Hey there friends, how's it going? My name is Kevin and today we are playing More A Bit Life. I like to come back to this every now and again because it makes me feel like I'm actually doing something with my life even though it's all virtual and through an app. But let's just gloss over that and get started. Oh my god, that shakes everything. This was the first video I ever watched of me. A rambling intro. My mic is squeaking like I don't know what and my camera is shaking all over the place. Welcome to the channel. All right, we're gonna start a life and today we're going to be a serial killer. I have done some killing in this game before in the game. All right, not in real life. That's not an admission of anything. I came across with paranoid. It's like he's definitely killed someone. I've killed a few people but I've not actually been like a proper serial killer and that's what I'm going to try and do today. I want a body count. First name, not second name, guilty. Perfect. Now they can't bring me to court. The judge is like, okay, not guilty. And I'm like, thank you. Unless they call me Mr. Guilty, which could look bad. All right, where is the legal system? Pretty soft on crime. Ireland, I am ready to go. Start not life. You're suffering from the flu. I'm two years old. Oh no. Parents, please vaccinate me. Oh my god, I thought it said I died. It's the cat. I am depressed. Jesus Christ. This is making a murderer. I'm on the verge of death and I have depression at age three. Someone was acting up. So I said battle her. So I stormed her. I loosened her eyeball. I detached her throat. I inverted her patella.  And she died from her injuries. We've made a seven year old murderer. Oh, I'm finally good at something. Now we're going on a family vacation as a reward.  She's informing the other students that I'm privately studying to be a space cadet. That's my private business. Duke it out. You attacked your teacher when she dodged you. Jesus Christ. You want to insult the headmaster? Yeah, you've been expelled. You can murder the other students, but when you insult the headmaster, that's too fair. Okay. So these nine years have been a bit rough. Yes, my depression is gone. Also, I'm starting to wonder if my dad is in a gang for some reason. If he's in a gang, can he give me money, please? Two euro.   Are you seriously going to say that? I already have one kill. There we go. I stretched his hip. What? I don't know if I attacked him or I just gave him a massage. My girlfriend is pregnant. Yeah, keep the baby. Go into finance and ask my parents to pay. What? You just climbed? All right, you've been added to the list. All right, my son is called Framed My Dad. Second name guilty. Just planning ahead for the future. You know, it's good to have a scapegoat. I'll name the second child scapegoat. I'm minus two grand. Oh, sweet Jesus. How come lead actor comes up immediately for this person? My last episode, I tried the whole time to become an actor and it wasn't coming up. A porn set janitor. That's related to film. Exorcist. That would be so good. Good murder people on behalf of the church. They're very good at covering up crimes. All right, let's see. Who are we going to kill here? Cat's already dead. My dad's in a gang, so I think I'll go for the mom first. Oh, she did just give me 18 bucks though. That's a lot more than two.  He died. Okay, great. Your father passed away. He was murdered. Shhh. I tend the funeral. Okay, good. I didn't get caught. This is all to a great start. I think people just don't care about murder in Ireland. It's time to vaccinate your son, Framed My Dad. And now it's another way of murdering.  I definitely kill the right parent. God, I'm making every right decision so far.  What will you do? Oh, forgive and forget, but then murder her. Oh, Jim Pickens is my friend. Honestly, they're very similar, so I can understand. They probably bond over this.  She died. I'm getting away with murder like literally every time. While at the gym, you met a female named Grace Edwards, age 18. Yeah, ask her on a date.   I don't know, but I'm offended. You've been handcuffed and taken into Irish custody. You got the wrong guy. It was my son framed my dad and I lost my job. This is bad. I attempt to wait. Actually, appeal my sentence first. I don't have enough money for anyone. Oh, sweet Jesus escaping and this is hard. Oh, sugar. Okay, feckin run, feckin run. There you go. Escaped frame my dad. You framed me. Club them. I clubbed everyone. Okay, he died. You had sent back to prison for 154 years. I escaped for a day to club my son and then I just get immediately put back in. This looks easy. Just feckin run for the door. Look at that. I'm out. They put me in the lowest security prison ever. It's got a literal revolving door at the front. Okay, quick. While I'm out, who can I murder? Jim Peckins is the competition, but I have a feeling that that could go wrong, like I could end up dying. Should I try and leave the country? Was that be a good idea? Where doesn't have the death penalty? I'm just going to try Serbia. Damn it. All right, emigrate illegally. Shit, I got caught. You've been deported. Oh, shh. Okay. Resist arrest. 210 years. You're supposed to be soft on crime. Soft. All right, look at him. He's blocking the feckin entrance. Like, feck off. Okay, run past him. Run past him. Wait, I'm actually going past him for a second there. Oh, now I'm depressed again. I'm getting out of here. Look at this. Just feckin run. Like, you're definitely not supposed to be able to get out like that. It makes my job a whole lot easier, though. My job being murder. I need some cash. Maybe I could burgle someone first. Professional athlete.  Oh, this might have been a mistake. Steal his teddy bear. Oh, I got caught by his poodle. All right, I got away with it at least. Can I kill him?  Maybe I'll get some inheritance. I always club people. I just love clubbing. I'm really hip.  She called the police. Mom, why the betrayal? Watch this. I can outrun anyone except that poodle. This guard, not a prop. Okay, never mind. Oh, hold on. No, never mind that. Hold on. Stop. No, stop. You notice some fiending meth heads slurping at the wounds of a freshly imprisoned tweaker. What lead?  Give me really hard jail cells to escape from. Okay, I just about did it. All right, mom, where are you? A random troll. No, no, no. That could be me. All right, let's try clubbing my mom again. She called the police. How hard is it to hit someone with a stick? She died. Yes. I got sent back to prison for 2,563 years. Wait, while exhausted in an overcrowded cell, you realize you will have to share a bed with another inmate if you want to lie down. This is a risky move. Which will you choose? I think the tax evaders probably safest. I'm the danger here. They're locked in with me. Okay, I think I got to try and leave the country. This isn't going well. Let's try and go to Spain. Somewhere nice and warm. I love Spain. I got deported. I keep getting busted. How do I get out of here? I've got sent back to prison for 9,656 years.  He just keeps escaping and they don't even seem like they're really attempting to keep him locked up. Like, he just keeps running out the door. Okay, on the subreddit, it seems like if you get a sex change, you might be able to get out of there. Okay, who is willing to give me a sex change? I can't afford it. Is there any budget option? There is. That's a bit cheaper. 18,000. I can probably save up enough for that. Or I could do the lottery. I didn't win.  You keep doing the lottery until you win the jackpoint, get a January assignment surgery, and then emigrate illegally. Honestly, maybe you should just buy a boat. Okay, I've wasted over a thousand euros trying to win the lottery. I think it might not be the way to go. But yet, here I am still doing it. I can't get myself to stop. I keep just thinking one more try and I just keep going. Okay, yeah, this is like two grand at this point. So I'm just going to do it once more and then I'm going to stop. Not including that one. That was a practice. Okay, yeah, stopping. Okay, that's like two grand gone. Okay, this plan was bad. Oh dear, dear, dear. Right, a farmer. Come on, I could, I could be a farmer. Why am I disclosing my criminal record? Exorcist, come on, please. Oh yes, the church forgives. Yes, I got hired. I'm no longer suffering from depression. I've been handcuffed. Come on, church, protect me. This is like your specialty. Great, now I'm in prison for 19,314 years, but I have enough money for a sex change. I'm out.   It was botched.  Can I sue them? Okay, I'm going to need to find money before I can sue them. Let's do the lottery and hope we can win that. Shit. All right, I'm feeling murdery. Killed my brother with a club. They'll never know it was me. He died. I got a referral from a friend. The only friend I have is Jim Pickens. God, he's good at what he does. Oh my God, I keep getting arrested. 39,000 years. Oh my God, I actually got out pretty well there. I figured it out by accident. Usually I just brute force my way just to hit in the bottom. Maybe I should try and get to the middle one. I just, I want enough money. Yeah, if I could get a hundred thousand, this would be pretty good. I might be able to actually leave the country. Okay, I got a job as a janitor. Oh, mailman offered me some Adderall. Just my postcards, please. You got to stop doing this. No, I'm taking it.  Let's just stay out. Jesus Christ, do not get involved. I'm just trying to stay out of jail.  A cockatoo. Yeah, keep it as a pet. You need to give your new male cockatoo a new name, dinner. All right, I saved a bit of money from being a janitor. Now I'm going to do the lawsuit. You can't think of anyone to sue. Did they die or something? All right, look, go to the other doctor and get a gender reassignment. I can go back to the same one. Yeah, go for it. Then if they botch it, I'll just sue them. Oh, they were successful this time. I guess that works too. I'm going to change my name to Supernaut. So it's Supernaut guilty. I'm now female. I am now Supernaut guilty. All right, let's say I'm a crazy. You were caught sneaking into Thailand. Well, I'm in jail for 77,000 years. I'm starting to think I'm never going to get out of the country, so I might just murder someone. Jim Pickens, you're up next. He died. Okay, this is definitely fiction because I would have lost that fight. I hid my best friend Jim over his head with a stick that I found. He died. Find someone to love. Let's just see. Dating app and now kill her. She died. It's been a good year. That's two kills under the belt. Maybe I could be a warm picker. I just want something that won't give me into the police. Yes. Okay, I got a job. Oh my God. Dinner keeps attacking me. He clawed my breast.  How do I kill him? I could sell him. How much money do I get? 1,300.  Be good to him.  I don't care. I got arrested. Jesus Christ. Let's get some more surgery. Facelift maybe? It was botched.  Oh my God. My health is 1%. Jesus Christ. Look for 100,000 and just the cheapest people, please. You lost. Well, in fact, my happiness is zero. My health is one and my looks is zero. Well, time to kill. The only thing that seems to go well in my life, there we go. He died and I got sent back to prison for 312,000 years. But yet this is the jail they put me in where I could just walk out. My happiness went up a good chunk after that murder though. Rob a little old lady. Oh God. Oh God. Trying to rob as much stuff as I can.  Look at all these people. Get a murdering. It's always with a club. I don't know how they don't catch me. Okay, they caught me. All right, I need to kill that person who handed me in. How dare she do that? Yes, she died. Perfect. And I only got sent back to prison for 2.5 million years. I could become an escort with 0% looks. I got denied. I wonder why. You were concerned because your best friend, Kate's use of heroin is spiraling out of control. Let her continue abusing it. Just another way of murdering her really.  And can you show me how? A butcher? Can I use a club? Facking bunions. I get bunions every single play through.  Makes me angry. Yes. Another successful kill. Jesus Christ, 999 million years in prison. Nightlife. Go clubbing. I love clubbing. Humiliated. The bouncer won't let you into the club. Oh, wrong type of clubbing. Murder it is then.  Do they keep just doubling my prison sentence? What is this? My last friend. I got to get rid of them. She called the police on me. Is that what a friend would do? I'm coming for you now, friend. There we go. She died. And I've sent back to prison for what? 1.5 billion years? Is that it?  Okay, I just walked right by him. He just came right up to me and he was like, you haven't seen any prisoners trying to escape, have you?  You're super not guilty. Look at how long this takes just to go into the activities menu. I don't know is it trying to calculate like how many years I'm supposed to be in prison for or what it is? Well, this has never happened before and it's taking so long. I just have to click it and then just sit here and wait. There we go. Oh my God. Why did I do that?  I forgot what I was going in there for and I just did the lottery and that was over like that and now I have to wait again. How do I keep making friends? I don't want any friends. Yes. Okay. They're all gone. Bad time to realize that I start every video and hey, they're friends. You should be scared right now. Why do you want to be my friend? Murder. There we go. She's dead. And I got sent back to prison for I'm not even going to try and read that. Okay. This is taking so long. I think I actually have to close it and I'm going to try and reopen it and just hope I don't lose my person because the super not guilty is doing super well in life. All right.  That legit took like half an hour to load up again. So I think we're kind of screwed. Also, the lighting might have changed much like me. It was a happy accident. I think it actually made it better. I'm a bit worried about this person because every option takes so long to load that I don't feel like we can live out the rest of their life. Honestly, I think I'd die before they would. What if I just go on vacation and just don't come back? Okay. How come I can get there? No problem of one vacation. Just stay there. Jesus Christ.  I think my final victim has to be me. At least then I'll go down in history as the person that killed the worst serial killer ever. I'll be famous. All right. I killed another person. I'm hoping they'll go to jail and I'll just like start a riot or something and get myself killed. Because honestly, the jail menu isn't too bad. I think because there's not as many options, but in the normal menu, I'm just out here getting depression. And to be honest, I don't blame them. Okay. I have tuberculosis. I'm definitely going to die. All right. It took like 20 minutes when I'm in prison. Thank God. They're been so happy to be in prison for seven billion years. I think I just do my time and then get out and retire in Florida. I died. And I just died immediately. That's like karma coming back like in real life to get me for stuff I did in a game. Even the dead screen took so long to load. Oh, well, it's probably better off that they're just dead. Well, I guess we'll leave it there. It wasn't such a happy ending, but I guess we caused a lot of bad endings along the way as well. So it all evens out. I really hope you enjoyed the video. I know I did. I really, really love playing bit life. So if you want to see more, do let me know in the comments. I appreciate you watching as always. I feel very, very fortunate that so many of you support me the way you do. And I hope to see you next time. Bye for now.


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It this place looks fantastic, but I'm not alone. That's true. I have friends caution Taylor at work because this is a brand new resort really don't know where to go and The only thing I do know is we're going to the 16th floor. We're going to the top look at that Toledo The Dolly Lounge Look at that Touchscreen elevators 16th floor, please And Nardi knows it knows where you're going. So it's like look it says 16 right there. Oh my lord This is this is fancy. I don't know. I think I'm a class Yeah, hi tech should be good Oh boy Oh man, look at this place Pretty amazing Our reservation isn't for another like 45 minutes We're gonna hang out at the Dolly Lounge because the views are spectacular over there and it looks pretty nifty Definitely looks pretty nifty Look at it in here Wow New favorite lounge right here hands down Yep, I Think I found a new favorite lounge Yep Look at these beautiful pictures of Salvador Dolly and Walt Disney. Look at this Staring at Walt's train So if you guys don't know this is the inspiration for this hotel and it was a remarkable event when it happened and Honestly, I think it's so cool to have a little history Before I actually sit down I really got to take a look at this view out here. Oh My word Look at this Swan and dolphin tower of terror Galaxy's Edge Look at that Blizzard's Beach Oh my lord Mount Everest Wow This might be a better view than the California grill All right, it's time We're getting ready to go in our table is ready and look it's starting to get very busy here. I Say him well like it's my first time seeing it even though I've just been in here. It still caught me off guard So we opted for a window seat and we actually asked for this and they well They accommodated us we asked for a window seat and they said yeah Let's see what we got and then they offered this one So it's actually really nice of them and they don't like to say no so if they can do it They'll say yes, and that's Disney for you Look at the fancy menus. I Like it. They have a like separate. So you got tapas beverage food. Look at that. Oh Yeah, I Think I'm gonna get myself an Estrella Dampel Lager because that looks pretty good from Spain and it's eight dollars a draft So somebody actually ordered us the octopus Tapa right here and that was very nice of them. It just showed up. We don't know who it is yet, but thank you Whoever sent this over to the table and we're excited to try it. I have never eaten octopus before So this is gonna be Something special I tell you that I'm not so much afraid of the octopus itself I'm afraid of all of the other garnishes and stuff that's on it There it is oh Boy and also we got a tomato bread appetizer. This looks good actually though I'm so scared Look at this little nifty thing that holds your silverware this is for the tapas, but look how nice these silverware is heavy, too I'm doing it Right here Going Honestly, I like the bread better than the octopus It's really really good and this what is this tomato like? Crushed tomatoes and olive oil goes amazing on this bread. It's like jelly almost Look at that cider Oh Josh is definitely the cider king when it comes to ciders.   We got sardine muscles. What's the other one blue cheese? Look at that I will not be eating any of that I'll do anchovy and manchego first I tried octopus for the first time now Josh is gonna try an anchovy for the first time momentum occasion How do you feel about that? So while we were waiting for our other Tapas to come out I decided to come over here and take a good view of the other side and look at this This is all of Coronado. You can see expedition Everest over there and Space mountain right over there a little bit to the right, but it's very pretty Wait a second Josh had the same idea This is the tapas bar look at this Wow There's that octopus There's the chorizo some sure. Oh what is happening there? Wow Discover the magic Wow look at those octopus How's that smell? It smells good very good very good. Oh hit it again Look at this We came back because the special churros are here and this is a take on churros That's a little bit different a little bit spicy. Oh, I'm excited Josh me and Taylor are gonna finish those up All right, it's enough. No he needs to he doesn't like churros Okay I'm gonna try without the sauce Because I know Taylor was eyeing those up to and I was eyeing them up like yes They are really good So the waitress just said to sprinkle a little lemon over it I'm gonna take your old piece that you broke off there. Oh That's probably not been in sauce. Nope. Oh, all right All right, so we're gonna do that And see how it comes out So we just ordered our entrees Taylor got the steak the filet Josh got the chop the pork chop and I'm going with the red wine braised chicken So should be good even though we ate a lot we had a lot of like octopus the chorizo Why didn't eat any of the Mussels though, so oh and the tomato bread Yeah, they're not too bad. Oh, yeah So one thing about Toledo is they don't have access to outside balconies only in the lounge area So I decided to come back over to the lounge area because the sun's getting down a little bit And I really want to take a look outside Oh Look at it all Such a really cool relaxing spot seats and chairs out here, too. I like it So as it gets more towards nighttime This actually changes colors And if you're looking for a firework view you have to be on this side to the left to see anything Magic Kingdom Lies and then on the right side you can see Hollywood Studios and a little bit of Epcot, but Honestly, probably the best firework viewing is probably gonna be for Hollywood Studios because even the Magic Kingdom one It's only a slight little tiny Corner that you can actually see any fireworks from but we're gonna hang out and Hopefully watch the Tower of Terror light up and some of the flares from Star Wars galactic spectacular You know that great feeling when you leave and use the restroom and come back and your food's at the table That just happened for me.  I got the chicken because it looks phenomenal. Look at this Wow for all first thoughts is this looks amazing. Yeah, this looks really good. I know These are potato chips Look at this I Have never had chicken this tender before look at this it's pulled apart. Oh my god This is amazing $28 that's $32 and that's like 38 That's not bad like these prices are fairly good for Disney prices This is not a signature restaurant. It has to be a singer. I mean look at this who says this is not a signature restaurant Seriously though this chicken. I'm like blown away Potato chips the tomato rice the carrots and then the chicken itself. I'm like wow Oh boy, I cleared the plate or bowl look at this thing I Gotta say that chicken dish Was probably the best chicken dish. I've had in Disney World history or property or everything But now I'm gonna see if we can take a sneak peek at the Magic Kingdom to see if we can see any fireworks So we can't really see much of Magic Kingdom But they told me I can come into the Moonlight room which look at this place you get a little quietness And you get to see the wine racks and look this is the main strip of lights It's going right down the grand destino and right over there yonder Is actually space mountain I'm excited So josh actually came over on the other side because people are lining up To see uh, I guess illuminations, right? Can you see much Ah very very very you look right over there you can see the Tower of Terror Oh, yeah Actually we went out to the balcony to see if we could see a little bit of illuminations And it's better actually watching it in here But you can't see anything because I can't film through the glass But I'll try to get you a good perspective of what it looks like Now see it's really tough Oh, yeah, maybe right there like that look at that teamwork Oh, yes, look at that Look at that fireworks view Oh That's it had a great time food was amazing the lighting in here is fantastic And uh, yeah So uh, they're gonna head out and I'm gonna probably hang out by the water a little bit, but I'm glad I had a great company Awesome Look at the outside I came out here after saying bye to josh and taylor because this is what I was looking for look at this And you can look straight into like the lounge area Unbelievable I like it a lot. I like the water. I like all of it beautiful resort So I think that's gonna do it for me. I had such a phenomenal night tonight with josh and taylor We had a ball dinner was fantastic everything from the octopus The chicken to oh man, there's some oh the tomato bread everything. I really enjoyed everything there Probably in my top five favorite restaurants I know that's a big number to say top five of but I love it here atmosphere wise probably top three Unbelievable. I will definitely be back. I don't want to leave actually But uh, I guess it's time for me to go. So, uh, love the life you live and uh, we'll see you next time Bye


It's wonderful to see the range of people who are interested in space, who are contributing to space, and we shouldn't make light of the fact that we have more and more artists and more and more people coming from outside the industry to give some help to those of us who have been in it for some time. How do I get the, do you get, oh, okay, there you go. So I'm going to do something a little different today. I'm going to start with the future and then go into who we are. They had asked me to come up and talk about plans for our own private space station. And so I begin with that, and then I'll give some background on our company, Nanorex. The way we look at it, you just heard from Virgin Orbit. We heard from, we all know all the launch vehicles. You know there's 70, 80, 90 companies working launch vehicles. And what the last decade has been really the decade of finally having the opportunity to get to space in a variety of different ways. What we see over the next two decades is that it's going to witness a revolution in destinations. And you know right now we have one space station. We call them outposts going forward, but one space station. I'm very lucky. In the 90s I worked on the Russian space station Mir. And I helped commercialize it. And the International Space Station is my second space station. And I guess I'm going for the trifecta. I hope to work on more than two. And I've really spent my career working on space stations. And finally, through advances in technology, we see the opportunity. Not only the advances in technology, but finally the robustness of the transportation. Gives us a chance to talk about having outposts in space. And I'll talk more about what we're thinking. So the way we're looking at it now, we don't want to go from having one space station in the 90s to one space station today to maybe two with, let's say, the Chinese. That's not an ecosystem. That's not a marketplace. We had that already in transportation with the space shuttle. We had one. It doesn't do any good from a market viewpoint. So what we envision, what we want, what we're working at at NANRx, is to have multiple space stations in different orbits. Some accrued. Some are robotic. Some are for industrial manufacture. Some are for tourists. But how do you do that? It's really expensive. And so we brought back an old von Braun idea. And on the left, this is a little bit wrong. Well, I'll explain. In 1960, von Braun won a von Braun. And importantly for me to say, as director of Marshall Space Flight Center, not in his previous occupation, OK? But as director, it's important. I mean, I should just simply say, the director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in the 1960s said, look, if we want to do space stations, let's reuse the second stage of a vehicle once the fuel is spent. Can we reuse it as a facility, a platform? And on the left is von Braun's handwritten design for the Saturn. And he wanted the second stage to be, there's the Saturn V conversion. And so his goal was to make that a space station. And in fact, America's first space station, Skylab, was a second stage of a Saturn. However, the technology at the time did not permit it to be a spent second stage. The technology and all the furnishings was done on the ground. It was just an empty second stage that went up as a space station. On the right, the diagram's a little off. On the right, NASA looked at it again in the 1980s with the shuttle program and said, can we do this now in the 1980s? And this is from NASA in the 80s with the external tank. And still they said, nope, we can't do it. So NASA has a program called Next Steps. And as you'll learn, NANA racks were the largest commercial user of the International Space Station. And we're very concerned about what comes next, what do we do? And I went to NASA in 2016 and said, hey, why don't we look at the old von Braun idea? And they said, no, no, we've looked at it twice. It's impossible. You can't refurbish a fuel tank, a spent fuel tank once it's in space. And here I am. I'm not an engineer. And here I am saying to NASA, I don't know, call me crazy. But there's been advances in technology since 1985. Why don't we look at it again? And for a year, I just hit on him. And finally they said, OK, submit. And we were awarded part of the Next Steps contract. And what we proposed was to look at the second stage of the Atlas V. And could it be repurposed in space once it finishes mission? On the right is what it looks like, give you a sense of the size. And if you ever have a chance to go to Decada, Alabama and see these things coming off the production line, it's pretty awesome because it's real and exists today. And on the left is how we see the second stage. We call it outposts and we call them independent. So independence won. And this is, robotically, how you can bring together, you can use robots. We undertook a five-month study funded by NASA. And to everyone's surprise, not only did we show that using today's robotics, we worked with MDA robotics, now part of Maxar, using robots that are today on the surface of Mars, not only could we repurpose a spent fuel tank in space, but here comes the really cool part, we could do it without people. That changes everything. It changes everything. It gives you scalability. Instead of talking about doing one module for half a billion or a billion dollars, now you can drop these modules off wherever the vehicle is going. And so for us, though, outposts is not simply a program. It's not simply hardware. It's an ecosystem. And what we are hoping, what we are working towards, is where you can have repurposed upper stages. Again, some are industrial factories. Some can be human rated. They can be attached to the International Space Station. Personally, and I know NASA's coming up with a competition soon, so I have to be careful. But we're really looking closely, is it better to be away from the station than to be part of the station? We love the International Space Station, but if the rules are a little more lenient, if there's a little more freedom, there may be reasons to be a little further away. And then as the previous speakers today, if you've been at the other sessions, we're working with partners who would bring reentry vehicles down. You need tugs that are going between the different platforms. So for us, this is the means to have an ecosystem not only in low Earth orbit, because these vehicles do not just go to low Earth orbit. It can be used for deep space. It can be used for geo. So right now, the status for the outpost program at Nantarax is we rewarded the initial NASA study. And then this summer, we got a next step, a next phase of the next step program. And we're doing a ground demo. We're bringing in a Centaur, the second stage of an Atlas V that did not pass production. It got a dent in it. And we're bringing that to Marshall. And we're going to outfit the vehicle, the hardware, and really get to know it. And we're building up our expertise in autonomous software and robotics and all the things that we see necessary to have a commercial platform. And so this is just one of the designs that the guys have come up with. And as it says, they call them wet labs. There's really nothing new in space. It's just the technology and implementation. And so the size of these things is incredible. It's the one of these converted upper stages of an Atlas V, the Centaur, would have a volume bigger than the biggest module on the International Space Station. And I'm not sure. I don't think I go into it in this presentation. But we've been working on designs where you dock them together. You can spin them to get gravity. There's no limitation to what you can do. I mean, the takeaway message is, folks, stop throwing away assets when they're in space. And I don't know how well you know how the International Space Station architecture works. But when I'm trying to explain this industry to people, I tell them that, look, we send cargo ships up to the International Space Station. And the astronauts, they dock to the station or berth. The astronauts take the cargo out. And half of the cargo ships, what do we do?  I mean, what an extraordinary Christmas gift for the aerospace community.   It's there. And yet we burn them up now. And instead, the whole idea that we're pursuing with the Outpost program is, first, you start with the second stages. And just as Elon Musk and Bezos are reusing the first stage, we're trying to figure out how to reuse the second. We're talking to other launch vehicle operators, not just with the Atlas, both domestic and international. And for us, that it's a huge step, but it is only a first step because, you know, why do we abandon big satellites? Why do we abandon things in orbit? So think of this as the greening of the space exploration movement, I suppose, is a way to say it. And this really summarizes the way we're looking at the next generation of space stations is that it cannot be government dominated, cannot be, there will never be another space station in low Earth orbit like the International Space Station. The modular approach, started by the Russians on the mirror, the modular approach may be engineering-wise wonderful, politically wonderful, but it is really bad from a utilization viewpoint. You don't want an astronaut on an exercise bike when you're trying to do fiber optic or Z-blend production in the next module. We've known this for 25 years, but we still do it. And what we see as the future is an ecosystem approach where you don't have one, you have several, you have tugs, you have an entire marketplace that builds on the legacy of the International Space Station, builds on the lessons learned, not just in technology, but also in how we work with space agencies. And so when we look at the commercial potential, realize when we show a chart like this, it's per space station. So again, you wouldn't do this all on one space station. So in other words, on the left would be the robotic. You'd have one or two indifferent orbits that would be for industrial production. And then if you had a space hotel or if you had something for professional astronauts, take a moment, talk about the satellite services. When we look at NANOX, when we look at the future 10 years out, and again, you've been hearing there's 70 launch vehicles, for us the future is let's say you have two, three, four dozen launch vehicles in 10 years. In our mind, my mind, half of what they carry up will be satellites. But the other half will be raw materials. And there will be raw materials that go to industrial platforms to manufacture finished products in space, mostly for the in-space market. So I think the whole idea of what those launch vehicles take up is going to change. At NANOX now, we've deployed over 200 satellites from the International Space Station. And more and more of our customers are asking us to do what we call a store and deploy, where you bring a satellite up, you keep it there until you need it. And it's going to be a long time before we have instantaneous launch. And when you deploy today, maybe you deployed on Thursday because the weather was good. Maybe you deployed on Thursday because the Air Force cleared the range. Maybe you didn't want to deploy on Thursday. And so there's a role for space stations in many different markets in many interesting ways. And once we can get beyond that we have one controlled by a government, then you can really see the market emerge. Talk about NANOX for a moment. We say we're the world's first commercial space station company with customers. And that part is the most important to me. So we're in the customer business. It's not the hardware. It is not the hardware. And this is what our customers have use of today. And we're very proud. We work with Blue Origin, New Shepard, and doing the payload integration. We built some of the racks on Virgin Galactic. We're building the Bishop Airlock. Right now it's in manufacture. We're building an airlock on the space station. It'll be five times larger than the current airlock on the station, the Japanese. Why are we doing that? Because we see markets for satellite deployment and cargo in and out of the International Space Station. And we're foolishly and not privately funding it. And it's now at Thalysilinia going through final manufacture. First was in Alabama with Boeing, both Boeing and Thalysilinia partners with us on the airlock. We've also deployed over 230 or 250 satellites off of the station. We're using other carriers now as well. And we own the largest range of privately owned hardware on the International Space Station. And we have nanolabs, plate readers, all sorts of different things. And it's worth saying that when we started nine years ago, Nanorax was the first company in the world to own and operate its own hardware on the International Space Station. Nobody had done that before. We were the first company to set prices. You'd mention a price nine years ago to NASA. And everybody in the room would go, you don't mention price. Don't do that. It's like beneath them. And I'd walk in and say, look, we want to go to schools for our Mixtix program. We have a subsidiary DreamUp for education. We've sent 160 schools to the International Space Station. I may be off a little bit. And our least expensive price for students is $15,000 US for 30 days on the station and newsflash. We don't make any money on that. But it's kind of the right thing to do.  We do this. I'm like, well, you're NASA. You're the government. You don't do things efficiently. And also, everything was peer-grouped. So if you wanted to fly with NASA 10 years ago, a committee had to decide. And early on, there was a woman at NASA who said to me, I don't understand Nanorax. How do you prioritize your payloads? And I was like, well, when the check clears the bank, you get to go to the space station. And they were appalled. They were horrified. And so we have an agreement with NASA. We don't do souvenirs. We don't do coffee mugs. But we have sent 750 payloads to the station. And nobody is there.  And we've had multiple pharmaceutical clients. We've had basic materials. We've had research. We recently, two years ago, we were able to work within the WOLF Amendment, but still invited first commercial Chinese customer to the International Space Station, a Beijing Institute of Technology, which did a fascinating study on synthetic DNA. And they've shown, first, by flying on their platform and then a reflight on the ISS that you get damage to DNA when it's been exposed to this space environment. And obviously, this has great ramifications for our desire to travel to Mars and to be a species that goes into planetary. And so what exactly is causing this damage? Is it the radiation? Is it the microgravity? And so it was very difficult for us to get that we got it through first the Obama administration, and then the Republican Congress agreed to this project. And one of the stipulations I promised those in Congress was that the Beijing Institute of Technology would publish their results in English. They did that about six weeks ago, eight weeks ago, in a very rigorous study showing once again they're seeing damage and DNA that's been exposed in the space environment. So I mean, why doesn't, I guess, so some of our customers, this is a little heavy on the Middle East. I'm leaving tomorrow for Abu Dhabi. So we change this around at different times. But one of the issues that's in the rage in Washington today is, Jeff, you say you're commercial, but you have ESA and you have NASA up there as customers. Well, they are for us customers. I mean, it's my hardware on the space station. My investor is paid for this hardware. We own it, and NASA uses it, or ESA uses it. So they're commercial customers. And people say, no, no, it's NASA. No, I mean, when NASA books a flight to come to Boston, on JetBlue, I mean, it's a rough analogy. But when NASA, I mean, they're paying a ticket. They're commercial. So this is the range of the customers. As Robbie mentioned this morning, we're very proud to work with Planet. We've worked with Spire and Made in Space. We work with pharmaceutical companies and a range. I think it's we're up to 32 nations now and growing rapidly. So I think that's it. So at NanoRacks, we're in the space station business. This is something new. This is something that's still a little bit ahead. We see the markets. We know that the marketplace is there on existing markets today, like satellite deployment in space manufacture. For us, for me personally, the space station, the International Space Station, is a proven ground. It's a proven ground for how you work in space, how you work with space agencies. And so it's not easy. It's not easy to work. And we work now with NASA, with the European Space Agency, with DLR, the German Space Agency. We work with the UAE Space Agency. And so with JAXA, we're beginning to work with the Japanese Space Agency. And so it's unlocking what we have today and taking that and going a decade out and envisioning an ecosystem where the government is a customer, where new players have entered. There's robustness. And this space is just another place to do business. So I think any questions with that? I think that's it. Yeah. Hi, Jeff. My name is Jaren. And my question for you is two parts. One is with your existing business model, you presented a very compelling vision for having commercially operated space stations potentially in orbit and other places. I'm curious, number one, if you see a need to shift your business model in order to get closer to having the commercial space station business a reality? And if so, what do you think are the next big steps in order to make that a reality? So I mean, we get some criticism at NANIRAX. People say, oh, you've got all these customers and you're doing all this stuff. But it's a government space station. The taxpayer paid for that space station. Can you really stand on your own commercially? And it's a very nuanced question, because first off, almost no market doesn't, especially in the states, first off, historically, all new markets get government support, just the way whether it was railroads or whether it was aviation. By the way, from the previous talk with Virgin Orbit, it was interesting that Boeing, I forget the gentleman, Mr. Boeing, when he started Boeing, he then 10 years later started an airplane company called United. And it was Congress that forced them to split apart. So I think we are in a period where we look 20 years out and the business model will be different. Yes, we will have to change our business model. Yes, some of our costs will have to go up, though we always think there'll be government support for the foreseeable future. Yes, I won't be able maybe to do educational students at that price or something. We will lose some things in a commercial platform, but we gain a lot. We gain efficiencies. One of the things I didn't mention is that at Nantarax, we average nine months to get a payload. We can sign a contract today, and within nine months I can get you on the space station. We have customers coming in thinking this is Amazon Prime, and they get mad at us when it's more than two weeks. Well, NASA averages three years through their own system, the same safety review, it's their system. And they average three years in Nantarax it's nine months, so we're fast. We gain in what we're able to do. We can't do marketing now. We can't do advertising, although that's changing. The administrator has said he wants to open that up, and indeed, JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency, has now gone fully commercial on the International Space Station. I was over there three weeks ago reaching agreements on things I could bring up, and it's very commercial now. And suddenly NASA in the United States finds itself not the most commercial, but NASA was the pioneer on the International Space Station for allowing companies like mine to work. So yes, we'll have to change the business model, but I'm looking forward to that with great joy. I mean, it would just be more things we're able to do. Even today, some of the folks at NASA say, don't we let you do everything? No, they don't. There's both manufacturing and advertising and branding, and just not having to go through a gatekeeper. I'm always fighting for what has to go up on the station. And I'm lucky they're very kind to Nano-RAX, but in a more efficient environment, a commercially run environment, I think our prices would come down, the costs would come down, prices would come down, and we could do more. It's been hard to do art on the International Space Station. I had a very interesting customer that wanted to do an art project, and NASA, just trying to explain it to the Space Agency, became too much. So I look forward to changing the business model and figuring out what works in a commercial environment. So do you have a sense, if you came up with a credible design for the use of Atlas upper stage, do you have a sense of what they would charge you to have it? I mean, if they're throwing it away anyway. Yes, we have been in discussions for the past year, year and a half with ULA, with the shareholders of ULA on how to structure this. And they are being very kind in that they're allowing me to say, I don't know at this point what the revenue is, but I know I'll share it with you. I mean, and so because for them, this is an asset which right now is being thrown away, is junk, someone's coming in and is willing to make the investment to make it a tangible, some extra valuation. And so we're working that through. We're working through, and we've been signing MOUs and taking it step by step. So you talked a little bit about how Outposts will enable this ecosystem in space that will really like get things moving. And I think a lot of technology is like reusable rockets are all about opening it up and letting people start doing things. But I think that there's been a little bit of disappointment on the demand side, where there's research applications. Maybe it's commercial tourism. That's the application that's going to get everything going. Maybe it's, like you mentioned, it's deployment on demand. But I was wondering what you think the thing is that's going to the thing is. What's the app? Just say it. What's the app? What's the app that's going to let you commercialize this? For me, it's on-orbit manufacture and deployment of satellites. I think in 10, 15 years, 90% of small satellites, up to 150 kilograms, will be manufactured in space except for the sensor. We already have robots on the ISS that they were doing pharmaceutical work for us. And they're moving like this. And the astronaut used to do that. And the idea of building a satellite on the ground, getting it to a launch site, getting it sent up, deploying on the same day as launch, whether you want to or not, why not have an unmanned platform? You press the button. You have 12 sensors, 12 optics stored there. We're already storing stuff on ISS for customers. So now you're storing the sensors. You manufacture the bus. You manufacture the circuit boards. And the robot puts the sensor on, maybe the solar panels, and you deploy it will. And when I look in the unmanned, not the space tourism, we see a market for space tourism, but a sustainable market. But you can't combine the two platforms. In the unmanned, I know there's a proven market. We're in that now. We've deployed over 200 satellites. Both commercial and strategic, the idea of manufacturing in space deploying on demand is the future for platforms. And I think as additive manufacturing comes further of age, the power of these things, I mean, literally, the power. What one is able to provide in terms of power is extraordinary. And so you start to get larger and larger additive manufacturing units. And what we'll be able to do, I think it will just change a lot. So I'm very interested in rocketry. And so I was wondering, as you're talking about like. Then we're a perfect team. As you're talking about, as the payloads change and it becomes more raw materials over satellites, do you think that the current rush for small satellite launchers is going to die down when we're going to be back to bigger vehicles that are just putting raw material up? I'm just wondering what you think with the satellite background. When we have meetings with new launch vehicle folks, we tell them that you're in the same day deployment business. And every time it's like a routine. And they go, what? And then we explain that everybody's in the same day deployment. But we think part of the future is to control it. And you'll also be in the raw materials business. And there's always this look of, oh, wow. I hadn't thought of it that way before. So first off, the cool thing about engineers is you present something and they go, oh, that's cool. Yeah, I can see that. I don't know. I understand what you're saying. I mean, I wouldn't be happy if the future is Blue Origin and SpaceX alone. I just wouldn't. It's the way I am. I hope that there's dedicated launch vehicles that can meet the demands and that there's small companies. I happen to believe in small companies and like that. And so I don't know what the answer is. But I'm hoping that space does not become. I mean, one of the reasons we're working internationally is overseas they appreciate the approach we have in the states, the cost efficiencies, the open mind, the way we work with the governments. I'm hopeful there's a role in the future for these smaller companies. And we don't just go into an era of domination by a few companies. But maybe I'm a romantic. Yes? I have the microphone. Oh, sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. Hi, I'm Lydia from Technology Policy Program here at MIT. So I'm just wondering, is there any regulatory constraints that you have to overcome in order to launch this business idea? This is really cool idea. Well, every Wednesday we have to overcome a regulatory. It's just a huge battle. First, let me say a general question. The federal agencies and the states have been really, really good at changing as we come in with space stations. Quick example, early on when we began deploying from the space station, we had a situation where somebody was supposed to, we had customers going to be deployed. They couldn't make the mission. I forget exactly. And we moved it to another mission. And I was so proud that with the cadence you have to the International Space Station, that it goes up six, eight, 10 times a year. It was like, to me, this is business. You're on this one. I'll move you this one. The customer went berserk. They said, we have a license from the FAA for this launch. And I said, but you're not being deployed from this one. And it's silence. They hadn't thought of it. The FAA was issuing the license still for, let's say, SpaceX 9, okay? But they're not deploying from SpaceX 9. It's a bus. It's a 747. They're being carried up to the space station. And it's the space station that's deploying them. So we had to work. And we've been working with the FAA, for example, it's not really a question, but working with the FAA and now they accept that the space station is the deployment platform, not the vehicle taking you up. So when they're working with Rocket Lab, you may get a license for a deploy on the Rocket Lab. When you're working with Nanorax, better get one for a more general than the specific launch you may be booked on. One of the biggest hurdles in terms of regulation may be under the Outer Space Affairs, it was in 1969 or something. And later amendment by the U.S., who owns that vehicle, that platform? Right now, ULA owns it. And if, how do we take control of it? In an earlier lifetime, I had a company in 2000 called Meerkorp and we leased the Russian space station for two years and created a lot of trouble. NASA was very upset. And, but we kept the mirror up for two, two and a half years longer. And in that example, we leased the station from the Russian owner of the space station. But one day there was a knock on, and it was a Dutch company. And one day there was a knock on the door in my office in Holland, and it was a government official from Holland saying under the Outer Space Affairs Treaty, as we read it, Meerkorp is a Dutch company. Therefore, Holland is now responsible for this part of the Meers space station. I'm like, oh my God, I didn't think this through. And he said, we just want you to know, we passed legislation yesterday, we take a responsibility under the United Nations provision. I was like, wow, I've loved Holland ever since. And I don't know what that would have cost me in lobbyists here, but. So there are certain things on who owns the platform, how do we make sure the platform is brought back to a safe, where it gets destroyed, or parked in a graveyard orbit. So that's probably one of the biggest hurdles that we would face. Any other questions? Yeah, yeah. You've coined the term greening the space exploration movement, and you make a very compelling case with recycling the second stage of rockets. Just to focus on LEO, I'd like to have your vision in, let's say, 10 years about the key elements of this market. I see one infrastructure, which is constellations, another infrastructures, which is actually your platforms. So how many assets do you see? And could you comment on that? Sure, first you said Leo. But Leo is still a big place. And so a lot of these constellations are going to be a thousand miles up. So I just wanna first say that we're not predicting that we're gonna have three or four or five platforms and one web's gonna be crashing into them. But what I would envision in the decade is there'll be six or eight to 10 space stations. Some will be owned by government, some will be owned by the private sector, but all will be commercially operated. Yes, okay, all will be commercial. So even China today is in discussions on commercial utilization of this station. So we may see, maybe Russia will have its own station, but there will be commercial opportunities. And then there will be the constellations. And some of the constellations will be looking down, some will be looking up, some will be talking to each other. And you'll have a complete architecture. You'll have waystations to take us into CIS Lunar. You'll have warehouses, fuel depots. This can easily be fuel depots. We, at Nantarax, we always go with the non-sexy things. It's just the way we are.  So someone else may do a hotel, but we'll be given the platform. Someone else may wanna go to Mars when we can be a fuel station for them. So I see the infrastructure. One of the ironies is we're having trouble here in the States and funding for infrastructure, but I think we're gonna do quite well in space on infrastructure development. So I think it'll be a range of vehicles up, down, a range of platforms. We call outposts. And they'll also be the first outposts in deep space owned by governments, owned by, like if the Deep Space Gateway, NASA's Deep Space Gateway, that's supposed to announce in June, the PPE, I think it's called to, and so you'll begin to see the infrastructure development. Yes. Well, my answer is always the same. It depends on my customers. I go with the customer. So I would envision that for fuel depots, and as long as you're in Leo, you're fine, but I don't know what the future will be. Okay. Hi, I wanted to ask a question about spent satellites. So I know there are a few different... Spent satellites? Yeah, exactly. I know there are a few different groups that are working on refurbishing satellites, essentially. What opportunities do you see for reusing satellites that have just run out of fuel? Well, it's not really my area. The way I can answer it is, and I don't think Maxar would mind my pitching them. They've done this publicly. Maxar, you know, there used to be LaRau and MDA Robotics and a few others that come together with new name Maxar. And they have a presentation where they say, if our future is simply to put up a satellite, have it last 15 years if it's a big bird or two years if it's a CubeSat, and then throw it away and start with new ones, we're dead. To be competitive, we have to also reuse that in-space hardware. And so that's one of the reasons why Maxar has partnered with us on this, is they're trying to also figure out, what can we do with in-space assets? How do we repurpose them? Probably the most simplistic, maybe the wrong way to say it, the most logical application for a spent satellite is this raw material for additive manufacturing into outposts, that's to be my guess. It's gonna say, nobody mentioned the elephant in the room, they almost did. Debris, nobody's mentioned that at all today, not really, not really tackled it. Yeah, one of the reasons is that at NanoRacks, we're in a good spot. The satellites we deploy from the space station naturally de-orbit within a year. I think there's a UN provision now that overset time, I think it's like 25, I don't, how much is it? It is 25, so the satellites from the space station come down naturally, and we don't violate that. When I'm talking about repurposing these second stages, right now, they're junk. So we're at least making, when you make use of something, it's no longer junk. And so you paint it, it looks nice. Okay, and so, yes, it is an issue, but I'm hopeful we're taking the first steps, and there were some foundations, nonprofits looking at this, Max Ozling this, we're looking at it, lots of folks are looking at this. As space is becoming more commercial, let's not stuff trash into these cargo vehicles and throw them away. How do you reuse this stuff? And so I think we're entering a period where we're concerned, and that's a good beginning, because the end result's gonna be more, not only less pollution, but more efficient use of the assets, so, is that it? Great, thank you very much.


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So, our next speaker is a good friend and colleague, Ira Kodner, who has been a real moving force in surgical ethics nationally as well as within the American College of Surgeons. Ira is an emeritus professor of surgery at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the past president of the American Society of Colonorectal Surgery and the American Board of Colonorectal Surgery and past director of the American Board of Surgery, founding director of the Washington University Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, co-editor of the ACS web portal, Community on Ethics, and the author of about 150 papers, book chapters, etc., on colon and rectal surgery as well as surgical ethics. He also has an unbelievable orchid collection, which if you ever have the opportunity, it's wonderful. Ira is going to be speaking today on practicing safe surgery, the impact of ethical teaching. Thanks, Peter. It's a little bit of a typo. It's actually the impact of ethical thinking. Our teaching, I hope, is at least ethical. Congratulations to the claim. Definite feeling of coming home in 25 years is spectacular. Big Pharma has not yet discovered the advantages of buying off ethicists, so I have no relevant financial conflicts. It's, as Peter said, my title has changed because I am now emeritus professor of surgery. I didn't know what that meant. We don't have many emeritus professors of surgery at Washington University, and I really didn't know what was in store for me at this stage of my career. I would like to think that I'm going to have some permanent, unique legacy that I would have created when I became emeritus. Well, here's what they do. They hang you when you become emeritus. But if you look really closely, I do have a unique claim to fame. This is the only picture that's ever been hung of a surgeon holding a textbook on clinical medical ethics. We go down in posterity, Mark. So this is a strange talk. You have to assume for a moment that I'm talking to you all as surgeons. Don't let it bother you. It'll go away in just a few minutes. These are aphorisms from a senior surgeon, or the dinosaur speaks. This is what I've always wanted to say to groups of surgeons. These are views derived from my own mistakes. Those of my colleagues observe complication from decades of being at what I call the end of the road and hundreds of malpractice cases that I've reviewed. In order to get to the perfect operation with the best outcome, three components, the system and services, the patient and family, and the surgeon. So I broke these down so I could discuss them and criticize them. If we look at systems and services, most of these are beyond the control of the surgeon. And we have to settle for what is provided, or at best, for what we can get. For example, specify your choice of anesthesia. Don't say anesthesia of choice, and then when something doesn't go right, criticize anesthesia. Don't let outside non-surgeons decide the procedure or conditions under which you operate. You can't damage yourself in doing this, however. So it's a judgment call how far you can push the system, but you have to realize that there's a variety of gatekeepers, none of whom will share liability with you if something doesn't go well. Contrary to belief of administrators and many other non-surgeons, not every surgeon can do every surgical procedure. This is a recurring theme that I want you to know. The impact of expanding concept of generic medicine and surgery is now the norm. And I fear that it's corrupting a lot of what we do and how we think. This area is where surgeons, ego and or arrogance can become dangerous. So this concept, well, if I don't do it, they'll go somewhere else in town and they're not as good as I am, so I guess I should go ahead and do this procedure. Surgeons have to establish an operating room environment conducive to cooperation, advice and criticism from all components of the team. My line for years was if something isn't right, tell me now, not at the morbidity mortality conference. It's important for you as surgeons now today to declare the anticipated critical times of the procedure. So that isn't the choice of time for lunch and for various rest breaks from the team, but you have to do it in advance. That's often the source of misbehavior in the operating room. If you think about it, where you work, who on your team can criticize or advise you? More so, who knows you and your results well enough to let you know if you're really in trouble or actually impaired? Think about that. New ethical challenges, we have to learn and apply the principles of truth telling and informed consent. We have to communicate completely and compassionately about the disease, the treatment options and the long range plans. In addition, now we need to reevaluate patients' rights and confidentiality in the face of high speed communication via the internet. We've heard that recurrent theme for the whole two day session. My feeling is that you surgeons must lead and not leave decisions to those not actually involved with the surgical care of the patient. Mistaken perceptions of the role of the surgeons and this is, we're the ones to blame for this, I'm only available for cure. That's the easy way out. When we say I'm sorry, there's nothing more I can do for you. Especially with the generic aspects of primary care medicine, I think the surgeon should be a permanent part of the care team even if cure is no longer the goal and there is a lot of activity. Peter gets a lot of credit for coordinating this in the aspects of surgical palliative care. Special dilemmas, we talk a lot about the principle of autonomy in the last two days. No one has discussed the fact that this autonomy extends to the surgeon as well as to the patient. We shouldn't feel forced to perform surgery that we feel is futile or wrong. In addition, the surgeon is part of the care team. Actually now there's been a turnaround. We may have better knowledge of the patients and the families, especially if we've operated or cared for them under previous stressful conditions. A good part of my career involved patients with inflammatory bowel disease, especially Crohn's disease. I knew the patient and the family for generations, whereas there was really no home based quarterback primary care physician. So this is creating an interesting new area for us as surgeons. I love following Gretchen because I don't need to say much about surgical buy-in because she already did. But this article by Pauline Chin in the New York Times discussing the work of Gretchen was very interesting. I pulled a few points from it. Ethicist and social scientist try to explain surgeon's paradoxical behavior with post-operative patients. Some of these lines are terrific. One is a claim self-protection, the surgical imperative to do everything possible. It protects us against the emotional distress of failure. At least I did all that I could possibly do. Very, very real concept. This one's a little better. The surgeon-patient relationship is similar to the biblical covenant between God and his people. I will not abandon you and I will battle to the death for you. This is probably the sexist part of it that was just mentioned. The concept of responding to business models to me is probably the most repugnant of all. The shift in attitude where we try to use business jargon as we talk about the practice of surgery. Patients are replaced by consumers. Eventually they become customers. Patients were treated like family members. Customers come to your business to purchase healthcare. The less time you spend with customers, the better will be your financial bottom line. Apology and medical practice, I think we should. Patients and families usually understand an unfortunate but honest medical error and take no legal action. I'm trying to get out of this legal consulting business because it's getting really unpleasant. Patients are less likely to sue when doctors apologize for their mistakes that's been published data. Many hospitals and state laws actually encourage doctors to provide and provide legal immunity for an actual apology. Interestingly, most patients will forgive their doctor for an error of the head, but rarely for one of the heart. And that's where when we shift into arrogance, we become our worst enemies. The surgeon, this is contrary to the teaching, but I believe this after many years. The surgeon-patient relationship is based on trust, which must be established in a very short time. We meet the patient. Frequently they don't know the whole story of the bad news that they have. We have to deliver the bad news. On that first visit, I think our whole job is to establish trust. This becomes the basis for what Gretchen describes so phenomenally as buy-in from the patient and the family. I use the first visit to establish truth telling and trust and that's the major accomplishment. I use a subsequent visit to cover potential complications and alternative procedures. This isn't what expert communicators, non-surgeons, lawyers, and some ethicists advise. I'm a little snarky here because they've never seen a patient overwhelmed with too much information. Then I've concluded after 30 years working with the same nurse that this was the advantage of having a great nurse on the team. The nurse goes back and communicates with the patient. So disheartening in the operating room after a big operation because my ego was getting the better of me and the patient never wanted to talk to me, they wanted to talk to the nurse. So obtaining real consent and buy-in from the patient and the family for your procedure is critical including the alternatives and potential complications. Write it in your record as a pre-op note dealing with these issues. I can tell you it doesn't stand up in court to say that's my usual explanation that I give, I always do the right thing, I just don't have to write it down. Remember, and Gretchen alluded to this, many of the words we use routinely are impossible for a lay person to understand. The examples I've seen too often, you may need a temporary stoma of the anastomosis leaks. Who's gonna understand what that really means?  Try to clarify issues of the surgical buy-in during the process of obtaining informed consent. Have the permission to deal with complications before they occur. More, quote, successful legal action derives from abandonment, arrogance, and deception from the admitted errors or poor outcome after doing the correct surgery. Rarely is there successful litigation for practicing good medicine or surgery even if the outcome is not as expected. The surgeon, no one accept your capabilities. Have a mechanism for objective evaluation of results. I'm somewhat concerned about what's measured now with the official programs. They don't really deal with the recurrence of Crohn's disease or the need for stomas or even the cure rate for cancer. We fall down in the quest for more productivity and better gimmicks. We often lose sight of the fact that not all surgeons can or should do everything. Don't do complex procedures that you don't do often. It may not have the support not only to do the procedure, but to deliver the best post-operative care, including serious complications from the various specialties that you'll need for backup. Confront the truth, laparotomy is not a diagnostic test. Almost never have I been able to write down that I was going to do an exploratory laparotomy. Part of this is because of my mentor Rupert Turnbull whose ghost haunted me every time I thought of writing it down. Adhesions don't cause pain and repeated operations don't make them go away. Delaying surgery until the patient loses weight and or stops smoking is wishful thinking and usually won't happen and you know it. Never hesitate to get consultation or refer to the place which will give the patient the best chance. If you don't know what that place is, think of it as the place where you will send the patient when you can no longer manage the post-operative complications. Beware of the path diagnosis. This has brought me down more than once. Every liable experts review outside pathology and radiology reports. It's much easier to dictate an addendum to a report and say I'm sorry than to try to undo an incorrect surgical procedure. Beware of who reads your x-rays in the middle of the night and record by whom and when you receive the reading that necessitated your urgent surgery. In your institution, if your institution can't provide the best pathology and radiology, consider getting another opinion or referring the patient. Be aware of litigation issues on surgery. If we as surgeons don't participate in the legal process, then it's hard to criticize a non-expert who testifies against you in court, which is usually the way it goes. There's almost never legal action because you did the right thing and got less than perfect results. Most often something really wrong was done and the surgeon wasn't completely truthful or was abrupt or arrogant to the patient or the family. Everyone that I've seen goes that way. Sound clinical decision-making is dependent on four elements. I quote David Rothenberger, my colleague in colon and rectal surgery. Clinical experience and expertise above all else. The relevant knowledge base and access to up-to-date evidence. Communication skills, as we've heard now in two or three days, are critically important and interesting personality characteristics that collectively contribute to good clinical judgment. These personality characteristics of the best decision-makers include the ability to live with ambiguity, not knowing for certain that a decision is correct but knowing that a decision must be made. It's kind of a special surgical thing. The ability to be self-critical. Learn from and accept responsibility for our own less than perfect decisions. Reach the balance between psychic self-protection and insensitivity to our shortcomings and the ability to collaborate. Decision-making is dependent on a team effort. So I leave you with a quote from C. Barber Miller, one of my own mentors whom I respect and love and I thank you all to talk to you today. Thanks.


The Senate on Tuesday urged President Bola Tinobu to prioritize security, agriculture, infrastructure and other critical sectors in the supplementary appropriation bill of 2.17 trillion Naira proposed for passage by 8. The bill was presented for first and second reading just immediately, was unanimously adopted and passed by members of the Red Chamber as they all took turns to share their concerns for judicial utilization of the supplementary appropriation bill as a way to alleviate the hardship being faced by Nigerians. The bill, which is titled Supplementary Appropriation Bill 2023 SB 218, was presented by the Senate Majority Leader Bami Dele Okwayemi, APC Equity Central. The Deputy Senate President, Senator Gabriel Barrao, attacks the federal government to ensure critical sectors like security sector are considered in the budget. The issue from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation, the total sum of 2.176 billion 791 million and 86,033 Naira only, of which 18 billion Naira only is for statutory transfers, 992 billion 802 million 15,985 Naira only is for recurrent non-depth expenditure. But this government decided to take its time to study its challenges and areas that need funding. It took time. And so it decided that the challenges we face in the area of insecurity, areas of security, agriculture, our infrastructure should be dealt with. Then it decided that this bill should be brought forward for our proven. The Senate whip, Senator Aline Dume, commanded the federal government and urged them to pass the bill so as to cover the gap that is already created. And support the second reading of this bill. The bill was brought today. The first question is, is it necessary and urgent? And the answer is yes. The second question is looking at the summary. And if our colleagues have a copy, should also look at the summary. This is the first time the capital expenditure of every budget in the critical sectors is more than the usual 40 or less than 40 percent that we have. Mr. President, I firstly want to associate myself with the view that this budget be passed, be supported under these estimates, be read for a second time. The first reason I have for supporting this is that from the briefings we have received so far, this budget, unlike a few others we have dealt with in these chambers, will not be funded from ways and means, from the information at our disposal. It appears there is funding for this budget. And this budget will be funded adequately from what we have been through.


Welcome to TechSoup Tips. I'm Susan Hope Bard and I'm going to introduce you to the wonderful world of pivot tables for Excel 2013 and 2016. The pivot table really is the Jedi master of tools in Excel because it magically lets you turn large amounts of data into succinct interactive reports faster than pulling out your lightsaber. An added benefit is that creating the pivot table doesn't change anything in your original spreadsheet. That's right, no more monotonous manual sorting, filtering, formula-ing. But before you learn to amaze and miss down your friends, let's talk for a minute about when you would use a pivot table. In general, a pivot table is used to categorize, summarize, reorganize, or show connections within a data set or Excel spreadsheet. What does that mean to you? Well, let's use a scenario that you're an organization and you've just received a report on all of the donations that have come into your organization for two fiscal years. And that Excel file has 3,000 plus rows and a ton of columns. A lot of data. Well, with a pivot table, you can easily turn this data into a manageable report that you can make sense of quickly. So a couple of things. First, you want to make sure that you start with good, clean data fields. And these are your column headers. So let's look at the sample data for this tutorial. We have last name, first name, fiscal year, city, state, and donation amount. These are pretty clear. There aren't any commas or dashes in between. It's going to be easy for me to import into a pivot table.  And the very first thing on your insert ribbon is pivot table. Click on it. What pops up next is a pivot table wizard. And this wizard is going to take you step by step into selecting the data you want to use. And then it'll take you to the next steps to selecting the fields you'd like to show. So Excel intuitively knew that I wanted to select all of the data in this particular spreadsheet. And you can see that by the dotted moving green line. And that's the raw data 2014 and 15. If I wanted to use other data from another source, here is where I could select it. For the purpose of this tutorial, we're just going to stick with this raw data. So I'm going to click OK. And a new sheet has been created. You can see on the left-hand side, this is where your pivot table will eventually be shown. And on the right-hand side, we have the pivot table fields. And remember that the pivot table fields are really your column headers. And we've determined that we'd like to show the donation amount. And I'm going to say we'd like to compare it by state. So there are two things I'm going to need to select here. State and donation amount. The rest of the fields I don't need to include in this particular pivot table. There are two ways you can select pivot table fields. You can check them. And you can see as I check them, Excel put it into rows. So each of the states represented in my report have a separate row. Or I could drag and drop. Click on state, drag it into rows, same outcome. And remember the other thing I wanted to compare are the total donation amounts by state. So I'm going to drag and drop this into the values column. Because Excel will then automatically or intuitively know that I'd like to sum that up. I'd like to sum up all the donations by state. And here I have each state. And then the total donations, the total sum of donations across that time frame. Really simple. But let's say you wanted to do something different. Like you wanted the average donation amount. Simple change. You go into your values column. Click on sum of donations. And then you have this pop-up field right here. Value field settings. Click on that. And another wizard will appear. This wizard is where you can change the type of calculation that you want to use to summarize the data from that particular field. And you can also identify the type of format you want for your number. So I'm just going to very quickly select average and click OK. So what happens is it changes from the total sum to the average of donation amount. So now you can compare across state an average donation amount. Pretty simple. Pivot tables really are fun to work with. We encourage you to try your own. That's it for now. And we appreciate you watching. Learn more about Microsoft product donations for your nonprofit or library at techsoup.org Microsoft.