Welcome to another episode of me complaining about cell phones from five to twenty five minutes. I'm your host Luke So I've actually gotten a lot of questions over the years Why do I not do more videos on cell phones because I do tutorials on Linux and and You know shell scripting and all these kind of things a very obscure program sometimes So a lot of people ask why don't you do more videos on cell phones now? The reason is I'm going to explain why but it amounts to I am Extremely frustrated by the very idea of cell phones and how they work Technologically now of course, I do videos very often, you know as I sort of make fun of it I do videos a lot complaining about how people use cell phones. They use them too much. They're annoying socially stuff like that I'm not gonna be talking about that in this video. I'm gonna be talking about the narrow technological aspects Okay, now the reason I bring this up I should say you may be actually be able to tell okay the lighting is a little different It's a little more vivid back here actually everything back there is blurred. I actually got a new cell phone That that's why things look a little bit different and It's not it's not my choice. I had to get a new one for a new carrier I think this actually looks nice. I like the way it sort of looks now It was only 50 bucks after a rebate. So I'm very glad about that. I wouldn't have gotten a cell phone by choice but So when I got this phone, I went through something I've done before in the past I'm glad I was successful, but I went through the rigmarole of Taking that cell phone and making sure that I could root it and I could get rid of all the Google junk and install a free Software operating system. I installed linear Joes. I have root access on it So that you know, that's what I run on this phone And I have all the application, you know the the few applications that I actually need on a phone And I've deleted all the other junk that comes on it now Let me give you my perspective that informs my view on cell phones The fact is what determines whether you own a computer or not if you ask me It has to be if you have administrative access Exclusive administrative access if you can go on it onto a computer and install and uninstall what you want Delete what files you want sometimes even break your machine in the way that you want That means that you have you are in control of that device if you can't do that stuff But someone else can that means you are not in control Okay, now when even when it comes to Microsoft Windows 10 You still can have control of your device because you still have administrative access Okay, when you install Windows, you don't often know what programs are running They're running with some proprietary stuff, but you can still delete stuff You can randomly delete files and programs and stuff like that. You still have that right, okay? Whereas on phones for historical reasons, that is not the case when you get a phone It is a it's like a jailed environment for the user The user does not have root access and it's not just no one has root access It's that Google installs a bunch of applications that we don't even know what they're doing on a phone And they are constantly pinging Google. They're constantly doing bad things and in effect Google has Administrative access to your phone and you don't so you know when I when I look at most phones that are like this when you just get a phone That's not really your phone. That's really Google's phone. That's Google's phone It's you keep it in your pocket and it radiates your testicles all day because it is constantly pinging your location and data To Google okay, that's what a cell phone does. It is their device It's their monitoring device you might get some good stuff out of having that monitoring device But you ultimately don't have the rights to decide what's going on I know that they give you this little environment where you can disable an application But the issue is when it's proprietary software you have no idea. It's like Windows 10's fake switches Oh uninstall this that it's fake. It's it's just to make you feel good about yourself. Okay, so for me The bare minimum in terms of cell phones is a cell phone where you have rude access You can install and uninstall whatever you want you can monitor what's going on on your cell phone and Specifically you don't have anything too malicious like you know no kind of Google stuff you know, I'm not some kind of Person who says oh well, you just can't have anything Google related if you need something for work I'm not gonna counter signal that but of course, you know on my phone. I have nothing Google related I have only asteroid and asteroid applications a couple other things, but it's all all free software. Okay, that's what I have Now here is the big annoyance. You cannot easily well firstly you don't have rude access on a phone You just buy that that's the first obvious thing and phone manufacturers Software designers carriers they all conspire to make it difficult for you to actually have control over your phone Now you of course people will have bring up this cope. Oh, well, it's for your own good You might get your phone stolen, but that you know, that's the case in laptops as well, frankly So it's I don't really find that a good justification But carriers and software designers and all these people will conspire to make it difficult So just as an example when I got this phone, okay? Well firstly I order I actually originally ordered a different phone And then when it was like shipping on the way I learned. Oh, it doesn't actually work with linear Joe S And or at least, you know, it was just a modern version of the phone I have now there's no build with linear Joe S It can't do this or that, you know running on free software.  So I got this one.  You basically have to Unlock the bootloader and do some funky stuff with some funky random program that you found on github or some pageets on xda recommended you to use That's like literally written by some guy named pageete And you know, you basically hack into your own device That's the absurdity of like in order to have administrative access you have to hack into it And the thing about that is Uh, there are there are constantly new software patches every couple of months That make it more and more difficult that like, you know, get rid of the old ways that you could do things And that's why I want well, I'll go ahead and say one of the reasons I don't do videos on this kind of stuff Is first off in order to actually do videos on how do you root this phone? I'd have to actually buy a whole bunch of phones and stuff like that, which would be We're not we're not consumers here Um, so I'm obviously not going to do do that, but also If you look at videos of people doing tutorials on that you'll see a bunch of dislikes Because what happens is and you know, I'm not saying their videos are bad, but the reason they get dislikes is some new android Release a patches whatever little hack they were using before and now it doesn't work So now people can't do that or everything is different depending on your carrier depending on your Specific model the the model of phone I used to have Could not be root. Well the international version could be rooted, but not the us version, right? So I got oh finally I can root this phone That's what the internet says and then I looked at oh wait, it can't be the us version Okay, there's a little like they're just like a million little details that conspire to make it difficult for you And just in the past couple of days when I was just trying to get things working on this phone I constantly ran into this or that That wasn't going to work or couldn't work on a very specific model of phone And this is what everyone has to do just to do the bare minimum So that one of the reasons like this is why Oftentimes and I think this is justifiable frankly because uh, you know things are so bad when it comes to cell phones I my reflex is to throw up my hands in defeat and say You know what I really don't need a cell phone for this And I think that's honestly a probably even more healthy thing to say I'm not going to I'm not going to yammer about why I don't think people should use cell phones But uh, you know a lot of times like, you know people who use cell phones to like, uh, uh, you know Take notes and talk to friends and stuff And other things that you know just you could do with uh I don't know you don't need the complex technology to do that do all that kind of stuff That that's what I'm trying to say But uh, either way I just find the entire experience Extremely frustrating everything on a phone is is it's it's like this nightmare world. It's this nightmare environment It's like some kind of and I mean literally a nightmare. It's like a nightmare where you can't Accomplish what you want. There's always something that gets in your way. That's the experience. It's it's like a david lynch film It's like as bad as a david lynch film.    Why why are people pretending to like this? And I sort of feel the same way about cell phones, you know, it's just one of those things where uh, nothing there's just nothing but frustration for me and um Well, I'm glad now and I will say I'm glad I this phone I have right now I'm actually very happy about it. I might even carry around carry it around with me sometimes Okay, because I it's rooted. It feels like my device.  Oh, let me actually complain about one other thing that that just sort of annoys me Okay, I said that they're all these people. There's this community of people who are constantly, uh, you know talking about, you know Flashing ROMs and you know customizing their phone and stuff like that and the strangest thing in the world for me For me, you know the obvious reason you want to do any of that is because you want to get rid of all the Google spyware You want to be in control of your device? But there are a lot of people who are in this like ROM making community Uh, you know who do it like go through this rigmarole of you know, uh, just all this kind of stuff for Fun like they they want to I just want a custom ROM that looks cool You know and that is like the opposite of what I am like. I'm just like Why why would you make a custom ROM that just pulls all this google stuff anyway? Like what is the point if you want a a unified google experience? Just use what the cell phone looks like when you buy it Okay, if you don't care about privacy that that works perfectly Okay, who cares if you want your apps to look a little bit different I don't know maybe there is probably redditors, you know redditors who just like want to post Whatever the equivalent of unix porn is for uh, uh android that that's what I think it is So it's it's very confused like I don't I look I look at those people And I don't necessarily see allies in their mindset because most of them are just interested in phones for phones are cool Which is the opposite like I I look at phones as big As impediments as things that are constantly in my way things that are constantly annoying me I just want a functional phone and you know, and there are a lot of companies out there I know you can post them in the comments because I know you will Uh who that try and make free software phones But you know the thing about those is like they cost a thousand dollars or seven hundred dollars or something like that And uh, you know, okay, I'll I'll I'll go through two days of frustration trying to figure out how to do it Do it, you know install free software myself on my phone if I can but um, it yeah, it just drives me nuts. I don't honestly um I think that was all I was going to say I actually do I sort of want to sit around here and look at the colors I I don't know if these colors are actually going to show up on the recording. I don't know if it's like just my screen It just looks nice. I don't I don't know. I like the way it looks You know, that's why I haven't I wasn't like running around this video. I was just sort of enjoying the way it looks Um, it honestly sort of looks how it looks in real life My last camera. Okay, the the content of the video is over. I'm just going to talk now about something irrelevant But the last camera I had you probably noticed whenever I was in the sun like this It just made my my my face like perfectly white Okay, like it had really bad exposure or something like that This doesn't seem to be it's a big I should just like wear a wig in videos or something like that Maybe that uh would make things easier. Maybe I should I should just wear a hat You know, it's just because if you have that much of the same color that's light It's the big problem. But anyway, this cell phone does it better. So all right, that's it


We've been developing an ERC over the last couple of decades, and a national energy model, a times model, and new and new wider, amongst other things. There's economy-wide modeling, CG modeling, and we've been linking these models together. And that enables us to look not only at the energy sector, but also on its impacts in the broader economy. We've already had great collaboration thus far. And I think what it's, I expect more of what we've done in the past, which is that these tools, we don't just develop them because we like the tools, we do. But we want to answer policy questions. And the collaboration with wider gives us the ability to give more subsequent information. And that's really important throughout the economy. So for example, my own research interest in terms of climate change, and the speaker at the forum here was saying, how do we link that poverty and mitigation? Well, these linked tools can give us better information that if South Africa does mitigate, as we've undertaken to do. What does that mean for the poor, for the rich, for different sectors in the economy? And I hope that we can give good information for decision-making, and that's benefits hugely from the collaboration between ERC and wider. So there is a big choice on the supply side about we extremely dependent on coal, 90-plus percent of our electricity comes from coal-fired power plants. And the choice set is pretty clear. It's either gas or nuclear or renewables or some mix of that we've had since 1998, our energy policy has been to diversify supply and increase security in that way. We're still struggling to do that. We also need to increase energy efficiency and demand side management at ERC. We have a big program on that, in fact, trying to verify the reductions of both energy and greenhouse gas emissions through demand side management program. Those are the very large choices, I think, that we have to make. And then, of course, how we produce energy in a low carbon way is one of the big environmental challenges that we have.


Yes, you could not make this story up. It was in The Times this week. They report that last summer Prince Andrew went into business with former Coots banker Harry Keough. Now, Coots is a bank used by the very rich, including the royal family, and Keough has apparently worked as Prince Andrew's private banker for over 20 years. However, this is the important background, Keough left Coots in 2018 amid claims of sexual harassment from numerous people. Very serious claims. Let's go to the description in The Times of the issue. They write, at Coots he was accused of touching a woman's groin while demonstrating the site of an injury. His behavior was said to be so toxic that some female staff refused to work with him. The private bank carried out an investigation in 2015 and the chief executive recommended he leave according to the Wall Street Journal. It was decided that he should stay, but he was disciplined and eventually resigned in March 2018. Now, we should know a friend of Keough told the Wall Street Journal that Keough denies the allegations, though he's unable to speak about the matter after signing a non-disclosure agreement with Coots. Now, this is phenomenal, isn't it? Prince Andrew is someone who is currently, he's trying to launder his reputation. We saw him on the BBC a couple of weeks ago. We talked about it on the show, talking about the death of his father.  He still thinks that should be the case. While he is trying to re-establish his reputation, he goes and starts a firm, a business with someone else who has had to leave their job because of very, very widespread credible allegations of sexual abuse. What is this guy thinking? The article has some defences of all of it. None of them are very good, but let's go through them. On the association with Keo, the Times explained that the source close to the Duke said the allegations against Keo don't appear to have been subject to any investigation by law enforcement or independent third parties, and nor have they been tested by a due process in a court of law. It's all fine. None of this was investigated by the police. It was only investigated by his workplace where multiple people complained about sexual harassment, and he ended up having to leave. It's also similar to Andrew's defense, although one of the reasons he hasn't been questioned by law enforcement is because he's refusing to go over to America, which says a lot about his integrity. Let's look at what the company does, which is not quite as shocking as both of their histories when it comes to sexual abuse, but still unsavory, let's say. The company, what it was planning to do was to be a vehicle to allow Prince Andrew to secretly invest his money. Ultimately, it was supposed to serve as a trust fund for his daughters. Some of the facts about this company as well as that he was teaming up with an alleged sexual harasser. First of all, what it would be called, the new venture is named Lincels, after the 18th century battle against the French in which the British were commanded by the Duke of York. Now, I love this because it tells you so much about Prince Andrew's self-perception and the reality. His self-perception is he is someone who's leading troops into battle. He is a really significant guy who's sacrificing for his country and leading men when in reality what he's doing is setting up a very secretive company with a fellow alleged sexual harasser who looks like basically hide his money. Now, I'm saying hide his money, let's go on to the nature of this company, the structure of this company because we are told it was set up as an unlimited company and this means that it is not required to file accounts with company's house or report its profits or income. That's in fact why people set up these unlimited companies because they want to be shrouded in secrecy. The flip side why you might say why doesn't everyone set up an unlimited company? No one wants to be transparent. The reason is there are some downsides which is that in a limited company, which is a limited liability company, if you get into lots of debt, that debt doesn't accrue to you personally. If you're a director, it accrues to the company. So the company goes bankrupt, that doesn't mean you necessarily will. In an unlimited company, if the company goes bankrupt, you go bankrupt. For some more details on what this means and what an unlimited company means, we can go to Ella Leonard who is a corporate expert at the law firm, Flatgate and she told The Times as the name suggests the shareholders of an unlimited company are liable if it cannot pay its debts should it have to be wound up. The main benefits of an unlimited company are reduced disclosure obligations. Unlimited companies are usually exempt from delivering annual accounts to company's house and filing notifications that new shares have been issued as well as having some greater flexibility in returning invested cash to shareholders. It is fair to say that we do not come across unlimited companies that often, that often precisely because of the shareholder liability point. And so there must be a very specific reason for using one. It's worth noting David Cameron currently embroiled in the green seal scandal also controls one of these secretive companies, as does Andrew Mills, who is a former government advisor, who last year brokered a PPE deal with the government worth 250 million pounds. Who are the people that govern us? This is so depressing. Yeah, I mean, the question is, why do we allow these things? But we don't have that much of a choice. Do we? I mean, the whole point of being a royal is that you literally answer to no one. And nobody encapsulates that better than Prince Andrew. And I actually looked this up. So the monarch, so in this case, the Queen can't actually ever be arrested or prosecuted for anything because of sovereign immunity. And no other member of the royal family can be arrested if they are in her presence, or within the surroundings of a royal palace. In 2002, Princess Anne was fined 500 pounds and had to pay compensation to a family when her dog attacked a child. And that's the first member of the royal family to ever plead guilty to a criminal offense. Now, I know, when it comes to this unlimited company, we're not dealing with a criminal offense. It's terrible, but it's legal. But it kind of gives you an understanding of how this class operates. It's essentially a public law. And so why would he not engage in beneficial and lucrative behavior and make decisions that are bad form? All he risks is embarrassment. And I think Andrew has proved himself immune to that, immune to feeling embarrassed or ashamed. So when we create a system of people who are by almost by definition unaccountable, then we can't really act surprised when they behave in a messy way. But once again, we see this like embeddedness of shadow finance, of shadow banking in the operation of our economic and political systems. You know, the whole point of this company that he set up is to be able to move money around to invest without any kind of public scrutiny, without any scrutiny by regulatory bodies. And that fits in that that's an incredibly important part of our economy. Like that is an integral part of our economy. And it also fits into the role that Britain plays in the world, like a lot of the, you know, this facilitating of offshoring of concealment of secrecy of, of, you know, of all of these, these kind of things that have come to define actually the majority of banking activity, you know, they have their legacies in empire, a lot of the territories that are still under British control, places like the British Virgin Islands are offshore tax havens. And a lot of global financial markets operate in that unregulated space, which relies on secrecy, informality, untraceability. So that, that is the norm. It's not the exception. And I think, you know, can we even call it corruption when that is actually the backbone of how our economic system is set up when you look at the concept of an unlimited company, the only person who's going to set up an unlimited company is someone who's rich enough to be liable in the case of, you know, bankruptcy. So it is literally a mechanism that is exclusively for only the very, very, very rich to be, to evade any kind of public scrutiny or transparency. And so I think we actually miss a trick when we talk about this. And I, and I actually, you know, think the same thing about how we talk about Tory chumocracy and, you know, even calling it corruption, I think that you can't call something corruption when it is the embedded logic of the state and the economic system. So I think we miss a trick actually, when we act as if Andrew in this particular case is doing something particularly egregious, because actually this kind of behavior represents the majority of financial activity. So the question isn't why do we let it happen in the case of Andrew? The question is, why do we let it happen at all? I take your point, it might not be particularly exceptionally egregious, but I think he is exceptionally incompetent. So I use the past tense in some of the first part of that segment because it turns out that after taking the reputational hit of setting up a company with an alleged sexual harasser, this firm, it has never in fact channeled any of Prince Andrew's investments. This was a story in the Telegraph, which suggests that after making this very, very secretive company with this very, very dodgy guy, Prince Andrew was told this would be inappropriate. And so it has never made any investment. So he's taken this hit and it's flopped. So the Telegraph, right, the Duke was advised that while such ventures are fairly standard for ultra high net worth individuals, they were not appropriate for a member of the royal family. As such, the company was abandoned and has never been used. I suppose that this is a guy who thought that a good defense was that he was eating at Pizza Express when he was asked about a picture of him with an underage girl who had accused him of sexual abuse. So the fact that he starts a company without having for, oh, maybe look a bit dodgy if I do this and then having to shut it down before it does anything is not particularly surprising. I do want to return to one thing in this tires piece as well, because it is worth pointing out this isn't the only project Andrew has had to abandon. Now, giving background to another man who was involved in the Duke's unlimited company, the Times wrote, Lynn cells, sole director is Dominic Hampshire, the secretary of the Quad Centenary Club, which was set up to raise funds for the Royal Black Keith Golf Club in London, and which counts the Duke as its chairman. Hampshire, who describes himself as a golf professional on Compass House filings, was also involved in the Duke of York Young Champions Trophy, a golf tournament for under 18s, which was axed after the Epstein scandal. The guy who ran Prince Andrew's secretive firm, so he was the director, Prince Andrew was a controller alongside this guy from Coots Bank. He was told he had to close it down because it looked bad for the Royals. This same guy also ran a Young Champions Trophy, which had to be shut down after Andrew was found to have close associations with a pedophile. Why would you keep entering into projects with this guy? The first one you have to shut down because he's been hanging out of a pedo and this is a competition for young people.  He didn't ask anyone who would tell him that actually if you're in this quite delicate constitutional arrangement where the Royals are trying to retain their legitimacy, you probably shouldn't set up secretive companies, as if you're just any old international financier who wasn't paid for by the taxpayer. Why does anyone associate with this man? Just comes back to, he doesn't feel shame. He doesn't feel embarrassment. In fact, I'm sure that Prince Andrew feels deeply victimized by this entire, by everything that has happened over the past several years. He's thinking, I'm just doing what everyone else does, everyone else in my class. And I both mean that in terms of this shadow financing stuff. I also mean it in the harassment of underage women and thinking, why am I the one who's getting the flak for this? I think that it's a combination of being shielded from consequence by virtue of his position and that creating delusion and creating his own sense of his own, which we can see in the naming of his company. But it's also a sense of I am sure that he has created this massive victim narrative for himself and that's what helps him sleep at night.


Hey guys and welcome back to our youtube channel. In today's video we're going to be speaking about how you can make some cash online in the UK as well as the top eight profitable ways that you're able to do this. So stay tuned, get your notes ready and let's go. So first of all let's have a look at what are the pros and cons to earning money online in the UK. Our first pro is a low cost setup. When we look at it from a business aspect remote working means that there's lower maintenance and overhead costs. Examples of some of these costs would be electricity, warehousing and much more. And as an employee you obviously benefit from a work from home setup which means that you can reduce both travel time and transportation costs. Our second pro of working remotely would be global audience targeting. So for example even though we're managing a UK online business we're still able to cater and target audience from all over the world. Also working from home eliminates the geographic limitations which means that this remote setup can help us work with diverse individuals with suitable skills regardless of where they are in the globe. Our third pro is that there's an increase in productivity and motivation in an online work setup. Working from home eliminates delays with traveling from home to work and vice versa. Also both a comfortable and peaceful working environment helps us to concentrate better when working from home and because of this we'll be able to maximize our working time with fewer distractions thus leading to more accomplished tasks. And our last pro would be the freedom and flexibility that comes with working remotely. A remote work setup allows us to carry out our tasks based on flexible timelines. So because we're at home we have more freedom as to how we set up our workplace and we're able to feel more comfortable when performing our tasks. Okay let's not have a look at what are some of the kinds of remote working and remember guys you are able to check out the in-depth information of everything that I'll be mentioning in this video via the article on our blog page which is linked in the description box below. So let's get into these cons. Our first con is converting your home to an office space. This is a prominent issue when making money online because our personal spaces become our work spaces too and as a result some job tasks can interrupt home chores and not only that you just start to resent your own home and personal space because you constantly fixated on work. Our next con is that you have to comply with traditional regulations when earning money online in the UK. Since most of our online jobs include freelancing you'll personally need to take care of your financial and legal obligations. For example you will be responsible for registering your online business for necessary licenses and taxes. These traditional regulations and laws can become a lot to deal with at once so it might be beneficial to hire a professional to help you out with all of these requirements. And our final con would be a work-life balance and I'm sure if you work remotely you can 100% relate. Sometimes the boundaries and lines between personal tasks and professional work can become unclear and blurred. Essentially if you never leave your office you'll constantly end up working overtime. This will eventually start affecting your overall well-being and as I mentioned already you'll start resenting your personal space. Remember it's always necessary to put yourselves first. One way to achieve that in a remote work setup is by following a daily schedule to achieve your task goals. Right so we've covered both the pros and cons of working online in the UK. Let's now have a look at the eight profitable ways to make money online in the UK. Our first online venture can be to create a blog. Creating a blog has become one of the most popular online ventures among the people in the UK. According to a survey that was conducted by a statistic in 2020 revealed that UK bloggers received between 1,000 to 10,000 visitors on their sites. With this in mind, blogging is a vast industry and it comes with tight competition. So if you're planning to earn money by creating a blog here is some information to keep your mind. When creating a blog you need to cater to a niche audience in order to attain the highest profit earning potential. Some of these blog examples include e-commerce, beauty and health, daily living, fashion, and much more. Some key factors to consider when creating a blog are providing relevant and valuable information, using keywords for search engine optimization, SEO and of course driving traffic to your blog page by implementing advertisements. To optimize your blog pages you should consider purchasing a domain name because by doing this it will help you with your unique branding and people will be able to recognize your blog. Another key factor to keep in mind when creating your blog is that you have to establish a content plan. A content plan allows you to identify when to publish content as well as how many blog posts you need to prepare for. So we've covered some of the key factors to creating a blog. Let's now look at how you're able to earn money from creating a blog. So usually blogs are monetized through advertisements. So the more traffic your page is received the greater the chances are of you profiting from your blog. Just like anything the first few months of blogging can be extremely difficult oftentimes not earning more than a few pounds but as you improve your blog and you attract more audiences in those earnings can increase as much as 29,000 pounds which believe it or not is the average yearly salary of UK bloggers. Now another way that you can make money at home in the UK is by starting a YouTube channel. So in order to start growing a YouTube channel you need to choose the nature of your content that you'd like to start sharing with your viewers. An example of some content can be travel vlogs, beauty tutorials, dropshipping tips, financial tips and so much more. So once you've established what type of content you'd like to start creating it's then time to create a YouTube account. So when you create a YouTube channel you need to utilize reliable equipment that can help you to produce high quality content. So for example you should have high quality cameras, noise-canceling microphones, dependable computers and with that some basic script writing and video editing skills. So remember that the key factors to attracting YouTube subscribers would be the content and the timeliness of the content that we're sharing therefore you should continue to analyze the trends and identify the preferences of your target audiences. Also once you start establishing your name as a YouTube influencer companies will then start inviting you to collaborate with them. This then means that advertising revenues will help to increase your earnings. Just remember that YouTube pays over 1,700 pounds per 1 million views on your YouTube channel. This is great motivation to keep on producing that quality content. The third online venture that you can look into is to sell print on demand products. So with the POD business model print on demand we can produce designs for customer products. So where do we start in this venture? First off we'll need a reliable print provider to source these products from for our business. Some of the most popular print on demand suppliers that we can work with are Printful, Printify, Etsy and so much more. We've actually filmed so many print on demand YouTube videos so make sure to check that out in our YouTube playlist. So once we found our POD supplier we then need to search for a reliable white label company so that we're able to brand our packaging and items with our stores logo. So what essentially makes selling POD products so profitable? For one you're not required to hold any physical stock so you do not need to worry about inventory costs. Secondly POD items are specifically made for a per order basis so you do not need to worry about any stock going to waste. And you're not limited to selling one POD trendy item. You can sell as many trendy POD products as you wish. For example you can sell POD mugs, POD accessories, POD t-shirts, hoodies and so much more. Just keep in mind that when taking on this online venture you only work with top-notch suppliers that can produce the highest quality POD items. The fourth proven way on how to make money online in the UK is to buy and sell on marketplaces. This online business venture allows you to purchase goods from other sellers and then offer these same goods in your online store. This model allows you to set flexible prices on your products allowing you to maximize your profit potential. Not only that but the buy and sell setup allows you to also score bargains and sale items. This then means that you can sell these same sale items in your online store at a marked up price. So once you have a target marketplace where you want to start sourcing and selling your products you need to then set up an account. Some of the most popular marketplaces as we all know are ebay, amazon and facebook marketplace. Some of the things to consider when selling on marketplaces that you'll need initial capital to purchase products and then resell them. The other thing to consider is the selling fees in some marketplaces such as ebay. And as an extra tip to add value to the items that you'll be reselling you can incorporate better packaging to the products that you'll be selling. For example you can use sustainable packaging and you can add your stores logos to the packaging. Remember that your effort does go a long way and there's more to just maximizing your profit on a product that you're reselling. Your customers do notice the small things. So another great way of monetizing our content is by starting a podcast. Podcasts can be extremely overwhelming so you have some steps to establish a substantial listener base. First your podcast should have a theme. You should identify your target audience and the topics that you'd like to talk about. Since you're connecting with your audiences through audio you have to establish a deeper relationship with them by discussing relatable contents. You should also keep in mind the frequency and the length of your podcast episodes. On top of that proper equipment such as a good microphone and a soundproofed room will do wonderful podcast. You should also keep in mind that you'll need quality recording and editing software as well as find a suitable podcast hosting platform. Some of the top podcast platforms include BuzzFraut which is a platform that we use to host our podcast and another podcast platform would be Transistor. Remember to start getting more people to listen to your podcast you need to create relevant content. Once you've established that you'll see a significant rise in your followers and then you can start onboarding sponsors to pay you to advertise their products or their services. From there you can then incorporate your marketing services to maximize your earnings. Some podcasters earn as much as 27,000 pounds per week in the UK. If this is a motivation for you to start your own podcast series I don't know what is. The sixth way that you can make money online in the UK is through affiliate marketing. Through affiliate marketing you can advertise both the products and services of other companies. In return you then gain commission for every marketing activity and this will happen when customers purchase products or services through your specific affiliate link. So the way that you can do affiliate marketing is by creating a page. For example like a blog website where you can list all these products and services and create a call to action button like a hey shop now button and when customers click on this button they'll be redirected to the seller's websites. Another way to do affiliate marketing is by posting advertisements in buy and sell groups. By doing this you can provide testimonials about certain products and you can entice the audience to try out these products or services by leaving a link in the caption that they are able to click on. For this online venture to become really successful it's best that you try out these products or services first. This way you'll be able to share more realistic experience with your audience. A good tip to note is that affiliate marketers can earn more than 42,000 pounds in annual commission depending on of course the affiliate program. Another way to create a flow of income at home is by designing websites. There are about several platforms where you can advertise your skills as a website designer such as Fiverr and Upwork. Through these platforms you can easily find clients to offer your services and you can build your portfolio up to attract more clients and to increase your rates. Besides this you do need a reliable computer, fast internet, editing software and as well as other essential equipment for website design. You also need to know basic knowledge and rules of website design. Remember that you are designing websites to offer audiences the best visual experience. In terms of how much you can earn from designing websites it primarily depends on your skills, experiences and complexity of work but freelance website designers can usually earn more than 28,000 pounds per year and finally one of the most effective ways to earn a passive income at home is by starting a UK drop shipping business. As we know drop shipping is a low risk online venture that does not require us to hold any physical inventory. The best part about this online venture is that it only requires a small starting capital. So for example let's say that a customer pays us an order on your website for 37 pounds then you will purchase this product that your customer had ordered from your suppliers website for only 24 pounds. Upon check out you then input your customers shipping details and then the supplier will deliver the package directly to your customer. You will then earn 13 pounds as a profit from drop shipping. However do remember that there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes in order for you to get the sale. So first off we should utilize drop shipping tools for a more efficient business process. So these tools essentially carry out different business processes on our behalf in order to save us time. Secondly we should source high quality products at reasonable prices. We can get our hands on these items from the best drop shipping suppliers such as AliExpress, CJ Drop Shipping, Walmart and so much more. Apart from these factors you'll also need to identify a selling channel where you'd like to offer these products to your customers. Some of the most popular selling platforms are eBay, Shopify, Facebook Marketplace and Wex. You should also utilize marketing strategies in order to attract more traffic to your drop shipping websites. And overall you can gain between 20 to 30% profit margin for drop shipping retail goods. So we've covered the eight profitable ways to make money online in the UK. Let's now see how drop shipping can tie in with the profitable ways of making money online. So when we bold our drop shipping websites on customizable e-commerce platforms such as Shopify and Wex we are able to create a blog section to increase our organic traffic on these e-commerce platforms. Then having a YouTube or podcast channel can help us to showcase our drop shipping business through videos or audio. We can also link our drop shipping stores to these YouTube or podcast channels which will of course increase our organic website traffic. Additionally you can also have higher sales conversions when you promote your products and you can do this by creating a playlist where you talk about the most trending products to drop ship. Next up, connecting POD products to drop shipping is super straightforward because they're essentially both the same business models. Also you can buy products from Marketplace and then list them in your drop shipping stores. And of course if you already have experience designing websites then drop shipping is your calling. One of the keys to drop shipping success is to create both a user-friendly and great storefront that will help build your business brand. Righto, let's still have a look at some of the dependable automation tools that we can utilize on our drop shipping journey. Remember that through drop shipping automation the everyday tasks of running our business is handled by the software. This means that it saves us loads of time, we have more freedom to direct our focus somewhere else in our business. So let's have a look at some excellent Autodesk drop shipping automation that we can enjoy. So first up Autodesk offers quick and easy import automation methods. This allows us to list products in literally just a few clicks. With import automation we don't have to go through the tedious process of manually copying and inputting product details. So with Autodesk we can choose from four straightforward importing methods. The one click importer, the single product uploader, the adding multiple product IDs slash URLs and of course their bulk importer. By utilizing any of these straightforward automatic importing methods we can optimize our product listings. The next automation feature that can highly benefit your drop shipping business is the price and stock monitoring feature. Through this feature you can automatically monitor the fluctuations in prices and stocks of your products on the Autodesk platform. This feature also automatically updates both the prices and stocks on your selling channel. That means that both your products stocks and prices will always be up to date. Another great drop shipping automation software is the Autodesk product research feature. Manually searching for the best selling products to drop ship can be a tedious process. That's why this product research tool can search for trending products from 25 plus reliable drop shipping suppliers. It can also analyze the sales potential of these products, which essentially enables you to maximize your profits. And the final automation software would be the Autodesk automatic order fulfillment service. This service is here to help us manage customers orders easily. The feature allows us to monitor orders under one dashboard and it automatically fulfills customers orders 24 seven and boom we've reached the end of this video. Thank you so much for tuning in drop shippers and I hope you enjoyed all the information that was listed in this video. Remember if you'd like to scale your online store for this Q4. Stay up to date with all the latest drop shipping content by subscribing to our YouTube channel by checking out our blog page by our websites and of course you can join our Facebook community group to ask all your drop shipping related questions or tune into our live Q&As that happens every biweekly Wednesday. This will give you the opportunity to engage with our e-commerce expert Leron where you can ask any of your drop shipping questions or concerns. Thanks for tuning in guys and I'll see you in the next video. Bye for now.


Okay. Good afternoon. He says, leading me. So my name is Simon Phipps. I'm going to talk to you about how we keep the prospect of a floss desktop alive. So I'll dive fairly quickly into that. So I don't, who remembers Sunsight? Anyone here remember Sunsight? You obviously would. So many years ago some microsystems gave computer systems to universities across all over the world. And they were used for setting up Usenet. So if you ever accessed Usenet, the chances are that if you were accessing a service or downloading a file you would go to a Sunsight. And by enabling people to use Unix on Sunsight, some microsystems created really the wave of adoption of Unix systems, rather than what had been there in the past when I was at university, which was DEC PDP 11s and their successors. And so by making sure that what people were using for their routine lives was a Unix system that pretty much created the drive to then use it for research, to use it for business applications. And this is the origin of the, this is the fertile ground in which then the Linux movement grew when Linux came into existence. And this is by way of noting that what people use is important. Let's click there. The desktop is crucial. Everybody is running a desktop of some sort somewhere. Now at the moment I would suggest to you that the floss desktop has won. It won around about seven years ago. Because the desktop almost everyone is using is running on Linux. It's not running on the local laptop, but it's running on Linux on a server somewhere. And everyone is using that Linux desktop. But that new experience of the Linux desktop isn't creating end user freedom. Because the use of that Linux desktop is tied to your relationship with whoever the service provider is. Now if we want to create a free society, we need to make sure that ordinary people who have not necessarily got the skills to run a server data centre of their own have got access to ordinary tools. And if we're going to do that we need to make sure that they are familiar with something other than what the big providers are making available. I think that the floss desktop is essential because it trains users to want control over their own world. It creates an environment where developers can use tools that are under their control. And it gives you a way to not be under corporate control if that's what you want in your life. Personally I do. Now how have we got here? Well open source and free software has been paid for largely by corporations. That's because they have typically employed people who either as their job or as a side effect of their job cause the software to come into existence and be sustained. Typically the way that corporations have funded this is by charging for a service or by charging for access to the software. And that has then allowed them to pay for development to take place. Now the world has gradually been changing. And what that's meant is that well we're all going to cloud. And cloud adoption is if anything driving open source adoption but not on the desktop. It's driving open source in the stack. It's driving open source for containers and for cloud management. But on the desktop we're seeing desktop tools replaced by cloud tools. And those are tools that have no respect for your user freedom. And then there is an even bigger problem with this. Because this means that the money that would pay for the floss desktop to be developed is no longer coming into the ecosystem. So people are using all of these components systems and component sustainability has got a posse. There are people out there who are making sure that even though business models are moving away from service contracts for medium sized companies there are still ways of funding open SSL or libraries or cloud stacks. But we have a problem. There is no posse for desktop productivity. There is no one who wants to pay for it. And the ability to make money from desktop productivity software is declining. It's getting harder and harder to set up a business that makes money from the existence of productivity software. And consequently communities like the Libre office community or like the open office community are finding that there is there's negligible investment. Because there's no one able to make money from the existence of the software. And so there's therefore no one to invest in the software. So what are we going to do about that? Well the document foundation over the last few years has been experimenting with sustainability. And we've had two projects that are of interest in this space. The first one I'm going to talk to you about is about de jure standards and particularly the ODF standard. And the second one is to do with leveraging app stores to fund development. So the first thing to talk to you about is a project that's called COSM. COSM is an acronym that means community of ODF specification maintainers. Now what we discovered a few years back was that all of the impetus to create a maintained version of the open document format standard went away. IBM exited the document market. Lotus gradually declined to nothing. And most importantly that meant that IBM withdrew the editor who was editing the ODF spec. And so we went for eight years without a new release of the open document format. Not because no one was interested in it, the TC was still working and there were still improvements and fixes being made. But there was nobody to pay for the standards editor to create a new version of the specification. And so we decided to do something about that. And we created what I think is the first crowd funded open standards project. The document foundation put some seed funding in. We put in nearly 30,000 euros of seed funding. And that was structured as a 10,000 euro grant and then 20,000 euros of matching funds for anyone else who wanted to donate. And we successfully got donations from Microsoft and from Collabra and from CIB and from the UK government and then in the end from the European Commission. And as a result of that we were able to hire a highly respected independent editor and he took all of the contributions from the TC and built the ODF 1.3 specification. That went through the ratification process at the standards body OASIS and it became an official standard on Christmas Day on December 25th. So there is now an official ODF 1.3 specification and the next step in the process is for us to implement it. And so the LibreOffice community is committed to implementing that as soon as possible. I hope it's going to be by the summer. And I also believe that we'll see that implemented by some other implementers. Microsoft has said that they intend to implement it and I'm hoping that we'll hear from Google that they intend to implement it as well. So ODF 1.3 which had been dead because of a lack of corporate investment has come back to life because a community has got around it and crowdfunded producing a new version of the spec. We're going to carry on with this work. ODF 1.4 has got a feature cut off at the beginning of the third quarter this year and then ODF 1.4 will hopefully be edited into a standard with a target of the end of 2022 maybe 2023. So we're back on track having a regular cadence for the fixing of defects in the standard and it's a very complicated standard where people are finding defects the whole time. Typically they're not the kind of defects that you're normally dealing with. They're misplaced font usage and incorrect indent and things but they're still considered to be defects by the standards community. And then there's new work that is taking place that needs to be implemented in the standard so that we have interoperability between different implementations notably between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office or LibreOffice and Google Docs. So that's the first project that we've worked on. The second project that we're working on is in progress at the moment. It's called the document collective. We kept on running up against the problem within the document foundation that it was very difficult to spend money on developing LibreOffice because we're a community of developers and users. You don't want to have the foundation which is facilitating the community, competing with the commercial providers within the community. And so working out how to spend some of our quite substantial income on software development proved to be really difficult. We discussed how to do it for years and years and we kept on getting gridlocked on things like conflict of interest questions between board members. And so we decided around about a year ago that we would create an independent charity-like organization to fundraise and then spend the money on LibreOffice development. And the effect of that work is I think called the document collective. And so what are we going to do? Well these are the outline words. We're going to do commercial activities that complement the community rather than compete with it. We're going to try and grow the market for LibreOffice and for ODF and we're going to try and make sure that it's self-funded so it's not reliant on charity. But what are we actually going to do? Well here's some problem statements we'd like to solve. As I said, TDF and any charity finds commercial activity challenging. The Apache Software Foundation really could never engage in commercial activity. It could never divert donations to Apache into paid for work by one of the Apache Foundation's top level projects. And this especially affects the market that is evolving at the moment where the motivations of people to pay contributors in the community are gradually declining. And then we have another problem that we're facing which is that end users who are the main target of LibreOffice are finding it increasingly difficult to install it. That's not because there's a problem with our installer. That's because Microsoft and Apple are increasingly locking down installation. They're now requiring signed packages signed in a particular way. They're requiring a chain of notarization for the signatures. They're preferring the download location of their App Store. And it is now the case that someone downloading something like LibreOffice or OpenOffice, if they haven't got technical skills, is finding it extremely challenging to install the software. If you watch the user help mailing lists for OpenOffice or LibreOffice, you'll find that every day there are multiple questions from end users on how to install an update to the software that they're already using. So these are not beginners. These are people who already have the software and are trying to install it. So we'd like to solve that problem. Now for a charity to solve this problem, it's kind of challenging because the App Store is a hostile commercial environment for a charity, for a group of volunteers. The rules of the App Stores are extremely complex and change every few minutes. You can discover that the filtering that goes on on the content of the packages results in just arbitrary removal of your packages from the App Store with the expectation that you have a developer team waiting to respond to the arbitrary change of rules. And this makes for putting open source software, end user software, into the App Stores very difficult. That's independently of any issues about the compatibility of the license terms with open source licenses. It's just operationally extremely challenging. And then even if we were to solve this problem, this is a problem for the Document Foundation because most of the Document Foundation's income comes from people making donations while their download is in progress. When's the best time to ask for a donation? It's when people have got a little bit of spare time and are feeling grateful. When does that happen? What happens while the 700 meg download is in progress? So the Document Foundation for a number of years now has put up a little box while the download is in progress saying, have you considered maybe donating a little money? And people do. But if people were downloading from the App Store that would not be happening. And so that is another challenge to us. So we want to try and do something about those challenges and that's what TDC is going to do. TDC is going to be granted an exclusive license to the quite valuable LibreOffice mark. And as the agent of the Document Foundation, TDC will place paid for packages for LibreOffice in the Windows and Mac App Stores while clearly stating that the same package is available at no charge from the LibreOffice website. The reason we're doing that is because we're going to have to spend money on building those packages specifically for the App Store. And it's going to be quite expensive to do. We'll be spending thousands of dollars on developer time each release. And we will also have an admin burden of dealing with the App Store. I have family members who work in other companies who have apps in App Stores. And they tell me they have between one to two people who work full time dealing with the detritus that washes back from the App Store as they get new reviews of new releases as the rules about what you can say in the listing change as responses to take down requests from competitors come in. So we think it's very reasonable to charge. We've done some A-B testing about what to charge and we believe that the right price is around 15 euros. And we believe that that shouldn't just be for one download. That should be for updates for an extended period. So this will be a payment that gives you access to the App Store downloads until the next major release comes out. Which is a well known number in LibreOffice world. That's about 18 months. And so that's a reasonable amount of usage. And then we'll suggest people would like to purchase the next major version when it comes out. So what will we then do with the money? So this is where the tricky bit thing comes in. How do you prioritize new features? One thing you could do is bugzilla voting. Now bugzilla has had voting for a long time and if you use bugzilla you'll know that the sophisticated end users spend a lot of their time voting up things that they would like to see fixed. They put many, many votes into the system and the reason they do that is because the votes are completely free and there are no consequences to voting. No one is going to come around and ask you to follow up your vote with some form of commitment. So we're not going to do that. What we're going to do is first of all I envisage, we haven't commissioned it yet, a plugin for bugzilla that will let you promote a feature or a bug from our bugzilla onto a marketplace. And you'll be able to do that using your credit card. And having promoted a feature into the marketplace then anyone that wants to can come to the marketplace and vote up the features they would like to see implemented. And again you'll be able to purchase as many votes as you wish. Now I feel this is unlikely still to result in an income enough to pay for the features so this is not a typical crowdfunding environment. But I am hoping that if we're selling the packages on the app store that there will be a substantial revenue that comes in that will allow us to pay for features. So to sum up what we're going to try and do in just a couple of lines we're going to build a new free software desktop and we're going to get the windows users to pay for it. You may have heard that phrase before in a different context I don't know. Now that sounds as unreasonable as it did when it was said by the original president who said it but I think this could actually work. So we're going to go ahead and incorporate TDC we'll skip over that. TDC is going to be a separate company at arms length from the document foundation one reason to do that is because selling any software involves being exposed to a good deal of risk from the software marketplace as soon as you make money you are a target for unwanted activity from competitors and from patent holders in particular and so we want to contain that risk and make sure that the document foundation is not impacted by it. So TDC will be a separate entity but we also don't want to make it a separate commercial company that could go off the rails. So we're going to use a community serving business structure that does not have shareholders does not have a beneficial owner so there's no way to distribute any surplus in the form of dividends or other payments upstream. It's going to be a commercial operation with a small board of directors who will be compensated for their contributions to the degree that they contribute and it's going to be incorporated using a regulated vehicle so the bylaws can't be changed and my chosen vehicle because I live in the UK is a community interest company in the UK. There don't appear to be any bad consequences of Brexit from doing this because all of the interfacing to the rest of the world will be through the Microsoft and Mac app stores and the contractual relationships outbound with contractors to do the feature implementations. I'm trusting that spending money on IT contracting is not going to be made impossible by Brexit although who knows just how crazy it will end up being. The only control line if you will back to the document foundation is the commercial trademark license and so the document foundation will if we go off the rails we'll be able to say you can't use that name anymore and I believe that that is going to be a significant disadvantage if we were not able to call the packages in the app store LibreOffice because it's very hard to distinguish yourself from the large number of other packages that are in that store already. So what are we going to do next? Well we're ready to incorporate. I'm just writing the CIC statement and the bylaws at the moment. We've got a steering group that the TDF board has appointed and I'll ask them to appoint a CEO and a set of probably three directors to steer the next stage of the company and at that point it will be commercially staffed and operated and floating free from the document foundation. The working title is the document collective hence TDC. Everyone seems to like that name and so that's probably what we'll call ourselves until it proves to be bad for some reason. Now I think these are this all sounds very basic and straightforward when I explain it and there is some work in the market already in doing similar things so CRETA and VLC have also leveraged app stores to create revenue from their communities very successfully. The main innovation in here I think will be doing that and then coming up with a community driven way of spending the money and I'm very hopeful that that will end up being a positive experience as well. If you don't agree my email address is down here you're welcome to let me know about it. When we eventually launch which I hope will be the middle of the year sometime I would love it if you would help with the inevitable questions. I know the very first question that will come up on slash dot is you can't sell free software and so if you would like to be the person that answers that question on slash dot I'd be very grateful. So that's everything that I was going to say to you. We have four or five minutes for questions. Does anyone have any questions? You have said windows would pay for I mean you can trade windows or Apple. I know I keep projects for example they do that same thing they let I think they generously pay Apple users so the concept is working but do you think can we also be done on Linux? I mean Ubuntu or for example try to have some app store and there's a popular I think widespread thing. Do you target these two also? So I think I don't think it's going to likely to be useful on Linux but what we're really cladding for is the convenience of not having to work out how to install the package. And that need doesn't exist on Linux it's installing the package is extremely easy. I've even got it on my Chromebook. So and there's no point trying to create the artificial scarcity. So I now I hope Linux LibreOffice users will continue to make donations and that would be very handy because the document foundation does need a certain amount of money to continue doing its administration and to pay the admin staff so we do want money to continue to flow into the document foundation as well and it would be great if we had Linux users contributing there to be honest with you Linux users are not the dominant contributors to the document foundation's income. Even at the moment most of our income comes from the proprietary platform users and so if anyone's got ideas for ways to encourage the Linux community to contribute more financially we're very happy to get contributing kind as well so document foundation has got a large and vibrant and active community and there's plenty of entry points to work on the code but honestly most Linux users who have LibreOffice installed don't want to work on the code they want to work on the invoice with it rather than on some code so for those people a way to encourage donations will be very welcome and there are TDF staff in the room who will take your suggestions any of them can take your credit card so I think that would be a great thing to do so one of the things that happened when we were discussing this on the board is once we had established the idea that maybe it was a good idea to have an arms length commercial entity people started saying well we could do this as well now why don't we get that entity to run the conference why don't we get that entity to pay the staff who don't work in Germany why don't we get that entity to run certification exams I'm not at all opposed to that idea I'd just like to make this work first and then move on to some other things if the overall community thinks that's a good idea I don't think everything ought to be in an arms length entity so I disagree with employing staff from there the staff that aren't working for TDC from there for example but I could see paid certification exams I mean that's working very well for Linux foundation who have a lot of well they're a little different the model I would try and pick up would probably be the Linux foundation's model and I'd probably want to partner with LPI to do the content and I'd probably want to get TDC to try and arrange for there to be training and exams around the world but that's a way out in 2022-2023 please at the moment we don't even have an employee so I'm going to get this fixed first hopefully this is going to work hopefully it will be successful I think we'll know by the middle of 2022 I think that's kind of when I would want to say well shall we do some more things and then I can do or I better I can do the talk at a related FOSDM about what a terrible failure it was because by then I will have retired and you know I'll be able to do a retrospective on my successes and failures we could take one more question as the room changes anyone else want to do anything Olivia they will just see the same package that's on the LibreOffice website now it won't actually be the same package because to make it work on the app store we have to do some sandboxing of some of the capabilities and we have to sign it differently but when you start it up it will have the same splash screen it will have all the same functions and features and it will look just like the identical product that's on the store our goal is to have it be released at the same time as the main packages and our goal is also to have it promoted by TDF as the official build for users who would rather have installation maintained for them OK, over to Core, thanks very much Why sir?


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Although traumatic events in childhood can lead to psychiatric disorders later in life, the biological origins for this relationship aren't well-defined. Overactivation of the immune system has been implicated in a range of psychiatric conditions, including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and anxiety disorder. Despite this well-known association, the events initially causing this activation remain a mystery. But a team of researchers in the Netherlands has uncovered a potential missing link. They found that traumatic events in childhood can cause inflammation that lasts into adolescence. This association is important because prior work has tied inflammation to the development of mood and anxiety disorders. The researchers surveyed 1,000 teenagers affected by childhood trauma at ages 12, 14, 16 and 19. In addition, immune system activation at age 16 was evaluated by measuring high sensitivity C-reactive protein, a telltale sign of inflammation in the body. They found that, by age 16, the number of traumatic events experienced by a person was linked to the presence of mood and anxiety disorders at age 19. Interestingly, this number was also associated with increased levels of HS-CRP. These results suggest that people who experience trauma in childhood still show signs of immune activation as teenagers. The team then looked at whether specific types of trauma were associated with higher levels of inflammation. They found that elevated HS-CRP levels in teenagers were most strongly associated with the experience of separation trauma or sexual abuse in childhood, while weaker associations were found for verbal and physical abuse. These findings highlight the deep connection that exists between psychological and physical well-being. Further studies more clearly defining the pathway that leads from immune system activation to psychiatric disease could one day lead to early interventions designed to halt this progression.


Hello, thanks for watching this edition of Cal OAS Quick Look. I'm Sean Boyd. We're here right off Highway 1 in beautiful Big Sur. We are in fact right at the beautiful Bixby Bridge. That is in fact the midway point for the Big Sur Marathon. Now the course will not only challenge the 4,500 plus runners, but also the dozens of public safety personnel who will patrol the 26 mile route that ends just north of here in Carmel. But they have a big problem they're working hard to solve, getting their radios to communicate with each other. The ragged edge of the western world. Its breathtaking beauty attracts tourists, artists, romantics. And for the last 32 years, Highway 1 has also attracted runners for the Big Sur International Marathon. The race route is a challenge for runners. They'll wind along the coast and climb from a low of 64 feet to a height of 560 feet above sea level. The problem with radio communications along the route is the topography. Unlike the runners, two-way radio signals cannot make it up and over the hills and around the cliffs. So Cal OAS Public Safety Communications comes to the rescue. Installing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 temporary towers called repeaters. Those strategically placed repeaters take the radio signals, send them to each other and to the first responders' radios. CHP has radio problems here, Cal Fire has radio problems here, and what we're doing is we're enhancing that 30 mile stretch, bringing it all back to this command post so we have as close to seamless communications as we can achieve. Cell phone coverage is also terrible. Now imagine there's a health emergency during the race, or worse, like what happened during the Boston Marathon in 2013. It just showed that there was weak spot. That bombing is why this operation, with its unified command, was implemented five years ago. So that if an incident occurs we can be fast response rather than being somewhere that it takes us a lag time to get here in traffic and what have you is we're already set up and ready to go so we can just go right to business. Cal OES can deploy any or all six of its Mobile Interoperability Gateway Units or MIGUs whenever there's a need for communications between multiple agencies. For instance CHP and Sheriff's Office or FIRE would have you. Cal OES tactical communications set up its incident command post about two blocks from the finish line. Inside dispatchers from the CHP, Cal Fire and Ham Network will handle all first responder radio communications that come in via those repeaters. It's all about strategic placement when it comes to these repeaters and this one here at Point Sur Lighthouse is one of the most important and here's why because it'll catch and receive a signal all the way from the starting line in Big Sur and transmit it all the way up the coast up Highway 1 to Point Lobos. With less than 24 hours till the starting gun, technicians drive the course, testing each repeater along the way. Are you copying me 10-2 or am I breaking up to you? You are 10-2 out of 10. All towers are working, they expected nothing less and it was all done with the help of volunteers like Daniel Bennett who want to give back to their communities but also allow us to get some knowledge and to use these experiences in our day-to-day life. Runners reach the finish line, warn but smiling and celebrate individual achievements. Little did they know so many dedicated professionals were watching their backs and later celebrated their own achievement. So if you'd like more information on public safety communications and just how these wonderful people keep the communications going back and forth throughout the beautiful state of California all you got to do is go to OESNews.com and CalOES.ca.gov and search PSC. For everyone here in beautiful Big Sur and back there at headquarters in Mather, California, I'm Sean Boyd. Thanks for watching. Visit our online newsroom at OESNews.com to learn more about this program and get the latest news and information from our team. Don't miss our next video on your Facebook timeline, like our page and you'll get the latest posts as they happen. If you're an Instagram user, you can see the latest snapshots by following our CalOES Instagram account. And Twitter users can get instant access to our tweets from across the state by following CalOES.