Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcast. I'm Jamie Scott of Cataya and here joining me today. My good friend Mr. Bill Carter. He is from the Open Compute Project Foundation or as many of you know it, OCP. Bill, welcome to JSA TV. Hey, thanks for having me, Jamie. And thanks for being here. So much exciting stuff coming up on the calendar. First week of March must attend in San Jose. Can you tell our community a little bit more about the series events OCP has planned? I'd love to. Big week for us. This entering the 10th year as an organization. We've learned over the years that it's really best to try to, you know, do a lot of things in a week and rather than have a bunch of things throughout the year. So we filled up the week. We start off March 2nd and 3rd with a hackathon. It's sponsored by LinkedIn. It's on the LinkedIn campus. The hackathon is on Sonic. It's one of our open source projects. Sonic is a network operating system originally launched and contributed by Microsoft. Now we have hundreds of developers and collaborators on that and you're going to hear about Sonic throughout the week. But today hackathon at LinkedIn. March 3rd, we actually have kicked off a symposium we called the OCP Future Technology Symposium. This is an opportunity for people to really see the type of research that's going on in the universities and the research organizations around the globe. So if you're, you know, a hyperscaler, you probably have people that are already communicating with those research organizations. If you're not, this is a great time to hear about that research and connect with the individuals. And this is really important to create that connectivity and we think it is an organization that's one of our roles. That's March 3rd. It's in the San Jose Convention Center. If you attend the summit, you're actually invited to also attend the symposium. This year we're doing it in conjunction with the symposium on SDM research, another research organization. Again, we're co-located together on March 3rd. We had about 40 abstracts submitted for that. We narrowed it down to the top 30 or 35. You're going to hear from researchers and projects going on within Princeton University, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Clara, just to name a few. And what's really nice is that we're seeing universities participate in that they really have deep expertise in certain subjects. Virginia Polytech, very well-known institute on power delivery and power research. They have a couple of papers they're presenting. University of New Hampshire, again, very deep in networking. They'll be there. We also have some private sector companies that are participating. Alibaba has their own research organization. They're going to present a Jupiter network, same thing. ITRI, this is the Taiwanese Research Institute they're presenting. So again, we're seeing global interest in participating in our future technology symposium. That's on March 3rd. And then March 4th, we kick off the summit. March 4th and 5th, it's our global summit. And this year's theme is open for all. So the hackathon, the symposium, then of course your global summit to end on that 4th and 5th. Is there an overall theme connecting these series of events? There is. The theme this year is open for all. We really feel that as an organization and as an industry, and this is, I want to speak for the industry, and this includes a lot of other open source organizations. We've matured to the point that open sourcing benefits everyone, regardless of the size of your country, the size of your company, or what country you're from. So we think that our work we're doing is applicable to every size of company and anywhere in the globe. So hence our theme, open for all. I love that. And so fitting for you. Additionally, we have to just pay tribute to your dynamic speaker lineup. You really have some amazing companies, speakers from those companies coming out to speak to us. Can you tell us a little bit sneak peek there? Yeah, so every year we kick off our keynote lineup on day one early in the morning or it's in the morning day one. So we'll have Rocky and in our chairman of our board, Mark Renick, we'll talk about the foundation news, give us some forward thinking direction on strategy and talk about various partnerships. And then we have five keynote speakers that we selected this year. The leadoff speaker is Catherine Schmidt from Facebook. She's going to walk us through that journey we've been on. We started with disaggregation of network hardware, disaggregation of server and rack designs. We got involved in the support of a circular economy. Very, very important that we do that. And then she's going to walk us through the future challenges as more slot slows down, we have a lot of different opportunities to galvanize the industry and do it in a collaborative open fashion. So, you know, some of those technologies will include domain specific accelerators high speed interconnects, co packaged optics on the firmware side it's you know get into security and and firmware sourcing and telemetry monitoring. So there's some of the topics that she'll hit on. We then have an international speaker in spur very large ODM out of China, and really servicing the entire globe now has been a great partner for for the foundation, working with not just the companies but but also the companies around the globe and providing open source hardware, they're going to talk about some of the customer enabling work that they're doing and the collaboration that work that they're doing. And similarly, we another international speakers from Samsung. Senior Vice President Samsung memory will talk about the work they're doing on an open storage platform and again, they're doing that in a collaborative fashion so we'll get to hear from him. And then we wrap up with two other speakers that are also members of our board. And then we have Max van board member from Intel talk about the work that they're doing on delivering solutions really from the cloud, all the way to the edge and we'll hear from Jason and a lot of different activities that Intel has underway. And then we wrap it up with a great keynote from Yosef Khalidi from Microsoft, he's going to talk about Sonic and Sonic started out as a network operating system for the traditional top of that switch and, and it's really delivering that work features and it's really now part of the switch architecture, including, you know, not just top of rack but the backbone of networking within the facility and we're going to hear about those those features that they're working on and and all the companies that are that are participating in delivering features for that so great lineup that we have in the morning and then we go into the afternoon with, again, a lot more talks available as we open up the Expo hall. Yeah, that that's so mind blowing to me the OCP global summit day one morning just includes logos like Facebook, Intel, Microsoft, Samsung in spur. So, clearly, a lineup not to be beaten just you have to attend. Now, moving over to OCP on the community side, just to get your, your insight here a little bit. Bill, if you don't mind, what are some of the innovations and solutions that are coming from our open collaboration and how are they solving industry challenges. Well, you know, we know that we have an industry challenge around power consumption on a global scale the data centers are consuming more and more. More and more of the total available power and, and so we want to be conservative on power consumption and one way to do that is to operate our facilities most efficiently. So there's a couple of things going on there on that on that side one is is just making sure that power distribution, you know, from the facilities to the rack to the it equipment is as efficient as possible. The years ago, the hyperscalers had their own proprietary designs. We have created a solution called open open rack and that that's been widely adopted. And what where we're at today is we're taking that base design and we were evolving it to include some of these the features of some of these other designs and it's it'll be an again another open source architecture. It's our third generation of open rack and we can some really big names that are participating that collaboration. Similarly, we have some harmonization work that's going on with liquid cooling, whether it's immersion or cold play or rear door heat exchangers liquid cooling solves a problem and it can do so. And, you know, cooling and data center very efficiently, as well as solving the problem of, you know, how do you cool a rack that may have 50 kilowatts or 100 kilowatts of power. So what we're doing is working across the industry and across the solution providers to come up with some harmonization, so that we create, you know, interchangeable solutions and can deploy those solutions as quickly as possible, and as widely as possible. So a lot of really interesting work going on there on the it equipment side, a lot of work going on around AI infrastructure. We have a couple of projects around AI infrastructure, and we've taken a modular approach to that so we have some AI platforms that are modular you're going to see a lot of that in the show, you're going to hear about that during the keynote. We did a project last year with the network interface card the Nick 3.0 spec, again, a wide adoption of that that creates modularity. It really also extends the life of some of those components. And more recently we're doing the same thing with with harmonization of solutions for edge deployment so as the cloud has moved from the traditional walls the data center out to the edge. You know, we're, we're offering, you know, a harmonization of the hardware there's so there's a lot of work that goes on there. I just love it. So for organizations, you want to know more about open collaboration, particularly on power distribution liquid pool and getting to the edge modularity AI infrastructure all of all of those amazing buzzwords these days. Where can they go to find out more and to be part of your efforts. Yeah, so we have a really nice web portal it's open compute.org. From there you can click on the events tab that you sign up to attend the global summit the regional summit other workshops that go on throughout the year, not just here in the US but globally. Find those events there. We have a project page if they want to get involved with projects. We have weekly calls some projects that weekly calls some have monthly calls. Again, all that information is available they can sign up right from the website and join mailing list, participate in project calls, you know attend these, these workshops that we have throughout the year. I love to go to open compute.org just for your blogs you guys are doing daily content that's extraordinary. So I find so much education just just in your blog site alone. But I should tell folks also check out the events OCP global summit and the whole the whole week of events from the hackathon and symposium as well. I'm glad head to also learn more and register open compute.org. Bill, thank you so much for your generous time and insight we look so forward to seeing you in a month's time. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcasts. Happy networking. Thank you, Jamie.


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I was far too young to understand the true weight of the song's political context, but it felt important to me. It felt like music that truly had something to say about the world. Like music that mattered. And listening to it helped me feel like I mattered too. So I took it pretty hard when I learned that System wouldn't be making music together anymore. Except maybe they would? That's the thing with hiatuses, right? They don't bring with them the clean closure of a breakup. It's always a sad thing when bands break up, but at least there's an ending. Breakups let you step back and get a look at the full picture. They signal that it's time to evaluate an artist's body of work in full, and to understand what they meant to the world, what they meant to you. Hiatuses don't give you that luxury. They keep you hanging in limbo, unable to truly say goodbye. You wait eagerly for news of a new release, a new album, of anything until time slips by and an act that once meant the world to you drifts away to memory. Eventually, most hiatuses end, but at least in my experience, I've usually sort of moved past artists by the time that happens. And if I haven't, the world has. It's not that there's no good music being made after hiatuses, it's just that usually the magic of the moment that birthed an artist is gone. And that's why when I was younger, I didn't really understand these hiatuses at all. But now I know these things happen for the better, even if it might not feel like it at the time. The realities of being a touring musician or of being a public figure are drooling. They wear people down and turn what was once passion into an empty sense of hollow obligation. I would rather be left in the dark wondering when a band I love might return than see a band I love devolve into an empty husk, putting out albums they don't believe in for the sake of finishing up contracts or supporting tours. When System of a Downwind on Hiatus Surge Tankian was able to step aside and put out a series of solo albums that would help define my high school experience, to this day I still think they're deeply underrated. And he's far from the only one who has benefited from a hiatus. When John Lennon stepped away from music in the mid-70s, he was able to take time for himself to deal with some of his traumas and personal issues. He came back in 1980 with Double Fantasy, an album that promised a new era of Lennon before his life was tragically cut short. When the Foo Fighters took a hiatus in 2008, Dave Grohl teamed up with John Paul Jones and Josh Homie to release Them Crooked Vultures, a magnificent album that is truly unlike anything else in the era. And ever since Grohl and the Foo Fighters have come back, they've been living it up on tour carrying the rock and roll torch. I'm guessing you might already have an idea why I'm talking about hiatuses right now. I've been working on Polyphonic for seven years. When I first started the channel, I was a fresh-faced 23-year-old with a deep love for YouTube and far too many opinions about music. I started this channel because I loved video essays and I had things to say. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I thought it could potentially bring some money in, but that was never really the goal. But I got lucky and within a year of writing my first video, Polyphonic had become my full-time job. And man, what a job it was to be able to talk about the music I love for a living, to be able to make my own hours, to get paid to read books about music I love and do insane motion design experiments. It was just the best. I had such a profound passion for what I did in those early days. I really genuinely believed in the video essay as an artistic medium. And honestly, I still do, but a lot of things have changed. I've changed as a creator and YouTube has changed as a platform. Frankly, the kind of videos that I want to make and the kind of videos that YouTube wants its creators to make have never been so divergent. As the algorithm has developed, success on YouTube has felt less and less about creating cool, interesting, and unique things, and more and more about playing games to satisfy the algorithm and feed the endless hunger for content. Content these days is about short, quick hits or excruciatingly long deep dives designed for people to background watch as they go about their day. Neither of those particularly interest me as a creator. To be clear, I have no issues with creators playing the algorithm's game. I have no issues with creators doing extreme long-form content. Many of my peers do these, and I love their content and deeply respect them as people. It's just that these things have never really been my goal. My goal has always been to make videos that are lean, informationally dense, and visually stunning. I've wanted to tell you stories that bring you closer to the music that you love, and I've wanted to pair them with visuals that are so beautiful that you can't help but give them your full attention. I've wanted to tell stories that help make the world a better place, and I've wanted to tell stories that help you understand yourself better. At times I think I've succeeded at these goals, but it's gotten harder and harder. My style of editing is just so time-intensive that it's become nearly impossible for me to keep up with the grind demanded by the modern creator economy. This past fall I tried to buckle down and create on the schedule that YouTube demands, and it was one of the most successful periods in my channel's history. But man, it's just worn me down to the bone, and my quality has been slipping because of it. My history of the guitar solo series is something I'm deeply proud of. It's been fun to make, and I think I've told a pretty good story. But in the rush to get this content out in time, I've found myself slipping. I haven't been creating visuals to the quality that I want to, and even more damning, I've had stupid, catchable mistakes fall through the cracks. That's not who I want to be as a creator. It's not fair to you as a viewer, and it doesn't hold up to the standards that I want to set. But I think what's most frustrating about it is that I've been rewarded for these mistakes. When I slip up and make mistakes, more people comment on them, which creates more engagement, which further drives the video in the algorithm, because that's the reality of content creation right now. Platforms do not care about the quality of content, they care about the quantity of content. And for me at least, those things often have an inverse relationship. The more love that I put into my videos, the less videos that I'm able to make. It's infuriating, and that's just one of the things about this platform that has beaten me down. For the past six years, I've spent every other day fighting off copyright claims on my content, even though it falls well within fair use. Most recently, my upload of my entire Dark Side of the Moon project was taken down, and my channel was copyright struck. I've gone through all the proper channels to appeal to YouTube, and they've decided that I don't have a fair use case. And that's not all. Every one of my guitar solo videos has seen dozens of copyright disputes that I've had to deal with. Some have kept the video down for 48 hours in crucial moments where they should be gathering momentum, and that's after I already trimmed the solos down to tiny clips that don't even properly represent everything I'm talking about in the video. It gets me worked up as you can probably tell, but I don't want to linger on the negative for too long. I think I'm inclined to right now because I'm feeling like a shallowed myself. Even this video isn't the video that I wanted to make for this announcement. I had way bigger plans, but time and life caught up to me. So I guess that's one of the reasons why this is a hiatus and not the end. I feel like I've accomplished some pretty incredible things with Polyphonic. I've made a few videos that I think are stunning visually. I've told a few stories that I think are really important. I like to think I've even tried to challenge my own assumptions and put my mark on the musical canon in my own small way. But even with all this I don't think I'm done. I still have things that I want to say and I still have stories that I want to tell. I just can't tell them right here and I can't tell them right now. Not up to the standards that I would like to anyways. So I'm going to take some time off and get myself back in a place where I can tell these stories. A place where I'm not seized by dread and anxiety every time I hit the publish button.  I honestly don't know how long I will be gone. And I don't know what it'll look like when I'm back. But I know I'm going to be creating all sorts of projects while I'm away from here. In fact I've got stuff that I've been working on that I'll probably pop back in to announce in the new year. Stuff that I'm really really excited about. I'll also keep podcasting over at Ghost Notes so check that out if you still want to hear me rant about music. And if you like my visual work I'm planning to ramp up some stuff on my in-print so there'll be art for you to see and buy. I've also got various motion design projects in the works that I'll announce as you know as I do them I guess. And I'm even slowly developing something very different for Nebula that I'm pretty excited about. All of this is to say that I won't be gone for good. And I'll be popping in here semi-regularly to tell you the cool stuff that I've got going on. Really I don't think I'll ever stop making videos. I just love the craft too much. But one way or another this era of polyphonic is over. Next week I'll drop the final video in Axe to Grind and I'll be releasing a few shorts to close out the year and that'll probably be the last you hear from me for a while in the race. So before I go I just wanted to thank you all so much for your support. I've gotten so many kind words from so many of you over the years. I feel truly blessed that I've been able to touch your lives and I really really hope that I've enriched your experience of music. I got to live a dream for a while and that wouldn't have happened without you. So thank you. I don't really know what to say to leave here so I'll turn to the man who always says things that I don't know how to say. Bob Dylan. 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Above the Earth, we can measure geodesics and their deviation using test particles. For example, if we place three test particles vertically above the Earth's atmosphere and separate them by a small amount, we can see what happens when they fall freely along their geodesic lines towards the center of the Earth. Because the particles closer to the Earth feel a slightly stronger gravitational attraction than the particles further up, they will accelerate faster. The distance between them will increase. This shows that the curvature is negative along this line in space above us. If we place three test particles horizontally along an east-west line with the same starting separation, we can see what happens when they fall freely along their geodesic lines towards the center of the Earth. Because the particles are moving to the same point, the distance between them will decrease. This shows that the curvature is positive along this line in space. The same would be true for the same reason if we started with a horizontal north-south line. Interestingly, if we sum the three curvatures for the three spatial dimensions, we get a total curvature of zero. While true above the Earth, where there is no matter, this would not be the case inside the Earth.


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Not more advanced than these softwares but more but it has more detail than than like the next category of softwares We'll look at that pulling the ending balances also know that when you look at QuickBooks There's a QuickBooks online and there's a QuickBooks desktop So you want to consider between those two do you want the online version or desktop online? You got to pay You got to pay Monthly or something like that if you get the desktop version You may still be able to buy just the desktop and you can get an old desktop version for your for your personal finances Which probably would still work right because you own it on your desktop It would probably all the updates that they put into it You know may not impact what you need it for if it's just a basic, you know Software although older versions may not then pull in the data directly from the bank as easily you probably need the current if You want to pull the information directly from your checking account. You might want to go with the online version Okay, so then we got the financial or balance also Just note that we have courses on all on these three softwares not on quick end So if you want to get into how to use these softwares, we got a whole lot of material on that So then we got the financial or balance sheet software So we have like money in Excel Excel actually has a template that allows you to connect to your bank accounts Which is pretty neat. So if you wanted to use that you can use actually Excel I think you need the subscription model to the subscription basis like office 365 to do it But then you can connect to the bank account and it pulls in like I say not it'll pull in the transactions From from that your bank to like your inflows and outflows But it's not going to create the financial statements as easily from that What it does do is pull in the ending balances like we discussed from like your checking account From your other financial institutions your investment accounts and your mortgage and all that kind of stuff And it'll pull that in creating you a financial statement balance sheet quite easily So that's that's nice and you can do that just right in Excel another one's called personal capital now This this is like an investment type of company So they really my Conception of them is they're trying to market of course people to to work with for for investment planning So they might then try to try to contact you You know, they're gonna give you pop-up saying hey Do you want to talk to a financial planner or what if you were to use that? So you might want to research whether or not that would be appropriate for you But it does the similar kind of thing as money in Excel it pulls in the ending balances It can connect to all your financial institutions, which is really nice because then it can put your It can put out if you have a lot multiple different investments You can put them into one pile and it can actually then sort out where your investments are in terms of what kind of assets you're invested in like Are you invested in in, you know US stocks versus bonds use foreign bonds and whatnot And then it can take that information and then give you some some data in terms of where you might want to diversify your portfolio So this is really future oriented generally. It's thought to go out into the future and think about Your long-term planning your your retirement planning and stuff like that And it pulls in your current data in order to help you to do that So if you have a more complicated portfolio, you got investments in a 401k plan Then you might have other investments in an IRA you have another you have your spouse has investments over here And you're trying to put it all in the one spot so that you can basically then think about what your overall investments are in terms of categories of investments then this


Hi everyone, Joe for JaspeysCaseBreaks.com coming at you with 2020 Bowman Sterling Baseball Six Box. Pick your team, number two. Second half of the case, we just opened a few moments ago. Brand new release. We've got a couple of random team breaks coming up after this and unfortunately that's all that we have for now. But big thanks to everyone who got in early and often really appreciated. We've got Greg with the Cardinals, last bottom mojo. Thank you. In the first video, I set the second half of the case back on the sofa back there. So you can just dive right into it. Good luck. Five mini boxes in here, five autographs per master box, one per mini box, a lot of good stuff in here boys and girls, so thanks for getting into the action. Really appreciate it. I don't know what the Royals were going for. Daniel here, Daniel Ruiz got the Royals. What did you pay for those Royals? All I know is that if we get more Sterling, all the teams will probably, prices probably will end up going up from whatever they were. If you remind me after the break, I'll be able to look it up. The only game in progress is that Orioles Nationals game, ladies and gentlemen. Orioles are up six to two. They chase Strasburg in the fifth inning. They drop five on them. Come on, Stras. All right. First autograph is going to be Nic Ladolo for the Red Legs. That's going to go to Darren McKenzie. An all-card ship, ladies and gentlemen, all-card ship, you know, significant cards like that. Jason Dominguez, I'll set aside, of course, that's for Scott Goodman and the Yankees. Here in break number two. Next one is, we got a Glenn Allen Hill Jr. Speckle autograph. It's kind of hard to see the number. I'm going to show you in a second. Michael Coons in the Diamondbacks, going to be in the bottom right-hand corner against the Speckle. See if I can catch it in the light right there, 37 out of 99, you can kind of see. There you go, 37 out of 99 on that auto. There's his teammate, Zach Gallin, and there's Albert Alzaleg. Oh, there you go, Daniel. I think Daniel's got you. Reb, there's Brewstar Greaterall to 106 out of 199. I'll bet he could fire it up to 106. There's Matthew Thompson, White Sox, Matthew Shearer with Matthew Thompson, and that goes to the Dodgers, Jorge, with the boys in blue. All right. We've got Dustin May. Nice. Rookie autograph, Wave Refractor, Jorge with the Dodgers. I think he got the Gavin Lux in the first half. There you go. Look at his hands. Is he throwing that mean two-seamer right there? There it is, 55 out of 125. We can think about this Walker Bueller, Dustin May. Even an older Kershaw maybe in that third spot. Julio Urius had a nice start yesterday. He gets a little more consistency going. Guys like Mitchell White in that organization, there's Jeter Downs to 10, and Greg Jones for the raise. That could be a mean starting rotation for years to come. There's Greg Jones' raise, Aaron Tuley in Tampa Bay. Jeter Downs' Atomic Refractor to 10. That's a nice low number for the Red Sox, Mark Facette. All right. So there you go. These cards will go right here. The numbered cards will go right here. These cards right here. Once again, all cards ship in this, so if you see it, it'll ship. If you're watching live, if there's a specific guy that you PC or something like that that you want me to sleeve up for you, just let me know in the chat. Next, good luck. Next, MasterBox. All right. Now, I've been told that there are multi-auto cards. We haven't seen one in the first half. Maybe we'll see one in the second half. I don't know if they're like a guaranteed case or anything like that, but maybe we'll get lucky and see one. There's a nice pink Lodolo right there, 43 out of 75, and that reveals a Jaren Duran. Duran Duran going to Mark and the Red Sox. One of the bigger names in the Red Sox organization. Yeah, that Dominguez out of 50. Do you have the Yankees in this one or in the last one? Sheldon Nusey, 23 out of 50. Yeah, that was a nice one. And there's a dual autograph. I called it. Royce Lewis and Trevor Larnock, 15 out of 25. Oh, you didn't have them. That's not going to go to you, Mr. LA. Nice try, though. We didn't just start breaking yesterday. We got a twins dual auto for Ryan Redman. There you go. Is Royce Lewis doing well? Twins are hitting pretty well. There he is. Royce Lewis, Trevor Larnock, 15 out of 25. Dual autograph for Ryan Redman. Nice. Sheldon Nusey will go to the A's. Joe M with that. Or Vandruv Vaughn, future prospect for the White Sox. Matthew Shearer in the White Sox. Is he up? I don't think so. Maybe I'm thinking of Danny Mendeck. Oh, Mr. LA was thinking Kyle Lewis. Mendeck, that was Andrew Vaughn playing. Remember, a lot of these poor minor leaguers, they didn't have a season. So there's Scott Goodman in the Yankee. So it sounds like some teams are having some of their double A, triple A prospects, maybe even single A prospects, get some work, which is good. I'm trying to agree. And there's Gavin Lux, refractor to $199 for my Dodgers. And Brennan Davis. Nice of Brennan Davis. Cubbies. Mark with the Cubs. And Jorge has the Dodgers. All right, next pack. And Michael Bush. 001 out of 150 for Jorge and the Dodgers. Inquistrapped in 2019. It'll be a late first round compensatory pick. All right, next box. Cardinals just called up Dylan Carlson when they resumed play. What are the Cardinals going to do? Someone talk to me about what the Cardinals are going to do. Are they just going to forfeit games? I don't think they have time to make up the games that they've missed.  But I mean, that's not going to work, is it? And maybe that's what you have to do, because there's playoff implications for other teams on the line. I have no idea. No, I'm aware of that, Jett. They don't have time. So what are they going to do? Right up in here, who's on the ground? Watching the Miami Heat Pacers game. Kaiser Philly's fan. As a Philly fan, I want more seven inning double headers. Less bullpen for him, the better. Nice, Luis Robert. And there's JJ Bledet, Ryan Hayes, and the fish. I think the Angels probably want that, too. Angels, well, the Angels pitching in general is a little rough, but they're a bullpen, especially. White Sox, Matthew Shearer. Paces Lazzardo. It's another nice Otto. Refractor, Wave Refractor Autograph, 113 to 125 for Joe M and the A's. Ooh, did he hurt his neck? They're trying to stabilize his neck. Stabilize his neck. Oh, they just had the same thing. Josh Young to 75, and Sherton Apostle, one, two, three out of 150 for the Rangers. There you go, Mark with the Rangers. You just also get that Josh Young here, too. It's a nice little box here. We got Jason Dominguez right here. Prospect card out of Bowman Sterling. Scott Goodman and the Bronx Bombers. And Jordon Alvarez activated for the season. See how he does. Another Dustin May autograph for Jorge.  Take a look at that two-seem fastball that Dustin made through to Manny Machado. Disgusting.  There's Sammy Sian and then Machado's looking at Dustin May being like, we were teammates. Like, I should know what's coming. What happened there and what's going on? Where'd that come from? Dustin May put on, he still looks skinny, but I think he put on like another 15, 20 pounds to that frame, so a little extra oomph. Yeah, I mean, I don't know what the, I don't know the specifics on the vertical drop and the movement and whatnot, but it just looking at it, I mean, was wild. If this, like say this pack is a strike zone, right? And think about it, there's the mound and then he's a monster, he's super tall. He's like maybe two Joes, he's really tall. So what is he, he's a righty right yet. So the ball's probably starting at the corner of the camera right here.  And then Machado's a right-hander, so he's standing right here. Probably, it probably went that way and then ended up down here, but then like a million miles per hour. Stupid. And it caught that corner. 96, 97 mile per hour to see me. With that kind of movement, it's ridiculous. Now this is a scary situation here, the heat, we're in a baseball break, but the heat pays for his game. Derek Jones Jr. is being stretchered off, although his hands are moving, that's good. They secured his neck, he's on a stretcher. I think I saw him move his feet. That's good. There he is right there. There's Riley Greene for the Tigers. Ryan Hayes. Concussion, do you think, Daniel Ruiz? Did he hit his head on the... Ooh, I think he was, he was trying to go through a screen and maybe his head, yeah, it looks like his head caught the shoulder of big goga batadze. That rattled him big time. I think he was just kind of blindsided, he was chasing after another player. Yeah, it doesn't mean right now Jett's underrated. I think maybe in the next year or two, there's Rhys Hynes Blue to 25. I don't think he's gonna be underrated very, very often. Pick him up on your fantasy rosters. If he's not gone already. If you're in a sharp league, he's probably gone already. Rhys Hynes for the Reds, Zara McKenzie, Abraham Toro for the Astros. That's gonna go to Garza. Oh, you got him on Fancy Jett, nice. There's Logan Davidson for the A's. That'll be for Joe M. Yeah, Derek Jones really rattled. Unless I hurt. That was a clean pick though. CJ Abrams to 199 and Jeremy Pena for the Astros. 48 out of 75. Orange autograph for Garza and the Stroze. Judges on the 10 day DL for IL nowadays. Why, what, I feel like that's the knock on Judd, right? Those little nagging injury here and there. And there's another Michael Bush, Jorge. You're having a nice break with the Dodgers. Well, Stanton, we already know is just, it's just always perpetually injured. I mean, if he wasn't, imagine if, imagine if Giancarlo, how many home runs would Giancarlo Stanton have in his career if he was playing 162 games a year? If he's getting like 550 at bats a year. Calf strain for Judge. Matthew, has anyone pulled a Luis Robert Otto from anything? We've pulled a number of Luis Robert autographs, I feel like. You think he'd hit like 60 a season, right? How many years has he been in the league? A while? You have 600 home runs already? 15 years? Yeah. Healthy Giancarlo Stanton, probably has 600 home runs by now. Probably has, he probably beats the home run record by now. I don't know if he leads home runs per at bat. Per, I guess, qualified players? I don't know, that I don't know. All right, we've got Braden Shoemake to 150 and a Kyle Lewis down there for the M's, nice. Braden goes to Narik and the Braves, there you go, on the board with the Bravos, there's Kyle Lewis and Nico Horner, there's a couple of nice players there. Kyle Lewis, Derek Riley in the M's, Nico Horner for the Cubs, Mark Bissette and there's Brett Beatty. Any relationship to Matt Beatty? Autograph for the Mets, Matt Stubblefield with that one. There's Bobby Wood Jr., Andrew Vaughn, Wave Refractor Autograph, that's 72 out of 125. Another Michael Bush, another Dodger Autograph. That is for Jorge. Dylan Cease to 199 and another Riley Green for the Tigers. That's gonna go to Ryan Hayes. Dylan Cease for the White Sox goes to Matthew Shearer. All right, fifth and final box, good luck everybody. Thanks for getting in, appreciate it. We got a couple of random team breaks coming up right after this, schedules in the chat and then we'll see what else we can get into after that. Fifth and final, or sixth and final box, five packs here, we've got some pink right here, Luis Robert Pink, nice, 32 out of 75 and a Jason Dominguez Autograph. Wow, Scott Goodman picked up the Yankees straight up and pick your team two, had a couple Jason Dominguez base cards, scores the auto. That's pretty nice. I've heard of him, this guy, this is pretty nice too. 32 out of 75, Luis Robert Pink for Matthew Shearer and the White Sox. That's pretty nice too. In the same mini box, let alone the same master box right here, here in Paris, four out of 75 for the Halos, that'll be for Greg. Dodger's Angels tonight, a freeway series. Anthony Vallope for the Yankees, Scott Goodman with the Yankees. That's how you say, I don't know how you say his last name, Vallope, Vallope, Vellop. Meet maybe until he gets to the show. Taylor Tramell to 199 for the Padres and another here in Paris for the Angels, for Greg. That's where the Angels were hiding. And the last one, we've got Vlad Guerrero Jr. to 99, Sterling, first sign, something like that. And we've got a Bobby Whit Jr. die cut autograph, 25 out of 99. That's gonna go to Daniel Ruiz. Strong finish here, very nice break. There's the die cut, Bobby Whit Jr. He's the future, 25 out of 99. There's Anthony Kay, there's Dylan Cease and there's the Vlad Jr. refraction for the Buffalo Blue Jays, Gabe with that one. And there you go. Pick your team two in the books. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. I'm Joe for jazby'scasebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Guys, welcome back to the Independent Investor Channel. We're going to drop you in for a Vanguard sector specialty review. I haven't done this for a while. It's something that I do periodically on the channel. I really enjoy doing it. It really does speak to the fundamental truth that you do not have to outthink the stock market to win in the stock market. Now, a lot of people will define winning in a lot of different capacities, taking on over-exuberant risk for the hopes of maybe making an over-exuberant amount of profit someday.  The M1 Finance portfolio was built about four years ago. It was established with the idea of putting it to work and building it up to what it is now. We're staring down the $25,000 mark. We started with 1,500 progress. I have not maneuvered or tinkered with this portfolio one time. It is just a great example of what happens when you put money to work in the stock market and leave it the hell alone. We'll kick in here and we'll do the coverage of the portfolio. Guys, please. So as long as the trajectory is acceptable in your investing application, I know there's a lot of people out there probably looking for some level of hope. The stock market has been a rough go the last couple of years for those folks that have been trying to deploy strategies about thinking the market. This is a portfolio that I love to chronicle for the subscriber group. Welcome to the Vanguard Sector Specialty ETF portfolio. This is comprised of all 11 sectors, the S&P 500. So 11 different slices here. I use Vanguard sectors. You could use any sector you want or sector product that you want. These are just the groupings of each of the respective sectors. As Vanguard has organized them in their packages, each of these Vanguard sector ETFs can be found on their website. You can check the year over year performance, most of these perform at about a 10% or some and a little bit more, some a little bit less, but right around 10% a year. And I found it extremely valuable to group them together in this capacity. I want you guys to understand this was my first Vanguard account that I opened. Here we're going on March 5th of 2019. So going on four years of having this account, pretty cool stuff. It's performed well. If you look at the charts here, this is what everybody's been fearing for the last couple of years. I've had some sideways action, but for the most part, this is held in quite nicely. I think the interesting part when we chronicle these portfolios is to look at where we started, where we are now, how much have flowed into the portfolio, how much we've made, have we made a little dividend rendering, and what was the management or attention that was necessary over this account over that same time period. And I think you guys will find that in each of those categories, this portfolio exceeds expectations. I just cannot express how important it is to at least identify with the passive program. Now, you don't have to invest this way. You don't have to do anything you don't want. I share this. This is a real portfolio. This is one of three that I have with Vanguard, and I just love investing this way. So I love to share it with the audience, and I like people to really understand what this actually looks like in nature. Now, I started this account many moons ago. Let's see if we can scroll down here and see if we can get this to register. Yeah, just what I thought here, you guys can see that value. Let me scroll down so you can see that a little easier. This started with $1,500, and it started back at the beginning of March in 2019. If I was a would-be investor and I was tuning in and trying to find my place and who I was going to listen to on YouTube, who it is that I would aspire to listen to, it would be those individuals like myself that produce results. It's that simple. I don't get up and down. I don't jump up and down.  It's that simple. Whether or not I came on and shared it on YouTube or not, just speaks to my conviction on the adherence to passive investing. Now, the cool thing about this is I established the portfolio, and I have not touched it since its inception. Another cool thing is we have stared down certain financial thresholds, and I speak about this all the time on my channel with regard to looking at money. A lot of people can't imagine themselves with $10,000 in wealth. Well, to get to that first $10,000, you have to start with $500, then you have to double that to $1,000, then you have to move to $2,500, and double that to $5,000, then you have to double that to $10,000, and that is the breakdown of financial thresholds that I discuss. Now, once you meet the $10,000 threshold, the next financial threshold is $25,000. Is there anybody's doubt in their mind that I will make that? There isn't in my mind, but I think a lot of people, they operate with way too much doubt, they operate with way too many barriers, and the second we can start to blow down those barriers and understand what is actually possible in meeting financial thresholds, the better off you'll be. So, a quick look at the portfolio and how it's done. We have just shy of 19,000 of inflows, just over 5,000 of gains, just shy of $1,000 of those are dividends rendered over the portfolio. So, this only pays four times per year, but they all pay at the same time. So, it's like winning the mini lottery when these do pay. The dividend renderings go back into the portfolio when it's paid, so it's kind of a cool payday to have. But here's the portfolio. Like I said, if you can count them, there are 11 sectors. I have this weighted to have technology at the top end. Interesting enough, look how well the sector has performed against some of the large cap counterparts, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Apple have really done terrible meta as well. But the sector as a whole, look at how I'm doing. I'm up huge over the timeframe that I've owned this. And this whole portfolio is meant to demonstrate, even to new investors, if you're paying attention to what's happening here, it's not my ability to pick stocks that's winning out here, rather the time that's spent invested in each of these ETFs that's making all the difference. And we've buffered quite a terrible last couple years. But some cool churn is going on in this portfolio. Communication services is one that really sticks out to me. Here toward the bottom, this was down incredibly low. And since then, we're actually up overweight now from our actual target allocation of 6%. And just to kind of explain if you're new to these portfolios, how they work and how they're broken up, you wonder why technology is first and healthcare is second and financials third industrials and down the line. I've chosen that. And their rank order is determined by the target allocation, which is here 14%, 13%, 12%, 9, 9, and so on. Okay, so the top end waiting is technology because I want the majority of my dollars to go into technology, the next majority going into healthcare, the next majority going into financials, and the lowest end, I believe down here on the end is, what is it on the end? It's materials, which makes sense because it's one of the smaller of the sectors in the S&P 500. And it's just not where I want the bulk of my dollars to flow. I do want to expose your two materials. That ETF performs really, really well year over year. But I want the bulk of my dollars allocated where I see fit. And these are the rankings that I have. These are all tailorable. You can actually select what it is that you want in each of these. This is just mine and this is how I've got it laid out. Now for you guys that are interested in obtaining this portfolio, it is shared in the description. I will put it in the comments section as well. Please understand if you do click on this link, the Independent Investor Channel is affiliated with M1 Finance. So we do receive a small compensation for me providing these tutorials to you and actually demonstrating how this portfolio works. I'm giving you my personal insights and personal satisfaction tutorial on this. You can seek your exposure to the stock market in a lot of different capacities. This is just a really, really cool way of seeking passive exposure to the market. I want to encourage all investors to understand that if you do opt for the M1 Finance brokerage account or Roth IRA, it is a passive account. This is not a trading account. This is an account that you want to accumulate wealth and you want to do so over the long term. You don't want to be looking to trade in and out of these. You want to use M1 Finance for what it's meant for and that is long-term passive investing. And in the last four years, we've been able to demonstrate how well we've done here with deploying that very strategy. Guys, I appreciate you tuning in. We'll kick you back and we'll conclude the video. All right, guys. So we come out of the M1 Finance portfolio, a lot of fun. Track the progress, making some capital appreciation and some dividends to boot, nothing to scoff at.  I'd roll these out as a tutorial for people who are truly interested in how I seek out my investment, how those investments perform, and more importantly, perhaps maybe if some of those fundamentals can carry through to the masses. And I'm here to tell you that they can. Anybody can invest in this capacity. It's very, very simple. It requires very little effort, except for the initial onset setup of the portfolio itself. And I actually take care of a lot of that for you guys, having provided this very portfolio that's chronicled in this video for you guys in the description below. If you guys enjoy the content, man, please subscribe to the channel, hit the notification bells, leave your comments at the bottom of the video, and share this with anybody out there that needs to see this. Our youth needs to understand that investing isn't a futile game. It is not something that you get involved with and try to beat. 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Hey, Jim. This is Don. This is just a quickie to show you how to solve this problem in stat crunch Those equations always kind of look kind of complex, but the easy way to do it. We're going to open it in stat crunch Okay, we have the data there of the four 13 patients Sleep before sleep after using the grug. We're just going to real quickly. We're going to go to t stats paired sample I'm going to select column one sleep before sleep with the drug I want to say the difference is going to show you a trick in a second We want the confidence interval this time and it's just point nine. I Think that's what they wanted was the 90% right just click compute and There we get the answer the lower limit minus 1.99 our planet minus 1.38. Let's see Yeah, that's the answers they have there the other thing I wanted to To show you you remember in some problems. We're given the we're asked for the intermediate values, which are hard to get and in stat crunch sometimes, but if you need the the D bar are the S of D D bar remember is just the mean of the differences and that's the reason when I Did this I clicked on save the differences And that developed that Column there so the D bar is just the mean of those values S of D is the standard deviation of those values and we can get those Pretty quickly by going to summary stats column and I'm going to select the differences I'm going to hold down the control key and select mean and Standard deviation. Whoops. Let's take them off. There go mean Standard deviation click compute and there's my D bar right there the mean of these differences and the S of D the standard deviation of those differences So I hope that helps


G'day all. There are two upcoming events that I want to talk to you about today. Damian Berks-Mildure at a Melbourne Memorial Relay and the Melbourne Firefighters Stair Climb. Hundreds of our firies, hundreds of CFA firies have already begun training for these events and it's great to see so many people getting behind such a worthy cause. This year, both events are raising much needed funds and awareness for Black Dog Institute and for Lifeline. More than 10% of emergency service workers suffer from PTSD. This is a harrowing statistic and one that we're working very hard to combat. Berks-Mildure to Melbourne is a memorial run that starts obviously in Mildure on the 26th of August and finishes up in Melbourne the same day the stair climb starts on the 2nd of September. This coming weekend, on the 5th and 6th of August, it's double your donation weekend. For 48 hours, the Firefighters Charity Fund will match dollar for dollar every donation received. So, I've loved hearing about all the inventive ways that different brigades are fundraising to keep, so keep up the great work. Best of luck to everyone getting involved and I look forward to seeing you on the stairs.


So let's look at the anatomical characteristics that we use to distinguish between our motor pathways. This is the picture that we just drew, and we know, if we're looking at this thing, what we know is that both of them, both of these guys, actually, both somatic motor and visceral motor of both flavors, travel through the anterior gray horn and through the anterior root. So check it out. This is not a surprise to you. I did it in green, didn't I? We're going to have green fibers passing through my anterior root. We're going to have visceral motor fibers passing through my anterior root. We're going to have the light green fibers as well. You might as well throw those guys in there while we can. They're in here also. And everybody's going through the anterior root. Where are the cell bodies, though? Well, we know that visceral, I mean, the somatic motor, the cell bodies are in the anterior gray horn. What do we know about visceral motor cell bodies? We know that they're in the lateral gray horn. We know both flavors of visceral motor cell bodies are found in the lateral gray horn. Let's go back and look at this again and see if we can identify some other anatomical characteristics that we can list to distinguish between our two motor pathways. What do you notice about the somatic motor? It's one neuron. And we've talked about this. It's one neuron from the anterior gray horn. That's where the cell body is. Out through the spinal nerve and into the periphery to innervate a skeletal muscle anywhere on your body. And that's one neuron. The message comes from the brain, contract a skeletal muscle, and one neuron delivers that message. So, why those cell bodies in the anterior gray horn are so huge? What do you notice about our visceral motor? All of our visceral motor pathways are two neuron pathways. There's one neuron, here's a second neuron. Here's one neuron, here's a second neuron. All of them are that way. What else is... oh, interesting. Somatic motor, these neurons are found all the way through our entire central nervous system. We have fibers coming out of our brain that are doing somatic motor. Craneal nerves have somatic motor fibers in them. All the way down to our sacral spinal nerves. All of these guys can be somatic motor. So, somatic motor can be anywhere. However, visceral motor, not so. I drew them where I wanted them. What do you notice? My dark green visceral motor, this is another name for this flavor of visceral motor, is craniocacral, craniocacral. Why? Cranium, sacrum. So, these are actually found in the cranium and at spinal nerve S2 to S4. But that wasn't our only flavor of visceral motor. We also had the light green flavor of visceral motor. And we'll talk about what these flavors are. Where do you notice that I put these guys? We're called also the thoracolumbar. Thoracolumbar, of course there's 32 names for everything that we have to know. And they are found in T1 to L2. So, anywhere in this zone, you're going to find the light green flavor of visceral motor fiber. Mm-hmm. And you notice that we've got the two neuron chain and we already said that. And yeah, we're good. Okay, so now we've compared and contrasted all of our motor pathways, all our efferent pathways. Now let's take a closer look and compare our two visceral motor pathways.


Yeah, sure, we started off with Frostburg. We knew we were going to play five matches in three days, but we really wanted to get the first match jitters out of the way, playing Frostburg before we went down to Christopher Newport. And for the most part, we got just about everybody in to that Frostburg match. I didn't think we'd play extremely well, but there was no continuity, because we were working with a bunch of different lineups and a lot of getting a lot of the first game jitters out of the way. So we won 3-0, and that was the goal to win. So we were all going to accomplish that.  We had so many kids out there, so we did not know who was going to start, who was going to play with who. And so there was a lot of questions to be answered, so probably we're a little bit behind from preseason. So playing the five games, we really learned a lot about ourselves this weekend. It's either good or bad. That's one of the reasons we went down to Christopher Newport. We started off playing Boston UMass, who was a perennial NCAA team, and lost in five. And 30 minutes later, we're playing Christopher Newport, the number 11 team in the country, and we took one from them. And we were really just exhausted at the end of that day. But we learned so much. And the pressure and the speed of the game can't be taught and simulated exactly in practice. So we were all going to see you, and there's 1,000 people. The whole football team, the lights are only, I mean, it is just, it can be intimidating, but it can also be, wow, this is the big time kind of a thing. And I thought our kids responded pretty well over the weekend. We rebounded on Saturday, and one back-to-back guess, the competition wasn't as good as the first day, but it was still really good competition. So that prepares us, I feel like, the best way we could to go out to Messiah and give ourselves the best chance to win. Did you talk a little bit about the matchup with Messiah? Well, we really know them well. They had all their kids in key positions, our seniors, except for our freshmen. The freshman is actually the younger sister of the Mac player of the year. So she's no slouch. So we know them really well. They've worked together for years. This is their senior year. Would love to go out by putting us down. I personally think we're a little bit better than last year. I think we're stronger at a lot of the positions. Our girls are a year older. The beat season has helped us tremendously. There's no question we're more athletic. We read the ball better. We played tougher defense. So I'm looking for a great match on Wednesday. I'll be disappointed if we really don't play well. We point towards conference games. And Messiah being our biggest competitor, at least up to this year, it's been awesome. Messiah in the championship game four years in a row. So we point to this game. Our schedule's tailored. We played some tough competitions before we played them. So we're all pointing towards this game. And it's not like we have to watch film on them. We know exactly what they're gonna do. And so we'll be ready.