There you are. There you are. Back to the channel y'all. It is the dog days of summer. So in today's video we're doing some kayak fishing with my best friend Greg. Old Craig's got a stock pond in his family that is pretty special and it's just loaded with a lot of three pound plus largemouth bass. But it is still tough fishing this time of year and this is when I like to get out of the top waters early early morning right at sunrise and then after nine o'clock you're pretty much praying for a bite. And this is when soft plastics are a heavy part of the program. I like to throw worms, worms, more worms and worms for the next few months or something about worms. They just work fantastic in the summertime and we got all kinds with Guggen Bates. So if you guys want to get some of the baits that I'm using in today's video or anything else, worms, craws, creature baits, whatever, GuggenSquad.com you can always use my promo code LFG to save 10% off, not just baits but the entire set. That's enough talk. Let's get out on the water in the kayak and get to ripping some lips. Remember how to work this thing? Look at him feeding out here. A little popper. Come on, Sally. Crop it and give it a little top atop it. Right out in the middle for the old big summer fish. There you go. Hey, buddy. Alrighty, y'all out here early morning. Couple of buddies. Just starting off with a little poppin' style bait. The old blooper. And this lake is actually stocked with crawfish. Oh, there was a boil up there. We got to get that fish. Oh, there he is. There he is. Come here now, son. Come here now, son. You liked the little paws on that, didn't you? Just pulling me around in the kayak. Haven't been kayak fishing in a while. This is kind of fun. Just a totally different feel to it. Oh, yeah. Nice fish. Hooked up. Yeah, he's pulling me around a little bit. Just, you know, beautiful three-pounder. Oh, yeah, I got double hooks, too. Look how healthy this fish is, y'all. I mean, for a, you know, dang near August fish, fairly small mouth compared to the body size. That's just nice. That's just good to see right there. Look at that. Beauty. The fish is actually over three. Just chunked up. Oh, bloop, bloop. Oh, God, Lee. I haven't got away from him in there. Little reaction rod. That one was with the topwater. Blooper out. Fish all good. See ya. Well, given the fact that there was not a frog blow up on the cypress roots out of the gate, I'm willing to bet that they're doing their little scooly thing out deep. What's it, dude? It's just in there. Holy cow. Greg, get on it. You throw that popper over there. That's him. That's her, baby. I'm going to do a little whacking. Yeah, I think that's... And I will catch a big one. Just off the shore. Oh, there's one. Oh, hey. Oh, yeah. This is what you can catch when you try on a wacky worm. Look how healthy that fish is, though. It's a very healthy little... little young lad. Oh, I can feel it. I can feel that doink coming. Oh, I got something solid here.  There you are. That's dandy. Yep, getting worked on the spinny spin. That's just a decent strong as hell. Oh, come on now. You're not that big. You're not that big. Just strong. It's long. There you go. Have a nice day. Thank you very much. All right, little wacky. Sun is coming out. This is the time. This is where the worms and the jigs start to do the damage. Just throwing off from the bank a little bit. We start getting in that four or five foot of water. This tapered grass line. Oh, there's one. Oh, yeah. What have we got here? What do we have here? Just a decent one. Oh, yeah. Oh, you're so pretty. Give me that face. Don't do that. My goodness.  Just beautiful. Love to see it. We're just going to do a little bit of worming while we've still got some shade line on these pockets. Get that mid-depth. Like, usually when the top water turns off, they're still kind of they'll boil on top water, but they won't like fully eat it. That's when I love to throw something weightless like this. It doesn't have to be wacky style, but just something weightless plastic. This pocket is just tailor-made. Tailor-made right now for weightless. Oh, there's a bite. Took my worm. He was running with it good. Hard thump, too. There's one. Little guy. Little bitty dude. Oh, there's a bite. Come on, baby. Yeah. I figured. Goodness, these little fish are healthy. All right, little dude. Grow up. Oh, there's a bite. Oh, it's a little donker bite. Little rat-a-tat-tat. There's a, there's a point that comes out here into the big part of the pond. It's real shallow. And I threw up there earlier. I didn't catch anything up top with the top water, so I'm going to throw in this kind of mid-depth area. I'm going to guess it's four or five foot deep. Transitioning out into the deepest part of the lake. And there should be some grass tapering out here. It's just a good area for fish to hold.  It uses a little feeding platform. There's a bite. Oh, God, that one felt good. That one felt good.  Dad gum it. Worm got buggered. Let's see if I can get that fish again. That happens sometimes if you don't use a ring. I don't have any rings on me. I really like those new ones that can face your hook point in the right direction. I mean, number one, you get to get more fish out of your soft plastic, but number two, you just get a better hook set.  There's one. There we go. Come on, baby. Little guy zipping around. Look at that strength. Yep. Just a little guy. No, it's a little bass. A little healthy guy. I don't know. Not really. Just hit it really hard. No, I'd set the hook right away. Not very big. Just very aggressive. Man. I mean, for the size, pretty incredible. Chunk. Yeah, it's not right. Yeah, I'm used to picking up bass this time of year and you're like, where did all their weight go? Long and skinny. Yeah, these are, you could feel, feel the chunk. If you guys ever get a bite and you miss the fish and you're trying to figure out if it's a big one or not, if you just get one thump, it's just a bonk. That's usually a good fish. If you get a dink, dink, dink, like a couple little bites, smaller fish doesn't mean it's always that way. But that's usually how it goes down. There's a bite. Oh my goodness. Little buddy. There's a bite. Oh, come on now. Be a stud, baby. Come on. Working this new green series, really, y'all. Really been liking it. Oh, that hook is in that good position to go right in my hand. And I'll catch that fish every day of my life. 14 inch standard unit right there. Just jumped about 3 feet in the air. Want to hook them? Awesome. Yeah, fishing that green series uh, spinning reel and man, I've got no complaints on this thing. No complaints at all. I especially love the grip. The grip, man, it's real tacky. It's wide. It's how I like all my real handles to be. Grab a good old juicy large, man. Go catch that next when you want a good solid grip on there. Yeah, but seriously everything feels solid. Feels very solid. Good bail. Drags, not bad. Oh, I got another one. Little boy. Little boy. Oh my gosh. Look at the belly on this thing. Dude, you need Ginny Craig. Actually, forget Ginny. Live your best life, dude. Oh, he's got a little red coming out of his bum hole. He's been eating him crawfish now. Which uh, this black and red color y'all, definitely looks like that. I've actually caught fish out of here before. They have crawfish, pincers sticking out of their mouth. I caught one today. But that one that I just caught even though he's a little guy he had like red doodoo.  Got that eight boys. Oh yeah. Eight incher. Oh, he's bigger than an eight incher, but no eight pounder. Come here. Give me that face. Ah, man. Alright, let that fish go. Just another beauty on the whack. I had to just go back to that whacky, man. I'm going to do something very important right now and retime a line. Because I've had four or five fish eat this thing like it was their last meal on earth. Fresh and clean. But our last Lunker log. It's pretty good. We can go through a whole pack. Whole pack in a day.   Oh yeah, well that's a good one. Right by the boat. Oh goodness. He's going out to sea. That's a good one. Oh! Yeah, I lost a big one. God, he was right on that deep deep edge. Got no idea what happened on that last fish. It was a good one. It's the biggest one I've hooked all day. It's at least four. Looks like four and a half. I had a big old belly on it. I was already thinking about grabbing his lips and giving him a sniff. And then just pulled off right under the boat too. It's my favorite thing about fishing in a kayak is it's so quiet. I just pitch my bait out there and then line starts moving. Two feet away from the boat. It's crazy. That's why kayak fishing is really stealthy. It's really fun. Great day on the water y'all. Top water as predicted. Pretty much shut off right after sunrise. Had about a 30 minute window. Couldn't even get the frog in the shallow grass. A lot of those fish have moved out and you'll start to see in the summer especially fall. They'll group together deep spots over points and they'll rush bait fish into shorelines and all sorts of schooling activity. But when you don't see them busting it's a great time to drag a worm or maybe throw a weightless bait like I was today. Quick programming note. I've been doing kind of adventure style videos on Mondays and then I'll throw a vlog in there later in the week. But I've decided on Tuesdays I want to do a dedicated technical style video. A lot like what I used to do where it's strictly informational. We're getting down into the technicals of a piece of gear that I'm using a technique. Whether it be in fishing. Maybe it's hunting. Maybe it's something else really cool that I've just discovered that I want to share with you guys. So look for those videos on Tuesdays. And this next one coming up I'm going to break down my entire weightless rig setup. I know I've seen a ton of comments on what line are you using. I'm just going to break down the entire thing from literally the hook all the way to the reel. So subscribe to the channel. Leave a comment down below and check me out on Instagram and the other socials as well. As always God bless you and your outdoor adventures. Godspeed and I'll see you on the next one. There he is. Little boy. Leave these things here. Just future heavyweights.


Today we are going to demonstrate how to prepare Masala Dosa.  And so it's very rich in carbohydrates and proteins and since it's prepared with minimal oil, that makes it an even healthier dish. And you can enjoy Dosa like for breakfast or lunch or dinner or even as a quick snack anytime of the day. And there are many types of Dosa like plain Dosa or paper Dosa but today we are going to show you how to prepare a special kind called Masala Dosa. So the first thing to prepare and the main thing to prepare is the Dosa batter. You just need four simple ingredients and they are, here we have one and a half cups of rice and then we have half teaspoon of fenugreek seeds but this is an optional ingredient if you don't have it, it's fine. And then we have black gram beans over here and you can find these in Indian stores and then we have salt to taste. We have to wash the rice and the water. This is the black gram beans and this is fenugreek seed so we'll mix together and wash it also.  Let it sit like this and ferment for like six to eight hours more in the winter months and you'll see the level of the batter rise over time and it's because of the bubbles from the fermentation and then you can mix it like this and the consistency should be similar to this, not too thick or not too thin. If it's too thick you should add water and make sure the consistency is something like this. And then at the end of this after fermentation you add salt to taste. We've already added salt, we added just salt to taste, depends on your taste and so that's the batter and you set it aside. So the next thing we have to make is the masala chutney and this is what makes it masala dosa. Like all the other kinds of dosas they don't involve this chutney so this is a pretty important part. And for that you need these ingredients. So you need salt to taste and then you need one teaspoon of cumin powder and one fourth cup of Bengal gram and these can be found in Indian stores. Then two tablespoons of lime juice and you can use some tomato ketchup but that's optional and then half teaspoon of ginger and two to three cloves of garlic and then four to five dry red chili. But you can change this according to how spicy you want it to be. You can put less or even more if you want but this is the medium spicy. And then you have to soak this in water for about four hours to make it soft so it's easier to mix. After all the grinding this is the final masala chutney. Okay so now the final step before we make the actual dosa is the potato stuffing. And for that here are the ingredients. So we need two baked potatoes boiled and peeled and then half mashed like this and then two tablespoons of oil of your choice. Salt to taste. Two stems of curry leaves and then two stems of coriander leaves chopped like this and then one to two green chilies chopped. We've actually already added the green chilies into this. Then half teaspoon of Bengal gram and half teaspoon of black gram we put them together. And then half cup of peas and one fourth teaspoon of dry mango powder and one fourth teaspoon of turmeric powder. And then we have here one teaspoon of mustard seeds and one dry red chili. We're going to break this into small pieces later. And then here one medium sized onion chopped like this. For making potato stuffing we have to heat oil in a pan. Medium heat. Yeah medium heat. Let us see whether it is hotter or not. Then we put this red chili, dry red chili broken into pieces. Then mustard seed. Mustard seed will crackle after. So when the pan is hot enough you can see the mustard seeds crackling. So that was the black gram beans and Bengal gram beans. Then add this curry leaves, onions, potatoes, boiled and mashed. Then with dry mango powder the potato stuffing is ready. So this is coriander leaves and green chilies. This is other onions. Okay so now that all three parts are done we're going to incorporate each of them and we're going to make the final dosa dish. For making dosa you have to heat the pan. Smear some oil all over the pan before then sprinkle some water.  Then damp in a white pan with a damp cloth so that the temperature will reduce little. Spread it over the pan in a circular motion. Increase the heat to medium with some time so that it puts some oil over the edges so that it will not stick to the pan. Okay so this is the masala chutney we made earlier. Then just spread it evenly. Basically you have to wait for the dosa to become golden brown. You serve it with coconut chutney and sambar. This is the coconut chutney. It's good to eat the dosa with this. You can also eat it with sambar. It's kind of like a soup and you just dip the dosa in this. I'm sure they'll definitely love it.


I am Marisa Yostara and I am from Indonesia. I'm currently studying a third grade from my study at Flinders University in Adelaide and I am majoring at Master of Art teaching English as the speaker of other languages. The best thing to study at Flinders University is I feel a very encouraging kind of atmosphere here and everybody is going to help me whenever I got a problem so it's very fantastic and comfortable. My favorite experiences is in addition to my studying I also participate in promoting my culture of Indonesia in Rindang Saman Adelaide so we are promoting we are dancing in many places and promoting our culture that works. That was really really amazing. What motivated me to study in Australia is I feel that the education system is very well done and very good so I can learn so many things from the education and I can share the knowledge I get to my home country. I will definitely have a different perspective of my work because I think I will apply what I have got here and I will also share this experience with other teachers so they can work.


Sort of ask, like, who's sort of a beginner for JavaScript encoding? OK, and who's like, does this as like your regular job? Who's like more of a, and who's just here because I had nothing better to do on a, OK, that's all right. So I'm going to talk a little bit about something I built in September. I started in September. I then worked on it and finished it in December. So I normally work in PHP, and I do a lot of business stuff. But I had this objective last year to build something in React Native. Does anybody know what React Native is? All right, cool. So I'll need to. What do you need? Oh, no wonder. Oh, you don't have HDMI? No, this is an old baby. This is the, uh. OK, because we need to connect from here in order for So I think you can, can you do through this work? No, no, no, no, no problem. Ah, got it. Tap the feed. No, no problem. Let me just turn off. It's all right. Let me just turn this off. How much time do you want me to, how much time do I get? Sorry. We'll do 25 minutes. All right, let's do it. All right, so this is where you can find me. Best thing to do is you can find me on email. I like to write a lot of strange stuff about tracking. Oops. Let's see here. Too much technology. So if you want to check out the slides, you can put them up on GitHub. I put it in the Meetup page as well. So I got a question. How many photos do you think the average smartphone user takes in a year? Any guess? How many photos people take in a year? Most smart. A thousand, any other guesses? Three thousand. Three thousand. Bigger, smaller? Two million. Why not? According to some research, and now this is sort of unofficial, the average person takes 475 photos a year. Now in my opinion, I take more than 475. But that's the average. And so I found this to be an interesting data point. There's all of these photos that are being taken, and there's all this kind of magic about the photos, but there's also this data point. And so what I got interested in was trying to understand this data. And so I wanted to understand what do your photos say about you or what do my photos say about me? And so what I'm going to talk about today is I'm going to talk about self-tracking a little bit about quantified self, about photo data, and then I'm going to talk about how I built an app on React Native. Just to give you my background, I'm not like a professional coder. This is just me figuring stuff out, trying stuff.  So like I said, this is my name is Mark. I'm a tech entrepreneur, mostly a web developer, a writer, and a rather obsessive tracker. And does anybody track stuff here? Does anybody track anything in their lives? Yeah, what do you track?  Yeah, what about you? I track my sleeping hours. Ah yeah, how much sleeping do you get, you think? I try to get 8 hours, but not every day. Yeah, yeah. Anything else you track? You said you track? Yeah, steps. Steps? Yeah, anything else? You were telling me you use an app called Rescue Time, so that's a way to track your time. Yeah, what about you? Fitness Tracker. Fitness Tracker, yeah.  Yeah, anybody else track anything? Well, I will admit that I'm probably on the extreme of tracking. So last year I decided to do, instead of a coding challenge, I decided to do a tracking challenge. But to give you sort of the background, this is part of this kind of movement or this thing called the quantified self. The quantified self is this idea of measuring or documenting something about yourself so that you gain meaning or some insight. And I will admit that I'm a bit on the extreme side. I track a lot of aspects of my life. What do I track? Well, I track my time. Probably this is where I started. About three, four years ago I started to track my time. And the easiest way to track your time is this thing called Rescue Time. You put it on your computer and it starts looking at what you're doing and then you see, oh no, I spent two hours every afternoon looking at cat videos on YouTube or on Facebook or something. It's a little bit interesting. It's like you collect data and you get these insights from it. I'm also a big fan of tracking my tasks. And I use these because I believe that I can use my time more efficiently. I want to work less but get the same amount of productivity. And I've used this data to then kind of look at how my year goes. Because I think if you work a lot you get these burnout cycles. So that's how I use some of my data. I track way too much. This is some of the health data I track. So like a lot of you I track my fitness and different sort of things. If you want to geek out on something that you've maybe never heard of, look up this thing called Heart Rate Variability. It's a way to measure your stress. And it's extremely, extremely interesting. My guess is that will be the future of a lot of fitness kind of stuff. And so last year I did 4.2 million steps. And this came actually from a problem. Two years ago I was working way too much. I was 15 kilos heavier. I couldn't run, I don't know, 50 meters. And I'd get tired. And in the last year I've done two marathons, two half marathons of 5K. And I just feel better. And I think having data was very helpful for me to learn about different stuff. And then the other things I track, and maybe this gets even more extreme, how many books I read, the music I listen to, the TV I watch. Now this was mostly just for last year because this takes a bit more work. And I also built a year ago I built a podcast tracker. Does anyone listen to podcasts? Yeah, so this is a tool I built to keep track of how many podcasts I listened to. And so last year I listened to 298 hours of podcasts. I'm not sure if that's important data to have, but that's something I learned. And like a lot of you I track my money and stuff like that. And I've got all these explorations in the data as well. And so I can share that later. But what I discovered in tracking all of this data and looking at all of this data is that I think there's two opportunities or two things happening with tracking and the data space. And you're seeing this in startups and you're seeing this in the Singapore government thinking about stuff as well. The first thing I noticed is that there's still a lot of work to be done from deriving meaning, insight and stuff. There's all this data, but we're not really doing anything with it or there's a lot of opportunities to do it. The second thing I learned is I think there's still a lot of new data points to discover. So like I said, you know, working with the data and then getting more and more data. And in thinking about this over an entire year I kind of came up with an idea of a data point to track and to find insight. And that's your photo data. There's sort of two sides to your photo data, right? Does anyone know what computer vision is? What's computer vision? It's right. Like computer is able to understand what is in the photo, right?  But there's this other kind of data I was surprised nobody was thinking about or looking at. And that's the metadata, the context data. And so metadata is quite simple. It's the extra baggage. So when you take a photo, it tracks a lot of different things. It tracks the camera you used, the time you took it, the place you took it, and all kinds of like extra stuff. And it's like the baggage. So the metadata puts your photos in context. And so what I was thinking about, I'm like, damn it, there's all of these photos, but I don't really get any stories out of it. I don't really understand anything about it. So I kind of started digging in on this data. So I just took my photos and I started pulling out the data with all kinds of different tools, like Python and all kinds of stuff. And I found there's some different aspects of metadata that we can collect or the data's already on there, right? Location, date, camera type, all of this technical data about your photos, but there was no way to sort of aggregate it to think about it and to learn from it. And so I started asking my question, how do you get your metadata? Is that data important? And I tried a bunch of different tools, but like a classic maybe tracker or engineer, I'm like, nobody's built it, so I decided to build my own. And so about maybe three weeks ago, I finally launched the public version. So if you wanted to download it and like break the system, I created an app called Photostats.io. With a very simple idea, just pull all your photos, get all the data, and then if you want, you can try to learn from it. And so this was an experiment for myself and then an experiment in trying to build it in React Native. So just to sort of finish what I wanted to do was I wanted an app that would collect the data on my photos and then export it so that I could study it. Also, I wanted to get the data, so when anybody used like backup services like Google Cloud or any of those things, do you know what the problem with Google Cloud is? They throw away all your data, actually. So only one service that backs up your photos doesn't throw it away. And that's the sexiest one, it's Flickr, right? So if you're backing up your photos into Google or to Dropbox, unfortunately, they remove a lot of that data and so you lose it. So I decided I wanted to build something to sort of collect that data and even when you delete that data, you still have all of this meta-context data.  And so I wrote down this list. I'm like, all right, this is a weekend project.  It's a one-year project, right? It wasn't quite a one-year project, but a weekend project turned into much bigger.  I've built apps a long time ago, but I decided earlier in the year I wanted to do it in React Native. So React Native is a JavaScript library. I'll talk about it more that makes you able to build native apps.  And I had three things I wanted. I wanted to access photo library on the phone. I wanted to extract the metadata and I wanted to export the data. I said, all right, I'm going to do it in the weekend. And I decided to do it with React Native just to sort of give you a background about what React Native is. React Native is kind of another kind of framework on top of React. And so React is a JavaScript library to help you do all kinds of dynamic apps. So you're writing JavaScript code, or React code, to then generate an actual app. So anybody who remembers this whole cycle like five years ago, we would build web apps, right? So you'd have these web views. This is not a web view. It's not a hybrid app. It generates is native code in Objective-C and code in Java. So it's extremely powerful and it's built by this very small company called Facebook. And there's a couple of very famous apps that are built on React Native. Probably the most famous one that probably all of you have and you probably didn't know is the Airbnb app. That's built on React Native. So that can give you a sense of how maybe sophisticated an app you can build in React Native. And it's extremely popular. I'm going to try to explain it just really fast, high-level what is React. So React is a kind of... I don't know, is anyone a React programmer? Can you explain what React is? A component-based for what? Yeah, reusable components that work with the DOM, right? So it's a kind of predictable pattern. Is there a better definition to anybody? Because actually, I don't do React. I just do React Native. But this is a good way of sort of explaining it. You create these components that you can reuse over and over and over again. So one of the powers of React Native, like React, is the code is really reusable. And I'll show that a little bit. But the way React Native is slightly different is you build these components and then it uses these connectors that then generates the native code in iOS and stuff like that. I'm going to skip this. So the basic gist is React renders to and manipulates the browser's DOM. There's probably a better definition, but that's how I understand it. React Native is not rendering web-based views. It's in fact invoking the APIs of Objective-C to create iOS components and Java APIs to do Android components. So it's creating real stuff. And the code you write feels a little bit like HTML. So one of the cool things, if you're really a basic programmer or just like a really lazy programmer, you can do all kinds of amazing things with very basic knowledge. And so you have these kind of React components that are HTML components and they kind of fit with what becomes React Native View. So you've got the view, the text, the list view. And you use these and a lot of similar ideas to how you do HTML. I'm going to skip this. If you ever want to learn how to do it, super easy, you go on the Facebook page and it'll explain how to get started, but I don't always time. So my weekend project was these three features. Get to the photo library, extract the metadata, and export the data. And so I'm going to show you real fast how I built this in a weekend in a very bad way. So there's a little command you do is it'll generate all of this code. React initiates. And I want to look at two or three different files. So the first thing is the index.ios.js. And so that's a pretty simple file. I don't know if it's big enough. So there's just a couple of lines of code and this is almost you just do it once and you do it. So this is the code to register it and create your app and create its name. Super simple. And then what we're doing is we're sort of linking it to the app.js file. And so in my case I did a bit of research and I discovered I really only needed one API. So meaning the React Native API for this camera roll. Looking back I may have done it a different way, but I was able to sort of Google, Google, Google, search, search, search and there was the method I needed was get photos. And so we'll just kind of skip over this a little bit but this is the code in the app.js and so this is sort of the navigation flow. I don't really have time to talk about all this but the main thing is that we've got this first image list that's one file that does most of the work. And so I don't really have time to explain it all but you're importing all of these different component parts. So from React Native we've got all of these little pieces and so the main one I ended up using is this one called camera roll here. Oops. And then just to sort of get this a little bit farther along this is the code to create the gallery. And so this is not great code but I had two goals. I needed to collect everything in the dates and then collect the photos. And I then invoked it. So I used this simple method. I mean this code is not beautiful but this is the code I wrote in a weekend and I don't really know JavaScript either. But it's a pretty simple method right so you use the camera roll to then call the methods and then you use all these different steps to extract the data. You can look at it online. So the point was at the end of the weekend I had accomplished one thing. What was that? I was able to access the photo library which was cool. So I was able to access the photo library and to get some basic stats. I wasn't able to get the full metadata. I was able to get some metadata because the camera roll API gave me some stuff. I wasn't able to really export the data because I didn't have a data model. I didn't even really know what the data model was. And so at the end of the weekend I sort of changed my objectives. All right I need to start with figuring out what the library is to get the data. I also needed data model probably for me the biggest problem about thinking about apps and thinking about this different way of doing about it is I didn't know how to manage data. So if you come from a web background you're always like I'll just ask the database. Everything's in the database, get from the database. But when you're in an app world it's a little different and maybe you don't even want a database. So the other thing I discovered is my code had no structure. I didn't know what I was doing and I really had terrible, terrible UI and design. So I decided after the weekend I really wanted to start cheating. So I did a couple of things. I decided I needed starter code. So I built my next version using native base. So this is a really cool library where you can get all kinds of decently designed components for React Native. Meaning how the buttons look, you can get all these different things. But I decided that wasn't even good enough yet. I wanted to cheat one more step. So I decided to buy a React Native theme. I didn't want to do the design. I also needed to learn. So I spent 100 bucks and I got this nice looking design. So this was a cool one. It was called the flat theme. And you'll see how that's the basic design I ended up using. And what was cool about this is from a learning perspective I had a group of people that do their own React Native code all the time so I could copy their structure. So when you're doing anything new, the biggest stress is you have no orientation. So when I got this theme I had a structure to work in and I could relax and say, alright, I can write code here. Their code is the navigation. Or their code manages some of the data structure. And so not only did I get an app that looks better, I also was able to know where I needed to put my own code. And so just to get a sense of the structure is a lot of the same stuff remains, but we're using all of the sort of presentation stuff is in the screens. There's a kind of theme layer. And then there's these components. And so that's what you were saying. This code you can reuse over and over and over again. Alright. So this was the other thing I got from this theme is I got all of these pre-built screens. All these pre-built pages. And so I could use these as the starting point to do whatever I wanted. I wasn't going to use the design exactly. I wasn't exactly going to use the features, but I had starter code, which was awesome. I also found a library. One of the lessons about React Native and probably most coding is use open source code with like vigilance, right?  But this library did work for me. I'll talk about this a little bit. Probably the biggest thing for me to learn and I think learning in general about maybe React Native and apps in general was data management, data storage and data models. Because I come from a background of doing stuff in SQL, right? And so that's kind of the way you think. But what I started working, so I probably had multiple solutions to this problem and I sort of kept thinking do I want to back end some persistent storage? How do I do all of this sort of modeling? And that's probably because I'm sort of a lazy programmer who never really studied stuff. But what's cool is because React Native has so many patterns, you just follow the most popular patterns. And so one of the important patterns is this thing called Redux. And so I don't know how would you explain Redux? You're not familiar with that one. But Redux is basically a library that helps you manage the state. So when you're doing React Native stuff in React in general, you're throwing all kinds of stuff into the state object. I mean, we all know this in JavaScript, your state object can get like pretty crazy. And so this is sort of patterns that make it more manageable. I'm not an expert either. But one of the things I started working this out was I needed to I have other ones, but I really had two objects I needed to define and manage. The object and the image object. The point being is my photos all needed to be stored in an object around dates and I needed to store the information around an image object. We don't really have time to talk about this, but I can kind of give you the gist. The gist is I sort of define the objects in these things called reducers. It's another sort of structural stuff. And then I defined everything in the date object. The actual, I didn't realize this at the time, but essentially what I got was a JSON object that I could then extract. It's not exactly that, but that's how I understand it. I eventually started thinking about how I was going to store this data. And so there's a couple of options. There's this async storage where you can sort of built into RAC Native. You can use SQLite. You can use Firebase, which is the Google thing. There's another one called Realm. You could also build a backend. Something called React Persist. And what I decided was I didn't want a backend. I decided no backend, because one of the cool things, at least for now, is if you're extracting all of your photo data, maybe you don't want to share it. So that's all stays on the app. So I said no backend. That was kind of like the challenge. No backend. Store locally and sort of have a model that's for exporting and doing some stat stuff. Well, so imagine four weeks later, blah, blah, blah, blah. I figure out a bunch of stuff and it looks like it looks okay. I'm getting my stats. And I've started creating some reports. So these are some of the screenshots. I'm going to skip this. So you can ask me more sort of technical questions about this. That's just sort of a general overview. But I wanted to sort of share my lessons learned. Because I don't have a big background in JavaScript or a strong background in JavaScript. So this was kind of my first entry point. And what I found is as a web programmer, it was a pretty cool entry point to doing mobile apps. Because a lot of the syntax is readable. I didn't get to show it very clearly, but as you can see, you have this syntax to create styles that feels very familiar to anyone who does CSS. So like I said, React Native is a good entry point for web developers to get into mobile apps. I actually found that React Native apps perform really well. They're really fast. So if you want to download it, you can try it. When you're doing it on your computer, because it's emulating it, it's a little bit laggy and slow. But once you get it up in the app stores or you generate the executable, it's quite fast. The theming is pretty good. And I was really happy that I could steal or cheat using a theme. They're like, it looks so bad, I don't want to try it. So I was really happy that I had like a theme and people are like, oh, that looks so nice. I'm like, yeah, I'm a great designer. So I found that to be really empowering that I could get over this like, because people are so used to really good-looking apps now. And they don't want to try a not so good-looking app. So I was really happy that I could find a theme. And there's a couple of other ones that are good as well. For 100 bucks to get a good-looking thing, and I'll probably change it one day. But now it's a good start. And of course I think React Native has a huge community of code, and that's what I discovered. I could use Stack Overflow for almost every question I had. There are articles, tutorials. One of the hints, I don't know if anybody uses this thing called js.coach. It's a really good tool for looking for libraries. And I found that to be really beneficial when you're trying to compare. It's a little bit of a curated library. I also learned that not all open-source codes create an equal. I mean, we all use it. And some of the stuff I used was not that good. And so I would say one of the lessons is as much as possible, use the React Native's core APIs. Uh-oh. And sort of the last one that I found interesting, and that I'm still going to keep working on, is you can use React Native code with regular Android or iOS code. So even if I'm never going to learn the deep technical side, I can probably build a very technical app that uses React Native for all the presentations in all of the other parts. All right. And so to conclude, I built this thing. What did I learn about myself and about my photos? And now I've got about a hundred people that have downloaded and tried it and exploring their photos. One of the things I've discovered is that when I stopped taking photos, I'm probably not as happy. It kind of surprised me. Like, because I don't take a lot of photos. But I discovered that if I'm not taking photos, there's probably something weird going on. It could be I'm sick, it could be I'm watching too much TV. But if I'm taking a couple photos every day, it means I'm going out in nature, actually.  I've also discovered that when I have huge spikes of a bunch of photos in a small period, it's probably something special. You know, maybe it's a wedding or something. I'm still working on this, right? So this is kind of the next thing. Like, I've got this data. What can we learn from it? You know, can we do some machine learning? Can we come up with some insights? And I've sort of launched this as an experiment just to get a new data point, a new thing about myself. So that's the website. If you want to download a free app to sort of geek out about your photos, it's at photos stats.io and this is all of my information. Thank you. Any questions? Why did I do that? I don't know. I guess probably like a lot of programmer things that heard the name a lot. It sounded really hip and cool. I actually probably didn't know what not to know. And so what I did, I think, I don't know about like you guys at the beginning of the year, I always had to get ambitious. I'm like, I'm going to learn this new thing. And so I guess it was probably in March. I'm like, I'm going to learn React Native. So I took a course and then of course for six months I didn't build anything with it. And then when I had this idea, I'm like, I know enough to be dangerous. And so I decided to actually do it. I'm pretty happy. I guess I, I'm not sure. I mean there's always different stuff to try but I feel like this is going to be a lot of mobile apps are built on this. It's really fast. For as bad as I am, I could build something that's pretty decent. It's pretty robust. It works on both Android and IOS. So I would say that it took me, you know, a month to do it in just my free time to get the IOS one and to get the Android one only took another two days because there was one like data model problem. That's pretty amazing, right? And apparently you can also do it on Windows phone but I don't know why would you, right? Any other questions? Yeah. So you mentioned that you have to do some native code? You can. So I guess the point so looking back, I probably would. If I'd rebuild this, I would probably have a professional person write the code that will extract the data from the photos because it's more efficient. This is, I mean it works and the libraries work but it's not very efficient. So if you really wanted to get high performance from because I'm not taking the photos, pushing it to the cloud and extracting it, it's happening actually on your phone. It's really hard to optimize because you're just kind of too many layers away but what I learned is that I can create component or I mean a library that's actually in the code that's for Android or the code that's for CC and so I guess I could see it as it's very easy to mash them up in the sense if you have a very important thing that really works best as close to the native, you might do that and actually what you also discover so I didn't show this but all of the libraries, like I use Crash Analytics and Fabric to track some of the analytics, all that code is basically just a the React Native code is just sort of a link between the actual iOS or the Android code. So that's actually kind of the standard way stuff is being done I don't know if that makes sense. The React Native is frequently upgraded and they change, they break the compatibility. So how many times do you have to grow? Well, it's only been a month. Ask me another month. I would say one of the other things, I didn't have time to talk about it, I spent a couple of days learning how to do continuous integration. So I used, there's a really cool tool called what is it called? To do deployment bit rise? I don't know if you heard of bit rise.  I have just, I don't know, I would say I lost more sleep about trying to get my computer to use the right version of Android to do all that stuff. And so I got so angry at this, I'm like I need a way to deploy this to the cloud. And so bit rise was really cool because you take your Git code and then it does everything to render it and it actually ships it to the Apple store or it ships it to the Play store. And so even if say I don't have time to work on something, I could have someone else work on it and I can still deploy it. But you're probably right. I mean this is still fairly raw. It's only, Rack Native is only two, three years old. It's still changing. I would say the other thing, like the library I use, the Camera Roll API, I will bet that will probably disappear or change. But yeah, yeah. So I mean I've done React Native before and Expo is much easier. But you chose not to use Expo, is there a reason? So I don't know if I told this side of the story. So I live in China most of the year and Expo just was really not working for me in China. So like, because I think there was just too many proxies. I think Expo is a proxy and having a proxy on top of it didn't work. So, but yeah, just to sort of, so there's another system called Expo where how would you explain what it is? It's kind of another, it's another API on top of React Native. So you get some more, some It's an app of apps. It's an app of apps. Yeah. I was a little bit nervous about it because it always, I felt like it has to go through another company. So there's like two sides. One, it wasn't working for me when I tested it because of whatever reason. And the other one I just didn't really like Expo, I don't know if they're good or bad or otherwise. It's like another company that can like screw over my app. But do you think there's a big difference in the kind of code you write? No, so it's, so they are the official provider of the creative React Native app, CLI. Okay. Yeah. So like they're officially recommended by Facebook as like you should start here. But they only, this is related to my first questions because Expo only does what Expo allows you to do. That's true. Once you need to access the native device, for example, playing the sound and you have to inject from Expo and go straight to React Native. And that's, I mean, you know, you seem to have started straight in React Native and that's a little bit harder. But I just found the development experience in Expo so much better. It's got better documentation probably. That's true. Yeah. So deployment is always an issue on mobile apps. So I'm a huge fan of this bitrise after doing it. I mean, it's so awesome. You just, you just hit the little button in the web and it turns out and it's post your app to like test fly and all of this stuff. It's awesome.  I open a beer. It's like distributing my app. But it took me two days to figure that out. But like that sort of automation saves me tons of time now. Anybody that does mobile apps knows just how long it takes to render them. And even just for minor changes. Do you think that improved your iteration speed? My thing is I haven't deployed yet so I was very impressed by it. This is your first app and you've already done it before. Yeah, it's just embarrassed. I mean, you just ship it, right? You should download it and tell me how bad it is. Oh, okay. It didn't break your computer? No. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Any other? Yep. So the next speaker Ian, are you here? Sweet. So he wants this thing?


Hey guys, Britti Erton here with Fandall. Today, we're going to talk about trifecta bets.  But in order to hit your trifecta, you have to pick the horses that are going to finish in first, second, and third, in the right order. And speaking of finishing in the top three, for every race, Fandall shows you the number of times each horse has done that.  And if you liked this video, be sure to check out the rest of our Racing 101 series.


My name is Kassinele and I'm the CEO of Trinket Domain in Zurich and from this inside. Very simple. Drinking water is a human right. Millions of people have no access to drinking water and our mission is that people get drinking water all over the world. It means for me better quality of life and also to have in the brain that almost 800 million people on the world have no access to drinking water. We use it for for the shower, for the toilet, to wash our cars and otherwise people have no drinking water. It's absolutely great. Local acting means that for example in Zurich you can have 30 Wasser. In the restaurants you pay for half a liter of 3 feet frame. 2 feet frame is going to the restaurant and one frame is going to the shrinking water. Besides that companies are paying 60 Swiss frames per year. This means that one person on the world get the long term access of drinking water. So we collect money in Switzerland and we are building drinking water projects in Africa and in Asia. Sometimes when for example we are approaching in schools we are giving pictures or they are writing us some letters and they sometimes have a video of us singing about Drinket Domain and it's a great pleasure to see how happy they are and for us we know we have done something good and when all the people who see that they will help us. Well Switzerland is supporting us in two ways. The first time is this bottle because every employee has spitting this bottle and they are drinking tap water or hot tea or whatever instead of buying sparkling water. It's an econometric reason and we are very happy that the employees are doing this and what we want to do now is for example if we go to a concert I really hope that in the near future we can go to concerts or events. That people are there for example they pay 50 Swiss francs for a ticket that they are going to pay one Swiss francs more and spend it to Drinket Domain. But for somebody who is in Africa or in Asia it's a huge amount and that's our story we want to have in the future that people are happy and they can say thank you Drinket Domain.


Hi everyone, Sean with jaspyscasebreaks.com here doing 2020-2021 Panini Prison Premier League EPL Soccer 2 box hobby break random club edition number 15 where all-card ship 18 spots overall really nice stuff and tonight only break credit giveaway 150 dollars 50 dollars each to the top three people in the break. So here's the the club list from Wolverton back up to Arsenal two combo spots Crystal Palace and Leeds and Sheffield United and West Brom and our customer list from Nick Kova down to Daniel Chen last spot mojo dice roll to randomize both lists and pair them up a five and a five ten times good luck tenth and final time so Robert Runkle down to Daniel Chen and now you can see 10 times on the randomizer 10 times on the dice now 10 times on the clubs tenth and final time from Manchester United down to Burnley 10 times there 10 times on the dice so Robert Runkle with Manchester United Daniel Chen last spot mojo with the Wolverton Wanderers Joseph falsetti with Crystal Palace and Leeds Jaehoon Kim with West Ham Robert Runkle with Newcastle United Robert Runkle also with Brighton and Hove Jarell Taylor with Man City Robert Runkle with Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspurs Nick Kova with Leicester City Matthew Wilson with Chelsea Anthony Chen with Liverpool and Southampton Robert Runkle with Sheffield and West Brom Oliver Soria with Fulham he kicks boxes with Everton Robert Runkle with Austin Villa and Daniel Chen last spot mojo with Burnley so trade window is open let's sort this by clubs I wish I knew so here's the list for everybody let me actually get this list again paste this right here that's for the break credit giveaway at the end and while we're you guys are talking about potential trades or thinking about it you can see behind me these are the remaining eight boxes from this case that we opened up earlier I'm going to roll a dice this is one this is two this is three this is four if we roll a five or a six we'll just re-roll it's a four so boxes number four which is once again one two three four good another 15 seconds or so any talks of potential trades guys so going once going twice going three times final call trade window closed here you go there is our finalists good luck to you all well remember Ozzy if you get two teams you have a chance at winning the Padres in that and chances at Pati's rookies there's a kaboom for colorblast and Fulham there you go Oliver who is it who's the player I haven't seen a kaboom yet let's see if we can find one tonight Mitrovik and Carney okay well let's just find you some good color at least or a one of one how about that that looks like gold or orange there you go Tom that stuff's hot just released this week good luck everybody Calvin Phillips for Leeds Joseph falsetti Tyrick Mitchell Crystal Palace Joseph falsetti Aaron Connolly pink to 99 Brighton and Hove Robert Runkle Trent Alexander Arnold for Liverpool Anthony Chan Abu Bakar Kumara for Fulham Oliver Soria Darnell Furlong West Bromwich Robert Runkle Jack Stevens Southampton Anthony Chan Marcus Rashford red nice team color matching to 149 Man U Robert Runkle Ollie Watkins Aston Villa Robert Runkle Luke Ailing for Leeds Joseph falsetti very nice Curtis Jones Liverpool little green wave or whatever this is tri-color Liverpool Anthony Chan and Angelo Agbana blue to 199 for West Ham and Jaehoon Kim I think I saw some gold or some orange down on the bottom down here Kyle Bartley West Brom Robert Runkle Pierre Emerick Abu Young Silver for Arsenal Robert Runkle David Dehea Silver for Manchester United Robert Runkle Keenan Davis Aston Villa Robert Runkle Sam Johnson West Brom Robert Runkle Eric Garcia Man City Jarell Taylor Jared Bowen West Ham Jaehoon Kim and Helbert Costa this orange or green or gold gold three out of ten for Leeds Joseph falsetti Emiliano Martinez Aston Villa Robert Runkle I don't know what's going on on these ones you can see there's like a streak across the couple see that streak across them just a heads up it says there's nine an inventory and we got one I just sold I don't see it in the showroom I would imagine if it says there's Jared Bowen West Ham uh-huh you think there'll be a case back there I didn't see it uh Jaehoon Kim I would assume so Eberechi Ezzy Crystal Palace hyper that's for Joseph falsetti second half of box one Ian Povetta Leeds Joseph falsetti Matias Pereira West Bromvich Robert Runkle Ben Osborn Sheffield Robert Runkle Tingy Indamele Tottenham Robert Runkle Harry Kane Little Red Green Tottenham Robert Runkle and Dennis Adoy Rookie Red to 149 for Fulham Oliver Soria Christian Polisic for Chelsea Matthew Wilson Semi Ajayi West Bromvich Robert Runkle James Justin for Leicester Nick Kova and Andy Robertson Vigor Vigor for Liverpool Anthony Chan Dara O'Shea West Brom Robert Runkle Neil Murphy for Brighton and Hove Robert Runkle Mason Mount for Chelsea Matthew Wilson Joe Bryan for Fulham Oliver Soria Nathan Tella Pinkwave Southampton Anthony Chan and Bernardo Silva Blue for Manchester City Jarell Taylor to 199 spring training don't get excited Jamie Shackleton for Leeds Joseph falsetti Connor Gallagher for West Brom Robert Runkle out of 99 Aaron Juan Bissaca Purple Auto for Manchester United Robert Runkle me either Michael Hector Silver Rookie for Fulham Oliver Soria Courtney House Austin Villa Robert Runkle Dara O'Shea West Bromvich Robert Runkle Tommy Doyle Manchester City Jarell Taylor Stephen Alsade Brighton and Hove Robert Runkle Stuart Dallas for Leeds we got a gold in here that's for Joseph falsetti we got a Reese Nelson Arsenal Robert Runkle and Tyler Roberts rookie gold for Leeds Joseph falsetti that's seven out of ten that's our second gold in this box already nice Kai Havertz for Chelsea Matthew Wilson Timothy Fosu Mensa Manchester United Robert Runkle and Neil Maupay Hyper for Brighton and Hove Robert Runkle so so far that box did nothing to dispel that this is a hot case um Rex so you guys are talking about baseball and how excited you guys all are all for it I just found out today that starting April 1st California is gonna allow um it's gonna allow for players or for 20 capacity in stadiums angels angels uh what's it called opening day our season tickets and we're already part of the we're already part of that uh that 20 so we're already we're we found out today that we can go to the opening day which I'm excited about what the the 20 capacity no we just found out we got we called our ticket broker and everything so I'm so excited to say the least so I'll be able to see live baseball for the first time in a year and a half okay box number two Sam Johnston West Bromvich Robert Runkle Miliano Martinez Aston Villa Robert Runkle Wilfred Ndidi Leicester City Nick Koba Joel Linton with Newcastle United to 149 Robert Runkle Niskin's Kibano for Fulham Oliver Soria Mo Salah Liverpool Anthony Chan Billy Gilmore Chelsea Matthew Wilson Tommy Doyle Man City Jarell Taylor and Kai Havertz Chelsea Matthew Wilson Marcus Rashford Manchester United Robert Runkle Takumi Minamino Liverpool FC that's for Anthony Chan Luke Thomas Lester City Nick Koba Ben Johnson West Ham Jaehoon Kim Daniel Potence Wolverhamton Daniel Chen Timothy Fosu Mensa Manchester United Robert Runkle James MacArthur Crystal Palace Joseph Falsetti and Phil Foden Blue Cracked Ice for Manchester City Jarell Taylor that is 65 out of 75 absolutely Matt congrats man this this case has been crazy so far these two boxes are not the spelling that this potentially may be just a ridiculous case overall. Alexis McAllister Brighton and Hove Robert Runkle Tyler Roberts for Leeds Joseph Falsetti Timo Werner for Chelsea Matthew Wilson Alexander Mitrovic Hyper for Fulham Oliver Soria Virgil Vendijk Liverpool Anthony Chan Bukayo Saka Fireworks Silver there you go Arsenal Robert Runkle Young Vincent for Tottenham Robert Runkle Patrick Bamford for Leeds Joseph Falsetti Grady Diangana West Bromvich Robert Runkle it's not his base Silver but it'll still work I hope so Oscar Burr Pink Wave Wolverhamton Daniel Chen and James Madison Blue for Lester Nick Koba I did hear that Steven to 199 I know you're excited about that I heard that the Bears are putting all of their focus on trading for him I did hear that yes I tried Tom you're a you're a Bears guy too aren't you I think Lattie is gonna have a monster year monster year I mean the dude didn't lose all this weight just because you know what I mean I mean Tenguei Indembole Tottenham Robert Runkle Antoine or Anthony Robinson for Fulham Oliver Soria Tariq Mitchell Crystal Palace Joseph Falsetti Jack Stephenson Southampton Anthony Chan Nathan Tella Red Wave to 135 for Southampton Anthony Chan James Justin Lester Nick Koba that is Chico Kutiyate Chelsea or Crystal Palace sorry Joseph Falsetti to 149 Stuart Dallas for Leeds Joseph Falsetti Edward Mendy for Chelsea Matthew Wilson Bukayo Saka again for Arsenal Robert Runkle Bukayo Saka Silver okay Robert this is confirming this is a hot case Robert Runkle again Will Smallbone Southampton Anthony Chan Dennis Adoya for Fulham Oliver Soria Curtis Jones Liverpool Anthony Chan Eric Garcia Man City Jarell Taylor Reese Nelson Green Cracked Ice for Arsenal Robert Runkle that's to 49 Romain Sawyer's West Brom Robert Runkle Giovanni Locellos or Celso for Tottenham Robert Runkle Stephen Alzade Brighton and Hove Robert Runkle Kyle Edwards West Brom Robert Runkle Marvelous Nakamba Aston Villa Robert Runkle and finishing it off Patrick Bamford for Leeds and Georgino Wijnaldum for Liverpool Anthony Chan that is to 199 so there you go that's the break let's come over here and give away that break credit again remember top three fifty dollars each hundred fifty dollars total Nick Koba down to Daniel Chen dice roll top three names after two and a four six times good luck six and final time congratulations Oliver he kicks boxes and Daniel Chen each one of you guys is getting fifty dollars in break credit maybe to use tonight six times on the randomizer six times on the dice and there you go guys that break credit will be sent out right now that was this wants to work uh 2020-2021 Panini Prison Premier League EPL soccer two box hobby break number 15 random club edition from jaspyscasebreaks.com I'm Sean jaspyscasebreaks.com thanks for hanging out we'll see you next time


Hi everyone, this is Tom Tanner from Setup. I'm sitting here with Ann Bell De Fries. We're assuming everyone can hear us. Somebody drop us a message to say your hearing is loud and clear. That would be nice, thanks. We're going to talk through this presentation here. We have tried to address some of the questions that people sent in. Anything that comes to you, do drop it into the chat box and we'll try and either answer them as we go along or part of the Q&A at the end and it may be that we've covered some of the things we wanted to ask anyway. Our video order to see us isn't working but we've got little pictures in to show you who we are anyway. Just to let you know, I'm the Program Director for the Climate Change and Development MSC and I'm a reader in Environment Development at SOAS. We are part of Setup which is a Centre for Development, Environment and Policy which is a research centre and teaching centre that sits within the School of Interdisciplinary Studies. Our bigger departmental framework is that School for Interdisciplinary Studies in the same way as the Department for Development Studies, Department for Economics and so on. We're going to run through the presentation and we're going to cover the following formats. We're going to introduce the backgrounds, introduce you to some of our research, academic interests and then talk through the programmes that we offer and consider some of the key elements of the importance of climate change and sustainable development and then run through the Setup programme to give you an idea of how it works and some of the benefits of studying with Setup and then we'll follow with your questions and answers which hopefully we can answer today and if not we'll be able to email you and make sure that you've got all those questions answered. I think we're good to know a little bit about our backgrounds and also the entry points for climate change and sustainability. So I'm one of the epidemics at Setup. I'm probably the one who has the broadest set of experience on working on climate change and development issues including I've specialised on adaptation and resilience but I've worked with the low-carbon development work as well. I offered the textbook for the main climate change and development module here and I'm particularly interested in the politics of the policy process so it fits with us so as ideology quite well to think about this is not just learning about the technical approaches to tackle climate change but actually the politics of the policy process, whose interests, who gets to decide why and how you might navigate those decision-making frameworks. I'm particularly interested in the anticipatory decisions and how can we encourage greater anticipatory decision-making so I've been working recently with the use of early warning systems that are linked to action so forecast based finance as it's known where finance is provided on the basis of a forecast rather than waiting until a disaster happens in order to take action. I'm also working a lot in the cities and urban resilience has become quite a catch-all term for tackling climate shocks and other stresses like security, terrorism and economic shocks so I've been engaged in particular with the Rockefeller Foundation working on urban resilience programming and finally I'm interested in the children and youth that goes back 15 years and it's all the more relevant now and we're reforming that coalition with some of the big international youth-centred NGOs to look at the climate change and youth links particularly around the rise of Greta and others as big activists in the climate change world. Annabelle. So my background, I like time, is very much focused in the educational sector. I've worked in Birkbeck, I've worked at CEDF for about 12 years now as a computer and I've also worked at UCL and City University but all my work has really been centered around sustainable development and specifically issues of food and gender. Particularly the sustainable development 2030 agenda hinges very much on food, its production, its distribution and the social, economic and environmental systems that drive and shape the food system both regionally, locally and globally and my interests really lie in how those processes impact people and their health and the environment and the livelihoods they can derive from the food system. So that goes all the way through the value chain from production to distribution to processing and consumption. So my recent work combines ideas of the food system and sustainable development and I've been involved with an organisation called ISTA which is the Interdisciplinary Food Systems Teaching and Learning programme and that really works to cut across many of the themes that you find in the sustainable development programme, for example discussions of poverty and market access, transport, environmental challenges, degradation, resource management and also ideas of concept of inequality as well within different scenarios and my area particularly within the food system. Connected to this is one of my interests in pedagogy and specifically interdisciplinary pedagogy which tries to consider the benefits of bringing together different disciplines in trying to tackle the complex problems that are characteristic of the food system and that is the complex environmental feedback loops that we find across the globe and also complexity in terms of inequality within the food system. So food systems that are reliant on migrant workers, for example or are reliant on degrading the environment but at the same time with local livelihoods dependent on those environments. So one of the issues recently has been an increasing need to work as disciplines to find sort of complex solutions to these important issues. So they kind of go together quite nicely and I think cut across a lot of the themes that we offer on our modules both within the sustainable development programme and the climate change. My other interests are to do with gendered construction of the environment which goes back to my PhD work which looked at mill per farmers in Mexico and also political economy and cultures of food around the organisation of co-operatives where I did some work for the FAO. So one of the questions you're asking yourselves probably is why you should be studying these masters from the perspective of the topic itself and you will all recognise that there's much greater awareness in the last five years and even in the last year of climate change and sustainability as key issues and we've seen much greater levels of activism globally. We've seen since the Paris Agreement of 2015 we've seen much greater levels of international interest in climate change and that is varied internationally so I think there's more in the global north in the west there's greater interest in climate change and greater pressure from the public where there may be less so in the global south but there's a growing realisation in the global south that the environmental constraints that climate change and other environmental stresses are putting on the development process through the pernicious slow onset events like salamization of soils for example and the kind of more rapid onset disaster events that we're familiar with too. But I think one reason for studying this is to take the optimistic view and say well this is a way to train and work in a sector which is actually about the opportunities for taking action and that's about pursuing sustainable development goals and growth agendas equity, poverty reduction can all be acted on whilst taking into account climate change low carbon climate change and adapting to those impacts. So while we don't focus the programme on sustainable development goals in the way that some others might, they are the backdrop for a lot of what we are doing and there is job markets increasingly focused on climate sustainability issues both in the kind of aid world, development cooperation but also we see much greater private sector and government agendas that are centering on climate change sustainability. So why study it so deep and so us? Well we've got over two decades of experience of this learning the distanced learning programme began in Y over 20 years ago and were first rolled out as correspondence courses where you had the traditional big pack of papers and learning materials sent to you and you sent your written essays back to professors and doctors where they would mark them and send them back to you. So then it was a very new way of learning which is where FEDEP began part of the University of London and we're one of the first to do that along with open universities. So we've carried on that tradition and well over time now being completely online and having all reading materials available online and all the readings and library access is available to our 500 plus active students. So we've got a wide network of students that come from a variety of backgrounds you'll be quite comfortable to find engineers and soil scientists alongside people who work in politics and the UN, local NGOs, teachers private businesses all the way through in your interactions with your fellow students and it's such a wide rich resource actually of knowledge and information that seems to be there as well. We've also got a wide network of specialist dissertation supervisors which means that when you come to your dissertation we handpick our supervisors and according to the subjects the topic forms that you hand in and your interests so that they can guide you through your dissertation and you have a one-on-one relationship with that supervisor all the way through to the completion of your draft and final submission and we've also got quite a good history of our expertise linking the environment and development as I say over 20 years based in Y College which was part of the University of London it was an agricultural college and has specialised in environment and development for that amount of time and we continue to add our staff which have a broad range of specialisms across those fields so us is also committed to diversifying and decolonising the curriculum and so being part of this all our modules go through a process of making sure that what we are teaching is diverse and uses voices from all over the world and it's a particular connection to power hierarchy is within those particular discourses of that subject so that we're really very keen on ensuring inclusiveness and diversity right through all our learning materials and readings that you are given and of course we're part of the University of London International Programs which is a widely recognised programme of higher education so the distance learning approach provides a way of utilising your own professional knowledge and gaining more academic knowledge and skills for your own career advancement you can work around your employment and family commitments most of our students are working full time and can continue with their studies many of which complete within two or three years so this is really good for families and parents and of course you get an internationally recognised set of qualifications whilst studying in your own country you don't need to travel live and work in the UK and so therefore we have a diverse global student community and this allows you to save your money spread the costs across the modules that you take you pay for each module as you go so there's no massive outlay at the beginning so terms of value for money so professional networking that you can take part in on our discussion forums and your student groups has proven to be very invaluable to many students that study with us that's partly because I'll say exactly how many but certainly more than half of the students' programmes tend to have significant professional experience already and they're looking for the academic side others are looking to transition into the field and others have done an undergraduate course that's related but they want some further training to be able to take that career further now our learning approach in terms of how our pedagogy of how we deliver the distance learning is that there is a set of core teaching materials so each module is divided into somewhere between 12 and 15 units and each unit will have a set of core materials that are written text on PDFs and some online exercises to help you test your own knowledge along with core readings and additional reading lists there's then an online discussion forum where a lot of their thought and debate and discussion which is moderated by tutors who guide you through that work every week and set your questions for discussion so the amount of participation is up to you on those forums where a lot of people get a lot of the added value from these courses because it's about learning from each other as much as it's learning from books and articles there's a mix of formative and summative assessments so some of the assessment work is to help you develop the skills and knowledge as you go through in order to prepare yourself for the final essays and exams the exam which happens at the end of each module we are phasing out exams which is good news for many people who don't like them but bad news for some people who prefer to learn through exams but there will be more coursework based approach starting in October next year but as it is most of the assessment is done through an exam so normally a particular cent then an essay or policy brief during the module an early critical reflection and feedback where you take a piece of writing and summarise it critically and then that is then reviewed by your peers by other students in your module and that's a way of helping you access the library helping you understand how to summarise critically how to reference and there's also a proportion of the mark that's for your participation in the online forum so we expect a minimum level of participation also so when we run our programmes that you have a choice of three qualifications in each of those programmes with climate change and development and assessment programmes so the MSc requires you to take one course and three elective modules and finally a dissertation and this takes around two to five years and some people complete it less to gain a postgraduate diploma you will take the core module plus three electives so of course you get the dissertation as part of this and for a postgraduate certificate requires one core module and one elective module so that one takes between one to five years we are interested in people who would like to continue studying with us and how to get into the UPHBs and we look at that on an incidental basis for a student and it can depend on whether you can find a supervisor that you want to take but it's important to recognise that the MSc is not qualified it's not counted towards the HB qualification which will be an extra minimum three years on your MSc but in many cases the MSc is a requirement to gain your PhD giving trouble hearing Lacey make sure to talk can we just see if anybody can hear us first by typing anything okay we'll try coming closer to the mic okay so the other thing to note on this is that the minimum time you can complete a MSc in its two years and the other thing that you haven't made clear on there is that you can start with a certificate I mean you can register to a postgraduate certificate or a diploma certainly a certificate and then you can complete the modules and if you're happy with them and you've passed them then you can scale up and add those to an MSc by taking further modules and dissertation the one issue of course is that the dissertation process occurs in a cycle of two years so to complete that you do need to do a minimum of two years in completing dissertation windows so we'll talk about that now and how it actually runs but it certainly is a very good idea for many of us students that haven't been in education for a long time and are concerned that okay I'm going to talk a little bit closer because it's slightly near Tom having people who are a little bit concerned that they haven't been in academia for a while it's always a nice way to bring yourself into it and see how it goes So a little on the structure of the module I think you might have seen this on the structure tab under each of the program pages which are linked to the earlier titles the earlier slide but essentially each year there are two subject module sessions and dissertation study happens in between those so each of those sessions takes 60 weeks in total and then in between there's a six to eight week dissertation period which is where you'll work on initially your idea for your dissertation your proposed idea then you'll work up an assessed proposal which is a proposal for what research you want to do and a literature review and that's assessed and becomes part of the mark for the dissertation, the final mark then in the third session third window you'd be expected to do the research itself for the dissertation and in the final window write it up so it can happen within two years but you've got five years that you're allowed to enroll so many students try and get through the modules but some take longer with the dissertations and fend for practice because people need a break every now and again so this just really outlines the choices of modules that you've got I showed you which ones are core and which ones are elective both programs have one core you'll notice with climate change and development those are separate the electives are separated into two lists so you must choose between one and three in the first list, in list A and up to two lists up to two modules can be chosen in list B with the sustainability of development any of those electives can be chosen as part of that program Yes, we run those elective modules to a calendar so the core modules are run every six months so you can start the program either in October or in April and the electives run essentially every other so one will run in the April session and another will be in the October session so there's plenty to choose from and we're also expanding that offer with the ability to take modules from other departments and so as so we're currently working on currently we're offering the Centre for International Security and Diplomacy departments, online modules around global public policy and critical human security but we're also looking at the development studies department here is spinning up online master's courses too so module sharing is on our horizon so that's enough from us does anyone got any questions that we haven't covered that they'd like to type in and we can respond to I'm not sure if we've got a mutual mic so we could possibly hear you people are typing so that's fine oh that's a good question how many, what percentage of people achieve the MSC in two years it's hard to say because they haven't been running for that many years so we're in the third year of the climate change and development MSC and we're in the second year of the sustainable development MSC in the first year of the 17 who joined in the first year I think five graduated in two years so we just had them we just had them graduate at the exam board where they officially graduate so it's hard to say how many I do do it in two years because we haven't got the track record can you pause the program well you have five years from when you register and you're allowed to pause within those five years that gives you the flexibility to take modules and you can defer the dissertation process to say I'll do the fourth stage in the next window or the next window so yes you can take whatever modules you want but you need to complete within five years that you register just this conversion of low income neighbours to solar renewable well the energy and development and the low carbon development courses will be appropriate for that Andrew Smith you're interested in low income neighbourhoods to solar and renewables you can take those options on either but if you want to set them within the context of broader climate change policy then I would take the climate change MSC and if you're thinking that as part of the more broad sustainability frame that sustainable development one would be more appropriate you can do the modules first and then the dissertation to survive your limit but the dissertation yes you can you can take two years to do the modules and two years to do the dissertation and indeed you can sign up to just do the PG dip in that process and then you could see if you don't want to do the dissertation at the end then you could just leave with a diploma which is essentially the same requirements but not including the dissertation and Tom's asking who said that students have access to wider source resources as distance learners in terms of physical space no the answer is because all the resources are available online although online we do have so as bulletins and we do have a programme area where we increasingly sharing things of interest that are happening you know in so as and also according to our own interests related to the courses but in terms of workspace and events unless it's public then there's no specific access to distance learners you've asked for clarity that if you yes the answer is yes if you start on the PG certificate level as long as you complete those a decent degree and pass them then yes you can upgrade to the MSc level by doing the extra electives and the dissertation if you can postpone this entry to the programme after you've been accepted yes I think for one year and maybe one year and a half you'd have to confirm with registry I know if it's two years if you postpone for two years you have to re-apply but that's not normally a problem in fact if you re-apply if you defer and then your offer runs out as it were you just re-apply and it will come up it will come up that you've previously had an offer so that will be sent to the decision makers who are actually Annabelle and I for acceptance on the course and we'll see that you've previously had an offer already so yes it lasts a while Is it okay to build on or use someone's dissertation topic but a more focused choice of your country well part the dissertation is really about producing something that's original so you would pick the original set part by it being focused on a particular country but I think using someone else's topic I think we would have to determine how close it was to that dissertation we'd expect to come up with something that's their own work and certainly in any research or dissertation there are elements at the end of those dissertations which gives ideas for further research so you can certainly build on somebody's work there's nothing to say you can't do that so I hope that answers your question Obviously it's important that it's not plagiarised so it needs to be entirely your own writing and that's that we have software to look at the plagiarism levels as well which you can be familiar with so yeah it's important that it is an original piece of work Lacey who I think is just left will the electives like Human and Critical Security and Global Citizenship and advocacy be available on the MSc's standard relevant yes from the regulations starting in 2020 so from October we are now free to offer anything from our sister departments but we're making an informed decision in the next few months about which of those things we want to offer that are coherent with our programme there's a question about can you take exams in one fixed location no you can take each module you can take the exams at an exam centre in a different country so if you move around it's fine you just have to work out where you are you basically sign up you register to take the exam for that module through the University of London the University of London the University of London they send you a link oh yeah deadlines deadlines on assignments they're set so the deadlines for assignments are set at midnight UK time for a particular date so that's that's how you deal with it it's midnight whatever the time in your time zone is then the best way around that is to submit early the exams occur at the same time in the respective countries so 10 o'clock wherever you are or 2pm wherever you are yes when an exam the question about when an exam isn't suitable there's not much we can do about it other than take that exam in the next cycle so we put the exam timetable out early so you can see when it is there's someone unfortunately on one of my people getting married after her exam she's just deferring and taking it when it next runs in the next cycle that is one of the problems with exams and that's one of the reasons we are moving away from them oh yes that was a question Michael can you take a module from list B before taking one from list A now that's unusual but the answer is yes you can you can take something from the list B on the climate change course before taking a list A option but just don't have to take one from option A because we're looking to stream that as being a specific climate change masters any disruptions or risks because of Brexit not that we know of that shouldn't really affect us we're not one of the main disruptions that was likely that's seen as likely from the universities is around visas and we doubt that with the distance learning program we don't rely on visas hi do we offer admission for Mfills that's a good question normally we don't have an Mfills program in set up that's normally an offer an award that's given for people who do a PhD program but don't finish it so we don't have a specific Mfills track thanks all any final questions do type them in otherwise thanks a lot for joining really appreciate it