Hey are you there? Are you back? Are you there? He doesn't say much but this here is cute. He didn't laugh a cut so he must not have heard you. He's quite glowing with his trunk and spraying at a glass of about 35 miles an hour and then painting. And then I do the Endangered Species of the Earth. Would you like to take that copy? And a border that relates either to the indigenous peoples closely connected to the endangered species or some other symbolism like all of the other or many of the other organisms within their a bio-diverse area. So most of them are focused on the bio-diversity hotspots based on high SCN research and they all come from seeing, from meditation, from being quiet and letting the painting speak. It's something we call the magic of drama happens. Okay so how did drama get to be painting? Not all elephants paint, right? I mean that is unusual. Drama is actually second generation American youth and Indian elephant or Asian elephant. And he was born and raised in the Oregon Zoo and he had art classes for elephants at the zoo. I mean this is Oregon. You know in the days when Charlie the Chimp was at the Oregon Zoo they figured out how important enrichment was.  And you know people have all kinds of opinions about zoos but basically all the animals in the zoo have a story of how and why they got there. They're blind or their parents were killed or something awful happened to have them wind up there. They're not just captured. So drama had had an injury and he needed some stimulation and he loved spraying the keeper's legs. So to use that skill, Cheb thought well why not put a little non-toxic paint in there. Some children's watercolors and children's tempura. And lo and behold they started painting and what came out was it's uncanny really. It's almost unbelievable and I already used that word to see the beauty and the sophistication that comes out on these animals. I was astounded. Okay so talk a little bit about process if you don't mind. I was the docent for a long time in a museum. Who picked the colors? Did Rama get to pick the colors? I like that question because I thought to pick the colors. So he did not get to pick the colors. So that's why I say it's a true collaboration. Some people have given Asian elephants a paintbrush to paint. But I got to pick a palette of paint based on an ecosystem or a species or a particular harmony and a feeling that I want to get across. Because this is all about art having power, art taking back its power. So where were we right before? I was asking about the paint, how the palette came together. Oh yes. So you would give Rama several buckets of paint? Right.  And then Jeff would say to Rama, let me have your feet. And Rama was so excited to paint his ears would be going. And then by watching the process of Rama taking the paint, blasting it onto the canvas, I could know intuitively which order of paint to choose. So I had already mixed up the palette. It took me three hours for setting up one painting where he would do a masterpiece in 15 minutes. I then would do things like paint the wreath in 600 hours. So he would spend 15, 20 minutes. I could work for 600 hours on the same painting. So it's a little unfair, but you know, it's just absolutely awesome. And then at the end we would often, depending on how it looked, and that was the pleasure and honor that I had is mixing the color of the palette, seeing if the board had to be turned. I think.


So the idea that we are what we eat is certainly not a new one. Archimbaldi painted this painting along with others, depicting this idea back in the 1500s. And in 1863, the philosopher Feuerbach came up with this pithy quote, der Mensch ist Wasser ist, which is a great pun in German, what he's saying is that man is what he eats.  The new frontier is understanding what impact it has on our thoughts, on our mood, even on our memory. And Jeff Bland at the Personalized Medicine Lifestyle Institute, I met him back in 2016, and we've had a very fruitful and ongoing dialogue since then. And he has this quote that I really like where he says that food is a language that speaks to our genes. And what he means by this is that our genes, obviously, are fixed when we're conceived. They stay the same throughout our lifetime. But how they're expressed and the impact on our physiology is tremendously variable through this process called gene expression. And so the idea is that food speaks to our genes and causes changes in our bodies and maybe even in our minds. Now the language of food is very much a language of color. And I'm sure you've all heard the admonition that you should eat the rainbow, right? And if we consider a rainbow, a brightly colored fruits and vegetables, which we all know that we should be eating, all of the colors here, everything from the carotenoids that make the carrots orange to the anthocyanins that make the blackberries black, and all of the other natural compounds that are in these foods turn into, translate into chemicals that are changing how our bodies act. And so when we're thinking about this language of food, speaking to our genes, we really want to think about the colors in that food. However, untangling this language is incredibly challenging. And this heroic study at Harvard is still one of the largest of its kind, where they looked at 120,000 men and women over a period of 20 years, so 1.5 million person years of follow-up. And what they looked at was the impact of each food item on what made these people gain or lose weight over that 20-year period. And so what did the study find? Well, I've got to say that the heroic effort that went into it in large part was extremely consistent with, I bet, what your stereotypes are of what thin people eat and what fat people eat. Because if we look at the food that they found consistent with weight loss, what it was is yogurt, right? And that seems pretty healthy. You see a lot of thin people eating yogurt. On the other side, the food that was most associated with weight gain was potato chips. And again, this makes a lot of sense, right? We don't think of potato chips as being especially healthy. But what astonished me about the study was the size of these effects. So people who ate one extra serving of yogurt a day over the course of four years, on average, they lost 372 grams. Whereas in contrast, people who ate an extra serving of potato chips a day over four years, they gained 768 grams, right? And that's not a lot over four years, because what it means is that if you exercise the right choice 1460 times in a row, every single day for four years, you're going to change your weight by just 1.14 kilos. And that's not very impressive. But what it's important to keep in mind is that this is an average and everyone's different. So some people are making the substitution. They're going to lose a whole lot of weight. Whereas other people are going to gain almost as much weight. And it almost all averages out when you look at a large population. So another study, the SMILES study, was published by an Australian group in 2017. And what they were interested in was not weight, which is pretty easy to observe, but mood. And so they were basing their study on a whole lot of different studies that had shown associations between diet and depression.  And they tended to eat less healthy foods like the Mediterranean diet. And so what they did is they put thousands of people who had been diagnosed with major depressive disorder either on a Mediterranean diet or on a different diet intervention as a control. And what they found was that when they put them on a Mediterranean diet, what happened was that 32% of the patients recovered got better from their depressive symptoms. And this is amazing, right? Because this is comparable to what you'd get with drugs like SSRIs and other antidepressants. And one thing that they were concerned about was is it really the particular diet that's having a major impact here? Or is it just the attention that you pay to someone when you're talking to them a lot about what they're eating? You're giving them support in their diet and so forth. And so as a control, what they did is they looked at a low-fat diet where the same amount of care and attention was put into making sure people ate a low-fat diet. And in that low-fat diet group, only 8% of them recovered. So this was a huge difference, right? Two diet interventions. One of them, the Mediterranean diet, enormously effective for helping people recover from depression, whereas the other one, the low-fat diet, almost completely ineffective. So the incredible diversity in the microbiome is already being used to make highly individualized predictions in the area of blood glucose control. And so in this remarkable study from a group at the Weissman Institute in Israel, what they did is they wanted to understand why is there so much individual variation, one person to another, and how you respond to the same food. And so what they did is they took 800 people and hooked them up to continuous glucose monitors, and then they fed them a very carefully-defined sequence of diets for two weeks so they could isolate the impact of every single item those people ate on whether their blood glucose would spike after their meal or whether it would only rise a little bit. And so what they found is that when they averaged the results for all of those people, they almost perfectly recaptured the published glycemic index values. So in other words, across 800 people, they got pretty much the results you would expect for each of those food items based on decades of research. But what was amazing was the difference in individual glycemic index. So the exact same food that would send one person's blood glucose haywire would be healthy for another person. And a few of the examples that they found were really surprising. So for example, tomatoes are a pretty healthy food for most people, but they had one person in their study where every time that person ate tomatoes, their blood glucose would go up the charts. And so when they cut them out of their diet, they did much better. And then similarly, beans are another food that's generally healthy for most people, but for some people, probably because of the lectins, they make blood glucose spike. And so by being able to find these particular food items that are good or bad for you, you can really have a major impact on your blood glucose control. And one of the things that they found is that the results were so reliable that they could take another group of 100 people, and for each of those people, they could design a good diet and a bad diet where both of the diets have the same calories, they have the same macronutrients, and what was different about them was relatively small substitutions.   And they mentioned a whole lot of different things about the people in the study. What they found was important, what they found was important out of all of these different things was primarily the gut microbiome. And what was amazing, and so what was amazing about that was the impact of the microbes in the gut. The healthy med study is another one where, again, they compared the Mediterranean diet to a social group intervention. And so what they were trying to figure out here is if you already have major depression, if you're on the Mediterranean diet, or if you have a social intervention, which of those improves your mood more? And so what they found is that both of the groups got quite a lot better from baseline to three months. But the Mediterranean diet actually made a bigger difference than that social group support. And so what's amazing about this is that changing what you eat can have as much of an impact and even greater impact even on your mood than getting the kind of social support that's more traditional for depression. And so, again, though, individual variation was really high. What you can see is a lot of variability in each of those groups. And so trying to understand the sources of those differences for each individual is like trying to find a needle in a haystack out of all the possible different causes. So to explain individual variability, there's been a huge amount of work trying to find the key to these links between diet and health, including mental health and the human genome. And if you consider the human genome project, that project was conducted at an expense of about $3 billion over more than a decade. And so to this day, we've spent billions and billions of dollars looking for the key to the links between diet and health in the human genome. But so far the results have been very unimpressive and that leads me to wonder, are we even looking in the right place or are we like the proverbial drunk man who's looking for his keys under the streetlight, not because that's where he lost his keys, but because that's where the light is. And so what I start to wonder is it possible that the key is not in the human genome, but rather is there some other collection of keys in a completely different location that we're missing entirely when we focus on human genes? Now, what I'm thinking of is the discrepancy between what's in our so-called human genome and the rest of the genes that are associated with our body. The human genome project mapped the 20,000 human genes that we all share where we're all 99.99% identical to the person we're sitting next to in terms of those human genes. But astonishingly, it turns out that the microbes, mostly the bacteria in our gut, have a much larger gene catalogue of 2 to 20 million microbial genes. And so when we just look at 1% we're ignoring 99% of our genes. And astonishingly, the 99% that we're ignoring are the ones that we can change and take control of over our lifetime. So coming back to the Israeli study where they were looking at the microbiome sources where they were looking at the microbiome and its ability to explain who should eat what diet, one thing that they found that was just amazing to me is that they found that what you should eat is a completely different person to person and that they could explain it. So for example, you probably think of rice as a pretty healthy food, and for most people it is. But they actually found that for quite a lot of the people in this study, it was worse for them to eat rice in terms of their blood sugar than it was for them to eat ice cream. And out of all of the different things that they measured to try to explain this, what they found was that the gut microbes were the deciding factor whether you should eat rice or whether you should eat ice cream to keep your blood glucose under control. And so on learning this, people typically have two questions. The first question is, is there a test I can do that tells me am I in the category of people who should eat rice or the category of people who should eat ice cream? And in fact there is such a test and they've commercialized it through a company called D2. But more interestingly, you might ask, suppose I find I'm in the category of people who should eat rice, could I change my microbiome so that now I'm over there in the category of people who should eat ice cream instead? Or perhaps can I go the other way? Perhaps my microbes are affecting what I want to eat. Could I change my microbiome so that I no longer crave ice cream and that I crave rice instead? And that's a much more interesting question. Now, that example might seem a bit frivolous, but in the case of cancer, it's deadly serious. And I'm sure you've heard of checkpoint immunotherapy, which was one of the most exciting treatments for melanoma that's available now. And Jennifer Wago at MD Anderson Cancer Center has been able to show that with a dietary intervention, you can take people who are not going to respond to ketruder, one of the most common cancer immunotherapy drugs, so they're going to have no effect if they take it, and that's because of their microbiome. But they can change their microbiome to go from the non-responder category into the responder category where the drug will change their lives. Where the drug will save their lives, rather. And again, it turns out that the difference between the non-responders and the responders is in the particular microbes that they have in the gut. However, you have to be careful with this, although fiber is really good for reshaping your microbiome so that you can respond to cancer immunotherapy. Probiotics are not. And what they found is that the patients who were taking probiotics actually died sooner than patients who were not taking probiotics. They were able to reproduce this in an animal model by transporting both cells from the tumor and the microbes from the gut from the patients into mice, and they showed that when they gave the mice probiotics, the mice also died faster. And so this is something that's fairly generalizable and the mechanisms are being worked out why probiotics will actually not help for cancer immunotherapy, although they may be useful in other circumstances, like, for example, post-antibiotic diarrhea. So the real problem to all this is the microbiome is incredibly complicated and we need a better user interface for our microbiomes. So you could imagine, for example, when you're in the supermarket and you're faced with a thousand different kinds of products and you have no idea what you should eat, how important this need for a better way of addressing that is. And what we're imagining, I'm sure you've all heard of large language models like chat GPT, what we're imagining is something for your gut, let's call it Crap GPT, where you could ask your phone directly, scanning the barcode of a product, should I eat this to improve my health and get some sort of natural language response to it? And then you could imagine taking that a step further. What if you could also use the camera in your phone to highlight the products on your shelf according to which of the ones that you should eat based on your individual microbiome and its response instead of the products that you're looking at right now? And that's the kind of crazy thing that we're up to at the Center for Microbiome Innovation, where with over 140 faculty members and a growing list of corporate partners, we're trying to address the hard problems like this. So where we are at the moment, we just don't know if we're going to be able to do this kind of thing, but a lot of the pieces of it exist somewhere in the university and the potential is absolutely enormous that by being able to understand this huge individual source of variation, where unlike your human genes, where you're 99.99% identical to the person you're sitting next to in your microbial genes, you can be 90% different. And so taking account of all of those genes and where the variation actually is to improve your health over a lifetime, we think has an incredible possibility, not just for things like your weight and your physical condition, but also for your mood, for your memory and your ability to have a healthy brain into advanced age. So I'd like to end by just asking you to consider the potential of this being your brain on plants. If we can find out the right dietary information for each individual and have a microbiome-based test that gives you near-real-time information so that you can use it, we think there's incredible potential to use all of this information to reshape your health over a lifetime. So with that, I'll end there. I'd be delighted to answer any questions that you have. Thank you for coming along this evening. Questions, yeah? So the linkages between the microbiome and linkages to neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's disease, could you talk a little bit more just about the relationship between diet, microbiome, and these types of diseases? Sure, absolutely. So the link between diet and Alzheimer's has been known for a while where things like sugar and soda tend to be associated with worse memory problems. And then on the other side, things like fish, like mushrooms, like strawberries tend to be associated with better memory. And in a study that we've been doing, the Alzheimer's gut microbiome project funded by the National Institutes of Aging in the United States, what we've been doing is we've been piggybacking on a whole lot of clinical intervention trials where essentially different diets that are known to impact blood glucose, which is itself linked to Alzheimer's, like the Mediterranean diet, the ketogenic diet, and so on are being tested on people who are at risk for Alzheimer's, and we're looking at the microbiome and metabolome. So what's been fascinating there is that we've been able to recapture by automatically taking molecules and looking at how they're linked to diet. We've been able to recapture with just a couple of days in the lab, decades and decades of studies finding these individual links between food items and disease. And so where we're going with it is to take the next step, not just at the whole population level, but at the individual level, how are those links different one person to another? And how we can give people very precise and actionable advice about what they personally should do, because maybe it's strawberries for one person, but for another person, that will have no effect and you should look at mushrooms or fish instead. Yeah. I think they're running around with a microphone, so if you could just wait for that for the recording. The microphone is an amazing presentation. Thank you. Have you been able to quantify which bacterial specimens are more important within the gut microbiome? I mean, is it the diversity or is it the Bephido kind of bacterium? I mean, is there any specific inflammatory markers which are specific to certain strains per se? That's a great question and let me just unpack it a little. So we do find particular species, strains, even higher level groups like genera that are linked to either better or worse memory deficits and also linked to responses to particular food items. It is a very complex picture that's not easy to summarize though and part of it is that the same bacteria seem to have different ecological roles and different people, so what we really need is a better way to understand when the same species of bacteria is doing a different job in one person's gut versus another, which can be dependent on things like your diet that seem to make a particular species either good or bad depending on the other conditions and also what other bacteria you have. And this is true both for beneficial microbes and for pathogens. So for example, in the Human Microbiome Project, we found that between 5% and 30% of people, depending on which pathogen it is, can be walking around completely healthy with something that we normally think of as disease-causing and so whether it actually does cause disease depends a lot on other factors like your immune system, the other bacteria that are in there and crucially your diet. Thank you. I have one last question. Is food to blame? I mean, because most of food that we eat is processed and I do have a correlation where a lot of my cousins and relatives have actually migrated to the U.S. and after 10 years of living there, they actually tend to get all the allergies in the world, not allergies, dairy, all the different allergies on earth. And when they were staying in India, they were actually completely okay and I presumably think it's because of the food they're having which is a lot more processed in the U.S. versus a lot more natural within India. Is there any studies that you've done personally which indicate that? Yes, so again... And I do have one more thing. So even from an alternative medicine perspective, food is certainly the most important. So be it Chinese medicine or the Indian Ayurveda, when they say food is what affects the entire thing, which again was... Yes, so there have recently been some quite strong links to ultra-processed foods as a category and Alzheimer's and I'm certainly sorry to hear about your family's experience moving to the U.S. which is an auto-common experience. What... There hasn't been nearly as much research for a particular food item. Is it good or bad depending on how you process it? The older questionnaires just talk about how much of each kind of food that you eat and not how it's processed. The newer questionnaires like we're using, for example, in our collaboration with Denone, where we're looking at food consumption and the impact on the microbiome across five countries. In those studies we're trying much more to capture how it's processed as well as what it is. But those studies are much less frequent than just adding up how many potatoes versus how much cauliflower versus whatever you ate. Whereas we think from a chemical perspective it does make a huge difference how you process it and especially if you're stripping out a lot of the beneficial molecules from it in that processing workflow that could have a huge impact on whether something we think of as healthy is still healthy by the time you consume it. Thanks. I have a sort of practical question. First of all, fascinating presentation. I was looking at all the colours you have. It's amazing. So, you know, there are all of these scientific studies and they're very convincing but is there any way to sort of like implement this practically in our lives in the sense that, you know, not everyone has access to places where they map out the genomes and sort of figure out which foods are particularly suited but is there a way of trial and error that people can incorporate into their daily lives to see how they react to certain foods to remove or add certain foods? Yeah, well that's a really important point that not everyone has access to the genome or the microbiome sequencing technologies, although you should be aware that they're getting cheaper dramatically and over the last 15 years there's been about a mid-and-fold decline in the cost of sequencing. It is very likely that there's going to be another very rapid rate of decline due to some changes in the IP landscape just recently. So, part of the answer is that I think that genomic sequencing is going to get cheaper and cheaper. Part of the answer is doing this kind of thing empirically where you're going through a long sequence of adding things and removing them from your diet. You can do that, but the responses tend to be pretty slow. They will often take weeks for months, weeks to months, especially if it is for something like a psychological condition. And one of the big problems with studies on weight loss is very frequently it takes months to years for a particular substitution to have an effect over the long term. And so, the process of trying to do it yourself may wind up being surprisingly expensive when you think about the time and the cost of making those substitutions over time. So, we think of the genomic technologies as actually a shortcut where especially as they become more democratized and more accessible, it will be much more convenient to do that test and get an answer right away rather than to go through this month-long sequence of trying to do elimination diets. For example, my mother who was diagnosed with IBS with irritable bowel syndrome a while ago spent a long time going through elimination diets like the FODMAP diet, for example, and just seeing that incredibly time-consuming process and the frustration of, well, what if you went out to eat and accidentally ate something that you weren't supposed to? How much of that can mess things up? Being able to eliminate that uncertainty for people, I think, would be really valuable. Thank you very much. I have a... Is it commonly available like these tests? Well, D2 was doing a direct-to-consumer model but they're not doing that anymore. Now they're trying to partner with insurance companies and large organizations that maintain health. So, right at the moment, the problem is how do you come up with a good business model where you can offer it... Can you really offer it direct to individuals? Or do you need to do it with larger organizations to get the volume up? That may change with changes in sequencing technology. So right now, you need thousands of samples to process at once to make it cost-effective because of the way the sequencing is done. But if you could sequence each sample cheaply as it came in, that constraint wouldn't exist anymore and it'd be feasible to do a lot more of this at the individual level. What our real dream is is a smart toilet where you can get some kind of instant readout, deliver it to your phone and use it right away. But that's further on the horizon and it's not going to be DNA sequencing. It's going to be some other technology like maybe mass spec, maybe Raman spectroscopy. Something that you can do very rapidly rather than something where it takes hours to do the sequencing and then takes a long time after that to do the data analysis. I have a last question if I'm allowed. You're first. I didn't. I learned something. Sorry, go ahead. You have some beautiful pictures about fresh, all kind of fresh produce. I'm deploying a global network of multi-localized food production hubs based on powders. 40% of food production is powder and you only had one photo with powder. How do you see the future of food? Because it's obvious. When there is fresh, fresh is great and it's a Mediterranean diet but the other truth is that 40% of the world's food and having a 30% food loss do you see the future combination of the right food being something for example where we have a Spanish broccoli and then we pull some like one small bag of what we have like sugar obviously of a mix of different ingredients that can be dried and powdered to personalize nutritional product that we are striving for? I'd love to talk more with you about that network and you're exactly right getting the benefits of fresh food just isn't something that's scalable to the whole world and in the past studies of things like canned food, frozen food restried food have suggested that a lot of nutrients are preserved. What we don't know is whether the active ingredients for the microbiome are preserved in that kind of process and it would be interesting to do. We have been studying centenarians in different parts of the world and when we match up the molecules in food to the molecules in the body, what we see is for example when we study centenarians in the Chiliente Peninsula versus people in the US the molecules in the Bodstream and the molecules in the stool are much more explainable if we have locally matched foods and we can explain three times as many molecules if we're using population matched diets and there's also that fascinating question why is it that the people in these blue zones like Okinawa, Sardinia, Loma Linda Nicolae and so on why are they so healthy? Because if it's something about their human genes there's nothing you can do to really export that and if it's something about the environment it might be really hard but if it's something about the food and you can understand what the active ingredients are and whether it's the same for everybody or whether it's localized to that region which I think is what you're telling me your network is about that would be amazing in terms of taking what we know and generalizing it and the American Gut Project one of the things we found is the number of different species of plants and personates has the biggest impact on their microbiome of any of the variables we looked at and so if you could assemble that from powders rather than a miserable track through the farmers market it would be incredible. And you would love by the way that we have digitized more than a million good food products so we have actually connected the lab with near infrared spectroscopy so actually to characterize the powders and ensure they're always coming in and the right quality like the last one we have been using instead of the quantitative the qualitative model that is basically the fingerprint model so we can compare ginger from India to China and so on so in line with what you said about characterization as a small let's say medium-sized company we are actually using cheaper and cheaper technology to do that. That's fascinating I'd love to talk more about that after the session. I do want to get to this one last question because you've had the microphone for a while and I'm getting the signal to wrap up the session. It's maybe a quick one and it was just to ask is the results of what you're seeing is it indicating that it's path dependent or is it kind of just a point in time because I guess a little bit linked to Vivian's question. That's a great question but we don't have enough data to answer it. In studies in mice where they've been overfed so they're obese and then they slim down again the microbiome has a memory of the obese state and so a subsequent challenge has very different impacts based not on the current state but on the path that it took but as far as I know there's absolutely no data in humans and that's especially important given the pervasiveness of binge dieting especially in the US and that is something that definitely needs to be addressed but there's been very little research so far so great question very little data though. Thank you very much. Thank you. Alright well thanks everyone I think we need to get out of the room but thank you all for coming along and for a lot of great dialogue.


Thomas Morelle says Bayern Munich must use the criticism from their shock German Cup disaster to help them secure a sport on the Champions League knockout phase by beating Benfica on Tuesday. The 32-year-old scored and created three assists Saturday as Bayern romped to a 5-2 win at Union Berlin to stay top of the Bundesliga three days after their 5-0 cup thrashing at Borussia Mönchengladbach. In Europe, Bayern are five points clear in group E and the win over second place to Benfica will guarantee a spot in the last 16 of the Champions League. Bayern were caught by a string of negative headlines and made the fallout of their shock cup defeat, which Morelle wants to use as extra motivation. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


So this is StoryMap, and I put the URL into the chat, but it's just storymap.nightlab.com.nightwithacake. And this is a free tool that you can use to tell stories with maps. And so they have the example here of the westward expansion of the US. As you can see here, there are a bunch of different types of media that you can include. And so it'll start like this, you have the map points, you have images, you can do captions and you just scroll through, have tweets, video, whatever you need to have to tell your story, you can put into a StoryMap. And so the good thing about StoryMap is that, again, it's free. And two, it's relatively simple to use. And so once you're at the main page, you would just go to make a StoryMap. And you're led to a Google sign in. And so I've already signed into my Google account. And these are the different StoryMaps that I've made so far. And so you would just do a new one. I'm going to click on one that already exists. And so I've put a few slides in here already. And this is the campus historical markers. StoryMap that I created based on the special collections version of it that the whole has created. And since you can see here I have two map points with images. I have a call to action that you could do start exploring. And you would just use the arrows to move through. There's not much content on here at the moment. You can also just click on the markers to get the content. And so once you're into something like this, how do we actually make a StoryMap? That's the part that's great.  And it's going to look like this for the title page. And so you would just put in a title and a description of what the StoryMap is going to be. You can do URLs out from this. So if you need to link out to like a Wikipedia page or say you want to link to the library's website, something like that, that can be done in here. You can just put in the URL for the image or you can upload an image and you can have the credit and the caption. That also accepts HTML. And so if we go to some of the points that I've already put in. I manually put in the Denny Chimes point. It is right here. I have Denny Chimes. I did not put in any information but you can do that. I have the image uploaded. I have the credit and then I have a caption and the caption itself actually serves as the alt text for the images so that makes this an accessible option for screen readers. You can also put your own custom map markers on there if you'd like. That's a bit more of a high end type thing. Not necessarily something that you have to do. So I'm going to add in a new map point. And so I'll just hit add slide. And so this is what a blank slide looks like. And I'm planning to do the little roundhouse, which as you can see is right there. It is literally the little roundhouse. You can also type in the coordinates or the town. So you can save Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and it'll put you in Tuscaloosa. Obviously that's not where we want to be but you can put that in. So if you're trying to do something more general, you can also put in exact addresses. So if you're trying to get very, very specific, that's one way to do it. But there are multiple ways to put in your map points, whichever makes the most sense for you. So this is the little roundhouse. So we're going to put that there. And again, I don't have the information on hand for this information. And let's upload an image. And I'm not sure that it's going to show this part for you, but you just do the choose a file. And you would select the image. I believe this is it. And upload. And that shows up now. And so the credit. One thing to note is that if you are trying to upload an image you can use just the URL for it. But you have to make sure that it's the URL for the image itself. Often that's one of the mistakes that people run into is that they try and put in the URL for just the website generally, that will not load in it won't work so you have to make sure that it's for the specific image. And so we have all of this content in here, we'll do preview and see how it looks. So we've got our map spot, we have our marker, we have a caption, we have the information on what this is. And so that's that's the gist of how we do this it's not too difficult. Another thing that I'm going to do and this is not exactly a campus historical marker but it's similar enough. I'm going to put this at Gorgas. And we're going to have a virtual. Put a YouTube link in here. And so this is the university of the consistent. And then once we do a preview to see that that YouTube video is not here and you can just watch that straight from the map itself. And so if we go back to the beginning, you'll see, okay, these are the two new map marks that we made. We have the two original ones that I had and then we have the little roundhouse and we have the YouTube so we can click any of them that we want to click on in any order, or as I showed at the beginning we can start from the beginning and just scroll through. So that is the gist of it. Are there any questions now about this process before I show you some of the other things you can do with story map. One thing that I do want to emphasize is there is a save button up here. You might want to pretty regularly try and save that can be something that people forget. But let's also go back to the edit section. Oh, yes, this is different from the RJ. So this is the night lab story map. And so this is a free software that you can get. I think I put it in the chat but I'll put it in again. I really clicked keyboard. And so that is in the chat now. And the great thing about it is that this is, it's based through your Google account so it's tied to whatever your personal Google account is. It's pretty easy to use in terms of how you can customize it but you can make something that looks very nice. And then it's also embeddable so if you're trying to put it on to another website that's something that you can do. It's not really complicated. I used to use this when I was teaching freshman level courses on digital humanities. And this was one of their favorite tools to use. So it's a really neat thing to do and like I said it's free. It's relatively easy, and it makes some really nice looking stuff. So it always makes sure you go back to edit whenever you are trying to edit this otherwise the options will be blacked out. Right. Yeah, exactly. They would love it. They would absolutely love it. It's a really creative. It's a way that they could be creative and kind of stretch their their storytelling abilities. Okay, so let's look at map types because this is something that you can change. I don't recommend going completely crazy with the map types but you can do something like the open street maps. And so that will look quite a bit different on the map than what I just had as you can see like the other one was a pretty basic black and white map. This one has more of, here's what the buildings are actually called and here's the road name and here's parking. So you can do that kind of thing but maybe there's a time and place for that. There's also fancy ones for if you're trying to do something that's a little older. Here's a watercolor version of it, which doesn't tell you a whole lot but it looks nice in certain contexts. And there are some that just don't work all that great but this one's just a basic. So yeah, it's pretty basic. It's kind of hard to actually see what's going on there but just use your best judgment when you're picking the map type. But that is done in the options menu. You can also choose whether or not the call to action is going to be on there. So right now, when we look at my, my map I have this start exploring button here. But if I want, if I don't want that, I could just say no. If I do want that but I wanted to say something different. I can just type that in. What should I type in. See the markers. I think simple. And so now you'll see that the call to action says whatever I typed in. And so you can really customize it in that way. Again, always it save. Yay, saving. There are more complicated ways that you can do things with with story map one thing that I did want to show is that you can do your own maps. So this is a legend of time. I stand in a map from an encyclopedia of Zelda and this is now treated as cartography by story map. This is a higher level version of using story map, but it is something you can do and you can just scroll through have gifts in here. But it uses the image that I pulled in as cartography. You can also use that you can see the book find where I, where I scanned it. But you can also use it as an image. And so that one looks a little bit different. So for this, as I was trying to mention, I wanted to really track the journey in that game, but you can treat as an image. So if you do that, it doesn't have the lines anymore it just has the spots. So that is an option that you can do. If you're really, really interested in getting into the, the nitty gritty of how story map can be used but that's that's one fun example of what you can do. So are there any questions so far on on this or any of that weird stuff that I just got to show you. So how to what's learning careful when you start using it when you start doing the the image, like I was just showing you is that what you mean or just in general with story map.  I actually took the story map pretty quickly in general which is part of why I decided that I was going to experiment with the Zelda map to see what I could do with it. I think in 2017 was when I first started making story maps, and I made one about like my summer vacation. It was an easy thing to do and it, it made sense to me, and there's summer vacation map. And it's just my summer vacation all mapped out on these ghosts. You can click through things and see images videos, there's me being tired with my cat. But I just kind of did this on my own time. I didn't take a course on it. I didn't take any kind of workshop. I just kind of did it. So I think that that's something that can be said about this is that the one the documentation that they give you is very, very, very good on the website. So that helps a lot. And two, it's nice that you can just kind of play around with it. There, there's so much that you can do with it if you want to, but it's also got such an easy interface in terms of, you know, here's a headline here's a text box here's the URL here's credit here's caption you just put in the location. There's a whole lot that you actually have to do to make it look nice, which is great because a lot of people like they get frustrated if there's a higher learning curve. So if they can just do something that looks nice to begin with and they might be more encouraged to do something further with it. So yeah, for me it was relatively easy but and I had my my undergrads do projects in this and they did it within a week and had fantastic projects so I, I can vouch that that was at least nice I was very, very proud of them to do that in a week they did have a session with me on how to use it, but that was their, their assignment for that week and I had some really great ones turned in so I, I, I think it's a really great tool for for undergrad specialty, because it is. It's so easy to to use and it's intuitive. Hopefully that answered your question. Yeah yeah I did thank you. Do you feel like there are any limitations to the software compared to other mapping like story maps that you've used. Yes. Um, so one thing that I will note. If I can go back to the show up. There we go. Okay, so it's kind of hard to see on here, but there is a gradient here. You can kind of see there's a little bit of a blur. And some people don't like that. So, you know that that is a limitation sense that it's not that customizable in terms of the actual look of it. You just kind of get what you get the, you can change the maps, you can change the images but you can't really change how the, the tool itself functions. The only real customization you have in terms of that is being able to change the marker options. But that is actually way more complicated than one would expect it to be. So it's not something that I ever throw people into at the very beginning and you can do like background options you can like change the color behind the part on the right. You can put a background image but it's always going to have that gradient and so if you're not into that. And it can be a little bit complicated but I have also had some issues occasionally where the, the location doesn't show up properly. And I ended up having to just Google the last two launch to put that in and then it shows up. But that does happen, but it doesn't happen that often I've had it happen maybe twice in my time of making these so it's not too terrible. So, I want to also show you guys, how do we get this outside of where it is now. And that is the share button up here. So you can do a link. And that's how a lot of my students just turned it in was here's the link to my story map. But you can also get an embed code. And so if you are interested in putting that on a website, you would just grab that I frame embed code throw it in the HTML spot, and it would embed directly into your site. So there are multiple ways to show this. The big thing. It's so good it's so good I love it. But yeah so that's that's how you would do it is you, you have multiple ways. I didn't change details on with height, etc. But that's the basics of this and I think that that actually covers everything that I was thinking needed to be covered I have a nice video game history here. You can see the map here here, you want to look at that. Are there any questions in terms of like how it works how it functions anything that I was unclear about. I'm happy to answer them. Oh, one thing I do want to say is that once you have put things out, you can hit publish changes, and it will make sure that it saves. That's actually you've given somebody the link or embedded etc so that it actually updates the embed code version of in terms of there being a limit for the number of maps. Night lab is.  I'm blanking for you through Northwestern. And so everything that they really do is is free. And they have a sweet of storytelling. Tools that they have out. And so I've not run into a limit, but that's not to say that there isn't a limit. I just don't know what it is. I don't think it says on here that there would be one, but I think you could probably just keep going as long as you want. As long as you have a Google account anyway, that's the one thing is everything's tied to that one Google account so if you lose that then they're kind of gone. One reason like I would recommend for students to use like a personal Google account set up like a student Google account if they had that I know that the Google accounts here are going away for students so if they were tied to that that they will lose the content that they made. Are there any other questions. Well, I'm glad that you guys stop by. I appreciate you taking the time out. Yeah, it's really, really fun to make. As you can see I just kind of play around and make some for fun to use just to see what I can do. I like this one quite a bit because you can see that it is all the way on both coasts of the US there. It actually shows off the gradient pretty well, you can see what I mean in terms of it having that that gradient but yeah we have it starting over here and eventually going way way way on the West Coast. But I end up just making these sometimes for, for my own purposes for fun to see what I can do. It's recommended. I enjoy it. That's, I guess somewhat nerdy to be like yes I make story maps for fun, but that's the time to get to do what you got to do. Thank you. I'm glad. I think if anybody needs any assistance if you have any questions on this. My email is on the, I think it's on the ADHC website so adhc.lib.ua.edu. And I appreciate you taking out the time so thank you.


It was just the excitement really of getting on the pitch. I've had three or four sessions now, so I'm just really excited to get on the pitch and get back playing and get back to full fitness as soon as I can and hopefully be available to play soon. Mainly down to the manager. Obviously I had my time in Vancouver when I played under him and I just really enjoyed my time playing with him and he got the best out of me. I think you can see with the season he had a new castle already, what a great manager he is. Yeah, and really it was just the excitement to work with someone that you know knows you well, he knows me as a player and a person and I feel like he can get the best out of me. Obviously in England there's a lot of games on the TV so I obviously see a lot of the games every Friday, Saturday, in the morning. The games are on live so I followed it quite a bit. I've had friends that I've played over here and obviously we're speaking to the manager and they're telling me all about Western Sydney, the facilities, the stadium. It's really an exciting time to be at a club like this that I want to challenge for titles. I want to be in the Asian Champions League and challenge for titles. So it's exciting for me as well to be in a club that wants to challenge for them things and be at the top of the league. I think obviously looking at the club this year, bringing in the manager, he's brought in different players. I think for me personally it's short term goals and I think that will obviously be short term for the team as well. It's obviously the training day to day, the next game, the next game and just taking it as it comes and really striving to be the best in that short term period and then hopefully a longer term that obviously builds into something. Yeah, the boys have been great. Obviously I know Bernie from in Vancouver. I've played against Daza and Coxy obviously in England so I kind of, you know, you know people in football a little bit but yeah it's been easy, the boys have been great. It's a real good bunch of lads, coaching staff have been brilliant with me. So it's been really good. I'm really excited to just get involved now. Obviously I have a player who wants to give 100% every game, you know, and be a team player. I think I can bring a lot of creativity to the team. I love to get on the ball, I love to make things happen and hopefully with regular playing time I can hopefully score some goals which I love to do. I think every player loves to do that but, you know, I like getting in the box and scoring goals, giving the opportunity. You look at our defence at the moment, we've already let in any goals from open play so that's a real big positive and I think looking forward we can only build on that and I think we've got so much more to give and that's going to be exciting. I think we've got 20, how many games left in the season now so we've got a lot of opportunities to build on the foundations that we've set. Yeah, it's really exciting. Obviously the stadium, I've seen a lot of videos with the fans so I'm really excited to get out there and feel the atmosphere and play in front of everybody and I think this season can be a real successful season if everyone pulls together so I'm really looking forward to it.


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The opinions expire necessarily those of the speakers. Mr. Dulles, you are known to all Americans as the chief architect and representative of the bipartisan foreign policy, and as the man who's done most to shape the Japanese peace treaty. Now, my understanding is that most of your official work and connection with that treaty is over, and that your present activities are mainly concerned with acting as consultant to members of the Senate who want to ask questions about the treaty. Is that about right? Yeah, that's about right, Mr. Haslett. We worked for a year negotiating the treaty, then it was signed by 49 nations. Now we've had the hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We worked out a declaration that the treaty does not in any way give effect to the Yalta agreement, which some people fear it might be the case. The treaty has been recommended by a 13 to nothing vote by the Foreign Relations Committee now to wait Senate action. I'm available for consultation with any senators who want to talk about it. Well, with a 13 to nothing vote from the committee, it looks as if the prospects for endorsement for ratification are pretty bright. Well, I think so too. I like to think so. But we've had good Senate backing all the way through because from the very beginning, I felt that the senators should be brought in on the consultation with this, and we've had consultation from the beginning. It isn't a case of just bringing them in at the end. Mr. Dulles, you have a splendid reputation for objectivity among most Americans, and I'm sure that our audience tonight would like your views on the general world situation. Now, sir, in your opinion, are we stronger this year as against Russia than we were last year? I think probably not. It's pretty hard to judge those things, but my estimate would be that the tide is still running against us. Everywhere I look around the world, the question is, what maybe we're going to lose next, you know, and we seem to be on the defensive and that they're on the offensive. The question is, what are we going to lose each year more than what are we going to gain? You can look around the whole circle of the world, and you find one spot after another after another after another, where the question is, are we going to lose this bit of the free world? Is it going to be Iran, or is it going to be Egypt, or is it going to be Indochina, or is it going to be Korea, or what's it going to be? Yes, sir. Now, our people have been in this position for so long, and it seems so hopeless, and there's been so much negativism. Now, sir, do you see any way by which we can reverse this process so that we can gain hope again in America? Absolutely and convinced that we can do it. And how can we do it, sir? Well, we've been entirely negative in our approach. We've lost a good old-fashioned American dynamism. When we were a little nation and just were getting started, we stood for something so vital and so dramatic and exciting in the world that everybody, everywhere wanted to follow our example. We were the dynamic force in the world. And then the despots were all wondering what they were going to lose next, and then you had a terrific despotism, again led by Russian leader. It's useful to remember, Tsar Alexander was the great, most powerful potentate in the world, and his power stretched all around the world, down into Mexico, into South America. And what happened then? The question was what they were going to lose, and they finally were driven back, back and back, and we can recapture that American spirit. Well, Mr. Dulles, what specifically would you recommend doing, let's say in China, take a specific example? What do you think we ought to do concretely now in regard to China? The first thing is to make clear, as I said, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that we have a positive policy that we do not accept as permanent this commonization of the Chinese mainland. Good many people out there wonder about that. They're not quite convinced as to what our real intentions are. Many people who would be with us are lying low because they don't really trust our intentions adequately. We must clear up that doubt and make clear what our intentions are, then opportunity after opportunity will be created, in my opinion. By such actions as sending help to the guerrilla forces on the mainland and giving further help to Chiang Kai-shek? I believe that we should give help and comfort to people anywhere, particularly in China, I don't say particularly in China, you're asking me about China, who are resistant to communism. I don't think we want to have a war because a war is a thing upon which communism thrives and breeds. But we certainly can give the thing which is needed most of all is moral aid and comfort. You talk to these people, I've talked to some of them, you take the nationalists on the Formosa. The thing they need most is moral support, more even than economic aid or even in material aid. We are giving a considerable amount of material and economic, military and economic aid there. The thing that's lacking is the quality I would try to bring in, which is more of a hopeful purposeful spirit of dynamism. They want to be sure we're on their side. They want to be sure we're on their side and they want the moral comfort that comes with that. I believe it was Tom Payne who once contributed the statement that the cause of America is the cause of mankind. You think it might be hopeful if we would start with a declaration that we Americans are going to aid the cause of freedom throughout the world again? I think it's well time that we should make that clear again. As long as we stood for that in the world, we were on the offensive, the despotron, the defensive, we were secure. During that 100 years, there was no peril to this country. We've only begun to have our peril during the last 50 years when we've become rich and strong and fat and more interested in keeping the things we had than in giving other people freedom. That's the danger point for us. Well, Mr. Delos, I'd like to get back to some specific questions on this Japanese peace treaty. Now, one thing that's been, one question that's been raised is this. It's been feared that the Japanese will very much need trade with China and because of this need for trade that they'll be tempted to recognize and deal with the Chinese communists. Do you have any comment to make on that? Yes, you've got 85 million people almost on Japan, pretty barren islands. They can't grow their own food or their own material for clothing or anything of that sort. They've got to live some way. Now, there are plenty of opportunities for them to live and to live well in trade with Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. They don't have to trade with China. They have not traded with China for the last five years to mount anything, and they've improved their economic condition tremendously. Now, if the free world is irresponsible and cuts Japan out from all of their markets, then the Japanese will be faced with a hard choice. They'll either have to play along with communism or starve to death. They don't like communism. They hate Russia. They don't want to do it. And they will not do it unless I think irresponsible economic policies by the free nations virtually kicked them into the arms of the communists. Mr. Dulles, you, once again, coming back to your reputation for objectivity, you've had perhaps the best chance to study the results that we have obtained in Japan through five years of occupation policy. Specifically, you studied carefully the record of General MacArthur. Now, would you like to give our audience your appraisal of General MacArthur's work in the Orient? Yes, I think that he did a perfectly amazing job in Japan. There's never in history been an occupation which has been as fruitful as that was. He combined magnanimity with justice. He gained the respect of the people and he brought the Japanese people along very far, I think, on the road of being genuine, self-governing people. He introduced many reforms. He talked about the land reforms of the communists, the land reforms that MacArthur put through in Japan were infinitely superior to anything that's been done in the communist countries. And a good bill of rights and labor unions began to take hold. It was an amazing job. And he inspired this peace treaty. We never would have had this peace treaty that you talk about if General MacArthur, when I was over there, with the Secretary of Defense Johnson, who was then Secretary of Defense and General Bradley in June 1950, it was a talks that we had there with General MacArthur and MacArthur's conviction that the occupation had come to its normal end and we should give the Japanese back their freedom independence. That is the thing that inspired this peace treaty. Speaking of bipartisanship against you, you think that as a nation we might very well take bipartisan pride in what we did in Japan during those five years. It's a magnificent record that we can be proud of. Mr. Dulles, because we own this program here so much that's not hopeful, I would like for us to come back again to this point. Do you expect that we Americans can do something hopeful? And do you think that we will do something hopeful for the world in the way of enunciating a new policy? I'm absolutely convinced, Mr. Hewitt, that we can't. We've been looking at this whole world picture through the wrong end of the telescope. We just see our own troubles, our own weaknesses, and the other fellow looks strong and solid and invulnerable. But if we turn the telescope around and look at it the right way, we would see the amazing resources that we have, the hope that we can inspire in people. We would see the oppression of the despotism there, in fact, even within Russia there are 15 million people in captive prison camps. They're only ruled by terrorism. Why that situation ought to be a pushover. It would have been a pushover in the old days. Well, Mr. Dulles, I'm sure that our audience very much appreciates this hopeful message of yours. Thank you, sir, for being with us. The editorial board for this edition of the Launcine Chronoscope was Mr. William Bradford Hewitt and Mr. Henry Haslett. 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Hey curlfriends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today. And today, we're gonna be trying a brand new invention that I bought because of TikTok. I'm telling y'all, if you don't wanna spend any money, don't go on TikTok and don't follow me. But the invention that I got is called Baby Hair Edge Pro. First of all, I can say that I am no pro when it comes to my edges or my baby hairs. I'm still learning. But we're gonna try it today and see how it goes. This is gonna be a brand new, first time unboxing situation, but this is the invention. It's a baby hair edge brush connected to the gel. This is actually freaking genius. So you literally just squeeze the gel, it comes out of the brush and you could do your edges. Somebody was thinking, this is next level, especially for travel. You had to bring a big old thing of gel or your edge control and the edge control brush. And now it's just all in one little thing, compact, travel size, fly friendly. You can stick it in your purse like genius. So I got the Baby Hair Edge Pro kit. This was $14.99 and that came with the actual invention with the gel. It came with a gel refill and the tools to refill it. To refill it. Now I don't even know what gel this is. I don't know if this is their own gel that they made. I don't know if this is Eco Styler. It could be Wetline. I really don't know. I went to their website and it didn't say because it's a very, very brand new small business. Like they are just starting. The website is very just like, do you want this or do you want that? And that's kind of the entire website. So I can tell everything's still very green. Somebody just had a great idea.  So let's actually try it today and see how well it works. I mean, I've watched the videos so I know it works, but let's see if I can do it. That's the real question. So I'm gonna quickly double check real quick the ingredients on this gel. I don't see any silicone or sulfate or parabens. Just normal gel-like ingredients. But let's read the instructions. Here are the instructions. Like I said, it's kind of hard to read even without the bright lights. It's definitely a very brand new company. I could see their packaging flourishing in time, but for now this sticker will do. To use, pull the color tab up halfway to open. Turn to firmly hold in place. Squeeze the desired gel amount through the bristles. Apply and style baby hair edges. Turn back position down to close. Do not unscrew the brush from the tube. This may cause damage and device malfunction. Okay, good to know. I definitely would have taken that off to refill. But when it does come to refill, you're supposed to put this tube in the top here, let it go down, take the syringe and then refill it. So the cool thing is, even though they did give me more gel, I could put whatever gel I want in here. Excited and kind of nervous. Pulling this up. Oh God, oh God, okay. Everything's okay. The whole thing can come out. It just said halfway. I'm just gonna start it off bad. Pull it halfway, then turn to firmly hold in place. I don't see how I'm supposed to turn it. It doesn't turn. Let me go back to TikTok. Pulls it up and twist it. How did she? I don't know how she twisted it, but I'm just gonna take it out and put it back in. So I guess you want it to look like that. Now I'm gonna squeeze it. Oh, here comes the gel. All right, wow, that's pretty cool. It only comes to the bottom of the brush, but let's try it. Once again, I am not the greatest edge person. They really need to reach out to Jasmine Brown, Joyja, Chelly's Curls. Like they are the baby hair masters, but I'm gonna do what I can. Okay, that's pretty cool. It's not a very sticky gel. I thought it'd be like a little bit tackier like edge control is, but it's a very watery gel. I hope it stays. And I could use the other side, the comb, if I wanted to be a little more meticulous. I feel like this isn't gonna hold. There's some edges there. Let's do a little swoop the dupe in the front. Squeeze it, I'm gonna just kind of spread it. Yeah, I'm really curious if they created their own gel or if they just put someone else's gel in here. Comment below your favorite gel to use for your edges. I might refill it with something else next time. But the invention, the invention is genius. That's for sure. Now, I do want to mention that when I ordered this, I originally thought I got scammed because it took so long to get here. Mind you, I did forget that I sent it to my PO box and not my house, but it did take a very long time. But I will give them benefit of the doubt. They're a brand new company. I felt like they're still figuring things out. I also saw that Khloe Kardashian posted this in her story and says she uses it on her kid. So, it's also very possible that that blew up their company. Like they probably got a surplus of orders that they didn't know how to handle and shipping just got backed up with production. That's just the Kardashian way. They can just touch something and turn it into gold. So if that did happen, you know, happy for them. I'm just really surprised at how watery this gel is. I really thought it'd be like stickier and thicker. I don't know if it's gonna stay. All right, so there we go. There are the edges. I don't really do them that often when my hair is like down, but as Chely's curl said, if you get a gust of wind, you gotta be ready. And then I'm gonna, this does not turn. And I work out, guys, I work out. There's no way this twists. So overall, I do think that this idea is genius. I would definitely keep this on me when I'm traveling. I can keep it in my purse. It's just a really, really smart and convenient invention. I'm not sure how I feel about the actual gel. I mean, if it dries nicely then maybe, but it just, it's so watery. I feel like there's no hold and you definitely need hold with your edges. But yeah, I'm intrigued. So if you're interested in getting a Baby Hair Edge Pro, I will link them in the description box. They're a brand new, small business, black-owned, I guess by Trinity Cosmetics. Trinity with three T's. Like I mentioned, the website is very simple. You just go there to purchase what you want. You can get the kit. It comes in either pink or black. And you also can get a little refill for $2. So that's pretty darn affordable. I do wanna mention, it does feel like it's drying with some firmness. I don't know, I might be refilling my own gel. Okay, wait, I'm back. My curl's already popping up. This gel has no hold. It's very watery. So I can confirm that it's not Eco Styler or wet line. Probably gonna put my own gel in here. So the gels, I know for me, but the invention is a 10. So still gets you one, but you might wanna refill it. If you enjoyed this video, make sure to give me a thumbs up and subscribe. I post new videos every week. I also wanna continue to try all the random new TikTok invention kind of things and try them out on my channel. So does any other TikTok or Instagram hacks or inventions you want me to try tag me or DM me or leave it down below in the comments so I can check it out and possibly review it on my channel.  Make sure to also follow me on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. The holidays are coming.  I am gonna be doing a majority of these giveaways on Instagram, so make sure you follow me so you don't miss out. I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching. Bianca Renee, today.


What's going on everybody a little late-night action just past midnight here May 8th now May 9th. Thanks everybody for getting in transcendent baseball Hall of Fame edition break number four random hit. So as you can see on the top screen there Actually make this a little bigger On this side, I'll make it a little bigger over here. I'll be opening the case right there Bring in all the hits over here all the hits that will be shown off. That's Joe's not mine Do not support the Dodgers Build some forts with these I did put it in the description, but no longer offering break credit for this So we will be shipping it to the winner, but I'm sure you can find a buyer pretty easily for this These are going to be shown at the very end. Let me actually get these out of the way Should be on camera, right? Yeah Those are going to sit right there kind of blends in but as you can see I'm the only one in the shop Nothing going on. All right, so I believe these are the autographs and looks like we got case 29 of 50 This is going to be the base set Believe the bronze is the base set this year They switched it up on us 29 of 50 and the silver is now sketch reproduction Nothing else. I'm gonna make that a little smaller.  Might need to get some more top loaders after but All right, so the smaller one the gold this is the autos right Joe just want to confirm before I rip it open Okay, gold is ours And Joe be helping me. Thanks Joe typing in the autos And as you can see this is live camera right there Good luck everybody All right going from a's to y's First one up. We have number to 25 Hank Aaron 20 to 25 Hank Aaron And let me know if I'm going too fast for you Joe or too slow Roberto Alomar four out of 25 2011 Hall of Famer We got numbered four five Jeff Bagwell 2017 Hall of Fame I didn't even see that I guess that's fine, right? Yeah Stop moving camera four or five Jeff Bagwell Another Jeff Bagwell. This one is 10 of 25 Second Jeff Bagwell. This one's 10 of 25 the first one four or five We got the blue emu guy Johnny bench 13 of 25 Is that jersey numbered what what's jersey number Johnny bench? I forget Johnny bench 13 of 25 Next we got a Wade Boggs one of five Teddy's guy one of five For Bogsy Five of 25 Wade Boggs. So second Wade Boggs five 25 this one Still red socks uniform though Next rod Karoo 16 of 25 16 of 25 rod Karoo We have Andre Dawson the hawk one of 25 little eBay 101 One of 25 the hawk one of the coolest autos I would say next Carlton Fisk another great auto 11 of 25. You'll notice a theme here all Hall of Famers plus uh all great penmanship the uh The old timers know how to do it Carlton Fisk has a pretty slick auto Bob Gibson 23 of 25 Bob Gibson st. Louis Cardinals 23 of 25 auto Tom Glavin two of five auto Linda Braves 2014 Hall of Famer Two of five Tom Glavin. No one of ones yet. I should expect two of these whoo Ken Griffey jr. One of one auto. Whoo Platinum parallel one of one ken griffey jr That is gonna be a nice hit for somebody in this break And there's ken griffey jr. 15 of 25. Wow two griffys Nice Vladimir Guerrero 24 25 Well, Vladdy action 24 of 25 of course Not junior senior Although they don't put senior on his cards Just Vladimir Guerrero the og One of 25 man of steel Ricky Henderson One of 25 Ricky Henderson Reggie Jackson mr. October 9 of 25 Reggie Jackson 9 of 25 auto 101 Randy Johnson nice One of one imagine if you had a mariners Team break in this get the griffey 101 and the randy johnson 101 One of one randy johnson 16 of 25 chibber jones 16 of 25 chibber jones auto al k-line 14 of 25 Al k-line auto 14 of 25 rest in peace mr. Tiger sandy cofax 22 of 25 Um, joe's got the schedule but he's typing in the hits. There you go Optic blasters next joe p. You missed out 22 of 25 sandy cofax Barry larkin 13 of 25 even signed a little bit on the gold label here 13 of 25 Barry larkin Juan Marischal 2 of 25 1983 Hall of Famer Juan Marischal 2 of 25 that was the last one next Is Juan Marischal 5 of 5? So this this is second Juan Marischal this one's 5 of 5 the first one was 2 of 25 And these will all be blue taped and top loaded of course There's Mike Messina 8 of 25 orials Must have been pictured Either before they retired the jersey or on Jackie Robinson day wearing number 42 Unless he was like one of those players that his grandfather didn't I don't know All right, Cal Ripken jr. 18 of 25 Cal Ripken mr. Ironman Mariano Rivera 7 of 25 Great autograph there 7 25 mariano Rivera Paul molitor 25 of 25 paul molitor auto 2004 Hall of Famer Paul molitor 3 of 25 So you got the 25 25 paul molitor and now the 3 of 25 paul molitor This is a nice one 3 of 5 Nolan Ryan nice 3 of 5 Nolan Ryan auto That is pretty sweet Another Nolan Ryan 12 of 25 Nolan Ryan nice Ryan Sandberg ryan out 19 to 25 Nice historic cub right here ryan out 25 to 25 ryan sandberg autograph another cub another ryan out So you had the 13 to 20 sorry the 19 to 25 ryan sandberg And the 25 to 25 ryan sandberg We have a ozzy smith 13 to 25 the wizard Got a great out of there Probably not jumpy. I don't know if we have any other breaks to fill 20 25 john smoltz braves Of course 20 25 Big hurt frank thomas 6 of 25 few more to go 6 of 25 frank thomas next looks like 4 more to go Jim tome 3 of 5 Nice indians edition of jim tome 3 of 5 jim tome next we have a little yazz 22 out of 25 cario stremsky 22 of 25 yazz 2 more Robin yout the kid 2 of 5 Green and we have the final one Another yout 16 of 25 on this one Rock and robin All right, and now for uh for the rest of the stuff The stuff we don't know what's going to be in there But nice a nice set of autos there one on griffy one on ryan johnson definitely uh A couple of the bigger names clear uh Clear my desk here a little bit All right, you can see i'm going to carry it from here Like the hottest pizza in the world carrying it All right So this and now i can make this smaller This will be the cut of course this will be the graded card and then Superfractor cofax and a sketch i don't know which order So i'm going to go Right middle left graded card cut Good luck Superfractor It is one marishaw one-on-one superfractor auto Very nice Love the super fractors, of course one-on-one Marishaw We'll go middle This looks like to be the cofax Nice one-on-one cofax classic tops design. What is that? 1965 tops one-on-one auto sandy cofax I actually might like cofaxes although they're all good, but cofax has a sweet auto compared to A lot of newer players Of course one-on-one cofax and then the sketch Will be willy mccovey One-on-one sketch by uh by the artist there hall of fame 1986 willy mccovey graded buyback Wow 1954 tops ted williams i believe we hit this one and maybe our first case this one's a psa very good three 1954 tops Ted williams that's just awesome right there on the back All right, and the cut autograph good luck. I'm a little nervous here We're gonna kind of slow roll up one-on-one, of course It is early win hall of fame 1972 early win Old cleveland indian Wow nice early win One-on-one cut auto hall of fame 1972 101 cut So there you go We're gonna head right into the randomizer won't pause the video And we'll see who gets what good luck So give me a minute here to set it up. Let's take the uh the nick cam off So here's all the customer names Ryan shackleton last spot mojo there You you need me to pause the video joe? I don't need to double check the hits. I think I mean you got it, right? Although this might bother me. Sorry 40 autos it looks like you got it. I don't see any duplicates You know obviously other than the Than the ones that have to be You got the cofax 1965 you got the sketch the superfactor The the bass set yeah You got a job believing you i'm gonna just copy and paste it here Let me actually uh take these names again 48 names 48 list of customers All right, here we go Six times one and a five good luck Randomize the list of names the list of hits place them right here after six times one two three four five six and final six And now for the list of hits six times one Something's wrong 49 Oh, maybe this is it That can into two lines How about now damn quote six times one two three four five six and final time The bob gibson down to the jeff bagwell Six times here you go I know right Uh, bj with the bob gibson adam k with the three of five null and ryan ryan shackleton with the rod caroo 16 to 25 James with the 1954 superfactor won marishaw adam with the johnny bench Brendan with the 101 sandy cofax chad with the 101 sketch card Cain with the paul molleter randy with the 13 to 25 barry larkin jeff peace you got the early win 101 cut auto trevor with the four of five uh jeff bagwell joseph l ran wort with the yazz 22 of 25 erin with the ozzie smith 13 to 25 bj 105 wade boggs 12 of 25 null and ryan and 18 of 25 cal ripkin jr Chad with the 25 25 ryan sandberg bj with the robin yacht 16 to 25 cj with the vlad grarrow 24 of 25 travis with the sandy cofax 22 of 25 josh melton with the ken griffy jr 101 auto dustin with the 101 sketch Sorry, not the 101 sketch the uh reproduction sketch of 50 cards DJ with the andre dawson to 25 trevor with the vip invite and the two of 25 won marishaw uh jeff peace with the ken griffy jr number to 25 ryan with the reggie jackson number to 25 bj jordan with the out of 25 al kayline travis with the john smoltz to 25 daniel smith with the paul molleter number 25 michael wheeler with the 505 won marishaw dustin with the robin yacht 205 cj with the chipper jones to 25 bj with the bass set number to 50 chris roe with the roberto alamar number to 25 daniel smith with the jim tome number to five dane with the fisk to 25 mike mccarthy with the mike musina to 25 bj with the to 25 frank thomas came with the 25 wade boggs dustin with the mariano revera uh to 25 alexander w with the ted williams psa3 cj with the hank erin auto to 25 trevor with the ricky henderson to 25 and the ryan sandberg to 25 ryan shackleton with the uh 101 randy johnson auto trevor with the 205 trevor uh tom glavin 205 trevor with that one and james with the jeff bagwell to 25 so there you go appreciate it thanks everybody for getting in that was top's transcendent baseball random hip rake four