Hello everybody and welcome to show and tell I'm this week's guest host John Park. Thank you so much for coming to see the show and all of the great stuff that people have brought on projects and other things to discuss. If you want to hang out in the chat, you can head on over to Discord. That's adafruit.it slash discord jump into the live broadcast chat channel, and you'll find people discussing tonight's show and tell and beyond. And also there's a link there if you want to jump in and you've got something to show and a couple minutes to talk about it, then then stop on by we have a great group of people will each try to take a couple minutes to show and tell our project. And then we will be able to finish up in time for ask an engineer that will be happening at eight o'clock Eastern time. So we will get started first of all with Travis coming to us from did you key hey Travis. Hey JP. So what you got to show us today. So what I did was I created a macro pad. I don't know if the colors will focus there to with the pimeroni are Pico RPG keypad, and I have a currently set up for on shape. And if you can share my screen I can kind of show you here what we do. Let's see if I can focus over here so. So with the keypad, the green buttons here are all set up for directional so I can do oops, I can rotate left right up down. And then if you press the center button here, it actually changes color but the camera is not catching it. It actually goes to a pan mode. Oh nice. And then these blue buttons here, top one, it snaps to a front view. Middle is a top view, and then the bottom is an isometric view. And then the purple buttons down here in the corner, the, the left one is actually starts a new sketch. Click the sketch plan in here. And then if I am in the line tool, start drawing line, if I press the orange button, it actually changes that line to a construction line. And then you can toggle it back to regular line as well. The second purple button here, that is for, try that again. Once it cooperates here, it can start a new, new extrude. And then the last button, if I select normal things, it deselects everything. So that's great. So you've really made your own highly customized version of sort of a space mouse, sort of for the modern era. Exactly, exactly. And that was kind of my thought behind it is I've always wanted a space mouse for CAD programs. And I thought, why not? I have this hardware, might as well try and make it into it. And what was the, how did you code that? What's that written in? So it is all in CircuitPython, uses the HID libraries for the, to emulate the keyboard controls. And one thing I'm looking to do is port it over so it can be used with Fusion 360 as well. And for that, I have to emulate a mouse command. So I'll have to use the HID mouse libraries. Oh, right, right. Oh, so some of the, in Fusion 360, some of the screen motions have to be mouse and aren't key HID keyboard. Yeah, for Zoom itself, it's actually a center mouse button command. So a little bit different. Was it the mouse, does the mouse wheel have its own, is it a mouse wheel command that it gets? Or just the click and hold and drag kind of thing? It's a click and hold and drag command. So the scroll is, I think it's a, that itself is a, is it a pan? I think it pans the device on the screen. It's a little bit different than on-shape. So it's taking me a little bit longer to get that one done. It's also impossible to know without doing it. I think even if you've used a 3D program forever and ever, you kind of have to like just grab a mouse and a keyboard, and see if it's not connected to anything and suddenly it comes to you, but like trying to actually describe some of these is nearly impossible to remember, I think. Great. And did you have a project page or anything you wanted to show for this build or anything related? Yeah, we do. We actually, I did it right up for our maker.io page with all the, including all the code and all the part numbers and everything that was done there. Great. And people can find that just head to the maker.io main page. Correct. It should be the latest project on there because it just went live today. Great. Looks really cool. Thanks so much for joining us with that today, Travis, and come on back when you've got it with Fusion and maybe on the macro pad. I'd like to see it. Sounds good. All right. Let's see. Next up, just going in order of my screen here, we've got Liz. Hello, Liz. How's it going?  I'm sure the mic is picking it up, so say hi to the dog.  It sounds like a great dog, but I've got like, it's not really a demo yet. It's more like a deep work in progress, but I'm going to work on a robot liar. So it's like a mini heart basically. And so the servos will strike the strings and respond to MIDI. So I had actually done a full hardware design using X-ray aluminum that went across and the servos were all mounted at an angle, but I had a really hard time getting them to be in the right position for the string because there is this kind of curve. You can see with the way that the strings are mounted. So I've gone back and have been slowly redesigning it. So now I have this kind of bracket thing and I just put it on top of piece of acrylic right now with just some sticky tack to see if it would line up. And so now these servos are mounted directly above the strings and then there's going to be this other bracket that goes on top. So it'll be like really held in place. And so I'm thinking then I'll have a larger 3D printed piece that will mount to the acrylic and then I'll be able to kind of get into getting a good demo with this going. So that will sort of sandwich the... Yeah, it'll be this kind of sandwich thing. Yeah. But with this right now, like they are directly above the strings, which is exciting. And I have code that when you press the MIDI keyboard button, like it recognizes what direction it just swiped in. So they each will independently kind of strike back and forth so that you're getting like the fastest possible. Oh, so you'll remember the state. Exactly. Every note so that you can always, that's cool. Yeah. So that's coming shortly. So I've been doing a lot of product guides recently. So basically I'll kind of spend most of the day on the product guide and then do like two hours on this. So slowly cooking in the background. Slowly cooking in the background. So hopefully maybe next week I can have some actual playing demo. And it looks like you've done some sort of a custom horn for the servo and the yellow part there. What is this? Yeah. I can lift it up. So basically it's just a little like extension. And then I actually kind of drilled out the center of the horn. So there was an M2 slot so that I could really attach it nicely because that was the other thing with the other design I had. I was doing custom horns, but the strings were causing too much resistance against the horn. So it was getting out of whack. So that was another thing I learned the last time I attempted this. So hopefully this will keep them kind of in place. Great. Well, good luck with that. That's really cool. I'm looking forward to hearing this thing get played. So thank you so much. And we will next up bring on maker Melissa. Hello. So I've been working on a, the secret Python.org website. And I've been working on an installer here. And so you can go on to it and show your menu. And I'm going to, this is the ESP 32 has off that I'm doing it on. So I'm just going to kind of go through the install just takes a few minutes here to kind of go through. But sorry, I had a cat on my desk here. So it starts with going through with the race in the flash. And then I'm going to write the binary file directly onto the chip. And that usually takes about a minute or so. And a ESP 32 specific. Yes. ESP 32 S2 S3 and I haven't tested the secret, but it should work. I like that it's just kind of a wizard that guides you through the thing with very little interaction. I know I've used some of the other other methods for install. And it's usually a little more involved. Yeah. This one's especially interesting because it does. It doesn't have the circuit pie drive that shows that. And so normally you have to go in through the record and get it all set up. And there's a lot of steps to it. So I'm trying to make it as simple as possible here. Great. Getting close. So I actually have a pull request in this and hopefully this will be live soon. And hopefully this doesn't mess up here on my demo here because I had to put in a few things just for. Testing.  Let's see.  Nothing like that. You just plug it in. No. Yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to make it like as smooth as possible. This little interaction. Yeah. I've reached the point where I can never remember which boards want a slow double press, fast double press, the boot cell and the reset. Like we have about three or four different ones that are. So once it does that, then it kind of boots up a circuit Python and then we have to kind of select the drive again at this point. And then we want to put in the web workflow stuff. So I'm going to go ahead and type in my, I'm going to just leave the default password and report and just hit next. And then it just waits for an IP address. And then once it gets there, you can go right to here. And it will go ahead and load the code editor. So it just takes a moment. I have a question in the chat from Guy about, is this Chrome only right now? Yeah, like chromium based browsers is, but just because it uses some of the more some of the API's that are only available on some of those like the file system API. So anyway, so I got the web workflow here and so it's all connected and ready to go on there. So easy. Yeah, that's what I'm going for. Thank you so much for this. This is, this is great. And your demo totally worked, which congratulations. I went through a lot of debugging today. Well worth it. Great. All right. And so you said there's a pull request in for this at the moment. There is. Yeah. So hopefully that'll be live in the next few days. Excellent. And for people who want to check it out, do we have any is this integrated any of the information right on circuit pie.org on the board page or in a guide or is it just click it and it should should be pretty self evident. I'm trying to go for it more than a click and be self evident, but I'm not sure if I'm writing a guide or not for it. Well, good luck with that. Thank you so much, Melissa. Yeah, thanks. Okay. Next up, we've got Jepler. So I published a guide this week. It's the first time I've done a product guide for Adafruit.  Yes, right. So this is the OV 5640 breakout board. They're Adafruit's version. And it's plugged into a Kaluga dev kit here, which has the expressive, but in the guide, we also show hooking it up to an RP 2040. And all of that is running circuit Python code. This little demo here, I can switch it over to the live camera view. And it's, it's okay, responsibly, pretty good for circuit Python, I think. And yeah, we show how to save JPEGs, how to show on an LCD and even just for fun. We've got an ASCII art version. So you can get a really low-fi rendition of what's on the camera in a terminal on your computer. Oh, that's fun. Yeah, check out that guide. It's listed up as one of the new ones. And if you've got a compatible board, which is the ESP 32S2 or S3 or the Raspberry Pi Pico, RP 2040, you'll be able to use this camera with circuit Python. I'm told you can do it in Arduino and C++ as well. I don't know anything about that. We covered just circuit Python in the guide. And for RP 2040s, is it the Pico only or is there feathers? So it depends like on your available pins. So the actual Raspberry Pi Pico with all those pins broken out is the best. I haven't actually done the arithmetic to see whether you can do it on a feather. But yeah, like the, and for that one, you have to do hand-wearing. The reason we picked this board over a native fruit board is it has this standard two by nine header. So there's no wiring. You just slot it in. But if instead you solder these outer two rows, you can stick it in a permit proto and solder it up to your RP 2040, which is a fair about a bit of work. Actually, I have to credit Lamore as co-author because she wired that up and did the RP 2040 testing and code for that guide. Right. So it does, it does work on both those platforms with circuit Python. Oh, very cool. Yeah, I'm looking forward to this. I got one of these boards and I knew I would be waiting for your guide before I bothered touching it. So well, I can't wait to see what ideas you come up with. Then if we've got just a second more, I have it this week I learned. So this is a little servo motor from the Adafruit store with a with a gearbox in it. And the listing says it's a 20 to one gear ratio. And I wanted to measure exact revolutions and I'm like, the math isn't working out. There's a bug in my program or whatever. So I learned after I took one apart and counted the teeth on the gears and like multiplied it all out. I'm like, because it's actually a ratio of 30,000, 613 to 1500. Okay. Nice round numbers 20.4087 is the gear ratio. And so what I didn't know from my inexperience is usually those ratios that are listed for a gear motor are approximate and rounded. And I don't know. I mean, I understand why you wouldn't put that number 306.3 to 1500 in your product list. But it's a little rough if you hang. I didn't know and I thought I was going to measure exact revolutions. That's really really interesting.  It's that they rounded off just for simplicity's sake. It's funny. I've been watching some of these videos of complex mechanisms built with Lego, mostly Lego Technics gears. And they're solving similar issues. I'm curious what the ratios are really like. If those are what they advertise because they usually have. No, I think, I mean, you know, you have to have specific numbers of teeth. Like there's a number of these have a ratio of 12 to 22. No, 10 to 22. And it's like, you're never going to get a round number out of that after you cascade some of them. So you just round it off and say, oh, it's 20 times. Yeah. And for like, sharing that or something, that's fine. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I got. But check out my guy.  Like with an encoder or something like that? Or were you trying to? Yeah. So this particular motor, it has an encoder wheel on the back. And so you can actually count that with circuit pythons rotary IO module. Okay.  And I say, no, not if you need it exact. If you need it within a couple of percent, it's fine. Very cool. All right. Well, thank you so much. And we'll go check out the guide to probably they'll show it and ask an engineer. They probably will. And I will drop a link in the discord chat. Thanks so much. Take care. All right. Next up, we've got Ann. Hey, Ann. Hi, JP. I've got a project that seems to have garnered a bit of interest. It's a, what looks like a floppy disk, but instead of a label here, like, you know, maybe your average floppy, it's got a display. It's kind of shiny. There we go. That's great. It's blown out.  And what that shows is are the, the files that are actually on this device. Now, if you can kind of look, you can kind of see it's not quite the same as this. It's a 3d printed case by the excellent Ruiz brothers. And what I've done is put a Adafruit Pi portal display in here. And what that provides is the samd 51 and the beautiful display USB connectivity. And on the side here, you can, there's a slot also for an SD card. I don't have quite coded up to use the SD card. But basically you can use this as a smart thumb drive. It has eight megabytes of built in flash. And you can see the files and you can scroll. You can touch and see the, the, the icons. So you kind of scroll back and forth and see what's in there. And it has this kind of retro thing. Yeah.  It's like, no, it's not what it really was like, you know, in a, in a future past that never existed that was slightly chalkier and cooler. Yeah. Yeah. It will not fit into a three and a half inch drive. Please don't try to do that, but it has a lot of retroness to it. It has the cool factor and the project's very extensible. If you want like subdirectory peaking or SD card, it's all in circuit Python, of course. So you can go in and do that. This case is beautiful. It has the detail on the back. It even has a little thing here where you can reset the, the, the board inside without having to open it all up and stuff. I like those living hinge style button actuators that the Ruiz brothers use on those. They have did themselves with this design. I love it. So the, the learning system guide is up right now. It was kind of a late addition today and there's no soldering and low part count. You just get a pie portal and a good USB cable. And then, you know, if you're not up to the 3D printing this, you can send it out to a service and then have it come in the mail, pop your board in a little circuit Python onto the circuit pie drive. It's done. That's great. If I remember correctly, this was inspired by Dino Raptor Photoshop type of. Yeah. Dino Raptor on Twitter. Her name's Dana Sabera. Yeah. That's not right. And her designs and some other kind of retro tech. The more was calling it 1980s, not with an eight, but with an eight is this design where we've in this present, we look back on the past. And then we think of design kind of not quite the way it really was. So. Dana is really good at picturing, you know, like strange Macs and all kinds of things. It's wonderful. So this was inspired by hers hers and her want something she posted a while back and some other stuff. So kudos kudos there. Well, thanks so much for sharing that. And I look forward to checking out the guide and I want to make one because that's super cool. Thanks. All right. Next up, we've got guy. Hey, hello. Hello. How are you? I'm doing well. What's new? I made a clock that when it detects somebody looking at it, it shows the wrong time. It is. So yeah. So I didn't think of it as that sinister. I've been called evil all day on Twitter today. And I get it. I get it now. I should think hard. Harder about the projects and putting it into the world. But to make it slightly less evil, I changed it so that the wrong time that it shows is 1111. So you have extra time to make wishes. So that's fine. That's great. So yeah, it's whimsical now. It's whimsical. It's not evil. It's not it's not misinformation. It's it's whimsy.  That's the real time right? Yeah. That's real time. And then I'll show it right on my face. Sorry for working with the screen, but you can see it kind of bigger. You've got a bigger target there. Oh yeah. All right. So I'll turn it. So show the real time and then I'll play it on my face. And it will show the wish time. There you go. All right. How'd you put this together? Yeah. So I'm using mostly different stuff. So it's the ESP 32 s to cutie pie. Going in STEM a QT into the seven segment. LCD backpack that I squared C one. And then this is the person sensor from it's like a new thing from a company called useful sensors, which is a great name for a company. And it is not going to focus. But yeah, this is like a $10 module that you plug it in and it immediately just like you don't need to calibrate it. It just starts picking up faces. It has a little debug LED. So you can see it. Yeah. And it just sends you over ice cream. It sends you a bounding box of all the faces that it currently has in frame, which is really, really neat. It can also do identification. So you can, you can calibrate it to like, you can send it. You could say, okay, for the next frame, if you've seen a person, that's person number one. And you can do that again for like eight different people. And in theory, it'll be able to like when there are people come back in. Yeah. That's really great. Yeah. It's pretty, it's pretty awesome. It's, you know, it's, I think they, they made a lot of trade-offs in terms of like keeping it really simple to use, but also making it, you know, like that's a pretty powerful thing to have that small of an interface for. I've been having a lot of fun with it. And I wrote a, the second part of this is that I wrote a circuit Python library for it. They have done mostly work. So they have a, they had an example on their GitHub repo, but I just turned it into more of like a library format. They just had like a single script. I think, yeah, Todd, Todd's easy to, I saw his work with it as well. But I love this. Like what a powerful thing with just three pieces. Yeah. No soldering. Really. It's amazing. So, yeah. So, really great. Nicely done. It's on my GitHub. I meant to change my link below to my name to show where to find everything. That's my Twitter. And then you can find everything else. Follow that through. It's on my GitHub. Both the library, which has examples for like calibrating and all the stuff. And then that code for this specific project. Terrific. Thanks so much for bringing it by guy. Yeah, no problem. Thank you. Yeah. All right. Just a few minutes. So we're going to speed round it with three people here. We'll start off with Todd bot. Hey, Todd. Hey, all right. So quick. I remember I had the Pico touch little like world's thinnest MIDI controller that I showed last time. Yes. Now I have a grid touch surface. Oh, beautiful. With LEDs. And it is also very, very thin. It's kind of a little thicker because it's got the Pico on the back, but it's got MIDI out. It's got a little OLED on the front. Gorgeous. Yeah. I might have this on my Tindy store at some point in the future, but it's still a work in progress. I'm working on some jankiness of the matrix. It's beautiful. It has a sort of very stylish calculator from the 80s look to it or like a Timex Simplayer type. Totally. Very cool. That's great. Have a good night. Thanks, Todd. All right. Next up we got DJ Devin 3. Hello. We've got another little quick project. This one is a 3D printer bed calibrator PCB that I designed.  It's got an on off switch. On off. And then a leveling nozzle. So instead of this replaces a sheet of paper. Everyone's familiar with the sheet of paper and using that to level your calibrator level your or tram your 3D printer beds and said this uses an electronic button. And this is based off the design by CHEP from YouTube. So this is not like an original idea of mine. But I did take the idea and then added a gantry on this axis, the axis. And it just uses the same exact button. So like the electronic design is really, really simple. Really basic. I just threw that together. And I wanted to show that off. And then of course I've got some pretty silk screen on the back bed calibrator. And this is available from, this is available on the GitHub. Great. And then the PCB design is on Osh. Easy EDA, Osh or that thing. But if you get my GitHub you can find a link to that. Love it. Great design. You can actually have these produced yourself fairly cheap and then use that instead of paper. And then the way that you would use this is you would use your calipers and you would measure the thickness to the button and then you would subtract that in order to get your Z offset. And there you go, Bob's your uncle. Nicely done. Thank you so much for bringing that on for sharing it. You're very welcome. Thank you for having me. Everybody have a great night. Take care. All right. Last up. Hey, Michael, we've just got like a minute because Ask an Engineer is about to start. So sorry, sorry for running long on some of the others. What you got for us tonight? Yeah.  And I'm almost ready to release it. Excellent product. And here it is. If it focuses. Yeah. So it's this little thing. I call it display plus. It's I spy compatible. So it works with all the ice by screens.  I added five volts on one of the pins, but the screens don't need to use that pin. So I work around that. And then I also have this one for the Pico, the Raspberry Pi Pico. And I'm calling it a Pico pal. So yeah, it works with both. But basically any ice by compatible display. There's a few, like two of them that are a little iffy, but even works with a touchscreen one as well. So that's pretty awesome. And then I have a few different things too, like an LED on it. And yeah, I'll be launching this on Tindi in probably a week or two. So great. What should people look for if they want to find that, find your Tindi store? Um, I haven't watched a product yet on there, but it will be called prototype delight. Okay. So I'm still working on the website and documentation and getting that all. Those look great. Excellent work. Yeah. Thank you so much and good luck with the launch. Thank you. All right. Take care. Okay. That is it for show and tell. So I ran a little long. Stay tuned for ask an engineer, which is happening two minutes ago. Bye.


Good morning and welcome to the channel. So this is going to be an update video on my experiment growing sweet potatoes in a cold climate. We are at almost mid-July now and this little plant has been growing. So I started this sweet potato plant way back in January and I just wanted to give you kind of an update. So when I start talking cold climate, that doesn't mean that where I live that it is cold year-round. We actually are having some very nice hot summer days. Temperatures have been over 30 degrees a few times in June, which is you know above normal warm temperatures for us. We've had very little rain, so it's a very dry hot summer so far. So as far as cold climate gardening, what that really means is that we have a short outdoor growing season. So our last frost date is usually mid to end of May. I usually gauge it by end of May usually and our first frost day can come about mid-September. So that gives us only about a hundred and ten days of outdoor growing time and sweet potatoes take about a hundred and eighty days from start to finish. So they are a bit of a challenge to grow here on the Saskatchewan prairies in growing Zone 3. So for a lot of our plants that we grow in our outdoor garden here in Zone 3, we have to start them indoors, such as our tomatoes. As you can see, they are really taking off. They're loving this summer heat. Peppers are another thing that we have to start indoors to get a good jump on the summer season. As you can see, I have some sweet banana peppers coming here. I got some Italian frying peppers and over here are my rainbow peppers. And coming along now are some King of the North green peppers. So these all do very well in our climate. Like I say, if you get a good jump indoors on these and get them planted out. So June, July, August are usually our hottest time of the year. The other downside of gardening in a cold climate is our winter season. We have really cold temperatures here in Zone 3 where the temperatures can, you know, drop below minus 30 degrees Celsius. For long periods of time, which limits the amount of perennial flowers and vegetables and herbs that we can grow here that normally would survive winters in warmer climates. So the sweet potato has a growing time of about 180 days, which is about six months. And I started this plant in January. So what I did is I purchased some sweet potatoes from the grocery store. I believe they were a purple, purple sweet potato variety. I can't remember now. And I started off by growing some potato slips off of them. So by doing that, you just set the potatoes in some soil. I think I used some sphagnum moss, put them under my grow lights, kept them moist under a dome. Downstairs in my growing space. So in about mid-February, I had a good amount of slips growing off of those two sweet potatoes. And from there, then I just cut them off the the potato and put them in water and started rooting them. Then I believe it was mid to end of March. I had a bunch of slips with a lot of nice roots on them. And that's when I planted them up into this container here. So I knew I was going to have to keep them indoors for a couple more months. So I chose something small. So I'm not really sure how big a harvest I'm going to get. But I'm just hopeful that there is going to be some tubers underneath the dirt here hopefully in another month or so. So once I planted them up in this container, I gave them a little bit of fertilizers, some worm castings. And then I put it in my grow tent and it really flourished in there. It had a beautiful warm, you know, humid environment. It grew really well. So then in early May, when the day started warming up outdoors, I started hardening it off by setting it out on my patio for a few hours each day. And then by the end of May, when risk of frost was all gone, this became another container plant out on my deck. And it's actually a very pretty plant. Just, you know, the vines are nice and it makes a nice decorative plant. I do have a lot of the ornamental potato vines growing in my container as well. So if I don't end up actually getting any amount of harvest off of this, at least it's been enjoyed on my deck as a nice decorative plant. So we're at almost six months right now, close to that 180 day mark. So I'm not going to look for any sweet potato tubers or do any digging around yet. I want to wait until about the end of July. So for today, I'm just going to top it up with some little bit of soil because it's looking a little like it could need a little bit of healing around it. I'm not sure if this will help with developing some more sweet potatoes under the soil, but I just think it might be worth just topping it up. This is some potting soil that I've added a little bit of all-purpose fertilizer to. I'm just going to top it around here. So I do have four four plants in this pot here. Then I'm going to give it a good drink, some rainwater that I've mixed up with some comfrey tea. Some very smelly stuff here. Just give it a good drink. Then I think I'll just put it back out on my deck with my other potted flowers and we will just leave it for, I think, you know, until the end of July. So I'll probably do another follow-up video at the end of July. We'll have a look under the soil here and see if we've got any sweet potatoes. So this was just a quick follow-up to my experiment with growing the sweet potatoes in a cold climate. I have the first three videos in short versions. I will link them in the description box below, so you can kind of see how I started and to get to where I am today now. Like I said, this is going out into a sunny location. Sweet potatoes love lots of heat. The weather is looking hot and sunny for the next few weeks, so hopefully something will be growing under the soil here. So if you have any experience with growing sweet potatoes in containers in cooler climates where, you know, it's a bit of a challenge, I'd love to hear about it in the comments. Don't forget to hit the like button and subscribe so you don't miss out on the follow-up video of my sweet potatoes.


So if you don't know who I am you're just tuning in. My name is Claire Carmichael I'm a second-year student nurse at Oakfield and I am part of the student nurse project But what is the student nurse project? I'm gonna tell you all about it because it's amazing If you don't already know get down on the links. Have a look see what we're all about and be amazed So the student nurse project was set up by Daniel Goodin who is fantastic and he had this idea in his head Which has just turned out to be amazing and he gathered together some people that he thought would be good for the project Basically a community of student nurses and newly qualified nurses with different expertise in different areas different fields of nursing So we've got child adult mental health at the minute. We've got a midwife coming in Secret info top news. Come on. We've got a midwife coming in I'm so excited for the midwife because I love working alongside people that are completely out of my Expertise because I love learning from you and we have to work with everybody We have to work in all fields no matter what field you are You're gonna be working alongside all of these different people and you're gonna need some expertise from these people our aims are We're basically an online space. So we do blogging. We do tweet chats. We have the Twitter account We have an Instagram. We have different social media platforms So a very big open online space as a valuable resource for student nurses throughout their career And we're there to encourage to motivate to bring back the positivity in nursing We're also there to recognize the weaknesses and the things that don't go right So we're there to help and advise give hints tips Encourage social media use as well because we're always taught from the beginning Social media is a bad thing But we are here to tell you how amazing social media is and if used in the right way It can be a really great social media platform for you Oh, that's basically the lowdown of the student nurse project the student nurse project started on the 1st of February 2018 and I've loved it. I've really really got involved. It's just been great To work alongside some like-minded people that are all fantastic They've all got their different qualities that they bring to the team So one person's weakness is another person's strength and we kind of mold together like this amazing jigsaw piece And that is what the student nurse project is and we're there to help other students because we're all so passionate about nursing And we're also we've all got pieces of knowledge that we have inside of us to give to other student nurses Whether you're just starting out whether you're a third year whether you're a second year first year any year Whatever stage you are during your nursing journey. We're here to help That's what Dan wanted from the project You know, he wanted a group of future nursing leaders to be there for other students and to help each other because it's a tough journey You know, it's not all easy in this nursing journey So we want something to bring to you to help you in whatever way we can support you through everything We've got our own website So go and have a look the links are below. Take a look at the blogs that we've written We all sort of take it in turns to write blogs and put them out there Anything we think that might be useful to a student or if we get a lot of questions coming in then we put it into blogs for students to read which is really useful I think because as a student nurse I myself even though I'm in second year But I still go out looking for other people's blogs.  You don't know it all Nobody knows it all even top consultants don't know it all and they will get advice from each other even from nurses I've seen consultants ask nurses. Oh my god. I've never seen this before Have you got any idea about this and they'll be like, yeah, I see this all the time So it just depends what area you're working in as well Different areas have different expertise and if we can all just bring and put that into one space I think it's amazing. I just love it I could go on all day talking about the student nurse project, but I love it I think it's really informative really useful. I love learning from people. I love seeing what people can bring to the table And yeah, so if you're not on it also if you're not on Twitter get on Twitter. Twitter is an amazing platform I'm here to promote Twitter as well. Twitter is fantastic You will get so much opportunities from Twitter because your employees are on Twitter There's careers events and things that you find out about on Twitter and It's just a massive community of nurses and it's amazing if you're not on Twitter Don't be scared of Twitter either people are so scared of Twitter and using Twitter, but Twitter is fantastic So yes, get yourselves on Twitter. Don't be afraid to get on Twitter Get on there. Have a look around follow the student nurse project on Twitter And if you don't want to sign up to Twitter, that's fine Take a look at the student nurse project blog site save it on your bookmarks because we constantly update it and it's just amazing It's really good to read really useful If you've got any questions, please email the student nurse project as well because one of us will pick it up And one of us will know the answer if we don't know the answer. We will find that answer for you So it's just a great tool to have. It's really handy have it on your phone So what you waiting for go and have a look check out the student nurse projects because it's amazing


Hi everybody. My name is Billy. I'm a developer, researcher and artist. I work for Cosmos Network, NOSIS, and for myself on various other projects. One of the things I think I'm most excited about when working with Ethereum and all these different cryptocurrencies is the fact that you actually sort of get exposed to cryptography in general, a symmetric cryptography, and you kind of realize all the cool things you can do with that. And it's really exciting that actually it's a cryptocurrency which has been the push to get kind of normal users to have a private key, to manage the private key, to have something like MetaMask. So thanks to cryptocurrency you kind of get all of these really cool features and the past few months or whatever there's been multiple situations in which either for my own apps I had to do authentication with MetaMask where you kind of are able to do this amazing authentication system where you're not storing a password for a user or presenting some sort of a password honey pipe that you actually let your users sort of authenticate themselves. You see this in cryptocurrencies, you see it in a lot of different apps, and so I did that a few times and talking to other people about different projects kept coming up of oh you know actually you don't really even need a cryptocurrency for that you just need a user with a private key that can do something x, y, or z and for different reasons it kept coming up like oh yeah just authenticate them with their for the signature on something and then give them access to whatever. The most common version of that was a chat room so a couple weekends ago I just decided to spend something up. The point of it being what's possible when users manage their own private keys. So because it was a weekend project I decided to do it as fast as possible so I used a bunch of evil centralized services that make things go really easy and they do a lot of the work for you. But basically this is a chat room built with Google Firebase who offers really simple hubs of databases. It's hosted on a service called Netlify which is just basically a wrapper for Amazon Web Services. I'm using a Amazon Web Service Lambda function for verification of a user signature and I'm using amber data.io which is a kind of block explorer who keeps token balances for all ERC20s and ERC721s. So if you just want to ask for a specific address and get all of the ERC20s or 721 tokens they have they have an API endpoint for that which you don't really have it either scan or really even open C so I'm using them for that. But without further ado I can show you that the app works basically by clicking start asking you to sign a message hello world by signing this message blah blah blah sends it to a Lambda function which makes sure that you actually have that address checks amber data for all your token balances and then gives you authentication inside of Google Firebase for every single chat room that is names based by those contract addresses. So here you can see inside this account I have some CryptoKitties, some Weth. I made another project called NSNifty which is about NFT wrappers for NS names so because I have those I can chat in that room. You can see there's a couple other people who had CryptoKitties who joined the chat at some point. There's the lobby where as soon as you sort of been authenticated you can jump in and that's kind of it. I guess I can prove that actually in here or the Berlin token so if you were here doing the Berlin hackathon and you got any of these you can sort of prove or associate. I think it was the people who also had them were here. So that proves the fact that I'm actually in there or not. Hey, it showed up in the other room. Is this live? Is it really live? Wow. So I mean this is super simple. This is something that ends up popping up in a lot of different projects. It can be used for a lot of different things. As I see more sort of interesting non-profitable token projects that are based around necessarily speculating on a project but having a community based around it. Maybe the proof of work that goes into it is something more interesting than spending computer cycles or paying money. Maybe it's actually showing up to meetups. Maybe it's actually showing up to events. Maybe it's knowing somebody. Maybe it's gifts. Maybe it's these kudos on Bitcoin. The idea that you would want to sort of create access determined by those sorts of communities is something coming up more and more often and so I spun this up. It's all on GitHub. The authentication stuff is super easy. It's to the Lambda. Whether you want to use it with something like Firebase or with your own social network or whatever you'd have basically the same configuration. So I spun it up just to give my mind around how to apply to different things. We'll be applying it to different projects for fun and profit maybe but mostly just to see how it works. Feel free to jump in. I use Portis. Actually I should list that on here too. Portis.io is a really nice solution to users who don't have wallets. So it's basically MetaMaskera. I think it's the MetaMask alternative where you sort of embed MetaMask as a JS file. They give you an address. They store your key encrypted so that when you use using a password they will hand it back to you. You decrypt it in your browser and you can have the same experience. So if you put it up on Safari or on Google Chrome on your phone you could actually log in and start chatting. Probably you just be in the lobby because it's an account without any token balances but that's there. Better to use. This is just a weekend project and this is just a lightning talk. Actually I made a chat application like three, four years back for Whisper. Actually the first time we used Whisper and I really hope somebody will update into the latest Whisper because the chat application never really saw the day of life for real. I think it's in the film repository and you can easily use it in their face for your little chat here. You can just overtake it and take the call where messages are retrieved and sent to Whisper with whatever you have here. It's like a really nice looking Whisper. I think it's called Meteor as something Whisper chat in either under Ethereum or my JNM repository. There's the new metamask process where it asks you to connect with the dev when you started. Does that actually sign a message under the hood? So then still you would have to do the signing of the message to be really authenticated.  You say yeah let it know my address. And then metamask will say you want to sign this message. So once you've done the first time it doesn't happen so that's why it didn't happen. Also you should check out token talks. They're down. Somebody told me about it a week or two ago and I don't know if they're down forever. It's not like rocket science, but it was a fun project. So more commercials. Nice new project. I was wondering why do you use AWS Lambda? Why don't you do authentication clients on it? Because the Google Firebase handles authentication for users who you have permission to read and write from. Firebase is basically a giant JSON object and each like branch you give read and write permissions based on user IDs. So first I check your token balances and then if you read and write permission on all the branches that are namespaced by those tokens. So each branch has all the chats within each of them. So I need a private server somewhere who stores my Firebase private key or authentication in order to give permission on a user to read and write to different chat rooms. Otherwise you could just show up in any chat room and read and write to it. Because it's not the mapping between the username and address. It's more like access to the rooms. Yeah. That kind of access could be for anything. It could be like featuring on style. It could be for blog posts. It could be for movies. Hi. One question regarding the signed message. Isn't it secure if it's always the same message? Because if someone gets a hold of it, they could just act as you because it's basically your identity, right? Yeah. If you wanted to be a little more secure, you should put a timestamp or an ox or something like that so that they can be timed out after a certain period. Exactly. It's what I'm doing with my project and yeah, I think that's a great point to go. I think it's very, very seriously on this project. Some more questions? I think that was it. Thank you very much.


Thank you for for taking a picture with boss talk on with Joey bad. How how did you and him meet back on the set like I never left. I'm taking steps to be the best today. Let me the rest Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one. I'm gonna ask you about a Joy badass cuz you you I know you you had sent me the pictures and you know I thank you for for taking a picture with boss talk on with Joey bad It's how how did you and him meet back on the set like I never left? I'm taking steps to be the best today.  How did y'all how did y'all meet? Well, uh, Joey uh, and his cousin wildly bluestone All of them out of brooklyn and their affiliated associated, you know, we might we'll just put it We McCoy's and some other people are the Hatfields. We okay boys. Okay, and uh from there Joey, uh, invited me to come wildly and we start in fact they start interacting the weather New York, uh McCoy start interacting with the LA McCoy's on a high level and it started spreading to where People from all over started to come to and you know when it couldn't be done Because you got to remember New York and LA wasn't like that. No, y'all had a big big falling out back in the rap game right, but this was going toward Re-integration of them talking to each other from there start hanging with joy When they was with pro era and all them and I wanted to start hanging out We went to concerts and we started talking and they just it's like me and let me hang around And then uh, we had a shooting up at the park where Rival gang came and shot up our daycare center and fired like 15 shots into the daycare And so uh, didn't know elected officials help. They didn't even write a report. So I told joy, uh, Let me bar get 10,000 to buy security system so we can uh Protect the kids and joy said okay I uh, I'll give you 10,000 But then uh, local elected officials instead of me getting the credit for it Then they went and finally died to do something and from there, uh, I just started hanging out with joy Well, he let me privilege to him On one of his albums a song for to come out called gyms. I'm on that and every time he come He get with me and I look out for him make sure he got safe passage or can move like he moved And I check in when I go to new york and we just been like, uh Father and son Wow, and and it just feel good to see that you link with him and that you guys have that type of bond the way I'll trust each other. Um, so I mean Does he come does he come to calli? I want to stay on that Does he come to Calli and uh do concerts and music and stuff as well He's doing that uh book of canaan. Uh, he was uh donated money to the school and a lot of people don't know I think uh, I think he won. Uh, what was that? Oscar he won an award him and puff daddy for a short film. He's in uh, uh 50 cents. Uh, what is that? Yeah, he in uh Yeah, uh, he Mafia whisper what he want He's in that so joey's pocaburone Uh pocaburbone uh cologne oboe cross sunshine joy guy has a lot going on a lot going on But joy been in the game for a long time for such a young age and a wonderful kid Wonderful to find somebody to look up to and talk to about different things that may be going on with him That's a dope move. I like it man. I like the fact that he has somebody he can say hey pick up the phone Man, that's what i'm thinking now man. That ain't this or this ain't that and why don't do it this way That helps a lot of time brother


Forward chaining, which is, hence the word chain, a behavior chain. Go see a behavior chain to get back into what we're talking about. But the thing with a forward chain is you're going to have a task, and you're going to teach each task and reinforce it as you go along, creating that behavior chain. An example, Dave. Oh, you want an example? Look, you're fricking picky wanting an example. Of course I am. Why would you want an example? I was trying to establish a chain, and you've clearly have failed. Yeah, yeah. I did a chain interruption strategy just by ending it right in the middle of a chain, for chain sake. Anyway, so an example of forward chaining would be teaching a kid to count to 10. You're going to go, what's this number? One. Yeah, that is one. You're so cool for knowing what the number one is. And then you're going to go, what's this number? One, two. Yeah, that is a two. That's great. And you're going to show them each additional number across the number line till they get to 10. Forward chaining.


What is up 8% nation? I'm Cody askings and I'm extremely excited about today's Live interview with mr. Matt moon. Gia brother. Thank you for and welcome to the video man.  It's motivational first time. I heard it I'm like oh my gosh, this dude's impressive, but I'm telling you what Matt is the president and founder owner of insurance squad He's not only gonna have a booth at A personation insurance wealth conference, which is literally buddy 21 days 13 hours 58 minutes and 56 seconds from now, but he's also a panel speaker So you guys the attendees it'll be at this conference. You're gonna have a chance to ask The legend himself some questions live from stage at Nissan Stadium dude Hey for those that don't know a ton about you yet, buddy And I know a lot do kind of give him a little background on who Matt is Yeah, thanks, Cody. So, you know, I've been in the insurance business for about 13 years now and Kind of transition my way into final expense As I told my story before I I couldn't I couldn't land a job to save my life. So New York life is the first one that gave me a chance to to get in the insurance game and You know, I was with them for a few years and then Learned the game really there and then kind of transitioned into mortgage protection for many years Learned some of the mortgage protection game and then transitioned over to final expense To me it was just an easier process easier way to To help clients not a whole lot of underwriting and and this that and the other so I found a home here with final expense. Yeah, completely buddy dude and and and did you ever man because uh You jumped out and if I've heard I've heard you say it help head, you know, correct me if I'm wrong You wrote five hundred and five thousand dollars again, and yes, I think I said that correctly I I'm in 2015 selling final expense by yourself, right, right? Yeah That's insane. That's can you walk us through that for a second?  That's like that's incredible That's really really awesome, and it looks like we're breaking up a little bit Cody. So I'm catching other words, so But I think I got your question Yeah, so so the background on it just a little synopsis I think I'm going in now to apologize for the internet man. Okay, so It was it was 2014 there's around this time in 2014 and I met up with a couple of buddies I had been connected with on the phone and the internet and And so we all decided to meet in Jackson, Mississippi and We were gonna it was just a fun competition We're gonna test each other systems out see who came out on top after a couple of days of right So that's what we did. So we went got a hotel room Went in like on a Wednesday night I think it was and we worked all day Thursday and Friday and the deal was let's see who who comes out on top, right? So so that's what kind of started my new system of what it is today So I had my previous system that I've been working for many years on cruise control as I like to say, right? So right, so I was just kind of going through the motions. I knew my stuff really well But I never had this big explosive crazy number. I mean, I still did well and went trips here and there Each year just like one trip. But but I never had that explode I never ten exed it as a as Grant Cardone. Yeah So when I went over there to To Jackson, Mississippi with these guys one guy never left the hotel You just sat there and drank the whole time the other guy Who ran he ran? I think 400,000 the previous year. So that's the one I kind of ran this little fun competition with and That's where we where I found my there was holes and flaws in my system and I'm coachable I don't think I know at all. In fact, I know I don't know it, right? So I was coachable enough to pick bits and pieces of what he was doing and we would compare notes of You know, how you run your system. So So that's kind of how the how Everything transpired, you know, I went from going two and three appointments a day to when I went over there So, you know during this competition, I said, I need to step my game up. I'm going to get this guy He's really good.   I got like 12 each day and I'm I'm blowing away. I'm thinking he's He's joking, right? So I'm like, well, I was like, there's no way you can run 12 appointments in a day Right, I never heard of this like this. No, I said, this is three years ago now It's internet land everybody does a million dollars and blah blah blah blah, right? But this is back in the day when when I mean nobody I had never heard of 12 appointments in a day It's like, how do you even fit that in? It's impossible, right? So, you know, he was doing it 30 30 minutes apart And he was seeing more people than me. And so Anyway, we ran the competition. It was fun. I think I did seven thousand in two days He did like 71 50 in those two days. So he he got me but What I learned was that I need to get in front of more people per day and I need to order more leads um, if I you know to to to hit those kind of crazy numbers and so that really that's honestly what sparked my You know, I changed my system.  I want to see what's possible. Yeah Happen I wanted to see what was possible. What am I capable of? And that's what sparked that that big year. Sorry to ramble on Dude, no, no, that was incredible man. That's that's I mean that that's what our audience and everyone apart apricanation needs to hear What would you say the biggest difference? well between your Original system your 20 of 2015 system what you kind of learned along the way I love that you you know that you say that you're coachable I think that's for you to say that live on camera Like that's should be humbling for a lot of agents and and to realize that hey you can never stop learning and that's That's why you're such a special dude while you've been so great at this in this business. Um, so The biggest difference between your systems is I mean you spent more money You're on on on buying more leads And you ran more appointments per day. Yeah, and I got in front. I was getting in front of more people How many how how many days a week? I was running five days a week and if if I don't turn any appointments down You know, so if they needed to meet on a saturday or sunday well, then I would accommodate that, you know So I rent to their schedule not to my schedule and I think that's You know, I think that's a big problem with a lot of agents. I talked to is like hey, this is my schedule and And and they want all the clients to fit into that schedule. Well, that's not the way you do But you're gonna leave money on the table, you know, and and I don't like doing leaving money on the table I love that run to their schedule. That that's that I'm I'm I'm already learning stuff. That's awesome. So, okay, so Run to their schedule now in in Kind of give us an average that the 505k in 2015 of annual premium. Super impressive What what was kind of your general average number of like, okay sets Sets cells AP like on a weekly basis. I think I was doing about I wrote over 700 applications. So whatever that breaks down to I think between seven and 750 applications, so I think it was like 15 a week kind of what I was at what I would average 15 a week, you know You know, I would have always try to have five or six at least five appointments a day now five to six That doesn't mean I was sitting with five people. That means I would have appointments And then out of those, you know, I have my wife as my appointment center. I trained her up I think she's pretty good at what she does. So just like anybody else. So I mean, um, the average Day, I would see four people typically, you know, they always have that one no show or whatever But I'd usually see at least three people out of those five, you know, so Whatever that amounts to so so say I had 25 25 appointments and I would, you know Sit down 20 to 25 appointments somewhere in that ballpark. I can't do the map that quick whatever that is today Yeah, three or four Approximately a day and those I would write. I probably wrote seem like around 70 of the people I sat down with I think somewhere in that ballpark That's awesome So impressive. I mean that that shows I mean because in this business, I think I'm I think in the life side It's worse, but about 92 percent of interest agents fill. That's the you know, the theme and hence a percent nation, right? That's a huge learning lesson for a lot of agents already already getting value immediately right now And they haven't even came to the conference yet imagine What you will learn at this event with just some of the nuggets that you've already released And they haven't even met you yet. And so what's really cool about what you're saying is hey Anyone can do more you got to be coachable You got to be willing to spend some dough. You got to be willing to invest in leads You know, you know, you got to you got to kind of risk it to get the biscuit You want to do a half million bucks in a year? Dude, you got to risk it. You got to work a lot, you know, I mean Matt's probably still exhausted from 2015 I mean that's like it's just freaking impressive man. I mean it's cool So thank you for those valuable nuggets. Um, so what was it about? Is there anything else you'd like to add?  What would you say? What would your advice be? Yeah, you know There's an epidemic out there. I think right now with um, You know agents are not aligning themselves with with people that have been there and done that That's what I'm finding a lot. So So I think you you know, uh, you got to be with somebody that that You know that has been there and done that that's probably them The one number one biggest thing, you know, it's the blind leading the blind a lot out there And so, you know, uh, they're not getting the right coaching. They're not not getting the right mentorship, right? So, so I mean that'd be my number one thing is is some people get lucky right out of the gate they get with a good coach or mentor immediately and The learning curve is a lot is lessened and it gives them a lot higher chance to survive the business You know and be part of that eight percent, you know, a lot of a lot of these guys I'll be honest doing it 13 years. I've seen guys that could have been tremendous, but they got aligned with the wrong Whether it's the wrong. I don't want to start naming names. Sure. Sure. But yeah, yeah Company whatever and they were they were done before they got started. It was over Wow, that's great advice. Thank you for doing that.  You have a big heart and you love helping people and it shows man. It really does uh so what was it about This crazy conference that made you want to get involved man, because I think we talked really early on and I think we talked several times along Yeah, um It was a no brainer. So so I saw Grant Cardone. I was down in Miami a couple years ago And uh, the guy I went with He he he said that's my goal up there. He's like he's like I'm gonna one day I'm gonna be up there on the same stage as Grant Cardone talking I never said anything to him, but I thought to myself, you know what? That's a pretty darn good goal That's a pretty cool goal. I didn't want to steal his thunder or anything. So I just kept kept him to myself I said, you know what? That's probably my goal. I'm gonna see see if that's my goal And here we are two years later. So when you you called me and uh, I said, it's a it's a no brainer I mean you got guys like yourself and Grant Cardone and Ray Lewis and all of all my these these colleagues all my colleagues that you know That will be up on stage. I said, uh, I said I gotta go I gotta go and now check it out now. I'm gonna be on the same stage as as Grant Cardone. So, uh, um Yeah, it's a pretty cool deal. That's super cool I mean, it's just crazy to think about that. It's literally because I've been just I mean I can't I can't really sleep with so much excitement about this thing and and you know what it's You know, just 21 days away. It's crazy how fast it's flying by man. It's nuts Uh, what do you expect for agents to learn from you? On the q&a panel, obviously, you don't know the questions But just in general knowing you knowing what you embody knowing your experience What do you expect that maybe if they met you in the hallway on the elevator in the vip lounge at the party Maybe they picked your ear for a second. Whatever or Just from stage with the live q&a. What do you expect knowing you? What will agents get to take away from that moon gear to me? It scares me a bit to know that uh, they're gonna be firing questions away and I have no idea what they're gonna ask, but I mean, you know, most people when they talk to me, they want to know, you know My system my system my system my system, you know, so I would imagine it It would be a lot of system type questions. Um Which is really kind of hard to Get out there in that kind of environment through how the system works all the nuts and bolts, you know So so so I hope I I don't disappoint all these agents out there if they start asking me some nuts and bolts Time questions in the in the middle of everybody. So yeah, no doubt Well, you know what if even if they can't learn it all at least the You know pick up pick up some valuable nuggets learn some stuff that they can implement directly It'll it'll directly impact their business. It'll help them. Um, so If an agent's on the fence and they're like, man, you know I'm thinking about going. I'm not sure if I should go. I'm a fan of matt or I'm a fan of You know gc or ray lewis or tim story or coach bird or any of these other guys if an agent's on the fence I'll help me push him over man. Why should an agent attend An insurance wealth conference like this. Yeah, you know, that's a no no brainer for me because it's for me It's a lot of it's about networking, you know, I've always I've always learned so much more going to these events actually more You know sitting at you know meeting new people people I've talked to over the internet over the phone never I never met in person, you know, like yourself, you know and sitting down with them Over dinner and just picking their brain, you know and and and doing things like that. So I think that's huge because You know, I still talk to people from the miami conference two years ago, you know, and we still have that connection And and we've actually formed a couple of partnerships along the way from two years ago You see on of me. So so that's what's huge about this thing. I don't know how many people are going to be there My imagine I imagine that there's gonna be a lot of people there.  That's cool, man. That's super cool. That's super cool. Okay. So so thank you for doing that buddy I really appreciate it dude If you guys want to meet matt and he's been he's been awesome He's he's offered help. He said hey, I want to be a part of this thing. He's gonna be on the panel You guys want to meet matt you got to come to eight percent nation literally in 21 days, dude Thank you very much for taking a little time out of your day to to visit man. Three weeks, buddy Yeah, yeah, three weeks, man. It's crazy. It's flying by brother dude. It's gonna be awesome Man, it's gonna be cool. Hey for those that are on the fence You want to meet matt you want to be a part of this deal? VIPs already sold out. We just added a new executive ticket our party is past full go to eight percent nation dot com to grab your seat Matt, thanks again, brother. Looking forward to meeting you buddy. Okay. Take care. Thank you


what you believe now about something isn't something that people have always believed about that. Hello everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense. I've been thinking about this recently because we live in this era where we have a very nihilistic or I think nihilistic is probably the best word to use, nihilistic view of warfare. And it wasn't always that way. The current view of warfare by most people is that the war is hell quote, which I think was William Tecumseh's Sherman.  And really that idea that war is hell, that it's this brutal, dark, destructive, horrible thing, which by the way in general I'm going to agree with, is really an idea that's only been in vogue for the last 100 or so years, really with the rise of World War One. World War One is a super interesting time in history because if you go back and look at it, we call it the first modern war with planes and tanks and machine guns and artillery. And it was really the first modern war to bring all those things together. People went into that war fighting on horseback and they leave with fighter planes and tanks and artillery and all this other kind of interesting stuff that we still use today. Going into World War One in general, the view of warfare was the very romantic view of warfare, right? Where you will win glory and honor and this band of brothers mentality and this whole idea of wonderful, amazing, glorious things happening in warfare.  However, you know, it's this grandiose adventure really. And that view of war has been common throughout human history. Whenever you look at poetry about war, especially pre World War One, you know, if you look at stuff by like Kipling, for example, who's a British poet writing before and after World War One, or if you were to read some Shakespeare like Henry V, or you go back to the Greek days, right? And the ancient Romans, the ancient Greeks. This idea of warfare is this kind of grand adventure where glory is won and fortunes are lost and history is altered has kind of been the pervasive view of war ever since. World War One, of course, grinds that entire idea to a halt because after four plus years of just a brutal machine that chews up bodies and spits them out, it's kind of hard to maintain that romantic view of warfare when, you know, you're literally sleeping on fighting on corpses because you're fighting over the same ground over and over and over again. So that, of course, kind of killed this idea of warfare. I don't necessarily have what, how we should view war here or what the real picture of war is. That's not necessarily the point in making this video. I just want you to understand that if you ever feel the allure of the romantic call of warfare, I don't know that that's entirely incorrect, shall we say. And you could say, well, Dylan, you've never been to combat. And I would say, hey, that's totally fine. I get it. I've never seen anybody that I really care about, right? Or had to bury one of my buddies due to flying bullets and stuff like that. However, people who have have written romantic poetry about warfare. So while you're not going to find me arguing that warfare is this beautiful romantic adventure and we're all going to go have a jolly good time, I definitely lean towards the warfare sounds like a terrible place to be and isn't exactly fun.  That all being said, because I have a historical view of things, I understand where I fit in the historical context of how we currently view war. And we currently view it very nihilistically. And whether that's good, bad, or correct, I'm not necessarily sure. And I'm not necessarily going to make try to make a definitive statement at this time. But I do want you to understand there are changing views on how we look at warfare, right? And when you start to read old historical books like Gavon Klauswitz, for instance, right, who is writing pre-World War One, you can read his book and you can say, oh, this sounds kind of naive. However, he was one of the main Prussian theorists on warfare. The impression reorganized their entire army based on Klauswitz and came into World War One with the best army hands down.  That's not necessarily the case. It's just that there were different cultural ideas and pervasive thoughts at the time about how we view warfare. And how you end up choosing to view it is of course your decision to make. Let's just understand that we live in a cultural context and time that looks upon things like that in a certain manner. So that was kind of meandering. Thanks for sticking around with me. Do brave deeds and endure.


Hi, she was seven. I'm back. How are you? I got a question and a video request Basically, I was asked to explain how to tell if a man is really financially stable and has money or if he's pretending Sort of like renting cars Has bad credit and just like showing off and he doesn't really have what it seems that he has Um This is like and oh and you don't want to ask them about their finances because it's rude Okay. First of all You ask, you know what they do for a living because that's an or a normal question, right? Ask them for a business card Okay, so you know where they work If you want to invest in some some sort of online background check You just need its name and his date of birth. So that's on his birthday Okay, and the state and city he lives in that's pretty much it You can find a lot of stuff online about him if he's been married if he's been divorced If he's been to jail, y'all know all that You can also See what type of people he hangs around if all his friends are professional and have their stuff together and You know not doing illegal things and Stuff like that. He probably is, you know on the up and up also if you If you ever like are in his house or anything if you're ever in the house All you have to do is, you know, remember the address Go and research it on Google later And it will show you who owns that house like if he's renting it or whatever It will show you who owns the house how much the house is worth If it's for sale if it's leasing leased out blah blah blah blah blah So that's easy you can get that on google for free Um, also what's on I'm still I must have been new york a new yorker in my former life Because I swear sometimes the accent just pops out from nowhere anyway So yes, also like if he doesn't have a bank account If he doesn't have a checking account or a savings account, that's that's that's red flag Like if he never goes to the bank If he just keeps wads of cash everywhere that he's probably a drug dealer If he never goes to the ATM or the bank, uh, I would check on that.  Okay, the ones who have it. It's not a big deal Okay, the the the flashiest ones are the ones that are faking it. Okay The flashy ones faking it The one that has the modest Regal Um Classy taste is the one that's not faking it. Okay, the When you're trying to show off and get attention for your wealth It's because it's it's fleeting and it's not real.  Okay, so that's how you know Uh, look at a man's shoes if they're if they have on sneakers And it's the middle of the day and they're on their Lunch break at the restaurant Unless they own their own business Or something like that, you know, you have to kind of look at what a guy guy is wearing You have to look at his wardrobe If he doesn't have a suit if he doesn't have any type of clothes That looks like he has a job or a business then you have to you have to kind of think about that too uh so Yeah, a lot of times men spend more money on their outward appearance than their home to get to their house If you don't see furniture If you see like cheap furniture If he's slacking everywhere else Except for what people see on the outside, then you know, he's fronting If you go to his house and he has art Like real art He's got money. Okay um If You know If you're in the nice neighborhood or in the nice area of town where people Are financially stable You're seldom gonna see a faker out there Because the fakers like to hang out with people that have less so they can look like they have more So try to stay on the nice part of town and not the bad part of town because If you go into like a bar or a club on the bad part of town where everyone's broke And you see this balling flashy guy and Chains and jewelry and nice cars He's there to stick out like a sore thumb to get attention to get women's attention because He can't hang with the big boys. Okay, so he goes to The lesser so he can have his pick Okay, tell him like if you see someone like that And he's trying to holla at you Tell him let's go and name like some fancy place where you know a lot of rich people hang out and see what he does If you get scared if he looks crazy Keep it moving. Okay Because real Real ballers hang out with real ballers.  Okay That's how you know. Have you ever seen a basketball professional basketball player or professional football player in a place where Well, I'm sure they're always going to be the richest person in the room, but have you ever seen them like, you know Going to like a place where They can't You know fit in with everybody else Do you see them going to the worst parts of town or the nice spots? You know, I'm sure there's some that will venture off to the hole in the walls But for the most part these people are hanging out getting, you know, five star treatment at places So you have to you have to understand that if if you got a lot of cash of you paying nothing but cash that means you know Be careful Um Also, there's a lot of guys who front by uh, I'm sorry.  You don't even have to ask them. They're not you're they're not going to Wait for you to ask them.  Well, I drive a this this and that, you know They're gonna kind of throw it into the the conversation or yo, yeah, uh, I have a five bedroom house in the separate They're gonna throw it in there voluntarily, okay Most people with something They're not going to volunteer that information until they trust you or they're Comfortable with you, you know Fakers will throw it out there. You know, I got this. I got that, you know You need to get with me When I met my husband, he didn't tell me nothing and the questions that I asked him were very rude Because I was I was basically tired of dealing with broke men. So I get approached I got approached every day y'all. So for me blowing off somebody was no big deal. Okay, so He comes up to me and I've already like Decided in my brain. I am not dating. Nobody broke I am not dating anybody unless they can do this this this and that that's it So whoever coming up to me, I'm gonna shoot them down quick because I'm not wasting no more time That was my attitude and so he comes up to me. He's like, hi I'm like, okay, he sounds like he's smart. He's got a good job or something.  I asked her. I asked the rude questions. I said, you know what?  Ask the rude questions because they're already expecting it anyway So I said, so what do you do? And he's like, oh I work for uh, I own uh, no, what did he say?  I didn't understand back then because I was young y'all. So He was into technology so I I was like clueless on what he was saying. He was speaking a foreign language, but it sounded like it made a lot of money So I was like, okay. Do you have a card? Yes I pull the card trick ask for a card whenever they tell you what they do for a living Ask for a card if they don't have a card or they can't get you no card Oh and fresh out. Do you have some in your car? Well, what's your email never give me your at don't ever give them your phone them first If they don't have a card Give them your email address. Um, not your facebook, but your email. Okay. Anyway That way you can see where he emails you from if he emails you from a work email Or his company's email or or a damn, uh, google or yahoo duck And and with that email you can get a lot more information online to y'all Okay, anyway, I asked all the rude questions. So I said, well, what do you do for a living? He gave me his card. I said, oh, that's good. That's nice And then I said, okay Because anybody can get a business card and put ceo on it, right? Because this is ceo. I'm like, mm-hmm, whatever So then I said, well, what kind of card do you drive? Because I was trying to get rid of him y'all I was really sick and tired of dealing with broke guys and this was this is the fastest way to get rid of a broke guy Ask him the rude questions Oh, well, I drive a convertible uh bends. It's right outside. I'm like, okay Check one check two. Okay. Then the third question I ask is, you know, well So, you know What are you why are you approaching me? You know, what do you want? I want to get to know you I want to spend time with you. I think you're beautiful You know, listen to their reasons why they want to be with you or why they want to date you Or why they want to talk to you or get to know you better Listen to their reasons if their reasons are like You're so fine that you know If their reasons are you seem very interesting, you know, if their reasons are intelligent reasons and don't sound like game Yeah Go for it. That's how I met my husband. I asked the rude questions. I swear to god. I said, you know what? I'm tired dealing broke man. I I took my power and I said What do you do for a living? Give me a card. What kind of card do you drive straight up? And he and he thought I was just And he was proud to say what he had because he did have it, you know But he didn't volunteer none that information to me. He came he was trying to get by on his good looks He actually was talking to another woman And then when I came in and sat down, he left her mid conversation to come walk over to me and The lady was just like Yeah, and so He didn't volunteer no information. I had to pull it and I had to ask him, you know If you got a pull answers and stuff like that It's a good thing because only broke fake rich people volunteer their their information like that and So, yeah, basically that's how you tell uh, I also look at the jewelry rich people don't wear a lot of jewelry Like especially men rich men do not wear a lot of jewelry unless they're rappers So if you see all his jewelry on on a man If he's flashy this this and that unless he owns a jewelry company Then you know, you know, he's flashy for a reason, you know, um That's just how it is. I think jay-z said it best. He says no chrome on the wheel. I'm a baller for real Okay, that means he's not trying to show off He's not wasting money on rims and tigers. He's investing. He's got money. He's got a company. He's got businesses He's not wasting his money on flash Okay The less flashy a man is The more legitimate he is. Okay.  I will see you guys later. Thank you for watching thumbs up And also if you have any more video requests, you can either send them To my facebook if y'all are um On my facebook page or you can put them in the comments And I will try to get to some of them if they are good topics And You know Always be honest with yourself and what you want because if you don't How is anybody supposed to give it to you? Okay All right, I'll see y'all later. Bye


What math course is right for you? Math 141 and beyond STEM Pathways. So traditionally you're highlighting the majority of students, specifically in Mesa, really into engineering. So mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science. And then we have biology students and nursing students as well. Why did you take Math 141? I'm taking this class because I need it to get the math classes that I need for my privates. I took Math 141 because it's a pre-class that I have to take for the Calculus series. I am in Math 141 currently and it's also called Pre-Calculus 1. It's a requirement to get into a Calculus class which is required for my degree. Right now I'm going the pre-med route so I'm looking at getting my A degree in biology for now and I'm a running start student so I don't really know what major I want to happen to yet but I think I'm looking at going for a major in biology. What advice would you give to students taking Math 141? To be a successful student it's really about practice, practice, practice. Being open-minded and not afraid to ask questions and challenge yourself and also to build those relationships with other STEM students that have the same goals and aspirations as that student has. The advice I would give is coming to NISA workshops and going to the Math Tutor Center and just going on WebAssign and just doing your homework and making sure you come every day. I think that's very helpful and also using the study plan on WebAssign I think that helps me a lot too and just practicing. I think Math is just you just have to master that and then you're good to go. The advice that I would give is read the book especially because you get a lot of questions from it and then ask a lot of questions in class especially and go to the Math Center and connect with the tutors. Don't ever be afraid to ask the instructor questions especially like if they're in the middle of doing a procedure and there's a certain step that you may not understand. Just raise your hand and ask them to explain a little bit more in something. Another really good resource is to definitely go to the tutoring centers. I know for me when I was starting with the pre-calculus and calculus track I was really really nervous because Math is not really my strong suit and so I was nervous about the pace, whether or not I would be able to keep up whether or not I would be able to understand what's going on in my classes but the biggest advice I would give is to not be nervous about it just go in with confidence, go in with that idea that you're going to work really hard and put yourself in that position to be successful.


We all know the Patriots have the third pick in this April's draft. Could it be Jaden Daniels heading to Foxborough or is a surprise on the way? ESPN.com put up their quarterback plans for the teams at the top of the draft today. They have the Patriots indeed drafting Daniels, sort overall, and also signing Jacoby Prisett to a two-year $15 million deal, half of it guaranteed. He'd like to be serving as the bridge quarterback until Daniels is ready. Let's roll presented by Townfarer Tire. How do you feel about that plan, Andrew Callahan? So I say this is someone who's only seen Jaden Daniels. I don't know, two or three times once with a beer in my hand on a Saturday. I have not watched any of his tape, definitely not the all 22. But hell, yes, I love this plan. Give me the bridge, a guy who everyone glows about and Jacoby Prisett. Jaden Daniels is dynamic dual threat quarterback. The Patriots have not had since well, like Flutie when he hung out in 05. Like this is the guy who can advance you as far as what I know on the surface. Well, we got a long way to go till the draft. No, you like the backup, though, but we have in the backup plan, too. We have a daily talk show, so we've got to. No, I understand. I'm not knocking the topic. I'm just saying, look, from what I know, this is perfect. This is excellent. Like you stay at three, get a guy who seemingly has franchise potential. Every draft list of the top 10 NFL network, ESPN, PFF. Daniels is in the top 10. This is not a media, you know, narrative or creation. The guy is legit. He set record setting numbers at LSU and Jacoby Prisett. I mean, there are two reasons the guys bounce around the league for a while. Everyone respects him.  But for one year as a mentor, absolutely. Yeah, I think the one thing is, whether it's Jaden Daniels or Drake May, or you move up and take Caleb Williams, whatever it is that the court, that the Patriots have to learn from their mistakes with Mac Jones. You're going to draft a quarterback. You can't just say we're drafting a quarterback. And next, we draft a tackle and draft a wide receiver. Now, drafting a quarterback has to be an organizational decision. And you've got to go all out. You've got to draft a quarterback. You've got to have the office coordinator who believes in them. You've got to get that guy a quarterback coach. You have to build the team as if you really think that every move you make has to correspond and has to reinforce the quarterback. And the Patriots didn't do that with Mac Jones. They drafted a quarterback and said, OK, here, plug and play. This is not a plug and play position. And the guys who have thrived, these young players who have developed, they've developed because the organizations have gone all in. So if you're going to do this with Jaden Daniels, it's not just Jaden Daniels. It's your whole organization has to change its philosophy. How do we feel about the whole organization and how they're plotting along this offseason as it relates to that thing? Because I think that's where they are. I would have felt so much better in other words. I'll just tell you if they hired a young offensive guy as their head coach, OK, as their head coach, and everything sort of flows through that. If he has success, there's no threat of him leaving. You resign him and he's your guy. And now everything flows through that offensive head coach. His system, he's in charge of the quarterback. They're joined at the hip and that's all it just flows down. The whole organization flows down from there. And I don't think the Patriots are in that place. They don't even know what their system is. They don't know who the coordinator is. They don't know the quarterback's coaches. They don't know how they're going to play football. So I don't feel good about their approach with this whole thing. Yeah, I mean, what you just pitched is a good plan. Just ask the 49ers, Kosh, Anhand, the Rams and Sean McVeigh. They're losing assistance, not head coaches, because those guys are in place. But I would say it would be even worse if you opened up a search and they suffered from from the head coaching position.  No, thanks. Like that's a much bigger hold to be in with no head coach, then no offensive coordinator, because they're struggling, I think, now to find the exact guy they want. And at least though, they've got the guy at the top in place. It's a candidate problem, though. I've come to arrive at this decision. It's a candidate. It's not the Patriots problem. The Patriots are solid. It's everybody else. No, the Patriots are not solid, because look where they are. They won four games and got the third pick in a draft and they have mediocre talent. So they've got their problem. But Mike, imagine, imagine if somebody came to you, because which actually happened? Okay, I'm making about your life. Somebody came to you in an expansion situation and said, we got this new thing we're going to start. Do you want to be a part of it? You can make your name. And maybe there's somebody else out there.  But if you do it the right way, if you believe in yourself, you can get to the top. What if they're paying me like crap? Okay, now that might be a problem. But I'm just telling you, if I'm looking at, if I'm an offensive guy, I got the third pick in the draft and they're going to draft a quarterback and I get to put my imprint on it. Yeah, give me the challenge. What's wrong with these guys? Oh, you know, I don't know about that. Of course, it's uncertain. They suck. Yes. But if you believe in your ability, in your vision, if you have a vision, you take that job. Well, they got turned down by guys who had better jobs with the same thing. But some of them, some of them have better jobs. Zach Robinson gets to do this in Atlanta. Oh, yeah. Waldron gets to do it in Chicago. Well, I don't know if Chicago, it's a similar situation. You know, you got to coach them. You got to coach them. Yeah, but you've got much better weapons, a better offensive line. He chose Chicago over you. Why is that his problem? But I'm not talking about Waldron.  You're going back to be a tight ends coach? What? So you want to be a tight ends coach?  So some of the guys that they're talking to, some of them, not all of them, but some of them they're talking to. If you're, if you're afraid of the job, then I've talked to the wrong guy. OK, there's a lot of people who want to take. He's scared of. Receiver at three, get that quarterback later. How's that worked out for teams picking in the top five? OK, here's playoff games with drafted player in the top five at receiver. And, you know, we're going all the way back to Corey Davis. But so those are the top five receivers. And you look at the playoff wins in the right hand column. And it's just it's very rare that that number one receiver makes a difference. Well, I say number one receiver. The guy's drafted up there. Yeah, there's been a lot of failures, a quarterback at that spot. Can you say the same thing about receiver? Yeah, of course. But I think those teams are in the top five because they also didn't have quarterbacks.  So if you're stuck with a bad quarterback or with a bad offensive coordinator, or you're just not good in some of those players' cases, yeah, you're going to swing and miss. I would look at this, though, because we're talking about this because of Marvin Harrison Jr., who? Supposedly should just be fitted for a gold jacket already. Like, he seems legit as legit as any receivers come by. Do you take him at three or go with the quarterback? And I can't go this far with Marvin Harrison Jr. Because here's something else I've learned this week. When you look at the NFL Network, ESPN, PFF, at least 10 of their top 50 players. In this year's class are all wide receivers. So take Harrison out of it. That's still 20% of the best players in this class play his position. Get the quarterback first, then get a receiver, trade up if you need to get them. They're all waiting for you. Yeah, I wouldn't be so afraid of that chart if I had a quarterback. If I had a quarterback and I had the number three pick, I'd take Marvin Harrison Jr. Okay, well, look at it. But they don't have a quarterback. You've got to take a quarterback. Let me throw one at you. You drive Marvin Harrison at three and you take your second round pick and trade for Justin Fields. How do you feel about that? Because there's, you know, there's a real possibility. The Bears draft Caleb Williams move on from Justin Fields. Justin Fields is a quarterback in his fourth year who we're still having questions as to whether or not he's a good passer. And those guys to me have already answered the question. He's not good enough. Like he's dynamic as hell. I think you could definitely complain about the offensive line, the system that he's been in. But his old offensive coordinator might be among the top front runners for the Patriots top right now. He's not scared. I don't think that guy's gonna get it done. And I don't think Justin Fields is the guy that you look and go, here's our franchise quarterback. See, the guys you want are scared. And the guys you don't want aren't scared. Like Luke Getze was Justin Fields's offensive coordinator. So imagine, in your scenario, you get Marvin Harrison, you get Justin Fields and you get Luke Getze. No! That doesn't work. Absolutely not. Don't play games at this position. At number three, draft a quarterback. You need one of the top quarterbacks. Don't draft down. Don't play games. Don't get Justin Fields. Draft a quarterback.