It is my privilege to introduce DAV National Commander Delphine Metcalf Foster. Now let me tell you why you're applauding her. She's a Vallejo California native. Commander Metcalf Foster followed in the footsteps of her father, a Buffalo soldier, by pursuing a career in the United States Army. Her military career included service with the U.S. Army Reserves with the 689th quartermaster unit, the 6253rd hospital unit, the 6211th transportation unit at Letterman Army Medical Center. She retired a first sergeant in 1996 after 21 years of service. She was injured in January 1991 while serving in Saudi Arabia in support of Operation Desert Shield Desert Storm and was medically evacuated to Germany for care and treatment. Metcalf Foster has been active with the DAV, Department of California, becoming their first woman commander in the state. She also completed a four-year appointment as a member of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee on Women Veterans in 2015. She was elected National Commander of the more than one million member DAV at our 2017 National Convention in New Orleans. Commander Metcalf Foster is the first female to assume the organization's highest post. She was the first woman elected to lead one of the country's major veteran service organization. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in giving a warm welcome for your National Commander, Delphine Metcalf Foster. Thank you. Thank you so very, very much. But as most of you know, I start off because I like to know who's in the house. Who am I talking to or talking with? First of all, I want to know, is there any Navy in the house? Any Coast Guard in the house? Any Air Force in the house? Any Marines in the house? The tree that holds up all the branches is any Army in this house? Thank you so very much. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for that warm welcome. It is an honor to be here with you all this morning for the State Commander's Agenda Association meeting. I want to thank Danny, Rita, for all the great work CNA does to ensure their success of our mission on the state level and for your leadership in making this event possible. It seems to get better every year, and the hard work that goes into the conference pays dividends in terms of what we're able to achieve here at the committees and across the country. At DAV, we talk a lot about keeping the promise to our nation's veterans. This week, throughout the year, we will be addressing some official topics. At the very top of the list is safeguarding and improving the VA so that we can ensure all veterans today and tomorrow have a system accountable to them for the injuries and illness sustained in service to their nation, and that requires adequate funding. Right now, legislation to reform VA healthcare and improve access to care for millions of disabled veterans remains at a discussion phase in Congress when veterans require action. Thank you. As you will hear about more than more this week, VA began the current physical year 2018 with less funding than what is needed to maintain current services and addresses a number of unfunded congressional mandates. Even worse, next year advanced appropriations remain hopefully inadequate. This week, we will provide update budget information with a call to action to ensure VA receives sufficient funds to meet the needs of ill and injured veterans, their families, and survivors. This is such an important issue, and while I work here will set a strong platform, we must continue to advocate when we return home to our chapters. Just two months into 2018, we have already seen our government shutdown, largely because the partisan disagreements, by the way, we should be proud of that, based largely on our efforts to ensure advancement, funding for the VA, most VA employees and services were exempt during those shutdowns. But the instability and rancor that seems to polarize every issue is a serious threat to the future of veterans care and benefits. That's why we all are here gathered here today. This week is our opportunity to educate Congress and administration on a smart approach to funding a strong VA that those of us in this room rely on. We also must advocate for our brothers and sisters on issues of utmost importance, such as improving services for women veterans and support for all our caregivers. Last year we introduced the unsung heroes initiative, which brings attention to the inequality impacting our most severely disabled veterans. As most of you know, caregivers of veterans injured after September 1, 2001 are ineligible for services and resources that remain unavailable to veterans who were injured prior to that date. Most importantly, the unsung heroes initiative addresses how to right this long overdue wrong. Just a few months ago, we delivered a petition to Congress signed by more than 182,000 passionate citizens urging passage of a bill to expand benefits to caregivers of severely disabled veterans of all generations. It is unthinkable that an arbitrary date defines whose services is more deserving of life-changing benefits in the eyes of the law. A bill that not only funds VA, but expands caregiver benefits in the Senate and our support of this important legislation cannot be overstated. We have made great strides in this struggle for party and service, but the flight continues for too many, including many men and women in this room. The battle is so essential and one that I can understand quite well. While everyone here knows that I am a proud Army veteran, you may not know that I carry the important role of a caregiver for many years as well. It was this event in 2000 where I met my dear husband Jimmy, a fellow veteran. We had a wonderful life and made it through some tough times until Jimmy became sick, facing Alzheimer's and dementia. Suddenly, I was thrust into the role of caregiver. I did my absolute best with the limited resources we had. I worked tirelessly to bring as much money home as I could while his needs continued to grow expensive. I wanted to keep Jimmy home, but as his illness progressed and I grew older, that was no longer possible. It broke my heart to move him into a long-care setting at our VA Medical Center. Despite the good care he received there, I wanted to continue doing what I could to make his life more meaningful. I visit as much as possible, I script and I save to have him taken out of the hospital daily, and he was not confined in a chair staring and watching a TV all day. But to me, it still was not enough. I fully believe our post-9-11 veterans need to have earned access to caregivers' benefits. But I can't begin to tell you how valuable that same support would have been for my husband and me. Jimmy could have spent the rest of his life where he belonged at home with me. Not only it had been less expensive for taxpayers to keep him at home, but it would also have been what he wanted. I know my story is not unique. There are too many veterans and caregivers being left behind. Because of an arbitrary date on a calendar, we must fight to extend these essential benefits so other veterans and caregivers do not have to suffer the way Jimmy did, and the way too many other veterans and caregivers have. At this time, I'd like to ask the unsung heroes in this audience, the caregivers, who work tirelessly to care for the veterans to please stand and be recognized. Thank you for being here, and thank you for all for the things you do every day. These selfless individuals who we just recognized, the veterans that they support, along with our brothers and sisters in arms who cannot be here but want their voice heard. They are why we're gathered here at the nation's capital. As you fail the halls of Congress on Tuesday, Maureen, and meet with your representatives and senators throughout the week, your message must be clear. We are veterans. We take care of our veterans. We expect our government to do the same for those who have sacrificed and for the families and survivors. No matter the era or branch we served in, man or woman, young or old, regardless of the color of your skin, we have sacrificed for this nation. We have upheld our end of the contract. And now, Congress has to ensure they stay true to it as well. Veterans issues should never be a partisan, and we expect our elected officials to work together in the best interest of all those who raised their right hand and wrote that blank check to include up to their lives for this country. Now, I'd like to take some time to recognize some important people in the audience today.  As well as their families, chapter, department national and transitional service officers, they are standing ready to ensure every veteran has access to free professional representation. DAV currently represents more than 250,000 claimants, and our service officers are the ones that work diligently day in and day out to make this possible. Service officers, please stand if able to be recognized. The men and women accredited or certified by DAV as service officers over 4,400 strong and the face of DAV are often the first impression a veteran has of our organization. Thank you for all your dedication to our fellow veterans. While claims and assistance may be the DAV quarter stone of service, we have been active as every serving veterans through all avenues. Last year, we co-hosted more than 140 transitional and viral career fairs across the country with more than 43,000 attendees, and this year we are sponsoring 150. Last year, our volunteer drivers traveled nearly 18.5 million miles, providing nearly 650,000 rides to ensure veterans could attend their critical VA appointments, saving the taxpayers $36 million. We are also supporting our brothers and sisters in great need that have impacted in natural disasters like the hurricanes in Texas and Puerto Rico and the fires in California and throughout the western part of the country. We provided nearly $1 million to support just last year, individual vouchers to help veterans and their families secure lodging, food, and other necessities. We offer all those services and resources to veterans at no cost in order to help them claim their own personal victories. Another group of people I would like to take a moment to recognize are our headquarters teams at Cold Springs and Washington. They are constantly working to improve the programs and services we offer, and to ensure DAV is doing everything possible to provide victories to veterans each and every day. Mark Burgess, Barry Jeszynowski, Gary Augustine, and Randy Reese. You have assembled a lead, phenomenal leaders, and a team of professionals within the veterans advocacy arena. And the work you do is second to none. Let's give them a hand. As veterans and members, we sincerely appreciate all the work these teams do in order to further DAV mission. Thank you. I'd also like to thank our partners with DAV Auxiliary. DAV has no better friend or closer allies than the Auxiliary. Under the capable leadership of Auxiliary National Commander Craig Johnikin and National Agitant Pat Kemper, your support is invaluable. And we are blessed. And we are blessed to have such a devoted partner. I want to thank Craig for his dedication to continuing the fight for caregivers during his historic team and his helm at the Auxiliary. We cannot do this without his steadfast leadership on this issue. For nearly a century, DAV has stood as a champion of veteran causes. I can assure you this year and in the years ahead, we will face many new and recurring trials, including challenges to our compensation and healthcare programs, your attention to these issues, your support to our advocacy campaigns, and your voices amplify DAV's message have never been more important than they are now. We need you to be DAV's ambassadors. Take what you've learned and your experience here this week home with you. Spread the message. Invite your fellow veterans to join us by our side. It is through our ranks nationwide that we move closer to achieving our goals. Whether ascending emails to lawmakers through DAV CAN, the Commander Action Network, or sharing DAV advocacy on social media, your voice matters, but it must be heard. Never forget the men and women we're fighting for, the veterans here in this room. The veterans in long-term care and nursing facilities. The veterans coming home each and every day making a different transitioning back to civilian life. And our brothers and sisters currently serving overseas in arms way. Let these men and women guide your daily efforts. Now, before I conclude my remarks, there's one group of people here I'd like to recognize. There are a number of men and women in the audience and throughout the country who never enjoyed the support many of our active duty service members now receive. For those who have served in Vietnam and during that time period, your service may not have been recognized. And in too many cases, you have been treated unfairly, even cruel when you return home. The United States Veteran War Commentation was founded by the government to help heal those wounds with a simple gesture, a genuine thank you for serving that you may have never received. The Vietnam War Commemoration has partners around the country whose goal is to reach each and every Vietnam-era veteran or their survivors to provide them a long overdue gesture of gratitude. DAV's National Office is a commemorative partner and I know many of the chapters there as well. And today we have a staff from the Vietnam War Commemorative here to present veterans with a small token of thanks for your service. Among the staff here is a Vietnam War Director, retired U.S. Army Major General James T. Jackson. Sir, would you please stand and be recognized? General Jackson, it is so wonderful to have you here and your team, but it is even more meaningful having you here to recognize a group of people that served, sacrificed, and too often suffered as a result. I'd like to ask those veterans who served stateside or overseas between November 1st, 1955 and May 15th, 1975 to please stand, if able, and be recognized. Thank you all for your service and welcome home. Right outside these doors as you exit after adjournment of the CNA Business Section, staff from the Vietnam War Commemoration are waiting to present you with your pin in a long overdue recognition. As we honor those veterans half a century after they serve, we are reminded that the mission of service is never complete. And we owe our fellow injured and ill veterans the best DAV has to offer.  May God bless DAV and may God continue to bless the United States of America and the men and women who continue to stand and watch to defend our company. Thank you and keep up the good work.


Hello and welcome to Start It Up. Today we'll tell you how to start a music tutoring business. Universally loved music may be something that everyone would have come across at some point in their lives. But teaching people may not be the easiest string to master. Only if you believe you know enough about the intricacies of the art form and are capable of articulating that in the right way then you can think about starting a music tutoring business. Although not necessary it is advisable that one with a graduate or post-graduate degree or diploma in music should opt for music tutoring business. If you are someone with recognized music skills and have a passion for teaching others this might just be the business for you. Firstly you will need to narrow down on what kind of tutorial you would like to give. Music tutorials generally include vocal classes for classical or western vocals and for different music instruments. You will have to decide on your music course depending on your specialties. Second you need to identify your target demographic. Depending on your skills you will need to decide if you would be comfortable taking beginners or advanced classes. Once you are done with the first two you will need to decide on your fees. Fees for classes depends on certain factors such as if you would be taking vocal classes or instrumentals. It would also depend on if you are targeting beginners or students with experience. Fees would also depend whether you would want to teach your students in a group or alone. Apart from the fact that whether you are a recognized figure or are just starting out. For starting a music tutorial business you don't need massive capital. You will just need related music instruments to start your classes. You can go about teaching music in two ways. You may begin your personal classes at your home or you can associate yourself with music learning institutions such as Ravindra Bharti University and Dandharva Mahavidyale. If you are looking to start your music tutorial business you will majorly need to invest in marketing your classes via social media and increase your website visibility. It may cost you up to Rs. 5000 to register and get your website developed. Costs might increase if you want a feature rich website. Apart from this you might also need to invest about Rs. 1000 per month for marketing your classes via posters and pamphlets. You can also list your services at platforms such as UrbanPro to increase your visibility. Another great way of gaining exposure is uploading your videos on platforms such as YouTube and Instagram. The latter's IGTV feature is something that a lot of artists have now started using and you can pay about Rs. 2000 to 3000 per month initially to promote on these platforms. While a simple camera and tripod setup is a great idea to begin with the videos, you may look to hire a freelance videographer who would take upwards of Rs. 4000 per video. YouTube popularity would eventually give you a separate source of revenue as well. Revenue depends majorly on the kind of classes you would like to provide and your target students. Fees for vocal classes generally range between Rs. 500 to Rs. 1500 for 8 classes per month. However, the fees are generally higher between Rs. 1000 to 2000 for instrumental classes due to increased complexity. Fees for teaching students alone would also be higher compared to group tutorials. While solo classes can cost up to Rs. 1500 per class, group classes range in between Rs. 500 and 1000 per month. However, the disadvantage is that while many students are up for group classes, it is difficult to find people who would like to take solo classes. Coming back to YouTube monetization, once you are popular enough, the website allows you to earn an average of $3 to $5 per thousand views. Well, hope you like the idea and for more such ideas, log on to www.entrepreneur.com. Also, if you would want to boost your existing business, look up www.entrepreneurplus.it.


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Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing great and for anyone new to the channel, my name is Lee, also known as Osiris. In today's episode, we're continuing on with our VGC Series 8 content and today playing a little bit of a team that took a lot of inspiration from a match they had in my Players Cup 4 qualifiers over the weekend. Now, I played a Whimsicott with Switcheroo.  And I was just like left applause in it really. So I was like, I would like to feature something like this on the channel. So I've put this team together today. Incineroar, as we've seen from the usage stats through the obviously the Players Cup qualifier was combined with the Japanese, the Japan National Championship qualifier as well. So there was a lot of teams in there, but one of the Pokémon that took a lot of use through that tournament was a weakness policy. Incineroar kind of spiked in usage. So I thought let's give it a try today. It fits in nicely with the Colorex as well. Ice rider Colorex. So we've got double trick room on the team and we've got some faster modes as well with the Reggie Alecki. Predominantly, they're supported by the Grim Snarl. Grim Snarl screen support as always. But I feel like the team's pretty nice rounded and it fits in that little combination that I wanted to kind of feature which I'm hoping is going to be on the thumbnail for today's video. But there will be a poker face down in the description as there always is and we'll throw up the rental at the end of the episode. So I hope you enjoyed today's episode. Leave your comments down below and I'll afford to read through them. Without further ado, friends, let's get into our first match of today. So first up today, we have a team of Shadow Rider Colorex, Oshifu, Whimsicut, Cinderace, Tapu Lele and Glastria. So all the big horses here obviously going to be a bit difficult because the Shadow Rider Colorex makes things a bit difficult for us in regards to getting our trick room set up, although we do have probably one of the better trick room setters in the format. We've got to watch out though for something like Whimsicut that can carry taunt. So if we want to go down a trick room route, we're probably better off going like Porygon 2 Incinero. And then from there, we're kind of alright. We've got to watch out for the Glastria though of course because the Glastria can cause us all sorts of problems in this match. Screen support could be nice as well, especially from Grimsnall can help us with the Oshifu. Doesn't have fake out supports and not as useful in the sense that we can't intimidate things like Cinderace, which would be very useful. I think we'll go Incinero P2. We kind of tempted just to go Colorex and Tapu Vini, honestly, because the Tapu Vini obviously going to be nice to kind of come in and sponge up some hits and things like that. Like it normally does. Got a calm mind there. Change the psychic terrain if we do see it present. So it makes a lot of sense in this first one. We'll get into it. See how we get on here today. Looking forward to it. I'm hoping we can face some Landaryses though today because we've got to get that ring target trick and Reggie Alecki taking down some Landaryses. So obviously it's a bit of a roulette when you're on the ladder. So you can't always guarantee what you're going to come up against. Anyway, we've got Urshifu and Windsor Cots. So they're kind of like the big kahoonas against them being able to shut down P2. But like I said, we've got a good switch into something like Tapu Vini in the back. We've got to try and force the Urshifu out. If we can. I mean, what are we better off faking out? I don't really know if I want to fake out in all honesty. I could Max here and go for Max Flare. Don't know if it's really going to be that useful at this point in time. We could potentially just go for a fake out into Urshifu. Probably the better bet. The problem would be obviously would be if we saw Wimmy switch out for Lele, the psychic terrain come onto the field. But to be honest, we're going to overwrite it even if they do switch out because we'll switch out last, you know, so if they get the psychic terrain up here, we'll be able to get our Misty terrain up. That's exactly what we're going to see. And that's the beauty of having something like P2, nice slow Pokemon.  Especially in front of something like Wimmy that carries taunt and then the Urshifu don't know if it's banded yet or not, you know, can all go quite wrong quite quickly if we we don't play a little bit cautious. Anyway, so we do see the Lele come in. We've got three of the four Pokemon of my opponent's team. We know it's going to be the Calyrex is the last one. So our big mission here is going to be trying to set up trick room if we can. So I think what we'll do is switch into P2. I don't see the Urshifu sticking around. I'm going to go for a Moon Blast into the Urshifu because if it does stay in and it does go for the close combat, at least we're going to get a return for a hit. I can imagine maybe something like the Wimmy that caught coming in on that slot, but my opponent's not on the greatest position with Lele either.  So at some point they're going to want to switch out the Lele. I don't think in the immediate short term right now, I don't think we'll see it switch could be wrong. And I think they'll try and get some damage onto the board. But yeah, Urshifu retreating and the Wimmy coming back in, but we'll get P2 back onto the field. If my opponent does have taunt then that's going to be obviously both Pokemon in front of us right now can have taunt. So we've got to be very wary of that. Attack does rise and there's just a Moon Blast coming in from the Lele. Wow, that specs. That looks like specs.   I think we pretty much done as much to the P2. We'll try the trick room. I mean to work on trick room just yet. I mean we can try it. The fact that no, no, no, no. I don't think we do. I don't think we do. The problem is here. We could calm mind. We could calm mind. We could calm mind and just go area impulse. Calm mind. Yeah, calm mind. I don't think we're going to be able to get a trick room up to be honest. Help in hand. Okay, we're going to lose P2 here, but we are going to get a free calm mind up. So that's all right. I just don't want to switch in and center on to this Moon Blast, especially if it is specs. Yeah, it makes sense that it is no way you take down a P2 in two with two Moon Blasts and sort of normal circumstances. It could get calorex onto the field now could do. We could get and so the thing with bringing in Cine Roy now is it kind of means we don't have our intimidate to bring in a nursery food, but is that really necessary? I think maybe calorex is probably better to bring in right now. We could get a trick room up. Yeah, let's do that. Let's do that.  And even if you do, I mean, it sets our team up pretty nicely right for the rest of the game. We'll go for another calm mind just to get that special defense boost because I think my opponent's going to struggle to hit Tapu Fini, especially if the trick room goes up now. They've either got taunt, which they throw out now onto calorex or they go help in hand again, but we will soon find out they may switch here, but I'm feeling already. I feel like in Cine Roy is probably a best Pokemon to utilize as a max Pokemon. Okay, they're going for another help in hand. I'm going to lock in with that Moon Blast again. We're going this time into Fini. Phineas. Okay, well, especially attack drop, not ideal, but we we mitigate that and we do get a trick room up for free as well with the Glastria. So we're going to be able to get a double, a double target, pretty much a double knockout this next turn, which is pretty amazing. So my opponent's kind of let that go. And the leftovers are coming super, super handy. I think we just Glacier Lance and go for a Moon Blast into the Tapu Lele slot because they can't protect there. And the Whimmy's pretty much a sitting duck. So you either lose both Pokemon or you switch something and take a lot of damage. And I think if anything, you switch the Lele out because you want your terrain back for later on this match, if you've got calorex at least. At least that's what I would feel like, although kind of hinders the ability of Urshifu to kind of operate now as well.  So maybe you just allow it to go down. We are going to see another help in hand. But we are plus one with Finny. A Glacier Lance is going to chunk. Well, it's going to remove Whimsycott and it's going to chunk. Hopefully Lele to the point. I forget every time how ridiculously strong calorex is. It's just nuts, isn't it?  Feels like the game kind of locked up now. And this is the whole idea going into this game, you know, with the with the team preview, you can kind of identify that trick room was going to be the better mode. It's just if we were able to get it set up and we thankfully have managed to now Urshifu coming in. A calorex still going to be a bit of an issue, obviously. Depends if it's sashed. I would imagine the Urshifu is the sashed the sashed one here. What's Glastria? Here we go. There he is. There he is. Okay. Well, I do think that we still stick with Incineroar here with our weakness policy. You're going to go, you're going to go max quick, I think max quick. We could just max ourselves to be honest and just go. It's just if they got weakness policy, it makes it a little bit more trickier. Now, I think we got max knuckle and we got moonblast because we should. Yeah, we should take a max quick from the opposing Glastria without it without the the weakness policy proct. So it should allow us to get I forget about the I forget about the sucker punch, though. That's the problem, isn't it? The problem here is the sucker punch from the Urshifu. All that talk about psyche terrain, me just thinking that's all right. Urshifu's sucker punch isn't even a threat when a misty terrain is actually on the field. You may say protect though here. I don't know. Hmm. Yeah, this isn't this isn't ideal. But then they may be scared of a weakness policy themselves. So they may be put off going for it. Although they don't really have any other options at this point in time. You know, but it. Yeah. Forget that they had one Pokemon left. There's a Steel Spiker. That's into Finny. Oh, we don't take it. We don't take it. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Okay. Yeah. Well, we don't take that. And well, this just gets a little bit more tricky for us for sure. We are plus one. The problem is if we activate a weakness policy now is my yeah. Nowhere near enough. I'm going to take a wicked blow for our troubles. I think and take a fact. Oh, surgeon strike. I should always check the issue for you. Come on. Really now it is nowhere near as much of a threat because. Like you just don't care about surgeon strike as much as you do the wicked blow. And at least there's no weakness policy on that opposing. Horse. So that's that's good. So it's still it's still within our grasps a grasp. Intimidate coming in very useful. Not so much for the ocean food, but it might be worth doubling up into that. The ocean food this turn. Just plus two. That's one defense. Should we go? I feel like they're just going to protect the ocean food this turn. Now that's the thing because we could just go for another max knuckle. Yeah, I think we go max knuckle protect here because I think they protect ocean food and I think they attack into into incinero. And then if they do this, they activate our weakness policy. If they go max quick into us, they just steal spiking again. But into incinero this time. Okay. Well, the fence booster definitely happened. This is the problem with protecting in front of an ocean food thinking that it was going to protect itself, but it hasn't protected. And now we're in trouble. Now we are in trouble. We are in we are actually in trouble because now they're going to be able to knock out the incinero. Thankfully, they go after calyrex again though. So that's that's quite useful. Now we need to deal with the we need to deal with the ocean food this next turn because it's just not protecting and it'll be the turn that it protects this turn. I swear how many terms are trickery and we've got left one turn. So yeah, this is the turn we need to get rid of this this thing. We'll go max quick just to get that neutral damage. I don't know if max knuckle is going to be enough and we'll just go. It's going to hit harder really. You've got to hope max quick. It's going to be enough anyway. Really plus three. You would think it should be and I don't see the opposing Glastria taking us down a minus one. Neutral aren't they? So they're not there's a max knuckle. Okay. Hopefully we take this. Yeah, like a champ. Okay, so that plus one now. But I mean with the trick room ending as long as you get rid of the ocean food here. It's game. It's game over. I kind of dragged this out probably a little bit more than what I needed it needed to but. Oh, I don't know. I don't know. Because Larry it's going to be enough. I really don't. I really don't know if it's going to be enough to take out. We are pretty offensive, but squeaking it squeaking it. There we go. Okay. It should be gone. That's fine. Would have been a different story. I think if it was there, the other variation of ocean food, but we're fine now just a close combat flablet flablet to be enough. Well, will it though? Because of the plus plus two defense that they've got under their belt. I think it'll be, I think we'll be all right. I think we can just click in flablets in that and it should lock it up. So a decent enough win for us and a good one for us to start off with today. We didn't get to see the ring target Reggie lecky, but we got some more games left. So we'll jump in right now to our next game of the episode. Okay. So next up today, we have a disc. Clops, a rack winner, the scaballier, Grim snarl, zygote and comfy. So follow on trick room team here for my opponent with the disc. Clops being the main trick room set there as well as a comfy as well. We can actually make use of Reggie lecky here against the zygote a hundred percent. If we can get the ring target going on it, you know, so we could leave that just to be have a little bit of fun in this one. I think we need color X because it's going to be very, very good in this match in general and probably incinera as well for the intimidate support. Yeah. Okay. Let's lock in with these four. Screen support going to be super useful and then we can see how we get on in this first one. It's a nice team though. You don't really tend to see like a rack when it played too much or a scaballier, but the interest in Pokemon for sure. Okay. So Grim snarl does clubs. Let's just vote switch out vote switch predominantly going to be physical attackers. So, I mean, we could vote switch and the problem is gone for full switch and a spirit break into Grim snarl is. Is there any problem? I mean, it does give my opponent the option to kind of bring in a trick room Pokemon once they set up with disc clubs, which is not ideal, but at the same time. They're down one Pokemon, which is always useful. They do get the reflect up. So there's no way we're taking it down. I don't think a double up here is going to be enough to take it down. Um, it probably is. It probably is. That is just disgusting damage from Rage Alecki. To be honest, the life up there just is just nasty. We'll not bring in Cineron just yet because I think keeping the intimidate for a little bit later is probably a bit more useful. Um, as if we see a scaballier come in. It's very great. Going to be enough to get the knockout as we probably yeah, we're going to be able to see the trick room go up. Obviously the big thing from us to be a little bit careful of bit a bit cautious of his willow is from the opposing disc clubs, but with things like a rack when it you probably looking at support lines like rock rock to is probably going to be the more supportive option for your opponent. So what we're going to do here is we're going to switch in Cineron covers the willow isp anyway from my opponent and we'll just chuck up a reflect. I really want to see zygod zygod has to be in the back. It has to be in the back. So once we get rid of the scaballier, which I'm hoping we can do pretty easily, we're going to be able to see the zygod in that end game.  So we'll try not max anything if we can. I don't know if it's going to be possible. They're going to max steel spike here. I would imagine into the car X so they'll have that defense boost going into this next turn. But with a reflect up, we should be all right. We kind of want to probably protect in Cineron the next turn because they're going to go for Max Quaker imagine that give us the opportunity to get a weakness policy proct and then we've got the other max. I don't know if we can we can I don't know if we're going to be able to not max in Cineron to be honest. I think we have to. Okay. Well, they're going to Grim snarl, which is fine. We need to preserve Grim snarl. Remember this. Remember remember Grim snarl is important to us for the end game against the zygod, which is a hundred percent there. Nightshade coming out double and down into Grim snarl, which is super fine. Okay. Right. What we're going to do is protect in Cineron. We're not going to be able to. We're going to have to max in Cineron. I think here we have to max it. Like we just we we just need to max in Cineron and bring Karex onto the field. Yeah, it makes the most sense to do. If we want it, we're just not going to be able to max. Um, we're too lucky, which is very sad, but you can't force these things too much because we'll just end up losing the game and we kind of want to win the game as well. You know, the best case scenario. Let's see. What are you going to go for? Let's see the max quick. Please come on. Let's go max quick. That's what we want to see. I mean, my opponent's kind of committed to this cavalier like like going for the dynamax with it. You know, so you would imagine they'll go all in. I'll go harm on this incident right now. Because that's what I would do. Geyser the razor shell coming out. Bosh, not doing that much damage because of the the old Intimidate there, but I mean, it does proc our weakness policy be interesting to see if we can get this cavalier is it's four times weak, right? But the rain is up, which definitely helps. Nightshade coming out into Carax going to do a nice chunk of damage for sure. Um, we are going to get the sun up. It kind of forces my opponent to go for the guys of the next turn as well, which means we'll probably be able to pick up the knockout unless they are weakness policy as well. I don't know if they will be that they're probably more likely to solve fest. Yeah, I think the weakness policy if we ever saw will be on that Iraq when it will just is it better to reverse the trick room now? I think we play the trick room out. Just go Glacier Lance. They may go after Carax here with a sneaky sneaky steel spike, but the bebeary berry and then minus one should make sure that we do survive this and we are probably going to be able to get rid of the disclops at the same time, which makes it makes light work. Are we plus two defense? I don't know. The sun's up though. That's the thing. The sun is up. So the Glacier Lance while it does not nothing to that disclops doesn't like literally zip zip man. That is brutal. Okay. Scavelier going to retreat back to its normal size. We've got one more turn with that instead of all we need to go max darkness and I think how many terms trick room we got left? Is that one? That is one. That is one. Okay. I'm going to click on these buttons so much. I think I mean we just go Glacier Lance is much much else we can kind of do mega horn mega horn coming out. That's not going to knock us out. It's not the best option. Nightshade. Well, though, and then a lekkie can come in and just help us out. We're going to have to maneuver ourselves into a position with them against a zygote to get to get. Okay. Well, that's enough damage. Right. That's enough damage in the trick room. Yeah. Dimensions end. So that's good. A lekkie can come in, but we need to kind of maneuver ourselves into a position where Grimstone can kind of come in for free and get the ring target onto the other zygote. I don't know how we're going to be able to do it without like just just choked, totally choking and throwing this match. Well, well, well, well, well, we go for Flair Blitz into Scavelier and we'll go for a Thunderbolt into Dusklops. I mean, either one, it doesn't really matter which side you go for because either combination is going to be enough. You can ally switch all day long. It's not really going to matter. My friend with your little ally switching shenanigans. And then it's going to be zygote. But like, how are we going to do this? How are we going to do it? It would be a lot easier if we had parting shot. I would say that for sure. I can't do it. I can't. I don't know if I can even do this without like we've got a sack in CineRoll. We could Flair Blitz into it and hopey a thousand arrows. It's a Raccoonid. Where's the zygote? Where is the zygote? This is not how it's meant to go down. This is not how it is meant to go down. My friend, we were meant to come up against the zygote and go for Ringtower. I've been planning this the whole entire match and you bring a Raccoonid in. Mr. Skinny Legs over there and yeah, doesn't work out. Anyway, we probably can't go on too much longer. This episode is just going to be long, long, long, long. Tell you what, if you try the team out and you get the combination to work, which I'm sure you will, they lead landers, you switch, trick the Ringtower onto it and then just max and Thunderbolt or max lightning in it and it will drop. It will drop no doubt about it and it's so satisfying to do and so satisfying to see. Anyway, we'll jump over now and get you the rental code for today's team, my friends. Okay friends, here is the rental for today's team. If you do try it out as always, I hope you have a lot of fun with it. It is a bit of fun at the end of the day, but it's got some serious elements in there. Obviously, the weakness policy and center or big one there and I do think it's a really useful Pokemon as well. A Kyrax with a Bibi-Riberi gives you a lot of kind of room against those steel types that are a bit threatening, but the big thing from this team and I'm giving you a challenge today to try this team out and get that trick ring target. Regi Alecki to knock out some Linderis or Zygods. All of Groudon's as well. Come to think of it, they can be a nice target for you as well. So, yeah, give it a go. If you do, let me know in the comment section. I would love to hear. Have fun with the team. Thanks so much as always for tuning in. Hope you've enjoyed today's episode and I'll catch you all for another episode very soon here on the channel. So until then friends, take care and bye bye.


All right, we're here with Dr. Pomerance of MRI Online, breaking down the Matthew Stafford injury. And Doc, this was a big surprise. Sunday morning, Matthew Stafford declared out for the Lions game. Was this a pre-existing injury? How long has he had this? What was actually going on with Stafford and his back? Well, it's hard for me to know how long he's had this, but when they talk about a back fracture, they usually referring to a specific kind of fracture because your back is made up of building blocks, kind of like the blocks you play with when you were a kid, and those are called vertebrae. There's no way those are fractured, because if they were, he wouldn't be playing, he wouldn't have played, that's a rather serious injury that also restricts your capabilities. On the other hand, there are some back fractures that occur where you can function against pain. So it's basically a fight, you against the pain. And one of those fractures is called the transverse process fracture.  And when you fracture them, they are extremely painful. Now, sometimes the fragments can actually displace a bit and your kidneys are right there by your backs. You've got to be a little bit careful when you've got bone fractures and bone shards and fragments near those kidneys. So my guess is it was a fight between his ability to function and pain and this fracture versus his desire to play. A little higher up in the back in the thoracic region, in other words, closer to the chest region, the ribs articulate back there. Most people don't realize that. It's called the costovertible junction, a real fancy word. But what that means is the ribs attach back there. And you can also displace those. That is uber, painful, super painful, very difficult to deal with and sometimes can really impair function. So I suspect that is what he's dealing with. And this is a pretty tough guy. Yeah, 136 consecutive starts for Stafford. That streak was broken on Sunday. So if it's pain management and if it is, what you suspect is this something that is gonna take multiple weeks? Is it a long-term type of injury or are we just talking about a one week type of injuries? What can Lions fans expect here going forward? Well, this is one, you know, usually I prognosticate for a living for you guys and that's a lot of fun and very interesting and I'm usually able to do a decent job of it. I don't have a lot of information in this particular case, but if this is the kind of injury that he has, the recovery time is pretty variable. It depends on how quick the pain goes away. But on the average, you're talking about two or three weeks for the pain to subside enough so that the player can function at the level to which they're accustomed. And I suspect that's the case here. All right, so there you have it. It's a great breakdown by Dr. Paul Morance of MRI Online, all about the Matthew Stafford back injury.


Yes. Change is likely. All right. So in 2014, we have a proof of concept. We piloted it in 2014 to establish the center within the grad college. That means we only provide support to grad students, right? We started in 2015 with three programs, academic communication program, grad peer mentor program, and the international teaching assistance program. And then we expanded that to thesis and dissertation writing in 2019. So next slide. Today, the TDWP is one of seven programs that we run and we're continuously developing new programs. And you can see we have a range of programs that support both written and communication. And we differentiate ourselves from the writing media center on campus, because they take a different approach to the writing philosophy, right? So in our center, we work with them talking about academic moves in writing. So the research that we've done in our center, we analyze how different scholarly materials in different disciplines go by moves. And there is a pattern of moves. For example, in the introduction, there are four moves or whatever. And then you go through the next section, which is the alert review or the discussion or the conclusion. So that is the crust of the writing program. And we've extended that into the thesis and dissertation writing as well. Next slide. And so here are the goals of the thesis and dissertation writing program. We provide writing support. So before they even reach us for the formatting, right? We want to support them while they are writing so that they produce good quality materials. Through that, we have individual consultations with 16 minutes one-on-one with our trained consultants. They work through different aspects of the writing project itself. And we focus on all aspects of writing. Then we come to the part where they actually do have to sit down and write. That's not easy, right? So we provide, we facilitate the accountability through retreats. And it's usually about a four-hour block. Students can come and go. We put a space so that our consultants can be there. We have expanded that to virtual as well. But the idea is that our trained consultants are on hand. And as they are drafting and writing, and then they get a bump, it's like, oh, can I answer something? And the consultant is right there to give feedback.  What are you trying to say? How about doing it this way? Have you considered that? They don't add it. They don't write for the students. They walk through the concept with the students. And the students decide what they want to say. And then finally, they reach to the phase where ETDA has been talking about the formatting part. And through this, we have 30-minute format checks with one-on-one with our consultants. And then 90-minute boot camps where we train. We walk through all the guidelines promotion with them. We have both Word and Labhack Overleaf. So we have split that now that we have the consultant trained for Overleaf and Labhack. And then we also started walk-in clinics. Because the 30-minute appointments are made in advance by appointments, the appointments fill up so fast. And the students say, I can't get an appointment. So finally, we decided, all right, we're going to have a set-aside time. You check the calendar. If there's open time, they can come in. They can take a ticket. They can wait, just like going to a clinic. So we call that the walk-in clinics. And then obviously, we've developed a various number of tools like templates, videos, and so forth. So we go to the next slide, slide number five. And I'm going to have the President take over at this point. So I'm going to mute this mic. Okay. Everyone can hear me in the conference? Great. All right. So this is a broad overview of historically participation we've gotten from students in the writing program. So this graph shows from spring 2019 all the way to summer 2022. And the red bars are the 60-minute writing consultation sessions. The yellow bars are the 30-minute format checks. And then in fall 2021, we introduced a LaTeX format check. And so we've actually got those tracking to now here. The LaTeX numbers are much lower than we've actually been offering support. So our LaTeX consultant does a lot of her consulting by email. And she doesn't even have a 30-minute consultation with the student. They just communicate by email. And then you can also see that in spring 2021, what you can't see it is that here is where we started doing walk-in clinics. And we don't really have a good way of tracking that right now. So from spring 2021 onward, what is not shown is a lot of students that are being served via the walk-in clinic. So the numbers will actually be a little bit higher starting spring 2021. But generally, you can see that there is growth on the trend. So people are finding out about it and taking advantage of it, especially the format checks. And then on this slide, we have the number of students that we've actually served. And that is growing too. Except for obviously this period here, spring 2020 to summer 2021, we have online support only. So you see a bit of a dip during the lockdown and then a big pickup once campus returns. This is an illustration of our organizational layout. So the Center for Communication Excellence, the writing program that we are a part of, has a program coordinator, that's Lily, writing consultants, those are the graduate assistants and then reviewers, which I'm one of the reviewers. And so we all collaborate together to get the dissertations written, formatted, and published in ProQuest. And then at the higher level, the graduate services and the faculty services interact to deal with other kinds of graduation requirements, exam results, paperwork, making sure that the student details are all in order before they pass everything to the reviewer, so that when that dissertation or thesis is approved for format, it's ready to go. And then they also monitor extended embargoes. We do have some other stakeholders and collaborators that we work with, ProQuest, obviously the university library, we work with the Office of Legal Counsel to talk about things like copyright, and then the Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer at our university is also somebody that we've kind of worked alongside to help students with their embargoes. This is a flowchart that we actually do offer to students that really illustrates the inner workings. So the red boxes here outline the part that this graduate student actually is involved in. So they are working with the Center for Communication Excellence, doing their informational seminars, boot camps, downloading the template, and getting format checks. But then they can actually see using this flowchart what happens to their file after they upload it to ProQuest. And so they can, using this flowchart, kind of get a better understanding of all the things that are going on while they're waiting the three or four days to find out if they got approved. And I think this really helps them to understand, this is all of the stuff that needs to happen and what you are, who you are communicating with when you get that format for an email from ProQuest. And then it also gives them a sense of how they can control their information with embargoes, no embargo, ProQuest only embargo, the special embargo for MFAs that has an extended length and then the graduate college hold where not even the abstract and title go up on ProQuest. So this is just an explanation, a visual explanation of how that process works. And then we have the training, the consultant training model. So we do train all of the graduate assistants kind of extensively. So we are doing writing consulting as well as format consulting. It's a lot to learn because there's all the writing aspect of writing a dissertation plus all of the rules of format that the graduate student consultants learn. And so they have this somewhat lengthy self-paced training that ends with multiple observations, both them observing a working consultant and then a working consultant observing them in sort of a trainee session that ends with a certification. And so we do have currently three graduate assistants certified. This is just an example of what that training looks like. So they kind of have to go through a Canvas course and do a lot of reading and learning about all the materials that are available. And then like I said, they observe multiple sessions of a working consultant and then a working consultant observes them for multiple co-consultations. And then there's an assessment with written feedback. And so there's actually quite a lot of evaluation that goes on to get the consultants up and working. And then here's some of the training materials. So this part here, you can see this is the Canvas course where all the materials are. There are quizzes involved, a learning check where they actually have to find the errors in a formatted dissertation. And those of course get evaluated. And so they really do go through the process in a sort of safe area before they're dealing with an actual student. So the program is funded by the dissertation fee that students have to submit when they apply for graduation. It does cover the stipend for the graduate assistant consultants, as well as part of the salaries for the program coordinator and the thesis dissertation root viewers. The CCE that is sort of recruits and trains graduate assistants, they hire them, they supervise them, we monitor issues and concerns. And it's really a very tight knit, just like a traditional writing center. It's very tight knit. We see each other in the office and we also kind of keep our eye on what is going on with the consultants. And then we maintain the guidelines for the format and provide ongoing professional development for consultants as those things evolve. We do have to collaborate and communicate frequently with other departments, especially the library, the office of intellectual property and technology and so forth. And then we also collaborate intensively with the graduate college staff who are taking care of, like I said, those other graduation requirements. Okay, so that is the end of the presentation. I'm not sure if we do have time for Q&A at this point, but I guess our facilitator can take care of that. Thank you all for coming to the presentation and bearing with us with the technology. I can hear. Oh, you can hear me. Okay. We are actually out of time, so this was actually really interesting. Well, if folks want to, yeah, I was going to say, yeah, I mean, if you have questions, if you want to stay during the 10-minute break, you can be welcome to ask. And if anybody has any questions online, I have somebody checking the chat, so ask questions there. I'd be happy to answer any questions here, and then maybe Kristen can handle the questions that are online. So, yes. Lily, I actually can't see the chat online at all, so someone would have to read those out loud. I will take a question from the room here. Okay, so the difference, the question is, how often do we offer the walking clinics? It used to be when we didn't have enough staff and we only had the three consultants, and they were fully booked on the appointment system. I started calling additional consultants who are interdisciplinary writing consultants, but trained with thesis dissertation, I pull all hands on back and say, all right, close your hours in the writing, disciplinary writing, interdisciplinary writing. If you've experienced with thesis and dissertation, you're going to help me the last two weeks. And then the deadline of the review up in progress and the week after. So we started making those walk-in clinics available during the one period before and one period after the upload deadline. Because that's when the students work furiously to meet the deadline, and then when Kristen reviews it and sends the file back, they said, whoa, I've got a lot of things to deal with. I don't know how to troubleshoot this. I don't understand what they're asking for, and they can't get an appointment. So that's when we say, all right, one week after the deadline as well to help troubleshoot the comments from the reviewers. And then last semester, I told my thesis and dissertation consultant to close all the 60 minute appointments so that you have more time for the 30 minute appointments because it's only four minutes. You can deal with the students who are graduating next semester working on the writing portion late. All heads on that the couple of weeks before and the couple of weeks after. So we really try not to cancel any graduation. If you're attempting to work on your documents, we tell the registrar, just hold off on the diploma, we're going to get them graduated. So even though we have the deadline, it's an internal deadline. We just scare them with it. We say, as long as you keep working on it, and then there's like, you know, then we keep sending reminders to the last viewer. So that's how we do it. But the nice thing is that Kristen just got hired full time, and she ran three of about two other programs. But now in her capacity as a reviewer, when she's not doing peak time reviews, she can open up walk-ins all the time. So she actually has daily walk-in time like two hours a day, and anybody can walk in. And then obviously when it comes to crunch time, when she's the reviewer, she closes all the walk-in. So I have to pull back all the other consultants on hand to focus on that. Thank you. How many students do you have graduated in every year? So like we put in the slide, we review about 600 over 660 files per year. Is that like three times a year, one to a year? Three times a year. The highest is in spring, and then followed by summer, and then the little bit fewer in the fall. But fall is when we do more of the events. I mean, actually events is every semester, but more students come to the events during the fall because they're preparing for the graduating year. So during walk-in clinics, do you often find students have basic questions that you address? They do. Sometimes the questions come in. The common questions are like too much white space. What does that mean? Moving one, not allowing one line reference on one patient, two on the other. Those easy fixes, we just send them link to the tutorials and see this. This is how you do it, right? But the ones that walk-in really have complications. Something weird with your file, somehow, you know, whatever, like even in overly, they will come in and usually that's because they have integrated so many packages that it is conflicting with the codes that we have prepared for them. So that's why our consultant has kind of picked up skills along the way that they can kind of figure out what to do. And if they can't, then that's when they reach out to overlays and say, hey, help. We are out of time. Yeah, we got two minutes to go. Okay, sounds good. I am available in the four years if you have any other questions. Thank you, Kristen.


So time for our Gillie games preview here in Highland and this weekend our sole focus is of course the national football league And to look ahead we have a regular contributor Brendan kill coin on the program And also GA writer with the Irish news. Okay, and gentlemen. Good to see you. Good to talk to you Well, uh, yeah, we'll move to get your thoughts first of all care because it's been a while since you've been on air with us We're heading into the league. It's an exciting time. All the teams have gone through their their preseason competitions Is there any of the Northwest Counties that showed you anything that there's a there's a lot of promise there in the opening couple of games? It's a red the ready when he's calling there the other day and Never judge a footballer in January never judge a footballer in this time of the year and it's it's hard to tell I'm obviously done. You all have done fairly well in the in the mechanic up as it goes maybe some of the areas of concern for them they've got a wee bit of luck that as well, but They've they've done alright to run have you know to run have got a lot of a lot of new faces in there and obviously playing catch-up from the From the team holiday ring Christmas and that so it's it's nearly impossible to judge them Dairy of a couple of new faces in as well when fairly strong in the in the mechanic up and I don't think they were Don't think they were shedding any tears over losing the semi-finals. You don't need go I know there was a wee bit of a happiness in a lot of the counties about you know Piling the games on top of the Sigerson and different things. So I think there'd be nobody getting too downhearted about this time the year I think we've all we've all probably held their own To some degree and all took an it took enough right of the mechanic up that Feel them into the league Yeah, Brandon you watched a lot of the Donegal games What's the positives do you feel for deckland boner coming out of the mechanic up as we go to what does class does? Could be a real tough start against Mayo this weekend. Yeah, there's no doubt It's going to be a tough start listen I suppose the fact that they got four games are sheen and they got to try out a good few players and I suppose the Positives, you know, you look at the format pattern Morgan. He's playing great football. They got Michael Murphy back on the pitch So, you know, and we saw last weekend how important and we all knew that before last weekend We know that a long time now the the significance and importance of that Michael on the pitch and having a fit Michael on the pitch You know last year, you know, obviously there were niggles and there were injuries that Kurt Ailes is probably training regime getting into the big games So don't he got to be hoping that he can get an injury free run at it And you know, you're looking at donnie gall will they go as gung-ho as they have done last year or will they revert to a more defensive type? More defensive type system Bearing in mind that, you know, they have been opened up defensively and there obviously are concerns about how they will defend and They're going to be tested as soon as they get into Markovitch Park next Sunday against a Mio team That, you know, you have to have great admiration for the keep coming every year. They keep coming back and Players back this year. Jason Darry is back. Brendan Harrison is back I don't think I don't think Killian O'Connor is going to make it but Oshin Mullen obviously not heading to Australia Was a huge lift and you can feel the reverberations and the excitement of that around me. Oh, so listen Donnie Gall have a They it's going to be a big and important league campaign for them because then, you know It's with the championship starting in April this year. I think it around 24th of April. Donnie Gall are out against our ma Every game the seven games that they play through the National League are going to be of huge importance And we all know that, you know teams in order to win the All-Ireland at this stage You nearly have to be playing in division one. So the league has assumed greater significance down through the years so it has and Donnie Gall You know a way to all be it in Markovitch Park and Sligo is a massive game a massive opener for both teams and It'll be just interesting to see how they line up or with what new can they bring to the table as I said Heather Morgan has been in simple later form for both Donnie Gall and LyIT who had a massive win during the week against UCD Brendan mentioned the point about maybe question marks over Donnie Gall defensively Cajar but at the other end if you have your men's scoring is that such a big a concern the way modern-day football has been played at the moment? Well, I think the big thing for Britain's 100% right? The big thing for Donnie Gall over the last over the last few years has been their ability to control games by being so dominant in the middle of the field so so physically imposing and around the middle that they can control possession and win so much ball and Sort of almost no matter how much they're conceding. They'll always get enough ball and enough chances to win any game It's it's what happens when that breaks down. That's that's the that's the big issue I suppose when they look back at the throne game last year was an area that they've you know They've usually done well against Ronan. They didn't do too badly, but by their own standards It wasn't the domination that they used to and they ended up losing the game, but Not Donnie Gall For a wee while of struggle defensively, you know the fact that You know, they haven't found any real Any real sort of strengths in the fall back line? Neil McGee still still horsing away. I don't know what way he'll be for any of the nice of the This year Steve McMeneman's had his own injury problems and you know without those two they look very very weak In terms of men that can do the man market jobs You know to me I think what typifies the problem for them The own band Gallagher is potentially one of the best attack and wing half backs in Ireland if he got a run In the position and got got playing it But so often the last couple years he's had to play full back had to play cornerback had to try and do different jobs That they maybe don't necessarily suit his skillset 100% and just think you know until Donnie Gall find a couple of real Dogged horrible defenders if you like They're going you know, it's it's going to be an uphill battle. They won the big trophies for them Well Brendan two games to start things in a seven-day period Mayo in March of the park and slaggle and then the following again against Kildare If you got two ones and the opening two matches that would put you on a on a solid footing to stay up in division one Which would be the main target as you go to championship Brendan Absolutely asking like you know, but that that's easier said than done. It's a you know, as I mentioned, it's going to be a huge task There's there's you know, you're coming up against a Mio team or they're there about every year They're they're so strong and every department and you know, you've the likes of all McLaughlin We saw him play for Limerick and Sigerson there a couple of weeks ago and he looks in great shape And you've Ryan had done it who was really added real jizz to the Mio forward line So, you know, they're going to be in good shape. I feel coming into this game James Horn will have them well primed And it's a big ask for donnie go I think it's going to be a fantastic day down America which on Sunday to tight pitch, you know 12,000 capacity It's going to be so it's going to be full house So it's gonna be a big game with an element of championship feel about it to have the crowds back is a big thing too And you know, it's important I suppose to that donnie go all traveling numbers and get behind the team down there But you know, you're looking at the second game then against Kildare And I'm sure that's one that donnie go will identify as a must win You know, I think it'll be a bonus to get something there's never too much between Mio and donnie go But Mio have been getting the better of these ties in recent years And donnie go need to get to the stage where they're taking out these big guns on a regular basis And they haven't been doing that. I mean, they haven't had a, you know, okay to roam They've had joy over to roam but that's turned back the other way after last year And you know the carries the doublins the Mio's these are the teams that they need to lay a marker down against If they have aspirations to go on and be competing at the latter end of the championship come the summer and you know The questions that have been asked of donnie go in recent years that haven't really answered and yes they've landed Ulster championships But it's beyond that and it's taken them after mentioned teams down that are the big question mark for them So I think it would be a bonus if donnie go get out and out of the game on sunday But I feel that kildare game at home is a must win for donnie go actually Okay, a lot of mention obviously about the championship car from both the used guys and we haven't even started the League yet, but the championship is the big one Does doubling and carry then look into an even taroon now in that respect as well given that they're defending all our new champions Do they read much into the league? Do they take much away from it as they head to the to the big competition of the year? I think they'll read a fair button in terms of performances and and who's playing well and their own setup results wise You know, I think the the first priority for everybody is making sure they stay up and particularly for for taroon just in the in the Winter that has been obviously the the late lead ace championship in terms of the new split season and then The club been busy then they had the the holiday way in florida and they you know They looked very rusty when they came home in the mechanic up. They tried a lot of new players And so it's hard to see that they just hit the ground running in terms of the national league Taroon have had plenty of seasons where they just scraped their way To safety in division one and that has contented them. Um, and I think for them I think they would take the same at this stage of the year Kerry and Dublin probably different different set of priorities. Um, Kerry Well, Kerry's just the 18th year in our own in division one like they don't get relegated They're always looking towards the The top end of it and the attacking quality they have but then, you know, see him see him issue as with dunny goal, um In terms of finding the real quality one-to-one defenders that I wouldn't say taroon on earth, but taroon found found reason to trust last year Left their fall back line one-on-one and that's a huge impact on on why they won the other and then Kerry just aren't in position yet where they seem like they're able to do that either. They don't they don't have the one-to-one defenders Probably like most People have been I've been a wee tiny bit surprised that the stephan ockham burrows come home from From australia and was such a you know such a turn fall back on the On the under 21 team before he went went went away and has been sort of playing around that field since he came home and just You know that that they haven't tried him in the fallback leg to see how he gets on maybe maybe he's passed that Maybe he was never going to be a long term fall back for them, but Given their lack of options And that and that they feel I'm surprised that they they haven't looked at that As for monahan monon taroon Does monon have a bit more work done than taron as the head to the start of the league? Is that a a game that monahan can can one at hilly park given the fact that they played on it as well last week So, uh, they've a bit of freshness with the turf around oma venue as well keher Yep, mon look Mon mon mon on the look back and last year we reeled disappointment like I you know I sort of wrongly on the ending, but I started told anybody listen last year that that that I thought monon would win They also find out I thought they were better on and had they brought anything in the first half I think they'll look back with real regret on that the Monahan have have had a lot of sharpness about them in the last 18 months a fair wee bit of freshness and a few A few players who have really developed over the last couple of years garren mulligan Um, and in their attack as well. I see I see just the mechanic up interest in these sort of pushed corner mccarthy to wing half back um Which which will be interesting look at see how he gets on there and he could cause teams a lot of problems from there, but Look mon monon are always there there about some who talk about their age profile and talking about their age profile for a long time But you know the the fellas that are there darn use is still as fit and as fresh corner mcmanus will come out of his Come out of his shell in a couple weeks time. I'm sure and um monon staying up was obviously in for them as well, but You know, what's this their 70th season in a row in division one and uh, they're well established and I would fancy I would fancy that they're further down the line and through for this weekend surely Yeah And uh dublin are starting things off brendon this weekend saturday night against rma And i'm sure the dubs will be looking to make a statement in 2022 given the way that they they lost their the reign last year and uh They want all them trophies that they lost back again. So they will brendon and they're gonna you expect them to have a good Crack of the league day Oh, absolutely and the dubs all as well. You know what they're going to bring there's so much quality up there and You know, I suppose they have the one asset that's going to be crucial going into this year. I feel is squad squad depth You know, there's no doubt about it You know, you're looking at big pather coffee burners as you call them in the middle of the field He's a huge unit of a man and if they have him to compliment brian fenton's attributes there Obviously, that's a big big asset to have so it is and you know, it's about on earth and another couple of forwards for themselves I don't think paul manion paul manion appears to be staying with kilmicaud and has him come back into the fold and You know quality forwards like him no matter how much he can produce our hard come by and you know, would you just feel that you know Having that squad depth for the seven game national league games in nine weeks and then Turning into championship them straight after that is going to hugely important That you can have players that you can trust Come the heat of the championship come the summer like listen the league is very important and it's huge significance Obviously kind of thing to all teams but at the end ultimately it's It's about getting your squad ready and getting players that you can trust to throw into the free come championship time In april may june when the when the chips are really down and you know, dublin There's no doubt about it.  I've seen huge improvements And you see the likes of ryan o'neill and these guys and they're just you know, he's a phenomenal footballer So, you know, it's a big ass for a mad to go to crow park against dublin in the first game And it's hard to see anything but a dublin win there But again, it comes back to squad depth and how they can manage that through the next couple of months In order to be best prepared come the big tests that are going to lie ahead for all these teams Just back to tarone kehar because they lost a couple of players over the last number of weeks Four or five players gone from from the panel. They got the all-arland medal and they decided to step away What about tarone steps then as they go to 2022? There's no doubt it takes a there's no doubt it takes a hit was was what they've lost The only thing being that you know, they probably had a greater degree of depth in most counties last year When you would When you would Richard only and Rory Brennan and Ronan O'Neill didn't even make the 26th for the all-arland final last year sort of shows you Where they're at as well So, you know, the back-to-back Ulster won in under 20 teams in 2019 2020 They'd we but early yet for for last year's team that reached the other minor final But I'm not and then obviously the strength of club football and tarone I'm not saying that particularly. I think mark Bradley and and tearing the can Will be difficult to replace in terms of you know, match real match the options that they were regularly used I think a joy out of but but I think I don't think it's it's just a disaster for them. Certainly. I think they'll They'll find a way to cope and they'll and they'll give experience to a few fellas and they'll I think they'll rebuild that strength fairly sharpish Yeah, okay, we'll move on to division two Cahar dairy ticking on down Under Rory Gallagher dairy have been progressing over the last couple of years Can the oak leaf men get out of that division and and make it to the top flight of the league car? They have progressed hugely under Rory. Um, I think Rory himself has looked at the league and and maybe you know Unusually since he has come today, you know The thing about Rory and all his and all his public dealings and everything that he said publicly, you know He has really talked the team up really, you know Why shouldn't we and we you know last year, you know, we expect to walk out of division three here We expect to go to Balbalfe a bit done. He called and and for the first time He's probably just tempered as a wee tiny bit by by talking about sort of, you know, needing to break onto the top 12 Um, which yes, you know top four of that division that and I certainly think that's where they'll be at But it's a it's a tough league To get out of like there's decent there's decent teams in there go away ross common cork dairy, you know, there's enough there that You just need everything to go your way there. You're definitely in the mix for for going up but Like I wouldn't like to be putting any money on any of them at this stage because there's very very little between Probably a handful of those teams Yeah, and a good start against down on saturday Six o'clock start in the Celtic Park for the dairy man. If you are to be in that mix Those are no brennan. You have to make sure you're in your home games. First of all Yeah, a hundred percent and listen, I know rory well and I know he left them well fired up I think he's done a great job in dairy so far and he seems to have pulled the whole thing together The team are now playing as a team, you know, there was All this talk behind the scenes of dairy not pulling together and club v county and all that But he seems to have crossed that bridge with them and he's got a unified bunch of players that I think And a lot of quality and he also is I suppose introduced a few of the miners Y'all are them winning minor team and it's about integrating them into the team and this and there's no doubt There's a lot of quick. There's a huge amount of quality footballers and dairy and Rory is pulling them in the right direction And I think they'll give division two a right good shot And I think they'll have too much for down and saturday night particularly at home and It would be great start to get them off and get them going in the league And and you know, they're going to be they're going to again be one eye on ulster championship And you know, I know rory gala her well He takes no challenge lying down and he's going to really push them on and you know I can see them causing a lot of teams problems this year ushing Yeah, we'll dip into division four briefly and we don't get too many opportunities to talk about about london You probably don't know a lot about the dunning all boys car that's involved with london But end of mccormick and nathan michael wean brennan are are both part of the panel They they left the roots of dunning all a couple of years ago And they're looking to make a mark now in the intercounty scene So they are end of course has been around a senior panel with dunning all before but nathan's now And a senior panel with london playing haven't been part of a back room team for dunning all at one stage So i'm sure it's very exciting for for those two dunning all boys brennan as they head into a league opener against carla with the weekend Yeah, two great lads that I know well nathan and end and you know nathan was involved When deckland boners backroom team last year and end of mccormick has been on the fringes of squads and played under 21 With dunning all over the last couple of years So it's great that them lads are over there and you know london provided great service for GA footballers and You know i've been over there and i've played senior kind of championship over there down through the years And it's a massive the the huge respect for it and it'd be great to see these lads do well with london It'll be interesting. I know there are a way to carla on it this weekend and You know it'd be a big ask for them But it's it's hard to know where they're at really there's no form guide there from I suppose from me care from mekena cops Or fbd leagues or anything like that So it's hard to know where they're at carla will have a bit of an advantage in that they've played a couple of games I would imagine but I tell you they're two good players So they are and you know clubmen of your own ashing So we'd be hoping we'd be all keeping an eye in london this year to hope to see that they can push on As long as not interfere on what slide goes progress Well, there's there's another team in division form going to mention brennan tupper airy That'll be looking to get out of there. And there's a letter kind of gales man Associated cairn canon has stepped up to the senior ranks with With the premier county this year So tough given the way they played in championship football over the last couple of years and remember they want a monster title too They really want to be out of division four As will will sligo brennan As will gavin who are also champions recently too, you know So you know you're talking about division four and you're looking at two recent provincial champions from You know not that long ago just over 12 months ago So it's called you know every division and that's why the league is so exciting You know, there's a lot of really really good games and the teams are relatively Well matched and you know when you see tipper airy and calvin down division four and It's going to read add real spice to it It's going to be hard for teams like calvin or like sligo Leads from london these teams to make progress particularly when you have teams of that But you know in tipper areas, I don't think quinlevin met himself available this year for some reason and he's obviously going to be a big loss He's it's you know, he's a huge huge player for them So he's but tip of a lot are really good footballers and you would expect tip and calvin to have too much for the rest of the Teams there, but it'll be interesting to see how it pans out Yeah, okay then guys time to pick your head on the block Brendan who's going to one division one and who's going to be relegated? Oh, and I think I'll have to go for doubling because I think there will be a bounce back from them after last year And who's going to be relegated then? You know, I have to say kildare and I don't know one of the others You know our man would be the obvious choice But that doesn't mean to say that it's going to happen. I think kildare Kildare are going to get a bounce to from you know New management up there. They're all excited to about having paul galvin in I think he's doing some coaching on the forwards, but Um, it's you know, you think there's a lot of experience through the rest of the team So I think they will struggle the most and I don't know who the second team is going to be Okay, then cahar. What about you? Who's going to one division one and who's the two teams that are going to drop down? Uh One of the carry carry would be my my favorites to one it At this stage of the year just because they're attacking Quality and tend to change three before the thing is really really tactical and bogged down Who's going down it could be There's a lot of teams and in that mix. I think kildare well there Our ma's a big second season for them second season's always always tricky There's only what six teams in the last decade outside of the big size only six teams in the last decade I've survived more than a year in division one of those four got really good in their second season. So That's uh, that's what our ma's challenge looks like. Um, they'll be there I think to ruin just for the nature of their winter again Um, I think we'll we'll be looking at staying up in morning to have a say up So that's your that's your four at the bottom for me Okay, I'm gonna go all stand out of it then cahar. What would you tell us? Maybe maybe three five at the bottom and three at the top He's been nice actually Uh, what about sam mcguire cahar? Who are you talking for it? Hi look I honestly honestly think that Because we're not talking about them. There's very little focus and and the fact that Couple of things have gone for in the last couple of months Mayo are are praying to I just I just think you know, they've been the last two all year in finals You look back last year's all year in final and had they taken their old chances in the first 20 minutes That's a totally different game. Austin moan staying at home was enormous. Um, what what level of fitness killing a corner gets up to but Sprint mentioned ryan adonahue tommy conroy Matthew ryan those boys are all a year older. You're stronger I just I just think that my whole team is is sitting on the on the cusp of it If you're looking you're looking for a way outside bet definitely definitely male. There's teams there carry double and all the rest but Just male could be the team for me. Had a big call by cahar brennan Yeah, it is but like it makes a lot of sense, you know They're not we know they're not going to be far away because they've competed so well over the last number of years and they have got a great impetus boost with the Availability of ashi mullen killian coming back and you know, he mentioned tommy conroy and ryan adonahue there too And an inside line they're going to take some stop and so they are and I just feel You know that they've got so close and so many occasions that they are going to push Everything out to make sure that they can't get across the line this year and you know Kerry have the issues defensively. We're doubling at after last year will be the big question. I think So who are you tipping then? I'm tipping doubling Brendan kill coin and cahar okay, and good to see you. Good to talk to you. Thanks for joining us on highland today to look forward to the league Thanks


Hi everybody, my name is Romain and welcome to this technical introduction to TouchFX. In this presentation, I will first go through what is TouchFX, I will explain the workflow and the main activities to follow during development, and then I will present how to get started with the TouchFX project. What to expect of this presentation? While it is aimed to developers new to TouchFX and people interested in developing graphical user interfaces, the objective is to get to know TouchFX and the workflow of a GUI project by discovering the tools and understanding the development steps. For further reading, you can find the slides with extra content in the TouchFX online documentation. You can go through the other presentations, workshops and tutorials to understand how TouchFX works and how to get started with your project. What is TouchFX? TouchFX is a GUI library delivered as an STM32 expansion package within the STID ecosystem. It consists of three components, a Cubemax plugin called TouchFX Generator, a PC tool called TouchFX Designer, which will help you in the first GUI development steps, and an embedded library called TouchFX Engine running on any STM32 microcontroller. With TouchFX, nice and smooth advanced embedded user interfaces can be developed on a wide range of STM32 microcontrollers. The main tool used during the GUI development will be TouchFX Designer. It offers easy drag and drop programming with automatic C++ generation, which can then be further modified by developers for advanced animations or optimization. To start developing prototypes using an STM32 evaluation kit, it is required to download TouchFX Designer and to download STM32 Q-Programmer, a free ST software tool needed to flash the projects on boards. They are both found on ST official website. For projects using custom STM32-based platforms or in order to configure ST evaluation kits, it is required to download Cubemax, a free graphical tool used to configure STM32 microcontrollers. We recommend to use STM32 Cubed ID for programming STM32 products, but another tool chain or ID can be set within Cubemax. In this section will be explained the structure of a TouchFX project, the workflow and the tools involved in the entire project development cycle. A TouchFX project involves a set of activities that will be addressed in the development phase. The effort in each of them depends on what the goal of the project is. For a UI prototype, it is possible to use pre-made code for major parts of the application, spinning up the development by skipping most of these activities. For a full project based on a custom-made board, it is mandatory to address each of these activities. A TouchFX project is made up of five main software and hardware components, with each of the activities generating one of those main components. The TouchFX engine is not the output of any of the activity, but is still the starting point of a TouchFX project. The hardware selection activity is the initial activity in a TouchFX project. For a UI prototype, the hardware selection activity is only a matter of selecting an available SEM32 evaluation kit. For a custom hardware solution, there are a lot of choices to be made and issues to be considered, like the MCU performance, memory setup or display size. The selected hardware components and PCD can influence the graphical user interface application. If a board has not been set yet, it is possible to start the GUI development by just using the TouchFX simulator that runs on PC. This activity is a central task to enable TouchFX to be executed on your board. The output component is called Board Initialization Code, which is a general initialization code that setups the MCU and all peripherals, preparing it for application execution. This code is independent of TouchFX, as it only handles the pure hardware setup. The main tool for this activity is Cubamex to configure the MCU and generate general setup code. For peripherals, such as external RAM and display, additional initialization code and specific peripheral drivers may need to be added by users. It is also possible to do the entire board initialization code without the use of Cubamex, but it is not recommended unless you have expert knowledge on STM32 and board bring up. The TouchFX abstraction layer development activity, also known as TouchFX All Development Activity, is key in making the TouchFX engine work on top of the fully initialized display board. The output component is called TouchFX Abstraction Layer, and it is a software layer that is an abstraction of your hardware and enables the TouchFX engine to run on top of your board. The main tool in this activity is TouchFX Generator, which is a Cubamex plugin that allows you to configure and generate most of the TouchFX All code. It is important to notice that for the TouchFX All to work, it is crucial that the board bring up activity has been successfully configured. The UI development activity is where the user interface code is developed. This activity might take most of the project development time since this is what will make up the visible part of the TouchFX project. The component is called the TouchFX UI application. The main tools in this activity are TouchFX Designer and an IDE or text editor. In TouchFX Designer, users will set up, design and create the screens of the application and generate main parts of the UI application as C++ code. For the application logic, like handling events, communicating with the non-UI part of the system, like sensors, users will use an IDE or text editor to write C++ code that will coexist and interact with the generated code from TouchFX Designer. If the aim is to do a UI prototype or just to try out TouchFX, the project can be created based on existing application template, or AT, for one of the standard STM32 evaluation kits available in TouchFX Designer. These include all of the board initialization and TouchFX all code needed. The ATs are based on a Cubemax configuration, so it is possible for users to modify the configuration for their own experiments. TouchFX Designer is the main tool developers will use to develop the graphical user interface of their project. It is possible to start a project from scratch or to select from a wide range of pre-made UI demos and STKit application templates. If the aim is to test TouchFX or develop a UI without any hardware platform, the project can be created and run on the PC simulator. The simulator can be used for UI development in parallel to the hardware development. Application templates for some of STD's display kits and partners platforms can be found in this section. It is possible to add custom application templates for STM32-based platforms. The graphical user interface can be started from scratch or using pre-configured quick examples and demos. The UI examples available can be used to understand the concept and functionalities of TouchFX Designer. They can be used as a start or as inspiration for user code. After creating your project, the canvas view is entered. TouchFX Designer offers multiple widgets like graphs or progress bars and interaction functionalities to help start the UI. After adding a background and a button for example, it is possible to directly run the UI with the simulator or on a board from TouchFX Designer. Here we have added a box widget and a button widget. We change the size of the box by dragging it in order to cover the entire screen and use it as a background. We set the color in the properties tab on the right. We then run the simulator to see the look of the UI and test the button's reaction. Selecting an application template for STM32-based kits will generate a fully configured project. Those ATs will use STM32 Q-by-D as the pre-selected tool chain. Q-by-D is a free software tool used for programming STM32 products. With this tool, projects can be flashed on target directly. The projects folder has a Generate STM32 Q-by-D project. To open it, it is only necessary to double click it. TouchFX Designer will generate C++ code for the project done within it. Users can then write extending code to create the logic behind the GUI project. Users' codes needs to be implemented in the GUI folder. After creation, TouchFX Designer will only regenerate files within the generated folder. A UI template is a good starting point to understand how to work with both generated and user code. The assets folder is where images, text, and fonts are stored. Assets can be manually added through this folder or directly from TouchFX Designer. The app, config, and simulator folders should not be modified. Those folders and files are configured to be able to work with Qubemax, other tool chains, and with the simulator available in TouchFX Designer. The target folder is where the TouchFX HAL, GPIOs, and the TouchController are configured. The folder follows the same logic with generated files and other configurable files. A Qubemax project is created once done from an application template in Designer. Qubemax is a free graphical tool that will allow users to easily configure an MCU and modify its peripherals. To work with a different ID than SDM32QID, it is possible to modify the tool chain in the Projects Manager tab. When working with a custom board, it is necessary to go back through the first three activities of a TouchFX project. The SDQID's application templates can be used as inspiration to help configure the custom platforms. It is recommended to start a project from Qubemax only when working on a custom hardware solution. The steps to follow to start a project from Qubemax from scratch are explained in the board bring up presentation and in the documentation. It is possible to work on the GUI and the board bring up in parallel. One team will configure the hardware and TouchFX all development through Qubemax and the other team will develop the GUI on TouchFX Designer by working on the simulator.