All right, everybody good afternoon Hopefully everybody's enjoying the lovely day finally got the rain.  Hello. Hello. Let's make sure I make it here loud and clear Good afternoon to you Donna. All right. Good. Good Gal Jean good to see you Dean Barb. Good to see you James Jason look at all those good names coming across Fernando All right all cyber traders. All right, so anyway, um What we had going on for today you got to remember it is thursday Probably the eve of one of the busiest Holidays of the year which is full to july This happens only once every seven years and it's because full july does fall on a wednesday So I know a lot of people already starting to leave early enjoying their great weekend And I kind of like days like this because what it does is they get a lot of assistance in Um, especially you could throw a fire hose down our throat where all the news that's coming over, you know That we're seeing on tv with everything that's going on You know regarding about these investigations and all this stuff But uh, but is it affecting the market guys? Listen, we really don't care We just want to trade stocks that stocks have volatility And you could see here that today's morning was a pretty good morning And I'm looking forward trading into this afternoon. So let's just talk about what did pretty well With some of you that did not trade this morning what you did miss a couple of them Obviously, this one was a really nice one this prgs trade. You could see that one right out of the gate Let me just fix the timeline right here Make a two minute chart So right out of the gate this thing ran really nice from 36 all the way to about 39 And up until about 11 o'clock did a little bit of a little nasty shake right here But it broke higher highs and went up to 41 that one did really well One stock that we were trading in the morning meeting We I was trying to teach some of the traders this morning of how to trade buying on the bid selling on the offer And uh, g was actually a pretty good easy one to kind of teach that so we did pretty well on that g e trade It was a lot of fun. By the way guys, look what ended up happening We were getting in getting out getting in getting out look what happened to g e right We had fun. We saw breaking lower lows and we saw our big support levels at 1380 Look what happened to drop down at 1370 came down like a rock So you can never broke can't go broke taking profits, but we'll talk a little bit about that In the afternoon class that we're going to do but a couple of the ones that did really well CVS was obviously got crushed. I had the short on that one did really well on that short Good thing I covered once again You can't go broke taking profits because look where CVS kind of bounced back and all those Right aid and all of them did did the same Couple of stocks are pretty volatile this morning iq. Oh my god that thing went from 35 $30 and 50 cents Right to 33 right back down to 30 50 right back down to 33 Um, I remember you got to be a pretty advanced trader trade it But we did really well with this stock on the swing trade. Good thing. We got out of it Unfortunately, I couldn't get out at 45. I wrote it down to 40 good thing I got out of it went down to 30, but I'm still a big fan of this stock So I'm going to keep an eye on it. I want to kind of build remember good traders never buy at the bottom cell top We always buy in between that one did pretty well and a lot of you were trading the hya Hoya, uh, which actually trades side by side with it That one did pretty well. Hoya did pretty well Also very very nice and strong stock Uh, something's a little bit else that we were doing really well on was the in hd trade Let me just bring that up here so everybody could see it That stock has been doing great. You could see it Stock had a little bit of a nice move right there. Just wait for the data to come across. There we go So I like this stock going into the afternoon. So I want to keep an eye on this On the stock right here at the n i hd Nice little push just made a little pot from 370 to 430 It's looks great spread nice volatility. Look at all the iceberg orders out here Really really really nice move right there. I want to keep an eye on that one And what else we had the k e r x Nice little short right there, but how a little bit of comeback. We have five all the way down to two dollars That one came up a little bit and then uh This was awesome This one right here. My god, that was great at 930. Look at this thing 80 cents all the way to a buck 80 Not bad still up 100 percent even at 94 cents, but this thing was up about 200 percent We did really really well with that one. You could see it's the biggest percentage gainer on in the market right now it's showing here on the on the trade station platform so That's that that's what we traded. So we got a couple of stocks are making some moves. We got a couple of cheapies right here I'll keep an eye on this one right here to the uh the m n ga guys I listen I don't have a lot of youtube people that are watching in facebook and they're like You know what? I don't trade in expensive stocks like this Listen, first of all, these are not penny stocks. These are nasdaq national stocks Just unfortunately they took a big hit, but at the end of the day money's money.  You could see it there.  There's your 200 bucks one stock, um We traded a long time ago. We did pretty well with this but this thing got destroyed This is why you don't hold positions or remember h m ny look where it is guys The stock we this stock just less than a year ago. We were trading at $10 Never came back. My god. It dropped down to 24 cents Oh my god, what a catastrophe, huh? pretty sad All right, uh, this is one stock we found this morning, too That one this one got crushed also the as a s and s. I don't know what happened with this thing Even being down 76 percent Um, only traded a million shares really I think would probably trade more than that Good thing. We didn't trade it. We all know about the dfg b That went from a dollar to six dollars There is a program trading at its best So remember whatever we see in the big percentage gainers always shows up in the big percentage losers just like the p i r Have a nice little push who did well with that and look like it came back down So anyway, it is month. It is thursday. It's the afternoon Uh, we'll go into the busiest weekend.  That's on monday, right? I think it's on uh, july 1st So we have a lot of canadians going to be taking off and you know, there's about 20 30 percent of you in a year Are canadian so it's your big holiday. It's our big holiday. So, um, it's okay This is one of the big things I taught in clash yesterday. I'm going to repeat it You got to know when it's sit on your hands and you got to know when to be very aggressive But don't throw good money after bed money You got about two or three stocks we could trade going to the afternoon We'll see how we could do with these stocks going into class But in the meantime, um, don't get too cocky guys because you have to know when to trade and when not to trade. All right So, um, so that's that. All right guys, um, a couple a couple of shout outs Uh, benito said he did pretty well on the n i hd made about 13 cents in hoia. He made 25 cents All right, where'd it go benito? Listen, I know that's not up your alley not making that much But you know what money's money, right? Give him a round of applause David also made about 43 cents.  All right way to go Dave Good job. All right, everyone. So if I don't see you in classes coming up and I don't see you tomorrow I have a great weekend and uh, listen if you got nothing else to do just poke your head in there Make sure you have your twitter feed. Um, and you know, you can always access the cyber group room from your cell phone with one of our apps So, uh, listen something good out there. It's not going to hurt to jump in there But if you got nothing to go if you got something else to do just be happy enjoy the money you made and enjoy your weekend All right guys. Good luck. I'll see you all in class


Kittens are sensitive creatures with a fussy side they often like to show off at dinnertime. So if you're wondering why is my kitten not eating, here are the most common explanations. You've got everything set up and ready for the new arrival. The best kitten food sat waiting in the cupboard next to delicious kitten treats, the perfect training rewards. No doubt you can't wait to see your little cat feasting on the glorious meal. Yet sometimes you'll see the new kitten not eating and woefully ignoring the bowl of food in front of them. Type of bowl. Kittens don't like their whiskers touching the sides of the bowl every time they dip into eat. Although the syndrome whiskers fatigue is still being studied, there is one thing we know for sure, whiskers are extremely sensitive antennas that help kittens extract useful information from their environment. Activating them several times during their meal could put them off their food. This is why it's recommended to choose food bowls that are wide and shallow, to keep those precious whiskers from touching the dish. Location. Where you put their food bowl can be just as important as what you put in it. If you're seeing your new kitten not eating, consider the location of the bowl. Make sure it's away from the litter box and in an area where the footfall is at a minimum, so they can eat without being disturbed. If there are other pets in the house, remember that the hunting instinct still alive in your kitten makes them prefer a solitary dinner. Place your pet's food bowls well apart and seize if your kitten will consider giving the food another chance. Cleanliness. A kitten not eating their meal might also be related to a dish that has not been adequately washed. Make sure you use detergent and rinse well with water to clean up the kitten's food bowl after every meal. You can also go for ceramic bowls as these don't hold on to the food smell as plastic ones do. Stress. A new home is a big deal for the kitten. It's normal for your cat to feel a bit unsettled while they get used to the new surroundings and this can be reflected in a lack of appetite. A good idea is to ask the shelter or breeder for an object or a blanket they are familiar with. The transition to the new life will be made easier if they have something that reminds them of the old home while adjusting to living in the new one. As always, give your kitten time to settle in and don't hesitate to ask a vet for help if they refuse to eat or eat very little food. A plug-in pheromone diffuser such as Felaway can also be helpful to settle your new kitten into the family home. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out BeemixPets.com. Use coupon code KittenLife to get 20% off. Toothache. The new kitten not eating can also be down to painful teeth or gums. Kittens can have teething pain just like babies. Sore gums are uncomfortable enough to keep your pet away from the food bowl. Contact the vet for a checkup to rule out this possibility. Illness. Kittens often refuse to eat when they're not feeling well. Unfortunately, there is a long list of possible health conditions that can stop them from dipping into their food bowl as they should. Anything from a clogged nose to intestinal parasites, constipation, or an upset tummy can contribute to your kitten not eating. This is why it's very important to ask for professional help if your kitten is not eating. The vet will be able to distinguish between a nervous eater and a kitten in need of medical attention. Introduce the new food slowly. The food you feed your kitten may not be the same as they are used to having. Always ask the breeder slash shelter what food the kitten is having currently. If you wish to change this food, it should be done slowly and gradually over a period of about 7 to 10 days. Initially place a small amount of the new food into a bowl next to a bowl of the original food. Gradually increase the amount of the new food and decrease the amount of the original food so that your kitten transitions to the new food gradually. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.


As we learn from J.T. Bushnell's What is a Narrator video, when we read fiction we should not assume that the work of literature has been written in the voice of the creator of the document. The same goes for poetry. Consider this poem by Billy Collins called The Revenant. I am the dog you put to sleep, as you like to call the needle of oblivion.  I never liked you, not one bit. When I licked your face, I thought of biting off your nose. When I watched you tallying yourself dry, I wanted to leap and unmane you with a snap. You'll notice that this poem is not written in the voice of the poet Billy Collins. Instead, Collins has chosen the right and the first-person voice of a deceased dog who was returned from the dead as The Revenant to make his confessions and explanations a final word of sorts and a voice that is not the poet. In poetry, this literary device is what we call persona. Persona derives from the Latin, meaning mask, or more specifically a mask in the theater or on the stage. The employee of persona has been around for centuries, but people do not use the term until the middle of the 18th century, and they only use it then to describe characters and stage plays. In the 19th century, the literary scope widened and the term persona was used to describe particular poems, short stories, and novels. More recently, in the 20th and 21st centuries, we've used the term beyond literature to describe politicians, pop stars, and other celebrities who project a public image are in some extreme cases an alter ego that drastically differs from a private identity, sometimes to the point of bizarro delusion. Just think of people such as Norma Jean Mortensen as Marilyn Monroe, Robert Zimmerman as Bob Dylan, David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, Stephanie Germanata as Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj as countless characters and or identities, or just consider the persona of pretty much anyone in the United States Congress. Famous literary examples of persona abound. We think about William Blake writing the voice of a young chimney sweeper, there's Sylvia Plath writing the voice of Lady Lazarus or Gwendolyn Brooks writing the voice of teenagers who have skipped school to play pool at a bar. As you read, ask yourself what the effect is of any given literary persona. Who is the speaker? Who is the eye of the poem or story? Is the poet or writer being ironic? Is the persona a vehicle for parody or satire? Is the persona in the form of a monologue or soliloquy? Is it written as stream of consciousness? More broadly, by using a voice of a person or thing that is not themselves, what message is the poet or writer trying to convey? Why did they make this narrative choice? In the poem The Revenant, Collins conveys the message that sometimes human dog owners are perhaps too self-involved to completely know what their dogs need or even want. That there is often a communicative disconnect between a dog and its owner. Collins could have written this message in the voice of a dog owner or at least in the voice of some woke human, but the message wouldn't have been as convincing probably. At the very least, it wouldn't have been as funny. Given all of this, just think generally anytime a writer or an artist writes or speaks or presents themselves in the voice of someone or even something else, it is considered an exhibit of persona.


Hi, Myself Dr. Ramakrishna. In this video, we will learn about cervical cancer screening. What is cervical cancer? First, we will see In women, this is called as Garbase. This is called as Garbase Mukadwara. This is called as cervix. This cancer is called cervical cancer. When we look at the whole of the world, this cervical cancer is about 6 lakhs of people are affected by cervical cancer. When we look at the world, this is called fourth most common cancer. So, when we grade the number of people who are affected by cervical cancer, this is fourth most common cancer among females. In India, cervical cancer is the first common cancer in females. So, there are some reasons for that. In India, why cervical cancer is in the first place is the main reason is this HPV virus. Human papilloma virus. Human papilloma virus is the main reason for cervical cancer. So, if we take one of the cervical cancer patients, almost 80 patients the reason is this human papilloma virus. So, even if there is a human papilloma virus, all the patients will get cervical cancer. But, if we take one of them, at least 85 people will get cervical cancer due to this human papilloma virus. Second is enemia. So, even in the patients who are bleeding, we will get cervical cancer. Third is the most common conditions in the society. So, in India, we have more patients who are more or less close to each other. So, in these patients, we will get cervical cancer. Another important reason is early onset of sexual activity. So, at a very young age, the reason is to get cervical cancer due to this human papilloma virus. Another important reason is to get cervical cancer.   So, we will get cervical cancer. So, even in India, we will get cervical cancer. So, the most important thing is the human papilloma virus. So, we can screen this cervical cancer. Screening means we will not get cancer in many years. It means that patients will get a few symptoms. Through small tests, we will know whether the cancer has been introduced or not. So, screening tests are not available before. In big hospitals, cervical cancer screening is available. But even if you go to a nursing home, if the doctor asks you about cervical cancer screening, you will get full information. Because, we have a lot of cancer, and because of that, most of the patients will not get cancer due to this disease. In 3-4 countries, there are more hospitals. So, if we cannot cure cancer, it will lead to death. So, if we screen this cancer, we will get diagnosed with this disease. So, the main reason for this is human papilloma virus. Human papilloma virus means it is affected by the first stage of cancer. It will take 15 years to get cured. So, this is generally a service lining. Means, if you want to go inside, this is a normal wound. These are the cells above the lining. So, cancer is infected here. This cancer is affected by this wound. This is a cancer wound. This is the bottom layer. If you touch this and come down, then this is called cancer. This is called non-pre-cancerous. So, this is a normal cell, a healthy cell. So, these cells will be displaced. So, a normal cell should be displaced. Then, the genetic material should change. It will go to the repair stage and?repeater to the urban stage. The body will change to cancer. We should breed this wall so that it becomes spread out. Before breeding this wall we should call it pre-cancerous now. ఆట్నెవ్శిిబంిచకిఆవం నారింనెలిండినిపరడెరు ఆడ్మ్రంబ్లిసంచికిసించస్.


Amen. So I've got a little different sermon for you this morning. So one of the challenges for me is how I can stand up here and preach three sermons a week and not completely bore you to death. So how can I do things differently to keep you at least interested and awake when I'm preaching, right? So I'm going to look at things from a little different angle this morning, okay, and turn to Psalm 139. And you know, looking at things from a different perspective or even from other people's perspective is a very valuable skill that you could have in your life. Putting your, you know, being able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see why people believe things that they believe is a very valuable thing. And if you can get good at that, you will be better at dealing with people in your life, whether it's at work, at church, wherever. Even when it comes to people with completely opposite opinions than yours, if you can be able to just kind of look at, okay, why do they believe that? Where is this thought coming from? Even if it's completely wrong, look at Psalm 139 and look at verse number one. See, God does this with us, so maybe we should learn to do it with other people.  So God, look, God does this with us. God understands our thoughts. Of course, he's God, but you know, we should be able to do this with others. We should be able to look at things from another perspective. See why people do things, why people believe things. Even if those things are different than the way you do those things. And what it will end up doing is shoring up your own beliefs, is what it will end up doing. Examples, many stories in the Bible, you know, tell us how to do things, right, especially in the Old Testament, but then there's many stories in the Old Testament that tell us how not to do things, how to, you know, how to not do those things. Once again, stories, you know, remember our methodology of reading the Bible, especially the Old Testament, as we're going through Judges. Stories in the Bible are just that. They're stories of what people did, okay. They must be, in order to take away from those stories, those stories must be properly married with correct Bible doctrine to learn from those stories, whether they be good or bad, right. I mean, Judges has lots of these types of stories. The life of David has both sides, right. David has things where we can learn from David and then we can also learn how not to do things from the life of David. You know, the point this morning I'm trying to make is I want to look at something from a different perspective this morning. So my wife a few weeks ago sent me an article and she sent me an article and I want to talk about homeschooling this morning, but I want to talk about it from a perspective of this article that my wife sent me. So let's not be narrow-minded this morning, okay. Let's open our minds and let's look at this idea that's in this article. Now normally I wouldn't have read an article like this, but I read the whole thing. I forced myself through it and this morning the title of the sermon this morning is why you should not homeschool, okay. So we're going to go through and step through this article and we're going to look at the reasons that this article talks about that you should not homeschool and then we'll shine the light of the Bible on these reasons. So look, the title of the article I'm not going to give out the name of the magazine or anything like that. That's not really the point. A lot of these points that you may have heard before, but the title of the article is the benefits of public school over homeschooling, okay. So let's look at this article and just look at why you should not homeschool. Let's try to appreciate a different perspective this morning. Open your minds, okay. Open your minds. So first of all the article starts off and this is the first sentence, okay. What is homeschooling? In the simplest terms homeschooling is simply schooling your children at home. Now normally I would have stopped reading the article at this point because this is clearly written by a half-wit for half-wits just by the start out of the article. But in the interest of my wife chiding me and telling me no, but keep going. It gets better. I actually did continue and then that's where the sermon came from, okay. So I did continue even though everything inside me was saying you're done reading here, okay. All right, so my wife chides me on. I read the article and I write this sermon. So here this morning I want to talk to you about six reasons that you should not homeschool your kids, okay. The first reason is this. I'm going to read you the statements because this, the article was bulleted out with statements. So I'm just going to read you a statement. We'll look at the lesson and then we'll see what the Bible has to say. That the first statement in the article, the first bullet point is this. Public school has a built-in structure. Children, particularly young children, thrive on routine and require a lot of attention and care. If you are trying to homeschool your children while also being a stay at home mom, you may find it more challenging than you imagine. Now, I had to read that sentence several times, okay, to understand what they were getting at there.  There is no harm in needing a break from your kids once in a while.  Let's cut this thing up. So the first point is this. The first reason you shouldn't homeschool is because children, let me just break this opening statement out to you. Children require a lot of care. That's the first reason you should not homeschool. Okay, translation, if you homeschool your kids, you'll have to give them your attention and your care. Turn to Deuteronomy chapter six. Now, this statement, if you're trying to homeschool your children while also being a stay at home mom, you may find it more challenging than you imagine. I had to read that one a few times to kind of get myself in this mindset of this person that would write something like that. But this statement is clearly trying to discourage parents from not only just homeschooling but staying home with their children in the first place. Okay, so you'll see that there's another twist behind each of these statements.  Okay, and most of you can read, you could see through the lines and read between the lines there. Look at Deuteronomy 6 and verse number six. The Bible says, and these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart. So Deuteronomy chapter six, the whole point and the whole chapter is the law of God, the oracles of God and learning the law of God. And teaching that law, look at verse number seven. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house and thou walkest by the way and when thou liest down and when thou risest up. Now notice what it says. It says teach them, it doesn't just say teach them the laws. It says teach them diligently.  Diligent means consistency over what? Consistency over time. Gold star. Consistency over time. This right here might be the one verse in the Bible that is the most teaching you that you need to homeschool your kids. Because it is talking to you about that you have to teach the laws of God to your children diligently. Which means that it has to be consistent. And it has to be done over a long period of time. Because look, if you're consistent at anything for a week, you might be, you're consistent for a week, but you're not diligent. Diligence is staying consistent over a long period of time. And the Bible in Deuteronomy chapter six is saying that's what it takes to teach your children the law of God. You have to teach them diligently. And that takes time. Okay, so look, I mean, this statement really shows you the state of parenting today. The statement in this article. It's hard for me even to remember this sometimes, but where people are at. But many moms out there today, they just can't imagine. I remember maybe 15 years ago, a woman at work found out that my wife stays home with our children. And she made the statement to me.  Like it doesn't take much to be a mom. I mean, it's a physical thing.   And this lady said to me when she found out that my wife stayed home with our kids, she said to me, she's like, oh, I just couldn't, I just couldn't do that. I don't know what I'd do all day. I don't know what I'd do all day. And I've heard, you know, different versions of this over the years, but here's the thing. Of course you don't know what you would do all day because you don't know what it's like to be a mom, to actually carry out the duties of a mother. You have no clue. Of course you would not know.   So of course you wouldn't know.  I mean, it is daycare from the hospital. It is school, they don't even call it daycare anymore because calling it school when they're six months old, it makes your conscience feel better. Okay, so then it's to public school. Then after public school, after 12 years of public school, it's off to college.  That's where this comes from. What would I do all day?  I'm like, it's from a completely different perspective. They're living on another planet than the planet that you live on. That's how far away this is. But the Bible says differently. The Bible says that you must teach your children diligently. That's your job as the parent. As the parent to do that. It's completely different. So that means you're gonna have to spend a lot of time with them to be diligently teaching somebody. Point number two, here's the second bullet statement. Many public schools offer sports and elective options like art and music. These programs may not be available to homeschool students. Translation point number two is, children cannot learn or exercise without public school. I mean, my experience has been exactly the opposite of this, by the way. I mean, first of all, do we have homeschool kids that know anything about music?  I mean, from hiking to hunting to fishing, I actually have too many activities on the list of things that I would like to do and not enough time to do all those activities. But homeschooling gives you that freedom to take your family to those activities where you're not in this box of a public school schedule. So look, turn to Ephesians chapter five.  Organized institutional sports, by the way, no thanks. I mean, organized institutional sports that the public school offers. You know what that produces? And look, I participated in those organized institutional sports, guilty, okay? And, but look, you know what that produces? On the large scale, it produces adults that are just addicted to watching TV, is what it does. Turn to Ephesians chapter five. And it's also not true because of this. Here, I mean, just from a legality standpoint, people have no idea, but a homeschool child has just as much right to participate in any sport or any activity that the public school has going on. They pay the same taxes. Now, I would never recommend that. And I'm gonna get to that in a second. But just the facts of the article are completely wrong because you could participate in those things. But look at Ephesians chapter five in verse number 11. So, you know, I wanna speak to those who do this because we have met people that do this type of thing. They go to the music class at the school. They go to the sports activities at the school. And we did it for ourselves one year, for sports. And I'll never recommend it to anybody. You should never do it, and here's why. Ephesians chapter five verse 11 is why. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather, reprove them. If we cannot classify the public school system in America as the unfruitful works of darkness, nothing will make that grade. You should have nothing to do with it as a homeschooling parent. And I'm getting off the topic of why you should not homeschool. But when you homeschool your kids, you should have nothing to do with the public school system. You take nothing from those programs. You have nothing to do with them, period. It's works of darkness. You don't need your kids being in that fellowship with those kids that are in that public school system. Look, I've seen it. I've seen it done. It's always bad. It's always bad. Why expose them to any of it? And the Bible's telling you that in Ephesians 5, verse number 11, just stay far away from it. It's another aspect of separation. Stay away from it, period. And the kids there. Look, I hope those kids get saved. And we'll go out and we'll preach the gospel to these kids in their neighborhoods and all that. But I'm not gonna just turn my kids over to that situation, okay? Look, their friends should be here. This is where they will receive edification. And this is where they will receive strength for their beliefs. And look, anyone, and here's another thing. Anyone that as you homeschool and as you leave the norm, you leave that status quo and come into a homeschooling environment, you'll have a lot of support here. That's why the importance of a biblical church. You'll have a lot of support here. The kids will grow up together. But here, remember this. You're not gonna put them in public school because they'll disparage what you're doing here. Anyone that ever disparages you leaving that status quo, I have a nuclear button. And that's when I push that nuclear button. If anybody has ever pulled my kids aside and tried to teach them something different, tried to teach them something different than their beliefs in the Bible, tried to disparage homeschooling, nuked.  But I have zero tolerance in this category. Anybody, you know, look, if you're involved with my family and you're not saved, it doesn't necessarily mean we're never gonna talk to you again. But if you start disparaging my kids and their beliefs and try to disparage them and pull them away from what we're trying to accomplish in their lives, nuked. And you need to be like that too. You need to keep them secure and build their confidence as you teach them diligently, okay? So the sports thing is ridiculous.  Now point number three, here's the bullet point. Public school teaches children a certain degree of independence. Depending on the grade, children need to keep track of their own class schedules, find their way from one class to another, purchase their own lunch, and make it to and from the bus every day. I mean, we're dealing with somebody with like below 80 IQ here that wrote this. Clearly. I mean, this one's completely false, first of all. I mean, they kind of all are. But on the contrary, on the contrary, public school teaches kids to be institutionalized. I was, I just told some of the guys, I'm sorry guys, you gotta hear this story again. I gotta, this was not in the sermon, but I got a call yesterday from, I have my car, my Tahoe's at the mechanic. And I got a call from the mechanic and they've had it for two days. So I figured it's tires and alignments and ball joints and stuff and I figured it's done. So I didn't even call him back. I just went over to the shop. And they said, we didn't call you to say it was done. We called you because we couldn't get it started. I literally went to the mechanic yesterday to fix my own car. And I was like, what's going on with it? And they said, well, it won't start.  You're like, no, you know, we hooked it up to the, our battery booster thing and it won't start. So I went to the car and I turned the key and the lights came on the dash and I turned the key to start it and all the lights dimmed out. It was like the battery's dead. And they're like, no, we hooked it up to the thing, the booster thing or whatever they call it. And I was like, did you put a meter on it? And they said, what?  And so we went and he got, you know, found a meter in the shop and I showed him how to work his own meter and I put it on and it was four volts, the battery's dead. They're like, do you have a battery? No, I went and I bought a battery. I installed the battery myself at the mechanic shop and I started the car and I said, what else do you need? And I told the shop manager as I was walking out, I said, look, you're not instilling a lot of confidence in me right now. You got it from here? But look, here's the problem. They're institutionalized. When the car doesn't start, you get the blue thing and you hook it up and then cars start now. What if Cardinal start after that? I don't know, call owners, say Cardinal start. So they call me and they just didn't know what to do and they don't know how the battery works the car. They don't know how to troubleshoot anything. But this is institutionalized thinking. This is why these good mechanics and these good trades people, that's why these people that are 50, 60 years old that are good at their trades, that's why they're priceless. Because they're not stuck in this box. This is what public school does. It institutionalizes people. It teaches you to memorize dates. When did the Spanish armada be destroyed at this date? This date, this date. So you can pass a test. That's what it does. You don't think about why. You don't think about, hey, how does this fit into the worldview that I'm learning from Deuteronomy chapter six, God's law? How does this society and how they went through these cycles and then they eventually felt, how does that compare with the Bible? We're going through judges. Are we recognizing any patterns in judges? It's kind of like a history book. We're seeing patterns, right? Do those patterns match up to anything that we're seeing going on now? Of course they do because everything's the same.  Because of biblical worldview, you're able to dynamically think and put things together and connect dots. And you can figure things out. Public school is teaching kids to memorize dates and pass a test. That's it. And just to get by, it's not teaching you how to think or explore the truth. Garrett just asked me yesterday like a Bible doctrine question. And I knew how I felt about this Bible doctrine question, but he's like, hey, I think maybe this. Look, I'm not talking about salvation, but it was a complicated Bible doctrine. And I said, well, here's what the Bible says and here's why people believe this doctrine because the Bible says this in Hebrews chapter 12. Look it up. Look into it. And if you think that it means that, whatever, you know, think though. Think. This is where that doctrine came from. They got it from this verse in the Bible. It connects to this verse and it connects to this verse. Think it through. Think it through. It's good that people learn, and this is homeschooling right here. This is homeschooling, teaching kids to be self-starters in their own education, teaching kids to look into things and to learn how to think about situations, whether it be history or, you know, why math? Why math? Because everything works math. That's why. When you pick up a chair and throw it through the wall, that's math. Everything is math and it's all practical learning, dynamic experiences. You're not stuck in some box trying to just memorize something to pass so you don't have to go there again. That's public school. That's what it is. And the examples that they give of independence, they find their way from one class to another, purchase their own lunch and make it to and from the bus every day.   Hey, you don't have to feed them. They'll get their own food. It's like training them to be, you know, wild animals or whatever. But to fend for themselves is, you know, teaching kids to fend for themselves, you know, aside from their parents as a major theme in the article. Turn to Ephesians chapter six. It gives it that tinge of evil, the article. Ephesians chapter six. So it's good for kids to be able to go around by themselves and find their way to and from things by themselves when they're six and seven and eight and not have to rely on, you know, mom or a parent or something to take care of them and feed them. It's good for them to know that stuff. It's good for them to get used to being away from their parents as much as possible. That's what this article is saying. Look at Ephesians six, four. What does the Bible say? Any fathers, provoking out your children to rest, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. You know what nurture means? Nurture means to help something grow, develop or succeed. That's what the word means. I mean, to help something. So we're supposed to be diligently teaching and then nurturing, helping someone grow and succeed and mature. I mean, that means, I mean, that goes right along with diligently teaching. It's right there with it. Look at, now here, look at the previous three verses. I mean, this is talking about the raising of children. It says, children, obey your parents and the Lord for it is right. Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise that it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the earth. So look, it's teaching kids here obedience and then it's teaching parents to nurture their children. So in order to be obedient, they're, look, these two people are together. The child and the parents are together here. And it's saying, since you're gonna be together over time, you need to be obedient and you need to be nurturing.   In Ephesians five, you hear things like, teach them diligently. You see things in Mark nine, like receive them. You don't see, send them off.  You look, that's what men do. That's what adults do. That's what adults are supposed to grow up in the Lord. But never with children. Children are supposed to be protected and taught and nurtured and brought up. That's the kind of words that the Bible always uses when it's teaching parents and children relationships. And children are supposed to be obedient. I mean, how could my child be obedient to me if he was never there? There would be no need for that. If somebody else was to raise my children, I would say children, be obedient to the government or whatever. The Bible has nothing about sending them away to fend for themselves anywhere. Jesus himself was super protective of children. And if you don't get that by reading through the New Testament, I mean, that was a huge theme. Anytime anybody said anything negative or even pushing children away, Jesus was like, no. Like, no, we must receive them. We must protect them, teach them, train them, bring them up. Point number four, here's the sentence or the bullet point. Teachers at public schools are required to carry education degrees and they may have more experience working with and teaching children. Teaching a child is different from parenting a child and many parents struggle to do both. Again, so the point is this, teaching a child is different than parenting a child. I disagree completely, totally. Again, they're injecting doubt in your ability to raise your own children. But look, parenting is teaching and is training. That's the point. It's not just hanging out, having a nerf wars. That's not parenting. I mean, look, I like nerf wars. But I mean, otherwise, even to understand this one, you need some perspective. The modern parent, I mean, the modern parent goes to work. They drop their kids off at daycare all day long.  They come home and by the time they go get food from a restaurant or whatever and put their kid in front of the TV because the kid's watching four or five hours of TV a day too, that's what the stats say. So there's like an hour in here before the child goes to bed. And the modern parent, and I've seen this maybe a billion times, but the modern parent just wants that hour to just be good. They just want it to be good and without struggle and without strife. So there's no parenting going on there. It's just make them happy. That's what it is. But look, go to Matthew chapter 22 to get ready for the next point. But look, it's fun time for the modern parent. It's cover your conscience time because their conscience bothers them, especially at the beginning. Okay, so look, there is no, so yes, to the modern parent, teaching is not parenting. Parenting is not teaching. But to the Bible, parenting is teaching and training. That is the point of parenting. That is the point of Deuteronomy chapter six is don't forget these laws and teach them. So look, not only do you not forget them, but we don't want the next generation to forget them. You must be diligent in this task. You must be diligent. You must just continue and continue and continue every day in this task. So I mean, it's just completely wrong. Parent, I mean, they just don't even know what parenting is. It's back to the same definition of being a mom.  There's a lot to go into parenting. I hope that sermons over the last year and a half kind of makes you a little bit nervous about parenting. Am I doing it right? I mean, there's a lot to this. Yes, there is a lot to it. You can get it wrong. There are a lot of people working against you. That's why you must have the nuke button. When you see people creeping into your safe circle and trying to harm what you're doing or undo what you're trying to do, you must fix it as the parent, dad. You must be the protector in those situations. This is parenting and it is a big deal and it is teaching. Are you in Matthew chapter 22? Here's the next statement. Public school is typically cheaper than homeschool. You could spend $1,000 or more on a homeschool curriculum alone, not to mention supplies. For a public school, you have to buy supplies once or twice a year and you can pack your child's lunch to save money. Okay, so before I go off on this one, I just want to give you a biblical disclaimer in Matthew chapter 22, okay? I'm not a tax protester, but I'm thinking maybe I should become one. I'm just kidding. I'm not a tax protester. Look at Matthew chapter 22. This is what Jesus thinks about taxes. Verse 17, tell us therefore, what thinketh thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar or not? They're trying to catch Jesus and they're trying to get him in trouble with the Romans, but Jesus perceived their wickedness and said, why tempt ye me? Ye hypocrites, show me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. And he said unto them, whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's. Then he said unto them, render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God. So look, I'm not a tax protester and neither was Jesus.  Okay, but first of all, before I address this statement. So we got that out of the way. Before I address this statement that public school is cheaper than homeschooling. Look, this clearly shows you that someone who went to public school wrote this article. It's clearly written by, like I said at the beginning, it's clearly written by someone who does not understand things, including basic math. California spends $11,500 per child on school. Every single year. Let's just look at the numbers. California public school system, it's almost $12,000 per child.  I asked my wife this, and here's the thing.  That's not efficient. That doesn't make sense. If you reuse books, my wife said if we bought new books for every child, which I don't know why you would do that, it'd be about $500 a year per child. But if you reuse books, she spends about $200 a year per child. Now look, we buy some nice curriculums. You could buy used books. You don't have to buy everything new.  Let's get gold-plated books, brand new everything. $500 a child versus $12,000 a child. Public school is cheaper than homeschooling? I mean, what in the world? I mean, look, and here's the funny thing. It's even worse than that because why have to pay for all my homeschooling materials? I still pay thousands of dollars a year in taxes that go to the public school system. So I am literally paying, I am literally paying so the government can mess up my neighbor's kids. I mean, it's criminal. I mean, it's criminal.  That's what that is. They're brainwashed by, look, look, here's the thing. Nothing is free. Nothing is free because all you have to do is buy some pencils and everything's free. Nothing's free, communist. That's the problem. That's the problem with this country is the public school system has turned everyone into a communist. Where they think, look, somebody has to pay for all this. Somebody has to pay for all this in the annals of America. When it's somebody in a new republic somewhere, if this isn't the end, okay? If someone in a new republic, when they're writing the annals of the American Republic, you know what they will find? They will find that, look, they'll find that America fell to communism. It is the root of everything. It is the root of every problem. Think of the problem. Communism is the root in this country. With all of its problems that we have from the immorality to the perversion to the abortion, it's communism is the root of it all. Turn to Proverbs chapter 11. And public school, the public school system will go down as the greatest tool used by the communists because they taught communism to all the kids. You say, well, they don't say they believe in communism. I don't care.  You may not think you are, but you are. Right?   I mean, look, it was this tool that was the messenger. It was this tool of the public school system that was the deliverer of the false message, of the immorality, of the secular humanism worldview, of the perversion. It was this tool that has properly just injected all this garbage into our society. Look at Proverbs 11. And in this case, a false balance. Look at Proverbs 11. One, a false balance is abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight. Look, if you think everything's free and you think that everything's just paid for, everything should be paid for, that's a false balance because nothing's free. That this money that comes from nowhere is a false balance. And it's an abomination to the Lord. The idea that we could financially break you through tyranny and shutting you down and all this and then we can steal money from your grandchildren and give it to you and you'll be happy?   Public school made it all possible. I mean, this is maddening. This is maddening. Should we stop? Let's keep going. Now, this one's old. This one's so used up, I'm embarrassed to even read it, but we're gonna go. Here's the second one. Probably the stupidest and most tired of all arguments against homeschooling right here. Bullet point. Children who attend public school have more opportunities for social interaction than many homeschool students. There are homeschool co-ops that can be helpful, but a public school has built-in social benefits. Sorry. Yes, they're still claiming this one. Okay, but look, here's the thing that's so shocking about the idea that they're still claiming this one is that we have like an entire generation now after homeschooling started in the 80s where you were kind of a pariah at the homeschooled and then in the 90s, more people did it. Now look, it's not just the Christian's homeschool now. Everybody's homeschooling now. I don't know what the numbers are now, but I mean, homeschooling's exploded in the last just few years, especially this year. But as we see the results of public school kids who are now adults and we see what kind of social skills that these adults now have, you know, you have a 40-year-old foul-mouthed punk. I mean, that's from the public school system. He was socialized at public school.  Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's on your shoes? Why do you like your shoes so much? Look at me. They won't shake anyone's hand. They'll never look you in the eye. It's just, they get behind a keyboard and they're all, oh yeah, they're tough. But they meet you in person. They're staring at their shoes. Look, this is antisocial behavior. This is called antisocial behavior. Turn to Ephesians chapter four. What is social behavior though? Let's look at what social behavior is. Well, the Bible tells us. Look at Ephesians chapter four and look at verse number 29. Look at verse number 29 of Ephesians chapter four.  Okay, but why? That which is good, but.  Assuming that, you know, it's basically inferring that this corrupt unification is not edifying anybody. Because it's corrupt communication. That it may minister grace onto the hears. But look, not only we're told, you know, to edify means to instruct, improve morally or intellectually. Okay, when you're raised to speak like a rapper, you're not edifying anybody. When you talk like, you know, a hip hop artist, that's not edifying. When you use, you know, street slang, that's not it, that's corrupt communication.  But here, let me just give you a little bit of a heads up here.  People think you're dumb.     That's what it will. I mean, if you speak like a gangster, that's what's coming out of the, that's the socialization that I'm seeing. And I'm seeing it, I'm seeing it with adults. I'm seeing it with middle-aged people. You get to about 50 plus, you don't see it. But you're in the 40s and down, my generation and down, and you see it. You see an adult talking like some 17-year-old high school, public school punk. And that guy's going nowhere. That guy's going nowhere.   That's the social skills. It's corrupt communication. It's corrupt communication. So, I mean, look, the best socialized kids, and here's the beauty of homeschooling, by the way. Homeschooling, and that's another thing about public school, this wasn't even in my notes, but public school, it trains kids to only interact with their own age. You know that? They can't function.  You see, homeschool kids in a homeschooling group in a homeschooling environment, you will see 10-year-olds to 19-year-olds playing a game together successfully. They're socializing successfully.   And don't act like you're six. Instead, if you're 10, act like you're 14 in those situations. It trains them to mature, and it trains them to be able to also protect and take care of younger kids, and relate to kids of all different ages. Which, by the way, men that go to work, is everyone the same age at your work? Amazing how that transfers into real life skills. Amazing. So look, I mean, socialization is, homeschooling is way better for socialization. I've never understood this one from the beginning.  So what's the point? You know? Conclusion, there's your six points right there, but here's the concluding statement of the article. The concluding statement is this. In addition, to the benefits listed above, there are some downsides to public school. Whoa! Okay, we wanna be well-rounded in this article. There are some downsides to public school. For example, public school has a more rigorous and regimented schedule than most homeschool programs, and students may not have the same degree of freedom and flexibility to customize their education. This is like Evergotten asked that question in an interview. What are some of your weaknesses? And you say, well, Bob, I just worked too hard. That's my weakness. Tell me one of your weaknesses. Well, I'm too dedicated. Where you turn your weakness into a strength, you know, you flip it around on the interviewer like that. You know? I mean, this is what the interview classes will teach you, right? This is what they're doing here. The downside to public school is that it's more regimented and rigorous education, right? The downside of public school is that it's better. Basically what they're saying.  My main weakness, Bob, is I work too hard. It's, and look, and it ends with this, but unless you can fully commit yourself to creating and implementing a strong homeschool curriculum, your child may be better off in public school anyway. So it ends with a simple scare tactic once again, that unless you're fully committing yourself, they'd probably just be better off in public school. So they scare you, and then they give you the out of public school right here. Look, the article had an overall theme of intimidating the mom that was thinking about staying home.  I mean, you're not a reprobate, you have a conscience.  I mean, they get better at it and better at it and better at it as time goes on, but look, they have a conscience. I mean, they're basically, everyone knows that public school is bad. That's what I see with normal, decent people. They don't have to be saved. Everyone knows the public school is bad. That's been my experience with normal people. The problem is, is that the men are weak. The men and the families are weak and the women are scared. And this article is preying on that fear that women have. The mom, homeschool mom, I mean, it's intimidating. It's intimidating, can I do it right? Can I, you know, it seems so hard, right? How could I teach my kids when I wasn't even really good at school? Maybe you weren't good at school. But guess, I wasn't good at school either.  I mean, just, that means nothing, by the way. But look, the mom says to her, she's like, how could I do that? But guess what, here's the beauty of homeschool. You start with the alphabet. Do you know the alphabet? You start with learning, teaching them how to read and phonics and things. And guess what? Maybe you learn with them the whole way. Maybe you relearn everything the whole way. All you have to do is stay one step ahead of your three-year-old. Pretty sure you can do that. And the thing is, you know, the beauty of a church like this is we'll help you with that. The idea here is that we're gonna support you. We're gonna show you, you know, we'll show you and teach you the schedule when my wife will show you curriculum options and activities and we'll keep those social activities going. Look, my main focus and my wife's, our main focus, one of our visions and our main goals for this ministry, especially as we go independent, is to have a strong homeschooling core here where we can support that. And we support the families that are maybe just getting into it or continuing to homeschool or whatever. And we can bring this thing together and give your children a great organized curriculum and schedule, socialization, the whole thing. That's one of my main goals, my wife's main goals. When we think about the purpose of a ministry, it's one of the main things. But look, here's the thing, this sentence that the thing said, you might just be better off with them in public school. Let me say this, mom, who's worried about this.  They're still better off because they will mess up your kids there.  You know what they are? They're diligent. They have all day, every day with your kids. They will mess them up. They will put in the wrong worldview into them. They will inject them with all kinds of perversion and just weird thoughts and things and beliefs about everything. They will literally turn your kids upside down morally. Turn to Isaiah chapter five. The point of this sermon, and I hope you saw that with every single point we went through. The point of this sermon is in Isaiah chapter five and look at verse number 20. Every single point of that article, every single point that they were making for public school against homeschooling was the exact opposite of the truth. It wasn't not a little bit true or maybe they were twisting this. It was the opposite of what you believe. It was the opposite about what the Bible teaches. Look at Isaiah 5.20. The Bible says, well unto them they call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. You're like, man, who could mistake darkness for light? That's exactly what this article was. It was just calling darkness light. They will call evil good and good evil. It's happening. Look, just not being in that situation, in that system is a win. And then from there, then we build from there. You know, proper homeschooling. You know, proper biblical education for your children. You know, music, sports. I love sports. Activities, it's all a bonus. But look, now here's the plug. It's why you must be involved in a good church. It's why you must raise your children amongst like-minded believers. It's essential for the next generation's success. I mean, if you're gonna do it, you might as well knock it out of the park. That's what I think. Might as well do it right. Look, I'm against public school. I'm even against sending your kids to college. But I am for world-class education. I'm for higher education. I'm for continued education. Look, get outside this box that this culture has put you in. I don't know where those guys yesterday learned about starting a car, but they're in the box. They're in the box. We have to get outside the box that this culture has put us in. That's what homeschooling is all about. Homeschooling's about getting outside that box, separating from it, and just learning the real good, and not what they're calling good, because what they're calling good is evil. And that's what this article is all about. So there's six reasons you shouldn't homeschool. And there's so much more. But there's so many reasons to homeschool, but mainly because the Bible just tells us it's necessary. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.


What's going on everybody welcome back to a breaking news story and the top seeds at the Charleston Open are all losing In the early rounds of the tournament a lot of the top 10 seeds have dropped out of the tournament Let's go check the list to the Volvo car open to WTA 500 event So it has 16 seeds and Sophia Kennan number two seeds She lost in the second round number three seed Caviteva also lost in the third round Kiki Burton's the fourth seed She withdrew before the tournament the fifth seed Bench it she lost in the second round Muga Ruta the sixth seed she retired in her third round match number seven seed Merton's She's out in the second round number eight seed keys She lost in the third round and then I'm a nine seed Vondra Sova also pulled out before the tournament started so out of the top ten seeds There's only one seed left the top seed Ash Barty. She's the remaining top ten seed from this tournament So a lot of players are losing in the first week of the clay court season Remember this is a clay court event as the first real look at some of these players on the clay And this leads into the European clay court season of course the French open being the end of the clay court season So a lot of the top players in the world are finding it hard Adjusting from the hard course of the clay courts. Let me know down the comments below Who's the biggest surprise for you this week? I gotta be honest Muga Ruta is probably the biggest surprise for me Even though it was a retirement loss to see her lose so early especially with the form that she's in It's a bit of a shame so hopefully that injury is not too bad But again, let me know down the comments below who are you most shocked about the Volvo car open Charleston It's losing a lot of top seeds


So I think we're still good morning. My name is Brian Call from IT Sligo and just a little bit about myself. I lectured in Lean Six Sigma and ran a MOOC with my colleague John Donovan for the last four or five years. We've had about 5,000 students from 50 countries take that via Moodle. So loads of data there if anyone wants to work on it. I'm not going to talk about that today. I'm going to talk about my real students that are paying. So I started out with a question and my question really was does moving from a final invigilated exam to an online open book exam result in an increase in student grades? So what happened was I have a Six Sigma course to start out with 25 students. 50% was continuous assessment. 50% was a final invigilated exam. And that now has moved to about 180 students. So there's issues with even getting 180 students into an exam hall and there's issues with quite selfishly correcting 180 students. So I was interested in Shanae's presentation earlier from NUIG about the single version of the truth and I would be very much into you know, what I call data-driven decisions versus drama-driven decisions. So the drama-driven decision was no, no, no way. There'll be issues with an academic integrity. People will be cheating and so on. So basically I took 50% was continuous assessment. Five quizzes during the semester and 50% in an online exam. So I've moved that now to keep the same continuous assessment and 50% is a online exam over two hours with 40 questions. But everyone takes the exam at the same time, not at the same place. But they take it at the same time. And there's some things in Moodle that I've set up whereby the questions you're familiar with Moodle are sequential rather than free form. So they must answer a question before they move on to the next question. So as I said, the drama-driven decision was no way. But here's the data, right? So on the left, as you move from left to right, you're seeing their average final overall mark in blue. Now these are mature students. They're all working in industry in the multinationals. So they're quite a motivated class. They're all paying. So they're not the traditional what we call CAO student. So you can see the average mark for the final overall mark in moving back to 2011, which was the 50-50 final and visual exam, 75, 73, 74. And I did this retrospectively. So I wasn't really sure what I was going to see moving right across. And actually the correlation between the final overall mark and the final exam mark was quite close till you moved to last year, September to December 2015. And actually what happened was that the final exam mark, which is now an online exam, at the same time but not at the same place, actually dropped. So the data actually showed that for them it was more challenging. Now the format's changed, so there's some confounding variables in there. But essentially you could see that their final exam mark dropped from an average of 71.2 to 73.6. And then I looked and said, well, actually what's happening kind of on a box block basis? And you could see that the median mark dropped again to 71.72 versus it was kind of around the 75% mark. And this was the final overall mark. And the other thing is there was very few outliers. So what was interesting there was that students were very familiar with the exam format as they went through the semester. So when they came to the final exam, that exam form was still the same as opposed to a final exam. Is that three minutes or three seconds? Or time up? Okay, and then the final exam mark actually dropped as well. So it started off with around 80 median down to 65. So moving in the right direction again would vary a few outliers. So in summary, what I thought the opportunities would be that you you now could use some of this data, very hard to get though. Could you could you actually look and see, you know, is there great inflation going on? Is there certain modules and certain programs which will be marked too easy, marked too hard?  I think the challenges are that it's really clunky to do this in Moodle. You really have to work to get the data out. And you need some academic buy-in obviously if we're going to be looking at modules and marks across programs. Okay, thank you very much.


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Ynw'n fwy fawr, wrth gwrs, mae'n fawr i mi. Ynw'n fawr i mi ar y dyw'r cyfrifau.  Mae'r cysylltu yn cyfrifiadau o'r cysylltu ar y cyfrifiadau cyfrifiadau yn cyfrifiadau cyfrifiadau a'r cyfrifiadau. Ynw'n gweithio am cymodelwyr. Yn y edrych, mae'n meddwl i pholwyr ar gyfer yma, felly mae'n meddwl i'r ddweud yn ddweud яwn i'r ddechrau. Mae'r ddweud yn gwneud i'r ddweud yma, mae'n meddwl i'r ddweud yn cymryd Ceylethur Cafodd Gweithgaredd ar gyfer dyddwyd am gwybod i'r busnes yn ffasta, ei wneud yn gweithio a'i gweithio oherwydd yn gweithio. Mae'n meddwl i wneud i'r bwysig mewn syniadau a'r ddechrau yn gwirionedd ymgyrchynol iawn a'r oed ddweud bigwnaws, mae ein gws-gwysu'r migraffaswn yn ymddrach. Felly mae'n bwysig i'r toaster. Fydd conflu y gallwn ei gwasanaeth am erbyn y ddweud y mynd ddweud i maes achon i fynd a rhoddi, sy'n bwysig i'r awr o gwaith i hyn sydd wedi'i maes aeth na'r gws. Roedd e'i bwysig i hynny am ystod i'r Margos rechyd gyda sy'n colli 20, os ydych chi'n dal i ni a wnaeth o'ch gwasanaeth ble Rych iawn hefyd. Ac ydy'r toaster. Mae'r toaster rhan o'r bobl. Rwy'n gwybod ni'n gweithio'r toaster o'r hyn. Mae'r toaster, sy'n gwneudio'r gweithio, yn cydweithio'r toaster ym mwyaf o'r ffwrdd arall. A'r gweithio'r toaster mae'n gweithio'r prinsifol. Felly, ydych chi'n gweithio, sy'n gweithio'r torff sy'n gweithio'r torff o Thomas Thwate, sy'n gweithio'r prinsifol sy'n gweithio'r torff sy'n gweithio'r trwyd. Felly, dyna, ond mae'n mynd attractionsurio gwneud i allan sy'n ddullain. Diolch i wassio'r torr. Mae'n ddigon i hyn o ddigon o pas ty Secretary Hayes. Mae pa bydd hyn o ddullabiedig, ond mae eitha wahanol gyda fflaen o adrodbout Golliaw shoulder sister dot. Meddwl ar yful â amlongym. Felly, ool hynny i ddwetlesio, dylwch ar jagu a lruneddedd ben就到 â chyrd lan, gyna'n gweithio cyώlwg sydd iddyn nhw gweld yn wahanol mwy oed. Felly, rydyn ni'n gwahanol yma yn byw'r cyflawn ar y cyfliad. Croedd ei bod yna sy'n rhaid i fi, rydyn ni'n rhoi gwant i'r ddechydig arall y taeth. Cyngoroddiad y rhyddedig o'r mur yn bob ywch. Rhaid i'n eisiau'r cynyddal yn bellachol. Pei arno rhaid i'r cyfrwng Fyddech chi wneud yn gwybod i'r awdraeth, y chyfeidliadau a'r appleau ar eich bod. I ac mae'n meddwl i'r wneud iawn, mae'r credu arddangos i y Mydr. Mae'r gweithio'r gymgymru i gynnwys, mae'r Fifeisio'r Rwyntdoedd Pembyrch. Mae'n meddwl i'r wneud iawn, mae'n ei fath i'r yn ddim ni'n meddwl i'r gweithio ar hynny, nad oedd yn meddwl i'r meddwl i gynnwys. Felly mae'n meddwl i'r bracket a mae'n meddwl i'r gweithio yn meddwl. Onolygu'n meddwl i'r Cymru, OS is now all cloud managed and we care more about containers and runtime. That trend is now continuing with the advent of service technologies. Things like containers are going to become less important. We're going to care more about putting code into production and care more about consuming commoditized services as a way of building our systems. So we're going up an abstraction and more and more commoditization. This commoditization is happening for AI and machine learning as well as other areas of the stack. So, if you can't read the... That's one of my favorite fast-side cartoons, by the way. If you can't read the caption there, it says, ha, Webster's blown his cerebral cortex. And I think if you come at machine learning from scratch and you try and do everything with a scratch and get into everything, you're in danger of blowing your cerebral cortex. There's a lot to get your hands around, there's a lot to get into your brain. So what I'm suggesting is that it doesn't always make sense to try and build our own toasters and it doesn't always make sense to try and build our own models if commodity components are available that we can use to generate results quickly. Which is why we wrote this book, AI as a Service. It's available from Manning Publications. And what we tried to do here was to distill some of our learnings into an engineer's guide for how you get on board with AI and machine learning without necessarily needing to have a PhD in the subject. There's a discount code there if anyone would like to take that, DTX19. And I've got a few copies to give away if anyone wants to ask me nicely after the talk. So this is predict, I have a prediction for you. Service computing will become the de facto standard for enterprise platform development over the next three years. By that I mean systems constructed entirely using cloud native services and this is a move towards fully utility computing and that means increasing commoditisation and consumption of commoditised services to solve business problems. Increasingly these platforms will incorporate more AI and these components will be built by using commoditised components, combining them, tuning them for our particular use case. So we need to understand how to get on board with these tools because they give us results faster. So I've done an exercise recently in writing the book to go across the three major cloud providers. Apologies if you're a provider of a different cloud or if you have a different preference. These are the three market leaders, so I stuck to these three. If you just look at the counts of services across a number of vectors, so compute, data storage, network, developer, AI machine learning and so on, there's a huge range of services available. The number's in green at the delta from doing this exercise in 2018. Now of course there's a bit of hype around this. Some of the services that they count are a little bit wafer thin, but there really is a bit of an arms race going on between the cloud providers to deliver these commodity services that we can take advantage of. So if we dig in to the AIML category, you'll see there's a whole bunch of services for image recognition, recommendation systems, voice chat bot, prediction language and training. So for example, AWS have recognition, Google have Google vision, Google video intelligence as you have face detect and video indexer. So really to get on board with this, it's a good idea to just familiarise yourself with the range of AIML services that are available. And this is changing quite rapidly, so it is a moving feast. When should we use it? Well, I'm sure there's some people sitting here that say I'm not using anyone else's services, I can do it better myself. Maybe you can. And in some instances maybe you should. But increasingly, you should be looking to use commodity services. So when the problem is not well understood, and we need to actually go off and do some research, then we need to use the standard kind of data sites, tool chain, modelling with TensorFlow, all of that kind of stuff. When the problem is more well understood, or elements of the problem are well understood, we should be looking to use commodity services, combine them together or consume them. Or maybe there's a hybrid solution which uses some custom models and then also uses the cloud serverless model to operationalise those and combine them together. So in writing the book, it's fine just to understand the service catalogue and what's available, but you really need to put that into a context, into a framework. So it's very interesting to hear one of the speakers this morning talk about the custom model that I built here is only a small part of the picture. There's much more around this that you need to put together to actually operationalise your model and bring it to an expectant public. So this is our attempt, sorry, this is the AWS version, I couldn't do it for all three clouds, so I just picked the market leader. This is our attempt to create a kind of thought framework around how these services fit together. So at the top of the stack we've got our web application layer, services like API Gateway and web firewalls. Then we have two categories of a synchronous and asynchronous services, typically using function as a service, so in this case that would be AWS Lambda. Synchronous means request response, asynchronous is more fire and forget. Underneath that we have a layer of communication services in utility, so utility really around securing our platform and then a tier of AI services, so that's including all of the stuff that we just saw in that catalogue. So image recognition, SageMaker, speech to text, text to speech, underpin by a layer of data services. So by that I mean cloud storage, I mean serverless databases like Aurora, DynamoDB and so on. We also need to bear in mind that it's not just about the running platform we need to consider the development support services because once we put our models and our application into production we need to continually update it to build new versions of it, so we need to treat all our infrastructure as code. So we're looking at things like cloud formation in an AWS context, code pipeline, code build. And on the other end operational support we need to, just because our application is in production we still need to monitor it, we still need to alert, we still need to understand the operational parameters. So when we were writing a book we figured let's take this architectural context and see if we can build a system really quickly with it. So we decided we build a cap detection system. Can we build a cap detection system in a day? The answer is just about, probably about two days it took us to build this, right? So that's the UI on this side here. It allows us to put in a URL. Once we submit that URL to the system it'll go off, run some image analysis on it, give us a word cloud so that we know what that page is about and then return some pictures with a confidence interval. So this is built using synchronous services for that API piece. Talking to a work queue which then has a crawler service that fetches the images and then feeds those into the recognition system. So the AI piece of this is in the AI services here just there. Results put into an S3 bucket. So that's an example of how you can build a system very very quickly that is usable externally calling and consuming a commodity AI service. We then want to build a much more complete example so we took the use case of social CRM. Imagine you've got a number of products that you're selling in a number of territories. Those products are related to departments. You're getting feedback constantly all the time. It's a real problem to say how do we handle that feedback and route it to the appropriate party. So the pipeline is we need to detect the language, we need to do automatic language translation, do sentiment detection, figure out what department it's for and route the message onwards. Can you do that in a service way using commodity services? The answer is yes you can. So again this is the AWS realisation of that. So we've got a number of input channels on the start of the pipeline coming in through an API gateway into a stream. We then run our commodity language detection and translation service on top of that. Forward it on into a standard off the shelf sentiment analyser. Throw away the positive, keep the negative. And from there then we can do classification to figure out what department this is in. In this case what we did was to use Amazon's comprehensive service and do a little bit of transfer training learning on it so that it understood our context. It's still a commodity service that can be trained using an API that most engineers can use without actually having to understand the underpinnings of what's going on there to get results. So here's a real world example, a real project that we did in 2017 around KYC. So KYC is an interesting area. And what the company we're working with at the time was trying to solve was how do you automate the process of taking a utility bill and automatically take off things like name, address, NPRN, another detail so that doesn't have to be done by a human. So back then, way back in 2017, which is not that long ago we built this using an off the shelf open source OCR library. But then we had to do a whole bunch of math to figure out the boxing and then once we figured out what those boxes were and what those text groupings were, we had to then feed that through a classifier to say is this a name, is this an address unfolded on. Today, if we were to build that same service we wouldn't do that. We wouldn't need to do that. There is an offering from AWS called Textract from Azure called form recognizer and Google Cloud Vision OCR. So this is a great example of commoditisation. We just wouldn't build it that way today. We were just plugging into that service and that would allow us to build that piece of functionality for our client, cheaper a lot, lot faster and if I'm honest probably better because there's more smart people working for those companies than you can necessarily harness in that context, right? Here's another example from a project we've done in AgriTech for in Newland. Some guys from Newland here today they're doing awesome work in optimising fertiliser usage. So there are EU restrictions that say you can only put this must fertiliser on your soil, you want to maintain the soil quality and so on. So what the system does is place a sensor in the field, really in the field in an actual field and it pulls back data on nitrate levels rainfall, all of that kind of stuff along with images. So we feed those images then into SageMaker model. So this is a great example of how you can take a smart model that you've trained yourself and operationalise it. So the challenge was to take this model, how quickly could we get that into a production system we could start to use. Using entirely service technology we could do this in two weeks. That represents a significant cost reduction to the guys we were working with to our clients. So the point of this is yes you can do custom but all of the operational pieces around the outside the developer flow monitoring, getting data in and out of the system you can look at using commodity service components to accelerate that transformation and accelerate that time to market. So in summary we believe service computing will become the de facto standard increasingly incorporating more AI components customising, combining, consuming off-the-shelf services and developers will increasingly use these commodity services without requiring necessarily the deep level expertise that all of you guys in the room have today. I've got 16 seconds. Did I mention the book? Yes I did. Thank you very much.