f the time they don't so as an organization we walk back with them and we say okay what's your real problem what are you really trying to solve and let's see if we can move forward and and figure out what it is and it typically isn't drones but sometimes it's drones we do a lot of work with creating low-cost electronics so um some of the stuff that we're doing this year specifically is is GPS tracking of sharks and and whales both in Belize and Antarctica and so we create low-cost open-source units that that we're able to kind of sell for that um uh work with the scientists to to deploy that sort of stuff um we we worked with NOAA um this last year to create a low-cost ctd device so those of you who don't know what that is that's conductivity temperature depth sensor um and so we'll be deploying that a lot with some scientists that couldn't afford the really expensive versions of of the ctds that that are that are usually um made um another great example of of using low-cost methods and technology development to do a lot of great stuff comes out of a colleague of mine whose name is Tofer White who created this this project called Rain Force Connection so it's not ocean related but basically they take old donated cell phones they put microphones on it and they put in the Rain Force to listen for illegal logging so we got a grant actually through National Geographic as well to collaborate on bringing that same sort of technology into into the oceans and how it would work in the oceans and we've we've took a derivative of that that Rain Force Connection hardware and put it on some buoys and deployed them in different places to listen um underwater and try and specifically what we're looking for is trying to detect um fishing activity in places where it's not supposed to be happening so but just based solely off the the acoustic signature and um machine learning and some of the other techniques that we're using for that technology but you could tell a lot from the underwater acoustics as people here mostly know um and and lastly a thing that we work a lot on is is sensors so i'm really trying to bring down the cost of sensor technologies that's used in in conservation um science and citizen science efforts and so we have uh this this uh this platform that we call FieldKit where we've been developing a lot of this stuff um a lot of the how this usually happens in in uh in practice is you know some organization or a scientist comes to us and they say hey we want to develop a sensor that does or we we want to censor it does this but the only version that we can buy costs five thousand ten thousand thirty thousand whatever it ends up being and so we'll go back and try and design an open source version of that and so we've done that a number of times um and we're building a library that that we're publishing this year um online of of the sensor designs we've done to date and some of the ones that we're going to do moving forward that can test for things like water quality flow and um all sorts of stuff depending on on the organizations that we've worked on and the FieldKit platform kind of allows a way to visualize that data and collect that data as well um and and i'm not going to talk too much of this because we have uh we have crowdsourcing and citizen science experts coming up after me but that this is another area where there's a lot of potential in using technology to democratize the the work that we do in the oceans it's really engaging the public and giving them the tool through through things like apps and and low cost devices that they can go out and gather a lot of this information um themselves so conservation technology i said i'm going to explain a little bit what that is this this is emerged as something that you know a handful of us do throughout the world that's focused solely on bringing these like recent innovations in technology and kind of lower cost methods into conservation you know technology has always been a part of science and conservation in some aspect or another but we've never really been in this point where um the ability for us to do things at at actual really low costs and the capabilities that those stuff have it's never been better than it is today and it's only getting even even more um more amazing as time goes on so all these big buzzwords that you guys hear about um about what's happening in the technology space things like blockchain and computer vision dna barcoding there's folks um that i you know that i know that are working on these sorts of things and adapting them into the the conservation space the ocean conservation space so there's a lot of potential there um and then the other thing that's really amazing about where we're at is there's opportunities to take that that idea that you might have or um or the the problem that you want to work on and find ways to get them funded and this is something that was hard earlier but now there's so many people who are excited about the idea of using technology to solve some of these problems that a lot of like the foundations and other organizations will fund them or do interesting stuff so in in 2015 i i had an idea that i came to national geographic for about creating a prize for um for the protection of marine protected areas using lower cost technology and engaging the community and this kind of stuff and so it took us some time to develop it but but national geographic launched this marine protection prize um earlier this year or last year anyways that it just closed the the registrants just closed and it's the the feedback we had from it and the amount of participants is amazing it's five times bigger what than what i expected to actually apply for this sort of prize which shows there's like a desire and there's a passion around creating solutions to some of these problems okay i'm almost done just nearly done and then the other the other amazing thing is that there's there's now platforms and in places where you can go to gain this sort of help and gain expertise so if you have an idea for developing technology but you don't necessarily have the coding expertise or something like that there's places like conservation x labs has this digital uh makerspace where you can go and and kind of explore some of these ideas and there's communities like wild labs dot net that allows you to kind of meet with people who are interested in this sort of thing and and very quickly last i'll say i'm one of the judges on the ocean x prize or the ocean mapping x prize and so this is really neat because they're they're trying to map the entire oceans and do it in a way that's cheaper and different than the ways that they've done it before and so there's you know there's 19 teams now that are doing this work and and there's a lot of really interesting innovation there so i think it's a very exciting time for technology in this space wow wow you guys are amazing my name is greg trinish i'm the founder and executive director of adventure scientists and very happy to be here so i started my career as an explorer i traveled all around the world in different environments trying to learn what i could from pushing myself to the limits of exploration and while it was out there i did that and i also saw a lot of challenges along the way i saw firsthand the people and the environments that are struggling with so many of the things that we've talked about over the last few days here things like coral bleaching illegal logging causing deforestation wildlife trafficking harmful algal blooms shark finning the list goes on and on and on and on i knew that there was tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people like me who go outside every single day they love the places that they explore and if given the opportunity they would choose to make a difference with the time outside from my experience in the sciences i knew that there was also a tremendous need for a boots on the ground army and so we started adventure scientists with this mission to send people who are traveling in the outdoors who love the outdoors are willing to go through some training to go out and collect data where it can be used to address environmental issues so today we have sent thousands of people all around the globe on expeditions to seven continents five oceans people have done things as diverse as collecting the highest known plant life on earth for Mount Everest at 22 000 feet we've gone down 527 feet below the ocean surface we've collected more than samples from more than 3000 places for our micro plastic study and that's just the beginning of what's possible so i'll ask you guys as we're going through the rest of these slides to think about how you could benefit from a global network of volunteers how an army of people on the ground in the water could benefit your work and what you would do with that unlimited resource for harvard medical school we collected scat samples all around the world in order to isolate the genes responsible for enter for antibiotic resistance in the enterococcus genus bacteria so the theory is because they're one of the oldest on the planet and also one of the most prolific it's likely that if you could address or you could find the common ancestor of this genus you could probably turn off antibiotic resistance and many other species around the globe this week we're launching a project with the world resources institute that will have volunteers traveling from san diego to vancouver sampling big leaf maple as the first of many species that we will begin to collect samples for so we're collecting leaves and cores in order to create genetic reference libraries to make it possible as technology advances with dna barcoding and handheld dna sequencers to be able to walk into a furniture store someday in the future zap a table and instantly know what species you're looking at where it came from and whether it was legally or illegally harvested that will make it far more difficult to transport illegal timber all around the globe and will eventually end that issue so we have this global network and we actually don't know how big our network is we have never maxed it out and so we've never had more people or excuse me we never had less people than we've needed for any given mission we're not about getting as many people involved as possible or getting as many folks out there because we really focus on the quality of the data we work with our partners to develop a scientific mission we figure out how many samples are needed how many volunteers are needed in order to get those samples and that's who we deploy to get out there we get our networks by recruiting top tier athletes from each sport so this is lakey peterson number four female surfer in the world mike lebecci netgeo coverboy jeremy jones greatest snowboarder that's probably ever lived and we asked these people to go out become ambassadors for our projects and then they share it through popular media through their social media accounts and that helps us to recruit this unlimited army all around the world national geographic has been a huge help for us in that spreading the word about what we do and helping us recruit volunteers every single volunteer goes through a training process so they may do that online we use learning lms or learning management systems same things that big corporations use to train their employees we also supplement those quite often within field training so these can last anywhere from one day to seven days really just pen depends on the complexity of the protocols that volunteers need to follow when they're out in the field every volunteer passes the test you have to get 100 on the test to be certified to collect data for us and then you have to research that test every six months so we make sure that our volunteers are staying up to date on the protocols when they're in the field they're often wearing go pros as body cams so we can actually see whether they were following the protocols when they collected the sample we have apps that ask them if they're following those same protocols in the field so we are able to ask things like did you cap your water bottle under water just reminders that guide people through the process as they're moving through the process perhaps the most important thing about what we've learned from running more than 150 of these projects now is choosing the right types of projects so anything where you can deploy a sensor like this one Shaw bill although that's pretty old and he's probably mad at me for showing that because it's old or camera chap whatever it is anywhere where there's a technology that our job is really to train the volunteer how to use the technology how to troubleshoot the technology those work really well and then anything where there's a sample collection whether it's air water whatever it is we're happy to go out train people how to not contaminate those samples and then they often end up in a lab where the real analysis is happening so the real beauty of this is what it allows us to do from a scale standpoint we're able to go all over the world and bring back samples we're able to send people who are already out there paying their own way to go on these expeditions we can recruit people to go to specific locations as well and just to zoom into the coast of west africa here to give you a better sense of the resolution that we've been able to do for our micro plastic study which instead of talking about i will share a little bit more about since this is an oceans conference after all and there is sound on that five years ago we scooped up a half liter of water locally brought it back to the institute looking under the microscope and seeing all these technicolored pieces of plastic led me to think of all of these larger questions how is it affecting the ocean our drinking water our micro plastics everywhere but i couldn't answer those on my own so this is when i partnered with adventure scientists adventure scientists is a nonprofit organization that unites explorers and scientists to solve some of the world's most pressing environmental issues in which access to data is crucial to resolving them i worked with adventure scientists to train adventurers who would be collecting data for me around the world i'm about to take a micro plastic sample i was able to get water samples from the antarctic and the middle of the pacific through the process of working with adventure scientists i was getting closer to understanding the magnitude of this issue after analyzing thousands of samples from around the world we concluded that 74 percent of them contain micro plastic pollution micro plastics are one of the largest pollution problems that you've never seen without adventure scientists i would have never been able to even dream about this breadth of data that i've been able to collect the adventure scientists model lends itself to so many different projects whether it be micro plastics or forestry conservation or animal protection this is just the beginning so i just want to leave you with two more thoughts one is as we come up with these new technologies things like hummingbirds flying around the forest to monitor wildlife in all kinds of miniaturized and cheaper and more effective ways to monitor let's not lose sight of the fundamental importance of getting people out into nature and connecting people to these places if we want them to care about them and the second is just another reminder come tell us how you can benefit from an unlimited army of boots on the ground or fins in the water thanks hello hello this is oh good okay so my name is annie brett and i am a sailor and a scientist and i'm also a lawyer so feel free to throw tomatoes at me or otherwise express your anger at all the lawyers in life so i'm going to try and go pretty quick here so we actually have some time for discussion so if i raced or anything feel free to you know ask me questions later but so i spend a lot of my time at the intersection of science and law and thinking about this broader trend that we're seeing in science and scientific exploration in particular towards democratization and you know shan greg discussed this technology has made this realm of science really accessible to people in a way that's unprecedented in the past and in the face of this kind of general public involvement in scientific data collection there's huge potential for understanding our environment in ways that we have never been able to before but so what i'm really interested in is how we turn this scientific data into actual legal usable policy solutions and it turns out there are significant barriers to using scientific data that's collected by non experts in policy contexts and lawyers are really bad at science we don't really understand it so we use some interesting proxies to try and determine when scientific data is reliable and one of the biggest proxies one of our favorite proxies is looking at the educational background of the person who collected the scientific data so in cases where we're talking about citizen science projects this can be a huge barrier to actually using scientific data in legal regulatory and courtroom contexts regardless of how accurate the data actually is the fact that it was collected by someone who doesn't have formal scientific training often is enough to make fatal flaws in that data's ultimate use there are obviously ways to do this and there is this kind of circle in the middle and i think greg's projects are a great example of how you can structure projects effectively to gather citizen science data in ways that can be used in legal contexts and you know there's a whole slew of different ways to do this i think having very good volunteer training is one of them having routine validation with professional scientists who come and compare their data to volunteer data making sure that projects are well funded and staffed over time so there's a scientific record i'm happy to go into all of these different um measures in a lot more detail if you guys are interested in how projects can be effectively structured to inform management solutions but at the risk of putting myself out of a job here what i really want to argue for today is that we think about democratic data in a different way and i think my big question is what happens when we separate democratically collected data from these silos that we're trying to put it into and so if we think of democratic data not through a scientific lens or a legal lens i think what we find is that data from the global population of particularly ocean users is one of our best means of gathering information about the state of the ocean it helps us to be the first line identification of environmental problems and to really target solutions going forward iana earlier today on a panel mentioned that it's critical that we uh triage our resources and we have limited resources and limited ability to make policy solutions so we really have to focus on the issues that are the most pressing and what i would argue is that democratic data is one of the best ways that we can really figure out how to triage and how to identify the most pressing problems and we have a huge network of ocean experts out there from ships captains who have been sailing for 50 years to coastal communities who rely on ecosystems in the ocean for their sustenance and livelihood and these users may not have the scientific data and the legal data that we need to make end goal policy decisions but they do have the information that will help us bring in scientific teams and policy teams to places that need that help the most so i think what i want to leave you guys with and then we can discuss this more is this idea that if we move beyond an idea of scientific truth as the only goal in our democratic data collection and our democratizing of the ocean and engage all these as of the ocean this is a map of shipping routes global shipping routes so these are constantly traveled and these people have a significant amount of information about the ocean we don't have to give them any scientific instruments we don't have to give them new methods we don't have to fund them at all they're already out there and they already have a significant amount of information it's not scientific data it's not ultimate truth but it's information that can help guide our management solutions and our policy solutions towards more effective ends and so i want to think about is how we can really engage these people and use their information to identify environmental problems and triage our management solutions thank you is this one on i've uh i can't help but think that uh you know if you drive a car today that car knows and can report almost everything about the environment around you it knows if it's raining it knows if it's light it knows what the barometric pressure is it knows what the temperature is and all that and i can't help but think why we don't have hundreds of coastal heroes all armed with exactly that kind of thing that we can build into some package that we could give both the scientists and the layman and and make some kind of usable network out of everyone and by building that network maybe get people a little bit more engaged what is that a reasonable kind of thing we should be thinking about yeah i think it absolutely is and i think there's opportunities to do that and at the same time i think it's really important that we pay attention to the fact that we can't be all things to all people at all times and so to is to put your car out there try we can try that's right to put your car out there and have it be a sensor and reporting back to google or whoever's gonna own your car someday that i was thinking of my swim trucks i don't know if i want those data you're collecting well i have a freezer full absolutely but i mean for me i think it's really neat that we have all these tools but imagine if you know the problem is that vast majority of people don't even know about the ocean right we have this weird thing where people are more connected with outer space and what's happening out there than they are with what's typically at our doorstep and for me i find that really interesting because then we have all these tools but we we can't get them into people's hands we can't because they don't even know what the importance of their role is or they don't understand that they don't have a foundation in what's actually going on out there and i think that's you know such an important thing to have that foundation before we can empower them to then become part of this network that can help solve these issues i agree with you and but you know space is easy you just look up and you got it right the ocean like you can't see past the horizon but one of the things that does tie us together between land and sea is the weather because that's that's intimately connected to both and that's why i keep coming back to the notion of the weather as being part of the connective tissue that would do it but let's remember i told warned you that you were supposed to peak your curiosity and prepare questions so who's first and by the way don't be intimidated by this but if you're going to ask a question you have to catch and i have to throw sorry i wasn't looking i was unclear if it wasn't for me anyway um so i was just curious i think a number of you talked about the need to get people like uh physically engaged with the environment to start really caring about these projects do you think it's necessary to be physically in these locations especially if they're like inaccessible or hard to get to or do you think technology can have a role in making people more engaged in yeah i mean i i think technology can definitely have a role and and people often talk about vr and ar and things like that to in bringing people into experiencing certain things and i think you know people use smartphones every single day constantly so there there's some there is a role of technology in engaging people but i think there's also something about being out in the field and being you know in these areas and i understand we can't take everybody to some of these most pristine places but but but we can still do a better job at engaging folks near those places i mean it if you i was doing some work 20 minutes outside of of yosemite with some students out there and the in the students grew up in the area and had never been to yosemite there are 20 minutes away you know so i think if we can get people out and engage in that way that can have a big impact as well beyond technology i just want to add i i agree i think getting out there obviously like all of us we we love being in the field there's a reason for it it's the sort of all these other things as well as the region of germination it's a whole lot of things but i also have i think we have to always remember that not everyone has the privilege of getting outside right like we talk from a very we've talked from a place of privilege for sure and there's a lot of people whose priorities are not about just having a great time outdoors which is why in places like Sri Lanka when i said i want to be a marine biologist people are like what are you going to do because the ocean was a place of extraction it's a vocational space that's where you go people get that's their livelihood but what i want to do seemed frivolous it was you're going to sit on boats and look at whales how is that a job how is that useful and so i think we have to also think about right if we can't get everyone out there how do we make sure everyone has that connection that's why i say you know connection to the ocean in every pocket that is that role of technology that that will allow us to take these spaces to people as opposed to always expecting people to be able to come to those spaces go ahead toss it ash i wanted to kind of further that discussion a little bit in your every person that you want to connect to the ocean i wonder if currently they are connected to any other environmental issues you think and that they're just missing the ocean or is there a whole class of people that can't care about any part of the environment whether they can see it or not because they are more concerned about you know getting food or paying their bills or things like that i think there's a large part of the population of the world that doesn't have time to indulge in like i said what we can we consider serious issues but they just seem frivolous to people because survival is such an important thing right and that that is something that we also have to understand when we're trying to drive our messages how do we allow it to be and that's why i've said how can we allow it to be their escape almost right where we're talking about the ocean so our messaging shouldn't always be doom and gloom that's the other thing because if we're trying to get people to escape from that daily rigor of their life but we want them to connect with this space and then talk about it it can't be a space where they go to and they're just like god this sounds like hell right fair enough we don't want them to feel like they're writing in obituaries or reading in obituary constantly so how do we engage people with that in mind and i think that's really quite important as well i mean i think the answer is drones by the way yeah i i i think i i think that there is a specific issue it is it is more difficult in getting people to to care about the oceans that didn't grow up right next to the oceans it's a bit more of a leap than than you know terrestrial type stuff i work in both spaces and it's a lot easier for people unfortunately just average people to care about elephants than than whales at least just in my you know meeting people across the world which it shouldn't be and so that's something we have to figure out is how to get people to be more engaged in that i'm highly sympathetic to caring about the ocean i spend all the time that i can on the ocean and in the ocean and i always have but i also care about the people and i wasn't kidding about the drones because yes i know that we can't bring everyone from Kansas or the interior of Sri Lanka even though that's an island into the sea but we can bring in ways today that are cost effective the experience of the sea into them and sooner or later you're gonna trip on it sooner or later you're gonna land in water and sooner or later it's gonna have an impact on you and i can't help but think that there is something we can do about that who's next how far can i toss this thank you um as someone from the aquarium space i'm listening to this and i'm thinking aquariums have existed for decades to accomplish this connection to inspire people about the oceans to to educate them and increasingly to tell the public what they can do to make a difference uh and to help protect the oceans uh and yet obviously the job isn't done are there any things that you all would like to see aquariums doing that we aren't doing now that you think would better accomplish this objective you're talking about at a time when we really need the public to care and to change behavior and policy and and whatnot to make a difference well uh if philanthropy will go up then then then we can look at that even the metropolitan has taken to charge you know we do actually offer free admission to certain groups and to children to you know whenever we can but it's a good point who wants to try that okay i'll jump in and just say that as someone who spent a lot of time sailing on the ocean and in really blue water places i think it can be frustrating to see the aquarium and actually kind of universal focus on the very charismatic colorful fish and things like that and i think that perspective can in turn lead to people not prioritizing some of the most important places in the ocean the deep sea the uh the high seas and if that mindset of interest and engagement with the ocean as a whole can be established in aquariums i think that would be a really cool and valuable thing to make people realize that it's not just you know the teeny coral reef that matters but it's the entirety of the ocean and there actually is stuff there you know it's not just an empty wasteland um thank you so much for uh sharing your work with us and my question is in addition to democratizing information about the ocean um how can we democratize information about and maybe this is already kind of wrapped in but how the ocean impacts people's lives even if they're not coastal but just the importance of the the ocean as the ecosystem and how because i think it's important to to show people in their day to day lives like you know whether it's the fish that they're eating or whether it's the air that they're breathing the importance of the ocean in that and the other question um is around democratizing the um ability to impact um what's happening to the ocean so this gets to kind of advocacy and empowerment maybe some of the legal issues as well but how are we able to once people are educated they can connect it to their own communities how can they then act in a way that helps to protect the the ocean as well as their livelihood i just wanted to say i i think i think that's important for us to figure this out um you know ocean conservation runs into the same challenges just regular conservation does and the fact that um we need to explain the urgency of the things that are happening without being too um you know doom and gloom all the time because it's very easy to kind of fall into that um so so showing beautiful images explaining the importance of the ocean in you know the global climate without making it to the whole climate's going to collapse and everything's and you know explaining people the need to think about what they're eating without explaining that like you know scaring them away from seafood well i mean it's okay if we scare them away from seafood but but like you know make them feel horrible about eating um sushi from 7-eleven and things like that like it's a hard balance to try and figure out and it's really because the oceans feel so remote to so many people it's much more important that we think through that and we do that um in the right way they're gonna feel awful anyway after eating sushi from 7-eleven um there's also great groups out there like so i live in montana i am pretty far from an ocean um and there's great groups like the in the ocean coalition is a group formally the colorado ocean coalition that does exactly this they talk about the connection between mountain environments and the ocean environments uh there is you know what we did with the micro plastics project is another great example of people who had no idea that this stuff was ending up in the oceans but because they were part of the data set whether in freshwater or in the oceans they went on to invest their lives and their labor and their personal ability to make a difference in these issues so 83 percent of our volunteers on the micro plastic projects have gone on to do beach cleanups they've gone on to have started their own nonprofits focused on micro plastics these people are engaging in projects like like ours and many many others around the world and then going on to make a difference and and i think that those connections are becoming more and more clear every day uh it to me is you got to go beyond just getting people to go look at the aquarium to go back to your question you got to go beyond just getting people to look at the pictures and interact with the technology you have to have people really invest in these and and most people aren't going to invest with money very few people are going to invest with much more than an occasional uh volunteer tour here or there but if we can give people easy ways to invest what they have whether it's their smartphones or their personal labor or their weekends or whatever it is they have to give that's how we're going to get people to really be united in mobilizing against the challenges we face and i just want to add i mean i think you're absolutely right because i think humans are inherently um selfish we're driven by our ego and if it's affecting us that's the only time we're actually going to start to care right so in our messaging it is important to bring it back to us humans um that's incredibly important and the connectivity you know we always say that all roads lead to Rome but in fact all waterways lead to the ocean right so doesn't matter if you live in a mountain but what what what are the stories that we can tell or how can we show that connectivity to people that their actions up there have an impact down there and then you know talking about whale poop because it is one of my favorite things to talk about um the reason i talk about it is for all those reasons but also you know um i have a TED talk called why you should care about whale poop and the whole point is basically it's the ocean fertilizer 50 to 70 percent of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean so we should really be thanking whales and their whale poop because they fertilize the oceans that allow for photosynthesis that allow for oxygen right you start telling stories like that people just like oh like poop like gross and then you get to the end of the story and they're like oh that's really interesting so we need to be clever about our messaging too and we need to be connect we need to help them to connect to whatever is going on up there and to care and that's i mean that's what we as scientists certainly i'm a scientist have just not been doing we're so busy trying to turn over papers that get published and just filed away but we're not translating that into something that's actually usable on the ground and if the use is just the fact that someone will learn a story that they'll tell another person that'll tell another person that in itself is a huge action that can have knock on effects down the line actually we're doing quite a lot some of it with katie on changing the scientific publishing process to be one that engages people in the act of not critiquing but collaborating and that potentially builds a virtuous circle where you're educating the people as well as influencing the science that goes on so you can make papers that hopefully are not necessarily dry and locked up and never read uh oh boy i don't think actually we just published that microplastics data set it actually was published this morning but we've also open source the data set or made it available publicly at least so we've had 76 requests for that data set and we just share it with anybody who really wants it for an educational conservation or scientific purpose so we it's not quite open source in that we do screen who's using it but anybody who can benefit the world from it in any of those different ways we gladly share it and we've had amazing people come and ask for it including governments of of countries uh slovenian government reached out for that data set um which was god bless i think that's wonderful you should probably send some of the water itself to the schools all through the country and let them explore it and discover it for you yeah so asha and annie you both alluded to ways structural ways in which it's difficult to do knowledge production outside the developed world or even within the developed world outside of academic institutions or even just to lead academic institutions and so since we're at mit i was wondering if you had any thoughts on what a place like mit could or should be doing to make their science more democratic so i just think in general when it comes to science i think we need to stop thinking we're so special and that we speak a special language and i think every publication should come with a an abstract that's in layman english which frankly makes it sound like we're dumbing it down but we're not the challenge is for us to actually learn how to communicate broader so i think that's a very simple first step and all journals should be expecting that at the very least and i just think there's a whole host of things that can be done from just like how do we retell those stories how do we make sure that if you are publishing you're committing to putting it out in some other form as well i mean in Sri Lanka not a single university has access to journals i just want you to know that and so you know we again you know people who publish and are constantly publishing i live in a bubble where you can access papers whenever you want and i'm a i'm a scientist i've been in big institutions all my life i've moved back to Sri Lanka now and i have to write to friends to access papers that shouldn't be the case so how can i innovate in science if i don't even know what's happening on the ground like what's the foundation that i can build on so i mean they should all just be open access you know i i i yeah i mean i i have a small non-profit and i don't have access to those journals you know and so it's the same process that i have to do for that and it's it's completely absurd that we'd lock away all the knowledge in these towers and we don't let anyone else see it that's what motivated a lot of our publishing work by the way they're a rip-off for the scientists who have to review the stuff for nothing and then you people have to buy it and the only people who get rich are the journals so we said why don't we bypass those journals so we are and Stephen Jay Gould of course was a champion of scientific writing that was made for people to understand i wish he were still here i'll just add that i think we as scientists and as a community at these elite institutions do privilege science and we think it is this amazing source of knowledge that is the only source of knowledge and that's not to say that science does not have a huge amount to contribute but recognizing other forms of knowledge traditional knowledge is something that the legal and policy systems try to do usually uh it's a process that's not super successful but it's an attempt and i think as scientists one of the most important things we can do is realize that our scientific answers are not ultimate truth and those are constructions of the way that we do science and the way that we understand scientific standards but if we as scientists can recognize that there are other perspectives that are equally valuable in many cases to our own scientific knowledge that is a really important part of structuring solutions in effective ways and getting the information that we need to get to those solutions we've given you the last word Annie i want to thank Asha and Sean Greg and Annie and i hope the rest of you and your perspectives have been enhanced as 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Welcome to the last set news to get top stories in crypto and bring out a bite-sized pieces today just the thumbnail suggest is retail and control or is it really institutional investors? We're going to take a look at data that should suggest that institutions are really running everything. So what we're going to do is a little bit something different. We're going to take a look at what's going on now. We're going to talk about a little wealth preservation because it's not how much you make, it's how much you keep and finally we're going to take a look at the future. So we'll take a look at the little bit of blue chips, what's going on the crypto blue chip and then what's going on into the future. So the first thing's first, let's just talk about what's going on in the market. Again, we're looking at December 28th, 29th. Wow! Time is flowing by so fast. And again, another day where we're just kind of bobbing up and down, market cap is 2.24 trillion and we're down almost a point.  And the big thing is the idea here is that people are, they're selling off and they're doing everything for taxes and then also institutions are locking in their profits because hedge funds, they want to show that they are in profit and that they're up 700% of whatever they're doing. Sure, great. Maybe that's it and maybe that's not. The big thing is that in this channel, we talk a lot about just holding strong and just seeing where things go. But the big thing is investing into projects that actually can weather the test of time. And the ones that have so far, of these two ones right here, Bitcoin and Ethereum, looking pretty darn good. We're at negative 0.31% actually, down below 50. Ethereum is 3,700. Binance, coin, everything's down across the board. Let's just call it what it is. And even the top, gosh, the top 10, 15, 16, Uniswap is the only one that's up pretty big over the seven days, 16%, 8% for Algorand. That's in the 19th. Good for you, Algorand holders. And then near protocol, up 8% in 24 hours. That's pretty good for a pretty bad day. So that's what's going the market. We're just moving either sideways or slowly going down a couple of projects or turning a profit, but not many. Now we take a look at some on-chain analysis, like we always do. I don't really, you've already heard about this, all miners outflow. We can actually see here, if we're taking a look at miners that are actually selling right now, we can see that if we break this down by day, then let's just do day, not an hour. But you can see there's a little bit of an uptick of miner selling as far as like 27 December. So there's people that are taking profits. And they got to take profits because like we talked about as far as like taxes, perhaps also exchange reserves, bitcoins being taken off, but looks like there's a little bit some that are being put back on, which would make sense because some people are selling all exchange reserves for Ethereum, a little bit uptick. And I don't really care so much about that. What I care about is this. And I keep talking harping on this, harping on this, because I really do think it's, it's a powder keg and it could blow up at any time. This is the all exchange estimated leverage ratio. And what this is is all exchange open interest divided by their Bitcoin reserve. So anything over 0.2 is super ridiculous high. And right now we're looking at a all time high of 0.216. And does that mean everything's going to collapse and everything else? No, it just means that those, those leverage plays could sink a lot of traders. And that's what's going on as far as on chain analysis. Now let's just dig into this little metric, which talks about our institutions running the show. And this was a really good one. I found this on Twitter. This is from Will Clemente. You've probably seen him on the pumps podcast, really smart guy. And he just talks to it and says like this, look, if we're going to take a look at what's going on as far as retail versus institutions, there has been much going on for retail since spring. And what he's talking about here, we blow this up so we can see it. Let me actually lift it up so you can see it. So this is from Glassnode. And what this is is total transaction fees.  But the whales don't have to pay you so much because they're moving, you know, millions, a hundred million around at one instance. So it's not like they have to pay for all these little transactions, just one transaction to move a hundred million. That's why around April or so, it just kind of died off because all the whales are like, okay, well, I'll move it here. I'll move it there. But I'm not moving $100 worth of Bitcoin that I got from a referral bonus. I'm moving $250 million from this big interest play that I got. And that's all I have to do. So we can see here that, okay, as far as transaction fees, but maybe it's not that. Maybe the people who just aren't moving Bitcoin. We'll take a look at this. So there's two more. And then we'll get to the big guys. Total transfer volume breakdown by size. And we can see here in the pink, this is a volume of zero to a thousand. And this, this black line right here is the price of Bitcoin looking pretty good. But unfortunately, from volume of zero to a thousand, we can see a big drop off. People aren't really buying too much here from between zero and a thousand. What about like something a little bit higher? How about 1000 to 10,000? Well, a little bit more happened back here, but it's still dropped off. Well, what about this big guy of volume 10 million plus? And we can see back here, not too much, then a big tidal wave, then a dropped off as, as everybody started to sell off and everything else in April or so. And now it is picking back up exponentially. So if we can take a look at this, we can say that, yeah, maybe these institutional investors really are running the show right now, but I have to tell you, it doesn't matter in the long run. If you're into a project, like I'm not talking about the products who are like 500, 600, 7,000 in the market cap realm, if you're in some of the blue chips and it's a pretty good project, you feel like it's a pretty good project, you're investing into it. Sure. Why don't you just stay of the course? Now, not all of these are going to do really well.  And that's just the way it is. But for me, I just think it kind of looks like this. This is the plan. The plan in 2022, the same almost as in 2021. I'm going to, the majority is just to hold on for these different positions, but I'm going to reveal the ones I'm going to get rid of and just consolidate because it is about that time. But I'm going to be, keep doing on a dollar cost average in, dollar cost average out, have my exit strategy and keep going. BTD is by the dip. And of course, hodl for the long term, because that is where most of the wealth is made. Now, I'm also going to trade a little bit. That's like 3%. And I'm going to gamble a little bit. And that's for like some metaverse plays, because those are long-term plays. Those aren't like get rich quick tomorrow or a month or even a year. That's a long, that's a one, two, three, four, five plus year play, the metaverse. And of course, even cement FT. So that's on the left hand side. And there's another big thing to take into consideration. And this will lead me to my next point, which if we're talking about retail is out, we move into wealth preservation. So you can see on that bottom right hand corner where we've got wealth and it says, I trust capital and there's a little house and a big M. So I trust capital. That stands for I trust capital. So look, this is what I use as far as a crypto Roth IRA. I chose a Roth IRA because it is post tax dollars. And what that means is that I am actually paying taxes and already in the money that has gone into this IRA, I'm picking up my crypto that I want to put into this Roth IRA. And if my Bitcoin or my Ethereum or my blah, blah, blah goes all the way up to like a million dollars, guess how much I pay in taxes? Zero. So that's why I have an I trust capital IRA. Also, there is no monthly fees. And if I want to trade within my account, it is tax free. You have to pay for a 1% for, you know, swapping your transaction, but not too shabby. So that is the first part of what I do. And then also masterworks. So if you are into wealth preservation, this is a great one. This is what I use right now.  And what this is, is you can buy a fractionalized share of multi-million dollar pieces of artwork. So what I do with this is these guys do all the hard work and I just put my money in and they buy these, these art pieces and they sell it on time in like two, three, five years or so. But I don't care because the money that I have to say in the bank is doing nothing for me. So I'm also put into some other investments. I did a deep dive into I trust into masterworks. And then also I did a deep dive into real estate. And you can find all three of those. There's a link in the description looks just like this. And these are my three pillars of wealth preservation, Roth IRA, fractionalized share of art pieces and real estate. I'll show you how I do it and what I'm doing. Also, for I trust, you get $100 sign up for the masterworks. You skip the wait list. And then for the real estate playlist, well, that's just for you to show you how I do pick up real estate and how I actually purchase things, as far as with short term rentals, VRBO, Verbo and Airbnb. So that's all we have for that piece. And then also there's another thing that is going to lead into moving forward. And that is follow the developers. And I saw this video and it's starting to make or this piece and it's starting to make a lot more sense as I've been talking to more individuals and in the projects of the metaverse. And this makes a lot of sense now. So this is a quick snippet. It says Apple aims to prevent defections to meta with 180,000 bonus for top talent. And all that is, Apple Inc has issued unusual and significant stock bonuses to some engineers looking to stave off defections to tech rivals such as Facebook owner meta platform. But they're not just losing them there. They're also losing them into blockchain. They're also losing them into metaverse plays. And again, they're doing this by issuing them stock and it's parceled out over years. But what I've seen the people that I've been talking to for these metaverse plays, because as you know, I like real estate, I like real estate, that's real real, I like real estate that is virtual. I think that is the next big play. So I've been talking to a lot of different places from people who have connected me, people who are pretty high up, honestly, and they've got some pretty good ideas. But the thing that the projects that I delve into and have invested into are the ones that have the developers, because there right now is a shortage. And I've talked to one group, they wouldn't even give me the names of developers because they're like, look, we're not going to have them poached. Right now, we've got some of the best ones, and we're not going to lose them. So when I talk about follow developers, that's where it all comes to, and actually good developers, which leads me to my next point as far as when we talk about moving forward or looking for we already talked about the blue chip stuff, the bitcoins, the theorems, the Solanas, the Cardinals, the avalanches, all that stuff in the top 20 or so, right? That's great. But to look forward, and these are like forwards thinking like your three year, five year, seven year plays. This is what I've been talking about. So the metaverse play, there was one that I did a deep dive, it's called again, so Kishi game, it's a game that's already on Android iOS, it's already on a Nintendo Switch, and also on PlayStation. So they're going to move over from those platforms, free to play, to the metaverse play to earn. I think it's going to be pretty big because they've got a lot of, well, first they have a great community, they've got a lot of developers, and things are really moving fast. Also, just so you know, I had to talk about this today, because it'll be an IDO, an initial DEX offering, and it's going to happen on January 18th, 2022. So if you would like to get into this, I can't tell you what to do. I'm just a kickstart. As far as education, you must do your research. I'm not a financial advisor, and this is just financial opinion, not financial advice. So it might behoove you to take a look at this project on top of the fact that if you want more information, I did a deep dive. I'll link in the description, also link at the very end. This is on my second channel over at Digital Asset News Clips, where we do just deep dives. So I don't even monetize that channel. So check that video out. On top of the fact, there's also another one. If you're big into this project called MetaHero, which takes you and scans you and puts you into the metaverse, that one did initially, I want to say between 45 or 65X from the time from the pre-sale all the way the launch has been handing out pretty strong. A little bit of dips here and there, but not too bad. So if you're familiar with MetaHero, this should probably be on your radar. And what we're talking about here is one called Everdome. It's another metaverse play, and they are partnering up because the same developers that are working on MetaHero, and there are some great ones. And you'll can find why it's so big in the deep dive that I did. This one is also coming to fruition because they have, they just released their new section of their website, tells you everything that they're doing as far as branding, social, buy, sell products, marketplace, how this metaverse really fits in everything. I thought this was interesting medicine, gain new opportunities to diagnose diseases or cure medical consultations. Interesting. That's crazy. Also, they break down the tokenomics, which I think was a missing component. And right now, if you have purchased the hero token, which again did pretty darn well, or you're on the 10 set gem launch pad DGLP, you're already into that sale. So this one is coming out in Q1 2022. Not for sure on the exact dates, but I needed to tell you now because if it's in January, probably should know about that. Again, this is your initial kickoff to these types of information and these types of projects. I also did a deep dive on this one. You can find that in the same place, Digital Asset News Clips, and these are looking into the future. So look, I am biased. I only talk about the things that I actually buy because I have skin in the game. I will never talk about things and like that looks good and not really put anything into it because I think that these plays will be big. I could be wrong. I've been wrong before. So that's up to you to do your own research and that is it for today. So look, I know there's a lot of information, a lot of things going on, but I want to say if you stuck with me all the way in, thanks. I appreciate it. If you like today's video, give it a thumbs up. Also consider subscribing. A lot of things we talk about are time sensitive and that's it for today. So thanks so much for watching. I appreciate it and I'll see you on the next one.


Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name's Cam Williams and Rafa Nadal is playing Wimbledon. He is confirmed in an interview only a couple of hours ago that he is actually playing Wimbledon this year. Let's go read the statement that Rafa read out in the press conference. So in the press conference this is what Rafa had to say. I'm happy I haven't been limping for a week. I have noticed changes with the treatment still have strange sensations. Sometimes I can't feel my foot but the pain that did not allow me to support my weight on my foot has subsided. My intention is to play Wimbledon but it will all depend on what happens with my body this week. I'm without pain for a week and have been practicing so it tells me there may be a chance to play that in the tournament. I haven't played on grass for three years and I have to adapt. Every day I have been recovering sensations and feeling better. I have a week left before playing and I have to test myself little by little. Advancing in the first round is crucial. If you advance you pick up pace to reach the end. You have to survive no matter what. So there you have it. Rafa Nadal confirming that he will be playing Wimbledon if everything goes right in the next week. Now Wimbledon doesn't start until next Monday so there is a lot of time between now and then. Hopefully Rafa is feeling okay. He looks good on the practice score though. There's been a lot of footage out there going around on Twitter of him practicing in Mallorca. Getting the foot right. Getting some practice under his belt on the grass. It's good news though. Rafa going for the calendar slam. He is trying his best to play Wimbledon and he'll be there as long as nothing happens over the next week. He also announced that he's being a father but we already knew that from a couple of days ago. But let me know down in the comments below how far can Rafa go now that he's playing, now that he's confirmed if he just make it through the next week. How far is he going to go? Is he going to win the whole thing? Is he going to be able to make it to the second week based on not playing any warm up tournaments? Let me know down in the comments below. But Rafa he will be playing and attempting to go for the calendar slam this year.


Hello and welcome to the session. My name is Mansi and I am going to help you with the following question. The question says Parveen wanted to make a temporary shelter for her car by making a box-like structure with tarpaulin that covers all the fore-size and the top of the car with the front face as a flap which can be rolled up. Assuming that the stitching margins are very small and therefore negligible, how much tarpaulin would be required to make the shelter of height 2.5m with base dimensions 4m x 3m? Let us see the solution to this one. We see that dimensions of the box-like structure length equal to 4m, breadth equal to 3m and height equal to 2.5m. Since no tarpaulin can say that tarpaulin will be for the ceiling that will be equal to twice of length plus breadth 7m square. So our answer to this question is, I hope that you understood the question and enjoyed the session. Have a good day.


Prince KB warns maybe now is not the time to buy property. While many experts would tell you there has never been a better time to invest in property, pointing to the interest rate and COVID-19's effect on the economy, Prince KB has stressed caution. Taking to Twitter on Wednesday, the hitmaker weighed in on the debate around investing in property at the moment and shared how so many people were using their savings and pension funds to buy property, in the hope of making a quick buck. We push the hype of property making money over facts about how many buyers put their salaries, pensions and savings at risk buying properties that will never make them profits sold under misguided buy property today get rich tomorrow messaging, he said. He added that there were many success stories, but property could also take away your riches. From my personal experiences, rental property can take you from rags to riches, but it can also take away your riches. He recounted his own experience buying from people who had risked it all and fell short. I think I have bought three, if not five, student units from people that sacrificed their savings slash pensions to buy rental property and they never see profit then being forced to sell for less than what they bought because they are desperate, he explained. His comments split social media, with some claiming he was taking shots at celebs who promote buying property as an investment. It's not the first time KB's take on money and investment has got tongues wagging. Last week the star made headlines when he weighed in on alcohol sales under lockdown level three, calling on fans to save their money and not buy alcohol. Don't buy the alcohol, we need every cent, he wrote. He added that he had friends who were borrowing money to go buy booze, and said people should buy what they could afford and not go into debt to buy alcohol.


The biggest event since the Australian Open for both the men and the women is coming up in March Indian Wells the fifth Grand Slam as it's very famously called and a lot of big names are going to be playing this event the entry list has just been revealed six weeks out from the tournament let's go see who is actually going to be playing at this stage. We're starting on the women's side of things on the WTA the list of the top 32 seeds because of course this tournament is a massive draw starting with the number one Shafiyontek of course gonna be there and also Sabalenka will also be at the event Rabakana the defending champion also playing at this one Zheng the Australian Open final is also going to be at this event in fact in the top 32 of the world rankings everyone's going to be playing at this stage now of course there is a few weeks until the event starts so there's injuries that could come into play but at this point the top 32 in the world are going to be playing this event on the women's side we go down the list a little bit more to the players that are unceded on Drava she'll be the first unceded player outside the top 32 but of course injuries over the next couple weeks could mean that she is in the top 32 and seeded but at this stage she is the highest ranked unceded player Leila Fernandez also unceded at number 36 Safiya Kenan another unceded player going into Indian Wells and of course could be a potential second-rate opponent for a seed we keep going down a little bit more you can see Daniel Collins of course nearly beating Shafiyontek at this round open just beat Osaka as well so very dangerous unceded player there and he's going to be playing in this event and then some of the players that are coming in with a protected ranking or a special ranking of course Nemo Osaka herself will be playing Anissa Mova who did well at the Australian Open also going to be playing at this event with a protected ranking so really going to be interested to see when the draw comes out in a few weeks time where these kind of players fall amongst the seeds going over to the men's side now and Novak Djokovic playing for the first time in Indian Wells since 2019 of course wasn't allowed to play the last couple years and pulled out a few years before that as well he will be the number one seed going into Indian Wells with Carlos Elcrest the defending champion as the number two seed going into the event Yannick Sinner also going to be playing but it won't be the first time since the Australian Open he is playing an event in the next week or two but he will be there as well he made the semifinals last year some other seeds that are worth watching out for of course Demetrov has had a really good six months definitely someone to keep an eye on at this event has done well here before as well Bublik who just won a tournament a couple weeks ago will also be seated at this event and just like on the women's side you can see the top 32 players in the world if nobody gets injured over the next couple weeks will be the top 32 seeds so that's really good to see that the top players on the both the men and the women are all entered in this event with no one pulling out six weeks in advance we go down to the unseeded players you banks he is the cutoff at number 33 in the world so he will be the first in line if somebody in the seeds does pull out quarter also going to be unseeded which is interesting to see we go down a little further of course Andy Murray will be unseeded at this event he just can't seem to get his ranking up high enough in that top 30 to get seated at these big events so again he's probably going to have to play a seed early in this event but Vrinka another veteran that's going to be unseeded of course beat Runa here last year was really really good Monfice another veteran who's going to be unseeded we go down the list and then we go down to the players that are protected Shapovalov Rayonich of course Rafa Nadal back in action in Indian Wells hasn't been in America for a long time over 12 months of course got injured in Australia last year and wasn't able to play any of the events last year post the Australian Open so really excited to see Rafa back in Indian Wells of course made the final here two years ago lost to Fritz after getting injured in the final but had that epic match against both Kirios and Elkores along the way so really keen to see how Rafa does especially where he falls in the draw because of course there is a potential that he could play Novak Djokovic in the second round if the tennis gods allow so there it is Indian Wells stacked event as usual but it's great to see that we're getting the top 32 players in the world at this stage playing in this event of course plenty of time for injuries and I would be very surprised that we do get the top 32 for the men and the women both playing at this event you know injuries happen there are players right now that are injured that are on the entry list but they might pull out and that could change things a little bit but of course Rafa being in the draw he won't go any higher you don't expect him to be in the top 32 so he might have to play a top 10 guy in the first or second round actually remember the top 32 seeds get to buy the first round all the unceded players then play to get to the seeds in the second rounds could be really awkward also Osaka another player really keen to see how she does as an unceded player but let me know down the comments below who's going to be winning Indian Wells give me a prediction six weeks away it's a long way away but give me your predictions is it going to be we're back and going repeating or is it going to be Djokovic taking over Indian Wells remember he hasn't lost in America post Wimbledon and that was his plan as per the 60 minute interview he did say that I wanted to beat everyone in America on American soil and he did that by winning the US Open so let's see how he does at Indian Wells for the first time in a long time but there it is the entry list for Indian Wells about six weeks until the event starts


Okay, you're good. Hello. Hi everyone. Welcome to Stampin' Chat with Stampin' Jill and Aubrey. We are today, I'm really excited about this live today. We aren't focusing on one specific product, but Beth challenged us to use a layout, a design of a card and to just make some cards up using that design with different paper, different stamp sets, just whatever. So it's one, well actually there's a card all the way around. So this is just like the card front of it. Right. So starting with a five and a quarter by four piece, that's the black piece on the back. And then there's, this is cut four to three and a half and then cut on a diagonal. And that's maybe like DSP, something contrasting. And then you have a two by three and a half piece.  Or I kind of took the liberty of just making that like an element or some sort of design in the center. And then a sentiment down here, or you could do your sentiment in the circle too. But yeah, we kind of took that layout and we've been playing a little bit this morning and we'll just kind of show you what we are doing. Right. Yeah. And we talked about possibly giving you a challenge to make your own and share with us what you're doing. Well Jill's starting on hers. I'll show you this is one that I already finished with the, what is this, bold, bright, bold and beautiful, bold, bright and beautiful. Do you remember? No, not beautiful. Mary and bright. Mary, bold and bright. I'm getting it confused because I'm also using the beautiful balloons and the paper in that is called bold and beautiful or something like that. Anyway, all these beautiful words. So this is the first one that I finished with that layout. It's super cute. And Jill's focusing, are you mostly focusing on Christmas-y? Yes, I'm doing, actually I've got a masculine winter card and two Christmas cards. So just doing those as the same layout then talked about this. And Aubrey's going to show you how to cut the diagonal piece on that I'm just putting on right now. Yes. So diagonal piece. I have, this is kind of what my card's going to look like. I use the Gone Fishing Paper DSP. I think that's what it's called. Something like that from that suite in the annual catalog. And I wanted to just show you how to cut this piece on a diagonal. So this is cut to four and four by three and a half. And we want to cut this on a diagonal. So this side is two and a quarter. So what I do is I just line up my, let's see, I want to do it this way. I, this way. I line up the bottom edge of this. So this is my diagonal is going to go this way. Okay. So I line up the bottom edge of this and then I find, let's see, no, I do want it to go this way. Sorry. That's okay. So this is going to be the three and a half side, the bottom edge here. And then I'm going to line this up to two and two quarter, two and a quarter on this line here. And then once I cut, that's going to be on the diagonal. And then you'll have, so this side will be three and a half and this will be two and a quarter. So you just want to make sure to line it up on that line and then come here. And really, if you, if you just kind of set your paper there, it really, it doesn't have to be a perfect science. But that's, if you want a perfect measurement, that's how you'll do that. Okay. This one I thought I'm going to do kind of simple and I'm going to use the throughout the year stamp set. I love this stamp set. It has tons of really great sayings in it. It has kind of some basic ones. Happiest of birthdays. Thank you. You mean so much to me. And then it has all these different holiday ones. So happy Easter, happy holidays. Cheers to you and the new year best of luck and trick or treat. I think I might use this. You mean so much to me. I think that's really cute. And I'm just going to stamp that on a circle that I have punched out and then put my card together. Jill, what are you doing? I'm just doing the circle on this. I'm making this my focal point of the card. And I just use our designer series paper to pick up the colors of what I'm going to do.  Yeah, just kind of use whatever's in the paper. Right. Yeah, that's one of the nice things about stamping ups designer series paper is that it you can pull their colors all out from it. Right. So it all coordinates and So it works good. Favorite things about them. So what what do you remember what this paper is called? That's that new online. It's um, yes. That's Shining Christmas. Shining Christmas, which we're not orderable today. Oh, no, guys, darn. So if you've got your hands on it and I'm using Christmas classics with it, I think it coordinates really good because of the holly and berries that they showing right there. So so just a cute card. Yeah, there's one really cute. I love it with that champagne dazzle paper too. I know. Of course, I call that my disco paper. Yeah, it's like a disco ball. Yeah. And then I've got this one here, which is really nice too. So I did not cut the one piece, the diagonal piece, because I felt like this one piece had that shape in it. So I went ahead and just did it with one sheet on that just to it gives the illusion of a second piece already. Oh, yeah. So this is the dark and the light so I would like the diagonal right. Just showing you, you know, if you have a piece already there, then it works. Yeah. And I love how this texture, the folder, the paint texture works with this particular paper, because it looks like, you know, the site of a building or something. Yeah, so that's kind of cool. This nativity Bethlehem set is one of Jill's very favorite Christmas sets. Yeah. And I'm working on my Christmas card right now, what I'm doing. And so I'm going to be using this suite. Not quite sure what pieces in the suite I'll be using, but that's the one I'd like to do this year. Yeah. That's a fun one. And I don't think I'm going to be using red, which is really weird. I know. That's like your signature color. Yeah. So, oh, that's cute. We already got in the highest. Oh, and you use the other, the golds. Right. I use the gold on this one because sometimes we use just one color and it's like nice to have to use both colors. Yeah. Okay, there's my, this one's kind of my very simple one, that layout, kind of, kind of fun, super easy, really, really fun card. Okay. My next one I'm going to use, like I was saying earlier, oh, there's Jill's so pretty. See the texture in that folder right there. I love that. So, so far, there's this one. You got that shiny paper and this one. I can't see. Yes. Let's see. Wendy said this is such a versatile layout. It really is. It's like, you can use it with pretty much anything. You just have a focal point and I love the diagonal. And this is my masculine card, which I think you could use this paper as a masculine paper so much. I mean, just by itself. Yeah. But so I'm just doing. All right. On my next one, this is the paper I'm using that's bold and beautiful and the beautiful balloons set. And I cut out the cute little set of three balloons out of the dice already. So then that's going to be my focal point. So we'll kind of build it from there and see where this goes. It's kind of cool how we've, you know, some of yours on the solids are on the bottom and some of my solids are on the top. So, you know, there's no rhyme or reason, or you have to do it just this way. Right. So yeah. So yeah, I like how you did this one with the DSP. Right. That way. Well, and I figured, you know, you could get with this contrast, I was going to use a lighter color, but I kind of like the deep color because it brings out the darker images in the designer series paper. Yeah, especially on a masculine card. Yes. Jill, Mary really loves blue for Christmas. How do you feel about blue for Christmas? Oh, I love blue. I've used Night of Navy and yeah, I do love blue. So I know every color could be a Christmas color. And this misty, this misty moonlight, I mean, I've used it for snowflakes and, but this misty moonlight is so pretty. I love misty moonlight. I've just added a little blue here to the grays. So just as a contrast, I think sometimes we get so matchy, matchy sometimes that we just forget that, oh, that would also look good. Yeah. But the contrast color. Yeah. And sometimes it's like you're too afraid to use a contrast color. Yeah, I don't know. What do you think, Aubrey? I think that's true. I think sometimes we forget to think outside the box a little bit. All right. Okay, Beth is telling me that we are going to do a little contest with this layout. So next, or throughout this next week, if you make a card using this layout, this one here, which will post this in our VIP Facebook group, so you can go and get all the measurements and everything there. If you make a card with this layout and post it in that group, then we will, let's see, the winner will get a $25 order credit from us. Yeah. So that's exciting. So you should go this week, make sure you make a card using this layout. You can use one of these sets that we used. You can use your own, do something completely different. Right. I mean, we want to see. It doesn't have to be Christmas. You know, it could be fall. It could be whatever you enjoy. Yeah.  So I'll keep working on my last card and I'll do my balloons, stamp those and do my little saying down here. But we'll post all our ideas on the Facebook group. Beth will, it's Stampin' Jill VIP Facebook group. And Beth will put the link down in the description of this video. So go check them out there. Yeah, anything else? No, just have fun stamping. Yeah. Thanks for joining us. And I can't wait to see all the fun, fun things you create with this layout. It'll be super fun. Okay. See you later. Bye.