All right, I'm one and a half meters from everyone, so. Really happy to be here. And thank you for the 108 questions, which I'm told that I need to answer in the short time frame of 27 minutes, so do the math. I'm not going to answer them all, of course. But you have already voted. And if you want to make additional votes, there's this QR code. And I'll strive to answer as much as possible within this limited time frame.  What was the device? Can you offer students who may be facing the same situation? Unquote. Well, that depends on how old your sister is. But anyway, when I was seven years old, I came out as being left-handed. And at a time, my dad and his mother, my grandma, wasn't so happy about it. They said that if I write chalkboards with my left hand, there would be chalk on my sleeve, as if that's a big thing and it's not, and so on. And so they convinced me to also practice right-handed writing. Later on, I would learn that that's because they were also more left-handed and were chided by their teachers as not normal and not fitting the norm. Fortunately, when I was eight years old, that's one year after what, there came personal computers. And then it turns out that if I type with both my hands, I type faster. And so it seems to be a problem. Nowadays, the stylus, the mouse, whatever input screen, touch screen, and so on, doesn't care the handedness of you. And it seems to be a problem. So it's the same with the societal configuration about sexual orientations and gender identity. It's just because the older people, they're still teachable. It's just neuroplasticity and all. It just takes them longer to learn compared to you guys, which learn very quickly. And so just have a little bit of patience and show them the right path and let them know that the social configuration has now changed, that it doesn't matter at all anymore, at least in Taiwan, of your sexual orientation when you want to start a family or things like that. And so just be patient and do not lose hope. The elderly are teachable. That's the words I want to share. OK, well, ready. So the 29 people would like to know, did my parents go against me? Wow, that's some really loud feedback. OK, right, positive feedback, I hope. Tanya and I would like to know, did my parents go against anyone? My decisions. Yeah, they voiced their concern when I drop out of middle school, which may not be the best advice to give you guys. But when I dropped out of middle school, was 14 years old, they said that it's actually against the law, which was true. And that my household will be fined, I think, NT $300 a day or something, if I keep refusing to go to school. So I'm like, OK, let me talk to the head of the school. And so they arranged for a meeting for me to talk with the principal, principal Duhui Ping of the Beijing Middle School. And then I showed the principal an email printout that might exchange with people in ARXIV, that's a Cornell University pre-print server, where the people write their journal articles. But before the peer review of the academic publications, they post it online for everybody to review. And I'll just randomly write emails to researchers who didn't know I was just 14 years old. And so we'll start doing research together. And so I just showed that to the principal, saying, you tell me that I need to finish my studies, get my PhD, and I can work as a post-doctorate or a research assistant to the professors that I admire. But now the professor has written back and we're already doing research together. So what's the point of go to the middle school anymore? And Principal Duhui Ping, after thinking for a minute or so, saying that, OK, so tomorrow you don't have to go to school anymore.  So my household will not get fined. Of course, afterwards, we'll have the Experimental Education Act and so on. So people younger than me can make this kind of work well as a studying, learning from home and so on without incurring penalties. But even though my parents was not totally happy with my decision, I think it's really to their credit that they arranged this discussion for me, or was the real decision-making which is the head of the school, instead of trying to play this intermediary role of trying to convince me on behalf of the head of school or convince the head of school on behalf of the agency to do their life defining real decisions that I made when I was just a middle school student. So that's pretty, pretty rad. So tell you one, people would like to know, how did I know that the coding I did at age eight was done correctly if I did not own a computer? That's a good question. So my coding for what counts as coding on the piece of paper is literally just print hollow world. And so I'm pretty sure if I write print hollow world with the right quotation marks, and then I'll just use a pencil to write hollow world and then draw a cursor. The cursor would not blink because that would take too much energy. But I'll just draw a cursor there and then waiting for the next line of input. And the next day, I will wake up and type on this paper keyboard CLS Enter and then take an eraser and erase all the pencil part of the screen. And so I really didn't write very sophisticated programs using this paper computer because after I keep doing this for about two or three weeks, my parents just gave up and bought me a real personal computer so that I can check the computer programs on a real computer. So I think it's more shows a kind of initiative in computational thinking of willing to learn how a programmer's mind works. Just working on this, I think it was introduction to Apple Basic or something alone. But of course, you need a real computer if you want to run very sophisticated programs. 15 people would like to know, would your parents support anything you do or you wanted to do, such as being transgender, quitting school at an early age, or going to the States? They don't necessarily support anything I do. When I decided to couch serve when I was in my early 20s to essentially just go around the world, going to, I think, 20 cities in a span of not even two years, and just visiting each and every researcher I met online and just stay at their home until they get fed up with me and have to recommend somebody else and pay my train ticket for me to go to the next researcher, I do this to imitate the great mathematician Par Adish, who did the same plan. And so my parents were worried because back in their time, people don't randomly go to strangers' homes and stay at strangers' homes. But they also understand that the online community is something that they have little experience of. And so they just ask me to be careful and to keep them posted, which is partly why I post a blog every day. If I don't post a blog for a consecutive number of days, they'll get worried and try to contact me through our representative offices all around the world, I'm sure. But that sort of thing never happens. The researchers who are very kind online are, turns out, to also be very kind in real life. And so they're also learning something, I guess, about trusting the online communities, the free software community in particular, and also trusting strangers. Again, as I said, elderly, there's room for education for them, and if you explain clearly, some day they learn. 15 people were like, was it hard to be the first transgender cabinet member? I don't know whether I'm the first. I'm the first openly transgender cabinet member. For what I know, everybody else may be transgender, just not open about it. But the first openly transgender cabinet member, I think just like any so-called pioneers, it breaks new ground. We get to exercise our HR department, the human resource department, when I filled in my registration form to become a public servant. On the gender field, I filled in Wu, which is none, I guess. And that's partly because next to that form is a party affiliation box, which I also filled in Wu. So I filled in this, and it turns out it really is an input field. It's not a selection one out of many, or a taking one box to the exclusion of other boxes. Turns out that you can just write your gender on the registration form as a HR in the cabinet. So many more people now know about this. And so I think it's always good to test the limits of any system and to turn anything that looks like a check box into a selection field, and anything that looks like a selection field into just filling in anything field. 13 people were like, what motivates me to return to time when we're working in the Silicon Valley at the age of 35 where I could earn some number an hour? Well, first of all, that's only if I keep that as Bitcoin. But I did not. When I signed the contracts with Apple, with Oxford University Press, we just take whatever the exchange rate of Bitcoin at that time as a minority rate. And because their ledger system could not handle Bitcoin, so they always paid me in either Pounce, Darlene, or in US dollars. So I never received Bitcoin. It's just a bill in Bitcoin at that exchange rate. So more as an advocacy than anything. But still, yeah, that's literally three times or more in terms of monthly salary compared to my salary as the additional minister. So why would I want to work with the government? Well, it's more fun. If I work only with Apple, for example, then I need to care about people who have bought Apple services and products. And it will not be a good idea for me to care about people who are not using Apple computers or Apple devices. But nowadays, working as a public servant, if people do not like, for example, the tax filing software and revert back to filing on paper, we can't do what the private sector always do is that if you don't like our service, you can take your business elsewhere. We can't say if you don't like the experience of filing your tax, you can fire a tax to some other government. Well, I guess you could literally immigrate. But that's a very difficult thing to suggest to your own citizens. So instead, we need to work with people who care the most about their digital service and complain the most about digital service and then co-create something. And people always feel, because we're a liberal democracy, that they have a lot of new ideas to try out with. And that's more engaged and more personally fulfilling than working in the private sector for me personally. And so for me, it's not just about the money or it's primarily not about the money. So people would like to know, what was the first thing I did after I dropped out? Did I regret dropping out? Not at all. As I mentioned, I dropped out with the blessing of the head of the middle school. And so she gave me the complete freedom to try out things. And it's always there if I want to go back. So I think that's the best deal is that you drop out not kind of forgoing the link that you have built. The solidarity you have built with the faculty and with your fellow classmates. But you're like a pioneer that can explore a new landscape. In my case, the first thing I did was to co-found a company, a software company, and then just start this life as an entrepreneur. But whatever I learned, I also can go back and share with the faculty and with my former classmates. So I don't regret it at all. I think it's a really good thing to have tried in the tender age of 14 or 15. So which leads to the next question. What motivated me to create a company at the age of 15? At that time, it was a publishing press and not founded by me. I'm just one of the authors that co-wrote a book about the book. It's called The Roads to Cyberspace about Highland Computers. And so the book was reasonably selling reasonably OK. But at that time, there was this very new technology called the World Wide Web and called the Secure HTTPS, the Secure Hypertext Transmission Protocol. And this new idea that you can actually get your credit card recognized online and buy some books. And so I was very eager to try out this new technology, new back then, and set up the first e-commerce site for the publishing press to sell essentially my own book. And that was pretty instructive and actually quite successful. And so then it led me to think about maybe we can publish not only books, but also computer software, such as search engines and so on. And so that motivated me to share whatever software code I was working on at that point and then turn that book publisher into also a software publisher. And then later on, just exclusively a software publisher and the internet community to build here for, for example, the C2C auction, like eBay and so on back then. So I guess it's just fun and a bunch of friends that all think it's fun to start a company. 10 people were like, what did my parent think about me when I left school? Well, I think they want me to continue my education. So one of the things they suggested me is that I can just randomly go to the nearby university. In my case, that would be the National Genji University and attend the classes that they attended. Because you see, both my parents were graduates from the Genji University. And so they have a list of professors that they like. And some of the professors are no longer around. Some of the professors are still around. And so they just suggested that I can just maybe go to those professors classes and that I did. And so in a sense, I just worked with the professors in a kind of peer-to-peer fashion. Some of the professors really like me. So I set up weekly office hours where I can just go to their research room and talk for one hour for probably anything and everything. And most of them didn't quite care that there's one extra student in their class. Because I'm very pro-social, I guess. I always engage in real discussions. And I don't really want a diploma out of them. So they don't have to spend time grading me and things like that. So it's like extra quality for no extra effort. It's a pretty good deal. And so they are all okay with me just attending their undergrad and later on graduate level classes. So that's what my parents think. It's just don't stop by education. And I think that's a really good topic that I can bring up with my students, my parents too, who are my students. That's in my mind anyway, to teach them about their professors' later thinking.  Certainly the internet community.  So with the right hashtags, with the, well, we didn't have hashtag back then, but with the right use net groups, you can find people who think similarly, who consider themselves kind of your kin, or your tribe or your kinfolk and things like that. And so then you won't feel alone anymore. And so I think what's the best about the internet communities, both back then and nowadays, is that people do not have to meet face to face in order to form this kind of support groups. And with this kind of support group, one no longer feels that one is in the minority, but rather is just one representative out of this internet community projected to the so-called real world. And I still think that my work in the cabinet is a projection from the free software community and also internet governance community into day-to-day politics. I'm still thinking myself as more of an ambassador than a minister. So, did you eat animals while I am in the forest? This is like out of Jungle Book or something. I wasn't in the forest and I didn't take my kind of survival classes. So I'm not sure what this question is about. But I do eat animals. So I'm almost completely vegetarian, but I do eat oysters because they're carbon neutral or carbon capturing and they don't suffer. But that's quite besides the point, but I don't think there's any oysters in the forest. So maybe I'll eat some mushrooms instead. Okay, fine. So eight people would like to know, how do you hack legally? How can hacking save lives?  So in the same way that you would recruit people to, when you do public construction, for example, building a really long tunnel, we hire professional, I'm not even sure what was the word for that, professional people that can start a fire and burn things. Arsonist sounds wrong because those would be the black hats. So professional fire testers that just try to burn the tunnel and test the firefighting capabilities to automate the triggers and things like that. In the same way, what we call penetration testing or pen testing is that before we deploy any digital service, we will hire white hat hackers to try to attack the system and to find the vulnerabilities and tell us how to think like a attacker and what do what we call purple teaming, which is the attacking team, the red team, working with the defense team, the blue team. This is not tenant, which use the same color code. But anyway, so when the red team and the blue team can work together to improve the system's resilience, that's legal cyber security hacking and you can derive a lot of fun and get paid really well as a white hat hacker, especially nowadays in Taiwan, because we make sure there's a lot of budgets and you also get recognized by ministers and the president and so on as national heroes, all this to make sure that you do not fall to the dark side, which always have more cookies. Okay, so I think the last one, question. I know you don't really comment about politics, don't I? However, I would like to ask a question. What will be the best time for Taiwan to declare her independence? Well, certainly in the neolithic age, that's a standard answer from me, because you see before the neolithic age, there was a time when the climate was a little bit warm and Taiwan straight just floated out. So it used to be a land bridge across the Pescador, the Punghua Islands and so on, but when the temperature turned warmer, the sea level rose around the neolithic age and then this land bridge dissipated and that's when Taiwan gained independence from the Eurasian Plate and after that the Eurasian Plate wasn't so still about it so we continue to have a lot of earthquakes when the Eurasian Plate still pushes with the Philippine Sea Plate and that's why we have earthquake all the time and most of our buildings built like a boat with a boat shaped underneath level that can be more resilient against earthquakes but also because of that, Taiwan raises two and a half centimeters on the top of Taiwan that's the Savia or Pantogunung or Yushan or Jade Mountain, many different names depending on the culture and so that's why we can keep rising and toward the sky and see the ideological as well as the geological tensions in a way that is more skyward, that's more upwing. So instead of left wing or right wing, we will see always from a more upwing point of view and the best time to declare is the neolithic age but of course we don't think there's any declarations back from the neolithic age but you can do so now, you can retroactively say Taiwan has been an independent island since the neolithic age. So that's pretty much it and thank you for the great questions. Sorry that I left 95 unanswered but I imagine that it will be a good agenda for your continued discussion and I will read them all too. Thank you. Minister Tang on behalf of KS, we are so happy that you have come today and take time with us. Middle school, thank you for your thoughtful questions and your upvotes and as you walk away from the auditorium I want to encourage you to think about what you heard and think of more questions to share with each other and your teachers in the time ahead. Mr. Payne, where would we like for them to go?


Trini girl natural. Hi everyone, welcome to my channel. So I did the ubiquitous hair show recently and then I saw the naturalista hair show so I was like I have to do that too. Just to compare, just to show it to you guys and just to experience a new type of hair show. So again this was sort of a first time thing because they did a special edition called an after show that was build a grown folks event.  Let you know what it was about, how it was, was it like the truth or not and so on. And of course I have a whole video coming up so stay tuned for that as well. So let me show you what it was and then I'll come back and review it. Take a look. Oh yeah, oh yeah it's good. I'll let you know when we look for the end. So stay tuned for part. So here we are. You can see it doesn't seem like I'll be buying anything. So that's Oyen. I'm gonna look like check inside. So the boots in the main area are kind of cozy like just tiny little boots. So I guess you have to be special to be outside like a funky chameleon and Oyen. Everything else is just like these quiet little closets. Okay so that was organic coal. She was selling like little scrubs for like what was it 24 dollars I guess but it was like sugar and oil so I passed. There's nail polish and t-shirts with the twist out. Hope you can see that. It's kind of cute. So that's about to start.  I don't know if he's like a waiter or just a watcher but stuff like that people will say it tastes really good. That's good. So I think it's like a great event really just to come and chill and you got your live entertainment and your products. So yeah I think I would do it again. Maybe like just come with your girlfriends and stuff like that. So right now I think I'm trying to go home. So I think I'm done. I think so because I checked all the boots. So I got that onesie giant thing which I got at first the conditioner. So first time trying that 12 dollars and I got like some Alodia naturals which is also like 12 dollars on. I got a deconditioner or hair cream like look I kind of like a leave-in and a cream gel from Alodia and like went to the tree nationals and everything was expensive as hell but I got like a conditioner bar which I just had to try and a deconditioner and a hair cream. So I guess I'm headed out. So the music was nice, the MC was nice. So I'm shopping with the food, with the music, with the MC and the DJ. Like it was just a whole other level. I'm really dressed up. I'm not so much but the kind of lounge vibe, party vibe, hangout vibe was there as well. So that kind of added to the fun. So I did enjoy that part of it. I would say that some of the artists were more talented than others. So listening to some of them sing, sorry to say was kind of torturous for me. So I'm not a singer but I like music and some of it was like eh. But some of them were good as well. So I really enjoyed the first guy who was singing. The other thing is one was really bad, one was kind of sometimes bad. So they definitely could work on the quality of the guest performance I guess. But the MC, she was really good. She was really funny. The main stage area was way too small for the event. So I know they had some chairs and I guess having seats are a good thing but they need to have more room around it for standing room because you have performers, obviously people are going to want to see it. But that area where the performance were really tiny as you saw. So it got really crowded and I think people probably wanted to see but couldn't. I guess hopefully next year they'll like adjust it and so on because this is the first year they're doing this side of it. I think there was salsa dancing. I didn't see it. There was supposed to be a men's panel and a relationship discussion. I didn't stay for that. The speed dating was actually kind of cool to look at. I didn't participate. It seemed like they kind of just maybe hired three guys. I mean the guys were well curated. They call them snacks. The guys look hot on their eyes but like it just seems kind of like a waste of time to speed it with like hired data. So unless it's for practice I guess. I mean who knows maybe you could have impressed them that much that something couldn't really happen but it was a little weird. Like if they were changing random guys and random girls it would have been more genuine than you know date our official data. But I'm sure they have fun and it looked like fun. I didn't catch a drama. I really turned into drama so that was fun to watch. So overall it was good and I think just all the edutainments and so on was definitely worth the $15. So again I feel like I made back my money just on having the edutainment plus the ability to shop. So that's better for me than the day session where I'm teaching you stuff I don't necessarily want to sign up for so I'm not taking advantage of. Of course I didn't take advantage of the different side things in this one but at least I did hear the performances on the main stage and so on. So it was supposed to be like a fun event and a social event and a more party vibe than that little bit with us which was like the entrepreneurship panel. This one was all about just getting dressed up looking cute. There were a few vendors different from the bit with us so going to both was good. At least you know one is before the other so you can probably say well okay I'm happy enough with one I won't go to both but there were definitely things in each one that wasn't in the other one so I don't regret going to both. So in terms of like the actual shopping there were less vendors and the vendors were really squished together so they had these little cloth boots right next to each other. Don't remember how cramped the boots were in Ubequedas but it was more open somehow. There were like little closets of cloth I guess you saw it so I don't really like the boot setup. I prefer the Ubequedas boot setup. Ubequedas also had more space or seemed to have had more space so it was more comfortable to shop. This one you were like always kind of bouncing into people and there was no room between finishing one and getting to the other and they were like literally inch apart each boot so yeah I didn't really like that but the vendors were there doing their thing and I guess that's what really matters at the end. So I did get some stuff. Camille Rose was there, Oyan was there, Uncle Funky Swallow was there and they pretty much did the same sales as they did last time so Camille Rose was like $10 for everything. Didn't get anything. Uncle Funky was like 30% off and I forget what how much Oyan was so I do want to support her. Her stuff just doesn't really grab me. Just some of the most exciting ingredients I guess and this definitely looks good moisturizing you know your typical straight aloe honey but doesn't really get my PJJs as flowing so I will try it eventually but I didn't try it yet. I didn't see my aloe gunics this time. I didn't see like Kanto and ORS and all the others that were there in the Ubequedas so Ubequedas is definitely bigger but Ubequedas better come up with an aftershow next time because that was bummed. I was like up in the ante of hair shows so grown folks so yeah I would definitely recommend the aftershow and I would probably go to the aftershow again next year. I hope you are able to kind of experience the hair show with me. Definitely subscribe for more content and I will see you in the next one. Bye!


The war on terror scam continues. ISIS has reportedly claimed credit for an explosion near Kabul's Ahmed Karzai International Airport. As of this writing, there are around 90 dead, including 13 US military personnel. Though to read Western mainstream media reports, you'd think only US troops died and not scores of Afghans as well. This was the deadliest attack in a decade on US troops in Afghanistan. Which is odd to think about considering how many people the US military has killed during that time. Just between January and July of this time, the war killed 1,659 civilians. The way the US war machine has shifted to relying more on highly profitable missiles and bombs and unmanned aircraft to avoid the bad PR of flag-draped bodies flying home on jets, is making the murder of foreigners a safer profession than working at a convenience store. Because US military casualties of this size have become more rare, despite their being spread throughout the world in nations whose people don't want them there, news of those 13 deaths is being met with shock and astonishment instead of being regarded as a very normal part of foreign military occupations. People are acting like these were mall cops in Ohio and not military forces overseeing the tail end of a 20-year war overseas. And pundits and politicians are demanding more bombs and more military interventionism in response to people on the other side of the world attacking them in their own country. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell released a statement calling on the US to redouble our global efforts in the war on terror in response to the attack. Seizing the opportunity to promote more, we fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here nonsense. Terrible things happen when terrorists are allowed to operate freely. This murderous attack offers the clearest possible reminder that terrorists will not stop fighting the United States just because our politicians grow tired of fighting them, McConnell said. I remain concerned that terrorists worldwide will be emboldened by our retreat, by this attack, and by the establishment of a radical Islamic terror state in Afghanistan.  Yeah, that makes sense Mitch. My neighbor attacked me when she caught me in her house at night going through her valuables. This proves she's always wanted to attack me in my home. I need to go fight her over there so I don't have to fight her here.  The very last institution on earth who should be trying to do something about ISIS is the institution whose actions created ISIS in the first place. But of course acting in accordance with that self-evident fact is too much to ask of the US government, and Biden has announced that he has ordered his commanders to develop operational plans to strike ISISK targets, leadership, and facilities. So the US war machine will continue to rain down highly profitable explosives upon Afghanistan for as long as it likes using this attack as justification for more military operations instead of taking it as yet another sign that what it has been doing is not working and keeps making things worse. Step one, destroy nations, kill millions, and displace tens of millions in military interventions for power and profit. Step two, wait for some of those people to hate you and want to fight back. Step three, use their desire to fight back as justification to repeat step one. The war on terror is the greatest scam ever invented.


People choose to adopt vegan diets for a myriad of personal reasons, some over animal welfare concerns, and some to improve their overall health. And since living a vegan lifestyle is now easier than ever, some vegans may want to extend that aspect of their lifestyle to their pets. But is a vegan, plant-based diet safe for your pets? The ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center says that while it is possible, though challenging, to keep dogs healthy on a plant-based diet, a vegan diet is not appropriate for cats at all. If dogs can do it, why can't cats? Well, cats are obligate carnivores, meaning that they need to eat meat to survive. There are a number of reasons why cats don't do well on a vegan diet, but it all essentially comes down to this, they aren't adapted to it. Feeding a cat a plant-based diet is a lot like feeding a cow a meat-based diet, their digestive system isn't geared to handle it, and they will not thrive on it. What specific components make a vegan diet unhealthy for cats? Taurine. Taurine is an amino acid, the building block of protein, essential for cats. Taurine can only be found in animal sources such as meat, milk, etc. It is not found in plant sources. Taurine can be synthesized in humans and dogs, but cats are unable to do this and require a direct source from an animal product. Cats who are fed a vegan diet will often develop a deficiency of Taurine because the diet doesn't provide them with this essential amino acid. Cats with a Taurine deficiency can develop a heart issue known as dilated cardiomyopathy or DCM. In cats with DCM, the heart muscle becomes very thin and weak, preventing them from pumping blood and supplying oxygen to the body normally. This is a fatal disease if not corrected early on. A lack of adequate Taurine can also cause severe eye problems in cats, including blindness. Protein. Cats require a diet high in protein. Plants simply don't have high enough levels of high quality. Highly digestible protein to meet a cat's dietary requirements. Carbohydrates. Cats are not good at digesting carbohydrates. They don't get much energy from them, and a carbohydrate-rich diet is not appropriate for cats. They need calorie-dense options that meat provides. Cats need meat and lots of it. Cats also need much more protein in their diets than other animals. Kittens require one and a half times more protein than puppies, and adult cats need two to three times the amount adult dogs require. The reason? While other mammal species use most of the protein they consume for growth and body maintenance, cats use it for this purpose plus as a source of energy. When other species don't get enough protein in their diets, their bodies make adjustments to conserve amino acids to manage the deficit. But your kitty's body must continue to use protein even when it's missing from his diet, which is why protein malnutrition is common in sick, injured, and anorexic cats. In addition to their increased need for protein, cats have a higher requirement for certain amino acids found naturally in animal tissue, including taurine. Taurine is found in animal muscle meat, particularly in the heart and liver, and a deficiency causes serious health problems in cats, including cardiovascular disease and blindness. Cats have vitamin requirements that a vegetarian diet can't provide. Felines have a special need for vitamin A, which is naturally available only in animal tissue. They lack the intestinal enzymes necessary to convert the beta carotene in plants to the active form of vitamin A, which is essential for vision, bone and muscle growth, reproduction, and the health of epithelial tissues. Cats also require five times more dietary thiamine, vitamin B1, than dogs do. A thiamine deficiency can result in a poor quality coat, loss of appetite, hunched posture, neurologic problems including seizures, and even death. Since vitamin B1 isn't stable in commercial pet foods, and levels drop significantly the longer the food is stored, many cats may be thiamine deficient unless they're eating a freshly made real food diet or are receiving a quality supplement. Cats must consume vitamin D in their diets because they can't synthesize it through their skin. The livers and fatty tissues of prey animals are rich in vitamin D. Kitties must also get arachidonic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid, from their diet. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out BeemixPets.com. Use coupon code KittenLife to get 20% off. Offer a variety of meats to your cat, but avoid most fish. My recommendation is to feed your cat a nutritionally balanced, species appropriate, meat-based fresh food diet. Give him a variety of meats like chicken, beef, rabbit, and lamb from high quality sources, and on a rotating basis, to reduce the risk of food intolerances. I don't recommend a diet that's exclusively fish protein. Most seafood today is heavily contaminated with toxic metals, industrial chemicals, and pesticides. In addition, the fish meal in most commercial pet foods contains the potentially deadly preservative ethoxyquin, as well as mycotoxins. Too much fish in your cat's diet can also create thiamine and vitamin E deficiencies over time, along with health problems associated with too much dietary iodine and magnesium. With that said, it's true that fish is a great source of omega-3 fatty acids, which cats need to stay healthy. So I recommend sardines packed in water, or wild caught salmon, and or supplement his diet with krill oil. Your cat also needs a moisture-rich diet. Yet another distinctive biological feature of cats is their need to get most of their water intake from the food they eat because they're not as responsive as other animals to sensations of thirst or dehydration. Unlike dogs, who drink frequently from their water bowls, cats fed a dried diet aren't compelled to search for another source of water to make up the difference between what their bodies require and what their diet provides. This can result in chronic mild dehydration, a condition that will ultimately result in disease, especially of the lower urinary tract and kidneys. In short, your cat can't be a vegetarian. He needs a fresh, whole meat-based diet to stay healthy. Can cats eat fruits? Fruits and berries are indeed superb products for a human's diet. They are high in water, and provide essential vitamins and fiber. But is it the same for cats, and can they safely consume any fruit? Before sharing a berry or two, don't forget that cats are carnivores, meaning that they rely on meat and not so much on other food which we humans consume daily. If you want to introduce fruits into your kitty's diet, learn which ones are suitable for felines and which ones to avoid. An interesting fact is that cats have no sweet taste receptors. That means that your cat is unlikely to be interested in most fruits' flavors. Also, fruits and berries are not that nutritionally dense compared to vegetables, and most importantly, meat. But they are still full of water, an essential part of a feline's diet. Before offering your cat an apple or orange, make sure you understand how fruits impact your kitty's health. In most cases, the sweetness of fruits and berries comes from sucrose and fructose, two simple sugars that create more work for your kitten's pancreas. Since felines mostly rely upon lean meats, sugar is usually an unwanted additive, which you should emit whenever possible. The bottom line is that because cats are obligate carnivores, their gastrointestinal tracts and metabolism have adapted to eating meat. They can't digest plant material well, and they require essential nutrients that only meat can provide to them. They aren't adapted to digesting a plant-based diet, and meat absolutely needs to be on the table when you are feeding a cat. However, you can still improve the lives of farm animals and be mindful of animal welfare by seeking out animal food brands bearing meaningful welfare certification labels, which represent more humane and transparent farming practices. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.


Hello it's Missy! Thank you for watching! Today I wanted to share a half up style that I saw on Pinterest recently. This is a fairly simpler style to do but the prep work is important so I'll be sharing that as well. If you haven't subscribed to my channel yet make sure to like and subscribe. Click that bell so you never miss any future videos and let's get started! For this half up style the prep work is fairly important so I'm going to begin by backcombing the hair at my crown to add some volume. I'm dividing off a small section first.  Then I'm going to divide off another section of hair underneath the previous section and repeat the same process as before so I'm brushing the hair downwards towards the roots and spray it with some hairspray. Now I'm going to bring the hair back down the right direction and I'm going to carefully comb through the top layer of the hair. This will help smooth it down and also help cover up the hair underneath that is backcombed. So now I'm going to divide out the hair that I'll be using for the half up style.  I'm using some hair spray to help smooth down any loose shorter hairs that are sticking out and once I've smoothed it down I'm going to use a clear elastic band to tie off the section of hair.  So I'm just gently pulling and loosening small pieces out of the elastic. I like to do this to add some volume at the top of my head. It helps ensure the style is more symmetrical and not bumpy or lopsided on one side. Now I'm going to lift up the ponytail so it's going towards the top of my head and I'm going to take my claw clip and clamp it over the hair just above the elastic band and now when I bring the ends back down it'll create a bump in the hair where it falls over the top of the clip and I went ahead and also backcombed this section of hair as well just to add a little bit of extra volume. Now I'm going to bring the hair back down the right direction and I'm going to carefully comb through the top layer of the hair this will help smooth it down and also help cover up the hair underneath that is backcombed and then I grabbed my curling iron to kind of refresh the curl so that it laid a little bit more smoothly once it was clipped up. This style is one of those looks that was popular years ago and is making its way back again so let me know in the comments what you think and whether or not you try out this style. Thank you so much for watching I hope you enjoyed the video if you did make sure to click the thumbs up if you didn't click the thumbs down either way it helps me out make sure to subscribe and click that notification bell if you haven't already then you'll never miss any future videos and I will see you next time


Effective argumentation is a central part of critical thinking and the topic of our last section to the course. Although the term argumentation today has negative connotations, it was once considered one of the highest pursuits. As we touched upon previously, argumentation is a process whereby divergent ideas or opinions are brought into contact and interact with the intention of inferring a conclusive single global outcome. Arguments can take two basic forms, fights or debates, depending on whether they're based on force or the process of reasoning. In this section, we will explore both rational and non-rational arguments. As we'll see, in its most constructive form, the principal purpose of argumentation is to serve as a means of collective judgment and decision making and hence an important means of governance. Argumentation also is a way of knowing, as we decide what we believe through the testing of different claims and argumentation helps to achieve the goals of a democratic society by cultivating the skills of critical thinking, reflexive judgement and active participation as vital to the maintenance of a robust society. The process of the primary use of cognition within the individual is for them to make decisions and act, the same goes for groups of people. Groups and whole societies need to use their knowledge base and means of communication to deliberate and generate decisions about important issues that affect all. This happens through the process of argumentation, whether it's scientists trying to come to the best theory, a family trying to resolve an issue, a political system trying to make a collective decision or a group of people debating a contentious issue. Argumentation is a pervasive phenomena in all societies and understanding its basic workings is of great significance both for the individual and for society at large.


I'm Alex. I am studying Master's Degree of Fine Arts here in Prague College. I'm a visual artist and designer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. My project is a personal exploration. I'm using basically data visualization as a means to explore a little bit how technology impacts my personal life. So I'm bringing a lot of data from personal activities, like running on the streets and screen time from my mobile phone and I'm bringing all into this visual composition as a kind of really an exploration of personal aspects of my life and how technology impacts it. I guess my inspiration is really myself trying to deal with how technology is shaping our individual lives and also as a society as well. So it's basically an exploration to understand the impact that technology has on my personal life, on my daily activities, my habits and really trying to create some kind of self-knowledge so I could try to orient myself in dealing with this modern situation. First of all I have this physical challenge because basically I'm really putting my body into some kind of physical activities and pushing it. I'm usually running up big stairs here in the city so I guess I would start with these physical challenges but also I'm dealing with technical challenges as well. I was basically learning how to program computers during the whole process because I'm working with data so I'm really teaching myself how to program in order to create this data visualization. So I'll be exhibiting my project and it will be inside the reshape exhibition which will be an exhibition combining both MA Fine Arts projects and MA Future Design as well. So yeah, this project will be initially exhibited online. We'll have a website live streaming our installations so you can check it on the 25, so please do it.


Do you want to learn how to trade stocks and cryptocurrency? Join our community of traders. Go to richpicksdaily.com and find the next 10-bagger. How are you doing today? I'm your host Rich from Rich TV Live with a very special guest, Tim Quinn from Congruent Labs. Also part of the SATA coin. How are you doing today, Tim? I'm doing great. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. Very excited to learn more about your project. Can you please tell us a little bit about and how you got involved with the SATA coin and the project? Sure. I myself have been working in the cybersecurity industry for about 10 years now. I've been working in federal government in Australia and a little bit with New Zealand, mostly. Same for my co-founder. I'm doing a lot of identity systems, public key infrastructure, smart cards, that kind of thing. Late last year, we started, you know, we originally looked at building tokens, that kind of thing, but we didn't really see any utility in building one until we started digging deep into how ARC20 tokens worked. The further we dug, we were like, hang on a second, we could actually really build something useful here, not just another financial product. We could actually build an identity system on the chain as well. Yeah, that's basically how it kicked off. We drafted a white paper last year, built up the concepts, and then released just a couple of months ago from now. Wow. Congratulations. Thank you. Can you tell us what the main goals are for congruent labs and the SATA coin as you do your initial project launch? Yeah, so the main goal here, what we're trying to build is, you know, there are a few other players in the identity space. They're focused on, you know, hey, let's take existing Web 3 authentication, like logging in with your metamask or logging in with an Ethereum address and then, you know, replace username and password with that. And that's what we saw as well. The value there. But we thought, well, there's a whole bunch of extra things you need to do if you're going to start playing in the identity space, which is, you know, concerns for users, privacy, concerns for, you know, credential theft, security, longer term, you know, projects need to be factoring in all of these things all at once. So we thought, well, let's build everything up front. The whole stack, like we're calling it, the full stack, access authorization and credential storage as well. So the intent here with our project is to effectively bring the hardware key storage as well into the mix. So if, you know, even if you're using a phone, that kind of thing, you get solid hardware key protection using things like UB keys for protecting your identity online. That's great. That's great. Can you tell us Tim about the management involved with the SATA coin, especially your past and maybe some other management past success in blockchain sector and the cryptocurrency market? Yeah, sure. So this is our first foray into an actual token project, that kind of thing. You know, we've been building a crypto wallet product for the last couple of years in the background to sort of flesh out the technology itself using UB keys and, you know, standard smart card kind of technology. Yeah, so this is our first foray into like actual blockchain technology, kind of like direct integration. So yeah, I don't know how you'd say it, but well, I think that that's, I think most people are like that. I mean, we're still in the early stages, right? So there's so many people that are getting into these projects for the first time because we're really just in the first inning of cryptocurrency.  And just recently it was up and it's kind of come back down a little bit. So I totally understand that, hey, you know what, it hasn't been a secure place to generate wealth for, since it's infancy really, it's been up and down, up and down, up and down, but now it's becoming more mainstream. It's becoming mass adopted. Institutions are pouring in. So I totally understand that, yeah, maybe you haven't worked on a token before, but you wouldn't be the only one because most people are just getting into this industry now for the first time, for the most part. Yeah. And, you know, looking back on other projects like that are in the space, like I'm kind of glad we started now because there's this whole, you know, the last three years people have been developing like the Ethereum platform and everything like that, like the Solidity language, the tools are so much better now. It would be so much worse trying to do this like back in 2017 because just it's like the Wild West. It's become way more legitimate. Like here in Canada, we've had multiple exchanges that went bankrupt. We had founders just disappear with millions of dollars. And this was like almost the norm of crypto, like you said, like the Wild Wild West, you know, from 2017 up until just recent. So it's just now, I would say over the last 12 months where it started to become more adopted, where banks and institutions are now pouring in and saying, yeah, you know what, this is a real way to do business. And this is a store of wealth. And this is the future of banking and transactions. Just now that people are starting to really recognize it as such. And we just had breaking news. We had historic news where El Salvador is now utilizing Bitcoin as legal tender. So that is as big as it gets for the industry, because now in El Salvador, you can use Bitcoin anywhere for transactions. And that alone has made it more mainstream and made it something that people are taking serious because if an entire country is using it as legal tender and merchants have to accept Bitcoin now, then who's going to be the next country? And then who's going to be the next country after that? And who's going to be the next country after that? I've been in the crypto game since 2017. I've seen a lot of ups and downs myself. And I've always been fascinated with the technology, fascinated with the fact that I can put money into Bitcoin and send it to anyone, anywhere in the world, almost instantly with almost no cost whatsoever. And that just blew my mind. And that's why I absolutely love this industry. But there's been highs and lows for me along the way, too. And there's been massive explosions in the sector and there's been massive crashes. And I've seen highs and lows along the way myself. So even for me now, I've thought about maybe one day having a coin and getting into this because it's becoming more accessible. It's becoming something that people don't just talk about with like kind of with like black hats, but people are looking at this like, hey, you know what, not only is this something that is real, but this is the future. This is the future of finance. This is the future of transactions. This is the future of business. And I believe now more than ever, people are starting to really buy into cryptocurrencies. Would you agree with that? Yeah. Yeah, definitely. That was kind of the biggest thing that changed our minds when we started looking at this is like, oh, hang on, this is actually like a giant computer that you can build things on. And you can do so much more. There's a lot of people trying to use blockchain in the wrong ways. They just think, oh, I'll jump in on the cash in on the meme and build something on it. But the fact that it is like just a massive computer and it's a massive permanent record of things, you can build so many other products on that. I look at it like opportunities. It's like a digital filing cabinet. Imagine we got all our files. You're supposed to store files for years and you got all these files and cabinets. You don't even know what's there anymore. You don't want to even look because there's like years of files. Well, now you can put it digitally on the blockchain. It's there forever and you can always go back and review your notes. I mean, this is the future of the digital world. And we are in a digital world and it's becoming more and more digital at a record pace. Everything around us is digital. Our phones, our computers, everything is digital. So the fact that cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies are using the internet to store everything on the blockchain has changed the game for everyone. And you can see this because institutions are getting involved, celebrities are getting involved, the average person is getting involved. Everyone in one capacity or another is starting to look at cryptocurrencies either from afar or they're just jumping right in. But I think the number is 4% of the world is even involved at this point. So imagine when 90, the other 96% is also involved in the blockchain in one capacity or another. Like debit cards, they've got themselves a little bit of a card where they can put some Bitcoin in there and they can pay and they can do transactions. Imagine when the whole world is doing that. I mean, this is going to look totally different. The whole industry will look totally different. And in my opinion, this is just the beginning. Now we know one of the biggest issues with the SATA technology that you guys have is that combating is the guarding of people's identities online. And as there is a huge business, companies taking everyone's info, which has become a huge business, companies taking people's info and selling it to third parties for marketing purposes. So how does the SATA coin look to battle this big hurdle? Yeah. So that's the real crux of the issue is there are a lot of identity projects out there.  The problem is though, if you do that, everything you do with that identity is now traceable. So if you interact with any website, any service, they can look and say, oh, hey, look, I know exactly which other services they've been with or they've interacted with. If you're trying to get insurance, they're going to know what ailments you might have based on your online history, that kind of thing. So out of the gate, we're tackling that by not just focusing on a single identity for people. So you can wrap it up in a concept of personas. So when we're online, generally we have more than one persona that we work with. That might be your personal persona that you log on to YouTube and watch YouTube videos with. You log on to Facebook, Twitter, that kind of thing, but then you might have a work persona that you're doing probably similar things, but you want to keep that completely separate, because we have a professional corporate version of ourselves and then we have the normal version of ourselves. So creating multiple identities for yourself with our products and then using them where you need to and then just keeping them separate from each other. They don't need to interact with each other unless you want them to. So in that case, it should be controlled by the user. It shouldn't be controlled by the service. So like with Google, when you're logging in with Google across all your services, you're basically spreading your identity across all of them and it all comes to a single point. You don't really have any control over that. You just have to give up your identity every time you do it and that identity is in the form of your email address or whatever. For our products, we want users to be able to choose and say, no, I don't want to have my personal identity or persona used on one service. I'll generate a new one and then start using it on that other application. Interesting. I think that's really smart. If SATA technology were to compare itself to its competitors in the sector, what would you say sets you guys apart? Yeah, there are a few out there, like a few projects tackling the identity space. The really sort of mature looking ones look impressive, but the problem is, in a lot of cases, this happens in the identity world a lot. People come at the problem and they try to like build the entire, try to define a standard for it straight away and they try to upfront solve every single problem with it and then start building a product against that standard. The problem is though, it takes ages to do that. There's so much you have to do upfront that you end up sort of turning it into like a multi-year project and a lot of the competitors aren't even on mainnet yet. They haven't even released their tokens because they're still building. They've got big teams of 10, 15 people and it's like, they're going to be building for this for a really long time and eventually they will release and it might be amazing, but it's going to take so long and the technology keeps evolving. Our approach is build small first, release as quickly as possible and then adapt based on how users react to the system because ultimately user experience is the most important thing with this. You're not going to get like your own parents or grandparents using this kind of technology and understanding how any of it works unless it's just a simple experience for them. So that's I think what sets us apart. We're starting with building the experience first and alongside that's sort of going to define a framework that other people can use when they integrate with us. So like the login with Google button that you see on websites, you just log in with Signata or Sata. Very nice. I like that. You guys have some cool technology you guys are trying to put together here. Now it's extremely important for our community to understand the coin's capital structure. Can you go through the capital structure for our viewers and explain how you plan to attract institutional and retail investors to the coin? Yeah, sure. So we've got a fixed supply of 100 million tokens. Oh, I like that. About 67% of them are currently locked with an unlocking schedule every quarter. We originally didn't like, you know, you can tell we were this is our first token project because we didn't even consider like the full locking schedule thing when we when we pushed the main net. And then the first question everyone had was what are you doing with all the dev tokens? What are you locking? We're like, okay, so we need to actually come up with something here. So we've locked up the majority. There's a bunch that are going to unlock Lady this year. It's like 10% of the supply, but we're going to relock that because we've realized now we don't actually need to use them. We had some plans around the proof of concept release that we'd use those, but we don't actually need to now. So we're going to lock those up more. So that'll probably bring us up to like close to 80% of them locked. And right now, the focus is, you know, we've we've got about 20, we've got about close to 20 million in circulation. There's going to be probably a few more million tokens going into circulation, but that's just for investors. So we are talking to a few different investors at the moment.  And then, you know, potential listings on exchanges, that kind of thing. Great. Very good. If there was one thing you would want the people to know that are watching about the SATA coin and congruent labs today, what would it be? I think that we're going to be building far more aggressively than we originally said we would. So the original plan was Q4. This year would be the release of our proof of concept, but we've already got our identity contract defined. So we're using NFTs for a lot of the components because, you know, they don't have to be for trading artworks. You can use NFTs for things like assigning rights to people. So like if you've got premium features on a website or a forum, that can be in the form of an NFT issued to someone. So we've already got that defined as well, the contracts for that. We're testing that. I'm building a demo site. So, you know, it's Q2 right now, technically. So we're going to have some of that Q4 stuff done now. And then Q3 is probably going to be the point where we just start releasing tons of stuff into the network. And that's, you know, our team is still only 2.5 people. You know, I'm still also hiring. So once we've got those, the other guys on the team up and running, it's going to go crazy. That sounds exciting. Well, we love to get here in Rich TV Live into early stage products. We love companies that are undervalued, underappreciated, underexposed, so we can tell our community about it. They can position themselves for the big run up. So we love getting in early. So we like projects that are just getting started. And we love when management cares and wants to make them a success. And you can tell the difference. And that's why we love to interview companies and co-founders like yourself, because you can see the passion in the way they talk about their projects. There's going to be people all over the world that are going to see this video, that are going to see this interview. What is the best way for those people to get in contact with you if they're interested in the project or they have any questions? Yeah. So if you go to the Sada.technology website, we've got a link to Telegram there and Discord. At Telegram's far more active community, but either or you can jump on there and then ask me anything. I'm always, I'm on there every day. So yeah, harass me for questions. That's awesome. Well, thank you so much for your time today. Tim Quinn, the co-founder of Congruent Labs, the SataCoin. If you guys like this video, please smash the like button, comment down below, share the video everywhere and subscribe. I'm a huge fan of cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, been following cryptocurrencies and investing in blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies since 2017. And in my opinion, we're really just in the first inning of a digital revolution, in my opinion. I actually just did an interview with a public company called DeFi. And they've got a public company and their stock that does DeFi and DeFi has become huge. And just these are words that are coming out of the blockchain sector, out of the cryptocurrency world. And a year ago, nobody knew who DeFi was. Nobody knew what DeFi, no one even heard the word DeFi. A year ago, nobody knew what an NFT was. So it's just interesting to think what's going to come next. This is a revolution in technology. And I'm really, really excited to see how your project's going to turn out. If you guys like this video, I really appreciate it. If you comment on the video and remember, Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes, please always do your due diligence, do your research before you invest in anything that we talk about here in Rich TV Live. In saying that, I think this is an interesting project. Thank you for your time today. Thank you. And if you guys have any questions for Tim, I will make sure I put all this contact information in the description of the video. Thank you guys for watching. If you're not winning, you're not watching. This is Rich from Rich TV Live saying, have a nice day, everybody.