The life of Aretha Franklin will be celebrated in her hometown of Detroit, Michigan on Aug
31. Her famous friends will be joining her loved ones at the funeral. Here's everything you need to know about the service
When Aretha Franklin died of pancreatic cancer on Aug. 16 at the age of 76, it was inevitable that her funeral was going to be a moving and public affair
In addition to being a loving mother and grandmother, she was, of course, the Queen of Soul who – during her six-decade career – had hits like "Respect," "Chain of Fools" and "Think
" So, it's no surprise that her funeral is set to be a star-studded affair that will feature tributes from politicians like former President Bill Clinton, singer Stevie Wonder and her childhood friend Smokey Robinson
If you want to watch the event live, here's everything you need to know about when and where it's happening and who will be attending
Aretha Franklin's funeral will be held at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit on Friday Aug
31. The service begins at 10:00 ET. Although the funeral is invitation-only, fans and the public can watch it live online at ClickOnDetroit
com. The Associated Press will also be livestreaming the event, according to the Detroit Free Press
If you prefer to watch it on TV, stations like Fox News and CNN will air some segments live
Aretha's famous friends will perform at her homegoing. Performers confirmed to appear include R&B legends Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan, country singer Faith Hill and former American Idol winner Fantasia
Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson, who will portray Aretha in an upcoming biopic, will also pay tribute to her hero on Aug
31. The Queen of Soul's son Edward Franklin, 61, will perform at his mom's funeral as well
In total 19 artists are set to sing at the event. After six decades in the industry it's no surprise that Aretha has famous friends from all walks of life, and that's reflected in the list of dignitaries who will speak
From the world of politics President Clinton, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones and U
S. Rep Brenda Lawrence are among those expected to speak, according to CBS News. Smokey Robinson, TV judge Greg Mathis, actress Cicely Tyson and music mogul Clive Davis will also speak
So too will Rev. Al Sharpton, Bishop T.D. Jakes and author Michael Eric Dyson. Meanwhile the Rev
Jasper Williams Jr. – who is pastor of Salem Baptist Church in Atlanta – will deliver Aretha's eulogy
Aretha grew up singing in the church and her roots will be reflected in the service
Among those expected to perform include gospel stars Yolanda Adams, The Clark Sisters, Shirley Caesar, Vanessa Bell Armstrong and Marvin Sapp
The Aretha Franklin Celebration Choir will also sing. If you can't watch the Queen of Soul's funeral, HollywoodLife will be covering the event and will keep you updated throughout the day
For more infomation >> Aretha Franklin's Funeral: When Is It, Performers, Speakers & All You Need To Know - Daily News - Duration: 3:36.
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Is Social Security Considered Income? - Duration: 1:56.
One of the questions we get quite a lot is in regard to Social Security.
People always want to know if Social Security is considered income.
Well, the short answer is yes - but it's not quite that simple.
It is income, but it's not considered earned income.
So what that means is that you can't use it to determine your eligibility on whether or
not you can fund a traditional or a Roth IRA.
However, it is income that you receive, and it may be subject to federal or state taxes.
The way that's determined is by looking at something called your provisional income.
Now, what your provisional income is is all of your income sources, plus non-taxable interest,
and one-half of your Social Security benefits.
If you're only receiving Social Security, none of that would actually end up being taxed.
However, once you calculate that provisional income if you're a single tax filer and that
number is between $25,000 and $34,000, up to 50 percent of your Social Security income
might be subject to federal taxes.
If it's over $34,000, up to 85 percent of your Social Security might be subject to tax.
If you're a married filer, the numbers are $32,000-$44,0000 to have up to 50 percent
of it taxed or over $44,000 to have up to 85 percent of it taxed.
So it's not quite that simple, but you really want to look into what those numbers are so
that you can find out what the impact to your tax situation is going to be from receiving
your Social Security income.
Now, several states do tax Social Security, but California is not one of them.
There are actually only 13 states that have your Social Security income
subject to state taxation.
I hope that helps.
If you have any other questions or we can help in any other way,
please contact us at Pure Financial.
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It's Nerf or Something (Official Trailer) - Duration: 2:14.
What the hell are you doing here I told you I was done
I was told you get results
But you'll die if you go in there
I have to try
Damn it, now try 1 1 1 2
Ok now try 1 1 1 3
The electronic nerf gun
I said I don't do that kind of work anymore kid
Come on use the gun we can take them out.
I can't turn this thing on
What do you mean you can't turn it on?!
It needs D batteries who the hell has D batteries?!
I'm surprised you made it this far
Who are you?
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xAPI How To Working with the Vocabulary Server and Creating Profiles - Duration: 1:05:38.
Hello and welcome everyone. Thank you for joining us today. This is an Advanced
Distributed Learning Initiative technical webinar. We're conducting a
series of these so you will get an invitation in your inbox each quarter
with the details of the upcoming webinar and if you follow the ADL Initiative on
social media we'll be posting the topics there as well
if you know anyone else who would like to be on a distribution list for these
webinars please feel free to have them reach out to us and we can add them to
the list. A quick plug before we begin, did you know that iFEST is coming up?
iFEST is the innovation-, instruction-, and implementation-themed Federal eLearning
Science and Technology symposium. It's happening August 27th through 29th and
we're going to drop the link to the iFEST website in the chat and you can go there
to check out all the details. Today's technical webinar is titled, "xAPI How To:
Working with the Vocabulary Server and Creating Profiles." Our speaker is Andy
Johnson, a specifications and standards manager and SETA contractor with the ADL
Initiative who has more than 15 years of professional experience in distributed
learning technology. Andy will be speaking for about 45 minutes and there
will be time at the end for him to address your questions. To ask a question
you can click on the questions panel in the GoToWebinar window and type your
question there. Andy will try his best to get to as many questions as possible
within the time allotted at the end. This webinar will be recorded and we will
distribute a link via email afterwards in case you would like to share it with
your colleagues. Without further adieu, I'd like to introduce you to our speaker,
Andy Johnson. Take it away Andy. Thanks Liz I'm going
to go ahead and get started because there's a lot that I want to cover today
and I do want to try to leave time for questions so I'm going to just jump
right in and skip any formalities and introducing myself as Liz took care
of it. So why are you here? I thought of five reasons and here's the top five I
could come up with. And they're kind of on a sliding scale. Number five, your
boss signed you up and you really didn't have a choice in the matter.
Number four, you've heard a word buzz word like CMI five, SCORM profile, or
video profile, and you wanted to really see what that was about.
Number three, you've been told to implement the experience API and
are beginning to realize it isn't quite as simple as just populating a table or
looking up something and typing something in a forum. Number two, you
really "get it" when it comes to xAPI but you want to be sure that you're
following best practices when creating statements and vocabularies and really
designing a learning experience that you want to have tracked. And number one, you
and/or your group has developed guidance on the topical area and want to share it
with a larger community so everyone in that area can implement it as a best
practice. #unicorns #gumdrops #rainbows #fluffykitties. Ideally that's
if you're that type of person thank you for joining because that's hopefully
what we can all get to someday is really trying to recognize our topical
expertise, provide guidance to those who are implementing. Now before we get too
far, there just to make sure everybody is kind of on the same page of what we're
going to do today, prerequisites is getting the full value of this webinar
is is understanding xAPI. Now I don't mean that to be you have to understand
what every single call is you don't have to understand the ins and outs of JSON
structures and vocabularies you don't have to be an instructional designer but
you should conceptually get xAPI from at least what we- when we talk about actors,
verbs, activities things like context and results and even if you don't-
hopefully we can drop enough bread crumbs along the way that you could
figure out through some context where we are and what we're talking about. So in
other words this is not an xAPI 101 session but there's a lot of cool stuff
we're going to hopefully get to. So I wanted to start by disambiguating this
word we call profiles. Now what is a profile? Now one of the answers that you
might get is this less informative answer with where someone tells you when
I asked you when they asked you me how do I do something with xAPI? How do I
implement video with xAPI? How do I implement air force simulation training
with xAPI? Somebody might -- just may tell you "a profile" and a lot of times
that's how the conversation ends. But really when we start
talking about profiles, on another level, it's specific requirements that
beyond the base xAPI requirements and provides a means to comply with
expertise in a specific topic area and on another level deeper you can follow a
profile in in one of two ways either strict technical language. You might find
you know in... similar to lawyer-speak you have musts
and shalls and shoulds. That's what makes up technical specifications that
things like xAPI do and profiles accordingly would also do that or
there's also this notion of supporting the intentions of what we call a
community of practice. That is, a group of people gets together and decides
something important. So, this last bullet kind of gets to a pain point that we
sometimes see so let's say there was a medical profile of xAPI and embedded in
it could be such things as, "do no harm to the patient." That would be a community of
practice kind of underlying intention but it can also have technical things in
it like, "the way to measure blood pressure is with this specific verb and
a value range of Y to Z." And that's strictly technical so a profile really
can hit either of those meanings and we're going to talk mostly today about
the strict technical languages because that's what the xAPI profile and
profile server and profile specification are about. So, I know because I did want
to show this webinar live and I wasn't really comfortable with cmi5 -- sorry
-- what the GoToWebinar capabilities of recording. I didn't want to do anything
live also I've just given too many live demos that didn't work well so I'm going
to have screenshots of everything you can see the URLs in here though and I'm
going to I have enough of the screenshots that I can walk you through
what we're doing but I did want to make these slides as clear as possible as
well in case the distribution of the recording isn't as good and we want it
and you wanted to instead just look at the slides as we went along
or if you got these slides after the webinar. But what we're going to talk about
today is some of the main functions of the vocabulary server which are browsing,
searching, metadata, resources and then we're going to get together how all this is
tied to the length data. So, for reference here the this is the home page of xapi.vocab.pub
and you'll see here that I'll just mention the contact the contact has
how to contact us and I did want to mention to part of the reason that I
want to show off this capability today is because we're looking for feedback on
this. We have some projects and some resource allocation that can make this
capability better so if you see things that you would if you think of
capabilities you'd like to have improved or do you find value in this please let
us know because you can go to how we fund the project and the different
capabilities we enable in it. So I wanted to start off with we're just going to
browse it's the main function of the of the vocab server. Most time you're going
to go here because you're going to want to start by browsing because usually
what you'll do is you'll show up and you'll think I'm kind of curious what
verbs are out there I'm kind of curious what activities are out there.
Now what you see if we go down if you click that Browse page we get into browsing
concepts. Now, concepts is a new term if you're only familiar with xAPI
specification, the word concepts doesn't really come up. Now, concepts are term
coined for the profile specification because it's grounded in linked data and
those of you familiar with RDF and Link data are going to be familiar with the
notion of concepts. In an xAPI context really what we're talking about concepts
we're talking about verbs, activity types, extensions, really the parts of xAPI
that have these specific identifier or IRI that you would want to coin or
a.k.a "define" for other people to use that you would anticipate being in some sort of
online vocabulary. So when we say concepts that's essentially what we're talking
about so if we browse concepts for example we can browse all the verbs. On
this page, all the verbs are listed whether it was coined by ADL, another
community practice, and even those that were released prior to one that was xAPI. So,
that if you look here the verb has that long name that is a unique identifier
it also has a title which can basically be the equivalent of the combination of
the short form or display form of the verb as well as the language it's coined
in. Now it's worth noting that we don't and we don't expect that each term each
verb has its own English Spanish Chinese translation we don't want all the
different IRIs per language rather the vocabulary server with where it was
deployed or if it provided an English or a language option would know what to
give you back in terms of alternate titles and descriptions we would want
everybody using the same verbs because we want analytics on those verbs to be
consistent regardless of the language used we wouldn't we wouldn't want to
split on those particular verbs simply because of language. So, as we as we
continue to browse down we look for some dupes or duplications. So, I specifically highlighted a
section here to look at the completed. As you can see there's three different
verbs that start with "completed" in terms of the middle title value. There's
one that says" completed"@en, another that says "completed"@en, another that says "completed
assignment"@en. And when we talk about coining verbs we want to be careful that
we don't necessarily go too far out of our way to define a lot of different
verbs that have the same tokens. Now these are unique so all these can
peacefully coexist but we do want to be careful about coining them. So, for
example, the DoD IFC profile this goes beyond the traditional definition of
what we think of in traditional elearning is completed which is the
second definition which just says, "indicates the actor finished or
concluded the activity normally." We would anticipate that the completed
views above must make sense for that particular community of practice as you
can see in there they actually have a quite a few intentions for that verb. It
has a specific KSA extension value, a specific category extension that
is expected and a specific interactivity extension
we would expect. So, as a recommendation for me I would say that
that would be an example of a term that I would hope would be recoined simply to
not cause conflict with another with a completed verb that already exists. They
are certainly in their right to do that as a community of practice to coin a
verb that means the same thing -- I'm sorry that uses the same
token that does not mean the same thing but these are types of things that kind
of come pop up and we can see as we browse the vocab server that we can find
these duplications easier with the way that it's currently set up. I wanted
to start talking about activity types. Now, activity types are not activities
themselves they are not deployment of activities. So, for example if you
deployed a course, this isn't biology 101 nor is it's biology 101 session one, when
we talk about an activity type we talk about specific things like a course, like
an assessment, like an attempt, different constructs that exist within xAPI that
you might want to define. An activity has a strong strong coupling with verbs that
are allowed within that activity and results that are expected as well.
They're really kind of an alliance between activity types and then the rest
of the values where activity types act like a bucket or a world where things
are allowed or not allowed within a certain community practice. As you can
see, in these activity types we have everything from objectives, to pages, to
paragraphs. Really, you can define any sort of
activity you want as long as it's the activity type as you want as long as it has a
greater meaning associated with it. It's not as strict as verbs for example I
mean really, if you wanted to coin your absolute own activity type that you don't
want anybody else to touch, that would be fine because these these types of things
can be diverse. I wanted to also talk about extensions and I want to provide
some clarity to extensions. There are three kinds of extensions in xAPI.
There's those that extend activities, those in extend context,
and those that extend results. However, all three of these buckets share the same
identifiers. One of the best use cases I've heard for this is an example
of GPS. Now, if you were doing some sort of orienteering activity or targeting
with a missile or something like that, GPS would be the result of perhaps where
that object landed. Hit a baseball, you know, where does
it land GPS? But we can also see the scenarios where it could be contextual.
Where I might just be out in a virtual world picking up objects.
Or the real world picking up objects on a
nature hike or something. And I want to document where I'm finding things. That
result for let's say a found verb, I found an acorn, I might not necessarily
have the GPS as a result but it might be useful contextually to find out to
figure out where I am we don't anticipate that everybody has a results
of GPS for everything, but there might be situations where people are using that
as valuable context. Now, what we don't want to have happen is when those
communities or those people that decide that, "hey, my bird that I'm
tracking the results of GPS might have a correlation to you walking the field" and
contextually the GPS is there. We don't want those identifiers to miss each
other, so extensions all should have the same identifier so we can enable better
analytics when these unintentional or you know, after-the-fact
queries are thought of to to generate learning analytics and data
visualizations. Now, I'm going to talk about each of the three types of
extensions because I wanted to provide some disambiguation
between them. So, the first set of extensions and honestly the least used
activities. And this is because extensions and activities are basically
metadata that occurs within the statement. And it's a little bit of a
misuse if you ask me because the reason to include an activity extension if you
thought about doing that it means that the xAPI spec really isn't
giving you the metadata coverage you're looking for and it really has the
structures to do that because there are two areas of metadata that xAPI
provides. And first is the resolution of the activity IRI itself. So, when you say
I did this in xAPI and this represents some sort of content page or course at
the resolution of that is supposed to be some sort of metadata about that content.
There is also a more info link that you can use that is also supposed to result
to other metadata so between those two constructs of having metadata in xAPI,
metadata's really supposed to exist independent of the runtime independent
of the event. So, needing activity level metadata at the time of the
statement occurring is probably not as likely as it should be. Now, the second
type of extensions are context extensions and this is where we
really start getting some value added because what they do is they determine
the context of the learner or performer in the xAPI statement because xAPI
situated in time and around other experiences there are a lot of different
things that activity providers might want to offer other than simply keeping
track of time. For example, whether there's a lot of different outdoor
activities that weather might be a strong factor in how you might want to
disaggregate data based on the weather. So, capturing context such as that might
be really important. Maybe time of day, well xAPI is
time stamped. It might be useful to capture the fact that whoever is taking
the training is actually has actually been awake for 18 hours, for example. They
could actually be in a different part of the world those types of things might be
valuable when you're doing analytics so to capture that context is really useful
and xAPI doesn't have a lot of context built in largely for the same reason
it doesn't have a lot of result extensions built in because
really, xAPI tracks such a diverse amount of data and can track any kind of
experience that we can't think of everything nor do
we expect to think of everything we anticipate that would be handled through
extensions. Now, when we talk about results extensions we really have to get
to what are results and results are that that evidence that exists when xAPI
tracks an experience. A lot of times when we choose a specific verb we have some
sort of numeric value in mind that's something measurable and we want that
measurement to be captured in a specific way and that's where results, which in
xAPI's results, where traditional learning content comes in but it's also where we
can coin new terms to track other types of experiences that aren't included in
the base xAPI specification and that would certainly be included in a profile.
Next type I want to talk about was the attachment usage types and I want to be
I'm just going to be quick with this because not a lot of people use
attachments but really, there's logical ties that xAPI has. One example
is open badges. So if you wanted to have graphical evidence of what's happened
within a statement then this is what you would want to use. You would grab--
essentially coin an attachment usage type and would implement that in xAPI.
So now -- the next section of browsing
on the vocab server are browsing these different profiles that
exists that have been added to the vocab server. So, if we choose cmi5 for example
and if we click it we're gonna get more information about that cmi5 profile
and this contains a lot of valuable information that's all populated through
the use of linked data. We'll go into some of these fields later but the
profile specification which also uses linked data is really what makes all
this possible. You can see here some of the different things that the cmi5
profile adds to the larger xAPI vocabulary. Now, if we click on the
documentation link for any of these profiles we will get sent off
to the project page. Now, these project pages are going to vary by
community quite a bit because communities are free to do what they
want and define specifications how they want so this is the project launch page
for cmi5 and the cmi5 profile is written with a lot of trim rules but it
also has a lot of regular instructional design type of language to it somebody
who's picking up it could understand it and get conceptually what is going on
it's not simply a list of technical requirements. And similarly if we click
the RDF data link that will actually send us off to the technical profile
page on the xAPI authored profiles part of the GitHub site and really this is
where the magic happens. We're going to talk more about this later but
each of these profiles adhere to the profile specification which allows the
vocab server to process information these compact files and display them in
meaningful ways on the vocab server and it also allows these to be shared
among other web services. So, really, by editing to small files you're enabling a
lot of web capabilities and sharing for the different vocab entries that exist,
enabling some pretty cool stuff to happen with very minor updates to
vocabularies. Now next I wanted to talk about the search function and
this is another capability of the vocab server and for this demonstration we're
only going to cover this batch for this search. If you do know Sparkle though I suggest
you check this capability out at xapi.vocab.pub. Alright, let's put in
something for the faceted search, we're going to do go back to our old friend
completed since I know we had already looked at that earlier we knew that
there are three verbs that started with "completed" so when we search for that we
get a lot. If you do recall we did have the three completed verbs, so where did all
this stuff come from? So, what ends up happening is currently
the search capability does a token search on all aspects of the xAPI
profile from a technical standpoint; looks through all the titles,
descriptions, and all our metadata. And this means that
names, patterns, description texts, are all thrown through but it doesn't pick up
everything and we can tell this is our kind of mixed results, it's not
categorized very well. What this gets to is, the real difference between
human and machine readable and intent and intentions of apps working within
machines. So, for example, this idea of a named graph this is awesome for machines
to look at and create greater meaning out of but it's hard for humans. So
really, it's it's an interesting paradigm of which to choose and what to do
with it. So let's try different, let's try to narrow our search results. I'll try to
search for completed and verb and we didn't get any results as you can see we
still have a lot of work to do to make this search capability more useful to
a human but we have to get more information in we can make these more searchable for
humans part of the reason is the
capability is machine focused is because that aspect is so easy in terms of
having to do updates and software development. It's much easier to use
these existing constructs like RDF, SCOTs, and OWL to make web applications that
are machine readable. The human readable part where you start getting the fuzzy
searches, gets a little trickier. Alright, so this one more shot and we did completed,
then compete instead of completed, what do you guys think, 0? Less than 25? 25 exactly?
How many we can get? And the answer is 2 and this this kind of drives home the
point of fuzzy search versus graph search. Completed and completed complete
and completed are different tokens but we as humans would really hope that
these would behave similarly so this is you know one area I could see the
profile server needing improvement but I didn't want to show that part off just
because I think we have a ways to go but I want you guys to see it
and you know hopefully you agree as well that we could spend some resources to
help make that better and that you get of use cases that would be enabled by
that. Alright, so if we end up clicking into any of these entries we get
metadata which is really good because again, this is what we anticipate
would happen with machine learning that you could go out and the different
fields that are populated that are shown in those files can all trickle down and
many of these are all linked when we talk about link data you can click on
any of these links and essentially dive down into it so here's this accomplished
verb and if we click or we can look at all the RDF verbs that exist or all the
RDF types of verb that exist and really could you can click all the way down and
all these things are cross linked and it's not like somebody had to sit
down and program 200 web pages it just makes it that easy to use linked data to
create web infrastructure. Now, I did want to talk about curation because some
of the some of the things that when we talk about a full cab server there are
some responsibilities that need to be done and there's some processes that
need to be done so just as a museum curator is responsible for the exhibits
in a museum curation of the vocabulary server is necessary to make sure that
it's relevant and really optimized for use. It needs to be pruned down and some
certain capabilities or some certain terms might go out of style, might get
versioned, so some of these responsibilities will need to happen.
Sometimes we might have a curator that decides something, there's certain
community practices should be included in this profile server and some
that shouldn't. I can't think of a good reason not to but it's you know
similarly to how curation of a museum is done, there are certain things that
you would want to have people see and some things that might be highlighted
more than others and they need to understand when things get deprecated or
things become incorrect those types of things need to get pruned out. Curation
adds value to the vocabulary terms and as we've seen some of the functionality
of the vocab server. There are some great benefits in some areas where others
still need to have work to be done. Curation really enables
a high-level view of those types of services provided and to make sure that
things like interfaces, programming methods, and web services, are all current
and valuable. And the other side of this is governance so when we talk about
governance in digital vocabularies we're talking about the collective management
of the entire capability and that is all xAPI vocab. And when we talk about
governance it's really a process that provides roles and responsibilities as
well as rules for the collective benefit. xAPI is a community driven effort and
you would want to have the largest possible collective benefit for that
community so then that biggest question becomes, "who is in charge?" Now, while ADL
has stood up this vocabulary server are we the logical curators of all the xAPI
vocabulary terms? Is that something that's handed off to individual
communities of practice? And how does that work?
Because really, governance includes access to these curation
responsibilities and this can be a challenge because if there's too few
curators it could cause a slow curation process similarly if it's if
there's a lot of bureaucracy behind it it can also slow things down. However, if
it's a little more fast and loose with multiple curators there could be
more duplicates there could be things coined that might not be necessarily for
the betterment of everybody and we could end up having poor design
choices sneaking through so it's kind of a double-edged sword. It's two sides of the coin, you've
got to pick one of them or somewhere down the middle and ADL is looking to
determine what the governance should be - so another area we'd like
your feedback in is what are your expectations for curation
responsibilities and governance of xAPI? Not necessarily just a profile server
but xAPI vocabulary as a whole. So those are the types of questions we
have and hoping to get your feedback on.
So now I want to kind of switch gears now that we talked about governance and
curation I want to start talking about how do we create a profile?
And do you really need a profile? So it starts with designing and understanding
the data that you're capturing and I think that starts with the outcomes that
you're trying to determine. If you have content that's out there and it has a
purpose you've likely already determined the outcome but if you're going to
track you really need to know what those outcomes are because you're gonna
have to determine what you want to track. Now you might not necessarily need to
know the specific things that you want you want to track to get outcomes on
those might come later those might have some surprises but you should have an
idea of what you're trying to do. And then as we start drilling down we need
to look at, what is the underlying conceptual behavior we're looking for? So
for example, if I'm in a virtual world I could be clicking on things all over the
place but that doesn't mean I want to use the verb clicked a million times.
I want to understand what is that performer in the virtual world doing
when they click an object. Do they intend to pick it up? Do they intend to activate
a lever? What is the intention of that user and then also to build on complex
behaviors. Let's say they click an object -- but the intent -- they click on like
three objects in a row, the intention isn't necessarily to do three clicks or
even those three particular tasks. Those might roll up into some sort of
maintenance task or procedure that needs to be done that you can identify
conceptually because of that behavior and then we want to be able to track
that so you need to understand what is the underlying conceptual behavior not
just the action. And then which activities can it take place in?
As we talked about activity types before, activities themselves act as buckets of
information where only certain statements will make sense. And then to
bring it back to that clicking concept. What type of event can track it within
the activity? So, not just when I talked about the different things you can click.
Click might not be the right verb, but it is the right type of web event. Mouse
clicks, mouse overs, typing, using biometrics, those types of things
can all act as events that can initiate these statement
generations to happen and allows you to track with an activity. Next what is
actually measured when we talk about before -- do you want
evidence of performance or learning? Then you need to decide what you're going to
measure and accurately do that and determine that from the start because if
you end up not measuring from the start it's going to end up biting you later
that you did decide there was something worth measuring and then of course
having the instrumentation to do that. In a similar vein what types of contexts
are important to understand about this behavior? And that's probably the hardest
thing to do is to think of what context is relevant to what's going on because
that's where you really need to dig in deep to what is going on in the entire
environment of learning or training that you can pull in. And then again how can I
retrieve this data? Mostly that could go back to context if I do recognize the
context is important, how do I determine what that is? What does that look
like? How can I retrieve that data? And then finally once we start getting that
data what are some of the questions we can answer with it? What are what are
some interesting ways we can correlate it together? Because we're going to be
able to because of the nature of xAPI it's pretty easy to create data
visualizations but it's still hard to design data analytics to get at
specific outcomes that you might be looking for in specific research
questions you might want to have answered. So let's say you've
decided now that you've designed your solution at least in terms of
terms now you want to figure out, does an xAPI solution already exist or how,
what do I need to do to make this xAPI viable? So first you want to look for
terms or profiles in the vocab server and follow the breadcrumbs to a
community of practice. As we showed before
you could scroll down, browse through the verbs, realize there's something you
might be able to use, and then follow it back and see if that makes sense.
Do you trust that community of practice? Did they implement it in the same way
that you want to to use it? Look at the entire profile. Does the entire profile
have benefits? Maybe it's a good place for you to start before you start coining
all your own terms to look into how many of them make sense. Now if you aren't
finding what you're looking for it might be in your best interest to create a new
vocabulary term or an entire profile. You can use multiple profiles so, let's
say there was just one part of a profile you didn't want to use instead you want
to coin your own term, most profiles are extensible in that they are only going
to look for specific terms in them and then not really care too much about what
else you might use to define your own terms. And then participating in
xAPI groups to see if it's something that could have broader use in the
community or if it's just your own solution, maybe you can get that profile
to adopt your idea and then recognize that some terms within profiles have
strict rules and then you can actually loosen or create couplings with result
in context. So you might, what I'm saying with this is, you might like a certain
verb, it might make sense for you to use it, for example, "completed," but you might
want to add in additional results or context. For example, the video community
of practice has talked about this where their definition of completed is
they might - they watch the entire video. Now the useful context to that might be,
"how long was the video?" If I'm talking about completion that might be something
that's useful to capture. So is it for that profile if you were to
essentially tag that profile video with a context category there would be
an expectation that you would follow not only the regular verb rules but also
those introduced by that community of practice. Now if you do decide to create
your own term, I want to talk about how do you coin that term. IRI design is
really important for reuse and a best practice for IRIs is to use a
persistent resolution service. The xAPI community is using the
W3Cs service of the W3ID.org service for this purpose
and that's why all IRIs in xAPI, I feel like should begin with the W3ID.org
domain. Now you'll notice that some older IRIs were generated before
the communities established this best practice and it we'll talk about that in
just a little bit but I did want to make sure that is brought up that there's the
reason for that is basically we don't want duplications in analytics. So we
don't we're not going to recoin "completed" and then see early adopters,
authoring tools, things like that have conflicts with "completed."
Remember that all extensions are created equally in terms of if
you do coin an extension don't even though some of them in the ADL
vocabulary do and which might need to be curated down or etc. Keep extensions
generic because they might be used cross community of practice and when you're
coining a term make sure that that it is quite different from what exists.
Basically, if even though the IRIs are human readable they're intended to be
unique and represent a concept not necessarily a token. So for example, as we
saw earlier there are multiple "completed's" but they meant different things. There's
also other verbs in there that there was intention - you could tell that the
author's intentionally created synonyms just to differentiate the token that was
used. But really unless that token's tied to specific behavior, it's not as useful.
So if it really is just a way to disambiguate I'd rather see a one
added to the end of it than possibly conflicting with other definitions of
the verb. Just to remember just to retokenize it because it's it's not
intended to we don't we don't want multiple verbs that
different things and we don't want synonyms to just exist for the sake of
synonyms. So sorry I went off on kind of a little tangent there. The third bullet
here though I wanted to talk about quickly because I am running out of time
I want to make sure to get through some of this other good stuff in here.
It's combining a term with a profile for best results, so this really is awesome.
When you talk about combining a verb, for example, with a vocabulary such as cmi5
you really do create these great opportunities for base xAPI searching
in statement retrieval to work well. One of the biggest benefits of xAPI
built-in search capability is the notion of the context category, which is
what profiles leverage to distinguish themselves from other statements. So for
example, if I wanted all cmi5 statements all I have to do is, as a part
of my search within LRS, is to set the cabinet context category to cmi5 and
I can get all the statements. So I can search for all completed
statements in cmi5 and get what I'm looking for. I can also search for all
completed statements and see if there are outliers but this ability to drill
down within a profile really empowers profiles to do good things. You can also
list multiple context categories. So let's say there was a logical
intersection in your solution of two profiles that are to be used
you could search that intersection only if that's what you
needed to find even if you just implement part of each. And this is
really driven by creation of good metadata, all of these linked data
principles are. So, on the vocab server, we want to enable semantic
interoperability and metadata has been important since the web was
invented but I wanted to bring that up just because it's going to -- as we
transition next into looking deeper into the profile specification metadata is
going to become more important.
So this is the xAPI specification page and I want to just drill I'm gonna skip
that part but uh I wanted to talk about the ApS profile specification
specifically about json-ld json-ld is an upgrade to JSON which I a px API uses
and really it's a it's a specific kind of JSON jason LD is it works with JSON
it's but it is also syntax for RDF which that makes the resulting profile and
actually a set of triples subjects predicate object triples to be exact
when we talk about this please probe this profile specification so what this
makes is a semantic data set of relationships that exist across the web
and it really allows a lot of cool capabilities we can manage entire
vocabulary infrastructure relationships versioning push pull notifications
semantics and all these web enabled services through just like I said before
editing of these few files I want to talk about again going back to concepts
the industry area there's three areas of the X API profile specification that are
important and the first is concepts these concepts basically take X API
properties and turn them into a little bit more and defining concepts in the
profile servers allows for easy revision of these properties regardless of the
profiles are in and concepts are intended to only be in one profile so
concepts are really what are you bringing if you're defining a profile
what are you bringing new to the party because different areas of the profile
specification and these web-enabled technologies are going to crawl across
all the profiles and figure out what these relationships are and these
concepts really help drive that because you can define relationships between
them broader exact match etc if you're creating synonyms across profiles if
you're creating hierarchy those types of things can
really enable some of these web services to pop for extensions you're going to
want to have a description of recommended verbs and activities so this
is why metadata is important so if you're out there defining concepts and
there's a certain way your community wants things use yes to specify it in
the metadata activities allow the inclusion of typical metadata like name
and description but again you want to include these as concepts in your
profile now the most important part in my opinion of these profiles with the
fall under the pecs API profile specification out of statement templates
and really these describe what's the statements following a profile look like
and there's there's really two parts to these statement campuses the templates
and then there's rules and the rules determine which values inclusions and
exclusions or which valleys are allowed and then whether or not you are supposed
to include it and exclude it for statements so for example if I have a
past verb I would want I would say I have to include a score and if I did
include a score I'd affect that raw score to be between 0 and 100 those
types of behaviors can be templated off within a profile so that once the once
you look at the output of that profile so we talked about searching CMI 5 data
the way that the profile server profile specification would work is I'm going to
define a profile I'm going to search for the profile terms and then I'm going to
see if that profile is followed in that output and that's really where
validation current value add is added and it's revolved around these state
statement templates state the templates are also useful because this is the only
part in the profiler where you're going to be pulling in things from all other
profiles the concepts part has to be a little bit it should be self-contained
to be valuable but here's really pull in all the rules regardless of the profile
that you want enacted as a developer of that particular profile basically you
could say all filt so as I said in the bottom the bottom ball gets to
failed CMI five statements in a quiz must have a score you can make rule that
are specific as that and it's very valuable to do so and then finally our I
want to talk about the third part of these profiles are patterns and patterns
basically are groups of statements that match templates and then they have to be
ordered in certain ways so for example a pattern in via profile might start with
a statement about playing the video and then you anticipate that there are
statements after that about pausing skipping stopping playing again you
would anticipate there's a specific orders will statement occur in and you
would want that process managed you can have gaps you don't have to so the idea
of patterns in gaps as you can acknowledge that you might not know
every statement that's happening but you would anticipate a certain order occurs
that this has to be before that initially it has to be before terminated
I mean that's an easy scoring type example and again remember that you can
use these statement templates across profiles so you can rep even within
patterns you can reference other statement templates to really enable a
reuse of these profiles and that drive essentially will drive web applications
to do more so you know what's what's the big deal about all this you know because
as I said before we can enable a lot but just editing these few files on these
authored profiles we can enable like I said vocabulary infrastructure different
relationships we can do versioning easily we can have notifications when
something gets updated we've managed semantic interoperability
and not to mention the number of web services in there are a lot there are
active web services that are able to pull this and do things on their own
sites authoring tools for example camps could pull this in and not necessarily
have to have a software update to simply work they could go out and look at the
profiles that exist online so there's a lot of power here so in as I'll show you
this will go down to level into the video profile there are different
versions here this versioning really helps because you
can reach back to any other version you can see what they're doing and not have
to worry so much if something does change because these all these previous
versions are linked to within links to data so complete history is always
available no matter what version you're using now let's do a quick look under
the hood so we're going to talk about technical requirements around the
profile that can be used by the idiot vocabulary server and it really starts
at that profile specification and that profile specification was developed as a
part of ADL research so it itself is still research we're still vetting it so
if it if it does is something that works for you fantastic we probably won't know
as much until more of the profile groups continue to implement it and look at
their profiles a lot of those profiles that you saw in the previous page were a
creative interpretation of those profiles and didn't necessarily have as
much involvement from the community of practice so for example to see my five
group is going through their profile that was created and we're finding a few
things that vary slightly from the specification so it is important to -
for you guys to go in there and vet it to make sure it makes sense to you that
it's possible that we have mistakes in there anyways gets the github process
really makes a lot of this work really well the this is an atom text editor
that syncs with our github folders and you can use github on the web or bring
it locally with the app or you can use command line and then if you want to
make an update all you essentially do is fork this repository submit a pull
request to a deal so for example here the video profile is versioning to
version 102 for request was made it sends off and then it's it's quite
simple from there and it's basically just a we have to log in and have that
particular file with to our web capability in and off of those and I
didn't want it I wanted to show a little bit to how this WI talk about w3 IDs I
wanted to show how that really works so what happens is through a single
htaccess file that's controlled by w3c all the redirects from their sight and
the they're Apache server go to the rules
that are in that particular file and really what happens is then all the IR
is are rewritten and redirected to the X API bulkhead server at the exact right
place and this is really cool because the structure that we have put out there
of beginning with mp3 ID and essentially going three levels deep into concept
schema
it's going to concept in schema hopes are the tag of the profiles and concept
in schema will allow any term that's coined to be rewritten
so the w3 ID it's not like we have to go to w3 ID and keep registering terms over
and over when we coin a new term the curation of this is done simply by this
process we coin it we have its added to any profile and it they redirect
correctly and this is just some of the power of the Semantic Web allowing this
to happen so and then it gets the exit the vocab server to work with all this
there's a process and this is kind of the last technical slide I'm going to
show on this just in case some of you are interested and basically these files
have to be rewritten from json-ld which is the profile specifications format to
turtle TTL and there are some online tools that do this and if you can't tell
the difference that's okay but basically our video this is the video profile
rewritten in turtle and then it it goes we feed this to the back end the
vocabulary server in it because it's able to then populate all the vocab
entries there's a lot of online tools for doing this stuff easily such as RDF
distiller to create a JSON lint to validate it so even though this looks
complicated there are tools to make it pretty easy and then I wanted to go back
to so the last a little bit we have to the vocab server we didn't talk about
resources yet here and just wanted to kind of go into that really quick
there's not a lot there I should say there's not a lot there I've covered a
lot of what is there it's probably a better way to say it and this has more
of the technical stuff so you want to get technical this is where really where
you want to go there's there's and that great documentation here again
looking for areas to improve but there are links tool that do make this process
easy and a lot of the guidance that was in this presentation is here I would
like to expand on this section and then finally our goal is to make all of this
easier we don't want this to be complicated
I was there's some way that you can get involved you can provide feedback on
this vocabulary server or the different terms within it as we begin the curation
process that's going to be important but you know what are you looking for in the
vocab so Rican sent it to me I can floor it it on to the relevant research
efforts that we have going on through other performers and then and make sure
that that gets to them because they are collecting requirements in addition you
can join or create a profile working group that there's a use case that you
have or a series of you have join a group on they meet pretty ad-hoc I'm
willing to help facilitate help coordinate that's something that I've
done in the past and continue to do with some of these other active groups feel
free to provide ideas or feedback about the existing profiles so that's x AP I
authored profiles page is out there that has all the different profiles feel free
to open an issue I'm github let us know what's working what doesn't let us know
if we made a mistake in the profile quick sidebar these slides will be
available so don't scramble the right down links they'll be distributed so
should it says it's beginning that's my fault you can read and post our Google
Groups we have a group out there that has a great community response to help
or question in academic and industry type questions in C in computer feedback
to type questions you can give us feedback on our profile specification
itself so if you really can want to go next level and that necessarily tackle
specific profile you can look at the profile specification this structure of
concept statement templates and patterns work for you let us know if there's
something in there that you need to add or take out or etc and then the kind of
last two is just other ways to reach out to me and things I'm interested in
let me know if X API case studies are used cases for profile let's say you
don't have you don't you don't have the time to put in the entire effort but
there is a use case that you see X API being really useful for and you've done
the design work on it let's say let's say you've thought about what are the
health comes what are the different things I'd want to track that's a very
interesting use case and we could you know maybe meet up to determine if that
can be taken to the next level by a technical and other set of technical
people are interested or you can just reach out to me if you want help
discovering relevant groups and efforts I'm very comfortable coordinating these
activities and you know as I hear about them matching you guys up to others to
help coordinate those groups and get you guys move in that's what you want to do
there are other activity resources I am over time by activista mount not too
terrible but I want to leave more time for questions so help again these are
all to be distributed a lot of resources out there to learn more about X API and
the vocab server so with that I'm going to move into questions so let me pop
this out so what I will do is I'll read the question and then I'll provide a an
answer that's hopefully somewhat short okay so could you provide another
example of an activity extension why would I want to do that so again
activity extensions I don't think are overly useful in it with because I feel
that metadata should be captured within the external parts of statements however
the use case I can see for it is let's say you only have statements you know
you're often you know that you're going to be offline and you're not going to
get resolution to those links you might need to put that metadata in the
statements because that's the solution is self-contained and can't get on the
web that would probably be the best use case for it in which case you would just
again capture your traditional types of metadata title description keywords but
because metadata is is customizable and extensible there
might be something there you want to capture for your specific use case next
question are the profiles on the server maintained by the corresponding
communities of practice no they are in a way they're not technically maintained
basically what's been happening it's been Jason Haig behind the scenes for
the most part he's still very involved with curation of this vocab server so
really he's and he's been educating some of our staff on how to do this process
but basically the profile group works to define the technical requirements if
they're able to they translate those into the protections the profile
specification and then from there ETL staff takes over and essentially if that
profile versions up then we move it and basically now at this point when we talk
about Semantic Web changes any changes to an established profile will resolve
in a dot version and that's not a big deal because of RDF and being able to
link across these versions next question how do we add a verb to the verb list so
here again is why be careful about just introducing verbs for introducing verbs
sake I really recommend that you would have some sort of community of practice
get buy-in before you're going to use a verb simply thinking it's a good idea
and introducing it is going in my opinion introduced a lot of confusion
and honestly bloat to what's going on out there I think that solutions should
be holistic or at least modifying of existing solutions so I would say don't
just add a verb define a use case or if you have a use case that's almost being
met engaging a community of practice and see if extending their profile to add
your verb makes sense and again it's just possible to that you might have
such a niche a solution that you're working on this it's not as useful to
add a verb and sometimes that's just the case and that's and that's fine next
question are you thinking there will be a thesaurus so I'll answer this really
quick in the one has to do two with yes that's I'll
answer this question so what we do what we've tried to do is for our definitions
of verbs we use Princeton's wordnet to disambiguate the tokens so we try to
find a token and a specific definition of that token that works in the english
language from word no grammar that is using English but the idea is to create
tokens that have meetings that go in and not just using that token but if we're
net has a specific URL that corresponds to it we try to mimic that grab that
particular token and use that and use word not to disambiguate because I can
definitely tell you that ADL's not we're not a bunch of language experts so we
we've been relying on that word net capability to do those types of things
all right next question
this gets to up this gets to a larger point Celsius I'll read this one the
scorn profile does not match the X ap I used in popular elearning authoring
tools for example the verb answered is used in popular tools but the SCORM
profile uses responded as a verb do you know if anyone is working to unite the
common practice with the SCORM profile so I don't think anyone is working to do
that but the so these the use of the SCORM profile is for those who have
specifically implemented SCORM and you need an exact mapping of what you've
done to SCORM I would highly recommend if you don't need to do exactly what
SCORM does it sounds like sequencing and those types of kind of some of the weird
behaviors of a pot of resume of which I say this
Scorpius has some weird session rules and when you moved from a state based
tracking system like SCORM has where something can be passed completed pass
completed their completion true completion fall completes and true
completion falls and wherever it's left is the last state versus X API which is
a time and enabled and log based tracking system where really you have an
entire activity there are some funky things that happen and the SCORM profile
exists to capture those I highly recommend using the CMI 5 profile if you
have the ability to do so and to didn't want to do SCORM like things but in a
way that community has thought about how elearning has changed and what parts of
swarm worked and didn't work in not being tied to the funky there's just a
few funky things in SCORM that work with that don't work quite right and I think
that respondent verb is probably one of them and again it's it gets to why we
have problems with synonyms because I think answered and responded we're using
that way and now as a result you likely have to query for both so I think that
let's let's try to minimize the damage with that and make sure both Cabul Ares
are controlled interesting well the Microsoft purchase of github
effect to you or you plan to move to something else I think we're good with
it for now if you know they drastically changed things then we might have to oh
here's your session feedback so one for Liz in future go to meeting sessions
could you allow all comments to be visible it's fun to see others questions
sometimes what to think about that I can't give you an answer to that that's
their department the next question is there a standard
template for a use case that works well with defining a profile I would say
probably not because I think profiles are so unique that if you wanted to use
what others are using you can but really it starts with defining those behaviors
defining different conceptual things that are going on and then mapping that
all the way down to what are the actual events I can use to track them I think
from there you can start to answer questions that the main point the main
thing you want to do is give programmers and ifvs speaking the same language
using this notion of actor verb object next question one creating a profile
should we pick from existing list of verbs what happens when those verb
definitions are updated and no longer match our meeting so the verb
definitions really shouldn't be updated so I don't think have to worry about
that so much and again if you're looking for a close conceptual match of what's
going on if it even if it were to change there's our there will have already
likely been enough of inertia of the use in the community that it will have taken
on that previous meaning maybe in addition to the new one
so I wouldn't worry about that the main thing is let's try to keep those tokens
the same so that when we do analysis on the those statements that were not
missing data all right slightly off topic but would like to
know ADL intention toward requiring collection of CMI 5 interaction data for
distance learning yeah that I'm not sure I'm just a contractor for a deal so I
can't really speak towards ADL intentions so that one would have to go
up the chain in Mitch you know how it is with us so I'm sure we can talk about
that offline all right next question what governance exists in coordinating
common use or verbs WTC and not sure what that means but uh right off there
is not a lot of governance I would I would love to hear what people think
about how our governance process should work that's one of the main things I
think we need feedback on is what are your expectations of ADL on this process
how should we bring in different vocabulary terms what are those
processes what are your expectations you know it is a deal rule of iron fist or
does ad allow everything in it that comes to the door somewhere in between
would be very furious to to know that next question for those of us who
definitely do need to make a whole new profile over to love the groups that are
currently working on it is there any initiative we could do that create more
of a workflow that would manage the whole process that is an umbrella tool
to take us through the process I outlined today present the process
schematically and invoke the helpful tools you mentioned at the appropriate
points I would say that you could have multiple webinars simply on designing X
API and x8a profiles in this you know we hinted that a little bit today but there
there are some efforts that are going on in the API Icicle group that are
hopefully going to be able to make profiles more usable more streamlined
and introduce how do you really move from start to finish and creating one
with with more guidance and that's the end of the question so again thanks so
much everybody for coming thanks for staying till the end I'm sorry went over
a little bit but please give us feedback on the webinar on the vocab server on
your expectations of governance and curation for us we want to make this
better for all of you again thanks so much feel free to reach out to
anytime look for the slides thanks I'll talk to you soon bye
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Congress Gives Hillary Clinton Brutal News – This Is It!
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he says that "we know foreign actors obtained access" to some Clinton emails, including
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I am always on the lookout for unique knives to waste my money on, and a while back on
my Traditional folding knife review, long time subscriber John Tedichwon ( i know thats
wrong) suggested some interesting reasonably priced international knives, like long shabby
one seen here.
And not just the stock have you ever heard of Victorinox or swiss army knives… like
a half dozen other people.
He's an OG commenter- I'm talking Ganzo knife day review… when only guys like Blue
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I mean others commented but they are no longer with us.
I mean not like "they are no longer with us" but more like they got other shit to
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Then of course there's like 10 other people I'm overlooking, and they'll let me know
in the comments about how they've had been disrespected like this, and also why don't
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So this Curel Estiletto Portuguese pocket knife in 5 sizes was a knife he suggested
and I want to say only available at one retailer in the US- fendrihan in several smaller sizes
all ranging $18-30 before shipping.
I of course like a standard asshole American got the biggest one.
Or the 9.6 inches size which refers to the open length.
But before we get into anything else let's check out the dimensions like the overall
length and weight.
They also come in a 4.7, 6, 7, 8.6, and this one the 9.6 inch size.
Blade size and cutting edge.
It's long and thin.
Not small just thin, twizzler thin.
Handle size and grip area.
Well that's pretty huh it's got brass and wood.
Two signs of wealth.
Well I mean brass is for people who can't afford gold.
The poor losers.
Spine thickness and handle thickness.
It's a long and thin pocket carry.
Not much more room than say a fancy tactical pen. but without a pocket clip.
Tallness.
Low profile.
It's like a twizzler… look.
The Curel estiletto is not necessarily a stiletto style street punk knife, but a little more
like a laguiole style knife from France.
But since the portuguese don't have bees they left that off the design.
Don't believe me?
Look it up!
Remember To argue on the internet one only has to follow a basic structure.
First make a ridiculous claim, everyone mocks me and tells me Portugal definitely has bees.
Then offer shaky anecdotal evidence and post a link to something.
I say well I've never seen any there, and here's an article that says there are NO bee
populations in portugal- which is a lie because the article is about bee populations in portugal.
Then at that point I move on to the next topic, which naturally is that no human could survive
the radiation in the Van Allen belt.
The Estiletto here has a long thin blade.
It's swedgeless, so it's not really a sabre or spear point... so I guess i could just
conjugate the word modified with whatever the hell I feel like and be right.
Modified spear point?
With a mirror polished flat grind?
Works well for letters and envelopes.
Curel doesn't list this knife on their official site, however some of their laguiole style
knives claim to use 440 stainless- so who knows.
And also if they were made in Portugal then they wouldn't be true Laguiole knives, just
copied in the style of.
You know Ganzo-ed.
The blade is a non locking slip joint that's a fairly easy pull.
There's no thumb knick so you place one hand on the handle and two dainty fingers to pull
the slick blade open.
It doesn't snap into place open, just kind of stops silently.
To close it just push it closed, and I might I suggest with two hands to keep the blade
from snapping into the liner and dinging up the edge.
The handle.
It's mainly two pieces of brass with olive wood scales… inlays… you know these parts.
Fit and finish is ok, however if you look around there are some slightly gaps where
the wood meets the brass.
Which is a big deal to knife guys.
I was watching a Helle nitpick OMG is CRAP video the other day where a guy pointed out
these areas on the handle and said the knife was unacceptable.
He has way more views on that video than my knife reviews so maybe he's onto something.
I mean Helle might be asking for it, if one of their videos is literally titled there
are no shortcuts to perfection.
Let me pull out my magnifying glass!
The brass has some file work triangles and lines to sexify it a little.
Um are we at comparisons.
The estiletto is alright.
It's a thin pocket carry- it feels like a long letter opener.
I like locking knives with clips more because that's what I've been programmed to like.
Plus it's great that knife technology has evolved so much in the past 30 years that
most knives have clips now.
If I had to choose a long thin knife I'd go with my Benchmade Fact.
People have been asking me lately if the Mini Crooked River was still my favorite new bench
made and I tell them the fact, even though I've said that in many videos.
All the modern conveniences of locks, and a clip so it doesn't float around the bottom
ion your pocket- but with a tactical new world charm because it's murdered the fuck out.
Now the Laguiole.
This is a smaller one.
I don't think I'll ever get around to review
it... however I did review the estiletto, so maybe there's hope for a future waste of
7 minutes of your time.
It has a bee on it.
Not a fly.
I've been corrected several times.
How about some douk douk.
Yeah.... this is the larger one.
A much harder to open knife because of the non mushy backspring.
Both the estiletto and this are non locking slip joints though.
The estiletto is a desk top- desk drawer, curiosity.
It looks like it's old but it ain't.
It would do great with letters and light paper products, then you stare at it for a few seconds
and put it away- like you do the rest of your knife collection.
If you like this sort of review, subscribe to the channel, give the video a thumbs up,
donate to my patreon to help fill up my plastic containers full of shit like this, leave a
comment like those OGs mentioned above- and Jesus Christ I know this sets a bad precedent
but... heeeeyyyy….
None of those other guys asked for a shoutout.
Thanks for watching.
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NEVER OPEN THIS CHEST! Is it PRANK from EPIC GAMES?! (Fortnite Battle Royale) - Duration: 10:59.
For more infomation >> NEVER OPEN THIS CHEST! Is it PRANK from EPIC GAMES?! (Fortnite Battle Royale) - Duration: 10:59. -------------------------------------------
We've seen the future of meat, and it's plants - Duration: 4:48.
(lively music)
- Anything that exists that's animal-based,
whether it's dairy or protein,
it's got a new plant-based counterpart.
We don't think that meat needs
to exclusively come from animals.
In fact, we think vegetable
or plant-based meat is excellent.
(bright music)
I am Chef Tommy McDonald,
I'm our corporate chef here at Field Roast.
- [Katie] And what exactly is your product?
And what is Field Roast?
- Field Roast is vegan grain meat.
So we call it vegan charcuterie,
but what we're most famous for
are our sausages and our cheese.
- Why plant-based meat?
I mean, what problem is this solving exactly?
- Everybody knows that to feed the animals
that become our food, we first have to grow the food
to feed the animals to then feed us.
And that takes a lot of resources.
So I think what we do is we kind of cut out the middleman.
- [Katie] The middle cow?
- [Tommy] The middle cow, or pig, or chicken.
You know, for every pound of beef that isn't sold
or for every pound of Field Roast that is,
that's a plant-based pound of meat that made it
to the store shelves and onto your plate
and a pound of beef that didn't.
- [Ray] Some forms of protein production
are very, very efficient, and some produce a lot of carbon.
The majority of beef produced in the US are fed
a combination of grasses and grains.
The farmer is basically cutting hay,
someone's growing grain,
then you've got a tractor that's using fuel.
They get fed, the process of eating,
if it's beef, they are burping and farting,
and that gives off a lot of methane.
Somewhere between five and 10 kilograms of carbon
would be released in the production of a hamburger.
(light classical music)
(food sizzling)
- No animals were harmed in the making of this sausage.
This is very good.
(lively music)
All right, you want to show me how
the plant-based sausage is made?
- Sure.
This is where everything starts.
This is what we call the mix room.
We say what we do is a blend of European and Asian heritage,
so what we've done is we've taken techniques
from two different cultures.
So ancient China has this idea
that you can make meat out of wheat.
So if you imagine a ball of dough,
flour and water, and you take that dough
and you put it in a tub of water
and you work the dough,
you're gonna have a dough that's 90% pure protein.
You steam that, and that's your meat.
So we've basically taken that idea
and we've combined it with the traditional practice
of making charcuterie, which is our European heritage.
- That's a lot of sausage.
Never seen this much sausage in my life.
Outside of gym.
- Fusing these two traditional techniques,
we've come up with something that's completely,
it's cutting edge while being a recreation or a fusion
of things that have existed for a really long time.
- So it's futuristic, artisanal plant-based meat.
So why replicate meat?
I mean, why are people so attached to this idea
that your plant-based item needs to look like
an animal-based item?
- The experience of eating food
is a huge part of our culture.
These are forms and recipes that are rooted in tradition.
They've been made over and over and over and over
for generations, and we can't just throw our culture away.
Some of the forms that we use
aren't exclusive to any one protein.
Like a sausage.
You can make it from all kinds of different things,
and now we make vegetable sausage as just another type.
There was no cow that was ever born in the shape
of a hamburger, you know?
It had to go through a process to get there.
- A painful one.
(Tommy laughs)
I'm gonna just start a restaurant.
- It's gonna be called Salt.
- Yeah.
- It's gonna be called High Blood Pressure,
your restaurant.
(electronic music)
- [Announcer] This program is made possible by the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Fortnite Is Starting To Show Signs Of Slowing Down - Duration: 3:27.
Not even yet one year old, and still technically in early access, Fortnite: Battle Royale is
already one of the biggest successes in the history of gaming.
As of June 2018, 125 million people had played the free-to-play title.
By July, it had made $1 billion from in-game purchases.
And it regularly dominates the Twitch charts: its most popular streamer, Ninja, can draw
larger crowds than the next biggest game's entire viewership.
If it keeps growing at this rate, it might just conquer the world.
According to new reports, though, the world may be safe, because Fortnite is apparently
not continuing to grow at that rate.
In fact, it might just be cresting its peak.
Yes, SuperData is reporting that Fortnite's revenue only grew by a mere 2% between June
and July.
By comparison, revenue grew 7% the month prior, on the heels of a truly astonishing 33% the
month before that.
And Fortnite was already making incredible money from its microtransactions before this
latest spurt, so to be earning this kind of growth on top of that is just astounding.
Yet with the much smaller growth in July, the rocket launch that was Epic's bottom line
has finally crashed into a crack in the sky.
Fortnite's rise has been so huge for so long, many people wondered where the ceiling could
possibly be.
Well, we may have just found out.
Of course, Fortnite is still raking in over $300 million a month, and it's still growing,
even if more slowly than before.
So don't feel too bad for Epic just yet.
And the developer may still have a few tricks up its sleeve.
For one thing, the studio has finally released a beta for Fortnite on Android, at last bringing
the game onto all modern gaming platforms.
Epic co-founder Tim Sweeney estimates that there are 250 million Android devices capable
of running the cartoon shooter.
While we don't expect that every last one of them will get Fortnite, it's a fair bet
that a whole lot of them will.
With the sudden influx of Android users buying Battle Passes, the game's revenue may boom
yet again.
On top of that, Epic won't even be splitting the potential Android windfall with Google,
the maker of Android.
That's because Epic has decided to bypass the Google Play store, as Google takes a whopping
30% cut from all transactions.
Instead, thanks to the fact that Android is an open platform, in which any app can be
installed from anywhere, Epic is able to let users download Fortnite directly, denying
Google an estimated $50 million through the rest of 2018 alone.
Apple, by contrast, continues to operate its massively successful iOS platform as a walled
garden: nothing is allowed onto their devices except through their App Store.
That forces games like Fortnite to split 30% of revenue with Apple, something that Sweeney
finds unacceptable.
Nevertheless, there's enough money to be made from iPhones and iPads that Epic has decided
to swallow their pride.
For now.
But once the Android rollout is complete, it's not clear where else Fortnite has to
go.
The continuing issues with cross-platform play on PlayStation 4 appear to mark the last
missing link in the game's growth.
Fortnite is already on every major platform, already popular enough that there's no new
word-of-mouth to be spread, and already gobbling up players' limited time.
It seems likely that Fortnite's peak is near.
But what a peak it is, far beyond what any other game has achieved in so brief a time.
About the only thing that they could do at this point is mess with the timestream to
get more players… except, they already started doing that with Season 5.
Or maybe they could somehow convince their player base to start over from scratch and
buy everything again.
Hmm…
You guys ready for Fortnite 2?!
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IT'S OVER JEFF SESSIONS IS OFFICIALLY DONE - Duration: 10:52.
IT'S OVER JEFF SESSIONS IS OFFICIALLY DONE
Things just got a whole lot worse for Attorney General Jeff Sessions as Fox News' Judge
Andrew Napolitano spoke out to slam him for recusing himself from Robert Mueller's Russia
investigation.
Napolitano believes that Sessions never should have taken the position if he was planning
to recuse himself.
"Jeff Sessions, in my view, and I say this as a personal friend — we have a lot of
mutual friends and I've known him for years — it pains me to be critical of a friend,
but I have to be intellectually honest," Napolitano began, according to Daily Caller.
"Jeff Sessions shouldn't have accepted the job."
Napolitano went on to say that Sessions should have told President Donald Trump when he was
first nominated for the position that he was "going to be in the middle of this Russia
investigation, as illegitimate as I think it is, and as you know it to be, it's going
to happen, and I'm going to be a witness."
"We have hindsight, and it's 2020.
He didn't do that," Napolitano concluded.
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Carnivore Diet: Why would it work? What about Nutrients and Fiber? - Duration: 19:34.
Recently the "carnivore diet" has become quite popular, thanks in part to the famous
University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson, as well as his daughter Mikhaila having used
this meat-only diet to alleviate certain health issues
"and she said to me quit eating greens and I thought Oh, really?!
I'm eating cucumbers, lettuce, broccoli, and chicken and beef.
It's like I have to cut out the goddamn greens?
Within a week I was 25% less anxious in the morning.
Within 2 weeks I was 75% and I've been better every single day.
Disclaimer number 2, I am not recommending this to anyone."
Needless to say, this diet steps on a lot of toes, especially if you happen to advocate
for a plant-based diet.
Even if you're on a low carb or keto diet, this still probably sounds extreme considering
you can't even have avocadoes or macadamia nuts.
Dr. Shawn baker, a big carnivore diet advocate has been on the diet for about 7 years and
runs a website called meatheals.com.
As of August 26th, 99 people have shared their stories of how they improved their health
by eating only meat - healing things like depression, various gut issues, and rheumatoid
arthritis with 77 of them experiencing weight loss, 61 of them commenting on improved mood
and 31 people seeing improvements in their skin.
And, There are plenty more stories to be found elsewhere on the internet.
So, whatever diet camp you happen to be in, investigating why this diet seems to help
people could provide some useful information that you may apply to your own diet, even
if you have no intention of eating a bunch of meat.
So what about this diet is causing so many reported improvements in health?
In this video, we'll look at: Nutrients
Fiber Why a lack of plants may be beneficial to
help some people
The first concern you may have is: if you're only eating meat, won't you get scurvy or
some Vitamin deficiencies?
In the 1960 book "The Fat of the Land" by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, he describes his
experience living with the Inuit of Canada beginning in 1910.
He explained that "If meat needs carbohydrates and other vegetable additives to make it wholesome,
then the poor Eskimos should have been in wretched state.
But, to the contrary, they seemed to me the healthiest people I had ever lived with.."
He also said that the Inuit remained completely scurvy-free, "except for a few who worked
for white men, [and] ate their food…"
First of all, certain animal parts like the liver contain vitamin C, so you could simply
eat some liver or if you're more adventurous, the adrenal gland, brain and spinal cord of
animals are high in vitamin C.
But... it seems that some of the recent advocates of the carnivore diet are scurvy free and
doing just fine while rarely consuming organ meats.
It was discovered by Birch and Dann in 1953 that even the the skeletal, cardiac and smooth
muscle of animal meat contains Vitamin C, but that's somehow been forgotten.
However, is this small amount enough?
An interesting thing to consider is that your body works differently on this type of diet.
Because glucose (carbohydrate) and vitamin C are structured similarly, they actually
compete for glucose transporters, so too much glucose can inhibit vitamin C transport.
Simply put the less glucose you consume, the more efficiently you can utilize Vitamin C,
so the less Vitamin C you require.
The near zero carb nature of the carnivore diet should help people maintain proper levels
of other nutrients as well.
This paper looking at 50 people doing a paleolithic ketogenic diet found that all but one person
had adequate levels of magnesium without supplementation.
Considering up to 50% of Americans are magnesium deficient, this is significant.
The study also found that the lower people's glucose, the better their magnesium levels.
Other studies have found glucose to lower levels of plasma potassium, so the carnivore
diet should also help maintain good potassium levels.
Here's a sample day of carnivore eating - Beef, Beef Liver, Egg Yolks, Gouda Cheese
and Clams - I'm not saying this is the ideal mix of foods, but it will easily cover pretty
much all your RDI'S.
Magnesium and Potassium seem pretty low, but as I just mentioned, the nature of the carnivore
diet should have you doing fine on the relatively low dietary levels of magnesium and potassium,
and we'll get to fiber in a minute, but insoluble fiber can bind to magnesium so the
lack of fiber in this diet can actually help with magnesium status.
Nonetheless, if you experience cramping after the adaptation period you might want to supplement
these minerals or get your levels checked.
Also, 70g of salmon roe or just 2 tsp of cod liver oil will easily cover Vitamin E and
D and boost your Vitamin A. If you don't want dairy in your diet, you can get more
vitamin K2 from grass fed beef tallow - and you'd want to make sure and supplement in
more fat from tallow or bone marrow anyway.
Also, I would really recommend wild caught or pasture raised animals eating a natural
nourishing diet and be wary of fish oil oxidation.
But wait a minute...
Thiamin is looking a little low at just 54% of the RDI.
This brings us to another example of more efficient usage of nutrients on this diet.
As Dr. Chris Masterjohn explains in this video of his: Burning carbohydrate for energy requires
twice as much thiamin as fat, so your requirements for thiamin are going to be drastically lower
and easier to meet on this diet.
The next concern you may have about this diet is… whether you could actually make any
progress on the toilet.
After all, it's "common knowledge" that fiber is necessary for preventing constipation.
And people have been frightened by the ill effects of constipation for literally thousands
of years.
A paper by James Whorton states that As far back as the 16th century BC, an Egyptian pharmaceutical
papyrus - the Ebers Papyrus, explains that constipation could lead to the poisoning of
the body by material released from decomposing waste in the intestines.
This theoretical condition was called autointoxication, and it influenced medicine for more than three
millennia.
As James Whorton says, this fear of autointoxication lead to the marketing of all kinds of anti-constipation
foods and drugs in the early 1900's when "Literally hundreds of brands of bowel cleansers
competed for consumer dollars."
But Jump forward to 2011, despite bowel irregularity occuring in 15% of adults and 9% of children,
this preface to "Best Practice & Research: Clinical Gastroenterology," says "our
understanding of the pathophysiology of constipation, both in paediatric and adult populations remains
primitive."
But I thought the cure for constipation was obvious.
The makers of Bran cereal have been telling us with their television commercials starting
in the 1950's to just chuck some fiber down there.
"Kellog's Cracklin' Bran, High Fiber Good taste."
"It helps keep you fit inside.
Inside???"
"Try this.
Colon Blow.
Sounds Delicious."
"Experts recommend increasing your dietary fiber intake as a drug free way to promote
regularity."
"A few weeks ago, I was having problems staying regular."
But, is fiber really the answer?
"When we have a look at the current governmental advice, they consider that fiber is the best
available treatment for constipation…"
Dr. Paul Mason presents here a case controlled study that looks at 63 patients with constipation
and high and low fiber diets were compared in them.
"And this also included a zero fiber diet that required the complete cessation of all
vegetables, cereals, fruits, and rice."
As we can see, people experienced worsened symptoms on a high fiber diet, then on a reduced
fiber diet, people experienced a modest reduction in symptoms.
So the question is, what happened to those on the zero fiber diet?
"This is not a mistake.
I didn't just forget to put something in the slide.
Not one patient on the zero fiber diet had any symptoms.
And these findings were highly statistically significant, highly.
Every single person in the low zero fiber group ended up having one bowel action per
day every day.
Those in the high fiber group?
One bowel action on average every 6.83 days."
Now, herbivores eat a huge amount of fiber without getting constipated, ...but their
digestive tract is designed for this: they generally have much bigger cecums for fermenting
the fiber.
And for some people fiber may seem to help get things going, but you have to remember
it also increases your need to have bowel movements as you've increased the amount of
indigestible material that needs to be expelled.
This might not be enough for you to challenge fiber's rule over the bowel, so I recommend
watching the full talk by Dr. Paul Mason or reading the book "Fiber Menace" by Konstantin
Monastyrsky.
At this point you may be worried about the gut microbiome.
Wouldn't cutting out fiber kill off all our good bacteria?
Not necessarily - bacteria have specific conditions for their growth, some prefer oxygen, some
don't.
Some like fiber, some don't and so on.
This study found that Canadian Arctic inuit still maintain a diverse microbiome but they
do have lower diversity in the Prevotella bacteria.
Prevotella has been shown to improve glucose metabolism.
Meaning their diet may worsen their glucose metabolism a bit, but remember they consume
hardly any glucose in the first place.
And… prevotella is linked to chronic inflammatory conditions, such as arthritis.
In any case, as Dr. Paul Mason points out, research is really not at a point to make
definitive claims about fiber causing changes in the microbiome that are necessary for good
health.
Though, It is apparent that nuking your microbiome with antibiotics is very likely a bad idea.
When I first heard about this diet, I wasn't surprised that some people had benefits - after
all, the diet cuts out processed food, wheat, soy, sugar, and vegetable oils.
Zero Fiber is one thing, but what really surprised me was that people were experiencing improvements
after going from simply meat and greens to just meat.
So, why would cutting out greens from an already clean diet help?
Well, it comes down to a simple fact of biology - living things really don't like being
eaten.
Just like a gazelle has predators, so do plants: "But none attacks its prey with more fury
than the seaweed shark."
A gazelle can run away to avoid being eaten, but what can a plant do when a bug or human
shows up?
While we are masters of locomotion, plants are fantastic chemists.
I'm talking about secondary metabolites, or "plant toxins."
One of the perks of us humans being intelligent is that we've learned to avoid the highly
poisonous plants and have developed methods for deactivating the toxins of others.
Though in certain cases, some people can have problems with plant food toxins which don't
affect the rest of the population.
For example, I grew up in the heat of Texas yet didn't have any problems with the photosensitizers
in Lime or Celery.
Unfortunately, these poor girls did...
Experiencing "Second degree burns from limes."
Photo sensitizers, technically called "furanocoumarins" are toxins in plants that make animals and
humans sensitive to light.
And virtually all plant foods we normally consume have some level of defense against
plant eaters.
According to this 1990 paper titled "Dietary pesticides (99% all natural)*," led by Biochemist
Bruce N. Ames, "99% of the pesticides in the American diet are chemicals that plants
produce to defend themselves.
Only 52 natural pesticides have been tested in high-dose animal cancer tests, and about
half (27) are rodent carcinogens; these 27 are shown to be present in many common foods."
The paper goes on to list 57 different.
plant foods with these carcinogens and Table 1 identifies forty-nine natural pesticides
and metabolites found in cabbage alone.
Now, Before it sounds like I'm saying shopping in the produce section is slowly killing you,
let me point out that we're not rats and that hormesis has to be taken into account.
Hormesis is essentially the concept of a "good stress" - that is, "the dose makes the
poison," or "what harms me in the right way and not too much makes me stronger."
For example, just like you or me, broccoli really doesn't like to be chewed on.
So, when broccoli is cut or chomped on, glucoraphanin in the broccoli is activated through an enzyme
myrosinase to form an isothiocyanate, a toxin called sulforaphane.
This molecule is designed to kill small living creatures, but for us, it can be good, it's
a mild stress that our bodies gear up for and the end result is we wind up stronger.
Dr. Rhonda Patrick has an extensive video explaining the vast and impressive potential
benefits of this compound: everything from preventing cancers, ameliorating existing
cancers to lowering inflammation and preventing cognitive decline.
But we can't say all the defense mechanisms of every plant food result in a hormetic effect
for everyone.
This table, from a presentation done by Dr. Maelan Fontes shows a couple different types
of Bioactive Plant compounds that can be damaging.
One is the antinutrient Phytic acid, or "phytates" which come from grains, nuts and legumes and
bind to nutrients like Calcium, Iron, Potassium, Magnesium, Manganese and Zinc, making them
less absorbable.
But, the phytic acid doesn't just impair you from absorbing the nutrients in the seed
itself, it also impairs absorption of nutrients from other foods you eat.
For example, as this study found, when you consume zinc rich oysters with black beans,
you'll absorb about half of that zinc.
And when you consume them with corn tortillas, you'll absorb almost none of that zinc.
Another substance found in common plant food with low level toxicity is oxalate - it is
found in Bran, Beets, Soy, Blueberries, Lime Peel, Orange peel, Nuts and several other
things.
Since oxalate is usually more concentrated in the leaves of plants, Spinach is particularly
high in it.
According to Haschek and Rousseau's Handbook of Toxicologic Pathology, " Insoluble plant
oxalates include calcium oxalate.
When animals eat these plants the crystals are immediately irritating, causing mechanical
damage to the oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract."
Obviously the levels in food that we normally eat are way too low to cause any immediately
apparent effects, but high levels of oxalate are no joke.
In 1989, a 53 year old diabetic, alcoholic man died after having 6g worth of oxalate
from sorrel soup - this is the equivalent of about half kilo of spinach.
However, keep in mind this person was already severely metabolically impaired.
About 2.5 kilos or 5.5 pounds of spinach has a 50% chance of killing a healthy person.
However, as Sally Norton argues in this talk, while the oxalate levels found in food may
not produce any quickly apparent effects, problems can arise when you repeatedly expose
yourself to oxalates through your diet by eating things like spinach, almonds and cashews.
"You can easily exceed your tolerance for oxalate, even though it looks like your kidneys
are just fine.
4% of what you're eating is being retained in tissues left behind causing issues."
Tiny oxalate crystals can accumulate in the body and you can find them in the bone, the
skin and the glands.
Accumulation in the thyroid impairs thyroid function, accumulation in the breast has been
linked to cancer, and accumulation in the kidneys leads to kidney stones.
70 to 80% of all kidney stones are made of calcium oxalate.
So if you have kidney stones, poor kidney function or poor thyroid function, you may
feel better on a low, under 50mg oxalate diet.
This means no more than six leaves of spinach per day.
There are so many secondary metabolites we could about, but the point is plants really
don't want you to eat them and these defense mechanisms are in virtually every single plant
food.
The gliadin protein in wheat disrupts the physical barrier of the gut causing inflammation.
Protease inhibitors in things like grains, nuts, seeds, and soy inhibit some of the enzymes
that help us digest protein.
Soy also contains phytoestrogens which bind to estrogen receptors and cause hormonal issues.
Goitrogens are found in soy, other legumes and cruciferous vegetables and hamper thyroid
health.
Saponins, which are found in soy, beans, peas, lentils and other legumes are used as emulsifiers
in the food and cosmetic industry and can damage the gut lining, making it more permeable
or "leaky."
There's also a huge variety of plant lectins that some people can be very sensitive to.
But of course there are tons of studies talking about the vast benefits of all kinds of plant
compounds.
And A lot of people seem to thrive on a plant based diet.
So, surely it comes down to how each person responds to these substances.
One level of a secondary metabolite from plants may be a beneficial hormetic stress for one
person while at the same time being a detrimental toxin for another.
When dealing with some chronic ailment, many people try several different elimination diets
to find out what's triggering their symptoms.
So if you suspect you have some sensitivity, you could just do all of the elimination diets
at once and add foods back in later.
The carnivore diet happens to be a low lectin, low FODMAP, low sulphite, low oxalate, low
salicylate, low phytate, super low carb and no fiber diet.
"I haven't heard any negative stories about people doing this.
Well I have a negative story.
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Actor Josh Dallas Says New Suspense Show 'Manifest' Is A Combo Of 'Lost' And 'This Is Us' | TODAY - Duration: 4:42.
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How Can Trump DECREASE the US Trade DEFICIT? - VisualPolitik EN - Duration: 14:33.
There's no doubt: the trade war is one of the hottest topics in international politics.
Here at VISUALPOLITIK, we've already spoken about the consequences that this trade war
may have – or which it may already be having.
However, we should explore a question many of you have asked – especially through our
PATREON page – that is essential for analyzing this entire matter.
Why does the United States have such a large trade deficit?
Why do they have such a gigantic deficit, which surpassed 550 billion dollars in 2017?
And most importantly, how serious is it and how can it be fixed?
Yes, some of you may be thinking...
Well, that's easy… there's a trade deficit because the United States imports more than
it exports, among other things because of the evil unfair competition that has deindustrialized
the country.
Ergo, if we punish imports, the trade deficit will decrease, right?
After all, this is the stance of the White House, of President Trump.
Well... just a moment… because things aren't anywhere near as simple.
Listen up.
(THE EASY EQUATION)
Step One: Choose, magnify and report a problem; Two: place a large number on the table that
we can all visualize; Three: create and blame an enemy – whether it's real or not…
it doesn't matter-; Four: warn everyone of the consequences of this problem and, finally,
end with a simple and electoral remedy... that is also false.
Folks, these are the steps for creating a populist political discourse... a discourse
that at the moment of truth may be worth nothing... but which may help you win elections.
Well, that's exactly what the White House is doing.
With the aim of winning votes, they have created a political discourse that, so to speak, is
fundamentally based on a 3-element equation:
But don't worry, this has nothing to do with math… at least not entirely.
First element: the trade deficit causes terrible damage;
second element: this damage is due to the other countries' unfair competition, especially
China;
and third, the threat: due to the other countries' bad behavior, the US's industry and power
is falling apart.
However folks… discourse is one thing and reality is another very different one.
See, to magnify the problem, Donald Trump's commercial advisors alert us again and again
about the negative impact that this whole trade deficit has on the North American economy.
To do so, they use the accounting entity that you're seeing on the screen, which is one
of the formulas used to calculate the GDP.
Thus, GDP equals Consumption, plus investment, plus public spending plus exports minus imports.
[I mean, this is economics 101.]
Well, the fact is that seeing it this way makes it look like the trade deficit is causing
a huge amount of damage to the US economy, and, of course, if the difference between
exports and imports decreases, then the GDP would increase.
Prosperity for everyone.
Easy, right?
Well... just a second, because this all implies simplifying things to the point where any
resemblance to reality is purely coincidental.
Why do I say this?
Because relations with the rest of the world have a lot, and I mean a lot of influence,
on the other sections that make up the GDP.
At the end of the day when a foreigner invests in the United States or when US companies
buy raw materials, capital goods or intermediate goods, the effect on the economy isn't exactly
negative.
Quite the opposite.
If for example all these goods become expensive because of tariffs then companies lose competitiveness.
Here on VISUALPOLITIK we've already talked, for example, about how tariffs have caused
Harley Davidson to move its processes to Europe.
In a similar way, more expensive import products would also affect the retail sector... so
that in the end... the relationship of this supposed trade deficit with the GDP isn't
as direct as it might seem at first sight.
The second element of political discourse that the White House uses is that of unfair
competition, especially in the case of China...
And of course, supposedly because of Beijing's bad actions, China's goods and services
deficit alone exceeds 300 billion dollars per year.
And that's when Trump thinks... let's see, if we decrease China's trade deficit…
then problem solved....
Well, folks, things don't work that way either.
First, this unfair competition is at the very least questionable.
China has been blamed for manipulating its currency.
Well... it's not true.
In fact, it's the opposite.
In recent years the Chinese yuan has risen a lot against the dollar.
And do you know what happened to the trade deficit with China when Beijing didn't devalue
its currency to export more?
Well... it shot up.
How can that be?
Well, in reality, the US's trade deficit with East Asia in terms of manufactured goods
has been more or less constant since the mid-90s.
What has changed is that what once came from Taiwan or Japan, among others, now comes directly
from China, as it's become a great assembly center...
And that's precisely what has fattened the US trade deficit with China so much.
And regarding that last point... the one about deindustrialization and loss of competitiveness
due to unfair competition... well... it isn't true either.
US exports – which remains the second largest exporter in the world – are at record levels...
just like industrial production.
Check this out.
No, I'm sorry, but China isn't devouring the American economy.
But... just a second, then… if Trump's arguments aren't true about the entire United States
trade deficit...
Why is there such an imbalance?
What are the real reasons for it?
Listen up.
(THE REAL REASONS)
You may be surprised to know that what caused the US trade deficit wasn't any country's
unfair competition.
This time, all the fault stayed at home.
Yes, leaving the theories that speak of evil Chinese schemes to destroy the West aside
may be much less exciting... but...
I'm sorry... that's the way things are.
See, the commercial hole is due to the low savings rate in the United States;
the dollar is a reserve currency, which makes it highly demanded and overvalued
along with the huge amount of capital that comes to the United States every year from
abroad... for example, from China.
As we're going to see, this is what explains why the United States spent more than 40 years
with a trade deficit without the economy suffering.
More than 40 years!
In a row!
Consuming more than it produces.
Because folks, Trump always talks about the trade balance... but never talks about the
financial balance.
And there's the trap.
(AN ABSOLUTELY LOST GAME?)
There's an economic law that the US President seems to be unfamiliar with:
the balance of payments, which measures the monetary transactions of a country with the
exterior, is always in equilibrium in a system of floating exchange rates like the one that
exists nowadays.
Allow me to explain: when there's a trade deficit, it's basically compensated by capital
or financial account surpluses, which more or less reflect the balance between the capital
that arrives in the country and that which leaves.
That's the money that comes in and the money that comes out.
( A persistent current account surplus is always balanced out by a capital account deficit.
It's one of the eternal laws of economics, like gravity in physics".
- Konrad Putzier, a reporter at The Real Deal)
Look at what happens, precisely, with the United States Balance of Payments:
As you can see, the trade deficit is offset by surpluses in the financial balances.
Now, does this mean that a country can buy whatever it wants abroad, without limits?
Well... obviously not.
It can only import if it manages to finance or compensate for its imports with capital
that comes from abroad.
Otherwise, first, its currency would depreciate a lot – a pure law of supply and demand,
high demand for foreign currency and little for local currency – and then, eventually,
the foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank would dry up… unleashing an entire
exchange crisis.
This is something that in Latin America, especially in Argentina, is very well known.
Well ok... so what happens in the US's case?
Well, America is the greatest refuge for capital on the entire planet, therefore every year
huge amounts of capital enter the country.
Practically half of the world's savings are spent investing in this country, either as
loans; direct foreign investment or by buying shares, bonds, etc., etc.
Have you noticed, for example, the impressive run that the SP500 has had in the last 9 years?
Well... it's precisely that enormous capital flow arriving every year to the United States
that allows Americans to consume more than they produce and which, despite incurring
commercial deficits for more than 40 consecutive years, has led the country to practically
always find employment, and record levels of exports and industrial production.
Now we can understand things like this:
("Whether it's Japan in the 1980s, Germany in the 2000s or China in recent years, countries
that invest heavily in the New York real estate market also tend to have a massive trade surplus
with the U.S." - Konrad Putzier, a reporter at The Real Deal)
Basically: thanks to the capital that comes from abroad, the United States can afford
to consume more than it produces.
So in addition to exporting goods and services, the United States also exports financial securities.
This is the key.
But, wait, does this mean that the fiscal deficit can't be reduced?
Not at all.
(HOW TO DECREASE THE COMMERCIAL DEFICIT)
As you can see, sometimes things aren't as they seem at first.
Having a trade deficit doesn't have to be bad.
After all, the ultimate economic objective must be to improve living conditions, that
is, the ability to consume more and better goods and services.
But... yes, a bulky and continuing trade deficit can have some drawbacks
For one, it assumes more risk... a risk that capital will stop flowing towards the country,
which could lead to a huge crisis.
And for another, it favors debt growth.
A country flooded with money from abroad?
That means abundant and cheap money, and who doesn't want cheap money?
So let's continue with the key question: how can Donald Trump decrease the US trade
deficit?
Well, there are, mainly, 3 options...
2 that we should set aside and 1 that's highly recommended.
The first two – those we don't recommend – would be either agreeing to devalue the
dollar and stop it from being the hegemonic currency of the world with the Federal Reserve,
so imports would be much more expensive and nobody would want to take their money to this
country;
Or the US could restrict the capital coming from abroad, for example through taxes...
of course that... in the long run, would be a disaster.
The other option, the one we recommend, is consuming less, saving more and favoring productive
investment.
That way, fewer foreign loans would be demanded and much more wealth would be generated, so
that, in percentage terms over the GDP, trade deficits would be much smaller.
And to achieve this goal, stopping the government's growing fiscal hole would be a fantastic idea.
But Trump, despite his speech, is going in the opposite direction.
It would also be a fantastic option to allow American companies to fill the nearly 6 million
vacant jobs that the North American economy suffers today by bringing professionals from
abroad.
However... protectionist policies don't work... first because all the other countries
tend to respond to tariffs with their own tariffs, which reduces imports but also exports;
and most importantly because the increased costs led by tariffs make the United States
a less attractive country to invest in....
And that, in the long term, is a very bad thing.
Perhaps, folks, the strongest proof that American companies need to be open to the world is
found in the Trump family itself.
Yes, in the Trump family.
See, Ivanka Trump, the President's own daughter and White House special adviser has just closed
her clothing and accessories brand.
Ivanka made this decision after suffering a steep drop in sales and a huge amount of
criticism for some alleged contradictions
Do you know why she was so criticized?
Well... can you guess where she was making her products?
Surely in the United States, right?
Well... no, wrong… the correct answer is in China!
Most of her products were made in China!
And also in countries like Vietnam and Indonesia.
Has Ivanka Trump herself been an accomplice of the evil entities that have been attacking
the United States?
I'll leave that there.
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Meghan Markle Is Seeing Hamilton Again — After Enjoying It with Prince Harry and Priyanka Chopra - Duration: 3:05.
Meghan Markle isn't throwing away her shot to see Hamilton again — and for a good cause! The Duchess of Sussex will step out with Prince Harry today for a London performance of the hit musical, Kensington Palace announced
The event on Wednesday evening will raise funds for one of Harry's longtime charities, Sentebale, which he set up alongside friend Prince Seeiso of Lesotho
In June, Harry took a solo trip to Africa to open a school and a house on behalf of the charity
The couple will be the guests of honor at Hamilton, alongside the show creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda
The trio will meet the cast and crew on the stage of London's Victoria Palace Theatre and address the audience
Tickets for the special performance range from $25 to $130, plus a charity donation
Sentebale is set to receive thousands of dollars to help fund its work for children and young people affected by HIV and AIDS in Lesotho and Botswana
However, this won't be Meghan's first (or even second!) time taking in the musical based on the incredible life of American founding father Alexander Hamilton
She and Harry spent a date night at Hamilton in London in February, thrilling the cast with their appearance among the sellout crowd
Ironically, the Tony winner for Best Musical pokes fun at Prince Harry's ancestor, King George III
Harry and Meghan enjoyed dates at the theater when they first began dating, but this is the first time they had been known to hit the West End after making their engagement announcement
Meghan also saw the show in New York City with longtime pal Priyanka Chopra. Before deleting her Instagram account, the former Suits star shared a photo of the duo posing with the Playbill in hand
On top of honoring her American roots, the musical gives a nod to Meghan's feminist beliefs
"You want a revolution? I want a revelation. So listen to my declaration: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal
' And when I meet Thomas Jefferson, I'm 'a compel him to include women in the sequel!'" the character of Angelica Schuyler sings in the show
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Is Astrology Fake? Yes, But That's Probably Fine. | Internetting Season 2 - Duration: 4:02.
Thanks to the internet, everything seems knowable.
All of those little mysteries that
used to fuel conversation — Who
was that guy in that movie? How big is the Pacific Ocean?
Do you think that TV dog is dead now? —
are so easily solvable.
Now everyone can just check their phone.
But there is one part of the internet that is drawn
to things that cannot be Googled.
The mystical internet has arrived.
New apps like Costar Astrology
and the Daily Hunch are part of a suite
of internet products rebranding the zodiac
for the digital set.
Astrological sign memes dominate Twitter.
The Hoodwitch, an online retailer who
sells everyday magic for the modern mystic,
has amassed over 260,000 Instagram followers
for her hashtag #witchtips and beautifully
staged tarot readings.
Even Spencer Pratt, the arch villain of "The Hills," has
reinvented himself as a crystal outfitter.
"The tiger's eye, I wear for protection,
and it worked, because I wore this in the 'Celebrity Big
Brother' all-star house, and I was super-protected."
But a lot of the appeal of this stuff
isn't really based in any strong held belief
in the occult.
You don't have to actually believe
in astrology to be into it.
Putting aside whether planetary alignments actually
influence the personal lives of human beings,
astrology and other nonscientific practices are
sometimes less about predicting the future than
they are about helping to understand ourselves.
Posting a hermit tarot card to Instagram
is a way of signaling introversion.
A piece of rose quartz stone is an expression
of unconditional love.
"Love is who I am."
And astrology, it's basically the cosmic Buzzfeed quiz.
In other words, this is a content business
as much as it is a spiritual practice.
There are for sure enterprising capitalists
who are eager to profit off of all of this.
[singing] "These eggs are on fire."
Goop has built a whole online retail empire
serving what it calls, "the divine feminine."
"The egg is in, I think."
But online mysticism is also filling a legitimate need.
This is a turn to emotion in the face of all of the data
that dominates the internet.
It's a rejection of all the algorithmic, data-driven,
hyper-logical, crypto-libertarian values
that run so much of what we do online.
In their place it carves out room
for intuition and empathy.
And yeah, it all feels pretty girly,
but men have their online mysticism, too.
It just looks a little more like this.
"And this is some satanist imagery here
that goes over the connections of this symbolism."
And if masculine mysticism is obsessed with
conspiracies, drawing connections between
historical events and random images,
feminine mysticism, on the internet at least,
seeks to draw spiritual connections
between human beings.
"I'm a Gemini, so there's two sides of me."
I'm a Gemini, too, so I'm of two minds
about this whole trend.
My curmudgeonly twin points out
that this is all a ploy to get women to spend more
money on useless stuff, but my more compassionate twin
appreciates a corner of the internet that
values justice and empathy.
"The horoscopes are meant to be healing."
After all, the woo-woo crazy of a vagina
jade egg pales in comparison to this.
"We believe the Earth was a flattish disk surrounded
by a solid dome barrier called the firmament."
In this context, retreating into the mystical internet
actually feels like a quite rational move.
Hey, this is Amanda.
This is Shane.
He edits the videos.
She writes the videos.
You watch the videos.
And if you like the videos,
please like, comment and subscribe here.
And then tell us:
Who's worse?
Geminis or Scorpios?
That's easy.
Virgos.
Leave your answer in the comments.
We are very thirsty.
[singing] "Internetting with Amanda Hess."
I said Scorpios' weird.
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Jimmy Carter: Our country is much more polarized than it ever was - Duration: 4:52.
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Meghan Markle Is Seeing Hamilton Again — After Enjoying It with Prince Harry and Priyanka Chopra - Duration: 3:03.
Meghan Markle isn't throwing away her shot to see Hamilton again — and for a good cause! The Duchess of Sussex will step out with Prince Harry today for a London performance of the hit musical, Kensington Palace announced
The event on Wednesday evening will raise funds for one of Harry's longtime charities, Sentebale, which he set up alongside friend Prince Seeiso of Lesotho
In June, Harry took a solo trip to Africa to open a school and a house on behalf of the charity
The couple will be the guests of honor at Hamilton, alongside the show creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda
The trio will meet the cast and crew on the stage of London's Victoria Palace Theatre and address the audience
Tickets for the special performance range from $25 to $130, plus a charity donation
Sentebale is set to receive thousands of dollars to help fund its work for children and young people affected by HIV and AIDS in Lesotho and Botswana
However, this won't be Meghan's first (or even second!) time taking in the musical based on the incredible life of American founding father Alexander Hamilton
She and Harry spent a date night at Hamilton in London in February, thrilling the cast with their appearance among the sellout crowd
Ironically, the Tony winner for Best Musical pokes fun at Prince Harry's ancestor, King George III
Harry and Meghan enjoyed dates at the theater when they first began dating, but this is the first time they had been known to hit the West End after making their engagement announcement
Meghan also saw the show in New York City with longtime pal Priyanka Chopra. Before deleting her Instagram account, the former Suits star shared a photo of the duo posing with the Playbill in hand
On top of honoring her American roots, the musical gives a nod to Meghan's feminist beliefs
"You want a revolution? I want a revelation. So listen to my declaration: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal
' And when I meet Thomas Jefferson, I'm 'a compel him to include women in the sequel!'" the character of Angelica Schuyler sings in the show
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