Hello everyone and welcome to this Moodle Academy webinar What's New in Moodle 4.3. I'm Mary Cooch, Education Manager at Moodle HQ and I'm going to be taking you through the presentation and I have with me UX Analyst at Moodle HQ, Helen Foster. Helen, if you'd like to say hello. Hello everyone, nice to be here. So Helen is going to be monitoring the chat and then relaying the questions at intervals during the presentation. So feel free to ask any questions about Moodle 4.3 that you have in the chat. So here goes, the way we're going to do it is like this. So we're going to divide the presentation into two sections. What's new in site administration, then we'll have a little break to cover any questions you might have about site administration in 4.3 and then what's new in courses for course teachers. Hopefully then we will have some time at the end to cover more questions about 4.3. There is a lot, there's a lot that's new and a lot that hopefully you will appreciate. So here's my list of what's new for site administration and we're going to take them a few at a time. We're going to look first of all at the big improvements and integrations of communication. We're going to look at a new feature thanks to the Moodle users association, which is site level activity completion settings. And then we're going to start looking at improvements to LTI external tool. Some of the things you'll see in admin continue into courses for course teachers as you'll see now. So let's begin with communication matrix. Now matrix is one way of messaging students and if you enable communication providers from site administration development experimental settings, then you will be able as an admin if you want to and if you know how to to install a matrix server and to connect it to your Moodle site so that your learners and teachers can have a matrix room for discussing the course automatically in their course. You see we have a screenshot here. This setting will appear manage communication providers and if you have matrix enabled because you've got your own matrix server, then you click settings and you can add the details of your particular server. What happens then when matrix rooms are created and we'll look at this as a course teacher when we go into it in the course settings, then the teacher automatically has the role of the moderator in the matrix room and when the learners click to go into the room, they their user accounts are also created. Now that might not necessarily be something that as an administrator you can do or you want to do. So there's also another possibility that I really like which is called custom link. Now custom link if you choose to keep it enabled means that again from the same place in the course, a teacher can add a link to either an existing matrix room that they've been using with their class or a room in another messaging service such as Slack Telegram for example and you can use that to to discuss with your learners and there's a neat little icon enabling them to go directly to that messaging while they're in the course. So we'll take more look at that when we're in the course settings but let's move on and we're now going to look at the Moodle users association project of site level activity completion settings and for this there is a new section in site administration, site administration courses default setting and there's a new page called default level default activity completion. Now the reason for this is as follows previously the activity completion defaults were manual which wasn't ideal for example if you were a heavy user of text and media areas otherwise known as labels and teachers then would change the defaults to whatever suited them. Now because we have this new site page administrators after discussion with the teaching staff can define sensible defaults for each of the activities and we have this page which is the same page as a teacher already has because the teachers in courses can already change the default completion it's been made much more attractive and easy to manage but from here an administrator can define the defaults which probably most teachers will usually want to use so they don't have to change everything every time they create a new activity. Now we're going to come back to this with another exciting to me I'm very excited about this feature when we look at course settings. Now next is external tool now LTI external tools have been significantly refactored in Moodle 4.3 most of the work is involved in courses for what teachers can do and how teachers manage LTI external tools so we're going to look at that in detail later but as an administrator one thing that is going to be beneficial to you is that if you from the site admin settings if you add an external tool you now have a new setting to restrict it to a particular category or categories so that it's only available to teachers where it would be useful. So for example Ken Vantage that's a LTI tool you could restrict that so it would only appear for teachers to use in if you had a sciences category or a chemistry category because it's not much point to be in a humanities or a language category so that's something new for administrators and we'll look at much more when we look at it for teachers. Okay back in our list of what's new we're now going to take a look at a new filter which you can enable improvements to TinyMCE which as you know is now the default editor and will completely replace the previous ATO editor and then improvements to the report builder for you to create custom reports. Now you see here we are in filters from site administration plugins filters and if you enable a new filter called code highlighter this will then color code making it easier for people to use. Now this is separate from another feature which is new in TinyMCE but both of these allow for easier viewing and managing of code so if we go and look at what's new in TinyMCE there's a full screen option now so teachers can click a button to see that have it tight as full screen and for you the admin from TinyMCE editor general settings there's the option Tiny Premium which makes it easy for you to add the settings if you've purchased a subscription to Tiny Premium this is one of our certified integration partners and then Tiny HTML formatter which will again make code indent nicely and Tiny No Auto Link which is something that I think will be useful. I have a couple of screenshots of these so here we're in a normal TinyMCE editor and our teacher has added an enormous image of an elephant this is a course a demonstration course effective memory techniques and you see that there is an icon to click to view all of this full screen. Additionally the other new button or icon is like an exclamation mark you can see it there and if you have something which is linked but you don't want it to be linked then you can select it and you can choose No Auto Link. Okay now every time we have a new version of Moodle LMS improvements come in for the report builder allowing you to create custom reports report builder is a great example of how workplace which is a paid version of Moodle always feeds back into LMS some of its great features and the report builder came into Moodle LMS in recent versions and is improved each time so this time we have a new report source which is course categories you can filter by enrollment name and context level and I'll show you an example of that how this can create really useful reports and the participants report actually includes course completion column criteria column and entities enrollment method and enrollment. Incidentally if you go on our YouTube channel or you look in our documentation there are six videos which demonstrate these new features including report builder so if we go to site administration and reports and we click to add a new report you see here alongside the list of all the other existing report source you can now create a report for course categories. Here we are creating a report file storage by course and we can do this because of the new context level reporting and you see that here we've got the list of our courses in the course column with the number of files that's the count there and the total size so this will be very useful for you to see which courses actually are very very heavy on file size. You can also do this by user file storage by user and the video on YouTube demonstrates how to do this so you can find out which of your teaching staff or your learners have a lot of files there. Okay now moving on in new insight administration we're going to look at security improvements and improvement to badges and then for those of you who are site administrators who who may be adapt roles and so on updates to the capabilities. Now security improvements I have to say not all of these lend themselves to attractive screenshots so they won't all have screenshots but it's very important to tell you what they are. Now multi-factor authentication is something that has been brought in it was originally a plugin and that perhaps many of you are aware of are used and has been brought in and adapted for Moodle LMS. Now the adaptations for this version relate mainly to the user view there will be more improvements in the next version from the admin point of view. There's a you can have a recapture on the login page web service tokens read only once if you use a lot of videos from YouTube or Vimeo you might like the do not tracking option and several others I won't read them but you'll be able to to download this presentation afterwards as well as watching the recording so hopefully they will be useful to you there. Let's just have a look at a few of these then. Multi-factor authentication you will find this in admin tools and if you click to manage MFA here you can select the factor or the ways in which people will have to authenticate. Now for example and their weight their number of points. For example I've highlighted here authenticator app in some of our Moodle HQ sites we use this it means that with this enabled you can't log in unless you go to your mobile phone and you get a code which comes on an authenticator app and you enter that that's just one example for instance you can also authenticate if you're a member of a particular cohort that's something we use on academy for instance and you need to make sure that it's enabled. If you go to the manage authentication page inside administration there's a new setting there enable recapture for login and you can see over there on the right hand side our student is going to have to do that before she can log in. Also this is very important for web services if you if you've got a token but if you forget it or whatever reason it is only shown once for security reasons and then a new one you need to copy it and use it but then a new one can be created. Now this one YouTube and Vimeo they both have their own pages in site administration although they use different wordings basically both of these will allow you to check a box so that session data is not tracked okay now we're going to look at improvements to badges for site administrators so you can now tag badges and the way that you connect to backpacks is improved and also something I would like to show you which is that if you have a lot of site badges then you can now search and filter them so if it's a site administrator you go to your manage badges page you will see that you can filter for instance you can filter from not available or you can filter by name and that makes it very easy for you to find a particular badge that you would need site badges that is and finally for administrators and we'll have a little break and see if there are any comments or questions we always like to show you which capabilities have gone and which are new capabilities in a new version of Moodle now the removed capability relates to Moodle relates to LTI external tools that's because as I've already explained and we'll look in more detail in a moment the whole system of adding LTI external tools and managing them has been refactored in the new capabilities you might notice things like communication matrix moderator course communication these of course relate to the course communication with matrix or other messaging services there are also capabilities relating to sharing courses and we're going to look at Moodle net and improvements to Moodle net there as well so that's what's new in site administration and I'm just going to stop presenting for a moment and I'm going to ask Helen how are we doing for any questions I can't see the chat while I'm presenting or any comments before we move on to what's new in courses and we just have a couple of questions so far in the chat Mary the first one was from Scott asking how does tiny mce recognize code is it certain characters typed or a button in the user interface and I answered there's a code button which is in the format menu in tiny mce yes yeah okay and then Tina asked is badge import still impossible oh okay I think are you asking about the fact that there have been problems with exporting your badges to an external site like Badger if that's correct then my understanding is that all Moodle HQ has worked on it as much as they can but the problem is related to the fact that I believe Canvas or Instructure have bought Badger and we need to rely on them for certain other settings there is a tracker issue that it might be possible to to add that you can follow the progress of this I haven't followed it this week but okay okay well I've given you some extra unasked for information there about badges but Tina is saying no copying them to another course um I think I think you can copy them if you use if you include user data but I'm not sure I don't know do you know about that Helen I'm not sure I'd have to see if there's a tracker issue on it yes or if there or if you're available to select badges when you import into another course or backup and restore I can't remember but that will be quite an easy one for us to check for you otherwise do feel free to ask on Moodle.org in the in that there's a badges for them and then they surely have the answer then okay is there anything else or shall we move on to what's new in courses John's just mentioning this um on Moodle Academy you can show badges from an other side talking about these oh yes okay okay shall we move on then sounds good right so from what's new in site administration we're now going to look at what's new in courses slightly fewer bullet points but a lot more information actually there's a lot new in courses and we're going to begin with a redesign of the activity cards I'll explain that term in a moment and looking more at activity completion you recall there's a new page but setting site level activity completion defaults going to look a bit more at that now activity cards redesign the activity cards are basically the little sections where you have your activity or resource and any kind of completion tracking or restrict access in them and previously they were quite wide and people complained that they took up a lot of screen space so they're now narrower also the icons that represent the activities are smaller they were quite large and if you have restricted activities there's a neater way of showing those that uses less space group mode icons have reappeared in a in a very clever way I think and basically the conditions for completion and for restriction are more compact and easily configurable for the teacher from the course page now to look at these I think a good way of doing it is to compare and contrast with what we had previously in Moodle 4.2 so what you're seeing in this screenshot is a student in a course in Moodle 4.2 and so the these are the activity cards in which you have an icon and the name of an activity or resource and over on the right you have the completion condition buttons and for example module two quick check which is a quiz it says that our student has to do this she has to receive a grade she has to receive a passing grade and now if we look at the exact same students in the exact same course but in Moodle 4.3 well first of all you'll notice that there are more activity cards on my screenshot because they are narrower the activity icons are smaller and where it says what she has to do in module two quick check it's actually in a neat little to-do drop down and she just clicks it to see what she has to do and then she can click it again and it's not disrupting her view of the course now this neatness is also reflected in restrict access this is Moodle 4.2 with our same student and the end of course summative assignment she can only access it if there are three there are three particular restrictions there and she's got to click to show more to show more and that does use up a lot of screen space okay now if we go and look at the same end of course summative assignment in Moodle 4.3 this is how it looks so as with the completion conditions she has a little drop down and it says show more and when she clicks show more then she can see all of the conditions the restrictions and then she clicks show less again and it doesn't appear so that her course page is nice and neat now there is similar improvements from the teacher point of view so we're going to go straight into a Moodle 3 course for a Moodle 4.3 course to show you what the teacher has rather than comparing and contrasting and this screenshot is divided into two in the top here you can see that Moodle 1 formative check there's nothing there but if our teacher with edit enabled edit mode enabled and if we look at number two the bottom section here if he hovers his cursor over there then an icon appears to say oh well there's no groups so this is how he can see whether groups are there and he simply needs to click it and he has the option of adding making it visible groups or separate groups or if he clicks an existing icon again a Moodle window will open up to change it to no groups if necessary so here's an example of an activity that supports groups because of course you will only see the group icon if it's something that supports groups so here we have a forum called course coffee shop and he's clicked this icon is saying that he has visible groups but when he clicks the icon then he can change it to no groups or separate groups it's a very neat way of doing it only teachers see this not students he can also access groups from the menu on the right the three dots there and this is also useful for some other new settings one called availability so if he clicks availability this allows him to show hide or make available but not show on the course page that is related to what we call stealth mode if you know about that or you use that so that's a quick way of changing the availability of a single item on the course page and for instance if he chooses to hide it then he can quickly change its availability directly on the course page simply by clicking the arrow underneath that item and this is something that is very new and very useful for teachers in terms of editing the course page so for instance in this screenshot module one formative check when he clicks completion he can see what the student has to do to complete this so he's aware of that but also if he wanted to change the completion conditions he simply needs to click edit conditions and this would take him directly to the activity completion settings in that activity or resource so he can change them there so there is no need to click on the activity and then scroll all the way down the page to edit the conditions he can go straight there change them and come out again and the same edit directly on the course page appears when you're using restrict access so here we have a final test and we have end of course feedback form both of these underneath them it says edit restrictions and so again if he clicks edit restrictions he's taken directly into the edit restriction restrict access section of that activity he can change them there and then save and come back out again so this is a great time saver for the teacher now continuing with the benefits for the teacher we're looking at activity completion and as you recall this is a Moodle users association sponsored project to improve the default completion page and so we've looked that for site administrators there is a new page where they can specify sensible activity completion defaults for each of the activities but there's something more and again that is going to help teachers when editing their courses so the teacher also has is a matter of fact from more course completion they can select default activity completion and they've got that page the same as the teacher where they can change the defaults for their courses but they might probably won't need to do that now if the administrator has set sensible defaults but if you look and if we click assignment for instance the way they select activity completion has changed and you're not actually seeing everything of all the conditions so let's take a look at this a step at a time by imagining our teacher is creating an activity and wants to set activity completion so first of all when they go to completion conditions within that activity they'll only see three options non students have manually marked the activity has done and then add requirements if they click add requirements then and only then in my number two screenshot do the requirements for that particular activity or recall course become visible so for example if our teacher selected receive a grade then and if you look at my number three only then will the options any grade or a passing grade appear so this is what we call progressive display of conditions which again makes the cognitive it helps the cognitive overload if you like of the teacher not too much information on the course page at once because if they only want for example students to mark the activity has done they don't need to see on the page all of the other options now let's move on and look again at course communication so that was the feature involving matrix integration but also allowing teachers to use or to link to other messaging services the significant enhancements to how teachers add and manage LTI external tools and a big fan of this moodle net you can now share whole courses in moodle net so let's start with course communication now from the more tab and be warned there is a lot in the more tab for teachers and more tab is very busy in moodle 4.3 so here the teacher can select more communication if a matrix room has been created automatically created in a new course for a teacher they can they can give it a name here they can give it a topic if you don't give your room a name then it will take the name from your course but supposing the administrator isn't using a matrix server that doesn't matter because as a teacher you can change provider and instead of matrix you can select custom link assuming the admin still has that enabled give it a name and then you add a URL to a messaging place or room that you can use with your learners this one is an instance of a telegram room for example then when you click save changes your room is ready it will be immediately made because it already exists and if you look next to my number two this blue icon here which does follow you around as you're going through the course this is where you the teacher and your students will automatically be able to click to go into the in our case telegram room or the room that whichever you've added to the custom link so this is a really good way of enabling you and your learners to chat in in a modern messaging service but still be in your Moodle course now I said the more tab is very busy and we're going back there again now and this time we're going down to LTI external tools and there's a lot of explanation needed to how teachers add and manage LTI external tools let's click this link and it takes us to a completely new page for adding and managing tools now the most important thing to explain here and I'll repeat it again later is that you no longer as a teacher when you go into your course and you click on the activity chooser you no longer see the option external tool that's gone if you want to add an external tool you've you've arranged it with a company for instance and you've got the settings that they've given you you go to this page and you click add tool and you add your settings there what you'll also see here is existing tools either added by you and in which case if you've added them then you can click the actions to edit them or delete them or added by the administrator in which case you'd see a padlock and you wouldn't be able to edit or delete them but you can also and this is useful you can also see how often they're used and you can toggle show in activity chooser what this means is that you the teacher can decide whether a tool that's on this page is actually available to be added in the activity chooser or not now in our case we've added an external tool and lmr memo learn and we've decided yet we want to show that in the activity chooser because we want to be able to add an instance of it in our course but this elementary school mound orange the admin added that and it's not really relevant to us so we don't want to see it in the activity chooser so we've toggled and you can see it's gray there we've toggled to not show it so if we go to the activity chooser add an activity or resource first of all I challenge you to try to find external tool it's not there because you don't add external tools from there anymore we can see lmr memo learn and we could add that but we can't see the other one that the admin added in the mound orange because we we decided not to show it in the activity chooser so when you add a tool from here basically all you have to do is simply give it a name and a description and then any other settings that you need and that's it so all of the difficult work of adding the settings that you got from the company to create to add it that you do from more lti external tools in the activity chooser you just add as you can see here its name description and anything else and then it appears on your course page okay back to the more tab as I said this is a very very busy area now so we've gone from communication to lti external tools we also go here if we want to share to moodle net so previously in moodle 4.2 you could actually share individual activities in moodle net if it was enabled by the admin not all admins might have done this but if they have then you clicked into an activity and then from the more tab you could share to moodle net now you can share whole courses so if we click share to moodle net then it will give you the whole course and you click share and assuming you've got an account on moodle net and you're logged into moodle net it will upload your whole course into moodle net as a draft so it's not visible it's not public until you go to moodle net check everything and then decide to publicly share it and that's a really useful feature which I hope a lot of people will use if they have good courses which are worth sharing now you might want to share some parts of your course but not all of them for instance you might have a course where you've got lots of useful activities but there are two or three that relate to your learners only that wouldn't really be very helpful to people around the world looking at moodle net so if you want to share parts of a course then as a teacher you enable edit mode and then you click the newly renamed bulk actions this used to be bulk edit in English in English now it's changed to bulk actions and you can select the items in the course that you want to share then in the sticky footer at the bottom if you've seen our previous videos what's new in you'll notice that disappeared enabling you to bulk edit availability duplicate move and delete we now have share to moodle net so everything that you've selected will then be bundled up and shared to moodle net and it will take you to the same place as before where it will be uploaded as draft so that you can check everything before making it public and there is also a page in the more tab where you can actually see the send progress of items that you're sharing to make sure everything's working well goodness me we have a lot and there's a lot more to come we're going to look now at grade book enhancements and improvements to the question bank and then what I've grouped together as other and there's quite a lot of other okay for the grade book we don't have screenshots for all of these but all of these I hope you'll appreciate there are sticky footers in various places to quick access to buttons as a teacher you can view in the user report in a single view you can view icons that show things which are locked or hidden when you're in the grade book setup if you want to add a grade item or edit it or a category they will open up in a modal window so you don't lose the grade book behind and there is improved overriding of weights I think we have a couple of screenshots to demonstrate these so here we're in a user report viewing it as the student Barbara and you can see that you can easily move from the to the next student or the previous student from these very fashionable they're appearing everywhere now sticky footers in the next screenshot we're in a user report Paula but this time we're viewing it as the teacher it says myself that means the teacher and a couple of these grade items here are hidden but the teacher can actually see that they're hidden because they can see the hidden icon now if as a teacher you wanted to add a new grade item so you were in the grade book setup when you click to add a new grade item it opens in a modal window you can do all of the the things you need to do save it and you're still in the grade book setup behind you now question bank improvements and these again these is a great example of improvements to Moodle LMS core that have been contributed by communities rather than HQ developers there's better searching and filtering in your course question bank and you as a teacher can customize the view of the question back this is something I've already done in my own courses and I very much like it so if we go to a question bank this is our course effective memory techniques which is a demonstration course for Moodle 4.3 and if I haven't added it to Moodle Net already I will do so this week it's already available for you to play around with on school.moodledemo.net by the way in the question bank of this new course you can see that the searching and filtering is is similar to the way other areas in a course such as participants allow you to search and filter and at the very bottom of the screenshot you might be wondering well what are all of these edit icons these cogs what's this all about so if we go to the next screenshot and look at these larger now each of these is a column in the question bank that you as the teacher can if you just click you can move that column remove it completely or resize it so for example if you felt that a particular column was important to you that you wanted it nearer the start if you're right left to right you might want it nearer the left for example or if you wanted it larger then you could resize it or if you didn't want it at all you could remove it there is a reset columns button so you can play with it and you can go back to whatever the administrator has set for you as a default so this will be very powerful for enabling you the teacher as an individual to set up the question bank how you want it now we're finishing with other but there are a lot of other as you can see but sometimes some of the other as I call them are my favorite improvements on new features so we have and I'm not going to read them but we have improvements to the course index books text and media h5p database and groups how you manage groups and then a couple of small features that it's it's useful for you to know about even though you may or may not use them okay in the course index now when you go to a Moodle 3 4.3 site you'll see three dots that allow you to expand or collapse all of the sections in the course index similar to what you can already do on the main course page with the words collapse expand all now the next one is related to books and this is something that we've been using in Moodle Academy for a couple of years now and that's the navigation how you navigate through the different chapters they're called some people think of them as pages of a book and we have these neat arrows and actually if you have a very long chapter or page in a book with a lot of text as in my example which isn't necessarily very accessible but never mind then you still have the navigation buttons so you can scroll up and down but you'll still be able to navigate from one to another so that's now from academy that's been added into Moodle LMS core and I hope you like that and if you're a fan of H5P if you go into the content bank then and you click on an existing H5P activity you now have the option in more yet again to copy the content click copy the content you can change its name and when you save changes well you've basically got it copied so you can adapt it for your own needs I think this is very very useful if you have similar but not the same activities in H5P in your content bank now text and media area formally known as label it appears in the course index but sometimes previously the way it appeared wasn't particularly friendly or accessible so now when you go to add a new text and media area you have the option to give it a name perhaps a better word is title in the course index because whatever you type here we've typed Rodin's the thinker because this is a public domain image of Rodin statue of Rodin and if we save our text and media area you see that here it actually says Rodin's the thinker and so here is the words that we added so that we have a nice readable name in the text and media title in the text and in the course index apologies now this relates to database if you're a fan of database and you like exporting entries maybe exporting entries to MoodleNet then you can now include files database files in your export now the next two features um relate to group enhancements so if you are making a lot of groups maybe you're auto creating groups in your course then you can in bulk you can enable or disable group messaging assuming this is already enabled site-wide by the admin that will make your life very easy and also the administrator now is able to create custom fields for groups and groupings so if this is of use to you in a teacher then again when you're creating your groups you'll have a drop down to select a custom fields this might not apply to many of you but for some people this might be a useful feature to know about and this is similar to the last two which I want to tell you about they are just small changes but for some people they might be very very helpful so an administrator can enable a couple of new schedule tasks which as a course teacher you don't have to be concerned with but what it means is that then as a course teacher when you have a new course the students will not be able to see it until the start date of the course and or they will not be able to see it when the course ends so this is only if the administrator enables these two scheduled tasks to show this and as a teacher you'll know that because if you click on one of these help icons you've actually got some extra words the date when the course becomes visible to students before this date they won't be able to access the course or after the date that it ends they won't be able to access it so I'm just telling you that so you have as much detail as possible about what's new in Moodle 4.3 and the final thing is if in your course you like to change the names of teacher and student now of course an administrator can do this for everyone but if you in your course if you wanted to change your name to coach for instance or tutor you wanted to change the word student to learner or pupil or whatever then the place to do it now is from the participants link and rolled users role renaming you used to do this when you set up your course in settings it's moved so just so you are aware so you don't get lost trying to find it if it's important to you and that is a lot of other so I'm going to stop and I'm going to pass over to Helen to see what discussions and questions have been going on. Thanks Mary there's been quite a few questions let me just scroll up the chat to where we are. Okay so Frank was asking does the tiny mc editor in 4.3 include accessibility functionality and I replied yes there's a accessibility checker then Omid is asking that mentioning in 4.1 the type of activity is shown on the course page like forum but you didn't see it in 4.3 and Scott kindly answered that that was hidden in 4.2 that's right if I'm right it's shown for teachers is it? It shows the teachers when they're in edit mode I believe also that it is hidden in later versions of 4.1 as well. So if you upgrade 4.1 or 4.0 to the latest versions you do not see those as a student or a teacher in non edit mode as well. Right then I've got a question about the video recording definitely if you like to watch this again it will be available in the 4.3 course on the academy site that's right what else Scott comments about the activity completion settings changes I think that's the disclosure gradual disclosure it's called yeah thanks so much easier and Scott's also asking about the old chat activity if it's still available and yes it is and you is asking whether you can use WhatsApp for a custom link and answers yes then you can use any messaging service that allows you to have a URL to a room I actually tried to use WhatsApp but I couldn't find a URL that directly linked to a room but that could well be me not being able to but if you can then yes you can all right yeah that's good point you definitely can for Telegram and I think for Teams as well oh yes that's right but yeah that's good point I never checked for WhatsApp actually I just guessed I don't know if anyone else here can confirm one way or the other yeah then Scott was asking about LTI external tools whether you can give them different icons and I replied that yes she can it's that area of external tools has not been changed since previous versions and Thomas confirmed that Scott is commenting that he loves those navigation arrows in the book and then a question about the label or text immediate area whether you can remove it from the course index completely and the answer is no this is partly because previous research there were a lot of people saying that they wanted it in the course index because depending on how you use it if you have a long course and you want to navigate easily then it makes sense to keep it in the course index but it doesn't actually work if you don't fill in that name field to try not make it show all that happens it'll be the same as in 4.2 which means the first bit of your text will be used as as the title in the course index yeah thanks I forgot I forgot to mention that when I was talking 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Ukraine, strikes on Russia with long-range weapons, will be intensified. Russians are already periodically feeling the impact of Ukrainian long-range weaponry, and they will face even more challenges in the near future," said a statement by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Olexii Danilov said, according to RBC Ukraine. Danilov emphasized that Ukraine is not at war with ordinary Russian citizens. As for our weaponry, it is strictly used on military targets in accordance with all international legal norms, he said. The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council added that Ukrainian forces do not attack kindergartens, hospitals or other civilian facilities, highlighting that this is a fundamental difference between Ukraine and Russia, which has targeted civilian objects. According to him, the development of long-range weaponry is a highly complex process. To make it modern and have a range of thousands of kilometers, it requires significant effort from large teams, he added. He pointed out that today it can be said that Ukraine has achieved results. According to me, in the near future, someone will be in dire straits, and dire straits is meant quite literally, Danilov said. Furthermore, according to him, the production of long-range weaponry in Ukraine is ongoing, and a range of 700 kilometers is not its maximum limit.


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today we are going to talk about ketogenic diet. I know you guys have been hearing about this ketogenic diet everywhere and from everybody. I think it's time to hear from a doctor who actually knows what he's talking about. We are not gonna make blank statements. We are going to tell you who is the right person for keto diet and who is the wrong person for the keto diet and what to watch for. Again this is Dr. Ahmed Ergin and let's get started. So you guys are watching YouTube videos and everybody talks about keto.  Now guys remember not everything you watch is true. Those general statements you may actually harm yourself quite significantly. Now I have been getting some hostile comments because people think that I do not support keto. That's not true. I support keto for the right patient. Now some people said oh keto has to be for everybody. Well that's not true and we are going to talk today why the keto is not the right diet for everyone and who is the right person for the keto diet. Now let's briefly discuss about the definition of a ketogenic diet. It is simple. Everybody talks about this. Again to talk about keto you don't have to be a doctor. You can be a dietician. You can be anything. You don't have to be. You can be a karma kind of can talk about keto diet. It's not a rocket science but who is a good keto patient is where a doctor comes in. I do not recommend anyone to jump into keto diet and without talking to a doctor that that can have severe consequences that you don't want to have. It's like you know let me give you an example about it from a relationship standpoint. You may see a hot girl or a hot boy.  You do everything.  You spend all your time for that person without really understanding what they're all about. Without thinking about the consequences of the relationship. Without looking at all the negative aspects of this person. So when you're in love everything is blind. So if your goal is to just lose weight and get your diabetes under control and you do not look at all the other consequences of a diet then you are going to have a problems with it. So it's better to understand what it is and what it's not and if you are a good candidate for that. Now of course I'm going to tell you a lot more detail than you typically see in a keto video from a medical standpoint but I still do not want you to go ahead and start keto on your own because I don't want you to get into trouble. Again you don't want to treat yourself. You don't want to doctor yourself. You want to make sure you talk to a doctor. It doesn't have to be us. You can just talk to your primary care doctor or a medical knowledge or a diabetes doctor who has understanding of a keto diet. So how was keto diet found? Actually initial studies came around for the childhood epilepsy. They found that the kids who were not eating a lot of carbs had less epilepsy and did the studies and they found that the ketogenic diet actually reduces the seizures in kids. Also there has been some studies short-term studies that it actually works for diabetic patients but how long it works and which diabetic patient is the candidate for the keto diet is the question.  Other people will get more energy. They will have mental clearness although initial transition period may be difficult. You may get a keto flu. You may have electrolyte abnormalities. All these minor things that can happen to even the healthiest person. But the question is can everybody go on a keto diet? Will everybody have symptoms of keto diet? So these are the things we are going to talk about. So a lot of people think that the keto diet works and I agree with that. Keto diet works but the question is how long it works and the question is what happens after a prolonged keto diet right? So let's talk about this. So you guys all know the good side of the keto right? So your blood sugar goes on if you're diabetic and you start losing weight and all that good stuff but what are the things that you really do not know about ketogenic diet? Number one you may lose a lot of muscle. Now what happens when you're in a keto diet guys? Yes you lose weight but you feel tired because your muscles run on glucose and primarily glycogen has to be stored in your muscle for you to be able to work out. So if you're a guy or a girl who loves going to the gym you are going to have problems in terms of your performance at the gym. Your muscles will crave for glycogen and the glucose and your weight lifting cardio will suffer through it. Now the problem is if you trade your exercise for the diet you're not really doing great for yourself because once you stop exercising your muscle mass goes down and that's because you're gonna feel tired on keto diet. So especially if you're working out if you're not working out that's not a problem but I think you should everybody should work out. Now when you work out your muscles will get weaker and if you don't use those muscles use it or lose it. So you're going to have less muscle mass. Now your overall metabolism is determined by how much muscle you have that's why guys lose weight a lot easier than the girls because guys are more muscular. So if you have less muscle mass you're going to it's going to be a lot easier.  So what happens if you come off of keto diet and start eating sugar then you are going to gain a lot of fat but you're not going to gain a lot of muscle unless you start working out like crazy. The problem is once you fall off the wagon and you did not exercise for a while it is very hard to get back into it. So as a result I would suggest be very careful about not losing your muscle and if that's the case I would suggest eating some carbs right before or after the exercise at least to keep the exercise going. I would call this a modified diet and that works for me. I try to be on a low carb diet not necessarily keto diet because when I'm a keto diet I just don't feel like working out hard and I like working out hard. Another major problem with people who go on a keto diet and sometimes go on a dirty keto diet right they do not understand the whole concept of medicine. So when we treat diabetes we are not just trying to bring your blood sugars down that is just maybe one in a ten goal but when you don't know about everything your goal is about okay I need to bring my blood sugar down but that's not everything. When you have diabetes that is end of the story it's like you're the insulin resistant you already have underlying possible cardiovascular disease your blood sugar goes up at the end of the story. So it's like you know after the storm comes over you're trying to fix things but the thing is you really need to pay attention to everything else that goes around diabetes what are they cardiovascular disease heart attacks and strokes so if you're controlling your blood sugars without reducing your risk of heart attack and stroke then you're probably going to die young with a wonderful blood sugar that's not what we want right so you want to bring the blood sugar down along with the risk of cardiovascular disease statistically speaking again that's that's numbers numbers talk then numbers are generally right two or two thirds of diabetics die from heart attack and stroke before they become they go blind before they become dialysis dependent or they before they lose their feet and stuff like that so your primary goal when you have diabetes to avoid heart attacks and strokes before you worry about dialysis so if you're going to keto diet right and then you start eating bacon or red meat all this animal fat you are going to have a major problem with your cholesterol now not only that on keto diet you're not able to exercise well because your muscle mass go muscle mass goes down your muscle needs glycogen and glucose so you end up ignoring the exercise part just because you're enjoying the weight loss and all this good stuff your blood sugar is down you're enjoying this but what you don't see your LDL starts climbing up because of the animal that you're eating your HDL which is the good cholesterol goes down because you stop exercising HDL only goes up when you do cardio and enough cardio it's not just walking the dog and you know going to the park and having a mile or two you know the HDL will go up and that is a very important protective factor from heart attacks is that you have to keep exercising now exercising for an hour cardio for example is not just going to be easy when you're in a keto diet so when you're in a keto diet make sure your doctor monitors your cholesterol and make sure your LDL stays below 100 and your HDL stays about 50 possibly better if it is about 60 so if you're not paying attention to your LDL HDL and even triglycerides then you're going to have major heart problems or stroke and that's not what we want guys problem with keto diet guys if you have stage 4 or stage 5 kidney disease that is the time you have to be really careful about your protein intake so the problem is that high protein that you're getting yes you're getting more fat but you're getting also high protein that diet as well is going to put stress on your kidneys and you make progressive dialysis more so as a result so let's say you're a guy with a kidney function GFR down to 30 or 25 and then you just watch this keto videos everybody talks so great and you're going to keto diet you may find yourself going to dialysis in the next year or two if you are very sick about this keto diet just because it's been shown that the high protein diet actually kills your kidneys especially if your kidneys are already weak so if you have a perfect kidney function you're great you're just a new diabetic that doesn't apply to you but if you have been diabetic for 15 20 years and you already have significant kidney disease you have to be extremely careful and another thing that happens with the keto diet it makes you dehydrated so unless you chunk a gallon or more water every day along with the electrolytes you are going to be prone to kidney stones so if you have a family history of kidney stones or if you already had a kidney stone I would approach this very very carefully because if you have a kidney stone once you're going to hate your life it is worse than childbirth every woman says that if they have a kidney stone versus a child delivery it is horrible and it can last days it can come back on and on and on so you have to be extremely careful now if you see a doctor and if you are potentially somewhat high risk for kidney stones you may go on a potassium citrate which can actually alkalinize your urine and reduces the risk of developing kidney stones this actually has been studied in kids with epilepsy they use a keto diet to reduce the risk of seizures but they develop more kidney stones so you have to be extremely careful drink a lot of water if you're insisting on going on keto diet you have to drink a lot of water a lot of electrolytes and maybe use a potassium citrate as well. Diabetes channel I'm going to talk about diabetes here so if you are on insulin or a sulfonylurea agent such as galiphozide, glimopride, gliboride, amaryl whatever you name it they're different brands as well but most of these are generic but regardless if you're on any insulin or a sulfonylurea drug and if you go on a keto diet and cut the carbs to almost nothing you are going to have severe low blood sugars now severe low blood sugars can lead to coma can lead to accidents can lead to falls so you need to really consult with your doctor with your endocrinologist preferably or diabetes doctor to make sure that you are slowly gradually cutting down on the carbs or making a major cut on your insulin now every time you make a cut on your insulin or your medications the response may not be like just like what you foresee so you may you may have still have to be monitored now with good good thing about sugar and bees we monitor you guys remotely so you check your blood sugar band it pops up on my screen so I know you have a low blood sugar so I can call you and let you know what's going on so this kind of close monitoring has to be done for every diabetic patient not just on keto diet but I think from being accountable standpoint I think that's also the greatest way to go remote patient monitoring is the key but again if you're on an insulin or sulfonylurea agent make sure you talk to your doctor another problem from a metabolism standpoint now it looks very glorious you lose a bunch of weight on keto diet right but the problem is it is so hard to maintain so you end up losing fat and the muscle as we discussed and then suddenly there's a party suddenly there is some social events suddenly there's a family gathering Christmas kicks in Easter Ramadan whatever you're celebrating and suddenly all this carbohydrates available and everybody's eating you're like I cannot eat this I cannot eat that they're gonna look like you're a little weird guy so or they may just actually say oh you're such a great willpower and so forth but regardless of the case you're going to miss the enjoyment and that can happen occasionally now once you get back into that sneaky carbs situation your body will taste it again and you're going to have cravings again the thing is if you lose if you lose your willpower and if you get back into carbs you are going to accumulate so much fat back into your body and that fat will go around your organs now sometimes we call insulin resistant patients skinny fats so some people are actually very skinny especially smokers for example they look skinny from a distance but if you you know when they do autopsy studies on these patients for example for one or the other reason they see that there's a lot of fat around the liver around other organs around the intestines body accumulates the fat around your organs not under your skin and that is the biggest problem for insulin resistance so you don't have to look fat from a distance but you can still be fat inside and that is a huge problem for insulin resistance so guys if you're losing weight and you don't think you're gonna stick with keto you're gonna go back to carbs don't even start the keto diet because you're going to lose muscle and then later you are going to gain all the fat around your organs which is going to be worse now the biggest problem is the keto diet can lead to dehydration now another patient group with diabetes who should not be on keto diet if you're on SGLT2 inhibitors what are they? Jardines, Farciga, Invocana and Stegalutra these are the four SGLT2 inhibitors in the market if you're one of these agents first of all these agents can make you prone to diabetic ketoacidosis and if you put yourself in the ketosis then you're looking for trouble another problem is that these agents they actually work good in a way because they make you urinate blood sugar and you're losing 300 calories on average a day by just using these agents but then they also make you dehydrated because every time you urinate glucose it attracts the water with it so if you're using these Jardines, Farciga, Stegalutra or Invocana you have to stay hydrated now if you're going on a keto diet that's going to make you dehydrated why? because a carbohydrate actually hold the water just like when you urinate carbohydrates or sugar in your urine and you lose water with it any time you cut down on the carbohydrates your body will lose water so as a result initial weight loss that you see oh my gosh this is working so great is actually water you're not really losing weight in the first couple weeks in the first two weeks you mostly you lose water and the problem is if you do not replace it you're going to get dehydrated again that increases the risk of kidney stones that increases the risk of kidney failure so let's think about this if you have underlying chronic kidney disease and you become dehydrated what happens you will go into acute on top of chronic kidney disease and you're going to lose more kidney function so you definitely don't want to do that if you have a chronic kidney disease especially or if you have other medications or other risk factors that can make you dehydrated you have to really make sure that you are under care of a doctor who cares about you who will monitor you closely and will prevent any problem and if there is any problem they have to intervene and make sure you do not go into severe dehydration status so what else happens with dehydration so you're not only losing water with keto diet but you're also losing sodium and potassium now potassium is very very important for your blood pressure so if you're not having enough potassium you have to make sure that you are supplementing potassium it could be it could be potassium pills it could be electrolyte drinks you have to make sure that you are getting your potassium back in otherwise your blood pressure may spike now another problem is that you're losing sodium as well now when you lose sodium you that's one of the reasons that you feel like keto flu so losing sodium and potassium are the two major electrolytes in our body will put you down so you want to replace your sodium but you have to be careful especially if you have a high blood pressure it is a thin balance there so like unless you have a gauge in your body which you don't know it's right so you just replacing but you don't really know how much you're replacing so that is the problem with the keto diet so how much potassium should you replace how much sodium you should replace you're just making estimations or guesstimations and the problem is it may not be correct and if it is not correct your your blood pressure may spike or you may not take enough sodium and that may cause problems in your bones now sodium is not just important for your overall fluid status but also it's important for your bones as well so if you are having chronic sodium loss that can lead to bone loss and in diabetics actually that's a problem because patients with diabetes are more likely to have fractures so their bones are more fragile now if you lose sodium then you're actually losing bone as well so as a result in the long term if we stay with keto yes your blood sugar may be great but you're going to be losing bone down down the road so you have to be really careful what you're gaining and what you're losing so blood sugar control is not everything you need to control your blood sugars in the right way I'm not saying go take medications you don't have to take medications but you have to know exactly what kind of diet how much exercise and we have a lot of videos about these so one diet will not fit all keto diet will work for the healthy diabetics young diabetics new diabetics that's it anybody who has problems who have other complications kidney problems the hydration problems medications that can cause low blood sugars history of kidney stones all those people should be extremely careful about keto diet now what happens also when your electrolyte balance is off you will you will become more irritable you're going to have balance problems and you're going to have dehydration problems now you also will be constipated right so constipation happens because of dehydration again your bowels needs to absorb some water from your body in order to keep your stool soft and in order to keep you regular so what happens when you're when you're dehydrated you become constipated and believe me that's not fun if you're not going to the restroom for a week you're going to have major discomfort in intra-abdominaly so you have to really make sure that you're actually having some non-starchy vegetables and fibers in your diet still so that you can actually keep going if you are not moving your bowels and if you are having a lot of processed meats that is the remedy for colon cancer yes you may have wonderful blood sugars but you may die from colon cancer because you stayed on the keto diet for so long so again this is a balance you have to know if you have if your proto colon cancer you have to know your family history you have to get your screenings done and so forth again that's another reason to make sure that if you're on a keto diet for long term you have to make sure that your doctor knows about it and you're on top of it so to avoid problems electrolyte disturbances I would still suggest eating healthy vegetables that are high in potassium that could be broccoli this could be avocado a flex seed chia seed spinach could be great sources of potassium and fiber so you need to make sure that you are choosing non-starchy vegetables that can be good for your keto diet to avoid problems with lack of fiber and lack of potassium and I'm Dr. Ahmed Ergin I am the founder of sugarmds.com we primarily focus on diabetes and diet make sure you go to our website at sugarmds.com and click on diabetes education for a lot of educational articles now of course YouTube video make sure you subscribe to our channel give a thumbs up and make sure you turn the alerts on so you can be notified for the new videos also on the description below make sure you guys check our Facebook as well and create our group in there so that you can communicate with the fellow diabetics and and be part of the community


Everybody forced here ripping 2021 prism football team all 20 box full case number three random divisions You can check the results anytime a latent sports cards calm. There's a link in chat for you as well Let's get started everybody. Thanks for joining. Where do you think I honestly don't know? Yeah, I bet rag I Bet it is a lot different from New York City All right, let's see some nice rookies here auto in the first pack. It looks like a very round tree Yeah, that's pretty rare actually mark has Valdez scantling sensational signatures silver for the NFC north 71 of 99 again. These are not guaranteed Patrick Jones the second rookie silver for the Vikings and a red and yellow Marcus Peters Ravens 35 at 39 AFC north Powell dokes a damaged rookie silver J2 fell for the AFC south And we've got red and yellow For the AFC west Jared cook 8 of 39 send the boxer rapper to the AFC south I'm not sure what's up with that printing error Rookie easy Elijah Mitchell Trey Lance for the NFC West Silver rookie Jalen Darden NFC south And red and yellow with a ding on this one Darnell savage 25 out of 39 NFC north I Will get a boxer rapper for the NFC north now What do you mean the good ones seem like the good parallels? I think it's just red and yellows in this but the rookies are to eight with the red and yellows So the rare, but you hit one and it's to eight rookies Ellinger Wallace silver rookie Noah Gray for the chiefs and you're guaranteed a rookie silver from box AFC West there and AFC north Jerome baddest red and yellow 30 of 39 you can hit autos. I don't think you'd hit any other parallels. I don't think I don't know if you can Case hits or not trash to grow coxed rookie silver Callum on the NFC north Red and yellow Chris Herndon a of C east one of 39 way Basha murky silver Benz Geronich Rams NFC west Red and yellow Dan Marino a of C east 12 out of 39 Harris Chris Evans silver rookie Kenny Wang Wu NFC north red and yellow herb Smith jr. NFC north 26 of 39 Yeah, they've done it for multiple years illegal. I think 2020 prison team all is like this too The same exact That's that like layout. I guess Rookie's Barmore Dwayne Eskridge silver rookie Chas Sarat NFC north and red and yellow Jamal Adams NFC west 27 of 39. Hey, what's up the shorts? Palmer rookie Tommy Trembles silver rookie Mac Jones AFC East you go AFC East and yellow and red Chase Edmunds 32 at 39 NFC West That's pretty solid shorts Didn't do a whole lot. It was alright though rookies Powell and Dokes silver rookie AFC East Michael Carter and Rookie red and yellow AFC East Trey Nixon a debate. How's your shorts? Zach Wilson rookie base for the AFC East Michelle silver rookie Davis Mills AFC South and Red and yellow TJ Hawkinson NFC north 16 of 39. Hey, that's pretty good man. That's awesome He's got Trevon morrig trace sermons silver rookie Brevin Jordan AFC south and red and yellow Curtis Martin AFC East at 39 Yeah, I don't think so either Patrick. I honest. I don't think you get other parallels So it's got silver rookie ps2 AFC West Red and yellow Rocky sign AFC south at 39. I'll see some more rookies here Meerseth Mar set Trey Nixon silver rookie Jake Funk NFC West And yellow red Jerry Judy AFC West at 39 28 of 39 Herbert quity pay silver rookie Larry Roundtree the third AFC West red and yellow Michael Pittman, Jr. AFC south 38 of 39 Yeah, that is good Almost as good as I did in Atlantic City right illegal almost a rekay. New some rookie silver Gary Brightwell NFC East And red and yellow Devon white NFC south 36 at 39. Oh big rookie. Come on. Give us at least one You had a bug men's chronic rookie silver shy Smith NFC south And red yellow David Carr sir. Yeah, David Carr 14 at 39 AFC south David Carr I mean look at my score. I just don't want it to happen Zach Wilson AFC East base rookie there. What a yinboa silver rookie Shane Bouchel AFC AFC West and Dangerous 24 of 39 NFC West Seahawks country. Let's ride. There it is. I've got a check my score between breaks here Not super worried my opponent down by like over 60 And he had Herbert Acura still to go. Oh And uh, Zach Moss not really about Zach Moss though. They have three points. So Try and Patrick Jones Ricky sort for the AFC East Elijah Moore and And yellow red AFC north make if it's Patrick 25 at 39 23 of 39 excuse me Come on show us a big rookie Only seen one rookie red and yellow At least another nice silver. Come on now. It's Yami Brown McMath silver rookie Frank Darby NFC south and on the back Dallas Goddard 9 at 39 NFC East. All right, everybody that'll do it. The mixer is up next. Thank you everybody You


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It looks like we have a few moments left if anybody has any questions for our speakers this morning or About their particular topics or just questions about the Institute or economics generally. I'm sure we could come up with something Okay One of the students watching online asks when did inflation begin and why did it begin and Rothbard talks about some of the historical inflation that The Fed hasn't been around forever, and we haven't they haven't had the the kind of Fiat control that the government has now instead what happened is That Rothbard talks about in a great a great essay called what has government done to our money? That's a really great a great essay to read and he talks about Debacement so he says debasement was the state's method of counterfeiting the very coins it had banned private firms from making So the it declared a monopoly on coinage Sometimes the government committed simple fraud Secretly diluting gold with a base alloy making short-weight coins more Characteristically the mint melted and recoined all the coins of the realm Giving the subjects back the same number of quote pounds or marks or what we would say now dollars But of a lighter weight the leftover ounces of gold or silver were pocketed by the king and used to pay his expenses So that's the way Government used to profit from a heck of a great question or was that not all part of the question? Anybody in our live audience here with a question All right Bitcoin I'll let Mark handle that and we ought to be done in by about six tonight No, I'll try to keep it short I'll try to keep it short Bitcoin is a new digital form of currency And it has many interesting characteristics About it that we're you know kind of thrilled about In one sense it's it's non-governmental money It was something that was an idea of a single person and it's through a market-type process It's emerged as a as a way of making transactions basically and one Aspect of Bitcoin is that you actually have to expend real resources computing power and electricity in order to solve algorithms in order to earn Bitcoin and so that part of Bitcoin the idea that You know that you real resources have to go into it in order to make more bitcoins That's a market form of money in the sense that Like gold and silver you would actually ask to dig up the gold and silver or and go through a process Which ultimately Resulted in gold and silver coins and so there's a check on the amount of money that can be made through the Bitcoin process And so there it's very difficult to have inflation especially the type of inflation That we're talking about here where the government can essentially just let the printing presses roll with more zeros on it And so in Bitcoin is also we weren't surprised to see it come Precisely at this time because the governments of the world and their central banks are inflating like crazy. And so The fact that it emerged at this point time in history is not a just a simple coincidence It's a reaction against the The bad qualities of government fiat money So just a few more remarks about Bitcoin not only It are there limits like what mark talked about But there's also a hard upper limit that that there's a certain number of bitcoins that the program won't allow itself to to expand beyond and One of one of the presenters at the Austrian economics research conference, which is a great conference that we have here every year Matt Gilliland he gave a presentation about Bitcoin and he also talked about another a use value of Bitcoin because Austrian's we don't we don't say that the cost of production Gives something value Rather, it's the value of what's of the product that that gives value to the to the things that were put into producing it And Matt Gilliland talks about how Bitcoin can be used for property transfers So it it can be used for contracts for the non-third-party Contracts and so he talks about that that sort of legal service as being a use value of Bitcoin but you know sort of fundamental point is You know Bitcoin is being used today as a medium of exchange to facilitate certain transactions But it has not yet become or it is not a Commonly accepted medium of exchange you can't walk to Mama Goldberg's deli next door and buy or lunch with Bitcoin So we would say Bitcoin is not presently money because money is a commonly accepted or generally accepted medium of exchange But it is used as a medium of exchange in some transactions, and it may well become money someday We have a question in back my question is to the rarity of it It seems to me that the only way that that's rare in any real meaningful sense is if Nobody else starts their own Bitcoin system. If everybody started their Design their own Bitcoin system. You wouldn't know which one to use and it wouldn't be rare in any meaningful way Is that correct? Well, I mean keep in mind with any kind of Medium of exchange mark mentioned seashells Cattle, I mean there are a lot of times and places in history where different alternative media of exchange have been traded within the same Geographic area and there are certain advantages to standardizing on one or the other But just as for example, you know throughout history not only gold But also silver have typically functioned as as monetary units as money So you could imagine lots of entrepreneurs experimenting with different kinds of digital currencies and other kinds of non digital currencies and If consumers decide that their advantages to standardizing on one as opposed to another we would expect one to sort of outcompete the other So there's no reason why you couldn't have multiple competing digital currencies But just personally My version of weekly basis eating out a lot less frequently than I used to I would just guess that my prices have gone up 30% And I guess my question is What are they measuring how you reckon it's all the difference and where can you see what real inflation is? Where can you go to see what? That's a great question the fact that The government's printing up a lot of money and yet the consumer price index that the government calculates It's not going up much at all But of course that wouldn't be too surprising and if you had of a crooked game to begin with and you're keeping score You're gonna tell everybody the other doing fine in the real world of course prices, you know the money gets into the system and the prices Change this is one of the things that Danny was talking about and Peter was talking about It depends on where the money is coming in and how it impacts prices So for example, Manhattan and Washington DC real estate prices are skyrocketing, you know to record levels Stock market in the bond market are at all-time record levels right now So some people are making, you know tremendous gains the price of farmland is at record levels And so some things have really really skyrocketed and Other things have not now in terms of your own little consumer basket, of course I think that the prices of consumer goods Are going up, you know, they for example, they'll very often report the consumer price index without food and energy But of course food and energy are kind of pretty important stuff and most people's consumer basket of goods in terms of looking at Another source where you could find information about price inflation John Williams at shadow stats comm calculates the consumer price index using the method of calculation back in the 1990s in the 1980s and See the government basically where they change the rules of how they calculate this on a periodic Basis and so if you go back and you look at the old ways that they calculated it the prices of goods and services and consumer goods and services have increased Much faster than the current way that they're doing it So if you've got a crooked game and you're keeping score and you can change the way you Score the game Don't depend on those kind of numbers Yeah, I always think it's funny that you hear the Federal Reserve officials say we were worried really worried about inflation We're keeping a close eye on the CPI But thank goodness house prices are going up again And we've got a robust recovery in the housing market. What that means is price inflation of houses So it's a bad thing they say if the prices of tomatoes are going Rise but it's a good thing if the price of houses rises Well, that's inflation and if you're looking to buy a house an increase in house prices is not good for you And I would just add that deflation the opposite of inflation can be a very good thing for consumers James Grant You might have heard of him from Grant's interest rate observer was recently here at Mises giving a speech About Henry Haslett and he remarked that deflation can be seen as progress in other words Most of us like it when the cost of that big-screen TV goes from $3,000 to $500 and that's a result of a lot of different things but nonetheless if we are did if we define deflation as I guess broadly as a decrease in consumer prices that happens faster than a decrease in corresponding wages Then that's a healthy and happy thing for most folks So the idea that the Fed targets In effect a particular rate of inflation Whether that's 2% or or not And thinking that this has no harm On society if you look at compounding interest if you look at savers if you look at especially Elderly folks who oftentimes have a fixed income In nominal dollars and you know if you're older you might not have the ability to sort of retool your life and go out and make a Bunch of money or change careers or otherwise Increase your income you might be very dependent on the fixed income sources You've got when you're 80 years old and so it's it's these people Who are who are counting on their savings and their fixed nominal income to get them through their later years? Who are perhaps most hurt by inflation that gets one thing I meant to say in my talk But I forgot is that The people who benefit from inflation are often pretty rich people So when I was talking about how people wouldn't like if they knew that wealth was being transferred away from them and towards Other people well, especially if they realized how rich the people that were getting the wealth were so so the privileged bankers are often really well off and your fault and and the and the people who get the money earlier are usually Better off and even debtors you would people often think that oh debtors They must be poorer than say savers But actually it's these investors who are leveraged who are heavily leveraged and build up all this debt to make these big bets that that they're the ones who benefit these rich rich investors and And like like Jeff said a lot of times it's these people these poorer people who are on fixed incomes that get hurt the worst Socialism can't work because it doesn't require private property and freedom Remarkets and stuff like that. Why do we have? Politicians and economists saying that that's the way to go when we know we can't go that way Well, I would say it's for starters socialism works for the political class I mean it's a it's a very good question I mean I'm tempted to say because they haven't taken this course which would you have but as Jeff points out There there are private interests that benefit from socialism and interventionism. I mean if you look at the you know So-called Affordable Care Act, right? I mean there are a lot of a lot of analysts who say who see this as a Making a bad situation worse It sounds like socialized medicine or whatever, but of course the insurance companies are benefiting tremendously from Obamacare some doctors and hospitals will benefit from Obamacare I mean they're always private interests that benefit from any interventionist that benefit from interventions in the economy Not to mention the class of socialist leaders who benefit from economy-wide socialism, but it's also fair to point out that economics is difficult for some people to understand and What seems to a lot of us like fairly straightforward principles really common sense Is these principles are easily twisted and distorted? I mean, I would say if you listen to us, I mean, you know, we're clear as a bell Right what we say makes perfect sense We don't use a lot of fancy jargon words and we don't put up a lot of confusing charts and diagrams But the average person in society who holds the title Economist right as someone you would never invite to a dinner party in a million years They're boring and they they're confusing and they use weird terminology It's completely unclear and so I think a lot of people just don't understand They've been misled into thinking that well, of course we need the government to To intervene in markets, I mean after all it's the Affordable Care Act if we don't have this we won't have affordable health care Well, that's that's that's sort of a hundred year March through history kind of question But a short answer and a in a viable short-term solution would be simply for the American people to develop the political will To force Congress to allow competing currencies Now there was without getting rid of the Federal Reserve without getting rid of the US dollar We could the we could simply allow American people to conduct business to go to 7-eleven or mama Goldbergs in and use Forms of money other than US dollars and not go to prison For doing that and that I think very quickly you would find a marketplace for Gold and silver coins that had a uniform weight and measure they wouldn't be news numismatic or pretty necessarily But they would be very functional and I think very quickly you would find sort of a parallel Market developed for money and then we could find out if the Fed is right and if the Keynesians are right and if the monitor is right and we can Increase money and basically in effect print dollars forever and ever and the rest of the and never get poor Have a collapse as a result doing it. Well, then they can continue to do so and prove us wrong But if they're wrong then we can offer the American people a chance to save themselves before something horrible happens By having gold silver or whatever it might be it could be Bitcoin It could be another cryptocurrency. I don't know I suspect it would be gold and silver because because coins Are something that are tangible and they just make sense to us We all we all get it and so I think consumers and merchants would sort of have a comfort level with that but Again legalized competing currencies that would be my three-word answer after that long answer. I just gave you and One other point is that probably the most effective way of making that happen is not to actually call your congressman or Or do anything like that But but to do what we're doing today to to spread The ideas about sound economics and sound money because what happens is that the more people understand The the less they're willing to to put up with these Restrictions and and if government just knows that that they they need to you know withdraw some of these Restrictions because people are just going to you know start using Bitcoin or start using using gold dollars on on the edge and the the the more that that people are just clamoring for a change and the more that just people understand that the need for change then the more that change will actually happen I Just tie it up by Noting that Austrian economists generally fly under the banner of the gold standard that doesn't necessarily mean we advocate Everybody use gold money or everybody use silver money or that we even necessarily have to have Coin money. I mean it could still be debit cards and credit cards and checkbooks and and all the rest of the You know improvements in the transaction system that we have in the economy But we just generally refer to that as going back to the gold standard I think we have time for one more question before we get you on your way Any volunteers in the front my question relates to What you spoke about the way to talk about these things is to educate educate the public And so I try to do that. I'm a novice. I'm a biologist not an economist What would you recommend if someone does show an interest how should we start them like? What reading? Hamlet essays because nobody's gonna sit down and read a book on economics The atmosphere there's great little time But I have people who are interested and I want to point them to the right things Because sometimes you can point people to things and they go running like mad. Thank you all are are Crazy or fringe So what do you recommend? I was started on the wall and I never look back after that So Well, it sounds like we need a gateway drug I mean the law is of course excellent Henry Haslitz economics in one lesson Which is what almost 60 years old now is still excellent specifically on money I would recommend Rothbard's what has government done to our money Which is a short pamphlet that's easy to read He there are longer treatments like Rothbard's mystery of banking that are very good. All of these are available Free online most of these at Mises dot org What are some other intro readings that would be good case for a hundred? Yeah, Murray Rothbard has you know What has government done to our money the case for the? 100% gold standard and the case against the FET so there's three small things, but you can also do things like Put these lectures up on Facebook Put them up on Twitter Like us on Facebook. We're getting we're very close to getting a hundred thousand likes on our Facebook page But if you go out and put up on a regular basis Material that you find interesting and informative at Mises dot org including the daily articles You know read that daily article and say now what should my friends or relatives would be most interested in that You can be starting one person at a time to change the world Oh, yeah, and I would recommend to all of you who are interested in Helping to convert and move people in the right direction Joe Salerno's class Joe is the really the number one money macro guy in Austrian economics And he has a Mises Academy class Starting Tuesday the 15th, so we all know April 15th is a bad day But this is the good part of it. It's a start on the road to sound money, and it's called understanding monetary chaos Most people don't understand that the world is in a tremendous sense in a monetary chaos We're in a world currency war where all the governments and central banks around the planet are battling one another to Devalue their own currency and help their export industries vis-a-vis other Other countries industries and exporters and so Joe's course is really You know it's he's gonna lay the whole thing out. I'll be a guest lecture during the course as well And so I encourage everybody here and watching us to sign up for that class Folks we have run out of time, but thank you very much for coming here today spending your Friday with us Drive home safe, and we all hope to see you again. Thanks


I was wondering where the birds go, they were saying you never see dead birds but I see them everywhere. Hello Neil, welcome back to the Titewood Dad vlog. It's day eight, so we're back on another Monday, it's bank holiday Monday. We're in a forest in the middle of nowhere so obviously the first spend is on parking charges. So I'm into a second week where I try to record everything that my family spends here on video and it's difficult but I think today's going to be a nice light one. The only other thing we've spent on is back in the German chain supermarkets, I've got a loaf of bread. We'll spend on anything else today, this could be a very short vlog, yes because it's bank holiday. Let's see, apple, carrot, off-price, water, living our lives all wrong. Can you please help my daddy get 1000 subscribers? Just click on his face, thanks.


Did you know that 36 million people will die next year of starvation? That is one person per second.  In one out of every ten of those will be a child. And with this holiday season, you and I could end their starvation. Let me show you how. According to worldhunger.org, 795 million people are hungry right now. 81 million of those are in need of emergency food assistance. So imagine going through this holiday season, not worried about gifts, not worried about if you will get through your family holiday party with your crazy aunt, but worried about if you will have enough food to keep your children alive to see the new year. That is the sad, sad reality for many people on this planet. So how do we solve this problem? What's the easiest way for us to help? Well according to the United Nations, it would cost between 30 to 60 billion dollars to end hunger for an entire year. Americans alone will spend over 600 billion dollars just on gifts this holiday season. That's ten times what would be needed to end world hunger for a year. So if you normally spend $500 on gifts, could you donate 50 of those dollars? If you normally budget $200 on gifts, could you donate 20 of those dollars? And that's just Americans. Imagine if everyone in the world were to do this. We could end hunger for years to come. Could you just imagine that for a second?  If we were just to take 10% of what we're going to give in gifts this holiday season. And this video is not sponsored by any charity or any company, but I've personally done my due diligence to see what would be the best charity for us to donate to if we all work together together and do so. And I found one called Action Against Hunger. They're extremely transparent about where their money goes and they also have extremely high ratings on all of the websites that I could find. And from now until the end of the year, they will match your donation dollar for dollar, making your donation go even further. And they estimate that it only costs about $45 to save a child's life. I have linked their donation page in the comments below. Also, if you would like other options, at the end of this video, I will put up other URLs of very reputable charities that you could donate to. So if you can find it in your heart to donate this holiday season, please do. But either way, please share this video so that we can raise awareness on how we can help solve this problem. Because no matter what you're celebrating this holiday season, there's one thing that we can all agree on. And that's that no person deserves to go hungry. Happy holidays.