Little ABG the mom is thinking she's thinking about expansion.  I could tell man the Viet connection Let's have an honest conversation here. Would you ever take any dating advice from your Asian parent? What's going on everybody Andrew here?  I have an Asian mom. I'm an Asian son. So it's relatable Let me know in the comments down below if you would ever let your parents pick a date for you and how you think that would work And also, please before we get into this video, please hit that like button. Help me out with the algorithm. Please. All right Let's get into it I'm like kind of nervous for some reason First I'm not My name is Brian. I'm 25. I'm a photographer and videographer in here in LA Oh, he's an IG guy. This is my beautiful mom. I'm Cindy. I'm Nail salon owner and very happy to come today Hey, I'm gonna tell you this nail salon owner. This one is a low-key boss I think she's putting the smile on but honestly she got the fire behind her eyes I could tell man and also being in the beauty industry She's very judgmental and you know, she's been around a lot of different types of women You know because a lot of women obviously are patrons of her business So I think she has like she has her way of thinking this show And hopefully I picked one make Brian happy You are not here to make Brian happy. I can tell you that much Mom, what are you going to be looking for today in the girls time? First and very nice and been positive In life beautiful come in and out. I think I trust her. Yeah No, you don't Brian. You're nervous right now I can tell also.  Just saying nothing wrong with being a mama's boy I'm just saying that is very clear. The mom is having so much fun swiping I think she's like treating this like a french aristocrat just oh I like you no No, no, no, no. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. We will take you. You're nice.   I think he knows her. That's why But only one I have to fix the file. Yeah, good luck All right, ready so let's do like this. Okay Cute cute Can we touch sure. All right, so cute This segment's kind of cringy and I will tell you this Brian. He doesn't have the most charisma I feel like you know, he's a guy who's really behind the camera doing videography and photography So that's kind of his style I Yo, straight up this girl is probably five foot ten or at least five nine like she is straight like basketball player height She's pretty she has a cute smile, but I was like, oh man, she's tall So I was wondering if I could actually titanic you That's funny, that's funny Little abg like a little festival coachella. Oh you want to see the stage post Malona's performing get on my back It's okay. Well, why don't you should get on your shoulders too? She's too fun. She knows she knows this type of girl She's seen this girl coming to her nail salon and she's probably seeing her mom coming to the nail salon She's probably no, I know her mother the abg girl. They all they come through talk about Uh, they are friend molly and she party too much. I don't like her Yeah Yes, I could tell you this white girl right here is definitely an actress the way she held her hand and was like, okay We're doing a scene together and we're frolicking to the field. Okay.  We don't like that I'm classy this lady. I think I think the mom if I had to make any assumptions about her background comes from a good family Vietnam, all right Went through the war had to come over here started from nothing built up that business still got that classy blood in her And so she you know, she carries herself with a lot of esteem So I kind of figured we could just skip ahead a little bit. Could you get down on one team? Oh She's trying to manifest right now manifest it The laws of attraction make it happen first then it really will happen Maybe we could do something to look like sidekicks like the hero, okay, I'll be the psychic This girl is not really interested in him. I think this girl Came on this show and was like, yeah, I'll just like be a stand-in or whatever like I'll be an extra like I'm not really trying to date I'm actually trying to smoke Hi I'm charlotte. Nice to meet you My name is kirsten. I'm super nervous She's she's family. It's okay. How are you doing?  So my name is ksenia. I'm originally from russia But I moved to austria and now I'm here. So I've been moving a lot. I'm originally from Hey, she's an immigrant girl. She might be very traditional might be a good pick mom I'm a washington state. So I love the outdoors. I go to cal state fullerton. I'm studying mechanical engineering with an art minor I made these and playing basketball at cal state fullerton, right? You're on the team shoes.  Those custom air force ones Not tight fraternity. I am also the president of the fashion club at my school Oh, that's really cool. And then I'm very athletic and I like working out and like going on adventures Thanks, I'm a creative person. So I love painting and art drawing playing guitar and I love sports too What kind of sport do you like basketball?  Oh, that's a tough one right now. There's only one right answer. Really? Yeah, I'm gonna say warriors Okay, aren't you from LA? You didn't say the Lakers? Where's your hometown? Oh my hometown San Jose. I don't know. Are you Vietnamese? Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of Vietnamese people there Yeah, I have I have relative leave in San Jose. Oh, it's really nice.  You live by my sister in san jose Next If I have to do dance school and you're going to do the fact design When I graduate I plan on doing like engineering like solar panels and stuff after I get enough experience with that I'll just start designing my own products and dunking. She's going to dunk on people And then I'll have like a clothing line on the side too. So it's stuff like that. Yeah a lot going on Entrepreneurs Any relationship you have before in the past? That entrepreneurship line connected with the mom doing the nail shop The entrepreneurship mind they connected.  Maybe She's thinking about the future she is not thinking about what brian thinks is fun though I've had two like serious relationships. One actually was with a woman And um, I broke up with her a little while ago. We were just both not Mentally stable to be taking care of each other relationship. So we're both better now Might have been a overshare. Yeah, I mean maybe I'm just saying If you were really trying to date this guy, I think she's being honest. So that's pretty cool Are you uncomfortable? No No, very nice to tell me about that. You're honest to tell you. Yeah. Yeah, I like that. Thank you Thank you for telling me about your past and your search history And everything else Thank you.  Um, I mean, yeah, if someone is If someone worthy And truce the scenario which they haven't This girl is going to be single forever How was it? I'm curious I picked this one because he was like my, you know I think all this All this to me was good and that about fashion. You know, we love fashion, right? Yeah Right. We love the fashion We love fashion Brian Hi Hey Fabiola, okay Were you surprised?  You didn't remember her name. He was not that interested in her She's a really nice girl. I think she's a good pic, but I I don't think that like that's what Brian was looking for Let's be honest. I think the mom has a vision. She's like, okay, they make tall with children Okay, maybe they the baby is like six foot five. Okay. I want some tall kids They can run the nail shop expand the nail shop add in fashion Then she can engineer a new type of nail because she do the chemical engineer So she can make the new chemical crystal gel and then it revolutionized the nail industry the mom is thinking That's how this mom is thinking She thinking about expansion and takeover Not fun. Not fun, Brian Takeover and expansion Your mom is a boss I had like no, I do so it's like this is awesome Great pic, yeah for sure Do you like All right, this whole thing was pretty awkward because like I could tell he's not that interested at her and she's just like Well, are we gonna like even go on a date now? I think it's okay like anyways All right, everybody I've come to a few conclusions after watching this video and just the asian parent An asian child dynamic is so funny It has been played out in media so much because there's such a big generational rift Between what the parents want for the kids and what the kids want if the kids are americanized, right? So I think it's always really funny to see these videos and when it comes to taking dating advice from your traditional asian parents One thing you have to remember is you don't have to write it off completely Listen to what they have to say and why they're saying it and the logic behind it But you do not have to obey them.  So obviously She's also kind of a controlling mom. I feel like she dragged him here Like I don't think he was trying to date on jubilee. I think she's like no brian. It'll be fun For me. All right having the vietnamese mom pick for the son reminded me when my dad Would literally just point out every smart Girl that he had ever come in contact with and recommend her to me Like my dad would literally be like hey, andrew. I just met uh marinda there and uh, I guess she just got accepted to john hopkins Maybe you should date her I'm like that John hopkins is on baltimore and she was not my type But shout out to maranda much respect. I hope she's doing well. I think she's killing it right now One thing I notice about a lot of videographers and photographers Especially around brian's age is that there are a lot more charismatic and expressive online In their instagram than they are in real life And I feel like that is brian right here because uh, you can see Like this is not you didn't see this brian at jubilee. You didn't like who is this brian, right? Like he seems so like reserved and kind of shy and awkward During the jubilee and then here he is. Look he's doing donuts in a little go-kart So anyways, that's another thing I notice Uh, he does kind of have your tick talk kind of soft boy Imagery, but overall I think it works for him. I think he does well on the apps. He probably doesn't need this jubilee video He's definitely an above average asian guy for sure. All right, everybody. Thank you so much for watching that video Let me know what you thought in the comments down below. Please hit that like button Let me know if you like these reaction videos. I can react to more videos. I like to do it I like analyzing people things and culture. So let me know Until next time i'm out peace


Hello, my people, my name is Meacham. Welcome to the Score Channel. Should you take the SAT in 2022? The answer is absolutely yes, but the reasons are a little bit complicated. Prior to the pandemic, the SAT was just something you had to do if you wanted to get admitted to universities in the United States. The pandemic forced everything to change because nobody could go to a test center since the test was and still is based on pencil and paper. In response, almost every university in the United States embraced a test optional policy during 2020 and 2021. And many of those universities still have those policies on the books. We're still working on a deeper analysis of the exact impact that test optional policies had on admissions and help you understand whether test optional is real or not. But what is real is the need to take the SAT this year. Let's start with the obvious. Test optional policies were temporary in nature and some universities have already dropped their test optional policy. Even though big universities like Harvard and Yale have committed to going test optional for the foreseeable future, other big names like MIT and Georgia have said that they will require SATs again for 2022 and 2023 applicants. Imagine that you don't take the SAT and then your dream school changes its policy to require it and now you're behind and you can't apply. If you take the SAT this year, you have a result just in case any university changes its policies on you. It's smart, be prepared. There's an even bigger reason on the table here and it's money. Even if all the universities on your list are test optional schools, you could lose out on thousands of dollars in scholarships by not taking the SAT. I recently published an episode of the Dean's List talking about out of state tuition waivers, essentially gigantic scholarships that let international students pay the in-state tuition price at public universities. The majority of those had an SAT requirement. If you don't take the SAT, you wouldn't be eligible for those amazing deals, some of which were worth over $30,000 a year. And even other universities that don't do in-state tuition programs still have scholarships. The University of Tampa, for example, can give you up to $11,000. This is something that a couple of our students missed out on because they chose not to take the SAT. And if you're looking for sports scholarships, then the SAT is basically mandatory. If you wanna sign up for the NCAA, that's the National Collegiate Athletics Association, you need to register with them in order to become a student athlete and get those sweet, sweet sports scholarships. Part of the eligibility rules are that you present an SAT score. If you don't take the SAT, you literally cannot get sports scholarships through the NCAA. It is possible to get them still through the NAIA, but that's a much smaller league and you might still need to present one if your grades are not that great. So not taking the SAT could literally cost you tens of thousands of dollars at the end of the day. It's totally something you should do as an international and domestic student. Doesn't matter where you are from, take the SAT this year. But talking about international students specifically, there is a much, much bigger reason why you should take the SAT in 2022 and not 2023. I talked about this not too long ago on the channel when College Board announced that the SAT would become digital internationally in 2023. This digital change is going to put international students at a big disadvantage and here's why. The current version of the SAT came out in 2016. That means that there are over seven years of material for this paper-based test. You can buy old exams off a College Board. You can buy books from Pearson and Kaplan and other companies. You can use the Khan Academy tools, which are free. There won't be a whole lot of material for the digital SAT that starts in March next year for international students. Now, College Board promises that they will have Khan Academy material out and there have already been some estimates that that will come out in August. But again, what about the other publishers? What about past papers? There won't be any. Preparation for the new version of the SAT is going to be more difficult than preparing for a classic test that we've worked with for seven years. Even teachers, if you decide to sign up for an SAT class like the ones we do here at SCORE, you benefit from the fact that the teacher has worked with that paper test for years. A new digital test is something they haven't worked with either. So how can they teach you a test that they themselves don't understand? I'm still trying to figure that out myself. I don't know what we're gonna do next year. Taking the test digitally next year also presents another problem because if you're applying in 2023 to get admitted for 2024, American students will still be taking the paper test while international students will be taking the digital test. That means that you're going to have two different groups of scores. What if all the internationals just have really high scores because the test is easier and it hasn't been adjusted yet? Will your 1380 be treated the same as a 1380 on the paper test? How will universities compare the two results? I don't know and I don't think that they're just going to say they're all equal because they won't be. The only way to ensure that you are playing on the same ground as American students will be to take a paper SAT in 2023. The only place you'll be able to do that is in the United States, which is why we're already thinking about organizing SAT trips where we traveled to the U.S. to take the test that everybody else is taking. But the other option for you is to just take the paper test in 2022, even if you're planning on applying next year. SAT results are good for two years. There's nothing wrong with presenting a test from a year before. So if you're planning on applying to university in 2022 to start in 2023, you absolutely should take the SAT this year. Just for the scholarship benefits alone, it's a great idea. But if you're thinking about applying next year to go in in 2024, I would also strongly recommend that you prepare and take the paper SAT while you still can. Once this test changes, you're going to be completely in the dark. And hey, you could always take the test at the end of 2022 on paper and then take it again digitally in March 2023. You'll have two results that you could send to universities to show them exactly how prepared you are. Now, the last time College Board changed the SAT, there was a big spike in ACT tests. A lot of people didn't want to try a new SAT. So they stuck with a test that had some years behind it. The only problem with the ACT is that it's a little more difficult because you have to account for a science portion which isn't on the SAT. We're going to continue preparing for the paper SAT while we get ready for the digital SAT. As soon as material comes out that we can take a look at and build courses around, we're going to. And I have every intention of continuing to prepare people for the SAT. That is literally how score got started and it will continue to be a big part of what we do. But my advice to you is genuinely take the paper SAT while you still can. If you can take the paper test this year, do it. If you want to learn more about the changes that are going to happen on that digital SAT you can check out the video I published a couple of months ago. If you do need help with the SAT you can go to prepwithscore.com. I appreciate you watching this. Means a lot to me. Thank you and I will see you next week.


What's up everyone take down here welcome back to another video today I'm gonna be sharing with you some more recent games that I have played and finished. Let's get right into this So as you guys know the reason why I make this mini series here on my channel is to help me mentally prepare To clear out a lot of my backlog of games that I have on my ps4 I have a ton of games that I just downloaded that were either free from ps plus I purchased them and I just never got around to playing them or they were on a really great sale And I just added them to my backlog So I've been trying to clear a lot of this out in prep for me getting a PlayStation now Which is something I really want to get but I thought there's no point of me getting it now Until I clear out a lot of my backlog of games So that's what I've been doing. I've been doing really well on it starting to slow down a little bit But I have four more games that I recently finished that I'm gonna be talking about today So up first is unchartered for a thief's end I actually got this game around Christmas And I know I did make a video ranking every uncharted game And I probably have that video uploaded before this one But I did make this video and that video after completing both games. So Uncharted 4 was amazing. I absolutely loved it I loved that it goes back to the previous ones. It talks about them and Honestly, I feel like if you have not played the first three uncharted games The uncharted 4 some of the hidden facts and details and the things that they talk about you might not understand I feel if you're gonna play the uncharted series go and play the first three games I came out first in order Then go and tackle uncharted 4 but uncharted 4 is amazing I love the back and forth the fact that you know a lot about the past The fact that Nathan's brother does return and it's something that he was not mentioned before in the series But it is incredible his backstory of why he has returned what happened how we got to here And they're also going for a pirate's treasure, which it has a whole Throughout the game a kind of a pirate's theme to it So the game in my opinion is a lot of fun I absolutely loved it and in my opinion it is the best uncharted game in the series Normally one of the first games are and then everything else is still okay But not as good as the first one in this case for me for uncharted uncharted 4 is my favorite uncharted game that ever came out I also managed to finish uncharted lost legacy, which was originally supposed to be DLC for uncharted 4 But the same thing like it happened with the Far Cry 5 and Far Cry New Dawn Uncharted lost legacy was supposed to be DLC But it was just too large of game that they just couldn't do it So decided to wait a year and release it as its own solo game in uncharted lost legacy We do not have Nathan Drake at all You do play as Chloe and there is Nadine who was a villain for uncharted 4 But you team up with her and also Nathan Drake's brother. It basically takes place after the events of uncharted 4 It's very short. It's only nine levels Whereas the regular uncharted games are usually anywhere from 20 to about 25 levels So about half of that, but that's what to expect whenever it was supposed to be DLC It was just too large to become DLC for the actual game So lost legacy in my opinion it had a great story to it's a lot of great character chemistry and character Developments, but it wasn't as great as uncharted 4 and maybe that's for me because there was no Nathan Drake But it was still a great game and I would recommend it I honestly would recommend playing all the uncharted games in order uncharted 1 2 3 4 and then lost legacy That's the way to do it and it's a lot of fun. I also managed to go and tackle the spider-man DLC I managed to play beat and platinum spider-man about two weeks after I purchased it back Whenever it was shortly after it was released I just never got around to DLC because usually I'm not the type of gamer that goes and purchases DLC for games But for spider-man it did look like it would be a lot of fun It was a new story and you had to go and see a whole bunch of different things that you didn't see throughout playing the normal game So during last summer almost a year ago It was on sale the seasons pass which was just all the DLC games It was on sale for I think less than $20 in total if you went to go and purchase each one It was about $13 each So there's three parts. So I thought for about $20 to get all of them Reduced price I purchased them and I just added it to my list for my backlog because I knew I was eventually going to Tacklets which I recently did the story is amazing. The first one is all about black hat and you're trying to help her take down hammerhead because hammerhead It's kind of like a plot twist and things change So I'm not going to try to spoil it too much because it's kind of hard and it crazy to explain But it focuses mainly on black hat and her Whole character development with spider-man the second one mainly tackles hammerhead And you're trying to take him down and the third one you're trying to gain the trust of Sable to be able to help take down the remaining hammerhead villains. So Three parts to it. It was very interesting a lot of fun. I absolutely love the spider-man games So if you're gonna go and play the spider-man game make sure you do check out the DLC for the game as well Because if they go hand to hand and it continues the story and you get a little bit more out of it So if it's on sale the season's pass, I definitely recommend picking it up and the last game that I recently played and finished is Sonic forces now, I'm not usually a fan of Sonic. I don't really care about the franchise I was never into Sonic as a kid However, I do like to pick up the free ps plus games whenever they come out monthly With that being said for March Sonic forces was one of the free ps plus games So I ended up picking it up downloading it and started to play it and it turned out to be a lot of fun I really enjoyed it. It had a great story It was basically Sonic in 3d, which is something I personally have never played and There is what I can tell at least a new villain who is faster than Sonic Which you have to try to take down Which was fun and a great story with that But you also got to create your own character your own avatar to team up with Sonic to help take them down So the great gameplay was amazing. The levels weren't too difficult They're really cool the boss fights. You say I don't like games. I have boss battles in them But this case it was a lot of fun very unique But since I was not used to Sonic being 3d The boss battles the only thing that I had trouble with is staying on the little platforms because it's 3d I would jump tried to hit the boss and I'd fall off the map and then have to restart That was my only struggle with it. It was a lot of fun I do recommend it and it didn't take too long just a couple days playing here there and I finished it I think there's a total of 30 levels if I'm not mistaken So takes a little bit of time, but it's a lot of fun So these are the four games that I recently played and finished I like I said, I'm trying to clear up a lot of my backlog So that's my main part and focus for doing these videos in this mini series on my channel Because it's keeping me motivated to clear out games on my backlog If you're a gamer like I am you probably have a backlog one of my friends recently said He has probably over 500 games that he purchased on steam that he just never got around to beating So he's trying to tackle a lot of his backlog. I think this year. He's completed about five so far I've completed way more, but a lot of my games are shorter So hope you guys enjoyed this video. Hope you guys enjoy this mini series Comment down below if you guys have a backlog and how many games are in your backlog that you're trying to tackle And I'm gonna leave this video here. Please take care. Peace


Tämä video tarkoittaa, että rekresoinnin analysointi on järjestelmä, tai järjestelmä on järjestelmä, jotka ovat liiskua-estimation-principella. Järjestelmä ja rekresoinnin analysointi on, että meillä on yksi järjestelmä, ja tämä esimerkki on yksi järjestelmä X. Järjestelmä laitaa järjestelmällä dataa ja rekresoinnin analysointi on nämä ajattelua, että nämä observaati אניkin huoltaisinko tämän kärjestelmällä, niin tämä tämän peruseen on yrittää. Tässä ei ole noin järjestelmä, joten meidän dataa on yksi individu Se on yksittäinen peruste, johon ilman järjestelmällä, johon jollakin perustaa järjestelmällä. Järjestelmä me myös ainakin, että kun saadaan, että X on yksi, variabullyjärjestäjä ja mechanism of why are normally distributed here on the recent line. So that's basically a summer for the assumptions, and now we will take a look at specific parts of those assumptions. Before we do so, we have to talk a bit about what the assumptions mean, because there are some misconceptions. For example, sometimes students in our classes say that an estimation technique requires that the data are normally distributed, ja esimerkiksi tästä denkittäisi, että uloses 교ut kannattaa olla siksi, kun haastamme dataa. Kyllä päälle on 2 kuvaamisesta, ensimmäinen asioista on yleensä on yksi asioista, jolloin kokemmeplanevaraajalta. Kyllä ensimmäinen asio on etäri, että opettajien asio ei ole yksi asio, että vaikka elämää penjärvi, on yliopissista. Mennään esimerkiksi asioista ja että uskottajien asioista, joten ymmärtää, mitä esimerkiksi on. Tässä on rikason model. Y on välttämättä sum of the X's, the observed independent variables plus some error term U that the model doesn't explain. Then we have estimation principles. How do we choose the betas? Which set of betas is the best? And one good rule is the OLS rule, minimize the sum of squared residuals. So we choose the betas here, so that the sum of squared residuals, what is the difference between the observed value Y and the fitted value from the betas is as small as possible. So that's what we are discussing this part. But that's not the only way of estimating a rikason model. For example, we could use weighted least squares. So weighted least squares is the same as OLS, except that instead of minimizing a sum of squared residuals, we minimize the weighted sum of squared residuals or sum of weighted squared residuals. The idea of weighted least squares is that some observations are more, provide us more information about whether the rikason line goes than others. And in some scenarios, the weighted least squares is better than OLS. To understand what those scenarios are, we have to understand the assumptions. But that's not all, we have also others. So there's feasible generalized least squares, which is the same as weighted least squares that estimates the weights from the data. So that makes a bit less assumptions than weighted least squares and there are tradeoffs in that. We have also iterated weighted least squares or IRLS. And the idea of IRLS is that it weights the residuals iteratively and the weights for the next iteration are based on the previous iteration. And this is a good technique when you have outlier observations that I'll talk in another video. So all of these techniques can be used in different scenarios. They all work reasonably well in some conditions. In some conditions, one of these rules is clearly better than others. To understand that, we have to understand the assumptions. Also the models, we can use different models. So it's the regression model is not necessarily the best model. For example, instead of a regression model, we could apply a generalized linear model, which takes the fitted values for regression analysis, applies a function there, and then it doesn't make the assumption that the observations are normally distributed. So that's one alternative model. So you can choose either alternative model or alternative estimator when your data doesn't really fit into the model estimation combination that you're planning to use. Here's another one. This is a multi-level model. And this would be applicable when you have, for example, long internal data. So you have multiple observations for each company and the many companies in the data. And you assume that there are some constant differences between companies that persist over time. And then you would use that kind of model because you are in violation of the random sampling assumption in regression analysis. So there are different things that you can use. I recommend always as default option to go with regression analysis and OLS estimation. If you have a good reason to use something else, then do that. But start with the OLS and regression model because it will tell you something about the data that you didn't know before estimation. And it's quick to calculate. Then you go to more complicated things if specific assumptions of OLS don't really fit into your research scenario. Okay, so the assumptions are something that we do. So assumptions are required for certain proofs. So when we say that OLS requires that the error term is normally distributed, it means that it has been proven that OLS is consistent, unbiased, efficient and the estimator normal when among other assumptions the error term is normally distributed. So certain proofs require these assumptions. If we can't assume certain proofs, certain things, then the proof can't be done. So if the error term is not normally distributed, then we cannot prove that the OLS estimator is unbiased in small samples. It could be, but we can't prove it. So these assumptions imply one important thing and they don't imply another thing. So what they do imply is that the estimator is useful when we are close to these ideal conditions. So regression analysis assumes that the relationships in the data are linear. If they are close to linear but not exactly linear, regression analysis will be a useful tool. So these assumptions don't have to hold exactly. If they are close enough, then we will get still good results. Also it doesn't imply that if an estimator has been proven to be consistent under some scenario, then it's immediately useless in other scenarios. So the fact that something has been proven in one condition doesn't mean that it does not work in another condition. But it's important to understand the limitations of these different techniques and for that we test the assumptions typically after we do our analysis. Now that we have understood that the assumptions are something that should ideally hold. But in practice they hold only approximately. And also we have understood that because we are in violation of, for example, the normality of their assumption in regression analysis, it doesn't necessarily have any severe consequences. It just means that certain things can be proven. It could be the thing that we can't prove could still be true. Let's take a look at the actual assumptions. Regression analysis requires four assumptions to provide or OLS estimation requires four assumptions to provide consistent and unbiased estimates. And the unbiasedness property here refers to any sample size. So regression analysis is unbiased regardless of the sample size. You can get unbiased estimates with sample of ten observations. The estimates will be very imprecise but they're still unbiased. The first assumption is that we have a linear model. So that assumption basically just defines the model. And that's all there is to it. Then the second assumption is random sampling. So random sampling means that all observations are independent and each observation in the population has equal probability in getting selected to the sample. This is a feature of your research design and it can't really be tested imprigally directly. You can test it in some aspects of this random sampling. And I will talk about that later. Then we have two other assumptions. Assumption three is there's no perfect collinarity. So perfect collinarity is different from multicollinarity. Perfect collinarity means that one or more of the variables, independent variables in the model are completely determined by another independent variable. So for example, if we have three dummy variables, then we define a categorical variable. If we know two values for the dummies, then we can infer the third. That assumption requires that every new variable that we enter into the model brings new information about the phenomenon. If we know that let's use gender as an example. We only need to know whether a person is or is not a male.  Then having a variable for male and having a variable for female would be perfectly collinar because knowing whether a person is a man automatically tells you whether the same person is a woman or not. So that's the perfect collinarity. The zero conditional mean, this is a technical way of expressing it, but it basically tells you that we assume that the error term is uncorrelated with all explanatory variables. And this is a bit more complicated assumption that I'll explain in another video, but this is also referred to as the no endogeneity assumption. And if we look at this diagram of regression analysis, then this assumption number four can be understood as where this distribution here is located doesn't depend on the regression line. So the distribution is always exactly at the regression line instead of, for example, the line going here and the observations being somewhere here normally distributed. So that is called the no endogeneity assumption and the endogeneity is a big issue if we want to make causal claims using observational data. I'll return to that in another video. So under these four assumptions, OLS is unbiased and consistent. We have still two more assumptions that OLS makes that are required for the consistency and unbiasedness of standard errors and the normality of the estimates. Standard errors are unbiased and consistent if the data or the error term is homoskedastic. So there is no heteroskedasticity. What this assumption means that the observations are equally spread out around the regression line. We would have a heteroskedasticity problem if the observations are close to the regression line here but far from the regression line here. So if instead of observing a band of observations around the regression line, we would observe a funnel shape that opens up or a megaphone shape that opens up. So that's the homoskedasticity assumption. These five assumptions together are known as the Gauss-Marco assumptions and OLS is efficient under these assumptions. But more importantly, the homoskedasticity assumption is required for the standard errors to be unbiased and consistent. That is important because the T-statistic for statistical inferences for the P-value requires that both the estimate and standard error are consistent and unbiased. Under those conditions, the T-value will follow the T-distribution with the null hypothesis of no effect holds and we get proper P-values. So that's the fifth assumption. Then the final one is that most people are probably most aware of is the normality assumption. So this is also misunderstood. Regression analysis does not assume that any observed variable is normally distributed. Instead, it assumes that error term, the unobservable part or how much the observations vary around the regression line, that is normally distributed. This rule is actually, this rule implies four and five rules. And these assumptions one through six are called classical linear model assumptions. In practice, the normality of the error term as assumption can be ignored because OLS estimator is what we say asymptotically normal. So it means that when the sample size increases towards infinity, then the regression estimates will be normally distributed regardless of how the error term is distributed in the population. In practice, the sample sizes that we use that are 100 or a few hundred that is enough for this asymptotic normality to start to kick in. In practice, I have tried to demonstrate scenarios where the lack of normality of the error term would be problematic with observations of 50 or more, and I have failed. So I cannot think of a scenario where this normality assumption is a practical concern for applied researcher. Let's take a summary of the assumptions. So we had six assumptions. First, all relationships are linear. That can be checked after the model has been estimated. How we check that, I'll cover later. Then independence of observations, they must be a random sample. This is a feature of your research design and you can check the independence of observations after estimation under certain scenarios. Perfect collinarity and non-zero variance of independent variables. If that fails, then a regression model cannot be estimated. For example, if you are studying the effects of gender on performance on a statistics course, then you only observe women, so you have no variation in gender variable, then you cannot estimate a gender effect. Also if you have two variables that quantify the exact same thing, then you can't enter both into the regression model. This does not need to be checked because you will know that you can't even, if you run running a regression analysis, you will know if this fails because the regression doesn't complete. Then error terms expected value of zero, given any values of independent variables. In practice, this means that all other causes of the independent variable that are not included in the model must be uncorrelated with all causes that are included in the model. That's a strong assumption. It can be tested directly after least course estimation, but we can test this assumption with instrumental variables that I'll cover in a later video. Then we have error term has equal variance, given any values of independent variables. This is there are no headers, get us this assumption. This should be checked after estimation because it influences the standard of regression analysis. And if you have a heteroscedasticity problem, it is easy to fix. Then error term is normally distributed on. I typically check this because it's useful to know if some of the values are far from the regression line to identify outliers. But other than that, this is not an important assumption.


What's up everybody? Jason here for Jazby's CaseRace.com. We just sold out 20-23 Panini Prison Football Hobbies, six box half-case break PYT, number six. And here we go guys, second half right here. Joe, about the last two teams basically. We got the Ravens and got the Raiders. Here we go guys, good luck. Here we go. We got Anton Harrison for the Jags, going to Paul to 175. There's a Flowers for the Ravens. Lane Vanderesh for the Cowboys. Number to 60. Jaden Reed. And Trey Tucker for the Raiders. Last bomb, Ojo, going to Joe. Raiders rookie autograph. Hopefully a lot more than that, right? Mazzie, Cooper Cuff, Tristan the 225. DJ Moore, Calvin Austin, out of 199, Devon Echan. And Chase Brown for the Bengals. Mark with that one, out of 60. Dolphin Cronkade. We got Dat Nguyen, out of 175. And nice Aiden O'Connell purple. There we go, for the Raiders there to 125. Last bomb, Ojo. Raiders are just sitting there. Jackson's been to the Jigba. What is this coming up? 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Tom with the 49ers. Sick. And look at this, Jermair Gibbs, too. For the Lions. Out of 249. I gotta go get some more top-loaders really quick.  Thank you, sir. Stafford Retro. I'm Delvin Cook. Number to 249. There's CJ Straut. Peter Skoronski for the Titans. Yeah, with that one, at 149. Amar Cooper. Number to 99. Some of these here, guys. Where they are protected right out of the pack. Next box, Ola. Anything Panini Tristan, but whatever Fanatics puts them in that they haven't released yet. I'd expect them to create a higher end top product. Well, that's the thing, Tristan. CJ and Will Loevis and Bryce Younger are all exclusives to Fanatics, so. There won't be any autographs for them in Panini.  Like it already is, because of that reason. But I'd assume that Fanatics would kind of but I'd assume that Fanatics would create like a higher end product for those exclusive players. I might have to end up being collegiate because they have the licensing to that. But I don't know. Hunter Renfrow. Prismatic there. And you got an Israel Per Case Cup. Jerome Ford. Aidan Hutchinson to 249. Little Stafford. T.J. Hawkins in a 175. And Marcus Allen for the Raiders. Tyler Allergear. Falcons gonna Terry. Mike Evans. Not a 199. And a nice Tyree Wilson for the Raiders to 249. That looks like Dolphins. Hi, Zach Thomas. Just in depth of the Hall of Fame. There's a Poopa. Dolphins is Justin. Nice Sam Laporta color match. How do I do? Beautiful. Out of 199. Make list of the lines. Van Arish. All right. Halfway through guys. Halfway through. Still a lot of big hits hiding in here guys. I really feel it. So far the first three. Couple more Vet autographs. You know, Conno color. We're showing John. So we've got a Profiles case in there. Gibbs color. Definitely feel like we do for a big one guys. Here's a patch autograph. Yeah, man. I still have a case, Tris. I wouldn't be too worried just yet. Maybe when we get down to one box then we can get a little worried. I don't know. It's already midnight over there, man. We're almost there. We're almost there. Stand target. Bosa green scope. All right. Here's our first gold. We didn't see gold in the first half. Wow. It's a prismatic gold too. Jackson Smith, Najegba. That's for the Seahawks and Greg. 10 out of 10. And I have a little baker. Oh yeah, for sure, man. Himacross DK is gonna work for 10 plus years, man. As long as we're there together. Let me go. Kenny McIntosh. $1.99. All right, here comes the patch autograph. Behind Anthony Richardson portals. It's Jaren Hall for the Vikings, the patch autograph. Vikings having a good break, Michael. Hurts, baby. Michael Pippin Jr., the 25. Jerry Judy, Jordan Addison. Another blue camel. Chalor Jones for the Raiders. Raiders having some good colors in here too. That's a 25. For the Falcons, Zach Harrison. And we got CJ Straubase. Green Scope coming up. And nice Michael Mann. Raiders are getting some good color, man. Great color. Out of 75. Last Bob Mojo, man. And how about a San La Porta? The line's having a good break too. Being some great color. Two more boxes. Jeremy Shockey for the Giants. Gary Wilson for the Jets. $1.99. Ryan Robinson Jr., 2225. And then we got a Billy Sims for the Lions. Ooh, I think I see another gold, baby. Another gold. We got gold again, guys. We got gold again. Looks like 49ers. Nick Balsam gold. How about that? Tom with the 49ers. That's 10 out of 10. Very nice. We got Tyler Smith. All right, second half here. Javon Holland, Pro Duck. Zadaria Smith. Javonte Smith. Josh Allen for the Bills. And we got Devon Witherspoon. Tyler Boyd. Portals. And a Michael Irving franchise legends autograph. Very nice. Color Match 2 Cowboys going to Gabriel. All right, down to the last box, guys. Here we go, last box. Gabe Davis. 225. And Sean Clifford. Rookie autograph there for the Packers.  It's $1.75. Puppa Nakua. Michael Gallop. And Isaiah Flowers Retro. With a Tully. For the Chargers, it's $2.49. So what? Doc Rivers fucking? Yeah, yeah it is. Well, they flew up that whole gang. Van Gundy and what was the other dude's name? Of course, this is the Swargers. Mark. Mark, whatever. All right, guys, last half stack here, guys, of the case. Good luck. Billy Sims. He's Anthony Richardson. Brothers of Mango, CJ Strout. He's up there for $3,000 already. It's at $3,000, sorry. Gabriel Davis to $1.99. Gary. Autograph here, DeMarvionne Overshawn. The cowl was. If I had this case, it didn't have the craziest autographs, but it did have some nice colors and inserts, though. Lot of great color, actually. Cooper Cup to $1.99. And David Najoku. All right, guys, and there you go. Quick little recap here. Clifford Autographs, Dave Flowers, Richard Sinvey's. Overshawn Autograph, Mike Irvin, and 25 Billy Sims. Gold Nick Bosa, Harrison Strout. La Porta color, Michael Manor color. Patch Autograph there. Gold Jackson Smith and the Jig of Prismatic, which is really nice. Zach Thomas, La Porta color match. Sky Moore, Aiden O'Connell color there. Justin Jefferson, Rashawn Johnson. Profiles Christian McCaffrey, Gibbs color. Lot of really nice color in this.  And all this color here as well, that'll be top-loaded by the sorting team. So, I appreciate it, guys. Again, like I said, obviously $7.89, $10 are posted. Prices did go up a little bit per team, depending on the team. But like I said, obviously, we're still at a price, I think, where people are actually, we're actually charging already anyway. So, I mean, like I said, for the people that bought in through one through six, definitely got a deal. But like I said, prices go up, unfortunately for us too, so we kind of have to raise the prices up as well. I appreciate it, guys. Thank you guys so much. Again, visit the website, jaspyscase-raised.com, if you guys want to get more breaks in today. And like I said, if you guys want to switch it up, we can do some baseball down on nine left. I can see what an R&B looks like there. We can try to do some baseball. So thank you guys. Have a great night.


And we also had a really heavy uphill battle to fight, which I do think required some upfront capital, right? We were taking on a fairly heavy problem, right? At that point, if you went to a Nordstrom, you would have not seen a single item with a single performance characteristic. So we were taking on a pretty big challenge at that point eight years ago. It's become a bit of a new normal now, which is great for us. But at the time we were fighting an uphill battle in fashion where it wasn't something that the world really was asking for, we had to explain, here's why this matters. How did you address that fight, that uphill battle? How did you turn around and educate the market about this problem? Yeah, I mean, there's a couple of answers I'd give there. One is word of mouth played a huge role and continues to, right? Is that the best way we can do that is by you telling your friends that that was something that you found this to be useful for. So your voice is more powerful than ours. And the second way that comes to mind is that's why we love retail. Is retail, we don't have to explain it.  In Ecom, those two events are flipped. You purchase then have your aha moment. And so for us, it was really special to open stores fairly early on, our first store opened in 2014. You can imagine, we launched a company in 2012 that's pretty quick to get that first store up. And it was really because we just saw so much value in getting that aha moment to be the first experience you had, not your credit card. So for you, that aha moment led the decision to even like, because you see a lot of companies now, they just wanna do online sales. But with you, you knew that with customers trying on your clothing, it would be more beneficial to you as a brand and informative to them as a consumer than just purely an online format. Yeah, I think that's right. I mean, I'd also not cover the power of our own preferences as a founding team where we like shopping in person, right? You know, I think we are in a lot of ways our own customer. And I think one of the interesting things I've seen at MIT Sloan's curriculum is this evolution into user driven innovation, right? Which is acknowledging that it's okay that sometimes as an entrepreneur you're solving your own problem. And I love retail. I love shopping in stores. I love touching and feeling and trying on before I buy. So I think there was probably some mix of an intelligent business strategy that saw really great, you know, conversion rates offline and really intimate customer interactions and building kind of true in-depth relationships. And then some part that was just, this would be fun. It would be really great to gather up the people that like our brand, get to hear from them directly and get to shop in a way that we enjoy and hope continues. Love how simply you put things.  Comfort, performance, e-commerce, retail and both of these things make a lot of sense. And so I can like understand your decision-making process. When you think about retail, so for me now as a real estate developer I've always thought that retail at some point will just become nothing more than a marketing exercise for companies unless they own the asset. In which case then you at least have another asset. But in terms of how you view retail, post COVID, is it like it's a marketing exercise for you? Is it bringing that aha moment to that specific buyer? And then you have your aha moment on the e-commerce where you have to fulfill both roles or what's your thought process around that? Yeah, I mean, there are certainly nuances between the channels that are not, you know, you can't ignore, right? So I mean, obviously that the order of events happening, right?  That goes with that saying, but beyond that, I do think the channels actually have a lot more similarities than they have differences. We still think of both. I mean, we won't continue to have a store unless it's four-wall profitable. I mean, we're big believers that anything outside of that, unless it is mathematically provable is just a guess and probably a risky one that it's affecting your online business in some massively profitable way, right? We do find that customers are often really tied to a channel. They're either offline shoppers or online shoppers. They tend to stay with that initial channel where they purchased. They can complement each other from a messaging or impression standpoint, but when you actually swipe, it tends to be in the same place that you prefer. And so we still think of stores as a great way to have commerce and a great place to have an actual contribution margin coming from. And that leads to these higher AOVs, longer customer relationships, higher lifetime values, deeper insights, conversations from our GMs with our design team that are just incredibly informative on what people prefer and what their sentiments are. There's a ton of opportunity for retail to be a really, really great channel. I think maybe now more than ever, the intimacy of perhaps fewer people in stores, just the upside there is more time with the sales that you associate. So I think it's as alive as ever as soon as we're able to kind of find a new normal and let people be in stores again. Hey everyone, thanks for checking out that clip. If you enjoyed it, be sure to hit the like button down below. And if you're interested in hearing the full episode, it's out right now on our YouTube channel. We've had a lot of great guests come on this show before and we've got a lot of great guests coming up in the future. So hit subscribe so that you don't miss a single episode. And one final note, we're always looking for new ideas and new companies feature on the show. So if you know of someone or know of a company, write us a comment down below letting us know who they are and what they do. We'd be happy to have them on the show. Till then, I'll just be here waiting for your comments. So, see you later.


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Good afternoon everybody and welcome to this afternoon's IEA presentation, our lunchtime presentation. We've a very special one this afternoon with Lindy Cameron, CEO of the NCSC in the UK. My name is Richard Brown and I'll be your chair for the afternoon. Before we begin, a few very quick notes on context. This meeting and the questions and answers session afterwards is very much on the record and is being recorded. Any questions that people might have for the Q&A after the afternoon this presentation should be submitted via the Q&A function on Zoom. Please also announce your affiliation and your identity as well, please. If anybody is a social media user, you can tweet about the event at IEA. And obviously also the timeline of this, we are finished at 1.45 exactly. So Lindy will speak for however long, 20 minutes or thereabouts and we'll take questions immediately thereafter. The second thing to keep in mind and all of this is that this is obviously a highly pertinent, highly sensitive issue and there's going to be elements here that not everybody could talk about any great detail. So the questions will obviously have to reflect that as well I'm sure. Lindy's presentation is on building resilience and prosperity with cybersecurity. She joins the NTSC in the UK last year after a career in various different parts of the UK government including DFID and the Northern Ireland office, which comes to us with an unusual and diverse background in the cybersecurity field. Lindy, please go ahead. Great Richard, thank you very much indeed and it's a real honour to be here today. As a dairy girl I would absolutely love to be with you in person and Dublin, but it's a real pleasure to be speaking here in Ireland even if only virtually. In fact I'm actually joining you today from my home because this week I was told to self isolate for the UK NHS Test and Trace app which is a different type of virus the one we normally deal with an NTSC but fortunately what I'm fully vaccinated against so hopefully just a precaution. So firstly I'd like to thank the Institute of International and European Affairs for the work they do and huge congratulations to you on celebrating your 30th anniversary this year. I'm really proud to be here as the second head I should say actually the second Northern Irish head as well of the National Cyber Security Centre which after only five years plays a key role in the UK's national security. It's creation in 2016 showed real foresight and is widely recognised as an example that others want to emulate a partnership of government law enforcement intelligence in the private sector. We've dealt with over 2000 significant incidents, we've protected the UK at scale through active cyber defence taking down more than 700,000 online scams in the last year alone, 80,000 of which were new tip-offs from the British public through the hugely successful suspicious email reporting service. These resilience in all sectors of our critical national infrastructure built coalitions with businesses, charities and education to develop accessible and actionable cyber security tools and advice and over 55,000 teenagers have participated in the cyber first girls competition and our cyber security courses. We've made the internet safer and easier to use for our citizens through our cyberware campaign challenging password culture and victim blaming. Our security is of course a team sport and the UK and Ireland share an important partnership that will help us both to stay as secure as possible online. It's a relationship built in shared goals. This close alliance helps to prevent many attacks from ever happening. And when they are successful, it also improves our shared response to an incident. We're committed to sharing threat assessments and operational lessons from instance, and that shared understanding benefits our countries and their citizens. There's much to praise from the successes in Ireland. We take inspiration from the work you've done to transform Ireland into a digital hub with Dublin's fantastic Silicon Docs, serving as a central nerve center. Thanks to support from the Irish government, the tech startup ecosystem in Ireland is booming. It's a passion we share through the NCSC for the startups initiative, which we're providing support for startups through. That's includes included something called Trust Elevate, a company led by an Irish CEO, looking to make the internet a safer place for children, and one called Angoka and Northern Ireland based firms specializing in securing smart city technology. You've supported the tech industry here in Ireland through the coronavirus pandemic through Irish government grants and loans for large and small businesses. And global tech companies such as Twitter, Facebook and Google have the offices in Dublin. I know Ireland is currently ranked just outside the top 10 of Forbes best countries for business. Of course, Ireland has one of the highest concentrations of cloud data centers in Europe, including the Amazon Web Services data center in Dublin, which allows companies to deliver results faster and more reliably by having access to hundreds of thousands of servers in minutes. So there are multiple examples of shared cyber interests between Ireland and the UK. Indeed, Ireland was one of the very few countries specifically referenced in the UK government's recent integrated review of security, defense, development and foreign policy. This committed to a strong bilateral partnership and a further deepen our relationship through increasing connectivity, clean growth and international cooperation and more on that later. Our links with Ireland's NCSC specifically are growing and we very much welcome the recently established critical national infrastructure cyber cooperation working group, whose normal meeting in March was hosted by NCSC Ireland. In this we're sharing our understanding of the threat incident management support processes and methodologies for identifying CNI dependencies, including critical cross border dependencies. And given those critical dependencies in many CNI sectors, there is a particular crossover in the threats we need to look at facing both Northern Ireland and Ireland. So for example, energy security from Northern Ireland is based on gas pipelines and electrical interconnectors to both quit Britain and across the border, including the single electricity market. The energy sector is dependent on operational technology connected systems that monitor and control automated industrial processes to function effectively and efficiently. And those systems mean it's a realistic possibility that this reliance on operational technology and the interconnected nature of the energy supply network on the island of Ireland, combine to make a more complex potential target for cyber attacks. On transport, Northern Ireland's rail link across the border between Belfast and Dublin is jointly operated by Northern Ireland Railways and Irish Rail. These cross border transport links again increase the potential for cyber attacks including ransomware to affect both countries. We all know cybersecurity does not respect borders, which is why a great cybersecurity relationship between the UK and Ireland is so important to combat our shared threats. And there are several established capable states that seek to do both of our nations harm through cyber attacks. In the telecom sector, state actors almost certainly pose the greatest cyber threat. The telecom sector is an attractive target, both as an enabler of espionage in other sectors, and as a target for customer and communications data. Some managed service providers that operate in Northern Ireland provide services in both sides of the order. And it's there for a realistic possibility that a cyber attack on a telecoms provider could impact services to both of our countries. The governments of both the UK and Ireland have been clear that they will not tolerate malicious cyber activity and that we have and will publicly call out state level attacks. State sponsored cyber activity represents one of the most malicious strategic threats to the national interests of both the UK and Ireland. It's hugely important. Tracking and defending the UK from our most sophisticated adversaries represents much of NCSC's core business, usually working to support victims behind the scenes. Because state threats are a reality in cyberspace for nation states, China, Russia, North Korea and Iran have been a constant presence in recent years. As I've said before, we face a determined and aggressive Russia seeking traditional political advantage by new and high tech means.  And authoritarian regimes including both North Korea and Iran use digital technology to sabotage and to steal. However, there is currently no threat more prescient than ransomware malicious software that can make data or systems unusable until the victim makes a payment. And of course, you and I wouldn't know this all too well. As you're very well aware on May the 14th, the Irish health executive suffered a ransomware attack that caused extensive disruption to Irish hospitals and patients. And indeed some stolen patient data was published online. The government was quite rightly clear that even by criminal standards this had crossed a line. And I would like to praise the Irish response not to pay the ransom cyber criminals are out to make money. The more times a method is successful, the more times it will be used. And payment of ransoms is no guarantee that you will get your data back. And certainly no guarantee you won't be attacked again. In fact, advertising a willingness to pay makes someone a more interesting prospect. So it's important that we do all we can to ensure that this is not a criminal model that yields returns. The government's strong action of refusing to pay will likely deter ransomware operators from further attacks on health sector organizations both in Ireland and elsewhere. Understandably, the initial reaction was concerned over possible impact on the COVID response. A fear came through clear and definitive reassurance that vaccines would not be affected. Coverage of course then shifted to how other services were compromised, such as urgent hospital appointments and surgeries. Sadly, there were real world examples of patients and families facing real world consequences to this despicable attack. The attack also had an impact on Northern Ireland. It affected Northern Ireland's ability to access data held by HSE for some cross-border patient services. Thankfully, the Northern Ireland Business Services Organization, which provides IT to the NIH health sector, was able to stand up its business continuity processes to support. Of course, in the UK, we as the NCSC led the response to a similar incident in 2017 when the WannaCry ransomware attack impacted 48 of the UK's National Health Service Trusts. So as you would expect from a close partner, we did all we could to support our partners in Ireland when the HSE attack took place. This included sharing as much relevant information as we could, both from a cybercrime and a law enforcement perspective. So what can we say about this incident at this stage? The activity almost certainly originated from cybercriminals. The activity has almost certainly caused disruption to hospitals and endangered patient care. And we know that cybercriminals likely voluntarily handed over the encryption key several days after the attack. We see this as a public relations move to lessen criticism. Soon more broadly, ransomware also continues to represent the most likely disruptive threat to the health sector worldwide. Although cybercriminals promised not to target the health sector during the COVID-19 pandemic, ransomware attacks have proliferated and are increasingly causing disruption to clinical services and patient care. The victims of the ransomware attack in Ireland were ordinary citizens such as cancer patients whose radiotherapy appointments were postponed. A ransomware attack in New Zealand also impacted clinical services in several New Zealand hospitals. So ransomware is the most insidious cybersecurity risk, not the threat from but the threat to, not the loss of data but the impact on operations large and small that stops people in businesses from being able to live their day to day lives. The sheer volume makes it the most impactful threat we face. We've seen it affect the NHS in the UK with WannaCry. We've also seen it prevent students access classes just in the last few weeks. We've seen it shut down local authorities at great cost to the public purse, meaning that the public can't access services, pay their bills or in some cases even buy a house. And the ransomware ecosystem is evolving through what we call ransomware as a service and the app as a service business model, where ransomware variants and commodity listings such as lists of credentials are available off the shelf for a one-off payment or share of the profits. Users buy from developers without the costs and risks of developing it themselves, and that enables actors who are less experienced in ransomware to acquire the tools to conduct their own attacks. High-end crime groups will spend time conducting in-depth reconnaissance on their targeted victims. They will identify your cyber security weaknesses so that they can exploit them. They will use spoofing and spearfishing to masquerade as internal employees to get access to all of the networks they need. They'll look for the business critical files to encrypt and hold hostage. They might identify embarrassing or business sensitive material that they can threaten to leak or sell to others. And they may even research your cyber insurance policy to see if you're covered to pay ransoms. This process can be painstaking and lengthy, but it means that when they're ready to deploy the effective ransomware in an unprepared business is brutal. Everything is taken out. Files are encrypted. Servers go down. Digital phone lines no longer function. Everything comes to a halt and your business stops in its tracks. But it doesn't stop there because over the last year or so these cyber crime groups have evolved their techniques to include data extortion. So even if you have rightly got offline backups and you can get back on your feet without paying a ransom, the group will threaten to leak the data they've stolen. This can make all your business information, your personal sensitive data, your otherwise embarrassing content available online for all to see. So this is neither double whammy of ransomware. So even if you have good data storage in place, they can still try and hold you to ransom. In some respects, the response to ransomware is really straightforward. We need to continue to build cyber resilience so that attacks cannot reach their targets in the first place. We as the NCSC have great advice on how to do this with our 10 steps to cybersecurity and we've made huge strides across a range of sectors. I know that NCSC Ireland does the same to help improve understanding of the cyber threat in particular through publishing alerts and advisories that may affect Ireland. But in many other respects, it also requires a whole of government response. This starts with the efforts to prevent the activities of the groups behind these damaging attacks. They don't exist in a vacuum. They're often enabled and facilitated by states acting with impunity. International and diplomatic efforts need to be coordinated to stop them. So a coordinated response in ransomware involving these key players would have the added benefit of helping us to meet broader national and strategic international objectives, making all of us a more resilient and prosperous place to live and do business online. And it's also key because we're at an inflection point in global technology. So it's imperative that we recognize this and act accordingly. Jeremy Fleming, who is director of the UK Signals Intelligence Organization GCHQ recently described a moment of reckoning where unless the white action is taken, key technologies we all rely on will no longer be shaped or controlled by like minded democracies. And proliferation could also create unforeseen risks. There are firms that sell high end state like capabilities to exploit computer networks. But then at the other end of the spectrum, you can buy relatively cheap sim boxes that can send thousands of cyber crime texts in an hour. So such threats pose a risk to people all over the world. Therefore, alliances are vital. And we like others must work with partners on a global stage. For us, this includes collaboration between all four nations of the UK sharing information with global partners and starting with our closest neighbors here in Ireland. Our integrated review underlined the importance of the UK as a responsible global cyber power that works with its allies to actively shape the international order of the future. It also demonstrated what responsible behavior for a cyber power looks like. This is not a model just to benefit UK citizens, but to benefit people all over the world, and show there is a reasonable expectation that no one is left behind. We see our international cyber engagement as vital to delivering a cyberspace that is free, open, peaceful and secure, and where the multi stakeholder model is reinforced. A global market in which new technologies are secure and resilient from the outset. We see a global operating environment in which our adversaries are unable to act adversely and without impunity or cost being opposed against them and strengthened international partnerships and coalition that act in concert against mutual threats. The UK can't do this alone with our allies and close partners across the world we will take collective action against the threat and work to a shared vision of the future. So we warmly welcome Ireland's presence on the UN Security Council and look forward to working together on our shared foreign policy priorities. Ireland will assume the Security Council presidency in September of course, and we have every confidence that you will lead with a commitment to peacekeeping and climate security in line with both the Taoiseach and our own Prime Minister's priorities. Because states have an important role in agreeing what behavior is acceptable by working as a global community, we can clarify and develop rules that are right for digital age. The UN government group of experts in cyberspace has built on the clear global appetite for progress captured in the consensus report by the open ended working group earlier this year. The document offers substantive text and attribution, as well as landmark references to international humanitarian law, both very important firsts. The ambition set out in the UK's integrated review guided our position during these negotiations. And we set out our position on how international law applies to state behavior in cyberspace. We look forward to continuing to work globally on these important governance issues, including the implementation of rules and norms. An important part of how we make the UK a safer place to live and work online is through our international reach and support. The global nature of the cyber threat means our international partnerships are critical to countering and deterring malicious cyber actors who want to cause harm to the UK. But that goes beyond responding to the threat. UK's international engagement is also about responding to competing visions of cyberspace, asserting democratic norms and values and the technologies and standards that affect the UK cyber security and addressing the vulnerabilities of global supply chains. We have strong bilateral relationships with a number of other European partners as continued membership of a number of multilateral groupings that are vital to information sharing an instant response. The European government's search so the computer emergency response teams remains the forum in which cooperation and cyber instance is most mature. And Etsy, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, is of course the recognized regional standards body for telecommunications and other networks and services. As the UK sought to leave the EU, both the UK and the EU recognized that as a shared threat, continued cooperation on cyber security issues would always be in both sides best interests. This understanding was recognized in the trade and cooperation agreement signed at the end of 2020. The agreement included provisions to create a formal dialogue in order to exchange information about relevant policy developments, including in relation to international security, the security of emerging technologies, internet governance cyber security cyber defense and cyber crime. It also included provisions to cooperate with 30 you and cyber instance, something we've always done and we continue to do, including on the most recent solar winds incident before Christmas. The provisions allowed participation in specific activities of the Ms cooperation group, an important policy development group in which the UK has played a significant role, including on the cybersecurity elections and 5G. And to build a third party relationship with Anissa, the European Union Agency for cybersecurity, the EU cybersecurity agency and again an organization with which the UK has enjoyed a long and close relationship. Work and implementing the trade and cooperation agreement is ongoing and we hope it will mean that the UK and the EU can continue to cooperate in the spirit that both sides desire. So finally I look to the future. Cyber security is a rapidly moving world. And we can't confirm what the threats of the future be, but we can move to put all of us in the best place possible to defend from them. We are doing a lot of work on creating a culture in the UK where cybersecurity can thrive. And Northern Ireland is a great example of this where the NCSCs flagship conference of cyber UK will be held in 2023. Like Dublin, Belfast is a leading technical hub with a thriving ecosystem, including being home to Queens University, which is recognized by us and NCSC as one of the UK's academic centres of excellence in both cybersecurity research and education. Queens also hosts the Research Institute in secure hardware and embedded systems, providing a global focus and working with leading international partners and manufacturers to accelerate research and innovation and translate that into new and more secure and resilient products and services joining up the research to the manufacturing. And of course, innovation stretches well beyond Belfast and particularly to the border areas, including in the Northwest region, where there are ambitious plans for growth. As you know, in February, the UK government announced a 250 million pound investment that will boost the economic potential of the Northwest and support a more prosperous in the United Community. This included the creation of the new Centre for Industrial Digitalization, Robotics and Automation, which will support the exploration technologies innovation. And the quality of analytics research laboratory, which will bring together AI expertise and data analytics to help future innovation thrive. So coupled with the UK government support, there's a real opportunity for Northern Ireland to achieve its full economic potential through this through these means. The Northern Ireland cyber security cluster which NCSC supports employs more than 1700 professionals and promotes international business, innovation and collaboration. And the Northern Ireland government fully supports the UK national cyber security strategy and has developed its own cyber security strategy under the three pillars of defend deter and develop. A key part of their strategy is the establishment of the Northern Ireland cyber security centre launched in February 2020. That centre is now one of our key partners in Northern Ireland and a key amplification route for NCSC messaging, promoting and promoting and raising awareness of the threat and for our products and services across all sectors in Northern Ireland. Of course, another big part of the challenge to creating a safer cyber future is empowering the next generation of experts. We in NCSC run a wide range of cyber first courses aimed at children and young people of all ages to spark and develop their knowledge, but with the significant gender discrepancy in the cyber security workforce we particularly focus on girls. So I was really proud to see pupils from our Lady and St Patrick's College in Belfast in the top 10 teams nationally in a competition of 6500 girls to find the most cyber savvy young girls in the UK. We also have five cyber first schools or colleges in Northern Ireland, meaning they're recognized as sharing our aim of encouraging young people to engage with computer science and the application of cyber security and everyday technology. Because of the commitment to the interest and threats we share with partners, we in the UK need to create a new national cyber strategy that protects ourselves and our allies. As I said, an attack on our critical national infrastructure could impact an Ireland and we're committed to making that as hard a target as possible for those who would seek to disrupt it. We need to ensure that data generated and processed by the internet services that we use every day are properly protected and our privacy appropriately managed. The creative technology that we envisaged in our integrated review must be protected from theft by state actors. We need to ensure that the next generation of commodity technology doesn't repeat the security mistakes of the past. We need to ensure that our adversaries, be they state or criminal, traditional or new, think twice before attacking the UK or its allies. So in conclusion, there is a clear correlation between the cyber security of the UK and Ireland, and one that presents us opportunities to be collectively stronger by working together. While our shared infrastructure goals and threats are a source of great strength, there are also potential vulnerabilities that mean we have a responsibility to each other. If either of us is a weakness that is exploited, the impact can and likely will be felt by the other nation, which is why it's so positive that we share such a strong relationship and an alliance that makes us stronger than the sum of our parts. We look forward to continuing to work and learn from our inspirational partners here in Ireland and to help move both of our nations to a future where we can all continue to make the most of the fantastic opportunities offered to us in the digital age. Thank you and back to you Richard.


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Brent, you have one of the most fascinating critical mineral companies in my personal opinion in that you have the full supply chain from mining and exploration to the actual product and you already have distribution in place. Would you say that's accurate? Yes, absolutely. So I'm not even sure where to start. Other than I was reading your objectives, your plan is to expand international markets in the latter half of 2024 and you're working through FDA requirements towards launching sales in the US and Europe in the second quarter of 2025. Those were some of the highlights I picked up on. Are those correct? Yes, the FDA, it's all dependent on our next financing but we anticipate by the end of 2025 will be in the US market and the European market will follow after that. But it's right now we're focused on launching our products in Canada, in the next six months we'll have all our products tested and ready for market and we're also signing distribution deals with international companies that accept Health Canada licensing and they are looking at selling our products throughout the globe really so we have multiple distributors that we're in talks with. We've signed our first distribution agreement recently and we have more pending. We have PO's that we're working on and the Canadian market is ready for our products and we have multiple clinics and the Alberta government is also a big supporter of our project moving forward. So for those of you out there going Voyager, Pharmaceuticals, what is this company? Our company, Voyager, boasts five licensed barium contrast products targeting significant shortages in second and third world countries but you're looking at commencing manufacturing of your barium contrast products by as early as May this year, is that correct? That's right. We have a contract manufacturer who is moving forward and funding our product lines so they are we're getting all our inventory in ready to start manufacturing and using third party manufacturing and bringing in foreign barium sulfate to make our barium contrast for the radiology drug market. So we have our Health Canada approvals, we're rolling out in Canada and we're rolling out internationally. Well, speaking of that, I read that you're estimating $2 million in revenue after the first year and a potential to capture up to 30% of a market generating up to $160 million and this is an incredibly lucrative market. This is a very small segment. Can you help everybody out there that might be new to barium contrast products with what we're talking about here? Well, there's about a $600 million a year market for barium contrast used in CT and X-ray. It's a oral contrast that is used to help doctors delineate between your tissues and potential issues like tumors and it's widely used and we have the purest barium sulfate discovery out in Francis Creek in BC. We are moving forward to build a quarry and mine our own ingredients which will reduce our cost tenfold than what we're currently paying for for barium sulfate and this will put us in a very competitive position moving forward. Okay. I also read that following your initial sales in Canada, you're going to immediately and I've watched you for a couple of years so these types of aggressive milestones do not surpass me from you. You plan to start your construction of API processing plant incorporating innovative technologies like the Raincage Carbon Neutral Eden system. Okay. What does any of that mean? Explain it to us please. So we're very fortunate to be partnered with Raincage Carbon Inc. who are of a new technology that extracts CO2 from exhaust streams plus all the other pollutants and they have this technology where the carbon that comes off of that machine is a carbon fullerene. So it's a complex molecule that has anywhere from, it's like a soccer ball like the picture behind me is a carbon 60 fullerene ball and you can get carbon 60, carbon 70, carbon 120 and we're working with Raincage where we can put a molecule inside there where they just announced that they successfully and commercially have created the first vanadium fullerene called the metafullerene where they have a vanadium molecule inside and we're going to start working with that to create a new MRI drug and that would be very disruptive because each one of those atoms has electrons and those electrons actually enhance the atom that's inside making it a super molecule so to speak which in radiology will allow us to create new drugs that are better than what's out there in the marketplace. My understanding of this 18 month bill aims to boost gross margins upwards of 26 to 70%. I personally love your marketing deck and you have your new product, you have an introduction of SmoothX, love the name okay, Elon Musk has got to love that. Can you tell us more about your SmoothX launch? SmoothX, we began moving forward with SmoothX, we found that the market requested that we come out with our full suite of products so we've gone head on and started developing those products, we have them formulated, we're currently undergoing bench testing with those products and moving forward into patient testing here. So within a six month timeframe we expect to have the full suite of products that we're rolling out into Canada in the international markets and we believe that we're going to take a very good piece of that market as we move forward over the next year. Of course I can't let you go without drawing everyone's attention to your commitment to ESG, your environmental commitment and sustainability goals. Would you like to talk and share the vision for Voyager Pharmaceuticals with our audience please Brent. Voyager is going to be the first carbon-neutral pharmaceutical company utilizing this Eden system from carbon, Rancage Carbon, which allows us to produce a revenue stream from carbon capture. So their systems are unique in that it generates revenue, it's not a burden, it's a moneymaker and that revenue is going to finance our company moving forward to build out on our iodine contrast in the US and to build out our large pharmaceutical facility in Alberta to become a major player in this business. Brent, thank you so much for the update today and for everybody out there going, okay I need to know more about Voyager Pharmaceuticals, please go to their website, great marketing deck, you can access it all there, thank you so much Brent. Thank you very much.