She's here Guys, I'm so excited my Pat McGrath mother ship 10 moonlit seduction just arrived in the mail And I have to say the shipping was pretty pretty good I know shipping is a hot topic of Pat McGrath because she's known for having absolutely horrific shipping Okay, I got really good shipping when I lived in Maryland because I was you know just a few hours away from their Distribution center, but they would never send me like tracking in for anything It would just kind of show up So I was nervous to see what it was gonna be like with me living all the way down in Florida and not as quick But I got a shipping notification the next day and we ordered this on Friday. It's now Wednesday I'm very happy with the shipping experience. It seems like we've gotten it together a little bit, right? Now if you want to know my initial thoughts on this palette and the color story, I'm gonna link below my shop or drop On this palette I went over all of the details that she gave us at the time and my first impressions of just looking at it So I wasn't that excited about it if you saw that video But I'm super excited to have it in my hands and just see what we are working with if you're new here I collect Pat McGrath palettes and mothership palettes really started it all for me So it's always a big deal when a mothership palette launches because she only launches these once a year And let's take a look. This is the big 10 So here is what the packaging looks like at the current moment You are only able to pick this up on the Pat McGrath labs website. It is a hundred and twenty eight dollars So it's the same style box that all the motherships come in. Okay, hear me out I'm ready for something different with the packaging right a different outer box. Not just this lady right here I like it but now they're starting to look kind of similar to me Especially since she has a lot of rose palettes so a lot of them have the rose outer carton So it's harder for me to like decipher them when I'm pulling them out Just being picky And then here is the back of the palette palette is made in Italy and it has an 18 month shelf length It is still currently available on the website if you want to pick it up. Okay big reveal. Who's ready for it?  So here are the lights way down so that you can see Honestly, it's a much more rich palette than I was anticipating. It looked a little bit brighter I feel like online but in person it still is quite rich And I think it's going to work really well for a very wide range of skin tone So we'll see right away We have three mats and then it looks like okay It looks like these two are the shimmer shades and I was unsure if this was going to be A blitz shade and at least by look it looks as though it's a blitz shade, right? The big kind of pow wow shade is right here in her recent mothership palette She's been adding one or two shades that will kind of stand out in the palette There's nothing overly glittery in here. So in the utopian dream, which was the palette that came out last year They were super glittery formulas And I thought they were going to be in this one by the look of the promo pictures But they're not not saying that these aren't glittery, but let's just watch them Let's see what we have to work with right? I'm first going to swatch that first quad in the palette. So we have Skin tense glow which maybe could work as a highlight, right? And we have rosewood romantic, which is right next to it beautiful swatch It has some warmth in here and then we have extreme not turn Which is quite cool. I was worried that this palette would pull very warm But there's a mixture of warm and cool tones in this palette So this is a nice kind of cool gray brown And then here's the shimmer bronze devotion nothing special in the pat mcgrath line But certainly you really smooth really clean really like the way that this looks So this is the first quad could certainly get a good look with this I'm going to go ahead and swatch plum cabaret right here Because I want to get all five of these together Now this looked like another rosy shade It definitely has more purple in it. So I want you to take a look It's not as peachy pink and rosy as we thought it looked in the promo picks This definitely has more warmth and red in it. And this has a little bit more purple in it So these two shades we were like a pomegranate on the promo picks They don't look quite as rosy in person which I'm happy about But I'm not saying these shades are so unique. She still has a lot of shades that look like these But it's not pulling as rosy as I had anticipated, which it's good, I guess, right? Okay, so it looks like she had five blitz astro shades as opposed to the normal four Normally it's just these four. I think this is a blitz shade. This is platinum dusk Yeah, this palette is definitely much cooler than I anticipated. Look at that I don't even know if this is a blitz astro shade I mean, I guess it kind of is but it's not one of the glittery ones You know, it's just a really really metallic one with microfine glimmers But nothing overly glittery. That's a gorgeous shade. Okay, let's give VR sex Sexist sexisty sex sex To see okay, VR sex to see this is that special shade and you can kind of see on my hand It has that like blue brown shift to it kind of similar to mech club If you're familiar with that shade, it's not a new or innovative Chrome shade, but it's very pretty. Let's see how she swatches I mean, this still has that very special oomph to it that pat mcgrath oomph can get a better look here At the shift so pretty. This is making platinum dusk look a little dull compared to how shimmery the shade is Okay, now we're talking. These are really the blitzy shades. So this one right here is blitz viness Then we have astral gold lust And then we have astral lilac aura Okay, now that we have these four swatches suddenly the shade isn't as Blitzy or special to me. This is like a normal metallic But these shades you can really see the reflection on them and they are gorgeous I think they're a little bit closer to one another than I would prefer Like these two shades. Yeah, champagne gold and clearly like a lilac silvery shade They read kind of similar. I think just because of how metallic they are I don't know. We'll see how these apply, but being up front here I mean, it's gorgeous as with every other pat mcgrath palette Even if I talk my ish about the initial promo pics They always turn out to be prettier in person. Am I jumping for joy on this color story? No You can get literally all three of these mattes in her palettes already You can get a shade similar to this definitely this in her palettes already here You can probably get something similar, but these are a bit more icy. I feel like Anyways, I'm excited. They are still gorgeous. Let's see what we can do as you guys know with my looks It's kind of a vomit of all of the colors on my eyes so that I can Put them next to each other so I can see that they look different on the eyelid or if not So that I can see how everything applies So I already have some ideas up my sleeve for some looks that I want to create I'll share with you in a second But for now, I kind of just want to show you how everything is laying on and how they're looking next to one another I know sometimes I get comments that you know, you want to see the pretty look But honestly you guys in this review setting It's really important for me to compare shades next to each other because I want redundant shades in a palette That has only 10 shades and it's 128 dollars, right? We want each shade to have a purpose So just some ideas for looks if you need some inspiration This shade right here is the perfect crease shade with the VR shade This shade right here I would love to see with the platinum's and the lilacs together And then the reddish shade over with the golds would be really pretty So that's kind of the vibe and looks that I would go for if I weren't trying to put almost all of the shades on one eyelid So I'm going to use some sydney grace brushes and I'm going to start off with the plum shade right here I do like the shade. I don't have an issue with it at all But I don't really care for the matte transition shades Such as this one and the reddish one that she added in this palette I feel like there would be other colors that would have worked better And not only that she has these exact crease shades in all of her other palettes And at this point kind of bored with it kind of sick of it I don't mean to be negative the quality on them as you can see is really great blending out so nicely But in the palette that came out over the holidays, there was like two or three matte shades and they were all in that warm Reddish corally rosy family and we have that again our only transition shades Minus the cool toned Charcoli color Are once again reddish purpley tones and I just don't like it for every look I rather her have put in like a deep chocolate brown and then like a neutral Transition shade. I'd prefer something colorful. I think a dark green would have been really neat in here But with these two shades, I'm just not feeling them in here. I just we have This combo in just about 75 percent of the pat macrath palettes. There's only 10 shades in here I want it to stand out and these I don't necessarily know how well they go with the colors in here Like they go fine. They're semi neutral shade, but I just want something different. I don't know Let me know if you feel the same. I'm just being honest here So I am putting the reddish shade right beside the purple so that you can see how they compare You can definitely see the different undertones, but honestly They're a little bit too close for my preference because once you start blending them, they'll look very similar So again, what i'm talking about. It is a 128 dollar palette you only have 10 shades I want them all to stand out on their own and they're too much of a similar vibe They need to be different depths at the very least. These are the exact same depths But different tones but once you blend them out really is kind of hard to tell the difference between the two So that's a little disappointing for me personally But we're gonna leave it at that the quality on them is very very nice I'm gonna go in with an angled brush and we're going to go into this shade now. I like this shade I feel like it's a great color for this palette. I really feel like it goes seamlessly with all the blitz shades I don't feel the same about these two. I just don't think they go as well with the blitz shade Y'all know I love pat my favorite brand of eyeshadow palettes And i'm gonna use the heck out of this eyeshadow palette just because of the formula But she's really played it safe too many times and I was hoping I think a lot of us were hoping for mothership 10 That would get something a little different and not quite so safe because when the brand first came out as a Long time fan of the brand, you know, it was really artistic and different and now that's not the case That being said this palette is really pretty for somebody who doesn't collect pat mac graph palettes It still is a nice range of colors. It's not a bad palette in the least So don't let my personal disappointment get in the way of you purchasing it if you like the color story The quality in here is really nice up to par with pat mac graph Please take that as a note But I know I also have a lot of general pat mac graph fans slash collectors like myself I'm gonna tell you for those of you who are collectors like me that love the artistry of pat mac graph We're just not getting it with the brand anymore. It doesn't seem like pat mac graph anymore It's about the money at the end of the day and they are selling these safe color stories I'm gonna use the intensifies artistry one by the way while i'm sitting on my soapbox Um, you know, it's it is about selling product It is about making money and obviously her more natural palettes are selling very well So she keeps doing this but dang I wish we could just Have a pop of blue and green in this palette, you know, okay, so Now we're going to go into the blitz astral lilac shade I do like to use a glitter base for these shadows You can go without but this helps with longevity as far as the shadow not falling out as the day goes on I love the lilac shade. I think this one is really pretty. There was a lilac shade in hewentopian dream It was a lot more glittery. This is more toned down, but very very pretty I think it's a great addition to the palette and then for review's sake I wanted to use this glitter right here. That's gold. Well, it's not necessarily glitter, but I was worried that these shades would look a little too Close to each other, but they definitely look different So i'm happy about that and then of course we got to use this shade Now this is a shade that on an everyday basis I would like to wear all over the lid alone with just a crease color And yeah, you want to give it its own moment all over the eyelid. She's Super duper pretty. I like this better than sexured terrestrial personally if you have a dark base underneath that is so pretty Again, not the most unique multi-chrome shadow if a brand is multi-chrome They typically do a shift that is like this one But haven't got those as well as expected So pretty and I think it's so interesting the mix of the blitz shades that I have on my eye right now So gorgeous and I just want to show you this shade right here I'm gonna pop this in the inner corner and again I do think this one is a little bit close to the gold that I put right here, but nothing crazy The thing I have to say about all of the blitz shades Minus the vr shade right here is these three again They're kind of in that similar very metallic light depth So because they're so metallic and so light The differences on the eyelids Are kind of subtle and then I'm going to go in with this plum shade right here Like I said, I do like this shade. I think it's very pretty I wish it was something else because we do have this from pat macrath already But it's a very pretty shade But I really my disappointment is coming from these matte shades I'm tired of having shades like these in my crease for every pat macrath palette that I use It's making each look look more and more similar than I do from palette to palette Okay, then using the charcoal shade, which is super necessary in this palette Which I really like and I'm also kind of blending it up here as well I wanted to try this shade right here, which is like a cooler platinum color So nice. It's not a blitz shade. I've cracked that myth But it's a really fabulous metallic shade right here very reflective And then we want to use this shade which she has in multiple palettes I mean, I'm not saying it's a repeat shade It's definitely more white based than someone's that I've tried from her, but She has a shimmery white and a lot of palettes Okay, and I'm going to stop that there. I know it's a vomit of colors But once we get lashes on it is going to look good I promise you pat macrath always pulls together with some liner and lashes And I'm going to give you my final thoughts on this palette. All right with liner and lashes I told you everything turned out. It it's so pretty Regardless as any pat macrath look is going to be I wanted to show you the palette next to divine rose one and two Because we were so worried about being this a rose palette. I thought it'd be nice to show you them side by side So here is divine rose one and here is moonlit seduction. You can see the blitz astrals are a different formula They're more glimmery Not any real dupe for dupes the top colors right here of the shimmery whites are similar different undertones though We have more of a reddish shade as opposed to the chocolate brown The matte plum shade in the moonlit seduction has a shimmer version in the divine rose shade But I would say they're different enough to warrant and then here is divine rose two Now you'll see divine rose two has a lot more of a pop color here And even though we were sick of roses by the time divine rose two came out at least there's like pops in here I would say the plums kind of looks similar. Honestly, the two matte shades look similar I'm gonna swatch those. So here are the two matte shades from Moonlit seduction here are the two matte shades from divine rose two So this is much more peachy. I would say the plum shades are pretty close Honestly, not terribly far off if we're being honest here. Again, that's what I'm talking about Pat McGrath always has these shades of mattes in her palettes And you don't have many other shades to work with so I hate how the mattes she has all seem to be the same So then they all have to be the matte transition bases to the looks so that looks end up being quite repetitive Then here's the VR shade from the moonlit seduction and here is divine rose two sexual terrestrial, which are very very different Okay, so here are my final thoughts as you can probably tell moonlit seduction is not my favorite However, it takes a while for me to get to know Pat McGrath palettes There are palettes that I've had similar feelings about as I do with the moonlit seduction I ended up just reaching for them a lot divine rose two is one of those examples I had my things to say about this palette and ended up becoming one of my most favorite and most used So I definitely want to give this the test of time to see if I do actually end up reaching for it Because I do really like the blitz shades that she has in here overall If you like the colors of the palette, you're not a Pat McGrath collector and you're looking to pick up a mothership palette I think this is a very very good one. The mattes are really blendable. The shimmers are absolutely stunning It's a great quality palette as the Pat McGrath Motherships are if you're a collector like me, which I know a lot of you are is this one Exciting unique in the collection Not at all. So as a collector, I'm coming from a stance of like slight disappointment But as I said before I've been surprised by Pat McGrath palettes It normally takes me some time to see how much I'm reaching for them the different looks that I could get I'm just here to give you a thumbs up on the quality and here are your guys's thoughts as well So let me know down below. Did you pick this palette up? Are you excited for it? Did you try it out? What do you think and with that being said I'm going to check out of this video and by the way My family is coming for three weeks So my parents are coming the first half and then Jose's parents are coming the second half of those three weeks So I'm not going to be doing daily uploads most likely anymore for those three weeks It's not the big of a deal. I'll still be uploading but I just wanted to give you a heads up Be prepared for no more daily uploads over the next three weeks But I definitely will get up what I can when I can so I hope you guys enjoyed this video And you found it helpful make sure you like this video and subscribe to my channel And I will catch you guys in the next one. Bye guys. Have a good one


Okay, hello and welcome. I'm joined by Flavia, who is joining the call from Hong Kong, but she's going to talk us through her journey since completing the Ampli summer internship program in 2021 to what she's doing today. So Flavia, how's it going? Hi Anthony, thanks so much for having me, first of all. And yeah, like Anthony said, my name is Flavia. I'm a third year at their university. I study Chinese studies. I'm currently in Hong Kong doing an internship at a boutique asset management company. I have secured an internship in IBD at JP Morgan. And yeah, I mean, like you said, I come from a bit of an unusual background, I do Chinese studies. So yeah, that's basically that's basically me. So I guess the first thing that jumps out to me is for people who are doing kind of untraditional disciplines at university that end up going to something like investment banking division. So Chinese studies. Has that been a hindrance to applications? Has it been a benefit because it's different and it stands out? Like, what has the general vibe been with having Chinese studies on your CV and then applying for IBD roles? Absolutely not a hindrance, if anything, a benefit because most people come from economics or business background, maybe math engineering, and I'm usually the only person in the room who has a humanities background or languages background. And in any case, it makes you stand out. It makes your application stand out. It gives your interviewer something different to ask you about something. And genuine curiosity, people are really interested why I decided to study Chinese studies. You know, why I'm in Hong Kong, all that sort of stuff, why I was in Taiwan was when I was getting interviewed by JP Morgan, for example. It's all these questions that make you stand out and everyone, it's so hard to stand out when applying. And so anything that's small that you think that will help you stand out, you should definitely mention. So, you know, Chinese studies. And yeah, actually amplify for me, for example, did that as well. There's so many things that I did through the summer program that also I was able to put my cover like they're mentioned in CV on my CVs. And so on that helped me stand out. So I think it's about, yeah, just leveraging, leveraging your differences to really put you in a great step for for interviews. So, prior to coming to amplify. How did you know you wanted to learn more about finance, for example, any role in finance. Sure, so I basically, my first year at the university studying Chinese studies, I was, I was a bit confused with what I was going to do with my degree in Chinese studies I was like am I going to become a translator will I become a political risk analyst. Yeah, so I, yes. So I went to the Freshers Fair and just tried out different, you know, met different people, looked at different career paths and found the finance society and honestly I knew absolutely nothing about finance. Some people asked me like, did you, did you always want to go into finance. No, I had no idea what finance was. I went into their networking drinks to the finance studies networking drinks in first year. And I just immediately clicked with people it just this environment and I just vibed with the people there. And for me that was the first time that this is something that I could really, you know, pursue something that could potentially interest me. There were there there were these these two roles micro report analyst and investment fund analyst I could apply for and do. And I applied for both of them I got both of them and, you know, learning by doing kind of thing the more I was, I was, I was putting like the more I was putting into these roles and more I was getting out of it the more I was learning about finance, you know, turning up to finance to the finance societies events as well and networking that sort of stuff. Yeah, I mean it was really, really baby steps and I guess a lot of self teaching and if you're from a non finance background you'll know that that's really the case like there's a lot of a lot of self teaching but but you do get there and I think it actually as a benefit to maybe not do a finance degree just because, for example, I know I know I now know Chinese alongside finance for example. You are going to be you are securing your future with with learning that language and that culture I'm sure we've been half Chinese. Hopefully I can navigate my way through the coming coming years but tell me about the application process I mean you're going to JB Morgan. I assume JB Morgan wasn't the only one that you were looking at or applying to at least at the time so what was that experience like. What were your failures was there something you did that really worked or didn't and any advice on that side. So for me I guess controversy, spring weeks were the more challenging thing that thing than the summer. Yeah, for me for the for the spring weeks, there were a lot of reject a lot of applications and a lot of rejections, and there were times when no morale was kind of waning and I think it's it's a sort of time when you want to rely on those around you to have a have a strong support network around you for that and the ability to you know do one more application learn from that application because what I like to say that any application that you do is just not a waste of time it might seem like a waste of time because you spent X number of hours. You know, applying for that company but it's still it's still something that you learn. And for me I guess the sort of turning point was when I started practicing my interviews. I had an interview at Lazard for example and it just was an absolute car crash. I couldn't I couldn't answer the questions. They asked me something I started answering the question that one of them to have asked me when a massive tangent and at the end of it I was like, sorry, what was your question again. So, you know, it's answering the question that you asked that's one of the big things and also practicing your interviews. And do it with someone else but you can also do it yourself if for example just have a list of questions, cut them up put them in a hat, and then record yourself answering them on zoom. For example, and then you can see the small, the small things you have to for example for me to be playing with my hair I'd always be playing with my hair or looking up and sort of like looking at the camera. Small things like that that actually make that difference that give you the confidence. For me, applying for spring was a massive, massive, massive steep learning curve. But then I think that sort of started to level off come summer. I did the amplify program. Yeah, as Anthony mentioned in 2021, and that gave me a massive boost in confidence because I think the benefit of the program was. So many minutes that I like to think of it like sort of like fourfold so for example the networking taught me how to network properly. And the community at amplify was just incredible so everyone was happy to help each other to leverage off each other to leverage of their knowledge. Something else for example was the technical knowledge coming from a non finance background. It was absolutely invaluable that was exposed I was exposed to, I mean all to expose to other different divisions and exposed to so much technical knowledge that I could then apply in my in my interviews. And the third and fourth thing are sort of joint. The application process is quite, quite long quite complex that there's a lot of steps and I almost like to think of as an art or a craft they sort of have to hone sort of thing and you know it takes a village to to get into to get into into into into banking and amplify was that village for me. Amplify taught me how to apply how to my cover that in my CV, and so on. Then apart from that there's like the soft skills that people sort of forget about like in an assessment center you have group exercises for example. And you need to know how to interact in the group in a group and it sounds so silly because I was like oh I can interact in the group I'm a social being.  And you learn these things to the group exercises for example that, or I did, I did with amplify for example.  I think it's, you know you radiate it and that's really like good to be around and have you as part of our team for that period and. You're into ship now it's paying dividend and it will in the future so a final thing then and this might sound a bit off tangent but just before we came on, we were talking about some ideas about potential things that we could collaborate on in the future to help other people. And I'm sure I'll drop the link in any description when this video is shared to Flavia's LinkedIn I'm sure she's more than happy to help people. But we were talking about just little things that people generally don't talk about, but are something what a lot of people think, but perhaps don't know where to go, and one was about shoes. Tell me about shoe, women and heels. Oh, absolutely. So for me, one of my stresses, going into work both in Hong Kong and also just thinking about starting to work in Canary Wharf. What am I going to wear. What do people, you know what's the sort of uniform that people that people have is it high heels is it medium heels is it is a flat. Do I stand out too much if I wear high heels.  So yeah, I think I think it's something that needs to be spoken spoken about a bit more. So you're in your experience then what is it high heels medium flats. What's been your experience. Oh, so, for example, as well. A general time so for example I turn up to work in Hong Kong in a suit so this is basically what I'd be wearing, but there's other people who turn up in jeans, and then in, for example, in Canary Wharf I've heard of people just turning up in some of the companies in flats, but the people turning up in small heels. Maybe high heels are a bit too much. I started offering high heels for example here at my work here and ended up in converse, because no one really. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no one seemed seemed too upset about it so it really depends, you have to feel comfortable in what you're wearing regardless of what the norm is, like if yours go to is high heels.  Yeah. And then, how have you found just being in Hong Kong as a, as a place as a financial hub. I mean what's that experience been like. Oh God I absolutely love Hong Kong. I've absolutely fallen in love with the city I think it's so great you have this financial district that it's, you know this hub. But then you can take a 20 minute ferry and you can go on these amazing hikes on these islands with white beaches and turquoise turquoise water. And there's there's there's there's an energy there's a buzz. There's incredible networking opportunities, which I've been trying to leverage on as much as I possibly can. Honestly, networking. That's another piece of advice don't underestimate it so for example the reason why I'm in Hong Kong right now. The way I was able to find this internship when I didn't think I'd be able to find one is through networking so there was someone that I met on my JP Morgan spring week who I spoke to carried on chatting to cheat him throughout the summer and I was in Taiwan in October looking for an internship in Hong Kong they were the ones who recommended me to the CIO of the company that I work with now. So yeah networking is just absolutely crucial. Cool. Well look on that very good piece of advice will end the conversation but but thank you very much for joining me I know it's the evening your time so I really appreciate you taking the time after work and yeah stay in touch and all the best. Thank you. Thank you so much Anthony for having me.


Welcome to the second part of our video series looking at beautiful places to visit in Elite Dangerous. If you missed part 1 of the series it's linked on screen now. In this second part we're going to be looking at some of Commander Rini's favourite places that are between 100 and 500 light years from Seoul. If you enjoyed this video remember to subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications and if you'd like to support our work you'll also find us on Patreon, links to everything you need are in the description below. So the first place we're headed to is the Hyodum Eye System at just 161 light years from Seoul. Upon arrival head straight to the rings of the first planet. This unremarkable ringed gas giant is just 90 light seconds from its parent star and as a result what would be some fairly ordinary rings are beautifully bathed in the abundant starlight. Before you go however Hyodum has more to offer. Head to planet 2B and witness one of the smallest moons in the game with a radius of just 150 kilometres. You can see the curve of the planet almost all the way down to the surface as you descend from orbit. Next up is HIP12099, 216 light years from Seoul. Surface scan planet 1A and you'll find the Stack INRA base, a spectacular secret experimentation site. As well as being able to gather some materials and some audio logs you'll also see some fairly grim direct evidence of INRA's experiments on live thargoid specimens when developing the mycoid virus weapon. The system is also famous for being the final resting place of Commander Jameson which you'll find on planet 1B. Next at 330 light years from Seoul you'll find HIP83506. When you arrive check out the beautiful hollowed out asteroid starport of Harvard base orbiting just 14 light seconds from the entry star. The hollow asteroid bases are always a sight to behold but the proximity to its central star takes Harvard base to a whole new level. 368 light years from Seoul you'll find HR1185 and your chance to see a functioning thargoid in relative safety in a beautiful location. Scan the system and you'll find a permanent distress signal. Upon arrival you'll be greeted by a thargoid decimated imperial fleet and if you're lucky a lone thargoid ship searching the remains. If you don't get the thargoid first time round keep re-instancing and eventually you'll see her. Don't take any outwardly aggressive actions or get too close and get yourself a good look at our galactic neighbours. The Taegeta system is our next stop and you'll find it 409 light years from Seoul. It's just a beautiful system to explore in and of itself due to the purple hue granted by the light from the central star. Be sure to stop by the station of Titan's daughter hovering just above the rings of its host planet always a solid must visit for the burpit for the spectacular views it affords. And finally the Thargoid ground installation on planet 2 of Mel 22 sector SK-EB12-1. The snappily titled system is host to one of the galaxy's mysterious Thargoid ground installations. No one really knows what they are and the chattering Thargoid drones that litter the area around the site aren't telling. Is it just a base or are they building something altogether more mobile with a more sinister agenda? Either way, for now at least it makes for some beautiful if creepy sightseeing. That's it for now, thanks very much for watching, we'll be back later this week with more videos until then, O7 commanders follow the Greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack. We very much look forward to seeing you next time.


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Okay, so let's try this one. It says how many distinct chloropentanes and then it gives you the molecular formula C5H11Cl Could be produced in the direct chlorination of n-pentane CH3CH23CH3 and then I want you to draw the structure of each molecule. So the cool thing is that we've got pentane here and and it's actually being reacted with chlorine under conditions like that to produce a series of chloropentane. So it's not wanting you to draw all of the isomers with this particular formula. Just want you to go from normal pentane to what you could get, okay? So we have a model of normal pentane here, or n-pentane. So if you guys remember it's just the straight chain, right? So five carbons in a row fully saturated and that's given to you here. Okay, so if we let's just draw that chlorinated product because it gives us this molecular formula here, okay? So what we know these chloropentanes is if we take pentane right, we take pentane and we replace one of the hydrogens with a chlorine like we've done here. We do it on the end, right? This thing can spin around, right? We can fully rotate around single bonds like that, okay? So no matter which one of those hydrogens we replace, we get the same molecule. Does everybody understand that? Does that make sense to you guys? Does that make sense? Okay. So in other words, then we're going to replace like a hydrogen with a chlorine. We could replace any one of those three hydrogens when we get the same molecule, okay? So let's go ahead and just replace one like that. So that's one of the chloropentanes. In fact, I'm going to put our lone pairs there because we remember about the lone pairs, right? Okay, the other cool thing is so remember we took pentane here and we replaced one of the hydrogens on the end, this end, right, with a chlorine, okay? But watch what happens. If I turn this around, that's like replacing one of these hydrogens with a chlorine. Does that make sense? So in fact, if I replace either one of these or one of these, I get the same compound because I can turn this thing around, right? And I'm not breaking any single bonds. I'm not making any single bonds anymore, right? So if I do that, then that means that I'm not making a chemical reaction occur, right? So if I replace one of the hydrogens here, that means it's the same as replacing one of the hydrogens here. So we don't want to write an isomer that has a C all over here, okay? So let's just go down the line. Okay, we've done this one. So let's write pentane again. So essentially what we're doing is looking for equivalent hydrogens, if you remember that concept, right? Okay, so if you think about pentane, these three hydrogens are equivalent and these three hydrogens are equivalent to these three hydrogens as well, okay? So we have six equivalent hydrogens there. So any one of those we replace, we get the same compound. Okay, so let's move on to the next one, the next carbon here. So remember we have pentane here. What are we doing? We're replacing this hydrogen here with a chlorine. So we've got that. Remember we can spin around the single bond, okay? So that means these two hydrogens are the same kind of in the same area, right? So if I replace either one of those, I get the same compound, okay? So let's just erase that, put a seal there. So I've replaced here, right? If I turn this around, then I get the same thing as if I would have replaced the seal here. So in fact, we have equivalent hydrogens on the end here, right? So six equivalents, and we have four equivalents in the actual pentane structure. So if we look at pentane, right? These two hydrogens are equivalent, but they're also equivalent to these two hydrogens here, okay? So just to make sure, right, that we understand, right? If I turn this around, it's not like I'm breaking any single or double bond or single bonds or making any single bonds, okay? So that would be one. So if I'm drawing this one, remember not to put a seal over here, okay? And then we just move one over, and we see we've got two equivalent hydrogens, right? There's no carbon that looks like that carbon, okay? So we're going to, let's drop pentane again. So let's just replace one of those with a seal. So this is pentane. It's like replacing one of those two with a seal. So let's do that. Replace that one. It's the same as replacing the other one, okay? But it's not the same as replacing any other hydrogen here, okay? So if this is the answer to the question, these are the three isomers that you could get, the three chloropentane or N-chloropentane isomers that you could get. This one's called one chloropentane. This one's called two chloropentane. This one's called three chloropentane, okay? So let's write that down. And let's go back and just one more time write out pentane, and then we'll find ourselves at the end which hydrogens are equivalent to each other, okay?  So HA, HA, HA. Those three are HAs. So are these three? Okay, so if I replace any one of those, I get the same compound as replacing any of the other ones. So which ones are HB? Like that.  And then these ones would be then what? HC. Okay, so notice I could only get this compound by replacing one of those two. I could get this compound by replacing any one of those four. And I could get this compound by replacing any one of those six, okay? Be clear on that? So that would be like three chloropentane. That would be like two chloropentane, right? And this would be like one chloropentane. So I could replace any of the three, right? So it would be the same. Or I could replace any of these three too, because that would be the same too, okay? Questions on that? Wonderful.


Hello! Welcome to this tutorial on deconvoluting bulk RNA-seq data into cell proportions. This tutorial was built beautifully by Mehmet Tekman, and the reality is the tutorial itself contains all of the scientific information you're going to need to know. I'm Wendy Bacon. I am from the Open University, and I'm going to be taking you through the tutorial. Really, just in case you're having any issues following it or getting the tools to run, this video is kind of your guide to go with it. But like I said, for any of the scientific content or explanations, you're just going to want to read the tutorial. Or indeed, if you just need some moral support to get you through, I can help with that too. And if you have any questions, please do get in touch using the different chat forums. Galaxy is really great at answering them. So, well, just so you know, I'm going to be doing it on the human cell atlas, usegalaxy.eu instance. That's what I'm used to. Any galaxy.eu instance should work just fine. Onward we go. Right, so we're going to use the human cell atlas.usegalaxy.eu instance, and I'm going to use the tutorial view and that's using this button. I'm going to come down to transcriptomics, and then all the way down to bulk RNA deconvolution with music. And this is going to be hugely valuable, particularly if you're not doing this in 2022, but still using the video because it means you're going to be able to use the correct tools to make that whole tutorial run. Right, because tools get updated all the time. So, there's a beautiful, if I say so myself, description within this section, so please do read it, but like I said, that's not the purpose of this video. This video is to help you get through the clicking and finding all the parameters and making sure it works. So we're going to start with creating new history and saving it. It's always good to often forget that. All right. So we're going to get our data. I think they also want to. Yeah, so then we also get our single cell RNA-seq data. Now I'm going to cheat throughout this whole process. And things are going to go a lot faster for me because I'm going to cut out all the waiting time for you. All right, so don't get concerned if your tool is taking a lot longer for you than it does for me. I'm using the magic of pre-recording. So this is quite risky to try and name them whilst they're still sort of gray or even orange, because sometimes it all sort of error out and then you'll have to rename it anyway, so I'm playing fast and loose. And we're back. Everything's uploaded. That's good. We've got them. Yep, they've got our tags. That's good. So we've got all some important information about the data sets. So we can now investigate them. Oh, you can look in the little window here if you want, or you can view the data. So this is the phenotype for the single cell RNA data. So you have what's probably the well number, but basically the cell ID. And then it tells you the subject. So these are non-type 2 diabetes. So there's probably some type 2 diabetes in there. And here you have all of the different cell types. And I must say I appreciate their unclassified endocrine. I appreciate the honesty when they're annotating their cells, because sometimes you just don't know. All right, that's cool. And that's a little bit different to the bulk phenotypic data. So the next feature, your samples for the bulk data, information about the sample, HBMI, the all important HB1C factor, gender and then tissue, probably all of our pancreatic eyelids, but I don't know. Right, and then we can also look at the actual experimental data. So here you have the cell ID across the top for the single cell data set, and then the genes, all gene symbols along the side. You have the bulk data set, you have the same same with gene symbols, but now you have the subjects or the people across the top to the bulk samples. Onward we go. So yes, go through all of these. That's good for you to do that. Always look into your data otherwise the next steps make no sense. This is going to be important later when they're looking for HB1C levels because we can consider anything above 6.5% they have type 2 diabetes. It's going to be quite helpful when we're searching our samples later. Oh, the expression set. I hate this bouncing cell data. It's always like, let's make a new type of matrix, mega matrix that stores all this data. So, and again, this is why we use a tutorial version. So I can just click this button. I don't know why that happened, but if it happens to you, just click it again. That's what we've learned. All right, so we want assay data. Subounce the expression data. Then we want phenotype data. And this is really cool because it's going to carry our tags through which will be super duper helpful. always like to cheat. So I'm just going to rerun it phenotype phenotype. Cool. I suppose at the beginning of this, I could probably just delete it this bit and made it just like healthy expression or something. Anyway, fine. All right. And that's all set. So now we can inspect it. Oh, yeah, don't do that. I just that just downloads it. Don't do what I just did. That's bad. We will inspect it properly. Inspect. Oh, nice. So sometimes I've had issues with having to click and drag. So this seems okay. Cool. So we're going to inspect for is it generally cool? Oh, we want featured data table of the SCR. My guess is we're going to do both of them, aren't we? And then we'll inspect the dimension too. Okay. Okay. So the first one's done. Now you might need to do this. It depends. So we should see a list of gene names because it's the F data, the featured data. And yes, that is what we see. A massive list of gene names. Cool. And then the dimensions. So this is genes by samples or in this case, because it's the single cell stuff, it's by cell. Cool. All right. Okay. Let's move along. Let's estimate some cell type proportions. Why should the single RNA seek data set contain books? Oh, and then there will be a weird extra cell type. That's wrong music. Single data sets, SCR name, bulk, purpose. I guess we're estimating proportions. We could untick this if we wanted, but for the purposes of this story, we weren't. Sample ID. Here we go. These the cell. Oh, sorry. These are the cell types that we want. We don't want any phenotypic factors. We want to exclude these. So when they're looking for what's making the proportions of cells, we don't want it to take into account sample ID or subject name. Show proportions of a disease factor. Yes. Cell target. We're going to put beta. So 6.5. That's the number that we're dealing with. This doesn't actually have to be from that. I mean, ideally your single data set has some disease cells in it. But in this case, this is just going to define it in the graph. Anything that is that hits this criteria of HBA1C 6.5 in the bulk is going to then have the T2D defining it. It doesn't actually have anything to do with your single cell data set. Okay. Sometimes you will want to do this. Otherwise, the axes become quite misleading. All done through the magic of television. And then we can look at all these lovely results. Like I said, you can remove this in the tool parameters if you want. The two different algorithms pick up different levels of cells. Kill, surprise. All right. And then here's cool because you see the triangles. Anything that had above 6.5, you can see here as well. Anything above 6.5 was now gets a triangle and we're calling it T2D. But again, you could have put anything there. And what's cool about this is within the beta cells where we would expect in a diabetes patient that you would have fewer of those beta cells. We see that anything with the high HBA1C in the bulk samples also has fewer beta cells. And that's cool because it tells us that our deconvolution is it works. This method works to a degree. This is another neat way of visualizing it. So you can see that you're kind of picking up these four different cell types within the samples. You can see the variability across the samples. So like this had very few alpha and beta cells and a lot more asynarynductal cells, whereas like this maybe have loads of alpha. So you can see the sort of inter-sample variation, which could be very, very helpful to a fair, even more helpful if this was organized by disease versus non-disease. But here we are. Goals for the future. Cool. That was exciting. And here's where it explains it and interprets it for you. Pretty good. Pretty good. This is a, I like this bit. I like it when stats are made for me. You know what I'm saying? I don't have to calculate it myself. This is cool. I've never looked at this. Very cool. Anyway, yeah. So this is a log of music fitting. I'm going to have to zoom out for this. Otherwise it looks insane. Yeah. So you can see basically there's stars by gender and HBA1C and also intercept, which means they're interacting. But the point is, yeah, these things all are factors. We know that they're all factors. We know that they're interacting. It's a whole thing. But HBA1C and male gender in particular are impacting the proportion of beta cells. And in G in general, the different proportions. Cool. So we've made it to the halfway point of this bulk RNA deconvolution with music, which means it's time for a cute dog break. Take it away, Ziggs.  This is the best dog in the world. Come pick up your toy. Look, it's a bear dog with a bear. Right. Second part. New history. Well, I've done this tutorial quite a few times at no point that I actually catch, make new history. Here we are. That's my poor data management. Importing some files. Import some files. Oh, we're getting in here. And then the single cell. Being a maverick kind of right in the tag before it goes orange. Because if it changes color whilst you're doing this, it all goes to hell. I'm going to have to redo the tag making anyway. I'm impatient, so I'm going for it. And we're there. Okay, now what are we doing? You can explore the data sets as before. Tell me about yourself. Single cell RNA seek. So, yeah, this looks more like droplet-based experiments. Those are your barcodes, which mice they came from, and indeed, they're cell type. Cool, cool, cool. Expression pretty much the same. Yeah, stock 17. You're in everything. And then here, there's way fewer bulk samples. So now we have these APOL-1s versus the control, which is not particularly important in this particular tutorial, but it may be in the future. Okay, so we have all that. Let's do some stuff. We'll construct our expression set objects again. The good old E-set. Expression, phenotype. So easy to get that wrong. I think this is my favorite tutorial for why tags are important because it's like they're not all that important until you start actually analyzing your own data. But if this, it's crucial for not making them up. All right, I'm going to be honest that this one took a long time. Okay, so don't be surprised if it takes, the single cell one takes an awfully long time. Okay, we constructed, we can look at them if we wanted. Let's go for it. So we're doing the second half where this isn't going to just randomly make the groups. We're going to give it some information. We're going to do it in sort of stages and then also give it some information. So since I only seek data set, yes, bulk data set, yes, but this time we're going to compute dendrograms. We can sort of do the first round of cluster grouping. All right. This is the list we want because now these are the single cell types that we have in the sample. We don't know our cluster groups yet, so we're just going to go for it. It's done. Ooh, and now we can look at the dendrogram. Cool. So we'll focus on this time. So yeah, one of the questions is if we use this cutoff where we can see that these are grouped and these are grouped and these are their own sort of things, if we cut it right there, that's going to be the next section. Okay.  So yes, let's do that next section. If that was our granularity, how many would we have? So we're going to use that and then we're also going to use this known information. So if we have a list of known epithelial markers and immune markers, that's going to help us in a supervised way identify the cell types. So it'll still go through and use the best genes. Ooh. So now we're going to run it again, but I'm not going to click that button. Why? Because I already had to input a whole bunch of stuff, so I'm just going to rerun this one. Okay. But we are now going to insert some cluster groups. We've got C1, C2, C3, so we're calling them. All right. And how do we call them? So then C1, it should be the neutrophils. And then in C2, be honest, I don't even know that cell type, but that's the best bit about bioinformatics. You don't need to. So then there were a whole bunch in this C3 group. And well, just scroll if that happens to you. Okay.  Okay. But we do, we can break down some of these epithelial markers. Okay. I'm going to do it again. And again, these genes can distinguish the immune cells. Well, let me think. Oh, I'm stretched now, chums. Cool. So now you can say that within each bulk sample it's giving you the cell proportions. And we can look at some PDF plots. So now we have all of this jazz. All right. So that's all the same. But now we can look with an each sample. Basically there's loads of that cell type, but you can sort of see it differences across the different fingertips. Most of these are at zero. So yeah. Cool. Ta-da! Conclusion! We've made it, folks. I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any questions, yes, check the FAQ page or indeed the GTN Gitter page. Or if you're here during the smorgasbord or whatever, wonderful, fantastic Galaxy conference you're in, you can use those chat forms as well. All right. Cheerio!


In week 2, we introduced the function behavior structure design framework. The function corresponds to the functionalities and features of the solution design. The structures correspond to the physical and logical components of the solution. The mechanism in which the structures interact to achieve the functionality is termed as behaviors. We then created an FPS graph which was an integrated model of the solution design. We used the Think and Link Learning environment to create and evaluate FPS graphs for different software design problems. In week 2, we created FPS graphs as software design solutions. But I am just wondering how does this map to the software processes and the development models that we just discussed in week 1? That is a good question. Actually, there is a mapping of the various processes like requirement definition, design, implementation, testing, deployment to the function structure behavior framework. Okay, so how is this mapping actually done? Can you please explain? While mapping, the FPS design elements, certain software processes get initiated. For example, when the function is mapped to a behavior, requirement definition process gets initiated. When a structure is mapped to a behavior, the design analysis process gets initiated. So on and so forth, certain doors while mapping the software process gets initiated. In this table, we see the different software engineering processes getting initiated while the FPS design elements are mapped to each other.


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Good morning all, my name is Sonali. Welcome to a new vlog. My house is a disaster because I was actually cleaning up this morning and I'm doing like a deep clean. I'm kind of cleaning out my closet and this morning I'm gonna run to Chick-fil-A, get something for Ryan and then take a lot of stuff to Goodwill. I tried selling it uptown Sheepsgate one time and I actually got a good amount and then last time my friends kind of went through my car and took some stuff so now I'm just kind of over it. I just want it out of my sight because I have so many trash bags in the back of my freaking car. So I think I'm gonna just take it all to Goodwill but then there's some stuff that I wanted to send my mom starting off the day here with a little bit of mess in the background. If you guys didn't watch my other vlog about getting the new lens, you wouldn't know but I have like a new vlogging setup that I'm trying to just incorporate more. I'm filming on my Sony 873 with a Tamron 17 millimeter to 28 millimeter 2.8. I'll have that link down below if you guys are interested in just like learning more about this lens and my vlog setup, but it is really heavy so you'll probably notice me like switching off arms every time I'm talking because I talk for a really long time and so it's gonna hurt. I'm gonna head over to Chick-fil-A. I'm not gonna get anything because I wanna show you guys my avocado toast recipe. It is bomb and I have been meaning to show you guys and I literally have like two pieces of sourdough bread puffs. So I was like, this is the vlog. It has to happen today. So we're gonna do it. So if you guys don't look good, shit's prank, I know it. I'm back home, got Ryan Chick-fil-A. My towel weren't to get my mom's box for the clothes I wanna send her and then I also got my packages. So I thought I would open one of them right now because I feel like y'all will be very interested in this. If you guys haven't watched my vlogs before, I am just like randomly obsessed with like anything kitchen related. Like I love like kitchen appliances and like little cute kitchen gadgets and I'm also weirdly obsessed with like glassware. So I saw these on JC Marie's vlogs, which I'm obsessed with her vlogs, but these are just like beer can glasses. I think that's what they're called. And they're so freaking cute. Something about the little lip is just so cute. What do you think? You like them? So I think I'm gonna use it for like my matcha. I got four for under $20. So I feel like that's a really good deal. I usually look at like CB2 Creighton Barrel for their glassware and one of them is like $8, which is kind of insane. So I rarely get four of the same ones, but I do have other cute glassware I'll show you. Let's do a little glassware show and tell. Okay, so this is the infamous wine glass that I feel like everyone freaking has. There's one on Amazon that's really popular, but it looks to be a little bit thicker and just not as, I'm so sorry for all this. I think there's like a trash can man outside and like all of our windows are open because the AC broke, so beautiful. I can't remember where all of these are from, so I'll definitely have the links down below, but this is one of my favorites, but it just doesn't get used because I don't really drink alcohol. So ask me why I bought these freaking glasses. I don't know, but they were so cool. All right, this one is up next. It is so cute. It's like a little coupe glass, but it just has like this really cool like indent. I don't even know what to call it. So this would also be cute for a cocktail, but I don't really drink that much. So I honestly wanna just start like a cute little series on my IGTV with like mocktails. Wouldn't that be so cute? Cause like I know not everyone drinks and for me, I, you know, it's fun to drink with my friends, but I don't like to drink just to have one drink because like I feel like if I'm gonna drink might as well get a little tipsy and like have a reason to be tipsy. I don't know if this makes sense and I don't know if it sounds bad, but I'm just being honest.  So maybe I just need to find my drink of choice, which I like mojitos, I really do. So that would probably be my first choice if I'm going to a restaurant, but drinks that are just so expensive. What is this? This, the beer glass thing came with this. Ryan, do you know what this is for? Something for beer? Oh, it goes in a liquor bottle. That's cute. Could be useful. Sweet, okay. Well, oh, and then I forgot to show you guys this one. This is the mini and I have a bigger one that I use just for like pouring water into my plants, but this one is a smaller version and it's just this cute little beaker. This would be super cute for just like filling it up with like even sangria. I did that once and it looked so aesthetically pleasing. So this is my glassware. Hope you guys enjoyed that was kind of random, but I am going to finish cleaning up my closet, especially I didn't go to Goodwill yet because it was kind of out of the way and I didn't want Ryan's food to get cold, but oh my gosh, let me tell you guys a really cool thing that happened. Okay, so I swear I've been wanting to work with Princess Polly for forever and like I have reached out to them a couple of times and they're a really, you know, popular company to work with.  I was like, what in the heck? Like this is it. I'm just so excited. So I'm gonna be doing a haul with them and I got the package today. So I'm trying to think if I should film it today or just like wait a little bit because I have like a little bit too much content to edit right now and like post. So I think I'm just gonna wait a little bit to film just so I won't get a little crazy in the head because I have a lot of photos to edit for my photography freelance stuff because I did like holiday minis and I'm doing actually three more dates for holiday minis. So if you guys are in Austin and are wanting family photos, couple photos, you can make this session anything you want. So if it's like maternity, newborn, whatever. So check out the info. I will link my Instagram post with all the info so you guys can check that out if you guys are in the area.   It was a little too crazy. So I decided to do a chop and I love it. I got it colored too.  And so if you guys are interested in exactly what she did, I'll have that link down below because I just posted a vlog probably. I mean, I just filmed it technically today but by the time you see this video, it'll already be posted. And I asked her a bunch of like random questions like myth busting kind of things about dyeing your hair, bleaching your hair and stuff like that. And I feel like there's a lot of helpful information but I am actually starving. I wanted to try to wait till 12 just to try to do like intermittent fasting but it's 10.50 and I am grumbling in my stomach. So I'm gonna teach you all how to make my avocado toast today. Basically I got inspired because I went to two hands which is a breakfast spot. They actually served dinner too but I went for brunch and I got an avocado toast and it was honestly just so different. They had like ricotta cheese and goat cheese and I was like, what? All this on an avocado toast, it's so weird but it was so good. So I kind of just made it my own and took like a few of the ingredients and just kind of did something similar. Obviously we have to start with sourdough bread. I got my from Trader Joe's and since it's so long, I'm gonna just cut it down the middle and we're just gonna have two pieces of avocado toast. Gonna pop these in the toaster. I love using special plates for just aesthetically pleasing reasons so got that there and then I'm gonna just cut my avocado open. We're first gonna start with this goat cheese. I got it at Trader Joe's and running low but we're just gonna put a few crumbles on each part. Next up is this whole milk ricotta cheese that I also got at Trader Joe's. This really just adds a unique creamy texture so I thought this was really cool. This is what they had on this avocado toast at Two Hands. It was just so freaking good so I was like, I need to learn how to make this at home because obviously eating avocado toast in a restaurant is probably way more expensive but honestly, sometimes worth it. So the next step is to lay the avocado down. So I'm gonna do it this way. I'm gonna try to make this aesthetically pleasing as possible but I don't know if that's even possible because this avocado has like some brown spots and it's not the cutest little avocado but it's gonna be a good one still. Looks like that's as good as it's gonna get. Next I'm gonna add some tomatoes. Now I'm gonna be using this truffle oil that I got at William's Sonoma and I'm just gonna pour it, drizzle it a little bit. Next I'm gonna be using this balsamic glaze. Last but not least, I'm gonna add some pink salt. Complets my recipe for my new favorite avocado toast.  But I have this thing from Trader Joe's. I do need to check the expiration date. Let's see. Best Buy December, ha ha. Okay, I bought these turmeric shots from Trader Joe's and you know, let's pop one in. Will it wake me up? Who knows? But it doesn't hurt to try.  I just need to make the most of this time because obviously I can't create content on the weekdays really. Especially now with daylight savings because now it sits at 5.30ish and usually I'll have a shoot for photography stuff after I work and get off of work at 3.30. So at least I do get off work earlier than five because I'm part 10. But I feel like I'm stalling. It tastes like black pepper. I know that there's black pepper in here and it also kind of tastes like carrot juice. So it's not that bad. I need to just slap myself. But I pretty much finished cleaning my closet. I mean, as much as I wanted to, I put a lot of stuff on Facebook Marketplace. Just random stuff that I have not even touched in so long. I bought these shelves on Amazon and I never ended up using them. So I put that on there.  And I literally haven't used it in so long. So I'm gonna get rid of that too. And a couple of other decor pieces that just like aren't my style anymore. So hopefully people want them. I'm really just at the point where I just want everything gone. Like I just want everything out of my sight and just not here and cluttering my place. But I mean, it's still cluttered. I didn't really like organize anything but I am getting rid of like a bunch of stuff. So what else am I gonna do next? I always tell myself I need to film TikToks on Fridays because then I'll have them for the whole week but they just take so much time and energy. And then I also have to post a vlog today. And all I need to do is make the thumbnail and post it but does anything sound very like appealing right now? No, I don't think so. Which is so sad because I feel like I'm one of those people where like I'd rather do all of this stuff at nighttime. Like I always get so energized at nighttime like my creative juices start flowing then. And I'm just like, I need sunlight to do these things. So I can't be feeling sleepy right now. I feel like every vlog I'm like, all right, I'm so sleepy. I'm just trying to fight the urge to nap. So I wanted to show you guys this new jewelry company I came across. It's called C-04. I'm pretty sure that's how it's pronounced and everything I'm wearing on my hands are from this company. I wanna go through and show you guys everything I got. As you guys know, I've been saying for a really long time that I wanted to slowly build up my bracelet stacks. And I'm so excited to have these three pieces. So this one is super cute. It's like that little link. Oh, okay.  This is kind of like a link bracelet. And I love this. I think it's very unique because most of them are circles but this one's a square. It's called the square toggle clasp chain bracelet. This one right here is beautiful because it has all these little jewels in it. It's a Pave bracelet and it is called the skinny stackable Pave bracelet bangle. Yes, bangle. This one is called the hammered stacking bangle and it just has like a little jewel there that all of them go together because they're all obviously gold. But I like that they're all really unique in their own ways. And the best part about them is that they're easy to take on and take off by yourself. I don't have to ask Ryan to help me put them on or anything. So they just kind of like unclick. I don't know how to explain it but when you get it, you'll understand. The biggest reason I wanted to get jewelry from this company is because it is long lasting. It says it's resistant to rust and oxidation. And to be completely honest, I'm the type of girl that like likes to leave jewelry on like whenever I can and whenever it doesn't bother me because sometimes when I'm typing on my computer bracelets do kind of bother me. So I'll take it off then but if I don't have to, I will not take it off. So I will need something that's long lasting and I like to wear it to the pool or like the beach or something because I think it's like a cute accessory with your swimsuit. And then I got these two rings and this one, oh my God, it's like a braided ring. Let me see what it's called for you guys. This one is called the modern bold braided ring. And then I got this little guy. It's like a pave kind of bracelet and it's just called classic thin gold ring. I'm just so freaking happy with the way it looks on my hand. It just makes anything look so much more elevated and mature. And if you guys want 20% off I'll have the links down below.  I really hope you guys do check out this company C04 and take a look at their pieces cause I feel like they're all really unique.   But tonight I'm going to go over to the domain and meet my friends that I have not seen in forever. I'm so excited to see them. We all met through this podcast called the morning toast and the morning toast has so many listeners that they have all these subgroups. So there was one for Austin people that listened to it and so we went to a winery meetup like I think this was like last year. And we all met there so we're kind of getting together again. It's going to be super fun. I'm actually going to go there a little bit early. I'm going to get there at five because Mia is going to help me take my photo for my big hair chop. I just like always get a really good photo whenever I do something crazy to my hair. I also have looked back on my Instagram analytics and the most saves I've ever gotten were all about my hair. Like I don't know why but it was all like either I just got it colored or cut or I talked about something about my hair. So apparently my followers are interested in my hair. So I'm excited to take that photo and I'll probably post it tomorrow since it might be too late by the time we post it because I wanna like enjoy dinner with my friends. Blabbering on. I feel like this vlog is gonna be literally me just at home just freaking talking to the camera, blabbering on. Oh my God, wait, one more thing. I pre-ordered the new iPhone. I'm so excited. I also got like a few accessories because I definitely wanna do a video about this and like an unboxing and everything like that. So I got a few accessories like the MagSafe stuff. I ordered the 12 Pro Max. So we will see how I like it. I currently have the 10 XS Max or whatever and I have shattered the front of it pretty bad. So it's gonna be like interesting to get a new phone without any shatter because I'm just like so used to it now but it's gonna be delivered on the 13th which is next Friday, next Friday. So just one week and then I get a new iPhone. I'm so excited to not have to like ask Ryan to use his wide angle all the time and like take pictures of me on his phone because now I'll have the good phone. Maybe that freaking shot worked because your girl got her energy back. Thank the Lord. And I've been filming a couple of TikToks here and there and I wanted to share with you guys this hack that I'm gonna be posting on my TikTok soon but I had so many old Lululemon leggings just laying around the house and they were just kind of past the point of selling. And so I decided to take them into Lululemon and get them made into biker shorts. I'm pretty sure it's a thing everywhere but make sure you call and ask because one of the stores here was like, oh, we don't hem anything more than five inches but literally the guy in the store like yesterday at the same store said they could. So I don't know, just definitely ask around to a couple of the Lululemon stores to make sure they do it because it's a game changer especially if you just don't touch your Lululemon leggings anymore because I didn't. I now have like set active and just other Amazon brands that I actually like. This is what they look like on is the perfect length. I actually got a five inch length and you can try them on in the store and they can like measure them out to make sure it's what you want. But I'm five three so hopefully that helps y'all and I'm just so obsessed. I literally got all my old Lululemon leggings turned into biker shorts because they were just laying around and I was like I don't wear these anymore so I'm just really happy that I could like repurpose them somehow because they all fit really well like they all have these high waisted things that really stuck in my tummy that I really liked. So I'm glad that I could still keep them with me and didn't have to like sell them. Well honestly, like I said, they just I don't think they would have sold because there's a lot of pilling over here so I think they were just a little too old to sell but let me know if you guys try out this hack if you do have old Lululemon leggings because I'm seriously obsessed. I just switched back to the old vlogging setup because I realized I put like a different lens on my other camera but I wanted to show you guys my outfit of the day. This top is from Princess Polly. I literally just opened it up trying to search for a good top to take my hair photo in so this is the winner and then this skirt is from Miss Guided. I wanted to be comfy so I wore my Air Force Ones because I think me and Mia are gonna go just walk around after do a little window shopping.  It's so funny, I literally just posted a little Instagram story of the city and someone messaged me back and they were like, are we gonna see the hair or not? I was like, girl, you don't even understand. The first time I wanted to shoot it was, when was I gonna shoot it? I think it was like the day after, oh, it was the day after and I was gonna shoot it before we went to dinner which was yesterday and the sun had already set pretty much all the way and I was just like, let's not rush it. I want a good picture, whatever. So then today I was like, okay, Ryan, do you mind going on your lunch break to an area to take this photo of me so we're gonna go but then his call ran over and I'm like, you can't do anything about that. So then I asked Mia if she could take this photo and she said yes, thank God. So hopefully it turns out good and I forgot that there's like a restoration hardware around here. So it's gonna be like a cute background. Hopefully the sun's good on it though because I just drove past it and it's like really dark over there but there's still a lot of light so maybe I just need to walk around to the part where it's lit up, you know?  Drop out in some apps and some drinks. I'm home now and it was so great seeing them and they're just such great people and I literally need to hang out with them more but I'm gonna end the vlog here. I hope you guys enjoyed this little at home vlog and if you guys aren't already subscribed definitely do it now and if you are subscribed, definitely turn on your post notifications so you know when I post another vlog so I will see y'all in my next video, bye.


I'm Andrew Whitehead, an independent developer working with the government of British Columbia in digital trust services. This is going to be a session on building the next generation of ARIES agents. So hello, thanks for coming out. So a quick introduction to the work we've been doing at BC Gov. ARIES Cloud Agent Python is something we've been working on for, I guess, two to three years now. It is a sort of agent and agent framework written in Python for developing ARIES agents. It lets you hook up a controller written in your preferred language to communicate with the agent over a REST protocol. We use it ourselves to issue credentials to the org book, which acts as a holder of credentials. Those credentials are business registrations for the province of BC, as well as related credentials having to do with certifications. We can put credentials in there, such as whether a business has been registered as a green organization. A lot of what we do has been based on Hyperledger Indie, especially the non creds credential supports, which relies on an Indie node ledger, an identity ledger, which is permissioned and doesn't involve any mining. We don't store any credentials on the ledger. They're only communicated peer-to-peer. We encourage basically single use didcom connections for that. And the non creds credentials have support for revocation, where the registry is essentially published to the ledger, which allows it's one of many measures taken to avoid exposing any details about the holder of a credential unintentionally. So ACAPI, we've been around a lot. It's quite popular in terms of contributors and implementations. A lot of people are taking this framework and using it to build their own applications. And we've started to run into some limitations of Indie SDK for our own use. Our particular deployment runs on OpenShift. And we like to have several agent pods running, all issuing from a shared wallet, or in the case of the org book, receiving and storing to a shared wallet. And because of the architecture of the SDK, where everything is bundled together, you've got your ledger clients, you've got the wallet handling, and you've got the credential operations. Sometimes we were finding that our performance was limited by that, but also the flexibility of those components was a bit more limited. So we've been on about a year project, I think, of separating some of this functionality into what we call the shared components. And I'll introduce some of those components and how we plan to use them and make them more available, more convenient for others to use as well. Our hybrid repositories, apart from ACAPI itself. There's the IndieSharedRS repository, which contains IndieCredits, IndieUtails. There's IndiWQL in there. These are Rust crates, so fairly low level for most implementers, but we take these components and add language wrappers on them. So at the moment, IndieCredits is available for Python as well. IndiVDR is the ledger client library, and Aries Askar is our generic storage back end, which is not very opinionated about what you store in there, but can be used to develop specialized wallets. There's a few links there below if you need to explore the projects. Otherwise, I think you can just hit up Hyperledger on GitHub and search for us. All of these are tagged as at least Aries. Part of our motivation comes from the set of standards behind AIP 2.0. This is the Aries Interop profile. So at the moment, AIP 1.0 is in effect. There are, I don't know how many implementers, I think at least a dozen now, that are conformed with AIP 1.0 to different levels, which means they can interop with each other. The first requirement there is generally peer connection establishment. For AIP 2.0, the data exchange protocol has been introduced. This replaces the earlier connections protocol. The out-of-band protocol also kind of spun out of that effort. So connection invitations are now represented as out-of-band messages, as well as certain other kinds of requests. So a connectionless presentation request or connectionless credential offer is possible using that protocol. And we have newer revisions of the protocols used to exchange credentials, either to issue new credentials to a holder or to present indie credentials to a verifier, as well as the new BBS Plus credentials, which are being introduced now. And one point that isn't listed here is the didcom v2 envelope formats. So that's going to be a big part of supporting AIP 2.0, as well. As the envelope format has changed, it's become a little more standard in terms of being a JWE with more widely implemented encryption algorithms. So the first project contributed to Hyperledger was IndieVDR, as part of this effort. Separation of the shared components. IndieVDR is directly adapted from Indie SDK code. So just pulling out the Ledger client code, which uses 0MQ to connect to the verifier nodes of your Indie SDK Ledger, be it sovereign testnet, mainnet, or a local Ledger instance. We use Von Network mostly for that to boot up a quick development Ledger on your local machine. So IndieVDR lets you read and write the Ledger written in Rust, part of the code adaptation meant moving to Async in there. And it has language wrappers written for Python, Go, and Node.js. Python is most complete there. Go is, I think, pretty close. It might be missing one or two request types, and Node.js is more under development. There's also an FFI for a function wrapper. So you can call it directly from C desired. And IndieVDR includes a basic REST proxy. It's called IndieVDR proxy. And you can just point that at a Indie Node Genesis file, run the executable, and it provides a REST interface to read and write from that Ledger. We are also using IndieVDR directly in Indie Node Monitor and Indie Tail server now, as opposed to using Indie SDK there, because all they really needed to do was connect to a Ledger. Under Indie SDK, you'd have to create a wallet before you could load the Genesis file, set up the pool, and start interacting with the Ledger. So it gives us a little more freedom there. And if any additional features are added, you can upgrade that component independently or not, depending on what your needs are. IndieCredex was the second fork of this development. This was also extracted basically directly from Indie SDK, some adjustments to the API. This provides the non-creds credential handling. It's everything you need really to be an issuer or holder or verifier of a non-creds credentials. These use CL signatures, and they're inherently tied really to Indie Node Ledger instances, because that's where you will find the schemas and cred defs, revocation registry definitions, and entries all published, as well as the key information about the issuer of credentials. IndieCredex also has a Python wrapper and foreign function interface. The major difference here is that the methods, as called, will directly take the credential cryptographic inputs. So you're not giving it a pointer to something in the wallet to go and look up. You are going to your wallet fetching the objects that it needs and passing them into the non-creds methods. That obviously takes some careful operation to avoid leaking those objects, but we trust you to do that on your own. In general, you want to use a framework for these things, anyway. So Acapai does it in a way where the buffers are generally passed around with zero copying into memory managed by Python itself. So the buffers are always zeroed once they're released. IndieCredex doesn't do any threading itself internally, because it tends to be CPU intensive, especially things like generating signatures or creating a new revocation registry. So it leaves it up to the caller how many threads they'd like to run to perform these operations. When we use it in Acapai, for instance, we're running in an async framework. So we tend to use a thread pool for all of these operations. And the most recent components that we've introduced is Erie's Ascar. That is sort of lightly based on the design of the IndieWallet, but it doesn't really share any genetic information. The 0.2 release of Ascar is coming out shortly. There's been several overseas there. And that introduces the new Ascar crypto crate. That does, it offers generation and representation of all the key types that we need at the moment for an Erie's agent. So there's everything from Chacha encryption, various AES, DM, key wrapping, ED25519, of course, X25519. And there's basic BLS key creation that will be updated soon, as well as the addition of BBS signatures. At the moment we use the Matter Global FFI BBS signatures Python wrapper for the BBS signature generation, but that will be moving into Ascar as well. Ascar crypto itself supports the ECDHES and ECDH1PU, GWE encryption algorithms up to the latest drafts, as well as a generic encrypted key value storage. Internally that looks a lot like how the IndieWallet stores records in that there's just a large items table. If you're using normal database tools to browse the database, you can't really discern anything. All of the records are encrypted there. It allows searching for these records by encrypted or unencrypted tags, as well, which is the primary way of finding information once you've stored it in the encrypted storage. There are SQLites and Postgres storage backends, much like in DSDK at the moment. Both are built in, so it's not a separate plugin for Postgres. We'll likely be adding more storage backends there as we go along. And at the moment, there is only a Python wrapper and foreign function interface. Love to have additional language wrappers for Ascar here. And as I mentioned later on, Ascar crypto is designed in particular to be used in isolation. So if you don't need the storage functionality, you can still use all of the key handling and encryption operations there. So a primary goal of this project was reusability. We wanted each of these components to be useful on their own. And for implementers that didn't need all the functionality, they could just pull in one or two of these components. As we go along, we may or may not be focusing on the non-creds credentials, for instance. We may be doing more BDS-plus credentials, which could obviate the need for IndieCredEx there. So both IndieVDR and IndieCredEx allow you to perform these operations without a wallet, which was a primary restriction of IndieSDK. And we're aiming to support multiple language wrappers so that the same tools can be used, whether you're building a framework in Go or JavaScript or Python, as we are. Ascar crypto, the core functionality in Aries Ascar is no standard compatible at the moment. So it should be able to target embedded hardware, although nobody's tried that yet. And it should be compilable for Asm as well. Although, again, that's an experiment that hasn't been tried. And that crates on its own, gets you a long way to supporting Digcom V2. It doesn't do the JWE construction and deconstruction, but it gives you all of the encryption algorithms needed. You can also generate your BLS keys for doing BDS-plus signatures. And shortly, that will be integrated more directly. So now that we have these three components, the next step is re-architecting Aries Cloud as in Python a bit so that users of the framework can switch from IndieSDK to the new components. There is a shared components branch, if you'd like to check it out. That will be merged in preparation for the 0.7 release of Acapai, where you can try out the new backend experimentally. So each of these components has a Python wrapper, and they're installed from PyPy as wheel packages, because the core of each of these is a shared library written in Rust. Acapai uses dependency injection which means that in general, the protocol handlers are highly reusable. They don't need to know whether you're running IndieSDK behind the scenes or whether you're running the new shared components. So in general, it hasn't been that difficult to add support for the new components. We just change which implementations get injected for the various interfaces that the protocol and service handlers request. So using the new backend, you request the IndieLedger base interface, and you may get back an IndieVDR ledger implementation as opposed to an IndieSDK ledger implementation. There are IndieCredex issuer, holder, and verifier implementations. There's the asker storage, implementation of base storage, and the asker wallet, implementation of base wallet, as well as for 0.6, we introduce the concept of profiles, which roughly corresponds to an identity, which may or may not correspond to an entire wallet. Profiles also have sessions, which introduce some basic transaction management. As we go on, we'll be introducing more support for transactions in protocol handlers to make sure that logically grouped operations all proceed within a transaction. And a large part of the reason we were able to switch these backends as well is the high rate of unit test coverage in ACAPI. So every PR goes through, I think, about 1,200 unit tests at the moment. We have over 98% code coverage. And we don't intend to change that with the new backends. But for instance, just taking all of the existing wallet and storage tests and running them against the new backends goes a long way to knowing that we can just plug those in and they will work equivalently to Indie SDK there. We also require fairly stringent code formatting of any contributing code so that our divs aren't full of changes just due to IDEs reformatting things. Current status, all of these packages are published currently for, I should say it's x8664. Additional platforms would be another important area development. We just need to work on the CI, which all runs on GitHub at the moment to publish those additional platforms. You can check out shared components very soon. You can check out ACAPI 0.7 where all you need to add is wallet type ASCAR and make sure you've installed the requirements. There's a separate requirements file for that. Or you can install ACAPI with the ASCAR feature flag. Should support all of the same protocols that it does now. And very soon you'll be able to take your Indie SDK wallets and run a script to migrate it to a Aries ASCAR wallet. I will stop for a second there to see if anybody had questions. See, we've only got five more minutes. Nobody's posted anything, so yes. So Jakob Kochi was asking, does base storage represent the non-secrets part of Indie SDK? Yeah, essentially that is the parallel. ASCAR storage is just a generic interface for fetching and retrieving records that are identified by a category and a name and are stored encrypted. The ASCAR wallet interface provides more key management, things like signing with a key and verifying with a key. And management of your dints in the wallet. Philip Ross is asking, can I use only some of the new components or do I need to switch completely? So within ACAPI, there's only the one flag. If you're using an ASCAR wallet, then you're using Indie BDR to connect to Ledger. And you're using Indie Credex for your credential management. That's because we can't really take Indie SDK and just use it for credentials. You kind of need to use it for everything. But the components themselves are independent. At the moment, Python packages. And there's nothing stopping you from using them in isolation that I know of. I should mention on this slide that documentation is still lacking. I need to publish documentation for the Python APIs. The Rust crates generally are fully documented, I believe. The structures and methods have at least some description of what they do. But we need proper fleshed out readme's quick start guides. And documentation of the wrappers as well. Dan Yamamoto is asking if I could elaborate on BBS Plus support and the canonicalization listed here. I threw that in actually based on some comments by Brent Zendal at Evernim that they're looking at a message canonicalization format based on Microsoft's apartment, I believe. And I'm still looking for more information on that, actually. The 2021 signature suite is, as far as I know, currently a set of notes by Mike Lauder. So we're following that and looking to contribute as well. We've been doing a lot of work on BBS Plus credential revocation at the moment, which seemed like a big gap as far as our usage is concerned. And I think we have a good solution there, which will be publicizing shortly. As well as our other future plans, we'd love to see uptake of these components in existing frameworks. Didcom, RS, for instance, I've seen, that's under the diff banner, but it re-implements some of the things that are in it. Ask our crypto and it could easily use the ECDH1PU implementation there. Vaughn Network as well, we'll be switching to IndieVDR. I actually had a branch that switched over to that for quite some time, but it hasn't become the main branch yet. I think we've only got about a minute left here. So if there aren't any more questions, I'll wrap it up there, I think. Thank you very much. Of course, you can look us up on GitHub if you'd like to contribute, watch for the new releases of Acapai, if you'd like to test the code out yourself. And we're thankful for any contributions. Everything we do is open source. So we'll rise all boats together, right? Thanks very much.