Buenas tardes de nuevo. Bienvenidos de vuelta. Ya vamos entrando en la recta final de nuestro evento. Esperemos que hayan disfrutado muy buen almuerzo porque bueno, lo que se viene está muy bueno también. Bueno, creo que no hace falta mayor presentación, pero para las personas que no conozcan un poco el profile de nuestro invitado él es británico de nacimiento y criado en Atenas, es educador, autor y orador de éxito aclamado por la crítica y uno de los expertos en blockchain abiertos y de Bitcoin más importantes del mundo. En el 2014 fue autor del novedoso libro Master in Bitcoin, Beth Seller y considerado como la mejor guía técnica jamás escrita sobre esta tecnología. Su segundo libro de Internet of Money de 2016 explica los posibles impactos de la tecnología en la civilización humana. El tan esperado segundo volumen de Internet of Money se lanzó a finales del 2017 y vendió miles de copias en el primer mes. Su cuarto libro Master in Ethereum sigue rápidamente esta tendencia y se publicará este otoño. Señores con ustedes, Andrea Santonopoulos. Primero, me dices gracias a todos por estar aquí hoy y por esta fantástica turn-out. Y también gracias a Jorge Farias y a Crypto Buyer por organizar este evento y por invitarme. Ha sido un gran placer por estar aquí y una oportunidad fantástica. El último año publicé el Internet of Money en español. Internet del dinero. Jorge fue muy contento de vendernos algunos copias aquí. Dime en advance que si quieres que me enseñes tu libro estaré contento de hacer eso. Asi que estamos listos con esto, estaré esticando hasta el 4 p.m. Y estaré contento de reunir y hablar con muchos de ustedes como posible en ese momento. Bueno, ¿por qué publicé un libro en español? La mayor concentración de los últimos dos años ha sido internacionalizar este mensaje. La verdad es que mucha información en el espacio, como bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, blockchains, en general, es en inglés. Y eso representa una gran barriera para la adopción y la entendería de todo el mundo. La lengua es una de las más grandes dificultades para la adopción de esta tecnología. La literatura técnica, el acceso a smartphones, el acceso a la Internet. Mucha de esas cosas están disponibles para muchos de los que no tienen bancos. Pero hablar fluido en inglés, o poder entender los conceptos técnicos en inglés, es muy difícil. Para mí, una de las más importantes cosas en mi viaje ha sido para tratar de asegurar que, como mucho el contenido y el trabajo que hago como posible, es disponible en tantas líneas como posible. Y he tenido la gran fortuna de tener a muchos suportadores para volunteerar su tiempo para traducir mi trabajo en diferentes líneas. Así que, las buenas noticias. De los 300 videos que he hecho por más de 75 de ellos, el número más grande que ninguna otra lengua tiene subtítulos en español. Todo el trabajo de los suportadores. Todos mis libros están disponibles en español. Y eso continuará con mi siguiente libro, y, más importante, estos libros también están disponibles como contento de open source, lo que significa que la gente puede download esta información en español, para freírla, compartirla, maquinarla, usarla para construir cursos, usarla para construir tutoriales, usarla para construir trabajos. La educación es el número 1 esfuerzo en nuestro espacio hoy. En order for us to really see this as a technology that has within it the potential to bring freedom and opportunity and choice to billions of people around the world. In order to focus on the technology and not the price. The education and not the speculation. The investment in skills and not in assets. The use of this cryptocurrency technology as a way to earn your income not by the crypto. We have to make it accessible to as many people as possible and that starts with language. Which is why I'm sorry I can't do this in Spanish, I would love to. But I'm trying to learn as fast as possible. Some of us in this space are far more skilled than others. I watch with great humility as Vitalik Witeran decides to learn Mandarin. And in 18 months delivers a presentation in fluent Mandarin on Chinese TV. Well, not all of us can be Vitalik. I'm here today because I believe that Panama is one of the most important locations for the development of cryptocurrency throughout Central and South America. Both because of the multicultural and multinational element. Because it is a geographic crossroads. But also because it is a country that has traditionally and historically been at the forefront of financial services. And it offers access to many people to financial services a region who don't have access. South America is one of the places where Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology is actually needed. Don't need it in Los Angeles. You don't need it in Chicago. You don't need it in New York. You can use your visa card. Most people have a bank account. In fact, the people who don't have a bank account in the United States are mostly Spanish-speaking immigrants who don't have the documentation to have a bank account. They need it. And people in South America need cryptocurrencies because of the historical level of corruption, economic difficulty and currency crisis which have happened again and again and again throughout the region. Which of course are the result of colonialism. Centuries of colonialism. And today Western democracies they're cool. They're liberal. So they can't do colonialism the way they used to do it. At the end of a bayonet. Not for the most part. So colonialism now is more subtle. It's wrapped in a nice little package. We just call it competitive commerce. Globalization. Opening of borders. Globalization as it is understood and practiced is nothing more than good old fashioned colonialism. Only now it's not delivered with force. It's delivered with financial embargo. It's delivered with financial controls. It's delivered with coercion. That implies that if you don't play along with the games you get cut off from the US dollar. You get cut off from the SWIFT network. You get cut off from access to international banking. You get cut off from the IMF. You get cut off from access to international commerce. Globalization is not something you and I readily participate in. It is something that multinational companies and powerful countries can use to set themselves outside the law. To arbitrage jurisdictions to shop around for the most convenient corruptible lowest taxation environment where they can deliver financial colonialism wrapped as globalization. Globalization has a negative connotation among most people because to the average person all it's delivered is lawless corporations exploitation and tariffs. Ironically. What cryptocurrencies do is they change the nature of globalization from something that is inherently centralized and available only to the most powerful the most disinterested and distanced corporations to you directly as individuals not all of us for the time being just the few who are fortunate enough to have the education the access the capital to participate but every day more and more people can use cryptocurrencies to achieve a decentralized form of globalization one that allows individuals to shop around for jurisdictions to arbitrage between currencies to pick the law that serves their interests and until now the only way individuals could take advantage of globalization would be to physically move and in order for someone to leave their country to take their family across borders to go to another country where they are not welcomed where they are treated a second class where they are discriminated against the only reason someone would do that is desperation survival globalization is refugees but what if you could leave your system without leaving your country what if you could become an international participant in commerce without leaving your country what if you could become a multinational corporation of one person I know that sounds ridiculous but part of the reason why governments are opposed in many cases is because of the power it gives to individuals to behave like multinational corporations when governments say but if everyone has access to cryptocurrencies they won't pay taxes you should ask well what about all of the multinationals that didn't pay taxes you didn't seem to be that concerned about those until now now that everyone can do it now it's a problem but if individuals can move their money there won't be subject to our controls rich people and multinational corporations can already do that you weren't in the Panama Papers but other people were you may have noticed there weren't that many Americans in the Panama Papers that's because the world's greatest tax haven is the United States that's because Americans don't need to go to Panama to get offshore capabilities and go to Nevada as long as they're rich enough and can afford the lawyers and the accountants and set themselves up with corporations to take advantage of globalization right at home cryptocurrencies are scary to many governments because what they do is they empower the individual to have the same capabilities and this is one of the interesting effects of technology it is the ability to acquire superpowers through the application of technology we don't appreciate the historical impact of technology in those terms but as I'm speaking right now a number of people in the audience are filming me with smartphones the idea of an individual carrying a television studio with international broadcast capabilities in their pocket 50 years ago would be a superpower you'd make a superhero movie around that capability the idea to pull out a device and make a video call with star trek 50 years ago and the ability of an individual to wire money across the globe in seconds and convert between technologies as if they're some kind of New York stockbroker from their village in Guatemala using a solar panel and a $20 android phone make no mistake that is a superpower and the person in the village who has that superpower is a superhero and they can fight for justice and Spider-Man on behalf of the people around them as Jorge said earlier there are places in the world where people don't have access to clean water but they have a smartphone or at least a cell phone and as the prices of smartphones decline gradually that capability comes into the hands of more and more people we are on the cusp of something very important we hold a communications device at the same time cryptocurrencies have turned money into a communications protocol which makes every communications device a banking system not a bank account a bank when you have a smartphone with cryptocurrencies in your pocket you don't have a Swiss bank account in your pocket as Obama famously said you are a Swiss banker and that superpower can change the world for a lot of people and who objects to that mostly those who are already bankers they don't see the need for this technology who needs bitcoin says the person who has no courage accounts a Swiss bank account access to precious metals no currency controls the world's most stable currency at their fingertips not you sir clearly not you and if you say nobody needs cryptocurrency that's because you have never seen beyond your little bubble when I first started traveling and talking about this technology around the world one of the things that struck me was that in western developed countries I had to spend a lot of time explaining why cryptocurrencies are necessary first time I went to Argentina not a single person asked me why they asked me how how do we do this now why why is obvious we are in our fifth currency crisis and 30 years ago our own government was throwing people out of airplanes because they had a different political opinion the why is obvious the how is important that gap that geographical gap is critical to understanding the impact of cryptocurrencies around the world when people say we don't need cryptocurrencies the question you should ask is who is we who is the we that doesn't need access to the financial system the we that already has it 2.5 billion people have no access to financial services that's based on how the world bank counts just the heads of household of working age who have no access to any form of banking that massively underestimates their families their children it massively underestimates the number of people who have de minimis access to financial services the ability to have an expensive massively controlled bank account in one currency only that requires them everyday to jump over hurdles of corruption and bribery and coercion to trade in a currency that's being inflated to shit by their own government that's not the banked that's the underbanked and if you start counting it that way you realize that the number of people who really have access to financial services the way I have access to financial services the way the privileged few in western countries have access to financial services is maybe a billion and a half people and that leaves the other 6 billion who don't and so in the early days of bitcoin people said let's bank the unbanked and now we're beginning to learn that we can aspire to an even loftier goal which is let's debank all of us we don't need to bank the unbanked we need to remove the necessity for intermediaries for custodians for controllers of our commerce for controlling our financial future and our ability to manage that financial future to get rid of the anachronistic nationalistic feudalistic systems of money that have persisted for centuries together with the geography gap there is a generational gap if you talk to people over a certain age and you say hey magical internet money that exists on the web and you email it to people and it's controlled by an algorithm they seem terrified by this idea how does it have value who controls it but what will happen to the world if no one controls it they understand or think they understand how their national money works generally speaking most people don't if they did that probably be a revolution for many people this technology is too strange the idea that no one controls it that you can have rules without rulers that systems can be simultaneously anarchic meaning without leaders entirely predictable and rules based that you can have a system of currency where I can tell you what the interest rate will be 30 years from now to 3 decimals of precision but I can't tell you what the interest rate will be for the US dollar next Friday because that's going to be decided by 12 people I didn't vote for that has plenty of rulers but seemingly no rules and we're suggesting replacing that with something that has no rulers but very very very strict rules mathematical controls people say cryptocurrency isn't regulated cryptocurrency is regulated it's regulated to 10 decimal points by algorithms it's regulated by predictable mathematics it's regulated every 10 minutes by a process of consensus in the case of bitcoin it is utterly predictable and deterministic yes, weird things are happening forks and debates and things like that and in all of that did the block settlement time change still 10 minutes did we issue more than 21 million coins nope did the people in charge change there weren't any people in charge for all of the screaming and shouting 9 years later every 10 minutes like a heartbeat a block comes out predictably and this is now happening across thousands of cryptocurrencies there has never been a financial network that remains operational 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year with no interruption for 9 years this has never happened before there has never been a financial system that allows everyone in the world access through a simple personal device the ability to do international commerce on the scale of a multinational bank for an individual there has never been a technology like this and so when people say I'm scared I don't know what's gonna happen next I don't understand this all that tells you generally speaking is their age I'm scared too I'm getting older and harder for me to absorb change I find myself struggling to keep up I read incessantly just to keep up with people who are younger than me who have more elastic brains and are easier to change but the real gap the real generational gap is this every child born today will never live in a world where cryptocurrencies didn't exist will never live in a world before the internet will never live in a world before bitcoin will never live in a world before individual freedom and so this person who grows up with a system like that doesn't know that it's not always been like that doesn't know that it could be any other way and if you tell a young person money is an internet protocol which you can transmit freely anywhere in the world they look at you strangely they go well of course it is what do you mean in my days money was printed on cotton and linseed fabric with green ink and we kept it in our pockets and we had to physically meet the other person and hand them a piece of fabric and it had no value but the government that had a complete monopoly in issuing it and could issue as much as it wanted told us that it had value and then one day we just got pieces of plastic that allowed us to do the same transaction only now it was even more controlled and under totalitarian surveillance at all times you're crazy grandpa there's no way that's how money worked that makes no sense I can just imagine now 20 years from now a young student of economics at university has given a paper and they have to write about the history of central banking and they're struggling they can't understand why any people would allow the entire nation's finances to be decided by a group of 12 people who are unelected and meet every Friday in person and then announce to the rest of the economy what the interest rate will be it's mind blowing it's almost like looking back and seeing people with wigs riding horses around and taking a week to get from one side of the country to the other if they don't die of cholera on the way there so imagine that 10 year old who is not allowed to have access to a bank account until they're 16 years old who cannot buy anything online with a credit card until they're 16 years old who has to bank their mom or their dad to give them access to the iTunes card or the Amazon account or as one little ingenious kid I watched did who waited until mommy was sleeping and used her thumbprint to buy all of his Christmas presents on Amazon on her phone and at that point if you're the parent you can't decide if you should be furious or really impressed for the sheer ingenuity but imagine that 10 year old using cryptocurrencies trading those cryptocurrencies with their friends and they're doing that now and if you're a parent and you have kids that age you don't even know they're doing it they're doing it and if you tell them not to then they'll double do it they're going to grow up in this environment they're going to have access to personal private money what they know about that they trade with their friends that they use to buy things for themselves they will establish financial autonomy by the time they're 10 or 12 once they figure out how to use this technology which they'll do about 20 times faster than you and then they may be explaining it to you if you're good and then imagine the scenario where they walk into a bank at 16 years old and they sit down with a banker and a banker tells them you can access your account by 9-5 pm for the privilege of us holding control over your money we will charge you $5 a month if you don't maintain sufficient balance on which we will give you an interest rate of 0.01% you will not be able to exchange it for any other currency you will only be able to buy things for merchants we approve of and less as a currency embargo or some moralistic crusade against your favorite thing but don't dare spend a dollar that you don't have in there because then the interest rate is 25% and at random times we will shut down your accounts and block your transactions because one of your transactions had the word bitcoin in it and we're terrified old people who don't understand what the fuck that is and that kid will walk out of that bank and go why would I ever do that everything they do I can do faster I can do more securely I can do for less cost with absolute control but that's not how it's going to play out it's not going to happen that way and the simple reason is that there won't be a bank for that kid to walk into because the fundamental function of storing your assets for you will not exist in a couple of decades it cannot exist because it is unnecessary because it is expensive most importantly because it is oppressive to those who can have it and it is denied from the vast majority of the people on this planet and they will simply make the choice to do without will there be people who have bank accounts absolutely does anyone in this audience own a horse have you ever ridden a horse a couple of people fantastic it's not your primary means of transportation it's a hobby maybe maybe it is your primary means of transportation right if daddy buys you a pony you're a princess 100 years ago if daddy bought you a pony you were supposed to ride that to the farm and work the bottom line is that these technologies won't eradicate banking they'll simply make it the obscure weird hobby of a few carmauginally diehards who like to still do things the old way every now and then I walk into a supermarket and I'm waiting patiently to do my shopping and someone in the front of the line pulls out a checkbook and 20 people in the line go that person will never use a credit card and neither will your children because it will be just as ridiculous as obsolete as taking a steam engine riding a horse driving your own car using cash or a credit card or more importantly using a bank the greatest illusion that humanity is under is the lack of change we spend most of our lives assuming that everything that has happened to us now is how it always was and being shocked when we learn that in the past people did weird things that we don't understand and that's the first half of our lives if we're lucky to live long enough then we go into the far more traumatic time when we try to desperately hold on to things not changing while the world around us goes insane Socrates wrote that the youth of his age had lost all sense of morality and propriety of common sense because all they wanted to do is go to the theater this most vulgar of arts instead of study philosophy as their parents did and the generation after him probably found something else to rail against when I was young certain movies were considered vulgar now the cinema is an art form even television is becoming an obsolete art form and the youth of our day are wasting their energy and common sense on video games and cryptocurrencies and other things we can't understand the world just changed it changed radically and anybody who tells you that this thing can be stopped or delayed or banned doesn't understand human nature when you have a technology that delivers so much power to individuals there is nothing that can stop them from exercising that power Satoshi Nakamoto is a modern day Prometheus who stole fire from the gods and gave it to man unlike Prometheus it was smart enough to disappear because the gods were really pissed off at Prometheus and they tied him to a rock and tortured him for eternity which is pretty much what would have happened to Satoshi Nakamoto too the smartest thing Satoshi did was disappear and the second smartest thing was invent bitcoin and now that it's happened we have this incredible power this is a superpower make no mistake every individual that learns how to use this technology can become a superhero a financial superhero for their entire community and no matter how much the gods are pissed off they can't take it back thank you


After World War II, there was a great drive towards secularity and modernization in a range of Islamic societies. A number of Islamic states had revolutions that turned them in a particular post-war direction. And in this post-war direction, the emphasis was on two key things. The first was modern development. In this sense, it meant catching up with the metropolitan western world. And the second driving force behind all of this was the assumption that this would be best done by instituting secular states. It wasn't that religion was being done away with, but religion was made deliberately subordinate to the institutions of the state. And this was a very bold move. It was something that took place not only in Middle Eastern Islamic states, but in far-flung corners of the world, in Indonesia, for instance, underneath President Suharto. Certainly in the Middle East, what you had were the very radical revolutionary steps taken by the free officers underneath Colonel Nasser in Egypt. And you had the efforts of the Baath Party in Syria and in Iraq to accomplish something of the same vision for the future. In fact, at one point in time, there was a proposition on the table that Egypt and Syria should form a united Arab Republic. And the co-joined country would go forward along these lines of secular modernity. This was very, very bold, but it was not something which was new. Basically, what these countries were seeking to do was to emulate the original template established after the First World War in Turkey. But there the Turkish vision for the future was driven not only by a desire for secular modernity, but also a desire to rescue something of a national project. Because in World War I, the Ottoman Empire had been defeated. It had been regarded by the Western Allies as a decadent power, and this was not true. Because what you had, for instance, in the writings of someone like Lawrence of Arabia in his great book Seven Pillars of Wisdom, where you had exploits conducted by Lawrence against the Ottoman army, you had accounts of every time that Lawrence and his Bedouin guerrillas blew up Turkish or Ottoman railway lines, communication and telegraph poles. The very next day the Ottoman soldiers and engineers would be out repairing them. There was no question about a certain technological capacity. They fielded a modern army that in fact, at great cost, but also at even greater cost to Allied troops at Gallipoli, had defeated Allied armies. But the idea of decadence was that the Ottoman governmental system was antiquated, that even if there were the artifacts of modernity and technology, the system of government could not continue to promote these in a dynamic way because it was looking towards the past. So the idea of decadence very, very much accompanied the picture of the Ottoman part of the world, which at one point in time had been a vast empire. The idea of defeating the Ottomans along with Germany, it had been a German ally, was also accompanied by the idea of reducing it so it could never be a threat again in the future. And so much of the territory that was occupied by the Ottoman Empire was taken away. They became colonial possessions, for instance, British, the French, but also parts of it went to Iraq, part of it went to what became known as the Transcalcation States surrounding Russia, the Soviet Union. And what emerged after prolonged negotiation was a smaller Turkey. Now the idea that once upon a time Turkey was larger, and once upon a time Turkey had greater geographical spread, and particularly given that many of the surrounding areas are Turkic in terms of their language affiliation, that has never left the Turkish imagination. But at a Turk who launched a revolution after World War I, he was the leader of the so-called young Turks. Young Turks, that's a phrase which is entered into our own usage and English language, people who are innovative, revolutionary, wanting to set up a new start. This idea of making that new start, taking modernity even further forward than had been possible before, but doing so without the decadent and degenerate constraints of a conservative, inward-looking, Islamically-based society, keeping Islam but subordinating it to a very strident, almost militant secularism to be safeguarded by the army. Younger officers, younger technocrats, this was the vision of Ataturk. This is what was emulated by Egypt, Syria to an extent by Iraq, by Indonesia after World War II. But the Turkish experiment was a very, very significant one. And it was one that the army in particular very jealously safeguarded as its constitutional mandate for many, many years into the future beyond Ataturk, right up to almost the present day. But although Islam was subordinated to the institutions of a secular state, it never went away. It remained very, very much as part of the culture of Turkey, a very, very difficult type of Islam in the sense of its efforts to fuse elements of both Sunni and Sufi Islam together. The reverence given to people who are essentially Sufi poets like Emre, for instance, people like the other great writers of that 13th century period who are charismatic in terms of the visions that they try to write about. The cultivation as a cultural artifact with the whirling dervishes, a group practice of transcendental linkage with God. Very much a ceremonial Sufism which sat ill at ease with astrident, militant and text-based Islam, which is the hallmark of very strict Sunni belief. So this uneasy blend of Islam, all the same subordinated to the state, kept bubbling away underneath the surface. So that when we had the triumph in recent days of Erdogan and his party and finally what was regarded as a mild and moderate Islamic party took charge of Turkey up to that point in time since World War I, a secular state, everyone wondered what the future would hold. Would it become strident? Would it become militant in a jihadist way? Would it become part of the great problems of the Western world and this relationship with the Islamic world? Or could it remain a bridge between the two, given the great modernity that a very great deal of Turkey has managed to achieve? Now in fact one of the hallmarks of the Erdogan government, quite apart from accumulating more and more power in the person of President Erdogan himself, has been the desire to re-establish the kind of outreach of the Ottoman Empire. The slow but very steady involvement of Turkish foreign policy in Middle Eastern theatres of conflict, in Syria for instance, in the battlefields of Mosul for instance, in trying to be a power to counterbalance Israeli outreach in the Palestinian area. In trying to make incursions against Russian expansionism in the Transcalculation states, all of this looks to a vision of Turkey as recapturing, if not in geographical terms, but certainly in influential terms, the kind of outreach that was possible during the Ottoman period. Mosul for instance, the battleground now between ISIS and a coalition of forces, including Turkish forces in the background, was once part of the Ottoman Empire. It is now part of Iraq, it is now contested, but I think the sense in Turkey, certainly underneath Erdogan, is that this was once part of the Turkish provenance in that very key strategic and critical part of the world. But the percolation of Islamic influence in society at large that allowed Erdogan to rise to the top in a wave of popular democratic momentum was probably accomplished by a very, very curious scholar and thinker called Gulen. Erdogan now has essentially outlawed Gulen. The recent coup attempt in Turkey was blamed fairly and squarely on the followers of Gulen. Gulen was seen as the dark force that animated this uprising against Erdogan. But without Gulen and his influence in almost every section of society, this percolating Islamic influence, there would have been no Erdogan. So whether or not this was a power struggle to settle scores of debt that were accumulated in the past, whether it was a power grab for one man only at the expense of the other, or whether there was a real difference between the two in terms of political or even doctrinal terms, remains open to debate. Certainly what Gulen stood for is something worth remarking upon. The terms like moderate Islam are overused and have been overused to the sense of being banal, but he really did stand for a scholarly version of Islam which was ecumenical and compassionate so that a very great deal of the social work accomplished by the Gulenist movement was very much the kind of public good that municipal councils and governments could not provide when I was last staying in Istanbul, for instance, the park outside my apartment was looked after by Gulenists who would give up their time voluntarily to do something as simple as watering the plants. Everywhere you went you could see the social good that they were accomplishing and you could feel the goodwill that this was building up. But the idea that Islam could be in a scholarly and thoughtful way a bridge between East and West was something which was a hallmark of what Gulen stood for. His exile now in North America is almost emblematic of this kind of bridge, a bridge at opposite ends of which he felt at ease. His outlawing his exile from Turkey is a big risk for Erdogan. He may consolidate power in his own person and in the office of the president. It's not as if the president like a king wears no clothes, but the underpinning of all of this, the way he rose to power, is it going to be a case of the fact that the king has no underwear?


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I want to give you a brief introduction to the planes of the brain. Sometimes it just seems like, where are we in the brain? I don't know what direction is front or back or top or bottom, and they talk about rostral and caudal and superior and inferior, and I'm just totally confused. So let's demystify the terminology that we use as anatomists and as clinicians when we're talking about things in the brain or brainstem or spinal cord. So I have here a model of a brain. We're looking at the left hemisphere, and to your right is the occipital pole, and my hand is holding the frontal lobe. This diagram helps to give you the terminology that most of us use when we talk about the brain. Let's talk first about the anterior or rostral area of the brain, in this case we're talking about the cerebral cortex, or the posterior or caudal region. That works for the brain, but when we're talking about the spinal cord, caudal or inferior is toward the sacrum, and superior or rostral is toward the cervical region. So it's more or less at right angles to the terminology we use for the hemispheres. And this introduces a bit of confusion, but let's see if you can follow me on this. We talk about the dorsal surface of the brain. That's the part near the vertex, near the superior surface. That's dorsal, and we talk about something down toward where the pituitary would be as ventral or inferior when we're talking about the hemispheres. However, when we talk about the brainstem or the spinal cord, we look at things toward the abdomen as ventral or anterior, as you use the terms in the spinal cord, and things toward the spinal processes of the vertebra as posterior or dorsal. So we have different terminology, same words, but different meanings for structures whether we're looking at the brainstem and cord, or we're looking at the cerebral hemispheres. Now there are three planes that we cut the brain in. One is in this dimension here, which we call the coronal or frontal plane. We use the terms interchangeably. The other is in this plane, which is the horizontal or axial plane. And finally, if we cut it just between the two hemispheres, we have the sagittal plane. Let me show you these planes on wet specimens. So here we have a left hemisphere of a brain, has very nice bridging veins coming up to the dura here. You can see the lateral fissure and the cerebellum here and a bit of the tentorium. Also on the under surface or ventral surface, we can see the great vessels here, the basilar artery, the carotid arteries, the cerebellum, and the brainstem. So we're looking now at the ventral or inferior surface of the brain. I turn it over and we are looking at the dorsal or superior surface of the brain with the dura and the superior sagittal sinus, even with some blood remaining in the sinus postmortem. Remember, the two laps of the dura, see how strong it is. I'm holding the brain by the dura and the falx is in the midline. So superior surface or inferior surface, ventral, dorsal more or less when we're talking about the whole brain and the hemispheres. Here we have the brainstem and this would be the anterior or ventral surface of the medulla and this would be the dorsal or posterior surface. We look at the cerebellum. I can pull it down a little bit. This would be the superior surface of the cerebellum because it's toward the superior part of the brain and this would be the inferior surface of the cerebellum. So now if I take a section and I use my knife and I cut in this direction here, this will be the coronal or frontal plane. Such a plane would look like this. This would be superior surface. Here are the meninges. This is the inferior surface with the vessels on the base and the two temporal lobes, insular cortex, lateral fissure and gyri and sulci with the corpus callosum in the middle and the two lateral ventricles. This is a typical or classical coronal section with gray matter and white matter, deep nuclear structures and the ventricular system. Now if I cut in this plane, this is going to be the axial or horizontal plane and this is rostral, this is caudal, the section will look like this. Here is anterior, posterior, occipital, rostral. Here is one temporal lobe. Here is the other temporal lobe. Here are our ventricles, the posterior horn or occipital horn and the frontal or anterior horns of the ventricle. And the slit-like third ventricle in the middle. And again, you see the gyri and the sulci of the gray and white matter. You see the corpus callosum and the septum that separates the two halves of the ventricular system. Finally, here is a mid-sagital section which shows you the hemisphere. Here again is anterior, posterior, occipital, frontal, dorsal, ventral. Lateral ventricle out to the side. Large third ventricle. It's large because there's been a lot of atrophy in this brain. This is the brain of an older person where a lot of tissue has been lost. So the ventricles are very enlarged making it easy to see the third ventricle here, the aqueduct and the fourth ventricle. Remember the ventricular system is our occluded where we are. If we see third ventricle, we know we're near the thalamus. If we see aqueduct, we know we are in midbrain. If we see this bulging ponds and the fourth ventricle, we know that we are in the medulla and the ponds with the fourth ventricle and the cerebellum above it. So a mid-satural plane is always nice. This one happens to have a nice example of a pineal gland on it.


there. So we will actually see from here in this camera. So I'll give a direct contact to this camera. Yes, like this. You look very cool, Sadia, like the people from Mortal Kombat. I wish you were here, Ahmad, I would have taken a selfie and put it on Facebook. I'm happy. Actually, I wanted to be there, but my meeting finished at 12.20, so there was no enough time to come to the office. That's fine. So far, I don't see any... Okay, we have other people. Just two more people, Joanne. So you'll be sitting there. Yeah, because there is a camera behind us also, which covers the whole room. It's fine with the papers here. The camera behind you come a bit closer because it's taking a picture from a distance. Do you want it to be closer? Yeah, whenever you transfer the view to that camera in the background, it's a bit far. I can't see it now. Can you change to that camera? Yes. So can you bring it closer? Actually, most of the time, we'll be looking at this camera. In the front. That's fine because the other camera is only showing Sadia. It doesn't show anyone else. So as this goes, they will go there to speak on the phone. You mainly need from the front camera the person who's speaking. Even in the recording itself, the person who's speaking is the main view. Only sometimes you will switch on this side. You want me to close the door? Yeah, we're good to start. Are we going to go ahead? There's only three people in the meeting? We have. Yeah, he's saying something. In the online itself. Actually, I just scared somebody away. Can you just send another reminder on the group? Maybe someone can open? I sent the message already, Ahmed. Nadia, can you please send a message in the meanwhile? Send the link on the WhatsApp group Nadia, please. Good afternoon everyone. I welcome you all to the third official meeting of DOC's Toastmasters Club. I'll be taking up the role of Sergeant at Arms right now and reading the club mission to you. We provide a supportive and positive learning experience in which members are empowered to develop communication and leadership skills. Resulting in greater self-confidence and personal growth. I want to inform you that the fire exit area is immediately towards the left-hand side once you go out of this room. Thank you. I will now take up the role of President of DOC's Toastmasters Club. Dear Club Mentor, DTM Kajetan Parejo, VB Education, Mr. Mujahid Johan, VPPR, Ms. Nadia Jamal, VB Membership, Mr. Ahmed Usama, our online guests, Ms. Priscilla. Thank you very much for joining us today in today's meeting and I welcome you all. As we all know that the current pandemic situation has caused disruptions in many operations, so was the case of Toastmasters Club meetings. Initially, the club meetings went online to Zoom and other modems. However, a new idea popped up to have hybrid meetings in which some members can be in a meeting room following the SOPS and other procedures and some can join the meetings online. I feel immense pleasure in saying that today the club's third meeting has hit the milestone of the hybrid meeting. I welcome you once again and hereby hand over to the Toastmaster of the Day to run the remaining proceedings of this meeting. Thank you. Thank you President Toastmaster Sadia and welcome to DOC's Toastmasters Club meeting number three. This meeting is going to be a unique meeting and that is because we are running a hybrid meeting today. And as the President just said, it is now more of a necessity than a luxury to have meetings in this type of an environment. An environment where a few of us can attend the meeting sitting in one meeting room and the rest can join in virtually. In a corporate environment as this, like DOC, Toastmasters, it is a beautiful setup where all those attending work at the workplace can meet together, of course, keeping in mind all the rules, the social distancing and everything that is required given the current situation. And the rest of the members of the club and guests can join into this meeting from wherever they are. And I'm sure some of us here are in the same building, but in another room, some are joining from remote places. This meeting is all about bringing in the hybrid meeting environment into corporate meetings, which are held for Toastmasters. To begin this meeting, I would like to call upon the first role player. I'm sure we are all Toastmasters here. Our first role player is the General Evaluator. And to introduce the General Evaluator, let me tell you that our General Evaluator is new to Toastmasters. DOC Toastmasters Club is her very first club. And DOC Toastmasters Club itself is a new club. But this member, upon becoming a member, immediately grabbed the opportunity of being the Vice President of Public Relations. She is the VPPR of the club. She has been working with DOC for a little over a year now. Please put your hands together for Toastmaster Nadia Abukadam. Toastmaster Nadia. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Nadia Jamal, as Hesologist mentioned. Thank you for that introduction. So just to explain my role, but before I do, welcome guests and fellow Toastmasters. I will be the General Evaluator for today's meeting. I'll be evaluating everything that takes place and everything that doesn't take place. And I'll give my overall evaluation of the end. But in order to do or to fulfill my role effectively, I'll have the help of Mr. Mujahid, who will be evaluating today's speech. We'll also have the help of our Vermarian, Mrs. Sinhaal. So Mr. Mujahid, would you kindly explain your role for today's meeting? Hi, good afternoon, everyone. Today's my role is to evaluate speech of Toastmaster Barsher. Toastmaster Barsher is embarking on Toastmaster journey by delivering his speech. The topic of the speech is the chosen one. And for the speech, you'll be having four to six minutes, and I wish you all the best. And over to Toastmaster out the way. Thank you, Mr. Mujahid. Before we move on back to the Toastmaster today, I would just like to introduce our Vermarian for today. This is Sinhaal Sawat. She will be the Vermarian today. She has been a member of Bright Horizons Toastmasters Club since 2012. She previously helped the role of president. She's an affid reader. She loves coffee. She's a content writer and editor. So Mrs. Sinhaal, can you explain your role for today as Vermarian? Good afternoon, DOC Toastmasters. It gives me immense pleasure to be a part of this meeting, my first ever hybrid meeting, so I'm really excited. My role today is that of a Vermarian. As a Vermarian, it is my responsibility to pay close attention to all speakers, listen carefully to their language usage. I'm not of any misuse of the English language, as well as any outstanding words, quotes, sayings, or thoughts mentioned in today's meeting, and I'll come back with my report in the evaluation segment. Good luck to everyone. Over to you. Thank you Mrs. Sinhaal and thank you Mr. Mujahid for explaining the roles for today. Back to you Toastmaster at the Dengue. Toastmaster Nadia. I would just like to explain the timing rules. I will be the timer as well at this meeting. And the timing goes like this. For our first prepared speech segment, we will have the speaker deliver an icebreaker speech and that would be timed for four to six minutes. The speaker will see the green signal here behind my me the virtual background will be green at four minutes. At five minutes you will see yellow and at six minutes you will see red. You then have 30 seconds grace time to wrap up your speech. Coming to the table topic segment we will have one to two minutes for the table topics. At one minute you will see the green signal at two yellow and at at one and a half yellow and at two you will see red. Again you have 30 seconds to to wrap up your speech and coming to the evaluation segment. The evaluations will be two to three minutes. So the evaluator, the grimmerian and the general evaluator will deliver your speeches from two to three minutes. At two you will see the green signal at two and a half yellow and at three red. Again, 30 seconds grace to wrap up your speech and evaluation and report. With that I now come back to my role as the toastmaster of the day. And as we can see it is a beautiful view from here. If you are looking at the audience view, you can see all the members who are in one room. At this venue in one room having their being there and the rest are joining in virtually from wherever they are. And this is working absolutely perfect for those who want to incorporate a hybrid meeting specially corporate toastmaster clubs. This is the way to go. So I would now like to introduce our first speaker, our speaker, or rather our only speaker for today's meeting, our speaker. He is our speaker holds a bachelor's degree in business management. He is a young lad who has been working for the last five years in the education and sales field, and he has done pretty well there. But then he got this offer to join the AR toastmasters that is the the are united that is the UC company. And he took on this role as the administration officer. Please put your hands together for Toastmaster Bashar Suleiman. Toastmaster Bashar Suleiman. Toastmaster Bashar Suleiman will be evaluated by Toastmaster Mujahid Chauhan. And I would like to request Toastmaster Mujahid to please read out the objectives for our audience for our members and for the speaker. Good afternoon everyone. Once again. Toastmaster Bashar is embarking on his first speech and embarking on Toastmaster journey by delivering his icebreaker speech on the speech, the title of the speech is the chosen one. The purpose of this speech is to give idea about the chosen one and Mr. Toastmaster Bashar, you have four to six minutes to wrap up your speech and I wish you all the best, and over to Toastmaster of the day. Thank you. Thank you, Toastmaster Mujahid. Toastmaster Bashar Suleiman, the chosen one. The chosen one, Toastmaster Bashar Suleiman. Thank you and good afternoon everyone. So the chosen one. If you want to talk about the chosen one, I want to ask you all. And before starting a quick question, let me just do it here in the meeting room. Miss Sadia, if I ask you, choose one of the people here in the meeting room, you know the armfest, right? If I want to challenge one of the people in here in the room, and he will win on me with the armfest. Who would you choose to challenge me? That will be Mr. Mujahid. Oh, Mr. Mujahid was the chosen one in this case. Now I can start and talk about the chosen one. The chosen one is the person who's always the place where people go to, the person who leads people to him by making himself, showing himself by being always the place where we find motivation, we find love, we find care, we can find anything we need. So the chosen one can be everywhere. I want to talk about my own story, how I became the chosen one. The chosen one with my family members. When my sister has a car accident, I hope no one have it. When my sister has a car accident, she just do like this with her keys and she said, Bashar, I know that she got a car accident. I just pick up the keys and go see the car and start fixing it. This is the first thing I do. So I was the chosen one in this case for my sister. She knows that I would fix it without complaining, without showing any like kid. Arguments or being angry, I would do that for her because I love her. So I was the chosen one in this case for my sister. This is being the chosen one, showing love, showing care, giving more and more to people. One more place I was the chosen one is between my friends. Although I have a harsh mouth and I give very harsh advices and I push my friends to do the right thing. I always show love and I always show care and I always tell them that you are the important one.  So this why I was the chosen one. They come and tell me their problems. They come and tell me how to fix these things. They share even their personal life issues with me. So I was the chosen one in this part. One more very important place was the chosen one for the company or for my department. Some people when they're working, they just like the benefits to become to their own. I was never this person. I was always helpful to the people around me. I was giving the information even before they ask about it. And I was going to their offices and asking them, do you need help? Is there anything missing? How can I add more? How can I make things go easier for you? One last place you have to be the chosen one and it's the most important place you have to focus on is being the chosen one for yourself. Sometimes it's hard to find someone to help. Sometimes it's really hard to find someone to give you some motivation or to give you some power that helps you to keep going. You need to be there for yourself. You need to be the chosen one for yourself.  To be a chosen one, you need to focus on leaving a footprint. Don't only say, I want to do my work. I want to do my job. I don't care about anything else. No, this is not our job. We were not going to do this. We were going to help to leave footprints to give people before taking. One more important thing I would love if we can add it from my presentation. It's a photo. I want each one of you now to start thinking in his mind. What is the chosen one? What keeps the chosen thing for you? Who is the chosen one? For me, this is the chosen thing. It's Mansaf. Mansaf is a traditional dish. Mansaf is an amazing dish that gives me love, gives me passion, gives me a lot of things. You see now what is my chosen thing, right? We have a song in Jordan they call Mansaf. Means this dish only can be eaten with me, nothing else. So it's not only being the chosen one as a person. As a motivator you can even have some items or food or anything to be the chosen one. What I want from everyone in here and to get from this meeting is to be one day the chosen one. For themselves and for others. Thank you so much and this is what they have for us. Thank you to Master Bashar for that wonderful speech. Yes, you're so right. Each one of us have to be the chosen ones for ourselves and to stand as chosen ones for others who look up to us. And in that chosen one we should be the ones to give. We have a minute to give feedback to Master Bashar. You can leave your feedback in the chat. Either you can give it directly to him or leave it in the chat for everyone to see. Well, since we are in a hybrid meeting I will go ahead and start giving the feedback directly to Bashar. Bashar, this is the least that I can say is that you're born a public speaker.  This meeting you're giving your eye speaker and you keep impressing us. I can see that you're a natural public speaker and it was a great presentation and thank you very much for taking the effort. Thank you so much for your kind words. Thank you. And that wraps up our prepared speeches segment. We will now move on to the table topic segment. And to conduct our table topics today we have the president toast master Sadia. Now toast master Sadia immediately first thing took up the role of president of this club because she looked at it that she could take this club. In that direction that it that is required for a toast master's club to survive and to thrive. Please put your hands together for toast master Sadia. Thank you so much to us master of the day miss Priscilla good afternoon everyone once again I will be presenting the table topic segment today. Just to explain you the table topic segment is impromptu speech in which a topic is given and you have to deliver your speech for two minutes on the given topic. Also to inform you that this segment can be participated by the members and guests equally. I would request those master of the day miss Priscilla who's also the timer for today's meeting to please explain the time for the table topics. So the timing for the table topic is one to two minutes at one minute, you will see the green signal like this behind me at one and a half the yellow and at two minutes red. After that you have 30 seconds grace to wrap up your table topic speech over to you table topic master. Thank you TMOD. Thank you so much. Right guys, are we ready. I request you all to please participate. The first topic that I've chosen for today is something very easy and I'm sure many of you will raise your hands. So, talk about something new that you have recently tried. Talk about something new that you have recently tried. Yes, I see a raise hand. That's me fair. Yes. Good afternoon fellow toast masters once again. As the speech topic was being read out. My brain started working as fast as it could. And for a moment I thought what is nothing new that I've done recently. And just then I remembered well it was only yesterday that I played football with a bunch of kids from my building. And what a thrill it was. It was the most exciting experience for me in quite a few months. The backstory is, we have a lot of kids in our building. And there were these somehow fights going on between the boys gang and the girls gang. And as it so happened I found myself in the middle of it. So I told them look let's do this. Let's all play a sport together. The boys wanted to play football. The girls said okay. And I joined them yesterday at 6pm. I have been an avid sports person but I have played different sports like hockey, volleyball, being an athlete, swimming. And so many more. But football was something I never attempted. So I was a bit skeptical but I wanted to join the kids, get them all motivated to play some sport. And there I went and let me tell you all it was so much fun and the kids were happy to have me around as well. And let me tell you they have a new champion goalkeeper and me now. So this is what I'm going to do for the next few months. Play football with the kids and I urge all of you also to try some sports. It's a lot of fun over to the table topics master. Thank you so much. That was wonderful. And I'm sure you have really enjoyed it as we can see it in your speech. Thank you for taking up this topic. The second and the last topic for today's table topics is in a funny way. In a funny way. Please let me know what do you do for work. So calling up all the comedians. I think Ahmad can take that participation from online members also please. I see some online members are also there in a funny way. Please let me know what do you do for work. Okay. Yes, I'll take up this one. Okay. So basically in a funny way what I do for work. I usually turn up in the office and try to press up some people. So that they can do things that they usually don't want to do. And what I usually try to achieve is to make them go out of the way to please me. Because I have a requirements coming usually from clients. It's not that personal interest. But usually they are personal clients requirements that needs to be achieved. But maybe in the gatekeeper between the users and or the clients and the people in the back office in the company. It becomes my role to try to facilitate this. And eventually it becomes my role to press off all the people in the company to have them do what I need to achieve. Other than this, there isn't much that I'm doing in the company. So probably this is the best way to describe it. Back to you. Thank you. Thank you. We absolutely understood what you're doing for work. Thank you so much. Do we have a poll for the best. All right, that with that we wind up the table topic segment for today. Over to you. Those master of the name is Priscilla. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That was wonderful two table topics quickly done and very well attempted. With this, it's time for us to move on to our general evaluation segment. And I would like to now hand over the podium to those master. Who will proceed with the general evaluation over to you. Hello. Okay, so before we start the general about the evaluation portion. I'd like to call on the timer to please give us the timing guidelines for the evaluations this week. Yes. So you have two to three minutes for the evaluations speech evaluator. So report as well as for the general evaluation at two minutes you will see the green signal at two and a half you will see yellow. And that's three you will see the red you have 30 seconds grace once again. Over to you. General evaluator. Thank you for that Priscilla. I'll call on Mr. Mojahed. So please give his evaluation. Good afternoon, everyone once again. I'm going to evaluate speech of pressure is a very tricky task. I'm very diplomatic task. Definitely it is very. We have to be very justice. But anyhow, the speech delivered by. It was an excellent speech. And first of all, I would like to congratulate in taking his first step toward communication skills. Icebreaker speech. And at this stage, I would like to call upon my members to appreciate and give him a big class. As for the evaluation. The topic was very unique and it is very common as well. Everybody has the right to do to do someone and every work of life. We are choosing something we have to do. Some person something some. Whereas the three points I would like to explain here. The first point he mentioned to do someone or to help someone or to get guidance from someone. And the second point was for himself. He has to choose himself. To leave the footprints for the others. So he have to set a good example for the predecessors. So this is a good point. And the third one is about the dishes. This is very common thing. Everybody loves good dishes. This is by nature. So these are the main points. And I did not find any point for the improvement. But obviously everything has always opportunity for improvement. So what I observed from your speech, I think you make use of your body language. You delivered your word very well. The delivery of the sentences was very excellent. But one thing I mentioned here, if you can improve these points, I'm sure you will be the next champion of public speaking. You have to be more confident. Though the confidence is there, but you have to be more confident and that is with a passage of time with a practice. So I think this platform is a good place. We have the opportunity to repeat our practices. And wherever we are here to help you out. And wherever we find any improvement, we will definitely guide you. We are here to help you out. And do all the best. And it was really our wonderful speech. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. I'll now request of the timer to share the report with us. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. We had some wonderful usage of language today. And unfortunately I could not catch on any misuse. But let me tell you what we did well. Our Toastmaster of the day, Toastmaster Prasila, had a few phrases like holds a bachelor's degree instead of has a bachelor's degree, which is done well. She referred to our speaker as a young lad. Toastmaster Mujahid said, embarking upon the Toastmaster's journey. That's a nice phrase to say, embarking upon. Our speaker, Toastmaster Bashar, the speech title itself was a nice phrase, the chosen one. He spoke about leaving the footprint. That's a nice way to say, leaving our memory behind or doing something special. Toastmaster Ahmed said, they go out of their way to please me. He's a natural public speaker. Being the gatekeeper was especially a good one. And he used the word facilitate, which is something we don't often use. Ms. Sadia said, wind up the segment instead of let's finish this. She said, let's wind up the segment, which was done well. These were some good usages. There were barely any misuse that I can really pinpoint upon. But if only if I have to be picky, I would encourage everyone to try and use words that are not common. For example, instead of saying it was a good speech, let's try and get to the specifics and say it was a meaningful speech or it was an insightful speech. Similarly, in other areas too, let's try and avoid using common words and think to ourselves, what exactly happened? What exactly did it touch me with? And those words are the ones that will be better than the common ones. Over to the general evaluator. Now I'll request the timer to share their report with us. This is Priscilla. You want me to report the timing for the evaluations? Yes, please. Okay. So Toastmaster Mujahid, he took three minutes and 40 seconds. And Toastmaster Snehal took one minute and 49 seconds. What about the speeches? For the speeches, for the table, for the table topics, Toastmaster Snehal took one minute, 46 seconds. And Toastmaster Ahmad took one minute, 19 seconds. And our prepared speeches, Toastmaster Bashar, he finished his speech in four minutes, 59 seconds. Thank you for that report, Mrs. Priscilla. And for my overall evaluation of today's meeting. So we kind of did start the meeting a bit late. Part of that was, you know, to have a little more attendance, online attendance, which again, unfortunately, we didn't have much of that. But in terms of it being a hybrid meeting, I think it went really well technically speaking. We didn't have any technical problems. I think that's really great. So it goes to show that obviously we can continue this. Moving down the line. Now there was a bit of confusion with the general evaluation portion. So I'm partly to blame as the general evaluator. For one, I didn't properly introduce Mr. Majahed. I apologize for that. And there was a bit of confusion with the timer roll, given that Mrs. Priscilla is assuming both Toastmaster of the date and so again, do apologize for that. But yeah, so there also won't be an evaluation portion. For the topic of the day and all of that stuff, because this is a demo meeting. But in terms of it being a hybrid meeting, I think everything went smoothly. The president introduced our club and welcomed everyone so warmly. The Toastmaster of the day did a great job transitioning between segments of the meeting. And overall I think that hybrid meetings do have a future at our club here at the UC. So that's it for my overall evaluation. Thank you for the time. And back to you, Mrs. Priscilla, Toastmaster of the day. Thank you, Toastmaster Nadia for handling the general evaluation segment. And here we are towards the end of this wonderful meeting, the hybrid meeting, the very first hybrid meeting at UC's Toastmasters Club, which has been a successful meeting. Thanks to all those who put in the effort to making this happen. And I'm sure we have all enjoyed the experience. I for one would not have wanted to be sitting here, but wanted to be in that meeting room, which we have all experienced at least Toastmasters Nehal, myself, DTM Kajatin. We have experienced what it is to stand on a stage. I'm sure Toastmaster Lakshmi also. So when I saw all of you coming up to the stage, I felt like, oh, I should have been in that room, not sitting in my home from where I am right now. So all in all, a very successful meeting, well done Toastmasters, DUC Toastmasters. And I look forward to attending such meetings in the future with DUC. With that, I would like to hand over to our president, Toastmaster Satya. Round of applause for Abdul Sathya. Thank you once again for this wonderful and beautiful meeting. As our journal evaluator said that though we had a little attendance today, but all of us who are here, we know that we enjoyed this experience. And we certainly want to have another such meeting with more of our members present here today. I would especially like to thank DTM Kajatin Pareto for giving us this opportunity and guiding us through into this kind of meeting and letting us know this experience as well. Of course, with today's experience, we have gained a lot of knowledge of how we are going to have our next hybrid meeting in a better situation. I'm not blaming on any situation, but in this current scenario and with Ramadan, of course, going on with lesser working hours, I truly understand it's difficult for everyone to join in working hours today. So that is why we had a little attendance in contrary to our previous meetings where we had more than 60 to 70% of attendance. So I'm hoping that after Ramadan, we are going to have another hybrid meeting with this experience carried forward and we'll see more members in it. Thank you everyone once again who have made today's meeting a success. Thank you everyone. I now adjourn this meeting. Thank you. Thank you DTM Kajatin for pointing this out. I thought that we are only looking at the picture of DTM Khaled Abdullah, but I see that he is there and he can say a few words to us. DTM Khaled, are you there? I am definitely here. Good afternoon everyone. Apology, I'm driving, but I really enjoyed the meeting of them watching and hearing. Speech was brilliant and what I can see, I can see quality of all of the role players via the course. I wouldn't say this about the master of ceremony. She is already a master of so many things, but the viewers, the newcomers, the GE, the speech. Speech was brilliant. Unfortunately I logged in a little bit later. I was just there and I saw the mentor. Was it a mentor? I think it was a mentor and I felt hungry. Apart from that, I think it was a brilliant speech and everything is going well. If you don't do this with DTM Kajatin, if you don't do such hybrid teaching and come up with such technology, I would really feel that there is something not right, but here I can see that DTM Kajatin took you there. So it's all well, always keep it up, keep it up, all the best. Over to you Madam President. Thank you. Thank you so much for joining me in saying these encouraging words. Thank you once again everyone. Thank you. If you can take the camera, I want to take some photos now of the event. And so, how often do you want to take the photos? Yeah, at the possible college, at the I will take your photo. You can look at me also. Yeah. And so this lens over there, you are taking your speech, right? So, give me that. And so, for giving a speech, it's true. So I'm just acting. I'm not going to give my speech again. We need to document what happened today in the meeting. So you guys, just wait for a minute. If you take some pictures, smile. Smile? Yeah, perfect. It's awkward. It's kind of awkward here. Look to the camera and talk about myself. It's easier. We want to hear more about myself. Myself. Now you will see a born actor. Thank you everyone once again. And I think I clicked the best picture. Can we stop recording guys? And it's going to a live stream again. No, you will train that part. You will train that part, right? Yeah. The stream just stopped now. 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So obviously this week, Halsey tweeted out this thing that, oh yeah, we could just play it, can't we? I don't think it's that fun to think about the authenticity of this, but here's the word conjecture that I noticed a lot of time when I say it, people don't know what it means, so I'm putting it up here, I'm not trying to condescend y'all, I'll just experience his experience. But conjecture is a pinnier conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information. But I think this is real, and I think the more important discussion because here's like another one of the articles is like 10 artists who are talking about being forced to post on TikTok. There's a good amount to discuss in here, but like what I will say is this, is I would take this at face value because here's what my experience is, and this is actually probably a very good way to bring in why I believe her, and every time I'm at, I mean literally I was out on Sunday having this discussion seeing turnstile. I moshed, it was great, and like I'm talking to some music business friends, and here's the thing, in any era there is one marketing technique that does more to market an artist than anything else. There's always one dominant thing, and TikTok is like that, like they've ever seen. So let's get some important context going in this discussion, I'm going to fire up Yeol Spotify and put it on the screen. Right now Halsey is in this place that you never want to be in as an artist, and what I mean by this is if you look on the screen right now, this is her top 10 most listened to songs in recent times, as we all know that's what Spotify does here, and you know this is a rolling count of what's currently popular. So you're like wow yeah, well she has a song with two billion plays, Jesse, things seems like things are going right. Here's the thing you're probably overlooking. Halsey's latest record debuted at number two just like the last one did. Great, that's a very good look in the music business, but what makes teams panic, particularly your label and your manager, and I know because this is usually when they come calling me freaking the f*** out for a console call, is when your last record being this one, you see that album cover? You notice what's not in this top 10? Yeah, that's not a good place to be, particularly what you also don't want to have. This should have the distinction as well, even though the title's nothing, is these are actually other artist songs that she's just a featured artist on as is this. I think even maybe that one might be am I wrong? So that is not a thing that makes teams happy because the fact is, if you have two records that fail, your career is usually over.   They're talking to all their other artist friends and they're learning some stuff and they're coming back to their team and saying, yo, we should do a video. I said this for this career that we should do something like that. And then on the other side, the team is going, hey, we've been working with all these other artists because we work with all these other artists. The greatest advantage major labels have is they see what's working for one thing. Their head's in the game. They're going out drinking with other people in the thing. They're talking about what works. They see best practices and then they go, we should be doing best practices. So here's the thing. If you're on someone's team, you have a boss to answer to and that boss wants you to do right and doesn't want you to have another failure or else that's a mark of failure on your board and that is on you. I have bosses, for example, and if I don't grow things like say this podcast I'm promoting, I'm not going to be smiled upon by my bosses. I'm hired to make growth happen when I get calls to do marketing strategy. If they don't work, they will stop calling me. Thank God that never happens. Anyway, my point here being these people on her team are trying to get her to do what works overwhelmingly well and I was just talking about this. Literally, Lizzo is tearing up the charts and having unprecedented for her fast growth on a song because that song is a TikTok dance that is exploding. It is a huge trend. Getting these TikTok moments, it's unprecedented to what that does. So here's the thing. My assumption, and now we're getting into yet again, conjecture, my outcomes razor from being around this and it's a little less than most conjectures because I've just been in these meetings a lot, is an artist gets done with a song and here's what they do every time. Can we just drop it on Friday and then the label says, we'd really like to have some marketing running, especially when your last release went down because here's the thing. A label having an artist who is a formidable force in the music business, that's most of what generates the revenue for labels and keeping them going and snowballing and getting that snowball bigger and bigger as it gets pushed with all the ice. That's what drives labels revenue and management teams revenue. Not just 10 small artists, but like the big one getting even bigger and staying that way. When you've just had what some people call a down round, a record that really did not hit, yet again, did not hit, you're trying to save that artist from doing it and you're like, can we just do it? Now she's like, I have done eight records. I've sold 165 million records. I just want to release music. I'm tired. Yeah. I mean, unfortunately you're tired and what the label's saying is like, yo, a TikTok takes like 30 minutes. We could just brainstorm on this for a while and you could just do it. If you wait two weeks, maybe we'll have the marketing plan. And if I'm being honest, I've watched artists throw fits on social media over much less. In fact, I may have watched that in the last few weeks. And in all honesty, I bet you with Halsey's label, if it's going like I think it is, is they're trying to come up with another marketing idea, which does take time. I mean, I'm pretty fast on the marketing ideas. I've talked about literally last week with the way I come up with them, the way I get inspired with them. And still that doesn't mean they're always all good. If I go fast, it takes days, it takes talking to people, it takes brainstorming sessions, it takes getting dates on people's calendars to know how to do marketing well. And like this all seems to me like it's a lot of label people being like, this will really help us all succeed. I can say this. I don't think there's ever been a more determinative, a great idea or a great campaign can do more on TikTok for no money than ever. And that's kind of a cool thing. I think it's one of the things that musicians don't get emboldened about is that if you spent time right now learning TikTok and a good strategy, like Lil Nas X did with Old Town Road, he was an unsigned artist that was not some industry plant. If you say that, I won't even give it the time of day. He had a finger on the pulse still does. That was incredible. It was insane. And he engineered the most successful song of all time now by some metrics. I should say I don't want to get into debates of that. I think like there's this big, big thing here. A lot of people are making conspiracy theories because she says everything is marketing in the video. Here's some stacked evidence. So there's this great Buzzfeed article and it's 10 times that RS would say it's like, you know, there's this tweet here that like about all the RS saying it. So, you know, first we have that Halsey tweet that started all this conversation. We have Florence the machine saying they begged for low-fi TikToks. And like, I get it. I don't feel like Florence's brand is going to be very enforced by TikTok. You know, it's kind of like Adele also said that they asked her to do TikTok and she's, she famously quoted and said, I'm not doing that. I don't think really Adele needs to be doing it. Ed Sheeran probably could be being effective with it. And he actually did a pretty good TikTok that got a lot of shares off of it. This one was interesting. So recently on the podcast La Culturistas, I hope I'm not gringoizing that too hard, Betty Hu, who's an independent artist shared her gripes with the music industry. There's not a single record label in this town that will sign me. They all turned me down. And this is where it's shifting is labels go, we want to sign people with a viral hit on TikTok only. I'm not going to wake up and all of a sudden be really good at TikTok. So me being an older person on an app trying to force it will not make it any better. So Betty Hu is like a buzzy artist. I get recommended her songs a lot on my Spotify. She seems to be doing very well independently. And like, she does have some points there, but and this is like the same way that like I'm of an advanced stage, you know, that's the way what we call old now where the only way you stay young and young spirited is putting effort in. And it's the same thing. A lot of times artists, just like they're like tired, they don't want to learn, but that's how you get obsolete. And like, in all honesty, I've interviewed a lot of washed artists and they always talk about this moment where they refused to keep going with it because they decided it was against their brand. And that's usually a lot of time the end of their career. You know, I could see somebody in the cons saying, is this just another reason to stay independent? And it's like, I'm going to be honest with you.  I'm tired of hearing that it's just dances. Literally, I was just saying how Lizzo's new hit is like the first big dance in a minute. People's assumption of what TikTok are right now are totally dumb.  When really like nine months later, my dad was taking pictures of sunsets on there or a picture of our cat. It's no longer a place that's just youth. Being an old person on that, I think it's a really silly thing to say. I like this Maggie Rogers one. She's for someone who's a music I don't enjoy. I love her presence on line. Not be drunk at 2am in the East Village remembering someone is going to yell at me in the morning to post on TikTok. I actually will tell you this too. I go out with friends and they talk about how they have to remind artists that they should think of a TikTok each day. And there's another one down here. When my label tells me I got to make two TikToks a day from Omar Apollo, I think there's an interesting thing. There's this word in the headlock. Labels are allegedly gatekeeping their releases unless they go viral. The word force is being used a lot. I don't actually think force is the right word. They're telling them to do it. Can you put some effort in?  It's a lot of work.  This is an era where you have to do less work than you've ever had to do.   Watch radio head meeting people as easy. See all the things in aspiring band you still have to do back then. It'd be 24 hours of soul draining. TikToks really don't take that. And I would never begrudge a musician for complaining. I wish we could all just make art, but that's never been the case. It was much more the case when there was a lot more funding in the business. And yet again, one of the things I want to really get into on this live stream is how we get more funding. It's going to be the topic for either next week or the week afters live stream is some of my ideas and how we bring funding back into music because I think that will solve a lot of your problems. It used to be that a band with around what's called the equivalent of 30,000 monthly listeners on Spotify would be able to have somebody doing a lot of the work for them. And that did differentiate some things. But that's another story for another time.


Yeah, and it's also it's also different times like the universal time. It's yeah, something like that It's like Greenwich Mean Time in England. Flows one box break number four random serial number break So this works kind of like a number block, but a little different 25 spots in this one every spot you purchase will get you one random number one through 25 It'll then work like a serial number break and then the blockchain card is gonna be randomized Since no one has spot zero. So the example I put in there if you get randomized number four You'll get all cards with four being the left side on the serial number break there And we randomize both the list of names and the list of numbers for this one box break. Let's go nine times So we'll do the list of customer names and then the numbers first one two three four five six Make sure I got to show this randomizer seven can't have another thing like that That's my one per month and I already used it on one of my first nights. All right nine times. There we go I almost did click at a tenth time, which is almost as bad to nine times on the numbers one through 25 two three four five six seven Eight and I'm gonna be paranoid for the rest of the night about that ten and twenty one make sure I'm showing it Here you go. Zack you got number ten Logan 15 Danny 24 David 18 Quentin 13 and 2 Jared 7 Jared K 20 Thomas 25 Rory 22 Luke 8 Skyler 5 James 11 Danny 6 and 12 Rory 23 Thomas 19 James 17 Dan Tyson 16 Ryan 3 Quentin Number 9 Joe number 4 Rory Wagner 1 Dan 14 and Quentin 21 So there you go Rory Wagner with one. Yeah, wow So there you go. I'm gonna pause it see if there's any trades be right back All right, no one's trading numbers. So we're gonna go ahead and rip it. Good luck. There is 25 numbers and Whoever broke number 3 marked it right here as number 4 Can't tell if this is Jason's handwriting or my handwriting. So it's one of us Jason do you remember doing a serial number four? Oh, that's Jason. That's Jason's okay Well, yeah, the timestamp is showing in whatever times on random.org is in which You know on the east coast it's it's already five six So that's why it's showing a different date The minutes will always be the same. But yeah, the minute and then the millisecond Can line it up with the live stream rewind and and see the timestamp is the same Good luck. You can see on the top screen there the top camera No funny booze And the blockchain will be randomized at the end of the break So the blockchain redemption is Russell Wilson Gotta be randomized To one person at the end Now I kind of remember Jason doing it. All right first one out 17 of 20 Chandler Jones for the cardinals 17 spot James What's up trend setter? How's it going? Ooh nice patch here Glad you don't have to randomize this goes to one out of 15. Number one is Roy Wagner Debo Samuel Marquise Brown and DK Metcalf Triple patch The only complaint I have about this one is that I don't know I Debo's napkin patch there I would have Like if they put the player down here, it just I don't know No, I don't like the up down. Well, it's like then it confused me which patch is which you know until you see the color Because it's like it's the top left go with Russell Wilson, right? Yeah, then Bottom left goes to the middle Darrell LaMonica old school raider three out of five three spot going out to Ryan Shackleton Nice Got the old school face mask on there, too There's Cortland Sutton five out of ten The five spot first hit for Skyler won it in an elite draft pick number eight There is 11 out of 15 Len Dawson three color distinguished patch auto for the Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah The old school quarterback box Uh james with that one The Raiders would have had a nice break a Derek Carr two color patch auto eight out of 15 Luke has the number eight And up next he does have a cool auto, so I'll give him that there is six out of 15 Mitchell Travis three color piece in there for Danny Bought a spot outright gets number six gets a little Trabisky All right, so I think we're gonna go left Middle no middle left right going on there first one up is Emmett Smith 18 of 20 a high number hits there David B Legends Emmett Smith Ruby nice Yeah a couple off the jersey number there But if you add the one to the two Take the two Minus the card number boom Emmett Smith's Super Bowl rings minus this Oh nice seven of seven carry on Johnson Jared Spielman got that get the carry on diamond You know, I I only just noticed does it say diamond on the back? Yeah, DARP in the bullfrogs. I feel like I only just recently noticed that they put that there Maybe they had to have start doing that because the previous years they don't do that They just save this gem or whatever. Yeah, they don't they don't specify what what it is Now they have that aquamarine one and they literally say this aquamarine is guaranteed by Oh, this one's nice This last one. Yeah It is a three-color patch auto drool lock 11 of 20 the rare drool lock auto sighting. He never sides I know right to live. It's always a redemption. Nice. That's what it looks like guys 11 of 20 nice signature gloves James B. So there you go. Thanks everybody for getting in those flawless serial number break number four. Thanks everybody Thank you


Welcome to the Rich TV Live podcast. I'm your host Richard D'Souza and today we're going to talk about the hottest stocks and crypto of the day. We are clearly in a bull market in the crypto world and there is all kinds of momentum in Bitcoin and in cryptos and there's stocks that are hot as well. Now let's talk about the hottest stock of the day. It's right now it's FWBI. Now you can see this is a stock that's come down dramatically this year. Like a lot of small caps it's been beaten down and you can see it came to $2 and now it bounced all the way to $9.75 today. So a big move. That's the one year chart. This is the daily chart and you can see that God candle pre-market did a little bit more and then consolidation. This is why I don't like to chase pre-market anything really. Yeah, you can make money doing that and I'm not to say don't do it. It's just not my style because a lot of times they do retrace. Market makers will short them. Shorters will short them. Insiders will sell them. There's a lot of reasons why I don't like to chase momentum but this is one that is hot today. Not to say can't go higher. It's been much higher today already. I think it's been as high as $13 but it has consolidated. Keep your eye on FWBI, the number one mover of the day. The number two mover of the day is CING. All right, CING. If we look at the one year chart you can see that it has also looked similar to FWBI in a sense it's come down a lot for much higher levels. Started as a large cap and is now a small cap. So huge gap to fill here. This is what we look for. Something that has a massive gap to fill and they clearly do. The question is will they have enough news? Will they have enough revenues? Will they have enough momentum to take them there and we'll be watching every step of the way? So put CING on your radar and on your watch list. Clearly a very hot stock today and you can see a lot of that action was pre-market and then it just continued higher after that and now has started to consolidate lower. Okay, that's CING. Here's the third biggest mover of the day, CYTK.  And then when the market opened, it went even higher and then it's now consolidating sideways and kind of doing this bouncing up and down action at $78 up, 71% CYTK. So if we look at their one-year chart, you can actually see that they are at a 52-week high. So this is different than what we've been seeing. This is a stock that is clearly trending higher as they are today at a 52-week high. Look at that. So absolutely on fire, CYTK. Bets, BETS. Does that penny, coin, crypto related, been getting beat up and all of a sudden today doing this dead cap bounce with Bitcoin moving back over $43,000? Bets is making a move. Now, I wouldn't bet on this. It's a super risky. I personally wouldn't even buy it, but it's a mover. So I'd bring it to your radar. Some people like penny stocks. I don't really like them, especially when they're under a penny at all, really. But you know, there's an appetite for it for some people, so I want to bring it to your attention. JTAI. I've been marking this one up. It's been very volatile bounce on all over the place up another 28% on the day. You can see JTAI, JetAI Inc. And I love AI. So this is one to watch an AI stock that's doing some big moves. BTBT. This is one that I actually bought and sold, made profits. This is another Bitcoin miner having a good day, having a good year. As you can see, I've got the trends up here. And now at $4.88 up 16% of the day. Here's CLSK, another Bitcoin miner, which has been a 10X this year, an absolute monster. Unfortunately, I missed this. I should have got in on it. I was very aware of it. I just didn't get in. I believe they did a reverse split, so I don't love that. But man, they've done well. So they've gone from $1 to $13 this year and they're up 13% on the day. MARA, one of the largest Bitcoin miners in America, up 11%. They're on an upward trajectory. They're at $2 earlier this year. They are now at $29, a 10X for MARA. HUTs. HUT up 11%. They've come up from the dead. HUT is looking extremely bullish. They've gone from $4 to $17 this year. Microstrategies. They just announced that they bought thousands of more Bitcoin. I believe they're at now $189,000 Bitcoin. Microstrategies, Michael Saylor, and they have been an absolute juggernaut this year. It went from $100 to $647 and up 7% on the day. BITF, another one that I bought, sold, took profits. Another Bitcoin miner that's heating up up 6% of the day. And you can see clearly climbing was under $1 now at $3. Coinbase, one that I physically own full disclosure. It's absolutely on fire. I think they're going to benefit greatly from the Bitcoin ETFs because the Bitcoin ETFs are going to use Coinbase as custody, meaning they're going to keep their crypto at Coinbase. That's going to really boost Coinbase. I'm bullish on Coinbase. I own Coinbase and I think everyone should look at them and they're absolutely on fire. Ethereum, speaking of on fire, Ethereum, my second largest crypto holding behind Bitcoin is on fire today up 6% and hitting a high for the year is Ethereum right now. So keep your eye on Ethereum. It's really heating up. Matic, otherwise known as Polygon, has been ripping. You can see here it's come from an October 50 cents to now a dollar. It's doubled in a couple months. So keep your eye on Polygon. It is starting to heat up. Cardano, up 3%. Another one I really like. Another one that's starting to heat up. You can see it's moved from 24 cents to 62 cents in a couple months. So definitely some coins to keep your eyes on. I had another Bitcoin miner in America. Another winner, as you can see, going up from 4 bucks to 18. Moderna. I told you guys it was going to 100. We're at $99.48. I did predict this. Congratulations. We got into Moderna on the dip and it's starting to rip. Tesla told you guys I love Tesla. Tesla's ripping now at $262. They got Tesla Robots. They got Cybertrucks now. So I'm very, very bullish on Tesla. GBTC, my number one pick for December, hasn't disappointed up another 2% today. One of the largest holders of Bitcoin in the world. $660,000 Bitcoin.  I really like them. I don't own them yet, but I'm really thinking about getting some. Square has been trending up, as I told you it would. It's pretty much doubled now. It has doubled from the bottom. So congratulations if you got into Square. Bitcoin. All right, Bitcoin at $43,100. That dipped to $41,000 yesterday. Didn't last very long. We're back to $43,100 and we are literally days away from a Bitcoin ETF approval. I think that's going to be very bullish for Bitcoin. So keep your eye on the mothership Bitcoin, which obviously Bitcoin full disclosure is my number one crypto holding. And I think in this world, everyone should own some Bitcoin. AMD at a $52,000. So you can see we've been tracking AMD. This is the number two chip maker in the world behind NVIDIA and they are on fire. You can see here more than doubled this year. Uber, number one ride-sharing stock in the world. One of the top food delivery companies in the world. I took an Uber on the weekend. I've been taking Ubers throughout the holidays. I love Uber and the stock has been a killer. One of the top movers of the year. Meta just continues to go higher. Meta at a 52 week high just grinds higher and higher almost every day. Roblox. I told you guys I like Roblox on the dip. They've been ripping. They've just now hit my alert here form at 46. I told you I think they're going to 100. If you zoom out, you can see that they will be going to 100. The question is when I would say in 2024 they hit 100. NVIDIA. Number one chip maker in the world. Number one AI stock in the world. Just can't break that 500 mark quality company. Try to buy on dips. Amazon just hit a 52 week high. They are selling off a little bit. Apple been struggling around that 192 mark and Google quality companies. I sold all three of these this year and took profits. All three of them are a little bit red today, but not enough for me to want to buy. They're all trading close to 52 week highs. All right. That's what's going on in the markets. I want to wish everyone a happy new year. Let's finish off the year strong. We are clearly in a Santa Claus rally as the Dow Jones is in the green. The S&P 500 is in the green. The Nasdaq's in the green and Bitcoin's in the green. Thank you for watching. If you're not winning, probably not watching. Let me just show you right here. You can see right there. All right. So Dow Jones in the green S&P 500 in the green. Nasdaq just hit 15,000 there in the green. Gold almost at all time highs. So pretty much an everything bull market as we speak. And right back at the number one mover of the day, FWBI up 120% of the day. And let's quickly take a look at Bitcoin where we at. Where's the mother ship at Bitcoin right now at 43,140. So if we just look at the five day chart, you can see it is starting to climb on the five day chart. And it'll be nice to see if we can get back to that 44 or even $45,000 mark. And if we can hit that 50,000 mark here in the next month or two. All right. If you're not winning, you're probably not watching. We bring the winners and we bring them to you first. I'm your host of The Most Your Boy Rich from Rich TV. Happy New Year's. Happy Holidays. We'll see you guys soon. I'm out. Peace.


I had been sent a video from a friend of someone who modded a Game Boy or a Game Boy shell to show the Speed of their car So I took this cheapo little shell that I had that wasn't working from a imitation Game Boy and Looked it up with an Arduino and a display it works But it's kind of unusable because I'm reading off the OBD port on the car And I don't know how to get more than a response every couple of seconds after it So there's a big delay. We're just gonna drive around and I'm gonna show you it shows the proper miles per hour But there's a bit of a delay so it might be slightly off from what you're seeing up on the screen here. Here we go Yeah, I'm not going four miles an hour But we'll catch up there we go So it's not perfect it's not usable in any means and again, it's not the the Arduino inside the The shell or the display It's just I don't know how to communicate. It's communicating over serial port So it should be faster, but every time I've done something with OBD to on my car I Just don't know if you can get responses out faster. I mean this is obviously reading Through the same computer, you know, this this little module Application that I've installed on my car So you would think that I'd be able to get least, you know every second at least but it's a little bit off from that But it's not too bad just for a fun little project time to turn around So there is some math going on, you know, I'm getting the value from the car And it's actually giving it to me in kilometers per hour And then I have to multiply that by point six something or other. I got the number offline But that that's absolutely that's not slowing things down at all even when I was going with Kilometers per hour. It was still had the same delay. So there we go Challenge accepted and kind of sort of met Thanks for watching


Here's the thing. There's a question about free will and the and then see this is the thing There's all that's happening right now is just sounds if you were a dog Would you have a question about free will or? Determinism or any of that conceptual bullshit?  That's all it is.   No, you dumbass does a dog ask that question.