I try to make the end of the year the time when I'm dismantling who I was and currently am and moving it brick by brick into the next year. Deciding to leave some of the bricks behind is I don't need them anymore. And this is really a poetic way of saying that I'm reviewing my past year trying to identify patterns of behavior, understand where these are coming from and also identify their shortcomings and utility. But how does one perform an annual review? Well, I currently follow a free bullet format and it all starts inside my journal. So first, I'll start reviewing my journal entries. Second, I'm trying to identify repeatable patterns of behavior, routines, workflows that I have performed throughout the year. And the third bullet I'm trying to tackle is the one where I'm updating my systems, defining potential frameworks, also doing a framework update, lessons learned and next steps for the upcoming year. I believe that most of our mistakes are most of the time obvious and can be fixed through reflection. It would be interesting getting to a point where a spectral like entity like a guardian angel would fade in every time we are doing something inherently wrong and would somehow stop time and ask us to start thinking about what are we currently doing that is wrong. And that's sort of metacognition and thinking about thinking. And maybe this will happen at some point. But until then, let's use the tools we have available. And what I'm currently using is a combo of morning pages plus the five minute journal, all injected into a notion template. And I'll explain everything in a second. But if you are a quantified self aficionado, and you like using analog systems and analog means of capturing thoughts and behaviors, by all means use the pen and paper. Because I believe that this will add substantial benefits to one's reflection time. Now I want to go through the first point where I'm actually reviewing my journal entries. Right now, my journal is a combination of morning pages, which is a stream of consciousness type of writing done the first thing in the morning, and the five minute journal, which is a format one can use to systematize reflection, starting with a few questions for yourself in the morning and finishing up with a few more night questions that would conclude your day. Now if you go online and start looking for the morning pages journal or the five bullet journal, you will see that the format is somehow standardized. But this doesn't mean that you cannot enhance the questions enhance the prompts and make them your own. And the way I'm doing this is by using notion and no taking up that sustains my process and makes it easier for me to quantify and analyze. I'm also using a physical morning pages journal I made for myself and transferring it to notion at the end of the week or when I have some free time. And you can view this morning pages practices wiping the specks of dust from your glasses and throwing away the wipe. And I'm not quantifying my morning pages journal by any means. I'm not trying to check some boxes, but it can be quite nice and funny to start looking through your archives from time to time. So I'll first start with the morning pages effectively trashing out all of the thoughts bursting out of my mind each morning. And this type of writing doesn't need to be civilized. And if you're using pen and paper, you can also start sketching out your thoughts or simply drawing aimlessly. But moving on to the five minute journal, this one stays in notion as well as it can be a lot easier to look at your entries and your thoughts and your feelings and sort of evaluate their quantity and their quality as well. So the idea behind the five minute journal is that every morning you will have to answer a series of questions that would trigger a tiny bit of reflection time and make you think about yourself and your thinking. And I view this as a reflection tool that's essentially in your back pocket and the standardized questions that you'll find online when searching for the five minute journal are I am grateful for dot dot dot what would make today great. Some daily affirmations such as I am dot dot dot and moving on to the evening list three amazing things that happened today and how could I have made today even better. And I wasn't fully on board with the full list of questions and prompts and what I did I've actually modified them, enhanced them and made them my own made them fit my own needs. And I decided to keep the I am grateful for statement as one wants to remember a hedonic treadmill, a hedonic adaptation which is the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or fly changes. And I found that having gratitude part of that boot up sequence when starting your day can sort of encourage a new state of being. And there are a lot of things one can be grateful for but just make sure you don't repeat yourself too often and just reflect on the nice cities you have going for you. Even though it might be something small like how your fingers feel when typing on a nice keyboard or a good cup of coffee or tea or how nice writing or drawing feels like on a piece of paper or something happening on a macro scale such as being alive in this particular time in history when all human sorrows have substantially declined. And the next enhanced set of questions I created for myself are the following. What would the ideal day look like? What is your biggest priority and why? How can you remove friction today so that you can spend more time doing something you enjoy? Do you have any leftover thoughts, feelings, emotions? And then at the end of the day I'll have a prompt that will ask me to list the cool things that happened today. And the final question, what mistakes did you make today and do you have ideas on how to fix them? And again, these are a handful of personal questions that I would ask myself, trying to better understand what my next steps would be and what stops me from executing on these next steps. This is why I'm looking at setting a goal for the day, thinking about the pieces that can add up friction and slow me down from achieving the daily goal. And these can come in as day to day mundane activities I can either subtract myself from or the emotional states that lead me to the next question, thinking about putting my leftover thoughts, feelings and emotions on paper. And the way I make sure I tackle each question is by integrating them into my journal entries. Now the second bullet, the second step, is identifying repeatable patterns of behaviors, routines, workflows throughout the year. And the way I set this up in notion is I have created a database for all of my entries. I will create a new entry for each journaling session and I will start filling up the blanks. I can then either pick and choose the things I'm grateful for from a list I have constructed since I started doing my five minute journal in notion. And I can also add new things. And when looking at your list of entries, you will then have a row you can filter out. And essentially if you look at the patterns, you will be able to see the top things you are generally grateful for. But you will also be able to see the things you are repeating. Are you repeating the things you say you are grateful for because they really matter? Or you just want to fill in the blanks. But I would then answer each question and I would give it some thought, aiming to be as specific as I can. I also found that performing this 80-20 analysis on your journal entries can be an effective tool for reflection as well. The 80-20 principle states that for many outcomes roughly 80% of the consequences come from 20% of the causes, the vital few. And one might scan the journal entries and start asking questions such as what are the 20% of activities in people who produced 80% of my good vibes? My emotional states and results? Or one can go the other way around and start asking a question such as what are the 20% that produced 80% of my negative emotional states and negative vibes? So I'm focused on identifying the small beats of activities and routines that generate a large number of positive effects, outcomes, and results. I can have an overall view of the key factors that led to a good day such as creating or finishing something small, reading, watching, absorbing, thinking, or simply, slacking. But now the final point I want to take care of is updating my systems. This can mean either defining potential frameworks for updating my current frameworks and also taking a look at the lessons learned in the next steps for the upcoming year. And this is the last step of the process. Effectively after identifying and analyzing my states, I believe it can be quite effective to start updating the tools you use to analyze those states. This can start with simply having another look over the questions. Is it still relevant to have the same set of questions? What can I keep and what can I remove? How can I make the whole process easier? And why might I come in and start asking questions such as how does one find the time to perform such a daily practice? And we all have our own systems but the thing I found that works best for me is simply a daily recurring reminder on my phone. And that's it. Every morning I get a prompt on my phone and I simply say that my desk can do it. And what I found is that through repetition, this can slowly become a default in your routine. And you can remove the mental friction of doing it by enhancing your environment, adding something like a hot beverage and drinking it while doing the actual writing and making it as easy as you can to get it done. And one must understand and remember that we humans are not strategists by default. It can be quite easy and seductive to talk about reflection in some casual conversation with some friends drinking some wine. But actually sitting at your desk and doing this by your own on your computer or using pen and paper can be a hard duty to perform. Now in a nutshell, this is what I do to standardize the process of zoning out, levitating far away from the massive input invading my mind and body on a daily basis. Making these pockets of reflection a solid default part of my routine. We are always in motion and this is why it has become harder and harder to get off the treadmill and ask ourselves the right questions. It is quite hard to make reflection a default part of your life as our brain state is to always attack the problem that's in front of us. But I believe that it can be about noticing your mistakes so that you can make less of them, so that you don't repeat yourself asking questions such as these and coming up with an improved version of the answer.


If you look at the numbers, and if you see, for example, that the European Commission has brought out a number that says that between now and 2030, just to live up to the commitments of the European Union under the Paris Agreement, there needs to be 180 billion additional investments annually. You know, you can look at that number and say, wow, this is a scary thing, which you can also see from a risk side, but you can also see from an opportunity side, there's a whole lot of investments that have to be made, that will be made. And that, of course, the private sector and the financial sector and the banking sector, more in particular, will be a big part of that. So yes, there is an opportunity side, as there always is when we talk about risks. The role of the supervisor is naturally more tilted toward looking at the risks, but part of what the SSM has been doing and is part of their more, or our, I should say, more forward-lookingness more in general, is also looking at business models. So it is important for us to understand how banks, as the world changes, as the energy system changes, as we will see actually one of the greatest transformations of the economy that we have seen ever, how banks will move with that and adapt their business models accordingly.


One, two, three, four, and five. That's right, guys, with $5 every single day, I invested inside of the stock market into one particular ETF. Now I know what you guys are saying, what if the price shot up? What if the price did? What if the stock tank? What do you do then? It doesn't matter. I invested $5 every single day, whether the price was up or if the price was down. And I'm gonna show you guys the results of my one year investment inside one ETF with just $5 every single market day. I'm gonna show you guys how much I made, how much I might have lost. And then I'm gonna show you guys the benefits of dollar-cost averaging. That is what the strategy is called. Now dollar-cost averaging is the practice of investing a fixed dollar amount on a regular basis, regardless of the share price. It's a good way to develop a disciplined investing habit, be more efficient in how you invest and potentially lower your stress levels. As well as your cost. Now dollar-cost averaging is by far the easiest way to invest for beginner investors. In fact, very advanced investors use this exact same strategy. So why not use the same strategy that millionaires, multimillionaires and some billionaires are using their sales? Why not do it yourself with just $5 and you could do it with even less if you wanted to. So to make dollar-cost averaging very clear, no matter what the price point is, let's say a company starts off at $100. I buy $5 worth of that company. Let's say the next week it shoots up to $120. I'm gonna buy $5 still. Let's say the following week it pulls all the way back down to $75. Huge drop, gonna buy another $5. Stays at $75, I buy another $5. And it shoots right back up to $100 by the end of the quarter. You buy another $5, right? So if you bought in $25 at the beginning of the quarter when it was at $100 and then at the end of the quarter it's still at $100, then you made no money at all. But if you dollar-cost average, you bought it at 100, you overpaid for it at 120 and then you underpaid at $70, $75.  That means when this company pulls back up to $100 at the end of the quarter, you're actually sitting in profits, guys. Now I did invest $5 every single day until the ETF call spied at the very high point at the spied all-time highs last year. That's when I started my re-encouraging investment into SPY last year. And as you guys already know the market took a major dip over the last year. So you're probably wondering how much did I lose? Did I beat the market? Did dollar-cost averaging actually help me make profit? Well, stick throughout the entire video because I got two different scenarios. I actually started a dollar-cost average at the top of the market and I started another dollar-cost average somewhere around the middle or bottom of the market. I'm gonna show you guys how easy and stress-free this investing strategy is. 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Do not miss out on those opportunities. But until talking, let's go ahead and dive straight into this video. Welcome back dreamers. Here we are on the Tickle symbol SPY spy. Now as you guys know over the last year we have been pulling back looking like that we were heading inside a recession. So investing at the top was not the brightest idea but the power of dollar cost averaging might have helped me out. So over the last year, as you guys can see spy is sitting at $421. When I started this investment I started around $440 and spy is down 4.2% from last year. So some of you new investors are wondering what is ETF? Is it a strange trade of fun? And basically spy is one of the most popular ones especially because they have the cool tickle symbol SPY that has shown that because they have the tickle symbol SPY they do better than most of the ETFs that basically do the same thing that they do. But the ETF has multiple different companies inside their portfolio. So it's a great, it's an easy way to diversify your own portfolio. So spy has over 500 and 7506 different companies inside their portfolio. Here's their top 10 holdings right here. As you guys can see they have Apple that's their top holding Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, Alphabet Class A which is Google, Brickenshire Hathaway, United Health, NVIDIA, and Johnson and Johnson. So all of these companies are inside the S&P 500. These are the top 500 companies inside of the United States. So if you're wondering, hey I thought you said it was gonna be stress free. Why do I have to log into this app every single day just to buy $5? What if I get out of a sponsor buy every day at 12 o'clock? Don't worry about it guys. Over on Robinhood, you can hit trade, you can hit buy, and then at the top right where it says shares, you could click that and then you could set up a re-incurring investment which is the third one right there. So once you do that, you can set it for every market day, Monday through Friday, you can set it for every week, every two weeks, or even once a month.  It doesn't matter whatever you feel comfortable investing with. So enough talking, let's go ahead and show you guys the results of investing at an all-time high. Then I'm gonna show you guys another ETF. I'm also a dollar cost averaging it in. Take a symbol, V.O.O. when I bought in, not at an all-time high. Spy is down 4.2% over the last year. If we scroll down, I accumulated over three shares with fractional shares with just $5 a day over the last year. The market value of my shares is $1,272.78. And as you guys can see, I am down 2%. But it's just not a year thing, guys. Dollar cost averaging take multiple years. You can't just judge it off of one recession, pullback type of year. But let me go in and show you guys the numbers. So with me doing absolutely nothing at all, I outperformed the market. I outperformed the market by doing nothing at all. I set up a dollar cost average. I set up a re-encuring investment and I outperformed the stock market by 2%, all right? So that is a great thing about dollar cost averaging is that when the market's not doing so well, you are also protecting your portfolio by buying the dips. So we click on SBY or re-encuring investment as you guys can see right here. My average price is $432. The current price is $421, so we are down 2%. I made my first purchase on August 9th, 2021 for $442.32. So with me buying a dip, other than me throwing a lump sum, let's say $10,000 at $442, now we'll be down a whole bunch of money compared to now. Now my average price is $432 by dollar cost averaging into the market. So every month I invest around $100 and ever since I started, I invested $1,305 starting on August 9th. If I continue to do this by August 9th, 2023, I will have invested $2,515. So yes, I did outperform the stock market, but unfortunately I down, but let me show you guys another situation with ticker symbol VOO. I had made a video not too long ago showing you guys that I'm gonna start a dollar cost averaging in on VOO. And some do say, why are you doing VOO?   I'm doing it for YouTube to make these videos for y'all.  But yeah, over on VOO over the last year, they're down 4.27%. Let's scroll down. I think I had another share of VOO before I entered, but let me show you guys, so let's click right here. Bam, as you guys can see, right there when I first placed this order, I bought it at $396.43. Wow, so I didn't buy the all-time long show, you guys, you do not have to time the market. I did not buy it at an all-time low. I bought it at a medium level at $396. That was when I first made my $5 investment, right? Right there, my average price is $378 and VLO current price is $387. So my average price is lower than the current price. That mean I made a big profit right there, guys, by buying the dip, by dollar cost averaging in, by buying the lows and also buying the highs every single day at the same time. I was able to come out and outperform the market and actually have a profit, but this is just over the last six months or so. I'm gonna do another update on VLO when this one hits a year. So if you guys wanna see how this turns out, make sure you subscribe to the channel so you don't miss out on this update. But that's it, guys. That's the power of investing around $5 a day inside of the stock market. If we look at Coca-Cola, if you invested $5 a day into Coca-Cola ever since the 1985, 1986, you would have well over half a million dollars by just $5 a day. That's less than a Starbucks coffee that I see people drink every day. That's less than a pack of cigarettes that I see people smoke every day.  You can find a way to invest $5, $25 a week into the stock market to where if you invested to a good, quietly company, city and forget it, years down the line, you can have well over half a million dollars. I think with Coca-Cola, you have over $600,000 from just $5 a day. That is an awesome way to retire guys. And also you'll be collecting those dividends. So let me know down in the comment section, are you a dollar cost average or are you a day trader? Are you a swing trader? Are you an option trader? Let me know have you used the strategy before of dollar cost averaging or do you just like throwing in lump sums whenever you see the market tank? Let me know how you invest down in the comment section. I'd love to check that out. Remember down in the comment section, there's a lot of scammers. Only I'm gonna have like the gray bubble around the dream green show. That's gonna be me, everybody else that says what's up. Those are scammers, watch out for them. 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Hello, my name is James Craig. I'm a landscape architect, and I worked as an urban designer for the city of Birmingham, Alabama for nine years. Professionally, I always thought that it was my job to make the world a better place to live. So when I became a Baha'i, I wanted to understand the advancing civilization and the Baha'i Golden Age. I wanted to understand what the new civilization would look like. I wanted to review the plans for how the new world will be built. So I followed the advice of our Baha'i religions founders. I looked to science and religion to uncover the mysteries that will lead us toward the advancing civilization. The Baha'i teachings are my north star, but science provided the map, and nature's lives revealed to me the pathway that would lead to the Baha'i Golden Age. This presentation outlines an accelerated method for Baha'is to build Baha'i communities. The plan is to invest in communities that have been devastated by poverty, by war, by natural disaster, and bring those Baha'i communities into a global network of support. The plan is based on unique Baha'i principles chosen and developed with the insight of science. First, let me explain the science that helps me understand the natural growth of our Baha'i advancing civilization. If we go back to the beginning, we will talk about how energy organizes the universe. I'm a visual thinker and I appreciate visual information. So without going deep into math or physics, we'll look at graphs and diagrams for the concepts. I will explain the principles of self-organization using the simple example of a Benard cell. Secondly, the natural progression of organizational growth described in the S-curve. And third, we'll look at the employment of fractals to unite complex structures. And fourth, we'll look at the power of networking to grow and sustain global communities. Then, through reflection of these scientific principles, we will see how nature's way of organization suggests how Baha'i law can build the ever-advancing Baha'i, excuse me, can build the ever-advancing civilization and the foundation of the Baha'i Golden Age. Beginning with the Benard cell, imagine a pot of water, add the heat, the heavy particles filed, the light particles rise, water boils. The energy that causes the boiling causes the rearrangement of the molecules and then the molecules organize themselves. The more heat creates more intricate organization. Energy builds up to create pressure that drives water molecules into a new different arrangement that helps energy flow faster. The resulting Benard cell shown here form a new equilibrium. The water is at one equilibrium and then when it boils, it reaches another equilibrium. And then if it boils at a higher temperature and organizes itself more, it reaches another equilibrium. A simple example, but the process of energy rearranging matter created the self-organization, power to form stars, galaxies, and even the chemical networks that give rise to life on earth. It applies to both living organisms and groups of living organisms, like a human society or a global civilization. So our next slide will look at the S-curve, the predictor of the development cycle of organizational growth. This development cycle could represent the life of a person or it could represent the life of a planet, the growth of a business or the growth of a product or the growth of a country or an empire. The S-curve depicts the growth of a development cycle. The S-curve is important because it helps us see where we are in the development cycle and what lies ahead. So I'm going to talk about four stages of this development cycle. The startup stage is where a small group of diverse entities are organized as a response to this pressure and it builds structures. But it's fragile. As it grows and builds more structures, it reaches the second level of maturity. It develops strong bonds. It becomes resilient, grows stronger and spreads. It creates a new equilibrium. The third stage of aging is where the new equilibrium becomes old equilibrium and the organization may not be able to change quickly enough. It may grow beyond its structure. And then the fourth level is where the structure is really limited and it can't respond and it could collapse. So on the lower right hand corner we can see a diagram with consecutive S-curves. Progressive revelation is a series of S-curves of religion. A small number of energetic followers with better organization and in growth, it gets bigger, less united and fragile and a new vibrant religion could come take its place. The advancing civilization could be viewed as a series of S-curves of empires. The Greek, the Roman, the Ottoman, et cetera. Now we have a global financial empire. We might be at the end of the S-curve in the beginning of a new world order that will emerge. So now I want to talk about fractals. I became interested in fractals when I found that fractals created unity. Fractals provide the optimum flow of energy across hierarchy levels. The fractal human circuitry system shows the point. Arteries, veins and capillaries provide blood to every cell of the body. The fractal hierarchy in the circuitry system, the nervous system, the respiratory system, the brain and more unite the body through the transportation of material and energy and information. When comparing the complexity of the unity needed for the advancing civilization, Bahá'u'lláh compared human civilization to the human body through these fractal structures in the human body, billions of diverse cells live in harmony with one another. Each cell both receives its nourishment from the whole and contributes to the health of the body. The fractal structure is found in nature because it allows information, resources and energy to flow. But why is this important to Bahá'u'lláh? This next slide shows a diagram of the Bahá'u'lláh administrative order. The Bahá'u'lláh administrative order is fractal. Fractals unite the Bahá'u'lláh world. Although mathematicians and other scientists only discovered the logic of fractals recently, Bahá'u'lláh spoke with them often. We are leaves of one tree. This powerful message represents the unity and the fractal structure hidden in the Bahá'u'lláh revelation. If we turn this fractal diagram of the Bahá'u'lláh administrative order upside down, the diagram could look like a tree with a hierarchy of the trunk, limbs and twigs and leaves. Since nature used fractals so effectively and since Bahá'u'lláh likes fractals and since the Bahá'u'lláh administrative order is fractal, I'm proposing the following new fractal institutions to build Bahá'u'lláh communities. In this slide we can see the Bahá'u'lláh community corporation, the Bahá'u'lláh agricultural network and the Bahá'u'lláh investment company. These are new organizations like parts of the brain that effectively work together. These institutions play different roles, but they share common goals. Through the collaboration of these fractal institutions, they accomplish the common goal of creating Bahá'u'lláh learning communities that can be part of the global fractal network. Each of these following institutions provide a special function, but they all share the same fractal structure of unity and the shared goal to create vibrant Bahá'u'lláh learning communities. So the first institution, new institution I like to talk about is the Bahá'u'lláh agricultural network. When I look at the Bahá'u'lláh heritage, I believe that the Bahá'u'lláh civilization is destined to have great gardens. The Bahá'u'lláh said agriculture was important. The most important issue to address in the advancing civilization was Bahá'u'lláh's advice about agriculture and romantic fantasy. I take Bahá'u'lláh serious. Bahá'u'lláh said everyone should be involved in agriculture. So if there's one thought I'd like for everybody to take away from this, said every cluster should have a Bahá'u'lláh agricultural network. So let's look at the Bahá'u'lláh agricultural network. The Bahá'u'lláh agricultural network is fractal. From the cluster, we have garden clubs and we have individual gardeners. The strength of the fractal network of garden starts with the successful individual gardener. The information and the resources and other support is designed to help the individual gardener become part of a strong network of successful gardeners. Out of many make one, out of many individual gardeners makes one big fractal horticultural industry. So the individual gardeners benefit from the support of the network. The individual gardener doesn't have to do everything for themselves through the high agricultural network. The individual gardener has the technical support, the access to the materials and the teamwork of other members of the network. Each gardener will be different and they choose what they want to grow in their garden. One person might want to grow flowers. One person might have a small tree farm because that person wants to make some money without working. Another person may want to grow the best food possible. Diversity is good. New opportunities emerge. Unity and diversity is our strength. With the garden clubs, that's where the individual gardeners come together to support one another. The individual gardeners can exchange plants, work together as a team. And working with the knowledge from the cluster level, the broker, the gardeners can self-organize to grow special items that meet some demand need. The garden club receives support obtaining the materials such as the seedlings and the compost from the cluster and it distributes them to those individual gardeners as needed. The garden club is part of an organized network to make sure every garden project is successful because successful individual gardeners build a strong cluster network. So the cluster level, at the cluster level, the bi-agricultural network can be organized. With the technical support and the business support from the cluster, each individual gardener can become a micro-enterprise. With the cluster network, individual gardener grows more with less work and makes more profit than doing it by themselves. So out of many make one, the fractal horticultural industry can be a model for a new community economy of micro-enterprises working together. This new business model is a new equilibrium of collaborating communities producing community prosperity. So with the Baha'i Community Corporation is part of this new business fabric and it's fractal. The Baha'i Community Corporation, the community-based businesses and the employees and shareholders are make up this Baha'i Community Corporation. It's a conglomerate that supports independent initiatives and from the community. A conglomerate like General Electric can be many businesses from light bulbs to TV networks to medical supplies to financial services all under one umbrella. The Baha'i Community Corporation can have many community-based businesses under the support of their umbrella. One of the many things different about this Baha'i Community Corporation and the typical modern age corporation is that the Baha'i Community Corporation is owned by people that live in the community. The board members are homeowners, business owners, employees, representatives of the local youth group, the caring committee of the devotional group and the community service organizations and the pioneers. Only a few shares would be held by people of goodwill that don't actually reside in the community but have invested in the success of the community. So what we're talking about is the Baha'i Village economy. The Baha'i Agricultural Network is one part of the Baha'i Community Corporation. Other community-based businesses there are not limited to this but they could include a landscape design company and construction company, home repair, home health care just to name a few. Professional firms of architecture, landscape architecture and engineering could also be part of the community corporation. So now we want to talk about the Baha'i Investment Company which is fractal. It's made up of pioneers and the investors and a design team. Finding the right location, the right community to invest in is important. So we could get requests from local Baha'is that live in an area, a community that's been devastated by a storm or a war or low income and they could invite Baha'is to come in to help build up a strong community. After a general area is selected, the suitability study to find the best spots in the community to invest in will be analyzed. The boundaries of the community will be determined and we'd be trying to buy houses that are in vacant lots within the boundaries of the community. We'd be looking for enough houses where we could bring in pioneers that would make enough critical mass to really build a Baha'i community. After we've selected the community, then we need to have a community vision and an investment plan. The community vision is prepared by the local Baha'is that live in the community and the pioneers that are coming to transform the community and the investors of goodwill. What do they want their community to become? So after they all agree on their plan, then they have an investment plan. What will it cost to implement this plan? The goal is to purchase five or more houses and some vacant lands for farming and to help start a business. So again, we want to have enough Baha'i residents living close together to reach the critical mass of Baha'i pioneers building a new Baha'i learning community. The pioneers are building a community that they'll be part of. The pioneers will own their homes and will own shares in the community corporation. So after the plan is being agreed upon between the pioneers and the community and the investors, the next thing is to implement the plan. The pioneers will move in, fix up houses, prepare gardens for the Baha'i agricultural network, start other neighborhood micro enterprises, service projects, plant trees, plant orchards, start the core activities, the youth groups, devotional groups, caring committees, prepare a house of worship, a community center, building this, I call this invisible equity. People want to live where children are successful, where families are successful and these Baha'i communities are going to rebuild the structure of the communities that are needed so bad. So let's review the proposals for these new institutions. The Baha'i agricultural network, every cluster should have one. The Baha'i community corporation, out of many make one and we're creating a Baha'i village economy and then the Baha'i investment company where we can invest in the Baha'i nine-year plan to build communities. The plan is to use this model to build one community, then a cluster of communities, decentralized units of growth that grow into a network of Baha'i communities that will co-evolve into strong global social and economic development networks of Baha'i learning communities. We're laying the foundation for the Baha'i Golden Age in organized systematic approach for social and economic development, transforming communities. So let's look at the power of the global fractal network of learning communities. The new equilibrium that unites the world is the growth of fractal Baha'i learning communities. The Baha'i global network uses the same fractal network as the Baha'i community corporation but on a global scale. Each individual local community corporation is part of a global network much like our Baha'i local assemblies are part of the fractal Baha'i administrative order. The organic growth of a Baha'i learning community network will start with one successful community that spreads. Another community might grow independently and the independent communities can collaborate. As one Baha'i community grows that growth opens more opportunities to collaborate and coordinate with other communities in the network. The communities in the network are co-evolving. The connections between the learning community stimulate exchanges and technology, arts and trade, business partnerships. The global cultural exchange will cause cultural evolution. The Baha'i culture will grow stronger and spread. You know successful cultures have been the foundation for advancing civilizations. With the right culture the individuals in the community will reach their potential. The Baha'i culture is a big asset that will separate us from the old world order. The Baha'i communities that are collaborating in production and in distribution are building a new economic fabric. The Baha'i global network would be nested inside the existing global economy. The growing decentralized nested network of Baha'i learning communities and Baha'i community corporations become better organized and grow. The fractal networks are growing bigger with stronger bonds until the network of learning communities reach a stable equilibrium. A new system of order will emerge. In the book of Surr2 Baha'i I said the world's equilibrium has been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new world order. Mankind's ordered life has been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous system the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed. Immerse yourself in the ocean of my words that he may unravel its secrets and discover all the pearls of wisdom that lie hidden in its depths. This new global economy is built from the bottom up with a parallel structure that works with but is independent from the modern age materialistic economy. If the existing old order economy collapses the new Baha'i fractal economy economic fabric is in place and ready to emerge. I'm describing the emergence of a new global economy but unlike the current global economy that destroys communities this Baha'i global network is built from the bottom up. The Baha'i global economy helps communities. The global economy is a network of Baha'i community corporations. A new civilization of Baha'i learning communities in a global network will emerge. The individual Baha'i learning communities could be like Athens of the Hellenic Greek city states. Each Baha'i community would have teachers and architects and great gardeners. All the professions and skills needed for prosperity and resilience. The Baha'i learning communities would have the an advantage over Athens because the Baha'i global learning network is a conduit of shared skills and technologies and the appreciation of the different cultures from all over the world. Now I want to introduce a friend and a partner of mine who worked behind the scenes to make this presentation possible. Doug Gilbert is the most qualified leader in building the network I have been describing. I'm going to work with Doug to help him network because I believe in him and I hope you will join us in our effort. Hello friends. The internet began only 50 years ago with just two communication nodes and grew into the expansive global network you see on this slide where each tiny burst depicts a sophisticated subnet. The growth of the internet is the best known example of a nested self-organized fractal structure for promoting the ever-advancing civilization of humankind. Only now does human civilization have tools to rebuild what Baha'u'llah called quote, a lamentably defective old world order unquote, with advanced communication structures to create information networks. Ulstered by divine guidance and spiritual principles, there is no limit to the society transforming achievements that network communities can attain across the planet as we enter the nine-year plan. For this reason, we propose to launch the global network for rebuilding devastated communities to transform Baha'u'llah's words into action and reality. This brings us to the end of this short presentation. My hope is that the logic and the examples in this presentation will empower the Baha'u'llahs to transform communities. I believe the Baha'u'llahs that believe in transforming the world by transforming communities. I believe in transforming the world through the power of unity. I believe that the Baha'u's who are working so hard to build their capacity to change the world one community at a time will be successful if we have an organized systematic approach. I believe we need to get started now. Baha'u'llah states that the purpose for which mortal men have from utter nothingness stepped into the realm of being is that they may work for the betterment of the world and live in comfort and harmony. Please email me if I can help your community in any way. Thank you so much for your time.


For the last five years, we've probably had 5,000 artists come out that had a hot song with it. They probably got more money advanced to them on their first record than I've probably seen in two or three records of being in a group that was successful. We signed the LeFace for $20,000. There's four members in Goodie Mart. That was 5,000 a piece. Okay, I got 10,000 a piece. Wow. So at the end of the day, we've never had a publishing deal. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101. Yeah, we gonna talk. But what I think about when you saying all of that is I think number one, the older generation can learn something from the newer generation and vice versa, meaning like to combine the both, I think would make a really true artist. Because what I think about also because we've been having that big debate, especially with the comedians, because right now, you have old school comedians who just do comedy or acting and so forth, but you have these new comedians that come up now, everything is internet and skids and whatever. And the older comedians like Faze On Love, who's been on our show, he talks about that and saying that they are not coming up the right way of how the hustle, like what we have, what we do. So they don't look at it like you're not really a true comedian, like how we are because we came up the right way and we got the fellowship from the older to the broader scene. Make you last longer, because you built a fan base. If it's gimmicky, it's thin. Yeah, but them niggas got that money though. Yeah, the money. See, that's the whole thing. That's what the older generation has to understand, and me just being in both. The key is, look at it like this. If you can't work and move like the industry, we're going to call you up. That's right. You don't have to wait up. You know what I mean? But if you can get in there and get to moving and you can get in the studio with a little baby or get in the studio with Wayne and do their thing, then they say, oh, OK, OG, you know how to do that thing. Oh, OK, OK, OG. You know what I mean? It's all the kids looking at you. Can you keep up with the pace of the business? Right.  Can you do the same? If you could, OG, if I could see you doing what country Wayne doing, what Kat doing and everybody doing, then you ain't you. You good. You good. Exactly. When you start complaining about what it takes to be in the in the game right now, then, man, you need to go on to the right. You've got to come with some numbers. That's how they feel. You know, we're tired because they look at it like we after the trophies, we after the money. We came in, we were after the trophies. That's right. And it's just a different, a different way. We're talking more important.  It's a barter. OK. For the last five years, we've probably had five thousand artists come out that had a hot song with it. They probably got more money advanced to them on a first record than I probably seen in two or three records of being in a group that was successful. We signed the LeFace for. Twenty thousand dollars. It's four members in Goodie Mart. Our five thousand a piece. Our care got ten thousand a piece. Wow. So at the end of the day, we've never had a publishing deal. So when I look at these kids, it'll be like, well, they signed your life away. You signed the big deal and you signed the publishing boy. You better work because you did. You ain't got nothing to work with money. I always go, you know what I mean? You ain't got nothing to work with. You and gave it all the way on your first run. So if you don't have another hit record, man, don't people sit back and go to the bank? So that's what we have to do as elders is continue to teach to you how to survive and to let them know it's nothing better than a road. It's nothing better than going out there and getting on stage and taking care of yourself. Now, if you want these new, new kind of artists that want people to call and you make money off the internet, that I don't know how long that's going to last. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one. Yeah, we going to.


the open source assessment module. So what is basically edxora? So edxora is developed for grading open assessment. So by open assessment means the essay type questions where there is no automatic checking can be done. So the strategies that aura implements is grading using machine learning algorithms in certain cost of grading, peer grading, self-grading. None means no grading. And basic checks, which includes basic or normal spelling and check grammar. So we tried to modify the system. And we made a piece, which stands for peer expert auto-gradient self, evolution system. So the components present in P's are peer, self, or already told. And so next slide. So basically, this is a flow diagram. How will the peer grading will look on? So we've studied a lot of methods and tried to come up with all the problems that a grading system has. So basically, in a peer grading system, the problem is that every peer tries to follow a particular strategy when the grade others.  So the problem that, if suppose I'm a student, I'm trying to give my other peers a very high marks in a hope that, in turn, I will get also good marks. Or similarly, when it's a related grading concept, you expect that I will give other less marks. So in turn, it will affect my grade higher. So to come up with all these things, we tried to make an algorithm. And initially, when we start the system, there's a calibration. So as you know, what is calibration? Go down there. Next. So basically, what is calibration? Is calibration is done so that when there is no user profile available, when we don't have any statistics at what, how is the student's ability as a grader? So we tried to calibrate your skills accordingly. And calibration is done so that we can know that how well you can grade. So type of calibration we support models are peer, expert, and none. So basic difference between what is the basic expert calibration is that instructor gives you an assignment. He gives you rubrics, how to answer it. And also he answers it along with the model grade. Now, when every student is asked to calibrate the same thing. And as soon as the scores between your comparison and the instructor's score is matched, and based on that, you get an incentive score. This incentive score is internal capability of your as a grader. Similarly, suppose if the instructor doesn't want to grade answer, you just want to supply the question. So what we provide, we just provide the peer grading. Where this comparison is done between your score and the mean average score of your peers. The calibration ensures that for the first time, when we don't have any history, when we don't have any user profile, as well as the student enrolled in MOO, we can give him a user profile and tell him that how can we use that data so that the evaluation strategy and the evaluation system can be performed very well. So how do we use calibration is that we use, based on the calibration, every assignment has number of peer grader. Suppose for an instance, an assignment has three peer graders. So we will divide the whole group or number of students. So for 100 students or maybe 300 students. So we will divide the students in each group of 100, 100. Based on order by their incentive scores. So this ordering means that for the first set of 100 are the best evaluators. Second set is the medium, third are the worst evaluators. So each assignment, when the peer, it's peer graded. So each assignment is went to three respective different peers. And the three different peers are chosen from each one of one group. So this ensures that the uniform grading can be done. And also this is very helpful when, suppose you have to get the weightage to the peers, peer grading. So instead of uniform weighting, you say that I don't trust that peer so much. The system just says that it's simply a peer. So it can appropriately weight that factor. And so apart from this, this calibration is done. This calibration ordering is done for the fair evaluation. But still in spite of all this, still the students manage to give wrong grades or with work with a strategy. So basically these are cases which are present in the system. So normal cases when you give grades honestly. But what is the over-generous case? As I told it, when a particular student rate other peers over-generously in hope that he will get a good grade, or just when he performs with a particular strategy. So this over-generous case needs to be handled because a just system that when the peer doesn't perform well and you give even a good grades. So second is creative accounting case, just a positive over-generous. When the person, despite being that he has performed well, he gives very less grades. And a penalized case is when there are three, four peers decide mutually that we will make this person as a target and give him a less grades. So this is generally not present in MOOC. But this is a case when, suppose if MOOC provides group project and all, then this case is come up in the accounting. So how do we do normalization as process? So basically normalization process starts with we try. So the table, next table. So this is a sample grading table. So that's how peers have given. So there are like four students. So Peter has given marks to other three and John has given marks to other three. So peer. So now to calculate, we calculate IER. So IER basically the score that is given, the marks the sum of the score, the scores that you have given. And similarly, AER is the summation of all the scores that are given divided by average. So it's an average effort rating. And then we calculate the individual weighting factor. The individual weighting factor is your score you're given individual effort rating divided by average effort rating. And from this, this came to bias factor. So bias factor is how biased were you when we're giving grade? So when you give rating to others, divided by AER, so effort rating. And similarly comes from the normalization factor, which is inverse of bias factor. So I can show you the table, table, yeah. So example. So for example, like in the first case, the for the Peter, IER was 49 and the average AER was 51. So Peter gave rating to others 60. So this is case of over genus K. So this bias factor came to 1.17. And this, when we transfer to normalization factor, the normalization factor became 0.85. And this 0.85 reflected to the score. So normalized score now became 4.27. So this from the score that when he is given intentionally five to everyone, the score get reduced to 4.27. Similarly, if you could see the normal cases, the rise became, from the last, if you can see like the genet A, that column, the four give rise to 4.8, five to 5.23. So this is just based on normalization. And so this process is a recursive process and this continues until your bias factor comes in between the range of 0.98 to 1.02. When this range came, the scores get normalized and this is actually the scores what you expect to get. So apart from that also, normalization is one technique that we try to use to get a fair grading system. Along with this, we also use an incentive mechanism. So incentive mechanism is the comparison of your score that you give to other between the average peer normalized score. So suppose I give my peer five while the class gave three. So I get, so I came to know that I gave intentionally more marks. While the average class was given to that particular peer only three. So this gave me a normalization incentive and this incentive in terms reflects both in my grades as well as it reflects in my capability as being evaluator. So again, instead of like first time when we use the calibration score to do the grouping in the final process, we do the use this ordering by incentive to group the people. So can, okay. So now I want to show that what is different between edX aura, the recently launched module that was released on first June only this aura and comparison between the P system. So both edX aura and P's provides calibration mechanism but the difference between calibration is that aura has a compulsory calibration while P's doesn't have any compulsory calibration. So it depends, we provide flexibility to instructor to which calibration model he wants to choose. So, but an edX aura also has some notation that it provides calibration only for the purpose that it teach how to calibrate. So we also do the system, our provide, we provide also do the same thing. But in addition to, we also use that calibration score to have an optimal distribution of evaluators. Also there's a bug in, I think in aura that if suppose the students fails the competition six times calibration test, irrespective of what the score he has he will be promoted to do peer grading. So that is, I think doesn't help much if students just click six times that will be a bug that won't help. So also the aura doesn't have any normalization technique that I explained just now while P's follow perfect normalization technique so that the scores can be generated and the student actually get what score he deserve. Similarly, no incentive mechanism is there in aura. No optimal distribution that is grouping based on your incentive score and calibration score. Both provides a good peer review system. So both has a mechanism. So now I will invite someone to come. Good afternoon everyone. Now proceeding with the other modules that our P system has. The second module is the self-assessment module. As we all know in the traditional grading system the main focus of the instructor is providing grades. But and not much emphasis is given on learning of students. Now through this self-assessment module the instructor can use this self-grading module of P's to enhance learning and creativity among students. If an instructor thinks that in a course the enhancement of learning and creativity is the main purpose he can employ this method. In the self-assessment method the students are allowed to grade their own assignments based on a evaluation form or rubrics. Now when the student grades himself on the basis of this rubrics he tends to reflect on his or her weaknesses and in the process the learning is enhanced. Now when these students grade their own assignments then they mark themselves and these marks are only considered as their final score. Now the next module that we have is the expert evaluation. This is in accordance with the traditional process that we have. Here the instructor has the option to choose for expert evaluation. In this he can use this expert evaluation when there are less number of students enrolled in a course. He can opt for this method. And here when the students answer a particular assignment the solutions are forwarded to the instructor and then he grades and he provides these scores too. Now this edX, ORA also has this expert evaluation module but there are slight differences. Both are not, expert evaluation is not scalable for a MOOC as it's not possible for a instructor to evaluate tens or thousands of students' copies. And this expert evaluation is used for grading in both the edX and fees. Now it is used as a training data set for the machine learning auto graders. And the expert evaluation in our case is also used for solving discrepancy like if an assignment is given for peer grading but if a student feels that he has not obtained perfect score he can report it to the instructor and the instructor can then opt for evaluating that himself and resolving the conflict. Now the last module that we have is the auto grader. In the auto grader we will be using the discern API of the edX and which has the ease module and we will also be integrating various compilers for code checking. Now apart from using all these, all the four modules We are three minutes exactly so start wrapping up. Apart from using all the individual modules the instructor also has the option for choosing any combination of the four modules. Like he can choose peer plus self or auto grade plus self grading and he can assign a particular weightage to what modules he has chosen. Now the main module that is the self plus peer evaluation that is the most important module of hybrid. Here if the instructor wants that in some course the grades are also important as well as he wants to enhance the learning. He can opt for the self plus peer evaluation. He can assign a particular weightage to the self and the peer part. In this process when the student answers the assignment the assignments are forwarded to both the peer module as well as the student themselves rate their assignments. Now we have two set of scores one from the what student has given himself and other from the peer grading module. Now these scores are compared and if the difference lies beyond a certain range the normalized and then the final scores are calculated. If the difference is not much like it's in a particular range then what student has given himself that scores are only accounted for his final grades. Now I will call Nikit. Okay there are some differences between the self rating module in PEs and EDXora. EDXora does not use this self evaluation for grading purpose while in PEs we can use this as a grading technique also like I explained we can use self plus peer so it can be used for grading as well as learning. And there is no incentive normalization in EDXora while we have incorporated in PEs. So these are the differences between ORA and PEs now I will call on Nikit to continue. These are the various stages that we encountered in the process of completing our project. So initially we started with the study of various research papers and we came up with our method PEs which they have just explained and then we built a prototype of this method in Joget which is a workflow engine. However we faced a problem that this prototype could not be integrated with an existing MOOC that is EDX and that was our long term goal. So during that time also the EDX platform code had released an open source so we shifted to that and started studying about the EDXora and we tried to make enhancements on that but EDXora has not been successfully installed till date so it was not a practical option and so during the last three days of our internship we built a standalone web application in a Django framework of our entire system and the future scope next of our project is to integrate our system which we built in Django with the EDX platform and we can also build an API for that purpose and next. These are a few educational application slides that we have included for two of our group members who have left right now. So they are on shapes and matrices, educational mathematical applications and now we would like to show these screenshots of our evaluation. This is the screenshot of our feedback system. So basically sorry for the UI, the UI cannot be now just a two days. So the system that's a, this is seeing it's a, it's a instructor side. Just a minute, just a minute. Why are you showing a system which is built in two days? Don't show. So because it's functional. I agree. I'm not saying that you're not made it work. Better not show a system it doesn't work to it. We shut up with whatever you have learned and whatever you have done the challenges. The future work could be built a system. Yeah. What we have done, basically the question I want to ask you is, okay, you have implemented a lot of mathematical algorithms. So as soon as I see it. Right? How do you check a mathematical algorithm? Sir, some of the mathematical background that we took was initially from the research papers that we referred. I agree. And we tried to do some simulations and also try to have some practical knowledge. So basically the challenge, we also face that if we suppose we propose some strategy, we don't know how to get it confirmed. So I said unless that- Exactly, that was my question. So that we try to- They got nothing to do with your software. Yeah. I said, I'm gonna stop. That is not necessary. So we always try to do some simulations and also like try to get in some low scale, but actually the problem was that even if we try some experiment, the experimental setup would be just for 100 to 100 students. While we are talking on the scale for MOOC. So all the strategies that are facing this because any papers or something which will work will work for 100 students because you just can't see any particular case. But the problem was that it was not scalable anyhow to get an experiment. We run some experiments on 100 students and also like when we have some feedback forms, we tried to get the scores and normalize when we had internal meetings. So that was done. But anything was not able to done for the scale for MOOC. So we try to specifically stick on the basis of the research papers which we get and try to combine them. Yes. So again, that was the next question. Yeah. Okay, how do you scale up? How do you use your, this is was peer evaluation system. Yeah, sir. I got one lakh students who got Dr. Patak said. Yes, sir. First course. Yeah. And he wants 10 lakhs. Okay. Next course. Okay. Only 10 lakhs. No, no. We are in India. We talk lakhs. Not me. Okay. So 10 lakhs. So how are you going to implement a peer evaluation for 10 lakhs? Sir. What is the strategy? The strategy, sir, basically is that because only in the last scale, only two things, when you go for MOOC, only two-scale type of evaluation system can survive. Either you opt for machine learning or you opt for peer evaluation. So when you opt for peer evaluation, you just need to work and focus on two, three things. First is when, that how you distribute the paper. Like evaluators. So like, if you, I attempt an assignment. The main strategy is that how, which three peers or which four peers should judge my papers? That is the main component. Do you know that in EDX, if one lakh people start, do you know how many people finish? So that is. How many? How many? Sir, very few. The only thousand, 10,000, something like that. Yes. Correct. So now, coming back to this question. Have you ever thought about how will you monitor peer evaluation? Yes, sir. I have assigned you to these three gentlemen over there and they say, I am no longer interested in a course. Why this? Why will they evaluate? Pardon? So we have, suppose we have an end date and when the debt ends and all the debt evolutions are left. So first of all, we evaluate only to those who have attempted the assignment. So that probability goes less that of false people being reviewed. But still, even the people will get away from the course. So what we do, we go for a second round evaluation and in this second round, we go only for the expert people. So the first category when we divide in the case, so three, like suppose there's three categories. Is that algorithm built into a system? Yes, sir. Which you have done? So no, that one is not there. Okay. So that is in your head only? No sir, in reports. In reports. Okay. It is in the report. So that we have done and basically. That is the major peer evaluation as I see. What you have done is all mathematical things, et cetera, which work for a small group. The extension to one million with this peculiarity of people dropping out at the drop of a hat. We are talking about free courses. Okay. I mean if I am supposed to, my son enrolled me for one Coursera course. Okay. Because I am in online education and I didn't attend a single thing. Okay. So I plan to have that experience sometime when I have got time. Okay. But the danger here is only one. If you don't run the course properly. Okay.  I am not sure. Ideally, like Dr. Fartank mentioned, the type of student I am, ideally I would like to take a course and only attend the final quiz. Okay. So that you can do anything. Without doing any peer evaluation and let them evaluate. No, sir, that is the point. There have been professors in IIT who wanted to not give me an A in the subjects I like. They did not succeed. Okay. So for that, sir, because we're too proud of it. So that is the peer evaluation, the monitoring of peer evaluation is a major challenge. Yes, sir. Actual algorithms. And actual algorithm, as you admit, testing is a major thing, any mathematical algorithm. Sir, even... Proof of concept is very difficult. Sir, tell them also like no one course, like EDX just started in this June. Only implement in two courses, peer evaluation. But wait, wait, wait. The EDX is much better placed because they have got a lot of history. Yes, sir. Behind them. Okay. So, but history... No algorithm with no history is very difficult to prove. Okay.


Obviously, a different looking lineup for us tonight. But guys up and down the order just stepped it up. DJ set the tone with a double out of the gate. Luke had a great night. Glauber, Urshela, Maybin, Tyro, while he was in there. Roe, everyone chipped in. And that's how it's had to be lately. And just proud of the guys for having a role in helping us win ball games. You mentioned LeMayhew. He went through a little stretch where he was struggling a little bit. But he seems like he's back to his old self. What type of an asset is he at the top of the lineup the way he's able to get on base? Again, wherever he hits, you just like him up there in any situation, whether it's set in the table, whether it's runners out there in a tough pitcher on the mound making pitches. He's a guy that just because he uses the entire field and the ability to control his own and make contact, he's just a really tough out as we've all seen. Paxson struggled a little in the first and then seemed to settle in as time went on. What was different about his stuff? I thought he had pretty good stuff actually from the get-go. But just that pitch count probably cost in that first inning probably got him to get tired a little bit in that sixth inning. But I thought he held his stuff pretty good. I thought it looked strong overall. The velocity was up from last time. Not that that's everything. But I thought there were stretches where he was really dominant. Why do you think Britain lost the zone in the seventh? I don't know. He gets two quick outs there and he's 0-2. And then just lost it a little bit there. And just one of those nights for him. But again, we were able to pick him up. Otto comes in and gets a huge out. Obviously, if Posey then that inning and then has a clean eighth. So that's what this team has been about right now. A lot of guys contributing. A lot of guys picking each other up when somebody else doesn't get it done. So because we know Britt's going to pick us up a lot. You had that arm round by a void.  But for him to hit a ball there is not easy here. Yeah, we talked about it on the bench. I said, as a right-handed hitter, you hit a line drive at night here where he hit that ball. You got to sting it pretty good. And not surprising. I mean, we know what kind of hitter Luke is. We know what kind of power he has to the middle of the field in the other way. So he's one of those guys that it doesn't surprise you when it goes out. But having played here a lot and been here a lot, you understand what a poke that is. You've lost so many power bats in that lineup. What type of stabilizing force has Void been for you guys? It's been great. Again, just getting on base, controlling the strike zone, now popping some balls. He had a little stretch there for a week where he wasn't completely locked in. But overall, it's been really strong. I think OPS up over 900 now. He's just been picked up where he left off last year, control the strike zone, and hit the ball to all fields with authority. He's been great. And because Luke's contribution meant to this run that you guys are on. How much what? Is his contribution meant to this run that you guys are on? Look, he's such an important player for us. He's become a premium hitter. I don't think any of us are surprised. I think a lot of people were wondering after last year, could he come in and do this? But this is the kind of hitter we see him as. As a guy that has the ability to get on base and hit the ball out of the ballpark. And he's been doing that since he got to us. Harold, you hit an outfield tonight where Mike Tauchman had the most games as a Yankee. Is there any part of you that is a little bit surprised at how sustainable this has been with all these guys? You know what? We've just kind of, and credit goes all to those guys. They've just kind of embraced this next man up thing. They've just kind of rallied around the adversity and just really locked in on, go do your job. And so many guys have come up or come into the organization and contributed. And it's not about anyone doing more than they're capable of. But the guys have really bought in to that. And they come with that mindset that we're going to go win a ball game. And however, we need to do it. You guys going to kick out of City of Estrada? Catch the fly ball out there. Yeah, I was glad it was a completed pass. Even though we have a lot of confidence in him and his athleticism still first time out there. And obviously not an easy place. Handled it, came up with a big hit. So it was good to see Tyrell have another hand in a victory.


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When it comes to the current situation and the climate going on, when it comes to this story about Zoe Quinn and the tragic loss of the game developer Alec Holoka, we need to discuss this and try to figure out some solutions. So please do me a favor and stay until the end of this video. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. If you're new to my channel, what I try to do, take different topics that are going on in the YouTube community or pop culture and try to see what lessons we can learn from them. So if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And yeah, I did a previous video on this and I've been watching how the internet's reacting. I've been watching a bunch of other people comment on this and yeah, I wanted to follow it up and I probably will be following this story because there's definitely some things that we need to discuss and we need to bring our emotions down so we can have a logical conversation. So those of you who don't know me, hi my name is Chris, yeah, I was a victim of cancel culture earlier this year and I am so against cancel culture. I even wrote this book, Canceled Inside YouTube Cancel Culture. It's out now, ebook and audiobook. It's always linked down in the description, down in the pinned comment below. But anyways, I do have thoughts on this, but when I look at this, like I want to end cancel culture and I think there are definitely some things being brought up that should be brought up, but I think there's also things that we're doing that are very counterproductive. All right, but anyways, let's talk about what Zoe Quinn did, the people who are rallying behind her and just kind of how that is not helping a damn thing. So I don't know if any of you watch the channel, some black guy, but anyways, I'm going to link his video down below and like, yeah man, like his video was just like, man, it was passionate and I'm like, I was like, man, I need to make a follow up video, but he touches on some really, really good points. But anyways, I do want to show this clip right here. You have this verified genius saying, innocent until proven guilty in a court is at best childishly naive and at worst dangerously obtuse when it comes to accusations of abuse. This is the that we're dealing with these people that genuinely believe stuff like this, that think it's a better idea to blast people on Twitter to participate in this cancel culture, did to actually take your to the police and into a court of law and try to seek justice.  All right. So there's an excellent book out there called So You've Been Publicly Shamed by John Ronson. I highly recommend you check that book out too. But anyways, like, did you know that we got rid of public shaming here in the United States in 1787, a dude by the name of Benjamin Rush, he worked towards getting rid of public shaming. You know, like when they put people in the stocks and like people would get like public lashings and just stuff like that. Like it's crazy. Like people get whipped just for the weirdest things, right? And they got rid of it. Do you know why? Do you want to know why they got rid of public shaming? Because they said it is a punishment worse than death. All right. I want you guys to let that sink in real quick. All right. We still have the death penalty in certain states, but you cannot do public shaming, right? Like think about that for a second. And here's why, because of what it does to the psyche. All right. So in the Constitution, we have gotten rid of cruel and unusual punishment. And some say that public shaming is cruel and unusual punishment. So like when I see dudes like that who are saying like, oh, don't trust the justice system, we need to rise up. Like, are you serious? Like the idea that the emotional, illogical hate mob is going to do a better job of justice than the judicial system is absolutely mind blowing. Like you guys, like those of you who are new to my channel, I'm really big on like psychology and neuroscience and mental health and all that. Like there have been so many studies for like hundreds of years now. All right. Going back to Gustave Le Bon, all right, about crowd psychology and how logic goes completely out the window. All right. So to even think for just one second that the internet hate mob is going to do a better job than the justice system is bananas. And check it out. Check it out. Like I get it. All right. I'm half black. Okay. And something that I, you know, am, am against and hoping we'll see changed. Soon. And this is why you go out there and vote is that there are disproportionate number of black people who are arrested. All right. The justice system gets things wrong a lot. Okay. But this is why we go out there and vote. This is why we get involved in politics and get involved in our communities to work for change together. All right. Like you're talking to a bunch of gamers or comic book nerds and comic book movie nerds and all that stuff. Like, yeah, vigilante justice. It's fun to watch and make believe, but it is not good in real life. You know why? Because we as human beings are these emotional irrational creatures. And we get things wrong all the time. So the people on Zoe Quinn's side who are saying, like, oh, well, we, we need to do this. Like absolutely not. This needs to go through the proper legal system. All right. So a question that's been coming up is like people are saying that Zoe Quinn should be charged with manslaughter. Like, I don't know. Here's my question to all of you. Like, do you think there should be a punishment for something like this? Because it's something that I, I think of. This is something I think about all the time.  So in my book canceled, like there are some names in it, but there are so many people who I left completely anonymous. And I tried to change some details to keep the scent off of them because like, like I said, like, I wouldn't wish that upon my worst enemy. And this is one of the reasons why so many people are upset with Zoe Quinn. Like she did not have to publicly do this to that man. All right. And yeah. So I don't know if there, there should be some kind of punishment, but I'll tell you something that people are not bringing up. And it's the, the company that fired Alec over these allegations that were not proven yet. Like this is something where I think we need to look at that as well. But from a company standpoint, if I'm trying to put myself in their shoes, like I get it, right?  You're trying to protect an entire company or maybe all of its employees. You're like, okay, we'll just get rid of this, this one person. If it gets the mob off of us. And that's one of the reasons why cancel culture needs to end. Like this doesn't just happen to companies and people freaking out and boycotting and everything. It happens to people too. Like when I was being canceled earlier this year, nobody would have my back publicly. Like they knew that if they associated with me, it could end their career. You see what I'm saying? So this is yet another issue with cancel culture, but like companies, corporations and things like that, they need to slow down and do investigations. Right. Like as much as we hate when like police officers, you know, are put on like paid leave and stuff like that while they do an investigation, like I wish more places would do that.  You know what I mean? Like some things may have turned out differently. And by the way, there's a post that Alec made in 2016. I just want to bring this up before I forget. And he talks a lot about dialectical behavioral therapy and things like that. And I don't know, I'm thinking about breaking it down and discussing to try to help some people out there who might be struggling. So I don't have the link to that. So if any of you do have the link to that, put it down in the comments below or let me know if you want me to find it and do something like that because he opened up a lot about mental health. And I'm thinking about getting that game into the woods because a lot of people said it was really good when it came to mental health. And yeah, that might be something I do on my channels, just review video games that are about mental health. I think that would be interesting. But anyways, let's get back to this. So when it comes to what Zoe Quinn did and cancel culture and everything, here's here's what I feel. Here's my opinion on what should have happened. All right. It should have gone through the legal process. Seems like it might have been tricky because Alec was in Canada. I think Zoe Quinn is American. I'm not sure how that would work. But it should have gone through the legal process. Right. Like lawyers should have got involved. Like she should have talked to people about that before blasting this dude online because here's the thing. And I think people like some black guy have done an excellent job saying like we don't know if she's telling the truth. Right. But I think we can all agree. Like her doing that was wrong. Like in this day and age, we know. We know what's going to happen when you publicly blast somebody like that, especially if you have that many followers on Twitter. Right. So it should have gone through those proceedings. But the question I want to ask all of you is this, let's say hypothetically, right. Let's say hypothetically, somebody like Zoe Quinn did go through that process and the legal system let her down. Should she open up about it publicly? Right. Because to this day, even though she has a track record of lying, we don't know if she was telling the truth.  Right. Or your daughter. What would you want to happen if the legal system failed? Because here's the thing, months ago, months ago, Elijah Daniel, who was a YouTuber, he's a rapper and things like that. One day on Twitter, he was just going off. And he was retweeting and like borderline doxing a bunch of people who were accused of assault. Right. And he's just like screw it. You know, the justice system didn't help these women. So I'm going to put all these people on blast to all of my hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers. Right. And my people like, yeah, yeah. Right. But when we look at what just happened with Alec, like, is that the right thing to do? So again, I just want to ask you the questions like, like, what should somebody do if the legal system does fail them? I'll tell you this. You should go check out Illy Mation's videos about her dealing with her abusive ex-boyfriend. She leaves him mostly anonymous. There were some stuff that that came out, you know, after and some people were trying to track this guy down and everything. But here's the thing, like as somebody who has friends who were, you know, victims of assault and things like that, I do believe there's power in people sharing their stories. But we also have to look at like, how to do it in the right way. You know what I mean? Like there's a way to share your story without trying to play Batman and get this vigilante justice. You know what I mean? Now, the second half of this video, I want to discuss the other side, like check it out, not even the other side, like I don't side with Zoe or anybody, but like I said, I'm against cancel culture. But the thing is, if you guys are upset with Zoe Quinn and the people following her and agreeing with her, we need to be better than them. All right, because here's what's happening. I sit back and what I'm seeing is you're getting the people who are anti-cancel culture joining in a brand new hate mob. Like I read through the comments on my first video about this situation and it's disgusting. Like when you do that, you're not any better than they are. Right? Like I see people just saying like she should die and all these other things, right? Like I get it. It's an emotional time, but like something I say at the beginning of all my videos as we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. There is no solution to be found if the pendulum just swings all the way to the other side. Right? If you start canceling the people who are canceled and send the hate mob after them and start publicly shaming them, what's it going to resolve?  Like with significant others and they just both keep screaming at each other. Like does do the problems ever get resolved? No, they don't. Like somebody has to chill out in these situations if we ever hope to make movement forward. Right? But I'll tell you this and I think it's safe to say for those of you who don't realize it, I'm against going out and attacking people, but I'm going to bring up this video from Mr. Obvious, what is basically a dream job as a game dev or at least one of the developers. And he got fired.  She made a false accusation.   No, I've seen Zoe Quinn. I've seen plenty of her. Like this is a prime example of what you don't do. All right? Like he said multiple times in his video that Zoe Quinn was making false accusations. He has no evidence, no proof of this aside from a history of her lying in the past. Like how is it any different? How is it any different to have no facts, no evidence and go based off assumptions than what you claim the other side is doing? You see what I mean? Like I'm as against this stuff as you are, but if we don't handle this in the right way, nothing gets solved. But anyways, I'm going to end this with a quote, which you might find cheesy, but I don't really care. All right. And this comes from Nelson Mandela. He said, you will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than through acts of retribution. All right. So yeah, I'm going to keep covering this story and other stories about cancel culture and all that. And don't forget, let me know down in the comments below if you want me to break down that post from Alec in 2016, because I think a lot of people can relate to that. Those of you who don't know, I'm a certified life coach. I'm currently pursuing my certified alcohol and drug counselor license. I've worked in addiction treatment and things like that. And what he shared is something that a lot of people go through. So if I can kind of go through that and help anybody else out there, like just let me know down in the comments. But I think I also need a link to that post. All right. But anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up if you're new. Make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And I want to send out a huge, huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. You're all amazing and a huge thank you to everybody else who supports the channel in other ways, like buying my merch, buying my books and all that kind of stuff. All right. Thanks again for watching. I'll see you next time.


You do not necessarily need a photo editing software on your computer to edit your images. Pixelhour.com offers the possibility to upload pictures onto their page. There, they can be edited and then saved on your computer again. In this screencast, we will focus on the online usage of PixelR, how to open image files, how to set the picture size, and how to save the picture. Let's go to the home page www.pixelhour.com. On the home page, you have to click on Open Photo Editor. A new window with several options appears. If you open the home page from within Germany, the default language is German. To change that, we just have to close the option window by clicking on the X button in the upper right corner. Then, we have to go to Sprache in the menu bar and select the respective language. Now the previous window with the options appears again in the respective language. Now, we want to open an image from our computer. And here, we can select any image saved on our computer. In order to change the image size, you choose under Image, Image Size. Here, you can change the width and the height of the picture, both given in pixels. And additionally, if you leave the tick, which is set by default for constraint properties, your image won't be distorted if you change width or height. If we want to work with only a part of the image, we have to choose one of the selection tools. For instance, the Marquee tool. Drag the mouse over the part to be selected while pressing the left mouse button. Then go to Image and Crop. In order to adjust contrast, brightness and hue, select under Adjustments, the options Brightness and Contrast or Hue and Saturation. Change the brightness, contrast, ok, and then we can change the hue and saturation. After finishing your editing, you can save your image, for instance, as JPEG under File and Save. The default setting for the Save Image window is to save the picture on your computer. But you can also choose other options, for instance, to publish your image on Facebook immediately. You also can give a new name to your image and select the format. Then you just have to select the quality of your image and finally save.