So welcome to my talk, it starts with a smile, how to foster a sense of belonging and remoteness. Quick introduction into who I am, my name is Eleni Katsula, I'm the engineering operations manager at Calabra and for the last two and a half years I've been an engineering people lead, taking care of our engineers and supporting them in their professional growth. My academic specialization lies in international technology management and throughout my career I've been focusing on cross-cultural communication, conflict resolution, effectively a zone and so forth. Ever since I've had a passion of working with people from different backgrounds and you know different areas of expertise so this is why I also picked this topic. Now first let's look at why the topic of fostering a sense of belonging is so important. Well first of all it is a core value of the open source community. We do work together towards a common goal and being part of the open source community is a sense of belonging in itself so any open source company, consultancy, whatever you like should have the same values. It does increase job satisfaction of course because if you don't go into your job and if you enjoy it thoroughly and you feel valued and respected then that has its benefits as well and of course you see it practically day-to-day if you feel like you belong in a company and you are listened to you have a voice it does promote a better work-life balance because you know that when you need to take a break you can do that your personal life is equally important so you know you don't just live for the output you know for the project that you're working on and the particular things that you need to carry out in your job you're valued as it as an individual as a human being not just as a professional. From a company level of course if you have a sense of belonging within your team it can also reduce attrition. The market has been insane recently I don't need to tell you that especially with a pandemic and when a lot of countries were in lockdown one aspect that people could control or could change was their job you know if you're constantly locked inside your house and you can't pursue your hobbies to a great extent you can't go anywhere you can get fed up it has an impact on your mental health and we have seen that a lot of people chose a change of job just you know to get something new have an impact have a change have some control over it so the pandemic had of course big economic repercussions as well so the job market was in total flocks very volatile there has been a lot of movement and companies you know more than ever have been trying to keep their people and to have keep them happy and make sure that they feel like they belong they're part of the team part of a family if you like a part of a community and of course from an engineer's perspective or an employee's contractor's point of view it can add more meaning to your work if you feel like you're part of a collective effort you're doing something together you belong to a team it's not just you against the world it's it's less lonely and it's more collaborative okay so that sounds good in theory what does it really look like like what is the success criteria of having a sense of belonging at your company well the golden standard I would say is that people of all backgrounds seniority skill level identities genders you know they can be themselves and they are embraced and accepted of course everybody needs to be professional in a working environment but still there's a lot of room for individuality and that is both beautiful and important if you do have a sense of belonging there is a deeper deeper connection with one another you feel like you can connect with your employees more than just saying a hello a good morning a happy weekend you know you can really feel like you have somebody to reach out and that you're part of a team like I mentioned earlier you're not really dreading starting your workday of course we all have tasks that we don't particularly like that we're not really looking forward to right that's normal but overall if you like your job and if you like the company that you're working for it's less likely that you have the Monday blues let's say or you know dreading to go to work a very important aspects which is really at the essence of this is that you feel comfortable to express both your aspirations you know how you want to grow in your career what you would like to do what you would like to learn and also your concerns you know everybody has a voice but beyond that voice it's the trust that what you have escalated or pointed out will be addressed it will be taken care of so there needs to be a mechanism in the organization that actually supports them action items that come out of feedback and come out of no concerns expressed by expressed by employees and by contractors because you know just speaking up and having it get lost in the void it's pretty meaningless and as I mentioned earlier in introduction effectively people feel valued supported and respected which is very very important great how do you do it now as a disclaimer of course I don't claim to be an expert in all theories surrounding belonging I'm not a psychologist I decided to do this presentation because I felt like I learned a lot in this position and the last two and a half years I wanted to also do it as a tribute to everybody who has been on my team and who I've had the pleasure of working with it was truly an honor you know having them open up to me and connecting with me and letting them be you know part of my day-to-day and them accepting my help and support so I will show you what has worked for me what I feel personally is important but this can also you know be adapted to your own style this is just you know my point of view my humble two cents to this very important topic so let's start well first of all I put empathy as you can see there so empathy is kind of the ability to feel what the other person is feeling to understand both their pain their joy their stress all these kind of emotions just to have a connection to understand what they're going through this is the human element that I call the human element of the work where the hierarchy or you know reporting structure title whatever you want to call it it's it doesn't matter you're there for the other person you listen and you try to help them in the best of your you know the best way you can equally important is communication now I cannot stress this enough and if you've ever watched a talk about remote work this is the one you know biggest topic oh you need to communicate you need to have frequency you know video quality you know all such a thing this this has been discussed to exhaustion let's say what I would like to add here from my point of view is that you need to adapt your style to the communication that each person is comfortable with so of course you know video calls have better engagement you can read body language and all that true but if the other person isn't comfortable either looking at themselves on camera or just sharing their image for whatever reason if it makes them uncomfortable it defeats the purpose right so when you communicate you don't want you know the most data or you know you don't want to have the better picture or whatever you want the information to go through effectively and to make this process well pleasurable might be a stretch but you know not painful or not difficult for the other person so somebody might prefer to communicate through chat some might prefer to have a voice call others might prefer to have no a video call the frequency also you know I might prefer to have like calls every two weeks but somebody else might find it better for their workload to do it once a month or for a regular follow-up once a week I find that flexibility in the way you communicate you know according to the other person's preference is really crucial and it's not something that's often talked about so I just wanted to point it out another aspect of course is feedback it's very important if you work remotely often you know you don't really get much feedback you complete your tasks you move on to the next one I'm sure you've all been there like you submit a patch of stream and you wait and wait and never hear anything back and you're not sure like okay what happened you know it's always good to have some encouragement so if you work with other colleagues and you know you notice that somebody did a really good job either with a communication with the client or you know really good you know contribution upstream very well-written merge request whatever you wanted to call it you know if you ever notice something positive it's really good to give the other person feedback and you know either through the people lead or directly it's very very important equally people need to know if what they're doing is going in the right direction if they're approaching something correctly you know there's so many ways of approaching something in the engineering field right sometimes there's a right and wrong approach but sometimes it's just much more complex right and you do want some feedback along the way to let you know okay if you go down this road it might take you like a couple of months to you know get out of the fog or the complexity or you know anything like that I have tried this you might want to give it a shot or you know if you want to give some tips about efficiency or if somebody's stuck or you know if there is a particular behavior that is disruptive and the person is not aware of it it's always good to give feedback so it's super important also to know that you know when you get feedback it means that people care about the work that you do and they care about your growth and they care about you you know doing a good job and continuously improving of course there's the aspect of leadership that is very important and that can be quite challenging especially if you have people of different areas of expertise you know if you have a hundred people and 80 experts it can be quite hard to get leadership especially on the technical side but you know a structure that actually helps with that aspect of getting some guidance and you know leading the teams effectively properly giving them the right to support the right sense of direction it can be for example different priorities for R&D efforts or the clients you know regular progress reports or you know code reviews per pro program sorry per programming you know all these kind of things can be super useful and as a manager or team lead or whatever professional development is also very important so this is something that you need to look after if the individual feels like you actively help them grow and put you know mechanisms in place to support that and to encourage that then that is also super important to get a sense of belonging because if I feel like my manager or whoever my supervisor my team lead cares for me to learn and grow invests in it then you know I feel valued as well as an individual and as a professional at that company how can that you know sense of belonging and you know these ideals be achieved across the company now I believe that you need a strong sense of purpose like a collaboration we have as a raison d'être like to contribute to the open-source community and to help our engineers grow etc the corporate culture is a must here because the support and interest in individual needs to be genuine authentic if you fake it if you just do like a marketing gag or something like that or just you know an initiative now and then that's just you know well let's call it fluff it's pointless people see through that and you know it doesn't really add that much value what is important is that individuals are able to make positive contributions on a day-to-day basis as part of their job so that means giving people a voice giving them the room to be creative to the best of their abilities and to really feel like they are impacting both the business the technology they're working on the project that they are making a difference daily of course as an addition to that company-wide initiatives to promote interaction to have some fun activities or you know have some employee engagement can be super fun and super useful we do that too but it should be an addition to your business day today so you know theory is all good you know but I think it's always best to speak in examples so I will show you what we do at Collabra we have launched the engineering framework three years ago more or less and then we divided technical support and individual professional guidance so we made sure that an engineer joining our company or you know already at our company has maximum support in all different areas so I'll get into that a bit more in a bit more detail we have the people needs like I used to be which focus on professional development feedback regular one-to-ones on also well-being and you know the personal side of things this is not really a technical one-to-one it's more like how are you getting along you know how can I help this kind of things people leads also have cluster calls which is a group of various engineers from different grades domains you know that usually don't work together and it's a social call where you can just interact and catch up about different things that are happening at the company and or you know just fun conversations about hobbies it can really be anything like I remember I used to have one classical where it always kind of fell on a new moon and we had the sorry on a full moon and we always had the full moon update because one of our engineers is an astrophotographer so that was always really fun so you can really be anything you never know really what's what's gonna come up with those calls but it's a fun and you know social engagement that can kind of break the routine of working on a particular task and just you know get some more engagement and more you know interaction between colleagues which you know remote setting is quite important because it tends to be a bit lonely at times right then we have the business strategy leads formally known as domain leads if you've been active in the open source field I'm sure you know all of ours they're you know very active in the field so they are supporting our technical strategy together with senior management of course looking at R&D projects what is worth investing in in the future what commercial opportunities to pursue and you know how to shape our engineering team they also have quests which are strategic R&D efforts that we feel are important for the community are you know interesting new technologies to investigate and so forth for potential clients and we have the guilds as well which are technical meetings with a particular frequency usually twice a month where people of similar technical interests get together and have presentations about different topics or get to discuss their progress so this can be we have for example integration guilt multimedia guilt rust a kernel hardware enablement you know if you name it and any any particular group that has a specific interest and it's good to you know Leah using catch up that's what you do in guilt and that's been super helpful as well so that is engineering framework in a nutshell another aspect that's very important that I mentioned before is 360 feedback that we do so we encourage to get feedback and give it back as well so a good approach is to always ask for feedback first and then you know give feedback to that person we have done extensive training on feedback across our whole team we continue to work on that we continue to train our engineers on how to give feedback and how to be open and you know have it part of our culture it's very important to have a mindset where you support people's growth and you know when feedback comes from a place of I want to help you I want to see you grow both in your career I want you to you know get out of this particular problem area that you're having right now you know this is for your benefit I am coming to you from a place of improvement in a collaborative spirit not critique like oh god you did this I don't want to work with you again bye bye I'll do it myself no that is disruptive that's not part of the culture also what we do a collaboration to you know foster a sense of belonging is to promote our engineers being good open source citizens how does that look like we provide paid travel and time to participate in different conferences such as this one and you know of course to other open source events like hackathons and things like that we do have an upstream policy because we believe it's super important that you have time to maintain your own projects if you wish to do that or to you know focus on upstream activities that might not necessarily be related to your current commercial project that you are assigned to so that is why we put this policy in place whenever possible we try to weigh incoming commercial opportunities against the value to upstream and you know to our consulting business accordingly and of course as I mentioned before we do invest in strategic R&D across all of our domains you know significant investments of tiling material in areas that we believe are the future of tech that we believe are worth pursuing and that we believe will help upstream and will you know make significant improvements furthermore we like to display appreciation through the kudos system that we use on matter most so you can send a congratulatory message that reaches you know the whole team which is always very nice we promote autonomy of employees and contractors that means we trust people to manage their time to deliver their tasks in their own pace to communicate when they're stuck or you know if anything comes up there is no micromanagement and that's very important we are proud of our engineering team and you know the people we have hired and the professionals that have you know made such incredible contributions within our team so that comes with the trust that they can also be autonomous and reach out whenever they need assistance so that is also very important to sign of respect for the individual and as I mentioned earlier some health and well-being initiatives are also active you know when it came came to the pandemic mental health was a big issue so you know and provided support globally and we did a lot of fun events as well in addition to lectures and professional presentations by specialists on different medical issues and most recently we also had the paparazzi challenge which is super fun where all our employees you know were encouraged to go out for a walk you know and just snap pictures of something nearby you know and it was really nice to get to see you know nature from around the world it was really beautiful and it really helps you connect as well so it's just an example now I would like to share from my experience what you need to be cautious of as a manager when it comes to fostering a sense of belonging and you know using all those steps that I've mentioned so far in your approach so obviously you've seen caring for and supporting colleagues is very very important but you need to be aware of setting healthy boundaries within your professional capacity what I mean by that is yes you're there to listen yes you're there to help you know it doesn't remove anything from how much you care if at some point you know you say I understand would you like to talk to an XYZ professional about this right I'll give you a simple example I am not a psychologist I'm not a psychiatrist so when it comes to a medical issue I will show everything but I will refer them for specialist advice because that goes beyond my own professional capability what I have found over the years is that you need to shield yourself from absorbing the struggles of others that is you know a risk when you are in a path and anybody who has the same profile as me will know this right and it's there's nothing wrong with compassion and to the contrary it's you know amazing in its own way and super important but at the end of the day when you and your work day you shouldn't absorb all that tension inside you because it can really be disruptive imagine if you have a team of 20 30 40 people everybody will have you know something in their personal lives going on you know something they have talked to you about you cannot you know take that in it can be quite detrimental to you so you know these healthy boundaries that I mentioned can be super helpful and of course you know one challenge that we always have like if you try to be somebody's friend and you know support them and understand them and is that you need to be mindful of the responsibilities that you have both towards of the individual and towards the company right so there's always a business that has certain guidelines policies you know so you need to be able to weigh both and and be fair within that role so you know summing it all up what does it come down to you know to get a sense of belonging in remote teams well I'll be honest with you for me it's always been openness you know I am the way I am you know I don't fake anything or you know I just I'm honest I'm transparent the best way I can be and you know I think it's very important to have a simple and authentic connection to people I'll give you an example I'm not known for my athletic accomplishments so I quite often I talk about you know maybe some mishaps or some adventures in my athletic endeavors for example I'm particularly proud of one incident where I managed to make the whole yoga class fall down which is love it so you know these kind of things just be if you're goofy be goofy you know if you're quirky be quirky you know why not and you know we're all we're all different and that kind of connects us right you know don't take yourself too seriously sometimes I think that that helps don't shine way from being vulnerable that is something that I've learned you know sometimes you think especially if you have a particular position or you know if your team lead or whatever oh I shouldn't show you know this side of me you know today I'm not feeling very well I'm a bit sad you know something happened you know I better a very disconnect you know I have found that being vulnerable in front of your team makes you look more human it helps with genuine connection and it's truly amazing what you get back I was positively surprised by the responses that I had from my team when I was going through a rough time and how much you know it how much satisfaction how much appreciation that gave me so I think it's super important as I mentioned before of course active listening is very important and not just taking down notes or checking boxes and then nothing happens but truly be there to the best of your ability whatever you can make sure that people have something fun and interesting to work on of course you know we don't always have control over the incoming work but whenever the opportunity arises you know keeping the back of your head to provide something you know enjoyable for the person to do especially if somebody's been on a project for a really long time and they want to change of pace or change of scenery it's good to try and accommodate that so that they don't get bored or demotivated and I think it's also very important to have a fun and warm working environment so it's not hostile it's welcoming and people in general feel comfortable at their own pace at their own level of communication as I said their own level of involvement as long as they're not you know disregarded in any way that they feel comfortable participating in the way that they want and of course most importantly smiles this picture I love it is from one of my cluster calls where to be honest I couldn't come up with an agenda and I just said you know the theme today is to wear a hat any hat you have a headset counts well and that was super fun so you know that always gives me joy to look back at this picture so thank you very much for your attention and it has been a pleasure sharing this presentation with you I'm happy to address any questions and you know if following this talk you feel like hey collaboration like a great place to work for your luck we are hiring so feel free to check out our job posts on the career stage thank you very much


For years I was pursuing enlightenment. As many other people I was expecting that it will remove my suffering, that it will provide me with a greater understanding of reality. This pursuit led me to what was first a spiritual journey, then it became a scientific one, one which gave me answers that I did not expect. In my pursuit of enlightenment I became a full-time student in a spiritual school. There I learned that enlightenment can be categorized in two different ways. Some people experience an awakening which makes them feel one with everything. They come to realize that in fact they are one single consciousness. Other people come to a conclusion that they do not exist at all, that our whole story of who we think we are is just a construct, and that this construct has nothing to do with what reality truly is. These both experiences are different but also similar. They are as two sides of the same coin. They both lead to a desired outcome of a dissolving of one's identity, whether in a sense of unity or in a sense of non-existence. This experience also brings them closer to the initial goal of decreasing their suffering. If there is no you, how can you have problems? When a person experiences this type of awakening, it feels liberating. Your mind seems to expand. Everything becomes clear.  I know this feeling since I went through such an experience myself. It happened during the time I lived in a spiritual school. During an intensive weekend course, my spiritual teacher led me into an awakening experience. I felt my perception of my own self disappearing. After this experience, for a while it was difficult for me to function in society. It was difficult to see the difference between myself and others. It was difficult for me to understand my social responsibilities as I was walking in a constant state of bliss and happiness. I thought, no wonder spiritual gurus spend their days mostly meditating while their students take care of them. They must be having the same exact experience. Although the spiritual texts that I used to read before suddenly started to make sense too. Previously, I was trying to guess what each text tries to convey to me. After my direct experience, there was no need to guess. I was directly relating to what was described. Yet with time, this constant feeling of bliss and unity started to fade. Slowly, life got back to normal and I became socially active again. My realization of non-duality remained with me, but so did my suffering. I felt that my involvement in social activities was pulling me away from my experience of enlightenment. I was wondering if maybe I should become like other spiritual gurus. Meditating the majority of my life, remaining in a state of bliss and non-duality. Yet after some time, my understanding of enlightenment changed entirely. It happened when I was reading a book called The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler. In his book, he was describing an experience that extreme sports athletes commonly go through. It's an experience where they feel that they merge with everything. Free climber and bass jumper Dean Potter had one of these experiences. Right after a near-death experience while bass jumping, he saw a dying bird on the ground. As the book describes it, instinctively, Potter picked up the bird, cradling it in his shredded palms. The connection was immediate. As soon as their flesh touched, he felt a powerful psychic union. As if his consciousness has merged with the bird's consciousness. In that instance, they were no longer two wounded creatures. They had become one stronger animal. I know it's hard to believe, said Potter, but the experience was so powerful, the connection so true. I just sat there with that bird, holding it while it died. When it died, I died with it. And I don't mean that metaphorically. I mean, I became that dying bird. Author Steven Kotler then continues to elaborate. While Potter's experience may be hard to believe, variations of it are not that uncommon in action and adventure sports. It was like I reached a place where clarity and intuition and effort and focus all came together to bring me to a higher level of consciousness, says professional kayaker Sam Dreville. A level where I was no longer me. I was part of the river. In fact, long before the cave of Swallows, Potter too had familiarity. When he went to Patagonia, hunting that psychic connection to the universe, this was the very experience he desired. Steven also presented a scientific explanation of these experiences. It was Jefferson University, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg, and University of Pennsylvania, New York psychologist Eugene Daquily, who gave us our first real insight into this experience. They were investigating a different version of oneness, the kind produced by meditation. In deep contemplative states, Tibetan Buddhists report absolute unitary being, or the feeling of becoming one with everything, while Franciscan nuns experience yunia misika, or oneness with God's love. So Newberg and Daquily put both Buddhists and nuns inside a single photon emission computed tomography, specked, scanner, to try to figure out if there was biology beneath the spirituality and biology there was. It turns out that during moments of intense concentration, something happens in our superior Purita lobe, a portion of the brain that helps us orient ourselves in space. Newberg and Daquily call this part of the brain the Orientation Association Area, or OAA. When functioning normally, the OAA is a navigation system. It judges angles and distances, maps course trajectories, and keeps track of our body's exact location. But to do this last part, it also has to produce a boundary line, the border of self, the division between us and not us, or in other words, a division between us and the rest of the universe. During this border is no simple task. The OAA depends on a constant stream of incoming messages. All of our senses send data here about where our body is located. Incredible calculations occur, but all of this takes a lot of energy. When that energy is needed elsewhere, like during moments of intense focus, the OAA stops performing those calculations because it stops receding those signals. Without this data stream, this part of the brain is temporarily blinded into an incredible result. Once this happens, says Newberg, we can no longer draw a line and say this is where the self ends and this is where the rest of the world begins. So the brain concludes, it has to conclude, that at this moment you are one with everything. Reading this, I realized something important. I spent countless of hours meditating, reading spiritual texts, and doing spiritual exercises seeking enlightenment. Eventually, I came to experience it directly. Yet in the long run, this experience left me unchanged. Getting a peek into the science behind it, I realized why. What is mystified and glorified in spirituality turned out to be a simple phenomena in the brain. One experience by many people. The only difference between mystics and extreme sports athletes was that they had different interpretations of it. When my own OAA stopped receiving information about my whereabouts, I had my spiritual teacher next to me. He told me, you are going through a spiritual awakening. See, you are not your body, you are everything. That made me interpret my experience as enlightenment. It also made me feel special. It made me feel like I know the greater truth to reality. It also made my suffering disappear, at least for a while. But then I realized that if I wanted to maintain this experience, I would have to spend the majority of my life in a state of great focus. I would have to spend countless of hours in meditation. All of it to simply have an altered state of mind. One which I would interpret as enlightenment. Indeed, it would decrease my sense of suffering. I would have continued to think that I am not my body, that I am one with everything. But I asked myself, do I really want to attach so much meaning to a single state of mind? Is this what life and greater reality is about? Or would I rather spend my life embracing everything as it is? Not shying away from suffering when it occurs. Not seeking some greater understanding of the universe. Instead, simply doing my best to live a good life. To be a good, regular person. Instead of an individual searching for spiritual alternatives. If you liked this video, make sure to check out this playlist which is all about applying critical thinking to spirituality. Thanks for watching, and I wish you to keep questioning.


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Welcome to dealing with materials data, this is a course on collection analysis and interpretation of data from material science and engineering. So we are looking at the module of probability distributions and in this session we are going to talk about the nucleation process and how it is related to the Poisson distribution. Nucleation is a process which is very very important in material science and engineering. Here is an example of an under cooled melt and out of which nuclei is forming, there are actually several nuclei that have formed and they are going to grow and that is how this under cooled melt is going to transform into a complete solid. What we are interested is in the process of the formation of this nuclei and we want to have the right statistics to describe this process. So in order to describe the process again we have to understand exactly what is happening physically and once we know that we can translate this problem in mathematical terms to the correct statistics and then solve the problem. So let us find out what this is all about. So when does melt turn into a solid, we all have seen this that you keep water inside the freezer it turns into ice, you keep ice outside in the room it turns into water. So there is a driving force for water to be in liquid form or in solid form and that depends on temperature. So as a function of temperature if you actually plot what is known as Gibbs free energy then you can define what is this transformation temperature in this case it is a melting temperature that is decided by the free energy. So above this temperature we find that the liquid free energy is lower as compared to the solid free energy. So above this temperature the system would prefer to be a liquid, below this temperature we see that the solid has lower free energy than the liquid so the system would prefer to be a solid. So the melting temperature is that temperature at which these solid and liquid have the same free energy so it is basically the intersection point of the free energies as a function of temperature and at the point of intersection is where we define the transition temperature. In this case because it is solid liquid transition I am calling it as a melting temperature or freezing temperature. You can also think of other transformations and this definition is more general than for this specific scenario. So in every case you will find that the driving force for transformation is given by these free energy changes the system is trying to minimize the free energy. So it would like to be on this line and then on this line it does not want to continue here because there is a another state that is available with lower free energy so the system would prefer to shift to that. So if you are heating the system the solid will turn into a melt and if you are cooling the liquid will turn into a solid. So we are looking at this process of cooling the liquid and it is turning into solid. But you can notice that there is no driving force at all for transformation at the melting temperature because the two free energies are equal. In other words the thermodynamic definition of melting point says that if you keep a solid and its melt at this temperature it will have a tendency neither to melt nor to solidify. So there will be no change in the solid melt interface at all it will neither move towards the solid nor move towards the melt and it will remain where it is. And in fact if you go slightly lower also it is not going to be favorable for the liquid to turn into solid unless it reaches a critical value in terms of temperature or critical under cooling as we call it. So we call it under cooling because you have to take the liquid below the melting temperature to some extent before the liquid turns into solid. You would expect this to be a spontaneous process but it does not happen at this temperature you have to be below. How much below your below the melting temperature is what is known as the under cooling. And a critical under cooling is needed for the liquid to turn into solid or some solid region like this to form in the melt. Why is that? So that is what is explained in this figure. So you have the liquid free energy, you have the solid free energy this is the melting point and you need to be in temperature below the melting temperature to some value and this difference is what is known as under cooling. And this under cooling has to reach a critical value that is because at this temperature for example it is favorable let us consider this point at this temperature for example it is favorable for the liquid to turn into solid because solid has lower free energy liquid has higher free energy. But if it forms this nucleus from the melt there is the nucleus so that will have the solid free energy and so much of melt has turned into solid so there will be so much of gain in terms of free energy. But there is also this interface that it has to form between the melt and the solid. This interface costs energy for the system so unless the gain in energy can compensate for this the system is not going to prefer to form this solid from the melt. So the critical under cooling is that temperature where you see that this gain in free energy is more than sufficient to pay for the interface cost in that case because it will gain so much energy and it will pay for this and it will still have gain in energy it is going to grow so that is when this actually is called as nucleus. So there is a critical under cooling that has to be achieved so that you will achieve critical change in free energy which will compensate for the cost you have to pay for making this interface so till that is reached you will not have it. And in all of this we are assuming that the solid is forming in the melt homogeneously that is it is not for example forming at the mould walls or it is not forming on any impurities or any other particles that are then in the melt. If suppose there is a particle in the melt and the nucleation happens on the particle there the particle melt interface will already have an interfacial energy. If suppose that is more than the solid melt interfacial energy that will have its own driving force so the critical free energy change might not be valid in such cases so you have to also incorporate the interfacial energy associated with the melt particle interface or melt impurity interface or the mould wall melt interfacial energy and so on. So that is why we are not considering this case we are considering nucleation from the melt and such nucleation is known as homogeneous nucleation. So what is the critical nucleus size and so that can again be derived. If suppose I assume that the nucleus is spherical particle then you can see that the surface area will go as square of the radius of the particle and interfacial energy will be proportional to the surface area so interfacial energy will go as r squared. On the other hand volume of radius r of sphere will go as r cube and the free energy decrease that it gets because of turning so much of melt into a solid will go as r cube. For very small r r squared will still be dominant and so r cube will not be favorable but as the particle size becomes larger and larger you will see that this is the point at which the contribution that comes from the volume free energy will more than compensate for what it has to pay in terms of the interfacial free energy. So beyond this point so this is the change over point at which you will have the critical nucleus size. So if a particle of this size exists it is at a size where further increase in size is going to decrease the overall system free energy. If it is anywhere here any decrease in the solid size is what is going to decrease the overall system free energy. So in these stages it is not preferred to have these solid particles anything here is neither stable nor unstable and beyond this these particles become stable. So this is the critical size of the nucleus and this is the critical dg star as we call it. So this is obtained by writing analytical expressions assuming that this are spheres typically or you can assume any shape as long as you describe in terms of the shape how the interfacial free energy and volume free energy change and you have to minimize this quantity. So take the first derivative equate it to 0 and the solution you get is r star. You can show that r star is 2 times gamma by delta g. So that delta gv is the overall volume free energy gain that you get by turning the melt into solid and gamma is the interfacial energy. So it also comes from what is known as Gibson equation which says that r is if suppose r is radius then 2 gamma by r is the excess free energy associated with that interface. So you have to compensate for it so delta gv happens to be 2 gamma by r. So in any case so you can see that there is a critical size and beyond that size the nucleus will grow and this process of turning the melt into a solid by formation of such a stable particles is what is known as nucleation specifically we are looking at homogeneous nucleation. Now the rate of homogeneous nucleation J in meter cube per second units is the average number of stable nuclei in a given volume in a given amount of time. Now the formation of nucleus nuclei is a stochastic process. What gives rise to such particles in the first place is the thermal fluctuations. Because of thermal fluctuations different sized solid like particles are always forming in the melt. They are forming in fact because they are based on thermal fluctuations they are forming at all temperatures. But if suppose your temperature happens to be lower than the melting temperature then when the system accesses those states it realizes that it can decrease its free energy. But if suppose it accesses these sizes then at these sizes it is going to find that it is not favorable so they are going to shrink back. But if suppose it happens to access this size then it knows that it had already decreased the system energy. So it will prefer those states and so it will continue to do that. So this is what is happening. And so these thermal fluctuations that give rise to such regions of solids if the size of these particles happen to be smaller than the stable size then they are called embryos. They keep forming and they keep dissolving back into the belt. And they are called nuclei if they are above the critical size and so they can grow. So homogeneous nucleation is what we have assumed we have not assumed that the nucleation is on mold wall or impurity or like that. So in the case of homogeneous nucleation if that is the rate of nucleation how do we get this rate? So the idea so in principle you have to consider the formation of different sized particles and their dissolution and or building up one by one you know the particle and it is growing in size. And at every stage it has definite probability to shrink and some finite probability to grow and you can track this and find out when it actually goes over the critical size that is one approach. But there is another idea which says that because of thermal fluctuations what is the probability of finding a particle of exact critical size r star and now to this solid if you add one atom or molecule it will become a nuclei. So if you know the probability or frequency of incorporation of one atom or molecule into critical nucleus and that is of some f 0 then the thermal fluctuations which give rise to these solid particles in the melt that is described by the Boltzmann distribution. Like I said earlier we are also going to talk about Boltzmann distribution and the other statistical distributions like Fermi Dirac and Bose-Einstein at some point. But this distribution is described by exponential minus del G by KT where K is the Boltzmann constant T is the absolute temperature, del G is the free energy of the nucleus of critical size. In our schematic this is del G and this is r star. So if you have exponential minus del G by KT gives the probability or the occurrence of nuclei of solids of this particular size and you multiply by the frequency so that will give you the J. Now suppose J is unchanging that there is constant under cooling so this is again another approximation this is not true always because if you form a solid and if there is some latent heat change then the temperatures can change and so on and so forth. So there are lots of things that can happen so the under cooling might not remain constant. But if you assume that under cooling remains constant so the homogeneous nucleation rate remains a constant then we are asking the question what is the probability of M nucleation events in a volume V of liquid in time T that is the question we are asking. So the number of nuclei N will be T times V times J because J is a per meter cube per second so if you multiply by the volume and time you will get the number of nuclei that will nucleate in a volume V at in time T and we are trying to get this probability so this will be given by probability distribution which is known as Poisson distribution. So Poisson distribution is also distribution that you will find for example for accidents and errors and things like that so we will also look at one such example later. So for nucleation for homogeneous nucleation so the number of nuclei that you would find and the probability of M nucleation events of having N nuclei is given by N power M by M factorial exponential minus N so this is the probability distribution function for the Poisson distribution. So this is the probability distribution for Poisson distribution function it so happens that the expectation value for the Poisson distribution and the variance both happen to be N and Poisson can be thought of as a limiting case for binomial for the probability tending towards 0 and for large M the Poisson distribution actually approaches normal distribution. So the Poisson distribution using r poise is the command and d poise p poise q poise and r poise as usual they give probability density cumulative distribution function quantile function and r poise actually gives you the random variance of Poisson distribution. Let us assume M to be 20 and try to do these commands using r so M is 20 and again we are going to make 3 plots and those are for the density cumulative distribution and the quantile function and the Poisson distribution requires just the parameter M. So here is the probability distribution, here is the cumulative distribution and here is the quantile function. Of course you can also get the random variates and the way to get the random variates is just to say r poise so I want 20 random variates and v is the parameter so you can give so you have 12, 16, 24 etc of the random variates which are picked from the Poisson distribution. So let us go back so this is how you deal with by now I am assuming that you are comfortable with these commands because this is a third or fourth time we are using similar commands and so let us also look at another problem. So we looked at the nucleation problem and we found that nucleation events can be described by the Poisson distribution for homogeneous nucleation assuming constant nucleation rate. There is also another problem set of problems where Poisson distribution is useful or it can be used in approximation for a binomial distribution and here is one example. Suppose a steel company produces 1000 sheets of a given dimension in a day and if the sheets contain some longitudinal cracks of more than a critical size they will be rejected and for a given chemistry if you make sheets out of this composition we know that the probability of sheets having flaws greater than a critical size is about 3 percent let us say. Now if you pick 100 sheets of samples randomly from these 1000 sheets that you make what is the probability that 3 sheets will have flaws greater than the critical size right. So this is the question and of course you can think of it as a binomial distribution problem and you can also calculate it as a approximate by a Poisson. So let us do that so what do we have we have 100 and the probability is 0.03 and so if you have 100 then at least 3 you expected to fail and you are looking for probability for when you test 100 3 of them will be failing and so the Poisson distribution for 3 failures and for the probability the mean 3 right in this case this also happens to be 3 is 0.224. Now you can also calculate this quantity as a binomial what is the binomial that is here right you can calculate the total is 100 and you are looking for 3 out of it with a probability of 0.03 so that is 0.227. So you can see that the difference between the 2 is at the third decimal place some 0.03 or something so you can actually calculate the difference okay so it is 0.003 so you can see and you can see here also. So the binomial distribution as p tends to 0 you can think of it as approaching the Poisson distribution so because of which for small p you can use Poisson distribution to calculate these probabilities. So this is one of the properties of the Poisson and we will also look at some other properties later after we do the normal distribution. So we have found that this is the last of the discrete distributions we have looked at Poisson distribution and this distribution has lots of use it is very important in studies like nucleation and it is also useful for finding out defects in the manufacturing process for example and it can also be used for approximating the binomial for very small values of p the probability that goes into the binomial distribution function. So to summarize we have looked at probability distributions specifically we have looked at discrete probability distributions we have looked at Bernoulli trials binomial negative binomial hyper geometric and Poisson distributions and we have looked at at least two very important cases where these distributions are of use one of them is a microscopy technique to get the composition of very small volumes so that is the atom probe technique where we found that negative binomial hyper geometric and things like that are useful and where we also did some error analysis along with the distribution so it is an interesting mix of problem and we have now also looked at Poisson distribution and how it is useful for understanding things like nucleation. So with this we are going to conclude the discrete distribution scenario there is one more uniform distribution which can be either discrete or continuous so we will come back to it at some later point and now we are going to move to continuous probability distributions of which the most important is of course normal so we are going to start with normal in the next session. Thank you.


We have another five minutes and I'd like to open to the audience for Q&A's, we have here a very diverse panel. We have one question here, maybe we can get a mic to the lady. Thank you for your very exciting panel. My name is Marie Rojibiloa and I have a question, especially for Professor Lang, but any of you can answer. You mentioned the multipolar world and as we know the BRICS had their geopolitical moments a few weeks ago. They account for what we hear, 40% of the world GDP. So do you consider the BRICS and the new doors they have been opening like a common currency in the new world financial architecture? Do you consider that a threat or this is a very positive development for trade? And the second question is what could become a danger coming from the BRICS? So, yeah, I'll take another two questions and then we'll try to answer. There's a second question here, third one here and then we'll try to answer. There's a question to the Magic Director of Total. How do you anticipate the decline of oil consumption because of electric engines and because of a green economy? And how will it affect the oil prices? Okay, thank you. That's the second question. There was a third question and then we'll start answering, just trying to manage time. Can we have the mic in the middle for the gentleman? Thank you very much for this exciting panel. I'm speaking from the viewpoint of former current member of several boards of large international companies. I wanted to ask you whether you shared this observation that I'm going to make and react on it. Probably one of the most striking things when it comes to strategic risks in the very past years has been the realization by very large multinational companies that they were not global companies opening, working globally and freely, but they were belonging to a nationality. They, all Western companies suddenly had to give up their activities in Russia, for instance, and they realized that they have to abide to a certain camp. Of course, they are making the same assessment with China and other areas of threat and they are taking consequences out of the situation in reshaping supply chains and the way they work and making themselves more immune to those political risks, as you have advised. Now, are they not by doing that sort of creating a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy and paving the way for possible increase of the likelihood of conflicts by reducing, in the very concrete way, through the way they operate, increasing the possibilities of conflict? Okay, thank you very much. So we'll try to answer every question in one minute to keep time. So Nicolas, do you want to take the question on energy transition and oil production? Yes, the decline in oil consumption, we don't have a crystal ball, a total energy, but we expect you know the oil demand to reach its peak during this current decade. And then to decline to a level you know, to be net zero by 2050, the oil demand you know could be let's say 20-25% of what it is today. There will still be an oil demand because you know there are some products that you cannot substitute actually, particularly for petrochemicals, and hence you know the need for compensation of this residual demand. The big uncertainty is on the pace of the decline, on how fast it's going to be. And regarding the question on oil price impact of all this, what's important to have in mind is that an oil field is not producing flat over time. So there is a natural decline of the production which is 4-5% per year. So it means that if you stop investing in oil projects in 10 years from now, the production will have decreased by 40%. So basically the price, the oil price, in order to keep it under control or at an acceptable level and it's a question of affordability of energy, companies need to continue investing in new development to offset the decline, or at least to offset the decline partly you know, when the demand is decreasing. Well I hope it drives the question. Very good, thank you. There was a question about by reshaping supply chains, by segregating supply chains, are we increasing the risk of conflict? Any 30 seconds, 30 seconds, what do you view? So I think the question was also about nationalism and US companies reacting, you know, quickly on the Russia situation by pulling out. I think in short I would say yes. When I read Jake Sullivan's Foreign Affairs piece, there's things in there, they don't mention the word trade, but there's other things in there that to me look like companies are becoming part of the industrial national security strategy of the United States in a way that I think limits freedoms in some ways. And I do think it's something companies need to look at very, very carefully. Thank you. The companies are very quick in responding to this kind of restrictions and many Korean companies are investing to have a stable supply chain into resource rich countries like Canada, Australia. There are lots of investments being made by Korean companies to establish a stable supply chain of critical minerals or raw materials. And diversifying. Jay, before Anton breaks, what do you view? I would just say there are a couple of additional factors to watch out for. One is the incredible upwelling of interest among stakeholders that were very vocal in the case of the Russia pullout, putting a lot of pressure on boards, a lot of pressure on executive teams through various means, direct engagement, social media, and through politicians. And this was facilitated in part by active tracking by many organizations that were looking at how compliant individual companies were with the spirit of the need to move out of Russia. And in the case of China, one can easily imagine something similar happening depending on what the scenarios that we're talking about. The other piece is the sanctions regime that was put in place, not just by the United States, but also by the European Union, by the United Kingdom, and others, was sufficiently broadly defined so as to encourage a conservative approach on the part of individual companies so that they could ensure they didn't run afoul of sanctions compliance. And we can see that although that makes it much more difficult to control if you're the sanctioning government, from a company perspective, it makes you want to listen to your lawyers who are telling you don't incur any risk when it comes to sanctions. Do the thing that's easiest, and in many cases, it was just to leave the market. Obviously, in the case of China, it will be a much more difficult conversation given how embedded supply chains are, market considerations are, but it's definitely on the minds of corporate leaders. Good, thank you very much. And I think on BRICS, our view is that there is very positive potential in bringing that together. I think if you look both from a trade perspective, from a financial perspective, from an energy perspective, I think BRICS has hugely kind of almost doubled its energy base by the expansion that was decided this year. And so from our perspective, I think it has much more to win than to be, in any case, a danger. So yeah, we had had a fast-paced discussion here on global trade. Penny, you said it's forceful good. I think we still believe in that. I would like to thank my panelists for this very broad perspective. For you, for your engagement. And I look further to very interesting discussions over the next few days. Thank you. Thank you.


From the Computer History Museum, in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE. Covering food IT, fork to farm, brought to you by Western Digital. Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Rick here with theCUBE. We're in Mountain View, California at the Computer History Museum at Food IT. A really interesting conference about 350 people talking about the impacts of IT and technology in the agricultural space. Everything from farming through to how you shop, how you consume, and what happens to the waste that we all unfortunately throw away way too much of. We're excited to have our next guest, Mike Wolf. He's the creator and curator of the Spoon and the Smart Kitchen Summit. Mike, welcome. Hey, thanks for having me. I'm excited. Absolutely. So first off, before we jump in, what do you think of the show here? It's great. It's very focused on agriculture and the food chain, which is crucial. I focus a lot on the kitchen when food gets to our homes, what we do with it, but this is a for it all starts, so it's really important. There's so much stuff going on with the kitchen and food preparation with all these services that will either bring you your meal or they'll bring you like pre-portioned and uncooked meals. So let's talk about a little bit. What is the Smart Kitchen Summit and what is the Spoon? So I've focused on the smart home a lot. Over my career, I've written a book on how to network your home. But about four or five years ago, I noticed no one's really talking about how we're going to recreate the kitchen. We focused from a digital home perspective on the living room. We saw the Netflix revolution over the top. We've seen the huge market value creation in the living room, but the kitchen was kind of left behind. So I said, let's start a conversation. Let's focus on how we can recreate cooking in kitchen. And the Smart Kitchen Summit's entering its third year has kind of become the preeminent event about how technology will reshape how we get food, bring it to our home, how we cook and how we eat it. Which is funny though, because people would always say, I'll have an iPad on the front of my fridge and it'll tell me when it's time to go get milk. Clearly that's a pretty low, not a real significant use case out of measures, a lot more to it than that. Yeah, I think tablets and screens and connecting to things with apps is like 5% of what's interesting. I mean, I think if you look at the refrigerator, the internet refrigerator, I was just talking to an LG guy. They created the first internet refrigerator in 2000 and it was like $20,000 and no one bought it because everyone said, why would I want to connect my refrigerator refrigerator to the internet? Well, I think we're kind of at this point now where now it becomes interesting, we can maybe have the fridge understand what our food is. You know, the fridge itself is kind of a, the family Bolton board, so why not put a big screen on there if it's only a couple of extra hundred dollars? Right. And so I think there's all sorts of ways in which we're getting food, like you said, new ways like Blue Apron, cooking by number services, new ways to cook food that are coming from the professional kitchen, like sous vide, high precision cooking technology that's democratized through technology and things like automated beer brewing appliances. I've always wanted to brew beer, but my wife said, no way you're going to like have the smelly beer coming in my house, but if I can use technology to make this automated and easy, I'm one of those guys that say, let's do that. Then I can brag to my friends that I've actually made beer at home. Right, right. Well, it's funny because we saw this other thing in the kitchen not that long ago, right? Where everybody had to have a wolf and it was kind of this, you know, kind of professionalize your kitchen with all these really heavy duty, you know, appliances that really most people probably don't need a wolf so they can keep their flimbay, you know, at the perfect temperature for extended periods of time. So what are some of these things that are coming down the line that people haven't really thought of that you see as you study the space? Well, so our research shows that everyone, almost every age group is using more digital technology in the kitchen and that's iPhones, smartphones and tablets because what they're doing is looking for what they're going to have for dinner. So that starts the process of digitization of the kitchen. And so you've seen almost for 17 years now, services like All Recipes and Yumly creating kind of this digital recipe services. Now we've also seen like really one of the most popular videos on the internet, Buzzfeed Tasty was the biggest video publisher for many months this year, doing couple billion views a year per month of these simple cooking videos. So a lot of it is very much generational. So millennials are grabbing on to these how to cook, you know, how to cook videos. They're very interested in cooking but the definition of cooking is changing. And so what they're seeing is the worrying about cooking through online but also maybe applying cooking technology in a new way. Whether that's like a very simple cooking appliance like a sous vide circulator or maybe like an air fryer or if you want to go high in something like a June oven. So if you look forward, starting to add artificial intelligence, image recognition and these type of technologies to the cooking process could make things a lot easier and make things faster and kind of give you cooking superpowers that you may otherwise not have. Right, it's so interesting. It continues to be a trend over and over that it's kind of the hollowing of the middle, right? You are either, you don't ever cook, right? And you're ever, everything is door dash or however you get your meal or you kind of get to some of these specialty items where you're way into it as a hobby. And I mean, those videos, the cooking mediums are fascinating to me, the popularity of those things. But if you're kind of stuck in the middle in the no man's land of what we think of maybe as a traditional kitchen, that's probably not a great place to be. Yeah, I think, you know, I'm a different archetype depending on the day of the week, right? I may be in the middle of the week and I'm tired, I have kids, I don't want to cook. Maybe something that automates my cooking, maybe makes it easy with food delivery that's fully cooked. That would be a great idea. But maybe on the weekend, I want to become like a maker and really, like I say, the only maker space in the home right now, besides the garage as a kitchen, it's where I'm actually using my hands to make stuff. And I think that's great nowadays when we're all spending so many times, so much time in front of screens, moving around ones and zeros with our mouses, I think, you know, our research shows that people want to cook, but the definition of cooking is changing. So they may be assembling salads or and they're buying something from Costco and they're calling that cooking. But I think if we can have technology that allows the statue to make stuff in the home where it's fresh, it tastes good, it's healthy and we feel like we're learning a craft, I think there's a lot of people that would want that. It's so interesting, there's makers in craftsmanship and you think back to kind of the traditional, beautiful cookbooks that people would buy maybe to actually use, maybe just because they want to be associated with that type of activity and those types of photographs and stuff. So it's a very different way to think about it as a maker versus I've just got to get the food out for the kids, I'm tired on a Thursday night at 6 p.m. Yeah, sometimes it's just sustenance, right? I mean, that's why packaged food is great. Like we like these protein bars, like they're expensive, but they provide everything we want and like a flat piece of food. But at the same time, like there's a whole food movement, you know, ever since John Mackie founded Whole Foods back in the early 80s until the time that Amazon acquired it, the customer base has been growing. What I think is interesting is we could potentially see the democratization of better quality food as we see the decentralization of processed food, right? So over the past 100 to 200 years, all the technology around food has been towards centralized processing in putting it into cans, making it, but what happens is you take all the nutritional value out of it. If you can start to think about bringing fresher food in the home, a lower cost to optimize value chains, like what maybe Amazon could do with Whole Foods, maybe that brings fresher food to the home at a lower cost to where it gets me on the five to 10% of the consumer, which is buying from Whole Foods. It's a high income type of retail channel, right? But I think everyone wants better food. So I think that's where I think technology could play a process. Was I just specifically, what are your thoughts on the Amazon acquisition of Whole Foods and the impact of that? Not only for those two companies specifically, but as a broader impact within the industry. I'm excited for what Amazon could do with this technology. I live in Seattle, so I've been watching their, what I would call, lab experiments with Amazon Go, which is this recreation of the grocery store, this idea of walk in, walk out, don't ever talk to cashier, that's really fascinating. And then you look at Whole Foods, which is a pretty traditional retail, or even though it's kind of created the organic food movement in a lot of ways, I think bringing Amazon technology into there is really exciting. I also think it validates the need for physical storefronts. I think Amazon's been trying to do online delivery, rolling trucks out to your home for 10 years. They've been working on Amazon Fresh for 10 years, and they haven't really reached massive scale. So I think this validates that idea of you need physical storefronts. Those physical storefronts may look very different in 10 years, but the fact that Amazon is going to need that as a distribution point, as a point of presence, in different neighborhoods, I think is fascinating. All right, well, Mike, we're almost out of time. I'll give you the last word. Where should people go to get more information about what you're up to? Yeah, go to the spoon.tech, if you want to see our writing podcast on the future of food and cooking. And if you want to come to our event, go to smirkagesummit.com. All right, you Mike Wolf, I'm Jeff Frick. You're watching theCUBE from Food IT, a lot of really interesting stuff. Again, it's all the way from the farm, the germination of the seeds, all the way through to what you eat, how you eat, and what you do with the stuff you don't. So thanks a lot, Mike. Yeah, thanks. All right, I'm Jeff Frick. You're watching theCUBE. We'll be right back after this short break. Thanks for watching.


Hey there, Chad Bons here for high university libraries. If you're looking for overall market and industry information for the restaurant industry, Passport GMid is a great place to look for that information. And this video shows you what you can find there and how to find it. So here you go. So this is the kind of data that you can get from Passport GMid in addition to good textual market research analysis as well. So this video is going to show you how to find this information in Passport GMid. So if you're looking to open a restaurant you need market research specific information on the restaurant or consumer food service industry. What you'll do is go up under industries and then click on consumer food service there. On the next page you have this information on the left-hand side. We're going to click under the search tree there. We'll just do consumer food service right there and you'll notice it turns blue. We can click on it now and click go. That's going to take us to this often bizarre looking drop-down box menu. But basically what you can do is go in and start selecting things you're looking at. So we're looking at a full service restaurant versus fast food. If you want to you can look at versus independent food service. If you drop down the full service restaurants there you can see that there's different kinds of things you can click on. As we click over on the things appear on the right-hand side there. So if we're starting an Asian restaurant we can click there. Middle Eastern things like that. So once we're satisfied with our list of information there we can scroll down and click on now choose geographies. And then because we're looking for primarily US information we can click on North America and then choose US. If you wanted to we could look at things like restaurants in Brazil or Argentina or Germany just by selecting one of the drop-down menus there for the appropriate region. So we'll scroll down satisfied with our categories and our geography. We click run search here and we're presented with all kind of information you can find in here. First thing you get is basically some statistics. You can also narrow down over here on the left-hand side if you want to. So I'm looking primarily for these industry overviews and category briefings. If these don't populate right up there what you can do is go down and click on country reports under analysis there and here we have fast food full service and consumer food service in the US. And so clicking there will give us the actual market research report. We get headlines, trends, competitive landscape, prospects and all kinds of category data that will be useful in analyzing the particular restaurant industry. If your restaurant is going to serve beer that sort of thing you can actually look for other information under industries, look for alcoholic drinks and get information that way to find information on the beer and wine market. You might also go over and look at here's cafes and bars in the US. For example, we'll give you other related reports that might be useful if you're opening a restaurant, a cafe, bar, that sort of thing. So good information to be had there in Passport GMed. Hope for this video helped you with your research. If you need more help look for the contact link on the business blog. Be glad to help you any way I can. Take care and best luck with your research.


All right Let's do this a reframe of it so I checked your mail and You are not sure if you're gonna have him drop the ball Looking is looking is looking what I am number two Okay, let's see. Yeah, I think you could sorry I was I was Thinking about what could you do? Of course, you know, you could have like a couple kids here and it's just So if he goes here, he's super excited. I Think what I would do To push the feeling that he is super excited See right now This is it's kind of a regular running pose And I think from the very beginning you can bring up the nose and twist the head over that so whatever he is doing He's really trying to to see What the word of order isn't what's going on, you know, if there's anything you do So here doesn't look like he's looking at it like from the very beginning I'll personally have it where he's like he's looking and have his head twisted over a bit Just really going I only want to see really want to see from the very beginning that very first pose already This could be I'm late to class. I mean, and I think even in the first pose You can make this read like I really want to know I really want to know it's going on I Think it's cute. I like how he jumps and I wonder if here The thing is if I'm looking at this right and I'm scrubbing My thing is always when you scrub through what can you see I can see this Or this that's pretty much all he does There's nothing here here here that it's very very confined in this area And I think in order to push what's going on a I would bring him up Because you want to deal in thirds So it's good to have him slightly off-center since he is looking left to right I think I would just position him around here that height and With ever so slight looking over this way so off-centred to the right so you maintain that left to right thing Right, there's a thing here Right because he's doing left to right So we're keeping the left to right of it and the thing is you know if he jumps here See how he's up up up up up up up up Boom, so here he could go low like right from the you're doing the compression across the cut And then he does one more jump You could be further away one more jump towards camera, right? He's really excited and then imagine when that's the floor and you're on your feet imagine you When you go on your on your tippy toes in order to peek over imagine he's doing that a couple times He comes in it'll jump compression jump forward and then has a bit of a you know you could have a bit of a Lean over he's checking his ball He's checking over here something where you can use that space a bit more.  Yes. That's about the amount of part of it, too and Then you know can think about what would read the best if you like this and goes I Know like a slump first and then slow blink look down or like eyes down Body stays and eyes down and then head follows and then slump a couple ways you can play this but even on that You know you can have a slump down with the heads come back up maybe like a eye dart looking with this with a sad look and then go completely down with the head and start turning it over Little head turn that leads across the cut into that So that you finish that head turn he gets into this Then I'm thinking yeah, it's not too bad You can just drop the ball and the ball was boom boom boom as he walks this way So his path is this and his hoped future is this way. They're parting ways visually, you know I Hope you something throw it away Kick it away You could stop and go you know what I'm gonna do it anyway next time. It's gonna be better and it's going to do the pom-pom-pom-pom pretend is playing and doing something I don't know a couple ways depends how you want to finish it But I think it's not too bad slumped and you know like the defeated slump walk with the ball going the other way I kind of like the visuals of him going this way in a ball doing this way. That's just me Yeah, that's about it and you're very welcome for your workshop Thanks for writing that and you bought your CTN tickets. I wish I could come too busy Unfortunately, well not unfortunately fortunately. I'm busy. That means I have a job But yeah, I'm not sure I want to come back. I've been only once there and it's been great. Anyway, make hit pause and open your sailor shots All right, and then there's an email in between with an arm scramble when he is trying to catch his balance Uh, so do you mean that in the first shot when he's you know, jumping jumping? I guess So, I don't know Kind of like what you had, you know polish it out I'm not sure if it needs to be I mean you could and it all depends how you act it out. Why not? You can try you can do a rough version Uh pitch the idea Not sure if you need it Not sure if you gain too much out of it, but you can try why not? Uh, and then we have This guy's go back You know what I see I see a man without a country Not hard enough for this right here and maybe just maybe not smart enough for them out there All right, so I like this a lot. I would say Splendid this out, you know, look at the timing and offsets and you know Kind of go with your hand poses and potentially scale line at hand a huge massive hand Uh, but then I would definitely watch out for this And by that I mean Uh, there are a ton of accents you can put in there You know what I see I see a man You know what I see you can hear It's going to say you have a little wire rotation seat like a sideways thing But you don't want to make you don't make sure it's not too twins with this. Maybe maybe not What I see I see a man without a country Like man, you know, like a nice facial thing where you get the lips together with head up a bit I see a man without a country country. Definitely like a chin forward Move the head forward type of thing without a country not You have the country you can have a bit of a swing up or swing to the side or stay low Like you can country leads into a long move that bridges that Not hard enough for this Not hard enough for this right here and right here Could have right here like a little side maybe like a nod or something Not hard enough for this right here and maybe See maybe it's like a knot in between country Not hard enough for this right here and maybe Yeah, there's enough time like right here and right between right after says here with a nod down Enough for this right here and maybe And I think for that Like that I like for maybe but you could I would start this from A straight position Uh my tool sometimes is very interesting networks Now it's delayed it's kind of fun So it's straight that maybe on the maybe then you get into that So that way you have somewhere to go it was right now you're kind of stuck in that angle the head is in Right here and maybe just maybe would have that type twist and tilt Just maybe not smart enough for them out there and then on smart All right, so he's going left Maybe just maybe not smart enough and on smart he can whip that head around To then have that angle You know a little quick reversal For them out there And then that you know what I see when you are leaning That way right I tool again and then when he points That's when he can bring the head back into it. So he points and like you know in a way almost archers back Or arcs back the head or also points, you know, it doesn't have to be completely twinned with his hands But when you're doing it here But imagine he's also doing it not just in y but from ahead to this to that There you go that makes sense weird scribbles That's kind of it. That's kind of what I would do. Definitely, you know, you're in good position body wise Really think about how can you Make the head work so that you know the main thing for me with lip sync is always that You want to make sure that the words as they come out that the body is influenced by them And it's reacting by it. So you have a big strong whatever word Then it comes out of the chest if it's a big jaw move and you feel like You're like that jaw really shoots down But because the joy is so fast and strong it's going to pull the head down a bit It's gonna, you know, have a little accent because of the jaw So a lot of stuff where you can really tie the head To the audio and not just in broad accents to kind of mimic like a muppet type of thing But just making sure that if there is anything that the jaw is doing You know, it will affect the head even if it's a slight twist or a tilt or whatever All right, that's kind of it. Thank you All right, there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want You can submit whatever you want you get 16 submissions either way the like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you


Dear students, in this topic, we shall discuss in detail the prostaglandins. Prostaglandins are hormone-like local regulator substances. They are derived from cyclic, long chain, unsaturated hydroxy fatty acids. Up to now, 16 prostaglandins have been discovered. Prostaglandins are produced by all or nearly all tissues of the body. They are synthesized in the membranes from arachidonic acid which is produced by the cleavage of phospholipids by phospholipase enzymes. Dear students, Most prostaglandins play two or three roles. Some work as paracrine agents and keep a local effect. While some prostaglandins work as endocrine hormones and act on distant target tissues. On their target cells, they bind to cell surface receptors and are linked to cyclic AMP pathway. They produce a short-lived and rapid response just like the lipid insoluble hormones. Dear students, prostaglandins have diverse actions on various tissues. They have role in fertilization. They have role during labor. Their role is also present in blood clot formation. They are also involved in the maintenance of stomach lining and in the production of erythro-poietin hormone. They also regulate blood pressure. We shall discuss all these functions of prostaglandins in detail. First we shall discuss their role in fertilization. Semen produced by males has certain prostaglandins that aid our help in fertilization. These prostaglandins present in semen play two roles. One is to react with female cervical mucus and make it more receptive for the sperm movement. Second is to produce such contractions in the smooth muscles of the uterine wall that help the sperm to reach the egg. Now we shall discuss their role in labor i.e. childbirth. Placenta produced near the start of childbirth. These prostaglandins make the muscles of uterus more excitable by oxytocin. As a result the contractions of uterus wall are enhanced during labor. The role of prostaglandins in immune response is also very important. Damage tissues produce certain prostaglandins during immune response. These prostaglandins act as local regulators of inflammation. As a result they produce fever and inflammation. They also intensify the sensation of pain. Sensation of pain is also an important part of immune response which prevents the damage from other parts of the body. Prostaglandins enhance pain by increasing the sensitivity of nociceptors i.e. pain receptors. During immune response a substance called interleukin-1 is produced. This interleukin-1 produces a particular type of prostaglandin E2. E2 prostaglandin plays an important role in fever reactions because it acts on hypothalamus and produces fever reactions. Here is an important practical use of aspirin. In all these three symptoms, aspirin is used as an anti-piratic, anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving agent to block the synthesis of prostaglandins and as a result it gets relief from these three symptoms. Here students, now we shall discuss the role of prostaglandins in blood clot formation. Prostaglandins help in aggregating platelets and making blood clots and this is the reason why aspirin is also used as an anti-clot agent because it inhibits the formation of prostaglandins. Dear students, certain prostaglandins help to maintain the protective lining of stomach as aspirin interferes with the synthesis of prostaglandins so continuous use of this medicine causes damage of the stomach lining and as a result heart patients continue to use aspirin in stomach irritation or ulcer. Here students, prostaglandins also play an important role in the production of erythropoitin which is a hormone that stimulates the production of erythrocytes i.e. red blood cells. This hormone is produced by the kidneys and these prostaglandins affect the kidneys. Dear students, some prostaglandins act on smooth muscles of the blood vessels and cause them to their vasodilation or vasoconstriction. Both processes are regulated by blood pressure.


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