Hello Lots of people Too much too much First of all, thanks Pavel for for the laptop mine is broken so thanks a lot Introduction to TensorFlow Okay, let's start with a question What is this? It's a cat that that was an easy question But is that easy for a computer, you know a computer is a machine that makes computations that things with mathematical operations so the real question is is there a mathematical relationship between this input an image of a cat and the target a class cat and The answer is yes But it's very complex and we're gonna learn these complex relationship using tons of examples and this learning a very complex relationship using tons of examples is a Fairly well first definition of deep learning and You know, we're here in Rimini It would have Python 2017 We love Python. So we want to make deep learning with Python and What is the best tool for that? It's TensorFlow So what is TensorFlow TensorFlow is an open-south library? for deep learning it's Mainly used in Python and it was released by the Google brain project two years ago and But the first that the one zero zero version was not launched until February of this year So installation quickly The best practice is to download anaconda and then create a new environment with the classic data science libraries and then their peep install TensorFlow For Windows is the same but without the source word, okay Concepts Now we enter the most important part of the talk the concepts because TensorFlow could be a Difficult tool for beginners if you don't understand the basic concepts of deep learning and How TensorFlow works? So Recall this we have the cat The image of a cat and we have the class cat and we want to find the mathematical relationship between these two that mathematical relationship we call it the model and This model is gonna make predictions Given the input sometimes at first is gonna be random predictions Sometimes you could say it's a cat and sometimes you could say It's a non cat Well, so we have the input the image of a cat and we have The model that is gonna make predictions given the input and we have the target That is the correct class for that image and The prediction should match the target, but it doesn't So what we what we're gonna do is to change the model So it gets better and the predictions match the target So the first step the first step for this is to compute the difference between the prediction and the target and this is gonna be done by the cost function or loss function and This cost function is gonna produce an error and this error is Like how far are we from having a good model? the the greater the error the greater we have to the more we have to Change the model So we're gonna learn from errors That's life Learning from errors sometimes you win and sometimes you learn and the guy finally the guy in In charge of changing the model of training the model is the optimizer Okay, so this is the basic the basic structure of Learning process in deep learning and this is what tensorflow calls the graph and the graph is just Layout which contains both the model and the learning the learning process Okay So the graph it's totally independent from the data But There is really there is really a connection with the data so Because the graph is nothing without data. We couldn't have predictions without input data and we couldn't have Learning without targets So we set two gates that aren't Gonna one gate is for the inputs and we're gonna get this for the targets and these gates are Gonna let the data to come in but not all types of data only the data that we want so in this case we want Images for inputs and classes for targets. These gates are called placeholders well quick summary of what a graph contains and Well, there is a greenboard there Variables because the model is just a set of variables and we're gonna vary these variables we're gonna change these variables to make the model beta and Keep this word of mine because tensorflow uses it Well, we have we have the graph With the placeholders, but we want the data to come into the graph. So what we do is to open tensorflow session and Well When we're in a tensorflow session, we say we're feeding the graph with data Okay, so example We have this cat this cat goes through the model and the model say it's a non cat and That's not correct. So the cost function say we have an error of 100 the optimizer reads this Error and say we need to train the model and we train the model Now the case we have the cat and the model says it's a cat So the cost is zero and the optimizer does nothing Well, that's That's the the main part of the of the talk, but we're gonna see several cases of use In order to Stay with the concepts, okay, learn the concepts better It couldn't be otherwise the the the first thing we're gonna do is a hello world Not really a hello world because we're not gonna print hello world. We're gonna have two integers and The first thing is to import tensorflow. There's the convention imported as TF and This is the graph. We're gonna build We have two placeholders one for one integer and the other for the other integer and the addition operation So The end this is the code we said the placeholders that it's gonna expect integers and we have the The addition operation that is like a function of tensorflow And that's the graph and independently. There's the data We have number one is three number two that is eight And this is the session the session is something that you open and you close So we use the weave keyword and we we're gonna run The the sum operation now we're gonna feed the graph Feed with a dictionary that links each placeholders with each data So this is the output for a jupyter notebook and we see how it works Three and eight is 11. So perfect But this is kind of boring because we're not learning How can we make this thing more interesting? The next case is gonna be a regression problem and in you know, you're in a regression problems when your outputs are Not classes like CAD dogfish You have up to the there are numbers like two minus three 6.7 number pi square root of two that kind of thing and Our case is to learn how to sum so what we're gonna do is to Take two inputs and an output and we're gonna Learn the mathematical relationship Using ten thousand examples so these are the examples and We can see clearly that The first that they integrate some up to 13 So we see where we are seeing the relationship So this is kind of silly but You know in a regression problem, you always have the same philosophy. So we're now learning how to sum bad Say we are in a self-driving car The first input would be like an image taken from the camera in front of the vehicle and The second input would be the distance taken from a laser in front of the vehicle and the output is the angle You need to steer the vehicle to not crash or not Get out of the lane But we're gonna keep with a vision example So what we're gonna assume is that the relationship between the output and the input is the It's a linear function. That is an addition and a multiplication so these are the variables we're gonna learn we're gonna We're gonna be changing this variable. So it gets better and in this case, we're okay with a linear function, but if we Wanted to learn a more complex relationship. We just have to Have another linear function at another layer and if we wanted to Make it even more complex We stack another layer and if we want to make it even more complex We have non-linear functions or activation functions. So that's a neural network Okay easy Well, it's the code we said the placeholders we're expecting floats and We're expecting two numbers two integers for the inputs and one for the output and The known is because we don't know How many examples are we gonna receive? So we don't restrict the number Okay, the model is yes the two variables. We initialize it and randomly and We make the linear function with a multiplication and the addition Well, so we have the placeholders and we have the model next thing is the cash function the cash function computes the difference between the prediction and the and the target so the most intuitive thing is to make the difference and But what we're gonna do is to Get rid of negative numbers. So we square it all and then we Sum it all some all the examples all the all the arrows from all the examples and reduce it to one number Okay, so this is the code we need we Square it with make the difference a square it and reduce the sum Well, let's say that our cost function is can be plotted like this and and well the the The high of the red things that are more error and the down peak is the minimum we want to reach What we're gonna do is let's say we have an Error of 10 and we're gonna get down to the Down peak so we're gonna take the Direction of maximum steep there is a gradient and we follow that direction Again and again until we reach the minimum This is the coat and so flow gives you a model of gradient descent and there is a hyper parameter There is learning rate and that is like the module of the arrow so you could you could have a graded arrow and then you You could reach the minimum faster But maybe you pass by the minimum and you oscillate by the minimum even going unstable and if you have a An arrow that is smaller. Maybe you don't reach the minimum because it's too slow Okay, we minimize the cost and We have it all That we need the data what we're gonna do with the data is typical of machine learning that is You split the data in two one for training and one for testing and the training is what we're gonna use So I built helper functions for these so we don't have to bother off about the data. That's for another talk and The session Okay In the session we're gonna feed the graph with the training data so let's do it first thing we Start an initializer of the variables and then we run the optimizer running the optimizer. You're gonna learn and we Feed it with the training the training data and we run all the training data a lot of times that When you run the data one time you say that's an apple so we have this for loop that's gonna Train the the neural network Numbers of time Okay, that's that's the apple and we see that we have an accuracy of 95% and then the sum of five plus seven is Almost 12 but if we take a look to the weights That's not a sum a sum is yes one one and the bias zero That means that we have Overfitted the neural network to just make good summation for our data Okay, now a classification problem in a classification problem You're not gonna use numbers you're gonna use classes so We have a we have a cat. They could be a class cat We have another thing that could be a class non-cat that cat and non-cat are words We don't work with work. We don't work with words. So we yes transform it Transform in a way that a class is a component of an array in this case a cat is Like the second component of the array and the non-cat is the first component of the array This is called one holding coding and these zero one one zero is just for targets But what could be our predictions our predictions could be? probabilities and Sometimes the model is gonna be very sure that the That the input belongs to a certain class in this case We have the cat that in the model is 80 82% sure that it's a cat but sometimes we're not gonna be that sure But the summation is gonna be one Okay And well our case now it's gonna be Learn We have two integers. We're gonna sum it and we're gonna classify it if they are Greater than 10 or a lesser than 10 if they're greater We're gonna say that Belongs to the second class and they are lesser. It's gonna belong to the first class. This is a silly example But it works and it's it's good for learning. So these Relationship is more complex than the than than the before so We need all the layer and interestingly the first layer is gonna compute the sum and the second layer is gonna Classify that sum into greater than 10 or lesser than 10 and This is gonna happen always in all classification problems the first layers are gonna Extract more basic fixtures more basic information and the next layers are gonna work With these basic information to produce even more complex information So I am with we stack a softmax and Nonlinear function at the end because we want that the output Are probabilities that sum up to one? So, okay, we have build the model and in this case in the cost function We're not gonna use The cost function of before we're gonna use a cross entropy cost function And that is beyond of this talk and the optimizer we're gonna use better optimizer is Adam optimizer that Works a little better because It goes changing the learning rate. You don't so at first it's gonna be a big learning rate and then it's gonna be smaller So these are the results we have Testing accuracy of 100s. That's that's bad. We have done something bad, but but it works five plus three is the model is 89% that is lesser than 10 and 7 plus 6 it's 87% that is Sure, that is greater than 10 and the same for 10 plus 10 and We we see how in the first layer. It's like a sum Bad, it's with a negative and in the second layer It's the same number in the weight, but with a negative in one of them that that's gonna classify the output of the of the first layer so Okay, that's all bad if you want to know more I Recommend you to Follow the neural networks and deep learning book from Mike and Nielsen and they stands for CS 2 3 1 and from Andrea Karpathy You're gonna learn a lot And for tensorflow There's a lot of tutorials about tensorflow, but I thought that they missed the basics. That's why I did this talk Okay, if you like me Last year and you didn't know nothing about Data, so let's start with this and you're gonna be Improving Well, that's where It's all the code there is It's a work in progress. I'm learning Because I am a robotics engineer and my goal is to combine the robotics with artificial intelligence And so if you are in this field, just talk to me and and we'll be best friends And that my favorite combination is self-driving cars. So I hope that you could build the self-driving cars. Yes with tensorflow and Using the basics that I've give and gave you You're gonna improve and improve and build the self-driving car. Okay. Thank you Thank you, Alejandro. Are there any questions, please raise your hand Thank you. Can you show that previous slide with the repository, please? again our Previous one. Yes Anyone else I don't thank you for the nice talk How much that we actually need to do a decent training? I mean training It's really dependent on what you have on how we can build it How much that I should we feed it to provide something useful if there is any clear answer on that How much data you do I need how much of the training process would we have to do up to the point? That's actually something useful rather than just a simple algorithm So how much data do I need to make something useful? Yeah, so there is any kind line. Yeah, you're gonna need Tons of data it depends on the application Well, there's a cool graph then in which you see that machine learning machine learning algorithms works Way better than deep learning algorithms when you have a Small data and when you have tons of data like terabytes of data for images Terabytes of data for sound then deep learning is way better than machine learning and it's gonna do Impressive things Yeah, good. Thanks for the incredible talk. I wanted to ask Whether you have any comments about comparing tensorflow to Tiano for example That's one question and the next one is there are so many meta libraries Which built on top of tensorflow like Keras or something which provide people with an easier interface to do sort of do a regression Would you comment on when to use tensorflow versus such a meta library like Keras? Wait, can you please take the microphone? Not audible. Sorry. So the first one was How would you compare tensorflow to Tiano? Do you know Tiano? It was yes Well, I haven't worked with Tiano, but Well, they say that Tiano is more you can be it's more low level. So you can be more creative if it's more like Yes more low level is mouth is much for scientists Maybe let me ask you this what made you make this presentation as an introduction to tensorflow and not an introduction to Tiano What what what made this presentation an introduction to tensorflow versus an introduction to something else Like what made you choose tensorflow over the other other things? I Can understand what's the question? Nevermind. It's okay Thank you Well because it's cool It's it's from Google and and well Google maintains maintains Great. Yeah, they're projects Anybody else? question No, okay, so thank you again very much


Welcome to Dare to Dream. This is Debbie Dashinger, and today's show features Dr. Sharon Martin, a physician and shamanic healer here to talk about bridging the mystical and scientific for healing. The Dare to Dream podcast won the COV award for best radio podcast show, WELP Magazine named Dare to Dream with Debbie Dashinger, one of the top 20 best podcasts to listen to this year. It's a high-ranking self-improvement podcast and Apple podcast, nominated for two People's Choice podcast awards, and for a Webby Award. This show is sponsored by Dr. Dane here in Access Consciousness. If you'd like to do energy work or become a facilitator, join them at Dr. Dane, D-A-I-N, here, H-E-E-R.com or AccessConsciousness.com. This month is my 16th year of doing radio and podcast. 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It's D-E-B-B-I-D-A-C-H-I-N-G-E-R.com slash gift. My guest today, Sharon E. Martin, MD, PhD graduated from John Hopkins School of Medicine. She's a board certified physician of internal medicine with a doctorate in physiology. Dr. Martin just released the book, Maximize Your Healing Power, Shamanic Healing Techniques to Overcome Your Health Challenges. As a physician and shamanic healer, Sharon offers a unique ability to guide you through challenges. She's a graduate of Healing the Light Body Curriculum of the Four Wind Society and she also hosts two of her own radio shows called Maximum Medicine and Sacred Magic aired on the Transformation Talk Radio Network. A doctor at a rural health clinic, she lives in Pennsylvania and to learn more go to DrSharanMartin.com that's DRSharanMartin.com and I welcome Sharon to the Dare to Dream show. It is great to have you here. So nice to be invited. Thank you, Debbie.  I'll just explain to the audience because I am currently enrolled in Four Wind Society. You did it. I know that was quite some time ago. So your curriculum in mine, it's changed a lot. You did it in person. I'm doing it online, but an amazing journey and also the fact, I mean, you've got a very impressive medical background. Can you talk a little bit about this winding path that got you here that blended allopathic medicine with shamanic energy techniques and discovering the potential of combining these two? So what I know now leads me to explain it this way. I've been guided by spirit all along. Did I know it 25 years ago? No, I stumbled into medical school. I stumbled into graduate school before that and then found myself working as a rural clinic doctor in my solo practice, working as a solo practice and really struggling to make ends meet. The system of medicine is broken in so many ways. And I found myself frustrated by the lack of providing well-being or a sense of being healed to my patients despite doing everything by the book. And I said, there's gotta be more. And one by one, I had little, I had experiences with my patients that led me to see, you know, why aren't we talking about their soul journey? Why aren't we talking about the way they are gonna walk their path through the world? Why is that not included when we talk about let's heal your physical body? Well, what for? To move because you have a journey, you have a mission, you have a purpose. We don't talk about that in medicine. Perhaps you do in psychiatry, but not usually in medicine. And then I read Alberto Violdo's Shaman Healer and Sage and Something Zinged. And you know how there's times where you look at something and you just know that there's deeper meaning to the interaction? And I signed up for the Four Winds classes. And that was revolutionary for my personal life. It opened me up. And it reconnected to what I think all humans know is that original indigenous connection to be interdependent, to be part of nature, to just act in harmony and balance with the earth and earth's creatures. So this here was a teaching that valued that and promoted that. And then, so then the rest, I was hooked. That was it for me. It was the best. And as you know, Debbie, Alberto teaches energy body techniques that he learned from the Peruvian medicine men and women and translated them into Western form. But the processes on the energy body were incredible. They work. But I then started, the next challenge was to have the courage to open up in the clinic and actually talk about some of this stuff. Wow. And you can't really start off saying, oh, well, your energy body, I need to extract something from it. You don't do that. But you can say, I sense that you're blocked and people know what you mean. They feel it, or I sense that your life force isn't flowing as it should. They feel that too. Or you have a burden to carry that isn't really yours. Talking about soul contracts. And you have, you know, you have the energies of a recently passed loved one that are still hanging around you. That's time to let go of all of those things people understand. Well, first of all, that's genius because bridging mainstream in a language that somebody can receive, even though energetically you're giving them the truth, but the language is a way that they can hear what you're talking about if they're, let's say, not part of this world. And that's the normal conversation. That's so commendable because you're doing the good work, the noble work and not letting this spiritual stuff, this healer stuff get in the way of that. And so Sharon, once you make a comment like that and you see someone saying, yeah, I resonate, I understand, then how do you proceed to combine what you do? How do you use shamanic practices if you do? How do you use those processes in your practice? So in the practice, which is in the mainstream medical model, it's hard to do full practice, but I have guided people to take their issue to the fire for clearing, to do a journey and teach them the basics when they're in their sacred space to meditate on having more flow through their energy body. So things that are, I can teach them a little and they can go home and do it, but to do a full blown shamanic session in the mainstream model these days, that isn't, you can't, well, you certainly can't write it up in the medical record, you'd probably be kicked out of town. And so with what you offer is most of your business this one-on-one medical model with some of the energy healing that you're able to disseminate or are there other services you do? Are there groups? Are there one-on-one kind of practices that you have to? Well, I have my own healing practice that's kind of gone quiet. It's on pause now because of doing all the things for the book launch, but that can be found on my website, DrSharonMartin.com, drSharonMartin.com and those are all done remotely. But as you know, with energy work, you don't have to be in the same time space continuum. Which is amazing. It is amazing. It's one of the things you and I were sharing before this began. You were asking me, what are some of my favorite things? And I think I am a very healthy skeptic. I'm a huge spiritual, that's my jam. That's my greatest value. And at the same time, I've always been also very skeptical. And going into doing these practices, we learn them. I have the steps. Even if I've seen an example, still I go into it. And the first thing I have to do is get out of the way because my head's like, how's this gonna work out? And I have to say, not up to me, spirit come in, lineage, ancestors, you take over, I'm just a conduit. And then what unfolds after that? Everything for me is like a case study. I am so blown away. And then I'm blown away when I do an exchange with somebody and say, my God, my life, I've just watched over the last five months, the arc of my being completely changed and the people I interact with and gift these sessions to. Coming back and going, oh my God, like everything's different. So I can imagine working with somebody like you who's seasoned at this. And also over time, I think everybody, you start with one thing, it's germane. And then other curiosities start presenting and are revealing and then we become interested in those and we add those to the mix. And is that where you are? You have this beautiful soup of things that you offer. I love that because once my eyes were open by Alberto's teachings, I started working with other mystics and energy workers and the knowledge just keeps building and it adds so much richness. But you said one thing that I wanted to comment on when you are a healthy skeptic, one of the things I talk about, and I think I talk about this in the book, but for that moment, suspend disbelief. And I had to do that in class when we were doing our stones for divination with people. I was like, you know, I was telling the person something I was reading on the stone and I was like, where is this coming from? I must be wacko. They must think I'm wacko, but it turned out completely differently. The person was blown away by the intuition, by the message from the stone and transformed by it. So suspend disbelief and then watch what happens. 100%, I take that to heart, I concur. I can't wait to learn that, I haven't learned that yet. So divination with stones. And I think that's beautiful that you trusted and you still relayed the message in that moment, not knowing. And yeah. Well, we also did other things where we journeyed for our classmates and you just put that message out there as you get it, even when your rational human mind is going, this is crazy talk. I don't know where this came from. I've never had it. I've never had somebody go, you're nuts. I've had people say, how did you know that? Well, I don't know how I knew it. Spirit was talking, it wasn't me. Do you consider yourself to be clairvoyant, psychic? Have any clear gifts? My intuition has increased exponentially since beginning this work. I get knowings. I've always had senses of things. But when I'm in the altered space, when you do this work, I get messages that I know on one side of my brain. I say I hear it, but I don't actually hear something. I get a knowing. Yeah, I relate to that completely. When you talk about health challenges and the people who come to you, can you elaborate what kind of people come to you? What kind of challenges do they often have regarding their health? In terms of my shamanic work or in regular practice? I'm curious about all of it, the mystical and the scientific. In my clinical practice, my mainstream medicine practice, there are many times when I intuit that what's going on is more than meets the eye in the physical. And that's how Alberto's teachings of the four perspectives really help to train you as an observer, as a provider, to look what else is going on. Is there an emotional issue? I can pick up on those pretty quickly. Is there a soul deep issue? Something on the mythic journey. And you can breach people by seeing that and saying, you have this issue, this health concern, I'll take low back pain. That's eluded a fix. But what I see when I see you is how burdened you are by all the responsibilities you take on. And it feels like you're carrying a heavy load. And then they start saying, well, yeah, I have to do all this. And then I say, okay, well, let's talk about this. You say you have to. Who made that rule? Who made that rule? So there's a person living under a type of contract. And I can see that perhaps this is a cage of their own making. And then if you start to talk to them about the underlying that they've created a box, they've limited themselves and how to change that, then people start to see it from a different perspective and they get their eyes opened. Does that mean that when working with people along this path and in the way that you do that you're writing less and less prescriptions, there's less pharmaceuticals going out and more inner healing happening for the outer healing? When I do have patients in whom that comes up, yes. Then the prescription is for them to do personal work, for them to write down to journal, what are the things that they tell themselves every day that I have to, I should, I must, and to counteract that. I had one person actually in a situation, a traumatic situation actually see one of the other people present at that interaction that had actual evil and was having some glee at the trauma that was befalling someone else. And I could see it right away that my patient was impacted by this evil energy that was present at a time of trauma. And to be able to say, I wouldn't scare somebody in saying you've got some feeding tubes to this evil energy, but I did say you need to get rid of that in your field.  And I can teach intention and I can teach sacred space without them having to do much, they can do that on their own. Wow, that's so important. And that makes so much sense. If somebody is in a lot of emotion, like a trauma that you describe, there will become attachments. We become portals when that starts happening and untoward things can start to attach and feed off of us. And that's bad, low vibration attracts low vibration. So the fact that you can give somebody the skills and empower them to become autonomous rather than having to do cord cutting and all sorts of stuff, that's really beautiful. And so Sharon, talk about what it is you're doing now because you mentioned earlier, oh yeah, along the line, when I've been going ever since that a couple of decades ago, I've been incorporated that Alberto was beautiful, the inception and now these new things have been coming in. And what are the new pieces that you're exploring? So there's two primary currents that I am tracking and riding on. And one, I'm studying in a spiritual group where we're studying the energetics of magic and including our chemical and learning about magical realms and the forces of the universe that are in the magic kingdom. Those are fascinating. Those other energies that exist, but we don't see them and that are at play and for the most part of purposely stayed away from humans. So that's one. And the other is consciousness and the universal field. And how healing that not only can the practitioner and the client access the universal through their consciousness, but that you can tap into the original templates. My idea, I haven't figured it all out yet. Tap into the original templates and download those for healing. Oh my God, this is total goose bumps. I haven't figured it all out yet though. So I'm just trying to learn as much as I can from people who understand the Akashic field. Yeah, so when you first started sharing about this last piece, what I thought you were saying was you were going to a zero point or a quantum space of no thing. But then you started talking about, is that correct? Well, that is the zero point field, yes. But the information field, which is another way to describe this, carries the templates, the memories, the information of all of our beings. And that's not my idea. That's Professor Irvin Laszlo, his writings. But I'm thinking about how to access that for restoring somebody to the original template. How you can, as an energy healer, download that and resonate the person to that.  You're actually reading this material and then figuring out the matrix of how this works. Yes, I'm reading and then pondering it. Man, okay, I wanna follow what you're doing because this stuff sounds really exciting. And in your, yes, please. There's a woman, Dr. Maria Saggy, SAGI, who wrote a book, remote healing in the non-local information field, something I'm not sure I have the title right. Okay. And she has worked now for over 20 years with going into altered state and entering the information field, which in my opinion is the same as the Akashic field. And then she uses a process called new homeopathy where she has symbols that hold a vibration to fix the person's physicality and I'm reading that book and I haven't learned it yet. Are you actually, besides the understanding of magic, are you actually learning magical processes that you can use?  In our spiritual group, we do have practices, but we're mostly interacting with the different magical kingdoms. And understanding their energetics and why they've been hidden from humans for so long. It's very interesting you call it kingdoms because it feels very archetypical what you're talking about. And it does feel very ancient and hidden. And what a beautiful time to be revisiting this, unearthing this. I think we are at a tipping point that our earth needs. It needs galactic and universal help and it needs to restore connections to the magical world that has guarded and protected the earth for so long. We have to get back into resonance with that. Yeah. And is that, is your book right now? Is that your contribution to this, the energy of that changing the tipping point? Yes, that's my mission. Yeah, I feel that. In your book. If you can give the power back to the individual and once you can see when a person can read this and learn that they can take control of their health, they can also take control of their life. And when you see these processes and you see how they work, then perhaps your eyes open more to our interdependence. And then you start to be a steward of the earth. There's a bug flying around me. A steward and take that more seriously. Yeah. Yeah, that's very powerful. What about rituals? Because you talk about being a steward of the earth and it makes me think of new moon rituals, full moon rituals, all of that. Do you do rituals? I do fire ceremonies. I live on a nice piece of property out in rural Pennsylvania. Ritual, I was telling this to somebody the other day, ritual is that incredible sweet spot between you and spirit. And it's when you are entering with intention and you're fully present, mind, body, spirit and energy field and you are intentionally aligning with those forces bigger than yourself. And then you're in a resonance that is so beautiful and sweet. And the actual act, the ritual you're doing, I think promotes that energy vortex. So that's how I see it, I like it. And do you do fire ceremonies often or on the regular? No, not a dedicated full moon or new moon. Yeah, it's a beautiful practice. I definitely want people, I've been doing it regularly, the fire ceremonies. I'm mad about them. We actually have a chimney in the backyard in the patio area and I keep thinking how much I want to gather people here and just guide them through this, let them have that experience. I've actually done it. I had a coach bring me into her class. She does a mastermind and she invited me to come in and she said, what do you wanna teach them? What do you wanna do? And I said, you know, let's do a remote fire ceremony. And it was so beautiful. Some of the people had some resistance and said, I don't wanna light a candle in my house and that could be dangerous. There was a lot of stuff and I was perfectly fine with it, knowing that that was just somebody's stuff coming up. Yeah, and to a person when we were complete, we did an hour and a half and it was so gorgeous and moving. I mean, there were people, in fact, the greatest resistors had the most potent experiences and everybody was just blown away by it. And it just shows me over and over remote person, it's all the same, it does the same job. So I love that you do that. And I believe in the fire ceremonies very much that old ancient fire, right? Right, my classmate, one of my classmates, Allison Normor, she lives in Newfoundland. She does new moon and full moon routinely in person and remote. So she streams it and you can join and she's been doing it for quite some years now. What a great service. There is something primordial and powerful when you're with the fire. Absolutely. I think the first time I ever felt that connection was maybe four years ago when I was in Costa Rica and it was the second time I was there specifically to drink ayahuasca and do four back-to-back journeys. And they would talk about if you want to go outside, grandfather fire is there, give those things to grandfather fire, let them go and let him burn it.  And just it was a very palpable feeling of things being extracted and let go. And that's the first time I ever felt that connection or that knowing now I knew fire and what it could do. And so yeah, with these new fire ceremony teachings it's become exponential. What I loved, I remember when I was new in the training and we did class workout in Utah and so we had outdoor fire at a park. And one of the teachers, very powerful Shaman, Linda Fitch was calling to the directions and as we were rattling and sitting and being in the presence of the fire and you could feel the energy in the circle shift, you could feel it ramp up and then you could see the fire responding. And she would call or rattle strongly and the flames would leave higher or she'd say, everybody quiet down I mean, it was wild, powerful and incredible. Yeah, the elements were paying attention to what was happening. They were participating, it sounds like they were very much a part of it. Wow, that's magic. That is magic. What do you wanna use your magic for? Do you have any sense of where this might take you or what you desire to do with it? I think right now with my book and I have ideas for other books and is just reaching people and helping shift. So really helping people wake up and we need the tipping point for our survivability. Agreed. That's so interesting to me. Folks like yourself who, I'm a book writing coach, but still the conception of, I guess I did my writing some time ago, but to keep writing is a beautiful thing and I'm glad you have so much more to sing out loud. I commend you for that. So your book, your current book, we'll call it, maximize your healing power. You write about the four As and you call it aware, allow, act and affirm. Can you walk us through that process, Sharon, and explain how does it empower individuals to invite change, to invite healing? When I sat down to think about how do I see the healing steps occur for people and I had the constructs taught by the four winds, the directions, the perspectives, the elements and I thought we've got a basic underlying thread that's a journey as we go around the medicine wheel, as we go around the circle, we are doing steps. And I thought, what are those steps? And at first it was to be aware. Well, that's even in AA, you have to be aware of your problem, be aware. But how does that, how do you get aware? Well, you need more intuition. So how are there processes that you can open your eyes more and take in more data? Then you have to, and this is the biggest step I think I learned from shamanism, the fact that there are helpers out there, there are forces greater than myself and to then have that be, allow that help in. So many times as humans we're so fiercely independent and resistant to letting anybody help, especially bigger forces. And that's critical to me.   Then you have to take an action. And that action can be figured out by processes in determining with your helpers and meditating on it. Take an action that is, do you need to clear something? Do you need to bring something new on board? Do you need to change a limiting belief? There are certain basic steps that people, that may come up on any challenge. And then you can't just go away and say, okay, now universe, you do the rest. You have to actively keep those energetic changes alive. And that's what I call affirm, that you have to on a daily or at least twice a week or something, keep that energetic alive, both in your mind, in your intention, and in the energetic relationship you built, either with the changed energy field you have or with your helpers for them, for your power animal to be present. You just don't, you can't just go away and have it be, you know, you could go to a powerful healer and they could make a change and boom, it could stay, but it's gonna stay a whole lot better if you can keep it alive, practice it. That's beautiful. When you talk about helpers, what is your, not a concept, what is your like intimate understanding of who the ancestors are literally? So we can take it literally and say they are those of my biologic lineage that have crossed over and that are present to help, but they're also ancestors of former humans, of other tribes, of other cultures that have wisdom for us that we can talk to and align ourselves with. The Native Americans and the Southwest, the Aborigines, your Celtic, there are many beings that have crossed over that are still actively helping humans that are working their way through the planet. But for me, the bigger helpers are again of the unseen world and maybe those that were not ever really human. I'm very attached and attracted to nature spirits. And when I was on a spiritual trip years ago to Sedona with a group of women, we had a meditation on the red rock where the guy asked us to bring forth the dragons he had been working with. And these are creative powers of the earth, energetic powerhouses. Those currently are my primary helpers. I'm so glad I asked that question and thank you for that amazing answer. I just had this sense while you were explaining before the four As and all the pieces of it. And I realized when you got to the piece about the helpers that I have had this very small idea and actually not a comfortable idea of ancestors. I think because I'm Jewish and in my immediate lineage, my father and his whole family, what a mess. Holocaust, his father died in a concentration camp. My father's story is a movie. It's unbelievable. He's alive, but he was a hidden child and it's a story. And then his cousins and et cetera. And I know they say that gets passed down genetically, DNA-wise, some of that trauma. And so because of that, but also frankly, knowing the plight of the Jews, it's insane. It's insane that they would find a country and settle down and be so beautifully received into the community. And literally at some point, the community would turn on them because I understand from the history, they started making money and doing well and contributing.  And so when I will work with the lineage or the ancestors, that comes up and I was realizing as you said that this feeling that I have around that of discomfort like do I really want to call you guys in? And maybe I'm the one cleaning a lot of stuff up right now. So you know, Debbie, I have two thoughts on that. One is, yes, there is a strong current of energy through the lineage of being a Jew. And it overpowers a lot of what else you could sense from that. I have two thoughts. One is when you said you're cleaning it up, I call that the pay it backward. You do this work, you open, clear some of that and you're literally paying it backward. But it also reminds me to have you see that you're not limited to former humans as your helpers. There are powerful, even if you were to stay within the Judaic lineage, you could go back to the energies of the powerful prophets and women in the culture. That could be huge. That is huge. Oh my gosh, I never thought about that. That thank you so much. I'm even named after one of the great prophets and leaders, Deborah in the Bible. My, absolutely, my mother took a lot of choice in how she named myself and my brother. He's David, right? And I'm Deborah. And so that is beautiful because there were some amazing people as part of this Judaic lineage. Absolutely, and thank you. This is such a good conversation. I hope people listening or even considering their own past and past, everything from what happened with your immediate mom and dad, good, bad, indifferent, whatever that you have discomfort in incorporating and then beyond in the history. And the other thing when you're sharing that you're saying that's like, for me right now is this piece about, I love how you and you're saying the unseen. And when you're talking about all this, my mind is going into, well, of course, multi-dimensionality of paying it backwards is a lot of different ways depending on which time and time is irrelevant anyway. And so this could be other star families that are lineage, that are coming into play in all of this. So literally my understanding right now of this word ancestor is huge, like really contributory from a lot of different facets coming in. So when we call out, when I call out, there's a lot more going on than I have seen or perceived was happening. And you're right, you have galactic connections, you have intergalactic connections. I mean, we do have in our molecules, literally the elements of star making. Exactly. That is cool, isn't it? That is so cool. Thank you very much. That was a gift, that was a gift. I know that mindfulness plays a really crucial role in your methodology. Can you talk about the mindfulness matrix, how it works, how it enhances self-reflection, the recovery process, all of that? If you're going to do this work of shifting a health challenge or a life challenge, you need to see your future self as bigger and more powerful, and you need to set your intention with wisdom and clarity. So the mindfulness matrix are not the only ones, but are nine key psychological ways of being, that if you can inhabit those and embody those, you are bringing those energies to your energy field and feeding its fodder for your intention of how to shift what's coming down the pike. And so those are wisdom. Well, there are many ways you can have an intention that if you really picked it apart might not be the smartest intention, you know? I intend to have a new job, okay, boom, next week you get fired, you know? You be careful how you say, because you're going to get what you intend.  That's the trouble I think we all have is we think small. We don't ever see ourselves as the powerful beings that we are.  Do you really want to change? You've got to pick that apart because some people say they want to change, but they get a lot of goodies from staying exactly where they are. So those are ways to think about and embody a characteristic, a mental characteristic, and then that informs how you take on the future and how you intend to move yourself towards your healed or improved wellbeing. Are there practices that people who are listening can adopt to gain control over their own healing journey and experience a greater sense of vitality? So yes, in my book, I give many, both meditations and journeys and rituals to clear something like perhaps a contract you've been living under, to have a bigger view of yourself, to meditate with and have a dialogue with your wisest self or a being that you ask to offer you advice and those are helpers. So there are many processes in the book that take you through ways that you can begin the shift. How is your book doing? Maximize your healing power. How is it being received out there? It went on sale on May 23rd in the first week. It was number one on Amazon. And inner traditions, which as the publisher said, so it's been about a month now, but two weeks into it, they had sold more books than they usually see from authors in six months. People are hungry for this. And the whole point of the book is for the reader to have tools that they themselves can shift for their own future. And I think also the beauty of what you've done by writing this book is, each of us can only reach a certain amount of people. And by doing these interviews, of course you've just exponentialized that. And then I think the book is in another way, just to get the message out there, to reach so many people because picking up the book, yeah. And I hope a lot of people listening will pick up your book. Is it also an audible? It's going to be audio book by the middle of July. Oh, soon. Okay. Excellent. That's great. So lots of different ways. And I'm sure you have an e-book too. I know I got the regular book. And you've got more coming. I've got all these ideas percolating around. That's interesting. So what is that process like for you? I mean, because you're in the process right now, you've given birth, right? You've been a doula, you've given birth to this beautiful expression. And it is doing very well. You said, your publisher said more books than others have done in six months. Bravo. That's wonderful. Write message, write time. But in the, and here you are, you're doing the interviews, but in the background, things are calling to you and saying, me, you're going to create me. I'm not as overwhelmed about the idea of writing another as I was the first time. The first time, it took a long time. I had a wonderful development editor, Nancy Pesci, who did a fabulous job helping with the structure and the flow. And it was a process, but now I can see that I can do it. And my mission is to give people tools to make them bigger, more. That's why my business, my shamanic and healing business is called Maximum Medicine. I want people to know how maximum they can be. That's wonderful. Tell me about your radio shows. So I was, this is spirit working, isn't it? Back in 2017, I got an email from a young woman who was a senior producer at Transformation Talk Radio and asked if I wanted, she had come across my website, how I have no idea because it wasn't very active. And asked me if I wanted to be a host. And so I started hosting and doing interviews and then working with the founder, Pat Basili, and then taking on, that was my own expansion and my own clarity and my own wisdom. And taking on more ideas and then out of that came the book. And now I'm interviewing people that just have beautiful things that they're bringing to the world. I love that. So there are different shows. One is Sacred Magic and one is... And Maximum Medicine. Right, so this one is about, so the Maximum Medicine, this one is about health and then the Sacred Magic, that is more etheric magical. The Maximum Medicine is really more about human potential. Health, bringing it all back to health, but also our ways of thinking and the ideas of the quantum and Sacred Magic. I did with a friend of mine and it was basically an intuition energy healing show. It's on pause now because of the book, but... Well, I feel weird calling you Doc Martin because those are a pair of shoes, so let's just say. That's what the network calls me, so I'm using that. Okay, we'll say Doc Sharon Martin. So this is Dare to Dream. What are you next dare to dream? What are your future dreams and goals outside of these books percolating and wanting to give birth through you? What else? I wanna keep learning more about the really deep secrets of energy medicine. About communicating with the Akashic field and all of those really deep. The things probably that Shamans did, but they didn't have words or language for it. Is there a ritual or a practice that you do every day that keeps you grounded, healthy and centered? I have about a 30 to 35 minute drive to work every day. And it's, hold on, the puppy's chewing a cord. Bring the puppy on camera, the puppy wants airtime. He really does. And so I do a practice of calling in the dragons and the practice is for my energy field to ground, center, balance and align. And I do that on the way to work every morning. Just aligning myself with those forces of the universe, asking that my field be centered and clear and activating the helpers, but with in a regulated fashion. Don't open the gate and let the everything stampede out. And is there anything here at the end that you wanna say to the listeners and the watchers? I think you'll really like my book. I think it has things, the whole purpose is to give the reader tools. These are tools that you can take the power in your own hands. And so that's the point of it. And so I can feel comfortable saying that I think you'll like it because I really believe that it gives the reader tools and empowers them. So maximize your healing power is the title. Is it best for them to go to your website, DrSharonMartin.com to get it? If you get it from Amazon or Barnes & Noble and you bring the order number to my website, there's a page where you could enter the website and you can download a bunch of freebies. Oh, that's always fun, very nice. And that's the best place for folks to reach you as well, drSharonMartin.com. Perfect, yep. Thank you so much for spending this time with me and for your wisdom and insights, I appreciate it. Debbie, I had a great time hanging with you. Thank you. Me as well. And I end today's show with this quote from Swami Vivekananda. All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak. Do not believe that you are half crazy lunatics as most of us do nowadays. You can do anything and everything without even the guidance of anyone. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Thank you for joining us today. Subscribe to this number one transformation conversation, Dare to Dream with Debbie Daschinger. Leave a comment, I do read them all and share this. Next week on the show, my guest is the amazing Susannah Kennedy joining us from Hawaii to share how to craft your 5D reality. Susannah is a visionary and has been guiding individuals and groups for decades in her powerful methods. Don't just Dare to Dream. Dare to create all your dreams into your reality.


Hi, this is Hannah, and this video will talk you through how to create a user page.  Before starting this step, you should ensure that you are logged on and that you have enabled Visual Editor. You can see previous videos to see how to do this. So come to your Wikipedia homepage and then click on the red link at the top of the page which matches your username. So here it is Blue Rhino 3. The red link and any red link on Wikipedia means that the page does not exist. So the user page for Blue Rhino 3 does not exist. And then click on the top bullet point here under Wikipedia does not have a user page with this exact name to click start user Blue Rhino 3 page. And here this is this pop up here. You can switch to the visual editor or start editing. So if this comes up, click switch to the visual editor. And now as you can see here, this looks kind of like a normal word processor. So now here we have a user page that we can edit for the Blue Rhino 3 account. As you can see it kind of looks like a normal word processor. We've got paragraph, heading, subheadings here, different formatting. This button means that you can add links. This button means you can cite, you can add bullet points. You can insert images, templates, tables, or you can click up more options for text. So I'm going to type a sentence to introduce myself. And you can do the same. For example, I'm going to type height and then you can signpost to other editors that you are a new user by clicking this button insert. Select from the drop down template and then type in this box hits here. This is a new user and click on this is a new user here. And here it shows you that this template is generated from this is a new user. Now the page is ready to be published. You can add more information if you want, but this is a pretty good starting point. So here you click publish page. This doesn't mean that you are now making a Blue Rhino account, Blue Rhino 3 Wikipedia page. I'm just making a user page on my account. So I'm going to describe what I've done. And every time you make an edit on Wikipedia, you should give a brief edit summary. So here I will type in created user page. Keep watch this page ticks. That means it's any edits. I'll be aware of what they happen on this page and click publish page. Now you'll see that the Blue Rhino 3 link at the top right hand corner is now blue because there is a user page for this. And so it's no longer red. This is your Wikipedia user page created. At this point, you can begin editing, but there is also more guidance you can follow if you need to in terms of how to edit. Thanks for watching.


In this lecture, we are going to talk about the digestive system and the nutrition, goals of this lecture are to describe and discuss nutrition and the related processes, various structures in the human digestive system and functions of various parts of the human digestive system, few common diseases associated with the human digestive system. We start with the lecture, nutrition, what is nutrition? Nutrition is the acquiring energy from the environment, converting this energy into the usable form by the organism itself and then assimilating this energy into its body for performing its various functions or making its own structures and then eliminating the remains. So, the process of nutrition and digestion starts from acquiring energy. Acquiring energy from the environment is a property of living organisms and this is one of the two major properties of living organisms that they acquire energy from the environment and then they utilize that energy for their own processes by converting it into a chemical form of energy or we can say the biochemical form of energy which is usable by the organisms. There are various types of strategies that organisms assume or adopt to acquire energy from the environment. There are two major categorizations of organisms as we know, the plants and the animals. These are the organisms that acquire energy from sunlight and make their own carbohydrates or we can say their own food by themselves and also produces energy from sunlight. We call them producers that is they can make their own food by themselves. They comes at the first level of the food chain. The animals on the other hand have to acquire energy by either eating plants or eating other animals. Animals sometimes also acquire energy by eating up the dead organic matter that is the dead organisms, dead living dead plants for example, the branches of plants, the leaves of plants present on the soil or maybe mixed up with the soil the old dead organic matter. According to their energy acquiring habit, if they are eating other plants or other animals we categorize them into different categories.  We call them decomposers if they decompose or break up the dead organic matter. So plants they are producers according to their nutrition, according to their mode of nutrition their eating habit and the animals may be consumers or the decomposers. Many of the microorganisms like bacteria are also decomposers. They also decompose or break down the dead organic matter present in the soil, in water or other places. Now we talk about the various modes of nutrition in animals. There are four major categories of animals according to their modes of nutrition. Perhaps maybe are herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and detritivores, herbivores. Herbivores are those organisms which eat up other the plants. For example, goats they eat up the leaves of different plants, the buffaloes which eat up the grass and we know that grass is also a plant, the cows which also eat up the grass and the plants. The herbivores are those animals which eat up or which acquire their energy or their food from plants. Then comes the carnivores. Carnivores are the organisms which acquire their energy or their food in the form of meat or proteins. We can call them sometimes flesh eaters.   The carnivores are those organisms hence which eat the meat or the flesh. Then comes the omnivores. These are the third category of animals which can eat plants and meat both. Like human being, ourselves, we, we are omnivores.  Cows, we observe that cows eat meat and the plant material also eat it. So, crows they are also omnivores like us. Then there is a category called the deteriorative ores or the decomposers. These are the animals or the organisms which eat up the dead organic matter. For example, the earthworm. Earthworm lives inside the soil in the upper layer of the soil and it eat up the dead organic matter. Break it down, break down the dead organic matter and produces its, takes out its food or we can say acquire its energy from the dead organic matter. So, there are four modes of nutrition in animals. The herbivores, the carnivores, the omnivores and the deteriorative ores. Interestingly, the animals have particular adaptations according to their mode of nutrition. As we know that flesh eaters or the meat eaters have to tear large or big pieces of meat and meat is harder. For example, lion sometimes have to break up the bones of the prey. Sometimes they have to tear bigger, larger parts of the flesh. The herbivores however have to take the grass.  They do not have to tear it, but they have to grind it hardly. So, according to their mode of nutrition, animals have different types of teeth. Their dentition we can say is different from each other. If we observe the cats around us or if we have a chance to go to a zoo or if we observe the National Geographic, we can observe that the cats and the lions or the tigers, they have very large conical teeth. If you look into the diagram, in the second diagram, say canine. These are the specific teeth which are modified in the carnivores. These are very hard and long. These are the teeth which we can see on the sides of the cat or in the zoo. We call them canines. Their function is to make the pieces of the meat cheaper. This is the reason that these lions and the cats do have long canines. You can see at the first the incisors. The incisors are the cutting teeth.  If you look at a rabbit, it have long incisors. In our cartoon films, we generally observe that the rabbit have two long teeth in front.  These are the cutting teeth. Because their habit is to eat the carrots or vegetables, they have cutting teeth more advanced. And the others are, we can say, less developed. In the predators, the canines are more highly developed. In those organisms who have to chew or grind the hard plants like grass in buffaloes and in horses and in cows, they have their premolars and molars highly developed. You can see in the diagram, the other two categories other than incisors and canine, the premolars and molars. The horses, the cows, the buffaloes, they have complicated premolars and molars. These premolars and molars have wavy or curved surfaces which help these organisms to grind the hard grasses. So it means that according to the mode of nutrition, organisms have different types of teeth. There are other different adaptations in organisms. Mouth parts are very important according to the mode of nutrition. We know that frog, for example, have a very long tongue and this tongue is inverted. That is, it is attached on the base and then it goes inside out because and it is sticky because the frogs, they capture the insects and to capture the insects, they need a long tongue and they need a sticky one.  Just like that, there are various mammals which have specific types of snouts. You may have seen in natural geographics, a pangolin. Pangolin is also called sometimes a scaly anteater. It have a long snout. It as the name says anteater, it eats up the ants, it have a long snout. It can exert its snout in the ant hole and open it up and then the ants have to come out and it eats upon them. You can look at a beautiful picture of Mekau, a big parrot. You can see its beak is very hard and long and curved because these parrots eat upon different types of fruits and hard nuts. They have to break up the nuts. So they have very hard beaks. There are different types of beaks according to the food of the organisms. We see that the beak of sparrow is different. Beak of a fish-eater bird is very, very long like that of a falcon. And beak of the parrots is different. Beak of some other bird which is for example a kingfisher which have to eat fish is very long because they have to capture fish from the water. So the mouth parts are modified according to the mode of nutrition of the organism. These mouth parts help the organism to acquire the food from the environment.


Hello, my name is Sarah Lane-Ritchie and I'm a research fellow in Theology and Science at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. In this lecture, I'm going to talk about the relationship between the various brain sciences and religious belief. Neuroscience has been extraordinarily successful at identifying the specific relationships between mental experiences and neural patterns in the brain. And this is true even in the case of religious belief. The neural correlates of belief are observable using imaging technologies. Similarly, cognitive science suggests that religious belief is an evolutionary product or even byproduct of a long process of natural selection and adaptation. That is, belief might actually be explainable in evolutionary terms. All of this raises significant questions in the science and religion discussion, questions such as, have the various brain sciences undermined the validity of religious belief? If we can explain how the brain works and why we have evolved the cognitive capacity to form religious beliefs, then have we effectively explained a way God, or rendered belief in God redundant? These are the sorts of questions we'll begin to address in this lecture. I'll begin by highlighting the embodied nature of the mind and religious belief, then examine the nature of neural correlates of belief and religious experience. We'll then turn to the cognitive science of religion and the evolution of belief. Before finally returning to a discussion of whether, indeed, the brain sciences are even the type of thing that could debunk religious belief in the first place. Before going further, though, a few clarifications are helpful. The terminology of brain-related fields of study can be confusing. While brain-related research is often colloquially grouped together under the heading of neuroscience, this isn't technically accurate. Neuroscience has to do with the study of actual brain matter. Neurotransmitters, the prefrontal cortex and synapses, cognitive science, on the other hand involves neuroscience, but is interdisciplinary and much broader in scope, drawing upon psychology, anthropology, and evolutionary biology as well. Thus, when I refer to the brain-related sciences, I do so just to indicate that there are a variety of fields that study the mind-brain from different perspectives or through different lenses.


Good morning everyone and thanks for being here today. My name is Staff Sergeant Mario Masterpiri. I'm a Staff Sergeant with the operations division in Vancouver. I oversee the daily operations for barcode projects and here to discuss with you guys today. First off, I'm going to give you some background information about project barcode and how we got to where we're at today. We started project barcode after we realized shoplifting incidents increased more than 30% in 2022 compared to previous years with more than 20 violent shoplifting incidents being reported each month. These incidents include where weapons or physical force were used during the commission of a shoplifting offense. We recognize that healthy businesses are economic drivers that draw people to our city. When merchants struggle with their employees feeling threatened because of crime, it means we need to act. Despite the work we've done, business owners still have safety concerns for their staff and for their customers. We've seen the impact that rampant theft and violent shoplifting has had in other cities across North America. We, where some of the retailers have decided to close their stores and close their doors for good. We are determined to not let that happen here in Vancouver. In response to this VPD initiative project barcode in February 2023, followed by the second phase of barcode in April of 2023. Today I'm here to talk about our third phase of project barcode. Phase three of barcode was a 16-day operation that ran between September 11th to September 26th. VPD officers were closely with management staff and security at stores to identify and arrest chronic and violent shoplifters. Some of the highlights of the 16-day operation include 250 individuals being arrested. Of the 258 individuals arrested, 25 were identified as repeat offenders. 26 weapons were seized, 112 report to crown councils were submitted, 57,000 in stolen merchandise was recovered and returned to store shelves. 26 retailers in total participated in the project. As a result of this project, violent shoplifting decreased citywide by 22% during the duration of the project. Mid-sized businesses like Lending Drugs, along with grocery stores, dollar stores and clothing retailers were amongst the widest hit. One retailer location alone generated 47 arrests in just 16 days. Retail theft and violent shoplifting is not unique just to Vancouver and during the latest phase of project barcode, VPD collaborated with agencies across Metro Vancouver to target thieves who moved from city to city to commit their crimes. This included police from Transit, Port Moody, Delta and RCMP from Burnaby, Langley, Richmond and Cuckoocombe. As a result of the collaboration, collectively there was 340 individuals that were arrested. 77,000 in stolen merchandise was recovered and returned to the stores. 11 repeat offenders who had arrested in Vancouver were also arrested in other jurisdictions during this project. Everyone deserves to feel safe and to be safe in Vancouver and that includes thousands of small business owners and their employees. While we're pleased with the results, there's still work that needs to be done. We will continue to proactively target chronic shoplifters and violent thieves until everybody feels safe again. We remain committed to working with our partners on new and innovative ways to reduce crime and improve public safety in Vancouver and throughout Metro Vancouver. Phase 4 of project barcode is already in the planning stages and stay tuned for more information about that. Thank you. Thank you. I'm Tony Hunt, General Manager of Loss Prevention for London Drugs. I'm happy to stand here today as a member of the retail community and thank the Vancouver Police Department for their leadership in this recent operation to address aggressive and prolific shop theft. We appreciate the ongoing efforts of the VPD and their partners, other members of the police community to help retail businesses in protecting employees and customers in what feels like a tsunami of crime that's upon us. In general, most retailers have seen at least a 20% increase in retail theft over the last couple of years and some dramatically more. An industry with significant rising costs and narrow margins, this can be devastating financially, especially for smaller businesses. Crime and safety issues are threatening the survivability of retail businesses and the economic health of our communities is at stake. So we know that shop theft is often left unreported. Statistics Canada has reported that from the crimes reported to police shop theft increased 30% last year in Canada. So the impact of this rising tide of theft, it's been dramatic and it costs us all. But top of mind for us in retail is this is an issue that's affecting people. Our primary concern as employers is the abuse of frontline employees with aggressive and violent behaviors with increasing frequency and intensity. Often the offenders who terrorize employees or customers are well known repeat offenders. This isn't a Vancouver problem. We're hearing across the province, across the country, employees and customers are afraid and this is simply not okay. People should not have to face violence and abuse. They should not have to be afraid at work anytime within their community or as they travel to and from work. Now businesses are not sitting idly by. Employers are spending millions of dollars a year on training for employees to stay safe on security measures. But not all businesses can afford to take these steps. No one entity can stand alone and achieve community safety. We rely on our police, our courts and our social support systems to make it safe to work within our communities. People should not have to face violence and abuse at work. It's simply not okay. We in the retail community appreciate the work of the Vancouver police and other police partners to focus attention and resources on prolific retail theft and the abuse and violence which is so concerning to us and to our employees. The operation here was a resounding success as it was with previous and it illustrates the value of cooperation when citizens, businesses and police work together and take a stand against violence and crime. We're very grateful for the leadership shown by all police agencies involved in these special crime reduction projects. Our employees in retail simply need and value this support. Thank you. Are there any questions for staff sergeant master period Tony. What are some of the challenges that you may face because you know, shoplifting is it's very reactionary, I guess, in a way of policing like what are some of the things you're doing to sort of manage that and going forward. But rather than reactionary being a little more proactive and certain things that you need to address that. I guess I could kind of speak and Tony have something that you might add. But again, these these projects are one ways we've connected with our business community here in their concerns. Obviously, it's a driving force for these kind of type of projects. Any time we meet with them, we have suggestions in terms of hardening target of stored locations, you know, security devices, for example. So there's that interaction that now gets open between business and the police themselves. Are you able to talk to you. Like these items are being stolen. Is it going into a bigger testing operation thing or is it more individuals. What were you seeing the items? Obviously, it's specific on what the item is itself, but I think there's many levels to when it comes to shoplifting, because a lot of the shoplifting, as we all are aware there. It's being conducted because of mental health reasons, poverty reasons, drug addiction, and there is that organized crime aspect where a lot of this, a lot of the items being stolen end up on certain market places or even shipped across the country. So we're seeing that trend and we can't speculate on where exactly they end up from there. But given the amount of levels of the offenders, there's different avenues where the product does end up. And is this project that you're working on you mentioned, you know, close to 300. Are you then going after like higher levels in that part of it or is it certainly the three level person. No, we always look at every level. Obviously, we just don't end up with one arrest and that's it. We close the file. So we always look at progressing these files again with more of the project barcodes plan for the future. We're always looking at ways to improve it and also to elevate it to the next level. Is there any challenges with say revolving door of somebody doing a crime like that and then they're out the door basically before you finish the paperwork. I can't comment on obviously the releasing of a lot of these offenders. All I can say is that we, there's many layers of and levels of government that need to step up here. We do our best with projects like barcode to fulfill what the police can do. And I think we've been very successful as arresting and recommending charges. At times we recommend people be remanded in custody. Once the report Crown Council submitted, it's really out of our hands. What are some other deterrents that businesses are looking at and perhaps Happy to answer your question. So the question is, what are we looking at as deterrence in business? How can we do more or how have we been doing more to address this growing crime trend? Businesses are investing exponentially more in security and training of staff. It's most important that we keep our people safe. Training in management of aggressive behavior or deescalation customer service when faced with difficult customers has been key increased security spend. We are spending hundreds of percent more and millions of dollars as an individual retailer and our retail community is spending in a similar fashion. There's a lot of investment that's going on. We're working very hard on organized retail crime. This is an issue that we consider very important and illicit markets and resale of stolen goods fuels this violence that we see in our communities. We believe that organized retail crime often creates a situation where marginalized people, addicted people, people who are mentally ill are put in situations where they're encouraged to go and commit crimes. And this puts the public at risk going after these networks is important and a priority for retailers. Any other questions? Any questions about anything else going on in the city? No? Okay, thank you for coming.


Daraf, disappointing way to end the game. Yeah, disappointing. Obviously the way that it finished in the last couple of minutes, it's heartbreaking really, particularly given the performance that the lads gave today and something that, as the manager said in the changing room, we definitely didn't deserve and we just have to learn from it and take it into next week and I think if we take our chances in the first half then we're by far and away going to win the game, we just didn't manage to do that but I think the crowd can be enthused by the performance that the lads gave and it's going to be an exciting last 10 games if we can continue to play like that. I think you could tell from the response of the crowd after the game that they appreciated the performance which showed a lot of promise. Yeah, obviously the last couple of months I haven't been involved massively but I have been here watching the games and the atmosphere just hasn't really quite been there in terms of the crowd. I haven't had a lot to shout about given the performances really but as you say today, I think that was different. When the atmosphere is like that, it's a brilliant place to play and it brings the lads up another level and the crowd really had something to shout about today. I thought we really did play well and like you say, we just didn't deserve to lose the game. Simple as that really. What do you think it is that's changing? Is it just a great sense of purpose in the play? Yeah, I just think that the manager's philosophy is a lot different to the previous managers. I think that it's a lot more attack minded, a lot more possession based and it's a lot more, like you say, attacking and we're creating chances off the back of that so when they see a good pattern of play and breaking through the thirds and lads are getting a shot off on goal, that's what the fans pay the money to see so I think that's what we've given them today and I hope that's what's going to be the case for the last 10-11 games. You mentioned that you've not been involved too much recently but got your opportunity today and you're not the only player inside who's been given a fresh chance with this manager. Yeah, there's been a few lads out of the picture the last few months and I think the fans are aware of who those players are and everyone's applied themselves fully, no-one's really let themselves get down, everyone's maintained the fitness as much as they can and I think that stands instead when situations like this come along and there is a change of management, you know, you're ready to be thrown into the mix and sort of earn your place on the perch. Is that something that's motivating you all in training day-to-day then? Yeah, I mean, a new management team isn't going to play the same 11 players so I think that the lads that have sort of been on the periphery and being on the fringes of the team sort of a little more heartened by the fact that there's a chance that they're going to get on the perch and that's kept the lads going to a point and everyone's desperate to get the shirt and everyone's desperate to play so the standard in training and the standard on a Saturday afternoon has gone up massively, I think. What have they been speaking to you about on a day-to-day basis in preparation? Now you've had this full week in the build-up and we saw that change. I think they're just trying to implement the philosophy really and the manager and Glen and it's quite clear that that's different to the previous manager and I think they know that they're not going to do it overnight so it's a bit of a step-by-step process and sort of stepping away from how we were playing and gradually going to the way that the new manager wants us to play so I think on a day-to-day basis, as the days go by that's going to become more and more apparent and you'll see it more and more in the games, I'm sure. But after the match in the dressing room, more positive than it's typically been after a defeat? No, not really, the lads are still gutted but I think once the dust settles, everyone's pretty aware of how well we played today and like I say, we didn't deserve to lose the game, we deserved at least a point, if not three to be honest so I think that everyone's pretty excited about the way that the club's going at the minute. It doesn't get any easier though, a trip away to Faris Green next week but you do have that week to prepare and just keep building like you see. Yeah, we've got a sort of run of fixtures, just take it game by game and just keep trying to improve on the performance and if you do that I'm sure that the results will follow.


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Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel, Eples and Tiara. So today I'm gonna do the I Teach To Teacher Tag video created by Megan at Too Cool for Middle School. I'm so excited to do this tag. Absolutely love doing tags. Jennifer and I created the Teacher Tag months and months and months ago and we've had so much fun creating it and I'm really, really excited to be answering some new questions. So thank you Megan for creating this wonderful tag and I tag all of you out there to do this tag. I tag Jennifer from Genuine Teaching. I know she's been tagged already but she hasn't filmed her video yet, so I'm tagging you. And yeah, so I'm gonna just go ahead and get started. It's actually 6.40 in the morning and I'm ready early to go to Ikea with Jennifer today. So I'm like, you know what, let's just film the video. So I'm gonna just go ahead and get into the questions and I'm sorry that I'm squinting but I'm not gonna wear my glasses in this video because there's a glare from the window and I'm sorry about the background. My office is now a nursery and so there aren't a lot of ample places to film in my house now. So I'm gonna have to sort that out but for now this will work. Okay, the first question is what do you teach and where? I teach fourth grade in Arizona. Number two, how long have you been teaching? This will be my fourth class and it's weird that I have to answer that way because I graduated college in December so I actually came through half of the year so this will be my third and a half year teaching but my fourth class. Did you always know you wanted to be a teacher? No, well kind of, yes, yes and no.  I always loved kids. I was always that person or that child that would play school in the playroom with all your friends. Just like a lot of you do or have. But my actual first path of career, my first career choice was actually to be a performer either on Broadway or in film or just a performer in general. I got accepted into a lot of different performing arts colleges, USC performing arts, American Music Dramatic Academy, New York Conservatory, Cal State Theater, Cal Arts, just a ton of different colleges for theatrical arts and after my first semester of going through that I decided this isn't for me, I wanna be a teacher because teaching is a lot like performing. Every day you get to perform for your students, you get to put on a show, it's all theatrical, it's all energetic and I think that teaching and theater kinda go together but yeah, I did finally choose the right path into teaching but I didn't always, I did as a child but when I was an older teenager, when you're right out of high school you're like, oh I'm gonna go do this and then you change course and finally I'm here. So what is your typical teacher OOTD? That's teacher outfit of the day. I really love my school and my principal because she's super lenient on our outfits, on our attire. We can't wear jeans every day, we can't wear open-toed like just flip-flops but we are allowed to wear colored jeans and graphic tees and tennis shoes. So my total like go-to outfit of the day would be a black pair of jeans with a pair of Converse and a graphic tee kind of like this or like that says something about teaching or like I love my students or something like that. That would be my go-to outfit just because it's so comfortable and easy for me to get up and down, move around. I'm constantly working around in different areas and getting up and down in different positions and so I think that wearing something comfortable like that is really, really, really awesome. So that would be my go-to teacher OOTD. It's gonna get really interesting this school year because I'm gonna be big pregnant when I go back to work so getting some teacher outfits is on my list. Let's see, what do you usually bring for lunch? This is a great question. I'm a really, really persnickety eater, not like picky but I like to have different options and I don't like eating the same thing every day. It kind of drives me insane. But most of the time I will bring like leftovers from what I had the night before for lunch or I'll bring, when I'm not pregnant, I'll bring like a sandwich, a turkey sandwich or some kind of salad or just, I don't know. I try to bring like a fruit and a vegetable and protein at every meal, especially lunch. And if I forget my lunch, sometimes I just get school lunch and the school lunch is pretty good. There's a salad bar and there's always a protein option so if I forget lunch, I can just grab that and it works pretty well. But mostly just leftovers from the day before or just little think auctions that have come up with like rolled up turkey with cheese and carrots and yogurt and hummus or something, you know, like that. What is one of your favorite books about teaching? I think, I don't really read a lot. I don't really have a lot of time to read and I'm one of those people that doesn't reach for a book when there's nothing else to do. I enjoy reading in there. I just, I'm really picky with my genres so I don't really pick up a lot of books. I prefer to learn visually through verbal and kinesthetic. So I like to do hands-on learning so I'd rather go to a PD than pick up a book and read it. But I have read the first days of school and I forget who writes that. Harry Wong, I probably am messing this up but I'll link the book down below and or one, two, three magic for teaching. Those are the two books that I've read that are specific to teaching outside of like college textbooks but the one, two, three magic is a really good behavior management system for difficult behaved classes and if you haven't heard about it, it's basically like, okay, I asked you to do something. You didn't do it, I'm gonna count. Okay, that's one. They do it again. Okay, that's two. On three you're gonna take five minutes out of the group and you're gonna have time out or you're gonna have a consequence. You tell them what consequence will be. Okay, that's three, take five. So they know that this consequence is coming every time you reach the number three. So there's no argument, you know? It's not like, well, I, no, I counted to three.  And after a while they catch on and they really respond to it but those are the only two books that I've really read that are teaching related. What is one of your favorite teacher movies? I love the movie, The Freedom Writers with what's her name, Hillary Swank. I think that's a really, really inspiring movie to take all those troubled kids and turn them into these wonderful writers and some people that are proud of what they do. I also love the movie Bad Teacher. In fact, Jennifer had never seen it so I took it over there and we watched it last week and we were both cracking it. But yeah, those would be my two favorite teacher movies. Who was your favorite teacher? My favorite teacher was my fourth grade teacher. Her name was Mrs. Tripp and she was just so fun and so inspiring and engaging. I remember she would sing to us, she would dance around the room, she would play music like you'd be listening to, you know, hit me baby one more time because that's what was really in when I was in fourth grade in like 2000. 2000, yeah, 1999. And she would let us do Reader's Theater and she'd give us these amazing projects where we had to come to school dressed up or we had to make models of California missions because I grew up in California until I was 12. And it was just always so much fun in her room. There was never like a time where you felt unhappy in there. Even if you were getting in trouble, you know, there was never a moment where you felt unloved. I think that's the most important part of her. She loved you. And I was actually very close with her up until last year. We were Facebook friends and she wanted to come to my graduation and she was always so positive and you know, would comment on all my posts and send me messages, encouraging messages. And she actually lost a battle with cancer last year but you could just tell with her passing how many people came out of the woodwork. Like all of these people who she had touched and who had the same feelings as me and who loved her because she was just so amazing. So that's my favorite teacher. So I strive to be like Mrs. Tripp. That's my goal. I wanna be just like her. What are some of your favorite teacher YouTubers? Instagram or Snapchatters, et cetera. Some of my favorite teacher YouTubers, I love genuine teaching. She's my best friend on YouTube and in real life. I also love watching Pocket Full of Primary. I always put her movies, her vlogs on the weekends when I'm like getting ready for cleaning, I have her in my headphones. I'm listening. I love, I've just started watching Mr. Thane and he's really funny. I loved his little what students say video that he just posted. That was really funny. I love the Instagrammer. I don't know if she has a YouTube channel but teaching and so forth, I absolutely adore her. If she hadn't done it, I would have done it at some time but she has all these songs that she has created to help her students learn and I use all of them. So thank you. Bethany Humphrey, I absolutely love her. Teaching and so forth, yeah. She's just super inspiring and like I said, I think that I'm a lot like her so I love to follow her on Instagram and I think that those are my favorites. So I can think of right now. My head's kind of blank. What is one of your best classroom management tips? Be consistent. I need to follow this tip myself and I think a lot of us need to follow this tip but just be consistent. Once you come up with those expectations and the children understand them, if they don't meet the expectation, let them know. Don't let things slide because that's how things get out of control. That's how things get messed up. So just be consistent. Pick something, try it. If it doesn't work, try something else but as you're trying it, be consistent and stick to it while you're doing it and don't let them not do it for a second because as soon as you let them do what you don't want them to do, they're gonna continue to do it. So be consistent. What is one reason you decided to become a teacher? I think the main reason that I decided to become a teacher is because I love children. I have a huge passion for watching them grow, watching them learn, becoming kind, wonderful people and I think that deep down, I'm a huge child myself so I think that I just connect with them on a different level and I just love being that person that they need. There's a lot of kids in our schools these days that have no families, that have parents that are always gone, that have parents that are abusive, whether it's with them or abusive to themselves and these children just need somebody to love them and that's one of the reasons why I love teaching because I'm that person. I get to love these children. I get to be who they need every day and I think that that's one of the most rewarding parts of teaching is, you know, I don't say, you know, well, they're just my students. Like these are my kids. I love them and I would do anything for them so I think that that's one of the reasons why I love teaching so much. All right, yes, that is the last question. So thank you again, Megan, so much for creating the I teach to teacher tag. I'm really, really excited. I'm glad I did it and I love all your questions and if you haven't already done this tag, tag your it. Go on, get your camera, get your computer, get the questions, I'll put them down below and I can't wait to see yours. Bye guys.