Can I talk to Daniel now? I understand you will also elaborate on the emerging world, perhaps, and the developing world, but you have the floor. I have slides, but I'm not going to use the slides. I'm going to go very rapidly. Yeah, please. To a large extent, I mean, I'm seeing eye to eye with what Jeffrey has said. Not the very broad picture. In my view, we are increasing fragility of the institutional framework of the international arrangements for various reasons. The erosion of multilateralism, in my view, is not going to be short. Time-wise, it's going to continue. It may be that several blocks could relent resilience to the global institutional environment. But in the short while, I think erosion will continue. Because as some people said this morning, what's very uncomfortable for the Western world is losing supremacy in economic terms. And this is going to continue. And one understands why Trump is not on his own. I mean, it's the syndrome. It's much larger, much more profound. Is the global financial system safer? I have doubts about it, and I'll get back to it. Social cohesion is both in advanced countries, in advanced economies, and in emerging economies. It's under strain. And there is fragmentation. And this is going to be even more complicated in your area. Political legitimacy is a huge issue. And I think Ashok made a good remark in this respect. New technologies can bring about havoc, and climate change is also a huge issue. Increasingly central bankers pay attention to climate change. The most recent seminar at the ECB on macro-potential policy, the SRB, focused on climate change, the first panel. Now, I think that unconventional policies have ushered into a new global financial cycle.  I mean, the new global financial cycle. Because there is a huge, huge rise both in public and private debts around the world. So how will governments and central banks, in my view, central banks will have to intervene again? And what we call now unconventional policies will be revisited. And including printing money. I'll put aside emerging markets. But when it comes to policy normalization, I would say I have a very hard time in believing that policy rates, monetary policy rates, will get back to the pre-crisis levels. It's not going to happen, even if the FAD has raised interest for the policy rates. I mean, when you say more than significantly, and I don't believe the ECB is going to go to such an extent with raising the policy rates. And not because only Italy. It's because of the state of the financial system. Now, is the financial system safe for nowadays? No, I'm not going to say the slides. Banks are better capitalized and less leveraged. It's true. But it is a very tough call to say that the global financial system is safer. Shadow banking has been on the rise, according to estimates made by the ECB and ESRB, more than 50% of the assets are assigned to the shadow bank sector, the so-called non-banks, which operate as banks and that's much less severely regulated. We don't have sufficient transparency as to operations of non-banks. Systemic risk evolve in capital markets, in my view, if I were asked, where is the next big shock going to come from, I would say, from non-banks, from shadow banking. And I'm asking myself, who's going to provide the land of last resort function in capital markets? We know central banks are supposed to do it when it comes to banks. But what about non-banks or big banks? We have the failure of a Swedish central counterparty. What if we'll have a failure of a very big central counterparty? Who's going to step in? So what I think is also quite dismaying is that there is a new wave of financing deregulation in the United States. Hopefully, it will stay small for small banks. But if it's going to be on a lower scale, that would be a historical mistake. Then we have the cyber attacks and so on and so on. Now, we're examining a few concepts. Low inflation can be very misleading. If external balances grow, then the country has a big problem. Financial markets do not distinguish between public debt and private debts. It's the overall external indebtedness of an economy. Trust and lack of trust is increasing. The lack of trust is increasing all over the world. What can trigger an additional loss of trust? Hidden vulnerabilities that come brutal into the open. We don't know, I mean, clear. What is the state of the European banking sector? We still have doubts about the size of NPLs. The erosion of a central bank credibility. Many central banks are under siege. And politicians attack central banks, including the Fed is under attack. So insufficient buffers, a country needs buffers to run very low deficits and the size of an economy. If an economy is very small, then I would say it's more fragile than a larger economy. And finally, I would say protectionism and erosion of multilateral arrangements can have a huge impact. I believe that there is an in-world-looking syndrome spreading around what you have alluded to. And politicians will have to respond. You cannot continue to tell people, yeah, you're not smart enough. You don't get it. The benefits are, how can you tell to a large number of losers that they are not smart enough, that they don't get it?  You cannot explain it to people at large. You have to do something. Public policy, I think we're blindfolded. We're wrong for a very, very long time. Now, a new global order, we have to see it. In my view, there's going to be several block-based, I would say multilaterally. We have to redefine multilateralities in terms of block-based arrangements. Brexit, I think we underestimate the impact of Brexit. If it's a hard Brexit, it's going to be very bad for Europe. Over that, we'll stay with us, and we should worry about over that. That's our larger than they were in the pre-crisis years. Income inequality creates tensions in society, and they fuel populism and protectionism. And we have redefined globalization, the way we understand globalization. And we have to have new policies. And finally, new technologies may destroy more than create jobs, at least in the short run. We should not bet very much on new technologies. And we see that there are limits to our models. Policies continue to navigate in uncharted waters. And I should say we have to pray, but I think we have to be much more pragmatic and still be prepared for unconventional policies. I would not refrain from asking central banks, if I were a central banker, to say it's the end of unconventional policies. Forget about it. It may continue. Central banks may continue to be the only game in town, central banks. Thank you. Thank you very much. I must say that let's pray is a very good conclusion, obviously, for all the very negative views that we have until now. I don't see too much optimism. So again, my dear Olivier, at the time, you'll have to stay.


How to Cut Paper and Cardboard on a CO2 Laser Machine. Today, we will tell you how to cut and engrave paper on a CO2 laser machine. This is Watson. Welcome to the world of CNC equipment. The CO2 laser machine easily cuts paper and almost all types of cardboard. Not a single holiday, not a single advertising campaign takes place without decorations made of cardboard. It is used to make postcards, envelopes, gift boxes, decorations, children's books, stencils, constructors, etc. Laser cutting of cardboard has pros and cons. Let's figure them out. Pros of cardboard laser cutting. Accuracy. The detailing of the product on a CO2 laser machine is higher than that of a plotter and a cutter. Flexibility. Before launching a serial product on a laser machine, it is easy to create a test batch. Make changes to it if necessary. Multi-purposeness. The laser machine not only cuts but also engraves. Other cardboard cutting equipment cannot engrave. Engraving expands your possibilities for production. Efficiency. Cuts several layers of paper in one pass, which increases the volume of products. Economy. Low cost of cutting in comparison with other cutting methods, as well as the low price of consumables. Cons of cardboard laser cutting. Limitations. In the mass production of cardboard, machines are used that make several boxes per second. Laser machines create complex products so the manufacturing process will take longer. Safety. Any equipment requires careful attention. A cutter later needs to control the cutting process, since ignition is possible in places where the laser slows down, namely at the edges. How to properly and safely cut cardboard and paper on a CO2 laser machine. Features of cardboard and paper cutting. The CO2 laser machine cuts and engraves different types of cardboard. Fitting board, beer board, designer, packaging, binding cardboard, corrugated cardboard, foam cardboard. It seems that any laser machine can handle cutting paper and cardboard, but the material easily ignites and cutting takes place under the influence of high temperature. To cut paper, you need to find a balance between minimum power and maximum speed. The machine must move at the speed limit of not cutting through the sheet so the residual power of the laser tube is not reflected on the back of the paper or cardboard. As professionals would say, avoid shooting at the back side of the material. An 80 watt laser tube cuts a standard sheet of paper at a minimum ignition power of 10%, or 8 watts. On Watson models from 6090, the power is reduced to 4 watts. How to do it? Use a potentiometer. They can manually adjust the power during the operation of the machine. This is especially convenient when engraving. Did you know, using a laser tube at low power increases its service life? For more than 10,000 hours, laser tubes are used by customers who cut fabric, paper, or engraved stone. The laser slows down, cutting out the sharp edges of the product. Before you start cutting, set the maximum and minimum power in the settings. Cardboard is difficult to cut because of its multi-layer structure. The more corrugated cardboard is, the higher the chance of undercutting or ignition. After cutting through the top layer of cardboard, a scattered beam hits the lower layers, which is a larger spot of lower power. Corrugated cardboard is blown worse, and the probability of ignition increases. The thickness of the cut layer does not depend on the power of the laser tube, as with solid materials. Are you going to cut cardboard on a laser machine? Ask our specialists for a video of cutting cardboard of the thickness you specified, and we will be happy to send you this video.  On our channel, you can find a detailed video on how to cut plywood. High air pressure for cutting cardboard and paper is not required, and sometimes it is contraindicated since the material can fly away from the gas flow. A working laser machine must not be left unattended. When cutting and engraving, the hood and cooling system must work. Our videos will help you choose a CO2 laser machine. Any other questions? Ask them in the comments. Our managers will be happy to answer them. This was Watson. Please like if the video was useful and subscribe to the channel. See you in the new videos!


Wow, there's a lot of you in here. So good morning and welcome to the first official day of TubeCon plus CloudNativeCon plus Open Source Summit China 2019.


Michelle Villagran is our first faculty spotlight participant. Michelle, thank you so much for volunteering to go first. This follows on the presentation that Anthony Breuer did at our last meeting, along with Kristen Rebman about research that led us down the garden path and then we got lost and went somewhere else or whatever. And it led us to talking about our journey as scholars and how every person has a different story and it is part of the formative process of other scholars. So Michelle volunteered, we decided this would be a great feature for each one of our cohort meetings and Michelle volunteered to be the first to do that. So I'm very excited, I'm very happy that you are presenting to us tonight. So please go ahead and tell us about yourself. Well, thank you, Mary. I feel after I volunteered, I shouldn't have because when I started putting this together, I don't know, I started questioning lots of things about my own journey. So it was like a self exploration and the presentations are gonna be a little different than my typical as many of you've seen how I present. I think this is more tips and from my experience what worked, what didn't work, where I still have my own fears, we'll say, if you will. Yeah, yeah. But I don't know, is this fun to do, but I'm still questioning a lot of things. Anyway, so let me share my screen. Oh, I cannot, so it's host disabled. Can you give me, let's see, oh, did it work? Mary, I think you need to give Michelle sharing privileges. Hmm, I should have heard you. Let me try it again. No, I should be able to, it looks like I can share now. Now I can. I just wanna hide myself and all of you, put you over here. Okay, can you see my screen? Yep, looks great. Okay, so let me honestly thank you for your presentation because I did a little piece of that in a recent T3 for our faculty and especially in Canvas and how important accessibility is. So I really appreciate you sharing all of that and I just learned quite a bit from you that I didn't even know, so thank you. Cool. So when I was putting this together, the whole term scholar was fumbling me all up to be quite honest and I had to go do my own hunting for, well, what is a scholar? When did I become a scholar? Who is a scholar? Where does it start? And as I'm sure many of you know definition-wise, I wrote down three different definitions that kept coming up as I was looking at literature. So a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, a specialist in a particular area, a learned person with a profound knowledge in a specific subject area. So as a student you are a learner, you're learning and as a scholar you are learned in a specific area. Now I don't know that in my head I necessarily agree with that because I know there's a distinction between student and scholar, but I've been a lifelong student and I feel I'm still a lifelong student even though I'm not pursuing another academic credential, but I'm still constantly learning. So I was really struggling with the scholar term when I started putting this together. And I thought I would separate it into kind of the past, the present and the future just to frame it. So in the past, and I don't know why I said again, difficult decision. It's not like I had these like, I have to make this big decision, but I think we all, and I'm talking about with the term scholar here, but I think we all start somewhere. So, and I'll talk about which I think are the two points in my life where I felt that I was a, I would say a scholar in the sense of an academic research scholar or scholarly, producing scholarly works. So where was that start? Again, I mentioned a lifelong student. So I'm still learning. I feel like I'm a student even in my profession continually staying on top of my area of expertise, but because I'm that student, am I not a scholar then? Okay, so my scholarly yet, this is where I'm like going down this scholarly hunt and how in the past, I have pivoted quite a bit as you'll see. So to give you some context in my background, I was a practitioner for a while. I worked 10 years in the public library. So I was a public library and that was my first job was in a public library. I say that they, I blame them. Actually, I thank them. I don't blame them, but I really thank them for then introducing me to, you could get a degree and become a librarian, a professional librarian. And I was really interested in law. So I actually wanted to go to law school. I took the LSAT twice. I was going down the legal track until I learned about law librarianship. So I did a pivot, still practitioner into the law library space. I worked in law firms, but then I also worked for a legal vendor, which was a pivot. I was seen as going to the dark side, which Letty might understand working with vendors and publishers, right? Yeah, so even though, but then you're not on the dark side. It's like it's all of the fun world that you didn't even know about. And then I was doing a lot of consulting, both I ended up working for, I was the director of recruiting and doing needs assessments for libraries. A lot of fun work.  And in one of those laid off times, I didn't have a job and I decided to start my own consulting firm, Cultural Co, which I still today have and still do some consulting work around cultural competence, cultural awareness, cultural values, diversity, equity, inclusion, emotional intelligence and dispute resolution, which all are from my past and have kind of threaded together into my consulting work. And then the academic world kind of, it came to me, I didn't necessarily go to it. So I didn't know I necessarily land in an academic tenure track position where of course, risk or our research and scholarly production is very important. But along the way in my past, I really believed, and this is maybe because I have more of the corporate mindset and I was practitioner and doing consulting that I needed to get some real expertise behind the topics that I was researching and I was interested in. So my dissertation was on cultural intelligence. I first learned of the term in 2008.  And that stuck with me since, since I've learned of the term and I apply it like every day. Same with dispute resolution or conflict management. Here's a pivot. I was working on my dissertation and I decided, well, why don't I just go get a certificate? You could get a, this is at Pepperdine, you could get a certificate in dispute resolution. It was a joint degree with your doctorate. So I said, okay, let me do that. So then I had a certificate in dispute resolution and it was only I think four or five more classes. But then, hey, why not go get another master's? Let's just take a little break, take a year off and go get a master's of dispute resolution. So I was here pivoting back to my interest in law, right? Even though I was working in libraries, still love the law, still working on my dissertation around cultural intelligence and law libraries. So I was trying to make this little niche area and pull it all together, but I had to pivot. I took time off away from my dissertation. And then I got married because you know life happens and things happen when you're progressing through life. But I never wanted to lose sight of the cultural piece which actually ties significantly into a diversity and equity and inclusion work. And so I said, I need to really get certified in these areas. And then I ended up getting certified in EDI as well. So that's a little bit about the past, practitioner oriented, not really producing scholarly works, if you will, or as we think of it in, I would say in academia. But I had this like epiphany that I am a scholar now, not now, but I have this epiphany that when I was putting this presentation together that I have the expertise and I've had it for quite some time in some of these areas, the cultural intelligence. I first got certified in 2011, long before I finished my dissertation in 2015 or at my doctorate. So, okay, I felt that I was a scholar probably then leading down that path because I'm pursuing these intellectual activities related to the cultural intelligence and really building up my area of study. And of course, along the way, there's imposter syndrome and you get scared. And then being a faculty of color and even just a person of color before becoming faculty, am I gonna be accepted? You know, all these things, right? We're flowing and still even do sometimes today are in my mind and impact the, I would say the journey to still being a scholarly academic. So let me give you an example of kind of past to present. I did a lot and I still do a lot of presenting. I've enjoyed presenting. My presentation is really well attended. I've just really enjoyed presenting. And I focused a lot when I worked for Thompson Reuters I focused a lot and learned a lot from them about putting presentation techniques, tactics, a lot of things you might learn in Toastmasters but really applying those. And I had never thought about taking a presentation and then turning it into a publication or into a piece of work that later on someone would read. I had never thought of that. I'm here presenting at conferences. But the conferences I was presenting at were primarily practitioner-oriented conferences. They were not conferences that I would consider are scholarly or academic types of conferences. And then through my consulting, I have several case studies that could be published. They haven't been published. So there's another area, this is kind of my future work but I never thought about it at the time when I was doing this work. And then the connections, I've made a ton of connections, right? You go to conferences and network and all of the connections you make. So these could be your future collaborators or your future partners on a publication or your support network. So I didn't really have this grand plan. Nothing was planned. There was no plan, not planned at all. And not a part really of my plan. I wasn't planning to go into academia where I would have to then be required to publish and do a lot of scholarly production. Now, I would say though, maybe not so much in the public library, but when I was, even when I was working with Thompson, so when I was on the legal vendor side and the consulting work, there was a lot of research that was involved and a lot of reports that came out of it or even a lot of it was internal or maybe for clients. So there was a lot of scholarly production but at a different level, I would say, or just a different different audience, of course. So while, and here's my little catch all at the bottom. Well, to me, research and writing was never my focus. It was actually embedded in pretty much everything I was doing, but I didn't really realize it and connect the dots until I landed in academia. So my to-do list, and this is kind of fast-forwarding a little further so now I'm talking about present day. When I did fall into academia, it was actually in 2009. I was, it was a part-time position as a coordinator, really doing recruitment. I didn't start teaching until 2013 at a face-to-face program in Burbank at Woodbury University in their conflict management, as a master of arts, but I taught conflict management and it was to all law enforcement students. So those working in law enforcement agencies. And once I came into a Tanner track, which was 2018, I had to do a significant, I would say, mind shift where my mindset had to change. I was very practitioner-oriented, even teacher-oriented, if you will, even though I'm still teacher now, right? And then consultant-oriented, but I had to think more like an academic scholar and it took, it's almost like, you can't just flip the switch, but it took practice and I'm still practicing and working on it. But I think that's where finding writing groups, writing strategies, support networks have really helped. I have a one-hour slot every day that I dedicate to my research and scholarly production and that could be outlining something that could be during revision and revise and re-submit. I just had a journal, actually an article that got accepted to the Journal of Academic Librarianship. So I don't know when it'll be out, but it just got accepted last week. And all of these things, because of the time I've committed are moving forward. And even with conferences and organizations, I think it's really important to stay connected with those, we'll say practitioner-oriented associations. We'll use ALAs an example. For me, that one's, to me, it's more the practitioners in the field. And it's important to stay connected and be a part of those when you can. But if it's between that and say Elise or say another scholarly conference, I would feel where I could present my research and then out of it might come a publication. I probably would lend more towards Elise. So I have shifted my conferences, my association memberships that I'm a member of to be in the space I need to be in now. But also I say leverage, so dual outcomes. I got asked to keynote two years ago for Pennsylvania Library Association for their conference and also Minnesota Library Association. I keynoteed both of them, but out of them, Pennsylvania, they actually have a peer-reviewed journal. And I did some researching, found their journal and was able to take pretty much my keynote and then I did a whole survey, produce that into a publication in their peer-reviewed journal. So when I say dual outcomes, really leveraging if you do present somewhere or whatever it is, make it a twofer. So you get two things out of it, not just one. And find those partners and collaborators. So Anthony, I know you're here. Anthony and I are working together in first generation work, first generation students work as well as submitted a grant together. Dara, I don't know if Dara's here, but her and I are continuing to collaborate. We have another grant we're submitting, I think two more, we're working on. So if you can find those partners or collaborators, it's almost like find your people. I don't know how to say it better than find those where you have a vested interest. It aligns with your scholarly area of expertise. And it may be, you might think, this is not my area at all, but maybe it is, it might be a slice of it or it might be an addition and you might need to sell it to that person that say, no, I can bring this contribution. So again, what can you contribute? And continue to learn. Bumps on the road, oh my, yes. This is where you got to take a breather. Again, it's the, you know, we never know what life might give us, right? Or what might could happen and you might have to take a break or just take that breather. Never say never. So I was on the beach with my best friend who is a, she's, was a former chair and she's still at Cal State Northridge. And we were there and she's been in academia for a long time. And I told her, because we're talking about tenure track and, you know, going to academia and I said, I will never, never go into academia in a tenure track position. And here I am. So never say never, because it will happen. And it just, I just had a pivot, I think with where I wanted to go and actually fits very well in what I want to do and what I'm currently doing. Look at your supports again.  So don't just say, well, we'll stay connected. And then you don't water that relationship so it can continue to grow. And do learn when to say no. I'm still struggling, but I am saying no. And there's a nice little meme that's floating around about November and November is the month to say no because you don't want those individuals to steal your, I think it's about, that one's about joy and enjoyment. But I'm gonna say, you don't want them to steal away your precious time you need to do your research. And these are the two, I think pivotal points where I was like, I am a scholar. I am a research scholar. In 2018, I don't know if it was, it might have been 2017, I presented at the International Association of School Libraries Conference, Practitional Oriented Conference, not my area, I'm not a school librarian, but Leslie Farmer, Dr. Farmer, who's at Cal State Long Beach, came to my session and then she said, why don't you write a piece for our, the School Library Association, their journal, their knowledge quest. So that really, to me was my first peer review, it was editorial peer reviewed publication. And three years earlier, thanks to my former mentor, Rest in Peace, Dr. Chandler, she pulled me in into a book project. It started in 2015, they got published fall 2018. I wrote two of the chapters, I did the survey with her, but we really looked at diversity within the American Association of Law Libraries and about minority leadership. And we conducted interviews and it was a big project, but that's where I really got integrated, I was saying, to the scholarly world and can never thank her enough. So persevere, I am a scholar and you are too. And lastly, I have just two more slides, I believe. Important things, I feel like a pep talk for myself too. You can do this, we can all do this. Some projects will die.  But could you bring it back from the dead? Could you resurrect it in a way that maybe it's incorporated in a different way? Maybe it's not that journal publication. Maybe it's a speaking engagement, but then you're pulling in one of your peers or even a student and then you're gonna submit a grant or you need a partner on the grant, but the topic is from the project that died. I have one right now that's dying and I'm trying to keep it going, but the initial intent I would say of this prize is gonna be a journal article around racial diversity in law libraries. I think we're gonna take a different approach and it's gonna be split into two different projects because one, there's the racial diversity, but there's so much more diversity. So looking at neurodiversity and other aspects within law libraries, not just focusing on racial diversity. So it might end up being two projects. And there's other opportunities, I mentioned grants, so that's another way to really build up your scholarly and it could be a small seed grant and then just grow larger and larger and going beyond the local. So don't just look for local friends, local partners, local collaborators, but look beyond, look states away, virtually away internationally and leveraging it all. So my last slide, and this isn't really, I don't know if it's future, but it's taking charge of your own journey. We each have a different journey. So a lot of things today might not even resonate, some might, all of it might. But thinking about, well, who am I? Who do I wanna be? And this is almost like set up those goals with smart goals. Who do I want my, what do I want my contribution to be? Why is what I'm researching important? How can I get there? Where do I wanna make that impact? And I say, it's the continuous journey. Some of you know I'm a runner. Though lately, I did one run this month. I did San Jose in October, but because of COVID, I was not doing any virtual runs. I was running on my own, but it's not just a marathon. It's actually more of a triathlon because you do have to pivot and it's not just one sport. It might involve three or even more. So 2008, that was my first marathon in Vegas. That's the bottom photo. I don't know the top photo, it was from somewhere. And that, the UR Amazing was from the LA Marathon, I think eight years ago. It happened yesterday, but I did not run it. I cheered for people, but a woman had that sign and it just wants, I wanna share it here to tell all of the students that you are amazing and to take charge of your scholarly journey. So that's it. Questions? Thank you so much, Michelle. That was wonderful. Whatever feelings you might have had about having agreed to do it. I think that that was just great. And I feel like over the months when we do this and when other faculty tell their stories, they're all gonna be different. And yet we see these threads that run through them. The never say never, the unexpected opportunities, the twists and turns, the pivots and so on. So that's wonderful. Are there questions or comments for Michelle? Well, Mary, I didn't wanna sound negative, but I do thank you for allowing me to volunteer and be the first one. Absolutely. Oh, I appreciate it so much. I love it so much. We appreciate it very much. It made me, I don't know. It was like my own little self-exploration and it just felt good, but it also made me, I have all these questions now. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, that's great. I see a lot of comments. Thank you, Leti. I was gonna say, yeah, it's just encouraging to hear that you're always processing. You're always recasting your sense of yourself and the value you can bring and that we're not alone. I think a lot of us on the kind of student and candidate side worry in these transitions and different thresholds and I don't think that ever ends, right? So it's just very encouraging to hear your reflections on your own journey. Thank you. Well, thank you. Yeah, I wanna thank you too, Michelle. I do know that it's not easy just to re-rack the balls for one brief presentation that contains your journey. So it's great to do that. I remember when I was applying to get the position at San Jose State, Dr. Bill Fisher asked me a particularly provocative question during the interview. I was a practitioner at the time. I was doing talks and I was publishing my little opinions from the field and I wouldn't say puffed up about myself but I knew what I was doing as a practitioner. Bill's question just came like a shot out of the blue just to kind of slap me into awareness. He said, he asked, why do you wanna change careers? I saw it or I was pretending to see it as a, well, it's just another part of the field, but it's not. Being a practitioner, being invited to give talks, giving workshops, being referred to, yada yada is all very fun. It's very ego boosting and all of that. But then when you start as a scholar, you start with the scholarship. You start at the beginning. You have to develop methods. You have to create and analyze data and you have to synthesize that data within the broader scholarship in which you're entering. So you're starting over. I think a lot of us, I think a lot of us have that when we come out of the field. Librarians in libraries, libraries of library faculty tend to come from the field the way Michelle did, the way I did, but we do have to pivot, as she said. And it's sometimes not easy to do, to give up all of those, those accolades that we were getting. But it's necessary if we're gonna be successful as an academic scholar. If you're gonna stay in practice, that's different. But if you're gonna come in and be a scholar, you've gotta change gears and it's not easy. Yeah, Anthony, I just wanna say it. And I think it's not for everyone too. Like it's actually, it's worked out fine for me. I'm very happy that I said never say never. I said no when I hear, and then here I am and I've been nothing but happy with it. But it is a shift. It is a very different shift. It's almost like going to the dark side in the way, like going to a vendor. It's a whole shift. It's just very different. And it is important. We may look back on our journey as students, to the point where we entered a PhD program and it successfully completed that. And the things you described about your certifications, your other master's degree and so on, that's very interesting, the sort of opportunities that come up and the way it all weaves together then to be part of your journey. But also it's so important for our minds to be open to the fact that it's like, okay, I'm really good at being a librarian. I believe, you know, however, that doesn't mean it's, that doesn't mean that that's just the same then. When I, you know, when I entered this new field or this new part of the field, it's gonna be exactly the same. And I am stubbornly gonna cling to that, you know, that it's so important to, you know, to open our eyes to what we're being shown and told. I agree that I have one last thought with that is that it's almost like doing your own skills assessment in a way. Like when I was putting this together, I had to think back, well, what were the things that now I really, I have like built this little niche area of my expertise in certain areas. And so there might be things for all of you, all of you students there that you can then pull that in. Don't just let it go because I think it adds value, even if you might not see it and where it might be in the future, but it's a piece. It'll be a piece of that future position.


All right, good afternoon cyber traders welcome on back here this Tuesday August 3rd shortly after 2 30 p.m Eastern time and as always at this time of the day welcome on back for our afternoon meeting Great to see all of our students and members alike inside the cyber group room including David and Martha and Phil Debbie Bonnie Jean Norman who's calling out the FLGC here right now turns that in a second Ray S here as well and great to see everybody alike for all of us joining us as well on social media Facebook live and YouTube Welcome on back. So I wanted to start off by going over the got you trade ended up making a nice push throughout the whole day And still kind of near near the highs, but for right now, I'm interested Norman made a call out just now an FLGC It's actually the top percent gainer right now saying it's moving higher and certainly is so needless to be said We'll put this stock on our afternoon watch list just to begin FLGC. All right, so let's see what the news is on the stock I'm pretty curious and I got a little time. So don't mind if I look it up right now FLGC shares are trading higher on above average volume drumroll, please Not seeing any company specific news to justify the price action and that came out from Benzinga pro at 1245 Eastern time so could there have been some other headline that popped up perhaps but this is this is real time So if they don't have it either they're slacking or there's no news So needless to be said we're gonna put this on our list, but also at the same time We don't need news in order to Trade a stock. I mean this stock had a few false breakouts over 10 and really 1050 at the true high the day Once it just broke out above that clearly as you could see it ended up just taking off So, you know ended up making a three-point move so far Let's take a look on the daily chart just to see where resistance is for this trade And I could already tell as a new IPO relatively new. This is the monthly chart This is as much data as I could show on a monthly chart as I can go back on So the stocks at all-time highs and that's really more what I care about at this stage So yeah FLGC easily gonna put this on our main watch list to begin This is my second time looking at this stock there The first was from earlier after the dump off so I kind of turned away from it quick But man nice call-out Norman on this stock here FLGC. Cool All right, so that brings me back to the got you trade right stock ended up making a nice pop from earlier today They got you stock. Let me ask you. What's up with this trade folks? Why is this stock? Moving in general not only to say moving up 18 plus percent today, but but what happened to this stock Why is this stock been moving over the last week? Anybody here now from cyber group or from social media? Anybody know why this stock was moving as much as it was the last you know week or so Norman's asking does have to do with the Chinese government. It does so a lot of the Education-based companies they were looking to turn them non-profit and that came out a week and a half ago or so So this stock go to you. We've never traded really in this room at least up until that very day We're a gap down like 50 60 percent that day So granted this stock is making a small squeeze up right now as we would call a dead cap bounce and hopefully over what over Time what could be a gap fill We'll see over time on that, but it's to say hey this stock we called out before but it was actually for another reason I mean this stock is moving up naturally right now, but we ended up seeing actually Edu and another one of those Chinese education-based companies edu ended up coming out with earnings This morning going into the market open today. They ended up reporting earnings So we ended up seeing a bit of a push based off perhaps that based off perhaps Just the the big drop-off from a week and a half ago So with edu pushing up that's where we ended up finding the got you stock and this one really is the better mover of those two and The other one that we've traded from that point a week and a half ago or so is the Tau trade TAL education group This ended up making a nice pop just before from six upwards towards 625 But it pulled back starting to slow down here the got you stock seems like the most lively of the three So definitely gonna put this on our on our list now It's also shortable so if it craps out the other way which it started to off the high here off 380 ish You know perhaps you know based on the right timing it could be a good short opportunity if it fails to break out higher But yeah, definitely the got you trade will put on our list that Tau I wouldn't be opposed to perhaps by the end of the meeting if we don't really have as big of a list and Then the edu, I mean it's the cheapest of the three They're all pretty cheap, but this one's just also kind of the slowest moving. So In order, I would go got you Tau edu, but for right now that got you is the only one so far I'm gonna kind of put on our main list. Alright, so that was a mouthful But otherwise what we'll do is go from top to bottom see what else we ended up trading or at least you know What we will trade heading into the last hour and a half from now So the WHLM on its way down now stock ended up making a nice pop from earlier this morning The lines they have here on this chart. I just want to show you we talked about inside our live Live workshop earlier today earlier this morning our traders talk workshop for all of us in social media We do that maybe two or three times for you folks for free across social media per year But what you would need to do is just join our live trading room go right down to the link on the banner below Hey, there's my mug but you could actually go log inside your student dashboard and take a look at the Recordings of the traders talk workshop. We do this weekly every Tuesday and again We record them so the recordings including this morning's that will be on the student dashboard by this afternoon But it's to say this stock ended up making a nice slingshot for us at the market open and we ended up analyzing this WHLM in full at least in that traders talk workshop So now I'm gonna delete these lines now you could actually see where I wanted support 650 658 from earlier it never really gave it to me It just took off and pop but you know right now you could see it ended up really kind of failing as a support level Ended up breaking below those lines for a bit was just very choppy and and really not much volume being traded at that point If there was volume being traded it was just more selling volume on the way down So yeah at this point this trades in the in the garbage this WHLM You know it almost look it is a doji right now for the most part You know the opening and close just a little bit off, but for the most part that is a Tall top wick right there So for right now will pass this seems like this the type of stock that will also just open up even lower come tomorrow morning All right Well that's gonna open up lower tomorrow morning this thing's on the way up heading into this afternoon the VSCO stock I think Victoria's secret IPO from what a couple weeks ago or last week perhaps But man for a breaking all-time highs right now very similar to the FLGC Also a little pricey. So not really too interested in it as a day trade You know, perhaps if it pulls back closer in price for us to try and follow or if the order book fills in a lot more that would be different but You know interesting to see but I think we'll pass ARCT ended up making a bit of a push earlier today from 40 to 46 Perhaps 47 and change there actually but ended up kind of pushing back up to those highs now Again, I'd say the same with this as I said on VSCO just in order book at this point in the afternoon I want something that's either moving very nicely with a filled in order book or something that Perhaps has a chance of popping if it hasn't yet that has a liquid order book either way You want to follow something that that has a lot of liquidity to it? I see X DC here a bit of a pop cheapy definitely good liquidity But I don't know stock like this from normally not as keen to trade below a buck because normally after the first big Pop it normally doesn't pop up further. So, you know to see this go from 37 to 50. That's a hell of a move already It's up 32% and counting. You know if it ends up making a bigger pop from here, perhaps we'll look at it again But we'll pass for right now All right, so from this point will kind of skim through this is 37 bucks This is also a buyout actually I forgot about that this TBIO I forgot is a buyout from this morning from after hours last night, so I shouldn't have even looked at this All right, so we'll see what else it got holy here at least within our price range Just pretty flat right now APDN popped earlier at least heading into the early parts the afternoon looks like a broken HOD just before But off a false breakout ended up snapping right back down on the same one-minute bar and from there dropped off just about 60 70 cents All right, let's skip ahead here to Robin Hood Robin Hood man. I'm very surprised by this I don't know if there was any news that came out with Robin Hood I will care to check actually right now But as I care to check it's just for me to tell you that this stock ended up making a really nice breakout Right off of 40 bucks at 40 bucks We ended up seeing this big iceberg order end up getting filled and as soon as it got filled Thing ended up taking off with zero pullback ended up popping from 40 practically up to 42 I guess it did shake back down briefly But not to where we were looking for it to pull down to ended up making a higher low pushed right back above 42 here And took off I have a line here at 41 50 because I was led to believe later on today We would see it pull back down and perhaps use 41 50 as a big support level for all the volume that was traded off of it I didn't really talk about that as much during the traders talk workshop So for all of us in cyber group at least that's the explanation there But either way it clearly is yet to pull back down to that line and from where we were looking at it in traders talk It only broke out higher right broke out over 45 moved up towards you know near 49 Ended up pulling back So I feel like the run is done on Robin Hood from today at least you know I know I have one of our students Felix on a swing trade He's in from the low 40s if not high 30s. So he's doing great on the swing I don't know as far as the swing where this will end up You know, I would assume 50 at some point sooner sooner than later just solely based on today's push But you know, we'll find out soon, right? We're not gonna predict that But it's to say as far as a day trade the stocks pretty much done for the day I feel if it ends up making some sort of freak pop later on or in the next 20 25 minutes at least, you know inside the trading room will call it out If I see it make a pop I'll be you know there to the punch But right now just checking the news. There's no headline no other, you know Additional headline or title for Robin Hood here So I don't know if it has to do with liquidity or short volume perhaps as an IPO But man ended up making a really nice breakout here today. So You know, we'll keep it in mind for tomorrow. It does have a decent order book for a $45 stock I wish it was more filled in but you know, it could be worse So I'll keep this in mind at least for tomorrow is the day trade and perhaps, you know going forward ATIP to slow things down a bit I guess this stock a little bit slower than that last one the Robin Hood But it's at the highs good spread cheap filled in order book looks like you got crushed over the last week and a half I don't know if it's one of those education companies It says physical therapy in the company name. So I doubt it But either way the stock took a big hit from the last week or so and recovering here So I don't mind putting this on our list right now a tip at I pay Not really much for resistance in sight. That could be a good thing or bad thing either way will find out Just let's hope this trend maintains Skip over got you already on our list You know this acy stock I've known this stock to be like a pop and drop pump and dump type of stock and we've said that on and off I mean for years let alone just the last year plus year you can see just it's like a seizure to be honest here Like up and down jeez. So, you know, this thing ended up popping up before I was interested in calling it out I didn't Thankfully I didn't because look what happened right away after about 10 15 minutes after perhaps But ended up snapping all the way back down like four points I don't know if this get even got halted on the way down. Let's get halts on the way down here. It did Notice the time on the one-minute chart goes from 118 and 119 and 120 125 This fell so fast so quick it got halted on the way down that would have been a nightmare to get out of The Noro stock was back in play This Noro stock was back in play from earlier today ended up popping at least out the gate We more so focused on it though like right around here one of our students and I'm blanking on on their name So I apologize for not giving credit where it's due perhaps Chuck maybe Jean I forgot Ended up making a great call out ended up popping it or ended up calling out the stock as it broke out from 14 Ended up building this trend up very nicely as it broke over 15 to make a new high here It seems like the same thing happened to this as it happened on that last one ACY look at that shake down. Jeez. I don't know if they're related I'm just talking about the the severity of the drop, but man this thing took a big hit I guess it's trying to work its way back up right now Kind of reluctant here watching it for the afternoon if you order book fills and more perhaps we'll call it out now this This this is something that I want to follow heading into the close and not only does it have the characteristics of the exact type of stock we would want you know cheap great liquidity It's at the highs and tight spread yada yada folks We traded the stock like last month trade the stock like 30 days ago or less And if you've done well on this stock in the past Then you wouldn't need me to tell you that because you would have already been trading the stock from earlier today, right? This is one of my better stocks from earlier today, and I'm really kicking from ice I'm kicking myself for not jumping in this trade earlier here. I had a level drawn out. It was at 309 It's where my line was but 309 310 that ended up making for a really nice dip point just before and not only from there I was even looking from a higher price like 315 when I turned back to it. I saw it at 315 I was saying to myself, you know, I saw an iceberg at 342 $3 42 cents early in pre-market level 4 showed me it, you know, I think there's a chance this can go You know go up towards there. Well, I said that to myself, and I didn't take the damn trade I'm kicking myself for not being in it here. So XCLA nice push Obviously, you're gonna put this on our list and near the top as a stock that just we're really familiar with at this point We know how this stock trades stock ended up making a run for us day over day over day and really topped off around five bucks Plus back in the middle of July, you know It goes to show that we're not gonna turn a day trade into a swing trade because as much as it did run up Well, it ended up dumping right back down as fast as it did on the way up here So, you know, we're calling this out as a day trade, right? If it ends up making another mini run across the week then God bless that'd be great But yeah for right now I feel like there's a great chance and you could even see the order notice it It's had 343 now, but a hundred four hundred five thousand shares on the ask. That's actually pretty funny timing It didn't just pull you didn't just pull the order that order is still there Guarantee that Watch you actually pulled it No, it's on level four here. You could see 350 343 340 there's 330 at first there But you know, there's definitely volume on the way up and I would say 343 like we just saw there we go and then otherwise 350 is the major levels major resistance levels there All right All right, so hopefully this thing doesn't pop up there too fast without me in it So we'll try and zip through the end of this meeting and then I'll see if I could jump in in time I sent me ended up making a nice pop earlier today ended up dumping off though So pretty disappointed in seeing that I was talking to Fausto earlier today and actually when I was in his office He saw the stock on the screen. He's like, wow, it's a nice move and obviously agreed with him at the time But men ended up dumping off here So there was some news that came out on semi here today Kim bio diagnostic shares moving higher traders circulating an FDA report showing emergency use Authorization for the company's COVID anti antibodies test So, you know, we're just about at that time of the year again where any sort of news that comes with the headline of mask or vaccine or COVID-19 or antibody testing Anything like that is going to get a bit of a sharp pop to it So, you know, we've been seeing that APT and AH PI we saw it, you know earlier this year with Serento and INO and Novavax and mRNA and OPK, I can name them all, you know, may as well add this to the list Semi here ended up making a nice pop it didn't well it is dumping off But it's not dumping off completely fast enough for me to totally write it off to make For it to not make a mini pop into the clothes like I feel like there's still a chance This to build the support from here or maybe around 325 and then make it to send back up So I'm still interested in this trade. It's not the first stock that's going to be on the watch list here That'll be XCLA. I think unless there's something better But this will make the cut for right now. See if this can either, you know, break the trend line off the highest year and move up Or maybe drop fast build support from a lower price like 315 or 325. We'll see what happens coming up here on the semi-trib All right, so we keep it going see if there's anything else on the gainers ending Honestly, I'm a little surprised that the markets ended up reversing as fast as they did by the time it was 1030 1045 I was expecting continuation on the way down and I was looking at some stocks like CCL and AAL and No, we're doing good on the shorts early this morning But both of those reversed and moved up the whole market ended up pushing up really nicely by the time It was 12 o'clock noon here and they're at the high still So, you know, if there's anything else that looks good that's up folks Let me know in the chat board and for all of us in social media Facebook live YouTube you folks know the deal too So hop over to the losers list here first see if there's anything on that side of the field if not better stim Down 40 plus percent looked a little flat like from the zoomed out look, but you zoom in I mean it topped off from eight down 25 plus cents right now You know steady on the way down it is short of all Looks like low of the day today. What's the low? 721 so it's still got 50 cents to go this ended up breaking down right away after the market opens up Opened up. It seems like here and by 1030 ended up breaking lower. That's what this was here So it pushed back up, but it's not fully back to the lows just yet Still has a little bit of a ways to go. If it was closer to the lows, I'd be more keen to anticipate continuation Now come back to it Normally I'd be more interested in on just putting this on our list, but I'll come back to see if there's better here first BHG stock down big looks like a new IPO back from late June. I don't know Stock also is shortable. So it looks like we could have taken this as a short trade over time But taking a huge hit today dropped off from 11 down towards the low roughly around was at 750 798 ended up pushing up right now, you know, it's kind of in the same category as that stem It's a stock I'm unfamiliar with it's not near the lows to anticipate that continuation that you would want to see It is I guess tradable, you know a thin order book I don't know. I feel like I'll pass on this year, too SPNE not to get confused with SRNE not a whole lot. It's down, but Order book same thing Stock from yesterday I and Fi which ended up making a really nice move yesterday morning into the afternoon Stock was shortable this morning. I knew of that in pre-market and for that reason this ended up taking a bit Of my focus upon the market open I just wasn't quick enough to get the short off or maybe this was just too quick for us Because normally we're not going to trade a stock within the first three to five minutes This stock as soon as the market opened up just tanked So it really provided little opportunity at least from where I wanted to get in in order to short it It ended up dropping off over time. So, you know There could have been some opportunity on the way down for sure But for right now, it's I guess tradable not a whole lot to really write home about though Otherwise made a bounce from 250 if you're in on this trade from 250. That's nice little trade there But yeah for the meantime will pass keep it on your side list Check back in with it tomorrow morning, perhaps Oh, am I not much going on there the IMVT I forgot about this the big drop-off that we have from pre-market yesterday Squeezed up then right back down after the market opened up. It was at all-time lows So, you know, honestly for me no, so even though I didn't take the trade here or call it out But no surprise looking at this in hindsight that this stock ended up only opening up lower got crushed here again today dropped down towards an eventual low of 668 I Would be more keen to watch this across the week and of all these stocks that have been getting beat up on the losers list today And from yesterday like the stim the you know BHG stock IMVT this IMVT is more interesting to me compared to the others And I mean that just across the remainder of this week I don't think we're gonna put either of them or any of them on the list for this afternoon But I don't know right this one down for tomorrow morning. Just check in with it tomorrow morning pre-market Just to see where it's at, you know This stock has maintained good liquidity on the book from yesterday into today So that part is kind of what I'm more clamoring about all right So folks, let me know if there's anything up down left right more than 5% that I didn't have a chance to look at just yet From Ed caught out the APD entry just got halted. Oh God wow. Yeah, so it got halted at 248 Eastern current time right now at 252 So this really should be reopening up pretty shortly from now Ed got 17 cents. He was in from 658 Rich posting the news right now on the APD entered. I appreciate that rich and well, I'm gonna Just copy and paste here for us on YouTube here in the meantime So let's check in with you folks here. Just copy and paste the news APD and share a spike to a session high following circulation of Roth capital note highlighting the company had won a potentially lucrative send the headline COVID-19 testing deal for all 25 city or CUNY CUNY campuses. All right So just reopen right on cue ended up making a big pop right out the gate wouldn't shock me to see it slam back down You know quickly here at first, but yeah, great call. Nice the APDN All right, RJF had that on YouTube at 247 right right there as well. So I appreciate that I'm just looking at the chat there right now. I got a question from one of us on YouTube right now Do you think WHLM will shoot back up before the market close? I Don't hate to break it to you I Strongly believe that this stock will only continue to dump off heading into this afternoon if not into tomorrow morning. I Hope I'm wrong with that But Reason I say that so confidently Because we see this happen quite frequently. So hope that you're not holding on to a big bag there for one of us on YouTube Was there any news when the market moved up today? I don't have that on me P trader joining us in YouTube at least not on me I assume. I know the SEC chair was Giving some good comments about crypto But that's not the reason why the markets up. Yeah, I don't really have a headline there P trader. I wish I did All right, so that's all I got on YouTube at least Let me know if there's anything else inside the trading room that you would want me to look at Let's see And check Benzinga Pro. I don't have anything else from the trading room here and that's fun If we caught them all and we'll take it and then if there's anything else for all of us inside cyber group I mean Norman and Bonnie and Debbie and Grant you folks know better than most You know, we're gonna look to work together as a team. So I appreciate that APDN call out Hey, if I finished up the meeting before that popped You better believe that we were gonna call that stock out inside the cyber group room and work together as a team And and see what we can you know do on the straight. All right, so I think for right now We'll kind of keep it at that. I don't think there's much else that we ended up missing So we got the XCLA the FLGC the got you the a tip Semi and APDN not too big of a list for me. I'm pretty impressed with that myself All right, so for all of us on social media Facebook live and YouTube I appreciate you sticking with me each and every day each and every afternoon if you have any questions I'm gonna try and do this more on a daily basis I have not been doing this as much on a daily basis But let me know if you have any other questions or comments that you would like to send over my way There's my email address just posted on the stream Josh at ctu trading calm Otherwise if you're interested in joining us on a day-to-day basis Make sure you just go right down to the link on the banner below just to get yourself started on a small trial for all of us there right now Including Victor and David and Norman and Ray and everyone else like I'd said from before I'll check back in with you folks coming up at 3 30 I'm gonna jump on to a coaching session right now with one of our students And I'll be back on to wrap things up going into the market close. I'll talk to you then


I dig Vijay Singh ji, Pichitambaram ji, Dinesh Gondu Rao ji, K.S. Alagiri ji, Selva Perunthagai ji, Chela Kumar ji, Manik Tagore ji, Vijay Vasant ji, Jyothi Mani ji, senior leaders of the Congress party, party workers, friends from the media, I'd like to welcome all of you here today. I'd like to welcome all of you here today, I'd like to welcome all of you here today. It is always an honour and a pleasure for me to come to Tamil Nadu. You know my relationship with the people of Tamil Nadu. It gives me tremendous joy to come to this wonderful state. And today coming here to the southernmost tip of our country and looking out here into the beautiful sea, it gives me great joy to be beginning this Bharat Jodo Yatra from this beautiful place. Why is it that after so many years after independence, we are feeling the need and not just the Congress party, but millions and millions of Indian people are feeling the need of a Bharat Jodo Yatra. What is happening in the country that so many people, millions and millions of people feel that there is a need to take an action that brings India together. We can see here the Indian flag fluttering in the wind and all of us look up to this flag and salute this flag. Some people, they look at the flag and they see three colours, a chakra, a piece of cloth and they salute the flag. But this is not just three colours, a chakra and a piece of cloth. This is much more than that. And this flag, this did not come easily. It was not given to us. It was not a gift. It was earned by the Indian people. This flag represents every single person who lives in this country. This flag represents the religion of every single person who lives in this country. This flag represents the language of every single person who lives in this country. This flag represents every single state of our country. This flag was not earned by one person. It was earned by every single Indian person. This flag does not belong to any state. It belongs to every single state. It does not belong to any religion, any community, any language. It belongs to every religion, every community, every language. So embedded in this flag is our identity, not only our identity as a nation, not only our identity as states, but our identity as every single Indian person. This flag guarantees every single Indian person protection in this country. It guarantees every single person a free and fair life in this country. It guarantees everybody the right to practice any religion, speak any language they desire. And today, brothers and sisters, this flag is under attack. India is not the imposition of one idea on its people. India is the history, the language, the culture of every single person. India is the institution that protects this flag. India is a free media that protects this flag. India is a judiciary that protects this flag. And today, every single one of our institutions is under attack by the BJP and the RSS. They think that this flag is their personal property. They think they can determine single-handedly the future of the people of this country, the future of all the states of this country. They think they can frighten the opposition using ED, CBI, income tax. The problem is they do not understand the Indian people. Indian people do not get scared. Doesn't matter how many hours of interrogation they do, does not matter. Not a single opposition leader is going to be scared of the BJP. The BJP thinks that they can divide this country along religious lines. They can divide this country along its languages. This country cannot be divided. This country will always remain united. Today, India faces its worst ever economic crisis. The highest level of unemployment that we have ever seen. And the country is heading into a disaster. Unfortunately, our friends in the media are fully controlled. Everybody understands it. But on the television, you will never see unemployment. You will never see price rise. You will only see the image of the Prime Minister. The BJP government has systematically attacked the farmers, the laborers and the small and medium businesses of this country. A handful of large businesses control the entire country today. Every single industry is controlled by a handful of businesses. The Prime Minister would not last one day without their support. They control the media and they ensure that the Prime Minister is on the television screen 24 hours a day. And in exchange, the Prime Minister carries out policies that are in their interest. They are very similar to what the British used to do. Divide India, make Indians fight with each other and then steal from the Indian people. That is why the government is doing this. Those days it used to be called the East India Company. It was one big company that controlled the whole of India. Today there are three or four big companies that control the whole of India. And policies like demonetisation, GST, the three farm laws, these are designed to take away from the future of India, to take away from the poor people of India. Jobs are created by small and medium businesses, jobs are created by our farmers. And today small and medium businesses have been crippled by BJP's policies. Farmers are barely surviving. So the result is it is impossible for India to create jobs for its youngsters. And while our youngsters cannot earn, the prices keep going up. And so we are heading into bad times. And it is very important that we bring the people of India together. Make sure that they are united, so that India is strong. And that is the aim of the Bharat Joloyathra. The Bharat Joloyathra is designed to listen to the people of India. We do not want to crush the voice of the people of India like the RSS and the BJP do. We want to listen to the wisdom of the people of India. It is once again an honour for me to come here and speak to you. It is always a pleasure for me to come to this wonderful state. And I'd like to conclude by thanking my brother, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Stalinji to coming here and meeting me this evening. I look forward to meeting many of you on the Yatra in the coming days. And please remember, it is not enough just to salute the flag, it is important to defend the ideas and the values behind the flag. Thank you very much.


I am Dr. Ravichan Siddhachari. I am a consultant hepatobiliary surgeon and chief liver transplant surgeon at Manipal Hospital's Old Airport Road, Bangalore.  This is done by radio waves. The method is by inserting a needle through your skin into the tumour under ultrasound or CT guided.  The other way of doing it is by opening the abdomen and directly insert the needles into the liver. You can see the tumour burning which can also be seen later on on imaging. RFA is used for patients who are not suitable for surgery and RFA can also be used to downsize the tumour. Just like the Taze, that depends on what kind of tumours they have and also the background disease.


Good morning, John. I'm in Melbourne, Australia. That's the convention center where VidCon is currently happening as of the release of this video, but not quite yet as of the recording of it. I'm walking around the city at my Australian publisher. Hachette has asked me to answer some questions about my book. And since it's coming out in less than 30 days, I'm gonna do that. And I'm doing it with the help of some Australian voices, because I love this accent. What's your writing routine like? I could tell you're trying to be so astray. What's your writing routine like? I open my laptop unless it's already open, and then I type. Why did you name your protagonist April? Is there some kind of metaphor here? Oh, wow, there's a lot of water on the lens. I'm a pretty on-the-page kind of writer. Like, there's not a lot of subtext, honestly. I like to be pretty explicit. But that being said, I mean, there is reasons. They're not really metaphorical, but you don't know them. How does writing a book change the way you experience other books? I can tell you it definitely does change it. I wouldn't say it's better or worse. First of all, it's harder to not compare myself to good writers and be like, oh, I'm bad at this. And second, like, yeah, you see more of the process, you see more of how it works. I think that that's a deeper understanding, but it's less immersive, maybe? Different, not better or worse. And to be clear, I find that with most media. I find it with video blogs, with music, like the things that I've tried my hand at that I spent time doing. It affects the way that you imagine and perceive them. It affects the way that you enjoy them. I feel like any 5.1 ton load would be pretty gross. Are there any songs you listen to that inspired the plot or characters in your novel? I don't listen to music while I'm writing. I can't listen to anything while I'm writing. Like, white noise, maybe? But yes, it will become clear upon reading it. There are a number of songs that were inspirational in the book. What have you found to be the hardest part of writing a book? Stopping writing is really hard. Once you've done it for so long, it's so hard to get it out of your mind that you can't change anything anymore. It's terrible. I thought of something really great last night that would make the book better if it was in there, but it's not gonna be. I did put one thing in the book after it went to press, though. So it'll be in the second edition and also maybe in the digital editions. If someone offers to make an absolutely remarkable thing into a movie, would you say yes? I don't know. I haven't said yes yet to that. So we'll just have to see, I guess. That would be pretty cool. But it's also a lot of work. I've seen it. It's a lot of work. I loved your book. Is there a sequel in the works? Thank you for reading my book. Book store. And yes. When did you spend most of your time writing your book? I mean, in chairs? I'm not very picky. I'll do it wherever. Hi. I'm just vlogging. Hi. I'm in my hood. It's raining outside. Will you give us the robot slash car chase scene that John will never write? I mean, I am looking for ideas. Inspiration can come from anywhere. At which point do you go, all right, that's it. This idea is going to become a book. About when I finished... Why did you write a slash this book? I make a lot of stuff. And there are lots of things that I wanted to talk about that I haven't found good ways to do that. And I found that this was a good way to talk about stuff that I wanted to talk about. It's also a good way to tell a really good story that I was really excited about. What was the seed for the story that became the book? Kind of embarrassing, but a literal dream. Like I had a dream. And then I thought that's interesting. Then I made a book. When does the book come out? It comes out September 25th. It's available for pre-order now. This is a beautiful city. It's damp. John, I'll see you on Tuesday. You'll be able to get my book at places like Diamots and book levels. This must be a very dangerous ladder. They've got it confined. You're not going anywhere.


Sudhakar asks, is a smart contract legally accepted? What happens if one party defaults? That's a really great question. I think the word smart contract is very confusing for most people. What is a smart contract? Well, it's not smart, and it's not a contract.   It's a program, and they're not particularly smart. They're fairly unsophisticated software programs. The important part being that they manage money. Could they have legal implications? Could they be legally binding? Perhaps, especially if combined with some kind of written legal contract. But there are many jurisdictions in which various forms of agreement, whether written or not, are considered legally binding. There's no reason why a smart contract could not be legally binding. However, this depends on the jurisdiction, and it also depends on what the legal precedents are. Until there is more established case law in this case, and I'm not a lawyer, so I'm just giving you my opinion on this, until there's more established case work on this, the term smart contract is very loosely used and should not be considered a contract. For the second part of your question, what happens if one party defaults? Well, if the smart contract handles that particular case in its program, then something happens. Something happens on the blockchain. Is that legally binding or not? I don't know. That's a question you have to ask a lawyer. This is a really interesting thing, that this is not a matter of law. Smart contracts are not a legal contract. They are a software contract. They do things on blockchains. Whether those things are within the law, or accepted by the law, or recognized by the law, has nothing to do with how the smart contract works. Catarina asks, how is a token single-doubted and designated to represent, for example, ownership of a house? I can decide that one particular token will represent ownership, and then code that into the token. Can you explain how this works? Catarina, usually the way this works is you have some kind of external data store. This could be something like a decentralized file store like IPFS, or Ethereum Swarm. You would store some PDF document, for example, the deed of the house, or some other title, or a reference to a title registry, such as a municipal state or government registry of titles. You could take all of that information and encode it into a token. The real question is, if you transfer that token to someone else, does that also transfer the title? In most jurisdictions, no. A lot of people are trying to get laws passed that recognize the transfer of ownership of the asset, the house, when the token that contains the title or hash of the title is transferred. That is a bit harder, really. This is the difference between software and law. Just because you can transfer token and software doesn't mean that you can take that token ownership to your local planning office and say, hey, I own this land, I own this house, and have that legally recognized. That is one leap further down. Rural asks, where are Ethereum transactions stored after executing the contract code? That is a really great question, Rural. Ethereum transactions are stored on the blockchain the same way that Bitcoin transactions are stored on the blockchain. The difference is that Bitcoin transactions track the state of ownership of specific coins, or unspent transaction outputs, as they are called. In Ethereum, the transactions may trigger smart contract execution, and that can modify the state of a contract, or the state of an account within Ethereum. Ethereum transactions track or cause changes, or state transitions, in any form of state that could be data within a contract, or the balance of an account, a much broader set of state. What is actually stored in the Ethereum blockchain are two things. The first thing is the transaction itself, and the second thing is the transaction logs, or receipts, as they are called, which show what changes this transaction caused to the global state. The contract execution itself isn't stored on the blockchain, so you store what started the contract, and you store what state changes happened because of the execution of the contract, but the execution of the contract itself is not stored on the blockchain. You essentially store the inputs of contracts, which are transactions, and the outputs of contracts, which are state changes. Those are the two things that are stored on the Ethereum blockchain. Anyone can validate this information by taking that same transaction that is stored on the blockchain, playing it through the smart contract execution by running it on the Ethereum virtual machine, and then looking at the output of the Ethereum virtual machine, the logs, and seeing what state transitions occurred during the execution of the smart contract, and what state changes occurred, and comparing those with the receipts or logs that are stored in the Ethereum blockchain. Every single validating node on Ethereum should arrive at exactly the same answer. The same transaction should cause the same state changes and produce the same receipts and logs. That's how Ethereum validation is done. Kirily asks, is there enough being done to confirm that smart contracts will work in the way that people have envisioned they will work? Kirily, the problem here is that the vision is far more expansive than what can currently be done with smart contracts. People envision all kinds of things. Whether you can do all of those kinds of things is a whole other question. I think people sometimes go way too far in coming up with these crazy ideas to replace things, even things that currently work with smart contracts.  It doesn't really mean what most people think it means. Simon asks, do you think it's possible to combine smart contracts with AI and machine learning? Maybe in very small ways, but not in any practical way and not anytime soon. These are both very mature, very new technologies, and when I say both, I mean smart contracts and AI and machine learning. While they are progressing really fast, they are not necessarily easy to combine. What happens if you take smart contracts and combine it with AI? Now you took all of the risks and problems of one immature technology, and you multiplied them by all of the risks and problems of another immature technology. It makes for a fantastic marketing brochure, and you will probably raise a lot of venture capital money from investors who don't really understand what AI or smart contracts are and are very impressed by these buzzwords. But the truth is that in practice, doing anything that involves two experimental technologies increases your risks exponentially. I don't expect we're going to see any useful or practical, relevant, interesting applications combining AI and smart contracts in the next several years, perhaps even decade.


What the heck is the process for putting a dado-stack on your saw stop? Ola, Woodworkers, Paul Carlson here, small workshop guy. This is another one of our series of what the heck videos. They're intended to be short and for beginners primarily. The only thing that's different about changing a blade to a dado-stack on a saw stop is the fact that you've got this emergency brake cartridge inserted and you need a different sized one for your dado-stack. So start by cranking your blade all the way up to the top and then just take off your 10-inch blade. I don't need to show you that, you know how to do that. Remove your riving knife because you will not use your riving knife when you're using a dado-stack. Set that aside, make sure you store it someplace where you can find it when you put back on your real one. Now all you have to do is reach down and unlock what's called a cartridge key and that's got a red handle on it, easy to spot. Reach down, turn it up 90 degrees and pull it out to the right. I like to, in order to get the brake off, give it just a little nudge by putting this in behind it and get it started and then I can take it off very easily. Now you're going to put back on the brake that's designed for the dado-stack. It has a positioning, excuse me, it has a pivot hole and a positioning hole. So you put the pivot hole over the pivot rod and that's kind of located right underneath this riving knife handle and then find where that positioning hole goes over the positioning rod and you'll kind of know you won't be able to move the brake. Reinsert the cartridge key, so put that in and press down on it. Now everything should feel nice and secure. Put on your dado-stack. If your dado-stack is more than three-eighths of an inch wide and it normally will be for most applications, do not put back on your arbor washer. Just use the nut itself. Yes, that's in the saw stop manual. So put on your dado-stack, spin the blade, make sure it's not hitting anything. You want to do that by hand, not with your motor. And then check to make sure that the distance between the tip of the dado-stack and the cartridge here is the disc credit card distance or the distance of this little tool that they give you. That is it.  That's how easy it is to change to a dado-stack on a saw stop. My workshop guy hoping that you'll give me a like, a comment and a subscription. And if you did not like the video, go ahead and let me know that in spades by hitting the thumbs down button twice. Stay safe in your workshop. We'll see you next time.


Namaste Viewers and welcome to the episode 6 of NICU Diaries and to answer your queries I have Dr. Ravi Swami and Dr. Sanjeeva Reddy joining in today. How do you handle ethical considerations and decision making in NICU such as end-of-life care? Can you just throw some light on that? So in an ICU environment unfortunately there will be times when we have to talk about the outcome. So most babies that come through to NICU they have a very favorable outcome. So they recover and go home but there are times when the condition that we are treating for is such that the outcome is futile. So these are the times when we have to have some difficult conversations. So we sit down with parents, so try and gather as much information as possible about the baby and also try and speak to the parents in a manner they understand about all the things that is happening with a particular baby. So once we have decided on what is the condition and what are the likely outcomes, we have a set process in place so where we explain the likely outcomes and then get the parents consent and get them to sign the appropriate paperwork so that we can do it in an acceptable and legal way. What would be the long-term developmental and health outcomes for infants who spent more time in an ICU? It is not generalizable so basically the developmental outcomes depend on what the baby is admitted for. So for example if you have a baby who is extremely premature so they have set complications that is expected to happen in an ICU so the outcome and the eventual development, neurodevelopmental outcome will depend on what exactly will happen. So the key principle is that if earlier the baby is born the more likely the chance of the neurodevelopmental outcome is and the complication rate also increases. Can you just provide some insights about what are the recent advancements and breakthroughs in neonatal medicine per se that have improved the outcomes for the infants who are there in an ICU? So there are multiple beehive research going on but if you say name two or three which really had a major breakthrough would be revolutionized how we look after the pre-term babies that has improved their breathing outcome. The second thing would be the therapeutic hypothermia which is also for babies who have got lack of oxygen that has come as a very significant treatment. The third thing would be medicines like antenatal steroids previously most of the medicines which we are focusing on the babies but giving the steroids to the mother that has made a huge difference in our outcomes as well. So these are sort of the three main papers I would probably say that has revolutionized the neuro-treatment. What would be the key research areas that you think in neonatalgy and ICU that we as a hospital are focusing currently on? So currently most of us have our own interest in what we would like so predominantly my research focuses on the brain so I am looking at term babies who have got lack of oxygen and that is where my predominantly research has been going on. So the last ten years I have spent in how best we can work on this so we have just completed one multi-country act to be honest a randomized controlled trial a couple of years back in Lancet we are doing one more study now a lot of things to understand so it is still exciting to look forward actually. That ends our episode 6 thank you so much viewers for watching us.