Thank you, Gautam, for that introduction and for the parallels that you've drawn. Moving on from the parallels that exist and the relations that exist between Israel, Latin America and Israel and India, it would be great now to move on to what are the ways in which we can coalesce to fight this, important amongst those being the call for military embargo against Israel, given by the BDS movement. I'd just like to point out that last year in the light of the killings in Gaza, even Amnesty International has endorsed that demand. So to say that it's becoming increasingly popular, and I would now hand over the floor to Marin to actually talk about this demand and how we can work around it. Thanks a lot. It was really interesting to hear the contributions from Pedro and Gautam and shocking at the same time to see what we are experiencing every day in Palestine, whether that's a targeted killing of activists or the surveillance systems are really every day happening and being exported in the rest of the world. Evidently, what you do question is always the key question when we're talking about these things. The Palestinian civil society has actually given us the tool to work effectively to make a significant change in all of this one. In fact, in 2005, when Palestinian civil society and over 170 organizations representing Palestinian refugees, Palestinians under military occupation in the West Bank in Gaza and Palestinians, citizens of Israel, but completely disenfranchised in an apartheid system have come together and have called for boycott, divestment and sanctions and have launched this global movement that has been modeled on various experiences, boycott experiences from India to the U.S. civil rights movement to others, but very much has been inspired and developed in encounters with South African activists that at that time were struggling against the South African variety of apartheid. And within that framework of boycott, divestment and sanctions, i.e. the call to cut ties of complicity that is empowering people to work at home to stop Israeli apartheid, the question of a military embargo is absolutely key. It is key because military and military ideology is evidently at the heart of Israel's regime of apartheid and because evidently without the weapons and the technology methodology around it, Israel couldn't continue to do what it is doing. It is key as well because it's an absolute no-brainer. I mean, it should be absolutely evident. It should be absolutely self-evident for anybody that wants to stand up to a minimum of ethics, to a minimum of respect for human rights that going and providing weapons to Israel or buying weapons that are coming out of that laboratory of apartheid that is Israel is simply wrong. But I think the important part here is as well to understand two key aspects of the military embargo, especially when we're talking about the global south. Many people are thinking that the question of a military embargo is something about ending U.S. military aid to Israel and U.S. military support to Israel. Evidently, we have to work on that one. But I do think it is absolutely fundamental to understand that actually Israeli military capacity would not be possible without the global south. 70% of its production in the military sector is for export and this export does not go to the U.S. This export does not go to Europe or to a very small percentage because in those countries, in those regions, they're the big military companies that will defend their markets with everything they can. Those weapons, those technologies go to the global south. India last year has bought 49% of all Israeli military exports. Brazil, Colombia are the big buyers of that one. So what one needs to understand is that that is a key aspect of military campaigning that we need to stop. It cannot be that the people in the global south with their tax money, because it's their tax money, are financing Israeli occupation and at the same time paying the price on their own skin as well. So I do think that's an important part to understand. An important part to understand, and Peter was already saying that as well, is that we're not only talking about contracts on a federal government level where many of us in the global south are going, like whether that's the Modi government in India, whether that's the Bolsonaro government in India, how are we going to talk to these people if we even want to talk to these people, but to convince them to stop military relations. So that looks like a kind of mission impossible. But when one understands that Israel's military is not only about war, but has entered in all spaces of society, then one can understand as well that military embargo campaigning can be pretty close to home, because that means that we have on the one hand cities and state governments directly involved with Israeli military companies, whether that's in the forms of police training, whether that's in the forms of public security contracts, whether that's in the forms of cyber security contracts, and whether that's in the forms of technology parks. Israel more and more in the global south is working on joint ventures together with military companies in the global south, within a framework of growing privatization as well of the military sector, which is another problem that we may want to tackle. So we have Israeli companies very close to home in our technology parks and we have Israeli military companies in our universities and research centers, whether that is developing high tech, whether that is developing the ideology and the doctrines for it. All these issues and all these technologies and tools are pretty close to home, even if you cannot convince your Congress or your government. And I do think just to give a couple of examples, we have shown that it is possible. The idea to say military embargo is the last thing we can achieve, but maybe sometimes it's the first thing we can achieve. For example, in Brazil the biggest and first victory was the military embargo campaign in Piddle can maybe talk a bit more about that. It was a campaign on Elbit systems, but Elbit systems today has, or two weeks ago, has just seen another big impact of the BDS movement when HSBC, one of the biggest companies around the world, has given in to the pressure of the BDS movement and has decided to divest from Elbit systems. And it's of the first bank. Since 2007 we're working on divestments from Elbit systems, and there are over a dozen among the biggest banks and pension funds around the world that have already divested from Elbit systems. Police training, if one thinks that the worst thing to do is trying to build up a BDS movement in a country like the US and the Trump, I can tell you we have victories on the level of local councils in the US where local councils have decided that their local police is not going to be trained by Israeli military or security companies. So it is possible. It is possible to achieve these victories. And the question is how do we build up the alliances so that we are strong enough to actually achieve steps forward in this sense. And I guess it is when you're talking about these alliances it's important to understand as well that considering that our political situation almost globally is getting dramatically worse and the question of militarism and defense of human rights, defense of protection of human rights defenders is unfortunately becoming ever a bigger concern around the world. We do have a common ground with people around the world to join the struggle. It is important we work together. We don't see this question of a military embargo it's only a Palestinian solidarity issue. It is a global issue. It is an issue of human rights around the world. And in this sense I guess we can continue to create victories and I hope we can see as well very soon a few steps forward and victories in India and in Latin America it's overdue. We continue with a bit more victories as well in that sense. I'll leave it here for now. Thanks, thanks Madan. Pedro if you could talk about a few of the victories and also how to organize around this question as your experience has been from Latin America. So thanks a lot Madan and Gautam for your interventions. Yeah I want to start more modern life. You know the idea that this is actually possible that we actually can have an impact. I think this is very very important in the context we are all living now. You and India with the Modi government, we and Brazil with the Somali government and the extreme rights rising everywhere it is important for us to see that our movements are actually having an impact and many times our group proves that. And before I share with you some concrete experiences around it I just want to bring a very quick reflection on why. Why this is actually effective. Why this is the way for us to go. And the reason is because this is how real solidarity works. I'll tell you in the case of Brazil. At the same time the Brazilian government during a progressive government recognized the Palestinian states which one could consider a very interesting act of solidarity that those same governments were the ones that converted Brazil into fourth or fifth biggest Israeli arms and border in the world. So in one hand you say something in the other hand you're doing a totally different thing. And the Palestinians have been very clear to us that what they need now is not charity is not discourse or not more decorations what they need is concrete solidarity. And that means first hearing their appeal hearing the oppressed. It's not us from Brazil or from India that are going to tell Palestinians how to pursue their freedom just as an equality. We should fight with them not for them. And that means hearing their appeal. And their appeal is clear. We must cut ties of our governments of our organizations with complicit companies and with the Israeli government and its regime of apartheid expansion and colonization. And military embargo is a central thing on this. The other reason why military embargo is so effective it's because it's connecting our struggles. You could ask me but Peter, how come people in Favella that are worried with their lives every day under brutal military actions and brutal racism that affects black and poor people in this country are talking about Palestine and are mobilizing for it. And Gautam could prove that what I'm saying is true that because he saw that in the meeting we organized in Rio where mothers of people that were killed by the military police were leading the whole process of denouncing Israel's connection to that because fighting for military embargo and answering the Palestinian call for boycott, advisement and sanction for them is not only a principled matter of supporting the policy and struggle for freedom, justice and equality it's also a matter of fighting for their own rights for that last kids will be killed by the police using those technologies for that our society won't get more and more militarized with those partnerships. And we can't undermine the importance of these connections and this is what our oppressors hear most because it's not something that we're doing because we believe it's good to do we're doing this because this is the only way we can pursue our social and just struggles our oppressors are already connected it's not a matter of believing it it's as we said numbers and contracts and companies the same companies are affecting us here and there coming from Israel so if we don't connect ourselves we'll lose that struggle and third and with that I'll give you some concrete examples through connecting our struggles we're actually achieving concrete results that have an impact on Israel and its economy and the military system as much to the point that we are trying to stop our movement and criminalize BDS and stop military margo to grow even more the campaign that Madan mentioned around Elbit in Brazil is a clear example of how these three elements hearing the call of the Palestinian people connecting our struggles and having an effective impact can be put into place that agreement only felt because of the mobilizing of different sectors of civil society in brazil that understood that that was damaging for our own reality but also responded to the Palestinian call trade unions, students, social movements, feminist movements parties involved in different governments and the coalitions at that time they all realized that that was a struggle we had to take together and that campaign managed first to break an academic side of the agreement and then here we can see the importance of the students mobilizing around it that agreement had part of it that involved universities in the south of Brazil and those students managed to mobilize and they were denouncing that their tax money in a public university was going for a partnership that produces the knowledge on how to repress people instead of an emancipatory knowledge or knowledge that is useful for Brazilian society then we had to show public actors on how that money was being put in a place that wasn't really where it should be billions of dollars going to a deal with a foreign military company while the country has several economic internal crises a lot of priorities around social inequality and even companies in the military sector in brazil facing challenges in the global economy and that money was being put into a foreign company so we had to show public actors how that wasn't even a reasonable thing to do in their own rationality and this is really important for us to understand how military and local campaigns work and how they can be actually implemented I mentioned to you different examples of other companies and I'll use G4S as an example of another campaign for us to to make this reflection a little bit more concrete and with that I'll conclude G4S as I said is involved in violations and against Palestinians but it's also involved in the privatization of private security around the world incarceration of black and poor and the U.S. private security in different countries in brazil detention of migrants in Europe detention of migrants in South Africa it's a company that's involved in different human rights violations all those people that felt somehow violated by that company and all different allies around the world got together in this company bringing these connections into light and this is the reason why G4S lost so many contracts because when we were campaigning against G4S we were not talking only about what G4S was doing against Palestinians we're also denouncing that G4S was responsible for the privatization of prisons in the U.S. or that G4S was violating workers rights in Uruguay to the point that the workers from the union inside G4S workers from the company they passed a resolution saying that we should support the campaign against that company because they're violating their rights as well appeared with several questions in Uruguay because they are promoting a monopoly of the private security sector in that small Latin American country while at the same time violating human rights in Palestine so these connections can appear vague if one doesn't see how concrete they are and the real impacts that they have on companies such as G4S that lost so many contracts that had to leave the prison system that was incarcerating Palestinians in Israel so when we see that we realize that if we connect our struggles and if we strategize if we do our research if we find a good aim and we work and to the point that we break that one deal and after we break that one deal we find another deal to break that other deal because sometimes when you're doing this type of struggle it comes from a mind that you know it's impossible as Madan said you know there is no no chance that we're going to convince Maldi to not have military relations with Israel but that's not how campaigning works we need to be we need to be strategical and choose maybe local targets or maybe cooperation agreements that doesn't involve money because they are easier to break but they will bring as much as damage to those companies or even more sometimes because of the because they will damage their image because they will stop future contracts to happen so let's find targets local if needed let's find partnerships with universities let's find different ways that we can build up the strength that will accumulate for a comprehensive military embargo against Israel's appetite let's work with students movements and see if universities are connected to partnerships or to companies that are connected let's pass resolutions with those students movements that will then convert into action and campaign that will actually break those agreements let's work with unions because workers in the private security sector also suffering a lot by those companies let's work with feminists movements that can see the impact of militarization in women's and queer lives let's work with social movements and land landless movements small farmers movements that see the impact of militarization in their daily lives from not being able to access their land or from losing that land to securitization of spaces as we see in Brazil as we see in India so when we see mothers in Rio who lost their children joining mothers from Palestine in this struggle for me lives no doubt that we are stronger than our oppressors they might be even reacting strongly against our movement specifically because of that because they are afraid that these connections have the power and they're proving to have an effective impact against their system of oppression so I think Militar Margo is a very concrete example of how efficient our solidarity can be and how it's needed that we connect our struggles in very specific concrete media campaigns that we design with strategy and with an alliance that talks about the different struggles that are involved and there's systems of oppression and that brings into light how Israel is connected to these different processes I have no doubt that you and India face a lot of challenges in mobilizing in general as we face in Brazil but again when we have a concrete campaign it has been proved to us that it's the most efficient way to mobilize if you have a concrete goal one contract to break people have a reason to go to meetings people have a reason to be there every day and once that contract is done is over people actually see a concrete conclusion to a larger struggle of course we're not ending oppression and militarization in India by breaking one of those contracts but we are challenging that system in a very concrete way and we are showing to people that it's actually possible to have victories in a world where the extreme right is growing so fast Thanks Thanks Pedro for those experiences and those very concrete examples which we as we are starting our work on this in India could really learn from Gautam one way of getting taking up the issue of military embargo maybe since most of the military companies that have joined ventures in India have it with the large corporate houses which are already in this favor in the public imagination for a variety of reasons and these are multinationals because these are they have operations outside India too and they raise a lot of money from international capital market exactly as it happened in the case of Sterlite where people could lobby hard and get the investors to back down from investing in Sterlite corporation which was wrecking the lives of indigenous people similarly there are many large corporations which have large operations even outside India both in terms of raising of funds as well as maybe when we are targeting for instance Elbit has a tire in India with one of the largest corporate houses which is very very close to the right wing government in power right now it's called Adani Adani is already a notorious company in Australia where the Australians have been campaigning relentlessly against them being given coal mining rights in Carmichael and some other areas too Tasmania too the point I'm trying to make is that's a perhaps a joint effort where we target the joint venture partners who happen to be Indians but these are multinational corporations with international linkages if we target them that is one thing that struck me when I was listening to the two of you the other thing is where I take off from what Maran said and I think that's single most important point for us to consider that the divide between war and peace the difference between war and peace has blurred under the name of subconventional operations and under the name of the disguise of under the guise of fighting terrorism which has no it's something so diffused now and they're saying that it operates that it's actually the more dangerous during peace times than even in war that in what situation you can handle this better but in peace times it becomes much more difficult the point I'm trying to make is that this this blurring of distinction and the permanent war like situations that operates today where the police is arming itself and getting more militarized and becoming more adept at firing shoot to kill then they are at controlling crowds maintaining peace detecting crime preventing crime from taking place it's taking on a role which is very very disturbing maybe when if we were to focus I'm just loud thinking maybe if we were to focus in India to raise this issue in this manner we might be able to bring in the question of military embargo against Israel in a far more effective way than we have either to be able to I'm just thinking about maybe we have to be more innovative in terms of doing things and carrying them out in a country like India where there is support for Palestinian people there is no doubt about it and this is noticeable even in the fact that the even the most extreme right-wing government which is in power is compelled to at least hypocritically to pay homage to the Palestinian people and their struggle which is because of the weight the 70 years weight of support I mean the support that India has lent to the Palestinian cause but this is whittling down and its its its and the relation with Israel is growing maybe we have to therefore think and become more innovative and bring in the Indian element in this equation to to to to start a campaign or to to make a campaign more vigorous and robust across the country and also get a lot more support than we have been able to generate so far and again targets like like HP for example become a part of as campaigning has shown for example what HP does in terms of its registering of IDs in terms of colonialism it has its facility in illegal settlement it's been involved with the Israeli military now that's a target that is very appealing and at the same level it builds the grassroots demand for military embargo as we're saying that it is something that doesn't start top down but actually bottom up so targets even for our campaigning range from something like HP to actually even G4S to the fact that people in in Tutukuri have already been protesting against Vedanta and that they have been attacked in that process by a police trained by Israel I mean and actually when when that happened in Bangalore there was a demonstration organized together talking about Marin was there talking about Vedanta and HP talking about corporate impunity and violence and I guess the bottom line in all of this is that it's we couldn't we will never reach a point where experiences are absolutely photocopied but it is patterns that are similar it has powers that are similar and and as was said earlier that if our oppressors are so united it's high time that our resistance is also came more united thanks a lot Marin, Pedro and Gautam for today yeah and thank you and thank you Marin and thank you Pedro for this occasion to interact with them after a break of seven months 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Welcome to Road Gear Reviews. I'm Mark from RVLove and today we're talking about Adco tire covers. Stay tuned. Welcome back to Road Gear Reviews. Again, this is Mark from RVLove and we're talking about Adco tire covers. It's a fairly simple product but a product that we think is very important for a lot of RVs.  But in RVs it's very common to not put a lot of miles on them and so the exterior of the tire starts to degrade over time largely because of UV exposure but also because of other environmental factors. Tire covers like these can help prolong the life of your tires so spending a few bucks on tire covers can dramatically reduce the amount of money you spend over the long haul on your RV tires. And to give an example of savings, these tire covers might only cost $20 to $40 a pair but the tires on this motorhome we just spent close to $4,000 on these tires so we'd like to protect that investment. Pretty much anytime I'm stopping for more than one night I'm gonna put these tire covers on to help protect my tires. There's a few reasons why I like to put these tire covers on. Their primary purpose is to protect against UV damage. They have vinyl exterior and then they have a flannel or fabric interior to be soft and gentle against the tire. UV exposure can weaken the rubber on the sidewall of a tire which will make it start to crack and fatigue which then can lead to a blowout. A secondary reason I really like having tire covers is because they keep them protected from the sun so that doesn't get as hot either. I like to make a habit of regularly checking my tire pressure before any time I drive the RV and if I didn't have a tire cover on I noticed that the morning the sun will dramatically change the tire pressure because of the heat of the tire. When I have these tire covers on it helps reduce that and so I have a more accurate reading when I'm checking my tire pressure before hitting the road. We've actually bought a couple sets of these ADCO tire covers. When we first bought our motorhome it interestingly came with tire covers but they were the wrong size so we actually bought a first set of ADCO tire covers for that motorhome and we bought the designer series which are tan two-tone because that really matched well with that RV and when we sold that RV nearly four years later we left those tire covers with that motorhome because these tire covers you order them by size. There's a lot of different sizes I think there's five or six different sizes they offer so you need to know the diameter and the tire wheel size of your tires to get the right fit. Getting the right fit is really important. You could get them slightly larger and it'll easily go on but if they go on super easy they'll also be more likely to blow off easy if you had some big win. This grommet on the back of the tire cover is part of a system using a bungee cord with a ball on the end that actually very securely attaches the tire cover to the tire so they'll stay on even in severe winds but to be honest with you in the four years I've had these I hardly ever use those attachments.  I think that bungee cord system and more securely attaching the cover to your tire would be especially important if you store it but being full-time RVers we're almost always with our RV so if we ever in a big storm where it's usually really easy to go find the tire cover if it did come off but again 95% of the time I don't use that extra security and they stay on pretty darn well. The tire covers we have on this motorhome are the bus size because we have a 22 and a half inch wheel and our tire size is 275 70 or 22 fives there is one size larger and that's OS for oversized and that's generally for bus chassis that run on 24 inch wheels which are rather large. Most RVs will actually run on the size XL not this bus chassis size and then a lot of travel trailers would of course use a smaller wheel size. They also come in a lot of different colors which is nice because you can color coordinate them to your RV because it is something that shows on the outside of your RV. Our first RV as I mentioned earlier we bought the designer series they were two-tone tan which coordinated very well with that RV. This RV we bought simple black covers but they also offer two different colors of white and they offer a camouflage 3D type print and they recently came out with a diamond plate finish which actually is a super heavy duty vinyl and actually looks and feels a bit like diamond plates so if those of you really like that style that's a new option that just became available. I find that these tire covers actually hold up very well they're a good quality product. Our first set we had over three years almost four years on our first set of these. They are warrantied in generally for three years. This set we've only had for about six months but they still look and feel brand new. They're money very well spent in that they protect the more expensive RV tires from damage and as I mentioned I really also like that it keeps the temperature down which then keeps the pressure down so that they're more consistent when measuring them when I'm getting ready to hit the road because if it was artificially high you might think you need to pump up the air in the other tire and then when the tires both start heating up from driving down the road you would actually have an inequality of the air pressure in the tires. We believe that tire covers are really important for any RV but especially one that is outside storage. Now if you have an RV that's stored inside and is rarely used they might not be as much value to you but if you travel full time like us or if your RV is stored outside I think that tire covers are an extremely important addition to those RVs. When you purchase these tire covers they're generally about 20 to $40 per pair and it's important to call out that they are generally sold in pairs because a lot of times you're going to need two pairs for your RV but what's nice about them being sold in pairs is if you have a three-axle RV it's easy to get the exact right amount without having bought too many and if something ever happens to a couple of your tire covers it's easy to replace just to instead of an entire set again. They also have some options where you can get a single cover for example you might have a spare tire on the back of an RV or they have the option to get multi-axle covers so if you have a fifth wheel or a larger travel trailer that has two or three axles you can get special covers to be able to go over all three with just one cover which would of course reduce the number of covers you have to put on when you stop. These are super easy to put on you just slip them over the top of the tire and give it a little firm tug down so that's nice and snug on the tire and they're also super easy to pull off. I usually just grab it towards the top center of the tire and just pull it right off but they do stay on very well even in moderate to even severe wind at times even without the additional bungee cord or other attachment around the back of the tire. I do think that that additional security of having the bungee cord around the back or whatever rear attachment it has I think that would be a great idea to put that on if you're putting it in a storage situation where it's going to be left unattended. Well that's about it pretty simple review today, a relatively simple product. Hope you found this video informative and helpful. If you have any comments or questions please leave those comments or questions in section down below. We'll of course put links in the description for these Adko attire covers. If you have any other products you'd like to see us review here on Road Gear Reviews please leave those in the comments section down below as well. Thanks again for watching until next time we'll see you on the road.


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Okay. These are all our partners and our team. Really the aim of our project was to implement and evaluate the impact of an online IP program designed to promote collaborative practice within undergraduate health and social care disciplines. You may remember the last time around we did our first pilot and the second time around we've now just done pilot two and that was 2015, 2016. In pilot one we didn't have UCD, we only had NUIG, now we had UCD students involved as well. And the content this time around focused on roles and responsibilities, communication and teamwork. It was developed and delivered on curator. All students received 2.5 eCats except for the NUIG medical students who did it on a voluntary basis, which was similar to the previous pilot. What we have done in pilot two, we've developed and evaluated a new five-way program. We have developed new content. We've developed and the curator online platform to deliver the program. We created student and facilitator handbooks and training sessions and we created online training video because one of the challenges was in terms of was actually how to navigate the system and logging on was a challenge for students in pilot one. I'm just going to hand you over to my colleague, Tara, to talk about the content. So we sketched out the content in the program. It was quite a start quite a different way from the previous one and this is just an example of the various tasks and activities. So learning objects were established and worked at in a level. So each level contained or pertained to one week and each level then contained a number of activities. Some of the activities included watching videos, commenting, discussing, contributing their own resources that they had to find our flight and then commenting on each other's work as well. The assessment method was divided between the curator system that automatically awarded XP or experience points for viewing videos, for commenting, for engaging in discussion. At the end of each level there was a gate question so kind of end a level or end a week question that students would complete and these were awarded points by the facilitator and this was done offline. There were also within-unit badges that would kind of record the level of engagement. So this would be activities such as commenting and replying to other students' work, voting people up for good comments and basically just being an outstanding kind of peer supporter throughout the process and these were awarded by the system as well. Finally, once the students were finished they were actually given an open badge by the All A Board project as a mark of completion there. And we use a concurrent mixed method designed to actually evaluate the program which involved focus groups with students and facilitators and we also did a post-program student evaluation questionnaire which was the same questionnaire that we had used in the previous pilot one and we did pre-imposed ripples and IEPAS tools as well with the students. In terms of the focus groups we had 57 students involved, most were female, most were in the 1822 age group, most were second year students and most were medicine, 11 students and general nursing students were the next highest with nine. This is what the impact was on the students, prepared them for clinical practice. I suppose it kind of showed that it's not just about you, it's about other professions as well and you can't just solve the problem by yourself. You need others people involved to help you to give opinions. People said that they had a really key understanding of other people's roles. Social care workers in my head I thought there were social workers and I kept answering oh and the social worker would do this. There's a difference between a social worker and a social care worker. I didn't know until I was told. So you know that was, you know, it was good to know the difference. Understanding others roles as well, it gave me an idea, a better idea of what people focus on. For example, in one of the cases there was a huge difference between what a social worker said was needed for someone to do and what the doctor would say, so it was very interesting. Key issue that came across some students was the need that we should be doing this very early in the program. So to me the learning part of the main point I got out of it, you have to get in as early as possible to get the different people together, not just after graduation, introducing it to like a hospital but actually within the schooling now. Facilitators were curators, very positive experience of curator, easy to navigate, easy to find their way around, very effective and easy to use. And some of the comments were, you know, I think the fact that it was online as well, I think you're more likely to vocalize disagreement and stuff. Whereas you know, I think there's maybe a bit of a hierarchy if you're working in a hospital. I think nurses and everyone might listen to a doctor's opinion and maybe, but here everyone kind of got their own platform to express what they wanted to say, so that was pretty good. XP points was a really key motivating factor in terms of engagement. One student said, if there wasn't an XP point system I probably wouldn't have done it at all, to be honest. Interprofessional groups in the mix was really important. You got to interact with people you didn't know like. And from other cultures and for the likes of the speech and language therapist, we wouldn't have that really. So you got to interact with them as well. So it was really good. And this was particularly from UCD students who wouldn't have speech and language students in their university. Case studies, very interesting in terms of the case studies. There was 50% who found the case studies actually were really relevant and 50% who actually did not. So people who found it relevant said the cases they presented us with actually had different ways of approaching it. So at least that was well thought out. But the challenge for others was actually, and we had this challenge ourselves, trying to make them relevant to all the disciplines, which was really problematic. We did the best we could, but we obviously didn't get it right because some of the students were saying, some of the case studies just didn't relate. And we couldn't answer the question properly. Like dementia, we're midwives. We don't know about dementia. Just a few things weren't like set to midwives kind of thing. They're just frustrating to try and answer it and then go and learn all about something that you might never come across again. Other barriers were a limited level of student participation during the week. And this was to do with students who were actually working at the weekends. And others who were working part time during the week left to the weekends to do it. So students then were online at different times. And they felt part of the collaboration wasn't as effective as we would have liked. My time is, you know, has to be very regimented kind of thing. I used to like it on a Monday. And then people wouldn't be commenting until Sunday night. So I couldn't comment on other people's because they weren't doing it until Saturday or Sunday night. And I hadn't time to be doing that Saturday and Sunday night. So it was just being at the mercy of the way it was. And others, barriers were the end of level gate questions were found to be repetitive after about the third week, they felt they were a bit repetitive. The extent of prior clinical experience for some was seen as a barrier. It was interesting for others, it wasn't default actually learning from others online and sharing with others who had a clinical experience that they didn't have allow them to learn. So that was interesting. Engagement clearly was assessment driven as a student said, because we're also like exam focused, we're all just like looking to see how we can get this done. You didn't like, well, I personally didn't like read everybody else's comments, because I was like, Oh, well, I don't actually have to do this. Like probably not the right attitude. But still. So I think they were pretty honest in their responses. Evaluation questionnaire, this went out to 131 responses out of 231. Mainly female responses, mainly NUIG responses, because they were the predominantly larger group, mainly year two, because most students were in year two. Just this is probably most interesting in terms of the comparisons between pilot one and pilot two. So as you can see down on the on this side here in pilot two, everything has increased in terms of in comparison to pilot one. It's the unit improved my understanding of interprofessional learning, improved my understanding of collaborative practice, made me think more about my role, made me think about the perspective of my discipline, how that can impact and collaborative practice, helped me understand how I could improve my practice. All of these actually were increased. Again, the differences in terms of is relevant for my practice that increased the online unit was overall a positive experience. It was useful to my learning. One of the things I found it difficult to disagree and be critical of other participants views and comments. I would have liked to see that go down. That actually went up. Whether it's because we had more students or not, I don't know, but that actually increased. It may be that we had first year students more than we had last time around. We didn't have any first year students. That may be the reason, but I really don't know. Interestingly, 79.4% found the case scenario is very relevant to my learning. So there was a mixture with the case studies in terms of some found that they were relevant and others did not. Again, all of these went in the right direction. The red ones I've highlighted went down, which is what we would have wanted them to do. The the unit was overall a negative experience that went down and the unit was not useful to my learning. That went down, meaning that they actually found that it was. So for us, the majority of the evaluation went in the right direction. We also asked them, as we did the last time, why they would not recommend the program. These were the open questions. In pilot one, they said heavy workload, lack of training and difficulty navigating the system. In pilot two, it was the repetitive nature of the gate questions. The case studies were unconnected and limited group discussions. So they'd recommend, I would recommend given that the gate questions were improved and that the overall repetitive aspect of the course was fixed. Part of it were not relevant to midwifery practice, so I found it difficult to answer a lot of the case studies so that the same issues that were given in the questionnaire actually had been highlighted in the focus groups. We've done a good lot of national dissemination. We have five papers and in present presented, we have done one poster. Fourth coming, we have three abstracts submitted to date to the All Together Better Health Conference in Oxford, the Social Care Annual Conference in Kildare. We're currently drafting a paper for the Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice and we're going to target some of the conferences that we hit last year with the other system to show the differences and the improvements that have actually taken place. Looking at, we were asked to evaluate how we thought we met our objectives from the proposal that we had. So from the first one, two, three, four, five, six we've achieved. The last two, to compare outcomes across participating institutions, was challenging given the small numbers that we had really to work with from one of the institutions. One of the key difference was to do with the clinical practice in that the first year students in UCD didn't have the same level of clinical practice as some of the students in NYGalway, yet they did comment and say they learned from the others on board, whereas I had some second year students who were in, who had limited clinical practice and they were saying, well, you know, I can't comment on this because I didn't have the practice. They didn't seem to see the same level of learning, interestingly, as the first year students could see. To estimate the cost of implementing digital technology, we did have a bash at this. It was a very crude way of doing it. We actually looked at asking the facilitators to calculate how many hours they spent on the system and preparing the work in relation to the system and we then looked at calculating what a lecture's salary would be and we looked at the room cost of hiring the room costs. What we found was that the online system, the VX system, was more expensive than the curator system and that they were both relatively cheaper than if we were doing face-to-face, but it is not scientific enough. It is very crude and really we wouldn't be able to stand over it to any great extent, but we did try. So to summarise, pilot one really was, we were asked to simplify the VX online system that we did. We placed with curator. Review the workload and distribution of eCats, we did that. Make compulsory for all students. I have to say in this one we failed. We still didn't manage to get the medical students, unfortunately, in our own institution to actually take this on and give ECTSs, but I am sure it will happen for next September. I won't, I'll hold my breath and hope it happens. Improve the instruction training. We put a lot of training and instruction in place for students and for the facilitators as well. And the last time around we had, we didn't have smaller IPE groups. You may remember they were all in one big group. Now they're in smaller groups and involve more disciplines. We have done that. And we, our next steps really is to review the assessment method to make it better. Review the case studies because clearly we've got the actual delivery platform right, but we really have to fine tune the case studies to make them better. Try and make it compulsory to get our medical colleagues in. Explore the potential of creator to incorporate direct feedback. One of the challenges we had, and the facilitators reported this in their evaluation, was giving direct feedback to the students wasn't possible within the curator platform itself. So we had to create a Google doc. So they filled in a Google doc and then that Google doc had to be collated and reported back to the students, which was time consuming. And it actually prohibited facilitators level of engagement online in, in, in, because they had to devote time to do that. One of the recommendations that came forward the last time around from the review panel was obviously IPL online on its own is quite good, but we should look at ways of trying to maybe integrate it more within simulated learning. And that was a suggestion. So actually we're going to introduce, which is outside of this, obviously the funding for this, but we're going to introduce a half day pilot IPL simulated learning session for students in NUIG hopefully semester one of the next year, where we'll pilot it and see how we can actually with a different cohort of students so that we will have different students exposed to interprofessional learning. And that's it.


This paper proposes a novel approach to recognizing human body gestures through deep learning techniques. Specifically, it uses a combination of convolutional neural networks, CNNs, and long short-term memory, LSTM, networks to extract and classify features from video sequences. The resulting system achieves impressive accuracy in recognizing various types of gestures, such as confidence, cooperation, confusion, and uncomfortable. This article was offered by Amna Mujahid, Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan, and others.


Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101.  How did that, you see what I'm saying? Lost. Look, wild only. Lost. You think you back in the old King James days, you hear, that's why I'm asking. You hear me, and not only that, it's sad when people are speaking regular English, but you don't know what they're saying. It's tough, ain't it? Oh, it's real. I tell you, Lil Wayne told him a long time ago, people have mastered every language in this world, English, African, Chinese, French. The black man ain't mastered one language. Court talk. You need that. Need that. If you're gonna believe in a lifestyle, you need that. So when you went in there out there, you had a court-appointed lawyer, did you have?  Who finna get a press of money? So that court-appointed, what he tell you you need to go on and take this?   When you don't know it. I had to learn one thing back then, if you wanna play the game, learn the rules. You wanna be, you know, play football, learn the rules. Basketball, learn what a foul is, learn the rules. Gangster, learn the law. Learn the law. Learn the rules to the law. We didn't know the rules that time, so anything sound good. We didn't know that they'll play tricks on you. We offered them 10 years, but we'll give them three. So take the three, take the three, take the three. They offered me 10, they offered me 10, daddy.  Take the three, I'll take the three. You know, don't know you could have had just 30 days. 30 days if you didn't have that right.  I forgot, damn, daddy, you look older than me.  That's the same thing. Yes, sir. So you went in and signed the paper? I signed the three for the three. What unit did you hit the first unit? The first unit I went, I went to Century unit. Where's Century unit? No, no, no, I went to Ramsey unit. Ramsey unit. I went to Rocha and Texas. Ramsey to Rocha, Shatham was on Ramsey. When you got there, what they say, you on the Ramsey unit.  Right, right, cause let me tell you what happened was, I had that probation, right? I had that probation for the injury to the child. And then I caught the two years, they re-gave me two more years for the burglary, so they ran together and just gave me three. So in the violation of the thing, they had a thing come to Texas. The first, Ann Richardson was the lady in council at that time. Ann Richardson, the best thing I know. When it came down to the law, which I learned the law. Ann Richardson was handing out 31 days for a year. You didn't hear what I said? That's it. She said, 31 days, you get a year of credit. Just say, if you got 25 years, you got 25 months. That's 31 days. That's 31 days for a year. But she had a thing came to Texas. The first thing that ever hit Texas was called the penitentiary boot camp system. And it was called 90 days. If a nigga could survive- Yeah, you can't around. Yeah, you get in there, you can see if you can survive that 90 days and come on home. She, you be free, they start you back over. They won't, you won't have to go to the penitentiary. But you still got to go back on probation. But you got to go back on the probation. That's it. That was a catch-22. That was a catch-22. I know it, but say back then it just sounds good. Back then it did sound good. Sound good. They're playing with it so on.  I'm going to take the penitentiary time. She said, she said, but you go to the boot camp and do 90 days, they gave you three years, you can do 90 days. She said, 90 days, three years, but I still haven't seen how they played me. Y'all didn't hear the game, though. Y'all didn't know. You take the 90 days to the three years. No, then wait, I'm taking the 90 days. I'm not taking it.  I'm not taking it. But the 90 days you still got to come back on probation. That's about not up in jail. They said, you can catch the catch-22. I just said, and Richardson was giving out 31 days for you. Y'all for me, 90 days. But that did match up, didn't it? Yeah. They just sound good. You know what I'm saying? It was going to be the 90 days, any goddamn way I took it.  Three months was the three years for the TDC. I could've got there and got the 150. I could've got there and got the $150 and went on about to the house. Yup, with no probation. But the 90 days and the three years, I take the 90 days to play. Damn. Ran with it. Ran with it. But anyway. Everybody was doing the dope. You know, everybody getting suckered because they didn't know the law. They didn't know the law. And guess what? In these days and times, it catches up with you. Yeah. Oh, ain't no Ann Richardson, she did. That's old. Oh, and you ain't, it's called Sharon Wilson now. It's called, you know, big time DA's now. It's called, yeah, the top of the line now.  They playing, oh, what? 90 days, 90 days. Now you don't never know until you get there. How long did you stay out when you got back? Oh, man, I had a, cause you went and did the shock probation. I had an institutionalized problem. Oh, bootcamp. I had institutionalized myself. I got out.   I told this lady straight up that I'm going to smoke my weed and she couldn't tell me what to do. I told her mine, so I ain't talking. I told her.  You know how you didn't do this. No, because I played the system. I listen. I heard you? I heard you. I didn't tell you exactly what I did. I had caught a two aggravated shot with dealer weapon. I got him dropped to a misdemeanor and they told me I could do it up to a year in jail. Me thinking, you know, I couldn't do a whole year in jail. So when I signed probation, I told the woman, I wouldn't have seen her for the first month. I went for the second month. I said, man, I ain't coming back. She's like, what you mean, Moses? I said, man, I ain't coming back. She's like, why? I said, come back. I said, all right. I called her. I called her and said, hey, I take the, I mean, I take the judge too. I said, I'm not coming back to court. I don't care what you ask. I'm not coming back. I don't care what y'all do. How y'all figure out? I'm not coming. She's like, Moses, come back. I said, okay, I came back. I said, look, I didn't leave your number. I didn't leave this number. I'm not coming back. She said, okay, I see you back next month. I said, I watched this. Never showed up. Three years later, they finally caught me. I did 30 days for now, 45 days in jail, and I was back free. That part, that part. I'm not taking probation no more. Cause I know what it's gonna do to you. So it's not gonna do nothing to you at all. Probation is a setup for incarceration. Yup, exactly what it is. Probation is a setup for incarceration. It's a setup for every black man in the team. Hold on, but then this, this is how I beat him. Don't tell you this. How I beat him was when I took the, the, the, the aggravated side with the elephants. It was a felony. I made him drop to a misdemeanor. Didn't sign for misdemeanor probation instead of a felony probation. Okay, take care of your business. I made him do that.  I said, no y'all don't man, stop playing me. No y'all don't. I had a, I had a, a, a court upon the lawyer. I'm telling them what to do. Cause I already know the case already. Cause I know what happened on the field. I know what happened on the field. You didn't have me on nothing. Cause I didn't do all of it, which I said I did. So I knew I was gonna clear already. So I was like, you ain't got me on nothing. What else are we gonna do? I told him, I said, go on that sign for probation. I mean, give me probation, misdemeanor probation. He said, if you can't do it, sir. I said, all right, next court date. I said, you gonna get it for me? He said, nope. I said, I see you again. Came back. I got it for you Moses. Yeah, they played with me. No, I'm not gonna play me like that. I said, I know y'all, y'all playing for me. Y'all, y'all finna hurt us if we don't say nothing. If we say something, then they're gonna speak up for us. But if we don't say nothing, they're not gonna do none at all. They're gonna hurt you. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one.


What's the word y'all? Today we had a three game slate and they were all game sixes. And I was super excited because I'm just thinking to myself, the team that is in the lead has to go on the opposing team's court and secure this win. And me, I love a win to go home game. So I was praying that we at least got one game seven out of it, but we did not. It's crazy how things go, man, because this could have been the last game of this current Utah Jazz team. And it was just an open Baghdad of history, the most open three he's ever had in his career just changed the course of history and that team might get blown up. And we got teams like the Toronto Raptors, where this is just the beginning of their journey while the Utah Jazz, this might be the end. It's kind of weird, man, it's kind of weird. I'm not going to be doing round two predictions and breakdowns just yet. I'm going to give myself a couple of days because it would be weird for me to come on here with Philly just secured the spot in the second round to try to give you all a deep dive if you want to call that and the series versus the Miami Heat. So give me a couple of days. We got a couple of days before the series start and then I'll do round two previews. But today we got to talk about all these games. The Philadelphia 76 took care of business. Chris Paul had a legendary performance. And then like I said, back down to the most open side of his career and he bricked it. So we got a lot to talk about. But before we do that, let me talk to you about our sponsor, which is of course Prize Picks. They have been a sponsor for the entirety of this channel. If you hit the link in the description and download the Prize Picks app and use code Kenny, they're matching all deposits up to $100. But today it's a little bit different because we're starting the Prize Picks. Kenny Beachham Sweepstakes. 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Download the Prize Picks app. I cannot wait to meet at least one of y'all in this sweepstakes. Shout out to Prize Picks, man. When they put this on my plate, I was like, absolutely. We gots to go to a bulls game. So we doing it. All right, all right, all right. Let's talk about the Philadelphia 76ers preventing history, man. And you know what? I gotta be honest with you. I was rooting for history. I wasn't rooting against Philly, but I was rooting for the history. I'm not rooting against Duck Rivers. I got love for Duck Rivers, but I like to see history be made. And we were relatively close to seeing a team go up 3-0 and lose a seven game series now. They had to lose these two games. And in the first half, it looked like it was a possibility in the third quarter happened and boom. At the end of game number five, Joel and B went to his post game interview. He's like, hey, I want James Harden to be more aggressive. We know what James Harden can be. It just seems like he's trying to find his footing still. And today he came out, immediately scored eight straight points, got to the line, he was beating off, beating his defenders off the dribble. I'm like, yeah, this is the closest thing we've seen to the greatest version of James Harden since he got to Philly. And they're desperately going to need this in the Miami series. Again, I'm not giving y'all my breakdown just yet, but they're going to need James Harden to be able to do what he did tonight. 22 points, 15 assists and just three turnovers. And a lot of that damage was done in the early of the game. And then we got to the third quarter and Terry's max, he started to turn up his best game since like the first couple of games of the series. Toby hit his shots and Joel and B became dominant. Again, the last two games kind of scared me about their like overall chances of making a run because Joel and B's hand or ligament is torn if you didn't know. And in the last couple of games, since he tore it, he was looking like, I don't want to say shell of himself because that feels like a stretch, but he didn't look like the MVP that he had been in the regular season. In this game, he gave us the MVP caliber performance and stepped on the throat of the Toronto Raptors. But the Toronto Raptors and their fans have nothing to feel bad about because the fact that they were even in this place to be a five seed and to take two games away from the 76ers who were up 3-0 is great. Remember, this is a team that was not projected to even make the playoffs, even before the season started, Masai came out and said, hey, this is like a rebuilding year. Those weren't his exact words, but he was saying Raptors fans, Lord your expectations, man. We got some young dudes out here. We not really expecting them to blossom. And they did. We had a bounce back season, Pascal Siakam, he went from all NBA player to like somebody that people not hated, but he obviously wasn't himself the last season. And today, this season, he's back to an all NBA player. Fred Van Vliet, though he was injured for the last couple of games in the series, blossomed into an all-starred player. They got the rookie of the year. They got Pressatouya. Pressatouya's progression happened like throughout this season. I remember the first two months of the year, he could not hit a basket. Bro was shooting threes and he was barely hitting rim. And then you look at the last three months of the season, Bro was a efficient three-point shooter. Got his whole averages up, his three-point percentage up. And then in this playoff series, he was really instrumental to the couple of games that they won, not today, not the greatest of games, but still, that's a building block that they got in the trade. At least they can look at that and say, hey, we traded away the greatest rapper of all time, Raptor of all time. And we got back somebody that we believe could be a part of our future. Chris Boucher has offered an extension or free agency. And I'm very, very curious to see what his mark is gonna be like because a game like this, he almost single-handedly kept them in his game or he did single-handedly keep them in his game early on. And obviously second half hit around and they were struggling. The 76s brought out this zone very early on and that zone kind of hurt them a lot. I think the future of this team, this might be a very dull if you want to use that word, off season for them because it's just about Scottie's progression. It's about Gary Tran Jr., Ogyana Noby staying healthy, Pressatouya. But I would love to see them go out there and get more shooting because the shooting was one of the biggest downsides of this team this entire season. So if they go out there around the edges to get shooting, I don't mean they gotta come in and get a superstar that can shoot the ball, but just like players that can play adequate amount of minutes and stretch the floor for them. The defense is already insane. And I'm excited to see the progression of what Scottie can be at year number two or Ogyana Noby can be once he starts to really find his role with Scottie being on the floor and him staying healthy. It was an extremely, extremely impressive season for the Serrano Raptors who after the first month, looked like they didn't really have that much in the tank. And they got to the five seats, took a couple of games and now they can smile. Next, we got a legendary performance from Christopher Emanuel Paul. 33 points, eight assists, five rebounds on 14 from 14 for the field. And some of those shots were so janky, bro. You know, Chris Paul is my favorite of all times. It was super fun to watch him put on his masterclass. But some of those shots like hit the front lip of the rim and like bounced in. I remember when I was a shorty and I mean like a shorty shorty, like five, six, seven years old. I used to spend the night at my friend Raels house and we used to watch Kirk Heinrich. Kirk Heinrich had a game winner. And I don't, I don't remember what team it was against but I vividly remember watching Kirk Heinrich get a game winner. Either it was a game winner or a shot late in the game that did the exact same thing where I hit the lip of the rim and then rolled around and went in. And me and him and super young kids was like, there's a string on that ball, ain't it? It felt like Chris Paul had a string on that ball every time he shot a shot. And they ended up getting out of this round, probably more difficult than they would have expected but a win is a win. We got to show so much love to this Pelicans team. They had one of the worst starts and NBA history amongst a team that ended up making the playoffs. They ended up being the ninth seed, the one in their two playing games and getting to the spot and taking two games away from the number one seed in the Western Conference. I understand Devin Booker was missing some of this but still I got to show my love. I got to get my flowers. Willie Green, I mean, I think it was game two. Willie Green gave this huge huge pep talk in the fourth quarter and I remember watching and I'm like, damn, I want to play for Willie Green. You know what I'm saying? I'm a 25 overall with no bads but I want to play for Willie Green. And then you saw the pure emotion that he had after this loss where he's like, I'm sure it was tears of joy more than anything. You know what I'm saying?  They were on pace. And I vividly remember on Reddit people were talking about the Pelicans are on pace after the worst record in NBA history and they fought all the way back and ended up in this series. And it took a magnificent, one of the greatest playoff performances of all time for them to lose it. This is a close game. Even though Chris Paul had 33 with the perfect efficiency. You know? So this is a testament to Willie Green, to Jose Alvarado. Oh, first of all, the whole rookie class of them, Jose Alvarado, Herb Jones and Trey Murphy ended up in some big shots whether it be in the plan in this series. Rookie class, Brandon Ingram was a stud for the entire series. CJ kind of slowed down once the series went on but I mean, he was being guarded by McKell Bridges for a lot of it and it's hard to score on McKell Bridges. This is a testament of good coaching and overall having a plan and a vision from the front office. You know what I'm saying? I did not love their off season. You know, they let Lonzo Ball go and then they end up getting Devontae Graham. And I was like, ah, is Vontae gonna actually be a part of this team? Turns out he's more of a regular season player than anything, but they leave Lonzo Ball for the Bulls. Okay, but the thing that made this off season better and something that I couldn't even have vision into is because I don't know draft classes, they're having the ability to pick up Herb or pick up Jose or draft Trey Murphy. Those are big moves. You know, the extra development of Jackson Hayes and then the end season trade for CJ. Of course, like I said, CJ didn't have a great series when you look at the overall grand scheme of things, but without CJ McCullum, they're not in this position to even take two games away. After the CJ McCullum trade, this team looks dramatically different. And we have to think about the fact that they're adding Zion, hopefully. I know people are like trying to throw out that, ah, the pelicans should trade Zion. They look so good without, but like, I don't understand that. Bro was amazing last season. Now, of course we don't know a version of Zion we gonna end up getting after missing the entire season of a guy, you know what I'm saying? It's all about vertical and boom, boom, boom and he had knees and leg problems. Still, I'm not trading rookie contract Zion because even if he's 90% of what he was last season, you still got him on a deal that's pretty team friendly and he's good. You know, he would still be good and he would add an extra dynamic or extra element to this offense. So I gotta show them a ton of love. This is a team that I think next season, a lot of people gonna pick them to just be right out a playoff team. We gotta see obviously what the offseason looks like for them or what Zion statuses are. Amazing season for them. Good comeback season, man. Did y'all see the Zion? Zion, let me show these Zion sneakers. I'm sorry, I know this is off topic but Zion got his own signature sneakers we all know and he had a collaboration with Naruto. And you know what? Now that I'm looking at these different pictures I only saw this colorway to start off with and I was like, eh, I mean, I guess they're fine but this next colorway, I'm kind of digging but I didn't even know, is that even part of the collaboration? This is, oh, okay. I'm not too bad. I'm getting, at first I thought they were kind of mere but I'm looking at them right now, not too bad. This is kind of cool because Jordan Bram, also given Luca his own signature sneaker, he had been hooping in these, was it 34s, 35s, pretty much for like two seasons and he's got his own Siggy. And on feet, I had saw original picture of them and I'm like, oh, that was kind of meh. On feet, these are kind of, kind of fire. And I'm low-key kind of proud of Jordan Bram because they had Russell Westbrook signature sneaker. I thought those were meh. They had Carmelo signature sneaker, meh. They had Chris Paul signature sneaker, meh. They liked this new design team and Jordan Bram doing their thing, man, doing their thing. I'm not saying I would cop because I'm not a Hooper and that's a Hooper shoe, but I'm just saying they look decent. And lastly, let's talk about the Dallas Mavericks because well, yeah, they got out of the first round for the first time since 2011 when they won the NBA championship. They had been on a 11-year drought of getting to the second round, which is so weird to say because they had Rick Carlisle and I guess JC Kidd came right in and was like, we gonna get us to the second round. What a great series for the Dallas Mavericks. Thinking about where it started with a Luca Dantas getting injured in the last game of the regular season. This could have been extremely bad, but luckily Jalen Brunson stepped up, Spencer Denwoody stepped up, Doran Finney Smith stepped up. Maxi Kleba was the real MVP of the, oh, I guess Jordan, Jalen Brunson too. Jalen Brunson and Maxi Kleba are co-MVPs of the time where Luca was down and then Luca came right in. First game, I'm gonna get y'all a 30-piece. You feel me? Second game, I'm gonna give you like 30. In the last game, I'm gonna get y'all 20-fold and a couple really clutch baskets. But you know what I will say again, this probably goes into more of our preview of their series versus the Phoenix Suns. I think the Jazz Offensive Game Plan got better and better when Luca got there because they were just going at Luca every chance they got. Every chance they got, they was going right at Luca's head. But this is probably, at least I would hope, the last time we're gonna see this core of Conley, Mitchell, Gobert, O'Neal, and Bogdanovich. They blew a 3-1 lead to the Denver Nuggets. They lost to the Clippers after Kawhi Leonard got injured and then now they lost to a team that didn't have Luca for a good majority of it. It's not the best way to go out. I would imagine there's some animosity. Not saying that they can't be cool because people take that it this way, but like if I had three straight seasons where I was disappointing in the playoffs, I would probably want to change some things up, you know what I'm saying? But what I was telling the homies is that like, because they're such a good regular season team, I wouldn't be surprised if ownership and the front-off is like, we sell tickets, don't we? We at least get a couple home games in the post-season, right? Let's make a couple little moves around the ads but let's keep this core together. And I would be upset if I was a Jazz fan if that was the case because obviously there's a lot of things that don't work. Actually, in my notes, let me read y'all one of the things in my notes because I haven't even referred to my notes in any of these games so far. It says, every time the Mavs scored, the Jazz look at each other and point. This is game six of this series. Are we still trying to tell each other where they should be? It's the fourth quarter of game six. Why are we pointing around like, oh, you supposed to rotate this way? Oh yeah, my fault, bro. Come on, man. You feel me? Y'all been together for four years now. These rotations should be down pat. But nope, they were still pointing. They were still pointing here and there, here and there, here and there. So even with that said though, they were just one open look away from forcing the game seven and once game seven comes around, anything can happen, man. Home court advantage is a real thing, but I think it's overplayed a bit. I feel like I've seen some crazy game sevens where the role team won. Immediately think about Kauai Leonard's shot, you know? Like those type of things. But just one really good play from Quinn Snyder, bro. That is about as open as the look as you can get. And Bogdanovich up to that point was three for five from three and though he missed a couple shots down the stretch before that, that's a good look. You live with that look, even if it was to either keep your season alive or for it to end. The question is, what does it look like if the Utah Jazz were to blow it up? Does blow it up mean trade everything? And next season, Rudy Gobert or Donovan Mitchell is not there? Or does it mean, hey, we want to keep Dono, so let's trade Rudy to another team and kind of take a step back. If I am the Utah Jazz, as long as Donovan Mitchell wants to stay there, I'm trying to retain Donovan Mitchell for as long as I can because it's not very often that the Utah Jazz is going to come to a place where they have an all-star guard like that and a guy that people enjoy watching at the end of the day. Donovan Mitchell has his own signature sneaker. Think about that, he has his own signature sneaker. Now, I've been to the YMCA decent amount in the last three years. I've never seen somebody wear him but he's got his own signature sneaker. You want that type of person in your organization even if it is just a sale ticket. So I would try to retain him and try to rebuild around him but there is a world where Donovan's like, man, I gave y'all a blank amount of years of my career. Y'all never put the team around me and now I want to go to this team. I want to get out. I think this office is going to be a really interesting one for the Utah Jazz. I actually had those Donovan Mitchell signature sneakers. We did a shoot all-star 2020 or 2019, whenever they first dropped and we were supposed to interview Donovan Mitchell. So they were like, no, you know what it was? It was an all-star. It was Summer League, 2019 Summer League. We did this whole event in Vegas and we were supposed to interview Donovan Mitchell. So his team sent us sneakers and like what else? We would, let me show you these bowling shoes they gave us, they gave us these and they didn't give any of us the right size. So I wear like a tennis.  We're not hooping or nothing. We doing a live taping of a show and they want us to go out there and these hoop shoes and he didn't even show up. Whoever this is is wearing them like on a red carpet. That gotta be Donovan himself. Ain't nobody else wearing a pair of Donovan Mitchell's on the red carpet other than him. Cool concept of a sneaker though. Him being spider and having a spider man type shoe. That's definitely dope. Sneaker itself, maybe not so much. And I believe I've gaited these away to my nephew and I don't think I ever saw him hooping these before. So signature sneakers with Kenny. Two times in one video, three times. I think we went over three sneakers, signature sneakers. Either way, again, I'm not giving you all my four preview but round two should be very, very interesting, man. I think we're in for some really good series. We found out this morning I'm in the line for the DMV at the DMV and we find out that Chris Middleton is not playing in that series and of course that dramatically changes things. But I gotta figure out how much, you know, is it so dramatic that I'm picking the Celtics to win? I just think that the series, both of them, both of these teams look so dominant in their series. Talk about Milwaukee and Boston. But I'm trying to figure out how much of what we just saw was real versus we're playing against terrible competition for our standards. You know what I'm saying? The Boston Celtics are gonna have a tough time replicating the defense they played on Kevin Durant just because Giannis is a different kind of dominant. Kevin Durant is kind of a finesse dominance, a shoot over you dominant, a silky smooth dominant. While Giannis is I'm a run straight through you dominant. And what we saw in that Chicago Bulls series though, is that the Bulls drew a ton of offensive fouls on Giannis and the Bulls aren't a good defensive team. The Bulls don't have a ton of players that are used to sacrificing their body. The Boston Celtics do. I've seen Marcus Smart, I've seen Al Horford, I've seen Grant Williams, I've seen all these people taking hella charges in their time. So the number that we saw offensive fouls in Chicago might go up in this Boston series. But even with that said, Giannis is the best player in the world. So he might be able to adjust. So I'm not completely sure where I'm going with things. We still gotta figure out what the end of this Memphis, Minnesota series is gonna look like. More than likely I'm picking a Warriors over whatever team comes out of that. But I still wanna know who is gonna be before I do a deep dive. What is Devin Booker's health situation gonna be like? Cause even today, even though he hit one of the biggest shots of the entire game, he looked 70%, 65% of himself. How much or what percent is we gonna get of him? And then again, yeah, Joel and B Tan. James Harden's explosiveness. Jimmy Butler's injury, Cal Laurie's injury. The injury bug is all over the league except for the Warriors right now, right? The Warriors are relatively healthy. I mean, of course, like James Weisman and stuff, but we don't. Let me know what you think about these games tonight. You can also give me your predictions, but you also might wanna save that for the prediction videos really up to you.


What is the biggest problem in freedom that we had to solve? Ask the person right there in the guild chat. I think that's a great question which we should dedicate a video to. So I'm going to hide myself so we can see the full chat. This is Zothron Gamer who asked the question and I answered, well honestly the biggest problem is how to help 130,000 partners growing at 100 new partners a day in freedom. How do we help so many of you grow faster? And the solution I think is to create communities that can help themselves like this guild in this game Elvenar and the tools that allow all of us to help each other like the forums at www.community.tm. Speaking of the forums, there was recently a post that said should George stop with the Elvenar videos? And three votes said yes, stop. So I think there was a misunderstanding because the reason people are a little negative about the Elvenar videos is they believe that we are promoting something bad which is sub for sub. Now I replied to this post right here and I'd like to address that issue right now in this video that yes, sub for sub is bad. Don't do it. Why? Well because you are subscribing, not because you like the channel, the channel, you're subscribing because someone asked you to and you would subscribe to them in return. You don't necessarily like their content so why are you subscribing? You should only sub if you like the channel. Otherwise you get an inactive sub and that doesn't help at all. So I actually never promote sub for sub even though some people will do it in the comments beneath this video and in the guild chat, you can't stop them. But I discourage it. I always encourage playlist for playlist. So as I mentioned in this video which we created about the 5 winners announced if you skip ahead to 304 you'll notice right here How does that work? Well click that I. Playlist for playlist, not sub for sub. I promote that. Now when I started making this video series for Elvenar I had no idea so many of you wanted to play the game with me in the MGM guild. So originally I just wanted one guild of active players but we had to now create 7 guilds spread across 3 Elvenar servers because the freedom family wanted it. I could see you're joining the guild they fill up, what do we do? Well we have to create new ones. So I encourage everyone to help each other grow but I can't prevent them from visiting each other channels and subscribing to each other. Yes, I'm not promoting sub for sub but I do see it happening here and there most of the time however I am seeing legitimate help people are asking great questions like this one to which I replied and let me get back to this question the solution is also to get everyone blanket licenses to music stock video footage and graphics to spice up your videos like we have with positionmusic.com and Reuters where you can use stock world news footage in your videos for free and you can use music from positionmusic for free so there's the other point about making a game so if we make a game that will also help everyone grow together by playing, making videos sharing the excitement of victory as a family so Infinity Daniel replied George make sense I think you're doing a pretty good job for the size that you have grown within such a short amount of time thanks Infinity Daniel and Infinity Daniel would also love to work and help freed him out but he's only 16 and he's asking is the minimum age 17 and the answer is really no because who knew that when Ernest who is the head of our partner support joined us he was only 16 at the time he's no longer 16 now but my point is it's about your maturity level not about your physical age that really matters whether you can work with freedom now no matter what age you are you can always work with freedom just respond to the comments below interact with us on the forums play games together help each other anyone can do that no matter what age you are so guys I'm not here to be promoting the game Elvenar I'm here promoting a community that helps each other grow together that's one of the ways we help our 130,000 and growing partners and if you ever want to see just how many channels and how big freedom is right now just go to freedom about page youtube.com slash freedom slash about which I'm going right now and you can see right here we have 132,000 channels as of right now 140 million subscribers so what average channel size and freedom I'll just divide these two numbers and it's about a thousand subscribers per channel so again some people were thinking freedom is just full of small channels it's not true the average channel size is 1,000 1,000 subscribers I think that's pretty big don't you so and there's a lot of other benefits that we have here in freedom so I'd love to hear from you what do you think is our single biggest problem and did we solve it how should we solve it tell me in the comments below I hope this helps clear up the misunderstanding about sub for sub no I don't promote that and please don't do it in the comments below instead do playlist for playlist don't know what that is click that I up there that'll tell you how to do playlist for playlist to help each other and who am I I am George CEO and founder of freedom and you've been watching and we will grow together as a family because this is the freedom family you are part of it we are all part of it and we're all growing together so grow with us and partner with freedom and with our hashtag tomorrow button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started