on this edition of Titans All Access. It's time for week 17. Everything is on the line for the Titans in Houston. General Manager John Robinson provides the keys to the Titans getting a win in the Lone Star State. My key sits down with big play linebacker, Jayon Brown for the Nissan Insider. The Titans scored two touchdowns Sunday on plays that were off schedule. We'll go beneath the surface with Coach Mack and find out how they did it. When I say Tannehill, you think about Ryan, the Titans starting quarterback. We'll introduce you to another outstanding Tannehill and numerous Titans who are making a difference in the community here in December. You'll see them all and a lot more on Titans All Access, which starts right now. Lower my dogs. If you're about to go rough, look at you, look at you. Nobody bang with you.  That's a drip you can't handle. I'm big rich, you big man. Welcome to Titans All Access with Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith, and you know what this is about. Win and you're in. Absolutely. The Titans head to Houston to play this Sunday. And if the Titans knock off the Texans, they go to the AFC playoffs as the number six seed. So for the third year in a row, the Titans are gonna play a win and you're in game in week 17. Now we need to tell everybody what time this starts because it's a change. It is a change. It has been moved. It is at 325 PM. 325 PM central, yes. 325 central. Titans radio is on the air at 2.30 central with Titans countdown. So you'll be able to join us for that, but it's a big one. And we're already kinda nervous. Oh, absolutely, but nervous, excited. It's nervous, excited. It's a good thing. This is the type of week you need your best players to come through. Guys like Jayon Brown. Well, and Jayon Brown is good at week 17 matchups. Absolutely. Last year against Indianapolis in the win and you're in game, Jayon Brown with that big interception of Andrew Luck that he ran back for a touchdown and got the Titans right back into the game. Well, Andrew, remember that fumble? He did. He had the strip and the recovery and great play by Jayon Brown having another great year. And this is a guy who was not a major prospect coming out of high school. No, he sure wasn't.  I did Long Beach Polling. Yes, and then coming out of UCLA wasn't a massive prospect. He was only a fifth round draft pick and now he's one of the most important parts of the Titans defense, especially in moments like this. Big games like this, you look for Jayon Brown to make big plays. The reason he succeeds, the reason he's continued to get better, what would you say? Well, he just loves football. He loves ball. And that's the secret to number 55. This is where the balls do.  When a couple racks on the come up for a boss move.   Running, running it up for the money and it's a boss move. If you look at Jayon Brown's social media account, in particular Twitter, you notice something interesting. It's a lot of football. There's a lot, there's not a lot of other stuff.  I am. Have you always been like that? Growing up, my two older brothers, they play football and, you know, always wanted to compete with them and show that I'm better than them at other stuff as well. But yeah, I'm just passionate about the sport. Do you think one of the reasons that you have come on the way you did is having a singular focus? Not to say that other things aren't good and that people don't have other interests, but you are laser focused on improvement. Yeah, 100%, but this coaching staff, when they came in last year, they got all me tough throughout the whole, this old OTAs and camp and throughout season as well. And I think it really helped push me to the next level. And I just got to keep that intensity on myself to keep on elevating each and every year. Great blade letting up on you. Not one bit. What's your relationship like with him? It's a great relationship. He's a very tough coach, but he knows I'm smart, so he's pushing me to take the next level and it's really taking yourself, your job home with you. So after this, I go home, I do my studies. So when I come here, I know everything that I need to know. So I'm ready to play. He coaches you hard. Sometimes it can be tough to watch. If you've ever been a player in any sport and you've had a coach coach you hard to where they really get on you, that's not easy to see. Is it hard to not take that personally? Sometimes you can take it personal, but you know at the end of the day, he wants the best in you. So you can't take it personal. Sometimes it did get to me, but you know, you gotta grow up and you gotta know that he wants the best in you. So you gotta apply yourself and then at the end of the day, when you do your job, you're not getting yelled at. When was the moment that you knew that it was about the play and improving the play because Mike Vrable loved the player, where you got that he cared that much? No, 100%. All the guys when he was getting on me, still does it as they know he cares and wants me to see me elevate, keep elevating and pushing each and every day and practice and game day. So I just keep on applying myself to get to that next level.  I think if anything, I don't even know exactly where to probably be somewhere around. Good job. You did your job and you know, that's what happens. Good things happen when you do your job. Okay, so what are your other interests besides football? Besides football? When you drop it and you let it go. Oh man, I love watching movies. I do puzzles in my free time and I got my dog too. I got a Rottweiler that I kick it with at the house. Tell me about the Rottweiler. She is, her name's Callie. Callie? Because you're from? California. Thank you. Callie would've K. Had her for a year. She turned a year in May. I've yet to give her a little dog cake. Yeah, I gotta find a spot. Right now. So yeah. Talk to Logan Ryan. Yeah, Logan, if you're looking for shore, I got some spots. Drop her off before practice. After practice, go pick her up. She sleeps for probably like three hours. You just run around with other dogs and then wake up, feed her and we just kicking it on the couch. When you were drafted in the fifth round, fifth round picks are not guaranteed to make a team. Yeah, I mean, that's just, you think they probably will, but they're not guaranteed. So when you not only made the team and then played as a rookie and then had the great year last year and you're in the much bigger role now and you're much bigger in terms of visibility, are you used to the attention? Not at all, actually. I've never really been in a spotlight really and but I don't think I see it as much really because I don't go out much here at all. So just coming to work and going back home and relaxing. So I really don't get that much and I don't get recognized really thought to see. So I think it's pretty cool though. Great to visit with Jay on Brown and we're hoping he has another big game against the Texans in week 17. Maybe he's Mr. Week 17. Oh, I'd like that. We'd like it too. All right. When we come back, we're talking adjustments and we're talking Tana Hill and adjustments. Ryan Tana Hill makes them at the line of scrimmage but it's Lauren Tana Hill who's helped their family make the adjustment to Tennessee. You like what I did there? That was really, really good. Thanks. Very nice. We're back with more right after this. We welcome you back to Titans All Access where we talk about a lot of the great stories with this team and one of the best ones from the 2019 Titans, Ryan Tana Hill at quarterback. Since taking over as the starter, he's thrown 20 touchdown passes to just six interceptions, completed roughly 70% of his passes and helped the Titans get in the position they're in now with a chance to make the playoffs with a win at Houston. For Ryan Tana Hill, he says support is what's made him successful from his coaches, from his teammates and most importantly at home. Absolutely. And I was lucky enough to talk to his wife Lauren Tana Hill and she says that making the adjustment from Miami to Nashville has been pretty seamless. She says that here they feel right at home. I think the vast majority would say transitions are tough. Change is hard. And for the Tana Hill family, it's no different. After spending seven seasons in Miami with the Dolphins, Ryan Tana Hill joined the Tennessee Titans. That means his wife Lauren and their two kids were also along for the ride. The community here is so good, like amazing. Well, we just moved here from Florida, but we're from Texas. There is an incredible community in Nashville and I feel like they wrapped their arms around me and just made it really smooth. What started out as a football move turned into a great chance to experience a new city. There's hard stuff that comes with every life, right? But I looked at this as like, this is a really fun opportunity to live in Nashville and see what this community is about and it has been so rich for us. With a new city comes new friends. And through the Titans Women's Association, Lauren has found a group of women who understand the highs and lows of the NFL world. There's nothing like the community of women around you in the league, period. We all just kind of understand each other and there's parts of our life that only we understand. I think that's important for everybody in the world to have that, you know, to lean on each other. I'm super thankful for, you know, our community in Florida, our community here and I feel like it's really exciting that if we hadn't come here, I wouldn't have this new community. For Lauren, this group of women provides more than friendship. She has found a group of like-minded women who enjoy doing the same thing she does, including giving back. Just being able to get out and do some stuff in the community and you're doing it with your friends. So it's like, it doesn't really get much better than that and there's not a lot of other organizations in the world that do that.  It doesn't get much more rewarding than that. Lauren Tannehill is investing in a new community with a new team and a new group of women and enjoying life as it comes. We're just stacking the boxes for these tables and then we're stacking on this table right here and then they'll come through the tickets and then we'll walk. What's your name? I'm Lauren. Ryan and I both believe that God puts you in a specific place for a reason and He gives you a platform for a reason to be used for outside yourself. And so I think that just using it to reach out and make a positive impact wherever we can is our goal, definitely, as a couple. It's really cool that just because you have talent in the athletic arena, people want to be around you. And I feel like that's like a superpower that you only have while you're doing it so you gotta use it and enjoy it and make all the good difference that you can. So nice to have the Tannehills as part of our Titans family. Absolutely. All right, Mike, there's a lot more coming up in Titans All Access. Do you remember what those things are? Well, John Robinson comes later in the show to talk about the things the Titans need to do well to win in Houston, but up next. Beneath the surface with Coach Mack. Stay tuned. Welcome back to Titans All Access. This is Coach Mack, Game Day Color Analyst for Titans Radio. Today, we're gonna go beneath the surface to look at two touchdowns from Ryan Tannehill to Tajé Sharp, and watch an extended play and a trust between a quarterback and a wide receiver that results in two very, very big plays. First play we're gonna look at is third and one balls on the plus 36 yard line. And what we've got here, we've got John who lined up outside for a man's own decoration as Ryan Tannehill brings him back into this real tight nine ball stack, three man stack.  The nine ball stack gets jammed up. They're looking for this man here just to pick up the one yard game. Ryan Tannehill recognizes everything is jammed up now out of the stack, retreats inside. And so now Ryan Tannehill does a tremendous job of buying time, but keeps his eyes down the field and then Tige Sharp does a very, very veteran move. He sees the quarterback now is off schedule, so he starts to work back, he uncovers.  Now the ball game is 24-21, big, big play in this game. Second play we're gonna look at is third and two, it's on the plus seven yard line. 753, we've now got man to man defense down here. We've got 11 personnel deployed on the outside. Once the ball is snapped, Tige does a really nice job in here of running this sting round. Outside starts to move inside. Ryan Tannehill looks back over here to AJ Brown. AJ Brown is covered.  Sees Tige Sharp, we've got man to man defense here, and they've got two whole players. In other words, they've got two people underneath to be able to double any inside routes. Ryan Tannehill trusts Tige Sharp to get to the catch point. This throw comes off out of his hands, this is a missile. The extension, the reach by Tige Sharp, that is a big time National Football League throw and catch to bring the game within three points. Coming up next on Titans All Access, the general manager stops by to preview week 17. John Robinson has a look at the Titans trip to Houston. Next. As Titans All Access continues with general manager, John Robinson, can't really talk about the Texans in this matchup this week because we don't really know what the Texans are gonna do. So as the Titans focus on the Titans, we'll talk with the GM about the things Tennessee needs to do well themselves. Let's start with running the football effectively, and that is a Titans tenet without a doubt. Yeah, I mean, it's been an important part of what we've been trying to do as a football team all year long. You know, it starts up front with those guys getting into their blocks, moving the line of scrimmage, the running backs making a good read, finding a crease, getting downhill, taking care of the football. So that's gonna be important for us in this game. Let's talk about using your weapons in the passing game, something that Ryan Tannehill has done well. Yeah, we've gotten a lot of production from several different guys, whether it's AJ, Corey, Hump, Tajye, John, all those guys have contributed the backs in the passing game, but we've gotta continue to distribute the football around, identify where the coverage is, where there may be a void, find that guy, get in the ball with an accurate throw, and then do something after the catch. When the Titans have played good defense this season, it has started with stopping the opponent's run game. And again, it's the opposite of what we talked about earlier. It's winning the line of scrimmage on defense. It takes defeating a block, knocking the line of scrimmage back, getting to the ball career, and getting them on the ground, being sure attackers. When the Titans secondary has been doing their best work this year, they have kept the opponents from hitting those X plays, those plays of 30 yards or more, very important on Sunday against the Texans. Yeah, no question. Those plays really swing the pendulum, changes the momentum, it changes field position. We've gotta do a really good job of keeping those plays at bay, and that starts with A, covering our guy and B, pressuring the passer. And when you talk about everything we've been discussing, we talk about what Coach Vrable refers to as Titans football. Sunday in Houston, more than anything else, just gotta play Titans football. That's it, and it's complimentary. It's taught, you know, you talk about running the football, finding your weapons offensively, distributing the football, stopping the run, stopping explosive plays, and winning that hidden yardage game. We've gotta be sound in all three phases. This is the third straight year in week 17. The Titans have played a win and you're in game. It's a big stage, there's pressure. But in each of the last two years, the Titans have handled the pressure well. They have come out and win or lose, have played well. What's the key to doing that once again in Houston on Sunday, handling the big stage? Well, I think that's what it is. We've been there before, we've had players, you know, we've got players on this team that have played in big games. We've played in some big games this year, and we've gotta play our style of football. We've gotta settle down. We've gotta make plays when they present themselves and go down and get a win. Absolutely, John, thanks for joining us. Thank you. Titans general manager, John Robinson with us. When we come back, Amy Wells is back with me to talk about all the good news that has gone on off the field with the Titans in the month of December. Stay tuned. Titans have been everywhere in middle Tennessee recently. That's what I read. Is that true? Oh, it's true, and we're gonna show you right here. Mike, this is the good news. Check it out. Rashawn Evans and his Razor Foundation partnered with Backfield in Motion to host a Christmas party for 200 male students in Metro Nashville. The boys were treated to a dinner with Rashawn as well as given gifts courtesy of Adidas. Backfield in Motion provides low income male students in middle Tennessee life experiences to help them thrive in life throughout school and beyond. You know, this is what it's really about. This is why we play the game, man. So not only just, you know, be entertainers, but inspire people in, you know, especially the youth.  So you just want to make sure you try to, you know, put a good word into those guys there. Titans players head to St. Thomas Midtown to spread some holiday cheer. Merry Christmas, Titans, Smiths. John U. Smith, Kari Blossom game, Ryan Tannehill and some of their teammates helped Santa greet patients and sang some Christmas carols as they walked the halls. We sung them some songs and they sung along with us and it was awesome. It was, it was great. You know, they were in great spirits. It doesn't even feel like a hospital. You know, it just felt like he was just visiting some great people. Just having the relationship where we can come over here on a Tuesday and, and bring a smile to faces and hopefully cheer some people up and just share some great moments with, with kids, with parents. It's a special thing. Marcus Moriota and Warwick done partnered with Habitat for Humanity to give two lucky families a home for the holidays. These homes are brand new, fully furnished and mortgage free. We're just here supporting some of these families that are owning their first home. And it's really cool to be a part of, motivates, very blessed to just have the opportunity to want to get to know the family and just really help sponsor it and put some things in the house that maybe they need and hopefully they'll enjoy. Jarell Casey and the Casey Fund teamed up with Pinnacle Financial Partners to provide 100 grade school students a shopping spree at National Toys and Books. The kids received gift cards and had the chance to do some holiday shopping before going to a pizza party with Jarell Casey. One of the biggest things for these kids through this time of year is having people that can give to them, having people that touch their hearts and the Casey Fund and Free Your Hearts is trying to do that for another great year for Christmas and another great year of continuing to touch these people's heart throughout the year. Derek Henry made a stop at a local Burlington Coat Factory to make some holiday dreams come true. Henry paid off the layaway debt for customers finishing up their Christmas shopping. That was a great cause for me to team up with them and be able to bless these people during Christmas time during the holidays and I was all for it. So as soon as I got the call, I was like, yeah, I wanna do it, let's do it.  Isn't it nice? Lots of Christmas cheer. Our guy's doing good stuff. Absolutely. All right, so remember, Sunday, Titans taking on the Houston Texans. Game time is 325 central. Titans radio on the air at 230 central. Amy Wells, me, our entire crew from Houston. When? And the Titans go to the playoffs. That's it, when and we're in 325 central time. I can't imagine any other place that you could want to be. Let's do this thing, people. Yep. For Amy Wells, I'm Mike Keith. Thanks for joining us and we'll see you next time.


Hello cuties, how are you doing? How's everyone doing? Welcome back to my channel, and Megan, if you don't know, if you stumbled across me, today we're going to be doing a video I'm really excited for. We're going to be doing a summer book recommendations video. It's summer, summer, summer, summer. And I love summer. I know a lot of booktube book girlies are autumn girlies. I am not. I am a summer girlie. I love the heat. I love not having seasonal depression. I thought it was going to be allergies. Plot twist. It was not allergies. Turns out depression. So yeah, I love summer and I thought I'd put together a list of summer book recommendations for if you're going on holiday, be that if you're going holiday in your home country or going abroad. Some books I think would be great to read or just books I think would be great to read at home in summer. These are my picks. These are my definitive recommendations. With these recommendation videos, I always try, these aren't necessarily my favorite books of all time. Do you know what I mean? But they're books that I think fit the vibe. We're going for a vibe. I know it's not summer for everyone, but it's summer for me. And a lot of you are in, is it Northern Hemisphere? That's the right term, right? I think like 80% of my viewers, it's summer for. So we're making the video. And I'm really excited. I love summer. And I love recommending books that I think are just great to read in your garden in the sun or by the sea when you're on the beach. Let's just get into it. It's not wasting any more time. Summer, summer, summer, summer. Now the first book that definitely came to mind, it was like a media. It was actually the book that kind of was like, oh, I have to do this video because I have to recommend you guys read this in a summer. And it's because I had a wonderful experience reading it in the summer on holiday. And that is Koso to his back by Taylor Jenkins Read. I read this last year, actually it was like September time, but it was so freaking hot. We went to holiday in Palermo in Sicily and Italy. And it was so hot. And I read almost this entire book on the beach one day, just like lying by the sea. If you don't know, this is Taylor Jenkins Read latest book. We're following Carrie Soto, who is a tennis player. We meet her in Malibu Rising, which I also think Malibu Rising is a good, you know, summer holiday read. But yeah, we meet her Malibu Rising and she's the other woman of the husband of our main character, Malibu Rising. So we don't really like her. And this book, we're getting to know her and her story and her determination. We follow her career where she's been this greatest tennis player and she's tired, I think, for like five or so years. And then she decides to come back and try to reclaim her title. I think someone beats her record for how many, I don't know, tennis words. I don't watch tennis. Okay. How many opens? Like Wimbledon and, you know, all the tennis tournaments.  Someone breaks her record. She's like, I'm not having that, not on my watch. So yeah, I read this all on the beach on one day and it was perhaps the most perfect reading experience I have ever had. It's such a quick read. You know, Ted Jigsbury books are so compulsory readable, but I felt like this one, I just, because you're always moving on to like, there's four different tennis tournaments that she plays at. And you're kind of always gearing up for the next one and always like excited for the next one. And then you do it and then it's something the next one. And I don't know, I think the story moves along at such a great pace that I just think this is perfect. If you're going to a beach, take this. Like, there's generally nothing better. I think also, I mean, I don't know when this is all set, but I feel like a lot of the tennis tournaments tend to take place like when it's warmer in that country, maybe. I don't know, like Wimbledon here is always in the summer. So I associate I think tennis with the summer. I don't watch Wimbledon. Wimbledon just happened. I don't, I don't get it. I like watching football. Football is what I watch. But I think tennis is arguably more an interesting book to a protagonist playing that sport than football because tennis is like, it's a solo sport. It's all on her. And just the journey that we see her go on as a person, I think was incredible. So yeah, I cannot recommend this enough as a holiday pick. Then another one that was very easy for me to choose was Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins. So in this, we're following these characters who go to this deserted island and, you know, relationships start to crumble. Maybe people start to die. That's what you need to know. I think this is the quickest I have ever read per page of a book. It is like, I think almost 300 pages long. I think I read it in an hour and a half. I am not kidding you. It is the fastest page turn of a book I've ever read. And obviously it's set on this island in the heat. You know, I think it's perfect for summer. I don't think it's the best throw ever in, but you're going to read it fast and you're going to have a wonderful time while doing it. It's fun. It's camp. You know, it's a bit silly. Something fun, something for the summertime. But I really enjoyed it. And I think it's just a great example of a compulsively readable thriller. Do I remember a lot of what happens in this?  What, you know, one of those things is not like the other, but that's okay. Yeah, I haven't read any more. Have I? No. I haven't. Leave. I've read any more Rachel Hawkins books, but I would like to. So yeah, it's set on a deserted island. It's summer. It's fun. Read it. Then I wanted to pick a graphic novel recommendation, and I wanted to go with one that was perhaps a bit different that you guys didn't expect. And that is Bloom by Kevin Panetta and Savannah Gagniccio. I read this in the summer of 2020. So quite a while ago, I think maybe I read some of it on the beach as well. I remember I read it on quite a hot summer's day. And we're following these characters. It's summer, school has ended, and one of them is working at his father's bakery, and the other boy is, I think, working there as well. And it's, yeah, it's a love story that it's in summer and they're baking. Everything is in these blue tones, which I guess doesn't feel very summery, but it does at the same time. This was like a four star for me, but I really enjoyed it. And I think it has this lovely like heart to it. It goes some places that you don't expect it to go, but they live kind of by the coast in this kind of beachy town. And the baking, I know baking feels autumnal, but in this it just feels so like fresh and summery and like, oh, yes, bread. It kind of has that like awkwardness of a first love to it that I do enjoy reading about. I guess in graphic novels, like Heartstop is kind of similar, that kind of like, oh, it's what, I think when you're an adult, you're kind of just like, I mean, I wouldn't know, because I've been in the same relationship since I was 16. But you're kind of just like, you know, if you feel like they're both putting down the same thing, then it's like, okay, let's just go for it. Whereas when you're young and a teenager, there's that kind of fear of like, I don't know, admitting that there's something going on. So yeah, I think this is just a great summery graphic novel. Then we have another book that I read on holiday. This was one I read on holiday in the UK in the summer. So I read it, we went to stay near Wales, and I read it then, but this is such a good summer book. And let me tell you why. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I think with a summer book, if I'm giving you a summer recommendation, I think it has to be kind of like fast paced, compulsively readable. You can read it in one day in the garden, sitting out in the sun kind of vibes. And you may think that looks chunky, it's such a compulsory readable book. Now, Project Hail Mary is a very difficult book to pitch, because I can't tell you anything about it, or the core of what makes the story great, because it's all a spoiler. If I speak, I am in big trouble. In big trouble. Something happens. I want to say maybe around 100 pages. They completely change the story, but basically all you need to know is that we're following a guy who wakes up on this spaceship, and he doesn't remember why he's there. He's surrounded by corpses of what he assumes to be his crewmates, and he is the only one alive on this ship. If you've read Andy Weir before, if you've read The Martian, his books are just so... I need to read his other book. His other book, I feel like, hasn't been as highly rated, but they're just so readable. You can't put it down. Both This and The Martian are such fun books. They make science fun. Learning is fun. I know what is that. Oh, Taylor Swift's spelling is fun. Yeah. Sometimes references pop into my brain, and I have to grab them quickly. It's the thing with Andy Weir. And, you know, sci-fi, it can be difficult because in order, I think, to have a compelling sci-fi book, you have to have an author who understands science and who understands quite advanced science.   I get it. I get how it is. Like, oh, yeah, that. Oh, oh, yeah.  What's that? I don't know. He explains science in a way that just makes it feel accessible to me. And this is just such a quick, fun read. I loved it. Next, I want to recommend the three Dahlia's, Dahlia's. I say Dahlia's. Is that right? Dahlia, Dahlia, Dahlia. Like, I forget if it's someone's name, it's Dahlia. I don't know. We know my pronunciation is questionable at the best of times. So this, I've spoken about quite a few times, but we're following these three women who have all played this very famous character, Dahlia Lively, who is this creation of think-like and acrochristy. She's acrochristy's acupuncture. She's a very famous detective from the golden age of crime, and they've all played her as actresses in different things throughout history. So they're kind of like, there's three different ages of the women. And this fan convention is being held at the author's family home to kind of celebrate the murder mystery genre and her books and what have you. And it's set during August, and it feels like a summer fate. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's set on the grounds of this stately home. There's like, tents of things. And it's such a fun book, right? Murder starts happening, of course. It wouldn't be, it wouldn't be a murder mystery without, you know, and these three women team up to try and solve it. Something that I always think is interesting about this is we do read from all their perspectives, but in chunks, they each take up basically a third of the book. And then at the end, sometimes we kind of splitting between perspectives. But for the most part, they each take a third of the book. And I thought that was a really interesting way to do split perspective, because you kind of got a good time with each of them to like get to know them and the kind of person that they were. I think this is just, I always say, it's such a fun book to read.  And yeah, it's got that summer fate. We're in the garden. We're looking for things. I don't know. I think it has a real summery feel to it. So if you love murder mysteries, I would recommend picking this up, because I think, like I said, a love letter to the genre.  Then we have one I don't have the cover for. I just have the book from Book of the Month. I don't have the dust jacket. But it's the last time I lied by Riley Sager. Now this is my favorite Riley Sager that I've ever read. I think it's his best. It's set at a summer camp, summer camp.  Summer camp. The protagonist watched the three cabin mates sneak out of the room in the night and no one ever saw them again. So she has a lot of guilt surrounding that. And then she goes to the owner of the camp.  And the owner of the camp has decided to reopen it. So she, the protagonist decides to go there as like a camp counselor, but things obviously start going wrong. And I think it's just perfectly paced. It's a perfect thriller. It has a great amount of intrigue and mystery to it. The reveal as to what's happened is incredible. The reveal, there's one of those last minute, like, oh, they can go right or wrong. But one of those last minute thriller twists, you know, like last page thriller twists at the end. This is definitely my favorite Riley Sager. This and the house across the lake, I think for me are his favorites. But I haven't read there anyone left yet. And I know that's been getting really good reviews. But if you're going to read a Riley read the last of my life, because I feel like not a lot of people talk about it. Everyone speaks about lock every door and home before dark, perhaps because it's a bit older. But I think it's his best. I think Riley told you slapped. Oh, big slay. Wait, like big slay? Yeah, big slay. You're killing it. Stop it, girl. I love your look. Then we have You Must Not Miss by Katrina Leno. This is a very special book. I actually read this in December one year. So I did not read this in the summer. I don't know if this takes place during the summer, but it feels hot with anger. It's the way that I would describe it. So we're following Magpie, whose parents have just gone through a very messy breakup. Her mother is really, really struggling. So Magpie is really fending for herself. And we know that something has happened to her recently, Magpie. That is very, a very traumatic experience has happened to her lately, but we don't really know what it was. She starts writing about this mythical world of Nier, where everything is as she would love it to be, you know, her ideal world. But then Nier actually materializes through her garden shed. And this is still my favorite Katrina Leno I've ever read. And I just think it's such a special book. It is difficult. I think a lot of the other books that I've recommended are kind of like, you know, as light-hearted as my recommendations can get. This one deals with some heavier topics, but I think it handles them all really well and the way that it explores the topics through magical realism and tackles, you know, trauma and pain through magical realism forms, I think is really, really interesting and incredible really. So yeah, I don't want to say too much about this one because I, again, I want, I went into this completely blind and I think it's a good way to go into it. But we're following Magpie and this mythical world through her garden shed there's lots swimming in the pool as well. So I think it must take place in the summer. Yeah, this is a really special book and one that I try to recommend a lot, but I try not to say too much. But if you do need to look up trigger warnings, do look up trigger warnings for this because it does deal with heavier topics. And then my final recommendation, a bit of a curveball, but I want to recommend Yerba Brenna by Nina Lacour. This isn't my favorite Nina Lacour. My favorite Nina Lacour is Watch Over Me, but I thought this is a good summer recommendation. So in this we're following these two women and kind of their pasts and then how their paths cross and their romance and the way that they come in and out of each other's lives. This is set over the course of many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many years. So I don't know when the majority of the book is set. It is set in Los Angeles, which I feel like as a British person, like I feel like it's basically permanently summer in LA. Yeah, one's a florist and one is a bartender. And it's just such an interesting book. It's one of those books that's quite slow. It's short though. It's like a fast read, but it's slow and it's pacing and it's intimacy. It's a very intimate book and it's a very deep look at these characters. And it's not the kind of book that I think necessarily follows typical story structures or typical where we expect a romance to go and want it to do. It's a bit more of like a literary take, I think, on a romance. But I think it's beautiful. I think it's tragic. I think it explores, again, a lot of different human emotions and the core of human emotions. So yeah, I would recommend it. So yeah, I would recommend it. I think a lot of you would enjoy it and I think it's a very unique book. I don't think I've necessarily read anything like it before. Okie dokie. So there we have it. Those are some top summer recommendations. I tried to pull some books that I haven't spoken about in a while or just ones that I really think are great for summer that I think you guys should pick up. So yeah, let me know if you've read any of these. Let me know if you're thinking if you have any of these on a TBR. You might pick them up during summer. If you got to the end of the video, comment a sunshine emoji and I hope you get some of this video. Maybe you read one of these this summer and I will see you very soon in another video. Bye!


I used to be vegan for like three years as well, so I know the thing. Alright, why aren't you vegan now? Are you a vegan? Um, I've got to be honest, no. How long have you been vegan then? I'm actually not vegan anymore. Crap. No! Oh, have you been here before? Have you seen this before? Yeah, yeah, I've seen it, I've seen it. I used to be vegan for like three years as well, so I know the thing. Alright, why aren't you vegan now? Actually, I think what actually happened, I was, I was wondering, like, say maybe three years into it, yeah? Three years into it, I started having mad dreams. I used to have dreams, I was waking up in Coase West, and I was eating me and I was panicking. I was panicking, so I thought, this needs to change. And I was losing so much weight, so like two, so I couldn't balance, balance the feeling. You weren't taking the calories in properly? Yeah, yeah. Have you seen this stuff before? Yeah, I've seen a lot of your stuff, mate. Oh, you haven't? Yeah. You've watched my videos, haven't you? Yeah, a lot, mate. Oh, really? Are you a vegan? Um, I've got to be honest, no. Okay. I was, I went, um, I went to veganism for about a year. Oh, really? And I found it good. Yeah.  And I- What, there's cruelty in that? Man, I find it absolutely disgusting, and I feel like a hypocrite, because the only thing I do eat, if I'm honest, with you is chicken. But that still makes me a hypocrite, because I absolutely, I've got three cats, I love them to pieces, I love animals, I'm a massive fan of animals, brings me to tears, there's a grown 39-year-old man, if I see cruelty to animals, so I'm a massive hypocrite. I don't, I couldn't work out whether it was actually you, and it is. Why am I, what am I doing in your town? Literally, no, I was just like... Hey, brother. Cheers, mate. How are you? Good? Good, yeah. Norwich vegan? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Norwich vegan? I just found another one. Oh, well. Yeah, it's a... We're growing, we're growing. We're growing, yeah. Have you tried out Moorish falafel? Moorish falafel? Probably closed now. But it sounds Moorish. Unbelievable. Have you had Moorish falafel? I have. You have? Not in, I don't remember, it must have been them. How long have you been vegan then? I'm actually not vegan anymore. I promise I am going back on track. Oh, God. What? Nah! We've already lost one in this conversation. Do you know the farm inside of stuff? The farm inside of stuff, I'm not really with that. The way I see eating meat, I say like, if you're eating it for, for to stay alive, then it's... Survival. Survival, and it's cool. But the way we're doing it now, it's too much. We're doing it for taste pleasure. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? So it's like, and so much food gets wasted. And like...  Of course, and all that has water. People are starving. 100%. The meat that I get, I get it from farms. I don't get it from supermarkets. So I get it only from farms, like local farms and stuff like that. So it's good, like they care for the animals and stuff. It's not just like stored. So, but I understand you lot's view as well. Because you say you just eat chickens. What about the milk and the eggs in that? I don't, I only, as you can see, I have oats. Tell me why I eat eggs. From my background, I always had eggs from a free-range source, you see. And it was always chickens that were kept by my mum's partner growing up. Backyard eggs. Absolutely. See? Okay, yeah. So it's absolutely free-ranging. It was a byproduct for me.  You don't go, so if you're in the shop, like, let's just say there's a cake or something, you don't check if there's got eggs in there. I wouldn't eat that sort of thing. But it's so like, so in other, yeah, like, so... If you're able to eat, you can't guarantee that, right? Yeah, if you go out to eat, you're not going to be like, I don't eat eggs principally. No. You know. It's like my girlfriend over there, she's vegan. She's, she's vegan. So your girlfriend is vegan and you're, you're somehow not vegan? I know. Wait a second, you don't eat animals, do you?  Yeah. Like who? Chickens? Or the pigs? Everyone? Everyone. Eat all the animals? God.  I think so, I think so. Because in sixth form, it was a very, it was a very vegan place. So is it more when you're out and about or... And your family's not vegan, obviously? No, I didn't get a lot of support from my family with it. Oh, so how do you feel about it all, though? Do you feel bad about it? Got it. Oh, wow. And I think not to put this the wrong way, but seeing you, it just made me think, what have you done to her, what have you done, girl? I just assumed that you were vegan and then I was like, can you drop the bum on me? Of course you would, of course you would. Why wouldn't you? Animals are just, they're like us, but they're not as different types of intelligence. But when you look in their eyes, there's someone in there, you know? 100% you can see. Yes, and I do love animals as well, so I do get. I get what you're saying.  I mean, I've recently stuck a camera in a local slaughterhouse to have a look at how they're being killed. And the cows try to escape the knockbox. They're terrified. There's body parts everywhere.  Of course, of course. And the thing what I thought was like, do you know like, these animals are getting slaughtered like that. They know that, they know okay, they're going to be slaughtered and they're going to be killed. So we eat that energy. They get adrenaline before they die, the fear. So even if they got this happy life, well, I think about this, they're happier they are, the more of an interest they have in continuing their life. To murder them is more of an injustice. If you get like a human being, they've got everything going for them. They just graduated university. They're really intelligent. They're all happy and they go up and shoot them in the head. People say, well, that's a tragedy. They were happy, had everything going for them. So the happier the animal, the more of an injustice it is to kill them. All free range eggs in the commercial sense are still disgusting. For many reasons, they macerate the male chicks in the blender or they gas them or they gas all the hens and make them into processed chicken. And so the egg industry is on par or worse than the meat industry. But you know, it's weird because chickens actually have the same color eyes as you. I don't know if you ever looked in the eyes of a chicken. They're blue eyes. They've got little blue eyes. Yeah. They originate from Scandinavia. I don't know too, but they have beautiful little blue eyes. Oh, okay. And there's someone inside of there. I know. I know.  I'm not going to do that. Yeah. Oh, God. And you know what makes me feel the worst is that I've watched hours of this content and it's just made me be kind of desensitized at all. I guess seeing it get processed. I think I guess it's different when you understand that behind their eyes is an individual. Yeah. No. And it's it's it's it guts me even more because I have pet rats and like, you know, they're always killed. Like people people go, oh, I just want a future rat to mistake. I just want like, I know it's not the same because they're not like mass produced and killed. But it's like even if they're still the same and they're still beings, the people.  Like the only reason I'm doing this is to get the public's opinion on what's going on and try to persuade people who watch the video to choose another way. Because a lot of people's justifications, I don't think, you know, are good enough for this, you know. Of course, of course. And everyone likes to think they get these happy human stuff. But they really don't. We want things so quick. So it's got convenience. So that's why they're just killing more, killing more, killing more. Even even these days, it's like, I'm in a stage now where like I'm learning to do my own vegetables. Oh, that's good. So I've got like a garden and I'm sort of planting my own vegetables because even the vegetables, they're no good. They can't be. They're a lot better than this because 100 percent. They get all the pesticide built up in them from all the food they eat. You know, if you're just eating the food directly, you get a lot less concentration of pesticide anyway. But it's the killing then, the suffering and the blood that does it for me, man. And we put that in our body. Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah. This is the thing. It's not just saying, I don't need meat. It's a lifestyle change, isn't it?  So you don't see them in vending machines for eggs anymore. You don't see them as meat machines. You don't see them as milk machines. You're changing the way you view them so that society changes the way they view them and no longer commodifies them. Because as soon as you see an egg as a food group, that's where factory farms began. They all were backyard eggs at one stage. Yeah, exactly, yeah.  I can make one. Now I've got to, everyone sees an egg as food now and they have to meet that demand and they have to have factory farms. But until we have a whole paradigm shift and you stop seeing an egg as food, nothing's going to change. Agreed, I can't disagree. Yeah.  And because you know, like a lot of people aren't as aware as you are. So because you have that awareness, like the moral culpability is much higher. Yeah.  That's why I think, honestly, it's more like a an unconscious sort of habitual thing. Maybe you've fallen back into... No, I think it is as well, but it's just... I'm mad at myself. You know, you've got Happy Cow. You know Happy Cow? If you know what Happy Cow is? Yeah, yeah. You can find vegan restaurants and you've got more options than ever before in the UK. I have Happy Cow. And you've seen the footage and you know what you're doing. I don't even have to have this conversation with you. So you're rats. Do you have dogs and cats? I have... You know, I've been investigating a lot of UK farms recently. And... Do you still go into them? Yeah, I go into the farms all the time here.  You don't know who to rescue. It smells pungent, like ammonia and feces. Because even like me and my wife was water-pulling. We really looked into it. We slowed everything down. So like now we will have meat, maybe say like once a week or sometimes even more. Because it's like when you think of it, average person, they have like every meal. Three meals a day. Yeah, three meals a day. Meat, meat, meat, meat. Well, if you don't have much of it, it's easy to kick them, brother. 100%. You know what I mean?  Cows, lambs or chickens? Who do you mean? What animals do you eat? All the animals? Yeah, yeah, most of them. Like do you eat pigs in that? Um, yeah, yeah. Like bacon, ham and... Yeah, yeah.  No, no, I know definitely, I wouldn't be able to. So that's, what is that, what is that, mate? Because even like, I wanted to go fishing, but I didn't know I could do it. Stick a hook in a fish's face and suffocate them. Yeah, you're good-hearted.  Sure. I hated it. Like, I don't like it. I don't... I try to be as consistent as I can. Yeah. And I try to better myself. Yeah. But with the cruelty to the animals and the suffering of the animals, that was one thing I really had to be consistent about. Because I couldn't justify being cruel and violent to the innocent for taste pleasure. Sure, absolutely. Like, yeah, I couldn't agree more. Like, are we going to... Yeah, exactly. Am I going to sit there and have a burger or a piece of chicken or whatever that be for the taste, or am I actually going to stand up as a man and say, this is absolutely f***ing immoral? It's too bad. It's way too bad for me to support. Like, I can't support that. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. And you forget about your meal like soon. Like, I don't even... I have to struggle to remember what I had for breakfast two days ago. It's gone. It's forgotten about, you know. The fact that I don't eat meat affects my life zero. Like, at this point, I can look around. I go, oh, there's Burger King there. There's Pret there. There's... I can... Oh, M&S there. I know where there's vegan stuff everywhere because I've been doing it for so long now. It's really easy to get a hang of it. Yeah, yeah. And now it's just...  You know what I mean? And I think people that can't make this small lifestyle change, I'm like, why? Yeah, why? It's as easy as like... Okay, I'm not going to grab chicken. I'm going to learn how to cook the best tofu. Absolutely, yeah. And it's still keto, actually, tofu. Yeah, yeah, sure. Sure.  So it's a really good food tofu, actually. For that chicken, it's there. It's a life of suffering and supporting something that we're going to look back in history and go, why did we do that? When we have people that know and understand and go vegan, we need them for the animals. Like, we need them to help change the world. Otherwise, we're just like...  Like, I'll just mindlessly consume them, I don't really care. That's where... That's what most people do. So when we get someone who snaps away, really... The animals really need them. Really need them. We're like, I live such a fast life and at the time, like, it wasn't as easy when I was doing it, you know, so... And I was just like touring all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. So it was harder for me to do it. I get it. So I got to the stage where I was... Because when I was doing it, I wasn't... I wouldn't even eat honey because it's not for the bees or something like that. So I used to pack my meals and take it. I don't go that far. Because now in the UK, it's easy. Yeah, but now, yeah. How long ago was this when you... I'm talking maybe... Maybe like 10 years ago. F*** it, bro. Oh my God. 10 years ago. And I was eating it for like three years. I'll get you. Everything's changed now, man. I know, I know. It's... But lately, I've been going to get back into it, but just be more on it. You should be, brother. You're against this stuff, obviously. I can see what you're doing and why you're doing it. I support it, which I feel bad for, because I support it, yet I'm a part of it, which is not really what I want. Maybe seeing you today is maybe... Maybe the messages that I've been sort of, you know, telling myself over the last three or four weeks. Hey, mate. Um, you know, maybe that is a case that, you know, just seeing you today by chance is something that'll make me go away and maybe start. Thank you for today. I'm not trying to square it, but I am. Maybe it's a sign. Maybe it's your sign to get back on... Get back on it. Trust me, mate. I don't need you to tell me. Yeah. Thank you for the information and the resources, because I think today was what I needed. Really what I needed. But yeah, it's been lovely to meet you. Nice to meet you, too.  Thank you. And thank you for all your work. Thank you so much. Take care, sir. Really nice to meet you. Take care. Take care. See you later.


Hello global supply trainers and welcome to the third life event of SC0x supply chain analytics. We're very happy to be here today with you. I'm in Maborrella. I'm a postdoctoral associate here at MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. And I'm the course lead of SC0x. And today I'm with Chris Kaplis. Chris is the executive director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. And he has been your instructor during the whole course of SC0x. All right. Thank you. This is, is this the third course you've run now? Second, second. All right. It seems like three, right? Seems like a lot. All right. So what we're going to do today is a couple things. First, I'm going to give a recap of the course just really quickly to put things in context. And then also describe how that fits into the whole curriculum for the MicroMasters. Because hopefully you all will continue with this program. And then we'll talk about two problems from practice that we received from you all. I'm going to clean them up a little bit and make them easier to digest in a short period of time. We'll have a breakout. You guys discuss it. Don't come back and Inma and I will discuss it and see what we come up with. And then at the very end, we'll wrap up and talk about the next follow-on course, SC1x. So let me talk about this course. SC0x is probably the first course that most people are taking. And to be honest, it's probably the hardest course. So if you've gotten through it, congratulations. This is where we put all of the math. It's not the first course we created. We actually created SC1x first, then SC2x. But then when we needed to expand to five, we kind of followed the format we do at MIT. And we pushed all the analytics into one course. That's great because you have it all there. And so now you're equipped for everything you're going to see in the next four courses. But the downside is we hit you very hard, very fast with all this math. So the rest of the courses just apply it. Trust me, no new math will be taught in any of the other four courses. You've seen everything. Now we're just going to apply it. So what did we do? We started off with the basic idea of a mathematical function. And for some of you, this is old hat. For many of you, you've never seen this before, but you've been using it. So that whole idea that y is a function of x. And we talked about different functional forms. This is something that needs to get ingrained in you because any kind of mathematical model uses functions. You just have to get used to it. But then we really, excuse me, you can divide the course into two. The first half is deterministic methods and the second half is more stochastic or dealing with uncertainty. So in the deterministic one, we started off with classical optimization, which is unconstrained optimization using first and second order conditions, using calculus a little bit. Don't freak out, right? You learned this a little bit about how to find a solution to an extreme function. And so we went from that, then we went into linear programming where we constrained it and put some constraints on what the objective function looks like. In fact, it's a linear function. It's a straight line, makes it easier to solve. Then we finally ended up with mixed integer linear programs, which are the workhorse in supply chain management. You will see these all over the place in SC2X when we do network design, production planning, optimized procurement. Mixed integer linear programs are probably the most widely used technique in supply chain management.  Because again, in transportation, you operate on a network so learning how a network is represented and some different algorithms that are used there are very, very important. You'll see these more in SC1X and later on in your career. We also spent more time talking about algorithms themselves because algorithms are things that you've been using. You just didn't know it at the time and you'll be using more of these. And so we used algorithms in the setting of a network because I wanted to show some of those. So it's kind of a Trojan horse there because I wanted to make sure you understood some network optimization but also wanted to show you how algorithms work. So we talked about shortest path. We I think went through Dijkstra's algorithm. We went through vehicle routing problems, traveling salesman problem. And then we kind of went into heuristics because some of these problems are so big, so complicated even though our computers can do a lot and they're really fast, you still can't solve all these problems. They're NP hard and so they're very large and so heuristics are again commonly used in practice. So I want to make sure you understand when to use heuristics and when to use optimal algorithms. And finally, we finished up with the idea of approximation and estimation because as you go from pure optimization to this approximation, yeah, we'd love to optimize everything but sometimes you don't have the data and it's uncertain. And so you just need to do a rough back of the envelope type of calculation and that's what the approximation is there for. And so we ran through some techniques and some ways of thinking about that and we specifically looked at an approach called continuous approximation for last mile delivery that is widely used and something you should keep in your back pocket. So that was the optimization half which is what I think is one of the funnest pieces to teach. I love that stuff. The second half we dealt with uncertainty and so we introduced you to probability which is again one of the hardest things for people to get their arms around. Usually it takes two or three times to do it. You need to make sure you understand distributions and what that means because you cannot do any inventory management without understanding probability distributions, especially the normal distribution or my favorite, the triangle distribution. I love the triangle distribution. Not everyone likes the triangle distribution but it's a great approximation to other distributions. So understanding what the area under the curve is and what the cumulative probability is, these are things that you're going to see more and more and more especially in SC1X. This will get beat into you because you need to make sure you understand this at a gut level. We talked about then to statistics, we went to point estimation, confidence intervals and then we also did hypothesis testing. These are things that are done if you're implementing a new strategy and you want to test to see did it improve or not. Most in practice they don't necessarily do formal hypothesis testing but if you want to do anything in academia you need to know this really well but the whole structure of being able to say did this new technology, this new methodology, this new facility, did it have an impact looking at the before and after conditions, that's the approach you need to take. So you have those tools now. Then we went into regression which will be widely used. We'll see it in forecasting in SC1X. You'll see it later on in other courses too. It's so easy to do now that it's widely used and so anytime you want to understand some driving forces and their effect on that dependent variable, regression is a nice first step for this and you'll probably use this quite a bit in your career. We finished up with simulation. With simulation we went through Monte Carlo, very simple using a spreadsheet but you can also have very complicated and sophisticated simulations and we did that for the discrete event simulation. We introduced some queuing theory in there as well because that kind of fit that same model. We won't do too much with queuing theory later on. Sometimes you'll see this in different practices. Mainly in manufacturing you'll see a lot of queuing theory but I wanted to make sure you saw it and you don't freak out if someone says an MMQ. So you know what it is. So deterministic, stochastic, we kind of set these together. These are the tools you now have in your tool belt. You've learned more than you think you've realized and hopefully once you do the final you'll come to that conclusion. You will not see any more mathematical techniques throughout the four courses. You've got all the tools there. Now you just have to learn how to use them a little better but you've been kind of taught them on a first take anyway. So that's the course and hopefully you're feeling good about this, about these tools that we gave you, how it fits into larger curriculum. Like I said, you're now equipped to solve every problem that we touch in the remaining four courses. The only exception to that is in SC4X we introduce some newer techniques, machine learning, which will build off of a lot of things we talked about in the second half of this course. But that's only in SC4X. Everything in SC1X, supply chain fundamentals, SC2X, supply chain design, and SC3X, supply chain, what is SC3X? SC3X, the veggie dynamics. Dynamics, sorry. So many SCXs. You've seen before. So you've got those tools. So feel confident and if you like supply chain, that's great because that's what you're going to see for the rest of it. We won't be beating you up on math as much anymore. So that's SC0X, the intro. Anything you want to add, Inma? You've been with them for the last 12 weeks. I think it was a really nice recap of the course. And as you said, even if it was a little bit tough, you're going to be very happy to have these tools in coming courses. And I'm sure you will go back and just review these concepts and these techniques to make sure that you can solve the more realistic problems that will be approaching in one, two, three, and four. Yeah. And throughout your career. Yeah. All right. So now we want to move into the problems for practice, from practice rather. And so we introduced these, gosh, was it last course? One of the SC1X's we introduced it because a lot of students or a lot of learners send us emails and they say, I have this problem. And I saw one of the weaknesses that learners have. Yes, you know all these tools now. You've got your optimization tool in your toolbox. You've got your simulation, your regression, all these different things. But when a problem hits you, they never say, hey, I'm an optimization problem or hey, I'm a regression problem. They're just a problem. And so what we wanted to do with this feature is throughout every course we want to, we always ask for, do you have a real problem that you faced at work? And then we try to talk about it and see, just say, oh, how would we solve this? What would you do? And they're not necessarily really easy to figure out. They're just kind of real problems. And so I wanted to introduce two of those in this and that's what we're going to talk about for the next few minutes and then go to the breakout with this. Okay, so you can download the PDF with the problems in case you want to have them in your computer too from the life event chat. Like Arthur has shared it with you and it's also in the section for the third life event in week 11 of the course. We're going to screen the presentation too right now so you can read it from the screen. You should be seeing now the first problem, problem one, fog lift crew break scheduling. Okay, this came from Victor and he wrote a couple emails on this and they were much more detailed. But essentially the situation was that he is working with a paper company and he's been asked to kind of coordinate the forklift drivers that they're taking a little longer and unplanned breaks during the normal flow of business and so it's not structured so they think it's affecting the performance. And so he's been tasked on a better combination of when breaks should be scheduled for forklift trucks and the drivers at the warehouses. That's kind of the situation, the details. You can think of it, it's a pretty standard situation. Palettes come in from this production line and a forklift takes them to the shuttle and this buffering area at the mill and when the shuttle is full with 15 pallets a driver then takes it on that shuttle to a warehouse where it's loaded, or it's unloaded rather and then truck driver they can return back to the production plant to pick up a new shuttle so they can go back and forth. The shuttle's in the power unit so the thing that the drivers on are separable, they're detachable. Pallets stay around three days at the warehouse and then a truck comes and takes them to the customers. So it's kind of like a staging area so the forklifts are seven of them and they are used for loading shuttles at the plant. There are 42 shuttles that go back and forth and it's a four shuttle drivers, 10 forklifts at the warehouse, that destination, three shifts per day. Just giving you some background on this and the production range is about two and a half pallets a minute and you can do the math to see what that means. It takes two minutes to load a pallet roughly 10 minutes for the shuttle to drive to the warehouse with a full 15 pallets, two minutes to unload and then two minutes to load the pallets when the customer's truck comes. So the question is, you have all this information and you can also, Victor included the distribution of the time and it looks somewhat exponential. Obviously not negative but it has a long right tail for the length of time that it takes to do these loads. And so if you look at this problem and I'll let you, I'll describe the second one first but you wanna probably, I want you to talk about this but how would you approach this? What would you do? This is what's your first step because we wanna go through the process now of you see the problem, identify the problem, identify the best approach. All right, any questions on this one or anything you wanna add? No, I think it's nicely explained. So that's the first problem. Okay, the second problem is container loading and this came from Lance and this is essentially your employed as an analyst at a freight forwarder and this is in Shenzhen. So essentially the freight forwarders don't own assets. They don't own ocean vessels but they are like the middleman between shippers or manufacturers and the carriers shipping things to retailers. So the situation is you've got a lot of plants in China that are shipping things for a common retailer. That could be a Walmart or Target, a Sears, any large retailer. They come from multiple locations and the forwarder's job is to consolidate them onto containers and then they will go to that retailer's distribution centers. So the retailers procure millions of TEUs a year and your jobs consolidate them into full container loads because they come in from plants as two to three pallets, half a container, whatever. You have to mix those together and then you wanna ship them out as full containers. Why? Because you pay for the whole container and you don't wanna ship air. So some details. Retail ship, you could have 10 to 20 containers coming from 100 different origin locations a week in the Shenzhen area, a very hot area. 330 each day, you receive the confirmed volume to be shipped by each retailer from the warehouse and you have about 90 minutes, an hour and a half, to come up with a plan. And that plan is to figure out which ocean shipper to contact and how many containers of which type to lay on. So you have a bunch of input data which is the number of the things you're trying to move in cubic meters, pallets, whatever and you've got to determine how many containers to order. This data can change during the process. It's very dynamic. And so the question is how do I wanna figure this out? What should I do for the approach? And I gave you the four common types of containers that are used, the TEU, the 20 foot standard that holds 26 cubic meters, FEU 40 foot standard that holds 56 cubic meters and the costs are there as well. And then some high cube ones, a 40 and a 45 foot high cube. And so they all have slightly different costs. And so the question is, what approach would you use to solve this? Look at the frequency, look at the input data and what we want you guys to do. And first, is there anything you wanna add to this one? No, no, thank you. Okay, so what we want you to do is to go to your breakout rooms in just a second and talk to each other about how you'd approach this. And there are three things that we want you to really focus on. What data do you think you need? What methodology should you use? And how would you approach using this model? Is it something that's done strategically? Is something daily? How do you see this approach being used? Because everything we've done so far, we've learned kind of an abstract. And now we're gonna say, okay, how can it be used in practice? Because that influences what you can actually do. So what I'd like for you to do now is go to breakout rooms and it's about a quarter after. So I'm gonna go for about 15, 20 minutes. Is that okay? So we'll give you a warning when we're back out, but when you're in your breakout rooms, talk about these two problems, the container loading problem and then the forklift crew scheduling problem. Also, if you have any other questions, send those through in the chat and we'll address those when we come back. When we come back in 20 minutes, we'll talk about each of the breakout, each of the practice problems. Yeah. All right. Yes, so we are aware you don't have time to solve them. Yeah, we don't want you to solve them. Just pick the methodology. That's the weak link here. Pick the methodology and we can talk about it. Yeah, exactly. All right. See you in a few minutes. See you.


I'm here on the ST stand at Embedded World with Martin Batsek, who is the ST25 NFC applications manager for the EMEA region. Got that right? Right. OK. What have you got for me? Well, what we are showing here today is a new chip, the new ST25 NFC Dynamic Tech, ST25 DV02K-W. And what is special about this chip is actually that it combines the industrial robustness of the ISO 15693 contactless interface on one side, together with the PWM pass with modulation signal generation. So what the chip is able to do, it is able to do autonomously generate the pass with modulation signal. It offers you a possibility to generate one or two channels that are configured during the boot up time of the chip, and that can be also customized or modified to the PWM settings any time during the runtime as well. OK. It's very complex, but very simple when you show me in the demo. So what we are seeing here on the panel is actually two luminaires that have their own LED drivers that are controlled in the end by our chip, by the ST25 DV02K-W. And if you are a person with enough security privileges and you have a smartphone or professional reader, you may control in the contactless way quite easily the light intensity just like this. Now forgive me for stating the obvious, but I'm guessing that lighting applications are the main potential for this. Absolutely. The power applications in general are the fields where this chip can bring some added value. So home and building application, power supplies, these are really the fields that we can bring some added value, make better application. You can imagine you can build now these applications, these devices completely without the microcontroller and still have the chance to set, to control the output and power or the light intensity in a digital way, in the contactless interface. What about availability? Well, as you can see, we have the demo boards, we have the chip ready, we distribute the evaluation kits here in the embedded world and I would like you and all the people invited to check our product pages for this chip where you can find all other necessary information. I'll go and do it right now. Thank you. Martin, thanks for your time. Thanks.


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Sailors aboard USS John C. Stennis had the opportunity to participate in a bench press competition that was held in the hangar bedding. The competition was sponsored by the Stennis Chapter of the Coalition of Sailors Against Destructive Decisions, the Ships of Float Fitness Director, and Stennis Morale Welfare and Recreation. The bench competition was great today. It's not too often that we get to go and have powerlifting competitions. Great to give everybody around. Increase the morale and see what your competition is. Train a little bit harder in the gym. The competition was divided up into male and female categories. It was an awesome competition. There wasn't very many ladies that were actually competing, but the turnout was awesome. So I encourage everybody to come out for the next round. From USS John C. Stennis, I'm Petty Officer Fred M. Gray IV.