Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here, and we have more Cobra Convergence 7. We have another Cobra Convergence 7 presenter here It is my privilege to talk to the host of chaplains assistance motor pod Gary Could you introduce yourself tell the audience who you are and what you do? Hello, my name is Gary. I am the host of the chaplains assistance motor pod I Host a podcast that is all about my life and collecting in particular gi Joe Just take a minute to review, you know Talk about what's going on in like Gijo news and what I've gotten in you know, little quick things of like classified or other military inspired toy lines, but every episode is a Review of a Gijo toy play set trailer from the Gijo a real American hero toy line From 1982 to present and concentrating really on the three and three quarter and four inch toy lines That is awesome. That's that's right in my wheelhouse And I have to say chaplains assistance motor pod is one of the the more clever names for a show that I've heard So congratulations, that's that's a gem But thanks for for being in Cobra Convergence this year so You've had how long have you been running your show so that hopefully everybody will check it out There will be a link in the description of this video to to your to your podcast So how long have you had it running? about two years now actually just over to the second anniversary as this recording and You know, it's it's it's been interesting You know doing it doing it alone was with the occasional guests. So it's It's you know, it's it's definitely different experience than what I used to be when I used to guest on my my friend shop So so used to guess now you are so low now you do but you have guests sometimes what kind of yeah So what guests have you had in the past? All right other fellow podcasters Gio Joburg notably Steven I've had order of battle pods Jason anything jose's Greg angle and Yeah, it's basically it so far I have a couple other guests lined up for in the near future So, you know, just it's fun to have a conversation sometimes as a podcast But doing it by myself and having just a way to regularly or semi-regularly produce episodes is a good format to have Just to get my gi Joe fix going for myself and for others as well I love all those folks. It's awesome that you had them on and and congratulations on the two-year milestone That's that's really awesome So talk to us. So hopefully everybody will be checking out your show right after they watch this What should folks expect to find I'd talk walk us through like what a typical episode might be on Chaplin's assistance motor park Typical episode is really, you know, what my life of collecting has been since the last episode So that's how I began every episode, you know, it's good to have a formula So if it's been eBay, you know selling or buying if it's been McCurry, you know buying, you know Mail calls, you know, G.I. Joe classified, you know, if I get something new in And it's also comics. So if something comes up in the world of comics or, you know, other toy lines, you know With all these Kickstarter's I'm going on for o-ring revival That's really the the opening segment is my place to talk about that and it's very varied So it could be me complaining About just a bad experience to praising a Update in six inch form of a G.I. Joe classified figure So it that's that ranges the gamut and then the other thing the second half is the review and that's usually thematically timed with the bad Thematically themed with a bad pun in the beginning in the title of the show. So dad humor is Welcome here bad puns are very welcome here and So but then that's I do a you know an audio review For for the show. So this way it gives people a Feel of what I can do I tried my best to explain it to put the picture in the person's head, you know, the mind's eye and Also, just try to provide a unique perspective or anecdote or, you know, something off the cuff You know, because a lot of times I have notes, but you never know when you're when I'm actually holding it during the recording I might have something new just pop into my head at that moment and verbal diarrhea You know, get it out there get in the cosmos and just put, you know, the good and the bad out there for everybody to hear That does happen sometimes no matter how well you plan sometimes when you're just looking at it and talking about it Something something pops up that you hadn't occurred before so it's a it's a bit of an aha move it and I love the titles I love the episode title is fantastic. Yeah, it's it was partially inspired by you I felt that, you know, nobody was talking about like doing full toy reviews Um on podcast format, you know, I am not usually a YouTube person For reasons, but I felt that the audio format allowed me a way to have something scheduled and regular as I could do it. And You know, I started this, you know towards the tail end of the pandemic You know getting my stuff together getting, you know, figuring, you know, things out like a name for a podcast, which is probably the Anybody that has a YouTube channel or podcast will say the name is probably The hardest thing to come up with. Yeah, I still haven't come up with a good one. So that you you hit the ball out of the park first try. That's fantastic. Oh, it's yeah, it's yours is fine. I love it. It's it reminds me of my favorite version of Cobra Commander.  So obviously you had some knowledge of GI Joe before you started this podcast. And a lot of us started with GI Joe, you know, way back as youngsters. Talk to talk to us about your your earliest experiences with GI Joe. What first got you interested in? First got me interested, I have to admit was the cartoon. So that was September of 85 when that first mini the third mini series came out. And I was five years old, and I was watching it. It was, it was at 7am at the time. Before I went to school. And that Christmas, I got my first Joe's, you know, and then I was basically hooked for the next couple of years. And then I was hooked for the next couple of years. And then I was hooked for the next couple of years. Before I went to school. And that Christmas, I got my first Joe's, you know, and then I was basically hooked for the next nine years. So nine years. It's a pretty good run. That's a pretty good run. Do you remember your first Joe's? Yes, because it was a moray, a ferret. So the moray had the lamprey. And then I had shipwreck, barbecue, Flint, bareness and torch. That's a pretty good set. I got to say that's a that's a good start. Christmas hall. Yeah, absolutely. In 1985. A lot of folks consider that to be the pinnacle. That's, that's a great time to start as well. That's awesome. So nine years. That's a pretty good run on even some of the diehards from the early 80s can't say that we stuck with it that long. That's that's impressive. That's impressive. It helped that I played by myself. I was definitely the last kid playing with GI Joe's in my in my school. I was trading my brother's Star Wars figures that he had left he had moved out of the house. I was trading them for other GI Joe's because kids had aged out. I built a diorama in my parents basement and it's nothing fancy. You know, what a 12 year old does is they find a sheet of plywood, they put it on saw horses, and your dad just allows you to that space in the basement. And then I didn't have the headquarters. So remember constructs that I would build the headquarters out of constructs. Nice. So it's a lot of cobra attacking the base. You know, you break it apart. And, you know, and that's and I kept with it because I kept reading the comic book. So, you know, it evolved from the cartoon to the comics, and I stayed with it to the very end. Wow. Oh, that that is awesome. And that's, that's a great childhood memory. I think I think a lot of us can relate to relate to that some some of us stuck with it longer than others but now you're in it again now as an adult you got a podcast about it. I can see some GI Joe toys behind you there. So, at what point did you start to get back into it and start get into it, get interested in it again. Well, 2001, the devil's do series launched. So I was just finishing up my back issues. So I had I was, you know, and when I say I'm like, I'm collecting at that point in time I'm, you know, things in the 20s and 30s that were just getting hard to find like issue 22 was hard to find 38 for one reason was the last one. But, you know, but then I discovered GI Joe issue number two on the shelf. You know, I wasn't in a comic books, I had laps from comic books by that time. And I got back in the comics, and I never stopped the comics after that. And then, you know, the toy line really started with the 25th anniversary.  And, you know, all things considered that point in my life it's good thing I probably didn't collect toys. So, 2007, I got my first GI Joe for the first time and at that point 14 years. I was about what was 93. And I remember and I still have that that's my winter winter gear snake eyes with the Quinn necklace. And then it was a slippery slope from there and it was like dominoes and it just accelerated to the point where, you know, you lie to yourself and you know, I remember 2011 I'm telling my now wife, yeah, I'm only collecting the ones I had as a kid. And then it, and then it just, you know, my son was born in 2015.  So then it's just like it just snowballed from there and, you know, really doing things that, you know, with adult money I only could have I never could have even dreamed as a kid. Yeah, it starts that way doesn't it we all promise ourselves that the collection will stay within certain parameters but the first time you get one that's outside of those parameters you know all bets are off. So, so welcome welcome to the to the addiction I guess I should say. So, a couple years ago though you started your podcast what inspired you to do that. I had been on pine comics as a guest off and on for a couple years at that point. And it was frustrating because my schedules don't jive with the host schedule. So it's like, you know, our obligations kept getting in the way. So, and then he's like, Well, you can figure something out and I was doing some YouTube videos for him on occasion like trying to do one a month. And then, you know, you know I was trying to be, you know, get guest on Cobra convergence I did a couple submissions for the fan submissions. And thank you for doing that. No, thank you for having these.  I'm my son had gotten to a point where he didn't need 100% constant attention. I was able to start pulling away and having a little more free time. You know, the pandemic had freed up a lot of work time, which is now unfortunately help back but back. So, so I had a little more time for creative juices. And it was just, you know, it just felt right. And, you know, I wanted to do more I wanted to celebrate collecting. You know, really do more than just acquire. I wanted to share and is just like this is the way I felt I could do it. I hadn't really developed a rapport for anybody for like, you know, a second host or whatever. So it was just like, Okay, what am I going to do as a solo act. And I just felt like this was, you know, there's a lot of guys that talk about all aspects of GI Joe. So I figured I looked for an aspect that really wasn't being, you know, you know, I'm a niche of a niche in the podcasting world so it's. So it's just, I felt like there was an opening and I go for it. We need those niches. And it is, it's, it is fun to collect and share isn't it I mean doesn't that for me at least it feels like it enhances your experience as a collector, if you're able to share that with with someone so. Yeah, definitely it's like social media, you know, has helped a lot. I really wasn't big into social media until my friends podcast.  But it allows me to you know, you know the social media aspect of interacting and just meeting a lot of fellow collectors, you know with direct messages or, you know, hey, you know I heard this you know really, you know, this really brought back memories to, you know, one guy didn't like my review and I said, Oh, I'm sorry you feel that way that's I understand why you feel that way and I meant no disparaging towards your experience with that toy. And I even say that these are all toys these were all meant to be played with.  And I try to remember that too. That is, that's something that you discover after you do this for a little while is that no matter how weird it is that was somebody's favorite, except for the cobra rat I'm pretty sure the cobra rat was nobody's favorite but other than that every one of them was was nobody's favorite and so yeah, you know, we do what we do but you know there's got to be some respect for folks that really love this stuff so that's, I think that's important. Yeah, and the, and the other thing too is like even with the cobra rat, you know, there's an engineering and design process behind that that brought this toy to life, and as somebody and I have a manufacturing background. So, I want to make sure that, you know, people were, you kind of got a somewhat respect that the fact that these things were brought to market. You know, there wasn't an idea. There was a guy that said, hey, this would be make a toy. I'm not using the fun adjective. But there's, but there's, but there was an idea to bring it to market that this would be something that would appeal to children.  And that's to me that's what's important is meant for play.  So we have our ones that we like to pick on cobra rat, but, you know, but they're, but they were there for a reason. Yeah, the, we collect them now, but all of them were designed to be opened up and played with that's that was the market then so it's important to keep that in mind collectibles now sure but these were toys and a lot of the ones that are our they've seen a lot of battles. So that's, I think that's a great thing to keep in mind. So cobra convergence. Once again, chaplain's assistance motor pod link will be in the description of this video. Go click on that link as soon as you're finished watching this cobra convergence this year. We're recording this of course well in advance of cobra convergence. So there's still a little bit of time. Do you have now by the time people see this though, there wouldn't be any spoilers but have you given some thought to what you might do for your event presentation. Yeah, I have. I actually have it right here. Oh, yes. That's awesome. And it was so easy to get this box.  Um, and it's, I love the spy, the spy troops line, because they're cheap. I am a frugal man. I am a man of meager means, but it. But for doing a review for any of my reviews, because I want to do a picture of it. I want something complete. So in case there is an aspect of it, I want to capture on camera or experience so I can talk about it. You know, I like to have the whole thing, you know, the famous, the famous one that I did, I did a review about a year ago of the GI Joe hammer. Unbroken antenna. And I mentioned that in their view is like, I am not going to hunt down an unbroken antenna. I'm not going to pay the money for one with the unbroken antenna. That is what it is. These 1990 1991 GI Joe's are made of disintegrating classic. Just the experience you're going to have with this. Sometimes the broken parts are part of the experience and the person checking out the review needs to know that too. I can't. I don't remember how many hammers that I had to get to get one complete one because yeah, they just like, they're made out of rock candy that just crumble. Yeah, it's I think it was four. Yeah, yeah, I think so. Yeah. And mine was three. I had three. Congratulations. Well done. Yeah, it's just it's a luck of the draw on that thing. It's it's really rolling the dice. Yeah. But and actually when you to go back to an earlier question. I've kind of a little bit moved away from it because of just my life. But one of the impetus is for my podcast was fixing GI Joe vehicles and play sets. I don't do it at the rate that I was doing it because, again, life, but I was fixing, you know, I fixed whales. I've talked about fixing the whale on the podcast night Ravens terror drums. And I try to, you know, I haven't reviewed the wheel yet. There's a special, special episode in the future for that one.  And I even say that if you're getting new, you're at this point, just buy one complete if you can.   So it's Yeah, fixing broken toys, I think it is kind of a reality of a collector it's just part of the experience, you're just going to, you will have to do it you will have broken toys and so it's nice to know that at least you've done that and maybe we'll, we'll do that more because I think that's And that, that would benefit a lot of people, especially as you said, people getting into this new and just coming into the hobby. You know, the repair job that's that's a part of the experience of a collector.  I was I didn't know that you would have it right handy which is great. Well done. Like I said this is well in advance of the event. Yeah. So, but let's talk about Cobra I guess I guess we've got to have our Cobra quota for this conversation so. So, I've been asking everyone who their favorite Cobra character is so do you have a particular Cobra character that that you're drawn to the most. It usually doesn't fluctuate depends on, you know, the mood, but usually my favorite Cobra the one I always have displayed is a 1984 Hooded Cobra commander. I have a few of them. I have one that has just the right amount of play and where it had a melted head. I had a, I got another head for it, and I replaced the head yo ring. It, you know, it's not, it's not perfect by any means I have an accessory pack laser gun on its back it's the bright blue one. But it's the one that reminds me the most of the one that I had as a kid. Unfortunately, my childhood figures are no longer with me. But that that character was, you know, Cobra commander has such an amazing origin in the comics he has an amazing storyline in the comics. And he was such a lovable buffoon that still holds up in the cartoon series. So it, he is he's he's the linchpin of the whole thing. You know, without him there's no Cobra. Right.  But yeah. But that's that's awesome. Good choice. Good choice. That's it. Yeah, that figure had a bit of. I'm not saying it because of present company. Oh yeah, no, no, no, it's fine. It's, it's, no. No, I got your PayPal before we started that your kickback will be on the way. But that figure had a bit of a mystique back in the 80s because it wasn't at retail. That was a male way figure that's the only way you can get it. So I didn't have I didn't own one at the time but friends did. So it just felt special. So that's I, I like that choice. That's an excellent choice. Well, we, we are, we're coming close to the end of our time. I want to remind everybody one more time. There will be a link in the description of this video. Go check out Chaplin's assistance motor pod. They should have something for Cobra conversion seven up right now. And do check it out and make sure you follow, make sure you keep up with what they do. It's a fun show. The episode titles. Great. The name of the show is great. What I like to do to wrap up is basically turn the floor over to you for any closing thoughts or comments that you would like to give to our fair viewers. Thank you to everybody that's going to check out my show for the first time. And thank you to everybody that's returning to check out my show for Cobra convergence. I hope you enjoy it. It is going, I think I'm looking at my subject matter right now. And I already have some fun ideas and some things that I want to talk about with it. I'm really, it's really tertiary related to the theme. But it was, but you know, when you got a crowbar, you got to use it. And when you have a Cobra ring neck. You got to review it. So I hope you guys check it out. I have no idea what the lead is going to be. At, at time of this recording, but I can definitely assure you that it will definitely be a closer fun look at the Cobra ring neck. And can't wait to, if anybody wants to kick kick back your thoughts or reviews of it, wherever you listen to the podcast. I know there's some buzz about the ring neck. So I think, I think that'll be a great one. Also, the theme is more of a guideline than a rule. So, you know, this wiggle room wiggle room. But anyways, thank you Gary and thank, thank you for talking with me. Thank you for being Cobra Convergence seven. I will remind everybody one more time. Link in the description. And I really hope I hope you have fun this year.  Thank you very much, sir. All right. Thank you. And we will see you soon.


Each of our grants have gone to a different site but we go on a field study, usually two days, sometimes one depending on just how far away it is and how much we can get done in that day, and they get to go behind the scenes on those places as well. We try and take them places that funding permitting, they could take their students. Obviously, everyone's budgetary situation is limited to the number of field studies they can do lately, but we stay in the vicinity of Michigan or maybe Chicago because we're close enough. Two hours away for us. But they work with the curators there and the directors of education at those sites and they go behind the scenes and they participate in the activities and they work with the reenactors and again it increases their basis of knowledge, their depth of experience, gives them stories to tell in the classroom to make history more alive and just kind of renews their passion for it. If you have teachers that have been teaching for a really long time, sometimes just that reinvigoration can be really important for them to get a new feel for it or maybe when they studied history it was political history or military history and getting a chance to work in kind of a daily life, material culture, something they might not have had an experience with in their college work. So we like to broaden their experience as much as possible. Material culture is not something that is covered very well in textbooks nor is it covered very well in colleges of education. And so just to underscore what Kim has said, when we give teachers things to play with in their hands or put them behind a horse pulling a plow at Greenfield Village, we are enriching their experience which we know, we know, will get back to the classroom in one form or another. The teacher's own experience is I can't state strongly enough how important it is for teachers to have strong broad experiences in whatever subject that they're teaching. So I have no qualms about giving teachers tools or time to do things that they may not be able to do with their own students. Still they're going to be able to teach the subject at a greater level of understanding and with more passion. That's my little soap box. History has to be taught with passion or it's flat.


Hello, and welcome to this presentation of the STM32 System Window Watchdog. It will cover the main features of this peripheral used to detect software faults. The Window Watchdog is used to detect the occurrence of software faults. The Window Watchdog has a programmable free-running down counter that must be refreshed within a window period that guarantees proper software execution. If a problem occurs and the program time period expires, the Window Watchdog generates a system reset. The Window Watchdog can be programmed to detect abnormally late or early application behavior. Once enabled, it can only be disabled by a device reset. The Window Watchdog is best suited for applications required to react within an accurate timing window. This time window is configurable and can be adjusted according to various use cases. The Window Watchdog can be configured to start either by hardware or software via the option bytes. An early wake-up interrupt can be generated before a reset happens to perform a system recovery or manage certain actions before a system restart. When the Window Watchdog is activated, a reset can occur when the down counter value becomes less than 0x40 or when the down counter is reloaded outside the time window. An early wake-up interrupt can trigger any action when the down counter reaches 0x40. The EWI status register can be used to reload the down counter to avoid generating a reset or to manage system recovery and context backup operations. The PCLK clock from the RCC clock controller is used to clock the Watchdog peripheral. Bits T6 to 0 from the Watchdog control register count down until they roll over from 0x40 to 0x3F, which then generates a reset. Bits W6 to 0 from the Watchdog configuration register contain the window value. Bits T6 to 0 and W6 to 0 are compared in order to evaluate the time to refresh the down counter in the configurable window. If the down counter is reloaded too early or too late, the Window Watchdog will initiate a reset. This diagram illustrates how the Window Watchdog operates. When the 7-bit down counter T6 to 0 bits roll over from 0x40 to 0x3F, it initiates a reset when the T6 bit is cleared. This happens when the application software did not react within the expected time window. If the software reloads the counter while the counter is greater than the value stored in W6 to 0 bits, then a reset is generated. This happens when the application refreshes the counter too early. To prevent a Window Watchdog reset, the reload value T6 to 0 bits must be written while the counter value is lower than the time value window W6 to 0 bits located in the green area. To enable the Window Watchdog clock, set the WWD GEN bit in the RCC APB1 ENR1 register. The Window Watchdog timebase is pre-scaled from PCLK1 APB1, whose maximum frequency can go up to 80 MHz. This clock frequency is first pre-divided by 4096 and the Window Watchdog pre-scaler can divide it again by 1, 2, 4 or 8 as defined in the WWDG CFR register. The formula shown in the slide lets you determine the Watchdog timeout which is derived from the PCLK1 period and the WDGTB pre-scaler as well as the selected Watchdog counter reload value. The minimum and maximum timeout values can be between 51.2 microseconds and 26.2 milliseconds. Once the Window Watchdog generates a reset, a status flag, WWDGR STF is set in the RCC CSR register identifying the source of the reset. The early wake-up interrupt can be used for specific safety operations or when data logging must be performed before the actual reset is generated. The EWI interrupt occurs whenever the down counter value reaches 0x40. It is enabled by setting the EWI bit in the WWDG CFR register. The EWI interrupt is cleared by writing 0 to the EWIF bit in the WWDG SR register. The Window Watchdog is active in Run, Sleep, Low Power Run and Low Power Sleep modes. It is not available in Stop or Standby modes and powered down in Shutdown mode. In Sleep and Low Power Sleep modes, the Window Watchdog clock can be disabled by clock gating by clearing the WWDGS MEN bit in the RCC APB1 MENR1 register. When the microcontroller enters debug mode with the core halted, the Window Watchdog counter either continues to work normally or stops, depending on the DBG WWDG stop configuration bit in the DBG module. Thank you.


Well hello and welcome to vlogtober day dose. I just got off work. I'm wearing really groovy clothes because I was in the warehouse all day but I just stopped at Ulta and I figured I would show you what I got. It was kind of crowded in there or else I would have like totally vlogged but it was just like every turn there was either an employee or a customer and I didn't want to freak anybody out. So I'm gonna preface the haul with saying I've run out of a bunch of things and it was time to buy a couple of things. I would normally go to Sephora but Ulta had the tart shape tape which is what I wanted to test out and there's a couple of other things that I have been wanting to try for a little while and oh my gosh my battery is like running low so we're gonna go really fast. I needed a new brush so I got this Con Air detangling brush if I can find any of this stuff online I'll like post it if I can find it. This is the tart shape tape. I got the color fair beige. I got a white china glaze it's called white on white nail polish and I got a little small max prep and prime the fix plus I've heard many things about that. Um let's see the Nars creamy concealer and the vanilla light two which is my fave. I got this for work this is the bliss hand cream this is amazing and it doesn't like smell up the office or anything. Also got an se nail polish in ladylike it's kind of this like mauve light pink color which I like and then I've been wanting this for a while this is the Jacqueline Hell Becca champagne pop highlighter. I know I'm like way late to the game because this has been out for like a decades. I feel like but this is what it looks like and I'll probably end up wearing this maybe like this weekend or something. Maybe I'll do like a little makeup like chat get ready with me kind of a thing um in one of the vlogs but anyway my battery is going to run out and I thought I had changed it but apparently I didn't so I need to call my mother on the way home because she's got some things to talk about and I have about an hour drive so we're gonna go drive I'm gonna go home and edit my vlog from yesterday because I didn't get a chance to do that hang out with the pooper and I will see you guys in just a minute so I just got home you guys are like literally resting on a jar right now it's kind of funny just a doiled dog on a walk I'm all wet and gross and so is my christian designs package which I'm not going to show you the front of because I actually use my real address but I wanted to show you guys what I got I feel like today is like a show and tell vlog or something because I showed you guys all my Ulta stuff which is right here so I'm pretty pumped about all the stuff in here and I think one of these days geez the dog like ran upstairs like a crazy person I think one of these days I'm going to um do like a little chili chat get ready with me kind of a situation but here are all of the stickers do you guys see how thick that is yeah um christian designs running I don't know if they're running it anymore I'll leave her link below but um yeah so she was running this like sale which is I don't know if it's over or not you guys I don't really know here's the little like freebie I got very very cute and I got a whole bunch of things because I'm addicted anyway but she was running the sale of some of the items that she was discontinuing which is like kind of sad because they're all like super functional so yeah I'll just kind of like run through some of them well actually I'll run through all of them what am I talking about so I got some arrows also these arrows have like a little bit of a stripe on them there's like some flags I just love her functional stuff and to be completely honest like I just filmed my plan with me yesterday Sunday and it's Monday now you guys are seeing this on Tuesday and I just feel like I've gotten stuck in a rut and I'm just like not it's not that I'm not into planning it's just like I think I just need to like switch up my stickers or something because I'm just like you know I just like the same thing every single week and I'm even getting sick of it and I think you guys are probably getting sick of it too so I'm sure there's ways to like incorporate what I'm already using but like my life is so freaking boring you guys so and I just really haven't completely to be completely honest I just haven't had time to plan because of all the transition stuff that's been happening and I'm basically working every single day which I'm totally not complaining but it's like it's just a weird season of life right now but anyway but I got some of these which were like one of my first things that I ever purchased I got these guys which are one of my fave I've got these really cute cameras so cute there's a couple of these um got some cars there's a couple of these guys more arrows more cars but these are like the little like washing cars like they're like like little little bubbles next to them um some of these guys but I totally lost my strength thought because I'm like so excited about stickers and then these guys oh what I was gonna say is not all of these were on that like sale I was talking about so um if she's still running it stock up um so yeah these have like little outlines it's hard to see because it's like not focusing but these are the first stickers I ever bought from christian designs it's the um small event I think they're small event stickers but in the stitched and I love these things and they're amazing oh and I always get like the three whole punched ones you can decide like what you want from her website I got these too I mean I went hog wild y'all because I was like if she's never gonna stock these again like I'm gonna get all the things you know what I'm saying so I got the laundry which I was kind of shocked that these laundry ones were on that sale but I think yeah I got two two of the bold and then these little guys that say planner friends are the best friends um I've actually used a little couple of these in my last order I actually bought those um this I thought was super cute and I had never even seen these before but they're they're like the little sick day stickers with a little box of tissues very cute oh I got two of them because you know I guess I'm gonna be sick all the time oh and I did get these these I don't think were on the I don't know I can't remember you guys but I got this which is a like monthly kit for October so I'll probably be doing like a I think I might just do like a video on this but I mean we're already in October but whatever and then I also got one for December which I thought was really cute and then I also got this um this is for I think it was these two pieces came together yeah pretty sure that these are together so this is Houston and the Christian designs is in Texas I don't know where in Texas let me find the spring Texas I'm not exactly sure where that is but these are for like to benefit or have proceeds go to the hurricane and flood victims in Houston and then also I got this one as well which I thought was really pretty plus I'm also planning to go hopefully if I can get a ticket I'm hoping I can get a ticket um to the planners gone wild convention and this year it's actually in Houston Texas so I thought that that might be kind of fitting to use some of these stickers like while I'm planning out you know things for for Texas but that's kind of what's going on here I need to edit which is like kind of boring and do some things but I think this week I'm going to give you guys a task so I didn't really have enough time to chat about this but I want to paint my nails but I don't know what color so you guys get to the side either white and this is like bright white this is the china glaze white on white it's just white or this one is a little this says ladylike by Essie and it's kind of like a mauvey pinky color let's see if it'll actually there we go see how yellow my nails are because I had nail polish like dark nail polish on for too long but I thought this would like actually look good on my skin tone but I don't know what do you guys think white or like this mauvey pink let me know in the comments which one you like and then later in the week I'll do my claws you know what I'm saying but yeah so that's what's going on I'm taking this out and throwing it like my purse is right here throwing it in the purse because that is going to go to the office tomorrow and all the rest of this stuff all the rest of my fun things which I'm very excited about the speck of highlighter by the way um maybe I'll put some on maybe a little bit like riveting content for the vlog uh I don't have a brush like oh it actually has like a little thing in my jig but let's uh fancy hold on I have a mirror here I don't need to like use the viewfinder probably not the best idea to put this over like my really oily skin for the day I can like kind of tell that this lighting is like really bad because there's no natural because it's like dark and gray and sad outside and it has been for like days it's just been like raining and so gross and like I have a window in my office at work and to be completely honest it's just it's been like so sad outside normally you can look outside and like I don't know see the like trucks going by or whatever but I don't know it's just been like real icky just real icky we can't really tell well kind of I don't know it's probably would be best if I actually like put this makeup on like a normal person in the morning and not like when I'm all like oil slicked out for the day but anyway but I really like it and I know I'm like totally late to the game on this like my middle finger is all shimmered out um but yeah so I'm just gonna just gonna do this but I know I'm like super late to the game on this like Becca highlighter here what is going on with this are you gonna uh focus yeah and I know I'm like this super super late to the game with this Becca highlighter but I've been watching a lot of Jacqueline hell videos recently and I'm like why do I not subscribe to her so anyways but I won't get her eyeshadow palette I've heard it's amazing but I have so much eyeshadow you guys like I like I don't even think I have a highlighter to be completely honest so I wanted to get one and all these other things are my staples in life to be clear yeah um so anyways I think the plan for tonight is I'm gonna eat something I don't know what it's probably gonna be like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or you know what I have tuna fish I'm gonna make it tuna fish sandwich because I'm boring and I'm gonna edit for a little while and then I'll probably check in with you guys in a little while because I'm sure there'll be more fun things to report oh also I should just tell you um I was on the phone with my mom and we have decided which I don't think I don't know if I've ever mentioned this to the vlog before but I'll let you in on a little secret we are planning a trip to Alaska so that's what we talked about basically my whole drive home for an hour and um we're gonna go on a cruise and it's gonna be this upcoming summer uh not sure on dates yet I'm gonna try to figure that out my mom's retired so she can just kind of like go whenever but there's a little bit of restriction just because of work and whatnot so I gotta get it like approved even though I've told them about it but you know it's like my second week there and it's like hey by the way can I go on vacation um so yeah so that's exciting um we're gonna go on a cruise and I've never been to Alaska before and yeah it's kind of cool I'm excited my mom's always wanted to go to Alaska so it's kind of like on her bucket list of things to do in life so I'm excited that she gets to go as well and then we can have this experience together and my aunt is actually gonna come too so anyways um more details will be coming up and actually I'm pretty sure that I'll be vlogging the whole thing um the internet connection I'm sure on the ship is gonna be like atrocious so I probably won't be able to be able to upload any videos while I'm there but I will be um taking footage so I'm very very excited about the impending vacation so anyways um yeah so that's it from the kitchen countertop that's that's all I got for now so it's a whole lot later now it is 903 and I just got the new vlog tober uh not uploaded but it's it's thinking about uploading to youtube it looks like there's 22 minutes remaining it is pouring outside you guys probably can't hear it but it's like really really loud um it was like really a lot louder earlier but um anyways so yeah I got that uh going at least so that's good and just talked to my mom again because plans and all but um let's go to the Doyle challenge because I am gonna close up the vlog here because I need to like take the makeup up my face and bring all the rest of my makeup upstairs which I have not done yet so I've got like the battle of the concealers which one will win I don't know and then my crazy highlighter that's on my face but I'm just oily so whatever all right let's see let's see what what Doyle's doing hey Doyle what are you doing bud what are you doing what are you doing he was being weird earlier he's still being weird he seems very annoyed right now this is what it's like to have a shiba you guys it's exactly what it's like to have the judgment all the judgment but anyway um I'm gonna close up the vlog here if you guys have any questions post them down below but I will be back tomorrow for another vloggy vlog of the vlog toba and I will just see you guys then I feel like with all these videos like even my moving vlogs and stuff that like I'm not that interesting but you guys seem to like really love the vlog so I just keep vlogging because it's funny and it's just kind of a interesting little snapshot to if I ever want to like look back on these videos whoa whoa whoa all right dolly are you gonna say goodbye to the vlog live vlog bye vlog oh okay okay so now he's into it all right well I will see you guys tomorrow I hope you're having a great day and I'll see you then bye guys say goodbye say goodbye


Sorry, short person, just the microphone. If you're not familiar with this format, the slides will automatically move forward, so hopefully I keep up with them and not ramble on too much. My name's Margaret, but please call me Meg, everybody else does. And I'd just like to share some of our experiences with the recent round of upgrades we've been running at Navitas. And what we've gone through with that process and some tips going forward to help make the process smoother next time. I'm a learning technologist for Navitas. Navitas is a global private education company. We have somewhere over 80,000 students in about 31 countries. As a learning technologist my job is to be the bridge between IT and the colleges themselves helping roll out all this new technology, making sure it goes smoothly, works the way they want it. We know that upgrades are absolutely vital, otherwise you're going to fall behind both technologically and pedagogically. Yet they do strike fear into the hearts of people because it's something new, it's a time-consuming process and often you don't know what's going to be around the corner. At Navitas we're in the middle of upgrading about 40 separate sites, some of them were quite old and we're trying to bring them onto a standardised version of Moodle across the company. It's a bit like herding cats. Everybody wants to be in their own direction a little bit. So we've had some real experience in actually dealing with colleges on a very personal level about how this goes.  People don't like change. You're going to hear things like, I don't want to redo my content, or do I have to relearn how to do something? I already know how to do it, why are we doing this? You need to have strategies that are going to help you with that process. You have to be aware that as part of that resistance people are going to put up barriers to it. They're going to say, I don't have time for this or this is too complicated or just not want to deal with you at all as part of that upgrade process. Being aware that those barriers are going up is going to help you with it. You can't just send out the email because you're guilty of deleting the email from the CEO. I did last week. They're going to say, I didn't get it, went to junk mail, don't know anything about it. You skim over it. That's how it works unfortunately with that. So you need to do something a bit more in depth with your staff for it. Case in point recently Moodle renamed news forums announcements.  It's disappeared. Then you're going to get them asking, how do I use competencies? I'd really like to use competencies now. That's what they're going to notice. That's going to be your annoying support call at the end of the day. We need to avoid all those hidden traps. From an IT side we're probably thinking of avoiding them on the technical end. Is the server going to work properly? Is everyone going to have access? Are the roles going to change? But there are support calls that you can avoid at the start by having a good plan in place with your staff. So I'd just like to quickly run through seven ideas that have come out of that experience of upgrading sites to help make that process easier. They might take a bit of planning and time on your part, but for your staff, for your teachers, they're going to make it easier in the long run. So the first of these is time and there's two aspects to this. Firstly, when you're timing your upgrade we had a lot of pushback because we can't do it orientation week. That's the worst week of the year. You can't do it orientation week, which we thought would be good because it's the week before classes start. So it didn't work. So you need to talk to your staff and make sure it's time to suit them. While we're talking about time, think about time on the long scale as well. What is your long term plan? Are you going to do an upgrade every November, every year? Are you going to upgrade every time there's a new Moodle release? Are you going to stick with the long term support releases? Just let them know when they can expect upgrades to be happening in the future. Also, make sure you know what's new in each release as well, so that you can have a list that I've done. Here's all the wonderful new features you're going to be able to play with. Drag and drop questions were a great example for us. They went down really, really well. Having been able to tell teachers, hey, here's this new feature you can use in your quizzes helped make people a little more excited about the process. While you're at it, check out all the wonderful new plugins that are out there or perhaps look at some new LTI technologies. See, there's something else you can put into your Moodle site using Moodle as your starting point so that it can make it a better educational tool. An example, if you haven't checked out H5P, go there now. It is awesome. You've also got to think about your comms plan. Not just what you're saying and when, but who you're saying it to. You're going to have to make sure that you're giving plenty of advance notice, but a lot of your stuff aren't technical people, so don't make your notifications too technical. And coming back to the point about the long term plan, you need to be transparent about your plans. Let them know that you're working on this or that you're we've had a bit of a glitch, but we're working on it or that we're on testing phase or we're actually going to get something nice and brand new for you. The clearer you are the less scared people are going to be about this new technology. You're going to have people in your organisation who jump on technology the moment it's released. First person to get the fit bit. Take advantage of these people. Get them involved in your testing process. If you have a test site, perhaps get them into a Sandpick course early so they can play with all the wonderful new features that you're giving them. They'll help you sell it. And on the idea of selling demonstrate what's new. Show it off. We have a course called Instamoodle, where we just show what's available now. And all any teacher can log in and have a look at it. Let them see. If you don't have a separate environment, you can play with for that. Look at the Moodle cloud. And while you're at it, don't forget about your students. They need to know as well. You don't let your students know. They're going to annoy your teachers and your teachers are going to get annoyed at you. So make sure your students know what's coming up and if there's any key differences in the interface that they might need to know about as well. So ultimately upgrades are a vital part of what we're doing. We have to keep up with it. We have to keep moving forward with technology. They don't have to be scary. Take the time, put in some thought and you can make sure that it goes smoothly not just for you but for your staff as well. And they'll be able to use Moodle much more in depth. So I hope these ideas can be of use to you. As I said, these are things that, not all of them, we got right the first time round. We're working on getting them right the second time round. So I hope that you can use some of these ideas with your upgrades. Thank you very much. Questions? Taking questions? Yep. I'm not against emails but don't rely on it. As the only thing, we had some posters that we had developed that the colleges could put up around their staff rooms. We also suggested that if they do perhaps there might be some weekly notices that go out or something like that. So make it a part of that as well. The key with emails is not to bombard people. Don't have 20 million emails about this because that'll get ignored as well. So just make sure that they're carefully considered as to is it too much or could we put this as part of something else? Thank you Meg.


Hello friends, let's discuss the following question. It says a field is in the shape of trapezium whose parallel sides are 25 meter and 10 meter. The non-parallel sides are 14 meter and 13 meter. Find the area of the field. Now to find the area of this field which is in the shape of trapezium will divide the trapezium into a triangle and a parallelogram. For that you drop a perpendicular from B to the line CD and also from B we draw a line parallel to AD to form a parallelogram AB ED. Let's call this point as E and this is M. So let us now move on to the solution. The area of the field is equal to the area of triangle BEC plus area of parallelogram AB ED. BE parallel to AD therefore BE is equal to AD that is 13 meter. So in triangle BEC BC is 14 meter and EC is 15 meter since AB is parallel to DE therefore BE is 10 meter and AB ED is a parallelogram therefore the opposite sides are equal and hence AB is equal to DE which is 10 meter therefore EC will be 15 meter BE is equal to 13 meter which is equal to AD. Now we'll find the area of triangle BEC by Heron's formula for that we need to find S which is A plus B plus C by 2 where A is 14, B is 15, C is 13 upon 2 it is equal to 21. Now the area of triangle BEC where the Heron's formula is given by S into S minus A into S minus B into S minus C and this is equal to 21 into 21 minus 14 into 21 minus 15 into 21 minus 13 and this is equal to root 21 into 7 into 6 into 8 simplifying this we have 7 into 3 into 2 into 2 taking them out of root is equal to 84 since the unit of length is given to be in meter so the area is having unit meter square now we have to find area of parallelogram AED ED is equal to base into height of the parallelogram is given by N is a perpendicular to DC but AM is equal to BM so we need to find BM now we know that the area of triangle is equal to 84 meter square and the area of triangle is given by 1 by 2 it is BM that is 1 by 2 into base which is 15 meter into the height BM so this implies T4 meter square is equal to 1 by 2 into 15 BM is equal to you can find the area of the parallelogram ABED which is equal to base into height now base is D height is AN now DE is parallel to AB so DE is equal to AB which is 10 meter into 2 upon 15 meter this becomes equal to 112 meter square so the area of feet is equal to area of triangle BEC which is 84 meter square plus area of parallelogram which is 112 meter square so total area is 196 meter square hence the answer is 196 meter square so this completes the question hope you enjoyed this session goodbye and take care


Thanks for joining us here at the third annual Vail Scientific Summit. I just caught up with Dr. Joel Madda, who is one of the newest physicians to join the Stedman Clinic team, and he talked about why moving to Vail was the right decision for him. Yeah, since 1990 I've specialized in problems related to the hip and pelvis. And I began my orthopedic career in 1980, which was mostly focused around orthopedic trauma and fracture surgeries, and then I started working on fracture problems, particularly fracture problems relating to the pelvis. Fractures of the pelvis, fractures of the acetabulum, which is fractures of the hip socket. And the reason I chose that is that I didn't think that there was let's say effective treatment being provided in the United States at that time. So when I came to USC, we had a very busy trauma center, Los Angeles County Hospital, which was one of the busiest trauma centers nationwide, maybe even the busiest nationwide. We had about 5,000 trauma admissions per year. There was nobody really working on the problem at LA County. When I said I wanted to treat all the pelvic and acetabular fractures, I said, great, we don't have to deal with them. You can have them. So I began a course of surgical treatment of the injuries. And so surgical treatment wasn't so common at that time, it was mostly nonoperative treatment, which didn't really make sense to me because fractures of human joints are usually treated surgically because they require very accurate reconstruction. So I developed quite a bit in the area of pelvic and acetabular fractures. At this point, the database that I've gathered has created the publications and peer review journals, which are really the largest series with the longest follow-up, up to 30-year follow-up that's been published in peer review journals. So I gained international recognition in this area. After 1990, I left USC. I had an endowed chair at a private hospital where I continued work with hip surgery. At that time, I started focusing just on the pelvic and acetabular fractures. I went away from other parts of trauma. I started also working in the 1980s with another procedure called periostabular osteotomy, which is a hip preservation procedure. I was one of the first in the world to do that, collaborating with some surgeons in Bern, Switzerland. And then also through the contact with Emil Letternel, I started working on a procedure called anti-approach hip replacement. In 1996, I began. So by the time that I've now looked at joining Stedman Clinic, the background has been for me with the fracture side, pelvic and acetabular fractures, hip preserving surgery with periostabular osteotomy, which I've now done for 30 years, and then also anti-approach hip replacement, which I've done for 20 years. So the connection I've had actually with French surgeons has been important with the acetabular pelvic fracture treatment, anti-approach hip replacement, and then with a group of Swiss surgeons with the hip preserving surgery. So coming to Stedman Clinic, the main focus that I have at this point in my career is actually advancing, improving, teaching regarding anti-approach hip replacement. So this is what I feel to be an improved way to do hip replacement. Patients recover more quickly, less chance of dislocation. We can be more accurate. We can essentially eliminate the problem of the legs coming out the wrong length with hip replacement. Stedman Clinic became very attractive to me for several reasons. One is the fantastic research setup they have with the Spry Institute. I think I can do much better now with combining my database with the Stedman Clinic. They have a fantastic clinical research mechanism. They also have the biologics research, and they have the biomechanical research. So what I can do in collaboration with these people is going to be better than what I could do with creating something on my own and with the help of some colleagues in Santa Monica. I think the scientific summit is a fantastic event. It's the first one I've been at, but Dr. Huard is putting on a very good program along with the other researchers like Dr. Tashman, who's heading the biomechanics unit. So a lot of it is outside of what I've ever done. I've just been involved in clinical research. I haven't been involved in the biologics regenerative research like they are. But talking to the researchers here, I see ways that we can collaborate. I want to make them aware of the clinical things I'm working on, and they'll see ways that they can apply their basic science methods to help with the clinical solutions. During my career, I've had a focus on, I would say, improving how surgery is done. That's been my primary focus, and so I've been fortunate enough to be able to make some contributions to orthopedic surgery. The methodology of orthopedic surgery, also the technology associated with the methodology, and to some extent some of the implants for use, some of the implants for fixation of fractures plus artificial hip joints. But as we're doing here at this scientific summit, we're hearing mostly from researchers, but it's a collaboration between clinicians, basic science researchers, but also the medical industry, the product producers of the medical industry. We can all work together to make improvements in medicine.


Why don't we take this idea of, you know, resistance training's effect on cardio and add it in? And James and my other, the other authors on the paper who were my PhD supervisors thought it was a great idea. And so I said, I took that task on board. So I started writing that section of the paper. So I started searching all the databases and PubMed and Google Scholar and whatnot. Finding all the evidence I could and was really starting to get kind of blown away by it. And the section grew and grew and grew and grew and grew until it was pretty much the same size as the rest of the paper on its own. So we decided to pull it out and look at publishing it as its own independent article. One of the important things that came from taking both papers was in our evidence-based resistance training recommendations paper, we tried to define exercise intensity or specifically resistance training intensity more appropriately because up until that time, most researchers and academics and practitioners in the area tended to mis-define exercise intensity. They often use, does everyone know what a one repetition max is? Hands up, everyone know what that is? Yeah, okay. So the most weight you can lift in any particular exercise movement or resistance training movement for one repetition and no more. So most of the time people recommend resistance training loads as a percentage of that amount. But often they misappropriately define intensity as being a relative percentage of this load and really all it is is load. Someone could do one repetition at 80% of their one repetition max and someone could do 100 repetitions at 50% of their one repetition max. I always don't really add up there, but the assumption would be that if we were using percentage of repetition max as a definition of intensity, the person doing 100 repetitions with 50% of their one rep max would be working at a lower intensity than the person who did 80% of their one repetition max louder. So we felt that most authors were misusing this term and so we tried to more appropriately define it as being intensity in exercise as more representative of the effort you put in. So by definition there can only be two measurements really of exercise intensity. Everything else in the middle is pretty hard to define objectively. So you've got 100% you work as high as you can. You perform as many repetitions under the same conditions as you can and that's your 100% of your intensity. And at the other end you've got nothing, which is 0%. Anything in the middle is really hard certainly at the moment to actually measure and define. And taking this idea I started to apply it to the research I was looking at in the area of resistance training and cardiovascular fitness. And it became clear to me that the reason that it was really hard to kind of pinpoint a consensus or whether or not it was or wasn't beneficial was because most research had misappropriately defined intensity. They had used load as a definition of their intensity and that was why it was really hard to actually pull this out. And the other reviews and recommendations up until that point hadn't appropriately accounted for that. So I went back over the research and said to myself right the most important thing is to make sure that I differentiate between the studies that have controlled intensity. I had their participants perform resistance training to momentary muscular failure to their maximum and those that haven't appropriately controlled for that. And after doing that I started to realise that there was a trend in the results of those studies when you differentiated between the two. And that's what I'm going to go through today and talk to you about what effects controlling for intensity and the fact that intensity is really the most important aspect of it. Traditionally, for the last 30 years or so, the concept of aerobic exercise came about in the 70s when Ken Cooper came up with his aerobics idea with the notion that one form of exercise could isolate aerobic metabolism and that would be beneficial for cardiovascular health and cardiovascular fitness. Over the years it's really hard to pinpoint how it's kind of actually evolved but somehow aerobics has turned into cardio. And most people think of what was traditionally labelled aerobic exercise, long, slow sessions on bikes, treadmills, rowing machines, whatever. All these typical cardio machines that you see in the gym. It kind of evolved into anything done on any of those machines or jogging outside, swimming, cycling, etc. That was labelled as cardio and that was what you had to do to improve your cardiovascular fitness or cardiovascular health. And there was this kind of false dichotomy that arose between cardiovascular training or cardio training and resistance training. One was for your cardio and everyone said that you have to do your cardio training to improve your cardiovascular fitness. And if you want to improve your strength, power, etc., you have to do resistance training and you have to do two separate programs. But as I'm going to show you, that's not the case. How do I move on? Do you want to skip it? The bottom one. Ah, there we go. Cool. OK, so a couple of weeks ago we finally had this paper published. So we, myself, James Fisher, Stuart Bruce Low and Dave Smith, my two PhD colleagues, and Doug McGuff, who Robbie spoke about, who presented a couple of years ago and is going to be speaking in Austin again. We started putting together all this research and writing this paper with the idea that hopefully we can introduce this idea to the academic world and start to get researchers actually properly controlling variables. Producing research that actually we can draw sensible conclusions from rather than trying to tease out all these different conclusions from really poorly controlled studies. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to talk you through just two of the diagrams that we've put in the paper. I'm not going to go through all the individual studies that I've reviewed because there's 150 odd papers referenced in there. And if you want to go through and actually look through my discussion of the actual research and their methodologies and whatnot, you can get the paper. It's freely accessible online. You can download a PDF and have a read through the whole thing. But what I'm going to talk through is the diagrams, which just kind of like conceptualise these ideas for you and allow you to think about it. So if I go back quickly, will I go back? There we go. So what I tried to differentiate between in this was, first of all, what effect does resistance training have on cardiovascular fitness measures, like VO2 max, running economy, lactate threshold, when intensity is properly controlled for? And then what actual physiological responses or adaptations actually produce those improvements in cardiovascular fitness? So we broke the paper down into introducing the concept, defining intensity, and then going through and looking at what happens in the body whilst we're training intensely using resistance training and what adaptations happen over a period of time if we actually employ a training program using that. So we'll start off by looking at the, wrong way, at the acute responses. Can everyone see the diagram that well? The writing might be quite hard to read. I'll talk you through it anyway. Okay, so to start off with, we thought about muscular contraction and we appropriately applied the definition of intensity that we propose in there. So by its nature, if you're going to appropriately control for intensity, you have to perform resistance training to momentary muscular failure. You have to perform as many reps as you can with whatever load it is you're using.