Live from Las Vegas. It's theCUBE, covering ServiceNow Knowledge 2018. Brought to you by ServiceNow. Welcome back to theCUBE's live coverage of ServiceNow Knowledge 18, hashtag no18. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with Dave Vellante. We are joined by Gemma Kyle. She is the head of management assurance at MLC. She's straight from Sydney, so welcome Gemma. Thank you, thank you very much. Let's start off by having you tell our viewers a little bit about MLC. Sure, so MLC is a life insurance company. It's interestingly Australia's oldest and newest life insurance company. We were recently sold by National Australia Bank to Nippon Life, a Japanese life insurance company. And we are now, thanks to the investment of capital from Nippon into MLC life insurance, Australia's newest standalone life insurance company. So we come as a 130 year old company with 1.4 million customers, but also we're investing in new technology, new infrastructure, new processes, new business operations. So insurance is one of those industries that hasn't been radically disrupted. And I wonder what the conversation is like internally. Is there complacency? Not in our industry, not in my lifetime. I'll be retired by then. Or is there paranoia? Yeah, it's a great question. Look, it hasn't been disrupted, but it will be. I can't talk for the American market, but certainly in the Australian market, we have 17 players right now, and we know that they're going to consolidate down to eight or nine. And we want to be one of those eight or nine. The disruption is going to come from the fact that previously there had been complacency. Customers had not been communicated with, invariably because their life insurance sits within a broader wealth management product called superannuation. Now, what's happening is customers are becoming more informed, more demanding, and want access to more flexible and innovative products that can follow them through their life cycles of marriage and children and mortgage. And we really need to be on the front foot to offer the right kind of products and life insurance products to meet our customer's need. So superannuation was not a term that I was familiar with, and I know we go too deep into it, but it's basically Australia's version of Social Security, except you can see your money, you can invest, you have control over where it goes, and it's yours. That's correct. It's not just some black hole. Yeah, that's correct. Okay, nice. Yeah. I was just thinking about, when you were talking about how customers are starting to demand more, so when you think about digital transformation, is that what's leading the charge, would you say? Absolutely, absolutely. Now, when we talk about digital transformation, it's really about breaking down the silos that previously existed within companies, and it's not just life insurance companies, it's all types of financial services. So previously, we would have the actuaries who do the pricing of our products, and the advisors who sell our products were the gods of the insurance industry. Now, when we look towards digital transformation, it becomes technology, it becomes process, and it becomes risk management and control that are in the ascendancy. And this is really critical because customers are looking to self-serve. They want to make their own choices, and so that's where we need to meet them, and so we need to break down the traditional barriers between the silos and have a single platform that we can use the data analytics to better serve our customers. So the advisors are getting disrupted by the whole self-service trend. The actuaries, are we getting robo-actuaries now with machines? Well, I don't see why not. Hey, the data's there. Yeah, absolutely. We are actually required under regulation to have a chief actuary, and that absolutely makes sense. But what we're starting to have now is automatic underwriting engines. So previously, you would apply for an insurance policy and the underwriter would come in, who has an actuarial background, and they'd price the risk you present to the business. These days, we have sufficient data that as soon as you put your information into the system, we can automatically approve a policy for you. But that automated underwriting, and it's an example of the type of disruption we're starting to see. But humans are still the last mile, if necessary. Is that right? Absolutely, absolutely. You know, advisors are important because they help our customers understand their financial need. And advisors are very strongly regulated within the Australian market. They're required to be, to have a qualification. And we've recently seen changes to our legislation around the requirement to evidence that they're treating customers honestly, efficiently, and fairly, and selling them products that they need, not that they have been encouraged to sell by another supplier. What's your biggest challenge? Top three. Yeah, yeah, top three. Look, without a doubt, it's cultural change. Cultural change. By cultural change, I mean, you know, the behaviors and the beliefs that surround not just internally how we manage risk and compliance, but also externally around how customers perceive the insurance industry. We definitely suffer from a lack of trust. Now, the disruption that we're facing is that customers are saying, hey, we don't trust you. And it's not well founded. It actually doesn't bear out in the data in terms of how we pay our claims and how we service our customers. But there's certainly an image problem there. So we think we need to service, we think we need to address this cultural issue from the inside out. We need to fix ourselves and make sure that we can, with integrity, defend the decisions we make around how we service our customers. And then in turn, have customers really trust us, see what we do, trust us by how we behave, not just what we say. When you're talking about the behaviors, changing the behaviors, how is security risk compliance? How is that all perceived within your company? Yeah, yeah. Well, like I said, the actuaries are king. They have sophisticated data models through which they can price policies. And where we've traditionally been with risk and compliance is very much in a qualitative space around actions that are undertaken or sensors that things aren't working as well as what they should do. What we've started to do, and this service now has been absolutely critical to this journey, we're starting to shift the conversation away from risk and compliance and towards business process and control. We're shifting the conversation away from a focus on risk exposures or the things that you must do and onto the cost-benefit analysis of control investment options. And that allows our executive and our board to start to use data and analytics to drive decision-making around where we need to focus our efforts. So you're turning all this kind of back-office risk-oriented stuff into a value proposition for the organization. How can you talk a little bit more on how service now participates in that process? Sure. The ultimately, the value proposition, it is about behaviors, but the value proposition is all around being able to defend the decisions that you make, being able to demonstrate with data and analytics, and being able to put a quantified amount of money on the bottom line around what's the value to actually changing our behaviors or changing the way we manage your process. Service now is obviously critical to that because they have this amazing performance analytics engine that enables us to draw data out of the system as it relates to business process, as it relates to operational loss events, as it relates to customer complaints, as it relates to asset management, and integrate it to tell a story of where we're most exposed to loss today and potential loss tomorrow. It's a very powerful tool that even our, even our surprisingly CEO, not only does he now use his app that we've created for him, but he personally calls people in the office to say, hey, I see you've got an overdue action here, what are you doing about it? Now, I know, nobody wants that call. Nobody wants that call, and so consequently, we've got this incredible tone from the top that reinforces how important it is to pay attention to your controls, to your obligations, to genuinely own them, and that's where you start to see the cultural change. You don't do business in Europe, do you? No. Is there a GDPR equivalent in Australia if you're familiar with GDPR? No, sorry. Okay, so it's all about privacy. So the GDPR, the fines going to affect this month, it doesn't affect you because you're not doing business in Europe, but is there something similar in Australia where if a customer says, I want to know what data you have on me, or I want you to delete that data, you have to prove that, it's quite onerous, but is there anything similar? Absolutely, absolutely. So we've actually got two things.  The government's just recently introduced CPS 147, which is a prudential standard around data breaches. Now previously, if there was a breach of data, so say for example, we accidentally send a letter to the wrong customer, and in that letter it has personal details about somebody's medical history. Now previously, that was not okay from a privacy perspective, but it wasn't notifiable to the regulator. With CPS 147, we now have a notifiable data breach system, it's just come in place, and we have to notify the regulator when we breach somebody's privacy, somebody's data, and we could be subject to fines. And does the ServiceNow platform play a role in that, in terms of just tracking the notification, or compliance, or? Absolutely, absolutely. When the change in legislation was introduced, we simply added literally another little tick box into our operational loss event module to say, is this a data breach? And just simply by doing that, now when you log a loss event, and you tick that little box, we can see from across the company, where are our data breaches happening? And is there a cluster? Is there something here that's telling us that we've got a systemic problem that we need to fix? As soon as it came in, we're automatically reporting on it. One of the things we're hearing is that there's so much great customer learning that takes place at Knowledge. Are you finding that? Are you talking with a lot of customers and about how you use the platform as a success? Absolutely, I mean, this is a really exciting conference. I'm really having such a good time, it's sort of overcoming my jet lag. It is very exciting. In Australia, we've already started some groups, so we work with other myself and my systems manager, Greg Dominish. The two of us tend to go to a lot of companies to talk about our experiences with the implementation of ServiceNow, what worked well, what didn't work well, and what we would do better, because we want to create a community of practice. We want to lift the practice of risk management above where it currently sits. And so walking around here, so many networking events, and this hall in particular is wonderful. So yeah, it's talking to lots of other customers. They're just sharing, you know, sharing innovations. It's very exciting here. How long, when did you go live with ServiceNow? Okay, so we went live, let's see, probably in, the first GRC module went live in June 2017. We then had another iteration in September 2017. So we've basically spread it out to make sure the next modules were looking to introduce a business continuity management. Each time we follow the same, we use the PPM tool that ServiceNow provides to actually implement the modules, but then we have a process that we follow ourselves in terms of putting in the data, cleaning it, categorizing it, making sure we've got the analytics right, and then we step to the next module. So we're just, interestingly enough, cultural change doesn't happen once you've implemented the system. Cultural change starts at the very point where you recognize there's an opportunity to do better. So as we implement each module, we're also maturing our practices, and we're also changing the culture of how the business approaches risk and compliance. And what's your relationship with IT and all of this? How does that all work? Look, it's very close. It's part of the transformation journey that those silos still exist, and they exist because we all create our own languages for understanding our world and how we engage with the business. Now, it's about breaking down those barriers, so we work very closely with them on security management, on business continuity management, and on incident management. And we're going through, we're going through the process now of aligning our language so that once we have that shared language, we have the shared data, and we can really become quite powerful. Well, Gemma, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. It's been a really fun conversation. Thank you very much. It's been nice to hear. I'm Rebecca Knight for Dave Vellante. We will have more from Sir...


So I am back with another Cyberpunk iconic weapon guide, and this one is for another one off, that if you missed when the opportunity came up, it's gone for good. Today we have a quick guide on how you can grab this iconic weapon called the Widow Makeup. How's it going guys, my name's DPJ and if you enjoyed this video, leaving a like really helps out, and if you'd like what you see and want to see more of Cyberpunk, be sure to subscribe. So later on within the store mission, the main store mission, you will meet a lady called Panem and start doing missions with her. You will eventually get to a mission called Ghost Town, which is the ninth mission along the main questline after the prologue. Now during this mission, and I will try my best not to spoil it for you, you will have to go retrieve Panem's keys to her car. Once you get this part of the mission done, she then talks about getting revenge on Nash with you, which you want to agree to do with her. Once you agree you will head to a cave like system where you eventually get to Nash and his clan.  So once you've taken them all out, Nash is also here somewhere. For me he was a little buggy but I eventually killed him. Upon looting buddies, make sure you locate and loot Nash. As I won't lie guys, I picked up this weapon and didn't even know where it came from as it wasn't until running around last night that I realised I had this beast. So I went back over hours of footage and I realised it was Nash I looted for this weapon, the Widowmaker. So it's easily missable. So this tech precision rifle, this rare iconic, and remember guys iconic weapons can be upgraded so if you find one you like and want to upgrade it to continue using it and making it even more powerful, it's as simple as finding materials to use to upgrade weapons. So looking at this weapon's item card you can understand why I needed to let you guys know about it. With its 278 damage per second stat with a 12.41 attack per second it's quite a beast. It's a tech weapon so it can be charged to release a powerful shot. It deals plus 16 to 20 chemical damage, it's got a 2 charge time and a 0.2 charge multiplier, plus 33% poison chance with a real high 1.5 headshot multiplier. Description is Nash's rifle, looks like he won't be needing it anymore. Fires 2 projectiles per shot and deals chemical damage with an increased chance to apply poison. Charge shots deal more damage. So yes guys, definitely grab this weapon if it isn't too late for you. This is a must have and will certainly help you along the way. So the Widowmaker is a weapon exclusive to killing Nash when working with Panam within the ghost town mission which is a part of the main story quest, the ninth mission along after the prologue. If all dialogue options are correct with Panam you will get a chance to go and kill Nash and take out his allies. Upon doing this loot Nash's body and you will be rewarded this incredible Widowmaker precision rifle. And on that note guys the end of the video has arrived, just another short but sweet one, a quick guide and if that's what you like with Cyberpunk quick guides make sure you check out my channel and subscribe if you like what you see. Guys if you enjoyed this video leaving a like really helps out. Join my discord for way more Cyberpunk chat and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


So I just bought tickets to LA. And that is because I am going to the Elton John Oscars after party, which sounds like a lot of fun. So I'm going tomorrow.  I do that pretty much always actually, but when it comes to trips, actually, I'm lying to you.  I actually take more trips last minute than I do when I plan them. Like I actually love to do this. And every time I do it, I'm like, this is so spontaneous and fun. And then I'm like, Brad, you literally do this every single time. Like you actually never plan trips because it's more fun that way. Makes life a little more zesty.  What am I gonna wear? I am trying to figure it out right now currently, but I will keep you updated. Fun fact, I didn't even know what the Oscars was for a second today. I knew it was an award show. I do know that. I, Sia, please, daddy's trying to film. I now know that the Oscars is like for television and movies and like people who work on them, right? And actors and actresses, right? We will find out this weekend. And I will let you know if that's right or not. I'm sure a lot of you guys watching are like, what the fuck, Brad? The Oscars, we all know what the Oscars is.    Hopefully we can get a little more educated. I'll see you at the airport or something, I don't know. Or tomorrow. Probably what I'm stressed out packing, I'll let you know how that goes. Great. I'm on the airplane. Off. Okay. It's gonna be in LA. Well, I actually know I'm gonna be in LA in like six hours, so. So fun. Fun fact that me is that I don't like flying. Except I've gotten better at it. I got trail mix this season five because I think it's the original. It's too flavorless for me. But I'm excited to dig into this vegan goodness that they're about to serve me on this flight. Like, I'm really, please tell me it's good. Please, please be good. I usually fly jet blue. So I'm cheating on jet blue. And I'm interested in seeing what we got going on.  I really like it.  I just said I hate flying and now I want to be a flight reviewer. Like, that doesn't make any sense. So I'm in Valencia right now. And I found this really cool suit but it does not fit me at all. It is just the pants on. But guys, it's an inside out suit.  But this doesn't fit me at all. So, this isn't gonna work on to the next store. Damn it, bro. These would have been sick. And if they had the matching blazer that's inside out too. And it's like Balenciaga print all over it. I don't know. It's not meant to be, you know?  I know I look ugly. I mean, I look very straight in this. And there are no suits anywhere because of the Oscars, which I expected. But like, I didn't expect it to be this bad. Like, this is the best we can do right now.  Somebody help me. Somebody help me. What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? Fuck, no. I mean, not with this shirt, but like.  No. This is not an outfit, so don't judge it. I don't know what this is. I think I'd wear no shirt, Ernie. I mean, honestly, the top part is kind of cute. Okay, update. I was in San Laurent for a really long time. This amazing guy. Shout out to Chase at the Beverly Hill. What is it? Beverly Hill's location. Are we at a drive location? You're amazing. And I think I've had an outfit. It's definitely a little more casual than I was thinking, but it's really cool. Very San Laurent, very sexy, and it might be the vibe. Yes, I'm wearing the same thing I wore two days ago, but in my defense, I only wore it on the flight. I also packed an overweight 55 pound piece of luggage with like three different suits, about 10 different shirts, three different pairs of jeans, five pairs of shoes, and am I going to wear any of that? No. And will I keep wearing the same shirt every day I'm here? Yes. So anyways, today is the Oscar party day.  I want them black, I know that. I don't know if I should get a design on them. I have difficult nails, okay? They're really ugly right now, it's like, don't come for me, but usually when they do them, they have to really do them right or else they get even uglier.    So there's my answer. I'm not doing a design. Today is not the day to risk it. I did find my outfit yesterday, by the way. Is that leather? Oh my, that's all you get to see, sorry. Am I going to be this sluttiest guy there in this outfit? Yes. There's a lot of skin showing. You'll see later. I also worked out today, so that was fun. I'm feeling a little like errr. I'm feeling like a pump going on. Feeling the testosterone, baby.   All right, I'm going to be late. Listen, I walked by a Trader Joe's.  Like, first of all, I don't know why.  That's my Trader Joe's haul for today. And I know that I'm the only one who walks in LA, but I just can't help it.  It's the New Yorker and me. It just wants to walk. Look at this weather. How could I not walk? This is super awkward before I'm staring at you. You don't like it? Okay. I'm here. Somebody, I have zero clue where I am. I should probably get back and start getting ready.  Who am I kidding? What do I have to do? Literally nothing. Oh, by the way. By the way, look at my nails done. We went with black. They're actually really pretty. You did a great job. Shout out to Kevin. And it took like five minutes and it was great. I hate waiting to get my nails done.  But Kevin slayed it. It was also really inexpensive. So that was nice. This is kind of aesthetic. Shall I take a picture here? I took a shower. I'm smelling good. It's time to get ready. No, this is not the outfit for tonight. I also, I just want to tell everybody that I forgot my purple shampoo.  You know, so I do just pretend it's white and not yellow. Thank you. I'm feeling excited.  I might have a little cocktail right now. I can't decide though. We gotta pace ourselves or else shit's gonna get too wild. You know, when you're around famous people all night and very successful people, you know, it's not a great idea to get wasted. Will I get wasted? I don't know. Okay, I don't know what's going to happen. Okay, it's fine. I'm a very friendly drunk. So it's cute. It'll be cute. The hair was looking mad. I had to cover it up.  I do my own makeup for events, which isn't crazy, but like every single time I go somewhere, they're like, do you want to get your makeup done? And I'm like, no. Because I go from boy to drag queen way too quick. It is like two seconds and I'm a drag queen. I'm like, whoa. Let's calm down with the concealer, please, you know? So we don't do that anymore.  Ooh, it might taste a bit.  Neutrogena Hydro Boost.  It is so good. I was using like high-end makeup for the longest time for my foundation.  If you like a literal, like your skin to look naturally perfect, ooh, this is it. Wait, you know how I always say to not wrap your hair in a towel? Ha, now I'm wrapping my hair in a towel. It's only because I just don't wanna look ugly right now. And just like that, the makeup is done.  And I feel cute. It'll all come together, you know what I mean? Like once the hair is there, once the outfit's there, it'll be great. I feel cute, I feel good. This is a good sign, when the makeup goes well, the night will go well. I'm manifesting that, so. I forgot to show you guys, but I'm putting in electric rain. Wait, electrified volume foam. I put it in my hair, literally like this. And then I'm taking this really shitty con-air blow dryer that literally doesn't work. And I'm going like this with my hands and putting heat on it. There's like no heat in this, but it gives me these like kind of natural looking waves. I want my hair to look really textured and like lived in and like really slutty. Cause that's the vibe for tonight. Slutty Oscars. I just want to look like I didn't try. And obviously no look of mine is ever complete without BDSM's like a defined balm.  It's the best product in the world. This will give me like that PC texture, but it'll also hydrate my hair at the same time.   It looks like I slept on my hair for three days and didn't wash it. It's a good sign. Glam. Check.  And pick out jewelry. My favorite part. Sorry, but I look good. Sorry. I'm like, hello? Is the party over here or is it over there? Okay, it's here. Yay, cool. I'm trying to decide what the vibe is with the jewelry. I have this like pearl necklace. It looks like this. Or I have like this fine, you know, kinda cute, kinda cute. Or I could do this, which is like long, you know what I mean? But like for now, bitch, I like I hide. I'm also wearing leather pants. So it's very like BDSM me, which is like obviously always the vibe. Okay, I'm getting nervous. I gotta go back. Christopher, you ready? Yeah, which big? Gorgeous, honey. Sure, this jacket's the right one. Gorgeous, darling. Let's do it. Terrified, I'm not orange. What? No, I'm just really white.  Something is going on. I'm really white. And we're about to find out what these bitches got on the internet. It's the next day. I'm exhausted. I'm going home. Last day was a lot of fun. Thanks for following along on the journey. I ended up loving my outfit, loving the whole look. The pictures came out so cute. Go check them out on Instagram. And yeah, I needed an app. What a weekend. So that's it. If you guys wanna check out more videos, you can do that. Or you can shop my haircare, my hair color line, link down below. And that's all for today. Thank you so much for watching.  And I'll see you next time. Bye.


A warm welcome to the 34th lecture on the subject of wavelets and multirate digital signal processing. This lecture intends to build upon the structure that we started discussing in the previous lecture. Let us recall in a few words what we were trying to do in the previous lecture. We were trying to build a modular structure to realize the orthogonal analysis filter bank. We noted that in building a modular structure, we would have an inductive approach, an approach where we would construct the smallest order orthogonal filter of length 2 and we demonstrated how the Haar analysis filter bank can be so constructed. And then to expand the length by 2 every time, we would need to introduce an expansion module, an inductive module. We introduced that inductive module and we proved by mathematical induction that you get an orthogonal filter bank of length 2 more every time we introduce one instance of that module. Now, this was constructive in the sense that we assumed that we were drawing a structure of this kind. We were putting together modules of this kind and we noted that we had the conjugate quadrature filter relationship or relationship in which the orthogonal filter bank conditions on the analysis filter side were obeyed. But what we wanted to do was to go the other way. Given an orthogonal filter bank, we needed to construct such a lattice structure which could realize the orthogonal filter bank. So, for example, if you had a Dobash filter of length 4, you would want to construct a lattice structure to realize it. And it was in that direction that we wrote down the recursions that govern the modular structure and we were trying to use those recursions to go one step back to peel off one layer as it were. Let us build on that peeling off process further today. Now, what we said was something like this. We said you have one modular stage like this here. You had the system functions h m z come up to here, h m tilde z come up to there. And assuming that we had taken the down sampler well beyond. So, the down sampler is at the end after all the modules. What appears next here is a z to the power minus 2. Following that, we have the m plus 1th lattice coefficient as it were which we called k m plus 1 here. And the negative of the same coefficient here minus k m plus 1. And this brought us to the next system function which we called h m plus 1 z. And h m plus 1 tilde z where we noted that the conjugate quadrature relation between h m and h m tilde is preserved in h m plus 1 and h m plus 1 tilde. What we mean by that is given that h m tilde z is z raised to the power minus 2 m minus 1.  So, the conjugate quadrature relation is carried. It is carried past the module that is what we are saying. Now, what we want to do is to go the other way. So, our construction construction of a lattice structure essentially means go the other way trying h m plus 1 and h m plus 1 tilde to h m and h m tilde. And h m plus now towards that objective we need to write down the recursive expression the inductive expression again that would give us a clue how to go backwards.    Now, if we observe these two relations carefully and we wish to extract h m in terms of h m plus 1 and h m plus 1 tilde all that we need to do as we see is to cancel out this term. And that is easily done by multiplying this expression by minus k m plus 1.    So, we have eliminated h m tilde. So, we have an easy way now of obtaining h m from h m plus 1 and h m plus 1 tilde. Now, you know what we are doing here in terms of real computations or actual realization is starting from a higher order filter and going one step lower in the lattice. And what we have just shown is if you know the higher order filter you of course know its conjugate quadrature filter. Once you know h m plus 1 it is easy to construct h m plus 1 tilde all that you do is to replace z by minus z inverse in the argument and then multiply by z raised to the power a sufficient negative power. So, as to make it causal we shall illustrate this specifically for length 4 in a short while, but let us get the algebra complete first.  Now, let us look at the validity of an expression like this validity means is this expression computable does it make sense. Now, of course this definitely makes sense there is no problem, but we do not know what k m plus 1 is we need to reason that out and that will also require little bit of reasoning. So, if I knew k m plus 1 this is in fact very easy to compute and so is the denominator there. So, all that we have to do is to reason out how to find k m plus 1 and in fact that we shall do by looking back at the forward recursion once again, but you know as far as this denominator is concerned here the validity of division by 1 plus k m plus 1 squared cannot be questioned as long as k m plus 1 is real. If k m plus 1 is real we have no problem of validity at all because this is definitely going to be a non negative strictly non zero quantity. So, all that we need to do is to obtain k m plus 1 how and that is done very easily by looking at the forward recursion. In fact, here again we will need to do a bit of inductive reasoning.  Now, notice that h m plus 1 is going to be of length 2 into m plus 1 and these are going to be of length 2 into length 2 m. So, this factor of z raise the power of minus 2 is going to push this length 2 m filter 2 steps forward and that is how you are going to get a length of 2 into m plus 1. You know this pushing forward by 2 is what increases the length by 2. So, this is critical as you can see in increasing the length. Let us make a simple observation about the coefficient of z raise the power of 0. We shall show now inductively coefficient of z raise the power 0 in h m z is always 1 for all m. In fact, this is true in the basis step. You will recall that in the basis step the system functions were very simple. They were essentially 1 plus k 1 z inverse and minus k 1 plus z inverse and here of course, this was the coefficient of z raise the power of 0 in h 1 z if you please and therefore, it is true. Now, we shall use the inductive step to continue this proof. Let it be true for h m, m greater than equal to 1.  And let us go back a couple of steps in our reasoning when we wrote this equation. You know you can visualize the situation. Where would the z raise the power of 0 coefficient here come from? It would be a combination of the z raise the power of 0 coefficient here and if any in this term. But please note that in this term, you have a z raise the power of minus 2 common to all the terms in this expansion. So, this was of length 2 m and by multiplying by z raise the power minus 2, the lowest power of z inverse in this entire term is 2 now. So, you have no z raise the power of 0 term here. The only z raise the power of 0 term is here and that has been assumed by induction to be 1 and that is carried over here. So, it is this equation which carries over the z raise the power of 0 term from here to here making it 1 again. Let us write that down clearly. So, what we are saying is in this recursion, the z raise the power of 0 term is carried from here to here and of course, by inductive assumption if the z raise the power of 0 term is 1 here, it is also 1 there. So, this completes the inductive proof. So, now we know the coefficient of z raise the power of 0 is always going to be 1 in all the h m's. Now, it is very easy to see what k m plus 1 is. So, in fact, let us go back to the same equation that we used a minute ago. Let us look at this equation once again here.  Now, let us understand what h m till day z is all about. So, h m till day z we have assumed in fact, we have shown inductively that it must be of the form z raise the power minus 2 m minus 1 h m minus z inverse and h m said we know what that looks like. So, h m z looks like this.  Now, if you want to be very careful, you should superscribe this with m here to emphasize that this corresponds to the m th system function. So, I will do that to be careful. So, all we are saying is these are the impulse response coefficients or the impulse response points in h m and you know that the coefficient of z raise the power of 0 is 1. So, this is the form of the system function h m z. As a consequence, h m till day z is now going to be of the following form. You know h m till day z is first going to have z replaced by minus z inverse here.  So, if you look at what is happening, these positive powers are going to be shadowed over by this negative power. So, for example, the h 2 m minus 1 m term is going to have z raise the power of 0 with it now and then you are going to have increasing negative powers of z as you come down and finally, this is going to correspond to z raise the power minus 2 m minus 1 right there. So, let us write the expansion again.  This is important and now making this observation, the coefficient of the highest and of course, odd negative power of z in h m till day is 1 and we carry that here. So, the coefficient of the highest power of z inverse in h m plus 1 is only going to come from here it cannot come from here. The highest negative power here is z raise the power minus 2 m minus 1, but since this is of length 2 into m plus 1 the highest negative power of z inverse here is going to be too larger than the highest negative power here and that can only come from here and in fact, as you can see that must be k m plus 1. So, what we are saying in effect is as a consequence of this let us write it down clearly as a consequence of h m plus 1 z is equal to h m z plus k m plus 1 z to the power minus 2 h m till day z and you know what the form of h m till day z is.  So, now we have a very simple way of obtaining k m plus 1 k m plus 1 is simply the coefficient of the highest negative power of z. So, once you have the final system function which you are trying to peel off stage by stage look at the coefficient of the highest negative power of z and that itself is the first lattice coefficient simple. So, once you know k m plus 1 you know how to go down descend one step once we know k m plus 1 we can peel off one module.  So, notionally we have got h m z h m z was a system function after the previous module, but this is notional. What we need to worry about is does h m z really have a length of 2 less now instead of again trying to do the algebra generally here as we have been doing so far. So, this was the general algebra it will be easier for us to take a specific example and see how this works. So, let us take a length 4 orthogonal filter that length 4 filter could for example be the Dovash length 4 filter, but anyway we shall not put specifically the numerical values of the impulse response coefficients because we do not need to understand how this recursion works. We would find it much easier to just carry out the recursion and demonstrate that it is feasible. So, let us take an example length 4 filter. So, it would have a form 1 plus h 1 z inverse plus h 2 z raised to minus 2 plus h 2 z raised to minus 3. So, we wish to peel off one stage. In other words what we are saying is we have this situation we have two stages of the lattice here. So, we know the system function here and therefore, also here known at this point and we wish to obtain k 2 and k 1 that is what we are saying. So, the problem is obtain k 2 and k 1.  What we discussed a few minutes before this namely that the most negative power of z reveals k to us. So, this essentially is k 2 and having noted that we can obtain one step lower. So, now we can construct if we call this h z or let us say h 2 z up to the second stage then we can also construct h 2 till day z. And h 2 till day z is going to be very simple it is going to be z raised to the power minus 3 h 2 minus z inverse which is z raised to power minus 3 1 minus h 1 z plus h 2 z squared minus h 3 z raised to the power of minus the power 3. So, h 2 till day z can be simplified it is minus h 3 plus h 2 z inverse minus h 1 z raised to the power minus 2 plus z raised to the power minus 3. So, all that we now need to do is to consider the numerator of notional h 1 z. That numerator is going to be h 1 z notionally as you remember was h 2 z minus k 2 h 2 till day z divided by 1 plus k 2 the whole squared. And if you only care to expand this. So, you know to expand the numerator it will be easier for me to write down the expansion in two lines one line for h 2 z and one line for minus k 2 h 2 till day z. So, h 2 z minus k 2 h 2 till day z and noting that k 2 is essentially h 3 we have 1 plus h 1 z inverse plus h 2 z raised to the power minus 2 plus h 3 z raised to the power minus 3 minus k 2 h 2 till day z which is minus h 3 z raised to the power minus 3 plus h 1 h 3 z raised to the power minus 2 and nothing else here. So, of course, we will just completed it is minus h 3 h 2 z raised to the power minus 1 and of course, plus h 3 squared here. Now, this is very interesting let us look at this expression carefully. Let us look at the coefficient of z raised to the power minus 3 this anyway becomes 0 identically. What is interesting is this the coefficient of z raised to the power minus 2 it is h 2 plus h 1 h 3, but let us go back to the basic requirement that we had on an orthogonal filter. Remember the whole idea in constructing the Dabash filter for example, was that the impulse response was orthogonal to its even translates. Let us put that condition down again and see what it gives us. So, 1 h 1 h 2 h 3 is orthogonal to 1 h 1 h 2 h 3 and that means h 2 into 1 plus h 3 into h 1 is 0. Now, go back to the coefficient of z raised to the power of minus 2 here that is h 2 plus h 1 h 3 low and behold that is the same as this and it is identically 0 on account of the orthogonality to even translates. So, let us make a note of that. So, this is 0 because of this orthogonality to even translates. So, what is left now remaining is 1 plus h 3 squared plus h 1 minus h 2 h 3 times z raised to the power minus 1. So, we are in a very good situation as far as h 2 z minus k 2 h 2 till there is concerned the length has gone down by 2 as we indeed wanted it to.  So, we have completed the lattice. So, this is the construction and as you can see for the dobash case this is going to work definitely all that it required is orthogonality to even translates nothing else was needed. Because of the orthogonality to even translates when we carried out the numerator part of the peeling process the length decreased by 2. Now, you know one must understand where there is something unusual here in going to h m of that matter h m till day from h m plus 1 of that matter h m plus 1 till day there was just a little bit of solution of 2 equations involved that could have been solved for any h m plus 1 and h m plus 1 till there is nothing very special about the form of h m or h m till day for that matter in writing down that downward step. However, what was important is that when you went from h m plus 1 to h m you needed the length to go down not by 1, but by 2 and this decrease of length by 2 is what brought in the requirement of orthogonality to even translates. So, it is only because of the orthogonality to even translates that the length decreased by 2 in the numerator part of the expansion and of course, once you were assured that the coefficient k which you had peeled off how did you peel off the coefficient k by looking at the coefficient of the highest negative power of z in h m plus 1. So, the coefficient of the highest negative power of z in h m plus 1 gave us yielded or in fact, clearly revealed the corresponding k of the outermost lattice stage. So, now, we can see how to peel off stage by stage we have done it specifically for a 2 stage lattice and it is not difficult to extend this to a 3 stage or a multi stage lattice beyond 3 stages. Now, a few remarks are in order here you know what we have done now is actually to demonstrate with an example that when you carry out this backward recursion let me now write down the more general backward recursion again let us make these observations.   What I mean by that is a denominator can pose a problem if it is 0 you cannot divide by 0. So, you are assured that this is not going to be 0 if k m plus 1 is real or in other words the coefficient of the highest power of z inverse is real you are guaranteed this denominator there is no there is not going to be any division by 0.  There is a denominator in the denominator length reduction of 2 and the justification you see reduction by 1 is easy. Essentially if you look at this numerator the coefficient of the highest power of z inverse here is k m plus 1 and the coefficient of the highest power of z inverse here without this would have been 1, but with this it is minus k m plus 1. So, that would cancel out. So, essentially reduction by 1 is easy it occurs by cancellation of highest power of z inverse, but the additional one step reduction additional reduction in degree by 1 is attributed to orthogonal to even translates. This is a very important observation this is where the orthogonality of the filter bank comes into play where it not an orthogonal filter bank that we were talking about we would of course, have trouble in getting this additional reduction of degree. Now finally, we need to complete this lecture by putting in a variant and that variant is essentially to transpose the structure that we have constructed. In other words how could we use the lattice structure that we have constructed to build a lattice structure for the synthesis side. So, let us complete this lecture by discussing this variant the synthesis variant. Now it is very easy to construct a synthesis variant essentially it is the transpose of the analysis lattice and what I shall do is to construct the synthesis variant first for a length 2 and then for a length 4 and that could illustrate how we could do it in general. So, length 2 synthesis lattice is essentially the transpose of this and you can visualize what the transpose will look like. Let us just go over it orally first and then draw it we would have the transpose with all these arrows reversed here. You would have up some plus at this point these arrows reversed the z inverse as it is this now becoming a summing point instead of a branching point and then resulting in the output here. So, let us draw the transpose there we are this is the transpose of a length 2 stage. Now all that we need to do to complete this discussion is to show the transpose of the inductive module.  Once we have the inductive modules and the basis module it is easy to construct the complete lattice on the synthesis side and now I leave it as an exercise for the class at the end of this lecture to work out the same kinds of recursions as we have done for the analysis side to construct the synthesis filter bank. Leaving that exercise to you we conclude the lecture here to observe that we can build a beautifully computational efficient structure called the lattice to realize an orthogonal analysis and now synthesis filter bank. Thank you.


People may ask, how do I pray daily? Well, there's no secret formula. To begin to pray, you have to decide to begin to pray. To pray daily, you have to choose to pray daily. There's no secret. There's nothing I can give to you, no trick that can make that easier. You have to determine within yourself that you're going to obey the leading of the Holy Spirit. You have to make that daily decision to implement these spiritual practices.  Think about the fact that the Holy Spirit gives us one of the fruits, which is self-control. Not Holy Spirit control, but self-control. In other words, he has given you the ability to control yourself. It's up to you whether or not you choose to use that which he has given to you.


I'm going to invite up in a moment one of my colleagues to just finish us off right here And I'm hoping I'm gonna see most of you or many at least at the awards reception tonight at 8 o'clock when we'll honor people who have fought for justice in this movement for a long time But I do need to take a moment personally right here because One of the things well, you know what helps keep me going and What helps make this possible is the Absolutely extraordinary bunch of people I work with at the drug policy lines They are I mean off the charts brilliant beautiful amazing people I mean many of you know them, but please just give a shout out. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you DPA Thank you. Thank you. Thank you You know I Feel proud about this moment and I feel proud about my colleagues and at this moment I'm gonna call up one of those I'm feeling very proud about these last few days because when I was asking around I was saying who was hitting it out of the park and this young woman's name kept coming up So Cassandra Federique will you come on up here? Oh for many reasons. I can't believe I'm standing right here And I'll give you two reasons The first reason was because yesterday I was on the hip-hop panel and Ethan came in and said you're too loud and I screamed back hip-hop ain't never been quiet Our board president Michael Skolnick looked at me. I was like you might want to turn that down and The second reason is because four years ago. I was at the drug policy reform conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico Who remembers Albuquerque? It was an amazing time. I was a young social worker two months into my internship at Drug Policy Alliance and I thought y'all were crazy. I Was like what is going on? You want to legalize weed? You want to give syringes? I don't understand This doesn't make any sense But I'm just trying to graduate the countdown was on my planner and I just wanted to get out of there forward four years later and Baby, I am drug policy fabulous Because honey despite what my boss Gabriel say it says the revolution will be luxurious You know you made a mistake giving me the mic Ethan So I want to say thank you I want to say thank you to everyone in this room that's been here year after year at all these drug policy reform conferences I want to say thank you to those that have laid the foundation For our present-day victories Thank you. I want to say thank you to Carl Hart for not being scared to bring science to this conversation I want to say thank you to Michelle Alexander for giving me the language Y'all can clap up more for that and I want to give a special special special. Thank you To vocal New York for opening my heart. It's two years ago Well four years ago. I didn't really know what this was about and being able to work with People that are most impacted by this war on drugs has changed my life has given me new meaning Has brought me to here to the altar for forgiveness Forgiving myself for the biases that I've had So I want to say to everyone in this room never give up on those that are against us Because I am here because I'm reformed So my board president Ira Glasser talked about this train and Alexis I know you're not gonna sing with me because I really want to sing Gladys Knight midnight train to Georgia But I know you won't do it So I'm gonna ask is the West Coast here. I'm even known from the East Coast. I'm gonna give you I want more try is the West Coast here is the South here is the Midwest here Where's the East Coast at and most importantly in my heart, where are my young reformers stand up young reformers? All of you stand up because it is our time Thank you for our foundation, but thank you because right now it's our time Is it not already people because in two years this is gonna be bigger on in a chocolate city of Washington, DC And that was it see you in two years


Hi, I'm George cow and in this short video. I want to share with you a tool that I've put together It's a free tool that could be Life-changing for you or for someone, you know, so please feel free to share this forward. It's going to be life-changing for me I know because I am as you can see from this tool. I'm now researching More affordable places to live right now. My wife and I live in the San Francisco Bay area Which is one of the most expensive places one of the most expensive cities and one of the most expensive countries in the world And if we were willing to relocate to a much cheaper place This would allow us both more freedom to study To serve generously like the way I serve generously is online as you probably know I create these free videos that give tips on how to create an online business doing what you love in an ethical way Authentic marketing joyful productivity how to how to do how to Be in flow and joy and calm this while you work on with purpose and healthy money is also what I love talking about so if you know my wife right now is very very accommodating and of me doing this crazy exploration, but where I'm just in the beginning stages I'm hoping that maybe you could help out too or know someone who could help in fact If you know anybody who lives in Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Thailand, Malaysia or Panama Please let me know or if especially someone who is supportive and friendly and maybe willing to help Help or participate in this discussion about what it's like to live in their country Please let me know especially particularly someone you know who has moved there from somewhere else, but I'm also looking for locals who know English Thank you so much. So let me show you this tool now And you might be able to use this or send it on to people who might be super grateful that you shared this with them So I'm gonna be doing this research ongoing Lee So this is just at the beginning stages But and in fact you're gonna see the spreadsheet change up be updated over the next few weeks as I as I intensify My research, but already I think it's quite useful So basically I've listed out some countries that where I began this research was was doing some internet research on Where do expats particularly American expats? expatriates are basically people who move from their country to another country expats is the short term so I researched where do American expats live basically especially cheaper places and The first places I went to were Were these these websites and basically when you click on anything on this tool that the link to this tool is in the notes of This video, so be sure to look for that and open it. It's free and available without any signing in so when you click on a link that has or when you click on a Cell that has a link the link will show up above the cell. So you just click on the link there and I will show you These are this is where I got the initial data is You know these these are these are websites for expats And they do surveys of expats to say well where where do you love to live? And then you know here are the top destinations So I I took a look at that and also international living magazine is a popular magazine for International travel and living so I also looked at their their their list is is right there as well Okay, and so I started with that and kind of narrowed down to where I have this out of feeling that okay These are kind of where we would be maybe considering and then what I did was I did some research with a couple of Cost of living websites. You can find it with this particular link Click on this and this is called Numbio cost of living So for example if I wanted to see Costa Rica, I would go here. I would select I Would find Costa Rica and then once I get there I then need to change the currency here to US dollar so I can kind of understand it Sorry, it's kind of off the screen here, but anyway, I selected USD and so Meal on an expensive restaurant, you know, and then I also look particularly for Apartment in city center. We live in San Francisco. So we're kind of used to urban living a bit So we want to transition more gradually and therefore we were looking for the city center there The other place to look for cost of living is called expat Sian and so for example compare cost of in between Costa Rica and San Francisco click compare it says I need to choose a city So I'm not you San Jose. That's the capital of Costa Rica. So it's gonna be more urban and then Here I can see the housing for example You know, and these are not like these are not exact. Okay, these are definitely not exact This is just a figure that Well, actually you can scroll down and see how many people put this information in this is based on a thousand different people Has had who lived there have put the information in so it's not exact But it's kind of a nice. I mean for example, we pay a lot less than 4,000 I mean, we were lucky to have found a place in Francisco that you know, we're paying about 1500 1500 a month in rent or in mortgage rather. So we're extremely lucky But it gives you it gives an exact it gives a sample of oh wow, okay So living in Costa Rica is probably gonna be about a third to a half maybe cheaper than than San Francisco Okay, and the other place that the other thing I liked looking at was The average monthly to book disposal salary after tax because so this gives me an example that okay This is eight hundred and eighty dollars for Costa Ricans, right? Well, that's what if we go to? What if we go to just look at San Francisco just as an example what this cost of living? Okay, goes back to cost of living San Francisco California okay, so as an example the cost of the average monthly disposable is $4,000 so Costa Ricans average salary is 880 versus 4,000 So if we could shrink our you know, even if we shrunk our cost or our living expenses by half We would still be living even better than locals in Costa Rica and if you know anything about the studies of happiness happiness Unfortunately for human beings is very much Somehow we compare how we're living with our neighbors and with the people in our region And so if we're living better at at the level or better in terms of quality of life from the people around us It's it's hard not to be happy because we see what's around us and we see our own life in comparison So that's why it's important important to compote compare the salary and so I've done that I've put these numbers in here So you can for example by the way you can you can sort by these things even though this is not your spreadsheet You can still sort it by clicking on the top clicking on the the top of each column and clicking on this and clicking sort by So for example, you want to see where's the lowest average salary click sort sheet a to z and Oops Okay, there you go. Okay, it's sorting my a to z. Oh, this is you can x that out This is says temporary filter because you're not sorting for everybody who's looking at this just for you and so anyway Interesting thing to look at if you wanted to sort by by by something that has a link in it Here's a trick you can't you can't click on the top because the link shows up So you simply click somewhere else that doesn't have a link and then you click back to the place that has a link And then you click the sort thing so you want to sort by rent you sort by a to z Okay, and then there you go. Okay, so What else I want to show you. Oh So if you're curious where I found some of these numbers like where did I find corruption and political stability score? Simply click on here and then click again click the link and there's an actual website that gives Studies of corruption index and you know every year and that kind of thing. So That's where I got these numbers and Sometimes higher is better. Sometimes on some scores hires most scores. I think higher is better So corruption higher is is better. So what I did was I highlighted I on each of these I highlighted scores That were above average in that column. So, you know, for example, Malaysia here is above average in terms of Corruption that I should say it's it's less corrupt than some of these other countries Uruguay, it's very surprisingly And also I included some countries just as a comparison. I'm not we're not thinking moving to Hong Kong UK or China Partly for pro its cost prohibitive and For China it's like pollution, but you know, I guess we might consider it But United States I put in here as a comparison 74 and corruption Which is relatively less corrupt than other countries, but look at Uruguay. Wow. It's very similar to US So I highlighted numbers in each column that were better in my you know And for what for what I'm looking for than than others. So we're looking for warmer places. So that's why I didn't highlight this one so Philippines obviously warmer and Let's see what else do I want to show you So based on my highlights, this is how I came up with the scores the score is to see notes So you can hover over you can move your mouse over this to see the note You can just for every highlight in that row I put I added one number if the happiness index was highlighted I added one internet speed was highlighted added one expat score had as 0.5 0.5 So for example in Mexico, right? You can see the formula here. Mexico had seven highlights in the row Not including this this row not not including this column, but seven highlights for example one one highlight two three four five six Seven yes, so seven highlights in the row plus it had It was rated top one of the top happiest countries in According to a Gallup worldwide study So I added one to it and then I added one for internet speed is one of the better internet speeds in in my list of countries here Etc. So that's how I rated these if you want to see the best countries by my scoring you do sort this by Z to a and You'll see that okay, and then the next thing I want to show you is the cities I'm just starting to work on the city's spreadsheet, but I put in a couple cities that I just did some research and looked like they were good places for expats and I'm looking at some of the things are important for my wife and me So for my wife, it's important that there are yoga studios Or kind of more that yoga consciousness in that region. So what I did was I basically went to Google Maps Maps.google.com and then I searched so for example, I wanted to see well San Jose Costa Rica So let's do San Jose Costa Rica Okay, and press enter and this will show this will show us where San Jose Costa Rica is and then what I did was I clicked on I Clicked on I Actually wanted so this is I don't know if you can see this down here, but the scale is two miles So maybe across the screen is one two three four five six You know something like across the screen is something like 15 miles total total distance So I want to search after I pulled up that city. I then search yoga and then press enter. Oops not. Yo, uh, let me try that again Yoga I press enter and then this is giving me now the number of yoga centers or at least Google map listings with yoga associated with yoga in the area and then I could click on Next on this down here to see that. Wow. There are at least 20 results. Wow 30 results. Okay, just in in that kind of 15 mile radius. So that's Yeah, that's pretty awesome So actually I need to update the number. It's 30 not 15. I actually have a link map linked there So I also we're looking at college campus is my wife likes taking classes at community colleges So I'm gonna be doing some research on based on local colleges things like that internet speeds important city crime, of course And I have to look at Rent for you know three three bedroom because this the cost of living website. I gave you you can actually type in an actual city San Jose Costa Rica and Then find the if you scroll down you can find the cost of living. Oh, this is okay. Very important. This is not US dollars so I gotta find US dollars in here and Rent three bedroom in city center is about 900 bucks. So wow, that's a little higher than we were looking at but Anyway, now we know so I gotta do do my research and put put in these numbers I'm gonna look at sunny storm sunny days and storms How stable the electricity is etc. So anyway, I hope this is helpful Again, if you if you happen to know anybody who live in who's supportive and friendly and who lives in any of these countries Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Thailand, Malaysia, but Panama, please let me know and I'd love to connect with them and Maybe add to this research so it's helpful for everyone. So anyway until the next video wish you well


Nice. Let's make sure we're coming alive. We're an hour before we start our math stream and I'm doing an unscheduled comic book haul video. Good morning, good morning everyone. This is Chichou and welcome to my channel. Today is January 19th 2021 and like I mentioned we're doing a comic book haul video. Okay now let me give you a little bit on this. Okay and this is a case man, how you doing? Yep, funny funny. So this is this comic book haul that you see here. Okay this is comic books that were supposed to be in a previous comic book haul that the person that I bought it from didn't include. I bought a big lot. Now I'm going to give everyone a loadout on this. We're just going to give everyone like about five minutes to show up to the live stream and while we wait for people to show up I'm going to link up the previous comic book haul in the chat and if you're watching this video after the fact either on Odyssey, Gina how you doing? Hope you're doing well. If you're watching this video on Odyssey, Rumble, Bichute or SensorTube or YouTube I'll have the link to the video that we uploaded, the comic book haul and it was a big comic book haul. It was like a short box plus one and a half short boxes basically. It was a hundred and I counted it 170 comic books or something like this and it was a fantastic deal. Insane deal. Okay and the whole thing the whole all 170 180 comic books ended up costing me $270 Canadian including shipping. Felix how are you doing? Case math. So many keys last haul. Brother, case math, the keys in that haul. How many comic books this is? I think this is 13 comic books by the way that were supposed to be in the previous haul and weren't. So there's four, eight, how many, five, four, yeah 13 comic books that the seller forgot to include in the box and I contacted him and said listen he didn't include this 13 and this these 13 here were some of the major key ones. Right? I'll show you what they are and he goes oh sorry sorry sorry sorry I'll send them off right now so he sent it off. Hello Axe how are you doing? He sent it off and I've been waiting for this a month. It just showed up yesterday right? So we put out the comic book haul video on December 25th. I had bought the stuff a month before that so it's taken two months to get this whole thing and I hope everything's here man. I hope everything's here. Felix, Felix what are the two framed comic books behind you? This is underdog number one first appearance of underdog and it's missing the center fold in there. Okay so it's you know no grade or whatever it is and this is Paul Jerry's or Paul Terry's I think Jerry's Mighty Mouse number 71 and this is like Carl Barks doing Donald Duck. It's sought after right? So Carl Barks is the person that you want. If you want to read donald.comics you want to get Carl Barks. If you want to read Mickey Mouse comics there's a person that specialized in Mickey Mouse I forget who it was and if you want to read Mighty Mouse and I loved Mighty Mouse if you've never seen the cartoons watch them. Mighty Mouse comics is Paul Jerry's Mighty Mouse that you want to read. Okay bureaucracy kills are you doing and xxx I think I did my hello x how are you doing? Usually when I see when I see x I see x I try to do it right away. Fun, fun, hold on who's how are you doing? How's the how's the isolation going? Quacks, quacks all 11. Here he comes to save the day here he comes to save the day you know it nice that's Mighty Mouse gang that's Mighty Mouse Mighty Mouse rocks I like Mighty Mouse was fantastic really he's like he's like Superman he's he's very kind and caring and considerate and he's like his heart was pure right Should we crack this open let's crack this open by the way gang we're doing a math stream an hour from now so a drop in math tutoring session right so this is our unscheduled comic book haul because I didn't know when this was going to come right Felix do you have any of the attack on Titan? No I don't I've been thinking of picking some up because the last few chapters are apparently too violent to be allowed to be turned into an anime in Japan are you serious no way oh dude now you got me I gotta I gotta pick them up as well after I finish the whole animated series stuff on my start reading attack on Titan Holden who's isolation is all right ha ha boring but plenty of time to focus on school awesome good good Ralph how are you doing welcome welcome to the live stream boho bridge 81 I would watch this but I'm just about to make your honey chop chop chocolate chip cookies are you nice oh on the on the comic on the mass stream an hour from now I'm gonna have my chocolate chip cookies I'm munching on those too many too much munching on chocolate chip cookies or chocolate chip I don't know what you call those things let's crack this open okay let's crack this open and gang just in case you're not aware free assange free assange free assange Julian Assange is a journalist and publisher that is trying to bring transparency and accountability of capital as power to humanity support the man is this it oh what man this is not it this isn't the comic books I was looking for the guy said Gideon's falls what is going on he didn't send the books he was supposed to send what he didn't send he didn't send the 11 books he was supposed to send I can't believe it but what he did send was Gideon's fall chapter one two four I don't understand who's this from I gotta check this out and Gideon's fall is going to be an option that's Jeff Lemire so Gideon's fall number one Gideon's fall sorry this is Gideon I gotta contact the seller there's the 13 books that he was supposed to send their keys their keys one of my favorite has been following attack on titan since before it was adopted as an anime he told me that the final chapter are going to be turned into a two-third hour movie instead of because of Japanese TV regularly oh are you serious that's unfortunate I hope they turn maybe they come to the states and do it so this is Gideon's fall I didn't even order these this is Gideon's fall number one okay Gideon's fall uh book two I'm glad to have these Graham how you doing Gideon's fall volume three and Gideon's fall volume four right it's uh I've read some of this uh it's really good I read the first and second issue I think I love those cards yeah super cool covers and all the covers for all the issues are basically like a head of a person and it's like a map or a tree or whatever it is this one is not oh it is too you can see the outline of the head right so it's got the head of the person and then this is like again tree like a head of the person and again this is the cover for issue number one by the way okay I hope your package didn't go where this box was meant to go I hope not bureaucracy kills that package man oh no that's unfortunate I can tell you like that package I showed the pictures it has the first Todd McFarland cover first second Todd McFarland artwork it's got the first appearance of Suicide Squad the first incantation of it first appearance of Lady Cop first appearance of Hunstress it's got the first appearance of Wild Dog it's got the first appearance of Kongku Fighter it's got oh man it's got so many firsts firsts in there so many oh um and this is what happens this is what happens sometimes on eBay you get sellers that don't follow up I got to track it down I got you know what the package that he gave me the tracking number for this is it this is arrived right but it's not the comic books that he was supposed to send I don't know what to do that is a serious haul that is a serious and that those 13 issues were in addition to everything we got Olive how are you doing the the previous comic book haul that we did which was the short box well one and a half short boxes with all the comics that were there there were 13 key issues that weren't included okay there were like the key key issues and I contacted the guy and the guy said oh I'm sorry I I'll send them right away and he sent them supposedly and it's taken a month for these books to come here and they're not the books this is Gideon falls the graphic novels right so and they didn't come from the right location the address is wrong on them and stuff seems like it's coming man I'm going to file a refund I guess I don't want to file a refund the guys seem like a nice guy the comic books we got even without the 13 that we got it was a great deal but with the 13 was sealing the deal right I'm a little pissed right I'm a little pissed could be an honest could be an honest mistake he was moving out of the country and I contacted him contacted him and he said he's in the UK now so maybe he sent the stuff to the wrong place but the stuff was packaged everything was there except these 13 key issues which is to me sort of if you how come the non key issues were not included right so maybe he sent them to the wrong place but why would he sent them to the wrong place if the package was all together like it was one lot that I bought the lot that I bought had like how many like one two three four uh 13 17 17 plus 5 22 22 24 24 24 plus another 5 29 plus another 3 32 plus another 3 it had 35 comics in there right and it was the expensive lots that I bought which is unfortunate I'm not happy about that I'm not happy about that everyone makes makes mistakes I guess everyone makes mistakes but this is twice he was supposed to send the books but he didn't send the books right I wanted to give someone a benefit without but this came from the wrong location is graphic novels it has nothing to do with the comic books I bought um even though again you can put this like okay these are like brand new right so like literally they're brand new so each one of these nine dollars us which in Canada would be like you know $15 or something I mean it goes all the way up to you know graphic novel and geez the last graphic novel the first ones the first ones $10 us and the other ones are $17 us so Canadian wise this is like and the price I gave you is $207 was all Canadian all in right so $17 us this is like $22 $22 $22 and 15 so what is that 64 plus 15 $79 let's say $70 worth of graphic novels here but I still want the other ones right this is great actually getting involved I haven't read the whole story and this is option by the way so it's supposed to be turned into a movie or tv series or something I don't know what to do I don't know what to do I wanted those comic books as a collector that was the reason I bit up that lot right is that published by it is it is image comic books and Jeff Lemire is a Canadian writer okay so it is what it is I'm gonna contact the guy and see what the issue is be persistent I guess I'm gonna contact the guy say listen this stuff was getting full one to four where's the comic books straight paper where's the comic books you were supposed to send that we're supposed to be in the other lot so it's been two months and I think eBay's limit is two months before you can leave negative feedback or ask for a refund I won't I'm gonna send the guy an email right now I'm gonna send him a message right now I'm gonna do that before the math stream okay gang that's the quickie I wish I could show you the comic books I loaded up the pictures on our discord a while ago like a month ago when we did the comic book haul but I'll let you guys know what I find out what the guy says thanks for popping into the stream what do you call it if you're around in about 50 minutes so so quick I missed it Cheryl are you doing I was doing a quick comic book haul here we're supposed to get 13 comic books that were missing from the other lot uh there were the key issues some key issues okay first lady cough first hunt hunt stress first Todd McFarland cover for a second uh second Todd McFarland inside story first appearance of the new um new suicide squad uh the newer version that came out in the 80s first wild dog first kung fu fighter uh first couple of other things as well and the guy said he sent it but he didn't send it he sent these guys Gideon's Falls drape paperbacks from image brand new which is still I'm happy to have these but I won't want it the other ones but I wanted to see you haul comic book I know so did I double or negative but listen gang I'm gonna go send the guy an email okay and say look dude you sent me Gideon Falls one to four what's going on um and um just got here we're we're talking about infinity yeah infinity number 14 um dirt plug yeah it was infinity number 14 right like infinity number 14 and the condition it looked like on the picture would go more it sells for let's say half the price of this those 13 issues alone if you want to buy them individually or not individually if you bought them yeah if individually they would have been around a $200 value right let's say $150 value right and I wouldn't be able to get them at $150 right now no there were more in that there were more in $200 like the condition that we're in on the image like oh I think about it and I'm like I don't like it when people do that right he's scamming I think so too which is unfortunate I'm gonna send him a message and I'm gonna apply for a refund I don't want to send the other books back but I will if I have to right um the problem is the guy's in UK now so he'll have to pay for the shipping yeah it's pretty sketchy sketchy as it is it's sketchy I don't like it I mean why even bother sending these just it doesn't make sense right anyway anyway okay gang we do mathematics in 50 minutes thank you for being here I'll probably upload this to the platforms as well just so everyone knows you know comic book calls and some of the issues you might have to deal with every now and then right uh but mathematics happy stream at about 50 minutes gang thank you for being here apologies for not the comic books not being it right pooper scooper hey balark park how are you doing see you guys in 50 minutes gang bye everyone


So we're going to talk about why we backslide into old habits of procrastination. Imagine I was to give you a formula to completely overcome this negative behavior, this unhelpful behavior that so many of us go through. Imagine I gave you a really great solution for that and you know you implement it, you find it's working, it's working really well and you've put those those patterns behind you. Well what would cause a relapse, what would cause you to regress in that and that's what we're going to jump into here in this video. So a question I received recently which kind of addresses this comes from Rosa and Rosa says, David, I want to know why I slip back into old habits and patterns of self-sabotage and procrastination. I've been applying the ideas you've talked about in terms of overcoming procrastination and they've been a lifesaver which is lovely to hear. I was able to overcome my fear and completely overcome the issue. It worked and continued to work for a few months, then something went wrong and I drifted back into old patterns and finally Rosa says, I've recently come out of this thankfully and I'm back on track but why did this regression happen? I want to know so I can avoid future backsliding into that old way of doing things. It caused me so much pain and frustration. So we're going to delve into this, we're going to workshop it here a little bit so I want you to invest a little bit of your time with me here but I promise I'm going to give you a really insightful way to think about this. So in my book on procrastination there is very practical step-by-step guides about how you schedule time, what your priority should be, what the root issues of procrastination are. It'll help you understand it deeply and it'll help you with the practical steps of what does it look like when I actually go about changing this. So you can put those things into practice but there's another aspect that I talk about in the book and here also and that is about our mindset, our mentality. In fact the first half of the book is almost convincing you that you have to realize mindset is everything with this. So we're going to have to get to work on finding a better mindset for this. Don't get me wrong, it's not all mindset, there's the actual application of the practical stuff but if we're applying the practical stuff, applying that does changes and we ignore the mindset stuff. What you're going to notice is this regression will keep happening, will keep reverting back to the old way because nothing fundamentally has changed in the level of mindset and that's what this is all about. So I'm going to kind of give you some takeaway tips at the end about how you can actually foster that mindset, cultivate it and keep it so that we don't go into these regressions, this backsliding into the old habits and it's so painful and so frustrating when we're in those old ways of being. So a little bit of theory here but it's going to make sense. I'm going to give you an example of why this mindset we're looking for here is so so massively important. So here we are and we will notice that with procrastination, many other issues too, it's we find ourselves in a mindset that is in a war with itself. In fact one part of the mind wants to do something and the other part wants to do something else. On an even deeper level we notice that there's things we feel about ourselves that we don't like and there's things that we want to improve upon and become and that'll become more obvious here. One of the things when we have an issue with procrastination is we are in this achievement mindset. I must become an achiever, I have to achieve, I have to achieve and this is in the part of the mind I refer to as the persona. I didn't come up with the term persona, it's more of a carol young thing but I think it's a very useful concept for this. So one part of this is really attached to being an achiever and of course in our shadow, which is the counterpart to that mind, it's well really secretly I feel like I'm an underachiever and I really despise that and hate that about myself so I'm going to try everything I possibly can to become this achiever. Okay so we're attached to the achiever and we're trying to get rid of the underachiever. Another one is in the typical mindset we'll see. Someone with procrastination will come along and they'll say I want to be productive, I want to be desperate, I desperately want to be productive so we're deeply attached to that and of course that's because in our shadow we really hate the idea that we're lazy. Another example, I just want to be ready, I don't feel ready, I need to get ready, I'm not ready yet. You'll find that a lot with procrastination as well because in the shadow part it's just I hate the fact that I'm not ready, I'm not ready and it really bothers me. Now if we look at these it's right and wrong, good and bad and it's two conflicting parts of the mind and they're at war with each other and one hand we feel this underachiever, lazy, not ready feeling and we're desperately trying to achieve the other thing and my whole theory is we're trying to escape this mindset entirely because there's an alternative and I'll show you that now in a moment but if you look deeply at what it means to be an achiever it's actually not helpful. We're trying to become something that is not even any more helpful than an underachiever, in fact it's an underachiever in disguise as I'll point out here. If we look at the fine print what does it really mean to be an achiever if we're in if we have this issue of procrastination? Well that really means I'm going to struggle, I'm going to sacrifice myself, my happiness, I'm going to force things, I have to force it and I have to get control of everything. That is not what it means to be an achiever. I hope this isn't totally new news to you but if it is this is very liberating information you're learning here. This is not what it means to be an achiever. Let's look at productive. What could possibly be wrong with wanting to be productive? Well the paradigm that we find ourselves in often is I need to be busy, I need to overwhelm myself and I need to be stressed and if I'm not those things I'm not going to be productive. That is nothing to do with productivity. To be ready what could possibly be wrong with being ready? Well ready means I have to be perfect, I have to be invulnerable, I have to be completely guarded and prepared so that nothing ever goes wrong. Of course that's never ready and no one is ever ready if that's what ready means. So we're noticing here we feel stuck with procrastination and that's because we go back and forth between these two different states of mind persona shadow and achiever I'm an underachiever. I'm lazy, well I need to be productive. Well what does productive mean? I'm going to be busy, overwhelmed and stressed all the time. Is it any wonder we feel stuck? Neither of these are good options. Okay so this is an example of why we get stuck. Why learning about this stuff and finding an alternative mindset is so so vitally important to this whole issue of procrastination. Now what I want you to start to see you can you see those two pictures there it looks as if they're two different minds. I want you to start realizing and this is fundamentally important that these two minds these two split this split mind is actually one mindset because there's no real choice to be made it doesn't matter what you choose in that mindset you're going to experience you're going to be distressed you're going to be struggling you're going to feel stuck so actually while it looks it's like a split mind it's actually one mindset okay I just refer to it as the distressed mind and we want to get out of it as quickly as we possibly can and stay out of it. So let's look at what an alternative would look like and then what I call the alternative mindset we're looking for is a mindset in which I'm becoming very insightful I'm really understanding why this happens seeing things completely differently dropping these old attachments to being an achiever and all these things that didn't help me in the past and finding alternatives so what we do is we find we bring the whole paradigm of being an underachiever or an achiever and we bring on all the attachments that what it really means the fine print of it the whole concept of struggle sacrifice force control and we bring it to a new mindset and now we're making a real choice these are two separate mindsets that we're going to make a choice between what does it mean to be a true achiever it means I'm going to have fun with this I'm going to be creative this is going to be natural it's going to be effortless for me that's what it means to be a true achiever that mindset will bring you towards the achievement that you actually want as opposed to struggle sacrifice force and control right that's what I'm talking about let's look at the other one we're going to bring the entire concept of lazy productive which is only really means I'm going to be busy overwhelmed and stressed I'm going to bring that to a new interpretation of an existing concept I already have which is productive but to be truly productive means I'm going to do things that are doable I'm going to develop self trust so that when I say I do these small things I'm going to follow through and I'm going to really focus and develop in that self trust with myself I'm going to have unconditional rest or guilt free play in my calendar and my schedule that is truly productive right notice from the concepts of true achiever and true truly productive that we've looked at so far how often is your mindset in that kind of space okay or is it in the alternative the old one we want to get you out of that old one into this new one as quickly as we can not ready ready or I'm not ready I should be ready I should feel ready really all that means is to be perfect and vulnerable and guarded all the time and very defensive to be truly ready means to be open so rather than being ready I'm going to forget being ready I'm just going to become open this is an aspect of the insightful mind that I'm describing here what does truly open mean it means I'm going to learn from everything I do I'm going to experience new things I'm going to have a growth mindset and I'm going to love failure I'm going to learn that failure is a part that is success and I'm going to start embracing failure more and more and opens okay so those are a few of the that's a real distinction now you now you have two mindsets in which a real choice will be made if you started to choose fun creativity effort effortlessness things that are doable develop and self trust unconditional rest for yourself build free play see everything as an experience open to failure no such thing as mistakes that mindset is going to help you blast true procrastination issues if we don't train ourselves to be in this new mindset which is quite foreign to most of us right we hear you know the odd instagram post on it every now and then but then we're right back into our old mindset and if we dwell in that old mindset long enough those old habits are going to start coming back in no matter what the practical advice is it'll stay it'll start to make things worse for us so let's take a look here at something similar to that maybe two other attachments that will be in if we were in the distress mindset so again here well I want to be successful because I don't want to be a loser anymore okay so sounds good right success sounds better than to be a loser another one I need to become more powerful in my life as opposed to impotent or having or being powerless nobody wants to feel powerless well I want to be powerful until we start to look at the fine print of what these concepts really mean for most of us what what could possibly be wrong with being successful well if it means I'm better than or superior and that could be better than who I was yesterday superior to my old horrible loser self of last year right that's not going to help things okay we don't want to be throwing ourselves under the bus like that we want to be unconditionally supportive towards ourselves and of course also superior or better than other people who are those losers over there this is creating a sense of separation between us and other people and that's not going to be healthy for us another thing look at powerful what could possibly be wrong with being powerful powerful really quite often starts to mean I'm going to bully myself I'm going to control my behavior bravado I'm going to have an authoritarian attitude towards myself and maybe to other people right so if that's what powerful is it's not much better than powerless right in fact it really is powerless just in nicer clothes maybe so I want you to look at those two aspects this persona shadow we choose one and we're actually for strengthening the other and see it all as one mindset there is no real choice to be made when we're in that mindset we will feel stuck and we will not make progress certainly not long term so what we want to do again is just bring that entire paradigm of successful loser to which it really just means better than a superior we want to bring it to well what is true success true success is emotional mastery I could focus on that equality starting in my past self is good enough my present self is good enough my future self is no better it's going to be me and unconditionally unconditional positive regard for yourself and authenticity that's true success okay take take the power of impotent powerful all want to be powerful until we realize actually this means I'm going to be bullying myself we bring it to the truth self empowerment and what is self empowerment self empowerment means to become self aware to become centered much more self compassion for yourself that is truly empowering because compassion is very very powerful it's a very misunderstood concept there's a great deal of power in compassion self compassion so that is a genuine choice we have to make there so if we're talking about a solution here for this question we had and for anyone who's watching this video the reason we find ourselves regressing you with this even if you find something that works for a while is that this old mindset that we're trained in persona shadow good bad right wrong all those different things it is quite strong we're conditioned to be in it and our main job is to spend a little time every day training ourselves to think differently about our relationship to ourselves and our relationship to personal productivity if procrastination is an issue where you're refining your goals you're struggling with them so we need daily reminders about this new mindset now what I'm telling people is not really like a law of attraction store for affirmations or anything like that right this is simply focusing on a new philosophy focusing on a new ethos for your life okay so we need exposure to this cognitive frame of mind that we're going to be in if we're going to be in it right let me ask you this to make my point I've just spent some time there describing that new mindset right can you remember the concepts that were in it just I've just spent some time but I've gone back and looking at it again can you remember the concepts that were in that new mindset can you remember the new definitions already or maybe they've already started to leave your mind at this point that's because we are not used to thinking in those terms in that sort of a mindset so maybe that'll help make the point for some people who have forgotten it already okay it's true for me it's true for everybody else being in this new mindset requires some focus and attention on a daily basis and that's really what the first half of the whole book is about but so what what I would suggest on a practical level is okay do the practical things that are in the book we talk about setting boundaries guilt free play for yourself what happens when I don't follow through putting in consequences but in terms of the mindset stuff I talk about okay read my book read Neil Fiore's book write a mission statement or a story for yourself about your new ethos in terms of personal productivity and start to just look over it on a daily basis okay maybe you can make changes to it you can edit it but you want to have every day goes by you're checking in and you're thinking okay I just need to focus my mind in on a new mindset or a new approach that will help me overcome this a little example of it is shown here imagine you know you wake up and you're telling yourself I need to be successful I need to be powerful right old school affirmations those concepts are dangerous if it's in the wrong mind they're not going to be helpful so I would set off to write a new story based on these new definitions of those concepts it might look something like this I'm already successful productivity is simple for me it turns out that if I prioritize my rest and phone everything seems easy I feel happier to work now I don't need to make massive progress I know now that any movement forward is a massive success it's easy for me now I have so much free time and work seems like a privilege I have clear boundaries with my work I either do it or I stick to my boundaries I can't lose I'm empowered with my choices indecision is a thing of the past and I have so much energy and clarity now in my days now I wrote that in like two minutes but the point is you can write something like that in your own words something that speaks to you and it's just something that you check in with as like an ethos a new philosophy or a mission statement for yourself in terms of your mentality we're trying to get into this old this new mentality and one of the best things you can do to help that is look at your old mentality and come to terms with the fact that you know what the way I've been thinking about personal productivity up until now has not worked it hasn't worked for me okay now there's no you don't need to believe the new mindset I'm trying to tell you about that it's going to be helpful you look at the old mindset and look at how useful it's been so therefore you can discard that and come to this new mindset whenever you're going to make it be with a huge degree of open-mindedness and ability to give it a go once you have goals so you're not trying to manifest anything you're not trying to convince yourself you're just trying to let these new ideas seep in and let them have an influence on you because exposure to these ideas is very very important really because the old school mentality of personal productivity is everywhere right and it's very very easy to backslide into that so there's a few tips guys if you take away points and I would say keep working on your mindset with this doesn't take a lot of time just daily brief check-ins trying to cultivate this new mindset and then you can go into obviously the the practical planning stuff that I talk about in my course and my video and in my book and all those other practical steps that we talk about but if you do that I promise you you'll be much less likely to backslide into old habits so give the power of your mind some respect and realize that yeah it's going to be a power of it is to kind of reframe my thinking on this so I hope that really helps answer that person's question and um thanks for joining me here as always and I'll see you in the next video bye for now


Bah what's up everybody once again in this video is really just to get everybody to understand the purpose of this channel but even more so how to make the most of the information on this channel. To start let's consider the fact that branding and marketing understanding how to brand and market yourself creates a level of freedom like you can't imagine but we'll get to that a little bit later at the end of the video but first I want to point out the fact that when you want to use this information don't do it all at once. Take a lot of no sort just take in the information however you want to but when you decide to execute something don't do too many strategies and tactics and all of those things at once because if you throw five ingredients in the pot at once and then it takes better how do you know which ingredient made it taste better or if something got messed up how do you know which thing you did to make things taste worse. You want to really not do everything at once just so you understand what's working and why it's working as you start to do it in relation to your particular brand. And secondly be open to learn from all the musicians and artists and just things that get covered because even if you don't like an artist personally some artists you just might not know but even if you don't like a particular artist or their genre you better believe that you can learn from some of the things that they're doing particularly if they're successful or some of the failures and then use them to do what you're going to do a lot better. As a matter of fact most innovation comes from taking things from one area to another area and then applying it there because you better believe a lot of people in your lane are already doing very similar things so sometimes it might be taking somebody from a completely different genre or like some of their marketing tactics not necessarily their songs or their their sounds but just some of the marketing tactics that are very common in one field put them in another field and then next thing you know bam people are like wow this guy's a genius. Of course it can be done with music when you have rappers that sing or country music people that rap and I don't know just there's loads of examples out there and people get big off of that but just keep that in mind learn from as many of the people as you can and back to that idea of branding and how it creates that freedom you either know who you are or you know who you want to be or a little bit of both but branding has nothing to do with who you think you are particularly is more particular to how people see you but when you understand branding you can get people to see you in the same way that you see you or they can see you in the same way that you want to be once you control that outside perception then you're free to move throughout the world and be that person that you want to be and then marketing is simply that idea of getting as many people to see you as possible so when you combine those that marketing and branding piece you're getting as many people as possible to see you how you want to be seen do that specific lens and also understanding that will allow you to continuously evolve and become whoever you want to become next because maybe you might get tired of being whoever you are at the time keep that in mind because people say all this talent is in the graveyard because people haven't used it yada yada yada but let's consider the fact that there's a lot of talent that got used a lot of songs that got made but people never heard them because they didn't understand marketing and how to get as many people to hear them in the first place that's it you know what to do hit that subscribe button