Enchanted came out 15 years ago. Oh boy do I feel young. Now we have Disenchanted, which is probably the most appropriate title any movie has ever had, because all the magic and wonder and joy from the first has been completely removed from this one. Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey are back in Disenchanted, a movie that really doesn't have any reason to exist. Outside of maybe drumming up a few more subscribers for Disney+, where this movie went straight to to die. Amy Adams is an absolute pleasure to watch. Even all these years later, she can still sing, she can still dance, she can still, after all, missus is France. I don't know what that means. I'm just going up a Beauty and the Beast at this point. Something much better and more worthy of your time than Disenchanted. Patrick Dempsey is in this, I guess, is maybe the best thing I can say about him. Oftentimes begrudgingly so, as the script is constantly trying to get rid of this dude. He's like, ah, go over here, get out, get out, go. That's right, his character Robert has been kind of sidelined in this movie, along with anything else that was kind of good about the first. Specifically, James Marsden's Edward. Why does this guy have like seven minutes of screen time? He's a delight. He's charming. He's hilarious. He's the only good part about the sequel. And frankly, he's better than it. So I'm kind of glad that he's not in it very much. I'm kind of shot out of a cannon right now. I recognize that. I'm gonna back up. We're gonna talk about the plot. And while I kind of reassess things and get my bearings, why don't you maybe subscribe to the channel? As I post tons of movie-related content each and every week, we have fun here. It's light, all right? I'm not a professional by any means. I'm just a dude watching movies and letting you know my thoughts. And I expect you to do the same in the comments below. I'm also, for some reason, rod and tomato certified, but that's on them, not me. Anyhow, Giselle said goodbye to Andalasia over 10 years ago, still living in New York in her comfortable flat, and she's miserable.  I'm a parent, I understand. It only gets worse. Making matters worse? She has a garbage stepdaughter named Morgan, who I'm pretty sure never says a nice thing in the first hour and a half of this movie, and her eyes are constantly set to just roll to the sides of her head. Her father doesn't seem to really care. All he says is, teenager's right. Anyway, I gotta go. So Giselle's out. She doesn't want the hustle bustle of the city life, she wants to go somewhere quaint-er. She really wants to go back into her animated world, and all I'm thinking is just go then. Just freaking go! But she won't. She wants to make this house a home, so she moves to a quaint new town that promises to be like a fairy tale. Giselle fell for marketing, and it turns out this town isn't perfect after all.  The town's folk not great either, specifically Melvina and her little henchwomen. She's the queen bee of the town, and she's gonna make sure that Giselle knows it. Things don't really turn around for our princess until Edward and Nancy pay them a visit and give her a magical wand that she can do anything with. Pretty reckless, honestly, but whatever, it's a fairy tale. And this is where the plot really takes off, and I start to fall asleep. She uses the wand to wish for a fairy tale life, and next thing you know, she's turning into an evil godmother. Oh, salty, spicy. Apparently the entire world has been changed because of this wish. Think WandaVision, but on a larger scale.  That's not fair. They clearly constructed a couple of sets they put up in an abandoned Sears. This is another cheap-looking Disney Plus movie with actors that have aged out of these roles for the most part, or really are above a movie like this to begin with. Here's the fun part, kids. I'm old enough to remember VHS movies and DVDs at rental stores, and oftentimes what Disney would do is they'd chat out a sequel or two to like The Little Mermaid or Beauty and the Beast or Jungle Book or like any other popular films. These sequels would come out, no one would be the wiser, and you would just randomly stumble upon them at like a target on the end cap.  If it's an animated movie, they don't usually pony up to get the original voice actors. If it's a live-action movie, typically it's totally recasted characters. They don't care. It's an easy way to make a quick buck and turn a popular property over for another sequel or two. Now that we have streaming platforms and social media apps, these shitty sequels that are complete cash grabs are taking center stage. They're getting more focused than they deserve.  It just didn't happen before, but everything's trash now. Now it's about pushing as much content out and getting as many people on these streaming platforms as humanly possible at any cost. And what is the cost? Well, it's another mediocre to terrible film. Disenchanted is bad. It's two hours long. It has no point at all.  And then once in a while, they throw out some 2D animation to remind us that Disney used to be a company that made movies that were kinda cool and pretty and different. But then we're back to the live action junk again. What made Enchanted one good, not great in my opinion, is that it was a fish out of water storyline. They took the cliche princess tropes and threw it into the real world. What would happen if a Rapunzel, Cinderella, Aurora type character? Man, I threw those princesses out really quickly. Anyway, what happens if you put them in the real world? How fun would it be if they still tried to sing to animals? And if there was a prince who thought he had to swash buckle his way through everything, that would be funny. Especially if everyone else is kinda normal. It's like watching an episode of The Office and you have Dwight Schrute interacting with the more normal folk like Jim and Pam. This sequel doesn't have any of those fun moments because the whole thing is fairy tale-esque. We go to a small town. Magic is all over the place. There's no real interactions with normal individuals. It's just a waste all around. It's also a waste that lasts for two hours. Why? Why? Is this so long? I should point out there are a couple of musical numbers. The songs range from competent to holy crap, Andina Menzel, stop hitting high notes every single second. It's like she's competing with herself. Ah, ah, ah, it's just nonstop.  And now this review is done and I wanna hear from you. Leave a comment below if you wasted your time watching Disenchanted and what you thought. 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It's quickly Iran, I know we've been following this story from the beginning, I want to keep following this story, I think this is a crucially important story, it's a story I at least care a lot about and I hope you do too. It is a story of a fight for liberty, a fight for freedom, it is the story of an underdog of basically girls and women trying to fight against a brutal totalitarian regime, a theocracy, not a theocracy in potential, not a theocracy in theory but theocracy in practice, maybe the only theocracy, well the other theocracy is in the world but probably the most dominant, most oppressive theocracy in the world. And it's amazing that the demonstrations by the girls and the women and those men who support them are continuing, they're continuing all over Iran in small towns and large cities but they are continuing. They have not grown yet and they have not to the size of a real revolution. There's no sign sadly that there is any real change brewing within the regime itself. There's no resignations of prominent people although at least one prominent person has disappeared so maybe that's an indication that he was too supportive of the demonstrators and has been disappeared. There's no rebellion within the army, there's no rebellion among the police so the national guard, there's no rebellion within the clergy although there is one Sunni Imam, big shot Sunni Imam who is supporting the demonstrators but he's Sunni and Iran is Shiite so that doesn't really help much and we'll see what happens to him. So the demonstrations continue but no signs that they are going to lead to an actual revolution to actual change. The demonstrators if anything are getting bolder they're calling more and more and more for regime change not just for outlifting this law or that law but actual regime change so I give them huge amount of credit for that and again they're all over Iran. There are some indications that this weekend the Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran has given a green light to the security forces to become a lot more violent and to use a lot more violence against the demonstrators. The demonstrators machine gun down in parts of northern Iran particularly in the Kurdistan in the Kurd area and in the borders with Azerbaijan. These are ethnic groups that are not part of the majority of the Iranian population. There is also some evidence that the regime is now engaged in for fledged attacks on the Kurds. Just as an aside note there was an attack yesterday coordinated attack by both Iran and Turkey and Turkey who both view the Kurds as enemies. Turkey attacked the Kurds because supposedly a terrorist attack in Istanbul last week and the Iranians attacked the Kurds because of I think these demonstrations. Both attacked the Kurds in a coordinated effort. They attacked the Kurds in Iraq in a third country in terms of both artillery and missile attacks. Kurdistan in Iraq is one of the freest and more prosperous areas in the Middle East because of it is free but now it has two very powerful enemies both Iran and Turkey so something to watch for. So no big news in Iran. Demonstrations continue. Crackdowns will probably now intensify. Still no cracks in the regime. Nothing to indicate anything is really going to change. Thank you for listening or watching The Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbookshow.com slash support by going to Patreon, subscribe star locals and just making an appropriate contribution on any one of those channels. Also if you'd like to see The Iran Book Show grow please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show thank you. I very much appreciate it.


Welcome to the Adyal People Freakercast. We talk about how to navigate with agility in our organisations. So we think you're the expert. Is that what you meant by expert? It's been a long time since. Well, don't get me wrong. The majority of my career has still been in finance. It's just that I chose not to just be an accountant. Unfortunately, my wife is an accountant. So I vicariously live, still live that accounting thing through her. Because she has one thing, she has period then, she has year then. She has the auditors coming. All those things that are scary to an accountant, there was milestones of inefficiency. And it just makes my heart weep when I listen to her talk about the same. So if I think I was an accountant 25 years ago and I'm thinking, why are you still doing this? Seriously, seriously.  I know you don't want to be an accountant. I was like, no, there's good reason as well. It's interesting because you remember from the podcast with Richard, they explained the history of the budget, which I thought was interesting because it's really the same. We try to improve traditional thinking instead of thinking new, which is the same in management and leadership. No, absolutely. And they do the same thing in budgeting as they do in leadership as well. They think putting the tools in place that makes the budget look nice and shiny and whatever, but still follow the same practice of how they compile it. After the call, I tried to get my wife to see a different, but she was firm on the traditions of budget setting. I was like, okay. You have no idea how sometimes the smallest thing, particularly around finance is not the most sex of subjects in its own right, but the fighting that can go with it because people are so held onto those traditional values. This is the exasperation for yourself, Pia Maria, is that you found that in HR, and it's just so debilitating watching people just firmly grasp onto this. It's 500 years of history that we must maintain. They're like, okay, just take five minutes to think you could do something different and better. But the thing is that humans are very good at adding on things to problems. So we've solved problems by adding something new, don't remove things. So when we think something needs to be, that's sort of the human behavior. I think I guess that 90% of all humans are behaving that way most of the time. Of course, we can all do it in some small things, but especially the things that we feel very strongly for, maybe it's harder to actually remove things. You need, as you said, invest some brain capacity or time to actually see and do those things if you want to really change something. I guess you need to see that better alternative, don't you? Have it's something to place it because otherwise if you take that one thing away from them and they've got nothing else, then they're immediately feeling, well, I feel now worthless. I feel my jobs are at risk. I feel that my whole being is being exposed because when I sort of flipped to become a consultant, I was still going into sort of finance organizations or finance teams and they would still be there with these like coffee stand dog ear instructions of how to do something. Nine times out of ten, they couldn't tell you what it was that they were doing and why they were doing it. It was just, it was given to them and they just followed it blindly. I used to say to them, now I could say this without risk and stuff like that. I'd say, listen, see this month end, don't do that. Don't do that. See who screams after you don't do it. And then next month, you know you could correct it. Nobody was brave enough to do it, but I thought, you know what?  I did that one. I was working. It was HR though, but it was reporting. It was 120,000 employees around the globe and then I stopped sending some reports. I didn't notice for several months, but when they noticed, they checked every month. We just took a change in that. Maybe you were sidetracking from the subject, but it's behavioral change. In a company, it was 200 employees or something like that. It's not very big, but we decided to cancel, remove all meetings, cross teams and cross just to see which one hurt not having. So we made that we continue that for four weeks or something. And then people started to feel that things are hurting. We want this one back or we want this part of this meeting back. And it was sort of a rebirth of what was good and removal of what was bad. Sometimes you have to shock the change, don't you? You know, sometimes the gently, gently approaches doesn't have the legs. Sometimes you just have to shock it and disrupt completely. My last company, which was a big investment company. I did write this case, which I called the case for positive disruption in finance. Everybody liked the idea and they were like, yeah, go ahead David, you do it. We'll follow behind you and stuff like that. I was like, no, no, I kind of need you to kind of come alongside me. And it's funny, this company and they're a big organization. And they categorically told me that, oh, David, we're not. We're a big traditional organization. You know, even five years ago, we operated like Gordon Gekko, you know, and Wall Street and stuff like that, where the guys would still have the red braces and the striped shirts and the slick back hair and all this. You know, the real bully boys. It was a real boys club and stuff. And it's like, all right, OK, so.  That's, that's just, we're nowhere near that. And it's, and I thought, yeah, you're not that. But we, in terms of my team, they practiced Agile. And they were like, David, you can do Scrum Master. And I'm like, well, I can. Let's not say I'm going to do it. But oh, could you do a retrospective for us? They're like, yeah, no problem. We can do that. I said, where was the last thing you did the retrospective? And eight months ago, I was like, OK, you're not Agile, really. Seriously. You can't even do that. And so the funny thing is when I got. So I joined Helge's Book Club the other week there. And you know the age of Agile with them? Yeah. Sorry, what's his name? Stephen Denning. Stephen, Stephen Denning. So many books to read. I can't remember. I know that you know them all personally, but you know. So I was reading that. And it started off in the early chapter and says, the two most agile organization in the world is this. They're like, no, they're not. They really are not because one of them is the one I was at. Yeah, like not a chance that you even consider yourself agile. Even you admit yourself, you're not Agile. And then another one that Helge brought up was Barclays Bank. Now Barclays Bank used to be my business account for my company. And and again, you know, the device that you know, the device that you have online that you can go and check your account. It's a little calculator thing. I had that around somewhere. And then it took them eight weeks for them. Sorry, it took them a year and eight weeks for them to get me a new one that worked. So let us have a look a bit on the subject today. Yes, yes, sorry. I don't want to stop you because we had we had good things. But today's subject, it's about the drawbacks of having overly specific financial objectives. And sometimes it might be good. We prepared ourselves before this week. And we talked about McDonald's and in that production line, maybe it's really good to have quite specific financial objectives. My experience experience from working in it where you have operational cost and you have development costs. And sometimes someone says from far, far away. Yeah, we have too much operational cost. We need to lower the operational cost, but they are not looking into the actual reality of that product that is living. It might be that there's a lot of technical depth connected to that product. And therefore we have a lot of operational cost. We cannot just remove or lower the operational cost by just cutting the budget. Because what happened in that situation, people just started to time report in a different way and they continue to do the work that brought the most value to the product. But it was really important to lower that cost and they got it. But it was a bit too specific and it was too far away from the reality. I mean, what you want is the most bang for the buck, right? Of course. It's not definitely lowering cost, but maybe you should increase cost and then you will get more bang for the buck. Who knows? Maybe you start creating so much value that you become so profitable that it doesn't matter what your cost is. You need to try it. Well, I guess it's about optimizing the cost itself though. There is an awful lot of duplication and wasted effort that goes into the spending of things. So as you cost a product or materials and stuff like that, it's about looking at that and saying, listen, the cost bit is we can't change that. What we need to do is make that cost more efficient than the way that we handle it. You get into the whole kind of just in time in terms of material handling. You get into looking at the sort of value stream in terms of the efforts that go into managing that spend, the time involved, who does it labour, how many hands does it go through, how many texts does it need to go through as well. So it's about looking at that. And you know, an awful lot of companies will sort of look to address that. But again, it comes down to, you know, if you start trying to shave off departments of eyes looking at it and approval levels and all this sort of stuff, then, you know, again, people feel their jobs at risk or their capabilities being lessened and stuff. So but it's ultimately, you know, if you paint the pictures about optimizing cost, then and particularly in public sector organisations where it's very key on because it's the public parts that you're spending for, you know, very noticeable services, you know, social care, housing, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, but you can flip it equally on private sector and financial services that as much as they are more revenue generated. Yeah, I mean, optimizing cost is always a good thing as well. Yeah, but a very good way of optimizing costs is to remove managers, right? Because everybody will get their salaries are actually maybe the biggest cost of any business. And that's what they need this morning start, right? Because they removed all the managers and then everybody could have more salary of everybody who was actually creating that value because managers so much value, not kind of the most value creating unit of a company. And their argument is always that if you remove that layer, then you know that you increase the risk. But yeah, obviously a company like Morningstar works better effectively and dispels that rumor. So maybe it is about trying to get all the larger type organisations to jump at this, you know, maybe the medium ones that are the sort of key ones that prove that this can work, you know. Martin, you did some research before today's speaker about things that could happen in an organisation if you are overly specific on the financial targets. So what did you find there? I always go back to Kevin and Evan when I'm thinking about anything. That's my looking at this. That's how I understand the world. And I think if you're overly specific in your financial objectives, you are creating hard constraints to any organisation. You sort of make the impact of not reaching these objectives catastrophical, more or less, they break in such a hard way. So it's hard for things, people to not trying to reach them. And then people, I think people start to gain them in different ways. So I think that is a big risk if you make them overly specific. People start to gain them, start to try to find ways to approach them. Which is, yeah, makes you very short-sighted. It nourishes the short-term behaviours and bad behaviours as well. Competition and brown nosing and politics and all these bad behaviours that we see in organisations. Because everybody needs to reach that specific detailed target that they have set to get their reward and so on. But now we're going to the performance management part. But it's very connected. Especially to managers, the financial goals are usually connected to performance goals for a manager. I have seen several times that managers tend to do counterproductive things just to fulfil their financial goals. And with that, their performance goals. Because they are measured on it. So if they fulfil the budget, then they will get more bonus end of the year. More or less. It's good. Good things. I have exercises where we can try. If you follow this checklist, people are very good at following checklists. Because it's easy. You start to do that and then you stop to think. Because there's a checklist of things you need to do. Overly specific things. It feels like a checklist, I think. So if I reach this, then I'm done. I don't have the possibility to reflect and think about things. I'm just doing stuff. And finance people like that. They like the order of things. But the problem I see that, Martin, is that people go down the checklist and just tick it off as they perform it. And what the bit that they miss doing is the holistic view of, so what is the overall impact of me doing this? That's kind of me mechanically going through these steps. And hey, that feels like a win. But if I think about my budget setting days, we would do the whole scientific thing going down the list of, you know, here's the cost, here's the revenues, here's, you know, individual and departmental costs, et cetera, et cetera. And so you do the scientific of applying, you know, 10% here, 5% uplift here, et cetera, et cetera. And you've got various tools that allow you to do that much more quickly these days. But what generally managers will do, you hand it back to him and say, oh, actually, that looks too high or that looks too low. And just without rhyme or reason or appearing rhyme or reason, he will say, can you change that? Can you add 100,000 to that and go, why? Because the way that he looks at it, because he's not involved in the mechanics of compiling it, he just wants to see that his bottom line looks good. Because as you mentioned there, Daniel, his budget, sort of his performance and bonus is measured on that, you know, and that alone. And so there's, so you as the person compiling the budget, no holistic view, the guy who is going to sign off the budget, no holistic view. And so everybody has these little carvings of their view of the world. And it's, and as you mentioned, it starts to create some un-sabery behaviours, shall we say, ethical fading and all that sort of stuff, you know. And that combined with the budget setting process is always done very rushed at a period when you'd much rather be doing, or sorry, you need to be doing something else.  This is all kind of all mismatched together. And from when you look at all the finance stuff, they're all stressed out trying to compile that. Yeah, and always at the end, or it starts in August somewhere, September, and you need to set the budget for the next year. And there's a lot of rush and everyone is just, yeah, we need to just fix the budget. But you just set everything and you need to, everything needs to be in place and then everyone after needs to clear it and blah, blah, blah. There are so many steps just because we are approaching a new year. You're an important person. And that's why they keep this ritual because, yes, we are doing the rain dance. It doesn't make it rain, but you know, it feels good to do it. Yeah, you have to be sin-free then, absolutely. Yeah, that's a ritual that makes people important. But you had an example there, Pia, I mean, I think about the fishermen and the fiscal year and the challenge is that. Yeah, because then there was the fishermen and the accountant. This is a story from Jack the Boothman. And the fisherman says, yeah, I'm telling the accountant, yeah, I'm fishing for five months and then I have five months off. What is the accountant's question then to the fisherman? It's what do you do the rest of the two months that's left of this year? And because this is a rhythm of his fishing is five months. It's not a full year, but many times you focus just on a calendar year. But why do we focus on a calendar year? I mean, the business rhythm has nothing to do with the accounting as such. It's two separate things really. So every business has its rhythm and it's not always the same as a calendar year. We don't need it to be a calendar year either. You have the HR wheel, same thing. It's a calendar year. You do this, but this time of year, that time of year and so on and so on. But why should we do it as often as we can or want to or find peace of mind instead of just following a kind of predetermined structure of the HR wheel? Yeah. So we're governed by the wrong things in this case. The annual thing that because there is a law and the legal aspect to it that you need to close the books and so on every year. We sort of set that we should do it and it's hard for us to step away and remove behaviors that we have already set. We can add things on top of it, but we don't, we are not good at removing behaviors. No. Thank you. Sorry, thank you. I just want to say that it's good that we turn it around a bit because you started now PMIA. We at the people we have understood that both HR and finance are too big enablers for an agile organization. We need to have them on board. We have a training today. It will be launched this month. And it's about agile finance. So it's created by agile people and beyond budgeting. So since we already started, I would like to use the last minutes to talk about what is that beyond budgeting then is saying. And how can we connect that to today's subject about financial objectives? So the first thing is to break the link between annual budgets, fixed performance targets and bonuses and rewards. Break that link so that we don't link people's targets to the budgets and to rewards because then people would just try to reach the targets because they get the reward not because they really want to go in that direction or stretch themselves. And then there are also three purposes of the budget. It's the target setting and that is maybe what we would like to happen. And this is usually what you use as your budget figure what you would like to happen. But then you need also to make a forecast regarding what you think will happen. And these are two different numbers. And then there is the third number that you need to keep separate from the previous two is the resource allocation. It should be dynamic instead of decided in advance because there may be things turning up in the middle of the year that we didn't see coming. When we live in this complex reality that is changing all the time, we need to all the time be on the outlook for new possibilities and new benefits that could serve us instead of being tied by a fixed annual budget. So instead open the bank the whole year instead of having it just open in the autumn when you do the budget. That's some of the things that we're learning in this training and a lot of exercises of course discussions. That's really interesting. And I think Daniel made the point there. HR and finance are in that position of being able to be the key enablers. And I think maybe a half step that needs to happen there then that HR and finance need to find some way of joining forces. Because you know this and I know this is that these guys very rarely speak to each other and if they do it's never really on the same terms. And so the kind of if it has to be a joint force and I'm not saying that it has to be, but if it's if it's a way of moving things forward. Yeah, maybe joining forces would be at least a good thing or at least allies. Yes. I'm looking forward to the training actually. Yeah. Yeah. Are you going to join us? I'm hoping to pay my yes I have not signed up just yet, but I'm. Yeah. But yeah, I'm hoping. I went on. Has it been finalised in terms of location and stuff like that? Yeah. Okay. So with that, let's end today's Fika and thank you for attending.


It's pretty much common knowledge that calcium helps build strong bones. And it makes sense, right? Eat something that the bone is composed of and that would make it stronger. That works sometimes in the context of nutrition, but it's not necessarily true. If that was the case, wouldn't you be consuming the bones themselves? Upon further inspection, calcium is linked strongly to heart disease as well as kidney stones. This is because the RDA, the recommended daily allowance for calcium, is far too high. And my belief is that this is based off of the vitamin D3 RDA being too low, as it was based off of a statistical error. As well as us not having an established vitamin K2 RDA, vitamin K2 not being too understood as of right now in modern nutrition. Both vitamin D3 and K2 play an important role in calcium metabolism, but first we have to understand calcium. And before we understand calcium, we have to understand mineral chelations. Chelations are pretty much what the mineral is bound to. Any mineral, whether it's calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, all of these are bound to something else. In the context of calcium, the primary ones we are talking about in the context of human nutrition are calcium oxalate, calcium bound to an oxalic acid molecule occurring primarily in plant foods, calcium phosphate, calcium bound to a phosphorus molecule again occurring in plant foods, and calcium carbonate. Calcium bound to a carbonic acid molecule, this is found in dairy products.  What these chelations determine is the bioavailability of the calcium in the body, essentially how it is absorbed and utilized by the tissues in the human body. And as you can imagine, some forms of these calcium are natural, some not so natural. So where do we get this calcium and how do we determine which forms of calcium we should be getting? Most people think spinach is a good source of calcium and I can't blame them because if you Google spinach, look at the nutritional value of spinach on any database, you'll see that it has a fairly high percentage of calcium, but the paper value is not indicative of what occurs in the body. This is something that applies to a lot of other nutrients, especially in the context of plant foods and especially on vegan diets. What you are consuming is not necessarily what your body is absorbing. In this case specifically, calcium bound to oxalates and oxalic acid molecule, their absorption is greatly inhibited. This leads to the two primary dangers of calcium, kidney stones and arterial calcification, which leads to heart disease. Calcium oxalate is actually the type of calcium that we see deposited in the kidneys as well as the arterial wall in people with calcification in their body. In the first study, we see calcium oxalate being deposited in the liver and kidneys of rats. In the second study, we see large supplemental doses of calcium may lead to stone formation and this study shows 80 to 90% of kidney stones are composed of calcium in the form of either calcium oxalate or calcium phosphate. What's far more alarming than kidney stones is the sheer amount of association with calcium and heart-related issues. The first study shows a 30% increased risk of myocardial infarction, also known as a heart attack. The second study shows a 17% increased risk in renal calciumi, also known as kidney stones and a 20 to 40% increased risk in heart attacks. The third study reporting a significant increase in cardiovascular events following supplementation with calcium. Calcium supplements cause kidney stones, acute gastrointestinal events, and increase the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke. And one last study showing that this is not just limited to foods, fruits, vegetable supplements, hard water, the water you're drinking can also have large amounts of calcium which can lead to these problems. And in the case of foods, oxalates present in certain vegetables such as kale are known for causing kidney stones, plenty of anecdotal evidence for this. Given all of this evidence, these mechanisms of what these forms of calcium do in the body which at least consider that calcium might not be conducive to having healthy bones. What really solidified my opinion on calcium was that there is no source of calcium present in natural foods outside of the context of dairy. And dairy is certainly not a food that every single group of humans would have consumed. It's not present in every single human diet there is. It's simply not a practical solution. It doesn't make sense from a logical standpoint. What this means is that we can conclude that humans, hunter-gatherers, paleolithic ancestors, indigenous groups, native people, whatever you'd like to call them, did not obtain a significant amount of calcium in the context of what the current recommended daily allowances of 1,000 milligrams. In addition to that, I've been on a carnivore diet for about six and a half years now consuming no considerable source of dairy, plant foods, anything that people would deem as a good source of calcium. Six and a half years, guess what my blood calcium levels are? Red in the middle, completely perfect. This leads me to believe, well, if I haven't consumed calcium for six and a half years and my calcium blood levels are perfect, come on, like what's going on? So if calcium doesn't build strong bones then what does? Maybe we should take a look at what actually causes calcium to be absorbed in the body. And that answer is vitamin D3, a hormone produced by the body that we obtained from the sun. If calcium levels drop too low, a hormone stimulates the production of calcitriol, which is a metabolite of vitamin D. This binds to the vitamin D receptor, which increases the absorption of dietary calcium in the stomach and kidneys, as well as mobilizes calcium from bone when there is insufficient dietary calcium. Here is a study proving the synergy between vitamin D and calcium. Several randomized placebo control trials with vitamin D and calcium showed a significant decrease in fracture incidents. We also see that calcification in vascular tissue can be reduced rapidly with the administration of this hormone that needs vitamin D3. So we know vitamin D3 is needed to absorb calcium as well as for the initial mobilization of calcium. To ensure it gets to the right place, we need vitamin K2, a form of vitamin K that is only found in animal foods as well as fermented foods. Only animal foods like pasture-raised eggs, as well as things like fermented, raw grass fed cheeses are the best sources of vitamin K2. It's also worth mentioning that these vitamin K2 foods were present in every indigenous tribe. It's why they actually, in some cases, left food out to rot. They understood the importance of this vitamin and its role in human health. And upon further scientific inspection, there's actually an explanation for this. Vitamin K2 contains matrix-gla protein. Matrix-gla protein binds to calcium ions. This keeps calcium out of your kidneys, preventing kidney stones out of your blood vessels where it would cause heart disease. And it also helps calcium get to your bones and teeth, making your bones stronger and resistant to cavities. Or you could get Frankie's Tooth Powder on my website, frank-to-final.com. Here we see a 270-day course of vitamin K2 administration that shows the reduction in the progression of heart disease. Unfortunately, these people already had stage 3 and 5 kidney disease and the dosage of vitamin K2 was a fraction of what it actually could be. The dosage was 90 micrograms where you can obtain well over 400-500 micrograms on a high, fat-soluble vitamin diet. From what I've previously said, we can conclude that vitamin D and K have some sort of synergistic effect based on just the mechanism of what they do in the body. But we also have studies showing this exact same thing. One on the combination of vitamin D and K being more effective than vitamin K itself. And another study showing that the consumption of both vitamins is better than either on its own. So in addition to vitamin D3 and K2, it's also worth mentioning vitamin A as it's the other primary vitamin that we are seeking to obtain from high-quality animal foods. Vitamin A in the form of retinol, the form that is found only in animal foods, has antagonistic interactions with vitamin D3. I'm sure we could even bring omega-3 fatty acids into this discussion discussing their role in blood health, but that would be way too much for one video. All of these things are overwhelming, even to me. But it's very simple. If you follow a natural way of living, as our ancestors did, getting plenty of sunlight, eating a variety of high-quality animal foods, especially those fermented animal foods our ancestors used to consume to get adequate amounts of vitamin K2, you won't only prevent any possible issues with calcium, but you will become an optimal version of yourself. Unlike vegans. This discussion in the context of vegans becomes a whole different thing because vegans on paper can obtain calcium oxalate and they can get their kidney stones if they want, but the main issue with these vegan diets is that they don't have these fat-soluble vitamins present in large enough amounts and their body isn't getting cholesterol so it can't metabolize vitamin D3 effectively. So to sum this up as easily as possible, a vegan can consume vitamin K2 from a supplement or a fermented food like natto. We know vegans can obtain vitamin K2. The issue here occurs with vitamin D3. A vegan can take a vitamin D3 supplement, but vitamin D3 needs cholesterol in the body to be metabolized and your liver can only produce so much cholesterol. As seen by the antagonistic effect of vitamin A and D3, vitamin A is also a concern in the context of a vegan diet because your body has to convert carotene in plant foods to the retinal form of vitamin A. So the whole metabolism of calcium in the context of vegan diets is certainly more stressful on the body. I don't really know or think if calcium is a primary concern on a vegan diet, especially with all of the other issues, but it's definitely worth mentioning that the metabolic pathways associated with the plant form of these vitamins versus the animal form of these vitamins is something that we can touch on in the future. So thank you guys for watching. If you guys would like to support the channel, please like, subscribe and share the video. Frankie Boy is up at 4 a.m. before work filming a video for you guys.  If you guys would like to check out my website, as I said earlier, I have my hygiene products on there. I'm wearing my hair pomade. I got my tooth powder, deodorant, moisturizing cream, lip balm, almost everything. We're not there yet, boys. On Instagram, I post some selfies, some funny stuff. On Twitter, you guys can see me argue with other carnivore dieters. That's all I really do. And if you guys would like to reach out to me for one-on-one consultations in regards to reducing inflammation and improving the overall nutrient density of your diet and lifestyle, you can reach out to me via email frankatufano at gmail.com or through the contact form on my website below.


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Hey guys, Coach Mack here with this week's Beneath the Surface powered by Microsoft Surface beginning now. We're 33, 312 in the first quarter, ball's on the plus 25, Titans are 11 personnel, receivers are in numbers plus three splits on the outside, this is a four man rush again by the Philadelphia Eagles, they're in man to man single high safety, with a low hole rat player being able to help inside routes on shallow crossers. Traylin Burks is in the slot, he runs a deep post with a dagger coming in behind him, puts on the jets, runs away from the nickel, excellent protection, Tannehill manipulates the post safety with his eyes and directional pump to his left, then hits Traylin with a perfect strike down the middle, outstanding combat catch by Burks for a touchdown, scoring out Tide 7-7.


out here in the center and now I'll hand it over to the next speakers who are already at the podium already tell you ready to tell you their story. Hi everyone just a quick announcement if you are here to present for the lightning talk we request you come to this side so that we can just get you set up in time and we'll now hand over to the next host Joyce who's going to go up on stage and introduce the next line of speakers thank you very much. Hello everyone I'm Joyce I'm from Taiwan from this region my username is Joyce wiki wiki so simple to remember I'm your next host for the session of the technology advocacy and ECF region for the lightning talk and no more talking from me let's welcome our next speaker over there give an applause hello I'm supposed to speak to you about freedom of panorama so I guess I should start with defining what it is freedom of panorama is considered something of a confusing item there is a confusion between public spaces and public domain we're in public domain which is the status after the expiration of copyright signifies that a work can be freely reused Germany is considered as the birthplace of freedom of panorama having existed there since the 1870s it is interesting to note the partial freedom of panorama in Japan Taiwan and even the United States we're in their respective copyright laws laws only impose non-commercial restrictions for images of public art similarly in Europe Denmark Finland and Norway we have partial freedom of panorama whereas in Albania Armenia Austria Belgium Croatia Cyprus the Czech Republic Germany of course Hungary Ireland Liechtenstein Malta Moldova the Netherlands North Macedonia Poland Portugal Serbia Slovakia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey and Great Britain and Northern Ireland all have freedom of panorama in my country the Philippines our national congress is in the midst of pending legislative bills in both its lower and upper chambers respectively to institute freedom of panorama my thematic Wikimedia organization the Philippines panorama community is actively monitoring developments and updating our meta page to contain all the legislative information as they develop as their outcome shall affect what images we need to share in Wikipedia projects you may find out more about the information that we share in meta we have bills in the Philippine Senate and the Philippine Congress we have actually more than one bill spending in both houses I would also like to point out that further research can be done about fair use which can be found in meta we have an exemption doctrine policy which is required by Wikimedia licensing policies for any Wikimedia project that hosts non-free content some edps are listed at the wikipedia item wiki data item wikipedia non-free content criteria which has a number of zero four three nine one zero eight nine note that regardless of policy some Wikimedia projects have zero local media files and therefore since there are no non-free content if the situation is permanent the policy may actually be superseded we're almost done thank you journey this is such an important topic within the ECI region i'm actually very happy that taiwan is part of the presentation so um we can scroll up a bit i still have a minute i believe freedom of panorama is the legal right in some countries to publish pictures of artworks sculptures paintings buildings or monuments that are in public spaces even if they are 30 seconds under copyright thank you very much thank you johnny


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session, we are going to discuss the following question and the question says that suppose vector P is equal to the ordered pair 2,3 and vector Q is equal to the ordered pair minus 1, minus 6. First part, draw a vector diagram to illustrate vector P minus vector Q. Second part, find vector P minus vector Q in component form. Let us start with the solution of the given question. Here we are given vector P and vector Q. In the first part of the question, we have to draw a vector diagram to illustrate vector P minus vector Q. So, let us first draw vector P. Vector P is given by the ordered pair 2,3. So, we take any initial point and we move two units to write 1, 2 and three units up 1, 2, 3 and we reach this terminal point with upward direction. Now vector Q is given by the ordered pair minus 1, minus 6. So, we take any initial point and move one unit to left and six units down 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and we reach this terminal point with downward direction. We have to represent vector P minus vector Q which is equivalent to vector P plus of minus of vector Q where minus of vector Q is opposite or negative of vector Q. Thus minus of vector Q will have same magnitude as Q but will be in opposite direction. Minus of vector Q will be equal to minus 1 into ordered pair minus 1 minus 6 which is equal to the ordered pair minus 1 into minus 1 that is 1 minus 1 into minus 6 that is 6. So, minus of vector Q is equal to the ordered pair 1, 6. So, at terminal point of vector P, we draw minus of vector Q. Here we draw minus of vector Q such that it is parallel to vector Q. Now, treating terminal point of vector P as initial point of minus of vector Q, we move one unit right and six units up. So, here we have moved one unit to the right and now six units up that is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. We reach this terminal point with upward direction. Now we joined initial point of vector P with terminal point of minus of vector Q. So, by triangle rule, this represents resultant vector given by vector P plus minus of vector Q which is equal to vector P minus vector Q. Now, we move on to the second part of the question which says find vector P minus vector Q in component form. Now, we find vector P minus vector Q in component form. Now, vector P is given by the ordered pair 2, 3 and vector Q is given by the ordered pair minus 1, minus 6. So, vector P minus vector Q will be equal to the ordered pair 2, 3, minus of the ordered pair minus 1, minus 6 which is equal to the ordered pair 2, minus of minus 1, 3, minus of minus 6 which is equal to the ordered pair 2 plus 1, 3 plus 6 and this is equal to the ordered pair 3, 9. This implies that vector P minus vector Q is given by the ordered pair 3, 9. Thus, we say that component form of vector P minus vector Q is given by the ordered pair 3, 9 which is the required answer to the second part of the question. This completes our session. Hope you enjoyed this session.


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Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with a one box break of 2020 Leaf autographed baseball There it is right there. I think they threw in Joe Montana in here for some reason So if there's a non baseball player autograph, it'll go. We'll just re-randomize it to someone in to someone in the break What else have any other disclaimers here, I guess since we're giving away that sterling spot No, we'll just do two different dice rolls, but original 15 names. Just want to do that Also our non pro uniform rules apply, right? There's no checklist for this that attaches them to a team So if it's an active player, it'll go to the team. They're currently on right? If it's an inactive player or their retire player to be more specific It'll go to the team. They played for the longest by season according to baseball reference.com If there's a tie, we'll use games as a tie breaker Okay, so as always we're going to do the break itself first Let's double up those names and assign you a team. Let's roll it and randomize it Two and a four six times for each list one two three four five and six six and final time Jeremy down to jesse six times for the teams And six and final time after six. We've got the new york metropolitan is down to the st. Louis redbirds No trades right no one's trading and people just want to see you want us to cut ahead to the uh Sterling spot, which is 450 spot. There's the first half of the list. There's the second half of the list Let's just let's just print and rip Oh, this is interesting. We'll need baseball reference.com folks now this player And I you you may know I've said this before I'll say it again We've pulled this player before but I always think of him as the team that he was first on But he played for the team the second team that he played for he played for uh two more seasons in the first team So that's the team it's going to go for but I always associate with the first team other people may associate with the second team I don't know um Right-handed batter and I throw right 72 years young Hall of famer a rookie of the year 11 time all-star a gold glover a three time silver slugger In fact, I was a rookie of the year Was a top 10 in uh at 29 and 30 years old and then top five when I was 35 years old Yep, there you go rich malcom riffer. He got it Spent 11 years with the boston red sox, but then 13 seasons with the chicago white socks It's catcher carlton fisk. He's pretty good. There it is right here. We got the becket Authenticity card right here. There should be a sticker on the back right there. There we go Sometimes they have a hall mlb hologram sticker too, but not this time the becket's good enough though There you go carlton fisk excellent catcher What did carlton fisk doing his post playing days? I don't really remember jeremy port with the white socks. There you go jeremy Did he do announcing? I'm not sure what he does now. Let's flip back to this list right here We got jeremy with the diamond backs down to jeremy and the nationals. Oh, no, I'm using the original 15 That's why I already set this up right here All right, there you go Let's roll it. Let's randomize it name on top after nine gets into the sterling break which is happening after this five and a four nine times one two three four five six seven Eight and good luck ninth and final time after nine. It's jeremy port There you go jeremy. Congrats you after nine times. You're in that tops of sterling break.  Thanks for watching everybody. I'll see you next time on jaskiescasebreaks.com


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Good morning everyone. Good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. My name's Rachel Harris and you are listening there to some music by Tumani Diabate playing the Chora, which is an instrument you'll certainly be hearing a lot about if you join the music department at Sawas. So I'm going to just run through a few slides that we've prepared for you and then I'll be happy to field a few questions. Hi there Madeleine, thank you for turning on your camera. Okay, good. So first just to orient ourselves in this wonderful institution of Sawas, it is indeed a place of really wonderful diversity. It never ceases to astonish and entertain me all the things that go on here. So this is really core to what we do and what underpins our delivery. We dialogue with diversity. Our music offering is really very global in its outlook and so all of our kind of theory and practice as well as our regional expertise is very global. We're also very interested in providing you with skills. So there is a vocational emphasis in this program. So moving in a little then just to situate music within the School of Arts. We are one small strand of this school. We are together with History of Art and also with the Centre for Creative Industries, Media and Film Studies and there's a lot of overlap particularly with the Creative Industries programs and modules. Teaching staff in the music department, we cover a wide range of global expertise. So my colleague Lucy Doran working on West Africa, myself working in East Asia and Central Asia, Angela Impey, Said Kord Mafi, Ilana, Weds De Cogan and Rich Williams are all teaching within the music department and they have their own very distinctive approaches as well as their regional expertise. You can find all of these profiles on the website so do feel free to look at our publications, what we have to say about ourselves and our work. I've also included my colleague Casper Melville on the list. He's slightly separate because he's actually situated in the Creative Industries and Media Centre but he works on Black music basically in the UK and the US and so a lot of our students spend time in his modules. For all of our staff we are research active and the research projects that we run, the field work that we do, the people we engage with, they all come into our classrooms sometimes literally. So this is just a quick list of some of the projects we've been doing recently. Migration and transformative justice are very important aspects of what we do. My own recent work is on Islamic soundscapes and also on intangible cultural heritage so these are all themes also that come into our teaching. Our work in terms of research and getting it out there extends to actually supporting publications so we have our very own book series published by Routledge, the studies in music which is now pretty substantial series and we're publishing some very diverse and interesting stuff recently. So you can find that online as well. As well as these more traditional academic pursuits of publishing books we're very interested in getting our work out there. So many of us are engaged with other forms of publication like albums, Lucy Doran is a very highly respected producer in the world music scene. Other colleagues, Nick Gray now a research associate is a composer doing very interesting fusion projects. Our new colleague Saeed Kord Mafi again a very exciting composer in Iranian classical traditions so that is an important aspect of what we do, increasingly so. When we say we teach world music, music of the world, ethnomusicology, I think it's important to understand before you get here that we don't just teach about traditional music or folk music you know so when we run courses on West Africa it will move between the the griotraditions for example and then also into contemporary hip hop presentation style, themes, contexts of performance all of that so there really is no division in what we do between the traditional and the popular. Same when I teach on Korea you know I can be interested in these living embodiments of intangible cultural heritage but I'm also interested in BTS and their fans and all of that. So beyond our regional courses then we also teach skills, a very important aspect of what we do, very popular with the students so you can take modules in podcasting, in radio presenting and also an introduction to sound recording. These are really great experiences for our students. Many students actually also take part in the SOAS radio which is a student union run radio station and find themselves you know becoming quite active as presenters there. Musical performance is very important for us really quite central to what we do and so many of our students come to us as active performers, others pick up something new, they get into Sammel Norrie for example Korean drumming or Gendae Wayan and really have a very rich experience performing with our various ensembles either for credit or just as an extra curricular practice both possible so the performance module that we run is very popular and a very interesting thing there's a you know you're quite free to choose your own teacher and your own tradition in consultation with us obviously and then that's examined by a performance at the end of the year and also a reflective essay on your learning experience. So yeah these are just a few of our recent students yeah but a lot of the music making happens outside of the formal kind of module structure you know so so many of our students they come because they're interested in jamming fundamentally they want to meet up with students with different musical skills with different musical backgrounds and so this this is just one of the many encounters that might happen over the year this is some Kajali Koyate originally from Senegal now our Kora teacher and a really lovely guy and with a new album just out doing very well and he's jamming there with Gaio from Brazil a couple of years ago just play you a minute of that I'm not sure how well that comes through on zoom anyway you can get the idea a lot of that going on all the time um fieldwork yes so um our department is really rooted in the discipline of ethnomusicology and fieldwork is very fundamental to our own research and also central to what we're teaching you so we have a module called theory and method in ethnomusicology the way that we examine that is by sending you out to do your own ethnographic research a mini fieldwork project somewhere in London most likely during the course of the the first term and the and the winter break so the students this year are just um preparing their their projects and getting started on their fieldwork and that's a really great experience for them we do try to teach some of the practical methods of ethnography and that of course can also underpin your your dissertation your final dissertation we have a couple of um small grants the the root scholarship and also the john taylor scholarship which students can apply to in order to support them to actually travel elsewhere and do a bit of fieldwork uh usually in early summer uh in order to um contribute that to their dissertation other aspects of departmental life we have a fantastic concert series just um um coming back now as a live experience we were doing it online last year which was you know better than nothing but it's amazing to be back in the brunei gallery now for these so um uh elian quirea i think this this group is actually playing tonight you know they are a very vibrant and exciting uh band and elian is one of our former students now a fellow of the music student uh the music department uh bae bae wang really extraordinary um experimental chinese percussionist uh also teaching chinese percussion here now and she did a gorgeous concert a few weeks ago yeah so all of this stuff is on the music department website so you should be able to find the details of upcoming gigs if you want to see what's on as well as the concert series we have a public research seminar again you're very welcome to to join um these are hybrid this term so we're we're bringing in some quite exciting speakers from all over the world you can either come and listen in our classroom g 52 in in soas or we also have a link for a zoom attendance and we we're advertising those um on the the bfe the british forum for ethnomusicology um email list if you want to join or of course for any questions anything you want to get involved with um you're also very welcome to email me yeah rachel harris rh at soas.ac.uk uh the other thing which contributes a great deal to the vibrancy of our department are the music workshops so these are short courses short practical courses sometimes running through a week of say um two or three hours per evening others are kind of day courses and we run all sorts of things depending um which teachers are around at any given year but um tabla klezmer mongolian overtone singing gamma lamb all sorts of of classes that's some faciles sharkis he's another master's graduate from a few years back now he's teaching the the middle east percussion really sweet guy and a superb musician so again um all the details on the website right so let let's um think a bit about career destinations this is an important one um i've i've already mentioned that ethnomusicology that discipline uh is is really what underpins the department um we have over the years trained uh quite a swathe of academics who are now professors in in universities all over the world nathan there is um based in canada sherry tan uh came to us from singapore um quit a career in journalism in order to work in ethnomusicology she's now based at roll hollow way um as well as um academic careers our our graduates especially from the masters also go back into teaching sometimes or they do a conversion course and go into teaching at school level uh we have people going into media all sorts of media um archiving is an interesting one this is janet top farjan who's now um quite high up in the the british library sound archive and a lot of our graduates um go and go and work their interesting pathway oh this is some syed who's just joined us um after completing his phd so those are a few destinations um of course um music performance is another destination uh quite a lot of our students come as already uh very talented performers and then go on to have quite um uh exciting recording and performance careers so nick mulvey was actually in the undergrad now doing very well and um maya yosef superb syrian canoon player um now starting to really make a mark on the world music scene and there are many more of course um the the third strand of what we do really is the music in development side of things we have a module which focuses on how music works um within the sphere of development and increasing numbers of our students are coming now from a background in development or with interests in moving into that sector and they're finding jobs in in charities you know music in prisons for example in music therapy community music therapy um yeah uh international development projects had all sorts of it fascinating things you know um recent graduates working now on a project in the west and sahara really remarkable things working for unesco of course um quite a lot of our students especially those coming from east asia uh are now working um in some capacity in relation to unesco's um massive project of um intangible cultural heritage so that's increasingly important yeah so just a quick glance at some of the regional modules that we teach that we're teaching at the moment um you can see we we cover uh the african diaspora as well as um africa itself um middle east so the intersections between the islamic world and north africa there uh actually i should say the islamic and jewish world and north africa um sacred sound in south asia really beautiful quite musicological uh module that pop and politics in east asia is um a very fun module i'm teaching this term um it's really incredible how many of the students are either kind of active performers obviously very active fans or you know engaging in the industry in different ways so that's very interesting uh we are interested in border crossing i guess getting out of these kind of regional silos so you can see that emphasis in this traveling on a song module and also um this silk road module that i teach sometimes you know so really thinking about all those musical connections and histories uh going across across the huge landmass of asia as well as our regional modules we also do a lot of thematic modules so i've mentioned music in development for example music in global perspective is really um taking a broad approach to questions of performance you know what is performance um the body as well what does it mean to um uh to use music in ritual context to to achieve altered states of consciousness for example that kind of thing what does music mean in different contexts how do we relate to music instruments all of that yeah so um the music business very popular this is some intersecting with the creative industries um center obviously also global hip hop really uh fun and popular model module and i said lots of fans so just in terms of your choices um if you apply for a place and are accepted onto the program you will get an email uh at some point in uh september inviting you to sign up uh and there's quite a lot of complex detail about you know the pathways that you you can follow so again you know if you if you do come and join us i warmly recommend that you just drop me an email say hi tell me what you're interested in and i can help guide you through some of the options because so as um just has so much on offer and it can be a little bit bewildering sometimes you know just where do you go to choose so um basically as well as our own music modules you have access to other modules in the school of arts so visual arts creative industries we also have an exchange agreement with kings college in london so you can take their modules in i don't know like jazz for example um a language of course so as is is very um important in the languages that it continues to offer so you know that that is quite a challenging one but just an amazing opportunity if you're you're very clear that you want to work in i don't know thailand for example you know so really take that opportunity to to get the basics of the language yeah and so much more from all the other departments yeah so you you spend two terms basically taking these taught modules uh you'll do generally speaking like four modules in each term uh and then quite a large chunk of your time uh really running from may um through to submission in september will be spent on your own individual study so this dissertation is a really important part of the program it's your opportunity to um identify a topic identify a set of questions um and working with a supervisor who you you can certainly have a say in who you want to work with then you will go about doing some original research so so these are you know exciting things to do and i've just um put a list of the some of the topics from last year uh which were really great so you can see quite a few of our our students are interested in questions of media uh and industry so this was an interesting one looking at um um gosh i can't remember one of the music streaming services and and how they engage in new markets so he picked Lebanon as a case study which was really interesting um here also i'm thinking about industry and this question of reissue labels and how does the the western market you know listen to 1970s pop from garner for example um this ghetto classics project is actually um um a student who was working for this development project in Nairobi came to us to get a bit more kind of theory um behind his practice and wrote about his his own project really extraordinary stuff and this was a lovely kind of oral history project so um an american student of of check um heritage who was very interested in in that that period in in like Czechoslovakian soviet era history and did a lot of really beautiful um oral history kind of interviews very original stuff that i hoping to get that published yeah and finally of course um um we we allow our students to do more practical projects for their dissertations so quite a lot of students choose to do a kind of practice based dissertation which will be examined say you know by a performance plus a a shorter amount of words so say four or five thousand words explaining what you do and then a performance so that could be like a new composition or it could be exploring some um some new repertoire something like that so uh what i'd like to do is um just play you a little bit of this extraordinary um project done by nick nars mirgal army a couple of years ago who came to us as a very interesting Iranian tambour player and then got into the this um uh very fascinating sphere of of multimedia new creative practice so i'll i'll stop the presentation here i'll just play you a minute or two of nick nars and then if you'd like to um ask me any questions i'll i'll be here for for another 10 minutes or so to respond to questions okay thanks for your listening short and sweet


Hi, I'm Rob Randall, Chief Executive Officer of ACARA. In this VODcast I'd like to talk to you about the Australian Curriculum and the review recently announced by the Australian Government. ACARA's mission is to improve learning outcomes for all young Australians through our work on curriculum, assessment and reporting. In developing the curriculum over the last few years, ACARA has undertaken a rigorous national process, considering more than 8,000 submissions which incorporate the views of thousands of people – teachers, parents, professional bodies, interest groups, industry business and state and territory education authorities. The Australian Government's review of the Australian Curriculum provides another opportunity for everyone to comment on what we want young people to learn as they progress through schooling. Without doubt, this is a fundamentally important matter for young people and for the nation. The instigation of the review also provides an opportunity to share important information about the Australian Curriculum. I'll provide some information in this VODcast and will follow it up with further information over the next few weeks. Firstly, the Australian Curriculum and English Mathematics, Science and History was endorsed by all Education Ministers in December 2010. Since that time, all states and territories have worked to implement the curriculum with NSW Commencing Implementation this year. ACARA has also completed curriculum for other areas. Geography has been endorsed by Education Ministers. The arts, health and physical education, technologies, economics and business and civics and citizenship curriculum are awaiting endorsement as national curriculum. But with the agreement of Education Ministers, they are available for states and territories to implement, if they wish to do so. When you are reading the curriculum, it's important to know that the key elements are the content descriptions and the achievement standards. The content descriptions specify the knowledge, understanding and skills that teachers are to teach and young people are expected to learn across the years of schooling. The achievement standards describe what students are typically expected to understand and be able to do, having been taught the content. Across F to 10, the achievement standards describe a broad sequence of expected learning. All of the other information provided on the website, including content elaborations, work samples etc., is support material, which teachers and others can choose to use or not. If you look for example at the mathematics content descriptions and achievement standards for Foundation to Year 10, you will see subject matter that is clearly and unambiguously mathematics. In the English curriculum, content descriptions, you will see subject matter that ranges from spelling, punctuation, grammar and phonics through to poetry and classical literature. I encourage anyone viewing this podcast to go and read the curriculum, not just read what others are saying about it. Australian Curriculum, the content and achievement standards, sets out what we would like young people to learn. The Australian Curriculum does not determine how it should be delivered. We think that teachers in schools who know the students in their classrooms are the best place to decide how to organise and present the learning. There is flexibility in how the curriculum can be delivered. And on the back of the Australian Curriculum, we have seen significant work being undertaken by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, ATSL and Education Services Australia, ESA, to support implementation of the National Curriculum, as well as the work that has been done by state and territory education authorities, teacher professional associations and many other organisations across the country. With national agreement on what we want young people to learn, we can all turn our attention to strengthening the quality of teaching and learning in our schools. Akara welcomes the review of the Australian Curriculum. The creation and ongoing improvement of a high quality, world class curriculum is something that we should all work together on. Thank you.


This is Professor Saibal Basu from Homi Bhabha National Institute. I am proposing a course on Neutron Scattering for Condensed Matter Studies. It will cover various scattering techniques to understand structure and dynamics in condensed matter at various length and time scales. We all though express a wavelength ideally suited to decode structure, microscope specifically of materials using diffraction techniques. Neutron Scattering today is a major complementary tool for studying condensed matter. Neutrons were discovered in 1932 by Shadwick which is an important cultural of nuclear material. I have given you a brief timeline of major happenings. We all are aware about nuclear explosion in 1945 and in 1950s lots of research reactors came up including Apsara in India. We were one of the first major users of Neutron Scattering techniques. Neutrons produced in a fission have energies in the range of million electron volts. Today we also have accelerator based palatial neutron sources. There also the neutrons are produced at very high energies. The energy is brought down to million electron volt range which is equivalent to few hundreds of Kelvin temperatures using moderator materials that moderates the energy. Neutrons in this energy range are called thermal neutrons. At this energy the Broglie wavelength of neutrons is comparable to typical lattice distances and also its energy is comparable to the dynamical processes taking place in a condensed solid. Neutron incident on a crystal are diffracted in the same way as in the case of X-rays. However neutrons have certain additional advantages which needs to be pointed out. Being charged neutral neutrons penetrate deep into material unlike X-rays and they provide information from bulk. Neutron has a spin magnetic moment of minus 1.91 nuclear magneton. It is an additional degree of freedom that can be exploited to study magnetism. Neutrons are a unique tool for study of magnetism till date. Neutron is much more sensitive to lighter elements compared to X-rays. From hydrogen up to oxygen this is an advantage. Neutrons have different scattering cross sections for two isotopes in an element. Remarkably among them there is difference between hydrogen and deuterium and this contrast has been used extensively for study of organic and biological materials. The course will discuss the physics of different neutrons scattering techniques to determine the lattice structure, magnetic structure and dynamics in condensed matter. It will cover the basics of neutron scattering using Fermi Golden Rule in reasonable details. It will also discuss neutron sources and instruments used therein specifically the major reactor and spallation neutron sources. It will cover neutron scattering for structure at different length scales. This is elastic scattering of neutrons and neutron scattering for dynamics at various length scales that include molecular vibration, phonons, diffusions etc. For this course some familiarity with basic quantum mechanics, solid state physics and mathematics is expected. The scattering theory will be dealt in detail. The course targets fresh researchers and graduate students interested in characterization of their samples, the structure and dynamics in the samples using neutrons. Final master year students are also welcome. Some familiarity with extra diffraction will be a boon though not essential will attempt to explain the scattering theory from basics. Primarily researchers from physics, chemistry, material science and also some from biology will benefit from learning the technique. By the end of the course one should be able to propose experiments at one of the major neutron sources including Zruva at India and other major international sources. I welcome you all to neutrons scattering for condensed matter scattering. Thank you.


Black Hay on Paola I have never done it and I will never do it. While Paola is the huge elephant in the room as far the music industry and radio play goes, artists hardly speak about being asked to pay money or to bribe their way to the radio playlist but Blacalds was not going to keep quiet about it. Speaking to Chvisa Livee after initially tweeting that he was appalled by the request to pay Paola when he was trying to get his new single on radio. I really don't want to comment too much on it, all I can say is I have never done it and I will never do it. I just found myself in that situation yesterday because we have an album out and we are trying to push a single. The person that we got as our point person to submit, he came to us and said, well here's the situation at that particular radio station, he told Chvisa Livee. The nature of Paola requests is that it usually happens in subtle tones and the people asking for Paola usually don't want paper trails. This means mentioning names is something that he can't do because he could easily be sued for defamation. Obviously, it is difficult for me to mention names as there's nothing on paper that could link this person to it. So I don't want to be in a situation where I get sued or whatever. But we were in a situation like that and I have never and will never do that. Lakult said he's worked hard enough to reach the level he's at now as an artist and he would never compromise himself and his character by paying Paola. I believe the moment I do such a thing then I would be saying that I don't believe in what I am doing and it would also hurt other artists who don't have the money to do that. I have really worked hard and in my road in this industry I have worked to prove myself asso doing something like that would be like me undoing my hard work. It has been difficult enough for me so there's no use and no need in me turning back and changing my colors. The Paola issue is well and still thriving in the music industry even though many people including the likes of Casper and Ylvis have spoken out about it.