Joe Jaspy, live from the national in Chicago, coming at you with another half-case break of the brand new 2020, 2021 Panini Select Basketball, six box, half-case, random team break number four. Big thanks to all of these people here for rallying around this break and getting it knocked out rather quickly. Thank you. All teams are in, let's roll it, let's randomize it. Three times, two and a one. Three times are names of teams, one, two, and three. Easy. After three times, we got Brad all the way down to Karen. Two and a one, three times are the teams, one, two, and three. After three times, we got the Bulls down to the Sixers. All right, Brad with the Bulls, Ryan with the Miami Heat, Andrew with the Hawks, Adam with the Jazz, Jonathan with the Cavs, Matthew with the Pacers, Chris with the Thunder, Eric with the Lakers, Alan with the Sons, Mason with the Trailblazers, Todd with the Mavs, Patrick with the Spurs, Mason with the Celtics, Douglas with the Bucks, Darren with the T-Wolves, Dayler, Taylor D, I put like D in front of Taylor, didn't work out. Taylor with the Pelicans, Douglas, oh, maybe I was gonna get Douglas' name too. Taylor, Pelicans, Douglas with the Nuggets, Ryan with the Raptors, Justin with the Magic, Randy with the Wizards, Sean with the Clippers, and the Kings, Darren with the Rockets, Sean with the Nets, Justin with the Knicks, Todd with the Pistons, Adam, Lassman, Mojo Warriors, Darren with the Hornets, Neil with the Grizzlies, and Karen with the Philadelphia 76ers. All right, and remember, we marked all those boxes random team four, so you know they're from the same case. Any trades? Maybe not? Let's just roll, trade window closed. All right, well, let's see what we got. Good luck, everybody. Hey, what's going on? Thanks. All right, good luck, boys and girls. Thank you again. Let's go. We got Duncan Robinson leading us off. We got Obi-Toppin, Chris Paul, and we've got a James Harden for the Nets, the 299. Nets edition, that's gonna be for Sean Oat, and a Kevin Martin jersey and autograph for the T-Wolves. That's gonna be for Darren. Quarterhouse steak. That's the 149. Carousho, and an Anthony Edwards, Chris. What's that? I'm Jake T. Oh, hi, Jake. How are you? How are you, man? How's it going? Good to see you. Good to see you. I just wanted to make it. I understand. No, he did not. He's holding down the fort for us in Hermosa Beach. You like? What's that? I am. There's Ion Silver. I apologize. No, that's all good. Have a good one, man. You too. See you. Jason's doing personals right there. There's Darren Fox, the 299 for the Kings. That'll be for Sean Oat. There's Anthony Edwards for Minnesota. That's gonna be for Darren. And we've got Geron Williams, jersey and autograph for the Mavs. Dallas, Todd with the Mavs. There's Precious Achua, Tri-Color, a Halliburne as well, and a Silver Obi-Toppin, nice. Nicks, Justin Gutting with the Silver Obi-Toppin. And that is Premier level as well. Tyrese Halliburne goes to Sean O and the Kings. And Ryan McGregor gets the Precious Tri-Color. My Precious. And a Yanis, nice. Scope. And to 249, Rookie Otto Kira Lewis Jr. That'll be for the Pelicans. That's gonna go to Taylor. And a Scope Yanis for the Bucks. Douglas, he's a pretty sharp. What's that? I think he's actually in that corner over there. All right, next box. Packaging is a little thin this year. Next box, the Montess bonus. And Malachi Flynn, one of one autograph. Rookie Otto, Malachi Flynn. Going to Ryan and the Raptors. Ryan, all aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo! White Prism, Tyrese Halliburne. Alex really sharp, to 149. Kings, Sean O. X Factor, Jersey and Autograph, Terry Cummings. Super Sonics Edition, 172 out of 249. And that will be for OKC, Chris Murphy. 172 out of 249. CJ Ellaby, Grant Riller, Rookie Silver. See if we can find his teammate for Darren. And for the Lakers, Dennis Schroeder. And that classic Lakers Orange. Close to, who's got my Lakers? Eric, Gilles. This is OKC gear, of course. DeAndre Aiden, to 199.  Jalen Smith die cut, going to Allen and the Sons. Who's looking for a Chris Paul. And here's DeAndre Aiden for the Sons, to 199. Also for Allen. Cassia Stanley, scope, rookie scope for Indiana. Matthew, and the next box. They're just throwing t-shirts. You better make some noise. I say stop, you say egg, stop. Yeah, they got it. Two color jersey and autograph. Tatayin, that goes to Adam Cupperman and the Jazzy Jazz. One out of 10. That looks pretty sharp. Andrew Wiggins, to 299. There's a James Weissman there, too. That's pretty nice.  Could be a Haunted House, yeah, David. The Scream of Joy and the Scream of Sheer Terror could be similar, sometimes feel similar. Warriors cards going to Adam Cupperman as well. Weissmans and Steph Curry's and all cards ship and et cetera, et cetera. Another Silver Grant Riller. Yeah, that'd be nice. Josh Green, a Silver for the Mavs. Todd, Grant Riller, Silver for the Hornets. Darren, and Anthony Edwards, also for Darren. And a James Weissman tri-color. Nice, Adam Cupperman with the Warriors. Warriors come out to play, yay! Lamello Silver. Darren Porter-House-Stake got randomized to Charlotte Hornets, gets the Lamello Ball Silver. And that is Concourse Edition. Nice one, Darren. Thanks for joining. That's the one. If this grades that to a 10, it'd be pretty nice. And we got a Jason Richardson in-flight autograph for the Warriors. That'll be for Adam. Clay Thompson, Robert Woodard, Kairi, Cameron Johnson. And an Aaron Nesbeth. That's a nice relic there, look at that. That pops pretty nicely. And that'll be for Mason and the Celtics. Not numbered, I thought it'd be numbered. And here you go, Alan. How about a red Chris Paul to $1.99 and a Blake Griffin. Next box, halfway through this half-case break. Oh yeah, I know Brandon Rodgers. I think there's a Brandon Rodgers. We know a Brandon Rodgers. Yeah. Next box, ladies and gentlemen. Good luck. We got an Al Horford tie-dye. We got Sixer's Edition over here and then Celtics Edition right here. That is 23 out of 25. We'll do a randomizer for that between those two teams. One happy person, one sad person. Sixers, Karen and Mason, Celtics. Got a Saban Lee, 51 out of 149. White. Jaumarant Tri-Color and a Derrick White die-cut to 249. That's for the Spurs, that'll be for Patrick. There's Tyler Bay, 66 out of 99. Glyme Green autograph, that looks cool. That'll be for Todd and the Dallas Mavericks. There you go, Todd. Caruscio Tri-Color that is. Devin Vassel, rookie silver. Emmanuel Quickley, rookie silver. For the Knicks, Justin Gutting. Lamarcus Aldridge to 2.99 and Killian Hayes. The Yanis is for Douglas and that is the shorter printed version right there. Back to the court side, Yanis. And behind Tyrese Maxi is X Factor, Jersey and Ottega, another Terry Cummings. That is for Chris Murphy and OKC. Ooh, and a nice patch of William Scope. That's for Brad and the Bulls. Next box, I know, right Chris? I'm sure there's a Terry Cummings Super Collector out there, some guys like Terry's my guy. Grew over the right time and was just like, yeah, growing up, big Seattle Super Sonic's man. My first autograph was Terry Cummings. He was the nicest guy, met him at a car dealership, and a signing at a car dealership. Auto Nostalgia. All right, here we go, more boxes. Silver John Moran and a Malachi Flynn Scope for Toronto, Ryan. RJ Hampton, Silver. Oh, Anthony Edwards. Devonte Graham, Tyrese Hallibur, Paul George Diakutt. That'll be the 249 for the Clippers, Sean O. Tyrese for the Kings. And behind Tobias Harris is a Tyrell Terry, 73 out of 99, lime green on it. I feel like this is our second one. Todd with the mouse. There you go, Todd. Onwards. We've got a Marvin Bagley, the third to 199. Trey Young Silver. And we've got some Al Horford duet selections. We've got the tie-dye one, and then we've got the regular one here. So another randomizer, another opportunity for satin. Another opportunity for sad times or happy times on the randomizer. Theo Maladon to 299. OKC, that'll be for Chris Murphy with OKC. And a Michael Kidd Gilcrest, Jersey and Autograph for Todd. And the Mavs, 111 out of 249. Payton Prichard, Tri-Color, and a Desmond Bain Scope. Grizzlies, that's going to be for Neil. Payton Prichard for Mason and the Celtics. And the Marvin Bagley, of course, for the Kings. That'll be for Sean O. Final box, random team four. All right, good luck. Last box, random team four. Thanks everyone for getting in, appreciate it. It's been a pretty solid case if you put breaks three and four together. Watch these two videos when they get published after we go out there. Watch these two videos and I think you'll be like, hey, that was a pretty darn good case. All right, here we go. John Moran, Leonis. Silver, Draymond Green. Van Blee, Patrick William. I like Patrick William. This is a different parallel too. Or a different tier. This is Patrick William's Premier level. Or Premier, however you want to pronounce it. Tyrell Terry behind him is a Dale Ellis. 35 out of 249. I'm sure the same Terry Cummings collector might be interested in that Dale Ellis too, Chris Murphy. 35 out of 249. All it takes is one. Payton Prichard, rookie silver. Eric Bledsoe, Palakins to 299. So Palakins, that'll be for Taylor. And the silver Celtic will go to Mason. And Devin Vassil, 36 out of 199. Is your jersey in auto and I'm throwing Tyrese Halliburton around. He's fine. That'll go to the Kings, Sean O'Leary. Tyrese Halliburton's scope. It's not bad. Base James Weissman Premier level. And the Devin Vassil RPA will be for Patrick Garcia and the Spurs. There you go, Patrick, something for you there. Tri-color LeBron James.  That's a 249. I like that LeBron James too. Eric Velez with LBJ. Got a Derrick White Silver. And a James Weissman Silver. Golden State, Adam Cofferman with the James Weissman Silver. That's Premier level. Onyeka Okongu, scope for Andrew and the Hawks. Aaron Naismith is your last relic. Another one for Mason and the Celtics. We got a Cole Anthony White for Orlando. Justin Gutting with the magic. To 149. There's the Hawks. And there you go. Thanks everybody. We got a couple randomizers to do. So we'll do two different randomizers. Same card, different parallels. So a chance for, yeah. Hold on, hang on. I lost some windows for a second. All right, there we go. Press the wrong buttons. All right, let's switch screens for a second here. So the first one will be Al Horford, Philadelphia, and Boston. And then the next one will be Al Horford, Philadelphia, Tideye, and Boston Tideye. So the team on top will get it after six and a three, nine times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and ninth and final time. After nine times, it's going to go to Boston. And that's going to be for Mason and Boston. All right. And the Tideye, once again, six and a three, nine times. Team on top gets it. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and ninth and final time. That also goes to Boston. My apologies to Philadelphia. Karen, sorry, Karen, but congrats Mason. You get both of those duet selections cards. There you go. You'll get that Tideye one and the same one in just the base edition right there. And there you go, everybody. I'm Joe for jashmeakscasebreaks.com. That was select four. We'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


When I get students to look at monuments, I want them to consider the range of things. I want them to consider the subject matter. I want them to consider the design. I want them to consider the story of the artist behind it. I want them to consider the story of the people who paid for the statue. Those are all important to the story of the creation of the monument. And monuments and their meaning change over time. I think the best example to use for that is the Shaw Memorial in Boston. Originally it was the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial and the 54th Massachusetts. Now we've included it to be both of them so that it's not just a memorial seen solely to Robert Gould Shaw, a white patrician, but it's really a story about the self-emancipation of African-Americans once the emancipation proclamation goes into place. And what's really interesting about that statue is that statue was in such bad physical condition and it was decided to use that statue and clean that statue as a symbol of reconciliation between white and black residents in Boston in the late 1970s and early 1980s over the terrible rift that had developed over busing. So you're able to take this monument from the Civil War which deals with the race question and use it in a contemporary context to bring the people together. And that's a great tale and that's part of that monument's history now. So as I said, these become places of memory. They don't just are not just static. And when you have a great artist like a St. Gaudens or a French, their monuments have the ability to move you. And all artists, whether it's a filmmaker, whether it's a painter, whether it's a sculptor, they want to manipulate you. And I don't mean that in a pejorative sense. I mean they want you to move. They want you to feel a certain way. And if you walk away feeling a certain way, then that sculptor has done his or her job to make you feel. Or in the case of Maya Lin, who did the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, she also does the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. It's the same thing. It's touching the memorial, having access to the memorial, touching it, and then letting that moment transform you within the context of those 40 individuals who lost their lives in the modern civil rights movement.


My name is Kyle Shell. I'm a fourth generation rancher on our family ranch near Wasta, South Dakota on the Cheyenne River and the Cheyenne River Breaks. We run about 400 cows and we've got about 600, 800 acres of crop ground that we try to put up some forage on to feed our cows. Our limiting factor is probably moisture. We don't have the moisture that we need, but I say that and then the last two years we've had exceptional amounts of moisture and so we dealt with some flooding. Our main goal is to try to increase our organic matter on all of our ground. If we can get those soil organic matter levels up in our soils we can get to the point where we can get a crop off of it every year. That's where our resiliency is coming in, having that organic matter there to manage that water when it comes and then hold it there when it's dry. Resiliency on our operation is being able to get some kind of production off of that ground every year, no matter what the weather throws at us, whether we're extremely wet or extremely dry. You know, it's a family operation so I'm operating with my dad every day which is important to me and now I have a young family and I'm bringing them in and that's important to me too. With that, having that goal of improving the ground and improving soil health and improving our pastures and our farm ground and sharing those goals with everybody involved in the operation from my dad to my kids and my wife and all that, that really brings a lot of satisfaction to your life when you know you're doing something valuable to the ground and to improve it and for that next generation. I think as long as you keep soil health fundamentals in mind with all your decision making it'll get better all the time. I would say it's our biggest goal to improve our water holding capacity so that when that rain does come it can stay with our ground as long as we need it or until we can get some good out of it, I guess. We're improving things and we're working with Mother Nature as we do it so I'd say it's definitely less stressful than it was in the past for sure, at least for me. I would encourage any new beginning producer to attend a lot of these types of workshops, soil health, grassland coalition, all these workshops there are to surround yourself by people that have this passion for soil health and these types of practices because it's therapeutic when you go to them and learn about what somebody else is doing and how you can try to do some of that at your own operations. I'm very confident in my operation. I really think that we're on the right path, we're making improvements all the time. I think we're going the right way.


The Customs and Exercise Department joins counterparts around the world in observance of World Customs Day on January 26, 2023. The theme for this year's observance is nurturing the next generation, promoting a culture of knowledge, sharing and professional pride in customs. Senior customs officer Sarah Arlett Marshall outlined the activities planned in observance of World Customs Day. So on that day we are going to have an exhibition at Constitution Park, sensitizing and creating an awareness of our roles and functions, the roles and functions of the customs department. And also we're going to have our networking agencies such as Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Fisheries to explain their role to the members of the public. An awards and dinner night to recognize and honor retirees of the customs department will also form part of the observance as well as a cultural and games night to build camaraderie. We also want to have a fishing night in the south because we have customs in the south and customs in the north so we want to incorporate everybody in what we do promoting that theme. Acting Comptroller of Customs Shuman Emmanuel emphasized the critical role the customs and exercise department performs within the country to ensure border security, revenue collection and trade facilitation. Apart from customs being the largest revenue earner for the government of St. Lucia, he said greater attention is being placed on modernizing and digitizing of cargo and passenger information systems in an effort to secure the island's ports. The department is moving towards deploying more non-intrusive inspection methods and technology to screen cargo in order to combat illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons and narcotics. We are well aware of the social developmental impact of the inflows of illicit weapons and narcotics. In this regard we commence the X-ray screening of cargo at our main transit shed where we receive the highest volume of cargo that is at podcast trees. We also have an X-ray screening program at the ferry terminal and also at our main post office. We are expecting to have installed more X-ray equipment and tools in the short to medium term at all commercial ports of entry. We are also deploying other measures in collaboration with other agencies for bolstering our border security. The customs and exercise department has a complement of over 200 staff, 190 of which are customs officers. The acting comptroller has called for the support, cooperation and collaboration of partner agencies, the trading community and the general public as the customs department strives to improve its service delivery and overall productivity. The Senusha customs and exercise department is your department and remains committed to serving you. The World Customs Organization WCO encourages member organizations to conduct activities throughout the year in alignment with the theme for World Customs Day 2023. For the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, Glenn Simon reporting. Thank you.


We started out with just a parking lot from there. We've actually built an entire system that's functioning extremely well with a small command village. We're going to go to late 17, which is the last link. As well as an area where we can administer vaccinations safely to the public. You can actually just go ahead and relax and get your body. And we are right now processing over 6,000 vaccinations per day at this site. Do you feel any reactions or anything like that right now? I think the payoff is your satisfaction that you're really helping somebody. All right, little pose.  My nurses can prepare a dose perfectly in such a consistent and such a quality manner that I can set my watch by how quickly they can do it. And that means that all of our patients get seen on time, appointments are on time. We meet and fill the needs for as many patients as we can. I'm going to go back and tell everybody about the experience here, everybody I know and encourage them to come. There's nothing to be afraid of. I'm feeling happy and joyful that we're helping the community out here and giving the shots to these people. I feel like we're doing my part for the community, helping in the pandemic. And I feel very grateful that I could be part of this operation out here.


Hello and welcome to the show. It's me, JP. It's time for JP's product pick of the week. And here we are, nearly on time. Someone made the comment. YouTube Pixel made the comment. I thought trains showed up on time. In some countries, yes. Sorry for the delay. I have no excuse, except it's slightly rainy out and that just freaks me out in Southern California. So here we are. We have got an exciting product pick this week, one that I really love. And we have plenty in stock and we have a humongous discount for you today. So the first thing I'll say is, if you're new to the show, you might not know that we broadcast this show from inside the product page. And you can get there with that QR code or this URL right here. Head to that product page. You'll find out what the product pick is.  I'm going to double check that myself. Let's see. Sure enough, half off today. Maximum of 10 per customer.  Not to call resellers abnormal, but you know what I mean. So head on over there and you will find out what the product pick is. You can throw them in your cart. You don't need a coupon code or anything like that. All you got to do is chuck them in your cart, hit buy and go, do that before the end of the show. The price will go back to normal at the end of the show. So this is only during this time. We don't take rain checks, no back orders, nothing like that just in real time right now. So let's see. I also want to say hi to people over in our chat. Thank you for showing up over in our Discord chat. If you're wondering where that is, head to adafrew.it slash discord and you will get an instant invite. You can head to our live broadcast chat channel inside of our server and that's where people are hanging out. We've also got the chat happening over on YouTube. Pixel says it's sunny and beautiful here next door in Phoenix, Arizona. Good for you. We've been getting lots and lots of rain. Our yard is so green. That's unexpected and weird for LA. So let's see. Before I go any further, what I want to do is have Lady Aida introduce us to this product pick. So please take it away, Lady Aida. To the Grand Central Inform, maybe we'll go to the overhead because this is a pretty epic board here. So yeah, so it's the largest Circuit Python compatible board we've got. It's also one of the largest Arduino compatible board we've made. It features the SAMD51. It's a 120 megahertz processor, Cortex-M4. It's got like DSP instructions and random number generators and a cache. It's a really wonderful chip. It's got one megabyte of flash, 256K of RAM. So it's just can do anything really. Stuff any data you want in RAM and you can process it quite fast. The SAMD21 didn't make it chip with this many pins. We couldn't make a mega-shaped one. Only the SAMD51 finally came out with 128 pin chip, which we needed. We needed that many pins to have all the pins do something. So we've got 70 GPIO total. We've got 16 analog inputs, two analog outputs, tons of timers, PWMs. I think it's got eight circums, you can have eight I squared C, I SPI and UR connections. You put eight megabytes of SPI flash on there, which you can use an Arduino or in Circuit Python to hold your code. There's a debugging port right here if you want to connect your J-Link or that Mel Iced. MicroUSB for data upload and debugging. You've got your standard five to 12 volt DC jack and we added an on-off switch so you can easily turn on or off. We had a little bit of space so we thought we'd add a SD card. A lot of people use these large boards for driving CNC devices or 3D printers and so having an SD card slot could be really handy for storing files on it. Built-in NeoPixel for status, LEDs as usual, power supply as usual and just like a ton of pins. It's a three-volt logic board so it's not gonna be a perfect drop in replacement for a Mega but given that the Dewey didn't really quite launch very well and it had a bunch of problems. I never got I squared C working very well in the Dewey. We think that this is kind of the next step up from a Mega so if you liked a Mega but you're like, well, I want more and I want it faster because the Mega was only running at 60 megahertz so this is running at 120 and it's got caching and it's just super, super fast and that's not even including all the extra Cortex M4 speedups that it's got, it's just blazing fast and you get now all the pins to use with it. So we've got Circuit Python and Arduino support for this. Even though it seems like a really big deal it's just a really big Metro M4 and we've had that out for at least six months. So we're kind of excited to see what people do with it. It's got this beautiful silk screen on the back. This is the ceiling of Grand Central Station. So if you go to New York and you go through Grand Central if you look at the top of the roof of Grand Central you'll see this graphic which Philby has adapted for the Grand Central silk screen. Got that train theme but it's just grand and it's central. So toot toot, check it out. Sudden music, hey, yes, toot toot indeed that made me laugh and then I got, I lost my cool. So here it is, check this out. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. That right there is the product pick of the week this week. It is the Grand Central Metro M4 at SAMD51 Express. So this is in that really nice, huge, bigger than a Uno, bigger than the sort of normal Metro. Here's a M0 Metro Express. This is the Grand Central, it's ginormous. It is the size of a Mega if you're familiar with the Arduino Megas. Like Lady Aida said, it has that Grand Central Station ceiling art on the back there, the theme there, the train theme there is unmistakable. This is the closest to a train theme shirt I had sort of that hickory stripe. But I wanna talk to you about this board a little bit. So let me go to this overhead view here. So what to say about it? So it's the at SAMD51, so that's the Cortex-M4 chip. Fantastic for running circuit Python as well as Arduino. This is running at 120 megahertz, it's fast. It has floating point math support for DSP instructions. It has a mega flash 256K of RAM, eight megs of Q-spies. So you can store files on there. You've also got an SD card there, a little micro SD card reader so you can read files as large of a file system as you can get to work on there. It has a 32 bit 3.3 volt logic and power. There are 62 GPIO pins broken out here, I believe. I think there are maybe 70 total, some of those go to some of the LEDs and things on the board there, but I think you can get it 62 pins, which is just an enormous amount of GPIO without having to go to expanders and use I2C and things like that. If you are building a project that has lots and lots of IO and needs a lot of speed and you wanna use circuit Python or Arduino, this is a really great board. It's kind of a go-to board. It's a great board to use just when you're prototyping things. You won't run out of IO on it very soon. You can just plug stuff right into the headers. This one comes with the header pins or the header sockets soldered right onto it. The, what else was I gonna say? The number of analog pins on it is one of the huge draws for me. It has 16 easily available analog pins. I think there are a few others scattered around that you can bring it up to about 20 without having to bodge wires into other things, but 16 right off the bat that are just labeled A0, the A15 inside of circuit Python, really easy to get to, which is a great number, of course, for music-based projects. Sequencer synthesizers, a lot of things tend to have 8 and 16 knobs that you wanna use or faders. So I'll show you an example project using 16 knobs on one of these, all analog reads. This also has the A0 and A1 real analog outputs. So if you need to do real stereo audio output, you can do it on this board using to the dual DAC that it has on there. There are eight hardware circum ports. So you can stack those up as eight UARTs, eight separate I squared C lines, eight separate SPI buses. There are 22 outputs that have PWM on it. There is stereo I2S output if you wanna go to a little breakout board for that. And it even has the 12-bit parallel capture port for doing video and pictures if you use a compatible camera board. And let's see, I'll show you, here's a couple of example projects I wanna show you, but actually, before I do that, let me head to the site here. Here is that image out of there. Here is the main page. So this is product 4064 and it is half price right now. So $19.98 we'll get you this amazing board, just a beast of a board. The data sheet for the chip is available here. So if you wanna go and check out, this is the, let's see which exact one it is. I think it says, let me go back a page. It's the SMD51P20A is the exact one. So you can check out the data sheet here to find out all of the details. Data sheet is available in the learn guide. So if you head to learn, I'll switch over to that page real quick. If you head to learn, here's the learn guide for introducing the Adafruit Grande, Grand Central, not Grande, Grand Central M4 Express. You will see probably the biggest pinout sheet we have just because of all these pins broken out. By the way, if you hadn't noticed the tail of the board here, these are double rows of separate pins. So those are not two ports per pin. That's actually separate pins there.  Those are digital 22 through 53, I think. So you get a whole bunch of input right there at the end. If you head to that learn guide, you'll see we've got setup instructions for updating the UF2 bootloader. You can set it up with circuit Python. You can set it up with Arduino as well. And we have a lot of guides. I think these will show up down at the bottom here. If you scroll on down, there are, let's see is this showing though, this is showing feature products. If we go back up to learn here and just use grand central. Adafruit Grande Chai Mocha Latte Centrale. Yeah, I made a thing called the Arduino Grande at one point and I confused those words in my head when I try to say grand central, I go for Grande. So pardon me, that's what's going on there. So here you can see there are a number of guides that are in the learn system using your grand central, including some camera ones from Phil. Here's a MIDI guitar. There's one of the robotic xylophone projects. So you can see a lot of these thing they have in common is they need a lot of IO. And this, especially with analog IO, this is a great way to do it. Also, this one, I'm gonna show you a variation on this one here, this grand central USB MIDI controller in circuit Python. This is a project I built a few years ago. So learn guide on it. And what I'll do is I'm gonna show you a new use I came up with for this proto board. So we do have a proto board that works with the grand central. Get my camera set up here for you. Just gonna put a smaller me in the corner there. Let me just fix this, hold on one second. Should do it. So what you can see here I have is just an external monitor that's actually running a VGA signal from an old laptop. And on that laptop I'm running Lumen, which is a video synthesizer software that mimics a hardware video synth actually. And I wanted, as you can see, there's a lot of knobs on here. In fact, there's these 16 knobs across the front of it at the top that are really useful when you're tweaking parameters. So what I've done is I've taken, here's my grand central and I have a proto board on top of it to which I've soldered 16 little potentiometers and wired those up to the 16 analog inputs on the grand central. And now you'll see if you look at this top, these top two rows of eight knobs as I turn the potentiometers in my grand central I'm changing the position of those knobs in the software and thereby I'm adjusting parameters on this video synth so we can change the horizontal and vertical sync and frequency and shape and different color things and effects so you can see it's really nice way to get a whole bunch of knobs or faders or other analog inputs into a project all thanks to the grand central having those 16 inputs. I'll go ahead and unplug this, move this over to the side and I'll show you, it takes a little careful wiggling especially because this double row at the end here you don't wanna bend those pins but there you can see grand central plus a proto board which means you have a whole bunch of proto area there that's how I set this one up to wire up a bunch of stuff, bunch of sensors, input these could also be input connectors interfacing to other ribbon cables and things like that off to your project so that's a nice use I think for the grand central is to just get a whole bunch of analog input that's real fast, really easy to work with. Another example actually I'll show you plugging directly in, put that back together there into, let's see, do I have enough? I do, yeah, I have a bunch of cable here so I have a flight stick, joy stick, an old fashioned parallel port or DB15 port one off to the side, I'll show you in a second but here you can see this is a connector with a bunch of cabling coming out of it and I went through a breadboard just to pick up some resistors along the way but with these kind of little jumper cables you can plug into, and I'm only scratching the surface here right, so this is, let me see if I can unsuction this thing, it's got suction cup feet, so this is an old fashioned joy stick, it's actually a radio shack flight stick, I got it at a thrift store recently and as I, let me switch over to this view of the world here, you can see here as I move the joy stick in a couple directions press the fire buttons, move the throttle, I get these values sent from my grand central over to the serial port there, I'm not actually doing anything interesting with them right now, but this has four analog lines on it so you could potentially get four of these joy sticks plugged into this with no problem and then take care of some buttons as well, you can see here I've just started to barely scratch the surface of digital button input, you can get tons and tons of buttons, these usually have four buttons and four analog lines based on the DB15 joy sticks there, so let's see, Pixel says you could have 62 Hello World Blink sketches running at once, that would be fantastic and what else is there to share, so let me, before I forget, I will post, that's the URL again, so if you wanna go throw some in your cart at the half price, normally these are 40-ish dollars, now they're 20, just during the show, no coupon code, just throw those in your cart, up to 10 of them and you can build nearly any project your heart desires, love the M4, we of course all experienced the part shortage for a while there, well we have gotten these at SAMD 51s back in stock, we're able to make boards that use the M4 so we've got a whole bunch of these, I don't think we're gonna sell out of these today, would be great if we did, go buy loads and loads of these and build some cool projects, we'd love to see what you build with them, this one also has a lot of the conveniences of, where did I just lost one, I put it over here, this one actually has a lot of the conveniences that I appreciate from pretty much the original Arduino Due and Mega and Uno designs the barrel connector for power, so you can give that a DC power anywhere, up to I think 12 volts to power that, we have on-off switch here, I think that's an addition that Lamar put that you wouldn't see on some of the Arduino ones, we've got the reset button there, this has the typical four LEDs for power as well, as indicator for things like boot loading and TX and RX transmission, but it also has a NeoPixel on there so you can do some interesting status things with that on top of your usual LED tricks, so I don't know what else to say about it, it's a great board, let me know if you have any questions or thoughts in the chat, otherwise we will wrap things up, go back to this page here, good, no questions, yeah so many pins, all right, let's do it then, let's wrap this up, thanks everyone for stopping by today, that's my product pick of the week this week, it is the Grand Central Metro M4 Express, bye bye.


Hello, so who are you? I'm Sarah. So what is the smart belt? This smart belt is using the LED, red LED light and also the infrared LED light together and to decompose the fat. So you put it on? Yeah. It compress it? Yeah, decompose the fat. For this device you need to weld around 30 minutes once. One day? Yeah. So that means you will have more or less fat? Or less fat? Less fat. It burns it away? No, you need to exercise too. At the same time? No. After you weld these 30 minutes then you go to exercise. Yeah, because this device is to help to decompose the fat, to be very small, the fat to be small and then after exercise then you can burn out the fat. Wow, and there's different color right here? Yes, we...it's the pearl white color. The what color? Pearl white. Pearl white? Yes. And how long is battery life? Battery life, it depends around the... It's also vibrating? Yeah. Is it vibration too? Yeah, vibration. And does it sense your skin or what? No, no, it's just a sensor of the vibration. These two are the sensors to vibration? Yeah, it's the vibration. How much is the price? Now it's hot selling in Korea, the street price is $500. Cool. So the battery is...you have to charge every day or? No. You have to use up the power you need to charge here. It's the magnetic USB charge. The wireless charge. Yes.


I think there's an intergenerational piece that's very important here, learning and working with young people is the most freeing and most inspiring part of doing the work that I do, seeing them in the fellowship, the younger fellows finding their way and having new ideas and things I never thought about and so they give me lots of energy, lots of ideas and lots of hope and I think that we forget how important it is to always have younger people and older people that cross-sectional, intergenerational dialogue happening in whatever we do.


Let's get over to our man, Mr. Steve Rhodes, as we do each and every Monday at 20 past the hour. And don't forget, folks, Steve's does an outstanding show here every trading day. Also has a great newsletter, Mastering Probability. Now it's very easy to get Steve's newsletter. Just come over to our website at TFNN. You're going to see it right under Featured Content. You can get the Mastering Probability for one month for $149. You can get it for six months for $695, which is a savings of $199 or 22%. And you can get it for one full year for $1195, which is a savings of $593 or 33%. Now they all come with a 30-day money-back guarantee, folks, okay? So you can come over, check it out. You're not only going to get a great newsletter, Steve has a huge amount of information with his newsletter that you're going to understand how to look at the market each and every trading day. Steve Rhodes, what's going on? Game 7 is going on today. Can you believe it?  It's unbelievable, actually. They are. So we've got the Florida Panthers that are going to be playing the Hurricanes. I don't know when the first game is scheduled. I know they've got to get through tonight's game to figure out who's playing who, whether it's Dallas or Seattle that's playing Las Vegas. I wasn't that happy that the game came on on a Sunday evening after Mother's Day at 10 o'clock at night last night. So that was a struggle to watch that game. I was asleep. I get it. I get it. I totally get it. But so definitely look. So as you mentioned, Tom, we're halfway through the month, and you and I haven't really talked about the seasonals. So I thought that what we would do today is spend a little bit of time on those. And this first chart here, this is now what I've done is I've just taken the last 25 years worth of data because I've got 25 years worth of data for the S&P, the Dow, and the NASDAQ. I only have 20 years worth of data for the Russell. And the Dow, we can go back 100 years, but I just thought we'd try to keep things consistent. So we're just looking basically the last two decades out here. So over the last 25 years, the Dow is traded in essence like this, what we see on this chart here. Don't be paying attention to prices or it's really more of a directional thing as opposed to whether it really takes out lows or takes out highs. Yes. You know, we're really looking for potential turning points. And what's also nice about this data, especially for day traders, Tom, if you take a look at the bottom left here over the last 25 years, this for the Dow, you can see that Monday, Tuesday are great days for the Dow, Wednesday, Thursday, OK, and Friday, not so much. OK. And also it's nice just on the bottom to be able to take a look at the which months are seasonally favorable versus unfavorable. And what we can see here, if we take just the last 25 years, the whole sell in May cycle, which is May through October, we can see that on average, there really is around May 1st that identifies the top for the Dow, and it's not until October 9th when we get a significant low for the rest of the year out there. So something for us to keep in mind, if we take a look at the same timeframe 25 years, but we switch it to the S&P 500, by the way, the red vertical line folks, that's where we're at today just so you can get a feel for where we're at. And the case of the S&P 500 is also has done the same with the top May 1st and a bottom in October. Now, interestingly enough, the S&P has terrible Mondays. It doesn't like Mondays. That's why the party's too hard during the week. But Tuesdays, it loves Tuesdays out there. So we'll see, we'll see what transpires here tomorrow. But again, just good information for the day traders out there. Now during the last 25 years, Tom, here's what the NDX chart looks like and totally different than what we just looked at for the Dow and the S&P 500. I identify where the NDX 1, where May 1st is for the NDX 100 in October 9th. So it still maintains that same pattern during the whole process. And as you talked about, we've been going sideways. If you just looked at daily candles for four or five days, it's been a larger consolidation if we open it up a bit. But what we see here inside this NASDAQ chart over the last 25 years is really consolidating period of time. So we don't really typically see a bottom inside of, well, the first significant bottom we see inside of the NASDAQ is around June 14th. Typically leads to a summertime rally, July 17th, and then down into that October 9th time frame issue. So we've got those three that we've taken a look at. During the last 20 years, as I said, only 20 years worth of data for the Russell, its chart patterns also look different. Looks significantly different. In fact, it's right around March 15th when the Russell puts in a significant bottom out here. And we go, I'm not going to focus on the Russell today, but folks can go back, take a look at their charts. And then typically we don't see the Russell really top out until the third week of July. Moves lower, has a little rally up into September and then down into October. So and also the Russell 2000 hates Mondays. It loves over the last 20 years. Its favorite day of the week is Tuesday. So folks, we'll see what Tuesday brings for us. So our primary focus today, Tom, I wanted to just really be on the NASDAQ, the NDX100. And the reason is and the reason to shift my focus there is because that's where we got the most recent signal change. OK. So one of the patterns that I look for are what I refer to as these Rhodes-Mentham indicator patterns. It's a pattern that I teach subscribers. So anybody out there can learn this pattern. I give the exact specifics. In theory, in basic theory, it's what we have price moving higher with less relative energy. It includes more than that. But the one thing about each of the patterns that I trade, well, I can't say each of them, some of the patterns that I trade require you to get a bullish or bearish reversal candle to confirm either the top or the bottom. In this case here on Friday, we had a key reversal session. We had a bearish engulfing or bear sash candle out there. So we had everything take place to signal to us on Friday that we got a top. We do have a top inside the NASDAQ 100. But what we don't have is we don't have confirmation of a break of support. In fact, you were taking a look at just on the interday, kind of a similar type of a thing. Here, when I take a look at support, I'm using profile levels. In this case here, price is trading above the top of its profile. And that little green red squiggly line on my chart, which is the oscillator and change line. It's a real strong momentum. So we do have a top inside the index 100. It says we need to be careful. We're prepared. And if we take a look at the daily and the weekly time frame chart, so the top panel shows a daily NQ on the left, weekly NQ on the upper right. Lower left is the NASDAQ 100. Lower right is the weekly NASDAQ 100. Each of these are matching each other. And we have on the weekly charts, if you look on the right hand side, we have TD9 count top. So it's bar number nine. When we get to that and we have a successful bar number nine, it tells us about a topping signal. And in the case of the NQ, it's very close to its breakdown level, where price are broken down from at $13,453. Now on a TD9 count pattern, Tom, the top can take place on bars eight, nine, or the bar following nine. So won't be until the end of this week that we have the fully completed pattern. But between the daily and the weekly, it really does say that we need to be careful here. And remember, the NDX100 is kind of lining up right now with a seasonal pattern. Now, the seasonal pattern would really only take us lower for a couple of weeks out there. But this would really match up with some of the interday data that you were looking at. As far as markets moving lower, what you're taking a look at from a volume standpoint. So the seasonal piece of it, and then the daily topping signal is in place, now all we need to do is we need to get sellers to move to the downside. If I do this real quickly and take a look at the top five instruments inside the NASDAQ100, we take a look at Microsoft on Friday. It confirmed a Roadsman Dementicator top on its daily timeframe. Weekly's got a TD9 count. Apple has the same thing. It confirmed a Roadsman Dementicator top a couple of days prior. It has a TD9 count on the weekly. Amazon, though, has a sell the D point pattern. And it has a TD9 count on the weekly. It was the top three. There are no topping signals for NVIDIA.  Looks like this thing just wants to keep moving higher. And the same for Google. Google's got an A to B equals CD to the upside. It gets us to about the 130 level out there. So those five stocks represent, I think I'd read it down somewhere. Somewhere around 48%, I believe. Right. Of the entire NVIDIA X100. So we just need to be on guard, folks. The seasonal say that in case the NVIDIA X100, which can drag our markets lower, we really need to be on guard. And you know, Steve, what I remember of women doing interviews so long that the selling may go away, you were showing us a couple of years ago that's really closer to the end of May, not the beginning of May. That's true. Yeah. Have a great one. Have a safe one. Look forward to the show tomorrow, Steve. You too, Tom. Stay right there, folks. We'll come right back.


What is going on everyone, Jossi here and in today's video I'm going to be showing you how I set up my new 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro chip. Before we get started be sure to give this video a thumbs up. I will greatly appreciate it. It helps out with the algorithm and consider subscribing to the channel for more content like this. I really think it's important to take advantage of different applications that can help you be more productive. Also as a software engineer I think it's really important to customize the applications that you're using on your MacBook Pro to enhance your overall experience as a developer that allows you to ultimately write code more effectively, painlessly, painlessly a word, and efficiently. Before we continue this video let's hear a word from today's sponsor Bubbles and how Bubbles is the easiest way for you to collaborate with your team no matter how or when you work. Bubbles is an easy and fun way for teams to collaborate across time zones, locations, or work schedules with less meetings. I can get a lot more done in less time with Bubbles. Like when I'm consulting a friend on an application they're building I can screen record the app and voice my opinion on the app's user experience as opposed to sending lengthy text messages back and forth. As a programmer if I'm pair programming it's great to have the ability to highlight specific lines of code that I may be struggling to implement or having trouble understanding and also provide a recording of what my thoughts are which saves a ton of time allowing me and the developer I'm collaborating with to still work asynchronously replacing another zoom call that no one wants with Bubbles by having the ability to screen record and audio record at the same time but one other thing that caught my attention when it comes to Bubbles is the usable and simple user experience. It doesn't require installation you don't even have to log into a profile when you use Bubbles you'll be prompted with a screen recording or uploading an image options simply select the feature you'd like to use and start recording your screen video or audio. Bubbles is free for all teams no limits on usage you don't have to pay to unlock additional features if you're a software engineer program manager designer or any professional needing to collaborate through screen video and audio I definitely recommend to use Bubbles thank you to Bubbles for sponsoring this video and if you want to check Bubbles out the link will be down in the description box the first thing I like to do is to hide my dock to increase screen real estate the dock is just not always practical for it to be shown so go over to system preferences or simply enter command space and type in dock you'll see dock and menu as an option simply check automatically hide and show the dock now your dock will only display when you hover your mouse over the bottom of your screen one of the first things I like to do is well when setting up my new MacBook Pro is I usually download a wallpaper from a website like wallpaper access on splash amongst other websites where you can download type of wallpaper you're looking for usually go for a clean or colorful abstract type of wallpaper or select a different wallpaper that apple already provides I'm a big fan of peripherals so the next thing I would do is connect my bluetooth mouse keyboard speakers and headphones to my m1 macbook pro the next step to setting up my macbook pro is to download my must have apps for productivity the first one being magnet so unfortunately there isn't a built-in hack to organize your workspace declutter your screen or simply snap your windows magnet makes multitasking with many apps open much easier you can simply drag your window to the edge of your display and it'll size any app into half of the screen magnet also gives you the ability to select the specific arrangement you want for your window so if you only wanted to be left a third or right one half or right two thirds you can just select whatever size you want for that specific window this app is a game changer when it comes to workflow productivity I'm a big fan of pomodoro timers and which is why flow has become my most used focus app it encourages you to focus and stay motivated while also reducing stress this app behaves as a widget more than anything else when an active flow state it adds a countdown timer to the toolbar in the top right corner and when your focus time ends flow will enable a full screen break timer for the start of your break another productivity app that has made my macbook much more enjoyable to use is manico manico is a very simple launch and switcher application that improves the interaction of switching between active and hidden applications using option plus the number key to launch or switch to the target app which is a lot faster than typing command space and then typing in the name of the application you're looking for extensions are an important part of my setup process as well especially as a web developer constantly inspecting and developing web applications so the first thing I'll do is download chrome because it's my favorite browser especially when it comes to inspecting web applications that I'm developing I also will download grammarly because it's an incredible extension that will spell check for you it'll also check for other grammatical errors and sentences as well and then a new extension I've been using recently is colorzilla which is an extension that is an advanced eyedropper color picker and gradient generator when you activate the extension you can decide what feature you like to use for example when I'm browsing for design inspiration on sites like dribble I can select the pick color from page option and use a cursor to select the color I like to add to my clipboard along with making sure you have apps that make you a productive Mac user it's also important to have extensions for the IDE that you use and in my case I use vs code there's usually about 10 extensions that I use on a regular basis that make my web development process as painless as possible for the sake of time being I'm only going to talk about my most recently installed favorite extension and it's called css peak as a frontend developer you can imagine that I spend a substantial amount of time fighting with css yes I said fighting shout out to all my frontend devs css peak allows you to view and change the definition of a css class without having to navigate to the css file and this is incredibly helpful especially when you're working in a code base with hundreds of folders last but not least is the setup of web development apps packages and libraries I mostly do web development so it's essential that I download and install no js which is needed to do development for executing javascript code server side know it also comes packaged with npm which is a package manager that you'll need to install necessary dependencies or libraries for your web project another essential for development on a mac is xcode because for one it's the only way to natively build iOS applications if you're interested in doing iOS mobile development and it will also install git which is a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration I also highly recommend making github repositories for all of your projects so you don't lose your precious code and to show that you're an active developer for potential employers you also can go to github site if you don't want to actually download xcode and want to get github a different way that concludes this video thank you so much for making it all the way to the end be sure to give this video a thumbs up subscribe for more content like this also don't forget to hit that notification bell so you can be notified every time I release a video also comment down below some of your favorite macbook applications for web development content creation productivity all the things and as always have a blessed rest of your week and I'll see you soon peace


How are you today? All right, so we are gonna do another sketch in the Messy Sketch Journal. And we're gonna just do it in real time. First, I wanna tell you about our inspiration photo. So my husband has a friend who he works with that is a photographer, besides doing what they do for a living in technology. He's a professional photographer and every year my husband gets calendars from him of his photography for his desk at work. And I've been bugging him for a while. Can you please save them and bring them home? And so he finally did. He's been saving them up for a long time. And I said, by the way, can you also ask Brent? That's his name, Brent Frazier. Can you ask him if it's okay for me to use them on YouTube and to do inspiration paintings and artwork from them? And he did and Brent of course said yes. So here we are and these are some of his calendars. Now, if you're inspired by any of these photos and you'd like copies of some of these works or maybe you'd like the 2016 calendar, which I haven't seen. I only have, let's see, I have 13, 14, 15. And I think the one we're gonna work from is 2012 maybe. I haven't seen 2016. I don't know what 2016 looks like. Let's see. Yeah, this is 2012. So I don't have 2016. If these are anything to go by, 2016 is beautiful. But you can find them at Brentfrasierphotography.com. So go there. I'll try to remember to put the link in the description below. And these are just filled with beautiful images that we will be doing some of these in upcoming Watercolor Wednesday episodes. I've got to tell you. So if you follow my Watercolor Wednesdays live on Periscope and I have to edit one from yesterday to post to YouTube right now, but we'll be doing some of these in upcoming episodes. Maybe starting as soon as next week. There are just some, I mean, can you not see that as a painting? Like, honestly. There are some just some beautiful pieces of work in here. So I went through the stack of calendars and I found this really pretty picture of some dogwood flowers that he took in Yosemite National Park here in California. And I thought some of these flowers would make a really interesting drawing or little sketch in our book. So I thought, why don't we do that? So I'm actually gonna turn it this way because I think that we're gonna, I was thinking, I've been thinking about this and I think we're gonna just do our drawings on one side of each page in case our pen does bleed through. But I think that's what we're gonna do. I mean, there's no guarantees. I could change my mind later on, but I think for right now. So this is just a Moleskine Cayet and I've gone through and quite a few pages and I've stained them with some watered down acrylic inks just so that the background page is not clean and crisp and clear. Let me turn off the speakers on my devices and I'll be right back. Okay, so let's sketch our dogwood blooms. Now I've got a lot of different kind of drawing pens and as I said in the first episode, my new favorite one is this Sharpie marker pen and this is a Sharpie stainless steel marker pen which is refillable. So you can get refills for these and the body just unscrews and the refill consists of more ink and a new tip and then you just screw back in and you're good to go. And because it's Sharpie, it's waterproof. So if you use it with watercolor paints or acrylic paints, it's not gonna smear. In this case, we're just gonna sketch with it but you could do other things with it. So I'm going to try to do this where you can see it. All right, so I wanna draw this flower and maybe this one in the stem. I don't intend on doing the whole thing. We'll see how far I get but I'm gonna just, I'm always telling you guys, just draw the shapes and this is called messy sketch because we're not looking for perfect lines. It's a sketch. So I'm looking at this petal right here. Now I'll have to guess on some of the shapes of these leaves because it's taken up against a dark background and so some of the edges and some of the outer leaves are not in the photo. So I'll have to guess at their shape. It's okay, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're inspired by his photography. That doesn't mean we're gonna try to copy it exactly. We're just gonna be inspired by it. We're gonna create a pretty piece of artwork based on his photography. You know, I don't do lots of realism because you really can't, I get frustrated because it doesn't look exactly like nature and I would rather, if I really love an image would rather have that natural, the photograph. So I have the natural, that image, the real image. Looks like there is a shadow of a leaf or something over here. So just loose sketchy lines. Let's put this other flower over here. Just loose and sketchy. You notice, I'm not drawing solid lines. I'm lots of light, loose, sketchy lines.  So I'm just following the image in the photograph around trying to sketch the shapes of the petals that I see. I'm not worried about if I put a line in the wrong place because that just adds texture and interest to my sketch. Don't treat it as anything too precious. Just have fun with the process. I am gonna add extra lines in areas where I see in the photo, there's some shadows. There are these lines or prominent veins in the flower petals. So I am gonna make sure to add some of them. Looks like there's a leaf hanging down. It looks like there might be two of them but the other one's really in shadow but I do wanna draw one of them. It does look like there's another one right here though. I can't really see all of it so I'm gonna guess. All right, I'm gonna put a few lines for some of the leaves that I can see. I can't really see all of them so okay. So now we're gonna come in with a fatter pen and let's see, I kinda like this one. So this is a Tombow pen. This is from JetPens and it just says WS-BS. I don't know what that means. Oh, it's a calligraphy pen but it just says WS-BS but it's by Tombow it says. And it's got sort of this hard plastic brush tip. So I'm gonna use this wider pen to emphasize some of the more important lines in our drawing and make certain things stand out from the sketchy lines and basically make it look more, the shape look more refined. But I'm going to refrain from doing lots of solid lines. I'm going to keep the darker lines loose and sketchy just like the thinner ones. I like to have different sizes of pens hanging around so that I'm doing my sketch with black ink. I'm just doing it with all different shades of black ink. I have a fatter pen here somewhere, is this it? Yeah, that's one of them. So this is even, this is a traditional brush tip pen, more of a traditional brush tip anyway. And see, none of that bled through so I do test my pens, these piece of paper I was testing things on. Okay, I like that a lot.  And this is a green one. And do I wanna add another color? Maybe a little bit of the yellow. Yep, I like that. Okay, I wanna take our Sharpie pen and I want to write Dogwood Blossoms on here. I really liked, and it was a last minute thought to put oranges and the date on here. But I really liked the way that looks. So I wanna do that to this one. The question is, where do I wanna do it? That's always the question, isn't it? And I'm gonna go over it twice and I'm going to date it. Let's see, today's the 21st. There we go. I really like that. I love the way that turned out. Just a messy, quick sketch. It doesn't have to be perfect. The most important thing is to have fun with it but also to practice your drawing. And anyway, yeah, I look forward to doing more in this little book. This has become one of my most favorite things, I think, to do. So there you have it, Dogwood Blossoms. Go ahead and look up Brent Frazier, his photography website, Brent Frazier Photography. And this was out of the 2012 calendar. All of his photographs are absolutely amazing and I'm sure you can get loads of inspiration and ask him how much they are. Maybe you can get the 2016 one. All right, I'll see you all later. Don't forget to go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself, because you deserve it and I'll see you later, bye.


Good evening to everyone and amongst us we have what we say Professor K. Siddhata who has been mentoring a lot of IS officers etc. and his knowledge is not only restricted for mentoring the students and other persons but he has also been a key resource person for sharing his knowledge. Therefore we thought that why not take a topic which will help to facilitate people to understand things which we can also say it's more like a virgin area that is the perception and knowledge management. This is a topic which we thought that it is offbeat but it is offbeat picking up and it's a new concept we would like to understand from a person. His perception when we have talked to him not on this platform but otherwise because I think it's more than around one and a half to two years that we've been connected where we think about to make knowledge as a which goes down to the poorest of the people, remotest of the people and one of the key mantras with Mr. Siddhata is believing is that if there is a knowledge management, perception management, it can make India as a wish group. It's not that we are not leading in this front and that is one of the reasons that we always believe that there is a brain brain. But if we can put all the resources and all the knowledge, we have a strong belief that it will become a wish group. But what are the key areas for perception and knowledge management in India, why this topic has not picked the manner in which it should be picked. What are the key takeaways which in the today's session we will be discussing and we would also like to understand from Mr. Siddhata as to supposedly someone doesn't know about the perception and knowledge management in theory and practice. Then what are the likely consequences and what are I would also take a flip and to believe that what is a way that one could inculcate in itself and then make forward because we all know that we all love India like anything and especially once you are the ages of the underable administration throughout India. Without taking much time we will request Mr. Siddhata to share his knowledge and we are indebted to him and also to Puneet Sharma who was the connecting point who helped him to connect with K. Siddhata we are indebted to him for all this regard. Over to you sir. Thank you Vikasi. Thank you. It has been a pleasurable experience all in all and dealing with you talking to you. And despite the gap that you mentioned it, it doesn't look like that we have been at a distance at all either intellectually, physically or emotionally as well. Now, I have been picking up this topic of perception and knowledge management in different universities. Of course, this is a topic which is not picked up in civil services as you mentioned, but civil services was long back where I was associated with. Of course, this is a skill that I have not forgotten but then I am more of a strategic thinker, a Jewish strategist where I do go on to aid governments in building narrative and also to set a lot of policies in policy intervention. See, knowledge and perception management is essentially a tool. It is also a science. It is also one of those techniques. And at the same time, this is a methodology which is used by some countries by some powers also in a very nefarious manner with some various designs as. Now what we know is that there is a when you prompt people to think the way that you want them to think, not exactly what exactly they want to think, but you prompt them to think in the manner that you want them to think. It is about perception management in the most simplest of the terms. And if our thinking is not in our control, which of course, which has happened, which has been happening, and it should keep on happening if certain measures are not taken, then it is not going to be too far away that we will be essentially a slave, which we are still. I mean, we are talking about India. That is about perception management. Knowledge management is going to be all about it. How do we process the information? And how is it that we come to logic? That means, do we have a process well developed to come to a logic? Generally, you'll go on to find that people will talk about a lot of things here say that is what is called as a gup. And most of the things that they conclude it hasn't got any basis. Now, if I can go on to say so, it is fatal for a country where a majority of the population is indulging in such type of here say such type of talk that it is definitely going to be very, very bad for a country and sometimes disastrous. I'll go to extend it further to talk about that it is going to be a security issue. It is a security problem. Now, all in all, I just want to pick up some examples that is if anyone thinks in India that the thing originally the majority of the people don't want to do it. Take an example. Some time back, there had been some of the films that have been admitted in Oscar. And people were overjoyed. Now, is it that Oscar is the only means of judging whether a film is correct or not, whether a film is good or not? The answer is, of course not. And last time when they, when any Indian feature film featured in Oscar, that was Slumdog Millionaire. And can you imagine why it was? It was a means of the Western countries to show they're acted towards India. And that is why it was talked about Slumdog. Indians are living in slum and they're like dogs.  There was again an overjoyment in India with respect to that. I'll just go to pick up another example in this case. The British came, they looted and they ran away with the money. How is it that they looted us? They looted us with our own money. They took our own money. And now we keep on saying that the British are very rich, very rich and so on. This is a handiwork of perception and knowledge management both. Now, all in all, you're also going to find, that is, I have seen in the hill regions of Himachal Pradesh and of course Huttarakhand, a good number of people making their houses with concrete, with their slabs, cement slabs, by sinking pillars inside. Now, this is not the methodology that is going to be used at all. This was not a methodology that was used. This is largely because people lack in knowledge about how to do it so, and that's the basic reason. And why is it that they lack in knowledge? They lack in knowledge largely because of the fact that they perceive things in a completely different manner. You'll pick up another example. Chemical fertilizers are disastrous, simply disastrous. And not only that, that is a GDP based economy is disastrous for any country. How is it that you increase your GDP? All the people in India who say that is a India GDP is not increasing, India National income is not increasing. National income increases in a variety of ways. When you establish an industry which is against the norms of the environment, sustainability, people and community, then that is increasing GDP. Now, when these industries produce dispute, and then you keep someone to take care of this dispute, that is again increasing GDP. Thereafter, when you employ someone for the purpose of taking care of the pollution caused by these industries, then there are again some people who finally employment, that is again increasing GDP. And then you again pick up some police force in this place, essentially to take care of the law and order problem, then you are again increasing the GDP.  And then going to take them to hospital, in every case you are increasing the GDP. But then the perception that the people have, first is that in this case, they don't have a knowledge of it. And then the perception that the building is at it, that is GDP is the ultimate source of yardstick, or measuring any country's economic development. You also understand that it's really contradictory that India produce Miss World and Miss Universe. Now, after some time India has stopped producing Miss World and Miss Universe in general. Now, do you think that is in 1994, where Ashwarya Rai and Sushmita Senwet made Miss World and Miss Universe? It was all of a sudden that Indian girls had started becoming beautiful. No, it was a ploy of the western countries to change the perception of the people in such a manner that the girls start thinking that all of these girls who are skinny or thin, they are one who are going to be beautiful. And that is how they started using jeans. Now, jeans market in India is good for the western countries, it's going to be over 1.5 lakh crores of rupees.  It's a simple ploy. There is a group in the United States, Global Corporate Governance. Now, there are two branches of Global Corporate Governance. Rockefeller Foundation and Fort Foundation. What both of them are going to do is that, one of them is Rockefeller Foundation that goes on to own a Maxisee ward, Miss World, Miss Universe. And Fort Foundation prepares the country to launch any project like Green Revolution type project, which of course was launched in India with the help of these institutions. Rockefeller Foundation creates a foundation by creating an order like through Maxisee ward and through Miss World and Miss Universe. While Fort Foundation goes on to launch it. Now, both of these are ploy to change the market structure of any country. And this is what has been happening. Anyone who doesn't want to be having a knowledge about it, anyone, they know that Miss India has produced Miss World or Miss Universe. Only that means that is information. A good number of youngsters, they have only data, they only have information. They are not in a position to understand the reason behind the data being fed to them. They are not in a position to understand how is it that this data can be processed. They are not in a position to understand how is it that the processing can lead to a conclusion. That is the process of coming to logic. That is also part of a knowledge and perception management. And that is a part of knowledge and perception management is also certain things related to politics. Take an example, Ukraine war is not a war. And had it been a war, it would have taken only two days of a time for Russia to incinerate Ukraine completely, completely. This is for public consumption. And people understand that it is war going on, going on, it is going on, kept on going, kept on going. That is being foolish. That is largely because people in any country where this is meant for public consumption, they are not in a position to understand that they are being fooled. And if somehow you are not being fooled, what will happen? You will understand the reasons behind it. You will understand the nuances behind it. You will understand the agenda behind it. You will understand a lot of things behind it. And because you are able to understand these things, consequently, you will go on to take a guard. One of the best ways in which India has been destroyed and devastated is removing the perception shield that there is an enemy which is living in that country. That is what we call in India, Shatrubol. That is people in India do not have that Shatrubol. And what they're going to do? They defend those people and those snakes with whom they are sleeping. They defend those snakes with whom they have not. They go on to deal with those type of people who have been their enemies since the last 1200 years or so. They are the one who deal with it. To just imagine that the most beautiful monument in India is not Taj Mahal. And for that matter, it's not a monument of love at all. Just imagine, how can it be that the Muslims in India, they were able to build and the invaders who came as Arab invaders in India, they don't have any monument built anywhere in the world during this period and during this time. Why only in India? Because simply speaking, they never knew that how to build a monument like that. It was built by the Indians. So Indians built it, agreed, and they built some monument. Now this monument has been dedicated to love, Mumtaz Mahal and so on. Now, what type of love people are going to be talking about? Just think of it. This is not love at all, largely because just after the death of that lady Mumtaz Shah Jahan, maybe that is a, and we are going to be talking about Jahanara was a daughter, or may have been the youngest sister of Mumtaz. Just imagine that. How is it that it's a monument of love? And anyone who has seen Taj Mahal and who has seen Hampi, they come to know what exactly is architecture, what exactly is art in architecture. Now, but because this is how exactly it is made, then people have made some people, some group of people in some communities in India, they have made a brand for themselves. And that is the brand on which they're earning right now. They're moving also in this case. And that goes on to be one of them. That's the general concept of perception and knowledge management that we talk of. Now, perception and knowledge management in India has not taken shape, taken shape to an extent that there are not too many institutions, organizations associated with it. This is largely because knowledge is not glamorized in India. Knowledge is not a brand in India. People who are very knowledgeable, they are the one who are most unheard of largely because they do not entertain. Respectability is also not a brand in India. And of course, this has been applied. It has been made out to be that respectability doesn't become a brand in India. Now, an understanding of all of this topic is significant because unless you happen to learn this topic, there is no way that you can go on to have a perception shield. You can go on to be having a shield that will help you to fight a war. You will keep on thinking like a slave as it has been so. And India, for all of those countries are aware, perception as a war is ways and India is in the midst of this type of perception war. So all of those places where perception is a war is ways that then people go through three things. The first is that they lose their identity like majority of the youth in India have lost their identity. They don't know what they are. The second part is they lose their self-respect. That is, they will not have any self-respect at all because once you lose identity thereafter, you are going to be targeted by the companies, by the deep state, by anyone who is going to invade you. You are having a fertile mind that is going to be inevitable. And then thereafter, you will turn against your own country, your own people, yourself. That is, you will be your greatest enemy and a good number of people who know that Indian youth are their greatest enemy right now. Of course, there is a bunch of very talented people, but talent is less significant than that of attitude. And that is what is happening with the country right now. That is about the introduction of a perception and a knowledge management that we can go to make it out of. And I think it will be a good exercise on part of Vikasi if he asks me some questions, which we can go to take it forward. In fact, there are a lot of things which will crop up in the mind. I can say you have triggered the right source to think in a different manner that you have started believing. It is also like what they say, like if you go to a market, you feel your perception has been built in such a manner that you feel that the food of this restaurant is so good that even if you don't like it, but the fact that people may say that he is not having a good taste, they will just keep quiet only on this aspect. So that is the trigger or what you say point which you have given us a food for thought. So I will say that at the outset that these views would be of Mr. Siddharth, you can have a difference of opinion. You may feel that it is not this way. In fact, what is built or what is the aura of someone is in fact the manner in which. But I also recollect an article being read. They say sometimes a player's reception is built in such a manner that even if he is built five ducks or four ducks or he is not performing well, the aura is created in such a fashion that you feel that if he is not in the team, the morale of the team will be such a down that even irrespective of the fact that he is making zeros, he has to be in the team. That is one of the key takeaways from the today's session. But you feel that there would be certain courses just like we have image consultants that there will be something known as an image consultant. This reception consultancy would also be there or some courses would be introduced. You feel that there is scope of this course is also being introduced. Actually, without there are courses of this type, of course, not in India, but then outside the country, there are places. I mean, that begins first with getting to know the significance of this topic. For example, perception management is one of the type of tools which works with the security of the country or against the security of the country, both of them. So it's a tool which is used to colonize India. It also persists to a large extent as everyone thinks that they're entitled to have an opinion despite the fact that they can't have an opinion because they don't have variables associated with them at all. Also, that all of those people think that they can criticize everyone. Now criticism is a very, very negative word. You can have your perspective, but you can't criticize it. Imagine if the whole of the country becomes a critic of anything that is good for the country, anything that the Prime Minister is going to be doing, and that is wonderful for the country, then what will happen? This is what exactly has happened with something like, let's say, caste. Caste is something that is not in India at all. It was an over-never staff, but then it was made up to be people who believed to be. So that is going to be one component associated with it. Also, that there are certain inherent problems with the Indian side. For example, the notion of knowledge within Indian people is very, very different. They think that knowledge is nothing but data information. Also, there is another problem that is that Indian side is not tuned to emotional differentiation. Now by emotional differentiation, we mean that you cannot go into all the politicians into one possible. There are development politicians. There are other politicians. There are drawing room politicians. There are electoral politicians. There are intellectual politicians. There are politicians who are a narrative politicians and so on. Now that is emotional differentiation. In a similar manner, you cannot go on to have teachers who are going to be all into one category. All the teachers cannot be. All the netizens cannot go on to be one category. Now inability to understand and differentiate is always going to be a problem. And of course, inability to unlearn these things is a major problem in a transitioning towards another skill.  That is a big economy. You will go on to be a brand in yourself. And supposing you are going to be a brand in yourself like what you are with us, you have done something very different. I am a different person. I have done at least seven or eight different types of things in my life. Now this will require transitioning. And transitioning will require unlearning a lot of things. And when I go to unlearn a lot of things, only then I will be able to gather something that is going to be very, very new. Now, why not? So you imagine that it is once required to be taught about emotional differentiation. They required to be taught about what is knowledge, how to differentiate knowledge. They required to be taught about what has been, how exactly to come to a process of deriving a logic. They have to be taught about that. How is it that knowledge will go on to give them a career. How is it that it is different from attitude and attitude. It is how is it going to be different from a lot of aspects and who can be the role model. Now in India, as we talked about, the building this type of institution is not going to be easy because to begin with, I have talked about that knowledge is not a brand in India. Knowledge does not going to give you respectability as well. Knowledge doesn't going to give you a career. What gives you a career is something that is going to be most of the cases. It's not knowledge. To an extent is skill. But more important than that is going to be your attitude and attitude. A distorted position doesn't allow any country to move fast forward because it creates a lot of blockages. You do any type of work in a democratic setup and you come to a roadblock. Just take the case of civil services coaching. You're going to find that a good number of people started producing the wheels. They are doing nothing. They don't have the capability to be good teachers or to transform someone's career. But still they are running it. Take the case of films. If you go to take the case of films, you have someone like Shah Rukh Khan here. Shah Rukh Khan is more entertainer. Even more he is a businessman. Not exactly an actor. Actors are known through their expression. Actors are known through the way they can go to change everything. Actors do not go on to indulging in all of those types of gimmicks. Creative people are not like that. I am going to take an example from your field. That is a law. Justice is not in law. Justice is all about how we treat each other. Justice and judgment are both of them different words. These are some of the nuances that must go on to become part of a curriculum of any university. Because when you have a course of perception management, knowledge management, you can allow your country to move towards a gig economy. You can allow your country to move towards experiential economy. And imagine both of these economies are going to be coming to India. India will be in the throes of both of these economies. Gig economy, experiential economy and not only that, India will also be setting an example for the whole of the world for civilizational economics. Now, this is a type of economy that is banking on wisdom. That's banking on knowledge. It's like whatever wisdom that you have it, you use it for the purpose of benefiting the people. Everything that is happening right now in India, that is a Western economy model. Western-based economy model and Western-based economy model is not at all sustainable. And that's why we say that we must have a course of perception management, knowledge management. Of course, we have spread out some of these points of its curriculum, but then this is not a forum where we can go to spell out the entire syllabus associated with it. Like you have felt that the perception management would be that you create a perception in someone, that this is the ultimate theory. So how distinguishing you find that there's a difference between an image consultant and a perception consultant. The image consultant is that is building your image. Perception is based on knowledge, perception about that. That is that you can build a perception about a concept. You can build a perception about an idea. You can build a perception about a policy. You can build a perception about a certain type of relationship. For example, Indian-Pakistan relationship. You'll find that a good number of people going to talk about that. Why is it not that the relationship can be normalized? Anyone who knows, I repeated, anyone who knows what is happening between India and Pakistan, they will never think of it that the relationship can ever be normalized. So image management is only one component of it.  Maybe a project yourself on television, social media in a certain manner. And it has a very small role to play in all perception management. But then with the help of image management, you cannot go for concept marketing. You can go for some amount of product marketing, but concept marketing is out in this case. And that's the basic difference. With perception management and knowledge management, you can not only market, you can brand countries, brand ideas, or create an aura of the country's policy, some of these types of policies. Create aura for some type of relationship and also of the future so that people can start themselves. Once they're going to know that they are in for something very, very good, they can start working on that. Like we have discussed perception management or what will be your take? What is this concept management? Concept management. If I heard it right, how do you talk about concept management? Concept management is there. That is we are going to be talking about perception management of a concept. Like take an example that is there. Why is it that a lawyer should wear something like a black? Why? You are from law. Is it not colonial? In a lighter way, they say that doctors wear white coats so that they remain cool and calm during their operations. And so that... We both know that this is not the case. We both know that this is not the case. In a lighter way, they say that you have to wear black coat because you require a heated... That also goes on to show that you are under a colonial mindset. This is going to talk about that. Is it not that when a judge delivers some type of word, it's more about judgment. It's not always about justice. Is it not so? So the words are different in this case. That's concept of justice. To me, the concept of justice is justice is not in law. Justice is all about how we treat each other. If we don't want to be having good feelings towards you, I'll always be able to backtrack you. I'll always be able to distract you. That is what exactly is a concept management. That is allowing the people to understand this concept. Law will not be able to handle everything. And I very sure take example of a law. Why is it that so many cases are going to be piling up? It requires a knowledge. This largely because the executive is not pursuing his or her job. So good number of problems that are going to be occurring at the level of execution. So like a bureaucratic, he has not done his job. So what you do, you ultimately are left with no option to come to the court.  And when you are delivered, you are nowhere. That means your life is gone. Your career is gone. Your youth is gone. That is not going to be justice at all. And this is what exactly is going to be talked about. That's concept marketing. You may have talked about concept marketing, but then I'm going to be talking about building a perception that is, that is words will have a different meaning. Words do have a different meaning. For example, religion is not the same as Dharma. Dharma is duty. Dharma is your duty-bound humanity. Religion is a certain set of dictates. Religion is a certain set of protocols that you have to follow where one person, one maybe one at the apex will go to deliver that. This is what you have to do to be identified to belonging to this and this religion. That's the reason that Hinduism is not a religion. Hinduism is a Dharma. A Dharma towards humanity. That is concept. Right, sir. So I think people will have a trigger point in their mind to understand the things. And as we said that the views, somebody may differ with him. It's all the perception and the concept management within the mindset. And whatever examples he has given, it is his personal take. And you may differ, you may agree with it. This is what we all say in the Beyond Law CLC. Even if we talk of certain judgments, we say that his perception towards that particular judgment could be in another manner. Like his perception is that the judgments are somewhat slow. But somebody is having a perception that the government is doing a lot. They are appointing judges. They are giving infrastructure. So as I say, it's a half glass empty, half glass full. What we have taken it from Mr. Siddharth is to the fact that how you build up that concept, how you build up that perception is also one of the takeaways that you have to learn. What type of perception or the concept you are evolving and moving on. Thank you, sir. Let me add one more thing. That is that without undergoing through may not of course, but understanding perception and knowledge management, there is no way you can ever be balanced. It's simply not possible.  And also you will never be able to come to reality, never be able to understand reality. You may be living in a world of a falsehood, but you'll keep on thinking and keep on thinking and keep on thinking, ultimately die out by thinking that you know the real thing, but you have left it completely in a falsehood. They say that even in what we can understand by his meaning of concept management and reception management is that sometimes you are made to perceive that this is the best thing forward. This product is the best. Maybe, and that is what initially we used to say it's a marketing, meaning thereby you place the memory of recall, recollect and review that to the effect that whenever you think of, let's assume they say that, or you build that perception of the conception to the effect that whenever you think of an ice cream, you only recall that it will be this, that this is the best. Because it is also a tool of work. For example, the day people start thinking that knowledge is a brand, knowledge gives you respectability, which of course is India is not, then imagine India will go on to become a superpower. It will go on to become a Vishnu Guru. And why is it so we say Vishnu Guru and that superpower and Vishnu Guru are different. Vishnu Guru binds people together. Superpower exploits it. A superpower will go on to come to your country, exploit your resources. Vishnu Guru will go on to utilize your resources. A superpower will go on to use and exploit the resources in a manner to engage the GDP to give it to a deeper state. But a Vishnu Guru will be able to distribute it. It will go on to be sustainable. A Vishnu Guru is always going to be building harmony with you. A superpower always believes that divide and rule. Divide it so that you can rule. And that is what exactly is happening within families, breaking of the joint families. Don't you think that it was a ploy by the western countries to break the Indian families so that there are greater number of consumers and all of these people who are living alone, their minds can't be ruled in such a way. That has been the case. So we can sum up by the today's session by saying that we have to build our minds so that there is an inclusive and exclusive growth as well as an extensive study as well as an expansive study that will help us to become the Vishnu Guru and we are quite set present that the government of the today and futures to come will definitely help us to build the dream, what we perceive of, conceive of and visualize of. Thank you everyone. Stay safe. Stay best. Namaskar.