Right on yeah Ladies and gentlemen be angered So we had two bags of grass 75 pellets of mescaline five sheets of high-powered blotter acid salt-sugar full of cocaine a whole galaxy of multi colors uppers downers screamers laughers and As Jerry packed the first bowl and he handed to me.   I'm single dad. I do a lot of coding I work for a company called new contacts used to be called edge case and I also ship mobile software on the side under I know spoon if any of that is of any interest to you then holler at your boy So just a little level setting here at the front is that a lot of what I'm going to talk about Is stuff that not a lot of people want to measure. So it's a lot of conjecture in here So if you want to argue about it, you that's totally fine and very appropriate So and this is a true and utterly infallible statistic. You heard so When I start talking about this this this particular talk is You know, it's a much longer form so much jam it into 20 minutes, but what's interesting is the context. So what I'm interested in is is how you take common idioms that have been that become what we consider to be the natural way the definitive path the dominant culture that which we accept as a culture and What we can glean from learn and pull from subcultures French cultures and of course countercultures now French is Way way out there and usually it's so batshit crazy that it's very hard to assimilate anything from there But it's fun to go visit right so make sure you go check that out Subcultures tend to be microcultures that actually live and coexist with the dominant culture Maybe there are a few bits there and there that they they still like about the dominant culture They can kind of react to they can interop with But they kind of have a different take on what is perceived as normal and there seems to be a nice symbiosis between The subculture and the dominant culture now the difference between the subculture and the counterculture is pretty much attitude right, so it also co-exists but it exists in a different way almost as a combative way or as a Counterversion of the dominant culture So I pretty definitive. Oh, yes, and I must also mention Thank You brother Frank Is that we all wear a uniform so no matter how different you think you are of course you were going to fall into some subset of a group somewhere and that's okay, right, so yes celebrate your individuality and Know when you're enjoying your unique flower that is you But also remember that we do all in fact wear a uniform So I'll talk about this particular idiom in the context of process So for a very long time waterfall was the dominant culture Way the enterprise large enterprise and even as smaller ones would come on they say all right It's got to go through this design phase trickle on down here to the dead phase Trickle on down to the legal team trickle on down to this other team. Oh, we fucked it up Send it all the way back to the top and do it all over again, right is all common knowledge Yes, a lot so all right, so bunch of hippies got together and decided man Let's take all that apart and we're gonna distill it down to the coolest stuff man And we're gonna talk about four concepts It's gonna be a total philosophy and people will be free to do whatever they like and it'll be a beautiful world And we'll all communicate and it'll be amazing And then the dominant culture eventually goes and consumes that counterculture Because that counterculture is successful Right, and they say wow they must be on to something But I don't think we could get away with letting people do whatever they want So we are going to start stamping out some uniformity to it And we're seeing this in agile now so everybody know who's on the left Gary Olden, right? So we got Sid Nancy over here, and then of course punk is dead and we got what we call punk today, right? So it may not be dead. You just have to search for it But what we would assume and what some people will come into as Identifying as a particular thing that actually had some roots in some historical context that made sense at the time is washed away and then what they experience as A particular philosophy or idiom is completely different than why it came to be The dominant culture because of need that created the subculture Came back to the subculture of the counterculture and took it back, but turned it into something else Knowledge without application is worthless If you just take the knowledge and you don't get the wisdom You leave a lot out of the equation. Yes Or you do this right familiar with cargo Goldie. Yeah, I'm sure that plane flies really well, doesn't it? So we look at what I see in a lot of enterprises and a lot of small groups today Or we're relying on what we call agile or what my friend Baker likes to call agile with a little a or what I heard today from From the Walker, Wisconsin Ranger over here Scrum butt we do scrum butt something else Or scrummer fall I've heard and there's an overemphasis on Certifications on a dictated path on a well-worn and tried methodology for success we increase our standardizations we increase our process we communicate less and we cover our own asses There is more and more noise and less and less signal You'll still call it agile, but the manifestos for principles simply get obfuscated and lost This is a danger when the dominant culture takes over the idioms They gape the motions of the subculture, but takes none of the wisdom along for the ride And when you see this it's up to you how you want to respond to it Some folks that tell me Leon, but that's reality. That's the way it is and I say really That's your reality What are you gonna do about it? The simulacrum is never that which conceals truth is the truth that conceals. There's none The simulacrum is true You can defy any reality that is put forth before you that you do not agree with it doesn't make sense This is how we got some of the best things we did out of this community This is one of the things that drew me to Ruby is one of the things that drew me to all the other crazy Languages and platforms and communities that I like to go play with Is the fact that we've got a lot of people in a dominant culture saying that this is what is right This is what is correct and if I don't agree with it I can either stay and fight I can stay and work against how I feel about it Or I could simply go find a different uniform and go play with a different subset of cats But it is up to you to go and do it So reality in its entirety is how you perceive it I hope there's no light-sensitive people that we were hearing about earlier that might make you fall down Sorry about that Look away.  Exactly. Amen. We know that not to be true, and yet a lot of us continue to fall into that same pattern. That same choice. So there are different ways of looking at the world. You do not have to learn the same way that everyone else does. You may not learn the same as everyone else does. This leaves people feeling impotent, feeling powerless. I love this quote from Brave New World, a feeling that I've got something important to say and all the power to say it. Only I don't know what it is, and I can't make use of any of that power. That is terrible. Instead, I'd rather have this kid's attitude. Take over the world. It is mine. And I like to remember that there really is only one rule, that there are no rules. There is only your perception. There is only that which you perceive to be true to you at any given moment, and that can change at all times. So, someone might tell you the way to figure out large complex computing problems is to read a bunch of books. I'm going to suggest an alternative. So this here is Dennis Weir, and he wrote a great little article called the use of LSD 25 for computer programming. In 1975, couldn't figure out this crazy thing.  But this is perfect. And there was nothing that anyone could have told him any other way. He had tried every other idiom, every practice, every technique that had came before him and didn't work. So he went off the deep end and tried something completely different, and that system was in use for 20 years. So well done. The subjective reality of others did not have to be his. Boread has a great quote, we live in a world where there is more and more information and less and less meaning. So you can keep compiling information until you're blue in the face. You could continue to pick up ones and zeros and ones and zeros after ones and zeros, but if you don't understand why you're playing with them, then it's going to feel more and more empty. You will feel more and more like the jack of all trades and the master of none, yes? So, you know, in fact, a side note, somebody said Heshish was going to be gone before my talk and I got really excited, and then I met him. It wasn't exactly what I was hoping for, but he's beautiful and he gives wonderful hugs. So, but having to meet this person, having to meet all of you and having the wonderful opportunity to go out and see the world through other people's perspectives allows me the wonderful opportunity to derive more and more meaning in what I do by being able to hear and see and reconcile that against the voices that are in the same field, to see it with and tandem and parallel and in complete opposite orthogonal paths and to understand that there is no universal way to do anything. For a long time I would listen to some of my brothers and sisters who said, Leon, if you're not doing TDD 100% of the time with 100% code coverage, you're not a real developer. Leon, if you're not doing X, Y, and Z, you're not a real developer. That's fine. You may not perceive me as one. That does not make it true. That does not make it real. So it's incumbent upon me to share my vision as well. But perception there is reality. So if you do not feel that it's working out, it is incumbent upon you to move it forward. So one person inspired me, probably inspired a lot of you guys and left us all in the dark. It was why. And I remember reading technical book after technical book after technical book and going, this is the driest thing on the planet. I got too much ADHD. I can't get past chapter two. This isn't working. And then this guy had crazy foxes yelling at the author telling me I'm supposed to get an onion with the book. Like, I'm in, baby. Let's do this. And I haven't seen a book like it since. Now I saw a good version, right? A good new second there, learn you a Haskell for a greater good, right? Did I get that right? You know, yeah, there's my Haskell friends. And then somebody turned that over to the Erlang side and that was pretty sexy too. But I could count three alternative points of view in books in learning a language. And the thing that we do in a sea of people who are completely different. In a sea of people who every time I talk to them remind me how unique and special and individual each one of us says, you cannot paint us into boxes. You cannot put us into these little things. You cannot say that we are pocket protective and wearing, you know, a bandage on the glasses kind of thing. That thing is old. It's dead. It's outdated. It doesn't exist. Now, there are some of you who may subscribe to that and live that and honor it. And I bless you as well. That's wonderful. But that's not everyone. And it's up to us to remind the world that that's the case. That we are a wonderfully diverse subset of experts and individuals.  Right? Look at that. I can't even... I want to know how to do a grand chateau from that kid, man. That guy knows what he's doing. And I'm sure there's a lot of people that tell me he couldn't do it. A lot of people tell me he needs to go live his life a completely different way to do the thing that he's passionate about. God, I hope that's not Photoshop. It's like this one. You can find it anywhere, but you have to look. And sometimes it's going to be in the most crazy place. You might have to go to somewhere that you didn't think that you'd ever go to find it. But it is out there to be had. If you feel trapped in your job, if you were waiting for permission from a boss or an employer or a community or your family, you are waiting too long. You've already made the choice that you want to improve that you want to see the world from a different point of view.  A common excuse I get is time of which I'm running short on. And they'll say, Leon, I want to really learn Ruby, but I don't have time to do it, and I say you're absolutely right. Leon, I want to learn how to program in airline, but I don't have time. Yes, you are absolutely right. You have all the time in the world to do whatever you want. It's up to you whether or not you decide to take it. You must find the way to get past the micro measurement of time. At this moment in our life, we live in a time where we can measure it down beneath the nanosecond, right? We can go crazy with it. But for most of human existence, time was a completely relative construct. It was something like, I'll get you in a fortnight. It'll happen in the next season. I'll see you at dawn. I'll see you at dusk at high noon when the sun is in this sky, when this constellation is above us. And it wasn't until a couple hundred years ago where it got a little more specific. And then another hundred got even more specific. And in the last 20, it's gotten ridiculously specific. To the point where I'll hear somebody say, if you don't show up to work on time every day at 8.30, you can't be a productive member of society. Really? What if you work really well at night? What if you're like me and you like to be up from midnight to five? What if that's your most productive time? It doesn't exist. It's a notion, right? Hell, it was an hour earlier, like just the other day when I was traveling across states to get here. It doesn't exist. If you want something, you can get it. You will find the time, you have the time.  I love this quote from Dalai Lama, says, man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money, then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he's so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present. The result being that he does not live in the present or the future. He lives as if he's never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived. Bless you. I find this to be incredibly sad. I have seen many people, I've met many wonderful people over the years, and they all have taught me something unique. They have all allowed me to see the world in a completely different way. Even a five-minute conversation is enough to take your entire view and just move it a slight bit.  Morality is temporary. The way that we judge things is temporary. Wisdom is permanent. Thank you, Thompson.  Those don't go away. You take those everywhere. And to bring it back to code, I will leave you with something that I say a lot. Code is a living representation of who you are right now. Tomorrow it will be different. I have yet to meet somebody who didn't show me their code without first apologizing for it. And the truth of the matter is you're simply apologizing for being who you were when you wrote it. And that's all it is. There's no set path. There's no way to get to perfect. Perfect doesn't exist. There's only the wisdom and experience and love you carry in your heart. Code is a living representation of who you are right now. And if you wanted to get better, make sure that you see the living representation of those around you everywhere you go. And carry that with you to your next conference, to your next conversation, and share and share and share. Thank you all so very much.


What's going on everyone Sam here with latent sports cards doing a one-box break of 2022 top-scrone baseball jumbo HTA for hyeong-kyu I So good luck here hyeong-kyu see what we can get in in this one for you buddy five autographs Maybe it's super super to maybe just every every single card in this is super that would be cool Think that's relatively close Honestly nice prism Raphael Devers and refractor Nick Castiano the Seth beer base rookie beer Great amber shake on a wall and part of the city is J ran is it on Tony? Was 87 throwback silver salvi silver salvi Brandon Marsh rookie Angel JD got Joe Ryan on the pink mini diamonds rookie nice to 92 out of 350 That'll work Joey Vado, then we've got Chris Taylor on the aqua wave vet auto 111 out of 199 one one one one and Rodolfo Castro or Castro on the refractor rookie What's up? There's a Gavin sheet space rookie Real me too But there's a wander Franco rookie there you go hyeong-kyu Bobby doll that Christian yellow refractor Curtis Terry rookie Forrest favorite player Bobby doll that does the centric and cast back down Let's trade it for a wash. Let Bobby eat Let Bobby cook. That's what the forest is saying Riley Adams Freddie Freeman max crannick rookie auto. I get that strike out 37% or something like that God zander bogey Probably not super unrealistic though Take burger on top. There you go. Wait, son That is a prism Anthony Rizzo and Tyler McGill on the You don't forget it autos in the silver packs. I'm not right. I wouldn't think so, but I don't know That is a purple mini diamonds Rodolfo Castro 119 out of 299 high-risk Starling Marseille on the prism and Strasburg refractor Jane Beaver to Brian Hayes Jake Meyers from there's another wander that time in 87 throwback refractor Niko Horner There's a large new bar rookie for the Cardinals Niko Horner on the prism and we've got a refractor auto great Deakman rookie for the Cubs 134 out of 499 Congrats on that one there young Q and a Max Scherzer refractor. There's the doll Bruhan Eli Morgan, that's Chris sale on the prism followed by a Francisco Perez rookie auto going through the national and Longo refractor That was so cool that what Lane told us about long goes that knob Lilia Charizard Tyler Gilbert, that's a boba shut negative is gonna be Carlos Santana Not numbered going to the Royals. That is an Aaron judge prism nice one there followed by a read debt Merz rookie auto for the Angels and A Chris Bryant refractors a good pack right there negative and Redet Merz rookie auto last pack before your silver pack here young Q Christian yellowish penstripe Jesse winker Chas McCormick refractor rookie. I'll do it for the Main box now. Let's do some our 2022 top scrims silver pack Give me which one of us give me the first one to pull Right here real quick Alteva Kevo Marta trade turner and refractor rookie Curtis Terry That'll do for your box. You're young Q. Congrats on the hits again, buddy. We will get those right out to you


What's good y'all chris from Jack's case breaks calm doing another 2022 fanatics under wraps 2.0 autograph baseballs Three box break number nine with nine random players each of the way. It works. It's 19 spots each spot right here. So from Steve To me Patrick Nicholas Colin Jeremy Colin Steven Jeremy Steve Jeremy Kevin With the last one of these 19 names got multiplied nine times So all the way down to this last Kevin for all of our spots here all the way down from a to Z 171 spots on both And you know I'll sign multiple baseballs all the way down to Zach Wheeler. So we'll do this dice randomizer for both Good luck five and four nine times Here we go our nine names our nines 171 it goes one two three four five six seven eight and Last one nine So from Kevin all the way down to Colin. I Need to see How he filled this all out and then nine here on the players. Good luck one two three Four five six seven eight and last one nine nine times So Carlos Rodan all the way down to ball Paul This will be a fun little recap, huh, how quickly can I do this? Let's do it in I guess in 27s Kevin with Carlos Rodan Jeremy with Bernie Williams Kevin with Jordan Lauer Kevin with geo or shella Jeremy with Bill Mazurowski Kevin with Mike Piazza Frank Thomas Chipper junk Pedro Martinez calling with Tim range Jeremy with Daniel Murphy and Vladdie senior Kevin with Tony Perez mark McGuire call him with Eric Davis Kevin with wait. Let's do like this Let's be smart. We'll give you a few seconds if you want to look and pause Please do I'm gonna give you a few moments each those from Kevin down to Kevin Carlos Rodan down to Aaron We'll get 27 more would be 28 Jeremy port with Dale Murphy Down to Jeremy port with Randy Johnson To five let's grab 54. I thought so. I was like Joe would be here literally all day Jeremy with Mike Schmidt Down to Jake Cronamorth one two It would take him I would take anybody all day. This is too many lots of names nine spot seats nice players Nine players per spot Jeremy port with no one Ryan down to Steve Cootie and Mookie Betts So quick pause if anybody wants to look at that Kevin Holloway with Ichiro nice one there Down to Colin with any and all multi-signed baseball So that's an interesting spot. There are a few of these that have a few different players on them If there are any of the the dual triple whatever Colin go into the head Kevin with Walker Buehr Down to Kevin with Carl Gistramski Go Steelers And the last little chunk right here Stephen Kendrick with Adley Rushman down to Colin and Paul Goldschmidt All right. I uh I'm gonna wait to do a prince on this I'm gonna ask Joe how he did it, but I think we can just get to breaking though on the baseballs So the way I have it I Have four stacks of three Each stack will be their own thing obviously one two three and four grab our dice Hit the designated and assigned dice number if it's a five or a six we will reroll until we get Like that five will do a reroll Four So this last one on the rights will be our three. I think we're good to go. Good luck everyone. Let's have some fun First of three I will upload number 10. I'm gonna site right after this three more baseballs Here we'll do let's do a little bit of who am I right shall we so I got the first one right here. Who am I I Am a retired player I Played for 19 seasons. I won two batting titles. I Won a rookie of the year I'm a ten-time all-star a ten-time gold guava a three-time silver slugger an MVP and The last one may give it away. So I'll wait here. So all of those accolades 19 seasons Canon of an arm the last thing on here an all-star game MVP all it from All I'll say for the last 20 years He also led the league in steals once Let the league in hits one two three four five six seven times He is the all-time professional baseball hit leader It is Ichiro Suzuki Ichiro Suzuki I'm the control F on this one Each year I'll going to Kevin Holloway Ichiro Suzuki first down nice Nice start right there active player. He's played for seven seasons He's a two-time all-star and a world champ. I have a career triple slash line of 231 355 and 473 is an 828 OPS I'll put ties the list thought so it's crazy It is crazy This see I've spent my career with two teams Seven seasons between two teams Two-time all-star world series champ also competed in a home run derby Didn't win but competed going once going twice going thrice Go on to the last comment Stephen Kendrick will get Max Muncie max Muncie autograph baseball Max Muncie Going to steep and last box. Thanks again over getting this break filled out Number 10 will be on the site very very shortly Just a quick and easy three-box break This is what this is where I stand. I love the baseball trivia All right So this one's gonna be a little easier. I think there's not a lot of prospects on the list But I am a prospect on the New York Yankees Coming into this season the baseball America top 100 prospect list. I was number 87. I Played in the 2021 and 2022 future stars game My stats this season there it is Brandon Richards first on the dot. It is Jason Dominguez the Martian Jason Dominguez going to Colin J Dom on the signature. I do like Jason Dominguez a signature. It's nice the youngster gets it. All right quick and easy three boxes autographed Fanatics under route 2022 PYT Random players number 10 will be on the site very very soon. Thanks again. Josh's case breaks calm


Catch up and get ahead with the edge for the week of May 10th. Austin residents had a message for Uber. Money camp by you love. By a margin of 56 percent to 44 percent, Austin voters resoundingly rejected Proposition 1 and kept the requirement that drivers for ride handling companies pass 10 fingerprint background checks. Lyft and Uber spent eight million dollars campaigning for Prop 1, according to KUT Austin Public Radio Station, that's eight times as much as has ever been spent on a local Austin election before. Uber and Lyft said they'd leave town rather than comply with the regulations, but according to the Texas Tribune, a new company known as Get Me is ready to fill the gap and has no problem complying with local regulations, including fingerprint background checks. At Nowcast SA, we have some quick answers to common questions, including an article debunking the myth that ride-hailing companies cause a drop in drunk driving crashes. The American Lung Association just issued a report giving Bear County an F for ozone. That's only a problem if you breathe. San Antonio has unhealthy levels of ozone that could cause premature death, asthma attacks, and heart disease according to the American Lung Association's Just Released State of the Air report. Councilman Ron Nuremberg says San Antonio should get moving and clean up the air after flunking the ozone test. He's looking ahead at a new city ordinance that would stop big trucks, trucks from idling their engines more than five minutes. This month would be the 100th birthday of former congressman who was so beloved that most San Antonians referred to him simply as Henry B. We at Nowcast SA live streamed the day-long celebration of Gonzalez's centennial that included his friends and family recalling vivid stories about his legacy and impact. At the heart of it all was Henry B. Gonzalez's dedication to public service and to the people he represented. All the practical things where government interfaces with people, he worked. He had a fantastic constituency service reputation. The one unforgivable sin in his office staff was not to answer people's calls and not to respond to their letters and not to take care of the problem that they had. And if they wouldn't do it he did it himself. About 1,000 COPS Metro Alliance members gathered at Edison High School to honor their leaders and celebrate 40 years of change. At the same time they're pushing forward with the campaign to have public sector workers be paid a living wage. San Antonio Independent School District Chair Patty Radle thanked the group for helping the district raise wages by 20% for his entry-level employees this year. Watch the video as San Antonio City Council members Ron Nuremberg, Shirley Gonzalez, Roberto Trevino and Rebecca Villagran respond to COPS about increasing wages more for city employees. Will you support establishing a wage requirement of $9.50 an hour for future city contracts? Yes, I will with very much pride. I'm proud to do so. Thank you. That was a yes. Councilwoman Villagran, your response please. Yes, absolutely. Thank you. Councilman Trevino, your response. Yes, and yes. Wonderful. Thank you. Mr. Nuremberg, your response. Yes, and on that second point it should have been done a long time ago. Thank you. Find all of this and more at nowcastsa.com. Thanks for watching The Edge. See you next time.


He has a hundred thousand more health than me, Bonnie. He's running around so much. I see who the strongest is. I don't do any damage! Bonnie, are you attacking him? Try res me, try res me. Okay, uh... I see why he can't res you. Not usable. Ah! Oh god! Frick! When do we ever get to do my first raid or uh, arenas or whatever? You wanna do arenas? Yeah. Do you want to? Wait, what the heck? Oh, we're doing an arena? This is skirmish. What's a skirmish? It's like a practice.  What is this? This is an arena skirmish. And we like have bad gear.  Other people have way better gear.  No, I'm not gonna yell at you. Well, I remember when you yelled at me and I cried. Today? I'm just kidding. It literally never happened. Your arena is ready. We're not ready. We don't have any gear. Okay, buffing? Buffing? Okay, buff, buff, buff. I'm buffing, I'm buffing, I'm buffing. Yeah, it's just Bonnie. It's just a skirmish. It doesn't matter. I don't even know what this is. Yeah, just try and just do your best. Do my best. Don't have any good gear. Like, I don't know how to heal. I think other people, they don't take any damage and I die so fast. In order for me to heal myself, I have to go into like human form. Yeah, it's fine. Just do your best. It's time for the show. It's fighting a... Okay, it's a 2v1, but he has what? He has 100,000 more health than me, Bonnie. It's a panda named Skadoosh. This guy could actually probably 2v1 us. Are you ready? Wait, here. Wait, wait, wait. Let me go and... Wait, hide. You can't see me. You can't see me. Isn't he new? He definitely can't see me. Look where I am. Are you helping? Are you helping? I'm helping. I'm helping. Look. He's running around so much. I'm scared. I don't do any damage. Why is he dancing? I don't do any damage. Are you attacking him? Should I rescue? Okay, not rescue. Not usable. Ah! Oh god! Frick! Yourself? No, no. I'm just watching. His health is going up, Bonnie. Because you're not doing enough damage. Just attack. I'll do this. Just rescue. I can't rescue. It's not available in arena. No, that's the wrong res. Do the other res. Oh, this one. Oh god, he's coming. Hurry! Cast faster! Try again. He can't hear you. He can't? You need to cast entangling roots on him. Oh, nice. Okay, okay. Where is he? It's your F, I think. Frick, now you got it. Run away and then res me. Okay, okay, okay. Oh, he fell asleep. He doesn't see you. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Here, click me. Okay, run away. Stand right there. Stand in catty corner. No, no. He'll left and then res me. Straight left a little bit. A little more. One more. He's coming! Frick! You got it off. Okay, okay, hold on. I don't think you noticed. No, he did. Are you sure? He's awaiting. Oh my god. Frick! Frick! Okay, try to res me again. Try to res me again. Oh god, he's standing there. He doesn't see you.  He's coming, he's coming, he's coming. He sees it. Okay. It's so obvious. I'll hide, I'll hide. All intangling roots, all intangling roots. Got him. Wait, I intangled myself? Wait, no I didn't. That's impossible. Got him. Okay, are you feeling? Okay, I'm healing. No, he'll never know. It's not being feared. Big damn, big damn, big damn. That was great. Okay, so you got a victorious contender strongbox. That was super funny. That was super good. That was super good. I saw on the subred that you hate women close to your face. Girls just scare me sometimes. What's up dude? Are you scared? Sometimes. Usually. Yeah.  Yeah, I like a hundred. You had a hundred girlfriends before? Yeah, same time.  You said you had a girlfriend before, didn't you? Yeah, like a hundred of them. No, we had this conversation once. You said your longest relationship was like... Like ten years. Ten years? Okay. A hundred of them for ten years each.  Yeah, I am. What? I have a girlfriend now, but she goes to a different school. A different school? Yeah, she goes to a different school. Yeah, she goes to a different school. You don't even go to school. Yeah, that's why it's different. Did you guys ever know anybody who said that? She goes to a different school. She goes to another high school. Have you ever lied about that? Um... Oh my God, you did. No. Kevin went to the office. But it's like a real thing. You said she goes to a different school. I'm the girlfriend of another school. Chad, type one of your girlfriend from another school.


Think Tech Hawaii. Civil engagement lives here. I'm Crystal Qua, long time no see for you Think Tech fans out there. Today I'm here on behalf of the Outreach College at UH Manoa because I would love to share with you a very exciting and interesting cultural performance that's coming up at UH Manoa at the Kennedy Theater. I've got a very international set of guests today and I'm going to introduce them now to you. Basically, this is going to be the performance of the Ramayana, a Balinese traditional dance and theater, dance and music production. So on my first side, we have I Made Moja from Batuan, which is a traditional arts village in Bali, correct? That's right. Yes. So Made is a professional Balinese dancer and painter also based in San Francisco. How long have you been in San Francisco for? It's over 18 years. Wow. It's been a while. So you're local. Pretty much local girls here. I'm going to look forward to hearing your tips about San Francisco and Balinese culture. And mixed to Made is, I'm going to say doctor, she earned her PhD recently. Congratulations to Dr. Annie Reynolds, who is the assistant artistic director at the Gamalansigara Madu. Correct. Which you're going to explain to us what that is in a bit. And also the assistant program director at the East-West Center. Is that right? At the East-West Center Arts Program. Arts Program. I'm in charge of this big production coming up next week. And you're also, you've been to Bali numerous times. You speak fluent. Indonesian. And Balinese. Incredible. Okay.  Last but not least, we have I Putu Gede Setiawan. Yes. All the way from Japan. From Japan, but absolutely and from Bali. I was there for more than 10 years. Okay. And you speak fluent Japanese too? Of course. Wow. This is a really impressive international panel. And Putu is also a professional musician and Gamalan teacher from Bali, who is the artistic director at the Ottono Mori Gamalan Studio. And that's in Tokyo. Yes. Yes. So what is your common thread today? The strongest common thread. The three of you are here for it today. Okay. Oh, that's the answer. Right. There are so many threads. Yeah. Son of music. They bring me. We get together.  Great. Story, dance as well. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Absolutely. And what's really neat is we're bringing through this project, we're bringing two groups together. So what's really wonderful about the Ottono Mori and Gamalan Sagara Madu. Can you translate and tell me what the meaning of those are first? So Ottono Mori Gamalan from Tokyo is the sound of the forest. Sound of the forest. And then our UH-based Balinese Gamalan Ensemble Gamalan Sagara Madu means the ocean of honey. Wow. Yeah. So we're bringing the ocean and the forest together with this project. So I think our common thread, what we're finding, which is so neat, is that Gamalan Sagara Madu teaches, he's from Bali. He's a Balinese artist. And he teaches in Tokyo. He's based in Tokyo as well. Our artistic director here in Honolulu, also from Bali, but based locally. And so each group has these very strong ties to Bali as well. So as the artists are coming, so we have these the artists who are Japanese, who are coming from Ottono Mori from Tokyo coming to work with our local artists. We have so many threads of all work with as well back in Bali. And then coming here to hopefully present this production together. Is this the first time a collaboration of this international scale has come together for a performance here? This is under the Asia-Pacific Dance Festival, yes? And so we have San Francisco, Japan, Hawaii, Indonesia, Bali. It's really quite diverse. This is absolutely amazing because this is this crazy project. This is from me first. Yeah, I just make a joke how to show the Balinese performance. But the members will be not Balinese. This is from Japan and from Hawaii. But doing the Balinese art. How do these Japanese people get involved and become so interested in this? Yeah, but some of the Balinese, my student is so interesting about the Bali. Then absolutely for this project, it's Ramayana. It's very difficult because we have to talk about the dance, talk about the music, talk about how it's called Dalaam. What does it mean? The narrator. Yes, the narrator. And then how to mix in one. It's very difficult. But my student can do it well. Then I was a performer in Bali first. Then at Yokohama and Tokyo. Then this time I have to make a collaboration with how I do. Then I have to make more, more, more, more success. This is my dream. Well, I think you're reaching it because it's a really great start up. Let's back up a little bit and talk about the origins of the story of the Ramayana. So the title is Ramayana, the Abduction of Sita. Would you like to share where the origins from and what is the Balinese interpretation of it in a nutshell? Made? This Hindu epic story, this Ramayana, this original comes from India. So in Bali we have some different versions, as is the India version. But the story pretty much the same story from the end to the beginning to the end, pretty much the same. Just the way they show as an art performance, of course it's a bit different because the music and culture. But the Balinese version has been taken on for a long time? Yes. Bali is like one of the most like Hindus religions right now. Also the Hindus come from India. Also the culture kind of carry on with the religion as well. So for us culturally starved people out here in Honolulu, what is the story of Ramayana? The story of Ramayana is about, oh my goodness, it's a really wonderful epic tale about Prince Rama and Prince Sita. There's Rama, he's going to the forest with Lakshmana and with Sita. And then Ravana is the evil king. So we are upholding Rama as a very high moral wonderful prince and then kind of in opposition to the evil Ravana who's trying to take Sita. And that's the basic story. And we see how Ravana is kind of corrupt and a manipulator and kind of through that kind of manipulation. And along the way they're meeting all these different heroes that are trying to kind of help her. So that she's not Jatayu, the Garuda bird who's very heroic. So we get these wonderful kind of character dances.  I think we have photos. Between four to seven years old they live here. They're local kids here in Hawaii. So every different character, we have the whole gamut of the different character types from the refined to... And the masks. And the masks were made by Pat Moja. So we got to try them on. It's starting to come to life for these kids. It's excited when they try the masks. Pat Moja is also very talented as an artist too. We have a sketch of a painting. In fact I think you just described one of the scenes if we could see the sketch. Isn't that where he abducts her? Or what is it? This is when the sita is adopted by Arawana. Absolutely, before he takes the sita, he changed himself to... Old man. Old man. Old man is usually defined as a man. Thank you. He changed himself. I didn't say Alexa, did I? He heard Alexa. Go ahead. So he changed himself to old man who needs water to pray. He is going to pray.   And then he says, please give me water. Please give me water. Absolutely, before he takes the sita, she protected by a magical fire. No one can enter. No one can get the sita. That's why he makes a trick to... He changed himself to old man who said, give me water. Please give me water. Then sita heard, okay, I will give you water. Then some water, then give the old man. Give the water to old man that cuts the hand of the sita. But don't give away the whole story because... It's very interesting. But I wanted to bring back the attention that Mane drew that intricately gorgeous painting that is going to be auctioned off at our culinary celebration. But you also are from an arts village in Bali. Did you want to talk a little bit about that and how that influenced you as a person, as a creative person and how that ties in? There's a quick background. It's around 1978. My father came here. To Hawaii? Yeah, to Hawaii, doing some exhibition. So I just dream how Hawaii looked like. And I still dream in there. So I've been invited to come here for performance. I came forward for more. What is the... Would you say there's a commonality in the Hawaiian culture with Balinese culture? I think it's about nature. How to protect the nature. How to believe with nature. In Bali we have like three things that you have to keep in balance. That's the similarity between the way I see it, by my eyes. People in preserve the culture. Do you think this story is relevant to today? This is an epic story of a huge background, culturally speaking. How do you feel about the woman's position? Do you feel like the adduction of a female? Is that something we should talk about today? Or do women need saving today? What do you take away from this story? I would say she actually comes across as a very strong character. She's the one making things happen. She tells her where to go. It's the objection of her in that one scene. But Hanuman comes to her. She's not going to let anybody come in. She wants to know who you are. She wants proof that you're coming on Rama's behalf. In the end we see her as a very strong character. She's saved because of her own will as well. Is the Rama epic also? How did Rama love his wife? He's so lovely. He loves sacrifice in this story. That's definitely relevant to today. Absolutely. Sacrifice. Women who seem to appear to be victims. They come across certain situations on their own strength. That's a little something for us to chew on for a quick break. We'll be back and we'll continue talking about the performance of the Ramayana. Stay tuned and we'll talk and learn more about their culture. I'm Ethan Allen, your host on Pacific Partnerships in Education here on Think Tech Hawaii. Every other week, Tuesdays at 3pm, we'll talk about the fascinating, interesting and unique partnerships in education that occur across the Pacific Islands with Hawaii, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Guam. All these places have really rich local education programs going on and the exchange among and between these programs is a wealth of great information helping the islands all learn how to survive and thrive in our ever-changing world. Thank you for your partnerships in education. I'm Jay Fiedel, Think Tech. Think Tech loves energy. I'm the host of Mina, Marco and Me, which is Mina Marita, former chair of the PUC, former legislator, and Energy Dynamics, a consulting organization in energy. Marco Mangelsdorf is the CEO of Provision Solar in Hilo. Every two weeks, we talk about energy, everything about energy. Come around and watch us. We talk about energy every two days, every two weeks on Think Tech. Aloha. Welcome back to Think Tech. I'm Crystal Kwok here on behalf of Outreach College, UH Manoa, interviewing three wonderful guests international about the performance of the Ramayana, the abduction of Sita.  We have Annie, who just got her doctorate. We're also in charge of this whole performance with the East West Center arts program. And we have Putu from Japan, part of the Golan Musician. I love it. I love that we're so international here in Hawaii doing this amazing cultural performance. So let's talk about this. You just came together a few days ago, and you have this intense rehearsal schedule to put together. Now, how many people in this ensemble? In total, artists on stage will have over 50, nearing 60 artists. I thought it was 30, and then I recounted and realized how many of us there are. And collaborations from different countries, different languages, different pages, different performance art bases, different levels of performers, different levels of professionalism. It's really, it's really So share some stories or have, what about this process in this short time of this rehearsal? We have some photos of your rehearsals. Is there anything that you'd like to share during this process? Of course. Okay, like this, the children, the deers. So very cute. Absolutely. I don't think we will have the cute deer, three percent. Do we have to leave across the stage? Yes, of course. Then, so they are so on, and also this one is from my student, this is from Japan, and another four percent is from Hawaii. They are so amazing. Good team works. So in the center that, oh, if we go back to the last picture, that was Sita at the center. Oh, so she's like Sita. Yeah. So on the behind, there's a lots of instruments. This is a ballet instrument. It's more than 20? Yeah, it's any kind of instrument, so we have to make it one performance. So it's very difficult. Absolutely. Because no text. All the music, we have to mine in our minds then we play. Why don't you have text? Because ballet is a traditional music, it's without text. Without text. Now it's around one and a half. All is our mind and then we have to play. It's so difficult. So everything is taught by year. So they learned the music and their ensemble before when they did other productions of it, they had their musicians and dancers working together in Japan. And they'd worked with Balinese artists and learned. But it's all taught through repetition and patience of the teachers. But you've been rehearsing your portion in Japan. Yes. And then we've been learning, from our teacher, Imade, madewidana has been teaching. We've been learning this music for about eight months now. Scene by scene. And so we haven't had the luxury of having the dancers to watch for our cues. So he has our teacher. You can't have like a camera there. It doesn't work. We're imagining the scene. So made sitting in rehearsal saying, okay this is the scene where they're in the forest and this is We have one more photo that we actually skipped past. I wanted to see whether that was another. So that's madewidana. The teacher here. So you actually see him dancing here with the kids. He's the Hanuman character here. He's actually going to be one of the lead musicians in the ensemble. But as is traditional in Bali, musicians dance and dancers play music. So he's sitting here until we get, we're playing this role until we get our Hanuman dancer who comes from Japan today. So that the kids know how to follow their cues. Wow, that's fascinating. So you want to talk a little bit about the gamelan? We haven't talked about that. It's the music. People who don't know Balinese music. Yeah, absolutely. Balinese music is a Balinese traditional music. As I said before, to learn the Balinese music, of course not tax. This is our tradition. So we got to teach from our teacher and then learn and copy. Then we have to remember, then play. Whatever, whatever of music, whatever of title, how long the title also be reminded. How many different instruments are there? For the Balinese instruments, it will be more than six characters inside. Okay. And then the skills are different styles. Are there any gender roles to which skills are suitable for which instruments? Like in Japan, the taiko, are there... Absolutely, yes. Percussion is main. But for the drums, it will be used both of our hands. Mostly use some pangol. Yeah, the mallet. And the other one is like this. But we touch from right hand. But another left hand should be touch under the key. Because all of the instruments are made by cell phone. It's a sound noise. So we have to, on the same time, touch the key.  So that it's not all ringing. Because they're made of bronze keys with bamboo resonators. So noise. So if you just play it across, it will just be the all-ring. Wow. Okay, so you need to be very multi-tasking. You're acting layers. What about the dancing? How do you interpret with that music? How do you feed off the music? Or do you have your own technique that follows its own? Sometimes in this case, and this is the Ramayana, we kind of try to put the music in the dancer. Sometimes the dancer leads the music to get cute when getting higher and I mean louder when softer. Is that what they're doing? Yeah. And so in this case, kind of like we try to put it together when the music is going to be louder. So the dancer had some anticipation. The music can be louder. And then the dancer now to get kind of a cue to music louder. The dancer gives the cue for the music to be louder. In this case, I had to know, oh, this can be loud.  So between the dancer and the music kind of like building up. Sorry. That's why the dancer also be knowing about the music. The musician also knowing about the dance. If they know nothing, can make this together, can make it together. It's very interesting, it's one. So everyone will be knowing about the other. So you have to learn both things, really? Yeah, you have to know. To understand truth, following music and dance. Is there a certain type of training you need that's required for this? Yeah, I'm a musician. Sometimes I have to practice once how to get a cue, how to give a cue. So because I learned that, then I know the dancer will be give me a cue. That's the timing. The point is timing. When he will give the cue. What is the most difficult thing in this collaboration? What do you think it is? The merit of music, dance and narrator. So the narrator feeds off of again the intensity of the movement at the time. So she has to adjust accordingly. Or is it the other way around? Where the dancers listen to the narration and have to follow the narration. All at the same time. All at the same time. So now what the narrator is going to say, everyone does another whole thing. We're just kind of like, okay, I think he's going to say this.  Acting above the narrator. It's such a tradition to have a piece like this. People don't know cultural dance. They don't really know how to read a performance like this. It's almost like a painting put alive on stage. Do you want to elaborate on that? It's something very artistic. Sometimes you think this is all improvised, but of course not. When you see all the form, from beginning to the end, the music and the dance, you have some idea about improvised. Because you know exactly what's going to happen. So just more feel comfortable with that. The music is going to change here. The narrator is going to say this. Now you have to feel more comfortable to acting. Actings relate to dance. When you say acting, they have strong characters. They're written in. But how do they embody that in such a traditional movement? The traditional movement is based on the Balinese dance movement. Not just acting. Just like what? Gestures represent. All the gestures are more traditional way how to gesture something. To move something. And the different body postures as well. So if you have a refined female character, you have a body posture that goes with that. And it's kind of from the inside out. So what is the internal character and how do we express that through the external movements and gesture? So that would be on one end. Whereas the unrefined, the course would have different external kind of hand movements and gestures and body. There's a lot of that going on with Balinese. What does that mean? Give us a brief. Some people who come to see this performance I understand some of the language of it. The thing I know about the Balinese dance is the movements moving from head to toe.  And the fingers movement. It's kind of artistic. Sometimes more flaking like this. More like just gesture. Depends on the character. How do you train the eyes to do the thing? I think I learned from many teachers. You can learn just from the music you and then like that tongue. Kind of like that. And also you can learn with put your hand one in front. One inside. Show us like one quick so we can all just get into everything.  First you focus in the front. And then like look at the side. And then so when you dance you're not going to do this. Just to practice this how you move like this. Like you just have to practice that. Practice that way. And then you can dance high here. Instead this way. Just kind of the form. What is the body in this form? Does your eye get tired from that? Actually I think sometime after rehearsal I feel trapped because of my exercise. Wow. And the teachers really form the students as well. With their hands they form the students. There is so much that we could pick apart in this art form. It just goes so far back. I wish we had the time to do that. But unfortunately we don't. So we encourage people to go and actually see this performance. Do you want to share a little information on the upcoming performance? I think we have a flyer out there. It is on June 2nd and 3rd this weekend. That's right. Kennedy Theater. So the Ramayana. The abduction of Sita. That's the character of Rama there on the front. And you can see here our website with the number to call to get tickets. They're going fast actually. So I would suggest getting your tickets as quickly as you can so that you can get good seats for this. We're so thrilled to have over 50 artists working together on the stage. It's just an amazing collaboration and we're so thankful to Asia Pacific Dance Festival for making this happen. And it's going to be a really special performance here in Hawaii. For us and for the audience that gets to come and see this special performance. So thank you for all three of you for your time here and your wonderful presence in Hawaii bringing your culture here and this amazing collaboration and hope you support the arts by going to see the show and stay tuned for more Think Tech and thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you.


38 kilometers, I'll get you the splits back at the studio, oh man, so here's how it went down, hold on, let me get, so we got three mile warm up in the Peg 35's from Nike, the Reebok Float Ride Run Fast Pro, six miles in these guys for the threshold effort, and then 14 miles in the Audioz 4's, which I think puts us over 50 miles for this guy, so you know what that means, and yes, this is going to be my first impression of the Reebok Float Ride Run Fast Pro, publishing at three o'clock today, so the second video publishing today, holy smokes. So like I said, I don't know what my splits were, but I have a feeling we're on point for what I wanted to hit today for that threshold six miles in Washington Park, which I will just add is definitely not completely flat, you know, it's got some rollers in it, and we are at 5,280 feet above sea level, so it's an honest, honest course, I would say. Probably my guess would be for every two and a half mile loop around the park, I'm guessing you gain and lose about 150 feet of elevation, so just like, there's just rolling hills along the way, so alright, loading up, see you at the studio, oh, I'm excited. I almost forgot to mention cup practice, I didn't drop any cups, and I did learn one thing, I think it's going to be a sticky proposition in Cleveland, just like the Gatorade splashing all over me, and I definitely was doing the pinching tip that you all left in the comments two days ago, so just pinching it so it doesn't spill everywhere, and then drinking, it actually, it worked really well, but I guess I need to be a little faster pinching it down, moving at, you know, 520 pace, I definitely was spilling it all over myself, and so, anyway, it's just going to be a sticky situation, I have a feeling, alright, see you at the studio. Marathon training continues, it was just a great day, okay, I'm going to read you the splits here, warm up, 740, 720, 746, and then, so today was a three mile warm up, six mile threshold, and then a 14 mile middle distance run right after the threshold, so for the threshold, here are the splits, 521, 521, 515, 521, 516, 522, oh baby baby, and then it looks like I averaged about 655 to 7 minute pace, right around 7 minute pace for the next 14 miles for the middle distance portion, which is right about where I want it to be, I wasn't looking at my watch at all, all by feel, just go and just, all by feel, listen into the legs, and I'm pretty excited about this situation, let me just, oh man, oh so, good day, okay, let me pull up, what is today? Today is March 26th, so it's amazing, so this training block officially started January 1st, seems like a long time ago now, and now this is the third threshold run that I've done in this training block, and guess how many I have to go, three to go, it's amazing, so what I'm doing is a threshold run every two weeks, so my next one will be on April 9th, I'll go back to the exact same park, so the first three, I did a three mile threshold, a three mile threshold, and today a six mile threshold, in two weeks from now, I'll do a nine mile, two weeks from then, I'll do 12, and then the last one, which will be early May, I'll do a 15 mile threshold as one of my last hard efforts leading into the Cleveland Marathon, so that is what, that's kind of the breakdown of what I'm doing, and the reason, so, you know, gosh, I've seen different training plans out there do threshold runs every week, I prefer, I prefer to go every, every two weeks in order to put more aerobic base in the bank, in between each threshold effort, you know how much I love building up that aerobic base first, before going fast, and so today, yeah, I was going pretty fast, 520s, like that's, I guess I'll just bring this up right now, that's where I want to live, that's where I want to live, right there, 520s, 520s, keep in mind, so that's my goal, race, pace for Cleveland, 518 really, 518 a mile, that is the goal, race, pace, and tip of the day, here's, here's how you, oh my goodness, this is, this is critical for getting ready for a peak race, you really want to practice your goal, race, pace, alright, so for me it's 518s for the marathon, so today was basically right at like 519, 520 probably, and let's say you want to break 21 minutes for a 5k, that means you want to practice 650 per mile, because 7 minutes would be 21 minutes, and you can't forget 5k is 3.1, you can't forget that 0.1, so you want to go under 7 minute pace in order to get your legs used to going at that speed, and it's just training yourself to listen to your sensory data, so your sensory data is everything in your body that is all connected, your kinetic chain from really your lower back, all the way down to your feet, like you should be able, over time, you should be able to feel out without looking at your watch and just say to yourself, okay, I know, in fact this might be a good test for you, you should, don't look at your watch for like two miles on a run, and just say okay, I want to run eight minutes per mile in this workout, or I want to run 620 per mile, don't look at your watch and just see if you can get as close as possible to those splits in order to train yourself to get that feel in your legs, feel in the upper body, feel in everything, your breathing, and be like okay, I'm dialed in, write it for me today, write it 520, like I knew I was dialed in, I did look at my watch a couple times but I could feel it in my body, like this is 520 pace, so anyway that might be an interesting challenge if you're kind of struggling to hone in on your race pace, as we like to say dial it in baby, dial in that race pace, and yes I did get tired just so you know at mile 21, so the last two miles, the splits, let's actually look, the last two miles were, they were still interesting, okay well that's good, I felt really, really tired for mile 22 and 23, 648, 653, basically it was hot, you can probably see the sweat on my brow, it was hot out, it was 70 today, the first time it was in the 70s since October here in Denver, and so I ran out of Powerade on the 14 mile middle distance run after the threshold, so anyway and why not, let's do it, keyword is cups, that's right, that was fun to practice with the cups, again I didn't drop any but I need to work on keeping the splashing down a little bit and keeping in mind like they might, I should figure this out, like will they have volunteers in Cleveland, like sometimes a volunteer will hold it on their hand, sometimes they'll like hold it with their finger, it's crazy out there, it's just crazy but it's fun, okay question of the day, are you shooting for a PR in 2019, if so at what distance, alright, and yes the second video publishing today at 3pm mountain time will be my first impression of the Reebok Float Ride Run Fast Pro, which yeah, we'll probably talk about PRs in that video as well, so that's the question of the day, what distance for your PRs in 2019, and maybe throw out some goals as well with respect to race pace and hitting those PRs, alright, that's it ladies and gentlemen, I think I'm gonna call it, I might do a little more filming, we'll see later, I'm gonna basically go take care of my body now, seek beauty, work hard, work hard, work hard, dial it in, dial it in, I love each other, see you tomorrow, see you tomorrow, come back now, come back now, come back you're here


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Welcome to Digital Asset News. Take a look at what's going on there. I'll also take a look at World Mobile Token as it finally reveals it's going to allow staking for its earth nodes and all the stakers who bought into the token itself. And then finally we'll take a look at Walmart as they start to offer Bitcoin in their kiosks and just a little warning, it's super pricey. And then lastly we'll talk about the DCA show which is going on today with me, George and James from Crypturals R Us and Invest Answers. So we'll go over all those things, but first, take a look at what's going on in the market today. It's a pretty nice day, Sunday, and market's down a little bit. What are you going to do? So we're at around 2.5, 4 trillion, 2.6, somewhere around there. And the sentiment is bordering on neutral to bearish. And I think by tomorrow we'll see if this 60,000 support will actually hold. But every time you hit that support level of 60k, it gets a little bit weaker and a little bit weaker and the bearish start to have a little more fun. And yeah, who knows, maybe we'll actually drop below. I think we could, especially on a Monday, but time will tell. So as far as like the last 24 hours and what's up and what's down and all that good stuff, Bitcoin's still above 60. Ethereum's still above 4k. Binance is still around 470. Everything's pretty much in that same range. Nothing really big except for, well, Doge is up 5%. So that's pretty good. But Shiba Inu, and that's what we're going to talk about today, 47% up. And that's massive. And over the last six months, it's up like 3,100%.  So the question then becomes, why is it pumping and should I buy? So let's just take a look at it. So there's a couple of stories of why this could actually be pumping. First up, we had Robin Hood reach out and he started to talk to, as a survey and said, what kind of cryptos would you like to see on our platform? And also, a lot of people said, hey, we'd like to have that wallet. So we can actually take our crypto off. And he said, sure, we'll do that. But then as far as like Shiba Inu, as far as this article talks about, there's going to be none of that in the near term. So this is what's going on. Robin Hood, as this glows that the company now has over a million people waiting on the release of its native digital wallet. The platform will start off with only seven coins on its platform for the sake of users safety. With the new wallets to roll out, people are going to be able to take their crypto off of the platform, which is great. And then I think this is good, but they said, no, we're not going to have Shiba Inu right now. But I will say this. There's so much demand for Shiba. That's why Voyager listed it. That's why Coinbase listed it. That's why there's a petition. I don't know if it's on balance. I think it's that they're trying to get it listed. And the places that, I mean, exchanges are in it for the money. I mean, they're in exchange. It's a business. Nothing wrong with that. So there's so much demand, there's not really anything that could stop them from saying, no, I don't really want to do it, especially if people are like, well, you know, we want to have Shiba on here, and we'll just take, shut up and take my money, essentially what it is. And they'll probably list it at some point. But so that's a negative on there. But I mean, if you look at it, the Shiba Inu army is like, we don't really care. This is all good news. But the thing that I looked at, I thought it was interesting was this last snippet here. And it says Robinhood observed that three-fifths of its total active accounts had dabbled into crypto trading increasingly over the last six months. And most of the newbies, that's all they do. It's just crypto. So if we take a look at what's going on in Robinhood, I mean, people are just, they're in there for mostly cryptocurrency. And somebody like myself who gets into like Tesla and Mara and Riot and stuff like that. So that's the first part. And I think this is the bigger, the bigger issue. And I think there's a bigger issue and I'll talk about it in a second. But Shiba Inu aims for groundbreaking shift in primary architecture with the launch of its own blockchain. And if you don't know, it is a fork of Ethereum. It's an ERC-20 token. And what they want to do is they want to branch off. So right here from the horse's mouth, the Shiba Inu development team is working on its blockchain known as Shebarium. And it has advanced in stages now to the testing phase. So I think people hear this like, oh, great, it's going to be like its own thing. It's going to be great. It's going to be like a mainnet launch and all that stuff. Hold on. What it is, it's a layer to Ethereum scaling solution. So just like Polygon. So that's what it's going to be. But here's the thing. And that's great news. I'm not knocking anything that they're doing great. If you want to purchase Shiba, it's fine. Good for you. Especially if you purchased like a year ago, you're up like massive. But this is going to be competing with Polygon. It's going to be competing with a lot of Layer 2 solutions. So again, can you put your money into it? I don't know if it's up for you to say or not. But when we have something like this where it's like, this is going to be a Layer 2 solution and we're going to, we're in the testing stage. So if you want to do this, I mean, it's going to be a long time coming for them to actually get to that point from just the testing to the mainnet to the glitches to all the things they have to do, and maybe it'll be worth it in the end. But I still think there might be another reason for why people are just so into Shiba and why it actually went up massively. First of all, you can never discount community. I mean, just take a look at the XRP army. They are so adamant and that is what has kept XRP afloat as the SEC has been, you know, battling them in court. So we take something like that. We take a look at the Cardano community. We say, look at any community really. That's what keeps things really going. The Shiba community is so strong. They're out there and they just love it so much that it keeps everything going. But I think there's also this other part here. And when I took a look at, when I took a look at Coinbase, I just took a look at the prices off on my phone and this, I was just scrolling through it. I'm like, okay, doge coin, 26 cents. And then Shiba, you know, I was like, holy smokes, it's 0.00004155. So when you're looking at this, you're like, wow, a lot of people don't even know that you can buy a fraction of Bitcoin. So they look at Bitcoin like $60,000. I can't afford that. And then poke it off, 42 bucks. That's kind of pricey. Doge, 26 cents. All right, now we're talking. Shiba, you know, 40 points. Okay, I can buy, you know, millions or billions of that, no problem. And then when I took a look at all the other prices, first of all, two things. I was shocked at, not shocked, but I was surprised at the different prices, but I was shocked at the amount of coins that Coinbase has. I don't really use Coinbase at all. But I was just looking through it.  Okay, OMG Network, Chili's Compound. And I'm like, okay, it's probably going to stop right around here. Oh, no, no, no, it keeps going. Yarn, Synthetics, BAT, Bankor, I don't know what that is, one inch scale, loop ring, numerair, polymath, Iexec, Cartosy, Augur, Enzyme, what the heck? I'm like, when I'm looking at this, I'm like, well, no wonder the Coinbase effect isn't as big as it is, because they got so much, so many different cryptos on there. That's amazing to me. So I'm like, look, that's to get into the whole weeds about Coinbase and whatnot. I think it really comes onto this is that the price goes up because they're excited about a new listing on Robinhood. That's great. There's not that many cryptos on Robinhood. Sounds like it's not going to happen now, but it'll probably happen because everybody wants it. Probably going to be listed on other exchanges. So that also is it. Then of course, we have this, we're going to, they're going to branch out from to their own Layer 2 solution. So that's also a big thing. So people are really getting into it, but I really think that when you look at it and why people are so excited about it is, first of all, the price is low. And then if you just go to anybody who's been on TikTok lately, well, actually banned all those people, but you will see that a lot of people back then were just like, hey, Shiba is going to a penny. That's impossible, but okay.  So I'm not saying it's bad or it's good. Me personally, would I buy Shiba? No, I wouldn't. I won't buy Shiba because to me, it's a lot of competition. The tokenomics aren't that great. And then they're talking about a burn, maybe not a burn. And for me, I'm just like, I just, there's just so much competition in this space for that. And that's just for me. My goals are not your goals. If you invest in a Shiba, great, good for you. You're probably going to make a boatload of money because it's just going to go up by the community itself. Anyhow, let me just think about that in the comments section. Let's go on to our next couple pieces, which is World Mobile Token. This is one of my favorites. World Mobile, we did a video with Mickey Watkins from World Mobile Token back in the day. This was five, six months ago or so when they were just kind of, you know, get flushing everything out. Well, today is a day where they had their pre-launch sale, everything had gone through, and now you're able to stake your World Mobile tokens either as a note operator, earth node, or you can stake the actual tokens themselves. And it went live, and I was just watching it, just curious to see how things were going. And what's crazy about this, what's really crazy is that within like a couple of minutes, everything was staked.  And then everybody else who had just bought regular tokens, they staked them themselves. And this is from John Mayer. He says, holy heck, right now as of this tweet, there are 361 earth node reservations. So 100,000 times 361, you do the math. And that's 116 million plus staked, that is 152 million plus locked up, or 76%. Now there is, I believe there is a total supply of two billion, but it's going to be released over the next 20 years. And then also there's a lockup period for people who are owners and part of the team themselves. So this right now of what is being circulated, you got a huge number locked up, and I was just surprised about how fast it actually got locked up and put in and staked. Everybody seems to be pretty happy about this project. If you don't know, the project's all about its twofold. It's launching an infrastructure into different parts of Africa to bring Tilted Communications and electricity also into these areas. And then the second part is the blockchain, which is WorldMobile Token. To not bore you to death right now, I'm going to link this video at the very end, and you can watch this, or you can watch it and kind of just talk about what exactly it is. But then the big question I'm going to get is, hey, where can I buy WorldMobile Token? This is what everybody asks. And WorldMobile Token states this, please wait for the official announcements regarding exchanges soon. Take that with a grain of salt. And that's what's going on. So hopefully I can squeeze some more information out of them and talk to you guys about when it's actually available to people in the U.S. because we got this shaft as again. But what are you going to do? Anyhow, that's it for that. Let me show you think. And then we'll finish up with just a quick piece here. Walmart's toasting Bitcoin ATMs. That's great. And the only thing that's great about this, there's twofold. I was in marketing for a long time and I can just tell you that people have to see things seven to 10 times before they actually buy. And I think with cryptocurrency, if you got some hardheaded brothers like myself, it's going to take them like 30, 40 times. So every place that you see Bitcoin or a cryptocurrency, it doesn't only matter. I don't care where it is. It just kind of gets into that subconscious like, oh, there it is again. Oh, there it is again. Oh, there it is. There it is. That's why you see Coca-Cola ads all the time. You're like, why is Coke advertising? It's because they got to keep putting in people's heads so they keep buying Coke. And it's the same thing with this. I think that this isn't like the greatest end all be all because right here where it talks about the machine charges a 4% fee for the Bitcoin option plus another 7% cash exchange fee on top of that. That's no bueno. That's not great. But what's great about that is that, hey, they've got a lot of observation or you have it actually the optics, the visualization is there for the cryptocurrency. So I'm like, I'll take it. And that's good. And that's actually been verified. I like this last part here. Coin desk tested the service out of an abundance of caution. Following a hoax last month when a fake press release Yahoo Finance claimed that Litecoin would be accepted as payment at Walmart stores. Actually, no, I think this was no, no Yahoo Finance came out with the fake article that XRP had settled with the SEC. Excuse me. So sorry. But yeah, that one was big. And they said, yes, eyes on the ground. We actually see it is actually these kiosks are actually there. Actually, that's the Walmart or the CoinStar blah, blah. So yeah, it looks pretty good. And yeah, that is what we have. I'm pretty happy about it. Hopefully it'll lead the price action, but we'll see. And then lastly, just so everybody knows, it's about 10am here in Puerto Rico. And that's Atlantic or Eastern time. We're going to be doing digital or DCA, the DCA show with me, George from Cryptos or Us, James from Vest answers at a couple more couple hours. So that's 12 30 Eastern 9 30 Pacific time. I don't know where you are at. So I will link that in the description as well. So you can set a reminder, we can check that out. But we're going to talk today go a little bit deeper. There's a couple of there's two more ETFs that are coming out. One's already out. So we already have two ETFs and a third one's on its way. As far as Bitcoin, we're going to talk about exit strategies, 40 K ETH, 400 K Bitcoin, and some other things that tickle our fancy as far as the crypto market. So check that out the very end. But that is it. So look, I've made to the end. Thanks. I appreciate it. If you liked today's video, give it a little value entertainment, whatever else, give it a thumbs up. I'll consider subscribing. Things are going fast. And I don't want you miss anything. So that is it for today. Thanks so much. And I'll see you in the next video.


Hi, my name is Bernardo Sousa-Pinto. I'm an assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto in Portugal. I will present a tutorial on estim raw, a package which estimates raw data for fold table cells frequencies from risk ratios, risk differences, and odds ratios. Primary studies often present for binary outcomes pre-calculated effect size measures only. However, there may be cases where for meta-analytical purposes, we would rather have access to underlying raw data. It may happen that provided effect size measure by the primary study may not be the one that we are planning to pull or do meta-analysis, or that effect size measure that a specific primary study provides may differ from the effect size measures provided by the remaining primary studies. In those cases, being able to estimate raw data, these cells for fold tables would be of great value. Let me show you an example. This study is assessing the association between allergic disorders and anxiety or depression in children. In particular, we are interested for meta-analytical purposes on the association between allergic rhinitis and anxiety. However, we only have the pre-calculated odds ratio. We can see it in table number three. It's here with the corresponding confidence interval. And we aim to do a meta-analysis of risk ratios. And off-note, it is important to let you know that this is a cohort study, so we can actually compute the risk ratios, but we do not have them here as pre-calculated effect size measures, nor we have the raw data to compute them, at least directly provided in the studies. We do not have that all information we need directly in the paper. We know the odds ratio, which is 1.7. We know the confidence interval, which goes from 1 to 2.8. We know the number of children developing the outcome, the event, in this case, it is anxiety. So it's 83, and we can have them here. We also know the number of exposed children. That is the number of children who have allergic rhinitis. And in this case, it is 119. So we may write it down. And we know the total number of assessed children. This is present here in the text, and this is of 546, so we can also have that information. Of course, we can estimate the number of children without anxiety. We can estimate the children without rhinitis, the number of unexplosed children, but we do not have much more direct information in the paper. So we still do not know what are the numbers of children who are exposed and develop the outcome or who are exposed but not develop the outcome, who were not exposed but develop the outcome, and who neither were exposed and not develop the outcome. But with these ingredients, we can actually estimate the values on these cells. These are the ingredients we need to estimate raw data using the Estim-Raw package, which is based on formula provided in a paper by the Pieter Antoni et al. So let's do it. So we will load the Estim-Raw package and this package has a function which is called Estim-Raw with an underscore. And here we have all the information we need. We know that the ES argument, which corresponds to the effect size, corresponds to 1.7, which is the value of the odds ratio. For the LB argument, we have the value of 1.0. This corresponds to the lower bound of the confidence interval for the odds ratio. We also know what is the upper bound of the confidence interval for the odds ratio. And that is the UB argument and it is of 2.8. Then we know the number of children who had allergic rhinitis were exposed and this corresponds to the M1 argument and which is of 119. For the M2 argument, corresponding to the number of participants without exposure, in this case, the number of children without allergic rhinitis, the number is of 427. We have that information here. Then we also know the number of participants who developed the outcome. That is the number of children who had anxiety. In this case, there were 83 children. And finally, we need to specify the measure argument. And in this case, we have the effect size measure being an odds ratio. So measure equals to OR. We could also have risk ratios, R, R or risk differences, R, D. But in the case of risk differences, we should always insert the effect size measure and the bounds of the confidence interval as proportions and not as percentages. So, running this line of code, we notice that we only have one solution and these are the raw data that lead to the effect size measure which was calculated to that odds ratio of 1.7. So we have now all the data we need. But let us imagine that we did not have the total number of children with anxiety. That is, the total number of participants who have developed the outcome measure. That would have happened. In this case, we would run exactly that same line of code but we would not have the E1 argument because we did not have information on that. And in this case, we can see that we have more uncertainty. We have two solutions which would be correct and we would have to rely on our clinical knowledge to know which solution was more plausible. And then within its solution, we have also some uncertainty because we have point estimates but we also have minimum and maximum values that each cell could take. And this is based on the fact that there may be roundings in the decimal places. So for this case, we would need to consider this uncertainty possibly by doing a sensitivity analysis. If we present results with a higher number of decimal places, if that's possible, in this case was not because everything was presented with a decimal place, that helps increasing the certainty or the precision of obtained results. This package can also be used through a shiny web page at estimeraw.me.up.pt. Here, we can easily introduce the available data and obtain the estimates corresponding to raw data cells. For instance, let us imagine we have a risk ratio of 0.6 with a lower bound of the confidence interval being of 0.4 and the upper bound being of 0.9. We are dealing here with one decimal place. We have as the number of exposed that of 352 and as the number of non-exposed we have 376. Then we can see that we have for each cell the point estimates and the minimum and maximum values. We have a lot of uncertainty here. Now let us increase the number of decimal places. Imagine we have the risk ratio being presented as 0.61 with a lower bound being of 0.40 and the upper bound of 0.93. Here, we are dealing with two decimal places and all the remaining values stay the same. Here, we can see that the uncertainty decreases. We can have a point estimate of 30, but minimum value of 29 and the maximum value of 31. The difference is of one unit upper or lower. If we have information on the number of events, then we get only one solution. Once again, this is dependent on the information we have on the primary studies. So thank you very much for watching this tutorial. If you have any question or if you have any suggestion on how can we improve the estimator package, please let me know. Please send me an email. Thank you very much.