This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you, and special thanks to Hi Tech Oki, Jim Hart, and Logan Larson. Coming up today on DTNS, Discord's making some username changes. You might like them, you might not. Shopify is dropping logistics because logistics are hard. And let's go in-flight. Mach 9, maybe someday. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, May the 4th, 2023, in a studio redwood far, far away. I'm Sarah Lane. From lovely Cleveland, Ohio, I'm rocking Rich Strafilino. That's No Moon. It's me, Justin Robert Young from Austin, Texas. I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Oh, come on, Roger, after all that. Oh, okay. I get to remake this movie two times, and I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Love it. Yep.  Without further ado, let's get into some tech stories starting with the quick heads. Anyone who uses the Bing browser with a Microsoft account can now use its chat bot powered by a GPT-4. Bing Chat launched in private preview back in February. Some of us have played around with it, but everybody can now. Starting today, you can also pull image and video results, persistent chat history, and plugin support. One example would be making a dinner reservation with OpenTable. Browser plugin, Bing Chat can say, okay, I'm completing your booking. We can expect more announcements during Microsoft's Build Conference, which starts on May 23rd. Mozilla announced a private beta for Mozilla.Social, its mastodon instance, although there is a waitlist to join right now, so you can sign up if you'd like to. In the announcement, Chief Product Officer Steve Toshera said the instance will use content moderation based on its Mozilla manifesto. This emphasizes things like human dignity, inclusion, security, individual expression, and collaboration, saying that it's not trying to build a quote neutral platform. Toshera also said areas like onboarding, discovery, identity, and monetization are ripe for experimentation on mastodon. Of course, this isn't the first go-around for an instance from a browser company, Vivaldi Social, launched back in November. If you're into GitHub's co-pilot but you don't want a part with the monthly fee or even in the annual fee, hugging face and ServiceNow research are offering up an alternative. StarCoder is a code-generating system available on a free OpenRailM license. StarCoder was trained on more than 80 programming languages and integrates with Microsoft's Visual Studio Code code editor. Well, Waymo's been operating in the Phoenix area for some time now, and now it's doubling the size of its autonomous taxi service area in the city to around 180 square miles. And it's also adding a backup, excuse me, a pickup spot at the airport. Waymo also expanded its San Francisco service area to cover the entire city 24 hours, seven days a week for service. Yeah. If anybody has tried either of these out and have thoughts, we welcome your feedback. Feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. Germany's Infineon now officially operates a chip manufacturing plant in Dresden six months after it announced that the project would begin. Infineon expects production to start in 2026, so there's a bit of a ramp up period. But that's what they're doing. US-based Wolfspeed also plans to build plants in Germany. The plants are part of the EU CHIPS Act. That aims to increase manufacturing capacity inside Europe overall. Those are the quick hits. Now let's talk about one of the big stories today that has either ruffled your feathers or you're kind of saying, what's the big deal? So Discord is changing how it assigns usernames, meaning that all existing users will have to get a new usernames. This isn't happening today, but it's happening in a rollout situation depending on when you signed up for Discord. If you're an early adopter, you probably get this opportunity first. Now the company previously let you choose a name, for example, Minus Aralane, then it added a four-digit number to the end. That way multiple people could have that same handle. Maybe there are a lot of Saralanes. Those numbers keep the accounts unique. So, Rich, I'm Saralane1234. That's not exactly what it is, but you get the idea. There's a four-numerical-digit thing after my name, but that's been okay for me so far, so what's changing? Yeah, here's the skinny. Your current name will be replaced with an at symbol, followed by whatever username you end up choosing. No four-digit number added to it. That also means your preferred username may not be available when they finally get around to ask you to change it. Discord will notify users when they can choose their new username, starting with users who have been on the platform the longest, so the OGs get their due. The old username with the four-digit number will, though, still work as an alias, so you're not totally out in the cold if you're really wedded to your four-digit number at the end there. But Justin, lots of people are having lots of feels about this.  It does not particularly fire me up, although it might, if I'm not able to get Justin our young, my preferred screen name on all platforms. What I would say about this is, number one, there is an immutable law of life that is particularly acute on the internet, and that is the longer people stay in a thing, the less they like it to change, and this is going to change. And in some places, there's a very real possibility that with more common nicknames, you won't be able to get the name for which you already have. The one thing that I think people should understand about this is that on Discord, yes, you had your username, and that was the four-digit code. That was how people would find you, but in each Discord, you were able to change your display name. So that would be something that led to more memeable opportunities. The reality of it is Discord is prioritizing future users over current users, and the least popular that decision will ever be is right now, when very few future users and exclusively past you. Yeah, I saw it sort of trying to figure out, because on the surface when I read the story this morning, I was like, all right, Discord SIDS, it wants to just play a little bit more friendly with people who don't understand the username concept as it stands right now on various Discord servers, helping the normies a little bit more. Okay, a lot of people saying, you know what this is about? This is about security and privacy. You've had a lot of people who are intimidating, imitating other users with similar usernames based on the fact that nobody was really paying attention to those four digits after. Sarah Lane, five, six, seven, eight, might say, I'm Sarah Lane, one, two, three, four, and somebody could be duped. That's very possible. I'm not totally sure how this new policy helps us. It may crack down on that specific issue, but if I can't be Sarah Lane anymore, but I could still use my Sarah Lane, one, two, three, four, alias with whatever username I end up being, with everybody that has become my community thus far on Discord, with new people, I guess it wouldn't matter, right? Because you just know what you know. But for everybody else, I can see where people are saying, why do this? Because at the end of the day, Discord is not a mass broadcast platform. Yes, there are Discords that have thousands of people in them, and I'm sure that Discord is planning for a reality where there are Discords with millions of people in them. But they are moderated based on how their communities are. I could change my alias right now in my own Discord and say that I'm Abe Lincoln that does not mean that everybody will believe that I am Abe Lincoln, who obviously needs his own territory. That would just be an alias. As long as you understand that we can say whatever, that's not unlike what people do on Twitter. The reality here is that they want to give agency and permanence to these usernames. And right now, they don't really have them. And I think that they were planning on scaling up this service in a way that that would matter less. Well, guess what? It matters a lot. And they are probably facing issues with verification and showing that certain people are certain people. They are growing beyond what they were before. So I get it as a decision. I also understand why people are really cheesed off, as I will be if I don't get Justin Artie, anybody who works at Discord, please be aware. I will be mad and I have a once a week platform. By speaking of all of this, we ended up wanting to get a lot of thoughts from you, many of our DTNS audience, that is active in Discord. How do you feel? I want to read something, and I'm not going to say the username, because I want them to get that username if that is possible, but got a lot of feedback. Rich and I were looking through this earlier, but someone said, if I can't get my handle as my username, I'll feel incomplete in Discord. Sounds kind of petty, but this is actually a reason why I rarely use Twitch and Twitter. I don't like my user names on those platforms. Every time I log in, it's a constant reminder. Now, sure, you could say that's silly, just get used to it, but I'm with you, person I will not name, because I want you to get your username. I'm Sarah Lane on almost everything, but every so often, especially over the last couple of years, somebody beats me to it. So then I've got my second choice, third choice. It is not the end of the world, but it's just one thing that adds a slight complication to things.  I can see where this could, you're going to get a lot of loyal people who aren't thrilled about the change. As was said on the wire, my name is my name, and I do think that that is a non-trivial issue on the internet, where we are able to create lives, relationships, cultures, cloud. The fact that we can't track it to the name that we want is frustrating. The other thing that was really interesting to me in this whole announcement was Discord kind of being upfront about why the system kind of came about at all. And as someone who's just kind of a user of Discord fairly recently, just this whole idea, like their whole friend system was kind of added on after they had established these individual servers. And this is kind of like a technical debt conversation where they just wanted to speed onboarding to servers at first and be like, we don't even care because it's going to be you and, I don't know, 20 or 100 people. So probably user name, repeating user names isn't that much of an issue. And then when they did the friend system, they had to be like, there's 50,000 John Smiths or whatever. So we need to come out with a way to do that. And it's very rare, I feel like, to get a company, one rolling out like a giant change like this in terms of everybody just has to pick new user names, but acknowledging a technical debt and saying like, hey, we need to kind of hit a reset button here for everybody so that we can kind of get beyond this. And maybe we have some other plans down the road with how we're going to scale this platform just to your point, really push the size of a certain Discord service and stuff. Well, moving on to science, because science and tech, they overlap every day. And we love the story. So we wanted to share it with you because many of you are science-focused and tell us every day that you like science stories on the show. So thanks for that feedback. Scientists can't currently replicate what you or I see by just scanning our brands. Wouldn't that be nice? Well, it depends on the scientist, but they're a step closer to being able to send impulses to our brains that could replicate visual stimulus. So, Jerry, let's talk about the study. I'd love to, Sarah. Scientists recorded electrical impulses from neurons in the visual cortex in 50 mice while they watched a 30-second video clip nine times. They then trained a machine model called Cebra that is pronounced Zebra, but it looks like Cebra because it starts with a C. to link the neural data to that video clip. When the mice watched the movie for the 10th time, the machine tried to predict the order of the frames in the clip that the mouse was seeing. It was able to predict the right frame within one second, 95% of the time. This does not let them recreate the clip by scanning the brain. However, it could reveal links that might allow visual sensations to be sent to the visual cortex of somebody with visual impairments. That's what got me, Rich, was, okay, interesting study of mice. How does this help people looking ahead to anybody who has visual impairments who might benefit from this? That's where it kind of excited me. Yeah, definitely. And what's also exciting is when you get into this paper, this paper was published in the journal Nature, and it gets into a lot more of the use cases. This is obviously the one that is, it's the easiest to see, right? They can show the video of what Zebra predicted that the, you know, what predicted based on their neurological reading, what they were seeing. And it looks remarkably similar.  You can completely see that they are accurately predicting what this movie looks like. But what's exciting about this is this whole system is much more general use. It's not just for this one application. It's designed to kind of uncover structures and systems using behavioral and neural data. So they also had use cases for determining position of a body in space and stuff like that based on neurological readout, which is like a really hard problem. And the other really encouraging thing, like just from a application for this, is a lot of times we're talking about computer brain interfaces, right? When you're having, like, trying to have someone's brain control, like an artificial limb or something like that, that usually requires an individual training to get that all working. And you can't just take aggregate data from everyone else and plug that in there. What this system found, though, was that aggregating the data from those 50 mice improved. They got that 95% because they used 50 mice. When they only used one mouse, it was only about 50 or 75%. So this could potentially- It's too personal. But this could potentially allow us to, like, speed training down the road. Like, obviously, that's very far afield, but the idea that we can generalize this type of training is very exciting and makes a lot of these systems a lot more immediately accessible potentially. Well, if you've got thoughts on this or anything that we talk about the show and you say, you know what? I wish I had their email address so I could share my thoughts. Now's your time. You can email us at feedback at dailytechnewshow.com and make your voice heard on anything we've talked about in a past show or might talk about it on a future show. Thank you in advance. Well, you've definitely heard about the Ottawa-based e-commerce platform Shopify and they announced that, turns out they're pretty good at making money, at least according to their quarterly earnings. In Q1, they made $1.51 billion- I'm sorry. They generated revenue of $1.51 billion. That beat analyst expectations and gross merchandise volume was $49.6 billion, also beating projection. So everything looking good there. However, the company is making some changes. First, doing job cuts. No big news here in the tech sector cutting 2,000 jobs. That comes 10 months after the previous round of 1,000 layoffs. So it's another significant chunk there. Arguably though, the bigger news, it's selling the majority of its logistics business to the supply chain management company Flexport. CEO Toby Lutke announced the layoffs in a memo to staff adding that Shopify's numbers simply weren't healthy and reflect a trend in the tech industry overall. Kind of a big shift though for Shopify, right, Sarah? Yeah, it is. It is. And Lutke did not mince word, said this is the way it goes. Some of you will not be employed at Shopify as of today. But here is why. It's an about phase for Shopify, which acquired shipping startup Deliver. That's Deliver with two Rs. Last year for $2.1 billion, we talked about it on the show, to better compete with a little logistics unicorn called Amazon, you've heard of it. There are other companies, but Amazon's the one to beat, right? Amazon is the logistics company where everyone's trying to say, okay, how can we also do something, even at a smaller scale, but do it as nimbly and make money from it? Justin, sounds like logistics, didn't end up adding up for Shopify, which does e-commerce very well and has for some time. What do you think about a brighter future for Flexport? If Shopify says, we're just going back to e-commerce, that's what we do. Logistics too hard. Flexport does logistics only. Maybe it's better to have two companies doing one thing well and work together in the future. 100%. Number one, you cannot compare your web store to Amazon, especially when it comes to logistics. Amazon has spent the last 20 years building warehouses in strategic different places for which they can get things to you at a shocking speed. They are the greatest story of optimization and logistics of all time, and they are a beneficiary of their own work in that regard. The question for Shopify is, do you want to have your logistics done by them? And does Shopify want to operate and make efficient, a ruthlessly efficient game in selling logistics to the people that are on their platform? Right now, they do a great job of creating easy web forms, a reliable system, and a backend with data that allows you with confidence to sell wares online. But there is a gigantic community of people that are competing for your business to fulfill those sales, including Amazon, by the way. You can have your stuff shipped from an Amazon warehouse, even if it's not sold on Amazon. That is a service for which they also provide. It makes sense, especially if we're moving into a tech winter, for Shopify to hoard their nuts and wait to see what happens going forward. Yeah, I mean, on the surface, this all makes a lot of sense to me. It's Shopify said in pandemic times, online shopping went through the roof, people were finding alternative ways to buy things. It's great. Let's hire and hire. This is not something that Shopify did on its own. This is an overall tech trend that's happening for a variety of reasons, as the global economy self-corrects. There's all sorts of consumer spending that's down overall, whether it's in person or online. I mean, that also factors into this. But Rich, I know you got kind of fascinated with the story as you started digging into the logistics business. Because every headline you're seeing about this in the tech press is, this is a Shopify story. This is Shopify retreating from this very big 2.1 billion acquisition, their biggest acquisition ever. They're selling that off as part of this business. But what got me fascinated is looking at this. This is a big deal for Flexport, which is, if you've never heard of them, I didn't before today. That's because I'm not in logistics, but they provide like backend freight and trade services. So if you're a company and you need to know what ship your stuff's on, or if it's going through customs or something like that, they have the backend for that. But you know who their CEO is? Former Amazon Worldwide Commerce Chief Dave Clark, AKA the guy that's been running their transport and logistics services for the last several years, right? He helped build these up to the mammoth that they are. And the fact that they're buying at part, deliver as well as Shopify is things. Deliver is a much more closer to consumer service. So to me, it's not, yes, it's definitely as Shopify has said, this is us about finding our main quest as opposed to our side quest, very, very cutesy language that they are using there. But this to me feels like a much more significant expansion for Flexport led by someone who definitely knows what they are doing. Obviously they're not a new company, but that to me was what got me fascinated by this story of them getting closer to kind of not, maybe not to consumers, but to smaller businesses and expanding out from this very backend freight stuff that they've been doing for the past, for almost a decade now. Just to give everybody a sense, when I was selling card games, and we were selling them through Amazon, it's a fascinating process.  There is no rhyme, there is no reason. You have no idea why or how. You just send it to those warehouses and then those warehouses send it to other warehouses. So it is always two days away from anybody who is going to buy it. Their logistics are insane, have always been insane, and it's the reason why they've been able to, with very small margins, make money.   Here's the other thing that just to think about, what does Shopify lose in terms of what they can offer to customers with this, right? Obviously they lose that kind of end-to-end thing, but the Shopify fulfillment network is still available to customers. Flexport is still going to operate the shop promise, their own two-day shipping or next-day shipping guarantee. So like from a consumer perspective, you are not losing anything as a Shopify user by doing this. And Shopify also owns, they are saying, high teens now percentage of Flexport. So Flexport does really well, and they're very focused on logistics, turns out Shopify is going to make money on that too. So like to me, this is, it feels more like a repositioning. I don't even want to say a withdrawal, just a, I guess a refocusing. I think it's also just them getting the money. Extract the money now, wait, go ahead to the Winchester and wait for this to all blow. All of this is about in tech right now. Well, speaking of tech, if you'd like to fly at a hypersonic speed and said, how do I do that? By the way, hypersonic speed is defined as five times the speed of sound. So it's pretty fast. Houston Bakes based aviation company, Venus Aerospace hopes to give you your answer. The company has been building a hypersonic aircraft concept, code word concept, very key here, called the Stargazer since back in 2020, that takes that hypersonic speed even further. They're planning to carry about 12 passengers traveling at Mach 9, which is nine times the speed of sound. The Stargazer measures 100 feet long by 100 feet wide is designed to travel 6,905 miles per hour at an altitude of 170,000 feet. This could make flying between, let's say New York and Tokyo, which is actually something that Venus Aerospace uses as an example, a hour long flight rather than, I don't know, 16 to 20 hours, depending on where you have to refuel and change planes. Now, if Venus Aerospace is successful, it blows away the last commercial supersonic jet that was the Concorde, which could travel at Mach 2 or about 1,535 miles per hour. You might also recall that Lockheed's SR-71 Blackbird traveled at Mach 3.2, 2,455 miles per hour. So this would be way faster, but still a concept at this point. I really regret that we're not going to be able to live to see a succession episode that is filmed in real time for the hour that the siblings take off from Tokyo and landing yet. A lot of things happen in an airplane. Just saying.  This is an amazing concept. I would have never guessed that no one in the history of aviation has thought of doing something similar in the past 30, 35 years. This is the thing. The technology in this, the rotating pulse detonation engine, is a thing. And it's something that the military, specifically the Navy's been looking into, as in a more efficient way to power surface vessels. They say they get all the technology worked out. The biggest limiting factor, and this is why supersonic travel has been so limited and specifically to the Concorde, is it's really expensive. And to make a business case out of it, you got to charge people a lot of money, or you charge people a lot less a lot of money, but carry more of them at a time. And until you can do that, you're just going to be hemorrhaging money out. It's one thing to build this into a missile that blows up a big target. It's a different thing if you want to repeatedly send people from one end of the planet to the other in that one hour and still say like have your budget in the black at the end of it. I am more bullish on some of the concepts of using rocket technology to get people from New York to Tokyo in some ridiculously vanishingly small amount of time, mostly because we know all the tech there. It's literally just a matter of getting it cheaper. All right, Rich, let's check out the mailbag. Who's in it today? Well, we have a very exciting anonymous email, not the hacktivist group, just someone who didn't want to use their name. They wrote in about our ongoing conversation about using AI tools inside a company that doesn't want you to use them. They wrote in and said, many orgs have extensive data loss protection or DLP tools that may detect if you try to move data to your personal device to then use AI language models. Please don't risk your job trying to use a tool your company has banned by sneaking data off to your personal device. They say, I'd hate to see someone lose a job over this. They said, our org has also temporarily banned AI language models and regularly detects insider accidental or malicious movement of confidential information. It's not fun for anyone involved. I know all the insider threat stuff is one of the giant realms within every company's cybersecurity. So yeah, it's a good chance they'll find out if you're trying to do this. Just listen to them. Just follow the rules. Look, right now the lead dog in AI is chat GPT with open AI. Open AI is not a secure platform in the way that you would want for something with personal data. Anything that you would not be fine appearing on the internet, be careful with it. And that is not a slag on open AI. They are upfront about the fact that this is not personal to you. I think we can all wait a little bit until there are more secure solutions for which your company can feel comfortable that they are burning their data through. And if anybody's catching up late to the story and saying, what is this some reference to? It started with a conversation we had a couple of days ago about Samsung saying, we do not want you to use these tools. We had another mailbag folk write in and say, well, there are some workarounds. And I see those workarounds happening all the time. Now, this latest one from Anon is like, yeah, but depending on where you work, that company might be putting a lot of effort into monitoring how you might use those workarounds. So just be careful. Not necessarily one size fits all solution, but just be careful. Don't go traipsing around chat GPT in this economy. Well, in this economy, we really do want Justin Barber Young to continue with us because we couldn't do without you, Jerry. So let folks know what else you're up to. Our final episode of season three of World's Greatest Con comes out this weekend. And we are going to answer all the questions that we've gotten in over the course of the season. And we have a big update, something that actually came to light to us over the last week. It's a bit of a summer one, but you can tune in to the finale. And now that means that the rest of the season is bingeable episodes one through five, telling the tale of Project Alpha, two teenagers totally ended the world of rampant parapsychology research by pretending to be psychics, only to reveal that they were frauds on national television. It's an amazing story from the first person perspective of the boys. See you there, World's Greatest Con, everywhere you get podcasts. Can't wait to check that out. And thanks to our brand new bosses, just like the Sith, they come in twos. We have Rodney and Abdullah, both joining us on Patreon. Thank you so much, Rodney. Thank you, Abdullah. Indeed, we are so happy every day that we get a new patron. If we get more than one, we're even happier yet. Speaking of patrons, stick around for the extended show, Good Day, Internet. We are going to be talking about how Google chose to honor May the 4th today. The answer may surprise you. But you can catch the show live Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. Eastern, 1-800-UTC. DTNS, you can find out more about our live show options at DailyTechNewShow.com. We are back tomorrow with Shannon Morse, who just passed a YouTube milestone and is going to be bringing the knowledge to us to talk to you about.


Financial aid is a big part of the college experience at any university. Elizabeth City State is no different with roughly 90% of the students receiving some sort of financial assistance. Future students and their parents should know that members of the financial aid staff are here to help them every step of the way. A lot of times we might ask them questions that might feel invasive to them, but we really are trying to do the best to assist them. So we are here to help complete the FAFSA application with them if we are asking for additional documents, but most notably the documents that we likely ask for are tax information and additional institutional documents that would help further our cause with knowing what their financial picture is like. But we are definitely here to assist. Our staff is ready and armed to take any type of questions or concerns that they have. The starting point for financial aid is filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. It's recommended to complete the application no later than March 1st of each year. That is one of the sole things that our financial aid office will use for a financial aid award decision being made. So we work to get the information out there and manage students to be important of completing their FAFSA on time and definitely make sure they stay in contact with our financial aid office on campus. As well as encouraging to look for outside scholarships that are available in our local communities. A single application doesn't always tell your complete story. That's why the financial aid office is always open to assist. There are many students that have extenuating circumstances that cannot be reflected on the FAFSA application and in those scenarios we want them to come in to talk with us, to give us a call to let us know those special circumstances so that we can further assist them to be able to assist with financing their educational costs. Several types of aid are available for students including scholarships, grants, loans and work study programs. Once on campus, students have to maintain their end of the agreement. Students must maintain at least a 2.0 GPA. If we do award a student based on full-time eligibility which is taking 12 hours or more, we expect that those students have to complete the 12 hours each semester. If students aren't able to complete that, then they do fall into a situation where their financial aid eligibility might be in jeopardy. The reward? A quality and affordable education. Every year since U.S. News & Reports has had its rankings on colleges, we've moved up the ladder so that in 2013 we were number one in one of the categories. For two years in a row, we have been number one in one of Washington Monthly's rankings of colleges and universities. We have one of the lowest student-teacher ratios in the system. It is also the most affordable school in the system. You can get a good quality education here for little no-cost and leave here without the sort of college debt that we see at many other institutions. No matter where you are on your path to graduation, the financial aid office is here for you. We do see students quite frequently throughout the course of the year. Definitely at the beginning of each semester as students are trying to get clear to attend classes, we do see them more frequently, but our staff, we see students one-on-one throughout the day, all day, several times a day if they do have questions, so we encourage that. We want them to come in so they don't feel confused or anything and they really know where they stand, but it is important for them to reach out to us for that assistance.


How do you do it and what resources do you need? In this video I'm going to give you my top seven resources that are going to help you just crush that exam. I'm going to give you those resources after the Centro. All right guys what is going on? Lux here for the empty journey helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. If you're new to this channel first of all welcome my name is Lux. I'm a fourth year medical student who's going into internal medicine I'm going to give you the resources that helped me do well in the rotation as well as get honors. I'm going to start with number one which is the king of all kings you will.  It's 1400 practice questions at least from the time that I remember and it is a lot. I'm actually going to link in the description to a blog post that breaks down my exact study schedule to get through all 1400 if not once if not a couple 1.25 iterations which is what I was able to do to check that link out in the description down below to help you basically finish all those questions and still have some time to review for the shelf example but you need to make sure you do these practice questions because they are the cream of the crap when it comes to information and just practice that you can do for the actual thing so make sure you have your world on your resource list. So resource number two are Anki decks. Now I loved using Anki and it's really great for internal medicine which although it is a very time intensive rotation there's a lot of downtime. You know you have lunch lectures some of them which may not be amazing so you can do some flash cards there you may be waiting for your tending walking back and forth from your car from like the garage. I'll go ahead and also link down in the description some flash cards that I loved using that were pre-made. There's about 2,000 of them and so a lot of information but they're all high yield and so again you can do these just add them to your phone or your iPad do them during some downtime. You're going to be able to do better on your U-World questions because some of those questions are taken from U-World practice questions and then are you then going to be able to do better on your shelf exam so again all the resources I'll talk about will be linked down in the description including those Anki decks so make sure you add those Anki decks to your resource list. So resource number three and this is probably my favorite resource of all time for your 30 rotations is online medit. Now if you're a student that just loves to have all your resources in one place you love to have the information kind of the teaching as well as the practice questions the flash cards just all of it in one place online medit is going to be for you. Now I made a very detailed review post as well as video all about online medit and so again I'll link that down below the description but it's helped me transform my rotations as well as my step two score so again if you want to watch that that'll be in the description below but for internal medicine it's just amazing because if there's a specific field or in internal medicine that really gives you trouble if you struggle with nephrology like this guy then you watch those videos or just look through those notes because they're very high yield and they're broken down to how an internist thinks you know a lot of things that we do are things such as like electrolytes or decision-making and you have to be able to understand what's your next step and the notes from OME you know kind of like the flow diagrams of what decision you need to make you know what diagnosis you should be considering and what treatment options you should make those notes are just amazing so I highly encourage you guys check out online medit if you haven't already if you do want a discount I got you guys my friends at online medit hooked me up and hooked you guys up with $80 off for an annual subscription so again the link will be down below in the description and you can use coupon code OMV18 at checkout and will help you get $80 off an annual subscription if you do have issues with that coupon code just comment down below and I can update with the more correct if they updated it but check out online medit I think you guys will love the notes the videos are amazing and everyone loves them and the practice questions that flash cards are definitely underrated but they'll definitely help you out if you want some more practice so resource number four and this is kind of the go-to text that people use is step up to medicine now again here's a screenshot of here I'm not somebody that loves to use text because usually they're very bulky I don't learn very well from reading material anyways but step up to medicine is usually used by many students who do like to have a text in their backpack that they can take or just kind of put a kindle or ebook version on their iPad and just read through it is 500 pages long so it is one of the longer texts or any of the rotations but it is really well written there is something for every single topic so the approach that I would recommend that you take especially if you're somebody like me that doesn't really learn from reading a 500 page textbook is to use a specific skimming technique which is I will skim through a specific chapter I will go from page one to all the way 500 and as I'm skimming if there's a specific portion of the page that makes me uncomfortable when I skim through it then I stop and I really invest my time but if I'm going through something like heart failure or something like COPD where I see enough patients with it I feel pretty comfortable taking care of them then I keep skimming and going by but again if I get to the nephrology section I'm pretty much reading that detail because it's a topic that I struggle with and so find whatever that is for you and maybe a lot at the first time around and you can use a skimming technique to get to the book faster another way to do going through a book like step up to medicine is do the you will questions obviously start them early you know again down below the description I'll refer to my top tips for the internal medicine rotation so it's more than just about the resources but just how to do all the rotation in general but one thing I recommend you do is do the you will question early because when you can do them early then you can go back to the book and refer to the specific sections and topics that really have given you trouble versus going from page one to 500 you're just focusing on your weaknesses there's 1400 practice questions so if you can get through them you can probably go back and forth through your weak points and just master the portion of the book that you're having some difficulty with but definitely still check out step up to medicine or the link will be in the description down below and you guys can see what other people have thought about it on Amazon and just kind of get a feel for what a book is like so again link will be in the description highly check it out if you guys want a text to go with your rotation so resource number five this is something that usually people have at the very end of their kind of study plan are the NBME practice test now it's best when you're taking the shelf exam to go to the people that make the actual exam and so that's exactly what the NBME practice exams are I believe there are four of them and they are basically like the real thing often I see some of the practice questions show up on the real thing so if you can do well in these practice questions again an idea of where your grade is at you're gonna do well so that do encourage you to follow a very strategic plan to finishing your questions that way you still have time on doing the practice test because they do take about a day maybe another day to review them so there's four of them and encourage you guys to go through all of them probably want to leave that last week to go through those exams thus that means you have to finish your your old questions a little early so go through that link in the description down below on how to strategize your old questions as well as a practice exam so make sure you check out the NBME practice test and the last two resources that I'll give you are things that people don't really talk about a lot this number one is pocket medicine I'll put a screenshot up below you guys have probably seen this that fits in the white coat nicely now by no means this is the resource to help you study for the shelf exam but it's a great reference material to help you do well on the rotation and in my last video where I just talked about tips for the internal medicine rotation I refer to the pocket medicine method I encourage you guys to use it what basically says that if you get a new patient you know regardless if you're comfortable or you know uncomfortable with the condition that patient has go through a section in pocket medicine and read through it again and read through it that night whatever you may have to do if you have 10 patients during your I am rotation with COPD each time and read through the COPD section because each time you're going to be able to gain more and more nuances to disease and the management you're going to be able to do a much better job of taking care of that patient so add pocket medicine to your list just have it in your you know side pocket you can find the previous edition which is just as good for a lot cheaper so again I'll be linked in the description below but it's going to make your I am rotation a lot simpler and finally the last resource which most people don't talk about but it is a huge plus it is the PowerPoints from San Antonio Medical School so I'll link them down below in the description but they are just high yield PowerPoint slides that will go from every single organ system and the top diseases that show up on the shelf exam there's usually some videos that come to it but I haven't been able to access them because I think they're really meant for utesca medical students but the PowerPoints are available to all of you guys I do encourage you guys to check out the PowerPoints and give yourself the last couple of days just do some final review and flip through the PowerPoints because they really are kind of put into a question the Q&A format so it's great for your final review to see if you can actually answer all those questions but the utesca PowerPoints for internal medicine are super helpful and so I encourage you guys to have them as kind of your latter part of your study plan but guys those were my top resources for the internal medicine rotation not only just do well on the words but to obviously do well on your shelf exam hopefully you guys found them helpful maybe I've missed something if I did add the resource down below in the comment section and also comment if you have finished your item rotation what's your favorite resource that you use what's the most effective technique that you found to help yourself do well on the rotation all down the comment section down below I'd love to hear your guys thoughts you do have any questions as always you know comment below and I'll be happy to help you guys I'm finally I want to end where where you can kill next if you want more help on not just I am but all of your rotations all of your third year curriculum to do well and kind of prep yourself up for residency which is right around the corner and that is my newest book that's coming out it's called the pre-clinical guide I highly encourage you guys to check it out it's coming out the very end of February and I'm not only writing a book but adding some more amazing bonuses that I'm going to be revealing first to a special group of subscribers and readers that are interested in kind of helping me craft the final product so if that's you and you want to know what that special format is and what the bonuses are in the link down below in description you'll find kind of a sign-up sheet and I will give you updates as the pre or as the clinical guide is written and kind of finished so add yourself down to that list and I promise you guys you will be happy with the results but as always if you guys enjoyed this video make sure you give it a like subscribe to the channel and join the community thank you guys so much for all that have done so already and as always I will stop babbling like I always do and I'll see you guys in the next one take care guys


I'm also lucky enough to be the executive director of the institution she founded 20 years ago. When Christie first came to Portland more than two decades ago as a young artist and filmmaker, she immediately began curing community, building bridges. She mentored young filmmakers, collaborated with dancers, musicians, and artists, and reached out to inspire patrons and civic leaders. Her art projects expressed her generosity of spirit, her capacity to see the nuances and complexities of the time, and the access to effect on who we are as a culture. She saw this community's potential and she asked us to fulfill it. She founded Art on the Edge at the Portland Art Museum, PICA, and then the TBA Festival. Her legacy continues here in Portland. We all know it didn't stop here in Portland. Christie quickly became recognized as a leader in our field internationally, from the Neverland International Art Festival to New York Park on Avenue Armory, I'll say that three times fast, to the UCLA Center for the Art of Performance. She continues to impact the careers of artists, inspire communities, and shape the landscape of performing and visual art globally. I'm sure her keynote did a lot of challenges to reflect and inspire us to be part of something larger than ourselves and our institutions. Please welcome our public intellectual, the visionary, Christie Evans. Women, child, everything in between. Okay, can you hear me? I'm truly honored to be here and to be asked to give the keynote, which I keep trying to remind myself I will recover from, and I hope you all do as well. You know, public speaking when I'm not in a direct dialogue is actually very hard for me, and I'm holding onto this for dear life, so if you feel it shaking, it's just me. Nothing to worry about. I think first I want to say that I feel like it's really important for me right now to acknowledge the indigenous people of this land, in this place, and I want to offer and pay my respects to your elders past and present, and thank you for your spiritual guidance in our time. I also want to open the meeting through sharing a number of rather extemporaneous thoughts, and those of you that know me know that that tends to be how I function. I've been mulling over many different things quite a lot of late, and also in the lead up to doing this keynote. I want to share some recent experiences that likely relate to our own practices in different ways professionally and artistically and humanistically, and offer a few stories, little glimpses from the fractal theory of my atlas of self. Before I speak often I have to explain to my two young sons where it is that I'm going and what I'm doing, and one of the things that I, and then I try and engage them in trying to understand something about what I might be doing as I cross space and time to be with people that they don't always know. It's a lot of time that I'm away from them, and one of the things that I thought would be good for me to enlist their wisdom around was to ask them to think for us, you, us, our neighbors, their neighbors and strangers and friends, to reflect on who they thought we were, and so I'll just share a few of those responses to a recently seven-year-old and a maturing, rapidly, taller-than-me, 11-year-old boy. Who are we? Who do you think we are, I say, to Ashby and Malachi? Random people, creative beings, maybe house dwellers.  We are a big community, and a good community. We try not to make pollution. Maybe we are singers, and maybe that singing just comes to everyone. Or maybe they're swimmers. We're swimmers. Happy, part of the family. Maybe you're people with a fun career. Maybe you're good drawers. I was dreaming of selling my own drawings. Actually, I'd rather give them away because it's generous. And I also want to learn how to drive a car. I asked them what they thought it was like having an imagination, what it felt like. And they said, it feels fun and weird and hilarious, especially when you touch the keys to the piano, because you can feel your fingers touching something that isn't yourself and is at the same time. Anyway, we have to look after the animals, and we have to take care of things. And I think maybe that's where you're going. And I thought, yeah, that is. The annual NPN meeting is, as we know, legendary. And it stands as a kind of migratory gathering of the most diverse assortment of catalytic interlocutors in our contemporary visual and performing arts ecology. Over the days and nights ahead, probably very long nights, if I know you like I think I do, we'll have much ahead of us and there will be a cascade of a great deal pouring forth for us to engage in and ponder and try to make sense of how to best integrate or guiltily accept what we will discard later as we return to our studios and offices purely because we all have 30,000 emails we have yet to open. And mainly it's a place and time where we can take hold of one another and seek inspiration and fortitude and add fuel to the ideas at play that can galvanize our creativity and our pressing solutions that we find solutions within our reach. So my job really is simple. It's just to get us started. I think because my curatorial practice and work crosses a variety of lines, I'm continuously prepared to think through the evolving concerns and conditions across art forms. I was asked to speak about hybridity of artistic practice. The hybridity of artistic practices and how to facilitate ideas in transit is very much what is on my mind. Where best to do it? With who? To what edge? And inside of which frames? Whether it's jazz, global dance, theater, spoken word, visual installation, poetry, literature, the list goes on as it does for all of us. Many of us think and speak across artistic languages and expressive ideas in our work. Artists certainly do. And how audiences, viewers, or members, or however we call those individuals, we know that they are very important to us. So much so that we can sometimes lose the plot around our public promise. Hybrid practice, intra-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, cross-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, and etc. are all in high circulation in our thinking and in our work. But are we making any sense? A lot of this conference will bring us in contact with an immense array of expertise across organizations, across forms, across scales, across diverse cultural models and concerns, and most especially those that uphold the presence of the generous contrary. I wanted to focus here on a various sets of different kinds of stories. And one of the ones that I start off with, I suppose, is that very recently I was watching Laurie Anderson's film, Heart of a Dog. How many of you have seen Heart of a Dog, inter-disciplinary for sure? Among the many, many acutely beautiful wisdoms that are in it, she referenced Kierkegaard, who said this, life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. So a hybridity, not of disciplines, but of past into present into future and that hybridity that we carry. Standing here in Portland, my best place of places, my whole self, is jogged back to when I lived here, the founding days of Pica 20 years ago. I remember acutely the conditions at the time in which the social systems of the institutional landscape 20 years ago then were perplexed by why I thought another arts organization might be necessary. More vexing and confusing was that I was proposing an organization that was framed by all art disciplines, visual and performance with media and cinema and community practices interwoven and under a particular mission and vision tent pole or series of tent poles that would become Pica. Portland sociologically at the time felt that we had what we needed already, opera, theater, museum, symphony, ballet. We had local mainstream companies that had subscription practices, et cetera, et cetera. Actually what I think they were trying to tell me that there were others more qualified because of their pedigree to fulfill such a thing than I would be. And I sensed that a general indifference to the new was a more comfortable position than an active embrace of a possibility that whole other segments of citizen Portlanders longed to have addressed or given a home. It was with them that I staked my colors to the post and off we went. We carried forward and it is still the case of that today. Pica would need to be DIY before that acronym was clustered. 20 years on, a past impossibility sustains its organizational practice and propels its staff and board and community towards an integrity of purpose with intelligent care within a local and national and international field. And I just want to acknowledge the staff and board of Pica who have carried that forth across headwinds of great indifference locally and also the beauty of extraordinary community care that you've inspired. It's a community of care that likely all of us feel and are endeavoring towards in our own situations and places. And I have often wondered why? Why we do this? Why Pica is able to sustain? Why we cling on, hang on, keep going? And I think that what happens is that it is held up by a continuous generosity of artists in their work. It's championed a hybrid sensibility with an abiding kind of ethos. It listens to a kind of difficult economic wisdom that lasting matters more than annual balances can possibly measure. It is lasted long enough, Pica anyway, and the NPN, to be an influencer on taste, on literacies, and on community memory. It is not a replaceable fabric. It has to sustain the fabric. It has to sustain the fabric, as do we all, in one way or another, in order to be able to consistently embrace the fulfilling of a public promise. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. Which makes me think that if we are to have one indispensable tool for navigating our exponentially changing conditions in the arts while understanding backwards and simultaneously and necessarily propelling ourselves forward, it's this, the tool of listening. Listening with our whole selves. And listening is quite a hard thing to master. A couple of months ago, I was presenting Bianca Jouko in Los Angeles at the Center for the Art of Performance in UCLA, and a patron of mine made a beeline for me about 15 minutes before Curtin to express her great disdain about my programming over the past few years having landed in Los Angeles. She said to me, now this is where I was like, I'm looking forward to this listening, she said to me, it's unfair to old people like me and my friends that you offer nothing I already know. And I'm not gonna keep subscribing to performances that I don't recognize with people in them whose names I don't know. I don't like being a foreigner at my alma mater. And I was seeking where to put the jolt of rage that was in my body, and I was also pulling down, looking for that empathy because I did want to understand something more about an unfairness, an unfairness that I thought I understood pretty well, but this was her unfairness. And I wanted to learn something from her. So, mistakenly, I asked her to continue. If you lose people like me, well, it's a business failure. I am more important to your bottom line at an $80 ticket than these students and hipsters and other people who pay $10 or even less. So you really need to think about what I am saying to you, Christy. I want classical music and I want refinement. And this is where my ability to listen was profoundly strained, and I responded. And I responded in the way that I've learned to respond over decades of practice and through the inspired community of linked shoulders and arms that we have in this room by talking very deeply about the power and gift of discovery, about public education, about the cultural commons, about being, well, headquartered and based on a major research university where new knowledge was in fact part of the mission. And I then suggested since the lights were flickering and the ushers were waiting for me that she remember that Royce Hall was named after a philosopher, not a corporation, and not a particular family line. And I think in many regards we have all noticed a particular set of increase or recycling of the same kinds of conversations and same kinds of encounters. The programming that I have championed in one way or another because of artists and what their wisdoms offer us and their capacities and their expressive truths can be seen by some as too ethnic, can be seen by others as too abstract or esoteric, can be seen by others as the kind of fulfillment of a dream because who knew any of this was possible without them. Recently, CAP UCLA, that's the acronym now, and center theater group embraced and embarked upon a co-presentation of theater work by young Jean Lee called Straight White Men. It's a complex and very positive kind of collaboration across our two institutions and young Jean's piece is running currently. One of the ways that we devised it is that on the first preview the audience that works often with me in the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA would come and attend the first preview. So the first preview was populated by my people and the second was populated by their people, the regional theater producing audience. And then on opening night it would be again populated by both of our people. The audience's reactions could not have been more opposite. At issue was that the ending of young Jean's play is left wholly unresolved, wholly unresolved. And for some this was a complete violation of theater making. It was a flaw and it was going to be really difficult to go to home and go to bed. For others this was the powerful metaphor of life itself played out gloriously on a stage. What Diane Rodriguez and I both saw however through our collaboration and through the hybridity of our institutions was that by colliding our differently attenuated audiences they were able to manage a shared discourse about theater, their expectations, their experiences, their longings, their judgments. The audience itself was a hybrid within our community that needed one another to co-create new meaning and to expand their separated literacies. Our collaboration offered both a different chance, offered both audiences a different chance in listening. And by doing something together which was not easy, young Jean, the artist, was more profoundly heard which was our job after all. On that Friday recently when the terrorist attacks happened in Paris I was involved in two things on that afternoon afternoon on the west coast. One was a project that I've been doing with Sam Miller that involves artists, performance makers, and neuroscientists. We were convening and discussing and planning and plotting and thinking about what our cells are doing up there. Truly. And the other was that I was halfway through a major survey of the choreographies of Anterres de Quinoa Smokar and the Rosas Company from Brussels. We were all meeting in my office with a brilliant, much-lotted neuroscientist who at the time was describing what was happening, what happens in our brains, how our cells themselves listen and react and how certain examples would create minimal reactivity and he was providing some examples of that and then maximal reactivity and communication in our cell systems. And he used the example of if a lion came charging through the office window right now our brains would alight in a very different way and in fact there was a lion charging through the window only it was in Paris. I left immediately to check on the company they were rehearsing upstairs. I was preparing myself knowing that I probably would be breaking the news to them with the train ride being an hour away and many of the company members originally from Paris and in my mind I was also thinking about the performance that night because as an executive director not just an artistic director I would be confronted with the questions I knew would happen on my phone. Were we proceeding or not? What was respectful? How to increase security and in what way or not? To sequence the refunds of people who would simply not come because the attacks happened in a theater and they weren't able to stand in a theater on that night. And it was disturbingly familiar to run down those sequences and also how I would now very differently need to prepare to step onto the stage because the show would go on and welcome people to it. How often I have had to acknowledge as have all of you somehow an atrocity that has occurred on that same day or that same week somewhere and each time 9-11 Katrina, Sandy, Sandy Hook, London, Spain, Colorado, St. Louis, Paris, Chicago, San Bernardino we are simply not the same. No matter Charleston. No matter how the list goes on. No matter how we try to be. And I could see when I stood out on the stage who wasn't there as I held the mic to be able to settle into some form of welcome as all of you have as well. There were empty seats out there just as I had thought where just that morning hundreds of people in those seats would have been present and I felt the fear of that absence but what I could really feel in that room was the profound, profound deafening roar of who was there and that is what I was listening to and should be. I said that in a certain way the possession of that ticket on a day like that and increasing days like these what we were doing was more than selecting a seat for a play or a dance or a concert than attendance to a museum and the admissions button and things like that more. A ticket, a membership was a kind of voting attendance to a world of artistic ideas and a percentage of upholding that is about upholding the places in which we activate for the way secular ideas can gather to explore, to co-create meaning to co-author memory within our communities of the things that we can fully possess but of course cannot permanently own. These are the places where collective engagement and consciousness can explore expressive languages together and I was listening to that the hybridity of presence conjoined by absence. Grace conjoined with injustice as we over and over encounter. Royce Hall as I said is named after a philosopher and it is discussed often in my place of employment that renaming it would provide an asset on the financial ledger. It would resource what we do within it more fully and if we could just convert that naming into an income from an inert name that was established over 100 years ago it would provide a robust income stream and would that not be deeply impressive and this is another kind of hybridity of practice that I believe we have an even greater interest in focusing on. Beyond visual art, performance art, cinematic, projected light, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera crossing boundaries, institutional boundaries is also this, the hybridity of our continued navigation between increasingly different poles monetary value in its associated data sets in providing success measures with artistic community and mission value which is the principle and principled driver of our resource allocation whether it be small or large in continuing to uphold a public promise in the cultural commons that lead us towards the force towards equality. We're quite good at this cross disciplinary navigation of accounting and programming and of course they're both human inventions which offer us often a hybrid challenge of a dual responsibility within our work. 18 months ago I was at Harvard doing intensive as part of being a fellow within the National Art Strategy's leadership cohort as were some of my colleagues here in this room. We studied, we looked at case studies at Harvard the business and managerial models of all matter of things willingness to pay ratios and how best to increase them negotiation strategies for winning results PowerPoint on that how corporate models can be adopted by not-for-profit institutions et cetera and at the end our cohort provided feedback to the Harvard professors glowing, fascinating and useful was the majority view and rightly so because they are in possession of much executive business genius they're helping to train the world of future business leaders others recognized from that process that they needed to change careers they could extract no more and me and a few of us however unpopular our feedback might have been basically said and what I said was this I wonder what might be the business model for replenishment within culture rather than further refined extraction which leads me finally to this had anyone told me 20 years ago or 25 when I first started working that the most commonly asked question of my professional life in one guys or another would be this why does contemporary art matter? I would never, never have thought it possible in my 20s that this question in one guys or another would preoccupy an entire segment of our culture in one way or another but equally so that by crossing the fence lines of defined paddocks listening to the artists and their expressive truths worldly wisdoms were required solely at home locally or elsewhere through global migration and deciding that there is just no logical reason to eddy around in the security of decorating the utterly known further we now would be in generous possession of a neighborly, restless, tender humanity in our work that could be continuously shared restored replenished and offered outwardly as acute nourishment they say that the best neighbors make strong fences but I think that our work is to reach right across those fences now and in every way we can to ensure that our collective possession in culture can take place without needing it to be owned and fenced in final thought from my fractal atlas up here as we progress forward bringing the keys to our various mini kingdoms organizations companies and missions we are part of the people's throne and regardless of the pressures and strains to conform to the paths of least resistance we truly must carry forward positive resistance we must leave our crumb trails if that's what we have and our paving stones for those coming up after us we must offer diligent and deafening evidence of care which has to populate our business models our choices and our shining contributions to culture a cross culture within culture in the protection and upholding of culture our hybridity is our chance at equity from my view our hybridity is our poetic ambiguity and our integrity and quite likely also our animation and activation of responsible liberty or at least it's the protection of the contrary which is a crucial thread in the full potential of the tapestry of our human belonging I'll offer one more thought that I think might be actually pragmatically useful when approaching something difficult it's a Buddhist thing think of a time when your mother loved you unconditionally or your father or your grandparent maybe your kid, maybe your dog think of a time when you were loved unconditionally and gather up what that feels like and hold it as long as possible and now pick up your keyboard and try to write that grant application again thank you okay the NPN 2015 annual meeting is officially opened


Dalvin Cook has really had a strange year between his injury and some pretty inefficient numbers on the ground, but I think this is a really underrated spot for him this week. Seattle's been pretty bad of late against opposing running backs. They faced pretty good ones over the last four or so weeks, like Melvin Gordon, Todd Gurley, Aaron Jones, and Christian McCaffrey, but their performance against Jeff Wilson last week should sort of make you feel more comfortable about this matchup. But what's most important for Cook is that he's seeing a lot of work through the air. And Seattle's been bad against opposing running backs as receivers. They've allowed the second most receiving yards to the position, and only the Chargers have given up a higher percentage of receiving yards to running backs than Seattle has. Considering Dalvin Cook is coming off a 10-target game, that's something that can be exploited by the Vikings, so he's a good play with a nice high floor in PBR formats this week.


This study evaluated a prescribing workshop designed to increase shared learning between registered practitioners undertaking and non-medical prescribing, NMP, course and undergraduate pharmacy students. The workshop focused on three domains of safe prescribing, knowledge of commonly prescribed medicines and their suitability for individual patients, process of legal requirements and supply of medicines and associated patient information, and relationships between prescribers and pharmacists. The results showed that NMP students had slightly better outcomes than pharmacy students in terms of knowledge, but both groups scored positively overall. This article was authored by Steve Hemingway, Margaret Kulshaw and John Stevenson.


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Rejuvenate trademark products are now on shelves at over 15,500 locations in the United States, including that 8,400 now and 750 in Canada in addition to e-commerce channels. They are really pushing. This is Element Nutrition Sciences Inc. ELMT is pleased to announce that its rejuvenate trademark ready to drink organic plant protein beverage is now available on shelves at 8,468 Walgreens locations in 50 states across the United States. Rejuvenate trademark products are now available at over 15,500 points of distribution in the United States through Walgreens, CVS and Food Lion. Walgreens is huge and 750 locations in Canada through Loblaws, Shoppers Drug Mart and Rexall, some big names in Canada as well. These retail partnerships complement the company's e-commerce network, which includes amazon.com, huge amazon.ca and rejuvenatemuscle.com and rejuvenatemuscle.ca and will soon be available and will include shipments to Sam's Club and iHerb. Sam's Club is another huge, huge name. We have scaled our points of distribution for rejuvenate trademark products across North America at a very rapid pace and we have an innovative new product pipeline to increase the velocity of sales with these partners and to establish new relationships in North America and internationally. The benefits of rejuvenate trademark are clear, the market potential is exceptional and we have a focus strategy to drive long-term results, said Stuart Lauder, Chief Executive Officer of Element Nutritional Science. About Element, Element is an innovative and research-driven Canadian nutraceutical company specializing in the development of science-based products for the global consumer package goods market, with a portfolio focused specifically on men and women over the age of 50. Element's lead product, rejuvenate trademark, is a proprietary formulation that is clinically proven to assist in the rebuilding, restoration, and rejuvenation of natural loss of muscle, mass due to aging, or other medical conditions. Element also offers JAKTRX, trademark and a lead brand of performance supplements. Element was founded in 2015 as a located in Burlington, Ontario. For more information, you can go to the website. Let me show you a quick video here on their website. So down, this is Stuart Lauder, the founder of Element Nutrition. Here we go. Let's just see what Stuart has to say. Well, the main problem that exists in the industry has been one innovation and two, a lack of products that have true clinical efficacy behind them that really benefit people's health and nutrition. The goal of rejuvenate is to be the go-to household brand for everybody over 45. We have a formulation that is patented and clinically proven to help people prevent muscle loss due to aging, which is a huge health condition in the marketplace. And at the same time, give our consumers a super high quality choice for the plant protein. We focus on organic plant-based products for a number of reasons. We know that 63% of consumers are looking to buy or put more plant-based foods into their diet. There's been nothing like this in the market in the past. It's made with 15 grams of clean, organic protein. It has our patent of rejuvenate formulation in it. It has no artificial sweeteners, sugars, or fillers. It's very clean label, very effective, and only has 100 calories in it. The retailers have been very excited as we are at the current time. We're on track to be in about 11,000 retail stores by the end of this year, and we expect to be in over 20,000 retail stores by the middle of next year. Our company has a significant pipeline, not just on the beverage side, but also in other areas of human health, which is why we've recently developed and getting ready to bring a market early next year is our rejuvenate immune health, which is a great product that helps support and strengthen immune systems. We're all veterans in the industry. We've all done it before, but that behind us, it's always about people. We've got great people. We've got a great product. When you have those two things, you manage it properly. The profits and the sales almost look after themselves. There you go, guys. I hope you guys like this video. If you do, please smash the like button, comment down below, share the video everywhere, and subscribe. Remember, Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes. Please do your due diligence, do your research before you invest in anything we ever talk about or discuss in saying that I do believe that this is a company that's undervalued, under-appreciated, under-exposed, put on your watch list, put on your radar. You can see here, the plant-based food market is expected to grow at a CAGR compound annual growth rate of 11.9% from 2020 to 2027 to reach a 74.2 billion market. 63% of North American consumers are looking for plant-based foods as a healthier source of protein, and 1.6 billion US-ready to drink market expected to expand at a CAGR compound annual growth rate of 8.2% to 2025, and the adult nutrition market is valued at $1.6 billion. What do you guys think? Comment down below. Let me know what you think. If you're not winning, you're not watching, we're bringing the winners, and we're bringing them to you first. Element Nutritional Sciences, just another company we brought to you first. 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