But what would be your advice to upcoming Actories when it comes to let's say salary negotiations? I know it's a little bit of a taboo topic to talk about that, but is it something that Actories should just accept the first offer that they're given? Is there something where Actories have room to negotiate? Yeah, how forward should we be when it comes to salary negotiations? So when it comes to an Actory or anyone's first job or an Actorial student's first job, I should say, it's very difficult for a person who doesn't have any work experience yet to really have any negotiating power. From my side, personal experience, maybe it's because I didn't know any better. I definitely did accept the first offer that came my way. And looking back, it was a really bad salary. But then, of course, you gain a few years of experience, maybe not a few years depending on how quickly you move, but let's say you've maybe gone through one or two roles. It's been a year, maybe two. Now you get to the point where I think you do have a little bit of negotiating power. And look, I know that in South Africa, companies still ask you what you currently earn. And this is illegal in many US states. And personally, I don't like it. I don't like the fact that I'm being asked what I earn when I go for an interview or a chat, because in the end, a company has to pay you what they believe you're worth or in any case what they were thinking of paying that person no matter who it was. At the same time, I understand that there are cost constraints on companies. So yes, companies still do that. I'm aware of that. But I would say just to come back to the question, for your first one, two, maybe three jobs, the chances are you won't really be able to negotiate your salary other than to say, hey, this is what I'm currently earning. Please give me, let's say 20% more. I have to say also from personal experience, moving from my first role where I was probably in that role for two to three years, moving into my second role, I do believe I got something like a 60% increase on my first salary. So it will come. It really is just a case of get a little bit of experience, then someone will be willing to pay you better. But I think it's in that general field, it's very much like in the accountancy field. Accountants who are still doing their or would be accountants who are still doing their articles paid really badly. And in many respects, I think it's the same for actual students. I was just going to say that I think if you work for a bit, then you also get a chance to realise your worth. So then like when you first start out, you don't really know like how good will I be at this job? Like you're a bit uneasier, but uncertain.  So then I think you feel like you have a bit more negotiates in power, you're a bit more confident. I also think we shouldn't, actuarial students shouldn't disregard the big benefit that employers usually give around paying for their exams, giving them a significant amount of study leave as well. And also, of course, then paying for the professional fees that really does add up for a company. And of course, most companies nowadays expect you to pay it back if you leave. But of course, if you're going to another insurance company, chances are they'll pick up the tab and you'll be able to move across with them. And of course, that debt also tends to disappear over a few years' time.


Sid's wide bomb down on the field with the Mustangs victorious coach Ed Hoddle a 42-28 win in the opener Coach you guys got out to a big lead 20 to 7 Then they actually take the lead in the halftime. What did you guys talk about at the half? I was just a matter of settling down trying to get our run game figured out You know, we were able to stop them from running the ball, you know early We didn't get some things figured out, you know coverage wise and I think we you know I think we were able to do that And get enough stops when we need them which which was important and then you know, obviously, you know The touchdown on the off the interception was huge. So, you know hats off to those guys You know the cool thing about this was we faced a little bit of adversity And we weren't we weren't the ones leading the charge. It was the seniors doing a great job keeping everybody up Keeping everybody positive, you know, I don't think that we ever really doubted You know where we were in the game and that we had the ability to you know to close it out Which which fortunately we did as a coaching staff I mean you guys get all those takeaways last year.  I mean was it nice to get that rolling early and go man We might just do this every game, you know for a while. Well, I think that kid threw four touchdown passes So, you know what I mean? It's it's it's a little bit of tit for tat there.      It's a third and 19 in midfield every football game in the world You run into the line the guy goes down.  You know, he bounces it outside and and you know, how amazing of a play was that in an obvious football situation Where you're not really trying to get 22 yards for the first down. Sure. I mean, that's just you know, that's just imposing your will You know Laura line did a great job. Jane Art obviously, you know broke a tackle, you know got outside You know, that's what you want to see, you know, if you're going to compete in the mac You got to be able to run the ball and you got to be physical and you've got to get hard yards in the fourth quarter and You know, we struggled early to run the football You know, they did a great job mixing in some different fronts on us and things that we hadn't hadn't seen and you know That's kind of what you can do in first games, you know Without having a film exchange, but you know, they did a good job You know hats off to those guys. They've gotten better every year that you know, and that's a good football team So, you know being able to get hard yards late is going to be really important I mean in that situation you guys are preparing to have to get one more stop.  I'm just going to burn, you know burn the second time Out there, um, you know, unfortunately, you know, we were able to pop that pop the long run Well coach, uh, you know some stuff to clean up with the turnovers on offense, obviously And it doesn't get any easier next week. What do you guys have to do to get ready for all bright and uh, You know, what what things do you worry about with them next week?  All right coach. Thanks for your time. We'll see you in a couple weeks Thank you very much. All right. Mustangs head coach ed hoddle sievison wins 42 to 28


We are at the Veggie Pride Parade in New York City on a very gloomy day for a very gloomy event. Am I just an animal? I'd like to face the animals.   Let's face the animals. We're just an animal. We're just an animal. Until I turn to dust the world and everything that plays. If you're not in it, raise your space. The time you have is small. Because you're an animal. You're just an animal. You're just an animal. Because you were once a baby till you didn't have your cherry boy. Your arms were long to make a choice. Fish and foul and pig and cows are crying in the here and now. Every dollar that you spend that's their beginning or the end. Suffering creates suffering that's so destructive to our health. I am casting off a spell because I have to face myself. This is our tent and a soft shell. Love and logic can't you tell for you and them I have to yell. I can't really help but all the hell. You're just an animal. I'm just an animal. You're just an animal. You're just an animal. Thank you so much for having me and yes the future is vegan. I don't know if you remember but at the beginning of the year it was proclaimed across many publications that 2019 is the year of vegan. So we've come leaps and bounds from where we started. Now I've personally been vegan for three years so I'm new to this. But I've been so inspired by the leaders that I see in this movement. The people who are making the choice to choose compassion every single day because not only is it kind to animals but it's better for our health and it's the only thing that's really going to save the environment at this point if everyone goes vegan. And so yes it's collective action that makes anything possible. Yes we are individuals but our collective choices matter so if we can get on the same wavelength, get on the same culture, create a movement of compassion we have the power to change this world. And so there's a lot of work to do even though... You guys want a bite? No. Todd, Todd they don't know what the vitamins are. Get a grill in here. Get a grill. Guys this wasn't planned otherwise Frankie Boy would have a videographer and I'd be eating the meat myself. Raw meat is the most easily digestible food on the planet. Enjoy your salmonella. Thank you brother I will. There's no light in beef. Oh beef can have salmonella too. What? Don't eat so fast. That's so good dude. The vitamins are reduced by a lot. Vitamin C is completely destroyed. I mean the real reason is this was fairly short notice we didn't have time to write the grill. This is to show support veganism is killing innocent people who are listening to this message. Can you explain to me how? It's impossible to get vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin K2 on a vegan diet. We didn't have time to write the grill.  We should call an ambulance. We should call an ambulance right? You take supplements? Well if you're responsible to me is that I should take supplements. Why don't you do that? Do you take supplements? Sometimes every supplement is made of cherries. So this is the solution? Oh my god. You can cook me soon man. Well good job. I hope you're happy and proud of yourselves. Walk away. Walk away. Ignore him. Ignore him. Ignore him. Ignore him. Ignore him. Ignore him.    Look at him.  Oh my god. Look at him. Yeah, look at him. Look at him. Look at him. Look at him. broader. Come on. Come on. Well, we should do the reverse circle as you all can do it. It's the reverse circle, so you're still a human being. Excuse me. We spoke to the Office of Development, and they said we were going to go do it in the process later, but I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that. That's one of their metaphysical conversations. It's talking about what's bad, and right now, they're natural, natural. That's the side of the news. I'm here to explain why a naked guy is not traditionally adequately slurred. Yeah, if you guys want us to leave, we can be happy. We can get it. Yeah, yeah. Are you guys down for the reverse circle? You don't mind if I get a little more footage? That's okay? Okay. Yeah, yeah. I'm choosing to bring as much attention. I'm trying to go for a photo. You guys don't want me to see you hurt you. Why?  What perspective is the world is already immediately, and you don't want to say where you can be? The majority of people meet, the people that are vegan and trying vast to spread that message are making innocent people sick. Why is the message you're sending when the majority of the world are already eating meat? Why is so important to people here, to this environment, where the purpose of people being here is to spread the idea of compassion and to minimize pain and suffering There has never been a group of people that have eaten knotty meat. Every traditional society are the actual group of people. Meat is essential for health. Where are that group? Where are the group? Where are the group? Can we do one photo op reverse circle face to face? Veganism is new. You have never persisted over vegan diet.   Can we do one photo op reverse circle face to face? You're literally going to get a heart attack. How many pounds of meat does it take to get a heart attack? A lot. How many pounds of meat does it take to get a heart attack? I don't know the specific pounds of meat, but I know that meat is classified as a group on carcinogen by the World Health Organization. Do you know what the carcinogen is in? Meat or colt? It's similar to asbestos. Do you know what they're called? I don't know what they're called. Yes, I don't know what they're called. I don't know what they're called. I don't know what they're called. Aromatic hydrocarbine. Sorry, so where are you getting this information from? Let me get my phone. I don't know what they're called. It's called grill-a-mise and advanced-plectation end-products. Poison. Raw meat is our savior. What kind of meat is that? This is a graph-finished organic, like a plant. Alley. I don't mind you didn't film meat. Go for it.   You and the camera, mom. Hold on. I'm a world famous. I'm not a cat. I don't sing now. It's not a cat. We'll give you kidney stones. Do you like vegetables? Do you like vegetables? Vegetables taste like more of a pie. You brought a kid. Yo, can I? She's a dietitian. She's a dietitian? What were you asking? I have a master's, yeah. A dietitian? I'm a registered dietitian. I work for the state. Okay. What are your questions? Why aren't you recording? I'm a videographer. I said meat is a group one-carcinogen. What was your response to that? I asked you what the carcinogens in meat were called? Processed meat is a group one-carcinogens. Do you know what the carcinogens are called? Team iron. Team irons. Team iron is not the carcinogens in meat. Yes it is. Team iron is not the carcinogens in meat. Yo, you're making the meat look bad. Because meat is only like that, mom. There is one research that shows that iron from meat causes cancer. Young lady. Team iron is a free radical. It causes oxidation in the digestive system and that's why it's dangerous. The two carcinogens in meat, just for future arguments are heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic iodine. That's true. You know how they found that? You don't know.  Research. Do you know what the research was? You know the methodology of the study? No. I got one. If you could help this prove it for me, could you prove me wrong? I don't know this juice. I'm not a doctor. Something with the meat is so good, right? So strong. Because it's dope. It's meat. It's amazing. And the amino acids are really good, right?  You're also a member of the insane. I didn't say anything. I'm talking about cancer. I'm talking about something I want to talk about. Sorry. Can we talk about it or you're not down? We tried to talk earlier and you just sent around to me every time I tried to talk. It's gonna be a little dramatic today. Hey, is Frankie Boy wearing makeup? Is Frankie Boy wearing makeup? Is Frankie Boy wearing makeup? I don't think so. You're on camera so I actually don't think you're wearing makeup. I just wet my face. Anyway, so this is an amino acid something. They're so strong that the intestine, in front of the pastor, you need more acid to burn down and break the chains. So it fucks up your whole system to break down those amino acid chains. What are you saying? So for the amino acid chains to pass through the intestines it needs more acid in the intestine to burn it down.  Your stomach always maintains an acidic pH. What's your point? But it's too much. More acid does not affect the health whatsoever. Assuming meat does not increase. Don't you need mucus to protect the organs against acid? Your intestines and the aligning of your intestines always have mucus. Exactly. So does it need more acid to burn meat, is my question? No, meat digest is wrong. Meat digest is the same as vegan food.   It's amazing.  That's the crazy thing. So it actually works out great.  I make like six hundo a day. I have to have the taxes. Forget about it. You know it doesn't have to like four hours a day. It's like a full court, guys. 12 St. Mark's place. I appreciate it. Take care. I gotta go do a speech. Oh my... Yo, let's hope I get a job after this. Let's hope I get a job after this. Oh yeah, good luck. Yeah, right? You heard the first lady to tell me he's going to die of salmonella. Even though he coalized what's in meat. He's at the stage of a very, very dangerous condition. He's not bad for you. Vegetable oil, refined carbohydrates, and the true killers. Really? I've been speaking 20 years. I'm 55 years old. I would advise you... I would advise you to look into the Weston Air Price Foundation. We should have you do a very positive research. Heart disease is the number one martyr in the world. I would advise you to look into the Weston Air Price Foundation. You're going to eat meat anyway, bro. It doesn't make a difference. You think we don't see this every day? You know we don't see people eat meat every day? This is what we raise around, okay? It's adorable. It's literally cute. It's literally cute. I like it. It's adorable. It is. Because it's like... I think it's cute. I think it's cute. I appreciate your support, brother. Let's do a selfie. Are you good at math? Photos are five dollars. Are you good at math? Now of a sudden? Because it sounds like you're really bad at math. Awesome. We're all meat. You don't even have to chew. I appreciate it, man. Follow the Standard American Diet for 18 years. Oh, okay. Standard American Diet, people died at 70.  People supposed to live three digits. 100 years old. No one lives to 100.   What are you talking about? It's literally the math. People died at 70 years old in this country. This is the coolest thing I've ever seen. Not what you eat. Sorry. Intention grabbing. Is that a grab? It's silly, man. How would it be? Because he needs to get the license. Good? Yeah. Good? That was funny. Nothing. I'm just trying to help me again, man. How's that? Is it possible? Can we see this? It's so short. Yes. Yes, you can. Oh, I haven't seen you for as long as you've been alive. Are you kidding me? I haven't had a visa.  That's hilarious.  That's true. But right there, there's so much more meat being sold right here. You can't eat enough.  You can't eat enough of this to make a difference. You can't eat enough meat to make us upset, because we're already upset from all the meat consumption, bro. It's so much. You let me speak. They're eating meat from the back. That's not true. What is that? What did you eat today? You're about to lie. Are they eating carnivorous diets? What's on the internet? It's on the internet. Have like some quinoa, chickpeas, a coffee? You want to bite yourself? What vitamins did you receive from chickpeas? Are you going to disprove veganism right now? No, no. You know how they harvest those crops? You know how they harvest crops? Yes, I do. Tell us. So, when you harvest the same thing, just do it. Okay, okay. Let me do it. Let me do the thing. When you grow crops, reference a particular whatever farm you're talking about also. Which farm are you talking about that you don't know how to do it? When you plant seeds, you spray herbicides, pesticides, you kill trillions and trillions of proteins in the internet just by spraying. How do you feed cows? How do you feed them? Yeah. So, they just feed up with the grass just everywhere. They make farms. They create farms. The grass is called the grassland. Okay. But you have to have a limited supply limit. No. No. So, they feed cows grass? So, cows are fed grass. Smart guy is saying cows are fed grass. So, cows are fed grass. The hardest thing genius is saying cows are fed grass. Please, let's tell us how cows are fed grass. Do I understand what cows do? Are you saying cows are fed grass?  The majority of cows in this country are not fed grass. Okay. It takes up too much space.  I know, but this is good. I know. She messed up my punch line. Why he brought the meat, though? I need to hear wine. Was it over here? I didn't see that right over here. No. Why you brought the beef to the parade? No, he beat me. Why you brought the beef in? Yeah, no. He got a nice book bag. Why you brought the beef? Why are you doing this? Wow, why you did that? They don't talk all the evening. I just wanted to grab it. You know it. I hope you get the picture. This is feeding them all food. They're all the way to you. I'm just trying to find out how far it goes on. Why are you doing that? Eat up. He's wilding. He's wilding. I'm a vegan 21 years. I was 54 years old. I don't know how you know. I don't know why he's doing that. You might be disrespectful. He's trying to prove it. He's trying to prove it. That's mad approaching, bro. Why are you doing that? He's wilding. You're going to get some on that expensive book bag. Wilding for racial friends. That's my favorite part. Wow, I eat raw meat for nutrition. He's got meat all the time. He's a vegan. I eat that movement once every morning at the same time every day. I don't like to eat any kind of animal and any kind of meat at all. One wife wondered.   Vibra is a major contributor to Errol Baal syndrome. We do understand that human mouths develop for skits, not cattle. It's not a hundred percent of them die. Yeah, but it's like a big cat in the wild. Raw meat is the most easily digestible food. It does not need to be chewed. It's just a mass of cows, and some of the packing would be about five gallons. The cows are also just straight grass? Yeah, but that's why they spend... That's why cows spend 12, 15 hours a day in the grass. I can see that humans can fold. The mid-bibra caused my eyes to fall. I ignore him. You also tension from all that. Vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin K2 cannot be obtained from vegetation. The human body is composed of raw fat and raw protein. What about the stuff that they say about you have to cut the vegetables in temperature because of diseases or viruses and things like that? That's medical dogma. You don't have to worry about that.  No, it tops the floor. Why lie? Why are you choosing? There's disease on the floor. It's the floor of your inscribed pocket. Would you lick it too, buddy?  Based on that logic, if you cut a squirrel, it's raised around here. A wild squirrel? Yeah, wild game, of course. A squirrel out in the wilderness in an unpolluted environment. New York City is one of the most polluted environments in the world. Even in the state part? If I was in the wilderness of Austria and I cut a wild squirrel, I would eat it. I'm not eating a squirrel. I'm eating a leg of lamb. Breath finish. Board your local farmer. You have to reforming. Animal cruelty is terrible. Wait, so... Animals raised on grass are happy animals. If they're slaughtered humanely, they do not feel pain. There is no such thing as humane slaughter. Please explain what humane slaughter means. Humane slaughter is when the animals do not feel pain. If you look into the Halal method of slaughtering animals, they are very religious and very careful about the way they raise and slaughter their animals.  It's a little more humane. Why not propose a leaf and stem? What does humane about humane something that doesn't want to die?   A dog doesn't hurt. Thank you.  I was looking into the Halal method of slaughtering animals. It's Halal. Say it right, please. It's family desatiation. Most people eat about half a ton of fat and a ton of meat per day. I think it's like raw also.  You really don't have to eat much at all. When you look at what people used to eat, all of them ate raw meat per day. It's not meat per day. He's the one without that. My stomach, I have really bad stomach problems. Eating other plant-based foods I don't plan just to eat. So I could if I wanted to. I don't necessarily plan to eat the fat. I wasn't planning on doing this at all. What happened was I was I was testing something. I worked as a chef. I came down to do a tasting.   Let's see how it goes. Thank you for that. I was super curious. I'm not a, this is my thing. That's your thing. I was so curious about how it would actually work.  Like absolutely don't touch raw meat. Don't eat raw meat. Yeah, it's breaking. It's definitely breaking a lot of like modern convention. Oh man. Find one vegan with teeth like this. I don't have those teeth. What kind of work do I do? I'm a missionary saving vegans. What? I hope I get food born in all of this. Oh my God. Because I'm being an acrobatics going on over there. The, uh, the water. And then the guys are nothing better to do.  But if this goes viral it knows. I don't have to make like an Instagram now. It's our close friendship. I only like 10 minutes. Because I don't want to just, like, And as I said, I think everyone is here. Veganism kills. I like this guy. Despite the raw meat eating, the vegans were still hungry enough to completely ravage the Indian food stall. So I guess the hourly blood sugar rush is not held back by anything. That's the guy from milk jars video dude. That's the guy from milk jars video. This guy? The tall guy? We know that. Was he? Yeah, yeah. Let's bow for the camera. Let's bow for the camera. Ladies and gentlemen, it was a pleasure. You know, we're saying like support your local farm but these guys have never been to a farm so I don't know where they'd get started. They used to have the food coming here. Let me take a tour of the ghouls and keep it up for all of you ladies and gentlemen. As I said, they do amazing work over there. So we're talking about nine billion plus birds. I should also tell you if you're not aware of the fact that we are based in Virginia, in rural Virginia, which is one of the largest chicken producing states and regions of the country where at any given time over a half a billion chickens are locked up in concentration camps. So in Buddhism and Christianity for example Eden was vegan. Did you all know that? Nobody ate anybody in the Garden of Paradise and things kind of changed. But the other day I was on YouTube and I just didn't turn it off and this video came up with an evangelist and I'm not of that but she was saying one thing I have learned is God never changes his mind and I'm thinking then Genesis 129 still holds. We're supposed to be vegan. I saw that everywhere in the New Testament, when the word fish is used, it's the word for fish. But in that story of the so-called loaves and fishes that word translates first as a relish something like a hummus that you would spread on loaves. Second definition dessert. Third definition little fishes. He said some translator must have thought that it was more miraculous to multiply fishes than the other stuff. Well to me today that is the miracle of the loaves at the Baba Ganush. So talk to these people and check out people that are working on this. In Defense of Animals has a group called Vegan Spirituality with a monthly online meeting. There's another group called the Vegan Interfaith Coalition. We want to get in there, we want to talk to these people and we want to be able to say that if you can talk about war and you can talk about immigration and you can talk about abortion, I can say let's have vegan cookies after church this Sunday without there being a mutiny. When we put a suicide vest on and we move into the middle of a crowd and we use our religion to justify it and we go to a church that doesn't have the same beliefs as my church and we shoot everybody. That's religion at its worst. This is a manifestation of religion at its worst and we need to call it out. Big round of applause for Honey and the Bronx as she makes her way to the stage here. Yes, yes, yes alright. Fantastic. So Honey, what do you say we bring our contestants up? Are you asking if I want to? I was just thinking maybe that would be a thing. I was hoping to do some like group therapy and talk about my problems but instead, is this mic on or off? Can you hear me or do you wish I was louder? Nate, can we bring up the mics there? I wish I could get loud is what I'm trying to say. Alright, so louder, louder. There you go. There is those dazzling vocals back. So what we are going to bring to the stage are contestants for the cost I don't know why I wanted to say the pineapple contest. Well, if it were the pineapple contest we would have two very clear winners but I think it's a little broader than that. So we'll just go from your left to right. So the first is is an apple with a worm. Step forward, step forward show us what you've got here. Yes, yes, yes. Very nice. It's conceptual. Very conceptual. Does the worm have anything to say? No comment from the worm. No comment. Just hoping not to be eaten, I'm sure. Well, we're all vegans, so we're not going to eat worms. Alright, so that's the apple. And then is this a once, yes, yes, the pineapple duo. Here they are. Yes, yes, yes. Look at that. Glorious. Wait, where is that slice of pizza guy? Can I have you guys on the pizza? Oh, yeah, there was a guy in a pizza costume. Where is that person? Oh, yeah. Wait. Why aren't you on stage? Pizza wrap. Getting in this contest. Nine years ago I was dragged into it against my will and I'm now dragged. Do you know what he is? He's not just pizza. He is the pizza rat that was dragging the slice of pizza up the surface. Oh, yes, the internet sensation that was the pizza rat. Get on up here and enter this contest. Alright. Oh, yeah, yeah, he's putting the final touches together. He'll get here. He'll get here. Alright, so that's the pineapple duo. And then what do we have here? Dinosaur kale. Alright. Can you spin around and show us the entire thing? Oh, yeah, look at that. You can see. No expense spared here, ladies and gentlemen. A.K. A.Lacinato. That's right. That's right. Alright, so you can take your place. And then, uh, yes? Salad? Yes, yes, yes. We have salad right here. Yes, yes, yes. Turn around. Let us see the entire thing. Yes, oh, yes. Very good. Oh, and she's got props. What is she holding? She's holding, uh, yeah, like salad tongs. Salad tongs. Now did you make this yourself? Yes. You made it yourself. I think that gets extra points. There is a salad shooter somewhere here. I want you to stay away from them. Yeah, exactly. It's very dangerous. And what we have here looks like two dalmatians. Yes? Is that right? I'm sorry. Sorry, yes. I have heard of a dairy cow called the Holstein. Right, but you could. I'm just saying. Listen, if they say you have to explain it, it's even better. Fantastic. So come forward, come forward. All right, so. Yes, yes, yes. Not your meat, not your teeth. This is like an anti-milk thing, which I love. All right. That is the best part of the entire thing. I love it. I love it. Fantastic. All right. Good, good, good. And last, but certainly not least, we have a whole veggie ensemble here. We have romaine lettuce. We have potatoes. We have cucumbers, all kinds of stuff. Did you make this yourself as well? The costume itself is just a citizen of Williamsburg. That's just what this is. Just an average Williamsburgian. That's it. Yep, yep, yep, yep. All right, all right. Fantastic. Can we get our pizza rat up here? And where's the pizza rat? Yes, come pizza rat. Come pizza rat. Oh my God. This is a vegan pizza rat. A vegan pizza rat. Ladies and gentlemen, pizza rat. Yes, yes. Very important to include the action. Come on. It's important to contextualize. You're updating these children. The whole thing. Children. All right. And is that about and I think, well, I think that just about does it. All right. So what are the prizes that we have for our contestants here? Maggie, do you have the prizes? Are you going to try to get it? We're trying to get a picture. Oh yes. Let's get a picture of everyone. As a group portrait photographer, I know I get you in the back. We have the little ones pull forward. Because I think we are going to want a group photo taken from here, from the front of the stage with me off the stage. We want a group photo of all of our contestants here. There we go. Oh, you're looking at them. Not that microphone. Okay. And there we are. Oh my God. We have four whole photographers. TMZ is going to be fighting over these pictures, you guys. Perez Hilton is going to be marking these up on his site tomorrow. Okay, great. So now are we giving away some prizes? Okie dokie. So we're going to, we have four prizes, I believe for four places, four prizes here. So first of all, I think everyone did an amazing job. And everyone deserves a huge round of applause for giving it their all. Definitely, definitely. All right. So the fourth place winner. So again, this will be decided by your applause. Is it Apple with Worm? Is it Pineapple Duo? Is it Kale Denisor Ensemble? Is it Holstein Cow? Is it Pile of Vegetables? Okay, that sounds like, it sounds like Pile of Vegetables, I'm sorry I'm not saying that right. How would you pronounce it? Pile? Salad, we're just going to say salad. Very good. Yes, so and what is the fourth place? So the fourth place? Yes, the fourth place prize is oh, I love it already. SeaWorld Kills. Yes, they do.  Not in a good way as in they're killing it. But this is a little care package. It's got all kinds of really cool stuff. All the prizes are fantastic. We have Organic Moringa Green Smoothie with Plant Protein for you. We have, oh, this is a fantastic Dominion. Dominion, if you haven't read it, it's, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's going to keep you right. And some other stuff as well. And of course the tote, yours to keep and to cherish. And a big round of applause for Mixed Greens. All right, fantastic. Yes, please. So if you haven't visited our booth, we're Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary. We're open for tours, come for a visit, come for a tour. Definitely check us out on Facebook and Instagram. Thank you. Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary. Thank you so much. They do great work over there. They do fantastic work. All right, so we should now decide on our third place winner. Will third place go to Apple with Worm. Will it go to Pizza Rat, Pineapple Duo, Pale Dinosaur, Holstein Count and Calf. I don't know, honey, what do you think? It's hard to find someone cheering very close to me. So it's hard to tell. But it sounds like it's either between Pizza Rat and I think Dinosaur, the whole Dinosaur KL team. Okie dokie. Can we do a one off here? Yeah, yeah, yeah.  All right, so Pizza Rat, Dinosaur KL. Sounds like Dinosaur KL to me. I'm going to say. All right, so that is our third prize and that is going to be this lovely tote here. So don't mess with mama. Don't do it, don't do it. So you've got all kinds of cool stuff in here. Some really cool, really cool things that you can go check out and share together and have a big round of applause for these two awesome human beings. High five right here, please. High five, high five. Thank you, high five. All right, yes, you guys were amazing. All right, so now we have the second place winner. Who's it going to be? Who's it going to be? Will it be Pineapple Duo. Will it be Apple with Worm? Will it be Pizza Rat? I don't know, that's a tough one as well. And we still have Holstein Cow left over, right? And Holstein, I'm sorry, Holstein Cow and Calf. And what? Well, they've already won, so yeah, that was like a group thing. Yeah, all right. I think I heard, I think we need to do another one off. It was between Pineapple and Pizza. Okay, okay. Other evidence that Pineapple and Pizza were meant to be together. It's true, it's true. Nature's perfect food. Can we do it this way? Just so we know it's fair, you can only clap for one, okay. So let's first hear you clap. Only for one, is it going to be Pineapple, no, is it going to be, I almost said Pineapple Pizza. I would clap. Is it going to be Pizza Rat or Pineapple Duo? Sounds like Pineapple Duo today. That's democracy right there. And so our second prize is oh, so very cool, this lovely gift basket right here with a veggie name I can't pronounce. And some very cool bamboo utensils and other cool stuff. But a very cool vegan cookbook and a lovely basket. Yes, yes, yes. Thank you so much. How about a high five? All right, yes, yes, yes. Very good, very good. All right, well it's now time for our first prize winner. Who's it going to be? Ladies and gentlemen, will it be Apple with Worm, cow and calf? Honey. I was thinking about my hair, so it sounds like that was a tie three way. Three once again. I was getting some updated news in my ear. Okay, fair enough, fair enough. So one last time. One last time. You can only clap for one. That's how we'll make this fair. All right, will the first prize go to Apple with Worm? Will it go to Mama Cow and Kiko to Vegan Pizza Rat? I think there's a slight advantage there with the Vegan Pizza Rat. All right, all right, fantastic. Well, a big round of applause for all of our contestants here tonight and this afternoon rather. Pizza Rat gets a $100 gift certificate to B-Spot who has a booth over here if you all haven't had the empanadas you know that they're going to sell out of them so go get them now. Oh, absolutely. All right, fantastic. And we do have this just in that we have an additional prize for Special Mention. Oh, all right. So, Special Mention. How do we do this? Well, I think we do. One Special Mention and it's going to go either to Apple with Worm. Yes. You can only clap for one. So Special Mention are we giving it to Apple with Worm or Holstein Cow and Calf. Holstein Cow and Calf. Listen, this isn't personal. It's just you're up against an animal. A dog. So, all right. Children and animals. Children and animals. Children and animals never try to compete. I don't know what that is, but I'm guessing that the dog has better anthrax and it's fine. Okay, yeah, whatever it is. I'm sure it's lovely. All right, cool. Oh, well, if it's a dog biscuit, then you clearly have more use for it than Apple with Worm. One more big round of applause for all of our contestants here for the Magic Pride Parade Costume Contest. Thank you, everyone.


So it's been about 8 months that I am running this new channel called The Journey which you are now watching and you might be already aware of that. And it's been quite the journey. It started off with me having certain ideas and intentions of what I wanted to do. I tried out different things. I started to feel like I am developing a voice and a direction for this channel. And eventually I came to some different conclusions which I already spoke a little bit about in the past couple of videos so you might know a little bit about what I'm talking about.  And I want to make things clear. There was a bit of a confusion in the comments section of what I mean by I lack education. I do feel like because when you say education it sounds like a degree in university. And I'm open to that a bit later in my life. I'm considering that. That's not my plan yet. But by education I mean just improvement and establishment of myself in a certain skill set and approved and valuable skill set. So I came to the conclusion that for my new goals for what I want to achieve and mostly that comes down to creating as much positive influence as I can inspiring people to be their best versions and live their lives not only for themselves but also for others. And on top of that I would encourage people to have critical thinking. So even then even here it's a bit broad you know usually when you're aiming for something and you want to make a change I'm coming to a conclusion that it's best to really narrow it down. So even there I need to put in some work. But having said that yes I came to a conclusion that if I really want to excel at this subject if I really want to create positive influence on a major level that I'm not there yet. I don't have the necessary tools I don't have the necessary information but it's not out of reach and that's the beauty of the world we live in. There's so many incredible books there's so many incredible minds who are already exploring similar fields. So why not dive into them and learn what the best of the best can offer and to see if I'll also I guess adding a skill set which is tested and approved and valuable to others and blending those two acquired knowledge acquired skill set the growth mindset and giving something incredible through that or hopefully something incredible something valuable because you know it's kind of clear cut it's it's obvious that you cannot give something you do not have and I I came to admit to myself that I'm still very much on a journey to come to a place where I could deliver something big and unique I feel I was able to do that in the martial arts journey YouTube channel just because of the conditions because first of all I did IQTO for more than a decade so I had a fair amount of knowledge and skill sets there and then I faced an unique dilemma and I explored it on record asked the opinions of experts and a lot of unique value came from the channel I believe so I personally believe so and a lot of people say that so likely it's true but now with my new goals more I most likely need I decided I it's best for me to take a step back and instead of focusing entirely myself on giving on producing content first of all to gather enough to have valuable things to say and when I came to that conclusion my initial instinct was completely stop producing any content dive into learning listening to your books nonstop talking to people who are experts of their fields of the fields which I'm interested in and which are aligned with my vision do contemplations you know just just go through courses just everything you know just just let's reach a new level and my initial instinct was entirely let go of producing any content at the moment and that's where people ask me the question they're like so Rokas remind me how do you get by financially and the answer is because it comes up so often I want to make sure I say it on record I get my main finances still from the martial arts journey YouTube channel a passive income because there's a lot of videos which went viral there and that's already quite enough to sustain me financially I'm not a big spender so that helps I also do video editing which doesn't take as much time so I have space and time on my hands and being a financial success is not my priority so my intention while I have enough money I don't have any need or drive to make more money and I can focus all my extra energy on pursuing myself pursuing to level up and knowledge and skill set and also making sure I'm a good boyfriend to my girlfriend I feel that's important as well those those I keep on to a philosophy that those need to play together so having said that that was initial my initial dry my initial instinct was to completely stop publishing videos to not waste time publishing videos but then I spoke with some people I got some comments and I thought about it myself and I thought you know maybe that's not entirely necessary maybe I don't have to completely stop publishing videos which kind of makes sense you know this channel is the journey it is my journey and I understand that me dabbling about you know my contemplations my explorations which are active they're not you know they're not kind of at the they're not at the cutting edge I'm not yet standing on the shoulders of giants I'm still climbing the giants to to get to know what's what to come to unique conclusions and unique lessons but still that process may be to some degree inspiring I still have some stories for my life to share which may be interesting sometimes I can still touch the subject of IQ to a rediscovering IQ to I can I can in I can introduce some interesting people that I meet on the way and I also thought about maybe reviewing some books because I am planning to dig in a lot of time to spend with some great books and you know no one is stopping me from just sitting down and talking to you in the camera of what I think about that book maybe recommending it maybe seeing something which you know wasn't sufficient about the book so so I am intending to tone down a little bit my production value my my my value giving so not focusing all about pushing and giving value and content but instead focusing primarily on my personal growth my personal development my my mastery of self and of various fields which includes at the moment coaching executive coaching and life coaching I have said this once in record I'll add this again I'm planning to I already am am on I'm subscribed or enlisted on a eighth month coaching course very high level based in London you know I can also share on the camera once in a while what I learned there so there might be some interesting stuff again it's not gonna be cutting-edge most likely so I'm kind of giving myself I'm saying and repeating this probably just to cut some slack and and allow myself to admit that you know I'll just play around document some things and some people might be interested to tag along this is not gonna be some major let's make let's make it big on YouTube project at least definitely not yet but who knows maybe I'll discover some interesting things on the way and once in a while I'll share them on this channel but aside that yes I want to put this on record and kind of summarize and and let you all know my intention now is to put forth the intention of studying hard reading the right books talking to the right people exploring myself getting digging deep into my own well of developing value of of of gathering and of exploring of understanding as deep as I can for a while going through the court coaching course maybe documenting this and that on the way tearing this of that story which might be useful interviewing and talking to this and that person who may be interesting to use well is not only me so kind of documenting the journey on the way but firstly focusing on my own personal growth also focusing on my relationship and yeah trusting that sooner or later I will be able to climb on the shoulders of giants and look from there and obviously realize there's more giants to climb there's always more giants to climb there's never an end to growth but hopefully reaching a place where I'll be like oh you know what I'm starting to see something which may be valuable here not only to me and we'll see what happens with that so this is an open exploration of and kind of a statement of what's my next plan for this channel for my journey things may change slightly but I'm quite convinced that this is a good way already I'm already like swallowing some books and I'm loving it it's really great to devote myself to learning new things and practicing them and and I am journey for a skill set which would be valuable and I could establish myself in some position where I could be like you know what I know this and if you want some of that let's connect up and that may very well be coaching and right now I don't really have that I dropped I kiddo I dropped in the may at the moment you know I don't have something that I can directly offer to you on a one-on-one conversation besides just my personal exploration so it would be nice to have something which is kind of set and which would be a bridge between me and you or anyone else where I could be like you know I'm pretty good at this stuff I know this stuff I can give it to you hopefully coaching will give me that first step what will be after that we'll see and yeah we'll just see how the journey rolls out from there so let me know what you think about this this mindset about this these ideas if you're interested to tag along and see what comes out of it tag along if not you know the world is free there's so much good stuff on YouTube there's so many good choices you can always choose something better something more suitable for you but that's my intention that's my plan and let's see what happens from here


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Justin and Hailey Bieber own more than one multi-million dollar property, and though they bought their current Beverly Hills residence just slightly over a year ago, the lovebirds recently splurged on a super-sized upgrade nearby. While a mansion costing over 25 million may seem outrageous to us average folks, the famous singer and his model wife can definitely afford it. Today we'll take an inside look at the young couple's new mega-home in Beverly Park, their Canadian mansion they've spent quarantine at, and more. We even found some of the listings. Justin Bieber is a Canadian singer and songwriter who was discovered at age 13 after Scooter Braun watched his YouTube cover song Vids. The rest was history. Seriously though, the success he experienced came almost instantly, being the first artist to have seven songs from a debut album hit the Billboard charts. With sales of over 150 million records, these days The Bebes is one of the world's best-selling music artists and has received numerous awards over his career so far. His wife Hailey Baldwin, now Hailey Bieber, has her own success to boast about. She is best known as a model and influencer represented by IMG and featured in ads for some of the biggest companies from guests to Tommy Hilfiger and much more. She was already known in Hollywood as a kid thanks to her famous dad Stephen Baldwin and of course her uncle being Alec Baldwin. However, these days she's made her own fame despite being only 23 years old at the time. Hailey has a current estimated net worth of 20 million all on her own and combined that with her hubby's $265 million net worth, I'd say they're doing better than most. The Bebes have been happily spending quarantine holds up in their Ontario mansion close to Justin's hometown in the same province. Apparently the two love spending time here and it's where they can get some peace and quiet. Despite that, anyone as famous as Justin and Hailey need to have some real estate in LA too. Reportedly they already own at least one or two homes near Hollywood but their most recent place tops all of them. Hey guys and girls it's Kara and today we're bringing you another house tour here on Famous Entertainment. We'll be looking at where Justin and Hailey Bieber call home and although we did a video on them last year it was about time for an update. I'll show you the new mega mansion they just bought in Beverly Park, their Canadian sanctuary and more. If you like these videos make sure you're subscribed and ring that bell to be notified when we post you can always be up to date. We've also done house tours on famous couples like Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton and we'll link to some at the end. Let me know in Instagram to chat and as usual let me know who's house tour is next in those comments down below. Now let's get into this video. Before we get into the new spot let's look at a home you guys may have seen before. Only last year Justin and Hailey put down some roots in Beverly Hills buying a home in the area for reported 8.5 million. Constructed in 1932, originally in a Monterey Colonial style, the home has been fully renovated since so much so that it doesn't even look like the same place. It's on a quiet street close to the famous Beverly Hills Hotel and only one of five homes on the street. The three level home spans 6,132 square feet and has five beds and seven baths. Although the place got a modern makeover the cozy feel was preserved. According to the listing, the home offers old Hollywood glamour mixed with casual California living. There are large steel case windows throughout showing off the grounds and an indoor outdoor flow. Designed for entertaining, the Beepers Residence has a spacious living room that opens to a private courtyard. There's a wood paneled library, a sunken family room and the kitchen that you can also easily open up to the outdoor area.  Other highlights inside this home include a lower level with art deco inspired bar, wine storage and a screening room that was inspired by the nearby Beverly Hills Hotel. Inside there's a courtyard with fire feature, a seating area and elsewhere an infinity pool and cabana. You've probably seen this place if you follow Justin on Instagram because at one point he was trying to sell the house with his social media posts. He took to Instagram posting 13 images of the home in which we could see how the young couple decorated the place and wrote, I think I want to sell my home in Beverly Hills. Who wants it? We could see the snowboards and art pieces they lined the staircase with and a painting of the logo from his own clothing brand Drew House. Despite all that, the couple never sold the place so either Justin was bored and kidding around or they just didn't get a good enough offer. So now that we know Justin and Hailey still on the Beverly Hills house we just looked at, why did they need another? I mean it's more than enough space but I guess they just wanted a super fancy upgrade. Just wait till you see this new one. Located behind gates, situated on over 2.5 acres of land, the Beaver's new residence is in one of the ritziest enclaves, Beverly Park. Magic Johnson lives right across the street while other neighbors include the likes of Eddie Murphy, Denzel Washington, Rod Stewart and more. Despite all of the famous neighbors, their home is fully private like any good celebrity estates and I sure hope so considering Justin and Hailey dropped $25.8 million on the place. The supersized home is high in the mountains offering amazing views and although it was built in the late 80s, it's since been renovated and updated for 2020 standards. The multi-million dollar remodel included contemporary interiors and all the upgrades you can think of. Justin and Hailey's new mega mansion spends 11,000 square feet with seven beds and ten full baths plus a ton of high-class amenities expected in the $25 million price range. Walking in there's a grand two-story entree with checkerboard stone floors and an elegant curved staircase. Nearby the large living room offers a huge black fireplace and there's also an open concept family room attached to the chef's kitchen. In the kitchen, you'll find top of the line stainless appliances, large island and casual eating area. There's also a formal dining room with floor-to-ceiling windows at Den, a library with French doors to the garden and a soundproof movie theater. Elsewhere there's a home gym. Upstairs the Bieber's new master suite has its own sitting room and floor-to-ceiling walls of glass that open up to a mountain view patio area.  On the park-like grounds surrounding the mansion there's a covered patio perfect for entertaining and outdoor fireplace, barbecue and pizza oven. Not to mention a koi pond, full-size tennis court and infinity pool. After seeing this place, I don't think Justin and Hailey need much more. What's your favorite part of the new mansion? Before we wrap this house tour up, let's take a look at where Justin and Hailey have been spending their quarantine, their mansion in Ontario, Canada. Being from the small town of Stratford, Ontario, Justin has never strayed too far from his roots. He's lucky his wife happens to love his Canadian heritage because it means the couple can spend a ton of time there, enough to buy their own house. In 2018 Justin and Hailey spent about 5 million bucks on this waterfront home located in a quiet area of Ontario on Puss Lynch Lake, which is close to the city of Cambridge. For those of you who aren't from Canada, it's a couple hours away from the city so he and Hailey get all the solitude they need out here. Their home sits on a sprawling 101 acres of land and inside spans about 9,000 square feet with four beds and six baths. The mansion was built in 2012 and has fresh, modern everything, from reclaimed beams to stone counters and all the upgrades you'd need. We can see from photos that the common rooms have high beam ceilings and floor to ceiling windows let in a ton of light. Listing photos compared with some of Justin's own pics show that this is definitely the Bieber's house. Among the many features are a two-story glass wine cellar, a home theatre, a games room, observatory, and a gym. The master suite a couple of shares is located on the ground floor and is massive, also with an en suite and dressing room. The Bieber's seem to take advantage of the scenic lake they live on considering a few months back Justin shared a video of their day out on the water. Hailey also says that their house in Ontario is their sanctuary and I can see why. Either way they definitely make the most of their time at their lakefront getaway, even going out on a jet surfboard. As mentioned, the more time Justin and Hailey spend at their Ontario property the more he gets to see his family. Their house is only an hour away from the mansion Justin bought his dad Jeremy back in 2013. So there you have it folks, now we've looked at where Justin and Hailey Bieber call home. Apparently they may even own some more LA real estate but these are the spots they actually spend their time in. After seeing their mansions, which was your phase? What did you think about the new place, was it worth over 25 million? I personally don't think I'd spend that much on any mansion even if I was as rich as the Bieber's. That's a little too much. I also recently launched a personal channel so if you want to get to know me better, watch my vid and subscribe because I appreciate all the support. Thanks for tuning in, don't forget to follow me on Instagram and let me know who's house tour is next. I'll see you all in the next one. Bye!


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Hi everybody. Thanks for joining the talk on a hearing test using smart speakers, speech audiometry with Alexa. My name is Bernd Meyer from the communication acoustics group in Oldenburg and I'm happy to present this research that is a collaboration between Jasper Oster, Melanie Krüger, Jörg-Hedrich Wach, Kirsten Wagner, Vegard Kolmeier and myself. So the topic is speech audiometry. So I'm going to briefly start with this. It can be used for measurements, for diagnosing hearing impairment, for fitting, psychoacoustic experiments as well. And the target here is to find the signal to noise ratio at which 50% of the words are correctly recognized by a listener. And what we do is to use a dynamic measurement procedure in which the SNR is adapted. If the listener gets more than 50% of the words correct, then the SNR is decreased, the task is made harder, and the other way around if less than 50% of the words are correctly identified, we want to converge to the 50% word recognition rate. And usually the responses by a listener are logged by an audiometrist. So a person shown here and he or she logs the responses in a graphical user interface. In a previous study, we have shown that such logging can also be performed with an automatic speech recognizer. So this illustration here shows the typical components of such a recognition system using ASR features, a deep neural network, phoneme probabilities and a decoding stage. So we get transcripts and that could replace the responses logged by the human supervisor. In this study, we have shown that this actually produces results that are very close to the clinical measurement procedure. But we were also curious if you could take the next step and take the measurement procedure to the living room. So here I show the experimental design of the study that I wanted to cover in this talk, which is about smart speakers as the title said. So on the one side, we're looking at clinical speech audiometry in a double wall booth. And on the other hand, we're investigating a smart speaker audiometry in a simulated realistic room setting. And so there are many parameters that are different here. So there's reverberation. We don't have control over the sound pressure level. For copyright reasons, we're not using the regular matrix test, but synthetic speech. And also, of course, there are potential errors from the automatic speech recognizer, which could affect the SRT measurement. So this is what I will talk about in the following. So here's the structure of the smart speaker app or skill, as it's called in the Amazon Alexa world. And we're using the Alexa speakers to perform the dynamic procedure of the listening test. So when you first start the test by saying Alexa start hearing tests, or this works for German smart speakers currently, so you have to say Alexa start a test. And then the smart speaker or the app on your phone will read instructions. And after that, the stimulus presentation starts. So the listener then should respond to what he or she recognized. And the automatic speech recognition component will then transcribe and search for specific lexical patterns, and then put out what keywords from the matrix test were correctly identified. And from this, we can calculate the response for and then adapt the signal to noise ratio. And as for the usual test, we repeat this 20 times. And then at the end, we have an estimate for the signal, sorry, for the speech recognition threshold. Now there are different acoustic conditions that we covered in the study. And these are simulated rooms, they were simulated in the in a room called the communication acoustics simulator, which is a room with microphones and loudspeakers on the walls and a powerful computer that can basically simulate larger rooms than the communication acoustics simulator itself. So what we did was to look at the living room, a poor classroom, and and at a concert hall all with different reverberation times. And we covered these in the measurement sessions with the listening participants who we invited. And there were two sessions, session one, and session two, where we shuffled the order of these rooms, we don't have a systematic effect of those. The second thing that we varied was the hearing loss of the user groups. So the participants we invited range from young normal hearing listeners to older normal hearing and listeners with a mild or moderate hearing loss. The first thing that we looked into with the recognition error rates that were produced by the Amazon Alexa's automatic speech recognition engine. So on the y axis, you see the error rates. And then we show violin plots for the different listening groups. And there's data shown in red and blue. And these are score deletion errors and score insertion errors. So score implies that these are matrix words that are contained in the matrix sentences. And whenever one of these words is deleted or inserted that might affect the SRT measurement in the end. And as you can see, for the deletion rate data shown in red, the median values, which shown by the white circles, they are at or below 5%. And the insertion errors are around 2.5%. But the question, of course, is how does this affect in the end the reliability of the tests and how is the SRT affected. And that's what we looked at next. So first, we looked at the SRT differences or also the subject standard deviations in terms of the SRT across the rooms. So blue is living room, green is poor classroom. And yellow is concert hall. And for the interest subject standard deviation, when conducting the test with a smart speaker, we didn't see a large effect between the rooms. This was range from approximately 0.8 to 0.9 dB. But we saw a significant effect regarding the bias. So the errors that the ASR system makes introduces a specific bias. And that's different for the three rooms that we analyzed. But the effects are not huge, as you can see. So the deviation ranges from or the bias ranges from 1.1 to 1.5 approximately. Next, we compared the interest subject standard deviation when using a smart speaker to the interest subject standard reference. So that's the clinical measurement shown in the middle. And this we did for the listener groups that I talked about earlier. And we also investigated what's the overall bias between the clinical measurement and the Alexa based measurement. And when you compare the bars on the left side with the bars in the middle, you see that the standard deviation is elevated when using the smart speaker. But it's not a huge effect. So the highest difference that we see is from 0.49 for the red bar in the middle to 1.09 when using the Alexa speaker. We do see a bias, which also depends on the listener group. So interestingly, for the young normal hearing listeners, we see the largest bias over 2 dB. And then the bias is reduced when down to 0.70 dB for the listeners with a moderate hearing loss. At the end of the test, so people should, when they use it at home, they should probably not be informed about what their SRT is because for most people, this value should be meaningless. So we asked ourselves what should be the feedback that is provided based on this screening procedure. So the binary decision here is the question, is the SRT that was measured significantly different from, you know, 95% range of the young normal hearing listeners and the SRTs that we observed here. And for this, we can specify sensitivity and specificity. And we can also calculate the UDIN index, which takes both of these measures into account and waste them equally. And this is what's shown here. So on the access, you see the SRT that was measured with a smart speaker and the corresponding decision threshold. And when we use this criterion based on the UDIN index, we still get an area under the curve of 0.95. So when we reduce our decision to this binary screening result, SRT elevated or not, then we get this 95% score. So to conclude this talk, when we use an Alexa skill to conduct speech audiometry using matrix sentences, then we see around a 1 dB intrasubject standard deviation, which is true for different rooms and also for different subject rooms. We do see a bias that decreases with increasing hearing loss, which is a result that we haven't completely understood so far, but we're looking into this. And if we reduce it to a binary recommendation that is given at the end of the test, we still get a good classification performance with 0.95 area under the curve. With this, I'm at the end of the talk. Thank you for listening. If you want more information about the skill that is online since September last year, please check our website, CAULDE, slash Alexa, test my hearing. And please try the skill if you'd like to and test your hearing. Thanks for listening and hope to see you soon. Bye-bye.


We're going to be competitive about something. Choose wisely. So my talk today is, does this business make my Buddha seed look big? And so just to show of hands, who meditates here? Yeah. Who goes for walks in nature? Yeah. Ooh. Who punches light shades in the back there? Who gets great ideas in the shower? Yeah. Who hasn't raised their hand yet? Good. Okay. Good. We got everybody now. Okay. So for me, Buddha seed is really that spark of life, that bit of us that bubbles up when we let it. And that drives us towards beauty and joy and connection. And I think we have a really strong and powerful role to play in bringing that to business. So this is what this is about. Now, I caution you that if you try to Google a good definition for Buddha seed, there's a lot of cannabis talk. Welcome to Big Buddha Seeds. That's not what it meant. I meant the other definition of like our Buddha nature. Now if you're sitting there thinking, oh Jesus, when are we going to learn how to make money with improv? My talk is only 10 minutes long. Hang in there. This is really for people who are on the fence, because I was on the fence. So when I first started doing this stuff, I thought I had to go in the business as usual door. But the more that I did workshops, the more that it affected me and the more that I wanted to push it and see where I could take it. So I kind of hopped off the fence. And this is what this story is about. Okay. So this picture is of me in Berlin this summer, it was taken this summer. And I'm standing in front of a picture of the Berlin wall from 1971, because that's the year I was born. And in Berlin, what I'm learning, I'm in the process of moving there, because it's another city I haven't lived in yet, I'm in the process of moving there. And in Berlin, I'm actually considered incredibly radical because of three things. I'm straight, I don't smoke, and I have no tattoos.  It's very easy. But if I was going to get a tattoo, I would get this. I love this model from Robert Pointon, I'm sorry you guys can't see. I love this model from Robert Pointon. I think it's so powerful, it's such an elegant expression of what we do. Because we're inviting people constantly to let go, and particularly let go of something that's not serving you. Let go of the need to control in this moment. Let go of the need to be right. Let go of something that you can feel is working against you. Notice more. Notice more about how your colleagues are doing. Notice more about the state of the world, the environment. Notice more about stuff that matters. And then use it. Do something about it. Use everything. I really love this model. It's in Robert Pointon's, I read it in Robert Pointon's book, Everything's an Offer, and there's another do lectures book that he wrote on improv, which he goes into it further. Because the more I did this stuff, the more I realized that actually the improv that we do is incredibly radical for this one simple thing.  Go shine. And we're doing this in a world which is constantly saying you are not enough, please buy something. Who's a Stargate fan? So for me, I feel like every time we do a workshop, we are taking people to a different world, but a world that is actually closer to our nature, that's closer to life, that's closer to connection and love. Every time we push the let go, notice more, use everything into the Stargate, and we go into this amazing world. We're really getting people closer to where we should be. And so when we come back to this world, it becomes almost more disorienting. It becomes like, well, why can't we do this more often? Why can't we be like this every day? This is one of my favorite comedians, Bill Hicks. And he used to go into bars and he would tell dick jokes so he could also tell the bar crew stuff like this. And he says, it's only a choice, no effort, no work, no job, no savings of money, just a simple choice right now between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off, and the eyes of love instead see all of us as one. And I'm going to let Ian on a secret, improv is a love technology. It really brings people together. And it says, you are enough. I really see you. Let's play. So how can we bring this into business? What does this have to do with business? I'm usually playing, at the moment, my projects are usually playing with this sort of idea, if you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It's lethal. Who feels this on a daily basis? Yes, who? I'm usually looking at it in terms of climate change and things like that. So if we don't change what we're doing, if we don't go into an adventure of the unknown and change the way that we're doing stuff, it's going to be a lot more dangerous. But in a particular case, I was reflecting, what's happening to the dog over there? Is he okay? I'm reflecting on, I did a project with General Motors around 2010, and it was on marketing excellence. And what struck me when I worked with General Motors was business as a machine was the major metaphor that was operating and that everybody was in fear. They were in fear of their jobs, they were stressed, it was not a good people company at all. And something that really struck with me, stuck with me, is two years later I saw this, this image. This image is of a guy named Jorge Parre who is in, who's in Columbia and he used to work for one of the GM factories. And it destroyed his health. And when he couldn't work anymore, they just fired him. And there was a bunch of people like him.  And when I saw that, it was really like, what am I doing teaching marketing excellence? And this is a personal thing. What am I doing with teaching marketing excellence to a group, to an organization who would treat a person like that? And recently GM was in the news because they had to pay out 900 million, because they knowingly put faulty ignitions into millions of cars and they can at least connect 124 deaths directly to that faulty part that they absolutely knew was in it. You know, do we support people in making a horrible system a bit more bearable so they can get through the day? Or do we try to change the system? Do we really actively and expressly try to change what the systems are doing? And the truth is no matter where we go in, improv is so powerful. If you're doing improv for improv's sake, you're bringing a healing force. It's, hello. It's where do you want to play? It's really where do you want to play because there's grace in both. There's a really beautiful Burning Man image. And it's how, I think our work really aligns, can align the structures with the light inside. It's that whole Buddha seed, you know. Does this business make my Buddha seed look big? Well, let's see if we can use our strengths to really make the structures let the light inside shine within and around. If you're that squirrel on the fence and you're tempted to jump on, here's a jump off the fence. Here's good news. You have backup. You have the pope. You have Naomi Klein. You have 98% of science. There's one of them's in the room back there. And there's a bunch of other people, including a lot of people in this room who saw the Lego movie. Here's something that I think we can do better than most groups, is to remember that he's the special too. There are beautiful people in GM. Everybody is special. Everybody has that light. So it's how can we not create a world of us versus them, worthy and light ones, not so much over there, you know. How can we really embrace people but also help to shift the system, to do it really consciously? So here's been my journey so far. That's me. And I actually had the pleasure of growing up in the forest. I got to play in the forest in the United States and Mexico and Canada. This is me playing, where's Belina? Here's Belina. And my career when I started was pretty gray. So I started working for a big bank. And I was a project manager and I watched a bunch of people burn out. I got an MBA to relax because that's how stressful the bank was. And then I used to do marketing excellence programs. And I really like the marketing door because it's holistic. You can get at everything in the organization, but I didn't like the morals. This was my boss at Citibank, the one who's giving me the finger. And I actually, I'm very proud of that because I made that into a Christmas card and gave it to him and said Citibank is number one. He was an extraordinary manager because we were in the back office of Citibank and it was very business's machine. And what he did, he had the lowest turnover in any department in Citibank because he was so human, but eventually even he burned out. And so we lost a lot of people. Then I got into improv fully. I was connected in 2007. And I started using it as business as usual because I thought I had to go through that door. And I set up a company called Mavic, which means to boisterously celebrate. But I was noticing that I kept trying to, but oh, and sustainability stuff. Into what I was trying to do. So I got inspired by biomimicry people. And I started working with improv and biomimicry. How can we be inspired by how nature does stuff? And I came and I moved here and I created something called the Thriveable World Quest, which is going to be my session tomorrow. And it's a global group. It's a global adventure to reimagine businesses as thriving living systems aligned with nature, and it uses improv to teach people around the world. So if you're curious, come to that. And I'm also doing sustainable stand up. So stand up comedy on sustainability issues for anybody trying to make the world a better place. So when Andy Newman said, stand up hasn't changed in 30 years, he hasn't talked to me yet. The world needs you guys. It really does. The stuff that you're bringing is so vital now in any way you do it. If you help people be more generous, more collaborative, more playful, more open, and reimagine stuff and really connect with their light, you're doing a good job. How big can you take it? Because you guys are the special.  Have a brilliant conference.