shiver 1,000 here. I thought I'd vlog for a couple minutes for you want to try this mic out it's pretty windy day I want to see how well it does so I thought I'd walk around a little bit over here we're getting ready well I am charging the battery on the boat it wasn't it wasn't dead it still had 11.9 volts and that was from the other day and from when we went camping so that battery does very well so I thought I'd walk around I don't know if you can hear that breeze got a nice breeze there that was pretty cool so anyway we're leaving tomorrow night monkeys inside cleaning house so I came out here got the air conditioner running I showed you guys my peppers so I gotta get get this bag here set out because this is what we're going to put this is what we're gonna put our tent in and it might even fit our chairs I don't know but I need to get the golf cart charge the battery our dead and golf cart so I need to get it charged up looks like the tires may need some air still looking for gas motor for this thing tires aren't clear flat but this side they're a little low so I want to convert that over to gas so I can like take it down to the river and stuff you know and riding around down there just a lot better than as long as you got gas you can keep going you know but you know batteries are going to last so long so and I know there's four bad batteries there's eight batteries in that thing and four of them I know are bad they don't want to hold a charge they'll take a charge and you and you can't go very far and it's just starts running down pretty quick now if I put four batteries in there it'd be about 470 bucks if I put all eight in there it'd be close to a thousand dollars I'm not gonna do that you know I'd rather put four or five hundred and just switch it over to gas then it'd be ready to go you know what I mean so then I only need one battery well I would probably run two but still we only need one that just to start it you know so I'm looking around there's a place here in Florida but it's quite a ways away from here I can I can the club cars the gas ones I found a couple they're going for like 200 bucks untested of course but you know I would take a chance on something for 200 bucks you know and I'd have try to borrow a trailer off someone to go get it you know but my way of thinking is you know I can switch it over to gas and if I buy a whole another cart you know I can switch that one over to gas and switch the other one over to electric and use all components you know just switch them over and or whatever if it's in better shape you know suspension wise and everything like that then you know I'll just you know I'll take two and build ones what I'll do and then I can still sell you know the electric one or whatever the case may be and recuperate some of my money you know what I mean so yeah that's that's really all I'm doing whoa screen just got really dark sorry about that but the electric the electric company was just here a little while ago and one can't shut the door and she come in I was like who's that she said electric that was there to shut the power off she forgot to pay the bill so she paid it real quick I was like oops because I didn't know when it was supposed to be paid or I would have did it for her so but situation avoided there situation averted is that what I used to say so check check check had this I plug this thing in earlier and it was only it was only working out the left side for some reason the mic so I don't know if it's so I turned the patch cord around and that seemed to have fixed it so didn't say any instructions which way it shouldn't shouldn't matter but it did on this tree house and they closed the door on it I think maybe the kids they come over here and play after school I think and I've heard them over here a few times playing around I would love to buy this piece of property just a small lot it's probably about a big a lot as ours I like to have this one and one on each side of us like to sew this this you know get it sewed up here but I know the one that's on the other side of us there's like three lots there and they own it they're getting up there in years but I mean as far as a cobweb as long as they're still alive won't ever get I'd like to have at least that one locked because the family might sell some of it and you never know they sell and one of having a neighbor 20 feet from us I don't want that and the one over there with the forest I'd like to have that just to kind of keep as a forest right over there by the truck that one and then this lot right here I'd like to have and then the one I'm standing on the one that we just left a lot right behind me was sold five or six years ago for a thousand dollars and I'd come up with a thousand I buy it I mean if I could get over a thousand I'd definitely come up with the money somehow so yeah I'm just hanging out while she's cleaning like I said it's kind of breezy so I wanted to see how well this mic does and I do like sound of it I am satisfied with it there's a woodpecker up there pecking in the tree he's big one there's a big woodpecker's down here if I can zoom you zoom in on him for you where's he at there he is red-headed woodpecker what do you the woodpecker what'd you go there you are yeah them same things man they really tear the trees up around here what they do is they get in there and eat the grubs and the worms and whatever's in them trees the insects and now that one that got cut down right over here it was there was actually one living up in the top of that one he had the hole so big that he could get in it and live in it so I look up there and he'd be looking down at me and so yeah it's a beautiful day now we got like a 52% chance of rain Saturday so hopefully we'll be able to get the boat out we're leaving tomorrow night and so we're just we're not going to get the boat out until Saturday Saturday if it's not raining I'll put the boat in the water but we're going to go and set up tomorrow get the tent set up and have a quick meal and I might do some fishing tomorrow night so stay tuned like I said what I'm pretty sure I'm pretty confident we'll be able to live stream Saturday so stay tuned for that Saturday night we'll do some live streaming for you but as far as videos concerned I won't be able to upload anything until Monday night so but I'll have some stuff for you on Monday I'll just kind of do kind of like what we did last time we'll just just man the sky's pretty we'll just film you know some stuff I'm gonna make some chili would you guys like to see that I'm gonna make it my cast iron pot I'm gonna make some chili cook it on the fire if you guys like to see that I'll do that kind of like I did the stew you know there I'll show you the sky beautiful day down here West Coast of Florida I guess it would be considered because we're kind of in the middle of Florida but we're on the West Coast we're right on just if I don't know 18 miles no 18 minutes we're 18 minutes from the Gulf Coast so I guess it'd be West Central Florida but yeah we're in that area so I did get the boat all sealed up well from anything that looked like I didn't seal the whole thing because we're gonna repaint that when we repaint it what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take the motors off and everything out and I'm gonna flip it upside down scrape all the old paint off and I'll seal it up real good you know all the rivets and all the ribs and everything like that I'll get it all sealed up but for now I think see I'm gonna do that when I have the engine off anyway because I'm gonna take the engine off put it in the garage and then I'm gonna go I'm gonna rebuild the lower unit you know new water pump all that stuff it is pumping but like I said that output shaft they said it was pitted well if the output shaft is pitted then I mean it can't seal it can't seal properly so I don't want to get any water in there ruin more stuff I don't want more oil coming out into the water you know so which it seems to be okay now but just in case I'm gonna go over the lower unit it'll be cheap enough I can do that for around a hundred bucks but anyway while that motors off of it then I will go ahead and like I said flip it over get it all sealed up real good repaint it nice we want to go with the same color just kind of fits it you know so yeah so that's all I'm doing just kind of shooting shit with you guys today so I'll have more to come I'm sure I'll film something for you we got to go to Walmart tonight we won't go ahead and pick up another pump for that now I tried it out when it was on the water and it was acting real funny I just wanted to test it there wasn't enough water in there to pump it but then I checked it the other day and it kicked right on so I don't know so I'm gonna go ahead and get another pump you know what I mean and put it in there I got all these birds all over my jeans now I gotta get them picked off before I go in the house monkey will kill me so alright guys I'll be back with you with some more crap I'm sure hang loose we're in the backyard let Bruno go to the bathroom monkeys over here but I can't show her cuz she's naked I am not that's a good thing about our yard we can be naked I've been out here many times naked no she's in her nightgown no but I can get her face there's her face there and but so anyway well go ahead and put it on night vision night shot there we go so we got the truck loaded and we got all our supplies the only thing I'm gonna do when she's on her way home tomorrow she's going to message me but she messes me all day anyway so I'm on so tomorrow when she's on her way home I'll go ahead and load the coolers when she gets here throw the coolers in the back of the truck and we're gonna be gone and we're gonna come back and get the boat Saturday because we're not gonna be moatin boating tomorrow night anyway so Saturday morning when we got to go check in and pay the rest of the money then all we'll come back and we'll grab the boat and and another thing where the boat where I got to put the boat in at we was there one other time with our genu what we hunt and that well it was low but there's a lot of stumps and stuff so I don't want to try to navigate through there after dark end up breaking a prop or something so and besides like I said we're not gonna be we're not gonna be using the boat till Saturday anyhow well maybe ten minutes yeah so we're gonna come back grab the boat and then we'll take the boat I load the boat and then we'll do a little boating and then I'll make my chili I was telling about my chili earlier I'm gonna make some chili so if you guys want to see that let me know where's Bruno go oh he's in the chair there Bruno did he he's right yeah so anyway so that's what's happening I don't know if I'll get a video up tomorrow or not but I'll try and I'll definitely I'll figure something out we'll do a live stream somehow honey well they got Wi-Fi there so yeah I don't know how well our phones pick up out in there but if we have to we'll do live we'll go to the clubhouse or whatever and do a live stream and then we're gonna do some fishing some boating and so we're gonna be there from tomorrow night till Monday morning so anyway guys thanks for watching my vlog listen to me chit chat hope everyone has a safe weekend and I hope everyone all is staying safe and what else that's about it huh other than that we got everything in the truck so except for a couple things her camera and the lantern yeah we got to get our our silverware now now how we're only five minutes from a gas station so we get plastic spoons if we have to but anyway guys thanks for watching appreciate you bear with me legend my way she's on in talking to the mic my oh I can't even talk monkey says she's out for now all right guys thanks again we'll see you bye bye


and so now you're to the bottom line in essence where you would think you can now apply the tax calculation on like the bottom line of in essence the income statement which is what happens here but the tax calculation as we saw briefly because of a progressive tax system is quite complicated so as we saw that complication then means that we're usually going to be reliant on tax software to do this actual calculation so in practice all oftentimes recalculate all this information down to the taxable income to double check the data input using an excel worksheet but dependent to a large degree on the tax code to apply the actual tax calculation because of the progressive tax system involved and it's even more complex than that progressive tax system multiple tax rates being applied to the tax calculation using tables possibly because you might have other income subject to other kinds of taxes such as dividends might be subject to a different tax rate you might have like passive income kind of situation capital gains might be subject to a different tax rate and so on so it can get quite complex even if you get to the taxable income correctly to basically think about what that tax rate will be and we're dependent on the software to some degree so then we've got the tax before credits and other taxes so you might think hey this is the bottom line this is it there's the calculation of the taxes but no for a couple reasons one is because we on the income tax system it's a pay as you go as they say type of system so for the tax year 2022 we cannot wait until we do the tax return by April 15th or April 18th or whatever of 2023 to calculate the tax and then just pay it at that point in time you might say well they're helping us out they're helping us out to do that by withholding during the year well no they're not just helping us out they want their money sooner right you can't do that or else you'll get hit with penalties and interest you have to pay during 2022 in order to avoid the stick of penalties and interest so most people do that with withholdings throughout the year the w2s withholdings or if you're have a sole proprietorship then you have to pay estimated taxes so we're going to of course have to compare the tax that we owe to the tax that we already paid now if it was a perfect world if it was a flat tax if it was a simple system if we didn't have millions of deductions and credits to kind of muddy up the waters then it would be like payroll taxes the amount that we owe and the amount that we pay would match and we would get no refund we would get no amount that is due but the tax code is way too complicated for that we can't possibly hit it on the nose and therefore we usually shoot for a refund the other reason we can't stop here of course is that there could be other taxes we might have other taxes such as self-employment tax being one of the big ones that could be included and we could have credits so credits are different than deductions because credits are going to be below the tax calculation you'll get a dollar for dollar benefit on the credits versus the deduction where you just get a reduction of the tax so


Chris from Tennessee You're watching TJV The Sun's up again, and I've got an empty step deck behind me. I'm gonna put some some wood on it high quality wood and Then I'm gonna put a tarp over it. We're gonna bring it down to Brainerd, Minnesota It's left right at the customer last night. They have a nice little area here where they make that possible for us very thankful It's very nice because it's nice to start your day right here Because that means we can get as far as possible today the plan for today Get this load to Brainerd get it unloaded they unload there till 10 p.m. So we shouldn't have a problem We'll get there we get it unloaded roll our tarps up clean our trailer up And then I got ahead to Thief River Falls, and I think I have a trailer swap to do there It's got to be confirmed yet But I do believe we're swapping trailers there and headed back to the yard which would get us back It's Wednesday morning today They'll get us back Maybe tonight if everything goes perfect, and we don't need another snowstorm hit another snowstorm We should be able to make it tonight Let's not get our hopes up though We might make it tomorrow, and then I'll drop that trailer off I'll figure out what I'm doing then and I'll probably head out and get another load So What am I doing here? Everything's warmed up ready to go Let's go get in line before someone else gets here. I don't have to wait for them Getting these tarps thrown on here Load of lumber. I've got 33,200 pounds on my trailer axles I've got 33,800 pounds on my drive axles And I've got 11,800 pounds on my steer axle We are good to go. I Really like it when places like this, you know Not only do they have that nice big tarping Building for us And we get to unload inside at the other side too, but They also have a scale here It kind of bugs me a little bit when you know There's let's say there's a shipper that loads a ton of freight every day It's a big industry big company right constant trucks coming in there And they're all heavy loads like all max weights every time And they don't have a scale on site Doesn't happen too often, but every now and then you're like, okay, so you're putting like 46,000 pounds on me I Gotta make sure I'm legal to leave the yard and go on the public roads How am I gonna do that if you don't have a scale? Right So most places do have a scale so that you know you're legal before you leave But other places like you sometimes you have to drive like an hour or two to get to to scale somewhere You can scale it out and then you had to adjust it and on a flat bed like mine if you if you Loaded on the trailer I tarp it and it's all wrong and I'm way overweight on the trailer or something and those axles don't slide What do we gotta do I gotta go all the way back to where I load it We have to take the tarps off roll them back up take the straps off adjust the freight Tarp it all again go back to the scale and if it's not right you do it again. You go back It's just a huge hassle So it's very nice to know right off the bat They load us up here before I even put my tarps on I go and scale it good Once I know my weights are good Then I go put my tarps on grab my paperwork and I'm out of here and I know I'm not gonna get an overweight ticket Most places have a scale, but everyone's a lot bugs me my kid Kind of risky, you know I can use my air pressure gauges on my trailer on my truck to show how much air pressure is in my airbags And that can tell me approximately how much weight I have but if you're loading me right up to max It's very hard to tell precise weights unless we have a scale That's one great thing.  I'm actually really surprised that they haven't plowed this road Like I got here last night, right and there was still like just covered in snow And there's a ton of trucks that come up and down here every day and it's kind of like a hilly road They haven't even scraped it. Nothing just left it on the road just to get packed down It's kind of surprising to me, but if you are quick at math When I told you the weights on my axles in the last clip there You'll know that we're sitting in probably about like just under 80,000 pounds Which is our max legal weight for the United States Here in Canada Like you all know, I'm not even close to being overweight But that doesn't matter because I'm going to America Everything works just right it should take me about 10 and a half hours of driving to get down to Brainerd and get back up To the Emerson, Manitoba border 10 and a half hours and once I cross back into Canada I get a little bit of extra time right because our hours of service are a little different than I can get home But you know, I'm not gonna hold my breath You've seen how this Fall season and this autumn season has been treating me so far We'll see how far it'll let me get today. It also depends if there's a lineup where I'm going to unload There I've been having good luck lately I just pull in to pull my tarps off get unloaded. Boom. I'm out of there in less than an hour If that's the case today, then there's hope for us But if there's like four trucks in line, well, I Guess I'll start planning on where I'm gonna sleep Now this up here is this crazy corner The road comes from back here right and then it loops around and goes back that way speed limit on that highway is 90 kilometers an hour But everyone's doing like 130 I'm exaggerating a little bit, but people go fast down this road and average speed is probably 105 at least That's an Ontario thing speed limits are a suggestion to a lot of cars in Ontario Well that being said what I mean by what I'm saying is that I can't see them coming from there And I can't see them coming from there. So really you just got to wait here for a while. I don't see anyone coming So they make your move turn on your four ways Check your mirror see if there's anybody whipping around the corner there and just hope they're paying attention There are signs that are warning them like right up here around the corner There's a sign for this lane and a sign for this direction Letting them know that there's trucks turning in on a blind corner. So they have been warned They don't have an excuse really. I choose you Again, this takes us down to Deer River. It's 65 miles. Just a winter wonderland This is the part of winter that I say I'm totally okay with the snow is on the trees and the ditch on the houses It's not on the road. It's a beautiful time of year, right? Totally fine with it. It's only minus three Celsius. I wish all winter was like this. I Just don't like it when it's on the road in winter. It's it's still fall. It's still autumn coming into Deer River, Minnesota And there's a strange driving habit that the guy in front of me here is a little four-wheeler is partaking in That I'm sure a lot of you have experienced before Speed limit out in the countryside before we got to town was 60 mile an hour, right? The guy was doing no more than 45 to 50 Karen. I'm telling the story See he's slowed down now, but when we first got in town So he doesn't want to go the speed limit on the highway for whatever reason the roads are good But as soon as if we get into town speed limits 30 mile an hour, right? He's just blowing through town He must have realized he was speeding because now he's slowed down and I caught up to him here again, but Have you guys ever experienced that you're following someone who's on a two-lane highway and just Refuses to do anywhere near the speed limit and but as soon as they get to town or to a construction zone They just blow through it. They have no problem speeding in town They don't want to go too fast on the highway. Have you ever experienced that because that seems to be like a phenomenon? I wonder why why that is are people just not paying attention maybe or what do you think? Would make them do that I've always wondered that if if Because in my mind if you'd want to speed anywhere, right? You'd think it'd be out on the highway where there's no one else around Why do so many people insist on speeding through a populated area where you know, there could be children playing? But refuse to do the speed limit outside the highway where it's all free and open Strange right? Oh, he's going our way, too. If you've never noticed this driving habit in people before oh No, he's turning here.  Good choice Yeah, you you stay out of my way If you haven't noticed that driving habit in people before I can tell you're not a truck driver Every truck driver knows what I'm talking about. It's the same thing like when you're on a two-lane road Let's say going through British Columbia or Northern Ontario Two lane road speed limit is 90 kilometers an hour, right?  It's so strange So strange because I guess since I'm a I drive for a living I'm always aware of what my vehicle is doing what my speed is. I Guess there's just a lot of people out there who don't pay attention to how fast they're going if they're slowing down and speeding up they're just Meandering their way down the road Strangest thing so am I alone in this like am I the only one I'm not trying to complain here But I am I guess in a way roundabout way complaining because I want to know if you guys see this happening too I see it every single day. No joke not even exaggerating every Single day soon as you're on a two-lane road. They really stick out because you can't get around them So that was dear River I Got to turn right up ahead here on the six a little less I'm waiting for that driver and I want to Cue all the typical trucker jokes right now like oh, it must be nice to get paid by the hour Wonder how much he's making an hour So yeah, as soon as as soon as he gets done there I might walk over there figure out what's going on I've been waiting here for quite a while already. I'm all all my tarps are rolled up Everything's all ready to go. I just need to get in there Get my freight off just like that. That's that's how it sounds when you speed it up Just all the freight just falls off And then I gotta I gotta get it. I gotta get over to thief ever falls tonight Patience right? What am I? What have I always said?  There is a test to this quiz. There's a quiz to this test There is a quiz and a test Your patience will be tested every day And like this now, I don't know what's taking so long All they have to do is take four lifts off two like they can take it off in two And one on that side one on this side get them out of there And I don't know what took so long rolling his tarps up either He had help doing it too And I don't think I'm that fast like I rush You don't want to drag your feet you work as fast as you can safely right? I got all my stuff done Patience Josh patience Patience let's draw let's draw a happy face. That'll make us happy. Let's do a little Bob Ross. Okay We're gonna make this window a happy window. They took their sweet time. That's okay. Sometimes they're quick. Sometimes they're busy We should have no problem getting to thief river falls getting our new trailer. It's sitting there already preloaded waiting for us trailer 126d Tie it down real quick. It won't take long. I think it'll be like eight straps See how far we can get towards home tonight yet. I mean if when you get back, it'll be really late But I am already cleared to cross the border with that load or that load is cleared You can make it to the border on my hours. I can cross And of course it started snowing Because it wouldn't be a trucker josh vlog without snow Falling from the sky Hopefully it doesn't get too much worse than this. This isn't so bad. I don't think the camera's even picking it up But it is snowing dusting In 600 meters turn left on Washington street. I'm on 210. It's spitting on us So to speak The heavens are spitting on us. Hopefully it doesn't get any worse You get as much out of this week as I can yet tomorrow's Thursday. Turn left on Washington street. I'm on 210 Tomorrow is Thursday, so If I can be in the yard in the morning get unloaded I can still get a couple more loads done this week yet always pushing ourself to the max the legal maximum I'm gonna go park at their truck stop and sleep here and then go get my trailer in the morning I'm able to get into the yard at night, but uh, it doesn't really matter if I pick it up tonight or in the morning If I'm gonna get a good rest I'm a little tired to tie it down and everything You know, you don't want to do that when you're too tired then you might miss something Been driving for almost 600 miles already So, uh I'm trying to navigate my way around this roundabout Call it a meat tractor trash. I know I don't care. I still hate them the park for night and We'll just go and pick up the load the morning tie it down in the morning That's fine. I'm not going to get home any later anyways because I'd have to go to bed Right after I pick the load up just because Thanks thief river These are new they uh, they built these In the last couple of years.  Here's their little truck stop I don't think it's a 24 hour truck stop, but it's truck stop This is where I will lay my head down. This is home tonight Well sort of home is where the family is and the family's not here so Not quite home, but the closest thing I got tonight Oh Found a spot here in the Back of seems pretty quiet here. I'm tired Very so first thing in the morning. I'll wake up. I'll run across town switch the trailers that I was just telling you Yeah, I forgot to drink my v8 Trying to get my vegetables in And then we'll head home By the time I get home tomorrow, there probably won't be anything for me to Leave with tomorrow. Well, my people will go in a general direction But I'm thinking I'll be able to go home for the day. Maybe like for supper for the evening afternoon Maybe he'll send me to kanora again. I don't know We'll see what they decide Oh How would work kind of nice Especially if they had another backhaul like this I probably get home on saturday then though. It all depends We'll see what they got for me For now. I'm going straight to bed. I'm not even editing my video nothing No energy for that tonight. We can worry about that tomorrow morning Have a good one everybody. 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All right, thanks for staying so far. Now it's my pleasure to introduce my colleague and collaborator, Anna Van Gulick, who is a liaison librarian for psychology and brain science and also is one of the co-founders of this CMU open science program and also a program director.  Thank you for introducing me once again. Okay, I'll be brief because I stand between us and the cocktail hour and continuing these conversations. So I actually really just want to talk with all of you more. And so I hope you'll stay and join us for yet more snacks as well as refreshments. I had to run out briefly because the catering was worried they had lost all of our wine and beer. They have found it. So I believe it is out there in the lobby waiting for us. So I want to say thank you to all of you for coming today. I know everyone's schedule is busy. I am just really pleased to see the group that's been here. Thank you for being present. Thank you for being engaged all day and asking questions despite the dim lighting in this room and a special thanks to all of our speakers traveling here and giving us such great ideas. It's been great to see. So also thank you again to our sponsors for the event for making this possible and to all of the assistance we had from people in the libraries, from people across campus, from our team and from our volunteers in helping put this together. We're gonna be adding you all to our open science email newsletter. There's an unsubscribe if you don't care to receive it. But we hope you'll stay in touch and hope to see you at some other events in the future. I promise Ben Busbee from NCBI that I would do a shout out to one event in particular that he is organizing here at the CMU Libraries in January. It's an NIH biomedical data science codathon, January 8th through 10th. It will be over in our Hunt Library. It is a humane hackathon that runs only from nine to five daily. And you can find the link there on his codathon GitHub. I believe you have to apply by sometime in December to take part. Ben was one of our speakers last year but was unfortunately traveling today but he wishes us all well. And we will have many other events at CMU. So if you're local, I hope you'll check out our libraries open science program website. It's on there. I didn't have time to edit these slides because PowerPoint kept quitting. But we have software carpentry workshops about every other month or so. So there's been much mention of carpentries today if you're interested in taking part or in becoming a certified instructor. We have instructor training spots available for next year. So please get in touch about those. And we'll also be hosting more conferences in the future and workshops and all of those great things. We hope to bring Lenny's reproducibility workshop here together with E-Life and Agene. So check out our events calendar there. I don't know that I've had time to fully distill the themes of the day. It'll probably take going through my notes a little bit longer. But I wanted to note just my biggest observation which seemed to come up in every talk and every discussion which was the open science community. And that's, you know, we're a small segment of that gathered here today. And it's a community that has many different facets and parts. So it's a community within disciplines that's coming together. It's communities across disciplines that are coming together to share data in ways that were never intended but that can give us lots of new discoveries. And then it's this broader community that includes data producers and the data users or the parasites, as you could term them. The software developers. I really liked hearing about how things were being borrowed from machine learning to go into psychology, statistical analysis. So that interdisciplinary part of open science. But it's also all of these broader stakeholders that are part of doing science, right? Necessarily the funders, the publishers, hopefully libraries are involved and even bringing the public into it to give them access to research or to have citizen science be involved and to have a community that is both diverse and also sustainable that we're developing things that will last. So it seems a little unusual for me to end a conference with a personal note, but it also seems very appropriate. So I hope you'll bear with me and also find it relevant. So I completed my PhD in 2014, studying face recognition and cognitive neuroscience and psychology. Ended up joining libraries as a postdoc first and I've been at the CMU libraries for almost five and a half years. Working on open data in one way or another and kind of at the same time, open science has also really progressed. And I'll be parting ways that the CMU libraries, although not with Pittsburgh, at the end of the year as Keith mentioned to work with Figshare and some of their projects like the NIH project, but I'm really excited that I'm staying in this same community and being part of this open data and open science movement because it's a community that I've really found a great professional home in and I think we have exciting times ahead. So with that, I'll just say thank you one more time and please stay and enjoy the reception. What we'll do is have like 10 minutes or so for people to get drinks, find their way out there and then there will be tables set up at the high tops and maybe a few other places. We'll have signs with keywords for to check out the demos or any other discussion topics, very informal, but just a way to bring everyone together. So we're not standing around talking about the weather but can all engage on some interesting ideas. So, Bajin, is there any other note about that? Yes, for those of you who want to set up the posters, come to see Hannah over here and then for the demos, if you haven't already given me the keyword, please give it to me so I'll print it out and display on the table. That's it. All right, thank you all.


Hi everyone, it's time to announce the results of our competition. If you remember, last week we asked you to guess what would be the price of Bitcoin by today, 6am Eastern Time. We received a total of 128 predictions and the winner is... Shiran Goffar! His price prediction was $11,050, which was the closest to the price at 6am Eastern Time on Coin 360. So congratulations Shiran, you won $50 USD credit to spend in our merch store. We are gonna get in touch with you soon. Thanks a lot to all of you who participated, we are gonna have more competitions coming soon, so stay tuned. Now let's go back to the crypto markets with Patrick Heisser. So Bitcoin experienced significant losses in the last couple of days. Almost 25% down the highs reached last week. So what do technical indicators show us at the moment? At some point every parabola has to break. If you look at the daily chart, the level where it broke at around $13,500 is not just a random level. It's basically the Fibonacci level of the down move we have seen from the top $20,000 down to $3,200. So it was expected that something is going to happen around this level. Now on the 4-hour chart it looks like that we are in an ABC correction and that correction could go as low as $9,200. But due to the strong trend I expect the correction not to be as deep as other analysts are looking for. This downward trend started last Thursday when Coinbase reported an outage and later on Mike Novogratz said he wished he sold more Bitcoin before the price dropped. So do you really think that these kind of events can have a strong impact on the price of Bitcoin? No, I don't think so. The Coinbase incident was sort of unfortunate but also expected. We have seen several exchanges and their UIs being overloaded on the day where the steep drop happened at the $13,800 level. And Mike Novogratz's comment, he sort of said it got taken out of context and on his social media accounts he corrected that statement somewhat and also said he's looking to sell but then buy them back on a lower level. Probably also in the ABC correction. So volatility is at its lowest point since the beginning of 2018. Is it a kind of healthy sign for the market according to you? I think volatility is not a bad thing per se. I personally believe that we are back to more normal levels for the asset class and the current state we are in terms of price movements and I'm referring to the broken parabola. Some analysts say that we are just at the beginning of a much, much significant correction which will bring Bitcoin price as low as 40% the price that is now. So do you agree with this kind of prediction? I see this as unlikely because that would imply that we would correct the rally we have seen from 3,500 up to 13,800 by 61.8%. And as I mentioned before corrections are rather going to be shallow because we see a lot of buying interest out there.


It's going to be so funny when we meet face to face, isn't it girls?  And we, Bryce and I, for our coffee chat today, we wanted to invite the amazing Chantel from Macarius Rising Africa, but also from your new channels, your new channel, which is Solutions with Chantel. Yeah. Can I pronounce your surname? It's Mayberg, but what we've actually done, we've just made it Solutions with Aquarius Rising Africa, just to standardize it. Absolutely. It just felt a lot better because it's not just me, part of the Solutions. It's Mornay and we've got a whole team behind us as well. Thea, Viviana, as well as Dora. So we're all involved. So we're all part of the Aquarius Rising Africa team. So yeah, we just come up with Solutions. And of course, you are both on that channel as well. Also, everyone has Solutions. Can I say something? This might sound totally vain, but the first thumbnail you guys put up with your whole team, I shared it on my Twitter, it was like a Vogue photo shoot.  I was like, what is this? Everybody was just striking a pose. And I was like, they're so beautiful. They totally are inside. You too, because you were all up there looking all sassy. Well, it's good that we have Mornay that makes us look good. Oh, that's so cool. That's such a talent. And I mean, it's really lovely to see the direction everyone's moving. And the reason that Bryce and I really wanted to invite Chantelle on today is we introduced in our last coffee chat our sort of meditation challenge or offer of people, because we find it is something that Bryce and I are very much incorporate into our daily routines and it's been life changing for us, hasn't it, Bryce? What we realized is it raises, it can raise a lot of resistance, fear, misunderstanding in people in terms of what it is. And since we did that last week, I've been asking a lot of people and sort of so many people, when I say what does meditation do, they're like sitting cross legged, chanting in a weird outfit sort of thing. So we wanted to get you on Chantelle to sort of discuss around the topic a bit so that we can really make it more accessible to absolutely anyone which it is and really help people understand the why, why this might be something if you're not already doing it that could be really great for you to introduce into your life. You know, I always say Catherine, well firstly, thank you for inviting me on with you two sassy girls because I just love being here. It's so good to speak to connect with like minded people from across the world and it's just so beautiful to know that one day we're going to meet in person and just give each other such big hugs and all the meditation will be pay your firm. Well, I always say prayer is dialogue with God and meditation is listening to God. So it's like a telephone conversation if we think about it like that. Only one person can speak at a time unless otherwise things kind of get muddled up, right? So my prayer would be to, let's say, and I will say, you know, the way I pray is very specific. I'm not please, please, please, please, please, you know, this and I need because I believe that, you know, whatever we feeling, whatever we thinking, whatever we projecting out of there is really, it's expanding on that, creating that. So the more we want and need you put out there, the more want and need you're going to attract. So I like to pray and I'm grateful. My prayer in the morning and 100 million times during the day is thank you so much for this.   My cat has a field time trying to stop them, but doesn't really get very far because they've kind of gotten used to them, you know. But my point is to pray with gratitude, to say thank you for this beautiful day. Thank you for this amazing bed I sleep in. Thank you for my beautiful child. I'm so grateful for my granddaughter. Thank you. That's how I pray. If there is something I'm uncertain about, I would say, God, you know me. I'm a little bit of a dummy when it comes to this. So I really need clarity on whatever it is. So please offer me clarity and let me have no doubt that it comes from you. So then I would then go into meditation. Now, meditation really is being quiet. It's learning how to find that off switch in the mind. Now, most people will say they have no idea how to find that off switch or how to quiet their mind. Well, like anything, it's going to take practice and it's going to take time. So I use the breath.  Again, if we just look at what this whole spiky flu nonsense has brought us, it's affected our lungs most importantly, right? Or most prominently. So that is telling me that we're not breathing enough. So we need to start breathing. And in yoga, we learn the art of breathing. So I would then just close my eyes, focus on my breath. And I always say, count your breaths. So as you just sit, you breathe and you just count your breaths because that keeps you focused on what is here instead of going all out there because meditation is about really coming into your inner self and into your inner being and aligning with your inner being. So count your breaths. And of course, your mind is going to run away a million times. The whole objective is not to get frustrated with yourself and not to give up there. And not to get say, well, I can't do it and doesn't work for me or whatever the case might be. So then when you catch your mind running off, just come back and start again. And maybe just now you were able to count to three before your mind raced off. Now you can count to seven or six before your mind raced off. Hey, that's progress. So if that's what you do, you know, for me, I have sat in the Pashna as well, which is a 10-day silent retreat in the original meditation that the Buddha taught and stuff like that. That's tough going. So I'm saying you don't have to do anything as extreme as that when you start. Literally give yourself 10 months and you can set your timer if you need to. When you sit in a comfortable position, I would recommend you sit rather than lay down or you can lay down. I mean, after yoga practice in Shavasana, it's lovely to lay down there and just for 10 minutes just breathe. But oftentimes we fall asleep and that is wonderful as well. But I would encourage us to maybe focus on just being aligned and learning how to quiet the mind. So if that is what you do for the first 10 minutes, that is amazing. And if you're just practicing for the first week or the first month, just bringing yourself into alignment and just not being frustrated with yourself, not getting impatient with yourself, etc. You're going to have good days and you're going to have bad days like anything else, right? So I would then just say, just sit and you'll see one day just like that. There's that moment or 10 or two or five of complete silence. And in that moment of silence, it's like everything just magnifies. You feel that complete peace and alignment within yourself. You feel that connection to God and your answer is right there. So that's when you see when we are quiet in our being. That's when we hear the voice of God because God does not shout to us from a booming loudspeaker in the sky as much as what I'd love to have that happen because it would probably simplify a lot of things. God speaks to us in our quiet times. God speaks to us when the mind is still and we're on absolute alignment. And that's when let's say you have that question about something. For me, when my animals have been in trouble and I've needed to like as an animal communicator, I can tell you I'm very good with other people's animals, but when it comes to my animals, I'm terrible, especially when I know they're in trouble because then I'm all over the place. I'll usually get other animal communicators to work with my animals, for example. But yeah, but then I would let's say ask a question and just be silent and immediately I would get a picture and understanding of if they're okay or if they've crossed over. So I would know whether it's a good or a pleasant answer doesn't matter. It's the truth. And the truth, as Jesus says, shall set you free. So in that moment, you just know the truth. Every cell in your body goes ping, ping, ping. And it's that resonance within you. So it takes practice to get there. But when you start doing it, it is such a beautiful thing. And you know, there's no such thing as a bad meditation. They're going to be mornings that you, for example, or evenings or afternoons, whatever. I always recommend the morning because it's a beautiful start to your day.  And sooner than soon, you'll get there. And you know, then you can go into the more, I would call it fancy meditation type things. But really it's learning how to just still yourself, move into alignment with our creator and find the answers and the solutions that your soul is trying so hard to bring to you. But when we are all over the place and when our mind is scattered like we call it the monkey mind, all over the place, we don't hear the voice of the heart. We don't hear the voice of God because God lives in our heart. So, you know, when we are in tune with the heart, that's when we get the answers. And that's when things become a lot easier because when you meditate, you don't make mistakes. That's the thing. You learn how to trust yourself. You learn how to trust your inner being. You learn how to trust what is true to you and you go with that. And no one can argue with your truth. That's what I've discovered. So that might help. I hope that helps. Well, I love you. You know, the second sutra, the first kata is yoga chitta vritti narodaha, which the chitta, the vrittis, the brain and the vrittis are like dropping a pebble in the water and the waves that come out. So they're the thoughts that come out of your brain and we talk about attraction and it comes into your body, you know, the body becomes the mind field and narodaha has nothingness bringing that to nothingness. So it's not affecting you. I think what intimidates people is that we don't, you know, we're taught in our lives to like honor our mind and our intelligence. But when you start looking at meditation and yoga, it's kind of the opposite. It's like, well, actually that mind, those thoughts are what's getting you in trouble. You know, don't believe everything you think. And half of these thought patterns we have, we're not even aware we're repeating them on this cycle constantly. That's filling up our whole energy cycle and then thus shifting our reality. And I love that you're telling people to focus on the breast. I think a lot of people when they think of meditation, especially if they've never had a teacher or they've never really studied it, they think you just have to sit there and just be silent. But if you give your brain, because the brain's not going to let you do that. The brain, there's an incredible book called Flow. The guy who wrote it, his last name is like 10 letters long. It's Hungarian. I'm not even going to embarrass myself trying to say his last name, but you can look it up. He studied the human brain for like 25 years and he talked and one thing that really affected me reading this book was that the brain, the muscle of the brain, it's one job is to keep us alive. And so that means it's constantly taking in information for your survival. So what he found in his study was that people, we always get excited about the weekends, but actually people were recorded as being more depressed on the weekends than they were during the week. And it's because the brain had free time to wonder and the brain's job is to figure out problems to keep you alive. So what does it then do? It goes back into the filing cabinet and pulls up an issue that you don't have closure on and therefore you start to relive that issue. Whereas the brain has something to focus on, it's not going to do that. So when you can sit for five, 10 minutes and just give your brain homework by watching the breath, you can then achieve that sense of silence because you're not allowing that, that organ to go to be monkey mind. We say that all the time in yoga, the monkey mind, the monkey mind, to kind of go this way and that way and this way and that way. And I love how you said that because even if you get to three breaths and all of a sudden you start thinking about the laundry, I do that a lot. I'm OCD with cleanliness. So I constantly am like, oh my God, I need to do laundry. I'm constantly, okay, acknowledge that. My anxiety came up. Now let's go back to watching that breath and counting that breath. So I love that you gave that tip because in all different forms of meditation, that's the key, is getting that brain, that mind to come to that one-pointed focus. Absolutely. And I think also for anyone watching this, if you don't resonate by saying connect with God, it can be your higher self, it could be nature, it could be universe, whatever resonates with you. I've heard a lot of people talking about meditation actually meaning know yourself. And a lot of the time us humans, we keep ourselves very busy. To not address the real issues. Absolutely. And that, you know, you might think that's working, but that's like you having a problem with your car and the red light flashing on the dashboard and you're just taking the bulb out. You know, the issue's still there. And these lovely small bite sight steps like you were saying Chantel is really, really important because you don't have to sit there for an hour each time. If you've got a newborn baby, fit it in. If your baby's asleep, you can also do it if you're, I mean, I will quite often really go into that state and concentrate on my breath. Say when I'm walking the horses or something like that. So you can experiment. So there's always somewhere you can start. Yeah. And once you start and it's like, you know, if you're going on a new fitness thing or trying to change something about your diet, there can be some resistance or it can be hard initially. But once you've started to get over that hunt, the benefits come flooding in so quickly is my experience. Absolutely. It's so true that because it's all about intention and it's all about decision. We make, you know, we set an intention to let's say live a more enriched life. And by that, we certainly don't mean how much money we have in the bank because we've understood that that is for many people not richness at all. But for me, it's about the richness of my spirit. How do I feel in the morning when I wake up? How do I feel about what I'm doing? How do I focus my energy? How do I treat people during the day? And I don't always get it right. I mean, I'm the first one to maintain I'm impatient. So when I feel like I'm being impatient, I'll go and I'll sit back and I'll just sit with myself for five minutes and I'll go, okay, just calm down. It's fine. You don't need to have all this done at the same time. Just relax. But it takes me breathing to get there, you know. So the more I do that, the more patient I become and the more I learn about myself, which is amazing because that truly is what it is, you know. At the end of the day, what I believe in this life, we are here to expand our own consciousness as humans. And we all know that we have a soul. We possess a soul, okay, which is, I would say, God is the Son and we are the rays. And each one of us is a ray of God's light. So that ray would be your soul.  So for me, it's about connecting with that aspect of myself and how do I enjoy being that in my human form? And I can't have a fantastic human experience if I'm constantly in pain, constantly fighting with people, constantly running around and never having time for anything and being submissive to someone else's needs. I can't think of anything more horrible, actually. So me, by the age of 24, I was fired from every job I had for insubordination. So I decided I better work for myself, otherwise my son and I were going to starve. So I'm happy that happened because it taught me my own inner strength. So through being silent and getting to know who I am, and I learned meditation and prayer were the two key elements that I needed to do. So I've also started like, and I mean, anyone who does my workshops and my mentorship programs with me knows, we start our morning with what we call a power hour or your morning hour. And that doesn't just entail meditation. That could be the first thing you do, but it also entails going out and honoring the earth, honoring God for creating this beautiful earth on which you stand. The trees that create the oxygen for us to breathe, the sun that shines and brings light to this day, my 10 flexible fingers, my eyes that see, my hands, my arms that hug and hold. You see, we forget all these little things that we so take for granted. And we just tend to wake up and go into the stress mode, which then immediately puts out the shattered vibration. And we understand that law of attraction says, whatever you're putting out, you're going to be attracting. That is just the way that it is. So if we wake up and we decide that today is going to be a brilliant day, and today something fantastic is going to happen, and we live with that expectation, we better believe that something wonderful is going to happen. That is just the way it is. But we get to that place through connecting, in my case, prayer and meditation. Journaling is something very important. Appreciating this beautiful body in which you live. This body is the expression of your soul in physical form. So anyone who thinks that this body is just a meat suit, well, that's what you're going to get then. I like my meat suit. My meat suit has got so much potential. And on this third-dimensional planet, we can't be little puffs of spirit, right? Because we're not going to be seen or heard or get to express ourselves and grow. This is such a beautiful opportunity for growth and expansion in this world. The first thing to do is appreciate the body, because we know when the body is in pain, or the mind is at dis-ease, you know? And I always say dis-ease is when your body is not at ease. So why is it not at ease? You're the one that has created that dis-ease in the body, whether it's a mental, spiritual, or emotional, or a physical thing. For us to decide, my body wants to be at ease to have the best possible result for myself. So when we align with that, and when we understand these, in my opinion, core truths, there's nothing that can stop us from living a beautiful life. It doesn't mean that every day is a la, la, la, la, la, la day. We have challenges. And absolutely, you know, the more we expand our consciousness, the more challenges we encounter. But I love encountering those challenges, because it helps me to expand my consciousness even more. You know, I'm then challenged to raise my frequency. And if I'm not raising my frequency, I'm going to constantly be at odds with the world, and the lower dimensional frequency, so to speak. So I like to challenge them, because that shows me where I need to raise myself. And when I encounter that through meditation, I raise my frequency. Through connecting with nature, I raise my frequency. Through taking a dip in the ocean in the morning, I raise my frequency, because I go there with intent. I go there with an idea of, yes, I'm so looking forward to just that buzzing feeling in my souls, and just so grateful that I get to live at this beautiful ocean at this amazing time. So, you know, I do believe it's very important to be quiet as well. We have to learn to be quiet and silent and sit still. So that for me is what the meditation is about. You know, every time I walk in the ocean or in the forest or whatever, that for me is a meditation, but it's a different type of meditation. So let's talk about it then, because that's quite important, isn't it? Because a lot of people, that's another opening for some people if they've got resistances to be present when they are doing things like that. Absolutely. To be present is the greatest gift you can give yourself. And what does it mean to be present? It really means to be aware of what you're feeling, aware of what you're thinking, aware of what your actions usually are. You know, that for me is about the intimacy you have with yourself. So many of us desire intimacy, let's say with a partner.  I'm talking about emotional intimacy. Yet why do so few of us have that? That is one of the biggest issues you hear about people in relationships. Well, it's simply because we've not given us that intimacy with ourselves. So sitting quietly with yourself and feeling what you're feeling and acknowledging what you're feeling no matter how crappy it might be in that moment. You are your own best friend. You need to be your own best friend.  And that's where the journaling comes in.  So now, right, right, right, right. Because that creates the pathways that release that out of the brain and the mind.  It's a clearing almost. So, you know, there's not just one thing that I do. There's a couple of things, but they're all linked. And when we do these things, I just find life becomes a much more joyful and pleasant experience. You know, the times in my life where I've actually consistently journaled to, and it could just, even when I was like in high school where it was literally like, dear diary, there's a really cute boy in my chemistry class. Like even those types of writings, those were always the calmer parts of my life. Because it literally is a time to reflect on who you are with yourself, with no one else but yourself. And so I'm glad you brought that up too. Yeah, I would really encourage people to sort of really just start because I think everyone, you know, I don't think there's anyone I've ever met that sort of said has no room for improvement in my life. You know, we can always, always make things better. And I was speaking to Charlie Ward this morning and I was just saying, you know, when you look around our community of the people that were speaking together, I've actually never been in such a friendship group of such happy living life to the full group of people and someone put a comment under one of my videos recently and it was like, isn't it funny how all the truthers are promoting the same products? I was like, yeah, but it's not an accident. You know, it's not an accident that the people that live in this sort of lifestyle and really feel so on purpose are looking after themselves physically, emotionally, spiritually and sharing those things. Success leaves clues and don't get me wrong. I've not been big headed and saying, oh, wow, aren't we successful because we're doing this. But I honestly have not encountered such a happy, well-adjusted group of people in terms of, look at the discussion we had last night, Bryce. Bryce and I spoke to Dr. Christian Northrop. I mean, if you'd have told me two years ago, I'd be speaking to Dr. Christian Northrop. I just thought you were joking because I definitely had her up on a pedal saw. But she said something really poignant. She said, you know, when we're all having these conversations, there's no bit of us that we need to hide. Exactly. And what a lovely place of peace to go to where when you're friends, you can really feel that you can be truly yourself. Isn't that about being vulnerable? Because I always say, vulnerability is true strength. Because when you're being vulnerable, you see, but again, it always begins with yourself. And it starts that intimacy and understanding who you are, what your strengths and your weaknesses are, so to speak. You can then be vulnerable with your friends about it in groups like this. And that is really being so honest and honesty is the highest form of love. So when you're being vulnerable, you're being true to yourself and you are therefore giving yourself the greatest love. And when you give yourself the greatest love, you are then capable of giving that to another. You cannot give it to another unless you've given it to yourself. That is what unconditional love is. You know, it just means that you accept people and understand that I have limitations and incompletions as well. So it is another. So when I've accepted my limitations, you know, of course I can understand that someone else has their limitations too.   Why didn't you do that? You know, we then understand, okay, well, we've all got our issues. So they all just come packaged differently. And it's actually fun to sit around talking about my issues because that's wonderful. You see, that's about knowing thyself and I believe that's when Jesus said, know thyself. So it's knowing yourself. I know myself very well. It doesn't mean I'm perfect. It doesn't mean I'm fault free at all. In fact, I'm the last. I'm the most imperfect version of perfection that there is or the most perfect version of imperfection, whatever you want to call it. And I'm okay with that. I'm okay with knowing beneath it all, I'm a good person and I like to encourage others. I like to help others where I can.  But I like to think that I'm 80%. Not that and 20% of me is that so I can work on that. But it doesn't mean that we are perfect and that we're all here. What is perfect anyway? What is perfection? The greatest masters of understood perfection does not always feel good. So perfection means that you really get to know yourself. You get to understand yourself. You appreciate these things about yourself and only then do you appreciate them about others as well. So when someone else is having a bad day, you cannot beat them up for it. That's the way I see it. So interesting, I was just listening this morning while I was getting dressed and ready. I was listening to someone kind of talk about this and she was describing something about vulnerability because vulnerability is first got to be vulnerable with yourself and again admit where you have weaknesses and that's being vulnerable with yourself but when you're able to create this softness around your heart for yourself it exudes to others. And she said something interesting and paraphrasing what this speaker was saying. It's like when you have like a play-doh, like what kids play with play-doh play. You can take a beating and take a hit but if you take something hard it can't take a beating, it shatters. And so the softer you can make yourself in your heart space the more you can take in the more you can take in for yourself the more you can observe the higher vibration but when you harden yourself and don't work on that when things come barreling at you it breaks you. And that's that vulnerability. I love that you were talking about that definitely is like that vulnerability with yourself first admitting so many people have our friend Liz was talking about this I thought this was so interesting she said this like at one point she didn't want to say anything because she couldn't handle being wrong but when you bring yourself to a place of vulnerability it's fine and then you can grow and expand and I think meditation is the key to that because you have to.  I just smell that good. So what would you so when I was doing my little survey this week because I've been speaking to lots of different people from you know some really experienced meditators some who like there's no way I could do that sort of thing so let's talk about perhaps a beginner who had thought you know meditation was something else and the biggest thing I had is that people thought it had to be emptying their minds completely and now that's an unrealistic goal as we've already said and it might be a bit worrying if we did as well because as a species we probably wouldn't survive very long but give us your top three tips both of you actually about just getting started and why how they can try and start working out their why for themselves Well I would say the first thing I would do if you have the opportunity to sit in nature where it needs to be as when I say quiet as possible try not to have street noises, hooters all of that going on so if you have the opportunity of let's say being at the ocean or in a forest or something hearing nature sounds that would be first prize if you can't have that then sit in a room where it is just you you can close the door for 10 minutes and you literally decide to close your eyes sit up straight what I don't like I mean a lot of people think guided meditations maybe that is a good place for someone to start as well as to listen to guided meditations that could be a good place I think just go more for the breath then if you feel like listening to a sound like for example me the sound of the ocean is a great way just to align my mind with that constant it's so some people might like that others might like the sound of the birds so find something maybe if you just have music playing in the background with no words or anything just some nice chilled out music so I would say find a comfortable space whatever that might be for you close your eyes decide and then start counting your breath and just breathing and thirdly and as I was sorry it's still on that point whenever your mind runs off and it will do not get impatient with yourself lovingly bring yourself back and start again count your breaths and thirdly enjoy it just have fun with us it's not supposed to be this hectic serious thing as so many people tend to think it is it's something that you are bringing up joy you're bringing up wonderful what is success is feeling good in today's success is not necessarily hitting a million dollar deal okay it could be deciding to stretch and instead of touching your knees today you can go a centimeter below your knee that is success you know what I'm saying so whatever success is for you to feel that wonderful feeling of expansion improving moving forward whatever that is for you so that is what I would say have fun with it it's a beautiful creative process it's where you reaching God your creator it's a very very very personal space that you have with your creator your source God whatever you choose to call it and have fun brilliant anything else from you Bryce well I would say too to add to that like no one is going to be grading you on this so don't put too much pressure on yourself that's again letting your mind so I would say for beginner start with 5-10 minutes you know if you were trying for a marathon you wouldn't just go out and run 26 miles no you would start with 1 mile and then 2 miles well the meditation is going to be like that as well start with 5-10 that's all 5 minutes anybody can sit for 5 minutes you know start just make that okay this week we'll taste Thursday well starting Thursday to Thursday I'm going to sit for 5 minutes that's it you know the breath is a way to focus the mind there's also an idea you know some people do like Joppa meditation where there's a mantra and you can get a fancy mantra from a teacher like or any of these fancy mantras but you don't need to you can just create your own mantra I am enough I am enough I am I am I am I am I am Ram Ram Ram Ram that's the vibration of God you know anything you know that just as you're watching your breath repeating that mantra that will help you also get to that point of releasing and at some point I know with a lot of people who do either Joppa meditation or Translustinal meditation where they are heavily focused on mantra work eventually the mantra leaves eventually you're not doing it anymore It just fades away.  Absolutely.  You know, if you've got young children, it's a great thing to get into the habit with young children about as well. And again, if it doesn't matter if it's not perfect straight away, but the biggest thing I would say is make that commitment yourself.  I mean, my neighbour and I last year, we've got a thing in the UK, which is for people that don't run. I love exercise, I love riding, I love walking, but I do not love running. I just don't. And then I thought, you know what? Everyone I know can run at least 5K. So my neighbour and I, they've got this thing called couch to 5K. None of us were couch potatoes anyway, but we weren't into running. But it's hysterical, little steps just to build up to run 5K.   But I had a mental work and it's so gentle on you. Like the first day, you like run for 30 seconds, walk for 30 seconds. It's really gentle. And I did it.  I don't enjoy it, but I felt so pleased with myself, but you have to do the commitment. So find some way of holding yourself accountable because we all promise you it will be so, so worth it. But it's called a practice of meditation for a reason.  But when you start and allow yourself to start small and have fun with it, and we did have a giggle because we were even choosing the flattest bits to do our running sections on.  And that's what I would say. Decide why you want to do it and then hold yourself accountable. Yeah. Do it because these habits can take time to go. But once you've got into a habit of doing, I promise you, you won't want to stop. Absolutely. It really, that is so true. And I love what you say because I hate running. I always have not enjoyed running. It takes me back to school days when we were playing sport and we were forced to run up these, oh, no, please. And my boobs were sore and I was like, no, no, no. So I do a lot of yoga, I do a lot of walking, I do a lot of hiking, that sort of stuff for me. But you're right, it might just be good just to see what it's like. Just that, as you say, count to 5Ks, which is a wonderful thing where you actually, you're breaking perceptions and who knows, maybe I'll do that on the beach, you know? Decide just run on the beach because I've got a nice flat surface beach. I don't need to be going up any hills and what have you. So it's, you know, I think that's a wonderful idea to actually do that and just walk for 30 seconds, run for 30 seconds. Walk for 30 seconds, run for 30 seconds for like five minutes. Achievement is something that you're breaking through some mind barriers. It's always about breaking through. Yeah, absolutely. And running is actually a form of meditation. It takes a lot, I know a lot of people who, it's not the extra, it's they get to that runner's high. And I used to be a runner long time ago. I would get that where you kind of, your body starts to almost not go numb, but you're just not, your mind kind of clears and you're breathing, especially if you're not listening to music, if you're just running and everything. And that's why a lot of people are runners because it's really not about the actual exers, the cardiovascular, I mean, that's a benefit, but it's that mental clarity that they need. They crave that, that time to like clear their mind. Swimmers, I know swimming is the same way for people who will swim laps and laps and laps and laps and they're under that water. And of course everything, you can't really hear much under the water. And they're able to kind of go into their own little cocoon while they're moving and their mind is focused on moving the arms, moving the arms, moving the arms. And they go into that meditative state. So that is another form of meditation. There's just so, and two, I was thinking as well, you know, whenever you start a journey into something, and I think this is true for anything, where you start is often not where you end. And so just for starting for five minutes, it's going to evolve over time and it's going to change. When you start to have a better understanding of who you are, things are just gonna naturally change. So the meditation you start with might not be the meditation you're doing a year from now. And things will fall in line for you. So it'll be open that where you're starting now is literally just that five minutes, just to kind of get yourself calibrated to then move where you need to move with this journey. Yeah, absolutely. And that's so true what you're saying there, Bryce. You know, wherever you're starting and have no expectation of what you think it has to be like or is going to be like. Start with an open mind and just do it because it's fun and because you're breaking your mind barrier. And when you break that mind barrier, anything can happen. The universe is so beautiful in terms of just throwing us cute little curveballs and great little gifts here and there. It's just wonderful. So yeah, I would definitely recommend that for sure. Just to start. That's another great T-shirt. The universe threw me a cute little curveball. Yeah. Well, yeah, so many good things. I think we should actually all have T-shirts made like that. Yeah. It's a cute little curveball. It might be furry, my curveball. I can just see it now, little furry curveball. Thank you so much, folks. Anyway, let us know in the comments below. We'll be having more of these chats. Let us know. But, you know, as you said, there's no right and wrong. No one's going to be grading you on this. Have fun with it, try it. And it's quite fun to see how those around you, whether they're two-legged or four-legged, start to notice you changing, because they will. Absolutely. And then they'll generally want to start joining you. I always say, it's how do we change the world? It's not about telling people. You're not preaching from a pulpit. You're actually engaging. So people learn through example. If you're a good example, others will follow suit. So when you open your heart and you become as, I love what you say, Bryce, that gentle, lovely, pliable, lovable version to yourself, and therefore, to those around you, that's how we change the world. It's just about being that. So it's starting with yourself in a lovely, loving way. Absolutely. Have fun, everyone. And if you want a curveball t-shirt, email Liz will link her link below, and I'm sure she'll do one for us. A cute curveball, a cute curveball. A cute curveball. Definitely. We've got a few new ones we've come up with, haven't we?  So it's like, oh, but yeah. Anyway, thank you so much, folks. Have fun, everyone. And we will see you again soon. Thank you for watching, everyone.


Okay, this is opened with the cube MX, this is our IR project, and now the project must be in the user, in the application folder, in user, our main.c. This file we will use for this hands-on. In the main.c it's the main function, you can see it's the hl init for the cube, the system clock config, this is configuration of the clocks, how we want them, and there is also GPO init where we have our init for the GPO functionality. About these functions we will talk in the next lessons, don't be scared, now we only testing our hardware to be sure that everything will work during the next hands-ons. And how to toggle with the delet, it's very easy, usually all functions in the cube hl library starting with the hl, then we type the type of the periphery, here it's the GPIO, general purpose input output, and if we don't know the functionalities we can use for example control space, then he whisper asked all the possibilities, and I know that here is the toggling function, the toggling toggle pin, you can use the toggle pin, and now the parameters, first parameter is the GPIO port, I remember that it was GPIO A, and there is the GPIO pin which I know I have defined the GPIO underscore pin underscore 5. Later on I will explain you how to discover all the functionalities which the library have and how to discover the parameters, don't worry. And also because this toggling will be too fast, you can remember that my frequency of the core is the 60 MHz, then I need here put some delay, it's against I think with the hl, and the function is called underscore delay, very simply. In the milliseconds, parameter is the millisecond, the delay I can use the 500. Now I can compile my code, here in the project make, or the compile depends on you, because I never compiled my code before, I can use this one, let's take a while, okay. If everything is okay, your board is connected, your board is not blinking, you can see the LED one, it's in the steady state, on my clock it, you can try to flash and download your code. You can see on my side no problems, the application is now loaded into the microcontroller, I'm on the beginning of the main, and if I run my code, you will see the LED is toggling. And this is all how to make everything run in the IR, then if you want to stop debugging, you press this curse, and if you want to stop the debugging for a while and step your code, you can do this with the break, and here use this button for the stepping. Okay, and next lesson I will show you how to do the same in the kale.


The 729th Airlift Squadron, performs an Elephant Walk, with 5 C-17 Globemaster 3s. At March Air Reserve Base, California. On December 9, 2023. An Elephant Walk is the US Air Force's term for the taxing of military aircraft right before takeoff. When they are in close formation.