Well, talk about what neoliberalism is. I think that's how the cynical historian begins this, and we'll go from there. So I'll have a lot of commentary as we go through the video. You guys tell me, make sure that you can hear the sound and that the volume is right and everything is cool, otherwise we'll work on it. Okay, here we go. So, he's starting out by saying, look, we can't define like most moderns, they don't like definitions. We're not going to define neoliberalism. We're going to describe a few of its characteristics and neoliberalism has been, according to him, the dominant set of ideas, at least within the economic sphere in the United States over the last 40 years. It is the dominant set, so a lot has happened, he can't cover it all, and that makes sense. So who is this guy? He is the cynical historian. You can look him up, the cynical historian on YouTube. And rejection of groups, market liberalism. So that's not bad. So the first characteristic of neoliberalism is, and you probably heard neoliberalism a lot. People talk about it a lot. Neoliberalism is a kind of a catchall. It's been attacked. It's been defended, although it hasn't been defended much. It's not clear as neoliberalism on the left is neoliberalism on the right. It's probably more of a feature of what we call the mushy, hard to define. And I agree with him, neoliberalism is hard to define, because I don't think there is such a thing. But neoliberalism is this mushy center. So here he's trying to characterize what this is. Emphasis on individuality and rejection of groups. There's an essence to that, too. There is, so neoliberalism will get to what it describes, but it's liberalism. Liberalism comes from the idea of liberty. It's the idea of limited government. It's the idea that the government's job is to preserve the liberty of the individual. Liberalism, historically, classical liberalism, has been an ideology of the preservation of the individual. It's been an individualistic ideology, again, the classical liberal form and a rejection of groups. And neoliberalism picks on that a little bit. It's not overly individualistic, but it is true that it emphasizes the individual more than groups. It's not as collectivistic as let's say socialism or fascism or any of the other popular ideologies out there. It's definitely more about individual prosperity in economic terms and individual choices in economic terms. Not, I wouldn't say individualism and I wouldn't say individual freedom as we'll see, but certainly an emphasis on individual choices and individual wealth. It's about market liberalism, which means market freedom, market liberty and physical conservatism. It's not clear what physical conservatism means, but probably means not spending too much by the government. And market liberalism means a general tendency towards letting markets function, letting markets work, right? We'll see in a minute whether this is the history of the last 40 years. If he's going to go over the last 40 years, we'll see how good of an historian he is. And fiscal conservatism, which is kind of the same thing, privatization of public goods and infrastructure. Okay, so neoliberal regimes or governments will privatize a lot of the public goods, whatever public goods mean. Again, public goods are not a legitimate concept. Nothing is owned by the public. But the idea, public goods are typically things like healthcare, education, national parks, public lands. Those are quote, public goods, infrastructure, roads are considered public goods. Anything that conventionally people can't imagine how the private sector could deliver, they rope under the term public goods. But remember, goods production happens by private individuals. Ideally, everything would be private and good, right? Good is something that applies to an individual. Good, bad, goods to be consumed, goods to be enjoyed, applies to people as individuals, not as collectives. So it's not, not as a public, there's no such thing really as the public good. Deregulating government controls on corporate excess.  Like, he doesn't say deregulating business. Not what, how, how he describes privatization of public goods and infrastructure. Deregulating government controls on corporate excess. Deregulating government controls on corporate excess. Note how he is injecting his views. What is corporate excess? How do you define corporate excess? Too much profit, behavior you don't like. What does corporate excess actually mean? Excess of what? So it's not enough to say deregulating corporations. That would be too neutral for him. He's already sneaking in his particular ideology, which is the ideology of the left, and not the center left, which he would define as neoliberal, but probably the more Bernie Sanders left, or, you know, I don't know, socialist left. It's not exactly what his ideology is just in this video, but it's clearly left of center. No, left of left of center, left of left of center. Okay, corporate excesses. Austerity measures against welfare. Austerity measures against welfare means shrinking welfare. And free trade agreements that allow for more rapid globalization. What's interesting is people who use the term neoliberals and accused and complain about neoliberalism are usually people who emphasize this issue of trade. They usually anti-trade people. Neoliberalism is now hated by both left and right. It is anti-populist and the primary thing people hate about neoliberalism. You know, I've noticed the term, this is the term used a lot in the UK. It's used a lot in Europe. The thing they most dislike is globalization. Globalization. Neoliberalism was the term used a lot during Brexit, but globalization is the enemy. So, neoliberalism is globalization. Now, what do I think neoliberalism is? If I had to define neoliberalism, neoliberalism is the mixed economy with a slight tilt towards markets. So, neoliberalism is the status quo we've had. Neoliberalism is what Fukuyama said basically won when the Berlin Wall came down. It's liberal democracy.  But without the recognition of individual rights, there's no conception really of individual rights, which is just a general belief in the freedom of the individual, the political freedom of the individual. Economically, it's a system that allows some freedom, particularly of consumer choice, but that heavily regulates business, right? But regulates in a particular way, so it doesn't regulate prices, because we've learned from Hayek that's bad, so we don't regulate prices. It regulates, as he said, kind of corporate behavior, what they view as corporate accesses. So it tries to get the corporations to behave in what is a nice way, right? So it's regulation, but a different type of regulation historically, where prices were set and everything, all the conditions were set. Here it leaves the consumer to help set prices to supply and demand. It doesn't try to intervene too much in supply and demand, except with healthcare. But in other areas, it doesn't try that. It leaves the market to determine that and then overlays on to that control over behavior, right? Let's see what else. There is a certain level of emphasis on individuals as compared to what came before the particular mixed economy that we're talking about from the 1970s on, there's a little bit more emphasis on allowing markets to work while regulating them. Physical conservatism, if you look at government spending, particularly in the United States, I don't know where that physical conservatism comes from. Steady measures against welfare. Yeah, there's some criticism of welfare. Some are string regarding welfare, but there's no questioning of welfare. There's no challenging of welfare. There's no attempt to replace welfare. There's just a little tightening of the conditions like Bill Clinton's welfare reform that was passed. And then finally, free trade, yes, definitely free trade. So more free trade, more emphasis on free trade, although it's not free. Note that almost all trade agreements are not free trade agreements. They're what we'll call managed trade agreements. They are unfree trade agreements. I mean, free trade is easy. Just lower tariffs to zero. But these don't, they say, okay, Mexico will trade with you. Most things will have a tariff of zero, but some things will have a very high tariff. And other things we just can't import because they have to be licensed over here and your doctors can't work in the United States and your truckers can't drive in the United States. And so, oh, and by the way, if you want to export into the United States your goods, then your labor has to be treated in a particular way and wages have to be this and environmental. Things have to be that very, very controlled, very managed, but generally in a big picture, less restrictions moving towards what you would call less tariffs, less restrictions generally. And that's true. The last, since World War II, we have moved towards greater and greater and greater trade freedom. And I'd say with the exception of Trump, that path has been pretty steady, although there were bumps on the way, there were still tariffs during Reagan and there were some tariffs during Bush. I mean, every president does something, but the only one who was anti-trade was Trump. But generally a movement towards more of these agreements. So that's neoliberalism is the mixed economy with a little bit of emphasis more on markets. I'd say Scandinavia is basically a neoliberal. Most of Europe is neoliberal in this sense. And the United States is neoliberal as is, you know, places like Japan and Korea. They're not capitalist. They're not classical liberal. They're not either politically, philosophically or economically individualistic and free. But they, they're mixed, centrist and tilt towards markets. Even somebody like Bill Clinton, you would say centrist on market issues tilted a little bit towards markets. As again, as compared to Johnson, FDR or even Nixon, who I don't think was tilted towards market, tilted away from markets. That's what I think of neolibals. And there's a sense in which that ideology of a mixed economy with a slight tilt towards freedom has been dominant until Trump in the United States. And I'd say in most of Europe, since Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, really since Jimmy Carter, although not so much ideological more. So it's the status quo or the status quo seven years ago, status quo seven years ago. And, and, you know, Obama was mixed economy, tilted a little away from markets. But he wasn't an out and out socialist, you know, and obviously in health care, he titted quite a bit against markets. But it wasn't like Obama's period was massive regulations and massive controls and massive, you know, like, like Johnson or FDR. I mean, even Bush had sub in not sub in sub in Suxley. Yeah, sub in Suxley. Obama had got Frank. They all had their own big regulatory bills, but they almost did them apologetically. The market was still they focused. They still believe to some extent that markets work as long as they're controlled, as long as they regulate it.  What does markets control? What are markets when they're controlled? Are they markets? Are they still markets? They like the semblance of it. They like they, they're like entrepreneurs can still start businesses. As long as they have a license and they got permission and they got all the stuff, everything to talk, particularly poor people. We don't want them starting too many businesses. And consumers can buy whatever they want, except for pharmaceuticals and except for illegal drugs and except for things that the government is deemed not safe and all that stuff. But generally within the scope of the thousands of millions of products we have available, we can go and choose what products we can buy. But it's obviously not free, not free markets. So this is neoliberalism. My interpretation, this is his, my version of it is my accurate version of what neoliberalism is, is what I've just discussed. Some politicians may not fit these precisely and that's why neoliberalism isn't just some specific ideology. It's the entire economic paradigm the US has been in since at least the Reagan administration. As you will see, there is no concrete definition nor even a starting point. Yeah, I mean, modern intellectuals don't believe in definitions and I really like starting points either. They like to be mushy, fuzzy, a little unclear. Now, neoliberalism granted is is is not a clear concept because I don't think anybody has a clear conception of what it is. I think what I gave is the closest you're going to get. And and I agree with them, this vague general notion started probably around Reagan in the United States, certainly with Margaret Thatcher in the UK, spread throughout Europe and much of the world during the 1980s and 1990s. Probably started in the US under Jimmy Carter. He'll mention that. It's hazy. If you have trouble with that ambiguity, well, that's just what good history is.  I had to take an entire grad class oriented around these questions. So yeah, capitalism is not a static thing and neoliberalism is but a permutation of it. So here's the other thing that everybody does. Everybody does. They never define capitalism. Capitalism is even Vega more mushy than even neoliberalism in their mind. Capitalism in anything that has private property, even if the private property is controlled tax regulated. It's still capitalism. So for them, we live under capitalism today. We've always lived under capitalism, at least through the 19th century. And to today, it's all capitalism and capitalism could take forms of progressive capitalism and neoliberal capitalism and this kind of capitalism and that kind of capitalism and all these other kind of capitalists. And there is no such thing. Capitalism is one thing. It is free unregulated markets in which the government protects property rights and that's it and leaves the economy alone. It is the complete separation of economics from state. In that sense, we've barely had capitalism and we have very little of it today. And that's what I mean by mixed economy. We have some capitalism and some socialism, some controls or some fascism, some control, some redistribution and some markets. But we don't have capitalism. There are no forms of capitalism. This is why I don't like people using the term crony capitalism. No, cronyism is a feature of statism. I don't like people using the term conscious capitalism. Well, in a sense, all capitalism is conscious. It requires consciousness, but there is no some type of con capitalism. There's only one. And that is where the government leaves you free and where private property is owned by private people and all property is owned privately and where the government is separate from the economy. That's capitalism. You might hate it. That's fine. But let's just accept a definition. A definition of somebody provide a definition. So at what point if a little bit of private property counts as capitalism, at what point does it disappear? Then you get the wolf pseudo Marxist economist who claims that capitalism existed during the Egyptians when they built the pyramids. That was capitalism because I guess there was some private property, the king had private property. I don't know. So it becomes a meaningless concept. So it's important to be clear. It's important to define. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to Iran book show dot com slash support.  Also, if you'd like to see the Iran book show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. 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I was just about to say that Stinger is a little bit long. Yeah, but it's so pretty. It's so pretty. It's very, very nice. But hey, thanks for joining me, my friend. I was about to do the introduction for Microsoft Ignite Unplugged, and then I realized this isn't Microsoft Ignite Unplugged. This is Coffee with Rick. How's that? Well, let's have some tea with Richard, then. That works. Well, thank you very much. I'm Rick Claus, a cloud advocate lead here at Microsoft. I'm one of the folks involved with putting on the event known as Microsoft Ignite. And this is something new that we thought we'd try, just basically reaching out to folks in the community across different platforms. I believe we're streaming on X, or the Twitters, the formerly known as, LinkedIn, as well as also on YouTube and a couple of others. So we're kind of all over the place. I'm joined by my friend Rich Campbell. And now I vote to say, it's not early in the morning for you. It's almost really early in the morning for you. Where are you joining us from today? I'm actually in the future. It's the late evening in Perth, Australia.  So I got in a couple of days early, chance to take a look around and sort of enjoy the other side of the world. And then just kind of an awe that doesn't matter where we are in the world. We get to communicate with each other. No, I know. It's kind of crazy, eh? Absolutely kind of crazy. So first of all, thank you for joining me on the extremes of the time zones. I much appreciate it. And can you, at the end of the chat, send me a text message with tomorrow's or today's Lotto numbers so I can just go out and buy a lot of things. Where we go. I'd appreciate that. But so one thing I wanted to ask is basically you are connected to a whole bunch of folks through the multitude of different podcasts that you create and produce online. Rana's Radio is the one that comes to mind, but also .NET Rocks and also Windows Weekly and multitude of other ones. Have you heard anything? Like what are people asking about Microsoft Ignite or what are they excited about for Microsoft Ignite that's coming up in November, November the 15th and 16th in Seattle, Washington and online. There's a set of staples that you expect from Ignite. This is a show for folks who are working with the latest stacks. They want to take their cloud further. They want to build out their systems and they're concerned about using the best bits. Maybe they've got some security things that they're looking at. We're going to get great stories for those. Like there's the staples and 365 dynamics, but that's not the crazy train this year. Like what is people really stoked about? It's co-pilot, co-pilot all the things. Very much so, very much so. The part that I keep on getting asked about is besides about co-pilot, they're like, is this really going to impact me as an IT pro, as a practitioner, as someone who's looking after the speeds and feeds and making sure the servers are up and stuff like that. And I say, absolutely yes. As both the productivity tool, like we've seen with the announcements from, when we came out with co-pilot and made a big splash and a big thing about it in Windows earlier this year during build. So not just as a productivity tool, but you're also going to see it from a compliance and from a governance and from a, are you ready perspective with the advent of M365 co-pilot affecting all of your users and all of your data? So some of that will be covered during Microsoft Ignite for how to prepare my friend Karawana Gattimu from the M365 world. She keeps on saying, it's the fundamentals. Get the fundamental rights and then you'll be good to be able to go off and implement and take advantage of co-pilot stuff. Absolutely. I've been doing run as episodes on prepping for co-pilot and M365. And it's been about things like data tagging. Yeah. You know, this is a tool, this large language models ability to navigate across your organization's data. You're about to find out if you've secured things properly. You got it. Now I want to acknowledge, again, we're on a whole bunch of different platforms. The tool that we're using here is bubbling up some of the questions to that. So I want to take some live questions. The first question that we got and I can answer this one is simply a very simple one from LinkedIn user. Is the session catalog complete? So first of all, bonus points for you because you paid attention to the fact that the session catalog opened yesterday. And- Yeah, it's only been up a day. It's only been up a day. So, well, it's open for two days for you because you're in the future. But basically the session catalog is, I'm going to say the majority of the different types of experiences that you're going to be able to take into account both online and in person for breakout sessions, discussion sessions, demo sessions, labs, they're all there as you can see and look for the topics, look for the speakers, and you're also be able to go through and kind of tentatively plan out your top 10 things that you might want to go off and take in while you're watching Microsoft Ignite in the timeframe when it goes up. So that is open. And I would also say, also focus on some of those speakers too because even if you don't see the exact session you want, if you know you've got the expert you're going to need, that's a person you're going to be to ask those questions up. Right. Another question that came in from our LinkedIn audience, looks like our LinkedIn audience is the most chatty so far. That's cool. And not that we're like pointing at you, YouTube's and the rest and Twitter. But are there any humans of IT or similar content that's going to be there? I haven't personally looked to see inside of the catalog if it's in there, but I do know that during the content evaluation process that we do internally, there was definitely some content in there that would fall in the category of humans of IT that's going to be taken out. Yeah, I've seen it. I've been going through the catalog, picking out things I want to get and there's definitely some humans of IT in there. Yeah, awesome stuff. Well, hey, well, since you just mentioned that you've had access to that catalog in advance and looking at it now, is there anything in there that you would suggest people could take a look at maybe for, you know, besides just out of interest what they're excited about, but something that they should do to maybe invest in some skills for their careers as IT pros that happen to strike a chord with you? You know, I try to not be the guy wearing the tin foil hat, but if you haven't spent some time in Sentinel and some of the new scene tooling that we're getting today and how well it integrates together, the biggest problem we see here, and I do these shows all the time, people who scare this not on me, like Sammy Layho, the fact that the bad guys are in your system four months before the payload goes off and the problem is a lack of visibility. Yeah, a couple of weird log things over here and a misbehavior over there, but this is where a tool like Sentinel comes into play and pulls all those bits together and helps you see a pattern of behavior. You know, these are preventative measures and it's hard for us as admins to get enough time into prevention, but boy, the pain it's gonna save if you can put a few cycles into it. Very cool. And as I know that I saw some stuff on Sentinel that are in there, I know that they're gonna be touching on it on the pre-days, if you were fortunate enough to get into the pre-day activities, those are currently sold out, they're available for a limited time, they're very, very popular, and then also obviously during the main stage events that are going on, not just on keynotes, but it'll also be popping up throughout your regular breakouts and discussion sessions. And a lot of these talks are streamed too, so you're gonna be able to see them from your place if you can't make it to Seattle. Correct, so I should probably mention that for sure. So we're at capacity for the Seattle event, but that doesn't mean you can't participate. The best thing you can do is go to ignite.microsoft.com, go and register for the online capabilities. I actually have a show coming up, talking about that with Microsoft Night on Plug for how to get the most out of the show if you're experiencing it in the online format or if you're gonna be in person for being able to set some time aside, have the session catalog open, have bills still bill at your schedule. Those kind of things work best when you are registered because then you have your profile, you can build your schedule when the tool's open in a couple of weeks time, and you can get ready to go off and plan your day for what you're gonna be watching. I'll do a shout out again. I happen to notice that Robson looks like they are coming in from Brazil. So this is international, not just talking from Seattle, Washington, and also from Perth, Australia. We also have some people still in the house too. That's awesome. That's cool stuff. A Southern Hemisphere represent. You got it, my friend. Now, I asked if you could come on the show and again, I appreciate you coming in at these weird hours because I know that you're actually gonna be helping us out during Microsoft Ignite for a special activity that you're planning that involves a little bit of your craft. Can you share about what that is? Yeah, well, you know, I've been making podcasts for a long time and I'm always happy to record a few shows while I'm at the event, but I'm also bringing some other podcasters along. You know, I'm a big believer in this idea that we have a really large ecosystem and not everybody knows all the possibilities here. So part of my challenge and things that I get to do for the show is to bring in podcasters that typically wouldn't be at a Microsoft event, maybe a show like Talk Python to Me with Michael Kennedy, one of the largest Python podcasts in the world and just to show where Python fits into the ecosystem in the Microsoft space too. So kind of mixing some audiences together, Kapolich from DataSkeptic, a longtime data specialist person and really a bright, bright mind in that space. And for the first time ever, never met him before in person, I've got Ethan from Packet Pushers Company as well and he's one of the folks from Cloud on Day Two, which has a show I just love. Once you get it past the shiny and now it's into, all right, roll up your sleeves, let's get to work. That's what their show is all about. Wow. I love the title of that show, Cloud on Day Two. Cloud on Day Two. Yeah, really great. Oh, and I would be remiss if I didn't mention Ashley Steiner, Dynamics Hot Dish, one of my favorite show names of all time. But a group of ladies who work in the Dynamics and Power Platform space, they love talking about their technology and I'm lucky that we have Ashley coming out as well to sort of dig into what's happening in Dynamics and Power Platform. Nice. And so the experience is basically there's gonna be like a podcasting booth or area that you're gonna be set up. Yeah, we got a couple of booths up. Yeah, and you know, there's something incredible about an iconic keynote, like you gotta experience that. So it's really fun to bring folks that have never been to Microsoft event before, put them down in that keynote and then outside of the keynote times where recording shows as quickly as we can, we've got them coming from all over, some great guests lined up. I know I've got Mr. Recidovich lining up for a show with one of the folks and lots of other luminaries and just a chance to explore some stories and really dig into what's being made right now. Nice. Well, we have a question that came in from the YouTube side of things, which is interesting. How do I get FaceTime with experts and partners? Interesting. Well, you know, start at the beginning, which is there's a great sponsors area and so a lot of those partners are gonna be there, they're involved in the show and so you're gonna be able to get out on the floor and spend some time with them. Most of the speakers obviously are available after their talks, they're often on the floor as well and they go to many of the special session areas so you'll be able to check them out, track them down that way. Just remember it's a busy show and there's a lot of people. It's a challenge to get to meet everyone but if you're patient, you'll get some time. Right. So the official area is called the hub. We haven't revealed this yet so we're gonna break the ice and say it's called the hub. It's gonna be up on the fifth floor if you're there in person and I'm gonna say there's over a hundred different, I don't know what we're technically calling them. I'm gonna get in trouble. I'm gonna call them a booth but it's not a booth but it's basically, it's an expert meetup area that you'll be able to go a hundred different pods if you will that you can go to where you'll have different experts from Microsoft, from our partners and also from the MVP and RD community. They're specifically to answer questions on a particular topic that is printed on top of the individual booth. They have the ability to show you some demos and show you some other information that's gonna be there. Plus, if you already want to when you're asking them a question you can just go a little bit further away from that particular booth area and every place within 15 paces is gonna have a whiteboard to be able to go off and do some whiteboarding and some discussion that goes on in there. So that's called the hub and it's called the expert meetups area is side of that particular hub that's taking place on the fifth floor. And I gotta say, if somebody spent a lot of time in those kinds of shows I know the session's recorded. So if I'm in a great conversation on a whiteboard I'm gonna stay there. I'll pick up the session later. Right. Now we're just about at time for this particular activity that we're doing today but I will also just mention again, online is the big focus for what you can do for Microsoft Ignite. And so if you register at ignite.microsoft.com you can make yourself a profile and then start to look at the catalog when tools open you can go off and build your schedule but all the keynotes are gonna be online available and able to connect up and watch same with all the breakout sessions that are there same with the discussion sessions. And so that's the new thing this year only select ones were available last year. This time all the discussion sessions are also available so I wanna say over 150 different sessions across three days are gonna be available online to watch and it's not just watching statically you can post questions the same way you can ask questions in the room during those sessions online with the web interface that we have and you'll also be able to do reactions and comments and chats and stuff like that during the keynotes as well. So the online experience is awesome it's great equalizer to be able to go off and give it available to anybody that wants to go off and watch and is only available if you're registered so go off and register. Mr. Richard we are at time I wanna be respectful of the fact you've been up for probably 27 and a half hours straight with your current work schedule. You know Rick I'll do anything for you I got my tea I'm good. Most excellent and we are gonna be doing other ones of these and so please stay tuned always if you have questions you wanna ask ahead of when we do the next one of these please use the hashtag MSignites we've got a fantastic team of folks including myself who monitor that daily to find out what's going on. So ask your questions there and we'd more than happy to answer them either on the spot on the socials across the different ones or we'll answer them on the next episode of Coffee with Rick. Thanks a lot for joining me on the inaugural edition I had a lot of fun. Thanks Rick great time. You got it. Cheers folks see you next time.


In Julius Caesar's book, The Conquest of Gaul, there is a relatively detailed description of the mysterious druids who are described by Caesar as a sort of Celtic priesthood. Caesar's book focuses on the Roman campaign in Gaul which loosely corresponds to modern-day France and other neighbouring countries, and then later into Britain. The Gaulic Wars lasted from around 58 BC to 50 BC. Obviously, Caesar is a biased source as the druids had power amongst the tribes that Caesar was trying to conquer, namely the Celts in Gaul and Britain. We also know that Caesar's book was written as a piece of propaganda for a Roman audience. Caesar was well aware that his book, which is strangely written in the third person, would be read back in Rome. This explains why Caesar constantly portrays Caesar as a figure who solves all problems that arise, whether that be in his own ranks or amongst the barbarian hordes as Rome saw them. Despite these reservations, Caesar's description of these enigmatic people is still fascinating. Caesar starts by describing the organisation of the Gauls, writing that the druids and the knights are the two privileged classes. The druids officiate at the worship of the gods, regulate public and private sacrifices, and give rulings on all religious questions, according to Caesar. The druids also played a legal role as they acted as judges, and this attracted young men to them for guidance. Each year, the druids held a large meeting in the country of Carnutes, the centre of Gaul, where disputes were settled. Interestingly, Caesar wrote that the druid tradition was imported to Gaul from Britain, which at the time of writing in the 1st century BC was still the place to study druidism. The druids enjoyed many advantages, including being exempt from military service and not paying taxes like other citizens did. Furthermore, in line with Celtic traditions, the druids memorised a lot of information and verses and did not write a lot down, but apparently they used the Greek alphabet when they did have to write. Caesar's commentaries tell us that the druids engaged in long discussions about the universe, the nature of the gods, and the physical makeup of the world. As Caesar wrote, they believed that the soul does not perish, but after death passes from one body to another. They think that this is the best incentive for bravery, because it teaches men to disregard the terrors of death. Caesar also argues that the Gauls were extremely superstitious and that the druids practice human sacrifice. According to Caesar, as a nation, the Gauls are extremely superstitious and so persons suffering from serious diseases as well as those who are exposed to the perils of battle, offer or vow to offer human sacrifices for the performance of which they employed the druids. They believe that the only way of saving a man's life is to propitiate the God's wrath by rendering another life in its place, and have regular state sacrifices of the same kind. Some tribes have colossal images of wicker work, the limbs of which they fill with living men. They are then set on fire and the victims burnt to death. They think that the gods prefer the execution of men, taken in the act of theft or brigandage or guilty of some offence, but when they run short of criminals, they do not hesitate to make up with innocent men. How much credence we can give to Caesar's depiction of the druids is debatable. After all, the Roman warrior was trying to conquer Gauls and other Celtic people, so it served his interests to make them seem more savage and barbarian than they potentially were. Yet some of his insights may still be valid. In a future video, I will explore the history of the druids in more detail, as they truly are a fascinating part of history.


Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstar Potential, my name is Lee Fuge and I'm here today with MusicTeacher.com and in this video we're going to talk about the third part of learning the modes for the guitar and this video we're going to focus on the major modes and how to link those to a major pentatonic scale shape. Before you start watching this video I would highly suggest checking out parts one and two of this video series as they will set you up with all the relevant theory and knowledge to get through this video as well. All the tones you're going to be hearing in this video are coming from the Blackstar HD20 Mark II that you can see over my shoulder there which is currently running on the drive channel. So in this video we're going to be taking the three major modes and linking them to a major pentatonic scale. In part two we took the three minor modes and linked those to a minor pentatonic scale now we're doing the opposite. So in part one of the video I talked about the major and minor scales. The major scale which is the Ionian mode and the natural minor scale which is the Aeolian mode. Those two scales are our bouncing point for all of these modal exercises. So we talked about how to convert those to pentatonics. So first of all let's just recap on the major scale. So I'm doing this in the key of A major so we're going to be playing this scale. So there are some playing that up A, B, C sharp D, E, F sharp, G sharp, A. In terms of intervals which is a number we assigned to each note that's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. So there's no flats at this stage. The major scale is just all the natural. It involves 1 through 7. Now in the first video we talked about how we can restructure this in line with the fifth shape of a major pentatonic scale which is this shape. We did also say we could land on this F sharp note here even though that's not the root of the scale the root is this fifth fret note here. We can use that extra note that's lower down just to keep that scale shape comfortable for us. So the intervals of the major pentatonic scale are going to be 1 which is the A, 2 which is the B and 3 which is the C sharp, then we're going to add 5 which is E and 6 which is F sharp. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and again repeat through the octave and finally 1 or if we play the major scale in this position that's going to be 1, 2, 3 which is A, B, C sharp, 4 which is the D, 5 which is the E, 6 which is the F sharp, 7 which is the G sharp and we're back at the octave so 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1. So you can see that that version of playing the A major scale links very closely to the fifth shape of the A major pentatonic scale. Now again like with the minor and the natural minor scale the reason this is useful is if I'm playing in that position over a major chord progression I can be playing all my usual minor-ish pentatonic but in the major key and with those extra notes I can add that modal flavor so that Ionian flavor the major scale so if I'm just playing major pentatonic like this I can add those extra notes and I can get some fully modal sounds so if my intervals for my major pentatonic are 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 that means I'm adding a 4 which in this case is a D note and the 7 which is the G sharp so wherever I'm playing that A major pentatonic shape I just need to add a D note and a G sharp anywhere I wish and there I have my Ionian mode my major scale linked to a major pentatonic you may also remember from the first video that that scale shape is exactly the same as the natural minor scale shape so I showed you a little hack for this the three minor modes and the three major modes all share the same three shapes the only difference is where we pivot them in relation to the root note so if I start my natural minor shape from an A note I have A minor but if I make the A note the third note on the low E string and play that same scale shape so I'm starting from an F sharp note that's actually A major that's actually the Ionian mode so we're actually stacking the intervals from the A note even though I did play that low F sharp and G sharp note that is my six and seven intervals from the scale so you could think of it as like a mirror image so if your minor note starts here that same shape you can mirror the other side and it's the major equivalent so if that is true for the Ionian and Aonian modes the same must be true for the other modes so if I take my Dorian mode that we learned in part two of this and then I position that so that the A is where my little finger is we actually now end up with the Lydian mode so the Dorian mode and the Lydian mode are mirrored shapes there so the intervals of the Lydian mode are one two three but instead of going to this four on the D I'm sharpening the four to D sharp but it makes more sense for me to play that on the first fret of the D string the five and six are the same as is the seven and then I'm repeating one two three sharpening the four five six seven one and in a practical sense we can do exactly the same thing I can add that sharp four now to my major pentatonic lex and then I get that Lydian flavor Lydian is great for jazz and fusion sort of stuff it's very airy sounding it's an interesting sounding note that sharp fourth it's quite tricky to use at times but over the right chord can be a great note and we can also mirror the Phrygian mode which was the natural minus scale with the flat two that we talked about if we flip that to the side of the A we get a mode known as the Mixer Lydian mode interval wise the Mixer Lydian mode is exactly the same makeup as the major scale but with a flattened seven so the flat seven in this case is a G note so we've got A B C sharp which is one two three got the D which is our four E and F sharp which is five and six and then usually we'd go to the seven which is G sharp but we're flattening that now to a G then we're back on the one there's the other flat seven in a major context the Mixer Lydian mode works kind of like a Dorian does in minor so if you're playing a Dorian over minor you get that natural six which kind of gives it a slight major feel the same as true of Mixer Lydian because it's major scale with a flat seven you get that kind of minorish flavor that flat seven will sort of act as if it's like pulling you towards minor even though it technically still is in the major tonality so over a major chord progression if you're just playing some pentatonic licks you can add that flat seven like so while just adding the flat seven doesn't make the mode go entirely minor because obviously it's still got the major third in there it gives you a little pull or a little hint towards it being slightly minor it's a very interesting mode especially if you're playing over like a dominant seventh chord progression because the dominant seventh chord is essentially a major chord with a flat seven added so just to recap those now we've got the major pentatonic fifth shape which we're rooting from this A note here we can turn that into a major scale or an Ionian mode by adding a four and a seven which is a D note and a G sharp if we sharpen that four we get a Lydian mode which is exactly the same shape as the Dorian mode but just mirrored the other side of the A root and if we take the major scale and we flatten the seven we get the Mixolydian mode which is a mirrored version of the Phrygian mode that's great for those dominant seventh chords and sort of pulling your major ideas slightly towards a minor tonality so there you go there are three major modes linked to a major pentatonic scale now you have three minor modes and three major modes that you can easily integrate with your pentatonic lex whether you're playing major or minor you can essentially use three shapes so the major scale the Ionian mode and the natural minor scale the Aeolian mode are the same shape they're just mirrored either side of the root note the Phrygian and the Mixolydian so Phrygian being the minor Mixolydian being the major and then you've got the Dorian being the minor and the Lydian being the major so those shapes are all common shapes you basically just need to learn three shapes there to play six modes three major three minor let me know down below in the comments how you've gotten on with learning the modes this far and how you're applying that to your own pentatonic playing let's also know if there are any questions you have around modes or there's any topics you'd like to see us cover or dig deeper on with these scales don't forget to check out black star amplification on youtube for more videos just like this and if you're looking for a guitar teacher in your local area please check out the music teacher database over at musicteacher.com there's a great network of teachers all around the country waiting to help you guys out thanks so much for watching and i'll see you soon


Hello everybody, Andrew Maeski here with Dental Tutoring. So it's my day off today, hence my outfit. It is Saturday, love it. I have been working like crazy late because I started my mobile hygiene practice last year and things are always a little bit slow to begin with you would assume, but not for me. Things kicked off right away, which is amazing. And, you know, I've just been working so much but I am always learning as something new. Now I do still work in a private practice also. So what I want to talk about today is the mistakes that I'm still making as a dental hygienist because every new dental hygienist or even new dental assistant always thinks, okay, I can't wait till I've been working for like five years, 30 years, you know, six years because I will no longer make any mistakes. I still make mistakes. It's okay, we're not perfect. There will be staff members out there who think they are, but they're really not. It's totally normal to make mistakes. Your boss, your dentist will make mistakes. So I'm gonna kind of jump back and forth of the mistakes that I make in my hygiene practice, my mobile hygiene practice, but also still working at an office. Maybe not mistakes, but just things that need to be improved upon if that makes sense. So then that way you guys can see that we all make mistakes. So if you're new thinking you just can't do anything right, hang in there. Okay, it takes time. So just a couple of them. And I made some notes here in my mobile hygiene practice. So the mistakes that I'm kind of still making is that I will always forget something. Now I am sending treatment off to insurance. So patients don't pay me first. I submit it to insurance and they will only pay me the difference. And the one mistake that I keep making is I will print off forms ahead of time. So then that way all they have to do is to sign, but sometimes if the treatment changes, right, then you have to add the codes, add the treatment in there. So I do it on paper because that's just easier for me because they don't have a dental software program yet because they're expensive. And I kind of wanna get more patients before I start doing that, right? But I keep doing that. I keep forgetting something. And just a little tip for you, if you're in an office and you lost something or you forget something, don't say, oh, shoot, I forgot this again, this keeps happening. I just simply say, oh, you know what? I need to print off another form for you guys since the treatment changed a little bit. So I'm going to do that at home, but I will send that through your email tonight. Or I might even say, I give digital copies only.  So just kind of depending what I'm thinking that day, that's kind of how I will spin things if I forget something because quite often, even if I'm adding in another code, you know, I don't have the codes memorized because as a dental hygiene provider, our codes are different. I keep a piece of paper on my clipboard with the most common codes, plus I do have them on my iPad. But sometimes I forget that clipboard or I forget my iPad. So I can't even add the codes in if I wanted to. So just kind of little things that I keep forgetting that way. Just trying to think now. It's just kind of forgetting like little things here and there, like the other day, I had recommended a toothpaste that is sold by Oral Science. I was talking about how amazing this toothpaste is. I went to go get some from my car because the patient wanted it, but I forgot my huge like sample box at home. So I typically keep a box in my trunk with like toothpaste, like different things in case the patient wants it. Because me being mobile, even if I say, oh, I recommend for you Sensenine because you wanna start with the whitening. So use the Sensenine for at least a week or two. I like to actually have that on hand so that if the patient wants it, they don't have to go to the store and then say, which toothpaste did she ask for again? Like which one should I be using? So I just sell it to them at cost. In Ontario, we're not allowed to sell it for more than at cost if that makes sense because the CDHO says to us only sell it at cost so you're not making any additional money because if you're making more money, you might be selling it just for the sake of making more money, but not because you're a dental hygienist and that's the best thing for the patient. So I always sell everything at cost. So yeah, so it's just kind of forgetting things and that happens in the real world in a private practice, the same mistakes that I'm still making is just kind of little things. Like now we are charging the OHI code for all new patients because most insurance companies do accept that code. It's about $41 for a unit, I think, of time and we do OHI at every single appointment anyway. So technically they say we should be charging for that once and then that sort of covers them for lifetime. If it's covered, dental offices see it as why not charge them. Yeah, it's true, but that's what they say. I keep forgetting that code. So the receptionist kind of says to me, you forgot to charge the OHI code. We can do it next time, but then we have to explain to the patient, well, we should have done it the first time with the new patient exam because it's much easier to kind of train a new patient that, well, this is just the new patient package that we all do because they might go, oh, this OHI code, I've never seen that before. But I keep forgetting that. You know what I keep forgetting you guys is I keep forgetting blood pressure. We should now be taking blood pressure at every appointment for every patient. And a lot of offices where I work, we take the blood pressure at the new patient exams and at their complete exams. So every five years we do what's called a COE, so a complete oral exam, where we go through charting again, we make sure the x-rays are up to date. We typically take the checkup x-rays every year, every year and a half depending on the patient. But like other x-rays, we just wanna make sure that they're up to date. We'll take a pant every five years or so, but I keep forgetting blood pressure. And we only have the one in our office. So if somebody else is taking the blood pressure, I tell myself that I'll do it at the end of the appointment, but then I forget. And then they wonder, Andrea, why didn't you take blood pressure? I've been practicing for 14 years, but it's just something new that I don't do it. In my own practice, I do, but I don't do it in private practice. I just don't always speak about it. Another thing is, you guys, for new patient exams, I keep forgetting the intraoral photos. I love intraoral photos, but I'm not very good at taking them, so I just kinda don't like doing it. But for you newbies out there, everything, especially x-rays, like you're probably not comfortable taking x-rays yet, so you kinda shy away from doing them, but keep on doing them because the more you do it, the more practice you have, the better you will become. So I need to take this lesson for myself, to keep doing those intraoral photos because the more I do them, the better I will be. So those are just kind of the mistakes that I keep making, not the end of the world, but still. I'm still always a little bit behind for private practice. We have one hour per patient, but lately we've been taking a lot of x-rays. They want me to take x-rays, like if they've never had anterior PAs, they want me to take them on that patient. So my one hour appointment sounds great, but when I'm adding six more x-rays, well that takes at least five minutes, maybe even more depending on the patient, right? If they're having a hard time, we have to give them a break, things like that. So I'm still behind. I guess those things aren't too bad, right? But just remember, everybody makes mistakes. I need to sharpen my instruments more at private practice. There's never any time, at the end of the day, you just kinda wanna run out of there, but that is something that I need to work on. I find time to sharpen my instruments with my own practice, because it's my time, I guess, as silly as that sounds, but in private practice, for some reason, I just don't find the time, because that's not something that you usually get paid for, like if you stay behind to sharpen instruments or come in early, but it's just kinda one of those things. I work with another hygienist where she does admin duties when I'm not there. So maybe she should take away some of her admin duties and sharpen the instruments, that'd be awesome. Wouldn't that be awesome? Because I kinda work the shifts that nobody wants to work. So I work like two till seven, 30. But I don't mind doing that a couple of days a week, because it still kinda keeps me current, and I'm still in an office, but I still prefer seeing my own patients in my own practice, but I mean still, it's the same thing, right? So it's just something that I still love to do. I don't see stopping that anytime soon, because it does help to work for somebody else, be in another office, see different patients, and with me being a mobile dental hygienist, it's a lot easier for me to be in somebody else's office because I don't have to move around. So that's kinda nice to you. But yeah, you guys, I can't really think of any other mistakes, but if you guys want to share with me some of your mistakes or things that you have to work on, let's talk about it. So then that way people know that they're not alone, and as a hygienist, you will make mistakes. That's okay. Learn from them, and hopefully the mistakes you're making aren't crazy serious. Oh, I should mention, when I help out with sterilizing, now when you put things through the statum as an example, there's a log book where you put down like how many pouches you put in, how many cassettes. I always forget to do that, but then I end up doing it at the end when I take everything out. So then I'm like, oh shoot, I forgot to write down how many pouches was in here. So let me just count them again. So that's something I keep forgetting. Oh boy. I will learn one day. I have 14 years experience, but maybe next year I will finally learn. So thank you guys for listening. Hope this helped a little bit to just know that you're not alone, and I'll see you guys in the next one.


good morning you guys I am in a good mood this morning it is Monday we are gonna be productive today and if we're not that's fine too but I just want to at least get a lot of shit done today because I'm getting my IUD in on Wednesday which I'm absolutely terrified for actually so I'm just trying not to think about it but who knows what I'm gonna be able to do after Wednesday I have no idea how I'm gonna feel what my symptoms are gonna be and all of that so it's kind of like stepping into the unknown so I'm just gonna try to get all my shit done today and tomorrow which is kind of impossible to be honest now that I think about it but yeah I'm gonna try my best I actually think I'm gonna just gonna incorporate getting it into a vlog and share my experience I don't think I'm gonna make like a full video on it but if you guys are curious I will definitely do a segment of it maybe in my next vlog who knows what ends up happening but I'm just like praying like sending out good vibes that it's gonna be fine because I just really hope that this is the long-term solution for my potential endometriosis slash whatever the heck I have that causes me so much pain every month but anyways I know I talk about it a lot but it's because it really does affect my life so everybody has their thing which they have to deal with and it's okay anyways we're gonna have a good workout and let's take a magic matcha shot like we always do I also really need to get my nails done what if you guys commented you're like your nails and I was like oh yeah I don't worry I know I'm just like waiting I think actually I'm gonna get them done this month and then do them for the summer because why not cheers okay that was so good this time I remembered to bring my AirPods so thankful for that last time I came I forgot my AirPods and that makes such a difference I like anyways let's go okay guys I'm keeping the braids theme going today because my hair is quite greasy so honestly this is a really cute hairstyle to do in your hair is greasy just put your hair in braids and then wear a hat and it works and it's so freaking cute like I don't know just kind of alive and I love doing it so shoot my hair is greasy I wouldn't do something like this when my hair is not greasy because I like to take advantage of my non-greasy hair and just wear it down but anyways I go on Amazon package so I bought reusable vegetable bags like you know when you go to the grocery store and they pick like produce and you want to put it in some sort of bag sometimes so I was using plastic bags and yes I would keep them like I do keep them and I reuse them for some stuff but like I don't want to keep accumulating plastic because that's not how I want to like I want to be more sustainable okay well these are so cute like when you go to the store you can put your like lettuce your kale whatever like apples like anything bulky that you would use it that I would normally use plastic bags for to keep together this is so cute oh my god and this is only $12 Canadian which is like it's probably like only $10 US oh my god and it came with three I will link these down below for you guys because these are actually the cutest things ever I'm actually in love oh my goodness so excited and I'm going grocery shopping today because when I tell you we have zero groceries like that is not even an over exaggeration I have stuff to make a coffee but that's about it like I said I have like liquids and condiments in the fridge and that's basically it like we have nothing to make for dinner we are running pretty dry so I'm gonna go grocery shopping later today but yeah I'm gonna definitely bring these and use them because they're actually like they exceeded my expectations they are so freaking cute are you kidding okay I just go to the grocery store I think I already explained this but we're so low on everything so I just like don't even know where to start it's got to go through the aisles and literally get everything to be honest I just like dinner like I don't know we're gonna for dinners I think there's just so much to buy maybe I'll do half of it today and then like go somewhere else and do half of it tomorrow from a produce or something I don't know yet but we'll see but it literally took me like five minutes just to find a parking so I was driving around and there was no spots it's actually crazy how busy this grocery store gets in the middle of a random weekday but if you think about it like grocery stores are always gonna be the most busy because people constantly need food like random thought but it's true like people always need food so the fit today is my thrifted jeans that I wear all the time I actually need to get like more jeans because this is my go-to pair that every single time I wear jeans it's these but I love them so much so I'm not even complaining then I'm just wearing a white tube top with a sweater just in case it gets cold and then just like my ear forces that are kind of getting ratting out to be honest I might want to buy a new pair soon and then yeah this kind of just ties it all together so I want to start incorporating like more fashion into my contacts I like genuinely do really love fashion I don't know if I show it that much but I really do love putting outfits together so I definitely want to start incorporating more fashion into my vlogs like just by giving you guys OOTD's I want to do more thrifting and like I don't know I just love dressing cute and it's fun you know what I mean okay I'm currently at value village because I just I'm not even here for like clothes but I want to see if they have any little cute home decor pieces just because I've seen people find really really cute things at their stores and I've never really like looked for home stuff just because I don't know why I just don't really think of it like for like my basic stuff I just want to idea and then for decor and all of them actually looking to decorate find details I'm just gonna see what they have maybe they have like cute little vintagey things and who knows they may surprise me I may find nothing we never know but it's worth the shot so yeah and I honestly haven't been thrifting in so long so I'm really excited for this let's go just got out of Valley Village I didn't get anything home decor related because they didn't really have anything that like I was like oh I like that you know what I mean I was just kind of like all like I can go without it and I didn't really like nothing sparked my eye you know what I mean but I I did take a gander in the clothing section and I found something really cute so I got this green I don't know if you can tell but it's like striped and it's this green like button-up and this is just gonna be so cute to put like over even a bikini in the summer or just wear this with like a tank top and shorts like I love like men's cover-ups like this they're so cute and also I've been obsessed with green and this is like green stripes so it's literally perfect also I don't know if it's just our Valley Village here or thrift stores here but they are so freakin overpriced like I'm not even kidding you I feel like in the States it's so different than here there was this really ratty t-shirt and it was selling for eight dollars and it was from H&M and it was so ratty and I was like eight dollars for a ratty t-shirt like the prices are actually kind of unaffordable for thrifting it's like you pay the same price or a couple dollars more and you can get something brand new so it's like I want to thrift to help the environment but at the same time the Valley Village like our thrift stores here have raised their prices I swear and it's almost like equivalent to buying something brand new it's actually ridiculous to be honest but anyways that's just something that I noticed and I'm like holy shit like since when is thrifting actually expensive like it's like shopping I got this for eight dollars which I guess that's not bad cuz it's like in good condition like that's fine but when you're putting a ratty t-shirt on for eight dollars from H&M it's like it doesn't really make any sense I just got home from grocery shopping and I was just like thinking life is too short like it's way too short and the thing is is that we do not like I don't mean to sound morbid but we don't know when our life is gonna end it can end tomorrow it can end in 80 years like we just don't know that being said like if you're not doing what you love and if you're not like truly being yourself every single day you're gonna regret it that's why it's just so important to live every single day like it's your last because it's like if you were to die tomorrow would you regret what you did yesterday would you regret what you did the day before that you know what I mean you really never know how much time you have left on this earth and we're all here on this experience and I feel like it's just such a blessing to be here and to experience this life in a human body people can judge you people can talk behind your back but none of that really matters like other people's opinions of you don't matter and I know it's hard to think that way and to not care about other people's opinions because it took me a while not to care but it's so important not to and to just live your best life be yourself every single day because you never know when your last day is going to be and you don't want to regret being some fake person that you were just because of other people's opinions or you don't want to regret not doing the things that you've always wanted to do you don't want to regret not taking those risks because as far as we know like we only live once you know what I mean so maybe we've had past lives in everything but like right now you're in this body one time only and that's why you just always have to do you when people are themselves and honestly I see them glowing like it's just such an attractive energy when people do whatever the heck they want and they don't care about other people's thoughts or opinions it's such an attractive energy and I love it so much just got all of our best lives out here anyways okay I'm gonna go to the groceries and do a little grocery haul for you guys when we get back when we get inside here is my literal ginormous grocery haul I didn't even realize I bought this much stuff so I'm just gonna go over really really quickly so I got gnocchi I got these two crispy mini chips that I absolutely love I got these really good I think they're vegan soft baked cookies so it's not a healthier alternative got this dairy-free cream cheese that I really like rosemary silk yogurt silk creamer oat creamer and then I got these crackers for hummus bagels sourdough little potatoes to make with dinner eggs wraps grapes tofu Caesar salad dressing so it really was feeling some Caesar salad and then I got bananas I got these Asian pears yeah I'm just gonna put everything away now here's my dinner I made the gnocchi with Caesar salad and I just have a juice box I'm so hungry and so excited to eat this it looks so good


Hello everyone, this is financial author Amit Dan of amitdan.com. On this channel you'll find financial travel and more videos just like the one you're watching right now. If you like what you see, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing. Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com. Today I'll have another episode of unboxing and brief review video. And today I'll be presenting a webcam which is the Microsoft Livecam HD3000. I have had another cam in the past which is the Logitech Pro C920 and that camera or that cam is double in price compared to the Livecam HD300. So I'll just go over some basics first and then we'll do the unboxing. And then I'll test the cam and I'll do a comparison with the Logitech which is double in price and then you'll see the test clips for this cam and both the Logitech cam. So let's start with some basics first. So here's how the box looks like and then this is HD3000 and I'll just go over some of the specs right here. So this is a 720p HD camera. This is not 1080 and it has wide screen and certified for Skype. I believe that doesn't mean anything, it just means that it works on Skype and then this is Windows 10 compatible which is on the front right here and that's it for the box. So let's start with unboxing the box and open up the camera. So once you open the box and then you get the cam, that's all it is. Let me just take a look here if there's anything underneath this packaging. And it looks like it's empty here so there's nothing in there. And then I'll take out the cam, I really have to take out the whole thing and then I'll put it aside here and actually I see there's a brochure here so I'll take that out which is right here and there's another warranty card so I'll put it here. So the box is empty right now. Let's put the box in here and this is the small choir or brochure. Actually it doesn't say much, it just tells you to connect it to your laptop or computer via USB cable and then basically that's it and it looks like here. You can put it on top of your screen or on a flat surface this way. And then we have here the warranty card and the guide and actually we have something more in here. I'll just put this aside and let's take out the cam from the packaging here. I successfully took out the cam from a slightly complicated packaging and then here's the cam you're looking at. So here's the cable connected to the cam, you cannot remove it. This is attached to the back of the cam and actually okay this one is bendable so you can just you know change the shape or change the size to make it the way you want so you can put it this way or if you want you can put it this way this way okay so you can put it like this or you can I believe you can just even okay no I don't think you can do that so okay so it looks like that's another way of keeping it okay so the default way is this way which was on the packaging right here okay so here's the cam we have so I'll do some testing of this cam and I'll do some testing of the Logitech cam I had and then I'll just attach them to the main video and in that way you'll see that you know whether it's worth paying the double price to buy the Logitech C920 or this is good enough this is about 35 to 40 dollars Canadian and the Logitech is about 80-90 Canadian depending on the retailers so you're paying half then Logitech if you have this one. So the unboxing part of this is ends here and I'll attach some sample videos and then I'll just see you shortly. Hello everyone I'm back to test the Microsoft live cam HD 3000 so what you're looking at right now is recorded through the Microsoft HD live cam 3000 and I'm gonna run this camera just for about a minute and then once I'm done then I'll start videoing with the Logitech C9200 camera and then you'll be able to see or compare which one you like most and or which one is better so this one is just recording my face right now and I have a lamp or a desk lamp right on my right side which is right there and the lamp is kind of not directly towards my face it's just on the table and the light you're seeing is the reflection of the light from the table and on another computer so behind me is the background of my window and today is a cloudy day so you'll see a little bit dark in here and I'll use the same setup for the Logitech and then you'll be able to see how it looks so I'm going to stop this right now and let's go back to Logitech hello everyone I'm back again with the Logitech C920 HD webcam I believe by mistake I was referring to Logitech C9200 in the last clip I'm sorry about that so it is C920 not 9200 so right now what you're looking at is through the Logitech C920 HD webcam and as you can see if you look at the look at my face and the background it looks like that you know it's making me look smaller it's not it's wider than the Microsoft live cam so I think it's giving you a wider look but that makes me smaller in terms of the Microsoft live cam and I haven't changed anything same lighting same setup same chair same everything so I just switched to Logitech camera from the live cam cameras recording before so you can see the difference it's making me look smaller and making the environment wider so this is not a bad camera but however my preference would be to record with the Microsoft live cam because I I'm more the viewing or image the Microsoft live cam is rendering I like it better than the Logitech what the Logitech is rendering so that the choice is up to you if you like what you see through this Logitech camera then you may want to go for Logitech but if you like what you see through the Microsoft live cam and then you may want to go for the Microsoft live cam so it is my decision that I'm going to be recording this type of video when I talk in front of my webcam with my which is attached to my laptop I'm going to be using live cam instead of Logitech so that's my decision and keep in mind that the Logitech costs double than the Microsoft live cam so Logitech would cost you in Canada about 80 to 90 dollars depending on where you buy from or when you buy from and the Microsoft live cam cost about 35 dollars 40 dollars so it's exactly the double the price but if you look at the image quality I don't believe it's giving you double better the image so I'm going to stick to the Microsoft live cam so that concludes the unboxing review and comparing Microsoft live cam with the Logitech if you like what you see please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing there will be more videos coming up and also I would like to mention that my Asia trip is coming up in about three weeks so for within three in three weeks I'll be leaving Canada and then I'm going to be going to countries like Bangladesh India so there's going to be lots of travel videos so if you haven't subscribed already it is time to subscribe now if you'd like to see lots of travel videos business class review videos business class lounge videos and all sorts of videos which is going to be totally different than what you're seeing right now so I'll see you again thank you for watching and please subscribe and like bye


Hello everybody. Okay, so today we are going to talk about putting together a quadcopter, a reasonably cheap one, and we are going to use this particular frame, and the reason I'm thinking about this particular frame is because if it is a new build. Now for those who've built before, it's a completely different story. Okay? For those who have built before, it's a completely different story. This is for guys who haven't built before, are thinking about building, would like to be able to build, but want to be able to do it pretty cheap. And that's how I, that's how I started off, trying to do it. It was pretty cheap, and I still do, to be honest with you. Let me just see if I can adjust this. Oh, very slightly. There we go. So what we got here is a quadcopter phone, and you can buy these for around about $15, about £13 are from Banggood, for instance. I'll put one up on the screen there. The reason why I went for this, in particular, the reason why I went for this is because you can buy much bigger frames. Okay? And you can buy smaller frames, even if the ones that will only handle up to five-inch props. You can get, you know, three-inch prop frames and everything. But if you want to build something, and it's your first build, I would suggest that you get something where you've got some space to build with. And what I mean by that is, let's take this. This is the same frame. Okay. And what I've given myself here by building with this pretty good one, and I'm putting a four more coating on these sides, it's been done. As you can see, it's nice and shiny. But what I've given myself with this is I've got plenty of space for the camera. I've got plenty of space for my power distribution board, which is underneath there, and then my flight controller on top of here. And when I take the top off, I've got room. You know, there's cables there. They're not all really short, so you've got a fit and it's a very small space, and that can be quite intricate. And on your first build, it's going to be, you know, it's going to be enough of a challenge without you trying to set yourself up for the maximum challenge. So I'd suggest something like this. This is what they call a H frame. And because it looks a bit like a H, you see that, like that, like a H. And because it has these two, the very bottom plate, and then your legs will go or your arms, whatever you want to call them, we'll go here. And then the top plate, you get a bit of space there to be able to put a strap. And that means you can put your battery on the bottom. Now, some people prefer the battery on the top. Some people prefer the battery on the bottom. Sometimes it's just down to where you can actually fit it. And on this one, you can get a nice 2.2 amp 4S, if you're going to go 4S, zippery compact on the bottom, which is great. I'd suggest, you know, really get 3S first. But so this comes in the kit form, obviously. I'll put the image up there. And as you can see, you get all the bits and pieces. And the only bit I don't see in that kit is this piece here. But you do, if you look at this other image here, you can see that you can get it on top. And that's where you can put a sort of sit on here where these holes are. You get some rubbers. And that would sit either like that or like that. And then you can place a camera there, if you wish. Like a Runcam 2, just for instance, a Runcam 2 if you wanted to. Me, personally, I wouldn't even bother with the camera to start off with. I'd just get myself a little camera I can have in there and have it protected. Because if this is your first build, chances are you're going to crash. And even if you don't crash, it's still nice to just be able to protect your little time and monetary investment. So yeah, so this is a carbon fiber frame. And you can put the multimeter on there if you want to do a continuity test and you will find that it beeps. So we've got a carbon fiber frame. And when we build this, as you can see at the moment on this one, I've got a wide fitting in here for, let's say, this particular Runcam. This is a Runcam house. This is a CMOS. But if you want to try and avoid yellow, I'd stick a CCD in. Just because of the way the shuttering works and when we'll cover the camera, we'll get into that anyway. And I've done a previous video on how to restrict or remove jello in your video. So yeah, so a nice and cheap frame. It's pretty light. It's not the lightest. I mean, I have another frame kicking around here, but it's much smaller. It's much smaller. Just pop that out of the way. And I'm not going to get it all completely out. But in here, I'll put up one half. This will take up to a seven inch prop, but it's a lot smaller. I think that is five mil, but I think it's quite a lightweight frame, but this is a lot more expensive frame. And I've not even got around to building it yet. Let me just put that back out of the way. So yeah. So the reason why I choose this is it's got five mil arms. So if you are going to bump it around, no, I don't mean bumping around is take it up a hundred feet up into the air, spin it around, have it zooming down at 70 mile an hour, then it's going to be okay. It's not okay. You may not break the arm, but you're probably rip, you know, you're probably going to rip parts out. You're going to damage it. You're going to, it's just going to mess it up. It's, um, regardless of how cheap it is, just want to try and take care of it. I prefer to go for control over just throwing the thing around. Get the control first, learn the control, learn how, how its own characteristics behave. Your particular build, because every build is different. Along they're going to be quite similar, especially when it comes to the wiring that we're going to get through the wiring about how you can eliminate a lot of noise in your signals and bits and pieces just by techniques or wiring. And, uh, and yeah, see we can get you up in here, a little quad.  And, um, and of course, if anything does start playing up, you know what it is. You know what to look for.  When you buy something, it's all pre done. All you're going to do is, you know, it's fly it. But when you build it for yourself, you get that intimacy, you can take that time and learn that process along the way. And it's much more fulfilling. And I'll tell you what, you know, against the store bought stuff, building your own is better. I think you can ask any of the guys out there about building your own against store bought unless, you know, if you want to spend 2000 pounds on a DJI, that's different. You're not going to be spending 2000 pounds on this, but still for your, for your, um, satisfaction of flying it and building it, you won't get that from a DJI and you'll always be stuck with DJI, DJI, the DJI, not saying that that's such a terrible thing. If that's what you want to do for commercial purposes, stuff like that. But for those who just want to get into the hobby or just want to build for yourself, um, you know, this is, this is the way to go forward. This is really the way to go forward. So just for that's it for the start of it. In your kit, you know, you're going to get all your bits and pieces. And what I'm going to do is off camera, I'm going to put this together. I'm going to show you what it looks like off camera. And the only, there's only going to be like maybe one, one bit that I'm going to do is I'm going to put my cables through like I have on here. I'm going to pump these two plates and feed them up. So they come up through the section here and then connect into my distribution board. So I don't have the wires running out the back here and it helps keep them quite clamped there. Not too terribly tight. As you can see, they move. Nothing's cutting into anything. And there's enough on there as well for anything to connect there without being a problem. But that's how I do mine. And I make sure that I put my strap through as well. And I have these bits of padding on the bottom, because this means that even if the on these ones, let me see, on these ones, you had the nuts are actually built into the frame as it were the thread for you to screw into is built into the frame. But you may find if you're, if you're a little bolts, a little bit more extended, and you put a battery on the back here, it may sometimes look like it may dig into the battery. So I put this pattern on here so it clamps it all nicely to the pattern. It is slightly firm. So you can put a nice good tight connection there. And the battery does not slip or move at all, which is absolutely fantastic. And that just builds that into it then, which is really good. And you won't lose this because it's not very easy to come out. If you leave it strapped like that, that's just not going to happen at all. So that's the start for this video. I can't, if there's anything to do in the build that I think it's worth pointing out. I'll point it out. You can imagine now if you've got a little short bolt, they're going to go from the bottom up into these. And the longer ones are going to be for your arms. Now, again, you know, you're going to have longer ones to put through these, because this is a five mil arms. And these on here are three mil arms. I did start off with five mil arms. I found that I wasn't particularly crashing to do any real damage or anything like that. So I ended up putting my three mil arms on because the difference in weight, these are 36 grams each. No, no, no, no, maybe I've got that slightly on but I'll tell you what I do know that I do remember correct down a bit is that there's nine grams difference between the three and the five millimeter arms. So you're nine grams lighter with the three millimeter arms. And overall, that's 36 grams. Nine times four is 36. So that's 36 grams lighter. And when it comes to your builds like this, you know, every gram is counting, every gram is counting. So that's it just for this bit. This is, is wanting to go over why I'm choosing this particular frame. And we're going to say again, one is carbon fiber, it's nice and rigid. It's cheap. It's cheap. And that's very important because if you are going to break it, hey, just just damage a cheap frame, much better to replace things on those. He's got the five millimeter arms for starters. So that's good. Just to get your confidence up and you're quite happy that you can handle it. And, you know, you're not bashing in the belt. And, and it's a H frame, that being the H frame, you know, if you see a lot of them, they could be straight X, isn't they? They're going to be pretty nimble, pretty nimble. But this one gives you a little bit more stability. And it's a little bit bigger, a little bit higher than a lot. You've got a lot more space in there for putting your bits and pieces.  If your flight controls got built in OSD, that's great. Well, you might even have a separate on-screen display. So all these things are going to fit in and you've got to wire it together. And so it's good to be able to have a little bit of space on your first build to be able to do that, rather trying to compact it into something, which is the body of this. It may have seven inch on here, like the other frame I just showed you, but the body size for it is half the size. Okay, and if you've got a build by a stack, you might find you're spending out more on a stack as well. Because we put the ACs on the arms here, which is quite nice and pretty chunky. So again, that's the reason that I would suggest buying something like this, choosing something like this for your first build, nothing the first build, it's different. You have a lot better idea of what it is you're doing, what you're getting yourself into. But for the first one, I'd go for it. Cheap, but not particularly too cheerful. Enough space for you to get around it, have a look around it. And yeah, and it still made a carbon fiber. Okay, right, I'll see you in the next one. Thanks for watching, guys.


Estonia's prime minister has been put on a wanted list in Russia because of her efforts to remove Soviet-era World War II monuments in the Baltic nation, officials said as tensions between Russia and the Westsore amid the war in Ukraine. The name of prime minister Kaya Kalas appeared on the Russian Interior Ministry's list of people wanted on unspecified criminal charges, although it was unclear when she was added, according to MediaZona, an independent Russian news outlet. The list includes scores of officials and lawmakers from other Baltic nations. The move was related to her efforts to remove World War II monuments, other Russian officials said. There was no immediate reaction from Estonian authorities. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Estonian Prime Minister Kaya Kalas and two other top Baltic officials have been added to the country's wanted list. The move coincided with the release of an Estonian intelligence report warning that Russia is gearing up to wage war on the West in the coming decade. Kalas, Estonian State Secretary Taimar Petrkopp and Lithuanian Culture Minister Samonas Keris have been listed on the Interior Ministry's database due to the destruction of monuments to Soviet soldiers. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have removed numerous Soviet-era memorials since they gained independence as the Soviet Union broke up in 1991.


Hi everyone and welcome to another vlog. My name is Claire Carmichael, I'm a registered nurse and today we're going to talk about writing reports for quality improvement. Firstly you want to think what sort of improvement do you want to make wherever you are? What are you going to write about your report? And I have to say I've never really written a quality improvement before. The only experience I've had with this was when we had to do our dissertation, not called dissertation anymore, at university for our third year and we had to write an improvement and something that we wanted to put into place after we'd gone through all of the research and things like that. So I'm going to use that experience and bring it into the vlog today to help you hopefully write it well. So like I said the first thing you need to know is what you're going to improve, what is it that you want to change and what people like to see is evidence and research. So have a look at the things that are going on, have a look if there's any audits out there, if there's any reports been done, if there's any kind of guidelines or policies or anything like that that you can use that's going to help you to say here is the evidence, mainly audits are good for this. This is what's happening, here's what's going wrong, but here's what I want to do to improve it. And a little tip I want to give here, don't reinvent the wheel. There are so many different trusts out there if there's something that another area is doing that you can bring in that's going to work in your workplace, use that, don't reinvent the wheel, don't create your own projects, don't set up things and create things if you don't need to. That's hard work guys, just go in, do your research on what's out there already before even thinking about putting in things in place. And another thing, if you haven't already heard of these people, this group, they're called the FAB Academy or the Academy of FAB Stuff, if you google them there's a website and they share all the good stuff, all the things that people have improved, all the things that people have put in place to help the healthcare system, to help patients, to help colleagues, anything like that. And they share it, they share it across the board so that people can have a look and say okay, I want to put this in place, so I'm going to take that from them, I'm going to speak to them and see what I can do to improve. People have uploaded documents, forms, things like that, the transferable that you can use in your workplace. So have a look on there as well, that's a really really good resource if you're looking for improvements for your workplace. So you're going to find your improvement, what needs improvement? You're going to gather your evidence for your improvement to say this is why it needs improvement, this is what the audits show, this is my evidence to say that something needs to change, that's a good start. You are then going to do your research, make sure there's nothing already out there available or if there is, get that thing that you want to put into your workplace that's already out there available and just start to show the steps that you want to take to make the change. And once you've found your improvement that you need to put into place, then you have to show okay, what impact is this going to have? Why am I putting this particular thing in place? So you have to show the evidence, the research that's already been done into these improvements. If you're bringing something in that's been done in another trust for example, show what's happened, what impact has that had on that trust and how has it benefited that trust as a result. You need to show the impact of your patients, is it going to provide better quality care, is it going to be improved services for your patients, etc. Is it going to impact your colleagues, is it going to make a better work environment for your colleagues, is it going to make the workload easier? What impact is it having on everybody around you, yourself, your colleagues, management, the patients and then don't forget finance because if it's going to save them money, they're going to snap your idea up like a lot. So you've discovered your change that needs to happen, you've gathered your evidence, you've gathered your research to say this isn't working, this is why it's not working. You've had a look, you've found some really good improvements that are in another trust that you could implement into your trust tick. If there's not, okay, what are you going to do, what are you going to implement, how are you going to implement it and how are you going to evidence that that's going to work and then you're going to show the impact of your new improvement, how is it going to function, how does it look, how is it going to work, how is it going to better practice as a result and provide best care practice as a result and also how to implement change. Now there's many, many change techniques out there so have a little search, do your research, do a little Google search and look for change management, look for change projects, how to implement change as well. I did do another video on change and implementing change which might help for this video so have a look at that as well and it takes you through all the different criteria. So you've got all the components of writing up change or implementing change for quality improvements, something that's going to help the workplace, something that's going to improve quality. It says what it does on the tin, it does what it says on the tin and you know what I meant. So you've got all those things so how do you write that? So like I said you need all these components in your written report, you need to structure it really really well, start from the beginning like I said initially put subheadings, put your subheadings okay what have I discovered, what is going wrong, what needs improvement, where is the evidence, what evidence have I got, audits, anything like that you need to put it all like that. The next step is okay what research is already out there, if there's nothing out there, if there's no improvements out there, what are you going to put in place, how are you going to do that, how are you going to monitor it, how are you going to assess whether it's working or not and then another heading to say okay here's the change, here's how it's going to work, here's the benefits, here's what it's going to do and just structure it that way and really put it in there, make sure you put as much evidence, any research that you found, any audit papers, policies, guidelines, anything like that need to go in there, this needs to be really really thorough for a quality improvement and not only that but you want to enter the smart goals so you want to put like your short-term goals, medium-term goals, long-term goals alongside this, this will really get you some brownie points I think if you can put those things in there, what do you want to achieve, when do you want to achieve it to buy, why do you want to achieve this, just putting those little things along the way to show a timeline, how you're going to monitor it, how you're going to audit it, how are you going to assess if the change has worked, make sure you end with that, your conclusion is going to be this is what I'm doing this, this is the amazing change that's going to happen and this is how I'm going to audit it to make sure this this this improvement has happened and I hope that makes sense, I hope I've explained that right and I've given you enough to write and start writing your quality improvement for your assignment, for your dissertation, anything like that and just while I'm talking about that if you are writing this for university for a report or assignment or a dissertation, make sure you are going by your university guidelines, it doesn't matter what I say, I could tell you all sorts of nonsense and you put it all in there and you could fail, I'm just giving you those steps to do the research, to implement, you always have to go by your university guidelines, do what they say, not as I say, if that makes sense but I'm just giving you the tips and advice to help you along the way, just to make it make more sense in your head and then you can go back to your university, you can look at your assignment brief or dissertation brief or whatever and just go oh yeah okay this is what they're expected of me if that makes sense and if this is something that you're writing for let's say the NHS in a trust that you're in, have a look at what's already out there, have a look and ask people what quality improvements are out there, what reports are out there and have a look at them so then you can gauge what you need to put into your report as well. So this was a very short and sweet video thank you so much everyone for coming and joining and watching this video, I hope it's given you some sort of advice along the way, if there's any other videos that you want me to do or thank you so much to the person that requested this video as well, I hope it really helps you and if there's any other information around that you need message me, comment whatever and if anyone else wants any videos or if you can think of something that you think oh I don't know if Claire's covered this yet put a comment below and I will cover it, anything that that you want me to sort of go over any help advice for placement assignments, I've already done like placement tips and assignment tips and things like that but if there's anything I haven't covered just ask me and I will try my best to cover it, even if I don't know it, I will try and cover it and do my research and stuff like that obviously I'm not going to give you false information because that's not okay but if I know something and I can do the research and I can provide you with some stuff and advice and things like that then I will absolutely do it so yeah for now it's goodbye from me and have an amazing week everyone