process when it started boiling, say it took some 10 minutes let us assume. So, what is the total amount of energy transfer I should calculate it and divided by 10 minutes in order for me to calculate the what is the amount of energy transferred per unit time that is every second what is the amount of unit energy transfer. And that particular term that is energy per unit time we call it as radiant flux. So, what is the amount of radiant energy per unit time? If you look at this with respect to like energy and power, power is equal to energy by time. These are all definitions we have learned in school physics. So, essentially radiant flux is nothing but the power of the radiation that is what is the amount of energy per unit time. So, for energy the unit is joule for power that is radiant flux the unit is joule per second or watt on the other hand. So, joule per second is defined as 1 watt that is what is the amount of energy spent per unit time. So, the symbol to denote is a capital letter phi.  So, here we are using a capital letter this is the conventional symbol used to indicate radiant flux. Now what have we done we have calculated the amount per unit time. Now my interest is let us go back to the example of stow and water pot. Rather than calculating in sorry in addition to calculating the energy per unit time I also want to calculate what is the amount of energy per unit time per unit area of pot that is let us assume the pot is like quite big say it occupies an area of say like it has a radius of around like say 2 meters very big pot let us imagine a very huge pot as if I am going to cook for like a big function huge pot let us imagine a 2 meter radius of pot it will have like a certain area we all know that it will cover like a huge area. Per unit area of the surface of the pot what is the energy I spent per unit time how I will calculate it I will first measure the total energy content I supply I will measure the total time taken for it then I will also measure the area of the bottom of the vessel then I will divide the total energy by time and also by area. So, here I will be getting the energy I spent per unit time per unit area this quantity we call radian flux density that is what is the amount of energy per unit time per unit area. So, the units for this is joule per second per meter square or watt per meter square. So, conventionally we will write it as watt per meter square. In remote sensing terms we will be interested normally in remote sensing of earth surfaces what we will do we will be having lot of objects on the earth surface and that particular object will receive energy from the sun similarly that particular object will emit energy on its own or reflect energy from the sun that we know. So, for remote sensing purposes in this radiometric term the exact definition of radian flux density is something like this. Let us say we have a small area here on a flat horizontal surface a flat horizontal surface the area is a. So, I am going to construct a hemisphere surrounding it. So, this hemisphere is like this is like land. So, there is like no full sphere if I stand here I will be able to see only a hemisphere around me right. So, I will construct a hemisphere around it. So, what is the energy falling on it falling on this particular object from within the entire hemisphere. So, I will say I am going to use a symbol of E E is equal to the energy coming in. So, energy I am going to represent it by this is like yeah radian flux sorry this is not energy this is radian flux that is per unit time I am going to divide it by the area a. So, the definition of radian flux density is if we have a small elemental area on a flat horizontal surface and construct a hemisphere surrounding it whatever the energy falling on that particular area from the entire hemisphere per unit time we call it as radian flux density. So, radian flux density means amount of energy per unit time per unit area and the units we use it for this is watts per meter square. Now, there are two terms involved one is here in this particular study itself I have written two terms one is irradiance and another term is emittance. What is the difference between irradiance and emittance definition wise they are the same, but the direction in which they are moving will define whether it is irradiance or emittance. If the object A is receiving energy from space or receiving energy from some other source we call it as irradiance on object A or other hand we will also write it as irradiance received by object A. On the contrary if A is an object that is emitting energy now again a flat horizontal surface and here the object A is there with a defined area I am again going to construct a hemisphere around it now this object is emitting energy into this hemisphere surrounding it. So, I am measuring the energy emitted by it in the entire hemisphere I am calculating the time taken for it I have to know the surface area of this this is what I call it as emittance. What is the energy emitted? So, the symbol we use this m m is defined by again the phi, but here this is now this is emitted divided by the surface area of the object. So, whether any surface is receiving energy or whether a surface is emitting energy we call it as irradiance or emittance, but technically both of these irradiance and emittance we should call as radiant flux density that is the correct technical term that is radiant flux density, but based on the direction whether it is coming towards an object or whether going out of an object we will classify it as irradiance or emittance. So, here please note we have considered a flat horizontal surface and the energy we have taken is in the entire hemisphere surrounding it. So, essentially we are talking about like a 2 pi solid angle surrounding a given object say if I stand here the solid angle surrounding me is like I can put a full hemisphere covering myself. So, the solid angle around me is 2 pi irradiance. So, what is the energy falling on me from the other sources within this 2 pi irradiance is what is radiant flux density. Now, we go back to the previous slide to look at the next most important term. The next most important term I want all of you to like pay attention to is what is called radiance. So, what exactly radiance is we will move to further slides yes. So, this particular slide will tell us what radiance is. So, here let us say someone is standing here like let us go back to our example of the sun and an observer problem that we already solved to calculate the solid angle. Sun is here and observer is standing here. The observer is looking at the sun as I already said the sun is going to subtend a solid angle. So, this is solid angle omega. So, whatever the energy coming in from the sun is actually coming within this particular solid angle because the observer is looking at the sun and the sun subtends the solid angle of this and whatever the energy the observer receives is actually coming within this entire solid angle. Similarly, say if you are flying on an aeroplane say there is an aeroplane and an observer is like we have got a window seat someone is sitting on a window seat and trying to see whatever is there on the surface. So, what we will see we will be able to see something like kind of like a cone and whatever solid angle we can see we will be receiving all the energy coming within it and our eyes can see it. Same concept is what radiance is to a satellite or in remote sensing parlance. In remote sensing parlance say a satellite will have a sensor. So, there we will take from the example of a sensor. Let us say a sensor is placed here it is seeing something on the earth surface.  So, when it sees the earth surface based on its sensors orientation and properties it will have a small solid angle subtended within it. So, whatever the area is covered within the solid angle it will observe. So, whatever the energy coming in within that particular solid angle will reach the sensor. So, essentially the energy within that particular solid angle what is the energy coming in that particular direction is what we are interested upon and conceptually this is what is known as radiance. So, now we will go to the exact definition of a radiance what radiance is.  This is like an area the area of the surface is A. I am placing a sensor or something here or let us assume there is a observer here standing on a some energy sources there something is there measuring it. So, now we are looking at at an angle of theta from the surface angle. So, now the direction is like not in like perpendicular to the surface it is the direction in which we are looking is having a angle of theta with respect to the surface normal. So, if this is the case if I want to calculate what is the amount of energy that is going out from this particular area in this particular direction of theta at a given solid angle, given solid angle omega or phi whatever we can call is what is known as radiance. So, radiance is essentially what is the amount of energy that is amount of radiant flux going on per unit solid angle divided by the projected area of the surface. So, what the projected area of the surface means the area is now if I am like if I am looking at some of the direction inclined angle of theta the area will not appear like A, but it will be projected it will have an angle of A cos theta that is the area will appear different. What essentially I am doing is I am trying to project this area perpendicular to the direction of motion of radiation. So, I am projecting this particular area in a direction perpendicular to the motion of radiation and what is now this projected area is. Say we have learnt like projections and how surfaces will change when we look from different perspectives like some engineering students will be there taking this course and you would have learnt about like projections how the area will change. Like very similar example like if you take like kind of like a large circular object on the ground if you are like flying in an aeroplane if you see it from like different directions with different viewing angles the same circle may appear as an ellipse may appear like a smaller circle elongated ellipse and so on its shape will be keep on changing. So, essentially the area that you are seeing is projected in that particular plane same concept whatever the area was there on the flat horizontal surface you are actually projecting it as if it as if in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which you are seeing it. So, radiance is nothing but the radiant flux divided by what is the total salt angle divided by the projected area and where the area is projected in a direction perpendicular to the look angle. So, now we go back to the slides where I given the various definitions. So, here so I just left this term I we need not concentrate much on it. So, this is given as L radiance is denoted as symbol L is given as d phi that is radiant flux that is what that is energy per unit time divided by what is the total solid angle within which it is going divided by what is the projected area dA cos theta this is what is known as radiance. Just to give one more example I go back to our earth and the sun problem the earth and the sun problem whatever the energy coming in from the sun comes within this particular solid angle say we calculated it as roughly 6.75 to 10 power minus 5 radian. So, whatever the energy coming in from the sun is going to come from this particular radian only this particular solid angle only and solid angle. So, if I am like if my vision is perfectly perpendicular to the direction of motion of sun so what is going to happen what is the area of sun that is look I am looking at my eyes and what is the energy coming within this particular solid angle is what is what defined as the radiance. So, radiance is nothing but the energy or the radiation within one particular direction simply put if I look in this particular direction in a given solid angle what is the energy going out or coming in. So, it varies based on direction. So, just to summarize what we have learned in this particular lecture in this particular lecture we have learnt about plane angle and solid angle. We have also learnt about certain radiometric quantities that is we define what energy is then we define what radian fluxes that is energy per unit time then we define what radiant flux density is energy per unit time per unit area then we also define what radiance is. So, radiance is defined as radiant flux per unit solid angle per unit projected area. So, radiance is highly directional maybe in the next class we will go little bit deeper into this concepts and look more into it in order to understand it better. Thank you very much.


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There is something sublime about early morning bird sound. A few days a year, it's nice to get out well before the dawn, whilst it's still black in the eastern sky, a very dark azure. And enjoy the sound, particularly in the spring. But there's something else that is increasingly ignored as part of our modern life. We worry about climate change, we worry about air pollution. But there's a pollutant very closely related to all of that. And that's noise. And the intrusion of noise into our environment, particularly the edge of urban areas, is something that needs to be looked at in detail, and we need to deal with this growing problem. I'm taking the quickest route possible to the edge of town, and I'm going to a very ancient route called Salt Way. The old Roman salt route, from Duitwich to Stratford-Ponaven, where it crosses the river Avon, and then to Bambry and often to Buckinghamshire, where the Romans used to take their salt to supply their towns there. And it's a very nice route, it's a piece of ancient hedgerow, very rich in birds. Unfortunately they're just developing a lot of new houses. And with all these new houses and the development that Bambry's experienced the last 40 to 50 years, the noise level is going up in the urban areas it's going up, but in the areas around town it's going up too. And that has quite a big impact on how you experience this wonderful spectacle of the dawn chorus in spring. Over the last 10 to 15 years a new field of study has arisen called Eco-Psychology, and this has been popularised by a number of books, most notably by Feodor Rozak. And even I wrote a handout on this as part of some work I did in the late 2000s called The Great Outdoors all about how camping can reconnect you with the outdoors. The heart of this work is the idea that humans have been separated from their environment and that a lot of the problems we have today, stress, anxiety, can be addressed or improved through greater contact with nature. What we see now though is a far greater level of detailed research looking at these ideas and finding that if people are exposed to birdsong and parks and green spaces, they have less anxiety, they have less stress. The recent paper published by Cox et al in Bioscience quite clearly outlines how they can demonstrate quantifiable associations for mental health improvement with the characteristics of nearby nature that people actually experience in their daily lives. And so when we look at the outdoors, what we can say is it has great value over and above landscape or a picturesque scene. It can contribute to the well-being of people in urban areas and we should protect it and look after it and steward it to maximise those opportunities. Recently the Commons Environment Law and Committee were looking at Heathrow and they made various observations about whether or not aircraft noise limits could be reached at Heathrow. The issue of noise was brought home to me in 2010 when the Effielli volcano in Iceland erupted. And I was walking out to the west of Bambri one day and there was something tangibly different, something really different about the landscape and then I realised there was no aircraft noise and it made such a difference. And as Bambri develops and as the M40 becomes more busy and all the feeder roads, the junction 11 become more busy it's having a perceptual effect on the environment around the town. But let's go back more than 20 years. There used to be a body called the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and when the coalition government came in in 2010 it was one of the first bodies to go in the bonfire of the crongos as they called it and after 30 years of service it was abolished. Back in 1994 they produced a report on transport and the environment and they were saying then that transport is causing great damage and they said the construction of new roads and airports to accommodate traffic is destroying irreplaceable landscapes and features of our cultural heritage. And in that report it had two maps and they showed the tranquility in the southeast and how it has changed between 1960 and 1992 and over that 30 year period a large part of the southeast has become less tranquil as the growth of both air traffic and road traffic has eroded the quality of the environment and that is having a great effect on how we can access the countryside and how we can have benefit from interaction with the natural environment. Dawn is getting nearer and nearer now, the sky is getting brighter and as that happens it's about quarter to seven and the cars are getting more numerous on the roads and you can start to hear all the way through you would have heard in the background a hiss, a noise most of that is the M40 and the feeder roads is the M40 but as we start to get towards rush hour you can hear more and more noise and so although there is bird song and appreciable bird song in the background you can hear the growing level of noise start to affect how we can perceive the spectacle of the dawn. Well that's it for today, we've enjoyed the dawn, now it's time to go home and start work unfortunately. But I hope you enjoyed it, I hope you enjoyed bird song and I hope the noise didn't distract too much. If you look online you'll find more about the issues I've raised in this short video and links to all the material I've referenced in it. I hope what you've seen in this video will make you get out the house before dawn of a spring morning and experience the full beauty of the dawn.


back to the independent investor channel. My name is Ryan. I'm throwing down on another update here. We just closed out 2021, which has been a dismal year for highly unholding. So we all know that no secret there. I think it's important to understand some of the trends that we saw in 2021 as we closed out an extremely dismal year. And you would think that everybody just be throwing their hands up and throwing this thing in the dumpster where I think a lot of people sentiment being as low as I think I've seen it. What does that mean? What is my pulse about the sentiment mean right now with regard to where the stock is going into 2022? Nothing. And I could be dead wrong on my sentiment. There could be things going on behind the scenes at highly unholdings that I'm not preppy to because I scour the open source for news information. And it's been pretty lean the last couple months. Okay. What does that mean? Does it mean because there's a lack of information from my perspective that number one, I'm right? Or number two, that I need to somehow change my thesis about highly unholdings and my stock position because of that observation? Of course not. I'm going to give you some statistics that might be an eye opener and the independent investor channel maintains our $24 price target. I started doing this because I don't trust anybody anymore. I trust myself. You can disagree with me. No problem. You can think I'm off base. Ryan, you're not an analyst. No, I'm not. And I don't put people on a pedestal.  I'm in a field of experts and it's amazing to me how many people are deemed experts because they carry around a certificate with them that says that they've been tried true and tested, tested with an emphasis on test to carry around a certificate and be deemed a professional or an expert because they've been able to pass the test. I think discretion goes a long way with me. And I think for myself and my small entity on cornerstone capital solutions, which is my LLC and the independent investor channel and the audience that I represent, they know I don't have an agenda. For full disclosure, I am a stock owner in the company and I don't do this for any other reason than to provide awareness on a stock that I feel right now is in the moment of truth. We'll talk about it a little bit. Let me throw some statistics statue to validate my $24 price target in 2022. We will meet that price target. When we approach that price target, I will increase it again, more toward the $50 level. But we have to get out of this moment of truth phase right now. The supply chain is hurting the stock, obviously a short interest of 20% in the short term doesn't help things with regards to price action and momentum because there's just not enough buyers right now that are stepping in or are there. As we look at 2021 and we look at the statistics, I was amazed at the level of institutional buyers that had stepped in. Now Q3, the buying digressed a little bit to $11 million but alone in Q3 compared to $1.62 million. So about 10x, actually about 5x, 6x on the buy side to the sell side on highly on stock just in Q3 alone. Well, how did we shake out for the year? This was institutional ownership sat at about 28%, 28.5% right at the end of 2021. They own close to 30% of the total share float. There were 97 buyers in 2021 and those buys accumulated or accounted for 329 million compared to the 29 sellers in 2021 cumulatively accounting for 24 million shares sold in 2021. So 329 million compared to 24 million on the sell side. So pretty interesting when we start to look at who is panicking right now and who is accumulating. Well, it's the same old story as usual where you've got YouTubers that and I feel depressed too. I mean, these are hard earned dollars. These institutions have millions of dollars to invest. I don't. I'm a retail investor where I look at $1,000 and an institution looks at a million dollars with the same lens. So it's a little bit different investing on behalf of an organization as opposed to myself who is advocating and investing on behalf of myself. Does that need to change the perspective? In other words, do the institutions have, do they know something that we don't know or is it just a different perspective when we approach how it is we get involved with a company like Highly on Holdings and look to hold it true to maturity? Are we in maturity right now? Absolutely not. The stock price is at about as dismal of a level as I have seen it. The moment of truth could last for two weeks. It could last for six months. I have no idea, but this is the moment of truth. What I mean by that is will we reflect on this time period where Highly on Holdings was trading under $6 a share with the prospects that I believe that the companies had. We're going to get into a few things, a few updates, a few perspectives that I think will really understand help you understand that if you got caught up in the retail investor perspective, you would have sold a long time ago. I mean, there's YouTubers out there. You know, Rat Pack Stocks is one of my favorites. It's one of the few channels that I watch Highly on Coverage at all, but the admission at the end of last year, the Paul was really going to be scrutinizing the stock price over the next three months is of interest to me because I know he's been in and out of the stock. Now myself and Paul have different applications and you want to know something that's all right. I think we need to get over this whole like you're right and I'm wrong type of philosophy because at any time in the stock market, the stock market and your application can prove you wrong or prove you right at any given time. It really is just a timing issue. The thing about it is when investors are tuning into a message and they don't know squat about investing in the first place, nor do they understand what elevated thought and perspective needs to enter into a speculative position like Highly on who's putting up donuts in the revenue category as of late. I think that will change as early as this February up core upcoming Q4 report. I believe that's going to change. I believe that they're going to start to transition some of these ex sales that they are in fact making. I'm going to talk about that a little bit and I think that transition is going to happen. But these investors who were ill prepared to enter into this tune in and they think that it's okay to justify a stock position across the board in a three month time period. I think that's a fallacy and it's just my opinion that what I've contended from in the beginning for me, not for you and not for anybody else out there is that if you were going to own Highly on holdings and you were interested in the technology and the direction of the company, the only solution to see it through to the maximum amount of profits is to own the stock, not to buy or sell the stock, but to own the stock. There's a big difference in application here. I revolve around this topic all the time and I think a lot of people assume a lot of things about me with regard to my stock disposition and the position that I hold and how I build the position or trim back the position at my disposal. That's my business and my application is mine and mine alone. What provides value to shareholders is to understand that I'm transparent about those moves when I come on and I discuss what it is that could potentially make sense. Does it make sense to take a position in the stock right now? Sub-six, when I'm forecasting that it could be over 20, could it be a prudent move to wait until it hits 20? Assuming that they get a little bit of floor underneath of them and that they're going to build this thing out for the next 10 years and it's going to be irrelevant from 5 to 25 that you had to catch the bottom in the stock rather take the appreciation from 25 to 250. There's a lot of different schools at that and there's nobody that's right and wrong in this game. I do want to give a shot out and I don't do this very often and I want to do it within the first few minutes of film in this video within the first 20 minutes. I do want to give a shot out to drive mix game. Dexter's throwing down. He's under a thousand subscribers. We need to get him up at least above that thousand subscriber mark to allow for his monetization to kick in and also just really from my perspective as a thank you for the information. From a truck driver's perspective it is invaluable to me personally and I don't want to speak for others but I will give an undertone of appreciation for what I think is a very very appreciated and well-timed message from a perspective that we are not being offered from highly unholdings. Dexter is filling that gap. Now whether or not he likes that or not I don't know but on behalf of the channel thank you so much. I really appreciate it. If I could give you 10,000 of my subscribers I would man. I don't judge channels in that manner but right now with what he's providing as a supplement niche to the landscape right now that is somewhat dry on information unfortunately. Dexter's really filling that gap at least for me. There's been two things that have come out. Really enjoy his perspective. Very honest guy. He's very forward and you can tell. You can tell the sincerity is there and I just I cannot advocate enough. So I will put the link in the comments section to drive mix game. Take three seconds click over there hit the subscribe button help him in his mission to provide some very very invaluable information from the field and I'll tell you why that's invaluable here in just a second. There is a lot of comments and opinions out there on the landscape about what this company can and can't do. I think in the category of it can't is being proven wrong in the field right now. They're just having a hard time getting that information out to investors. So there is an undertone of what is going on in reality and what is perceived to be reality by the stock market and especially the stock price at these recessed and anemic levels. These are laughable. They're absolutely laughable. So I do want to give a shout out to Dexter with Drive Mix Game. Kick over there and subscribe. The thing that I picked up is on the very end. There was two comments made. Number one, he opened the hood and he showed the Cummins V engine which is a C and G engine. It turns out about 400 horsepower. Now with the hybrid system that was installed on it, the E-axle on the EX system that he just picked up, he just took ownership of the trucks within the last two weeks adds another 120 horsepower. Now wait a minute. What I don't understand is how can you couple an existing Cummins C and G engine with the hybrid EX product. I thought that the Cummins C and G engine, the new one that they've got coming out is going to totally render the EX hybrid at least on the C and G side obsolete. And I tweeted Thomas Healy. He needs to stop talking about this EX product as if it's going to fall on its face. And I don't know if it's some sort of like chess move or some sort of overthinking in his lack of strategically on this front, but you do not do that on an earnings call, nor do you double down on an interview to say we're monitoring our competition closely. Industry is more interested in the hyper truck ERX when you've dumped millions of dollars into research and development to get the hybrid product up into not only a developed and approved stage, but a stage that it's actually in the fleet's hands. And they are enjoying the benefits of yes, the Cummins engine and the EXL to add that extra horsepower. Remember, they're hauling frack sands down there in the lower Texas area. They need that extra horsepower. So in that specific application, the product works beautifully and they need to start focusing on that the actual real world application. So I'm not sure if I understand the strategy behind basically waving the white flag. I don't understand that a bit. Maybe I understand more about the application and I think Thomas Healey is smart enough to understand that this product does have a place, but they don't need to lead on in the public marketplace that this product may in fact not find its place because we have some competition from a CNG engine out there that is unproven and from Dexter's perspective as a truck driver will not be a game changer at all. Furthermore, it will not impact those fleets out there that want to put the EXL in to actually do what it was attended to do and that's increase on the horsepower that is traditionally turned out or the lack thereof on traditional CNG applications. His point was you can run dual systems at the same time. I thought it was beautiful. Nobody talks about this. I would love to see this come out from High Leon and be like, this is our beef. Here it is. This is what we're able to do for fleets, but they're just not doing that right now for whatever reason. There's a lot of lock tight secrecy. We got that intent from when Dexter went to go pick up his hybrid system and that may be for good reason. I take that as a grain of salt and I don't know if it's just because they've got so much proprietary IT that they're looking, excuse me, intellectual property IP that they're looking to protect because they are in their infancy stage. They're taking it very, very conservative with regard to the information that they're putting out or they just don't have information. I don't know. It could be either scenario, but the second thing that was talked about is the hyper truck ERX man, which he talked about the tandem EXL when he was there at High Leon. He was given that information. I don't know it was the slip, but I'll share it with you guys for anybody that did not pick up on that. The hyper truck ERX is going to start to turn out 650 horsepower. For some of the folks out there that absolutely need to see some sort of validation that these trucks can haul heavy loads, Dexter provides that to you. He drives that in a Fraxans application every single day. Thomas Healy has talked about it all the time, how the EX product leverages into the capability of the hyper truck ERX. Where it is implied, the 520 horsepower can be garnered on the CNG Cummins engine coupled with the High Leon EXE axle to provide that extra 120 total 520 horsepower, but that extra torque and payload capacity is not going to be able to be realized with the hyper truck ERX iteration with the tandem EXL and the 650 plus horsepower of power. Come on, guys. Facts are facts and opinions and conjectures especially are just that. Let's be careful with the latter and focus on the actual facts of what they're looking to do with their myriad of products that they're looking to turn out in their product offerings. Number two, I want to talk about the coffee mug incident. I was pretty furious and I lit Twitter up pretty well. Thank you for you guys that actually do follow me. If you do not follow me on Twitter, you need to go over there because I try to provide that voice. But if I'm getting three or four likes per tweet, I'll stop doing that.  Twitter is a sacrificial lamb for me. Okay. I am a voice of reason to put direct comms right in front of High Leon. Now, I will go so far as to say that I don't think High Leon monitors that feed. I don't. I have yet to get a response from Thomas Healy. Thomas Healy's minions over at HighLeon.com investor relations and I hope this changes over time. But Twitter as a $1 billion company, I don't see why it's that big of a deal to throw a bone through Twitter every now and then. I think it comes back to the secrecy portion and they don't want to say the wrong thing at the wrong time. With that said, when I put a tweet out there that challenges the notion that we need to be talking about coffee mugs at this particular juncture when retail investors are suffering, absolutely getting obliterated. Institutional investors own the same damn stock. They're suffering just the same in the tone of millions and millions of dollars. And to come out and talk about a where's Waldo type of perspective based on a standing joke that was made a year ago and somehow I'm the bad guy for questioning whether or not that is done with some credence and do timing and we're all supposed to laugh about that. I'm sorry. I won't play ball. And I challenged the notion of anybody that says that that was somehow a justified thing to do.  No problem. But what it does when the stock is sub six, it shows that you are out of touch with what is going on in the marketplace. And I don't know if he's just completely naive to it or had a lapse of judgment on his part to think that somehow that was going to garner anything other than a negative backlash through the social media community. And I know there's people out there that disagree. Hey, you can't take a joke, Ryan. You're this, you're that. I'm a shareholder and highly on two. I own 150 shares. Good for you. Okay. Maybe the level of my reaction is maybe indicative of the share accumulation that I've built over the last 18 months. And maybe you should take some credence to that. Okay. If you own 150 shares and you're down $300 in the stock, I'm really sorry for you. That's terrible luck. But me as a shareholder, I take that stuff seriously. And if their perspective and their focus right now is focused on idiotic stuff like that, I'm going to have a problem with that. And I'm going to speak up. So you need to kick over and you need to follow me on Twitter, man.   Hell, part of me hates YouTube as well. But I come on and I share my opinion openly with you guys, because I think there's merit. And I think there's value in discussing these things on what's going on right now. And they wonder why the stock price is in the absolute shitter right now. Go figure. Let's talk about the stock specifically. Right now I find it interesting with regard to the stock action per day. It's a drift. There's nothing fundamentally that has changed with the company outside of the announced on the Q3 that the supply chain issues would be affecting their business and their ability to ramp up a little bit more mass scale when they wanted to. It's going to delay that time cycle a little bit, which I think the stock has rolled off and it's basing right here. It's been a slow drift down, which is indication to me that nothing has really changed. There's a lot of talk. Well, is the stock going to one? I don't know. I can play that game all day. Is the stock going to 30 cents? Is it going to go through a reverse stock split? I can play that game all day. My opinion has been known. I made it known at the top of the live stream. It's going to $24 in 2022. And that's because I see value where a lot of these analysts that are tied into an agenda, not necessarily looking into the granular potential of a company like Hylian Pre-Revenue, it's a target. And it's a target to be accumulated. I just talked to you about the institutional accumulation in 2021. Institutions are buying. They are not selling. I think the mass percentage, and there's no way to track this, the mass majority of the people who are selling Hylian right now are the 50 share, 100 share, 500 share, 1,000 share and below positions held by retail investors. Mark my word. I would bet my life on it. I bet you I'm right. The majority, if you flip flop these statistics and you looked at the amount of institutional buying going on in 2021, I'll bet you there was an equally and inversible percentage of retail investors that were dumping shares because it's too much. They've owned it for three months and they're out or the word on the landscape or the sentiment is bad. Therefore, I have to sell. It requires something of you that you may or may not possess in your ability to hold when it is beyond the point of insanity. And whether or not we're there now, I don't know. We'll know in the future when we reflect back on this time and say, gosh, I remember when it was 585 and I remember Ryan coming on when nobody was brave enough to come on and talk about the stock prices were assessed as it was, potentially being, I don't know, one of your two options. The two, the second being to sell. You always have the option to say, I got to dump the stock. I can't take this anymore. I'm losing sleep. I'm over it. Talk about my perspective at the end of this. Well, what about the potential of buying? What about the potential of buying? My brother just picked up 40 shares. I said, Ryan, I'm not a stock guy. I'm an electrician. I'm busy. I work 20 hours a day. I don't have time for it. But I love the idea. I'm going to throw 40 shares in there. What's the harm in doing that? What's the harm in starting to actually buy right now as opposed to buying into that inverse that I talked about? And I really do blame retail investors. And this will not change. No matter what I say, retail investors will always bear the brunt of transactions like this, where you've got a phenomenal company and a phenomenal idea that is poised to revolutionize the industry. The second quote from Dexter's video is that the HyperTruck ERX is going to revolutionize the industry. The HyperTruck ERX is going to revolutionize the industry. He went on to pay credence to the retail investors and the people that tune into his channel and the people who know this about highly on holdings and that are bullish about this thesis going forward that we already know this and we do. We've known it for years. That's why my price target holds firm at $24 here to get it up to about that $18, $19 mark. And then we can go ahead and revise to the upside. I'll be the only one. I just want to leapfrog and be ahead of all these so-called analysts that call themselves analysts that have so much attention on a company that is pre-revenue that if they thought that the company wasn't going to come to fruition, why focus on it? Why not focus on those companies that are easier to value with metrics that are able to forecast in bottom line earnings, revenue forecasts, product moat and acceptance, things like that. Why put so much focus on it? It's because they're buying. I just disclosed to you what is actually going on. The facts in 2021 are undisputed. The institutions are accumulating this to the tune of $329 million of capital inflow into highly on holdings in 2021. What side of the coin do you want to be on? You want to tune into a Yahoo thread and get your financial advice from there? Go ahead. Good luck. You'll fail. I've stopped tuning into that thread because it's toxic. I don't know.   They can give their bearish conviction on the company when it's at $100 and it's got a $16 billion valuation on the company. Anonymous, I'm coming for you, man. Really. Whatever rock you crawled out from behind, honestly, man, you will have your day with me. You will have your day with me and you're not going to be able to be anonymous. My name is Ryan. I run the independent investor channel and I come on and I subject my stock evaluation and conviction to scrutiny.  The Yahoo thread allows for those opportunities for people to crawl out from under the rocks and from within their caves and spread toxicity to people who may buy into it. I have people that go in there all the time and they're like, should I do this or should I do that? You need to not be investing if that's where you're seeking your information from. Sentiment is about as low as we can possibly get on the stock. I do consider this to be kind of a moment of truth for the company. We're about a month away, a month and a half away from the Q4 earnings call when revenue was promised to investors. My expectation is zero. My expectation of the stock is zero. I think the only pedigree or the only application that is prudent at this point is to allow for more time and to hold the stock true. That's what I'm going to do. I continue to be a stock owner. Easy decision, my expectations for Q4. This company has not done nothing to prove to me that their earnings call, now they can provide catalyst to the upside for sure, but their earnings calls have been terrible. They've been horribly written.  They do. There are certain things that just do not need to be said. They just don't. Sherry Baker is on point. She's done this before. She's a professional. She's absolutely fantastic, and she's the one through action that I actually give proper credence and acknowledgement to. Honestly, if she runs this company in 10 years, I'll be happier for it because she's an absolute savage. No doubt about it. Proper credence to Sherry. Some perspective on the stock is probably in order. I think you guys need to understand. I put these out. These will come out weekly now because when the stock goes to eight, nine dollars and everybody's like, it's time, buy, jump in to the moon. That's what I stop making highly on videos. But when those people die down and they stop talking about it being a time to buy, when it's actually potentially a time to buy in the moment of truth, that's when I shine. When nobody else is talking about it, hence the name independent investor, you guys will get a sense to me that thinking independently and individually outside of popular opinion is going to be the difference in your life, no matter what the hell you do, no matter what you do. My perspective is very, very simple. I work very hard. I take care of children and I look to satisfy my wife at every turn, every turn. Now, those three things right there are the tops of my priority list. If you think for a second, my perspective on highly on holdings as large as it is in my portfolio and it holds a high place in my slice of financial perspective has anything to do with my real perspective about being a happy person and being a very healthy person and working out and keeping my focus where I need it to be, work my kids and satisfying my wife at every turn. That is my God-given directive and that's an impulse to you guys that you can take to the bank and you think that it's going to change my disposition and conviction on the company within three months because, because why? Because we make up conjectures about the company that aren't true. We make up things and we start to read into why they don't have a Wegmans deal right now. It's not in my realm of perspective. I feel like it's a luxury to be able to invest in a company like this because it's off a couple bits from its IPO price of $10. $10.50 is where I put this stock. If I could have bought it at $10.50 and it just would have held true this entire time and not ran to $58, I think we would be so much better off right now. I would go so far as to say that that $24 price target would be where we are right now because all of the good news would have had a chance not to be mitigated, but to be actually promoted correctly because the share price didn't have a chance to just run to the moon and get overinflated on the onset. Now all that good news has been really taken out and deflated from the stock price right now and they're in a lull period. So it's kind of a double whammy against the stock. But man, have some perspective on this deal. Super, super important. If you're concerned about it or you think you're going to lose sleep over it, don't invest. But a 100 share stake right now is going to cost you a little less than $600, guys, $600 to get involved in the ground floor of a company that's looking to revolutionize the trucking industry and go after an $800 billion market, that of which if they could get a point or a point and a half or, dare I say, 2% of the market. Now Dexter says they're going to dominate the market. Now dominate the market as far as I'm concerned and what's going to mean for my stock price is if they can garner 2% of market share, we're in the money. We've got our $16 billion company there. It's just that simple. But are there's going to be the potential for fleets, at least even globally, when this thing really starts to take fire and the domino effect starts to take place, whether or not this thing has a real chance of really scaling up to something special, 30, 40, $50 billion company. And it can, it absolutely can. The potential is there. Just need to get this technology validated and start on the road to that mass scale up and potential. Number five, really cool. I do want to mention that that comment about the Hypertruck ERX will dominate. They were working on it in the shop there at the time Dexter went in there and picked it up. I thought that was a cool, cool insight that I would have never been preppy to because they're working on it now. And I don't know if that was open for disclosure. I don't really know. I doubt it. If they're that hush hush on everything, no big deal. But he just happened to share that with everybody. So in perspective, I want everybody to understand that I consider this to be the moment of truth. It could change in a week. It could change in a day. This thing has the ability to shoot up 10% a day. No problem. And kind of start that shift from a basic position here at around $6 a share. I don't think there's been anything violent with regard to drawdowns outside of the drawdown that was incurred right after the Q3 earnings report. So nothing really to be concerned about as far as that goes. I think the slow drift down has been just by nature of what's going on in the EV space in general. I think really everybody is kind of on a dumpster fire. I think for some people I've been deemed a Nicola hater. So that's great too. That's awesome. It's awesome how we'll come out and defend a company like that that was built on false pretenses and comments that were made on the onset to garner hype in the open market. And now all of a sudden they're on the up. I find that hard to believe. And like my scrutiny is somehow not warranted on the company because they chose to take those paths previously. Sorry. Again, I won't play ball with that, man. My money's with highly unholdings, man. They've got a great thing going. Look until electrify the class eight space here going forward. Guys, if you appreciate the message, when I invite you to subscribe to the channel, hit the notification bells. Leave your comments at the bottom. Make sure and subscribe to drive mix game Dexter throws it down just under 1000 subscribers. Kick over there. Usually when I do this, people heed my call. I'm freaking telling you, I don't do this very often. I understand it's an ask of my audience or at least the few thousand that come in and enjoy my message and get it. They get the fact that being independent is the only way to go.   Be one of those people that lead out front. Be independent with your thinking. If you find a problem with highly unholdings, then don't invest in it. Don't invest in it because of your own conviction. Not because I've got you excited or because I'm a bull on the company openly disclosed that I'm a bull on the company. I'm excited about the prospects going forward. Think for yourself. Don't let others influence your decision, man. Leave your comments at the bottom of the video. Strike up the discussion about where we think we're going in 2022. Remember, 2021 was the year of building the team, solidifying the EX product. It was the year that institutions continued to sink their meat cooks into this company. Stock analysts come out with their five dollar price targets just to arbitrarily drive the stock down so that institutions can do what the statistics are showing that they're doing. And that's accumulating this particular company that has an extremely bright future in their vision of helping the planet going forward, making it a safer and a cleaner place to live. And thank you so much for tuning in to the message. Good luck in your investment future.


I saw footage of Borna Chorich versus Novak Djokovic, two of the positive cases and the people in the stands are sitting side by side. What's going on everybody? Welcome to another breaking story and it is confirmed Novak Djokovic has been tested positive for coronavirus and that is dangerous. We all know that Borna Chorich, we all know that Grigory Dmitrov, the two high profile cases, also Viktor Troitsky and his pregnant wife have also tested positive overnight.  We'll go through that in a second, but Djokovic has just brought out a statement, he's tested positive along with his wife as well. So very dangerous, luckily their children have not been tested positive, they're negative, but Djokovic has been tested positive and also his wife as well. So let's go through his official statement now. Okay, so as you can see here, Novak Djokovic tested positive for virus COVID-19, immediately upon his arrival in Belgrade, Novak was tested along with all members of the family and the team with whom he was in Belgrade and Zadar, which is where this all kind of broke out in the news anyway, he is not showing any symptoms. So he's not showing any symptoms, but that doesn't matter. This virus doesn't need to show symptoms to be contagious, so that's the big takeaway from this. This is his words. The moment we arrived in Belgrade, we went to get tested. My result is positive just as Jelena's, which is his wife, but the children are showing negative results, which is a good thing for them. Everything we did in the past month, we did with a pure heart and sincere intentions, our tournament meant to unite and share a message of solidarity and compassion throughout the region. The tour has been designed to help both established and up and coming tennis players from South Eastern Europe to gain access to some competitive tennis where the various tours are unhauled due to the COVID-19 situation. It was all born out of a philanthropic idea to direct all raised funds towards people in need and it warmed my heart to see how everybody strongly responded to this. We organized the tournament at the moment when the virus has weakened, believing the conditions for hosting the tour had been met. Unfortunately, this virus is still present and it is a new reality that we are all still learning to cope with and live with. I am hoping things will ease with time so we can all resume lives the way they were. I am extremely sorry for each individual case of infection. I hope that it will not complicate anyone's health situation and that everyone will be fine. I will remain in self-isolation for the next 14 days and repeat the test in five days. So that is Djokovic's official statement and now we know that the Adrian tour was out of, it was a charity event but it did rub up a lot of people at the wrong way. Let's go through the players that have tested positive, also the coaching staff as well and also the players that have tested negative because that's just as important. We've got Dmitrov on the list of positives. We've got Troitsky on the list of positives. We've got Chorich on the list, Dmitrov's coach is on the list, Djokovic's fitness coach, he tested positive, Troitsky's pregnant wife has tested positive. Now the players that have tested negative, we've put Djokovic and Yelena Djokovic in there as well, so Novak and Yelena Djokovic, positive as well. Dominic team, he's tested negative three times since he has left the Adrian tour, went over to the UTS, Zverev, negative, Chilic, Rublev and Jumher, all negative, Lyovic, Kryanovich have not been tested yet, so they're actually playing an event today which is kind of crazy. I think it's in Serbia but they haven't been confirmed or unconfirmed that they've got it or not. So we don't know what's going on with those guys, they're two top 50 players as well, remember that. So let's talk about a little bit, I've done a little bit of research on the actual situation because we've been hearing a lot about Serbia is in a better place, Croatia is in a better place than around the world and I don't know if they actually went through the guidelines that they should have because these governments, sure, they were allowed to have outside mass gatherings with no limit, so they haven't broken in rules there. In Serbia, the no limit on the mass gatherings, they had a limit of 500 people or around a thousand people just before the tournament started and we all know, we saw the photos, PAC stadiums, it was sold out, it was a sold out stadium and it was such a weird thing to watch, especially someone who's from Australia or from the UK or from America, we're all seemingly in a different position than what Serbia is and it was just a weird thing to see and I think we can all agree on that. And also, actually during this tournament in Serbia anyway, it was one meter social distancing rule. Now I don't know about you guys but I saw a lot of people in the stands going shoulder to shoulder. Every second chair maybe that's a meter but I think it should have been maybe every three chairs, unless you were, I think it was unless you were with people that were in your household, you shouldn't be sitting next to strangers and I think that is just a worldwide social distancing is a worldwide thing now. It's not just for Australia and for the UK, it was for Serbia as well and the one meter social distancing rule I don't think was applied that strictly for the Adriatua, for the Belgrade leg. Now in Croatia, this is the current situation at the moment, there was an optional self-isolation period of 14 days so you could go to, which I think is standard across the board now in most countries, you go into a country, you got to stay inside for 14 days. It doesn't matter if you're sniffling or you're not, but it's optional in Croatia because they're in a better spot than some other countries. They have a 1.5 meter social distancing rule and again, I saw footage of Borna Čoric versus Novak Djokovic, two of the positive cases and the people in the stands are sitting side by side. It's a busy packed stadium unless everyone's on the same, lives in the same household. I don't think that they were obeying that rule. That doesn't look like they were. And also mass gatherings of 500 maximum outside was on the 27th of May, so maybe that had been lifted for them to get through, but I know Djokovic, we know that Djokovic was trying to do something out of the kindness of his heart. He was trying to do a charity event and we've got lots of tournaments going around the world. We've got the UTS and we look at them. They're wearing face masks. There's no supporters. They're getting tested every day. It's just so, they're doing it the right way. The Adria Tour, we now know, have done it the wrong way and we can see that with the repercussions of the best player in the world and one of the biggest role models in our sport, disobeying the rules of the pandemic and disobeying the rest of the world, it seems, and it's come back to bite him. And now he is tested positive. He's put a lot of people at risk. We don't even know about the people in the stands. This is just the high profile cases. There could be hundreds of people in that stadium that also got that. They could have come from someone from the stadium and they could have given to the person next to them, also the ball kids, also the Lions people. This could spread insane around just those three days of being in a packed stadium. I mean, it just, and again, like I've been saying in these videos, it didn't need to happen. This didn't need to happen. It happened, but it didn't need to. It did not need to happen. Let me know in the comments down below. What do you guys think? Again, Djokovic and his wife, Yelena, tested positive. Their children have not. Again, we wish them a speedy recovery. We wish all the players a speedy recovery. Dmitrov Chorich, Troitsky, all the family members and coaching staff involved, you know, but guys, remember, we're in a pandemic. It's a serious situation. No one's exempt. We've got the best player in the world of tennis and he's been, you know, he's been confirmed. No one is safe from this. So make sure that you stay safe, everybody out there. Make sure you're staying inside and staying healthy.


Alright, the next one is the Pillow of Total Integration, which is where we don't just kind of tack on a mental health day once a year or we don't kind of do our training and then we tick that box. It's about ensuring that mental health awareness and mental health processes are integrated into all of our policies, procedures and actions in the workforce. Now yesterday, I gave you a really simple question that is a great example of Total Integration, a question that you can ask anytime you're developing a new project or creating any kind of plan or change in the workplace. Can anyone remember what that question was? What's the potential for fear? What's the potential for fear? That's an example of Total Integration. If you're going to be asking the questions of what's the budget, what's the time frame, what is the manpower requirement, so what are my resource requirements, what's the capital outlay, what's the potential for fear? It's just another part of the process that occurs on a regular basis rather than adding it on once a year or twice a year as an afterthought or as a tack on to the end.  What can you do to implement regular check-ins with staff? And do you have a mental health commitment statement for your team? Have your policies and procedures been reviewed for alignment with that commitment statement or alignment with mental health? So has anyone got any ideas before we go on to pillar number five? Has anyone got any ideas about how you can integrate mental health awareness and mental health check-ins into your daily operations or your weekly operations with your teams or your departments? Hi, I'm Amy Golding, Director of Psychology for the Workplace Mental Health Institute. We hope you liked the video. If you did, make sure to give it a thumbs up. We have more and more videos being released each week. So when you subscribe, you'll get a notification letting you know when a new one's just been published. So make sure to hit that subscribe button and don't miss out on this vital information for yourself, your colleagues and your loved ones.


So, just make sure that today, when we talk about something, we look for answers. We look for solutions. And more importantly, we look in the freaking mirror. And if somebody says they're doing something amazing, and Mike's like, hey, tell him how you did that. And this guy's like, oh, I did it this way. Understand, that guy might have a different heart than you. That guy may be different to his people than you. It's not just the process. It's also the leader that's involved in the process. Who in here in quarter one is up in every area in their store? Raise your hand. I don't see a lot of hands. Come on. Show them to me. You got a store? You got a store? You got a store? You got a store? You got a store? You got people? You got people? Are you up? Are you down? You're down. We've got to own that. Am I right? See? It starts with us. See, when we don't own our stuff, how is anybody that works for us going to own their stuff? Am I right?  Your mouth. Yep, yep, yep. It's all negative. Or do you go around building people up? General managers, you guys met your new guys? Okay? If you met them, it probably meant everything to them. You remember when you were new, okay? Don't ever forget where you came from. You guys are going to get an opportunity this year to prove yourself. You know what I love? There's some people in this room, you don't have a name right now. You're not the biggest, you're not the baddest, and you're not the best. But if you'll keep that chip on your shoulder, and you'll learn and self-improve every day, and you'll have progress in your life, you're going to grow. And you're going to grow past everyone else. And you're going to have a lot of stores. And a lot of people's lives are going to get changed because you get it. Hey, guys. I just want to tell you, you're the true one percenters. You made it till the end of the video. Do me a favor. Share it with the friend that wants to go to another level. Make sure you like the video, comment below so I know who you are. Set your notifications, and then subscribe to the channel. We've got daily sales training videos dropping. I'll see you soon.