Well, hello and welcome to Understand Men Now. I'm Jonathan Asley at JonathanAsley.com. I'm so excited to be shooting this short video for you today. Our topic, you must do this, this, to understand men. You must do this to understand men. Really quickly before we get started, if you're new to my YouTube channel, hit the subscribe button and hit the bell to get notified of new content. I shoot about three or four videos a week and I always change my shirts and I always change the pictures that go here as well. But mom and dad stay the same for those that have inquired about that. So our topic, you must do this, this, this, this, this, to understand men. I think what's critically important, okay, so for those who are seeking dating or relationship-wise and you've come to my YouTube channel, chances are you've been attracted to the concept of understanding men and especially midlife men because my specialty is midlife dating and I say midlife is after baby making years and before retirement. So if you're 42 to 69, that's the demographics I speak to. Although, interesting enough, I'm getting a lot of 20 and 30 year olds reaching out for my advice, which I'm very grateful for, but what's unique about men and women in midlife is that we come to the table with a bit of a backstory. We come to a table with a bit of a backstory and what I mean is we have life experiences. See, for those of us that watch movies of Cinderella and all those movies like The Notebook or whatnot where people met when they were youngsters, when they were practically babies and they formed a relationship together, they had no life experience to affect how they operate as an adult. They had no life experience. And so it's rather easy to look at the traditional way of dating, mating, or relating because most people got pregnant at age 16 and got married thereafter or 16, 17, or 18 and I know I'm generalizing here but you know what I'm talking about from a generalization perspective but we're in a whole different category right now and frankly, there is no commitment like it used to be because of the advent of birth control and the fact that women don't need men to support them. We now are dating, mating, and relating with a lot more choices and a lot more availability and yet a lot more choices and availability has created a lot of havoc in the dating, mating, or relating process because we have all this life experience. And so what you need to know about men to understand them as you need, this is my invitation, when I say the word need, I'm saying an invitation to learn his backstory, to learn his backstory. And by the way, he's got to learn your backstory too but the backstory isn't just about his past relationship whether he was married and finding out the reason why that relationship ended. I'm here to say you have to go all the way back in time to understand his childhood and his relationship with his parents to get a better understanding if he's going to be a good partner for you. And if you're not familiar with the book, Getting the Love You Want by Harvelle Hendricks and Helen Hunt, I don't know why I don't memorize Helen Hunt's name, it's just, it sometimes escapes me, I've got Harvelle down but Getting the Love You Want by Harvelle Hendricks, this is all about learning how we tend to repeat patterns based on our childhood upbringing and we tend to pick partners that are very similar to the experience that our parents had and what we observed as children witnessing our parents and so we oftentimes repeat patterns. So a man's choices in life might be directly affected because of his childhood upbringing.    The link is in the description below when we understand our own experience, when we understand our own backstory, we can actually lean into a more compassionate way to understand someone else's backstory because when we understand it from a place of compassion, from a place of care, from a place of love, now that's not to say you should pick someone who's had a horrific childhood and who's had problematic relationships because you might just be in the path of their destructive force if they haven't done any healing. I'm not suggesting that but having compassion and understanding allows you to make better choices because really, isn't this what this is all about? You want to understand men so you can make better choices so you don't choose your pattern of the same thing over and over again. So when I'm suggesting understand a man's backstory, I'm inviting you to understand your own backstory. If you've been following my work, I talk about the Hoffman process repeatedly, the Hoffman process, many of you have bought the book. In fact, if you bought my book, What the Heck Is Self Love Anyway, do me a favor, please post a comment below that you've ordered my book and anyone who's listed that, I've got a little free gift for you and if you've purchased any of the books I've recommended, the Hoffman process, Getting the Love You Want, Nonviolent Communication, The Untethered Soul, The Five Love Languages, do me a favor, post a comment below and let me know you purchased a book based on my recommendation but if you've purchased my book, post a comment because I'd like to give you a free gift. Now, why am I encouraging this? Because understanding your own backstory is really the more important aspect of this conversation. Yes, it's important to understand a man's backstory but I want you to lean into your own backstory. Get a sense of your, and by the way, many of you've done this and bravo to you, bravo to you for leaning in, you lean into your own past, you don't lean back. You know how I feel about leaning back and anyone who watches my work knows, I go, ah, when it comes to leaning back. Except the only time you will want to lean back is if you've leaned too far forward in relationship because everyone who follows my work knows, I think relationships start at the 50 yard line and you guys work at the 50 yard line. Although in my book, Understand Men Now, I do actually kind of say, let the man just do a little bit more, don't ever do this in front of a guy by the way but let the man just do a tiny little bit more work than you on the 50 yard line. Let him be at like 50 yard line and a little bit more. Just because you're gonna feel better if it's done that way but you get the gist of where I'm going. In other words, the effort of giving and receiving should be mutual, it should be effusive, it should be consistent, it's a give and receive combination, it's not a one-sided event. And if it's too much giving by one person then yes, lean back and if there's not enough giving then lean in more to the 50 yard line. But if you want to understand men, then my invitation is understand your own backstory and then lean in and understand his backstory because when you understand his backstory, you can be better prepared to say, is this the right guy for me? Maybe not or maybe it's worth giving a shot. All right, that's my content for today. Really quickly, you might notice I'm wearing a white shirt. There's kind of something interesting here. Someone's mentioned to me on one of the videos that goes, Jonathan, you have the darkest hair and I just noticed now I'm starting to get gray here and I feel like it's highlighted by the white shirt. I'm in my fifties, I know I'm blessed. Thank you mom and dad for giving me the height of six foot two, I'm in relatively good shape and I still have a full head of hair. Thank you, thank you, thank you.  So I just wanted to share that. Maybe my white teeth as well. All right, I'm gonna wrap up this video as I always do.  I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a big hug of love if that's okay. I'm gonna ask you to turn to somebody and give them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love and we can all use more love in our lives. Thanks so much and wishing you a fabulous day. Bye bye now.


Charlie Mccunlough, it's the same as it was last night, it will be for some time to come, it's very difficult to find words, isn't it? It's just an unbelievably traumatic tragedy and it's going to leave a mark in this community and indeed the county for years to come and everyone is really known to what has happened and the scale of what has happened but I know all of our thoughts are with the families of those who've lost loved ones and will be able to take all of the community to rally around and support them over the time ahead and also just to acknowledge as well the support and response of all of our emergency services who really have provided, you know, responded with such professionalism in a very, very difficult situation. This is clearly a very local tragedy, it's a tragedy for the county, but very clearly it's a tragedy being felt right across the island of Ireland and we heard the words from the T-shock and the President obviously releasing his press statement but everyone's been affected by this. Yeah, the whole county, it's a national tragedy and I think the whole country's minds and thoughts are with Chris Look this morning and yesterday and you know, it's, in terms of the scenes from yesterday it's not sending any of it releasing before and really it brings your mind back to some of the scenes during the troubles years ago and it was real devastation here and a devastated community as a result of the loss of so many loved ones. And it's a tragedy that's unfolding too right behind us. We know the emergency services working in very difficult circumstances but there are still people of our community waiting for news. There is, yeah, there's families who had an unbelievably harrowing night and evening yesterday and still waiting for, you know, to know what exactly the situation facing them is so it's not a situation any of us, you know, nobody ever was. People's worst nightmare and everybody will be rallying around to support one another in the days ahead. And finally, obviously, you mentioned the first responders, the response from the hospital, the people that have been volunteering overnight. They're trying to help their fellow community people, you know, is that type of a tragedy, isn't it? It is, yeah, and I know the local community responded so enormously and was such, you know, put their own lives at risk really to try and help those who were in need yesterday but in terms of the emergency services, whether, you know, the health services they guard, the fire service, the ambulance service, the local civil defence and, you know, Mountain Rescue were here as well but also then working on a cross-border basis, the ambulance service and fire service from Northern Ireland and indeed the health services both on the scene here and in the hospital people really did respond to provide the help that was needed when it was needed. Yeah, and almost instantly we had the likes of the local coffee doc doing what they can to help. We know local childcare services have their doors open today. In terms of, you know, what response might need to come from government in terms of, I don't know, support for schools or what have you. I've no doubt that the government won't be found wanting in that regard. No, certainly not. I've been talking to my cabinet colleagues and the government will be providing support. The community is going to need support. It's a really traumatic event and it's going to require a response to the knowledge and help people through that and that will be very much, you know, in place and we'll be backing up the work of our emergency services and the health professionals here in the time ahead and, you know, you're right in terms of the local community here. The coffee pod was here. I was here till late last night and it was looking after people until very late and providing comfort and that's a reflection of the response of everyone in the community and the response is going to be needed over the days ahead too. And we're going to have to dig deep, aren't we? Because very sadly, we're looking at a lot of funerals. We've got people of all ages. We've got children caught up in this. As you say, this area, we're all going to feel this for a very long time but we're really going to have to group together, aren't we, over the next while? Yeah, very much so and I've no doubt people will do that and it's going to be needed. We've had dark days in the county before and this is one of our darkest and, you know, in that people are going to have to work to support one another. You know, life is precious. You know, we take it for granted on a day-to-day basis. It can end so easily and our lives can change so easily and so many lives change yesterday and some, unfortunately, lives energy yesterday and their families and, you know, loved ones have a very challenging time ahead.


So I'm Captain Jim Morgan. I'm the mission commander for Pacific Partnership 2012, and I'm also the commander destroyer Southern Water seven back in San Diego I'm here to talk a little bit about Pacific Partnership 2012 and looking back over the four and a half months of the mission We visited the host countries at their invitation Indonesia The Philippines Vietnam and Cambodia for 14 days First of all, I think the most important part of the mission and what we accomplished was the 16 subject matter expert exchanges Which really accounted for thousands of hours of side-by-side work among all the different entities that participated in the mission We had a record number of partner nations this year 13 We had 28 NGOs participate in the mission and at every stop They we all work together alongside our host nation counterparts to build the capacity in the relationships To respond to natural disasters not if but when they occur So when I look back at Pacific Partnership 2012 and onto the missions that come after us I think it's a great mission a great way to build those relationships And we have to rely upon when a natural disaster occurs And I think that those relationships are which will endure from year to year no matter what we do during the mission I couldn't be more proud of not only our own services, but our thank our partner nations I thank our non-governmental organizations for a great mission and everything they accomplished this year for Pacific Partnership 2012 I'm Kevin Bill Cogart executive officer of the medical treatment facility usns mercy here as we're wrapping up Pacific Partnership 2012 it's always a Interesting to look back and upon the accomplishments of the mission and try and measure our successes And how we do that is always something of a challenge When the ship goes out we undoubtedly do good things but people always want to know what good thing is we do Historically we tend to fall back on numbers because those are easy to measure and by the numbers We had a very successful mission who screened almost 2,000 surgical patients and conducted just under 900 surgeries Saw over 50,000 patients at multiple remote locations in all four host nations Had 7,500 animal encounters with our veterinary services our medical repair techs repaired Over 250 pieces of medical equipment and our most successful area was our subject matter expert exchange Where we had over 67,000 hours of interchange with host nation physicians nurses dentists and other health care providers In summary we have an incredibly worthwhile mission It's always hard to capture or success short term in this other than the fact that everyone leaves the mission feeling very Rewarding and as one of our predecessors said the true measure of success for this mission is in the number of smiles Which were in new mobile Hello, my name is captain Jonathan Olmsted. I am the ships master on board usns mercy with military seal of command I lead a crew of 70 civilian mariners working for MSc on board mercy for Pacific Partnership 2012 our job as civilian mariners is to operate the ship Keep it going from point A to point B It's been a it's been a great mission the last four and a half months since we left San Diego We have traveled almost 16,000 miles to this point by the time we get back to San Diego. It will have been over 20,000 miles We're all looking forward to getting back It's been a successful mission Both teams played hard The Navy and all of the civilian Participants as well. I'm sure that everybody has walking away with a tremendous feeling of satisfaction After completing the mission a job well done We're all very grateful to have had the opportunity to be a part of the mission as well as looking forward to being home And returning to our friends and families


So with DLC 4 we got a few decent weapons at best. Today I showcased a custom version of the Prompt Critical, one of the few weapons which arrived with this DLC which is quite unique and while people of this version are not a monster. How's it going guys my name's DPJ and if you enjoyed the video leave a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe. Also before we go any further for all your gaming needs know I'm at the platform you play it on at amazing prices and incredible weekly deals, check out G2A linked within that video description. So the Prompt Critical is a pistol which drops within Krieg's mind on DLC 4 and while as a stand-on weapon is actually quite decent one of the better to release with DLC 4. But today it gets amped up a little as this one's been infused with another pistol and it's turned out to be a monster. Now credit for this creation goes to Evil X Jokes who creates some of the best gear I've seen. If you'd like to check him out and show him some love and see some of his other creations you will find his channel linked below. So we created a monster in this Prompt Critical he infused it with a Herald and the outcome is insane. Much bigger clip much more damage but it's also kept those two fire emeralds and while it makes short work of most things within this game and while most importantly for me it's fun to use. Now it is at all elemental so there's nothing really to understand in your weight and while using this with my Digiclon in which we all know with this build of any weapon he's a monster but using weapons as such truly do take away from the game.  I know my Hizane build is called the Lazy Zane build where I met most out of that Digiclon because truly with that build you really don't have to do anything and the clone does all the work for you but with this it's on another level and while that Digiclon build my Lazy Zane build makes most weapons look decent to be honest. Handing made decent weapon and the outcome is like tenfold truly a force to be reckoned with. So yo it's obviously no different here with this Herald infused from critical without that one of the best pistols I've used in this game so far and while people if you want to get your hands on this it's pretty simple drop a like on this video leave a comment down below of your game tag and platform of choice and I will pick a few use and drop you a message and you'll get your hands on this weapon before anyone else otherwise join my discord link below while this will be in rotation pretty soon. But yeah guys this thing is a must it's one of the best handcanners I've used in the game isn't stupid overpowered but it is pretty cool and it's super fun to use at the same time and on that note the end of the video has arrived. If you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out. If you're new around here and want to see more BR3 be sure to subscribe if you never want to miss a video upload. You can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button. But guys thanks as always for stopping by. Hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


So, this reminder some background. The problem that I've been I've been interested in come to the last couple of demos that I've been a part of is IPLD and compatibility. So I'd like IPLD I'd like to be able to use IPLD to transport any hash link data structure around its most of its promise. We don't do this except that we need codecs and every implementation in ADLs and every implementation. And we don't really have good spots to put in new ADLs. And then we have problems with large blocks. So last time we talked about finding a good spot for ADLs. And now we'll do codecs for other implementations, which means WebAssembly is sort of our answer. Let me pull up a demo here. I guess as always, our demos are not going to look very fancy. It's just, I tried to load a thing over a gateway, and hey, it works. Because in the background what's happening is that there's just WebAssembly that's doing all of this instead of needing to write custom go code, right. And we can do this for, this is, has both a codec and an ADL. This business over here was the, how do I put ADLs into, or make custom ADLs usable in the IPFS context. Here's another one where we're just doing a look at the raw codec itself. And that's what we've got. You can talk roughly around what's what it's taken to get here. So we have a custom codec called WACC for moving data in and out of assembly. I made a bend code codec for working with the bend code format and an ADL for describing BitTorrent files, written in wasm. Last time I showed it written in go. The motivation behind the WebAssembly codec is to have an easy way to represent the IPLD data model completely to move the data in and out between wasm and the host. Without having to go back and forth repeatedly with lots of unnecessary function calls. And unfortunately none of our existing codecs did the job of fitting the IPLD data model. And so the idea is just something simple. And it's to cover everything, including some things that were a little dicey about like non-UTF8 map keys. And it needs to map everything. So I don't get no fancy map ordering, just represent the data exactly as it is. So I stole some data from Michael who took a stab at something similar in his simple dog and I have a work in progress spec on going down there that will make its way into the IPLD specs repo as it moves along. There's still some things to discuss. Sort of interestingly, almost all of these are pieces of the IPLD data model which are not totally specified or people are a little unhappy about, which is what is a float? How do we think about floats? What happens with these bytes? These bytes, they are non-UTF8 strings that are map keys. What do we do with them? So this is probably a good way to solidify some of the stuff around the data model so more people can make use of it confidently. We have lack implemented and go and rust with the wasm compilation. We have codecs going. It's sort of simple. It's a nice pure function.  So this is sort of a nice use for wasm. ADLs are a little more complicated because I have to hold state as we try and like, I have a humongous file that's gigabytes large. I'm not sending the whole thing back from wasm to the host at one time. But I'm reading it slowly over time. So there's more callbacks. And right now we have these two. And we will be adding more ADL support. I'll give some links for the work that is ongoing. And with that, I will stop and see if anyone has any questions.


Anticipating and preventing CASM continued. So, this here we are talking about the early majority CASM. First, we discussed early adopters' CASM and here we discussed early majorities' CASM. So, this second CASM is a much overlooked gap between the early adopters and the early majority. The early adopters adopted early technology. Now, that technology is not diffusing or the gap has come between it to diffuse to the next group, which is early majority. Now, there is a fundamental difference here. The early adopters also know technology. They want to take the first mover advantage, they want to move ahead from their competition. They want to tell themselves advanced, they want to be visionary, they take their decisions themselves. They don't believe in hair-safe technology. But the early majority are of different types of people. They have different ways of thinking and adopting things. So, if this gap doesn't end in diffusion, then there could be a CASM. So, the second CASM is much overlooked gap between the early adopter and the early majority. The early majority are rationalist, pragmatic, who only buy if the application can be readily integrated in their current processes. They are convinced that this is really successful. Now, the early adopters adopted it. It is very logical that we should adopt it or we will be left behind. Along with that, even in our industry, we are able to adopt this technology technically. They generally use up substantial amount of their budgets on consultants. And other opinion leaders seeking for advice. Consultants point out that they meet opinion leaders to find out what technology is performing in the rest of the industry. And if we adopt that technology, then how useful it can be for us. And does our current infrastructure allow us to easily acquire and apply this technology in our current industrial facility? And they pay heavily on this consultation and they also get a lot of information from here and there. Because all their decision making is not based only on vision, but on logical paradigms. They also expect extensive references from firms in their own industry segment. They want to provide references to those who are already using that technology. Then, a serious difference or lack of fit between early adopters and the early majority. Which is likely to create a widening cash. Unless the entrepreneurial firm succeeds in customizing its services. Unless the entrepreneurial firm succeeds in customizing its sales. Pitch to this pragmatic early majority. You can customize the product and you can customize the information. You can customize the products to the ones you want. These are the references and the information regarding industrial adoption. Those are the questions of who are using it and what are the results after using it. An entrepreneur can facilitate this process by identifying substitutes and highlighting pros and cons for each product then awareness of these potential casp and the underlying mechanisms enables the entrepreneur to prepare in time and take suitable action. If this information needs to be given to the early majority and the reference points need to be given to the early majority, if they do not get the information required, if they do not get positive feedback from the opinion leader, the consultants did not do any positive decision making and the total information flow could be a big gap and there could be a casp and there will be a slowdown in the sales growth so keeping in view these dangers an entrepreneurial marketer should already be prepared and work on these information sources so that the positive information reaches to the early majority which enables him to and which convinces them to adopt this particular technological application. Thank you.


Ho, ho, ho, the ear is coming to your clothes and what have you done this year? One more year gone, are you still alive and what are you alive to? What are you dead to? When was the last time you saw a full moon or a sunrise? When was the last time you gazed at a mountain or the ocean? Or you looked at a butterfly, fly? When was the last time you saw a flower blossom or kicked a ball? When was the last time you smiled at yourself? When was the last time you looked back and could laugh at yourself? For the last few days of the year and the years to come, get into the act and make it happen for yourself. I'm alive.


My name is Julius Tuomisto, this is Janne Karhu, we are also presenting with the SKA, so it's three people. This talk is about Markerless Motion Caption Blender, from our background we are going to give up a little bit of a background and then go into the state of the art, just talk a little bit about all of this. We are going to move into our software, it's called NIMate and the new release of that software which we did this August and then the fun part is actually the demos, we have two demos with us for today and then we're actually lucky enough to have a workshop tomorrow morning, lucky enough 10 o'clock. So for those of you who are interested in 3D cameras and kind of what you could do with, especially with Intel RealSense cameras, then you could take part in that workshop. I'm going to give a little bit of a talk about that later. Like I said, we're three people at the moment, so also a tiny little company from Helsinki Finland. I'm Julius Janne and the essay is going to join on the stage a little bit later. We are specifically a company that develops applications that make use of computer vision and 3D cameras. We've been doing this for the past four or five years and our revenue comes from, just for those interested in kind of how to create business out of 3D software like Blender, then our revenue comes from licensing software and doing custom development stuff for clients. Just to give a brief background for those, I mean most of the people in the room are probably well aware of what is motion capture and performance capture. But just to give a kind of a background, then today's performance capture is aiming to kind of get, instead of getting a generic output out of motion capture and kind of replacing animation in the workflow for any film or production, then performance capture is generally really trying to get to the core of the actor himself. But as you might as those people who are familiar with these systems, they know that these systems are relatively expensive and time consuming to set up. Markerless systems are kind of a more recent development. I guess most of you have kind of, if you think of the image of what is motion capture, most people will immediately think of kind of people in funny suits with tiny little markers and then moving around in a studio environment. Markerless systems are of course a little bit different. They kind of use computer vision to go for a more easy, faster take up time.  So this means equals to more cleaning essentially. So if you've ever worked with motion capture output, then it usually does require cleaning. So it's definitely no substitute for animations always. So examples of Markerless capture systems apart from our own, is a Russian software called IpaSoft and then a German system called Captury. And to be honest, from what I've seen from the Captury, I have to say that their system is probably the most developed Markerless motion capture system. In the market today. Then going into our own software, NMIT, which has been around for I guess now for three and a half years. We released the beta I think January 2012. And NMIT is essentially the name comes from natural interaction made or animate. We kind of in Finnish we always say animate, but actually I later figured out that when we name the software it's not necessarily that in English. But NMIT as a software is not necessarily doesn't aim to compete with these professional solutions that are in the market, but the software tries to provide a kind of an entry level point for people to get in touch with motion capture and to use it in easy workflows. What NMIT does is essentially instead of relying on RGP input, we've hooked up since the beginning, we've focused the earliest version was essentially a Kinect version, so you could use a Kinect for Xbox 360. Now the new version what we've done is essentially we've introduced a number of different new sensors into the software which then have different qualities. We're going to do a demo with the Kinect for Windows, for example the Kinect for Windows has some fantastic qualities which Kinect for Xbox sensor didn't, but then to be honest we found out that a lot of these sensors they have strong points and then they have weak points. So unfortunately you always tend to, when you're doing client work for example, tend to kind of learn the hard way that you cannot really do everything with these sensors. A lot of these, most of the sensors that we work with or actually all of them, all of the ones that are supported by the software are also infrared sensors. So obviously for those people who have any background in infrared or using infrared cameras, they can be difficult to use. Some of the different, one of the main nice points about this, about our tool is that it's, apart from being super easy to set up, is that we do support a number of these different sensors, so you can kind of mix your, if you want to use the leap with the Kinect or if you want to use the real sense with the Kinect for Xbox, you could essentially do that. The use cases are kind of, instead of focusing solely on motion capture in itself, we animate, and to be honest, I mean, Markkala solutions themselves, they are nice in the sense that they offer kind of more use cases than natural, like normal or back, let's say traditional motion capture, whereas you're using markers and so forth. I mean, obviously you're not going to ask somebody who comes to a shopping mall to wear kind of a funny frog suit with markers and then move around to play a game. So one of the nice things about Markkala solutions is exactly that, that you can employ them in environments which wouldn't naturally, or you wouldn't use a normal traditional motion capture system. We have a range of plugins for NIMED. There's one for Blender, obviously, that's why we're here. Our background, of course, is a lot in Blender, but we have some plugins for other software as well. But today, I mean, for the past, like I said, for the past couple of years we've been working on, or let's say one and a half years we really worked a lot on the new version of NIMED and in order to, the new, the cool thing about this new version is that we are able to really support a range of these sensors. So today we're going to kind of announce that we've now put out support for Intel RealSense, and personally I feel that RealSense is kind of, it's a boon for us in that it's the first system that's actually been integrated really into a range of laptops and devices. So for us, obviously, it's an interesting market, but it also, I think that it also verifies and legitimizes the kind of 3D camera as an input device because of the fact that you can actually buy a laptop from a shop with these cameras. But today, basically, we're making NIMED available for anybody with a RealSense camera. So now you can basically, because of this work, you can run your RealSense and you can use Blender with it. And in order to kind of demonstrate what you can do with that, we're going to do first a Kinect for Windows demo. So this is actually a client work that we did for a company called Celialine, a big boating company that works out of Helsinki and Stockholm. And basically what this demonstrates is an actual business use case for these sensors. Whereas we've hooked up, there's a kind of a game, this demonstration has been done in the Blender game engine and we were running it in kiosks around Finland and also now on the ships themselves. And essentially the nice thing about this is that we are actually also this one, we're using smile detection. So it's not only a kind of a connected game, but we're also taking input from the face, doing some facial expression recognition and then applying it on an actual client case. So if you want to, will I do it? So Janne is going to take over. Okay, so here we have an animate already running and it's now connected to the Kinect for Windows sensor here. And then this game, it's all done in Blender. There are quite a lot of stuff going on, but if I now then actually show that what it looks like when it's running, let's see. Okay, now you lose this detected by the sensor. Actually if you can first move a bit away so it isn't tracking you. So basically this is how it's going on a portrait display. So that's why the aspect ratio is like that. And then once it detects that there's somebody to play, it first gives some instructions and you can directly see that Julius can move the character and then you can play a half a minute of game to see how many times you hit the ball over the line. But one of the nice things is that because we have also smile detection or emotion detection, although I don't know if it could be the lighting with that too many shadows. I'm doing my best to smile. Harry isn't smiling. What should be happening is that the seal would also smile when you smile. So it gives that extra bit of nice interactivity. So essentially this is a piece of work that we did as a consultation work for a client just a kind of an example use case of Marcus motion capture for a client that you could do. And the nice use case, of course, that fun part of our party is that it's playing a game engine that is running in an actual environment. So this is that you can play this game on these boats from Helsinki to Stockholm and back actually today. But unfortunately the smile detection is not working so. Demo effect. Just to keep in schedule, let's see how short we can keep this talk. But we have another one. This one is more funny. I can't see. I can't see it on Rosendahl in the house. So yes, can you do something about that? So yeah. So what we are not going to be doing is a slight bit of animation using my own face. It would be better if Tom was around. Is Tom Rosendahl here? Is Tom Rosendahl in the house? No. Let's call Tom. So this demonstration is kind of gives a two way look into 3D cameras. I mean you get two use cases and one in this one. No Tom? So we have this model here. It seems to be a human being. And if we enable the texture, we can see the stone. If anybody remembers from last year, we had part scanning people so. So first of all I'm going to enable the plugin we are using with Enamate. This is actually the new plugin. It's not available yet. We can put it online soon. But the thing it does is that it creates this new menu and I can start receiving data from Enamate. And if I go here and first do a tiny bit of calibration. Okay. So right now Enamate is detecting my face. I can turn my face. There's this display with my facial gestures on it. And if I'm not going blender. So the system we are using here is quite simple. It's simply we are using these landmark points and we turn them into facial action units which are then received in blender and we are controlling some very simple shape keys. He's a gymnast also Tom. Very flexible. Anyway, we are going to be demonstrating this more tomorrow in the workshop show. If you're interested you can even try it there. So if you can put on the last slide. So we're going to try to keep this one on time. So we're going to run just short of 20 minutes. Basically you can download Enamate today to get started with Intel RealSense. Or any of your existing sensors. We support the leap motion, Kinect for Windows, Kinect for Xbox and all of them open N9 devices. If you're here, if you're taking part in the actual event which is actually awesome. It's always awesome. This I think is my seventh time here. Then definitely take part in tomorrow's workshop. If you can make it, it's 10 o'clock. It's a terrible time. But if you can make it, take part and unleash your 3D camera. The nice thing in the workshop, so we'll be going through these actual use cases. We'll make sure that Harry will smile tomorrow. We'll make sure we'll be doing these demonstrations giving a kind of a more detailed background into them. We also have Yunus Kulberg from Intel. Intel telling us a little bit about, so the workshop is a cooperation between us and Intel. Yunus will be telling a little bit about RealSense cameras at the event. But we'll be also giving out some SDKs so you can get started. You could basically walk out with a speaking tone tomorrow if you want. We'll also be giving some examples of things that we haven't unleashed in terms of RealSense and things that you could do if you're a developer for the future. For example, we'll be talking about 3D scanning. If somebody wants to get scanned tomorrow, we can do that and then we can hook you up, we can animate you if you want to talk with tone in the digital version. And so forth. But we'll be giving kind of a more in detail talk about all this stuff that we presented today. Hopefully you'll make it. And if not, thank you for your time. There's a little bit of time. So if anybody has any questions, please feel free. Yeah, I mean, I could maybe be on the floor here. Yeah, that was pretty much the main reason why we started working on NIMate version 2. Old NIMate didn't really allow you to have multiple sensors running at the same time. But now if your computer is powerful enough, you can basically run however many sensors you want. But essentially, if your question is whether we do fusion in terms of the motion capture, unfortunately not. So we are aiming to go for that somewhere in the future. But at the moment it's kind of a dummy system where all the input is just coming in and then you need to filter it out. Okay, all right, thanks. Another question. Can you use record two person at the same time, meaning that you have two person interacting like in a martial arts scenario or something? Yeah, I mean, it depends on the sensor. It really depends on, for example, the Kinect for Windows. You could do this also with the old Xboxes. You could do this definitely. It depends on the use case. So because we rely on the input that's coming out of the SDKs, the software, the tracking is as good as the SDKs, essentially. Thanks. Any more questions? Okay, so you can catch us also just come talk if you're shy today and we'll be here. Thanks.


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Did you ever wonder if the food you eat has a direct effect on your health, well-being, and longevity? Well, I'm here to end that mystery.  Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger. Today, it's part three in our series on the coronary procedure known as stents. It probably comes as no surprise, but over and over, studies have shown that doctors tend to make different clinical decisions for patients based on how much they will get personally paid. In 2007, we learned from the courage trial that angioplasty and stents don't reduce the risk of death or heart attack, but patients didn't seem to get the memo. Only 1% realized that there was no mortality or heart attack benefit, perhaps because cardiologists failed to happen to mention this little fact. I mean, one can imagine that if patients actually understood all they were getting was symptomatic relief, then they'd be less likely to go under the knife. But then, 10 years later, the orbiter trial was published showing even the promise of symptom relief was an illusion. The implications are profound and far-reaching. First and foremost, the results showed unequivocally that there are no benefits to angioplasty and stents for stable heart disease. So, basically, patients would be risking harm for no benefit whatsoever. So, it's hard to imagine a scenario where a fully informed patient would choose an invasive procedure for nothing. So, is the orbiter trial the last nail in the coffin for stents in non-emergency situations? In that editorial, the Journal of Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine disagreed, pointing to the broad angina relief that occurred in both arms. In other words, stents helped, even if the fake operation without stents helped just as much. So, hey, if I give a patient a stent and they are benefiting from the placebo effect, well, who am I to interfere with that benefit of this quote-unquote therapy? Well, why not do fake surgeries? I mean, stent placement can go for like $40,000. It'd be cheaper to just fake the whole thing. But the reason we shouldn't keep electively stenting people is because there's a body count. During stent placement, 2% of patients develop bleeding or blood vessel damage, and another 1% die or have a heart attack or a stroke.  Why are they still done? Well, we don't just have no evidence of benefit, but in many cases explicit evidence of no benefit. One of the sources of resistance may be all the financial gain. These procedures make a lot of money for hospitals. Don't expect them to be promoting a lifestyle changes anytime soon. Nor will physicians quickly abandon the practice. That seems to make sense and supports their income. Is it that simple? I mean, is it that famous Upton Sinclair quote on how difficult it is to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it? Think that's just cynicism? Let's ask doctors themselves. Thousands of physicians were surveyed, and 70% believe that physicians provide unnecessary procedures when they profit from them. That's what doctors themselves believe, and the data bears this up. Doctors have been shown to make different clinical decisions for patients based on how much they get paid. For example, when choosing which chemotherapy to treat breast cancer, increasing a physician's margin by 10% can yield up to a 177% increase in the likelihood of choosing one drug over another. That may be why cesarean sections are more likely to be performed in for-profit hospitals compared to non-profit hospitals. Operating on commission. Pay surgeons per procedure, and you can increase surgery rates 78%. Could that explain why we do 101% more angioplasties than any other rich countries? A study on physician financial incentives and treatment choices and heart attack management found that they do indeed respond to payments, and the response is quite large. Unconditionally, plans that pay physicians more for more invasive treatments seem to result in more invasive treatments. So it may actually be quite common for patients to receive different treatments based on whether the doctor is getting paid per procedure. One of my heroes, Dr. Akalbaal Asselstyn, who always tries to see the best in people, even he had to break down and admit that compensation may be playing a role after evidence surfaced that docs are running up millions doing unnecessary stent implants. Docs like Mark Middieye, who inserted 30 in a single day. That could be like a million dollars worth of billing. As a token of their gratitude, a sales rep from the stent company spent $2,000 to buy him a whole slow-smoked pig, peach cobbler, and all the fixes were the only developed country where healthcare is delivered like this. It explained that chief of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, the economic incentives are just too strong. Finally, we look at how cardiologists can criminally game the system by telling a patient they have a much more serious, unstable disease than they really have. Fraud that results in unnecessary procedures, unnecessary costs, and unnecessary patient harm. The history of medicine abounds with false dogmas that were simply assumed, and later, sometimes much too long later, overcome. Like the Women's Health Initiative study, the show that giving women premarin hormone replacement therapy increased the risk of the number one killer of women heart disease, as well as breast cancer risk to boot. Millions of women stopped taking it, and the breast cancer rates came down. Another such reversal of established medical practice is angioplasty and stents for stable coronary artery disease, for which billions are spent on procedures shown unequivocally to offer no benefits. So why are cardiologists still doing them? Researchers did some focus groups and concluded that, although cardiologists may believe that they're benefiting their patients, this belief appears to be based on emotional and psychological factors, rather than on evidence. The sense of irrationality surrounding this practice is so strong that the phenomenon has been coined the oculostinotic reflex, like you see are narrowing and they stent it like they can't even help it. Since the procedure carries some risk, including death, there's an argument that stents should only be used for people who are actively having heart attacks in an emergency or unstable situation. Thankfully, there are now published appropriate use criteria in place to help guide cardiologists, and the good news is that now 82% of stents are reported to be performed in these emergency or unstable situations, so we can disregard that study that showed there's no benefit in stable patients, since now it's almost always done, just in unstable patients like it should be, or at least it's almost always reported that way. There are two ways a physician could comply with the rules. One is to do fewer unnecessary procedures, which is the whole point, but hey, where's the money in that? The other way to comply is to make unnecessary procedures seem necessary. Wait, are they implying that a doctor would try to game the system by telling a patient that they had much more serious unstable disease than they actually had, so they could carry out the procedure anyway? This is referred to up-coding. Another word for it would be fraud. Researchers found that some of that decline in inappropriate use may indeed be doctors falsely and intentionally misclassifying patients with stable angina as unstable angina, because as soon as those appropriate use criteria went into effect, all of a sudden there was suspiciously a 4-10-fold increase in the rates of stents for acute coronary syndromes like heart attacks. In New York, the proportion of stents labeled as acute, but performed as outpatient procedures increased 14-fold. There's no biologically plausible reason why that would happen, so they were unnecessary procedures, unnecessary cost, and unnecessary patient harm. Harm not only from the risk of getting an unnecessary stent, but also by lying to the patient by exaggerating how bad their heart disease is. At best, this practice damages the credibility of the profession, violates patient autonomy, and puts the patient at risk for complications, and at worst may cross the threshold into criminal activity. What's the solution? There could be like an independent review panel to protect patients, or we could simply remove the financial incentive to perform more procedures. How many other established standards of medical care are wrong? Who knows? Bloodletting with standard of care for thousands of years. Rigorous questioning of long-established practices is difficult. I mean, there are thousands of clinical trials, but most deal with trivialities or efforts to buttress the sales of specific products. Given this conundrum, it's possible that some entire medical subspecialties are based on little evidence. Ironically, in the case of heart stents, in the landmark courage trial that showed stents were useless for extending life, what did seem to determine longevity was how many risk factors they were able to control. Those that nailed all six by lowering their blood pressure, cholesterol, weight smoking, and improving their diets in activity had five times the survival of the subsequent 14 years than those who didn't. I mean, should we be surprised that angioplasty and stents failed to improve prognosis? I mean, after all, it does nothing to modify the underlying disease process itself. In other words, it doesn't treat the cause. Even if stents helped with symptoms beyond the placebo effect, it would still just be treating the symptoms and not the disease. And so, no wonder the disease continues to progress until the patient is disabled into death. Thus, Dr. Osselstyn wrote, The leading killer of men and women in Western civilization is being left untreated. What is instead being practiced is palliative cardiology, non-treatment of heart disease, leading to disease extension and frequently and eventually fatal outcome. Deaths by the plane load every week just regarded as unfortunate rather than a national preventable tragedy. It's as though in ignoring this dairy oil and animal product-based illness, we are wedded to provide futile attempts at temporary symptomatic relief rather than the cure. Thankfully, we are on the cusp of a seismic revolution in health, not another pill, a procedure, or operation, but instead treating the underlying cause of heart disease with whole food, plant-based nutrition. Perhaps the mightiest tool medicine has ever had in its toolbox. To get there, we need to fight a key nutrition deficiency in education. 90% of cardiologists, 90% reported receiving no or minimal nutrition education during their cardiology training, leaving fewer than one in 10 confident in their nutrition knowledge. So maybe it's a good thing that most spend three minutes or less discussing nutrition with their patients. Only one in five themselves even ate five servings of fruits and veggies a day. Thankfully, this life-saving information is slowly but surely getting out there. Medical education is focused on being the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff rather than a fence at the top. Money talks, very little money, promoting eating broccoli and going for a walk. It was so eager to see the citation they used for that and was so honored when I did. We would love it if you could share with us your stories about reinventing your health through evidence-based nutrition. Go to nutritionfacts.org slash testimonials. We may share it on our social media to help inspire others. To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, studies mentioned here, please go to the Nutrition Facts podcast landing page. There you'll find all the detailed information you need plus links to all the sources we cite for each of these topics. 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