Good morning. My name is Kearno Sullivan. I'm from the Institute of Technology in Tallah. I'm a maths lecturer, I'm passionate about maths, and I also want to know about your shoe size. So I've given a piece of paper and a pen here, and I'd like you all to write your shoe size down as I go through the talk. Thanks very much. Okay. I work with a very dynamic staff in Tallah, and one of the challenges we face in an ongoing basis is that students, adult learners and school leavers are coming to do courses and mathematics may not be the thing that they see as their number one strength. So we've been trying to design innovative responses to that over many years, and today I want to concentrate mainly with re-engaging adult learners, and my realization of confidence is the key to that. So when people are trying to think about adult learners coming back, they view a deficit model where they think, here's the learner, we have to stuff as much mathematics back into the learner as possible. But we don't agree with that, and we've tried various things over the years to try to address that in a different way. So back in the good old days, in the early 2000s, when there were skills shortages, we were asked to design a response to try to get more students to do electronic engineering. And one of the inhibitors was mathematics being a problem. So the graphic shows the various elements, not just a module descriptor, but the various elements we thought we'd have to bring together. And today I just want to concentrate on the fact that we use a reflective diary, we change the student dynamic, and we tried not to stuff all the mathematics into it, we tried not to take a deficit approach. We did this, worked very well, we wrote it up, we reflected on it, we got more engaged with an international research forum called Adults Learning Mathematics, and we learned from it, particularly from the reflections from the student diaries. Fast forward a couple of years, we're then into a crisis in the economy. So now we have a different thing that we have to respond to, which is a labour activation program in terms of trying to get students, adults to think about going back to college to upscale. So we were faced with the idea of trying as part of an overall very creative preparatory course for adults to re-engage with higher education. We were told we would have to put together a preparatory maths part of that. But we were told you only have 12 hours, you only have two hours a week over six weeks. But from engaging with the international research group and from the reflective diaries, I had come to the conclusion that trying to deal with maths anxiety was the key. And even though there was only 12 hours, I just want to concentrate on what we did to try and do that. So there was an excellent book by Alan Bass which had very practical maths study skills. And in there he had a chapter around about dealing with maths anxiety. And rather than just doing it as here's maths anxiety and so on, the first session consists of the students arrive. They don't know each other. We do show them an Abbot and Costello video. They laugh. We then have a few ice breakers. They work together in groups. And then eventually when they're comfortable we say, I'm putting up this slide. I want a response from each of your groups to this slide. And they brainstorm those ideas down to the front of the room. And they come up with a list of a lot of different things that they're worried about. Firstly, formulas. Remembering formulas. That was the big thing that a lot of the students said. So I could just go, that's gone. You don't have to remember formulas because we're going to give you all the formula sheets. You're now adults. We're going to do maths differently. And that was the important thing. And lack of application. They couldn't see the application of what their mathematics was. But I was able to reassure them on that as well. Typically we can remove all their concerns except for it's going to require work. Everything requires work. So back to your shoe size. So we do this. It takes about an hour to an hour. Out of 12 hours. And you're kind of thinking, I have to get everything else done. But it's been very, very effective. Then we do some maths. But the first maths we do, we decided to start with statistics. We do other stuff as well when we start with statistics. Because we felt that was a way in for adults. So your shoe size. Now I can't do this today. I am going to gather all the data. And I'll do it over lunch to tell you what your average shoe size is. But the main idea is a middle representative number. And a range around those numbers. Two numbers should be able to summarise everybody's shoe size. And the whole dynamic in the room. What's the most natural thing to do in terms of getting halves. Is to fold something in half. That's the most intuitive thing to do. So what I do with the students is I can't do it here. But I get them all up to the top of the room. And some of my students helped me with this earlier in the week. And up to the top of the room they all have their shoe size. Range them in order. And we fold them in half. Now how do you fold adults in half. This is what you do. You count up. You count down. And where it overlaps. That's where the median is. And they have that number very, very fast. And then the other representative for the middle is mode. And mode you get from a bar chart. Which you can make a bar chart very quickly. Now I've done this with 60, 70 people in a lecture room. We managed to do it. It can get done. But in terms of the reflection is the other key thing. We were doing reflection. We saw there was great power in the reflectories. Sorry, just in the statistics. The whole point then is they are now going to do some statistics. And we start with a brilliant idea from my colleague James Riley. Which is that we give them a shell project. So they have to go and find 50 measurements. And they're going to do some statistical processing on that. But the variety of things they come back with. Because they're coming with ideas from their own lives. Is really, really powerful. In terms of the reflection sheets. We were using the reflection sheets. Two simple prompts. My reflections and an action off that. What have I learned from these reflections? What we used to do was they did it as a diary. And then at the end of it, we'd have a look at the diary. But I felt because we team teach this. Even if there's 60 people in the room. Make sure we have a lecturer and somebody riding shotgun to make sure no one's getting left behind. But at the start of every, at the start of every, the start of the second session. For example, they'll hand up their reflection sheets. The second person will have a look at those reflection sheets. So we can respond in real time. Or as close to real time as we can. To any concerns that come up. And at the end of the module, they do a reflection sheet. But what we found very powerful as well. Was then that they were able to. We were able to see how the learning went. So at the end of week one.  Looking forward, interested, reassured. Understanding they were the words that were coming front and center. At the end of the six weeks. Confident and learning and enjoyed. With the words that were coming out. But more important than that. Is this is. No good unless if they come to college. That they can progress. So we've done a little bit of analysis in terms of students who've done this course. Who've gone on to college. And we found that they, they progress in higher proportions from year one to year two. Then other learners and the overall cohort. Thanks very much for listening.


yeah, I liked it a lot better. You know we ran more actions we were still I think. You know terrific and isolation but we ran more actions got more people involved a lot more sense a lot more balance. And clearly we had a you know a great shooting that as well. It's shift for the athletic. Steve I got to for you just what can you say about Kyrie's game it seemed like on Friday he was a bit passive early on it seemed like tonight he was trying to set a tone early and being pretty aggressive at getting to the basket. Yeah, I mean you know it's Kyrie Irving he's he didn't have a great game last time out. You know my money's on him anytime after a performance like he had where he couldn't quite get into the game in Game 3 and so I had a good feeling about him tonight and he was outstanding so I just loved his his will to you know to take some of this adversity and have a great game he was he was terrific.  Yeah, I mean Nick had 4 blocks and 8 minutes was a plus 14 so you know it was it was much better. I thought he was really active and disruptive. You know he's he was really positive for us tonight so hopefully something we can build on. Christian Brunfield New York Daily News. Hey coach congratulations on the win 18 assists for James Harden out there tonight. What did you see from him and being able to set everybody up. Yeah, I thought he was you know terrific vision is outstanding and his ability to find guys out of the pick and roll or when they double it was great. So it was it was fun to watch and you know when he's able to pick the gym apart like that it's pretty special. Leica Andrews ESPN. Hey Steve I'm just wondering towards the end of the game. What was the calculation in leaving the big 3 in so late up big. You know part of it was just it was kind of sloppy that point and they were kind of starting to score and so we just want to take any chances and then also those guys didn't want to come out so we just let him go a few minutes. I imagine it be hard to take them out if they don't want to and secondly. Yes network showed it looked like Kyrie was walking off the court in a fan through a water bottle at him. Did you see that at all. I didn't see what happened. Brian Lewis New York Post. That is what I wanted to ask you about the water bottle. All right. I'm going to switch gears then Kyrie you're never surprised when he has a huge game in the playoffs. I'm curious. One what allowed him to make that switch. I mean was there something he discerned in the way they were guarding him. Was it more of a mental adjustment. What allowed him to make that switch from game 3 to game 4. And secondly Nick as you point out had four blocks and five minutes completely changed the game. Was there a reason that you didn't go back to him after. I mean Kyrie was just more aggressive. I thought he just was determined that you could see his willpower to score and to affect the game. You know I think we'd love to play Nick Moore. They went really small a lot. So we just went small but Bruce and Bruce was really good. You know for I thought with Bruce is great tonight. So 7 rebounds 14 points and 23 minutes. So it was just matter of when they were small we took advantage of going really small ourselves.


Namaskar, I am Dr. Jayanta Dutta, Consultant Neutrologist of Munipal Hospital Kolkata. On the eve of World Kidney Day, which is celebrated 2nd Thursday of March every year, I want to talk something about common kidney problems and how to diagnose them in early stage and how to prevent them. In this year, the slogan of our theme of World Kidney Day is Kidney Health for All and how to grease the gap between our present knowledge and awareness. We all know that chronic kidney disease is rising in an alarming proportion and also you all know that the early signs and symptoms of chronic kidney disease is very trivial or minimal. So, it is not detected in the early stage and it is detected in very late stage. That's why the CKD is called Silent Killer or it is designated as Silent Epidemic and it is estimated that 1 out of 10% worldwide is suffering from some sort of kidney disease. And also it is estimated that by the year 2040 out of 5 first cause of death kidney disease will be gone. That means one of the important cause of mortality and morbidity is chronic kidney disease in the years to come. Why it is so, why it is so prevalent or why it is so deadly? Because we all know the lifestyle diseases like diabetes, hypertension is rising and there is a lot of I say lot of things or the disease is not properly controlled that is diabetes hypertension is not properly controlled on the long run it leads to chronic kidney disease. And the chronic kidney disease has no symptoms or very minimal symptoms in early stage. So we cannot detect the disease in the early stage. So what to be done to prevent this Silent Epidemic? First of all, those patients who are at risk like those who are having family history of kidney disease, who are obese, who are diabetic or hypertensive, who are taking some painkillers for long they are very prone to develop chronic kidney disease. So it is advisable for these group of patients to undergo a annual kidney checkup to detect this kidney disease in early stage. And if this kidney disease is detected in early stage, it can be prevented to progress to the further stage. And also if we take care of these these factors like the adequate control of diabetes, hypertension, proper diet and avoidance of the kidney unfriendly medicine like over the counter drugs like painkillers like kidney toxic antibiotics, then these risk factors can be minimized somehow. And last of all I want to say that if the patient is already suffering from the kidney disease, it is not like that there is no treatment. Now the treatment of the chronic kidney disease is very much advanced be it dialysis, be it transplant. Now even if we cannot cure the disease, but it can be treated properly if the adequate care at that adequate time is given. Thank you. Namaskar. I am Dr. Jayanta Datta, Consultant Nephrologist of Monipal Hospital, Kolkata. This year the World Kidney Day is celebrated on 10th March. For the next few years, on the second Thursday of every March, the World Kidney Day is celebrated on 5th March. This is the main purpose of the Kidney disease related to the awareness and knowledge of ordinary people. This year the theme of the World kidney disease is kidney health for all, bridging the gap between awareness and the practice. So why did we fail in the kidney disease? It is shown that worldwide, in the whole world, one out of 10 people is suffering from a kidney disease. And as long as this kidney disease is going on, the risk of kidney disease is increasing. And one of the things we have seen is that in 2040, especially in the first 5 years, there should be one reason for kidney disease. So this kidney disease is caused by the presence of the human body and the serious condition of the human body. We all know that diabetes, pressure and disease are divided into a lifestyle disease. There is no reason for it. There is no need for exercise or exercise. These diseases are divided. And we all know that diabetes and hypertension are the most common cause of kidney disease. If these two diseases are not controlled properly, then after a few days in the future, they will be removed from the kidney disease. And another type of kidney disease is the first type of kidney disease. It does not have any symptoms or symptoms. The reason for this is that it is not possible to understand the first type of kidney disease that has already started with the problem. As long as it is going on, it will be a big problem. So any type of kidney disease patient is not affected by this type of kidney disease. So we call it high-risk patient. But the reason is that there are 4-5 types of patients. One type is diabetes and high-risk hypertension. The second type is diabetes. In the case of kidney disease, there is no use of kidney disease in the case of diabetes. The third type is over-the-counter medicines. Whether it is a medicine or antibiotics, it is not possible to understand the other type of medicines. And the obvious reason for this is that it is not possible to understand the other type of kidney disease. This group of patients is called a high-risk patient. If you want to detect the type of kidney disease, we advise you to do so. If you don't have any symptoms, then at least once a year, you should take a very simple test of the type of kidney disease. It is very difficult to understand. If you take a very simple test of the type of kidney disease, you can easily detect the type of kidney disease. So the type of kidney disease is very early stage. And we have to take a very big test of the type of kidney disease. The type of kidney disease is very common, so we have to do it slowly. It is very advanced stage but it is not possible to do it. For example, when the high-risk group of patients is above 40 years old, our advice is that if you do a heart check-up or check-up of the type of kidney disease, then you will be able to detect the type of kidney disease. It is not possible to do it. Another advice is that when there is a problem with the type of kidney disease, and it is not possible to detect the type of kidney disease at an advanced stage, then there is no reason to be disappointed. Because there is no modern medical science at all. We can give a prior normal life to the treatment of the type of kidney disease. The type of kidney disease is known as the dialysis. It can be transmitted to the person who is in the hospital for 3 days. It is not cured by the kidney disease. But you can lead a normal life to the treatment of the type of kidney disease. In addition, I will give this special kidney to the normal people. I will also give this special kidney to the people who have a proper exercise, a balanced diet, and a high risk group of patients, which I have already mentioned in the group. So, a regular kidney check-up, which is done annually, so that the kidney disease can be cured. Namaskar.


Sometimes when I'm burnt out on stuff, I like to play a single-screen puzzle game, like this one here, Snow Brothers for NES, made by Toaplan, who made arcade games like Hellfire, Twinhawk, and the infamous Zero Wing. Yes, even the Genesis port, complete with the All-Your-Base-R belong to us. So, this is just a short video on a simple game. This is an arcade port, and a reasonably faithful one too. And as you can clearly see, this game is pretty much bubble-bobble with slightly different mechanics, where you have to go up instead of down. You play as Tom and Nick, and, surprise surprise, you gotta rescue the princess from the Evil King Scorch. Just one side, like one of these games to play from the vantage point of the person getting kidnapped, and you just get yourself out. I mean, who needs these Tom and Nick guys anyway? The princess can take care of herself, right? Anyway, you have to clear each screen of enemies, and to do that, you hit them with snow until they're nothing but a giant snowball. You can start pushing them and press the B button, and the snowball will go hurtling down to the bottom of the screen, eliminating any enemies in its path. So while at first it's easy to approach this one, just making every enemy a snowball, eventually you want to get to an enemy that's high up, so you can send them careening downward, getting rid of as many other enemies as you can. You can also bounce a snowball up by standing beneath it and pressing A. The big hook here is that it's multiplayer, and some people bristle when I mention that, but this game isn't any fun to play single player, and that's not my intention at all, this game is fine either way. I'm just saying, co-op puzzle games like this go by a lot faster when you've got two people playing, so you're able to see most of the game. You start with three lives, and there's one hit deaths here, lose all your lives, and press A when the zero up top starts blinking, and you can continue. You get four continues, but unfortunately the continues are shared when you play two player. One flaw I have to point out, however, is that sometimes you can get stuck, your jump won't be high enough, so you just sit there waiting for an enemy to drop by. I know it's easy to dismiss snow brothers as a bubblebob will rip off, but the level design here is pretty well done, the enemy design works well within the format, and the bosses are especially challenging without feeling unfair. There's also power ups, which the manual refers to as hot sauces. The red sauce has you running and jumping faster, the blue sauce gives you more power, so you can throw larger snowballs, and the green sauce lets you throw snowballs farther. What's nice is that these potions stay with you until you lose your life. There's a couple other rare sauces that give you invincibility, or it has you warp to a bonus room where you can earn extra lives. There's also weird little touches here and there, like if you take too long to clear a room, this dude with a jack-o'-lantern for a head shows up and starts messing with you, and you can't get rid of him. It's the same as the whale in Bubble Bobble. Yeah, that's like the fourth time I've mentioned Bubble Bobble so far. It's impossible to avoid that comparison with this game, and I'd still definitely recommend Bubble Bobble over Snow Brothers. But if you want more 2-player single-screen puzzle action beyond Bubble Bobble, then Snow Brothers is what you're looking for. The boss fights are really what set this one apart. They are tough, but still doable. However, I should mention that the NES cartridge goes for well over $100, so if you're gonna play this one, you might be better off with the original arcade ROM if you can find it, or you can play Snow Brothers Jr. on Game Boy, which is pretty much the same thing, and there's also the Mega Drive version, which was only released in Japan. Just beware of the NES cartridge, but if you prefer that addition, then play it whichever way you can.


Sheryl, I support farmers using regenerative practices. Yeah, 100%. Look, gang, whatever town, city you're in, in Canada, the United States, look into CSA, Community Supported Agriculture. Join a CSA.  It could even be meats, by the way, but groceries. We've been joining it, I think this is the fifth year we've done it. Every Wednesday we get produce delivered to our door, like an organic from local farms. It costs us, I forget how much it costs us, about let's say $25 a week, $30 a week. We pay that a lump sum and we get it in my part of the world, we're getting it for about five months period or something like this. I forget exact time, but basically at the beginning of the season you start getting this stuff, in the mid-season, peak season you get lots of stuff and towards the end you start getting like, and we bought it for a year, so we're going to get root vegetables and stuff at the fall and winter and whatnot. Organic food delivered or you go pick up from local farms and it costs you about the same, if not less, than going to the grocery store. The food you're getting is full of nutrients. That's one way to support healthier living, healthier world.


their thoughts. Then I'm gonna go over the second half and we're gonna do the same exact thing. I want to switch things up a little bit. We'll do Q&A at the very end, but I want to get everybody's opinion about this moving forward. So we'll talk about the Kevin O'Leary story. We'll talk about when are people gonna learn. A call gets the depigged. That's why it's plummeting. Ethereum whale wallet is not caused for panic yet. And then of course the very end we'll go over a Q&A. So before we get going, just real quick, I want to ask everybody a favor because yesterday we did a, it was a great video. We did it with an interview with Mickey Watkins. He's the CEO of World Mobile and I had some issues with my internet for some reason. The audio was fine, but the internet was just a little bit off and very sketchy and very glitchy. So I want to ask everybody, I'm sure the audio is coming by just fine, but as far as like the video quality, how are we doing? I know there's a little bit of delay. So I'd rather just delay this first and switch over if I have to and then go from there. So everybody in the chats, can you see me? Is it glitchy? Are we going okay? Or does it just look just awful? So audio is good. That's great. I'm just asking about the video. Does it look like glitchy like YouTube back in 2014? Looks good. Great. Let's do this. So first things first, let's take a look at, well, let's start with a little bit of the basics. The market.  So the market itself is not bad. Down a little bit. It's not too big of a thing. I don't think there's anything that's really plummeting. Ethereum, I don't know if Ethereum 1 over 2000 is getting pretty close. Remember the merge was coming up in about 29, 28 days. So by the rumor selling news. That's what I got for you. And what else? Anything down, polygon down a little bit, but it's been on a tear. I really don't care. I mean, the market's the markets. These are the most boring days. But again, these are the best days. A dollar cost average. Just a quick reminder. And then I will say this, because we're going to get into regulation and privacy.  Like right before this was like an ad for a shirt. And now it's best buy because I had to get a new router and stuff like that. So it's me. I'm not going to complain a little bit, but it just seems like privacy is out the window. Ah, there they are. Their shirts. And as you may have noticed, of course, we're in this nice new blue shirt from Land's End. Where'd I get it? Well, from these guys.  Amazing. That's what's going on with privacy. So not to be outdone and get off track. Now that we know that the market's down a little bit for our market, I always are talking about as far as correlation. So does that mean that S&P is correlated to NASDAQ? Nah, today it's the exact opposite. Not the exact opposite. NASDAQ is up. S&P is up. So good for them. So it's all about the teeter-totter, what's going on. Usually, these guys are pretty well versed. They are pretty well correlated. One of the things you were looking for or you probably want to look for is a little uncorrelation. That's why I'm going to talk about Masterworks. Just so you know, if you want to buy into fractionalized shares of fine art, Masterworks here to date is beating the pants off of Crypto, Russell, NASDAQ, and S&P 500, just as a point of reference. Also, me personally, I don't talk about things as I invest into them. I've got two paintings, a bank scene and a basket. Not the whole thing. It's fractionalized shares of art. And just so you know, I bought that basket on October 13th, and I'm up 40%. I haven't done anything. And then just real quick to remind everybody, since these are fractionalized shares of fine art, they are securities, which means they are registered with the SEC. So that's a little bit of a safety thing. And I think it'd be good. If you want to find out more about Masterworks, the link in the description looks just like this. And that's what's going on. Also, I want to bring to your attention. We did a video a couple of days ago, about a week ago. I'm just talking about cycle tops. And there's two that I always want to look at, just to remind people that, of course, no one knows where the bottom is. And we're trying to find these different places. But there's a great website called lookonabitcoin.com. It's 100% free, a bunch of different charts, a bunch of different stats, makes it very simple. And just so you know, we are nowhere near the top. Usually in the green areas of time to accumulate, usually in the white areas, kind of like a little DCA action. Then in the orange and reds, that's when we're hitting the top. But we are not near the top. This will make sense when I do this every day, until 2025 when I think the next cycle is coming. Also, take a look at the pie cycle top indicator, where when the 111 day moving average crosses over the 350 day moving average, that's when we have cycle tops happen in 2013, happen in 2017, happen in 2021. And right now, we are nowhere near the top. Again, I'm going to do this every time just because as we get closer, I want to start timing things a little bit better. So that's what we have as far as the markets and a little bit of shilling going on. Let's talk about Kevin O'Leary. So again, I want to do something a little bit differently. This is the article. And we've all heard about the tornado cash that's going on, the issue, the mixer. And Kevin O'Leary came out and he said, Hey, you know what, I think it's okay to sacrifice the tornado cash, the project, the developers, the GitHub Foundation, not the whole GitHub, but their depository, and just move from there because that's what we need for institutional investment. And before I move on, I just want to make sure we're all on the same note. And what I want to talk about is real quick, what are coin mixers? And how do they work? Because some people don't know how they work. I find them, I mean, it's interesting how they work. I just want to make sure we're all on the same page here. So just so you know, last week, Treasury Department issued sanctions against tornado cash. It's an Ethereum coin mixing service effectively banning Americans from using it. Not everybody else, just Americans. Tornado cash is a blockchain protocol for sending and receiving anonymous transactions. That sounds okay. Coin and blockchain analysis from Elliptic, over 7 billion in crypto has gone through Tornado cash since its launch with around 20% of those funds tied to listed activities, like 1.4 billion. It's a lot. I gotta admit, that is a lot. It's a lot of listed activity, whatever they define that as. A coin mixer is a service that allows users to obfuscate the origin and destination of transactions. Users send crypto to the service, have that crypto mix with other coins, and then send the equivalent amount of mixed coins, the recipient address, hiding the connection between a lender, sender, and recipient. A legitimate use is, you may not want your employer to know the intimate details of your bank or credit card, and you may also want to want your employer to know every detail of what you're doing for those crypto transactions. So that's the legitimate reasons. So let's get into this one. Here's what Kevin said. And again, what I want to do, and we're going to go over half of this, and I'm going to give everybody's opinion. So clamping down on crypto apps that mess with the primal forces of regulation is necessary. That's what Kevin O'Leary said. He suggests that applications like Ethereum-based crypto mixer Tornado Cash are a part of crypto cowboy culture that shouldn't have a place in industry. O'Leary is of the view that crypto needs a rules-based environment in order to attract real institutional capital into the digital asset industry. And much of that regulation needs to stomp out protocols like Tornado Cash, which enables users to conduct anonymous transactions. And we just saw they were illicit 1.4 billion, right? And therefore potentially engage in commodity. He states at the end of the day, it's okay to arrest that guy. Why? He's messing with the primal force of regulation. If we have to sacrifice him, that's okay because we have to have some stability in that institutional capital. And that's what he said. So I'm just going to open it up real quick because there's another great part, second part to this story, but I just want to get a gauge of what people are thinking because if we wait until the Q&A, it's not a little bit too long. So I'm just really curious and we'll make this quick. I'm just curious as to what people think. Let's see. Ryan says, I'm not American. I don't know why this Kevin guy is famous. But I was angry when he said the open source developer arrested in Amsterdam should be sacrificed for an institution like GTFO. The crypto space was created to get away from institutions and the powers that be and their control of everything which keeps us a slave to the system. So says crypto quant and swamp which says he got to sacrifice a few tongues to lick some boots.  Dane says privacy is not a feature. It's everything. Zach says I'll be buying Monero. Lloyd Smith says he should be in jail. Which one? Kevin O'Leary or the developer? That's a question. Question here. Crypto poppy. Generally cash is meant to hide things, right? Mental transactions, that's totally correct. Mixers are different than privacy coins like Zcash. You guys are clowns for saying we should let people steal cash and money launder. Well, it's a shame to see 590 people watching and always say, well, that's debatable, but I'll take it. Never needed a mixer for keeping taxes. And it kind of goes from there. No privacy is allowed in money, believe me. Interesting. So that's what we have for the first part. Now let's go over the second part. I want you guys to come at me after this. So he believes industry is slowly but truly winning on cowboys. I think we're getting to that stage now.  I want to get involved in a regulated place where we can bring billions of dollars to work. I don't need to be a crypto cowboy. I don't want to be one because I work in the regulated world. So here's where it gets interesting. Jane Linkley, developer advocate Patrick Collins, said that the decision to remove Turner Cash's GitHub account is much worse than sanctioning a website. As code is speech, I'm doing so the U.S. Treasury is violating the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. So we didn't know that, you know, for GitHub, the repository, they wiped out everything from Turner Cash. Very hard to find that information now. Ethereum educator Anthony Cessano was temporarily banned from DeFi, lending protocol Aave after his address was blacklisted for receiving 0.1 Ether from an anonymous person via Turner Cash. And that's the thing. That happened to Cessano. That could happen to you. It could happen to me. Actually, I'd check my wallet just to be sure. Still there. But I mean, what would happen? What would happen there? So he is banned now from using Aave just because somebody anonymously sent him something from Tornado Cash wallet. Interesting. Moving down, last week, Dutch Financial Criminal Authority, the fiscal information investigation service, that's a long name. Fiat arrested a 29-year-old Tornado Cash developer who was suspected to be involved in money laundering via the protocol. So they arrested him because he, not because, maybe not because he made it, but because he was involved in money laundering, but that remains to be seen. And he said it's all proven guilty. And that's how it is in America. I don't know how it is everywhere else. So here's the question I have. So over here, Cessano, he was banned from DeFi lending protocol Aave. But I don't think it was banned for everything. So let's take a look at what would happen if, I don't know, let's say you're using CoinBerry or something like that from under the WonderFly umbrella. WonderFly is Kevin O'Leary's products that he is accumulating. One of those is CoinBerry. Looks like an exchange. Let's say somebody was able to send you a little bit of Ethereum from an anonymous Tornado Cash. What happened then? Well, maybe you get booted off. Maybe because you don't want to, maybe because this platform is like, you know what, we don't know where that's coming from, but we want to ban you. And then off you go. Or maybe it happens again. Or maybe it happens with a multiple of WonderFly products just because it's with this. And that's just to say that it doesn't stop there. Let's say that it goes someplace else. And this kind of reminds me of, tell me in the comments, I always forget the guy's name, for the Silk Road founder who is still in jail for a potentially illicit activity. Was he doing everything in there? I'm not for sure. Seems kind of like he was not. And he is incarcerated for, I want to say, life. Is it all worth it to come through here? What is regulation? What should we ban and what should we not ban? Should we ban all weapons? Should we ban all guns?  Should we ban soda? Because people are fat in America and we need to reduce obesity. Should we get rid of them? And before you say, that's ridiculous, Rob. That doesn't make any sense. Well, that actually happened. There was this thing called a soda ban. As the New York City 2012 Rayleigh proposal put forth by then mayor Michael Bloomberg to limit the sales of SSBs or soda, something like that. In quantities exceeding 16 ounces called the sugary drinks portion cap rule. Probably if it was the soda ban. After nearly two years of legal running, the ban was finally killed by the stakeholder. But it took two years. So again, where does everything stop for these regulations? So now, knowing all these things, I want to ask you again, do you think that these mixers should be taken away? Here's another thing. Cash is a pretty easy way to do anonymous transactions. I know people don't like to say that, but it's true. Like if I want to do an anonymous transaction, cash is fantastic, cash is king. Sometimes there's things that, you know, I would like to not have everybody see. And also, just as a reminder, if if we do any transactions, which I highly doubt we will, but if we do anything in in wallets, just know that I can look through all your wallets and see exactly where you've been and what kind of transactions you've done for everything. That's the great thing about blockchain. So now, knowing that, do you think that it was okay for this to get banned and to be put out? I think it's just, it's a little bit too excessive. So let's see. Let me go to the comments. I'm cool with it. Cash is private. Oops, let's stop here. Reaper man's got a point. I think moving away from the perception for the general public that crypto is a way to money laundering in is for crooks is a good thing. That's true. It is a good thing. You have a very good point. God, maybe we want to know whether privacy is a God in illegal rights, interwoven in our legality. For privacy, I use cash. Me too. I love it. The Communist Republic of America. Point one isn't a tiny amount. Well, a tiny amount. I think you could have, I think you could have sent a lot less and been just fine. Tommy, I don't know if you can do that. If you build a mixture, you should take reasonable steps to guard against its use of money laundering. I don't think that's that's it. Ross William Albright. That's it. Dred Pirate Roberts. I don't know. Still hold it. One of the Goose, you know, band to band. Kevin's right. Welcome for cash too. That's hard now. So we're like right down the middle, essentially where people are thinking of, here's my thoughts. So you know, on this channel, I've been pretty a big proponent of regulation. And I'm going to need to clarify it. And I need to clarify what I mean as far as regulation. I think that we need clarity as to the language of what cryptos are. Like for Bitcoin, I think we're in that camp of the majority, saying that Bitcoin is a, probably going to be a commodity. If the SEC comes out and said, yeah, it's a commodity, it's going to go to the CFTC. Great. And just treat it like property, like gold, then off we go, right? And the next part is, well, what is it going to be a currency? Because it kind of acts like a currency. I mean, it's fungible. It is divisible. It is recognizable. It is transferable. It has value. So it's one of the things where is it a commodity? Is it a currency? Okay, you guys take commodity. Now what's the security? If we can just get it just to say what these things are and give us clarity, I think that's the bigger perception for these institutional investors to come in. And I will remind everybody that just because institutional investors are coming in, that means a good amount of money. But that also means a good amount of manipulation. So just like everybody thinks that when institutions come in, and it's going to be the heyday of all time, and we're going to have a ton of money, institutions come in, they put money in, but they're not all the same. They're not built the same. They only respond to their shareholders. And if their shareholders say, we need to sell all this stuff, this is dumb, we're going to get out, this is not a viable option for us, especially when the next, I mean, there's going to be another bull market, there's going to be another bear market. You love the institutions when they come in, but you're going to hate their guts when they take all that money out, and they're going to do it, and they're going to do it again. So don't think that it's going to be the greatest thing of all time, unless you get out at the right time, I guess. Anyhow, my thoughts are this, I just like clarity, and just to go from there. It's just like with Law 230, when the internet came to pass, and the US Congress took action, and they said, look, because the people who ran these websites were like, am I going to get sued for what people say in these groups for what they post on my website? Because I don't have control of that. And that's what Law 230 was.  I'm hoping we can do the same thing with crypto, but I see stories like this, and it's very concerning. Anyhow, let me know what you think about that in the comments section. Let's move on to our last two stories. What will people learn? So, Acala. I don't even know what this project is, but first of all, let's take a look. What is Acala? ACLA. Dang, it's ranked 226. And it's only down 2%. What the heck? Okay, Acala's stable coin falls 99% after hackers issued 1.3 billion tokens, bugging the protocols, newly deployed liquidity pool with the door wide open. How much did they exploit? A bunch. Polkadot based DeFi platform, Acala's native stable coin, dpegged on Sunday, plummeting 99%. The hackers sold or minted 1.28 billion tokens. Somewhere Jerome Powell was going, those are rookie numbers. Acala developers said the bug was caused by a misconfiguration, liquidity pool shortly after went live on Sunday. Walla believed to belong to the hacker. Attacker still contains approximately 1 billion. Acala's asked the white hacker to return the funds. Good luck with that. On Shane's loose to point out the attacker minted 1 billion was not the only person to take advantage of the bug. Several other users allegedly stole thousands of dollars worth of dot. Sometimes when I look at this, I start to think about regulation again, as maybe we should have a little regulation to make this a bit safer place and to have actual real audits, not like an audit like once a decade, but continuous audits and go from there. But I think if we keep doing that, then where does that stop? And it makes me a little bit concerned as well about this situation. I just think this is what's going to happen. People are going to keep losing money because they're going to keep gambling on these crazy projects. They don't understand exactly what they're investing into. And it's these types of projects. And you can name a ton of them off the top of your head. I'm sure this is where all the Bitcoin max is getting minted. So I mean, it is what it is, and it's going to keep happening. So that's what we got. But there is something else to pay attention to if you hear this story. There's an address that was on an ICO era, Ethereum address that just moved 145,000 ETH. And that's before the merge. And basically, you know, the merge, this is a great website called when merge, got a great information about all the different stuff that's going on with the Ethereum merge and so on and so forth. And it's about 20, about 29 days or so. A lot of great information over there. But just so you know, when the merge happens, it's not going to lower the transaction fees, it's going to help some things. It's going to go from proof of work to proof of stake, but not the fees. But let's hope it works. So this is concerning just the title. But wait, just wait. The whale address transferred 145,000 ETH to multiple wallets and at the price of ETH, they're surged to a new high. Great. The total value of the transfer ETH is over $280 million. That's a lot. So of course, when people think, oh, they're moving it, they're moving it, that means they're going to dump it. No, it doesn't mean it. Just because you move something from one wall to another, doesn't mean you are dumping. Now, if you go from an anonymous wallet to another anonymous wallet, probably not. But if you go from an anonymous wallet to a coin-based wallet, yeah, you might be dumping. But here's what it is. It's important to know that most transactions are unknown wallets rather than exchange, like we just talked about. And these are not exchanges. A few others believe that the whale might be trying to stake their ETH, become a validator in the POS network and generate passive income. I mean, I guess if you got that much money, why not make a little bit more money? So if you hear this story again, do you see this title? Not a big deal. It's just somebody moved a ton of their Ethereum from their anonymous wallet to another anonymous wallet, and that's what's going on in the news today. So look, that takes care of the news portion. If you want to stick around, we'll do a little Q&A, even though we went over that great story about Kevin O'Leary. But I'll answer all your burning questions, the best of my abilities, and we'll go from there. So again, take off, take off. I thanks so much for stopping by, hit the like and subscribing your way out. Of course, let's jump into the Q&A.


Hello and welcome to a summary of all you need to know about There Will Come Soft Trains by Ray Bradbury. I'll explain the meaning of this story as it appears in stories of ourselves, the University of Cambridge International Examination Anthology of Short Stories in English. I'll begin with some context about the author of the story before explaining the plot in a nutshell. I will then analyse the story and then highlight important themes that you should be aware of when studying this text. Do bear in mind that we have a stories of ourselves course that goes into depth on these stories so do make sure you also sign up for this course. So let's get started. Now to begin with, when it comes to Ray Bradbury, he was born in 1920 and he died in 2012. He worked on a variety of genres including fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction. And Bradbury himself cited H. G. Wells and Jules Verne as his primary science fiction influences. Bradbury identified with Verne saying, he believes that human beings in a strange situation in a very strange world and he believes that we can triumph by behaving morally. Now let's begin by looking at the plot of There Will Come Soft Trains. Now it's August of 2026 in California. There's a fully automated house which announces that it's time to wake up. Yet the house is empty. Breakfast is automatically made and there's no one there to eat it. Outside where the automatic sprinklers come on, a wall can be seen where the paint has all been burnt off except for a few silhouettes. There's a silhouette of a man and a woman doing yard work and of a boy and a girl throwing a ball. The rest of the neighborhood is charred and flattened and a radioactive glow hangs over the city. Now a dog enters the house covered with sores and then later dies and the robotic mice that automatically clean the house take the dog away to the incinerator. And as the evening comes, the house will automatically read the woman's favorite poem, we don't know who, but the favorite poem is called There Will Come Soft Trains.  Later that night, a tree bough falls on the house causing a fire that consumes all of the house except for just one wall. Now when it comes to analyzing this story, so the title itself, The Will Come Soft Trains, is titled after the randomly selected poem read by the house which is an actual poem published by Sarah Teesdale. The poem communicates the idea that nature will outlast humanity and thrive once man's civilizations have been destroyed. The choice of the poem is ironic considering that the house's family has actually been destroyed already, the silhouettes were burned into the side of the house after the nuclear explosion. Now the publication date of the story, May 6th, 1950, is actually temporarily significant so this is another important piece of contextual information. This is because the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan took place in August 1945 just at the end of the Second World War and this is just five years prior to Bradbury's story's publication date. Now within the story there are allusions to this event in both the overall themes of the story as well as the details of the story. As I mentioned before, a silhouette of each family member was burnt into the side of the house which commonly actually occurred in Japan after individuals were vaporized by the atomic bombs. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still seared into the public's memory and Bradbury draws upon this common knowledge base in the story. Also not only is there irony in the house's selection of the poem, The Will Come Soft Trains, but there's also irony in the story itself. Even though nature and the automated house are able to continue for some time, the house eventually crumbles into rubble and can no longer function. Even though the poem insists that nature will not only survive but thrive after the end of humans, nature is actually quite bleak outside of the house. The dog, obese by nature, is starving and covered in sores. Now Bradbury's focus on automation and technological advancement showcases in this story as well. The house does everything for the family and it's through the house's behavior that we learn more about the people who once lived there but have her for course passed away. Despite the wonders of automated living, its mindlessness also shows. Even if the house is burning down, the kitchen stove continues to churn out breakfast food because it confuses the fire in golfing the food with humans eating it and the house can be supposedly do anything but it can't even save itself. Now when it comes to the themes of this story, the first is the benefits and dangers of technology. Now there are positives of technology. Now the level of technology for instance allows people to live fairly carefree at least whilst they're at home and this is of course shown through the house which can basically do everything. Now throughout the house takes care of many things and this increases people's leisure time as well as their convenience. It issues alerts for waking up, meal times, the date, personal reminders, the weather and departure times. The house also prepares meals and clears a table and cleans the house at preset times and when the need arises. It opens and closes the garage door, waters the garden and provides security. It also sets up the table's chairs and cards for a game. The nursery produces a show of sights and sounds for the children. The house chooses the day with a relaxing evening routine and the house also has an impressive defense against the fire that starts. So this is all the benefits of technology. However there is a downside, the bad side of technology. So whilst the story is full of details about its benefits, its main point is also the dangers inherent in technology. So this house is the only one left standing in the city, possibly in the whole world. A technological advance that has been made possible. A nuclear blast as suggested by the Radioactive Glow has also levelled everything else and there's obviously a disparity between the stakes involved, advancements in technology that can improve quality of life but equally other advancements that can end life. So nuclear blasts and nuclear technology, this is also advancements in technology but they can also end life. Also to be less charitable, advancements can improve the quality of life but not the quality of the people using them. Now the other theme is the insignificance of humans. Now the world in the story hasn't come to an end, just simply human life. It's only human life that's come to an end. Now from what we can see, the earth wouldn't be worse off for this change. All the current damage on earth has actually been done by people, by humans. Now once the humans have all died off, earth's natural processes will have time to undo their damage and although humans built their technology, they're not actually important to this technology. The house essentially continues functioning as it's programmed to do humans or no humans and the fact that humans aren't there to benefit from it is actually irrelevant. Likewise nature seems uninterested in humans, the earth can't notice that the humans are actually gone. Any animal or insect life that survived the blast can focus on its own survival without facing any threats from people. Now the same lack of regard is seen over the death of the dog which as a domesticated animal living off humans can be included in the human realm. It dies without anything, caring and is disposed without ceremony. It's disposed without its owners crying over it. For the mechanical mice, this dog is no different from any other mess that needs cleaning and ultimately humans need to care about their survival because nothing else does. So that's all, if you found this video summary useful do make sure you sign up for our stories of ourselves course and also check out our website which is www.firstreadtutors.com where you can find plenty of other English revision worksheets, model answers and online courses covering all the major syllabus including edxl, aq and igcse. Thanks so much for watching.


For me, the emphasis has got to be on experience because experience is the language of the body. If you want to speak to somebody's body, you have to give them an experience that's relevant to them. It's one thing to have knowledge and a cognitive information flow. That's one thing and that's helpful, but experience is what really speaks to the body. But we've got to put that experience in context. And for me, we live in the age of the hockey stick. And this is a big picture context view. This is the graph that we see so much of now in the modern world. This is the graph, the shape of the graph of the population explosion, of climate change, of habitat destruction, of freshwater depletion, of species extinctions. All of these things follow this same curve, this same graph. And now we're living today right here at the start of the blade of the hockey stick. And what I'm curious about is what kind of effect that has on people. Because we're facing radical uncertainty in the future, in the near future, in the present even. And that plays out in our psychology of course, but also in our bodies. Whoops, that's not where I want to be. Can you help me? Let's go to play. And of course the news, this has been a horrible summer, right? The news has been uniformly dark. A lot of you will have seen this article in New York Magazine. And just incredibly scary stuff. A lot more people are using the word apocalypse in casual conversation now. It's all over the culture. And what we're looking at right now is a planetary emergency. So I think what we need to do with our professions and our activity, our behaviors, is somehow make what we're doing relevant to this situation. And that includes exercise, that includes movement classes. Oh, the other part of the bad news this summer was Paul Ehrlich's report that came out talking about biological annihilation. I mean, this is the extent of what we're having to deal with right now. This is part of that context. Naomi Klein, if you follow her, you will know she takes a real big picture view here. And she says, if the life support system is threatened, all the other problems fit inside that problem. And again, she's asking us to make ourselves relevant. So what about the state of the animal? What about the condition of our bodies? We've gone from this to this in the blink of an eye. And people are not doing well. These kind of things, these are the icons of the modern age. And we all know about diabetes and obesity. This chair, this is a real consumer product. You can buy that chair online. So the body now has become the canary in the coal mine of the modern world. And unfortunately, we are failing to heed the message. What do we do? Well, we double down on the canary. We come up with all kinds of health and fitness programs to try and fix the canary and make the canary more robust, more resilient. But really, we've got to be looking at the bigger picture. We've got to be looking at the coal mine. It all gets down to mismatch. Our bodies from this ancient time, wild outdoor environments, we are wild animals trying to live in this modern world. So the challenge of mismatch, that's something we deal with every day. Same idea. Evolutionary discordance hypothesis. How can we get our ancient aboriginal bodies to function in the modern world? And this, again, this is where our exercise or movement classes come in. How can we address this? Sebastian Younger, I'll let you read this. I don't need to read it for you. So Sebastian Younger just nails it. And he's not an evolutionary biologist. But he understands mismatching. He understands the problem of the modern world. So what do we need to do to solve this problem of mismatch? Well, we need to reconnect with the world, especially reconnect with our bodies, reconnect with habitat, and reconnect with our tribe. Because all of these connections have been broken by the modern world. So we, as trainers and coaches and therapists, we can try and re-establish these connections. Another way to look at this, I came up with this master list because I read Aldo Leopold. You may know him as a famous environmentalist. And his famous phrase was to save all the cogs and wheels. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the cogs and wheels. Now, obviously, we've lost a lot of the cogs and wheels. The cogs and wheels being species and habitat. And we've lost a lot of that. So we can't save all the cogs and wheels. The best that we can do right now is to save some of the remaining cogs and wheels. Now, the first cogs and wheels here, this is the domain of conservation biology. And corridors, habitat, that has to be preserved. Practical skills and local knowledge, you have to know what's on the ground in your neighborhood. Health, medicine, and physicality, that's where we come in with our movement classes. Preserve physicality as a gift to the next generation. You can even think of physicality now as kind of an endangered quality of modern humans. And ideas and stories, we can talk more about that later. So these movement classes that I teach fall into this context. When I do a workshop or a training, it's not just the movement classes. We do, typically I have the martial art backgrounds we bow in. And we do 90 minutes or two hours worth of activity. We'll do a solid movement class, a solid meditation. And then we'll do a TED talk, depending on the teachers who are there. Maybe have a guest presenter, that kind of thing. And then we'll do a meal together. And this is very holistic because it's not just go into the gym and get sweaty and then go home. No, this is a complete experience and it hangs together really well. By the end of the hour and a half or two hours, you feel really complete. You feel really integrated. It's a wonderful thing. Now, when it comes to crafting or creating a movement class or movement experience, I always get back to this. I started in the martial arts when I was roughly 20 years old. So it's been over 40 years now. And for me, it was the most powerful educational environment ever. And I've been to a lot of different educational environments. This is the one that worked best. And the reason it works so well is because of embodied cognition. It's a way to bring the mind and body together in a very simple, disciplined fashion. So Sensei tells you, stand here. Sensei says, bow. Sensei says, right leg back. Sensei says, punch. This is a great way to integrate the mind and body together. And I haven't researched to back this up, but if you talk to parents with you, and the story we hear over and over again is, you know, I had my little kid and he had tension problems, problems focusing, problems in school. I took him to the martial arts class. And after six months, he knew how to focus. And that's because of this. Do this one thing. Do this next thing. Do this next thing. Very simple, very sequence, learning how to manage your own body. And that's why martial arts works really well. Most martial art dojos or training halls have a posted list of the rules. And this is actually really important. When you're crafting a movement experience, you want to have a certain amount of discipline. And this unfortunately gets diluted in the modern marketplace. If you've ever hired a marketing professional to work with your program, one of the first things they tell you is make it as easy as possible. Have you ever heard of this? Make it as easy as possible. Make it easy to sign up, easy to pay, easy to come, easy to go. And over time, the experience gets really dilute. People feel like they can come late, they can leave early, they can behave how they want. And after a while, the experience becomes so watered down that it's almost worthless. So there has to be a certain level of discipline and order. And the martial arts are really good for this. Now the other thing you'll want to do as a teacher or a coach is find the right tone, the right spirit for your class and to find the right balance between gravity and levity. Some people drift to one extreme or the other. So we have some people who get really involved in play-based fitness and they're really interested in just as much freedom as possible. And then at the extreme, the class becomes silly and it doesn't work very well. And it's not safe either. At the other end, you have excessive discipline.  So this is something that over the years of training and teaching people, you'll find the sweet spot. Talking. When you teach a movement class, I think it's important to talk less. I had a sense one time who was riding me all the time. You see, you're talking too much. Show the movement, model the movement, and then say please try. Give people the chance to experience it without a lot of cognitive noise. And this is what you see in Aikido studios all the time. If you haven't trained in Aikido, check a class out. It's really exciting because the sense gets up there, models the movement, here's how it works, and then please try. Then it becomes experiential from there. Another theme that is getting a lot of traction in the exercise world, the movement world, is this idea of functional training. These days everybody claims to be a functional trainer. And sometimes it's just a label, right? But this is the source. This is the place to go to if you really want to understand this. Gary Gray is a physical therapist who, some people call him the father of function. He's the guy who really sussed this out. What he did, he was really interested in diagnosing injuries in a clinical setting, and he set up this compass rose star pattern on the floor in his clinic. And he looked at people's stability in the different planes of motion. So how is your stability in the sagittal plane? How is your stability in the frontal plane? How is your stability in the transverse plane? And that was a very disciplined way of looking at human movement, and it also gives us a place to begin when we create new games and new moves. So check out Gary Gray. Multi-joint, multi-plane, the definition of a functional movement is multi-joint, multi-plane.  That's not an athletic move. And the same thing, by the way, for kettlebell swing. It's a multi-joint move, but it's single-plane. So what I advocate for, and what Gary Gray advocates for, multi-joint, multi-plane, a figure is ideal for that, arcs and curves, that kind of thing where you get the hips talking to the shoulders. That's function. Work movements, not muscles. Vern Gambetta is an athletic coach, and when I first heard this phrase from him, I was really excited because, yeah, that's how a dancer would think. Work movements, not muscles. That's how a martial artist would think. Bruce Lee, Baryshnikov, both of these guys really interested in quality movement. They knew something about anatomy, of course, but they weren't interested in working a particular muscle. They were working an arc or an extension or a flexion, whatever it happened to be, work movements, not muscles. This makes sense. And to be honest, I think that our exercise culture has really been derailed by bodybuilding with the focus on muscle rather than movement. The other language thing here is to talk about movement, not exercise. Exercise is a modern invention. Exercise is something that didn't exist in a paleo context. So I'm going to run you through a few of the samples that we have and things that we'll do later today when we actually go outside. I think that's a 240. So I start people with simple swings, simple arm swings. Get some bounce in your body. People come, they've been on the computer all day. They've been in the car all day.  Standing backstroke, same idea, turning on the upper back, turning on the breathing. Animal magnetism. This isn't really a strength thing. This is a rapport thing. So you'll set up with your partner, you'll contact at the wrist, designate one person as the coach, the other person as the athlete, and the coach goes to movement. Whatever kind of movement makes sense to that person. And then the athlete's job is to maintain the contact and be magnetized to that person. It's not sweaty, it's not pumpy, but it really gets you sensitized to the movement of another human body. And that's really important. Work in the rapport, building up that trust with another person. Judo hackle. So we hackle one another, we test stability, we do these playful moves where we try to destabilize one another to test that proprioception. But this one puts that together with a stabilizing thing, and so we're on one foot, we're heckling one another, but we're spotting one another as well. So this is a bumpy move, but it's also super fun. Sidewalk dilemma. We'll also do this one later today. This is sort of entry-level martial arts stuff. And it's practical. The idea of a sidewalk dilemma, you're walking down the sidewalk and here comes a stranger, you don't know who that person is and you can't choreograph this movement, but you have to get around them, they have to get around you, so you go left or right and try and make a smooth pass. And we do it, you know, if you live in the city, you do it 100 times a day. But it's also a great way to develop body awareness. It's a great way to develop rapport with other people and to relax in a dynamic situation. So I start people out, I say, just make a pass. You could be front to front, back to front, front to back, it doesn't matter. Go left, go right, make up your mind and make a smooth pass.  And then you add the quote or strike. So now one person is coming in, very clean, straight ahead here, everything's the same, you make a nice clean pass. And if you went to the Shaolin Temple, they would make you do this for 10,000 hours and then you would be a master. But we just do it for 10 minutes. Rope adept. So this is another proprioception thing. It's a game that we do where we use the rope, it's like tug of war, except you can let slack go through your hand. So now your goal is to destabilize your partner. Most of our games are non-competitive, this one's totally competitive. The idea here is to destabilize your partner either with a pull or a let go. So you allow the rope to slide, and they're on one foot and you're on one foot and it looks like this and somebody has to fall down and then you start all over again. It's super fun, you rotate through, everybody trains with everybody else and you have a great time.  Forward rolls. Now this is something from the Aikido world and the Judo world and so on. And this is a tricky thing to teach. The idea here is to be able to roll and to maintain this shape here. And the way you do this, for some people it comes right away, other people it takes months. Take a hula hoop, have them hold the hula hoop and say imagine you're holding the hula hoop, tilting the hula hoop and maintaining that arc all the way through. I'm going to try and do this without disrupting my mic. Same idea, right? And you can test this with one another, that's what I've got there on the right, where one person makes the shape, partner comes up, tests the integrity of the ring and then you take that ring and you get down low, tilt it and go. That's how you teach a forward roll and it's really valuable and it's really pretty empowering because once you know how to roll you can have a ton of fun. Hoop pass, so we do a lot with medicine ball and a lot with the hula hoop and this one is really pumpy and super fun. So you've got the hoop master in the middle with the hoop and you start with the pair throwing the medicine ball back and forth and it's all really easy because the hoop masters just stand and they're doing nothing. The hoop master increases the challenge by moving the hoop around and so now people have to run like crazy to get the ball through the hoop and it's super fun and super pumpy. If you want to get people sweaty this is a good way to do it. The other variant on this is a slam dunk through the hula hoop so the hoop master will just turn the thing horizontal hold it up to whatever height works best and off you go. Slam dunk with the medicine ball really pumpy, super fun. Orbits, here's another one that's pretty pumpy and super fun. The coach is in the middle. The athlete circles around the coach which is super easy right. If the coach just stands here no problem just round circle any kid could do that right but now the coach starts to move the coach is just drifting around a little bit so now the athlete is running around the coach and the coach is heckling along the way maybe pushes little touches here and there and then if you really want to get ambitious with this the coach is actually running around the field and taking up a lot of space. Then if you want to get even more fun you can have two or more planets orbit in the sun if you will so now the sun is moving around and you've got two planets going around in both directions super fun. Partner resist, this is a whole world of possibility because as you know you can build strength through inanimate objects you need resistance but the resistance can come from another human body so if I'm working with a partner I can just choose a movement and my partner can provide the resistance by slowing me down and this one is it's easy to see here with the rope because the movement is just this diagonal nice functional movement here using the core and the hips to drive and power the movement so if your partner is doing the complimentary move to you you slow your partner down and now it's your turn you go and your partner is slowing you down you can go fast or slow talk to each other so you modulate the right amount of resistance this is a really unique thing because it's a cooperative contest it's not zero sum it's not win or lose you're providing the right amount of resistance it's really fun and there's a million possibilities more than just this so this time instead of using a rope your partner resists at the shoulder magnetized at the shoulder and I'm going to go that way my partner is slowing me down I'm trying to push and my partner is slowing me down then we go around a corner and now I become the person who's doing the slowing down he's coming at me and I'm slowing that person down and so on so big burn on the legs super fun key I so the word key I harmonize spirit key is the life energy I referring to harmony so I key doh harmonizing spirit the way of doing that and this is a super fun thing to add to your your movement class because it challenges people and it integrates the whole body into one really powerful move now the problem is people are shy you know as Americans we don't grow up we don't do this very often and you go to the dojo and you learn to do it and that's a place where you can do it but I encourage my people to let loose with the key I and it can say any syllable they want so you can say I you can say whatever it is encouraging people to let go and to drive from the heart drive from here that's what it is now again people are going to be shy people are going to be reluctant but if you can get people to do it it's worth it it's very exciting put this practical I mean it feeds a sense of empowerment sense of confidence and you might even need it someday so it's all part of the long body trying to integrate the body into habitat doing these kind of sessions outdoors is ideal do it indoors if you have to you can adapt use whatever terrain you've got use whatever toys and tools you've got be as flexible as you need to be and leave people laughing sweating and inspired by your work and they'll want to come back and do it again so questions go to the mic over there I'm at Central Washington in Leavenworth Washington right now and I do these gigs a couple times a year where we do a three day training and that sort of thing so I've got some trainers that I'm working with and people are learning to deliver this kind of content question here comes a question is it on? it's been crucified for this but have you noticed a difference in training like generation Xers and millennials in terms of the whole discipline piece and freedom versus the levity versus the gravity me personally I couldn't speak to that I don't really know how it breaks down generationally but I'm sure these things tend to come and go in the culture sometimes you know I'm a child of the 60's and back then it was all about freedom and artistry and creativity and personal expression and then the cycle of the pendulum goes the other way so I don't know I don't know what people's appetites really are and it depends now the other thing to know is that this kind of training that I do for people is not really suited for elite athletes if you want to be a common elite athlete you've got to train specifically for the sport that you're involved in this is a different animal and it's different methods for different applications a quick question do you have any strategies for helping people get more comfortable going upside down and using their hands on the floor I have such a hard time getting people to like I have a cup what a background and for me it's so natural but it's really difficult especially in different populations of kids and I don't know if you have any strategies for that so you're talking about on your hands and all the way up not necessarily even just like local motion stuff like just using their hands on the floor in any capacity I have run into this a bazillion times really I mean some communities like this community people are much more willing in a lot of communities I have a hard time integrating that in a way that people aren't really resistant from in the beginning I haven't run into that very much most of my people are already paleo friendly they're happy to put their hands on the ground but it brings to mind this idea that so many people that come to us are physically uneducated and really uncomfortable in their bodies I mean it's epidemic can't answer your question exactly anybody else okay well 240 we're going to meet out on the grass and the idea would be to go outside Cain Hall turn left and go up to the first there's sort of a parkway area yeah in the quad we'll go there and come ready for move we'll have some fun okay thank you thank you


Hey everyone, welcome to this CUBE Conversation featuring Branch. I'm your host, Lisa Martin. My guest joining me today is Mike Nabovsny, the VP of Sales at Branch. Michael, welcome to the CUBE, great to have you here. Thanks Lisa, really good to be here. To talk to us about Branch, give the audience an overview of the technology, the mission of the company, what is it that you guys do? Yeah, certainly. Thank you for the opportunity. So we were founded in 2014 and the mission is to create a more open, connected and relevant digital ecosystem. And of course that's very kind of top level and so what does that mean in terms like how do we do that? We do that in two ways. We have two large products. One is our mobile linking platform and this is like specifically the thing that people click on. So you might think of like a hyperlink. We think about branch links. We want every link in the world to be a branch link and why? Like why would that be helpful? Two reasons. One is it's gonna give the user the best experience, the most relevant experience, the fastest experience and we're very kind of passionate about those delightful user experiences. We'll talk more about the importance of those as we go on. And then the second reason is we provide great accuracy and great data in measurement. And so second product is our mobile measurement platform or mobile measurement partnership that enables marketers to help understand what parts of their marketing are working as they buy for consumer attention and buy for consumer dollars. So yeah, that's the mission and kind of one we were founded. That consumer experience these days just seems to be more and more critical because one of the things that has waned thin the last two years is patience on the hand of I think all of us at some point, right? So being able to help brands deliver a seamless, frictionless customer experience is table stakes for businesses in any organization. Talk to me in, down it in 2014, lots of change and evolution of the business of the technology and of course of the world since then. How has life changed for mobile modern marketers? What are some of the key challenges that they have that they come to branch and say, help us 60s? Yeah, that's the question, right? Is if you zoom out, if you zoom out and take just the 10,000 foot view and go back in time, like marketing was certainly simpler, right? And with each new platform creates new opportunities for marketers to reach their consumers in new ways but also new complexity to master those and also prioritize which ones are marketers going to invest in versus which ones are they not going to invest in? And today the platform that is the top of the heap here of course is the mobile phone. It's where the attention is, the insights, the data that are out there, your audience is more than well aware of those things. And so these are where the eyeballs are but within the mobile phone you have a whole host of walled gardens and new ones pop up all the time. The latest kind of biggest has been TikTok but you can kind of go backwards from there and you can also go forward from where we stand today that is not going to be the last one. And each of these are platforms into themselves for marketers to go reach their consumers. So two challenges for marketers. Number one, how do you reach your consumer in those places and also ensure a consistent amazing brand experience? Because this all kind of started with you mentioning the importance of that user experience and when we're talking about mobile phone tens of seconds matter, honestly hundreds of seconds matter and there's data and studies that show that you get delays or you get a little bit of friction and your conversion rate will plummet. And so branch is that linking infrastructure to ensure that regardless of the platform you're trying to reach your consumer on which is getting more and more complex and there are more and more of them that you can trust you're gonna get the best user experience without having to dedicate a ton of engineering resources. And then second, that you're gonna have insights you're gonna have the best available insights to how those campaigns how those endeavors are performing to help you then prioritize and make informed decisions for your next set of campaigns. And that's so important as we've seen marketing evolve so much in recent years to become really a science. So being able to deliver those insights to organizations I imagine across any industry on how campaigns are performing where they're losing people how they can facilitate conversions faster with less friction is a competitive advantage for any business, right? Yeah, a hundred percent. Talk to me about, give me an, a customer example like walk me through a customer any industry one that you think really articulates your value and kind of walk me through that experience if I'm engaging with this brand on my mobile phone maybe my laptop, different devices how does all that work together to be able to deliver that seamless experience to the consumer? Yeah, I love that you mentioned different devices that one's huge. So yeah, let's talk through a customer example. I'll just suffice to say that this is a customer that does, sends music to tens of millions, hundreds of millions of phones worldwide. And they were using actually a competitive platform in the marketplace and they cared very deeply about having a delightful user experience in every single channel that they could have it in. And they wanted to see if branch was a stronger user experience. And to do this on the left-hand side you have all the different places you might wanna reach your consumers. And so let's think about some of those maybe let's think about it in the music industry. Let's say I've got a great playlist that I know you love Lisa and I shared with you and let's say I shared via text message and you click on it, what does that user experience like? Let's say I share it on my Instagram feed and you click on it, what does that user experience like? Let's say I send it to an email these are all different platforms that you could click on this link and this music platform wants you to have the best possible user experience. Now over on the right-hand side let's talk about all the different devices and technology. You could interact with that link on your iPhone but maybe you're not an iPhone user maybe you're interacting with that on a Samsung. Maybe you're on an older version of Android. All of these things actually matter because in the deep technicals of how these links work and how these walled gardens operate they're making changes and all of those changes can cause breakage. Okay, this was all the background now the actual story. So head-to-head test one of my favorite most unique companies that illustrates the importance of user experience out there is a company called applause. Applause literally puts together a user panel of hundreds, if not thousands of users with all these different phone makeups because they recognize that it's really hard to do this type of testing in the wild if you're just a brand like are you gonna have hundreds of different phones and lots of different setups in your lab? So they do this for you with a user panel and they put branch links head-to-head with the competitor link in all of these different spaces and they said we want our panel to click on link A and then write down specifically how long did it take and they actually have like a timer did it you get the expected outcome? Did it take you to the place that you expected and just generally other things about that experience? And when rated head-to-head they put it in green, yellow and red buckets branch was getting a green rating over 85% of the time and the competitor was getting a green rating under 20% of the time. And in that difference for this music company was downstream metrics that really mattered to them such as consumption of the media, user happiness conversion to free trials and conversion to paid trials. And so by having that better foundation better user experience, there was massive ROI that over the course of this six month test we proved out and then initiated a multi-year partnership. That's a significant difference, 85% to less than 20. When you're in customer conversations what are some of the key differentiators that you talk about when you're talking about branch and why it is leaps ahead of the competitors out there? Certainly we start there, right? So like we care most about that user experience, right? So if you, when we get over to the measurement side which I hope we get to measurement is all about telling you did the conversion happen and where should you give credit to, right? And the conversion could be an event could be streaming a song could be a purchase whatever a conversion is for you but conversions don't happen if you don't have a strong user experience, you know and so you can't measure a conversion that didn't take place. And so in terms of our differentiator we start with that user experience. And so we talk about within the mobile ecosystem we've identified 6,000 edge cases. These are Instagram builds on a certain cell phone maybe an older operating system. So 6,000 cases that you as a marketer should care about but you don't necessarily want your engineering team spending time staying up to date on all of those. And if one of them changes if one of them breaks the big ones that are out there that people will be familiar with of course is we're May 25th right now on June 6th Apple will have their developer conference and they do have a history of announcing some changes there that then cause engineering teams to go running. You want branch to be that partner to know that we will run faster than anybody else and ensure that you're ahead of the pack for whatever those changes may be to ensure that that solid customer user experience that you could build upon. And then over on the measurement side we're going to give you best in class insights because one we're giving you better conversions but two we have a best in class fraud platform. We have best in class data to increase your ROAS. We have very high accuracy across 700 ad networks. And we're going to shield you from these systematic disruptions that happen in the digital space. So we talked about the mobile linking plan from the MFA let's now talk about the mobile measurement program the MMP because measurement is so critical for organizations to be able to understand see that data and act on it in real time. How does branch help? Yes, certainly. So on the mobile measurement platform side generally when people think about this and they talk about this they are largely talking about paid ads and we think paid ads are very important and we do talk about that quite a bit. And so with that you're spending money with a lot of the big networks. So Google, Facebook, Apple, et cetera. And we enable you to get an insight into which network was truly the last touch because when you're dealing with self attributing networks they tend to all take credit for them. So, hey, yeah, Facebook we saw this user, Google we also saw this user and they both take credit. And so we give you some insight into where was that touch point in kind of a series of touch points to enable you to like assign credit as you see fit for future decisions. And then beyond the self attributing networks there's hundreds of other networks that you should be testing. Like you should consider to be testing because like to me this is the competitive advantage for marketers is the ability to find valuable users where your competition is not. And in general, if you're one big retailer and another big retailer you're both spending on the same keywords on Google or the same things on Facebook. But if you could find some kind of niche networks for your audience and branches enable you to one test that with confidence and two, the smaller networks tend to have maybe a little bit more susceptible to some fraud. And so have confidence that there is going to be fraud blocking should it pop up. That is going to increase your ROAS and increase your decision making over time. The technology sense fascinating. I wish we had more time. I would love to dig in this deeper but you've done a great job of articulating the value of branch. What it is that you guys do the value in it for customers in many industries. I love the music example. Thank you so much Mike for joining me today and sharing these insights into branch and the website is branch.io. Yes, that's correct. All right, folks can go there for more information. Awesome, Mike's thanks so much for your time. Thank you, Lisa. For Mike Nabosny, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching this Cube Conversation.