Hello friends, welcome back to the channel. In today's video, we're going to go over the Ogre Clan side quest in the Teal Mask with their locations and all rewards that you can get in your game. The Ogre Clan side quest is definitely something that you're going to want to do. It's some point in your playthrough of the Teal Mask. There are a total of seven Ogre Clan members scattered around the Paldaire region, and they do give some very good rewards along with it. It is worth noting that these trainers are quite strong. They have good solid teams and you're going to have to go in with pretty strong Pokémon, so we'll go over all the Pokémon that each trainer will use and some suggestions for you to take in against these trainers. So it'll make it easy for picking up the rewards as you go through this side quest. To initiate the side quest, you're going to have to come to this area in the Kitakami Hall and speak to this NPC character here. It will initiate the conversation about the Ogre Clan and give you hints where they're located around the Paldaire region and also if you beat them to come back to this NPC character here, who will then give you rewards for each member of the Ogre Clan that you beat. It is worth noting that you can do the Ogre Clan in any order as well. You don't need to do in the order that we're doing in this video. But if you want to follow along with the order that we're doing it, that is an option for you as well. But like I say, you can do the Ogre Clan in any single order that you like throughout your playthrough. Now, the first member of the Ogre Clan is Rakiri, and they are an electric type trainer. So to get to them from Masui Townhead North and climb up the Apple Hills near the waterfall here, you will find a cave full of Geodudes. And this is where the first member of the Ogre Clan is located. So Rakiri's team is made up of a Raichu at level 75, Probo Pass at level 75, Luxury at level 76, and a Vika Vault at level 77. Going in against Rakiri, you probably want a ground type Pokemon against these electric and obviously the Probo Pass, which is rock and steel. And also, if you are using a ground type Pokemon, make sure it has a rock type attack on it, something like Rock Slide for that Vika Vault, which does have the Levitate ability. So you're going to be able to hit that for super effective damage because of its bug typing, something like Garchamp here with Earthquake and Rock Slide. Pretty much covers all of these Pokemon perfectly. So it is a decent option going in against Rakiri's team. But once you've beat Rakiri, you can then return to the NPC character that you spoke to at the entrance of the Kitakami Hall, and they will give you a focus sash as a reward for beating the Ogre Clan member one next Ogre Clan member that we're going to go after is located here in the Bamboo Forest, just to the right of the Kitakami Hall. And this trainer is a fairy type specialist. You'll find them just in the Bamboo Forest here. And their team is going to be made up of a level 75 Grim Snarl, 77 Clefable, 75 God of War and level 76 Rabombi. Here, you're probably going to want a steel type Pokemon, something like Gold Ingo is going to be very good against this team in particular, where you can just launch off those make it rains. And you're not really going to have to worry about any offensive threats coming back at you from this Ogre Clan trainer's team. Again, once you've beat this trainer, if you return to the NPC character that you spoke to at the beginning of the Kitakami Hall, they will give you a reward of five XL candies. The third Ogre Clan trainer that we're going to go after is called Kotsu and is a fighting type trainer. They are located in the Crystal Pool area. But to get to them, you're going to have to come around to this area. If you cross the bridge, when you fast travel in here and then come around to this area here, where you'll see an entrance, a cave entrance. You want to just drop down into this first floor and you will find them in this location. Now, they are a fighting type trainer and they have a team of level 75 Heracross, 76 Conkldor, 75 Galade and a 77 level Comor All. Now, a flying type Pokemon will be perfect against this team. Of course, as well, something like a fairy type as well is going to be very good. So something like God of War as well could be a really good option. So flying and fairy are going to be the two types that you're going to want to bring in against this trainer. But it shouldn't be too difficult for you to beat. The reward you're going to get for beating this trainer is an assault vest when you go back and visit the NPC character at the Kitakami Hall. The fourth Ogre Clan trainer is going to be an ice type trainer. And to locate this trainer, you want to head towards the Infernal Pass and it is a pool to the right of the Infernal Pass, as you can see here on your map. And you can make your way to them. You can fast travel to the Crystal Pool and then head west. You shouldn't have too much difficulty finding this trainer.  Now, the team is going to be made up of ice type Pokemon, although they're not going to have just specifically ice type Pokemon. They are going to have a mixture of ice and rock type Pokemon. So you're going to have to change things up a little bit for this one. The team is made up of a level 75 Carbink, 76 Froslas, 75 Golem and a level 77 Mamaswine. Again, if Goldingo is something that you have used, it probably is going to be very good against this trainer as well. A steel type Pokemon is going to be brilliant against this. You're just going to have to watch out for the Golem and the Mamaswine. If you've got a steel type like Goldingo can be susceptible to things like Earthquake or the ground type attacks that they carry. But if you're high enough level, if you're level 100, you're going to have no trouble against them at all. Some of their options are going to be a mixture of ground and fighting type moves that you can use against this trainer. And the rewards for beating the fourth Ogre Clan member when you return to the NPC character are going to be 10 Rare Candies. The fifth Ogre Clan member, Kinmitsu, is located in the Paradise Barrens area, head northeast to the valley between the two sea-shaped rock formations. And you should find this trainer resting in the shade of the large rock that you can see here. Now, their team is going to be centered around the sun. They do have a team of a level 75 Ninetales, a level 76 Shiftry, a level 76 Chandelure and a level 77 Lilligant. If you've got access to Hitran, it is going to be a perfect Pokemon to bring against this team. It's going to be able to be immune with its flash fire ability against all the fire type attacks. And it's going to have ground attack of its own and earth power that can threaten the fire types and then the fire type attack that will threaten the grass types on this trainer's team. For a reward for beating this trainer is going to be a choice specs item. The next Ogre Clan member is going to be centered around weather as well. And this time it is going to be centered around the rain weather. So water-based team, this trainer is going to be pretty easy to find in the Felhorn Gorge area, located right next to the Felhorn. And their team is going to be made up of level 75 Polytode, a level 77 Basculegian, level 76 Ludicolo and a level 77 Dreadnull. Something like Brailleum here is going to be brilliant because you're going to have access to something like Bullet Seed or Seed Bomb that's going to be able to damage these water type attackers. Very good damage and resist the water type attacks that it can throw at you. And in particular for that Dreadnull at the end, Brailleum has access to something like Mach Punch as well, which is going to hit it for super effective priority damage because of that rock typing. If you don't want to rely on just your grass type attacks for this Pokemon. Again, something like Ludicolo can come in and do a decent job against this team. For the most part, I just need a flying type Pokemon that's going to give you a little bit of a hand against the Ludicolo, but you should be able to hit it for decent damage with your own grass type attacks. And the reward for beating this sick member of the Ogre Clan is going to be three ability capsules. And finally, we are going to move on to the seventh member of the Ogre Clan and they are going to have a normal based team. They can be found standing on top of the northeast section of the Infernal Pass. You can see here located on the map. You can get to them easily by gliding northeast from the Crystal Pool if you want to fast travel to this point and then you'll be able to find them right here. Their team is made up of a level 75 Ambipom, a level 76 Greedon, a level 75 Mousehold and a level 77 Snorlax. You've got any sort of fighting type here, like Annihilate. It is going to be brilliant against this team. You don't need to really worry. Fighting type that's going to be like a level 100 or anything around there is going to have no trouble beating this team. And once you go back and visit the NPC character the Kitakami Hall after beating this Ogre Clan member, you're going to get the item choice band given to you as a reward. And after defeating all seven of the members, getting all of the rewards so far, this NPC character who is actually called Muramasa does reveal that he is the final member of the Ogre Clan. So he will challenge you to a battle as well. And to complete this side quest, you're going to have to beat him in one final test and for one final reward. Now Muramasa's team is made up of Ghost and Dark type Pokemon, a level 75 Gengar, a level 76 Trevenant, a level 75 Crodond, a level 77 Dustclops and a level 80 King Gambit. Just to note as well that the Dustclops does hold the Eviolite item so it will have a defense boost on top of its normal defenses with that item. And the King Gambit also has the ability Supreme Overlord which does get a boost for all of its knocked out. Partnering Pokemon before it comes onto the field so it will be hitting pretty hard. You've got something like, again, a Brailleum here. It's going to be very good against the King Gambit against that Crodond and then you're just going to need a strong Dark type Pokemon against the Gengar, the Trevenant and that Dustclops and you shouldn't have too much trouble here at all against this one. And once you have beat Muramasa's team, you are going to get the final reward for this little side quest which is an ability patch. So all in all, you do get some nice rewards for this side quest. You get a Focus Sash, the XL Candies, the Assault Vest, Rare Candies, the Choice Specs, the Ability Capsules, the Choice Band Item and an ability patch.  So that is all of the locations and the rewards for the Ogre Clan side quest in the Teal Mask. It's definitely worth doing, in my opinion, for the rewards that you get. You get some nice items for free and it's some pretty challenging battles as well for you to go and do in the Teal Mask. It's one of those additional things. So if you want to make sure you are completing everything in the game, this is definitely something to go out and do and also to get some nice rewards as well. I hope you found today's video useful. If you have, do drop a like on the video. It does really help and make sure you do subscribe to the channel to stay up to date with all of our Pokemon Scarlet and Violet content. Thank you so much for tuning in, friends. Have a great rest of your day and I will see you all in another video very soon. So until then, take care of yourselves and bye-bye.


Good morning everybody. Buenos dias a todos My name is Terry but they're it's my first time in in for them. So I'm a little bit excited Let me tell you some words about me and my company I've been working the embedded world since let's say more than 25 years and My company is a small one, but growing one friends whose name is IOT that busy dates. This is us We are we are going well 28 engineers that means that almost a third of my company is here today with me We are one the main HGL Contributors because we belong to the HGL community and what is there for with us today too As you can see in the past years we have provided where the most Influenced committer on the HGL code What I will talk about today is Julius and Julius is a word. I mean a speech recognition engine The reason and the birth of that project was pretty much Due to our CES demo that you have performed in the last month in Las Vegas We wanted to be able to show a connection less speech recognition engine That was obviously open source that was light that had an activity on the Github and was Possibly easy to integrate in HGL I had to find that one Even a list a short list of available ones I've taken a look of CME CM use things But I have eliminated it basically due to the fact that it was JV code. It is not my favorite language We wanted also it to run on the boards that we support For instance the one from one SS but obviously from the one from Intel The architecture that we have shown in our CES demo was as such we have shown Boat simulator What was equipped with an autopilot and this autopilot was with with receiving speech orders In Jason format that were captured on another PCM device and possessed by the leap Julius To achieve that goal I have I have had to hack and to cheat a little bit after some days of trying to Integrate it in an embedded world and to cross compile it. I Which I have reached the point to I had decided to fork the project at the end of my presentation all the Github links are available and that presentation by the way will be also available on our website When I'm back in the coming days I List some of the issues that I have to deal with The most one that is was just not close compiling and it was not feasible with the other label auto tools because There have been hard coding things and the contributors Didn't want to give me the original piece of code also Within the engine by itself There was no easy way to interpret the recognition results I mean the condition the relation sorry as a recognition results Basically, basically consists in a tree a recognition tree with some weight And the user has to deal it by its by itself in order to compute a recognition score But didn't sound good to me and I have decided to improve the lib gel the jealous library To make that piece of information Available in a needier way also by default Julius is based on a on a no grammar and a and a dictionary or more more than 320,000 lines that Significates that it computes a lot that consumes a lot of CPU load and also when you have to choose a word from a list of 300,000 You make mistakes and you don't want that type of mistakes for instance when you do motion control If you want to play some music, it's okay is a sound that That goes out that is chosen by the engine is not the one that you want We didn't want to listen to but in when you pilot a boat, it's not acceptable this is an example of the World to phony that is part of that huge diet dictionary Just like I said, it's not efficient at all. This is just a single file that we were I've been using for our project It's a grammar definition is in a standard format whose name is the B in F and It's always begins with the same thing At the beginning you just describe what is a sentence a sentence begins with a silence Eventually, this is a HMM. It's it's an hesitation of so people that speaks and NS E is the end of the sentence Then you describe the sentence by itself a sentence is composed of an order and you can eventually be polite or not and then the list of orders With that piece of code you already understand that the sub dictionary will only hold the words that are part of the grammar so the idea is to replace These usually amount of lines, but just the needed subset and To extract all the funny funny combination when I say come back combination It's just because for one word you can have several way to say that Depending on the accent depending on the country you are from and the dictionary was also dealing with that with that That's why I have introduced a new format a new five format, which is a pre-vocal one the vocal is the dictionary the pre-vocal is a dictionary without the phonemes and also a New extension, which is the foie d'alvers for instance. It's just to we try to be a little clearer It's more efficient for the grammar to recognize get out That just get and then out But it was not supported by the engine and I have added this feature that leads to best reconditioned results and less false positives to summary the grammar generation goes this way The user has to create the pre-vocal file That is compute to a vocal one and then That tool which is provided by the Jullus suit Computes to a finite state machine, which is a DFA one and a dictionary in its own format This is the expected result from to follow the pre-vocal to vocal computation The numbers that are acceptable are described here and at the end Which is missing here of course, but you've got the numbers and the every possible combination of phonemes The same for starboard This is probably the trickiest thing that I've been that I had to deal with Jullus didn't support to wake word implementation a wake word is mandatory for several reasons The ones that are listed here on that page But also they can have legal issues to wake word because in some cases in some countries It's not acceptable that the microphone is always on listening to what to what you are saying When you have a wake word you can have sentences integrity I mean when you are in the process or recognizing Something in the middle of the sentence the wake word will be ignored and the opposite You won't start any recognition until a wake word is recognized That's it saves a lot the CPU load and Also, you can dedicate the recognition process to I mean you can do it by with dedicated agents a conclusion that I That I have a bridge also by doing some tests is that wake words have to be long enough It's more efficient. You have better success when for instance saying a pilot than just pilot for when you have a wake word you have to to implement a matching grammar in front of it in our case for the both demo the only one that I had is a Is a grammar that matched the pilot one, but also I could have We wanted the Alexa wake word to an Alexa voice agent for instance as Since the wake word is part of a grammar by itself a grammar which is composed of a single word, which is a wake word by itself You have to deal with two grammars That's that was also a tricky a tricky part Because even if you lose says that reading some pieces of test samples That is fairly if possible to dynamically switch a grammar to another one This this that seems to be a broken piece of code To work around that I have decided to run to recognition instances one for the wake one and one for my grammar and The issue was to share the as a PCM Hi, I have just made two threads that I will switch in from one to the other when the wake word process Or the sentence success was okay at the end of the first implementation I mean I was just alone on my desk with my laptop and everything worked fine But as soon as you introduce some more noise for instance a chord or just people Talking a few meters from you or some music or some sirens or whatever you want. You have to deal with No, it's the only ones Another nice noise issue that was really really unexpected is that I had been using a microphone that was buggy the microphone at the bug and the Reconition was very profiling performing badly in the first case with with two peaks in the spectrum Which were about at 4,000 and 6,000 Hertz the recognition process needed About 30 seconds Before being able to decide what was actually speech or music or noise That was that was really better in the other case when it's just Constant or one-domino is the recognition success decrease really dramatically and That's him what that I have taken with audacity from a dot wave 5 capture for the microphone without any transformation You can see the two peaks that were disturbing the recognition. This is the first and dirty hack That has worked It has really improved the performance is significant I Had heard about the speaks as a module Quite a long ago, and I have to admit that I didn't know what it was made for and By looking at the code and its features. I have seen that it was Implementing denoising Which is not as good as this as they say, but also auto gain control. This is a AGC on and auto gain control Allows you to be more independent from the hardware microphone that you are using and That's mandatory when you do speech to have at least that that one the automatic grain control For the denoise speaks to just those the best it can okay the best way to deal with that issue is to have a really to perform noise cancellation is to have a noise model and To use a tool between the microphone and the engine for instance socks But having a model is not always possible Either for instance, but you don't have a quad near you. You have to pay to make some sound samples The other the last one is user voice learning That's something that is available in some speech recognition funds sense on your horse But I I can see that as really constraining To the user because it's painful you have to to tell about 25 Sentences and it's longer and after that you have to proceed that through several files But that should improve the results a lot in term of CPU needs I was Let's say disappointed because it worked fine on the laptop an Intel with eight cores But it was quite impossible to make it one properly on an arm even if on a recent hardware like Arch 64 you have to leverage the Vector vector calculation as a FPU for instance a VX one is mandatory and Obviously on arm even if it doesn't perform the way you have to use the neon co-processor as well What an ID to get better results is to use it to use a DSP which which is sometimes available for instance on the Windows as hardware These are the axis of improvements that I wish to work on in the coming months if people get some interest to it To implement grammar plugins I what I say by that is that The end application should be able to provide its grammar to Julius Julius would eventually Precipricate it and use it on demand also To look deeper in the dynamic grammar switching switching recognition a switching process because for now it's just a hack to match Amazon Alexa with a some place in order to be compliant with the application that all way are already aware of the Amazon API and Also to add in these templates No one's for motion control because they simply don't exist as a present time. I'm done with representation I will be happy to try to answer to any questions if you've got some ones Yes Hello, hey, so I create two questions first. What about upstreaming your modification to Julius? And the second question is when will we have a package in bill for that in bill? Okay, that's a good question. I will try to answer to to the second one first I Really love bill routine. It's pretty easy to integrate a package that comes from it. I already have some contribution in bill wood yes, okay and For the first one. I already have a pull request on Julius, but the main the maintainers don't have accepted it yet I have some commits missing on that pre-request branch. I I will add them essentially essentially the piece of code that computes the the results tree to Just a sentence and the best score I think which is useful. It is painless for them to have to have that code additionally Hi, so The main question is Can you do you have any idea of why I can't use I'm okay? I will wait Okay, now better. Okay, so why do you think that Julius has that? Performance problem in other platforms is anything that you are being able to measure or Okay, you mean what what was my criteria for performances? Yes, okay. I didn't want the For instance eight cores to be busy for seven seconds It's not acceptable and also the time of computation was critical in terms of user experience. I mean I've already been working on HMI Interfaces in the past and by experience when you wait more than 500 milliseconds the user wants to say that it's crap. Okay We've speech Let's say that you can be a little More patient and what's he can be okay, but not seven Thank you. Okay Come to Brittany Yes, but Okay, okay You are asking Eventually if it could be possible to add new To a new language to Julius to add to have more languages to Julius. Yes, just already supports Japanese they all they already have Japanese model and They say that they are compliant That they are compliant with some dictionary Language models some with some standards of these models, but not Something that I have been investigating much, but it could it should be able to add more languages That's one Hi at the start of your talk you showed table converting words into phonemes and We obviously had these three hundred and twenty five thousand words or so Where did you obtain that conversion table from and how do you how did you cope with different? variations on standard English for Australian South African Scottish whatever The table that has taken is the one that Julius provides as an example and It's common English with no particular accent To my mind if you wanted to really better support accents for instance the Australian ones I don't think that we will it will work and In the model that I have shown you should also be able to completely remove Julius Because I have made a kind of API between An abstraction level between the application and the engine by itself and I wish for instance to be compliant with the new ones one because I've already Seen what what heard let's say what they care that can do and I think that's a better solution Even if it's commercial you have you will have to pay for that. Okay time is up for me


Okay, hi guys. Just had some breaking news come out in regard to the vaccine Just going to jump straight in at the charts. You can see here DAX on the left now up 750 points The S&P 500 has smashed through 3600 and in fact in terms of the S&P 500 here now We are in all-time high territory We've broken through that peak that we saw at the beginning of September and we've just printed up now at 3651 and a quarter so fresh all-time highs now in US indices Gold getting hit and also the US 10 year down at the bottom corner here as well under quite a lot of pressure Here you can see the US 10 year has fallen the best part of a full point in terms of gold prices We've also come under extreme pressure here breaking through that key support level. We're looking at this morning So you've seen a decent 65-type dollar move now in gold futures and WTI crude spiking more than 7% of the upside to get close to $41 which was the high that we saw back up at around mid to late October why is all this happening? Vaccine news has just come out and here it is here are the headlines Pfizer vaccine prevents 90% of COVID infections in a large study is being reported on the financial news wires Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine two months safety data is due in about a week and Phase three trial so it shows no serious safety issues. The market is loving these headlines Person who's not of course is Donald Trump because after the market rally last week Led by the Biden victory in the kind of split Congress and the notion of probably a lack of real Fast change on any policies coming through from Biden now. There's positive vaccine news So interestingly when you're looking at these charts the one equity index, which is underperforming this move is the Nasdaq If you look here the Nasdaq Momentarily spiked up and has started to sell off and it's sold off here to quite a key technical level We're looking at this morning You can see from this rectangle I've had marked up from the previous highs that were going into the election So the gap up that we saw at the recommencement of trade overnight We've come back and touch that level before a bit of a bounce Reason why the Nasdaq is bucking the trend obviously these big mega cap tech names tend to benefit from a pandemic situation Over the rest of the broader market They're just better equipped for that type of environment as we've seen since the onset of the pandemic Right at the back of the beginning of the year. This is well in context of that phenomenal run-up We've seen the Nasdaq of course outperform led by this big cap Tech names and a little bit of unwinding of that trade intro day makes sense on the back of those headlines So I don't think this changes the longer term picture. I still think tech is looking good for the foreseeable future But in the day trading environment, certainly short-term rotation out of some of those tech names Fueling elsewhere then the likes of the S&P and so on Oil's arguably seen the biggest move of course as we just saw more than 7% rally It's found a bit of resistance around that previous price points of significance around just shy of the $41 handle in the futures So yeah, breaking news. Just wanted to share that with you We're gonna be covering Extensive detail throughout the rest of the session, particularly the US Open on Amplify live So check out the link in the description of the video if you're seeing it there And you can listen to us commentate over this and share the trades that the guys are doing in real time That's it. Enjoy the rest of your day. And yeah another positive Development for markets and for Joe Biden. It would appear on the surface I guess the final thing I would say is just be careful if you're just coming in and seeing this move late Don't get caught trying to just trade into a move that's already largely develops Because you could be chasing something where the moves already Kind of happened at this point in time. I'd say better thing to do is just wait now Let's wait for the US Open in a couple of hours and let's see what happens at the open on the New York Stock Exchange later Okay, guys. Have a good day


It's like the opening line to a clickbait article were you distracted by the 10-foot alien in Miami? When JP Morgan announced they'll be declaring bankruptcy on January 23rd Well, that was according to this dude who said So guys they seem to have our collective a little distracted once again with this shit going on in Miami While this is taking place or something major going on in the background JP Morgan literally Just declared that they'll be filing for bankruptcy January the 23rd, which is in two-week time May I repeat the biggest banker in the world JP Morgan has literally just declared That they'll be filing for bankruptcy on January the 23rd So while everyone was distracted by this 10-eights fight the 80 cop cars needed to be called to that you then thought the distraction from that was the Aliens at the mall, which was actually project Bluebeam and you guys know all this is coming Then I'll also send another post that the they type that was a portal and they typed in reverse coordinates and the reverse coordinates located back to Antarctica Man, come on guys. We're smarter than this.  Come on guys So yeah JP Morgan filing for bankruptcy They're only filing for bankruptcy from the fiat system that we're currently operating in guys So what do you reckon is going to happen with the rest of the banks in the world? They're all going to follow suit and after the banks go and the stocks go It's all going to go together man. This is going to make 2008 look like child's play guys This is a complete and utter collapse and they're going to be transferring all this into the digital system With the seabed ACs and all this kind of thing Fear not guys because if you can't beat them you join them Ali and I talked about this last night on our n5d global predictions show and I mentioned that I didn't have any time To research the validity of disinformation before we went on air What's going to happen by the end of the month When JP Morgan declares bankruptcy That's the question and maybe we should look into that. You sent me that video, right? Yeah. Yeah, I Didn't have time to do any research after that I You know, I don't want to say that I'd like to see some some proof on Them declaring bankruptcy to make sure that it's not Just a rumor. Yep, but if it's true, that's huge And I don't want to be like the people who put out fear-mongering messages Regarding FEMA and the emergency broadcast system on October 4th in Order to gain supporters through fear and clickbait while trying to sell tickets to an overpriced conference Today I did the research from last night's video and I found nothing that says J.P. Morgan Will be declaring bankruptcy this month or anytime in the near future and Honestly, it's a completely believable rumor because the only things you'll get from fiat currencies are hyperinflation and its inevitable collapse in Related news this article appeared on Yahoo US states make bold move to reclassify gold and silver bills filed in the Oklahoma and Missouri Legislatures for the 2024 legislative session Would eliminate state capital gains taxes on the sale of gold and silver The legislation would also take other steps to treat gold and silver as money Instead of as commodities The article goes on to say under provisions in the Missouri bill gold and silver physical or Electronic form would be accepted as legal tender and would be receivable in payment of all debts Contracted for in the state of Missouri the state would require to accept gold and silver for the payment of public debts Private debts could be settled in gold and silver at their party's discretion Practically speaking this would allow Missourians to use gold or silver coins as money rather than just as mere investment vehicles In effect it would put gold and silver on the same footing as the Federal Reserve notes So is this the first step in going back to a gold-backed currency? the problem with it right now is That the values of both gold and silver are being artificially suppressed and in my opinion Should be much higher than they're going rates and this is by no means financial advice It's merely my opinion, but if I had the financial means to do so I would buy physical gold and silver I would also buy lots of junk silver because that would be one of the main ways to barter if and when The dollar collapses. So will that happen this month? No one knows the answer when the dollar will die But it won't be because of the false rumor of JP Morgan allegedly declaring bankruptcy on January 23rd Whenever you hear stories like this do your own research folks and follow those people you can trust There's too much fear in this world and not enough love Always choose love If you enjoyed this video, please like share and subscribe I'd like to thank everyone who has helped to support my work on patreon Please join me there at patreon.com slash in 5d and Get a shout out on upcoming in 5d production videos as well as being listed on our wall of gratitude featured on in 5d.com And if no one told you this yet today, please allow me to be the first You are loved You are appreciated Thank you for your service to humanity Until the next time much love from my heart to yours Take care everyone and take care of each other


Should we stop using the word addict? Does it carry and perpetuate the stigma? Why am I wearing a purple unicorn shirt and why is that purple unicorn in the thumbnail? Stay tuned, you'll get answers to all these questions. What's up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. So this is a question that I've been getting a ton over the past few months and it is should we stop using the word addict? So a couple months ago the Associated Press released a statement saying that they were removing the word addict and drug abuser from their style guide. They're going to quit using those and one of the reasons that they're doing this is because they feel that it perpetuates the stigma. There are people who are getting offended by this so I'm here to give my opinion on the matter as well as my personal experience. I will also link in the description below to the Associated Press article about this matter. So this is a topic that's actually come up a lot when it comes to any form of mental illness and this is what we call person first language. So not talking about addiction for a second, let's say that person's bipolar. No the correct way would be that is a person with bipolar disorder. You see where I'm going with this? You might have heard of person first language with other issues like autism so rather than saying this person is autistic it is a person who has autism. So I absolutely understand where this is coming from and how people might be offended by it and when it comes to things like autism I don't struggle with autism so I don't know what they deal with. Mental health issues. You could say I'm depressed, you could say I'm anxious, that's cool. When it comes to addiction I think that we're in a whole different ball game and here's me personally. In the age of 2016 and 2017 after you know all the political debates and everything this term snowflake gained a lot of traction and snowflake is used as people who get very easily offended and the left throws it at the right, the right throws it at the left and for me personally this is something where for me now if you have a different opinion go for it but for me it feels like that's a little snowflakey for me to say no that term addict offends me. Now I want to make it very clear that I come from a 12-step background that is how I got sober and part of this is whenever I introduce myself in a 12-step meeting it's hi I'm Chris I'm an addict or hi I'm Chris I'm an alcoholic. This is for a very very specific purpose. One of the main reasons people relapse is because we have a disease that tells us that it doesn't exist. When I identify myself as an addict or as an alcoholic every single time I say that it is a reminder to me of the illness that I have an analogy I give all the time is that we have to look at someone who's a diabetic or excuse me a person with diabetes this type of person has to remember every single day that they have this illness or they're going to eat the wrong foods and potentially hurt themselves same thing with me I have to self identify as this thing so I never forget that I have this disease of the mind and one is too many and a thousand is never enough so personally my problems are a lot bigger than what people call me so I do not get offended every day and if you are in recovery you understand what I'm saying every single day we're fighting for our lives to stay clean and live better lives I do not have time to get angry or upset over these tiny little semantics over the situation now one of the arguments for this person first language is that I do not want to only be identified as an addict or as an alcoholic that to me is a little bit ridiculous like I am a lot of things it doesn't mean that that is my only identity like I am overweight but I am not just Chris the fat guy I am a father but I'm not just father Chris I am a son I am an employee but those aren't my defining factors they are just parts of me the same way that my addiction is just one small part of me and as long as I know that to myself I do not take offense when people would label me as an addict or alcoholic I say this openly I say it freely and I hope it gives some other people the opportunity to not be ashamed of this thing I do not think this perpetuates the stigma of it at all now I will say this in my opinion the word junkie that is a derogatory term and it's almost like in the gay community how they can call each other certain words same thing with us like if I'm talking to another opiate addict you know we might toss around the term junkie but typically when somebody else uses the word junkie it's in a very negative fashion so I will say that and I don't mean to get all uh snowflakey about that but that's my opinion on the word junkie but when it comes to addict or drug abuser not a big deal now you're wondering Chris why do you have this purple unicorn what's this have to do with a purple unicorn the main point that I'm getting at and what came up in a conversation with my colleagues on slack when we were discussing this topic is I do not care what you call me you can call me a purple unicorn if you want to the only thing that matters is that I personally know that I am an addict I am an alcoholic drugs and alcohol will kill me and destroy my life so I work at a rehab I work for a big rehab company and I have amazing co-workers and bosses and when they came to visit me in Las Vegas they surprised me with this shirt that our graphic designer named Ariel personally designed and they gave it to me because now I am known as the purple unicorn so that is the story behind the purple unicorn but like I said I don't care what you call me to thine own self be true so thanks for watching I would love to know your opinions on this subject so leave them in the comments below but if you like this video give it a thumbs up and if you are new here I'm always doing videos about addiction about mental health anxiety depression PTSD all that stuff so make sure you click the little round subscribe button below this box and stay tuned because I'm always making new content I'll see you next time


Okay, I did that one. What is your opinion on banning of Tommy Robinson's books by Amazon and other cells? I haven't even heard of that. I didn't hear that his books were banned. I mean, that's horrific. That's horrible. That's culturally a really negative sign. There's nothing much to do about it except complain and write to Amazon about it. I think Amazon sells Mein Kampf. I wouldn't be surprised. I don't know, but certainly it sells Das Kapital. And I'm sure it sells some really awful books from left and right throughout.  I mean, his books might be bad. I don't know. I don't know anything about his books. I don't particularly like Tommy Robinson. I've talked about him in the past, but I don't think he's evil on the scale of many of the people. I'm sure they have Che Guevara books there.  Little kids.


Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for telecom professionals. I'm Dean Perine, EVP at JSA, and joining me today is Mr. Brad Fox. Brad is the regional vice president of commercial and carrier sales at Vive Broadband. Brad, welcome to JSA TV. Thanks Dean, excited about being here. Outstanding. So Brad, I can't help but notice the credenza behind you. It's a little bare. You just moving in or just moving out? Well, we're getting ready to move out. So, you know, our kids are now adults and we're looking to downsize. And so in the process of that hecticness, so we're trying to balance work life at this point. I get it, I get it. Well, congratulations on becoming sort of the empty nesters and living your best lives. So I appreciate your being here today. Yes, sir. But Brad, let's go ahead and jump right in for our viewers that don't already know. Why don't you tell them a little bit about Vive Broadband? And more importantly, the commercial and carrier sales group. What does the group do and how does it ultimately fit into the Vive organization? Thanks, Dean. You know, Vive Broadband is a rural broadband cable internet provider that services a little over 300 communities in 16 states across the U.S. You know, we're really broken up into three segments from a commercial, from a customer perspective. You know, we got the consumer side, the commercial side, and then the carrier side. And so I'm obviously involved in both commercial and the carrier.  On the residential side, it's up to one gig. So we're really beefing up, you know, our broadband capabilities in these underserved rural communities. As we're finding out, you know, those folks need more bandwidth in order to do business and live and work, you know, today. You know, in terms of the commercial, you know, we do things such as hosted voice as well as cloud services. So we're not just an internet cable company. So we're trying to expand our footprint. We're a little bit over 12,000 fiber miles and growing. And so that obviously helps us on the carrier side in terms of partnering with other carrier partners and getting our footprint expanded. I love it. So staying on that theme with the expansion and stuff. I understand that your carrier sales group has experienced some significant growth in recent years. Why don't you tell us a little bit about that growth and how, you know, how you might attribute it? Yeah, thank you. I think, you know, it's really broken up into four areas of focus. So when I took over the group in 2018 when I came aboard, you know, we had roughly 20 partners at that time, which is pretty solid. But, you know, in the carrier space, you know, you typically want to expand to as many as possible up to 100. So we're at that point where we have about growing close to 70 partnerships now over the last couple of years. And that's really done through, you know, trying to expand upon our existing relationships that we had, as well as really trying to onboard and recruit new partners and really get them to know who Vive is. So obviously we're in rural community so not a lot of folks know about us. And so really trying to promote us and our capabilities. The second area of focus was really around becoming more involved in the carrier community. And how you do that is really through a couple of angles, is obviously marketing, but also having a presence at these carrier events. So there's multiple carrier shows that go on, you know, in our industry. And a couple that were heavily involved in as ITW, that was just recently in Washington, DC. And then upcoming here in Denver at Encompass. Those are the two that we really focus in on and, you know, having a presence there, building relationships, meeting new partners, letting folks know about our capabilities. And so that's really helped, you know, grow though and expand those relationships. The third thing is, you know, there is a database out there in the carrier world called Connect Base and Master Stream. Those are two heavy, you know, platforms that allow really any carrier partner to find out where you're at.  And so we've been able to expand our database and our presence on those platforms to allow, you know, carriers to go and see, you know, where they could offer service or where we can offer services and provide them quotes. And the last thing is when, you know, in 2019, we had literally one carrier pop and NNI in Dallas. And since then, we've expanded to six and soon to be seven. And really what a carrier pop is allows us to have an NNI or a network and network interface with our carrier partners. And that's how we do business with them. And so just allowing them more presence across our 16 states, being closer, you know, to where their connectivity is at and their needs are and really making it easier for them to do business with us. Yeah, I love it. You know, it really does sound like it's a win-win for you and your carrier partners. But really quickly, did you enjoy ITW being face-to-face this year? I did. And, you know, I got the gift of COVID. I was exposed to COVID. Luckily I haven't vaccinated. So I think I got my second booster naturally. But, you know, it was a great event. You know, last year was really difficult with being right in the pandemic. I think there was only about 700 participants. This year there was closer to four or 5,000. And it was just a hoppin' in place.  Yeah, yeah. No, I felt exactly the same way with all those people.  Again, fully backs, fully boosted. Everything went well for me. So that's good. Back to buy broadband. Let's talk a little bit about your network. I have read a great deal over really the last couple of months about your fiber access networks, the fan networks and some great builds and some things that are helping to bring meaningful, transformative broadband services to some of those rural, easy for me to say, right? Communities where you guys serve. So can you tell us a little bit about that network and ultimately, you know, it's an importance to the commercial and carrier customers? Yeah, so, you know, we were formed really through three companies, young Northwood communications, Vive broadband, as well as Eagle communications. And so, you know, we came together in forces and we found in particular, like our Eagle markets are highly penetrated with fiber, whereas the Northwood wasn't so much. And so we really identified 25 markets across the 16 states that were really poor in fiber. And so we've beeped up that infrastructure, gone ahead and proactively built out the networks. You know, obviously the pandemic taught us that more people need more bandwidth, both at home and at work. And so there was just a huge pinup demand for fiber and gigabit speeds. And so we were able to get those investments, you know, from our investors and we're knee deep into activating those fans as we speak. And that just allows us to offer more serviceable fiber addresses for both our commercial and carrier and our residential customers, as well as really help our rural communities thrive with their business and really grow. And that's really what they were hindered with was lack of bandwidth, being able to expand their business in a digital world. Yeah, you know, it's interesting. And then one of the reasons why I really wanted to speak with you today is that, you know, prior to the pandemic, you were still out there kind of fighting the good fight and making sure that some of those underserved communities were getting the bandwidth that they needed to, you know, to better their business and then just kind of bring their communities a bit more into the digital world. And then the pandemic happened and we were all working from home and a very, you know, kind of dispersed workforce. And so that reliable, truly robust bandwidth and connection was necessary all over the place. And so it probably kind of turbocharged your mission a little bit, which is why we were kind of, we had our fingers on kind of the pulse of what was happening there at Vive Broadband. So thank you for being with me today. I really appreciate it. And for our viewers that would like to know more about Vive Broadband, where can they go? Yeah, we have a website, much like everyone, at www.vivebroadband.com And we have a landing page for Carrier as well as Commercial and Residential. So you can get more detailed information there. And obviously you can connect with me on LinkedIn and I'll be more happy to have a conversation with you. Awesome, Brad, thank you so much for being here today. And we really appreciate it. And thank you viewers for watching JSA TV. We'll see you soon.


On a clear day in New York, on September 11, 2001, the world changed forever. For President Bush, this would be an opportunity to get rid of America's old foes. Although everything pointed to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, Bush wanted a Saddam link. At least that is what was claimed by Richard A. Clarke, a top White House official who came out with a book called Against All Enemies in 2004. Clarke went on TV as well to repeat his assertions that the Bush administration wanted to pin 9-11 on Saddam Hussein, despite not having any evidence on it. But our story is not about Clarke, it's not about George Bush, it's not about 9-11. It's about how America's most popular news channel, Fox News, treated Clarke when these revelations came out.  It is open naked agenda TV in the name of news. Fox News channel's attack on Clarke was to set the tone of his coverage for years to come, where it worked closely with Republican administrations when they were in power or with the Republican Party when there was a Democrat in the White House. Fox News channel reigned supreme as the number one news channel in the U.S. riding on conservative and Republican voters. It drove viewership by focusing on what Americans called wedge issues. Issues that drive a wedge between people, polarize them, cause hatred. Fox News perfected and mastered this art of notching up ratings, something that was going to be emulated by channels across the world. Take a political agenda, in this case the agenda of the Republican Party. Tag it onto a divisive wedge issue and people will watch it. It will move, it will become what the top Fox anchor Bill O'Reilly used to call a talking point. And this kind of TV was a perfect handle for the rich and the powerful to manipulate public opinion, to manufacture consent. Because once you have a killer formula to catch people's attention, all you need is the ability to reach them. You need platforms to be able to spread your message. And that is where money and power played a big role in promoting such channels. Fox News channel's formula was replicated not just by news channels across the world, but also by old school newspapers. Wedge issues, divisive issues, emotive issues hit the headlines replacing issues of the people that mattered to citizens. Pro-government, pro-business coverage replaced what the media was supposed to do to be a watchdog of the people in a democracy. It began in the US and it shouldn't surprise you that in the reporters' frontiers' latest global press freedom index, the US is at a low 42. It's the world's second largest democracy. It's supposed to be the land of the free, but look where its media is. But what about us? What about India? The world's largest democracy. We pride ourselves for being that. Do we have a free press? No, according to the world press freedom index, we are at 150 out of 180 countries and we have slid eight positions in the last one year. Now, part of the reason why our ranking might have dropped is because the reporter's son's frontiers or RSF has changed the way in which it calculates this index. It now looks at five indicators and gives them equal weights. What is the political context? How much political pressure do journalists face? Does the media have a protective legal framework or are laws used to suppress them? What is the economic context in which journalists work? How dependent are they on advertising? Are the companies they work for controlled by big corporates? What social context do journalists find themselves in? Are they discriminated against because of their gender, ethnicity or religion? Are there certain subjects and institutions out of bounds because they could hurt popular sentiments? And finally, the safety of journalists. Are they likely to face physical attacks? Are they threatened or abused on social media? Or could they lose their jobs if they reported against those in power? Each of these gets a score which in turn determines what bracket of press freedom they fall in. 85 to 100 points is good. 70 to 85 points satisfactory. 75 to 70 point means that it's a problematic situation. 40 to 55 point means that this country is difficult for journalists on that parameter, on that indicator. And below 40, deep red means it is a very serious situation for press freedom. How does India score on each of these parameters? Let's compare with the number one country, Norway. The political indicator barely escapes being tagged as very serious. Our rank here is 145 out of 180 countries. And the RSFS report says the journalists and media houses have faced much more political pressure since the coming of the Modi government in the mid-2010s. The legislative indicator puts us in problematic zone. Ranked 120 because laws are being used to target journalists who criticize government policies and businesses. As you can see, Norway is number one in both with very high scores. Our social indicator score is also problematic with the rank of 127 where Norway is number two. RSFS points to the increasing signs of bias against women and minorities in Indian news reportage. India's media security score is abysmal amongst the lowest in the world. We are ranked 163 out of 180 countries where Norway is number 11. That means the RSFS believes that journalists in India face some of the worst physical, psychological and financial insecurity. And finally, the economic indicator. India scores just 30. Again, putting us in the very serious bracket, we are ranked 149 compared to Norway's number one. The RSFS believes that India's journalists and media houses are entirely at the mercy of businesses and corporate owners and that they operate under tough policy constraints. I for one have a serious problem with these rankings. I refuse to believe that countries which have autocratic governments especially in Middle East and Africa and Central Asia have been ranked above India. But we don't really need this kind of an index to understand that India's press freedom has deteriorated over the years. Indian mainstream networks, newspapers have turned into what my friend Ravish Kumar calls, Godi media. Incidentally, that term makes its way into the RSFS report. We have had a very long history of an open free press. Not TV and radio, mind you. That used to be controlled by the government till the mid 1990s. But newspapers, which used to take on governments, used to take on big business for a very long time. That system began to collapse from the mid 1990s when it was all about making money and consolidation. A few big media houses began to control the entire market. And it was all about the profit motive as one top newspaper owner once said that we are in the business of advertising. It brought editorial close to sales and stories began to be promoted or dropped entirely based on the business interests of advertisers. And as media houses started to make big money journalists also got fabulous salaries especially at the top, editors, anchors. And it became their interest to push the business interests of the media house at the cost of the viewer and the reader. From the mid 2000s big corporates started to take over media companies and they started to subtly direct editorial content put compliant editors and anchors in positions of power in newsrooms. And once news becomes business and business takes over news it becomes very difficult to take on the rich and the powerful. When you make a lot of money it's very easy for the government to send you a tax notice or raid your home and office. But that's only one part of the story as journalists start to make a lot of money they become allies of the rich and powerful and they no longer think for the weak the average Joe on the road for the subaltern and the media which was supposed to be a watchdog on behalf of the people turns into an arm of the state turns into an arm of the corporates and that is when democracy dies. That's the show today keep watching news click like this video share it as well.


Portfolios function allows users to export or push their data from the learning management system to third-party services. Let's first check this is configured and enabled. So we're logged in as the administrator on the front page we go to the settings block, side administration, plugins, portfolios, managed portfolios. You can see here the list of available portfolio plugins. Again just ensure they're configured correctly and enabled. We can then go to a course and see them in action. So by way of example if we go to a discussion forum that's been set up already let's add a new topic. We'll give that topic a title and include a message. We then click add to attach a file to our discussion post. Let's choose a file either from our own computer or perhaps the local area network. Upload this file post to forum. So we've posted the forum and attached a file. Now if we revisit post you know with portfolios plugins configured and enabled you can see now we've got options to export either attached file and or the message contained within the post. If there were if there were further discussions within this particular topic we can export the whole discussion as well. So down here we export to portfolio and we've got some options there in terms of export formats. Let's go next and we continue to confirm the export. So there we have it. We've downloaded essentially the forum post and the attached file and student essentially owns and controls their own learning artifacts.