So, I was speaking with a client who was feeling like she goes from thing to thing to thing without much time for thinking and reflection. And so, I want to ask you today, do you give yourself enough thinking time? And if we want to live a more conscious life, we want to run an authentic business, it requires us to have plenty of reflection time so that we can be more mindful of how we are approaching things instead of going by the reactions or going reacting to whatever is happening. Oh, this person needs this thing or I promised to do this, that we just bring more, like I said, awareness, mindfulness to it. So, I want to share with you a couple of ideas that might help you to bring more thinking time, reflection time into your life. And these are things that I do myself and I find it absolutely important. So one thing is that I don't work for more than an hour and a half or two hours at the max at any one time. And I know some of you like to work in long chunks and maybe that works for you. But for me, it's really helpful to take a long break after every two hours at the maximum. Now, my long breaks are 60 to, well, at least 30 minutes, if not 90 minutes, 30 to 90 minutes.  But it's just moving the body, get some liquids, do some stretching. It helps to move the brain. And then while I'm working in those 90 to 120 minutes, during that work time, I also check in with myself a lot. So I do a lot of frequent breaks. So at least every half hour, I'm up doing a quick stretch. And every couple of minutes, whenever I'm aware that I am working, I will check in with myself and say, am I bringing love? Am I bringing my care to the activity at hand instead of trying to get it done, as it were, which is how a lot of us like to do things. We just want to get it done. So are you doing that? Are you checking with yourself frequently? And it's a practice that I've had to develop, because most of us are in a trance most of the day, right? Really you are in a trance right now watching this video. If I'm entrancing you, if you're watching whatever or reading something, you're in a trance. When you're doing something, you're in a trance. It's all trances, most of the entire day. But occasionally we get an in-between moment is what I call it. In-between moment is okay, I'm aware that I'm doing something. I'm aware that I'm watching something. I'm aware that I'm trying to figure something out, whatever it is. And those in-between moments are so important to be aware of and to go take a breath, right? And then it's like, what can I bring more of, how can I bring more spirit into the situation? Or am I going about this in a simple way, in a graceful way? Am I going about this too complicated? Am I doing this? Am I putting too much pressure on myself? And so those in-between moments are good to just pause and then hopefully do things in a more personally sustainable fashion. So that's very helpful too. And then a couple of times a year, I take a trip to go see family members. And during those trips, I don't do any work. I have no appointments. I have no requirements for my work scheduled so that there's plenty of kind of open time. And whether I'm with someone or by myself, I can have some time to just let my mind wander and think bigger picture thoughts. So what about you? Do you also give yourself, during trips, are you busy and are you doing things all the time? Or giving yourself time to kind of think bigger thoughts about your life, about your work, et cetera. So that's really helpful. And just kind of day to day basis, when I'm puttering around the house or when I'm walking to the park or even when I'm taking a shower or whatever, those times, I call those idle mind times.  Those are idle mind times. And instead of idle mind times, just automatically letting yourself get stuck into mental loops of trying to figure something out or thinking about how you could have done something better or whatever mental loops we get stuck in. Let's be more mindful of those times. And what I do with those idle mind times, I have certain things I remind myself of. I'm taking care of my spirit. What's the virtue or value that I'm focusing on right now during this week? Every week, I kind of switch off to focus on a different value or virtue. And so it's like, I remind myself of connection to spirit. I think about some thing I'm trying to bring forth in character, virtue-wise. And then I evaluate, OK, how is my day going this far? And have I been aware of my in-between times? How can I do something more with more mindfulness going forward? And then I think about the next thing I'm doing, the next task, the next event I'm doing, and how can I bring more spirit to that thing? So and then after I do that exercise of doing these things, I then allow myself to wander or listen to a podcast or, you know, but a lot of times, speaking of, you know, a podcast or watching a video or whatever, we oftentimes don't let our mind be idle. We just are going from task to media consumption, to task to sleeping.  And so that's where, you know, we're missing out on this important reflection time.  So anyway, I feel like, oh, and then let me give you a couple of questions you might reflect on during your reflection times or idle mind times. Things like, what am I really here to do? What am I really here to do? How can I best contribute to the world? OK, what is the deeper purpose of my work? What has given me energy today? Like, what task or topic has given me energy today? Because if you keep noticing what gives you energy, you will learn about your own talents and strengths over time and shape your business to more utilize those strengths and talents. So anyway, I have a blog post that's associated with this video, but I just wanted to encourage you to be aware. Are you just going from task to media consumption, podcast videos, articles to another task to, you know, sleeping or whatever. And it's just, yeah, give yourself the spaciousness of mind, thinking time. For the client I was talking to, for her, it's riding a bike. So she goes on bike rides for others might be walking in nature for others.  So anyway, I hope this helps. And I look forward to seeing what you do to give yourself more reflection time. All right, be well. I just looking, taking a look at the comments here. Yeah, captain and Tara, Tara, thank you so much for your comments. And thank you for joining me, Paul, Todd, Suzanne and Susan. Okay, everyone, have a great rest of your day. Consider how you might give yourself more idle mind time today. All right, be well.


Tlo what's poppin? We all are on twitch. We are not Live, but you can leave a like comment subscribe turn on your post notification bells Let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK man. I missed yesterday Man, I'm tell AIDS Thursday. I went into the office the blueprint Don't forget. We are a partner with the blueprint mastermind that links down in the description We do be doing the roundtables. This is me behind this head of hair right here, man Links down in the description. We've got another one of these dropping soon. It's gonna be fire I Was in the office Thursday and my stomach just got to hurt now. It's like man. I don't know about this My stomach don't never feel like this So I go home and did Friday hit It's over. I couldn't even really get up. I was like, ah man, that's tough So in turn for me missing y'all get three bangers today man bangers I hope y'all really like or share these man Because y'all know every since I got my little YouTube where ever since I had to do what I had to do for my channel It's all love right now That's it police interceptors man. This is season 21 episode eight I think these are gonna be done really at random because some of these get blocked some of them don't get blocked The ones that do get blocked. They're gonna be going on patreon patreon. I got y'all today as well, too It's Saturday. What am I gonna be doing about Saturday? I'm in the crib reacting to videos for y'all At least for the next six hours seven hours. Let's get it crispy definition, right? It's a cold wet winters night While most of Nottingham's is 1.1 million residents are tucked up in bed 1.1 million north of Nottingham We've got a vehicle A runaway golf driver is about to cause a nightmare on the roads Quickly escalating from slightly erratic the suspected drink Following presentation is intended for mature audience that contains graphic descriptions of crime scenes adult dialogue and strong language real discretion is advised I do not condone glorify and sensationalize any actual stories though I am here simply to educate myself and others on the history or current state of issues around the world I'm clearly stating why I'm watching this Driver is barreling through a residential area at 50 miles an hour It's straight to ready. Yeah, I'm really firing Flying through reds they seem hell bent on escaping the law on wet roads stopping distances are thought to double But with the winter rain hammering down this driver continues putting pedal to the metal Thankfully at half 3 in the morning the roads are empty as the driver tears through streets at well over 70 miles per hour In the suburbs packed with playing fields and alleyways. It's a D campers dream Other units are aiming to get ahead with a stinger And dog handler mark is also trying to catch up along with his trusty canine moors Every single time that you can pop out the police interceptors they got the dog no matter what I feel like in America the dog has to be called. It got to be like every time though. They call in the dog Time could be running out On the wrong side of the road medium risk still know what the road users or questions the lead car is still locked on target Continuing on the field road speed is now 40 But the golf drivers reaching the end of the road Okay, we can't we all knew that was coming the end of the road. There's never an end of the road With interceptors braced for a D camp the dicey driver careers over a pavement at full pelt Circling past the playing fields for a second time the suspected drink driver could still be looking for somewhere to bail out I'm sorry. Did he say the suspected drink driver or trunk driver? Just don't drink and drive man. Don't That's why we got Uber. That's why we got Lyft or whatever car services. Y'all got black Heading for the end of the road take two Left left left The driver decides to take his chances on foot for the intercept Wait a minute The driver decides to take his chances on Nah, buddy, you should have stayed in the car. It's over with but the interceptors are hot on you The driver decides to take his chances on foot for the was that peaking bags or something? Interceptors are hot on his heels The interceptors are in pursuit of a suspected drink driver Who's hitting high speeds and taking big risks on wet winter roads After leading cops on a loop of the estate He's gonna be left left left The driver hits the brakes On his toes with an officer close behind as the driver makes a break for it So does one of the three passengers Who quickly sees sense and returns? Leaving rich Elliot alone and taser drawn to deal with the three passengers Two of which are becoming aggressive Oh Faced with the prospect of 50,000 volts the passengers are keeping their distance, but still making threats Please Yeah, I've got three lads zero from the car just need units to me Man you just racking up the chargers buddy to check that car to a jet. All right That is not our problem. All right. That's you know, yeah, I appreciate that We're saying you're gonna smash me and it's like That's Jordan. Okay another situation is it I guess I get that go why you might be upset finally the cavalry arrives Wanted to stop that's not our problem was telling him. Yeah, fine. Stop fine. Yeah, but they've never been a question to me I didn't know he's judging that right. I'm sorry. Fine. So I'll get to the bottom there. We quickly regret it when he said Well, you're gonna do what to that cop man. Look, you want a camera One way of getting to the bottom of it will be to question the driver and a suspect has been chased deep into the estate Stay there Maybe you need to me. I've got one detained Stay there. Put your hands on the floor Put your hands. Can you answer I can see it To ensure the suspect doesn't get the chance to make another run for it the officer calls for backup Um, but after the foot chase through dark alleyways, he's lost I want a footpath beyond some houses As the beautiful description uses an app to guide in back up Find my local three words are adding pass What three words is an app often used by the emergency services to pinpoint locations? Every three meters squared in the world is identified by a unique combination of three words Oh, meaning help in the form of Mark Paul and Chalky is on hand in no time Wait what? See the cops got tools that we don't even know they use and I have no idea about this I'm think I'm talking about fine by find my location now. They got something better than that Not better, but what's your name pal? It's done 90. Is that you? Is it you or not? I don't know Well, yeah, because I followed you from the driver's seat, mate With the suspected driver detained the passengers are free to go But back at the car once again aggression levels are rising One of the raging passengers sees red and is heading for the camera man Kicking off He's refusing to go down without a fight Baby What a super strength he's arrested for drunken disorderly behavior This is a really unfortunate situation man, because yeah, hey listen y'all you was on the clear and free path They ain't got nothing to do you do like y'all the police officers in the UK are much more just from this You know I'm saying just from this I feel like they a little bit more understanding Y'all was not handcuffed y'all wasn't nothing a bro decided to hop out and run do all he had to do Not America you guilty by association y'all already There it seemed like they they was gonna let y'all go even after y'all custom out like you just got to calm down Read the situation I Know that Jameson is in you but calm down Oh It's been an eventful night shift for rich having handled the pursuit and an angry car full to a quite hostile Fortunately, I had a taser so I drew it and red dotted them.  Well, I've been told that the drive is well in drink The speeds they were doing in residential areas is just dangerous through and through Unfortunately, there have been no injuries and we've wanted to a successful and safe resolution The lad next to the alleyway was convicted of dangerous driving and failing to provide a specimen as well as driving without a valid license or Insurance he got nine months behind bars and was banned from driving for 24 months Damn the passenger who kicked off was ordered to pay a fixed penalty notice for drunk and disorderly behavior That's that's that seems fair that seems fair That's fair enough You know I'm saying you got a little fine for drunk and disorderly behavior behavior That's the normally what will happen here. Oh, you might have to do some community service or something like that or take a class nine months two-year license ascension You might have got off a little easy on the nine months, but you know You would have been two years gone It's fair to say an interceptor can never drop their guard No two jumps are the same and not all suspects put their bad behavior on show from the get-go It's not unusual that you might meet, you know, Mr Nice guy one second who becomes Mr. Nasty and sort of a split second if people are fueled by alcohol or drugs, then they Become sort of unpredictable by definition really mood swings One moment compliant one moment not Sometimes it's trying to sort of reason with the unreasonable On patrol in the unmarked Volvo are Rob and the Sarge Ian Towards the city adding towards QMC There are reports of another suspected drink driver I really wish they say drunk Maybe that's the right way just cuz y'all This y'all language we just bar on it, but got somebody who's Been seen leaving the the pub a little worse for where it's got into a red outing We've now got a police officer behind it on the ring road So I'm just gonna try and catch you with it While Rob puts his foot down The suspect is being tailed by a plane car Zero five just quick past QMC now Rugby player Ian has nearly two decades experience rugby player first of all, so you are a police interceptor As an interceptor and knowing that the driver could be over the limit the last thing he wants is at the suit To kick the driver's journey into touch the plan is to wrap the Audi in a three-car box A second unit gets behind the red Audi Closely followed by Robin Ian Zulu five we're just coming up behind your Clifton Boulevard Got your third tea pack in the stick now. We're at the back with everyone in position The suspected drink driver navigates off the main road And the team break cover I Got a question real quick real quick. So every time The police are getting ready to pull somebody over in the UK. They don't just do a normal routine traffic stop They always tea pack somebody Like because they couldn't easily just do on the lights And then just been behind them and seeing if he pulled over I Feel like this maneuvers. It's effective. Don't get me wrong So they were feared they were in fear that he might run and cause a problem blah blah blah blah No, I feel like we just skipping steps though. I get it for safety reasons But like I ain't never seen no UK cop do a regular police time Can somebody please educate me? Car boxed zero contact A flawless finish Like I can see why somebody will be like meet them with aggression like Even though the tea pack that this little boxing situation is meant for to protect everybody Like it seemed aggressive like if you don't know what's going on Like oh whoa Possibly drinks are is that correct Drink The cool headed driver admits he's just left the pub So to clear the road The team move around the corner for a breathalyzer After warning you there is an offense to fail or refuse to provide with the specimen under these circumstances.  Yeah, good This stops going like clockwork as the compliant driver is only too happy to do a breath test Go and keep going over it. Thank you. I said stop boy was happy Happy to blow calm down my boy Right there is when you should have stopped but no no you continued on Go and keep going over it. Thank you. I said stop you're going to jail pal So as you can see it come up with a fail well the result of 55 the limit is 35 Okay, so you now under arrest on suspicion of driving whilst over the prescribed limit Having failed the roadside breath test the driver will be taken to the nick to give an evidential specimen a breath It's not causes any trouble having only just left the pub He might still be going up So he might blow a higher rate when we get him to the because this week. We'll just have to find out So Far this stop has been plain sailing, but once they reach custody Different story The search is all clear With peace somewhat restored Ian is ready to take the driver for his breath test, but there's another problem Ian can't let the driver go to the toilet until after he's completed the breath test Because if the suspect doesn't give a specimen a breath that first sample of urine could be golden evidence Which can be tested for alcohol levels Well, I can't stop you wetting yourself, but I would prefer if you didn't That's what Despite Ian's preference Oh, yeah, you did it the suspect urinates in the cell.  I said you have to wait a couple of minutes while we do the test and you decided to wet yourself Brilliant After receiving some fresh clothes courtesy of custody it's finally time for the evidential breath test We've managed to get to this chapter calm down a little bit now He's good what he said so far is going to go through with the intox procedure We've got him in the intox room now and hopefully we'll get a sample I Warned you that failure to provide either of these specimens will rend you liable to prosecution Do you agree to provide two specimens of breath for analysis? I want a blood test once again the suspected drink driver is not playing ball Listen to me listen to me because I know how good I am the offer is For a breath test we do not love blood blood unless specific circumstances arise and you do not meet that criteria At this stage, blood samples can be taken if there's a reason to believe someone cannot do the breath test for medical reasons I don't want to breathe into like other people's breath. I want blood Okay, so so are there are there any medical reasons why I don't breathe in other people's breath That ain't listen That's the quote of the year so far you why you cannot or should not provide two specimens of breath I can't breathe that hard there are specific criteria We all seen it. We all seen that roadside stop black It was over breathing in that mud earlier. It's a meat if you have a blood sample you cannot simply request it So unless you're going to provide two specimens of breath, I'll take that as a refusal. We'll go back to the custody sergeant Fantastic, do you stand up for me then please? Failing to provide a sample can carry a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment a driving ban or an unlimited fine Unlimited fine None at all in fact he kept blowing after I told him to stop That's good evidence into it. He's trying every trick in the book at the moment. Just stalling for time Trying to eat it out trying to make complaints I have a 15 well at least 12 cop cars around me. Yeah This process is going on for many many years and Everybody's tried to find a loophole and the just isn't one The law is quite clear But failing to provide a specimen I like how this show is broken down, man Each there's four segments in this show. There's four different cases each show I don't know. I peaked this the first time I watched it. There's four different segments Sometimes five or sometimes the fourth one is a shorter one And they're all different, but they all keep you very entertained Like it's not like you watching the same thing over the same person over and over again The driver was banned from the roads for 12 months and had to pay a total of 199 pounds in fines and costs That's nothing smart guy Ban from the road for 12 months and then just a 99 a hundred two hundred dollars on Nine times out of ten, you know, you'll get a somebody who starts off like this this individual absolutely That's normally what happens in at least in Chicago, man If you get pulled over and you say, you know, I'm not giving a black plaza. No, no, no, no They give you they suspend your license for a year That's better than that Come on quite classed You know, absolutely fine nine times out of ten. They'll remain like that through your entire encounter with them But this guy's just reminder that not everyone stays calm. So yeah, never drop your guard with people coming up And to tackle Nimble people still face dog currently medium risk Able to mount pavements and Go where cars can't follow Few are more dangerous than a menace on a motorbike We put a duty of care to the rider because of the the risk That comes with pursuing a motorbike to the rider H the best that they'll be able to the felt stop where I bought Bought in those car under the illusion that if they're in Cook County, you can that's Chicago cook county That's Chicago and Cook County. You're not allowed to pursue a motorcycle at all Ride a bike will get away with things because they won't we will go after them and we will stop them. I Don't know if it's changed with 2022 and lower in a northerly suburb of Nottingham dog handler Jen else is blue lighting to a job When a rider on a high-powered bike up ahead wrongly thinks the lights and sirens are for him and flaws it overtaking traffic Failing to stop at 70 and charging the wrong way over a roundabout towards oncoming cars The reckless rider makes a potentially lethal mistake As he tries to overtake and crashes into a car turning right The ride it sent flying down the road along with his bike a collision at such high speeds could be catastrophic But miraculously the walking wounded suspect is fleeing the scene news of the crash travels fast Left again Firearms cops Lisa and Paul are one of a number of units responding We're just gonna get there check that If you want a motorcycle man, you just stop states of the Try and find the side that's made up. It'll be just there just The bikes all the way down that's what I mean But took you by surprise didn't it you got anyone are you got any kids in or anything? The driver appears to be okay But shaken by the crash if you got probably a bit of shock and you might get a pain later on As long as you you've got somebody with you at home because you never know when when a bit of shock might kick in all right Thankfully the innocent member of the public doesn't seem to have been seriously injured But the damage to his car clearly shows the force of the impact Can't believe how far down the motor by it's gone scattered down the road are the riders helmet a shoe and The bike which has scored the pavement before coming to a stop When we get riders of motorbikes that failed to stop the ride terrible, you know the ride really fast they're weaving and out of Vehicles and they don't really see the dangers ahead of them because they're going too fast for their own ability And if you as you can see it's a long way down there After the crash the rider was seen jumping a fence into gardens So the team have contained the area while they search for the suspect We don't believe them the rider of the bikes got any Major injuries to worry about but it is concerning when they go and we don't know where they are It's always surprise. Oh, they've got him Oh, that's fab so the update we just had over the air is the another couple of air a foes Dan and Rob have found him The only reason I can see for him to run is like the consequences of getting caught on your bike outweigh Consequences of what you got on you getting caught with it like what are you doing? Missing a train and covered in blood. So it's conscious breathing. So that's positive and positive that we found them Recent figures show around thirty two percent of motorcycle accidents result in riders sustaining serious injuries Having witnessed this accident firsthand Jen is thankful the rider hasn't become another statistic As I've come up this road It's a typical got me blue lights on he thinks that I'm after him And he's just clipped the car The bikes rolled over and I was just feeling the worst to be honest and we've since found out bikes stolen been stolen a year riding around on false plates And no insurance and he's got no license either. So that's why it was really important for me He's lucky to be alive to be honest That could have ended very differently The rider escaped without serious injuries He's currently awaiting a charging decision for dangerous driving driving without a valid license or insurance Failing to stop for the police and theft of a motor vehicle. No further action was taken for the suspected false plates Knowing the danger illegal riders are prepared to put not only themselves in but everyone else on the road The interceptors are more determined than ever to catch them Out and about in the northwest of the county are Matt and Lee from the knife crime team Although this shift it's not weapons on the menu It's rounding up an off-road biker who is refusing to stop The suit authorize the runaways rallying around corners And running red lights at crossroads Trying to lose the interceptors one thing the rider on my motorcycle I was I was banned from so many So many cities so many towns Isn't banking on is he's caught the attention of the whole team Plotting up nearby are Johnny and Moza Just get a finger out in case he comes down this way sting has been authorized So we're gonna get one out Authorize the stinger on a motorcycle Y'all really not playing no games with the motorcycles that they're on the lap just in case and traveling in from across town to tighten the Net are Shantel and Dean Sure enough with Matt and Lee in pursuit the rider pulls the textbook move The biker may be off-road, but he's far from off the radar If he does come out a pleasure though, where would it come out? And Adrenaline junkie Shantel's dream set of two wheels would be favorite gadget playstation Be the supercharged Kawasaki Ninja H2R But today would be the super Adrenaline junkie Shantel's dream set of two wheels would be the supercharged Kawasaki Ninja H2R She go for the top dog that in the BMW 1000 RR crazy But that that height that H2 But today She'll settle for intercepting this off-roader Shantel and Dean calm the country roads They picked up the rider for a second time True to form the rider is hitting high speeds to escape Leading them to another dead end He's up to all tricks with disappearing acts number two With a dog handler on scene Dean and Shantel go into the fields to look for the rider No chance for a disappearing hat trick They Find the rider hiding in the bushes victory for the knife crime scene I Catch of the day doesn't have a license or insurance either Knowing the next stop is custody he's been left wondering where it all went wrong This time Thanks to the interceptors determination the rider was convicted of failing to stop and driving without a valid license or insurance He received a 12 months as you go on the jail buddy spending prison sentence 120 hours of unpaid work Never mind you do a community service buddy and was disqualified from driving for two years To top it off his bike was scrapped the roads crime teams bread and butter is stopping suspects on the move And there's more than one way to get the job done from full-blown operations To react into hits on the ANPR network And you just can't beat a Good old bit of interceptor intuition And gava in Newark Don't forget man. We do got the patreon man We're gonna be starting two new shows very soon man the two shows. This is England and fresh meat If y'all want to go on my patreon the links down below in my description in my patreon It's all the shows that are currently being watched in all the shows that are on their peer here Just one look at a passing Green Paolo and they're on its bumper Macca and gava in Newark just one look at a passing Green Paolo and they're on its bumper Gav runs the car through the police computer Drugs information he sleep Stopping yeah With another unit already on hand Macca lights up the Polo And gav gets straight to the point I'm gonna ask you straight up mate. Are you carrying anything here? It should be in there So I'm gonna appreciate some Of course you're acting really nervous Okay, and I've just done a quick check on the car just in that time before I stopped here And there's some information around you may be involved in drugs So I'm gonna ask you now if you got some personal use we can sort it out at the roadside But you're gonna hear that line a lot man if you got some personal Cool Get certain to me she's a drugs act. So it's a good time just to tell me if you're carrying anything You know, okay Before joining roads crime gav spent years on the beat with the knife crime team hunting down those carrying weapons and drugs The mean is very nervous make both from keep your hand where I can see it please mate And alarm bells are ringing about this twitchy twosome What you've been to Newark for? I'm just with my friend coming along. Okay, and how long have you been here for then? I'll say about 40 minutes. Okay. Just come to Newark. Yeah 40 minutes Yeah, all right, step up, but if you keep your hand where I can see it mate It's great. See that time the cops aren't buying it's a swift night trip to Newark So with the help of fellow intercepted Nick the driver passenger and Polo are searched Tell my first buddy. Yes, you The police interceptors aren't armed right? Why do they call okay? I do know what you want to tell me what this is in the foot well of the car No, I've just been sitting sitting in the car Nick him Nick right at the minute. Yeah, I suspect this is a class A drug So you're under arrest on suspicion of possessing a class A drug with intense supply You don't have to say anything that may harm your defense If you don't have some questions from which later learning caught and then he do say maybe given evidence That was in the foot well of the car where you were sat. Yeah, okay? And also on suspicion of possessing a bladed article. I bought that today. Remember you're under caution and this camera is filming Within five minutes of stopping the mode The interceptors have found the package of suspected cocaine and two knives But the pop you know where he going and y'all take any guesses any guesses You're going to jail, buddy J.A.I.L Polo is the gif that keeps on giving Not a baton. Oh, a baton as well Right as it stands, right? It's class AP wits. Yeah, it's bladed article times two Yeah, and off wet times one because there's an extendable baton. Yeah, is he got anything on him? It's just a scales scales. We'll finish that search. I'll come back to you There's more Mac has found a large one of cash And he's he's two dummies Trap 101 you did not follow instructions. This is one of the dumbest things yet to search the boot Whose bags of this nothing to do with me That's a load of cameras just sold it. Yeah, that's what all the cash is for We'll seize that so that box has got a zip bag a zip lock bag in it like a vacuum pack bag Which has obviously been full of cannabis to empty now what it stinks So I'm guessing they've just sold all the cannabis, which is why they've got all the cash in the wallet So, yeah, two knives a baton drugs cash Decent result keen to gather as much evidence as possible Suspects already there custody macer and galve executor warrants at an address linked to the driver and sees a safe as well as another interesting find It's one of these magnetic boxes here, which Are common for drug dealers what they do is put the drugs inside Secure it with a clips It's magnetic Stick it underneath the car and often you'll look underneath the car and you'll find one of these for the drugs or cash Both items are seized the investigation. The safe was cracked open, but found to be empty However, both the driver and passenger have been released under investigation for dealing class a drugs and possession of an offensive weapon Still to come Halfway through a 12-hour day shift on Lisa and rich Yeah, tea experience the danger Off-duty thrill seeker rich is a keen adventure racer in a previous life. He was an intelligence analyst And now with 14 years on the force. Yes, it's heading towards a way He's an expert at keeping tabs on cloned cars Instead of an activation of a PR camera of a Pickups believe to be on cloned plates So we're just gonna put ourselves in the air easy The black golf on suspected cloned plates has already hit to a NPR cameras Typically false plates are often used to hide the identity of a stolen car or a dodgy driver As a third camera hit comes in there's no doubt the motor is still on the road Hopefully the reason Nearing the black golf's last known location the interceptor's view is blocked by a lorry I think it may have gone straight up my actual golf. I think go straight up Lisa tries to get a line of sight And actually might just call sight of it going across a 610 Straight on yeah go straight up sure My Reaching the busy No respect, that's funny reaching the busy crossroads There's no sign of the golf There's a million ways it could turn the party the trails gone cold He says If the suspected cloned car isn't pinging cameras chances are it's been parked up somewhere nearby Oh, what's this Lisa and rich check each and every turn Until they clap eyes on it But with this golf woodfield road the engine is still running and a couple are lingering nearby Excuse me. Excuse me Hey, mate That your car sorry You get I think you were driving it I've seen the image of the driver you're driving you driving that car when That car just got down to it So you've got your you've got your coat out of it. Why are you lying? Yeah, someone is selling porkies and it's not rich. Have you just seen me drive that car? I haven't seen nothing. No, but I've seen the impure image of a female driving the car I've seen name pure image of a female driving that car And it's we've got a couple of tamed here at the shop, so it's trying to get to the bottom of it They're denying driving it reach applies a little more pressure. Let's keep your hands out your pockets folks What are we going to do? So can I keep you quick search? Minute, I suspect that that car might be stolen. Okay. Yeah, you might. Yeah. Oh, that's the reason why Okay, how do you know that then If you know a bit more about it, then tell me Is it on false plates You just bought it The driver admits she recently bought the car for 500 quid and while we're spilling the beans have you got a license That's not quite the whole truth either. All right, so you disqualified until April Oh Yeah, it's on it's on our database so I was on the DL database. Okay, so you shouldn't drive No next year she's banned from driving for another 14 months. Also the car's not on the right place Yeah, the clone plate. So which I think if you were straight with me, you didn't save you know Because you drive must disqualify without a license. Okay, which is probably why it's on false place Can anybody guess where she gone? Probably home. She going home You came for to let her go to avoid having to go through the official channels and get your documentation All roads lead to the same outcome the interceptors will be taking the car off her hands And reporting her for driving whilst disqualified and without insurance there are A couple of char seats in the car. So it leads me to suspect that at some point She's been driving around with no license or insurance with children in the car young children So the females claim to just bought the car, which is a regular story We often hear that they've only just bought it and however it's been driving around on these plates were quite confident for at least a week So at least it's today off the road. She won't be able to drive it with no license or insurance anymore No legal action was taken against the woman for the false plates But she was convicted of driving whilst disqualified and driving without insurance She was banned from the roads for another 19 months Sentenced to 60 hours of unpaid work and had to pay costs of 85 pounds Lisa let's rich do the honors on this occasion rich. Do I get to drive you get to drive the year driving? Nope. I Always drive him on this occasion. You can drive off and stall it and Make myself look good If y'all don't leave a like comment subscribe turn your post notification bells man If you want to follow me on any other social links, take down below man. Enjoy


Today's video is sponsored by FlexiSpot. This is a dual narrowband filter, and for anyone that doesn't know, this is the type of filter to use with color cameras when capturing emission nebulae. It can be used under any kind of sky, but it's especially effective at blocking out the light pollution of a city sky. And the reason it's so effective at light pollution blocking is it's just passing the O3 emission line and the H-Alpha emission line blocking everything else. But you're maximizing the potential of your color camera because the HA signal is being captured by all the red pixels and the O3 signal is being captured by all the green and blue pixels. But then when it comes time to process the data, that's when we maybe run into a problem, because if we try to process normally, the HA signal will typically dominate. So even after color balancing, we're left with a photo that it's almost entirely red, which can be a bit boring and lifeless. So the trick to processing with this type of filter, a dual narrowband filter, is actually to treat it like you shot mono narrowband data and to separate out the O3 and HA signal while they're still linear. So now you have two black and white photos, you then stretch those separately and finally recombine them with a color palette to your taste. In this video, I'll show you how to do exactly that three different ways. First with the free and open source software, Serial and GIMP. Second with DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop. And third with PIX Insight. And then specifically with a new free script in PIX Insight from Bill Blanshin and Mike Cranfield called Narrowband Normalization. But before I jump into the tutorial, let me give you a quick desk tour, which is something I've never done before. So this is my main shot, which you've probably seen before. But let's turn the camera around and do a little bit of behind the scenes. So this is my fairly complex setup. I have a lot going on, including both Mac and Windows computers, a teleprompter slash confidence monitor with a camera behind that I also use for zoom calls and other things. I have a remote controlled light here above for my face and of course a microphone. And all of this is attached to a FlexiSpot E7 desk. And this video is sponsored by FlexiSpot. They sent out this desk, this C7 ergonomic chair and the monitor arm for me to try out. But the funny thing is, I was already using a FlexiSpot desk before they even reached out. I like it because it's a very solid desk. I can attach all of this stuff to it and not worry about it shaking about because these legs are incredibly heavy and sturdy. The standing desk has a dual motor, one for each leg, and that means it can handle a huge amount of weight. Even when in the standing position, I have no problems or worries about putting all this stuff on the desk. Another thing I really appreciate since I spend a lot of my time in my desk is that I can make it a very ergonomic setup. So I can have both my arms and legs at the correct angle for good posture when typing while seated. And you know, nothing is strained here between my vertical mouse and these very adjustable armrests. I can be sure I won't get any repetitive stress injuries, which I do worry about. I initially wanted a standing desk for health reasons, but I also picked FlexiSpot on the end because it's one of the more affordable on the market. And I've been very impressed by the chair they sent. It's much better than my old desk chair. I like the mesh back for ventilation and that it offers a lot of support and adjustment options, all for a really reasonable price. FlexiSpot is currently having their Labor Day sale, which ends on September 10th, and they're offering up to 50% off their normal prices on both the standing desks and the ergonomic chairs. And then in addition to the 50% off, Nebula Photos viewers can get an extra $30 off by using the code Nebula for orders over $500 with the link in the description. Okay, here's Zero. This is the latest version as of September 4th, 2023. This is Zero 1.2.0 Release Candidate 1. I'm going to go ahead and start by going here to my preferences, go down to miscellaneous, and just make sure that I'm pointed correctly at a Starnet executable and Starnet weights folder. So if you're not using, if you haven't installed Starnet, all you have to do is just download the command line version. And I have a video about it, and then point to that version from here in Zero. Now, if you're on a Mac like I am, there's a couple more steps. So you can watch that other video if interested in getting Starnet working, because I am going to be using that in my processing here. Okay, the next thing I'm going to do is just set my working directory. So to do that, I'm going to go up here to the little blue home icon, and I'll just set my working directory to this folder right here on my desktop. Okay, and if we look at that folder, it has my data already separated into these sub folders or directories with the bias frames, the darks, the flats, and the lights. Okay, that's what Zero wants when it uses these, when you go use these scripts. Now, of course, you can write your own scripts or download scripts from the internet that don't use the calibration frames, but I would always recommend using calibration frames. Now, the script that I'm going to use for dual narrowband data is this one, OSC one shot color extract HA03. And what it'll do is it will actually mathematically sort of separate out the HA03 based on where they would fall in those color channels, and then provide you with two resulting stacked images. So it's a very neat script. And it's something that is sort of unique, and I think to zero. So let's go ahead and run that. I'll click run script. And here it goes, we'll catch back up when it's finished. Okay, it finished it took 46 seconds. Let's go ahead and see what it created here under results. So it has an 03 result and an HA result. Let's look at the HA result first. I'll open it here. And I'll just apply the auto stretch. That looks good. Let's take a look at the 03 result. That looks good too. So I think that it did a nice job. The next thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to make a color version for the stars. And so I'll do that using pixel math. So I'm going to go to image processing and go down all the way to the bottom of that menu, pixel math. Here's pixel math.  And I'm going to go ahead and add the 03 and HA as images. And then in red, I'm going to add the HA. I'm going to uncheck this use single RGB expression. And in G and B, green and blue, I'm going to add the 03. And then I'm just going to click apply. And I'll close that. Okay. And so this is what it created that looks quite good. So this is just a HOO image. And I mostly want this for the stars. Now, I mean, you could, of course, just start processing from here. I'm going to do this a little bit differently. Let's go ahead and stretch this image just for the stars. So I'm going to go into generalized hyperbolic stretch. I'll turn the display mode back to linear. Under type of stretch, I'm going to do modified arc sign transform. And then I'm just going to use this stretch factor to bring out the stars. And I'll just do it a couple times. Okay, I'm just doing this to taste. And when I like how the stars look, I'm just going to stop. I'll close this. And I'm going to save off this image. So I'll do over here next to the save button. There's a little save as save the current image. And I'll call this stars. And I'm going to save it as a TIFF file. So I'm going to bring this into GIMP in a second. I'll save it. Yeah, that's fine. Okay, next, I'm going to go ahead and go back to our results folder and open up that HA result. Okay. And I'm going to run star net on that. So I'm going to check pre stretch linear image. I don't need a star mask. And execute. Okay, that's done. Let's just put an auto stretch on it, see how it did. Looks really good. So let's go ahead and now stretch this using GHS. So I'm going to go to image processing generalized hyperbolic stretch. I'm going to look at an auto stretch here. I'll pick an empty area of the sky. Set that as my symmetry point. I'm going to turn the local stretch intensity way up. And start stretching the image. Okay, that looks good for an initial stretch. I'll go ahead and apply it. I'm then going to pick a new symmetry point. I'll do something like this. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and apply that. At this point, I'm going to move the whole histogram over to the left a little bit just with a linear black point shift. Okay, and then I'll do one more GHS stretch. I'll leave the symmetry point there. And I'm going to apply a little bit of highlight protection to this just because I don't want to blow out the crescent at all at this point. Okay, I think that looks good. I'm going to apply that. I'll close out. Okay, and so this is my HA starless. And I'm mostly again doing this by I just from experience, but this is what I basically want the HA starless to look like. Not super stretched at this point. I don't want any of these areas to be pure white. I want it all to be fairly gray still, because it's going to blend a lot better if we if we don't stretch it too much at this point, we can always add more contrast later. If you had too much contrast now, it's it's going to be a problem. So let's go ahead and save this. I'll save this as HA. I'll save it as a TIFF file. And then we're going to open up our 03 result and do the exact same thing. So again, here's what that one looked like. And let's go ahead and run star net on it. I'm going to check pre stretch linear image. I don't need a star mask. I'll click execute. Okay, that's done. Okay, and one thing I notice is that the this corner is a little bit brighter, right? It looks like we have a little bit of a gradient going on. So let's try running a little bit of a background extraction on this. I'm going to turn smoothing way up. Let's turn it up to 0.85. And I'm just going to do a few samples here, not too many. Yes, I think that's an improvement. I'll go ahead and apply that. Okay, and then let's stretch this. So again, generalized hyperbolic stretch. I'll pick this area for the symmetry point, then going to turn off the auto stretch, turn the local stretch intensity way up to about 12. And then start putting in the stretch factor until we get this histogram to come out. Okay, that looks good. I'll apply it. I'll go ahead and reset my black point with the linear stretch or black point shift. And then let's stretch this a bit more. But I'm going to move my symmetry point. So I'm just going to pick a different area here.  Okay, so that's our 03 stretch. Let's go ahead and save that as 03. I'll save it again as a TIFF file. Okay, so we've now created out of zero three stretched files, our stars, our stretched starless HA, and our stretched starless 03. It's now time to move to GIMP. Okay, here is the GNU image manipulation program or GIMP. And we're going to go ahead and do file open and open up our stars.tiff. There it is. And then I'm going to go file open as layers. And I'm going to bring in our HA and 03. Okay, so I'm going to reorder these a little bit. I'm going to put the stars on top. Okay, and then I'm going to go ahead and turn off the visibility of stars and 03.  And we're going to colorize it. We're going to colorize it to red. So to do that, we go to colors, go down to colorize. If you go to colors and colorizes grayed out, make sure under image mode that you're in the RGB mode. That's why I opened up the stars image first is so this would, it would create an RGB document. So that's the easiest way to do it. But if you, if you went in a different order, you can always go to image mode and set it to RGB. And then you'll be able to colorize. Okay, so let's go ahead and colorize the HA starless to a nice red. Okay, then I'm going to turn on the 03 visibility. I'll click on that 03 layer. And I'm going to change the blend mode right above here where it says mode normal. I'm going to change that to screen. And I'm going to colorize the 03 to blue. So I'll do colorize colors, colorize. And you can see just with this teal that it picks, it already looks quite good. But let's just play around and see if we like a different color better. I think who that looks nice, maybe even more saturated. There we go. Okay, I like that. So I'm going to get click okay. Okay. All right. And then we'll turn on the stars layer. And we're going to screen blend this as well. So change the mode from normal to screen. And then we're almost home. The last step in this process is we're just going to go to layer new from visible creates a new visible layer right there. And then I'm going to just apply a curves transformation. So I'm going to do colors, curves. And I'm going to bring down here. Then I'm just going to go over just a little bit on the curve and bring it up a little bit. So this is just a subtle S curve in the part where I want to add a contrast. You're going to subtly change these until it looks right to my eye. That looks pretty good. And then I'm going to add saturation. So we'll go to colors, hue slash saturation. And one nice thing about the hue dash saturation process here in GIMP is that we can all we can actually target different colors. So if I want to target red and just add more saturation to red, I can do that. I'm going to add a little bit more saturation to red, a little bit more to cyan, and a little bit overall. And then I'm just seeing that it's the background is just a little too red. So I'm just going to go back to curves one more time. And instead of doing a curve on the overall image, I'm just going to do it on the red here. Hopefully that was helpful. I know it was a lot of steps, but I really like the result. And it shows you that it's perfectly possible to get amazing results out of completely free open source software. In this case, CRL, S-I-R-I-L and GIMP, G-I-M-P. Both of those are acronyms, of course. And if you have any questions about this process, go ahead and ask them in the comments, but we're going to move on to the next couple of software, which are Deep Sky Stacker and Photoshop. Okay, next up, we have Deep Sky Stacker, and then we'll take the result from Deep Sky Stacker and bring it into Photoshop to finish processing. This is the latest version of Deep Sky Stacker 5.1.3. It is a really nice upgrade. They've made it a lot faster, but all of the basics stay the same. So if you've followed a Deep Sky Stacker tutorial before, you're not going to be confused by the new version. So I'm going to start by open picture files and just pick all of my lights here. I'll then load my dark frames and my dark flats and my flats. Okay, I did not use bias frames since I shot dark flats. I'm going to go ahead and click check all, which just checks all of these light frames here. We can look at one. There's an example. If you're not seeing color here, make sure that it says yes under CFA, and if it doesn't, go into your raw fits settings and make sure that it's you can check this and actually set the Bayer pattern. If you can just look that up and apply, and because sometimes it may not be included in the fits keywords, and then you would just have a black and white image in the end. So if you are not seeing color here, and if it doesn't say CFA, then go ahead and change that under the raw fits settings. Then we can go ahead and go into, so we checked all of the light frames. We can go then to register checked pictures. I'm going to stack 100% of the pictures because I've already checked these and they look good. I can ignore that warning about offset frames because we're not going to use them. I can just check that the star detection threshold is okay. As long as you have over, you know, 100 stars, that's fine. And then I'm going to go into stacking settings and just make sure these are the same as the last time I used this. I want standard mode. I want Kappa Sigma clipping on the light frames. Okay, that all looks good. So I'm just going to go ahead and click okay to start this going. Okay, I usually just go ahead and save a version here by clicking save picture to file and just save it as a 16-bit TIFF because then when I bring it into Photoshop, I have all of the options.  So I'm just going to call this stacked and leave compression on none. We'll go ahead and save it. And then we can open up Photoshop and open that image. Okay, the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to duplicate this background layer can just call this first. And the reason I do that is just in case I ever, you know, make a mistake or want to go back to this, the unstretched data to do something with it, I like to have it there. And then with this first layer here, I'm just going to go ahead and open up image adjustments levels. And you can see I have my histogram open here and I have it open to all channels view. So I can see as we're stretching where our color balance is. And you're just going to stretch a few times until we get this histogram out from the left edge. Okay, and then at this point, you can see the histogram is out. And we can see that the red channel is a lot stronger than the green and blue. That's fine because there's there's going to be a lot of red in this image. It's a hydrogen rich area. But what we do want to do is line up the left edge of these color channels. So I'm going to open up the blue channel and stretch that a little bit separately. So that the left edge is lined up a bit better. And then I'll stretch them all again and see what happens. Okay, that looks pretty good. I mean, I'm going to go even a little bit more on that blue channel though, just to really bring that out. Same thing with the green. So I'm just using both the shadow slider and the midtone slider to just sort of stretch these a little bit more. Okay, that looks good. So at this point, I don't want to stretch too much. I just want it to look sort of like this just pretty neutral, stretched enough that we can see some nebulosity and the stars. But we're not blowing anything out. The star field looks nice and tasteful. Nothing is is clipped to white or anything like that. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to I can close the histograms for a second. I'm going to go right next to the layers panel is the channels panel. And in here, I'm going to select just the red channel. And I'm going to select all and then edit copy, make a new document so file new. And it will know the right dimensions from the clip board. So I'll click create. I want this to be 16 bit though, and grayscale is fine. And then I'll paste in that red channel. And we can rename this red. We don't need the background layer. Done. Or actually, we can rename this h a because this represents our h a signal. And we can go ahead and save it as well. So I'm just going to go ahead and save this as h a can save it as a Photoshop document. That's fine. Okay, and then we'll do the same thing, but with the green channel, and this will represent our three signal. Now, I know that there is signal in both the green and the blue, but they should basically be the same signal. If you're really going to be a stickler, you could try combining these two channels together. That's what you can do automatically in serial. But I'm just going to take the green just for simplicity in this tutorial. So I'm going to do the same thing, select all, edit, copy, file, new, set it to 16 bit, create and paste. And then we can go in here, delete the background layer, call this o three and save it. Okay, then what we're going to do next is we're going to make each of the h a and the o three, we're going to take out the stars. And if you want to do this with free software, you can download star net. And then what you would do is just save these as 16 bit tiff files and then use star net externally, then bring them back in. Another option, if you don't mind paying for a plugin is you can download Russell Chromans star exterminator. And that gives you a way to take out the stars right here in Photoshop. So I'm just going to run that on each of these. Okay, and then after they've made star list, I can see that I really just need these a little bit darker. So I'm going to run levels on each of these, just changing the black point just a little bit. So they look more like that. So it's just image adjustments, levels. Okay, so now here's our two results. I'm now going to bring these back into our stacked image. But why is this black and white? Because in channels view, I only have the green selected. So I'm going to go ahead and turn back on RGB. Okay, let's now select this control a control C. Bring that in. I'll call this HA starless. Again, with this control a control C, control V, we'll call this o three starless. Okay, and now I can turn off the visibility of these top two layers. So now we're just seeing the HA starless. And we're going to colorize it. And the way we'll do that is with an adjustment layer, we'll go to adjustments, pick this huge slash saturation, click colorize, turn the saturation up to 50. We can leave it on this red hue. If that's sort of what we want, we could also go more of like a a Hubble palette look by making it more orange, but I'm going to go red. Then I'm going to turn on the o three starless layer. And I'm going to make that a screen blend. So let's change it from normal here to screen. And then I'm also going to colorize that one. So I'm going to pick hue slash saturation. I'm going to pick colorize. And this time I'm going to go for a more bluish teal, something like that. Now the whole picture turned this bluish teal. That's because this is this saturation layer is applying to everything below it, but we just want to have it applied only to this layer. So we're going to hold down the alt key or option on Mac and click on this line between the two. And that clips it to just this layer right here. Okay, so you can see that it's starting to work. But the next thing we're going to do is a curves adjustment. So I'm going to open up a curves adjustment.  Then I'm going to open up a selective color adjustment. And I'm going to play around with the different colors. So I usually like taking some red out of cyan and some yellow out of blue and yellow out of cyan. Okay, the colors are starting to look about right. There's a little bit of too much blue noise. So I'm just going to go back to my 03 starless here and just see if I can adjust that with just a curves adjustment. So I added a curves adjustment to the clipping chain. And I'm just going to see if I can. It's looking better, but I'm also going to think just apply a little bit of noise reduction to the 03.  Okay, a little bit of manual cleanup there. But I'm liking how this is looking now. So I'm just going to go ahead and turn back on our first layer. This is our stars. And I'll screen blend this back on. Okay. And then we're going to do one final curves adjustment here. So I'll just go back to adjustments curves.  And maybe then just add some final saturation. So I'll go to hue slash saturation and just apply it globally a little bit. Now that I've actually added the saturation, I think maybe we're just a little bit too much red in the background. So I'll add one final selective color layer, I'll go down to blacks and just take a little bit of the magenta out. See what that did. Yes, I like that. It just makes it a little bit more neutral. Okay, that's it for the deep sky stacker and Photoshop version of this processing guide where we're going to next move on to Pixinsight. Okay, and here we go with Pixinsight. I am on the latest version of Pixinsight here 1.8.9-2. I'm not usually one to immediately update the latest version because there's usually some bugs to work out. But this narrow band normalization script by Bill Blanchin and Mike Cranfield is only available in this newest version. So that I did update and I do want to show this to you because it's pretty cool. Anyways, let's just get going with processing here. So we'll start with pre-processing and I'm going to use weighted batch pre-processing. You'll hear astrophotographers who use Pixinsight calling this WPP and that's just the acronym weighted batch pre-processing. If you've never seen it before, it's a little bit intimidating at first, but I'll try to sort of just show you the basics here. So we're going to go to the darks tab, load in our darks. And I have both normal darks, which you can see are 300 seconds, and dark flats, which are 0.13 seconds for calibrating my flat frames. But Pixinsight does a good job of just separating those out automatically. We'll go ahead and load in the flats next and then finally load in the lights. Under calibration, I always just make sure if it's color camera to make sure that this CFA images is selected for both the flats and the darks. And then I also like to set the mosaic pattern, also known as the Bayer pattern, because if I know it because sometimes it's not automatically recorded and then Pixinsight throws an error. So I'm just going to go ahead and choose that. And actually, I'm also going to choose a reference image because I happen to know that with this data set, the fifth image is the best. I've blinked through the subframes, so I'm just going to choose my own reference image that it's going to register everything to. Okay, and I'll go ahead and make a new folder here to save all these results in. I'll just call it WPP. That's the output directory. Okay, and then under pipeline, I'm not going to turn on linear defects correction because I haven't found I usually need it. I'll leave the other options on and then I'll go ahead and click run and click continue. And here it goes. And we'll just let this run and I'll catch back up with you when it's done. Okay, that finished in 14 minutes. We're going to click done, done again, and exit. And then let's take a look at the master light frame. Okay, there's the rejection high. So that's a satellite trail and some hot pixels. There's the low rejection. And there is the result. And I think that I probably have, yes, I've already unlinked the channels here. So if we just stretched it normally, it would look like this, you know, see very red. If you unlink the channels, it then tries to equalize the red, green, and blue a bit more. And so you get this result. So it's already boosting the 03 quite a bit, but not in a way that a lot of people find super pleasing just that that auto stretch. But it actually is sort of the first step in using narrow band normalization. When I talked to Bill Blanchion about it, he suggested start with just an unlinked stretch like that and then bring it and then take up the stars and bring it into narrow band normalization. So that's what we're going to do. But I'm actually going to first make a because I'm going to do this a little bit my own way, just to my preference, in terms of workflow. So I'm going to first drag out a copy and you do that by just holding down that your left click on the mouse and just dragging out this tab. And that makes a new copy of the image. You can see it ends in clone there. And since these names are quite long, let's rename both of these. So I'm going to rename one stars. And you rename just by double clicking. And I'm going to rename the other one starless. Okay. And then we can put the stars to the side for now. So I'm just going to click the minimize. And then I'll just move this over here to the side. Now, with the starless, what I'm going to do is I'm going to first stretch it just using this unlinked stretch. And then I'm going to remove the stars. So to apply this auto stretch to the image. It's not as simple as just clicking the button because you can see I can just turn that right back off because this is just a an auto stretch. It doesn't actually apply until we apply it with something like histogram transformation.  And click this little radioactive in screen transfer function. Take this triangle icon and drag it over here onto this bottom bar on histogram transformation. Let go. Apply it to this image. So we're going to hit the square. And then it goes completely white like this because now we have both the auto stretch applied and this histogram transformation applied. So we can just go ahead and reset with this little red X right here. And now this is actually stretched. And I know that was a little convoluted, but that's I think the easiest way actually to apply an unlinked stretch from screen transfer function. So we've done that. Now we want to make this actually starless. So let's go to process object recognition. And I'm going to use star exterminator. This is a paid plugin, but you can use star net, which is free too. And I'm only interested in just creating a starless image right here. So I'm going to go ahead and turn off this generate star image. And I'll just drag the triangle onto the image here to start this. Okay, great. So this is a very honest, you know, representation of what you can get from a dual narrowband filter. In this case, the SV bony 220, which is only $159. And it looks quite good, I think we have a lot of both HA and O3 response. But you know, some people would want to get more out of this image, understandably, and change the colors. And that's where narrowband normalization comes in. So we'll go to process color calibration, narrowband normalization. I'm going to go ahead and reset it here. And for this, we want the palette to be HOO, because that's what it is. It's the, you know, the red pixels are the hydrogen and the the O3 is in the green and the blue pixels. So that's correct, HOO. And then the next thing I want to do is actually bring up a real time preview. And when you see this circle with an empty circle like this, that's the real time preview icon. So I'm going to go ahead and click on that. And let's make it bigger. Okay, so now we're getting somewhere. So this is showing us with mode one, what it's going to do to the image. So if you want a very Hubble palette looking image, this is great. And keep in mind, you can always add saturation after using this process. So it might look a little bit washed out right now. But we can always add saturation to make the colors pop after using this. What this is doing is just normalizing the colors, meaning sort of changing their balance. And we have this is blend mode one, it's a very like sort of Hubble palette look. Here's mode two. And this is what I've been doing with the other program. So this is probably what I'm actually going to use, but I just want to go through these different modes to show them to you. And there's mode three. So it looks like mode one and mode three are fairly similar. But in mode three, the oh three is looking even bluer. While in mode one, it's a little bit more natural looking, I think. And then mode two, we have again, that sort of very natural look of a of the hydrogen being red and the oxygen being blue. But let me go ahead and turn off this real time preview for a second, just look back at this. You can see it is different than our original one because in our original one, the the hydrogen signal almost looks orange. And the oxygen thing signal looks sort of greenish. While here, it's gotten to a much nicer balance in my opinion of sort of a pink hydrogen and a blue oxygen. So just with all I've done here is just opened up the process and switched the mode. And you can get these different looks, but there's a bunch of different options as well here. So one of them is there's a fancy process where you can use the LAB color space and it helps bring out detail with a lightness image. And that's built into this narrow band normalization. So you can play around with the different options there to see if you like what it does to the image. And I think I do sort of like that the HA lightness for this image. It feels like it actually even smooths out some of the O3 noise by maybe sort of darkening it into the shadow. So I like that. So I'm going to go ahead and turn on the HA lightness. Well, okay, actually, the only thing I don't like is is here in the crescent. Yeah, it's sort of doing something weird there. So actually, no, I'm not going to turn that on. I'll leave that off. Let's see if we if we try to blend if we try to boost the O3 what happens. Oh, that's interesting. Now, it's pretty obvious to me you can quickly take this too far, right? So be careful here, because I'm starting to see some areas where it's not looking too good. Because the O3 is a weak signal, if you don't have a lot of data, like I don't have a lot of data here, boosting it too much might not look very good. So I'm just maybe just going to boost it just a little bit. So I think it started at one. Let's try 1.1. Even 1.07, I think looks pretty good. Okay, and then there's some adjustments here to the shadow point. Okay, so this if you bring this down, it looks like it there's less contrast, but I liked it at one that looked good to me. There's a highlight reduction that might be necessary on some images. I don't think it's necessary here. And there's an overall brightness slider. I'm going to bring the overall brightness down just a little bit. Okay, let's go ahead and close the real time preview and apply this to the actual image. There we go. So I really liked what that did. Let me go ahead and turn this. I'll make this a little bit bigger here. And I'll undo and redo. So I think it's just very clear that it's a really nice way to work with color palettes in Pix Insight because I feel like that was one of the weaknesses in Pix Insight was it was hard to have a real time preview and work on color palettes. You'd have to sometimes use masks and it was very difficult to see exactly what you were doing. I wasn't a huge fan of using masks because you could easily make the mask wrong and then get into sort of a bad situation. So I like working globally and this narrow band normalization is a great tool to do that. Now, the next thing that we can do is a little bit of work with curves on this starless image. So I'm going to go ahead and open up the curves transformation and I'll open up a real time preview and maximize that. Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and just try adding a very subtle S curve down here in the shadow area. I like what that's doing. And then I'm also going to increase the saturation. Okay, I like that. So I can go ahead and close the preview and apply that to the image. Okay, at this point, I feel like there's a little bit too much of blue noise in that upper right quadrant. So let me just see if I bring down. Okay, I like what that did overall, but now we have some green noise. So I'm just going to run SCNR green really quick here. There we go. Okay, I'm liking this. Okay, so I think this is a great starless image here. So now we want to add the stars back. And I'm going to do this a little bit differently than probably you've seen other people do it. It's just my method, the one that I like the best. I'm not saying anyone else's method is any better or worse than mine. It's just what I prefer. So what I like to do is I'm going to go ahead and turn off the screen transfer function on this by just clicking a little reset. And I'm going to open up generalized hyperbolic stretch, reset it. I'm going to go to arc sign for the transformation type. And then I'm just going to apply a few stretch stretches with arc sign to this image. And arc sign transformation is nice because it's a color preserving stretch. So we should be able to get a little bit of star color this way. Okay. And once I like how the star field looks, I stop. And I like how the star field looks like this. The stars look well defined, but not overpowering the image. So then I'm just going to combine these two images together. And I'm going to do that with pixel math. So I'm going to go to process. Okay. And I'm going to screen blend these two images together. And some of you might be wondering, well, why didn't you make this a stars only image? That's not my process. I like to screen blend with some of this dim background nebulosity included, because to me, it makes for a more natural looking image with fewer artifacts that way. So I'm going to go ahead and screen blend these two together. So I'm just going to do tilde parentheses, tilde, stars, times tilde, starless, and parentheses. And what this expression is saying is invert the stars image, invert the starless image, multiply them together, and then invert the whole thing back. Okay. And that's a screen blend. Now we want to create a new image with RGB color space. That sounds good. I'm going to go ahead and hit the square to apply this. Okay, there's the resulting image. That already looks really nice to me. But I think it's just a little bit now bright, right? We want to bring down the brightness of it. So I'm going to do that again with curves. And while I'm in curves, I might do a few other little tweaks. So again, we'll open up a real time preview. And I'm going to pick my RGB slash k curve here. That's just sort of an overall curve. And I'm going to darken the image. So this is the part where it's just I'm doing this entirely by eye and just from my own expertise and taste. But what I typically what I'm trying to do here is I know that right around here, right around one quarter over is where I'm going to want to start darkening the image. But then I'm just going to bring a point I'm just going to go right a little bit next to that. And I'm going to brighten in that same area because right in there is where I want to add the contrast. And so that's looking pretty good. I like some of this sort of like brown feature that we're getting. Don't want to go too bright. Something like that. Okay, and then I think this image could use a little bit more saturation, something like that. All right, I think that looks good. I'm going to close the real time preview and apply that to the image. Okay, and that's it. That's my whole process. So hopefully that made sense. We just used weighted batch pre processing. We did an auto stretch an unlinked auto stretch on the data, one copy of the data made it star list, used narrow band normalization process to get to this nice color palette, did a little bit of curves work on the star list to make it a little more saturated. On the other copy, I just used an arc sign stretch to stretch the stars to my taste. We then combined these two with a screen blend in pixel math. And then I did a final little bit of work with curves here to get to my desired final product. Looking at this now, I think one thing that I should have done right away was a background extraction. You can see this corner is looking too bright. But I forgot, it's okay. Overall, I think that you see that there's things that you can add along to this process. But that's the basic idea of how I would approach dual narrow band in Pixinsight. You're now seeing everyone who supports this YouTube channel over on patreon.com slash medula photos. 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Live, from the Julia Morgan ballroom in San Francisco, extracting the signal from the noise, it's the Cube, covering Structure 2015. Now your host, George Gilbert. We're back, we're live at Structure 2015 in the Julia Morgan ballroom in downtown San Francisco. We have with us another very distinguished guest, Derek Harris has been involved in the content and organization of pretty much all the Structure conferences going back eight years, pretty much. That's say 2009. Okay, seven years. All right, I was never a math major. That's all right. I wasn't with Gigo, I'm with for the first Structure conference, I was just an attendee. Well, so Derek tell us, so you've got a pretty long, a longitudinal view of how these conferences evolved, maybe tell us, starting back in 2009, what the conversation was about then and how it's evolved since. Yeah, so I think the conversation has been, and I'm sure other guests might have referenced this, but it was very much this discussion early on of, Werner Vogels would come for the CTO of Amazon and do this hard sell on Amazon web services and cloud computing and there's the notion that this is why you would want to do, this is why you'd want to run stuff in a cloud and this is why you would want to outsource all these things and this idea that, it was just a new concept, the idea that you would want to do this and then people talk about security and this analogy like well you keep your money in a bank so naturally you would want them and you trust the bank so you should trust this cloud provider and there was this very, just this early discussion of, is this a thing, can we trust it? But what was the alternative, or what were the alternatives at that time? Well they were VMware, and they were no sort of virtualization layer at all. Hug the server. Yeah, and so I mean those were the options and it's funny because yeah and today, the discussion is not like why you would do that is, what's the best practice, it's like you're going to do that, what's the best practice and how efficient can you do it and you know I mean, or it's maybe just how much, but it's not, yeah it's not even a question anymore that you would do that. And then I think another thing that I thought was fascinating actually was, we had a lot of talk about databases and no SQL databases and stuff at the early structure conferences and there was this debate, well SQL can't scale and no SQL, here comes Couchbase and MongoDB and Cassandra and all these things are coming around and they're going to oracle so dead. But then in time, I mean this is kind of the evolution right, but then we've come back and I think this is the case in a lot of things. Some of that excitement I think was necessary to get attention, but then it was dialed back, right? Or co-opted to some extent.  I talk to so many companies now it seems like or you know I would just say so many, but enough and some everyday type name companies and they're like yeah we tried this, this, this. We're running on like Ruby and MongoDB or MySQL now because it works and people know it. So all things kind of come around I think and so we're very excited and I think we dial it back as kind of a thing that's happening. I want to touch on that mostly because I mean databases are central to all applications and they sort of almost dictate the architecture of a core part. And the NoSQL databases basically rose up for two reasons as I understood them. One was they were more scalable cause they relaxed the constraints of rigid transactions. But they were also more flexible because they didn't make you spell out exactly where you're going to put your data before you put it in. But people moved away from MySQL because MySQL never dealt with those two realities. What are, how are people using MySQL and still accommodating that scalability and flexibility? Well I think what you've seen is over the years I mean the flexibility part is probably, I mean it's still an issue to some degree. I would imagine but you know if you have if you use cases if you know what you're doing enough I mean and MySQL makes sense it makes sense you're going to do it right now. The scalability question I mean there's been a lot of you know this was termed new SQL that was kind of quoted companies trying to do this but I think we just look at a Facebook I mean any large web company now is pretty much still running MySQL as far as I can tell. And they just put their own layer on it. They're doing all sorts of things to make it scalable. I mean Facebook had a whole team around you know my scaling MySQL. There's a project that I think was announced last year it was called WebScale SQL and it was Facebook, Twitter, Box, Google all these companies said hey here's what we learned and we're going to do this project. It was just funny to me all the excitement that happened Facebook invented Cassandra right? But then you know kind of you know the excitement wears off after a point and you get back down to what's real and I don't think that's the only technology you're going to see the same thing happen with. So let's go to other technologies. So we saw the sort of scalability and partial co-opting you know of SQL or of the NoSQL databases. What were some of the other things that came along that perhaps looked like they were going to be if not a panacea you know a big fix but that didn't pan out? I mean I think you could go back and talk about then this is still evolving but the hybrid cloud the private cloud open stack was a thing when open stack came along people said oh my God this is you know look at these this is going to we need this alternative to Amazon and VMware and this is going to be it and look at all these companies backing it and then in time well I mean I don't even think we need to go into doing much detail it hasn't proven to be that panacea in the most cases. I think containers are going to be a thing where there's a lot of excitement about Docker and Kubernetes in these things. Now and understandably so on the other hand that's not you know the whole world I don't foresee moving to Docker containers anytime soon. You know when we talk about Google runs Google still runs you know it's resource isolation it's containerized but it's not Docker right it's not as if that notion of containers begins and ends with that sort of thing. So I think we need to have just a broader view and take these things and really understand you know I think it's people need to think about these things they need to and this is why I like these early discussions but you know then when it comes down to actually putting it in production and building companies around it I think I think you know you pull that's when you start seeing be pulled back a little bit. Okay so looking out a couple of years what are the things and we know you're partial to mesos but what do you think the world would look like in a couple of years when we come back and you know talk to you including you know how many mesos might remake things. Well so I mean I think also I mean pardon my bias but I'm sure you've had other people from companies that I'm talking so I'll give my spiel. I think that if you look at what mesos and mesosphere are trying to do I mean you know the idea is essentially to build what we call a data center operating system but the idea is you take all your resources you look at them as one big computer like Google does by and large and you start programming against Intel's APIs and so you stop and you don't have the notion of well I had a VM so if I had like whatever four if I had four servers and I apply take I use a hypervisor on that now maybe I have 16 servers right and so I have 16 servers to manage our idea is I have four servers now I have one computer it just has the resources of all four servers and I'm going to write a job that says not I need this many nodes or machines I'm going to write a job that says I need this much CPU this much RAM this much storage and you just have to software deal with where that goes you don't have to spend your time dealing about that and so beyond that then it's this idea well one thing we'll do so you can install you want to run these just complex distributed systems yeah that's it's just easy to install it's much easier we'll run Spark here you can run Cassandra here you can run Kubernetes here you can you can use Docker you can do all these things you want to do but the the the interaction for developers and engineers and everyone it's just it's a much simplified flatter sort of existence so all right we've had a Derek Harris with us another distinguished alum of the of the old Gigam and and the resurrected structure conferences and we hope to see him again soon at future coverage at structure data and structure data and then structure connect we will be right back in a moment this is George Gilbert and we'll see you in a few minutes