I'm always going to keep it true, tell you what I'm going to do, the sky is the limit, that's why I'm counting on you. Coming up on this edition of Titans All Access, the Titans are rested after the teams buy and ready to go for the final five weeks of the regular season. We'll preview Sunday's matchup against the Jaguars with General Manager John Robinson. Inside linebacker David Long, Jr. is making a name for himself, learned just who he is in this week's Nissan Insider. And Derek Henry is having an impact off the football field that is deserving of a huge honor, all of that and much more, as Titans All Access starts now. Monster! Derek! Welcome to the Bet MGM Studio at Titans All Access. With Amy Wells, I'm Mike Keith. We are rested and raring to go for the final five weeks of the regular season. Mike Keith, December football is the greatest football of the whole year. I can't believe it's finally here. It is the most wonderful time of the year. Oh, it sure is. It indeed is. And it's also the time where the Tennessee Titans present Mr. Football Awards to the top high school players in the state. During the course of this edition of Titans All Access, you will get a chance to meet the young man named a Tennessee Titans Mr. Football Award winner for 2021. Now, Mike Keith, this is something that we're involved in every single year. It's such a big deal. But why? Why does the organization invest in this event so much? Promoting football. That's really what it comes down to is we want to support the TWSAA, but we want to support the high schools. We want to support the coaches, support the boys, support the support staff, everybody involved in football. It's a great game and we want to promote it. And we do that through things like sponsoring Mr. Football, which we have just done for the 15th year. And being involved in communities and things that matter to communities, nothing new for the Tennessee Titans. Something you and I are proud of is a lot of our colleagues with the Titans have been out and about everywhere in 2021, helping people in all parts of the state. Oh, my goodness. And it's in every way you could think of, whether it's clothing drives, it's food drives. It's disaster relief when some of the terrible things happen to middle Tennessee, especially weather wise, tornadoes, floods, those kinds of things. There's so much to get involved in. There's so many different ways to help out this community. And the Titans are really putting an emphasis on it now more than ever before to send our staff out and give them the ability to say, you know what, just go, do whatever you feel is best and really get involved in Nashville and the surrounding areas. Titans players have always done a great job out in the communities and the ones who do the best jobs when the Walter Payton Man of the Year award from the ball club. All 32 teams give out that award. And this year, the recipient, well, the king. Oh, my gosh, it's Derek Henry. And we were able to be there when he was told that he was receiving this award. You guys are going to want to see this. It's pretty great. Derek, to many, you are a Tennessee Titan football player, but to the Boys and Girls Club of Middle Tennessee, you are family. Much like the uncle that all the kids look forward to seeing at the family engagement. You don't know this, but some of our club kids call you Uncle D. For our youth to give you this title speaks to your character and how personal and relatable you are to our youth. You have supported us in multiple engagements to include providing school supplies and backpacks for our school supply initiative, hosting co-aid football camps, donating gift cards, shoes and other gifts for our gift to joy holiday wishes and back to school shopping trips. Boys and Girls Club is sincerely grateful for all of your investments, uplifting messages and appreciates your emphasis on academics. Derek, your demeanor embodies that you are a proud club kid who has been faithful and consistent with your contributions to the Boys and Girls Club of Middle Tennessee, and we are thankful. We appreciate all that you do for us, but especially appreciative to the time that you give to our youth. Derek? We just wanted you are this year's Walter here, nominee for the... Oh man, that's cool. That's what's up. That's fine. I like that. That's nice. Oh, cool. That's what's up. So cool to see Derek Henry be a finalist for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award. Now, there are 32 of them. The winner will be announced at NFL Honors, so Super Bowl Week. Go King! Go King, go! Hopefully, he can get that done. He gets everything else done very well. And what we're going to get done as we go to break is introduce you to some of the Tennessee Titans, Mr. Football Award winners for 2021. Gentlemen, take it away. Dallin Hayden, Christian Brothers High School. I'm committed to the Ohio State University. Khalid Ganaway, Peabody High School. Committed to the University of Tennessee Morning. Justice Chadwick, Telehoma High School. Uncommitted. So I raced from Nissan Stadium in the studio to St. Thomas Sports Park to talk ball with General Manager, John Robinson. How are you, sir? Good. Good. Fresh, recharge, ready to roll. What's this organization been working on over the last two weeks since your last play to game? Well, I think it was a good chance for our players and our coaches to exhale a little bit, you know, take stock of what we had done well over the course, you know, the first part of the season. Some of the guys that have been nicked up a little bit, give those guys a chance to heal and really focus on getting back to, you know, what we did well previously and emphasize that going into December football. Okay, take that step further. What does this team need to do better down the stretch? Well, I think first and foremost is take care of the football. We've had a stretch here where, you know, we haven't done such a good job of that. You know, we've, that's been a point of emphasis for us all season. But getting back to taking care of the football offensively and conversely creating some turnovers defensively to try to steal an extra possession here and there. All right. Offensive question and defensive question. Offense first. You rushed for 270 yards in your last game. Can you build on that? Yeah, I think we can, Mike.  But even looking back at some of those runs, you know, the lines block well, the tight ends and receivers have all made, you know, good blocks to spring those guys. But there's always a block here or a block there. We could just do a little bit more to maybe pop another run, you know, a second run. So I think there's things in there that we can continue to build on. Defensive question. How do you reignite a pass rush that has been outstanding for the majority of the season? I think it's getting back to the details. You know, it's hard to line up against these offensive linemen in the Ash Football League, you know, one on one and just beat them down after down. They're too big. They're too long. You've got to focus on the technique. You've got to focus on the details of the rush, of the rush games, you know, the pick, how are you going to come around off of that? So just focusing on the technique, you know, individually and when we run those rush games. You saw Jacksonville in week five. So it will have been nine weeks since you last played them. Have they changed in that time? Well, they've played some good football. You know, the record may not show that, but, you know, they're in the top half of the league running the football. You know, Lawrence still is an explosive player. Chanel is extremely dangerous with the football in his hands. Marvin Jones is a big target for those guys. You know, defensively, they're sending a lot of pressure. They're one of the top pressure teams in the league. And they've got some good players on that side of the ball, too. Allen's having a good year for them up front. Miles Jack is year in and year out one of the top backers in the league. And Jenkins, a free agent that they picked up in the off season, has been around the football a lot in the secondary. I want to back up to this past Tuesday. You and I got to be part of something really special. The Tennessee Titans, Mr. Football Awards got to hand them out at Nissan Stadium. For you, as a guy who played football in this state, got to be extra special to be involved with the Mr. Football Awards. It is, Mike. You know, it's just such a special day for the players, the coaches that coach these young men, the parents. You know, they've got a lot to be proud of. I know their schools are proud of their performance. Their teammates are proud of them. So far, you know, for us as an organization and me particularly, you know, having played here, it's just a special day for us to enjoy with them. Four of your West Tennessee guys won awards. There you go. Tighten up. Tighten up, indeed. As we go to break after talking ball with John Robinson presented by Duncan, we get a chance to introduce you to more of our Mr. Football Award winners from 2021. These are the Tennessee Titans, Mr. Football Award winners. My name is Barry. I'm Brown. I'm from high school and I'm committed to the University of Kentucky. Go Wildcats. Still hands. U.S.J. I'm committed. My name is Destin Wade. I go to summer high school and I'm committed to the University of Kentucky. Welcome back to Titans All Access and the Bet MGM Studio. Now, when you talk about David Long Jr., you usually end up talking about his dad, David Long Sr., who was a heavyweight fighter, but you don't really need to do that anymore. David Long Jr. is making a name for himself on the football field. Mike Keith had a chance to sit down with David Long Jr. in this week's Nissan Insider. This roster that has more fun playing football than you. That's a hard question. I'm not sure. I love playing football, man, especially out there.  All that plays a part. I love it. You like practice it looks like. Yeah. I just know when we, you know, we get better. That's where I can, you know, we form into a team, you know. So that's how we get to chemistry.  That's probably the big part for me. How much fun is it being a linebacker for Mike Brape? It's a lot of fun. You know, of course, because he's played, so he has a lot of insight and stuff like that.  You know, he can help me on and help us on. Whenever, you know, he comes to coaches and you know, it's big. So, you know, I take it into account.  He's extra tough on the linebackers though, isn't he? Yeah, yeah, as he should, you know, linebackers like, you know, most of the quarterback of the defense, most of the time, or as it should be.  So we interviewed the rookies a few weeks back. And one of the questions we asked them is, did they know Mike Brape as a football player? And if you can believe this, the majority of the rookie class had no idea he even played football. For real? Does that surprise you? No, not really. Not really. You fight Monty and Caleb and those guys.  I think they do. Yeah. But it was really funny because like, no, never, never heard of him. Pretty good player, you know. Yeah, they're pretty good players. Man, yeah, Super Bowl. Yeah. All right. So let me ask you about your first interception at Los Angeles. How shocked were you when the ball came right to you? Oh, I was super shocked. That's why when you see when I got it, I didn't know what to do. Like, I ran straight. I should have scored. I ran straight. I tried to get into the end zone as fast as I could, but I didn't know it was too big or why I'm in right in front of them. If I could go back, I wish I could have, you know, been more agile with it though. A lot of times when those moments happen on an NFL team, then you have to go back into the room with the guys and you get the business pretty good. Right. Did they hassle you pretty good? Oh, man, I heard it for like five days straight. Like, you really ran it to the line. You really tried to run him over and I really go back and look at it. Like, I could have went so many different ways to score. I ran straight down the middle. Next time, I know. Next time, I know what to do. Oh, you'll score next time. All right. So here's the thing about David Long. You've improved every year. I mean, consistently from day one, you have gotten better. Yes, sir. What's allowed you to do that? I would say coaching, taking all the coaching. I'm a fast learner and my want to, my want to be better, you know, plays a bigger role.  You know, because I know what type of player I can be and I know what type of player I will be, you know, as long as I'm in this league. So I just think a lot plays into that part of me just wanting to be better and me wanting to show, you know, everybody what type of player I am. What's on the perfect team for you based on the fact that football is so important to you and you love it so much? Yeah, I think the program, the, you know, the city, it all fits me well. I'm blessed to be in a situation of three years straight. I'm 11 wins, you know, playoffs, you know, a lot of people don't get to do that, you know, so I feel like I know I learned it in the right position. You know, I'm just taking advantage of it. What's the next thing for you to do to take the next step? Just continue to come into my own.   For a linebacker, it starts with that GPS to the football. You have to have that. That's an eight. But then what comes next to separate you and make you a great pro linebacker? The mental part. I think just the learning, you know, learning offenses, film room, and I have the motor, the physical part, you know, just for me continuing to become a more better mental player and just knowing the offenses, you know, the routes, you know, a lot of stuff that can help me play faster. I think that's what, you know, will continue to help me grow my game. And keep having fun. Keep having fun. That's another one. Still a lot of Titans All Access on the way, including a little recap. For those of you who don't remember what happened when the Titans took on the Jacksonville Jaguars, the first time around, we'll get you all caught up. Stick around. We welcome you back to Titans All Access from the Bet MGM Studio. Seems like it's been a while since the Titans took on the Jaguars. Well, Mike, it has been. It has been. A lot of things have happened between then and now, but for those people who don't remember, we've got them covered. Two months ago, October 10th Titans in the Jags. Amy Wells with a review. Coming off a poor performance against the New York Jets. The Titans needed an early spark in Jacksonville. They got it on the third play of the game. Third down and 10th. In the shotgun, Lawrence takes the snap, feels heat, steps up, throws, got it complete at the 31. Losing the football is the Titan. The Titans have picked it up with fire to the 20, to the 10, to the 5, to the end zone. Give me a signal, Mr. Official. Touchdown Titan. The Titans would never trail, although it would be close throughout the first half. Lawrence under center gives Robinson on the right. Titan stack it up. The second effort gets James Robinson into the end zone. Touchdown Jacksonville Jaguars. The teams traded touchdowns and the Titans lead was 14 to 13 when Tennessee went on a 10 point spurt to end the first half. Ryan Tannehill hit Michael Pruitt with a 14 yard touchdown. Tannehill rolling right, firing man is wide open at the 5 and walking into the end zone, unencumbered Pruitt. Touchdown Titans, they lost it. And Randy Bullock added a 34 yard field goal to give the Titans an 11 point half time lead. Snap, set, kick, get it. Tannehill and company carried that momentum into the second half as Tennessee finished a 75 yard drive with a Derrick Henry touchdown run. It looked like the Jags were about to be blown out. Tannehill gets the Titans on the ball, gets Henry at right guard to the 5, to the end zone. Touchdown Titans. Derrick Henry. But that didn't happen. Barely over a minute into the fourth quarter, Jacksonville scored to make it a 31-19 game. And then just over three minutes later, it appeared the Jaguars had scored again on another Trevor Lawrence run. Empty backfield. Lawrence in the shotgun. Lawrence quarterback draw, touchdown Jacksonville. But Lawrence is called down at the one yard line upon review. Not in. And Jacksonville chose to go on fourth and goal. From there, any momentum that Jacksonville had was gone. Henry on the left side to the 5, Henry to the goal line. Touchdown Titans. Henry pounded the Jags into submission in the final moment scoring his third touchdown right after the two-minute warning. Henry rushed for 130 yards on 29 carries. Along with his fumble return for a touchdown, Byard posted 11 tackles and an interception. The final score from Jacksonville on October 10th, Titans 37, Jaguars 19. It was an odd game. It was an odd game. It was a tougher game than the score indicated at the end, but the Titans are going to need to play better in order to win this week, I think. And that's absolutely possible. And you know what else is possible, Mike Keith? Say congratulations to our final group of Tennessee Titans, Mr. Football Award winners. Say congratulations, Mike. Congratulations, Mike. It's on Bishop-Carris High School. My name is Alexander Brun. I go to Lisbon Academy and I'm committed to Boston College. Go Eagles. Todd Simpson, Westview High School, and I'm committed to the University of Alabama. Roll Todd. My name is Caden Buckles. I go to Alcoa High School and I'm currently not committed. Welcome back to Titans All Access. We have reached the pinnacle of this show. The greatest part, Mike Keith's Keys, brought to you by Visit MyrtleBeach.com. Mike Keith, your keys. As we all think about Myrtle Beach, we would like to hear your keys. Let's get Harold Landry rolling on the defense. That's a guy who certainly needed the buy. He was dinged up. Harold has 10 sacks.  Harold Landry needs to torment the Jacksonville offense with not only his pass rush, but what he does against the run. All right, key number two. Ryan Tannehill getting hot. Let's get the quarterback rolling. He's had a rest. He's got more help back on offense. He's had a chance to look at things. I think Ryan Tannehill is a key to this ballgame, as the quarterback always is, but he needs a sharp game to get it rolling down the stretch for him. Harold Landry, Ryan Tannehill, two keys. All right, one more key. Play smarter. You know, just play smarter everywhere, whether it be offense, defense, special teams, fewer mental mistakes, fewer penalties, handling emotional situations well. That's Titan football. That's something that the Titans have not done well in recent weeks. Unfortunately, they've got to get back to playing smart Titans football in all three phases. 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Okay, hi everyone just wanted to jump on because there's been some breaking news as you can see to the side of me here Shinzo Abbi the Prime Minister of Japan has just resigned for health reasons This isn't the first time actually. He did resign back in 2007 for actually the same reason He suffered for many years for or from Ulcerative colitis which is an inflammatory bowel disease But his condition is said to have worsened recently I think he's been back and forth in hospital over the course of the last week He does though resign now as Japan's longer-serving Prime Minister. His current period in office began in 2012 Again, he was previously but there but he had to step down back in 2007 was when he Previously had a flare-up of this case at this point in time. I can't really see him coming back again But we wish him wish him and his family well, of course, and I hope he makes a speedy recovery But the big question here for traders is really what does this mean? We've seen the Japanese yen appreciate quite considerably so far this morning So I wanted to just quickly cover off a few basics about Abonomics which is the main thing and reason why the market is reacting and the yen might perhaps if you're not used to markets Or Japanese policy be slightly counter-intuitive because the currency is actually strengthening from his resignation And I'll explain why first of all Abbe a bit of background about him as a character It's got a bit of a reputation as a staunch conservative and a nationalist and for stimulating growth with aggressive Economic policy and that economic policy is called Abonomics Abbe and his cabinet as a timeline here They will continue to run the government until a new premier is elected But could not adapt or adopt any new policies the winner of the party election would then hold a post until the end of Abbe's LDP term, which is in September of 2021 He was asked who's going to replace him this morning in a press conference and he said it's not his choice going forward All right. Well, what is Abonomics is the main thing? Abonomics is a set of policies that came up when he introduced him in Coming into power in 2012 and basically it follows what we call three arrows the old age kind of Japanese thinking that three is stronger than one in terms of unified policy approach is kind of the the idea here and the main one of this and the one of which markets are particularly sensitive to is the first arrow and the First arrow is Monetary policy Monetary policy Japan's hyper easy monetary policy in the form of negative short-term interest rates was put in place to make it Cheaper for consumers and companies to borrow money and spend so one of the main things here was when this Abonomics was first adopted in 2012. We did actually see some early optimism in markets contributing to a doubling of Japanese stocks In the equity market and the slump in the currency boosted by tourism The actual goal here ultimately was to spur inflation, which has always remained particularly elusive in Japan despite the amount of monetary easing which they've conducted Proponents of Abonomics see then that Japan's mammoth purchases of government debt is really the only way to shake off the threat of deflation and avoid more stagnation in their economy now a Couple of things have happened since then obviously the Bank of Japan as we know move rates into negative territory as of early 2016 in order to further encourage spending and that's now been pushed back The projected time frame for reaching its 2% percent inflation goal no fewer than I think six times or so, you know, we talk about the Fed and their policy tweet we had Yesterday, of course now we're averaging that out and this is a real reason why in Japan for example They continue to miss that target Other Abonomic policies include cutting corporation taxes urging Japan's state pension fund to buy riskier assets as well So the other two arrows here other than monetary policy is fiscal stimulus pumping money into the economy Which means the government spending more money on things like infrastructure financial incentives to companies like tax breaks As I just mentioned and then structural reforms structural reforms would be corporate form adding more women into the workplace labor Liberalization allowing migrants into the workforce all these other things to help accelerate economic growth Now if we actually look at the market, then how is it reacted so far if I just quickly switch over my screens This has been the initial reaction I'm looking here at Dolly Yen in the futures market and you can see as soon as those news reports started to come out the timing of this has been basically An initial news report overnight Speculating and then he later came out and house confirmed in the press conference officially that he is resigning due to ill health So the yen has been strengthening. We got close up to around the 107 handle Initially, you can see then in terms of this recent price movement that we have had in Dolly Yen largely driven by obviously weakness If you like initially in the dollar, but then the dollar came back over overnight some of this idea about with the Yields curve steepening as I discussed in the briefing this morning We moved up. However, now the yen is kind of taken over on the back of this news And and all of this is basically on the back of the fact that it's going to be an unwinding perhaps of abonomics and this whole push and quest for hyper easy monetary policy going forward and so just Resulting as well on some repatriation flows back into the yen And so yeah, we're right back down. We've lost already about 100 pips plus at the moment We're down the s1 on the daily pivots in a longer time frame looking on the weekly Where we Briefly flirted with back on around this time last month on the 27th It's quite an interesting technical point if the yen does continue to strengthen against the dollar And that could well possibly be the case because generally the dollar is is somewhat in a weakened State fundamentally now given the low rate mentality that's being adopted by average inflation targeting So if the yen does start to strengthen That would be a key level to look out for run 0 4 14 here looking on the weekly candlesticks here at dolly end You can see the market has respected this at multiple times over the course of several years We then had the actual Pandemic low point when we were in right in the midst of that volatility period That was when equities were really selling off hard globally So people flocking to the traditional safe havens like the yen And that was when we hit that original low 101 14 I have actually seen banks like jp morgan being out in recent times speculating that if Abbey were to resign and then the Let's say the disintegration of avanomics then potentially we could see a 100 dollar yen Price point no specific time frame there, but And that's a long way off, but not massively unrealistic. We were trading back around those levels only in around 2016 type era So yeah, a couple of long-term considerations there In terms of his replacement I'm going to put a link into this video if you want to have a read a bit more specifically about who those replacements are What is their background? What is their political leaning and therefore what is the potential for the longevity or not of avanomics? That's going to be really key is who is his replacement and if I jump to This article here at some Reuters Tara asso the the finance minister Also doubles up as the deputy prime minister There's a few others as well the hawkish former defense minister The foreign minister. I'll let you consume this in your own time We're probably not going to have anything immediate. There's going to be lots of jostling of course for political advantage here I'm sure even within His own party, but this would definitely be worth reading in advance of that to really understand a bit more how the yen might react Yeah, then there's been a couple of good tweets as well That I've been resharing my twitter handle is here, so feel free to check that out But look short sharp.


This one is taking the 167 divided by that same total divided by the 1034, that gives us about the 16.15%. So if we do that all the way down and sum it up, then it should add up to 100% because we're taking the percent of the total. Now we can compare, say, the likelihood based on the bell curve of 13.2% to be 72 inches versus the actual data, which was 14.7. We can look at the difference then between here and here and see how close we were at each of those inch points, those inches. And that could give us more indication as to whether the bell curve would be appropriate to use or not. Then we have the Z score. Now the Z score is now we want to represent instead of with an X with a Z. So we can say how close to that middle point are we? So when we look at this in terms of a graph, the middle point on our bell curve is going to be the mean. The Z score is this down here and if it was at zero, that would be the mean. So we're counting the higher the Z score, both in negative or positive, the farther away it is from the mean zero is at that middle point. So how do you calculate it? 64 in this case is the X, the number of inches minus the average number of inches, which is 73.7, divided by the spread standard deviation 2.3, and that gives us our 4.21 in this case. So if we were to take an individual, we can say this is their actual height in inches, the X, or we can say this is how far away they are from the middle point of the population, the mean, which is the Z score in terms of standard deviations. So you can see it gets closer and closer to the mean, and then right here we're at that middle point. So remember when we're talking about bell curves, usually classically the middle point is kind of good because that's normal. Usually you kind of want to be normal most of the time. Although when you're talking about heights, obviously being taller for certain things is better. So if you're above the norm, that might be an advantage up to a certain degree. And when you're talking about pitching, then you would think there would be some kind of optimal body type or optimal height where possibly most pitchers would fall into in order to have the body mechanics to be maximized, you would think. That would be one assumption, although different pitchers might do different things. But then you can see this is going to be above the mean on this side. And then if I go into, so that's the Z score. So if I was to graph this then, we can graph the actual, this is the actual data on top of the percent. So we graphed the actual kind of bell curve on top of the data so that we can see they're pretty closely lined up. Now this is going to be a bell curve that's in the format of an area using not the actual data, but the bell curve. And if we just look at it without the orange bit here, you can see that we have the bell curve that's centered around this center point. And then it's in that bell shaped curve. And we can then look at it in terms of the X's, the inches here, and we can also look at it in terms of the Z score. We added the two X axes down below, which is really neat and we do that in Excel so you can kind of check that out. Now when we ask different questions, the common questions we might ask is what's going to be the area above a certain point? What's going to be the area below a certain point? And we might ask what's going to be the area in between a certain point? Now last time we looked at the idea that you can kind of use one graph to ask both the questions of what's the area above and the area below. Because if this is the area above the inverse, because the whole thing is 100%, the inverse 1 or 100 minus that point will be the area below. So the blue represents this point and below, the orange this point and above. So that's a great tool that you can kind of use to be somewhat flexible when you're trying to visualize this stuff, especially for people such as me that were never good at really plotting these things out on a piece of grid paper or something like that and making these nice evenly spaced out Xs and so on down below. So if we do that in Excel, we might ask these questions, right? How would we graph this? Well, we could do these three here. These are the three graphs that we made according to these questions. So we might say, is P of X greater than or equal to 79? Note that you can make a dynamic header in Excel this way by making this into a formula. The quotes, this looks complicated, but it's actually, once you do it a few times, not too bad. Quotes are what you have to do when you want plain text in a formula. And I think of it as like a knot because it's tying together this information, which is text to the next bit that I want, which is actually coming from a cell, which is that 79, making this dynamic. Because if I change that 79, this will change to 80 and so on. And then I tie that together to that end bit, which is just text with a quote with the quotes again, making this dynamic. So there we have that. And if I was to calculate it, then it would be one minus norm dot dist. So remember that if I'm looking for something above, that would be that would be the graph over here. If I'm looking at the orange side. So if I want it to be above all I have is the cumulative function. So I have to I have to take something that adds up to here. So if I want the side on the right side, I can't take a function that adds to the bottom down like this. I have to basically say I'm going to take the entire thing 100% minus the blue area. So that's what we're doing. That's what this is doing 100% or one minus the blue area. If I was to graph that over here, I can say that's going to be this bit, which is has a formula of if logical function. If the logical function.


I'm here to talk about some of the startups that are building on within the PL network. We've worked really hard within the PL network for the network to be the best home for builders, to really realize their hopes and dreams and bring their web three visions into reality. And so we strive to be the absolute best partner to founders and teams. In the last few years, hundreds of startups have taken investment and joined the PL network to turbocharge their web three projects. And this really spans the gamut of investing and incubating a small team or an MVP through an accelerator or a dev grant to supporting startups that have already achieved product market fit and are in the scaling and growth stages of their life cycle. There are now over 500 total startups in the protocol labs network at various stages of funding. Now it's really hard for me to showcase all of these startups in really one presentation, but I'm going to try and touch on a few example categories to give you a sense of the breadth of startups that are within the network today. So first, there's a whole class of personal storage applications. Think like privacy preserving, fully encrypted Dropbox where users actually own their own data. And this is all built on IPFS and Filecoin. These are apps our mom can use to take advantage of the properties of web three. Skiff, Chainsay, Fleek are just three examples and they've all raised their series A recently and starting to accelerate their growth into web two style users. Matrix is also a personal messaging and enterprise collaboration platform that continues to gain steam. Second, 2022 really paved the way for new ground for web three metaverse and gaming companies. I'm super proud of teams like Mona and Zone for building extremely high quality metaverse experiences on web three tech and startups like OP Games and Double Jump for helping gaming cross the chasm into web three. Video and audio use cases are also becoming dramatically easier with startups focused on those problems specifically. For example, Audius is a web three native streaming and music discovery platform and Huddle is a video conferencing software. Think like Zoom but built on IPFS and Filecoin. In fact, a few weeks ago, Misari switched entirely from Zoom to using Huddle One for all of their internal and external meetings. Decentralized identity and credentialing is also a super important web three primitive and several teams have been trying a whole bunch of different and complementary approaches including ceramic, lit protocol, spruce, unstoppable domains. These are super well capitalized efforts that have raised between 13 and 65 million in the last year and so we're super excited for them to bring decentralized identity into reality. There's a long list of developer tools and crypto networks that are also building in the PL network. I'll highlight just a few including privy which provides APIs to manage user data off chain. They raised 8 million just recently from Sequoia and Celestia, a modular consensus and data network that recently secured 55 million from Bain Capital and Polychain Ventures. And there's a category of startups in the PLN that provide tools to help onboard businesses to web three including CoinShift that provides treasury management solutions that actually came through one of our accelerator programs about a year and a half ago and Magna that helps alleviate the burden of token management. Finally we have startups actually launching crypto focused hardware into space. Think WeatherXM, Cryptosat, Spexy and many others and a whole category of decentralized science startups including DeciLabs and Radex which is an operating system for your lab. So without further ado I'm gonna call on five of those teams to go into a little bit more depth and present their visions on how to make their projects a reality. Thank you very much. Hello, my name is Manos. I'm the CEO of WeatherXM. In WeatherXM we're building the fastest growing global weather station network. We launched earlier this year and we already have 9,000 members in our Discord server and sold more than 5,000 weather stations worldwide. Now you might think that weather is a solved problem but in reality most of the world lacks accurate weather knowledge on past, current and future conditions. Governments spend billions every year trying to tackle this problem, monitoring and forecasting weather but weather remains one of the largest challenges of human kinds. So new approaches are needed and inspired by Filecoin and Helium we adopted their economic ideas. We're utilizing their infrastructure so we're storing weather on Filecoin and using compute from Filecoin and utilizing the network communication from Helium. And we have a design and economic system where weather station owners are rewarded with our WXM token and weather customers have to purchase and spend our token in order to use the network data and network services. To support this model we had to build our own hardware, our own weather stations. Weather stations are designed for large-scale deployments. They are 10 times more affordable. They are energy and communication autonomous and they provide cryptographic proof on weather conditions. So our community already benefits from accurate weather forecasts using our mobile app in Android and iPhones. And we have shipped 2,000 stations worldwide which are connected to our network and send real-time weather data. We're shipping another 3,000 next month and we are ramping up production to meet the huge demand with a schedule to produce 11,000 by the end of the year. To give you a comparison, NOAA, the US Met Office, is operating 14,000 weather stations. So our goals are to build, our vision is to build an open Web3 weather infrastructure and our short-term goals are to ensure the maximum data quality of our network, to improve our forecast accuracy and to provide weather-autocall services to industries that can benefit from moving on-chain like the Weather Insurance one. We're four people from the team here in Lisbon for the next two weeks. Come and find us. We're happy to talk about weather and Web3. Thank you. Hey, everyone.  TEFRA Labs was started because we believe that the world needs better coordination structures that do a much better job aligning incentives to important problems that need to be addressed. They're already countless individuals and organizations working tirelessly towards solving important challenges and addressing important opportunities for humanity such as ethical AI, education, poverty, and many more, some of which Juan mentioned earlier today as well. But we believe that these are the sorts of challenges and opportunities that are gonna need more complex coordination of many more people than ever before. And at TEFRA Labs, we want to build some of the critical coordination and support structures that will bring billions of people together and enable them to work with unparalleled autonomy, ownership, and impact. Our first project is Radius, a decentralized talent marketplace powered by an open user-owned reputation protocol. On the Radius network, people own their own work history and reputation and are able to curate these experiences and take them with them as they move forward into future opportunities as well. They're also naturally incentivized to make sure that their working engagements are successful. We launched an early version and early MVP of the Radius front end earlier this year and we're proud to share that to date, we've been able to support more than 50 contributor teams contributing to dozens of grant-funded opportunities throughout the IPFS and Filecoin ecosystem. Some examples of Radius grantee work includes new software to support petabyte-scale Filecoin clients. Shout out to the Singularity team. Also implementing various IPFS requests for measurement to support the Pro-Lab team as we try to bring more observability to the IPFS network. And also engineering roadmaps and specs to be able to sync and store blockchain state and transaction history across many different L1 and L2 chains to and from IPFS and Filecoin and many more projects as well. As we look ahead, we're piloting a number of new initiatives to bring new contributors into the PL network and eventually other ecosystems over time. We recently announced the Radius Fellowship, FBM edition, which is a six-week engineering fellowship to train builders on how to build robust smart contracts with FBM. And next year, we're gonna be launching the Radius reputation protocol which will allow builders to curate Web3-native credentials, develop professional profiles and portfolios, and eventually get access to a huge host of new funding opportunities. As we go, we're looking to onboard new ecosystems and also to support developers in building applications on top of the Radius protocol, especially those that need to align talent, capital, and ideas. We're currently a small but mighty team and we're fortunate to have the support of many incredible advisors, mentors, and collaborators on this journey. And just on a more personal note, I'm personally so humbled to see this network as it's grown over time, to see just all the impact that we're super excited to generate, and just really grateful that TechRelabs gets to help this network grow as we move forward. Thank you. My name is David and I'm the CEO of DAGhouse, a startup incubating protocol labs and soon spinning onto its own independent entity. DAGhouse builds the Web3 storage platform, NFT storage on top of it, and Elastic IPFS, a cloud-native IPFS implementation. The Web3 storage platform has grown massively in the last year, now with over 170 million uploads available over IPFS and stored in Filecoin deals. Most of this growth has come from the NFT space, though more recently continues to accelerate outside of it. W3Link, our HTTP gateway, has also grown a ton since launching in March, now with over one billion weekly requests. This is from users like MagicEden, magnifying end-user usage. The Web3 storage platform is solving a problem we're all familiar with. Traditional cloud providers are incentivized and designed to lock you in, undermining the potential of applications to truly solve user needs. Our users love the Web3 storage platform because it breaks down data and identity silos found in infrastructure today. By unlocking the data layer, our users can implement any application architecture they can dream of. Our platform consists of complimentary products across storage, CDN, and naming that take decentralized protocols and make them super easy to use. Users pay five to 10 cents per Ghibli bag stored per month, depending on their use case. Uploads are encoded on the client's side into DAGs to keep things trustless and car files of these graphs are uploaded to our service. Our service stores multiple copies of these car files from our hosted Elastic IPFS solution to make things available over public BitSwap, in W3Link for fast reads from our gateway, and in Filecoin deals for verifiability and as we learned today in the future much, much more. This year we've come a long way, simplifying our infrastructure, going from running two free onboarding ramps for data onto Filecoin on completely separate infrastructure to running a single full-fledged developer platform that we can build a business around. It might sound basic, but growth in the past year has largely come from providing the read and write reliability and performance that users have come to expect. For instance, on the left here, you can see upload latency issues we were having at scale. And on the right, how deploying Elastic IPFS in production really turned performance around, accelerating growth. W3Link was also a huge growth driver, launching and iterating on it with its design providing fast reads while maintaining decentralization. Okay, sorry. And then what are we up to lately? Well, this week we're super excited to share with everyone the beta of our new upload API that's UCanbase. You heard about UCan from Fission earlier. This API, W3UP, will easily let developers build serverless and or user-centric applications and plug in copy and paste front-end modules for immediate integration with Web3 Storage. We also are busy at work optimizing our cost space and passing on cost savings to users. Sorry, it's a little bit out of sync. All right, I think this makes more sense. Yeah, we're busy optimizing our cost space with IPFS eliminating lock-in. We can give users the choice of where to store their data physically, which commoditizes cloud prices with cheap Filecoin storage at the forefront of disruption. We've only gotten this far because of the awesome DacHouse team as well as the larger Protocol Labs network. Huge shout out to all those who have helped along the way. My name is Ayush. I'm the co-founder and CEO of HODL01. At HODL01, we're building a decentralized real-time communication engine. I wanted to meet you all, IRL, talk about, give our talk and tell you about what we have been doing at HODL01 for the last two and a half years, but unfortunately, wasn't able to make it. But here I am, talking from India, talking on our own platform at HODL01 and trying to tell you that what we have done in the last two and a half years. So I'll just do a quick screen share. So the problems which we had been trying to solve with Web3 major, essentially the first being privacy and security. That means the current calls are not... It's transport encrypted. They're not content encrypted. That means your calls could be seen by the servers. At the end of the day, it could be decrypted there. The second is performance issues. That means the current clients over architecture for audio and video doesn't lead to a really good quality of calls, especially if you don't have a good bandwidth connection. The third is the top-down economy. That means all the value which is getting accrued are either getting accrued to the platform or to the cloud provider itself. That's where HODL01 comes in. We have a three-pronged approach. The first is an app. The second is an SDK and the third is a protocol. The app is a sufficiently decentralized platform. That means you can do all the things you can do on Google Meet and Zoom, but in a cryptonative manner at HODL01 platform. The second is the SDK. That means a plug-and-play SDK where all the devs can use it to power their calls with a few lines of code. The SDKs are also live. The third is the protocol where that's the end game of HODL01, where all the people who are running the, who are having an e-call, one of them can become a node and they can power the call of all of us, essentially moving from client server architecture to a node node architecture, more towards the edges. This is the platform where you can do all the things as I mentioned, you can record over IPFS and Filecoin, you can live stream via live peer where the audio video is done completely by the HODL01 infrastructure. The traction on the app has been great. We have went from 15,000 minutes of meeting from Q4 2021 to 450,000 in the Q3 of 2022 itself. We have done more than 25,000 meetings so far with 13,000 users, 2,700 wallet users and 1,300 DID users as well. This is our team, we're a team of 23 people now based all across in India, Germany, Nigeria, as well as Hong Kong and functional experience in a lot of varieties from development to research, to sales and marketing as well. These are our services, our app, our APIs and SDKs which we provide. The SDKs are something which is launched now and we'll be doing a couple of hackathons going forward into the future where you can bring your own wallets, you can inject your own NFT element into the SDK itself. You can use recordings over Filecoin, you can live stream via live peer and it's highly composable, much faster integration and three X cheaper than any of the SDKs which are out there. The emerging use cases of 1001, where 1001 SDKs will be used are immense and we are looking forward to get a lot of adoption into that. Yeah, thank you so much for listening to me and I met Juan, I met Colin, I met Molly, James, Ruben and a lot of others as a protocol labs team at Filecoin Singapore. Can't wait to meet you again and hope you have a great experience there. Thank you so much, bye-bye.


What's going on guys welcome to another video. I hope you guys have been doing good. I hope you guys have been doing great Hope you guys have been striving to overachieve every single day to be the best that you can be at every aspect in life and Yeah, so I am actually using a different camera So if this isn't like perfectly in focus or if the angle is not perfect, I apologize So this is actually what I usually use This is my like standard little like log camera that I usually use for everything So this is a Sony 5100 The one that you guys are on right now is a Sony 6000 So the difference is this one is a little bit different as and you can put like a shotgun mic on it The like you can put more attachments on it. It's a little more What's the word I'm looking for you can pretty much use it in all different It's more Beneficial in different ways so that's that's all I'm gonna say so you can do a little bit more to this camera right here It's actually got the same lens as the other one But the reason I'm using this camera is because one I never use it in two You guys are always like no a cleaner lens no a cleaner lens no a cleaner And I'm like trying to tell you guys that's not my lens like it's literally inside the camera Which I'll show you guys in like two seconds like so that's why I'm gonna end up using this camera I plan on getting another camera very soon But honestly for right now I can use this one and the reason I'm like I don't know if this is perfect if the lighting is good or If everything's like viewing right is because on this camera the one part about it that I hate is that you can't flip up the Screen actually watch and see if you're in focus or actually see what the camera is viewing But let me show you this camera real quick what I'm talking about. All right, so you got this camera right here Let me just take off the lens. All right Right here, I know you guys can see it I can see it right through the camera see that little print Little print right there. I Guess I've had this camera for years guys. I've had this camera for about three three and a half years It's time for it to retire to be honest with you and Yes, got that little finger print there not supposed to put your fingers anywhere near this like this is like bad don't do that and I was dumb enough to do it. I guess years back. I don't remember doing it But I guess I accidentally I guess I was taking off the lens one day and I was like I just put my finger right there and now this camera is You know it's the quality is not the best just because there's smudges on it So if I want to get this fixed then I'm gonna actually have to take it to a shop and get everything good on it But I mean the lens is clean the lens has always been fine. It's just that piece inside the camera So that's why I'm gonna be using this bad boy right here for this video and further videos on this channel Last little thing I want to say about that though if you guys like the quality of this camera Let me know below like if this quality is actually pretty top-notch You guys like it like it's a little bit more sharper than the other camera Don't let me know because I'm gonna start using this one Like I said, I might end up buying a new camera. These are both Sony's on my experiment with like Canon or just try something different, you know And I just really don't feel like spending another grand on camera equipment because I've spent so much money on just You know random camera things and it just ends up costing so much money And you know all the stuff that I buy it's it's very useful, you know, I use it on the daily But to drop like tons of money on camera gear, especially when I already have like I'm not gonna lie like in the past like five six years of filming like I probably have about 15 grand worth of like camera gear And it's just it's just a lot of money. So I'm trying to use, you know What I can with what I got right now because I do have a lot of great equipment But we might buy a new camera for the near future So guys the main purpose of this video is because of a Walmart. All right So I want to start a new series before I even talk about this I'd just like to say that I came to Walmart on the worst day possible As you guys know, I'm a busy person. All right, I'm a very busy person the time I usually get Come video stuff like this and do different types of videos is on the weekend So today's a Saturday and I'm literally parked and about the there's two spots next to me I'm parked in the back of Walmart.  There's campers next to me making noise for the generators. There's an ambulance going by There's just a lot going on so bear with me here. So we're gonna be going into Walmart today I want to start a new series Because I think this can relate to you guys can relate to everyone really this is gonna be just an amazing Series that I want to start so it's gonna be like fishing on a budget, you know people do it And you know the workout industry they do it in all different industries Where everyone cares about the budget everyone cares about the price and as you guys know fishing is very very very Expensive at times and all on all fishing is one of the most expensive Sports I'd say in my opinion Fishing is a super expensive. So what I want to do in this series is I want to go around to all the local Spots that have fishing supplies. So we're gonna do a Bass Pro Shops one We're gonna do a Dick's Sporting Goods. We're gonna do an Academy. We're gonna do a Cabela's We're gonna do every single place that we can go in general and Walmart's going to be the first place that we're gonna be Filming this video for so very excited about this.   Then we're gonna talk about the prices All right, so we're gonna start off right here with the worms So you're looking at all these prices like three dollars two dollars two dollars two dollars I was gonna get to a pond even a lake. I'm you know standard trick where I'm really great and these are Only three dollars and 48 cents and you gotta look these are 20 pack. All right, so you're gonna look at it like Those are 20 pack as well, and these are only $2 and 94 cents I'm mostly good trick one so you get 20 of these $3 and 48 cents. These are by zoom. If you have one warrant I could usually get like a watermelon color just because you can use this a little bit everywhere. You can use these Weightless, but I usually don't use like a pink bubblegum worm too often White and you want to use that you want to use is a more diverse type of color Also looking at sinkers if you're gonna throw like a wacky rigger weightless sink of and you got all these brands right here Yom as you can tell $2 and 96 cents striking $2 and 96 cents These I believe are a seven pack. These are at eight packs. You get one more about the same price give or take Gary on the motor six dollars and 34 cents a 10 count You know, that's that's way too much.   So these louvers are only a dollar 96 So I'm actually gonna get some of these just because I want to show you guys that you know Even though the best quality as you know, if you're gonna go striking or any other brand But this still works and this is what you can use this red rattle trap I can easily go through one of these ponds. It's only gonna be a dollar 96. So I'm actually gonna get this one I'm also gonna get this This little cranky right here It's about four dollars right here for two heartbeats Usually everyone might have been to has this section as well where it has buzz baits and spinner baits and they're only a dollar These aren't gonna be the best spinner baits so you can get you know, they're not gonna be the best I'm gonna have the best hook not gonna have the best blade But honestly, it's gonna work for the price to pay a dollar for this honestly, I would go for it so we're gonna get one of these so I'm actually gonna get a white spinner baits and a White buzz bait and that's actually comparing to you know, five dollars for the striking buzz bait Usually those are the buzz baits I throw it where the boo-yahs the boo-yahs are very good those right there That's what I usually throw But if you really on the price like I said, just go for those down there here at Walmart But comparing to the other prices usually around five dollars for a spinner bait or a buzz bait even six dollars Do you want to get that you know, special edition KVD one? So just dollar right down there with these worms if you're wanting to put this like on a shaky head or some type of jig head for both of these They usually have some just standard old dickheads right here There's usually for like coffee, but you can get these right here, which are pretty much some wobble heads And that's a dollar 96 for a three-pack.  These are actually gonna be the wobble heads as well I'm just gonna work perfectly for those worms right there and also that Senko All right, so we got all the baits that you know I would want especially like the soft plastics and now we're gonna look at the hooks and the weights over here We did get some shaky heads for some of the worms So if you're wanting to rig this like wacky rig style or if you want to throw a drop shot You're gonna need different weights and hooks. So we're gonna go ahead and hook it up right here Here's some drop shot weights I'm gonna grab these right here. These bad boys Only 94 cents 94 cents for five of these 94 cents five of the bad boys. That's really all you need now we're gonna go over here to the hooks and pick out some for a wacky rig and also pick some out for a drop shot, which we can eat standard We could probably use the same hook if we really want to save some money there Let's see what we got right here only $1.78. These are actually gonna work for our drop shot and our wacky rig Here's everything right here ignore Paper towels ignore the butt ribbon Something I gotta do ignore all these rice cakes That's stuff right there and I actually added two things on there on accidents That I needed for something else. So the price is a little bit higher I ended up spending around $15. So we're gonna take all this stuff home and go talk about it Wow, let's see Everything we got For around $16 There is no excuse for no one to say that they can't afford to go fishing Because of this video right here. Listen, it ain't all fancy You don't have to have the best of the best lures to go out there and go fishing Especially if you're just going to fishing that pond like the pond right behind me You don't need all the fancy stuff and that's that's not what it's about We're all on the budget here. And if you're seriously on like the dollar budget, this is the best way to go I spent $16 all this stuff Our seat says 24 because I did buy some other things Like two or three other things that are for a different video, which you guys find out coming up like this and uh This don't worry. Don't worry about this stuff the rest in there that was $16 in something sense. All right Literally, there's no excuse for you guys not to go fishing.  That was like three dollars You got three wobble heads. They're actually decently high quality not high quality But decent wobble heads when you got these for like two dollars and something sent then you got these worms You got a 20 pack 20 pack of these finesse worms for like I believe it was like Three dollars and 48 cents But that's nothing for 20 of you got these young dingers for like a dollar something you got eight of them The sankos are going to be a little bit more expensive, but You know, that's nothing and then lastly you got this buzzbait And you got the spinnerbait not the best quality. Don't get me wrong. This is a horrible quality But if you really need these fishing lures to go fish, it's only a dollar man. Look at this. It's a dollar I'm sure it ain't that bad.   This isn't there's no excuse to not go fishing. There's no excuse to spend, you know All this money if you're not wanting to spend all that money You know, you don't have to have the fanciest fishing gear Like I know I promote, you know, the companies that I'm with, you know Go check this out because that's something that I use and I believe in 100% But that doesn't mean you guys have to go buy all the fancy stuff as well, you know Like I'm sponsored by ranger boats I think rangers personally the best boat out there in my opinion If you guys don't have the money to go buy that and you guys go then go buy like a jambu, you know like It's what it is guys You got these young baits right here. Um, these are wack I can what I'm going to do is wacky rig this I can also throw it on that wobble head as well, but mainly I'm just going to walk Wacky rig this bad boy. So these hooks that I got It's going to be perfect for the drop shot. It's going to be perfect for the wacky rig See what I did there. I didn't go buy, you know drop shot hooked and wacky rig hooks I bought a hook that would you know, I knew it could work for both So easily I'm just going to hook this right through the middle. It's going to be a standard wacky rig This is perfect for any ponds perfect for skipping under docks on a lake Um, if you're fishing any shallow water pretty much and the color that I got was june boat because most of like the ponds and Majority of the lakes are dirty water and uh, that june boat is going to work pretty well So that's that and uh for the drop shotting.   Don't get me wrong. But man for a dollar for a dollar like You can't go wrong with it For a dollar got you a little crankbait for a dollar.  Let's just bring up one of these. I'll show you so I got this wobble head right here It's just a little jig head Let's see what it's going to look like These were more on the pricey end, but Honestly, it's really not for everything else that we bought. It's more on the pricey end, but in reality it's not You know most most jig heads and everything's gonna be way way more expensive than you know soft plastic baits in general Boom look at that.  I promise you you get this bait right here You can throw it anywhere this color this color right here.  You know, that's what fishing is about It's about having fun It's about enjoying something that you love it's about enjoying the outdoors. It's about Having fun learning And this is a perfect not even start.   Go try out some of these lures. I have to equip these into some of my videos just to show you guys that like Anyone anyone can do it anyone can do it Let me know below what the next place you want me to go to so this one was at Walmart I plan on going to Dix I plan on going to bass pro cabela's if I ever see one because I never really see him I want to go to an academy Let me know where else where else you think I should go leave a comment below Also drop a big like on this video if you guys enjoyed it if you guys want to see more You know fishing on the budget videos because I think this is very important This is something that no one's doing at least that I've seen I don't really watch any fishing videos anymore, but I haven't really seen anyone do this so breaking it down Sixteen dollars for all these baits. You got one two three four Five six seven different styles of baits that you you got seven different rigs right here So you had seven rods you literally paid sixteen dollars for seven different rigs like Oh my god, that is insane guys, but I'm gonna stop talking. Thank you guys so much for the support You guys mean the world to me. Thank you guys so much for watching and uh be sure to grind every single day be sure to just Be the best that you can be every single day at least one thing in life But if you can be a big really great well-rounded person in all aspects of life You just grind every single minute guys be the best that you could be at everything But thank you guys so much for watching if you want to check out the grind shorter here I'll leave the link below to my website. Um, I'd love you guys to support this I actually share it on my team kick in the rest tv page on instagram Um, give you guys some publicity. Um, maybe get you guys some more followers I mean on that page I have like 40 000. It's not horrible. It's not not like my big page But I'll share you guys on there all the pictures that you take in my clothing And I hopefully build you guys up a little bit and share the love I think you guys so much for the support and I'll catch you guys in the next video


Hello everyone. Today I'm talking about a very common question that comes in my clinic and my, especially in my diabetes clinic, they'll ask, hey doc, what is this? What is that? And I'll try to explain, they're like, what do I do with that? And guess what? Did you guess what I'm talking about? The skin tags. So skin tags are very common. Almost 50% of population in the United States have some sort of skin tags. And it's way more common in patients with diabetes and insulin resistance than I'll explain to you why. So that's it. We are talking about skin tags in a short video today. This is Dr. Ahmed Ergin. I'm an endocrinologist and a diabetes education specialist. Today we are diving into skin tags. Let's get started. So guys, skin tags are very common, right? So it can look like this, it can look like this, or it can look like this, or even this. It can look very different.  It typically happens as we get older. And they are typically, you know, either it can be long or it can be short and sticky. It generally happens in areas where there is friction. It could be your under armpits. It could be around your eyelids. It could be around your neck area, even groin area. And that is common. Now it is typically associated with, guess what? You guess it right. Insulin resistance and diabetes. That's what I'm talking about. Now, are they dangerous? Well, they're really not. They're not cancerous at all. If you want it removed, if it isn't an area like your neck or something that looks ugly, you can get it removed. If you have one or two, that's not a huge clinical significance. But if you have three or more studies indicate that actually, even if you're not diabetic, you will potentially become diabetic, associated with diabetes, insulin resistance, high cholesterol, and so forth. Now, why do these things develop to begin with? Well, skin tags are basically collagen and blood vessels. Nothing else. So they develop because of these are growth. They are not cancer, but they're growth. So what induces their growth? Insulin. Insulin is a growth factor. That's why a lot of people actually tend to have cancers when they have insulin resistance and diabetes way more than the general population who do not have those problems, because insulin induces growth. So when there's a lot of insulin in your body, even if you do not have cancer, those things tend to develop a lot easier. Since they're not cancer, body is not really fighting them. They're like a weed. They just grow everywhere. It's very easy for them to grow, and then body just tolerates that, and you end up getting skin tags all over your body. They can turn into red or brown in time. They're annoying. They don't look good. But the bottom line is they are there if you have insulin resistance. They can get bigger, and they can get more and more in your body if you do not change your insulin resistance or lower your insulin resistance. And you know how to do it.  Healthy carbs are okay, but less overall carbs, and especially junk food, and exercise more, and then you will be able to hopefully reduce that. Now, some people will have acontosis and agri cans. That's like a dark skin, especially at the back of your neck or under armpits. That is also associated with insulin resistance as well. So, if you are concerned, if you have insulin resistance or not, just look at the mirror.  You are more than likely insulin resistant, and it's time to change it. If you're not diabetic, it's a perfect time to act on it. If you're already diabetic, it's still not too late. You can still improve those symptoms by working on your insulin resistance. I hope that video was helpful, and please give a thumbs up, share, and we'll see you in the next video. Alright, thank you for watching, and I want you to be more informed and more educated. So, to do that, go ahead and watch this next video right here.


Let's open up this week. I'm just gonna play these videos and I'll see you on the other side. Cool. Okay, lady What is this? Hey, we're back at the Adafruit factory Making prototypes my stencils didn't come in yet. So I'm hand-pasting these prototypes for my RP2040 keyboard with OLED and rotary encoder and the way I do this is I actually have solder paste in this little dispenser and I've got a nice fine tip on it, and then I very carefully Squeeze paste on to the pads. I try to get it as clean as possible I'm gonna have to clean this up later with my soldering iron But you just want to get it good enough so that the components sit in the right place and then I'm going to use This collection of all my raw components Hand place them on and then the best part is it goes to the oven which saves me the most time So this is gonna be very fast once I pick and place all my hands. All right, Lady What is this? Okay, so I put together the prototypes for my macro pad with all those LEDs and buttons and and the OLED socket and everything and then I got home and it's time to actually put it to the test So this is some Arduino code running on it that you can see it reacts to when key presses are pressed I can press them all. Yeah, there you go There's also the rotary encoder which you can see as I turn it goes the right direction And when I press it and also knows it was pressed and then finally I'm doing a little i-squared c-scan With the stem IQT sensor so you can see here when I have it plugged in it says there's something detected when I remove it It's like there's nothing detected. So this is my little hardware bring up test But so far so good. I have a couple tweaks to do like, you know, it's a little embarrassing But I actually had to add a couple of 10 micro far capacitors. I needed more capacitance, but I think it's almost done All right, Lady. What is this? Okay? So I'm still working on the bring up of my macro pad boards and I just finished doing the Arduino core So this is Arduino code here You can see it's rotating and like keys are being pressed all that and then on the other one I've got two prototypes I've got this with circuit path on my music. There's a blink of friend. So this one I just had to do a little bit of like a patch to the core to fix like a typo bug for the sh1106 OLED driver because like the columns and rows were mixed But I did that and then my driver is like working great now and then this code is, you know Kind of similar when you press the keys they light up and you get the rotary encoder and the rotary Button press working as well. So it's good. It means I've got the hardware working on Arduino and circuit Python Which means it's time to write some macro pad code early data. What is this? Hey? I'm trying out a sample. I got of these lamp keys. These are interesting keys They actually showed up on JP's video. He's been like loving these lamp keys You see it's an opaque blast black plastic key within this clear window that like you have neopics Really need to go through that is kind of cool like modern cyberpunk 80s look to them, which I really dig So after I asked JP with what they were called. I found a supplier They're not super cheap, but they have a great look to them And you can see the clear window here and then the neopixel shining through and then this is the clear cast RP 2040 key that I made with my resin kit over last weekend I'll probably doing more resin stuff this weekend, but these keys look pretty cool I mean like they're just I don't know. There's like super cyberpunk. So I think these are good. We'll put them in the store All right, lady. What is this? Hey, we are looking at some mechanical keys today? And so folks are pretty familiar with these. These are like the cherry and mech style switches This is actually kale switches and there's this one with a keycap. I can't be like man.  It's kind of sticking up. What if you want something slimmer? Well, there's the chalk series and the chocolate series from kale are super slim So I got some samples and this is the one with a keycap like compare this to this It's like so much slimmer And then there's one here's a really nice clear key cap only thing is the keycaps are totally incompatible and the bottoms also, you know, I had to get special sockets The socket bottoms. I'm sorry that pin bottoms are also totally incompatible as you can see here So it's kind of a whole different system But they're super small and skinny. This one's a clicky one too. Sounds good. All right lady. What is this? Oh, I got some cool samples in today. So this is a custom etched keycap It's a translucent plastic with like a black plastic that is then etched through so you can see this got the Adafruit logo In cool glow-through design. So looking great on this macro pad Whatever the color of the Neopixel underneath is what it goes through I also got the OLED working with the offset and everything in circuit pythons That's good news. And then when I press this button BAM Opens a beta fruit. I just programmed the macro pad really easy to make it do anything on your computer So I just made it open up a a browser window Very cool custom keycaps coming soon Ta-ta-ta, what am I singing yeah? All right, so we have one right here. I don't have this plugged in. It's not running But it's a translucent Etched keycaps one of the few things we'll put our logo on which is really cool So it's actually a translucent plastic and you can see there's a thin black layer Which means we can get custom edge keycaps. We already have some goth keycaps on the way We got some stuff going on and then last up I've got to read the room here, so we're doing an E-ing Trinkie, so do you want squid friend? Squid friend? Or do you want panda friend? Panda friend? Squid friend? Squid friend? Or panda friend? Panda. Squid friend? Or panda friend? I'm not going to tell you which to pick, but you should pick panda. Squid friend? Or panda friend? Alright, and with that is Top Secret for the week.


Have you ever noticed how as we age, people seem to mumble more? It couldn't be our hearing. I hear just fine, except for the fact that I have to strain to hear conversations and the television. As we grow older we naturally experience some hearing loss, a sequel to exposure to loud sounds like music or environmental sounds damaging the hearing mechanism. Cats can have hearing loss too. Most hearing problems in cats are associated with aging but other less common causes may occur and often very mature cats become completely deaf. In most cases of age-related hearing loss, deafness occurs as a result of damage to the ear system and nerves. It is primarily a degenerative change. Hearing may also be diminished by obstructions in the ear such as debris, infections, masses or even medications. These should all be ruled out before making a diagnosis of degenerative hearing loss. A note about whiskers. A cat's senses are much more sophisticated than our dull wits. Their magnificent whiskers are super sensitive at detecting vibration, including the air disturbed when your banging pan lids together. So when testing your cat's hearing, take great care not to disturb their whiskers. The cat may not hear the sound with their ears, but they may feel vibration with their whiskers. To avoid this, try standing with your back to the cat to shield them from air movement. What are the signs of hearing loss? Clinical signs of hearing loss in cats can be somewhat subtle and owners are often unaware of changes until they are very advanced. Early signs of deafness may include. A lack of response to everyday sounds that would ordinarily elicit a response, opening a can of food or shaking a bag of treats. Not hearing your footsteps when you come close. Being a very sound sleeper. Meowing very loudly. Failure to respond when called. Causes. There are a number of reasons a cat might become deaf. Your vet will help you determine the likely cause and appropriate treatment. Cats with a white coat and blue eyes have a higher risk of being born deaf. This is particularly true of breeds such as Persians, Scottish Folds, Ragdolls, Cornish Rex, Devon Rex, Oriental Shorthair, Turkish Angora, Maine Coon and Mags. Just as many humans lose their hearing as they age, so do cats. This is due to the delicate structures of the inner ear losing their sensitivity to vibration. Age-related hearing may develop very gradually and can sometimes take longer to diagnose. A number of underlying physical illnesses can cause hearing loss, usually because the condition is somehow preventing sound waves from reaching the nerves in the ear. This includes. Inflammation of the inner or outer ear. Infectious diseases. Degenerative nerve changes. Tumors or cancer that affect the nerves in the ear. Trauma to the ear. Some medications, such as antiseptics and chemotherapy drugs can affect your cat's hearing. Medications that remove excess fluid from the body can also affect hearing, as can heavy metals such as arsenic, lead or mercury. How can my cat be tested for hearing loss? Sophisticated tests are available and may be of value when evaluating kittens for the potential of breeding, but they have no bearing on the treatment or outcome. Your vet might administer a test called the Brainstem Auditory of Oak Response, Bear 1. It's a painless procedure but can be expensive, so ask your veterinarian to try other evaluations first. Examples of test include.  Make sure you don't touch the cat, but he should turn and respond. Crackle a bit of tin foil or jingle a bunch of keys when he is sleeping or not looking. This tests high-frequency hearing. Hiss. This is a universal danger sound.  Tap a cardboard box or something that makes a drumming noise to test low-frequency hearing. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high-quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out beemixpets.com. Use coupon code Kittenlife to get 20% off. Deafness and cat behavior. Deaf cats can feel vulnerable to predators. This can make them anxious or nervous, which in turn may make them seem more aggressive. This isn't a case of the cat becoming nasty. It's more that, when taken by surprise, the cat may lash out in self-defense. Deaf cats may also sleep longer and more deeply without everyday noises to disturb them. Actually, their sleep can seem alarmingly deep at times. Diagnosis. A simple test to determine if your cat is deaf is to loudly clap your hands while he or she is facing away from you. If there is no response, it is probably time to see the vet. Your vet will ask you for a thorough history of your cat's health, onset of symptoms, and possible incidents that might have preceded this condition. They will perform a thorough physical examination, including examining your cat's ear canal with the use of an otoscope. In some situations sedation or an anesthetic will be required to examine the ear canal thoroughly, especially if it is painful or your cat is a bit wriggly. There may also be the need for further investigation via the use of radiographs or MRI to help assess the middle and inner ear. Living with Deaf cats. It is quite easy to accommodate the needs of cats with congenital deafness, as they will automatically use their other senses to take in information and communicate. However, if your cat has only recently become deaf or is suffering gradual and partial hearing loss, it can take a little longer for both you and them to adjust to their condition. Keep your cat inside. If your cat has become profoundly deaf, the outside world can be very dangerous. He or she won't be able to hear noises such as other pets including dogs, motor vehicles and other moving objects and will be at greater risk of injury. The safest option is to train your cat to stay indoors. This may require some adjustment to routine, such as retraining your cat to use kitty litter, if he or she usually goes outside. Use visual cues. For Deaf cats, you will need to replace oral cues, such as using your voice to call them, with visual cues.  Or, if it is time for dinner, create a signal the cat will learn to understand, like flicking the porch light a few times quickly. Cats are quick learners and will readily respond to hand signals, laser pointers or household lights. Approach gently. Deaf cats startle easily. To avoid them becoming frightened, always approach your cat from the front where he or she can see you coming. Deeply bonded cats become more affectionate, or even needy, to their people. It's as if their trust makes them seek you out for reassurance. Use touch and vibration. Deaf cats will rely heavily on their other senses to take in information. To get your cat's attention, try stomping firmly on the floor, as this will be felt as a vibration. You can then try a variety of visual cues to communicate. Play. Deaf cats, like all cats, love to play. Continue to play hunting and chasing games as you would with a hearing cat. It will keep him or her active and also strengthen the bond between you both. Deaf cats just like deaf people are sometimes at increased risks, especially outdoors. They cannot hear an oncoming car. They cannot hear another cat that may be aggressive or a dog that may pose a threat. For this reason alone it is particularly important that hearing impaired cats be kept indoors unless on a leash. Similarly, deaf cats cannot hear their owners calling them and should they wonder away they can be very difficult to find in return. All cats should be implanted with an identifying microchip, but this is particularly critical for deaf or blind cats. A deaf cat can still be a great pet. He will just need more affection, patience and a few more I love you signals. 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Good morning sub traders welcome back How's everybody doing this lovely Tuesday with a nice little rally that we got going on in the market? Good to see you all Mike Good to see you Lewis good to see you grand everybody. Well getting a nice little pop. How was that up? 1,600 points on a Monday. I feel like deja vu about two weeks ago when we had that big rally Looks like we're doing it all over again So hope you guys did your homework last night and see what was going on, but um, you know I I had some swing trades. I sold them took a little bit of a profit Not as much as I liked when we had the stock started reversing and then I bought everything back again Good thing I did but I think you know listen We got a double bottom that's going on right now in a lot of stocks You could see it even here. I'm gonna talk about carnival cruise line You can see it right here. There's like a double bottom right here But but there's a lot of nice little movers and let me change a slide and Right here you could see it and every stock looks exactly the same every single one of them so Listen, um, you know just really quick talking about what happened here with carnival cruise line I think The news was out.  Here's the money you gave us so they were perfectly fine I don't think we're gonna have that much of a that much of a Same situation so I just think more people are gonna start You know, maybe mergers might be coming in you're gonna see big companies taking big stakes into it So I think you're gonna see a lot of that now if people start feeling comfortable, especially, you know If you watch the news if you watch The governor Cuomo was talking about it yesterday regarding about like the death rate is obviously Hopefully not as bad as they think if they're seeing a little bit of a curve coming down a little sooner than later Which is great, you know, I mean, that's some great news So Mark kind of likes that you gotta remember look at this stock right here $50 down to $10 I mean you could go down the list It was so many of the airlines all these the ones that I hit most hotels everything and people are gonna realize You know, you're gonna be look back a year from now and you're gonna be like, why didn't I buy back then? You know believe me. I've been there and I've done that back in 2008. So You know, so anyway, a lot of big movers moving in here Listen, I can go through the list, but there's a lot of them out there that are already moving I mean we could talk about I mean you got you got the CCL. I mean all the all these companies are doing great You got this one that's moving you got You know, you got Norwegian that's moving pretty nicely, which one was that one the NC LH oops typed in wrong window hold on the LH That one's moving up a pretty nicely, but remember what I told you earlier When I told you earlier when we started trading in pre-market You all know we started eight o'clock in the morning. Actually, some of us get in around at 745 You know, the issue is some of these stocks though is that the spreads are pretty big So you got to be careful in pregame. Remember, we saw what happened with LK Luke and coffee we killed it stocks, you know, that we that was a really big day for all of us But the problem is is that you know, the spread gets pretty big So you got to be careful the these spreads get a little bit better and tighter now So if you didn't get into any stocks right now, I mean, listen, you shouldn't be trading anything after 9 9 30 You know, that's pretty much the dangerous time. We talk about that in class a lot But right around 8 30 you got that 8 30 to 9 9 o'clock move if you got a good position into it Just like this one you could see it right here. Let me just change the uh, the chart a little bit better The right around here 8 30 you could see it, you know, really kind of made this big move right here made made higher highs You know, you're looking pretty good.  It's not a good time Okay, right here at 3 30 you could see when it started making its move But like the last couple of minutes is where it made its big pot. You know what you mean? So you got to be really careful of that so, uh Yeah, look at this hope that goes this stock is Can't believe this thing Look, it's it's I've been making it's making a higher high It's not even making a lower low or it even hit a double bottom so You know looking good for ba by the way, you think you're you think you're chasing it buying here at You know 163. I don't know It was only at 350 less than a month ago.  I'm gonna say it again. I'm gonna say it again. I'm gonna say it again Nothing was bringing down this market. We were on pace And I was predicting by November.  We got a job a lot of people don't fortunately for us. We're making money in trading Fortune for us. We're glad that we're here. So listen like I tell everyone's no better time to be in it than now But there are a couple of stocks I do want to bring up I don't need to go through all of them because you could you could figure them out all the airlines jet blue Um is is gapped up. You can see it's a double bottom UAL actually looks a little bit better than that one. Uh jet blue that one's trending up a little bit nicer That one's doing really well aal that one also that one's probably the nicest one of them all Remember 10 was a major major support level when it broke 10 it had some major issues now it breaks 10 It's it's up on a uptrend a little bit more So American Airlines, you know, look once again, you know, I don't disrespect American Airlines I don't know if anybody here works for them. I don't like American Airlines. Okay. I flew them Once a terrible experience. I flew them again. It was even a worse experience Um, and it was so bad that the plane I was flying on had the little cigarette Things on on the handles. That's how old the plane was But doesn't mean I'm not going to trade it. I still trade it make money. Why not right? So One thing you learn as a trader, please don't If you don't believe in their values, you don't believe in and the company, whatever it is Listen, if you know, this is not they're not investing. We're trading But American Airlines, you know, uh doing pretty well. My favorite is obviously Delta Delta taking a big hit coming back with delta musul.  I hear good things and bad things, but you know what? You want to fly to florida for 15 bucks. You know what I mean? So anyway regarding about You know a lot of these stocks also just keep in mind that delta obviously moves the fastest You know, we've been trading a lot of these stocks and you know that This is one of the things that kind of trades a little bit more quicker than the other ones Jet blue not as fast American, you know, not as fast, but this one definitely does There was one stock that has nothing to do That was gapped up pretty nicely this morning I don't know what happened to this one, but I thought this one was going to be an interesting stock It was up almost like 90 3 million shares traded got great iceberg orders on the right But now she's starting to pan out. I don't know what happened with this one here Uh, I might just scratch it off. It was just moving up so nicely in pre-market and all of a sudden now backed off Now you so those are really Going across the board. Oh luv that one There you go southwest airlines. Yeah double bottom. You could see that right there They all look exactly the same. Okay, if there was an etf on airlines That's what you basically would be seeing But um, but anyway, that's uh, basically, you know, we got a good market. We're up about almost 800 right now I would wait listen what the way I would play this out going into the open Is that I would try not to buy anything Wait about five minutes. I think you might get some profit taking going on But unless you got a good position biggest most important thing you guys got to remember Please put your limit orders out there Now if you're not part of ctu and you don't know what a direct access broker is Is you basically could never even put a limit order because you'll never get filled, you know In a way of knowing that you're going to get at the price, you know as a direct access broker but um, but You know for people do have direct access when you put a market order Remember the most important thing that we train you In the beginning of the year Actually the beginning of the classes is you got to make sure the stock has the first t tradeable Remember the three t's tradeable trend and trap. Okay, you only get suckered in Want to know what the trend is but the most expensive part of the trade Is is the spread so you got to be careful of that because buying a thousand shares right now L u v at and if you can get it there's only one share 100 shares at 34 19 If you're wrong and you had to hit the bid you're gonna get out 3407 maybe in 34 and boom you'll lose 150 dollars in the blink of an eye. Yeah, you know what I saw that too on Julie. Yeah tops is moving pretty nicely um You know once again, it's under under a dollar. So now we're doing pennies of stock and then also, you know You know fractions of a penny but tops. Yes, I saw that pop up on the biggest percentage gainer up here on the On the most active list on the hot list But uh, but there are a lot of the stocks in here you can keep an eye on and this one's also Moving pretty nicely a lot of volume of 36 right now of four dollars not terrible But I don't know I saw it go up and then just kind of the kind of flat line So I'm like I'm not really excited about it Talk made 40 cents in tl r. Why right give him a round of applause Nice way to start the morning All right, everybody listen. Good luck today. Happy trading We'll put these on a watch list. Just keep in mind Not everything. Um, we're always gonna find new stocks that will open up You know, could this be the bottom? I don't know we need three to me personally.  So that's uh, let's keep an eye on it So swing trading could be actually be a good thing right now So, you know, hopefully you guys are free and a lot of cash a lot of money to be made right now Like I said, it's been over 12 years since I've seen something like this and now they're predicting This is actually more of a catastrophe and more of a rally than the financial district of financial, uh Catastrophe we had in 2008. Good luck. Everyone happy trading and if you're new for your cyber trade university Like we always say just look listen and learn. Please do not trade anything. We're trading Make sure you talk to the education advisor. That's part of your package what you're getting here You know, you have to kind of keep it, you know, know what's going on to make sure it's for you because listen It's not for everybody and like I say that's okay Good luck everybody happy trading and we'll start commentating in the room in about 15 minutes once the market opens up