Go re-watch it So I am actually about to go hit the gym right now I've been in the past couple of hours. I've been doing homework and while I'm doing homework. I've been cooking meals Prepping food for the next couple of days. Just get out of the way. You know when I say here do homework I've been wanting to you know cook meals and such as well While I'm doing that just because you know, it's good all my time since I've been so busy lately I haven't really slept in the past like you know five days, so it's it's been crazy So while I'm doing my homework while I'm editing videos while I'm doing this and that Over here cooking like I just cooked some rice up I want to cook some more when I come back from the gym, but it's actually around nine o'clock right now I'm gonna go to the gym and Go train some arms I'll come back start to talk to you guys Make my post work. I've been like eight about an hour ago, too And just get the grind going and try to finish it off the rest of this day So I've just been so packed past couple of days. Like I said, I haven't slept in like, you know around five days It's been a pretty pretty hectic pretty crazy. I've been doing so much and traveling I went to Atlanta and It's just been insane and I haven't really had time to do much so this is like the best for me and I've been prepping videos, you know the day before the day before that So it's just it's just a little crazy. Just got back from the gym. It's around. I think 1130 Had a great workout Still yet to make this video for you guys tomorrow So if you guys are watching this around 11 o'clock, just know that I was probably up Till three in the morning making this video and everything because I got a lot to do today the day is just starting I know that sounds horrible, but I really do got a lot to do and You know, I'm not just gonna push it off So just got back from the gym made myself shake and now I want to talk to you guys about a few things So let's head over to the table. So guys I Want to harp on something That It kind of hit me yesterday. I've been loving the positivity in the comment section. I think it's great I think positivity is the number one thing that I love promoting because It's so easy to be negative It's so easy to be negative and seeing all you guys be positive in the comment section is truly showing me That in some type of way not only me But someone out there is inspiring you to be more positive and Spread goodness throughout the world. I think that's absolutely amazing I think this is gonna be one of the most valuable videos. I've ever posted on YouTube and I'm gonna state that right now and I just want you guys to watch this all the way through taking everything that I'm saying and You know get your keep and get your little notepads out start No, so I Been wanting to talk For a minute and I got a little YouTube comment yesterday Let me pull this bad boy. That boy this thing long. All right This is from Bryce Props to you my man. Honestly, I have a quick question for you I'm a student at the College of Charleston And I have been making the two-hour drive home almost every weekend to Columbia to fish my home lake between school work Applying for grad school and fishing I feel it your struggle with the grind so That you can accomplish what you want. I wanted to ask you what you do for those sleepless nights When you have a lot of school work to keep you up and going I'm on the coffee grind, but wanted to see if you have any alternatives Awesome like like that was an awesome comment right there. Don't turn this off. I want you guys to hear this So he was saying, you know, he's grinding to he's getting all his work done. He's really putting forth the effort He's wanting to be the best He's putting in the work You know, I think that is awesome. I think that is great, dude Bryce seriously, man, I think that is awesome that you're putting in the work and I understand dude I understand like that. You're probably not getting much sleep.   I know I know I went in the class today and Had a perfect example for one of the questions the teacher asked and he said if anyone wanted to add on to it So I said, yeah, I'd like to add on to this Before I know it. I'm talking for two minutes and all of a sudden I said, I'm gonna be honest with you The whole class is looking at me. I'm so I'm gonna be honest with you. I Only know what I'm talking about anymore. I mean, I was that taxed out and I mean low of lows like I had to literally look down on the paper reread the question try to process it through my mind Because I'm not getting enough sleep and that's not a good thing I really promote you guys getting sleep but five hours of sleep, you know, consistently a day. I think it's enough Just so there's sleep sleep sleep quicker sleep faster. You got to The five six hours perfect To answer your question, man, I know you're grinding. I know you're putting in the work Know with whatever you're doing, you know how I love to promote Whatever it is in life. I truly believe you put in a hundred percent effort into it because you want to be the best If you don't want to be the best don't put a hundred percent effort in it. I think that's useless There's no point, you know, the reason I'm striving to put all my work into every single little aspect of life is because not only do I want to better myself and Just do the best that I can and know in 10 years from now that 2017 I kicked ass and like just accomplish all these goals But you know, I'm just changing. I mean, it's just Unbelievable, but I'm wiring my brain. I Know this is gonna sound so weird and you guys are gonna be like watching this video and Be telling me that I need some more sleep. I need this. I need that. That's true But I do want to say one thing I've been working every single week To wire my brain in a different way and I know that sounds so weird. It is so easy To be negative is so easy to be negative And that's what's taken over this world today is negativity If you turn it around and wire your brain to think positive and this is gonna be so hard I truly believe that this is one of those things where some people either got it or they don't and if they don't got it They're gonna have to work on it But bring positivity into your life. First of all Think about everything positive, you know, I'm leave I'm laying on my death bed but I'm thinking about If those fish are gonna be biting good tomorrow, you know, just Think positive and that's hard It's easiest thing to sell is negativity So easy so easy So just think positive that's my first thing think positive on everything Apologize my camera. My car is actually running out of memory. I had to pause for a minute and get things going To make this simple Bryce and Bryce the situation why I'm talking about positivity and It also hooks the dedication. It also hooks the determination if you Think positive Bryce if you seriously think so positive Like as you said, I feel your struggle and grind accomplish What you want? I Wanted to ask you what you do on those sleepless nights when you have a lot of score can you to keep you up and going? Positivity dude, I know that sounds so weird, but if you work on how your mind thinks about things You can literally do anything.  It's kept like falling like I understand it But think about the positive think about the future of it and what why you're working towards this You know like if I'm late if I'm up late if I'm pulling it all nighter Or it's like three in the morning. There's tons of times where I can say I could quit, but that's a negative man You don't need negative you don't need negativity in your life And if you got negativity in your life, you need to kick it out, dude You got to kick it out, but think about the positive do when you're doing that school work I mean you're like I'm doing this for a reason, you know, I'm going to grad school, you know Or Why am I going home this weekend dude? I want to go catch some fish. I want to go have some fun I want to like relieve. I Don't care if it's a two-hour drive like do think positive man two hours fly by when you get in the car, man For those two hours. I don't know if you ride by yourself or not Hopefully you ride by yourself because I think it's a really great time to get mental focus Play some motivational clips, dude Do something with those two hours, you know Sit there in brainstorm. I know this is crazy.  What are you gonna do tomorrow? That's another good thing.   First of all All right Tomorrow go to gym What else do homework? What else go fishing? All right, we wrote that down right there. Guess what?   I want to get motivated you guys.  I don't Of course, you're gonna take a shower. I don't care about brushing your teeth. I don't care about that. I'm going to the gym You know doing my homework. I'm taking my quiz before 12 o'clock, you know, I'm waking up in the morning I'm doing 500 push-ups um What else I'm cooking seven meals tomorrow a Meeting up with da-da-da. I got a phone call this time.  No, you need to focus on time management It's not the fact of time management. I'm really doing that much like I've been going I woke up super early this morning All right, I should have logged it. I woke up super early. I Had class. I didn't go to class yet though. I need to go get some stuff printed So I went and got stuff printed got all the files done got some more work done for class went to class Stayed there for about six hours six and a half hours Drove from their home is about an hour and a half of traffic started vlogging went to the grocery store Spent a hundred fifty bucks on groceries came back started cooking after I started cooking went to the gym And now I'm here doing this I haven't stopped. I haven't stopped and guess what I'm doing after this clip. I'm editing once I edit I'm gonna make a thumbnail once I make a thumbnail I'm gonna upload the YouTube put it on private do all the tags like that's what I'm doing like do you think I have a choice Like dude like it's cuz I'm positive about it like I don't even think twice about it Like yes, I'll have an o'clock like who cares us early like Dude, you're getting it done like the past eight or nine months I think it's been I've uploaded three videos consistent. We got them as to upload and in 12 hours I'm gonna have an upload go out and You know if I've stepped there's 12 hours to do it and that's what's gonna happen I'm not gonna have to know but I do have some other things I have to do But Bryce to make this simple man Who knows you might be the most positive person on this earth like you might be just so positive But man, I really believe if you start thinking just positive to the point Like if you're sitting there two in the morning, you're doing your homework You have to do 30 thumbnails All right, you have to do 30 thumbnails and you're on nine and you're getting to the point where you're about to tax out I want you to just push everything away.  I have to get those 30 thumbnails down. Boom It's done, dude, it's done. There's no one that's gonna stop you the only person that's gonna stop you at that point is yourself You got to think positive about it, man Because that late at night you're trying to get worked on you're exhausted Dude, guess what think about what the future is for it. Why are you doing that? Like why are you going to school? Like why ask yourself like why am I doing this?  That's what it's so hard to pump this information into people's brains because There's one thing is I'm pretty young I'm only 20 years old and I've learned so much in the past year about Training myself on to think differently about life and how things go and I've just been living so great like life is just amazing like I Just want you guys to know how lucky you are to even be honest with like how lucky you are like one in a trillion chance that you were put on this earth And dude, you're here. You should be thankful for that.  Make everything happen. Keep grinding. Keep rolling. I don't care how old you are I'll cut your care for 12 years old watching my video right now. That's even better. I need to start early Just keep going stay positive guys keep grinding This was the longest rant I think I've ever done in a YouTube video, but I just think this video is so valuable Like this video is so valuable Yes, I missed a tackle Tuesday video today, but I uploaded this instead and in my opinion On how to throw a jerk bait versus this video right here. This video is worth a million dollars because No Information you're not gonna be able to learn information and process everything the right way if you don't train your head first like I Just truly think and if you guys don't like these style of videos, you can click off. All right But I think honestly I think it's a dumb decision to click off this video if this doesn't like just get in your head Because it's so important and this is just to drive you drive you right through I want to make a difference. You know, I want to make a difference with you guys that are watching this video I want all you guys to succeed I'm already inspiring people in the fishing industry and that is awesome I've inspired people to fish people that you know never fish before started watching my videos And then they're starting to fish and then who knows they might end up being a pro one day Because of me I inspired them or you know Jim Bob over here inspired them or dah dah dah Whoever inspired him. I don't only want to inspire you. I want you guys to make a difference I want you guys to try your hardest grind every single day and make a difference in the world because 99.9% of people Won't make a difference in the world because they don't have dedication And they don't have grind in them.  Go rewatch it And now after this video Don't click don't click on another one of my videos right now.   Don't do it You watching that one of my videos in a few hours if that's what you want to do start today start grinding keep the positivity through the roof No one's gonna stop you man.  I appreciate the comment I think that's awesome dude. Keep on doing what you're doing and don't worry about you know Supplementing this and that to keep you grinding bro I think the most powerful tool to keep you going on those hard times is in your head, dude It's all in your head.  I know something saying to think positive and it's just gonna happen. I promise you Just tell yourself you're gonna do it and just go do it Do this if you have to I do it Just keep grinding guys Thank you guys so much for the support This is probably a video you guys are just totally not expecting, but I really read this comment yesterday and It literally gave me goosebumps And I know it's not that much of an it like it's not really an inspirational comment But I relate to it like this kid is like you're doing this this this this this this this and then driving every week and like Dude, I know trust me. I know I Was sitting there doing homework when I read that I saw pop up on my phone and I was like tomorrow I'm making a video over it. So that's what we're doing right now Thank you guys so much for watching this video Thank you guys so much for the support Please share this video with your friends Please share it because I want to get this message across to everyone and just make this world a better place And have just tons of grinders going after it and just killing it just killing it Just be the best so they can be Spreading positivity because there's too much negativity in this world way too much negativity So let's spread positivity and make this world a better place. Thank you guys so much for watching I love you guys so much. Be sure to smash That thumbs but thumbs up on just smash it.  I'll catch you guys in the next one. That's all I got to say I'm gonna make a way


Hello, I'm Mary Kay Johnson. I'm the Special Collections Librarian for the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and here in Hunt Library on the fourth floor in a special room called the Fine Andrea Book Room. We have some miniature books and some of them are small, so small you could call them micro miniatures. This collection was donated by Rachel McMaster's Miller Hunt. Her major collection, the Botanical Collection, is upstairs but she was also interested in the history of the book and small books. She actually herself was only about this tall. So these are old books and they're very portable books. That's the interesting thing about the book technology is you can make it small and make it portable. All of the students when they come in the rare book room here they're always so fascinated by these and that's why I said let's put some of them out on the fourth floor for students to enjoy. But there's actually two collections of miniature books. Rachel McMaster's Miller Hunt and then Mary Louise Meeder who was a librarian and a collector of miniature books. 150 miniature books came in 2008 and I said how do I shell these? Rachel McMaster's Miller Hunt planned and designed this room in 1964. She put in four inch wide shelves. These are perfect for miniatures and this is the Meeder Collection. And from this collection and the the first collection I chose books to put on display including the tiniest book in the collection.


It was a step in the right direction in BSU's home opening win last weekend over Concordia Saint Paul, but his head coach Brent Boulty has said there's still a lot of football left and it's time to move on to the next game in with that a trip to Sioux Falls Saturday to play Augustana. Both teams coming in this one, one and one and the beaver struck first in the first quarter. Tahee no main the freight train. He's in from three yards out. BSU on top early 7 nothing after the Vikings tied it up in the second. They then take the lead Ryan Rubley. Finds Jake Westheimer for 25 yards, 14 seven home team, but opening drive second half. Beavers answer three plays 12 yards, 44 seconds Jordan Hine, Andrew Lukowski touchdown. We're tied at 14 and then goes to overtime. BSU settles for a field goal within Ryan Bradbury for Augie. Walks it off 5 yard game winning score to the outside. Tough one for the Beavers. They fall 30 27 now 1 and 2 on the season. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


With shirts like this and scores like that, it's safe to say that the March Madness Committee did not get it right when they selected Virginia to be playing in this year's tournament. Virginia basketball is Iowa football. 14 points at halftime. Somehow they did end the game with 42, but they went 50 plus minutes of real time without scoring. I mean even the Hawkeyes might be able to score two touchdowns before the half. That's asking a lot, but still.


This is a study guide for Chapter 8 of Sociology for Optimists by Mary Holmes published in 2015. The chapter is called Enchantment. Please note that these study guides are meant to point out some important concepts of interest to introductory students. These are not designed to be thorough or provide an in-depth discussion. Material will be skipped or barely discussed while other concepts will be given more emphasis than the chapter may have given them. Also note that the purpose of this book is to look at the ways in which sociology can provide a basis for optimism. So discussions of pessimism and optimism will be central to this guide. Max Weber spoke of the disenchantment of the modern world due to the replacement of faith and awe with the rational and scientific. Modernity, as he called the contemporary world, was holding science over religion, reasons above emotions, and efficiency above connectivity. This could be seen especially in the ways in which states have disconnected from religious roots and become secularized. Weber did not see this as a totally bad thing, but he did believe that an unintended consequence of this would be alienation. Weber also saw this in the rise of bureaucracies as a supposed rational way to organize groups of people. While the values of equality and meritocracy seemed like a good thing, the impersonal and mechanized methods within bureaucracies led to a breakdown of community. Off-sided as support for Weber's disenchantment is the decline of religion and secularized mostly Western countries. There is some evidence of this and the decline of religious affiliations through membership and attendance at formal religious organizations. There is also evidence of this in the way nation-states have regarded religion as separate and individualized rather than cultural and central to national identity. Another often cited evidence of the decline of religious or faith-based enchantment is the rise of individualism that is every person for themselves and the popularity of self-care over civic life. Many have also lamented disenchantment by noting the ways in which the rationalized system contains and seeks to control imagination and creativity. The rise of entertainment as a form of escapism rather than the imagination of how things could be. The commodification of experiences, while all the daydreaming one might do, is turned into a ticket price at places like Disney World. Or, I should note, since we live here, the Las Vegas Strip. For a price you can experience worlds that are usually the realm of imagination and you can buy merchandise to take home to remind you of the experience. The popularity of celebrities also is seen as disenchanting as the roles they play seems more shallow and less meaningful than the heroes and deity they have replaced. Amid all the evidence of disenchantment, there are signs of enchantment. Religion may be declining, but this may be transformation, not disappearance. One trend that supports the idea of transformation is that while attendance is low, belief is not. Many people still profess a belief in a higher power, but do not see organized religion as the way to express that belief. The secularization of nation-states has not really eliminated religious values as much as it has diversified them. Most western nation-states have diverse populations with migrants from other backgrounds arriving. Secularization can be seen as a form of tolerance rather than loss. Individualization and self-care also carry with them a message of resistance to the control of organized religion and the bureaucratic control of the organized state rather than simply a loss of connectivity. One way to look for enchantment is to look for the extraordinary. Travel and holidays may be commodified and prepackaged, but travelers often learn about the cultures of the places they visit and make connections to those places. Travel can be seen as undermining the impersonal system of their daily lives. Imagination as escape may have been commodified, but some sociologists argue that the very nature of social interaction means that we must imagine the other. We anticipate each other all the time and not just out of habit or ritual. We must put ourselves in the place of those with whom we interact, and we must imagine how we will be seen by the other. This keeps our imaginations active and undermines efforts to disconnect us because we are rewarded when we do well at this. Migration also shows imagination is alive because people who migrate for a, quote, better life, close quote, must imagine that better life in order to pursue it. Many would put romantic love in the category of enchantment, but there are many forms of love besides romance, and these kinds of love are a basis for connectivity. Familial and brotherly love are often cited as a basis for connection, but one kind of love that is gaining more interest could be expressed as neighborly love. Being a good neighbor is more and more necessary in our multicultural world. Where is the optimism? What does sociology have to contribute? Please note that Holmes doesn't directly mention these three terms, but she discusses these viewpoints that can be summed up by these three terms. Contact Hypothesis. The more contact we have with people who seem different from us, the more commonality we find. That commonality reduces prejudice and encourages enchantment by being open to differences. The stranger is closely related to the contact hypothesis because how quickly strangers become friends depends upon how soon we find that commonality. We need imagination to achieve this, and once it is achieved it can enrich our world. The imagination mentioned above that allows us to interact is the imagination we cultivate as children learn and develop. Just think about how enchanted the world appears to a child.


Real Madrid's Brazilians draw Eder, Mitella, Militao and Casemiro's drug in the second half to secure a two-nil home win over Stubborn or Sasuna on Saturday and keep the heat on La Liga leader's Atlético, Madrid. The defender, Militao, finally priced open the visitors' defence by heading home from Ocone in the 76th minute for his fourth league goal of the season. Now, midfielder Casemiro made sure of the point four minutes later with a fortuitous strike when he attempted to control a through-bore from Karim Benzema and sent it trickling into the bottom corner of the net. Flamocs and keeper Sergio Herrera. The win took second place Real Madrid's 74 points from 34 games after Atlético had moved on to 76 by riding their lock to win one-nil at Elcher earlier on Saturday. Fellow title rivals Barcelona and Sevilla are in action on Sunday and Monday, respectively.


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Next question is from Kyle Grego, do you have any book recommendations for the quarantine? Oh, I definitely do. I don't recommend reading non-fiction necessarily unless it's, uh, you know, escape. So unless it's something you can read about historically that kind of takes you away from the current, you know, situation. I definitely don't think you should read books on viruses or, you know, how to like, you know, how to be, you know, or like revelation. Yeah, nothing scary. You know, you want to, books are really good at calming the mind and the soul if you use them properly. My favorite books when I'm stressed out are books that help me work on my spiritual self, on my sense of acceptance. One of my favorite books for this was by Eckhart Tolle, a new earth. Now Eckhart Tolle is, many people consider him a spiritual leader, but it's not religious. He doesn't talk about anything metaphysical in his books. He talks a lot about the ego and why the, why the, why the human consciousness creates the ego and how, you know, it causes a lot of pain and suffering in us. And he talks a lot about how to accept reality and how to be more present. And I read this book, or I read most of this book with Jessica, maybe a couple of years ago. So something she introduced me to, and it had a profound effect on me. You know, it was like two or three years ago. It was maybe a couple of years out of, you know, getting divorced and working through the whole dual custody thing with my kids. Very, very stressful, difficult time. And that book really, really helped me. And that's something that I could see, that I could pick up right now that would really help me in the current situation because the current situation is characterized by uncertainty. We don't know what's going on. We can put ourselves in a lot of pain just by thinking and imagining potential. What if, what if I lose my job? What if I lose my house? What if I get sick? What if my parents get sick? What if this thing explode? Oh my gosh. And that's us living outside of the present. And that tends to cause a lot of pain. And the book, A New Earth, is all about how to get out of that, how to exercise and practice getting out of that and give yourself a better sense of calm. Yeah, I've been going through a book actually with Courtney as well as fingerprints of the gods, you know, Graham Hancock. It's just, it's great because it gives you a lot of like ancient history and things that, you know, are somewhat on the fringe in terms of like being accepted as fact or, or, you know, the theory. And it's just, it's just kind of a fun way to kind of look back at history and see how they're trying to kind of put all the dots together. And it's, it's super fascinating to see how, you know, certain rituals were practiced, certain things like I didn't know about certain civilizations. And he has like a follow-up book too about like America before. So the Americas have a lot more history that's just being uncovered now that, that, that, you know, they're, they're finding all these different like his like sites that they're uncovering, you know, so it's just really fascinating to me is just to get into stuff like that. Like it, it sparks my curiosity. You don't got any of them? Yeah, nothing. Little blue truck. What's that? You've been reading yourself. That's what I was reading. Normally I have like lots of book recommendations. And normally when somebody messages me the, the response I normally have is like, what do you like to read first before I recommend a good read? Because it really matters. That matters to me. Like if you're not, like for example, I just recently finished a book that is probably made for sure my top 20, maybe even my top 10, which was, you know, how, how an, how an economy grows and why it dies. Oh, you talked about that. I think that was, that was like. Who wrote that? Peter Schiff. Is it Peter Schiff? Yeah, Peter Schiff, I believe, wrote that. And then I'm, I'm wrapping up right now Don Yeager's great teams. So I think it's the 16 things or 16 things that all great teams do. That one's cool. So the great, the great teams is a great one for leadership. So if you're in a leadership position and developing a team, a staff or you enjoy, and you love sports analogies, that one was, is a very entertaining read that I'm reading right now. And then the economy one by Peter Schiff. I mean, to me, that is, I will reread that book to my son when he gets to the age where he can understand economics, where we can have a discussion on that. And believe it or not, I could probably read that to, even though like you would think, oh, what kid wants to listen to economics, they tell it in a, like a kid's story, which is, it made it phenomenal. Like Katrina doesn't even like reading or learning about any of that stuff. She kind of leaves that in for me. And I got her to, to listen to that book after I read it. And she loved it because it's just very entertaining the way they tell the story. And I think it pertains to where we're at right now, because a lot of times when we're all freaked out right now, and everybody's scared to lose their job or have lost their job already. And, you know, we're a lot of people are excited that we have this trillion dollar bailout. It gives you a different perspective when you really understand how this economy was built originally, we forget about that sometimes. I think, especially us, we came so much later than- We're standing on the shoulders of giants. You're right. And sometimes the policies and the things that we roll out or the things that we think are great, we have no idea the rippling effect that it potentially could have on our economy. And when you have a really good understanding of how this economy was built from zero, like when nothing was being sold or traded or bought, and when you understand the history of it really well, it gives you a greater perspective of what we're currently going through and how we should be handling times like this. And it's done in a children's story. So I can't recommend that book enough. I think it's an important read right now for most people. It's a book I'll reread to my son for sure. There's a book I recommend for you for your kid. It's called Nobody Knows How to Make a Pizza. You told me that. I wrote that down. Yeah. That one's a really good one. It's by Julie Borowski. And it explains how no single person knows how to make a pizza when you consider all the things that go into it from who grows the tomatoes to who makes the equipment that gets the tomatoes to who makes the fertilizers to who grows the wheat. And you start to realize that there's millions of people that are involved in producing things that we take for granted. Yeah. I have a feeling it's going to be very similar to this one because their whole instead of a pizza, they use an island where the commodity is fish. This is before money existed. This is before anything. And the only way that you could live was you could catch a fish a day. And at that point in time, everybody had the capability to probably catch one fish a day. You didn't have a pole. You didn't have a net. You didn't have anything. It took all day long. You would catch one fish. And that's basically what it took for you to survive until innovation happened. Somebody then made a net. And then it talks about how the entire economy grew from that. And they use real characters today. But they give them fake names. So you'll know when they're talking about a politician or a policy. So they include that into the source. So it's very well done. And the way they give the analogies off of fishing and how that was a commodity and then how the economy grew from that. And then of course, there's challenges where at one point the net's been made and then other people on the island feel that they should have the right to use his net. And so yeah, they help you. And then at the end of every chapter, they actually summarize and work through the challenge and why it's important to decide to go this way or that way and the long-lasting effect. Yeah.  I still haven't looked at it. You definitely know how to eat a pizza. Yeah. You know how to eat one. It's interesting. I was watching a video by, I forgot, it might have been Bishop Barron. And he was talking about obviously his standpoint is from the Christian religion, but I consider him a very strong spiritual leader. And so I think there's a lot of wisdom in listening to someone like him and other spiritual leaders from maybe other practices. But he said something interesting. He said, God likes it when people feel weak and it makes a lot of sense. I think that's when people seek out spiritual guidance. Well, that's when growth happens. When you feel confident and nothing's bothering you and everything is great, that's when you tend to not try to meditate or tend to not pray or tend to not seek out spiritual growth. So other books that may be excellent to pick up during this period of time are books on spirituality. There's, of course, the great spiritual texts from the major religions, the Bible and Buddhist teachings. It's just a heavy read for the first time. Sure. But I think, or maybe books about spiritual, these spiritual books are right. It is heavy reading. Or a book about how to read it. Yeah. I think this might be a good opportunity if you're finding yourself like, oh, I need to get rid of this anxiety and stress and I need to read something. Spiritual growth is, I mean, you grow faster and stronger when you feel scared spiritually speaking than when you feel great and confident and everything is going great. So those might be some good options or books in that category. I recommended to Jessica, did you read, I know she did, right, Purpose Driven Life? No, I didn't read it, but she told me about it. And she said it. She's my cliff notes. Yeah. She liked it, right? She did. She loved it. Yeah, that's a phenomenal read for that along those lines.


This is an incredibly significant finding. We've essentially shown in this research that plants and animals are able to reach Antarctica on their own and we're talking about plants and animals that wouldn't normally be able to travel long distances. Antarctica is biologically isolated but here we found floating kelp washed up on an Antarctic beach that shouldn't be there. It shouldn't be there and it shouldn't have been able to get there. So the kelp that we found is a large species. It can grow up to 12 meters length and it contains many other creatures inside it that have burrowed in and when the kelp breaks off and drifts away across the ocean it carries these communities with it. So you can have diverse invertebrate species, other algae, bryozoa, all sorts of things living inside that kelp holdfast as they drift for thousands of kilometers across the ocean. So in this research we've combined biological data with oceanographic information to try to find out how on earth it was able to reach Antarctic shores. And so we thought it'd be relatively easy for a piece of kelp to get stuck in an eddy and taken southwards towards Antarctica and so we did some modeling to try and test this. So we released four million virtual kelp released from each sub-Antarctic island and much to our surprise we found that actually these kelp couldn't get to Antarctica. We had to include another piece of ocean physics. We had to include the effect of surface waves. So the southern ocean is really stormy and so this makes huge surface waves so 10 to 20 meters high and there's an effect called stoke drift where if you have a particle floating on the surface each time a wave passes the particle will sort of surf a little bit forwards in the direction of the wave and when you include this effect it's actually relatively easy to get particles to Antarctica. This research is essentially the culmination of more than a decade of work on this kelp species. We have samples from throughout where the kelp grows and we now have really powerful genomic tools that allow us to pinpoint exactly where the kelp that we found in Antarctica had come from and our analyses show that it has come from locations that are more than 20,000 kilometers away from where it washed up. One of the reasons this is significant is that the climate is warming and Antarctica has some of the fastest warming regions on the planet. If that's the case we could see a drastic shift in marine ecosystems in Antarctica from these fairly barren ice-scoured rocky shores to something more like what we see in the sub-Antarctic where we have large kelps dominating and those kelps host a wide range of invertebrate animals and other seaweeds.


My name is Mick Hawkins. I'm a team lead in the LMS platform team. So next slide please. So we had four sprint goals this time. We managed to make a good dent on all of them. So we didn't quite get all of the PHP 8.2 stuff done as we had hoped, but the majority of those are up for integration. I think there's just one that's not. StartMoodleNet phase two is well underway. Whole course sharing's been started as well as some of the recording of progress in the backend for some of the future work. Land the remaining Matrix phase one. There's all but one issues being integrated and the final ones waiting for integration review. So that one's tracking pretty well as well. And finally as well, starting the 4.3 security improvements work, which I know Matt's going to cover a little bit of shortly, but yeah, we've got multiple items in progress for that one as well. So next slide and I'll hand over to Matt. Thanks, Mick. So I'm Matt. I'm the platform manager for LMS. I just wanted to start by just reminding everyone that we've got the miner releases coming out next Monday. So that's the latest release of 4.2, which is 4.2.1. We've also got the miners of all of the other supported versions. And it's probably just worth also pointing out that 4.0 is this is the final general support release that 4.0 will receive. It still has security fixes until the end of the year, but it's finishing. It's bug support. All this will be a slide bug support release. So if you're all clients, I would say get on to upgrading, but that's probably not going to inspire anybody here. So just next slide, please, Adrian. So I just wanted to, as Mick said, highlight a couple of things that the team's been working on. I sort of picked one in the security space and one in the admin space. There's sort of a lot happening in both. And these things are also not always able to be shown when we make something more secure in the code. It doesn't really demo very well, but I thought there's a couple that have come in this sprint that I thought would be worth showing. The first one is we now have support for captures on the login page. So as you can sort of see from the screenshot there, they're the little things that sort of help the system determine that you're not a robot or trying to otherwise spam the system. So previously we've had them on, you may have seen them if you've signed up for a site. You can have them on the signup page. We've also got them on the site contact page now to protect and get spam there. Optionally, we now have them on the signing page for the manual authentication plugin. So it helped. The main sort of thing here is basically helps against brute force attacks. So you can't just write a script to just try password combinations or email combinations that you may know. It also helps against bot logins and other things that can then sort of try and log in and then spam public forums and things like that. So it's just another layer of optional security on top of the platform. Next slide, please. The other thing I just wanted to talk about, and it's awesome talking about something in a positive way that's got a big cross through it. So we've removed the legacy theme selector in the platform. So for anyone who's wrestled with this, you go to select your theme, then you get to this screen that shows some stuff that hasn't really actually been supported. Sure, since even before my time at Moodle, I'm trying to remember when we deprecated legacy and mobile and tablet themes. So you don't see this at all now. You can just go theme selector and you actually go straight to the screen where you select the theme. It just don't have to worry about those options that aren't used anymore. It cleaned up a bunch of technical debt. David and the team cleaned up a bunch of technical debt there, which is also good because it makes the product more maintainable. And Robbie will actually be talking about it shortly.  Now the next step is actually to make it a little bit nicer to use.  It was actually hard to pick. There's several little things that are landing in this sprint or in integration this sprint, but these two have been some annoying things for a long time. So good to see them go. And now I'll throw over to Robbie, who's going to actually talk about some UX work that we've got in tow. So next slide, please, Adrian. Hi, I'm Robbie Van Gutteren. I'm the UX designer on the platform team. And I'll give you guys a couple of updates on some things we're working on. This first one is updating the adding image from text editor. This is the beginnings of a wider project for looking at how to improve the entire process through the repositories and the URL. So basically, we just looked at improving information architecture, changing the hierarchy and looking at what's important and improving the drag and drop. So I'll just share my screen and I will show you a little demo. Cool, to go. So basically, if normally you'd click on the image to insert an image, we've changed this first page that comes up to really highlight the drag and drop option or click to select where you can go from your native hard drive. So basically, you'd click that, it would open up this, you'd click, and then this would bring you to the second model, which is the image details. It has all the same information, but just reorganized to kind of keep the hierarchy important. So basically, if you'd go through, you could either click and add the information by what it's called or you can, oh geez, it's stuck, seems to have frozen. I'll go again. Yeah, you either click on the image to say it's decorative only and it hides or you can customize the image. All those sorts of features are still there. Or you can go through and add a URL by adding an image and then the same functionality as there to make it decorative or explain what the image is there. So we're not wanting to change the functionality just to sort of reorganize priorities and change the hierarchies. So, and then I will stop standing here. If we can go to the next slide, here we go. And then also in the next slide, if we can go to the next slide. Yeah, the theme select, that's one. Oh, sorry, go back. And this, which Matt was just talking about, we're wanting to improve the experience of the theme select. So compacting the information because it's something where we feel it gets changed not super frequently. So it doesn't need to take up a lot of space on the screen, improving the hierarchy again, and just modernizing the interface and interaction for the user. So I will share a quick demo of this again. And so basically taking inspiration from the cards, which the course cards using that sort of layout. And then so the options are you can get a modal or pop up giving you a more visual preview and also a text preview of what's going on. And then you can do that with each of them. And then say this one you'd want to select. So then it's changed. And now that's the current theme. If you go again to select this, you're changing through. And then a further update we're looking at is to make it quicker to go to the settings. So you could click, you go into your boost settings and everything's just really nice and compact and in one place. So there's some stuff that we have been working on and looking forward to putting that into action. Thanks very much.


Another thing that I want to talk about, and you do get that sense of what you were talking about done in the book, one thing that I think that people don't talk about enough is that the fountain head actually has a lot to say about cancel culture and the way that sort of group think drives cancel culture. And I'm not talking about rights here. And I'm not talking about the fact that a company say has no obligation to employ someone that they don't want to employ. Obviously, that's true. I'm talking about the larger phenomenon and why it's happening. It's something that Rourke struggles with for nearly the entire novel. There are so many examples in this book of the way in which these institutions, these intellectual monocultures can expel anyone who thinks differently. In fact, I couldn't help but think of this atrocious new concept of ESG. That's exactly what I was going to raise as soon as you started talking about this. Do you want to elaborate on that? What is ESG? Can you explain that to my audience who might not have heard of that? I mean, ESG kind of arose in the investing world. And it's the idea that we should judge companies and judge them financially, like as investors, not primarily or solely by how well they do in terms of achieving profits, but by how well they accord with certain ideas about environmental. That's the E, social, things like diversity. That's the S, and in governance, things like CEO pay. But really what it amounts to is egalitarianism and environmentalism. It's our companies following the ideals set out by environmentalists and by egalitarians. And it's this idea that was, I mean, Yaron and I talked about it a few short years ago, I think two or three years ago, I was like, had you heard this thing? And he kind of heard of it. And it was bubbling. And now it's everywhere. And basically, you can't explain how it got everywhere by a whole bunch of people thought, yeah, you know, what really is going to make companies great is if oil companies stop producing oil. And if we instead of hiring the best people for the boards, we look at their skin color and try to judge them as that this is clearly an intellectual fad that got taken over for a number of reasons. But one of the driving reasons is conformity. And you really see that in the fountainhead. Ayn Rand is often put as, oh, all her heroes are businessmen and all businessmen are heroes. That's definitely not fair in Atlas Shrug, because some of the villains are businessmen as well. But in the fountainhead, what you really see is she thinks that the businessmen, even though she admires businesses and enterprise, there's so much conformity. There's so much hostility towards innovators, because it's dominant in the culture that you we live in a secondhand culture, and that it's a real achievement for anybody to innovate and do something new. And that there's a lot about the dynamics of how kind of conformity works and how it's cashed in on by people who know that they're in effect have useful idiots at their disposal. And you get a lot of really deep dynamics about how that plays out in a society. Yaron, I would love for you to follow up on that, Yaron, if you wouldn't mind. Yeah, I mean, one of the I mean, the villain of the novel is is an intellectual who understands the dynamics of of conformity, understands how to shape kind of popular views. I mean, if he was a real life person, he'd be the guy behind the ESG movement, in a sense that he'd be the guy who wrote all the newspaper articles, wrote up ads, appeared on television, made the argument, if you can call it an argument for ESG, and then everybody conformed to him. He's the guy telling people who should be canceled and who should not. And he admits this. He, his goal in life is to destroy the achiever. It's to celebrate mediocrity and to tear down achievement and innovation and success, and really to destroy the hero of the novel, how it works. And so you get very much kind of the intellectual atmosphere of cancel culture. You get the conformity, you get the intellectual leadership. But what Rand presents is the antidote to cancel culture, which I think is so lacking in the culture we have today, and then his courage. You know, she has a character who basically says, I don't care.  I'll fight you when it's relevant. I'll walk away and ignore you when that's the appropriate thing to do.   I'm not going to let you put me in any substantial way. I'm not going to go power. I'm not going to go gravel. I'm not going to apologize. I'm not going to admit there's something wrong. There's so many in our cancel culture who attacked tend to do. They tend to grovel and they tend to compromise and they tend to appease. He never appeases. He never compromises. He never gives an inch. And she shows that when you do that, and I think this is still true even today, you can win. And indeed, you will win. You'll win not just professionally as he does, but you'll win in life. You'll win by living a successful, fantastic life. So the solution for a lot of people for cancel culture, the people being canceled, is to stand up to the bastards. And I think that is really illustrated in the front of it. I appreciate that. And yeah, just reading, and the past couple of weeks, the past month or so, reading this book, you have all of these corrupted, rotten institutions that have no real standards, but who basically police the field of architecture and work to keep the atmosphere of architecture this kind of self-dealing fraternity. And you guys pointed out second-handers of what Rand would call second-handers. And I feel like Rand really gets at the way that these guilds and these professional associations work so tirelessly to gatekeep and make sure that people like Rourke are locked out of the profession. I mean, like in the very first chapter of the book, you can't escape this, which is why I've been telling people this is a novel about cancel culture. In the very first chapter, Rourke is being expelled from the Stanton Institute for refusing to design buildings that essentially have no integrity. And so I think in large part, this is a story about, in part, this is a story about this phenomenon that today we would call cancel culture. Just the way that the unions and these different guilds and academia and the government and the press all collude to like snap into gear to keep someone like Rourke from achieving any success and for me, that's one of the most exciting aspects of the story. And I think it has so much to say about what we're going through today that Rourke is surrounded by conformity and we're constantly asking, will Rourke get to display his genius? Will he finally be able to convince someone with power and money that his work is brilliant or will he have to sacrifice his integrity? And Rourke is a hero, I would say precisely because he is the one person who will never sacrifice his integrity. He's constantly being canceled. I mean, there's this, you pointed this out earlier, Yorone, there's this long stretch of the book where Rourke is just like locked out of the profession. And he has to work at like a granite quarry because no one will hire him. And not because he isn't good, but precisely because he is good. And so the whole book is just filled with suspense and tension. Will someone give Rourke a chance? Will he finally get his big break? And so I wanted to ask you, Yorone, and then we can go to Don, is what does the found head ultimately have to say about cancel culture and also how to beat it? Because there are solutions from the new right, which is to say how to beat it is to use the government to stifle industry, to engage in protectionism. Yeah, the new right wants to use cancel culture to beat cancel culture. It just wants cancel culture in its control. Which is the equivalent of using racism to beat racism? Yes, which is what the left is trying to do on the issue of race. But I think the most important issue here is to understand, and this is what Ayn Rand illustrates in the found head, to understand where cancel culture comes from. And it comes from the hatred of the innovator. It comes from the hatred of genius. It comes from the hatred of success, of prosperity, of happiness, of somebody who is living his own life by his own standard. So Howard Rourke is hated because he's the good, because he's successful, because he's self-interested. Cancel culture comes from a society that doesn't want people to stand in their own two feet, doesn't want people to live their own lives by their own standard, doesn't want people to achieve and be successful. And in a sense, the only antidote to cancel culture is a rejection of this philosophy and ideology of envy, which is hatred of the good for being the good, hatred of somebody because of their virtues. It is a rejection of the idea that people should not see. The thing that's so destructive about the morality of altruism is not so much that people are running out there to become Mother Teresa, because nobody wants to be the Mother Teresa. Nobody actually goes out and becomes Mother Teresa. The real evil of altruism, of the philosophy that says that what matters is other people, not you, is that you don't matter. That is, the real evil of it is it teaches us not to think about our own happiness, not to think about how to live the best life that we can, not to think about our own integrity, not to make the most of our life, not to be great innovators and successful and stick to our values and be how it works to the extent that we can give an ability. And the only way to get rid of that kind of envious mentality is to get rid of the ideology and therefore the morality that makes it possible, which is a morality of selflessness. It's a morality that tells you not to be self-interested. And as long as that is a morality that's dominant in the culture, you will have various forms of cancelling. Look, the church canceled Galileo for thousands of years. Tribes and societies have basically burnt at the stake, which is an extreme form of cancelling. Any innovator and any genius who challenged the status quo, I mean, the cancelling going on today is mild as compared to the cancelling that the Catholic Church engaged in or the cancelling that religious societies have engaged in for thousands of years and the tribal and national societies have engaged in for thousands of years. So we have always, society has always gone after the individual list, gone after the man, woman who stood out, who lived differently, who lived by their own standards. And that's what has to change. And to change that, you're not going to get government involved. You're not going to get, you have to adopt a different set of ideas. You have to adopt a different philosophy, a different morality. 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I just met Sue today for the first time and we share our brain because we're looking at this in very, very similar ways. So I want to talk to you about thinking like an improviser, the wonderful improviser that you are, but speaking like a customer, speaking it the language of your customer. So I'm going to actually do a little road play. Welcome to the road play section of the talk. May I get a volunteer, a beautiful, lovely, thank you, sir. All right. And what is your name? Moonier. Oh, Moonier. I love it. Thank you. Thank you. Let's hear it for Moonier. All right. So here is your assignment. You are in pain. You are coming to me. I am a doctor. So your objective is only one thing, to get me to give you medicine. That's it. Good. Then you know it. So go ahead. And I will be, of course, the doctor. All right. It looks pretty bad. It must really hurt a lot. I bet you really need some relief, don't you? I think so, yeah. I think you do. Well, before I give you some medicine, have a seat. I'm going to sit down and discuss for 20 minutes exactly how the medicine will work in your body. So this is how it's going to go. All right. So yes, I know. Bear with me. This is important. So there's palliative effects. Here's what happens. We ingest it. The medicine, right, as it goes in, will go to our intestine, right? Well, I'm not done with my story. Hold on. I'll get there. Well, what happens is, is that as it starts to diffuse, right, and dissolve, 16% approximately, I could be wrong, or 17%, I forget which, for medical school, will go to our brain. And then what happens is, it goes into our circulatory system, where the heart pumps it throughout the body, and this is where it gets really good. Oh, you don't look so good. We're almost done. Don't worry. I'm almost done. Oh, wait. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, God, my medical insurance. All right. Fine. Here's the medicine. Here you go. Here you go. Now, Munir, are you going to put up with that? What would your response be if I was a doctor that did that to you? You'd probably punch me, and I would have that coming, and enjoy it, right? Because while I'm giving him the medical jargon Tourette's syndrome, he is about ready to fall over in absolute pain, and I would posit to each one of you that when we have to explain how everything works, when our clients and our customers are in pain and they have an urgent need and they need relief, we don't need to burden them with all our methodologies, all our processes. We don't have to get them to understand exactly how every brilliant delivery system will work. They're in pain. They have a need, and what they want from us is relief. As Sue said it, they have a problem. They want us to solve it. That's the most important thing. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you. So generously played, and every industry has jargon. Absolutely. Sue was absolutely correct. Every industry does. We have jargon too. Now granted, we have fun jargon. Yes, and it's kind of fun. It's just a little fun and quirky, right? And it's fun. It's acceptance. It's positive, but it's still jargon. I agree with that 100%. And when we burden our customers to understand how the process, we're getting away from the results and the outcomes, which is what they really care about.  Anybody new to improv? Pretty new. Okay. Yeah. Woohoo! Welcome! We're going to teach you the secret handshake later. That's that. You're on probation. How many of you notice that there's so many terms that we use, right? It's called ideation, and ideation, allergy, and it starts to sound like a fun IBM commercial. That's just makes you want to go, ah, people talk like that, right? What are some terms? Let's have some fun here, guys. What are some terms that you hear all the time? Group mind. Group mind. Justification. Justification. Blacking. Blacking. Status. Status. Status shift. Absolutely. Offer. Offer. Yes, and accept the offer. Hidden agenda. Hidden agenda. Hidden agenda. Absolutely. Blacking. Yes. Initiation. Initiation. Oh my gosh, absolutely. Tilt. Tilt. Lots of stuff. Lots of good stuff, but it's still jargon nonetheless. And again, I don't think we need to burden our customers with that. So what I want you to do, just, I know you're improvisers, and we're going to play it up. I want you to turn to your neighbor, or if you want to try it, you can do that too, or adaptable. I want you to take turns telling each other the methods you use. I want you to lay it on. I want you to use as much jargon as your little hearts want to. Tell each other about the processes and methods you use. Yeah, in your work. Yeah. Go to town with jargon. Go to town. Get jargon, Tourette's out, and sort of get it out. But you're improvisers. You love this close to this stuff. Another exercise in a minute. Can you imagine from the perspective of your customer that doesn't know anything about processes and methodologies, and is thinking, applied improv, do I have to perform? Does that mean I have to get up on stage? Oh my god. Oh my god. Now we've just scared them, and they're thinking, but you know what? I really have a business problem. I need you to help me increase the loyalty of my customers, retain customers, increase productivity, decrease absenteeism. Oh, that's right. We forgot to talk about that. We were too busy talking about yes and. And it's fun. So let's not forget, as improvisers, to speak our customers' language. And what do they care about? Results, outcomes. Speaking in outcomes is the most important thing we can do. If we want to spread applied improvisation and we do, the more that we can speak the customer's language, the more that we're connecting with them. So for example, if you're dealing with high tech companies, and I came out of high tech, so I'm a weirdo that's actually left brain and right brain. So I'm one of those, I translate, I'm the human translator between engineering and like the PR people. It's like, no, no, no, here's the translation. Here's how it works. We want to speak in outcomes. For example, if you're dealing with product people, applied improvisation can generate better, more viable ideas for commercialization in a shorter amount of time. Boom. You think that's going to grab attention? Absolutely. And it's going to cost them less time prototyping. Right? If you're talking to marketing people, what do they care about? They want stories that they can use to attract and retain more customers. Right? And increase customer loyalty. That's an important bottom line result that people care about. We can hang our hat on that. If we're in healthcare and we're dealing with healthcare customers, how many of you have worked with healthcare customers? What do they care about? What patients, they want to have better outcomes for patients. Can applied improvisation deliver? You bet it can. Right? It means better outcomes for patients. That means better outcomes for hospitals. Decreased liability rates for doctors. Bottom line results for hospitals. Absolutely. That is an important business result to talk about. So when we're thinking collaborative creativity, that's wonderful. That's the how. But it's really important to remember that that is just the methodology that gets us to the bottom line result, which is better business ideas that move the business forward. Right? So I want you to always think like an improviser. Be adaptable. Listen to the language your customer is using and adopt that. If they're speaking in patient outcomes, speak in patient outcomes. The secret sauce is applied improvisation. So now, here's what I want you to do.  And I want you to actually talk about outcomes. I want you to tell the person next to you what outcomes you achieve for your customers. No methodology. You got your yaya's out. Outcomes only. I'm a mom, so I know how to get really loud. Compared to speaking in process-season methods. Right. I'm sorry? Right. Yeah, right. Okay, easy because you're used to doing it. Well, maybe for some of you, you had to concentrate a little bit more. What do you think is more memorable for the customer? Oh, this isn't for your benefit. When you talk in outcomes, you're leaving a footprint. It's about memorability for your customer. So you guys are all brilliant improvisers. We're adaptable. Our species is at work. We are completely flexible. So I really want you to remember this. The next time you're dealing with customers, ask them what success looks like for them in a business way. What is that business result? Reflect that back to them. Improv is a beautiful tool, folks. It's in your toolbox. But I want you to really think like an improviser, but always speak like a customer. And that's how we're going to increase the sort of adoption of applied improvisation. So thank you very much for your time.