take a wise human-humane architecture still in the claws of COVID-19 and we're increasingly and continuously looking into COVID curing or at least compacting compatible courtyards and for that we've been out and about in Germany and on the west coast and now we're slowly but surely heading back home to Hawaii to where we can hear it's very tropical exotic we hear birds and pretty soon we can see your dog the solo hi hello Martin and yes I'm here all right so let's jump right in and get the first up here which is you know we shouldn't be unfair there's actually several homes especially from mid-century that aren't growing courtyards many or several of them are actually by the architect of your childhoods the house you're sitting in by Vladimir Asipov yes we choose this one here where and you have just said sometimes in the future we maybe us as doko momo gonna get the chance to see your house which would be yes yes and doko momo actually took a chance we're seeing here on the first slide which is our host was an organization that's basically restoring historical fish ponds on the way out to Hawaii and the gentleman you see at the very top in the middle picture was the community leader and that way they got also taking care of the house here that we see that was Walter Lam's house and Asipov was as we hear you know part of the creating team and the house you can you won't you know really realize it that much when you're out on the busy highway they're out of Hawaii Kaiba it's right front in the street and right behind the wall is the first entrance courtyard and when you go through the house you end up immediately in a backyard courtyard with lots of open lani so it's it's really kind of an ultimate easy breezy corporate lani example and you to Soto who have once again very rather personal access to him explain to us who Walter Lam was well Walter Lam was a person who became famous for designing and using and creating outdoor furniture and he had there's a very interesting story as to how that furniture was created we see in this slide here some examples of the Walter Lam furniture but let's go to the next slide and this one we we can see details of a Walter Lam chair and this chair is made from copper piping it's copper pipe and Walter Lam got started right after World War two when there was a lot of military surplus material left over in the Hawaiian Islands because a lot of army and navy personnel were here they had to build buildings for them and then they all left when the war ended so here was this here was this extra pipe he bought the copper piping and he used that to start his furniture his outdoor furniture company and you can see in these pictures which is an example of one of the Walter Lam chairs there are the pipes that have been welded together to create the framework of this chair and I might point out this chair actually was used at the Holly Kulani hotel and my mother and I bought it when the Holly Kulani shut down in 1981 and that's when our friend Ron Lindgren built you know designed the whole new Holly Kulani hotel so here's our inspiration for what we're going to lead into for the rest of our show and we can go to the next slide and this is a presentation that I did for a visiting German merchants group that we can talk about more later if we want to but this is about the history of innovation here in the Hawaiian Islands and I don't think people realize how much stuff was innovated here in the upper left corner here is a drawing by King Kalakaua from the 1870s or 1880s about a torpedo he wanted to create that would look like a fish other things in here include the alamon of building with its exterior louvers that could move as well as the rotating restroom on the top Laurent we also see some equipment that was created for the sugar industry the sugar and pineapple industries innovated things the first aluminum beer can was actually invented and used here in the Hawaiian Islands by Primo beer but the main picture here on the left in the center on the right in the center is shipping containers the pacific ocean and the matsyn navigation company were the first users of shipping containers in the pacific after they were invented on in the u.s mainland we were the first place to use them outside of the east coast starting in 1958 and that is what we are going to be focusing on for the rest of this particular show that is shipping containers all right gets us the next slide and talking in the sense of Walter lamb right repurposing something that's sort of contemporarily abundant um this is my when i was still back in in our hood from my Waikiki grant one night here's doggie and join and so i was actually looking at the cargo ships driving by this is a picture i took from my one night and i was thinking how could one repurpose them for the you know increasing the origin uh use of dwelling and we're laying out a grid of eight feet which is the the width of the container and also the length because it's 40 feet that are weekly math here is five times goes into that so we were doing this checkerboard grid of eight feet and then placing and suggesting to place containers in this sort of pinwheeling configuration and let's go to the next slide and and see how that would feel and you but before that we were using automobiles as vehicles for thought and we've been pointing out you guys the lines obsession with german vw's and we did an entire show about that at the top right this one here tell me do you remember which one that is and what does it have to do with our topic today well what we're talking about here is what was sold in the united states as the Volkswagen thing was actually developed as you pointed out for nefarious evil purposes for the use of the nazi army and it was a intended to be an amphibious vehicle and fortunately as time passed and it was put back into production and sold for civilians starting in the 1970s and 80s again as i said in the usa it was referred to as the thing the Volkswagen thing it became kind of a fun vehicle for people to rent it became something that was associated with vacations and warm climates and as you also said in the film 51st dates drew Barrymore has one of those and drives it around here on the island of oahu and the thing was meant to be initially totally utilitarian for military use when it was repurposed and sold to civilians it was meant to be as i said fun but also useful you could fold down the roof you could fold down the windshield you could be in totally in the open air but something else that i think is interesting is the body of the car to strengthen the sheet metal is corrugated and when that was done originally for the military because the german army used it later on too after the nazi period it was just to strengthen it to make it useful but the corrugations are something which you can clearly see but we're going to see that also in the focus of this show which is shipping containers they are corrugated as well yeah so next slide is what came out of this inspiration is to basically do something to totally flip 180 degrees the meaning i mean shipping containers don't have a good connotation either i mean we ship all that stuff we need in them but you know they're not like the things we find pretty right so same with a car that hitler invented and then the hippies basically adopted here in the same intention and also the walter lamp methodology how can you repurpose shipping containers to make beautiful hawaii is in place as we're illustrating here so let's go to the next slide because something is key to we're going to have a show a shipping container project here in one of the shows in germany where it's getting chilly now so you need to prevent them to get cold in hawaii not so much it's about protecting them from getting overheated right because metal is a conductor so here when i first landed on the island i was charged to go to an bia show in the i think in the blaze dale convention that they're going to tragically renovate in a way for not most fans of and there was this basically ocean of ugliness of all these vendors trying to sell stuff that you really don't need and then there was this island of hope of meaningfulness which were these two guys that you can see there that erik and brandon from eco shade and they are basically promoting and selling this very exotic based in their native australia roof system out of just like the alamona previous you know enclosure which unfortunately took away but here horizontally these aluminum movers on tracks that can open and close so we were suggesting to basically make this canopy out of eco shade hovering over the entire house through the next slide and so talking utilitarian the soto by spacing them out on this checkerboard grid of eight feet the container doors that you don't need anymore if you're doing another screen infill instead but then basically become the quadrant doors so when you're thinking you're like the new farmer and this is your country court your cabana farmhouse and you coming from your day of farming you're basically seeing the containers closed and then we're cutting out the three fifth in the middle of it which is where fittingly the the medicine signage sits and then we put what we cut out back on sliding track yeah so those would be on sliding tracks and what you would be then doing would be you open up the space and this is something that we just were talking about martin and i before the show how these can be used in different manners and let's go to the next slide oh martin is back so let's get martin to continue to talk about this there we are yeah okay so that's the condition thanks for bridging uh that we then get is when you have it slide and basically the only thing left is the corners of eight by eight feet that depending on how you want to go resilience wise in the storm you can yeah so back to me the purpose of this is you can open this space up and you've got two two options if the if in the case of a hurricane and yes we do have hurricanes here that is a consideration you can either shut the thing up completely and try to be as protected as possible and of course the shipping container is a very robust exterior so that would possibly protect you or you can leave it open for the wind to go through to then be more safe in that respect because you're not going to get pushed over and you can take refuge in the parts of the container which are still closed off and that's the way that that could work and again overhead you see we've got this canopy of the rotating or the maneuverable aluminum fins that could either shade it or be opened up as you wish okay go to the next slide and let's see if martin is here to talk about that well i'll just keep going on the right is a magazine ad for the Volkswagen thing and this is harkening back to what i just said earlier the text of this ad points out how useful the thing was because you can shut the you can close it up you can open it up completely because the top is open you can carry big tall things and basically your it's a box it's a corrugated box like a shipping container except it's on wheels and you can move it around in the picture on the left we see how again this reconfigured shipping container might be used in a habitat in which it is inhabited and you create enclosed spaces and that's the point that we've been talking about in previous shows courtyards enclosed spaces which are open to the sky which are useful not only because they're nice to live in but here now in the age of COVID-19 they are physically safer for us because you have moving air that keeps the virus from hanging around too much and let's see if martin can rejoin us and we'll go to the next slide all right can you guys hear me again yes your your function okay good good thanks and so here one of the fans of the projects endorsing it was our friend kaini chun who i considered to be the best hawaii and hawaii artists on the islands and she basically said martin you know this is pretty much along the lines of how my ancestors have been living you know each different function of life had a different holly and they were assembled around and they created what you can call a courtyard in the middle and since we're cannot latch and fetch anymore for various reasons for the demand grabbing the shipping containers might be our most abundant local building material and so she said you know one of these days i want to build one of them on my family property on the big island so we wouldn't go forward to that but above and beyond next slide is we have to house 10 thousands of people as we were pointing out in the last show with with ron where we were observing the eichler phenomenon who had built 11 000 homes overall all the entire california so here we were proposing to make little communities out of them where these courtyard houses would then also gravitate around the communal courtyard so the courtyard theme repeating and reoccurring next slide we again this is then up and now and and now is down there and it's literally and figuratively down because when i first saw that what dhgl is doing the department of hawaii home lands who had reached out to us so this is a next project that was actually before the previously shown project i was rather shocked because i thought this has little to nothing to do with the way one used to live in in balance with the elements in hawaii this is an invasive american track home assembly and what we see as is not a courtyard but it's almost like a prison yard right yeah so how can you improve that the next slide so when i first came i was approached by my school and my dean at that time claire louis and if i would like to take on a project that dhgl had initiated together with the building industry association which would be to rethink the way dhgl is building for their local people and we drove out and visited this rather charming smaller community out west in winni but how how does that come across to you so what do you see well the picture on the upper right really to me we've got a lot of extra space that's used up in the ceiling area which is not really of any great use at this particular moment in this configuration it also as you pointed out is a hermetically sealed box there is no visual access to the outside because the windows have curtains on them and it's called it's completely air conditioned so you're spending money to air condition this big open space up above rather than being able to use it and as you also said when you're outside you really you have a beautiful view you've got a fantastic view of the mountains but you're not really able to make use of it just because of the way the house and the exterior backyard are configured and it's kind of a lost opportunity and martin okay let's go to the next slide and uh i these are these are drawings that martin has created and i'm sorry i can't see them very clearly in this particular moment to be able to give you more information and martin's not available right by right now but these drawings exhibit or show looking for you know better opportunity yeah okay martin is is cutting out on us again but but we're we're hard again this is a look back to how hawaiians ancient hawaiians set up the way that they lived and they had compounds in which they had separate holly which were used for separate purposes and this is something that rather than turning the interior of a house into specific rooms this is the way the hawaiians didn't go ahead i still can't see where we are right now okay poor martin is is not able to join us martin we've had technical problems so let's go to the next slide and here is the overall configuration of the small development that the department of Hawaiian homeland has created that martin was a part of and this is the overall you know picture that you can see and there's one little tiny yellow spot and that was the that was the potential space that they could work with what martin did on the right was to show a progression of how the spaces could be used at the very top it's the way the space normally would be used in the american suburban development and gradually it turns into a situation where you have more communal spaces and you have the negative spaces between the the structures as being common places which various people can use let's go to the next slide okay now again martin is the person who really knows about this so i'm going to do this to the best of my ability in the open spaces here that we can see we've got first of all a kind of an a-frame roof that is overhead over the open spaces those are potentially to be constructed of the system which we just talked about which is the eco shading where those louvers which in this case are placed horizontally can be opened or closed based on what the weather is and what your needs are and i'm hope i'm saying this all right to you martin let's go to the next slide and here again um i apologize i can't clearly see what these are to be able to describe them and i'm i'm sorry that we're doing this uh so makeshiftly but these again are pencil drawings to show how if you're talking about a series of shipping containers placed so that they have a communal space between them they also have where the open space becomes something which is more used now we talked about the eichler homes as having courtyards and this was something that we've been continually discussing in our series now what we see here however different from the eichler homes the eichler homes were private these would be spaces which most of the tenants around them would use so it isn't exactly comparable to what we talked about previously but it is very similar next slide okay again um one of the things that is in in in the courtyard cabana setup the kitchen remains a place where again because of the plumbing that you need to install that's something that is very specific and you have to build that in but the other spaces in these in these little compounds do not have to be as necessarily segregated or specifically tasked with just one thing in other words they are more useful for more than one purpose and this is something that i said earlier about the ancient hawaiian way of creating a living space you didn't have rooms those holly did not have interior partitions for rooms what they did have however was just one open space but they also there were separate structures for separate activities so what we're saying here is not necessarily segregating the house into this is strictly a bedroom this is strictly something else you've got open spaces that are more useful for different things next slide okay here is the overall view of how this might work and what we've got here again are the separate spaces one of the things that martin pointed out was there's also a carport incorporated into these and carports locally are the place where we do a lot of socializing because they are open spaces because they are they don't have solid walls in most cases that's where people have parties that's where people have gatherings it's very common to drive by house with a carport and see that people are sitting outside and folding chairs or that they're having a party and so here again you see the two containers are placed so that there's the negative space between them there is the roof over them and that is the configuration that we've been hoped can be worked towards next slide okay now if the the eco shading system was possible to be installed and one of the things that martin brought up is unfortunately the eco shades are expensive and this housing is not supposed to be for wealthy people it's supposed to be for the proletariat so if it was possible to use a great deal of the eco shading and to therefore buy a lot of it at one time you'd be able to bring the costs down if that was possible they would be powder coated in a sort of a warm metal color not necessarily gold or not necessarily brass or bronze but probably more like bronze and if that was the case at night when they were illuminated from within or below you'd see this warm glow and as martin said it's really somewhat similar to the ancient oil system of using kukui nuts to eliminate burning kukui nuts to eliminate the interior of the holly pealy the grass houses next slide so what we also see here is these are a series of houses that our friends ron and larry had designed for the mamalani hotel complex and these very expensive homes were never actually built but these are the plans that were made for them and the renderings that were made for them and these are not proletariat housing but they do incorporate a lot of the a lot of what we're talking about for the courtyard covenants in other words the same basic structure with a space between them that is used for communal living of course these were private homes but that's that's what you'd use for your outdoor living where there also would be for example a water feature a pool a swimming pool or just decorative water next slide now using that same type of attitude and again trying to bring down the cost because again these have to be low income these have to be affordable for people martin said look if you're telling me this is too expensive what we need to do is break this down into the components that we would use and these exploded views show how the same basic components would be reused in the standardized cabana courtyard cabana subdivision or development if that was built next slide one of the one of the suppliers of this would be the the aggregate company that's here on a walk and martin went out to visit the company and he's had people visit you know he's had people represented or some of this company come on the show and here is the guy from the company on the left looking over the proposal for the construction of these concrete concrete elements that could be used manufactured locally and used in this in these developments and martin said that when the first proposed dhhl sort of tried to get him out of the picture as the architect they go directly to the supplier and he didn't find that to be that offensive because he said look that means it's an acknowledgement that this is a successful proposal and that they want to pursue it even further next slide so what are the elements that you can use and we don't want to necessarily import everything what was suggested was that we use locally grown woods that are exotic or invasive species such as eucalyptus which grows really quickly and which can be used for other things now the native wood coa is extremely desirable it's extremely expensive it obviously cannot be used for mass housing but it was possible to take this nasty particle board which is this American invention of wood chips that are encased in a resin that's used for inexpensive develop inexpensive things like kitchen cabinets if it was heat treated it turns into this other rather elegant looking wood that again is super cheap it's super kind of nasty when you look at it but it can can be treated to make it more robust and it could actually look a great deal nicer next slide so here's an overall view of what might be happening with the courtyard development and what we see here is again you can see all of those are individual shipping containers between them there is the communal open space that is shared by everybody who lives in those you also see that there's a central roofed court area and it's where people are living together and using this space together facing out onto the road next slide and here is an example of that communal open space here is how vital it could be here is how people could be using it here are how the inhabitants of this space are using it communally rather than separate private courtyards but what we've got is the idealized system you can see the wall the wood that I just described to you as as being used for the exteriors of these and this is the way that we can think of the use of shipping containers as well as and this is an international concern of the use of shipping containers which are all over the world all the time there are millions of them in transit what do we do with them when they're no longer in use can we repurpose them to become housing and is that our last slide can I assume that we are at the end of the program again I apologize for not being prepared for this but if this is the end of the program thank you everybody for joining us and Martin I'm sorry that you weren't able to talk to us there's Martin I can see Martin I don't know if Martin can actually speak to us or not but in any case I hope I managed to carry the ball just as well as I could we will be seeing I won't be on next week's show but we will be back with more of our courtyard discussions in the near future and until that time everybody Aloha from Martin who's silent in Germany and me in Honolulu Aloha


So I was reviewing a question from one of our members recently and I was thinking about something that seems to be Incredibly prevalent these days, especially for men over 40 and I wanted to lean into this conversation and discuss why this happens And that is men over 40 The project well, let me backtrack for a second Roughly about 75% of singles who are over 45 years old who are active in the dating marketplace And what I mean is in the online dating world happen to be divorced both men and women alike So so think about that There's a huge percentage of divorced people who are actively seeking some sort of connection I say some sort of connection because I think on some level when a person says I want a Relationship, you know, that's a very tricky question. What does that mean? Does it mean it friends with benefits? Does it mean a situation ship? Does it mean a casual relationship or does it mean a serious relationship or more? Does it mean marriage and what happens to a lot of men after divorce as well as women is That they are less likely to want to get remarried. That's right less likely especially if they went through a contentious divorce and Certainly for men if they went through a financial Calamity in their divorce women feel this as well But men tend to feel this more because men tend to be the ones who are in the support position for their ex-spouse So what men seem to lack in this over 40 category is a desire for a serious relationship And yet they want campaign ship.  The real tricky question is what about commitment? What about commitment? What I mean about what about commitment is it's these days most commitment is centered around monogamy or Exclusivity and let me explain that in a second, but I have to see Thanks, who excuse me Okay, coming back to monogamy and Exclusivity well monogamy means I won't sleep with other people while I'm sleeping with you and Exclusivity means I won't actively be seeking someone else to replace you meaning I'll be exclusive to this relationship and those are certainly fundamentals within, you know, the marriage context The interesting thing though is unless two people are living together a person could break that covenant that agreement at any time And you wouldn't even know about it for one Number two, they can decide to move on without any consequence So these days a lot of men aren't and this is true of women as well aren't seeking marriage and yet You know without living together. It's going to be difficult to actually Form that deeper bond with one another without some basic investment in the relationship Listen, this is tricky stuff because the reality is is in many cases it can be Complicated to get remarried in yet I'm a big proponent now of at least couples considering living together or getting married as Something that demonstrates a level of seriousness now the next level of seriousness Before that would be as I always talk about in my videos You spend three or four days and nights a week together doing shared activities hobbies mutual interests spending time with family and friends traveling together teamwork building skills both in your personal and professional life Intimacy both physical and emotional intimacy. Okay, that's there's marriage. There's living together and then there's that The tricky part is everything below that and many of you find yourself in Casual relationships because you have a pseudo agreement of monogamy and exclusivity And yet without any real deep roots of trust being built And I always talk about trust isn't just about fidelity trust is can I count on this person to be there for me? When I need them can I count on this person to care about my feelings as much as my own? Do they have my best interest at hand and Sadly many women as well as men are in casual relationships where this deep root of trust hasn't been built Maybe they have spent time together, but they haven't built the deep roots of trust and certainly that's something I talk about And more in detail in my private coaching All right, so I forgot what the title of this video was why men can't you know why men don't seem to want something greater? Many cases they don't want it because they've been burned in the past or they've been hurt in their past Just like women as well, and I think what's most important is to have serious conversations Upfront about your what you're seeking in a relationship beside the word Relationship and then go from there. Is this sinking in is this resonating? Please let me know all right I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. Please post a comment below As always if you find value in the group, please tell your friends about midlife love mastery Send them to my website Jonathan as a comm have them click the group coaching button so they can join our fantastic group And I'm gonna sign up this video as I always do first off give myself a big gigantic job the merit of self-love I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay I'm asking you to turn to someone a pet a teddy bear pillow. There's a teddy bear from Alice badler one of our Thank you so much and wishing you a super dude. Oh, I forgot to say hugs are a great source of love And we could all use more love in our lives. Thanks a bunch. Have a great day. Bye. Bye now


Communication seemed to be a big word tying different levels of the community of the organization together Do you have to change the level of sophistication and communication say when you're dealing with a player on an everyday basis? Or maybe a coach or maybe a front-off exact executive absolutely and it's about that communication. It's about You know understanding your audience, right? If a coach doesn't understand a complex Concept or statistic you need to be able to simplify it for them so they understand it and buy into it and utilize it You know conversations that I have with different parts of the organization whether it's player development Whether it's the other baseball operations staff our coaching staff our analysts. It varies, you know what I mean? And you know we have a tremendous support staff especially at the major league level That are equipped to help our coaches and our players Guys like Brett Weber that have been here for years who's our director of advanced scouting and coaching assistant He's our also our instant replay guy Dan Payne our video coordinator Zach Firo all Horses that they need to to be successful. You're in that clubhouse a lot. It's clear Brian Cashman really trusts your opinion You haven't been with the organization all that long. How have you been able to gain cashman's trust so quickly sure? It's a little bit of opportunity, but it's also about versatility, you know, we we have a very robust Organization and various departments We call it often a well-oiled machine, but there's always these new Resources out there technology and trying to implement that into a well-oiled machine takes time You know so being versatile and trying to figure out how different new pieces of information can Add to the equation is something that we're always trying to evaluate So always trying to take those new information those new pieces that are out there and adding it into what we Do and try to make better You know smarter decisions year in and year out Matt earlier you mentioned job seekers and for the people who have never been to the winter meetings There are young men and young women armed with resumes and they want your job. They want my job They want Bob's job and we all have a lot of respect for what they are trying to accomplish sure once upon a time You were one of those job seekers. Tell us your personal story and and what compelled you to go to the winter meetings And how it worked out. Yeah, I knew I always wanted to work in baseball I wasn't very good a player in college. I played for a year wasn't very good But I focused my efforts in trying to break into the industry from from that point forward I went to the winter meetings twice and met with teams. It was a lot of preparation It wasn't just show up and work the lobby you had to email a lot of folks send resumes do projects You know trying to break my own scouting reports Just show my worth through an organization or show why I could provide value And that was very successful for me and I still meet with a lot of job seekers I do a lot of interviews and we're always trying to find those folks that are passionate energetic You know that you know want to break in this industry and want to make a career out of this and there's more and more job seekers every year It's a very difficult industry and there's a lot of sacrifice, but I can say for my my personal stuff I've enjoyed every minute of the opportunities that I've been given but it's also you know putting in a lot of hard work long days Early mornings late nights and the grind of a season where we're in every day You know morning and night with home games road games and then the off-season doesn't stop either We're here. We're always going to different conferences or different events to try to again find that competitive edge Just to continue to be you know the New York Yankees and be the best that we can possibly be I'll definitely paid off look forward to what's happening in 2019 Matt. Thanks for joining us. Thank you guys


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You have more time and less stress as a result. You're helping create the managers and leaders of tomorrow and you have a group of individuals that are increasingly capable of doing parts of your job. This gives you the space to learn and develop yourself by taking on new projects and challenges. You move your career forward and help team members do exactly the same. A great foundation for succession planning. The third benefit you get from developing your team is increased team motivation and staff retention. If your staff have put themselves through university or have worked to get a professional qualification, chances are high that they want to continue developing themselves and moving their career forward. Working for a manager who is keen to keep them learning to keep them developing is very motivational. You are helping them achieve their goals. I mean, who wouldn't appreciate that? If staff are learning and they can see their career progressing, they are less likely to look outside of the company for career progression. The longer you can help them make progress against their career goals, the longer you will retain your staff. Combine this approach with effectively managing any difficult or underperforming employees and you will keep the better staff for longer, which in turn increases team performance. Good for everyone. The fourth benefit you get from developing your team is attracting higher performing employees. Finding good people to recruit into your team is tough in any business climate. Current staff shortages in many professions make getting good people even harder. One compelling way to increase the attractiveness of joining your team is to be able to demonstrate a clear track record of developing team members. When you meet potential hires or those potentially transferring into your team, talk them through. Firstly, the steps you take to understand personal career goals and then the work to help individuals progress against these goals. Secondly, the training programs internal and external that your team members are able to take advantage of. And thirdly, the case studies, if you like, of internal promotions and career progression of current and former team members. Use the investment in training and development as a way to attract higher performing employees. From personal experience, showcasing development track records for team members works very well. The fifth benefit you get from developing your team is increased volume and quality of output. You know, think about it. When we're unsure about how to do something, it takes longer. If we're not confident in making decisions, it takes longer. If we don't have good enough skills, the quality of what we produce is likely to be lower rather than higher. What you get from developing your team is a higher level of skills. They're both technical skills as well as softer skills, such as decision making and problem solving. With better skills, the tasks, activities, projects and problems the team members are working on will be completed quicker and better. And this means that the team overall will be firstly able to produce more as they'll be able to do each task quicker and better. Secondly, the quality of output will improve. And third, the range of problems a team can solve will increase, making your team more valuable to the company. And the more value the team can add to the company, the more valuable your ability to improve team performance. And this in turn means that you're much more likely to be given additional team members to manage. Good news for all involved. The sixth benefit you get from developing your team is you are more likely to get promoted. Yet all of the previous five reasons we have gone through help. Firstly, increase the motivation of the team which leads to more and better work and value creation. Secondly, it increases the volume and quality of the team output. The more value a team can produce for the company, the more valuable the team is and the manager who created the improvements. And third, it reduces the cost of recruitment and training as you'll keep your team for longer and they will be happier to stay. And in my experience, all these reasons produce a huge return on investment from developing your team. The company is a lot better off. Therefore, providing those managers above you understand and link the work you've done to the results your team produce, you will be very likely to be given more staff to manage and be promoted. And if you struggle with how you or your work is perceived, we have a free booklet sharing how to improve this area. What investing and training your team does for you far outweighs the time and effort you invest. And that has certainly been my experience over 25 years of managing teams. Developing your team is a win-win all around. And as promised, here are seven different development routes you should consider. Firstly, four key development options in your control which don't need a budget. The first one is to use weekly one-on-one meetings with your direct reports to coach, mentor and train team members. You'll have a lot of skills that you can help pass on and you don't need a budget to develop team members. Secondly, create on-the-job learning opportunities. You'll mix up the tasks, activities, projects and problems assigned to team members and provide support to cross-train and help them learn new skills. Third, set up peer-to-peer learning or buddy systems. Get team members to share their experience and skills with each other. And fourth, ask team members to provide mini-training sessions to the rest of the team to share their skills and experience. And on top of that, we've got three additional common development routes which will need varying levels of budget and these are. So the fifth one is formal external training courses such as the Management Skills Accelerator Programme that Enhance.Training provides. Also, see what internal courses are available within your business. Six, mentoring programs using internal or external managers. These can be great to pass on knowledge and expertise, perfect to bring in new skills into the business without hiring those skills in. And then seventh, coaching programs which can be delivered by internal or external coaches. Do choose coaches that have been formally trained and have good coaching experience. Coaching is a specific set of skills. And on a separate note, leaders can benefit by developing coaching skills which provides a valuable additional leadership style to add to an existing repertoire, helping leaders become more effective across a greater range of situations. So in summary, what investing in training your team does for you far outweighs the time and effort you invest. That has certainly been my experience over 25 years of managing teams. So I would 110% recommend that you invest the time to develop your team. The results of your investment won't be seen overnight but you should start to see signs within weeks and certainly be enjoying the benefits of developing your team within months. Personally, in this very competitive workplace, I don't think ambitious managers can afford not to invest time and effort in developing their teams. If you don't, other managers will which means they are more likely to get ahead of you. As a quick recap, the six reasons to develop your team are, firstly, it improves team dynamics. Secondly, it builds leadership, problem solving and decision-making skills. Thirdly, it increases team motivation and staff retention. Fourth, it helps attract higher-performing employees. Fifth, it increases the volume and the quality of output. And then sixth, it helps you, the manager, get promoted. And if you've got any questions on the six benefits you get from developing your team, please leave them in the comment section below and I will get back to you. Thanks very much for watching and I look forward to speaking to you again soon.


Metroid on the NES is notable for featuring a female protagonist, whose name was METRO- I mean, Samus Aran. So why is Samus a woman? Yoshio Sakamoto, a designer who worked on the game, said, once we entered the final stage of development, we started talking about having different endings depending on how long it took players to clear the game. We wanted to prepare a reward for people who cleared it more quickly. Then someone said, it would be a shocker if Samus turned out to be a woman, and everyone thought that would be interesting and wanted to do it, so we decided it right away. People who played it back then were shocked, and even now people talk about it like a kind of legend. So Samus Aran was made a woman primarily to surprise the player at the end of the game. Tune in tomorrow for the next video in this nonsensical challenge we've set ourselves.


Hello, I'm Edward Genouyak. This is Jeff Scott. We're with Charter Communications. VMware was nice enough to give up their slot and let us present a case study that we've done running high performance workloads using a combination of OpenStack, Pernex Data, FVP, and VMware Bio. What we wanted to do is replicate the success that we've had with Pernex Data on our VMware platform. But we wanted to replicate that in our OpenStack platform. What you'll see from Jeff is the before and after the storage analytics of running a Cassandra cluster deployed using Heat and Chef on VMware integrated OpenStack with VMware NSX and Pernex Data. Some of the challenges that we face in our industry are not unique to us, flexible self-service environment to support DevOps, but with rapid and consistent application deployment into our production environments. We run a multitude of data centers across our geographic footprint, and we have to have a consistent method for deploying these applications regardless of where they're going to be. Some of the unique things that we struggle with is having a host of application vendors that insist that their application needs to have local SSD-like performance. This starts to break down our model of trying to have a consistent substrate with which to present all of our applications in our production environments. We also struggle with the unknown workload. In this era of cloud, the infrastructure team, as it says rarely, knows what that workload is going to be, we still wanted to design a consistent substrate that would host any application regardless of what that workload was going to be. So some of the goals and the outcomes of this endeavor were to create the one-click application deployment, in this case, use it with a Cassandra cluster. We wanted to satisfy the network security concerns using micro-segmentation. That's, as you'll see, as inherent in the design. We also wanted to characterize cloud workloads with analytics throughout the entire stack. So we wanted to have a consistent operational tool set that our operations group was already familiar with that would allow them to characterize these workloads throughout the entire stack. Along with that, we wanted to decrease storage latency, increase storage IOPS. But we also wanted to increase CPU efficiency. And since we wanted to reuse our existing substrates, we believe that this is going to lend itself into saving us lots of money. For the sample use case, we chose Cassandra. Why did we want to use Cassandra? For a lot of the video application workloads that we have, they require Cassandra backends. But the way they're presented to us from the vendor community is that we had to have an isolated Cassandra deployment for each and every application that was out there, which ended up driving up costs. We wanted to consolidate that and present a single solution that they could all start to take advantage of. It's also an excellent application that benefits from automated recurring deployments, as you'll see with our combination of heat and shelf. Ultimately, what we wanted to do was take what we thought was the holy grail of virtualization. If we could virtualize Cassandra in a production environment, give it the IOPS it needed and reduce latency, we feel that we can virtualize all virtually anything. We also liked using this for our first one out there. There was a lot of open source benchmarking tools already available that we can use to characterize the workloads regardless of each of the different test cases. So with that, I'm gonna turn it over to Jeff Scott and he's gonna go over the particulars of the solution that we came up with. Thank you. So as Edward said, we brought together a number of different products throughout the VMware ecosystem. It started obviously with the VMware integrated open stack. This is a kilo-based open stack. I mean, a vSphere VMware is easy for us because we're already a large shop of VMware where we can leverage our in-house experience. But more importantly, we bring in all those ecosystem of partners to complete this solution end-to-end. That includes the VMware NSX for the SDDN layer, Pernex Architect and Pernex FEP, which you'll see some of that here in a second, which is the storage analytics and optimization and acceleration engine we have running at the hypervisor. Heat and Chef, most people are obviously familiar with heat. It's the VM open stacks orchestration framework. We have a heat template that deploys a three VM Cassandra cluster, configures all of our DRS rules, the VMware DNS rules, the security groups, the logical networks and the virtual routers, and even signs the floating IP for the Cassandra cluster. Heat then calls off and Chef to execute a Cassandra recipe that does the install and configuration of Cassandra. So it's the bringing all these products together to create this complete solution. Kind of a high-level architectural overview. Our environment for VIO consists of three clusters. You've got your management cluster, your Edge cluster and your Nova compute cluster. Management cluster is the vCenter, the NSX, controllers, the open stack management, our Pernex management and a number of other things, all the management stuff. Edge clusters where all the Edge gateways get spun up in and then for NSX. And the Nova compute where we're running the actual guest workloads. This kind of example, we have three Cassandra clusters spun up in the Nova compute plus the benchmarking VM. And it's also actually in this environment wasn't dedicated just to this, there's a lot of other VMs running. Network architecture overview, just kind of gloss over this just a little bit, but there's a lot of different networks that make up the VIO network architecture. We have the external network where the actual external IP or VIP gets created for the Cassandra cluster, transport network, API access network. We have a dedicated network for the Pernex FEP cache synchronization. And obviously the management network as well as NFS. Three clusters, each cluster has its own dedicated set of data stores. So first thing was kind of just spawning the Cassandra cluster itself. So just walking through the GUI environment, horizon, standard horizon stuff, launch the stack. We already have a URL for all of our heat templates and just simply copy and paste the URL into the deployment. You get the launch stack screen. So again, standard stuff. Fill out a number of different variables for the Cassandra cluster. Heat will then go and create the actual VM nodes, create the networks, the virtual networks, create the virtual routers, create the security groups, sign the floating IP to the cluster, then call Chef, which does the actual Cassandra deployment. This in-to-in takes roughly three minutes, give or take. And you got a running Cassandra database. When you're done, this is a view of the network topology from horizon as well. This is an example we've deployed random heat template three times and we have three separate Cassandra clusters. And then down the bottom left, you kind of see where our test VM is in this tenant. And then getting back to kind of that ecosystem model, we can actually, also, this is kind of a screenshot from VRealize Operations. We can see our same topology in our operations tools. So it talks to what Edward was saying about making sure we're operationalizing this platform. Using the same tools that we use and manage our vSphere environment, VMware vSphere environment, we're using those same tools to operate and manage our open stack environment. And you can see where we're getting the, in this particular case, at the tenant level, it's generating alert. This one is that the tenant's approaching a quota and even drill down into individual VMs. We're getting alert here that we're getting a disk space or memory alarm from open stack presented to us in VRealize Operations. Same thing with the NSX, the networking layer. We're able to see in NSX or in the VRealize Operations, we can see NSX in-to-end health between two VMs and see the physical network between those two. So our test framework, our test setup, pretty standard setup. Obviously, Kilo-based open stack running on ESX55. We're primarily at a Cisco UCS shop, NetApp FAS with, this is the interesting thing. It actually has a flex pool with both SSD and SAS disk. We'll talk about that in a minute. NFS data stores with the Pernik FEP and Architect and Cassandra and this Yahoo Cloud serving benchmark tool, which is what we use to do all the benchmarks with. We ran three different test scenarios. We ran with the baseline with no IO acceleration, SSD based acceleration and RAM based acceleration. Each, in the SSD case, each of the, we had five nodes in the cluster, in the compute cluster. Each of those has a pair of 200 gig RAID zero SSDs. And then in the RAM, we allocated 32 gigs from each host to the RAM cluster. We focused on two primary workloads within the benchmark tool. The benchmark tool has a bunch of pre-canned, pre-built test workload sets. We focused on what's called Workload B and Workload D. And these are two workloads that are particularly good at stressing the cache layer. There's obviously lots of different other use cases. We wanted to focus obviously on what would stress the cache the most. Workload B is a read mostly workload. It's one of the 95, 98% reads. Simulates photo tagging and read tags. Workload D is read latest workload. This is always hard for me to say, because it's a little weird, but it's reading the most recent writes. So it does a write and then it reads those writes until another write comes along and reads those writes. So it's the read the most, the latest writes. This actually is very similar to some of our authentication systems where people come in and do some authenticate and it goes and reads that stuff frequently. So the characteristics, Workload B IO characteristics, mixed block sizes. So you can see in the bottom graph in the bottom right, you know, it's mostly AK blocks, but you can see we got roughly 10, 13% of 4K, up to 64K. So various block sizes, heavy on the reads, 98% about average leads, reads. Workload D characteristics are very similar, mixed block sizes, very heavy on the reads with a few writes. Again, it does a write and it starts reading those writes. So baseline with no IO acceleration. So we ran the test and we got back 1.4 milliseconds average latency in 1500 IOPS. On the surface that sounds fantastic. You're going 1.5 milliseconds latency to my storage is actually really good, really fast storage. This is a lab environment that we're running these tests in and it's a very lightly loaded storage array. So there's not a whole lot going on. So that's part of what's going on here. And back what I was talking about before, these data stores, these NFS data stores are actually a combination of SSD and SAS. So you are, we have SSD performance at the array. And so these are the metrics we're getting without any of the host base caching. So it looks good on the surface, but then we start digging in. We look at the Cassandra VMs themselves and this is actually a performance graph out of vCenter. And we see that the VMs, even though the workload is trying to drive the VMs to their maximum CPU capacity, we're only getting about 10% CPU usage on each of the VMs. So something's kind of holding up the CPUs from writing. We drill down into some, and this is a graph out of Pernec's data architect. Again, talking to that, we can use all the same tools that we use today to do our analysis here. We see that the latency to the storage varies quite a bit based on the block size. So we can see on the 32K blocks and up, latency quadrupled or more. I don't know what's going on, drawing my graph. Wonderful. These are like the best graphs here. See if I can get it out of slideshow mode and see if it'll, I apologize. Technical difficulties, you gotta love it. This displayed fine earlier. All right, well, we'll get to some of these other graphs, but what you're seeing, at least in, and sorry, these aren't displaying here. These two graphs on the left are our update response time and our read response time. Lower is better. You can see that the baseline we had 27, or what is that, about 270 milliseconds run time. And obviously with using the local cache that dropped dramatically. Same thing on the update time. Dramatic decrease for the SSD and RAM acceleration. On the graph you can't see on the right, it would show you that for our overall throughput numbers, this is where it really starts to come together. We had over a 66X improvement with SSD cache and over an 81X improvement with RAM caching. Workload D performance, really informative graph here, had about the exact same, the graphs look very similar. We had about a two and a half increase in SSD and a four X increase in RAM. And it's a much bigger graph, but it shows for some reason. And this is kind of before and after. So we went from 1.4 milliseconds read time, or latency, down to 0.05 milliseconds latency. So even though we had this very high performance storage right in the back end, we still can take advantage of the storage acceleration layer at the hypervisor. And this is due to be able to run the ecosystem of VMware partners to bring in the same tools that we have in our normal environment, but layer leverage open stack. IOPS went from 1500 to 1800. And this is where the rig is really interesting. It's because we moved that IO bottleneck, running that same workload again. CPU utilization of the Cassandra VMs, the three node Cassandra cluster, went from 10% CPU utilization up to 97% CPU utilization. So more work was getting done and able to leverage those CPUs much more efficiently. Now you can go in and drill down and go figure out, hey, do I need to add more RAM or need to add more CPU? What happens it needs to be? So in summary, we completed what our objectives were. We created a fully automated deployment model for Cassandra using the heat and chef combination on top of open stack. Made it a one click operation. We greatly reduced cost by not deploying three bare metal hosts for every instance of Cassandra out there in this example, which that compounds us off when we talk about multiple applications and multiple data centers. And then we gained more insightful analytics. We increased our IOPS, reduced our latency and improved our utilization. It meanwhile, using our same operations tools to monitor and report on our environment using the leveraging the Pernix data and vSphere on open stack. That's it. Anything to contribute? Any questions? No questions? Awesome. No questions. All right, thank you very much. Thank you.


Good to see you back for episode 4 of this E-Design Suite tutorial series. In this video, we will show you how to get started with ED-SIM. ED-SIM is a fast and powerful electrical simulation tool for SMPS and analog ICs. It is integrated into the E-Design Suite tool. It features enhanced accuracy and higher convergence speed for switch mode power supplies, enabling 10 to 50 times faster simulation than classic analog spice simulators. The tool features a specific version of the simplest symmetric simulator environment paired with ST component models. As demonstrated in previous episodes, let's navigate to the E-Design Suite page and select an application use case. Let's specify the required operating conditions. Select the L6983-DC-DC buck converter and start the design. The E-Design Suite dashboard gives you a preview of the design with a fully annotated schematic and bill of materials. Here you can make changes and refine your analog design. From the dashboard, you can now verify your application's performance with ED-SIM. Just click on Export for ED-SIM in the menu bar. A pop-up window appears and will allow you to export your E-Design Suite project for ED-SIM. But first, if you haven't done so yet, use the button on the right-hand side to download and run the ED-SIM tool installer. You can also find the ED-SIM installer at st.com.ED-SIM. With ED-SIM installed, name your E-Design Suite project and click Download. Unzip the exported file and double-click the ED-SIM.bat file to load your project into ED-SIM. Click the Simulation button to perform an electrical simulation of your project. At any time you can modify the schematic, re-run the simulation and visualize how performance is affected. Note that you can also start a new project from scratch directly in ED-SIM. Click Create New Schematic. In the Place menu, select an ST component and place it on the blank canvas. Use the different items of the toolbar to build your use case around that component. You can also browse the File Explorer panel on the left-hand side and directly select an available ST application use case. In the next episode, we'll dive deeper into ED-SIM and examine different simulation scenarios based on the L6983 buck converter.


Here's our video tutorial for using Microsoft Excel to compute some descriptives of interest. We're going to start with the median. The median is the middle value. It means half of the- You see, we already did some in average last time. Yes. That's what you're looking at. Now, we're going to show how to do a median. What is the median? The middle value, the 50th percentile. Half the data is above it and half is below it. If you get a median score in a class, you know that you beat half the class, but half the class beat you. You're on the line. Right in the middle, the median. We're going to do median now. Watch. First, I type median, middle value, okay. Now, I go to the function wizard. I look for median. Let me find it. There's median. Oops, I lost it. There's median. I say, okay. Again, you got to make sure you got the data set. The data set, as you know, is D2 to D13. D2 to D13. Okay, that's called my input data. So we type in D2. Maybe we can just grab it. You can do it that way. It went too high. It went too far. There we go. Maybe we'll do that. Did that work? We grabbed it, yes. And it's D2 to D13. Yes. Great. Let's click okay. Right, and there we go. There's the median. 71.5. That means half the class, if this is a class of 12 students, half did above 71.5, half are below it. Okay, and generally, these kind of statistics, you may not want to use for 12 observations, especially the next one called quartiles. Now, when you talk about a quartile, that's the first quartile is essentially the 25th percentile. It means 25% are below you, 75% are above you. So you don't write quartile. You have to indicate which one. So I'm going to type Q1, first quartile. While you do that, I'll just explain. You have your three quartiles that break up your data set into four equal pieces. You're taking a data set and making three cuts in order to make it, turn it into four equal pieces. Q1 is the first quartile. 25% of the data is smaller than that value, 75% greater, and so on. Okay, so you did Q1, Q3. We already know Q2. Q2 is the same as the median, which is also the same as the 50th percentile. Exactly. So let's get Q1. Go to the function wizard, look for quartile. Now, this exclude include, don't worry about that. Because if you have no missing data, it's the same either way. Some days you have an issue, we have a huge data set, let's say 200 values, and let's say two of the values could be words, like yes or no or something. So the question is whether you want to exclude them, because it affects the sample size. So don't worry about it, because we don't have that in this course. For this course, I wouldn't worry about it. Yeah, so I'm going to use the first one, exclude. There's nothing to exclude. Okay, I say okay. And now notice, now it's calling it an array. What a cold number before is now an array. So I'll let you grab the data. Grab it again. Grab the data, from D2 to D, D13. Data's been grabbed. There we go. Okay, there it is. And now, quart. You want to know which quartile you're asking for. So it tells you, if you look at the bottom, quart is a number. Well, minimum value is zero. Zero doesn't make no sense. That's just to get the minimum. It's not really a quart. You don't need it. Yeah, you don't need to call that a quartile. Yeah, they're really just Q1 and Q3. The median is Q2. So let's do right one. I want the first quartile here. And now I say okay. Now that's the quartile. Again, with a data set of 12, it's kind of ridiculous to break it up into quartiles and we're going to do percentiles soon. But you get the idea. In the real world, you might be working with five million numbers. You can do that one on your own. I'm not doing that for you. No, let's do it. Let the class type in five million numbers. They have nothing else to do this weekend. Okay, now we did Q1. You can just copy the formula from Q1 into Q3 and change the one into a three. That's too advanced? Too advanced. Okay. We always do things easy. Here's Q3. You look for quartile again. Okay. And now I'll let you grab the data. We know where the data is located. D2, all the way down to D13. And now it says quart. You put in a, it's asking for a number like zero, one, two. You don't want zero. The three, that's the third quartile. And this is the value for which 75% of the data is smaller, 25% of the data is larger. Now the next thing we're going to do is percentile. Now there are 99 actual percentiles. We're cutting up the data into 100 equal sized pieces. Okay. So P1 would be the first percentile. P2 is the second percentile. As a matter of fact, P25, the 25th percentile, that means you're above 25%, but 75% are above you. That's the Q1. The 50th percentile is also the median. The 75th percentile is the third quartile. So when you say percentile here, you have to indicate which one. So we're going to make this just randomly, the 80th percentile. Oh, okay. I was going to ask for the 90th. Because if these are exam scores and you're in the 90th percentile, you want to go home and tell your parents that. All right, so we'll ask for that. Again, with 12 observations, you don't really calculate 90th percentiles. Okay, I'm going to let you enlarge this. Nobody knows who's doing it. Yeah, but we have to make it bigger. Notice how we widened the column. Good idea to widen the column.  When you see that black cross. Highlight the column. And I can make it bigger, smaller, drag it. I made it a little too big, but all right. Good enough. All right, but plenty of room to work. So now, again, I'm going to use the 90th percentile. It could have been, really, if you have nothing to do this week, you'll put in a hundred numbers and get the first percentile P1, second percentile P2, third percentile P3, then P4. Make sure to enter millions of numbers first. Go right ahead. Yes, okay. We're doing the 90th percentile. Okay, so now I go to the function wizard. I look for percentile. Again, with the exclude, don't worry about that. You have the same with the exclude, include. Okay, but you want percentile? Okay, we'll take the exclude. Now don't, it's not percent rank, it's percentile. And the exclude is, don't worry about that. You want percentile? I say, okay. Okay, now here's the array. We know that's D2 to D13. I'm going to let my colleague... Let's put in the array. My colleague is going to... I have a very important job here. Yes, you put in the array correctly. Now K, it's, we want the 90th percentile. Now, some growers, you might put the number 90, but they're asking for a value between zero and one. So you have to put 0.90. For 90th percentile, it's 0.90. Suppose we want to the 77th percentile. You'd be putting in 0.77. Okay, so make sure it's a decimal between zero and one as per instructions. So 0.90 gives you the 90th percentile. And I say, okay. And there I got the 90th percentile. 99, again, with 12 numbers, this is a kind of little ridiculous. But you get the idea. That I'm showing you how to get the percentile. The last thing... One more thing. We already saw how to get the mean. The complement to that is the standard deviation if you want a lot of quantitative information, you're usually getting a mean and a standard deviation, right? Yeah, standard deviation is something you've heard. You learn about it. It's a measure of dispersion. And you should know how to get it. Okay, watch how easy it is. Now you have to be careful. There's actually two kinds of standard deviations. If you're working with a sample, you'll find that in the formula, you divide by n minus one. But losing a degree of freedom. If you're working with a census, then you use standard deviation for a population and you divide by n, the sample size. You'll learn more about that in your course. We're just pointing it out now. So you know what formula to use. Yeah, this way you can impress your boss because you're gonna be confused otherwise. You see the standard deviation, stdev.p. p stands for population or parameter. It's when you have a census.  You've taken a sample. So you need standard deviation.s for sample or a statistic. Okay? And I'll say, okay. And again, now it's calling it not an array. We're back to using the number. So the d2 to d13. And now, that's all you need. You just added a number. You didn't need that. It wasn't necessary. But that's all you need. So we have the data's located and I say, okay. And there's your standard deviation. Okay, so now we've learned how to get a standard deviation. And there are other statistics. We may wanna change the number of significant digits here. Format cells make it a number with just two significant digits. And that just looks a little nicer. Depending, you ask your teacher what you should do with that. You can also add this in the menu. There's a place to add decimals. You'll see the menu is a place where it says you can add decimals or subtract decimals. That's another way to do it. But most of the time, two decimal places are more than enough. So now we've learned how to get various descriptive statistics. And good luck. All right, do your homework.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with latent sports cards, ripping 22, top's chrome, sonic baseball, late eight box break, number 10. Pick your team style, going to read off a list of our names and our teams. We've got Abran S with the Angels, Adam J with the Mets, Alexandros Guardians, Barton L Nationals, Brandon B, Orioles Rangers, Brian H with the Tigers, Daniel R Cardinals, Dennis G, Reyes, Doug Z with the Royals, Ed B with the Phillies, Edward P, Red Sox, Braves, Cubs, White Sox, Dodgers, Eric H with the Yankees, Jim L, Reds, Blue J's, Joe T, Mariners, Matthew B, Padres, Nathan H with the Diamondbacks, Ryan B with the Pirates, Sabrina S, Giants, Todd D, Astros, Troy D, Twins, Valerie P, Rockies, Marlins, Brewers, and Athletics. Good luck guys. Let's do it right now. I genuinely think brick and it came out yesterday. I'm like 95% sure yesterday was like the release day because it was Thursday, which is very strange to have a product release, but it's upper deck, so it's a little bit different. But yeah, I'm pretty sure 2020-21 came out yesterday in 2023. I like Don Russ. There's Vladimir Guerrero Jr. I like Don Russ because it gives you, it's a good flagship product. You get all your rookies, the press proofs are cool. And then HobbyBias, Spencer Troclasen Rookie. It gives you, it gives you like a look into Optic as well, which is awesome. It gives you like a look into Optic. There's Patrick Wisdom. You can pull an auto in this last, last break here guys. Good luck. There's a Wander Rookie. Yeah, I was gonna say yesterday was release day for the cup, which is kind of wild that it came out like that long after. I mean it like it's understandable, Luis Garcia. It's understandable, but it's kind of wild. But it's cool. I'm glad it's out. All this stuff's starting to hit the market now, which is big. Yeah, downtowns are cool too. The autos, you get an auto, you get a relic every single time. The checklist is pretty good for both. IKF and Raywave, JD Martinez. I was gonna say if it's Taki, Jeremiah's your guy for sure. There's Lubeb, Raywave. There's Green, Trevor Rogers, the 99 on the Green, Yellow, Sonic Pulse. Nice one there. Congrats on that. Once that guys. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, have you done? Zach Wheeler Refractor. JD Martinez Refractor. Salvy Thrust. Six, I hit you up on IG. There's Raywave, Matt Beerling. Jim, I kind of agree with that. I love watching hockey in person. It's so exciting. Andrew McCutcheon, Dylan Carlson, and Matt Chatman. I would say I'm working tomorrow night. That's the only thing six, but I would. What's he doing? The one-on. I think he has a what-not show tomorrow. Oh, yeah? Yeah? Probably, yeah. Foxy. Curtis Terry. MJ Melendez. Yeah, it's unreal, honestly, for hockey in person. I've never been to one man. Oh, dude. That's Max Scherzer Refractor. Zach Popprism. I think it's the only sport that rivals baseball in person. Baseball, I'd still say, is my favorite in person sport. I freaking love going to baseball games. I did too. Oh my god, it's awesome. I've been to all four now. I think football is probably my least favorite, because I think it's just a better experience on TV. Yeah. Oh, you're more of a question live? That makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yup. Yup. Fingers. Yup. Phone. There's DJ Lamehu. Dude, I love in person baseball. Yup. What a distinguished gentleman. I think a golf major would be fun. My only issue with golf is too much walking. Refractor, Cabrion Hayes. There's Trisha McKenzie. We're going to the Palmer next week. And Joey Bada. Oh my bad. Sitting outside with the chickens. Oh no. I might not have gotten into it in time. Nice. Sharon Durand. That is $194 out of $2.99. That's awesome. On the yellow, purple. Don't choke the chickens. Pulse. Sonic Pulse. Kyle Lewis. Gin Ryu. Ray Wave. Yeah, dude, I went toward this house. And it was disgusting. It's like the people, the tenants living there were just did not keep it in good shape. Good shape. And on the way out, they're like, oh, there's also chickens that live next door. And I'm like, nope. Yeah, that's Josiah Gray. I'm not living next to a chicken. I have to buy a 12 gauge.  True. I'm not dealing with a chicken waking me up at 5am when I get back from work at 2.30. Andrew McCutcheon Refractor. That's not happening. There's a Patrick Wisdom again. On the Ray Wave. That'd be awesome. We can get Tiger in all majors. Like he said, if his body can handle it, we fire. Don't get a rooster. Yeah, fair. There's a Kyle Tucker Refractor and Cole Calhoun. Another steamer out there. He's actually cool. He's quiet, you know what I'm saying. I like it when he's quiet. That's why he don't like Donny. Yeah.  But what can he do? Hit a golf ball. He can hit a golf ball. Yeah, it's not bad, Dan. It's definitely not bad. Giving eggs away, that's pretty cool. There's Cody Bellinger. Trey Manson. Ray Wave is Brandon Bell. You get a lot of exclusives in here. I would buy it and go into expecting you're not going to hit an autograph because they're just super difficult to pull. Max Freed to $2.99 on the Yellow Purple Sonic Pulse. Hobby Series 1, I would save the money a little bit and just go for a Jumbo personally for Series 1, Dan, because the odds are better at a Jumbo and you get a guaranteed autograph, plus you get more color and more parallels and stuff. Giancarlo Stanton. Buster Posey. So personally, I would not get a hobby box of it from what people have been telling me. And then I would just go up to the Jumbo if you're going to do that. Or like split a Jumbo with somebody, do something like that. Yeah, that's what all of the people who are big baseball fans in here have been just saying that Jumbo has kind of been the way to go. Kyle Hendricks, Refractor. Ray Wave is Harrison Bader. Tony Santillan, Refractor. There's Tyler McGill at Youthquake. I think 210 a box on Jumbo. Trey Ambrosian. There's Jake Myers, Ray Wave. I think it's 210 on Jumbo. At least I know we have him at 210. Bass. Refractor Eli Morgan. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on the prism. And Whitmerefield. Really, what do we have? Am I lying about what we have not done?  Yeah, James, we hit. So they have the super short print rookies from Top's Chrome, like the ones that were in the silver packs. Those are all in like inserted into these. So we hit a Green Abrams, Ray Wave to 99. That was probably the biggest one of the day. There's a Bryson stock. That was probably the biggest hit of the day. Hit a Hunter Green. Hit a Gold Goldschmidt. Walker Bueller to 299 on the Purple Yellow at Sonic Pulse. Hit an O'Neill cruise of that, the Purple one. So a couple of decent ones for sure. There's the Expo Zays, which are a little bit short printed. I think we hit a Shohei. We hit a Josh Lowe and we hit an Akunya of those, which are pretty solid. But the Abrams was definitely the biggest because there's color on those, which is really cool. Josh Donaldson, they have color parallels. So they're very, it's like one in 6,000 packs or something to pull a Green Ray Wave of those. So we got pretty lucky there. There's a Cabrine Hayes, Nelson Cruz, Ray Wave, John Lester, Paul Goldschmidt, Refractor, Nice, Green Ray Wave, Isaiah Conor-Felefa, for the Rangers to 99. Wave, Jackson Coar. Yeah, price of series one is gone way up for sure. Yeah, because it's such a stacked class, dude. It's such a stacked class. Alexander Wells, Refractor. There's Alec Thomas, Altuve Refractor. There's a Prism Higien Rayu. No auto yet, Deng Zhen. No. Five cases, no. Averaging like a 160 for Jumbo. Yeah, no, exactly. That's how good the class is. That's just how hot it is and how good the class is. I mean, we can barely, we can't even put it in stock for personals because it just goes too quickly. And we have breaks with Matt. We have breaks over here a bit all the time. So we've gone through Tyler Glass now. We have gone through so much series one since it came out between here and Matt's channel. Unbelievable. There's Trevor Lorneck, Refractor. We've got a Sunny Gray on the Prism. And then we've got a Yuan Munkata, Ray Wave, for the White Sox. Box five. It's either Triple Auto Redemption earlier of Wanda Bruhanlao. That's nasty. That's nasty, James. Out of this, that's insane. That's a huge guard, dude. Huge, huge guard. Brandon Marsh, Rookie. That's Fran Milres. We pulled two of the rookie SPs, though. We pulled two of the rookie Super Shortprints. One of them was collared. There's Carlos Carre. Gabriel Arias. I think the odds are more than that because it's one average 20,000 packs. That's Alex Kirolov. Wave, Max Scherzer. Nice one there for the Mets. Teal Ray Wave, Lucas Geolito for the White Sox 199. Patrick Wisdom, DJ LeMay. There's Refractor John Lester. And Nick Castianos. There's Pavin Smith, Refractor. Refractor Tyler Glasnau for the Rays. Ernie Clement. Brandon Marsh, Ray Wave, Rookie. Nice one there for the Angels. That's LX. The Halos. Jodell. Randy Rosarana. Prism. And Curtis Terry. Ray Wave. What's up, Vaughn? Yeah, they're all getting... Oh, is that official? Quinn Snyder to the Hawks? Is that official? Because that's big. When I heard that they had already advanced talks with him, I'm like, we can't let him leave the building without a contract. Yeah, they're all going to get sorted and shipped to the correct teams to Dungeons, so it should be good. There's Joey Gallo. Teal Ray Wave to 199 for the Yankees. Yeah, I'm pumped about Quinn Snyder. I think that's a fantastic hire. Trisha McKenzie. Wanda Franco, Youth Quake, Refractor. That's what they need because Pierce was not good and McMillan just had a fluke run. There's Max Muncie. I wasn't really happy with removing the interim tag from McMillan. Kyle Lewis. Refractor because he's just coached too much. Like, it's just you're kind of like... It's just not really worth it. Joe Adele. Prism. It's like one out of 563, I think. Something like that, Miguel. I think it's one in 563. Catelle Marte, Refractor. I'm like, I can tell you right now what the odds are. Uh, no, one in 1600. One in 1600. One in 1600. There's Buster Posey. Hunter Green. The Expo Zays. Yeah, Expo Zays are one in 500, that's why. So that's like one a case, basically. There. Speaking of, there's an Expo Zay. That's wild, dude. Go into the Dodgers. There's MV3. Freddie Freeman. Nice one there. That was wild, dude. That was scary how that just happened. Carlos Correa. Trade Turner, Refractor. We do it just because we've done everything with the other one when you get a chance. My bad. O'Neil Cruz. Okay, and it's released. Kyle Seager. As soon as the clock hits 12 o'clock tonight. Probably not. There's Prism, Shane Beaver. Marsh and Zach Rankie, Ray Wave. For the Astros. There's a Purple Luke Williams, the 299. Purple Yellow, Sonic Pulse for the Phillies. Lord's Gurriel. Reed Detmer's Youth, Youth Wake. Base, Refractor, Jackson Cohen. Carlos Santana on the Prism. And Ray Wave. Ray Wave. Boba Shat. Sorry, guys. Can only do so much. John Moncada, Refractor. Yeah, he needs help. That's true. That's true. Base. Cal Raleigh. Prism. And Josh Donaldson. Ray Wave. Ray Wave. Trevor Rogers. Prism, Alec Bohm. And Roan Di Contreras. It's good. It's not good. It's very good. Base. Refractor is Youth Wake, Jazz Chisholm. Max Freed. Jazz for sale. It's a personal, Blake. Sorry. It's a personal. There's Trade Turner. Ray Wave. It's so dumb, but it's so funny. Matt Feverling. What up, Blake? There's Catel Marte, Ray. You're lucky I didn't think of doing that. Nine breaks ago. Last box of the break. Good luck here, everyone. Last Sonic of the day. You like that one? Yeah, exactly one. This one feels like pain. You see me get them, Blake? You see me get them? Jared Walsh. Royce Lewis. And Jayran. Refractor is Lou Bob. Refractor, Jake Berger. No. That's what I'm saying. You can't call it getting me. I know. Joey Vado. There was no close. He got hook, line, and sinker. There's Prism Kyle Tucker. Anthony Rendo. No, he knew it. You could see him. Alexander Wells, Ray Wave. He had missed it. You got it. I wouldn't say that was like the worst. Well, you sat there made a big stink over Caleb's and he didn't even ask you Joe Who that night. All right, but it's also no Dylan. Oh, what's the last name? But I got you. It was perfectly. Oh, it was good. It was good. Mookie Betts. I heard that dude say dude lives a couple of years away.  Let's give it a shot. Let's give it a go. Keep a straight face because my lips were quivering because I knew I was going to bust out laughing. Got a Josiah Gray rookie. Nice one there. 90 out of 199. Oh, so good. On the teal pink Sonic Colts. Cotton Candy. Exactly. Might as well should be cotton candy. It's like the Bowman one to the vapor wave. Prism, DJ LeMayhew, the machine for the Inks, Joe Ryan Rookie, the twins refractor Matt Chapman. There's a Javi Baez, Ray Wave to the Tigers. At it. With a passion. Call them up and don't forget Ray Wave. There we go again. Sand it again. Cancel this run. There's O'Neil Cruz and Ray Wave. There's no more Zappies in any product. No more Dovals. No more Dovals. I had that immediately take down. No more. There's a, well, who is it? Who's the first to happen? No, it's Captain. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Luke Williams to 2.99. Walker Bueller to 2.99. Max Free. Jared Durand, nice one there. We got to 1.99, Josiah Gray, Joey Gallo, Lucas G. Alito, Green to 99, IKF, and Trevor Rodgers, and then an Expo Zay Super Short print, Freddie Freeman. That'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up, we've got WWE Immaculate.


From a young age society teaches us to prioritize the needs of others and put our own desires on the back burner We're told that selflessness is a virtue and that taking care of ourselves is selfish But in reality self-abandonment can have dire consequences for our well-being Neglecting our own emotions opinions and values can lead to a sense of emptiness and disconnection from our true selves That's why it's crucial to recognize the signs of self-abandonment and make a conscious effort to prioritize self-care and self-love So let's dive into the warning signs that you may be neglecting your own needs people-pleasing Never find yourself saying yes to requests taking on more responsibilities than you can handle or putting your own goals and desires on the Back burner to accommodate others. This is people-pleasing While it's natural to want to help others when you constantly prioritize their needs before your own It can be a sign that you're abandoning yourself according to therapist and psychology professor dr. Teo Smith individuals who tend to prioritize the satisfaction of others over their own well-being Should explore ways of assisting others without causing harm to themselves You can do this by setting boundaries and respectfully declining tasks that don't align with your comfort level While still offering your support for the ones that do without a solid foundation of self-care You can't truly be there for others in a sustainable way You seek external validation When you always put the needs of others before your own you can develop a strong Subconscious desire to receive praise recognition and validation from them as a way to feel good about yourself But changing yourself to fit others expectations can result in self-hatred Anxiety and stress especially when they fail to validate you in the words of William Shakespeare self-love My liege is not so vile as sin as self-neglecting Remember that there is nothing wrong or shameful about who you truly are When you learn to love yourself and stop seeking external validation You can authentically integrate every part of yourself into everything you do This can help you build genuine relationships with others as well as with yourself You avoid emotions This can look like taking on a job that you don't feel comfortable with Being in a friend group that conflicts with your values and prevents you from being your true authentic self Or pushing your emotions to the side This creates a build-up of anxiety and inner tension You may try to find comfort in other ways by venting getting drunk or eating unhealthily However, avoiding your emotions only perpetuates the cycle of neglect ever feels so much better after a good crying session According to licensed psychotherapist Sharon Martin It's important to acknowledge and process your feelings instead of neglecting them when you feel emotionally overwhelmed You can try journaling, meditating, talking to a friend or therapist or engaging in activities that bring you joy If possible, try finding a job or friend group who you feel comfortable and aligned with When you allow yourself to feel instead of trying to push your emotions aside You can breathe, be attentive, and heal from the things you subdue You don't respect yourself or set boundaries When you lack self-respect, you may tend to make choices that conflict with your values Which undermines your happiness and self-worth Building self-respect entails recognizing your worth and establishing healthy boundaries to ensure your needs are met Setting boundaries is a crucial component of self-care that requires communicating limits to others assertively and clearly According to psychotherapist Joe Nash, Ph.D. Setting boundaries not only fosters positive relationships but also correlates with better emotional and mental health and a stronger sense of identity Failing to set boundaries may result in overextending yourself and neglecting your needs It's important to communicate your boundaries clearly and assertively even if it makes you uncomfortable at first This can look like saying no to requests that don't align with personal values Taking breaks when necessary and communicating needs in a relationship without feeling guilty or ashamed How to self-abandon less Reflect on your situation and ask yourself honest questions Is it right for you to hold so much tension at work? Because you're not being your true self? Is your partner's acceptance conditional on you behaving in a certain way? Are your friends expecting you to change to fit in? With social media, we're often conditioned to seek approval from others and do what they want By being truthful with yourself, you can recognize if you're sacrificing your authentic self for others Remember Psych2Goers value yourself for who you are, not who others think you should be Set boundaries and say yes only when you truly want to If you neglect yourself for too long, you risk feeling anxious, depressed, and tense A good sign that you're on the right path is feeling present and relaxed If you enjoyed this video, please leave a like and share it with someone who might benefit from it Click the notification bell to be notified whenever we post a new video Are you looking for a cuddly companion that brings positivity and mental wellness to your daily life? 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This is the SugarBeat Report, bringing you the latest information from NDSU throughout the SugarBeat growing season. Now that the valley has received some notable rainfall, we're discussing the management of Circospa Leaf Spot in SugarBeat with Dr. Ashok Chanda, Extension SugarBeat Pathologist with the University of Minnesota and Northwest Research and Outreach Center in Crookston, Minnesota. Ashok, in a field, where exactly do you find Circospa Leaf Spot? So that's a great question, actually. Now if you think about Circospa, you know, most of the Circospa develops from the previously infected SugarBeat debris, you know, this is from the previous growing seasons. These fungus can survive in this debris for up to 22 months, right? So if you want to scout for Circospa, you should be looking at, you know, close to shelter belts or waterways, the fields that were adjacent to previously infected fields, you know. That's where the disease first develops and it's going to move into the fields. Typically, you see just about circular sparks which are about eighth of an inch and sometimes they may have reddish-purple or brownish border. If you're not sure, you can always send in a sample to our lab in Crookston for proper diagnosis. Are you finding any Circospa so far this season? Yes. Since 2022, the SugarBeat cooperatives are sampling leaves and these are randomly from growers' fields and from multiple locations and these samples are being analyzed at Dr. Nathan Wyatt's lab at ESDA facility in Fargo where they're using DNA-based assay for detecting Circospa in the leaf tissues. In 2022, 100% of the samples were positive for Circospa by July 6th. But so far this year, as of last week, about 78% of the fields were positive. But one thing to note is the Moorhead and Hillsport affected districts in 100% of the samples were positive. In terms of DIV values, right, we call these as daily infection values. These are slightly higher compared to 2022, which means the weather conditions are favorable for development of Circospa this year as well. Do the new CR Plus SugarBeat varieties require a fungicide application? I would say yes, based on what we see in the inoculative research trials at the Fox Home location. We believe that there is subset of Circospa types that are able to infect CR Plus varieties. But it's going to take some time before these populations can build up and can cause extensive damage in a growers' field. Compared to the traditional susceptible varieties, the CR Plus varieties will need fewer fungicide applications. But the most important thing is the early applications, such as the first and second applications are key in preventing the buildup of these isolates later in the season. Ashok, what are the main things growers need to be aware of in terms of fungicide applications? If you're thinking about fungicide like EBDC, you know, typically like a Mancozeb, this is the only fungicide that can be applied by itself. Something else needs to be tank mixed. Trizol fungicides, you know, Proline, Inspire XT, Provisol or Minerva, they have to be mixed with EBDC or another partner like a Copper. And if you're using tin-based fungicides such as Super 10, you can only use one or two times during the season. The second most thing is fungicide rotation. Except Mancozeb, you cannot use any other fungicide class, you know, for example trizol fungicide back to back, which means if you use trizol in spray one, then you have to wait until spray three, or if it's in spray two, not until spray four. And the other important thing with the fungicides is, you know, the spray volume, right? So most of the stochastra initially develops in the bottom portion of the canopy, you know, where the older leaves are, and then slowly it makes its way onto the top. So if you're using ground rigs, you know, or the tractors, at least 15 to 20 gallons should give you adequate coverage. But, you know, if the field is a little wet with the rain, you can do the aerial application, but they have to use at least five gallons. Spray intervals typically 10 to 12 days between the fungicide applications. But, you know, if there is a lot of rain, there should be a shorter interval up to, you know, seven to eight days. If you want to time your next fungicide application, you have to look at the daily infection values and also the amount of disease that you're seeing in the field. And so it'll be helpful for you to plan your next application. Thanks, Ashok. Our guest has been Ashok Chanda, Extension sugar beet pathologist with the University of Minnesota and Northwest Research and Outreach Center in Crookston, Minnesota. This is the Sugar Beet Report, bringing you the latest information from NDSU throughout the sugar beet growing season.