Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, accompanied by Mr. Irwin Lerner. This is truly a very exciting moment for us all. Mr. President, we are all deeply honored to have you with us today at this national conference on corporate initiatives for a drug-free workplace. While our purpose is quite clear, you are the inspiration for this gathering of corporate leaders from across our country. We're here because in your State of the Union address, you called for a renewed commitment against drug abuse. This conference, and all that will follow from it, is our initial and direct response to that call. And let me add that this conference we're not just talking, we're doing. We're here because over the past eight years, you almost single-handedly have made private sector initiatives to do some man who understands that hard hats, safety glasses, and protective clothing will not safeguard our people from the newest and most pervasive danger in our workplace. Our ally and our leader in the fight against illicit drugs, I have the high honor to introduce the President of the United States. Thank you very much. Well, thank you, Irwin Lerner. Thank you all very much. And I join you in recognizing Congressman Ben Gilman for all that he has been doing up on the hill in regard to this problem. It's a pleasure to be here with you in this national conference on corporate initiatives for a drug-free workplace. And I'm delighted by the strong leadership that the business community is showing in this vital effort. You know, I've been speaking out about the problem of illegal drugs for a very long time now. When I began doing so as Governor of California, the times were very different. In fact, a conference of this type would have been unlikely, and had it been held, there probably would have been pickets out in front. Well, when I arrived here today, there were no pickets and no petitions, no demonstrators, no protests. I circled the block a couple of times while we checked to make sure it was the right hotel. What could it be? Truth is that attitudes toward illegal drugs really have changed. We can see it in the media, we can see it among our youth, and we can see it on the floor of Congress. Though the struggle for a drug-free America has not yet been won, the moral and cultural battle to define the threat of illegal drugs is clear. And it's all of us who are on the winning side, part of the overwhelming consensus against illegal drugs in America. An important symbol of that consensus and of the distance that we've traveled as a society is that our drug policy today is one of zero tolerance. That means absolutely, positively none. No exceptions. I had to tell you that I'm especially proud of the anti-drug work that Nancy, you so generously mentioned, has done. That's changed the way we talk and think about illegal drugs. It was not that long ago that the message to our young people was that experimenting with illegal drugs was not only harmless, but was kind of a good thing. An instant path to popularity and sophistication. The social stigma all too often was not on the drug user, but on the young person who refused to try drugs. As I've said before, the tragic fact is that many young people began using drugs not to rebel or escape, but just to fit in. In many ways, our country is still paying for the erosion of our values and the decline in self-responsibility that occurred in the 1960s and the 1970s. The students of that period who used illegal drugs in high school or college have in many cases taken their destructive drug habits with them into their places of employment. What we found is the drug users at work pose a threat to their coworkers and represent a corporate crisis in a national catastrophe. What was once defended as a so-called victimless crime we now find is costing America billions of dollars a year in lost productivity. We're finding that drug users are two or three times more likely to skip work as non-users and three or four times as likely to be involved in accidents when they do show up. They're more likely to steal from their employers and their healthcare costs are substantially higher. It's no surprise that 92% of all Americans say they don't want to work around someone who gets high during the day and who can blame them. Having seen the damage caused by illegal drugs in the workplace, our message is simple. Let's get those blasted drugs out now. The good news is that there's been a major change of attitude in America and the work that you're doing now is an important part of it. The momentum has shifted from those who celebrated the drug subculture to the people who just say no and help others to do the same. Illegal drugs and drug use are not being tolerated anymore. Yes, the enemy, illegal drug use is still out there and still a threat, but today illegal drug use is an enemy that has no defenders. Not only is an ever-increasing number of Americans personally rejecting the use of illegal drugs, but the country as a whole is moving to declimarize and depopularize their use. Law enforcement authorities such as the police, the Coast Guard, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Custom Service are critical players in the war on drugs, but there are limits on what can be accomplished on the supply side. There must also be stern social sanctions on the user of illegal drugs and broad societal support for individuals being drug-free. It is this change in attitudes that I believe makes total victory in the war on drugs not just possible, but ultimately certain. The glamorizing of drugs in film and music, that was so much a part of the progressive culture, has declined and instead the most popular entertainment stars and sports celebrities are warning our young people that using drugs is dangerous for their health and bad for their image.  One of the big comedy scenes was all of them sitting around and passing the joint around and then the hilarity and so forth and that was considered just fine to get laughs in the theater and all. Well, thank heaven we don't see that anymore. Entertainment World has joined your club. We're also becoming increasingly intolerant of illegal drugs on our college and university campuses and employers are stating right up front that illegal drug use will be hazardous to their workers' careers. Some very encouraging news about the prospects for a drug-free workforce came in last year's annual survey of high school seniors. The survey showed that the just say no message is getting through to the new generation of workers. Almost all students said it was wrong to even try a drug like cocaine and the percentage of students who indicated that they were currently using illegal drugs was lower, much lower than in previous years. You in the business community are playing a critical role in America's transition to a drug-free society. You're providing drug education to your employees. You're offering counseling and treatment to help men and women escape from drug dependency. You're providing drug testing to help deter and detect illegal drug use. And you send a strong message to your workforce and community that your company has zero tolerance for illegal drugs and that users must be held responsible for their illicit drug use. You make it clear that not only are drug users not part of the in-crowd, but unless they quit taking illegal drugs, they'll be part of the out-of-work crowd. Most importantly, in everything you do, you keep the focus on the user and this is vital. Confiscating more drugs at the border ever before in history. We're convicting more drug dealers and giving them longer sentences. We're eradicating more drug fields around the world, devoting more resources to drug enforcement than ever before and bringing the military into an unprecedented level of support in the battle against illegal drugs. But in the final analysis, the focus must be on the user because so long as there's a demand for illegal drugs, there'll be a powerful financial incentive for drug traffickers to satisfy that demand. Ultimately, the solution requires transforming illegal drug users into non-users. And the anti-drug programs you're conducting in the workplace are an essential part in this effort. As you work to get drugs out of your offices and plants, it's important to remember the problem of illegal drug use is a global problem. You may know, for example, that Nancy, in addition to all that she's done at home, has organized two international conferences of first ladies to discuss the drug problem. One held at the White House, the other held at the United Nations. And just this afternoon, Nancy will be addressing 1,300 women from countries around the world who are attending the World Gas Conference. So in many nations and in many languages, there are young people learning the words just say no. I've got to interject something here about that. You know where that came from? Nancy was speaking to a school, to a classroom out in Oakland, California, and a little girl stood up and said, but what do we do when someone offers us drugs? And Nancy said, well, just say no. Today, there are over 12,000 just say no clubs in schools across the United States. All from just one single remark in one single classroom. I hope that the leading role taken by American business to get illegal drugs out of the workplace will be expanded here at home and duplicated abroad. Some people may look at the drug problem and throw up their hands not knowing where to begin. Then there are people like you who look at the drug problem and roll up their sleeves and get to work. What you're doing is making a real difference. Drug education, counseling, treatment, and testing, these are powerful tools. I'm proud that American business has willingly taken on this vital effort. By doing this, you're helping your coworkers, you're helping your companies, you're helping the American economy, and you're helping to bring us closer to fulfilling our goal of a drug-free America. And with regard to the private initiative, early in my first term at a dinner party at the White House, the wife of an ambassador of a European country sitting beside me heard some talk at our table about one of the two of the programs going on here, not just with drugs, but I mean of a private nature. And very quietly, she said to me, yes, but you're unique. And I said, what do you mean unique? She says, yes, in America you will do that that way, private people. She said the rest of us in the rest of the world, we wait for government to do it. Well, I'm sure that many of you know already that in the last couple of years, meetings have been held in Paris and in London at the invitation of our neighboring and friendly trading partners in the world, and they have invited people like you to come over there and tell them how to establish private sector initiatives and private sector work in getting problems solved. And here in our own country, just last year, the private giving of money alone to worthy causes totaled $84 billion.  About three times that amount for the administrative overhead. Well, again, I just wanna thank you all and I feel greatly honored to be a part of this even for these few minutes. Thank you all and God bless you all. I'm wondering remarks and your continuing leadership in this all-out assault on this problem. On behalf of all of the business leaders represented here today, I'd like to give you this small memento of the occasion as a permanent reminder to you of our feelings for you, our thanks to you, and our commitment to maintain this initiative for the long term. Thank you very much again. Thank you.


Hey stampers, welcome to another week of Watch It Weekly Wednesday. I'm Beth, part of the Stamping Jill creative team, and I have a really, really fun gift card holder to show you today. It's called the Diagonal Pocket Folded Gift Card Holder from a demonstrator, a dear friend. Her name is Lisa Bowden. We'll link her blog in the notes below, so you can go and check her out. She's an amazing demonstrator, and it was recently shared with us in a card contest that we held during one of our events. She kindly shared with me the measurements for this project, and we took it and made a few different designs, so that you can learn this technique as well. Okay, so here is Lisa's design, her original design that she shared with me. Isn't that so cute? It creates two pockets. You've got one here where you can put your gift card, and then you've got one here that you can put your note to slide it in right there.  So here's the template that you're going to use to create this gift card holder. And I wrote it out on paper so that you could see it just for your reference, but I'm going to show you how to do this as well. You need to start with a five and a quarter by 12 inch piece of designer series paper. Now you could use cardstock, but it would be pretty bulky, so I would suggest using a designer series paper for this. One thing about stamping up designer series paper is that our designer series paper is all double-sided. And so for projects like these it makes it just have a really cool look because it's going to show both of the designs of the paper and coordinate really really well. So again, here's the template. This is kind of our end piece we're going to end up with. You need a five and a quarter by 12 inch piece of designer series paper. We're going to go ahead and score that paper at four inches and eight inches. So I'll bring in my trimmer here, my paper trimmer, and I'm going to do this just right on my trimmer.  I'm going to get my scoring blade set up here, and I'm going to score it at four inches and then again at eight inches, and I think maybe you can see on that side a little bit better. So it's going to fold into my little accordion. Fold like this. Okay, it's going to show the orange and then go back like that. But now I need to cut it just like this so that this little strip will be gone and it will create kind of that diagonal look.  You can use a little pencil mark. I'm going to use pen because it's just a little easier for everyone to see on the camera.  I'm going to line up my two inches right here at the top of my trimmer with the cutting path, and I'm going to put the end of my designer series paper right here in the cutting path. So what that's going to do is make this side short and this side tall, and let me show you what that looks like here. Cut that off at a little diagonal. So then when I accordion fold it, this is my back piece.  I'm going to get that really cool effect of the diagonal fold. Okay, so when you adhere this little designer series paper together, you want to do it.  So I'm going to take green glue and I'm going to layer it here on the back and the bottom and this other side. I'm just going to do a thin line around there.  You don't want to do the top. We want to leave that open so that our card can fit in. I'm just going to hold that down for a second so it can grab it. And then on the front, again, instead of putting it on this side and guessing where the things are, I'm going to do it on the front. So a little thin line on the edge. And you don't necessarily have to do the inside because that is folded, but I did. And press it down and hold it. Green glue does dry clear, so if you did a little bit too much, it's not going to show through as soon as your project's dried. So that's how we make our little pocket there. You've got your little pocket for your gift card and for your note right there. It's going to show off your designer series paper and hold your gift card. So cute. The base for this gift card holder is a piece of cardstock cut to four and a quarter by five and a half. And you would just layer it just like that. So let me show you some ideas we've come up with using the diagonal pocket folded gift card holder. Here's this one using that designer series paper that I showed you with the example. Here's the little paper that just slides right inside there.  Just want to say thank you. The nicest way to say thank you. Here's a little masculine one that I came up with as well. With the little inside and the good things in life are better with you. Just so quick and easy. It's such a fun technique that really makes it easy to throw something together for the person you want to celebrate. And here is Lisa Bowden's idea. Her original idea again. Loved it so much that she was so willing to share this diagonal pocket folded gift card holder with us. So I hope you've enjoyed this technique and you can take this template and make it your own and use it to celebrate the people in your life. Thank you so much for watching. We'll see you next week for another Watch Weekly Life Stay.


Meet Dr. Frank Plummer. He's a renowned HIV researcher and the former head of the National Microbiology Lab of Canada. We asked him about his start at the lab, the importance of the facility, and the challenges he faced there. I became sign of director of the National Microbiology Lab, which is part of the Public Health Agency of Canada in 1980, and that was a left canyon move back to Winnipeg. I continued the research in Kenya, but I thought I needed a more sophisticated laboratory approach in order to get where I wanted to go rather than working in the field in Kenya. It was an interesting challenge. The lab when I took it over was very new, and it had relocated from Ottawa to Winnipeg, and only, I think, something like 25 people moved from Ottawa to Winnipeg. So the lab was kind of underutilized, underpopulated, and I had a big building job to do, which was a unique challenge and a very exciting opportunity. And the lab was responsible for all aspects of public health related to infectious diseases, from bacteria and foodborne problems to deadly viruses like Ebola. It has the only Level 4 program in Canada and one of the very few in the world. So we became a focal point for any infectious disease outbreak especially when the agents unknown. The first big thing that we dealt with was SARS in 2003, when this new virus that had never been seen in humans before suddenly appeared first in China, and then by the time we had recognized that there was something of this nature going on in China, it was in Toronto and Vancouver. This severe respiratory illness was undiagnosable using tests for agents that we knew about. So we pretty quickly knew that this is something totally new and had to take a different approach. So it was first isolated, SARS virus, it was first isolated by the Center for Disease Control in the U.S. and then we isolated it shortly after that, like a day or two later. That may have set off on a race, basically, to sequence this virus, to sequence the whole genome. In collaboration with the University of British Columbia Center for Genome Sciences, we were the first, and Canada was the first, to sequences. And it was a very, very exciting time. Very exciting time to discover this virus and figure out what to do about it and develop new diagnostic tools, and then the scientific race to sequence the virus was also very exciting. And after that, we went through a number of scares related to influenza, which is as you as many people have heard, you know, a pandemic on influenza is one of the most feared thing in infectious diseases. The 1918 flu killed many millions of people around the world. We had a pretty severe test of that in 2009 when this H1N1 influenza virus, which was totally new, emerged first in California, and then had a big outbreak in in Mexico City. And we helped the Mexicans with their response. But by the time we knew it was in Mexico, it was already in Canada. There were cases in Nova Scotia, so it happened just bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. And it was basically, we were the ones that more or less found a pandemic, because it had already been reported in the U.S. But we found it in Mexico, we found it in Canada, and then we knew it was pretty much going to be everywhere. In terms of preparedness for this kind of thing is extremely important. You need to have the scientific ability to respond to it, to make new diagnostic tests, to test new therapies, to make vaccines, hopefully. And I think Canada is very well prepared. The National Microbiology Lab is one of the best in the world, if not the best in the world, to illustrate how important the lab is in sort of the national and global response to these kind of threats. We've done three very innovative things to come out of the lab, not by me, but by others. So the first innovation was to develop mobile laboratories, sort of lab in a suitcase, or lab in 12 suitcases, really. They can take the lab to the patient rather than take a specimen to a lab somewhere in the United States or Canada. And that has been incredibly important in the responding to these outbreaks of viral hemorrhage of Ebola and Marburg. Because that shortens the time it takes to distinguish who has Ebola, which then you can take appropriate action to isolate them and treat them, or has something else, and would then be separated from those that have Ebola. The second innovation was the development of a vaccine for Ebola, which I think most others think that it's the most promising vaccine candidate out there. And it was developed using a virus called vesicular stomatitis virus, which is an infection of cows. It can infect people, but it doesn't really cause any problems. And putting an Ebola gene in there so that it fools the body into thinking they've seen Ebola and that they develop appropriate immune response to that Ebola protein. And it protects monkeys from challenge 100% of the time if they're vaccinated before the challenge with Ebola.  Even up to three days later, there's still a very significant effect. So it can be used as kind of a therapy as well. The third innovation was something called ZMAP or ZMAP, which is a cocktail of three monoclonal antibodies that were put together at the National Microbiology Lab by a very creative scientist called Gary Colbinger. The two of the antibodies that are in this cocktail were produced at the National Microbiology Lab and the other was produced at the US Army Institute for Infectious Disease Research in Washington. This cocktail is very effective in preventing Ebola infection in animal models and in treating it in animal models. And it has been used a few times in people, most notably during this current Ebola outbreak, when an American physician and an American nurse got Ebola as they were looking after patients in Sierra Leone. And they received this treatment and from what I've heard and seen, it basically saved their lives. So there's a big rush on now to produce lots of this ZMAP to respond to the current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.


My mother was dying and I had to stay home and care for her, right? We need like an extreme extraordinary reason to stay put. I think we need to have the opposite. My name is Jason Craig. Today I'm going to be interviewing a friend of mine, Dr. Ryan Hanning, a church historian, professor, and somewhat agrarian. We'll talk about what the somewhat means later. Today, the topic we're going to talk about is something that is in the air we breathe that we don't even realize it's happening. So on this podcast, we are often talking about the fact that many of us in our homes, in our places, we feel something is disconnected, something's just not working, especially if you want to live a life based in something inherited, a beautiful tradition like our faith, things like kin, family, all those things are in some sort of conflict and we're trying to figure out why. And us as fathers, our roles bring order to these things. We want to know what to do about it. So as we've been saying, people argue on whether culture is upstream of politics, whether politics is upstream of culture and what's going on in our society and what's affecting it. But the fact is our homes are downstream of all of it and we catch a lot of the stuff floating towards us and we don't have control of it. And we don't even understand oftentimes that we have embraced certain things that are actually in conflict with what we love or things that we just don't question and we really should. So one of those is if we look at nature, the way God created the natural family to exist, the natural community to exist, he presumes that you're going to live in the garden where he planted you, right? In fact, the first disaster in scripture, the first disaster in history is to be moved away from the home, to be expelled from the garden due to sin. And for thousands upon thousands of years, the natural state of the family, of the village, of the community, whatever it was, was pretty stable and capable of making things like and enjoying things like custom tradition, belonging, these things that are really disrupted in our time. It's because they didn't go anywhere. So technology clearly has changed that we can go places. We have the technology to be very mobile. I mean, this in this country was built on it. I mean, we would not have expanded across an entire continent the way we had. Had it not been for the railroad and then the automobile, even the hard work of going west with wagons and horses was really for the sake of farming. So sometimes we like to think about that as if, well, that's just everyone sort of going for a gold rush, which actually wasn't true, that people were going west to actually settle. They were going away with the very clear and intention of going away to not go anywhere else, to really settle a place and to live and to sort of, yes, start over, but not an endless mobility. In our day and age, we not only have even greater technology to go wherever we want. I think a lot of us have unknowingly embraced a philosophy of hypermobility that we actually think in terms of our own children, our own households, of them defining their success by leaving behind the things that we're trying to communicate to them that they should treasure. So it's a bit of a conflict. We used to say family is the most important thing or your community is very important and this fits very quite easily with our faith because loving your neighbor, it's not an abstract thing. It's the people that are close to you. But then we have, we'll say something about our children say, you know, that one's really bright. They're going to really go far. To leave your hometown is actually a sign of success, of arriving. But the question is arriving into what? And one of the words that can be really helpful for us is cosmopolitan. We arrive at the cosmopolitan ideal. I'd like to read from a quote, a book called The Limits of Liberalism, Tradition, Individualism and the Crisis of Freedom by Mark T. Mitchell. Because this, when people use the term in casual conversation cosmopolitan, generally refers to a disposition of her vain sophistication. Person was not blinkered by the prejudices and limited experience of the provincial, the uneducated and the narrow minded. The cosmopolitan is one who exhibits tolerance rather than xenophobia. Reason rather than prejudice, universalism rather than localism. The cosmopolitan considers himself a citizen of the world and views other affiliations as secondary to his universal embrace. He is suspicious of patriotism and fearful of nationalism. His community knows no limits, rather the embrace of his imagination, if not his actual affections extends to all humanity. Tradition for the cosmopolitan is an impediment to the universalized future that is the object of his dreams. The liberal cosmopolitan dares to dream of a world that has broken free from the confines and local particularities of tradition. Unfortunately, the headlong attempt to ignore a destroyed tradition in an effort to usher in a unified cosmopolitan age has set the table for both philosophical error and social disaster. Now, in this book, he goes on to all sorts of very broad ideas of what that looks like. The problems that having no limits to place has for society that we, you know, lacking in affection for our people and sort of outsourcing any idea actually of loving your neighbor. You can just sort of give to, you know, causes the world over that you like and that, you know, that's good enough. You're loving somebody, even if you don't know who your neighbor is. I think, Ryan, to call you in now, what I want to bring up is how actually that has affected us and our families in the way, particularly we as Catholic families, we talk about constantly. We talk about building communities. People want to have communities rallied around their parish, around their, you know, their people. They want to have a culture. They want to have traditions. They want to have feasts. They want to have processions. But then at the exact same time, in the same conversation, we have an expectation amongst ourselves. It's unspoken, but then we use it. I mean, we speak it that if you love your children, you better make sure they escape this place that we're trying to teach them to love. You better send them away. Even if we're in a good place, there's just a presumption that it is better for a father to parents generally to make sure, to ensure that even if your kid maybe wanted to stay nearby, that they always were provided with the superior option of getting out of dodge and going far in life. So where is this coming from? Yeah, this deep-seated tendency is something I've only recently reflected on is my kids have gotten old enough to like move out of the house, right? And like, we don't realize how much we've imbibed sort of a culture that tells us that having more options is always better, even if those options are, you know, increasingly bad, right? We must assume more options is better and same thing with like leaving the house. And it's interesting because, yeah, I want my children to be successful.   And I don't mean like the immediate house.  Now, going and starting up their own farm down the road from you or on your own property or on some property that they acquired for themselves and that proximity to the community and culture, that's great. But this whole idea of sort of like, you know, you have to be free of the culture and the conditions and the traditions that you have built up in order to fully be alive is, you know, it might sound romantic when you're 16 years old, but for the most part, when you become an adult, you realize being disrooted from your support system is actually not a helpful thing. So this is something I've been thinking about a lot as my own children are now growing up and becoming even more the men and women that God has made them to be. But yeah, we live in a society that thinks more options are better and that tends towards making decisions about mobility based on economic potential with totally not even thinking about all of the other really important support systems and structures that exist in a local place, right? Like I said, a parish neighborhood, a community. And it's weird because we live in a way that we assume this is the case, but you know, a lot of the world, Jason, as you know, still lives with a pretty intact localized culture. You know, it's just great. That's because it's that I actually, it takes the artificiality. I mean, I don't mean that in a bad way. It takes sort of an imposing of an idea. And so this is a philosophical idea. Plus it's a practical, you know, technologically abled idea, which is that you can and you should and leave. You're able to and you should do it. This is a philosophy in a technology, but the philosophy I think is the one that's stranger how much and I have it.  This is a fake headline in case anyone doesn't know what this publication is. I'm not recommending it or endorsing it, but this is hilarious.  Like they repeat loser. You know, it's this. Even though most of us would actually presume we love to the place. Now, not everyone. I guess it's worth saying. If you're in a bad spot and you just have to leave, you just have to leave. But I'm talking about the overarching presumption that even if you're in a great place, you ought to leave is there. And I never questioned this until a good friend of mine who is from a good, healthy culture in South Louisiana talks about, he had no reason to leave. And he has all kinds of reasons. And now he's not, he has not returned. He's actually settled in somewhere else near me. Not, not because of us, but in North Carolina.  And part of me that's sad because I left a very intact culture with traditions and family. There was literally nothing unhealthy about what he left, but he was sent away out of obligation. And I think even the family would say, yeah, we'd love to have you nearby. But you know, people fly the nest. What are you going to do? You don't want to cook a month like a prison. So they tell me, I want to ask about your story because we're just going to wax about, yeah, maybe we shouldn't do this. Because I, because when we met, I drummed up an email the other day where you were, where were you? What state? Yeah. No, no, you're over there with a stout teaching. Oh, so yeah. So I was working up in Bismarck, North Dakota, but I was working there, but not, not living there full time either. So, okay. Okay. All right. So yeah, you're the guy we're asking about this. And now, and now where do you live? Yeah. Just north of Nashville, Tennessee, in a little beautiful intact community called Jolton, which we, we adore. Yeah. But our dream here has been part of, part of thinking through our assumptions. Right. So for my wife and I, our, you know, primary assumption, all of our early marriage into rearing children, you know, has been essentially that the economic health, in other words, like our balance sheet is the most important thing necessary to be able to provide for the sustenance and, you know, healthy, successful children moving into the future. And that's not necessarily untrue. That's just not primary. Right.  Where, where are we actually being called to? And I think that's a bigger point.   And that place and time was not of your choosing, but was part of God's divine providence. And as a result of that, that requires some deference. You know, not just road acceptance, but at least understanding, hey, I have at least a minimum commitment to my place and time that I've been born into. But then as you mature to really discern within line of your vocation, where are you called?  So my wife Rebecca and I, we started to sort of have these just sort of general conversations. And we realized that in the place we were living, while we had a really beautiful community, beautiful culture, you're very active, living within the city just was not something that we were going to be able to really become the people that we want to be or raise the family with a type of sort of trajectory, the horizon that we wanted them to have on mind in that setting. So, you know, we moved to Tennessee, you know, a lot of house sight unseen and really had two big goals. One was to rediscover the joy of family life. And two is to re enter into right relationship with the land, which meant that that, you know, our first instinct would not be to go purchase something as much as it would be, hey, can we make it for ourselves or can we get it from somebody that we're in relationship with. And, you know, for, for the most part, we've been able to find that and it's required moving yes to a more rural location. But I don't even think it's really a matter of rural versus cities. A lot of just the framework and the framework here is that most people were born here and lived here and those who have left left for the purpose either of receiving some technical formation so that they can return. Say in the case of dentists or doctors or others or tradesmen, you like learn, you know, something on left but always with the, the idea of returning. So here people are like really deep roots and that deep rudeness, you know, changes the calculus for how you make decisions of how you live. It changes the calculus for. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Yeah. I mean, I'm going to say, so you were in a city and there's been times in my life I've lived in a city and it's sort of defined it's kind of, I mean, they're kind of like an airport like we're all here, but I could be gone at any moment because because it doesn't have a connection to the land. It might be a hub of this or that business, but you know that changes and people do find though. I mean, there's a family that, you know, ironically using them as an example, but they recently moved kind of in mass to North and South Carolina where I live on the border. But you know, they've been in Chicago for generations and they've just kind of had to leave because that environment itself has kind of squeezed them out, but they, I think it's now they're here. And what's fascinating is they're really beautiful, coherent family culture is a tradition that clearly goes back to a place where they because they stayed together and now they're doing it. They're like moving. I mean, it's and this is one of those families that has like 12 kids and that one's got, oh, they only have a, you know, they're just getting started. Like just kind of one of those, but they have this really coherent family culture, which was made possible by staying put. And now that the sort of the patriarchs have started to leave that the children are following around them, which is interesting because it is based around the two things you mentioned, which is my family and the land. And there's obviously a connection between our cosmopolitanism and the fact that seasons and where food comes from just, just doesn't matter anymore. I mean, you're, you're choosing to make it matter in your family, but generally as a society, it's not a consideration. There's no security we feel. I mean, you were living in Arizona. There is no natural security in Arizona comes to food. I mean, you like to sustain that kind of population is that completely, I mean, it might as well be a, you know, it's the opposite of like a green house in an arctic or something. It's a air conditioning island. You feel like the artificiality, and I think a lot of fathers feel this way too, like the artificiality and the fact that I've accepted so much of it, right? At a certain point, you just realize like, that's not what I want my children to inherit. And I think for us is interesting that the first move we've made, you know, so we moved out here, we've been married 20, going on 24 years and we moved going on six years ago. So we're not experts at this. We're still living it, you know, trying to adjust. And I think for us, you know, we're always really careful. It's a matter of individual really discernment. It's not as easy to say running away, right?   If you don't adjust your mindset, it's my wife and I, you know, the move to Tennessee was the first move we made that wasn't economic, right? It wasn't because I was chasing more money or a new job or a different professorship. It was like a real discernment of, hey, you know, Lord, where are you calling us to go? And how are you calling us to live again in right relationship to the land and in right relationship to the requirements of our family? And it was, it was amazing. We saved for three years and left. And seriously, I mean, I think we've got this discussion before. It was scary because like people didn't understand why like they couldn't, they couldn't fathom, like, why would you leave? And then trying to, we're not running away from anything. Like if we had left three years early, it would have been a knee-jerk reaction to run away. But when we actually left Arizona, I really feel like we were sent. And I went back a few years ago for a book release and it was really beautiful. Like Bob, our old friends came out for a big dinner and my daughter was with me and she looked at me and she's, you know, she was, she was a senior when we moved. So it was really hard on her this transition from the city to more rural life. She was, dad, I don't understand how you could ever leave that community. And I go, we didn't leave, honey. We were sent by that community. The reason they're all there at dinner that night is because they prepared your mom and I to like really re-enter into reality. I guess how I feel like coming out here was not running away from the city. It was entering into reality. It was, you know, responding to the call of God to live a way that is more human. And I'm still figuring out what that means, but I can, I can definitely say that it's the antithesis to hyper-mobility. If hyper-mobility means a lack of commitment to the people and the place that you live in, then, you know, we ought to rethink that construct because it's probably not good for the human heart, right?  These are tragedies. Yet we idealize them in today's society. Yeah.  But I think, I think the clear point, though, is that there should be a presumption, a natural presumption that, of course, you're going to stay without some extraordinary reason. That would be the, we, but we tend to want an extraordinary reason to stay. You know, my mother was dying and I had to stay home and care for her, right? It's, we need like an extreme extraordinary reason to stay put. I think we need to have the opposite, that we should raise our family with the presumption that they'll be close by. Yeah. And that they ought to be.  You were getting there, but, you know, Aquinas talks about this, that there's an early American literature and even law. There's an obligation of children who received all of their life and strength, that when they come to the strength of being an adult, being a man or a woman, that they now owe their family and their place a certain amount of time and labor. Yeah. And payment and justice. This isn't like, oh, it'd be sweet to stick around. It's like, wait a second, let me get this straight. We fed you until you were mature enough to help us. And so you have been a consumer this whole time.  I mean, that's an, that's a grave injustice. They would have seen it as that. And again, in an agrarian setting, it would have been not just scandalous, but sort of shameful that you didn't pay back your community that gave you so much. But we do that. We're like, we send, we, when we send our kids to college, and I'm not, this isn't a discussion about college or whether, you know, the return on investment of that, although that's worth having. But when we send them away, there is a certain reality that right when they're in their prime, right when they would become useful. And I don't mean in a utilitarian way, but just joining in the work of a place, they're gone. Right? I mean, the moment where they could have joined us. The early model for college too, if they ever left, it was for the purpose of returning. It was for the purpose of receiving some technical skill that you could not buy within your community to be able to come back and serve. I mean, all the early proliferation of the trades sort of follow these lines, right? Where, you know, hey, you would be in a place that might have, you know, population grown that you might have needed a, you know, more than just one midwife. Now you need an OB and they're, you know, one of the smart kids would be sent away and come back. And so, you know, again, within the context of the community, the issue was really what the horizon was. This assumption that whatever is beyond the horizon of your reach is somehow better and that your ability to access it is the infinite good is, you know, we got to question that because very often we're called, you know, just on the biological level to become who we are in a particular place. I've really been fascinated lately in diving into this to look at the saints. And it's interesting because in the life of the saints, it's almost like a 50-50 split. Like half the saints were, like, called to go somewhere. And most of those saints didn't want to go. They're like, just leave me here, Lord. And like the other half was, like, called to stay. And the very opposite, like, St. Trezla's suit, like, she wanted to go to the ends of the earth, right? And the Lord was like, no, just stay in Carmel. You know, and so... That's right, right up the hill. It's just like a really curious thing that for whatever reason, part of God's, you know, province and plan, Newman reflects on this, right? Like, God's great province and plan, you know, is very often, you know, we look elsewhere, whether that's the result of concupiscence or whatever. And I think we need to question whether or not hypermobility is good. And even on a practical level, let's go through it. So you leave the resource to your family. You leave the support network. I mean, I was reading the other day that the vast majority of homelessness, not all, but the vast majority of it, those people are radically disconnected from any of the support system necessary to provide for them, right? But yet we live in a society that says, oh, that's a good thing. In the name of freedom, let's remove as many of those resources as possible that would come from a local in the name of either centralizing or the name of, you know, maintaining a city or whatever. And we got to draw those into question. I mean, and just really think about it. The value provided just naturally, biologically, by a good family. And again, there are reasons to leave sometimes, but that can't be the default assumption that hypermobility is giving, that leaving is the norm. It's not. Yeah. So I think it's worth, we should make sure we address, because you're bringing up the saints and missionary activity that people will say, well, I remember when we made a move to a rural, you know, this guy, he said, you know, well, no missionary or saints ever said, I'm moving to the country. They went, you know, to where people were something. What's interesting about that, though, a lot of the saints, one, people in the country still have souls. So I hope some missionaries make their way through. And it's simply not true that there wasn't traveling missionaries. But on the other hand, one thing we have to remember is that there, you know, the missionary is not a rebuke to the monastery. Right. So in Christian culture, Christian theology and Catholic theology, the monastery and its stability is actually what built what we now call Christendom. It was not the mobility of the Romans and their endless expansion or the barbarians, and they're coming to get the resources from somewhere else, you know, away from their home that built Christendom. Actually Christendom and its monastic and village ideal was only possible because people stayed because people actually literally built walls that were not to keep you out, but to keep me in. And that is what built Christendom. So I think we need to be very careful to think this is some sort of insular or anti-missionary impulse or something. But also it's just really striking to me that there is a particular call to the clergy and religious. And I know that, you know, the church is consistently saying like we all have a missionary element in our lives. I agree. But there are those who are called uniquely to not have families so that they can be completely devoted to the spreading and teaching of the gospel. And our Lord commissions them, right? The apostles. And he says, go out to all nations. And he said go out and baptize. It's really interesting when he says go to the nations. He doesn't actually say anything to say like and disrupt those nations or commission all of them to leave and go to other nations. There's this underlying thing that we forget is that the reason we have a New Testament is because, you know, some apostles and then, you know, the apostle of St. Paul, they go out and they plant the church in nations, you know, particular places with their own particular culture. And then they write letters backwards to Corinth, for example, to the Romans. But there's no, in these letters, there's a presumption. In fact, the primary duty, I mean, you read 1 Corinthians, it's like the scandalizing, you know, whatever's going on in Corinth was just crazy. I mean, there's just nonstop controversy. There's Christians suing Christians. There's like incest. There's like all kinds of stuff going on. And, but the presumption of that letter, of James, of Romans is now that you've received the faith and you've received the truth. Now it's time to start to do the real work, which is to stay put and learn how to live at peace with your neighbor. That actually, so if we look at the New Testament, there's not, there's a universal call to holiness, but there's not a universal call to the displacement of missionary activity, that that's extraordinary. So I guess that would be the big point that's a lesson to us is that there's nothing anti-zeal, anti-evangelical about the fact that we need to say. I just think we need to recognize that it's the monastic ideal, which is very familial. And then particularly for us as having families, I am presuming that it is my job to order my home first within itself and then towards the love of its neighbor so that we can mature naturally in this place. If one of my children is called in an extraordinary, you know, discernment to go somewhere else. Of course I'll be happy. I won't hold on to them. But I think that if, I don't put words in your mouth, but I think that would be the simple thing that we're proposing is that by nature, we should literally presume the opposite of the cosmopolitan ideal, which does not come from the church, does not come from God directly in scripture, and is largely contradicted by the philosophies and ideals of the world and our ideas of success. Yeah. And I think, I mean, what it comes down to is, you know, not so much thinking of them as like mutual opposition, but as much as like what precedes the other. And the reality is like missionaries come from monasteries. They come from intact communities. And in those communities, they discover who they are and the vocation they have. And they're very much sent by those communities. And so I think, you know, for the average Catholic dad or mom, it's really about discernment, right? Like, you know, Lord, how are you calling me? The default assumption to be a good steward is to be at the very least appropriately committed to your place and your time and the people immediately around you, right? And so, you know, that's like, that's the basic assumption upon which everything else is built. So the missionary mandate of the church, which is very clear and present, presumes that preceded by that mandate is an intact community. And I think that's the right way to look at it. Yes. I love like Rad Stinger, right? When he talks about, he's giving fundamentals of theology course and he talks about how very often we like to think of things as the opposition to each other. And he's using the Greek term. So like, opposition means things that are understood only in exchange with the opposite. And he says, a lot of things in the church, it's not really helpful to look at them that way. It's better to look at them like a hierarchy that one precedes the other. They're not in this beautiful dynamic tension, but they're not mutually exclusive, right? And so I would rephrase what you said. That missionary mandate, which is in life of the church, presumes that the default assumption is that we have a commitment to a time and place, right? And that we are building a community within our family with others that doesn't presume that we're building that to send everyone out, but that we're going to build this intact for what it's for. And then some from that then will be prepared and called to go out. And this is where individual discernment and family discernment is so key. There's a lot of talk right now. Like we need to be a missionary church, right? And I actually think it's pretty wrong headed.  But the emphasis on that, like Joe said, is the idea is that if we were trying harder to like make more Christians, make more Catholics with greater zeal, more prayer, more devotion, then we wouldn't be having the collapse of the family and faith that we're seeing. I think that is the presumption is that we're not replacing ourselves fast enough that that is our biggest headache or our biggest proud heartache, I should say. I actually think the opposite is true, that the reason we can't be missionary and have a very sort of evangelical outlook and zeal is that it's the instability of our own homes and places that make it impossible. We don't have a place, you know, that the church is ultimately a family. We don't have a family to invite them into that not only just the divisions we see, but really the, even the church right now is just hypermobile. I mean, it's just this constant shuffling of things. There's really not stable communities.  I mean, of long lasting, we have, you know, these things pop up, they go, and things are just in the constant flux that we actually don't have a Catholic culture. But then in the home, our homes are so, and we know that this is statistically, I mean, we know this to be true, that we're just hemorrhaging our own children from the church. And that makes it, in my mind, if we're thinking about this as a hierarchy, like you just said, it's actually, that is the reason we can't be missionary. So the reason we're losing the world is not because we're not trying hard enough. We're not being an authentic enough witness. We're not joyful enough. It's always like blaming these, like, if you guys were just trying harder, maybe I'm showing my cards here a little bit of those in leadership just saying, if you guys were trying harder, then we would be having more baptism. It's like, well, I don't think that's the problem. I actually think the air we breathe in a modern liberal state itself is toxic to the life of a family. I thank to a friend in my community recently about this topic. And, you know, he was, he recently moved there. And I said, man, you need to root down. You need to root down and, you know, be where you are. I'm thinking about leaving. It's like, well, so we're just like cohabitating, right? This friendship, I mean, there's, none of us, we're not really bound to each other. So we're just hanging out for the, you know, I don't know, the temporary pleasure of it, like chatting with somebody at the airport. I don't need to remember your name, right? He said, okay, I see your point. Maybe it means more than what I'm thinking about. And he said, but I don't want my kids to be stunted economically. So you actually said at the beginning, most of the reasons we move anywhere is for work. And people will say, well, I've got to do what's best for my kids when they move for a job. And what that usually means is better job, which your kids, you know, a lot of us are kids, they don't come to us begging for more money. They usually come to us begging for more of us, you know? So he questioned that. But the reason I bring that up is we need to talk about, very seriously, how, okay, if our children are being set up for the idea that they should stay where they are and that we want to grow organic, natural, long lasting traditional communities, our communities rooted in the traditions of the church, et cetera, they need to have help and assistance in setting up their future economically well. So I don't want to go into that, but I want just for the sake of the listeners, that's something that we need to address in a later episode. Yeah, just to calm, I know we got to wrap up, but I think, you know, we often think of leaving the family or leaving the home as a desire for adventure, right? And I can tell you that it takes just as much courage and it's just as adventurous to learn how to live with the people that are put right in front of you. You know? And so, I mean, it's amazing how much often I think leaving is really an excuse to deal with ourselves.  Here in Joel and at St. Lawrence in my parish, we are celebrating our 144th annual barbecue. So next week we'll be cooking over 48 hours, 4,000 pounds of pork shoulder. Everyone in the community will be there. All the guys are there. We'll be there all night. We got adoration in the chapel and all the men are taking turns. It's an institution. We've never not done it, even during COVID, even during Spanish flu. But it's not easy. It's hard. It is. I'm sorry, I've never heard anyone. I've never heard the sentence. We never stopped doing it through COVID or the Spanish flu. That's longevity right there. That's generations. All right, Ryan, we'll have you back on. I want to hear more about your crazy adventures and I can't even, what do you say, Joel? Joel in Tennessee. Joel. Joel. All right, Ryan, thanks so much for being on the Till and Keep podcast. All right, God bless you. Thanks. This episode of Till and Keep has been brought to you by Tan, fraternus and sword and spade. Till and Keep is a podcast that shows how the primordial command from God to Adam to Till and Keep the garden applies whether you toil on a farm or in a concrete jungle. Visit tillandkeeppodcast.com to subscribe and follow the show and use coupon code Till25 to get 25% off your next order at tanbooks.com.


One of my favorite segments on baseball tonight growing up was the that's nasty section They would show like nasty pitches and then that kind of went away So it's nice to see that the internet's kind of brought it back Even though you're not on Twitter. Yeah, there's got to be people inside the clubhouse that talk about pitching Ninja Some of the nasty pitches that you have I still check pitching Ninja even though. I'm not on Twitter I still like use the web browser to look at it. You know, I'm just curious Speech in that day not so much for myself, but just to see other guys pitches I'm definitely a pitching nerd. So anytime somebody does something. I want to know how they did it or Or just whatever just take a look at it Clark Schmidt got on there. Yeah, I saw that he was pumped about it You might be like a little bit of a rite of passage like almost like it and I made it type thing Kind of I mean if you want to pitch on the big leagues like at some point You need people to notice your pitches a little bit that they're a little different if he puts it out there That's 200,000 people that are looking at that right there His stamp of approval seems to matter in this kind of way. So pitchers nation on Instagram and They've got the people that post things too


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discuss the following question which says, Round purchase the house paying $220,000 and promises to make annual payment of $1500 each at the rate of interest 8% per annum compounded quarterly. If he misses first three payments, how much should he pay at the time of fourth payment to bring himself up to date? If suppose an annuity is left unpaid for N years, then the equivalent amount to be paid at the end of NH year is the same as the amount of ordinary annuity. So it would be given by small a upon i into 1 plus i to the power of n minus 1 d whole. This is capital A which is the amount that is to be paid at the end of the NH year if the annuity is left unpaid for N years. Where the small a is the annual payment of each installment, then N is the number of periods of the annuity. R% is the rate of interest per period i is equal to R upon 100 which is the interest of $1 for the same period. This is the key idea that we use in this question. So in the question we are given that Ram purchase the house paying $220,000 and he makes annual payment of $1500 each as the rate of interest is 8% per annum compounded quarterly. It's also given that Ram misses his first three payments and so we will have to find out the amount that he has to pay at the time of the fourth payment. So let's see the solution now. In this case we are given small a that is the annual payment of each installment as $1500. R% that is the rate of interest is 8% per annum compounded quarterly. So this is equal to 8 upon 4 which is equal to 2% per quarter and now i would be equal to R upon 100 that is equal to 2 upon 100 which is equal to 0.02. So here Ram misses the first three installments. Now he will have to pay the amount of the first three missed installments along with the installment of the fourth period also. Thus we can say that the total payment at the end of the fourth period would be the amount of annuity for a period. Hence the required amount to be paid would be equal to a upon i into 1 plus i to the power of n minus 1 the whole and in this case n would be equal to 4. Now putting the respective values we get this is equal to 1500 upon 0.02 into 1 plus 0.02 the whole to the power of 4 minus 1 the whole which is equal to 1500 upon 2. Now we remove this decimal and here we have in 200 this into 1.02 to the power of 4 minus 1 the whole 750 times is 1500 so we have this is equal to 7500 into 1.02 to the power of 4 minus 1 the whole. Let's now find out the value of this for this we suppose let x be equal to 1.02 to the power of 4 taking log on both sides we have log x is equal to 4 into log of 1.02. So further we have log x is equal to 4 into the value of log 1.02 is 0.0086 which is equal to 0.0344 and from here we have the value of x as the empty log of 0.0344 which gives the value of x as 1.082 so here we have 75000 into 1.082 minus 1 the whole further we get 75000 into 0.082 Now removing this decimal we have here 1000 in the denominator these three 0 cancel with these three 0 and we have 75 into 82 which is equal to 6150 So the amount to be paid at the time of fourth payment is equal to 6150 dollars so this is our final answer this completes the session hope you have understood the solution of this question.


Hi there, and welcome to another edition of Tuesdays with Corey. I am continuing my string of demos to show off some of the really cool stuff that we announced at Ignite. There were so many things, so many things, and now I'm going to show you some of the security stuff. This stuff's awesome. If you haven't played with the Azure Security Center, you are missing out like nobody's business. You should go play with this. This is a fun thing to go play with. It will tell you, it will scare you for sure. It's Halloween, or it was Halloween recently in the recent past. We recorded this before Halloween just to be clear, so it sort of feels like Halloween. Where was I? Oh, so security, scare you. That's right. It's all coming back. There's some really cool stuff, but some of the coolest stuff that we launched here in this recent Ignite experience is how to go both investigate and lock down your system by default. If you played with the Security Center, and here I'll show you a little bit of what this looks like. Go into it. You can see all sorts of cool things. You can see prevention. You can go in and say, look, I want to go track all sorts of potential risks with my compute setup, my networking setup, my storage setup, any application support. I've got ports open. I've got bad passwords. This will go in and actually try and detect it, try and tell you what's wrong, and try and make sure that you are setting up your environment in a safe way. This is live active prevention that's going on with your environment. You can track that and monitor that and make sure that you're running your environment in the right way. But there's two other things that are super cool. One is it actually is also detecting potential problems, risks, attacks, potential issues. Here you can see I've got the detection going here, and there are actually 12 high severity security alerts. I'm actually going to zoom in here and take a look at what these are. You can see the types of things that this is checking. This is checking potential SQL injection. It's detecting a suspicious process that's being executed, a successful brute force attack that maybe has happened. Across a bunch of high and potentially risky areas, sometimes a medium area, but yeah, you've got suspicious incoming RDP network activity. This is combining both what we know about your running instance, but also an agent running inside. The combination of what we know around your network, plus what's inside, we're able to do a bunch of machine learning to be able to predict and guess and try and understand whether something's gone wrong here. If I actually go in here and take a look and see, let's see if I've got the suspicious process executed. So I can click on this and sort of better understand what this means, right? What type of process is executing, why do we think it's suspicious? And so if I click right in here, it's going to show me the details of this specific attack vector and then help me understand potential other risks or potential problems that may come from this same attack vector. And so here you can see I've got a couple machines that that suspicious process has been executed on and so it's got a high severity. So let me actually zoom in here and take a look and see the details of this. So it looks like this has been running gen hash.exe, okay? And so clearly that sounds like maybe a suspicious guy and so that's why it's been watching this machine for some period of time and it now comes back and says, hey, this is different from what we've been seeing on this. And so it's using machine learning to try and predict these sorts of weird things. And so it actually gives me a bunch of remediation steps down here of how to go fix this, but what's great, I can also run a playbook so I can go in and actually run a playbook straight from Logic Apps, right? And so be able to launch that directly in here. But another thing that's super cool is I can come in here and actually run through an investigation process. So what that means is that if I actually pull this up, I can now, based on the issue that it was detected, they can now create a map for me of all the surrounding potential problems that may be happening in the environment, right? So instead of just having this one executable on this one machine be a problem, it shows me all of the connecting machines. So here you can see, right? And not only that, but they dance as I walk through them. And so you see I've got this suspicious process and this starts an investigation here. And it's been, it's on this one specific website. And so, excuse me, on this website backend, right? And so you can see here, now I look around, Abby Becker was the one who ran this suspicious product. So I can actually click over on her and zoom in on to her because she now seems like she's the problem, right? And so this is a sign in from an unfamiliar location. And so now I can go in and say, use it from an unfamiliar location. That's interesting. So this, now this suspicious process came from Abby Becker, who signed in from an unfamiliar location. Now, what other machines did she access? Well, uh-oh, this other machine you can see right here in this map. She also accessed as well. And it looks like there was a successful brute force attempt on here and another suspicious process. This now leads me to another security incident that I didn't connect with this one. But now by walking it through this map, I can now see that they actually are connected and they are related to this incorrect or illegitimate login from Abby Becker. And so this is awesome.  But now I know actually how they got in and I can go change my processes according to a super cool experience. And like I said, it's just fun. You can kind of make these guys dance around, see. And so not only is it fun, but you can actually make some music from it or some visual pictures here. So that's really fun. Now, last thing I'll show you built in, right here in the security center, just in time access. This is super cool. As an administrator, you can go in now and say, you are going to lock down a specific machine and you are going to go in and make sure that if people access them and they want to go, let's say, use SSH onto a machine or they want to enable RDP and they want to log in. You can now as the master administrator say, that's okay. They can request access. When they do it, we will audit that they requested access and we will lock it down after two hours after they're in. We will then close the port off and they will have to request access again. So now it gives you this audit, this compliance control over people accessing even for standard operational procedures. You can now make sure that the right behavior is happening. And so if you go in here and configure this right here, you can say how long you want the max request time. Maybe you want it shorter or longer. You can even require it to be from only IPs within your environment. So you can lock down your environment, secure it with this just in time access. It's what we do internally for our own security systems. And now you can do this yourself as well.  It gives you the ability to detect problems. Now with investigate, you can once a problem is detected, you can walk the map and find out all the relative related problems.  It's secure and locked down by default. With that, if you have any questions, comments, concerns, feedback, ideas, let us know at hashtag Azure TWC, we'd love to hear from you. And with that, have a wonderful and a secure Tuesday. Thanks a lot. I cannot believe this. I think this is the longest demo we've ever had, even better. Can you say, we ready this one? It's not going to work. Security's saying it out of the day. Hey, no! Are you ready? What was I saying? I have no idea. All right, well, this works.


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It's a coal Palmer Jota there's a nice one there rookie Garnaccio for manual It's Garnaccio Sapphire and Rooney Bargey wonder kids Copenhagen, Copenhagen's got some nice rookies as well Yeah, doing good Jacob doing good Can't complain man ripping some soccer Columani rookie for Frankfurt got my cassado rookie. We've got Vlahovic on the base and a base Verati PSG and in Jecco We've got Declan Gabriel Jesus and yellow. This one is numbered 17 and 99 or Rafael Leal for AC Milan Rafael Leal Very golfing Jacob. Hey, good luck Sammy. Good luck my friend. Oh, it's a Mandy Got a rookie Haraldson Mosalla and Marco Royce close out the first box there. We're ready guys box, too PSG again, no, no unless he wants it No PSG is a rookie Marara Clem rookie Erickson and wonder kids is Jamie Gittins BVB Adam Hasek there Pedri got a rookie Zaire Emery and Gavi Gavi on the variation image variation for Barca Back to back boxes with some Barca image variations rookie Matisse Suley Samaka Silva and future stars is going to be Anthony Ilanga for man you number to 70 Gotta become a PSG fan at that point I guess got a Vinny base Gonzalez Fiora Hashi and Calimendo rookie Renee Get some Eagles let's go Joe Felix Paul vonner Rodrigo Verbera rookie and wonder kids Alvarez for Man City Daiichi Kamata Kalulu got a rookie Kobe Manu and a Odegaard Arsenal hey, what's up Jordan? Good luck my friend. Good luck Rico Lewis rookie greasy. There's Simmich rookie and this one is Andres Sheldrup for Benefica their number two 99 18 and 99 Benefica rookie Sheldrup How you doing today Jordan? Yeah, this is Donnie's product man luminance. Gotta grab one when we're here To a mani future stars. There's Dembele, Pogba and Mbappe for PSG Jacob, why do you draft three quarterbacks? They're not bad players, but why? Lamar Josh Allen and my homes you definitely had to grab those like Like a not safe point to like a couple of those had to be reaches. Yeah, those had to be like back-to-back to feel like I guess it's good draft like it's good trade bait, but Say Olivier Giroux. Oh, no rookie Skarls. Got Garabi and Ali Cho Wonder kids for associate that I can't say much because I didn't do all in our fancy draft last year, but It was good Rory still I didn't get a ball relic out of there, man. I don't know what's going on Alaba, Yori Riga rookie. It was a full case. I did not get a ball relic Fajoli and Mbappe nice one there on the variation Killian Mbappe had two nice man city autos though in the same half case where we had a KDB to 25 and Foden to 25 In the same half case Pretty insane. There's a Koku rookie Jadon Sancho tie-on Buchanan and rookie on the orange is Gabriel Varan Numbered 16 of 50 rookie there for on Porto Veranda 50 Just in case they get injured. I guess I'm the three best ain't bad fantasy was Raphinha Barrios duet and Smith Rowe Arsenal Poverts delete Sohn and Baki Yoko wonder kids.  I haven't hit like one of the big guys yet really Ronaldo Holland or messy from a Merlin. Yeah, I don't know what's going on. You Hansen rookie Sousa. There's a messy and Yellow is gonna be Frederico Chiesa for Juventus to 99 Chiesa future stars Bravo Pablo Torre and orange is variation Alejandro guard nacho boom There you go Noah That's what you bought those spots for my friend number to 50 on the nacho rookie variation We'll mag that for you my friend sick nacho With the orange little man city color match nice hit there Sick one Noah. Congrats my guy Alrighty guys keep it going two more two more Yeah, nice low number nacho. Good luck. Good luck guys two more. 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How we doing Matt box five? Is Carrie carpenter good? He's decent outfielder for the Tigers, right? I believe he's pretty decent Jacob avert Deletes Smith row and Baki Yoko wonder kids rookie hungman son Elliott's out of yummy and Luis Figo gonna be our variation there for Ray out Figo, what's her up? Shell drop your Hanson and to 99 moten Martin odegaard Arsenal I Appreciate it Matt. I appreciate it He care Bravo future stars Torrey Susage and Leo Leo messy PSG there And so auto out of three that gold Merlin Fracture, right? Is that what the three is? Ilan, Jr. Rookie Anthony soba sly and Gavi wonder kids Sup, John Collin Donnie on a Thursday, you know it.  It's going on got Mason mounts Davies Ignacio and Fabio Blanco is gonna be our rookie green That one is numbered 70 out of 70 there for Barcelona. Yeah, that's sick Roy. Congrats on that one, man I think I saw someone post that I think Simon opposed to that or something Last back here guys. We got Cruz so Nali Silva and a Muhammad Ali choke for sociadad All right there guys, let's do a quick hit recap Just some of the color here. We'll get going on the second half of this case We had to 99 odegaard Anthony Chiesa we had rookie shell drop Rafael layout. We had number to 70 Fabio Blanco rookie Paul Pogba Anthony Alonga and Calimendo rookie to 70 to 50. We had rookie Gabriel Veran and we had variation rookie Alejandro Garnaccio for man you nice ones there guys We'll get the second half of this case going just a moment number four. Appreciate y'all


You are watching the Daily Decrypt. Welcome to Currency Competition. I'm your host, Amanda, and today's episode is brought to you by Crypto Compare. Storage is the name of a peer-to-peer network that hopes to compete in the cloud storage market with the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Drive, and even Dropbox. Unlike these other services, however, the storage network stores customers' files on the unused disk space of various individuals making up the peer-to-peer network. The users providing that disk space are called farmers, and they're getting paid storage coins for their service. The network is in its final stages of testing and is expected to launch its first customer-oriented web app soon. First, let's examine how files are stored on storage's network. Individuals who have unused hard disk space they'd be willing to rent out to the network download a program called DriveShare. They then tell DriveShare how much disk space and how much bandwidth they're willing to lend out to the network.  How does this system work? In a unique selling point when compared to centralized services, the farmers have zero access to the data they're hosting. They're not able to view or alter it, and in fact, no farmer even has a complete copy of any file hosted on the network. This is because files uploaded to storage are first broken up into pieces and encrypted on the customer's own computer before the file is sent out to any farmers for hosting. Storage customers choose how many farmers they would like to host their data and how long they would like them to do so. This contract remains in effect so long as the customer makes the proper micro payments throughout the lifetime of the file's storage. If a customer stops paying, their files will simply be forgotten from the network. So what is this network's status now? The storage team today announced that they had surpassed 2,000 terabytes in storage capacity, with almost 800 farmers contributing to it. Farmers currently supplying the most disk space to the storage network are in the 25 terabyte range, and those supplying the least are offering up just a quarter of a gig. These 800 farmers are all in Test Group B, and while they're being paid in real storage coins for their efforts, they're not yet hosting real customer data. And speaking of payment, the network's currency, Storage Coin, is worth about two U.S. cents per coin. It's technically a colored bitcoin, meaning it's a token that lives on the bitcoin blockchain via the counterparty protocol. 500 million storage coins exist, most of them are currently in one address, and they're being paid out gradually to incentivize more farmers and more disk space as the network prepares for full launch. So what is next for storage? Well, it's taken almost two years to build up to the current network capacity. Lead developer Sean Wilkinson has announced that Test Group C will execute next. Anyone can join this test group and be paid real storage coins. The pre-requisites are downloading DriveShare and having 10,000 storage coins to start, which can be purchased on various online exchanges. And once Test Round C is over, will Storage Coin begin accepting its first customers? If so, it will become the world's first decentralized cloud storage network. Pretty cool. Today's episode is brought to you by Crypto Compare, a social site which offers user-written reviews and ratings for all of the top cryptocurrencies and mining hardware, as well as comparison charts and tutorials. Take their Bitcoin and Ethereum knowledge quizzes. Feel free to post your score in the comments below. I'll tell you mine. And you can find that all at Cryptocompare.com. Sponsorship of the Daily Decrypt is hot, fast, and cheap. Learn more about it by clicking the little bar you probably see somewhere displaying in your video right now. Or just visit thedailydecrypt.com slash sponsorship. Have a good day.


A capacitor consists of two plates separated by an insulating material called the dielectric. Capacitors store energy in the form of an electrostatic charge. Capacitors are assigned a numerical value called the ferrid. The number corresponds to the amount of charge the capacitor can store. The greater the ferrid value, the larger the charge it can store. Even though the ferrid is the basic unit of capacitance, it is seldom used because it's an extremely large amount of capacitance. A more common unit of measurement for capacitors is the microferrid, which is abbreviated the following ways. These abbreviations are listed on schematic diagrams and are printed on the case of the capacitor. Capacitor values are also commonly expressed in picofarads. That unit is abbreviated in the following ways. The value of a capacitor is determined by the following three factors. Area of the plates, distance between the plates, dielectric constant, which is based on the material that the dielectric is made of. The value of the capacitor can be calculated by the following formula. C equals K times A over 4.45 times D, where C equals the capacitance in picofarads, K equals the dielectric constant, A equals the area of one plate, D equals the distance between the plates, and 4.45 equals the numerical constant. If the plate area increases, the capacitance increases proportionally. Between the plate area doubles the capacitance value. If the distance between the plates increases, there is an inversely proportional decrease of the capacitance. The dielectric constant number for capacitance uses air as a reference. Air has a numerical dielectric constant of one. By using a material other than air for a dielectric, such as mylar, which has a dielectric constant of 3.0, the capacitance value in farads will increase by 3. This means the capacitor using mylar will store a charge three times greater than the charge stored by an air capacitor with the same physical dimensions. The following table shows the dielectric constant of various materials. You have completed this activity, capacitor values.