In today's video, we're opening a 100% graded card collection. What's up guys, we're back with more graded openings where we are opening about a 50 card collection based on this box, these usually hold about 50 cards. And this is also a consignment. And speaking of consignments, I still have a lot of cards from that 100K collection video we posted about a month ago or a few weeks ago, whatever that was. Go check out that video if you haven't seen it yet. I will be posting a lot of those cards on my Instagram at ruxen34. So go give me a follow over there. They're gonna be for sale on my store. And that will be the case for these as well. Eventually that stuff will make it on my website, but I have so much to sell right now, I just haven't had time to put it up there. So let's open up this thing. Okay, where am I gonna put this? Okay, before we get to this, giveaway. I'll be giving away this quarter century firewall dragon. It's sealed by the way. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed to our notifications, let me know down below your favorite card in this video. There's a lot of nice graded cards to pick from. Let's get into it. All right, I've gotten all the cards out. He also sent some freebies. So that is pretty awesome. I'm gonna see what these are real quick, show you guys what he sent us. These will probably end up being part of a giveaway. He may or may not have meant them to be for a giveaway, but I've already done a giveaway. So we'll just do these for another video. Either even if they were intended just for me, I think these are probably gonna be nice giveaway cards because that front card is already one of my favorite cards. I know you guys will really like the Arcana R. Dark Magician. So perfect kind of giveaway. Dark Magician Arcana, you guys know, that's awesome. We have Gaga's sister. That is from, okay, World Superstars. I've never actually opened a box of that. That would be a pretty fun video because you can get that Dark Magician, that blue eyes that, you know, whatever they're called, legendary dragon and white and magician of dark, I think. Those are both really cool. Destruction Dragon, legendary collection Kaiba. Tune Dark Magician girl from Dupoe. That's awesome. Chocolate Magician girl from MVP one and a Scarlight Red Dragon Archfiend from Mega Pack 2016. So the 2016 10s. Pretty awesome little lot there. All right, let's get to the graded cards which will all be for sale. So it'll be prices up on the screen. Most likely is what we're gonna be selling them at. I'm gonna try to do the research about these before we actually get into them before we actually post the video. So here we go. Let's see what the first card is we have. Oh, some new cards, rarity collection, change of heart quarter century rare. That's pretty sick actually. I feel like that one will do decent. Like a lot of times newer cards, I'm like, you shouldn't grade these but some like quarter century change of heart. I feel like it could be decent. Let's see what the next card is. I don't know, am I going in? Okay, I'm not going in order. Good. I was like, if this is all the 10s in a row it'd be kind of anticlimactic. Harpy's Pet Dragon from Forbidden Memories. I know a lot of people really like this card. Very nostalgic. It has some forbidden memory. Okay, maybe not forbidden. But some memories for you guys. Pretty cool PSA eight. We have a Egyptian God Slime. So it looks like the rarity collection cards are performing well. Like the two for two on the PSA 10s. I mean, that's a much older card for bin memories. So make sense. That one got the eight. Let's see what this next one is. Lovical. Wow. I feel like people are going to be excited about these. Like I feel like there's going to be a lot of interest from you guys.  It just makes sense. Like these are actual good choices, I think, for grading because I'm sure he sent these at like, you know, bulk or something like that. So it was only like, nowadays it's actually like $13.99 for bulk. So if you want to submit low end cards, it's actually getting close to where it's actually almost worth it.  Oh, we wrote Champing Andeva. That's an Abyss Rising Ultimate Rare First Dead. Pretty old card. Abyss Rising, I think is 20. Oh, I'm not going to do it this time. I'm not going to do it. I saw your feedback 2012. Every time I try to guess the set and I forget I can just read it off the freaking label. So I remember chat before I know you guys were commenting, just look at the label rocks. I got you. I got you. I read your feedback. Look, guys, I read the comments. What can I say? Okay, I'm not going to fall for that again. Okay, next we have, dude, he graded the whole rarity collection in PSA 10. He's got a Borlode Savage. This is a great start. Wow, Borlode Savage Dragon. More of a playable card. Not one I would normally recommend, but at a $14 rate, you can basically grade anything besides like commons and it's still pretty worth it if you get a 10. Okay, we have the same thing with Baron. I mean, Baron, playable card. Not one I would say like, hey, you need to go like grade this because most of its value comes from being playable. But if you spend 14 bucks to grade it and it gets a PSA 10, it's probably going to be fine. It only has to be worth $14 more than you spent. So it would not be worth it, but the break even.  Like if it gets to 10 bucks or whatever, you can basically grade almost any card and it's fine. Angel Fairy Dragon. That is one that will do super well because Angel Fairy Dragon does not have a Starlight Rare. A lot of the other ones do. It does have the QCR and the PSA 10 will fit in that collection with the Starlights pretty well. Okay, Black Rose, speaking of, this does have a Starlight, but this one's from the 10, right? Yeah, from the 10. So I have sold a few, a lot of the 10 promos. I still have a few left on my website, but we sold a bunch of those that we grade 100 different promos actually when it first came out. Those are going to do pretty well. The other options of PSA 10 Lightning Overdrive are just pretty expensive. So that's a much cheaper version. Okay, Gold Pride Captain Carries. That's an actual Starlight Rare. This is not a quarter century. This is like a Starlight Starlight. So this thing's really hard to pull 125 boxes. So PSA 10 of that's going to be worth a decent amount. Don't think it has a quarter century yet. So no damage there. Okay, Gorgon. I just said, okay, like five times. I feel like he bought a Gorgon from me. I wonder if this is the card that he bought from me and he graded a 10. It's definitely possible because I'm 99% sure he bought a Gorgon for me. So if that was, congrats on the PSA 10. Either way, congrats, but that's amazing. Look how many 10s we have. We have one eight and like a million 10s. Heavenly Zephyr Mirador. A lot of Starlights here. This is a really solid grade. I mean, this is like, I don't know if he like sold the low ends or if like he just got a bunch of 10s. There is a Protecting Spirit. Low again, this isn't the Dawn of Majesty yet with the Starlight Star Dust, I remember. I remember all those Starlights so well because I was so mad every time I got one. It wasn't a Star Dust. Okay. Okay. Maybe we were in order. Who knows? There's a PSA nine. We'll find out. We have Mechman, Crescadia, Avamax. So some of them did get nines out of rarity collection. Unfortunately, they're not all gonna be 10s. We have a, oh, Black Luster Soldier, Soldier of Chaos. Super Soldier, oh, Soldier of Chaos is a different one. Super Soldier, this is from Mention of Chaos 2015. Yeah, it's right there. Dimension of Chaos is one that we opened quite a bit back in 2020 and 2021, I think is where the years, it might've been 2020. It was a long time ago. We had some extreme luck. We tried to pull this for forever. We kept pulling ghost shares instead. Super weird. So that happened. Okay, Asian English, let's see. Time Wizard, we got the, yeah, way off center. That's why I got the nine, but probably super clean. Otherwise, if it's still got a nine. MRD, Time Wizard, Asian English, First Edition. Pretty unique card. You don't see MRD, Asian English as much as you see like LOV, so it's pretty awesome. Here we have a eight for the Blue Eyes Abyss Dragon from the old Rarity Collection. So that would have been a pretty cool 10. Blue Eyes Abyss Dragon is pretty awesome. Next, we have the, oh, Ecclesia. That's a quarter century, not the Starlight. Starlight, we used to be a massive card. It was like a $700 Starlight for a while. A lot cheaper now that you have access to this, but beautiful PSA 10 of that. So these are mixed in. I mean, the 10s aren't all gone. There might still be more. We have expertly happiness, collector rare. This was one where I'm kind of like, I don't really get grading this one, I guess because of the EV stuff, but I mean, as I already said, bulk prices, but at an eight, it's probably not gonna really end up being great for him, but that'll probably balance out with like some getting some 10s, getting some nine, getting some eights and stuff like that. Okay. The Eye of a Sword Soul. I forgot this got a quarter century. This had a Starlight and Automagisty as well. I was never happy to see this one. Though when it came out, it was pretty decent because people thought it'd be good in Sword Soul. Before Sword Soul was really, really good. Cause I think Burst of Destiny came out right after this, a few months after. So it was like a speculation. It'd be really good. So it was really expensive. The next card is Dark Sage Dawn of Destiny Xbox promo. Very cool. Awesome. This was a 10. This would be a really nice card. It's still nice, but it'd be pretty big value. I think it'd probably be like 500 bucks. That's just a guess, actually. I shouldn't throw that out there. I don't know for sure. We have a Guilty Gear Freed, the magical steel knight. That got a PSA 10 as well. Gear Freed card. So cool to see that collector rare from Kaiko. So I mean, Kaiko was 2021. I know, I know. Some of you guys might've heard that in the like 2021, that was three years ago. I know it was summer 2021. So we're not there yet, but three calendar years ago is ridiculous.  It was so different, you know, with like different rarity. Since then we've had a lot of cool sets, but pretty awesome. We have Imperial Boar also from Kings Court. We have a Ga Ga Ga Magician. This came in a 10 actually, 10 promo. So very cheap card. PSA 10 probably would have been sweet, but I'm guessing the nine is not gonna be high end or anything, but pretty weird that they did ulti promos for a while, but they did it out of those 10s. Oh wow, the obelisk, the torment, or the theater promos. This is the one they did for Dark Side of Dimensions. Has the gold secret rare pattern, which is always pretty awesome. I personally really like it. Some people might think it's a little bit much, you know, it's all over the cards. It's really hard to read, which is one of my criticisms for a quarter century. So I have to keep that in mind. You know, I can't, I can't be, what's the word for that? What's the word where say one thing, do the other? What is that word? Oh my gosh. How you when this happens? This is, this is what happens when you stay inside and just open Yu-Gi-Oh cards all day. You just forget words that exist that are like everyone knows them. So yeah, hypocritical. There we go. Yeah, I can't be hypocritical about that. So that is one thing I don't do not like about that already. Okay, let's see what else we got. I finally figured it out. This is a win the win chance. See, okay, let's see which one's worse. They're both bad. I mean, they're both super hard to read. You can see the letters a little better here, but you can't see what they are. Like you see that there's something there but you can't really see it. Here you just see a bunch of mush. You're like, what in the world is that supposed to say? So yeah, I don't like when they have names you just can't read.  So that's very cool though in a quarter century. That's just my gripe at the quarter century rare. And we have a, these are so hard to grade actually out of the mega 10, 2022, 10 of the Pharaoh gods.  I only got a few 10s, like eight to nine and sevens are things that happen right out of the 10s. So I can't say I'm surprised to see an eight out of there.  I like the skinny red eyes. Speaking of skinny red eyes, we got a second one, but also a PSA eight should be a pretty cheap card thing. Cause you know, it's not super valuable. It's out of a mega 10. They don't get super valuable PSA eight. It's not going to help much. If the world child's justice are this one I believe is actually already sold cause the guy who sent them to me said, Hey, I got somebody who wanted that card. So I think we're going to be working that out. But if it doesn't happen, then maybe it'll go back up for sale on Instagram or something at Ruxin 34. Okay.  So let's keep going. A bunch of new cards that are really cool. This is awesome. Okay. I'm a sucker for this card. Dark magician from speed duel battle city. I think I mean, they keep doing battle city, but like in different names. So I can't keep up, but this is a very cool card. The original logo for my channel used to not be my face and like the weird thing that's my current logo used to just be this. It was just a picture of, I mean, not that one specifically, but our kind of dark magician. We have a nine from legendary collection. Joey's world PSA that is a first add as well. So that's not, wait, no, Joey is always first add. So that's fine. We have, oh, crystal clear wing synchro dragon PSA 10. This is not a big card when it comes to like value of this card raw, but a PSA 10 go share. This is not easy to get. It doesn't matter which one it is. If you ever get a PSA 10 go share, it doesn't matter how new it is. This is what 2021. That's crazy. That was that long ago. That's a big hit. That's pretty awesome actually. A PSA 10 crystal clear wing synchro. I would have expected this to get like an eight or nine, you know, with those kinds of cards. So wow, that is awesome. Very nice. Let's see what the next one is. Oh, the blue eyes got a 10 too.  So that's a pretty nice grade. Very, very nice grade. Let's see what the next thing is. And AC, there's the eights. There they are. Okay, at least no sevens yet. Knock on wood everybody. Knock on wood. It's probably gonna get a seven now. Okay, number 39 Topia Roots from Laval. Legacy of the Valiant first debt. PSA nine. Let's see what the next card is. We have Slate, I jinxed it. I shouldn't jinx it. Slate warrior, PSA seven. Okay. Yeah. I mean, cool card, but PSA seven. So not great from world championships. Which I do. I have that game right there. There's the game. That's the game. It came from right back there in the background, which some might even could be the Euro version, which may throw it off, but you never know. It's that original one. You know, okay. DMG PSA nine. Very nice. That's also from mega 10. So very hard to grade and see what else we got PSA nine for the movie pack as well. Secret edition, which is really, really clean. The, I really like the gold edition as well. But as you guys saw, it can get a little crazy on the rarity, but they look a little bit less crazy than the promo did that we just saw. We got Ib again. Okay. Maybe this is the, I guess they wanted the PSA 10. I don't know if they wanted the nine out of 10. So one of the Ib's is called for, I think. Okay. There's a dark side dimension theater promo again. Very hard to read PSA nine, not a 10 this time. A few cards left. Let's see. We have deco talker. That is a, I graded. Yeah. I graded a hundred of these. As I said earlier, the mega 10, 2023 promos. These are pretty awesome. The one problem, you just can't read them, but the shininess is really cool deco talker. Not necessarily. I still have a few deco talkers. I sold out of most of the big cards, even though they're more expensive deco talkers, a little harder to sell, but you know, it's there. We have the elemental hero Nios. Pretty awesome as well. Quarter century. This is a big one. Elemental hero Nios.  More 10s than anything else. Well, I mean, combined it might be close, but we have the nine on the odd ice pendulum dragon. He's not getting great grades on these 10 promos, surprisingly. I think I did okay. I got a bunch of 10s. I got a bunch of nines. I got some mates as well. I don't think I got any seven. No, maybe got like one seven. We have rainbow. Why do I keep jinxing? Why do I keep jinxing? I'm sorry, rainbow dragon. He already knows these fortunately. So it's not like I really jinx them. You know, if they were coming out of the package, it'd be pretty sad. He had already seen the grade. So that's good. Rainbow dragon, PSA seven, few cards left. I feel like they may have been in, no, they've been in on order. I keep thinking maybe they were sort of in order. No, there's a PSA 10 rainbow dragon. And that is beautiful. Awesome looking card. Overall, this has been a pretty awesome one. We have two cards left. Let's see what this is. See, they feel kind of in order. It's like they're slowly making their way like the average card is like a lot lower. That's a cyber dragon six. There's one more card. Is this like the PSA two of the thing or is this a surprise PSA 10 cyber dragon? If you guys have enjoyed this video, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more content like this. And if you were interested in any of these cards, check me out on Instagram at ruxxon34. I will try to put these up on ruxxon34.com very soon. I still have some stuff up there, but I have so much going on. I haven't gotten everything up there. We got a lot for sale. That really should be up there. I'll eventually get it up there. Last card. Let's see what it was. Ah, it was the worst grade. Okay, elemental hero, Nios. There was some sort of order. They weren't completely in order though. There were some 10 sprinkled throughout, which made it still really interesting. Honestly, like, if that was one return, that was really good because you always get the random five or the six. You either miss something and they miss grade it. You know, usually it's you missed it, but sometimes they miss grade it. But if you end up with this many 10s compared to everything else, I mean, you can't even see the top of it. That is a lot better than most subs are, even though this is new cards, but a lot of these new cards don't have great print quality. So they end up like this. So overall pretty great sub and some nice cards for sale. Well, I'm most excited about that go-share. That's pretty amazing to get a 10 on. Shout out to Toe & Fo Show, Puff, Zudun, Mernester, Deanne, America, Deutsche, KK Beats, another side show, Ian Moos, your junior, Barney, Robert F. Thomas, Blaine, Changelang, and Al Delso, Galicia, Jr. Thank you guys for supporting the channel and I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.


This paper proposes a novel methodology for identifying wetlands using remote sensing data. It combines the advantages of multiple sensors and data sources to improve the accuracy of wetland identification. The authors used a random forest algorithm to combine the data from different sensors and data sources, including PLEAD, 1B imagery, Landsat, A and DVI time series, and geometric and spectral features. The resultant classification accuracy was found to be higher than other classifiers, such as support vector machines and artificial neural networks. Additionally, the inclusion of phenological information in the classification enabled the classification errors to be reduced, resulting in an overall accuracy improvement of approximately 10%. This article was authored by Xiaohong Tian, Sianfeng Zhang, Jia Tian, and others.


And welcome to another session on supply chain digitization the NPTEL course that we are conducting for all participants interested in supply chain management and the digitization opportunities that are present in it. I am Professor Sushmita Narayana, I am a faculty in the operations and supply chain management area at Indian Institute of Management Mobile. Today's lecture, we will be looking at a very very interesting concept which is become so common today, it is all around us and in some form or the other we have involved ourselves in this particular idea and that concept that we shall be talking about is called platform economy. Now, this platform economy is very important to understand because this has become a core part of supply chain management, they are both integrated in some way or the other which is what makes it so interesting to study from a practitioner perspective and as well as a researcher perspective. So, what exactly is this platform economy and why is it important to us? In order to understand what is platform economy, we need to understand some traditional concepts of business for which platform economy has emerged as a solution. So, what would that be is what we will see right now. I will be picking up an example from supply chain management itself, but let us remember that platform economy is not only limited to supply chain management, it has wide applications across different types of businesses, but we have seen a lot of application for this in supply chain management. So, in this session what I would be looking at is an introduction to the concept of platform economy. Firstly, we look at some of the challenges that we face in traditional supply chain management and a few examples related to that and then we will end our lecture with the overview of the platform economy concept. So, when we consider the typical business that I was talking about, I am considering now a typical supply chain. So, in order to understand a typical supply chain, we need to see what is the fundamental element in a supply chain. The fundamental element in any supply chain is the existence of two parties. One is a buyer and one is a supplier. We also call it as buyer and seller, buyer and vendor, customer and supplier, customer and vendor. There are many such nomenclatures, but the core element or the foundational aspect of any supply chain is the existence of at least two parties, one being the buyer and one being the supplier. Now, a typical buyer supply chain or buyer-supplier relationship, it actually requires several mediators to be present in order to function well and that is how a chain or a network actually emerges in supply chain management. So, if we were to consider this, the first and foremost, we need to have an entity which wants to sell a product or a service. So, I am calling that as seller 1 and there is a reason why I am calling it as 1 because we will see that there are going to be many other sellers also present within the value chain. Now, let us assume the seller 1 is primarily a manufacturer of products and has to sell the products to other customers. He has or she has the option of directly selling it to the customer or has the option of selling it to an intermediate buyer who would then sell it to customers. Now, the reason why intermediate buyers would exist is because of the locational advantage that the buyers could have to the markets. It could also be that they have a variety of sellers from whom they are going to procure the products. So, for that reason, I am considering a slightly more complex supply chain design over here. We have a seller who is going to sell the product after manufacturing to a buyer. Now, note that I have called this as seller 2, which means this particular entity is a very important element within the supply chain. He or she acts as the buyer of products from this seller, but is also a seller himself or herself to other customers. So, it could be you know it could be a trading company who is just looking at purchasing the products and selling it onwards to other customers. So, what would happen after this? This is an intermediate buyer right. So, the intermediate buyer is going to procure the product and then going to sell this product to another customer. So, which means you would have another customer. So, in this case I have considered that we have a final buyer or the end customer, but note that it is not required that we have only these many elements within a supply chain. I could have another customer associated with this particular end customer so to speak. It could be possible that you know the seller is seller 1 who is present here who is the manufacturer is actually going to be selling components and the final buyer who is present over here is going to procure these components, assemble them, create a product and sell it further. So, this can keep going on and on right and that is how a chain is going to form which is why we said a chain could form. Now, as we have seen here these arrows over here represent material flow. So, I have kept it quite simple. Now, what could make this slightly more complicated is that we have multiple parties within this particular supply chain. So, let us see how that will be. I could have a seller again who is the manufacturer of the products. This particular manufacturer will sell now to two other buyers. So, in the previous example we had just one buyer. Now, I am going to have two buyers. I have buyer 1 and I have buyer 2 and if you can see here I am also calling them as seller 2 and seller 3, which means they will also further sell this product to another customer. So, as you can observe here the supply chain has become already slightly complicated because of the presence of two players in this particular layer or in this level of the supply chain. And then after this there are many alternatives that are possible. One of the cases that I have taken over here and it is slightly simple is both of these players are going to purchase the product from seller 1 and they are going to try to sell it to the same customer right. So, this is interesting which is in the sense even buyer 1 is procuring from seller 1 and buyer 2 is procuring from seller 1 and both of them are going to try to sell it to the end customer right. So, it could be for example let us say instead of components you could also take the case of a farming example, where a farmer is going to sell his or her produce to you know some intermediate buyer who has come to his farm and he has picked up the produce. Now, both of these buyers or even the farmer himself can go to a market and they are going to try to sell it to the same customer. The same customer will be walking through the market and they will try to sell it to that customer. So, it can come from the same farm, it can come from the same factory, it can come from the same source, the same region and it can reach the end customer through different ways. As you can see this is a different kind of a channel and this is what we would term as a network. Of course, this is a very very simple form of a network because we have just added two players within this supply chain. So, as you can see here the supply chain is getting more and more complicated with the entry of few more players within the value chain. Now, this is what we have seen when we understand traditional supply chains, but why is this important for platform economy is the problem or is of interest to us is what we would say. Notice that the end customer has to purchase from these two sellers and these two sellers are purchasing from this one seller. So, let us look at step by step what issues or challenges could arise within the system. So, I am considering the same value chain there is no difference as such. One of the things that could happen is over here in this zone over here which I am picking up this is the interaction space between these two sellers these two sellers who are going to try to sell the product to this end customer. They would have stored the product in their warehouse and they might have done some additional value add maybe packaging or maybe some kind of labeling they would have done something and or they might not have done anything also that is also possible. And now they are both trying to sell this product to this end customer and so, here is where we are interested in understanding what could be the issue that arises. So, let us look at it from the perspective of the end customer. Now, let us say this end customer is interested in buying the product made by this seller. Remember the end customer is not really bothered about the intermediate buyers the end customer is interested in the product the product could be electronics the product could be farm produce FMCG product it could be anything. So, they are interested in a particular product or a particular brand which is being sold by this particular seller over here and they want to know where to purchase from. So, that means they want to know location right they want to know what the look of the product is going to be. So, that means, they need to know what are the attributes they also want to know you know what is the price of the product. So, they can make a decision based on this they may be interested in many other aspects also related to the brand who is endorsing it what could be the kind of color is there for that product there may be interested in many other aspects. But when they are trying to make a purchase they would be interested in knowing where they want to purchase this from what are the attributes and the price the basic attributes of any kind of a transaction that we are looking at. So, they need to know this information right. Now, let us say they have this information that both these buyers buyer 1 and buyer 2 or for this end customer we would say seller 2 and seller 3 that both these sellers are present in the market and this end customer knows that both these sellers are available may be one of them is closer to the home one of them is slightly far from the home and now they have to make a decision as to where to purchase this from. So, the end customer is going to factor in a lot of other ideas into making this decision they could be interested in knowing how far the buyer 1 or seller 2 is from their house if they are very far they might actually make the choice of going to seller 3 and that might not be the only factor they might be you know interested in looking at the product at both the locations. So, they may be interested in making a trip to seller 2 and a trip to seller 3 and only after seeing both of them they will need to make a decision as to how to purchase this product. So, you can see here the decision of making a purchase itself can get complicated in this particular zone. So, not only does the end customer need to know what are some of the attributes of the product in terms of where it is located what are its physical attributes as well as the price of the product they would also need to understand how this particular transaction will need to take place do they need to travel and all of this. So, they need to make a decision based upon all of these aspects. What could happen is let us say seller 2 might offer a higher price and seller 3 might offer a lower price. So, it can be a decision where he has to first approach each seller visit their facilities could be a retail point visit the facilities see the product see the price then go to another seller see the product see the price and then make a decision. As you can see this can take a certain amount of effort and sometimes this effort can be very significant one of the sellers might be located in a completely different state as compared to where the customer is actually located. So, in that case what would happen if one of the sellers let us say seller 3 is located very far away the end customer will not even go to seller 3 and will end up making a decision based upon location of seller 2 even if seller 3 over here is offering a lower price right. So, you can see here the decision making for the end customer is based upon information which is very easily available to him or her. As a result this can actually become a complex process if he needs to take a very fully informed decision. So, in other words what we need to see here is that there is a certain amount of effort that is involved for the customer to search for sellers who are selling this product and then to evaluate among the sellers and select with whom he or she is going to make the final transaction. So, he is going to make or she is going to make a decision based upon all the information he or she has collected in the market. And as you can see if you know it is too difficult the end customer might take a decision with whatever information is readily available. So, this is the complication that we observe at the end of the end customer. A similar complication can actually arise at the end of the manufacturer as well. In this case we are saying manufacturer is seller 1 and what would that complication be? Seller 1 or the manufacturer over here is trying to send their products into the market. They want their products to be purchased by the right kind of customers, they want their products to be sold to as many customers possible, they want as much reach as possible for their products. So, which means they need to find ways to reach the end customer and make a successful transaction. As you can see here seller 1 can go via two different ways, seller 1 can go via intermediate buyer 1 and then go to the end customer, seller 1 can go via intermediate buyer 2 and then go to the end customer, seller 1 also has the choice of selling the products to both intermediate buyer 1 and intermediate buyer 2 before reaching the end customer. Not only that we have missed another possibility if he is not satisfied with buyer 1 and buyer 2, seller 1 might make a direct delivery of product to the end customer and absorb the cost of logistics, warehousing and other aspects which may be involved in it. So, you can see seller 1 or the manufacturer that we have taken has many choices and sometimes these choices may be many number, it may be few in number, again the problem that the seller 1 is facing is similar to what the end customer was facing. Seller 1 has to search for channels which can be used to reach the end customer, it could also be possible that seller 1 has to also realize where is the end customer himself or herself located, which means not just the channels, but also what will be the end customer's location, what will be the price that the end customer is willing to pay, all of these aspects is something that seller 1 has to actually find out. In other words, basically do a market search in order to identify which would be the right place to send the product to, which could be the variety of channels in which you can send the product to these markets, such that the profitability is highest or the business advantage is the highest whichever may be the case, this would be the requirement for seller 1. Again this particular problem can be complex because seller 1 has to take in a lot of elements into consideration, what would be the storage cost that are going to be present, what would be transportation cost, all of these aspects and even if the sale is made seller 1 might be interested in knowing how is the payment going to be made to the seller, so on and so forth. So, as a result the complication for seller 1 is slightly similar to the end customer, which is in terms of searching who would be the buyers and who of these buyers should the product actually be sold to. So, as you can observe here both the parties over here seller 1 and customer each of them has a searching problem and a selection problem, which is related to them, which can be quite complex. Now, we have not looked at what happens to the intermediate buyer, there are two intermediate buyers over here, will they be not having these problems or will they be having these problems. As you can very rightly think they are also buyers and they are also sellers, so they will also be having similar problems like the end customer and the seller, but they would be having both sides of the problem. So, if I were to consider the intermediate buyers over here, they would be a buyer from seller 1, so they would have a problem just like the customer, they would need to have knowledge of where to procure the products from. So, right now as you can see intermediate buyer 1 and buyer 2 are procuring only for seller 1, they might need to think of whether this is a good decision or are there other sellers also who are present in the market, who could be selling the same kind of components at a better price to them, better payment terms and conditions as well, someone who is going to give them sufficient credit period which can make payment easy, someone who is going to also give good quality products which can be stored easily, someone who is also going to give them products which can be traded easily through packaging with the next customers that they are going to have. So, as a result this problem is very similar to what the end customer is facing, they also they need to search and select sellers who will provide the right price for the right quantity and the right service that is of interest in the market. So, they need to have this knowledge and as a result they are having similar problems as that of the end customer, but here their problems are directly with the equipment manufacturers or component manufacturers or the farmers whichever be the market that we are interested in and this is not the only concern that they are going to have, they are going to have another concern as a seller themselves. So, this was the concern that they had as a buyer or an intermediate buyer to be more specific, but they could have similar concerns as sellers themselves which is over here. So, here they are trying to sell to end customers, they may be you know purchasing products from seller one and trying to make a margin by selling it to the end customers. So, they need to identify the end customers and the markets appropriately, they need to see whether the right kinds of volumes are there for them to procure and sell. So, they need to be able to sell to the right customer and remember here it is very interesting because they have another seller who is present in the market. So, seller 2's competition is seller 3, seller 3's competition is seller 2. So, whatever margin they are making is going to be impacted by the presence of competition that they are having. So, they need to have knowledge not only of who is the end customer, but they would also need to have knowledge of who will be the other sellers who are present in the market. As a result of this, they also need information as to what the market looks like and what kind of price they could sell to the end customer. So, in some ways they have a concern which is very similar to seller 1. So, you can observe over here as we can see there are multiple layers or interfaces within this entire supply chain where each player, each entity has certain concerns related to searching, selecting, evaluating and making the right decision. And as you can observe here also, each of them is independently making these decisions. As a result, the supply chain can become very complex in the sense there are too many decisions being taken, not much visibility of information and the value which is finally provided to the customers, to the sellers, to the buyers that might get diminished. So, this is a concern which a traditional supply chain faces. This has always been a concern. It is a concern even today, even in the presence of e-commerce. Of course, e-commerce has made a lot of disruption to the way business is being carried out, but these are the concerns which are going to be there in any traditional supply chain. Now, in addition to this, one of the aspects that I actually have not covered is the fact that not only the material flow, there would also be flow of money, right. From the customer to the buyer or from the end customer to buyer 1, from end customer to seller 3 or buyer 2, from buyer 1 to seller 1 and from buyer 2 to seller 1. So, we have material flow which is also complicated because it is going via different channels and we have financial flow which is happening across a variety of channels. So, as you can see over here, the value chain that we have in terms of a simple 4 entity supply chain is complicated. There are many complicated relationships that are present and as a result of this, we could have a lot of challenges to how the supply chain actually functions. In essence, if I were to consider the typical challenges that this supply chain is going to face and why it is complicated is because we have many players within the market, we have many transactions to be carried out, we have many paths for these transactions and we have the need to have visibility of players of information of paths of prices of products so on and so forth. And we need to also have appropriate decision making skills at each stage. In the absence of appropriate decision making skills, the supply chain becomes complex, but what is more interesting is it is going to create very interesting dynamics of competition, collaboration within the economy. So, some of the players might actually collude with each other knowing that the manufacturer is not aware of what is happening in the market in terms of the kinds of prices that they are going to actually get in the market, the kind of quantities they can actually sell in the market. Similarly, the end customer might also not be aware of what to procure or what to purchase. So, they might end up not purchasing some things and as a result of which the market for a particular product might actually die down very quickly. So, these are some challenges that the supply chain has and the kind of impact that it can have on an economy as such. So, with this what I have tried to present to you are some of the traditional supply chain challenges that we face. In the next lecture just after this we are going to look at some examples in which these kinds of challenges are going to occur and where the role of a platform economy is going to take place. So, with this I will end this session and this lecture. Just to summarize we have seen what a traditional supply chain looks like in terms of the challenges that it faces in terms of the number of entities so on and so forth and we have now created a foundation for where the platform economy is going to play a role. So, thank you very much see you in the next session.


Hello all, in this presentation, we are going to discuss about the importance of reporting guidelines in research. Why this reporting guidelines is very important in research? This reporting guidelines will give us a checklist based approach for assessing the quality of any journal article or research paper. Each item in that checklist is a standardized item and they give an objective assessment of various aspects of research article, thereby eliminating the subjective bias in assessing the quality of research article. These reporting guidelines increase the transparency of research. The overall purpose of this reporting guidelines is to increase the quality of the research. We can use this reporting guidelines in three important ways. One, when we are writing our own manuscript, we can use this reporting guidelines and maintain the standard of our research paper. Secondly, when we are doing a peer review or reviewing an article, we can use this reporting guidelines as an objective assessment for the quality of the. Third, when we are critiquing a journal in our journal club presentations, there you can use this reporting guidelines. So, these reporting guidelines are commonly categorized based on the study designs and sometimes there are guidelines for how to make each section of the research article or the scientific report and there are guidelines classified based on the research area. Now, as I mentioned earlier, the most common classification for this reporting guidelines is the study designs. So, based on the study designs, the most commonly used reporting guidelines are presented here. Concert is the commonest reporting guidelines used for randomized control trial. Here is the concert checklist. This is a 25-item-based questionnaire where you can assess objectively the standards of a randomized trial. So, we have all the items here. You can see this. Similarly, concert flow diagram is used for representing the methodology section of a randomized control trial. We have stroke guidelines for observational studies separately for case control, cohort and cross-sectional studies. When we are doing systematic reviews, Prisma reporting guidelines are used. When we are preparing study protocols, Spirit and Prisma-P. Here you have to note it is Prisma-P. P stands for protocol. The other Prisma is for systematic reviews. When we are doing diagnostic or prognostic studies, we use stard or tripod guidelines, case reports, we use care guidelines, clinical practice guidelines, we use agree-right guidelines, qualitative research, we use SRQR, KORAC guidelines. For animal preclinical studies, we use arrive guidelines. For quality improvement studies, we use square guidelines. For economic evaluations, we use cheers guidelines. If you are not confident in classifying your study design, then you can use this decision tree to decide on what reporting guidelines you should use. You have to start here, was the research on humans. If no, then it is an animal preclinical studies, then you have to use arrive guidelines. Same way you have to use this algorithm, then you have to decide on which reporting guidelines is suitable for your research. So now, where can you get all these reporting guidelines freely downloadable, editable, you can access in EquatorNetwork.org. Now, I am trying to navigate this EquatorNetwork.org. This initiative is hosted by University of Oxford, UK. So they have all the reporting guidelines at one destination. So you can see here, you can see the study designs categorized and the most commonly used reporting guidelines for each study design is represented here. So that you can witness. If I am just clicking on here, study design. As I mentioned, this reporting guidelines can be categorized into study type, clinical area and section of report. So where you can access this site. So this is for randomness control trial. All consort related guidelines will be there. Guidelines which is marked in green are the most important one. Only for experimental studies, we have 35 important reporting guidelines. So if we look at animal preclinical research, the first guidelines, that is arrive guidelines is the only important which is marked in green here. So which means this is more important. So the most important will be shaded green. So you can navigate this website. You can select the study type. All the different study designs are available here based on which the reporting guidelines can be easily accessed and the clinical area where the reporting guidelines are focused that also can be accessed. Then here the section of report can be accessed. So any guidelines particularly for the section of the report is given means you can access to sum up the reporting guidelines are checklist based objective assessment tools which are standardized helps in increasing the transparency of research and the quality of research. And you can get all these reporting guidelines easily available, freely downloadable in editable format in Equator Network.org. Thank you very much.


Imagine being tasked with rebuilding New York City after the tragic September 11 attacks. Well, former NYC Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff had to do just that. And he joins me now. And Dan, you're out with a new book on the rebirth of New York City. It's called Greater Than Ever. It's a fantastic read. What was your biggest accomplishment as Deputy Mayor? You know, I think if you look at it in totality, it was really positioning New York City and its economy for the 21st century. When we came into office, not only had the World Trade Center been tragically destroyed, but you stepped beyond that. The city was really stuck in sort of land use patterns that were more appropriate to the 1950s. You know, the manufacturing base of the city had declined from a million jobs to maybe 150,000 that left bath swaths of the city that were underutilized at a time when the global economy was shifting. And rather than wait for there to be a call for that, we leapt ahead of it and literally rethought the city physically and I think financially. And that's really what the book is about. And in the book you talk about how much you wanted to build a stadium over the Hudson Yards area on Manhattan's west side. It didn't happen, but what did happen and what's happening right now is the construction of what, 20 skyscrapers? Yeah, so what's interesting is, you know, the stadium got a lot of publicity, but it was really part of a much bigger plan that included extending the subway into the area, which has happened, rezoning the entire area, which has happened, building a deck over the rail yards, which has happened. And so all of that really has happened other than the portion that was going to be the stadium. Then after the stadium went down to defeat, we rezoned that piece and eventually that'll get developed too. So it has been sort of a remarkable 20-year journey for me to watch, sort of from an idea that was catalyzed by the Olympic bid that New York had, which I led for 2012, to what related has achieved over on the rail yards. It's sort of a magical thing to behold. Do you worry though that maybe the development is getting a little bit out of hand in New York City? Do we have an affordability crisis when it comes to housing in New York? I do, but I don't think the two things are mutually exclusive. I'm actually really proud of our housing efforts under the Bloomberg administration. At a time when nobody was calling for affordable housing, and a time, by the way, we had no money because it was right after 9-11, we committed to spend three and a half billion dollars to create 75,000 units of housing. Then we doubled down four years later because we believed that it was critical for the city to grow and that we were going to have to accommodate residents of all income levels. And I think we were doing really quite well. After the financial crisis, demand for this city bounced back much faster than the market was actually able to accommodate. So we have a fair amount of catching up to do. But at the end of the day, we did spend about eight billion dollars on affordable housing and created or preserved 165,000 units of housing. There are 500,000 New Yorkers now living in apartments that they otherwise wouldn't have been able to afford because of those efforts. Could we have done more? Sure. And that's, by the way, why I applaud the de Blasio administration's really ambitious affordable housing efforts as well. So they are carrying that legacy. They absolutely are. They're extending it and using many of the same tools. They're leveraging the rezonings that we did that created lots of land for housing where it hadn't existed before. But that's what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to learn from what we can always do better and move forward. And I think if you look at the record when you combine their affordable housing targets and ours together, I think it's going to be a pretty remarkable record. But we have to keep doing more because it's definitely true. The city is popular and when it's popular, there's more demand. And when there's more demand and not enough supply prices go up and that's kind of what's happened here. And we also obviously have a lot of foreign capital coming in to New York City. That's pushing up prices too. Yeah. I think probably less so to be honest. I think there's a lot of attention paid to foreign capital and foreign buyers living in condos on 57th Street. I don't think that's really having an impact at all. Because those skyscrapers, the lights are out every night. No one lives there. But you know what they'll do? Eventually they'll produce lots of taxes. They produced lots of construction jobs. And the more stuff we can get built here, the better off we are for pretty much everybody at the end of the day. So do you support DeBlasio in his reelection in just a few days? I don't discuss my own political views. But as I said, it is, I think he's done a very good job in a number of areas including affordable housing. Fair enough. On a more grim topic, we obviously just had the first deadly terrorist attack since 9-11 just blocks from this office a few days ago. Are we safer now in the city than before 9-11? I think there's no question we're safer than we were before 9-11. The NYPD has done a remarkable job over the course of these last now 16 years. I mean, you think kept us safe. And you think about sort of what the risks are that we do have to live with every day. I know under the Bloomberg administration, we added about 2,000 members to the police force focused on counterterrorism and security, anti-combatting threats. And police departments incredibly sophisticated as offices all over the world. They work incredibly cooperatively with the feds and other agencies. I think there's no doubt we are safer. You know, I think this is a terrible, terrible tragedy. And it was a terrible tragedy just the way 9-11 was is that it was an attack on what we fundamentally are. And that is a diverse, open city. The reason New York is so unique and so special is that we attract people from all over the world who know that they can come here and be respected for whom they are. And the thing that we can never do, and this is why I'm really proud of New York in the wake of this most recent horrible attack, is in effect close off that sense of openness. Well said, and obviously our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the attack. You know, we also had the fifth year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy just a few days ago. Is New York ready for the next storm? I know a lot of money has been spent, but there's still more work to do. It's better prepared, but the answer is no. And it's unlike who will ever be completely prepared for that. Next, hopefully it will never happen, but there's much, much more we can do. And that's, I assume, is going to be a priority for whoever the next mayor is, assuming it is de Blasio. Well, again, when you're kind of doing things like whether it's building codes or more importantly sort of physical infrastructure that can serve to mitigate the impacts of storms or things take time, and we have to remain really vigilant and continue to invest. You're now the CEO of Sidewalk Labs. It's an alphabet company. Tell us about some of the work you're doing there. So the center of our activity really is try and build a new city, really think of it as a district. And that would be the best integration of great urbanism and cutting-edge technology. And we've been working for two years on a concept for how that could actually work, being building up, gradually building up a team of urbanists and technologists. And just a couple of weeks ago, we announced that we're partnering with Toronto to actually do it there. And so over the course of the next year, we'll be doing with them, with the city, with the province, with the national government, with our actual partners, an entity called Waterfront Toronto, whose three stakeholders are those three levels of government, an intense planning process that will involve members of the community, significant outreach. Really, we view it as a process of co-creation. And we think we're very confident that when you apply the digital technologies that are now available today, and some of the other technologies that are available for infrastructure and other things, that we can fundamentally bend the curve on every quality of life measure. You talked about affordability. What if we really can meaningfully lower cost of living?  If we can give time-starved parents an hour or more back in their day, what if we actually can achieve Vision Zero or create the world's first climate positive neighborhood or give people access to greater opportunity? We believe it's possible, and that's what we're setting out to do. So it's not for the faint of heart. This is a big, complicated project, but we're determined that it can be done. And our self-driving cars part of that equation? Yes, they are. In fact, if anyone's really interested in seeing what many of the ideas, a little bit of the vision is that we have, go to our website. It's www.sidewalktoronto.ca, and there you'll find the 200 page response to the RFP that we submitted because we actually had to compete with other companies and consortia in order to be the partner of Toronto. And so we're laying out sort of what some of those ideas are so they can be the beginning of a real conversation. Can self-driving cars work here in New York, and when do you think we might see such a move? It's hard to predict, and I think it'll be a generation, most likely until that's what all we basically have on the road. But you'll see experiments. You'll see lanes that might be dedicated to self-driving cars faster. You will see, I think, much sooner than the generation. You'll see shared taxi-type services, certainly much faster than that. So yeah, I think we'll probably start seeing them on the road sooner than, yep, thank, but it won't be just tomorrow. All right, so fascinating conversation. Dan Doctoroff, thank you very much. Again, the book is greater than ever. Great, thank you very much, Scott.


When people find out I work for Kairos, the most common question that they have is, how is Kairos doing? And the word that comes into my head most often is resilience. We're a pretty resilient group. Time flies when you're thriving. It was almost five years ago, November 30th, 2009, when we lost all of our seat of funding, half of our budget gone in one surprising phone call. There were times when we wondered if we'd make it. But now, five years later, we're still here, still engaged in faithful action for ecological justice and human rights. And for that, I am so grateful. I'm grateful to our churches who continue to express their collective public witness through Kairos. I'm grateful to the global partners who gave us solidarity in the crisis and who tell us our advocacy is even more important than our funding. And I'm grateful for the network across the country who never let go, who every day show their belief in transformative social justice with faithful action in their communities. And I'm grateful to our donors, those who contributed for years and those who gave their support when they learned about our work. I believe it is the action of the spirit that creates resilience. The spirit strengthens the bonds of connections between us, keeps our hearts burning with a passion for justice, and helps guide our feet on faithful paths. We're imperfect. We face big challenges. We sometimes need correction. We always need more discernment. But we're here together to help each other persevere in the ways of justice. It's the action of the spirit that turns a collection of people and a set of commitments into a movement for faithful justice. This Thanksgiving, I want to say thank you for all of you who have journeyed with us these past five years. And who by your presence and commitment give us confidence for the next five, fifteen, or fifty. May the Holy Spirit impel us forward to truer faith and greater justice for the sake of God's aching earth and Christ's beloved people. And may we continue to witness hope to one another every day.


We propose a new approach for improving the security of quantum key distribution protocols by encrypting classical communication related to error correction. This reduces the amount of information available to the eavesdropper, which can be used to increase the security of the protocol. Our proposal is similar to the quantum data locking, QDL, technique, but differs in its assumptions regarding the eavesdropper's quantum memory coherence time. This article was authored by Valeria A. Pastoschenko and Dmitri A. Kromburg.


What's good, YouTube? This is your boy Chihuahua back at y'all again with another tutorial, man. If you're new to this channel, go ahead and hit that like button. Come in, subscribe, make sure you click post notifications so you will be notified anytime you buy Johnson Heat. In today's video, I will be teaching you guys how to use Procreate for beginners. So without further ado, let's jump right into this video. Okay, don't look at all this. Don't look at all this, yeah. You're going to get there. We got to start from the basis though. First thing you want to do, you want to hit this plus sign in the top right. And this part is where you can choose your canvas size. Come right here to new and create a new canvas. Most of the time when I'm doing my canvas size, I like to use inches. You know what I'm saying? So it won't show too much pixels. So let's go to inches and you see the DPI. I always keep your DPI on 300 resolution so you can get a high quality picture. And let's go to 18 by 18. And what's so dope about this? It'll tell you how many layers each size get. So if we do an 18 by 18 inch canvas size, the max layers are to give us 14. So if we go a little smaller, that's if you just one of those people that need a lot of layers, all you got to do is just come back up to your canvas and just resize this jump. Now if you do 15 by 15, you'll get 22 layers. But I like 18 by 18. So I'm good with 14 layers. Okay, cool. Let's go to create. Got our canvas size. Then it's going to take you to this little tab right here.  And every time I start on a new picture, I come up to sketches, the pencil brush. And my favorite brush to start out with is the 6B pencil.  Right here is your opacity. I like to bring that down. This is the size of your brush right here.  You want to make your brush very small, you just drag that down. You know what I'm saying? Click this circle in the top right corner. And that's your color wheel. So you get to choose the color you want to use. You know what I'm saying? So most of the time when I'm starting out with a sketch, I start out with like a neon color, like any bright color, you know what I'm saying? So let's start out with something like this, like boom. And then hit your brush again. Come out here. You know what I'm saying? It's the work on your little sketch. You know what I'm saying? Just say if we was drawing this thing out like that, or something, just drawing anything. I mean, and you want to erase. Just say, I don't like, none of this I did.  Just keep tapping it. You know what I'm saying? And it's going to take you back to the beginning. Another thing you want to do too is click your brush. Let's click our 6B pencil. And you can go inside your brush and you can make custom tweaks to it. You know what I'm saying?  If you want the program to help you make crispier lines without the jitters, you move this one up. You know what I'm saying? So just play around with the stabilizer any time you're trying to get some clean lines. All right, hit done. Let me almost get something real quick just so we can have something to start out with. Let's make us a little character. Let's create us a little character real quick. All right, we got our sketch, right?  Like that. Okay, you click this plus button to create a new layer. Now if you want to select the color black, any time you want to get true black, you double tap inside there. And if you want to get true white while you got it moved over here, you double tap and it'll move it straight to the true white. So keep that in mind. When you go to black, you double tap and it's going to move you to the true black. And then when you bring it up to the white, you double tap and it'll move you to the true white. So let's start out with the black. Okay, the favorite pen I like to use, I mean, the favorite brush I like to use when it comes to doing finalizing line work, I like to use the technical pen. And that's in your inking brushes. So the technical pen moved it.  That's how you zoom in. And then you bring them closer to zoom out. So zooming in. And then we just gonna make our line super clean. And I'm going to show you my brush settings for my technical pen. Just like I told you, I clicked inside. I go to my stabilizer. And my stabilizer is on 59%. So it'll help me make those crispy lines. You know what I'm saying? Okay, rain this over like that. Rain this up. Drag this color black from right there. And you drop it in the closed area and it'll fill it in automatically for you. You know what I'm saying? Let's just finish our lady and they finish our character. Yeah, yeah. Rain this over. Rain this over. And I'm gonna have a part two for the tutorials for beginners. I'm gonna just do a whole series for y'all because it's a lot I can show y'all about this program for real. You know what I'm saying? Speaking of Procreate, if you see this video, sponsor me. Please. I had a major program. Cool. Let's see. Put this on like this. Close this all like that.  You know what I'm saying? And I know my character ugly, bro. Don't tell me. I'm just trying to teach y'all how to use this program. So don't judge me. Please. I'm gonna add them a beard. Let's do them a beard, man. Beard game. Yeah. That's all he was missing. Beard. Yeah, yeah. Put them a little beard on there. Do a little ear like this. Come to this side. This all like that. Make this little ear come up like this. All right. I'm gonna do these little eyebrows. You know what I'm saying? We got a little, we got a little solid character though. He came out. He came out flat old at the same time. And boom, we got our little character. This little character we started with. You feel me? Now just say, okay, you want to delete the sketch layer. All you got to do is slide it to the left and hit delete. You want to move this picture to the center. You hit this this little tool right here. What you call it? The pointer tool, the selection tool. Move this right here. You just drag it. Okay. Now you got, you see the four, the four different options we got. We got free form. We got uniform. We got distort. We got warp. So look, you want to warp and I'm gonna show you what all of them do. This will warp do where you can just pinch and shape it how you want to shape it. You know what I'm saying? You can just play around with it with warp. See if you like it. And then just say, if you don't like it, get out of it and hit that back arrow and it'll switch it back how you had it. So let's move this right here real quick. And then distort. Distort or make it skinnier, you know, make it wider, go back out and let's go to free form, free form. It pretty much worked like distort to me. But yeah, that's what them brushes do, man. I need to show y'all how to color this. First thing you want to do, create a copy of your line work by duplicating it. And I always keep a version of the line work by itself. So what we're going to do, we're going to lock this top layer so we don't make a mistake and color on top of it or nothing. Come over here to our color wheel. Find me a nice little color to start with for the skin tone and drag and drop. You feel the drag and drop feel at the end. And when I'm doing like faces, I always put my eyes and my lips on a totally separate layer. So let's copy the line work again. Let's unlock the second one and come right here. And let's put like some lip color and eye color in. So drag and drop that. Rain this up right here. Drag and drop that like that. And then we're going to find some color the eyes. Bam. Now what I do for the shading, I create a layer by itself. Add a new layer and put it in between like the eyes layer, the color I layer and the skin layer. I put it in between those two and I hold my finger on the skin tone layer so I can have it at the top wheel. Come down here and try to find a nice little shadow for. Okay, cool. Find me a little shadow.  So I came back to close that line off and I just fill it in. Simple as that. You know what I'm saying? Because you got to remember this is a layer by itself. So if I don't close it off it'll just paint over the whole picture. So fill that in. Come back, make sure I'm closing it off and look. Now just say, wait, hold up, let me add this. Add it right there like that. Now just say I want it to tweak that shadow layer.  And I like that right there. And we're going to get out of it like that. Another thing too, if you own a layer that you don't want to color outside of and you just want to stay inside of the borders, I'm going to tell you what you do. We're going to go to this eye layer. The layer we got the eyes and the lips on. We're going to click it and we're going to go to select. Now what that did right there, it made sure it made a border for us. So we don't color outside of the lines.  I like to use this noise brush. And you see how it's not letting me go outside of my lines? You see what I'm seeing? It's keeping us inside of the little borders, man. So make my brush a little darker so we can get a little better, a little fade, something like that. And just say if I want to blur this, I want to make it look a little smoother. We can just go to our fade. Let's go back to the magic one and let's go to occasion blur. Let's slide it up a little bit. Oh, you know what? I messed up. I didn't put that shadow on his own layer. So we ain't going to use that. We're just going to go back out of that. If I were to put that shadow I did on his own layer, which I can go back and do, let's just hit the back, backspace. Let's hit backspace, create a new layer by hitting the plus. And since we got it selected, since we got the eye selected and the lip selected, even when we create new layers, it's not going to let us go outside of that area. So we good. You know what I'm saying? So go ahead and do my little shade, like right there. And then I'm going to come back to my magic one, two, gauging and blur. And we're going to move this up by dragging, by holding down on our string and sliding to the right. That's all you do. And the more you slide to the right, the more it gives you that effect. Okay, now we can we can tag her out of that. You know what I'm saying? Got our look here to look in bright. I'm going to create a selection around the line work. And I'm going to show you all what I'm doing there. We're going to create a layer right above the everything. So let me go to the color brown real quick. Come down here to my stone wall brush. And we're going to just give him a little outfit like this. Because you can't start the rain. You know what I'm saying? Then we're going to come down here to the light pen. Don't bring this up a little bit. And boom, boom, boom. There you have it, man. There you have it. You've been cared to. All right, look, you know what I'm doing? I'm uh, I want to go above and beyond. So let's go back to our line words. Select, hit select, so it won't let us color outside the line work. Let's go to the top layer and let's make a dark color real quick. And let me, let me go to this clay brush. Okay, we on our clay brush. Uh-oh. I forgot to make the selection. Okay, make the selection so it don't let us color outside the area. We on our clay brush. Do this like this. Since we did that, let's make it a little brighter right here. You feel me? Make our brush a little smaller while we still on the clay brush. Oh, just like this. And there you have it, you guys. You feel me? If you want to, um, change the background color, you got to do select the background and switch the color for you. Boom. And this is our first how to use Procreate for beginners. I will have a part too because it's so much I need to touch on, man. Thank you guys for watching. Make sure you stay tuned because Moheed is coming real soon and I'm out this thing.


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