Create human connections with artificial intelligence presented by DTN Kajatonberto. He is a certified trainer, public speaker, behavior assessor, and a passionate toastmaster. I'm going to talk today about creating human connections with artificial intelligence. But first of all, doesn't that seem like a contradiction? What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the words artificial intelligence or AI as we call it? Is there anyone in the audience who feels a sense of apprehension that AI is going to change the way we live and work? That AI will take away our jobs? About a week ago, I sat down to create a short video. The objective of my video is very simple. Make a fun toastmaster related video, but using the characters from my favorite movie Lord of the Rings by Peter Jackson. Anybody heard of it? I wanted to create this video using only AI tools. How did I do? To achieve my objectives, I had to use four different AI tools. The first one that I used, I'm sure everyone in the audience is familiar with because everyone is talking about it. Do you know what I'm talking about? Chat GPT. Raise your hands if you have used Chat GPT in the last few days at least. You have used? Great. Chat GPT has taken the world by storm. Why? Because it gives us human-like conversations, unlike Google. So I logged into Chat GPT and I asked it a very simple question. Give me 10 characters from the movie Lord of the Rings. And without hesitation, it started giving me the response. But the interesting thing about Chat GPT is it doesn't stop once you get the response. You can keep talking to it like a human being. So my next question to chat GPT was, imagine you are a fashion designer for a famous Paris fashion house, Balenciaga. And you have 20 years experience as a fashion designer. Dress up all these 10 characters that you just listed for me as though they are taking part in a 1990s fashion show. It thought for a second and started giving me the responses. One of the characters, for example, is Gandalf, who I love. And according to Chat GPT, Gandalf should be dressed in long, grey wool coat with a black velvet collar, paired with black trousers and black boots. What kind of jobs do you think Chat GPT is going to threaten in the near future? Everything. Interesting. Writing. Fashion designing. Right? Maybe even consultants. Even as we speak, the Hollywood Writers Association is right now on strike. And one of the key fear is producers will outsource all the writing jobs to Chat GPT or other AI tools like this. The second AI tool that I used creates images from anything that you type. The tool that I used is called mid-journey. I went to mid-journey and I copied the script that was given to me by Chat GPT. And I pasted it and it said, for Gandalf, show me or create me an image which was given to me by Chat GPT. And within a few seconds, it gave me that image. Gandalf. And I did this exercise for all the characters. And I must say I was stunned with the results. These are all AI generated images. Just to have a little fun, I said create me an image of a young boy with his father in a desert at sunset with their falcon. Very complicated query. It created the image for me. How good can this type of tool get? Look at this image. This is a cover magazine of Vogue in March. There is no such person. This is completely generated by AI. What kind of jobs do you think are being threatened by this? Models, photographers, editors. The third tool that I used to create my video clip has the potential to create the most harm if used unethically. And that tool is voice cloning. The way it works is you sample any audio. Gandalf, the character that I created is played by the impeccable Ian McCallan. So I went to YouTube, I searched for Ian McCallan. I found one interview of his and I took an audio clip. Peter Jackson, the director, is very media savvy. So that's the audio clip. I took that audio clip and I put it in this third AI tool called 11 Labs. And I made that AI tool see these words as though they are being said by Ian McCallan. You must go to Mordor and win the world championship of public speaking. Imagine the potential or the harm you might be talking to your friends or your family. Thinking they are your friends and family. But on the other side of the phone is a scammer using this tool and trying to extort money from you. Could be the district director asking you to come and give a speech but actually it is not. The final tool that I used takes any image, takes any audio and then creates a video clip. I did this for all the 10 characters and I created my audio video. I won't bore you with watching the whole video. It's on my YouTube channel tech for Toastmasters. Go and check it there. But what's the call for action here? We can see different AI technologies here. All capable of doing things that humans can do. Which means we need to be aware about it. We need to upgrade our skills so that one day we don't go to the office and find that an AI is doing our job. But if there is one AI tool that is not meant to replace our jobs but to really complement our communication skills. Create the human connections and the one that I'm really passionate about and excited about. Also similar to this is a tool called Udly. Now Udly just like those four tools that I've explained. But the purpose here is it is like a personalized speech coach that is always by your side giving you feedback. Judgment free. These are the four features of Udly that can help you to build your communication skills. The first is it helps us to overcome the fear of public speaking. Why do we fear public speaking? Why do we fear coming on a stage and talking to a large audience? Mostly because we think they'll forget what we have to say. We'll fumble our words and we'll make a fool of ourselves. And it happens because we don't get enough opportunities to practice. When you have a speech to deliver or a presentation to deliver at your company, you might practice in front of the mirror. But the mirror doesn't talk back. It doesn't tell you whether you're doing something good or bad. You could of course talk to your friends or family if they're available. Or the preferable method is to join a Toastmaster Club and practice in a Toastmaster Club. But Toastmasters meet maybe twice a month. But if you have a speech tomorrow to deliver, then this is probably where you could make use of Udly because you could just open it up and start talking and then it will give you feedback. It has a very interesting feature called transcript, which is useful for people like us where English is not our first language. We might be speaking Hindi, Arabic. But what happens when we start talking to a global audience, they may not understand what we are saying. And what Udly does is it listens to what we are saying, the spoken word and it converts it into a written word. And if it couldn't transcript correctly, you will then understand your words might not be understood by others. And then you could change the way you speak those words. It gives you real-time feedback. As you speak, in fact, there is a new feature in Udly where, as you are speaking, let's say you are in a meeting, it will immediately tell you, hey, you are speaking too fast or you are speaking too slow. You are speaking too long. Give others an opportunity to speak or you are using too many filler words. And finally, it has a feature where it can rephrase your content. What do I mean by rephrase content? We usually know what we want to say, but most of the time we don't know how to say what words to use.  Use different words to make it more effective and impactful. So I hope those of you who have not used Udly till now, go to Udly. If you are already a Toastmaster, it is already in your profile. When you go to Toastmasters, log into your profile, you scroll down, you'll find Udly. Click on it and start practicing. Start enhancing so that the next time you give your project, at the club level, you have already made use of the AI tools to enhance your skills and to create those human connections. Now, do you think that it is possible to create human connections with AI, especially with Udly? Why don't you try it?


At Solve the Mobia, we prevent the unnecessary loss of water on such a large scale that we can change the billion lives who still don't have access to this basic human need. In the height of the water crisis two years ago, my twin brother and I formed Solve the Mobia to look at a cost-effective solution to this challenge faced by Namibia. Currently, we're saving water on a small scale. We decided to look at something literally no one was focusing on, preventing evaporation, saving water on a large scale. More water evaporates from our reservoirs globally than is consumed by humans and only 1% of all the water on earth is available and potable. The solution is shade balls. Millions of these black floating spheres work together to form a cover for open reservoirs preventing up to 95% evaporation. Similar to how you would cover your pool at home, we believe all reservoirs should be covered.  Shade balls contribute to Sustainable Development Goal No. 6 ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. According to the Namibia National Development Plan No. 5, water demand will continue to grow by 40% by 2025 as there is a rising need for urban and economic activities as well as agriculture. We work on the B2B sales model with the option of a finance payment plan over five years.  Since actively marketing in June this year, we've secured just over US$7 million from SunRiff towards a Shade Ball Manufacturing Facility. Solve Namibia is also in the process of closing a deal with the biggest uranium mine in Namibia. The Airtailings Facility will be covered as the first ever Shade Balls case study for Africa. Southern Africa believes in us too with our recent traction in winning water crisis management awards. I'm Dometro and our qualified team has Vaskery experience in engineering, finance, environmental law and science. We're also partnered with Sydney Chase, the global patent holder of Shade Balls and we now own the patent for Southern Africa. We're calling on all governments, farmers, mines and citizens to partner with us to cover their open dams and save water on a large scale. We want you to join us on this journey to expand our business throughout Africa as lack of water is a problem everywhere. Join us on this journey, Kitos. Hi, just a question. I mean to just understand the product. You just throw it on the surface of the water. What is it made of and how do we collect them afterwards? Thank you for the question.   With regards to installation, it's literally as simple as opening up a truck with millions of these and the installation process is very simple. Can you share any of the learnings from the very early version of your product and how has this been implemented along the line? Okay, thank you. So as I've said, we've partnered with the global patent holder. The product has already been implemented in Los Angeles since 2008 and so for the past 10 years, the reservoirs are still being covered and it's still working great. So what's very important for us is that it's certified safe for drinking water because we don't want any microplastics or BPAs leaching into the water over time. Thanks. And how do you secure that they're just not, you know, end up in the ocean as an additional like plastic waste? Very good question. Thank you. So at the end of the day, we could also for dams in Southern Africa that get sluiced on a regular basis, we have already designed a floating barrier to prevent the balls from being lost when the dam is actually sluiced. Thank you.


Already during medical school I was fascinated by neurodegenerative diseases, how they can be diagnosed and treated. My name is Stefan Klöppel, I am head of the Department of Old Age Psychiatry at the UPD in Bern. My research focuses on early diagnosis and prognosis of neurodegenerative diseases based on MR images of the brain. More recently we started to develop cognitive interventions and predict their response at the level of the individual. When I started using machine learning over 15 years ago, our support vector machines learned from training examples to distinguish between new cases into either healthy or those affected by a neurodegenerative disorder. As a clinician I liked these methods because you can easily visualize the basis for the decision of the AI system. This type of faith validity is more difficult to achieve with many of the current methods such as deep learning. What we had envisioned back then was the development of a larger data set including cases with a high level of diagnostic certainty. Those would be used to train AI systems which would then be applied outside specialized centers. While that worked nicely on clean study data, the application to clinic proved so difficult that these methods still haven't made it into the routine outside a handful of centers. I am really excited about the founding of CHIME with its sections on medical imaging. But probably at least as interesting will be to take a good look into related fields of AI research such as sensor technologies for example. Algorithms analyzing sensor data have become much more powerful producing meaningful and clinical behavioral data in real time. We are just starting a new project with the RTOC team of Tobias Nief with the aim to improve the care of our inpatients. Sensors could for example help us to identify patients developing anxiety also in the middle of the night or warn us to take extra care of those at risk of falling. I am sure AI systems will dramatically change the field of psychiatry. At the UPD you can already observe the transition with apps advising patients on the optimal time in bed as well as a range of studies on e-mental health currently conducted at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The ubiquity of smartphones combined with AI help clinicians to detect changes in patients' social behavior which may indicate a deterioration or onset of a psychiatric condition. 15 years ago clinicians and computer scientists were living in completely separate worlds each with a complex but non-overlapping language. Initiatives such as KN are perfectly geared to bridge these gaps.


Do you have a CNC machine or know somebody who does? Well, here are 10 great gift ideas just for that person. My name's Jim and this is The Edge of Tech. Number one in no particular order is this right here.  In my case, I have a rigid vacuum from Home Depot. It's a two and a half gallon and it goes into one of those cyclone dust collector thing, my jiggers. And this actually goes up to the top of the CNC. Goes right into the boot. It's super flexible and it's clear so you can see through it. This is a two and a half inch diameter. They make other ones and it's 10 feet long and a great gift if you don't have one of these for your CNC. The next thing on the list is this caliper right here. I suggest a good pair of calipers anytime you're using the CNC 3D printer, laser, anything like that. And this one right here, I found to be pretty dang good. It's only about $30 on Amazon. Now, I know there's way more expensive ones and way less expensive ones. You can get into them for about $10 if you really want to and those aren't too bad but these are stainless steel. It comes with all the measurements and measuring stuff you need and they're really heavy duty. Inches, millimeters, all the good stuff right on here and it comes with two extra batteries. So one installed and two extra. So this thing is going to be going for quite a long time. I really like this caliper. You can find it in the link below and another cool thing on the back, it has conversions and those are awesome.  In this video, I'm going to call them bits, why not? I actually found this set right here. It's by Speed Tool. It's on Amazon, again, in the link in the description below and it comes with a great assortment of bits to get you started. This was only like $85. It came with eight different bits to start you out or end mills, whatever you want to call them. And I really like the assortment, up cuts, down cuts, eighth inch, all the good stuff is going to be in this starter kit and they've been pretty good for me so far. So if you need a starter kit or know someone who might want a cool starter kit, these right here, Speed Tools. With the last one comes this one.  Well, I found this one right here. It is actually really nice. It comes in a nice hard plastic case. If you open it up, it even has another, call it in there if you need it. And the bit itself is pretty good. I've used it one time to flatten my waste board. It did a very good job. The price on this is definitely right. If you know somebody just getting into this or that doesn't have the flattening bit yet, this one right here will do you good. The fifth thing on my list is these awesome parts by Rowdy Roman. If you haven't checked out Rowdy Roman's website, you definitely should do that. Look in the description below for that link. If you have a 3D printer, you can check out Etsy. The parts are $2. You can get them and print them yourself. They're really cool. Also, he has a bunch of really cool stuff for the 1finity and probably some other stuff on his website as well. Like this is a really cool light that goes around the router and allows to light up the workspace while your router's moving. There's gonna be a video on this coming soon. Also, the hose boom, you got mounts, all sorts of really cool stuff. So check out Rowdy Roman's Etsy or website to find all this cool stuff. So check out Rowdy Roman's website or Etsy to find this really cool stuff for your CNC. Number six on my list is this X-Fassen Carpenter Tape. It is double-sided, it is super sticky and it's a pretty good thickness. I've been using it on all of the carving project I've been doing on my new 1finity Machinist CNC, which is an awesome CNC by the way. Thanks 1finity. This stuff is really cool. You lay it down on the back of your material. You peel off the yellow backing and that creates the double stick.  This has not released on me yet and it is super strong. I like to use it down the center of my objects. So if I carve anything out, it actually holds it down. That part doesn't go flying out. And I haven't had to use tabs so far when using this. Now I know a lot of people use blue tape and glue and that is totally cool too, but this stuff eliminates the need for that glue. It comes in this or wider sizes and this actually came in a three pack and it's much cheaper to buy this than the tape and the glue. So give it a try. This is the X-Fassen Carpenter Tape. Check it out. The next thing on my list, which is number seven, is this right here. Now this is a switchable power strip. These things are awesome. I use them on my lasers. And now on the CNC, you plug your pieces in here and then each one, each device has its own switch. So if you just wanna turn the router on, go ahead. If you wanna turn the vacuum on, you can do that too. You can just use the vacuum if you want. If you have lights that like get in a closure or maybe the rowdy Roman ring light for the router, you can just turn that on as well, but you don't have to have it all on if you don't want to and you don't have to have it all off if you don't want to either. So check out the switchable power strip. You definitely won't be disappointed. Number eight on my list are these Ryobi tools right here. Now it could be any wireless tools, but I love Ryobi. I have a ton of their stuff, drills, saws, all the good stuff and they're all the 18 volt which uses this battery right here. This is a 18 gauge brad nailer. The 23 gauge pin nailer would be perfect for this situation as well, but this is the one I had so I used this one. What's cool is I can use this to nail stuff down to the waste board if I don't wanna use the tape and I can use this to put stuff together when I'm done as well. When I'm done with that, I just pop the battery out. I drop it into this sander here and you're good to go.  These are really cool tools, super convenient because you don't have air hoses or power cords or anything like that, especially if you already use Ryobi 18 volt tools. These things are great gifts for anyone in that category. Number nine on my list are these sanding sponges right here. I love these things. In this one right here you get six different sanding sponges all the way from 60 to 320 grit. You open it up, you actually get a tack cloth with it as well. Each one of these can be used for wet or dry sanding and they look like this. So you can really get in there. You can hold on to it and it's also kind of squishy so it's not so hard like a block. These things are awesome. I use them on a lot of stuff, woodworking and otherwise. Again, you can use them in wet and dry conditions and since you get six of them in different grits, it's a perfect kit and the price is great on these as well, so definitely check out these awesome sanding sponges. Last but not least, number 10 is some sort of dust vortex or dust stopper or whatever you wanna call them. They go between the machine and the shop back. If you're using a shop back like I am on my little machinist Onefinity CNC router, this actually grabs all of the big stuff. It lets it fall into here and doesn't allow it to go to the shop back to get all clogged up into that filter. This thing is pretty dang awesome. If you are using a shop back on your CNC and you don't have some sort of dust stopper like this one is or a vortex or any of those, I definitely suggest this thing. This really does catch a ton of stuff before it ever gets to your shop back, leaving that almost untouched and the filters stay good for so much longer. When you're ready, you just pop the top off this, you dump it out or dispose of the sawdust and chunks that are in here and you're good to go. You just put the lid back on and rock and roll. I do have to say the bucket's not included in most cases, so grab a nice heavy duty five gallon bucket. You want to make sure they're heavy duty, otherwise these things will crush in under the pressure of that vacuum, so definitely check out one of these. I must have if you're using a shop back on your CNC. So there you have it, that was 10 really great gifts that you could get somebody who loves CNC machines. If they're just starting out, a lot of times they probably won't have some of this stuff if it's yourself, give this to somebody else and let them watch it for gift ideas for you. Everything we talked about has a link in the description below. A lot of it's on Amazon, so check it out there. I have an Amazon storefront with everything in there. Also, I just want to say thank you so much to Onefinity, again for shooting me over the Machinist, which is an amazing little CNC, 16 by 16 surfacing area. It's a perfect fit for my little shop here. I hope this helped your gift buying ideas for the season and we'll see you next time.


Hey guys it's Nate aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. I want to talk through a very important thing with you guys today and that is the middle icon SBC. When it's going to be available through foot swaps and when it's going to be available as an SBC. I want to go through some of this talk with it with you guys possibly look at some market movements and of course what is going to happen with this SBC when it comes out and when is this SBC going to come out is a very very big question as well the mid icon pack costs you eight icon swap tokens of course we have 45 days remaining of this the second set of icon swaps as underwhelming as it is you know we have a squad battles glitch that is in the game right now so I do think people are doing icon swaps because it's easier with the squad battles glitch so that's something to consider I do think people are going after some tokens but I also there's people like me who just don't have the time to grind the game as much and they're not going after the tokens but with that being said this is more maybe talking about the mid icon SBC not just the the pack from icon swaps and when that's going to come out how much is going to cost and stuff like that because this is a huge huge SBC the middle icon SBC think about all the middle icons in this game that you can go out and get from this SBC if the baby icon was popular if the baby icon SBC was popular then the middle icon SBC is just going to be as popular or even more popular we have 88 Vieira that you can get from this you've got middle croif of course you have middle hullet all of these cards in the millions and millions of coins this guy right here's three mil three mil for middle croif and you have so many middle icons that this is the thing that really interests me as well the step up on a lot of cards from their base to the middle let's go like to a Maldini for example you know if you get baby Maldini you're like okay that's an all right left back he's not really a left back though but if you get middle Maldini you're stoked right because the position change and just because of the upgrade and that's the way it is for a lot of icons in this game the baby to the middle is a pretty sizable upgrade and like I'm going to say 80 to 90 percent of icons the middle version is better than the baby for whatever the position changes or just the stat upgrade so the middle icon SBC will definitely have some insane hype and a lot of people want to do this SBC on FIFA so the first thing that we need to talk about with this is we need to look at this icon timeline really quick because a few points I want to make from this we've been referring back to this page the icon FIFA 20 pitch notes that they made earlier this year for a lot of things regarding icons right we've got the timeline from the icons are out and we have some information on SBCs and the thing that I want to point out here is prime icon moments and then the mid icons mid icons are going out of packs literally in like two or weeks man two or three weeks from whenever recording this video the middle icons are going to be going out of packs probably about a month from now because the base icons didn't come didn't go out of packs until like later in the month in December I would expect the same thing from the mid icons late to middle February would be kind of time when they go out of packs but that isn't very important to know and to discuss because last time the base icon SBC came out before base icons were out of packs so I think that some of the similarities that we see from the base icon SBC we're going to talk a lot about those today and what could be coming with the middle icon SBC as well so we know you can get a ton of cards from it right so let's go back to this base icon upgrade again and talk about a little bit with this we're going to talk timeline first and then we're going to talk price so timeline wise this came out and I'm going to show you this right here the icon swaps that were released there's a second set of swaps that were released that enabled people to get the icon pack through icon swaps set one and when that happened it was on this date I do believe November 12th or November 11th was when all the swaps released that you could go out and get the base icon pack through icon swaps and that first day when people were opening the base icon packs they had middle icons in them they had middle icons coming out of them here's a here's a clip and a pic of mad hd gamer getting a middle dog leash instead of the baby version which he should have gotten when he opened that base icon pack now I want to touch on this a little bit because I think it's very possible that when they release the mid icon pack um that the primes could come out of that pack right away we saw what the babies the mids came out and what we've seen from EA is two years in a row they've made similar mistakes with the headliner cards right so we're going to look at a bomb yank headliner actually let's look at Lewandowski because this one is relevant because he was in the first group of headliners the headliners first day of this year and last year were not searchable through the special filter on this game now they are since they fixed it but if the same thing happens this year like it does last year which seems to be very plausible or not even this year and last year earlier this year with some of the um with some of the base icons instead of those being packed people were packing these middle icons so the way that EA has messed up like the code that stuff that's in packs before I think it is very very likely that you see the another mix up with some of these base icons and maybe you see the prime icons popping out of the sbcs when we go do them that would be insane if it is but um yeah there's just uh some thoughts on that but again this base icon sbc when it came out it was around 500 000 coins and I want to get into kind of like the pricing of this sbc because I think a lot of people are interested in that how much will a middle icon sbc cost well it's of course got to be greater than the mid or than the baby icon sbc right so this sbc came out about 500k first day rose up to 625 612 came back down during black friday to 500 and then it was kind of just chilling around 500 000 coins until it went away during foot miss and they put a new one out later that was actually cheaper right the the one that came out that was out until like a week ago from now or before now that one only cost you like 400 to 450 000 coins so the secondary one was cheaper the first one's always going to be more expensive because they know it's new it's fresh people want to hit it and they're people are going to do this middle icon sbc a lot so um my kind of production or my prediction for a price range as we look at last year's mid icon upgrade this was way late in the year I don't think we can really factor this into the pricing of this sbc that will be coming out because this was in april during basically team of the year time frame at the end of march so I don't think we can factor in that the mid icon sbc would be cheaper than the baby I think going off of this squad I think that the middle icon sbc will be somewhere in the range of around 700 to 800 000 coins probably even towards that 800k range maybe at its very peak right here um in this game of fever 20 I think it is very possible and of course last time there were plenty of ways to invest in this if for example here's the 86 rated Thomas Muller uh we're going to look at these cards over the course of the beginning of the year and you can tell earlier on in the year first couple months there aren't a ton of player sbcs people are building coins in the game still there's not as many promos so the coins aren't yet flowing in the game right so there aren't many player sbcs his card stays between you know nine ten thousand and thirteen thousand coins gg's then the base icon sbc comes his card goes from 12k all the way up to basically 20k he's probably over 20k that first day when the sbc came out in that weekend black friday hits he comes back down but you know what you can see here that since this base icon sbc is out instead of his price going down to 10 000 coins and and being down low a lot of the 86s they had that you know kind of like a the constant stream of demand because people were doing those um icon base icon upgrades after black friday when it was still in the store so that's why you see these prices going up and not going back down to 10k just because there's more demand for these cards because there's sbc's out in the store so he's chilling around 1415k spikes at 19 again and this is what happens with high rated fodder a lot right especially though when it's this first time the the drop there the increase in price here is so massive because it was the very first time that these cards were really really needed for sbc's fernandino goes from 17k to 29k in two days um will you see this dramatic of a rise the next time or the when the mid icon sbc comes out i don't think so but if you can get yourself 87s at 20 000 coins are a great bargain so whenever you see that it's probably good to clubstock some 87s 86s around 14k are very good value as well under 14k is great for those and i think that if they do release this next if they do release a mid icon sbc i think that it's got to be um probably a mix and a arrangement of 87 86 87 and 88 rated squads i could really see the middle icon sbc coming out and it requires um probably mostly i would say 186 to 87s and then 188 rated squad with three of those squads being informs because they're going to include some informs in there to keep the prices high and to require more of those informed cards to clear out clubs so that's kind of like my forecast for that sbc right i would say 86 87 87 and 88 four squads but still around 700 to 800 thousand coins when those high rated golds are inflated so that's kind of my um my fearless forecast i guess you could say and again for investing in this stuff last time the 90s like mold rich and terstegen they didn't really go up that much because you know it was an 86 rated squad was the highest one or an 87 was the highest squad rating that you had to complete for the base icon sbc um but for this one i think it's very possible that you'll see these 90 rated cards go up a bunch right because if you have a 90 rated card at 55k and you have some 88 rated squads in there if they do drop two 88 rated squads maybe these 90 rated cards will come in very very handy and they'll go up a lot of coins for those sbcs the 89s as well return on investment wise some of the 89 ratings this year have been some of the best cards to invest in for pure return on investment purposes because there's not as many of them and people have no problem going out and spending 40 or 50k i mean i remember boosketz with super duper high think about some of these guys's prices for the messy player of the month sbc these guys were like 50 000 coins almost when that sbc came out it required a lot of 89s and people if people will do the messy player of the month sbc they will do multiple of these middle icon sbcs as well so of course the high ratings and the informs are going to be what's required for this middle icon sbc uh and you know i want to talk about time frame now i think this is the next most important thing that we can talk about with this sbc when is it going to come so we know when to get prepared and we know how to get prepared this is the toughest part about it is when when is this sbc going to come right as of right now uh as i'm recording this we are in the second season this is the new year season and it only has a couple of days left we are only a few days away from the next season which will refresh these icon swap objectives so that we will have new ones coming on to this game right now we only have 12 tokens available they've been they're really milking the second season of icon swaps as of right now uh it looks like if we go and look at the icon swaps sbcs we're over literally we are over a month away from getting a new set of icon swaps 45 days away from icon swap set three that's going to take us into march and again i don't want to get in the conversation about these icon swaps because i do not think they are up to standard and up to par with what um kind of players we should be looking to get in our teams for early march it's just crazy how low quality this is in my opinion the player selection in these um but that's besides the point this pack is probably unless they drop all 12 tokens because if there's 24 tokens they've already dropped 12 the next season starts in three four days then they'll drop 12 more um if they don't drop 12 tokens in the next season if they don't drop all 12 then the mid icon pack is probably going to be pushed back a little further but in my opinion if they drop all 12 tokens in the next couple of days in this next season if you will um like if you look at the top right by my face came up here new year's season and it says that it has right now three days 15 hours left if when that three days and 15 hours is up a new season comes and all 12 swaps are available via objectives then i would think the mid icon sbc is coming very soon it and when does it benefit ea to release this sbc i want to talk about this as well think about when the base icon sbc came out november 21st 2019 what was on november 27th black friday this sbc came out just a few days before one of the biggest promos in fifa ultimate team why did ea do that it was perfect timing by ea it's all ea always knows what they're doing boys i'm gonna be honest ea is very smart with this they know what they're doing with this market what they did was they put this sbc out before black friday when everybody was planning to spend a bunch of money on packs anyway and open saved up packs and whatever they put this sbc out beforehand to make people go out and spend their coins drain their clubs to do this sbc because it's hype it's fun we've never had a base icon upgrade like this early in the game which is pretty sweet to be honest so that's kind of cool content that they put out but they sucked a lot of coins out of people's clubs right before a big promo so what does that do it leads a lot of people to put on fifa points to buy fifa points and open packs during black friday because they don't have any coins after this sbc comes out and i do think that is a common theme with these sbc's that ea wants to repeat right what are the upcoming promos that we have that could be coming that would suggest and one of these sbc's being dropped before the promo we are on the end of headliners right now and we don't really know what's coming next are we gonna have a promo on this friday i think it's possible could it be future stars i think it's possible is the window too short for them to drop a baby icon sbc on wednesday or thursday and then have future stars on friday i really don't know if they're gonna do that but i think that it is possible for the mid icon sbc it's either gonna come in the next couple of days or the next week or i don't think it's gonna come for another couple weeks so i think it's either gonna be really soon or we're gonna have to wait a couple weeks for them to put it out if ea are smart which i think they are the base icon upgrade did not go away that long ago it's literally been i think like a week since that base icon upgrade left the sbc section and they know how much people love these sbcs i think they have to put it back in sooner rather than later and i think a lot of the other FIFA community feels that you'll see guys on twitter tweeting about they think it's coming this week i feel like this week might be too soon but i don't think you can go off the thinking of and originally i was i was saying this originally i was saying i don't think the sbc will be will be available until this mid icon pack is available but i think i'm kind of going back on my initial gut feeling because ea knows how much people want to do the mid icon sbc and they know what that can do to the market and help drain clubs of cards and think about what we're at right now we are after team of the year right a huge market rebound after team of the year and another the market is still very high with these headliner cards huge live items that will be live for the rest of foot we are on the tail end of two massive three weeks basically of team of the year and headliners promotions which is all pack based and that think about this man they've been doing sbcs basically every day during the headliners promo flashbacks player moments other headliner sbcs and that's just continually trying to drain coins out of people's clubs before another promo where they're trying to get them to spend uh so i do think it is possible maybe they dropped this sbc sometime around um when the prime moments icons are going to be coming in the game right maybe they dropped this sbc in the next like maybe two weeks from now so maybe a week before prime moments come out so like a week and a half or two weeks from now could be that time uh and i'm recording this at the end of january by the way if you're watching this later i think that right before this moment these moments come out could be a perfect time for this because ea they know this year moments is going to be different right they said down here in this uh in the right here moments um this defines a truly memorable historic performance in an icon's career that elevated them to the all-time greats and as this year in fifa 19 not every card had a moments right as an icon can have any moments throughout their story career their previously released moment icon version in foot 19 won't necessarily be the same version of fifa 20 as well so we're going to have different moments cards from last year and we're going to have all fifa 20 icons receiving a moments which was not the case last year either so we're going to be talking a lot about prime icon moments in the coming coming days and coming weeks and i think the mid icon sbc could be a coin suck happening right before that so those are kind of my thoughts on the mid icon sbc what it's going to cost um is it going to be before a big promo like future stars or after a promo and before moments uh moments and then of course some of the market movements because of that so if you want to invest in this i would not say that right now is the time to do it again we just looked at thomas moeller thomas moeller's card is like 18 000 coins at the moment 17 k these cards are all inflated because of all the sbc's we've had during headliners those sbc's expire tuesday 6 p.m uk so you're going to see a lot of sbc's go away except for like the sane and for the burnardo silva and then after that obviously we don't have a ton of sbc's in the store but these cards are probably going to drop in price now again i say this a lot if you're looking for the if you're looking for something to invest in right if you're looking for something to invest in especially related to high high tier golds like sbc fodder golds 86 rated players my buy price for these is always 14k if we look at the graphs let's look at ferrari scrap for example my buy price for these cards is always 14k for the 86 is look he goes to 14k right here boom back up to 16 goes to 14k boom all the way up to 19 boom 14 15k goes up to 20k these guys always ebb and flow as sbc's are released and sbc's are pulled back off the game so that's why i don't want to invest in these cards right now it's honestly investing in these fodder cards is really easy because you see that when they're low no sbc's are out or a bunch of packs have been opened then you just buy them right 87 rated at 20 000 coins are a huge buy for me even at like 21k for some of them with good links i'm a huge fan there 88 rated cards like a tony cruise this would be a great sbc fodder type card if you see this guy around like 25 or 26k i'm a fan of that so 88's around 25 or 26 and then 89 rated cards uh in the low 30s so like a cool abali at like maybe 32 that's a little bit low let's say like 33 or 34k for a cool abali would be a great great sbc investment and then stock in like 84 85 rated informs as well would be a great investment for your clubs uh at this time and of course this is a general tip i'm going to use inform payette as an example if you're going to invest in informs and you're going to be way ahead of the game look at this guy's inform this guy's left to wing 84 rated inform i think is like 30k he's over 30 000 coins this is a guy that was in what like team of the week nine or something like this an early team of the week that has just been hit upon hit upon hit of sbc's that require informs since he came out into the game until now so if you see if you're looking through some of the cheapest 84 rated or 85 or 86 rated informs and you see somebody from a very earlier on team of the week that has good links in a good position for sbc's those are gems to buy because they're so much more rare on the market than somebody who is in the current team of the week that everybody's going to go look to use so if you see somebody from a very old past team of the week and they're still in a good viable range compared to the other cheapest 84s put your coins into those before you put your coins into a team of the week car that is from a current team of the week just because they'll have less supply on the game as all the old ones have been supply has been taken off the market as people do sbc's with those cards throughout the weeks after they go out of packs and again what other market movements could you see because of this sbc would i expect middle icons to take a hit to that i would say yes a little bit um some of the middle icons i think we saw this with the babies a little bit too they took a quick hit but then they went right back up because people realized yo these cards are not very easy to pack the drop weight was not very high for some of these cards and packs in those base upgrades and then some of the middles the middle sbc could actually impact some of the babies price as well because you have people that probably have got baby icons in their team maybe some of them are tradable and they go and sell those to go and do an sbc so you might see some icon panic all the way across the boards but i would expect at least on the very usable and very meta middle cards i would expect a decent rebound shortly after especially if it's headed into a promo more coins come out of the game and people go buy back cards because they realize they did one or two mid icon sbc's and they couldn't pack one of the ones they wanted so they go back and buy cards but you'll probably see panic selling heading into that sbc or when that sbc drops and it's maybe it's a surprise then you will see a little bit of panic until that sbc kind of cools down i guess you could say but you should see some panic initially right away so huge video today talking about the mid icon sbc and what could happen with this game FIFA 20 i hope that this sbc comes before it's available in icon swaps because this pack especially if they release the next set of swaps and it's only six tokens again then we're gonna have some issues and it's gonna be really really hard to get this pack you will only be able to get this pack if they release six tokens next time if you've gotten every single token so far which i don't think a lot of people have gotten so if they release all 12 in the next season then i think it's very possible that the icon sbc would come pretty soon after that because then all the tokens would be easily attainable to get this 18 if you're somebody who's grinded some of them that were a little bit earlier on in the game so if you'd like this video hit a thumbs up on if you have any questions of course drop them down in the comments and of course if you're new hit the sub button i would greatly greatly appreciate it and yeah i'm super stoked for the mid icon sbc i don't have a ton of coins to do one i'm not broke don't worry i've got some stuff that i'm investing in got some stuff that i'm trading with that's why i don't have a ton of coins right now but i will definitely try to do one maybe if you're like crafting of some sorts during a promo with upgrade packs we love to do those right but we'll definitely hit a mid icon sbc as again as i said a lot of people are going to be insanely pumped to do this sbc when it comes out so hopefully you guys enjoy the information today it's been Nate the foot account i'll catch you guys later peace out


So let's go ahead and test it out. I created a test account on LinkedIn, George Calteam, that's my test account. And I've connected with my test account from my, this is my real account. I've connected by first degree to my test account. And so when you connect with someone on LinkedIn, you mutually, LinkedIn automatically makes it so that you mutually follow each other's content.  And so let me go ahead and let me go and show you my test account actually. So this is my test account. And I, you know, I, because I connected by first degree to my real account, I am also following my real account. And I also have a follower of my, as my real account. So let's go ahead and try this here. I'm going to go to my test account now. And I'm going to go ahead and disconnect from my test account to no longer, no longer be a first degree connection, remove connection. Okay, connection to George Cal test account removed. Let me go ahead and double check that by refreshing the screen. And now in no longer, it's now it says connect because we are not yet connected at this point. So now let me go back to the people that I am following just to show you. So this is my real account. I'm going to go to people I'm following and out of network to George Cal test. Now here's the interesting thing. People who most recently followed you, my test account is no longer there. Yeah. Now let me go to my test account to see if that's the case as well. So people I'm following on my test account. Okay, let me just refresh. That's right. So to summarize, when you remove a first degree connection on LinkedIn, LinkedIn also removes the fact that they are following you. So they will no longer see your content. And the reason why that's a good thing is because if you remove them, it probably means you don't really know who they are.  And you are now pruning your LinkedIn network by removing people that you don't really know, you're not really relevant to each other. So this is good for the algorithm because in the past, when they saw your content, if they ever see your content, because you're not relevant to them, they just probably kept scrolling and that doesn't help your content to be seen by more people because it shows LinkedIn that your content doesn't seem to be relevant to people. But it's just because you and that person somehow you collected each other. Now they are no longer seeing your content. So that's one less person who's just scrolling past your stuff because they don't really know who you are. So I hope that this is helpful. And if you have any other tips about LinkedIn in terms of what I've talked about, feel free to comment below and I hope this helps.


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, and Mrs. Reagan, accompanied by Secretary Clark. Men and women of the Armed Forces of the United States, veterans who've served America with pride, it is my privilege to present to you the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, the President of the United States. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Senator Warner, thank you very much. And may I thank you also for the crucial personal support that you gave to the building of this memorial. I extend the thanks of the nation also to all who have contributed so much to this fine cause. Ladies and gentlemen, honored guests, my remarks today will be brief because so much has been said over the years and said so well about the loyalty and the valor of those who served us in Vietnam. It's occurred to me that only one very important thing has been left unsaid and I will try to speak of it today. It's almost 10 years now since U.S. military involvement in Vietnam came to a close. Two years ago, our government dedicated the memorial bearing the names of those who died or are still missing. Every day, the families and friends of those brave men and women come to the wall and search out a name and touch it. The memorial reflects as a mirror reflects so that when you find the name you're searching for, you find it in your own reflection. And as you touch it from certain angles, you're touching to the reflection of the Washington Monument or the chair in which Great A. Blinken sits. Those who fought in Vietnam are part of us, part of our history. They reflected the best in us. No number of wreaths, no amount of music and memorializing will ever do them justice. But it is good for us that we honor them and their sacrifice. And it's good that we do it in the reflected glow of the enduring symbols of our republic. The fighting men depicted in the statue we dedicate today, the three young American servicemen, are individual only in times of or in terms of their battle dress. All are as one with eyes fixed upon the memorial bearing the names of their brothers in arms. On their youthful faces, faces too young to have experienced war, we see expressions of loneliness and profound love and of fierce determination never to forget. The men of Vietnam answered the call of their country. Some of them died in the arms of many of you here today. Asking you to look after a newly born child or care for a loved one, they died uncomplaining. The tears staining their mud-caped faces were not for self-pity, but for the sorrow they knew the news of their death would cause their families and friends.  He asked you not to forget. Today we pay homage not only to those who gave their lives, but to their comrades present today and all across the country. You didn't forget. You kept the faith. You walked from the litter, wiped away your tears and returned to the battle. You fought on, sustained by one another and deft to the voices of those who didn't comprehend. You performed with a steadfastness and valor that veterans of other wars salute, and you are forever in the ranks of that special number of Americans in every generation that the nation records as true patriots. Also among the servicemen and women honored here today is a unique group of Americans whose fate is still unknown to our nation and to their families. Nearly 2,500 of the names on this memorial are still missing in Southeast Asia, and some may still be serving. Their names are distinguished by a cross rather than the diamond. Thus this memorial is a symbol of both past and current sacrifice. The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that animated each side continue to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing. Well, I do not know if perfect healing ever occurs, but I know that sometimes when a bone is broken, if it's knit together well, it will in the end be stronger than if it had not been broken. I believe that in the decades since Vietnam the healing has begun, and I hope that before my days as Commander-in-Chief are over, the process will be completed. There were great moral and philosophical disagreements about the rightness of the war, and we cannot forget them because there is no wisdom to be gained in forgetting. But we can forgive each other and ourselves for those things that we now recognize may have been wrong. And I think it's time we did. There's been much rethinking by those who did not serve and those who did. There's been much rethinking by those who held strong views on the war, and by those who did not know which view was right. There's been rethinking on all sides, and this is good. And it's time we moved on in unity and with resolve, with the resolve to always stand for freedom as those who fought did, and to always try to protect and preserve the peace. And we must in unity work to account for those still missing and aid those returned who still suffer from the pain and memory of Vietnam. We must, as a society, take guidance from the fighting men memorialized by this statue. The three servicemen are watchful, ready, and challenged, but they are also standing forever together. And let me say to the Vietnam veterans gathered here today, when you returned home, you brought solace to the loved ones of those who fell. But little solace was given, given to you. Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between our native distaste for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there's been a rethinking there too, and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage. Thank you for being patient with your countrymen. Thank you, thank you for continuing to stand with us together. The men and women of Vietnam fought for freedom in a place where liberty was in danger. They put their lives in danger to help a people in a land far away from their own. Many sacrificed their lives in the name of duty, honor, and country. All were patriots who lit the world with their fidelity and courage. They were both our children and our heroes. We will never ever forget them. We will never forget their devotion and their sacrifice. They stand before us, marching into time and into shared memory forever. May God bless their souls. Find the document by which this memorial has been gratefully received by our government. And now it belongs to all of us, just as those men who have come back belong to all of us. Thank you.


Morning everybody. We're at home today, and I'm attempting to make some breakfast That's our new 55 inch TV. I've shown the vlog yet since I mounted it It's amazing how light they make those TVs things like 30 pounds Remember back in the day when we were kids and 55 inch TV would be like 1,500 pounds It's huge blocks So here's what I'm attempting to do. I'm attempting to make breakfast sandwiches Toasted bread bacon cheese eggs and Tomatoes to think that for second. What am I doing? I'm I'm not really the best in the kitchen, but I really want to make an attempt to become better and Make be able to make more food and meals There's gonna be times when Britt is off, you know with her family or friends doing things And I'm at home taking care of feel by myself, and I want to be able to make meals Not just for him, but also for Britt too because she makes pretty much all of our meals When I'm at home all of them. She's really good at it. She has a gift in the kitchen here She's much better at it than me, but I want to make I want to make the effort to maybe become somewhat of a Amateur chef myself to and be able to make more meals than my can right now is right now I can pretty much make macaroni and cheese And breakfast I can do breakfast. That's that's pretty easy though. We'll see what happens in the future I also don't have a lot of time when I'm at home too, right? My brother-in-law he's my sister's husband He's he's very good in the kitchen very good, and my sister rarely has to cook from what I understand I wish I could say that I'm good too, but I Can say that I can try I'll try to be better try to be able to expand my horizons, right? We do have a much bigger kitchen now so As long as there's bacon involved. I mean I'm pretty motivated the struggle Always dirty bless this is our new shark vacuum Very proud of it as I like to call them my boyfriend We spend a lot of time together.  Here we go. Oh, yeah, they turn out. Haha Nice One more for myself So this is something new we got this from my mom It's a steam mom Apparently it sanitizes the floors, right?  It's hard to get him in He loves being outside so much So just like our old yard. I Created a little super highways here for them. So it's a little guys Can get to the back of the yard too around here There Right on the back here This way they can sort of make use of the whole yard in the winter time If you're new, this is our temporary fence that we built my dad built for us when we moved in a couple months ago this is just To last us through the winter so the dogs stay in the yard and Don't go running out there in spring. We have we've already Arranged for our builder our fence builder contractor He's gonna replace this whole back piece with six foot fencing with a nice rolling gate so we can get back there as well This goes behind the playhouse. I pretty much just followed the path that the dogs naturally took this is how they They sort of War their own path into the snow already and I sort of just made it official And when they come out the door there You can go right up the center of the yard there then have options. Yeah, are you done now chef? Can we go in in you go?  It is a little bit of a colder one went down to minus 18 Celsius tonight That's still not cold yet. Believe it or not. It's still pretty mild for this time of year just before Christmas in 2023 Usually we're down to about my in the minus 20s by now, but so far we've been very lucky so those of you who Live in warmer climates You may be wondering How we heat our homes when it gets so cold minus 20s, that's not even cold for us yet It gets down to mid minus 30s down below minus 40 if you're wondering what that is in Fahrenheit Minus 40 Fahrenheit is exactly the same thing as minus 40 Celsius. That's where the two meet And it gets colder than that here at times Usually towards the end of January beginning of February somewhere in there That's where you're gonna get those really cold temperatures this house is Heated by natural gas Some homes are heated by electricity just electric furnaces, but natural gas is a lot cheaper So we go into our laundry room. Let's turn the lights on.  We have a gas heated And gas powered hot water tank here as well Which I also like a lot better than the electric ones the electric ones are a lot more expensive to operate and This heats the water up a lot faster a lot lot faster than electricity And that has the exhaust going there And around where you saw it Right there and at the chimney So this is the fresh air intake here and That grabs air through this Is above the ceiling there and it pulls air out of each individual room So it's sucking air out of the rooms and then it's blowing new air in This basement was actually built and put together right I'll show you here the vents for the heat and for the furnace are actually down low down here Warm air coming in here Which I think is a lot better because then the heat rises, right? Comes out near the floor and then it rises heats up the whole room very often These Basements around here and around everywhere very often the basement will have the vents in the ceiling because it's just easier to Put it in there. These vents have to come down the walls Little bit more extra work a little more forethought that has to go into that But it's way better once it's once it's in because I'm the ceiling here You can imagine hot air coming out of the ceiling doesn't even get to the floor So the floor is always cold It just comes out and then it comes back to the roof and just hovers up here much better to have them down there You can see there's another one right there Right there And you also have intake vents around here as well another one in the office over there Turn the light on here.  This is amazing because in our last house we had zero storage Zero and you guys have seen my office over here already where the vlog making happens Our family room That was the TV that was in our living room at our old house. We have a new TV that's upstairs Down the hallway there is Theo's playroom It's still not done, but we did get his net hung in the corner there His sign up there His shelf up there. I'm gonna move that shelf Over a little to the right yet. I put it a little too close to the wall. I was disappointed to myself All of his teddy bears up here No kinds of stuff for him to do here these shelves One of my projects near the very top of the list things to do I need to secure those against the wall there yet So that when he starts walking and crawling that uh He doesn't pull those over on top of them right because that would be a disaster I have the pieces right over here Right here see He's put this like if this was the top of the shelf here Put it like that and he screwed into a stud and then that Holds it to the wall Yeah, that's the basement Oh, and we have a freezer room too if you go in here Keep forgetting that this room even exists. It's right here. This is bonus room where we have our fraisers This freezer came with the house When we bought it it was already in here. I think the main reason for that is that They built the room around it There's no way to get it out of here And this is our freezers that we had in the shop before We bought a while ago. It's a stand-up freezer. So it's a lot more convenient and easy to get to That's the freezer room We're gonna put shelving up here yet too so we can Use it for more storage as well. This is a picture that brit took this year by our christmas tree Who are my favorite pictures?  I guess the people before us transformed it into like a little office We kind of like it down. There's a nice little spot for the dogs to lay When they choose to lay in their bed, they've also installed lighting in here There's a A plug down there as well Because we never really use this door. We never come in here. That's nice And the living room good things got to an end. That's what they say Home time always has to end. We have to go back to work That's what it is, right? We're all in the same boat. So I'm back in the truck here and I'll see you tomorrow We've got to go do some trucking Take care everybody and have a good day


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. How do you do? Thank you very much. But I want you all to know how delighted I am that you're here with us again. This is the fifth year now that we've had the privilege of having you as our guest, and I feel as though we've sort of grown up together. I hope that doesn't offend anyone. Actually, as far as I'm concerned, none of us is really any older or just better. You know, as Cardinal Spellman used to say, there are three ages in life. There's youth, middle age, and hey, you're looking great. Always spoken with a little surprise. Well, that brings up the story about a cub reporter who went out to interview a 65-year-old man who just won the local marathon. And the fast-paced gentleman explained that vitality was a part of his family heritage.  He said, my grandfather, who was 110, just got married for the third time. And the young reporter asked why he would want to do that, and the runner said, who said he wanted to? Well, all this talk about age is not really accidental. I'm aware that you're celebrating your 100th anniversary. And here at the White House, we do issue our share of messages and congratulations, yet yours was and is very special. As the message of congratulations suggests, community newspapers had their origins in the early days of our nation. And the struggle for independence and liberty, as our political parties grew and democracy flourished, the newspaper business also came of age. And today, with enormous advances made in technology, you're even more capable in the past of bringing to your hometowns timely, provocative, and comprehensive coverage of what concerns and affects your readers. I know that local news, what's happening in your communities, is one of the real important focuses for your newspapers. I think it's interesting that the new technology leading to such mass developments as newspaper chains and television networks is now being put to use by many of you to strengthen the very thing that so many people said the modern age would help to eliminate, and that is the sense of community, the rich diversity, and the difference that exists in America's towns and cities. I think you also know that at the federal level, we're trying to do the same thing. The administration has always believed that the real source of America's economic and social progress is not national edicts and mandates that are issued from Washington, but the toil and creativity of her people is working at the local level through their own private institutions and associations. And that's why we're trying to shrink the cost and the size of the federal government, bring its expenditures under control, transfer as much of its power as we can back to the states and localities where it will be subject to more control by the people themselves. And I might add to more scrutiny by their watchdogs, those of you of the local press. It hasn't been all that easy. Federal expenditures during the 15 years before we took office went up 400 percent, and the number of federal programs escalated beyond belief. So much so, and I think this is interesting, no one's been able to come up with a way of counting exactly how many such programs currently exist in our government. Government and regulations were America's biggest growth industry, and now at last, we're putting a stop to that. I won't go through all the statistics about how we're cutting the number of programs and regulations, the rate of growth in spending, or elaborate on the amount of power that we're returning to the people in the local communities. I think the best measure of our success is the change in the climate here in Washington. All of you can remember that a few years ago, the surest way to headlines and success for Washington politicians was to propose another federal initiative in spending extravaganza, to laugh at the deficit and claim that we could spend our way to prosperity.  But they still have a ways to go from talking about bringing deficits down to bringing deficits down. And you know one additional point here is important. Perhaps you've noticed that when some newspapers start to lose their impact, they do it by trying to cover everything on the international and national scale, but lose their real focus, what's important to the people in their local community. Well, it's always fascinated me that as government grows larger and larger and started to do more and more things, it was neither intended to do or competent enough to handle, it grew less capable of carrying out its traditional and far more important functions, maintaining civil order and protecting our national security. Even as we fought to get the federal behemoth under control during these past few years, we were emphasizing these traditional and most important duties of government. I think many of you have been reading and writing about our success against crime, much of it the result of a sweeping organized crime initiative that we announced a few years ago. So far, we've also been moving against the dangers to our national security. We've come a long way from the days when the growth of totalitarianism was unchecked and America was routinely held up to world humiliation. But all the work of the past few years, the rebuilding of our military strength and our international stature, depends on the continued support of the American people and the Congress. And very shortly, one critical vote will be held on the Hill on one of the mainstays of our strategic defenses, the MX missile. And oh, how I wish they had listened to Barry Goldwater when that thing started a few years ago. Because he said, why don't we just call it minute man four and no one will raise a fuss of any kind. Because in reality it is a modernization of what we have in the silos now. The two and the three are outdated and way behind the state of the art. I'm very grateful for the editorial support that all of you have given us in the past on so many issues, but let me emphasize this morning that MX is one of the most critical items on the national agenda. I know I don't have to tell you it isn't just isn't those of us at home who will be watching the vote. The world is watching too. And especially those with whom we're now trying to negotiate arms control and reduction measures in Geneva. A vote now against the MX would be interpreted as a sign of weakness. A symbol of disunity. And it could be interpreted by some as a signal to exploit rather than seriously negotiate the arms reduction process. We need passage of the MX program. We need it now. We need it for the success of our arms reduction efforts. And we need it for the sake of our future. And there we are again talking about the future and the passage of time. I know that many of you during these past few years have gone through the business of hiring young reporters and executives in your business. And I know that sometimes you must reflect on how young they are and counsel them on the work and adventures that await them. And that's what it really is all about. Passing on to another generation and the generations after them, this thing called the American dream. Making sure it remains a beacon of hope to a troubled but waiting world. You've been doing that now through this association for a hundred years. And during the past four years especially, all of us together have come a long way toward bringing back excitement and energy to that dream. So this morning I want to thank you all for your editorial support in the past and ask your support for the future, particularly on that crucial MX vote, and wish you at the same time all a very happy birthday. I would like to just point out because I know that there's kind of an image created with regard to defense spending. Would you be interested to know that with relation to the gross national product, defense spending is considerably lower than it has been over the past, back in the 50s and back in the Kennedy days. And as a percentage of gross national product. We tend to overlook that. It isn't the great stupendous increase that everyone thinks it is. It's actually a lower percentage. In Kennedy's years it was almost 50% of the budget. Here it isn't 30%. And it is a smaller percent of the gross national product at the same time. But before I, and incidentally also, our negotiators will leave this weekend for Geneva. And I can't tell you that passing the MX will guarantee a good arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Union. But I can guarantee you that a vote against it and not passing it will make that kind of a treaty much more difficult, if not impossible. The fellows on the other side of the table aren't there out of goodwill. They're there for the reason that Margaret Thatcher said to our Congress just a few days ago. They're there because of our strength. That's why they've come back to the table. And they see a determination on our side to maintain that strength. But before I close, I want to speak to you just briefly about the great power for public service that you possess. I'd like to suggest one especially tragic area where your newspapers can do a great deal of good. The problem of missing children. Well over a million American children disappear from their homes or neighborhoods every year, causing, as we can all understand, heart-breaking anguish. Parents cry out for help, many through letters to me. For example, I learned about Jonel Mathews of Greeley, Colorado, who would have celebrated a happy 13th birthday with her family just last month. But five days before Christmas, Jonel disappeared from her home. Letters like these touch us deeply, and we've tried our best to help. Last June, we opened the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which runs a toll-free hotline and gives other aid as well. But a president can only do so much. It's a day I'd like to ask for your help. We saw how reaction to the television program, Adam, led to recovery of at least 36 missing children. We also know how milk carton manufacturers have begun putting photos of missing children on milk cartons. If your newspapers, and forgive me for sticking my nose into your business, but if you could publish as a regular feature pictures and descriptions of children missing in or near your circulation areas, I know that you would give the police a welcome new source of leads that could solve some of these cases. So I'm asking you to enlist your newspapers in this mission of mercy. Even if it only finds one missing child, it's worth it. So I'll thank you for what you can do to help, and I'll thank you also for coming, and God bless you all and a happy birthday.


Thank you Paul for introducing. So, and thank you for your introduction to the topic because indeed the data for sub-center and phosphate medicines and products are very fragmented and there is poor transparency, which makes it impossible to assess the health impact of the poor quality medicines and to make accurate evidence-based decisions on effective countermeasures. And therefore with the medicines quality research group we really want to facilitate access to evidence and we the group created data sharing platforms and tools to put information together on the quality of medicines and in doing so providing ready and easy access to information. So for some scientific data Paul showed you the surveyor that we are using, but there is so many information that is not captured in the scientific literature and therefore the group developed a platform, The Globe that actually brings together information from the lay press on medicine quality, on poor quality medicines. So, and to give you a flavor of how this looks like, so we're mapping publicly available information on the quality of medicines and the information comes mainly from Google News. We're following Google News in five different languages and for example, if I'm interested in Valsachtan I would type that into the search box and it would give me all the locations where there are reports, lay press articles on this. When I click on the pin or when the user clicks on the pin, there is the link to the source article and curated information is available. It will give a brief overview like which product is involved, what was the quality of the medicine that was found and what was the source where the product was found. So users can filter by date, they can filter by country, by a search term that they prefer and if they would want to, they can download a customized report for example in this case for Valsachtan incidents that happened. So how are we actually populating or giving input to this globe? We are using a system that scrapes newspapers online, mainly referencing Google News and articles that are matching the search terms will appear in our database and we'll be loaded into our database, apologies. And trained analysts will subsequently filter and curate these articles. So only the relevant articles will appear in the medicines quality monitoring globe and each pin on this globe reports is actually an article that reports on incidents of substandard falsified, unregistered and diverted products. And the principle that target users are met since regulation are met since regulatory authorities, international organizations and for example professionals working in a country and that are interested in this topic. And since the beginning of our system in 2018 we have more than 5,800 articles that actually report on incidents of substandard and falsified medicines. Of course, these are journalistic reports and therefore maybe intrinsically less reliable than scientific papers but we really see it as an early warning system for potential problems and we want to point out that there might be further investigation needed there but in the context for example of COVID-19 it's relevant to have these early warning systems and I want to give you an example of what the globe can actually tell us. So for COVID-19 we adapted the globe, we added specific search terms to be sure to capture these type of products within Google News and also users on the globe can actually download reports that are grouping certain product categories. So with COVID we see that there is a high demand for products and there is shortage of genuine products and that this actually leads to an increase in articles that are related to this. So in kind of parallel pandemic of substandard and falsified medicines and since the beginning of the pandemic up to now July 2021 we identified almost 850 relevant articles on quality problems with COVID-19 products in over 60 countries. So it's not only problems with medicines that we see there is many problems involved in our globe. We see there is problems with hand sanitizers with personal protective equipment, with ventilation equipment, with vaccines and the timing in which these products or articles on these incidents appear. It comes somehow in waves. For example, at the beginning of the pandemic there was a wave of quality issues with PPE and here on the slide you see the example for diagnostics that were when there was a higher demand in the beginning of the pandemic. And then further on in the pandemic as soon for example at the end of December 2020 when the big vaccination campaigns actually started for COVID-19 vaccines we saw an increase in alerts in the globe. So it's really a wide range of products that is affected by this issue of substandard and falsified incidents. And each of them have a different regulation and each of them need different quality assurance and quality control measures in order to prevent them. So what the globe does not tell us is that the data are geographically heterogeneous and an important caveat with this is that it's not because there is no reports from a country that the medicines product quality there is necessarily good. It may be just implied that there is no or few access to available data. And similarly it's not because there is a lot of reports on poor quality products that in this country the quality of the product is generally worse than in another country where there are less reports. And one of the reasons obviously is we are only following articles in five languages. We are planning to extend this and follow up in more languages. But there is also other phenomena that are at play here and that actually need further research such as for example reporting fatigue. We saw in the beginning of the pandemic that there was an increase in masks and then it went down later on. But apparently in the beginning of 2021 there was a new increase in SF masks and that's for the US Customs and Border Control saw that in their figures that we did not see this reflected in the data from our globe. There is also reluctance from international organizations for example for COVID-19 to talk about the problem of substandard and false fight medicines because it might nurture or feed the vaccine hesitancy also companies might be afraid for reputation of harm so they don't really disclose the information. Furthermore in late price articles very often there is a confusion between the different type of terms that are used false fight and substandard are not always well defined necessarily. So we need to be careful when we want to interpret this information because the drivers for substandard are very different than the ones for false fight for example. And therefore the information of the globe we have to realize throughout whatever we are doing with this data that there is no scientific confirmation and therefore the information needs to be, yeah like I said interpreted with greatest precautions that we do, but the information does has additional valuable information on quality of certain medicines and on certain incidents that are happening in the world. And we really want to see it as a early warning system. And therefore we really have the feeling that there is a need to have the discussion on how we can grade the quality of evidence on substandard and false fight medicine. So we can take into account all the resources of information that are available. There is a need for this data grading data quality grading system. So with what the globe does tell us we can increase awareness of the problems amongst key stakeholders that are working in this domain and the data that we have, we can use it to find the drivers for different products and different geographical areas. We are also planning to do a temporal analysis. So for example, between when the needs arise for a certain product or when a certain product was claimed to be useful, for example in hydroxychloroquine and how much time does it take before there is actually a substandard false fight incidents happening or when are these products appearing in the market? But also actually the information that the globe does not tell us. So with this labor as information we already tried to fill some part of the gap but it also further gives us an understanding of what gaps are still left in the data. And it reveals us areas for research on medicine quality. So we can target the intervention of medicine quality problems and we can collect evidence to fill the knowledge gaps. And the information that we don't have actually also encourages us to think about better system for sharing data in an objective and timely manner and to the people that actually should know so they can take appropriate countermeasures and the so these can be implemented. Thank you very much.


Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. Thank you so much for clicking on today's video If you're new I'd love for you to join my YouTube friends and family and just hit that little subscribe button and the bell so you're notified When new videos are uploaded, you don't want to miss out I do upload most days of the week today's video is a fun yet educational and maybe a little bit of an eye Opening a video. We're gonna talk about six weight loss tips that are super easy and make a big Difference in our weight loss journey. Some of these you may have thought of some of them You may not have but these are six tips that have helped me lose over 33 pounds on the ww program So let's jump right into these six easy tips that make a big difference in weight loss Don't think of this as a diet think of this as a lifestyle a healthy eating lifestyle Immediately when we think diet we think something short term that we're gonna lose a lot of weight and something that chances are We're going to gain back that weight as soon as we stop the diet So when we're on a health journey a weight loss journey It's important to view it as a healthy eating lifestyle or as a permanent lifestyle change That way we're more motivated throughout our weight loss journey But then once we do hit our goal, it's easier for us to maintain that loss because we don't view This as a diet. We view this as a healthy eating a healthy lifestyle Also, when we think healthy lifestyle we view this as permanent So this is something we're going to do the rest of our lives. That's why they call them bad diets They're a fad they come and they go they're not something that is sustainable That's permanent and that can be a complete lifestyle change. So whenever I refer to WW I always refer to it as my journey as my lifestyle as my healthy eating journey Instead of as a diet because it's something that I want to do for the rest of my life Yes, I want to use it to lose weight But I also want to continue in maintenance and not gain that weight back and make this a permanent healthy lifestyle Tip number two eat your protein. This is so important. Yes in order to lose weight It's calories in versus calories out. That's just the facts That's the way that it is anytime you want to lose weight you have to consume less than you're putting out However, not all calories are created equal not all foods fuel our body Not all foods our body knows how to process and not all foods make our body react the same way which delivers us the same result Yes, there are no foods that are bad. All foods are good We should be incorporating all types of foods in our healthy lifestyle But protein is super important and let me give you a few reasons why you should really up your protein game first of all eating enough protein decreases late night hunger cravings and Obesity, it's crazy that if we don't eat enough protein during the day We find ourselves a lot more hungry at night by hitting your protein goal You're going to feel less hungry. You're gonna feel more satiated more satisfied and eating a lot of protein helps fight Obesity, which is always a win when you're on a weight loss journey protein also Decreases your obsessive thoughts about food by up to 60% 60% that is crazy So when we're constantly obsessing over our next meal or obsessing over whether we're gonna eat this or that by upping our protein It's going to decrease that by 60% So food won't always be on our mind because we're not gonna be hungry. We're not gonna be snacky We're not gonna be crazy because we fueled our body with protein also by eating enough protein It helps you feel full and satiated and on average people that eat enough protein eat 441 less calories per day 441 that's a substantial workout to burn that many calories But by just upping our protein game We're less hungry, which means less eating and 441 less calories every day that we have to burn off or try to eliminate Versus that calorie in versus calorie out to lose our weight and the last little tip with protein is Make sure you have it with every meal in every snack So if you're going to have a carb with a snack or a meal make sure you pair that with a protein And another kind of side tip is eat a bigger breakfast and a lesser dinner I know for me I like to save a lot of points for dinner that generally tends to be my biggest meal of the day But it's a proven fact that if you eat a larger breakfast and less at dinner You can see a little bit of shifting in your weight loss not to mention you go to bed not feeling so full And you sleep better It's just overall better to invest your points in your calories in the beginning of the day and a little bit less at the end Of the day number three is my favorite and that is drink your water my friends water is the key to weight loss It helps flush our body It helps keep us full and it fuels our body with water instead of food water hydrates our skin and our body And it can boost our metabolism 24 to 30 percent you can boost your metabolism 24 to 30 percent just by drinking water Another fun interesting fact about water is if you drink 17 ounces of water 30 minutes before your meal you are going to consume 44 percent less food 44 percent less food 44 percent less calories and water does a body good While we're talking beverages and water another couple of things that you can do to help your weight loss is to drink green tea and to Drink lemon infused water if you didn't notice I have lemon in my water Lemon is my very very favorite thing to put in water I also like to put limes oranges cucumbers for me having my water Flavored makes me drink a little bit more so they say to drink green tea before your workout The reason for that is it boosts your energy boosts your metabolism and overall you're going to burn more calories during your workout Now is this true? Who knows I found this a lot online I actually found this exact sediment several several times online by dieticians nutritionist doctors So is it true? I don't know but it doesn't hurt to drink a little bit of green tea before your workout and see if you have some Noticable results and the best part about lemon water is lemons contain what is called pectin? Pectin helps with cravings and makes you feel full and satisfied That's why it's important to add lemon to your water plus it tastes amazing It really helps with all of those other benefits and lemon just tastes really really good in water It's refreshing. It's light and in my opinion for me, especially I drink a lot more water when there's some type of fruit or vegetable in my water The next tip is quite interesting. Are you somebody that craves sweets after dinner? That's me. In fact, I want something sweet after every meal.  You're not thinking about food because you're busy thinking about other things If you think that you're hungry or you find yourself feeling hungry and we're not talking hunger pangs We're talking just hungry and crazy. There's a couple of things that you can do to take away that craving You can drink your water. You can chew your gum. You could take a walk You could read a book. You could take a bubble bath. You could hop over here on YouTube and watch some motivational videos They don't have to be food videos They can be videos like this with tips and tricks and that's going to keep your mind busy and entertained So that it doesn't send you to the kitchen or the pantry for food. All right So those are my six super easy tips that make a big difference in weight loss I hope I shared something with you today that maybe you didn't think about or maybe you thought about but have Haven't implemented in your healthy eating journey. These are just some great tips and tricks to keep your weight loss Moving in the right direction if you're new to my channel again, welcome Thanks for sticking around through today's video. Just hit that little subscribe button in the bell So you're notified when new videos are uploaded. I'd love to have you be part of my YouTube community It's a pretty fun place to be give this video a big thumbs up if you enjoyed these six tips And please in the comments leave any additional tips that you have for success on weight loss and remember my friends This isn't a diet. This is a healthy eating journey This is a lifestyle and if you go into whatever lifestyle For healthy eating that you've chosen whether it's way watchers keto South Beach, whatever that may be if you go in with that mentality You're definitely going to be able to lose the weight and maintain the weight So again, leave your comments down below with any other tips and tricks that you might have to share with the rest Of the community and of course, I'll see you all in my next video