So I'm going to talk about standardization from the point of view of someone who actually goes and implements and verifies and does all that stuff. So I'm a cryptographer and I decided to join the dark side. I decided to go into private industry and I work at unbound tech. So what does unbound tech do? So our goal is to prevent keys from being stolen and we want to prevent keys from being misused. If you're an adversary, you don't need to steal the key to do what you want. If you want to sign malware, you just need to be able to use the key once. If you want to steal millions of bitcoins, you only need to sign one transaction. So for us, it's important to protect the keys. So how do we protect the keys? So now we have a very short video explaining how we protect the keys. Blit into multiple random shares placed on different machines. These shares never get united, even when they're in use. So I have to thank the marketing department for this, but this is essentially what we do. So what's the talk going to be about? Well it's going to be about one of the things we're going to talk about is, well we're cryptographers. We want to imagine the worst case. But in this case I will think of, and from experience of my grandfather, I will explain what can go wrong from standardization. And we're going to talk about lessons we can learn from civil engineering. And then I'm going to say, well what good can it do? And I'm going to give example of OT and OT. I'm going to focus on OT extension to say, well standardization really is important and why it's important. And then I'm going to talk about how we can make standardization nicer in terms of descriptiveness. How we can make it very easy to implement and verify the standard is met. So civil engineering is about designing buildings that are robust, that won't collapse because something, you know, some strong wind happened. And cryptographers design protocols that are robust. So it's a very similar idea and it's very easy to learn from other people's mistakes because it's free. They've made the mistakes and we don't have to suffer. So if we can avoid mistakes that they've made and we can take lessons from what happened to them, then we can use those experiences for our gain. So this is, I'm presenting you Dr. Knoll. So he was a civil engineer on the CN Tower and the Pyramid's Louvre. So two I think really cool structures and he's a civil engineer. He's been a partner as his firm longer than I've existed. He's an insurance investigator. So he's somebody that, you know, when there's an accident, sometimes he goes and actually explains what happens and gives detailed reports. So he's an expert and he's also been on committees for standardization. And he's also, he's my grandfather so I get to hear stories and his knowledge about what he thinks and what happens in standardization, why it's been a negative influence on his field and I'm going to describe to you those things. So his view on standardization, so I'll tell you actually in terms of when I sent an email, I said I went to the NIST workshop with which was really nice standardization. I really enjoyed it and I say I went to, I was part of the panel and then he sends me back this response. Well, don't go too fast, don't go too far because in my field has reached the point where it hinders new design developments and innovation and we definitely do not want that to happen. And so in his opinion he has a couple of things that why it's wrong. Well, because one of the things it became too complete, complicated and cumbersome. The standards became too big. Before what was a couple of books became an entire library of standards. So you want to keep your standards in checks to know what you really want. And one of the problems is that if you're always focusing on trying to meet the standards, well you might not have a good view of the overall problem. You might focus on too much on trying to fulfill the standards. So I'm going to discuss problems and solutions. So one of the things is that standards can be comploded. They can be very complicated. So as somebody, as the previous speaker said, well we should have full-fledged implementation. Why? Because if you have to fully, if you have to implement your full standard, you're going to realize at some point something is way too complicated. So I have to, it'll allow you to reduce the complexity of the standard. And of course test vectors is very helpful because you know if you've done it correctly. Then there's a problem that you know, it can hinder new designs. If I standardize a primitive and then somebody comes up with a new algorithm or you come up with a new algorithm that improves that, well if they won't certify it because you're using a new algorithm even though you provide a proof, you provide formal description, well that's going to be counter to why it would be a negative for standardization. And so it's better if we do, we build standards in a modular way so that sometimes when there's pieces that you know you can really improve that you're not stuck using those old primitives or the old constructions. And there's another problem that in the field of civil engineering, when they have standards body or they meet to create standards, often there's professors there who want to include their work in the standards. And then, but they've never built a building in their life. And this can be very, you know, if I've never built a building in my life, then, and I want to add something to the standard, it might be counterproductive to people who actually build buildings because you don't have this experience. So I would recommend for these people that are going to build standards if they have the chance that they should do internships at private companies to see how these protocols are actually implemented in their product. And an excellent time to do this would be, for example, when there's a government shutdown, because then they're free to do something else. So the next question is how can standardization help? So I'm going to talk about OT and OT extension. So oblivious transfer is one of the most important primitives in secure computation. There is so many protocols that build upon this primitive. And OT extension is a way of getting each individual oblivious transfer very cheaply. Oblivious transfer is a primitive where the sender sends two messages. The receiver gets one of the two. The receiver gets no information about the other message. And the sender does not learn which message the receiver chose. So how would you implement OT extension? As somebody who wants to implement it, currently, how are you going to implement it? Well, the first step is you're going to go to Google Scholar. And you're going to type in OT extension. You're going to look at all the relevant papers. You're going to look in a few links. And then you're going to see, okay, which one is the best? And then you're going to check, okay, this one looks like the best. Well, okay, but is it from a reputable conference? So let's see. So the second one is the candidate. Let's see if it's from a good conference. So it's from crypto 2015, I'm pretty sure. You think that's a good conference? So you feel comfortable going, okay, I've done all these steps. I've gone to do OT extension. It's a really good conference. And then you go, okay, everything's rosy and I can just implement that. Well, when things can go wrong, they go wrong sometimes. And in this case, there's two papers that recently came out that both show that most OT extension protocols are insecure. It's a bit more technical than that. That there's ways to instantiate these protocols that are secure and ways to instantiate these protocols that are not secure. But it's still a major issue and yeah. And then one lesson you can learn is that these papers in these conferences can even be wrong sometimes. And standardizing can help ensure that our protocols are more secure than just trying to use the conference peer review system, which has a lot of pressure. And then there's extensions of that work. There's like correlated OT. It's a variant of OT where instead of getting one of two message chosen by the sender. First of all, there's some fixed value that is selected. And then each time they do a transfer, an oblivious transfer. Well, there's a message that is given to the sender. And then the receiver either receives the message or the message X or this correlation, this value, this delta value we call it. And so this is also a very useful primitive for like garbling. And then well, if you look at the best protocol currently there is, there's not a formal description of the protocol. And there's not a formal proof. So it's very considering the previous thing that there was issues. And then you have this protocol that doesn't have a proof or a formal description. This is very dangerous territory. And standardizing this and making sure that these primitives are secure. And a good building block will go a long way to making sure that we have that when we have protocols that they're going to be secure. So how can standardization help? We can have good places to know. We just look at the standard and then we're happy. We don't have to verify the rest of the literature. And I want to emphasize that there's many protocols in the literature that are just wrong. And then when you read the paper, you'll be happy. It's going to be efficient. And you'll have to read like many papers to see that it's wrong. Like for the example, the OT extensions paper that are not, that show that the original one has issues. You have to go through seven pages of papers on Google Scholar before you see this paper, and then you have to read each paper very carefully. So it's very time consuming for an implementer which might not have much time. So one thing that would be good is to standardize OT and OT extension. That would be a great favor to the community, I think. So now the question is how to improve standards. And so papers are good. But there's something about writing papers that's aimed for academia. And that doesn't make it necessarily very easy to implement. So MPC in general is just challenging to implement even for experts. And so how do we make papers easier to implement and understand? Okay, so first of all, we'll start with what we know has been done that's really good, protocol decomposition is wonderful.  This makes it so much easier because I can choose the implementation I want. Okay, but to see why papers aren't necessarily maybe not written the best way for implementation, we have to look at a historical perspective. So excluding the participant of TPMPC 2019, who know the answer? Does anyone know what the sequence is? I'll give you a clue. It's related to crypto. Come on, you seem to know what it is. Something about submissions. Okay, somebody who already knows. All right, so it's the submission page limit at crypto. So this sequence is the submission page limit at crypto. Now, if you ask me 12 pages, how can you write an entire paper in 12 pages? That's insane. And so we wrote papers in a super condensed manner, because we had 12 pages, because we were writing like if it was for a book, which it was at the time. And then we also used to tell a very funny, well, light that's very painful for when you're trying to figure out something. This will be shown in the full paper. And so I think that considering this history that we can do better. And so the way we write and read papers, so right now we write papers in the style of if we were writing for a book, which we did before. But now most people who read papers, they read papers in PDF format. So I have a few rules that should make it easier to read papers to implement and verify the implementation. So the first rule is simple. This is convention that's really nice for me. You might not agree, but assignment equality this. This makes it clear when you do equality, you can just say equals. This is a better one. This rule has never, typically what we do is we write player P1 computes this, player 2 computes this. And what this does is it saves us lines for the protocol description, which if you compress in 12 pages makes sense. But now we have more pages so we can make it clearer. So how do we divide protocols by player ID or rounds? Well, we write it like this. So this is much clearer, I think, much less noise. And so then you can ask, what's the next thing you can do? Well, now you can remove useless keywords. So locally computes, if you know who's going to do the operation, well, it's completely pointless. So then you end up something compressed like this, two more rules. Well, sample, this is often you can replace it by a symbol. But then you can see say one action per line. Because often when you're describing protocols you see in the literature, they're putting multiple things in one line. But when you're implementing and verifying, what ends up happening is that you implement the first part of the line. And then you have to go back, you have to write that. Then you have to read the entire part of the line to get to the second thing. And then sometimes it's even worse because sometimes you have to jump to the end of the line for the protocol description because they say something like compute f of xy where y is blah, blah, blah. And then you end up jumping around and then it makes harder to verify, harder to implement. So then just one line per thing. So in this case, they'd say verify. And then you can just, yeah, so I give the reason. So you often reread the same line if you do different things. Order and code, you have to jump back and forth. And it makes it just more difficult to verify and implement. So then there's a rule that I often see this in text. I see, check that this condition is true and if not abort. Let's just use a keyword for that. Just give a semantic one and then you don't need to have to worry about that. So this is the original protocol and this is the, I think the cleaner and nicer one that you can actually do. And I think it's much easier to understand this than to read this. And then when you're implementing, you're just gonna do each of these operations very easily. And there's another thing that I hear. If you look at ideal functionalities in the UC setting, they're often very heavy in terms of writing. You often see upon receiving this message, execute this, compute this value, and then send this value to this. But then I would recommend coming up with keywords that remove which we associate to the given semantics. And so if I take something like this, which looks quite heavy, by applying these rules, I end up with something that I think looks much nicer. Then you can verify each of these conditions. This is literally pretty much exactly how we would code it. Actually, exactly how we would code it. And it makes it much nicer to look at and to understand. Versus this one that I will go say, okay, I'm gonna add this line. Okay, let me reread the whole part again. Okay, now I need to add this line. Then I have to go, okay, now I need to add that. So I'm gonna go back and forth, and this is much nicer. And I'm a bit ahead of time, but that's fine. I can have lots of questions and you'll be happy to go early. So there's a few things to understand from the statements. First of all, from this presentation. First of all, standards can be harmful. And it's important to know that, yes, you can do harm by standardizing stuff. And in the wrong way. So this is something to keep in mind. But also, standardization can give you a way, can give you a safety net, can give you a clear and nice way to make sure that your protocol is insecure. Because for NPC to become generally used, we need that it be robust, that we know that the implementations are really solid. Try using some of these rules to simplify protocol description. If you want, you can send it to me, and I'd be happy to simplify the description for you. You can contact me at samuel.ranalushi at Unbound Tech. And have fun, come see the dark side. Come to private industry and see what it's like. Thank you very much for the chance to present. What a surprise. Hi, thanks for the presentation. So I like the rationale in the presentation, but I think there's one element that is missing, which is what is the reason for standardization? And I think there's many answers. And so one might be in a particular place trying to standardize something to be the selected algorithm that is going to be used now for everything. But I think you've mixed into that the goal of standardizing for the purpose of having a better specification and a better peer review. And if we isolate that goal, then actually there's no inherent problem in actually standardizing everything that we want. We could just call it papers version 2.0. You could even have a conference where people bring their papers that were already accepted, and now they're going to specify it in a much better way, and which much better peer review. So the comment I want to make is just that I think it's interesting to separate the goal of standardization as a way of improving the specification detail versus the potential role of standardization for the purpose of selecting the one algorithm that we want to use in that remand of all of the others. So it's more a comment than a question. Yeah, so there's things that are, okay, so selecting the algorithm sometimes. So sometimes there's so many trade-offs for algorithm. There's simplicity, efficiency, like if you choose an algorithm that's simpler, but maybe less efficient, that's easier to implement, then there's people that are gonna decide that they really need the efficiency, and so yes, these choices can be interesting. You're right, there's different perspective of, am I an expert cryptographer? Am I somebody who just wants to use a particular building block? And it's a hard compromise. There's hard compromises to be made about deciding what to do. But having access to some way so that they can build it and be secure that they're using the right thing would be good. And if they want to extend the solution, okay, so it depends on, are you trying to standardize something that is narrow or something that is general? In particular, in my role of making the question, neither or neither. Or both, maybe. I'm just saying that realizing that a lot of papers are not well specified, and they should have descriptions that are better specified. That can, to a certain extent, be modularized away from what is the goal of standardizing something to be the elected protocol to serve as the ultimate oblivious transfer that is gonna be used, and forced. I think the difficulty with that is that academia is academics when the public's papers, they're okay making small compromise. They're okay saying, yes, this looks fine. And first, if you wanna use these protocol in industry saying, yeah, I think this is fine, it is very dangerous. And I think this is where standardization can help is really making sure that if I use a sword that it's not gonna, whoops, that it's not gonna crack, that it's not gonna crack. And I think that's part of the reason why I like standardization, is to make sure I have a sword that's gonna stain one piece. Before your presentation, I have one concrete question. So it looks like, I appreciate your space, like placing all those rules to make paper more readable, like more understandable. I'm just curious, do you have, because it looks to me, you're making a suggestion to syntax protocol papers. So for the syntax to be precise, like to be specific, I think you need like formal models of how to express your securities. Do you have any of those formal models when you're listening of your rules? Are you talking about formal specifications? Yeah, it's like in the UC papers, we use like a three machines interact your three machines, but I think when you actually read, like write all your rules or specifications, like writing a program language, you need like a formal model. Do you have any, actually, like, I don't know if you're in your, like, where you are. I think, I think at this level of specification, I think it needs to be higher, high level enough, that you're not bogged down by details of like, how do I send a message to others? Right, then not actually, not by like those details, but I mean, like, at least you need some kind of like semantics. Are you talking about formal semantics? Yes. No, I haven't looked at formal semantics, but it would be an interesting thing if I can actually give formal semantics to what, you know, to rules for formal semantics would be very interesting. Okay, thank you. So, two comments or questions. So one was going the same direction as the previous questioner. It would make a lot more sense if this was executable. So, I mean, for most lower level primitives, we now have a rule that you have to survive an implementation, so then it's also non-ambiguous what a certain line means, whereas you just change the syntax, and it's not even getting to what I would say is better practice by having like the different parties separated by distance. So when you use, for instance, the crypto protocol, the normal ones where you put a cent for an error and so on, I find those a lot more detailed than what I've seen in years. But that was a comment on this. If you plan on going to that, I would rather ask you to specify something which can be executed than something which is just on paper still. So get one more step, make it implementable, have something behind it, be it Python something script. Actually, yeah, first of all, that's an interesting research question. Of whatever, you can take something like red-eye road and turn it into something more, some higher level description like I did and turn it into some, you know. The next talk is about the error. Yeah, but then you, okay, so I will say there's a compromise here, because if you do that, then the difficulty becomes, so there's solutions that could do that, I think implementations that do that. But then what I think there's a compromise between doing that and then you end up with problems where if you wanna debug, you're using your intermediary language and you don't necessarily have to access to the compiler versus if you write the code in C++, then you can actually have your compiler, it's easier to debug and maybe there's ways to make it actually, so I'm not a PL person, but maybe it is possible to make it, do exactly what you said and make it very easy to debug. And the other thing is I don't have as much confidence and standards as you seem to go. When you say, oh, I would really like to see O2 extensions being standardized because it makes it more secure. To me, it means once there is a standard, it kind of closes the door on improvement, so maybe I'm more with your grandfather there on seeing the dangers of standardization and if you have something which doesn't need interoperability, but just something within your company, then why would you want to have standards rather than just ask for code review or getting more eyes on it? I mean, in particular with OT, we still see developments, we're still seeing stuff getting broken, so to me, this would be, it's not right for standardization. I think that, so I think one of the difficulties for us is that we don't have infinite amount of time. We don't have a team, a large team of 20 cryptographers who are able to look at all the issues and can keep updated on all the papers and verify all the latest improvements. And so sometimes the literature is kind of dangerous and it's difficult to go through the literature and understand everything. I agree, but I mean, if then some higher entity says, hey, he has a standard, it does give you a cover, you ask, you can say, oh, they told me to implement it, but it doesn't make your product magically secure. And unfortunately history has shown that there is not so much attention by academics towards standards. So if you, I don't know whether you went yesterday to WACC, there were lots of standards. Basically, every presentation was showing at least one standardized and commercially implemented product getting broken and smashed often enough years later. So these standards have been sitting around and just they don't get to the attention of academics because standards are typically behind paywall. And so to me, it's like, well, if ISOI triple ME makes a standard somewhere, I won't look because I'm not gonna pay it. And you might think, hey, it's been standardized by those people, so maybe it's better. Yes, that's... So I see that as a risk as a standardization body will tell, will convey to you, hey, this is good to implement, while actually nobody has looked at it. Yeah, that's something difficult. Thank you for... I mean, like, this is not a comment of NIST, everything you're doing with competitions, actually getting lots of attention, that's a good thing, I think. But otherwise just saying, hey, could somebody please standardize it so that I get at least somebody to blame doesn't make your product more secure. Sorry, probably taking too much time. No, that's fine.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with 2020 Bowman Draft Baseball This is super jumbo edition three box half case pick your random team number three from jaspyscasebrakes.com No paper ships except for these four players right here No other exceptions all paper will end up being donated to charity all chrome cards do ship though And obviously autographs and numbered paper obviously ships So I think everyone here gets the drill by now big. Thanks everybody here for getting to the action This is break number three. So this is from a fresh case and All 30 baseball teams are in so let's roll it. Let's randomize it three and a three hard six for each list one four and six After six we got ea down to Ae three and a three hard six for the teams one two three four and six Orioles down to Reds All right, so ea with the O's Rory with the Royals and the Rays Wade with the Tigers nice Greg with the Angels John with the Marlins Ross with the Padres Colin with the Diamondbacks George with my Dodgers Zack with the tribe ea with the Rocks John with the White Sox Brian with the Cardinals Derek with the Rangers Summon with the Nationals is that Paul with the Cubbies Bill with the Giants Josh with the Yankees Walter with the twins Travis with the Mariners Ross with the Phillies Summon with the Brew Crew Greg with the Mets Chris with the Astros Ross with the Braves Brent with the A's and The buckos the Pirates Ross with the Red Sox John with the Blue Jays and Adam Ewald with the Cincinnati Red Legs So I dropped the if you're watching live I dropped the checklist into the chat or a sort by team right here So feel free to trade if you'd like I'll have a little bit of a trade window And I'm gonna flip away from the screen just for a second because we got to open up this fresh case and see which which box we're gonna do Which three boxes? 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Good luck everybody here. We go All right, we got drew Romo for the Rockies to 499 that'll be for EA And there's our first paper Torkelson right here, too. That goes to Wade who got randomized the Tigers So here are here are the the only paper that's gonna ship for those teams And Zach is one of them. We'll sleeve and top load all those before they before they go out Nolan Gorman to 250 purple paper for the Cardinals that'll be for Brian and there's Slade Chachoni to 499 for the Diamondbacks Colin We got Jaren Duran sparkle For the Red Sox that'll be for Ross last spot mojo and our first autograph is Alex Santos For Chris parent and the Stroh's We'll keep track of the five autographs right there. That's just our first of five That Heston Kirkstad is for the O's that'll be for EA Riley Green Purple Chrome to 250 for the Tigers And our second autograph is gonna be Carson Ragsdale 471 out of 499 refractor autograph for Ross and the Phillies Like we need more autos out of here. I'm running out of Oh, there's another one right there. Okay. There's a E&C more to 50 for the Rays gold ray going to Rory And then we got Zach Delosh 56 out of 250 going to Travis and the Mariners That's our third autograph right there. Let's keep track of those autos Chrome here and here's our fourth autograph. That's Nick Bitsco For the Tampa Bay Rays Rory tried to trade couldn't trade mojo late first round pick for the Rays Got Zach Delosh again to 150 Number looks a little Paper number printed a little weird, right? Oh, I missed a paper vene How far ago was that? I Found it Rockies that's gonna go to EA and the rocks No, no worries. The actually is act the shipping team won't be going through these. So that's why it's best if you Yeah, I mean as soon as I miss one There's another paper Torkelson going to the Tigers wade and the fifth and final autograph of box one is gonna be Nick Lofton To 499 that will be for Rory and the Royals Try to trade couldn't trade mojo. 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Very good point If you're into the paper all paper, of course ships in personal breaks because right as Walter pointed it's your box No, there's no sorting that the shipping team has to do Just team bag them nicely throw them into a box and off it goes We got Nick Garcia to 250 purple chrome For the pirates and for that's for Brent and for the Mets Greg With the isaia green autograph 119 out of 150 on that one our first auto Of this box It's Jordan Adams to 250 for purple paper for the uh For the halos and this zac vene paper goes to EA and the rocks There's our first chrome torkelson going to wade And there's robert hassel paper for Ross and the Padres We got chris mcman to 99 green chrome For the Rockies EA with the rocks And look at this for the pirates 22 out of 49 What is this are these the applied pressure pressure makes diamond insert Applied pressure autograph Aaron Shortridge Pittsburgh pirates. There you go Brent I think these cars look really cool actually the big diamond in the back The autograph right there. We've got a chrome zac vene in there, too We got a sparkle nicladolo And we've got a spencer strider autograph 12 out of 99 green chrome auto for ross and the braves And we got chris mcman again for the rocks papered for 99 Anyone watching this thursday night football game patriots at rams? I think I want to say That that rams head coach Sean mcvay has this crazy record Where if he's if he's leading by halftime I think these are regular season games if he's leading at halftime, which they are 17 3 second half just started He is undefeated. I think straight up Someone fact-checked that but I'm I'm think I'm pretty sure it's it's like either a hundred percent record or it's uh It's pretty close to that now you could argue that Streaks and trends like that are made to be broken. So did the patriots come back? And look at this We got aurex solar autograph For walter and the minnesota twins the twin cities the twinkies There you go second round pick that's one two three Four autographs. So we're looking still looking for the fifth and final in this box and then we'll get into the last box There's joe ryan rays to 99 another paper torkelson for wade and the tigers And all those robert hassles are going to ross And the Padres another chrome torkelson nice No, he's out cam noons out there Or are you saying what happened to cam newton just in general? as a football player injuries Yeah, in general, I think just got to be injuries, right? That's the only thing He plays a certain Certain style of football which which is his game. You don't want him to not be cam newton, you know what I mean? But the shelf life for that kind of style of play You know It's just not there. I think just and now with more teams knowing he's not gonna Use his legs as much and be as reckless and now you're forcing him to throw Which is not his strong suit. He can but It's not his strong suit Now when you and then you throw him into a new offense and blah blah blah and not too many weapons around him and and everything And then that just that's the whole suit The cam newton suit 138 to 499 halos gets the fifth autograph here. That's for greg It'll be interesting to see what the what the patriots do You know, patriots did have a lot of a lot of dudes opt out They're gonna get a nice draft pick You know, if they like what they see with cam, maybe they think Maybe they think oh If he just works on his arm in the off season, he just had soldier shirt surgery too Didn't he last off season? So he's kind of coming off of stuff like that All right, here's our third and final box Cam's not the answer says but yeah, actually for the patriots. No, I don't think so either Bertra would rather see would rather see stitum Yeah, I mean thankfully it's just a one-year commit with cam newton. I think this is just kind of cam just saying hey I want to show that i'm healthy and he well except for getting like covid but But physically he seems to be Okay, right So there's a team thinking oh We're we can we have the the coaching that could rework his arm And they're confident about that then I think yeah, you give cam like a one or two year deal And then you kind of roll from there I'm pretty sure camera and check the schedule all that information is In all that filler information is on the schedule, but I'm pretty sure yes Brandon would take cam newton at Denver that could be interesting right maybe you treat cam newton like like uh Maybe a little like Peyton Manning towards the end of his career One of the bears could use a cam newton, right? Here's a big personality just to Just a big person in Chicago would be fun as quarterback You know and running running that offense And then the defense is really doing the work though The bears defense would do the work Cam newton could look pretty good in a system like that. I think so. I think it's just You know, it's not camovol where you just you just roll him out there and he makes plays and he's dynamic and Well, um, I think you'd have to really work You'd have to really want him and work with him Maybe if he works on maybe the accuracy of the throwing just a little bit I could that could be enough for a team with like an elite defense bears Denver could have an elite defense If they're all healthy if they have on Miller too, especially so teams like that could could squeeze out a little uh extra juice out of cam newton without him having to do too much but then Still having a cam newton that'd be confident enough to make a make a big play at the end of the game when when when you need him In my opinion I like cam newton a lot. So I might be a little biased. I think he's a fun fun character All right. We've got christian robinson purple paper to 250 For the diamond back that's for colin So the first time you've heard someone stand up for cam newton. I mean Listen, if he didn't have if you didn't have injuries like major shoulder surgery in the last year or so And he just declined and I don't think I'd stand up for him But I I after major injuries like that you kind of have to give You kind of have to give a player that second season In my opinion like You got to give him the season to just get regaining confidence in the in the arm This happens with baseball players too, right? It's not like off of tommy john Their first full season off of tommy john You know, isn't too strong that I miss a bean Um, I don't know why I'm like not I've missed a robert hassel too Thanks, wait um There's paper zack veen And then there's the robert hassel as well To be I know too busy praising cam newton Come on can't cam newton jamming me up here. That's gauge workman not torkelson There's that for the white socks garret crocheted 150 for the white socks that goes to john danine And zack delosh going to seattle and travis But yeah, I mean baseball players too after like a major injury Remember quarry seager came off a A couple hip injuries maybe an elbow surgery. He was banged up for a little bit and his first full season after those surgeries He didn't look very good You know and to to the point where people like are we trading quarry seager blah blah blah blah And then this current season the 2020 season I mean he was an integral part Of of the Dodgers winning the world series And now they're talking about how many How many years and how much and how many is what they're talking about here in l.a. There's owen cassey so it'll be So that's why i'm kind of saying hey, maybe let's let's not judge cam newton too early But no he hasn't been an accurate passer Which is why I was thinking That you put him into a put him on a team where he doesn't have to pass that much which would be teams with with near With like top five defenses, right? bears broncos steel, I mean steelers maybe but I mean, I think with the sealers you just stay with big ben And there's pete crow armstrong It's greg with the mets Yeah, cam acres is looking pretty good for the rams right now Here's another uh paper torkelson for you Wait was was this the first auto? I think so You got green carver bombler to 99 for the o's that'll be for ea and For the tigers a gold wave autograph 23 out of 25 Are we we're going with tray tray cruise There you go wade wade with Little cat team mojo Yeah, a hit is a hit Brian that's for sure Better than nothing I suppose Wish it was the other guy, but There's another paper torkelson though Imagine justin herbert in this rams offense with mcvay There you go and chrome torkelson And we got a fish 114 out of 250 John with the marlins max mire Nice you consider anyone the left side of the infield a big hit really yeah, I mean If you if you look at the If you look at previous draft previous drafts in general and you kind of take a look at You know what players project Nicely that's often your corner infielders Third baseman that's to 499 That's tanner burns What's going on jack? How are you? Yeah, it's generally third baseman shortstop some first baseman Often project out pretty nicely There's some more paper right there Well, was there a tanner burns card that was paper card that was bent Almost done here a last auto coming up oan miller to 250 purple chrome for Zach and the indians and the last autograph is garret crochet 100 out of 499 And that is for the white socks that'll be for john denine And there you go ladies and gentlemen this was Three box super jumbo Random team number three from a fresh case second half Is in the store If you want to run this back tonight And here is a quick recap here Of the super jumbo break. No worries Wade. Thanks for getting in. I wish there was a little bit of Torkelson ink, but it's a handful of paper some chrome. I don't think too bad gold wave Crow arm strong This auto was pretty cool right here The applied pressure autograph It's like actually kind of a lot of Torkelson chrome And a couple of paper torkelsons right there and there you go boys and girls That was random team three of the brand new 2020 bowman draft baseball Thanks for joining more in the store. Check it out. Jasper'scasegrace.com. Bye. Bye


I'm sometimes baffled by certain patients that come in and see me. And as we go through the laundry list of seeing what they're working on and where maybe they have had problems in the past, I ask, are you on any medications? And they inevitably say, no, just take, you know, a baby's annex from time to time. And then that's about it. And then when I ask them about their sleep, they say, oh, no, you know, I take a sleep medication as needed, or how's your digestion? Oh, no, no, it's good.  I have, you know, stuff for acid reflux and things like that. And as we go on with the questioning, there are sometimes a half a dozen medications in someone who didn't think that they took any medications on a daily basis. And I thought this would be a great idea for a video to talk about my personal view on medications and also healing. Hey, I'm Dr. Alex Hine, Doctor of Chinese Medicine and author of the health book Master of the Day. Before we jump into this video, there are two very important links right below. The first is if you'd like to become a patient of my locally in Los Angeles or virtually if you tell a medicine, you can reach out to my private practice in the link right below this video. There's also a free guide for daily rituals that can possibly help you out years to your life with Chinese medicine. Let me start with a very blunt statement. Medications in the way that I see them used in America do not result in any healing outside of the acute care. Okay, I'm going to repeat it. Medications usually don't result in healing. That is people getting better over time. The one exception is acute care, right? If you have an acute urinary tract infection or sinus infection, you take antibiotics, the infection is cleared. You're effectively healed for the time being. That's a very low level example, but for very, very few exceptions, whether it's digestive disease like reflux or indigestion, whether it is anxiety and depression or whether it's insomnia, you very, very rarely see people healing over time. And it once led to a patient telling me there is no healing in traditional medicine, conventional medicine rather. Now, I think that's extreme, but I do see that to be very, very, very commonplace because if someone comes in with something mild to moderate, let's say they're getting indigestion and acid reflux, they're put on one of the many kinds of medications that are available today. What I never see is patients get better over time. I never see that they need less of a dosage of a medication. I never see that they need less meds over time. I never see healing. Now, maybe those people exist and they just don't come to see me or they just take themselves off their medications or take them sporadically. But what I very rarely see is actual healing, meaning people get better over time, people need less medication over time, or eventually, people do not need those medications anymore. And that is always my goal in my practice. And it makes me think about something very, very important, which is that your symptoms should always push you on a quest for healing.  A lot of people choose go to sleep because it's easier right now. Going to sleep is when you start noticing some indigestion or some acid reflux and it keeps going on. Going to sleep is taking medication because nothing about the lifestyle that created that illness is getting changed or resolved. All you've done is turned down the volume, the canary in the cold mind that's saying, hey, something's wrong. Hey, something's wrong. Hey, something's wrong. You've just basically gagged the canary through the blanket over it and now it thinks it's nighttime and it's sleeping. When you have problems come up, the point of a symptom is to signal an alarm. Something's wrong. Something's not right. It's not your body just doing this because it's like, well, screw it.  Let me make you depressed or anxious. Let me give you insomnia. It's not the point. It's an evolutionary biological signal that something is wrong and something has to be changed. So I think a big problem that I see with many, many patients is that if you take a medication and I'm not saying don't take your medication, talk to your doctor, your primary care physician if you want to do that, that you want to get off that, but taking medication when symptoms are not life-threatening and they're not to that point yet is basically drowning out the fire alarm but the fire is still raging in the background. So I deeply believe that symptoms are designed to drive you on your quest to figure out what's gone wrong. They are the breadcrumbs. They are the paper trail your body is giving you to figure out, wow, I don't feel well and I don't know why that is but I need to figure this out. But in Chinese medicine, what I see clinically, the difference and why I'm in this field is because I started off as a patient that went through all the conventional care system and the difference is that when my patients come to me, so much of the time, whether it is a digestive problem, anxiety, depression, insomnia, issues with their menstrual cycle, if I see them for a year, the difference is that not only after a year will they be off those medications or not need those medications or not need the same dosage of medication, they won't even need the formulas I give them and that to me is not only has the symptom decreased if they have migraines five days a week, maybe they have one or two a month or one or two every season. That's a huge change. But the biggest difference, the evidence of healing is that if they take nothing, no migraine medications, no Chinese formulas for me, no treatment, they still won't have them at the frequency that they used to. That is the definition of progression and healing and I don't see that very often in conventional medicine. In fact, I very rarely see that ever. What I see is that patients need increased dosages over time, whether it's their thyroid med or their anxiety or depression medication, they need increased dosages and then another medication and then often a trial of many other medications and this just goes on ad infinitum until the person just dies. I very rarely see any healing and I certainly don't see progression even when it is very, very easily possible. And I thought I would shoot this video because specifically if you are questioning how long you've been on something, maybe it's time to talk to your doctor about what that would look like to wean off of it and at the very least to begin exploring other integrative options because in the same vein that I came into this earth with my own GI issues that I've had lifelong, there is no cure for them because it is not a specific illness. It's really a genetic or constitutional tendency that is always gonna be my weak point and my choice to practice Chinese medicine and take Chinese medicine means that day to day my digestion is fine. And as problems crop up, typically I will take a formula that I've written for a month and then I'm good for the season the next three months, right? And then if that crops up again, I will then again treat it for a month tilt myself back towards the center with my gut and then I'm good for another few months. I just see so many people on whether it's for acid reflux, something that's mild to moderate, mostly an annoyance for some people. And then 20 years later, they still have it.  And now you miss the signal that you should have caught 20 years ago. So this video I guess is a rant more than any specific advice but don't miss the signals your body's trying to give you because they start as a whisper and they become a yell but the danger, frankly, of medication is that it turns a yell back into a whisper and then it's easy to ignore until you no longer can ignore it any further. That's all I have for you today, guys. Pay attention to the signals your body is trying to give you. It's not trying to make you suffer. It's trying to help you feel well but only if you listen to it, right? Then wake up or go to sleep. That's all I've got for today. Check out these two related videos here and I'll catch you soon.


In the Bookmap columns, you can create and configure a trading dome to fit basically any of your needs. Let's right-click in this COB column, come down and select the data type here, trading dome. I can add a default trading dome columns here, or individual columns of last trade, market depth, orders, or price axis. Let's select the default dome here, and Bookmap has now added several different columns. I have a buy orders column, sell orders column. I have a bid market depth column, price axis, ask market depth column, and then last trade as well. Let's arrange the columns a little bit here. I'm going to right-click here and hide my last trades column since I have that data over here in the current market window. I'm also going to hide my COB column since I already have market depth here for bid and ask. You can also arrange the columns here by left-click hold and dragging if you want to narrow or widen out your column, or you can left-click hold and drag the column completely to another area. Let's configure some of the columns. I'm going to right-click in the bid column here and select configure column. You have the options here to configure the display, however you like, play around with the different settings to get what you want, and then you also have actions here. Now, I have a few different buy actions here by default. If you don't like them, you can click on the X button here to cancel them, or you can add a new one here by sending a new order for buy or for sell. Let's open up this buy order here, and this sends a new buy order. The order type is mixed, which means that it's for both a buy limit and a buy stop depending where you are in the price ladder, and it's based on the mouse button action of left-clicking. If you want to add a keyboard stroke, you can here with either Shift, Control, or Alt, and then the action will occur when the button is either pressed or when it is released. That looks pretty good, so let's close that up, and let's set some orders. I'm going to left-click here, and you can see that the trade control panel up here is pulsating, so I need to open that up, and I need to select trading from either the dome or from both the chart and the dome. Let's select dome, and if you don't like having your trade control panel over here, you can left-click hold and drag it to the other side of the chart here. Let's select volume of one, and let's try setting orders again. Now when I hover the mouse over here, my cursor also displays a B, which means that it's going to be sending a buy order. Since I'm above current price, I left-click once, and you can see that I've set a buy stop for a volume of one. Let's go down below current price. We'll set a buy limit here of volume of one. Let's go through the configurations in the buy orders column. I'm going to right-click here and configure the column. You can play around with the display however you like, and then under the actions here, I can move the orders here by left-clicking and dragging. I can resize the orders by left-clicking, or I can cancel the orders by left-clicking on the X button here. Let's go through the options. If I left-click here on my buy stop, I have the option here to select the different volume that I want to trade. Now I can also left-click and drag the order around to whatever price level I want, or I can cancel the order here by hovering over and clicking on the X button here. So you can see there are many different configurations and arrangements for your trading dome. Let me show you a few that I've already created. So you can take a look at a few other different configurations that might fit your needs. Let's click on the NASDAQ here. You can see that I have a volume column here. I also have a quotes delta column that I've configured and filtered, followed by a buy depth column here, price ladder, depth on the ask, and then another quotes delta column here, which is showing the amount of liquidity that is either added or pulled here from the ask. And I also have a time and sales column. Let's click on crude and take a quick look. A pretty popular configuration here. I have my buy orders, my depth, price ladder, and sell orders over here, my volume column, and my trade control panel here on the right-hand side. And then finally, with the notes, again, I have the quotes delta over here, my depth on the bid. In the middle here, instead of showing my price ladder, I'm actually showing the amount of aggressor volume that was traded by either buying or selling. And then I have a market depth column on the ask, followed by another quotes delta, and then time and sales. So you can see you have many different options here to configure your trading dome to fit whatever needs that you have.


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Ever wonder how to create an online course that sells? Absolutely. Well, we're talking about it here on the journey. During the last year or so, online courses have become the hot new thing everywhere from coaches to consultants. They're all putting their best work online and creating an online course. Yeah, they're all the rage now. You know, nowadays we're seeing online courses on every conceivable topic you could think of. Literally everything. And it's just a great way to create a passive income where you create it once and then you're constantly money it from it from then on out. So we're going to talk about what it's going to take to get that online course and some ways to actually make it sell. So let's start off with what do you need to get started? I think that's three things, right? That's a domain name, that's hosting, and then the course itself. We have a pretty cool video on what it takes to have a good domain name right up here if you haven't had one yet. Then hosting is just kind of that online storage for your website. It's where all your content's going to go. Then I'm going to show you guys a little tutorial here in a little bit of probably my favorite plug-in to create an online course. So first things first, we need to create a plan. Think about it, if you were a teacher, you would need a lesson plan, right? So this is really creating an outline of what you're going to talk about, what's going to go into that, what lessons you actually want to teach. Yeah, that's super important. You don't want to just jump headfirst into it, and then it's going to be super unorganized and just chaotic in a word, right? So with your online course, whether it's like a Word doc or OneNote or whatever you're doing, just list out your main subjects you're going to be talking about with a couple of bullets here on out. You can expand on that later on, but at least you have the high-level overview of the type of content you want to talk about and the structure itself. Yeah, no one's going to want to watch a online course that is just some general topic and has no direction. Yeah, just here and there. No one has time for that. Create some direction so that people know what they're actually going to watch. Yeah, and I think it's important to understand the type of course you want to actually create, whether it's text only, so you're just writing out content and text, whether you want videos, whether you want quizzes, some type of interaction. You want to make sure that you have that figured out so you know where your direction is. You'll also want to determine some of the course restrictions, whether this course is going to be a free course you're going to use as just a lead generator, or if you're going to put a dollar amount behind it. I think it's important to have that defined early, because it's going to set the stage for your entire course and then your marketing plan afterwards. Also make sure that you're protecting you and your content with some policy and procedures. So if you don't want your content recorded or redistributed, make sure you have those rules in place to protect you as well. Yeah, and then next you want to figure out how do you want to present the content? Do you want them to have it all at once for them to use, or do you want to drip it to where it's more like classroom oriented? So you have week one, you do this content, and then week two it'll release and they can jump in. Understanding that helps out a lot with how you market it and then how you just distribute it to your audience. And that's a great way to keep people coming back. Next week you're going to get this, next week you're going to get this. Yeah, and I think too, sometimes we need to better understand our audience and what content do they actually want? I know we have our own perceptions of they need to learn this, but a great way to better understand even just the modules that you're going to be creating is by doing an Ask Campaign. So I actually learned this from Russell Brunson. He's the founder of ClickFunnels, but whenever he creates an online course, he starts with an Ask Campaign. So if my topic is social media, right? I'm going to send out an email to my newsletter subscribers and say, hey, what is your number one question about social media? And then he collects those answers and gets the top usually six common answers that essentially makes that the course. He knows exactly what his audience wants. He knows the content that they're going to actually need. And then that's his course. He has those six topics, those six modules in his course. So if you're kind of stuck on the exact content to put in there and that outline too, do an Ask Campaign, figure out what your audience actually wants so that way it's relevant and important to them. Exactly, that's going to help you create that guideline and then you can use that to create your content. And then at the end, you're not having people ask a lot of questions that you should have covered and having to create a different video. So now that we know what our so-called students want in our content and the guideline that we're going to be following, how do we actually implement this and create the online course? Yeah, great question. There are so many different ways to go out and create an online course. There are tons of WordPress plugins that make it super easy and there's even other providers that that's their whole thing. I know Teachable.com is a great resource for those that aren't really tech savvy but want something pretty easy. But we're actually going to do a demo of using some couple free solutions. We're going to use WordPress as our platform to host it on. We're going to use a plugin called Tudor LMS. I'm actually going to show you all a demo of how to use it and how to set it up for success. So what does LMS stand for in Tudor LMS? Yeah, LMS is learning management system. Basically it's an application or program you use to basically house your course in a sense. So all you need is a hosting account with WordPress set up and installed. Most hosting providers make it super easy to install WordPress on. And then once you're in here, we're going to go ahead and just add and install a new plugin. So on the left hand side here, we'll mouse over plugins and go to add new. And then we're going to search for Tudor LMS. It is a free plugin at this base. Most of the core functions are going to be free. Like most plugin providers, there are some extra paid options if you want to kind of go above and beyond. LearnPress is also a pretty phenomenal LMS plugin as well. So once we search that, we go ahead and just click install. Now it just takes a moment to install. And then it's going to go through kind of an onboarding experience. Now the course we're going to create, we're going to really just kind of repurpose some of the journey content we have. So we're going to create a course on how to up your social media game. And that's going to be the basis of our course for this demo purpose, but you can use it for almost anything you're wanting to do related to your industry. So after Tudor LMS is installed, we're going to go ahead and go over to it. We click Tudor LMS and now we don't have any courses. So we're going to go ahead and click add new. And we're going to give it a title. So up your social media game. It's going to be our title, but you want your title to be kind of descriptive of what they're actually going to get out of it. I know I've created a course in the past and I named it The Road Your First Thousand Followers on social media. Something super specific, but we're going to keep it at simple for the course of this demo, just up your social media game. And then here we have a description. So we're going to add as much content as we like. Remember when creating your description for your online course, you want to make it about them and what they're getting out of it. Try not to just info dump and say, we're going to teach social media, we're going to teach Instagram, we're going to teach how to create captions. Those are all great features for your course itself, but they don't really, it's hard for someone to actually imagine what that does for them. Right, let people know why they should care, why these things actually affect their business. And that's going to be a lot more effective than just saying, here's what this is, this is, this is when they haven't even learned it yet. Yep, focus on benefits versus features.  All right, and then going through tutor LMS, it's going to ask you, what do you want your maximum students to be? If you want it to be unlimited, great, put it as unlimited. Obviously I want as many people to do it, but you can set a little bit of urgency, especially for a higher dollar courses itself. So if your courses are like two, three, four, $5,000, even maybe more, sometimes it's good to have a maximum number of students there to create that urgency. So now people will say, cool, now there are only four spots left. Yeah, you make it a little more prestigious. It's like, hey, the first 100 people to sign up for this course, they get in, no one else does. Exactly, kind of that bit of a perception, if you will. Cool, next up is an expert. Experts are optional handcrafted summaries. You can add whatever you're wanting there, really just a quick description for the sake of your time and our time. We're going to go ahead and put just some generic info here. But cool, make it just a quick excerpt, maybe one or two sentence of what they're going to get out of this. And then right below that is going to be a course builder. We're actually going to get back to that here in a second. I want to show you the rest of the information here. So you'll have some additional data and this is going to go over total course duration. You really want to tell your audience, how long is this course going to take them? Then you have some benefits of the course. So you can go ahead and add some information here, some requirements or additional instructions that you may want.  Like who would benefit the most from this? I think it's important to really niche down when you're creating your courses. Try not to make something that applies to everyone because it'll apply to no one. Yeah, so for the journey, ours would be entrepreneurs or small, local business owners, anything along those lines. Exactly. Now going down the list here on the Tudor LMS homepage here. And now you're going to have a course intro video. It does help to have a quick little summary again. Visual video is engaging. So have something here. I'm going to go ahead and pull in from YouTube and grab our just journey intro video here. Yeah, you have to give people a reason to actually watch. You need to hook them and that video, the intro video can be a huge asset for that. Absolutely. So let me go ahead and add this in here. Cool. And that'll be our video. You can add it in an announcement if you'd like. We're going to leave that blank for now. And then the other thing you want to do is a couple of things, right? So you want to have category. So if you do plan on creating a ton of different courses, on your website, categorize them so it makes it easy to identify and understand what this is. So I'm going to create an easy category of social to make all of our lives easy. I can't type. All right, I'll fix it in post. Social, there we go.  So you can really put anything like Instagram, Facebook, followers, SEO, love it. And then a featured image. This image needs to be visually stunning and appealing to an audience. So if they're looking at it, it grabs their attention. So basically a picture of the journey are cast, right? All right, so I chose the journey as my featured image. And I'm going to go ahead and save draft for now because I want to see what this might look like on my website. So if I click preview here in the upper right, it's going to show me what it looks like. Cool, so I've upped your social media game. The category of social shows me how many enrolled. One last time it was updated, I have my trailer here. So it's nice and easy to see. Materials include we have videos, we have quizzes, an easy option to enroll now, our tags, target audience, what we'll learn, that description. Then it shows about the instructor. To update that, you have to go to users and then your profile and you can update your information there.  And then this is basically going to be the landing page for your online course. And that took us just a few minutes to create. WordPress and this plugin make it super easy to actually create your course. So now let's get into actually building the course. What do we do for that? Yeah, so we're going to use the course builder. It's right on that page here. So we're going to add topics. So we have topics and then we have the actual lessons themselves. That way it helps you really break up the content that you're going to be talking about. So topics could be an intro. I usually start my courses with some type of introduction, some things to get them kind of up to speed. And then maybe since we're talking about social, I might make each topic like Instagram or followers or marketing or something high level that really describes the next couple of sections. So I'm just going to do intro here. I'm just going to add that topic. You can give it a summary if you'd like. And then we're going to add new lessons. And like I said, we're pulling it from our YouTube channel, some of the videos and making that the course. If you just want it to be text, you just update the text here and add your text as well as your title. Let me go ahead and find something social media related. How to use Twitter for your online business. Perfect. Perfect. So let me grab this URL here. Let me update the title. How to use Twitter for your online business. And then you can add a featured image if you'd like. But I'm just going to choose a YouTube as the video source. You can throw that in there. And then it has the video playback time. So you can tell people how long this lesson is going to take them. Because maybe they may not be doing this all in one chunk. They might have 15 minutes right now and then 30 minutes for another time. And letting them know upfront how long each course will last really helps them set aside the right time to follow your course. So this video was nine minutes and 10 seconds. Nine, 10. And then update lesson. And now that lesson is done. We're going to kind of add a couple more and then we'll jump back into some other stuff here. So I added a bit of content into this. And now let me show you how the actual learning management system works. If I was an everyday user coming to the website. So I land on this landing page. I can go to enroll now. But it shows me the topics for this course. It has the intro and then advanced. I can see the content here. Now I can't get to it unless I enroll. So I'm going to go ahead and choose enroll now. And then now I have an option to start this course and complete the course. You can set up different options if you want to add quizzes or certain passing metrics if they want to get a completed course. So let's go ahead and start course and check this out. Cool. So this is how it looks. It shows your lesson list on the left-hand side. We have our intro and advanced. It shows our videos. You can have your text below it. It can only be text only, which is completely fine. Or you can add video. Or you can kind of have a little bit of both. Really whatever works best for you and your audience. Obviously text is going to be easier to create. You don't have to create video. You don't have to edit it and things like that. But it might be more engaging to go with videos. And as they go through it, they can see each lesson. And as they go, they can click complete lesson to mark their progress. Then next and next and next. And it makes it super organized and super neat for an everyday user to actually take your content. And then this is responsive. So it works great on mobile, on tablet, or on desktop. Okay, so you've made your course now. But how do you actually get people to watch it or even buy it? Yeah, there are tons of ways. And we're going to go through a couple here. But really before your class goes live, it's good to make little essentially teasers, if you will, post about the upcoming course. So tell your audience that, hey, there's something in the works. It's going to be awesome. Then as it goes on, like, hey, I'm creating this course. It's going to be on this topic. Who would be interested? And then keep creating content around that to kind of build up the hype and anticipation. So when it does go live, your audience actually knows about it. Yeah, you have to build up that hype. And that's a really good opportunity to add in that ask question of, hey, what's some content that you guys want to see in this course? Yep. And then as you have your outline going, you can kind of share that with the audience. If this is the stuff I'm going to cover. And I know what a lot of people do too, is they'll actually create many courses as lead generators. Like, hey, here's a taste of some of the work that I do that I teach and that's super valuable. And they give it out for free. And then that way they have that person's email, that person takes their course, goes, well, this is a ton of value. This is awesome. Then when you release your paid course, they're like, all right, cool. I've already got a ton of value from this. I know this person is an expert with what they teach. I'm more inclined to actually buy and kind of continue with that. Absolutely. So expecting people to spend money on this course, you have to give them a reason why and why they should trust that they're actually going to get benefit from this. So that's a give and take situation. Yeah. And with the Plugin Tutor LMS and many of the other plugins with WordPress, there's an option to make certain ones free for anybody to watch. So I know a pretty popular option is to make your first course, like the first lesson for free. And if they want to continue, then they pay. So if you got them hooked on that first lesson, you've got them hooked for the rest of it. And another way to make this even more profitable for you is to add some additional materials or tools that people can use to help them out even after the online course. So for instance, if you created a course on here's how to edit an Instagram photo, and then you added additional materials of like Lightroom presets or things along those lines that people can purchase to actually continue that education. Yeah. And it's all about kind of that perceived value. I know what a lot of people will do too is they'll have their course for X price and then they'll talk about all of the extras that come with it. So whether it's a checklist, whether it's a one-on-one consultation, whether it's access to a Facebook group, they add a perceived value for all these freebie extras. So if I had an ebook that I paired with it, I could say an added value of $49.99 but you're getting it for free. Then if I had a content calendar added value of $89.99 but you're getting for free, now it feels like I'm getting a lot more, basically more bang for my buck which just buying this course. So adding that perceived value can help out a ton. Then there's really going through and doing traditional advertising, right? You can go on Facebook ads or Instagram ads or Twitter or wherever your target audience is and start just testing out different things you can do to get your course in front of them. Now I would say you'll find a lot more success if you market your free course, right? To get that lead generator. I know you're spending money to get someone into a free course. It seems backwards, right? We really wanna like think of it as a funnel. So when you're marketing your content, you're getting into the free course, they like that, then you start, then you can use your email marketing to talk to them about your paid course and some of your other offerings and it kind of goes down and down and down. So start big, start broad, go the free option and then go down to your paid option once they trust you and see you as an authoritative source. So now you know how to do it, go out and create your own online course that sells. Thanks for watching. Be sure to like and comment down below. And subscribe to our channel and ring that bell to get these episodes first. This is The Journey, we'll see you next time.


Now that's a pretty inflammatory title, isn't it? You might be scared and think that by saying this I'm announcing that I'm not a libertarian anymore and have mega-minded my way out of it and I'm now peering down my nose at the peasants known as my audience, but it couldn't more so be the opposite. Everything I'm going to say through the course of this video are things that I've been guilty of numerous times in a state of blissful ignorance and some of my most successful videos have been around points that I've made whilst ignorant of the deepest foundations of what I'm actually saying. You may think that because now you know what our priori and our posteriori mean, you've got philosophy nailed down and are well on your way to being able to answer any question about reality that's ever existed. I thought this way and take it from me if you ever start to look outside of this sphere of ours, you'll be immediately humbled. Libertarianism is not a complete philosophy. Again, settle down, this is not an insult and it's simply true. Ask Mises Rothbard or Hopper. I have a whole video showing how libertarianism is a legal theory and not a moral one. It uses axiomatic logic to show what you are or are not permitted to do in a legal sense, not what you should or shouldn't do in a moral sense. Libertarianism shows that you can legally make any economic exchange which does not violate the natural rights of another person, but it doesn't tell you if you should make any sort of exchange. This is why the argument for the legalization of drugs should never ever be conflated as an argument that buying, selling or using drugs is good. All we can say from libertarianism is that if you were to initiate the use of force against somebody trying to do any of that in order to stop them, you are claiming de facto ownership over them which is a performative contradiction as all humans are self-owners. This is the most basic form of what's called argumentation ethics, but where does that leave us? Can we only ever hold a completely apathetic position to drug usage? Are we simply never allowed to say whether or not it's good or bad and have to sit on the fence of every issue other than legal ones? This would only be the case if you wrongly viewed libertarianism as a complete philosophy. And if libertarian legal theory is the only philosophy you've ever seriously read, it's highly likely that you falsely assume this, maybe even only implicitly, and I'll show why that could be the case for you when I get into the presuppositions.  It does not even say that freedom is a moral good and it's something that people ought to desire. Goodness and aughts are the realm of morality, so you can make any claim to goodness or aughtness of action as long as it does not contradict the stipulations of the legal theory, you are not contradicting libertarianism. If I say you should not take recreational drugs, I am not saying you cannot, and I'm in no contradiction. I already know how incredibly guilty I am of previously stretching the limits by saying that strictly according to libertarian legal theory, violating the NAP is immoral. The only thing you can say from libertarianism alone is that violating the NAP is justified grounds for retaliation. Nothing about it says whether you should or shouldn't, or if it's good or bad too.  And that used to be me. These are the people who will tell you that if you don't support the current thing being shoved down your neck from the cathedral's propagandist tentacles, that you're not a real libertarian. If I say that casual sex is hedonistic, a vice, and ought not to be committed, they're likely to lash out, call me a statist among many other sorts of names, say something about Nick Fuentes for no good reason, rather than actually try to dispute my moral claim on moral grounds. I can only imagine it's an insecurity borne out of their philosophical ignorance and personal lifestyle, which causes them to lash out and do libertarianism a gruesome injustice by using it to defend a moral claim, which it explicitly says it is not fit to do. So what I want to do is not tell you what conclusions most libertarians get wrong out of philosophical ignorance, but what this ignorance actually pertains to. I will declare what side I am on, but will not give the most extensive reasons why, because I want you to look up what these things are and actually get to know them. What the different sides claim, and what is true. Rather than me just make a claim that few people watching would understand, and fewer people would start arguing in the comments, which wouldn't help anyone. I'll also say what libertarianism itself often presupposes, yet does not get questioned on, and what libertarian individuals are prone to unknowingly presupposing, and I'll make it clear when I'm doing one or the other. I'll start with the area that I'm struggling to reconcile the most internally right now, and give this fiery topic a running start. Nominalism vs Metaphysical Realism If you've only ever read the philosophy of libertarianism, you'll have absolutely no idea what these things are, because my point is entirely true, libertarianism is not a complete philosophy, but it presupposes nominalism. Nominalism is the claim that concepts do not actually exist and are just made up. Does society actually exist, or is it just a name we ascribe to a fictional category? If you think that such a category has to be fictional, you're already presupposing nominalism and don't even know it. In reading medieval philosophy, I've come to realise that nearly everything post-enlightenment presupposes nominalism, and this presupposition never gets challenged, but I have come to take the position of metaphysical realism, that concepts are real. When you think of a dog, you can either think of a specific dog that you have seen before and recall it in your imagination from your memory, or you can think of the concept of dog in general, not a specific one, and know that dogs have particular and real characteristics in order to be a dog, and that the category of dog is a real one beyond just the arrangement of atoms, which have come together to take the physical form of a dog. So where does libertarianism presuppose nominalism? In the area of one of my most viewed videos, intellectual property, and that's where this is my greatest ongoing conflict. Before I made that video, I discussed it with some friends and made the assertion, all property is physical. Technically, with this statement, I assumed materialism, and materialism is not to be conflated with consumerism, which the vast majority of people who say it do. Materialism is the assertion that the only things which exist are physical, that being made of matter. But I believe that if you can conceive of the concept of dog in general, you are using immaterial faculties to conceive of an immaterial part of reality, that this immaterial faculty of yours is the intellect, separate from just the matter of the brain, and instead belongs to the soul. Talking of such things as the soul even existing these days is seen as backward and superstitious, but you cannot read the depths of which scholastic and Platonist philosophy goes into making these claims and still think they're stupid or without real basis. If you dismiss either side of this argument with a hand wave, you are much more than likely nowhere near educated enough on them to be making any sort of judgment.  So if you do not presuppose materialism and nominalism, most of what I said in my intellectual property video is nowhere near as strong as it once seemed. If immaterial and material things exist, and if concepts are real rather than fictional, the question of whether or not these can truly be property is a very different one. This does not change many points I did make in that video though, that ideas are not scarce, and that I cannot be said to own the parts of your senses and mind which perceive and conceive the idea which I created. So I'm not telling you all of this to say I've completely flipped on this issue, but I have to find a way to reconcile all these points. They only didn't need reconciliation before, not because I knew why not, but because I was working on top of many layers of presupposition which I now think are wrong and had no idea that's what I was doing at the time. The most visible presupposition amongst many libertarians rather than libertarianism itself is moral relativism, and this is the one that just really riles me up, because it is normally accompanied by a staggering amount of contradictions which leave me absolutely flabbergasted that the people making them can't see it. I've already said that just because libertarianism does not examine morality, that does not mean you have to think that morality therefore does not exist. Libertarian legal theory doesn't tell you whether or not the moon exists, that doesn't mean you can then say there's no way to know, or in fact doesn't. I've seen a quote online attributed to Mises which says, if a man drinks wine and not water, I cannot say he is acting irrationally. At most I can say that in his place I would not do so, but his pursuit of happiness is his own business, not mine. Now I don't believe this is from human action and I don't know the context in which he said it, but I think it is either morally relativist or leaves the extremely vague happiness of a person as their ultimate end to which they should order their actions, and with the implication that there's no actual guidelines of how you could do that. Morality can be defined as the way things ought to be.  But you'll find so many people who will clap until their hands are bloody at what Mises said and think there's no way humans ought to behave as long as they're happy, because morality doesn't exist. Say that you don't like the ideas being pushed by LGBT groups though, and lots of them won't waste a second in telling you how it's bad to think that way. If it's bad to think a certain way, you are saying there is a way you ought to think and act.  Your morals are just whatever is being socially pressured onto you, rather than anything transcendent or ontological. Finding a consistent moral relativist is as hard as finding Hen's teeth. You can find so many libertarians who dodge any moral question from a traditionalist standpoint by just saying morality doesn't exist and it's just a form of control by the man to divide the pros.  Good and bad are moral values. Good or bad according to what? A true moral relativist will say it's only good or bad according to their personal preference. But if that's the case, why the hell should I care? The way things ought to be is not up to you, and if all you can tell me is the way you would like things to be, I do not care. This moral relativism is the result of another presupposition, and what I think is the most grievous crime that the Protestant Reformation started and the Enlightenment continued against philosophy. That is the presupposition that metaphysics doesn't exist. And what is that? Metaphysics is one of the four main branches of philosophy, along with logic, ethics, and epistemology. Metaphysics is the branch which is concerned chiefly with the nature of being, form, and substance, and causation, among others. Within this, it studies what it means to be a human, which Aristotle said is to be a rational animal and dissected what that necessarily means. David Hume invented something called the Problem of Induction, which is to say that when we stand near a fire and feel heat from it, we induce that this particular fire is hot, but if you saw another fire in the distance, you could not induce that that fire must also be hot by necessity. Or that because the sun has always risen in the east and set in the west, we cannot say that it will do so tomorrow. It boggles my mind that people take this seriously. I can only hope that when my listeners hear it, they see it for the stupidity which I always instinctually have and can now actually explain. This is because metaphysics was murdered hundreds of years ago, as it was extensively used in the medieval period to logically support doctrines of the Catholic Church, so the Protestant reformers banned it, rather than have reality threaten their new theologies. Chief among the examples was how Saint Thomas Aquinas used the metaphysical distinction between form and substance to prove how the Eucharist, given at Holy Mass, changed from bread and wine to the real body and blood of Jesus Christ with transubstantiation. That's a mouthful of a word, but we all know what transformation means, and I can explain it using that. I am me, and I have a beard. My substance is me, and my beard is part of my form, my physical appearance. If I shave my beard off, I have transformed myself by creating a change in my form, but I am still me in substance, and cannot change that. Well, transubstantiation is the opposite of that example. Saint Thomas showed that the bread and wine at mass pertains the form, that is physical appearance, of bread and wine, but after they're consecrated, it's entirely possible that through an unseen miracle, they can change their substance, which is transubstantiation. The host continues to look and feel like bread and wine in form to our senses, but are substantially different, the opposite of when I shave and transform. This does not prove that this miracle happens, and it maintains that a thing cannot change its own substance through natural means. This can only be done through divine intervention, and because Christ promised to give his body and blood to us with bread and wine, he truly gives it to us in substance with the form of bread and wine. So what do you do if you're a Calvinist Protestant in 17th century Europe, and don't want people to believe in the doctrine of true physical presence of Christ in the Eucharist, because it contradicts your theology? You presuppose that Catholicism is wrong, see that philosophy supports Catholicism and its doctrines, then just say that philosophy is wrong.  You just say it's not actually true without providing any proof, and then ban the teaching of metaphysics. Now, a young René Descartes grows up in a Calvinist area of northern France with an incredibly inquisitive and philosophical mind, but in a place where philosophy, and especially that evil, popish metaphysics, is banned. What Descartes did was an incredible feat. He rebuilt philosophy entirely in a part of the world where it simply ceased to exist. The problem is that because of this, he was seriously wrong. He gave absolutely no attention to metaphysics because he couldn't properly get his hands on it, and then decided there's no way to tell if your sensory experience is reflective of reality at all. Metaphysics tells you how reality exists, you are a human, humans have senses, and senses experience reality. Cut off this limb of philosophy, and now nothing can be known to have any true meaning or substance. In a world without metaphysics, we now believe there's no such thing as form and substance, and that nothing has intrinsic meaning. What is a woman? What does it mean to be one? Does a woman have a particular form and a particular substance which dictates their nature? And nah, we say there's no such thing as a woman, anybody can choose to be one. How can you choose to be something that doesn't actually exist? And like I said before, a thing cannot change its own substance through natural means. As a man, you can put on high heels and wear a pink skirt to make your form appear like that of a woman, but you have an immutable substance, and that is of a man. You can never change that. So if you're looking at the state of utter lunacy the world is gripped in now, and the complete disconnect from reality and a spiral into nihilism, depression, and suicide at breakneck speeds, you can thank the Protestants and the Enlightenment, then do yourself a favor and go learn some metaphysics. Reality has meaning, life has meaning, you have meaning, what you do has meaning.  If you want to know what this meaning is, you have to go back before the great lie began. Libertarian legal theory has been developed after the lie and is not concerned with answering it, so you will never find meaning if that is all you care to read. If you try to substitute the beatific vision as your ultimate end with a hatred of government and taxation, you will forever be a bitter person as your ultimate values will not be in line with ultimate reality. Nominalism, materialism, morality, metaphysics, and meaning.  These are the areas that most libertarians do not understand about philosophy, and that's really bad because they are absolutely foundational. I have to emphasize the word most in there, because there are libertarians around that are fully educated in philosophy, but they are the minority. And I want to give a shout out to objectivists. Objectivism is a complete philosophy and is once steeped in the Aristotelian tradition, with lots of inspiration from Thomas Aquinas. Objectivist epistemology in particular is their strong point, and I love it, they completely get how David Hume ruined empiricism. But where they go wrong is placing their ultimate ends in themselves. Humans are imperfect and finite, they cannot be described as ultimate in any sense.  And that is God. Anyway, fellas, get reading. Libertarianism can only explain a specific slice of reality to you, but you should want to know all of it, at least as much as our natural limit allows. For that, I, of course, recommend Thomas Aquinas, which you can probably tell, but branch out in any way you like. If you really do seek out the truth, I believe you will find the way, the truth and the life. God bless and take it easy.


The Edo State Program and Administrative Assistant Officer of Clean Foundation, Eroman Blessing, has called on Nigerian youths to build peace and unity among themselves as a way to build a better society. Eroman made the statement at a one-day youth dialogue to end racism and build peace, put together by Clean Foundation in conjunction with the Ford Foundation in Benin, the state capital. Speaking to our correspondent Apomejero Friday, Blessing said that Nigerians should put their minds together. At some of the guest speakers, Encourage used to be more united and make peace in their different locations as a way to build unity. The fact that I am a Kurobomar and you are a Shekiri man and she or he is an Ibo man and that all Ibo's cannot rule Nigeria and since even shared over the years and it's all an Ibo, we must look beyond this anti-peace laws and settlement to be able to achieve peace.


We're going to show you how to plank using the Opti Gym Ball. This exercise will strengthen your core and it's good for hip and shoulder stability and will help develop those abs. Get into plank position like Michelle here. Keeping your toes on the ground and resting your elbow, forearm and hands on the stability ball. Find your balance. This can be the tricky bit. Keep those hips raised up off the ground. Keeping those feet firmly on the floor with a wide stance and your back long and straight. No sticking bottoms in the air and remember to squeeze your abdominal muscles for the best results. If you can hold the plank for 30 seconds, rest for a minute and repeat up to 6 times. Nearly there Michelle, you can do it. Try and hold the plank a little bit longer until you reach the thing. So now, take your Opti Gym Ball and Band and we're going to show you how to do Banded Bleak Twist. This really works at defining your abs and the bleak muscles as well as improving your balance and stability. Start by sitting on the floor with a stability ball behind you like Michelle is doing. Hold the resistance band at both ends and rest the middle of your back against the ball with your feet flat on the floor, raise your hips. Now lift your arms above your chest, stretching the band. Hold that tension Michelle, you're doing great. Slowly twist your upper body from left to right and again left to right. Again for about a minute or so or as long as you feel comfortable. Keep the tension in the band and keep your abs tight and your hips raised. Don't slouch, that's good. Rest and repeat 5 times. We're going to do a stability ball dumbbell press using the Opti Gym Ball and these dumbbells. Start by sitting on the floor with the ball behind you and awaiting each hand. Rest the middle of your back on your stability ball and keep your feet firmly on the floor raising your hips. Lift your arms above your chest and slowly bend your arms to lower the dumbbells. Keeping the movement controlled, push the weights back up and again keeping those abs nice and tight and your hips raised. Push those dumbbells away from your chest. Come on Michelle you can do it, just a couple more. Working large muscle groups individually like this helps burn more calories. This exercise is also great for increasing your chest and upper body strength as well as improving your balance and stability of your upper body. You need to do 10 to 15 reps of this exercise, building up to 15 if you can't manage that. Do four sets then rest for a minute or two depending upon your ability. For these alternating glute raises you'll need your Opti Gym Ball and your ankle weights. As well as shaping and toning your glutes, this exercise works your abdominal muscles to improve your balance. Face down keeping your hands on the floor and putting both feet on the stability ball with your legs out straight. Just do what Michelle is doing. Lift one foot off the ball and raise it towards the ceiling. With those of Domino's brace and your back completely straight, slowly move your ankle up and down just a few inches. Keep going until you can really feel the burn and then swap legs. Time do 10 to 15 reps on each leg then rest for a minute or more if you need it. Go again for three sets.