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O6hnhDCLC8k | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6hnhDCLC8k | Channeling Brandon Lee | hi it's bridget welcome to above live channel the purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope yes i am filming in landscape mode if you're not used to that and you like to watch the videos sorry i know it can kind of get annoying but i prefer that right now it just feels it feels um important for me right now as i'm channeling today to feel a container a safe and sacred space and feel kind of cozy and that's how i feel right now with this view with you it feels more um like one-on-one even though i know there's lots of you that are watching this incredible channeling video this is a special video okay it is timely and there are going to be two i i don't know if there's gonna be two people on this one or just one person and um i do want to do a video specifically for a friend as a gift and so i intend to do more if the second person doesn't show up okay so first yes okay it is brandon lee we are going to be channeling with brandon lee you will see that on the introduction you'll see that on the thing the title of the video however my initial intention was to sit down and do a channeling of bruce lee's dad for as a gift for a friend of mine so i'm not sure if both of them will show up because they might but there are some specific things i want to um ask bruce lee about also i don't know anything about either one of these figures historic figures i shouldn't say anything i do know that bruce lee was this famous martial artist um incredible with his body worked in hollywood film star and also trained other people and had some incredible gifts skills and talents physically and also mentally like this philosopher kind of vibe i really feel that i and i don't necessarily know that because i'm not like a martial artist kind of person and i'm not like an old-school um um you know uh like fight um choreographed fight kind of videos that kind of thing or movies that kind of thing i'm not that and he actually died the year that i was born so i thought that was kind of interesting i'm like wait a minute what because i'm thinking how long has it been since he's been gone um so that was interesting so just kind of know that yeah about six months later um and so but timing brandon lee his son because of current events and hollywood and the use of props on set and safety on set we know that there's been a tragedy um related once again to gun violence actually on a set an accident right but it's violent right this is a violent thing that happened and could have been avoided senseless right what's just recently happened here right um and i'm recording this in at the very end of october early november of 2021 and so you can just look that up if you want to know what's what i'm referring to and brandon lee died the same way he died on the set of the movie crow the crow in like 93 i remember some of this stuff because i was like just out of high school and it was this whole thing and it was like and people liked him because he was like easy on the eyes let's just be honest right like all the teenage girls back in the day i was like well some of the teenage girls back in the day but because of the current events he like steps forward first so we're this might be a brandon lee and bruce lee combo deal so we'll see what happens okay it might be two videos i'm not sure we'll see what's gonna happen here so brandon it's nice to meet you he looks like he did when he crossed over you look young and refreshed yeah yeah he says yeah um is there a i get a sense from you of there's an incredible amount of peace for someone to say that there's a lot of peace there's an incredible amount of this um kind of gentle perspective energetically that feels just really balanced you guys super balanced all right so i want to get a sense from you brandon did you know like that your life wouldn't be full lived long that you wouldn't live a long life did you have a sense of of your mortality as far as like life longevity lifespan because i'm curious about that first of all yes he says yes i believe that all of us have the opportunity to wow he's kind of philosophical interesting i kind of feel two parts of him he kind of feels a little bit philosophical but a little edgy like rebellious like kind of not angry but it has an edge to him so maybe it's the human part and the spirit ethereal far part that i feel maybe because he has this really peaceful energy vibe and he's like giving me this kind of vibe of well your life is what you choose to make of it and no matter how long that is no matter how long it lasts it's important and if you waste it that's you waste it you can't he's like you can't save people from themselves he just said that out loud that is interesting because i was just thinking that this morning he said you can't save people from themselves and people make choices that do impact other people that's a thing he says that's a thing that's an important part it's not just it's not just about life isn't just about you doing your part as a human being but it's about you doing your part and showing up with the understanding that others will also do the same now he says i understand that this is something that's conflicted and in it and it's it feels like you don't have a choice and just things happen to you and it's just random and he said it's not random there are intersection points there are choice points that cause you to be in a certain place at a certain time and he says had i not been there i would not have left the planet at that time that's correct absolutely if i hadn't been cast for the part if that day we weren't shooting if there wasn't this big and he's giving me this view of like either it was the very end of the movie or the very end of a day or a filming date or it was almost like one more thing they just needed to do one more thing and this happened and if that one more thing or that last it's either one more thing or last thing wouldn't have happened he would still he would not have died that day but he says it's not about the way you died he says it's not about the way you died he says that for us like other lifetimes this lifetime it's not about the way you die it's about the way you lived did you live and he says if i had more time yes he says i would like i would love to have children a family a a life a a home a happy a full life yes am i angry about that there's not really a feeling there he's like saying there's not really a feeling there um he says i he's also showing me stumbling like making mistakes like i don't know if he had some alcohol issues or some he's showing me mistakes or stumbling that kind of almost feels like a bump in the road like somebody having a lot of stress and like either using medications or maybe having some mental health struggles and needing some assistance but not getting it and so maybe making some bad choices either by treating people badly or being self-destructive in some way i'm not trying to judge i'm just saying this is how it feels to me he's showing me some stumbling and he's showing me kind of getting on track and he's showing me people influential people in his life that he could look up to that believed in me he said he's showing me like people taking him under his wing um now this is interesting i don't know who this is you guys might know if you're fans of bruce lee or brandon lee this we're talking to brandon right now there's this huge large black man that is i think he's black he might be jamaican he big guy and really tough and like almost like a trainer or personal coach motivator kind of guy and i'm getting that vibe with brandon like that um mentally got to prepare um um physically understanding what it takes physically and just he says i'm not respecting the body for a while like he feels like he had this kind of um back and forth a little bit with his body with the body his body um not respecting it respecting it not respecting it or not maybe not respecting it isn't the right word taking it for granted like that it would just show up and perform and do things he's showing me his heart open like um injured heart oh okay [Music] um an arm um i don't know if he had heart stuff or if he's showing me the the passing because usually people would show me like that kind of stuff he's like it's hollywood you gotta you know be theatrical i'm like no no no he's kind of funny he's funny but in like a very straight-faced kind of way like says something is like well he's not super flirty he's not super charming he's kind of got this almost intellectual edginess about him that's interesting very interesting um a presence of mind and so can i ask did you feel in your human life that like your dad was supporting you or helping you oh absolutely he says that there's no way i could have he says no way i could have got got gotten into and out of some of the things that i have experienced and also given me opportunities just really wanting me to to strive to be my best at the same time he says i was angry about my dad's death he's saying i was angry not having your dad is something that is really difficult and not something that that's just not easy it's just not easy for anyone anyone that's lost a parent especially a father like a father like mine he i mean he was famous he was very well known and he had a lot of struggles and he blazed a lot of trails but it's not it wasn't for me specifically to walk them so there's kind of this coming to terms with his persona personality versus his person you know because this is the person i know this is the person i know intimately this is my dad you know this is the a person i didn't get to know as well as i wanted to know like i'm getting that vibe that he really didn't get to know him very well i don't know if he was little you must have been little when he crossed over yeah he doesn't feel very old oh and then he shows me then i see the number 8-10 or 10 so i don't know if it's the 10th month like october or the 8th month like august or it's 8 years or 10 years i don't know what that means somebody can put it below it could be somebody's birthday at 8 10 or 10 8. i'm not sure so i'm really enjoying this conversation with you brandon we might have to do your dad separate we'll see we'll see what happens so can you tell us about so timing here timing because there's current events and hollywood and another accident that took a life he says that's not an accident people need to do their jobs he says you need to do your jobs you need to be accountable and responsible for doing your jobs he says things need to change people need to be safer people need to use their and he's swearing he says f and brain people need to do it from brain he says because people die when you don't he's like this doesn't are you angry about your death or the way you died he says there's not that he doesn't have that like there's not that and if there's not forgiveness either but there's not anger there's just this this is just an is this is just a fact this is just what happened to him but when he projects into this new current event situation with the um cinematographer i think was killed and a director or someone was injured on a film set in new mexico i think it was too it wasn't new mexico i think so um current events and then he when he projects into this energy there's anger like he's like um this doesn't need it's senseless he's like it doesn't make sense that's what it's not really anger it's like the senselessness like what like this disbelief like really how um how can how can this just continue to happen and it's not like um somebody needs to step in and protect everybody it's everybody involved needs to do their jobs they need to do their jobs that's what he's saying so it's not about a systemic issue it's about the the expectation and the training and the professionalism that needs to be in place in order to create something that is phenomenal you know okay oh okay i do see bruce lee i do he steps in and says i'm very proud of my son i'm very proud of the man he became and i can't take credit he says i don't i can't take credit for that he talks really kind of short and fast i i don't know like i say i don't know how he sounds short fast um sentences um statements very proud of my son the credit for his life is his his opportunities are his own i'm very proud very proud yes yes so there's a whole bunch of stuff i want to talk to you about um to bruce lee about and um maybe we could talk about just overarching energy of like the the motivational part like that's what i'd love to do a whole video about that like it feels like you have this incredible story of passion of a drive to present the truest parts of yourself the gifts like you living on fire with your gifts and constantly and continuously looking for ways to make it better make yourself better share what you know with others work with the body it's almost it's like the spirituality of the body and when i'm feeling into your energy i am super drawn to that which is interesting you guys because i didn't want to channel bruce lee no offense to you he says everyone evolves he says everyone evolves the woman he says you know it is it's simple it's simple it is not complicated it's the mind that makes it complicated you must use the mind to make it simple there's a great deal of trust he's showing me okay i have to talk about this because i can't i can't match his words it's too hard it's like short and staccato almost like a little bit and then he starts to talk and it kind of gets really flowery and beautiful actually but energetically i'm just gonna do that i'm gonna connect with him empathically he's talking about the body and i'm fascinated with it he's talking about the ability of the human body to morph and flow and move in ways that are powerful strong and beautiful it's like stealth like um like i see him down and like like moving in ways that nobody could comprehend really until you see it and he says it's not a misuse of the body to push it it is not mistreatment of the body to to to push it to a point of injury or getting injured my hair is a mess sorry guys it's bugging me you can see it sorry mr lee yeah there's like a hair right here hello i'm stopping my channel fix my hair i'm such a girl okay um he says gender should we talk about that women's roles also um he it feels like he worked with women also equally as men were has he worked with men like there wasn't a um distinction necessarily between the capabilities of the female body versus the masculine body which is interesting and he says the training is is the foundation the core and he says there's a consistency he says you must have a repetitive consistent pattern to train the muscles to train the body and then over time trust is developed because there is a solid foundation you know where you are resourced from it's very spiritual you guys but it's the body and it's spiritual and it's it's heart but it's like this bottom of the heart that looks like a little triangle that is like this root in earth like uh uh you're solid the earth will always catch you when you move and land when you take off and you land back down the earth will catch you just know this know it you'll be you will be supported because the earth will be there the land will be there and it is the body that absorbs the cushioning energetically is what it feels like you guys of the land he says so when you land and he says it's like a touch it's not hard or harsh it's like a touch and then it's like a recoil and then your your body absorbs with the earth and then comes back up and then moves again it's so beautiful like this there's these arm movements in these hands i am not into martial arts i have no idea what this is but this is beautiful and it's this it's kind of like dance yoga people that are into martial arts are gonna be so offended by what i'm saying but this is what i know okay i'm a layman when it comes to this it's like this um incredible like it's like the energy movement of the like what i would say the chakras in the body but this energetic power it's like the elements earth air fire water and then he says it's the embodiment of all he says that's the directions that's how you know the direction earth air fire water are you at the air using the air are you at the earth letting her hold you and is there masculine feminine yes yes he says but there's there's a the place in between is the oneness he says that's what he focuses on the one and when you are the one the one will hold you it's not different it's the same interesting i feel like he's way more chatty in the afterlife than maybe he was in human life i'm not sure because it feels like i could see quotes of his but i can't see like in human life if i was researching stuff and maybe like some maybe if we looked up some interviews or something we could see him kind of talk maybe i should do that actually and then ask a bunch of questions based on that i'm not sure but it feels i i'm understanding what the attraction is to him because of this like it's almost like spiritual master of a human body and that's incredible it's like fascinating to me and it's about like flexibility and muscle movement and memory and knowing and this incredible trust that you will land and that your body will will be received by the earth or whatever surface you land upon and it will be able to move and recoil and bounce back and be unharmed there's not damage there's a just this really trust in that and he says he says it bleeds into other areas of your life did he i wonder if he had heart problems because i keep seeing the internal structure of his heart and doesn't look quite right like there's some off things here that don't quite um it's almost like he's built differently inside does that sound weird i wonder if he had a heart thing like as a kid or younger or if he didn't know about that or what because it feels like there's a heart something with this heart something's up with his heart and i don't know if it made it easier for him to do the things he did or he almost feels like you guys it almost feels like bruce lee could have been like this magician like hold your breath really long like this master of the body and transcending like this balance between what's real and unreal what the physical body can do what it can't do what the mind can do what it can't do it's like there's a it's like he was able to or he's able to they showed me the infinity symbol to connect the mind with the body so that they can together transcend yeah that is cool now that's cool i'm in for that the mind and the body together can transcend he says they must work together there must be a union there must be a common understanding and moving toward a common goal and the goal is this fluidity you guys this fluidity everything is always changing you must be adapt to be able to change and move with the change so if you're like he's showing me this is crazy he's showing me like this um i can't tell if it's a train a flat railroad bed that's moving or if it's like the back like a truck a flatbed of a truck moving and it's moving and he's on it and he's moving around and jumping in the air and the idea of when you're moving and jumping in the air and something is moving you could miss it like it can move fast and you're you're awake so you have to account for that so you move forward in order to catch up to the energy of the time of the foundation in which you're landing upon so he's almost like this time jumper this like um layers of time like moving through this in order to be able to land in the precise place moment in time that is needed so he goes into the future comes back to the present to be received and therefore he is always in the exact right place at the exact right time does that sound weird that sounds kind of crazy but it's how it feels well now i totally get why people are into bruce lee i super get this i think we can we have some more conversation because i'm kind of interested in this now i'm kind of curious and and i know someone who'd really appreciate being able to ask you questions if you guys have questions for bruce lee put them in the comments below so we've already talked with brandon his son we started with brandon we talked a little bit with bruce lee as well so in the comments below specifically for bruce if there are specific questions things that you want to know put them in the comments below so that i could um consider that maybe for the future wouldn't that be cool i just i'm really interested again for those of you who are mega fans are really into martial arts and all that um sorry if i said stuff weird or i didn't mean to offend you just so you know i literally just have no i have no language for this so i'm doing the best again all right all right so this is bridgette thanks so much for watching above life channel on youtube i hope i've inspired your spirit today filled you with some hope with brandon lee and bruce lee thank you both gentlemen for being here today encouraged you to live your life it's your life after all and you get to live it just live it thanks for being here | Above Life Channel | UClp_J_jOJPc89S19wsTSUKw | 2021-11-08 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 4,188 | 21,205 |
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dSoZPA3aEsw | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSoZPA3aEsw | Make an impact with a standout personal brand | good evening everybody and welcome to our final marketing club webinar of the series for this academic year make an impact with a standout personal brand with our guest speaker deborah ogden the marketing club was created primarily to help students get the most from their cim accredited degree and prepare them for a career in marketing although the marketing club is designed for students ci members and other marketing practitioners are also welcome to attend the sessions for the uninitiated the cm accredited degree program enables students to gain a professional marketing qualification by taking advantage of the exemptions the accredited degree provides if you are a student you can sign up now to receive the marketing club newsletter simply take a photo of the qr code you see on screen each edition will provide you with content designed to support your studies and actively manage your professional development by keeping you up to date the latest trends innovations and concepts in the marketing industry so i'd like to hand over to debra ogden who is our guest speaker today over to you deborah good afternoon everybody thank you phil really great to be with you all this afternoon um really interesting topic impact and personal branding so i've been doing this for 11 years and in the last 11 months due to the pandemic through working hybrid working from home lock down i have been contacted more in the 11 months than i have in the previous 11 11 years around personal branding and when i set out 11 years ago i didn't call it personal branding i called it impact but and i talked about profile and building reputation but of course personal branding over the last two years has become very much a business buzzword along with pivot and some of those words that we will never forget and it has become something that people have a much greater understanding of now of course as marketing professionals marketing students you will have an understanding of brand and what i would like you to think about as we go through this evening is really think about the parallels between your personal brand and a business brand or an organization's brand and see how those parallels fit and challenge them so as phyllis said there is a q a at the end and i would love your questions so put them in the question box and we'll pick up on those at the end and any thoughts that you may have so i'm going to start off by telling you a story which for me absolutely sums up personal branding now then i don't know if any football fans on the call today but um even if i've got football fans i'm thinking i probably won't have that many huddersfield town fans and that that will leave that one to me so i am a huddersfield town season ticket holder and a few years ago uh when we were before we were in the premier league so we were playing blackburn rovers and it was new year's day and we went along to the match my son and i and that's my son the little redhead at the front of the photograph and my husband is a sports commentator and he said because it's new year's day and it's a lunchtime kickoff as a treat i will let you why don't you wait for me in the stadium and oscar my our son might be able to see some of the players some of his heroes and you can wait for me and we'll all travel home together so this sounded a great idea so huddersfield town went on to the field and they played the match along with blackburn rovers and it was a one all draw so they did their day job they did what they're paid to do they did what they're technically good at they scored one goal and they conceded a goal and it was a one all draw so after the match their job was done and oscar and i were sat down by the dugout waiting for the players to leave and as they were coming out they all walk past us without making any eye contact whatsoever they all had their big bose headphones on and their louis vuitton wash bags under their arm and not one of them made eye contact and i thought oh my goodness this isn't going well our son who's desperate to have a selfie with one of his heroes his face was getting his chin was getting lower and lower and he was looking more and more despondent and then these two came out now neither of these players play for town anymore one of them is eliza chunga and one is casey palmer and they turned to oscar and they smiled at him and said hello and asked him what he thought of the game an oscar looked at me and said very quietly under his breath mummy will you ask for a photograph now you can see i'm of an age that selfies are fairly new to me and they're not something i do on a regular basis but i asked for the photograph and this is what this is the photograph that i took and they said thanks to oscar and they shook his hand and off they went and i turned to oscar and i said wow that was cool wasn't it and he said no mommy that wasn't cool and i just thought my goodness what do you have to do these days and he said mummy that might be the greatest moment of my life now you can see from his face the impact that those players had on my son he said this is the greatest moment i've ever lived and we still talk about that day now every single one of us has the opportunity to make the same type of impact on every single person that we meet that's what personal branding is about it's about a promise it's about an experience it's not about having a beautifully curated instagram feed it's not just about what you wear it's not just about the photographs in the same way that a business brand is not its logo it's about the experience i will get when i am in your world what do you promise that experience will be now what these players didn't know is that i'd been working with huddersfield town and their academy so i know the commercial director i knew the chairman and after they'd left i emailed them and said what great ambassadors these players are for your club now of course when it comes to our careers our profile and our reputation is incredibly important and we'll come on to this more as we go through the presentation but what happens is of course i know we all know that footballers have played paid obscene amounts of money but a lot of that money comes from lucrative sponsorship deals and of course by me saying what great advocates there are for the club straight away they go up in the pecking order when it comes to sponsorship deals and the other thing is that i went to twitter and said what a great experience so externally their profile is raising and of course i have told this story up and down the country globally over the pandemic because you know the wonderful thing about zoom is we can we can deliver from up from home and and much further afield so the reputation of huddersfield town is also going far and wide and that's the power of personal branding so just think about that it's the impact you can have on the individual it's the impact you can have on your personal reputation and your career we're going to look at audiences as we go through and it's the impact that your personal brand has on the organization that you are associated with so you really are a brand and i just want you to think about for a moment what are your favorite brands so it might be that you absolutely love apple it might be that you wouldn't touch an apple phone with a barge pole it might be that you are a huge fan of innocent drinks because you love their quirky content and the way they talk to their customers whatever it is it might be patagonia you may be an outdoors person and loves their sustainability so what is it that you buy into into brands it's their values it's what they're about is what their promises and it's exactly the same when it comes to you so what do you stand for what is it that people buy into that lovely cliche people by people it's absolutely true but what is it when they're buying into you and they're buying into these different facets of your personal brand and here's an example of some of them you can see it goes from everything from your non-verbal communication which we're going to be talking about to your stage presence if you are somebody to who presents to how nervous you are or for the flip side of that is how confident you are do you come across as credible we're going to be looking at this as we go through but what i would urge you to say is think about each of these areas but always show up as the best you now the reason i say this i know it sounds obvious but you never know when an opportunity arises you never know when you're going to meet that person that can open a door for you you never know when somebody that you meet is going to be able to introduce you or is going to be asked for a recommendation and you may be the front of mind person that that is on their mind and that's what we want to be when you are looking for promotion when somebody is looking for the perfect candidate for a role if you decide to go out and run your own business like i do then i want to be that front of mind person when somebody wants what it is that i offer but of course they need to know what it is that i stand for for me to be the front of mine person so i need to be able to communicate what i am a visible expert in and we're going to have a look at this as we go through but i suppose my first takeaway from today's presentation would be intentionally show up as the best you all those footballers that walked past that thought you know what i've done the day job i can't be bothered to talk to that little redhead there and his mother stood there with her iphone i can't be bothered well actually they missed out on a chance to make a real impact on somebody but also a real impact on their future careers you never know and of course when you're on a presentation like this it's easy to think well yeah i know this it's not rocket science but none of this is rocket science i would say it's simple but it's not easy because first of all you need a huge degree of self-awareness you need to know how you come across and we're going to look at that in a minute but also you need to show up consistently because as you know as well as i do for a brand to have any impact it needs to show up consistently time and time again or people start to question it so what happens if you turn up into the office like this what happens if it's friday afternoon you're up against a deadline you've got a pile of emails to get through and you're under pressure if any of you are working in um the real world at the moment you will you will totally recognize this type of situation or what if you know you're feeling a bit under the weather you feel a bit ropey or you know you've just come back into getting back into the office and your trains late so you're running and you're late for a meeting there are these things you know there's that wonderful uh some of you will have seen it there's a wonderful curve that says this is how we all believe um that life should go it should be a smooth upward curve but of course actually life's like this it's up and down and it squiggles and it goes all over the place because things happen and it's in those moments how do you show up in those moments how do you show up when you're under pressure are you snappy many many years ago many years ago when i was a young girl um my dad used to be managing director of a business building company building chemicals company and uh my mum knew all the staff and sometimes and he still got a temper now my dad could be a bit of a grump and on those days my mum used to ring his secretary and say sue i'm just warning you is a misery today just so you know and they knew and i laugh about this now and say dad what sort of reputation was that to have that they had to check in with what mood you were in before they knocked on the door to show you a report or whatever it was so make sure that's not part of your reputation be the person that is approachable that people want on the team that want on their project that when somebody once asks about you what's it like to work with james or james great james is great he was part of the team and he made sure his attention to detail was absolutely superb you might get the flip what's it like to have john on the team or john's great but you know what sometimes he's a bit he misses his deadlines and i think he might be under a bit of pressure so you know if it's between john and james i know which one i'd go for now you can see there that it's not always something huge that is actually undermining your personal brand it might be something that just because of circumstances you need to be aware of and perhaps tweak those behaviors okay now some of you and i'm hoping that this isn't the case because you are cim students or marketeers but some people say well you know personal branding my work should speak for itself i'm technically good at what i do so actually it doesn't matter about this personal brand business i'm not that interested in it and it's really interesting actually sometimes you know i have to shout my corner and i know colleagues that are marketeers people say well what's the return on investment for the marketing when will i see the returns and people want to see it in black and white but with personal branding that is very very difficult to measure and people will say oh it's soft skills isn't it now i prefer to call them human skills as simon sinek some of you will have heard of does and there's been a study by deloitte's that says in 2030 so not that long enough in 2030 two-thirds of jobs two-thirds of roles will be soft skills intensive and it's those jobs that are growing rapidly two and a half times quicker than the technical skills because of course ai can deal with so much but it's not going to be able to deal with those human skills those human relationships those human transactions and that's why your personal brand is so so ex important and it's important to be able to communicate and build that profile and reputation now some of you may have come across this study this is harvey coleman and he says that only any ready for this only 10 so your perform sorry your performance is only 10 of your career success so when you're looking at your career success as a pie chart only 10 percent of that success is down to your performance now that's incredibly small a huge 30 is down to your image now i would use the word interpreting this i would use personal brand there and then a huge 60 percent is down to exposure now the word i use there is capitalize and i'll come on to that in a minute and i'm sure many of you are shocked by that so only ten percent of your career success is down to your performance and the reason is let's just unpick this for a moment because actually you could be the best marketeer in the world but if you're the world's best kept secret you are not going to impact on your customers your clients or on your own career people need to know about it so the gray area here the 30 that's the communication which i call the reactive communication so that's how people experience you on a day-to-day basis that's your non-verbal communication and we're going to come on to that in a minute and then this huge 60 percent is down to capitalizing on this your exposure who knows about you who knows that your um attention to detail is absolutely off the scale who knows that you've got a great talent for writing engaging compelling content who knows that you are a great leader and one of the leaders of the future because unless anybody knows that you're going to get overlooked so if you want to know further on that that's called harvey coleman's pie model and if anybody thinks that's not fair well actually the first rule of harvey coleman is nobody said it was going to be fair it's just how we respond okay so i mentioned before about self awareness because actually we've got two personal brands we've got the personal brand that goes on in our head so that's the one on the left of your screen so the personal brand is the one in your head so if i was to ask you how do you come across that's the personal brand that's in your head so that's the one that says oh i'm incredibly compelling i'm professional i'm life and soul of the party i'm the person that they want on the team i'm the great one to be around i'm ambitious and i'm going places okay but what about the personal brand that's out there and that's the one that everybody experiences and that's about perception and of course it's perception that matters here so you might think your life and soul of the party everybody else might think you're a bit of a wally you might think you're ambitious everybody else thinks you'll tread on anybody to climb to the top you may think that you're compelling everybody else may think you're a bit of a bore so i'm using extreme examples here of course but let me give you an example of something that happened to a client of mine so i was brought in to work with a chap who was a finance director of an organization a global organization and they were looking to float on the stock exchange and he was a huge part of this transaction and he was very very good at his job on paper he was technically brilliant so that 10 that we talked about that was where he absolutely nailed it and he was going for the managing director role within one of the groups and when they when they um were looking at his application they went and talked to his team and they said how do you find him as a leader and they said well actually he's not that interested in us and we wouldn't say he's the greatest leader we've had actually we feel a great disconnect from him so he didn't get the role there was a bit more to it than that he didn't there were other areas of his leadership that he didn't display leadership qualities and i was brought in to work with him and i actually went and talked to his team and i talked to him as well and i asked him and i said you know your team say that you're disengaged your team said that you never asked them about their families that you'd never ask them about their personal life that you only talk to them if they're if you need something from them and there's no warmth to the relationship and he was all he was absolutely heartbroken and he said deborah i'm just incredibly introverted i'm very very shy and therefore i really struggle to make those connections and therefore we have this huge disconnect between that cool disinterested personal brand that was out there and his shyness that was in his own head so you need to be aware and if you don't know you need to find out ask some trusted people how you come across think about the questions that you're asking so that you get the answers that you need so you know you have the feedback on how your personal brand is impacting on those around you okay so i mentioned already about the pie model now this is my version i suppose of the pie model these are the areas i talk about this is what i call my impact method and this is the key slide so this is the slide that you need to really think about when it comes to what do i need to do to manage my personal brand and i say that there because you already have a personal brand if we were in a room together now i would ask be asking you to raise your hand if you have a personal brand and often only half the room but that's more than it used to be but often only half the room will put their hand up but the truth is you have a personal brand it's what people say about you when you're not in the room as jeff bezos would say so it's your reputation so the question is are you managing your personal brand is it what you want it to be don't leave it in the hands of other people so you need to have clarity you need to have clarity of your message and your audience and what you are aiming for you need to communicate that consistently and then you need to capitalize on that so you need to become a visible expert so let's have a look at clarity so what do you want to be known for and this is incredibly important and from a marketing perspective you will understand this because we don't want any mixed messages so people will say to me sometimes deborah you're a business coach no i'm not a business coach i work with people on their personal brand and their impact and that is it i don't work with people on their business growth i work specifically on these two areas now yes they encompass other things but i would always say those are my areas of specialism and as a result of that when somebody is asking around on linkedin who's a personal branding expert my name comes up if they asked who was a business coach there would probably another 50 names or more come up at that point so having that clarity of message is absolutely key you need to know what your values are what's your purpose in life what is it that people will buy into when they buy into you because we like people like us don't we we like people that we feel comfortable with we're tribal animals so when i'm communicating i communicate my values so that people who are lying to those values think you know what deborah's the person that i want to work with so you need clarity of your message but you also need clarity of your audience now again i'm talking to marketeers here you know that you need to know who your audience are but sometimes we forget that when we're talking about our personal brand and there's that tendency to try and be something to everybody now it's important to realize that some of the best personal brands in the world are divisive you can't be vanilla because if you're not if you're vanilla you don't stand for anything so make sure that you stand for something that people know what they are buying into and those will become your audience they're the people that you are talking to think of donald trump one of the most divisive brands out there but an incredibly powerful personal brand whether you agree with it or not now your personal brand is made up of three things it's who you are so that's the you your personality traits it's what you do so that's the technical side that's your cv and it's how you do it so those are your behaviors and i would encourage you to think about those three areas because once you know those that sets some boundaries for you and that allows you to show up with real confidence because you know what you stand for so who you are what you do and how you do it and i'm just going to share this with you because this is something that comes up time and time again when i'm talking about confidence from your personal brand because to get out there and capitalize on your brand you need to be sharing content you need to show up and some people might say you know what that debra is a bit over the top she's not for me well that's fine they will go and find their personal brand expert but my people will buy into me so you need to understand and this quote from dieter von t the burlesque artist who thought i'd be quoting a burlesque artist tonight from dita von t says you could be the ripest juiciest peach in the world and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches there'll be people that aren't your people let them go focus on those that are your people and then it's about communication so this is about your body language it's about your nonverbal communication it's about your energy it's about how you walk in the room do you smile do you light up a room do you walk in with confidence or do you skulk in are you busy looking at your iphone rather than making eye contact with people are you somebody when you're on zoom that has a presence on zoom have you got your screen set up in a way that you can look into the camera or are you somebody who looks down here at the camera all the time and loses any eye contact how are you set up on your camera how do you dress what are your clothes like how's your hand shake what's your first impression like these are all things that make up your personal brand and they start from an early age now you can see that i started off very early in life my first day at school loving tailoring and a snazzy accessory now i promise you that if we were in person now the chances are i would still be in a blazer maybe not with the stripes and maybe not with the straw boater but that is very much part of my personal brand how i show up if i don't show up with my lipstick and a necklace or a blazer or i look a bit casual somebody will say what's going on with deborah today she doesn't look quite on it now they'll probably let me get away with it once or twice but three or four times they would start to question my credibility so how do you show up you know your clothing has a huge impact not just on other people but how you perform on your confidence to use it as another tool in your armory what is unique for you what is authentic to you what makes you feel good and so what if you stand out so what if people comment what a great way for people to remember you so you don't blend into the background okay your communication is everything and i just want to stress that i'm going to come on to how you proactively capitalize your brand in a second but i want you to think about how you show up on a day-to-day basis is it intentional how's your vocal impact do you speak clearly are you somebody who swears a lot i have a client who when she comes on the phone if i'm in the car and my son's with me i have to say you know what claire oscar's with me can we cut the language and oscar actually calls her sweary claire so that is part of her personal brand now she laughs about it that's who she is she embraces it but just be sure that it is something that you want people to remember you for how often do you return your emails how do you answer the phone do you bother to return people's calls are you always late do you polish your shoes do you make eye contact how's your hand shake are we allowed to handshake anymore all these things are how we communicate our brand and then it's about capitalizing so this is about getting your brand out there we can all be very british and we don't want to blow our own trumpets but you need to be the front of mind person whether that's when a job opportunity comes up or when there is a project that you know you really want to be part of you need to make sure that those people are in your audience those people that are making those decisions know exactly who you are and what you stand for so that might be volunteering for um events committees that might be putting yourself forward that might be finding a mentor whatever works for you and you need to decide what your platform is now this is me at my happiest i'm one of those bizarre people who loves being on the stage and loves presenting so all my marketing for my business and for myself and my personal brand comes through speaking and presenting now many people don't enjoy this now i would always say to you depending on the role that you are going for it may be that you need to develop your presentation skills and that's something i do work with my coaching clients on how to present with impact so that their personal brand they can be seen as thought leaders they can communicate this to a wide audience but if this is something that's not an important part of your role then don't worry about it don't get hung up about it find other ways find other platforms to communicate and capitalize on your brand now of course during lockdown there was none of this so i i set up a podcast on brand with and my podcast has become a great way to be able to bring other people's personal brands into the spotlight but also have a more personable conversation to share my values to share what i'm like so people get to try me out before they come and work with me so podcasts even if you don't run your own are a great opportunity for you to get your message out there there are many ways of course there is social media now i'm not going to talk about social media here even though it is a huge part of your personal brand but you know what the chances are that you know more about social media and algorithms than i do because of the demographic that i fit in but you need to be consistent with that message so across your social media platforms make sure that you've got a brilliant professional photograph that shows you looking into the camera and smiling not one with your sunglasses on and a glass of wine in your hand i had a wonderful guy who was a recruitment consultant a few years ago who said to me deborah i want to change the face of recruitment consultancy everybody thinks we just spend days in the bar when we're networking and that's where we do all our business and we're a bit flash and a bit untrustworthy and i went on to his linkedin profile and he was there with his mirrored sunglasses on and a glass of champagne in his hand what message is that giving out so think about your platforms you should all be on linkedin is your linkedin profile compelling does it show who you are as a person as a person so many people forget their personality when it comes to linkedin and it's just a list of their achievements but explain who you are how you go about things add some personality to it so that i feel and getting a flavor of your brand and of course you can use social media to be seen as an expert in your field and by building relationships remembering social media so don't just broadcast to the world if you share something hang around to comment and build relationships okay and then finally in capitalizing i would say to you think about your network who do you know in your network that can help you build a network even if it isn't a case of going to networking events make sure that you keep in contact with people make sure that you and send people if you see an article on linkedin that you think oh and phil would be interested in that i'm going to send that to phil then phil all of a sudden thinks oh that was kind they've remembered me or whatever it may be so i i do this on a regular basis once a week i sit down and i have a quick look through linkedin i have a quick look through other emails that i follow and i just send it out to a few people within my network that i want to keep warm if you like and close to me because for me these people are my cheerleaders they're my sales force they are the people that are out there telling the world what i do and how i do it so build your own cheerleaders build your own network of people that have and this is really important remember that clarity piece make sure that your network have just as much clarity about what you do as you do so that they recommend you for the right roles they recommend you for the right jobs they recommend the right clients and customers to you a couple of years ago a very respected business coach in my network who i really looked up to at the time still do very influential in the nhs and somebody had approached her and she was a lawyer and she said i keep getting overlooked for roles and it's time for me to step up and this woman said i could coach you but actually the person you need to speak to is deborah ogden because that's exactly what she does and that woman was my perfect client so just be aware that your network know exactly what it is that you stand for and the way you work so that the people they recommend the roles they recommend are a really great fit for your personal brand okay so we need you to capita to have clarity we need you to communicate and we need you to capitalize but most of all i ask you to be yourself this isn't about any fake it till you make it this is about being authentic this is about being new but it's remember that slide it's about being the best you this is you when you're in your flow this is you when you know you've absolutely knocked it out of the park well it's being aware of what that you looks like and then showing up like that intentionally it's about being as as uh dr zeus said there is nobody as you as you or something like that i think i might have misquoted him there but if you are if there's only you and you are unique then you can't begin to start comparing yourself to anybody else you just compare yourself to the best version of you keep pushing yourself forward always show up and build on that reputation and then i just want to share with you a chinese proverb so the chinese proverb goes when is the best time to plant an oak tree and the best time to plant an oak tree was 20 years ago the second best time is now and your personal brand is exactly the same you've got a brand out there you need to start managing it now i have people that come to me and my biggest frustration is they say deborah i've been you've been recommended to me because i've just missed out on a role i said worked on it six months ago 12 months ago they might have got that role often i have clients that are assuming for a role because they've made it clear that that's what they stand for i have somebody who has just been appointed as um diversity and inclusion manager for a global law firm it's her dream job but she volunteered time and time again for events and committees and her name was in the bag as soon as that role was created so take action now this does take time it takes at least six months to start really seeing some great results from it but once you do it's a bit like the snowball it gathers it gathers pace and grows and grows so make a start now decide what it is that you are going to do today what one thing do you need to look at so have a think about is it that i need to look at my um how i dress do i need to look at my social media platforms do i need to get myself a mentor do i need to get some feedback on where i am now and commit to do something tonight tomorrow and focus on that for a week and then find something new and just keep working on because you'll have heard of marginal gains these small changes we make have a huge impact going forward and if you want to i know some of you have got the download two things that might help you there is a personal brand action plan there that you can download from the link which will is is a sort of overview of everything that i've talked about that will give you some prompts and then the impact club is a membership that i run on a weekly basis it's a monthly membership that is something that holds people accountable and we work through these different areas together i'm not sure the impact club link is actually on your download but if you google my name and the impact club you will find it and that might be something of benefit to some of you so my final thought before i open to q a is that how many times have you sat on a presentation like this how many lectures have you sat in over the well over locked down but over over the period of your career tony robbins the personal development guru says we talk about knowledge as power but knowledge is not power knowledge is only potential power the power is in the action so my plea to you is to take action today manage your personal brand so that you have the profile and reputation you want not that of other people thank you okay phil okay um to go on to q a absolutely uh deborah that was fabulous thank you very much for that um just so the audience know um you actually came highly recommended by one of our mutual connections so it just goes to show the power of personal branding um you know in practice here um so okay the very first question um and by the way um you can still submit your questions uh throughout the next 10 to 15 minutes just by simply hitting the the question mark on screen so deborah first question is um for someone with a disability or a health issue for example pain fatigue having to attend regular medical appointments how can you present yourself as the best you to an employer whilst also being honest about your limitations and challenges brilliant question and it is something that i feel very strongly about so you have to be you have to show up as your true self you have to be authentic and you have to own your story so you have to own who you are now what you have what what i would say is there is a balance here so you have to do everything you can to make sure that people are informed that you communicate in the best way you possibly can so that people can plan in from an employer point of view but always ensure that you are honest and true and for me there are two things here that way people will treat you with respect so you have your boundaries you have that clarity but also you are empowering other people and for me that's incredibly important and i know this is slightly different but even as a mother when i had oscar as a young a baby i wouldn't say that i wanted to do the pickup or he was poorly or i had to go to the nativity i would make excuses because i felt that people wouldn't take me as seriously and i realized that that wasn't the case at all that we have to own our story own our personal brand and when it comes to a disability or an illness you would hope that in this day and age most businesses or a number of businesses will understand and have a structure in place to accommodate that and support if it isn't and it's a huge part of your life and they can't accommodate that then maybe they're not the organization for you so my my opinion is to be open and front about upfront about it own that but do everything you can as well to support your own cause by being organized communicating well brilliant thank you uh deborah um so the supplementary question is um how can you win over the cynics you know to demonstrate that you are being authentic because they think you're not being authentic and is that is that on the back of the first question phil that's a separate question from a different attendee so okay so you can't control what other people think you can only show up as you so let me give you an example next week i'll be careful what i say then i don't make it clear where i'm going but next week i've got a presentation to do and i know because the person who's brought me in it's a big big organization in london that i'm going to be presenting to some cynics now there is nothing i can do to change their mind all i can do is show up and use my communication skills to engage them try and bring them on side but all i can do is show up as my best self be authentic not try and be something else because we've spot a fake don't we so be authentic and deliver in a way that is totally relevant to my audience so i would always say be aware of your audience connect with your audience know what their pain points are what outcomes they want but never change who you are always show up as the authentic me so somebody once said to me deborah you'll never work with the london firms because you have a northern accent um you know and you look at the bbc over the years how accents have changed so always show up as yourself first and foremost brilliant okay um so two related questions here how can i subtly ask colleagues and other stakeholders about their impressions and perceptions of me and supplementary um you know how do you how is the best possible best way to handle criticism okay so i wouldn't be subtle about it um i would ask them ask for feedback and explain if you need to that you're working on your personal brand and you want to make more impact when i'm working one-to-one with people they give me a list of 10 people and i approach them and i say we're working on this ask three specific questions okay make a note of these what am i really good at so what shall i continue doing what do i need to stop doing and what one thing should i start doing and that way you get very clear feedback on specific areas that is actionable and when it comes to criticism don't think of it as criticism think of it as feedback and look at it why that person so any piece of feedback is a gift however good bad ugly it is it's a gift because it's giving you some awareness now you want to be looking at so when i when i'm working with people and i do these feedback reports 95 of it is wonderful you know how good they are three percent five percent two percent is what i call the gold dust because by getting that feedback you can do something about it if you're blissfully unaware that people think you're a bit frosty when you walk in a room or you don't return calls or you come across as ignorant rather than shy then there's nothing you can do about it so get the feedback and look for trends so i would always say don't just list listen to one piece of feedback listen to maybe five or six people and look for the themes and then think oh what's going on here they're all saying that i don't come across as committed i'd explore a little bit deeper but always take feedback as a gift say thank you because if you've asked for it or people have even if people have given you feedback and you've not asked for it take it grace graciously and gracefully brilliant okay thank you um how do you build your confidence when you don't like seeing yourself on pitches or have a low esteem low self-esteem of yourself not so much about skills but about the physical aspects of ourselves wow this is another webinar but um first of all you're not on your own so whoever's written that question you are not on your own i've been doing this for 11 years and i think probably bar two people every single person i have worked with has a lack of confidence in some way now low self-esteem is is uh um is more of a challenge and probably needs a little bit more work but i would say to you always remember how good you are so focus on what you're good at write a list tonight as soon as you get off this call of 10 things that you are absolutely brilliant at or 10 things that you have done that you have achieved and keep that with you at all times another thing that i recommend my clients have is a smile file and in your smile file and i i recommend and i know so many of you will be all on your smartphones and your ipads but i would say get a physical book and write in it when somebody gives you great feedback or if somebody sends a a card to you and says great presentation deborah i have a book of them nobody else sees them but actually i've got three books of them i've been doing this for so long nobody else sees them but you know i do this for a living i have a bad day and on those days by reminding myself in black and white how good i am and we're all we've all got these super powers these skills that we have remind yourself how good you are you need to be we we are negatively biased and you need to be looking at the positives so really build your confidence on what you're good at and then there are other skills and look up amy cuddy amy cuddy c-u-d-d-y i you know i've not mentioned it tonight it is something that i often present on you'll see that i've got a wonder woman uh picture behind me amy cuddy talks about power posing and power posing is incredibly impactful on your body language so by standing in a power pose for just two minutes before your next big meeting or before you have a challenging situation you will raise your testosterone which is the confidence hormone by about 20 and you'll reduce your cortisol by about 20 percent her books called presence it's excellent but she has some great great ted talk as well so have a listen to that as well that might help actually that leads on quite nicely to this next question um i find myself being more expressive in doing research and reports but when it comes to reporting i freeze or just brush over the points i painstakingly research on how to express myself confidently okay um so it's about slowing down when we're nervous we tend to speed up i would also say when you are presenting on something and this goes with anything so i with my clients i have this so some of you may network and have to do one minutes presentation some of you may have to present back feedback or research some of you may present like this have three key points that's all three key points that you need to feedback because people can only remember three things and if you give them ten things they'll only remember three and it might not be the three important piece uh key points so today i said to you it's about clarity it's about communication and it's about capitalizing now hopefully with those three prompts you will remember more of my presentation so you need to know what your key pieces of research are don't try and learn it all but if you've got three key messages that you are getting across then you should be able to talk around those points and then always back it up with um a presentation so i say to clients if they're pitching to a board meeting have you three key points and then back it up with a report which you give to people afterwards if you give it to them during they will look through it as you're presenting your feedback so if you can get it down to three maybe four but just so that you know what those key points are own your space a little bit like the power posing you also want to own your vocal time so take your time because when you speed up then people lose you they don't get to hear it but also our adrenaline starts going then and we don't you know our mind we start to panic it's just by taking a breath and slowing down and thinking about what it is that you need to communicate it should help you but it takes practice okay great thanks for that uh bro i think we just got time for one more question actually um how do you balance your own personal branding while representing a commercial brand that sounds like there might be some sort of conflict there yes um so always be authentic but a lot of the work i do is going into businesses and working with their business brand and their business values and then how you harness the personal brands of the individuals within an organization so the best cultures the best organizations employ people on values so if you're employing by the business file on the business values and they align with the personal brand values of the candidates then that's the sweet spot but there will be times when you are asked to present a brand that isn't comfortable for you you either have to go with it or you have to walk and i know that sounds um you know harsh but to be truly aligned i would say that you know you either have to go with the business brand and represent that business brand or you have to say this isn't for me i had somebody who worked for sky bet who loved the role but couldn't get over the fact that he was working for a gambling organization he put up with it for six months and then he had to go yeah okay great um well thank you very much for that debra um very sadly we have to run out of time for questions now but thank you to everybody who submit questions and some great answers there from deborah we could actually um listen to you talking all evening actually um we have come to the end of our webinar sadly um i'd like to say of course i think big thank you to debbie for an excellent presentation and we do hope that you've found it interesting and worthwhile so on behalf of cm that just leads me to thank deborah once again for a fantastic presentation and to say a big thank you to you for joining us today take care everybody have a lovely summer and we look forward to welcoming you again when the new season starts up again in a few months time good night | The Chartered Institute of Marketing - CIM | UCfd5f8_Ty_JqGJgCmur0FcQ | 2022-07-27 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 9,236 | 47,568 |
LrytK1V9q1I | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrytK1V9q1I | GOD EATER 3 – Traversing the Past ~ Episode Ein | the black mist originated there spread across a roughly 300 mile radius there are differences in density but a human couldn't last 10 minutes anywhere inside no survivors were found within a hundred miles of HQ anyone closest doomed this is the first time we've met in person isn't it I've seen your theory on generating autoregressive networks using retro oracle cells your insight is marvelous so what did you want the proposed Ragnarok project we can't realize it without you a brilliant mind doctor shizzle [Music] to summarize the situation the resonance wave seei ratio is too low we absolutely must have higher oscillations with place autonomous amplifiers at each relay station I'd heard the rumors this far exceeds what I imagined what do you mean bringing you aboard was the right choice like dr. highness time we've been fodder for origami for 30 years I want to lead humanity to a new life if the next simulation goes well we can finally proceed to testing yeah it's right dr. hodgins done dr. strick so we finally reached this stage this has been their AIT's to tolerate emergency what's going on a black cloud of mist appeared over HQ and and it's spreading rapidly [Music] it's happening it's coming this way here right now [Music] this this whole terrible mess are responsible for all of it I'm sorry [Applause] | Bandai Namco Entertainment America | UC_ntXHv-XdKCD7CPynVvnQw | 2020-03-27 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 230 | 1,327 |
3MUHT5HIXvc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MUHT5HIXvc | Race #2 - Yonkers Raceway - 3/26/2012 | hey everybody weom handicapping harness racing from Yonkers Raceway Yonkers New York on Monday evening March the 26th and this is my day atth the track.com race of the day let's take a look at race two tonight folks 7:30 p.m. Eastern Post Time Trotters Racing for a purse of some $8500 contenders number three the wind Surfer number two photo rules number seven Rushmore Handover and number one a peach to remember number three the wind Surfer an Australian bred entry is both the overall speed and class profile leader in this trotting field this evening recent past performance sheet show a power run show finish in his third race back this entry has won more than $10,500 in his last six starts which is the highest earning total in this field tonight number number two photo rules a 4 to one shot has hit the board in power run fashion and both of his last two winning in the second race back race two summary number three the Australian bred the wind Surfer tops my contenders list tonight here at Yonkers which also includes number two photo rules number seven Rushmore Handover and number one a peach to remember 3-2 71 in the second from Yonkers couple of Yonkers long shots for you to ponder tonight race five number three no W it's a six to1 shot qualifies as a track master plus power pony is the class profile leader comes off a power Run Place finish in her last start race nine the five to one shot number four Sapphire City the speed and class profile leader in his pacing Field tonight qualifies as a power Pony has hit the board in power run fashion in two of his last three including a power run win in his second race back so from Yonkers on a Monday night Rick need him for day atth track.com reminding was always to please bet with your head not over it | Rick Needham | UC25pBJ64dFB1MwQ6L2OHF1g | 2012-03-25 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 330 | 1,774 |
6fBVOg4MjRs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fBVOg4MjRs | Huntsville BIA adds take an umbrella/leave an umbrella service | so the downtown huntsville bia has done this umbrella initiative for years what it is is we've provided free umbrellas that were sponsored by different businesses to the merchants downtown and it's a rotating umbrella program so the idea is if you go into a store you see an umbrella you're more than welcome to take it but please bring it back to another store downtown or the same store you got it from so all these umbrellas are in and amongst the businesses downtown and we just make sure that they're available throughout downtown so on rainy days like today you're more than welcome to go and get an umbrella shop downtown and then leave the umbrella so it's there for you next time | YourTV Muskoka | UCGFl93O8PLmPtNjMbJjipsQ | 2022-06-12 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 125 | 688 |
VT9TT_55pz4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT9TT_55pz4 | Fallout to $1K! Here's why its so expensive - MTG Collector Opening | [Music] oh boy what's going on everybody we got some Fallout here this is the second iteration of it we're going to go through and uh I got more as you can see up there we're going to go through the EV I had in the first couple boxes was um 700 a box 700 in value a box box that soul ring the borderless uh surge that I pulled 100 buckers 100 bucks for that thing kind of wild actually kind of wild um so we're doing well on this product it actually makes sense for me to open and sell the singles versus sell the sealed so that means everyone gets uh gets to see them and I get to see are we going to pull a serialized card um these are in incredibly difficult to list what's going on there these are incredibly difficult to list because of the of the variance and the way the variants work um so I I don't enjoy that aspect um however um it's worth it Diamond City okay smoldering Marsh hour we got the temple Cru of Worlds we didn't pull that in the first couple packs and Caesar okay the food yeah Crucible of Worlds we didn't get a Talisman in that first box that we or I'm sorry a bobble in that first box that we opened either tainted field Ian there's Rex Harden scales okay farmer H you may get two rad counters okay okay Dark Water catacombs the guide we got the tide the guide in the tide we got the author again some Summit oh Little sergy Boots thats and what do we got coming in here at the end Arcane Signet okay very nice those are going for something like 20 bucks right now 20 bucks for an Arcane Signet foil borderless Fallout Edition so there we go the thespian okay we got the hour path to that Exile okay vending there's a vending machine that's uh non borderless I don't know don't know what that's doing actually glowing one Rex the axe the mother load okay catacombs uh nuk is Biggest Fan ax rampaging yeah radstorm radstorm cells like crazy and deathclaw man it just looks like look look at that it's just shining it looks like the rainbow foils from uh the serialized you think after nine boxes we would hit a serialized Pole right okay we got Mr Gs the Mr pre Megaton the ruin death claw Basin okay nonfoil Guardian Project okay nonfoil Scrapper one father okay canopy Vista looks good Kate she's selling nuca Cola there we go coming in and Armory Paladin for foil okay blaspheme okay we got the stranger pure steel Paladin wake the past Mortuary Meer okay okay Paladin pools a little bit of junk I just love the art on that Cemetery look so good Grim Reaper Sprint okay here we go Temple of abandon coming into the end Mystic Forge who atomise okay and Crucible of Worlds oo that deserves probably a a sleeve right that deserves a sleeve okay [Music] okay Forest I got the Serge again Yes Man Butch ruin the Vault the master Brotherhood one man that looks like it's just so shiny the Queen Wake that past Caesar's Ace idolized yeah and a centurion just looks really good rad counter okay six packs in this doesn't feel like it's as good as our first two boxes that's for sure our first two boxes just felt like really good FedEd pools bobblehead we got the perception B not surge our first one was Surge we'll put that there we got the Rogue evolving Wilds okay Ganon and the heights yes okay was trying to remember what that was agent man looks really good too there he is the farmer maybe it's the same farmer in that one uh where they're all sitting at the table why can't I think of the card name Moth Man Moth Man Mill and Dr Madison yeah that just looks so good give me a like on the uh on the lighting here give me a light on the lighting I think I finally finally got the setup that I'm happy with it only took me practically a year rampaging Squadron Duchess the command s Transcendent battle expire okay over encumbered Kate Kate sells Champions helmet surge jeez soul ring boom this guy's like another 20 Bucker and an atomize surge okay I don't have no idea what this one's doing let's just throw it in the sleeve and check it out yeah feels pretty good though I can't tell like do I want to run that in my uh token deck I feel like I do I don't know catacombs I'm just a humble Ripper not a not a player command Tower surge that's got to command some sort of a nice price branching Evolution crap Piper and the semi Piper and semi we got got the bog mantle junk town oh yeah Harden scales man that looks so good wasn't that just reprinted in wildsville drain inspiring call okay very nice we got the Invader that one's selling like crazy and a centurion this box might only have 500 in value I kind of like the lands without the surge to be honest Harden scales okay Temple stance we got the bridge swarm master and the coup Farmland oh yeah ghoulish mayor he's selling to Prairie stream wake the past it feels like a pretty good card just very expensive and toxic mutate when this creature mutates destroy Target artifact enchantment opponent controls looks pretty good too this just feels so much like Doctor Who it's crazy all right watchful Enforcer pre-war form aware we got the Brotherhood scribe WT military okay smoldering Marsh and rose rose is selling too Blas fhe another rose look at that give me a like on that on that lighting huh how about that stolen strategy okay what do we got boom Scorch beast when he attacks each player gets two red counters okay okay and a foil nuca Cola coming in for 20 bucks this one's already sold actually I had someone reach out saying give me that nuac Cola okay captain Dragon okay exotic Orchard the warmind the contagion hang heners put a one one on negative 1 negative one proliferate okay okay that seems pretty pretty good ruinous full art okay the ghoul ghoul's selling same with the actually branching Evolution isn't but he is Cliff toop mystery crawler and infiltrator what's he do improvise copy okay okay kind of feels expensive as a five drop but what do I know like I said I'm just a uh humble Ripper over here I'm feeling a bobblehead uh serialized bobblehead in this one look that pack looking weird right there it's like someone was extra touching it three dog fats sticky the Mind Stone okay mind Stone Temple of the false gods God Cutthroat single combat There She is again Kate sulfur okay Piper and The Surge FedEd pools oh Mortuary M surge Inventory management and boom okay hellbreaker horror I mean how do you not want a hellbreaker horror in this skin come on guys okay what what you saw it right what something's something's weird told you something's weird about this Moth Man I mean looks like a pretty awesome art there okay Armory Paladin surge farmer sunken Hollow the president maneuver okay a lot of nice token stuff going on here I just I run a green black token deck so doesn't do me any good okay assaultron Invader and O hole Breer Horror in the full surge man that looks really good on the side up there don't know what's going on with that but that's our surge for the Box hole breaker horror I mean feel like it's a pretty good one to get right value-wise though I don't think it's a good one to get you want the soul ring Champion Cliff toop okay Sledge infiltrator expanse almost perfect basil call okay come on come on come on there we go and off Temple iBot The Groves nuclear fallout yeah looks great all right everybody we're back we had a forced restart on the computer there kind of kind of shut down on me so we're back we're we're here I stopped exactly when it uh when it went dark so to continue father we got the autumn the ACT tracker armor Temple Guardian Project all right that's like six bucks right now though steel flash internet battle still restarting there we go Cru ible of Worlds okay and the watchful give us a serialized hit it's giving me a little bit of a hard time because uh the restart all right Ash Barons pit boy Prairie oh the strength bobblehead coming in okay we got the Meyer and the canyon Megaton little Ridge Farmland okay Farmland oh I see something there cruci of Worlds again again I don't I don't know if this is worth of uh throwing a sleeve on it or if it's ridiculous and it's $3 I don't know I don't think it's $3 though to be honest okay Temple silver shroud endurance okay okay okay we got another bobblehead three that makes up for that one box we had zero desol man that looks so good in foil you guys have no idea Champions casualties of War okay we got the fog and infiltrator okay temple temple temple assembly line The Moth Man I guess the mythics have the shiny little Fallout Boy head where the other ones just it's just white Farmland see Marshalls junk jet lethal scheme sunscorch Vandal blast Vandal blast is probably not a lot of money the foil Vandal blast doubles on the Vandal blast you can take one out without worrying about it getting scratched um we're just going to put it here cuz I'm kind of curious I don't think it's a lot though Gods worth ooh squirrel nest okay okay we're going to set that aside mechanize production okay mantle junk Town Water World Town stolen strategy we got the armor some sanity farewell and what do we got here oh boom boom insurge holy cow does that look spectacular or what that's a that's a pull holy cow I feel like this should be higher than soul ring to be honest like but what do I know what do I'm only a ripper only a lowely ripper what do I know idolized okay Heights Helm thought vessel nice little ramp rampant growth nice art on that Flagship Temple we got the glowing profit some slow over encumbered nice catacomb Caesar and a nice rat storm storm proliferate okay oh my tokens are off there we go open those bolts Signet kind of like that art on that signate to be honest shipwrecker glowing one zombie mutant we got the wandering dad again and uh the big old Legion three dogs semi Yes Man okay again there's a lot of good token stuff in here just for whites and blacks though dog meat and Vats okay come come that'ss two left it's definitely hiding in here oh I know it's hiding in here Caster Bastion Bastion I feel like I want that one too single combat nerd rage aisle ya we got the steel and Rex is looking good there pure steel nuke a nuke launcher well assemble the legion impassioned orator man does that look good jeez I'm going to on to that one too Paladin and specimen okay last pack for the day here we go nesting luck we've pulled three bobbleheads in this box that's a lucky box but not a not a serialized one though dad casualties Jason and the tracker plasma some nice scales chaos warind Alpha and what's the last one 3 2 1 toxic all right folks thanks for tuning in thanks for watching with me we did get to pull the uh ravages of War um in the surge so that was a big hit of the evening take care thanks a lot we'll talk to youall later | Philosopher Cards | UC8ClCzl3Z4iyUDirAv790mg | 2024-03-14 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,040 | 10,702 |
mFQThY_6WU8 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFQThY_6WU8 | Stop devaluing your plumbing business | even if you have 20 trucks but the business still depends on you being there you create a job for yourself you haven't created an asset you're not gonna be able to sell that asset real money is not going to want to buy it no because it depends on you right right so they're going to come in and buy your plumbing company and then need to have you be there to run it right so now you work for the company that just bought your money but you know you're trying to increase your same time you're trying to create more freedom here in the mind you know and also the idea of um you know creating value in the asset that's what you want to do | Million Dollar Pro | UC0Fh1HN4RvOw2hMk9n5PysA | 2023-07-28 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 129 | 636 |
e2kYuY4ucY4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2kYuY4ucY4 | New MCPON Mike D. Stevens - Message to the Fleet | hello Shipmates as I assume the duties of mcpon I wanted to thank my predecessor mcpon Rick West for the unwavering commitment and Leadership he provided to our Sailors and navy during his nearly 32 years of service he's been a mentor and a friend and I wish him and his wife Bobby all the best I've been asked what are my expectations as the mcpon the answer is simple I expect Sailors to work hard stay out of trouble and be a good and decent person both in and out of uniform by practicing good order and discipline adhering to our core values and treating one another with respect I believe those expectations represent who we are as Sailors and the large majority are already living up to them I look forward to working together and continuing to make our Navy the greatest Navy in the world thank you for your service I'll see you in the fleet | U.S. Navy | UCKuSaHewQKWjR2wFuqfkMEA | 2012-09-28 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 159 | 849 |
e-wajPRHGVM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-wajPRHGVM | The Sabbath teaching | good morning in greetings on the Sabbath day Sean last Sabbath we spoke we talked about the connection that Adam had with God and the severance that he caused when he ate of the tree that was in the midst of the Garden of Eden the tree of evil of good and evil actually and then we established and we found out how the Holy One the Christ came was crucified and brought that that connection that connection to God that we now have within us to those who ask for it I want to read to you that connection and that blessing that the Holy One left us and I'll be reading from the 14th chapter of John verses 1 let not your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in me in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would not have told you I go to prepare a place for you and if I go to prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there you may be also and whether I go you know the way and you know the way I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh to the Father but by me if you have heard if you had known me you should have known my father also and from henceforth you know him and have seen him and so the Holy One has established that covenant again back to the Father through him through his anointing through his way then he left us a comforter a spirit of truth that will reveal all things unto us that we may make it live and survive in this world of uncertainty no man knows what tomorrow holds only thing we know we ask God to open our eyes in the morning that we may start this day of uncertainty a place that we know nothing about have not been you have not done this but yes by faith we get up every morning and we strive to see this day being blessed of God in his word but without this Bible without his word without finding out who we are what we are and why we are we're susceptible to Satan to evil I mean it's a month it has no other children or three chorus but in God do we trust and in his word do we live and through his son do we stand in him by him and with him all things are possible without him neglect him reject him all things are fatal Oh trust and believe without his covering and his shield we have nothing the Holy One told us there'll be trials and tribulations that we must endure but all blessed is he that endures to be in for his prize is heaven that's where I stride again I don't think I'm built for Hill it's too hot then you got the kink of worms that won't die and continue to eat your skin for eternity man look at this earth has been the only hope and the only place to be this is just a pass-through for the time God blue life into Adam - the time that our Holy One was crucified - the time of today 2018 our stride is supposed to be to get home imagine that we have another place beside this plant that a spirit can dwell and rest until we meet again on the next Sabbath day blessings to you and yours they make a father watch and protect you and yours as he do me a month god bless | Rodney Rusk | UCs-q8KY_eO0nRJzQFT21UtQ | 2018-01-27 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 620 | 3,000 |
FV87yk0yvwY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV87yk0yvwY | 1984 Urban General Video Game Liquidation Promo Video Game Crash Prices | here we go again another fabulous liquidation sale from urban general we're liquidating our inventory of 500 000 video games and incredible savings you get this video game package for use on atari 2600 and sears telegames video arcade systems journey escape cowling inferno infiltrate space jockey and space cavern a retail battle of 135 dollars but that's right buy this video game package direct for only 19.95 the guaranteed lowest price in america or will we fund double the difference to you if you see the same package advertised for less to order use your credit card and call till free 1-800-582-7000 or send 19.95 plus 395 shipping and handling to video game pack box 3500 department 8 plus stallwell new jersey 07006. | Video Game Commercials | UCl07tIhRoyrtILdFwLqZGLA | 2021-10-18 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 124 | 727 |
POlP7XKzko0 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POlP7XKzko0 | Apocalypse Series (#10) Tr_34 Doomsday Prepping - Streetwise (Part 3) | [Music] has taken an oath of time on time through the ages by the declining day by the swift movement of time in insane this bunny adam the son of adam this human being is at loss through the movements of time so we find that allah has given us life allah has given us health allah has given us wealth allah has given us different amanat and trusts and this trust needs to be utilized properly so this is such an important surah of the quran allah has mentioned that uh sahabah radial anum was such that when two of the sahaba used to meet they would not separate until they would recite surah asl in its entirety to each other so just the fact that you remind each other imam shafi used to say if people had to just ponder on the surah it would have been sufficient for them so everybody is at loss but there's an exception so bill huck to recommend truth to each other to enjoying good to to enjoin each other to obedience to forbid evil to employ each other towards patience staying away from guna haram evil etc so this ah night needs to be preserved and allah is giving us a strategy this is a strategy for preservation of our life on this world and in the year after so again strategy telling you this is the problem this is where your strength should be this is where you should be focused as well so the people of iman are strategists they focused they have direction in life with regards to the ummah with regards to the akhirah with regards to their preservation of their wealth their family it is very important and we should we should we should not be taken aback by the invitation of dunya so people are experts with regards to eating on their food apps technology gadgets etc etc but the important things of life we should not be blood and and lose focus of what i should be doing so get caught in the wrong avenue like you say there was a husband standing in a bathroom scale and he was struggling to hold his stomach in so the wife noticed the husband and she made a remark she found an opportunity she said i don't think so that's gonna help it's not going to reduce your weight the scale is going to give you the same weight so the husband says it does it does show a shock so what you're talking about he said it's the only way i can read the numbers it's the only way i can read the numbers oh the people of iman have vision focus they learn to follow the instructions of allah in his rasool the instructions are clear quran is clear hadith is clear but we follow instructions likewise for preservation clear clear instructions but how much lesson do we take so we know a lot but how much do we take lesson in practice that's the question that's that's the thing which we need to be concerned about let's say there was a woman who was overweight a doctor put on a diet so he said i want you to eat regularly for two days then skip a day repeat the procedure for two weeks and the next time i see you you would have lost around five kilos so when this lady returned two weeks later she lost 20 kilos doctor was shocked baffled means he's treated many patients but uh never treated somebody who lost so much kilos in such a short span of time so he asked did you follow my instructions so she said yes to the tea but in the third day i thought i feared i was going to drop dead the doctor again and surprise said you mean from hunger so she said no from skipping no from skipping the guidelines which we have been taught which have been told we need to follow these guidelines and and take lesson so any person busy with uh leaving the house we have to leave the house for the luria for our salad so we should have a habit of being vigilant around us our environment from the moment you leave you need to notice people cars things around you and even items if in a situation on your travel so you know you've got a specific route every day if you are attacked on that route what you need to do to draw attention so let's say you pass in by some store cafes you know that you'll notice the alarm system you'll notice the cctv camera there or not so would they perpetrate it or not there that's a question mark again would you have to break the windows get the alarm the sirens their senses there etc which neighbor's house the wall is easy to climb or you can access oh there's a bell etc so your daily route whether you are walking whether you are traveling at which point so mentally daily all our routes so when you get to the store for example a person has a shop what's the first thing do i do where do i park do you have the same routine of parking every day can they plot my movements do i just lock the car without checking the doors are locked do i just am oblivious so which world am i in if a person is in a situation and uh the the assailants uh is a compromise so do you try to reason with them let's say it's a kidnapping do you try to reason with the person are you trying to but he's panicking he's he's worried he wants he wants to grab you and go so are you doing something that may spur him on to beat you to do to harm you etc in that situation yeah if uh you're trying to buy time to signal for help or attack etc but it's a different story but there's no fixed rule on every situation sometimes people keep their wallets in their back pocket they keep their phones very visible um very very negligent so we uh we we display leave bags in in the car leave it on the dashley valuable items visible when a person is in a position of compromise and you have your possessions if you need to let it go let it go um don't hold on to your things if your life is is is can be preserved and then preserve it likewise uh when you get into the vehicle as well how much of the mirrors do you utilize uh you're driving do you do you have a habit of having your gas at half level quarter level what's what's your red light where when when do you become uh do you wait are you a last minute empty tank person etc are you waiting for the fuel to be on reserve so you're a last-minute person so especially ladies should be very particular if for some necessity they need to leave and they drive in as well they should have sufficient fuel even simple things like uh run flats so a lady driver should make sure she has run flash she shouldn't be in a position where she has a flat tire just to go outside there's a lot of scams and tricks where in the parking lots they ambush and put nails on the tires wait for you to get uh a puncture and then infiltrate so simple things if a person's been followed what's now if you planned your route every day where am i going to drive so if after 10 seconds 30 seconds one minute two minutes three minutes four minutes uh up to this point if something happens what's my protocol if it's a city uh whether where's the nearest fire station where's the police station with a route that i know that i can escape where it would be complicated i wouldn't put myself in a position where i could be ambushed uh if it's a kidnapping they're going to come for you and and trail you could could it could ambush you put you in a position where they can grab you uh so they want to get you off guard which which friend is nearest to you what what emergency processes are you looking at which time of the night you travel in which businesses are open which petrol station could you go to is it worthwhile going to a petrol station would they would they relent would it be a deterrent or would engage uh if you are walking somebody's following you do you do you panic and do you run do you scream you turn around and look at them make them know that you you're watching them so you know somebody's watching you you you make them know before they pull the move um where's the light sources at night where's uh where's the [Music] engagement point where there are more people where it's more busier so each person should prepare an escape route for a threatening situation and it's not necessarily on the road if a person is in their shop if they go to a mall etc where's the escape routes where's the windows where's the doors where's the fire escapes where's gates where's the escalators where's the fences where's walls where's bridges where staircases so and these escape routes need to be escape routes not cornering routes where you get cornered and uh you cannot escape then uh barriers on your route as well identify barriers which if you need to uh get away from that situation then you need to get to safety so any stuck structural uh integrity integral structure any barriers whether it's doors whether it's cars whether it's trash dumpsters trees fences walls heavy machinery vending machines whatever it is whatever what could i use in my escape route that that will save me that will hinder them from catching me what could i make as a barrier and then in a situation if a person is compromised so besides your edc items which we discussed but what can be a makeshift weapon uh in that situation which could be used for self defense so a person will have to see how can i evolve in the situation to use it to save my life to save my assets etc so a person knows okay in his vehicle he carries these items what can i use what should i keep uh in the kitchen what items are there so ladies alone at home those ones at work what do you have do you have cutlery do you have uh scissors do you have uh knife sets what can be used you've got a shoe can that shoe be used so a certain shoe which uh can be very easy it can injure somebody seriously so in a situation what uh what you do sometimes you are traveling you witness uh a emergency situation how much should you get involved sometimes you cannot decide for who's the victim and who's the attacker so it's hard sometimes to to to identify the true situation and sometimes you could harm yourself more than anything else and hum the the other person as well so [Music] then when your situation is over sometimes there's a violent assault there's a confrontation etc and uh now when a person is safe with themselves their family to do an inventory so scan your torsos your arms your legs hands feet for any signs of injury because when you put when the adrenaline kicks in a person may be seriously injured and they do not even have a clue because your body is shut off there's a shutdown mechanism which allah has created we know somebody who was shot five times three in the stomach between the head and uh they did not even know they were shot so allah has made natural mechanisms and did they say when you're in that situation you have that one second half a second quarter second maximum maybe three seconds use your your adrenaline your force your insight allah's put that natural so don't go in a fear in a panic and freeze uh don't be beguiled don't consider them overwhelming you you need to give it everything you got and don't give up easily so like we discussed previously now in your route that you are traveling you know you've read the crime statistics in the area you've uh identified what's a common crime etc so based on the demographics based on the season based on on the region the different variants of crime you could uh on your route going and coming plot what are possible scenarios then if a person situation is over there was an attack a they escaped so after checking yourself you need to write down you need to make the notes of what is to hide the way the clothing the weapon the car model was there a license plate what is the color of the vehicle anything that you need to be taking note of and jotting down information because when a person is in shock sometimes they may forget a lot of information so firsthand to train the brain and then sometimes we invite trouble to ourselves sometimes we have these fancy number plates customized place etc so it's bringing attention to yourself to your family you can provoke uh incidents on the road etc so try to be somebody straightforward um show comes with a price likewise a person wears a t-shirt and there are some remarks you might just find the wrong person it's automatically the fact that you had a statement on your t-shirt could promote and put you in a situation it could be a a life-threatening situation some people who are in kung fu karate martial arts etc wear their uniform so now sometimes a person can interpret it as a challenge sometimes a person will have an idea of of what skill you have so they will get you off guard knowing what background so the least the less people know about you the better and the least they can get you and surprise and you can surprise them surprise them even better so catching them off guard so sometimes uh you need to familiar familiarize yourself what we call ambush zones so in your daily travel you are going whether you walk into the masjid whether you're going to the mall etc or work what are the ambush zones where am i most risk at risk most so you know that they will exploit uh that place so you need to be familiar uh with its populated area unpopulated with uh it's a dark area poorly lit area where the it is behind trees so how close do you work uh can somebody hide behind the three can somebody hide how close you walk to berlin so at the corner somebody can be there to ready to ambush you and just grab you and and rob you or harm you likewise um corners be very careful of their doorways walls tables cars etc so possible ambush zones uh when you are walking and when you are driving so uh as an individual you need to profile your own self and situational awareness but not only awareness but preparedness as well so try try to do it now that uh identify ambush zones in your vicinity and a good rule is that uh plan to rob yourself and kidnap your own self so if you are going to plan somebody to kidnap you and rob you what would you have thought of doing think like the enemy think like the enemy so uh when that process has come in then that helps a person to be more vigilant and more aware likewise simple things you're going to elevate how close you stand to it how far away from the door you need to stand uh you go to a public place first rule is never have your back towards the entrance back to a place of compromise try to have your back to the wall the furthest place inside so it should be it shouldn't be close outside because grab and run your bag your phone etc uh inside you are more secure likewise if there is a robbery and they get in a way and there's a crossfire crossfire obviously when they are running out they may be a shootout etc so innocent bystanders so just been going to every place just a proper strategy of preparing awareness likewise when you carrying something uh how heavy you get in a lot of bags you cannot do something your bag itself it can be grabbed you've got a lot of packets etc why don't you think of using a trolley if you camouflage your bag is it uh easy visible you get in a backpack example so when there's a need carried in in the in the front of you not in the back somebody can rob you easily uh when when you get into a bus when you go into a mall a shopping center where do you leave your bags how do you carry it etc when you go into a loft if there's a stranger male alone and it's a female do you get in uh when you're exiting and is a suspicion person outside when you're exiting do you exit when it suspicious person enters then do you get off immediately which you should be doing that kind happened and you're gonna push all the buttons on every floor and you're gonna stand next to where the buttons are with your finger on the panic so in every area there are some emergency protocols so wherever you are try to find out where what are those emergency protocols so people are in herbert when they go into a fighting room they leave their bags unattended they leave their bags on the trolleys and the grocer the shopping carts uh they very lax when they open their wallets it's bulging with credit cards it's bulging with cash so we we don't take the time we're too lazy to to to prepare you're going to a store somewhere else do you take the exact amount of money how much do you need get a little bit extra why are you getting so many bundles of money or keep that bundle separately so you don't need to open your wallet so if you're in the car let's say you're going into a store you know you're going to spend x amount take that out put it separately in your pocket in front of you well you don't need to open up your wallet so you don't need to take out your your wallet uh exposure credit card etc and uh being in shape is important so in this situation you need to be healthy which we discussed previously and uh sometimes people don't ever use the public transportation system so now when you're traveling where's the public transports systems if i am in a position of compromise i need to get away i need to go into a public transport system so you need to learn we are the main areas of public transport how do i access it etc what cars do i need in a situation in an emergency then people sometimes are in the evening they are tired they're coming back or they're traveling long distance then they sleep they are fatigued that's again putting yourself at risk um so we shouldn't put ourselves in this position likewise uh if a person is a victim of a carjacking it's on route carjacking the criminal wants the car so see what's the criminal do they want you do they want the vehicle you need to identify they need to rob you uh possible scenarios so the mind needs to start working before things happen not when it happens when we go to any place where do we park our cars it should be closest to our destination so and you always stick to the same parking when you at a place for where you have a drink a milkshake etc and uh you need to go to the bathroom for example do you leave your drinks unattended so somebody could just drop something without you knowing etc these are simple things which can cause long-term repercussions uh have you taught the children not to take anything from a stranger if somebody had to pick them up do you have a code word for the kids do you have a rust watch with a panic button in your bags in your vehicle in your personal possessions and it's it's quite cheap you have this gps uh 24 hours 72 hours 96 hours gps trackers do you have that have you ever thought of your valuable items so sometimes you get in something very valuable and it cannot be lost have you put any trackers there uh do you give everything in your bag all your credit cards of your whole life no you only need one credit card so keep one we're too lazy to do to unpack and pack so we just want to grab everything everything ready made but ready-made is ready gone as well so um you have this body pouches where you wear it on you so you if you need to give a lot of things have it on your body pouch and your bag is just your basic thing so if it goes you know it can go i don't ever add my id copy i don't have my passport copy i don't have my forex i don't have everything that's so important to me that it'll take me another month or two just to recover and recoup some people also think us their phones are very negligent we got everything on our phone your phone goes everything's gone you haven't backed it up you don't have uh processors you just download a lot so so be organized uh in a situation when you have to run what's the ideal place to run ideal route if you see a threat you shouldn't just run or panic but slowly uh disappear and prepare for an offensive threat somebody may come and say you know what i got 100 i need some change so you pull out your wallet and uh another person comes and grabs it so have you distributed your your money everywhere like we said your credit cards um important carry a bluff bus a bluff wallet skip some bluff money as well somebody comes grab it and throw it on the floor take what you want and run they're not gonna run after you they're gonna run after the money but it's a bluff money you've just got all small change and little bit notes to look like make it look like a bundle etc likewise your bluff purse um before you go into a shop do you [Music] check and scan the shop if a robbery is not in in progress uh somebody stops and asks you for directions are you look a person to take shortcuts no uh going through an a subway place which is not clear when you walk in you should be walking facing traffic and especially if you are being followed what processes will you take so these are all important steps we we need to be preparing we need to be taking lessons from the environment from the mall we are living in an era where our life our family is at risk uh the amel for today islam said [Music] and who's the most uh generous after me to acquire knowledge so first near do we need to make is to acquire all the 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ARlLmPkPyz8 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARlLmPkPyz8 | Gretchen Renee - The Fireside Chat Series | [Music] hello everyone and welcome to inside leather history of fireside chat i'm doug o'keefe the host and the producer of the chats the fireside chat series is a program of the leather archives and museum this evening i am on the zoom chat with gretchen renee who was i want to get this right you were alaska state boot black 2018 international ms boot black 2019 correct okay and it's very late in the evening in chicago but because of the time change it's only seven o'clock for you this evening so i'm glad we can sit down and do your chat gretchen let's begin right at the beginning tell me a little bit about your growing up where you're from your family uh born and raised up here in alaska mainly anchorage so south central alaska and um i have one older sister um my parents live nowadays about a two and a half hour drive south of here but they moved up in like the late 40s and 50s when they were young so technically first generation but not really uh then i went let's see i moved to seattle for school and then phoenix for four years and then i've been back up here for nine so what brought your parents up to alaska um they didn't have much choice they were a year and a half and three years old okay but uh both their fathers actually came up for work and then um did the whole scent for the family a year later once they were better established kind of deal okay so that had to be a very a very challenging time alaska was still very much in the growth process some years ago yeah yeah i think so um [Music] it's interesting though you know my mom always talks about how she's really glad that her parents brought her and her brother up when they did um which was in 1951 for my mom and then 1947 for my dad um just because it's such a different their lives were very different compared to family members and cousins who lived outside outside being the lower 48 or outside alaska um yeah but i think also in some ways i'm jealous of uh the experiences they got to have you know it's changed so much even since i was a kid like anchorage has practically doubled in size since i was a kid um there's a lot more here now and that's been you know you know 20 30 years versus back in the 60s when my parents were at school in fairbanks and hitchhiking in the winter from fairbanks anchorage which you know is roughly 400 miles so tell me a little bit about your growth in the leather community your growth in the as you went toward boot blocking and other things in the community um so it's funny in that i i officially started in the community at large if you will in 2012 fall 2012. uh looking back a lot more from made sense from when i was you know toddler and on a lot of things made more sense um but when i first started the community more on the just kink and fetish side and trying things out and um i never i thought oh well there's this there's this what i'm doing and then there's leather over here where there aren't you know we didn't know of that many people that were real leather uh folks here and um just that preconceived notion whatever that was so it's interesting to realize for me over time for a lot of things like i wouldn't have thought myself nine years ago if someone said oh you're a leather woman i would've been like i don't think so am i i don't know but it's kind of like a and it's funny about a lot of identities that i have is that it's built in time like over time where the suddenly the realization is oh yeah yeah that does describe me okay great um it's been it's been interesting it's been interesting to go from kind of not even a spectrum but like one area thinking that was my thing and then realizing there was this core of leather underneath if that makes sense at all i don't know let's take a bit of a step back because you alluded to the leather scene explaining a few things from when you were a toddler tell us about that certain fantasies from a very young age made a lot more sense they usually involve some form of bondage i realize now uh at the time it was just you know being strange and um you know pressure points or whatever like oh please no press on that and my mom would be like oh but i bet you feel so good when you when i stop i'm like no it feels good when you're digging in more and the look on her face she really i think she was a little shocked a little disturbed she probably realizes now makes a lot more sense um does the things that i found i think intriguing or um alluring like one of my first uh first crushes lady crushes whatever you want to call it was the character lady heather on csi who is a dominatrix in like season two and i was just activated absolutely captivated um it just it hit a chord if you will and apparently it was more obvious to others than it was to me so i think um what was i 16 15 16. and in some german high school in a high school german class and it was one of those projects of okay get together in pairs and talk about figure out what your partner is going to be when they grow up and then find the german word and draw a picture okay my partner drew to my surprise me as a dominatrix a stick figure dominatrix with fangs and a whip and high heels and a corset with little uh bandaged bleeding and crying figures in the back offering me bags of money i was like 15 or 16. so it really makes people had better ideas about things than i did myself tell us more about that evolution when you were young what were you doing experimenting were you reading about this tell us how that evolved um so i'd say probably when i was very young it was more about sensation um like uh the feeling of taking uh like a lanyard for keys or um on a piece of twine and just wrapping it really tight and pulling tight for the feeling of constriction being able to pull around um certain pain things um pressure points or it's probably part of the reason why my pinkies are a little crooked is i used to do this really really really hard um i probably broke them at some point but it felt good it just it yeah it just felt good it just felt good so um yeah some of the early sexual fantasies that generally involved that things that weren't um i don't know oh he's gonna take me on a date and blah blah blah whatever you know um and similarly when i was in high school i was the i thought i was one of the straight members of um my apologies now to everyone i told that to i didn't know now i know um same thing in college but uh one of the members we started a a gsa in my high school and um it was a a gsa a gay straight alliance a student alliance it's a student group yeah and um like our very first summer after we've been around for i think a year um uh the westboro baptist church came up to picket the city and all the churches and the parade and all that um so we marched and all that but it that same year we went to there was a small workshop or a weekend conference at the local university and one of the other students and i were able to go for a short period and one of the things that made me go okay is we've been in a workshop about um i think the history of words like the history of homosexual i'm gay and all those things and leaving to because we had to head home or back to school wherever it was past we were walking out and passed one of the women who'd been in the class uh she had gone after her obviously for something and had come back in and it was just a double what's that turn uh a term a double look second look um i had to look again i i'm forgetting the word yeah uh double take here we go ha ha um because she was just and i could barely i can just that feeling of warmth and connection and i mean hell it's been over 20 years and i'm still just like i don't know that i've ever seen her again but just that recognition of it was just really delicious so things like that that at the time let me do to do doing my own thing looking back i'm like oh yeah nope i have a type when did you begin really experimenting with other women way late honestly well hmm sometime in my 20s probably and then even then not not much it was it was i think some of my own oh what would you call that oh [Laughter] internalized [ __ ] do you identify as a lesbian or as queer how do you identify very good question um it's something that's definitely been continuing to evolve from me um you know i used to think of myself as being no i'm straight i'm friendly but i'm absolutely straight i only like guys i blah blah blah and then as time went on coming across the idea i'm like oh i feel i feel queer i feel this way but you know what it's only for gay men and 100 percent uh plus the only lesbians that's not me i'm not queer enough i i'm not enough to count as queer i'm not enough as to be this or this um and that's that's been an interesting development you know i really love there was a quote from jack thompson whom i adore uh when he won iml and i literally i actually have it someone made an art piece and i have it hanging above my desk at work um that says if you're enough for you then you're enough period um and i think about that a lot i think about that a lot um because i didn't know necessarily where i fit in and i i've always struggled with what what am i where do i fit because i didn't necessarily feel like i fit clearly one place or another so i um i do identify as queer my pronouns are she her um i really i like people more than i like a set gender and i find a lot of people alluring and a lot of energy delicious if that makes sense whether it's play romantic sexual um and i so i really go more with queer rather than something like pansexual or what someone say omnisexual um because when i've thought about it and tried to really break it down for me sexuality and sexual energy isn't just about who i want to [ __ ] um it's more about it's more imbued through my life so uh things like my belief that the personal is political and so is pleasure um pleasure is absolutely political uh you know my sexuality includes the leather includes kinks and bdsm and ethical non-monogamy um and also just that sense of energy and trying to be present in my body and feel all the things so um yes the queer identity and my sexuality in that sense is really driven by um people who i find attractive what makes me wet what i want in my life who who and what drives me and also the type of world i want to exist which i want to live in so that was all kind of like link up for me identify as queer identify as the leather woman identify as jewish um i'm neurodivergent uh so in some things that puts me enter under a um disability umbrella i guess um i'm a boot black but and then i'm also a switch but in my current relationship and a lot of relationships i tend to be more on the s side of the slash uh but there are times that it goes on the other side so i just feel like a big mix if that makes sense tell us about early experimentation how were you finding out about this whole genre of lifestyles um so it's something i'm watching your facial expressions they're great um so uh from the the early early feelings of sensation you know uh certain pains felt good um pressure and restriction felt good um the type of character that i found enthralling like lady heather um my first relatively like i can't even say totally first how old was i when i hm okay see there's something else that makes sense um i got an adult fantasy novel somehow i don't know how i got it at the bookstore but i did when i was 11 because i remember showing it to my fifth grade teacher and having you know me reading through this section where it talks about like a raping bench and things like that and she just like uh okay why don't you put that book away and i think i was oh probably the summer after high school i did i read the um what is that the sleeping beauty trilogy from anne rice i think but my first more uh in person exposure and experimentate not even experimentation just exposure was um when i was at university my first year in seattle uh during well they had some like sexuality awareness week or something and they had mistress matisse come and do a lecture or talk something like that and uh oh yeah i was so excited i don't know i didn't know at the time like why i was so flippant excited to have heard about her coming i just was like i gotta go i took one of my doormates and she's like oh okay and please tell us yeah i'm sorry would you please tell us about mr smith so she's a or at least a seattle area dominatrix i believe she was a pro dumb and then also she wrote for what was it the stranger which was an alternative newspaper in seattle she actually had a pretty regular column called control tower so um she and i want to say she brought one of her s types with her to do a talk during sexuality week about alternative lifestyles i think would probably be the official term and uh yeah i just i i had to go i absolutely i just knew i had to go and i took a uh my neighbor there at the dorm and you know eagerly waiting and i just i felt like i had i hung on every word i i found it just absolutely fascinating and it was just i loved it i loved it there was something about it that just felt like it made perfect sense and that it was perfectly right um it's actually really funny because i knew just light vaguely new to the other students that were there like sitting directly behind my friend and i from the hillel the student jewish group that i went to and uh that's a good way of really breaking the ice you know if you're at a small gathering listening to a dominatrix talk together really does a good job at breaking the ice and it's really funny because one of the two um they both became really really good friends and still are friends um but after their initial embarrassment i didn't pay attention um one of them actually eight years later became the first person i ever played with when i was visiting them in new york city um so and then they were really like my introduction to the larger scene you know my first actual play um happened with this person and uh they took me to the purple passion in new york city uh which i love and i go to every time i'm in the city um and that's actually where i think it's lola um when we were there she told me about the because i was getting ready to move back up to alaska and she told me about that there was an alaska community so i learned about the alaskan fetish in king community and phet life and northern exposure which is our yearly conference i learned about that from someone in a bdsm shop in new york city how fascinating yeah it's a small world and i love it that way well tell us tell us more about the alaska community what do you have okay what do we have can you can you be more well for example are you talking about like what the scene sorry go ahead now just what what kind of clubs do you have what organizations are there what uh activities go on if someone like were coming to alaska what could i anticipate very good question um [Music] we have a fair relatively small i think community compared to a lot of places outside because our demographic pool our population is relatively smaller um and we can be really isolated uh from other communities because of the geography the the distance um a lot of times when people travel to an outside event uh for the first time it's absolutely mind-blowing because there are so many people and the the vibe is just different i think a lot of people get spoiled uh living outside of alaska uh i've heard there was heard it a number of times when presenters and educators have come up here um man alaskans turn out and they play hard because we don't have always the same level of opportunity we can't just drive to another state over we could it would take a week but we could um so i mean it's possible um here in anchorage we have um we have the more widely known gay bar mad myrnas does a weekly drag show all that good stuff um you know a block and a half away we have the raven which is our leather bar um smaller but it's definitely building up a little more um that's where we host a lot of events for our leather community up until a few years ago well i think about two years ago we had a um actually gosh it's coming up on three years ago we actually had for five years the alaska center for alternative lifestyles which was done by the fox fighter productions we had a public play play space um public uh as a dungeon uh sold sold around you know as a sex club uh variety show and then there were party there would be uh workshops or classes social events during the week um play parties on fridays and saturdays um usually at boot black on duty on the weekends um that was really great the club for about five years i think um i'm hopeful and excited for things to be making a comeback but you know [ __ ] covid oh it sucks i hate coping so many levels um it's it's really interesting in alaska um we're kind of a mix in that on the one hand we can be pretty internationally minded and also open-minded historically a lot of people in alaska have been like well i don't really care what you do just don't mess with what i do and we'll get along fine um that's changed over time uh i think there are a lot more churches and people are more conservative and just with more people uh population wise some of that feeling and that sense has changed so people seem to care a little bit more now about other people's business so we have a mix of hey you know what do what makes you happy if you're not hurting someone else woo then you have other places like in fairbanks to my understanding it's against the law because someone cannot you know be being particularly uh impact or bdsm activities because there you cannot consent to your own abuse quote unquote so it's an interesting difference you know versus anchorage all right open dungeon we had a trifle on the street whoo great um fairbanks even at a house party we noticed we've gone up there and years ago noticed that people wouldn't stand and watch a scene happening necessarily the way they would uh at other events out you know in anchorage or outside and we asked at one point we said okay well obviously someone's interested cause they're looking but then they quickly not like with a hand but they're not looking as much and certainly outstanding and we made that comment to a friend at the time who lived up there and they said oh it's because here you can't consent it's technically illegal here in fairbanks um they're not used to being able to see or to watch because it's not legal and that that's a little so we have a huge mix we have a huge mix of things you know um even at and i think it's the case everywhere um in the case of like pride parade and pride and does leather or kink or blah blah blah or long at pride i think that's pretty much every year and every june it comes back up uh it was probably two three years ago pride yeah 2019 two or three years ago and um uh alaska center for alternative lifestyles we always marched um in the parade towards the back happy to bring up the rear and that's you know comfortable for us and um [Music] there was some group in the pride parade it was oh one or two away from us i don't need to remember something relatively vanilla but we're dressed no one was showing nipples although technically in anchorage nudity from the top up is totally legal on the street doesn't matter what part you got you don't have to wear pasties outside in a bar or cabaret setting it's different wow but you could march naked from the top up down fifth avenue no problem but you see have that mixed and then there was this group that when we're all prepping and gathering for the parade in the morning blah blah blah they looked at us and said uh-uh and they they left they refused to march next to us they didn't want to be next to those people and they left wow so it's overall i feel like we've got a pretty good community like most communities there's um factions and changing and oh there's this new thing and oh this person lots of this happening it was interesting with pandemic kind of setting in some of the newer groups that it started um you know for a while we usually had about three different groups and a lot of people would float between different social groups if you will um but there's constantly changes you know this group the leaders moved out of state so that kind of went by the way sign but then these people came back to the alaska because there's a lot of transients in that sense so like all things that ebbs and flows it ebbs and flows but we do really like to get together when there's not a pandemic and um it's just it's exciting and it feels different at events here than most events i've been into outside um so i feel like most events here are a little more um doesn't sound strange but homegrown home grassroots in some sense um which i know throws some people off you know they're used to hey this is you know the yearly conference there are 180 people coming um shout out to exposure but you know it's they're used to okay it's at the specific venue with you know these specific badges to do this is the schedule and there's some of that absolutely there's a lot of that and a lot of work goes into it but it's it feels more like the whole community for the most part comes together to help with it um rather than just attending if that makes sense yeah it just it feels more just different more down to earth sometimes which some people are all for and other people not really a big fan of and that's okay because we all got our things when do you hold northern exposure it's usually every july obviously this year and last year kind of messed that up but it's typically in the summer the weather is gorgeous doesn't interfere with fishing too much we love to fish here um but it's lovely also i i'm i'm sadistic enough i i like to [ __ ] with people and the fact that whenever people who haven't been to alaska or haven't been to alaska for in the summer come up and so they they start to do the oh my god when does it get dark and i get to tell them this fall i love that i love [ __ ] with people like that he's great now what sorts of things do you do during northern exposure um a lot of different educational con classes and workshops on a variety of topics soft skills hard skills panels round tables um so we've got a lot of those there's usually the alaska state boot con contest typically happens that weekend and then there are a couple play parties uh you know it's usually uh officially it's like a friday saturday sunday but then we have presenters that have come up that come up a little bit before and stay afterwards so there's things like going sightseeing or going fishing just the fun stuff and being able to really spend more one-on-one time with people that you've either never met or you haven't seen in a while really hot play really really hot play but it it's an incredible chance to get to really get one-on-one time not that they have to obviously if they don't want to but um historically you know community wise community members were driving picking up presenters and saying okay you need coffee let me go grab me this coffee and take you to the class and have you know all this happening and i feel like you don't get that from other places so it you make some really really good connections that way let's take a step back though i'd like to know more about your learning process for boot blogging how did that evolve for you my sirs boots were horrible that's yeah um that's literally how it started i am uh my sir and i have been together oh it was four years in august and one of the things we talked about entering into our relationship you know is expectations what i i really enjoy service and what does the service look like to me okay well and what does my sir want for service um and leather care was one of those things um he wears leather boots at least at that point was wearing leather boots that were pretty much his only footwear um whether it was working in a restaurant kitchen hiking on a glacier take your pick they were falling apart shredding holes you couldn't tell what color the leather was originally and so i was like okay panda i need help what do i do with this mess um and panda was great kind of you know it was starting to show me so i started doing that okay i actually kind of like that i like how things feel um i like having something to focus on and use my hands on then it also turns out pretty nice okay um so yeah just like started there hadn't done a whole lot and then um i was he he debates whether this is entirely true most of the time he just admits it um so like a few weeks before the 2018 contest for state blue black um the there was some conversation about ooh uh one of our friends preston was getting ready to run he's like oh you should do it i'm like no and sir looked at me and said do i really need to volunteer you essentially vollen told me to run for the contest but what were you doing what were you able to do with his boots you said they were in terrible shape uh i cleaned them a lot multiple multiple multiple times i cleaned them i fixed laces actually i might have replaced his laces because there wasn't much hope um i picked out years worth of pebbles and gravel ground into the soul i re-glued bits of the soul that of the souling that had come off um at that point i didn't know how to patch holes so i literally after cleaning ridiculous amounts of grime from them um i conditioned them within an inch of their lives gave them a nice little buff and they looked beautiful and they looked like actual boots and you could tell they were leather and then he wore them for another week and they devolved and i was very sad for a little while but take us a little further back i mean you mentioned that it all began with his boots but you had to have had some inkling that brought that we had talked about caring for his leathers uh you know he had boots he had a vest like a bar vest um and a leather jacket that he wore and still wears a huge majority of the time and it's something that i i liked the touch of and i liked the feel of and it was something that he talked about oh you know it'd be nice to have this taken care of okay well i want to make you happy this would be something to do and then it just kind of became a monster on its own um yeah before that though i honestly i didn't like i knew it existed vaguely in the back part of my mind but it wasn't really uh on my front burner if that makes sense now you mentioned panda another boot black in an alaska were you otherwise mentored in that area so uh panda absolutely um beau black from washington state mickey rebel door mickey um and there have been so many other people that i've been really happy to learn from although i feel like i never never enough you know i never quite i want more i want more and then life intercedes so those would be some of my first people that really working with now do you have specific products that you like to use most boot blacks i find do have that you know it really depends on what i'm using it for or what type of leather i'm working on we have up here we do a lot a lot a lot of oil tans rather than high shines so i really love really thick heavy conditioners um i really like open offs um i've made some of my own like soap and i know panda makes a really nice um conditioner as well a lot of times i just i i've used two birds um i have to be in the right mood for humors or hubbards if that makes sense um openoffs is more my go-to because of the i think the the smell and i like the way it feels whether the oil or the the more the ointment style what do you mean to be in the right mood for huberts um you know this is gonna sound strange i think i generally would use hubert's um i'd be more up to use hue words in a scene if it's something i know that the person liked and it was more not really for show but more experiential than more just for leather care um if i like a night in the club um i would still use open ups i'm not a i'm i know i mean a blasting here i'm not personally a huge fan of the smell or taste of humors i know waiting for lightning to strike but um you know i really i just i love the feel and the smell of open ups and the beeswax and i just really like those but if it's something where oh uh some of my favorite things to do honestly are um even at events like there's a fed football a fetish ball fundraiser most years to benefit one of our um local non-profs that's a hiv and aids charity essentially um and so that's a big thing where you know the the vanilla people get to come and look because the people are the show meaning us um and that's definitely right yeah we're the show um but it raises some really good money um for a really really good cause and it's i'm not gonna lie it's fun i get to speak people and they ask for it um but similarly uh as part of that doing like food lagging demo or seen keywords with the the tint i wear white you can really see it a lot better when it's smeared all over same with um polishes stubborns things like that when it comes to polishes i tend to like lincoln the best saphir is beautiful um but i save it because it's a small tin and it's expensive tell us a little bit about boot blocking in the community in alaska are you able to go into the raven and do this or is this more something you would do in a private party setting um it can be done in a private party generally you can do it at the raven and at events we actually do it at the raven um it's still something like trying to get people to recognize more if that makes sense panda does a really good job on the blessing of the bikes you know for when motorcycles hit the road there's a huge blessing on the bikes and there's usually a boot block or two there um i've done boot blacking on some saturdays at it's been a few years now at um tandy leather here uh in anchorage and um but definitely at the raven we have a blue black stand there it's currently in storage and yeah coved um but that was made to sit there at the raven um for during events you know most private house parties not so much uh certain play parties more official ones like um from the showbox uh from syrah uh or at acal those kind of parties those generally will have more of a black kind of on duty if you will tell us about preparing for the alaska i want to get this right alaska state boot black because you said that your sir was threatening to volunteer you yeah um that time is really a blur a lot of these things become a blur um just trying to figure out like what is this and what is this and how do i make this go there um yeah it was a lot of more practicing and trying to just figure out what the hell i was doing and especially as i got closer being able and kind of talking myself up if that makes sense i tend to be more of an introvert um having to talk myself in and up to the the lean in um letting my my flirtatiousness come out which a lot of the time i tend to otherwise like bring back and like reign it in reign it in uh oh yeah some of my favorite photos from that weekend i've got a corset tits are up to here oh yeah just oh i'll just do anything i mean not quite any you know um and just being able to embrace that i think so there were different components of that of getting more comfortable with talking to people the the physical skills and then um yeah just the just lean in just go for it you know i think that was a lot of the prep which is good because there really wasn't much time it was just a few weeks beforehand how many contestants were there your year uh for alaska state i was one of three okay now what do you feel set you apart to win that i think just different energy you know um i also tend to sometimes hyper focus so just i'm getting this done i'm getting this done i can't go and look at anything else i've got to stick and do this and um not not letting myself get distracted sometimes because otherwise i am very distractible um very distractible shiny objects a lot so i think that was probably part of it also it coincided to my benefit with um women of drummer having a regional meeting at northern exposure so in that case the girls deaf and the feminine energy definitely worked in my favor what did you have to do as part of your contest in order to win the title so for the alaska state competition um it was a few different categories um one selling raffle tickets at the beginning of course and then to raise money um stand time and you know spending it you know getting your stand time in having people come and sit for you and then people could give tickets to whoever you know whatever person they thought yes did the best um there was a um a tech boot to do and then uh also a speech the speech i don't believe counted towards points for anything but it was a good uh practice that gives you to give in front of everybody uh and unlike many other bootleg competitions there was a fantasy portion um on stage yeah um so that made it extra fun nerve-wracking but also fun with music and yep right there what did you do for your fantasy oh i want to say i did something along the lines of um [Music] like uh there was a music mix and it was pretty much i like to think uh most switches fantasy but maybe it's just me um of being able to come home and being the the more the dominant partner and being taken care of and loved and eaten out by a beautiful red haired woman and an apron lovely versus and then having my sir come in and yank me around and beat me and she's kissing me here and he's yanking my hair and i got to have my way with both of them so that worked for me after winning that what were you able to do with your title um so i was able to do some really nice state things i'm doing some small classes and things in the state within the state of alaska and syrah was awesome and sent me to events outside as well so i got to go to things like women of drummer just being able to go to events why am i driving a blank um being able to go to events outside events in the state um yeah that that was pretty sweet and just trying to increase some of that recognition or exposure and also i mean the chance to not that i couldn't have done it before but the chance to really get a lot of practice enough hey all right friday and saturday you're gonna be at the club and really being able to be at home in the club and hey this is my area and developing a lot of that ongoing relationship and that connection with other people in my community because i'm there maybe you want me to do your boots maybe you want me to do your chaps maybe we're just gonna hang out and chat and catch up it all it all works out for me tell us about going to the international context terrifying i mean really okay very intimidating i um i was incredibly lucky uh with the team i had um sarah my partner sheb and ali the latter two are my handlers just to have some idea of what i was getting myself into um the amount of prep work for interviews for tech boot for what you need to wear how you need to present yourself because you're going to be on display um all the the bits and pieces that weekend is a blur like i have vague little memories from here and here but an absolute blur of faces and people and events and the rushing from here to here to here um yeah just really wild really really wild well it's nerve-wracking for someone who might want to attend the contest tell us where's it held so at that point it was held in san jose california and had been for a number of years uh mademoiselle sisi has taken over and now is producing the contest and so she has talked about wanting to pick up again um what had been done i think it was uh amy remix had done uh years ago and actually start migrating it a little bit the contest so it's a little more accessible yes i know amy marie meek um took imsel at the time and was moving it to different locations and then it settled in san jose uh so are you saying that the uh black contest has now been sort of branched off from that no no it's went from the imsel weekend to the imsel baby weekend so those contests happen together um the imsel and the international ms boot black happened at the same as part of the same contest weekend okay but um i know no no that hasn't changed but there's been discussion about potentially starting to rotate the location again oh as a whole unit okay oh okay okay now i think it's pretty exciting what do you feel set you apart for the international contest um it's a very good question i think energy and probably positivity um brooklyn's amazing um there was just one other contestant for big black and um but just we have different i'm sorry i see yeah but we also we just have different um [Music] presentations of uh the energy we put out and i think that i think that's the big thing brooklyn's a really talented dude black and knows more in many things than i do we just have different um focuses on skill set i guess that makes sense now what were you thinking what were your feelings when you won oh [ __ ] what have i done pretty much that i think that's really quite actually possibly word for word yeah so what did you do what have i done you know it's one of those things i feel like i got a lot more out of the out of the year than so many other people i i was able to travel and to meet people and make incredible connections and share space with people that i'm absolutely in awe of some of whom i knew before the event others that i have met since and uh in awe isn't really even quite a strong enough term you know um i feel like to be able to represent because alaska you know yay uh alaska's amazing but too many people oh oh wait there are queers there are leather people in alaska are you sure yes yes we are everywhere i am quite sure but um being able to be out there is a little bit of a face but it's always struck me as strange i i don't i never think of myself as being a very memorable person and it's it was weird for me during my title year for international instance when um anyone has said oh you know i i know you you're the frozen femme or oh i just really love that you're doing this like really me really um but it's been nice to to be able to have that and to like like for so many things to see and be seen and um my speech at the international contest came from a place of determining my own queer and jewish identity and how those things really played into how our community can be richer you know food is improved by flavors and bringing it all there and some of my fears you know about the state of our our country and our world and where things were going and starting to not feel safe again um and it was interesting to me because there were several people who came up after the contest after the speech that night some i hadn't talked to before and they they saw me and said me too i feel this too i'm afraid of those two um and that that was really touching and it was also um one of the reasons i feel like i got more than i could have possibly given back who were some of the most impressive people you met during that time oh mama vi and uh judy tallwing are absolutely i can't even i can't even um all my sisters are incredible from the imsel uh insulin imsel bb um community absolutely incredible i i have i am so in love with um just i just love people that's gonna sound weird i being able to find a common spark whether i was in australia or montreal or new york city um just people from all over the place and um [Music] elisa uh who was you know um from two years before me international must be black from two years before me her girl complex my god they're incredible absolutely amazing um you know closer to tegan and ange of course just by uh spacing but um i'm just trying to there are so many there are so many people that thinking that i might not have met them and gotten them in my life that that's the that is the real win for me that's cheesy as that sounds [Applause] what were some of the places you were able to visit oh um never enough i made it to chicago several times uh montreal and sacramento sydney and melbourne australia um new york city and where else am i i'm blanking on des moines iowa i know i'm forgetting others my my title year ended in the onset of coven so yeah that kind of that messed with i ended up canceling like my last three trips or well one of those was still title year and then other trips were like carry over yeah because we arrived back stateside from australia on march 8th so i always kind of went to a hand basket hell in a hand basket talk with us a little bit about mentoring in the boot blocking community what does that mean to you for me or at least to my mind mentoring in the boot black community has several different areas or at least a couple facets one you know it's that it's the hand skills it's the which products it's the the book learning if you will and then okay physically feels like this it tastes like this this is the practical aspects there's also um mentoring about asserting oneself what's your place with regards to the stand how do you run your stand how do you run your space and your time and your energy um that's a whole other area you know and i also think another area that because that's something else that also is directly or can be directly hey this person is doing this this is a way you can address that and then there's the mentoring by example or the leading by example of hey this is how i put myself out in the community this is how i'm supporting people this is what service i'm providing not enough you must do this exact same thing as me but showing an example of what a blue plaque can be and can do for the community at large so i think for me mentoring involves those multiple areas we haven't touched upon how unique is the general fetish scene in alaska i'd like you to tell us a little bit about that how unique is it um we have a weird thing for being in bikinis outside when it's 55 below i'm just going to throw that out there it's a thing it is a thing um you know i i feel like if you're looking at fetish community itself i feel like there's not because we have a smaller population that there isn't necessarily as many opportunities for people that would be more as identified as fetishists versus kingsters versus leather you know we have very much like a lot of places uh an overarching umbrella but there just aren't as many um specifically for different fetishes which we don't have the population at least not that they're willing to admit it so that's probably accurate yeah what will be your legacy in the community oh man [Music] what i hope my legacy will be because i don't know that i ever really get to decide that my my hope will be that my legacy will be someone warm and who uh bring smiles relatively little drama and tears um and someone just welcomed me who's able to pass on information and provide a safe space for people i would love it if my legacy were being someone kind who continually worked to take care of others serve the community and keep moving it forward in a positive direction um and just becoming a better boot black a stronger person and someone who helped lift other people up and i really want to finish my thing about [ __ ] on every so on every single continent i haven't made it there yet my final question what's the biggest misconception about you that i have it together i have my stuff together i really don't well gretchen renee i would like to thank you for being part of inside leather history a fireside chat and for being our first representative from alaska thank you for having me doug i feel incredibly honored thank you ah me [Music] | Fireside Chats with Douglas O'Keeffe | 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keSwelZG1ZA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keSwelZG1ZA | Should We Turn Prisons Into Colleges? | welcome everybody should I stay here this implied my voice at all or should I just walk around so this I'm very pleased to introduce tell you a little bit about him but first I would say so this this presentation was made possible by the Student Activities Council and the philosophy of organization and so several of us in the ung lo are trying to reach out to justice involved in a variety of ways as we've been trying to do this my old friend from graduate school Miller the break I knew that you've been doing this work for over a decade now right seven years seven years and and he inspired me to get a move on and try to do more of this and do it more quickly so were we invited him here for his expertise in his logistical advice but also for about to give us a little inspiration about what's possible to do that so josh is currently the director of education at Georgetown University's criminal justice initiative presentation just prison justice which means that he is responsible for administering a pretty wide scale program to bring a large number students into credit-bearing college classes this is the third different University which is organized this sort of program at the first was literally University of Maryland and then Walton University of Baltimore and Georgetown scooped them up just this year to run this larger program and so he's a guy I would love expertise on this but also with a lot of heart behind what he's doing I've known as work for 16 years now I guess it's been he's been he's long been a passionate advocate for buildings in the credit institutions and community engagement in lots of different ways that is what he has made his mark in the philosophical world what he's doing is in some ways just a sideline he's getting involved more and more in this but he's also a brilliant philosopher so I imagine he's going to bring a little bit of those two things together but I'm here to hear what he has to say Thank You Josh for coming thank you Chris for bringing me as Chris said I started working in the fall of 2017 at Georgetown University trying to get Georgetown involved in criminal justice education large-scale the background here is that Georgetown like many universities in the United States has a history of slavery the Jesuit priests who who founded the University founded it for the education white men and they founded it with the intention of funding that education with plantations in the state of Maryland and in the 1820s slavery and plantation work in Maryland was no longer profitable and Georgetown's just with priests sold their slaves 272 slaves to pay off their the debts of the University University it won't means this is of slavery and we're trying to make reparations as a part of that process so that's the back the background let me tell you what we've been doing we've created a right now a program in the DC jail which is a short term institution that offers college courses to incarcerated students that's usually what I will call them in this talk is students distinguish incarcerated campus students I'm gonna talk about its students I'm going to talk about prisoners sometimes I usually use words like inmates so here's a question should we turn the prisons into colleges that's what brought you here oh I'm going to answer the question I think this is going to be obvious from my work yes questions no here's a question why why should we turn prisons in the College ISM don't we have enough problems with colleges on on the outside I think that there are a bunch of reasons to consider and they have value in my assessment of the question so first as I say education produce recidivism is a weird concept it's the way in which someone who's justice-involved so no returns home from prison might find themselves returning to prison once again sometimes this can be for a technical parole violation sometimes because they read and sometimes for other reasons the key here is that however we measure it all the studies seem to suggest that education makes us safer and it prevents prisoners from returning and I think we have to talk about both sides of that there's less crime and less punishment when we educate prisoners Wow well I think that mass incarceration is the domestic civil rights and human rights crisis of our time just get a lot more about this but many people are familiar with Michelle Alexander's the new Jim Crow and there are have been a host of books and articles arguing that mass incarceration is at the heart of policing problems in the United States is at the heart of basically of white supremacy in the United States and we can't take those things seriously without at the same time confronting what we were doing in America's prisons and jails I also think that crime is serious crime is not very high right now and I'll show you some charts to prove that but crimes of crime is a problem it's it's what philosophers like to call a weekend problem there aren't easy solutions most of the solutions involve making trade-offs and sacrifices not just you know financial but in our most our most precious values and it's hard to solve these problems and I think that a university like the University of Hawaii isn't a very position to bring your faculty your researchers your teachers to they are on this wicked problem thinking it through and confronting it too often so I have an ally here in sociology too often criminal justice criminal punishment is reserved for law schools and sociology criminal justice programs and philosophers art historians English professors biologists are not thinking about it this is a problem that the entirety of the university needs to bring its capacities to bear on and teaching inside prisons in one way to do that to get started thinking about it ultimately though I think prison education can and should inform campus education I think that there are things you can learn in a prison classroom that you should bring to bear when you're teaching or learning outside of prisons so I'll say a bunch of more about that a little bit all right so recidivism land is a research group that does missed I use they study studies they try to gather them all together and figure out what the weight of evidence supports they put out in 2015 a study showing that prison education at higher education level University of college education reduces recidivism by forty three percent that's forty three percent fewer re-incarceration that's some significantly larger number of fewer robberies sexual assaults drug abuse etc that's desirable we should be excited about that I tell I know even if you don't like the crimes that people could have committed if you want to see if you were of them you should educate prisoners the study shows that a lot of this is mediated by work as you probably know there's a significant stigma attached to a criminal record and many employers will do a criminal background check merely having a criminal background of your time in prison can make you unemployable in many states certainly much harder to the employee college education and a certain that college degree acts as a kind of counter signal it says yeah I have this history but I'm not that person anymore give me another chance there are however and I think that study doesn't do enough with this there are very large potential selection effects it could be the case that what we are doing when we offer college education in prison is we're finding the best and the brightest talented tenth and we are pulling them to help we're giving them an opportunity to prove themselves but we're not doing anything about the larger problem it could be the case especially because there haven't been colleges operating in prisons and jails for the last 24 years out in large numbers it could be the case that we're just finding a large cohort or a large group of people who need and want to college education but that there just isn't this isn't scalable in certain way I think let's see so all of us it's true I'm not I'm not selling you anything you don't you don't know but it is true that college professors are cheaper than correctional officers we are more effective than correctional officers and philosophers of our Chi the rand study shows that we can spend one hundred and forty thousand dollars educating prisoners and because of the reductions in recidivism because how expensive it is to house online in a secure facility we can save a hundred and seventy thousand dollars now I want to be clear about this I don't think that this is about dollars and cents I don't think this is merely a matter of making investments that save us money for the future but if I can save the state money and that might help them see the value in funding this kind of work shouldn't I let them know so I'm going to share this with you it is important data you can find this table in the rand study which is available online using Pell grants the main benefits from a college program is two states where most prisoners are incarcerated it is like Hawaii but the cost came from the federal government and that's one of the reasons that Pell grants were suspended for prisoners there's a mismatch between who saves the money and who pays for it and sometimes when that happens you get in efficiencies nonetheless I want to say this again we don't measure the value of a college education merely by the amount of extra income college graduates get even though that's substantial and we don't measure college education is generally by the reduction in recidivism we don't ask ourselves how often to Georgetown students or Hilo students return to prison although in some cases we might actually be worried about that so these are not the best ways to measure the value of a college education in prison these are not the best ways to answer the question but I want to start here because I think for some people this is all the kids uniqueness so the like I said there are problems with recidivism as a metric recidivism sometimes not in the case of the rand study that sometimes is projected at 76 percent that means 76 percent of prisoners in the federal and state systems will return to prison in five years but recidivism is not real events that does not always mean that prisoners who returned our community and another crime most often they're returning to prison for technical parole violations because when you're on parole you can be returned to prison for missing a meeting which you might have to do because you also have to be working or seeking work and sometimes you have to trade you have to decide am I gonna make that extra shift or lose my job and go to the parole meeting where having lost my job my parole officer will let returning to prison or jail these kinds of catch-22s are very common for justice-involved individuals and as well as a result the recidivism metric as it's normally used is not a good guy nonetheless recidivism rates are still high probably the 40% range of 43% is one commonly cited number so a sort of more important problem with the universe it is Amaya crimes have higher recidivism rates than others and if you're running a program inside of a prison or jail that offers a chance to remake yourself to change your future to give you a second chance using recidivism rates can sometimes push those programs away from choosing the people with highest likelihood of reoffending people really want to charity take their participants and if you ensure that your participants you don't have the biggest effects that you could you don't save us in all ways that you could from the times were most worried about so that's recidivism let's talk about what Myer brought you here which is that increasingly we are coming to realize that prisons in the United States do not work like prisons in the world our crime rates are not high we are safer in the United States then we have been since the 60s and yet we incarcerate to point and as you can see the rate of incarceration in the United States is higher than in totalitarian countries it's higher than in Russia it is out of whack something strange is happening here we should not be allowing this to continue it is a human rights crisis it's a civil rights crisis prisons are are not safe spaces and we incarcerate way more of our fellow citizens that we ought to do the problem is in vast and as I said the problem is not tied to crime some people would like to believe that we have a large number of prisoners in the United States because that's what keeps us safe but all the evidence suggests that we have continued to increase the rate of incarceration even as crime rates have fallen we made a devil's bargain 90s we accepted very very harsh sentencing because we were scared of crime and crime was fine nineties I don't want to I don't want to deny that but when a crime felt sets engine all sad think it has increased all right so here's a bunch of charts to prove my car I don't think you sit through too much of this all these parts come from prison policy initiative and if you're interested in the data always thinking about these things you should check them out they they make a very pretty chart I want to point to a couple of things sometimes when you talk about prison policy in the United States we'll hear people talk about the federal government certainly if you've read the new Jim Crow she tends to emphasize the federal government and federal policy the federal government is just not a large portion of the pie most of this problem cannot be dealt with at a federal level because most of this problem is tied to the states now because I live in the District of Columbia in Washington DC we have a kind of claim to fame there which is that if you measure justice states Louisiana is by far the most serious incarcerator but Washington DC which is won by african-americans as a black mayor a majority black DC Council nonetheless is the highest has the highest rate of incarceration in the nation twice in the top two thirds so this is something for you to take seriously as well and unfortunately it is not the case that most people are incarcerated for nonviolent drug crimes the drug war has played a major role in this but the majority of prisoners are incarcerated for a violent crimes crimes that you think are bad and this is important because when we tell ourselves that we need to end the drug war legalize marijuana and that will solve mass incarceration terrible I just wanna I want to show you that so that you can think about it areas of growth for our somewhat important so jails Community Corrections centers are increasingly incarcerated numbers of people this worked earlier so let me just show it together there you go so you know this now that prisons incarcerate disproportionately African Americans and Latinos but one of the reasons that we call the new Jim Crow is because the disproportion massively affects after Americans even in African American work cities and states it still ends up being the cases after some Wow for reasons that we'll talk about they end up suffering the brunt that's incarceration calling and mass incarceration leaves out the fact that it is racialized in the United States in why of course so even though there are two point two so it's 2.2 million as of a week ago we got new numbers but it's been 2.3 million for a while so that's what you'll see in a lot of these slides the v-j asked the Bureau of Justice Statistics just released the first ever increase in the number of people incarcerated in our facilities so even though it does affect prisoners even more than that it affects people on probation and parole so having four point five million people on probation for all deeply affects their lives in ways that we'll talk about more but those seven million people are suffering and that's one of the reasons why this information is so important there you go last thing that I think I want you to know is that while women make up 7 percent of those who are incarcerated in the United States their numbers are growing rapidly they're growing in an interesting way women have historically been had more lenient sense let's aim for a particular crime we're starting to try to achieve parity in this country we're starting to treat women more like that and we need to start treating when you think about crying and vitamin it's important to start with how you would want someone to deal with the transgression when someone hurts you when they transgress and important in our lives think about what you want to happen your neighbor driving recklessly knocks over your mailbox your friend gets drunk and starts a fighting is an ideal apology what is the ritual by which we restore both the perpetrator and the victim to their original relationship I think this requires a number of things and so we we talk about making the victim whole what we mean by that is replacing stolen or destroyed possessions healing their injuries counseling them in response to the trauma that they may experience but not necessarily not all prime victims experience serious trauma we creating for them a sense of safety a sense that they can walk alone at night again that they can go home and not risk this is an in ie9 deal apology you want to do that your neighbor should fix your mailbox if he knocks it over with his car while driving recklessly but you know if you've been the victim of a serious crime of a violent crime we want to fix you up prepare you to sort of feel safe again in the space but you were in danger but it means things for the perpetrator to remember the goal in an ideal apology is to restore the relational norms the the original status quo before the perpetration before the transgression occurred right fer in an ideal apology this almost always means confessing you'll yes I did that and I'm sorry it also means acknowledging that we did was wrong and in the United States today we have a lot of crimes that the perpetrators do not see as legitimate what I did was illegal it was a wrong feel that we want perpetrators to be able to acknowledge the legitimacy of violated the world whatever they did that they shouldn't have done we want them to be able to see the vision of time and that sometimes means that we need to reconsider the things that we were criminalized when there's not a widespread theory that those things are wrong and then then I continual apology we want the perpetrator to participate in restitution not the state but the individual who made a mistake I've had a trans resident in the United States our Criminal Courts prevent the apology ritual the I do apology that your friend when she's late would go through to sort of restore your relationship in the United States conflicts could be opportunities for norm clarification was this really long where did we make it illegal what we should have and they should be opportunities for victims and perpetrators to participate in just of justice we don't do that right everything in modern states in the United States and elsewhere steals the conflict from the individuals who have experienced it from the victim in the perpetrator right and we do that because we believe that procedural fairness and the professionalization of the police of lawyers etc is more important than the victim being made a hole or the perpetrator being restored to his or her community that means that perpetrators can't give us guilt without beginning in our case and the victim cannot personally approve sometimes you just need to yell and scream at the so what is prison war there are a lot of theories theories some people argue that prisons or art for retribution that criminals just deserves be treated badly and I don't think we should ignore that that's a strong impulse that we have that criminals that people who should be deprived of their Liberty just because they heard us and we want her back 2.32 when 2 million people incarcerated there are a lot of people incarcerated that we probably are being overly punitive with and remember that first slide that showed how disapper fortunately Mohnish each other instead you should be thinking about the other ours on the slide rehabilitation I am we can take a delinquent character if someone who has a drug addiction or a tendency to steal or doesn't respect the possession or the the truth the sessions of others are the truth and lies on forms and through solitude through meditation through good old-fashioned labor we can make them better there's a lot to worry about in the concept of rehabilitation as we've inherited it but still it's a it's an ideal that many people feel ought to be a part of our punishment system and since the beginning of mass incarceration in the eighties we've seen our criminal punishment system becoming less and less rehabilitative we just don't have the resources everything is spent trying to keep these people safe ish and contained we deprive ourselves the best tools like education reconnecting with family for that kind of rehabilitation now that word of approves coming back here because I think reclamation is really important some things are wrong I'm not Larry Nasser I think about the Stanford rapist Rob Turner somebody does something wrong and you let them get away with it they they have impunity for a long period of time hurts us it hurts us all to see them go unpunished to see them getting away with it if there's not official condemnation of the truly terrible acts that people have engaged in then we've failed to restore the staffs of the victim we have failed to do those things that recreate a sense of safety that make her or him the fuel like what happened to them was wrong and we acknowledge it but the last thing I think is perhaps the most important the vast majority 95% of prisoners will return to their communities and we get to decide what that's gonna look like right now we largely decide and we want to treat them like the second or third class citizens and when they return to their communities they should be desperate finding housing they should be unemployed everyone should look at them and see them as less than than us and that has led to significantly more crime more criminals more prisoners and work second and third class prisoners I'm sorry secondary class citizens so if we took reintegration seriously I think it would incorporate all of this because we've really got to restore the prisoner to restore the perpetrator the status quo this is important often we think of prisons as primarily about prevention if we didn't threaten people with prison then they would continue to commit the same transgressions that they have committed before but philosophers of a punishment have largely rejected prevention as a justification for a car serration abolishment I want to just say a couple of things about this we can restrain return to a question and answer but we used to we used to wear officers of the law would punish people that they saw we're about to commit a crime but think about it look at this there are cities in this country where police department has a database that tries to measure the likelihood of somebody becoming justice involved and if you grew up in a family where your family where your mother and father or your brother and sister are just as involved whether if you're involved in gangs or the drug trade or your mother is a sex worker you're you are very likely to have a higher rate by incarceration and so cities like Chicago to take this this database can start to monitor someone as soon as they're born and say hey this kid it's more likely to go to prison than other people I think there's something creepy about that I think when you think about incarcerated someone putting them under increased surveillance when they've committed no crime when they're very young when they have all the opportunities in the world and you sort of before they've done anything decide to classify them as a risk not as an as a gift not as a miracle but as a risk you made a mistake so that's that's important but that's for someone who hasn't committed it right right what if someone has committed right does it make sense to say let's assess their likelihood of reoffending let's assess how much of a danger to society they're going to be and keep them incarcerated until their risks are reduced problem there is that seems to justify massively disparate disproportionate punishments based on the like they had to reinvent someone without a college degree or high school degree it's much more likely to reoffend than someone with it when we feel comfortable saying that when I am arrested and incarcerated because I have a PhD that I should serve a small sentence but that someone who is high school dropout should for the same crime serve a large that's that seems objectionable it was even though again what's news objection I think perhaps you as well even though again that is probably an accurate prediction of the likelihood to reaffirm the likelihood to be a danger in the future it's just not the way we think about justice so here's what I've been trying to say we can think about reprobation reintegration together we can think about restoring the relationship of meets your mutual respect and equality between offenders and victims between all members of our society and when we do that we get a much better understanding of what punishment can and should be it's not what it is or what it could be we should be asking ourselves how we can make offenders and victims members of our community the hard part I think for most people is how do we make about founders members of our community again right everybody's sort of victims are classically innocent and so often we find ourselves motivated to try to restore them to their status quo and ex ante but sometimes we don't when the victim is already a second classist and already a member of a stigmatized group sometimes we don't see it as so important to restore them either and part of the way we do that is by not punishing crimes against them here's the core of the philosophical criterion if we are going to hold people responsible at all if responsibility is a relationship that we can hold each other to then we need to also to engage in other practices embel they treat them as responsible agents right you can't just sort of treat someone as irresponsible as as not worthy of respect or attention a relation in other ways and wait until they transgress not caring all the ways in which they have been in the past and then say aha we've caught you throw them in jail or prison in truther despicably for the rest of their lives I think they're holding someone responsible someone morally responsible for their actions involves being prepared to accept promises offer confidences exchange battles cooperate on a project under a social contract have a conversation make love be friends what I mean by that is that when we look at the people who are incarcerated before they were incarcerated we largely didn't treat them as those kinds of agents people with whom we would be willing to get married to be friends to have a conversation so one reason again that we need to be offering college education high school education in in prisons and jails is because we need to get we need to restore the relationship that we were supposed to have with the perpetrator that we didn't before I've been talking about status quo ante right the status quo before the transgression but for most prisoners we see that they're disproportionately poor poorly educated marginalized from in our society in lots of different ways and then they commit a crime they're caught and we throw them in jail pretending as if that had been treated it up until that moment as fully equal members of the social contract fully equals sort of Co citizen as co-creators of our shared world and then it moves you made a mistake now we're gonna punish it but in fact we've been punishing them all along and so I think one of the things that this concept of reprobation and reintegration makes clear is that often the read is a mistake these are people who are never properly integrated into our communities first place if we're gonna treat them with the respect that they deserve we have a lot to make up for even though they're being punished usually for a serious so prison education can and should inform campus education I have a couple of things in mind here but I just want to take a break and show you some pictures the bottom right is a picture of the teaching a course on a lawn in Washington DC in the middle this is at least in the northeast of the United States the ideal teaching environment I know I know you don't have a fall we use here but this is this is the kind of fantasy of college education right Tony no lon everybody is outside they're reading a difficult text talking so this is a fun memory of mine the other two are also on their race even though they're in correctional spaces because these these guys that I've been working with for seven years now are extremely bright they're extremely committed they're interested in the education that they're receiving and they've taught me a lot about teaching they've taught me a lot about what education can and should be because for the first five years that I did this the courses that I offered were not for credit so they came to class they did the reading that did the homework they got nothing out of it other than the pleasure of reading the book writing the papers and eating with me to talk about it so I mean this as seriously as I can you can learn a lot about education from educating incarcerated students and you should give it a try so that long quote from bell hooks but I just want to emphasize one piece sometimes right now professor professor is an axe like the model for teaching is that we know what a bunch of things if we kind of you at all you will learn it and then you can spew it all back at us right it's a it's a push model of Education in a seminar space but that often means is that professors act like all-knowing silent interrogators right we're all reading a text behind or the right answer I ask you a series of questions to discern whether you've read it carefully whether you've learned the lessons of previous courses previous texts that we read together I think that that's just belong this is not something I learned from the looks this is something I learn from my students inside but bell hooks already knew it so I thought I would share any of you here good teacher the right kind of teaching exposes a little bit the professor the teacher makes us vulnerable and education can work better than that happens when the students can ask questions and I don't know the answer and they their curiosity opens pathways of inquiry that I did not anticipate that was me although all the time inside of prisons and jails and I think it's an experience that we really need to export from prisons and jails back onto campus some campuses have this ideal I'm sure other campuses don't so I just wanted to to share that this is something that can happen so I've been talking about why but let's talk about how there are are three big models for teaching inside our prisons and jails you can do it as I began doing it with no credit well the professor is at students volunteer you met together just for the pleasure of each other's company in because of a shared commitment to reading difficult tests together to learning new things together that can work really well and one of the reasons it can work so well is because it's cheap a living the costs of materials the books and the you know printing costs for the readings the cost is time prisoners in many places don't have as much time as you think they do who is they're forced to work scene 13 slavery has not been abolished for incarcerated individuals in many places they have to work but they're not paying the minimum wage in the state of Maryland they're paid ninety five cents a day for eight hours of work there's a quiet love to work you can you can offer courses inside for credit and I think this is an important model to in 2015 the Obama administration created an exception to the long-standing law that bans Pell grants to be used in prisons under something called its science initiatives act and what this did was it allowed 67 universities and colleges around the country to to use Pell grants to educate prisoners we applied for and received what the exact one of these exemptions at the University of Baltimore and it allowed us to create a degree granting program so this is a model it's a model worth pursuing right now it is not a little bit but I'll bet that the University of Hawaii has other ways to offer credit inside of Hawaii's prisons so the last way and this is what I'm working on now is to offer a degree granting program an associate's degree a bachelor's degree either in partnership with a community college I understand that you guys have a pretty good Community College here that you have the relationship with maybe that's maybe something you should pursue or on your own there are other models like the inside-out program that's sort of a branded program at Temple where professors are able to take students from campus inside of prisons and jails to take courses alongside of incarcerated students this can be enriching for both the incarcerated students and the canvas students I think my experience with this is mixed I can say a lot more about how it works rather than some problems with it what about here's the objections phase so I think there are lots of objections I go all the time here are there are the three big ones I just want to run through just to prisoners deserve a college education are we trying to punish them how can we make college education especially you know like the University of Hawaii at Hilo or orange or town like this this is not hard right hard to get in how we can offer this to these despicable humans that have already transgressed our norms that's the line it's very common perhaps some of you have some version of this you remember the transgression and you think an education is something you deserve it's something you are it's something that you have to fight for and it's an honor a prisoner shouldn't be honored they should be dishonored they deserve our contempt not our respect that's the argument I've tried to argue above so far that's a mistake but some people will return to this objection time and time again and so everything I've been saying is designed to give you the audience the tools are thinking about the subjection well it makes a saver well you know in the United States we are overly punitive well good punishment the right kind of punishment should enact this way but I think there's a lot to be said for this objection still and so I hope maybe we'll have this conversation in the Q&A our prisons dangerous our prisoners dangerous not my experience you know it's worth remembering that Brock Turner of the Stanford rapist had no criminal record when he committed his crime in my experience incarcerated students are bright passionate curious respectful and ultimately safe and I think that this is borne out by all the programs that I have seen operating in the United States we're just not seeing that faculty and students who enter a facility to our are unsafe thereby however prisons are not safe for prisoners they're very dangerous places 2003 the Bush administration passed something called the Prison Rape Elimination Act it's no overly optimistic law title because what it really did was start to gather data on how often sexual assaults occur in prisons and jails and the numbers are staggering two hundred and fourteen thousand sexual assaults in prisons of jails per year I have had students die overdose receive inadequate medical attention and ultimately die and ultimately be killed in these facilities I don't think that's a reason to turn our back on prisons because as I've said college professors and college students who enter facilities to offer these experiences are very safe they're made very safe because the prisoners know what's at stake but nonetheless this might be a reason to think a little more seriously about the other problem with the title of my talk should we turn the prisoners into colleges well maybe we shouldn't have prisons deter colleges or at least as many prisons as we currently do so I'll just let me just acknowledge that off our prisons are dangerous for prisoners and we should be careful about really this is type of my last but what about my last objection I just call this the Foucault objection Michel Foucault wrote one of the most popularly cited books in the American Academy it's called discipline admonish and in this book he he made an interesting argument that's a bit of an odd argument but I'm gonna share with you very briefly he argued that the history of prisons and a punishment in the United States and Europe has the following features we start the very serious crimes being punished with grotesque and cruel horrible punishments but because the punishments were so spectacularly cruel they were used very and rebuilding early prison reformers in the 18th and 19th centuries fought against the cruelty of punishment right the earliest prisons in the United States were created by Quakers the Society of friends people who were going out of their way to try a reformed punishment here to make it less cruel last grotesque to make it respect the prisoner and every reform of this sort every time we make prisons less cruel less dehumanizing seems to enable us Foucault argues to use the more right the more gentle the punishment the more broadly that punishment is disseminated right so that's the sort of complicated objection that the idea here would be prisons are terrible and we can make them a little bit better by offering college of courses inside of them but prisons will still be terrible if we make them a little bit better when we incarcerate more people I think that's a anxiety that anyone who's interested in question should continue to let them because it's always possible that will make prisons a little bit better we'll make probation and parole a little bit more sensible and we'll go from 2.3 million people in prison and seven people under our supervision to five and ten so that's the Foucault objection and I gotta be honest with you and I haven't been a good response to that but it is it is worth thinking about and I'll turn it to turning prisons into colleges as to eliminate them completely I'll leave you with Angela Davis who in a book called our prisons obsolete argued that we need to work towards a society without prisons she did not argue that we should eliminate them entirely she argued that we need to make it possible to live in a society where they could be eliminated sharing that prison education is one of the main keys to achieving that goal so if you are a prison abolition ax stand you're here in the audience and then Angela Davis and these things that you ought to be offering college education in prison so well just enough for now so that's that's what I wanted to tell you yes we should offer college education and presents in jails and there are a lot of good reasons for it I hope you found one you think I'll walk around with the microphone pretty sure that's it question you know I I don't know how much you know about the Hawai situation and I don't you know I don't expect you to know about my situation but right now the state is considering spending half a billion dollars to build an alternative to or Triple C which is the jail you know that's a real big issue right now so you build a person you're gonna fill it right it's like you build a baseball stadium again people come come so that's the issue right now so right now the biggest issue is to find it and not allow that because so many people are dependent on the prison industry that they're selling it because of jobs right so you know this to me there's a kind of disconnect in what you are saying here but even philosophically even philosophically you know that you mentioned Michelle Alexander's book you know the new Jim Crow but you didn't really discuss that because that's that's her whole argument that the whole prison industry in America is the new slave system and I think Eric Holder the first black Attorney General supports that because he was saying that the what you need to do is to get rid of the minimum sentencing which is restructure out so that is philosophically I think a political decision that people like the politicians use because they thought it will get there votes and as a philosopher and a surprise you didn't even talk about that because to me that's a philosophical thing that would the population to move to mass incarceration in Bill Clinton Iran and others and so to be you know philosophically and eager to deal with Michelle Alexander's thesis as a prison as the new Jim Crow and what Eric Holder is saying about what you need to do with that so I think it's like it's like to be in Hawaii you're doing a coming in a school stuff you know in the dangle something for the elites which is because in Hawaii I told you the chief justice I mean Supreme Court justice Wilson is saying that the edge the average educational level in Hawaii is fifth grade fifth grade how many people are going to be able to attend this course and then it's only the east and those who effect with a forty three percent you know recidivism but for the mass people on the bottom it's not even an option so I don't want to you said a couple of really important things and I was moving this would be the case this is something I wanted to talk about it a little bit more interactive so two things Michelle Alexander has plated an extremely important role for raising awareness about mass incarceration and for his racialized effects but Michelle Alexander is almost entirely wrong their diagnosis she thinks first of all the federal policy people like Bill Clinton played a major role in in the development of mass incarceration you know if you go through that book chapter by chapter she's describing the federal policies mostly that caused it and then things like prosecutors whining as if that's doing most of the work and that's just not what caused mass incarceration mass incarceration is entirely the product of the states right once we go Clinton at least as president might have been Bill Clinton as governor right and that's important because if thatwell government is well first of all the President Congress and the Supreme Court are all controlled by Republicans so if you're looking at the federal government you should be feeling pretty helpless if you want to change this but if this is something that the state of Hawaii can address directly and that you can as widen citizens work on then that that's hope this is a more local issue and that there are things we can do here and now and not wait until 2020 in the next election so that's the first thing I think we have a lot of evidence that Alexander's diagnosis is wrong she doesn't have a right etiology the right cause still great title still very important for raising awareness so the second thing is that we actually see that what didn't cause mass incarceration is something we call penal talking ISM people like prisoners they like freshmen there's a book that just one of the few surprised by James Forman jr. called locking up our own and it's about how african-american controlled cities have adopted the same law order punitive measures that we see pushed in white dominated spaces even though the black elites are locked out black underclass and even though the african-american community experiences incarceration is something significant like in the rest of the United States experiences an incarceration as something that's significantly more intent they're very likely to you know even black these are like that people been incarcerated the odds about blackmail being incarcerated are 103 thank yous I have lots of black conference room just live with that statistic and yet when you all are Americans you ask them should prisoners be harsher sentences be lower or should we have fewer people in prison 63% of them will say we should have more punishment we should have more people in prison so this is the community that's affected most severely and they - hundun bother now when that poll was reported there was a contrast class right white people 7500 white people are to blame here and I agree but Africans wanted to and I think I think it's important for white and society this conversation that passed whether the Hawaiians one so so that's the second response I don't want to do the third one is this this problem has taken in 40 years to develop to the current state that it's in I wish that within tomorrow but I I just don't believe it will so I think that we actually do need to without conscious strategies that are going to take 40 years to come to fruition for ending mass incarceration here's step one find formerly incarcerated individuals educating them let them be leaders who advocate for themselves and for their homeland are serrated and currently incarcerated community and one of the ways to do that is to find those elites and to educate them and certify them so that they can be kinds of justice leaders that we need to take the next steps because I've never been incarcerated so when I advocated for this my voice justly shouldn't count as much as my friend between bats who just got to get a law degree and is able to speak about what prison is our life in a way that I can only share with you I can only put on a screen for you to see so there's a few answers I don't know you feel free to respond you're not satisfied yeah yeah I think what you're not saying about Michelle Alexander is racism right sure and she and even here in Hawaii this is the interim report on HCR eighty-five task force headed by the Chief Justice to write about prison prison reform they start off with talking about this report in the number of Hawaiians in prison but the rest of the whole report is colorblind so what is your guess of the number of Native Hawaiians imprisoned in Hawaii rating karasuna PhD says 60% coming out crab hit up Omaha says forty you know the population of Hoynes maybe is 22 but but nobody's dealing with it even in a wife Oh if you thought that I did not properly represent that you think you're using black people to argue about incarceration yeah I mean you just read you know black skin white masks and it makes sense why black people are are for in conservation is that's not a reason against racism all right breakdown I absolutely believe that racism drives you know to quote that the statistics of serving black people and saying that they believe in incarceration - it's not to me is not you know is not conclusive I think we got a deal with racism seriously and here in Hawaii - especially in our because we don't want to accept there's racism I I absolutely think that that's true I agree first of all I totally agree with having a college in prison you know right now we don't got beer but at the same time I you know I've heard different types of comments like you started in the beginning and and for us employment is of course the you know the pathway the end of the the goal to reach from education so you can get sustaining gainful employment with good education and not have to return to you know be incarcerated getting involved with different types of lifestyles and different activities different friends I mean the whole world changes with education but one of the things that I can ask sometimes is aren't we just creating with true education smarter criminals you know that's kind of that some of the things that I get asked sometimes and it's kind of hard to to answer that without any type of you know career pathway connected to it like you know well that's a smarter individual now but because they're gonna get a better job so I think for us we are fortunately in a time where unemployment rates are the lowest ever and we you know here in Hawaii Island especially we've been able to garner support from employers who are felon friendly we have laws that you can ask before it's conditional hire and you kind of go look at the record setting records for sentimental time can be excluded so you know we're very fortunate in that regard so so mostly everybody that are involved with the justice system ends up with employment so that's that's a great thing but then again they're ending up with employment without the educational piece and so they're in entry level they're getting jobs but then they're having a hard time to sustain families and and the cost of living you know just even for Hawaii being one of them worse places in the nation for cost of living and housing is just very very difficult you can't even rent your own things so but you know the the question again traffic back to the original thing that I wanted to get to us are we just creating smarter criminals without a career pathway that says fade that was advocated that I it's a good it's a good objection because I heard some version of this several times but to justify that claim I have I need to say a bunch more so I think one of the things that we have to be careful about when we talk about college education generally is that while college educated workers have lower rates of unemployment higher incomes over life their lifetimes better and live longer they have more marital satisfaction divorce rate is lower college education is great most the benefits of a college education how suffer from something that you might call that we call the Thule laudable paradox if you get a college education your goal in getting wise just don't let get that certificate at the end the sheepskin at the end and you make it clear to everyone that you don't really value in the education itself to do well and you're not going to experience the kinds of transformations that college education is possible is capable of that's possible for first students and what we see in prisons is that purely vocational education unlike the kinds of liberal arts humanities degree granting education while it does reduce recidivism reduces it at a much lower level it's a significant reduction loss right from purely vocational efforts so they're mean to be jobs it sounds like there are because the flow rates rates probably won't stay low forever right I think it's much more important to sort of embrace that identity of a college graduate college student with over the long period of time and let that love of learning that I experience all the time inside of and outside of prisons but but definitely inside of prisons let that be our guide because the key here is is that not really it's not that they were becoming smarter right they're actually three smart already and so they don't we don't need smarter than those but we we we make smart people stop being criminals that's really what's happening you know prison education complex you change what kinds of things they think they're control I just wanted to say I really appreciated your idea of penal populism and I'd love to read the book that you talked about a locking of our own I think the new ones that your approach to talking about that is bigger than one race or another or ethnic background without regard to in a particular situation it's the idea is that prisons are the solution then we want presidents right which would be the idea of courts responding the Legislature's responding that I did that wrong we talked about in terms of you know there's this push to go that half a million half a billion dollar prison it seems like the larger norm that comes out of that is that prisons are good I am a solution which I hear you refuting not only throughout you talk but also an idea that that we rethink the norms which actually was the second thing you've talked about for the ritual of the apology which one yeah language seems to speak to restorative justice frameworks right then the like whole autopano that look at healing right and so perhaps part of the healing for the non-car sir in the population were to rethink the norms of punishment that are produced and reproduced by prison absolutely I think finally so I just want to acknowledge that I am not familiar with perhaps a sort of justice I've been hearing about them they sound very exciting and there are practices like this in a lot of communities that we need to draw on because it turns out that that whole story about Reformation and reintegration making the victim whole and restoring the perpetrator to you know a member of our community again that doesn't require prisons and our biggest mistake has been assuming that we need to take away somebody whose liberty and lock them up for a long period of time in order for that other stuff to happen and usually taking somebody away from their family from their community locking them up ignoring them and treating them for the rest of their lives like a second or third class citizen is not a good way of achieving that prisons are traumatic spaces and so what we really need to do is we need to find these alternatives we need to maximize their use and I think that's like step two but step one is prison education I don't necessarily have a question I'm from the college and we do run courses up at Kalani men's prison here from an agricultural course and they're all workforce readiness related we also have a reentry program and I will say that the one feedback we get from the men that take the courses I have one of my instructors here as well I coordinated all the courses but I vote there all the time and talk to them buy the courses are working but they liked it the biggest feedback they get from the guys is that they thank me because it's the first time in a long time they felt someone treat them like a normal person and that's that's big and I'm just talking to someone who's interviewing me today a student down at the college about the courses we do and I was saying that I have seen men come into our class for a while we were suffering from low so the warden said all right these new guys can't work yet so they're going to take courses and I walked in there I always introduce myself I talked to the class going on I'm trying to get buy-in from the man out there to take the courses they're not mandatory and you get guys sitting there like oh I'm in this class and who the hell are you white boy haole but by the end when I go back and check on the classes and they've worked with kipo here on the AG farm because it's going really well a huge difference in their attitudes huge I mean they're open they're talkative they're appreciative all of my instructors up there reported that they are some of the best students they've ever had in any teaching situation ever and you could probably attest to that I think the biggest leap from here and the question I was asking is alright if we could bring college back in to the prison system to help prepare them for coming back into our community which only makes sense they're coming back into our community we should help them to do that and be successful is then getting the job so they go to work furlough or they go to parole and we can do the education there but I'm seeing I mean right now yes or unplug in Oslo so they're getting jobs but it's less said they're getting you know low-end jobs and can they maintain a family so how I mean I know there's no answer to it but I keep asking myself we seem to have a big missing link there so if we did create a college level or brought it back in in the prisons where people can get degrees it's then taking that next step in affording them that immediate work because then they're successful and isn't at the end of the day that's what we want yes they think that they're crying they've paid it they've paid their time they've paid their dues for it so now for truly a benevolent society then isn't our goal and to say alright you've done your crime now let's bring back in like you said restoring them to what was the status quo exams yes that makes a lot of sense and we'll say something yeah excellent um you know kind of baffles me hearing the conversations here because when you're on the ground we're in front of these incarcerated you know you get a different view of all of this some of this dilemma that they're dealing with yes they get jobs that are not good but when I'm in the class I use every opportunity to bring in culture bringing real practical experiences we're teaching them and training them not just to be get reintegrated into the workforce but what I see is a building of confidence for one thing to know that they can get through a college credit course when they achieve this they start thinking about things not just getting into the workforce but to going to school as a as the pathway to to ownership to entrepreneurship to you know bigger and better things agriculture is the center of a rural community yanked it from the community it trickles right down into the family this is inspired the students here problem I'm seeing is that they build the confidence they learn a new trade and I'm not you know they're not smarter they're just redirecting their intelligence into something useful something practical that they could that they can use on the outside but when they come out now this is the problem I'm dealing with can we can we fund them in college we've had more than more than a few that that are serious and they've tried to go out and get into the college get funded but then we have a parole system that doesn't believe in education even though it is a mandatory and I've talked to the the new department head for the parole that it's either education or workforce but it's not supported in the real practical setting so these are kind of you know all this that you're saying is really good I think it's a great opportunity for not just educators but to learn to be better educators but for the prisoners themself and they're trying reintegrate pay their crimes the support said there's a cliff outside those gates and you know these are kind of though this is why I'm here I'm trying to see if there's a way we can build this bridge over this cliff when they step out of those gates so when we do suite for re-entry programs that were developing and in this reentry program we its funded the students have instant working and school and our goal for the returning citizen Rico returning citizens in DC to sort of draw a parallel with veterans returning from military when we we think about the needs that returning citizens have its work and prospects from war and if you can get rid of the stigma if you can educate yourself and pursue a different life than the one later then you can make the difference but conditional sort of role throughout the nation has increasingly become not mandatory but conditional and it becomes as Irish omec trying to show you earlier here comes this way of controlling formerly incarcerated workers lives and disallow them from escaping the stigma that they're they're currently experiencing right so unfortunately that's that's not something that I'm in a position to change right you neither but that is something that citizens can advocate for that's something that must change we need to restore we need to either end there restore true parole in the United States and I think the more educated citizens the more people who are working inside our prisons who will understand these problems the better evil we will be as a community and as a nation to to understand what we're doing wrong to do it better what you just described is that Paul and why it requires people to pursue work and school doesn't tell and there is some evidence what that justifies this it's all from the seventies it says that ng if people get out and they go over directly to college they basically are very likely every effect and all that is very low quality data that is drawn from a time when incarceration was massively exploding what we're seeing today is that education is just as good at what s work and at both are really valuable because the worker pays for your cost of living water day of your education but you just got you gotta convince the rewards of that and sometimes that means you've gotta have some pretty some pretty difficult fight cycle time so I really appreciated your talk I thought you made a strong case that we should have education and prisons but you wouldn't have to convince me of that I believe in education I think I'm a better person at all but I have this feeling that there was an implicit argument that you were her behind your argument an implicit assumption which I wanted to maybe perhaps drop out and that is that the prison problem cannot be addressed without addressing the larger problem of society and for example one day my two questions regarding to the bat there's one how much does the mass incarceration how much of that is the product of the fact that if he has become profitable that prisons are profitable and as people are making a lot of money on that and the second question goes to your Angela Davis quote can you go back to that here's a sure what was happy to reborn into lives yeah so my guess is your answer to that is abolition and that implies the broader issue I'm tying together are you making a claim that we do have a larger problem to deal with and in reforming society as a whole it's not a prison how can we avoid prison yeah I think about this and that's that I think that we often get hung up on the idea that poetry punishment they need to be held to account that you'd be held responsible I think that's unavoidable but prisons aren't the only way to do it and we've become obsessed with that particularly so sometimes I think that the way to solve society's larger problems is to start in the prison system start with this system she was in what you can in a issue right well how are we gonna solve the bigger problems in society you know Angela Davis will talk about racism and capitalism as the new problems that we need to abolish and my plan would be well how fix the big stuff but I seen it we could just fix parole things would be a little bit better if we could just incarcerate 20% fewer things would be a little bit better and I really want to see a start this is just how I'm built I want to see this guess and snow all right let's get some small bins under our belt this has been nothing but losses on this front for years right so something great happened last year we now incarcerate a hundred thousand fewer people that we did last year right and we have for several years now and and that's what women it's not possible with but it's a win if we can do that again next year and the year after that after that and change their policies and sort of support that I think we will be better off yeah this is that there's a prison problem there's a social problem how to get the social problems even the prison problems are really really hard every time I would say deception from the larger social problem I think that problems economic justice and equity it's really important to understand that if you read some of the popular stuff on this I love this life this is on private prisons are the prisoners are not very honored it's about 7% of prisoners it's a senior percent but there's still a profit problem the United Arab for instance the largest single public employer is the correction system right in California right the unionized crescens officers lobby for stricter laws and so there to be a profit motive without operations without for-profit institutions and you know even their prisoners work for state-owned enterprises which they often do instead of I mean they also would make things like Victoria's Secret you know underwear and things like that but sometimes they're just making uniforms for police officers you know desks for the university which is actually you know it's data on the University of which is pretty common in Maryland even in those cases the industriousness are prisoners is something that encourages us to incarcerate people animation we need to stop that need to remove those sounds where we find am i right and gets into that I call myself a 6/7 a delicious I think we need to abolish a roughly six sense of prisons but then there's some people who probably shouldn't theaters I know they're good people that they do a bit that's all thank you everybody for coming the especially the students who have to prepare for finals the your chance for making out here all the professors also preparing for finals and our allies of HTC's that makes them less for coming out and supporting the community who are working hard on this we should be working together and please keep in touch so the philosophy department is small if you if there's anything you think we can help you with contact any of the three of us our website is easy to find and we have pictures on there anyway thank you all for coming | University of Hawai'i at Hilo | UCBKUdXXy95w5pUTS8Wt079Q | 2018-05-08 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 11,829 | 65,255 |
K3I-M7NfZhw | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3I-M7NfZhw | Plan with me / The Hummingbird Planner | [Music] if a while not welcome back to my channel and to another plan with me this week I'm using a clip from the hummingbird planner and I believe it was called office blooms yes it was it says it up in the top corner this was a full kit and I just thought it matched the week really well because it's been it's super sunny here and it feels like summer and I've loved it but today it's starting to get more chilly and it's going to get colder during the week but we had a really lovely spout of weather over the bank holiday weekend which i think is unheard of in england so i'm going to start with the dates along the top and I'm just placing them down leaving the numbers visible so that way I don't have to write the numbers in as there wasn't any date dots but I'm just covering up the black line then we can move in and go in day by day I'm going to be using the glitter headers because I don't often use them and I really like them so just put the pink one down at the top and then put down a blue quarter box which was one key but I couldn't my girl stick it so I had to leave it and that was just Matt down that I did have to black on Monday and then underneath that I wanted to mark down that it was a bank holiday which is why I put the crying pop it down because I didn't want to work on bank holiday but I had to buy put a page flag down to write that it was been called a Monday I hope all of you had a lovely Easter I ate way too much like seriously way too much and yeah I did not feel very well Sunday night but it was a weather because I spent the whole Easter Sunday with family and friends so that was amazing but yeah I hope all of you guys had a lovely Easter if you got up to anything amazing definitely let me know down in the comments and I did put down a full box there as I was working so not really getting up too much throughout the day and then I put the puppet with the laundry basket as I done two loads of laundry I also had to film that this plan with me I normally do at the weekend but obviously I was really busy and I just quickly filmed this but I got home from work because Game of Thrones was on on Monday night so you know everything stopped for Game of Thrones in this house I also had a food delivery when I got home from work and yeah that was pretty much it for Monday so then moving on to Tuesday I started with another glitter header up at the top and in a minute I do switch ya to my tweezers because it's really hard to pick stickers up when you've got long nails so I did switch over to the tweezers just to help me a little bit and so today the children went back to school and college so I'll just put down a paid-for egg to mark that and then I put down a quarter box with a little laptop and icon as I wanted to edit this plan with me I live it down a half box with a poppet holding a mop as I want to get some housework done today although looking at my plans aren't kind of swapping Tuesday and Wednesday over but I mean that's fine and so yeah I wanted to get some housework done I put down another glitter header and another quarter box with the poppet and the YouTube symbol to mark that I needed to do this voice over you and then after this glitter header I put down this full box which got my headphones on which is perfect because I'm wearing headphones when I do my voiceover and then at the bottom there I put down another oh hello head I put down another half box with a little laptop icon which comes with the kit as I want to upload this plan with me and then for Wednesday I put another glitter header down at the top and then underneath there I'm just putting a tiny quarter box down these are really cute because they say small and then I put down one of the reminder pins what are these called drawing pins as I want to do some designing and then I had the perfect full box to map down for that because this girl she's got brown hair like me and she's sitting at her desk although her desk is way more fancy than hot my desk is but I like it when the full box this kind of corresponds with whatever you're doing it's just the little things that makes you happy you know I put down a quarter box with a little parcel icon as I need to do a post office - but like I said I'm kind of swapping Tuesday and Wednesday over in my head now so I'm going to be doing orders in a minute and hopefully running to the post office so they'll be posted today or not tomorrow I was going to treat myself to a lovely coffee after I had dropped all of the orders off as I'm going to be in town but I'm going to do that today and then put down a quarter box with and nail icon which is from the kit and put down a lime as these nails have got to go they're doing at my brain in if I'm honest so I can't wait to sit down and do my nails on Wednesday I also need to finish off my facebook freebie I had started it but I need to finish it because then I got really busy with kind of Easter preparations and then I will need to fold some laundry so I put that down and then the really large puppet at the bottom was to mark down that I've got a delivery for or something for my sister that I've ordered and I'm really excited to it to come so I use the larger puppet I don't often break them out but they made an appearance in this day and then flipping over to the second half of the week but with the glitter header at the top again I put down a half box with a happy poppet as I want to carry on doing some digital drawing when I did do these kind of sneak peeks not sneak peeks when I shared them on my in stories a couple of people DME asking if I could make these into stickers and I did explain I just need a little bit more practice drawing those before I bring them into the shop I use their for box with the books on again I really love because I have got to go to the library that day to return some books so it corresponded with my plans again which I love and my bins need to go out and I'd run out of the bin poppets or the puppet with the bin but on the same sheet you do get kind of piles of rubbish which they're kind of cute I know they're rubbish but yeah so I put that down and then another glitter header and a quarter but a half box sorry as I want to call my nan so I use the puppet mobile phone and then I've put the podcast puppet down at the bottom because I wanted to find some new podcasts to listen to for Friday I just blocked off the top with a full box as I will be going to webs and not really getting up to anything and to mark back I just used a little page flag and right down at work I also need to sort out a lift because I wouldn't have a car on Friday so just put the little car icon which comes with the kit which worked out really well and just write that down and then I put a hot box down for my new release and this week it's going to be these plant washy strips this one is my absolute favorite where they're like all little animals I mean and the puppets heads as well but the animals are so cute and what inspired me to do this is a couple of weeks ago I was painting some pots like plant pots for my daughter to take to college and that's kind of how these plant mushi's were created because I had so much fun painting those pots that I just wanted to carry on so then I decided to make them into washi but then I turned it into plant washi instead of like lots of different plant pots painted because that kind of didn't make any sense at all but yeah so they're really cute and I'm excited for them to come out on Friday for the weekend up at the weekend banner down at the top I need to do a food shop so I used the little icon that comes with the kit I also put down a half box as I want to get everything for school ready on the Saturday so I don't have to do that on Sunday I put down a full box to block off some time just you're not really going to be up to a huge amount on Saturday and apart from getting school stuff ready and housework so how's work I'm at that with one of the puppets from the home life sheet with the little Henry the Hoover I have a Henrique myself it also need to go around and just water all of my indoor plants so I use the little puppet watering the plants and then right at the bottom there I've got the puppet crying with the bill juice ticker and so what bilges Sunday I put down the puppet highlighter now these puppet highlighters are up in my shop somebody was asking me about them and they couldn't find them and then I can fund to me that it turned out I had never released the he's into my shop so I'm so sorry if you have looked to buy these because I've been using these for weeks in my planner and you couldn't see them I really apologize I didn't realize that I hadn't put them up in my shop so they aren't in my app in my shop now and you can find them under the puppet section don't Sunday will be going out for a family walk and while we're out we'll probably go somewhere for dinner and if we go to kind of the coast or the coast way we will probably end up having good old fish and chips because you can't beat them when you're sitting on the beach so I use this puppet what were they called puppet code stickers because it had the little fish and chips so moving on to side-by I put my full box down at the top I then realized that I hadn't used the bottom washi I don't think I've ever done that before I'm not sure how I missed that step but yeah I've still got the bottom washi left but I just put down my two habit trackers and split that up with some glitter washy washy glitter headers and then I used a long page flag to put a section for next week and then I also wanted to track dinners so I use another long page rag and just put the dinner header on top and then I finish that off with another good header at the bottom and I'm just going to label my habit trackers and then I was going to decide whether or not to use the washi or the disparate in half and I decided that I wouldn't I would just keep it for maybe a leftover spread which is always handy to have washi because that's normally the first thing that I use and I'll never have spare so it's kind of good that I didn't use it in a way but I decided just to finish off the bottom with some glitter headers because I had those left I don't think I would use these glitter headers anyway and and then it came to my last one because I dripped the pink one so I was going to use the green one and then it ripped as I picked it up so I decided in the end just to use it anyway and on top of that I used the icon with the fork knife and spoon as robic having dinner out that day so it kind of matched kind of I kind of can get away with it but here's everything that I've got left I'm definitely going to be saving all of these because I do want to do a leftover spread at some point in the future I've been kind of saving them I've got a lot of big pile now so I definitely need to go through that but that was it for this week's plan with me I hope you guys have enjoyed it if you did then make sure you give me a thumbs up also if you are new to my channel then please don't forget to subscribe I upload a plan with me every Tuesday and as always I hope you're having an amazing week so far and I will speak to you next time bye guys | Laura Jane Style | UCgvpSUB51HPQ02YSkAGXVAQ | 2019-04-23 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,340 | 11,257 |
ZD8znWjh-Ds | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD8znWjh-Ds | Reviewing - Gratsi Box Wines - Episode #97 | [Music] thank you hello everybody Welcome to Wine World TV the best wine show anywhere I'm your host Mark Fusco before we get started make sure you're smashing that like button and subscribing to the channel every like and subscription helps build the channel even better spread the word to your friends about the best wine show anywhere so many many months ago I got an email from someone marketing Grazie box wines I had seen their ads on Facebook for a while and I still do they are part of what I considered a disturbing Trend to present wine in a more healthy way using buzzwords and implying that most wines are not like their wines when you get into the stats of the wines I agreed to do a review and the pr firm had sent the had the wine sent to me I did email the pr firm for more information about the winery and wines but never got a reply in July I eventually started reviewing most of the sample wines sent to me well since the end of last year when I got to the grazi wines I recorded my scripted intro like I'm doing now after that I discovered that both boxes were oxidized not a little bit but a lot I realized that I had had the boxes for too long I discussed this with someone associated with another box swine company the same one from Freestyle Friday episode a week or two ago where I interviewed Jake Whitman from really good boxed wine in that episode you'll note that a box wine should be good for up to a year after the wine is put into the plastic bag or the box and then about six weeks once you break the seal well I hadn't had these boxes for a year the fact that they were severely oxidized most likely meant that these boxes had been filled several months before I had received them so what's the wine critics do well the only ethical thing to do was to purchase replacement boxes so that's what I did instead of contacting the pr person asked for more free wine I decided that I needed to Shell out the money to replace them during the couple months in between I evaluated my initial intro to that episode I actually deleted it immediately since I knew I couldn't really use it but I had decided that maybe I was a little too harsh on Grazie or maybe not I used my interview with Jake to get a better feel for box wines in general plus both Jake and my other contact Amy had good things to say about Grazie despite my concerns so let's get into the good and bad about these box wines all right what first put them on my radar was their ads in social media especially highlighting being low sugar wine let's set the record straight wine is a low sugar beverage as compared to things like dessert or sweet wines sodas fruit juice even something like milk in general a wine that is considered a dry table wine will have 10 grams per liter of residual sugar or RS or less all right so that's debatable but the EU requires a wine to be four grams per liter or less except for some specific ones that have high acidity in this case that'll be around six or nine grams per liter of RS in the case of sparkling wines 12 grams per liter is considered the maximum RS rate brute or dry sparkling wine all right so I'm going to put up a chart here of some beverages that have more sugar than a dried table wine all right so muscadasi is a dessert wine that has 100 grams per liter or more Spate laser Riesling is usually around 50 grams per liter or more your fruit juice so Tropicana original no pulp orange juice is listed at 93 grams per liter milk uh 50 grams per liter this is a Borden uh Borden Dairy two percent reduced fat milk Coca-Cola it's 110 grams per liter from the Coca-Cola company and then an EU dry wine is up to 4 grams per liter now the sources for all these uh in the source of all these are in the description along with some other uh wines I'm about to talk to you about wines outside the EU are more likely to push their RS closer to 10 grams per liter and still be called dry even so many wines comply with the eu's dry wine definition in order to stay compliant if it is going to be sold in the EU as a dry table wine otherwise it needs to carry some kind of semi-sweet or sweeter or similar designation on the label now that's not to say that wines like say Josh sellers carry Sauvignon which is six grams per liter or the prisoner Wine Company red blend at eight grams per liter or Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon at 10 grams per liter or ménage à trois silk red blend at 14 grams per liter or Apothic Red at 15 grams per liter or Naomi uh Pinot Noir it's 17 grams per liter and others aren't out there with higher RS in order to make the wine taste better the RS is either naturally in there due to a resting fermentation or more likely the addition of great must or inverted sugar after fermentation but there are also ones like these Joel got Cabernet Sauvignon at four grams per liter duck corn decoy Cabernet Sauvignon also at four grams per liter Louis M Martini Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon also four grams per liter Silver Oak Napa Valley Cabernet 70 on it two grams per liter Robert Mondavi Winery Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon two grams per liter and Opus One at two grams per liter and many these are I'd say high volume production wines some would even consider these to be industrial wines depending on your definition the bottom line is that you could randomly pick a non-european wine off the shelf and still be in a dry style as long as we Define dry as 10 grams per liter or less of RS well why well depending on who you talk to We Can't detect sugary sweetness until we get to somewhere around five to ten grams per liter lots of factors are involved but once you get above 10 grams per liter of sugar in a wine it will definitely start to taste sugary sweet and not just fruity sweet FYI like I said I already got at the links to all these ones on the from the LCBO website in the description LCBO is the liquor control board of Ontario now they test just about every single one they sell to verify they comply with Canadian wine law and then publish the RS as far as I know Canada doesn't regulate wine RS but the LCBO does publish it the whole point of this is to show that wines at all price points can be low in sugar as well as elevated we'll get to grazie's stats in a minute okay who is Grazie wine the website is short and details and long on marketing fluff all right back in December when I first looked them up there was more information as to the people who started the wine in the backstory it wasn't much but now there's literally nothing from the initial email from the pr firm I found out that one of the founders is Aaron Moore and he had quote has extensive experience throughout the three-tier industry including managing the EJ Gala portfolio prior to launching his own direct to Consumer wine brand with Grazie he is extremely passionate in hand selecting every blend during the Harvest harvesting process and could speak in depth about the sustainability initiatives grazi incorporates in both The Vineyards and Manufacturing process all right end quote so as I mentioned earlier I did email the pr firm for more information but I declined to ask to talk with Aaron as I was I just wanted specific information and the questions I asked were a bit critical in tone anyway great Aaron is an industry person of some sort but that doesn't really that doesn't really say that much let's be honest people who have never made a wine in their life have gotten into the business and are personally making or hiring killer winemakers to make excellent wines I mean look at really good box wine all right Jake was nowhere from the industry he came from somewhere else but he decided he wanted to get into it so basically you don't have to be you don't have to have been an apprentice winemaker for 10 years or go to UC Davis to be able to make excellent wine now don't get me wrong it helps it helps a lot but there are plenty of knowledgeable people out there you know AKA Consultants that will ensure your wines are good now again let me just say this it doesn't mean that you shouldn't go to UC Davis or go to some University you're going to learn a lot you're going to learn about the chemistry you're going to know way more about winemaking than somebody like me just coming along or somebody who has never studied wine at all they just want to get into it and they have the funds to get into it but those people are hiring the people who know that right they're just the money people and they're marketing people let's talk about the source of the wines the website states that they Source the wines from Washington State and they buy for many Growers and these Growers have Vineyards in five different avas cool negotiate style wine I'm totally down with that some of the best wines in the world are 100 purchased fruit they also say the ones are made in Prosser Washington the boxes say quote sellered and bottled in Prosser Washington at least the new boxes do my original boxes said they were sellered and bottled by Golden Hills in Morgan Hill California which when you looked it up it pretty much is just a fake name it was hard for me you can find an address for it I mean it's it's not a real Winery you know what I mean it's like not you're not gonna go visit a tasting room but it is it was an actual company but now they moved everything to Washington which honestly is a more sustainable approach the new boxes don't specify a winery just says you know pross or Washington so I guess that's legal as you only have to have an address and that address apparently only needs to be a city and state at least far as TTP is concerned for real well I don't know I didn't I didn't email the ttb just to make sure so this means that one of the 30 plus wineries in Prosser Washington do the actual wine making and then the wines are quote finished elsewhere in Prosser all right so again I'm totally down with that I'm not being funny about that there are plenty of well-known wines where some of the same process is happening and Since Aaron handled gallup's portfolio not sure if he was uh you know I'm not sure if it was as a distributor or actually work for Gallo but anyway he is probably very familiar with all the logistics on how to do this again going back to the really good box wine they they actually have a winery where they do some of the winemaking and then they have other wineries make the stuff on a truly partner and they reveal who it is and they just finish it off there's nothing wrong with this okay all right so but the box is a productive USA versus Washington or Columbia Valley and that's just weird according to the website all the fruit comes from the Columbia Valley AVA so why does it say product of USA to me this is honestly a huge red flag not that it's a negotiate one but that the website says the wiser Washington but the label just says USA I get that there are plenty of vanity or private labels out there hell Total Wine specializes in what are known as dis or direct Imports these are wines made by a legit Winery but are sold either to a restaurant or retail chain for a discount with a really non-existent Winery name or company like grazi that doesn't actually own a winery well as far as I can tell they figure out what wines they want to purchase set up the packaging and sell it let's look for a vintage well okay just trust me there's none okay I'm very skeptical about this in general it's not that every wine needs a vintage helps some of the best wines in the world have no vintage AKA non-vidges champagne I think I've made my point with that the best wines in the world phrase by now anyway with that said not having a vintage just means that you can control the supply of the wine it says they don't mention any kind of agent they can literally have a wine at the ready I'm not saying that they do this at all just that it's possible that would change their that that would change the text sheets on the website over time but that's easy to change digitally versus changing stuff on a label now let me say this if it's still Columbia Valley AVA that's you don't have to get new label approvals every time you put out a new batch of wine if you have different avas or you have a significant change in ABV and stuff like that you might have to do that all right we'll get to the ABV in a second I know you know who else switched to non-vintage Naomi and that really reinforces my view that vintage doesn't matter to the vast majority of the wine drinking public now people like me make it sound more important but most people can't tell the difference and don't want it to be different that's the key they don't want it to taste different but they make millions of cases of Naomi and in this case these wines are presented as a daily Drinker kind of wine so vintage isn't as important in my opinion my old email to the pr person said that the website mentioned organically grown grapes but I didn't see any certifications I don't see anything about Organics specifically in the site now so they may have removed it or I was mistaken in their FAQ they do mention that the wines are sustainably made and pesticide free so that's totally cool that implies organic or bio farming they also mentioned vegan and gluten-free news flash gluten free you may have seen a recent episode where I went to more detail about this okay let's talk about a few things the website highlights they talk about Mediterranean inspired Low Sugar by direct and better for the planet all right so first up Mediterranean inspired I got nothing there they want the wine to be quote consumed as casually and regularly as the Romans do 100 down with that uh they definitely don't present a pretentious attitude as far as the wine is concerned hell they call it Old Country so maybe harken back to Old World Wines or wines you get from the countryside in Europe I have no issues with that I touched upon low sugar earlier but let's review their RS numbers or how they how or how they measure them they use a non-standard serving size of six ounces While most restaurants do use this as their Standard Pour because as well it's just easier to see in the bottle if you're at a quarter a half three quarters poured the international standard is five ounces or 100 milliliters how did I say International the international standard the international standard okay that was kind of weird anyway they talk about their wines being less than 0.5 grams of sugar per glass you know who else is that way just about the entire EU all right check this out here's the math at a maximum of four grams per liter a 150 milliliter glass will have 0.6 grams of sugar at six ounces or 177 milliliters that's 0.71 grams that's not that much of a difference in my opinion remember all those U.S wines that were four grams per liter or less yeah the grassy wines aren't some kind of unique low sugar wine hell watch a lot of my reviews and see the wines that have the RS on their Tech sheets most are under four grams per liter and many well below that and they are from all over the world by direct now lots of wineries operate this way it maximizes profit to not go through a distributor and then a retailer or a restaurant and since they don't have an actual Winery or Tasting Room their overhead is lower well that's zero since there is some kind of overhead for you know paying people to make make the wine and shipping and boxing storing Etc they also talk about avoiding retail markups and expensive packaging right so their implication that retail markups being high is kind of misleading since most retailers sell a wine for the same price a winery sells it for now maybe a winery will sell for a couple hours more or less but the key for them here is they aren't cutting into their profit by putting it into distribution I'm fine with that just don't make it seem like retailers are gouging the public markups are pretty standard throughout with some exceptions for iconic lines you want markups go to a restaurant that's where it's really expensive to drink alcohol period and really everything else remember everything is really marked up hiring restaurants because that's how they have to make the money for paying for everybody expensive packaging is absolutely spot on the packaging probably costs around four dollars or maybe less given Aaron's background and his connections a single bottles packaging costs around four dollars or less sometimes more so you're cutting the cost by 75 percent here that leads us to the last part better for the planet box wine is generally better in that it creates a lower carbon footprint than glass bottles it's cheaper to make and also shipped due to being much much lighter granted it's a plastic bag rather than glass but you know there's a trade-off here I cover this in more detail in my interview with Jake Whitman from really good box wine so check out that episode all right my initial shipment came with these two small glasses Bistro style I guess along with a well a deck of playing cards and some literature uh talking about Pauline's Sunday Sugo your your gravy we my family never called it gravy but your your pasta sauce and talking about putting meatballs and pasta and this all the stuff and on the other side talking about how to make the sauce that was really cool touch you know trying to again the whole Roman thing right and the playing cards you can see I actually didn't open them up but I imagine they they have this logo and all that that's cool um now you just get the boxes when you order them and you can buy the glasses separately I I thought it was kind of gimmicky that you got all this but I guess it decided that if people kept buying the two and three box sets that they would have a plethora of glasses and playing cards and roll really the same recipe over and over um a couple more things before we get into the wines they list ingredients that's awesome this is Washington grapes yeast minimal sulfites quote for packaging for package stability and that's it other than being required to mention sulfites I'm glad they have a reasonable FAQ about sulfites though what minimal means is a mystery to me like RS most dry wines don't have a crap ton of sulfites though I guarantee you can find stuff that does have a lot of sulfites and if they did sulfites are not the problem yes I'll eventually have a show or two about them like next year sometime maybe like the end of next year I don't know they also list things like calories carbs fat protein well all wine is zero for fat and protein calories come almost exclusively from alcohol and dry wines carbs are like 90 to 95 from RS though there are some fibers in the wine that contribute to carbs technically these fibers are more complex sugars but we don't think of them like sugars anyway uh now that I've been hyper critical it's time to give you the stats on both wines all right so the first one is non-vintage Grassy old country duo well it's a red and white um it's 88 bucks for a one-time purchase including shipping and tax that's for both boxes there's actually a bonus I would say that the actual retail is closer to 35 to 40 for each box okay the white wine it's from USA claimed avas in other words not on the box but this is on the website and there's no correlation with what grapes come from what avas so you have 93 Horse Heaven Hills five percent while Luke slope two percent rattlesnake Hills and then 0.1 percent Yakima Valley yeah that adds up to 100.1 percent all right varieties website says varietals but to be nitpickiest variety I'm guilty of using both terms interchangeably but I try not to guarantee you can find shows where I do that anyway 86 camera is seven I'm sorry 86 subion blog uh 13 Chardonnay they say naked or unoaked this is poor labeling and confusing no one ever labels a wine like this when listing varieties you talk about the use of oak or lack of Oak later all right 0.2 percent via that's it yeah that's short 0.8 percent I would say it's probably others ABV 13.24 percent so it's actually not a very high ABV that's where you're going to get your calories from the RS is 0.4 0.14 grams per six ounce glass that comes out to 0.79 grams per liter that's actually really good I've reviewed wines from plenty of places that have that much RS or around that much RS calories about 120 carbs 0.14 grams because that's from the RS fat zero protein zero okay the red also from USA cleaned avas again no correlation with what grapes come from what avas 37 rattlesnake Hills 34 while Luke slope 25 Horse Heaven Hills four percent Columbia Valley uh that added up to 100 at least I don't have a note saying it didn't uh varieties 68 Cabernet Sauvignon 20 Merlot eight percent Petite Syrah two percent Syrah and 0.3 percent Cabernet Franc yeah we got the math issues again we're missing 1.7 percent let's say it's probably others ABV 13.42 the RS 0.12 grams per six ounce glass or 60.68 0.68 grams per liter calories about 120 carbs again 0.12 grams fat and protein zero all right now there is no mention of oak treatment so I'll assume zero oak or at least no Oak barrels okay let me just say this I know all this might be implying that I have a negative view of the wine before I even taste them I'll do my best to be a 100 objective for all I know the wine kicks ass it is probably very tasty I'm just less thrilled about the marketing all right so without further Ado let's get into the wines all right so if you watched my really good uh box wine review or interview with with Jake I talked about opening box wines pretty much every box one is about the same you have uh this little you know a little punch thing and pull this out I didn't really show that on the other one pull this pull this out throw it over there and then we're going to try to find the um the spigot this sometimes takes a a minute I mean I see it now it's just getting it out to where it needs to pour all righty all right so we got it out and you can put the little thing back in there to help keep it going all right so uh there's this little tab here you're going to pull up on that and then pull it around and now you've unlocked the little spigot and then you're just going to pour it in here alrighty I'm gonna put the spigot that way okay and let's let's get into it so again I'm really critical about the marketing of it and look I have no problem with wines really promoting that they have less than one gram per liter sugar that means they fully fermented it that's awesome there are lots of wines out there definitely that have more RS than others but here's a deal if you have four grams per liter or three or two grams per liter in your wine you're doing it for balance it helps take make things taste better Is it artificial is it fake I don't know I mean old old school wines never got to the to the alcohol levels we have now because native yeast especially hundreds and thousands of years ago weren't able to convert the sugar to 15 alcohol or 13 or 12. these wines were actually naturally sweet they were much lower in alcohol this is what they drank okay it's only the last few hundred years that we've been able to like first of all figure out what yeast was and then they were able to breed yeast to be more efficient with consuming the sugar so you get higher alcohol and how do you make sure you have lower alcohol Harvest earlier so that you have less sugar at Harvest so that you get a lower alcohol you can and they don't say this I'm not saying they do it you can have a higher bricks at Harvest that's the measure of sugar and then you fully ferment it completely like you with with less than one gram per liter and you could have ended up with a 15 and a half percent alcohol wine and then you can use various techniques to reduce the alcohol okay there's all kinds of tricks to do things all right so as far as color you know I mean it's a it's a good white wine color uh it's a light straw color I got a little bit of gold in the side um I almost said green but literally I have the green of the green screen showing because I don't have any green stuff though there's maybe maybe this glass will look a little bit different normally I use the blue because a lot of times there's Green in the in the glass or green in on a label but there's nothing green here and then I'm recording my Halloween episode after this and there's definitely no green in that that I know of anyway very pleasant smell fairly aromatic and I mean it's well we have we had Chardonnay I'm gonna go look at this real quick davinia that's what I'm smelling you know it's only 0.2 subbing unblock that's what it is yeah it kind of It kind of in a in a weird way smells like a white Bordeaux but yeah the sauvignon blanc and the Chardonnay are playing nice with each other's VNA really isn't doing much I mean it's giving some aromatic lift which is a lot of a lot of reason why we they use it in their own in in red Northern Rhone wines the vignette it uses it gives you an aromatic lift also helps stabilize color which is kind of weird the white wine stabilizes color but that's what they tell me but anyway uh you have a combination of tropical fruits and citrus I get a little banana um I also get um I kind of feel like that the the little microphone is hitting up here when I look downstairs so I keep tugging on my shirt yeah like some orange some pineapple papaya guava more of that really tropical type of stuff and that's probably coming from the sauvignon blanc um a touch of orange so that's more likely from the from the Chardonnay I thought I got like a little bit of a banana thing which is kind of weird to get banana on a white wine usually get banana from a thing called Carbonic maceration um which is very popular in places like Beaujolais and you get that you can get banana and bubble gum out of that but there is something like a laffy taffy thing going on here not unpleasant by any means just kind of a little bit different it does have a sweetness a ripeness to the theoremus so it smells fairly ripe but not like over the top right so I would say that they probably did Harvest this at a reasonable Brix level if they had harvested a really high bricks level and then reduce the alcohol by like one or two percent it the ripeness so should still should come through I see a little bit floral And I detect zero oak on this which is totally fine that also helps keep your costs down by the way tastes really good so those flavors come through it's not it's not super ripe it's kind of it's almost old world like like it has a bit of ripeness to it but it finishes dry and usually I I've had I've had wines at this RS level and higher and they do finish dry okay but you would think well with like less than one gram per liter sugar it's gonna be like bone dry or like dry out the mouth it doesn't really finish that way um I do feel the alcohol a little bit at the very very back end but it's not like I would say as a high alcohol it's medium um but yeah it's the richest of the fruit especially the guava the papaya that type of stuff is really the prominent thing get a little bit the Citrus is orange also get a little bit of grapefruit so sauvignon blanc is coming through again um Touch of Floral but all three of the grapes can produce fluorosis VNA tends to do the most floral stuff um at 0.2 percent for all I know it was just like it was extra and they were like hey we got some Beignets sewed in there and they and it it did enough of a change to the wine that they're like yeah let's keep it in there um yeah no Oak it's clean tasting um very much like you know freshly sprayed down um like concrete type of thing it tastes really good all right so here's the million dollar question is it worth forty dollars for a box okay with the idea that okay so that's 10 that's four ten dollar bottles of wine and in reality because you're saving all this money the equivalent quality should be closer to about twenty dollar maybe a thirty dollar bottle of wine does this match up to that I say yes it does it's a very good wine I think it's well made I think it's excellent um like I said I figured that the wines will probably taste fine and be really good it's just a whole low sugar thing I just kind of time turns me off but it tastes good I'm definitely going to enjoy this wine and it totally is not even close being oxidized like when I first tasted this um you know what I should do I still have the boxes aside let's see and so July's what I did is it's October right now let's see how let's see how it pours all right so when you look at it this is room temperature it's you don't see any oxidation on there so let's see let's see maybe it was just going through a weird phase oh no it's totally like oxidized yeah it's just like oh so yeah I'm not even gonna taste it because I don't want to have that in my mouth when I do the red wine but no this tastes really good let's go to the red wine foreign so good Grazie I like the wines and I think they're appropriately priced I think what it is I just think sometimes the the marketing was a little cheesy and I'm kind of like really but you know I get it it's a lifestyle a life these things are sometimes called lifestyle wines try to get in the glass all right like it's pretty aromatic already all right I kind of poured a little too much on the color it's a really deep Ruby color not a ton of staining on the glass but it's it is present but it's not a very not a lot not a lot it's mostly opaque as it should be considering the varieties are in there Let's uh let's have a smell snippy sniff as as garyvee used to say um I mean it's kind of a mishmash of red and black fruits on the aroma not exactly a fan so far of it yet but I mean it's the initial it's the initials you know evaluation of it but it's very fruity the fruit is ripe now things are it's airing out so it's getting a little bit better now sometimes you know sometimes you just needs needs a little oxygen for things to just get better yeah I like it better now but yeah it's loaded with with really not super ripe just ripe like Blackberry raspberry type of thing a little plum a little blueberry but it's all the red and black fruits there's a touch of Earth but not really it's like a fresh Earth fresh potting soil um none of the none of the actual spices that you would get from an oak from any Oak barrels or if they did any type of oak treatment which would be like Oak chips or dust or whatever there's other ways to add the oak flavoring to things so I don't really get that on the nose I do get a definitely some floral get some like violet yeah I feel like I get a touch of green to this which the camera is 79 for sure can give us a little bit of green along with the Merlot and well there's not much Cabernet Franc in there but uh Batista's gonna be in here for color along with the Syrah let's just go and taste it I say I like the white wine better the red wine is solid like if I was going to judge this on on quality as far as like price point um yeah 20 bucks maximum I would pay for a bottle of this you know 10 to 20 it's in the right price range this one I think is for sure twenty dollars at least and you could probably get a couple more dollars out of it this I think you know if I if you were asking me to pay 30 bucks for a bottle of this wine I'd be like nah 20 bucks is fine and here's the thing and this is more of a personal preference so that's probably why I'm kind of giving it a little bit of a ding as far as quality there's a flavor of this wine of red of wines like this and I've had lots of wines that taste very similar to this usually California though I've had them from other parts of the world um including Washington and it just I don't know there's something about it that's just just not appealing to me now that doesn't mean it's not appealing to you uh actually I know a lot of wines that tastes are similar to this or have that certain type of flavor profile that are very popular that people like it it's just not my style um there is a bit of bitterness to it and that's not what it is um tan is actually really nice it's not not over the top like you could kind of just sip on this okay and here's the thing over time I might like I may drink some of this tomorrow or the next day or whatever or let it sit my glass for a while and it will open up and it'll change so I've had wines do that I'm like the first even this one I was kind of like and it was like oh I like it and even the aroma well actually that one was pretty much from media this one the aroma at first like uh then I like the aroma better but I'd say that I hate to use the word generic but it kind of tastes like a lot of other ones I've had in the same you know 10 to 20 dollar range so to me it's not like oh this is something like totally different the pluses are it's in a box wine so it's actually decent quality I think the white wine in my opinion is a better quality wine uh but it's a decent quality wine so for 40 something bucks 44 to 50 dollars it feels retail so you're figuring 10 10 to 12.50 per bottle right um in reality should be a 20 to 30 bottle wine 20 bucks is about as much I would pay for a bottle of this I mean it's fine um it doesn't really inspire me to like really like go back and drink a ton of it but you know I'm gonna finish this because well it's actually not oxidized and that's that's the other good part yeah it's okay and that's hey that's just my take on it like I said there's a lot of people that will like this one that will love this one all right so what's my what's my final evaluation of of the wines you know what all things being said with the low sugar thing which I again I'm not against low sugar I just I'm just against people trying to make it sound like their wine or their wines they sell are something special and unusual with that said there are wines out there that have elevated amounts of sugar but in reality unless you're drinking Moscato or Riesling you're really not drinking that much sugar as far as wine is concerned even at 10 grams per liter you're only having a couple grams in a glass now again if you're trying to follow keto diet well first of all you shouldn't be drinking alcohol at least not a lot of it um so I know with keto you're not supposed to have less than a certain amount of grams of sugar so even so you're not supposed to drink more than one or two glasses of wine in a day anyway so if you got four grams or five grams of sugar from two glasses of wine not a big deal but the reason I say you shouldn't be drinking alcohol if you're trying to stay keto and especially if you're diabetic is that alcohol screws up the regulation of glucose in your blood it does it makes your body it regulates it differently okay so it's not just as low sugar it's that alcohol does stuff to your your body changes how how it interacts with sugar okay I don't know if it's bad or good or both or it just depends but I know it kind of changes things that's why they really suggest that diabetics don't drink a lot of alcohol period regardless of how sugar it is but especially things like rum and cokes because the coke is where all the sugar is not where the rum you know um certain beers have a decent amount of sugar in it you know dessert wines those have a lot of sugar in them you add the alcohol in there now you're now your body's all jacked up with with sugar okay how is how it's regulating it so um yeah even something like you know a Camus that's at 10 grams per liter if you have a couple glasses of it it's not going to kill your diet just don't drink the whole bottle like every day and then and because also alcohol makes you eat more especially sugary stuff and salty stuff so that's that's the real problem with alcohol and diets is that it causes you to do things you wouldn't normally do if you're drinking a non-alcoholic beverage okay otherwise as far as these wine is concerned I think I like the white a lot the red is like that's okay I think they're I think the value is there I think the quality is there again the red one I'm kind of like it's not inspiring to me not that it has to be life-changing this isn't life-changing but I'd like I like it a lot but I think I think the quality is there I think I think uh if someone's buying it and they like how I describe the wines that they'll like these wines it's box wine it'll last for you know at least six weeks after you open it when you do get these wines make sure you don't wait like eight nine months to open them because especially because they're non-vintage who knows how long it's been since they've actually boxed them um now maybe things are different now because they're they're boxing them they're doing it all in process instead of it shipping it to California and who knows how long all that took I mean that doesn't get that long but you know if there was a delay in things but um yeah I mean as a category I think box one is awesome I think you get some really great value out of it um it's better for the planet in general and I think you should check it out um these are direct to Consumer which is fine and the bonuses you get free shipping if shipping is included think about it like sometimes shipping in certain States is a lot more than say close other states uh and the tax that is a great deal it's in my opinion that's a great deal these boxes should have cost me instead of 88 for the pair should have cost me like 95 to 100 at the pricing I think they would be at okay so um take that for what you will that the shipping and the taxes included so in reality I guess they're not 44 boxes they're more like 35 boxes you know each okay so again we're selling that 10-ish dollar range but it's still more than your 20 black box right and the quality is definitely better than your standard 15 to 20-ish dollar box one okay so that's gonna do it for today's show uh if you enjoy what I'm doing here make sure you hit the like button and subscribe and then tell your friends and we'll see you next time maybe with some grassy box wine I don't know cheers | Wine World TV | UCPmfD45krhbgj8SHq2EfyPQ | 2022-10-22 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 7,419 | 38,153 |
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pV_ky0Q8EjE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV_ky0Q8EjE | Visitor Mike from USA, said it's a wonderful experience to be here at Saras Aajeevika Mela | foreign [Music] I think it's beautiful and especially this Festival the culture is so rich I'm very grateful to be here the people are lovely the food is delicious and having a great time just recently I had some cookies behind us which were delicious and after this I'm going to roam around and hopefully purchase some things that I can take home with me to remember this experience please come it's worth the effort to be here the culture is so rich the people are lovely the food is delicious and you're going to walk away having a great experience I recommend it [Music] | DAY- NRLM | UC14SCOdolSM-Hpg3clOumeQ | 2022-10-22 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 105 | 574 |
2vmqH15e9Jo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vmqH15e9Jo | What it takes to become a Seismologist | study physics because I would I was always attracted to the subject but then at the end of my third year what I had to choose my master's degree I wasn't selling or anything particular I wanted to focus on Applied Physics work on something microscopic that is something that I could see by the naked eye and right then on august 11 1999 as strong as people cared very close to my hometown lemon sauce it was a very it was a strong shallow earthquake because they were very high intensities for Cyprus it was a quite scary experience for me and my family it was also a long-lasting experience because for weeks we could feel the aftershocks so later on I learned that my university has a degree as a project master's project on this earthquake and this is how I ended up following seismology for my rest of the studies to become wealthy there is no tubular workday for a seismologist there is no such a thing because you don't know what each day will bring it's a totally unpredictable thing so I could spend a day at the seismological station maintaining the specialized instruments they are making sure that they work properly or solving problems I could spend and they here trying to figure out what's wrong with the servers and the computers in case that there is some problem I to spend a day trying to fix problems I have to do with data telecommunications I could spend a day in the office processing and evaluating data I find challenge a challenging experience when we have an earthquake which is unusual it's not it doesn't have characteristic spectral characteristics it's a non textbook kids I needed to figure out what's going on an enjoyable moment is when after all of hard work and effort a new station comes to life and we see here the ground motion of a previously on static point okay | European Schoolnet | UCvedR-uXVmyYfFeVWeNokbQ | 2019-06-21 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 329 | 1,802 |
4OU52LTqiuU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OU52LTqiuU | Turning Wide-Leg Pants into Joggers | I'm about to show you a hack that is going to give you so much more wear out of your wide leg pants so good okay the level one that you will make but sometimes maybe you want to switch it up maybe in a specific pair of shoes you want to wear and the wide leg just really isn't working this is the Hat all right so you're gonna take a rubber band we're gonna pull that leg out and make a little tail where I tie this up cute right you're gonna tuck that under kind of pull and adjust oh okay wait let me do the other one to show you the full effect hold on okay look at this I think these are so cool I'm actually really really digging this silhouette I actually can't decide what I like better you have to pick you just have one pair of pants and you can do both | EXPRESS | UClSObHC99kT_DGmHsN9Aw-A | 2023-02-22 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 160 | 762 |
Hjk8MvoVzL0 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjk8MvoVzL0 | Lubbock Lights | Wikipedia audio article | the Lubbock lights were an unusual formation of light seen over the city of Lubbock Texas in August in September 1951 the Lubbock lights incident received national publicity in the United States and is regarded as one of the first great UFO cases in that country the Lubbock lights were investigated by the US Air Force in 1951 the air force initially believed the lights were caused by a type of bird called a plover but eventually concluded that the lights weren't Birds but they weren't spaceships dot the Lubbock lights have been positively identified as a very commonplace and easily explainable natural phenomenon however to maintain the anonymity of the scientist who had provided the explanation the air force refrained from providing any details regarding their explanation for the lights topic the sightings the first publicized sighting of the lights occurred on August 25th 1951 at around 9 p.m. three professors from Texas technological college now Texas Tech University located in Lubbock were sitting in the backyard of one of the professor's homes when they observed the lights fly overhead a total of 20 to 30 lights as brightest stars but larger in size flew over the yard in a matter of seconds the professor's immediately ruled out meteors as a possible cause for the sightings and as they discuss the sighting a second similar group of lights flew overhead the three professors dr. AG Oberg chemical engineer dr. WL Ducker a department head and petroleum engineer and dr. WI Robinson a geologist reported the sighting to the local newspaper the Lubbock Avalanche Journal following the newspapers article three women in Lubbock reported that they had observed peculiar flashing lights in the sky on the same night of the professor's sightings dr. Karl hemming ur a professor of German at Texas Tech also reported seeing the objects as did the head of the college's journalism department the three professors became determined to view the objects again and perhaps discover their identity on September 5th 1951 all three men along with two other professors from Texas Tech were sitting in dr. Robinson's front yard when the lights flew overhead according to dr. Grayson made the lights appeared to be about the size of a dinner plate and they were greenish blue slightly fluorescent in color they were smaller than the full moon at the horizon there were about a dozen to 15 of these lights they were absolutely circular it gave all of us an extremely eerie feeling Meade claimed that the lights could not have been birds but he also stated that they went over so fast that we wished we could have had a better look the professors observed one formation of lights flying above a thin cloud at about 2,000 feet 610 metres this allowed him to calculate that the lights were traveling at over 600 miles per hour 970 kilometers per hour topic the heart photographs on the evening of August 30th 1951 Carl Hart jr. a freshman at Texas Tech was lying in bed looking out of the window of his room when he observed a group of 18 to 20 white lights in a v-formation flying overhead Hart took a 35mm Kodak camera and walked to the backyard of his parents home to see if the lights would return two more flights passed overhead and Hart was able to take a total of five photos before they disappeared after having the photos developed Hart took them to the offices of the Lubbock Avalanche Journal after examining the photos the newspapers editor Jay Harris told heart that he would print them in the paper but that he would run him Hart out of town if the photos were fake when Hart assured him that the photos were genuine Harris paid Hart ten dollars for the pictures the photographs were soon reprinted in newspapers around the nation and were printed in Life magazine thus giving him wide publicity the physics laboratory at wright-patterson Air Force Base in Ohio analyzed the Hart photographs after an extensive analysis and investigation of the photos leftenant Edward J ruppelt the supervisor of the Air Force's Project Blue Book released a written statement to the press that the Hart photos were never proven to be a hoax but neither were they proven to be genuine Hart has consistently maintained to this day that the photos are genuine curiously the Texas Tech professors claimed that the photos did not represent what they had seen since their objects had flown in a new formation instead of the V formation depicted in Hart's photos topic air force investigation and controversy in late September 1951 leftenant ruppelt read about the Lubbock lights and decided to investigate them project Bluebook founded in 1948 as project sign was the Air Force's official research group assigned to investigate UFO reports ruppelt traveled to Lubbock and interviewed the professor's Carl Hart and others who claimed to have witnessed the lights reports conclusion at the time was that the professor's had seen a type of bird called a plover the city of Lubbock had installed new vapor street lights in 1951 and Ruppel believed that the plovers flying over Lubbock in their annual migration were reflecting the new street lights at night witnesses who supported this assertion were TE Schneider a local farmer who on August 31st 1951 had observed some birds flying over a drive-in movie theater the birds undersides were reflected in the light another witness Jo Bryant had been sitting outside his home with his wife on August 25th the same night on which the three professors had first seen the lights according to Bryant he and his wife had seen a group of lights fly overhead and then two other flights like the professor's they were at first baffled by the objects but when the third group of lights passed overhead they began to circle the Bryant's home mr. Bryant and his wife then noticed that the lights were actually plovers and could hear them as well in addition dr. J Allen Hynek an astronomer and one of Project Blue Book's scientific consultants contacted one of the Texas Tech professors in 1959 and learned that the professor after careful research had concluded that he had actually been observing the plovers however not everyone agreed with this explanation William hams the chief photographer for the Lubbock Avalanche Journal took several nighttime photos of birds flying over Lubbock's vapor streetlights and found that he could not duplicate Hart's photos the images were too dim to be developed dr. JC Krauss the head of Texas Tech's biology department ruled out the possibility that birds could have caused the sightings a game warden ruppelt interviewed felt that the sightings could not have been caused by Java's due to the slow speed 50 miles per hour or 80 km/h and tendency to fly in groups much smaller than the number of objects reported by eyewitnesses the warden did admit that an unusually large number of plovers had been seen in the fall of 1951 dr. Meade who had observed the lights strongly disputed the plover explanation these objects were too large for any bird I have had enough experience hunting and I don't know of any bird that could go this fast we would not be able to hear to have gone as fast as this to be Birds they would have to have been exceedingly low to disappear quite so quickly in his 1956 book the report on unidentified flying objects ruppelt rejected the plover hypothesis but declined to say what the lights were they weren't Birds they weren't refracted light but they weren't spaceships the lights have been positively identified as a very commonplace and easily explainable natural phenomenon it is very unfortunate that I can't divulge the way the answer was found telling the story would lead to the identity of the scientist who finally hit upon the answer and I promise the man complete anonymity topic the flying wing [Music] while investigating the Lubbock lights ruppelt also learned that several people in and around Lubbock claimed to have seen a flying wing moving over the city among the witnesses was the wife of dr. Tucker who reported that in August 1951 she had observed a huge soundless flying wing pass over her house ruppelt knew that the US Air Force did possess a flying wing jet bomber and he felt that at least some of the sightings had been caused by the bomber although he could not explain why according to the witnesses the wing made no sound as it flew overhead topic publicity and media you the Lubbock lights were one of the best publicized events in American UFO history in April 1952 Life magazine published a popular article about the UFO phenomenon the Lubbock lights were a prominent feature of the article leftenant later captain ruppelt devoted an entire chapter of his best-selling 1956 book to the incident a novel by dr. David wheeler focuses on the Lubbock lights in 1994 the Albuquerque based progressive rock band scumbag staged a rock opera called the Lubbock lights a melodrama and interpretive ballet in November 1999 Dallas Texas based television station KDFW aired a news story about the Lubbock lights one reporter Richard ray interviewed Carl Hart jr. about taking the famous photos and being investigated by the US Air Force the coverage concluded that after decades of intense scrutiny Hart's photos are still among the most remarkable and vexing in UFO history the Lubbock lights were featured prominently in the 2002 Sci Fi Channel miniseries taken in which one alien poses as a human in the Lubbock area for a brief period of time in 2005 a film called Lubbock lights was released about the music scene in Lubbock which describes some theories about the lights by the musicians from the area in 2006 Lubbock based alternative country band thrift store Cowboys wrote and recorded a song entitled Lubbock lights on their third album lay low while crawling or creeping the third episode of the 2019 History Channel television series Project Blue Book is entitled the Lubbock lights and is based on the Lubbock lights incident topic see also Marfa lights list of UFO sightings | wikipedia tts | UCmp1SkLvf1pYMPK7PE2mYXA | 2019-06-04 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,719 | 10,006 |
1dF2NpAMacA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dF2NpAMacA | Bears Rookie Kyler Gordon gets his 3rd INT | then returned at 42 yards fourth take away third interception for the Chicago D he's done a lot you know Tyler Gordon's introduction to the NFL was not pretty early on he was giving up a lot of big plays and there was a lot of question whether he could get it together in his past coverage game in the last two weeks the rookie has had an interception in both games and these are verses arguably the two teams that may wind up in the Super Bowl the Eagles and the bills this is a great sign for Bears fans the rookie had been letting up less and less big plays and he's starting to make big plays himself with how thin we are at cornerback we really need Kyler Gordon to pan out and he has done his very best to turn the corner and show his ability and improve a lot in this game | Bearskifilm | UCaavONFwwxx4TOEllaDklYQ | 2022-12-25 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 157 | 779 |
EdslaTAhL0E | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdslaTAhL0E | Classical Music Eras: Era of Early Music and the Renaissance Era | what's up everybody welcome to a new episode of classically music this episode marks the beginning of the era series in which we will be dissecting classical music and looking at it through the lens of its different musical eras this video however will provide you with a high level overview of the different musical eras and in later videos we will be looking at these different eras in more depth by looking at composers pieces of music and society as well because it had a huge implication on how music was being created so let's get right into it so let us begin with the era of early music we're going to start with europe as classical music started there and we're going to understand it from a political land early music first started the year 1000 and ended in the year 1400 and that time marked the dominance of europe by the church the church had utmost control over every single aspect of life more importantly and more relevant to this channel and to this video music [Music] music back then was used only for worship by monks not for entertainment as we know of it today and in previous or in later classical music eras monks interestingly would chant certain hymns instrumentally unaccompanied so you didn't have any musicians or instruments accompanying these monks and it's also interesting to look at how they used to read notes they didn't have the notes that we know of today they used to use new maze which meant there were certain lines that went up or down a certain letter in a certain chant to help them to help guide them and show them that now it's time to go up or it's time to go down later on in the 11th century as well we had a very famous very smart and intelligent person named guido de retzo who created the staff that we know of today and that is doremi fasola sido he created it to help monks chant more efficiently and effectively however at the same time he created an unintentional problem for the church because he paved the way for more secular forms of music to be composed so more innovation more development and compositions four music used to be passed on or passed down generation to generation through memorizing just imagine it started all from jewish and roman traditions people memorizing these chants and passing them on to later generations so imagine the endless world of possibilities that this theorist this monk has created so this marks the beginning of the renaissance era of music which started in the year 1400 and ended in the year 1600 again this era marked the beginning of more secular forms of music to be published but not only that but also for a form of music called polyphony it's simply the idea of more than one musical line or more than one melody being sung at the same time by different people previously in the era of early music you had people or monks more specifically chant hymns the same melody in unison but this era was marked by more polyphonic music so we had more melodies intertwining creating more beautiful melodies and just chants that just mesmerized the public however worshipers still remained um they were unamused because this didn't help them or allow them to clearly hear chants in church or in masses so to work around this issue a form of music another was created and it was called a motet and it was characterized by polyphonic music the singing of different melodies at the same time however remaining instrumentally unaccompanied and this would be to the comfort of the different worshipers [Music] | Joanna's Music Diary | UCmCWpvKXyhCHY20kkwsU7dA | 2022-02-20 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 628 | 3,500 |
1oaRl4H5vt8 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oaRl4H5vt8 | KOL337 | You Don’t Own Bitcoin—Property Rights, Praxeology and the Foundations of Private Law | [KOL337 Join the Wasabikas: You Don’t Own Bitcoin—Property Rights, Praxeology, and the Foundations of Private Law with Max Hillebrand] MAX HILLEBRAND: What’s up, peers? And welcome to Join the Wasabikas, a Bitcoin privacy podcast. And today, we deviate from the bit more technical side and into the philosophical and praxeological domain. I am joined by the one and only Stephan Kinsella who has been one of the most influential people on my understanding of the beauty of Bitcoin especially. Really he is great in articulating the difference between scarce and non-scarce goods meaning scarcity being a potential conflict over who can control these resources. And there are many scarce goods like wood or food or oil, and there also infinite non-scarce goods like ideas or numbers where anyone can use a number without anyone else needing to sacrifice the use of those. And this already leads us down an interesting discussion of can we even own information, and do things like patents or copyrights even make sense. Well, spoiler: no, they don’t. That’s why we love free software. But we can strive this way of thinking even further, and I think this conversation here today shows exactly that because we get into the nitty gritty of what it actually means for Bitcoin to exist. What is the actual problem that it solves, and how unspeakably beautiful is the solution that it comes up with. It is crazy, complex, and very scary to think about, and it could go wrong and break in 1,001 pieces, but nevertheless, Bitcoin continues to function, and it continues to amaze me. And I hope that these conversations here will continue to amaze you too. So catch this latest episode on a newpodcastapp.com with the Podcasting 2.0 features enabled, and send some sats to all the amazing contributors in the Bitcoin podcasting space. And now without any further ado, let’s get into this conversation about the crazy, beautiful magic of non-scarce cyberspace. So Stephan, very welcome to Join the Wasabikas. How are you today? STEPHAN KINSELLA: I am very well. Thanks Max. How are you doing? MAX HILLEBRAND: Always good to talk to you, and I’m eager to expand on our past conversations that we had and talk a bit about the nuances of intellectual property and how cyberspace actually comes to work in the realm of human action and how privacy is an essential part to this. So at first I’m very curious about your background and when you especially got interested in delving down this realm of intellectual ideas and non-scarce items. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Probably right around the time I started practicing patent law, around ’93. I was a brand new lawyer, and I was doing oil and gas law at first, and then I started doing patent law because that’s the way my career developed. And I was also a libertarian at the time and writing on various things about libertarian theory: property rights and individual rights and contract law, legislation, things like that. And the IP thing puzzled me because the arguments I had heard for it seemed to be all over the map and really were unprincipled or made no sense. So I tried to figure it out on my own. I tried to justify IP because I was doing it as a living. I was doing copyright and patent and still am. So I was always interested in libertarian theory and economics and Austrian economics as a lawyer and law student and college student. And when I started practicing law, I was also at the time heavily involved in the Mises Institute and in writing sort of scholarly arguments or articles about different aspects of libertarian, let’s say, legal theory. And because I started practicing in IP law, I turned my attention to that. I thought I would be the one that would solve the issue, and I would show why patent and copyright law are valid types of property rights. And after a few years of struggling, I finally reversed my efforts because I realized that I kept failing because it’s totally incompatible with property rights. So that’s how I came to it, but I kept studying it over the years, and because I wrote something on it – I wrote something in 2000 about IP. And I really did it to get it out of the way and to turn my attention back to the things that I’m really interested in, which I have done. But that was the beginning of the internet era, and so more and more attention got paid to that article. And I – so over the years I keep getting invited to speak on that topic. And so over the years I kept refining my arguments because I keep running into different objections. You come up with a good argument for why – what property rights should be and why they cannot include rights in immaterial, intangible things like ideas or knowledge. And so people keep objecting, and they’ll – if you shoot down one objection, they’ll come up with another, and you shoot that one down, they’ll come up with another. So over the years I’ve come up with a host of reasons to address the different arguments, but the reasons are all the same basically. And usually the arguments for IP are a retread of the other ones. And there’s about ten of them, but when you get to the tenth one and you finally rebut that one, then they start over again with number one. So I keep having to rebut the same old fallacious ideas over and over and over again. So that’s how I got interested in it, and I got more and more interested as I realized it was a more and more significant problem. I’ve come to believe that intellectual property is not only a theoretical, technical thing that specialists have to worry about, but it is extremely damaging to the human race and prosperity, freedom, innovation, internet freedom, all these things. And it’s one of the most harmful things the government does, so I put it up there with big state evils like taxation and government schools and the Federal Reserve, central banking, war, the drug war. It’s up there with those, so it’s one of the things we really have to focus on and work to abolish because it’s extremely harmful in every way. There are no good arguments for intellectual property I’ve come to believe, and we would just be better off in every respect without it. MAX HILLEBRAND: That for sure sets the scene adequately with emphasizing the importance of understanding what cyberspace and the realm of ideas is actually about and then why it’s so fundamentally different to material scarce resources. And so let’s go down that path. Why do we need property rights in scarce resources? What problems does this concept solve? STEPHAN KINSELLA: So you could go back to fundamentals, and I always invoke a concept that Ludwig von Mises, the kind of preeminent Austrian economist, used. It’s called praxeology, and the word sounds daunting, but it’s really not that complicated. Praxeology is just a word he came up with, which means the logic of human action. So it was how he analyzed what we do, and he did that more to analyze the consequences of our action, which is really what economics studies… … the consequences of human action in the world where we interact with other people, where we have trade and interactions with them, and where we live in a world of scarcity. So that’s the fundamental backdrop and that’s the backdrop of all economics is recognizing that we live in a certain type of world of scarcity. And scarcity means that we don’t live automatically and for free. We have to do things to achieve what we want. So we don’t live in a magical place where you can just get something by wishing for it. And we don’t live in a world of infinite plenty like the Garden of Eden. So there’s shortages and scarcity, and there’s the need to do things to achieve things. And to do that, we have to use means. Mises called it means. We have to use scarce resources or tools, things in the world that we can use to achieve what we want. And these things are the type of things that includes our bodies and land and food and other resources like wood and metal, all the things that we use in life to achieve things. These things are called scarce resources because their nature is such that only one person can use them at a time. And two people can’t use them at the same time to achieve the same thing. If I’m using my fishing pole to catch fish, if you take the fishing pole from me, I can’t use it anymore to catch fish. So there’s – because of the way the world is, there’s always the possibility of conflict among people, that is, the struggle over the use of these resources. Now, we would prefer to use them peacefully and productively so that we can get more things done instead of fighting with each other. So we prefer to each be able to use the things that we need to use, and if we need to use someone else’s thing, we need to get their permission. We need to pay them to use it or ask them permission or trade with them. So that’s what property rights are. Property rights are the rules that in society that we agree upon that determine who owns which one of these resources that otherwise would be subject to conflict. So that’s really what the law is and what property rights are. They are the assignment of an owner to everything that could be contested or have a conflict over. And traditionally in the private law of the western world like in the common law and the Roman law and the civil law of Europe, these systems and other systems too – they tend to follow certain basic principles like – so most people are against murder and theft. But you can think of those as just the consequences of having a property right in people’s bodies and in other things of the world. The basics of property rights of private law is that you own your own body, which means you’re the one who gets to decide if something is done to your body, which is the distinction between rape and consensual theft – I mean consensual sex. And you’re the one who gets to decide if you first use a resource that was unowned, like you pluck it out of the state of nature and start using it, that’s called homesteading or original appropriate. And you have the ownership of that thing because you were the first to use it unless you give it to someone else by contract in which case they have the better title. So these very simple rules that you own your body and you own a resource if you were the first to use it or if you got it by contract from a previous owner, those three rules are the basis of all private law. And if you apply them very consistently, that’s when you get the libertarian conception of these rules. We just don’t make exceptions. The conventional legal systems of the world follow these rules in a rough way, but they make lots of exceptions like you own your property usually unless the government needs to take some of it in the form of taxes to fund their army, something like that. So normally you’re the owner of your property, your crops let’s say, unless the government takes some of it, which we would call theft in a private setting. So that’s the basic background. Now, if you understand property rights in this way, then you will understand why the attempt to assign ownership to ideas or knowledge, which is what intellectual property does, patent and copyright law… … you will understand that it’s in conflict with these basic principles because a patent, for example, gives the owner of the patent the right to stop another person from using his factory to make a product. So it’s telling him what to do with his own property when he was supposed to be the one that had the right to do that because that’s what property rights and ownership means. And copyright is very similar. The copyright holder can prevent someone from using their printing press to print a book because it has a certain pattern on it that’s similar to the pattern you put into your book. That’s the argument there. So the copyright gives the copyright holder a partial ownership right in your printing press and even in your body if it can prevent you from saying something or singing a song or performing a play or something like that. So the problem with these rights is ultimately that they take away, the redistribute property rights that are assigned according to the natural way, and they reassign them to someone else. So they’re tantamount to theft. Now, the consequences of this is that, although patents are granted – the system is justified based upon the idea that it encourages innovation, it actually does not. It actually impedes innovation because it makes it illegal for someone to use their property in a way to compete with someone who has a patented product. So they don’t bother to innovate in, say, trying to improve the product because it would be illegal to sell that product because it’s patented, so they don’t bother to innovate. And likewise, the person that gets the patent on their innovated product slows down on their innovating because they don’t need to innovate anymore to keep customers because they have a monopoly for about 17 years where they’re free from competition. So they don’t innovate as much, and their competitors don’t bother to innovate because it wouldn’t do them any good. So patents actually impede innovation, not that the purpose of law is to encourage innovation in the first place. The purpose of law is to set these rules down, to assign ownership to scarce resources so that we can live in peace with each other and cooperatively and we can trade. So the purpose of law was never to encourage innovation because people that tinker with the law to achieve their pet social goals, they always make exceptions to the basic law. And they say, well, one purpose of the law is to make sure we have enough – make sure we have a spaceship landing on the moon. So let’s tax people, take their property from them, and use it to fund NASA, or I want to make sure people don’t starve, so I’m going to have a welfare system and I need to take people’s property from them to fund that… … or we need basic education for free for the public, so we’re going to take people’s property and pay for education. So if you come up with a pet project, you can always use that as an excuse to steal people’s property, but the purpose of law is to protect property, not to invade it in the service of some artificial goal that you happen to have. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes. There’s a lot to unpack in this eloquent and quite realistic approach to the problem matter. And one thing I would like to highlight is on the actual definition of scarcity because this is so important in our analysis that it’s very deep in the logical foundation of it. So scarcity is about having potential conflict over who can use this resource. So only one person at a time can use this good for only one specific task, and there are literally endless amounts of opportunity costs where this good can no longer be used because it has been used up. So – but one of my questions here is that it’s – does this potential conflict of ownership only arise if there is not an abundance of the good, or how closely is the abundance, the quantity of the good tied to its actual scarcity? STEPHAN KINSELLA: This is one of the issues that – where it’s important to think a little bit more carefully about it, to be very careful with the use of words because this issue does trick up a lot of people who are new to the issue because they think of scarcity as just relative lack of abundance. And so they’ll say something like, well, good ideas are scarce, so why can’t they be subject to property, something like that. So you have to keep in mind that the term scarcity kind of has two meanings. In economics, it has more of a technical meaning, which does not just mean lack of abundance. It really means lack of super abundance you could call it. So in the limit, abundance goes to superabundance, which means so plentiful that it’s infinitely possible. But that doesn’t exist in the real world. So the way we use the word scarcity has a technical meaning that’s more akin to the economic idea of rivalry or rivalrousness, or a term I’ve been using—conflictability. So really it’s about things that there could be conflict over. So even if we lived in a world – let’s say bananas are a useful thing. People like to eat bananas, and we lived in a jungle where there’s just banana trees everywhere. Now, they’re still not superabundant in the sense that they’re infinitely provided. But they’re so abundant that it’s the same to any human actor whether they’re infinitely abundant or not, sort of like air is right now. We can treat the air as if it’s super abundant because we don’t have to economize on its use. And that’s the whole function of economics is to study how we produce things that are not superabundant because – or not abundant enough that we need to produce them. So we have to produce some things. And when we produce things, we have to use resources to do that, and we have to choose the most efficient way to do that. That’s what economizing means, and that’s what economics arose to study. How do we react to a world where we have to make some effort to achieve these things and to produce these things that are not just there for the grabbing? But if you imagine if we lived in a jungle with a virtually infinite supply of bananas, each individual banana is still scarce in our sense. It’s still conflictable because that particular banana still can’t be used by more than one person at a time. So if I pluck the banana out of the tree and was about to eat it and someone took it from me, they would be taking my property or a resource that I own. Now, the thing is, it’s such an unreal construct. The question is why would anyone take my banana? Because they don’t need to, because they can just grab their own banana. And furthermore, why would I care if they took my banana? If someone takes my banana, I could just grab another from the tree. So the more plentiful things get, the less we really need property rights, and the less people care about them, the less relevant would be the concept of stealing or property rights because people just wouldn’t care because it would be so plentiful. But when it comes to the point where people do care, and that happens when things are scarce enough that it matters, that’s when property rights apply, and that’s when theft has a meaning, and that’s when I would – it would matter to me if someone took my things. Like if someone takes my car from me or my home or my crops in my field or my animals or my car or my iPhone, I do care because I no longer have that thing anymore. So really it’s about anything that there could be a contest or conflict over where there could be a dispute. So the idea is that when two or more actors desire to use the same thing and that’s impossible, they have a dispute. And if they care about peace in society and civilization at all, they would prefer to have a civilized, peaceful dispute-resolution process, which is why they go to a legal system to decide who gets to use a thing. And hopefully they respect the outcome of that, and they go about their business and then they can trade. So when the case – when the judge or whoever decides or the legal system decides which one of the two contestants has the proper right in that thing or the property right in that thing, then the other guy, if he wants it, now he can buy it, or he can make a deal. That’s – so that’s how the system ideally would work and how it does work to some degree even now. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes. And it is somewhat of a social construct to – for the victim to be able to get help from other people to defend off against a thief and bully. So basically this court system is a way for other humans to decide how they want to act towards that victim and the aggressor… … and first of all, find out who is who and who has actually stolen someone else’s property against his consent so to then, for example, punish him and apply defensive force against the aggressor. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Right. So you can think of – you can imagine a few different ways of looking at it. So every human actor needs to employ scarce resources. That means they need to possess or use them. They need to have access or control over them to survive. So if you imagine Robinson Crusoe alone on a desert island, he doesn’t have any conflict with anyone else, so he just uses these things. He doesn’t really own them because there’s no one to own them with respect to. He possesses and uses them. So one way to avoid this conflict would be to live as a hermit or a hermit away from society. But then you don’t get the benefits of living in society, which is the comfort and communion with other people, their company, intercourse with other people, trade, division of labor, all these things. So once you live in society with other people, you get benefits from that, which is trade and the other benefits of living with people. But now the danger is that someone could steal or harm you or harm your things. And so if we live in a society with no law and no morals and no rules, we live in a war of all against all, like where your life is precarious. It’s at the whim of other people. But it so happens that humans have a social aspect, and they do, by and large, prefer peace. And they’re also somewhat empathetic. Not everyone is 100% atomistically selfish and cares only about their own wellbeing. They care about other people too. We’re an empathetic social species, and because of this, we tend to favor – most of us favor rules that promote peace and mutual prosperity. So this is why there tends to be a mutual society-wide recognition of these property rights. And it has to be recognized widely enough to be of any use to you because you can use technical means to defend your property. You can just use locks and guns and self-help, but that’s very inefficient. It would be better if you could also appeal to norms. That is, you can appeal to the person trying to harm you. You can say, listen. This is wrong. Please don’t do this, and that has some effect. Or you can appeal to your neighbors or the legal system. You can say, listen. Everyone else help me out. There’s one guy that’s an outlaw, and these people tend to be shunned and punished because 90% of society or more agrees with these civilized rules. And because they do, you can appeal to these norms for assistance, and this is how society has developed. This is why we have society and we have the immense progress and prosperity that we have now is because we have had some degree of this among most people over the centuries. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes, and it’s quite a marvelous achievement to come to such a conclusion on a large scale because it’s so tempting to just go out and take the stuff of others that you haven’t worked for that you can just pick up all the fruits of their labor. That’s – it seems to be a good game to play, a good strategy, but it does break down in the long run, especially considering the retribution of the victim where that resentment of the victim will boil up and eventually come back to haunt you on multiple levels. STEPHAN KINSELLA: I tend to think – and again I’m not really an expert on the psychological or social aspects of why people do this, but my own personal opinion is that it’s part of human nature, number one, because we did evolve as social creatures. I mean just the way that women have children because we evolved bigger brains, because intelligence started giving us a survival advantage, we started developing bigger brains. And because of that, mothers – women had to have children earlier than the – before they were ready to go. Like horses – the horse comes out and is ready to run around, but a baby is a helpless, and the reason the baby is helpless is because he has to be born before he’s ready because otherwise his head would be too big to be passed without killing the mother. So because of that, mothers and families and tribes that had this empathetic or social aspect and they tended to care for other people are the ones that cared for the babies. And they survived, and they passed those genes and those habits down. So I think we developed empathy because of our nature as an intelligent species, which needed empathy to be a social species. Now, I’m not a sociologist or a psychologist, but this is roughly what I think. So it just – it’s a fact that most people tend to have this empathy, so their character is that what makes us psychologically happy in life is being part of a community and having empathy for others. There are outliers. There are psychopaths and sociopaths, but they’re a minority so that they can be treated by the majority who is also wealthier because we traded with each other. So people that participate in this division of labor tend to be more successful and wealthier, so we have more resources at our disposal to fight off the outlaws and the sociopaths. Now, I do believe that even if you imagine a future society, which is far richer than we are now and far more peaceful and far more advanced, more libertarian in a sense, where crime has diminished to such a small point… … I do think that even then crime is impossible to totally eradicate because of this economic incentive thing where, let’s imagine a world of immense wealth, and no one even locks their doors anymore because they don’t need to because crime is so rare. In such a world, the temptation for one guy to break it would be so immense because it would be so easy to steal he could get away with it, and there would be so much to steal. So on occasion you’re still going to have crime. Of course, in such a rich world, people might not even care that much because they have so much. If a guy takes a little bit here and there, they can afford it, and they also can afford to just regard these guys as little wayward children who won’t do much harm to the species. But I think that just the way economics works, we can never totally eradicate crime, and I don’t think we want to live in a fortressed society if we don’t need to, to stop the occasional act of theft. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes, I would agree. I think that there’s a form of entropy in nature alone that just things start to decay and fall apart. And there’s also a sort of – the ability for the individual to manifest chaos as well. So eventually you will go crazy and just start breaking things for the sake of having them broken. STEPHAN KINSELLA: There’s sort of two – I’ve thought in my mind there’s sort of two competing tendencies in human society. Because we live in a world of entropy, as you say, creation is more difficult than destruction. Think of the Twin Towers being knocked down by the Muslim terrorists. It took immense ingenuity, effort, resources, and civilization to build those towers, but it just took a small act of 11 savages to knock it down. So in a sense, it’s always an uphill battle to survive and to produce and to achieve civilization in society because destruction is so easy. But on the other hand, like if you play the game Risk or Castle Risk, you’ll know that the rule is it’s harder to attack than to defend because if you’re going to attack someone’s homeland, they’re going to fight to the utmost to defend it. So you need overwhelming forces to defeat someone in war. So on the one hand, destruction is easier than creation, but on the other hand, defense is easier than offense. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes, that’s a very interesting point too. And one way also to spin this is about some preemptive defense. You brought up the earlier analogy of a lock, the lock being very efficient to keep people out of a certain room or a box and therefore to not give them access to the contents inside of that box. It’s preemptively preventing the theft just because the good is… STEPHAN KINSELLA: I sense a Bitcoin question coming up, but go ahead. MAX HILLEBRAND: Exactly. That’s where I want to take this here. What do you think about the qualitative difference between that kind of preemptive defense and a retribution against theft after it has happened? STEPHAN KINSELLA: As a libertarian thinking about the tangible material world and property rights and the idea of force, force – I mean the way libertarians put our rules that I described in property terms earlier is we call it the non-aggression principle… … which is the idea that the use of force against other people is permissible only in response to force. So initiated force is wrong. We call that aggression. So that’s sort of how we think about that. And in a strict set of libertarian analysis based upon that, strictly speaking it is just if you use force to punish someone. I mean obviously it’s better to use means, institutions, locks, measures to prevent crime in the first place. So that would be the most optimal way to deal with crime is to prevent it. But once it’s happened, justice has to come into play, and we have to decide what are we entitled to do now. This is a suboptimal response because you can never undo the crime at this point. You can only hope to achieve some measure of justice, maybe some restitution. So theoretically you could punish people, which means you could theoretically even execute people that have done a severe enough crime. But I do believe that those types of systems are very undesirable and unlikely in a free society for a number of reasons. Number one, having a punitive or retributive-based system just doesn’t do very much because it’s after the fact, and what does it do? It doesn’t really rehabilitate the criminal. It doesn’t really give you restitution back. It might give you some measure of retribution, like it might give you some pleasure in knowing that the guy that hurt you is being hurt himself. But that’s also costly because it takes a big costly legal system and enforcement system to do this, especially because there’s a possibility of mistake. And if you end up punishing someone who is innocent, then now you’re liable for that, and so you have to pay a lot of money. Just like war is expensive, punishing people is also expensive. So I think that in a free society we would tend to gravitate towards a restitution-based system, not because it violates the rights of an actual criminal to be punished. I do think that it doesn’t violate their rights, so I think it’s just for the victim of a violent crime to use proportionate force to harm the guy. And then you could use that threat or that right to use force to bargain with him for some kind of monetary payment. So you could use it to extract restitution, so there’s all kinds of ways that the use of force is useful or the right to use force is useful. You can use it for self-defense, and you can use it for retribution, and then you can use that just to get vengeance, or you can use that to bargain for restitution. But I do think that in any system it’s hard to imagine a working institutionalized penal system. And the only reason we have one now is because the state does it, and the state doesn’t really care much about morals or the cost either because they pass the cost on to the victims, which doubly victimizes them. The victim is victimized by the crime, and now they’re taxed to pay for the jail for the guy, so they don’t really get any good out of that in most cases. So I think that we would tend to have a restitution-based system, but what you can think of is – Mises makes this point that there’s a difference between what he calls juristic or legal ownership and catallactic or sociological or economic ownership. What he really means is possession, and you can think of that almost like this abundance and superabundance distinction, like one being the limit of the other. So the reason that we as human actors need to use things is because we can possess or use them, and the more effective we can use them, the better, the more efficient we are in our economic actions. And so if we have a widespread norm or legal rule in society that people respect and help us to enforce, that sort of like adds on to this ability to use a thing. So the right to use a thing, or ownership, complements and buttresses and supports the ability to use. But the whole purpose of a right to use a resource is to be able to use it actually. So if we could have a system, which is self-enforcing in a sense like the ability to use it simply can’t be taken away by anyone else, then you don’t really need the right to use it, and this is where we get into Bitcoin. But to make one more analogy, imagine that we were all – we had this hyper technology where we all were infinitely wealthy or super wealthy and had these robotic and high-technology things where we basically are all walking around in a suit of armor that’s impenetrable, like crime becomes impossible. If crime became impossible because we just had technological measures to prevent anyone from being able to harm us, then the notion of rights might fall away because they would just be useless. You wouldn’t need a norm respected by people in society to prevent them from taking your stuff. Your technology would prevent them from taking your stuff, so that’s all you need is the ability to use your stuff. And in Bitcoin, I think we have something like that, which is why, when I say you don’t own Bitcoin, people get upset because they’ve equated ownership with the right to control. Just like in economics and in law, the right to control, which is ownership, complements and protects the ability to control, which is possession. So when you criticize ownership, you’re just talking about the right to control. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes, and this is such a beautiful thing to contemplate that it’s worth stabbing at it at multiple levels. And I think first of all, as you said, you don’t own the Bitcoin, and maybe to start unpacking this, because you mentioned about control, and what the person actually does control is a private key. But you would probably still argue that you do not own a private key. Now, why is that? STEPHAN KINSELLA: Well, in the real world, a real key would be a physical object that you actually own because it’s a piece of metal, let’s say, that you own. But the purpose of the key, the reason it’s valuable to you, is it allows you to unlock a door or a safe or something like that. And in Bitcoin, we call it a key like it’s a metaphor or an analogy because it’s similarly lets you use this network in a certain way. But it’s not physically a key. It’s just a string of data. It’s just a number that only you know. And so the critique of intellectual property is basically based upon the recognition that you can’t own information. And the reason you can’t own information is not only because it’s not a scarce thing, but because information is not an independently existing thing. Information is just a knowledge – let’s say information is always the impatterning of an underlying thing because information can’t exist in the world without a carrier or a medium or a substrate. So a novel is just the – is the way the ink is impatterned on the pages of a book, let’s say. If the book disappeared and the ink disappeared, the novel couldn’t exist anywhere unless it’s stored in a memory somewhere, someone’s mind or somewhere. So the thing is that those underlying media or carriers are always physical things that have an owner. And so information is just the feature of an owned thing. It’s the – it’s sort of like if you have a red car, the redness is one aspect or characteristic of that car that you own. But you don’t own redness. You happen to own a car that happens to be red. And likewise, if you own a piece of paper, which has – which is impatterned in a certain way, you own a book that has a certain configuration, but you don’t own its configuration separately. That’s just a feature or characteristic of the thing. Or if you own a machine shaped – which is just material shaped in a certain way, you own those resources, those materials, but you don’t own the way in which they’re shaped, which would be the invention as abstracted. So that’s why you can’t own knowledge or information, and if you did own it, you really can’t own it because force – ownership is an enforceable right, and force is a physical thing that’s applied against physical things. So ownership can only be applied against physical things, so when the law decrees ownership of an informational pattern, it’s really not the information that you own. It’s just a disguised way of transferring ownership to physical things like in the examples I gave earlier about the printing press and the factory. That’s why really a patent is not an ownership of an invention. It’s really an ownership of someone else’s factory based upon the excuse of ownership of an invention. It’s sort of like the religion idea. People say we fight over religion, but that’s really just a shorthand explanation of a physical fight over physical things, and religion is the reason why we fight. It’s the motivation to fight. But you don’t – you can’t really fight over religion because religion is not a physical thing that people can own. But when people disagree over religion, they use that as an excuse or as a motivation or as a fake justification for harming other people’s land and cows and women and bodies. So really it’s still a fight over ownable things like people’s bodies and their land. They say religion is the reason. So likewise, the nominal legal classification that you own an idea is not really true. It’s just – it’s an excuse that the law gives to let you own someone else’s factory or something like that. So because you can’t own information and because the key in Bitcoin is just knowledge that you have which allows you to participate in this distributed game in a sense – it’s a game with certain rules that everyone is playing by. They’re all participating in this network, which runs according to these distributed rules, which are distributed in the sense that they’re rules that are embodied in the code running on thousands of independently – of independent servers, which are all compatible enough to network together. So your key is the key that will let you plug into that network and cause Bitcoin to be moved from one location to the other. But that again is just a metaphor. Bitcoins don’t really exist as a physical thing. That’s just how we describe the operation of this network, like the rearranging of these electrons that change the digital configuration of entries in this large spreadsheet called the blockchain. So your key allows you to participate in this network, but it’s not an ownable thing, and the information in there is not ownable. If you were to own your Bitcoin, it really means you own the configuration of all these thousands of hard drives, memory devices around the world, the way that they’re arranged. Everyone’s copy of the blockchain right now—there are tens of thousands of copies I believe on different nodes—each mirrors each other, and they all reflect a certain distribution of Bitcoins or Satoshis to different address spaces, each of which could be unlocked by a given private key. So that’s why you can’t own the Bitcoin either. If you were to own a Bitcoin, it would mean you have a property right in other people’s computers. So you would be able to get a court order to tell them to change how their computer memory devices are arranged to reflect a certain ownership of Bitcoin, which is, by the way, what some people are trying to do. Some of these lawsuits by Craig Wright and others that fought the – I believe they fought the split when Bitcoin Cash – the Bitcoin Cash/Bitcoin SV split happened, or maybe it was the BCH/Bitcoin split. I can’t remember which one. Maybe it was both. But the idea was that when the split happened the smaller one was supposed to become dominant, but it lost the fight. And so now they’re arguing that they should have won the fight, and it was unfair use of – it was unfair collective action like an antitrust violation or something like that for the miners and others to follow the main chain. So they want a court order to all the main node operators to unwind it to give the Bitcoins back to the guys that think they own it. So that would be taking ownership of the computers owned by people, but they own their computers, not Craig Wright. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes, and this whole conundrum is really a big – both a big opportunity and a big problem that we have non-scarcity in cyberspace that nobody owns the number four because nobody needs to sacrifice his own use of the number four just if someone else uses the number four. That’s nonsensical, and the same with a private key. The private key is just a large random number. It’s, after all, just a number. You knowing that number does not prevent anyone else from knowing that number. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Correct. MAX HILLEBRAND: So I think the first genius of cryptography is to have a potential number space, a list of numbers basically that is just gigantically huge, like unfathomably huge. And then randomly – finding out a way to randomly pick one of those numbers in a way that it is just unbelievably unlikely, not impossible but unlikely that someone else will ever consciously think about this incredibly large random number. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Yeah, I mean an analogy could be if you have a home, which is secured by extremely good – a lock system such that no one practically can get into your home unless they can open the lock. And the lock is just a numerical keypad, let’s say, and you just have a code in there that is so large that it’s so unlikely anyone can guess what it is they can’t get into your home. So it works as – it works practically as a way to keep out everyone you don’t want in your home even though it’s not 100% guaranteed. And so I think Bitcoin is analogous to that. MAX HILLEBRAND: I would say it goes even earlier than Bitcoin because this is just basic cryptography, and we can use cryptography to enforce access rights very well. That might be a PIN code to a lock on your door, or it might be an encryption with PGP key, and you have cipher text, and it’s just only possible to decrypt the cipher text if you know the private key. There’s just no other way around it. So – but I think that the problem here still is that, especially for a monetary network where we want to achieve scarcity – this is a core aspect of money is that it is scarce, that it is rivalrous, and there is a potential conflict over who can spend the money on what. And in order to figure out this – who has sacrificed what, because it is not self-evident because there is no scarcity in cyberspace, it’s kind of that like everyone needs to agree that this is what it is. STEPHAN KINSELLA: I think this is a really interesting and difficult-to-sort-out issue because the word scarcity, when people in Bitcoin say, well, we’ve achieved digital scarcity, I think they’re using it in a slightly different way than I would use to me, say, conflictability or rivalrousness. It’s analogous because it works similar to that within this realm, but – so let’s say take the digits zero to nine. You can say it’s scarce because there’s only ten digits, but like you said, everyone can use the number four at the same time. But, in fact, in Bitcoin, the entire blockchain could be copied, and it has been. So the entire blockchain could be copied, so there could be an infinite number of copies of the entire blockchain. It’s just that the way money works, money has a network effect. So there’s only going to be one network of people using this particular instantiation of the blockchain that the money is going to center on because you’re going to have this network effect. So people can copy Bitcoin, but no one would use it, or very few people would use it, and it wouldn’t harm the holders of private keys on the original network. So I would think that Bitcoin works and it mimics a type of scarcity in the – like in the real world on purpose because of the unique nature of what money is. So once you understand that money – according to the Misesians, money is not a good like other things. It usually arises in a rivalrous scarce commodity like gold or something else because that’s the way the pre-digital worked. But the nature of money is that it’s not a good like other goods, so you have consumer goods and capital goods, producers goods and consumption goods. The nature of a good in that sense is something that the more of it we have, the better off we are because the good is correlated with wealth. So if food is a good, if we have more food, that’s better. If fuel is a good, the more fuel we have the better. If a home is good, the more homes we have, same thing with air conditioners and things like that. Or for producers goods, if tractors are good and factories are good, if we have more of those, we’re made wealthier. Now, the next one might not be as valuable as the first one because of the marginal utility, but still, the more of a good, the better off we are. But that’s not true of money because money – the purpose of money is simply as a medium to go between producers and consumer goods, and over time in between people. It’s to solve two problems. The purpose of money is to solve the problem of barter. See, barter emerges because it’s better to specialize and to trade with people. We take advantage of the specialization in division of labor. So that’s one advantage of being in society. We can trade with each other. But one problem of barter is the double coincidence of wants, finding someone who wants what you make. So the medium of exchange arises so that we can have trade without having this double-coincidence-of-wants problem. So money solves that problem, but having more money doesn’t solve that problem anymore. Any supply of money will do, so it’s unlike other goods. And the second problem it solves is economic calculation. Once you have things stated in money prices, everything on the market can be reduced down to a common comparable price in terms of arithmetic… … that is, heterogeneous or different goods that are incomparable normally, which make it difficult to plan and to choose projects. So if we’re trading on a barter system and I want to use resources to build a bridge or to build a boat to cross a river… .. it’s hard to know which one is the most efficient use of resources because we’re comparing so many different types of things that go into these different alternative ways of doing something. But if you have money arise, you can compare them in terms of their money cost. So if one costs $1 million and one costs $2 million, you go with the cheaper one. So money helps you have more efficient use of resources by enabling economic calculation. So basically the purpose of money is to overcome the problem of barter and to enable economic calculation. But neither one of these functions is aided by producing more money. So that’s why money can work as a digital good that is not a rivalrous good as long as it’s even artificially scarce within a network because it still serves the same function. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes, as long as the abundance of the monetary is basically limited. This is what you’re pointing out, but I would still like to say that there needs to be absolute scarcity in the monetary unit just as a fact that it is a medium of exchange. And exchange does imply sacrifice of the use of a given good to another party in exchange for him sacrificing the use of a different good to you. So in any monetary transaction, there must be scarcity of the money in the sense that when I have money and you have pizza, and you give me the pizza, then I give you the money, then you expect that I no longer have the money. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Correct. And not only, as I said earlier, is it not beneficial to create more money because it’s not a good like a capital good or consumer good, it’s what Mises calls a sui generis good, or a unique good. It actually is better for it not to increase in supply. I mean so I think what tended to be chosen as money were products that have a relatively low supply and also a low stock-to-flow ratio so that it’s hard to produce more of it. And ideally you would have a fixed supply. So gold was not even ideal because gold still expands, and you can mine more, but at least it’s hard. So the stock-to-flow ratio is high. So it’s more ideally suited – it’s more suited to be money. It’s closer to the ideal than other things. That’s why it was selected over other things like seashells or copper or something like that. So money tends to be selected from things that have characteristics that make it more suitable as money. That is, they approach the ideal, so it’s divisible. It’s durable. It’s recognizable and verifiable. It’s not too abundant so that you don’t need too much of it. Like if you use copper, you’d have to carry too much around. So gold is just rare enough where you can carry it around. But gold has some disadvantages. It can be mined. It also has non-monetary uses so you’re diverting the product, non-monetary uses of gold for the money purposes. And also it’s so rare that it’s not that suitable for small transactions, so you have to have silver or something like that. So you have to have bimetallic or whatever standards. So the benefit of Bitcoin is that it solves – it’s like gold except it’s even better in most of those respects. So it’s like an improved version of money that approaches the ideal of what money should be even more closely. MAX HILLEBRAND: I would say though that the aspect of Bitcoin’s 21 million is not the main part of interest because this is the relative abundance of a good. And then we said that this is part of scarcity, but it’s not about the absolute scarcity. The absolute scarcity is about the conflict of – potential conflict of ownership, but I do think that it exists in Bitcoin in the sense – so we said before that cryptography is kind of this lock, that’s it’s a preemptive measure towards control. But we have this other problem in Bitcoin that, in the past, centralized systems of cryptographic monetary tokens failed due to basically censorship, that there was only one party who could write to the ledger of who has how many tokens and who has spent them, the Central Mint. And the beauty of Bitcoin is that it creates a data structure where literally anyone can write to this data structure of who has sacrificed which tokens, who has destroyed which coins, and which new coins were generated. STEPHAN KINSELLA: I totally agree with that. So Bitcoin has other advantages that gold doesn’t even approach. So if we go back to – let’s take an ideal gold standard system without government intervention and central banks where everyone just carries gold coins around and uses them. So in that case, I think you would solve the – you don’t have a centralization problem because people just go peer to peer. They trade their gold coins, and they can verify what it is. You don’t have a centralization problem there, and you also don’t have a double spending problem because the gold is the gold, and it’s only held by one person at a time. But when we move to banks for various reasons to enable – for safety and security and storage and for convenience, at that point in time, then you have to have the double spending problem avoided by having centralized control. So the bank has a checking account or a savings account with your name on it, and you can write checks on it, and the bank ensures that you don’t double spend, but that’s centralization. So Bitcoin goes back to sort of the daily physical peer-to-peer decentralized nature of a gold exchange system but without the drawbacks of that, which is that you’re carrying too much around. And by the way, on this maximum or absolute scarcity thing, I would say that the absolute supply of gold matters for its suitability for money because it’s a physical commodity. And if there’s too much gold, you would have to carry too much around physically to use it. And if there’s too little gold, it would be so rare that you would have tiny, tiny specks, which would be worth too much. But for Bitcoin, the 21 million is totally irrelevant. I agree because it’s digital so it doesn’t matter because you don’t carry it around. And as long as there’s enough decimal places, you can just subdivide it as much as you want, so it avoids that problem too, which makes it even more suitable to being a fixed money supply. If gold was fixed, then over time, if the world economy got bigger and bigger and bigger, the value of gold would get so immense that it would become too rare to be used as money in a physical sense to be transacted. So you might need more money mined, more gold mined just to keep the supply big enough for it to be usable. But you don’t even have that problem, as I understand it, with a digital currency like Bitcoin. MAX HILLEBRAND: I think your – again, the analogy to gold, which is a very useful one, starts to break down in the sense of what defines the absolute scarcity of gold. And well, it’s difficult to say that, but – well, basically it’s just nature or God. There is just clearly I think 72 atoms in a chunk together define a gold coin, and either that chunk of – the chunk of atoms – sorry, the chunk of protons in one atom is gold or it’s not. And either it’s on the table or it’s underneath the table. So there’s this – already this conflict of where this atom is and this chunk of gold is, is kind of intrinsically and non-manmade importantly. So therefore, it cannot be changed by man. Man cannot all of a sudden say that only 40 protons together in a bunch make a gold atom. That’s just not the definition of what a gold atom is. So – but with Bitcoin, the absolute scarcity in the sense of who can write to the Bitcoin blockchain… … and under which rules is a writing to the Bitcoin blockchain considered valid, for example, only if it spends a previously existing coin, stuff like this, like all these consensus rules. If that is manmade, like manmade, man-defined, verified and enforced, and this is a very dangerous thing because, again, if it’s manmade it can be changed, meaning that the actual scarcity can be messed with based on further human action. STEPHAN KINSELLA: I don’t know if I follow all that. I don’t see anything to disagree with. I do think there has to be some connection because we have to have an explanation as to, say, why gold became money and why Bitcoin can become money. So they both are similar enough in that they both – there’s reasons why they both can become money. They have certain features. It doesn’t mean they’re the same. And in my earlier almost idealized case of people trading gold, we’re assuming verifiability. Of course you can’t assume verifiability. It’s because how do you know that that’s really gold ultimately? And also you could imagine technology that we can just energy to create gold. I assume it’s possible now. It’s just expensive, but there’s no reason why it couldn’t be created, some day, not just mined but actually created. But the Bitcoin system – yeah, I mean I’m a Bitcoin supporter partly because of this. It has advantages over gold in lots of ways, and I think the ways you’re pointing out seem correct to me. There are ways I hadn’t even thought of. MAX HILLEBRAND: Maybe another interesting way to look at this is that in a sense when you want to get paid in Bitcoin, then you need to verify that your address basically, your public key, is inside the Bitcoin blockchain that at least you considered to be valid. So that you define for yourself which monetary rules to follow, and then you prove for yourself if a customer proposes a payment transaction to you, if this transaction is valid according to your own rules. So and if you don’t do that, then the definition of what that Bitcoin is to you is shattered. If you do not verify it, then for all intents and purposes, the Bitcoin does not exist as a scarce good because the scarcity is intrinsic to that model of rules set of which is valid and which is not valid. Only within that strict rule set can the scarcity come about, which is contrary to gold. You might not even need to verify that gold itself is accurate, and as soon as you have a chunk of metal with you, well, that’s yours, and that is in and of itself already enough. STEPHAN KINSELLA: I don’t see anything to disagree with there. I don’t know if I have anything to add, but I think that’s brilliant and provocative. I mean I agree I think, if I understand what you’re saying. MAX HILLEBRAND: So I think that’s one part of the genius of Bitcoin that you can verify the sacrifice of someone else. And even more so that there is a beautiful [indiscernible] theoretical concept that other people come to follow the same rules as you are and then reach the same conclusions as you do. And this is expressed in this decentralized network that there’s not just one person verifying but that everyone is verifying the transactions of everyone else. And if everyone is following the same rules and if everyone sees the same transactions, then they will inevitably reach the same conclusions, meaning who has sacrificed which coins, who has made which transaction of the scarce Bitcoin in the one non-scarce blockchain. STEPHAN KINSELLA: I see that. I mean this is a little bit off the abstract plane we’re on right now, but the one kind of concern or question I have is it does seem to me that unless we rely upon sidechains for divisibility… … that the divisibility of Bitcoin right now defined by the eight decimal places could at some point in the future become a problem because not only is the supply of Bitcoin fixed, I think it’s reducing. It’s going to reduce all the time once it reaches a certain point, reaches a certain peak, certainly at 21 million. Bitcoins will on occasion be lost by friction I would think, so the supply will actually reduce over time, which again is not a problem in monetary or deflationary terms. But you could reach a point where a Satoshi is worth $1000. So how do you make small change beyond that unless you have a consensus to have a fork and expand the decimal places or if you use some kind of sidechain technology? I don’t know if you have any thoughts on that, but I’m curious. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes. It is, as far as I understand it, not possible on the Bitcoin base layer blockchain to send less than one Satoshi, so to create an output that has less than one Satoshi. That is not possible that it would be zero – or no, actually, you can’t have zero Satoshis, but what I’m saying is you cannot have 0.5 Satoshis. The atomic unit is 100 millionth of a Bitcoin, one Satoshi. However, you can make, as you say, off-chain payments already right now that are not on the parent layer for blockchain where you can, in fact, send less than one Satoshi with some weird trust tradeoff. So it is still a problem, and it’s not solved. Now, can this be changed? And, well, that kind of goes back to the crux of the previous issue. Bitcoin is kind of defined by the people who run software, and this is free software. They can run whatever they want, and they can change the code to whatever they want. So yes, we can change this thing of Bitcoin easily the same as we can change anything else in Bitcoin easily. The question is, can we find a global consensus coordination for that change so that the people who previously all agreed on the same rules will, in the future, still agree on this new set of rules? I mean in the sense – if it’s something like something “non-controversial” like reducing the decimal point further… STEPHAN KINSELLA: Correct. MAX HILLEBRAND: But non-controversial to whom? And what if all of a sudden a bunch of Keynesians start drilling Bitcoin really hard and change the mindset to, oh, it’s very non-controversial to have an infinite supply of money. And that’s a very scary thing. STEPHAN KINSELLA: What concerns me is that the immutability is such an important part of it, which leads me to think that you could never have a change that requires a fork because – and in fact that’s what seemed to happen with the Bitcoin Cash attempt. The hard fork was defeated because if you ever had a hard fork to make one change, then people are going to lobby for other changes too. So it seems to me you have to basically live with it, and if you have to live with it, I wonder if that could grow into a problem or if it could be dealt with in other ways like you say. Now, we’re talking 100 years down the road maybe or 30 years down the road, something, when one Satoshi is worth more than a penny, but that could come. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes, very much. And the way that the users will act in this new circumstance is incredibly important because literally the existence of Bitcoin depends on it. And that’s so contradictory to gold. In gold, the existence of base layer gold does not care about human perceivance or the human agreement to rules. But in Bitcoin it does, and I think that’s why maybe even calling Bitcoin the digital gold is very scary because that’s one so-important property of gold that Bitcoin obviously does not have. STEPHAN KINSELLA: I see. So you think the digital gold metaphor is misleading, and we should avoid it. MAX HILLEBRAND: I think it’s like all metaphors. It tells a very nice story in a beautiful picture that is very accurate on many levels, but it is not perfect. And it falls short in many areas, and some of them can be quite catastrophic if misunderstood. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Well, one Bitcoin maximalist narrative is that the price can reach a certain amount because people can envision that it supplants the role of gold right now. So if you can’t call it a digital gold or an improved digital reserve currency that adopts some of the features that gold could have or used to have, then you can’t even make that argument. I mean you see what I mean? Why would we say the future value is 10 trillion because gold has a $10 trillion value now if it’s not a digital replacement for gold? You see, it seems to be these things are all bound up together. If you say that it’s just totally different than gold so you can’t even call it digital gold, then you have very little basis for saying, well, then it’s potential value in the future is the value of gold right now. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yeah, that’s very true. And it’s – I mean it’s kind of presumptuous to say that this crazy idea that we have in cyberspace is as sold and as unbreakable and undecayable as gold is. I hope we can live up to the claim. As of right now it certainly seems that we can, but it’s a big claim and… STEPHAN KINSELLA: It’s a little presumptuous, but Bitcoiners are not – don’t have any shortage of cockiness and confidence, do they? MAX HILLEBRAND: That’s very true. This – Bitcoin really seems to be a system bordering chaos and complete collapse, but it’s thriving at that level. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Well, what’s interesting is to listen to talks from 2013, 2015, and the narrative even of the guys that are still around now is different than what you hear now because we learned something. We learned that, no, it’s not a PayPal. It’s not a payment mechanism. So maybe the fact that we’ve learned something over the years about economics and the economics of digital money and the way Bitcoin works should give us a little humility in predicting what’s going to happen in five years or 50 years. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes, and I find it also a bit of an interesting exercise to imagine being one of the founding fathers of America and trying to come up with this new consensus rule set that everyone should agree with and to formulate it in a way that – well, it protects theft fundamentally. And – but protecting theft is one way, and arguably Bitcoin does that perfectly. There has never been a single Bitcoin transaction in the current most preferred blockchain that is invalid. Every single transaction is valid. Every single transaction provides a signature script to its script. So there has not been a single theft, not a single breaking of the rules within the Bitcoin construct. STEPHAN KINSELLA: And this is another reason why I say that Bitcoin is not ownable is because the concept of theft is a correlative of ownership. So if you say something was stolen, that means it was owned, and by the same token, if something is ownable, it could be stolen. But the way the Bitcoin system works, it does not have a – this is a legal point, but there’s no term of service. If I go down to the bank and I fake your identity to get your bank account, that is a violation of several rules. You’re violating the bank’s property rights because they don’t want you to use their system unless you agree to certain things. Or if you’re a Twitter user and you do certain things that violate their terms of service, then they can kick you off, something like that. Or if you’re a member of a private club and you agree to certain things, you’ve agreed to them. But Bitcoin being pseudonymous and just by the nature of the rules a valid transaction as you describe it, only has to fulfill certain criteria. There has to be a valid private key provided. That’s it. So if I somehow do guess your key – now, if I get your key by breaking into your home and hacking into your computer, I have violated – I have committed an act of trespass. I violated your property rights to do that, so if I take your Bitcoins using the key that I got from you with those illicit means, the theft is in the original trespass, so there’s a theft there. But if I just guess your key, I haven’t violated your rights to guess the key, and the Bitcoin rules permit that. They permit you to use the key that you guessed. The transaction would still be valid if I used the guest key to transfer some Bitcoins. It’s just that it’s so unlikely people aren’t worried about that eventuality. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yeah, and this is, again, the beauty of preemptive protection by cryptography that we can be calm with having rules that basically say anyone anonymously can change the ownership structure of Bitcoin. Anyone can do it. This is a – anyone can write to this list that we all consider valid. It’s kind of a crazy idea, and you would only agree to that if, despite that openness, you can still carve out for yourself a space in this open ledger where you have complete control over it, where you have the choice of when and how to sacrifice this scarce resource. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Well, and what’s interesting about that is so in the tangible, physical world, in the meat world, people that have a lot of money and resources, they’re worried about being stolen from them by thieves or by the government or something like that. They’re not worried that they’re going to accidentally lose it. They’re worried that someone will take it, whereas in Bitcoin it’s the other way around. A lot of newbies are afraid of Bitcoin because they’re afraid they will lose keys or something like that. So their attention has been focused on the external world and external threats to themselves, but for the Bitcoin enthusiasts, that’s one of the features. We’re glad – that’s why we say not your keys, not your coins because all you have to do is keep your key secure and then no one can take your coins. But some people are afraid of that. They’ve been so used to being coddled and having an institutional system with a bank or whatever protect them from their own mistakes that now… … even though Bitcoin protects them from anyone else taking their stuff, they’re worried about being responsible themselves. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes, exactly, and it’s so fascinating. Bitcoin is just actually mind-blowing. I’m baffled by it the more I think about it. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Me too, and people come up with these crazy things like, well, what if the time delay is more than ten minutes if we have an extra solar civilization? It’s like, are you really worried about – I mean my only guess is they would have their own Bitcoin network operating on their planet, and we would have a currency exchange system. Okay, that’s what you would do. MAX HILLEBRAND: I actually think what you brought up earlier, sidechains, are an interesting way to solve this because you can have sidechains even with two-way pegs so that you can send Bitcoin from one chain to the other. And you do that with a long peg-out, so it takes months for a peg-out transaction from the one chain to the other chain to confirm. And because it takes months, the high latency of communications, of locks and unconfirmed transactions is all right. STEPHAN KINSELLA: And I suppose in theory you could have sidechain upon sidechain upon sidechain like turtles all the way down. So theoretically in the future, you could have – the next sidechain would actually itself be an immutable sidechain like Bitcoin that was expensive and slow and all that. And then beneath that there would be another sidechain that was less secure and quick and – I don’t know. This is just an architectural question. MAX HILLEBRAND: That is for sure possible. And one other point to the intergalactic mining is that – so mining is basically having hardware so computers, internet connectivity, and energy. And energy is kind of the kicker that I want to focus on here. So you are more – you’re a better miner, a more profitable miner, if you have more energy at your disposal and having it cheaply, abundantly with low opportunity costs. So therefore, wherever in the galaxy basically we have the most efficient energy production, we will have an incentive for miners to go there to produce the energy to create Bitcoin blocks. Now, the – but of course, as I said, there’s the latency problem. If we go to a distant sun that has ten minutes or twenty minutes, light minutes just to travel from A to B… … and if only one miner goes out to that distant star, he will be completely unprofitable because he has – he has very high latency even though he has a lot of energy. So he will not be a profitable miner. However, the more miners go over there, the more blocks are going to be produced in that area of the universe meaning that the latency for those miners decreases. If someone at this distant sun finds a block, then the other miners at the distant sun will know about that block much earlier than the miners here back on Earth. So we will eventually have a – somewhat of a map of the gravity of Bitcoin miners, and the larger that gravitational pull of one geographical area is, the more the tendency for miners to move there for the reason of latency. STEPHAN KINSELLA: So it’s sort of like right now on the Earth context, we’re talking about how Bitcoin can help populate the world with energy because they will go to remote places where energy is relatively cheap, and they will produce energy. And that will attract populations to move there, right? And then so they will help colonize the world with energy. But when people move there, the energy cost goes up, so the Bitcoin miners will move somewhere else. So they’ll help colonize the entire world with power and energy, and you’re imagining that even on a more global scale partly because of the latency issue on top of that. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes, and I’m not sure if this is a causation or a correlation, probably a bit of both. But there’s for sure a link between civilizations and efficient energy usage. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Of course. MAX HILLEBRAND: So the more efficiently and with the larger abundance energy can be channeled and used, the more prolific and profound the civilization. Now, again, which comes first is the question, but with Bitcoin, again, we have that gigantic economical incentive to produce efficient energy or to channel it. And that will hopefully lead to a general increase in civilization. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Well, I’ve always been a nuclear advocate, and the governments are in the way of that. But I’m just – I’m waiting for some Bitcoin operation to basically come up with a thorium nuclear power solution just to mine Bitcoin and that that will develop the technology and spread that across the world and provide the world with clean, cheap, safe energy way better than the soft solar green stuff. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes. I’m quite happy that right now the eco-fascists and social injustice warriors are screaming that Bitcoin is boiling the oceans and has a carbon footprint of whichever small nation. I’m – and right now the Bitcoiners are just burning diesel to create electricity to mine Bitcoin, and yes, in the future probably a nuclear reactor too. And what are the eco-fascists going to do about it? Because again, Bitcoin is that permissionless system where anyone can write the data to the blockchain. So it’s very difficult to stop, but again, not impossible. So this has many implications and again specifically because if the overarching moral standards of society are not in line with those of Bitcoin… … then again, Bitcoin effectively ceases to function if nobody upholds its values and defines and verifies and enforces the rules that make up what Bitcoin means. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Maybe get your thoughts on this one thing I’ve wondered. People always say, well, what if a better one comes along and all this kind of stuff. It’s hard for me to imagine a digital reserve currency. I mean it seems to me that Bitcoin has the features that you need to have an almost ideal world reserve currency. So even if it could have been tweaked slightly differently, had a slightly different block size or something like that, it’s so close to being perfectly ideal that once the network effect is in place, there’s no sense in replacing it. But I’ve always imagined that in the future, most Bitcoiners seem to imagine that you don’t need to put your wealth in the stock market or in real estate like we do now to avoid the ravages of inflation, price inflation. By holding your wealth in money, you can just keep most of your wealth in money. I always imagine that in the future of the Bitcoin world, most people would still only have a small percentage of their wealth in cash, that is, in Bitcoin, say 10%, 5%... … and the rest would be in more productive investments so that if a new digital currency did want to emerge, it wouldn’t be like everyone would be wiped out of their savings because you would just switch to the better network maybe. I don’t know. This is just one of my thoughts. And not only that, the transition would be gradual enough where people could gradually transition away from one and went to the other. You just don’t want to be holding all your wealth in Bitcoin and have it replaced by Bitcoin 2 and everyone is wiped out who was previously a billionaire. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes, and again I find it very presumptuous to say that Bitcoin is the best money that humans will ever experience. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Right. MAX HILLEBRAND: Because I mean who are you to make that statement? But it’s for sure a very beautiful solution to it, but it’s never going to be perfect on many levels. It’s not elegant on many technical details like stuff like a limited decimal point and things like this, like latency issues, many things that could potentially be done better already in our current paradigm. And who knows? Maybe someone will come up with an exponentially different and exponentially better, newer paradigm that has better assumptions and better reasoning than Bitcoin has. I think it’s absolutely possible, and I have the hope that if such a better technology comes up that free individuals will gravitate towards that better, more optimal technology. Now – but still I’m extremely bullish on Bitcoin, even maybe negatively bullish in the sense that I feel that the Bitcoin incentives are set up in such a way that they are just damn near perfect, as good as it gets for sure. So I do believe that Bitcoin will succeed even though it has all these many downsides. And the issue is that if we set the premise that it does succeed regardless of having downsides, then we will have serious consequences of having bad downsides in the protocol like, for example, the lack of privacy. If Bitcoin succeeds, then we live in a very different world if that Bitcoin has good privacy for its users or if it has not good privacy for its users. STEPHAN KINSELLA: I agree. I agree totally. MAX HILLEBRAND: So this is somewhat of my motivation of why I do what I do because Bitcoin is basically unstoppable. And hopefully we can fix some of the broken things while the plane is flying so to make the future even better than it could be. STEPHAN KINSELLA: I think you’re a libertarian too, right? MAX HILLEBRAND: Very much, yes. STEPHAN KINSELLA: As a libertarian, I mean to me it’s given me so much hope because I always thought that – I mean libertarianism is great, but it’s just – it’s not going to work just by running around being activists, trying to persuade people. It’s never going to work. There’s just too many reasons why that won’t work. It’s why it hasn’t worked. That’s not how democracy works. That’s not how politics works. That’s not how economic incentives work. So I always thought liberty was going to be a long time in coming because it had to arise naturally, and it was going to take all kind of revolutions in society. And I guess actually this is correct. I just didn’t envision what it was going to be. I think it could be the money. It could be the Bitcoin revolution in money is what’s going to actually achieve liberty on top of all the – well, I guess the main advantage of Bitcoin as money is in terms of prosperity. It will help promote prosperity, but one way it will do that is by helping us to achieve liberty by basically strangling the state because the state’s control over money is its main way of surviving and throttling progress. And when we starve it of its main source of funding, it will necessarily be limited to a much more – like a rump roll and then whither away. I mean that’s my utopian, Bitcoin, libertarian, anarchist hope. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes, and I share that hope, and I think that the Bitcoin in its current conception has very high potential or prospects to succeed on that mission. But where I am more and more uncertain is about whether the society of Bitcoin, let’s say, will change in a way that will become more evil and leaching. What if somehow the Bitcoin community finds consensus on a new change of rules that gives universal basic income to every address? A rule change like this is conceptually conceivable, right? STEPHAN KINSELLA: Correct. MAX HILLEBRAND: And it might happen very well, and at that point – well, the question is, is it then still Bitcoin? STEPHAN KINSELLA: Correct. I think if that happens, it shows that it’s just not workable then. So what you’ll see – it seems to me that the incentive nature of it is so maybe unintentionally beautiful that it just – it’s hard to imagine that happening because so many people would be so invested in it. Even though they have the wrong ideas, ultimately they don’t want to shoot themselves in the foot. MAX HILLEBRAND: And on top of that comes just the complexity of code, and we are having already trouble to express our thoughts about Bitcoin just in verbal language and writing it as precisely as code and mathematics does is even more complex. So just code failures are another thing to consider. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Correct. MAX HILLEBRAND: So there is a lot of things where Bitcoin might actually – or where Bitcoin is very different than gold, and it might be both a strength and a weakness. But it is what it is, and we will have to see if it works in the long run. STEPHAN KINSELLA: We need someone to die and have a near-death experience and come back and tell us how they do it in heaven because you know God – you know they use a type of perfect Bitcoin up in heaven. We need to see how we need to tweak ours to emulate theirs. MAX HILLEBRAND: Yes, yes. Well, Stephan, it was an absolute pleasure to talk to you, really amazing to spitball and to expand our minds in all these areas. I think it was a very fruitful conversation. STEPHAN KINSELLA: It was fun. I enjoyed it. Thanks for suggesting this. MAX HILLEBRAND: And keep up your great work. Where can the people find you, and what are you tinkering on right now? STEPHAN KINSELLA: At stephankinsella.com and on the IP-related stuff my website is C4—the number 4—C4SIF.org, which means Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom. I’m working on collecting my essays together into a book on libertarian theory, and I’m also working right now on the side on drafting my own – I don’t want to call it libertarian constitution because I don’t like the concept of constitution… … but I’m going to draft my own statement of principles of libertarianism like from the ground up and in a systematic fashion. It will take me a year or so maybe, but I’m working on – and I’m just going to do it myself because I’ve been part of lots of projects where – Libraland and these others, and I’m on a committee, and there’s all these compromises. I’m just going to do it myself. I’m just going to call it Kinsella’s Libertarian Précis or constitution. MAX HILLEBRAND: Creed. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Credo, the libertarian credo, something like that. MAX HILLEBRAND: That sounds very interesting, both book projects. I’m very eager to read them. STEPHAN KINSELLA: Well, thanks a lot again. | N. Stephan Kinsella | UC5yRxMzdtzbVVdaLmItrZug | 2021-05-27 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 14,802 | 81,522 |
lW4xOQFPjFY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW4xOQFPjFY | Disney Theories Explored | Part 8 | Frozen/Tangled/Tarzan Edition | Skelly here welcome back to another Disney series video we haven't done this in such a long long time and I am so so sorry for that because I've just been too lazy to write and too tired to write then they go back to writing so this one is another frozen theory though this one unfortunately has been debunked so I really had a toss up on whether I wanted to do this or not but I figured hey it'd be a great throwback to what we originally thought when we watched frozen like the first movie for those of you who have not watched a second movie yet I will I won't I'll try not to give out spoilers but you should really watch the movie if you haven't already so that way you can know what I'm talking about but we will you know just get straight into the Disney theory the throwback Disney Theory the king and queen of arendelle died on the way to Rapunzel's wedding speaking of VIP invite lists what fancy affair were the king and queen attending when their ship capsized during a reddit AMA frozen director Jennifer Lee said that the king and queen were headed to the wedding was it Rapunzel's wedding to Eugene the timing is right since Rapunzel still looks pretty much the same at the coronation and the trip was supposed to be two weeks which would be a reasonable math time to travel about 1600 miles round-trip by sea and land oh and speaking of the shipwreck so this is where I kinda kinda got confused because I kid you not the one after this talks about Tarzan and then the one after this I think talks about Ariel so now we're going in an entirely different direction I'm just reading you what they linked me so deal with it the insane new theory that connects frozen and Tarzan we all went crazy over the insane theory that connects frozen tangled and the Little Mermaid but sadly the frozen creators confirmed that it was indeed just a theory I have not even talked about that yet so if you're confused it's fine but any true Disney fan knows there's always and untold story and during a recent reddit AMA frozen director Jennifer Lee blew our minds with a brand new one connecting frozen and Tarzan in response to questions about what happened onon Elsa's parents whose disappearance and frozen is one of the biggest Disney mysteries a was Jennifer revealed a mind-blowing theory from her frozen co-director Chris Buck who also worked on Tarzan according to Chris the king and queen didn't die in the storm they were deserted on a jungle island stories sound familiar ever heard of a little boy born in a treehouse and raised by gorillas because his parents were eaten by a leopard he was not born in a tree house his name might ring a bell Tarzan mind-blown it's entirely possible that the Kingdom queen of arendelle veered off course in the stormy Norwegian waters especially considering we never saw their ships sink so that means not only as Tarzan and Anna and Elsa's long-lost little brother which she isn't but Tarzan is also the newest Disney Prince and though he's not we can only hope for a family reunion see I'm so heated now because that theory has already been disproven by frozen - and again I'm not gonna give any spoilers so go watch the movie and find out why this theory is clearly done but I mean I guess it's a good throwback maybe I guess I was so angry writing and reading this thank you guys so much for watching this Disney Theory it is no longer a theory my house captains stay safe I love you guys | Disney Queen Skelly | UCxg_3R-6n2wNz2oTP-wz6pA | 2020-08-28 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 642 | 3,438 |
uxMWVAnTAPY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxMWVAnTAPY | David Ortiz’s Teammates Do Pretty Mean Impression Of Red Sox DH’s Swing Boston Red Sox NESN com | first of all when he's on that circle usually does like the wave like he walks he just has no care and aware of this dragon is bad that's have a walk that intimidates opponents kind of throws slowly as it's coming through the plate plus it to the box has this head down it's gonna bolt in make sure you digs in flips it over tap tap you know you just have your little swag just a little mean mug just looking at him face get ready justice black kick like it watches it sits back on it I mean you got that that that truck nice and slow and majestic you come to the plate you come around home plate go slowly [Music] just a final [Music] basically it [Music] | LigaDom.com | UCCIWro3DVvJ6QhZLvF1T75g | 2016-09-17 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 132 | 656 |
ytqH27tmQQc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytqH27tmQQc | LEARN HOW TO SPEAK YORUBA LANGUAGE - HOW TO WRITE AND PRONOUNCE NUMBERS 40 - 50 | TUTU ADAMS LESSONS | can you guys let me know whether you prefer this light or the one coming like let me know because this is without being like this is just my natural not my natural but my lip it's in my living room light at night during the night i feel like we're going to be getting a lot more nighttime content let me know if you prefer this light or with the box light i'm going to turn it on and show you or if you prefer this light let me know let me know in the comment section [Music] please [Music] hey guys welcome back to my channel it's your girl t2 and today i'm back of school of yoga and today we're back to learn some numbers yes numbers again i feel like i left you on a bit of a cliffhanger last time because i left you on number 40 and even though when i filmed those numbers as you can tell i filmed them all in one guy i filmed up to like 100 or something but i thought because i've been gone for so long it would be a bit rude for me to come and serve your old content from in 2018 19. it was from quite a while ago and i don't want to be rude i feel like you guys have been ever so patient with me so i don't want to insult you and just be giving you crap content i'm about to do is go through number 40 to 50 in yoga language and then i'll do 50 to 60 that'll be out tomorrow it's a bonus video in addition to um tomorrow's regular video and then i'll i might stop at 60. no i'll stop at 70 and if anybody wants more then i'll do more i'm stopping that 1757 is my favorite number and i feel like 60 is a very random number to stop at so far during our numeracy course that we've got going on we've done numbers 0 to 10 we've done 10 to 20 we've done 20 to 30 done 30 to 40 and then that's where i kind of pack my bags and wait for a bit but i'm back now don't you worry now we're about to cover numbers 40 to 50. tomorrow we'll be back again with our notepads and pens to do number 50 to 16 and the day after we'll do 60 to 70 and then if anybody requests i will carry on doing them if not then that will be the end of the numeracy lesson i do plan on bringing out an e-book that will cover a lot more so please do keep an eye out for that so let's get into it but before we do let's do a little recap as we know number 40 is ogo ji ogoji and i think i mentioned the fact that it's 20 times two the word of goji derives from the fact that 40 is two twenties um ogo ji is total version of okun meiji and ogun is twenty meiji is two sites twenties two twenties is ogoji okun meichi ogoji don't say okumaji in public please don't embarrass me but yeah it's what it is if it was stretched out but it would never be stretched out it would always be a gorgeous number 41 is makoji as we know one is oka and 40 is ogoji so makon le lo goji is we add the m's to the front where we do numbers i can't tell you why but it is how it is if i think about why i'll edit it the reason but um you won't say okay logo do you say mock only logo it's just a pronunciation it's just the way we pronounce it we added the m in front so makali logoji is number 41. number 41 is more conley lu gucci remember lay guys means at i don't add on to orgoji so makani lokoji is one added onto 40. next up is number 42 which is meiji logoji as we know because we've been revising our numbers having many of we've been revising our numbers have you been advising your numbers you bring your numbers okay so number four if you haven't by the way if you're new to school of yoga but you're new to teacher adam's yoga please do check out my playlist [Music] let's get back to class so number 42 is ogoji is 40. two is meiji two added on to 40 is 42. so maichi 2 lei adidon oh goji 40 logoji is number 42. next up is number 43 and the way to pronounce number 43 in yoga language is metalli goji the same principle meta is three lei is added on to ogoji is 40 so metalli logo g that l that we add on to it just adds ownership to ogoje metta is three le is added on to ogoji is 40. so number 43 is metal goji metal metal gucci let's say again metal gucci but let's go back so number 40 ogoji 41 illusion 42 meteorology 43 metal illumi the way number 44 is pronounced in yoga language is merely it follows the same exact principle as the others four is mary 40 is ogojji mary lee lugoji so four added on to 40 is mary lou gucci which brings us to number 44. when we get to 5 the structure of the number changes so what i do the way i teach this is i tell us where we're going so we're going to number 50. and number 50 is i might be pronouncing it with a h factor it doesn't have a h in front of it not that if you have a h factor please do embrace it i've embraced mine i feel like it's genetic within us you'll be people some have it someday just embrace your h factor if you're not you're a bar and you don't have the h factor just read it without the h even if i'm pronouncing it another beautiful part of yoga culture so the way i teach my number lessons is um once i get to five i tell us our destination so because we're on number 45 and we're going to number 50 when we get to five we'll start subtracting from where we're going so our dota is 50. on number 44 we just said 4 added on to 40. when we get to number 45 instead of adding number 5 to 40 we're not about to do that what we're about to do instead is reduce our numbers from our destination i feel like that made a lot of sense so we're going to number 50 which is uh number 45 will now be in my previous lessons i've realized i kept saying din it's not din it's d there's no n at the back of it so it's which means five taken away from fifty our daughter is fifty marvel is five d is taken away from mandy number 46 follows the same principle so four is melee as we know because we've just done 44. d is taken away from 50 is our daughter so 46 is meridi la which is four taken away from 50 which brings us to number 46 number 47 is meta de la dota as we know number three is meta our daughter is 50. so three taken away from 50 is meta d la dota following the same principle is number 48 two is meiji d is taken away from our daughter is 50 is two d is taken away from our daughter is 50. so that will be two taken away from 50 which is mejia de la dorte which then brings us to number 49 which is one d is taken away from a dota is 50 one taken away from 50 brings us to the number 49 which is mo county la dota and now we're at our destination which is number 50 and i'll let you guys tell me what that is so number 50 is our daughter congratulations on finishing the numbers 40 to 50 year overbook course on school of yoga by teams adams we're not done yet though you guys know i'd love to give you a little recap where it's going to go again from the top it came from the top again from the top top top top so we're going to go again from the top and go through number 40 to 50 in yoga language so number 40 is ogoji number 41 is makon de lo goji 42 meji logoji 43 metallilogi 44 merry lilo gucci number 45 does not subscribe to the same principle as number 41 to 44. so instead of adding on to 40 it starts to subtract from 50. number 45 is marudi la dota dota and number 50 our destination is uh i hope i was off some help in helping you guys understand numbers 40 to 15 yoga language if you found this video helpful please do give me a like comment and subscribe don't forget to check back again tomorrow for another video if you don't have time to check just turn your notifications on and that will come through to you so you don't have to go looking for the video it will pop up on your phone on your tv whatever device you've got going on because there's so many devices nowadays but yeah thank you so much for watching i appreciate each and every single view and i hope to see you guys again [Music] tomorrow [Music] so [Music] do [Music] you | Tutu Adams Yoruba | 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RAwur7nnLPY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAwur7nnLPY | Search Queries in Library Databases | search queries in library databases in the last video we showed you how to analyze a topic in this video you will learn to use the results of that analysis in an actual search to search library databases successfully you must be able to search for a phrase to search for variant word endings with a single query and to combine multiple search terms from different facets into a single query this video will show you how the first important technique enables you to search for a phrase remember that when we search in library databases we are searching for words not topics most search engines are completely literal when interpreting a query and simply match the words entered with the words that appear in the documents being searched when a query comprises more than one word search engines usually treat the query as a set of discrete words for example if i search this database for james earl ray the search engine sees three words james and earl and rey not the phrase james earl ray which is what i intended the search engine retrieved articles that contained all three of these words regardless of where in the article the words appeared in this database there were over 7000 such articles and most have nothing to do with james earl ray the man who assassinated martin luther king jr here are two examples while all three of my search terms appear in these articles they do not appear as a phrase if i want the search engine to treat these three words as a single phrase then i have to tell it to do so in most search engines i indicate that multiple words are to be treated as a single phrase by enclosing the phrase in quotation marks even google functions in this way if i try this search again using quotation marks around my phrase then i will retrieve a set of articles closer to what i was hoping to find searching for a phrase is the first of the three basic search techniques you will need to search library databases the second important technique enables you to search for variant forms of a word with a single query because databases are completely literal i have to search for every form of my search term that could retrieve relevant articles for example if the word immigration is likely to appear in articles on my topic then it's likely that the words immigrant immigrants immigrate immigrates immigrating or immigrated might also if i want to retrieve all relevant documents then i need to search for all forms of the word not just the form that first occurs to me when i think of my topic most search engines do not understand that words like immigrant and immigration are semantically related to search different forms of a word with a single query i use a search technique called truncation truncation is the technique of using a single query to retrieve all words that begin with a common stem let's look at that list again these words all share a common stem you truncate a search term by entering the common stem followed by the search engine's truncation symbol the most common truncation symbol is an asterisk so in this example instead of searching for all six of these terms separately i would simply enter the stem i m m i g r a followed by the truncation symbol an asterisk let's try this example in a real database if i'm looking for a photograph that could document immigration to north america in the first decade of the 20th century i could search in the database art store for immigration which returns 30 photos or immigrant which returns 11 photos but if i use truncation i retrieve 121 photos failing to truncate my search term would have meant missing most of the relevant documents in this database truncation is the second of the three basic search techniques you will need to search library databases the third important technique enables you to combine multiple search terms into a single query in the previous video we showed you how to divide your topic into facets and how to develop a list of search terms for each facet for the topic native american puberty ceremonies we had these three facets and these three lists of search terms what you didn't learn in that video is how to use those search terms in an actual search these three lists of terms represented words that we believed might appear in articles on our topic native american puberty ceremonies the words however could appear in any number of combinations for example native americans puberty rights native americans puberty rituals native americans puberty ceremonies native americans adolescence rights and so forth even a short list of search terms can generate an unwieldy number of combinations in this case 45 and it would be prohibitively difficult to search them all separately with a third basic search technique you will be able to combine all these terms into a single query without having to run separate searches for every possible combination this technique is called boolean searching boolean searching is the technique of using special connectors or operators to combine search terms in a logical order the two most important boolean operators are or and and you'll need to use both of these operators when searching library databases let's look first at the or operator the or operator is used to combine search terms that represent the same facet we can use this first facet as an example this figure represents all documents containing the term native americans and the next one represents all documents with the term indians combining these terms with an or operator tells the search engine i want documents that contain either the term native americans or the term indians using this technique i will retrieve more documents than if i had searched with one term alone remember that search terms can be either words or phrases and that phrases should be enclosed in quotation marks remember also to truncate where appropriate i will truncate native americans after the n i won't however truncate the word indians because i don't want to retrieve articles on the state of indiana instead i'll just add indian as a separate search term the or operator tells the search engine to retrieve documents have at least one of these search terms let's try the search in the database america history and life as you can see there are many records in this database that have one of these three terms when searching in library databases you will use the or operator to search for multiple terms that represent the same facet of your topic now let's look at the and operator the and operator is used to combine terms that represent different facets if i search for indians and puberty i'm telling the search engine to retrieve only those documents that have both the term indians and the term puberty to demonstrate this visually this set contains all documents with the term indians and this set contains all documents with the term puberty the dark section in the middle represents the documents that contain both the terms indians and the term puberty using the and operator narrows the scope of your search and eliminates relevant you will often use the or operator and the and operator together let's look at our list of search terms again and this time let's remove the numbers using boolean operators i can tell the search engine that i want at least one term from list one and at least one term from list two and at least one term from list three in other words retrieve documents that have at least one term from each of my three lists remember to use quotation marks around phrases and truncate where appropriate if you look at a typical library database like jstor it should become clear how library databases are designed to accommodate boolean searches the and operators are already in place the search terms for my first facet linked with or operators go in the first box the search terms for my second facet go in the second box and the search terms for my third facet go in the third box if i had more than three facets i would add another search box this third search technique enables me to search every relevant combination of my search terms using a single query these are the three techniques you will need to search library databases for more information please visit the history philosophy and newspaper library | illinoisHPNL | UCXAz9JkT3YQeMLPXYxa4AnA | 2011-09-04 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,453 | 8,258 |
pky6_TaY0YA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pky6_TaY0YA | LOTRO Gameplay ▲ Warden ▲ pt. 25 - Falconers = Tomb Robbers | hey guys welcome back and last time we were here we were gonna help this guy gone nard or whatever do stuff with this guy but and this guy wants me to do stuff for him in return for captured people but they want me to actually go back all the way to town and look I still have this quest here i have this to green dots and this red ring so guess where i'm gonna go go back here hell no i need to go over here obviously so we need to keep heading actually north or up these hills and west get a horsey and yep this will be edited out obviously because you know and edit out all the riding horses alright so here we are at the first time in the second green circle which we're gonna get um Kalin had Kalin art no no helen had sounds familiar to me but i don't know who loves chest is this for scholar so we're gonna get paraffins and Flint's here again last time last episode actually we got the first we already got for some of it from that first location and now this God wants to bother me it's getting cold over here I mean huh yeah dogs getting cold cool we're going to go up here earlham is my hobbits no such thing as hobbits and guild wars they have cute assu result some are cute some are just funny looking but one of my hobbits that I oh they always hang if you guys if some of you guys knew who Floyd is which he was a hobbit guard who always stood outside Prancing Pony and he had like a jumper outfit on he is playing guild wars 2 and it's pretty awesome because um yeah a hobbit Dino for for a while now not really no no but I know you know I know that he's a hobbit obviously and he's always in Prancing Pony oh my god i'm having a lag play up Floyd a burger burger I don't know it's funny it's funny is because my character my my Hobbit name in my very first server was called hamburger helper and I know a guy named Floyd a burger hilarious ok so this part is this one to an apt actually go to this last section and then well for the flints and stuff and I'm going to go over here so with a magic of editing i'll be over there soon so BRB alright so we are now nearly here and it's apparently supposed to be here somewhere I'm gonna follow this path because usually there's a path I'm that i'm guessing the right way and it looks like i have to get off my horse before i fall off this hill and i discovered how left for you I this is the place hell if Orion I'm going to get off my horse so here we are here's a red ring and why are we supposed to do here I'm supposed to find the tomb oh so this is the tomb and what am I supposed to do here first I'm going to obviously kill everyone because I'm obviously awesome Gordon I can't remember all my campus I know these guys because I just know look at all these done on or maybe that's them I don't know the only way i think i will you and kill him warden is if they get cc'd like if they are disarm or if they'll wound on them tada all dead oh this is a quest to so that's awesome that I found out whatever this thing is and i also got to kill them if I found this tomb at the same time when I found them supposed to all these dude and I'm am worthy I was already doing that two stones with one rock or one raga one store ever you know what I always I also wish Guild Wars had the follow option how wish Guild Wars had on the follow-up email or a command nope there's no follow you can't AFK and put someone on follow nope and also just because you are in a in our raid group or you're in a swap you're in a raid you know sometimes you get example if you go to in a rate and you just are AFK you still directly you still get credit for or you still get exp you still get no guild wars 2 now yeah that's cool thing about guild wars do you actually have to be doing something I need to kill one more guy so we stated he'll follow because sometimes just lazy and he's gonna put someone on follow and good worse too yeah they don't have they don't have kiss no blame imagine us to us kissing not so that would be cute ooh okay these guys are spawning way too fast I mean not too fast but I need to get them out of here gonna kill all these do and die oh my god I okay go ahead get the hell out of here get the hell out of here so I found all those dudes so what what why is there still a ring here am I supposed to go in here what the hell I was ordered in the air look what is this red dot the tomb of health or an defeat the tomb robbers what those are not robbers I just kill a bunch of them they're not Robert Oh which one is LA mercè Falconer solid or the falconers Falcon Falcon yarder offers his leaders apparently I don't know if they count or not but I cannot okay those guys are dead so now I'm gonna go to the green the green that the last should be my last area for paraffins and I know that this right here it's gonna be a repeatable so I'm not going to do it because you guys as no i will not do repeatable in this section no repeat all is repeatable no no and oh no we're too repeatable anyway so we're just going to get to get all these stuff here and this episode should be over so we got more things done here compared to my last episode that's the episode I was just trying to figure out actually where I needed to go again because it's all over some you know the quest are left or east or west or east and west or they don't make they're not in order so now I know that these two quests are you know near each other and the next episode we're probably gonna continue with someone just taught me at o.o who's this well hello candy but okay hi I don't know who this guy is but you say hi who's this my name is guys um I will end this episode now and oh it's Dale I know this guy he is a facebook friend of mine he has a food truck that he does here he's also from the state of Washington but right now thanks guys for watching this episode and check out my video detailed for links to my 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1Ca0k2QJORU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ca0k2QJORU | Legacy Magic — Rakdos Zombardment vs. Manaless* Dredge | yeah I guess I'm ready I'm shuffled up or do you want to all right let's do that then that works three okay 10 I'll take it I'll take the B okay that reminds me I brought you a present oh [Music] nice no I'm assuming I know what I'm playing against but just in case I don't taking the play anyway that's what I would do against Carn [Music] it oh thank you well thank you very much welcome is this for the deck more salvage or just because that'll work right that's a trade I appreciate it I really do yeah I was never going to use them I don't like using printed sleeves so fair enough usually I so I had been playing with these triple sleeped yeah um because they were Breeze except that because they're Breeze now I don't give a no that's funny yeah I guess you know the story I don't but that's okay that's probably a good thing I'm just I'm just Kidd just throw all the hard balls now okay I'll keep all right that's good yeah I will too [Music] bye I hear children's sounds what game do you plan on playing sir well even though this is a legacy deck that's in [Music] here don't do that just yet I have to actually play the card first FA all right it's a card after my own heart yeah I can say that so we're not playing death and txas today are we no we're not this is not death in Taxas my friend you all right little buddy [Music] go Wasteland undiscovered Paradise I know right fast turn who even knows what's going on now I think in a lot of Legacy decks these are actually good budget choices for the duels they can't be fetched but hey there we go you got it set so you lightning bolt what game you want to play actually there's a I'll sort by curve light land lightning bolt Carion fader him to Tac Goblin bombardment this is a little bit of a interesting a version of this came second to an scg open so here you go yeah I'll play [Music] reveal yeah those are those are visible absolutely well it wasn't a penguin I like H corner right there I pulled off and it went [Music] fly all right what to do what to drop do we have a fantasm magorian we do not you're not even trying so let's see if I can get one be there about a week [Music] or I think this is one of those matches where you're really favored especially in game one but you kind of need to win game One MH which I guess is true for a lot of dredge tacks I think that's vintage dredge in a [Music] nutshell [Music] okay [Music] pastor go to 19 yeah look at my deck upside down get out of bad lands H [Music] you normally that's not at all what you want to do against one of these decks but because you didn't drop something like a fantasm m gorian into your graveyard I'm not sure whether you're I don't know at least a dredger could have been put in there at that point but it wasn't I got to discard two huh it's random So Random uh you have you have seven cards in hand so I have a d8 and we just ignore eight and we'll just go from your left to right one to seven eight is a roll okay two all right and then a D6 Bridge one okay n n come okay but at least that makes it a little bit that takes it makes it take longer for you before you can start dropping things yeah oh and yeah they're these are TA by the way and that's in the yard okay um pass turn yeah uh remove street race for nickid okay makes sense come back three 16 okay all right you turn it to a Zamboni get a zom budy this is not [Music] a you need to [Music] share she is Shar it's got to be a black creature eh all right black creature there for a on buddy are you good at it I bet you are yeah yeah I think this is [Music] right have me a good old 15 [Music] pass turn okay can't walk sacrifice creature get a one one counter that's it would you mind if we scooch the Zamboni back sorry that's fine I understand why you do it that way cuz the graveyard is so consequential that's fine I'll stay on my you can stay on yours sorry fine all right [Music] draw seven cards in hand without something for Itor to come back with good comment yeah 13 okay pass turn to you [Music] sir F grave [Music] crawling sack to carrying feeder remove the bridge from below there's a counter bring back grave crawler sack to carryon feeder bring back grave crwler combat yeah three block all right this thing also can't block okay M got to do homework pass turn but now things are about to get f he has he's about to have eight cards in [Music] hand same black deck was Mario though zero scrub lands and one Plateau so I think I really make it work best turn stinkum yeah yeah [Music] dice I feel like classic manist stret would be better against this deck [Music] comat [Music] us [Music] all right you ready walk [Music] there all right you only take two then yep unless you have other Shenanigans not right now I [Music] don't I'm thinking though give [Music] yeah I think I got you here make sure I do this correctly yeah okay so one for Goblin bombardment to poke you for one yep so that's eight I know bring it back poke you with go bombardment to seven caring feeder put you to six double Bol put you zero y that's [Music] it that's this is a deck it shouldn't be but it is uh Legacy zombies or Rose Som Hardman I think I've heard something about that yeah uh Sam blacks had lingering souls and maybe some sorts to plow shares this this has some noticeable differences I guess technically his was four color because it had a bayou for death right Shaman I got you anyway next game was he playing against Tom Ross played infecting Legacy nah I'm just messing with you he was playing against storm yeah AJ Keegan I think is his name another player yeah I know an AJ soccer I don't know about AJ Keegan that's just I don't know sure all right so I take you want to be on the draw yeah yeah that'll do it I'm going to try sideboarding this way for this game we'll see how it goes next time around is that what you had pulled up I like that if it doesn't work this time I might just switch out this is much better you hit record yet I have i g thanks for let me yeah thanks for making all right my theory behind the fast lands being good in Legacy is that in a lot of decks you don't expect to get above three lands anyway watched a lot of Legacy lately and most of the time they don't yeah I mean Stone blade and death blade decks Miracles and Decks that won a lot of lands anyway like lands 12 post that sort of thing but those are you know they're outliers in Legacy it tends to be a very Do or Die format or you're high tied and all your lands are basic anyway right Fela and Longmore is amazing jeez I tried making a I'll let you think sorry no you're good I'm keeping I was just looking at shiny fair enough let's put out think I have time to do it this way grave crawler okay pass turn I built my vintage solidarity deck based on long War's solidarity deck in Legacy stink with you that's a card I'm just like when I have spend on stuff come up here trying to [Music] play this conservatively [Music] that pter end of your turn yeah ccle ster makes sense [Music] Char okay still end of turn still end of turn yeah I know how this works since I hit a fantasm [Music] Goran Simon Garfunkle song stuck in my head something no one has said for the past 10 years at least no no I'm just kidding [Music] guys going to [Music] pitch three GLE brand hey buddy and then in response response to that pitch three all right uh yeah that resolves before you go to your turn though I have something to do gotta right so end of turn we're going to set grave crawler a carrying feeder Y and remove a bridge that's fine [Music] yeah one of them is bigger but I can't block [Music] anyway hi blood Gast it's try it's a blood G sadly not a zombie that would be very nice in this deck okay that would be too good this deck now go for go for it is in on tap upkeep remove street race to return acor remove Street R to return AC y Dre return well I guess we got to D first yeah we're going to late and dredge first [Music] yeah dredge two dredge [Music] five [Music] start by dring five makes good sense ah two three four still in your draw step yep is that carrying feeder to carrying feeder yeah remove Bridge again that's stink weed in my hand yeah not a whole lot I don't want you to get a bunch of zombies from that dread return okay three cards in hand yes sacrifice oh okay interesting turn didn't attack first as what I was wondering about okay Grizzle is a thing hi GP promo Grizzle brand isn't he shiny so shiny super shiny and time to dredge 40 time to flip the deck sir yeah here we go time to go right pay Seven n all right start with our dredge six oh um why it a Sim yeah one two six okay good as they are I'm just going to keep them down here so we know how many times i' that's a good way to do it six three four five six okay so no more grave trolls thank God plenty of stink plenty you are not [Music] kidding St we down yeah all right so two three four hey NBA five n trigger yeah that it does well that's a little awkward now with my hand stink we do yeah there's a grave troll in there somewhere there better be one ah flare two three four five trigger yeah well I guess technically they don't go on until that doesn't matter um I can't respond to bridge yet [Music] anyway down here um we're on number four or number five rather we've had four mhm yeah looking for another stin weight I guess looking for another dredger there's a troll technically I could redis them those to fantasm Boran not in the middle of an ability resolving they're still dra more okay that's [Music] true that's why I said I can't do something until after you finish this my hand well yeah it's five and I guess there's just Thug yep Thug and another deck more too so number six here we go all of the de oh God three yeah four I still have not H gra troll so I have two more I guess yeah and of course the next two you dredge will be grave trol they were all blood gast okay there there we are all right so now after all of that has finished actually you have priority now so what are you up to um with a whole bunch of stuff in my hand yeah first I'm going to play land okay uh yeah not much I can do about that triggers all the blood Gest in response to the triggers yep um now is a good time I'll set carry and feeder to itself and remove your Bridges From [Music] Below they can't block [Music] anyway just making sure I got them all yeah yeah I did oh I didn't there's one oh there was one hiding one of those I thought you were on about Bridge cuz I've taken out Four Bridges in one turn I'm silly you remember when I came in I opened a pack I got a regular o you gave me another pack okay oh yeah F Dr or is a correct [Music] play be around for a while watch for those yeah those two rotate okay umor they're already magic the silliness here we go sacrifice three yeah what would dread return be animating thankfully no uh okay flare that's good four damage you almost had enough for flame Kinzel if I had not taken out the bridges flame Kinzel is lethal this turn yep oh yeah so before damage yep we're just letting damage guy uh yeah we're letting him hit you all right I'm at four or I took four I'm at 16 sacrifice him for cabal therapy what would you like to name um grap crawler and I'm at 11 from his coming back yeah no one should know what these cards do I play too much Legacy sacrifice three yeah what return all right reanimating oh before look no look at no no stop showing me this pitch fantastic yeah well I mean technically we're supposed to pick the Target first you're actually supposed to I got you yeah you can't responds to dread return until you pick the target but it's I mean it's okay we just restack it so that you play fantasm gorian first to do that yeah this first time I played it set up this way okay yeah but I mean what he did it still works just different way that's all yeah but he comes in as 1 2 3 four five six 7 8 9 oh my god really 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 yay 27 27 yay Y and he deals 27 damage to you that's it oh yeah there's no no point even putting those out um whenever flare or another creature equal to his power yep that's it see that was fun kids get rid of all of my bridges all of the bridges and you still won on that turn that's pretty sweet I think anyway I liked it I was I didn't know if I was going to pull it out there at the end I was like achievement yeah oh yeah yeah yeah I actually didn't I saw that except I did not see the grave troll going on I thought you were going to re uh reanimate Grizzle brand there at the end but no that makes a lot more sense doing I was going to I just didn't do it in the right order fair enough now this time I will be on the draw yeah I'm a jerk no worries do what you got to do right who knows I might have a turn one play you might Lord we'll be just a moment and there air you're gone T okay all right there we go come on seven I will keep so hard should be good all right that's your turn pass apparently I squeak we all knew this though T1 GL squeaks been watching some of your poer videos and playing MTG pass cool yeah man it's been a lot of fun why are you doing this to me dad um cycle straight R oh okay yeah do yeah look there and see if there's one there Cas there this car necade M we'll pass to you all right that doesn't look too abrasive so given that how do I play this next turn given that just pass and then I do it again your Jedi Mind chick not for so on upkeep he removes Street wraith gets ior out doesn't dredge can't dredge right here I think Now's the Time We this then hi Bob dork Confidant and then I passed the turn my handy dandy don't you forget dice or die and don't you forget it I was oh yeah I guess we I I guess that's probably not where we want it to come up I don't know we going to leave him still in there for now he's happy fair enough when we get some bridges then that that might do it Thug okay got to be taking the Thug live for a Siri right and I we pass all right upkeep I'll take two all righty what the heck it's not bad it is way too when the deck got knocked over the cards that I sided out got put back into it I'm running a 65 card deck now wow oh my good I was wondering I'm like I know I sided that card out what on Earth is going on do we want to fix it no it's fine we got this we got this yeah we got this only I don't okay well when life gives you hyms you HD me and I'll discard two cards at random yeah and in this case that might be all right it might be what I'm okay you know what I should do I don't know is that what you're doing yeah that's what I'm about to do have seven sir all right and if you'd like to do your thing there's a him we'll use this H first the Damu him all right once again Eight's out five yeah that one and then roll a d six's left it's a four makes good sense and then Bob M ladies and gentlemen yeah 14 all right okay and then I will pass the turn time to dredge to bring the GD back right we will see what happens and then time to tr just four though yeah that's fair that would have to be a pretty amazing four to just rock the world right here that's that's a pretty am good four I'll take yeah no kidding man that's a pretty damn good four hand yeah no dredgers in the right now though there's one in the hand that's always disconcerting him again and just knock one in I really really don't need to are you going to go to Modern next year Charlotte again I'm see yeah let's do it hey as soon as germs tired figuring out he can't play twin he'll probably trade out most of that twin deck or let you use most of it soon as he figures out he can't play who can't play TW um seems to me like it's one of those easy to learn hard to master decks yeah know let's go to combat sure we'll swing three ow put me to 14 14 all can't really discard yeah no not yet what's going through your head math all right that'll do it sack it to therapy or just let it die just let it die in the turn all right get a zamb bony get a Elvis on iie best zombie go ahead take two yep you know I'm in here right I hate infect hey I'm in here too I hate infect play that when I was learning to play Magic too a I can feel the love I play popper in fact now on mtgo that'll do it I guess there's a decent Choice here just not sure what's the right way to go swing to box Bo okay 12 Exile your graveyard [Music] okay Goblin bombardment pass turn combo I will pass take one 11 to [Music] the Grave [Music] crawler innocent blood we Sac a creature swing to 10 got to hurry up and do something or I'm not going to Mo to do anything bombardment in case you get dry at Arbor Nature's claim turn [Music] uh oh go ahead that's the beginning that is the beginning innocent blood take one a [Music] 10 we drown you in irrelevant card Advantage M I feel like Dr is the ultimate card Advantage yeah no kidding I get six cards for one every turn potentially it's like what I get to flip my deck every card is in my hand [Music] t hey Carry feeder gra crawler grave crawler grave crawler all right time to go off okay at least I got another dger that you did lots of cabal therapy keep it going rder might not be surprised by how many cards are similar are similar list I probably wouldn't be oops all SP spells is nearly identical can do a good well I don't know if it's quite good enough to do a transformative sideboard but it would be pretty s yeah and have there so of the side for Alex that one blue untapped that I give him this much those players it's you know what 9 10 11 hours into their day by the time they get to the top eight yeah I'll pass and so seven cards then since you discarded yes I mean the thug it's stink we didn't we're dredging next turn anyway so okay so I'm representing almost lethal on board come back mhm oh I get a warning well it was a him to too do we want to say I miss it I mean I'm not sure it matters right now no it's fine we are competitive but we're not that competitive 1 2 3 four five yeah all right put you to three three and actually never mind it is lethal for some reason I was thinking you were still at 10 because I can throw these three at you and that's I missed it too sorry no worries yeah you go and then then if that weren't enough I have a lightning bolt because I'm a jerk yeah well no that's nothing of all of all the hands that would have been one of the ones I probably would have mulliganed but I kept thinking well maybe I'll get something blood gas I never got to use you bro never got to use you yeah so the I just bring in graveyard hay even though I know that you can come back from it yeah I don't have any permanent graveyard a I have temporary stuff like rapose charm yeah um reason why I wanted to keep Bob on the field for a little while so I could keep hopefully getting into those there's five of them all together because the deck doesn't do much against dredge manalus dredge or reanimator so I need to have something right there are four Cal therapy for bloodghast in this list okay so I cided out obviously not in game three game three was weird but uh well what's going on I don't know if the screen is actually showing that or not may just not be yeah may just not oh pluged in let me get this back up that's what he said let me get this back up all I did was s out the Deep RS for Nature's clean fair enough I out my HS they seem really bad when you actually want stuff in your graveyard right they seem really bad yeah cuz when I don't have a Fantasmic gory and I can't dump my hand usually my hand is full of stuff I want in the graveyard yeah and although it's suboptimal to do so it's often the it's my understanding that when playing against him decks manist dredge players will actually throw out their street rates and their Gan probes early so that if the opponent hins them there's a greater chance that the cards they hit will be things they want in the yard and not g probes and and Street braids yeah you put down the Wasteland I didn't want to lose my possible fodder for dread your turn that's right that's fair dry Arbor will do that for you so yours isn't really manist Dred it's manalus like with an asterisk right yeah it is now there you go I can always switch it back though fair enough now do you have Legacy in facts built or would that have to be like shifted over from Modern it takes 3 seconds oh fair enough would you like to play L hand sure that would be awesome that would be awesome dude all right yeah if it's just going to be that quick let's go for it yeah see going to say | T1GlistenerElf | UCa-HX690ClpkYeRKjuhYo7A | 2015-12-12 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 4,186 | 20,486 |
kuGAthebwe0 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuGAthebwe0 | TICHINA ARNOLD almost ARRESTED at the AWARDS #shortsfeed #foryouvideos | what's up YouTube I'm back with another one and up next we got tsha Arnold now her Uber vehicle was pulled over for the smell of weed and gunpowder residue check out what she had to say car yeah this is a ni car say hello to my new driver no I'm just playing thank you thank you sir damn they get we that's the first time that has ever happened do you think he had drugs in the back of that car calling car yeah I don't know what the [ __ ] is what what the hell they smelled like gun resid call the company and tell them yeah new car y yeah he could go home sorry I mean not him personally but yeah no we need new new car service get out of here all right guys I got to go I don't want to be arrested | KORPORATE TONE | UCnYN9O634wAYzGSuQVii3DA | 2024-03-20 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 149 | 711 |
HjBLiwYgoDY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjBLiwYgoDY | NEW EcoGOLD First Impression Review on 3 TYPE HAIR | JasmynAntonette | what's up YouTube welcome back to my channel so today I am doing like a review on the new eco style gold so my so finally came in the mail today so y'all know I had to do a video ASAP it is night time so come so I'll probably carry this video on to tomorrow so that y'all can see the results on my hair um but yeah it finally came in so I wanted to do a like try it out first look kind of thing going on I've seen like a handful of people on YouTube review this some people who got it at the hair show who were able to like get their hands on it first but the day it went on sale for people to buy I copped it and it's finally here so I was like let me go ahead and get the review poppin so I haven't tried it I haven't opened it have it like nothing so I just took it out the box and yeah how much so it has olive oil shea butter black castor oil and black seed a name it's supposed to be maximum 10 hold maximum 10 shine and it's supposed to be for all hair types y'all see that right all hair types and it's obviously completely alcohol free um yeah so let's bus's baby oh babe there's like literal like sparkles it smells good y'all can see that feels like regular joe looks like regular joe but does it act like regular gym [Music] all right so let's see what's popping with this my hair is getting so I never really use like a gel as my styling product so this is pretty new for me okay let's just it's kind of thick there hmm I don't really need much clearly it's really thick on my hair sheesh that's really big I feel like it just absorbed all the moisture my hat my hair had to offer the slip is nice though okay hmm no we shall see so now that I have all the product in my hair this is what it looks like wet like I said I'm recording this at night so you guys will probably see this when I wake up tomorrow I'm gonna let it dry and in the morning I will come back and show you guys kind of what it looks like after because I'm very interested to see we will see ok guys so it's the next morning and I have not taken my hair out of the bond yet um so we're about to see how this looks my hair always looks like this one to get at the Hornet so don't Wow so this is what my hair is looking like the next morning the front is really not that defined as I would like it to be as you see it's a lot of phrase but the back curls are okay it's just okay right now I don't really know I can't really tell yet my hair is still wet so I'm about to go through the day I'm gonna go fix whatever I can fix here these bangs they lookin crazy but I have to go through the day and then I'll come back and let y'all know what it looks like yes okay so let's talk so it's literally been all day salutely the next night it's been 24 hours and this one my hair is looking like like I really love it well first of all I love like as far as the way it looks it's soft it moves the curls are different specifically like how do I explain it like it looks like it's really defined and really curly but a lot more curls like it makes it look fuller more on like the fro side I should say instead of those thick juicy curls that I usually have that on don't look big until like a day 3 so I think I really loved this like you wouldn't think this was day but this is popping for day one usually I don't like day one hair cuz it's just like not be like I think I like it because of the type of style I have going on the type of style that I have going on it works well it keeps it big so I don't know I just really like it like I said my hair smells really good it moves super soft like it's super soft and not only that it doesn't feel so thick on the inside like usually when my hair is this big it's a little bit tangle on the inside and so for me to be able to just touch my scalp so easily on with my hair looking this big is definitely a plus and like I said before I've never used like eco styler or like a like a hard gel in my curly hair routine it's only ever feel like slicked-back pony tails and things like that the only the most I've ever used is like the light defining or also defining Joe from diva curl so yeah it's different for me I really like it if you're interested in trying it I definitely highly recommend it I mean if it doesn't work for hair then it just does one for hair but it's just worth a shot like you know you never know you don't know where to get it at I will link the website to buy it to purchase it online in the description box below this video is not sponsored for anything I just heard about it heard the hype had to try it so here we go if this video helped you or you found good information from the video make sure you give it a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe to my channel guys and follow me on all my social media handles they're all at curling me crazy so yeah I'm loving it it's gonna be part of my routine for a good minute alright guys I will catch you guys in my next video thank you so much for watching bye | jasmynantonette | UCFRjRR3ihazDiu20V5nvDpQ | 2018-03-07 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,044 | 4,954 |
2wiEqApMhkg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wiEqApMhkg | Mayor Julián Castro We Gotta Re-elect President Barack Obama. - OFA Nevada | hi I'm San Antonio mayor julan Castro out here to campaign for President Obama in Nevada one of the most important States in this electoral cycle we're here making sure folks are motivated to go out and register voters uh to knock on doors make phone calls uh do everything that they can to see to it that folks turn out on November 6th it's going to make a world of difference my hope is that every nevadan will take the time to go vote during early voting or on Election Day November 6 we got to register we got to vote we got to reelect President Barack Obama | barackobamadotcomII | UCqF-fGeIhbtCYdfBvrOUKjQ | 2012-10-11 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 109 | 562 |
Il0c1qpRyRE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il0c1qpRyRE | Pokémon Insurgence Redone Edition Episode 31 | hello hello danger noodles oh yeah we'll get that short today like I did yesterday I'm playing the game Corner if you're not careful because you can slip through your fingers why did you question that all our money on this game but now I'm having so much fun [Music] oh what the [ __ ] am I playing [Music] is this Minesweeper this is [ __ ] mine's sweeper okay [Music] God damn it [Music] this is a lot harder than it looks God damn it [Music] [ __ ] it I'm terrible at Minesweeper [Music] foreign at the game corner [Music] Abra Evie gummy haircuts of Oregon why is Porygon 9999 coins no that's just for Christmas it fell further on your adventure [Music] I don't know what tm10 is [Music] oh [Music] and it's safe I don't understand the number of any Pokemon you could win fabulous gifts yes [Music] damn it oh well [Music] I'm guessing there's nothing here oh God damn it wait do I have dead Pokemon my team yes hey yes I do this may be a problem [Music] oh I think I went through that cave God damn it [Music] uh got around you [ __ ] I'm 1037 it contains sandstorm [Music] that seems accurate [Music] a miracle seed I think Miracles he's actually a good item it's not like increase the power of brass type moves uh is seen better with life that UPS the power of grass type moves yes I won't give that to not [Music] yes I have now made non-strong [Music] behold map out really need to heal my Pokemon [Music] hello Valentine's game corner there's a couple of teams on Pokemon you can't find anywhere else oh okay I already talked to people in here who the hell are you or I sit here all day with my new bicycle but I can't write it I don't know how I'll tell you what why don't you have it no charge no cost how many register your deck snap numbers and I'll call you if I need a favor sound good a pike only for a favor [ __ ] yeah I'll take your bike never give it back to you [Music] and never help you with your favor at all because [ __ ] you I'm not ready to get in the grass [Music] and hold on let me see something I think our chat box is broken nope it's not because it was broken last night I wasn't sure if it was still broken and yep and I'm about to whoop your ass if it loads or just an infinite Darkness at the moment oh yeah I prepared to die but what the [ __ ] you [ __ ] a little split your pain is a Badoo which means Anki I believe in the power of Angie [Music] that is that is not the Badoo I know but no matter don't don't fall in love with them Angie oh that was easy you're not angry you're not gonna fall in love with Pokemon understood unless it's another Angie that's the only time you can must increase the powers of Angie God damn it you of course you turn around this that [ __ ] moment I go to find you jackass as Electro Buzz [Music] kind of saitama hey you can't hurt Saito [ __ ] shake the Earth your light screen is not gonna do much against the Earth being shook and you're dead Inferno yes all right Jonah believe in your power all right that's they're not gonna kill Jonah but okay and now you die yeah how how the [ __ ] hey you have one HP left I'm trying to survived with poor hell [ __ ] [Music] yes [Music] all right nam I believe in you and it's dead just wanted Dead Jesus numb my opinion is the same bug types are the best you didn't use a single [ __ ] bug type the [ __ ] you mean [Music] thanks speed six on six x speeds there's items in there yeah right in that area but how do I get there oh I get down there was there so many items a fist plate okay I guess I can't get down there yet oh God damn it God damn it [ __ ] off for a friend I don't want to fight I would literally kill you in one hit [ __ ] off round that's it I didn't want to fight you I was gonna spare you you wouldn't let me leave so now you die sure just let me leave you damn piece of [ __ ] yeah so yeah there's nothing there damn it [Music] oh wait there's something up here hello it's up here [Music] all right from teams to see five things Shadow claw Shadow Claw is actually not that bad of a move [Music] there's a high critical hit ratio okay that's a really good thing yeah let's see if we give this to one of my Pokemon [Music] the angry already has got really good moves crunch is really good I'll get rid of Dark Pulse [Music] all right so we actually got something good or what from the items all right I avoided you [ __ ] wasn't no people in this [ __ ] maze at what was the point of the damn [ __ ] mate [Music] um one iron just one iron bar hoping it up the right sleeve wow that is a Pokemon I think Chu wants to [ __ ] Rock sakes let me leave you dumb [ __ ] Pokemon please I don't want to keep doing this [ __ ] one fights I just want to go to the next area thank you [Music] come on oh my God [Music] yes swim over it's probably not gonna be a rare candy but I'll still take it table mulch this was not worth it I'm not even in the water that actually makes sense for once oh I just stepped in the grass come on yes [ __ ] off this just a random green ball okay it says actually take me to a third Pokemon chimp yes finally that's right finally you're here I have some bad news I went to the Jade Tower to warn the auger but there are already cultists there I need to find another interest in quickly I wonder if we can get in through the sewers or something first let me heal my damn Pokemon [Music] city is top 10 bigger than other ones that's just because our economy is so fantastic we can afford this kind of thing [ __ ] you I love being in a rich prosperous City we have a department store a huge volume all incredible Jane Tower and so much more well [ __ ] both of you I think the whole uh situation this one will ever be fixed there's only a personal reason right now I hope they just sort those themselves what are you for eign [Music] don't want to change my hair I saw a little time what am I supposed to do uh go [ __ ] yourself that's what I always do no that's not what I meant wait a minute ignore that there's nothing else or to sign this club you know and oh Crow town but they really don't have a lot going on there pokemans eyes on you how's it hanging I'm sure if I helped out eventually they'd give me some big quests but until then I'm just not interested a little old [ __ ] your rumors about a Delta book one Northern end of the region some kind of Totodile chicorita no I think it's the other one uh cynical oh dear me it seems like the memories is the first thing to go chocolate hello [ __ ] hello hello what is there just one in every Pokemon Center I want to go buy something nice I've taken a miracle bear a Michael Berry what it's a wonderful I know run along now you just just give me a berry not trying on some snow gear I'm so glad we could stay warm and stay in fashion trying a few new Styles out today have a date tonight I want to look my best I heard about all the interesting Pokemon alola region a tunnel quick one type null Ultra Beast they're fascinating we can't find any in the touring region but maybe I'll be able to visit Aloha one day foreign let's see hair dye can I ask you a hair dye damn it they don't have the hair color I want oh yeah I do ma'am oh are you just like I put the hair dye on me [Music] God damn it so let's just give me the hair dye but no ways to [ __ ] okay that's better all right let's get out of here and defeat these Cultus bastards and here's it was big this is ridiculous what is this what is this all right Jesus Christ this place is [ __ ] huge they weren't kidding hello there sorry okay the chain Tower is closed right now we're having a little talk with the auger and I'm stuck in the door there it goes I'm guessing I need to find a little house that shows the sewer or I'm just gonna go through people's houses and steal their [ __ ] nope nope nothing in here that's an Agron otherwise there's just a giant Agron just standing here [Music] damn it [Music] how do I get to the Sewer you don't have any items around letting me to take you son of a [ __ ] foreign basement floor to this place yes there is this works [Music] what in the [ __ ] is this oh um infinite Darkness what are you doing out in a sewer I changed it um you're gonna die either way whether it be a critical or not how are you alive there's no water around let's see worth the [ __ ] why are you down here foreign there's no [ __ ] are you gonna load game please the Ghost Pokemon I understand why swap them down here I'm just trying to figure out where the [ __ ] I'm supposed to go I am so [ __ ] confused really you just wanted to bulk up in front of me before letting me run away [ __ ] you [Music] one let me leave you ass thank you oh a slow Pro night oh I found an item not really where I need to go I think a Max potion that's actually useful [Music] oh what the [ __ ] foreign it's not like I can use the move Flash okay come on might be fast just do that foreign yes yes again I have no idea if I am going the right way he looks fossil where's the fossil doing it is super hey what that is not a Pichu | TheGreatDrBright | UCgcwJbpysvUJR14hX7LbGYw | 2023-05-28 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,800 | 9,412 |
YmEEG76JknA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmEEG76JknA | GCSE Chemistry 29 - Limiting reactants (moles) | hello this is Mr field and this is my video on calculating limiting reactants when we're working with quantities of chemicals in mold now before you watch this you need to make sure that you're confident with how to balance chemical equations the basics of the mole concept and both the easier and the harder reacting masses calculations now in this video we are going to be looking at um calculating the or determining the limiting reactants we'll look at an analogy that will help us um explore the idea of limiting reactants using an everyday example and then we'll work through some worked examples of how to do the math of this the reactants in a chemical reaction can be described as limiting or excess depending on the relative amounts of each reactant the limiting reactant is the chemical reactant that will run out first and any reactant that will not run out is described as excess or being present in excess so for example if we look at the reaction of ethane and water to make methanol which looks like this C2 H4 plus H2O making c25 if we had 1 mole of C2 H4 and 5 moles of water the uh the Ethan would run out first and there'd be plenty of water left over so we can describe the Ethan as being limiting and the water as being present in excess now importantly if you want to increase the amount of product the only way to do this is to increase increase the amount of the limiting reactant you know if I added more water to this reaction because there's already more than enough water adding more won't make any difference whereas if I add ethane now that will make a difference because I'll be able to use up some of that excess water that we've already added now to help us understand the maths of limiting reactants it's worth thinking about an analogy and in this analogy we're going to imagine a reaction to make a bike and in this reaction we're going to say that one frame and and two wheels react together to make one bike okay so my question to you is how many bikes could you make if you had 10 frames and 10 wheels now if you have a little think about that you'll probably come to the conclusion that you can make five bikes now the logic of that is is completely sound but we need to be able to actually do this formally with some mathematics so what we need to do is work out how many bikes could we make just using our frames and how many bikes could we make just based on the wheels and whichever answer is the smallest will be the total number of bikes that we can make so if we look at the frames first we've got 10 frames we need one frame for each bike so if we do 10 divid by one that means we've got enough frames to make 10 bikes if we do the same with the wheels we've got 10 wheels we need two wheels to make a bike so we do 10 / by two and that tells us we've got enough Wheels to only make five bikes now because five is the smallest of those two answers that tells us that we only have enough components to make five bikes in total to use our language from the previous slide we can say that the wheels in this case are the limiting reactant and the frames are present in excess we've got more frames than we can use what about a second example what about if we had 10 frames and 30 Wheels now again if you just think it through a bit of logic you probably realize that now we can make 10 bikes but let's do that matters again so for the frames we do 10 / 1 which gives us enough frames to make 10 bikes and if we look at the wheels we do 30 / by two because there have two wheels in each bike and that gives us 15 so we've got enough Wheels to make 15 bikes but only enough frames to make 10 bikes and so therefore 10 bikes is all we can make um so again in this case the frames are the limiting reactant they're the one that runs out first and the wheels are present in excess what about this what could we do in order to increase the number of bikes that you could make well in the first example adding more frames won't make any difference because we've already got more than enough frames so the only way to get more bikes in the first example we need to add more wheels and equally in the second one we've already got more Wheels than we can use so we need to increase the number of frames so the only way to increase the number of bikes we make in the second one is to add more frames okay now this analogy works really well um you're not going to see a chemical reaction that says frames and wheels making bikes but you will have you know a balanced symbol equation with different coefficients different numbers of each of the reactants and different numbers of moles and we're going to use the exact same maths to help us work out what the limiting and excess reactants are so how do we determine the limiting reactant well it's going to work very similarly to the analogy you just saw so what we'll do is we'll divide the quantities in moles of each reactant by their coefficient in the balanced chemical equation remember the coefficient is the big numbers that are in front of each of the substances in the equation now when we do this the smallest answer is the limiting reactant and really what we've done in finding that smallest answer is we found the number of moles of the reaction that can actually take place so if we look at an example um let's say we've got one N2 reacting with three H2S three hydrogens to make two ammonia to 2 and h3s now let's imagine we started with 3 moles of nitrogen and 6 moles of hydrogen which one is our limiting reactant well we have to divide each of the quantities in moles by their coefficient from the equation so for the nitrogen the quantity of moles is uh so the number of the coefficient is one so we do three / by one to give us three and for the hydrogen the coefficient is three so we do six moles ID by 3 to give us two and so what we found out there is that the limiting reactant is the hydrogen because it has the smallest number and the excess reactant is the nitrogen because the number is bigger also what we found out is that we've got enough um hydrogen to do two moles of the reaction so then the last thing to do is to find out how many moles of ammonia we could make um and to do that what we'll do is we'll multiply the moles of the reaction by the coefficient of the product now in this case the coefficient of the product is two so if we do this two moles multipli by that two we end up finding that we can make four moles of our product now this is very very similar to the maths of that analogy that we just looked at it's just using chemicals but the mathematical principle is the same thing okay so let's look at our first worked example so we're going to need to determine the limiting reactant and the quantity of NAC that is formed um now to do this we will divide the number of moles of each reactant by the coefficient then we'll find the number of moles of the reaction that can take place by looking for the smallest answer and then we'll multiply that um by the product coefficient to find the number of moles of the product that can form so let's have a look so we've got one sodium hydroxide reacting with one HCL to make one NAC and one water and we're starting with three moles of the sodium hydroxide NaOH but only two moles of the HCL so let's do our first step we're going to divide both of those numbers of moles by the coefficient in the equation so for NaOH we can do 3 / 1 it's divided by one because there's no number there um which means there's only one NaOH so 3 divid by 1 equals 3 and on the other side we're going to do two divided by again one because there's no number there and that gives us two so this means we have enough NaOH to do three moles of the reaction but only enough HCL to do two moles two is the smallest answer therefore we can say that the limiting reactant is the HCL Okay so we've done that step we've done this step now the last thing to do is to find the number of moles of water that can be formed so we're going to say number of moles n of H2O is going to be equal to the moles of the reaction which is that two we just found out multiplied by the one H2O that's in the equation and that is going to give us two moles of um H2O that we end up forming okay example two little bit harder this time determine the limiting reactant and the quantity of H2O formed in moles from this equation so we've got two o2s reacting with one CH4 to make one CO2 and two h2os and we're starting with six moles of the oxygen and four moles of the methane the CH4 so our first step is to divide the number of moles of each reactant by its coefficient so for the oxygen we're going to do six ID by that two there and that gives us an answer of three and for the methane we're going to do the four moles divided by one because there's no number that gives us an answer of four so that's our first step done so to find the number of moles of the reaction that we can complete it's the smallest answer which is the three so therefore we can do three moles of the reaction and that also tells us that the O2 is the limiting reactant because it's got the smallest answers and we say limiting equals O2 the last thing to do then is to multiply the reaction moles by the product coefficient and that will help us find out how much water we've made so we can say the number of moles of H2O that's what we're trying to find is equal to the number of moles of the reaction which is that three multiplied by the coefficient for the water which is that big two there and that gives us an answer of six moles of water that we can make from this reaction example three determine the limiting reactant and the quantity of aluminium chloride al3 that is formed in moles so in the equation here I've got two aluminums reacting with three chlorines to make two aluminium chlorides and we're going to take the same approach so the first step is to divide the number of moles of each reactant by the coefficient uh in the equation so in the case of aluminium I do 1.5 / 2 to give me 0.75 so I've got enough aluminium for 0.75 moles of the reaction and for the cl2 I'll do the same thing I'll do the 2.4 moles divided by the coefficient of three to give me 0.8 so there's enough chlorine to do 0.8 moles of the reaction but only enough aluminium to do 0.75 therefore that's the smallest answer and my limiting reactant equals the aluminium that's what we'll run out first now to determine the number of moles of aluminium chloride all I'll do same as before is I'll say number of moles of al3 al3 um equals the number of moles of the reaction which is 0.7 5 multiplied by the coefficient for aluminium chloride which is two and that will give me an answer of 1.5 moles of aluminium as the total amount of al3 that I can make example four determine the limiting reactant and the quantity of Fe formed in moles so again let's look at the equation we've got two fe203 reacting with three C's to make four F and three co2's so let's divide the number of moles of each reactant by its coefficient first of all so for the fe203 that is going to be 0.5 divided by the coefficient of two and that's going to give me 0.25 and for the carbon it's going to be 0.6 divided by its coefficient which is three and that would give me 0.3 so I've got enough fe203 for 0.25 moles of the reaction and enough carbon for 0.3 moles of the reaction so the 0.25 is smallest therefore we can say the limiting reactant is the um fe203 so that is our first two steps done and our last step then to find the number of moles of Fe that I'm going to form I'm going to say the number of moles of Fe equals the number of moles of the reaction which in this case was that 0.25 that's smallest answer multiplied by the coefficient of four there and that's going to give me an answer of one mole of Fe that I can make in this reaction okay now for the fifth and final example determine the limiting reactant and the quantity of H2O formed in moles from this equation where we have two c26s reacting with 7 o2s to make four co2's and 6 h2os now we're starting with 0.5 mol of the C2 H6 and 1.4 moles of the water so let's start by dividing each of those by the coefficient so for the c2h6 we'll do 0.5 divided by the coefficient of two to give us 0.25 and for the oxygen we'll do 1.4 divided by the coefficient of seven to give me uh 0.2 so I've got enough c2h6 to do 0.25 moles of the reaction but only enough oxygen to do 0.2 moles of the reaction that's the smallest answer so therefore we can say that the limiting reactant is our O2 so now how many moles of H2O do I make well same as always I'm going to say the number of moles of H2O equals the number of moles of the reaction which in this case is 0.2 multiplied by the coefficient for the water which is six and that will give me a final answer of 1.2 moles of water that I can make okay so that's it the end as always thank you for listening and well done if you got this far | FieldScience | UCOjNDMHF8NyMOq8R5wYJKFg | 2024-04-09 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,555 | 12,934 |
8XZJJKsHprI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XZJJKsHprI | How to Turn the Prospect into The Salesman-Claude Diamond Sales Mentor | so that's why i also want to role play with you on those questions because i ask i ask terrible questions you get good through practice i'm the former world's worst sales person i couldn't give away money i was horrible because i'd always get in front of people i'd be nervous i'd get tongue-tied and my mentor would get on the phone it was just fun it was relaxed here's the end because i have to leave in a few minutes you got to get the prospect to do more talking than you you want the prospect to turn into the salesperson isn't it better for them to tell you what their wants and needs desires emotional investments are or should you tell them everything you know about real estate for 30 minutes which works better the first option a doctor a lawyer any professional and says hey you know what i care about you i want to help you can i just ask you two or three quick questions so i can learn more about what's what your needs are what your problem is and then i'll give you a couple solutions is that all right with you boom | Claude Diamond | UCSoFoYrTXQyX26hgk_fXjkw | 2022-09-12 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 201 | 1,032 |
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-YYocpecQkI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YYocpecQkI | Positive & Practical Islamic Parenting | Sr. Hina Khan-Mukhtar | thank you for coming on this Saturday morning so just a little bit of background about how this article came about I my eldest son I have three boys and my eldest son was born back in 1997 and at that time I was unable to find any parenting books written by Muslims for Muslims about how to raise Muslim children in the west at the end of the 20th century and I was desperate I loved reading books and I could find books about how to feed your kids healthy food and how to toilet train them and get them in a good sleep habit but I couldn't find books about Islamic therbia so I decided to start interviewing families who really really impressed me families who seemed to have a wonderful relationship with their children and then children who I felt had a really good grasp on the dean and just some examples of the kinds of families who impressed me I had this young boy come spend the night at our house he was like 10 years old it was his first time spending the night at our house and his mother had told me that he's going to be waking up for fudger and my boys were still young they weren't getting up for fudger at that time and she said don't worry about it he has his own alarm but I just wanted you to know so when zishan and I got up I said let me go check on this boy you know he's on his own it's his first time coming to a sleepover he may be nervous let me just go make sure he's okay he knows where kabla is and everything and so when I went to my son's Sean in ameen's bedroom I saw that there was a light light coming out from underneath the door and when I went in I saw that this 10 year old boy had not only already gotten up and he had prayed the hajjud and he had prayed Fajr but then he was sitting there and he was reciting Quran and my boys were up watching him and so I immediately I had to ask the mom how did you get your son into this kind of routine where he wants to start his day this way willingly when there are so many adults who don't even begin their days this way then there was another mom who uh I used to pick her up to go to a weekly Park date she didn't drive and she lived with her parents and she had children her husband also they lived in a joint family system and but she was a UC Berkeley graduate very intelligent there was a time when she had worked before she had kids and when I picked her up she we write down at the end of the street when she realized oh you know I I forgot to say salaams to my mother when we were leaving the house so would you mind turning the car around and taking me back so I can just run in and say salaams to my mother and that really impressed me because she lives with her mother it's not like you know she's not going to see her again and she could easily have called her on the cell phone and said I'm sorry I forgot to say salaams but that was the level of that she had and I always thought when it came to raising children with Dean and Dunya that it was either or that either you had children who were very very Pious very practicing prayed five times a day read their Quran but weren't necessarily doing that well in their studies or going to the top schools or doing well in sports or maybe they were a little socially awkward or I thought it was the other way that you know the kids were doing really well in high school getting all the awards going to the top universities but Dean was something that was on the back burner Dean was kind of Hit or Miss prey sometimes don't pray you know pray you know for Eid prayer but the rest of the year don't because those were some examples I had seen in my life and so I thought that that was it that it had to be that binary and but with these families I saw a really good healthy balance between practice of the dean and then also participation in the Dania so these are the types of families that I was interviewing so what I noticed was over time as I interviewed these families there were are basically 10 pieces of advice 10 basic tips that these families started giving me there was a pattern that was starting to emerge and I started chronicling it in my head like wanting to keep track of all the advice I was getting from these different people and then at one point um this auntie who's the editor-in-chief of a newsletter for the Islamic Center of San Gabriel Valley she asked me if I would be willing to write a parenting article because she knows that I had a homeschooling Cooperative up north and I worked with a lot of Children and Families so she said can you write a parenting article and I thought you know this is the perfect opportunity I've been wanting to write down all these tips for so many years let me write this article it took me around six months to Chronicle the 10 tips and it ended up being like I think an 11 12 page article saw the article and he asked if he could post it on to the Seekers Hub blog and of course I gave permission happily I was so flattered and alhamdulillah that article went viral it was back in 2010 and they told me that 34 000 people viewed it in two days and mashallah even now every month I get two to three pieces of fan mail from somewhere in the world last time I got an email from somebody in in the Maldives um two days ago I got an email from somebody in the Netherlands so mashallah I feel like Allah has given this article tawfiq and I feel comfortable saying that because honestly it's not from me it's from these successful parents and what they've had to offer and I hope that if it can benefit even one person out there inshallah then it's done its job so I'll just go right into it about the 10 tips that these parents gave me the number one the order of the tips by the way isn't in order of what they told me was important the tips I've chronicled them in order of how often it came up and um so the number one thing that came up that these parents told me about is they said none of these parents took credit for the way their kids had turned out if there was anything positive that we saw in them they didn't say oh yeah we did this X Y and Z they gave credit first and foremost to Allah and then I used to usually have to dig a Little Deeper to get them to share more because usually they weren't willing to do that they just wanted to say no it's Allah it's got nothing to do with us and it can be taken away at any moment but when I started prodding them a little bit more for giving me details they told me that anytime they had to make any difficult decisions about their kids lives they did Salata the prayer of guidance anytime they there was anything they really needed for their children really wanted whether it was a clear Health Report after being to the doctors or whether it was admission into a college they would do Salat alhaja the prayer of need um when they got what they wanted or when they saw blessings in their children's lives they will do they would do salato sugar the prayer of gratitude they told me that they were all they would get up in the last third of the night during the hajjud then they would pray for a beautiful ending for themselves and for their children because they knew that there's no success there's no safety in life until you actually leave this world with the shahada on your not only on your lips but in your heart as well they prayed for their children to have Halal incomes recently my son my eldest sunshine was looking to take a part-time job and he uh somebody reminded me you know you should be praying for him to have a Halal income always because he's now just starting this phase of his life where he's going to be earning money and so I reminded him of that as well that you need to pray that whatever you do is noble and it's pleasing to Allah and that you can help people in some way and that also you get a Halal income so and it was really interesting because as he was looking for work he said to me no mama Allah hasn't made that many things Haram but the few things he's made Haram really do limit you like there was somebody who said they could get him a job at our local Sprouts grocery store but over there he found out that he would have to bag alcohol in the grocery line so that was you know out of the question and then another friend offered to get him a job as a pizza delivery boy and then he consulted with the Sheikh who said that no you can't be it's a conservative opinion and he wanted to play it safe that you can't be delivering pork like pepperoni to people and then somebody else offered him a job in a bank and then he was questioning like well do I want to be dealing with charging people interest so it was like you know I was reaching the point like wow what is he going to be able to do so he actually ended up getting a job as at Baskin Robbins or serving ice cream and uh you know alhamdulillah is really happy there and it took some searching but and praying but alhamdulillah he's comfortable with what he's doing for right now it's just a part-time job but Angela with every job he takes we're going to be praying that he always has a Halal income then some um the parents also told me that from a young age they prayed for their children to have Pious spouses when they grew grew up that they would get married to people who would help them be good Muslims and um as one Sheikh said that you want to marry somebody who will drag you to Jannah and they also prayed for protection one mom told me that she recited Surah Maryam every single day of her pregnancy this is not anywhere in the Sunnah this is something she chose to do and she said that the reason she recited Surah Maryam is because she really loved the descriptions of the pious Believers and the prophets like prophets because there's specific descriptions about how they were with their parents and so this mom wanted her children to be like that so she prayed you recited Surah Maryam in her pregnancy Okay so um the second tip these parents gave me is they said that your sahaba your companionship will make you or break you and so they prayed also for their children to have good friends and good company in life and I I know that my mom always told us that you know you don't assume that you're better than your friends you are Who Your Friends Are Yusuf says that on the day of judgment you'll be standing with those whom you love the most in this Dunya so choose your friends wisely Keller says that there's nothing worse than a stingy Muslim but the one thing you should be stingy with is your time you shouldn't be giving it to just everybody you should be giving it to people who remind you of Allah and His prophets so it was interesting because it's when we think about Safa we automatically assume that it's about keeping a close eye on who our children's friends are but actually this also goes to who our friends are we as parents who we choose to socialize with and spend a lot of our time with and it was interesting because back when I first got married my husband didn't have and I moved up north to the Bay Area my husband didn't have any Muslim friends and he only had his friends from college and work and so it took a long time to find a few Muslim friends that we enjoyed spending time with and these friends unfortunately were not practicing at all and if anything they were the type who would make fun of religion and make fun of people who are religious and um and there you know they were the type that it was fun to socialize with or party with but my brother came to visit me after I had children he stayed with me for four months he was doing his med school rotations up north and so I was really excited to have him meet my friends that I had finally made after so many years and so I I asked him after he after he got to meet them so what do you think are they so cool aren't they so you know so much fun and he was kind of quiet and he's like yeah I can tell that they really like you a lot and I could tell that you really like them and you guys have fun together and then he was quiet and he said but you need to change your friends and I was really really offended when he said that to me because I was like who is he to come and be here with me for a few days and then tell me that my friends aren't good enough and I felt like he was being judgmental and I was really irritated but then later when I just I calmed down and I thought about it I I knew at the core of my being I knew that he was right because I knew that um with these friends yeah we had day-to-day fun but there was no growth happening at all especially spiritually and if anything we were maybe even going backwards and so finally I said to him okay you think I need these religious Pious friends who are going to be a good influence on me where am I supposed to find them it took so long just to make these few Muslim friends where am I now supposed to find good highest Muslim friends and he said dude he's like pray for them pray for Allah to send you good friends and rely on him so I remember uh sitting on the Masala majanama's the prayer rug and I remember sitting there and praying to Allah that send me friends people whom you love and people who will make me love you and people who will draw me closer to you and may Allah forgive me but after making that Dua I remember thinking okay fine I've made this Dua now but where are these friends going to materialize from are they just going to drop out drop down out of the sky because it just it felt so impossible at that point felt like I was asking to part the Red Sea I mean I didn't know where these friends were suddenly going to materialize in my life and alhamdulillah I'm not kidding like around two months after I made that prayer through a really random series of events I met the person who became my best friend and through whom honestly the entire trajectory of my life changed like everything good that's happened in my life my children's lives my husband's friendship ships everything came through this friend even the fact that my son Amin now goes to Institute of knowledge was through this friend who convinced me to allow him to come when we had decided we weren't going to send him away at the age of 13. so alhamdulillah it just it takes me back to the first tip it's Dua Dua is everything and nothing comes from us or from our power so keeping a close eye on who your kids friends are and who your friends are is key but along with uh keeping a close eye on friendship one thing that I noticed after writing this article this point is not in my article because I didn't realize it at the time but this is something I have seen over and over again with many families that impress me is one other thing that a lot of them have in common is that they have grandparents either in the home or their children have close relationships with their grandparents their grandparents are nearby there's something about worrying about somebody else's needs and realizing that life that doesn't just revolve around you that is really really beneficial for our children's character development and I've seen that in my own life my brother and I and my two brothers and and my sister grew up in America at a time when we didn't have much family here and now mashallah we have many cousins and many aunts and uncles but there was a time when we were on our own here with just one Uncle nearby and we see a big difference between the way we are with elders and the way our cousins who grew up with grandparents how they are they just there's this solicitousness for other people's comfort and this other that they have with Elders that we didn't even though our parents obviously would have taught us that but we didn't get that opportunity the way they did day in day out mashallah so having grandparents around us has definitely been something benefit official a book that I really really recommend I think every parent should read it it changed the way I parented many people I've recommended this book to have said it changed the way they parented their kids is a book called hold on to your kids why parents need to matter more than peers it's an excellent book and I'll just say the title of it hold on to your kids why parents need to matter more than peers basically the bottom line is peers should not be raising peers and that brings me to my the next Point under sofa which is that people should not underestimate the importance of mentorship mentorship has a lot of benefit people of different ages socializing with one another a lot my husband and I give a lot of credit for the few good things that we see in our children not to anything necessarily that we did but to some of the young I call them young girls young uncles in our community who've taken them under their wings and are guiding them and mentoring them and these are people in the community whether they're young aunties or young uncles or older brother or older sister type people you'll just see that they have a good track record they do well in school they have beautiful other manners with their own parents they have good character they're not your own kids tell you that they're not hypocritical they're not doing or behaving one way in front of adults and then another way in privacy with their friends these are people that when you see them you need to grab them and um there are people that I don't necessarily think I would ever have socialized with they're not adults that I necessarily click with but I'm really impressed with how their kids are and so who are older than my own children and so I will encourage friendships between our families just so our kids can have an opportunity to be around that kind of personality and that kind of attitude and so mentorship I know Amin goes here to Institute of knowledge and I'll check in with him and ask him like who are your best friends who are the ones you're closest to and oh by the way I have three boys I didn't make that clear in the beginning I have an 18 year old son who's about to start college and then a 16 year old son who's finishing up here at ayokay inshallah in the next few months and then my youngest son is a sixth grader Rahim who is still part of our homeschooling Co-op elm tree up north he'll have two more years with us there because we go up to eighth grade and so I ask I mean you know who are your best friends and oftentimes when he mentions who he feels closest to he'll mention the shuyuh here who are really their uncles they're you know young dads um or or newlywed young men but mashallah they're people that I mean gets along with he has fun with they joke around but at the same time they have good character they're able to give him advice for life so how to live life so definitely you don't kids don't need to be only hanging out with kids their ages alright so the third tip these parents gave me and this goes right in line with sahabah who could be the best for us or our children which brings me to the third tip the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was a living breathing reality in these families lives he wasn't somebody who's relegated to the history books or to the Ancients he wasn't somebody that seemed distant and far away he was relevant and he was real his name was mentioned often his advice was shared with the children on a constant basis with little kids they would say things like if a child was having a tantrum oh you're feeling angry right now you're really upset well you know what the prophet salallahu he told us that if we're upset we should sit down you're still upset okay well then he said if you're sitting you should lie down and why don't you drink some water the prophet sallallahu said when you're upset drink water or do so you know getting the prophet salallahu's voice into the kids heads and they would talk about him the way you would talk about maybe a grandparent who passed away before your children were born but you love that grandparent it and you mention him or her often so like I never met my mother's father never met my nana but my mom anytime we got a good grade or did well in school my mom would tell us you know if Nana was here he would be so proud of you he loved children who did well in school and so we would feel happy you know thinking that uh my nana you know I'm doing something that would have pleased my nana but this is how they were about the prophet salallahu they made him real in these kids lives they would do things like on Friday telling the kids you know it's Friday let's wear our green clothes to Juma because you know Green was the prophet salallahu Islam's favorite color or they would say you know the prophet sallallahu he loved squash so how about we bake pumpkins uh pumpkin muffins today and we'll have that as our treat after our jummah prayer so just bringing him on into the kids lives they didn't minimize any Sana I know one father who said that he put cards up around the house you know and the card would have the Dua for entering the house and leaving the house at the door or the the Dua for entering the bathroom leaving the bathroom and all around the house so I followed his example and in my boy's bathroom I put up the the written in English uh transliterated into English not the Arabic because we don't want Arabic to be disrespected in the bathrooms um in English writing the Dua for looking at yourself in the mirror for doing wudu for um going in and out of the bathroom and so um I remember I would quiz them every now and then I would test them to see if they knew the duas and what I realized was I wouldn't know if they were saying the Dua properly unless I followed along in my book because I hadn't put those cards up on my own mirror and so I didn't see it on a daily basis and so I hadn't necessarily memorized the Dua whereas they did know them so having it in front of your eyes and having it accessible helps one time I was visiting my sister when she lived in her apartment in Pasadena and I saw that next to her son's bed her son is now 13 years old and at the time he was I think six and I saw next to his bed was a book that titled the Shema IL which means characteristics by Imam thermidi and it was written like in the 8th Century 8th or 9th century and I asked Nadia what is this you know sitting next to mustafa's book and she said oh that's just that's the shemael it's a collection of a hadees that described the prophet sallallahu and every night before Mustafa goes to bed Masood her husband every night before Mustafa goes to bed Masood just reads him one hadees one Hadith that's it no long lectures no long stories necessarily just one had these before Mustafa goes to sleep and so she said that recently her son learned that the prophet sallallahu like to eat cucumbers and dates together so she said knowing an intimate detail like that makes her son feel like he actually knows the prophets so um when our children were little we asked Imam Zaid Shakir what should we be teaching them and he immediately said teach them Sita the biography of the prophet sallallahu and teach them nasheeds which are songs written in Praise of him and um you know when my kids were little we had basically the old Hornsby Ali and we had Yusuf Islam but over time masha'allah there are many many Muslim artists now who flooded the market and there are a lot more options out there for the kids to listen to One artist who I like to recommend that many people don't know about is his name is Talib al-habib and he has his videos on YouTube so you can listen to his songs there and there's one song that he wrote called Songs of Innocence and it's all basically all the duas that a father could have for his children it's a really beautiful song to like listen to and even play to your children it's like a lullaby and another song that he he set basically our articles of Faith to he doesn't um play music all his songs are done with the Duff and it's called amantu belahi and it was interesting because I was once teaching my children when I used to homeschool them at home I was teaching them the articles of faith in Arabic and then when I wanted to test them they actually broke out into song and started reciting all the articles of faith and I realized that they had actually ended up learning the articles of Faith by following um they had learned it by heart so I know about this one eight-year-old boy he um his mother got up a little late for Fajr it was she only had a few minutes left to pray Fajr and so she decided not to wake him up because she just wanted to take care of her own prayer and not have to spend time getting him out of bed so she ended up praying and then later when her eight-year-old woke up and he realized that he had missed fudger prayer he burst into tears he just started sobbing that why didn't you wake me up for Fajr prayer and there were the grandparents were visiting at that time and they were in the home and they were horrified they were like why is this eight-year-old crying like this about missing fudger does he think he's going to burn in hell what have you taught him how have you scared him that he's sobbing at the idea of having missed fudger so when they started questioning him and asking him why he was upset it turned out that he was upset because he knew that the last thing the prophet sallallahu sallam spoke about before he passed away was the prayer that his last words were the prayer the prayer hold on to the prayer and this boy knew that and so he felt like he had let the prophet down and he knew the weight of prayer because of of that incident from the prophets Allah Islam's life so that is what love can do if you love somebody like this the ultimate teacher that we've ever had the prophets then that is what brings you to Allah as well and the shoe you could tell us that we have to teach children to love Allah and to fear him we have to teach them both but in the early years you only teach them about love of Allah you don't teach them about the fear later when they start hitting puberty they need to know about the fear and the awe and the majesty and the consequences but in the early years it's all a position of love and there's no one who loved Allah more than the prophets so that's the best way to teach them my son is the president of his MSA in his high school and when he started he became president in 10th Grade trade and they kept him as president in 11th grade and now in 12th grade when he started there were only three Muslim Students who were coming to the weekly MSA now mashallah they have 70 members um on average they 30 show up every Friday but they have 70 members of this MSA he told me that he noticed that of all the students who come to MSA the ones who come across as the most sincere and the most interested in learning more and doing more in the Deen are the ones who've been taught the most about the prophets they're the ones who the the others are more like they've just been taught and they've been taught you need to do this because we're Muslims so you have to pray or you can't drink alcohol because we're Muslim we don't drink alcohol that's how they were taught but the kids who were taught about the prophets and his example and the mercy he brought to the world they seem he tells me seem to have more enthusiasm for the dean okay by the way the book if you're interested in getting that there's one available that the copy that we have which I think is most user friendly because there's lots of versions out there it's called the life of perfection it's a yellow cover you'll find it on Amazon and um it's been done by ikra books and may Allah reward the Ghazi family they're out of Chicago they've been producing books Islamic literature in English since the early 1980s um some other books have typos and grammatical errors the typical things unfortunately that we find in a lot of our Islamic curriculum but their books are it's good material and there's wonderful information in the books they produce and so the life of perfection is one that's what I don't know if it's out of print now but if you can find a copy I I'm pretty sure it's available on Kindle if not as an actual book it's worth getting all right the fourth tip these parents told me is they said that having fun wasn't Haram in our home but we kept the home environment as Halal as possible that's how I wrote up the tip another way I would write that tip is these parents were aware of the dangers of don't constantly telling your children don't they were aware of the dangers of that they told me don't let your children grow up hearing no no no no no no their whole life no you can't do this we're Muslim no you can't do that it's Haram no you can't do that Allah doesn't like it instead their kids grew up hearing yes yes yes yes yes yes we can do this of course but they would guide their children in more towards the Halal Alternatives and so what this means is you have to be really creative in the early years so I personally I I'm not passing any judgment I have no opinions one way or the other about celebrating birthdays that's all everybody's personal decisions but I know one family for example they don't celebrate birthdays and that's fine that's their decision but instead of telling their kids we're not going to have a birthday party they would go the extra mile and throw a really elaborate parties for things like when their children memorize 12 sudas or um when their children memorize josamma or when I remember one mom she has twins both of her twins memorized jazama and she threw the most fabulous party in a park near our home that my children still to this day remember she had two separate cakes the party favors were book markers that had a line I don't know if it's a hadees or an Ayah that talked about the benefits of memorizing Quran there were games there were treats there was entertainment anyone who was observing the party would have thought it's a birthday party but it wasn't it was a party celebrating the memorization of jazama so one of the best pieces of advice I ever received was from a female scholar named hedaya Hartford and she told us that for every Haram that you stop your children from you have to give them two halals that they can enjoy so that requires creativity and um and I had one grandfather tell me that you can't control everything that's going on on outside in the world but that what that means is that your home needs to be an oasis your home needs to be a place where the children can be Unapologetic and unashamed of being Muslim or Islam is beautiful they need to see that Islam worked Keller says that children need to grow up seeing that Islam worked in the home you can give them all the lectures and take them to all the classes you want but if they don't see that Islam actually brings benefit to their families lives then they may not hold on to it so they should see that Islam is the reason that the parents even though they're frustrated with certain relatives and there's you know family politics they still treat each other with adab and respect they should see that Islam is the reason they eat healthy healthful food they should see Islam is the reason the house is clean and tidy Islam is the reason the parents always smell nice and are clean Islam is the reason the parents talk to each other with respect so once they see Islam Works they'll hold on to it now coming back to the point of having fun wasn't Haram in our home but we kept the home environment as Halal as possible I want to discuss a little bit of a tangent but it's it's got to do with this tip and this is what I talked to the kids about yesterday here at iok sixth graders through 10th graders and that is a subject that many Muslim communities don't feel comfortable talking about but it's really really important that we're open about it and we discuss it and we're not afraid of of educating our children about it as well these families told me that they had a very tight control on the media in the home they were really their internet was always used in a public space it was never in the privacy of the kids bedrooms they played the video games that their children bought into the home with their children so they knew exactly what kind of video games their kids were playing and enjoyed it with them they didn't watch TV day in day out the television set you know sometimes you go to people's homes and the television set is always on right whether it's Bollywood or whether it's black Sunny dramas or whether it's the American News whatever the TV is always on as background noise with these families there was a whole Spectrum I know families who didn't have a television in the set in the house and I knew a family who had a movie theater in the house like an actual movie theater with three or four rows of seats and a big screen and dark walls but what the the thing they all had in common was that media was used very mindfully so instead of having TV on day in day out they would have something like a family movie night where the entire family would get together and watch a movie that they had selected and that was wholesome and that was clean and that they could all enjoy together and laugh and learn good lessons from and so the kids had positive associations around media um one one incident that always comes to my mind is we used to do family movie night with my children once a week all of us would get together and we would sit and we would watch a movie together and laugh and enjoy but what happened was and the other thing we used to do is this is back when borders was still around remember Borders bookstore they used to be open until like 11 o'clock midnight we would take our kids to borders on like Saturday night sometimes and we would get hot chocolate and cookies and we would get really nice picture books and we would sit and read to our kids so we did family movie night and then we would also go to borders and so um what happened was over time my husband and I started using the opportunity of our kids watching a movie that they enjoyed to have them watch their movie upstairs in the Loft on the TV there because we have two TVs in our house and downstairs my husband and I would watch the movie we wanted to see so we were watching our movies separately and I remember one weekend when we had selected our movies My Sunshine said to me Mama do you think that this weekend instead of doing family movie night we can go to borders instead and I said yeah we can we can go to borders but but then you won't get your movie night like don't you want to watch your movie that you've been looking forward to all week and he said yeah he said but the whole point of family movie night was that we used to watch it together as a family so if we're not going to do that then let's just go to borders and spend the time there which that really had left an impression on me because what that told me was what he he was really enjoying was that family bonding time he wasn't interested in just being sat down in front of a TV by himself or with his brother and Sheikh Hamza Yusuf said something that really resonated with me when when our kids were little he said that if shaytan was to ring your doorbell and you answered the door and she shaithan was standing there and he said hi I'm I'm here to babysit your kids what would you do he said you would slam the door in your his face and then you would run to go protect your children right but he said what's happened now is that we literally he said you let shaitan babysit your children when you leave children alone to watch movies or TV shows that you have no idea what messages they're being given what confusing messages they're being given and so it's really important to be able to filter the messages for the kids like I I know a dad who watched Frozen the movie Frozen with his kids and they enjoyed it but the dad got his kids to think critically about the movie Frozen he said well what what is the meaning of the song Let It Go what does it mean that the the female character is saying just let it go let it go these rules don't matter because there's lyrics that say don't worry about the rules right and in the movie Frozen if you've seen it it shows that she's very very concerned about her younger sister she takes really good care of her but the whole time she's taking care of her sister they show her life as if it's very constricted and she's unhappy and miserable but as soon as she lets it Go and stops caring about her sister and abandons her then she's living in a castle and she's wearing like this sleeveless dress and you know so what is a deeper message that's been given so this was a way for but the dad didn't say to his kids no Haram I'm not gonna let you watch a Disney movie he watched it with them and then they talked about it like well what does that mean and why did she look miserable helping her sister how would you feel if you had to take care of your sister you know looking at it at a deeper level but the thing I wanted to talk about that that I mentioned that I feel Muslim Community aren't addressing and I'm not exaggerating I really am not when I say that this is now an epidemic it's an epidemic not only in the greater Society now but it's an epidemic amongst our Muslim communities as well and that is the addiction to pornography there it's rage it's like a wildfire that's going through our communities and just because you may not know about it or you may not have heard about it doesn't mean it's not happening it is happening and every talk that I go to it breaks my heart afterwards I have grandparents I have parents coming to me crying telling me stories about their children or their siblings or their spouses or addicted to pornography and so I gave this talk yesterday and I had a parent ask me oh well my sixth grade daughter is going to be there at your talk is it appropriate for her should she be there listening to this talk and I said is she ever on the internet because if she's ever on the internet then yes she needs to be there at this talk so we need to give our kids the tools to survive the world that's around them now ignoring it or pretending it's not out there isn't going to help us so the first thing I want to tell you about the internet is that you have to treat the internet in your home like it's a loaded weapon literally that's the best analogy I can give you you have to treat the internet like it's a loaded weapon and how do we treat a loaded weapon or a loaded gun we don't ever leave children alone with it we keep it under lock and key we know where it is at all times um we don't just give it to anybody to handle so you have to treat you have to be hyper aware of of the internet the other thing you have to do the second tip about pornography is that you have to talk to your kids about it you have to say that it exists and what it is and the way we defined it for our kids is we just said it's movies that are out there of naked people doing weird things that's it we don't go into much more detail than that but we say that's movies about naked people doing weird things and it's an industry and they like to trap children into watching it and becoming addicted to it and you know my son my youngest son Rahim if we talked to him about it when he was nine years old and we would discuss it at the dinner table and um give him the the tools for how to deal with it if it's not a matter of if they come ever come across pornography it's a matter of when it's just a matter of time before something's going to pop up on their screen or they're going to click on something by accident and like I said after every talk I learned something new I just had a mom recently tell me that she was on Amazon looking for boys briefs for her son and she typed up boys briefs and kinky images came up of all sorts of other Haram things and she said that the pictures were really obscene and the private parts were just kind of blurred but you could still see what it was and that was on Amazon who is my son's Quran teacher up north he warned the kids that there have been incidents where there are videos that say Surah Mulk on YouTube and kids will click on it or people will click on it to listen to Surah Mulk or watch Surah Mulk and it'll actually be pornography once it's discovered and it's reported YouTube takes it down but if you happen to be or your child God forbid happens to be the first one to click on it then you know it's a problem so you have to talk to your kids about what to do if they ever come across it and the third thing I want to tell people about pornography is that there is no Utopia there is no perfect Community or perfect country or perfect neighborhood or perfect place or environment where you can escape this nowhere I had a cousin visiting me and she we were talking about it because her children all had these internet gadgets that they were using and it was we were talking about the dangers of the internet and she said thank God I live in such and such Islamic country over there the government is so strict and I didn't even have to say anything her husband just started shaking his head and he was like no honey the the top 10 countries that download porn um out of those top 10 countries the top three countries are all Muslim countries all Muslim countries that download the most porn um I know of a of a student of a student of mine who went overseas to study and he went to go memorize Quran and he went I won't mention the country but he went to this small country in in Africa and in this country he had to go to this tiny village where all this Village does the village has 200 people in it and they live in tents they don't even live in homes the only permanent building there is this one small building in which foreigners who are visiting get to spend the night otherwise everybody sleeps outside under the stars or they sleep in tents it takes 16 hours to get to this Village this literally this little Tent City of 200 people 16 hours where you have to go in these big SUVs and you go over these huge rocks when you get to this little town I feel weird even calling it a town it's not a town but you get the idea when they get there when people get out of the cars the first thing the villagers do who've come to greet the people is they step back because they know the second people get out of the car they're going to throw up because the drive is so difficult getting there this is a kind of Village it's completely off the map it's in the middle of nowhere there are no towns around it so this child went there to memorize Quran all night they say it's like bees humming you just hear people reciting Quran throughout the night because in the daytime it's so hot so people do their memorizing at night it takes there's all there's no electricity there at people walk around with guests lanterns there's one generator and there's one Outlet it takes three days to power up a phone there's one person in this community who's in charge of taking your phone he will power your phone for three days and then he will give it back to you this boy told me that in that environment boys were memorizing Quran would take their cell phones they would go up into the mountains they would go like this they would find a signal and they would watch pornography so there's literally nowhere to escape it it's really heartbreaking so we have to just like we teach our kids how to swim or when our kids learn how to drive we teach them how to be safe with seat belts it's our job just to give them the tools how to deal and then at some point they need to know the right thing to do if they come across something that's harmful to them we pray for Allah's protection first and foremost but we give them the tools as well so when my son Amin came here to Southern California you know we we had pretty tight media rules in our home and alhamdulillah my siblings and I are on the same page and so he was living with my brother and my brother told me you know henna we I can watch over I mean all I want and we can have all the rules we in the in the house that we have but at some point he needs to know the right thing to do because iok's high school program was online so he would be on his laptop doing his homework and there were times my brother Faraz had to go to bed and so he said he needs to know what to do because I go to sleep I don't know what could be popping up on his computer so at that time we came up with this drill just like we have safety drills at school or at work where you know if there's a fire God forbid stop drop and roll or if there's an earthquake what is the protocol you use you know which exit do you go out of how do you behave same way we have to have drills in place about how to deal if pornography ever pops up on your computer or your phone or whatever so what we told our kids was the first thing you do if pornography is ever to pop up in front of you and we told them that something May pop up that looks weird to you just something that you're like wait I wasn't looking for that that wasn't the website I was going for that's not the image I was searching you'll just know you'll have this voice in your head and that voice is coming to you from Allah it's coming from the Angels warning you that that feels weird the first thing you do is you lower your gaze you close the laptop or you turn off the computer or you unplug whatever you basically you get it out of your vision and it's interesting because at Elm Tree my homeschooling Co-op one of the moms there is a marriage and family therapist and she told us that you know they worked with sex offenders at one time in in her training who were in prison and she said they were taught as therapists to teach these sex offenders that if anything was ever to pop up or come in their site the first thing they have to do is look away the first thing they have to do is to get it out of their sight of vision which is really it shows you the wisdom of Allah because what is Allah tell us to say he tells us to lower the Gaze right so lowering the Gaze There's real benefit in that it's not just like oh we're so you know nervous we can't look at anything there's actually a protection of the heart and the soul of getting something out of your vision that is Haram and we told our kids that the first glance that is by mistake is a freebie but after that if you look again that's when the Angels start recording so you have to be really mindful of like not going back to something that felt weird or uncomfortable so the first thing is Look Away the second thing we teach our kids is to immediately say regime and we tell them that these are words of power these are not magic words it's not mumbo jumbo you have to know that when pornography or something like that pops up in front of you you are in a shaytani environment you're in the presence of shaytan and you need protection and the only one who can protect you is Allah we ourselves have no power so you immediately call on Allah's help for his help and it was very very validating to me because I gave this talk at a zetuna college event up north and there were um after I was done giving my talk shahanza Yusuf gave his talk his presentation presentation which was on the danger of uh the current media that's out there in the world and he was not there when I gave my presentation he arrived later for his talk so he didn't hear anything I said but when he got up on stage and he had a whole PowerPoint presentation and he went through all the different things that are out there in the world and how we need to deal all of a sudden in his PowerPoint he came to a black screen and in the middle of the black screen in white letters it said and he talked about the exact same thing he said you need to rely on this and you need to use these words often and so that was very validating to hear from the friend who's a therapist that even in the non-muslim studies this is what they're teaching is to lower the Gaze and look away and then to learn from the shuyu that we have to rely on all the Willamina energy the third thing we told our kids after lowering the gays and saying regime is you need to immediately go and tell an adult no matter what time of day it is you need to go get help you need to go let an adult know what's going on because many times what will happen is children will assume that the parents have no idea about pornography and they'll think this is something I just discovered and I actually need to protect my parents and so you need to let them know that I know what's going on and you need to come tell me and so they need to and and they need to know that you're not going to freak out that you're not going to blame them that you're actually on their side and you're going to help them and so sure enough one day Amin was doing his work at at my brother's home and something popped up on his screen and it was something he had not been looking for he didn't know what it was he immediately realized that this is the thing that we've been warned about he turned off the computer said regime and then went and told my brother my brother came and looked at the computer realized that there was a virus on it and told him okay don't touch it we'll get somebody to clean it up and then you know took the computer away for a couple of days and then gave it back to him once it was clear if we hadn't had that drill in place I shudder to think about what might have happened you know like that Curiosity that oh what is that that that's and then clicking on it and then the thing becoming bigger taking over his screen and so many times that's how it happens kids stumble across pornography they don't know what it is they click on it and then the the way it works is first it's curiosity then it becomes a pattern where a kid keeps returning to it to just kind of check it out then it becomes a habit where they have to do it on a regular basis and then it becomes a compulsion where they can't leave it even if they want to and I know the story of this ten-year-old boy who was on the hips track he was memorizing Quran and his mother was thrilled that's all she ever wanted was for one of her children to memorize Quran and her son was started memorizing Surah after Surah after Surah and he was totally like yes I want to be a Hafiz the HIV school that the program that he was a part of all of the HIV students were given iPods to help them memorize Quran so he used the iPod all the time while walking outside while in the car while in his bedroom or around the house memorizing his suit as and the mom was thrilled all of a sudden this sun just lost it seemed like it was all of a sudden but it was gradual the sun lost interest in memorizing Quran and he just told his mom I can't do it anymore I don't want to memorize Quran and the mom was heartbroken she was like what happened you know she felt like maybe he got nuzzled or eyeinged you know the evil eye and so but she told him okay just keep working at it but he was like no I'm not interested in memorizing Quran one day she walked into his bedroom and she saw that he was on his iPod and his back was to her and she saw that on his iPod he was watching pornography so when she and her and husband she and her husband investigated they found out that this boy had been watching pornography every single day for two years every single day from the ages of 10 to 12 this boy had been watching pornography he is hopelessly addicted it is one of the most tragic stories because I've been involved with the family you know trying to help and and just be there and this boy is much older now and um he's still addicted it it's um the the parents were really smart they immediately got him into therapy they got him into um uh and there's actually therapy a program now for Muslims called purify your gaze so if there's anyone struggling with it purify your gaze as a program and when she first approached them when he was 12 years old they said no we only work with adults and um inshallah your son will be fine you know whatever and and so years went by he's not fine and all sorts of problems come about from it this boy has been suicidal because there's so many times he's tried to quit pornography and he has not been able to and he keeps going back to it and so he despairs and he starts to feel like Allah can never forgive him so they have him in therapy but not only do they have him in therapy for his pornography addiction but they also have him in spiritual therapy they have him in the therapy with the Sheikh who's there to help him and remind him of Allah's Mercy remind him why he can't despair remind him that Allah is using this addiction just to break you Allah is showing you that he's the master and you're the slave and you have to just turn to Allah completely just helping him that way but the thing about pornography addiction which people don't realize is studies show first and foremost that most addiction happens between ages of 10 and 12. the other thing is they've actually done brain scans actual brain scans on children who are addicted to pornography and they have found that the hard wiring of the brain the actual shape of the brain changes it actually changes it there's a physical effect of pornography addiction and they said that the high that people get from watching pornography is the same high that people get from using cocaine and heroin so it's like being addicted to cocaine and heroin so his parents are treating it like an addiction now that they don't judge their son anymore and recently the mom told me after years of trying to deal with this and they have a very open relationship with their son the son will come to them and say Mom Dad it's been a month I haven't watched pornography and they'll be like wonderful alhamdulillah then he'll come and say it's been two months I haven't watched any pornography and they'll be really happy for him and then he'll come and say I watched pornography I couldn't help it I'm sorry and he'll cry and they'll hug him and you know so this is their life right now and the mom told me recently after years of dealing with this her husband is this big you know strong person who doesn't show much emotion she said the other day he just hugged her son and just broke down sobbing just cried and cried and cried and told her their son I'm so sorry I'm so sorry that this happened to you and she said that it happened you know with Allah's will but she said it ha the lesson they took from it is she said we broke the number one rule the number one rule which is that you don't have internet in your bedrooms she said the fact that our son had an internet device in his bedroom was our biggest mistake and um so pray for him inshallah that's it's a long journey and uh you know they're trying to get him help they've gotten him help but you know and it's it's incredible she paid a thousand dollars for somebody to come into the home and wire all the computers and put all the Wi-Fi code in her house changes every day he actually tells the parents don't go to sleep before me he's a grown like kid now and he will tell his parents don't go to bed before me because if you do I'll watch pornography like that's how bad it is the three things about pornography it's the AAA engine it's affordability pornography is she is free and if it's not free it's very cheap accessibility if you can access it anywhere in the old days you used to have to go to a video store now I could be watching it on my phone in front of you at the dining table and you would have no idea affordability accessibility and anonymity the fact that nobody knows you're doing it so what we as parents need to do is we can't do anything about the affordability so we need to take away the accessibility and the anonymity my sons did not have smartphones they did not have cell phones until age 13 and then my son in high school got a flip phone and people would the kids would take pictures of his flip phone because they'd be like what is that do these things actually exist but he did not get a smartphone until now until age 18. my son Amin we prayed about it quite a bit before letting him get an iPhone because he's driving here in Southern California now and he needs GPS and whatnot but my husband has a thing set up on his phone that anything he looks at or any text he gets or sends out my husband gets a copy of it so we trust him we inshallah he won't do anything wrong but still it's you know we need to um they need to be aware at this age while they're still developing for some kids you can tell them Allah sees you you're not alone Allah sees you some kids that'll be enough but for other kids you're going to have to tell them about the the medical effects the physical effects what happens with addiction how marriages get affected and somebody asked my son in high school why don't no I asked my son why don't you watch pornography my 18 year old like why you could you could get away with it at anyone's home why do you choose not to and he said that he was once in a thirst and he heard the Sheikh say something that had a real effect on him and he said it was the Sheikh said Iman gets pulled out of your eyes Iman gets pulled out of your eyes and he said that freaked him out for him that was enough alhamdulillah may he stay that way for other kids you're going to need to give them some of the hard facts okay and along with warning about pornography addictions you have to also teach your kids how to do tawba they need to know how they can turn to Allah if they mess up so that they don't Despair and also for anyone who thinks I don't want to talk about it because my kid May then want to go look it up if you don't talk to your kids about it somebody else will I know of a kid who heard the word pornography used in a khutbah at a jummah prayer and nobody would tell him what it was so he went and looked it up himself I know a kid who went to a non-muslim summer camp and um a boy came up to him and said do you know what porn is and he went parm he didn't even say the word correctly he went parm and he typed up p-a-r-m and he found pornography even with the wrong spelling okay the fifth tip and I'm going to go through these quickly now because I've spent a lot of time um the fifth tip these parents gave me is they said our parents didn't just talk the talk they walked the walk which means that they practiced what they preached they were their kids primary example about how to be one person told me that he remembers his father crying actually crying when he realized he had missed a Prayer by mistake and he said that had more of an effect on him about the importance of prayer than all the lectures in the world about why we need to pray who's a scholar who recently moved back to America from Syria she told us that you know the Islamic principle and doing good deeds and doing charity the Islamic principles that you give with your right hand and you give with your right hand in such a way that your left hand doesn't find out about it but she said when it comes to child rearing she said you give with your right hand and with your left hand you grab your child and you bring him or her forward and you say look at this look at what I'm doing so that they can learn from your example because we are their ultimate teachers children they're like sponges garbage in garbage out whatever they see around them on a daily basis when they're squeezed that exactly is what comes out in them these parents told me that they were willing to acknowledge their own mistakes they didn't assume that they were perfect nor did they assume that their children didn't notice their mistakes they didn't talk about their sins so they didn't say oh you know back in college I had a boyfriend or girlfriend or back in college I used to drink that's not what they used to talk about with their kids but you know like if they ran through a red light when they shouldn't have and the kids in the back seat they would say you know that was wrong what I did we need to obey the laws may Allah forgive me and you know pray that I don't ever do that again that kind of thing like assuming that their kids are seeing when they're doing something that's uh dishonest or unethical or not correct okay the sixth tip these parents told me is they said I wasn't afraid to be the bad guy but I didn't behave badly and that means that these parents while they were friendly with their children they didn't try really hard to be their children's best friends your best friend cannot tell you to eat your vegetables your best friend cannot tell you you need to go to bed your best friend will not tell you that movie is not right for you but a parent can do those things so we can be friendly with our children but we don't have to always be really popular there's three kinds of parenting there's authoritarian parenting which is my way or the highway if you don't do what I say you're going to get the back of my hand there's permissive parent authoritarian parenting is also known as brick wall parenting you know where you don't budge then there's permissive parenting which is also called the jellyfish parenting where it's like honey don't do that that's not right and then when the kid does it oh what am I going to do with you I've told you you shouldn't do that you know just whining all the time and not having any control over your kids and the third parenting which is considered to be the best form of parenting is authoritative parenting which is called backbone parenting it's where parents say what they mean and they mean what they say and the kids respect their rules and there are many many books out there that will teach you how to be in an authoritative parent um I I had a student that I was really impressed with how she was with her parents how she was within her studies everything mashallah and so I asked her I said so what happens at home if you disobey your parents and she looked at me very solemnly and she said oh well then there would be consequences and so when I told her mom her mom laughed and said my poor kid has no idea that there's such a thing as good consequences as well but right now she thinks all consequences are negative these parents taught Fick as well as spirituality Sharia was honored in their home um none of these parents all of these parents told me none of them hit none of them beat their kids the only thing they said they ever did do uh when spanking would be applicable is if their kids were doing something really dangerous that was uh so one mom gave me the example that her daughter every her three-year-old daughter every time she would wash her on the toilet afterwards the daughter would just run off in her dress without putting her underwear on so the mom would hold her once told her twice the third time the daughter did it she gave her daughter a really good spanking and then after that the the daughter never forgot her underwear and um you know learned her lesson so but they never at Elm tree we have a system called pink slips where if a kid breaks a certain number of rules in class they get a pink slip and then they're sent to me and they have to meet with me and it's a big deal the kids are like really scared of coming to me with their pink slips and so one of my students told me that for every slip he gets his Dad gives him one whack on his hand so like when he got his fourth pink slip in the year he was like oh today I'm gonna go and my dad's gonna give me four whacks on my hand because this is my fourth pink slip so you know the dad didn't lose his temper he wasn't enraged the kid knew what was coming and there's studies that show that a whack on the hand actually sends a signal to the brain and teach it that's why traditionally even in Islamic schools wax on hands were were caught even here even in the west it was common to get a whack on the head um Okay so the seventh tip these oh and also the not being afraid to be the bad guy but I didn't behave badly these parents also said that um you have to be willing to push your kids out of their comfort zones um I remember a little girl who every time she was like 10 years old every time the prayer time came in she would just sit there while all her friends got up to pray this girl would just sit there and I used to notice that and wonder about it but finally one day I just asked the mom I said I noticed so-and-so never gets up to pray when all her friends are praying and she said you know I don't want to force my daughter to pray she's only 10 years old so I don't want to force religion on her she sees that I pray so when the time comes she'll pray so I was like oh okay I didn't know if that was right or wrong I myself was still trying to figure out how to teach my kids prayer to be regular with prayer but then a couple of days later the mom called me and she said you know henna it's interesting after our conversation that kind of sparked something in me and I sat my daughter down and I said honey you're coming of age now prayer needs to be a priority for you so I really think now that you're 10 years old you need to take on one prayer decide which prayer you want to do and then keep it from now on do that prayer and after six months you should take on a second prayer and then after you've done two prayers for you know one year then you should take on a third prayer so that basically by the age of end of age 11 you're doing all five prayers regularly so they have this conversation she said you won't believe it the next day at fudger she said my daughter was the one who came and woke me up she said the whole time I'd been talking to her she'd been listening really attentively she said my daughter was the one who came and woke me up gave me the dynamaz gave me my thespi and she said what I realized is that she was just waiting for me to talk to her about it just assuming that she's going to get the message wasn't enough I had to actually tell her what my expectations are of her so that's really important to remember that you have to be willing to push your kids out of their comfort zone the seventh tip these parents gave me is they said I always kept them close by and that doesn't mean that they only homeschooled them these kids went to private school public school Islamic school um they were homeschooled all of it but what this did mean what all of these parents told me and I always feel bad seeing these in in my presentations because it's not a judgment on anybody I know everyone has their own different situations but what these families did tell me is that none of their kids were in daycare they uh got babysitting help from people they trusted they had extended family help them sometimes they had a grandparent in the home who would watch the kids some of them even had nannies but even if they had a nanny the actual day to date darbia raising of the kids was done by a parent or a grandparent so they did not put their kids in daycare where the kids were with people of another religion another way of life from you know seven o'clock in the morning till five in the evening so um most of them told me that they didn't do sleepovers and when these parents would talk to me they would uh the kids would always make it very clear that this is an unpopular rule but um the ones who would allow their daughters to go to sleepovers they would only let their daughters go to sleepovers if they knew that the father and the brothers were not in the home if that was arranged that there were going to be no men in the home then the daughters would be allowed to go to sleepovers siblings were really close to each other and had the same way of of living their life like they prayed the five prayers they ate halal food they were mindful of what was being watched on television those siblings the cousins would have sleepovers amongst each other and I know some families would let their kids go to sleep sleepovers but then would show you know at midnight the arrangement was at midnight they would come get their kids and take them home let their kids have all the fun they wanted but at night they slept in their own beds so this was the whole Spectrum um or they would sleep over with their kids they would do you know family sleepovers um there was one single mom who told me that she put her son in a daycare and she noticed he was always crying always crying so she finally took him out of the daycare quit the job she was doing and actually opened a daycare in her own home and then that way she had her son with her and was able to earn money as well and she was a single mother Imam Tahir Anwar said up north he said um that this for him this applies even in college at least the first two years of college he said even if my sons were to get a full ride to Yale and Harvard the first two years when they're still 18 19 20. I still would want them close to home then but this all depends on your relationship with your children there are some kids who can go away at age 18 and they'll be fine you have to know what your I have a friend who has seven children her eldest son went to public high school after being homeschooled at Elm Tree went to public high school played football all four years totally fine practiced as being unashamed her second son no way there's no way she would send him to high school because she knows he's the type who's very affected by his peers he doesn't have the confidence of what it means to be a Muslim and he's a follower not a leader you know so she knew the difference between her kids and and made those decisions accordingly okay the eighth tip was we didn't spoil our kids nor did we praise them too much and what that means is that these parents were very very aware of their kids nafuss their kids egos I had a student who she won a national poetry competition all across America there was a poetry competition on writing a poem in Praise of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi she won first place we were all really proud of her and I asked her mother because we were doing an event at our local Masjid and I asked her mother can your daughter come recite that poem at our mom mosque event and her mom stopped and said you know she's been getting a lot of praise for that poem this week and she also just happened to be interviewed for a science program that's going to be aired on PBS on television and she said I just don't think it's good for her nuffs for her ego I don't think it's good for her enough for her to be in the spotlight so much so if you don't mind we're going to have to say no and that was really that gave me pause that really made took me back because I'm the type who'll brag about every little thing that my kid does you know but the fact that she really was mindful about how her daughter's ego was developing I have one friend who told me somebody who told me that when she and her husband were younger financially they really struggled their parents both were not financially that well off but now mashallah they're doing really well they have a lot of money and her they don't want their sons to ever do without and she said her son wanted some football shirt that was um you know fifty dollars and she and he was in elementary school and she's like I'm not buying you a 50 shirt and they went to Walmart and got him the same shirt exact same shirt for like ten dollars somehow the kids in his school figured out that he was wearing a ten dollar shirt and they teased him so when she realized that she was really upset she immediately took and bought him like two fifty dollar shirts to make up for that because she had her own memories from her childhood but she told me recently that her son's clothing budget he's in college now is 800 a month because his um expectations are really high on what he should get and what he deserves and they have a very very expensive very fancy car in the family and they have another car that isn't that nice it's kind of shabby he refuses to drive the shabby car he refuses to do any errands for them in that car he will only drive the really super expensive car so he's very conscious of brand names and how how people perceive him so we have to be mindful of that when raising our kids Keller we asked him is it okay you know is it okay for us to buy these expensive fancy name brand things and he said yeah sure you can buy them but cut off the labels and see if you still want them if you still want them after cutting off the labels and then take it get it um okay the ninth tip these parents told me is talk to your kids with love so instead of nagging and lecturing and judging and criticizing they would teach their kids how to look at the world around them with a critical eye with construct and they would have these really deep conversations at the dinner table kind of like the example I gave of the dad who watched Frozen with his kids um they taught their kids to look at everything through around them through the eye of discernment to look at what some of the hidden meanings might be there's a difference between being judgmental and being perceptive and so they would guide their kids too they would get their voices and their kids heads and kind of try to guide them to come to the conclusions they wanted them to come to one example I give is when my brother was visiting me those days I remember it was raining and both my boys were little and you know with the boys with my kids I started singing that song Rain rain go away come again another day Sean and amine want to play rain rain go away and my brother's like don't teach them that don't teach them to reject Allah's blessings just because they want to have fun that they're enough swans funds so they're going to reject rain yeah and I was like oh I didn't think of it that way I mean I didn't think of it at such a deep level but I was like okay so then we played around with the lyrics and we came up with rain rain come on down come and fall upon the ground rain rain come down fast come and make some green grass rain rain poor poor poor Euro Mercy from our Lord rain rain fall on me I turn to Allah gratefully so that's what we would sing with our kids and so I remember one day we had a picnic planned and it rained and our picnic had to get canceled and I remember Sean and I mean we're at the window looking out disappointed that they're not going to get to go to the park and I heard Sean turn to amine they were like five and three years old I heard Sean turn to amine and say it's okay I mean Allah's being kind to us California needs the rain we'll go another day and I remember thinking that that attitude came from that song you know if he had been taught Rain Rain Go Away we want to play then the attitude would be like why why is this happening why is my day getting ruined but instead to turn and look at it from more of a spiritual perspective so all these you know messages come through to our kids so we have to teach them with love um one female scholar um said that children are they have little hearts they have little no Foos they do need to be honored and respected but at the same time Beware of the Trap of over respecting and over talking to your children you don't need to ask for permission for everything that honey once I do this we can do that and once I do that then we can go there you it's okay to say because I said so but no we can't do this right now because I said so and the kids should be okay with that um I have a friend from a specific Arab culture she said that it was very common in her culture for mothers to curse their children when they were upset with them and she said that she has seen it in her culture that when kids do something wrong the mothers would curse in Arabic uh may Allah shorten your life may Allah burn down your home it was it's very common and it's something that they say we don't take seriously it's what mothers do but she said her mother when she was upset with them when they were little she would scream duas at them and she would scream things like may Allah guide you may Allah make you good Muslims may Allah have mercy on us so when my friend grew up she had twins who would drive her crazy and she said that she would find that when she was angry with them she would stand up and yell may Allah give us all genital for those you know so it's because she heard those words of love from her mother growing up but that's what came out of her okay the last tip the tenth tip I used to say that I don't have any science to back me up on this and but now I do I just recently found out there's all this science backing up this point and this point actually I'll be honest it's kind of surprised me um all of these parents told me that they their children had a Pious father who engaged them and that was the key part being Pious wasn't enough engaging your children was the key part I have seen families where the fathers are very Pious outwardly they look like the best malt men's mashallah inshallah they are but because they didn't engage with their children and it didn't have a close relationship with them the kids didn't necessarily follow the father's path I've seen other fathers who did the bare minimum in the dean but they had respect for it and they were close to their children and loving with their children and engaged and the kids grew up to follow the Deen and I used to say this is just something I found from interviewing people but actually a man named Vern Bengston did a 30-year study that came out he studied over 2 000 families from 1972 to 2004. and he published his findings in a book he studied Christian and Jewish families and he published his findings in a book called families and Faith how religion is passed down across the generations and what he found out was that those families those kids that had close relationships with their fathers who also practiced the faith they held on to the religion but those adults who did not have close relationships with their fathers even if the father practiced the religion they didn't necessarily follow it and we've seen that even in our own lives that the mother can be nagging and teaching and taking the kids to Sunday school and doing everything while the dad's home watching football or whatever and the kids often will grow up and it'll be hit or miss some of them will follow the mother's path some will not and but then we'll see dads who are really involved in the kids lives you know I know one person told me that our dad used to take us to Disneyland but we saw that when the time for priority came he didn't care if he was in the middle of Disneyland he would find a spot and he would do his prayer that they had positive memories of having fun with their dad but also seeing him practicing what he preached and I know one of my friends actually witnessed this and this made me really sad I won't mention the name of the person but this is somebody who's really famous and I won't say he's a scholar necessarily but he's very famous in the most American Muslim Community he's given a lot to the community he's been very active done a lot been very busy throughout the years and he was at one of these isna ikna type conferences he was up on stage and he's a legend and somebody in the audience asked a parenting question I asked him for some advice and he was up on stage and he started to give the advice when a man stood up in the audience and said who are you to give advice you were never around when we were growing up and it was the man's son and um so that's something to be really mindful of I know one I know one boy who we we had some boys staying with us while their parents were on Hajj and they stayed with different families for like three days at a time and they were with us for three days and so I was talking to them at the dinner table and I said it must be interesting going and staying with different families and seeing how they practice their Dean how they run their families we all have the same goals to raise our kids to be monuments but we all have different ways of doing it and so the boy said yeah it's interesting you know in rahim's home our home he said I see Rahim prays with his dad like he'll get up and he'll pray and jamaat with his dad but in Ali's home he said Ali's dad he just walks into the room at fudger time and he says Ali Fajr and Ali just jumps out of bed and I was like and then they go to the Masjid and I was like oh wow that's really impressive that you know it's it's not easy to jump out of bed for fudger and that too to go to a Masjid and he's like yeah but you know Ali's Dad after fudger he takes him to Starbucks and they have breakfast together like every day and so that made me and the kid totally looked envious as he was telling me the story that this is what Ali does with his father and that made me think that really what is it that's making this kid jump out of bed for fudger is it that he wants to go pray in a mosque or is it that he's looking forward to that bonding time with his father at Starbucks afterwards you know we'll never know but he's associating sweet memories with it okay and in conclusion um I just want to say that after listing all these 10 tips I have always been somebody who's loved parenting books whose love to-do lists who loves checklists but I know that parenting is not like following a recipe or you know like where you just follow a set of instructions and you end up getting the results that you want we know that all of this is the mercy of Allah we know that the prophets were tested with their children Prophet is all tested by their children and these were people who were Guided by Allah himself so and Allah tells us in the Quran that I will guide I will test you with many things one of them being your children so we pray that Allah protects us from those tests the main thing that we can do is we can learn from the successes and the failures the mistakes from people who came before us we can learn from their warnings and from their advice and we pray to Allah for his guidance and his for his protection and his Mercy mercy and in the end we we know that you know on the day of judgment inshallah inshallah we can stand in front of Allah and say I did what I was required of me and you know the end result is up to Allah and I know of a mom and I've had people come up to me and say I didn't do any of the things that you listed in your article and my kids turned out just fine alhamdulillah that is completely from the mercy of Allah there's no one right way to do it and I know uh I know of one mom who she could have written this article she did everything that I just mentioned everything was done in her home and a few years ago she called me and her son was in college and she said you know my son just called me and he told me he's not praying anymore he told me he's not feeling the Deen and she said it really calmly and I said to her why aren't you Pat why aren't you panicking why aren't you freaking out how can you tell me that he's not practicing the Deen or praying anymore so calmly and she said because I have a high opinion of my Lord she said from day one I have been praying for my children's akhara for my children's Deen and I know that those duels didn't just disappear into thin air I know that they have been re they've reached Allah and I know that those duas will be answered in his time not my time but I know I can inshallah face Allah and say I did what was required of me now he has his journey my child has his own Journey we all have our own Journeys and we're not responsible for the end result and the first time I told this story the first few times I told the story I cried because it was just so heart-wrenching you know but I'm happy to report now that her son is back and he's practicing the dean again and he's praying and what she did was she kept an Open Door she kept relations with him she was loving to him but she kept doing and her husband kept doing and the other children kept doing everything that they believed was correct in the Deen and the kids saw that he saw that they were they were willing to leave him behind fine you don't want to pray don't pray we're still moving forward towards our Lord and he came back alhamdulillah so I'm going to end with this Dua it's from the Holy Quran Surah 14 Ayah 40 and I'm going to read it in English oh my Lord make me one who establishes regular prayer and also raise such among my Offspring o our Lord and accept thou my prayer Oh Our Lord cover us with thy forgiveness me my parents and all believers on the day that the Reckoning will be established amen thank you very much | Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay | UCeO_pSfiLy45HznBB0wNV8Q | 2022-12-30 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 16,635 | 84,831 |
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vYm4NRJKPjQ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYm4NRJKPjQ | Into the Unknown - Belkinus Necro Hunt D&D Session 19 | [Music] so you all are floating on a rock suspended in space which is slowly approaching the lower kind of area of a massive rock-like structure underneath the building you are now in vertheim home of the spine of death sitting on the rock uh is all of you just kind of standing there including luke who is clutching at his shoulder he is badly hurt from the encounter with thorn and you can see there is a massive wound on the back of his shoulder i feel like her name's like see it's not pretty oh okay good turns around see his legs hurt [ __ ] he seems to stumble kind of down to a little uh sit on the rock how bad is he how bad is it you can give me a medicine check perhaps sure that's me he looks pretty messed up and he's bleeding a lot i'll give him my healing hands since we don't have time for this yeah you may you could say uh it's eight hit points back okay it hit points you can see the wound close a little bit but luke is still coughing yep like just like that yeah sorry i i will imitate the cost i'll be role playing the costumes good good cool cool awesome um for today is going to like kind of kneel down next to look and just be like [ __ ] [ __ ] um he lifts his hand up i will be fine i simply really need time to rest and she was gonna say do we have time and then kind of thinks about it no no actually i think we actually have a little bit of time because you know i don't think they know that we're here unless nothing comes with the [ __ ] tracker device when is this ascension meant to start all right yeah the definite time i am not sure but the time is nigh in a few hours or perhaps the end of the day i am not so sure do you think we have enough time to spare an hour to wrap our wins perhaps but does he want to risk it i talk to you guys sorry if this is this different plane is doing something to my voice he's okay how many of us are injured i'm fine for the most part i'm [ __ ] fine so it's just looks like i'm fine i'm ready to kick ass no nathaniel's got no weird personality in here i think the dimension jumping might have [ __ ] up his head hail to the king baby yeah maybe we should take a bit of a rest just to sort that out that's uh we will have time for respite we approach to the lower levels of their time now to the rocky tunnel basement known as the middens all right it is a dumping ground of failed experiments and garbage accumulated by the spine is this not going to find anything that's like potentially alive that was a failed experiment right i see so we're in the trash get back not quite yet so i am not sure what exactly will be found down there but it is dangerous no doubt well let's uh then we'll avoid that i apologize it is the most inconspicuous point of entry that is not from the building's own designated portals if we can find a safe outcropping we can take a rest and try to at least figure out a plan here but i don't think just walking around aimlessly is going to help us uh i'd like to look to cara you can see that she is taken aback by the scenery and just kind of baffled by it all just kind of whispering to herself kind of clutching her chin kara yes she seems to snap herself out of a daze yes what is it what are the chances that they know we're here uh i'm unsure this is magic i was not expecting i i assumed some sort of a simple poc dimension a blank slate but this is something else i don't imagine that they would know i i wouldn't imagine why they would know we're here unless bloodstride has some sort of omnipotent grasp on the place or a simple wire spell that would be tripped if we enter uh um perhaps we cannot we cannot get rid of that possibility renee are you able to detect magic i can send slaps a few it's so let's let's go ahead and try that make sure that we're not about to walk into one when we go in the [ __ ] front door yeah yeah yes yeah that will alleviate our worries yeah i have to just pass the thing there i know that jumped a lot it's okay it's okay i can get a lozenge luke i i i wanted to know we've heard the name the black veined queen a lot and we know it's not cara is there even one is there a bigger player here that we should be concerned with than laszlo he looks at kara and back to you your guess is as good as mine considering kharmiharyan is not the black thing queen anything could be the answer for all we know the black vein queen could merely be made up a false god to rally as a banner of the necromancers under wonderful on the laszlo it is saying he has the queen's eel then people are far more likely to follow him yeah i'm just not entirely convinced that he's at the top of this it seems like there's something he answers to that would not be out of the realm of possibility no one has seen the queens themselves aside from bad stride and it is forbidden to question any further only no blood slide makes him sound too cool let's just keep calling him leslie very well listen take away someone's name you take away a lot of the power of power over people how many people are hungry do you think know that his name is laszlo being fair we're really just giving back many people know that his full name i it is lazlo dunham dung bite dung sorry sorry this is basically even wells honestly we could call it mr dung bite perhaps in confidence i would be more willing so in this case only laszlo and those who are deemed to ascend have apparently met the back vein queen the uncertainty is those who ascend are not heard from again we will get all of our answers from bloodstride so we're not going to kill him no that comes later there's too much that he knows we need to figure out how best to handle all of the people who probably get pissed if he does die if you can stay her blade for long enough that man has a knack for making you a bit upset at him ah that's not unfamiliar territory besides if we capture him and bring him to kara assuming nakara to chandra assuming chandral's motives are pure perhaps this is going do you want me to check that for you no it is all right it is all right i just have to get through it i just have to get over the hump uh perhaps that will forgive any lost time over the two weeks that we have agreed on true at this point i'm not really concerned with our time limit in terms of payment and i'm more concerned for math couldn't care less if we got paid at this point that's really the only major reason why i'm here and with that we should go mirth is in there they will need us beep yes all right let's go towards the end of this conversation the rock does approach kind of an outcrop in the side of this inverse mountain below the building you enter inside map this is as you can see at the bottom right the middens of vert time and you all step in uh luke kind of stumbles down are you sure you're okay yes there's a blade it seems to have some special properties i would need to be attended to perhaps uh miss mikhail can assist she just rolls her eyes and just kind of kneels down very well if if only i'd known we'd be traversing so many underground caverns when i joined up i would have brought more than my sleeping gown she that's your sleeping cows this was a three-day journey and you did not bring extra clothes she lifts one hand listen i've already put up with all the societal shite with a necromancer you think i'm going to give a single wit about what's socially acceptable to wear it just smells are we meant to bring extra clothes i certainly didn't oh my god and she she kind of just puts like both hands towards luna as a like c motion you have to travel light luna has been fighting monsters and bathing in their blood for years her oral sensory faculties have burned away by now and do you feel car looks around dead things all the time by now her smell must have been burned away you know what fair point [Laughter] onwards [Music] i'm sorry that i'm fancy who calls out to you before you head out be warned uh most members of the spine are forbidden to venture into the middens it has all manner of secrets the spine would keep from even its own members as such there is a there should be a teleportation circle somewhere but it is protected by a powerful charm that not even i have a full grasp on how to use it so as to keep out forbidden members luckily a master of charms happens to be with us right now i wish you one best of luck with techa at least you will not be hunted by thorn in the meantime uh okay yeah uh switching the gavel for the rapier okay i do not want a single ounce of noise coming out of uh coming out of very well man can i make a suggestion before we go on since we do have the ability to scout out a bit of head first i can send my echo down that's a really good idea um how far down can i see right now from where i am okay so let me reveal a little bit also did you cast detect trap i haven't cast it yet i'm trying to see how far i can get before i need to do it when you look down you can see that there are three paths the [ __ ] oh my god there is there is a bone right here that seems to be simply kind of just standing there staring at the wall banging its head rhythmically against it oh i don't like that like seeing that renegade like um trots on over to carl fest hey carla what the [ __ ] does it mean if you're a little skeleton man like banging his head on a wall what it should be in control of whoever the caster is well the caster is making him put his head on the wall like just on on the rhythm let me see she walks over to take a peek it sounds like a 120 bpm she she just looks at it and just turns to you and mouths the words what in the ever living [ __ ] sharon's shoulders oh god this is why i ask you uh i need to see something real quick if the echo needs to make checks it's not next because i whatever it is no one would order it to do this or they might be insane if they did say that they dumped their failed experiments down here oh right perhaps this was their attempt at an autonomous skeleton you can see her eyes widen a bit they're trying to recreate my research notes maybe that's why leslie was also shocked and surprised when you had a page before it would seem of value and if it were to fall in the wrong hands i would assume that he would be a little bit upset about that yeah so he's probably just trying to copy your homework poorly by the looks of it the skeleton continues to bang its head against the wall do you think this is something we can sneak by or is this something we're going to need to put down ah i apologize but this is beyond my area expertise i would i i have an idea maybe um you know hold on let me look at my inventory i don't think i have anything that's like super i have a vial of perfume um i'm just going to very like kind of go over here and i'm just going to um kind of well i'm going to hug the wall over here and then i'm going to chuck the perfume bottle lightly over this way like towards that tunnel and see if i can get the things attention by doing that just like the clatter may be getting its attention okay cara lets you do so and starts to head back and continue to heal your father trying your best not to come to me every time you stub your toe i did not stop my she's just like as as cars like walking away like i'm sorry that he happened to get [ __ ] stabbed by your sister all right so you toss the perfume bottle it clinks against the stony kind of raggedy floor just ding ding ding and you can see the bone golem turn its head but continue to bang now it's skull just kind of on its side on the wall looking in that direction oh okay so just like it looks back and then like short shoulders like it i mean it's moving at all well we could very easily test if something can go by without anybody getting had i just send the echo that way okay just buy it uh all right uh yep uh the echo it's not echo dad anymore i keep wanting to call it echo dad it's not echo dad anymore it's not echo dad's echo this is you this is oh god damn it you're exactly where you're supposed to be now oh i don't even have to go i don't even have to go into trance uh to do this because it's close enough so echo's just gonna start walking along it doesn't say anything about if it makes stealth checks or not but i think we've ruled that this is an object before so uh if you want to rule this thing has to roll still that's cool that is if you are choosing to stealth i think she'd make an effort to yeah still have it be quiet i'm not trying to get the thing's attention okay if it notices uh if it notices the echo you may roll me a stealth then it'll be a healthy experiment yeah well uh my stealth is at disadvantages as i wear chainmail and i'm pretty sure that extends to the uh okay i don't know why that was the third time that the echo moves silently across kind of in the semi-dark cavern and it doesn't seem as though the bone golem has taken notice okay it'll leave hector there because it can't go much further away from me until without poofing unless i look through it and then i can't move so yeah it doesn't seem like it's noticed it well that's a good sign if you want i can switch places from it and take the head just in case it does just i mean i'd rather you scoot up a little bit more and then see if it wants to poof you first um if your ghost makes noise if it's further enough away from us and we're hiding it'll probably just attack the echo and then we'll know for sure yeah it will attack things uh luna's gonna like gaze around you as shelby's trying to measure and make sure yeah like right now maybe yeah like if you go there then echo might be able to go here yes just let me yeah in front of you please oh yeah yeah yeah yeah just another hands and certain like buttons um yeah uh and i'll just uh have both my swords out just to be ready and i'll have echo actually take a step closer not being stealthy and see if it uh okay gekko takes a step closer in the clink of your armor and sounds of the footsteps the head turns 180 degrees as does the torso following right after and then the hips oh god and the legs kind of bend backwards to form knees and behinds now and its body is almost completely turned around it roars runs through the echo so the echo is going to push oh it runs into the wall and it crumbles this bone golem was incredibly fragile nice job doing that she just pants around the back just like that was amazing thank you for making terrible golems and no now i can see why they were failures that was huh that was awesome all right um taking a gander seeing that i can kind of get some sort of visual of what stuff looks like in here um which direction are we going you want to go left hold the right down up this is a maze in every maze you must go left thank you mr robot uh that's the same does everyone agree to go left just just so you understand me this is me trying to do nathaniel's voice right this i want to follow shortly after them okay yeah all right is there something i'm going to ask her all right i have one specific question i want to ask you i'll go on you teach me something very simple simple spell without looking from the wound that she is tending what do you wish to learn make sure that it's something simple a spell that would prevent somebody from dying the first time that they fall and don't you already have healing spells this is not about healing it's about doing something to make it right ah your friend hmm she considers this for a moment and thinks and you you would use this to prove to them about your consideration of necromancy will you yes very well she reaches into one of her pockets and pulls out a kind of slip of paper writes down a few notes and holds out her bony hand expectantly for yours he extends his mechanical hand out the spell is spare the dying it will prevent it will put whoever's been unconscious in a stable state so that no further harm can come to them at least naturally they will still need a proficient healer but if you study this should be able to perform it relatively easily thank you she goes back to healing luke and kind of sit and mumble something under her breath didn't anticipate i would be getting any new students there is there's not a sense of hesitancy just a solid appreciation for this also aaron uh may you increase your volume just a tad yeah yeah yeah you're incredibly quiet yeah i have you bumped up to 200 i'm sorry about that and as there isn't hesitancy there is just conviction in the eyes and i'm gonna make my way to the rest of the party all right congratulations you now know spare the dying all right sweet so you guys are going left is it yeah okay so when you open the path to the left you can see that there are various bones i'll get to it there are various bones as well as an elevated area kind of a platform about 10 feet up as well as various bookshelves old molded and kind of worn out as well as a chest and on top of the elevated area you can see a twitching body now i'm going to ask does any does anybody have a problem with body horror i don't have a problem with body horror but this is oh god this is just okay anyone anybody after just a marathon of the entire saw series anyone in the audience who may be triggered by body horror i will give you a warning now and i'll let you know when the image is gone you see a decrepit malformed humanoid body that seems to be standing on what looked to be burst ribs coming out of its chest and its spine coming out from behind it like a tail its arm shriveled up at the top this is what it looks like no don't bring it closer don't let me see more of it what are you doing daddy joe cat inu that is horrifying but that is also like one of the most sickening designs i've seen this looks like straight out of dark souls i'm into it you draw this you i did draw this you why yeah why'd you do this [Music] the image is gone for any audience members who are triggered by body horror you may return have yeah i don't have one but joe joe about renee's relationship with necromancy does this look anything like it is not a face you know no it is not a face you are familiar with okay i was just gonna say like you know like in general just like the thing come back yeah is this too familiar a scene actually yes this looks like an extreme version of what you have seen luke create albeit whatever this was is like tenfold the kind of malformation of luke's creation oh my god oh oh luke full metal alchemist this [ __ ] [ __ ] it's not equivalent exchange she just steps back and like has a hand on her mouth of just and you can see that it's standing there twitching just kind of moving sporadically about its single spot looking around searching with with various like occasional short screeches that seem to echo in that room is her name like turned away from this yeah she's turned away she's got her eyes closed she's just taking a very deep breath luna's gonna like come up beside you and put her arm around you around your shoulder yeah oh sorry hey enoch you wanted to do something i wanted to see if i could stealth into this room you may if you so wish all right i wanted to ask beforehand let's see to quote the uh the dm for mercs of mischief you can play d and d as much as you want okay 14 let's see all right you move into the room quiet as a mouse as best you can and when you do unfortunately your footsteps echo throughout this entire segment and you see the body horror which is what i'm just gonna call it from now on turn to you and kind of angrily skitter it's spiny it's like rib cage legs on the floor and i'm gonna need everyone to roll initiative it's not friendly dang it damn dang it i was trying out hope it has heard you unfortunately so okay okay it's he's fine he's fine fuzzy dice thanks guys awesome oh that that makes sense is it time for luna to rage today i forgot to hit my instagram hit my avatar i'll change it back to six but then change it yeah yeah so we'll just consider a disadvantage because renee is having a fun shenanigan right now yep all right while this is going on as it screeches you can feel a low rumbling and i'm gonna need nathaniel to make a deck safe oh for the love of peace wait a second yep wait a gosh dang minute bones back to the edge is this the necromancer okay so with us with a seven you let's see oh you see the rubble above you come just a little too late and as the ceiling kind of drops you can see there's a little cave in and nathaniel you take 10 bludgeoning damage oh my god hey god he can't handle that a bunch of rocks fall and close [ __ ] oh okay error error error wait no i might be able to get to him i might be able to get to him okay i don't think i have to see where my echo manifests well i don't have to worry about noise anymore so now nathaniel it's your turn officially yeah cool about that joe yeah what do you do what's this what are you doing here that's your problem not mine but it's my problem now do these does this rubble look like i can knock it over at all like or does it look you know it definitely does look loose oh it looks loose oh so i gotta reach and dig us out that's what i'm hearing yeah so perhaps somebody with uh with any amount of strength at all would be able to do something here i'm the only one in the entire party with any strength that's correct you know what i'm going to hold my action to give luna the help action when she tries to dig her way through this rubble i appreciate you there we go all right awesome uh wow i'm in so much pain oh enoch you're trapped in this room with this body horror as well as a bunch of apparently the bones on the floor have green mustaches now oh oh yeah yeah i put those in there because the terrifying monster creature was wigging me out that's fair that's cute rapier away pulling out the uh pulling out the gavel and um uh where's kuro uh you may summon him if you still wish i assume he's just with you you summoned him remember you de-summoned him and we went oh yeah so you don't have the materials do you no he's just in my pocket right now okay uh which i'm pretty sure it's going to take an action just a dream so i'm not i'm not going to waste time on this uh let's see uh i'm going to i'm going to spend an action and cast haste so i can so that way brings my at least my ac up so if this thing tries to hit me and then um i can't get i can't get up so i well i can't get i can't fly right now so i am going to hold out the gavel and i'm going to spend my hasted action taking uh taking a shot at this thing okay okay show me the shot the 13. the 13 does not hit you fire it goes you can see that this body horror moves with insane speed out of the way of the bullets okay all right next is uh going to be the body horror's turn and it is going to screech at you and i'm going to need you to make a wisdom saving throw oh it's horrifying kind of abomination of humanoid shape and it is going to kind of leap on the ceiling which is only a little bit higher and start skittering towards you [Music] oh my god okay well bonus action i would like to rage please [Music] because i need i think i need strength checks uh luna do you have time for it because i'd or you could say you want to disrespect your surroundings i'd like to start digging if this is if this is loose rock i want to start moving yes you may with your yes you hunt yourself you hold one arm in front of you just angled to your shoulder and you burst through the rocks like a big explosion to the other side do i still have my movement uh you do yes oh nice running through go wait can i go i'm coming i would say uh yeah i can be right here yeah sure okay cool because that way i can give you another flank if he's using a melee weapon but otherwise i think that is my turn action because action bonus faction yeah very right next is renee i am not doing okay oh wait i lost my rage because i don't i didn't do i didn't do damage wait would you count children damage to the wall would you count that as um i'm not sure if it qualifies because it's like you can only keep it if you do damage or take damage why did you rage in the first place i forgot you were giving me the health option and i'm accepting my consequences yep okay it says you're if your turn ends and you have haven't attacked a hostile creature so i'm going to unfortunately count the rubble is not a hostile creature yeah that's okay i i should have i should have planned that out more i haven't played a barb that much so that's my bad sorry nathaniel i'm sorry all this work why am i here i appreciate you regardless banana man renee your turn oh god i don't have a lot for this oh yeah just i'm conflicted as a player i don't know how well renee is handling this but i guess what i can do is shoot it with my crossbow all right i'm gonna say for flavor you're going to shoot at it with this advantage yes give it that flavor hell yeah oh no give you that sweet sweet food inherent fear effects yeah there are steps for being afraid of a thing oh i still did pretty good considering i'm afraid 17 does not hit it simply skitters away and turns its head you hear a slight cracking sound from the spine that holds it up oh guys looking at me it is looking at you now oh no renee is like frozen baby no i i will keep this thing from coming towards you i promise for flavor i'm not moving nathaniel wait did you miss i did miss i missed with a 17 my dude great i'm gonna use a second level spell as i hold my hand out this thing i know it's the product of necromancy but maybe it's still got a little bit of heart left in it level two sleep go to sleep go to sleep go to sleep go to sleep how much sleep is that that is twenty thousand uh that's thirty two thirty two thirty thirty two it is if it is undead it's immune so here's the interesting thing okay you cast sleep okay and it does oh it's asleep it falls simply to the ground it's like kind of rib cagey legs limbs just splayed out it just falls just twitching on the floor it is asleep all right fantastic i'm going to uh readjust my coat calmly walk up to it and while it's asleep i'm gonna start poking around like look it over this thing around bro give me an investigation oh my god this thing's gross and creepy this thing's grossing interesting why would something make this what what causes a body to look like this this just seems like like you know the outcome of you know equivalent exchange or some [ __ ] i'm so curious looking over this thing you can see that it's warm with the light i see it's its flesh is warm and that there are black veins protruding from its fingertips and eyes very similar to how a necromancer would look after casting a spell no hate on your description but what fingertips again you can see that it's its hands are kind of like it's easy forget it still has its own two legs which makes it worse are we still an initiative um actually no we're not because it's slept you're out of combat for however long a minute is which i will i'll be pretty generous with uh like what you guys wish to do because i'm assuming you're working quickly am i still in fear of it um actually over time like you would just naturally roll like because it's every six seconds so that's 10 turns i would say you would naturally eventually the fear would go away whatever you're looking for nathaniel look for it now because i'm about to kill this thing same here i think i found everything that i need to okay i'd like to kill this thing please wait before you swing make sure everyone attacks at the same time for it will wake up if you don't kill it in one blow would this be considered surprise um i don't actually know but i do know that it's an auto crit okay uh advantage right it's incredible incapacitated surprise is not a condition in 5e surprised is around yes uh i'm sorry i'm i'm sorry well actually that's not exactly true surprised is surprise is a condition but only at the top of the round yeah okay so technically your restarting initiative and whatever it would get or like whatever it does have it doesn't get its turn okay whoever wishes to attack may attack and i will just consider it all at the same time i have two attacks i have two attacks actually technically i have three because i'm saying hey because it's prone right it is only one okay i have a new one because i've named my flame tongue now okay very nice wrath ah i like wrath if you hit it's automatically i'll double the damage that you deal um okay that's one so let's see that's nine yeah it dies so it only takes one day it only takes one swing from luna that that 21 that you swing it and just this thing is very frail you swing it you hear a bunch of crunches and a viscous black fluid just burst from it and it twitches and stops the body horror is dead as soon as that thing is dead i am making a keyline for renee cause she's not okay and check on her i am going to take my gloves off and start to peel this thing around bro i want to look at it i want to look at everything about it okay luna and i want to get my gloves dirty renee i okay [ __ ] i'm sorry no don't be sorry it's okay it's okay it looked like here i took i told you before luke was jumped nicole had cnn she saw it she she like she wasn't thinking it's like she like her mind was going like a mile a minute and then she like realizes what you mean and her arm just like goes from like a hand on your shoulder to fully around your shoulders and she kind of pulls you a little closer this time like because it's like she's aware of it it's like okay she's a little bit more just the initial shock was a lot but she's like okay oh that's that's what they mean by failed experiments great great [ __ ] can i can i do anything anything to help if i i can send the echo ahead to to look before we even go around corners so you can be prepared no that that's about as much preparation as i'm going to get now that i know that those are down here oh [ __ ] don't don't turn around she just nods will you will you be okay here i'll be searching the room do you want me to stay with you i'm fine i'm fine go look for i know i saw a [ __ ] chest in there it might be another [ __ ] mimic that's the last thing we need right now okay if you need anything just call okay yeah yeah thank you of course and she like kind of gives you like a a slight squeeze like in a half hug and then she walks back okay meanwhile what's going on no no no you finished i'll just say like as she as like her arm like leaves renee's hand probably just kind of follows it until like the tips of the fingers are like like separated like that yeah yeah meanwhile nathaniel you're peeling this body like a banana and yes you can hear enoch reel a bit okay and you can see that in place of blood it is that same kind of black viscous thick fluid that has pretty much replaced all blood in its this body and just kind of various different portions of it you can see that there are just a few like hypotheses notes in its pockets about testing true resurrection and various different uh kind of methods of the like trying it with less jewels than is needed uh trying it with more jewels than is needed and when apparently from the notes as you can tell uh apparently tell this researcher ran out of subjects and decided to use themselves whoever was apparently with them is nowhere to be seen yeah it's very interesting enoch i didn't expect my sleep to work do you know what that means it means that this creature was alive which also means it was alive when this transformation occurred you wanna know what i you know in my head the worst possible like actual horror in my mind is like to visually see that kind of transformation i i don't even want to imagine it that is bad and i'm just going to walk into the room and i'm gonna start climbing up all right like you can play with that i'm gonna go play with this this tells me in two things in the spine of death one led by laszlo is desperate and we need to find him quickly because mirth's ascension is soon and if they fail well i turn over the head of the creature a bit oh don't do that though just hangs loosely anyway are you gonna look at that chest i'm gonna poke it with the end of my gun to see if it does anything you poke it and it feels like wood feels like wood touches like wood texture like wood must be wood i'm gonna open it all right you creak it open and inside you can find that there are six vials containing thick black liquid very similar looking to the one that came out of the body horror a little glass vial well that's just not useful i'll take them anyways i'm gonna take all the vials and you know can you check what's on the shelves before you come back down yeah sure uh may i look at whatever is on these shelves you may you browse them you see that there are various books that they are all completely soiled to the point that whatever ink was on them has just completely seeped into the parchment a lot of them torn a lot of them worn out it seems a few of them have like holes poked through them as if purposefully with a sort of bladed weapon of some sort however you do find one sheet of paper that contains language that you've never seen before not language you don't understand language you've never seen before oh we could put that to the test i know abyssal celestial common elvish it is a language you've never seen before okay that's fun that yep that's that's actually let me stress this not just a language you don't understand a language you have never seen before you know how like we as english speakers don't understand japanese but we know it right and we can we know it when we see it but we don't know the you know the tongues of cthulhu or whatever whatever this is you don't know what this is oh that's even worse that and i'm all like okay it's very symbols a lot of them are ruined in a similar fashion to the rest of the books molded over torn and just dampened by the humidity of this this place and same thing for the bookshelf over here a lot of ruined books but you do find that oh god it's like trying to understand cyrillic okay um okay well fold the piece of paper into uh into a quadrant all right and then i'm gonna slowly make my way back and i'm gonna give the piece of paper to nathaniel as he probably is a lot better at taking care of this i uh i hold out my hand which has the black icker on the fingertips before i stop myself ah before clean yourself please i'll take a hankerchief out wipe that and looking back down upon this mess i'll put my gloves back on before i take the paper okay there you go find the same thing it is not a language you have ever heard of before nathaniel uh i also found these files of gross ah more trials of necromancy i assume we should probably we should take care this monster here is most likely not the first or it is not the first it is most likely not the last we'll find here this researcher had done experiments on other people before i don't favor that kind of idea but let's try not to spend too much time here any longer than we need to yes as i said it for mirth's sake we need to move faster very much all right which path shall you take now i want to just try and look down both these paths before all right i can reveal more of those pads yeah just i imagine while like enoch was off investigating the books i was just kind of so yeah this way you can see that it forks again into two additional pads and then to the right you can see that this path leads into another room that has kind of elevation going down and you can see that there's another body horror down there oh god there's another one cool you can see that this room is a little less decrepit than the last one as the bookshelves are more kind of still in one piece more or less it seems that some of it may seem salvageable there's another one in there i can go in and take it out and we can go investigate there's a chest and i mean bookshelves i mean i could just take it out with a good shot i can do it quietly all right sorry but your your tools are impressive but they're loud and we're trying not to make our presence new that is true that is very true looks over at the rubble on the side right sato very good at this place seems like it's falling apart i'm sure that's normal noise here before you do that i would like to check this next area ahead of us just in case the noise attracts something that we don't expect of course do whatever you wish which way you checking rise and shine mr freeman rise left or the right what's in oh i just want to look down these holes okay i just want to see in case something that tries to sneak up on us understandable and let's see you are able to see them down the right perception and the left path you can see i have so many more mustaches to draw down down the right path you can see that there's some kind of visible kind of green mist in the air as well as a few more of the body horrors skittering about you can see it looks like they're fighting amongst themselves just holding their ground and it seems that they are very hostile towards each other kind of uh jittering and scattering at the suddenest movements of each other as if animals holding their territory this one seems to be gnawing on this bone golem just scratching at it the bone golem seems unfazed i've long since accepted this tumor that is now on my leg wait so i have a question then yep go on if there were there were these guys down here but we fought something up here and made a lot of noise and they didn't come after us does not okay i'll be right back all right do you wish to south in that room luna yes uh this is gonna be fun because i'm always disadvantaged nothing it's a chainmail guy well there's oh my god it's a 23. instead of i wish i could take that knock on wood maybe okay with a 23 it does not seem to have paid you any mine it just seems to be eyeing this chest over here looking at it just staring all right i want to try and do this quick and uh you do have advantages your first swing just like goes just a little bit it looks like it's about to take action i lit it up sorry so it gets the ball all good it gets the bonus damage the first attack looks like it's about to hit but you see it move at supernatural speed out of the way screeching at you and the second one just slice it its head clean off just takes no effort whatsoever and it just falls to the floor dead oh brody okay um i want to try and kick its body off to the side just to get it out yeah renee's direct line of view if i can like this the this is a descend so if i can just get it up against one of these things of course it is surprisingly light especially for its size i think i'd like to open this chest with my uh one of my swords all right i guess you just like tap it you put the tip of the sword kind of in the crevice of the chest and you creak it open and it seems safe i'm waiting i'm waiting you look inside and you find a very old but as if someone has tried their best to keep it kind of as pristine as possible kind of like those worn out things in museums a what looks like a map of various continents on a globe but not of the lustrous expanse the language is equally foreign to you not resembling any uh that you've seen similar to the paper that enoch and nathaniel found i have a question so i feel like this might take a survival check for me to figure out and that's totally fine but based on the path we've traversed so far with like the big entrance and then the two side rooms and the crossroads does this look like it might be a map of this dimension we're in and maybe i can find where we are on it it doesn't it looks like a world map oh [ __ ] a map of some kind of globe with continents but it's not like it's not the world you're from okay this is interesting uh i don't think luna knows anything about multiverse so that's [ __ ] poor and different look at it it's just a fantastic multiverse of madness even nathaniel yes you might find this interesting no and i'll hand him the map i look at this map i stare at it i scan it i examine it i have absolutely no idea where this is i don't either oh um i'm so sorry i already left the room um but would i have been able to take a picture yeah you would have you noticed that this chest is open and empty as if something was taken out of there inside the chest looks pretty clean uh as well as the books you can see that there are various kind of old uh no longer they are outdated spell books you can see that there's various different spell books that are not the way you cast each spell because you know it because you've met spellcasters and know a little bit of spellcasting yourself various different like oh uh flame hands turn you know uh flaming hands turns your hands into flaming fists that allows you to punch people and you know things like lay on hands allows you to develop more hands or a lightning bolt is a ball that darts between targets and stuff like that inaccurate you know information whoever wrote these clearly did not know magic as much as they thought they did okay so there's also a bunch of books written by amateur magicians that don't really play right and contain correct information if that interests you at all uh i will take these books and look through them yep you can see that they're outdated from a couple like nearly 100 years ago some of them i'm gonna like specifically look for any charm spells are any of the is any of the nonsense in these books like written properly are these possible in any way well even a broken clock is correct uh twice a day so you do find some that are kind of like along the line it's like they got the right spirit right like uh you you find something like false life that does seem to show that it bolsters the vitality of the user and as far as any charms goes you can find that charm person uh incorrectly states that the person will fall in love with you after you charm them uh you can find something like hold person incorrectly state that you're able to move them about like a rag zoll as if with telekinesis i squint and then i'm going to look at this map again and i'm going to hold it out i understand that we're on a time limit but has anyone ever seen this place before in their lives and i hold it out okay um if it's a map of the lustrous expanse it is highly inaccurate can i make a history check you can if you so wish okay let's see what we got uh 13 13 nope this map is foreign to you it doesn't you could presume that this is perhaps another side of the globe but this map seems to detail a large portion if there is another side of the globe the globe is larger than you thought so so question about just i guess about our world has there not has there ever been like complete completed maps of the world or are we not that far there are completed maps of the world as far as the name of the continent that is world building stuff that i have not completed yet but you do know that there is a map of the world uh there are a few places uncharted but this map seems fully charted it's just a lot of it is faded but the charted portions that are have been sustained over whatever decay has befallen this map is not something that you recognize so it doesn't look like any partial maps or full maps of the world i mean no likely it's definitely not it's like if you saw a random weird uh continent where north america would be if you looked at our map i have a quick question uh where where is the uh where are the ice caps the ice caps it does seem to have pretty normal uh kind of cardinal directions as would be on a typical map north south east west from how it's charted it is just labeled and symboled with a language that you do not comprehend okay interesting well that being said i want to see if i could start taking out some of these uh some of these enemies i think luna had one more thing she wanted to do oh yeah i mean if if that's where we're going i thought i had a thought about the map and realized that it didn't make sense um and i just stress quiet i do this quietly i have an interesting theory but nothing important enough to shut up awesome i don't think they're gonna mind much anyways um you wanna take the eight and i take the uh i'll take the four i'm sorry what where are you you all right you take you take left and i'll take bread okay then die i will certainly try i just love that it's only because enoch probably actually has a watch and luna's probably never seen one so she's like what i grew up in excuse me i'm also i'm also somewhat of a soldier so i guess i used sundials strapped them to the wrist means you're just looking up and being like oh when you go over there you can see the the rest of this path and the fork continues down oh cool have fun fine um why did the music stop for the sake of like could i ignite my sword before starting to step and to step into the room so i can have my bonus option also during that whole conversation could i have mended crow at this oh yeah most likely oh yeah yeah okay there's enough time for you to cast mending it's a can trip yeah yeah okay all right come on now i will give you basically one round to do something before we roll initiative oh boy oh i i'm activating the the ring of haste immediately before initiative okay i do have a quick question before i make my decision is absolution doing its everything's cold thing no absolution ever since your meeting with the raven queen absolution has turned has functioned like a mundane sword interesting okay interesting i mean it's probably for the best if it was still getting i mean actually like flying right now it's a hazard okay cool then i'm just i'm ready to all right so uh this is actually where a surprise round would happen so we're gonna enroll initiative but basically you guys are going to do each of your actions first before the enemy will have a chance to do any of theirs i'm back back into the five guys oh no that's a lot only one that's like okay that she's so not okay but she's apparently ready for this she had her her she had a moment i don't know how many more she's going to have okay there's a lot more than i was expecting i'm trying to kill them all before he's in see them so the first one on the round is gonna be renee ironically enough i would actually assume that she probably would follow luna so um three that's 15. i could see them by now yeah yeah i'm just gonna shoot this big old guy with my crossbow okay shoot the big guy with the crossbow full do i want to have the flavor disadvantage am i still how does renee feel she's not okay but at the very least she like knows that they're coming now it still does not sit well with her at all like she's still like oh god like she's basically fighting the instinctual wanting to run away and i will leave that to your discretion i think my question is is this is an incline it is it is a straight drop so can renee even can renee even see this guy then from the incline i can move closer yeah she can move we're closer like can you see the [ __ ] not the uh not the big tall golem because you i was i was trying to make the argument for maybe you can't see this little skittery [ __ ] i would say she could probably easily see it or perceive it from its sounds that's valid that's valid i'm gonna say that she's still at disadvantage it's gonna take a little while before she's okay with it all right just for flavor's sake i got you i'll make up for you and he turns to you and roars so much for being easy to kick its ass and this roar uh it's not gonna affect you guys but you do hear a little crumbling kind of off in the distance and some more rubble falls from the ceiling please please right there everyone's gone over where we were before oh oh that's fine we already looted there yeah we already went there it's fine you're late all right next are the body horrors who with surprise turns so they don't get to go yay all right uh so uh uh two attacks plus a hasted attack i'm gonna start with this guy first okay can you see all of them from where you are i would say at that angle you can't see this third one yeah this one down down here ah because that's like too steep of an angle and that's ten feet down okay uh and also where's kuro where's my ball that is for you to decide do you have control over the kuro token you may drag kuro onto your onto the thing keep kuro right there for right now in case he needs to do something green all right uh three shots where's the first one going uh to this boy all right 19. yep that's gonna hit okay and then damage 15. yep it crumbles it's very fragile okay and i'm gonna take five feet across and fire down the laneway right here to this guy fired and then i missed and then i missed you yes fired again for my hates attack oh i totally forgot about this when you after you kill this body horror you can see it burst into a black liquid and the black liquid seems to float in the air into this one oh they get stronger from with the 22 i'm assuming it hits let me see hold on i have a separate stat key for when it happens no that does hit you show me the damage okay uh i i know i should have said i wanted well i wouldn't know anyways so yeah so might as well okay then fired all right you fire it and it goes through you can see it seeps some of the black liquid but it's still alive coro bark at it from a safe distance uh okay so uh force cannon kuro 30 feet so and he has a plus four let's see if it oh my god yep that hits all right yeah yeah all right and then the damage is gonna be a lovely 1d4 plus two three three nice could be worse actually no it couldn't that's the lowest you could roll oh yeah it's as bad as it can get bjork it could be worse it could be renee's on arm strike people my my unarmed strike hurts your feelings okay uh yes moral moral damage moral damage damage to your pride the bjork goes through you can see the body horror shudders a bit but screeches back at kuro but otherwise whimpers that is its turn or rather it doesn't take a turn is there anything else you do on your turn uh okay uh did it do so it's all my actions i don't think i really have much of a bonus action oh i do have a bonus action expedia's retreat yeah expedience retreat just in case something gets a little too uh it's a little too uh feisty so just tap myself and now i can move move as a bonus action with dash all right cool that's it luna your turn okay so i'm trying to figure this out and i'm pretty sure to long jump it's up to my strength mod how many or my strength score how many feet i can clear at least according to roll 20. so uh i want to run this might be really dumb but also it could be cool i know layla had a lot of luck with this so let's try it do it i want to take five steps back because i have to do 10 feet to do this and i want to try and jump on this goal okay i'm gonna say so i have a rule where i like to consider athletics going up and acrobatics going down because you're trying to land so give me an acrobatics to see if you land on the bone golem okay let's try this guys dice oh that's a nine that's a nine unfortunately let's go so well cool you land over here and let's see you take a little bit of fall damage because it's that's okay that's okay i tried i swore to the what is it sort of too close to this guy just yeah you take two you take two falling damage and you land right you kind of like fall on the golem like but then like slide off just right down here okay um that's it you can feel each one of its bones on the way down yeah that's your movement that's a movement thing okay cool um and that was only 20 feet i think unless you want to count my fall and like that well no you you you fell i that does not count for your movement you don't suddenly stop falling after you reach 20 uh 30 feet okay well then just for for optimize i want to move here so i'm not losing oh yeah and then i think it's just gonna be time to take some battery daps take some baths hell yeah well first uh bonus action echo please just just uh get over there get over get over there shadow luna not there right here uh i don't know if that counts to flank for anybody but it doesn't matter because i'm not gonna use that anyway i would like to start smacking uh we're gonna work on big guy first big guy all right big man on campus yeah big man on campus because i don't want him charging renee oh unfortunately not that's not gonna hit you swing and kind of against the bone it is pretty sturdy wrath rat run against big guy 21 okay you slash into it with wrath your flaming sword you kind of cut a big chunk of the bone off of the golem and it kind of singes it a bit unfortunately i'm going to need you to make a constitutional saving throne oh what 23. okay you're fine what [ __ ] you feel what you feel a ringing within just like inside your body as you strike this bone golem kind of a shuddering kind of as if a you were a bell and you were just struck and a gong sound from inside your body however you're able to stave it off whatever it is okay and it's still up uh yep it's still up uh unleash incarnation to take one last attack at it okay well i didn't have that but that's fine absolution one more time 19. yes 19 is going to hit and once again constitution saving throw oh god this okay okay you feel uh oh for the echo yes you can kind of feel it from the echo coming back to you that same feeling as if you were struck but you're fine [ __ ] what the hell is that what does that mean i don't know but uh i guess yeah that's my turn movement action voter yep i'm done nathan these guys over here they're a problem these guys over here they're also a problem yeah me i don't have solutions but you're flying actually that's not true uh i'm gonna wander over to this one to this side i'm gonna help out my boy enoch since it seems like luna and renee have got massive bone men over there dealt with i'll wave my hand i'll toss out another sleep that it'll be second level because we're extra today oh oh second level okay we're getting very extra yep so that's 28 and you're going to try and catch it i'd like to try to catch both but the the so the way that the spell works is it's going to hit whichever one has the lower amount of help yes and then yeah and then whatever left yeah yeah yeah and then that'll go to the one down here it falls that's what i expected however the one up top is still up and ready okay that makes sense uh all right after putting that boy in defense mode i'm gonna walk the [ __ ] away good luck all right i did my job one is dead you're welcome all right next is the top of the round and the surprise round is over renee oh boy um i'm trying to save my spells because i have no idea what's coming up in this concentration understandable i trust nothing um so you know what um i'm going to shoot at this boy again all right uh still flavored because why the [ __ ] is here let's go flavor oh no flavor failed oh please don't tell me renee shot me ah don't j don't say that don't suggest it don't suggest it it's fine or even worse case i hate the thing that i'm afraid of because i'm aiming for this guy okay i did a little i did a little on the fly severity rolls and you do hit the echo and the echo oh no bursts you know it's better than me it's fine this is anything else you want to do renee um good i am so stingy right now i don't want to use anything i don't know that's a smartphone that's a smart move uh yeah no i'm holding on i'm holding on i'm holding on because okay stuff that i do have wouldn't really work well in this environment okay i am going to keep a steady eye out next the uh bone golem is going to stare into you luna you can see that its eye sockets glow kind of a bright green light within it i'm going to need you to make a wisdom saving throw oh no 19. okay you are fine however this this gaze that looks at you pierces into your soul you shudder and take 18 necrotic damage uh that's half actually because i'm possibly has not had an effect on you this body horror seeing the uh shots fly out from above is going to go and investigate it does not disengage luna you have an attack of opportunity yeah and i'm going to smack it because [ __ ] you smack it no i i'm not going to i'm not you do not smack it it skitters crawls up the wall and she might scream it leans its head kind of like very close to your face just stretching and it is going to screech and i need you to make a wisdom save as well oh [ __ ] i'm coming for you i'm coming for you i'm coming for you 12. okay so renee you are actually feared so you cannot move any closer to this creature listen i don't want to be close to everything right it got very close and personal anyway yeah i know just fears the frightening just the worst frightened rather yeah yeah that's fine and the this one is going to skitter on up let's see it just made thematic sense yeah it moves 40 feet that ain't good it normally would move 30 but now it moves 40. let's get rid of cause it's bigger it skitters up goes to kuro and it is going to take one of its kind of like rib legs and stab it okay does an 18 hit kuro yes it does okay it stabs kuro just you see sparks fly out as it lifts its rib uh leg and continue onwards to you that's just mean and it's going to breathe out a fume out of its mouth oh that covers let's see yeah only you two so both of you need to make a constitution saving throw oh no no well it's a good thing uh it's one of my better ones oh no no we're worried about nathaniel 13. he's already failing nathaniel you need to make a constitutional savings no worries very sorry i was zoning out due to the sickness but here i have succeeded in my con save you're welcome nathaniel you take two damage okay okay you take four and you are now blinded this stench just like covering just like in your lungs how to make your eyes this is fine oh that's so dirty this is fine it's fine wait what kind of damage was this necrotic okay making sure dirty wait does that mean that takes half oh yeah so you only take two as well but you are blinded okay oh no oh no you take uh i mean isn't kuro dead well we'll see he has five yes yeah he has like five hit points he has like five or he has five cause that's gonna matter he has he has five okay well he has two now okay okay anyway so that is the body horrors and skeleton golem you know you may roll another constitution save at the end of your turn oh okay uh i can't be blind fighting uh like this okay not with that kind of attitude yeah yeah well let's see god i wish i could transfer all my attacks onto girl okay even at a disadvantage um i knew it ran up to me right yes okay i'm just gonna make all all my all my attacks with disadvantage then okay i'm willing to accept the responsibility so first ones so natural one all right do your do your thing that you gotta do for your for your gun oh yeah that's right ah god uh this is this is what it's like this is what it's like okay so it has to be so misfires three so i rolled seven should be fine all right okay so that was your first shot next shot uh it was vintage okay the first one's pretty pretty solid no jinx or someone okay that one yes you fire the second one blindly in the direction of the body horror and it does hit and it blasts off one of its limbs it is okay close to falling apart whoa all right uh no because that's that's a skill that i can only get after a short rest so you're gonna break it just goes click it's gonna break i have i have to spend a slight of hand in order to fix it oof okay either which way uh kuro go goro bork is my uh my healthy dog no crow uh well then disengage uh that is an action oh wait so does expedies retreat allow you disengage as a bonus action no i i don't think it is engaging not just you've used up all your apps yeah i use your actions i really wish i could disengage all right it's fine it's fine all right i'm standing strong this thing needs to go down all right luna okay my constitution i forgot my yeah you can rule your constitution to see if you're no longer blind is it a constitution or is it or is it a safe constitution save okay that's a little bit better no no you are still blind i have a plan so first i'm manifesting my echo right here okay and it's just going to stay there i'm pretty sure i can do this and it'll still be within 30 feet of me uh i am not disengaging so this will provoke an attack of opportunity but i want to follow that thing after renee and i believe that'll take 25 feet of my movement that is a 10-foot climb so let's see fire it misses you it goes to slam its fist but you're able to move out of the way i start [ __ ] wailing on this thing that came at renee um with a [ __ ] fury i'm not raging but go show me the wailing luna 19 14 does not hit however this thing is nearly fallen over just with that single slash damn all right that is all i can do but uh um my echo is going to take an attack op at that thing if it moves closer okay and i will be invoking sentinel if it does so since i think i can because it's only one size category larger yes it is a large rather than a gargantuan or whatever nathaniel your turn this thing is right next to you and tried to blind you uh yeah that's not daijoubu kill it kill it kill it kill it kill it why would i do that it's gonna hurt me it doesn't know what it did wrong it's an abomination that would be a mercy to kill it yeah i can't about this thing being so close to me might bother my cloak yeah it might get it might get that gunk all over you uh under normal circumstances i would uh project like the image of something terrifying on somebody when i cast a dissonant whispers instead i'm merely going to project the image of this creature onto this creature's psyche as i cast dissonant whispers okay oh that's such a holy [ __ ] all right and is that just damage or is there more to it i forget yes so so if you fail you take 11 psychic damage otherwise you'll take five and if you fail then you have to use your reaction immediately to run the [ __ ] away yep and that's exactly what happens it just starts to take its like rib arms the front rib arms and starts to claw at its own skin and screeching and it starts to run away and you both have a tax of opportunity ah yes me and my powerful actually no i don't i don't even have a weapon to fire no no you don't you don't have to break your arm you could just drop your gun actually no so pull out objection let's see what objection has to say about this at disadvantage uh yeah no no that's not unfortunate but the dagger hit yep as this creature turns away i'm gonna grab onto my dagger and i'm gonna swipe at it to cut a piece free when the monster skitters away i stop and i look at the slice that i've cut staring at this thing on the night may see the damage on the dagger no all right believe it or not it was so close to death that your slice cut it down and it falls oh in that case in that case as it's running away i'm going to like turn my dagger i'm going to stab it into the back of the neck and as it cries i'll pull my bagger back and then i'll look at it yep your dagger is covered in a little bit of the viscous black fluid as this thing it has been and you can see the viscous black fluid starts to travel out of it and it starts it doesn't reach it but it's on the floor over here kind of about to approach the one by renee ah no oh well renee look out the monster next to you is going to become more power that does not make her feel any better at all i'm gonna wipe this my knife off on the on the monster because i don't want to wipe it off on me very well next renee your turn she is frightened of the thing so i can't get any closer to it can't i attack this while i'm in proximity to the monster i think i think he will be disadvantaged because you can have this thing in your line of sight that's how that's how frightened works cool so basically just keep on working with my flavor yeah cause you keep on the thing within line of sight if you all your attacks are at disadvantage cool i love it this is perfect for my for my flavors how's this condition way too many times do you fight a lot of dragons uh no my dm's just a psychopath and puts us get up against stuff from the far realm a lot ah actually like knowing the situation and the fact that it's gotten worse and nathaniel just said this thing is gonna get more powerful i'm sorry all she's going to disengage oh no honestly she's going to yeah they're pointing action yeah and moving and just step into the black i don't know that listen i know you said the black goo is there you said it would become more powerful i don't know not to step in it okay that's fair maybe it's like the the slug from spirited away people will be gone he will be gone smack but no uh so that's i'll if we're really worried i can go like there so five you guys defeated 15 20. i don't want to go too far from everybody and i still want to be able to see just she's not doing okay like this this is probably the worst she's been oh no it's fine it's fine play your character i will kill this thing for you renee she just looks scared out of her mind can't have our bard be upset that can't be okay yeah actually i can move 25 be like up there all right next are the body horrors so the first thing that's going to happen is this uh bone golem is going to ram into the wall um and reaction phone the attack of opportunity oh yes show me the attack of opportunity that's going it doesn't move it's about to move but you chop it kind of in the tendon and it just stops it in its tracks and it is nearly about to fall apart great sentinel if you use sentinel disengage doesn't work right but i've already spent my reaction so i can't attack it because the thing sentinel does is that ignores disengages for attacks of opportunity right okay so and run for me you coward this one's gonna disengage and move into the block oh well and the goop come back and fight me you [ __ ] and it starts to just slowly start to inflate and its body is like morphing and bubbling you can see there's bubbling underneath its skin and it starts to screech in panic ah this is an inconvenience i'm back and fighting next you know oh god hey guys what's going on back there you know are you still blinded uh yes that might be for the best damn all right uh well uh the only thing i could really do uh did you do as for as for actions is either make attacks or try something dumb you want to know what uh i still have an attack action for my hay so i'm going to expend an action and i'm going to just start trying to blindly fix the gavel okay uh so yeah show me that sleight of hand okay does blindness affect that's a natural 20. hey i don't think i don't i don't know how blindness works on crafting i don't know the first thing about crafting i've never seen a check like this before i would say that the old adage is you need to know how to like build and unbuild your weapon blindfolded enoch probably yeah i trusted him yeah you also built the gun so yeah exactly all right congratulations the gavel is fixed all right don't rob him of this natural 20. he's just like genuinely curious okay i don't know what's behind me so you've probably perceived the noise coming from behind the noise got a lot louder okay okay well then i'm gonna i'm gonna have coro act like my seeing eye dog point me in the right direction so he's helping you yes okay so now your attacks are normal yeah or at least at least your first one i'm pretty sure like help action only works for one attack right yeah yeah and then i am going to also take a deadeye shot i'm going to spend my second grip point and make that an advantage attack okay cool okay all right let's see let's see where it goes it was verse 1 17. that's nice and the second one is eight all right that 20 says show me the damage all right here we go seven that's enough and this thing you fire into it you can see the bubbling skin you puncture it and it explodes into a black like balloon pop but nobody is within melee range so everybody's fine you can see that it splashes just like in a vicinity around it as he's holding the gun like like towards that general area you can hear him say did i hit it did i hit it yes awesome i'm gonna now i'm gonna roll my saving throat to see if i'm unblinded 23. yep you are no longer blind let me take that off here you wipe your eyes and see this [Music] oh [ __ ] that is nasty now it's luna's turn okay so luna doesn't know about the thing in the other room so seeing that's dead i would just want to jump back down over here all right and uh just [ __ ] whale on this thing this thing needs to die the whaling and you will have flanking because your echo is on the other side essentially cool cool plus two absolution so seventeen seventeen yep that's enough and yeah that six damage is enough and you it crumbles to pieces down to the floor congratulations and that thing is sleeping so we're gonna end initiative here all right okay dismiss and i'm again going to combat is over this body horror is slept you have one minute and i think luna and renee wanted to have a moment first so we'll go to nathaniel after that just renee trying to calm herself down which i assume will not take too terribly long after enough saving throws i'll sing kuro in instead uh let's let them do their thing yeah i hit the wrong button i'm sorry i walked over to you and you died right in front of you she died of fright um once again lenovo will like make some sort of like say your name or acknowledgement that she's there so she doesn't start with you yeah yeah [ __ ] sorry sorry hey it's okay you don't need to apologize for so [ __ ] close and oh this if this this is the [ __ ] that's happening really lately oh god the [ __ ] she like actually kind of think that does like how to turn her head back to where luke is just [ __ ] buddy what can i do renee it's just it's it's it's going to take me a bit i is there anything i can do to make it easier for you anything honestly just making sure i don't get my ass handed to me i mean i'm glad to do that and just you see seeing you and enoch and nathaniel it does i just still it's just i haven't tried to think about this for a while and you you don't need to explain your trauma renee your feelings are still valid and just because we are aware that we are now doesn't mean that they should be pushed inside either it's okay we're close yes but we need everybody at our best so if you need to take a minute that's fine she kind of like keeps a hand over her mouth a little bit like it's like inefficient she kind of like holds it up yeah i might need a moment to just well we were talking about taking a rest and it looks like we've cleared out this area here let me i'll talk to the others just a second just stay right here okay okay yeah all right this rubs your eyes thank you of course anything and anything you need just let me know okay yeah that i will it's a good shot by the way though she like kind of thinks about someone on your echo yeah the [ __ ] but the feeling is i didn't hit you so i'm grateful for that but [ __ ] so it's a good shot just that great a little bit back of the older day she's like putting her hands like up into the sky like luna luna's got like a half grit on her face she's clearly enjoying this reaction okay she's honestly happy that she got you to kind of like yeah so yeah great in the meantime nathaniel and enoch enoch you sent in kuro yes yes now as a homunculus let me see that's he is immune he is immune to poison he is and that will help as nathaniel you step through and you have you take this whiff it's a strong smell and although it's not one that's familiar to you you do recognize a little bit of what this smells like it is poison which is why you are totally fine i had a feeling yeah [ __ ] snake man and green is the universal sign [Laughter] in that case i'm going to step in i'll look at this broken down bookshelf you look in the broken down bookshelf and this looks like a lot of books that kind of seem more recent covers that are well kind of preserved however each and every single paper in all of those hardcovers have been either ripped out or vandalized in some way with black ink covering the contents of it and destroying your research even after mutilation unfortunate and after approaching this thing so this spell does not work this way i am wondering if it is allowed to work this way just for cool factor but i am perfectly fine with you saying no because this is not what this spell does uh i have encode thoughts i was wondering what would happen if i tried to pull out a memory of somebody else namely james i named him james that's his name pull out the memory yeah so when code thoughts normally allows me to pull out my own thoughts and read them [Music] and then just like see them like visually look at them uh it is fine if you don't want me to do that i'm just curious i would say no on account that that sounds like something so specific that there's probably a spell that does allow you to do that uh i believe actually there is one sec i believe that there is a there's a text box it's called the tech pods i actually have okay in that case detect thoughts well i don't have that that's something yeah well no worries i actually have the tech spots okay so um so can kuro kind of paw at this yeah this chest seems like a simple chest as any pawing at it okay scratches and sounds like wood opens it and inside you can see that there is a rusty iron sword that looks horribly corroded down to about half uh its blade like like it's almost as if it was just eaten away at the blade all the way down and as well as what looks to be a an equally corroded leather tunic that seems to be folded very nicely as if it was put away like laundry well he can only carry one thing in his mouth at a time so he's just gonna gonna do a slate towards nathaniel saying there's stuff in here yes and uh enoch could you do me a favor yes uh shoot this this creature please before it wakes up and eats me okay taking a deep breath i'm gonna hold my breath while i walk into the room let's see i'm gonna do some quick maths i would say getting there is enough to see it because i'm thinking in terms of because how this works is in combat whenever you are in the poison you take three minus your constitution modifier at the end of every turn but one turn is six seconds so if you're able to get here and then end out here within one like combat thing which we're not going to roll initiative for yeah that is 30 feet so actually yeah keep in mind i'm hasted and i still have my hasted my expedience my mighty retreat well an expeditious retreat right which means in a single movement i could go 90 feet all right so yeah you can go pretty much like up here and then back if you wanted to so let's see if your shots can destroy this sleeping body horror all right if you take a deep breath fired with advantage you oh wait wait is it actually no it's promoted in your range so it's actually a disadvantage is that how that works yes but it's also unconscious so it is unconscious okay so it's normal yes an 18 will hit this wall actually i'm not sure if that happens with range with an auto chris that's 40. yeah let's see that's still 20 damage christ uh let me check to make sure unconscious makes you incapacitated uh any attack that hits you has a critical hit if the attacker is within five feet if the attack i would say well 90 feet is enough to get within yeah you've got 90 feet of movement yes a simple shot just it crackles a little bit and you can see that the liquid falls kind of at it's at the floor at the base of this creature and there it has nowhere to go so it stays there yeah just how unfortunate i'm gonna search this mr krabs running noise after i hear the shot and presumably don't hear screeching so i'm just i think that's enough to assume it's dead can i just call down that we need to take a short rest and uh kind of gesture my head back in renee's direction like she's not okay yep i'm in agreeance with this i yeah that might not be neces how do i get up how do i get above this it's not it's not just flying it's not whether or not it's not sorry for us it's necessary for renee i understand i repeat however it might not be necessary well uh she asked for a moment i am allow me to talk to her and i could definitely use use some of that short resting because um i need to refocus my head on a few things oh never mind i need to get my marksman and stuff back i could also benefit from just having a few minutes yeah we're going to keep going it just seems more productive tend to always fit never mind i checked what i was going to do it's not going to work i suggested we rested over here with his alcohol base there was a cave in but we already know that room's barren unfortunately i don't think it would be a good idea i understand that renee is in a difficult place i know well let's put it to a group about them i must remind us i must remind you that we're here on a rescue mission i know i am aware but we also need to be at our best for this recognition and that includes mentally i agree renee should be here this conversation i have a temporary solution ah follow me she's over here don't exactly want her mingling around the corpses of these things any longer than she has to i'm disgusted hi uh she's probably like was having a like a little bit of time of deep breath exercise and then here's everybody walking just immediately like her body posture changes and she like tries to puff up her chest you aren't okay no but i i can't i i just uh this i i wasn't expecting these she just gestures at the body of the thing yes they are familiar to you i understand if you are willing then i might have a temporary solution i can charm your mind to subdue suppress the uncomfortable feeling that you have it will only last for a minute but it will get us out or through these creatures i won't do it without your permission uh renee actually kind of does think on that for a second um and she'll nod and say i i trust whatever you're planning to do so nathaniel is it worth expending resources yeah we're trying to get it you're correct we don't know which means that we should assume the worst i will be fine i wouldn't suggest it if i was unable to use my magic but kuro should scout ahead ensure that there are no more of these monsters so that we don't simply run into another problem i'll think you may leave code scout for an hour not an hour we cast the spell and then we move forward but first i simply want guru to check because after a minute the spell will wear off if these are the only creatures here then it's simple but if there are more and the spell ends prematurely well it should give this will be the better recommendation let's send kuro first see if there might be anything and then it'd be better to send a command to see if he'll if he sees anything and when he returns he'll bark as many times as there is enemies that are visible no that is acceptable all right that's what we're doing then then let's cut the time even further it's three packs right three parts to check asking as i look yes i only saw it yeah there's two more in that room and there's one in that there are four there's there's one in the poisonous room as well well then let then curl can go down one side and my echo can go down the other you can go about a thousand feet for me if i concentrate on it it'll cut out time and now all right there we go okay uh just is carver affected by poison he is not no he is uh he is immune to poisons perhaps you should go into the poison and then i'll take the other way okay all right are you able to see through kuro i can't see uh i can't see through kuro but the command is is that if he sees anything that is a possible threat when he returns he will bark all right yeah i would say yeah so and where are you sending echo uh i am phasing into echo senses so for that purpose luna up here is blind and deafened going into the avatar yep yep um and i am sending echo i think down this one first okay so down that way you notice that this way these two ways are actually one way that intersect into each other there's a bookshelf there is an open chest and a few more bones and various sheets of paper and books strewn about the floor kind of haphazardly time to get my mustache on okay um seeing seeing that it will move the other way then all right and in the other way you can see that there is down here another poison room i need to actually end this with three body horrors that are just kind of standing off still like statues only with the slightest twitch of their head at kind of the drippings and crumbling sounds throughout the cavern and three chests okay i'm just checking something really quick about my echo because it's kind of weirdly written i'm just seeing if my echo has to make it is immune to all conditions so i don't know if that means it's it can't be affected by the poison environment i would say it can because poison is not a condition well it is but not this poison this is more an environmental thing that if it makes it does it with yours same size as you yeah it just says it um has one hit pointed immunity to all conditions okay if it doesn't have immunity to like the poison damage type it'll still take place yeah yeah yeah um well then it can't echo enter that room without uh it disappearing so that's why say love you well um would it be able to get right here and try to peer further down that hallway hmm what's your passive perception uh my passive ain't great passive perception i believe is 10 yes no that's as far as you can see okay um yeah well then if that's the case i'll dismiss echo and come back to my senses yep you've scouted out and kuro when kuro arrives back kuro barks three times except one of the barks is a loud bark like a oh big borg really okay so these two paths so it's like she's pointing i imagine like she'll stand here and like point these two paths connect um there's a bookshelf it's got some phones or empty chests that place had poison i couldn't get too far down but there were three of those things in there and in the park and two chests yeah three sorry okay as far as kuro is aware the the path going further down uh leads to three more enemies and apparently one of them is a big one it's as i feared if if we can move past these dead creatures i can still cast the spell so that you will be capable during the next bout if you so choose knowing that you're willing to do that actually it's just alone and it's it's comforting i just ironically enough it's actually making me want you to not use it more because if there are more of those things i want you to be able to defend yourself too so [ __ ] i am perfectly safe renee because you're here she smiles and nods and just she'll let you do whatever you decide to do my face betrays no emotion only sickness yeah but she'll tell you she'll basically just give like an out of approval of like do do what you do what you need to very well but we should do it uh past these this right yeah no let's let's let's just go ahead and fold because we don't want you to have this beautiful moment and then [ __ ] it up by wasting it i assume you guys are going down the path that doesn't start with poison earlier on yeah i don't know how far that poison goes also i wanted to know if anybody had anything that could negate poison i know it doesn't affect you that much but i i don't unfortunately i can't dispel it or push it around well perhaps we should uh okay well there are three down there if i turn on the lights i can get more damage in in more time and i think there may be a simpler solution is there anything in the way in between this hallway and the room the kind of group together but they're all still it's weird in that case i can simply lure them out and then once they're out of the poison we kill them all right i'm just gonna listen yeah i was gonna say it would make it easier to fight if we want also having to get poisoned exactly that's also fair well uh what do you intend to do to draw them out just make noise i'm gonna move over i'm gonna pick up a femur oh wait before you do can i just make sure i'm in a position uh i mean i've got to walk down a bit so that i can see them i just want to make sure i formed a sort of front line so that they can't get to the squishies that's my biggest thing is i want to protect you guys that's all if you guys can range thanks mom all right i'm worried about all my kids now i'm gonna move over here yep i see the freaky deakies i'm gonna lift up the bone this i'm gonna chuck it out are you aiming at any of the body horrors specifically really i probably want to aim at the massive bones over here i just wanna like i want it to clatter across the ground i'm not trying to hurt them i'm just trying to get their attention yeah okay let's see but you're not throwing it at them you're just throwing in their direction right yeah not necessarily like if it hits one i'm not going to be upset but i'm not trying to but you're not aiming for it okay just make sure all right okay so this one notices and its head like turns kind of like a snake just like around back in that direction to look at it and this one immediately just screeches just like clatters over and just like stumbles over the pile of bones and in this direction right here into the wall and i'm going to need you to roll initiative can i go against five guys yes you have an excuse and these guys are gonna be the name of this episode should be femur i hardly know her oh you know you like that one here how about another one no moeller i hardly know her initially i hardly and what luna you're up first whoo okay i already have my echo out so this is going to be fun um so again i want to form a wall so it's just just hit the echo closer i think the air hoping to move up to my speed so i think so sorry i should have had this planned out yeah yeah i can absolutely move there easily would standing there be in the poison or is it that not it's not no if the tile you can notice i planned this if you notice the tile itself like whatever color takes up primarily that tile uh if it's white it's not if it's green it is awesome cool and then we're gonna start bapping and stopping back [ __ ] even with uh the flanking plus two all right ralph uh i'm gonna say i spend my bonus action to ignite wrath right not enough but that's another 12. do you see that's the guys are doing that really fun thing they don't like seeing luna be cool okay uh well i have one more unleash incarnation i can do so why the [ __ ] not yep that's a 10. all right this thing is dodging back and forth just clittering and clattering just all over the place in a good spot that if anything moves past me it'll provoke an attack of opportunity nathaniel you see this thing doing battle uh yeah well i don't particularly do battle so i'm gonna yeah i'm just gonna i'm just gonna push it in i'm just gonna shove it and run away i i i really uh honestly i think i'm gonna this you you whiffed all of these correct yes i did it was it was tragic all right a sad sight indeed in that case i'm going to cast distant whispers on it i wanted to see what it has become and more importantly i want it to [ __ ] off get out let me do let me opportunity attack it please it most certainly does see what it has become and fear just actually seven psychic damage it sees what it's become and just just like scratching itself and it just falls to the ground dead oh my god like i said they're very close um has anyone actually checked to see how powerful these creatures are they're not that powerful unless something dies near it huh it just might be a problem renee your services might not be actually required but that ends my turn well i'm gonna move a little bit more further back i don't want to i ain't [ __ ] around with these guys they got legs valid felon well hopefully i'll be able to stop him legs for days you know what are you going to do with your legs i'm going in what do those legs do is are you still hasted or do your taste go off uh how long does taste last it's a minute right one minute one yeah so you haven't seen anymore yeah i would say after that conversation you wouldn't be hasted anymore yeah i would have to re-up before but because i didn't that doesn't mean i did so i suppose with that being said then those two in the room that i can see you most certainly can see them all right shotgun bang shot gun taking a shot at one of them uh the the closest one to me show me gun bang yup that'll hit 18. all right that'll be yes shotgun bang this one dies all right and now black goop on the floor is like right here aim aim down sights for the for the other one show me shotgun bang uh shotgun booby really yes okay you're able to kill it before the black goop seeps into the next one just like two quick shots yep yes that is enough both dead before you even they even get a chance well done there are three chests in there nathaniel if you would like to take a look since you can walk through this without you know dying yeah hold on before anything we should say crow it just in case any of these things might pop out at us i'm willing to take that chance i doubt that the mustache skeletons yeah let's not risk your dog if we don't need to oh it's just a simple men and back together yes not too much trouble anyway uh nathaniel you're going to open that chest flip this chest open flip it open and inside you see that there is sorry do you see that there are uh there is two potions of greater a greater mana which each one restores a second level spell slot i've been using mostly those yeah you have and kuro can open that one inside that one you find you sign a find a scroll of invisibility as well as a few taken sheets of paper with scratched out notes on them seemingly a bunch of failures whatever they were all right well he's definitely taking the scroll that's that's all he can take one mouth one grab and this last one i assume you're going to go open it opened on its own it's a mimic oh my gosh oh as if you're not going to go open that chest i left it for a second of course i would of course he has a mustache there's nothing but further inside that one you can see that there seems to be some old versions of the spine of death uniforms it's not quite the same design whatever these are they were made a long time ago and it seems that they have been kind of outmoded by the new ones you can see that the trim is a lot more ornate and flashy and kind of swirls and designs all throughout and it does retain the same kind of green and silver trim uh green with silver trim that luke is wearing but this one is a lot these are a lot fancier there are two of them in there what the hell is this i'm gonna pull out one of these outfits it is a little bit large for you but you could probably grow into it if you have any more space to grow it's all like you're a growing man yeah i'm gonna be shrinking soon i'm gonna collect these two outfits all right i have a quick question go ahead it's fine i wanna know if this is like hold my breath and see if this poison hurts you by contact or breathing it in i feel like that's an important distinction if we can just hold our breath and walk through so when you when you step in it is not breathed when you step in you feel your skin immediately kind of start to sizzle and burn slightly oh so it's acid air okay okay yeah i step back i how much damage is that there uh if you stay in there it is going to be three minus your constitution modifier okay i'm gonna argue that i i probably take it because i was trying to experiment but that's only one damage for me because i have my con so it's fine hey yo it's fine it's what it comes in through the skin we could have just asked and no it is not acidic poison there are many poisons that can be absorbed through the skin so well that's a science lesson and how it works just so you guys know you could probably make your way through it but how it was supposed to work was that any at for every round you stay in the poison at the end of the round you would have taken that poison damage so basically what we could do is you could dash through 30 feet every 30 feet you would take the damage unless you dash which is 60. movement yeah so that would be the i would say yeah the reason i say that is because nathaniel being about there i would say would reveal the the rest of this segment because hey what's over here right there okay problem solved yeah unscathed yeah yeah we can dash i'll dash uh would you want me to re-summon my echo on the other side you most certainly can so in this room what you see is you see a path to the direction that kuro scouted and i'm just going to reveal that because i know you guys are going to want to look at it yeah yeah i'm going to want to kill so you can see there are two more body horrors a chest and just in there though and they yeah but there's a golden behemoth and that's right let no it's fine uh in this room you can see that there is a trash heap with various different just nonsense and miscellaneous items from just random stones to old moldy food to skeletons and bones and papers and trash just like all thrown into this pile and there it seems to be another bookshelf over here with books that do not seem to have been tampered with look see you may can i you look inside and it's you as your hand approaches it doesn't do anything to you but as your hand approaches it seems to be that there's uh when your hand gets closer and closer the spot it gets closer to starts to grow glow a bright green as if there is a green kind of wall of arcane energy that stops your hand before you're able to reach in to the bookshelf yeah uh one of the ones better at magic would probably come check this out um i'm just gonna stand here with my echo to kind of guard this path so that just [ __ ] don't come running down heavy breath runs through skids to the end uh and i'll i'll renee if i see you come through i point down this path and say you get me to look down okay skids probably hops a little bit at the end huh just rubs her arms a little bit okay deep breath and make my run kuro just comes over he ain't got nothing to worry about just like strolling through like it's a normal day i'm just standing in it and you keep seeing the damage marker zero zero another fun history another fun science lesson you know did you know yuan t can produce their own poison really from a gland it's about here and i'll point just underneath my heart oh i would love to test that at some point i renee's just kind of like raising an eyebrow the two of them were like ah yeah no have you never heard of dipping your bullets in the in in poison to be fair i'm not familiar with the whole gun situation know what that is absolutely fair did not just bend the poison off uh no actually it's a mood point i tend not to use the gland it's a bit barbaric and it usually splashes back and gets all over my coat oh this this bookshelf has a weird book on it i can't touch it never you never want any splashback it's just uh messy i'm gonna look at the book i'm letting renee have some what i don't know what ronnie hasn't gotten enough to do oh no it's okay you get it renee okay renee the same thing happens when you approach your hand the closer it gets the more kind of area around your hands appears to be a green wall that stops you from reaching the books in the bookshelf uh do i know what this magic is you can give me an arcana check see what you might know it's a simple magic that stops you know anyone uh from going through it a simple dispel magic should get rid of it well i don't have to spell magic what i don't think i do i don't think i ever took it why does everyone think i have it you have detect magic i have detect magic i don't have to spell you do know that uh it works functionally like any other physical wall it's just magical as is the person then to get it well can i use magenta it functionally works like a wall a mage hand would not be able to unless your mage hand can go through objects is that how that is inside the wall and just yoink it out i've absolutely done this [ __ ] before all right if i can't pull it out if i can't pull it from the wall i'm just going to use mae chan to scroll through the book it's up to you whether or not oh yeah that's okay actually that that's an idea i can just i was gonna say it's up to you if the book can even come out right she can just open it from the inside and just read it from there you search through the books you can see that these are more up-to-date spell books and inside one of them tucked away just like deep into one of the books you can see some very familiar handwriting uh a folded piece of paper when your mage hand unfolds it you can see that it is a note that you are ever so familiar with i don't know more more corridor more more cara more cardo and if you cannot read the handwriting there is text at the bottom to the bottom yeah resurrection subjects and below an entry in like to the others collected no matter how much i siphon how powerful the soul of the target how recent the corpses passed how well preserved their body is the results are the same every time research conclusion there is no true resurrection if they had this this whole time why would they keep trying ambition a foolhardy belief they could do more than cara i really think that this has something to do with whatever this black faint queen is i don't think that's just something laszlo's not conjured up i feel like it's an actual entity what brings this belief just the fact that so many people seem to believe in her and yet everybody who's met has disappeared except for laszlo it seemed i don't know if he's bringing her sacrifices when he's these people are ascending what if the ascension is just leading them to being ciphered by the black vain queen the real one what if that's what this is it would make sense why no one comes back it would make sense why laszlo is still still here if he's the one bringing them like a like sheep to slaughter maybe he's made some sort of deal with it maybe we're not dealing with a person maybe we're dealing with something kind of like what was in enoch something otherworldly i could conclude to that i find it hard to believe that laszlo is working for no you're correct how is it possible that laszlo no if i'm correct laszlo was working underneath kara maharian am i right yes but he yeah he went on his own way yes exactly i believe that this is him spiting his former teacher nothing more but it is worth being prepared for an unforeseen outcome and we'll have plenty of time to talk to him through kicking well then maybe true resurrection isn't what they're after anymore i don't know what they could be after but maybe they're using cars research to try and just let necromancy not it's just follow their own power in order to overthrow those in charge right now as a matter of fact you all saw what laszlo is doing right sorry go ahead oh i was going to say as a matter of fact these cloaks we should have showed them to cara but i suppose we'll be able to afterwards i believe that these may be what kara and her original cult wore it would explain why they're in the trash a spited student no it's not to choose our true resurrection any longer it is anarchy sorry i'm assuming that over there's probably that circle we've mentioned yes that looks like it's going to be a point of no return weird we had better save now or finish our dialogue options i was going to suggest we take rest no i i need a rest i just spent a lot taking all those out i have to agree i need to make sure that i can face this just as strong we know where only enemies are but you don't know i can stay here this the entire time in god very well in the interim i'm going to bring these to car see if there's any last bit of wisdom we can glean from her before we face dung ourselves all right be careful i would say you for simplicity's sake would you wish to lead them here for the conversation oh that works just as well yeah all right uh wait here we go oh [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] there he goes zooming on like a banana wizard come on losers we're going hunting oh my god get in the van nerds are going to larp from mostly pretty much recovered you can see his wound has been patched up albeit with a few kind of black spl splotches from the necromatic healing from cara they approached this room and just because we know there's enemy in that side so just keep your voices down i'm just gonna thank you of course but she looks over here and looks at the bookshelf these are my books all of them not all of them but i recognize did that bastard steal from my library hey it's another one of your pages on the shelf he seems like the time to steal like we said he stole your homework he does seem a bit obsessed with the ambitious student what else did you learn of this place full of abominations the monsters oh you go i'll point down at this one that i can just barely see oh no they didn't there's been plenty of them and that is what happens when you attempt true resurrection and you can see when she says that you can see luke just like looks down in shame he just like a shadow over his face this is what happens to the person you attempt to resurrected to the person these are all subjects from what i can tell there was also i'm just like that that big bones oh there was a beast at you those are bone golems whatever they were trying to do they were trying to improve them haphazardly it seems they did something i can't really explain what they added but when i was striking it it almost felt like a bell i managed to withstand whatever it was trying to do to me but this is different than the one you created she rubs her chin a bit perhaps resurrection on a smaller scale you see when one attempts to bring back the soul it rips the body in twain it cannot handle such arcane energy and divine might on itself and so it turns into such a creature ripping a soul is beyond mortal magics so when when one tries to it is akin to ripping paper out of the hand of someone clutching it it is in a state of being that is neither alive nor dead and all it is is suffering renee kind of just hurt her brow furrows hearing that i just look wait are you telling me that those things in there suffer but that doesn't explain thorn no it doesn't i can't wrap my head around it so when we were told about thorne when we when we were first of this job but we were told thorne was somebody who escaped in prison john drew seemed to know this lord's origin wherever thorne was kept it was no prison i don't think anything could hold that if that is a resurrection subject i don't know where they got the power to pull the soul in such a complete state not even all the dragons in the realm are powerful enough to do that you'd need a divine a true god they don't step in mortal means unless the black vein queen truly is a divine creature that's what i was saying i i truly do not think that this the black being being queen is only something that was made despite you i don't think it's just a talking point that laszlo is using people are the only people that see her disappearing seriously and curious well oh sorry oh sorry i'm kind of thinking out loud on this one but what if sean drill actually found something divine much like much like a cog that's literally what i said 15 minutes ago yeah i know but like well if she has it down if she has then i don't think i know what might happen divine intervention is not something that i often dwell on it's not often something i need to worry about but i can't imagine they are very happy about the souls being pulled from the afterlife especially with what kind of toll it takes on the body it's cemented into as the case with thorne or the body that is used to cast it and she kind of gestures to her herself i'm just trying to narrow it down as to what god what being would ever want to step down that close what if it's not one that's currently in existence or that we know what if they created something what if somebody ascended cara cara widens her eyes and points to you like the just like as if you're on to something siphoning does create power it does allow a user to go beyond their mortal limits i stopped because it was taking a toll on my body but if my sister has somehow found a way to contain all that power within herself i may be dealing with more dangerous than just a simple elf i had a thought that the reason why nobody but laszlo has ever seen the black pain queen and been seen again is because she she's somehow using him to lead her powerful necromancers to ascend because no one who's ever ascended has survived or has been seen against but what if ascension just means being siphoned by the black painted queen it would be so perfect it would be something they could throw on you to discredit you so that you could do nothing about it and continue to have horses thrown at you in clothe way uh perfect red herring and with the desperation of the necromancers being recruited into the spine of death no one would question it out of fear of being kicked out and brought back to the kingdom exactly it's refuge help we enter chester city we watched a mob ready to absolutely annihilate someone for just being accused of necromancy it makes sense [Music] what of this hypothesis if karma or if chandral is capable of harnessing the power that comes from siphoning and the amount of power gained is commensurate with those necromancers powers it would explain why she wants you so badly and if it is chandral behind at all it would explain why the quote unquote black veined queen is unknown to us of course she wouldn't want to be seen how terrible would it be for the country to find out that the fly count was the head of the leading terrorist or of the leading terrorist group in balconies and it is a particularly efficient way of wiping out necromancy in balconus that was ever her goal we may have just found the answers we're looking for great well now we need to figure out how the hell we're going to stop i was going to say only one way to really verify it for sure as renee kind of looks over it luke steps up and uh without looking at anybody he's staring at the floor but simply gestures over to the portal that will take you to the first floor of vertheim a storage facility where they put supplies for food resources books and a majority of what is needed for new recruits it should be mostly remote aside from a few god skeletons it will likely have some uniforms for you to stay incognito while you go about the facility ah and that reminds me and i pull out the old version of the uniforms and what the hell is this cara looks at it just kind of like lifts it with one hand but this looks garish yes i agree you can see luke kind of scratches the back of his head those was the old uniforms they proved too expensive to make expensive i believe that's why it's called garish so it's safe to say that we can't that wearing those would be a giveaway then processor you could they would likely mistake you for high-ranking officers or veterans of of some long-known renown however there are so few and far betweens that they would know who their members are you would be hard-pressed to come up with a lie of why you have not been seen before i mean nathaniel you're the best liar i know i am renee come now that can't be true but i must admit the outfit almost does fit me it would allow you to go into more restricted areas without question but those questions may be difficult to answer renee what do you think you are the best talker out of all of us well are there any quick officials that would help us avoid those kind of questions she's it gives like a pointed look of like help like is there anything you might know that would make it easier to avoid even having to answer those why would the why would they hire rank need to answer to a subject know that's a great question perhaps you could pose them as that question that's good enough there is a culture of make of knowing your place and not questioning when they hire up make sure that you know your place fantastic i'm good at being a political [ __ ] she's just like i'd feel more comfortable with with y'all too taking the front line and be in the face and i guess me and luna we could always stand in the back as i don't know imposing muscle this seems very reminiscent of the first time we all work together so this is fitting only this time i'm a lot more cooperative ah that's an understatement and she's she's great essentially she says that yeah it's like everybody's like yeah and those statements of the [ __ ] essentially actually let's put that to the test i pick up this book [Laughter] i point at kuro and i have him go pick up the book uh once kuro picks up the book i will uh i'll reach my hand out i'll put it into like a finger gun bang he falls over that was quite meditating [Music] oh i think i might miss this when this is over maybe really that's the most sentimental thing i've ever heard you say well i don't know if i'll be able to actually let kuro out because i don't want to raise suspicion joe yeah nice uh god if there is a possibility uh is there enough i would say bones to kind of makeshift uh an outfit to make koro look like an undead dog he's made of metal he's made of metal but it's kind of like putting like a skull on a marowak you know what i'm gonna give i'm gonna let you make a straight charisma check to see how well you can fashion kuro a bony costume to cover the fact that he's made himself literally just put the skull on you're like there you go and it's a human skull yeah no it's that's that's the thing yeah there's not any dark skulls here so it's just a well it looks like a dog wearing a bone costume and just it's like a small tapestry in your coat or something well i would prefer him out but if if we can't hide him i'll just put him away yeah that might be for the best because that just feels like it would be more jarring than april all right well sorry kuro and i kind of uh rub his cheeks and he just compacts back into a small ball and i put him in my pocket all right renee if you're wearing the spine of death roots can i get my coat back i'll just keep my head covered yes and also luke did say there were extra horror ups in the supply class which we're about to go through to get to them i have a bit of a distinct look and i have been very no no that's right you've really been kicking their asses so yes no [ __ ] it just gives gifts yeah you can pick me out of the lineup i'm going to assume that you two are probably not going are you going to be going up with us or are you going to not we will come with although i will not be able to attend to you for very long for i have my own responsibilities but i will try to meet up with you back in the portal room whenever you're ready there is a space for various portals designated throughout the kingdom of balconies and you can get us nearer to back in this proper i can there we go [ __ ] it and cara cast disguise herself on her to a uniform that kind of looks reminiscent of the lower ranked members that you guys have seen and she changes her race into a human oh i could do that another thing about it do what uh well i can make myself kind of look like someone else ah this guy's uh no it's actually one of my first level spells this guy self you've had this guy self i just never used it oh my god everybody's disguising themselves just putting not subtle it's fine um before we head out can i like investigate this little pile of bones you uh i want to see if there's any other like little notes or something about people who have like unfortunately perished uh you see that there are a few love letters down here um you can see that there is a what's the answer to number seven and then a note back [ __ ] you you should have studied uh you can see that there are some notebooks some trash some old worn out clothes just various you know miscellaneous knick-knacks and stuff and bones and trash uh some like old molded food that is far beyond its due date before we before we leave i'm sorry to bring this back up but those failed experiments did you say that they were suffering you wish to put them out of their misery kind of i will not stop you will any of you stop me i mean i'll help you i just don't feel right leaving that that's something my father would have been upset about i am bothered by their continued life oh then enoch you want to cover me with some fire we'll take this out first yep and find grenades without extending renee's actually going to look over at lucas as everyone's discussing that you can see luke is just staring at his feet it's very clear he is in a lot of shame right now he says a few words to cara you can uh overhear him that uh saying that the portal is powerful magic that he cannot tend to and kara nods she walks over and she starts to conjure a few things as if to see what she can make out of the portal to try and open it as he mentioned before that he does not have permissions to use that portal so she's going to try and do something with it enoch can you take out the two small ones i'll go after the big one i should be using enough as long as i keep my uh space and uh i'm gonna i'm gonna activate the ring of haze first okay just in case just in case i missed also do you still have your healing and ability i do i may need it i've already used mine uh i can i can certainly do that for you yeah thank you yep um all right all right so i'm gonna count this as a surprise round i trust in your guys's ability to kill these guys quickly if not we will initiative for just the two of you yeah okay so we're going to have to for this big guy but you know i can probably one shot these dudes all right yeah i'll let whoever wishes to go first to go first uh do you want me to go first um let me run in just so i can keep this big guy busy okay that way if um that way if he has any [ __ ] up reactionary abilities i can i can keep him in place okay sounds good all right just having this ready you don't need to roll right now of course of course yeah i'm just gonna run into here i'll say luna takes a deep breath but i don't think realistically she can in combat so uh that's just flavor uh and i will run in and try to bap this guy i don't think i oh yeah surprise they don't get reactions yeah i'm surprised right okay so cool no attack of all that's awesome absolution 13 gaming does not hit unfortunately grass oh my gosh what is with your roles today it's just your roles in general what is wrong with luna's dice so that is your surprise turn i still have a bonus action right oh you have a bonus action you wanna okay offhand uh no i just wanted to put echo out so that i had extra [ __ ] right and enoch your attacks okay uh so the one closest to me first gavel shot well nope we're trying to do this quickly i trust in you i blame all right so so because because i ended up taking a short rest i can see if i can roll higher than a well higher than a a3 for my ability because to be honest what happened uh slight misfire it's fine yep racket uh second shot 23. okay and then uh as long as that's more than six you should should be enough and then uh my third attack will be on the farthest oh yeah yeah all right show me the damage cool that means they can't like [ __ ] super saiyan you fire at them and they quickly fall to the floor and unfortunately since luna you whiffed we're gonna do a quick little initiative here so both of you are going to roll for initiative that's valid i tried guys i'm sorry dice are just not okay 16 i got a season initiative at least 15. yeah well the thing is your dice had happened but they were finally just puttering out yeah well okay it said i wasted those two nat 20s when i was trying to fix my macros earlier yeah go and go and get both girl and got a zero golem goes last so uh yeah i'm laying into that [ __ ] it yells in your direction cool cool so we are gonna bonus action ignite graph so that i have that okay uh so we're gonna start with graph oh that shouldn't be consumption but that doesn't fit hit anyway it's fine sorry i'm not radiant consumpting right now that's a lie oh my god one more time [ __ ] you hey all right you slash into it and a bunch of bones crumble it seems this one was one of the frail ones that you saw earl earlier it is nearly down not quite but it's getting ready to charge yeah yeah that's right back you don't kill it you know all right sidestep i see it i zone in on it uh let's go three attacks okay should i have taken poison damage yes at the end of your turn so you would take one because it's two it's three minus your constitution modifier i'm fine you take one twenty two to hit yep that is to hit yep all right that will be a cool 15 points that's enough you fire and it crumbles to the ground um okay i just want to hold my breath in as quickly as possible just like kick this [ __ ] thing open you might take another point of damage for that kick it open and just quickly nab what's inside it's a minute it's a mimic yeah i was gonna leave out of the way yeah yeah and then inside you find i don't think i quite have enough to find a potion of greater healing and i pat you on the shoulder and i give you uh as much damage as you lost in there and one potion of mana that will heal that will restore one first level spouse lot actually can i get that i was just about to say push it into your hands in exchange for the healing um and then luna's like you know i can't believe it i shouldn't have held my breath i think that [ __ ] me up i forgot this isn't breathing it's just contact why can't i use my brain oh no i mean your brain's fine it's functioning uh-huh the reason i work with scorpio he's a bit more intelligent than i am in the meantime i think renee you wanted to say something to luke um i mean she was just like keeping an eye on it's one of those things where it's like she does want to say something but she's not really sure what to say okay um it was more so just her trying to gauge like how remorseful he actually is about all of this would you like to insight or you should use yeah which is a plus nine holy [ __ ] give it to me give to me my passive uh yeah yeah by my or my passive wisdom yeah it's 19. you've seen this face of remorse it is not too far from the shame that you saw on your brother when it was discovered that he you know all the failures that he's done and that he has made so many mistakes and that he's trying to prove himself to you there's a very similar look that luke has from what you can tell renee will walk over to luke and just pat his arm in like a one two she doesn't say anything and her face betrays no emotion ah [ __ ] she's picking up the nathaniel treatment oh damn oh no he doesn't move his gaze from his feet but he speaks up i did not want to say it even when you confronted me and demanded to know if i regret what i did and i lied i do seeing these abominations knowing what it does to people what i did was wrong and learning that the spine was no better than i was when you were all so young to see how foolish they are like i was i am sorry you get to spend the rest of your life however long that may be making up for that mistake yes ever since i learned that has been all that i have wanted and not to be redeemed but to atone i do not deserve redemption and he looks up to you just eye to eye and neither does laszlo she gives a nod and let's start on that atonement shall just walk he takes a deep breath walks forward and nathaniel you wanted to do something with kara yes while she's doing this summoning circle right i will speak to her in those abominations oh actually let me not start with that i will start by saying you are the one who created the teleportation spell was this castle in existence not like this one this is not a pocket dimension i am used to they're usually temporary unless with certain specifications like a bag of holding that is usually on a smaller scale this this is something different eh there was absolutely no possible way laszlo was able to create this on himself just all by himself the monsters around they hint at they hint at true resurrection meaning laszlo was attempting it at some point yes or some of his subjects do these monsters look anything like the ones that you created she looks down for a moment just pausing her conjuring for a few seconds and continues almost exactly there are some variations depending on the race of the creature being resurrected but all the time very similarly some ribs bursting out of the chest elongation of the spine bursting out into a tail-like extremity in the back arms being pointed towards the sky very frail but very quick i assume you know whether or not there's some capability of reversing this process she nods there isn't well now unfortunately yep that's what i was saying she looks a little frustrated and just kind of like air slaps the portal but just her hand goes through what even is this bloody thing who made this portal it's unlike these runes are strange and foreign to me are you sure this is a a portal a teleportation circle and lucas wait speaks up of course this is what the higher hierarchs use it is a a recreation of one of yours no yes but this has been modified and i don't understand it it's strange it might take me a little while but um i still have the map right you do your owns look anything any similar to that weird script that none of us can figure out it does i just hold it at the car what is this something i found i've never seen this language before not even sure if it's a language to be honest she looks it over she takes it and just kind of scans her finger around the various different uh i've only seen a full world map a few times but that's certainly not like what i've seen she puts it down glances over at luke for a minute this isn't a pocket dimension this is a destroyed world wait what what are you talking about what do you mean a destroyed world how does that work she she lifts the map to you this is not a map of anywhere in the lustrous expanse this is a world that charted its lands as a language no one has understood this place is completely dead whatever laszlo was planning he wanted all the necrotic energy he could find so he found a world that was completely devoid of life only corpses remain including the world itself that would explain why you are having a difficult time with this magic it would also explain how they're able to get so much necromatic power it's easy to get it on everything around you is dead and wouldn't that be such a great place for something that powerful as this black being queen to be fighting exactly another question might come to mind what if whatever is left in this world that possibly destroyed it is still here i would like to not humor that thought but i think this map can help me with the circle some of the symbols seem to align perhaps whatever is here he's maybe this black vein queen is the thing that killed this world i thought i truly hope not calm down these may be able to help you i'm gonna pull out the arcane books they were nonsense when i read them but now they seem to make a bit more sense she holds them kind of like flipping them back and forth between the map and the papers if we make it out of here alive mr gainsby would you mind if i took the time to research these assuming that all goes well you can have as much time as you want i wish to learn as much as i can about this world but if this symbol and she kind of scans it over she casts a wave of arcane energy over the papers they kind of float she looks her eyes kind of darting between them in the portal she does a few hand motions and the portal flashes should be good now okay i very much think this is a point of no return so exactly send the dog first he's not even he's not even here i can't get rid of his token and is there any sort of way you can know anything he does i thought he wasn't there he no he wasn't there i told him he's not there you tucked him in that's right i know yeah so who's in my pocket first i'll go i'm going to say okay i would like to go with her name please all right don't let her go alone she's too squishy yeah insanity that's squishy i don't think the echo can go through there and then well i've already done it well yeah if it's more than a thousand feet i don't know anyway so yeah so i just don't want to find out if we're too far away so let's go one by one you step into the portal and you come out appearing the other side as if you had just simply stepped through an open door and you guys can see at the bottom here oh no oh i'm too zoomed in hold on just before just before we leave i apologize for stalling what's up oh i'm gonna look at this menagerie of runes as they glow in front of my face right and just before stepping through and disappearing into who knows where i will say to myself father perhaps in a world such as this conjuration would have made more sense to me [Music] into the portal you show up on the other side on the first floor of their time something i want to note joe i am using disguise self how are you disguising yourself i'm gonna pull a bit from everybody from uh the entirety of my party and it's kind of a slight mixed bag of what everyone kind of looks like if but like slightly combined so like nathaniel's uh very elegant face renee's uh eyes and uh and luna's long hair but probably a little bit more probably a bit more dingy and then of course like the the stubble of enoch yeah what did you call my hair no he said his hair i'm gonna make it i'm gonna yeah no i want i want this version but like pretty much it's just a combination of everyone's little attributes onto me it's gonna look really it's gonna look a little weird having an elegant face but like thick stubble for enoch but it works all right very well yeah when you step through the portal luke kind of comes in front of everyone next to the doors before we head in this is the supply hall there will be patrolling skeletons they mostly clean the place but if they do not recognize you in spine of death carbs they will alert the others there is also a bone golem kind of the guard dog of the air here but so long as you are able to get the uniforms before they see you you should be safe then [ __ ] certain people stay here and let you rename it if you so wish i will see if i can get its attention or you try to find some uniforms there are swords crates around and we have many many uniforms ready on various sizes you should be able to find one do either of you have a way to alert us discreetly i will message one of you he creaks open the door and you guys can see the rest of the supply hall bones okay can i just say i'm i'm hiding on this side i just don't i just don't want to be in line of sight of the golem yep me and nathaniel are wearing our guard right uh yes and luke creaks open the door car is also disguised she is disguised but uh yeah so yeah i'm just making sure it's out to try and just go by i would have opted to try and like make my outfit at least look like a familiar spine of death yeah like one that you've seen before you've seen lots of them yeah no i'm an underling renee and nathaniel uh you i'm gonna need just a your choice of survival or investigation oh shanks i'll do survival i'll do an investigation you think that i have rolled this you fool i have a passive investigation of uh i should have i should have uh put it and put what it is uh it is uh let's see plus three that's an 18 take that amazing so actually actually i think it might be a never mind it doesn't matter i forgot about it renee you scavenged the wilderness of crates and searching through them just judging by the placement of where things are looking through them peeking in the little cracks and crevices you can see exactly where the uniforms are it is on a stray crate just kind of like off to the side like over here you're able to lift it up and grab a few that you feel as though might fit your companions cool and these bones don't give a crap that i'm grabbing extra they don't it looks like they are simply like carrying supplies back and forth to crates the one over here seems to be bringing some like dry food stuffs over to this crate and this one appears to be bringing just a bunch of trash about to head towards the portal it stops and looks at you [ __ ] its head to the side remove your head i don't blink neither does the skeleton it simply stands there and does not follow your orders all right good so they're the things in the meantime that does give renee enough time to bring the uniforms over i probably grabbed three of them because even though i know that this guy self like does kind of disguise you i know it's not like it's an illusionary joke it's not physical yeah so just in case throw those on yeah so in case anyone tries to grab you there is in fact fabric there yeah yeah how long does it take to don this uniform uh not long at all they're very they easily slip on like a like a onesie cool oh okay cool and i'm surprised these fit it's hard for me to find anything that fits in the shoulders well please don't do anything for the ass unfortunately you know i don't need that i'm not trying to impress anyone else you're done with your glamour show may we go you know ahead have to be light-hearted sometime okay it's kind of [ __ ] up here yeah listen you gotta have some fun i do have you guys arrive it's called a nice book and some tea agree complete silence not having that hair sorry oh as cara approaches me uh i will have experimented with a few other things it didn't respond to remove your head but i will point towards this box knock on that box it turns to you and it follows it knocks on it is it down uh it simply looks down shrugs its shoulders and sits you stand back up it stands up and about now is when the party would arrive and cara looks at you what in the hells are you doing i must say i see why you are so interested in necromancy it's very fun but i was i was seeing the power that this cloak provides they can't do things that they're physically incapable of but they seem to do anything else turn around walk towards the wall and stand there the skeleton turns complete 180 degrees goes to the wall and stands uh question are these skeletons or are these people those are skeletons you can see that those skeletons are armed with crossbows they are scanning the area you can see their head kind of move just back and forth horizontally without moving any other kind of part of their body almost like they're like sprinklers do the ropes have a hood yes uh they do make sure i've got that hood pulled up and with my hair tucked into it yeah you are able there are also two pads off to the side however you can see that there are doors and luke speaks up and mentions those are restricted they are very dangerous if someone were to find you in there with my hot new look as she like gestures down to her fancy ass robes he just like takes he just puts a hand to his face [ __ ] she's your daughter listen yeah i was gonna say you can't appreciate your daughter's fashion choices he just looks up you really are a dad he just looks up to the ceiling oh why i asked you you chose this you didn't get to act exasperated this is my punishment for my sins oh no that's on the way you've seen maybe five minutes of it spend a whole day with me [ __ ] tell him renee jesus our gods not jesus who's jesus he is the one man to perfect true resurrection jesus was able to so what is the plan you can see at the very end there's a staircase up presumably to the second floor of vertheim uh we didn't actually get a an answer for whether our super outfits would get past these guards uh yeah asking luke that so long as you appear to be the spine even if a bit or more ornate you should be fine like i said there are a few odd members with those same uniforms albeit they are not sent out anymore you should be okay very well are these older higher ranking members are they going to be ones that we are going to need to be mindful of their people yes i myself are not familiar to them they are simply known as higher lieutenants we usually speak their title but not their name if they are to see you and do not recognize you you may be in a bit of trouble so i suggest you make sure they do not see you all right fair enough well now let's see if this actually works i'm gonna walk up to this big bone golem mm-hmm put your hand on your face cover your eyes it does so but it has no eye it just like puts its bony hand up to its face although it you know it looks like you could easily see through but uh covers itself it covers covers and sockets as best as it can when when you do that would i be able to look back at her and be like do you think you can figure out just exactly how to change this what the bone golem they've been doing weird things before that's all perhaps i can try and conjure up something i'll see what i can find thank you she looks it over and nathaniel is what else are you doing with this bone golem uh nothing my hope is that when somebody uh next sees this golem they announce loudly something akin to who did this this is my ward system for right now yeah that's fair carl cara finishes her conjuring and she speaks up it appears that they have attempted to imbue magical capabilities into their summons albeit at a cost a few of them seem to have some sort of drawback either frailty or difficulty and function but they are capable of casting magics like you or me i don't like that they are rather frail can i i don't suppose it's too much to see if you can see what exactly they're casting and what effects they're bringing i don't know it's not super important i can take these things down regardless yes it seems a few common necromancers but more or less nothing spectacular i assume laszlo wanted to start small so as to not put too much pressure on this body i assume larger magics will require more trade-off forward way of dealing with things don't you it's gotten us this far don't know the only way i was told i'm afraid well far be it for me to complain your friend is right i've made it this far she continues off what are you guys doing what are you guys doing with the archers if these are any smarter than the other ones that we saw or if they're just dressed fancier they're basically dressed fancier they're scanning the room they have very simple orders do you have bows and arrows [Music] it does not follow those orders does it have a bow and arrow or a crossbow a crossbow that's very cool show me where you keep your bolts it simply just turns its hip without turning the rest of its body you can see attached there is a kind of quiver full of a bunch of bolts do you have a bolt loaded in right now it simply lifts it's while looking at it you can see it is it is loaded oh very good give me all of the bolts that aren't loaded it simply turns its hip back away from you i'll take these see obviously no it takes it away from you oh away from me never mind oh okay i was going to say you do far better with a dead audience i i did not expect that dead creatures would be so sassy luke walks up they they are under the command of brad style himself he did not want to take any chances so he wanted his own personal summons to keep guard of this store's room that's very smart can he be alerted by these summons of weird activity he has not imbued so that function owns him he has only given them the minimum required function in order to keep this place safe besides and he just kind of like has as the slightest smile why would any enemies come to this pocket dimension i know that's also fair but you know security security's important the skeleton how far is blood stride i assume he's above us they will not answer for you any information you tied to clean they will not be able to respond they are not alive they are no more than automatons well they are going to let us know right i he steps through all right [ __ ] only goes through oh we know how to roll always what if you'd like to go searching around you may but not particularly i'm not yeah i mean listen we have we have remember we have [ __ ] to do you know yeah we have we have mirth to save right now walking towards you simply just eyes that other room while walking towards you the stairs do we need to keep an eye on you too what do you see nothing inside right now well i don't trust you you may yeah i i don't to i don't want to do it too but that was sussy honestly i trust cara implicitly [Music] god damn it she's going to incite you back and she notices that you are all trying to table from enoch who's just like laser focused on earth she she says i'm not going to go rogue i'm simply wondering if a few of my research papers are down here who knows what else they've stolen from me that might be in this place if we survive and everything turns out all okay we can come back down and check because then no one will give a clap very well good this place simply doesn't sit well with me but soon also if you do have your notes here and we are able to clear this place out is it not better that that that dark practice remains in a dead world yes or destroyed and tend to burn my papers we're able to collect them all we can do a problem with what we can go do and come over here before we leave thank you so you guys going up the stairs yeah i'll just shoot for renee and nathaniel to go first since you know should probably have the headhunt shows up first i ascend going up going up and i ascend you go on up and as you do you enter into the athenium the second floor of vertheim where you see a long hallway full of spine of death necromancers please tell me we don't recognize any of them you will have to find that out on the next session because that is where we're gonna call it today [Music] | JoCat | UCRDVE5L1LTWhmPAKKbUBGtg | 2022-01-06 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 27,786 | 139,094 |
9zMSyZ6gcvU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zMSyZ6gcvU | WWE, JUST END THE BRAND SPLIT ALREADY! | I'm sure there are plenty of fanboys that defend the brand split they love it it's a more opportunity for more wrestlers if I don't like this show I could watch this show and like these guys all of these different justifications that can be used they can run multiple events the same night between the different brands they don't all have to be in one area they could do more pay-per-views which means more reasons to generate potential traffic to the WWE Network means more opportunities to sell more merch because you put more people on TV you have more title so you can sell those all of these other things it sounds great in theory except it's time to end this stupid-ass brand splint there was a reason this company went away from it a few years back and I never really fully got the justification for why they felt the need to go back to it other than some of the reasons that I just provided which sound great in theory but are not necessarily particularly applicable to the WWE as we know them now and have known them for several years number one this whole thing about giving more people more opportunities they still can only manage to book someone effectively for a couple of people on each roster you're just circle jerk and in fiddle around with two-thirds to three-quarters of the rest of the damn roster anyways whether they're on TV or not they're not going to get over and you're not going to let them get over and you're not going to do things to help them get over so why the hell do they need that television time any damn ways and then thinking about it you've got to sit there and create three hours of television here or two hours of television there you got to do an entirely different show with entirely different people here an entirely different show with an entirely different people here having different creative teams and all this other and dingdong dumb dicks it's not working I repeat it's not working it's not working and then you get the crap work it feels like everybody's a freaking champion it's like it's field day in fourth grade and everybody gets a participation ribbon even though your ass got smoked by eight minutes in the mile none of this crap feels like hey the world champ he's a world champ she's the women's gym oh she's a woman's chin we're all tag champions they're all big car champions and it's all a bunch of you got too many damn champions nobody stands out it's just freaking ridiculous and then when you get to the part where you're talking about getting rid of the brand exclusive pay-per-views if you're getting rid of the brand exclusive paper use and why in the hell do you still have the brand split the real truth of the matter is this roster is not that good the creative powers that be for this company are even worse the last thing you should be trying to do is create two entirely different types of shows or two entirely different rosters because you can't get any of that right and from a business justification the demands of running these increased amounts of live events and pay-per-views just aren't there because you're drawn some booboo ass live attendance numbers specifically with the SmackDown shows which has always kind of been a bit of a problem for the be blue brand you just at one point in time in the search for new streams of revenue does it not become cost-effective or really worth it from a financial bang for your buck standpoint to run everybody so ragged and stretch yourself so damn thin and it's not creating a bunch of new stars it's not giving a bunch of people new opportunities and I was stupid isn't gonna look having split shows still with Raw and SmackDown and now you're talking about combining all the paper views into one and oh yeah all of them being at least four hours again I hate WWE you for that now you're gonna sit there and have at least half of this damn show isn't even worried about the pay-per-view so the company old family's not going to give a crap not like they give a huge amount of crap what the people actually booked on the pay-per-view now you're trying to sit there and shoehorn in these guys from this other damn pay-per-view and half of them when they have an hour less of TV time thank God don't get any ideas for an hour of SmackDown kiss my ass so these guys with an hour less you're still going to have a whole set of roster over there that's never going to get a chance never going to get a chance to get featured never going to get out of the damn pay-per-view it's just so dumb this desire to want to stretch themselves out and find new ways to create revenue to sit there and do this and do that and for all these freaking sheep that are sitting there talking about how booming wwe's business is it wouldn't be talking about going back to doing dual branded pay-per-views of business was so banging this is where idiots that don't understand basic economic principles and in particular how the stock market works try to sit there and use those flawed numbers and metrics as a justification for what WWE does you cannot tell me the WWE has done so many things to sit there and massively significantly increase their overall bottom line and profits in such a short timeframe to see a doubling to tripling in their stock value an overall company valuation over the past two to three years give me a damn break the market is overinflated it is a bubble it will burst and has been created out of factors entirely unrelated to anything WWE is doing with their business you cannot tell me your business is gray when your viewership is steady - slightly declining as it continues to be you cannot tell me your viewership is so great in so awesome ory that your business is so great and so awesome where to get your record profits you had to cut millions of expenses including getting rid of so many of the customized stages and the freaking Pyro's like this is such horseshit the branch split and doing dumb things like the brain split potentially create an environment where this company is going to do pirogues ball Ziggler a million and a half bucks a unit freaking job the stupid like you already don't have reason frankly to watch both of these shows each week I don't know what the hell anybody would want to do that for any damn ways and it's not like the pay-per-views like there are plenty people that only watch raw and you have some people that only watch Smackdown vice versa or whatever the but what happens is you get an environment where people only watch the raw exclusive pay-per-views or they're only watch the Smackdown exclusive pay per views at least at this particular point if you got rid of that damn brand split and he got rid of all these random paper he's like it sounds like you're going to do and you bring them together as dual branded pay-per-view then at least if you care about the wrong people but not the SmackDown people you will still be watching every pay-per-view to a certain degree and maybe that's a chance to win over the Smackdown people over all the wrong people just back out or whatever the hell is gonna happen no doubt but the brand's foot sounds great in theory and practice with this idiotic corporation not so much it's just a bad look when you sit there and you do so many of these events you over saturate your marketplace there's too much of a good thing and when you're performing in arenas where you have to basically move everybody over to opposite the camera side to make it look full and the camera side is almost all the way empty and the happens quite a bit withdrawing a lot on Smackdown that's not good that means you have problems and to sit there and stretch yourself so thin in the search of a small amount of additional revenue is really counterproductive you don't get the bang for the buck that you deserve and it helps you take me buy off the ball of other important things and fundamentally ultimately people if you're not going to have split branded brand exclusive pay-per-views then why would you have split branded shows for what for what the and at this point time it's not like a lot of you like Smackdown anyways it's the shit's Road Dogg's running it into the ground like a de Noli eventually was going to and raw sucks because Ross sucks because there's three hours of suck basically so at least we could sit there and say if you took Raw on Smackdown and combined the rosters at least you would have a chance of saying hey we'll have more of the best of the best we'll have less to book four in terms of the number of angles we'll just have to book more for them from Monday night to Tuesday night and that means the programs might have a shorter shelf life will a lot of them do any goddamn ways and they're already doing a lot of where they do with the match before the pay-per-view then sometimes at the pay-per-view or most certainly you're going to get the return match right after the pay-per-view the next day and night so what the hell do you need the brand exclusive pay-per-views for and when you really look at this roster we can do with a whole hell of a lot less in terms of talent now maybe you could sit there and you take all the women and put them on Raw you put all the cruiserweights on Tuesday night that's okay if that's what you want to do fine it do it but doing this entirely different show on Raw entirely different show on Smackdown it sounds great in theory it just sucks I hate that the WWE went back down this road again that they ultimately went away from for a reason thinking that it was going to be any different this time will ding-dong dumb dicks it's not it's time to end the brand's foot it's stupid | OTRSCentral | UC-p8V2OdjDH6mmy1NW3JBLg | 2018-02-17 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,795 | 9,649 |
a9ZadVXvLM8 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ZadVXvLM8 | How to add more than one quilt border with mitred corners - Quilting Tips & Techniques 169 | hello today I'd like to show you how to do a mited border border for a quilt where you've got more than one fabric border that you're wanting Tom my so I've got this nice little quilt top um waiting for its borders here and I'm going to I wanted a nice white border like I've got this white fabric here but then I thought it would be quite nice if had an extra color in between so I wanted it to have this um sort of Airy greeny color and I thought quite likely idea of it being mited because somehow it seems to suit that style of quilt and so in order to do the miter with two borders rather than just putting one on and then putting another one on if you're going to MIT any number of borders all in one go you might as well do it all in one go so what I've done is I've joined my first border to my outer border so I've done it for all four sides my quilt is square it's not a very large quilt it's just a nap quilt I guess um and so I've already joined my inner border to my outer border and you have to make sure that you've got enough length for the whole quilt including your borders when you put miters on so my quilt's about 32 in across or it's Square so in any direction pretty much um and so my border has to be long enough for the quilt plus totally I've got I think I've got about 5 and 1/2 in y so I'm putting on a 5 in Border but it's 5 and 1/2 in now because of the same alls as well so I need to make sure I've got enough length to put that length either side of my quilt for the whole border now presumably you could if you were really short on your inner border you could shorten that but overall you it's best to work with the full length it's easier anyway so I've got enough length here um so you need your the width of your quilt plus two border amounts plus a little couple of extra inches spare to allow for same allowance and any other little things that might happen and so in the middle I want to pop a PIN to Mark the center of my border and the same thing on my C top so that I can Mark so I can position the center and work out from there so I've already done that amount of pinning I'm going to pin that starting in the middle now you can pin the whole border or not as you choose but it's very helpful to pop a pin or marker in where it where the same allowance will occur when you put the other sides on so you could measure it of course that's always an option so if we put that marking there and I know that I want to come in qu of an inch from that edge there I'm going to put a pin in that's qu of an inch in from my quilt top Edge and I'm going to do the same on the other end I'm just going to show you on one corner so I probably won't do this whole seam at this stage you can put more pins in between of course um if you prefer to do it that way to hold everything together so because you want things to sit nicely and I'm going to do that same as usual with a/ qu inch same oun I've got borders sticking out at both ends but I'm going to start sewing a/4 of an inch in from my quilt top Edge so hence the pin there also if you happen to have a/4 in foot like I've got it's got little indents along the side that will tell you when things a quarter of an inch apart so if we line up I'm coming this way if we line up the quilt top edge with the marker at the back of the foot towards the back of the foot that will start sewing at/ qu of an inch in from that edge so I'm not sure whether you can see that but that's what those little grooves on the side of the Mach the fo or four great little feet those qu in feet and I'm going to come along and sew just my 1/4in CS now I am going to do a little back stitch just to hold that there my quar I'm just going to go halfway along so that you're not just watching me sewing lots of seams so I'll come to my halfway marking pin there's lots of reasons why you might want to M it sometimes it looks nicer sometimes you've got a stripe sometimes who knows sometimes you just want to MIT this is actually a this little color that I've got in here this aquery color is a very fine stripe but I won't be trying to match those up but sometimes you might want to match up something like that and so a MIT would be really helpful so there I've got one Border Side on so now I'm going to do come along this edge here so I've got another Border strip ready and because my quarter is square all my border pieces were cut the same length otherwise you would need to allow for the length of the quilt plus a border at each and plus a couple of inches of spare material so same thing a pin in the middle of the border and of the quilt match the pins pin them together and you can measure the distance so that you get the right amount but you want it to be you want to pin in so that it comes in a/4 of an inch in and I should have this over the other way I'll turn it over it's easier to work from this side so that you can see where your fabric starts and stop we want to put a pin4 of an inch in from the quilt top Edge and we'll do the same at the other end particularly as that's the end on the sewing so this should all line up here and you want to put a pin in right at where you stop sewing on the last seam which will be4 of an inch in from that edge now because I'm coming this way it's a little bit harder to see that I could come down this way maybe I'll do that I'm going to start halfway in the middle so that I'm going to get one corner done to show you so we'll come this way so that it's easier if you're sewing from the quilt top side so that you can see where the fabric starts and stops at the end so I'm just using a regular quarter in seam allowance here so when you're getting to this end you want to make it so that you can see where you're going to so it's a little bit more fiddly than just straight borders but it's kind of a nice way to finish off the sun quilts and so I want to sew up as far as where I started and stopped the last time so it's a little bit easier to see that this time because we've already got a seam line to that point little back stitch to hold you don't want that to come unraveled and so that's going to sit nicely make sure your points are sitting quite well together there so now we've got this quilt we've got these funny little bits flapping at the corners not particularly helpful just at this stage so working with it right sides together we're going to fold it so that our borders are sitting nice and level the edges and this is where working with um a board can be quite helpful because you can sit things along and I have actually got shove this a nice mited line on this cutting board which can be really helpful at times like this if your board doesn't have lines like that it's uh fairly easy to work out what that angle is anyway so we're going to work now we could press the same or we can just do it as is we want that fold which we can pretty much because of this quilt working in blocks and squares I can get a nice diagonal fold through there I want to sit that on the diagonal line on the board and I want this edge of my border to sit on a straight line along the board and if this sits at the diagonal line then I can see that fold line is the line that we want to follow through right through to the edge of the border so I'm going to press or just finger hold those Sims towards the quilt at the moment but using that line of the Quil and matching up down here just moved it a little bit just worth worth double checking that everything is sitting straight I've got my line sitting straight along here I've got my diagonal line sitting straight along here and then with a pencil I'm just going to mark that line and it pops out on my board it pops out the other side of my border here so if you had a much bigger border well you could move things up of course another option would be a lot of rulers have diagonal lines on them so you can set your straight line I'm going to get this right in a minute your straight line here along your border Edge and the same thing you can line up with your fold there and you would get that same angle for your corner there so I'm going to put a couple of pins in there now to hold that in place cuz now that I've got it there don't want it to move you're going to be sewing from the same point you started and stopped earlier so you want to hold those Fabrics out of your way when you start the sewing it's fairly important that they're not in your way and you can go to the sewing machine now and start sewing from the that same point because everything should meet at that point and I'm going to come along that line that I've drawn now it's worth mentioning also because you're joining borders that you want that seam to be matching where that meets as well so now before we go any further we'll do a quick check in case we've got to make any little alterations hopefully not so when I open that out that's going to I've got a a a nice Corner coming in there I've got a nice join there so I'm actually pretty pleased with the way that's looking so far so now I'm going to trim that so back on the wrong side again still sitting with its um fold through there and with your ruler any ruler that's got a/ quarter in marking on it you want to lay your qu in in from the edge of the ruler along the seam line that you've just sewn and trim off that excess that you don't need and because we cut that a little bit longer than we needed we've just got enough to play at the end there so that couple of inches extra that you add into your border length is really worthwhile so I'm going to be pretty pleased with that border I think so I'm going to bring the iron over now and just show you how I press that so that it sits nicely I'm actually going to press that seam open that we've just done but before I do that with my scissors where that point occurs there I'm just going to snip in both Sid sides of that first border not the quilt you're not snipping the quilt top just the Border bit so that it can sit underneath when we press that open just in towards the seam the corner SE there if the iron's hot always so I'm going to press this seam open so I'm going to start with that one you might see this quilt again I'm going to do a nice scalloped Edge on this quilt after I've quilted it so those little bits that we snipped now you can just press that so that that seam sits nice and flat there without any problems going on and then with our Cil top we want to press that same in towards the Border cuz it all just sits nicely if we do it that way and because we've done that little snipping bit just in there that will now sit over quite nicely when you press that and we'll just do a little bit from the other side so that you can see how that's all starting to look there so that's pressed open that seam is pressed in towards the Border coming from your quilt and there we have a nice mited border join Corner join so I think that you would now continue on and do exactly the same process continue the seams that I didn't finish up to the end and the other Corners are all done exactly the same way but you can do that sort of a join with any number of borders like you could have three or four different borders if you're going to MIT them you would just join up your borders first and You' have to make sure that you have enough overall length to be the the finished border size for your quilt so you've got to add that each side of your quilt measurement for your length of your border so I hope that explains for you how to do more than one Border in a MIT thank you | GourmetQuilter | UCj7LLCstKeAclYo4iGjZc1A | 2014-11-25 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,385 | 11,569 |
BxLpVscG7QE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxLpVscG7QE | Large Area Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi for Large Buildings) | large area wi-fi wi-fi solutions for large buildings wi-fi is a crucial element in any building where there are people be it a domestic or a corporate setting but when you're dealing with a large area of wi-fi you need to be more advanced than just having a router wi-fi technology has certain limitations associated with it so it's important that you understand how to work around these restrictions thankfully as long as you learn the best ways to solve these problems wi-fi in a large building should pose no issue planning a large area wi-fi long before you start to install wi-fi equipment you need to draw up a plan to minimize potential hurdles further down the line in particular make sure that you create a cabling plan designing a thorough cabling plan is essential not only do you need to take your employer's productivity into consideration you also have to evaluate the specific needs of the building for example access points ceiling cavities etc scalability of course is another area to consider so it makes sense to plan for future expansion finally you will also need to plan which type of cabling you need and what your budget allows following these strategies will almost guarantee that your installation runs smoothly correctly position wi-fi equipment the signal for large area wi-fi needs to cover a large amount of ground you can help your setup achieve this by positioning wireless equipment correctly evaluate the space that your wi-fi needs to cover and install wireless access points accordingly choose the right equipment wi-fi solutions for large buildings will be considerably more complex than those used in smaller locations this means that you are going to need to invest in some serious technology to meet your location's needs make sure that you cover these requirements with vendors before making any purchases common large area wi-fi problems all technology has the capacity to fail and cause problems wi-fi is no different here are some of the most common wi-fi problems slow connection speeds the main bug bear of any wi-fi user is slow speeds these are often caused by installation problems so your wi-fi equipment is the best place to start troubleshooting for example your access points facing the right direction additionally it may be that your access points are inadequately positioned to cover the necessary distance interference wi-fi uses radio waves to send signals between devices and these transfers can easily be disrupted the interference can be generated by power sources cordless phones and even microwaves the impact of this signal disruption can quickly result in network dropouts and a reduction in productivity incorrect cabling cat5 and cat6 cabling will allow you to run wi-fi connections over distances of around 100 meters but over that they will struggle to deliver any sense of performance and in a large building you may need to cover larger distances therefore it may pay to investigate fiber cabling this will allow you to transmit data over much larger distances what is the maximum range of wi-fi the range of a wi-fi signal using traditional cabling is around 100 meters but this range can now be extended with fiber optic cable to a distance of up to 2000 meters naturally each building will have different needs and this is why a firm plan is crucial so by taking the time to invest some effort into your wi-fi structure you should soon reap the benefits of a powerful wi-fi service for further assistance or a free survey please email or call on the details below and click like and subscribe if you have enjoyed this video | NM Cabling Solutions | UC3HgjTaSb-idMhGkBcSUp6w | 2022-01-17 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 608 | 3,597 |
3l6paBuW_CY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l6paBuW_CY | 👉 Swipe Pages Review: Is the Best No-code Page Builder❓ | hi there in this video I am going to review swipe Pages if you want to know everything about swipe Pages then this video is for you in this video I'm going to review site Pages pricing plans editor and their features and customer support everything that you need to know about so let's get started so right now I am on Swipe Pages um dashboard all right so from here you can you know create your pages so of course you won't see these pages when you log in for the first time when you create some pages it will reflect here and if you want to create new page then you can create click on this button create new but page okay so you can give it a name let's say test page and then choose page type so swipe Pages offers three kind of pages amp Pages smart pages and mobile pages so as amp Pages load super fast in mobile device so if you are making something that should load in mobile device then you can use these pages of course these Pages have some limitations like certain scripts might not work and they have very hard cookie um on EMP pages so if you make any changes on the pages Pages it won't reflect in real time so user have to you know refresh the page and then it will reflect okay and then there is a smart page which is a normal pages of course this page also loads super fast but it is not load as fast as amp pages in mobile device but in desktop device these pages is I mean smart Pages load super fast and then there is a mobile side pages in this Pages um is specifically designed for mobile device I will show you how it looks like AI but right now let's choose a smart page you can choose their template as well they have ready-made templates as well you can choose any templates for example I will choose this template and swipe Pages editor is normal editor like any other drag and drop page builder if you have used in the past okay and you can easily edit everything and these pages are really cool as you can see I mean these are great really great Pages you can design everything and from settings you can choose General you can add the favican icon you can you know set the header as well and then you can add typography colors you can add tracking codes here you can add all the scripts that you that you need to use on the page and then there is SEO option you can add the title description matter keywords and there's all sort of settings like social setting social shading custom CSS and then there is custom JavaScript cookie notes you can turn this on and it will reflect like this and you can change the text as well you can change the IX app I do not accept and learn more privacy link you can do a lot of things everything is editable okay and they have pop-up option as well you can create a new pop-up for example let's say I create pop-up create pop-up and you can easily create amazing pop-ups okay if I have missed it um they have templates as well you can choose templates um I could not show you let's add new pop-up just a second let's create a new okay so they have all short of templates you can choose it from here for example I will choose this one as you can see the pop looks really great in both in devices like desktop or mobile device you can see these pages are really mobile friendly as well you can see all these pages are mobile friendly too so you don't need to edit a lot in mobile device okay and when you are ready you can do a B test as well you can add another variant as you can see from here you can add it and when you are ready you can publish it and you can see from here it will reflect all the connected domains I will just publish it as test page now click on publish okay I guess the page is published and that's it their page speed because page speed is really important and this is Google page speed test testing pool and let's analyze this page um okay it is you get some unknown error let's let's refresh the page okay right now it is diagnosing performance issues let's wait for a few seconds meanwhile okay yeah so as you can see the page speed is really amazing like 82 performance and mobile device which is great and Page loads around 2.8 seconds and if I see the desktop then it loads in in less than a second which is amazing so the pages we will build on Swipe pages is it's going to load super fast okay and yeah editor is very simple if you click on this icon you can see all kind of modules you can add FAQs two-step order form you can you you have a lot of things from here you can explore it okay and let's go back to dashboard all right so let's talk about global blocks if you create these blocks then um from wherever you have used a global block it will reflect changes so if you make any changes in the global block it will reflect on all the pages where you have used Global block section okay and in the domain section you can see all your connected domains you can add your four or four redirection as well you can create rules when this page will show up okay and then they have Global scripts so all the published page will have these scripts if you add any Global script okay and they and they have custom fonts as well you can upload your custom fonts from here and then if you go to e-commerce section you can add your products as well if you click on ADD product you can name it set the price and then you can upload your upload product picture and you can set a bump offer as well you can turn this on and we will be able to set bump offer as well okay and in the payment gateways they integrates with the stripe PayPal and Razer this is for India eraser page specifically for India and they have coupons as well from here you can give discount second grade coupon codes and from here you can set up your store settings you can um you know set the currency you can set up business information add bits and business information here all these details will reflect in your invoice um the invoice that customers will receive okay and that's it from this section and if you click on this you can see Integrations um from these software swipe pages integrates okay and they have zapier as well through jpu you can connect with like 5000 plus applications and they have Global web hooks as well as you can see uh setup triggers in your workflows from multiple Pages if you have more than one pages and you want to connect you want to you know pass data to another software then this feature might be useful for you okay and then um yeah you can add Global web hooks you can choose domain you can do a lot of things okay and let's go back to sites okay so now let's talk about uh pricing okay pricing is really important swipe okay let's go to pricing um they offer a 14 day free trial as well no credit card required you can test the software and make an informed decision all right and their basic plan is starts at 39 per month and you get around 20 000 visitors unique visitors um you can drive on this plan and you can have unlimited pages in this plan you don't get all the features like smart pages and as you can see on the screen and these pages are not available [Music] and you can read their FAQs they have 14 day trial and all sort of things you can try the software I will provide you the link in the description you can check it out from there okay and they have features as well you can okay so I was um like they have mobile landing pages as well let me show you okay the mobile landing pages will look like this as you can see so these are like ready made for mobile devices you can you know add it I will let me show you in the dashboard okay um let's go to the dashboard and let's create a new page let's name it like mobile page create choose the page type I will choose mobile slide and as you can see so this is the this is the editor of mobile Pages you can have different kind of I mean layouts slides you can say it and you can edit everything you can add videos you can add a lot of things you can add checkout forms you can add HTML codes all right and then there is call to action okay and you can change the color and everything so these pages will load in mobile device only okay and you can set different pages for you know different pages for different devices okay and from here you can publish it um you can give it a name mobile pages okay and click on publish it okay and I think the page is published as you can see everything loads super fast um I'm not sure why the page is not loading I'm not sure what's the issue I think now it should work okay as you can see uh if you try to load these pages on desktop then this will look like this as you can see but these pages are really amazing don't you think so that's a value that's a benefit of using swipe pages and their plans are affordable as well if you compare to like swipe pages I mean unbounce or insta page they charge a lot of money just to build pages and drag and drop editor they are also providing and you can achieve the same thing in swipe Pages as well okay and you can you know a B test the page as well you can collect payments as well from here from settings you can manage everything lead capture SEO and you can do a lot of everything right now the one feature is missing like funnels um funnels uh they are planning to build funnels uh funnels function okay so hopefully in future we get funnels inside swipe pages so that's the disadvantage I would say but overall swipe page is really great software um so if you have any questions let me know in the comments below I have written a blog post as well on Swipe Pages you can check it out from the description okay and yeah thank you so much for watching this video | Magic Blogging | UC4YlDyxidz8U4DFcDSyiq6Q | 2022-12-29 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,903 | 9,626 |
yn1LaS_fQ-Y | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn1LaS_fQ-Y | Fox News Host Demonstrates How Selfish Conservatives Are | fox news host jesse waters suddenly had a change of heart on a policy that he previously did not support because surprise surprise all of a sudden this policy now personally affects him take a look i i think uh i think it's safe to say i'm the only one on the show that's been peed on twice today no not true and well maybe not gut felt yeah for greg but my my father my father said just today um jesse you better get back on the five pretty soon your replacements have been really good thanks dad um but now i am i'm pro-paternity i used to mock people for for taking paternity i used to think it was a big ruse but now you know i wish i could take six weeks but i don't know apparently i have people nipping at my heels so i gotta i gotta be back you know one thing i don't have the beta to take six months yeah so look i will give him credit where it's due because it is objectively good that he arrived at the logical the humane the ethical and correct quite frankly position on this issue but it's frustrating to me we would make so much more progress if conservatives just tried for a minute to be sympathetic just try to put themselves in the shoes of someone less fortunate than them i mean this isn't the first time to be fair to jesse waters that a conservative has publicly denounced a terrible position that they previously had i think the most notorious example is of dick cheney because aside from the fact that he is a gigantic neocon and a war criminal he also was a huge homophobe and back in 2004 him and george w bush they based their entire presidential campaign on banning gay marriage literally introducing a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages but all of a sudden he flips like that and has a change of heart when he realizes that his daughter's a lesbian and now that it affects him personally and he wouldn't want his daughter to be disadvantaged culturally and politically and legally all of a sudden gays are good if you take what you've learned by changing your position on these issues that affect you personally and apply it to other issues we can make so much more progress if jesse waters thought look i don't support the 15 an hour minimum wage but if i put myself in the shoes of a worker who only made 10 dollars an hour i could see why a 15 an hour minimum wage might be beneficial i mean that kind of gets you to think maybe the right policy isn't necessarily something that benefits me but it's good for society and it may one day benefit me to see universal healthcare perhaps you know um making colleges free will be beneficial to my own child because if i'm no longer a fox news host and we're socioeconomically disadvantaged then my child would benefit from that maybe it's beneficial if we don't treat trans and non-binary people as if they're sub-human second-class citizens because what if my child is trans or non-binary i mean if you apply this lesson to other things the world would be such a better place your policy positions would be a lot less egregious and selfish but the conservatives on fox news jesse waters included their multi-millionaires so they're incapable of putting themselves in the shoes of the peasants because they're in that bubble that rich elitist bubble and i don't necessarily know what megan mccain's position was on maternity leave but she explained before on the view that she didn't really become radicalized for lack of a better word when it comes to the issue of paid maternity leave until she realized how important it was surprise surprise when she needed it herself yeah i when i gave birth i actually had postnatal preeclampsia and i was in the hospital for a week after on a magnesium drip and it really really kicked my butt and i was planning on coming back to the show for the election in six weeks after i gave birth and i was physically unable to i was physically unable to come i was having as any woman who has experienced anything like that i had to have my husband and my mother-in-law help me do everything from shower to eat it was deeply humbling and to help me take care of liberty and the whole time i was thinking what a privilege it is to have this kind of maternity leave and then as i thought about it the more angry i got that there weren't women in the rest of america that had the same kind of luxury that i had working here at the view and then i started getting more angry that conservatives in particular given that we are the family of family or sorry the party of family values and that everything about our ideology sort of stems from the nucleus of the family that we are leaving women in this country without the capacity and ability unless you have an employer that allows you to to take care of your child to heal physically which is something that needs to happen and i actually think there's a lot of synergy right now for a paid family leave coming from democrats and republicans everyone from marco rubio and kristen cinema and joni ernst have come on board and i think this is something that's really a really dark spot for our country we are the only developing nation that doesn't supply women with paid family leave and if we're going to continue growing as a country and we're going to be able to give um you know women and families the capacity to grow in the way that we want and stop having this sort of like you know societal fracture that we're having and a lot of arguments are made it's because of the fracture that's happening at home and with families we as conservatives have to come together and allow all women in this country no matter where they're from or their socioeconomic class the capacity to have what i just had which is three months of bonding time and breastfeeding and healing from an emergency c-section which is what i had to have and post-natal pre-eclampsia and i just think um maybe it takes personal experience sometimes to get on board but i was actually hoping that we as all women of the view i'm just going to make the guess that you are all in agreement with me that we could make this our initiative in 2021 and when we have lawmakers on the show really put pressure on them and ask them why the women of america don't get the same kind of maternity leave that megan mccain got again i'm glad you arrived at the correct conclusion but if you if you just extended what you learned if you see the lesson in this and apply it to other political issues you'd be more right now look it is impossible to remove ourselves from our own subjectivity right we can't fully know what it's like to walk in the shoes of someone who isn't us i'll never know what it's like to be a black american who is profiled by the police but i'll also never know what it's like to be a heterosexual american who isn't accused of flaunting my sexuality if i hold hands with my spouse in public we're all confined to our own subjective bubbles but what i like to do is a mental exercise created by john rawls so what he created was this idea of the veil of ignorance and i think that this really is the metric that folks should use to determine which policies they support so imagine you are creating society and you have no idea what your position in that society will look like so you are creating everything the type of government that exists the international entities that will exist in this society if you don't know what your position will be how are you going to design that society you don't know if you're going to be poor you don't know which country you're going to end in or end up in a developed country a poor country you don't know what you're going to be so obviously in that position where you're removed from your own subjectivity you would design a system wherein it doesn't matter what country you're born in you're still able to thrive economically you're going to have access to water healthcare won't even be an issue you're going to maximize the position of everyone in hopes that you yourself will end up in a solid place and so basically if folks just try to be sympathetic and imagined what it would be like to be disadvantaged and not be an elitist born into wealth or super wealthy because they got lucky then society would be a lot better so i mean uh great job jesse i'm glad that you finally came to the correct conclusion now that it personally affects you but um yeah paternity leave maternity leave these are things that should be guaranteed because believe it or not human beings are not robots and if you have a new baby if you adopt a child hell even if you get a new pet why shouldn't you be able to take time away from work to get to know that human being or pet believe it or not we can prioritize enjoying life more than just slaving away at these jobs that exploit us i mean we have to really adjust our mentality as a country because we've for some reason decided to value working ourselves to death and if we don't do that then maybe we'll be lazy but it's okay to embrace our inner humanity and acknowledge that we're people maybe we want to explore uh the world maybe we want to do art maybe we just want to sit back and play video games there's nothing wrong with that embracing our humanity is important we'd all be more happier if we did that countries that allow for more time off of work guaranteed vacation time they're all happier than the united states because here we're all work to doubt that shitty jobs we hate so i'm just saying take the lesson that you've learned here jesse apply it to other aspects of life think about if i were not in my position now would i value x policy why policy and you won't be conservative anymore if you're actually sympathetic [Music] you | The Humanist Report | UC7Q4rvzJDbHeBHYk5rnvZeA | 2021-04-15 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,816 | 9,673 |
_H8EP-TlAMA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H8EP-TlAMA | Ethnocentrism | Wikipedia audio article | ethnocentrism is the act of judging another culture based on preconceptions that are found in the values and standards of one's own culture especially regarding language behavior customs and religion these aspects or categories are distinctions that define each ethnicities unique cultural identity the term ethnocentrism was first applied in social sciences by American sociologist William G Sumner in his 1906 book folkways Sumner describes ethnocentrism is the technical name for the view of things in which one's own group is the center of everything and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it he further characterized ethnocentrism is often leading to pride vanity the belief in one's own group superiority and contempt for outsiders over time ethnocentrism developed alongside the progression of social understandings by people such as social theorist Theodor W Adorno in Adorno's the authoritarian personality he and his colleagues of the Frankfurt School established a broader definition of the term as a result of in-group out-group differentiation and that ethnocentrism combines a positive attitude toward one's own ethnic cultural group the in-group with a negative attitude toward the other ethnic cultural group the out-group both of these juxtaposing attitudes are also a result of a process known as social identification and social counter identification topic origins and development the term ethnocentrism is believed by scholars to have been created by Austrian sociologist Ludwig Gump Levitch in the 19th century although alternate theories suggest that he only popularized the concept as opposed to inventing it he saw ethnocentrism is a phenomenon similar to the delusions of geocentrism and anthropocentrism defining ethnocentrism as the reasons by virtue of which each group of people believed it had always occupied the highest point not only among contemporaneous peoples and nations but also in relation to all peoples of the historical past subsequently in the 20th century American social scientist William G Sumner proposed two different definitions in his 1906 book folkways Sumner stated that ethnocentrism is the technical name for this view of things in which one's own group is the center of everything and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it in the war in other essays 1911 he wrote that the sentiment of cohesion internal comradeship and devotion to the in-group which carries with it a sense of superiority to any out group and readiness to defend the interests of the in-group against the out-group is technically known as ethnocentrism according to Boris bazoo mich it is a popular misunderstanding that Sumner originated the term ethnocentrism stating that in actuality he brought ethnocentrism into the main streams of anthropology social science and psychology through his English publications several theories have been reinforced through the social and psychological understandings of ethnocentrism including TWU Adorno's the authoritarian personality theory 1950 Donald T Campbell's realistic group conflict theory 1972 and henri tajfel social identity theory 1986 these theories have helped to distinguish ethnocentrism as a means to better understand the behaviors caused by in-group and out-group differentiation throughout history and society topic anthropology the classifications of ethnocentrism originated from the studies of anthropology with its omnipresence throughout history ethnocentrism has always been a factor in how different cultures and groups related to one another examples including how historically foreigners would be characterized as barbarians or china would believe their nation to be the Empire of the center and viewing foreigners as privileged subordinates however the anthropocentric interpretations initially took place most notably in the 19th century when anthropologists began to describe and rank various cultures according to the degree to which they had developed significant milestones such as monotheistic religions technological advancements and other historical progressions anthropologist Franz Boas saw the flaws in this formulaic approach to ranking and interpreting cultural development and committed himself to overthrowing this inaccurate reasoning due to many factors involving their individual characteristics with his methodological innovations Boas sought to show the error of the proposition that race determined cultural capacity Boas wrote that it is somewhat difficult for us to recognize that the value which we attribute to our own civilization is due to the fact that we participate in this civilization and that it has been controlling all our actions from the time of our birth but it is certainly conceivable that there may be other civilizations based perhaps on different traditions and on a different equilibrium of emotion and reason which are of no less value than ours although it may be impossible for us to appreciate their values without having grown up under their influence together boas and his colleagues propagated the certainty that there are no inferior races or cultures this egalitarian approach introduced the concept of cultural relativism to anthropology a methodological principle for investigating and comparing societies in as unprejudiced as possible and without using a developmental scale as anthropologists at the time were implementing boas and anthropologist bronislaw malinowski argued that any human science had to transcend the ethnocentric views that could blind any scientists ultimate conclusions both had also urged anthropologists to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in order to overcome their ethnocentrism to help malinovski would develop the theory of functionalism as guides for producing non ethnocentric studies of different cultures classical examples of anti ethnocentric anthropology include Margaret Meads coming of age in Samoa 1928 malinovski is the sexual life of savages in northwestern Melanesia 1929 and Ruth Benedict's patterns of culture 1934 Mead and Benedict were too Boas are students scholars are generally agreed that Bose developed his ideas under the influence of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant legend has it that on a field trip to the Baffin Islands in 1883 boas would pass the frigid nights reading can't critique of pure reason in that work can't argue that human understanding could not be described according to the laws that applied to the operations of nature and that its operations were therefore free not determined and that ideas regulated human action sometimes independent of material interests following camp Boas pointed out the starving Eskimos who because of their religious beliefs would not hunt seals to feed themselves thus showing that no pragmatic or material calculus determined their values topic causes ethnocentrism is believed to be a learned behavior embedded into a variety of beliefs and values of an individual or group the social identity approach suggests that ethnocentric beliefs are caused by a strong identification with one's own culture that directly creates a positive view of that culture it is theorized by henri tajfel and john c turner that in order to maintain the positive view people make social comparisons that caste competing cultural groups in an unfavorable light realistic conflict theory assumes that ethnocentrism happens due to real or perceived conflict between groups this also happens when a dominant group may perceive the new members as a threat although the causes of ethnocentric beliefs and actions can have varying roots of context and reason the effects of ethnocentrism has had both negative and positive effects throughout history the most detrimental effects of ethnocentrism resulting into genocide apartheid slavery and many violent conflicts historical examples of these negative effects of ethnocentrism of the Holocaust the Crusades the Trail of Tears and the internment of japanese-americans these events were a result of cultural differences reinforced in humanely by a superior majority group in his 1976 book on evolution The Selfish Gene evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins writes that blood feuds and inter-clan warfare are easily interpretive in terms of Hamilton's genetic theory simulation based experiments in evolutionary game theory have attempted to provide an explanation for the selection of ethnocentric strategy phenotypes the positive examples of ethnocentrism throughout history have aimed to prohibit the callousness of ethnocentrism and reverse the perspectives of living in a single culture these organizations can include the formation of the United Nations aim to maintain international relations and the Olympic Games a celebration of sports and friendly competition between cultures equals equals see also | wikipedia tts | UCV5cie6grszX4UTDJzpFOyA | 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e1UocbAbNX0 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1UocbAbNX0 | Ron Paul: Fed shattered countless lives | this edition of the riddler report is brought to you by shiresociety.com hello this is ron paul with your weekly update for october 29th french businessman and economist jean battis stay is credited with identifying the fundamental economic principle that aggregate demand for goods in an economy will equal the aggregate supply of goods when markets are permitted to operate or in say's words products are paid for with products english classical economist david ricardo among others more fully developed this principle into what has become known as says law says law according to ricardo leads us to understand that market equilibrium for goods is constant this simply means that markets when left alone by government planners or other fraudulent actors inexorably tend toward an equilibrium price which eventually balances supply and demand for any particular good thus markets will clear themselves of any surpluses or shortages in the form of excess supply and demand this important corollary of says law that markets clear is critical to understanding the more inbound u.s housing market in housing perhaps more than any other good we see the terrible consequences of government and central bank references with market forces first the federal reserve bank relentlessly increased the money supply over the last few decades much of this newly created money and credit flowed from fed member banks into the residential and commercial real estate markets causing prices to rise dramatically prior to the housing bust of 2007. at the same time the fed systematically suppressed interest rates for decades this led to tremendous now investment both by home builders and individuals and encouraged the seedy subprime mortgage industry to make non-viable loans that would not have been made under market interest rates congressional meddling in the mortgage market also added tremendously to the problem inane legislation like the community reinvestment act literally forced banks to make thousands of loans to bad credit risks similarly fannie mae and freddie mac put taxpayers on the hook for millions of mortgages that never would meet market underwriting criteria and of course the real estate and home builder lobbies make sure mortgage interest debt unlike most personal debt remains tax deductible the ultimate result of these interventions by our caring friends in congress and the fed has been the biggest housing bubble and crash in u.s history leaving millions of americans underwater on their mortgages if they have not already lost their houses altogether congress and the fed are directly responsible for millions of shattered lives and almost unknowable economic damage in the form of trillions of dollars in mortgage-backed securities the only solution to this mess is to allow the u.s housing market to clear all of the bad mortgage debt must be liquidated whether via foreclosure or bankruptcy banks holding substantial mortgages or mortgage-backed assets must face the music and adjust their balances to reflect today's reality undoubtedly this will force many immediate insolvency but such banks must be allowed to fail without receiving another nickel of taxpayers money banks took the risk and made money during the bubble years those who exercise bad judgment now must accept the consequences of their actions never in american history have we needed to adopt the policy of laissez faire more desperately never has government seem more determined to artificially prop up an industry but only by allowing the housing market to clear can we hope to rebuild our shattered economy from a stable foundation clearly there will be pain in the short term but we owe it to younger americans and future generations to allow the emergence of a nash rational housing market the old world is collapsing and it's going to take its slave driver governments with it but what will rise up in their place in new hampshire the shire society has a plan a thriving web forum and a history of action you can sign up right now at shiresociety.com | RidleyReport | UCE_3GcvLERTeS9XFZPtRsIA | 2013-01-25 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 656 | 4,045 |
wh8wZOLYluY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh8wZOLYluY | Living Zen | [Music] [Applause] thank you tapping for that long introduction only some of which is really accurate and thank you also and kit and Janice for making it possible to be here this Saturday is always one thing you forget which is the sponsor of today's talk is our friends status as your last name yes Estel data gap don't so our sponsors like here in the front row thank you it's nice to see some familiar faces thank you for coming out on a six-pointed Saturday I think the first question that I need to address is what is them the word itself dates back to the old sense tradition when the word for meditation was dianna the hya MMA or Dianna and when Buddhism moved north from India into China the Chinese pronounced it China and when it moved off to the northeast to Korea and to to Japan the Japanese pronouncements in so then in this sense is a school of meditation that originated from back in very ancient times and those ancient times started with the story of a young man Siddhartha who was on a meditative quest to understand the meaning of life for six years herself starting when he was 26 and who after this six year interval finally decided that he was at the end of his rope and concluded that he had better sit and meditate under a Bodhi tree and the event that happened when he awakened her when he became enlightened mom has been the pivotal core of Buddhism ever since how are we doing for some in the back gate attorney okay so in the neurological sense Zen is a system of brain training of retraining our subconscious awareness you're aware that you're aware but that's the awareness that is conscious what you're not aware of is your subconscious awareness and that's going on all the time only you are not currently aware of it and will be hinting more at that latter kind of awareness in Zen training now after twenty five hundred years ago with the Buddha Zen then migrated north from India and went elsewhere in Asia why of a sudden route southern route to Sri Lanka and to Burma and then North to Afghanistan and it's the past this handout around courtesy of Hal Roth you will be able to trace some of the subsequent growth of Zen in Asia in the West we really owe our knowledge of them to DT Suzuki a Japanese author who wrote more than 30 books in English on Zen the culture engine and as it happens well then finally came to the awareness of the editors of Time magazine in 1970 1997 and of course the allure of Brad Pitt on the cover did something to perpetuate this cover reads and the cover story is on Buddhism it's on America's fascination with Buddhism in case you miss Vincent 1997 and talks about two new movies celebrity converts and hundreds of books had exist to Zen so we'll pass this around too so that you could be familiar with this new view into a very old system of brain training the second question that I think we need to address is something more about the speaker who who is speaking with you today who really is speaking with you today well about 40 years ago I could venture this comment on the speaker this was in my first book chase chance and creativity for the author said I write with some personal bias and some eccentricities which should be declared at once I find medicine and science are meaningless unless they are interwoven with the rest of nature with the arts and with the humanities and so with that brief introduction to the author many years ago it's time to turn to an idea which Gladys has brought to our attention long before which is that you can speak from the platform here until the cows come home and issue words but it's also very good to have examples visual examples of your own artwork and the particular artwork that I chosen is a pot mana I learned how to be a beginning Potter in Cairo Japan and after while returning to Denver I fashioned this all by hand following the contour in the form of the Chinese original which didn't have very much of a flower pot function in old China and since then is a product of both the China in its Confucianism its joining Buddhism and its Taoism I found that this symbol of a three yin and yang not a tube yin and then one was exemplified in the end part of the roof tile in children that happened to be lying on the so that in this pot the name of which is then you see a fusion of China and Japan of thousand of Buddhism and Confucianism and that's the cultural basis for the Zen of it we know today Thank You class [Music] so my first interests were in creativity and this is updated in the first chapters of living Xandra mindfully which is the latest book in this series I was interested in how creative ideas begin and some of these creative ideas are as a result of insightful or intuitive processes not well thought-out see really the things that flash in suddenly that of course was what happened to Siddhartha under the Bodhi tree so the first chapter is entitled can meditation enhance creative problem-solving skills a progress report and I've usually found that having a quotation from some other person often centuries before was a good way to introduce a chapter topic because most things actually had been said better than previous centuries well than they are today but in any event this is what a researcher had to say recently a state of conscious awareness that results from living in a moment it is not sufficient for creativity to come about to be creative you need to have or be trained in the ability to carefully observe notice or attend to phenomena that pass your minds on so your you may be born with certain creative gifts but from then on you have to be very a skilled and attentive person notice a lot of things and be able to pull them out of your memory and join them in some concept all at a later time this pursuit on my part of ordinary kinds of insight and intuition led to the third book in the series are selfless inside and there are some particular quotations in the section labeled on the nature of insight that are instructed one is by Robert all read in Robert all Reem was a teacher at mark in New York he lived from 1865 to 1921 and he was a very good teacher response made in art he said there are moments in our lives when we seem to see beyond the usual and become clairvoyant we reach them into reality such are the moments of our greatest happiness of our greatest wisdom at such moments there is a song going on within us as we listen it is the desire to express these songs from within that motivates all masters of art and our songs have much to do with our temporal bones and that has been a constant theme in much of the work that follows and Carl Jung who lived from 1875 to 1961 had this to say about the topic of insight and intuition he said certain contents issue from a psyche that is more complete unconsciousness psyche it is more complete than consciousness they often contain a superior analysis or insight or knowledge which consciousness has not been able to produce we have a suitable word for such occurrences the word is intuition so this is one of the themes that we'll be developing the intuition insight ordinary insight and selfless insult with a third question to attend to is how can we train our attentiveness how can we train our ability to notice how can we train our subconscious awareness this is explained in the next book which is meditating selflessly it's subtitle is practical neural Zen and here we make an old attempt to take what's been learned in neuroscience and [Music] plant a dinger of Zen training processes that enable simple meditative techniques to be more effective on teach 81 it has another example of the kind of art that of people in the neurosciences need to develop in order to make a very complex subject matter clearer so you need to go into the visual this Gladys Wong has emphasized in point because words are not enough at certain points I'll try to illustrate this with a handout which is an enlargement of this color plate but it's something that I have to develop in order to indicate what it is about our visual field of what you're now seeing as you sit there and how different parts of what you're seeing in your visual field originated back in your brain this means that in one figure you've got to have a range shown you've got to see what Raymond seeing out of the world I've got to make this concept come forth and then you have to put enough color into it to develop the notion that the northern parts of the brain Morgan which Illustrated in the left hemisphere here are up here in the superior part of the brain these northern egocentric self-centered oriented parts of the brain pursue a different pathway from the southern routes largely through the temporal lobe which are oriented toward perceiving things outside one sense of self and since ego refers to self it should by now sort of become clear that owl this owl stands for other they're both Greek words female centric owl centric self-referent other referent what is this other referent part of the brain do I can't convince you with this but I can want to tell you that it allows you and you are sitting here at this very moment to perceive the world outside your skin in an anonymous way the key word is a mouse there's nobody back here in the center of your brain that is possessing this moment for you this is a reflection that you will that proceeds anonymously and subconsciously courtesy largely of many nerve cells have happened to pursue a lower part in our brain and we pulled together and very coherent but subconscious registration so what is this egocentric part of the brain largely set up to accomplish the things in the brain are complicated and that crossover which means that the upper part of the brain is chiefly our and at our focusing towards the lower part of the environment and especially to the lower part of the environment that you can reach out into when your lap close to and accomplish things in this is means anything you can manipulate with your hands lies below your horizon of vision down here close to you and what is called technically Perry personal space on the other hand what you can accomplish through the allocentric pathways in the lower part of the brain is more oriented to what goes on out of your reach out farther in the horizon or vision and hearing help you hear saber-tooth Tigers that are in the nearby bush before they wind up in your lap doing this one taker you know there is a lot of information talks about the different styles of attention the talks about northern and southern routes talks about focal attention talks about global attention and summarizes a lot of very complex information in now Cathy mentioned that there would be something about haiku but in this talk and I don't want to disappoint her and so I will give you a very thin haiku to mull over [Music] the old pond frog jumps in plop that's all there is there ain't no more three lines and the emphasis is on direct experience what are you going to be going turtle as you hear this you're going to be hearing the plot here is a temporal lobe function you're going to be hearing something that is pretty unusual this chapter is entitled by show the Haiku poet and I'll read a few ones this essay is motivation began over eight decades ago I grew up in a city in northern Ohio not until I visited my uncle's farm the VAIO at the age of nine did I first hear this distinctive plot it arose from region seven yards away here a pool lay hidden beyond the bend of the gentle metal screen what caused that curious sound I went there saw nothing remain mystified but days later I finally saw a tree frog lead into the water simultaneously I heard what happened this sudden comprehension resolved the mystery it left a deep impression that remains memorable to this day in these next pages we take a neural perspective to examine the evidence pro and con that Zen sensibilities came to mature in the later life and poetry of the men who came to be called Mutsu Marshall who was formed 1644 one of the things that Daschle did has become very sensitive to direct experience in the outside world and enjoying some he imported many of these moments and put them into his poetry he wrote a total of 1012 haiku which have been carefully looked into and brought into a single book and by accessing bond shouts of troubles of these thousand or so poems it becomes clear that at least one out of six of his liquor poems were specifically triggered by his noticing birds now ordinarily those of you who write poems do not account for one sixth of your total by focusing on birds but bow Joe did - I did and we put a number of these together in the warmth of the in one of the chapters in the earlier books and bring thousands in the chapter called Aidan's in because of the whole trove of ancient sand stories that talk about how seeing or hearing birds acts as a physiological trigger the catcher's attention and that triggers the emergence of a spontaneous on a state of heightened attention awareness and some of which belong to an Enlightenment kind of awakening the chapter entitled 18 zen has two interesting and very pertinent quotations the first is by Henry Thoreau one that I hadn't heard of or least hadn't noticed before I became aware that in Colombia there was a younger woman who exemplified the Audubon approach to life and Thoreau said I once had a sterile a light on my shoulder imagine spero emotional I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any applet that I could have worn and the next quotation is by Zen Minster genre Suzuki Roshi who had a very prominent Zen Center in San Francisco petrel honestly said I don't know anything about consciousness I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing Athens n so what we've tried to do in this single large table the livings and remindful is go through bow shows I could particularly ladder 800 of them and go into the number of different kinds of birds that he found so worthwhile to notice and pay attention to and incorporate into his own - the chapters entitled Zen and the daily life incremental training of vowels attention the daily life incremental training of Ascension the little moments of heightened perception and awareness it's introduced by two quotations the first is by a Koreans that master some some and he said keep your mind clear like space but let it function like the tip of an evil I know of no single sentence that more neatly encapsulate s' of the kind of result that meditative training is designed to produce a global awareness that is clear and simultaneously the ability to penetrate to a single shark top-down focus of attention and to be able to switch back and forth the truth between the two with great flexibility to take in the finer details the fine grain perception and the global big picture this is the essence of meditative training in whatever school you belong to and the second quotation is by Jose Ortega y Gasset tell me - what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are [Music] we're each motivated by a lifetime of experiences to pay different kinds of attention to different things in our lives and these are the signature of our personality certain things turn us on certain things turns off that's who we are [Music] so the avian theme and then is also brought out in another title that has a Kilmer's twist which is entitled sometimes that is for the birds it starts with a quotation from a Zen master Dracula 10th century offend yang who said the sound of the Bell the chirp of the sparrow it's through these that one meets the true servants seeking it someplace else is a deluded waste of effort I was reading analogous to the journal where at silikal came across an account an article written by Peter Coyote well how many of you recognize the name at least Peter Coyote as somebody who heard about before a few well I didn't know that Peter Coyote was a Zen student I knew of him as a narrator as an actor but the Peter Coyote was a long-standing students in and went on a long retreat wait was 68 well then he found a pretty rigorous in the story that I read and went like this on the sixth day of the retreat late in the afternoon he had just stepped out doors and took several cases to begin the next period of rapid walking meditation and suddenly a bird nearby started to shriek hmm startled he heard these cause as the answer to a cone that he had been working on in a way that seemed to be the direct answer to the question of his coal one step later and he had dissolved into an Enlightenment experience in type of control Sitara every old boundary vanish that has separated itself from other we go from a low nothing remained of his former fearful defense itself nothing remained that had it to be done an all-inclusive awareness perceived this larger domain it had no physical location this was an anonymous awareness it was inseparable from the entire universe and was perfect without time eternally in his words well I thought this was pretty interesting and so I sent a copy of this story to Peter Coyote and vulnerable he thanked me and thanked vanna's that incorrectly because she had supplied the fact that this bird was a scrub jay not a camp jay I rely on this authoritative kind of support all regard her as an earring so is directly in the direction of avian sin the next question is why does awakening occur that's a very tough one and I'm not sure that I can answer this from this platform even given a lot of time but I can tell you that if you have a lot of technical background you would be able to decipher this figure which indicates in graphic form the fact the deep inside the center of the brain is the structure known as the columns that is an intimate contact with the cortex that is an oscillating contact with the cortex and that if certain parts of the thalamus are inhibited climb and hit Authority transmitter and GABA but it is then possible to turn off the fearful self reference self that gets in our way and to open the passageways so with more of our Allison processing can go wide and I'll pass this around simply illustrate that there are figures that approach that's topic which is the one in which words are no longer adequate now there are some other chapters in this book there's one about a record-setting baseball hitters name is Shawn green there is something more about haiku poetry there's something more about the Enzo or the circle that's on the cover that circle was taken from a book of calligraphy it's a little calligraphy that was given to me by my calligraphy teacher in the Kyoto Terry Alice okay who gave me as I was leaving him the circle done with his brush which is the kind of cultural treasure that one receives in Japan when one enters into the culture as a fledgling student and which is given to one by the instructor that's examples of his own calligraphy to motivate one when Don returns thank you when one returns to the other world in the West and I think we post enough questions and have tangled enough elusive answers before the group is after them so thank you for your attention thank you for your anonymous awareness and let's proceed to questions and answers [Music] he went to Kyoto in 1974 yes and have you been back involved behind the vaccinated in seven eight times is my teacher Guevara no she was live for much of that period and himself was a calligrapher and Potter has served to motivate some of my own efforts in both directions his calligraphy was a very fluid quick spontaneous but it was interesting that after he went to China on a visit to mainland and centers mansion well it became more classical one structure than followed the Orthodox traditions of China at that time just recently this first book was translated into mainland Chinese well characters follow but I think I should mention that it had very difficult time as a project working its way through the democracy and sensors which was not the experience that the Taiwan version of the book had that's not what kind of things were sensible well on the whole notion of a quasi religion or spiritual movement that was close to reason tenement Square incident was very powerful still in the minds of the Chinese bureaucracy when the single person faced down the tank and so on that was a sort of the unorthodox movement that tried to objective prevailing Dawn's and Buddhism in China while they for yourself had another month time which it was suppressed as a foreign import so the notion of some way of thinking or believing or acting that comes from another country is even with us today in this country yes what have you noticed in your practice of calligraphy and in your practice of making pottery you have those moments of insight and awakening is that familiar to you through the practice of those are I can't at all honestly say that making a pot has been the trigger for the wakening experience but I have noticed that when the table actually managed to come out through my hands that was a feeling of great relief under what I had but I can say that the notion to put together a brain in the one hand and a visual field in the other hand was a notion that sort of took formed some place below consciousness and maybe with a little extra help from of the kind of revelry in the early morning hours that enabled the to the coalesce on one page question mark yes what if one is to practice mindfulness as you seem to recommend I what what kind of a schedule you suggest that in a general way a person to do this is a daily thing and mindfulness is a process of daily training oneself daily train to pay deliver attention to the present moment what's going on and to savor the moments of appreciation or reflection but then to be able to let them go and to move on to the next moment it's also in general vey an invitation to get adequate amounts of sleep sort of bonus and sleepwalking through a day to get near the ideal of seven or eight hours of sleep present it will see and it's an invitation to be more introspective and about once failures and essence so that there is a moral monitoring of one's way of living that develops at deeper levels of the subconscious because part of the goal here the unannounced role is the kind of spontaneity that one sees exemplified in Zen master which is a quick automatic reflexive form come on total response to the immediate moment in a way it is supremely fitting to the and it's expressed with album who fear or without much self-involved this kind of reflexive ability to be like the baseball hitter when one major-league game could hit five homers why yes Leonard Cohen was a letter home with his anger issues yes you see in his music and expression of it I don't know the answer to that question well I don't because I'm not familiar with Leonard Cohen's music I just know that he lived in a Zen community or in size and community and he himself felt when his Zen meditation training was very important to his spontaneity speaking of a Zen called who died recently was also on lovable musician so I don't know the answer to that question that's I assume that the goal or the hope would be that general if you practice like everyone in the world perhaps because we get that later Christmas in your book we talked about altruism test and the focus on connection and other business yes and I was wondering what thoughts you have in terms of the turkey world Keith this is a beauty pageant for segment the different apps even at a younger age we might acquire some of these traits of I guess you say autonomous anonymous oh she's the anonymous mindful at an early age other than just perhaps coming to this study and interest in the later stage in life after so a crisis of medical disease or something like that well the good news is contain non-religious identified kind of meditation in the form of being mindful has been introduced into great school classes now not only in the West thanks to the efforts of Jon kabat-zinn but throughout the world so there's a lot more opportunity to get into a meditative approach to life then there was two decades ago the session three decades ago or four decades ago an academic would be embarrassed by getting up before you and saying he was a Zen meditators then so longer there's no longer the situation will this be a benefit to lawyers that they're now doing it - well a good friend of mine when Riskin occupied a professorship at the University in the law school on the basis of his ability to say hey you guys are fighting all the time of each other contending and although he's winning but you learn how to meditate you'll be able to readjust here competing impulses and everybody will come out a little better and that was his pinch and he was a very valuable faculty member monk our faculty which is been recruited ladies University corporal I I sit with them in the group when he first joined the meditative practice yeah okay so here our whole bouncy witness to transformation yes okay so your whole hand is this just an old gym I think this is just a comment on what I find is the beauty of getting into writing allowing yourself to sit in a quiet place blank piece of paper in front of you or a blank screen and go into that place and see what's in mine and see what spilled out on your your page is a for me writing has become over the last quarter century a kind of meditation that's and it's a wonderful part of the journey is you don't know where you're going when you started that just takes you with it and I know graduates on Ababu soccer is just published his first book of poetry and poetry comes to him from a lot of place that he left his mind oh and you know in stressful times you know I recommend this for everyone and in sometimes it's picking up a book that someone else is written but that where you can go in and get lost in that story I almost say a word about the other place you're talking about because the figure that we passed around shows that one of the other places is a distant scene in the mountains with a bit of blue sky up above and this refers in a very direct way - the way the allocentric form of processing takes in the world above the horizon contrast that with how many of our people in the under generation and in the other generations are not occupied every day when they're wrong and held fiddling around typing in texting situation which is the mall down perry personal space self-centered within reach and one of the interesting things about being a nature oriented person is that the studies have been made at Stanford of the creative impulse and the socially oriented altruistic impulses of people in two groups some of whom went into a very tall eucalyptus grove at Stanford which is one of the highest trees in North America as a consequence than just being in an atmosphere in an atmosphere in which there are green trees at higher altitudes and looking up and getting out away from the South back in the slipper it's very conducive to the more affirmative impulses so getting out for a good nature walk called and not staying too long writing down what's going on in your lab none it's also a way to help sponsor but your example about being in the forest of eucalyptus also invites an enormous aroma and welcome to Casa that's true but even on virtual reality situations that approach without a room the upper visual fields turn out to be more creative and affirmative just a person to trained and then move from information of which there is too much we're all here in my opinion but move from the necessary information we must have into this more altruistic larger world can we learn to toggle back and forth we do it all the time some people do there's a long time and and we're not talking about multitasking necessarily in here because multitasking as a whole different subject we're talking about flexibility in moving from the pin point to the mobile from the phone call to the global and back and forth at just the right time allowing the global the taken realms of information and the focal to work on and digest what's important and then back and forth again yeah that's known as fluid intelligence and 63 any students who had been meditating for up to five years were studied in 19 in 2012 and it turned out in 20 minutes of zen meditation was important enough to provide a statistical increase in their ability to solve creative types of problems which remote associates are extra kinds of creative tests so what regard is then itself then has short term influences on creativity when Zen meditation is followed immediately thereafter by many intense if you're asking a long-term question no longitudinal studies have not yet been done program studies so hopefully in a way you're an example of that because you focus on medical and scientific data but you refer it to a larger world callers yeah I was going on before I dive into Sun nonato is 11 o'clock and eucalyptus trees are out there somewhere no Siobhan you and very patiently anticipation so and thank you so very very much | Jim Austin | UCa7cJQG6c-aZ0DKsQZmOh2Q | 2017-05-30 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 5,380 | 29,112 |
HEk2xaeC_Lg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEk2xaeC_Lg | Show Ur wife’s face – Afia Schwar attαcks & εxposes Kofi Adoma on crαzy tiktok couple & Hajia4Real | foreign [Music] foreign what has he done for them what has he done for them because these people need counseling these people they need counseling they need psychological Council Council they need religious counsel what has he done for them other than artwork interview and cashing out and cashing out and these couples need medical attention to start with not the fear not the accomplished them every what can we fear people want to know about your wife's miracle come and explain how people were chasing you according to stories we heard how people were chasing you and they want to stand in the church but you couldn't tell anybody in the church that people were chasing you and you came out and they beat you that's to come and make it make sense come and make it make sense for us come and explain how allegedly a married woman who came to do her internship in multimedia you ended up in his in in her room that is what people are alleging coffee come and defend yourself come and clean your reputation fear just to find what you eat en or be when when funny first needed medical attention bloggers were cashing in from it bloggers were cashing in from these guys predicament to their point that it was so worse it was so worse foreign if not 40 or 50 of whatever happened to funny things adding adding bruh a bit of fear every second and make your story make sense come and make your story come and make it make sense because it does not make sense to ghanaians come and make it make sense because it does not make sense and his own period because yes sorry foreign make it make sense come and make that story make sense come and make that story make sense I come and make that story makes sense explain to ghanaians who gives a [ __ ] about them in the first place who are they who are they religious book about them who gives a [ __ ] about them who are they who are they Lupita and president Lupita any Godfather who really gives a [ __ ] about them as they say winning numbers and they really when are you going to end the miracle story for us when are you going to end your marriage story for us when are you going to be a man to show the face of the woman you took from another man when ghanaians are hypocrites place really really who do you think ghanaians are interested to hear from your marriage how you ended up with another man's wife allegedly we want to find out we want to find out when somebody is going through predicament when somebody is going through a a Yahoo when somebody is going to a phase of life we don't cast from it you have the person and then in due time that person will come out and say say oh man that means [Music] when somebody is telling and and and what is wrong with real one what is wrong with it foreign dog Meats do you know the number of people that eats dog Meats do you know the number of people that eats cats do you know the number of people that eat snakes were we all created equality or we were once again what the [ __ ] is wrong huh is [Music] sometimes we should give people the benefit of the doubts don't add to their predicament I think then there's somebody that there's somebody now basically two families are dragging each other two families who mommy been swapping every video why why [Music] why [Music] actually foreign [Music] why when somebody is going to problem yeah and I say a savior nobody I want to a savior God's righteous people um foreign [Music] why have we chosen not to give some people peace in this country what acting adding adding adding now two families are fighting they are fighting they are calling each other on social media and these are not celebrating families made of what to say yeah what's happening [Music] celebrities [Music] 13. [Music] don't do that you don't do that you don't you don't you do not take advantage of sick people you don't do that bro you don't do that it's out of the street code you don't do that you do not go after people who are going through a lot you don't do that you don't go after people who are going through challenges you don't invade people's privacy for your financial gains which is what you are doing hey again you feel sometimes Ghana foreign [Music] come and make it make sense [Music] it doesn't make sense so come and make it make sense to us you are back to talk about other people but we have to talk about yours because until you went on a commercial break nowadays [Music] the fact that we went for a commercial break does not mean that coffee any miraculous [Music] she's got the same mind right she's got the same man right you don't do that is [Music] you don't do that any any Amazon period and yet obey one or be or be and um if you can't help if you can't help don't go there if you want to help somebody you don't go and catch him from that person foreign to prove to us foreign [Music] foreign [Music] we will go back and finish that story um [Music] he said the only one year anytime you can afford interview I wanted to know why I will not marry a man I feed no we want to know how a married woman ended up in your room or you ended up in a married woman's room and we did not hear the end of the story Master yeah foreign come and defend yourself come and tell your story that's the okra two weeks I am not your mommy don't come and call me Mommy here Rock angel I'm not your mummy [ __ ] off come and explain yourself foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] story another story because 2015 2016 2017 there you have it no you you had a wife you had the wife but you were taking another man's wife you were literally dragging her from her majimonial home okay you don't want to handle that story you don't ghanaians are more interested in that story than Lupita [Music] um we all know that God Papa they're good you didn't mean nobody we all know that woman that woman that they have those couple we all know and um [Music] that's not how you changed your first wife out of the out of the house I still have the video how did we get there been to them foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign interview woman come and interview your first the children had with your first wife so that the children will tell us the useless of a father you are wondering threw away your first wife and your children for what they matter foreign foreign come and talk about that come come and talk about that [Music] the interview woman go interview your children let's see how they feel towards you dance really really really really [Music] really you want you you you disgust me you disgust me you and then when you let's assume that their colony or go through psychological trauma like this YouTube everybody are the best kids Young 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W-V2ETGnskE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-V2ETGnskE | House, Garden and Field: A Collection of Short Nature Studies | Louis Compton Miall | English | 5/6 | chapter 45 of house garden and field by lc meal this librivox recording is in the public domain a school course on the structure and life of insects methods of displaying insect structures to many people at once i wish to supply hints for a short school course on insects besides supplying information on insects as a class i propose to show how the structure of an insect can be made evident to a number of pupils at once and this is the difficult part of my enterprise the methods which i recommend will i know seem too laborious to most teachers yet they have all been carried out successfully in my own classroom and i see no reason why they should not be practiced in some of the better equipped schools an oxyhydrogen or better still an electric lantern is required the teachers should be practiced in the simpler methods of demonstrating and mounting insect structures the life histories of a few common insects should also be rendered familiar by rearing the insects in breeding cages i do not recommend this subject to all teachers nor to all amateur naturalists some knowledge skill and experience are called for and the study is better suited to a small class of elder pupils than to a large class of beginners many of the characteristic features of an insect can be seen by the naked eye or a lens of low power but this is not quite enough it is sometimes indispensable to examine minute parts such as jaws or air tubes we have found it a simple matter to fit a low microscope objective two inches or one inch to the lantern and this makes it possible to show to a whole class at once every detail which is likely to be profitable to young students we may i think anticipate that the facilities which the optical lantern affords will soon be more widely turned to account and that the higher elementary schools at least will before long be provided with the means of demonstrating to a number of pupils simultaneously the most necessary details of animal and plant structure an elementary knowledge of optics or a few trials are necessary to put the objective into its right place the lantern objective is removed and the microscopic objective substituted for it a stage carrying the object comes outside the objective and all the parts are placed as in the compound microscope when arranged for work the next point to be considered is how to absorb a large part of the heat rays concentrated upon the object which would soften the mounting medium or scorch the object itself a glass tank filled with water was first used this is liable to the objection that when the water grows warm bubbles appear and the water becomes more or less opaque to light glycerin was next tried with far better results my colleague dr stroud suggested that the right liquid to employ is that which is used for mixing with the mounting medium if for instance turpentine or wood spirit is employed to dilute the canada balsam of the preparation turpentine or wood spirit must be put into the heat absorbing tank the rays which are most readily absorbed by the mounting medium will then be absorbed in advance we have tried this plan with excellent results and consider the heat difficulty as disposed of the tanks should be made in one piece and the operator should remember that turpentine and wood spirit are very flammable our tanks were made by york glass company it is a pleasure to acknowledge the skill and kindness of my colleague dr stroud who devised the simple but excellent lantern microscope which we now use the cockroach of the kitchen which like the frog or the crayfish is one of the martyrs of science may be taken for a first lesson on insect structure distributing dead specimens to the class we note the external features of an insect the body is defended by an external armor composed of a substance resembling horn in texture but differing from horn and composition this substance is called chitin it is one of the very few components of the bodies of animals which can resist the action of boiling alkalis however strong for the sake of flexibility the chitinous armor is divided into segments and these segments are united by membranous junctions where the chitinous covering though not interrupted becomes thin and flexible the segments are grouped into three regions head thorax and abdomen there are three pairs of legs one pair to each segment of the thorax the head is furnished with a pair of feelers a pair of compound eyes and biting jaws which will be seen very indistinctly in the hall cockroach along the sides of the body in the thin membranes which unite the segments are the breathing holes or spiracles but these cannot be well seen without special preparation we can next show by means of the lantern microscope further details which require enlargement the head of a cockroach may be prepared for demonstration in this way cut it off hold it between the finger and the thumb pass a scalpel into the mouth press the edge upwards and thus divide the head into a front and a back half boil these in a solution of caustic potash 10 for a quarter of an hour or more then soak in water changing the water now and then until the potash is completely removed get rid of the water by soaking in methylated alcohol afterwards an absolute alcohol and lastly in turpentine mount in balsam and the preparation is ready some days should however be allowed for hardening before any balsam preparation is put into the lantern watch glasses may be used to hold costly fluids like absolute alcohol put the front half of the head into the lantern observe the large compound eyes made transparent by the potash the long many jointed antennae the mandibles with their strong tooth-like prominences and the labrum a flap which covers in the front of the mouth a close observer can tell by the details of the antenna whether the head so displayed is that of a male or of a female cockroach next put the hind half of the head into the lantern point out that there are now seen two other pairs of jaws called maxillie the four pair of these are quite separate from one another the hind pair are smaller and united at the base each of the four maxillae bears a slender jointed palp which is used by the insect to examine its food how does the palp differ in the two maxille what are the most obvious differences between the feeding organs of a cockroach and those of a man a snail a crayfish or any other animal known to the class one of the legs may be mounted in the same way and shown by the lantern microscope or studied with a simple lens do not plague a class of children with latin names for the joints of the legs and do not name them at all unless you foresee that the names will be necessary or at least convenient in the present stage of your work extend the wing covers and wings if your cockroach possesses them in the common cockroach of the kitchen only the male has them well developed the large american cockroach which is now supplied by many dealers has the wings well developed in both sexes note that the four wing wing cover is attached to the mid thorax and the hind wing to the hind thorax the wing covers if well developed are stiff and cannot be folded when at rest one overlies the other the membranous wings are folded fan wise the female of the common cockroach has short and quite useless wing covers and instead of wings we find only a slight branch pattern stamped as it were upon the back of the thorax the upper half of a cockroach abdomen which has been cleared with potash may be displayed in the lantern observe the segments the flexible membranes by which they are united and the pair of jointed tails which project behind the tails have probably some real use but it would be hard to explain what it is some have thought that they serve as feelers in the dark recesses where the cockroach lurks and give warning of the approach of dangers from behind in a cricket they look very like a hind pair of antennae the breathing organs of an insect are more easily demonstrated in a caterpillar than in a cockroach it is easy to prepare a piece of the integument of one side which will with the help of the lantern display the spiracles with admirable clearness the branched air tubes may be exhibited either in the form of a microscopic preparation or a photograph from the same the elementary canal of a cockroach and a great part of its nerve cord can if desired be mounted as lantern slides the simple lens is an excellent aid to the study of insect structures a lens magnifying five or six diameters and suitably mounted is not expensive whites of wetzler makes a good one for eight shillings but where handicraft is practice it is better to buy nothing but the glass lens and make your own dissecting microscope in the school see shearins through a pocket lens the study of enlarged preparations and of living insects may be accompanied or followed by some such remarks as follow what is an insect an insect belongs to the large group of arthropod animals which all have the body defended by a jointed kittenous armor not only the body but the legs also are jointed hence the name arthropod which means with jointed feet among the arthropods which are not insects come the crayfish and other crustaceans the spiders and scorpions the centipedes and millipedes an insect is sufficiently defined as a six-legged air-breathing arthropod the air tubes of insects all insects are air breathers it is true that some are so entirely aquatic during their early stages as to possess skills the bloodworm is a common example but every adult insect breathes by taking in gaseous air the chief purpose of the wing stage in an insect is the dispersal of the eggs and this purpose would usually be defeated altogether if the egg-laying insect could not range through the air no insect breathes by taking an air through its mouth the same thing is true of the greater part of animals it is only vertebrates which breathe through their mouths an insect has a row of holes along the sides of its body through which air is admitted or expelled the hulls spiracles are defended by valves and sometimes by an elaborate fringe of branched hairs which not only exclude dust but water you may have observed that when an insect falls into water it does not speedily drown its spiracles exclude the air sufficiently long to give it fair time to wriggle out have you ever seen an insect breathing a bee or wasp moves the joints of its abdomen in and out bending or straightening them at the same time some other insects raise or depress the upper surface of the abdomen whatever the action it has the effect of alternately enlarging and contracting the cavity of the body it is not enough to provide a series of holes the air must be forcibly driven along through them and along the air tubes into which they lead for this purpose it is necessary that the insect should be able to close the inlets tightly unless the air is put under pressure it cannot be forced along narrow passages and it cannot be put under pressure so long as it is free to escape just within the spiral the air tube leading inwards is made to pass through a clip and by means of the clip the air tube can be throttled at pleasure this is always done before the body cavity contracts the blood which fills the cavity transmits the pressure to the walls of the air tubes and drives the air into the ultimate recesses examination of the tissues of an insect's body shows that they are traversed and overlaid by air tubes which branch continually until they become extremely fine a thread wound spirally around every tube acts like the iron wire often used to line a flexible gas pipe in both cases the spiral thread prevents the tube from kinking when sharply bent insect transformations one of the best known and most interesting peculiarities of insects is the transformation which so many of them undergo most of them pass the chief part of their lives as larvae or grubs and do all their feeding and growing in this stage then they turn to flies and lay their eggs many but not all pass through a resting stage just before they acquire wings two questions call for consideration at this point why should so many insects get wings before they lay their eggs why does a resting stage so often precede the wing stage wings are necessary i believe to all insects which are very particular about the place where they lay their eggs suppose that a particular caterpillar will feed only on the leaves of buckthorn if the female moth lays all her eggs on the tree where she herself was reared that tree will soon be overstocked while there may be plenty of other trees of the same species which are untouched it would evidently be far safer if many generations are to be reared in succession that the eggs should be laid a few together on a number of trees now a creeping insect could not manage this it would exhaust itself to no purpose in seeking fresh plants but if the egg-laying moth can fly and if it is furnished with acute senses it can make its way to plant after plant and distribute the eggs widely it will be a work of time to lay eggs in a number of different places and the moth which undertakes the task must be able to feed for some days at least it would never do for her to depend upon the coarse vegetable food on which she subsisted as a larva that would weight her body and interfere with her flight besides taking up too much of her time the sweet and nutritious juices of flowers are much more suitable they can be sipped rapidly and the weight is insignificant change of food brings with it a change of mouth parts the insect discards the biting jaws of the caterpillar and acquires a new sucking proboscis the sucking proboscis leads to yet further complications for there will be an interval during which the old mouth parts are out of gear while the new ones are not quite ready for use change of food leads therefore to a resting stage but among the moss and other winged insects we find one here and there which does not require to scatter its eggs widely and such insects as these sometimes lose their wings altogether the female vapor moth is a well-known example here the caterpillar is not at all particular about its food the leaves of most garden shrubs and trees suit its taste moreover this caterpillar can run about very well in this case therefore all the eggs may be safely laid in one place and the female need not fly at all evidently her ancestors used to fly for the stumps of wings can still be discerned on her back the male vaporer flies very well and both male and female still go through their resting stage the size of insects insects are small animals a very large beetle may measure four and a half inches in length but this includes a long horn one of the longest stick insects so called because the body and legs resemble dry sticks may be nearly a foot long but the weight of such an insect is by no means great some dragonflies are about six inches long and there are some moss whose wings can expand to about a foot none of these relatively enormous insects are found in this country what the exact size of the smallest insect may be i cannot tell i have seen a full-grown parasitic fly escape from an insect egg which was not distinctly visible to the naked eye the small size of insects throw some light upon their extreme ingenuity being unable to defend themselves or to attack other animals by main force they have commonly to use artifice instead the disguises of insects are enumerable they escape notice by their resemblance to leaves sticks bird droppings and an infinity of other objects they creep into crevices or spin together particles of sand wood leaves and shells many of them when alarmed sham dead though few insects are formidable to other animals by reason of their biting power many can sting injecting a poison into the minute wound which they make a poison which is far more dreaded than the wound itself the strength of insects there is a widespread but quite mistaken impression that if fair allowance is made for their small size insects will be found to be the very strongest of animals kirby and spence tell us that a chafer allowing for a difference of size is six times as strong as a horse and they confirmed the estimate of linnaeus that if the elephant were as strong in proportion as the stag beetle he would be able to level mountains such statements as these are based on the supposition that if one animal is ten times as long as another it should be able to draw or lift 10 times as much but this is altogether fallacious if the larger animal were identical in shape and build with the smaller one it should be a hundred times as strong while it would weigh a thousand times as much the proportion of muscular strength to weight falls therefore as the size increases and before long the animal would as a mere consequence of increased size become incapable of moving its body at all it is only because the horse is expressly adapted to large size by its mechanical construction and actuated by muscles of far greater power that it compares so well as it does with an insect if it resembled an insect and build in composition we may safely predict that it could not even stand the abodes of insects the versatility of insects is very great as a glance at their places of abode shows there are insects which live in the earth on trees in ponds and streams in torrance in the sea in brine pits on glaciers and snow fields in hot springs with skull to hand a small beetle will live and multiply for years in a bottle of argoyle crude potassium tartrate drawing its whole nourishment from that uninviting substance more than one insect finds its home and its food in the living colonies of the freshwater sponge a leaf is not too thin for burrowing larvae of many kinds many caterpillars and fly larvae run their tortuous galleries between the upper and lower epidermis of bramble leaves buttercup leaves and many others pupating in the excavated space and emerging as moths or flies having accomplished their whole growth at the expense of a small fraction of the living cells which are contained in a single leaf insects and honey honey is a product worked out by insects and flowers for their mutual advantage the flowers contribute more than the insects for they can apparently make a little honey by themselves but the cooperation of insects was necessary to the extensive and profitable natural industry which has sprung from such unimportant beginnings honey occurs in nature either as bee honey or flower honey it is not known for certain that these two kinds differ in any material respect the honey bee collects sweet juices from flowers stores them in its crop an enlarged part of the gullet and then disgorges them into a comb made ready for the purpose one thing which makes us believe that the honey is not digested before being disgorged is that it differs so much according to the plants from which it has been obtained clover heather orange blossoms labiate flowers mint rosemary and the like affect the taste smell color and consistency of the honey honey from poisonous flowers is sometimes itself poisonous such differences would not be likely to occur if the honey had been really digested how did plants come to make honey the possibility of such a thing arose when green plants found out how to decompose carbonic acid in presence of sunlight sugar then appeared in cells and was ready to be excreted whenever a sufficient reason should exist various parts of green plants exude sugar leaves leaf stalks etc and the next step namely the exudation of sugar at the base of the floral leaves is not a very great one if insects attracted to the flower by the hope of pollen happened to find honey as well that would be a powerful motive for coming again the flowers which had secreted the honey would get their seeds fertilized more readily than others and thus would be founded that alliance between flowers and insects which is now so well established that many flowers cannot set their seeds at all if insects are kept off by a muslin net it only remained to bring the mechanism to perfection the honey became more abundant exuded only at the time when the pollen was ready for transference and was not only protected more and more carefully from rain and marauders but placed just where it would ensure fertilization the perfume which is so powerful and aid in attracting insects is usually only the perfume of the honey itself the insects on their side acquired an increased appetite for honey and increased expertness in finding it their crops enlarged they learned how to make storehouses for their honey using first of all it may be natural cavities then cells of earth clay or impure pollen and lastly cells of wax the wax was no doubt at first very impure and used very sparingly as is still the case with the less expert insects the most advanced bee communities use it in large quantities though always with the most scrupulous economy the process of wax making by hive bees leaves no doubt that they make it out of honey how i cannot tell some palms and other plants are also able to make wax out of sugar upon the possibility of making wax and storing honey is founded the whole economy of the more complex bee societies ants though they are fond of honey have not got so far as to make wax they early took a line of their own gave up the regular exercise of flight most of them losing their wings altogether and thus while gaining greater facility in underground work relinquished all the chief advantages of a close cooperation with flowering plants flies are often honeyseekers and a few flies have powerfully affected the structure of certain flowers but in general they are an expert at this work and seldom secure for themselves a monopoly of a particular source of honey as bees and moths so often do injuries done by insects long chapters have been written among others by those excellent old naturalists kirby and spence on the injuries and benefits which we receive from insects nearly all our crops are injured by insects and sometimes the injury amounts to destruction we may see the gooseberry bushes stripped of their leaves year after year apples often fall half-grown to the ground or are cankered at the core as the result of insect attacks time would fail even to name the insects which prey upon the most useful of our plants let us just mention the locust the wire worm the turnip fly and the various sorts of beetles called weevils as pernicious examples stores of grain furs skins woolen fabrics and other valuable products are continually ravaged by insects the white ants of tropical countries and our native clothes moths are notorious for the mischief which they do certain insects cause great damage by their attacks on cattle sheep and horses while a few are harmful or even deadly to man himself it has been discovered of late years that malarial fevers are due to the bite of a gnat when it pierces the skin to draw blood then that introduces a microscopic parasite from its own salivary gland in human blood the parasite multiplies perdiciously and by penetrating the blood corpuscles sets up the fever other gnats in turn become infected by drawing blood from malaria's patients and so the round is kept up it is probable that several formidable diseases are propagated by different insects benefits received from insects the list of benefits conferred by insects is not so long but it includes some that we could ill spare insects are one great agent for the destruction of corrupting substances of many kinds in visits to sewage works i have been struck by remarking how much putrid matter is turned into small flies and scattered harmlessly over the face of the country insects yield the favorite food of many birds and fishes which we prize as useful or agreeable insects yield honey wax cochneal lac and silk but i suppose that the chief benefit which we draw from the existence of insects springs from their activity in the fertilization of flowers many useful and beautiful plants would cease to ripen seed at all if it were not for the visits of insects the numbers of insects more insects have been described by naturalists than animals of all other kinds put together and many sorts of insects are extremely plentiful so that it is not unlikely that a majority of the animals now living on the surface of the globe are insects the only doubt relates to microscopic creatures far smaller even than insects and nobody can at present even guess how many of these there may be insects and man the surface of the earth is a battlefield on which a vast number of animals strive with one another for space and room the advantage in this contest is by no means necessarily with the powerful numbers and artfulness have often prevailed over strength it would seem as if the struggle was bound to remain forever undecided were it not that in the last ages an agent of mighty power has appeared before whom many of the combatants seem unable to make an effective stand the great beasts of prey die out where he establishes himself animals with hoofs and horns are enslaved by him and made to do his work all creatures that interfere with his purposes find in him a steady enemy whose plans are handed down from generation to generation this enemy is man who alone among animals can record his experience and take counsel with kindred whom he has never seen there is no chance for the biggest and fiercest animals in rivalry with man it remains to be seen whether or not the most insignificant of animals can hold out against him by reason of their numbers and the ease with which they escape notice somebody has lately been so bold as to propose that mankind should undertake the extermination of the whole race of insects sparing i suppose the honeybee and perhaps one or two others of undeniable utility whether it is desirable to extirpate the insects or not i will not consider just now but will content myself with remarking that their prodigious numbers their powers of flight and their wide distribution make the task of extermination infinitely more difficult than any enterprise which man has hitherto accomplished or even undertaken i have sometimes thought that in an isolated country like britain it might be possible to exterminate a particular farm insect at any rate for a time by prohibiting for a whole year the growth of the crop on which it subsists there are not many injurious insects which are absolutely restricted to one food plant but there appear to be some the difficulty which i foresee in extirpating a single species of noxious insects makes me very indifferent to a project for the extirpation of insects in general throughout the world we shall have plenty of time to weigh the consequences before it becomes a matter of practical business end of chapter 45 chapter 46 of house garden and field by elsie meal this librivox recording is in the public domain vacation rambles the expansion of our towns and cities is ruining much that the naturalist loves london has devoured many a pleasant wood and field a little more than a hundred years ago queen's square hard by southampton row was thought to be a beautiful abode because it commanded an unbroken view of hampstead and highgate the naturalists of the first half of the 19th century looked upon leicesterstone tottenham highgate sydenham and blackheath as unspoiled country where nature could be explored without hindrance our busy provincial towns grow with almost equal rapidity i know of a little valley near leeds where in my own boyhood rare marsh plants and curious insects were to be found in undisturbed profusion that valley is now crowded with forges die works and back to back houses near sunderland was once a delightful dean where a bright stream flowed into rock pools which filled with sea water at every tide a singular mixture of marine and freshwater animals used to people these pools but when i was taken to see them by their discoverer great ironworks smothered the place with ashes and smoke one could relate such experiences at weary some length and to the naturalist as to some few others these changes are pure loss he cares little for unexampled prosperity and increase of rateable value the beauty and wholesomeness of human life which he does care for are not enhanced by such growths as these even the industrial development of the 19th century though it has brought upon us cruel losses has its compensations and it is the part of the philosopher to make the most of them the compensation that i have now in mind is the vastly increased facility of locomotion which scientific discovery and commercial enterprise have placed at our command as for the defacement of nature if any words of mind could bring remorse upon the offenders they should not be wanting for i am persuaded that very much of this damage is needless the wasteland between antwerp and ghent densely populated and busy with machinery is much of it fruitful orchard in saxony only one percent of the soil is unused the output of cotton linen leather and machinery is so large that this little country is one of the chief manufacturing districts of europe yet it is a pleasant land a land of cornfields and fruit trees i maintain that the manufacturer has no more right to trample underfoot all that does not help him to make a profit then has the man who is in a hurry to catch a train to push ruly aside the people who stand in his path a little thought some faint preference for what is beautiful over what is ugly would spare us many of the worst injuries that are being done to our country in the 17th and 18th centuries besides those who traveled to earn money only the wealthy or those who had a passion for travel visited any foreign land there were plenty of young noblemen who made the grand tour with a tutor visited france and italy and returned to show quote how much a dunce has been sent to rome excels a dunce that has been kept at home unquote here and there too there might be found such a singular example as that of descartes who though only moderately wealthy and weak in health contrived to visit every part of europe which offered anything to a curious observer descartes wandered alone and almost furtively for hardly more than a single friend knew where he was at any time he particularly loved the pageant and would travel far to see a coronation it is very remarkable that a man of his taste who had lived abroad half his life should nowhere speak of any detail of foreign life nor of any city or building which he had visited that he should make no mention of striking scenery although he had crossed the alps and had occupied himself with the avalanches and other natural wonders of switzerland is less remarkable when we consider what the readers of his day look to find in any solid book the descriptive traveler did not then exist or used his talent only to gratify the curiosity of personal friends naturalists were among the first to discover how much they might enlarge their knowledge by travel john ray and his pupil willoughby made many and long peregrinations both at home and abroad linnius explored lapland resided long in holland and visited england his pupils explored every land accessible to them sirhan sloan diligently collected the plants of jamaica sir joseph banks though a wealthy lincolnshire squire endured the hardships inevitable to a circumnavigation of the globe with captain cook all these were men of exceptional energy or exceptional opportunities the man who had his bread to earn was in the 18th century generally forced to remain at home around the year dr johnson saw the sea for the first time when he was 56 years old his wife never saw it at all george iii at 34 had never seen the sea nor been 30 miles from london i have described so much said richter yet i die without having seen switzerland or the ocean steam now makes it possible for many a busy man of small income to escape once a year from the cities which the love of gain has made unnecessarily sorted and to visit lands which our fathers knew only by report it is now not difficult for anyone who has a long vacation to visit every country of europe sir henry holland did more than this during a busy professional life he was a west end physician in large practice he contrived to visit every capital of europe most of them repeatedly to make eight voyages to the united states and canada to visit the west indies to travel four times in the east thrice in algeria twice in russia besides making journeys to iceland the canaries and many other places far from home the wonder is a little explained when we are told that he lived to 85 that he enjoyed a large income during nearly the whole of his life and that he was able to leave london for two months every year because nearly all his patients left london too but the record after all allowance has been made for favoring circumstances is a remarkable proof of energy sir henry had his reward foreign travel joined to a hearty love of his kind and a natural power of engaging the attention of noteworthy people secured to him a kind of leadership in a very exacting society i am almost sorry to have mentioned sir henry holland's long career of foreign travel for the excursions which i want to stimulate are more particularly such as men of small means uncertain leisure and length of days not greatly exceeding three score years and ten can hope to enjoy a man who accomplishes one-tenth of sir henry holland's wanderings may be greatly exhilarated and enlightened by his foreign experiences to break through the routine of home life to taste unaccustomed dishes to hear unfamiliar tongues and desperately it may be to attempt to express our views or our wishes under every disadvantage of vocabulary grammar and accent is one way of washing out the starch of respectability it makes us more human and gives us a brief chance of that independent activity which is too often impossible at home the traveler is lucky indeed whose attention has been called be times to natural phenomena any kind of nature knowledge will brighten a ramble abroad but according to my experience geology and botany are best of all the geological structure of a new country can be in some measure appreciated though of course it cannot be set down during a rapid traverse much else turns upon geological structure which governs not only the elevation of the land its accessibility the nature and position of the commanding points but even in some degree the genius and temper of the inhabitants history is largely affected by geography and geography in turn by rock structure geology abounds in the kind of questions to which the traveler can profitably bend his mind questions not too special or minute for a man whose thoughtful hours are few and precarious and who can carry few books along with him a decent provision of maps such local descriptions as can be picked up in the nearest city a geological hammer and if possible a practiced eye are the chief requisites they are all portable let a man survey the campania from the windows of the vatican if he can get no nearer he will wonder at the little towns each perched upon its own steep and isolated hill that start out of the sea like plain it is geological observation which tells him how these hills came to be there and without some tincture of geology the hills themselves the historical incidents which belong to them and even the paintings of italian masters in which such hills are often delineated may fail to impress themselves adequately upon our attention or let a man visit sweden and observe the rounded knolls great and small which are not mere heaps of loose material but bosses of solid rock the perch boulders the innumerable lakes the long mounds of sand and gravel and then ask himself why this kind of landscape unknown in southern lands should pervade large tracts of sweden scotland ireland and new england geology answers the question which else would remain totally dark why do we rarely find in a northern land splintery peaks like those of the dolomites or sand-worn cliffs like those of arabia here again it is only geology which can tell us botany does more for the traveler than zoology partly because the range of plants depends more obviously than that of animals upon geological structure and soil and also because plants affect the scenery in a way that animals can never do an inquiring naturalist will raise deeply interesting questions of plant distribution from very limited excursions whereas it is only when studied on the continental scale that the geography of animals has proved instructive but all branches of natural history are good the birdman the insect man the naturalist of any good sort i mean any naturalist who inquires will find in every foreign land abundant opportunity of carrying his studies farther and giving them a wider scope the reader has very likely taken his own line and knows perfectly well what he wants to work at the next time he has a chance of visiting an unfamiliar country if so i will wish him good luck and hasten to stand out of his sunshine there are other tourists who are eager but totally inexperienced and here and there such a one may be glad of hints which his forerunners have found profitable to a young tourist with a taste for geology who is about to visit switzerland for the first time i would say do not waste your leisure and strength by speeding over a great tract of country take one river valley and work it well there is none better than the upper r valley for a first study begin at meringuein examine the arsent as an example of what running water can do work your way up to the grimsel and then photograph the glaciated rocks till you have learned something of what moving ice can do the ober r glacier will teach you nearly everything that one glacier can teach afterwards you can go on if you are enough of a mountaineer and cross the snow fields upon which the shrek horn and finster our horn look down that one valley will teach you more than all switzerland could do if you were to move over the ground as so many do at the rate of 40 miles a day and a personally conducted party to find out your own way to puzzle out your own problems and to work at your own rate are the first elements of productive investigation whether you are trying to master the scenery of switzerland or a new science of course there are many people who find the only true method hopelessly slow switzerland in three weeks chemistry in 20 lectures is the program for them they will learn in time that lasting knowledge is not got by such facile expedience the rapid method is inviting enough at the outset we go in a party because we love society one of the party knows the way while the rest do not what then can be more natural than that he should lead one knows the elements of a science of which the rest are ignorant what more natural than that he should speak while the others listen the answer is in each case the same knowledge that we get without personal effort is knowledge in appearance only it strikes no root and soon withers most of the people who visit norway do just what the naturalists should avoid they steam up one fjord after another smoke twice as much as they do at home eat heavy and frequent meals with no better intervals of exercise than are possible on an encumbered deck vary the steamer only by driving from one hotel to another and are guided all the way either by by decker or an experienced friend this may be tolerable for the first week but the second week is very like the first and one fjord very like another it is always somebody else and not the tourist himself who does whatever is done manages the engine manages the horses cooks the dinner chooses the root a life like this has much in common with what i maintain to be the very poorest recreation that has yet been hit upon watching a football match to stand in a wet field on a winter day and see men play a match is an occupation that no man of any spirit could possibly endure let us do something or other exercise either our brains or our muscles and take our part in the fun if any naturalist wishes to break away from the relaxing and too commodious fjords but does not know where to go i can put him in the way an excellent alternative more practicable than others which i could name is to visit kongsvold kongsworld is nothing more than a post house on the great north road leading from christiania to tronyem there in the site of the snohetta he will find hills wild gorges and such botany as it is likely he has never enjoyed before the first glance at canoed show a hill close at hand tells us that we are in a new country the rocks are of white quartz and black orgait the vegetation consists of patches of sulfur yellow and a green so dark that at a little distance it looks black when you come closer you make out that the yellow indicates dense growths of lichens the so-called reindeer and iceland mosses while the dark patches are clumps of dwarf willows dwarf birches juniper and alpine bearberry the delightful labors of the mountainside are sweetened by the simple hospitality of the station and by the friendly talk of the botanist mostly swedes who assemble there every summer i remember with special pleasure the conversation and help of the aged botanist cj lindbergh whose latest visit to congswold i happen to share the difficulty of language is the only one that embarrasses the englishman i have been reduced at times to bringing out the latin of my boyhood such latin who that has ever rambled over the dorfa field would consent to go back to the coast steamers and the stream of tourists which flows along the fjords like water in pipes many of us are too busy to spend our holidays abroad there is plenty to see at home and you can make all that you see profitable if you will only form the habit of putting and answering questions for yourself when you visit a castle set on a ridge such as belvoir richmond beeston or bamboo ask yourself how the ridge comes to be there when you visit the roman wall look out for the natural feature which determines the choice of that particular line and possibly gave the first hint that a fortification might be easily made there and easily defended do not sterilize your geological or natural history rambles by mechanical occupations such as aimless collecting or the writing out of lists of species half a dozen questions answered nay half a dozen questions attempted may be more to the purpose than notebooks crowded with unproductive facts end of chapter 46. chapter 47 of house garden and field by elsie meal this librivox recording is in the public domain grasses the characters of grasses by what marks do we recognize grasses i suppose that most of us would say that any plant is a grass which has long narrow pointed leaves hollow stalks homs and small greenish flowers so different are grasses from all other plants that we should have no hesitation in deciding whether a single leaf a single home or a little cluster of flowers belong to a grass or not when we look closely it is easy to find further differences between grasses and other plants the base of a grass leaf forms a sheath around the home which runs down the stem to the knot next below and is nearly always split just at the place where the blade becomes free there is a little colorless scale which is in close contact with the home the leaf is generally ridged on its upper surface and if we cut it across and look at the cut edge with a lens angular ridges will be seen the hollow home with knots at intervals is almost equally distinctive the flowers are usually very numerous and very small so that it is not easy to make out all the details but in a flowering grass we can see two things which are peculiar lightly poised anthers which hang out and dance in the wind and long slender feathery styles the only plants which come so near to grasses that a doubt can arise as to whether they are grasses or not are certain sedges and rushes in these the sheathing leaf bases are either wanting or not split and there is no colorless scale the stalks are commonly filled with pith the anthers of the stamens are erect and do not dangle as in grasses the numbers of the flower parts are also in many cases different from what we find in grasses where there are nearly always three stamens and two styles there are many sorts of grasses and about a hundred species grow wild in the british isles a very little attention will show that in every hayfield there are several distinct species with quite different flowers any grass that we happen to examine will suggest a number of questions and it may easily happen that among these will be some that we cannot answer to our satisfaction it is a good practice however to put questions incessantly for it is chiefly in this way that we make progress in the interpretation of natural objects why are grassholms hollow in jointed that is with solid partitions at intervals a hollow cylinder like a grassholm is better able to resist bending than a solid stem of the same weight for a given length take two lumps of plasticine or modeling clay of the same weight shape one into a solid cylinder spread out the other into a flat sheet and roll it up till its edges meet you can thus get two cylinders of the same length and the same weight one solid and the other hollow lay each upon two supports the distance between the supports being the same in each case then test the power of the two cylinders to resist bending a tape holding up a suitable weight may be hung from the middle point of each cylinder the result will leave no doubt as to the greater resistance to bending of the hollow cylinder for the reason of the different resistance to bending of the two cylinders i may refer the reader to round the year article hay time the hollow grass home is light strong and springy yielding easily to wind without being damaged by it except indeed when the seeds are nearly ripe and the top of the hom is heavily loaded then wind and rain may lay the homs flat but even for such an accident a remedy is provided as we shall shortly see solid partitions or knots mark the places where the bases of the leaf sheaths are attached to the home here the vessels pass out into the leaves and it is chiefly the interwoven vessels which form the knot the solid partitions stiffen the hom and hinder it from becoming flattened by pressure but there is another and less obvious reason for the knots take an entire grass plant fresh from the ground and a foot or more in height plant it in a tray of wet earth or sand not upright but horizontal and see what will happen a very top-heavy grass will not do if the experiment is made with care and judgment you will see in the course of a day or two that the hom begins slowly to erect itself each segment between two neighboring knots sets itself at a small angle to the segment next below and as all the angles are bent towards the same side the horizontal stem soon begins to rise before long it will be found to have completely erected itself and perhaps to lean over a little to the opposite side you can hardly fail to remark that all the bending necessary to erection is affected at the knots and that the intervening parts of the stem are nearly straight all the time there is evidently at each knot what we may call an organ of movement compare to clover and wood sorrel if you mark one of the knots with horizontal india ink lines passing around it a small distance apart say one millimeter you will see that in a day or two the lines become a good deal wider apart on the side from which the halm is bending the organ of movement changes its form swelling on one side and either not swelling at all or swelling to a less extent on the other side this power of swelling unequally according to circumstances is due to absorption of water the knot or some structure in communication with it evidently possesses sensibility it can feel so to speak when it is displaced and absorb so much water as to bring the hom back to the upright position why do the bases of grass leaves and sheath the hom while the grassholm is still growing the outer leaf sheas protect the inner ones and the inner ones protect the hom as laham attains its full height the inner parts are gradually withdrawn from the outer ones like the joints of a telescope and the sheaths become free from one another a young and soft shoot is stiffened being made up of a nearly solid mass of sheaths one within another but an older and firmer shoot is hollow light and springy and needs no support from the leaf sheaths no better plan could be devised for the rapid lengthening of the flowering stalks something too is gained by carrying higher the base of the free leaf blade for to over top its rivals is a leading feature in the policy of most grasses why are the sheaths of grass sleeve split along one side to permit of expansion without tearing as the parts within enlarge the hom within the sheath rapidly expands in diameter as it becomes older sometimes a growing ear or mass of flowers is lodged within a leaf sheath and needs room for its expansion why are most grass leaves ridged on the upper surface the ridges when cut across are seen to be more or less triangular and fit neatly together when the leaf is rolled up make a model of a grass leaf by gluing triangular bars of wood to a strip of canvas and see how neatly such a model can be rolled up or expanded as circumstances require nearly all grass leaves are rolled up in their early stages of growth and even when full-grown they may require to be rolled up as a temporary protection against hot sun and dry air some of our native grasses growing on dry pastures such as cysteria can roll or unroll in a few minutes it is enough to put a bell glass over the growing plant to cause the leaf to open widely as it always does when the air contains much moisture if we remove the bell glass and expose the plant thereby to the warm dry air of an ordinary room the leaf will roll up again and expose a diminished evaporating surface some grasses like the matte grass of armors nardis or the sheep's fescue grasses which inhabit places where there is no shelter from the sun and wind are permanently enrolled others which grow in damp metals or shady woods never roll up when they have once expanded a few grass leaves are flat and have no ridges at all the stomates of a grass that is the pores by which water vapor is given off and air taken in often lie only on the upper surface of the leaf within the grooves between the ridges hence they are well protected from too dry air especially when the leaf is holy or partially rolled up if the leaves are flat the stomates are usually found on both surfaces in certain cases this concealed position of the stomates protects them against an opposite but equally dangerous accident that of being choked by water which would prevent gas or vapor from passing in or out you have no doubt often seen the float grass glyceria flutens rooted in the mud and spreading at its leaves which are sometimes yards long upon the surface of a pond or a slow stream the leaves of float grass lying flat on the water could not if they possess the ordinary leaf structure drain off the rain and if they happen to get splashed or drawn beneath the surface by a current we might suppose that they would find it very hard to get dry again but no such difficulty is met with the leaf of the float grass no matter what is the state of the weather no matter how roughly the leaves have been treated is always dry on its upper surface and always wet on its under surface the dryness of the upper surface is due to the deep furrows between the ridges and to these the surface film of the water cannot pass see object lessons from nature part 2 pages 135 and 6 and the water above the surface film is accordingly held up and prevented from entering no accident to which the float grass is exposed can fill the furrows with water or drench the stomates which lie sunk in them there is another glyceria almost equally common in watery places in this second species lyseria aquatica the leaves never float and it is interesting to remark that they have no ridges on their upper surface it is probable that grass leaves originally became ridged on their upper surfaces to facilitate rolling up lengthwise during seasons of drought but float grass has turned its leaf ridges to account as a means of preventing the wetting of the stomate-bearing surface a cross-section of the leaf reveals a number of enclosed air spaces which one would think must greatly increase the buoyancy of the floating leaves however in the second species of glyceria g aquatica whose leaves do not float the airspaces are much larger they are not simple cavities but are filled with stellate cells this was pointed out to me by mr norman walker in sections of g flutens mr lewton brain transactions of the lenin society of london 1904 says that the low ribs of g flutens probably have no significance as an adaptive character i suspect that he has not seen sections through floating leaves where the ridges are as sharp and distinct as possible in aerial leaves of the same species the ridges are much lower especially in the neighborhood of the mid-rib what is the use of the colorless scale which is found inside the leaf sheath just where the blade becomes free i have puzzled over this question for years without the least success some people think that the scale hinders water from making its way into the sheath it is an objection to any such explanation that the surface film of water cannot pass into narrow spaces bounded by unwettable surfaces so that a scale does not seem to be necessary to hinder it from passing in here i took three common grasses cut off the leaf blades and their scales legules and immersed them in water no water made its way into the leaf sheaths the scale is very constant in true grasses and peculiar to them why do the anthers of grass flowers dangle in order that the wind may shake the pollen out of them more easily in hay time the air carries everywhere the minute pollen grains of grasses and at this season the dust which settles in still places always contains grass pollen grasses are wind pollinated why are the styles of grass flowers long and feathered in order that they may have a better chance of catching some of the pollen grains which are wafted past by the wind why are grass flowers small inconspicuous and greenish because the grass has no need of insects or other animals to pollinate its stigmas remark the differences between a flower which is wind pollinated and one which is insect pollinated we may take any common grass as an example of the first kind red clover primrose convulvulus rhododendron and orchids are familiar examples of the other kind wind pollinated flowers one are inconspicuous two are scentless three secrete no honey four produce much pollen most of it being wasted and five often have feathered stigmas insect pollinated flowers are one usually conspicuous two are often scented three usually secrete honey four produce less pollen comparatively little being wasted and five usually have simple stigmas in certain states of the weather grass leaves exude much water there are fissures in them by which drops of water can be passed out it seems that a low temperature is particularly dangerous to green tissues which are laden with water during a warm day when rain has saturated the earth absorption of water goes on freely even after sundown the ground may still be warm enough to favor rapid absorption by the roots but the air cools fast and a temperature low enough to be dangerous to the softer tissues may obtain only a few inches above the warm soil under such circumstances grasses and other herbs pass out the water which has become superfluous and even dangerous in the form of big drops then people generally say that there has been a heavy do though it may be that the sky was overcast and that no do whatever fell exuded water may be distinguished from real dew by attending to two points of difference dew never forms except under a clear sky exudation takes place whenever plants gorged with water are exposed to cold air whether the sky is clear or cloudy secondly dew forms as minute close set drops which on a surface not easily wetted may afterwards run together to form big drops the drops exuded from the water pours of leaves on the other hand are big and solitary from the first the exudation of drops from grass leaves can be brought about at pleasure cut a sod damp it lay it on a glass plate and cover it with a bell jar in a day or so the grass kept at the temperature of an ordinary room will exude abundantly from the leaf tips end of chapter 47 chapter 48 of house garden and field by elsie meal this librivox recording is in the public domain the water spider a very ingenious predatory animal which makes use of the properties of the surface film of water to construct for itself a home beneath the surface is the water spider our gyroneta of which professor plateau has given a full and interesting account in the bulletin academy royale de belgique 1867. like all spiders this is an air-breathing animal it dives below the surface and spends nearly its whole life submerged in order to do this without interruption to its breathing the spider carries down a bubble of air which overspreads the whole abdomen as well as the underside of the thorax these parts of the body are covered with branched hairs so fine and close that the surface film cannot pass between them the spider swims on its back and the air lodges in the neighborhood of the respiratory openings which are placed on that surface which floats uppermost when the spider comes to the top as it does from time to time to renew its supply of air it pushes the abdomen out of the water and we can then see that this part of the body is quite dry when it sinks the water closes in again at a little distance from the body and the bubble forms once more it would be inconvenient to the water spider to be obliged to come frequently to the surface for the purpose of breathing a predatory animal on the watch for its victims must lie in ambush close to the spot where they are expected to appear and the water spider accordingly requires a lurking place filled with air beneath the surface of the water it has its own way of supplying this wand relying on the fact that the surface film of water will not readily pass through small openings the spider proceeds as follows it begins by drawing together some water weeds with a few threads in such a way that they meet at one or more points it then fetches from the surface a fresh supply of air and squeezes part of it out by pressing together the bases of its last pair of legs the bubble rises but is detained by some of the threads previously spun across its path then the spider returns to the surface to fetch another bubble and repeats the operation as often as may be necessary now and then she secures the growing bubble by additional threads and before long has a bubble nearly as big as a walnut enclosed with a silken invisible net which imprisons the air as effectually as a dome of glass would do the spider takes care to conceal her home from observation and before long the minute algae growing all the more vigorously because of the air brought to them altogether hide the habitation the mouth of the dome which is of course beneath is narrowed to a small circle and then the spider constructs a cylindrical horizontal tube seven to eight millimeters in diameter by which she is able to enter or leave her home without being observed the air within is renewed as required by the regular visits of the spider to the surface besides this home which is the ordinary lurking place of the spider another is required at the time when the young are to be hatched the newborn spiders are devoid of the velvety covering of hairs and would drown if placed in a nursery with a watery floor the female spider therefore makes a special nest for this occasion a strong bell-shaped nest which floats on the surface of the water and rises well out of it the upper part is partitioned off and contains the eggs beneath the floor of the nursery the mother takes her station ready to defend her brood against predatory insects where animals of a terrestrial air breathing stock become adapted to a submerged life forms less perfectly equipped for aquatic conditions will usually be found among allied species we know of insects so entirely aquatic in their early stages that they quickly perish when removed from the water and many gradations can be found to lead from these to purely terrestrial forms in the same way there are several spiders which connect the water spider with ordinary hunting spiders one of these is dolomitas which used to be found in our fan country the female is large being 20 millimeters or four-fifths of an inch long and therefore much bigger than a house spider the male is much smaller they run about on the surface of standing water and dive when pursued but dolomitis has not learned how to make herself a crystalline home beneath the water a home whose walls consist of nothing more substantial than the surface film which forms wherever air and water meet end of chapter 48 chapter 49 of house garden and field by elsie meal this librivox recording is in the public domain the industries of wild bees a the burrowing bee almost any day in early summer i can amuse myself by watching the industry of a burrowing bee andrena which abounds in my garden it is a little smaller than a hive bee but so like it in general appearance that it might easily be taken for one the observer's attention will probably be first roused by seeing the andrena enter the ground or it may be by seeing the little heap of sandy earth which it throws out of its hole for an early summer this bee is a great excavator and throws out earth many times exceeding the weight of its own body in the course of a few hours in dry sunny april days the work gets on fast and a mound of fresh earth and sand forms close to the hole which is almost big enough to admit a lead pencil the bees often leave their burrows and come back again when they return their hairy bodies especially the hind legs are dusted all over with pollen and the microscopic examination of this pollen shows that they have been visiting sallows dandelions gooseberries and other early flowering plants we cannot see how the burrowing bee combs off and collects the pollen that is done in the dark no lump of pollen such as this conspicuous on the hind legs of a hive bee or a humble bee is ever seen upon the andrina the pollen mixed with honey pumped up from the crop is stored within the burrow it is not difficult to explore the burrow if plenty of time is allowed a straw or other flexible stalk is useful as a guide the narrow gallery bends this way or that to avoid stones runs level or descends according to circumstances branches occasionally or frequently the species differ in this respect and drina fulva which i have chiefly observed makes burrows which seldom branch and attends a length of from a foot to a yard though not descending more than a few inches into the ground sometimes the bee happens to break into the deserted burrow of an earthworm and follows it for a while but the earthworm generally works too deep for the bee which seldom gets more than a few inches from the surface towards the further end of its gallery the bee excavates one or several cells which are nothing but short and slightly enlarged side branches in these she lays the burdens of pollen and honey brought back from the fields one cell will contain a rounded pellet as big as a small pea and upon this a single egg is laid which quickly hatches and yields a white grub whose whole store of food is the pellet provided by the mother neither the galleries nor the cells have any special lining male bees are now and then seen hovering about the entrance to the galleries but it was long before i learned to know the males of the species which is so common in my garden they are smaller than the females and differently colored and seem to spend most of their time about the flowers gathering honey or pollen but storing none many angerinas make their burrows near together and a sloping bank or garden walk will sometimes show scores or hundreds of holes within a few square feet the bees seem now and then to enter the wrong holes for they creep out again in a minute or less with the pollen still dusting their bodies i do not however believe that they really make a mistake the bee finds an intruder in her borough a parasitic bee of which more will shortly be said and being of peaceful disposition she waits till the way is clear there is no reason to suppose that several bees ever share the same burrow by mutual consent when the cells are stored with honey and eggs the bee shovels part of the earth back into the hole makes up the mouth and then probably sets about a fresh hole as we may infer from the small numbers of eggs in one gallery and also from the fact that the excavations are carried on for many weeks while a single gallery can be excavated stored and closed in a few days the advantages of the burrow are obvious enough the andrena gets a tolerably dry place in which to store her honey and eggs and some degree of protection from ants and other predatory insects as well as from the innumerable insect parasites which are ever ready to appropriate either food or larvae for the maintenance of their own young the protection against parasites is however far from complete when the mother bee visits the flower the hairs on her body are often grasped by the minute larvae of stylops which lurk there for this very purpose she unconsciously brings home an enemy which will enter the body of one of her brood and develop there causing pain and distortion though not necessarily death also there are cuckoo bees not unlike the burrowing bees in general build which cannot dig or collect pollen or lay up stores of food they find out the burrows enter them and lay their own eggs in the cells the larvae hatch from these eggs get the start of the rightful owners and it is not the offspring of the industrious burrowing bee but of the cuckoo bee which ultimately enjoys the store of food though the cuckoo bee is quite unlike an andreina it is allowed to enter the borough without opposition and the andrena never learns the fate of the brood which she left to all appearance well provided for b the leaf cutting bee i will next describe the maneuvers of another solitary bee which i have lately had an opportunity of studying we not on frequently find that the leaves of trees and shrubs in our gardens have been mutilated in a singular way oval or circular pieces have been removed by clean cuts which look as if they had been made with a pair of scissors what creature cuts bits out of the leaves and how is the cut made a bright summer day given up to the inquiry will probably answer these questions you will if fortunate see a bee very like a hive bee but rather stouter hover about the tree settle on a leaf and cut out a piece with her jaws while cutting the bead clings to the piece which is to be detached she cuts decisively and rapidly doubling the fragment between her legs as she proceeds and using her wings when the support begins to fail then she flies off carrying the piece which may be oval and a half an inch long or circular and a quarter of an inch in diameter the bee will probably come back again and again get more bits of leaf and fly away with them if your garden is of the modest dimensions common in cities you will be probably unable to see where the pieces of leaf are taken to but in a large garden you may find it possible to follow the bee and see her enter a hole either in the ground or in a wall or in a tree trunk then you will be able to learn something more after many journeys each resulting in the acquisition of a single bit of leaf the bee changes her occupation her journeys become longer and she returns home with no load that you can see after some days she will leave the spot altogether and then curiosity will naturally lead you to examine the hole and see what it contains carefully exploring you will find in the hole a cylinder perhaps four inches long made of bits of leaves wrapped one round another and pressed tight against the wall if the tube is quite fresh the bits of leaf will uncoil when removed but if several days have passed since they were introduced the tube will keep its shape gently unwrap part of it you will find that it is carefully formed of several layers of leaves and within our six seven or more cells arranged in a row and filling the whole length of the tube each cell is thimble shaped and consists of leaf fragments arranged in several layers one end is a little narrower and rounded the other end is wider enclosed by a neat lid composed of two or three circular leaf fragments beyond this lid is a shallow open mouth which receives the end of the next cell the cells are all made separately and though they fit the outer tube closely they are not fastened to it it is therefore possible to unroll the tube and leave all the cells intact within each cell is a mass of honey and pollen with an egg or a larva on the top further study brings to light many more details the leaf cutting bees are of several species and each has its own preferences some prefer one kind of whole others another some prefer rose leaves others lilac leaves elm leaves or horse chestnut leaves they have their favorite flowers too which they visit for honey and pollen the leaf cutting bee which is most plentiful in london gardens finds or makes its burrows in the trunks of oak elm and mountain ash i have no proof that the leaf cutting bee ever makes her own burrow it generally lines the burrow with elm leaves and gets its honey and pollen from thistles the bee which cuts up the leaves of rose trees generally makes its holes in brick walls or in the ground the leaf fragments are not cut at hazard each has a shape suited to the place which it is destined to occupy the outer tube is more roughly shaped than the cells which are beautifully exact every cell contains from 9 to 12 separate pieces sometimes many more and though they are secured neither by stitches nor glue they keep their shape perfectly the fitting of the circular lids each made up of three or four bits of leaf into the mouth of the cell is an excellent piece of work the bees often employ the disused burrows of earthworms but are careful to stuff up the lower part of the tube with fragments of crumpled leaves lest an enemy should enter from below some employ the holes excavated in tree trunks by beetle larvae or wood wasps if the hole is wide they will arrange their cells in two or three rows instead of a single row as usual when all the cells are filled the bee makes up the entrance with crumbled leaf fragments and comes back no more the grub consumes its store of honey and then enters upon its winter sleep pupating in autumn or spring but never emerging until the following summer i can only glance at a number of other contrivances employed by other solitary bees various species of osmia utilize stacked reeds burrows of other insects and even snail shells for their stores of food some bees employ the dead branches of blackberries which are easily hollowed out because they are filled with soft pith one species makes a collection of cells out of chewed leaves another not only employs empty snail shells but conceals them in a dense mass of sticks and straws mason bees build up tubes of small stones which they fasten together with a secretion which sets hard like cement helictus makes a rude comb of cylindrical cells out of clay and lines them with hardened saliva the carter b amphidium strips off the woolly or cottony covering of certain herbs and lines her burrows with it other carter bees imitate the species of osmia which chooses snail shells for its nest but subdivide the cavity by partitions of resin dassipoda improves on the methods of andrina and instead of leaving a conspicuous mound of loose sand and earth at the mouth of the burrow disperses it with her feet lest it attract the notice of a spoiler c humble bees let us next consider the economy of the humble bees which show a distinct advance upon the simple arts of the solitary bees in early summer we see big humble bees flying abroad and at times exploring the holes in a stone wall or a bank of earth the large black and yellow humble bee is probably bombus terrestrus which makes a subterranean nest the moss carting b b muskorum is much smaller and has a reddish thorax and a yellowish abdomen the fierce b lapidarius which makes its nest among loose stones is about as large as b terrestris but has the end of the abdomen reddish brown the moss carting humble bee bee muscorum does not usually burrow but makes its nest on the top of the ground in meadows or among trees here they are often cut through by the scythe and picked up by the mowers there is no readier way of getting to see these nests than to visit a meadow that has just been cut a nest may be five or six inches in diameter of low rounded form with arched roof and concealed by moss ferns grass or dead leaves which are carefully arranged so as to give the outside as natural and appearance as possible a narrow gallery covered with moss or the like and often several inches long guards the entrance the moss which covers the nest is never brought from a considerable distance nor do the humble bees ever carry it through the air they push it backwards towards the nest with their legs the head of the bee pointing away from the nest with their legs also the bees cart or teas out moss or other vegetable tissues reducing them to the condition of fine threads which are employed to conceal or to line the nest several bees have been seen to work together in carting moss or passing it towards the nest if the nest of the moss carting humble bee is dug up which may be done safely for this bee is very pacific there will be found a lining of coarse wax no thicker than writing paper and within this an irregular mass of egg-shaped cells some open others closed they are of different sizes and of different shapes and rather rudely fitted together some contain larvae and pupae in different stages of growth a few contain honey only and these are deeper and open at the top other cells will perhaps contain pollen saturated with honey and lumps of the same substance often lie about the cells in a disorderly way school boys are often clever at digging out the nests of this and other humble bees and the taste of the wild honey mixed perhaps with a good deal of earth is to many of us a familiar recollection of our boyhood the nest of bombus terrestris one of the commonest of the burrowing humble bees are lodged in underground cavities it is believed that the deserted burrows of small quadrupeds such as voles are taken advantage of to save labor in excavation but the humble bees may often be seen working at their own holes or shaping and trimming holes which they found ready-made the red-hipped humble bee bee lapidarius makes choice of a cavity in a loose heap of broken stone or in a bank the plan of construction adopted by bombus terrestris is much like that of the moss carting bee the cavity or some part of it is lined by a thin layer of wax which encloses the cells these may be few especially in early summer when the nest is most populous a hundred or more may be counted the early cells made by the solitary queen are comparatively rude and consist of lumps of pollen coated with wax and enclosing many eggs or larvae the workers when they appear construct cup-like cells as big as peas in each of which the queen lay several eggs then the cell is stored with food pollen moistened with honey and closed the grubs which issue from the eggs consume the store of food and then required to be fed the mother bee or at later time one of the workers bites a hole through the waxon wall and passes food in from her own mouth the common cell shared by six or seven larvae steadily grows till it is as big as a walnut and pierre hubert ascertained that the grubs break through the wax from time to time when the workers clap more wax on the spot and trim it neatly as soon as the grubs are full fed they spin egg-shaped cocoons of whitish silk the silken threads are often intermingled so that several cocoons loosely cohere when they perceive that the cocoons are ready the workers remove the outer shell of wax after the short pupil stage is over and the winged bees have emerged the cocoons are seen to be truncated a large circular hole having been made towards the upper end the empty cocoons are trimmed coated with wax and filled with honey by the workers to serve as honey pots they are deepened to increase their capacity by a rim of wax added to the lip of the truncated cocoon then the mouth is narrowed but not sealed sometimes wax and honey pots are made of wax throughout with no cocoon as a foundation as many as 60 honey pots have been counted in one nest and most of these may be full but when many larvae are being fed the store of honey runs low the humble bees are much better equipped for pollen collecting than any of the solitary bees the first joint of the tarsus of the hind leg is dilated as in a hive bee and its inner surface the one turned towards the body is closely set with short stiff bristles which are very useful in combing the pollen from all parts of the body just above the tarsus and on the other side of the tibia is a pollen basket enclosed on either side by long stiff curved bristles captured humble bees will often be found to have a big lump of yellow pollen stored up in this basket in one respect only is the collecting apparatus of the humble bees distinctly inferior to that of the hive bee in the hive b the enlarged joint of the tarsus has the bristle set in regular transverse rows and their efficiency in combing the hairs is thereby increased in the humble bees no such arrangement can be discovered humble bees employ wax rather sparingly either to line the nest or in the construction of their cells and often mix it with vegetable substances their wax is made in much the same way as in the hive bee the bee begins by taking a good meal of honey shortly afterwards wax begins to exude between the joints on the underside of the abdomen and also on the back in the hive b the wax is secreted in the form of rather large thin plates which can be detached by the nipper a kind of forceps formed by the meeting of the tibia and tarsus of the hind leg in a humble bee the wax is much less coherent and does not form plates but a kind of dust no nipper is therefore required to detach it at the base of the tarsus of the hind leg we find in place of the lower lip of the nipper a short stiff brush which is apparently employed to sweep out the granular wax as fast as it is formed raemur was mistaken in saying that the wax of humble bees is formed out of pollen and that it cannot be melted by heat no doubt he mistook for wax the lumps of pollen moistened with honey which are so often found in the comb three perhaps four kinds of bees can be found within one nest in the height of summer there are large females which may be called queens perhaps also smaller females whose unfertilized eggs regularly produce males workers which rarely lay eggs at all and males or drones the workers unlike those of the hive bee are not distinguished by any external peculiarities of structure the numbers of the family are far inferior to those of the hive bee a humble bee's nest which contained 300 individuals would be unusually populous in spring a queen which has survived the winter begins by herself to found a new community having chosen a spot to her taste which may be either a hole in a bank or the bare surface of the ground according to the habits of the species she constructs a rude nest or shelter lays a thin plate of wax and deposits upon it a small heap of pollen mixed with honey upon this one egg is laid she then builds up a low cylindrical wall of wax joined to the basal plate within this more pollen and honey are stored and additional eggs laid the sides of the cell are then carried a little higher and at length the top is carefully sealed other cells may be added to the first with which however they are only slightly connected after some days the larvae hatch out and soon consume the food laid up for them the queen then pierces a hole in the wall of the cell passes her tongue in through the hole and feeds the larvae carefully closing the hole when the operation is finished the numbers of the family increase very slowly for the whole of the labor has at first to be performed by a single individual but the first brood which hatches out consists of workers who relieve the mother of a great part of her work after they appear the queen spends less time abroad and lays eggs more frequently the first cells are constructed as early as february or march and contain comparatively few larvae a few weeks later the number of eggs laid in a single cell becomes greater the food supply is then less adequate and this may be one reason why the bees hatched in the height of summer are of smaller size it has been said that the cells of late summer never contain any food and that the grubs which they contain are fed exclusively from mouth to mouth in autumn special provision is made for the perpetuation of the race new queens and a great many drones are hatched out egg laying has by this time ceased altogether and the rearing of new generations no longer employs the workers which remain idle in the nest seldom going out even to procure honey the community does not long survive the close of the fine season the nest which is then devoid of food and brood is deserted and a few fertile queens scattered about in holes in the ground are the only humble bees which hibernate it has been found that the economy of the humble bee is materially affected by climate in the short summer of the arctic circle they are said to produce no workers the nests are very small and we might almost say that the social state has been lost the bees having returned to the solitary condition on the other hand in mediterranean countries the humble bees often survive the winter in considerable numbers and the nests appear to be tending to a permanent state such as is more fully attained in the hive bee it was long ago stated by the old naturalist goddard that in the early morning a sound is heard to issue from the nest of a humble bee which he supposed to be a call rousing the inmates of the nest to work this statement after having been long regarded as a fable has recently been confirmed by several observers it is found that the humming noise is due to the rapid vibration of the wings and that if the bee told off for this work should be removed another at once takes its place the purpose of the sound can only be guessed at humble bees have many enemies which sometimes devour not only the honey but the bees as well among the number are ants predatory flies con ups caterpillars rats field mice and weasels to say nothing of schoolboys and mowers there are many parasites too which sponge upon the nest the most curious being the cuckoo bees which though unable by lack of special structures to collect pollen or make honey are suffered by the humble bees to dwell in the nest and to take their share of the good things which have been stored up many solitary bees also are infested by their own species of cuckoo bees the naturalist who has been able to acquaint himself with the habits of a solitary bee such as andrina a humble bee of any species and the hive bee will find himself in a position to make some interesting comparisons or even to trace what may be called the growing civilization of social insects he will see how bees may gradually associate themselves into permanent families and families into little nations he will see how the community which in its simplest form is short-lived is gradually enabled to last through more than one season while in the more complex societies provision is made for the storing of food a regular succession of generations and the occasional emigration of new swarms he will see how bees which were solitary and consisted of ordinary males and females only developed a cast of small females able to lay only unfertilized drone eggs how these small females undertook more and more of the rearing of the young broods and became at last the workers and governors of the community social feeling of which there could be none among the solitary bees appears in all communities which include the offspring of more than one mother and becomes intensified until in the hive we observe a division of labor and a subordination of private interest to the general good which can only be paralleled in ant communities hardly less interesting is the steady improvement in the working implements of the bees side by side with the growing complexity of their social state hairs which are the only means which a solitary bee can employ to bring loose pollen to its burrow become supplemented by pollen combs and pollen baskets the mouth parts become prolonged so is better to explore the recesses of a flower more efficient in suction and more neatly folded when not in use the rude materials employed for the constructions of solitary bees such as sand clay or chewed leaves become worked up with resin vegetable wool silk and wax and at last replaced by them with wax comes the possibility of an architecture economical of material space and labor even to the theoretical limit close and long continued study of insect communities is not work for young naturalists it is more profitable for them to start many inquiries and pursue each to the point at which the difficulties begin to be serious the delight of pressing some one inquiry farther than it had hitherto been carried is not for them but the future may have it in store for this or that individual we should never forget that there may be a reimuur or a darwin among our pupils end of chapter 49 chapter 50 of house garden and field by elsie meowl this librivox recording is in the public domain a skeleton lesson on furs a directions 1. draw a fresh branch of furs about 3 inches long of the natural size two make drawings on a larger scale of each distinct component of the same branch three cut thin sections of a young branch and notice a the position of the stomates b the arrangement and structure of the vascular bundles four examine the flowers and make illustrative drawings five examine the pod and draw it both entire and burst open six on a hot sunny august day study the dispersal of the seeds 7. collect a handful of the seeds in august and sew them in a garden border make a set of drawings at intervals to show the successive stages of growth b questions 1. classify the branches of furs or what appear to be such two how do branches of the year differ from older branches three what is the meaning of the grooves on the branches four why is furs spiny five where is carbon assimilation affected in furs six two species of furs sometimes more are often to be found growing together notes such as are to be found in your own neighborhood and the marks by which they can be distinguished 7. xerophytes are plants specially adapted to dry situations mention all the zero fights which you know by personal observation 8. what features do you find to be shared by furs and the common rush what are shared by furs and ling try to explain these resemblances 9. what insects visit the flowers of furs 10. what evidence can you supply of the derivation of furs from a leguminous plant of more ordinary type end of chapter 50. chapter 51 of house garden and field by elsie meal this librivox recording is in the public domain museums and the teaching of elementary natural history the museum is a time-honored resource in the teaching of natural history what can be more obvious than to preserve striking objects which are only met with at long intervals arrange them methodically and study them closely what more obvious than to be guided in the choice of objects by experts who give their whole time to natural history the saving of time and thought is immense the teacher takes his pupils to visit a great collection selected with infinite pains and set out with professional skill surely he will do more in this way than if he makes a fresh beginning and tries to arrange a little collection of his own the great public museum is perhaps too distant for frequent visits and then the school is fired with the ambition of setting up collections of its own the very effort will be wholesome surely everyone will cooperate in building up a museum which shall be to the private collections of the boys what the national museum is to the little provincial museums these are our expectations and we get to work in good spirits it is easy to start a school museum and easy to carry it through the early stages of its development shells fossils bird's eggs and the like come in freely many of the specimens being drawn from private collections which have ceased to fascinate or have been bequeathed to uninterested persons when gratifying progress has been made for some years and a great array of name specimens has been set out in due order this illusion sets in it is discovered that the museum interests very few persons and is put even by those few to uses which can hardly be called intellectual sometimes for instance it is valued only as a means of getting the right names to put to the objects in a private collection without the labor of classification even then the school museum may not have been entirely useless those who have worked at arranging and classifying will probably be the better for what they have done but the school generations which inherit their labors will find in time that there is little for them to do but admire and admiration of other people's work soon ceases to stimulate where then is the miscalculation how is it that the method which seems so obvious fails to answer expectation it is i think because an important factor has not received due attention we have considered what zoology and botany in geology are and how they can be logically cultivated but we have not properly considered what the schoolboy is and what instruction he will accept or refuse the untrained boy has many individual peculiarities but two or three things are true of untrained boys in general they hate copious details they hate latin and greek names and they are not warmly interested in dead animals and plants protected from all interference by plate glass not only school boys but people of all ages soon tire of being shown a multiplicity of objects of the same kind all protected by glass clapeyred an eminent and productive zoologist has declared that les miserables i should not be easily persuaded that this is generally true and that our natural history museum at south kensington the museum of natural history at brussels the hope collection at oxford and the manchester museum are encumbrances of which science would be well read such museums as these secure the progress which zoological science has already made and train experts who will carry that progress yet further instead of admitting that great and well-arranged museums weigh heavily on science i believe that they should be yet more numerous more extensive and more completely systematic than in our day but i am ready to admit that the nearer they approach to scientific completeness the less fitted will they become for popular instruction it may be thought practicable to divide the objects in a great public museum into two sets one arranged to suit the convenience of experts and the other adapted for popular instruction i have little doubt that such a separation of the collections in any great public museum is prohibited by the circumstance that the visitors are not divisible into two distinct groups there are intermediate students of many grades everyone claiming recognition all the worse for the great public museum as a place of elementary instruction in the school museum this difficulty need not be felt for only the wants of a limited and ready classified set of pupils have to be considered it would be easy in the school museum to arrange long series of minerals fossils shells birds eggs etc in cabinets and to display for elementary instruction only the things which can be made to tell their own tale effectively few of our public museums are effective for the purpose of popular instruction one notable example is however before us our great natural history museum contains many series of objects judiciously selected and skillfully disposed for this very end teachers and classes who are near enough to pay frequent visits to the museum may study with every advantage impressive and self-explanatory collections which will admirably reinforce the comparatively rough preparations made in the school or at home one caution is necessary the great museum contains such a wealth of striking objects that the risk of distraction is unusually great many short visits would be far better than a few prolonged ones the pupils should be encouraged to see only a very few things in one day and these all closely and naturally connected museum specimens are such things as skins skeletons models and fossils they do not show the plant or animal in action this does not mean that they are of no real utility or interest but it shows that no museum can suffice for the purposes of nature study it must be largely reinforced by outdoor lessons experiments on seedlings daily observations on nest building birds insects undergoing transformation and the like there are instances which i am glad to believe grow daily more numerous of school museums which are brought together and arranged by the pupils these the far less complete of course than the museum made and arranged by grown-up people may be much more stimulating and more useful educationally i can recommend also the temporary museum made to illustrate a course of study actually in progress at the time there need be no high standard of excellence for the admission of objects and the naming and classification may be rough the great thing is to enlist the hearty cooperation of many pupils i do not expect great results from lectures delivered in front of the museum cases though they may be useful and stimulating at times it has more than once happened to me to get a valuable lesson by accompanying a master of zoological science around a museum and i recollect with keen pleasure a little lecture on roman bus at the british museum which i was fortunate enough to overhear there is no method so poor but that it can be vivified by a powerful teacher the museum can be no substitute for the class lesson and its most costly treasures cannot replace the living plant or animal as the matter to be chiefly studied if this is conceited i have no further contention with the advocates of instruction in museums we shall agree that the herbarium must not hinder us from studying the early purple orcas growing in the pasture with its pollen masses ready to be removed that the cabinet of fossils must not take the place of the fossil fresh chipped out of the quarry and study together with the limestone in which it has lain so long in general the museum meets the wants not of young pupils who are about to receive first lessons in the observation and interpretation of nature but of the few who have already carried their studies beyond the elementary stage it is a place for the storage of exact and detailed knowledge i conclude therefore that while the usefulness of the museum in elementary instruction is limited it is a most valuable and indispensable aid to the studies of the specialist the usefulness of the museum as a means of popular instruction may be increased but not indefinitely it can never take the place of the class lesson nature study must rely on methods which work by the pupil exercising his eyes hands judgment independent observation imagination and love of doing rather than on the lecture and the museum which work for him and chiefly exercise his memory end of chapter 51. | Priceless Audiobooks | UCly1zcKPGzGW9wZMCZodWOA | 2017-05-11 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 17,629 | 96,834 |
kshLQkcOt-w | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kshLQkcOt-w | Trailer Light Harness/Pigtail Installation 2010 Chevy Traverse In 4K | [Music] so [Music] hey everyone shabor 1000 here today we're going to be putting this custom wiring harness in this 2010 chevy traverse now there's a couple things i want to talk to you about these harnesses and uh we'll get into that here in just a minute hang tight guys [Applause] all right guys i got this wire harness from from uh curt and um i'll give you the uh the part number here in case you need to get one this also works on equinox and i think it tracks i'm not positive you know you gotta do your research and make sure but i um this will work on a uh an equinox um there's the part number this is from kirch 56027 now this is for the vehicle that does not have the factory tow package okay if you have the vehicle that does have the factory tow package you'll get this okay this is also from kurt and i'll show you the part number that's where i screwed up and i bought the wrong one and uh because there's a plug down under here that i was thinking was it but it wasn't so it was my fault anyway i sent it back i still ended up with this one because when i bought the hitch uh i went through what was it i went through e-trailer when i bought the hitch uh next day they called me they actually called me on the phone and they said that they couldn't get the hitches in it could be another month so i said well cancel that order well this was in with that order and they didn't cancel this so i gotta sell this okay now the part number on this this one is for the factory tow okay um the part number on this is 55384 again that's through curt now this one what it does is right up underneath right above where your hitch will be there'll be a plug there okay and what you'll do is you unplug that plug you plug this side in to what you just unplugged from in this side or vice versa into the harness and that's all you have to do on this one again that's with the factory toe packer now usually if you got a factory tow package it usually has the hitch and harness on it but that's you know a replacement if you need it now this one here this is for the like i said the vehicle without the factory tow package now what you got to do with this one it's still really easy guys what you'll do with this one let's go ahead and take it out of the rubber band i put so many of these things on at work that was oh it was unreal so what you'll do now you have two of these okay now you you need to you'll need to put your ground somewhere up underneath the car wherever okay so this one with the yellow the brown and the white this is going to go to the driver's side the left side what you're going to do and i'm going to show you this what you'll do is unplug it and you plug one in into your light socket and the other end into the harness this one will come down underneath the vehicle go across back up there's plenty of room to get these up through now you'll have to fish it a little bit but it's not that hard i'll show you what i do this one is the green with the two whites that will go to the right side which is the passenger side and then of course you've got your four-way flat and you'll want to tuck these all up in there nice and neat now this does come with the uh it's hot out here guys 95 right now we've been getting into the hundreds uh it does come with your your little cover that will i usually put this on later because what this will do i'll show you when we get ready to do that this will slide down over there and then what this does is just a just a water boot keeps the water and stuff out but i put this on later so it doesn't you know get caught on stuff okay it does come with that of course it does come with your install instructions [Music] it does come with a self-tapping screw which you can use for your ground wire just put it up in there somewhere nice out of the way so you can't see it body ground it frame ground it whatever is convenient for you um but there's a self-tapping screw and you also get your zip ties you may need more you may not need all of them okay so and again here's your here's your instructions here and it tells you you know where to plug the things into it gives you a list of what's in the box and again this part number is where's that five six zero two seven all right so make sure sometimes they get package drawn at work sometimes i would i would grab the the kit and it had the wrong harness in it you know so always make sure you got the the right number five six zero two seven okay so let's go ahead whoo pull these tail lights out really simple guys let's get into it okay now to pull these lights out i should have my mic on what you're going to do these two buttons here you get your little screwdriver in my case i'm using my pocket knife and they shouldn't fall out unless they've been out before they should hang there and inside there let me see okay inside there is a hex head nut or a hex head screw now sometimes they'll have a phillips sometimes they'll be torx but in this case it is a hex head screw which i'm going to have to go get a sock before because i was thinking it was a phillips so let me go get my socket and let's pull this out of here it's real easy you still want to be careful especially on these older vehicles because up in here there's uh little tabs which i'll show you there's little tabs that you don't want to break off so let me go get the socket i need okay so this is what i've got this is a 932nd and when you put these back in if you're using one of these guns again be careful because it's only going into plastic okay so and you have to do this to both sides all right now let me back you up here a little bit see if i can get you a better angle i know the sun's bright and i'm sorry guys okay so now this what you're going to want to do i don't know what you're seeing or what you're not okay so what you're going to want to do is you'll push this back and that'll come out okay now under here this this plug here is the plug that you're going to plug your harness into now we got us we got to fish this down through here and at the bottom of the vehicle so what i usually do is now to unplug this there's a little tab here that you push down and pull it right out there's a tab right here you just push that down pull it right out and i set this aside because if you break this you know here's uh what this does is it goes into a little rubber boot there so inspect your boot make sure it's not all cracked up this one's not too bad because if that rubber boots gone this will it won't come out as long as you have your screws in there but this it'll rattle you know you'll get that sound going down the road okay so what we're going to do with this i'll show you here we're going to fish this wire right down right down through there and it'll come out the bottom okay so let me i may have to fast forward you through this but so what you're going to want to do is you're going to fish all this down through your green white and your pigtail okay this is all getting pushed down through except for the yellow and black the yellow and black again is for this side which it's going to be plugged into well i can just show you right now um so what you're going to want to do you got a plug like this and a plug like this okay so this is gonna plug in here just like this make sure clip clicks clips in there real good and then this end will plug in to that right there okay so let's go ahead and get this fish down through because like i said the other side will go to the other side of course but the green one's always your right white is always your ground brown is your tail lights or running lights and yellow is your right or your left turn signal okay and green is your right turn signal okay now some of these like like the s like our uh sometimes these will just fall down in there this one's going down pretty good on its own the toyota tacoma like if you have a tail light assembly that you know has your white for your reverse lights your red for your tail lights and the orange for a turn signal if your turn signals separate you'll have to get a module for it they're a little pricey but but they're fine you can't just wire in into these okay uh on like the toyota tacomas anything that has like an orange a separate turn signal that's what you'll have to do so but in this case we don't need to do that are you going to have to lay on the ground so i'm going to see how far down i am okay i'm almost there there we go now we can just pull this straight down through i'll show you once we get up under there where it comes out at it looks like it's blocked off but it is not [Music] okay all right now if you want you can go ahead and put this tail light in sometimes i would wait and make sure everything works but since this is all new it should work fine and it's real easy to put these in so or take them out in case i have to but i shouldn't have to so i'm going to plug that in until it clicks just like that then i'm going to put my tail light back in make sure you got plenty of room there don't force anything there's that okay so now i'm gonna go ahead button this up we'll get down underneath the truck i'll show you the best i can how i'm going to route these wires sometimes there's places you can tie them off at sometimes there's not like you got to watch your exhaust pipe and stuff like that but we'll get to that here in just a second hang tight guys okay here's a good example what i was talking about you never know this one has phillips head screws in it the other side so one of these have been replaced this is what i was thinking was to begin with i would say the other side has been replaced because of how easy it came out and because of the different screws i remember these just having the phillips head screws all right [Applause] okay so now what i'm going to do is i got this uh i don't know how well you can see that let me turn my screen i gotta roll this uh copper coated wire you can use mechanics wire which i have some but i couldn't find it so i'm just going to use this and just going to fish this down through just like you did the other side with your harness just going to shove this down through to the bottom and this is what we're going to tie our other end of the wire onto once we get down there and run it across okay so i want to do that well that was stupid that was all the way out the bottom i didn't see until i started pulling it up okay so you're not gonna be able to get your hands in here all right you can get your hand up through the bottom a little bit if you got small hands but so sometimes if you got a buddy you can push your wire up through and they can grab a hold of it whatever use a piece of coat hanger to grab it whatever it's not that hard there is plenty of room in here it doesn't look like it but there is so that's what i'm doing right now so i'm going to go down underneath i'm going to get my light cause i forgot my light i always forget something i try to have everything out here for you guys but uh and i'm gonna run these wires across here so that way you'll see what i'm talking about underneath okay so we've got our wire fish down through here like i said you go watch out for this exhaust but there's plenty of room to run that wire now get you up under here and show you what i like to do is run it up on top of the hitch here's here's the hitch i like to run them up on top also you've got on this one maybe not all of them but they should be protected underneath that bumper right there if they're not sometimes i don't know if you can see up in there or not but sometimes let me get a light on these wires for your backup assist little that's your back up beepers for when you're getting close to something now sometimes those wires are open whatever you do don't tie on to them because if something rips you'll rip them out those are very expensive and there's our there's our four way four way flat now what i'm going to do is this is the green wire well other end this is the green and white wire it's going to run across here and i'm going to tie it on over here i don't know what you guys can see i'm going to tie it on over here it's going to be up above the muffler up out of the way now these mufflers don't get super hot but just in case and i'm going to pull it up through with this okay now i know i'm not going to be able to keep you down here but i'll show you when i'm all done how i routed mine and then you'll get an idea how you can route yours because okay so let's go ahead and pull [Music] pull this off okay come on quarter turn all right okay so that comes off there's our hitch and our wires are going to be right into here where you at right into here and uh i'll hook time up here somehow they'll be right here so i can just pull them out when i'm using the hitch uh that's pretty much what i did on the truck only it was you know it's open okay so let me get let me get this wire run but you get the idea like i said i can't keep the camera down here so i'm going to go up above that wire tie it whatever and then i'm going to find a place for my uh my ground wire now my ground wire it's not good i'm laying on my phone uh i will probably ground right in here somewhere of course make sure it's metal because some of these are plastic uh scrape it off a little bit and i'll run that that screw in there and uh sometimes these screws they're not the greatest so if you got one which i'd probably use one of mine it's a little that is sometimes they they don't tighten up all the way and you lose your ground and your trailer lights aren't working so that's probably what i'll do is go right beside this because i know there's nothing behind here i got to worry about and i'll put my own screw in there so anyway let me get that wire run across there and then we'll pull this up through one other quick uh tip go ahead and run this your other side and get it mounted to get it hooked up in there and everything first that way if for some reason this is not long enough to where you need it to be you can buy little pigtail extensions you know six eight ten inches whatever you can have made up or make your own but just in case i forgot to mention that because i have seen them before to where they just weren't quite long enough and i had to put an extension on it because once i had everything buttoned up there nice and neat and i started on this side i didn't have enough enough to go up through so uh i had to undo it all and then make an extension so just keep that in mind but on these i think if i remember right these are pretty pretty good and you'll have pretty you have a good amount left over so just a quick tip for you on that and there we go once you get it started it'll come up through now let me go get a screw and we'll hook our ground wire up okay so what i used to scrape that with was just this that paints real thin it goes right through the primer that's pure metal so i did was just scrape a little spot where this is going to be just like that like i said make sure there's nothing back there but i know for a fact on these there is nothing back in there just like that now you don't have to do this if it's up in here it's pretty well protected but like up north yeah you probably want to worry about down here in florida or you know you don't have to worry about that but i always do anyway a little bit of silicon sealant whatever just enough to keep that from rusting you'll be fine now let's go ahead like i said you can't mix these up there's only one way they'll go make sure it clips and now the tail light just like even the plugs will only go one way there you go just like that now let me scoot you out here a little bit all right make sure you got everything down here out of the way it shouldn't rattle around if it does if you develop the rattle you know what it is but um it everything stays pretty snug up in here so you should be all right now we'll put our screws back in then we'll go and then i'll go underneath and get that all buttoned up under there and i'll show you what i'm doing there and uh we'll be good to go so stick with me guys we're almost done with this project very easy very simple any do-it-yourselfer can do it even if you're not uh you'll still be able to do this it's it's that simple and i know we've all got that friend that likes to work on cars well grown up i was that friend i was a good guy to have a round okay so make sure it's tight good to go moved a little bit there we go all right let me get down here and get this all buttoned up we'll go from there okay guys so this is what i did this is driver side that's where it came down the wire put it up here i got it zip tied same way with this side i got it zip tied i wanted to show you about that exhaust see that is way up there out of the way it's not touching the exhaust it's got about four inches three and a half to four inches uh it's kind of tight don't get them too tight you don't want them stretching but now this i just wrapped some black tape around here some electrical tape if it could if this if this was going to be seen i would put some you know fuel line or you know wire loom on it but it's not going to be seen so that's gonna be good and this is just gonna be right there so i've got plenty to pull out so i'm just gonna put it right there for storage with my little thing here now i don't know if you guys will be able to see this let's see here i'll show you how um show you how i put mine on let me raise you up a little bit okay all right now all right so what i'm going to do here is i'm going to find it's going to go like this because there's a certain a little hole in there that this that your ground goes up into so i'm going to flip it like this and put this on here now they make little brackets for these things that take just a couple screws and you put them up here on your hitch wherever you want to put them and they uh see just like that and then you don't this won't be hanging it'll be mounted permanent so i'm going to take this up here i know you can't see it but i'll show you here in a second what i do with this then we're going to check our lights so this is what i do right there just run it through where your safety chain goes because this is going to be out of your way once you put your safe once you get your trailer on this ain't going to be through here so it's not going to it's not going to hinder anything then i'm just going to stuff this up in there but let's go ahead and let's check our lights let me get that off of there i'm just going to use a test light okay all right now wherever i put my test light there it is oh i put it up there but it did this is your ground so i'm going to clip onto my ground you can also ground anywhere on the frame or body of the vehicle but when i'm checking these i like to check this because if this ground's not working nothing will work and you may think something else is wrong with it okay so there's that it's hanging there like that now i'm gonna go turn the headlights on and i'm going to check the brown wire whoops i may just have to hold that on there this this clamp is not these test lights man see it's on can you guys see that okay so now i'm gonna check the uh the left turn signal which is going to be the yellow all right so this will be the yellow wire which is right beside the brown is the one in the middle see it's blinking now we're going to check the the right which is the green and we have them all now to check the brake lights what you would do is put something on your brake pedal or have somebody step on the brake and check your your yellow and your green okay that's without your without any flashers on you check your yellow and green they both should light up now on this one i don't have to worry about that because i know on this particular uh vehicle i know that if i've got a left turn and a right turn i'm going to have brakes because it's on the same circuit i'm going to have brake lights now if you have a different circuit like i was talking about earlier where you need the module like on a 2003 toyota tacoma something like that if you have separate turn signals if you have orange turn signals uh then you'll have to check them okay and you'll do it the same way like i said you have somebody put your foot on the brake check the yellow and check the green they both should light up this one i don't have to worry about it because i know if these are blinking it's on the same circuit as the brake lights so i don't have to do that you can if you want but you don't have to on this particular model so uh yeah if you don't have if you don't have that little electronic box and some of those you got to run a wire up to the battery you know power wire for them to work if you don't have that if you just got this system you can check your left and right turn if you got those you have brake lights because like i said they're on the same circuit okay so let's get this put back up in here and we'll do our final thoughts okay so all right let me get this up here we'll be done okay guys so there you go that's put your trailer light harness some people call them pigtails some people call them y connectors that's what you got to do put on this 2010 chevy equinox same thing uh traverse so it's real simple guys um it doesn't take as long as what the video took because i like to explain things i have people that have commented i talk too much just show it then when i do that i got people more people saying you know i wish you would explain more you know blah blah blah asking me questions so you know what from now on i'm going to do it my way i'm going to explain if people don't like it they can click off or you know they can they they can fast forward forward through it whatever i'm not going to beg somebody to watch my video you don't want to watch it go somewhere else and watch it watch something on uh u-haul and then after you do it their way then you'll come back and ask me questions i won't answer you how's that so i'm sorry i'm a little salty guys but you know i got a lot of [ __ ] going on but that's what i'm going to do from now i'm going to do it my way so if the people that's watching this that has to fast forward through it because you know i can't do that form or your music's too loud your intro was way too loud well i'm sorry but i'm not in control your earbuds and apparently those kind of people don't watch enough videos because 90 of them blow your [ __ ] head off with the sound anyway i try to keep mine as normal as possible i'm not a professional filmmaker i don't claim to be i don't want to be this is my hobby this is what i like to do so anyway for those of you that support me i thank you very very much you guys are awesome but that's all it takes on these things it's real simple hopefully you got the gist of it i know camerawork kind of sucks but i do this myself i do my own filming you know i'm holding a two and a half pound camera trying to show you this you guys this stuff up underneath there so you know i don't have a ten thousand dollar lift i can put this thing up on and have my buddy sit there and do everything perfect but you get the idea you know don't wrap your wires around the exhaust pipe don't wrap it around you know don't wrap your wires around a drive shaft i mean it's common sense keep keep it away from sharp pieces that may cut into the wire keep them away from that keep them away from anything hot you know don't wire it onto existing wires you know it's just it's common sense guys but this is sorry about the rain it just oh i can just hear the people now you know my haters that's how i know they don't watch through the whole thing you know like if i say throw something in towards the end oh by the way this is how you do this like the tent you didn't show how you put the the the tp tent you didn't show how the poles go actually i did if you watch the whole damn thing i do show it and i do show you how they work so you know that's how i know when people don't watch the whole thing and then they're just too quick to type type typey typey type in their mom's basement ma bring me another sandwich i gotta type to this guy because i didn't watch his whole video because i'm a 37 year old piece of [ __ ] that don't want to work and get out of his mom's basement anyway sorry about that just had to get off my chest but that's how you do it and you guys that support me i thank you so much you guys are awesome you're the greatest i mean because i honestly i would still be doing this stuff if i wasn't youtubing i'd still be doing it but i bring you guys along with me because i want to share with you some of the things i do and maybe it might just help someone you know so they don't order the wrong part and you know like i did you know we're only human i ordered the wrong part my fault okay so i want someone else not to do that so you know anyway guys thanks for watching it's pretty simple stay tuned i got a i got a whole trailer light wire kit and light kit for the boat trailer we're going to put uh we're going to rewire that and put new lights on i got the smaller lights because that one's got the long ones and i want to put them up on those roller the roller brackets for the for the loading rollers and they're the the square ones so they're leds and they are um submersible that means you can back them down in the water so uh and then i've got some bearings to do on that but i'll already show you guys the bearings on that so i won't bring it along with me on that but i will show you how i wire up my trailers again it's real simple and a lot of this stuff guys if uh like the way i ran my wire up on top of the the uh the trailer hitch tube if you don't want to do that you can put it down on the bottom just make sure it's not hanging down you know some of that comes down to matter of preference do i want to run it on top or do i want to run it in front behind whatever that's up to you guys just make sure everything's out of the way and nice and neat and tidy and and you should be all right like i said this particular car if you got left turn and right turn your brakes are going to work because they're on the same circuit uh but the ones that you have to have that little module where you run a power wire to your battery you got to have that you can't do it that way so um you can but i wouldn't advise it because sometimes those will say they're working and then you go to plug it in your trailer lights and you're getting wig bags and all kinds of stuff but this one you know if you got left and right turn you're good to go just remember that and uh hopefully those part numbers help you guys hopefully i explain that well enough and not too long that um you know the one is for a that has a factory tow package one is without the factory toe so thanks for watching guys i appreciate it please check out monkey 1000's channel check out dean moo those guys are awesome and um we'll see you guys in the next one thanks again everybody and i appreciate it we'll see you all soon bye bye and take care stealthy eh no one knows you have a hitch cool [Music] do [Music] you | shabear1000 | UC5vgsMzsrxmhOPat_Nh5ToA | 2021-08-25 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 5,638 | 27,249 |
Ulao2OKyyy4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulao2OKyyy4 | How To Stop Being Shy And Quiet 9 Tips To Overcome Shyness | according to the american psychological association shyness is defined as the tendency to feel awkward worried or tense during social encounters especially with unfamiliar people severely shy people may have fiscal symptoms like blushing sweating a pounding heart or upset stomach negative feelings about themselves worries about how others view them and a tendency to withdraw from social interactions we aren't born or bold almost nobody is the millions of people whom you see out there have some battle of shyness at certain points in their life they all have to find ways to break through that awful mode so if you're terribly shy you don't have to berate yourself you're not alone neither should you think you'll remain like that for the rest of your life as with every wrong attitude or habit shyness can be overcome shyness can ruin your self-esteem your social standing and the relationships you keep you could keep losing opportunities because of shyness and if you are anything like me so many times you have lost opportunities and even heart your most important relationships because you are shy since shyness often involves you being unable to be free around people or being able to start and continue a conversation or feeling off when you are around people it is a thing of your mind if you can fix the thought process that encourages shyness you can overcome shyness the power is right there within you to overcome shyness it's right there in your mind i know how much shyness can cost because it cost me a lot when i struggled with it sometimes being shy would mean not being able to speak up for yourself this can make others take advantage of you thinking you are a pushover but if you're tired of being shy and determined to overcome shyness i will share with you 9 tips on how you can overcome shyness in this video subscribe to this channel below so you don't miss other psychologically helpful videos to improve your life 1. start with your mind shyness as i said begins in the mind if you get your mind right you will get your attitude right strength does not come from winning the first way to overcome shyness isn't to deny its existence but accept its reality in your life and strive to overcome if you're shy it doesn't necessarily mean that you are introverted you just lack the will to maintain confidence in social guardians but you can overcome this by starting with your mind knowing that the struggle you face can be overcome and trash said your struggles develop your strength when you overcome hardship and decide not to surrender that is strength you will experience too much anxiety about social conditions when your shyness is cognitive this way you will tend to worry a lot about people judging you instead of allowing this the first thing to do is to look away from yourself remind yourself that nobody is judging you and this is what i have personally found about life and socials people are too busy with their own problems to even be focused on you they start to pay attention to you only when they observe you're too self-conscious get your mind off the idea that people are judging you you are not in their minds and if they are it's just people being people also people are obligated to think what they want about you you only have to make sure you stay true to being who you are supposed to be if you focus your mind so much on people judging you you miss a lot of things too many times you'll be surprised they aren't even thinking about you when you get close to them get your eyes off yourself two focus on your successes one of the ways i overcame and still overcoming shyness is by choosing to focus on my success rather than my failure shy people tend to beat themselves up too much for their failures while overlooking their successes make it a personal habit of thinking more about your successes instead of berating yourself for each failure celebrate your wins and learn from your failures you may appear to be the most awkward person in the room but it is often not true when you step into a garden or meet someone you remember some things you have been able to overcome which were once difficult for you this should show you that you are strong you are not weak mark your success and celebrate it you'll find it much easier to keep going 3. stop imagining the worst if you're shy one of the traits you exhibit is that you dwell so much on your mistakes by doing this often you project them into the future too if you allow this to become a trend for you your mistakes make you expect the worst you will keep making more mistakes because your expectations will keep creating problems negative expectations could always produce negative results break the circle and stop imagining the worst too often nothing worse can happen if you just believe differently work on positive images of social interactions by using visualization when i want to start a new project i visualize myself having finished the project before getting down to execute the project this way i am emboldened to face the project imagine your plan will succeed when you attend your next social events think through the specific steps you plan to take it will ease your attention and focus your mind on the positive four use positive self-talk when i was terribly shy i always sold myself shot i remember i was always too shy to confront people i would charge 20 percent for a job i was supposed to charge 100 for the bulk of the crush i experienced in my attitude came from speaking negatively to myself it's an age-long principle but it is so true you attract to yourself what you constantly say about yourself you always have what you say about yourself so if you're in the vein of overcoming shyness choose to speak positively about yourself positive self-talk may seem like some hullabaloo you don't want to get into but successful people agree that how you speak about yourself determines what you attract to yourself because your subconscious absorbs the words you say about yourself as true whether you are serious or just joking about them and soon as your subconscious processes that information and ingrains it it becomes a part of your life so your life goes in the direction of the things you say say positive things to yourself talk yourself up when you need encouragement sometimes we just need a little more time to get through a situation by using positive self-talk you can push your limits and perform better when leveraging positive self-talks to boost your confidence and overcome shyness use you instead of i some studies show that saying you can do it is more effective than saying i can do it five practice exposure therapy it is said that courage is not the absence of fear but choosing to do what you must do despite fear similarly shyness may not suddenly go away until you start to expose yourself to the things you're afraid of when i wanted to challenge myself to overcome shyness and timidity in socials i played the dare game i would choose one thing i was most afraid of and would do that thing on my birthday by acting in spite of fear slowly shyness began to dissipate according to wikipedia exposure therapy is a technique in behavior therapy used to treat anxiety disorders it involves the patient's exposure to the feared object or context without any danger to overcome the anxiety and or stress by exposing yourself to taking baby steps in the things you fear you lose your fear for that thing fear is overcome by action social anxiety may never go away completely however if you get it to manageable levels it can change your life you don't have to see a therapist to practice exposure therapy do it yourself by exposing yourself to the things you fear go every day into a social situation where you feel shy chat a little and then move on by doing this daily the shyness will slowly decrease you can overcome shyness by sitting back in the house walk down the street and talk to at least one person when you do it daily you get used to it if you are extremely shy you may want to see a therapist that could expedite your healing process 6. don't hang out with shy people since you become like the people you hang out with don't hang out with shy people in fact one of the ways you can practice exposure therapy effectively is to go out with a bold person all the time when you want to meet people since certain attitudes are contagious it is easy to quickly pick up boldness when you hang around both people i know it can feel comfortable to hang around people who are shy like yourself but the bad side is that such a group won't give you the boost you need to overcome shyness you need a group of people who aren't like you you remain the same when your closest influences hold you back look for more friends who are outgoing and outspoken look out for them when you had social events or just out hanging out observe what those people do and learn from them seven go slowly you didn't become shy overnight in the same way you wouldn't overcome shyness overnight so go slowly although i must confess i overcame social shyness mostly by reading doc energy how to win friends and influence people you should read a book many times if you haven't you still should take it slow when you are out to beat out shyness from your life you can't change overnight change can be annoyingly slow sometimes so you can only expect your confidence to grow step by step as you expose yourself to more social situations moderately shy people will overcome shyness faster than those who are severely shy set goals that are realistic on how you would work on yourself over the course of months even years as you continue to get better you can add more difficult social challenges to be more confident eight stop thinking about what others think about you nobody cares people are too busy with your own thoughts to be concerned about what your heart for dinner it's a painful fact but it's one that would liberate you from shyness people are hardly thinking about you because everyone cares about their own problems not yours katie eubank said for me that is the crux of no longer being shy taking the focus off what others think of me and placing it on being myself and placing it on being my best self and surrounding myself with others who make me want to be a better person you may think everyone in the room is watching you and judging you here's the truth no one is watching or judging you they're just as nervous insecure shy and worried as you are instead focus on what you think of them someone wrote when we put our attention on other people and decide what we think of them we can take the pressure of ourselves 9. learn to love yourself succeeding at anything requires that you love yourself love yourself enough because if you don't love yourself you will not believe that anyone else will being shy can make you put yourself down whatever you think wrongly about yourself may not be true love yourself just as you think about your successes consider and focus on attributes that are good about you take care of your health by eating well and sleeping well these little things indicate that you care for yourself and you appreciate yourself if this video has helped you make better decisions about overcoming your shyness share it with your friends we love you [Music] | Success Secrets TV | UC4IhgQSETRnAIEb694TwQxQ | 2022-03-30 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,046 | 11,327 |
L5xsr3UfAlg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5xsr3UfAlg | A Look Back at How Nevada’s Democratic Party Screwed Bernie Sanders in 2016 | so the Nevada caucus is quickly approaching and we're already seeing signs that we cannot trust the Nevada State Democratic Party now maybe they just are completely oblivious and don't care about the optics but for those of you who missed it they just hired a Peabody Judge organizer as the voter protection director her name is Emily Goldman and they assure us that she's not going to have anything to do with the upcoming caucus she's going to be working on the general election stuff regardless we have to have all the information that we possibly can attain and I think part of that doing our research and being vigilant is looking back to the history of how these parties have treated progressives and back in 2016 if you'll recall the Nevada state party convention was one of the dirtiest things I have ever seen possibly in the modern history of electoral politics in the United States they absolutely positively had nothing but contempt for Sanders supporters and they wore it on their sleeves and weren't even embarrassed at all and you know the reason why they were bolstered is because they had the media backing them up so as we head into Nevada we have to do what we can to be hyper-vigilant and protect ourselves against any shenanigans now I don't know what that means maybe that means we take extra notes maybe that means we screencap everything and we keep a record a paper trail I don't know what that means but you need to know this information you need to remember what happened back in 2016 so that way we can anticipate what will happen to us in 2020 so the Nevada State Democratic Party does not like Bernie Sanders and his supporters so you know if this this new hire of Emily Goldman has you skeptical if the optics don't look good watch this video that I put out from 2016 where I talked about this at length about what they did to brazenly screw over Bernie Sanders supporters all hell broke loose at last Saturday's and Nevada Democratic convention lots of shenanigans went on effectively the process was rigged to benefit Hillary Clinton and there are many examples as to why this is the case so first and foremost more than 50 Bernie Sanders delegates were just didn't I delegate status for arbitrary reasons another example is they held vocal votes and regardless of what people chose the DNC chair in Nevada Roberto Lange unilaterally decided to implement the rules of her choice and when Bernie Sanders supporters were really aggravated at this and were yelling and whatnot well they brought in armed guards to get them to settle down and whatnot because who would have thought that they would be frustrated with the rules right so anyways to give you guys an example of just part of the shenanigans that went on so here's a video of them doing a vocal vote for a year name and clearly the nays have it but Roberto Lange she told everyone that her ruling was not debatable and cannot be challenged take a look [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now to make matters even worse after this happened Senator Barbara Boxer came in from California and she was really condescending to Bernie Sanders supporters and she began to antagonize them take a look [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so keep on going and pulling yourself out of the selection and now after that she continued to be antagonistic because as she was leaving she was blowing kisses to the crowd and our really sarcastic condescending way and then after that she went on MSNBC and talked about how she was so afraid for her life when she was sitting there antagonizing the crowd did fear for my safety and I fortunately had a lot of security around me so this is what our democracy has come to now look I'm only giving you a small snapshot as to what happened I will put full stories to what happened in the description box but what I actually want to talk about is the aftermath because effectively what we saw was that the process was rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton this isn't the first time this happened this election cycle the Democratic establishment has overwhelmingly been in the tank for Hillary Clinton since the beginning we've seen this time and again with DNC chair Debbie do-anything for Hillary Wasserman Schultz and now we see it with Roberta do what do you think for Hillary wing so it's really frustrating that they have the gall to do this and then get angry and bring in armed guards when people get upset that they're rigging the process and from their very eyes and don't like it when they are antagonized but the shenanigans that ensued after this may be more outrageous than what happened at the convention so is it the case that the Democratic establishment are sorry and are being apologetic for what they did at the convention well they're actually blaming Bernie Sanders supporters and are claiming that they were violent at the convention and also they're focusing on what Bernie Sanders supporters did to the DNC chair afterwards so the official complaint that the Nevada state Democratic Party filed to the DNC after they rigged the convention is as follows we write to alert you to what we perceive as the Sanders campaigns penchant for extra parliamentary behavior indeed actual violence in place of democratic conduct in a convention setting and furthermore what we can only describe as their encouragement of and complicity in a very dangerous atmosphere that ended in chaos and physical threats to fellow Democrats indeed the threats to the chair of the Nevada State Democratic Party are ongoing at time of this writing as Sanders activists have posted her cell phone and home address online and have barded her what threats to her life and the safety of her family the situation had reached a point where Public Safety could no longer be assured and that the proceedings had to be concluded in very short order hence the reason why they decided to bring in armed guards now I'll put the rest of the complaint also in the description box and essentially what they're saying is that Bernie Sanders supporters are violent they were being violent they resorted to violence they claimed that there were chairs that were thrown and whatnot and they're just overwhelmingly focusing on Bernie Sanders supporters they're not taking into account the fact that they rigged the process and that they caused some of this outrage not at all so now the media debbie Wasserman Schultz is claiming that chairs were thrown for example that's one of the acts of violence that went on but unfortunately for them there is zero evidence of this there's one video of a guy picking up a chair but he puts it back down and then he hugs someone so that's bogus and even Snopes debunk this it's fake but yet the DNC chair as well as the Nevada state Democratic Party keep perpetuating this myth because they want Bernie Sanders supporters to look bad they want them to look violent they want you to look away at what they did and focus on what Bernie Sanders supporters did no of course the media is having a field day with this here's a taste of what they've been saying people wave signs they blend let's separate the two things said she feared for her life show me nothing a boxer that she when barbara boxer who is a lioness in the Senate she feels threatened that's okay no Sally I'm gonna begin with you because I know that you've been in an avid Bernie Sanders supporter since the beginning but we've now got a grandmother who is worried about her five-year-old grandchild we've got a woman who says her marriage might be on the brink because of Bernie Sanders supporters we have a u.s. senator who just said on live national television that she feared for her life at a Democratic convention where is this going Sally well okay first let me let me just say one thing I think it's important to say which is I know we in the media often love sort of drama and false equivalencies and in no way shape or form is this into what's happening in the Republican Party there you have leading answer the question I don't want to talk about the reflection I wanted I'm going to the Republicans in about ten minutes all right I wanna sit down on this mess it is ugly it is foul someone who was fearing for her life where is this going now there is evidence that someone did Doc's DNC chair Nevada Roberto Lang's information or home address her cell phone and she has received really threatening voicemails and really odd text messages here's some examples so someone texted her and said hey we know where you live where you work where your kids eat where your kids go to school and grandkids and another person called her the biggest in politics next to Clinton and she was also texted pictures of a guillotine this is really just troubling and it goes without saying I wholeheartedly condemn violence I never ever condone violence I'm in favor of nonviolent protest I'm in favor of actually using constructive means to accomplish political objectives so if you are someone who did participate in this then you're being counterproductive this is wrong please don't do this you don't have to do this we can win on the merit of our argument so the wrongness of what they did and the harassment that she's received is immoral but that doesn't mean that she's not also guilty for doing what she did at the Nevada State Convention now here's the thing about this if you are receiving all these death threats what not please do not post them online report them to the Nevada police and I'm guessing what they would instruct you to do is to stay inside your house don't send them online because when you publicize this then you make matters worse and furthermore part of me wants to pull out my tinfoil hat and question the validity of this based on her actions because if you're really afraid for your life and look I'm not gonna say challenge her but if you are then you don't want to publicize this you want to make sure that you stay out of the spotlight for a few days you want to report everything that you see to the police but if she's releasing them online then there's evidence that she didn't report them to the police because they probably wouldn't allow her to release this and for the more we know about how David Brock is paying $1,000,000 for Clinton trolls to correct the record on Bernie's so who knows if this is something orchestrated by them but regardless if this is true or false again let me just say that I never condone violence I'm a humanist I believe that even these threats if they're baseless just the psychological impact that they have it's wrong and you should never do it okay you can try to challenge Roberto Lange's legitimacy through legal means you can try to challenge her and sign petition then get her to step down but if you send her threats then that's just wrong and I wholeheartedly condemn violence as does Bernie Sanders in fact he stated I condemned any and all forms of violence including the personal harassment of individuals now in spite of this condemnation Roberto Lang is still demanding an apology from Bernie Sanders take a look not only were people talking when we were trying to run the convention and yelling and rushing the stage and throwing chairs and yelling for my death in the crowd those are the kinds of things that have to be stopped in what should you say how can we stop that I've not received an apology I you know I have not received anything from the Sanders campaign I haven't seen anything that said that this should stop so it's clear Roberto lang is against violence as she should be as any rational human being should be but when asked about whether or not she had anything to say about the violence that Bernie Sanders campaign had dealt with so for example there were gunshots fired into his campaign office in Nevada and some of his staffers houses were ransacked she had nothing to say about this you know what to say you are the state Democratic chairwoman and if this happened at a campaign headquarters in your state I would assume that there would be some curiosity or concern enough to at least have someone in the office call well you know look it happened at 10 o'clock last night it's our office isn't open yet I haven't had any opportunity to take any steps forward look I am concerned I'm concerned not only for my safety and what has happened to me but for the safety of everyone involved so here's the thing about responsibility is it the case that Bernie Sanders is responsible for condemning the actions of his supporters absolutely has he done that yes he has does he need to apologize for the actions of his supporters no because his movement is very broad he can't control the actions of his supporters and if you claim that he does Oh Roberto laying an apology for actions that he can't control well then you're being incredibly unreasonable let me tell you why so if that were the case if Bernie Sanders is supposed to apologize to Roberto Lang for the actions of his supporters I want an apology from Hillary Clinton because I've been tweeted to I've been called homophobic slurs is Hillary Clinton gonna apologize to me I also would like an apology from Donald Trump because one of his supporters told me that I should be deported to Mexico I'm not Mexican so you can't deport me to Mexico but I mean unless it's xenophobic right I'd like an apology so the point I'm trying to make is that if you're gonna demand an apology from a candidate for the actions of their supporters then they're not gonna have much time to campaign because they're gonna be here all day because every single candidate has a proportion of their supporters that are just immoral that are okay and Bernie Sanders is no different but what counts is that he condemned the violence that's what you have to do you can't encourage it like Donald Trump where he said I'll give you money or I'll pay your legal fees fees have you punched that guy that's wrong Bernie Sanders didn't do that he took responsibility for the actions of his supporters and condemned any violence and harassment I don't know what more you want it just proves evidence of the fact that you may be using this as an opportunity to further vilify Bernie Sanders just like you're the victim of online harassment Roberta Bernie Sanders supporters are also victims they're victims of a political system that favors the billionaire class there are victims of political violence against them we're victims of an oligarchy state where only special interests get to dictate policy outcomes and our voices have a statistically non significant impact on policy that's from a study from Princeton University by dr. Gil ins and page that found that only the business class only the billionaire class actually have a say when it comes to policies that are passed that's wrong the political system victimizes people every single day so what you did Roberto lang is further perpetuating the victimization of the working poor class you made our quote democratic process even more on kradic than it already is just so that way you can help Hillary Clinton get a couple extra delegates so that way she can get an office into the bidding of her rich billionaire donors that's wrong you're guilty to take responsibility for it now I'm not saying that you deserve to be threatened for what you did nobody deserves that nobody deserves to have their information Docs and to be threatened and I have their family threatened okay that's wrong that's immoral I condemn that but you're also guilty you cheated you are a cheater you cheated for Hillary Clinton when you didn't even have to she could technically lose all the remaining states left by a certain margin and still become the nominee the humanist report is fake news Mike only cares about crazy Bernie and his wacky socialist ideas Sam Merced I'm unsubscribing [Music] | The Humanist Report | UC7Q4rvzJDbHeBHYk5rnvZeA | 2020-02-17 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,832 | 15,846 |
1iBS-GyFuWw | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iBS-GyFuWw | DEBUNKING OVERNIGHT SOCIAL MEDIA SUCCESS | social media is not going to bring you hundreds of millions of dollars overnight a lot of people start on social media think like going to become famous I'm going become with my video my guys yes that might be the case but what do you want to be known do you want to be known as a guy who went viral once and you have a $1 million video or do you want to be known as a guy who who gets a lot of views consistently and makes a lot of money because at the end of the day you have to make money if you're not making money then what are you doing you got to make money money money money | Kyri Leontiou | UCtYKb9ov8f8o-o8ovztw4lg | 2024-02-21 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 124 | 582 |
UCI3uaExEM4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCI3uaExEM4 | International trade: Balance of payments | how do we as a country know whether or not we have enough foreign currency to pay for our imports well just as your bank can always tell you your balance and keeps a record of all your transactions the South African Reserve Bank keeps a record of South Africa's imports and exports of goods and services this record is called the current account in the balance of payments in this account the Reserve Bank records all of our merchandise exports are gold exports service receipts that's foreign currency earned exporting services overseas and income receipts from investments overseas as positive items or deposits are merchandise imports service imports and income payments are regarded as negative items or withdrawals from the current account the Reserve Bank also keeps a record of South Africa's international financial transactions as assets or liabilities in the financial account of the balance of payments in this account they record net direct investment financial investment and other types of investment the South African balance of payments or Bo P for short is a summary of all the transactions between South Africa and the rest of the world but for now we're only looking at the current account the goods and services that South Africa buys and sells on the international market we have to distinguish between what's called the trade balance and the balance on the current account let's first deal with the trade balance the trade balance is only concerned with physical exports and import in other words goods or merchandise the trade balance is the difference between merchandise exports including gold and merchandise imports if we exports more than we import we have what's called a trade surplus but if our merchandise exports including gold are less than our merchandise imports we have a trade deficit the balance on the current account is the net total of the various items this now includes the trade of services as well as income receipts on top of merchandise a current account surplus occurs when a country earns more on export of goods and services and income receipts than it spends on these imports a current account deficit exists when a country spends more on imports than it earns on exports and this would be reflected as a negative balance on the current account but how can we trade or at least import anything if we have a negative balance wouldn't that mean we've run out of forex this can be explained by looking at the financial account side of the balance of payments people or corporations in other countries can buy shares in South African companies or a factory or other capital intensive businesses in the country these are both examples of how money or more accurately financial investment capital can flow into South Africa for example say these bones has a car factory in East London in the Eastern Cape the only one outside of Germany now this is a flow of foreign investment into South Africa on the other hand South Africans might buy shares in or start businesses in other countries South African Breweries for instance has beer factories in China these types of transaction are recorded in the financial account which has three main components direct investment which is investment in local enterprises portfolio investment which is the acquisition of local shares or bonds for financial gain and other investment things like loans or credit agreements which are an interest these three items are all shown on a net basis in the financial account in other words the outflows deducted from the inflows if the inflow of all financial capital is less than the outflow we have a financial account deficit and obviously if the inflow of financial capital exceeds the outflow the nation has a surplus on the financial account so getting back to the question of how can we afford to carry on importing goods and services if we have a current account deficit if there's a surplus on the other account on the financial account the nation can borrow from this account and carry on importing more than it exports for a while anyway of course we can only borrow from the one account if it has a positive balance a problem will arise if there's a net outflow of funds this can happen if overseas investors sell their South African shares or shut down their local businesses so it's risky to have a very large trade deficit we never know when there'll be an unexpected | Werner Lost | UCJmBZHkEvD543pEJ7tTlOeQ | 2011-01-04 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 757 | 4,406 |
Tq9GojoKr24 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq9GojoKr24 | KC Sabeel Conference - Dr. Jeff Halper | then that guy's weird tie in the back and if you can hear me then I'm we're okay alright well we don't have much time and and the so much to say this presentation is not going to help you digestion so I didn't make the program I would have done the music and then gone into me lightly okay bye see this issue he turned off another couple lights here maybe now okay well i'm the i'm not the spiritual part of the program i'm i'm the political part and I'm not the Christian part I'm the Jewish part and I'm not the American part on the Israeli part so categories me correctly what I'd like to do this evening is is really two things or things but I I'm going to try to do it really quick just on on one foot is hillel would say because we don't really we don't have any time for questions or discussions or anything unfortunately but I want to kind of give you an overview of the conflict from the ground up you know I'm a I'm an anthropologist so anthropologists always look at the world from the ground up everything is everything people say is nonsense everything government's say is certainly nonsense and treaties and declarations and this and that you've got to see what's happening on the ground what an anthropologist asked the basic question of anthropology is what in the hell is going on here and that's only a question you can know if you're there and you see on the ground what intentions are and that's the basis of my approach that's the grounded analysis that I have so I want to kind of give an overview I also want to bring you in a little bit into house demolitions into the wall so you see a little bit yourselves about what the realities are and then to try to talk for a minute or two about where we are and where we could be going it's a kind of a big agenda for a little amount of time we have to start with this this is the part of the Israeli framing or the Israeli prom where Israel is coming from that is not discussed it's not articulated and it can't be articulated and it can't be articulated by non-jews and that's in a sense the the privilege I have of being Jewish and Israeli I can say things that that you can't say we have to understand this issue of exclusivity if we're going to understand anything about about Israel and I I can't it's hard to put it in in a nutshell but let me just say this when nationalism began to emerge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries modern European nationalism they were two major streams one was the nationalism of Western Europe that the course became the nationalism of the United States Jefferson Franklin a lot of the founding fathers spent time in France and so on of the French Revolution it was a kind of civil nationalism the United States is a Western democracy from the point of view that the concept is that the United States belongs to its citizens it belongs to its people all of its people and everyone's equal and you can be a citizen you can be an immigrant you can become an American you can become an American now we all know there's racism and discrimination we know that on that it's not always exactly like that when we're building a wall you're building a wall on the Mexican border but nevertheless nevertheless that's the conception the other major form of nationalism in the 19th century was in Eastern Europe Eastern and actually Central Europe Pam Slav ISM pan-german ISM that was exceed ifferent it was a tribal nationalism the idea was for example in Russia Poland Serbia and so on that a country belongs to a particular tribe particular people Russia belonged to the Russians until today even though Putin kind of goes through the facade of a democratic election you don't really have the concept of a citizenship or a civil society in Russia until today so that so that the idea is that Russia belongs to the Russians Jews lived a thousand years in Russia and were never considered Russians you know because that's the way that that part of the world was was constructed and and so when Jewish nationalism began towards the end of the 19th century the Jews the Zionist movement and also Herzl who was a part of sort of the pan Germanic tribalism took that tribal organic form of nationalism as the nationalism of Zionism it wasn't an American nationalism were a French or a British it was very much Eastern and Central European and brought it to to Palestine and and you know it makes sense ninety percent of the Jews in the 19th century lived in Russia so they're not going to jump when they decide to think about their national identity is not going to jump to a Jeffersonian type of democracy they took the the major form of nationalism in that part of the world which was a tribal one and therefore like in Russia today or Serbia or pol under those other the other countries the concept behind Israel is that the Land of Israel we call this entire country from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River the Land of Israel we don't use the term the State of Israel very often we talk about harlots you ask somebody where are you from you say where are you from in the land it's a very broad concept and over its entire history Israel has resisted having borders because the idea is that we're in a political process of reclaiming our historical land the land has more meaning for Israelis i would say than the state and certainly for the settlers but for many israelis so the concept is the Land of Israel belongs it belongs exclusively to the Jewish people and this you'll find on every three bumper stickers in Israel the Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people that's one of the most common phrases it's even a phrase that the jewish agency uses so that this is the essential concept if this country does not belong to its inhabitants it does not belong to its citizens it belongs to the Jewish people it's what we call in Hebrew a Jewish democracy in Israel and therefore the other side of the coin is that Arabs now I use the word Arabs purposefully in Israel we don't use the word Palestinian very often we talk about Arabs in a very undifferentiated way because to say Palestinian gives too much recognition distinctiveness and legitimacy to another national group that we deny exists we cannot accept the idea that there's another nation another people in our country in the Land of Israel that has national rights of self-determination that has legitimate claims now we know there's a bunch of herbs in the country I mean that we're not blind we can see there's Arabs in the country but they don't add up to a people we never talked about the Palestinian people and as much as everybody's upset that Hamas does not recognize Israel Israel has never ever ever recognized the existence of a Palestinian people or its rights of self-determination not even in the brightest days of Oslo and therefore the the other side of the coin of this of this framing is that Zionists reside in our country by sufferance and not by right they have no right to be in our country they can stay there if they shut up and they don't raise their heads to use the biblical phrase and and they're not uppity and they know their place they can stay there but if they do if they do have the hood spa to challenge our exclusive claim to the country we can expel them we can kill them we can do anything we want to there is there is no concept of another side in a conflict you need two sides I might hate the other side but there's another side in our conflict there is no other side this is us it's all unilateral everything is unilateral it has to be because we have nothing to talk about we're dealing with people in our country and we decide if if they're going to get land and how much land they're going to get or if they leave the country or stay in the country or whatever what I'm saying is that this is unspoken because Israel tries to present itself as a Western democracy and if this was actually articulated not only would it create a lot of dissonance between the image of Israel as a Western democracy and the reality but I think most Jews would say whoa wait a minute that's Israel that's the country that that I claim to to be a part of most Jews I believe and certainly in the United States the Jewish community here is defined by its commitment social rights and human rights and social justice and equality would would absolutely reject this but this doesn't come from the United States this comes out of Eastern Europe and this is very much a part rather than a democracy you can look at Israel as an ethnic recy it's a country that privileges one particular ethnic national religious group over all the others so with that understanding then it's Israel is in the process we're not in a conflict we're in the process of reclaiming our country our national homeland so if you think about it I mean there's no occupation Israel denies officially the government denies officially that there's an occupation because you can't occupy your own country so you can imagine trying to have a political discussion with Israelis where there's no Palestinians there's no occupation and there's no conflict what are you left with you're left with terrorism and so everything boils down to terrorism which is very convenient because then we cast ourselves as the victims we're the victims of terrorism they're the bad guys and there is no occupation in the entire Israeli discourse you will never ever ever hear an Israeli spokesperson it used the old word they won't they won't do it and they can't do it because a Israeli policy explicitly says there is no occupation so that if we're in the process unilaterally of reclaiming our land what are we doing I talked about a matrix of control that that Israel has laid over the occupied territories in order to foreclose forever a viable Palestinian state and in order basically that Israel a control the entire country forever to make it to make the occupation immune from any pressures whether their external pressures or internal pressures to a to a Shiva just peace with the Palestinians the whole conflict really boils down to land and Israel claims the land exclusively for itself so the first element in the matrix of control is is the the confining of the Palestinian population to what we call areas a and B 90 some percent of the Palestinians in the occupied territories especially the West Bank live in areas a and B I won't go into all the detail which makes up forty-two percent of the West Bank so the West Bank and Gaza the occupied territories are an area the size of the state of Delaware with about six to seven times the population of Delaware now imagine six times the population of Delaware locked into forty-two percent of Delaware which isn't the largest state it's probably the size of the ranch in crawford texas you know alright that was but at any rate imagine all those people locked into forty-two percent of of Delaware but not a contiguous 42-percent the Palestinians are locked into more than 70 islands areas a and B are more than 70 islands and you need a military permit in most cases to pass from island to island so add that to the equation in Delaware five to six seven times the population living on forty two percent of the land and then carved into into 70 islands and that's and and that's the life of the Palestinians with area see you see all the all the gray area you see all the blue splotches those are the settlements there are between three and four hundred settlements already in the occupied territories there are more than there are almost a half a million settlers living in the occupied territories so that so that what I'm one of the things we have to keep in mind not only is there an occupation but it's a proactive occupation this is not motivated by security you can't explain almost any element of the Israeli occupation by security not Israel did not build three to four hundred settlements because of security it built them because out of a proactive claim to the country it didn't demolish 14,000 Palestinian houses because of security the people were never charged with anything that they weren't security-related demolitions they didn't uproot a million in all of them fruit trees a million all of them fruit trees in the occupied territories in 67 because of security the highway system i'll show you in a minute was not built there because of security these are all proactive elements that and I and we have to stress that in order to put the burden of the responsibility on Israel I reject this symmetry I reject the both sides thing I don't think the Palestinians are free of responsibility but but they're not the occupying power there's a power differential here one side is a state and the other side isn't one state has a powerful army and the other side has doesn't and one side is the occupying power the Palestinians are not occupying Tel Aviv they're not building settlements in in Haifa so that there it is not a symmetrical situation and there is nothing whatsoever wrong with putting the responsibility on Israel and demanding that Israel be held accountable for its actions that's the first element and and this leads to house demolitions because the problem is that most Palestinians own land there the land of their farms the land they own is in Area C that's controlled by Israel but Israel doesn't want them to move on to that land because it wants the land for itself for settlements and for and eventually you know that it will be a next to Israel a most of Area C and therefore the entire West Bank has been zoned as agricultural land which means that when a Palestinian comes and says I want to build a home on my own land israel says no you can't because its agricultural land and of course because we sit in all the planning committees when you want to build a settlement of course then it's easy to rezone the land from ragga culture to residents to residential but it's really a facade a political mechanism for controlling the land and confining the Palestinians and therefore you have the issue of house demolitions 14,000 Palestinian homes demolished in the occupied territory since nineteen sixty seven sixty percent or so of the houses are demolished in military incursions where Israel will come into Gaza until today in the last in the last three months there's been more than five hundred how is demolished in Gaza so that or the Israeli army will come into the Janine refugee camp some you know in reaction to something but a completely arbitrary reaction hundreds of houses are destroyed of people that had nothing to do with whatever it was it provoked the army to invade but the other houses thousands of other houses that are simply houses of people that want to build homes on their own land and and are prohibited like the schwa Murray family Salim chiwawas here in Kansas City with me a few years ago so some of you might might have met him Arabiya and there today their seven children that applied four times to the Civil Administration the Israeli Civil Administration for a building permit and were denied each time each time they apply to cause some five thousand dollars for fees for architects for maps for this for that so it's a tremendously expensive thing especially if you know almost that you're not going to get it finally like thousands of other Palestinians the family had to build a home anyway a modest home because you have to live somewhere they were living in the shoe off at refugee camp but how how long can you live in a room with seven kids so the house was built they lived in the house for five years until nineteen ninety-eight in by the way when they built the house there wasn't area a B and C so they they fell into that hole trap after the house had been built nevertheless in nineteen july 1998 the families having lunch and there's a knock on the door they have a demolition order but you know you never know when they're going to come to demolish you could be Nick tomorrow and it could be five years and it could be never so the families live in tremendous anxiety and fear for years one day they're having lunch there's a knock on the door salim opens a door and here he finds himself confronted I don't know what civil servants look like in Kansas City but these to my great shame our Israeli civil servants these are employees of what we call the Civil Administration which is Israel's military government and in fact they're settlers these are settlers hired by the civil administration to decide whether Palestinians can get permits and whose house is going to be demolished and of course they're armed as you can see this is rami and this is me huh they're well known in the whole region that West Bank is divided into 18 regions and each one has warlords these guys can go into your house any time of day or night if you're a Palestinian with not with no knock they can just walk in they have the authority really to do an almost anything in the villages Romney says to Salim is this your house Salim says yes it's my house he says no it is and it's our house now we're gonna you got 15 minutes to get all your belongings out and we're going to demolish it so what do you do I mean is it it's not a normal human reaction to say a deer would you please help me carry the dining room table out what do you do you protest you yell you argue and if it gets too loud or if by chance you touch one of these guys it turns into resistance and immediately that triggers a military response they're shooting this day they were shooting one sixteen-year-old kid lost his kidney and part of his stomach there's tear gas and Salim finds himself a beaten and thrown out of the house his wife locked the door teargas was thrown in and the family was flushed out i'm doing this quickly because we just don't have time and then when the family is finally out of the house all right when when the family is out and the furniture is thrown out then the bulldozer comes to demolish the home and here there's you know there's tragedies and tragedies and tragedies the driver of the bulldozers a Palestinian you know he's just the guy that works for this company you know it's a commercial wrecking company or a commercial company that the Civil Administration subcontracts do he got a contract at a malish Palestinian homes and so one day the driver reports to work and the boss says the Israeli boss says you're going to go build a road over here the next day reports to work and the guy says we have a permit you're going to go demolish houses it's very easy for us to say he should say no but you know if you're a Palestinian it's not so easy to say no and lose your job and so and so and it turned out that he knew saline and this driver himself was from a village at him and demolished in 1948 and salim is lying on the ground is no idea where his kids are his wife was went into shock and was taken to the hospital and you know I you know and you watch your house being demolished I mean if anything is sacred if we're in some some discourse hear about sacred things what about a person's house and what was his crime he's not a terrorist he was never charged that he's a perfectly nice guy that was here in Kansas City not very political who all he wanted to do was build a home for his family on his own land it's not near a settlement it's not near a road it's not bothering anybody so if we Israeli Jews and if the American Jews are going to defend Israeli policies we have to take responsibility this man is our victim what is his crime how can Jews do these kinds of things these are the questions that the Jewish community is not asking nor is the Israeli Jewish community asking for all kinds of reasons I won't get into right now at any rate here was the the furniture that was thrown out and one thing you can see is these are romaine in foreign workers because the commercial company just hires foreign workers and they go in and they rip everything out you know how you have a bedroom set with the you know things are screwed together everything's ripped out the papers are thrown out everything we resist you know we try to resist the demolition we we get in front of bulldozers we chain ourselves and houses we try to resist but we also try to delay to give time to for journalists to come that we call consulate people to call to call if we can make enough of it to do we might lose one or two houses but we can save maybe three or four or five houses that day and next time you think you're having a bad day in the office here's my day in the office but we but we're in a privileged position I have to say this as Israeli Jews we know they're not going to beat us they're not going to shoot us they're not going to they arrest us all the time as you can see but we're not put in jail and therefore we're able to resist in ways that Palestinians can't if Celine would sit in front of the bulldozer they'd shoot them period there's no questions asked but I can do so Israeli protesters resistors can do those things here's rabbi erica sherman who's getting arrested actually suleiman arabes house was demolished four times and rebuilt by us each time and rabbis for Human Rights which is an organization of a hundred Israeli rabbis are on our board and and come out together with us to resist the demolition of Palestinian homes finally the home is demolished and we if the family is willing not every family wants to go through that trauma again I don't have time to tell you how men women and children react differently to two demolitions but let me tell you it's an entire society that's been traumatized you can imagine this happening you know we're talking about a hundred thousand people to whom this has happened we come out Israelis Palestinians you see the people with the red hats these rcpt people the Christian peacemaker team in Hebron internationals come and we rebuild houses if the family is willing that have been demolished we raise funds and and and and we we rebuild homes see here's the tent that the family was given by the Red Crescent Society to live in and that's a very important piece making peace making a effort i think you know because it takes some sometimes weeks to build a house so it's not going out holding up a sign and going home but you really have a chance and I think it's meaningful for Israelis as well you really have a chance to get to know Palestinians to resist in a meaningful way and I would say this is super meaningful because in the end if we look back not only at the 14,000 houses if we look at the 400 and an 18 or so villages that Jonathan referred to earlier that were demolished in 1948 and after inside Israel and you know what last year the Israeli government announced the establishment of a demolition administration within the ministry of interior there are twenty to forty thousand homes of Israeli citizens Arab citizens that are slated for demolition of veterans of what we call the unrecognized villages that 150,000 Israeli citizens live in until today so that if we step back and look at the house demolition issue we're talking about displacement dispossession we go way beyond occupation and simply a conflict and this is why I go back to that idea of exclusivity this is the expression of what we call in Hebrew new shul of dispossession and so it goes a wider than simply this particular conflict now the second element in the matrix of control is what we call the closure there are you know Palestinians cannot come into Israel today almost completely to work Israel has over the last 40 years has deliberately d developed the occupied territories the economy is worse today by by magnitudes than it was in 1967 there's actual starvation in the occupied territories and it's all induced there's absolutely no reason for it Palestinians can't come into Israel to work they have no economy of their own it's a scorched ER Israel has left a scorched earth and and as you can see these all these little dots all these triangles are our checkpoints there are actually 750 obstacles to movement between these islands so again imagine Delaware with half of Delaware in 70 islands and each island is surrounded by check posts a guard towers terminals and even in places like Jericho in particular trenches so you can't drive in and out and you begin to get a sense of what's of what's happening the third element that's very important are what we call settlement blocs settlement blocs are Israel's bottom line these pink areas are the areas that Israel wants to keep in any political solution this is the basis of what Olmert calls his convergence plan that he presented to the American Congress a joint session of Congress last April in detail this is the only map I know of of settlement blocs by the way it's a map we've done our estimation of what they are so here's an extremely important plan from Israel's point of view it ends the occupation from our point of view it in it it it implements a plan of a party an extremely important plan presented the Congress based on settlement blocs no one has ever seen a map of the settlement blocs no one knows what a settlement block is the Israeli public has no idea what a settlement block is where it is how many there are there in our estimation there are eight that Israel wants to keep one is the Jordan Valley because it controls the border and it controls the water and for the last eight months the entire jordan valley which is thirty percent of the West Bank has been completely sealed to Palestinians this whole area and a city is being built in here of 50,000 people a new settlement city is being built so if anybody has any illusion that Israel is thinking about a two-state solution I mean spend ten minutes on the ground or looking at the map and you have to go on to other kinds of options there's the arielle block which divides the West Bank east and west around the city of arielle and also sits atop the largest water aquifer Israel controls a hundred percent of the water of the Palestinians eighty-five percent is used by Jews eighty-five percent of the water of the West Bank is either used by the settlements or is piped into Israel there's the mode en bloc here's a city of moody een which straddles the green line which is being built today as the largest city in Israel and the largest settlement in the West Bank is an ultra or Knox community called curious a fur or upper moody in and and there's very rich agricultural land in here and then there are three settlement blocks that make up greater Jerusalem givat ze'ev Malaya du même and the Etzion block so that Jerusalem is being transformed from a city into a region that controls the entire central portion of the West Bank not only will Palestinians be pretty much excluded from Jerusalem they are today Palestinians cannot come into Jerusalem physically any of the Palestinians from the West Bank not only is palette is Jerusalem being isolated which has cultural political and religious obviously meanings I mean we always complain about how jews don't have access to this or that religious site we're preventing muslims and christians from praying in their churches and mosques it's clear not only that but the world bank estimates that forty percent of the palestinian but the palestinian economy revolves around jerusalem that's where tourism is in particular the largest palestinian economy industry so that by cutting Jerusalem out of a Palestinian state Israel is cutting the economic heart out of any Palestinian state a seven settlement block is East Jerusalem itself about 220,000 Palestinians that can't they can't move Western westward into the Israeli section of the city but who have a wall being built around them and are being isolated from Palestinian society and finally a settlement block coming from the south up to the city of Hebron the settlements in Hebron what this does then is it carves the West Bank into what sharone called canton's this Sharon was extremely explicit about this there's no you don't have to believe it's this isn't a left-wing anti-israel whatever telling you this this is Sharon's plan and anybody that knows Israeli politics a can follow it sharone talked about camtonz there's a northern can't and you see the settlement blocs make up a northern canton for the Palestinians around knob loose a central canton around Ramallah a southern canton around hebrone Jericho's hanging out there somewhere and Gaza and that's a bamboo stand because Israel it's true what I said that Israel claims the entire country for itself and we will not ever ever give up control of this country but demographically in order to preserve a Jewish state some purely Jewish state we have to have a Palestinian state we have to get the Palestinians off our hands somehow what do we do with almost four million Palestinians in the occupied territories we can't transfer them out of the country even though that's discussed all the time in Israel in the parliament that on television you know but it wouldn't look good for Israel's image to put four million Palestinians on trucks and ship them to among we can't do that yep we can't if this is one country and we're a democracy why don't we give them citizenship ah no but that's the one state solution we can't do that because then it wouldn't be a Jewish country and we can't we can't maintain the occupation forever because the occupation itself is is violent it's draining our resources it can't be stabilized normalized so what do you do the answer and the logic is exactly that of South Africa in the time of apartheid with Bantu stands you create a Palestinian ban to stand in other words a Canton eyes entity that that you give to the Palestinians and look at our language generous offers unilateral it's all us we decide this is there's no negotiations here you give the Palestinians a little truncated mini-state you get them off our hands now they have a state in 22 states of but we remain in control of the entire country and in order to enforce that we're building up all right first of all just to mention i think i cant lost count of the elements but another element of the matrix is is the road system the infrastructure so Israel built during the Oslo peace process 29 major highways Israel only highways that link to settlement blocs into Israel all financed by the United States by your tax dollars now if you can possibly a look at this and think that Israel had any intention in the world of a viable Palestinian state emerging then you've got you have an imagination better than mine and the final element in the matrix of control of course is the wall that's being built now you can't say a wall the the ambassador's will get very angry if you say a wall it's a fence we call it a fence the official name the official name is a separation barrier because separation which is what apartheid means in Afrikaans separation is the name we give our policy is half ro dah exactly what Jonathan called it I tend to use more the apartheid language Jonathan uses the offer that language but I think there's certainly a dovetailing I don't think we really disagree in our analysis the separation barrier then defines it's not a cept it's not a security barrier that's the way it's sold of course but if it was really a security barrier it would follow the border of the country if it would follow the green line it would Israel would not have been hauled in front of the International Court of Justice you know you can build a wall in the Mexican border you know you can do it it's dumb I think what you can do it but but you can't build a wall inside Mexico you know you can't include a good chunk of Mexico in the wall and that's what's happening here look at the wall it's not a security barrier it's a political border that defines the bam to stand and you can see the logic it's cleared it follows areas a and B and then when it hits a settlement block you see it goes around this is the RAL block look where the wall is going look that's a security barrier no it's a land grab and it's a political border that defines the Baptist and and just to give you for a second to look at the wall the wall is 26 feet high around the Palestinian all the Palestinian populated areas are surrounded by the wall 26 feet high it's more than twice as high as the Berlin Wall the Berlin Wall was was 12 feet high and this is seven times longer than the Berlin Wall and it snakes through communities you see here's Bayon in Bethlehem Beit Jala you can see the wall constructed you know what's missing in this picture Israelis where the Israelis wait a minute this is a security barrier doesn't it separate Israelis and Palestinians know it separates Palestinians from Palestinians because the wall goes through areas the Jews don't see Jews don't like walls we have some very negative associations with walls concrete walls and therefore this entire complex is built in a way that the Israeli public can't see it is built through the heart of Palestinian communities dividing this is a grandmother and her grandchildren live over here separated with the wall schools are separated hospitals are separated businesses it goes through completely through communities like for example a Buddhist and elizario eliz Aria what's Ella's re it's Bethany in the Bible from the Lazarus story that was a part of Jerusalem two thousand years ago and yet it's separated today from Jerusalem by this 26 foot wall that snakes through again no Israelis within miles and you know how everybody gets upset when you when the idea of an academic boycott on Israeli universities is mentioned well this is al Koontz University it has it has a matter of fact as a couple campuses of alcudia have the wall built through the campus there are faculty and students it cannot get to school what is that that's okay and it's only Israeli universities you can't boycott because this is invisible to most people and the wall goes on and on and on and entire cities are surrounded with a wall like tool Carm of 70,000 people the wall is not linear in with the Berlin Wall you could stand on one side and walk to the Atlantic Ocean and you could stand on the other side and walk through Russia to the Pacific Ocean this is a complex of walls secondary walls tertiary walls fences trenches guard towers terminals checkpoints patrol roads there are killer dogs that that that patrol the the the security barrier a special breed of dog in Israel all these years resisted the use of dogs again because of their association and there's a special breed of dog bred in Holland I can't remember the name right now that's especially fast especially strong and especially aggressive and they're used to patrol to patrol these kinds of barriers so it's a deadly if it is a fence it is a fence it's a deadly fence and entire cities are surrounded as you can see here by the wall or and you have to say something good we created gated communities for Palestinians you know thousands of people it just in Jerusalem there are 55 thousand palestinians locked into enclaves in which that the wall absolutely and completely surrounds and the wall as it's being built I mean it the humiliation the the interference in everyday life the claustrophobia I can't begin to convey to you the meaning of this wall and yet Palestinians resist they resist together with Israelis physically they resist the building of the wall be lean is the most famous a protest has been going on for a couple of years now but even things like graffiti and some of the graffiti is absolutely breathtaking look at this that's something and some of it is in your face and just political and and and so on and in the rural areas it's true there's a fence why it's so important that that you call it a fence I don't know I you know you can see through it that's but you know in terms of what it actually does what's the difference between offense in a wall but but I'm telling you try to use the word wall sometime in a public discussion and you'll see the reaction the fence is an electrified fence you can see the electrical and and you see the patrol roads trenches and what does this do all this goes through all of fields you see the olive groves here so farmers are cut off in their fields this can be a hundred and fifty yards wide at different times so tremendous amounts of agricultural land are lost in addition to which the at landscape is absolutely vandalized this is the land of israel this is the holy land it's not with all due respect to minnesota you know this belongs to everyone you have a fragile biblical landscape that the jews in my reading of the Bible in the covenant with Abraham is that the Jews were supposed to be the custodians of the land the land is absolutely being vandalized this Hill you can repeat it a thousands of times there's hardly a hill in the country whether inside Israel or in the West Bank that hasn't been knocked down cut through or vandalized in this kind of way it's an environmental issue that no one has ever touched and again gates in the rural areas so finally where we're going is towards the Baptist and we use the apart date language and I'm very happy to hear that President Carter Jimmy Carter is coming out with a book as you know called Palestine at peace not apartheid and that's going to go along way towards chords generating this discussion and I think in the end utilizing the term and we use the term specifically not as an allegory not as a curse not as a as a slogan it's true first of all it's separation of populations that our policy is called separation it's a demographic separation it doesn't matter if in South Africa was separation on racial grounds and on and in and in Palestine is separation on ethnic religious national grounds who cares the point is populations are separated and there's a power differential as Jonathan said this is domination this isn't separate but equal if you had the two-state solution the real two-state solution it's not just but the Palestinians have said we can live with that that would be separate and sort of equal but this is obviously separate and this is the permanent institution institutionalization of a regime of domination of one people over another and to my horror and I don't know for the life of me why the Jewish community isn't horrified the fact that the Jews are becoming the Afrikaner building ghettos and walls I mean it's absolutely inconceivable to me and yet the Jewish community stone walls and you know I can speak in churches I could never speak and that's not true once in a while but almost never speak in a synagogue certainly not in a federation certainly not in a hillel house on campus and I think it's the Jewish community has to do some some soul-searching as well on this issue but here is a bantha stand where Israel expands to eighty-five percent of the territory even though the Jews are only half the population today and they'll be less than half if refugees come back so the other half the Palestinians I will get fifteen percent of the land truncated into Canton's with no border with no water and you get to this map by looking at areas a and B you take out the settlement blocs you take out the line of the wall you don't have to be a genius to figure out where Israel is going and it has to be unilateral obviously because you're not going to get the Palestinians to agree and this is why we call it apart date because of separation and domination and finally we don't have time to get into this at all but you know where could this possibly go we're really we're really stuck you know Israel has in fact for done what it's what it wanted to do for 40 years it foreclosed any possible establishment of a viable Palestinian state of viable state there can be a Baptist am but not a viable state viability is crucial for the Palestinians we have to remember two things one is that refugees have to come back not all the refugees but even a few hundred thousand is meaningful these are people that have lived for 60 years in terrible conditions under educated unemployed unskilled especially those in Lebanon that's going to be a tremendous task for any government or society or country to to accept in addition to that more than sixty percent of the Palestinians are under the age of 18 so that and these are kids that are traumatized brutalized undereducated unskilled with no infrastructure there's no economy in the country so the issue of viability is not just an academic issue so that this leaves us with a few possibilities the first option which is the option that the international community adopted that the Palestinians agreed to already in 1988 even before Oslo and that the Arab world the Arab League agreed to in what's called the Saudi initiative is a viable two state solution a state of Palestine in the occupied territories all the occupied territories alongside of Israel where Israel keep seventy-eight percent of the country that's the worst case scenario for a two-state solution and israel says no | cjmenet | UCMIJpgeO8jJm82H6BLOyQoA | 2012-04-22 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 7,523 | 41,070 |
B1Le92JLsr8 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Le92JLsr8 | New Alliance for Food Security and Nutriton: A Threat to subsistence farmers - Molly Scott Cato MEP | I've received a huge number of emails raising concerns about the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition and I wanted to let you know how I'm acting to prevent this initiative from threatening the livelihoods of subsistence farmers across the world. This New Alliance was launched in May 2012 in the aftermath of the global food price crisis. It's a partnership between the G8 countries, 10 African countries private sector organisations and civil society groups, and it says that its aim is to achieve sustained inclusive agricultural growth in Africa. As Greens in the European Parliament we work closely with all of Olivier De Schutter former UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food and were aware of his report which is highly critical of this initiative and its potential threat to food security. My German colleague Maria Heubuch persuaded the Parliament's Development Committee to produce a report on this issue and she will write that report. I will be writing a similar report for the Agriculture Committee. We are concerned that what is labeled as a development initiative, privileges agribusiness and corporations over smallholder farmers and their communities. Here food security and nutrition appear to be secondary to export opportunities and growth. If we were truly interested in putting nutrition at the heart of rebuilding food systems we would shift the focus away from global profitability and towards the quality of the soil and its produce in local communities. Similarly we are concerned that the policies proposed are not sufficiently taking into account the primary role of women. It's vital to consult women to empower them and to involve them equally in any initiative claiming to address food security. In recent decades agricultural policies have made maximization of production the target and the New Alliance for Food Security continues down this misguided path. It claims to tackle food insecurity through the promotion of large-scale farming and export led growth. As Greens our focus is not to increase the production of agricultural commodities for market but it is to enable populations to feed themselves. We believe that we should protect the interests of smallholder farmers against land grabbing, corruption and land speculation. Without this, a short-sighted focus on outside investment would risk concentrating land ownership and dispossessing communities of the resources they rely on. Industrial farming also pushes farmers towards input dependency: they get locked into buying patented seeds and pesticides from the corporations. Instead of this we should support local seed banks and exchanges and the continuous development of local seed varieties. This is not only vital to promise self-sufficiency but also crucial in maintaining and improving agro-biodiversity worldwide. So I'm really glad you're taking an interest in this issue - an issue that is so vital to so many peasant farmers across the world and I can assure you that I will do my best to protect their interests and their right to a secure and sustainable livelihood. | Molly MEP | UCcPeAz8Cx98P70UeN0qUOCg | 2016-01-20 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 491 | 3,088 |
UV--y6a7t-g | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV--y6a7t-g | Weird Things - Recasting Star Wars | and I'll tell you what uh I want to see I want to see uh granny I'm going to throw on movies yes okay now what about this what if you found out that okay you you know where I'm at with LucasArts and the the Star Wars franchise right but it was announced that uh uh George Luke was presents produced by not George Lucas directed by not George Lucas an animated trilogy that was that story you're reading right now with all the voice actors of those characters maybe maybe Han Solo doesn't come back maybe somebody has to do a fake Harrison Ford but it's all animated takes place in the future uh would you be stoked about it I mean I'd watch it again like my my standard my stock line on anything any adaptation of anything I like is do it if that's all we can do then do it do the best that we can to do more of that I like it I will give it a shot if if it was if if you know your daughters wanted to do a two-woman reenactment of uh the grand Admiral thrawn Trilogy I would watch it so so everything but it's like if the question is next I'm gonna show up for next time I happen to be in Austin just tell the girls start reading now I would say uh yeah I would just say I would be more excited for recast live action Recaps all those as iconic as those characters are recast them and and do a live action version I'd be more excited for that than an anime okay all right fair enough yeah I'm with all that because like they're doing like DC they're doing uh what was it the uh The Dark Knight Returns you know that the Frank Miller graphic novel as yeah and and it's kind of like I look like ah kind of cool but it's kind of like man I there's something about like I like animation a little bit I don't like animation a lot um I enjoy the Clone Wars but man I'd rather see people man have you ever that would be that would be a fan I mean like would there be is there any more ready-made internet thing than recasting uh Luke Skywalker yeah no I can see I can see it in the spirit of like in the spirit of of uh the reboot of Star Trek just all of a sudden picking up the story from the original trilogy with other actors I could see that I mean that's I mean but but as as as as consternated as uh as as that was for Star Trek it would be massive for Star Wars right I mean that would be uh and then an enveloping news story yeah but just I mean I'm telling you man keep Lucas's name far away from it because I guarantee you like if Lucas has anything to do with it I'm I'm clamming up it's like I'm not gonna I'm not gonna let that bastard hit me again you're telling me you're telling me would you cast that okay who would I put this out on Twitter who would I cast uh I wrote that on Twitter uh I would say casting for that that specific story so so the characters are Luke Leia Han Lando uh our R2D2 and c3p obviously you can you can still do Chewbacca you can still do whatever and um yeah uh so of those main three you know it's funny because this has been written about on the internet it just like whoever like whatever like big geek movie is out at the time that people ask this question you always just kind of see like the lead actor from that big geek movie like kind of as uh as as the main thing so like you saw somebody asked us on like a message board that I want to get linked to and it was like it was right when X-Men first Class came out so they had uh will McAvoy as the new Luke Skywalker um I would say I don't know I mean I think Joseph gordon-levitt's one of those guys that I think could do a really good Luke Skywalker and I know that that's I mean he was big and he just did the big Batman thing he's got Looper so it might just be him on my brain but I think he would be a good five years older wiser uh Luke I think uh the kid that did uh Napoleon Dynamite would be good John heater uh Han Solo Harrison Ford still no explanation but you know you know like he's not a fan of the Han Solo character like he wouldn't come back is that why you are so attracted to the idea of having him come back but don't force him to do it number one I also like do we know that he's for anything like he seems like he's a fairly disagreeable guy as a human you know yeah like he doesn't like anything and then somebody says hey do it well uh all right so so Luke who's your who's your Luke uh Maine or or Brushwood I want uh how about Chris Pine so he's Captain Kirk and Luke Skywalker imagine the Fanboy rage [Laughter] we put Luke at that age if we say okay because it in the uh these roughly 20 Star Wars 2018 something around there so Empire is like 23 he's 26. so he's like 30 or so yeah yeah okay um and and well into his Jedi training to the point where he's he's closer to Obi-Wan as we meet Obi-Wan in A New Hope than he is when he began his gym um there's this Canadian actor Hayden Christensen laughs I want to see Nathan Fillion as a as as oh as Han Solo I think we already talked about some fan service see that's the thing a lot of people said that but like I kind of think that's almost like two on the nose because then it's it's Mal as Han Solo and you're never and that was Han Solo I mean he really was because yeah yeah that's true um I've got I've got a Han Solo okay he's talking this is it's an erection Andrew is that what you call it too that's why we call it around here yes I'll tell you what he always shoots first [Laughter] I'm not gonna play this game what's your Han Solo show us you're on no I'm trying to Port now guys um My Han Solo standing out there by itself uh I've got tutor I got two Han Solo picks for you all right all right um One Direction if we just say heck heck let's just have him be like the most Charming Smuggler in the world it's Matthew McConaughey oh yeah all right or career Renaissance for Matthew McConaughey but you know what that kind of makes sense though because it's like he's he's out of the game it would sort of be inspired the way uh you know even though um you would think that Robert Downey Jr was too too old to play uh Tony Stark you know he uh it was just kind of inspired and right because of his his checkered past with uh with drug abuse likewise with Matthew McConaughey he sort of passed his prime you know he's out of his game anymore he's sort of this lazy like I don't know what am I doing here I'm pretending to be a diplomat you know My First Choice X was Hugh Jackman oh yes oh a million times yes a million times yes and I have my Luke Skywalker um as much as I like Joseph Gordon-Levitt I kind of like man I don't quite uh I'll give you my pick for Luke Skywalker go go ahead and forget physical type forget physical type okay welcome who Andrew Garfield Andrew Garner Andrew Garfield all right huh he's a really good actor and he can play 20 to 35-ish no I can see it I can I can see Garfield see I can't come up with anything better so it's like I I feel like I'm not even know who that is uh he was he was your favorite Spider-Man he was Mr Spider-Man wait he was the Spider-Man that you hated he was emo Spider-Man oh emo spider who you got for Leia and that was for Luke yeah that was Andrew's angsty I mean he plays angst really well yeah but did Lucas got Lucas made the Universe on his shoulders no not no no Luke is Mega chilly he's more Obi-Wan than he's very cool in the in that second Trilogy I mean the pressure's pressures on him he has to deal with wrong Trilogy yeah I mean the pressure's on him I mean he's got it he's not angsty at all he's but he's I mean he's not he's not the Adolescent but I'm like he's got like he's like having to live like a monk and stuff and be this icon and held up to stuff he's got like he's got pressure yeah but that no angst I would he's drinking hot chocolate I would say I having having very reasonably read the first two at least uh there is there is a lot of internal kind of uh you know issues for him of where he is and like ultimately it's not like it breaks out to the surface it's that he has to deal with all this kind of chaos around him and be the calming Force ultimately uh which is not you know tremendously different than what you know was kind of the story of the original trilogy it was it was just less pronounced [Music] that's the what the ending Bill that was actually steam updating just then uh Brian you gotta have a leg you haven't cast anyone Alaya yeah all right you and I were talking about this I just to be well I just want to put Natalie Portman in there like just to be like like you know fly free like like uh uh I mean I don't I don't know you know what what about Liv Tyler she's a little older now she's not too old you smell like 35. no is she I think I'm almost sure I say put Zoe uh Zoe and Jason she's just awkward she's just like oh I don't understand twins everywhere exactly the the adorkable pregnant Princess Leia I got I got your leg I got two layers for you right which do you want Choice a or Choice B uh can you give a descriptor for either yeah one's fun one's a little more serious but both would be the fun one would be great but people might be like oh it might feel almost like a parody parody fun one Mila Kunis spunky Choice B there's a lot a lot of spunk oh definitely Mila Kunis way over Scarlett Johansson interesting yeah you know uh I would say there's yeah the problem I have and I love Scarlett Johansson I I am I am a fan of Scarlett Johansson but the problem with her is that she tends for me she tends to kind of revert to pouty New York girlfriend way too easily that's sort of like the the reaction to every problem like even like in like the Avengers it's kind of like hey I'm an action star I'm also a pouty New York girlfriend I don't I never had a I liked her you know my favorite with her was scoop I haven't tried Woody out really really good because it's very much her playing a different a different kind of role yeah um now the other the other big role number one Lando where you got his land though Lando eh I'm gonna go that guy from Dragon Con from last year's DragonCon the guy who's just going around going hello what have we here walking around with this pimp k-pod thank you that was awesome and he was just a little overweight he had another five years you could tell that he was just like trading oh yeah like he still had that confidence with him yeah yeah it's got to be Lenny Kravitz right um what that's not terrible I got another Han Solo Jeremy rimmer I don't no I don't remember who that is Jeremy Renner Hawkeye oh yeah yeah actually I think Jeremy remember would be good as Han Solo yes you know there is because Han is kind of a little bit more brooding in in the thrawn uh Trilogy because he's he's very much out of his element for for a lot of it he's he's out of his element both when he goes back to deal in his Bounty Hunter kind of world and in his new uh you know like back alley political you know kind of things that he finds himself in the middle of so I I could see I could see writer I gotta I got a Lando huh John Carlo Esposito I don't know who that is you might know him as Gus freeing from Breaking Bad The Chicken Man ah I don't see that he's so cold though like because he's an actor bro man I know but I've never seen him play really warm uh I don't know maybe I mean he's a good actor so I don't see anything Danish Italian-American he's got like that International kind of I'll tell you what I'm looking at his Wikipedia photo that's a charming smile that's a Lando smile right what about Romney Romney Malco yeah there you go I believe in Romney uh who's left well the other characters and Admiral thrawn thrawn uh yeah we have thrawn of the new characters you have the major ones thrawn Talon card the uh the big Bounty Hunter uh Syndicate leader and of course Mara Jane so we are in a much more Multicultural age so I think we need to consider uh non-white people roles for all these uh if this thing's gonna get cast so Talent cards specifically somebody blue for thrawn well blue I mean no lights no Browns no blacks only Blues right only Blues the Blue Man Group [Music] um so uh Talon card I feel like Gary Oldman [Laughter] I for thrawn I'd be like Viggo Mortensen um oh Vigo and kill it because it Soulful thought likable but a bad guy all right yeah no I could see that let's say you had to cast um God his name is is escaping right now Bane Tom Tom Hardy Tom Hardy where'd you put Tom Hardy all the rules what it could be a solo Tom Hardy could be a uh he could I could see him as a as a thrawn I could see him as Orlando I could see him as a Talon card I could see him as Mary Jane I could see his Grandmaster there are some guys they were like Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman I think could play any number I would pay a billion dollars for a two-man play of the two of them playing out the entire Trilogy like in three nights each night everyone imagine okay Chris Nolan it's announced tomorrow Chris Nolan doing the grand Admiral thrawn Trilogy oh my God dude just take all my money you are allowed to wipe my memory if everything happened up until this moment just so I could see that so all right but who's the cast is what the cast is uh Mary Cotillard as Leia yes yes yes Beverly Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Luke yes uh Tom Hardy is solo Gary Oldman plays four roles yes okay including at Grand Admiral thrawn and Admiral Akbar and um which shows up just just for this for this one scene that makes no sense it wasn't in the book but is utterly enchanting as he drops in to have tea and he says there you know he's like still brooding over he's po like PTSD after that after the victory the akbar's a major he's a major player in the throne trailer wait wait I guess you it's always just him in the same scene you remember him from the original baseball oh no no no there there's a big political machinations about him that's like kind of the big driving with the bothans and whatnot a lot of Boston action going down yeah but yeah and of course Talent card Michael King amazing | BBpediaVideos | UC3pLAmEHFxl96Quhg-NSmXA | 2012-10-31 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,829 | 13,956 |
wtJuFqYVhOU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtJuFqYVhOU | Tremors 3020: Rise of the Graboids - HORIZON ZERO DAWN - PART 24 | hello everyone sigma later here welcome back to horizon zero dawn i'm back in meridian now i've uh covered a fair amount of collectibles over here like the vantage points and uh the uh ancient artifacts and i think i'll carry on doing things that way because they don't they're not really adding much they're just additional things to do we need to go over there at some point and take care of that or miss that one but no worries we will get back to it what's this one hunting grounds but anyway as we're here on some more cyclists we'll wrap up the uh vilgend one who's it this way excuse me out the way please oh yes here he is able-bodied prep outlander are you looking for wait i know your face you came back how did we fare expensively that's what i was afraid of the team machines it's hard to explain but there was a kind of signal that calmed them your men got greedy so it's gone now gambling's a shoddy job girl i should have been a weapons dealer that's steady work here take it the half i'd owed those hammer-handed chunks half i finished the job and what was it you said enough to buy a more becoming garb what do you want carja silks hoisted on my own purse strings damn right all right what was that oh what's in here water to water oh need to remember i've got that all right quests one of the fallen sun priests right yeah got that to do blow on the stone oh that's what i was doing originally wasn't it alright let's resume that one then aaron's hunting for the lodge all right yeah okay that's all done corrupted zones that done for now there's one more on the map but we'll get that eventually all right jesus is too damn hot i don't put my fan on the lowest setting if it's the microphone picking up possibly sorry if the microphone is picking it up but jesus it is it's necessary let's put it that way i need to get down there somehow ugh hey what yes you said i have to come down oh never here we're down here now oh boy you're a big one aren't you [Music] it's a goddamn grab boys jesus [ __ ] oh all right i'm not sure why that wasn't going off or do i need to hit it with a fire arrow all right i see what [ __ ] i'm knocking parts of it off so that's something at least oh it's dead let's see how i'd have to ditch something god damn it okay uh resources what kind ditch uh oh here we go i can upgrade my modification yes oh that's you done okay good let's see i can grab these pick it up all right well that wasn't too bad of a boss got very strong tremors vibes off it though which isn't a bad thing i love tremors i've never seen a machine like that whoa nor a hunter so bold take this it's from the quarry stores but no one's gonna argue that you don't deserve it may you walk in the light friend especially when dealing with what comes up from the ground oh thank you okay that's done a remarkable reward okay let's see what we've got here can't take all of those yet that's fine i need to dump some of these off to uh to merchants that's fine okay you're now sorted so on the fallen do i need to do these in order i'm not gonna waste a fast travel on this one as it's the closest we can run there it's not an issue we could we need like a roll you're over here let me grab some more of these actually think about it okay make sure i'm as loaded up as i can be it's a public monument not his private shrine you won't get in there that dried up old prune in a robe sees to that i can be persuasive but what does an osram want with a karja shrine anyway it reminds me of someone gone two years now but what does a girl like you know of loss try me i had a lover worked on monuments to their bastard king then he gave them a show in their sun ring for good measure the carja gave me back his broken bones but what use are they they won't build again they won't make me smile and seeing a statue of the mad sun king will i need to see his work again the marks his hands carved the set of the metals they hammered that's the soul of him but that shriveled up old priest won't let me near it i'll see what i can do turn away child the abiding jihamen wishes to be alone in his retreat if you want to be alone go someplace else others want to pray here defile it you mean yet another debasement of what was once pure truly our tribe has lost the light our king is false our temple is corrupt and our soldiers weak the sun hastens across the sky for shame the karja have become impure what does that even mean is meridian not meant for those who built it who made it great it was pure before outlander squatters took it over mean meridian was pure when the outsiders were in cages or dying in your arena the sun is pure child it is not our place to question its divine will only to act upon it i thought of odd taking the throne was the sun's will the boy dishonored his father dishonored us all to kill the sun king what shadow what twilight time he brought upon us and how many more would the mad sun king have killed if a vod hadn't stopped him the sun called for blood there was no choice but to obey nutter absolute nonsense you called the temple corrupt but aren't you one of its priests they call themselves sun priests but they have no authority youths and sycophants all yet those who gave their whole lives to the sun's service are shamed and ignored so that's what this is a tantrum a cry for attention you know nothing of our rights and yet you dare to insult me why do you think your army is weak because you're not at war with everyone a carja throne relying on forge dirt mercenaries preposterous the so-called liberation was nothing but a purge our most blessed warriors chased out of the city exiled to sun fall and the forbidden west our tribe is torn the ones who walked in light now go by shadow and yet everyone but you seems happy they're gone i'm done arguing with you stay or go but i won't allow you to keep others away i am here by the will of the sun you don't believe in the throne the priesthood the army or the city so i guess you have no authority here i have the authority of the sun then call it for help no one else will listen there'll be a reckoning you'll back away from it [Music] there you go you happy now mate good to see you he gave them the best work he'd ever do and look at it now they defaced it because they hated what it stood for they defaced a thing slaves like him lived and died for slaves they've already forgotten short-sighted bastards the lot if they thought their son set off this bridge they'd jump after it i thank you for honoring my wish i hope you can find peace i wouldn't know what to do with it any more than the card you do all right that's the first one taken care of all right uh that's gonna take a while to get to campfire there i haven't triggered all right let's see how far we can get okay here we are these are helpful there's a metal flower around here somewhere as well but we'll catch that later this is where the otaru wanted to say her goodbyes okay so i need to find someone in here oh leveled up nice um oh god now i'm stuck on snap more bodies okay when we fled from our cages during the liberation i tore through this clearing thinking my friend was behind me i kept running but here she remains thank you for making it safe for me to return i don't want to rush you but it won't stay safe for long i understand i've done this before in waking dreams in the pool i'll find the bracelet of seeds she dropped when she fell the seeds will be split escaped grown wild she's passing from my memory into the jungles i'll tell her it was i who died here and became a stranger in her own land and she who still lives in every time of planting of rains harvests what is it there her bracelet and i thought she was behind me but there's only my reflection do you need to be alone for the first time i am all right snap more okay that's your part of this taken care of let's head over here now yeah i will take that thank you never know when i might need these very true all right what's up here then up there i don't know if this is the right way but it's the route i'm going to take all right oh okay just need to look out for uh okay so there's different ways up what means there's uh different things on this mountain to look for huh the hell i don't know what you were doing there okay that's two down i think all right excellent to be free of this city oh it was you i was helping didn't even see you on the way up you were a better hunter than i i'll paint the mark while the spirits of the glen talks linger there'll be more where they came from yes there will always be more machines their spirits find new bodies but we only last as long as memory that's why i must leave the story a monument to our vanished shamans to the wisdom the karja bled from us the machine oil in the paint will preserve it preserve their memory against all that was cut away well i'm glad i could help my thanks hunter all right cool i should have brought a card okay that's all done and now i can head back over here hunting large excuse me [Music] who am i talking to over here this way oh is that pretty strong before is it that would make sense no okay oh no maybe it is he's just moved you've come back to the temple i was invited back the priests wanted to hear what i had to say about reconciliation with the other tribes they're listening at least they've begun to listen a distance between ears and deeds because of what we did what you did it was for the mourners i think it helped them you set them on the path you can't know what their journeys hold such is the priest lot perhaps a red robe would suit you not me besides your temple doesn't even take women we would be richer if we did go and light my friend and let the sun cast your way thank you naman where i'm going i could probably use all the light i can get excellent okay got skills only one point to spend no no good to me right now okay so what have you defaulted to the main one yes okay sidequest ancient armory store power to the bunker door all right we'll see how that plans out but for now it is damn near that time again no it's good i'm sure i don't need it that badly all right i'm going to end this episode here thank you for taking the time to watch this guys if you liked it like subscribe ding that bell i'll be signing later this has been horizon zero dawn and i'll catch you next time take care | Sigma Later | UCSQBXLvxouhglcw1QjTS_iQ | 2022-06-21 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,080 | 10,387 |
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qBeuqykwm9Y | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBeuqykwm9Y | How The Spirit Leads & Guides (Sermon Only) || Pst Bolaji Idowu || 3rd April 2022 | glory to god so this month i'm really speaking the focus of our teaching this month is how the spirit leads and guides is how the holy spirit leads and guides and it's very powerful so in this service today i'm going to lay foundation and in the other teachings we're going to kind of build on it how the spirit leads and how the spirit guides let's turn our bibles to the book of john chapter 15 and we're going to read from verse 1. john chapter 15 we're going to read from this one how the spirit leads and how the spirit guides now we're going to talk about the strength of the holy spirit the whole is the holy spirit he's not the renter he's not rental ghost it's not some other spoke spirit somewhere else and the reason i'm saying so is this because when it comes to the issues of the leader of the holy spirit they're always a category of people they're people that had a very bad taste because something has happened to them and someone manipulated them someone did something bad in the name of the holy spirit so they have that apprehension against teaching against the holy spirit then there are some other people that are totally clueless and because they don't understand it they just kind of avoid this kind of teaching about the holy spirit so this month we're going to talk about how does the holy see why is it important for the holy spirit to even lead us and if he leads us how does the holy spirit really guide us that's how it is how does the holy spirit lead how does the holy spirit world guide so we're going to see lay foundation here um i said john chapter 15 right maybe john chapter 5 first john chapter 5 just just let me start from another you know paradigm maybe it will help people john chapter 5 verse 19. so the bible says this this is what the bible says then answering jesus has said unto them verily verily i say unto you the son can do nothing referring to himself the son can do nothing of himself oh wow jesus christ says you don't understand i can't do nothing but myself but what he see at the father do for the things so ever it do it it also sorry let me say that again let me take that again he said the son can do nothing of himself but what he see at the father do for what things so ever it do it these things also the sun these things also do what the sun likewise wow it's amazing that jesus will say this words because jesus by himself is god and it's all powerful and jesus began to share with us like this is why i do what i do and it says the reason why i do what i do is not because i feel like this jesus said when you see my success in ministry when you see my success in life jesus said something like i'm guided into it it's amazing he says i don't do what i think is important i don't think what i mean is essential he says i'm guided into it this is phenomenal it says jesus why did you heal one and not heal the other it's what i see my father do that i do jesus why did he make this decision i'm not that decision it's what i see my father do that i do that's really very powerful that he wouldn't do things by himself he's going to do what he sees his father do very powerful and let now let's jump to so so when you look at jesus christ i don't want to put that there that the call of jesus is jesus doing what he saw the father do so john chapter 15 now john chapter 15 verse 1 and the bible says i am the true vine and the and my father is the husband man and every branch in me that bear it not fruits he take it away and every branch that buried fruit imposters it's amazing how god has this emphasis on fruitfulness he says the one that bears fruit it says what god does is that he begins to prune it he begins so budget that it will be more fruit this is really amazing this is really really powerful this is really powerful so if you are fruitful like god wants you to do better what does god do begin to do with you god begins to punch you and sometimes you know many people think why did this relationship not work and for where you are the relationship is great but for where you're going god has to take away to make it better god has to literally put you literally push you this is very powerful this is really incredible because some people are asking the question i'm doing well but i know i can do better how was god going to do that for me god says that if you're doing well i'm going to put you so that you can do better are you the kind of person that god is pushing and you're fighting with god to hold back what he's tried to take you from are you the kind of person that you are holding back what god is trying to take away from you he says it will part you so let's read let's keep reading now we say something in verse 3 that was very powerful he says i will part you in verse 2 that you may bring forth much fruit verse 3 says now you are clean through the word which have what i've spoken unto you so how does god torture us god taught just by his word how does god help us by god he's by his guidance that god pushes us by his guidance so someone says i'm doing so what i want to do better and how do you do better god says the way you're going to do better it's been blood of the holy spirit the holy spirit the reason why guidance is important is this guidance helps our development that's what that's really powerful guidance helps our development spiritual guidance help our development everyone can be a lot much better than where they are god everyone let me say this way in the kingdom growth is a design and an expectation in the kingdom growth is what a design and what an expectation but the question is that in the kingdom growth is linked to guidance so jesus christ says that i want you to grow but the way i'm going to grow is by pruning you but how do i prune you i prune you through guidance i prune you by leading you i prune you by teaching you so when you really want to grow i mean look at the apostles and when i say growth i'm not just talking about monetary good evil this spiritual growth when you really want to grow god begins to deal with you and it begins to bring new thoughts and new knowledge and how does it do that he does it by guidance the question is if you are not familiar with the guidance of the holy spirit your group will be stunted because there's no way the holy spirit can pass out the information the revelation the guidance he wants for you so you are meant to have growth but you'll be stuck in an old version of yourself let me use this example can all the men and the can all the men in the choir come and now you know yes and uh some of the protocol members would you please come ladies and gentlemen what is this it's an iphone right it's an iphone right good but the good is iphone 13 it's an iphone 13 right there all right so just take one just yeah i'm gonna just just take this one two three four five six watch this now i just want to hold it straight just just hold it to face us yeah what is this it's an iphone it just it's just iphone 7. your iphone 7. it's an iphone also this is the best phone of apple diary yes or no and these are iphone 8 also this is the one that i'm not sure this ones can do self i think so can do selfie you know this is iphone 8 it's a great phone this is iphone 10 this iphone 11 this iphone 12 this iphone what 13. someone says i want to grow i want to show you something very powerful how we're going to grow you the question is that where are you in your life watch this now when iphone released this iphone 7 it was the best phone of that year and that's how you are but the question is that with time they did iphone 8 they improved did iphone 10 they improved 11 12 now 13. but the question is this you are the iphone what version of your life are you talking the reason why is that in god's game you can be here you can be here as iphone 13 the latest of the latest but if you're not careful you'll be stuck in the iphone 7 of your life it's you see you know son this same iphone only that it's been upgraded redesigned upgraded redesigned upgraded design but the question is this you what version of your life are you stoking when this iphone 7 was released it was a fantastic phone you know that phone that can do selfie because i was an iphone i couldn't selfie this is why you want to take photos of yourself what do you do you take the camera you turn it like this and take the picture and you cut off your head and you say no i think they love you i think i know excuse me can you just take this phone and take a picture of me because we could not take pictures yes or no don't talk to me i don't like them yes or no but what happened gradually gradually there was upgrade going from here from here the question is this there's a question i want to ask you what redesigns the phones and change the ios the manufacturer god says that i'm the one that needs to redesign and take you further will you allow me so many of you some of you to allow so because many of you are here you say i want to do this but do you know the thing your ios is not compatible for 2022 you are still living in 2015 that's where the iphone 7 worked and what you need to do is simple how does god upgrade our ios how does god redesign us god designs us by guidance the way god does that spiritual guidance is god's technology of expanding capacity of designing us of changing our ios but the question is this do you even know that god is trying to do something in you because you have not seen your future so you think that after you move from 7 to 10 that is the best of you and god is saying that is not the best of you the best of you is in the future the beautiful thing about our creator is this he knows our future more than we know it we need to allow him leaders so that can lead us into the best places but here you are over celebrating the iphone 10 version of yourself because you have made some progress i'm going to say no no no no no no no you should not even be at a 10 right now we are attending right now and you're saying that how will i get there and god says the way i take you is really my guidance someone say hallelujah how many action name but what version of yourself are you right now because this is version 22 you mentioned year 2022 some people are still living version 2015. and jesus christ said the person that is growing i will approach him i will remove some things i will redesign him why so that he will be more fruitful if you are not able to recognize how god is forgiving you how can you respond to it that's why he told the disciples he said follow me and i will make you listen to me see guidance is important for all run growth spiritual growth every kind of it is follow me because i will what i will make you without guidance without spiritual guidance you can be a disciple because discipleship enters following you can't follow what you do not know without spiritual guidance you can be a disciple with a spiritual guidance you will not be able to step into the fullness of god's plan for your life and and the reason i'm saying so is this do you imagine see think about it what version of your life are you stalking are you updated with what you're meant to be or you're stuck in the version of your life that god has gone ahead see god is ahead of you but you're in the past glory to god thank you thank you thank you brothers thank you thank you praise the lord i said praise the lord the question now is this so we're going to talk about the fact that we need to grow and the major thing that we're focusing on is not the growth now is the fact that god's guidance is the way it grows us someone said god's guidance is the way it grows us oh yes i love what i love i love this i'm 23. the bible says he restores my soul and he leads me what in the past so before he leads me the path of righteousness he walks on me he restores my soul first quarter three verse five oh wow this is powerful [Music] first corinthians three verse five are you there maybe let's jump to verse 6 paul said this in first corinthians 6 and we're talking about spiritual guidance it says i have planted apollo waters but god gave the increase watch this now verse 7 now says this so then he that planted anything neither he that watches anything but he's god that gives the increase does that not suggest to you that growth is not a function of prayer it's a function of application of principles did you hear that that growth is not a function of prayer it's a function did you notice the constant day it says once i plant an apollo waters increase is there a saying that increase is consistent if you can plant and water the challenge that christians spray we don't plant water you're walking on your capital you're praying planting water you're walking on your project you're praying planting water he said paul planted an apollo waters and god does what gives the increase very powerful now that's the first principle that god will give the increase because god doesn't change see what he says god gives the english you need to know this the nature of god that god is unchanging if he gave increase yesterday will give today so if you consistently do things that bring for increase he will always giving increase but now this is what i'm going to because we want to tie this up into spiritual guidance so watch this now which is very powerful very powerful concept he said poor planted and apollo what what apollo what they are two dimensions to things we have to do to grow one is the planting anomaly are watering what is the planting ever look up here the planting is what you do that nobody can see because it's done and covered up the watering is what you do that everybody can see can you give me some water give me some water give me some water if i plant a seed right now you will not see because it's covered but let me water come my brother come come watch this now if i water him what will happen you will say what happened to you while you wait but if i planted him in the soil will you see him he says i'm giving the water also praise god praise god look at this now it says there are two conditions to go poor planting apple watering what does it mean planting is what you have to do that nobody can see watching is what you do that everybody sees the challenge is that most of us when we're trying to copy people what we copies the watching we don't complete the painting because the planting could not be seen so we see that my brother comes we see the brother being wet we see him being wet you know we see him wait we see we see we just look at me what you know you look at me and this water is so wet you know this is what i saw when you look at me this is what i saw wait you know i said ah i know i know the kids to the breakthrough right now when she was going to get married she just did this and this and this listen to me what you have seen is wait what i planted you cannot see because what i planted is inside of him the challenge with what christian is this when we are copying people we copy what is what the weight what was what had not was planted and we waste our time watching where there's no planting are you hearing me this is the chinese most christian so unfortunately when book of testimony the truth is this what they tell he's watching what they don't tell you is planting the salmon sauce was kebab they were dead but was cast not demons they looked look look they saw that they saw what he would say they would say yes he would stand up point at the devil and say i address you in the name of jesus christ you devil they master the word that's fine let's go they want to go and see the man of john possess they say i dress you in the name of you the man said he said peter i know paul i know he said he didn't say he did definitely not say you said the wrong thing he said your watching was correct you said what you should say the problem that when we check in the spiritual there's no root inside he said we see that thought was planted we seek jesus he said who are you when it comes and i'm saying when it comes to growth and development there's that which is sin that you do there's that which is nothing that you don't do the major thing is that once we want to copy people because all we see because because you can tell his words so you can copy witness but what he did the planting you cannot see one of the things that is planting is the guidance of the holy spirit you will just see ah do you know as soon as you want to look at variety road i saw she moved to the road she just moved from 10 million to 100 million hey ah that road sells business i'm going there i hear you've seen watching you have not heard planting what you didn't know was that she was instructed so you're not go to the road you used to borrow money you go to the road all of a sudden one month you're looking for one year you're looking for rent to pay the next year you don't say i don't know why it's not working for me where you planted where you planted no you were not planted you were watered you were watching what was not planted you now wonder why the resort is not there are you hearing me one person came and said ah he said this is your morning prayer i said ah everybody's joining everybody talking about it how are you doing it i said you said because i want to start my own i said that's good i said what you commanded to if you were not commanded to see these are the secrets you it's a planting see we don't say this we are planted and we water he said no no i think it's a good idea i've seen it work it's work doesn't mean what's for everybody are you here somebody thank you uh you said that ha ha husband she was going to a lot of baby parties and wedding parties she would not wear all these boobs too you know ah yeah you know you see everything let them see everything i don't mind they don't smile at me you go it's obviously people that matter you don't believe me without counting you dude you don't want that what's going on what you planted ah as soon as you change up strange distraught she found husband that's it husbands are there he will just change they will shake you welcome or coming as soon as you join the church the hotend was under church because the bible says is those that planted of the lord that shall flourish in the curse of our god it says it's those that are planted by god that shall flourish in the cause of our god there are two dimensions it's it is a planting and there's what you're watching now alone is very accessible anymore let's get alone is that what god you will soon be sending your name everywhere do you know how far moromi is a debtor he's a terrible man he doesn't owe people he does this and this he would say they want to destroy me they wanted your body question there's a god why are you embarrassing him god says he said hey but but god diversity deserves a took load and he did well that's also too close and god says do you know what he was planted you want to man like your sister do you know what she planted because it's a challenge the challenge is that there is a planting and there's a watering the watching is what we do on the outside so you'll see someone do an ad a social media campaign they'll do all sorts of things you know all those kind of things but it's not working and the reason why is this there's no planting that's why when you see businessmen you know somebody with their hair everything let's move abroad i just feel bad let me tell you something read the bible there are people like joseph until they move to egypt do not explode read the bible but there are people like isaac if they dare move to heaven they are stranded you say what about me see don't you understand isaac was the grandfather of who of joseph the same line age but not the same destiny in fact isaac wanted to go to egypt like his father god stopped him i said don't no matter how blessed it was if you had tried it it's destined to have been destroyed limited literally so when we're talking about spiritual guidance one of the key things we're saying is this what is the spiritual technology that god is going to use to grow me how is god going to guide me by himself me as a person how is god going to guide me and i'm saying that those things the spirit of god will begin to lead and guide you and when i'm talking about growth it will be very wrong to limit it to just finances of business even spiritually how would god begin to grow me and let me tell you what god does guardians work for me and jesus christ said it he says whatsoever i see my father do that's what i do i have a way to pray and i'll share with them on wednesday basically what i do is that all the things i do that i'm involved in i divide them into 14 areas and i have the prayer structure the 14 areas are there and you can also copy it in fact someone pastors have asked me to send me my prayer structure it's 14 areas the things i do there are seven days in a week i take two things to pray about every day exhaustively and when i pray my first prayers do not do this i have the goals i want to set when i pray my first prayer is praying in the spirit you know why why am i praying the spirit as i'm praying the spirit i want to see what god is doing in the area that i'm praying about there are two kinds of people oh there's one that said father take and bless there's one that said father i've come empty what have you blessed let me take it there are two different people you know when you say father i'm blessed you are still trying to convince god to be involved that's not see there's one that says that um let's do business and make money there's one that says where is money which business has money inside let's get the money there are you getting me oh that's weak at the back are you getting me so when you understand this phrase a very powerful principle ah so when i put in the spirit and let's look at it again john chapter five i want to show you that quickly because when you understand this as a businessman the blue struggle though it's one thing see before you pray your goals god what are you doing i was listening to one of my friends one of my friends said you know that i knew that there was an energy spike he said the reason why i'm doing energy business i slept the other day as i woke up in the morning the lord just told me there'll be any big crisis in the world that is what he's doing john chapter 5 verse 19. look at it again are you there and jesus answered and said unto them apparently what i say unto you that the son can do but whatever i want he said this you see this is this is where business before me sit they have the plans and say come come and bless you ask god what have you blessed let's plan on it many people are single here next thing hey i'm delayed i'm delayed who told you you have delayed have you seen your marriage has it always your time yeah the one that concluded that today because your friends have gotten married this is married that's man you want to see your lead i wanted i'm the lead as the one that made you open your chapter and because you don't know that each of you to wait for your time you will end up with ishmael what is ishmael i explain this very last week ishmael t abraham was promised to have a son by saver at some by the part of the holy ghost when they could not wait sarah said we can't wait again there's a seventh of mine hey guy go and sleep with her and hagar got pregnant and add the child called ishmael ishmael is the natural way to produce what the spirit has promised that's what ishmael is so you don't know if you are delayed you're saying hey i'm delayed because the pressure you went for one with him i just went i said he said my god you know and you saw them just kissing the guy said he won't like kiss oh my god my body doesn't squash hey oh my god you know next thing father i'm delayed see you understand delay is the concept of time yes or no if you don't know your time you cannot know if you are delayed or not if you don't know what your time is i know if i did it or not jesus christ told us he said that me jesus he says what i do is what i see him do because of that now you are delayed you're not go i'm jesus get one guy get one girl you start eating by the time the person finishes with you your heart is broken torn shaded shredded hot you know right now scattered you know bamboozled you know what i don't know again demolished you know his demolish watch this now ishmael has done his work and gone isaac now shows up and this is why perhaps delay when isaac shows up you are not in a state to love you by yourself not destroyed the other one they destroyed you you by yourself that destroys it you've done ishmael business when the isaac business shows up there's no capital because each man has carried away money you know what i said you have done ishmael business there's no if you want your heart money was worrying you hey i have 50 million what business is that to invest in ah you don't have 50 million you're just bubbling you're just probably because as money as i said you put the money there you lose the money you put the money in ishmael isaac shows up please put the money here there is no opportunity to make you make money but it's what there's no money because ishmael has taken money away oh god why can see you are you getting me this is a power bleeding this is a problem bleeding because in leading god will help you know your timing the process you'll have some kind of patience even me that my pastor i've seen things i i mean there was someone that was going to get married and the brother confronted him he said pastor by this time i'm going to access the out but please don't tell her i said that's right and just two months to that time she just got distracted she just jumped on somebody that was ah hey i just said hey if she could just wait glory to god just know the bible says the righteous not being a hist just know that the bible says what the righteous will not be in the hist glory to god i say glory to god look at chapter 29 very powerful these are very powerful spiritual concepts today very powerful i mean i'm going to get him let's say i'm getting blessed that's so weak lift up your two hands and say i'm getting rest [Music] very powerful with your concept job chapter 29 verse 2 what leading does to people i said your growth is limited by guidance look at saul as soon as saul stopped following god what happened the train was taken from him as soon as jonah stopped following god the boat was going in that way look at job job speaks about the days when he was following up georgetown 29 verse 2. john was trying to tell us the secret of his own success when he was very successful job chapter 29 verse 2. see what it says all that i wear as in the month past this was when it was successful as in the days when god presented me why did god preserve him what did he say about it he says when his candle shined upon my head that's direction and by his light i walked through darkness he didn't say there was no recession he said also inflation he said but right in recession and inflation there was lights listen to me he didn't say that there was no inflation there was no crisis he said right in darkness the light was upon my path why i should fall i will not fall because i could see somebody say hallelujah someone say hallelujah somebody say hallelujah [Music] no one that job was like this no one at the bible says he was the richest man in the west why he says that by his light i walk through the darkness you know what that means some of you are in depth right now you can walk through it by light i walked through it i didn't die there darkness i walked through it by slide what makes you walk through darkness without being afraid light kaya sila what makes you walk through darkness without being afraid light you're going through that tough time in the company and there's no iota fear because although there's toughness everywhere you can see why can you see this light where does light come from guidance of the holy ghost this is my most prosperous year amen so it's a terrible year the reason why is that i'm not saying it's not terrible but i'm walking by light so my prospect is not based on the darkness around me he's based on the light i carry with that's why if you don't know the holy ghost this much you must know him ah lift up your hands everybody father let your light be clear let's pray let's pray let's pray let the light reclaim my business let the light let the light declare let the light be clear let that light declare everybody stand on your feet for just one or two minutes let's go ahead and pray oh let that light to be clear in this darkness help me to walk tonight i said nothing oh yes lord oh yes lord oh yes lord oh yes lord oh yes lord in jesus name we pray bless you gonna have your sins [Music] see the effect he says when by his light i walk through darkness i was in the days of my youth when the secrets of god was upon my tabernacle he was talking about guidance leadership of the holy ghost he said what happened he said those days when that was like that see the next effect verse 26 when i went my steps when i washed my steps with butter it was talking about prosperity these people were washing their feet with water he said me i was so blessed i washed my steps with butter look at the next line he said and the rock poured out rivers of oil rock that should not give out anything he said rock was pouring out all for me sydney what why was rob pouring that oil why was he walking in washing his steps with butter he said because the secret of the lord was upon me i was being led of the spirit i was being guided of the spirit i was being led of the spirit i was being guarded by the spirit hey when you are being led of the spirit what is a rock a rock is a place that does not deliver a rock is a place that is dry he says when you are letting us reach you go to the rock and the rock will bring up he will bring that what reverse of oil for you oh yeah yeah yeah yeah are you here somebody are you here somebody are you here somebody said the rock will deliver oil for me this is not working nigeria huh boy at least i enjoy you make the first 100 million sir you will make the first one billion sir you will make the first 10 billion sir you will make the first hundred percent why because because if this is a good scripture for all of us in nigeria he says the rock poured out why i was here by commandment raw castle [Music] that's why goddess is important as a business person it's not what everybody does it's what i'm going to do praise god that's what i was telling you i have errors i pray about every week and when i'm praying i'm not see i'm not saying lord i have my plans but the first thing is that grammar sketer what do you want lord lord show me open the calendar lord pull the cotton let me see what you are doing lord pull the cotton let me see what i'm doing lord pull the cotton let me see what you're doing lord pull the cut let me see what i'm doing he will just tell you one day and say get ready for marriage he said i don't have a boyfriend he said that's it he has put the cutting your time has come but when he has not seen your time for marriage you're buying a ring are you not going to finish yourself you are going to lose i'm looking for a wedding dress just to be looking at you know he will just tell you begin to save why because they're going to buy a company because that's the content hey guys of the holy ghost look at what job said job said i mean this is amazing if you read if you read it josh said when i spoke everybody did feminine that's a realm when you enter conversation once you finish negotiation is finished because grace is upon your mouth [Music] guidance so let's begin to round the round this up someone say hallelujah this one is very important though this one it's good to have plans but it's better to be led of the holy spirit [Music] what was the first case of leading that i saw where the holy schools led someone i was seven years old when that happened to me it didn't happen to me or maybe seven or six seven or six i couldn't remember i can't remember how old i was but that experience stayed with me and i'll tell what happened maybe about six six my older brother scored not in lagos on the boarding school and those days four were very restricted you know there are not a lot of phones in the country and that's exactly what happened this is very powerful my mother is so equally i was getting back the driver had come to pick me from the primary school and i was just getting back and my mother was going to see my brother in the boarding school which was unusual because this was a school day so normally you don't go to school then you go on the weekends if you want to visit and it's always first sunday of the month visiting days and i said mommy what happened and in my mother's words i'm going to speak this is how she calls this prophet that um in their church he said allah gave they called the malaga he said allah said i should go and look for your brother that he's dying right now ah he said so i'm going he said he's dying he said as i'm talking to her he's dying right now my mother my brother used to be asthmatic so what he taught me was the asthma so my mother had kind of prepared asthma drugs by the time my mother eventually got to my brother's school which was outside lagos my brother was in the hospital but it was not asthma that he had they were staying in the day in an outside school hostel so certain students of that school had been climbing this palm wine tapas tree they would stop it and drink the palm oil and you know our students are so when they had done this he had been trying to catch them eventually my brother and his friends were going and because they were wearing the same school uniforms he thought that i mean it could have been my brother did it i'm not sure but this story to us was that he didn't do it that he just picked the school uniform and chased them and because he was asthmatic and could not run like other people eventually cut him and guess what the man just took his class and went for his neck like here until today my brother has that mark here he said that's how my brother fell down and began to ability and shake and his friend says let's carry him to the hospital to the hospital so when he carried him the first idea was to save his life first before we even look for who one called the mother but why there were no people fixing that my mother was there so the doctor said excuse me who called you he said the prophet when you know these things you know this thing so this is not you know the is it was thought to come as dying he said i thought it was asthma i bought asthma drugs i didn't know it was really dead [Music] and the doctor said if he has stayed because of the thinning attention they had they would have died [Music] when you understand this thing there you will see that and just walk the other way people wonder why did you go this way say that i saw that because his light would shine in darkness they were one that you sit dead and said i will not take this deal i don't know let me let me if you join next level prayer and the things happen that nation you understand i'm telling you you you were there next time prayer when i just said that i said that in the u.s i saw like an holy king come these are this and this and this one of the members said pastor thank you he said that prayer was for me he said five minutes to my house that's where the hurricane [Music] stopped is it five minutes to my house that's why the world can stop i'm just telling you listen this the power of be led the day that beauty nicole you broke down what about the prayer point you were here next level i said some people are in projects and the projects will destroy them i said let's pray that no project that you will not entire prayer that will take your life that was the prayer we prayed that way two days after the project is going to take place the build that was in the project it crashed if you had just joined the prayer people have been out of it this is this is when god begins to show you it's one thing to say lord do is another thing when god pulls cotton this month is about god pulling cotton pulling cutting and showing that hey this is where to go i mean i said the story of him alright i told him so many times one of the times we're going to develop nightmare majorly i had a dream when the conference and you know when they caught it was january it wasn't a conference and in the conference you know um i didn't know if what they doing evening session that were just finished because i was staying in this hotel near the milan church and i slept and woke up and when i woke up i thought so until today i'm not sure if i saw a vision i woke up i stepped again i just knew that um i had a conversation and the conversation the person i used to trade i used to buy those for me told me he said that pastor i told you that allah would go up you didn't buy see the new prize and he told me the price in that conversation it was not like a dream you know what i said wasn't i catching because i picked up my phone and called him again i said ah you told me that i was going to go up and that's going up so what's the price now i was asking the price no i didn't call you i said you didn't call me i said hold on i picked the phone and checked i said didn't call me i said i had this conversation i was in the spirit that period all the night that i could get i made converted to dollars in about a month or two now i just moved by thinking 150 downwards why guidance [Music] let me tell you something the more guided you are the less mistakes you make yeah and unfortunately many christians are spiritually blind which is not a good thing because the difference between you and other people is that you can see he says worse is as blind as myself and having eyes cannot see what's the use of you coming to church and your years are so deaf and you can't hear me you have children you can never tell what the lord is saying about anyone on each of them you have children what are you raising they're not pigs these are children with destinies from heaven and the spirit has not told you about any of them what it shall be like when did you hear what rebecca said he said in my womb there's a battle and and before they came out the prophet said they didn't have scandal they couldn't tell if they had twins or not so the prophet told that he said you are coming to it and the lesser will suddenly you're the older ah how did you know prophetic download this is when god oh my god listen to me there's four deal ah you say there's 14 the spirit what god will open your eyes and you want inside things veg [Music] virtual reality where god opens your eyes right inside things sometimes when you read the bible about how the prophet saw visions they could not even explain there was no word for what they saw they only described it because the english was not available did you read ezekiel what ezekiel prophesied nuclear weapon i showed you when i did the story of eschatology ezekiel not said look like weapon but what ezekiel described the only that can make it happen was nuclear weapon ezekiel said that he saw that white men were talking their skin was spreading off their body that they were pinning their skin away that's the one [Music] ah if you want to play church i wish you i wish you the best just come go see your prayers you will come nothing will change if you want to and that's a problem we have the reason why we have no results that we have a lot of people that play church they've not gotten to christianity they are they they are saying that go to church it's not going to actually this game is for those who have entered is that i'm not born again born again is not a price it's the beginning start is it being another race they say go to say you know go come with me steps i'm busy how will your spiritual senses come alive are you hearing me when something wants to happen god says give you sacrifice you know why you're giving sacrifice three days after something that's talked about one of your favor and because that was what i was talking about praise god i say praise god so let's begin to close this does god speak to everybody i believe you so i believe that god speaks to everybody christians are non-christians the reason why is that there's no way any buddha is not a christian can become a christian except we hear the voice of god only that the same way the u.s belongs to everybody but it really belongs to u.s citizens yes or no exactly god speaks to everybody but the primary gift of hearing god belongs to those that are his own and i'm saying so because there's a lot of teaching that says when you sin god stop what talking to you is that not true he said god puts you out of fellowship but that's not true when adam seemed good spoke to adam of god god when cain killed ebay who came to talk to king i'm eventually from the genesis oh when saw saying god sent the prophet when david said god sent the prophet how come where did it get your bible from that is ignorance going on rampage why didn't you hear the voice of god you know when you made a mistake someone says to me okay how come i'm not hearing god most people don't hear god and this is the question what how come i'm not hearing god most people don't hear god because of what anxiety and that's why if you notice something anywhere you are very anxious you will not hear god why isaiah 30 verse 15. let's put it on the screen quickly 30 verse 15. are you getting blessed say i'm getting blessed see i'm getting blessed isaiah chapter 30 verse 15. let's put it quickly i want us to let's put it quickly what does it say see for thousands of the lord richard want to go the holy one of israel in what returning and rest shall ye be saved and what in quietness and in confidence shall what it says it says it is in the place of confidence and quietness shall your strength be did you notice something all the time that elijah got depressed the mighty prophet could not hear again he was anxious and that's why when you're so particular about this pregnancy this this business this contract this morning issue you will not hear anything again because this is what happens when you're anxious this is what happens let me show you something can you hear that where's the drum are you there can you hear that [Music] remember what jesus christ said jesus christ said just hold on slow down is the drama there i'll tell you when to go just be playing you know i'll tell you what to do jesus christ says i'm at the door of your heart and knock what they say if anyone would hear so it can be knocking they are not hearing watch this now it's knocking can you hear it okay let's play [Music] are you here can you hear me did i stop knocking no god did not stop talking the noise on the outside dwarfed his voice god did not stop talking the noise of your mind the noise of your friends drafters words so the reason why most people don't hear god is that there's too much of noise outside and that's why sometimes you must know but still i know that i am the lord the steal and no [Music] glory to god let's do so quickly she doesn't want your first one thing service towards the end okay i don't want someone but we're just gonna let me just call someone from uh someone at the back who's at the back i don't want to call someone at the back what can i call at the back a man a woman maybe a woman at the back so just someone to me anyone shouted that can suggest someone to me so come on we're in the first service not at all okay come yes i decided no to come back because people people like they feel comfortable here watch this it's a good thing i want to give to you it's pounds so you've not seen this illustration right okay this is four notes of pounds one is fake give it to me give me the one nice fake that one right let me ask you a question do you know what you're doing sincerely no you don't know what you're just guessing right yes okay good why don't you know what you're doing because you don't spend time because you're not just doing this good thank you so because she's not used to pounds she cannot define which is real or fake the reason why you can't know the voice of god is that you're not used to it you can identify if it's your mind if it's real or faith that's the reason why so so when somebody says in my mind is it my emotions is it is is it god is it a prophet i'm not sure i'm not sure watch this again then you run it again which is again i'm not sure i'm not sure i'm not sure i'm not sure because it's all guesswork see the way you know the voice of god is to expose yourself to the voice if davido was singing on the other side some of you will know it is that not true i will not the video because you've exposed yourself to his music over and over and over again if the president of nigeria president body was talking you will know it oh no but question did you know that voice 10 years ago no but the more you expose yourself to what happened you need a voice yes or no how do you expose yourself to the voice of god the first way is this the voice that interprets the bible to in bible study is the voice of god if you know the voice of god in his word you will know his voice out of the word that voice that interprets the bible to you is the voice of god if you can know that voice but when you're doing the bible you don't know the voice in the word so when it speaks without you studying the bible you cannot know it and the way it works is that you need to expose yourself to the word you jesus ladies and gentlemen which version of yourself do you want to be you can be iphone 7 you can buy for 13. what to take you from here to here is that the designer will have to change your ios it's going to change a lot about you but the question how will it change by guiding you by leading you by directing you shall we pray [Music] | HarvestersTV | UCALuqr8BQi_djTbgEL5yeGA | 2022-04-03 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 9,228 | 46,136 |
VazW2C1ufNU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VazW2C1ufNU | WESTSIDE BOOGIE | LA LEAKERS | Crazy Freestyle! (REMIX) | yes yes yes La leakers just incredible DJ sour milk our brothers here man I'm here C in the building man boogies here where y'all been man why y'all beening my cars you know got a new number yeah man y scanless but we roll out the carpet when when boogies we here though goes to turn up some bars you know the energy changes when Compton gets in the building baby I'm going pop out with Anthony first cuz I got to talk some okay do your thing bro yo yo come on the Rhythm I had to catch the strings that had the stretch I've been beat but it's all instrumental to my success I'm in deep I took too many LS and lost my direction how I end up on this search to be accepted the lesson say the world in my possession I could reach it cuz it's near yeah I'm hungry but I feed into the fears you know least I've been aware you know in my mind I'm screaming out for air cuz I swear it's way more deep than it appears is my secrets come hold me so you can feel me it's heavy like break my ego in pieces and come rebuild me I'm ready my life already is shaky so make my focus Be steady I look myself in the mirror like I could grow if you let me like I could hold on [ __ ] if I uncover my Powers I be dangerous mm teach my [ __ ] how to heal and be more patient mm I'm responsible to come do all the saving but I'm left with all this guil because I made it but you got to know missed a couple bags I was counting on but riding on get rid of my hoes When It's Album mod I'm alone I don't hang with [ __ ] that I kind of know got to go I don't hide my kids sh I be proud the show but I've been so up in a jam I even offer you my hands to help this fight to make somebody understand come bring water to the damn s from heaven in this wall soon as I land made me think that being born was just a scam never plan to catch me slipping in my city just you know this [ __ ] get tricky got the spirit of my dead homies with me with me who who never wife that [ __ ] if she too mixy knowing if I break the cycle it'll fix me but that's all I know oh yeah yeah he fully loaded tonight he that that's just the warm up yeah that felt good though I'm in sure for real you already know what it is man | Skripture Made This Remix | UCLFTdZ35CT0qjW8Jrlqm8wg | 2024-01-28 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 464 | 2,227 |
SRpr39L57Wo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRpr39L57Wo | City of God | Saint Augustine of Hippo | Ancient, Christianity - Other, Religion | English | 4/24 | look for chapters 1 through 18 of the city of God this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by darren l slider WWE louis library org the City of God by Saint Augustine of Hippo book for chapter 1 having begun to speak of the City of God I have thought it necessary first of all to reply to its enemies who eagerly pursuing earthly joys in gaping after transitory things throw the blame of all the sorrow they suffer in them rather through the compassion of God and admonishing than his severity and punishing on the Christian religion which is the one salutary and true religion and since there is among them also an unlearned rabble they are stirred up as by the authority of the learner to hate us more bitterly thinking and their inexperience that things which have happened unwantedly in their days were not want to happen and other times gone by and whereas this opinion of theirs is confirmed even by those who know that it is false and yet dissemble their knowledge in order that they may seem to have just cause for murmuring against us it was necessary from books in which their authors recorded and published the history of bygone times that it might be known to demonstrate that it is far otherwise than they think and at the same time to teach that the false gods whom they openly worshipped or still worship in secret are most unclean spirits and most malignant and deceitful demons even to such a pitch that they take delight in crimes which what a real or only fictitious are yet their own which it has been their will to have celebrated in honor of them at their own festivals so that human infirmity cannot be called back from the perpetration of damnable deeds so long as authority is furnished for imitating them that seems even divine these things we have proved not from our own conjectures but partly from recent memory because we ourselves have seen such things celebrated and to such deities partly from the writings of those who have left these things on record to posterity not as if in reproach but as an honor of their own gods thus Varro a most learned man among them men of the weightiest authority when he made separate books concerning things human and things divine distributing some among the human others among the divine according to the special dignity of each placed the scenic place not at all among things human but among things divine though certainly if only there were good and honest men in the state the scenic plays ought not to be allowed even among things human and this he did not on his own authority but because being born and educated at Rome he found them among the divine things now as we briefly stated in the end of the first book what we intended afterwards to discuss and as we have disposed of a part of this in the next two books we see what our readers will expect us now to take up chapter two we had promised them that we would say something against those who attribute the calamities of the Roman Republic to our religion and that we would recount the evils as many and great as we could remember or might deem sufficient which that city or the provinces belonging to its empire had suffered before their sacrifices were prohibited all of which would beyond doubt have been attributed to us if our religion had either already shone on them or had thus prohibited their sacrilegious rites these things we have as we think fully disposed of in the second and third books treating in the second of evils and morals which alone or chiefly are to be accounted evils and in the third of those which Only Fools dread to undergo namely those of the body or of outward things which for the most part the good also suffer but those evils by which they themselves become evil they take I do not say patiently but with pleasure and how few evils have I related concerning that one city and its Empire not even all down to the time of Caesar Augustus what if I had chosen to recount and enlarge on those evils not which men have inflicted on each other such as the devastations and destructions of war but which happened in earthly things from the elements of the world itself of such evils Apuleius speaks briefly in one passage of that book which he wrote de mundo saying that all earthly things are subject to change overthrow and destruction for to use his own words by excessive earthquakes the ground is burst asunder and cities with their inhabitants have been clean destroyed by sudden rains whole regions have been washed away those also which formerly had been continents have been insulated by strange and newcome waves and others by the subsiding of the sea have been made passable by the foot of man by winds and storm cities have been overthrown fires have flashed forth from the clouds by which regions in the East being brought up have perished and on the western coast the light destructions have been caused by the bursting forth of waters and floods so formerly from the lofty craters of Etna rivers of fire kindled by God have flowed like a torrent down the steeps if I had wished to collect from history wherever I could these and similar instances where should I have finished what happened even in those times before the name of Christ had put down those of their idols so vain and hurtful to true salvation I promised that I should also point out which of their customs and for what caused the true God and whose power all kingdoms are had gained to favor to the enlargement of their empire and how those whom they think gods can have profited them nothing but much rather hurt them by deceiving and beguiling them so that it seems to me I must now speak of these things and chiefly of the increase of the Roman Empire for I have already said not a little especially in the second book about the many evils introduced into their manners by the hurtful deceits of the demons whom they worshipped as gods but throughout all the three books already completed where it appeared suitable we have set forth how much the core God through the name of Christ to whom the barbarians beyond the custom of war paid so much honor has bestowed on the good and bad according as it is written who maketh his Sun to rise on the in the evil and giveth rain to the just and the unjust chapter 3 now therefore let us see how it is that they dare to ascribed a very great extent and duration of the Roman Empire to those gods whom they contend that they worship honorably even by the obsequies of vile games and the ministry of vile men although I should like first to inquire for a little what reason what prudence there is in wishing to glory in the greatness and extent of the Empire when you cannot point out the happiness of men who are always rolling with dark fear and cruel lust in warlike slaughters and in blood which whether shed in civil or foreign war is still human blood so that their joy may be compared to glass and it's fragile splendor of which one is horribly afraid lest it should be suddenly broken in pieces that this may be more easily discerned let us not come to naught by being carried away with empty boasting or blunt the edge of our attention by a loud sounding names of things when we hear of people's kingdoms provinces but let us suppose a case of two men for each individual man like one letter and a language is as it were the element of a city or Kingdom however far spreading and it's occupation of the earth of these two men let us suppose that one is poor a rather of middling circumstances the other is very rich but the rich man is anxious with fears pining with discontent burning with covetousness never secure always uneasy panting from the perpetual strife of his enemies adding to his patrimony indeed by these miseries to an immense degree and by these editions also heaping up most bitter cares but that other man of moderate wealth is contented with a small and compact estate most dear to his own family enjoying the sweetest peace with his kindred neighbours and friends in piety religious benignant and mind healthy and body in life frugal in manners chaste in conscience secure I know not whether anyone can be such a fool that he dare hesitate which to prefer as therefore in the case of these two men so in two families and two nations and two kingdoms this test of tranquility holds good and if we apply it vigilantly and without prejudice we shall quite easily see where the mere show of happiness dwells and where real Felicity wherefore if the true God is worshiped and if he is served with genuine rights and true virtue it is advantageous the good man should long reign both far and wide nor is this advantageous so much to themselves as to those over whom they reign for so far as concerns themselves their piety and probity which are great gifts of God suffice to give them true Felicity enabling them to live well the life that now is and afterwards to receive that which is eternal in this world therefore the Dominion of good men is profitable not so much for themselves as for human affairs but the Dominion of bad men is hurtful chiefly to themselves who rule for they destroy their own souls by greater license and wickedness while those who were put under them in service are not hurt except by their own iniquity for to the just all the evils imposed on them by unjust rulers are not the punishment of crime but the test of virtue therefore the good man although he is a slave is free but the bad man even if he reigns is a slave and that not of one man but what is far more Grievous of his many masters as he has vices of which vices when the divine scripture treats it says for of whom any man has overcome to the same he is also the bondslave chapter for justice being taken away then what our kingdoms but great robberies for what are robberies themselves but little kingdoms the band itself is made up of men is ruled by the authority of a prince it isn't it together by the pact of the Confederacy the booty is divided by the log read on if by the admittance of abandoned men this evil increases to such a degree that it holds places fixes abodes takes possession of cities and subdues people's it assumes the more plainly the name of a kingdom because the reality is now manifestly conferred on it not by the removal of covetousness but by the addition of impunity indeed that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized for when that King had asked the man what he meant by keeping a hostile possession of the sea he answered with bold pride but thou meanest by seizing the whole earth but because I do it with a petty ship I am called a robber whilst thou who dust it with a great fleet art styled Emperor Chapter five I shall not therefore stay to inquire what sort of men Romulus countered together seeing he deliberated much about them how being assumed out of that life they led into the Fellowship of his City they might cease to think of the punishment they deserved the fear of which had driven them to greater villainies so that henceforth they might be made more peaceable members of society but this I say that the Roman Empire which by subdue a many nations had already grown great and an object of universal dread was itself greatly alarmed and not only with much difficulty avoided a disastrous overthrow because a mere handful of gladiators in campaign iya escaping from the games had recruited a great army appointed three generals and most widely and cruelly devastated Italy let them say what God hated these men said that from a small and contemptible band of robbers they attained to a kingdom feared even by the Romans who had such great forces and fortresses or will it deny that they were divinely aided because they did not last long as if indeed the life of any man whatever lasted long in that case to the gods eight no one to reign since all individuals quickly died nor is sovereign power to be reckoned to benefit because in a little time and every man in the sand all of them one by one it vanishes like a vapor for what does it matter to those who worship the gods under Romulus and her long since dead that after their death the Roman Empire has grown so great while they plead their causes before the powers beneath whether those causes are good or bad it matters not to the question before us and this is to be understood of all those who carry with them the heavy burden of their actions having in a few days of their life swiftly and hurriedly passed over the stage of the Imperial office although the office itself has lasted through long spaces of time being filled by a constant succession of dying men if however even those benefits which lasts only for the shortest time are to be ascribed to the aid of the gods these gladiators were not a little aided who broke the bonds of their servile condition fled escaped raised a great and most powerful army obedient to the will and orders of their Chiefs and much feared by the Roman Majesty and remaining unsubdued by several Roman generals seized many places and having one very many victories enjoyed whatever pleasures they wished and did what their lust suggested and until at last they were conquered which was done with the utmost difficulty lived sublime and dominant but let us come to greater matters chapter 6 Justina's who wrote Greek or rather foreign history in Latin and briefly liked rogas Pompeius whom he followed begins his work thus in the beginning of the affairs of peoples and nations the government was in the hands of Kings who were raised to the height of this majesty not by courting the people but by the knowledge good men had of their moderation the people were held bound by no laws the decisions of the princes were instead of laws it was the custom to guard rather than to extend the boundaries of the Empire and kingdoms were kept within the bounds of each rulers native land Nina's king of the Assyrians first of all through new lust of empire changed the old and as it were ancestral custom of Nations he first made war on his neighbors and wholly subdued as far as to the frontiers of Libya the nation's as yet untrained to resist and a little after he says Nina's established by constant possession the greatness of the authority had gained having mastered his nearest neighbors he went on to others strengthened by the accession of forces and by making each fresh victory the instrument of that which followed subdued the nations of the whole East now was whatever fidelity to fact under he or troga smae in general have written for that they sometimes told lies is shown by other more trustworthy writers yet it is agreed among other authors that the Kingdom of the Assyrians was extended far and wide by King ninis and indeed it lasted so long the Roman Empire has not yet attained the same age for as those who write have treated of chronological history this kingdom endured for twelve hundred and forty years from the first year in which meanness began to reign until it was transferred to the Medes but to make war on your neighbors and that's to proceed to others and through a mere lust of Dominion to crush and subdue people who do you no harm what else is this to be called than great robbery chapter 7 if this kingdom was so great and lasting without the aid of the gods why is the ample territory and long duration of the Roman Empire to be ascribed to the Roman gods for whatever is the cause in it the same as in the other also but if they contend that the prosperity of the other also is to be attributed to the aid of the gods I ask of which for the other nations whom ninis overcame did not then worship other gods or if the Assyrians had gods of their own who so to speak were more skilful workman in the construction and preservation of the Empire whether are they dead since they themselves have also lost the Empire or having been defrauded of their pay or promised to greater have they chosen rather to go over to the Medes and from them again to the Persians because Cyrus invited them and promised them something still more advantageous this nation indeed since the time of the kingdom of Alexander the Macedonian which was as brief in duration as it was great an extent has preserved its own Empire and at this day occupies no small territories in the east if this is so then either the gods are unfaithful who desert their own and go over to their enemies which camelus who was but a man did not do when being Victor and subduer of a most hostile state although he had felt that Rome for whom he had done so much was ungrateful yet afterwards forgetting the injury and remembering his native land he freed her again from the Gauls or they are not so strong as gods ought to be since they can be overcome by human skill or strength or if when they carry on war among themselves the gods are not overcome by men but some gods were peculiar to certain cities or perchance overcome by other gods it follows that they have quarrels among themselves which they uphold each for his own part therefore a city ought not to worship its own gods but rather others who aid their own worshippers finally whatever may have been the case is - this change of sides or flight or migration or failure and battle on the part of the gods the name of Christ had not yet been proclaimed in those parts of the earth when these kingdoms were lost and transferred through great destructions in war for if after more than 1,200 years when the kingdom was taken away from the Assyrians the Christian religion had there already preached another eternal Kingdom and put a stop to the sacrilegious worship of false gods what else would the foolish man of that nation have said but that the Kingdom which had been so long preserved could be lost for no other cause than desertion of their own religions and the reception of Christianity in which foolish speech that might have been uttered let those we speak of observe their own lightness and blush if there is any sense of shame in them because they have uttered similar complaints although the Roman Empire is afflicted rather than changed a thing which has befallen it in other times also before the name of Christ was heard and it has been restored after such affliction a thing which even in these times is not to be despaired of for who knows the will of God concerning this matter chapter 8 next let us ask if they please out of so great a crowd of gods which the Romans worship whom it is special or what gods they believed to have extended and preserved that Empire now surely of this work which is so excellent and so very full of the highest dignity they dare not ascribe any part to the goddess Chloe China or Tuvalu Pia who is our appellation from voluptuousness or to live in Tina who has her name from lust or to Vaticanus who presides over the screaming of infants or to canina who rules over their cradles but how is it possible to recount in one part of this book all the names of gods or goddesses which they could scarcely comprise in great volumes distributing among those divinities their peculiar offices about single things they have not even thought that the charge of their lands should be committed to any one God but they have entrusted their farms to resina the ridges of the mountains to yuga Tina's over the downs they have set the goddess colatina over the valleys Vilonia nor could they even find one sagacious so competent that they could commend to her care all their corn crops at once but so long as their seat corn was still under the ground they would have the goddess saya sent over it then whenever it was above ground and formed straw they said over it that goddess siggy shisha and when the grain was collected and stored they said over at the goddess to talena that it might be kept safe who would not have thought that God is seditious sufficient to take care of the standing corn until it had passed from the first green blades to the dry ears yet she was not enough for men who loved a multitude of gods to the miserable soul despising the chaste embrace of the one true God should be prostituted to a crowd of demons therefore they set Proserpina over the germinating seeds over the joints and knots of the stems the god notice over the sheaves unfolding the ears the goddess Valentina when the sheaths opened the despite might shoot forth it was ascribed to the goddess petal onna when the stem stood all equal with new ears because the ancients described as equalizing by the term hosts ear a it was a scribe to the goddess hasta Lina when the green was in flower it was dedicated to the goddess flora when full of milk to the garlic Turnus when maturing to the goddess Matata when the crop was run kated that is removed from the soil to the goddess Regina nor do i yet recount them all for I am sick of all this though it gives them no shame only I have said these very few things in order that it may be understood they dare by no means say that the Roman Empire has been established increased and preserved by their deities who had all their own functions assigned to them in such a way that no general oversight was entrusted to any one of them when their forked segi sure take care of the Empire who was not allowed to take care of the corn in the trees one could canina take thought about war whose oversight was not allowed to go beyond the cradles of the babies when couldna notice give help in battle who had nothing to do even with the sheath of the year but only with the knots of the joints everyone said supporter at the door of his house and because he is a man he is quite sufficient but these people have set three gods forculus to the doors kardia to the hinge lament yes to the threshold thus forculus could not at the same time take care also of the hinge and the threshold chapter 9 therefore omitting or passing by for a little that crowd of petty gods we ought to inquire into the part performed by the great gods whereby Rome has been made so greatest arraigned so long over so many nations that lists therefore this is the work of Jove for they will have it that he is the king of all the gods and goddesses as is shown by his scepter and by the Capitol on the lofty Hill concerning that God they publish a saying which although that of a poet is most apt all things are full of Jove Varro believes that this God is worshipped although called by another name even by those who worship one God alone without any image but if this is so why has he been so badly used at Rome and indeed by other nations - that an image of him should be made a thing which was so displeasing to Varro himself that although he was overborne by the perverse custom of so great a city he had not the least hesitation in both saying and writing that those who have appointed images for the people have both taken away fear and added error chapter 10 why also is Juno United to him as his wife who has called at once sister and yoke fellow because say they we have Jove in the ether Juno in the air and these two elements are United the one being superior the other inferior it is not he then of whom it is said all things are full of Jove if Juno also fills some part does each fill either and are both of this couple and both of these elements and in each of them at the same time why then is the ether given to Jove the air to Juno besides these two should have been enough why is it that the Seas assigned to Neptune the earth to Pluto and the fees also might not be left without mates selicia's joined to neptune Proserpine to pluto for they say that as Juno possesses the lower part of the heavens that is the air social Asia possesses the lower part of the sea and Proserpine the lower part of the earth they seek how they may patch up these fables but they find no way for if these things were so they're ancient sages would have maintained that there are three chief elements of the world not four in order that each of the elements might have a pair of gods now they have positively affirmed that the ether is one thing the air another but water whether higher or lower is surely water suppose it ever so unlike can it ever be so much so is no longer to be water and the lower earth by whatever divinity it may be distinguished what else can it be than earth low then since the whole physical world is complete in these four or three elements where shall Minerva be what should she possess what should she fill for she is placed in the capital along with these two although she is not the offspring of their marriage or if they say that she possesses the higher part of the ether and on that account the poets have feigned that she sprang from the head of Jove why then is she not rather reckoned the queen of the Gods because she is superior to Jove is it because it would be improper to set the daughter before the father why then is not that rule of justice observed concerning jove himself towards saturn is it because he was conquered have they fought them by no means say they that is an old wife's fable though we are not to believe fables a must hold more worthy opinions concerning the gods why then do they not assign to the father of jovis seat if not have higher at least of equal honor because Saturn they say is length of time therefore they who worship Saturn worship time and it is insinuated that Jupiter the king of the gods was born of time for his anything unworthy set when Jupiter and Juno are said to have been sprung from time if he is the heaven and she is the earth since both heaven and earth had been made and are therefore not eternal for their learned and wise men have this also in their books nor is that saying taken by Virgil out of poetic figments but out of the books of philosophers then ether the Father Almighty and copious showers descended into his spouses glad bosom making it fertile that is into the bosom of tellus or the earth although here also they will have it that there are some differences and think that in the earth herself Tara is one thing tell us another and Tulum Oh another and they have all these as God's called by their own names distinguished by their own offices and venerated with their own altars and rides the same earth also they call the mother of the gods so that even the fictions of the poets are more tolerable if according not to their poetic Allah but sacred books Juno is not only the sister and wife but also the mother of Jove the same earth they worship is series and also is Vesta while they yet more frequently affirm that Vesta is nothing else than fire pertaining to the hearts without which the city cannot exist and therefore virgins are want to serve her because as nothing is born of a virgin so nothing is born of fire but all this nonsense ought to be completely abolished and extinguished by him who is born of a virgin for who can bear that while they ascribe to the fire so much honor and as it were chastity they do not blush sometimes even to call Vesta Venus so that honored virginity may vanish in her handmaidens for if Vestas Venus how convergence rightly surfer by abstaining from venery are there two Venus's the one a virgin the other not a maid or rather are there three one the goddess of virgins who is also called Vesta another the goddess of wives then another of harlots to her also the Phoenicians offered a gift by prostituting their daughters before they United them two husbands which of these is the wife of Vulcan certainly not the virgin since she has a husband far be it from us to say it is the harlot lest we should seem to wrong the son of Juno and fellow worker of Minerva therefore it is to be understood that she belongs to the married people but we would not wish them to imitate her and what she did with Mars again they say he returned to fables what sort of Justice is that to be angry with us because we say such things of their gods and not to be angry with themselves who when their theatres most willingly behold the crimes of their gods and a thing incredible if it were not thoroughly well proved these very theatrics of the crimes of their gods have been instituted in honor of these same gods chapter 11 let them therefore assert as many things as ever they please and physical reasonings and disputations one while that Jupiter be the soul of this corporeal world who fills and moves that whole Mass constructed and compacted what a for or as many elements as they please another while let him yield to his sister and brothers their parts of it now let him be the ether that from above he may embrace Juno the air spread out beneath again let him be the whole heaven along with the air and impregnated with fertilizing showers and seeds the earth as his wife and at the same time his mother but this is not vile and divine beings and yet again that it may not be necessary to run through them all let him the one god of who many think it has been said by a most noble poet for God pervaded all things all lands and the tracks of the sea and the depth of the heavens let it be he who in the ether is Jupiter in the air Juno in the sea Neptune in the lower parts of the sea silesia and the earth Pluto in the lower part of the earth Proserpine on the domestic hearts Vesta in the furnace of the workmen Vulcan among the stars soul and Luna and the stars in divination Apollo in merchandise mercury in Janus the initiator and terminus the Terminator Saturn in time Mars and Bellona in war Libra and vineyards Ceres and cornfields Diana in forests Minerva in learn finally let it be he who is in that crowd as it were of plebeian gods let him preside under the name of Lieber over the seat of man and under that of Libra over that of women let him be despot or who brings forth the birth to the light of day let him be the goddess Menna whom they said over the menstruation of women let him be Lucchino who is invoked by women and childbirth let him bring help to those who were being born by taking them up from the bosom of the earth and let him be called opis let him open the mouth in the crying babe and be called the god of Vaticanus let him lift it from the earth and we called the goddess levana let him watch over cradles and be called the goddess canina let it be no other than he who was in those goddesses who sing the fates of the newborn and are called carmen TACE let him preside over fortuitous events and be called fortuna in the goddess Rumi now let him milk out the breast to the little one because the ancients turned the breast rumah in the goddess Patino let him administer drink in the goddess edge occur let him supply food from the terror of infants let him be styled prevent iya from the hope which comes vanilla from voluptuousness philippi a from action agonal from the stimulants by which man has spurred on too much action let him be named the goddess stimula let him be the goddess trenni for making strenuous new mariya who teaches the number kameena who teaches to sing let him be both the god conscious for granting counsel and the goddess sentía for inspiring sentences let him be the goddess who ventas who after the robe of boyhood has laid aside takes charge at the beginning of the youthful age let him be Fortuna barbata who induce adults with a beard whom they have not chosen to honor so that this divinity whatever it may be should at least be a male God named other barbatus from Barbra like notice from notice or certainly not Fortuna but because he has beards for 2news let him in the God who get eNOS yoke couples in marriage and when the girdle of the virgin wife is loosed let him be invoked as the goddess virginianus let him be Moo Tunis or to Tara knows who among the Greeks is called Priapus if they are not ashamed of it let all these which I have named and whatever others I have not named for I have not thought fit to name all let all these gods and goddesses be that one Jupiter whether as some will have it all these are parts of him or are his powers as those think who are pleased to consider him the soul of the world which is the opinion of most of their doctors and these the greatest if these things are so how evil they may be I do not yet meanwhile enquire what would they lose if they by a more prudent abridgement should worship one God for what part of him could be condemned if he himself should be worshipped but if they are afraid less parts of him should be angry at being passed by or neglected then it is not the case as they will have it that this whole is as the life of one living being which contains all the gods together as if they were its virtues or members or parts but each part has its own life separate from the rest if it is so that one can be angered a piece or stirred up more than another but if it is said that all together that is the whole jove himself would be offended if his parts were not also worshipped singly and minutely it is foolishly spoken surely none of them could be passed by if he who singly possesses them all should be worshipped for to emit other things which are innumerable when they say that all the stars are parts of jove and are all alive and have rational souls and therefore without controversy our gods can they not see how many they do not worship to how many they do not build temples or set up altars and to how very few in fact of the stars they have thought of setting them up and offering sacrifice if therefore those are displeased who were not severally worshipped do they not fear to live with only a few appeased while all heaven is displeased but if they worship all the stars because they are part of Joe whom they worship by the same compendium all in him alone for in this way no one would be displeased since in him alone all would be supplicated no one would be contemned instead of there being just caused a displeasure given to the much greater number who were passed by in the worship offered to some especially when Priapus stretched out in vile nakedness is preferred to those who shine from their supernal abode chapter 12 what not men of intelligence and indeed men of every kind to be stirred up to examine the nature of this opinion for there is no need of excellent capacity for this task that putting away the desire of contention they may observe that if God is the soul of the world and the world is as a body to him who is the soul he must be one living being consisting of soul and body and that the same God as a kind of womb of nature containing all things in himself so that the lives and souls of all living things are taken according to the manner of each one's birth out of his soul which vivifies that whole mass and therefore nothing at all remains which is not a part of God and if this is so who cannot see what impious and irreligious consequences follow such as that whatever one may trample he must trample a part of God and in slaying any living creature a part of God must be slaughtered but I am unwilling to utter all that may occur to those who think of it yet cannot be spoken without irreverence chapter 13 but if they contend that only rational animals such as men are parts of God I do not really see how if the whole world is God they can separate beasts from being parts of him but what need is there of striving about that concerning the rational animal himself that is man what more unhappy belief can be entertained than that a part of God has whipped when a new boy is whipped and who unless he is quite mad could bear the thought that parts of God can become lascivious iniquitous in pious and altogether damnable in brief why is God angry at those who do not worship Him since these offenders are parts of himself it remains therefore that they must say that all the gods have their own lives that each one lives for himself and none of them is a part of anyone but that all are to be worshipped at least as many as can be known and worshipped for there are so many it is impossible that all can be so and of all these I believe that Jupiter because he presides his King has thought by them to have both established and extended the Roman Empire for if he has not done it what other God do they believe could have attempted so great at work when they must all be occupied with their own offices and works nor can one intrude on that of another with the kingdom of men then be propagated increased by the king of the gods chapter 14 here first of all I ask why even the kingdom itself is not some God for why should it not also be so if victory is a goddess or what need is there of jove himself in this affair of victory favours and is propitious and always goes to those whom she wishes to be victorious would this God is favorable and propitious even if Jove was idle and did nothing what nations could remain unsubdued what Kingdom would not yield but perhaps it is displeasing to good man to fight with most wicked unrighteousness and provoke with voluntary war neighbors who are peaceable and do no wrong in order to enlarge a kingdom if they filled us I entirely approve and praised them chapter 15 let the mask then litter it is quite fitting for good men to rejoice an extended Empire for the iniquity of those with whom just wars are carried on favors the growth of a kingdom which would certainly have been small if the peace and justice of neighbors had not by any wrong provoked the carrying on of war against them and human affairs being thus more happy all kingdoms would have been small rejoicing and neighborly Concord and thus there would have been very many kingdoms of nations in the world as there are very many houses of citizens in a city therefore to carry on war and extend to Kingdom over holy subdued nations seems to bad men to be Felicity to good men necessity but because it would be worse that the injurious should rule over those who were more righteous therefore even that is not unsuitably called felicity but beyond doubt it is greater Felicity to have a good neighbor at peace than to conquer a bad one by making war your wishes are bad when you desire that one whom you hate her fear should be in such a condition that you can conquer him if therefore by carrying on wars that were just not umpires are unrighteous the Romans could have acquired so great an empire ought they not to worship as a goddess even the injustice of foreigners for we see that this has cooperated much in extending the Empire by making foreigners so unjust so they became people with whom just wars might be carried on and the Empire increased and why may not injustice at least that of foreign nations also be a goddess if fear and dread and Ag you have deserved to be Roman gods by these two therefore that is by foreign injustice and the goddess Victoria for injustice stirs up causes of wars and Victoria brings the same Wars - a happy termination the Empire has increased even although Jove has been idle for what part could jove have here when those things which might be thought to be his benefits are held to be gods called gods worshipped as gods and were themselves invoked for their own parts he also might have some part here if he himself might be called Empire just as she is called victory or if empires the gift of Jove why may not victory also be held to be his gift and it certainly would have been held to be so had he been recognized and worshiped not as a stone in the Capitol but as the true king of kings and Lord of lords chapter 16 but I wonder very much that while they assigned to separate gods single things and well-nigh all movements of the mind that while they invoked the goddess Agra nuria who should excite to action but got a stimula who should stimulate to unusual action the goddess Murcia who should not move men beyond measure but make them as pomponius says Merced that is to slothful and inactive the God is strenuous who should make them strenuous and that while they offered to all these gods and goddesses solemn and public worship they should yet have been willing to give public acknowledgment to her whom they named quiesce because she makes men quiet but built her temple outside the calling gate mother was this a symptom of an unquiet mind or rather was it thus intimated that he who should persevere and worshiping that crowd not to be sure of gods but of demons could not dwell with quiet to which the true physician calls saying learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls chapter 17 or do they say perhaps that Jupiter sends the goddess Victoria and that she as it were acting in obedience to the king of the Gods comes to those to whom he may have dispatched her and takes up her quarters on their side this is truly said not of jove whom they according to their own imagination feigned to be the king of the gods but if him who is the true eternal king because he sends not victory who was no person but his angel and causes whom he pleases to conquer whose counsel may be hidden but cannot be unjust for a victory is a goddess why is not triumph also a god and joined to victory either his husband or brother or son indeed they have imagined such things concerning the gods that if the poets had feigned the like and they should have been discussed by us they would have replied that they were laughable figments of the poets not to be attributed to true deities and yet they themselves did not laugh when they were not reading in the poets but worshiping in the temples such doting follies therefore they should entreat Jove alone for all things and supplicate him only for a victory as a goddess and is under him as her king wherever he might have sent her she could not dare to resist and do her own will rather than his chapter 18 what should we say besides of the idea that Felicity also is a goddess she has received a temple she is merited an altar suitable rites of worship are paid to her she alone then should be worshipped for where she is present what good thing can be absent but what does a man wish that he thinks fortune also a goddess and worships her his felicity one thing fortune another fortune indeed may be bad as well as good but Felicity if it could be bad would not be felicity certainly we ought to thank all the gods of either sex if they also have sex our only good this says Plato this say other philosophers this say all estimable rulers of the Republic in the nations how is it then that the goddess fortune is sometimes good sometimes bad is it perhaps the case that when she is bad she is not a goddess but has suddenly changed into a malignant demon how many fortunes are there then just as many as there are men who were fortunate that is of good fortune but since there must also be me very many others who at the very same time were men at bad fortune could she being one in the same fortune be at the same time both good and bad the one to these the other to those she who was the goddess is she always good then she herself is felicity why then are two names given her yet this is tolerable for it is customary that one thing should be called by two names but why different temples different altars different rituals there is a reason say they because felicity is she whom the good have by previous merit but fortune which is termed good without any trial of merit who falls both good and bad men fortuitously whence also she is named fortune how therefore is she good who without any discernment comes both to the good and to the bad why is she worshipped who is thus blind running at random on any one whatever so that for the most part she passes by her worshippers and Cleaves to those who despise her or if her worshippers profit somewhat so that they are seen by her and loved then she follows merit and does not come fortuitously what then becomes of that definition of fortune what becomes of the opinion that she has received her very name from fortuitous events for it profits one nothing to worship her if she is truly fortune but if she distinguishes her worshiper so that she may benefit them she is not fortune where does Jupiter sent her to whether he pleases him alone be worshipped because fortune is not able to resist him when he commands her and sends her where he pleases or at least let the bad worship her who do not choose to have merit by which the goddess felicity might be invited end of book 4 chapters 1 through 18 recording by Darren L slider Fort Worth Texas WWL o ghost library org book 4 chapters 19 through 34 of the city of God this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by Darin L Slyder WWL ogos library org city of God by Saint Augustine of Hippo look for chapter 19 - this supposed deity whom they call Fortuna they ascribe so much indeed that they have a tradition that the image of her which was dedicated by the Roman matrons and called Fortuna and Malia breeze has spoken and has said once and again that the matrons please her by their homage which indeed if it is true are not to excite our wonder for it is not so difficult for malignant demons to deceive and they aren't the rather to advert to their wit's and wilds because it is that goddess who comes by haphazard who has spoken and not she who comes to reward merit for Fortuna was loquacious and Felicia tossed mute and for what other reason but that men might not care to live rightly having made Fortuna their friend who could make them fortunate without any good dessert and truly if Fortuna speaks she should at least speak not with a womanly but with a manly voice lest they themselves who have dedicated the image to think so great a miracle has been wrought by feminine loquacity chapter 20 they have made virtue also a goddess which indeed if it could be a goddess had been preferable to many and now because it is not a goddess but a gift of God let it be obtained by prayer from him from by whom alone can be given and the whole crowd of false gods vanishes but why is faith believed to be a goddess and why does she herself receive temple and altar for whoever prudently acknowledges her makes his own itself and abode for her but how do they know what faith is of which it is the prime and greatest function that the true God may be believed in but why had not virtue sufficed doesn't not include faith also for as much as they have thought proper to distribute virtue into four divisions prudence justice fortitude and temperance and as each of these divisions has its own virtues faith is among the parts of justice and has the chief place with as many of us as know what that saying means the just shall live by faith but if faith is a goddess I wonder why these keen lovers of a multitude of gods have wronged so many other goddesses by passing them by when they could have dedicated temples and altars to them likewise why is temperance not deserved to be a goddess when some Roman princes have obtained no small glory on account of her why in fine is fortitude not a goddess who aided Mutius when he thrust his right hand into the flames who aided Kirsch's when for the sake of his country he threw himself headlong into the yawning earth who aided Decius desire and Decius the son when they devoted themselves for the army though we might question one of these men had shrew fortitude if this concerned our present discussion why have prudence and wisdom merited no place among the gods is it because they're all worshipped under the general name of virtue itself then they could thus worship the true God also of whom all the other gods are thought to be parts but in that one name of virtue is comprehended both faith and chastity which yet have obtained separate altars and temples of their own chapter 21 these not Verity but vanity has made goddesses for these are gifts of the true God not themselves goddesses however we're virtue and Felicity are what else is sought for what can suffice the man whom virtue and Felicity do not suffice for surely virtue comprehends all things we need do Felicity all things we need wish for if Jupiter then was worshipped in order that he might give these two things because of extent and duration of Empire is something good it pertains to the same Felicity why is it not understood that they are not goddesses but the gifts of God but if they are judged to be goddesses that at least that other great crowd of gods should not be sought after for having considered all the offices which their fancy is distributed among the various gods and goddesses let them find out if they can anything which could be bestowed by any God whatever on a man possessing virtue possessing felicity what instruction could be sought either from Mercury or Minerva when virtue already possessed all in herself virtue indeed is defined by the ancients as itself the art of living well and rightly hence because virtue is called in greek arte it has been thought the Latins have derived it from the term art but if virtue cannot come except to the clever what need was there of the god father cautious who should make been cautious that is acute when Felicity could confer this because to be born clever belongs to Felicity whence although goddess Felicity could not be worshipped by one not yet born in order that being made his friend she might bestow this on him yet she might confer this favour on parents who were her worshippers that clever children should be born to them what need had women in childbirth to invoke Luchino when if Felicity should be present they would have not only a good delivery but good children also what need was there to commend the children to the goddess ops when they were being born to the God Vaticanus in their birth cry to the goddess canina when lying cradled to the goddess romina when sucking to the god stat linnaeus when standing to the goddess a do know when coming to a beyond it when going away to the goddess means that they might have a good mind to the god of Alumnus and the goddess of alumna that they might wish for good things to the nuptial gods that they might make good matches to the rural gods and chiefly to the goddess for Pesce herself that they might receive the most abundant fruits to mars and bellona that they might carry on war well to the goddess victoria that they might be victorious to the god on earth that they might be honoured to the goddess Pecunia that they might have plenty money to the goddess calamus and his son argentinas that they might have brass and silver coin for they sat down as calanis as the father of argentina's for this reason the brass coin began to be used before silver but I wonder argentina's has not begun marina's says gold coin also has followed could they have him for a god they would prefer aureus both to his father argentinas and his grandfather as Galanos just as they set Joe before Saturn therefore what necessity was there on the count of these gifts either of soul or body or outward estate to worship and invoke so great a crowd of gods all of whom I have not mentioned nor have they themselves been able to provide for all human benefits minutely in singly method eyes minut and single gods when the one goddess Felicity was able with the greatest ease contentiously to bestow the whole of them nor should any other be sought after other for the bestowing of good things or for the averting of evil for why should they invoke the goddess Fez Sonia for the weary for driving away enemies the goddess polonio for the sick as a physician under Apollo or Escalade pious or both together there should be great danger neither should the gods spin against us being treated that he might root out the thorns from the fields nor the goddess Rubio that the mildew might not come Felicitas alone being present and guarding either no evils would have arisen or they would have been quite easily driven away finally since we treated these two goddesses virtue and Felicity if felicity is the reward of virtue she is not a goddess but a gift of God but if she is a goddess why may she not be said to confer virtue itself in as much as it is a great Felicity to attain virtue chapter 22 what is it then that Varro boasts he is bestowed is a very great benefit on his fellow-citizens because he not only recounts the gods who ought to be worshipped by the Romans but also tells what pertains to each of them just as it is of no advantage he says to know the name and appearance of any man who was a physician and not know that he is a physician so he says it is of no advantage to know well that Aeschylus is a God if you were not aware that he can bestow the gift of health and consequently do not know why you ought to supplicate him he also affirms this by another comparison saying no one is able not only to live well but even to live at all if he does not know who is a Smith who were Baker who a weaver from whom he can seek any utensil whom he may take for a helper whom for a leader whom for a teacher asserting that in this way it can be doubtful to no one that thus the knowledge of the gods is useful if one can know what force and faculty or power any God may have in anything for from this we may be able he says to know what God we ought to call to and invoke for any cause unless we should do as to many or want to do and desire water from Liebherr and wine from lymphs very useful for sooth who would not give this man thanks if he could show true things and if he could teach that one true God from whom all good things are is to be worshipped by men chapter 23 but how does it happen if their books and rituals are true and Felicity is a goddess that she herself is not appointed as the only one to be worshipped since she could confer all things and all at once make men happy for who wishes anything for any other reason that he may become happy why was it left to lucullus to dedicate a temple to so great a goddess at so late a date and after so many Roman rulers why did Romulus himself ambitious as he was a founding a fortunate city not erect a temple to this goddess before all others why did he supplicate the other gods for anything since he would have liked nothing had she been with him for even he himself would neither have been first a king then afterwards as they think of God if this goddess had not been propitious to him why therefore did he appoint his gods for the Romans Janus Jove Mars Pecos found us type earnest Hercules and others if there were more of them why did titus tatius and sad saturn arms sun moon vulcan light and whatever others he added among whom was even the goddess Chloe Chino while Felicity was neglected why did Numa appoint so many gods and so many goddesses without this one was it perhaps because he could not see her among so great a crowd certainly King hostilius would not have introduced the new gods fear and dread to be propitiated if he could have known or might have worshipped this goddess for in presence of felicity fear and dread would have disappeared I do not say propitiated but put the flight next I ask how is it that the Roman Empire had already immensely increased before anyone worshiped Felicity was the Empire therefore more great than happy for how could true Felicity be there where there was not true piety for piety is the genuine worship of the true God and not the worship of as many demons as there are false gods yet even afterwards when Felicity had already been taken in to the number of the Gods the Great in felicity of the civil wars ensued was felicity perhaps justly indignant both because she was invited so late and was not invited to honor but rather to reproach because along with her were worshiped Primus and Chloe chena and fear and dread and AG you and others which were not gods to be worshipped but the crimes of the worshippers last of all if it seemed good to worship so great a goddess along with the most unworthy crowd why at least was she not worshipped in a more honourable way than the rest for is it not intolerable that Felicity is placed neither among the God's consent ace whom they alleged to be admitted into the council of jupiter nor among the gods whom they term select some temple might be made for her which might be preeminent both in loftiness of sight and dignity of style why indeed not something better than is made for Jupiter himself for who gave the kingdom even the Jupiter but Felicity I'm supposing that when he reigned he was happy Felicity however is certainly more valuable than a kingdom for no one doubts that a man might easily be found who may fear to be made a king that no one is found who is unwilling to be happy therefore if it is thought they can be consulted by augury or in any other way the gods themselves should be consulted about this thing what are they may wish to give place to Felicity if perchance the place should already be occupied by the temples and altars of others where a greater and more lofty temple might be built to felicity even Jupiter himself might give way so that Felicity might rather obtain the very pinnacle of the Capitoline Hill for there is not anyone who would resist felicity except which is impossible one who might wish to be unhappy certainly if he should be consulted Jupiter would in no case do what those three gods Mars terminus and Uintas did who positively refused to give place to their superior and King for as their books record when King tarkman wished to construct the capital and perceived that the place would seem to him to be the most worthy and suitable was preoccupied by other gods not daring to do anything contrary to their pleasure and believing that they would willingly give place to a God who was so great and was their own master because there were many of them there when the capital was founded he inquired by augury what are they chose to give place to Jupiter and they were all willing to remove that's except those who might have named Mars terminus and yuvan toss and therefore the capital was built in such a way that these three also might be within it yet with such obscure signs that even the most learned men could scarcely know this surely then Jupiter himself would by no means despise Felicity as he was himself despised by terminus Mars and knew ventas but even they themselves who had not given place to Jupiter would certainly give place to felicity who had made Jupiter king over them or if they should not give place they would act the snot out of contempt of her but because they chose rather to be obscure in the house of felicity than to be eminent without her in their own places thus the goddess Felicity being established in the largest and loftiest place the citizens should learn whence the furtherance of every good desire should be sought and so by the persuasion of nature herself the superfluous multitude of other gods being abandoned Felicity alone would be worshiped prayer would be made to her alone her temple alone would be frequented by the citizens who wish to be happy which no one of them would not wish and thus felicity who was sought for from all the gods would be sought for only from her own self for who wishes to receive from any god anything else than felicity or what he supposes to tend to felicity wherefore if Felicity has it in her power to be with what man she pleases and she has it if she has a goddess what folly is that after all to seek from any other God her whom you can obtain by request from her own self therefore they ought to honor this goddess above other gods even by dignity of place for as we read in their own authors the ancient Romans paid greater honors to I know not what saman owes to whom they attributed nocturnal Thunderbolts than to Jupiter to whom diurnal Thunderbolts were held to pertain but after a famous and conspicuous temple had been built to Jupiter owing to the dignity of the building the multitude resorted to him is so great numbers that scarce one can be found who remembers even to have read the name of some which now he cannot ear once named but if felicity is not a goddess because as is true it is a gift of God that God must be sought who has power to give it and that hurtful multitude of false gods must be abandoned which the vain multitude of foolish men follows after making God's to itself of the gifts of God in defending himself whose gifts they are by the stubbornness of a proud will for he cannot be free from in Felicity who worships Felicity as a goddess and forsakes God the giver of felicity just as he cannot be free from hunger who licks a painted loaf of bread and does not buy it of the man who has a real one chapter 24 we may however consider their reasons is it to be believed to say they that our forefathers were recited even to such a degree is not to know that these things are divine gifts and not gods but as they knew that such things are granted to no one except by some God freely bestowing them they called the gods whose names they did not find out by the names of those things which they deemed to be given by them sometimes slightly altering the name for that purpose as for example from war they have named Bellona and not de belem from cradles canina not a from Stanley Coren say Geshe not say guess from apples Pomona and not poem from oxen boo buona notte vos sometimes again with no alteration of the word just as the things themselves are named so that the goddess who gives money is called Pecunia and money is not thought to be itself a goddess so of virtues who gives virtue honor who gives honor Concordia who gives Concord Victoria who gives victory so they say when Felicitas is called a goddess what is meant is not the thing itself which is given but that deity by whom Felicity is given chapter 25 having had that reason rendered to us we shall perhaps much more easily persuade as we wish those whose heart has not become too much hardened for if now human infirmity is perceived that Felicity cannot be given except by some God if this was perceived by those who worship so many gods and whose head they set Jupiter himself if in their ignorance of the name of him by whom Felicity was given they agreed to call him by the name of that very thing which they believed he gave then it follows that they thought that Felicity could not be given even by Jupiter himself whom they already worshiped but certainly by him whom they thought fit to worship under the name of felicity itself I thoroughly affirmed the statement that they believed Felicity to be given by a certain God whom they knew not let him therefore be sought after let him be worshiped and it is enough let the train of innumerable demons be repudiated and let this God suffice every man whom his gift suffices for him I say God the giver of felicity will not be enough to worship for whom Felicity itself is not enough to receive but let him for whom it suffices and mat has nothing more he ought to wish for serve the one God the giver of felicity this God is not he whom they call Jupiter for if they acknowledged him to be the giver of felicity they would not seek under the name of felicity itself for another god or goddess by whom Felicity might be given nor could they tolerate that Jupiter himself should be worshipped with such an infamous attributes free is said to be the debaucher of the wives of others he is the shameless lover and ravisher of a beautiful boy chapter 26 but says cicero homer invented these things and transferred things human to the gods I would rather transfer things divine to us the poet by ascribing such crimes to the gods has justly displeased the brave man why then are the scenic plays where those crimes are habitually spoken of acted exhibited in honor of the gods reckoned among things divine by the most learned men cícero should explain not against the inventions of the poets but against the customs of the Ancients would not they have exclaimed in reply what have we done the gods themselves have loudly demanded that these plays should be exhibited in their honor have fiercely exacta them have menaced destruction analysis was performed have avenged its neglect with great severity and a manifested pleasure at the reparation of such neglect among their virtuous and wonderful deeds the following is related it was announced in a dream to Titus latinas a Roman rustic that he should go to the Senate and tell them to recommence the games of Rome because on the first day of their celebration a condemned criminal had been led to punishment in the sight of the people an incident so sad as to disturb the gods who were seeking amusement from the games and when the passengers would receive this intimation was afraid and the following day to deliver it to the Senate it was renewed next night in a severe reform he lost his son because of his neglect on the third night he was warned that yet a graver punishment was impending if he should still refuse obedience when even thus he did not dare to obey he fell into a virulent and horrible disease but then on the advice of his friends he gave information to the magistrates and was carried in a litter into the Senate and having on declaring his dream immediately recovered strength went away on his own feet whole the Senate amazed at so great a miracle decreed that the games should be renewed at fourfold cost what sensible man does not see that men being put upon by malignant demons from whose domination nothing save the grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord sets free have been compelled by force to exhibit to such gods as these plays which if well advised they should condemn a shameful certain it is that in these plays the poetic crimes of the gods are celebrated yet they are plays which were reestablished by decree of the Senate under compulsion of the gods in these plays the most shameless actors celebrated Jupiter as the corruptor of chastity and thus gave him pleasure if that was a fiction he would have been moved to anger but if he was delighted with the representation of his crimes even although fabulous then when he happened to be worshipped who but the devil could be served is it something he get found extend and preserve the Roman Empire who was more vile than any Roman man whatever to whom such things were displeasing could he give felicity who was so in felicitous li worshiped and who unless he should be thus worshipped was yet more in felicitous li provoked to anger chapter 27 it is recorded that the very lurid pontiff sky Villa had distinguished about three kinds of gods one introduced by the poets another by the philosophers another by the statesman the first kind he declares to be trifling because many unworthy things have been invented by the poets concerning the gods the second does not suit States because it contains some things that are superfluous and some to which would be prejudicial for the peoples to know it is no great matter about the superfluous things for it as a common saying of skillful lawyers superfluous things do no harm but what are those things which do harm when brought before the multitude these he says that Hercules Aesculapius castor and pollux are not gods for it is declared by a learned man that these were Abbot men and yielded to the common law of mortals what else that states have not the true images of the gods because the true God has neither sex nor AIDS nor definite corporeal members the pontiff is not willing that the people should know these things for he does not think they're false he thinks that expedient therefore that states should be deceived in matters of religion which Varro himself does not even hesitate to say in his books about things divine excellent religion to which the weak who requires to be delivered may flee for succour and when he seeks for the truth by which he may be delivered it is believed to be expedient for him that he be deceived and truly in the same book skive Allah is not silent as to his reason for rejecting the poetic sort of gods to wit because they so disfigured the gods that they could not bear comparison even with good men when they make one to commit theft another adultery or again to say or do something else basely and foolishly as the three goddesses contested with each other the prize of beauty and the two vanquished by Venus destroyed Troy the Jupiter turned himself into a bowl or Swan that he might copulate with someone that a goddess married a man and Saturn devoured his children that in fine there is nothing that could be imagined either of the miraculous or vicious which may not be found there and yet as far removed from the nature of the gods Oh chief pontiff skive Allah take away the plays of thou art able instruct the people that they may not offer such honors to the immortal gods in which if they like they may admire the crimes of the gods and so far as it as possible may if they please imitate them but if the people shall have answered thee you O pontiff have brought these things in among us that asked the gods themselves at whose instigation you have ordered these things that they may not order such things to be offered to them for if they are bad and therefore in no way to be believed concerning the majority of the gods the greater is the wrong done the gods about whom they are famed with impunity but they do not hear thee they are demons they teach wicked things they rejoice and vile things not only do they not count it wrong if these things are feigned about them but it is wrong they're quite unable to bear if they are not acted at their stated festivals but now if that was call on Jupiter against them chiefly for that reason that more of his crimes are want to be acted in the scenic plays is it not the case that although you call him God Jupiter by whom this world is ruled and administered it is he to whom the greatest wrong is done by you because you have thought he ought to be worshipped along with them and have styled him their king chapter 28 therefore such gods who were propitiated by such honors or rather are had peached by them for it is greater crime to delight in having such things said of them falsely than even if they could be said truly could never by any means have been able to increase and preserve the Roman Empire for if they could have done it they would rather have bestowed so grand a gift on the Greeks who in this kind of divine things that is in scenic plays have worshipped them more honorably and worthily although they have not exempted themselves from those slanders of the poets by whom they saw the gods torn in pieces giving them license to ill to use any man they pleased and have not deemed the scenic players themselves to be base but have held them worthy even of distinguished honor but just as the Romans were able to have gold money although they did not worship a god or eNOS so also they could have silver and brass coin and yet worship and neither argentina's nor his father s calanis and so of all the rest which it would be Ericsson for me to detail it follows therefore both that they could not by any means attain such to many and if the true God was unwilling and that if these gods false and many were unknown or contempt and he alone was known and worshipped with sincere faith and virtue they would both have a better kingdom here whatever might be its extent and what do they might have one here or not would afterwards receive an eternal Kingdom chapter 29 for what kind of augury is that which they have declared to be most beautiful and to which I referred a little ago that Mars and terminus and you ventas would not give place even to jove the king of the gods for thus they say it was signified that the nation dedicated to Mars that is the Roman should yield to none the place at once occupied likewise that on account of the god terminus no one would be able to disturb the Roman frontiers and also that the Roman youth because of the goddess yuvan toss should yield to no one let them see therefore how they can hold him to be the king of their gods and the giver of their own Kingdom if these auguries set him down for an adversary to whom it would have been honorable not to yield however if these things are true they need not be at all afraid for they are not going to confess that the gods who would not yield to jove have yielded to christ for without altering the boundaries of the empire jesus christ has proved himself able to drive them not only from their temples but from the hearts of their worshippers but before Christ came in the flesh and indeed before these things which we have quoted from their books could have been written but yet after that auspice was made under King tockman the Roman army has been diverse times scattered or put to flight and has shown the falseness of the auspice which they derived from the fact that the goddess juventus had not given place to jove and the nation dedicated to mars was trodden down in the city itself by the invading and triumphant Gauls and the boundaries of the Empire through the falling away of many cities to Hannibal had been hemmed into a narrow space thus the beauty of the auspices is made void and there has remained only the contumacy against Jove none of gods but of demons for it is one thing not to have yielded and another to have returned whether you have yielded besides even afterwards in the Oriental regions the boundaries of the Roman Empire were changed by the will of Hadrian for he yielded up to the Persian Empire those three noble provinces Armenia and Mesopotamia and Assyria thus that God terminus who according to these books was the guardian of the Roman frontiers and by that most beautiful auspice had not given place to jove would seem to have been more afraid of Hadrian a king of men then to the king of the gods the aforesaid provinces having also been taken back again almost within our own recollection the frontier fell back when Julie and given up to the Oracles of their gods with immoderate daring ordered the victualling ships to be set on fire the army being thus left destitute of provisions and he himself also being presently killed by the enemy and the legions being hard pressed all dismayed by the loss of their commander they were reduced to such extremities that no one could have escaped unless by articles of Peace the boundaries of the Empire had then been established where they still remain not a deep with so greater losses was suffered by the concession of Hadrian but still at a considerable sacrifice it was a vain augury then the god terminus did not yield jove since he yielded to the will of Hadrian and yielded also to the rashness of Julian and the necessity of Jove in ian the more intelligent and brave Romans have seen these things but have had little power against the custom of the state which was bound to observe the rites of the demons because even they themselves although they perceived that these things were vain yet thought that the religious worship which is due to God should be paid to the nature of things which is established under the rule and government of the one true God serving as Seth the Apostle the creature more than the Creator who is blessed for evermore the help of this true God was necessary to send holy and truly pious men who would die for the true religion that they might remove the false from among the living chapter 30 Cicero the augur laughs at auguries and reproves men for regulating the purposes of life but the cries of prose and jackdaws but it will be said that an academic philosopher who argues that all things are uncertain is unworthy to have any authority in these matters in the second book of his dana to erode a Orem he introduces Lucilius Bal boosts who after showing that superstitions have their origin in physical and philosophical truths expresses his indignation at the setting up of images and fabulous notions speaking thus do you not therefore see that from true and useful physical discoveries the reason may be drawn away to fabulous and imaginary gods this gives birth to false opinions and turbulent errors in superstitions well Naya old why fish for both the forms of the gods and their ages and clothing and ornaments are made familiar to us their genealogies to their marriages kinships and all things about them are debased to the likeness of human weakness they're even introduced as having perturbed minds for we have accounts of the lusts cares and angers of the gods nor indeed as the fables go have the gods been without their wars and battles and then not only when as in homer some gods on either side have defended two opposing armies but they've even carried on wars on their own account as with the Titans or with the Giants such things that is quite absurd or to say or to believe they are utterly frivolous and groundless behold now what is confessed by those who defend the gods of the nations afterwards he goes on to say that some things belong to superstition but others to religion which he thinks good to teach according to the Stoics for not only the philosophers he says but also our forefathers have made a distinction between superstition and religion for those he says who spent whole days in prayer and offered sacrifice that their children might outlive them are called superstitious who does not see that he is trying while he fears the public prejudice to praise the religion of the Ancients and that he wishes to disjoin it from superstition but cannot find out how to do so for if those who prayed and sacrificed all day were called superstitious by the ancients were those also called so who instituted what he blames the images of the gods a diverse age and distinct clothing and invented the genealogies of gods their marriages and kinships when therefore these things are found fault with as superstitious he implicates in that fault the ancients who instituted and worshiped such images may he implicates himself who was whatever eloquence he may strive to extricate himself and be free was yet under the necessity of venerating these images nor dared he so much as whisper in a discourse to the people within this disputation he plainly sounds forth let us Christians therefore give thanks to the Lord our God not to heaven and earth as that author argues but to him who has made heaven and earth because these superstitions which that bal boast like a babbler scarcely reprehend he by most deep loneliness of Christ by the preaching of the Apostles by the faith of the martyrs dying for the truth and living with the truth has overthrown not only in the hearts of the religious but even in the temples of the superstitious by their own free service chapter 31 what says vara himself whom we grieved to have found although not by his own judgment placing the scenic plays among things divine when in many passages he is exhorting like a religious man to the worship of the gods does he not in doing so admit that he does not in his own judgment believe those things which he relates to the Roman state has instituted so that he does not hesitate to affirm that he were founding a new state he could enumerate the gods and their names better by the rule of nature but being born into a nation already ancient he says that he finds himself bound to accept the traditional names and surnames of the gods and the histories connected with them and that his purpose in investigating and publishing these details is to incline the people to worship the gods and not to despise them by which words this most acute man sufficiently indicates that he does not publish all things because they would not only have been contemptible to himself but would have seemed despicable even to the rabble unless they had been passed over in silence I should be thought to conjecture these things unless he himself in another passage had openly said and speaking of religious rites that many things are true which it is not only not useful for the common people to know but that it is expedient that the people should think otherwise even though falsely and therefore the Greeks have shut up the religious ceremonies and mysteries in silence and within walls in this he no doubt expresses the policy of the so called wise men by whom states and peoples are ruled yet by this crafty device the malign demons are wonderfully delighted who possess alike the deceivers and the deceived and from whose tyranny nothing sets free saved the grace of God through Jesus Christ our Lord the same most acute and learn at author also says that those alone seemed to him to have perceived what God is who have believed him to be the soul of the world governing it by design and reason and by this it appears that although he did not attain to the truth for the true God is not a soul but the maker and author of the soul yet if he could have been free to go against the prejudices of custom he could have confessed and counseled others that the one God ought to be worshipped who governs the world by design and reason so that on this subject only this point would remain to be debated with him that he had called him a soul and not rather the creator of the soul he says also that the ancient Romans for more than a hundred and seventy years worshipped the gods without an image and if this custom he says could have remained till now the gods would have been more purely worshipped in favor of this opinion he cites as a witness among others the Jewish nation nor does he hesitate to conclude that passage by saying of those who first consecrated images for the people that they have both taken away religious fear from their fellow citizens and increased error wisely thinking that the gods easily fallen to contempt when exhibited under this de Liturgy of images but as he does not say they have transmitted error but that they have increased it he therefore wishes it to be understood that there was error already when there were no images wherefore when he says they alone had perceived what God is who have believed him to be the governing soul of the world and thinks that the rights of religion would have been more purely observed without images who fails to see how near he has come to the truth for if he had been able to do anything against so inveterate an error he would certainly have given it as his opinion both that the one God should be worshiped and that he should be worshipped without an image and having so nearly discovered the truth perhaps he might easily have been put in mind of the mutability of the soul and might thus have perceived that the true God is that immutable nature which made the soul itself since these things are so whatever ridicules such men at port in their writings against the plurality of the gods they have done so rather is compelled by the secret will of God to confess them than is trying to persuade others if therefore any testimonies are adduced by us from these writings they are reduced for the computation of those who are unwilling to consider from how great and malignant the power of the demons the singular sacrifice of the shedding of the most holy blood and the gift of the imparted spirit can set us free chapter xxxii Varro says also concerning the generations of the gods that the people have inclined to the poets rather than to the natural philosophers and that therefore their forefathers that is the ancient Romans believed both in the sex and the generations of the gods and settled their marriages which certainly seems to have been done for no other cause except that it was the business of such men as were prudent and wise to deceive the people in matters of religion and in that very thing not only to worship but also to imitate the demons whose greatest lust is to deceive for just as the demons cannot possess any but those who may have deceived with guile so also a man in princely office not indeed being just but like demons have persuaded the people in the name of religion to receive as true those things which they themselves knew to be false in this way as it were binding at them up more firmly in civil society so that they might in like manner possess them as subjects but who that was weak and unlearned it could escape the deceits of both the princes of the state and the demons chapter 33 therefore that God the author and giver of felicity because he alone is the true God himself gives earthly kingdoms both the good and bad neither does he do this rashly and as it were fortuitously because he is God not fortune but according to the order of things and times which is hidden from us but thoroughly known to himself which same order of time so over he does not serve as subject to it but himself rules as Lord and appoints as governor felicity he gives only to the good whether a man be a subject or a king makes no difference he may equally either possess it or not possesses and it shall be full in that life where Kings and subjects exists no longer and therefore earthly kingdoms are given by him both to the good and to the bad lest his worshippers still under the conduct of a very weak mind should covet these gifts from him as some great things and this is the mystery of the Old Testament in which the new was hidden that they're even earthly gifts her promised those who were spiritual understanding even then although not yet openly declaring both the Eternity which was symbolized by these earthly things and in what gifts of God true Felicity could be found chapter 34 therefore that it might be known that these earthly good things after which those Pat who cannot imagine better things remain in the power of the one God himself not of the many false gods whom the Romans have formerly believed worthy of worship he multiplied his people in Egypt from being very few and delivered them out of it by wonderful signs nor did their women invoke Luchino when their offspring was being incredibly multiplied and that nation having increased incredibly he himself delivered he himself saved them from the hands of the Egyptians who persecuted them and wished to kill all their infants without the goddess Romina they sucked without canina they were cradled without Educare and protein oh they took food and drink without all those plural gods they were educated without the nuptial gods they were married without the worship of prideless that had conjugal intercourse without invocation of Neptune the divided sea opened up a way for them to pass over and overwhelmed with its returning waves their enemies who pursued them neither did they consecrate any goddess manya when they received manna from heaven nor when the smitten Rock poured forth water to them when they thirsted did they worship nymphs and limps without the mad rights of Mars and Bellona they carried on war and while indeed they did not conquer without victory yet they did not hold it to be a goddess but the gift of their God without segi sure they had harvests without Bubo no oxen honey without melona apples without Pomona and in a word everything for which the Romans thought they must supplicate so great a crowd of false gods they received much more happily from the one true God and if they had not sinned against him with impious curiosity which seduced them like magic arts and drew them to strange gods and idols and at last led them to kill Christ their kingdom would have remained to them and would have been if not more spacious yet more happy than that of raw and now that they are dispersed through almost all lands and Nations it is through the Providence of that one true God that whereas the images altars groves and temples of the false gods are everywhere overthrown and their sacrifice is prohibited it may be shown from their books how this has been foretold by their prophets so long before lest perhaps when they should be read in ours they might seem to be invented by us but now reserving what is to follow for the following book we must hear said abound to the prolixity of this one end of book 4 chapters 19 through 34 recording by Darren L slider Fort Worth Texas WWL o ghost library org | Priceless Audiobooks | UCly1zcKPGzGW9wZMCZodWOA | 2020-02-27 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 16,477 | 88,131 |
8ohiQeH8Dbg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ohiQeH8Dbg | Right-Wingers SPLIT on Whether the Super Mario Bros Movie is Woke or Anti-Woke | well the Super Mario Brothers movie launched over the weekend and as the other less good thr reports its opening was apparently stupendous grossing 204.6 million dollars in the US and 375.6 million globally which is the best Global opening for an animated film ever now I know why the movie did well I know you're probably thinking it's because Super Mario Brothers is a massive franchise right no actually the movie did well because it was anti-woke and it's truly inspiring to see this movie do so well because it demonstrates that Americans are just fed up with wokeness they just want to take their family to watch a movie without some political agenda being shoved down their throats by some Hollywood Elites plus it doesn't hurt that it also Stars Christian King Chris Pratt as Stephen Crowder put it the anti-woke Super Mario Bros movie just set a global record now here's what he and his colleagues specifically Alex Jones had to say about this movie Mario Brothers just set a global opening weekend and record for animated films 377 million dollars on a 100 million dollar uh budget my top gun did so well yeah and they're not even right Wings they're just leave people alone and let them have a fantasy that's why I can't watch anything on Netflix now it's all brainwashing everybody knows that but that's my same question why is Anheuser-Busch committing suicide why did Hollywood commit suicide why is the left doing this why are they like Kamikaze so basically the movie is anti-woke because in a climate where Hollywood Elites are always trying to push some sort of agenda down our throats through film to be a political in this environment makes it inherently anti-woke and this film proved that you don't actually have to cater to the libtards to be successful and other conservatives online Echo the same sentiment as Stephen Crowder with video titles like Mario destroys box office as woke movies fail massively make him gay the the loc media has meltdown over the Super Mario Bros movie not including LGBT content Super Mario Bros just destroyed Walt Disney at the box office families are done with Disney woke actor gets triggered by a Super Mario Bros movie John Leguizamo boycotts over white people Super Mario Bros humiliates Disney and establishment critics by rejecting wokeness so as you can see the film is anti-woke and that's why the critics hate it so much but unfortunately the film is actually very much so woke according to other conservatives Yes you heard that right it's woke and it's because Princess Peach is portrayed as a girl boss in the film which is obviously pretty overtly woke now you might be thinking Anna who cares it's just some dumb movie but you should care and here's why because what they are doing is they're they're trying to brainwash Society to think that that's how women are supposed to be in this is dangerous because then we have women who go out there who think they're men and they wind up getting hurt they wind up getting raped they wind up getting because this is who's going to consume this content well young kids right it's a cartoon adults unless you're a loser you're probably not going to want to watch that right so unless you're watching with your kids but the reality is this has actual ramifications on society young women see stuff like this and it just brainwashes them to be a feminist to be a badass feminist and it's not realistic women are not as strong as men women aren't the ones who are going to go out there and be like watch this let me kick ass this like badass culture is actually ruining women in its ruining society and nobody knows where they stand anymore so actually it has real consequences I'm sick and tired of seeing unrealistic things like that please make her a helpless princess again okay that's a lot more fitting for Princess Peach sorry you got Peach just taking charge Peach just taking charge stands up right there like right at that moment right there when I saw that I I was thinking Bo Peep from Toy Story 4 um race Guy Walker and she seems to dominate the rest of the trailer Mario's the bumbling idiot again if if we're not dealing with current day Hollywood then these red flags probably aren't an issue for me but when I see that the first thing I'm thinking about is Bo Peep from Toy Story 4. that's the first thing I thought of and uh peach just kind of dominates The Narrative of the rest of the trailer but it it isn't possible to not be alarmed by these things in current day Hollywood it's absolutely impossible um I mean Peach is just like there's literally Peach has done nothing but be stoic and smart and powerful and commanding and Mario is bumbling stumbling idiot look like right there she just has this confidence you know she's just standing there with all this confidence uh again I hope I'm wrong I hope I'm 100 wrong now to be fair that last clip was filmed before the movie came out but he was right to be alarmed by the film's portrayal of peach as a strong confident independent woman because others noticed this too the Super Mario Bros movie woke trash rant Peach is a girl boss well at least the kids will love it Super Mario Bros movie woke Princess Peach is a sjw girl boss Ray Skywalker again and another about the movie before it came out saying it simply looks like woke garbage so now you kind of have two different camps here while Geeks and Gamers was originally concerned about an independent girl boss type of peach turns out they switched teams and are firmly in the it's anti-woke camp now and they even had three different videos praised in the film two of which focused on how triggered the walksters were that the film was not woke this YouTuber also landed on both sides of the argument with the walksters apparently being triggered that Mario is white while the right were triggered over Peach being too much of a girl boss now just so we're clear here we can all be triggered over the Super Mario Bros movie simultaneously okay all of us at the same time can be outraged for different reasons at this movie as we should be with all films that come out but that YouTuber in particular seemingly concluded that the amount of girl boss was actually permissible because Peach doesn't cross the woke line in other areas she is extremely recognizable as Princess Peach there is no doubt that this is Princess Peach she didn't get that Ray swap she didn't get the body type drastic body type change she didn't get de-feminized she still has her dress she still has the pouty feminine lips the pretty makeup and hair she's definitely all dolled up a very feminine woman okay but she's feisty but this is not a change to the character Peach has always been feisty so there you have it look I'm sure that you all find this conversation very intellectually stimulating because you know who's to say what is and isn't woke maybe what is woke is in the eye of the beholder maybe art is subjective Maybe you can make the case really that any particular brand is both woke and anti-woke simultaneously based on whatever narrative that we're currently trying to push if I had to guess I'd say that if the Mario movie bombed most conservatives would claim it was woke and it bombed because it was woke but since it did well well of course it'd be Hooves conservatives to pretend as if it wasn't woke to imply that most Americans are fed up with wokeness but regardless of how valuable this very very substantive conversation has been I do think that as individuals we have to know definitively is this film woke or is it anti-woke so allow me to give you the definitive answer as to whether or not this is woke so let me just take a moment to uh kind of think it open and Ponder this for for a little bit John Legend Ray Skywalker again she didn't get that race swabs foreign [Music] I let her have her way 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kA-mR_Tyf54 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA-mR_Tyf54 | Andvari’s Soul - Pt. 24 - God of War Blind Story Playthrough Gameplay (God of War 4) | hey there friends and welcome back to strange Rebel gaming I'm Brianna white and today we're going to be playing through some more God of War it's going so well right now we're working our way through some side quests because we're only like four gameplay hours away maybe from the very very end of God of War because we want to get to God of War Ragnarok it's gonna be a fun time so I hope you enjoy these videos stick around and enjoy take a second to like them before we begin and we'll get on to them foreign and we're just making our way across this rickety old piece of wood just like we always have see Kratos and atreus have this history of climbing across rickety Bridges together they also have a history of just smashing Priceless relics so we're going to continue that tradition as well yeah with our bare fists to get some hack silver out of it and then we're gonna make our way up this thing because I have no idea where this is leading us so oh to a treasure chest well we're not mad about that you just gotta smash that with your bare fist too because such is tradition and then whoa oh I did not expect that at all I thought we were jumping and then I thought we were under attack oh everything's fine I am fine good take one of those smash one of those good good good good all good things now what a fifth we're here I don't know if I'm gonna get that far but I am fantastic what what are you doing what were you doing why did it look like he was like playing Monster or something I don't know I don't make the rules here I don't think we want to take that just yet but I'm sure we're going to want to Okay so oh that's a screaming ring right right right right I know I know don't trust the talking ring oh well that getting out of the way made a ladder fantastic not what I thought was gonna happen but fantastic nonetheless because then we get to go all the way up oh I did think we were about to get attacked what if I just crushed you did you were you prepared for that oh cool clearly clearly we're not prepared for this eventuality and well you should have been oh I don't want to be in one of those hey come back hey don't run away from me that's kind of rude oh I just knocked you right off didn't I get up get back here not that one that one focus on that one here we go now we can focus on that there we go thank you atreus for being ever so helpful kind of right I mean I don't know if it was harder than usual what do we have here an epic Talisman my first create a small defensive Zone that prevents kratos's attacks from being interrupted and reduces the amount of damage he takes when upgraded it restores a small amount of Health as well I do like that I'd like to upgrade it for sure right now we have defense 8 Vitality 10 small burst of Health we could have small burst Health Plus a small defensive Zone I do like it actually a lot so I think upgrading that is going to be tippity top priority um but no atreus I don't think that was that difficult boy father please just listen invari's crew did something bad here he's glad you destroyed his lab and he's sorry he kept trying to trick us his hammer is just through this gate is there also some big evil Bad behind the gate too because I've just used all of my Spartan rage um and I have some concerns so we're gonna make our way through this gate I'm guessing what the trace's help to get and vari's Hammer no problem we got this certainly there's nothing scary on the other side of this boy sir and certainly this won't glitch anything like last time okay that's going in the journal what's going in the journal removing an ancient soul and domesticating it as a beast of burden was surprisingly easy they followed my every command and appeared to possess no free will removing an ancient Soul why can't I do that then I don't have to fight it a lack of their own must be what drives them to immolate The Souls of others my soul leaders are an Abomination several were sent to musplheim at the request of Searcher what he will use them for I shudder to consider another to myatsukinur at kyunks guard that fool can burn for all I care my immediate concern is the dwarves of the vulander mines I pray I'm not too late to undo my mistake I'm not gonna lie I read that whole thing out loud and I took in none of it I don't know what that said because I was way too focused on how ridiculous these names are anyways that's very good information for people who are lore heads meanwhile this looks like something I should break but I won't I could but I won't but I will heal up and I will take whatever in this giant glowy golden chest let's see what's inside take this is a fine Hammer oh it's the hammer fantastic thank you you're welcome now I wonder if this is what's going to crash into those rocks let's try it push can we keep him the ring no you can't keep the ring everything I'll just punch him to death actually I mean my statement was pretty accurate I did punch him to death what can I say I'm right all the time so who's surprised no one all right so it seems our work here is done and we shall make our way out and we talked to Brock see what Brock has to say about all that you find that hammer or you're too busy looting every Keyhole and cranny yes and yes actually yeah The Alchemist Hammer his spirit is a nuisance yeah I'm very always was an [ __ ] hell of an alchemist though hand him over here and I'll melt him down what you're going to melt down your friend a trap Souls what I need to give your reward some extra home you don't want it father we can't do that here you hold on to him he's really useful I promise fine so long as he proves his worth what no I want the reward well he'll grow out of it I don't need the talking soul very high perk activation chance to Grant a health burst on any successful runic attack kill I know you say that's Epic but I kind of not feeling the epicness of it that's not my fault I just feel like maybe I'm more of the type to use all my runic attacks early on and not as finishing blows so I feel like I don't know anyways Okay so we've completed that side quest that's fantastic let's move on to the only well okay so there there's like side quests and then there's like side quests so let's continue on with the Main two Dwarven side quests that we have so this is fafnir's horde is what we're going to be doing at this point so cindry told us about the dwarf fafnir who was renowned for his collection of stolen Treasures a treasure-filled storeroom sounds like it might be worth a look Sentry asked us to keep an eye out for a special Whetstone from niffelheim I just hope nobody got there before us that sounds like ominous foreshadowing to fasten your sword wherever that may be get out of here seagull oh my gosh I saw the funniest the funniest video the other day of a girl just trying to eat a snack what looks like on a pier or a wharf or something and as she's eating it in slow motion this seagull just attacks it right out of her mouth and then there's a sign in the background that says watch out for the seagulls attacking oh sometimes life is just that funny sometimes it is you know where why do I feel like I'm trapped how do I get out of here get me out of here oh there is a little path here okay perfect come here why did you say tear felt responsible for what Odin did to the Giants it was an incident shortly after the forging of mjolnir when tear arranged a diplomatic meeting between Odin and the giant Kings not this was when the long war was young when victory was still a thing dreamed of and the yacht man might have tipped the balance between asean and Vania ordain a persuaded tear that the hammer was merely a deterrent a means to broker piece from a position of strength Tia was hopeful to convince all parties they would cross from best through peace he knew the Giants were deeply concerned about the hammer a super weapon in hands they did not trust but we trusted tear always believed the best in people and taking Odin at his word than his desire for peace he brought the Raven King to your time from there things unraveled quickly the Giants anticipated audience trickery and exposed his true agenda to spy and steal their secret wisdom with magic 6 spelled Odin from their realm and custom never to return frustrated wooden visited his Fury upon the Giants of midgard Thor Unleashed mjolnir's might upon any giant he could find none could stand against the tide of Slaughter that followed and at last it seems with tears Aid they retreated the tower disappeared no Giants could be found in midgard and no man nor God has set foot in yachtenheim since uh that story is very depressing kind of a bummer you know but we're just gonna go ahead and smash barrels until we make our way to fafnir's ravine look it look at the the structure of these amazing like crystalline rock love it it feels so otherworldly doesn't it wrong we have crystalline Rock structures like this on Earth on our Earth that's not a fantasy geologic structure that's real isn't that crazy every time you think you've seen it all you have it over here now we're from fafnir's Ravine to fafnir's storeroom this fafnir sure owns a lot doesn't he up we go I thought we loved atreus behind if I'm being honest do I hear the sound I hear a sound do I hear the sound yes there is a lot to see here where is the bird where's the bird that I hear I hear it where is it better not be in this pot ah there you are goodbye all right nailed it we're making great progress on the 51 Ravens 51 of them it's too many smash those boxes just in case definitely you can't you can't smash the birds do you think that Faulkner went to I'll find two I do not know aren't you curious he sounds interesting we go to the store rule to collect anything useful for our journey not to learn more about the dwarf half the Earth was a rather interesting fellow little brother perhaps I'll tell you a story one day you do like to tell stories of a mirror that much is true however atreus is really more of the Curious one at this point you'd think atreus would maybe have learned that that maybe you should be curious and that's not a bad thing but also like don't expect Kratos to be curious with you you know things like that but sometimes kids they have to learn a lesson 8 000 times before it sticks I mean 8 000 is like an approximate number sometimes it's only seven thousand sometimes it's twelve thousand have you made it at a fast near store room yet what I I just got here I didn't think we'd see you out here since you and Brock got back together everything okay impatient oh better than ever you know I really think we've both grown in our years apart so how come you're back here just catching some fresh air look I love my brother but he still smells like a feta gun pile probably is pretty awful honestly you know it's interesting I know we got these side quests before Brock and cindery became Pals again I'm curious what the dialogue is like if you do these quests before they come back to get together as brothers because it's fascinating to me how game developers have to think about that kind of thing how they have to create kind of like an a dialogue and a b dialogue based on where you're at in the story I think that shows the level of dedication to the craft and to immersion that I think is just really doing here okay atreus I'm busy thank you okay so ager's protection here's the thing we don't have any pure essence of realms so we cannot upgrade this talisman I would like to do that but I don't know how to do that and because I don't know how to do that I'm kind of like that's fine always happy just to chat really wishing that I could upgrade that talisman I don't know you know what life's too short to not try out the Talisman let's try out the Talisman and just see what happens because obviously this has better stats but maybe this is just like a super op defensive Zone I don't know reduces damage that he takes I'm not a scientist I don't know until I try it so ah die come back here that that was a bad throw I'll admit it that one was better all right we're really making progress on those 51 Ravens yeah we just got two in in one stream honestly nailing it this is cool this is kind of a different vibe huh nice and foresty and still got things to smash of course because why not it's got some cicada buzzing in the background that's kind of fun a nice different environment from the other ones oh Froggies look at them go and butterflies what a cute little Forest oh I must have gotten here first okay but I heard another Crow ah well you're not so high in the sky are ya three in one stream look we're gonna have 51 in no time in no time no time at all watch out for the Frog so you don't want to crush the frogs or do you not frogs are an important part of the ecosystem all right now you are going down every last one of you yeah I I honestly [Music] oh I hate these little flyy boys good good ripping more shoulders ah hey hey get away from him good good we'll take out some of you really unfortunate for you that I activated my yeah what come back everyone okay that's not doing anything so I'm just gonna use that instead rip more shoulders off honestly like why not [Applause] I honestly just did do a great Parry there it is over perfectly timed oh one of these huh I see well do a little health take a little hack silver do a little smashing good good good to make sure we thoroughly investigate the area so that we can find all of the little things that need to be crushed or activated or whatever this one requires let's find out oh oh okay well I was meaning to Vault this but sure okay take easy good stuff good stuff okay I hear another Raven are we really gonna be killing that many Ravens oh man I should have done this [Music] had I known would have been really fun four Ravens in the span of like eight minutes I mean I am I am so impressed with us 51 is gonna just come and go like that now here's the thing oh there you are CR where's n there's something up there uh thank you atreus I had no clue now if I know this game which I'll admit what's that is a little bit not a lot of it the end is gonna be difficult because the C and the r are easy it sort of seems like the C and the r in the N might have ah there you are okay let's see what happens look up there atreus don't spoil the gun for me [Music] when Mississippi to Mississippi three Mississippi [Music] hey we did it we needed five Mississippi's and some change what'd we get the Horn of blood Mead good so the Horn of blood meat we now have two of three which is fantastic we need one more which is no problem I mean if we find horns of blood Meads just like we find Ravens then we're set atreus stop spoiling the puzzles I'll figure it out I know there's always a treasure behind the waterfall into the waterfall we go should we have gone into the waterfall or should we have gone not into the waterfall because there was another way to go but does that lead to a dead end follow me oh it's locked good fantastic then we don't need to make a decision after all that is gonna be an easy exit for when we have completed this part of the Miss Shawn which is just fantastic um I know what you're all thinking you're all thinking mission is not a French word and you cannot pronounce it Michelle and my response to you would be but what if it was did you think about that perfect I gotta wait till he comes back around okay atreus you try how come I don't see you shooting these birds exactly look how many birds we killed so many I mean they're spies they're not birds like we're not just in this game out here killing birds Just to be clear I just wanted to make that really abundantly clear oh is this our exit door suspicious it's not time for us to exit yet oh well this is going to be the easiest quest boy ever here all right thanks are we excited about that my journey will be long and I can only carry the essentials I leave my possessions under the watchful eyes of the face of stone until I return okay I mean are these are these things that we want we have one rare enchantment alloy one re-enchantment Oblivion Stone legendary enchantment glacial Catalyst one legendary enchantment unstable or one rare enchantment unyielding Cinders agers gold I don't know these things are maybe things that we want but if I was to go finding these I would do it off stream just saying why are there so many doors in here that's awfully suspicious what do you want [Applause] looks like the river's made inside as I said hi Lisa suspicious foreign [Music] I have a feeling this is going to take a very long time come over here I gotta kill you with this wait wait wait wait okay okay good don't move don't don't move kill the pot oh my gosh all right all right all right all right come over here let me let me just come just just let me position this problem hey hey hey hey I'm positioning tactical strategy [Music] no that's so unfair I was supposed to kill him with that oh this is just not fair come on now there we go all right well both of us got caught at least I know what stuff keep your expectations low boy and you will never be disappointed that that did not go how I wanted to go um foreign look last time I didn't use the explodables in the environment to take out the enemies and I regretted it this time I did do that and I regretted it so I don't know I guess I just can't win look at least I didn't die did I almost very close die yes but did I die no and I think that is the lesson to take away from this okay so we have an entry Stone why do we have an entry stone is my question are we just supposed to open another door [Music] oh there's more that's good so long they caught you off guard exactly well they caught me off guard if I'm being honest and I'm you Kratos so I think maybe you should not be so harsh on atreus if I'm being honest anyways we'll put the stone into the hole and we'll just see what happens let me guess you're gonna open another door oh Color Me surprised that door yeah yeah that makes sense even though it's pointing that way but it's fine it's fine it's fine everything's fine this is all as expected fake through the door get ready yourself boy [Music] Oh I thought you were a Revenant you are clearly not a revenant oh don't go in the don't go in the poison though I'm just gonna miss okay I don't want to be in the poison okay don't power up while I'm trying to punch you with my Spartan rage all right I need this to stop yeah okay that was rude that was really rude honestly where's my blades okay don't throw that at me because I'll die here and Dodge again oh Wolves yeah yeah yeah that checks out there we go and then let's use that to our advantage again there we go no problem easy peasy lemon squeezy now I know poisoning this one and the stupid bird statue and useful resources the main reason we are here boy you may be thinking to yourself many of these chests have been emptied probably by the reavers I hope they didn't take somebody's what's though you may be thinking to yourself lemon squeezy lemon is not a French word and therefore you probably shouldn't be pronouncing It Lemon well I post to you what if it was mm-hmm what if it was it's all you gotta know [Laughter] look that battle went exactly as well as it needed to and I didn't die and that counts for something I don't I should have bought one I hope that doesn't come back to haunt me all right so we put another Stone in the hole and maybe we'll even find the what's atreus remember what I told you about expectations reasonable expectations I remember yeah yeah yeah still good feeling I don't know if we're allowed to feel good in this day and age of 2022. I don't know if that's like allowed honestly all right what a revenant seem to recall where are you ah [Music] a Revenant behind me there should be a Revenant in front of me only okay that was really a truly unintentional period oh let's definitely do one of these okay the wolf should be attacking this one what is happening why are you attacking the wrong one so quickly you watch out Petraeus yeah that worked out stop hitting me fantastic stop laughing you're dead so much for my good feeling we did talk about this atreus in this day and age in 2022 we are not allowed to have good feelings we have bad feelings and we have neutral feelings but feeling good is not having reasonable expectations is this getting too dark um good good good good good um uh we have found ourselves another round Stone here so I wonder what are we gonna do with this stone I have no idea it's a complete mystery total mystery okay seems like we got most of the things that are in here so on our way to the hole don't fight me we don't want this you don't want this I'm gonna rip your shoulder off I did warn you that this was not a fight you wanted to have and you didn't listen I saw so I should keep my expectations low but your anxiety is high yeah that's 20 22. first nothing I'm sure there's a lot to remember it's fine this year is fine every year since 2020 has been fine put this down in the whole Kratos moving on huh um to the X I guess what shall we find behind this door expectations low anxieties High bring it on we're ready a wolf an actual wolf see I don't love this because I feel like you're our friend I don't like killing the dogs I actually very much dislike this enemy why do I feel like you came back [Music] we still know what's done and only one room left I know I shouldn't hope but you should I think we'll find it there no Kratos is so straight no no okay so we took the takes we unfortunately had to kill the doggies and all these chests are empty and we're gonna smash the health Stones because why not and we're gonna take another Stone for the whole I don't know it doesn't get better the more that I say it it definitely gets worse so maybe we just gotta call it something else all right what next see anxieties High what's gonna attack us now um nothing okay it's fine we did it on to the final boss which according to this sign is named Nyx I don't know why they would choose that for themselves but someone somewhere was like this spinal room shall be named penix it's fine what is in here we will still have more Froggies and crows and some gorgeous lilacs actually those aren't lilacs but they are a gorgeous purple color regardless why am I getting like big bad boss vibes from this room why am I getting like Ocarina of Time vibes from this room uh what's in here let's find out Wrath of the frost ancient a powerful Ice Beam that slows all enemies on contact I like it I like that quite a lot we might just upgrade that from the get-go that kind of seems fun to use let's just go for that let's just go ahead and equip that I like it that's good stuff okay cool let's let's let's figure that out so back to piss on my corpse you want grateful little who are you two um this is not what I expected we're looking for a wet stuff have you seen it I there was one in this my son sharpened his dagger on it right before stabbing me in the back maybe you deserved it little bastard thought it was his turn to lead my crew I was hard on him sure guess I shouldn't be surprised I did the same thing to my dad when I was his age oh then you shouldn't be surprised Kratos is like huh what where is he now he may be a bastard but he's my bastard you'll get no help from me fool it literally killed you hey that's mine hey come on we are leaving Spirits don't get things that are mine okay well that was a rude thing to say ghost don't do that well that was so cool we are going to ride you into the other ogre yeah definitely mess that guy up big time yeah who died sorry that was too easy for me and then you are also gonna die that was too easy for me too what else do we have here the spittle use is that it anything else [Music] no [Music] well that was easy it's me pressing the Easy Button all right uh what do we get from it Max silver serpent scales sabrielheim steal what do we get here some health some hack silver a serpent scale some hot silver symbol of Providence whatever that is and what else soft spartalheim steal what is the symbol of Providence I wonder let us find out symbol of Providence defense luck seven I use luck I use luck a lot well where do we want to put this not there luck ten wait a minute oh this has a socket hey that works for me okay let's put our symbol of Providence in there yeah a little bit extra defense a little bit of extra luck great fantastic all right so we are gonna take that knife for reasons unknown as of yet and we're gonna work our way out of this room I still haven't found that my Talisman has done anything useful for me yet but you know who knows Okay so we've done everything that there is to do here so this says we can just make our way downtown like that kill his own father over some treasure seems so greedy well sure he didn't seem like a great father no thank you are you gonna attack me do I get to just escape with my life intact we are done here fantastic then I will do that I have the fear but I'm just going to walk away unattacked [Music] and everyone's fine with that wait are there resources to be had from fighting him though will he fight me we're gonna save the game and then we're gonna find out I have no idea what's about to happen but we just saved the game and I just want to see if there's like excellent resources to be had I don't know if this is going to spell out my Doom it very well might but I have to find out for myself open up oh my God ouch okay ouch again I'm gonna do a little punching hopefully I can heal up a little bit that is not an efficient way to heal up at all where's the thing to pick up I am oh I'm so gonna die oh my God I'm gonna die I don't have a thing I don't have a thing a tree has helped come on what is happening I totally hit him don't tell me there's two of them need another help I need another help I need a real bed oh why don't I use that on that guy what is that not do anything these are these guys running from the frost ancient hoping to find a little bit of Hell anywhere in the world please if I kill this little Yonder hopefully he'll drop a help he'll drop a hell he dropped a health okay don't lose all that that was like no Health at all ah Waffle House do something running and running I'm on fire okay running running because I still I literally have like one else oh gotta go pick up doing a little flyby pick up the thing running that's it oh I was so close well there's no reason right for me to start over from my save because I didn't use any resources I don't have a health stone so there's no reason for me not to just go back out and try again what if I just started out with something more powerful let's see if I just I found the the do anything yeah that I mean did actually a decent amount um my shield works on that thing has my shield always worked on that thing no way my shield has always worked on that thing why did that health stone not heal me why is that the second time that's happened I I don't know what to make of that foreign I feel like such an idiot I promise you my shield has not always worked on a frost ancient beam laughs why just why like why I have no words for how hard that was and then immediately how easy that was I have no words for that I'm like angry now oh my God foreign [Music] wow Cedar Sigil of toughness resistance to poison that's kind of helpful if you know what you're about to come up against ancient Rubble serpent scale ancient's heart I feel like that will be useful all right so it seems like resource wise it was a good idea to fight the frost ancient [Music] foreign wise it was probably a really good idea to to fight that Frost ancient yeah I feel better actually having punched that pile of logs how was that so easy the second time I'm like I'm so mad at myself oh my gosh I I don't even know what else to say I really don't like for real I don't know what to make of that you uh didn't happen to find that Whetstone per chance actually I didn't we we found a whetstone but the journey was the friends we made along the way took it they took most of the good stuff oh well here take this in exchange for the dagger the Talisman of betrayal activate activate while aiming to slow down quite interesting and artless design but the construction is sound where in the temple did you find this Inner River is back oh oh imagine he was part of a larger Clan maybe they took the Bloodstone quite possibly I know I've seen this design before I have a favor to ask just a small favor really sure do you remember the dagger you gave me I literally just gave it to you his own son killed him yeah I haven't forgotten that one well I traced it to a group of reavers that operate out of the northry stronghold I'd wager that's where they took their Hall from fafnir storeroom along with that wet stone that I could use to help you could you very well to business another treasure hunt pointless well not if syndra really can make us better equipment with that wet stone plus the reverse sun he murdered his father and that is our business because all right so currently we have a Talisman that has eight defense zero cooldown we could switch it out for something that has six defense eight cool down or more um well yeah I mean or more if we upgraded it even more but we can't put a enchantment into a blue Talisman so I think we're gonna stick with the gold one we still don't have the pure essence of realms but I think that's fine I mean we could sell these for some hack silver because we're never going to use them because they favor cool down so tidy after knapsack thank you I love a nice tidy knapsack enchantment wise I'm not really ready to sell any of these even though I'm sure I'm never going to use this Enchanted why not I don't know I don't want to spend too much time on it um we don't have any of those like artifacts which is fine we can only buy what we've already sold to him which we have no interest in doing we do want a resurrection Stone though we do ourselves that so I still see that this purple one is like legendary compared to the superior Resurrection Stone I just I really do tend to prefer just getting a full bar of Health rather than getting like a full bar of Rage but I understand the concept because rage does regen your health I get it we'll get the legendary Stone but it's just not my preference you see but it's fine foreign what can we craft I don't know what any of these resources are missed Echoes neifleheim alloy invaldi's rusted armor I don't know what any of those are and I don't know how to get them I have a feeling they're a link to various things around the realm that we just have not the time to explore because we need to finish this game up summon a maelstrom yeah I don't know where you get smoldering Enders at all at all so we're just gonna leave all of that there was there more to discuss um uh no I I don't believe there was however we do want to make sure that we are activating our Quest retrieve the Whetstone we should check it out and see what we find let's do it can we get there faster by doing this let's find out all of these side quests ah there's so many of them bones bones family business okay so where can we get to this spoon I don't know I honestly don't think any of this will be much faster so we're just gonna we're gonna go there the old-fashioned way so we're on our way to get the Whetstone from the reavers and it's gonna be great he's perfect Everything Is Awesome just like the song what is mamir gonna say on this journey I wonder nothing this would be a great time for him to launch into a lore story and he's gonna say oh there we go okay okay okay yes and you brought it down to save me it was very heroic did you expect anything less from Kratos he's made it pretty clear that you know in his actions that he does care about you he has made it very unclear with his words but with his actions he's been very clear why did you work for Odin if he's so horrible it's my career and if you mean to make your career as a council after Kenzie very well we like Petty Maniacs available possessions are scarce enough my first master was a cruel piece of work as well but I learned through him the enduring power of wit which served me well with Kings and gods alike I couldn't be much older than you when I started a fairy King's Aaron boy and an official jester a night my mates and I had to run to the forest Good Fellas they call this neighbor spiked for the last get up the whole manner of Mischief making fools of a little Mortals but as long as our Lord has kept amused to feel us fear the consequences and we'll pick this up later hmm a hidden area you oh well if if I've learned one thing it's that I have a shield so let's just find out if that's gonna work again why don't we go I like that actually quite a lot I like that quite a lot actually I like that quite a lot um let's see oh my gosh this Shield totally works no way that was so easy that oh oh my gosh makes me so mad fantastic what do we got wait that's it's the same thing no now we have two of them I don't need two of them what good is two sigils that I'll never use nothing oh my gosh boy read this scroll look here yes sir I can't believe how easy that was it's another treasure map another treasure map huh for one Eternal Frost I wished to make a contribution to fafnir's collection of relics I arrived to find the door locked and riva's blocking the way I came I quickly buried my treasure and hid as fast as I could if I managed to escape I'll return to this spot I'm gonna guess he did not escape and I'm also gonna Wonder who can guess what that accent was uh nobody because I made it up made no sense what did I get it's a fragment of a language oh that's we should look for more like this exactly what I wanted a language Cipher hello and goodbye haha all right well this wasn't actually honestly kind of a little fruitful little uh pit stop that we just made excuse you the question is yeah like this is where we're going do we really have to keep we have to what's the plan here do we go through here seems like maybe we do north three Gorge okay see my first job I know how to steer them Forest as long as we kept the fairy King amused you know what tell this one later oh please do mamir okay okay is this where we're supposed to be it seems like yes bones is exactly why I stopped there where where were the bones what I thought there were bones there look I know that I said I would not get distracted hey oh if I'm a God maybe I can fly no no God's too must stay on the path I promise you some Amir seem like maybe you know Brock and syndrome or the hooja brothers well who doesn't the quite famous or inFAMOUS depending on your point of view they crafted mjolna you see Thor's hammer the Acer's greatest metal weapon the bane of giant kind oh I should say not but this was long ago when they were eager to make a name for themselves rather overdid it with that one he thinks let me in okay that was on me that was on me I it's just that I have to know if the bones were like right here how do I track that no no no no no no no it's just because they were right there that makes me think well how did I miss them what right oh in this little alcove okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay okay it's not so much that I care so much about finding the books but they were right there I had to get them to Govi your mother what have you left unsaid I I guess I just want to know if she's okay I know that I you don't understand oh there's oh there's so much in that that little conversation of atreus seeing things from an extremely mortal perspective almost from a religious perspective of you know she's dead but her soul lives on whether in whatever afterlife or through us and I just want to know if she's okay you know I still feel connected to her even if she's not with us anymore and Kratos in hearing I just want to make sure she's okay is like well she's dead so obviously she's not okay she's dead that doesn't it doesn't get less okay than that but then in the same token Kratos has been to the underworld I'm confused I always heard that balder's mother was frig hi frigg well that's more of a pet name you see it means beloved something Odin called Freya after they wed active affection acrossed or so I like to believe as things turn sour it became a way to manipulate the truth what's up Odin didn't want Freya a banier goddess getting credit for anything in Asgard so anything whatever she accomplished was attributed to Frank that's right there was balder's Mother all along the trace is over it all right so we're back in fact air storeroom there was a slight detour to pick up some bones with a shockingly deep little side conversation that we never would have engaged in nothing there is nothing left to say what about everything we've done so far that man coming to the house talking to the world serpent we've done so many amazing things I just want to tell her about that don't you what else would you say to her I tell her that we're both okay not to worry about us Reyes I I miss her too oh I thought I knew very little how do I kill this bird from here okay it's so clear to me that the person who wrote that once you retrieve the Whetstone the person who wrote that has lost someone they love it's so clear to me because there's so much truth in losing someone and feeling like you just have so much left to say because when you have a connection with somebody the kind of connection that you share your life with them whether that's a a family member of some kind or a very close friend or what have you you want to tell them about the good things in your life and the bad things in your life and that's your way of connection your life is shared it's a shared thing your relationship holds those moments those memories and when the other person dies you lose a place where you used to hold something important to you and so you still have this habit of wanting to fill that relationship you have this connection that you want to bridge and you want to share more but they're not there anymore and you don't you you feel empty you keep it's like it's like a severed connection and that's something that you can it's really hard to put into words it's really hard to explain and it's really hard to conceptualize but once you've experienced it which so many of us have I mean grief losing someone you love that is a universal human experience once you've really experienced it like it doesn't even need to be explained you're like yes there are things I wish I could still say there are things I wish I could share with this person I would want them to have been there for this moment and they're not and that's sad so it's it's it's very intense very very intense please take utmost care while handling it it is a Priceless Relic after all wow we're almost halfway done killing the Ravens all in this one stream I mean honestly like we're we're doing it why is that a piece of my braided mistletoe Arrow adorning your quiver strap oh we're finally bringing that back up mental of your good pals cindery Braya told us to get rid of those because they were like toxic or something okay I've been waiting to see how that comes back into the game and you just brought it back up like it was no big deal so to work we go I actually don't think I need anything from you so or never mind then yeah sorry back to your business uh what am I doing here where am I going yeah I'm definitely crushing that for no reason except to smash um okay we need to reactivate our correct maybe we should finish the bones Quest if it's gonna have that sort of like emotional catharsis maybe we should finish the bones Quest either way I oh this was just a little pit stop oh back in the boat then carrying on I still can't believe the sun would kill his own father that's crazy right they're good atreyas it's good that you can't believe he would do that I got one side of the story but come on his own father I mean I get angry at you sometimes but do you oh sometimes yeah okay this is Pirates of the Caribbean right at Disneyland no this this little Cavern right here totally Pirates sorry I was very distracted by that but it's a good thing that atreus would never stab Kratos in the back atreus he's a moody angry teenage boy but he is good boy coming in how are we supposed to get through there must be a way to lift again at the gate there must be a way to lift the gate maybe with the big water world maybe not as well it should not be a puzzle maybe we should spell it right out for that for the player and we should not let them have even a second to guess sounds about right well you sir look like you you don't know this stream chat viewers stream or chat or viewers you don't know this but I was pressing square like aggressively while that attack came down on me and I was like hello you're supposed to be stunned that's why I didn't dodge that okay so I'm not a bad gamer um atreus was a little behind Okay so yeah it's definitely not me yeah not me okay you're gonna blow up when you die that's fun for me Another One Bites dust you are already dead okay atreus don't stand there they blow up okay I'm just gonna do one of these and then I'm gonna do one of these oh I forgot I have this oh wow that's just I'm sorry how is that attack so powerful like look at this this is only supposed to be four damage and five Frost that's that's not supposed to be that powerful the other ones that are oh well I guess the other ones don't have that many this is my most upgraded one this one does not do that much damage I guess it makes sense but honestly like it should not be that powerful in my opinion I mean like I'm not complaining I like that it's powerful I like that this game just got a lot easier for me trust me but um I should have had that a long time ago so this is a broken water wheel but broken in a way that allows me to get across so I'll take it what is all this huh witchcraft Smash It All yeah try to do your witchcraft now yeah anyways moving on good good good we're gonna pause you good good good and we're gonna take whatever is in here yes we will smash what do we got hack silver well that's not as impressive as I was hoping at all okay so back up here atreus cleared the area so we need to get this moving no problem easy peasy okay you do that foreign but on the right person a tray is over here bring your waffle house over here oh my God what are you focusing on the wrong person for eign really sucks to be one of those guys they just they just get obliterated real unfortunate you know if I was you know having to pick who I wanted to be in this game it would it would still be Kratos now for some reason I feel like this is going to impale me if I don't choose carefully when to jump why do I feel that way okay well that didn't get me access to you at all but access to you is what I want well that also didn't give me access to you question is how do I get access to you it's not through there and it's it's not through here but it might be through there hey come look at this yes is there something in particular you're telling me to look at or are you just daydreaming okay thank you atreus ah I see obviously this is just hack silver but you know now okay I don't know how to get to you but it seems like there are these little runes up here HX T I don't know so I don't know maybe I just haven't activated you yet somehow something somehow something something that's about as eloquent as I am gonna get with that and that's okay all right oh climbing good climb but why could take the boat or could climb okay let's try the climbing I don't know where it's gonna take me but you know sometimes you gotta do things even when you don't know what the outcome might be that's called adventuring aha what did I get axel it could be better could be worse no no no no no no no no no no okay I don't know how to get that chest and it's really bothering me but for now we'll just do this when are you angry what where's me when oh I guess sometimes when you don't think I can do something but I can it's not always easy it's okay I get it I'm little where's that Whetstone I wonder it's so nice that atreyus isn't being like Moody angry teenager because oh I was just a bad time okay I totally dodged that before we get back home I love taking control of the ogre and crushing all of the surrounding bees just absolutely destroyed just get out of here [Music] don't you do that whatever you were gonna do it oh they're gonna explode wow this chain lightning ability that I picked up for atreus is just fantastic okay I really dig that quite a bit all right what did I get here symbol of determination hmm what am I determined to do what else did I get [Music] symbol of concentration determination and concentration well I'm gonna have to see what those are about let's see symbol of determination okay we have runic defense runic and defense meh run again cool down also meh useless and that's going to be all for today's playthrough of God of War short simple sweet what more could you want more Goofs more silliness is that what you want okay I guess I have to oblige you definitely want to make sure you're stay tuned for the next episode then I hope you all enjoyed this playthrough please remember to like the video if you did enjoy this playthrough and please remember to share it with all your friends so they can enjoy it too and if that means sharing it to Twitter Instagram Facebook whatever that may be trust me it helps I promise you 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ZvZYw7GjVHg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvZYw7GjVHg | Data Detente: Challenges & Opportunities in Transatlantic Data Flows - The Hub | e now to tr oh you hello it's time yeah hi everybody it looks like it's about time for the panel to get started so if you could please take your seats thank you all very much for joining us on our panel where we hope to find some kind of data day tant and explore some of the challenges but also the opportunities that present themselves in transatlantic data sharing now as some of you may know there's been a lot of changes um legally coming out of Europe in the past year uh that are potentially going to pres uh to present some disruptions and certainly change some things about the 260 billion dollars in Digital Services trade that currently cross the Atlantic uh so my name is Molly Schwarz I'm an associate policy fellow at the R Street Institute and I'm also one of a team of researchers working on a project called my data out of the Helsinki Institute for information technology and there we're actually working on an initiative to restructure how people manage their personal Data Systems looking at user managed access protocols and some new consent receipt technology so I have a very vested interest in looking at not only just ringing our hands about the inherent tensions between us and EU privacy laws but potentially seeing how we can come to some kind of consensus and uh make data sharing work in a way that more directly responds to the wishes of us the data subjects um and we're lucky to have a panel today with individuals and representatives of organizations who have been working on these legal changes and operating within this framework um so we're really looking forward to hearing from them today as well uh so I'm going to open with a question to Joe mnam the executive director of edrey and so what I would like to ask you is the data General data protection regulations were agreed upon last December and this is a strengthening on the general data protection directive so what are changes that we've seen from the directive to the regulation and what can we expect to see in this next two-year imp impementation phase um so uh on on a very broad level the first very geeky point is an important one and that is that the the legal form of the uh instrument has changed though in 1995 uh we had a uh the directive was launched and the directive is is basically a guideline for the member states for what they should do and each member State then goes away and does it so uh when the European commission came to look at uh updating the framework they looked at uh what was happening in the EU they saw 28 different countries with 28 different laws that were more or less based on guidelines that they'd received um quite a long time ago and um we were actually completely in line with industry at that stage saying this is too chaotic we need to have one uh rule one set of rules for Europe and in Europe one set of rules is called a regulation and not a directive so the first big change was going from a set of guidelines from a directive to um a law that was going to be equally applicable now because it's a specific law and not a um a set of guidelines it needed to be an awful lot more specific um and therefore the the new regulation is an awful lot bigger an awful lot longer there are a lot more words uh which scares a lot of people uh because it sounds like more legislation but it's actually um it's actually just doing the work on a European level that was previously done at the national level so not an awful lot uh changes or a lot less changes than than the a huge Lobby from industry seemed to think uh was changing uh there are clarifications and issues like consent on issues like enforcement um the level of of fines which scares the living hell out of Industry um has been set at up to quite a high level um but to actually hit that level would be very very very difficult um there are a small number of new elements uh one of which is uh data breach notification which is something that is um not news on this side of the Atlantic um and then we have additional Elements which um are more of guidance than of of obligation so the the notion of privacy by design that when you're developing a uh a service that the Privacy the protection of the data that you're collecting uh is built into the the design of the product rather than designing a product and then going okay how do we respect the data that we've collected needlessly uh in this process and similarly uh data protection by default the notion that when you launch a service or when the person signs up to the service you start from a uh level of protection that's um the highest available in that technology and then the individual can work back from that if they so wish um so that's that's um 200 pages of regulation in uh the shortest amount of time that that I think I can I can manage um I can give you a onewe seminar sometime if anyone's interested thanks um so now I think we're going to move on to talking a little bit more about uh Safe Harbor and the Privacy shield and we have sitting here ma shms who is a Austrian legal student who quite famously brought Facebook to the European court of justice in October uh which then ruled that us privacy and data protection laws are not adequate they are not essentially equivalent to European data protection laws and they declared Safe Harbor to be invalid now there are over 40 4700 companies relying on this Safe Harbor protection and within the 15 years that it was implemented only four complaints uh were launched to the Federal Trade Commission in the US so max what do you see as being not working under Safe Harbor why did you feel it necessary to bring it to court um there are so many reasons basically Safe Harbor was a system where as a US company you could self-certify so-called safe harbor principles that were miles away from European data Protection Law basically there are two things that are regulated one is um sharing the data with a third party and change of purpose um anything else you could do more or less unregulated there was like duties to enforce per duties to give you access but everything else was basically unregulated even these two things you could easily circumvent by two senten the privacy policy so there was effectively no protection in the in the private sector which was um from a business perspective also interesting because it was a issue of unfair Market um situation um because us companies could be on a European market without any regulation compared to any Chinese indan you know Indian Russian company that is on a European market that has to follow all these laws um um and could thereby get away with it so that was the interesting thing on the commercial side on the government side it was interesting because Safe Harbor said there is an exception for National Security and whenever there is any conflicting US law um this would override a self-certification which is obvious because you can hardly self-certify your way out of the NSA rules um or laws um and that was the key reason we brought it down this time around because um there's um a new kind of a bunch of new case law coming out of the European Union on mass surveillance um we had the data retention case in Europe that said that just retaining the data for like the metadata of your phone calls for 6 months to two years was a violation of your fundamental rights and we basically just walked up and say you know what the NSA is doing is 10 times as bad so this must be 10 times as much invalid which the court saw the same way was a very simple argument um a big problem we have in Europe is that the European Union laws do not apply to member states do we have member states doing more the same thing um it's not all the member states but it's certain member states um which is in is as well so that's the reason I often times pushed that this judgment was also a judgment generally on mass surveillance not just on the on the US um it will be relevant in Europe as well they're just legal challenges so basically the problem we have in Europe is it's like in the US until the 20s um back then the Bill of Rights did only appli to the federal government not to the states and that's kind of the situation we have right now in the European Union on National Security issues um the European commission now has come up with what they call privacy Shield which is basically the same text as Safe Harbor a little bit updated so it's a little nicer but um the fundamental flaws are just the same um the principles the they're now called um privacy Shield principles instead of State haror principles but they're basically the same um and they have the same you know shortcomings um and the the whole question of mass surveillance is also not rated out it so um there is obviously no real change in US law um they've basically just taken the same thing and passed it again so I um see generally that the industry is right now advised by by by lawyers to to use alternative methods there are standard contract Clauses there are other things you can use to transfer data from the European Union to the US um I don't think that privacy Shield is going to be a solution at stable and that's the big problem that the industry has pushed a lot to come up with some solution but it's not a stable solution it's going to withhold a court test and I think everybody is expecting privacy Shield to go right back to Luxemburg and be St down again in the the way it is right now which is very unfortunate because we could have really come up with a solution of this issue um but the pressure was so strong to just get something done that we didn't really get anything done in the end and if I can add one more thing to that I think uh it's important to lots of talks about trust in these negotiations and as a data subject but I would like to term individual instead of that um I don't have much trust European Union after the turkey deal ever in a human rights case I mean I know it's not directly linked to the Privacy Shield but I think uh it's an important Point what Max made that it's not only about the US that we have to talk about thanks fenny and this is fenny Hivey the international privacy fellow at Epic um and I would actually like to direct my next question to you so as mentioned there's been this uh privacy Shield text that has been passed and instead of providing a blanket agreement like Safe Harbor did where data could just be transferred to the US um companies I think have to certify as uh agreeing to the Privacy Shield um but some people have seen certain issues uh so can you tell me a little bit about the role that data protection authorities will play because I know um Max has referred to the Privacy Shield as putting lipstick on a pig and I know one of the primary concerns were about uh the lack of changes in terms of in case of National Security and uh book data collection but there were also some issues I think with the roles that the data protection authorities play so fny if you could talk a little bit about that yes there are many issues related to that question um both on both sides of the Atlantic I think and uh epic has been advocating for an independent privacy agency to be established in the US and that didn't happen um but if you talk about the data protection authorities their first role is going to be about the adoption let's not forget that this uh privacy Shield has not been adopted yet and there are still many points of intervention for civil society and other other um actors and the article 29 working party will deliver its opinion in mid April which consists of the dpas uh so I think that's the first role we have to emphasize and um as far as I believe uh some criticism is expected to come out and under the framework um it's not completely clear we know that there will be a power to suspend data flows and uh what discussions we had with commissioner yurova the European Union is uh quiet willing to suspend data flows after the adoption which is a little bit hard to believe um because it this privacy Shield should not be adopted in the first place and we shouldn't talk about how to suspend it um but the US NG was believed the EU should have done and still could do is to request uh the US to end the 702 surveillance as a starting point and um yeah we can go into more details later like sure um I do have one question President Obama signed the judicial redress act into law uh which grants you citizens the right to enforce data protection rights in the US um how do we feel about this oh we feel that it actually does not Grant European citizens to have meaningful judicial redress it's just that's also a lipstick on the pig um the judicial redress act from the beginning was a very very narrow possibility in the uh even for US citizens the US Privacy Act doesn't provide much and it provides even less for Europeans and in the very last doctrine that we have so if you for example have a Swiss person who data is going to Europe and then to the US just need the Swiss person to go up to court and the whole thing is Fallen apart again because he's not covered and so these are all these flaws in these negotiations where they just try to get something done and you just need to go have a Swiss person go up and it all falls apart again so that's really you wonder if they are not thinking that or if they're not even you know going that far if they just think it's not going to come up and we got a solution for a couple of years and uh and I just realized I've been remiss in my role as a moderator I was supposed to inform you that you can type questions in at slido.com asron and we are in the hub and I will be sure to address these questions if you type them there and they get upvoted and also at the end we'll have a Q&A session when hopefully we'll also be able to take some questions from the audience uh now I'd like to move on to Ken Carter who's here from cloud flare and ask a little bit about how how given the changes in the data protection regulations uh the invalidation of the Safe Harbor agreement and now this 10 privacy Shield how are us companies that are potentially handling European citizen data dealing with what's going on what um Avenues are you taking at Cloud thank you um this has actually thrown a whole uh monkey wrench into our business uh Dave I see is one of my associate attorneys is sitting here in the front row Dave now spends a significant of uh portion of his time discussing with our uh customers or business customers retail customers and our Enterprise customers what should we do and the answer is we don't know and it comes out that the customer doesn't know either so we are now groping in the dark trying to figure out how we can have a mechanism uh for the lawful transfer of personally identifiable information for our EU customers and quite frankly we don't have all that much we have a email address phone number things of that nature which we need to run the service to build the customer to to create a customer account other than that we actually don't have uh much personally identifiable information so this creates a disproportionate uh problem for us uh I wish I had a solution I wish I had a really clever to take their most intimate details and post them online uh this was D this point was driven home to me yesterday when I was talking to you congressman who refer to those people's porn stars right and at the other end of the Continuum you have someone like Howard Hughes who is a recluse doesn't talk to people doesn't answer the phone and we need to build a system that handles everything in the middle so I'd like to turn this around to some of the other panelists and ask Ranny and ask Max uh we're going to be back here in two years you've already made an objection to to to privacy Shield I quite frankly I don't I I'm not I don't think we're there yet to make a determination whether we like it or not you have already expressed an opinion let's shortcircuit that how can we how can we figure out what is the appropriate privacy mechanism create lawful transfers of data outside the EU to the US um that gives us and our customer certainty um yeah it's it's an interesting question I think we got to separate two levels the one part is kind of what companies can do with the data that's a rather easy solution um we have the standard contractual Clauses in these case that are very complicated that the administrative burden of it is Big however we could take these principles and put them into a new framework that is multilateral where you don't have to have contract with each individual company typical example what I proposed to EUR like the Justice commissioner was to say we have standard contractual terms that you can just copy paste in your own terms and thereby be adequate um we could do the same thing with with with um with principles like Safe Harbor principles and just update them to the same level as the European Union that would of course mean that us businesses would have to you know limit your data usage it really depends on which kind of business you are if you're just hosting data typically don't care about it too much if you're Facebook you care very much about what you can do with the data or not um so in the private sector I think it's not a big problem to find a solution however even that was not possible the US was so reluctant to move that um they didn't even get any changes in the private sector where there is no conflict in US law so that was something that was huge frustrating that they didn't even get that done um in the government sector it's much harder and that's also the problem with the stand of contractual Clauses because um whenever you have conflicting national law that allows Mass surveillance um you are just in a situation where Europe has these fundamental rights we're not going to be able to change them it's just like changing the Bill of Rights in the US is not going to be something that's possible overnight um and the US is just not moving on any of the national surveillance issues and that's a deadlock that I can solve that no one of us can solve basically I think that's where where the big issue is coming out and I don't have a solution on it either I could only escalate it but I'm I'm afraid we're we're conflating two things here in this in the p in our privacy discussion I I think we're starting to unpack that you have bulk surveillance bulk collection at the government level I don't know any us company who's not a provider to the NSA who supports that right then you have commercial collection commercial use we've all seen creepy ads that track us around the internet that's not so cool um but into that wart we throw just about everything else and we can at least start by separating out commercial use from National Collection that's what I'm trying to do one of my the first things that I did when I came to Cloud flare is I made governmental requests in Express part of the our privacy policy it had previously been implicit but I unpacked it with a with a sentence or two that said we we will treat governmental requests as a privacy violation as if they're not subject to due process of law I I don't know what else I can do to strengthen that that's the deadlock like if you're subject to US law you basically got to follow that and that conflicts with European Union law and that's that's something that can only be solved on a political level I'm as a you know basically as a law student bringing up a case like that you can only escalate it to a level where you have to solve it um the obviously didn't um and this is going to ping pong back um it's it's just a fundamental Clash of European human rights and fundamental rights doctrines where there's a body of case law that they're not going to change overnight because the US is on you know trying to do Mass surveillance um and and the US is basically saying we're not moving on it and that's the deadlock that's just the part where I don't see a solution I'm absolutely with you in the private sector we got to separate that totally in the private sector there are solutions that are possible um however it was interesting that even that didn't work so I'm rather frustrated from the outcome but when you say that it's quite obvious that none of these companies are in favor of the mass surveillance practices I would really love to see as much Lobby for ending 702 surveillance as much loby we've seen in the US for many cases but the Privacy Shield as well so as I said we are talking about the end of 702 surveillance and the sunset Clause is coming up so I would love to ask for every company to join NOS in this battle and um let's let's do this happy to it's it's it's a headwind to our business and it was interesting because that was the idea of the whole case the um the problem we had in Europe is that we had the Snowden um the Snowden situation and we knew that our politicians are going to send angry letters to us and that's basically going to be put in a big you know trash can and that's it um but escalating the prom through the businesses basically that are interested in being on the European market you actually had some leverage and some interest on the US side to get that problem um dealt with and um that is the point where we got it the solution is just not coming up that was originally the plan because that's the only path you possibly have as a European to ever get anything done take control back of your panel oh I mean you guys can keep going um but actually K I do have another question for you obviously an issue that we're seeing here is um tension between two different sets of laws laws are applied locally Digital Services easily cross National borders um are you seeing any push in customer demand for data localization so if for example there's a US company that uh us laws would apply to it if it stores its data of a European citizen in the US that people then want that data stored in Europe and what will that do to your business model yeah that's a great question let me rewind the tape a little bit and explain what cloud flare is for people who might not know us Cloud flare has built a network called a reverse proxy and that's just a a fancy way of saying a bunch of computers that sit in front of another computer and do stuff for that computer uh and the kinds of stuff that we do for the computer the the origin computer is we uh handle all the inbound requests to that we look at the requests we determine whether that's uh just Fred surfing the internet and we improve the page load performance of the website or we determine that that's just an Estonian bot and to block it uh and we do this we have about 76 down centers in 39 countries uh so we're doing this all over the world and one of the benefits is that now that we're all over the world we are physically closer to our customers customers so uh the page loads better we can mitigate attacks locally not globally uh and um so the benefit is our not localizing data in fact data localization is the opposite of what most of our customers are paying us to do now we have increasing been asked by our customers not by governments but by our customers to create localized products and that's actually there's actually engineering work that's going on at the company to allow customers to have the flexibility to toggle things on I only want to return requests from your data centers in fill in- the blank uh in the EU in Asia and that will make performance worse for the customer but if it was what the customer wants and the customer understands that this is not as good as the global solution I'm happy to provide that at customer request so this this gets to be more of a commercial problem I think that the the the policy discussion of um uh of data localization encourages our customers say oh we we have to be dat data localized uh when an engineering standpoint they probably don't want to be thanks um we actually have a couple of questions here for Max which I will go ahead and pose uh the first is what specific aspects of the Privacy Shield would you amend or add or emit to make it more stable um basically in the commercial sector it would be the easiest thing um you could more or less copy paste what we have in the standard contractual Clauses put that as principles and you would at least in general um get a big solution for for um for the commercial sector that's like very kind of rough idea but basic like roughly painted but um that's basically the path you could take um the other thing is we have a problem with um with oversight in the US um you can go to a external arbitration service which typically doesn't really lead you anywhere you can then um go to your National DPA in Europe they can refer the question to the FDC but the FDC already said they're not going to investigate all of these complaints that's also on the initial you know four complaints that they got they got many more um they just all go to big database and the FDC is just not investigating them um so that's that's the oversight issue could possibly get a solution as we have it for human um um human resource data where us companies can self-certify to deal with one of the European data protection authorities um to be kind of the re the the mechanism where you can bring your case um the big issue is again the the the government surveillance and that would need really legislative change in the US or at least executive orders that would you know limit it to to a level that would be acceptable um on the EU law and that's the point we're not really seeing I got to say however that um to kind of also take take take a step back you have two types of third countries on the European Union law you have countries that have more or less exactly the same level of data protection as we do which is only a handful of countries that's about 10 countries in the world and if you take away the micro States in Europe we basically have five countries worldwide that um fall under this this this realm and um so it's not a a thing that all these other trade Partners we have would be in this first bucket the US wants to be in this first bucket and there is a huge interest from Europe as well because it's a main trading partner um but all the other countries in the world are um going after a second system which is article 26 where you have contractual regulations where you have exceptions in the law where data can trans be transferred but it's not a free flow of data to these countries so the big question is is the US on a level that's close enough to Europe to have a totally free flow of data or is it in the second bucket which is all the other countries in the world where there are certain sets of rules you have to comply with or not um the big problem in the second um set is really again that um even understand the contractual Clauses if there's conflict in National laws you're not allowed to use them it's really this big issue is conflicting National laws and that's that's an issue we have yeah thank you um so now I'm going to pose one of my own questions and I will get to some of the other ones that are up here on the screen uh so I think a big goal with both the data protection regulation and uh with the Privacy Shield is that it would be easier for individuals to redress their concerns that their data is not being adequately protected and I'm going to open this up to anybody on the panel in your viewpoint does it seem like with the um new legislation in place or that will potentially be in place uh that there actually is easier individual redress and let's say I am an individual who takes issue with um how some company or government has been handling my data what do I do now company or government um that that makes it into three questions um in principle yes one of the problems that that we've been trying to solve over the past four and a half years of of discussion of the new framework has been um making the rights real um because we have some countries that have quite weak uh data protection authorities um my home country Ireland being being uh uh one of them and coincidentally also the home of Google Facebook uh Microsoft LinkedIn and Twitter but I'm sure that's just a coincidence um and the UK and one or two others um and they also have um more or less strict implementations of the 1995 directive so you have quite a um a difficult unpredictable um path in front of you as an individual in Europe at the moment because it depends on how good your data protection authority is it depends on how um what enforcement measures they can use depends on the implementation of the the directive um the intention of the new legislation is to strengthen all of the data protection authorities across the board give them all meaningful enforcement uh Powers um give them all um uh sanctions that will actually make the company sit up and uh take notice uh that's the plan uh the vote is expected um either this month or next month there will then be a twoyear implementation period unfortunately um industry um has become a little bit phrenic over the past four or five years um at the beginning of the process the commission organized a highlevel uh round table and asked industry and Civil Society what do you want and Industry said we want a harmonized predictable system across the EU please give us that we'll even put up with one of the big companies said we'll even put up with stricter rules as long as they're consistent rules the European Commission said thank you we know what we have to do they launched the regulation and then the mother of all lobbying campaign started uh and every possible interest group said we want an exception for this we want an exception for that and now there are more exceptions National exceptions built into the regulation as a result of Industry um uh lobbying than there were articles in the existing directive um so how these um flexibilities are going to be used will are implemented in the next two years will um be a determining factor in how much um this will have the the the um outcome of giving people a clear predictable set of um rights that they can then get enforced there's a whole other answer for the government part but leave that for the next question we'll touch back on surveillance at some point um so now I'm actually going to go up to one of these questions which uh is similar to one of mine which is despite some exceptions will the general data protection regulations stifle competition and consumer choice in the EU by smaller likely more Innovative companies given its heavy burdens and this was actually something um that I wanted to ask about which is that there have been people arguing on each side if there's insufficient uh privacy or data protection what are the benefits of going with government regulations to ensure this versus is having private companies innovate and offer privacy as a competitive advantage and so um that's a question that I would actually like to toss to Ken to start out with that um how do you see it working offering privacy as a competitive Advantage as opposed to having it uh insured by legislation yeah um we have always viewed our privacy policy being very restrictive uh it Fetters some of the things that we want to do in business but we understand that because we're in a trust based business and this gives us an edge over our competitors we've always seen our privacy policy as a competitive advantage to the regulatory question um you ask I got to say I'm not an expert in privacy the one area in law that I would say that I'm an expert on is the Us Part 15 rules and if you don't want to know what the part 15 rules are they are the Federal Communications commissions rules that enable unlicensed device operations so your Wi-Fi your Bluetooth are all permitted by these rules and the rules are brilliant and the reason why they're brilliant is they specify certain standards at the bottom and at the top how much energy can you emit Into The Ether before you create an unacceptable probability of radio interference to other devices and they're really engineering driven and they're they're they're unfortunately very complex of but the beauty is that they don't tell you what to do they don't tell you how to do they just create minimum maximum thresholds and I think any effective privacy regulation would ensure a minimum floor uh but not necessarily a cap so that innovators can get in without having to um uh run the gauntlet of onerous privacy restrictions you're not dictating what the what privacy practices should be across various different companies and Industries where the the the data practices and the data held may be extremely different uh and you're allowing people to innovate uh I'm treating your data better than the other guy come buy my product um so to the extent that you could specify those as sort of minimum requirements and and maximum requirements and let people do appropriate things in between uh you've got yourself a set apart 15 rules I think would be great Ry yeah uh I'd like to add something to uh privacy as a unique selling point and um David Martin our colleague at the liba hearing uh provided some insight about what users want on both sides of the Atlantic and uh both groups want higher standards for privacy and it's not only about Innovation but we are familiar with companies like banov for example in Sweden um and it's not only about the commercial side but to push back on government government requests and uh we haven't talked about what the users can do because uh obviously I believe that companies and governments should be accountable and should respect privacy as a human right but uh users are in position to protect their privacy and I'd like to recommend privacy enhancing Technologies and uh please check out my tech demo about uh the right to hide it's a new website about uh privacy enhancing Technologies by the Hungarian civil liberties Union and maybe this is a good point to mention that individuals will be in a really hard position in their own countries when they come up with new legislation to ban encryption and all these fun ideas um and centralizing surveillance the Hungarian government just earlier this week came up with the idea to tear down the wall between law enforcement and National Security data collection and data use so when you talk about UK and France please mention Hungary too okay Joe do you have any thoughts about whether gdpr will stifle competition in consumer Choice um I was thinking particularly of the the small business uh angle I don't I think the simple answer is is no um there are cases when you can give companies a lot of flexibility and that they will they will have a um a selfish interest in in heading towards the protective side of of their options so for example um on on spam um they need to protect their own systems they need to ensure that their customers are happy and not overwhelmed by spam so uh they can be trusted more on that issue um if if you're a small business um and you're going to somebody with and asking them to trust you if you ask them to trust you hello you've never heard of me but please trust me with with uh with your data um you're going to be at in in in a weekly regulated market you're going to be at a disadvantage compared with with a name that you've heard of so um getting into that is more difficult if you've got if you've got a a standard where there is clear strong data protection and you say hello I'm I'm a business you've never heard of please trust me um and the your potential customers know that there's a framework that means that you're not just trusting them you're you're trusting a uh a predictable and enforceable Network then um you're more likely to trust the the small business so far from being um a disadvantage for small businesses particularly because the regulation also has various carve outs in places where there is a risk uh to small businesses the companies are actually better off uh in in a a structured environment like that can just quickly add something to that um I think the biggest problem and the biggest lie we have in the whole privacy debate is this notice and consent user Choice thing it's not working because it's way too complex for an average consumer it does work in the B2B business possibly because you have people that understand what you're doing but the average consumer is not going to have any idea about what's going on on these devices and I think it's it's absurd how we try to argue that an average consumer should get informed make an informed choice they come home after 10 days 10 hours of work and just want to download an app to buy something they're not going to read any of these stuff and this idea Fe of self-regulation of um this is going to work by the industry is just not working in an in an environment that is first of all hugely complex secondly you typically have monopolies where you don't really have a choice I mean I can choose to have my data going going through Apple or Google I mean what kind of choice is that um so I don't think that this is going to be solution so the the the approach to regulate stuff to at least have a have a common set of rules on the market with then people can compete does make at least in Europe context much more sense um and and I think the interesting thing is going to be the penalties also it's it's up to 4% which is totally different in today like in in my home country in Austria it's 25,000 that's the maximum penalty right now so lawyer is telling me my fee is more expensive than just paying the fine and and that's going to change and I I hope that this is um fundamentally changing how how also companies from other countries are operating because the regulation is based on a market principle so the idea is not it applies to companies that are headquartered in Europe or situated in Europe but anyone that operates on the European market um falls under regulation enforcement is another question then um but typically if you have you know stuff in Europe there is the possibility to do enforcement then as well so I don't I I I think that's going to be kind of an interesting thing yeah thanks um so now I'm going to turn to this question on surveillance uh this is a question posed to Max anybody feel free to jump in uh the US response is that they should not look up to the EU because the EU doesn't the same if not more mass surveillance what's your response to that um it's absolutely right um as I said previously we have a jurisdictional issue that's something that's heavily ignored in the US um the European Union has a jurisdiction over commercial data usage in this case transferred to third countries uh does not have jurisdiction over National Security um which is resting with the member states um if you have countries like the UK that doesn't have a written Constitution you have a massive problem there um but even in Germany they for example say that if you're a third country resident like I'm in Austria um you're not protected under German law so there is a huge issue here um there are cases coming up in these countries they're going to Strasburg there's another Court in Europe that's responsible for these things um the court has decided in two cases right now against Russia and Hungary in exactly the same direction so I think we see movement there as well but it's in the end a jurisdictional PR that's the reason I tried to push in the pr and the media of the case to say this is a mass surveillance case it's not an anti-us case or a US Mass surveillance case which of course never works because it's a EU us issue and and then this whole thing comes out and and dominates the the scene um but that's absolutely right we have a lot of issues there as well the problem with the argument is also that you can hardly say that I'm as a Austrian citizen where we don't have mass surveillance like this um have to put up with what the US is doing because the UK does something strange so it's um it's kind of this argument of you know someone else walks across the red light as well so why should I pay the fine um and this is just not how law works I mean it's a political argument it's interesting it's important but it's legally irrelevant I agree with Mar but also I think this is a quiet comfortable position for the European Union to take so the jurisdictional problem actually exists but member states are really happy to invoke National Security as a caveat so I think there is a room to do deeper deeper um research and uh investigations in investigations in that because as government use National Security as a exemption from anything this the same in the EU member State relations right uh so now there's another question again uh returning back to the idea of what are the new regulations going to provide a barrier to entry for smaller or newer companies that are looking to open but find um the potential costs too large to get started so the question is uh what if the costs of complying with the framework are so high as to prevent a small company from ever existing in the first place so I feel like what's interesting is we keep coming back on this question that we should have some kind of floor some kind of Baseline that's somewhat harmonized that companies um can rely on that provide a certain amount of privacy but how to make that floor not so high as to make it too difficult for new businesses to start that don't potentially have money for a large legal team and things like that the biggest problem is have clear laws like my I'm coming from a small company background as well um from my family what you want to have is a clear law that you can follow that you can read that you understand and that was the biggest problem we had with lobbying in the whole data protection reform is that we now have concept like um risk-based approach we have a paragraph saying according to the risk of your company you have to do the following things or not have to do it um if you Cho you know if you didn't Choose Wisely you got to pay 4% of your worldwide Revenue um that's not a lot you want to have and that was really something where the industry Lobby was doing stuff that was absolutely anti- business in a hope of watering it down but pretty much just creating legal uncertainty um on the other hand what you got to say is there is Privacy Law And it covers almost everything you can do with data like data protection reform but what an average business does with data falls right through the law it's all legal you're covered by the law but it's not restricting what you're doing you may have to give access to to the data that you're holding um but the burden is actually rather limited and what's interesting as well that the lobbying was mainly on what you can do with data because it was coming from The Big Industry it was not about for example documentation duties information duties which is an issue for small companies and that was something that was very interesting to me is that the lobing was often times said it's for smmes and we're trying to protect them but the interest that were pushed was pretty much what the big companies are are going got to do they don't care for documentation they have someone that does it um they care on what they can do with the data um and that was something that where the industry has just not done a good job on lobbying I think in the end and that's that's a problem with the gdpr um yes so building off of that something else that's come up uh in the gdpr as it stands is this concept of data portability and this is something else that kind of goes back and forth where some people say the stiffer data portability regulations you have will make it more difficult for companies to comply and others say that the more that data is allowed to flow from one service to another this will make it easier for new businesses that are data Reliant to start up um I'm going to open this again to the panel what are your thoughts on data portability and having it uh subject to regulations I just want to get a little bit of clarity is what do we need mean by data portability does that mean uh I'm on Facebook I don't like it anymore I can click export and go to path or to to frster and have all my pictures come or does that mean that when companies exchange their customers data there's a standard format and this is an ongoing so maybe we get a little clarity about what we mean the the the first um this was a problem I worked at worked on at Google and that there's just um the S there there are two problems here one you actually kind of want to have that but the wrong people want to have that and the people who want to have that are the people who are at scale right so that it's very easy to switch to my network and you don't want to come and I've got other things other than the portability that lock you in and that's just size so um and the other thing is these companies you know friender and and Facebook they're all largely the same sort of product but when you get into other other products um that aren't the same then how do you legislate that sort of portability you get into sort of lock in and scale problems that you actually don't want to regulate you want to constrain the behavior of larger players such that they don't create deao standards and now everybody's got a right to their standard and you lock out uh other players and you've seen we saw this uh two decades ago in sort of the browser Wars and the you know there used to be a a word processing program called Word Perfect that sort of got locked out because Microsoft became the standard and Word Perfect was not you were not capable of transporting your documents back and forth between word perfect and Microsoft Word and it sort of becomes the tool of Monopoly behavior and so we have to be really really careful here any other thoughts on data portability I'm trying to the regul regulation is so long I can't actually remember what what was decided so I'm I'm cheating here um but it it was watered down a lot um in in the process um so it's it's not nearly as as honorous as it was originally proposed but I can't remember don't tell anyone no problem there are a lot of limitations on basically if there's a common format if there's an open format that's um often times left to to further regulation and so that's going to be interesting how it's implemented in practice and obviously there is no common format for exchanging Facebook data um and that's going to be interesting how that is going to be implemented and and um I I see data portability was meant to be a kind of Market opener in a way because you just have these big platforms that lock in the data um it's going to be interesting how it's implemented I typically call it more a right to access in a in a proper format instead of getting pieces of paper and PDF files or something like that um so it's at least an improvement there and possibly it can help in certain situations but it's going to be a big issue how to implement it just it like you said yeah and as mentioned data portability has many facets some of it is if for example you wanted to um get your own personal data back from a company that was holding it do you get it in the form of stacks of PDF papers or do you get it in some kind of machine readable format um or it also gets into questions of intellectual property and copyright if you buy an ebook from one service will you then be able to own that and read it on a different kind of device um cper Bowen um asked for his data from U from Microsoft and he received it in boxes of paper um but um if I can give a good example um I was very impressed several years ago by by uh Yahoo um they changed their service to be much more um uh privacy um um intrusive at their email service and uh they said they it was it was remarkably clear and simple they sent an email to their subscribers they said this is what we're doing we imagine that some people won't like this so we've uh done a deal with a competitor that doesn't do what we're planning to do and uh you can stay with us if you want and if you don't want we will lift everything that's yours and put it on our competitor uh service and you can continue using all of your your your data on this new on this other service if you so wish um I then heard subsequently heard lobbyists in Brussels talking about data portability explaining why such things were completely impossible and could never happen and it was too complicated um but um yaho showed that it could be done they showed remarkable um flexibility for their customers and uh it's it's remarkable what Innovation can do when a company cares enough and um to be fair there are a lot of companies that have uh responded to requests for data portability so I know Google Now offers Google takeout and different Services um I would like to get to another question from the crowd and this is directed to Ken uh shouldn't the private sector push for an international standard for protecting customer data so that it reduces compliance costs uh now it's between the US and the EU but what about other countries and I think this gets further to things that we've brought up previously which is that we need some kind of uh common standards that people don't need to be operating on a country by country basis yeah I think we've largely answered this question that we want some sort of Standards but not hard and fast rules uh and we want to uh harmonize on those globally um let me put a little bit more information that we haven't discussed into the answer and that's like if you think see things in addition to privacy rules like mlap and dmca takedowns that they're starting to standardize on some of the the best and they become first through treaty then through practice uh a set of rules that everybody follows and it will follow the internet in terms of you know the internet is basically rough consensus and running code and I think if we can get to that point uh we will be in a very good space why do we want that well the internet allows everyone to operate at scale very efficiently even little players can achieve scale very quickly right so if you've got a country or a set of countries or region that doesn't participate in these be best practices that doesn't achieve this consensus and running code they will cut themselves off from the rest of the internet now that's bad for all participants but it's particularly bad for the people in those countries because they are not getting the benefit of a search engine or uh a uh social network or any other service email service that they might want to use at global scale so the answer is yes we want to get to I think rough consensus in running code um yeah and um when we talk about human rights and the the question of other countries came up we must mention trade agreements and the ongoing negotiations and how they uh doriate human rights and obviously Edward Snowden did a great fa for us but we still haven't found the chlorinated chicken of privacy that actually brings people to the streets and um I think this is one of our tasks as a as civil society to find that and we can see in ttip and TPP is cyber security caveats for example that allow allows countries to introduce bills about undermining encryption and this is a process that we must stop and and um the Privacy Shield is also part of this discussion and uh actually the funny part is for me I saw this question about the Sun and I think it's very interesting because I've heard Yan alre talking about the sunset clause for privacy shield and uh the Privacy Shield won't won't meet any of the criteria of EU law not only about the Judgment but I think it's it not not either the gdpr and I haven't heard uh the negotiators talking about reviewing this uh this uh agreement based on based on the gdpr the purpose limitation for example in privacy Shield which is so weig it it will fail for sure um I I see exactly the same problem whenever you ask about privacy Shield being compliant with gdpr the answer is we haven't debated that with the US which is absurd I mean the thing is coming up in two years um and that's that's the problem I mean and that's what business are saying behind scenes on privacy Shield is that they say you know it's it's it's nice that there's a new treaty but we're not going to be able to rely on it because it has all these flaws um another thing on International standards um there is by the by the Council of Europe so not a European Union institution but a a broader thing um convention 108 which should exactly do that it's open to any country in the world um to have you know Baseline standards for privacy protection and interestingly they're written in a tech neutral way so stuff like when data is not needed anymore it has to be deleted so it's a kind of very Tech neutral approach of it as as European data Protection Law is and that has spread around in other countries as well the big country that is sitting on the table of these negotiations but never participating is the US in the end um but there is that has become internationally to a certain kind of standard that you see in other countries as well and you see these principles being adopted and interestingly a lot of these principles actually come out of the US historically but like from the 70s or something thanks um so now I do want to ask kind of one more question that I would like each of you to answer and then I'll open it to the audience if any of you have questions what would you say is one thing that you can point to that makes you optimistic that despite the disruptions in the past year the changes that have happened will lead to further Innovations around privacy than we have seen in the past and this can either be something uh that's in the legal field in the tech field anything I'll go back to my earlier answer is that we all want to participate in this network together because it is participation is beneficial to all Network participants and so there everyone here has an interest in sorting this out we may disagree on the specifics or any particular point but we know that we all want to interconnect and to participate in the internet um I have to think if I want to be optimistic but I can I can point to two uh separate issues one is that we already mentioned that I'm H very happy to learn that industry is behind us to end Mass surveillance in the US that's great news and also from a bigger perspective um it I'm very optimistic because people want to have more privacy and if they want more privacy it will trigger companies to engage uh in those kind of innovation as the lawyer I would say the 4% are pretty much the one thing that makes me optimistic um I think we see now that this this data protection reform Europe is in the end the biggest Market in the world um and any company that wants to operate on a worldwide basis will have to look at that and we see that starting now they know they have two years to comply with it so far they were like subject to the law but there was hardly any enforcement and this big stick could possibly be the turning point for a lot of companies to revisit that issue to say okay we really have to do something here now we don't want to be in compliant in two years and then explain to our shareholders why we pay 4% of our worldwide Revenue to the European Union um and that would is kind of the point that makes me the most optimistic which is not probably a positive spin but something that could at least work in the end anybody who knows me knows that's a bad question to ask me um I think if if we can get this failure turned around fairly quickly um I think there might actually be a meaningful negotiation um what's happened after the regulation was adopted in 2000 in 1995 and so the directive was adopted in 1995 um a solution had to be found with with the US uh the US refused to negotiate meaningfully we ended up with Safe Harbor which was um just it was incredible I worked in Industry at the the time nobody believed it was going to work but it would it would keep the wolf from the door for a while um in 2002 the European commission had to produce a review uh and they could see that it wasn't credible and it was delayed by something like a year in order to rewrite the facts in order to pretend that it was working um then there were uh academic studies that showed it wasn't working and everyone just sort of kept their heads down let's pretend it's working um then the um Snowden Revelations came out and the commission produced its communication on rebuilding trust they spent two years talking about negotiating uh then we had finally the court decision confirming what everybody knew since 1998 and then the Americans said okay let's talk but not negotiate um the the U new us ambassador to the EU very graciously invited me to a dinner with the uh negotiators um I don't quite know why um but Thursday before the Monday that privacy Shield was announced there was nothing even resembling an agreement so from Thursday to Monday that whole sham was was thought up by somebody um very imaginative um and there was no negotiation um if this is turned around quickly then finally there will have to be a degree of personal political responsibility for the people that in the European side that failed miserably and completely and abjectly and humiliatingly uh in this process and then maybe we can have a negotiation and an agreement that suits us and suits industry and moves us forward finally there you go some optimism thanks um so now I'm going to open it to the audience are there any questions you can take your time and Ponder I will I will throw in my own dash of optimism uh so I do believe that there are a lot of people who are taking uh privacy and kind of individual control over their own data quite seriously and see it as a viable business model um there is actually a company based here in California called for rock that's been working on something called user managed access protocols that would essentially let people um consolidate and have more control over the levels of consent that they give different parties to uh use their data and I would say there are a lot of uh initiatives coming some from the research sector some from private sector companies in Europe and notably most notably in Europe and in Australia and in New Zealand um but all around the world and so I would say that even as some of the legislative pieces of this have been somewhat dicey there hasn't always been consensus I would say that it has at least lit the fire under um innovators and people in the private sector that see this as uh having some kind of consumer demand and there are people who are looking to respond to it if that's a nice optimistic note so oh is there another uh Max yes the gdpr are these Vue unclear complicated not simple likely to be a barria blah blah blah yes and that's what I'm sorry um but that's basically what what the big issue is and the interesting part is that that mainly came out of Industry that's like the craziest thing about the gdpr is that this vague wording is I mean I read all the Amendments 4,000 to the law and um we looked at where they were coming from and it was called project it was called Lobby plug to kind of look where the lobby papers resemble the Amendments and stuff like that and exactly these points were the things that were coming out of industry and I think that's going to be a problem for the industry for a long while because as a privacy lawyer will love that stuff um but because you just got to go to the right judge and they're going to decide your way if if it's vague and you can pretty much do what you want to do um and that's unfortunate um but it's something that you cannot blame on the European Union you cannot really blame on the on the on the Privacy people um you can mainly blame that on the lobbying that happened and a couple of mainly the conservative party in the in the European Union um pushing that and and that was really an interesting thing how they basically shot in their own foot and sorry they shot the SMS in the foot um the big companies the big companies LED I mean it's I don't think the general regulation is terrible for smmes but a lot of the complexity comes from big companies uh tabling amendments coming up with clever strategies to to uh make things more complicated but it's more complicated in a way that they can cope with that small companies can't cope with and um the lobbying of the small business uh organizations in the EU was um not good now just to push back a little bit um I know that epic was writing to try to get the Privacy Shield negotiations to be more transparent because as we've heard they were happening mainly behind closed doors and while I would say that there are a lot of us up here who are in in favor of more transparent trade negotiations wouldn't that be an argument against having things be more transparent if as things are more open there are going to be other interested parties trying to get in there and make changes what would you oh I yeah they are represented already uhep EP What epic did is we filed Freedom of Information request because uh the EU and the US announced privacy shield on February 2 without revealing the text uh so we filed a request and as J mentioned that there wasn't really something uh that was an agreement but the US Department of Commerce replied to our fire request that no such agreement exists and a few days after the agreement came about and in that interesting coinci I find it a little bit unfortunate that the US one of the US is lead negotiators Julie BR um quit the FTC like maybe two weeks after after the Privacy shield and ended up in a huge law firm and um so I think uh the industry has has already there and um they can express their interest quite well okay well thanks everybody I think we're g to go ahead and wrap it up thank you for coming joyful end [Applause] note | Access Now | UC1WRUFROqjer720gqXiF91w | 2016-03-31 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 11,748 | 62,223 |
0LKPNcccx58 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LKPNcccx58 | Chile Zambia “Commander” Has Died. Died in The Early Hours of Today. MHSRIP (Must Watch) | [Music] hi lovely viewers it's me again your one and only tatempundo welcome to my youtube channel if this is your first time on my channel kindly subscribe to my youtube channel by hitting the red subscribe button down below and turn the bell icon to join the notification squad don't forget to like share and leave a comment tell me what you think about this video in the comment section below i'll be super glad to hear from you lovely viewers sad news ketogerapo commander shot dead by wife prominent kita jalabong commonly known as chilewan has allegedly been shot dead by his wife chilewan is the cousin to secure member of parliament pavillom kalobo impeccable sources have said that chilewan was shot dead at around 0 2 30 this morning after a misunderstanding with his wife his wife is reportedly currently detained at riverside police station he was a pf yes but with the heart of giving go well big man and rest in peace we'll meet again what [Music] exclusive [Music] this is foreign um [Music] all right that's all right for you today lovely viewers if you did enjoy the video please don't forget to leave a comment in the comment section below tell me what you think about the video you just watched in the comment section below i'll be super glad to hear from you lovely viewers once again i go by the name of the teen pondom i love you peace i gotta go [Music] | Mutati Mpundu Tv | UCIoCtYdetbOITRu0VU8WmPg | 2022-04-30 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 252 | 1,376 |
ay7I-Namfak | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay7I-Namfak | Roswell New Mexico Season 1 Episode 7 I Saw the Sign Review | Wow this show it just keeps getting more and more who greets geeks and keep it relevant is me I'm back here for another Roswell man this show but you didn't do it spoiler warning if you guys haven't seen the episode go watch it please do and please support this show I really wanted to get a season 2 and then come back and tell me what you think and the comments down below alright so let's jump into this so the police are looking into the shooting from last episode where max shot the guy who killed the conspiracy dude and because it involves Liz and his family Max is not thinking straight he's not doing what he's supposed to be doing so he kind of gets put on a little bit of leave for a while and Max is like upset he's wanting to curse off Isabel and Michael apparently it wasn't public knowledge about Alex and Michael because my Alex is the first guy that Michael has been with but anyway during one of his soaking times he gets approached by Noah Isabel's what a husband excited if the bells husband and [Music] I'm sorry I'm thinking about things as Bell's husband comes in to Mattox and is like I'm not here for your drama I'm here for mine missable and this is when max finds out that Noah kicked out and so he's like okay this is some hooey I need to protect my family so he goes Michael where Isabella staying he's like we need to all run we need to start a new also apparently the Liz the reason why she's been taking Max's blood lately it's been studying it is because she's working on a I guess it's a alien cure poison stifle their powers and Max is afraid for Isabel Isabel said steps up and says hey look up and thinking all day and what I need to do is I need to put myself an institute to figure out what's institutionalize myself figure out what's going on with me maybe try to fix it try because we cannot keep going the way that we are and we cannot run because if we run it'll just happen again in the new place if not on the way the manual place because that seems to be one of her triggers but in Isabel is institutionalized and Max goes back to Liz and says hey you need to work on this cure and you need to work on she's like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons anger and so now it looks like she's doing it for the right reasons to keep people safe and with the blessing of Max pit it sounds like he wants them to do it to all of them because anytime he gets pissed involving lit a situation with Liz electronics frizz and last time the big event happened it like Tennessee Blaine that has now bloomed into this episode of the blonde partner not only breaking up with max or whatever it's called or whatever their situation was they're stopping scratching post as they called it so and what I'm trying to say is that that has now blossomed into her agreeing to work with Alex's father and tells him basically to look into Max being an alien dis but also so that was max story and ended sadly with him and Liz having that conversation now there were a couple other side plots that sewed one of them was just Mikey said blind part blonde partner check when we find out that her ex-partner died and she blames herself and also she found out that the dude who was shot by Max who killed the other guy who by the way has blacked out the whole thing and doesn't remember it he is drawing the symbol that max used to draw when he was younger and has tattooed on him which I'm thinking that maybe with all this mental stuff we're supposed to believe it's more of Isabeau messing with people but I'm thinking that that's supposed to be a red herring and that it's going to be the government then did something to them because the government is really hinted at in this episode not only the stuff with the partnership but also we start off the epicenter with a flashback to a dissection of an alien with Kyle's dead mine things Oh also there was another subplot about Maria who I've just been calling bartender chick cuz I couldn't remember her name but Maria who's Liz says old school friend along with Alex and they have this nice little day with Maria's mom who has something that they don't know is two men but they've ruled out like she's seen doctors and they've ruled out stuff like dementia and all that so it's not that it's gotta be alien and this is why I think that it's the government because I think the government messed with her mind too and she starts to come out about to the aliens but then she's clearly just copying a movie though I feel like the show might be using that to hint at but there are more aliens around like as a subtle way to hint that there's more aliens around cuz they don't know anything about themselves we don't know so who's to say that there couldn't be more aliens out there I didn't even do that on purpose um cuz the truth is out there and that I did on purpose and through Maria's mom we do find out though that she was Rosa was afraid of Isabel and that Isabel was hunting Rosa and that she knew roses and that Isabel told Rosa her secret and dead Rosa freaked out which could either be that she's bi or it could be that she's an alien we don't know which one more seeds for the future but honestly the way this Jo's going this kind of felt like a season 2 premiere cuz it's always keeps going and like full force and I love it about it there's no like filler BS chewing the fat buying their time they just keep going and going and going like the Energizer Bunny and I cannot wait to see where they go next because next it looks like Michael and Mike's might be looking into their history and finding answers there and also Isabel is degrading ourselves are degrading and she's dying okay but that's it for this show next time you'll see me will be for Riverdale r.i.p Luke Perry till next time didn't mean to end on such a downer no but the man was great he will be missed all right P sorry for no snappy 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355A-SHVJx8 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=355A-SHVJx8 | Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 Desk Setup: The Ultimate Gaming Experience | ah hey guys Thunder e here now if you're wondering why I die so much well you can accidentally on that but this is the brand new Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 now this is an OLED gaming Monitor and it's a 34 inch monitor and I think a lot of people will like that so I decided to make a gaming setup right here for you guys to check out and this monitor actually takes a nice Center place on here I've got a couple of things on the setup including a brand new gaming PC I just built thanks to our friends at Asus and NZXT as well as also some desk speakers and a brand new uh gaming headset plus I did actually get that keyboard from click and Brew in Malaysia but anyway let's go ahead and take a look at this monitor itself as I mentioned 34 inches resolution is 30 40 by 1440. this is a lovely looking OLED monitor 1800 100 hour curved radius so which means you can see everything around you it looks pretty nice and also it's a one that can of course raise up and down tilt and I like the bass I like the clearance of the bass because it allows for you to put in a sound bar if you choose to or in my case I do have two desks because I can put on the side now we've seen a big Trend in moving to larger monitors 57 49 55 inches this is 34 and I do like it because it sits really well within the space you have especially for different desk sizes and something that I think a lot of people would appreciate now in terms of ports what does this monitor actually bring to the table you've got a couple of USB type-c ports at the back as well as also a mini display board which is something that I do not like that much because I prefer standard DisplayPort or full HDMI I don't know why Samsung didn't go that route I figured they wanted to make it thinner and lighter but I've seen monitors that have actually done this that's a little dig on this here now the money monitor has some very simple controls which you can use through the remote control does come with remote I do like monitors that have remotes but this one has a little bit of convoluted functionality so if I wanted to go to some of the monitor settings I do have to press and hold the play button where it brings up this game menu bar and in that bar I can do some cool things I can of course change my picture mode from standard to RTS FPS mode things like that and I can also go into the game settings and this takes me to more of the monitor settings but it's still not as traditional as you would expect now because this is a standard Samsung remote control as this you know what Samsung does Samsung has built-in of course it's ties in OS into this which allows you to of course customize and use some of the other features here so I can hit the home button and this takes me to of course my general standard TV menu that you see on any Samsung TV and I have a couple of options here I do have of course my standard apps for media and then I have a workspace which allows me to either connect of course a PC or Samsung text which is cool that is nice and I also have the game center now Game Center is pretty cool because if your gaming PC is off or you don't want to turn it on or you just don't have a powerful gaming PC you can use game streaming services on here so things like GeForce now as well as lunar and Xbox game pass available and it's cool that I can pick up my expert controller go ahead power up Game Pass get into a game like FIFA 2023 score some goals enjoy gameplay and jump out and then jump into something like Netflix and watch One Piece for all the One Piece fans out there the show is actually pretty decent and uh and then you know watch a YouTube video now you're going okay does this have built-in speakers yes it does and Samsung says these speakers are pretty solid give you overall robust experience but let's take a quick listen to how these out a bit of a history buff which by the way that is yeah it's really good it's loud it's crisp you can hear the space battle as well it does a really good job the speakers are decent um I think they do a good job if you don't have any other option whether your headsets are not working or you don't have speakers on there but in terms of speakers I do have the release because from NZXT these are desk speakers they've got that nice Studio looking style to them or white and they sound really good so why don't you take a listen to those and see how well they do yeah and suddenly they were everywhere bounty hunters no Pinkerton it was crazy raining bullets and if you do want to use the release speakers you can go ahead and try the relay headset as well as also the switch mic which is a nice combination especially if you're doing a lot of game streaming uh using the headset and basically managing your uh you know your game chat as well as also your game volume all together so a nice combo to actually pair with this monitor here now of course power and everything is my gaming PC which I built with the help of of course Asus as I mentioned earlier and then zxt Isuzu supplied uh the the prime uh motherboard as well as also the tough 7900 XT uh graphics card well NZXT of course applied the case as well as also uh all the other accessories you see here I do have 64 gigabytes of RAM from Kingston two terabytes of storage and the CPU is a ryzen 7900 uh CPU so of course this is an all AMD machine so what kind of performance am I getting and how does that look on this display now this is where having that kind of performance pairs really well with what this display can do this is a QD OLED display so which means your blacks your colors are rich and vibrant you're getting HDR 400 you're also getting performance that really matches what the game representation should look like so whether I'm playing games like of course Doom Eternal which has a lot of colors as well as also dark environments shows up really well on this gaming Monitor and also I'm getting some really crazy high refresh rates because of this gaming PC then I move over to something like Red Dead Redemption where there's a nice a lot of nice scenery this scenery has a lot of snow a lot of particles in the environment that should push the system well but the frame rates are doing well but also you can see the separations in the colors now this this monitor also helps in your gameplay because you've got a refresh rate of 175 Hertz and a response time of 0.03 milliseconds which is especially useful if you're playing Call of Duty Warzone some of that of course uh fast-paced action and gaming experience really goes along with what this monitor can actually do and of course finally games like uh star field which everyone is playing right now luscious environments Big Universe you can see how well this monitor takes that to the very next level now in terms of customization you do have an LED ring at the back which you can customize with different colors and you have seamless integration with smart things on your smartphone allowing you to control the monitor directly from the device so you can switch to your apps like Netflix or back again to your PC you also have camera sharing allow you to enjoy your camera features directly on your monitor use as a webcam for video calls as well as smart calibration allowing you to calibrate the monitor the way you want it to look allowing you to go from of course or something more Vivid to maybe something more muted but you can select what you want to do directly from your mobile device so let me know what you guys think about the uh the Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 and what it brings to the table if there's anything else that you liked in this setup let me know I know some of you are looking at my keyboard This is not something that I bought from a store this is something that I bought from a store how did I save that so so I woke up one morning and Jesus just walked in and he brought the keyboard he was like yo you want a game you want to get better scores now some of you are looking at that gaming keyboard and going where did you get it well this one's a little different from everything else I found a coffee shop in Penang Malaysia called click and Brew where you can walk in get coffee some snacks and also build out your own mechanical gaming keyboard lots of stuff I have the video up on Instagram so guys go check it out but you can also order it on and I'll leave the link for you as well so thank you very much guys and always enjoy your entertainment | Booredatwork.com | UC5lDVbmgb-sAcx2fjwy3KQA | 2023-09-08 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,658 | 8,453 |
Sz-9KvH4E0I | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz-9KvH4E0I | DNA VS LU CASTRO ROOKIES VS VETS RECAP + MAAAAAAAAAAAN LETS TAWK 🔥🔥🔥😳 THE PG KILLER RETURNS‼️‼️ | i feel like butterfly gonna recap this and say gotti caught a 30 on the job roll so oh y'all wanna know what happened i'm gonna tell you what happened he got smoke that was crazy sometimes peter nobody that knows bodies it is ariel with 51 everything in the fireflies like that spike lee or nate robinson i think it's fake oh my god [Music] on the flip side if you think this [ __ ] a lot cause i mean i'm just up here trying to chew the loot on different ways of getting by you already know what it is man salute to the subscribers that notification gang ricegangclothing.com for the merchandise you heard me right what's popping with the population i got my god with me showtime sp and nobody that knows bodies so check it out we gonna break down what we need to break down how we break down every round that we sketched out there's nothing sticking in the tools in the rusty shed house what's popping out here man what's the word man what's the new what's what's the word in these streets man i just got one question what's up did you see a certain uh blog um let's say uh more of a a unbiased blog um i did i did i did i did i did i did what'd you think about it man oh man all right and i can be 100 honest and transparent with you right whole fact listen let me tell you something when he start when when [ __ ] by the way welcome back chris welcome back there was three there was when i was watching this and i was watching battles back when i was watching it there was three okay it was black chris unbiased angry fan if you wasn't any of those cats you were other media or they had the essence of all of that you know there's two words that remind me you know i'm saying because when people say i and i heard dna say it recently in a battle um there's two words that have come to mind stock drop stock rise yeah those words wouldn't even be would have even been incorporated if it wasn't for chris unbox you it's the underlying layer not to mention every time that uh it's the untold truths things like that that that that whole interview the battle rapper get to know what led up to that battle yeah that's all blended in just i just wanted i'm just throwing out there that extra stuff because they go oh my god who is this dude now the stuff that is on this blog was heat man i loved it i loved it i loved it um the first hour he talks about what happened and everything that goes down you know my heart goes out to you my heart goes out to your family your girl is a trooper all that stuff but i'm here for the smoke okay okay i've seen it i've seen it um i will say this um what i said inside i seen the part that he put me in um about me not being part of the judicial system yeah and i don't judge people as far as because i got people that be like oh y'all shouldn't be doing this y'all shouldn't be doing that and that's out of control so here's the deal right um like you said he is an oracle he's been around forever and people act like uh mike tyson kobe bryant uh a whole but tupac a whole other bunch of people wasn't accused of raping someone you know what i'm saying like so when they say when people try to convict people these website lawyers and these people that just try to convict somebody and do all of this stuff i see his case was dead docketed so it's not his charges haven't been dropped they've postponed it and he said that they are not pursuing any further prosecution so if his case is charges get dropped it is what it is but to see him in that bag is like okay i seen him doing what he do and he was very intricate i was one that was in his facebook group and that's where i got my start and i said that before and i say it again but salute to him and everything that he's got going on you know what i'm saying i never want to see somebody part of the corrupt justice system if they truly haven't done it now if something comes out that's another story but i want to get into it you do a driver and your [ __ ] gets shot leave everybody in that car cooking now yo what's the pot you telling all them okay you know what i'm saying they dropped on the url app the url the url the most respected battle rayna lou castro versus dna i got a lot of love for lou castro i was actually at one of his uh first joints on an invitational actually turned his footage in that helped him get some of his looks um i've seen lou castro from the beginning since his inception when he first came out a lot of people tried to do the super new jersey twerk comparisons but i've seen him you know sense mold into it i've seen how i seen him molding to himself what the pot he he's he has his own character's own style now i like what he does if you've got different levels of the rookie classes i feel like he's towards the the upper echelon the top three or four guys in that with the pot you know i'm saying he he i like what he does they gave him dna dna let me let me addre i want to address dna real quick i got to i got to do this man salute to dna uh everything that he's been able to accomplish in his career i know i've seen him say this before he thought i hated or hate him or hate it on him dna my god i look at you like a vet i look at you as the dna that battle disaster the dna that battle t-rex the dna that was in multiple clashes that helped transcend the battle rap culture all right so i'm sorry if i look at you like a god and when i see you in certain battles when you was doing a lot of the gun bar [ __ ] and a lot of the i'm sorry if i if i expected more from you so if me expecting more and expecting you to be in a bag putting your foot so far up a [ __ ] that they had to surgically remove it it is what it is i remember the dna with no tooth just whiling on people with the bomb under the jack that's the dna that i remember so i i i'm not sorry for wanting more from you but guess what we good now are we good now we're good now we are dead versus this is what i expect from you when you start rapping like that that's that's the question this is what i'm that's the question so i'm just gonna give you a preview yeah and then we're gonna get into what we need to i like that too um lou castro comes out his first round has a very very solid first round i'm not gonna lie to you he had a solid first round i liked it you have some bars yo matter of fact why are you moving just get this let's just i don't even want to i don't know let's just do let's just talk how we need to talk cause this is what we do it would be it would it would behoove me if i didn't have the horse so i mean yeah uh how you thinking i don't miss you mean to tell me all i had to do was answer that phone and luke could get a rookie of the year man let me dial this luca dallas i'm with you i'm all the way with this one too okay okay okay i hate uh uh the shooting green lit they won't miss shotgun pump action sheesh strong [ __ ] say cheese bucking his mug he homeless yeah but the [ __ ] [ __ ] mug is huh yeah you know let's get into he said let's get into something i click it and tuck it real fast it can go from me whipping the pot to you kicking the bucket i'm fine okay okay okay you done in the streets he taking bucks from the 12 defund the police die slow let two spit i couldn't let saint john suffer so if i put him out as misery that's what kind of saint louis missouri saint louis i like the word plague yeah uh uh uh what's um lisa what you uh what you on drug what are you on drugs get your vest you must be on some kanye that you can that you're gonna get the west mix it kanye i erupt pompeii rickett for you taking out the saudi for you talking out the side of your face might make you feel some con way he's cooking at this point extra lit electric [ __ ] bang your chest get hit whip it oh my bad extra lit extra [ __ ] bang your chest get hit whip it get extra he said get extra hit your ex get hit frick it wear it out rig it wear it out whip it refresh the fit because you could wear to fit again refresh the fit with the he said now with the pot he said you do a drive by if you get a shot leave everybody in your car cooking now when you start rapping okay all right all right all right all right all right i like this smoke to the vet yeah he says um to the [ __ ] you would step up to me you were [ __ ] today i order like rapido sending more your way being drawn pressing the nine like i got caught today whipping mixing this that nasty i feel like quartered he was cooking in his first round castro that's how you bring you bring smoke to a vet that's how you bring smoke to a vet um i just had to take a sip of this water because you know i'm you know i i get money yeah yeah yeah yeah slogan was yeah um i'm gonna just go into it and i just want you to see if if if i'm if i'm seeing this right because this is dna i watched it twice this is dna saying this right um give it up for the rookies you know the vets had a lot of mishaps but i could fix that they said we couldn't rap in a band setting but now it's about to get dark see how uh see how i peeked the whole pitch black you go fish to get a [ __ ] on the card but only came back with a mismatch okay you can see you go fish to go get a [ __ ] on the car but only came back with a mismatch let me okay cool um i'll almost turn this down would have wait for gnome with double impact but why stall them out since look good at flexing at arms and uh this to get back and you don't know me like that because you know ludacris was getting back and you um he says on you know i i found the plot the resolution was 4k and that's why i put down the glocks so yeah you gonna see the xbox in this series now that i'm out of stock because xbox shouldn't be on it but he's talking about not rapping about the guns no more because he's out of stock i don't have that anymore you live in a fable you can't go viral on a digital label getting help from different providers like you're switching your cable with the pot you not wow strong you really disabled cause after you run out all of the pot luck you still gotta bring a mill to the table oh that was crazy this is no gun bar dm man he even did a treadmill scheme and i'm just i'm gonna just let y'all just i'm just kidding i'm gonna just speed past that i'm going to go ahead and run through that right because you know because it was an uphill battle the way i tried to do that it was a button you had it was a lot but basically the treadmill scheme of how you wild strong but you can't work the machine my bad y'all want to hear some schemes okay you just you was just a walk with he said you was just a walk-on with the goonies they didn't have respect and nobody left in style i mean twerk bounced back and back and forth with the expert there was no need to reconcile when we when he was in the hospital i was the only ones visiting and you could check the files but you under the hood castro oil you should have went the extra mile cash extra oil synthetics it gives you the extra keep going accepting your friendship to be real to be a real one you even had twerk convinced we found out it was an act and we see the curtains lift it was an act nate robinson just got knocked out [Music] oh keep going um we found out if we found out it was an act when we see the curtains lift yeah because it's an act final act okay cause how the [ __ ] you supposed to be authentic if you ain't never seen jersey stitched ah fire fire how do you think it's authentic you ain't never seen jersey sticks come on dog um i just i i just have a quite a couple questions um you know what's being wild strong tell them telling luizy he need to focus and he'll need to run you know it's being wild strong not drinking in front of ryder so he don't get tempted to get another dui you know it's being wild strong making sure that goonies never break up because you should have checked on them earlier you know you know what's being wild strong you making sure twerk had three rounds instead of joe he's bugging you he's blocking is is this dna he's bargaining yeah because i was expecting like ripping the sporters machete clap it'll hit your back it'll be like a pangaea it's very flat yeah i'm walking never mind um the first round is the really round that you could rather be just press the digital crown ain't nobody asked you the question is who do you feel like won this first right because like i said but with the pot everybody get cooked in your whip now your whippin pot was fire it was it was fire um you know i i like the i kind of like the the the skitten the luca the luca on the luca win rookie of the year yeah let me dial it that was okay you know what i'm saying it was cool but dna didn't use i i'm counting it's not mini gun bars it's it there are there are no gun bars he was talking to him so like i got dna within the first round man i'll be honest with you agree okay scream okay i'm sorry all right well round two let's go with all right we're into the blue crasher all right let uh okay okay breaking and entering i'm taking it uh i'm taking it if i like something you better hide your family like don marino when ice coming you stick your neck around that corner it's a guillotine a hawk some it's like i sent it then i saw it either way i talked them okay now that one that one was fire so that that one because you sinked it or saw it either way that you talked up and that bop okay get money and drink water we was going to do it anyway come on use your common sense you see i'm getting money and i'm drinking water at the same time that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard in my life that's what he said you know it's cool he said i drink water in abundance and i'm getting plenty [ __ ] the slogan you made up is riri [ __ ] i'm talking fenty [ __ ] cause we re slow infinity yeah yeah okay um [ __ ] you think [ __ ] use the scope i ain't finna chase you you can take that to the bank [ __ ] the skull my fin to chase you yeah you can take that to the pink chase bank yeah okay when i get to stabby stab it's hella evil wild scary i'll leave dna stuck in here like there's something about and marriage in hair so yeah yeah uh i don't care if your family there or what you or you with your loves when i hit bro chin it's like hitmo chan you don't know what monster i am with the gloves you see in pokemon there was two uh types of pokemon it was a hitmonchan it was a hit my elite hit my league had the kicks and hit my chance was the puncher it's cool never mind i'm glad you okay i just i caught that and i thought it was funny so he says dump the whole mag make sure the spot clear i lost it will it he said i lost it i will pull [ __ ] i'll make it hot here then reverse the clip like a bet movie i guess you're wondering that was fire okay okay okay now i like that i like the the the you know it was violent i felt that i felt it was great i liked it he was intimidated don't talk to me like that i'm wrong i get it you know i'm saying it was cool um why is nate robinson sleeping on the floor yo he got knocked out again sleeping with the pot he has got he is sleeping dog but keep going he said we'll see you tomorrow we'll see you tomorrow and i think he's out until y'all want to know what happened i'm gonna tell you what happened he got smoked he got smoked let's keep going all right round two on dna okay he says you slipping you tripping that's what happened that happens too frequent that's why your pitch is off you in 2020 but your vision's lost you think you're big pimping jay-z and lincoln park i just had to give it thought oh my god cause they made me cross over the band for the collision course that was crazy he took it through all that was a fire ass scheme and this the alternative rock he kept going because he because you know oh my goodness yo no that's not that's not enough that's not enough it's not a puke i don't believe it's dna i just don't believe this is dna i'm just reading lyrics i just want to know if this was dna um uh you're not hot your stock dropped i thought you would be at gnome the ops like with the pot stopped now you got to move on your own because because when the opposite when the pot stops you got to move because everything never let's go now you got to move on your own knock knock you there i never thought this dude would be alone or you just in here with the desi acting it's time to see lou it's time to show lucy i'm home yeah cause desi cause desi arnaz was uh there was a show called i love lucy i'm following it was black and white see i said let me keep it black and white then he continued the scheme and he says because if he um if i swing he better bob a lou gonna be saying dna this is what i'm talking about son okay that was good that was i love lucy's skin i was dope right i just want to know is this dna right here he says i told you i would find a fraud when the image disappears they'll they can only rely on bars ain't it crazy how he stole your identity but you but you saw a decline on cards i guess you had the wrong pin oh cause you get the wrong pin when you decline the card fire i told you i would find a fraud because once the image disappears because what happens is when you scan the card the numbers are the images disappear so only thing you can define is the only thing you can rely on is the fire all right i'm just saying this there's a paid in full scheme that is so dope i don't even want to say it i'm gonna just know because it was just released in o2 and i just wanted to know what and i was like no how was this it wasn't released and it really was released october 2002 these the type of rooms i like it separates the performance from the lyricist cause when you break down every [ __ ] bar you really get to see who's intricate your goddamn right and he says you just upped head lifted [ __ ] switching clips how the [ __ ] is your arm strong if you come to band with one instrument yo [Music] i just i need to know for real like get your mans like seriously like then like this is yo a shine shine usually i'm on you shot i'm usually like yo you bugging right now shot get your manager your partner the dude that you'll be doing the two or twos with get him cause he's not high take hi high take i think dna has the capabilities of beating mook i'm i'm you know nope i'm just yeah i'm just keeping it hot yeah yep cooking he was cooking round three on lou castro let's just let's just send this off because i like i liked a lot of the stuff that lou castro was saying you know what i'm saying like oh you uh he says you even tricked your own brain to think you could spray the machete and that's some [ __ ] we can't believe thinking this gun was a sword that's fitting to be his final fantasy because they had the actual sword with the gun oh that was a good way to start the ground around a little fight back fight back bang the hammer judge though judge joe brown i let a gavel fly i'm in queens behind him in the enemy lines i had to travel by just me slid on a slide on all y'all i'm really at you guys i ain't tough or nothing i just know the tourists got me like a travel guy oh lou was fighting back in that cause a taurus is the name of the gun but the tourists taurus got me like a travel guy come on dog um he says you can't talk to my life you just another son you threw that tooth in the crowd for reaction just to get another one no funny [ __ ] you don't know what you want out your life and i can't respect you if i was in that crowd and that two flew at me i would run on stage and that you that's nasty why would you do that yo i i don't know what it is about the glue like it's crazy he's yelling at you it's like sir you are rather large okay like don't do that [ __ ] like all right my bad all right um he says uh he says you uh you created this peachy killer persona because when you battle [ __ ] that's still new it's not the fact that you way better it's the fact that these [ __ ] respect you too much to try to kill you okay lou you gotta get you gotta bottle that and and give me a full battle of that cause that real [ __ ] right there was what was helping the it was helping this battle you weren't you weren't winning at this point but i could see what was going on he says um you [ __ ] that's what the fans think that's what the crowds tell us you lost the vixen and she kissed you on your cheek i like that you was while jealous too i mean don't let them don't let them do as much others i'm saying you know she she has her rights you know to do stuff like that you know what i'm saying i had to get some water did you yeah i just i just got my i just got my check so i'm just just getting waters up okay um is this dna um you was brought into this they treat you all right this is dna because he because this is clearly dna and this is how i want this is how you're supposed to talk to these [ __ ] like so you wanted this this this this what you want the third round i need the third round he was talking you was brought into this and they tricked you to think that i'm your enemy that's why you got that energy and i'm across from you but if he said but if you thought this through you might have found out that i'm the one you should be talking to i could have showed you about this these i i could have showed you what this about sponsorships the in and outs the reason why circuit choke and think twerk to go oh you still think the lyrics count let me tell you what this business about that crazy he said the crazy [ __ ] is through your laziness i'm convinced that you ain't even get paid for this oh man they just told you it was a good route they hit you and convinced you you're gonna keep getting these good looks as long as you look out but what happens when your name fails and your buzz can't get the same sales what happens when your name fails and your buzz can't get the name can't get the same cells that's when the looks get old and the features don't age well keep going keep going they compensate you for they compensate you with compliments they build up your confidence so they can share your accomplishments i'ma just say that one more time they compensate you with compliments they build up your confidence so they can share your accomplishments then they gonna tell you you wild strong but your pockets don't got a dominant oh no this is getting nasty go dna go dna all your pride push that aside he said all that all your pride push that [ __ ] aside stop this and shine you should have hit my line cause y'all think it's all about peace and good riddance this and the wave we'll see you on the flip side if you think this shit's a lie cause i'm up here trying to toot a loo on the different ways of getting by two to ludo they're like tutalu like goodbye to the loot no twitter no because y'all think it's all about peace good writtens this in the wave i'll see you on the flip side i'm trying to to the loo on different ways of getting by hey yo get your mints again seriously in this round too for real no get your minutes like seriously bro like i i don't understand why y'all are playing with dna like that i take i think that dna listen i can see him versus lux now i i if you're gonna give me this that's a narrative if you're gonna get i don't care if you're gonna give me this if you're gonna give me this this this potent okay i can take this here's where i little bro you you questioned my hunger in that 15 minutes of fame interview now let me tell you what i go through keep going uh dna tell them what you go through bro being called corny unbelievable so you gotta reinvent yourself every six months and think smarter rest in peace pumpkin head if i ever questioned ph level you would have never heard get money and drink water i'm just stating facts slogan after slogan they can't relate to that it's to the point where i made a living off that water tower and a maniac i don't even know what we're still doing here i i i have no idea who that was but if his if that's if that's dna that dna can can stick around like i i i i don't understand why is the fact it's always the pg killer vibes like whenever you're the pg killer that's when you out here i want you to pg kill one of these vets i want you to pg kill one of these [ __ ] that's out here just giving you these lame ass rounds i tried to break it down to make it simple i really did like i'm i'm so serious like i was trying to yo lou castro you could debate the first round you could debate the first round i'm i'm not i know nope gentleman's 30. yeah i mean ah dna was another bag i'm sorry he was in another bag when i watched the first time i could see that but after the second watch i mean it just gets way clearer and clearer to me the decision that i've made in this battle i've got dna clearly winning this battle clearly showing its levels didn't even have to rap about a bunch of gun bars lou castro did his thing he did his job but dna did his [ __ ] job you know what i'm saying he did his job he showed that this is what a veteran is this is where rookie is and this is the level of competition that you're going to be facing uh lou castro doesn't have nothing to hang his head down about in this battle but on the app the votes are all dna every round yeah um dna did his thing man i'm sorry like it's is is it's not a body they have advertisements are 759 for dna to 196 for lou castro oh that's about it oh that is a body the vote the global vote count is uh they got they got dna winning every round uh they gotta win in the first round twenty one thousand eighteen thousand second round eighteen thousand thirteen thousand third round twenty one thousand to eleven thousand i don't i don't need anything more than that um i'm sure we'll see lou castro again i'm sure this is one of his better performances but he just ran into a dog man he just ran into a [ __ ] dog in in dna man like he just went crazy i'm sorry like start listen um you know i i'ma just i'm gonna just put it to you like this um if we get if we get that dna that we don't deserve we don't deserve you like and that's real we we obviously don't deserve that that but i want that every time so whatever it takes for you to get that yeah this is the reason why dna this i want you to understand i know you're gonna watch this salute to you and everything that you've got going on i know you have a new daughter now and things like that yeah but this level that you want right here you're gonna get the respect see the thing is i've been hearing this recently when it comes to the battlers and when it comes to the bloggers and things like that when you do your [ __ ] job like you did your job and you came in every single round while in punches schemes personals being able to break an opponent down talking about their crew talking about you know you went down on the cards and talking about you know you didn't visit him in the hospital and talking about what's wild strong that's the type of [ __ ] that's going to keep in good graces and ain't nobody going to have nothing negative to say about it because you broke them down so crazy that to me it's a clear win maybe somebody will give them a round every now and then but i mean for me yeah i might say it was no no no gun no gun bars from dna just to put the stock up from that's the that's the most believable that's what makes dna believable is i'm just show us show him you're a better rapper and that's and that's all you need to do man like listen you already know what it is [Music] i'm always | Vada Fly | UCWfpcHo75x3Z3OtTAcy7-jQ | 2020-11-29 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 5,634 | 27,861 |
97uHa8ggblY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97uHa8ggblY | Handicapping the Muniz Memorial Classic Stakes (G2), presented by Horse Racing Nation | it's the munez memorial stakes presented by horse racing nation at med derosa and i will be live at fairgrounds on saturday for the muniz memorial presented by horse racing nation hopefully cashing some tickets hopefully i'll help you do the same let's take a look at this nine pack before we get to my pick chad brown standing tall he's got the michael jordan the lebron james down inside 2 3 23 sacred life and devamani a pair of french breads from the very potent chad brown stable if there were head-to-head wagering on his two entrants uncoupled as they are i would absolutely take the deuce i understand why sacred life is favored two to one maybe a little light for me which is why i'm looking elsewhere on top but devamani is the one i will absolutely be trying to be if that one wins i will be out of everything and probably gonna try to beat that one out of the number completely for those playing vertically but sacred life i get it worthy favorite but we're going to go to the outside and that is number nine santeen the top pick here centene was the three horse in this race uh the fairground stakes did not get to cavalry charge cavalry charge on the lead right now santeen still not really in the frame had to spin out wide and was one of few getting to the leader then ended up kind of between horses uh some of you may be shocked that i'm showing a replay to buttress my opinion here not a big replay watcher but when i saw the chart comment that this one was six wide it actually is a little deceiving because santino now is just closing between horses uh to stay forth never actually passed anyone uh i did think the six wide comment was a little deceiving because really didn't spin out that wide until the turn for home but did end up between horses never really got a clear run until straightened out and i'm expecting with this outside post maybe still loses a little bit of ground here in the munez presented by horse racing nation but i do think we'll have a clear run throughout the race and is my pick on top i think will be the right price because of the two chads the way i'm betting this though is number nine to win and i will play a two nine exacta leap day for those born on february 29th but it's the nine on top for me santeen in the munez presented by horse racing nation salutations friends i'm matthew desantis and you can find me on twitter talking horse racing and giving out picks at the handle at fail to menace now let's talk about a big saturday at the fairgrounds and specifically the grade 2 munis memorial classic stakes presented by horse racing nation which is 108 miles on turf with three heavy favorites sacred life devamani and santan the first two are trained by chad brown and let me tell you something typically betting against brown on turf is a fool's errand especially after the weekend he just had at tampa where he ran one two and multiple turf stakes races now the pace of this race should set up perfectly for the all three favors who each have a tremendous late turn of foot as there should be plenty of early speed in the form of cavalry charge 40 under and two emmys all of whom want to get to the lead and will set presumably a pretty hot pace for the leaders to run into while both brown horses are impressive if you look inside the numbers a little bit sacred life is only one for his last nine winning graded stakes races always very competitive always finishing in the money but reminds me a little bit of midnight bourbon on grass meanwhile i like devamani a little bit more as he's running his second race since coming back from an eighth month layoff his jockey joel rosario is a wizard on the turf but i do wonder if his age of 8 years old is finally starting to catch up with him a bit therefore i'm gonna go with the young up and coming horse santan at seven to two whose speed figures keep improving and he's done it at multiple tracks he's only run four times in his career but he already has a second place at a grade one and last time out finished fourth by a neck in a virtual four-way dead heat after a very troubled trip i'll always lean towards picking ascending horses that have yet to run their best race as opposed to horses that have already run their best in these types of spots so for that reason i'll pick the brendon walsh trained and tyler gafflione ridden santan at 7-2 to win the grade 2 muniz memorial classic stakes presented by horse racing nation good luck from your knees memorial classic stakes presented by horse racing nation goes as race number 10 on fairgrounds 12 race louisiana derby car a star-studded card at that and there's been some star winners of this race in recent memory 2019 horse of the year bricks and mortar won this race back then factor this for brad cox in 2020 and then last year colonel liam shipped in for trainer todd fletcher to get the job done chad brown ships in two of the likely favorites in this one but i'm going to take a chance against both of them and devimani and sacred life certainly capable here but i think they may get a little bit over bet i'll be spreading a little bit against them in the all-states pick five sequence but in terms of a top selection let's take a chance here with number seven another mystery who's been freshened up after a head-dead heat victory in a three-horse blanket finish in the connelly at sam houston know that was a mile and a half so he cuts back to the mile on an eighth distance in here but has won two of seven over this race course and i think the pace will be a little hotter than maybe it looks on paper there's no doubt that i would two emmys is going to put a little more pressure on cavalry charge than he did last time out in the fairgrounds and erase the cavalry charge just held on to win at a big price so i think maybe a little bit more of a favorable setup for off the pace runner so we'll take a chance with another mystery here one of two runners for trainer chris block for a second i'm gonna go with number nine santeen the likeliest winner of this race in my opinion second start off the bench for trainer brandon walsh got hammered at the windows and made the 5-2 top choice in the aforementioned grade 3 fairgrounds reading well but finished in a four horse blanket finish that day gonna take a lot of money again certainly make some sense from off the pace but not willing to swallow the chalk as the top selection and then for third i'm gonna go with number four cavalry charge was fortunate enough to have this one at a big price great ride by brian hernandez jr if he can make a long lead again he'll be tough but i don't see it happening in here i still think this horse though is gonna run a big race in his third start of the forum cycle seven nine four for me in the munez memorial classic presented by horse racing nation hey yo let's go mike rennie here doing a little video with horse racing nation a little breakdown of race 10 at fairgrounds saturday the muniz memorial grade 2 mile and eighth presented by horse racing nation man i got a price pay let's get into this oh jump right into it got the one horse here peacock kitten no just too cheap for me so a hard pass sacred life it's sacred life i've played this horse plenty of times can it win yes but today i'm faded in this horse three horse uh we got dia amani uh the other chad brown i'm using this horse definitely like it look at the turf record uh 439 tomlinson you know it's ran multiple hundreds uh also ran at monmouth so you know with their whip rules and stuff still fired a hundred there so that horse is definitely live of the chad browns to me so i'll definitely have that one calvary charge here dallas stewart buyer jump there could be live uh but i'm faded i think there's just gonna be too much pace for the race for him uh then he got 40 under here uh you got the maker mitch morrell you know nike are at the distance i usually like but i'm fading this time i think this has too much speed in the race so we're just going to go against the maker here and here's my horse captivating moon coming from the clouds ran a 93 off the layoff i just like the setup of this race for it place plenty of wheelers winners gonna get a price here uh i just think alvarado's gonna come from the clouds he has another horse this trainer has another horse in the race but uh we're gonna capitally move from the clouds there for my horse in this race and then another mystery uh you know that's the other trainer there one last time out i think that's just where it is kind of runs 292s there two 90s there you can see in the buyer so i think uh this is probably the peak there for another mystery i think you got two emmys here uh might take some money maybe you get bet down a little bit but i think it's just peaked uh so it faded two emmys i think you got uh we got the nine here uh satan uh you know you got the good dolphin owner golfing breeder i mean you gotta watch out look at the buyers going up like it's no one's business so this horse is definitely going to be live uh my abc i just went with the a as the six as my price and we're gonna go with the chad brown there uh as with the three and uh the and the nine here ceton is a little backup but i'm thinking the price is coming here and i think we can get it man let's have a good day and on that you know we gotta have the don julio all right horse race nation let's talk the muniz memorial uh we've got a fantastic field here and i think we've got a good race to use as our guide for how this race will unfold that's the new orleans stakes it just happened here last month on risen star day so they went fast early it's set up for closers but cavalry charges able to hang on for that win by just a nose right so i feel like we have our front runner our best front runner and cavalry charge with 40 under and two emmys also in this field i think they're going to go fast again i think they're going to send and the cavalry charge is going to go hard okay i think it's going to set up for a deep closer so i'm interested in using sacred life um heavily in this race i feel like this is sacred life's race to win it's going to set up for that deep close that we have an excuse in the gulf stream race last time i'm having to put the brakes on in tight early and lose two links but still just lost by two links at the end of colonel liam i think sacred life shows the most ability watching those races back and i feel like sacred life uh chad brown flora and giroud they don't team up often but they could be a deadly combination here all right so i want to use sacred life on top and i want to use santeen and deb amani i think these two will be running mid-pack they've shown great late kick they've shown the ability to fight off bid specifically devamani and santeen just has uh just four races so far and has that ability to improve or that reason to step up that next level the second start as a four year old santeen seems live in here too so i want to use those two also another mystery i feel like there could be just another good fairgrounds run from another mystery a horse that can really move through the turns well has a great stride when daylight is found and possibly could be gaming here as well at a price we might need a price looking at the late pick five there are some favorites in here so i want to use two closers sacred life and another mystery i want to use cavalry charge just in case he's able to repeat that performance i want to use santeen and i want to use dev imani my a's easy sacred life santeen my bees devimati cavalry charge c another mystery and i'm out all right good luck getting through this late pick five all stakes guaranteed 500 000 pool good luck in the muniz hi everyone this is jeff bessa from charting horse value giving you some thoughts on the munis memorial on saturday race 10. yeah i looked at it and i i wanted to take a hard look at that fairgrounds race from february the prep race and in that race calvary charged set a pretty slow pace on a turf course that's favoring horses on or close to the lead two emmy stocked the pace and did not run his best and the favorite santeen was not able to close i see a similar situation today and so i'm going back to calvary charge and two emmys i want to show you my chart now this chart you can get on my website at www.chartinghorsevalue.com and it's for free on saturday the entire louisiana day card and what you'll notice here is two emmys second on my chart at two emmy's best two emmys will beat cavalry charge the trainer is like 31 percent third off the layoff and is great in graded stakes i think graham knows this horse well and the horse is going to improve today and calvary charge is going has a chance to set a slow pace again those are the two horses i want to use in zero wagers and i'm betting two enemies to win sacred life legitimate closer seven-year-old ridgeling from chad brown and by the way devamani is an eight-year-old gelding this is not chad brown's best horses they're very beatable they gotta close from far back to win if you want to take a better closer at a price take this another mystery with brian hernandez up i think that horse could potentially close for a piece all right those are my picks and my analysis good luck on saturday thank you sarah wadaway here from horse racing nation to discuss the muniz memorial stakes presented by horse racing nation that's going to be coming up as race number 10 at the fairgrounds on this saturday march 26th it's a grade 2 event for four year olds and up going a mile and eighth on the turf my topic is a little bit of a price in here in the number four cavalry charge this horse is ten to one on the morning line gets jockey brian hernandez jr and going out for trainer dallas stewart he did already to wire the field last time out at a bit of a price 35 to 1 that day is the inside speed in the grade 3 fairground stakes over horses like two emmys captivating moon santeen and 40 under that are all going to be reappearing in this race and i think that he gets a similar setup he could be in front of those horses as he's shown already may set the pace and just wire the field again the horses that do look like legitimate challengers they're all a little bit pace compromised in that they're all closers and that's going to be including your number two sacred life and number three devil money going out for chad brown those horses are going to take a lot of money and i don't think it's going to set up quite so favorably for them if there was going to be a hot pace i would be looking to the number seven horse and another mystery dead heat winner last time out at sam houston but i think things are gonna just be a repeat performance for cavalry charging here and i'm hoping his odds increase as well you | 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jGSAKCd3Ubc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGSAKCd3Ubc | Joshua Braunstein - In Memory of Lil Snupe (VCU RAMSLAM 9.23.13) | this poem is dedicated to the memory of a darian ross aka little snoop who was shot and killed over an argument instigated from playing video games now x box marks the spot to a gravestone on a funeral plot where a mother buries her baby boy in a wooden box life is not a game don't treat it like a console you cannot console someone who had no controller or control over when the gunman pulled the right trigger in the right place at the wrong time to the latest trayvon with less press because it was black on black crime yes he was a verbal improv artist known to pick and juggle rhymes from where he sat the exact attack cat bullet says it out of his back no he can't get you back if the only way in the hood is drugs and rap why do you think they call it the trap i'm just stating the facts how can you call it a project if it's not a work in progress that's nonsense it's crap the penitentiary is the pen and rappers write bars because the system is cracked treat your black boys like animals but act surprised when they adapt now watch the evidence stack give a slain by a a talented young rapper with no rhyme or reason but this is no isolated incident the grim reaper is grinning at the south side of chicago because the death toll looks like afghanistan without tv coverage or a word touching newsstand we have grown numb and accustomed to this violence let's break the silence go to the nra nail the 95 feces in the front office guns don't stop crime they cause it the two girls from my high school kilton virginia tech are not tragic losses there is no tragedy and the destruction of a masterpiece when you make it this easy to acquire the tools to erase them they would have graduated in 2011 but their parents learn the unfortunate lesson the college credits don't transfer to heaven human being girls are not meant to see or break death but fruit is in the eyes of a returning soldier with post-traumatic stress little snoop took two shots to the chest before his lungs sang the sad song of his last breath but how can we just brace ourselves and ask who's next instead of reevaluating gun licenses and background checks because the casual casualty of an 18 year old artist is not something i can accept will nothing change until it happens to their own flesh how many innocent sons and daughters must be slaughtered and play martyr before america can see farther than the barrel of a gun slam | Good Clear Sound VCU | UCbtjkqCVMUtD0Yb8TzXuGQQ | 2013-10-03 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 457 | 2,408 |
31JmsrqSg5Q | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31JmsrqSg5Q | Chapter 6 Problem 34 | next we are going to talk about 634 634 let's see okay so it tiw layer is deposited on a substrate using this sputtering - we hit the theta sit down here in table 614 this table contains layer thickness measurements in angstroms on 20 sub groups of 4 substrates so let's get the data set carefully so we have 20 sub groups or 20 samples and in each we hits four observations set up X bar in our control chart on this process is the process is in control she buys the control limits as necessary it says so we are gonna go to state graph control charts all first let's get the data set how it is given sorry about that so it's enlarged this and see how it looks the data set 34 just give them in one column right so these are the sample numbers these are the data elements so it's given in one column so that's good to know because we need that so go to control charts variable subgroups X bar are okay so observations for each are there in one column you're gonna go to 34 34 these are the sample numbers these are the four subgroup numbers these are the data set so we are going to select this subgroup sizes are 4 we changed it let's check explore options we're gonna raise all these these are for the previous data question I reckon that you raised it too so anything else nothing else so click okay I think okay okay so we get this nice expert our charts here is you see there's a problem at this point which is sample number 18 sample mean is also given so in our chart no problems so so we have to a minute to revise to control the myths because it says revise if necessary okay so we are gonna exclude sample or stop group 18 from the control limits calculations and then we are gonna calculate you can control them its again afterwards so okay so let's see let's give it a name okay hey charts for X bar charts with using you are using and try to samples okay for subgroups it's the same update you subgroups so lets you suburbs click okay all right I'm gonna close that and then so I'm going to exclude it and number 18 okay so am I gonna do this so I'm gonna go to but everything is the same here but I'm gonna go to x-bar chart and okay you could use icon with the following software so I'm gonna own it on the 18 year okay and I wanna actually keep the same I mean okay for that I need to go let me send this okay okay so I hear the same it makes our boy changed because they excluded 18 also expires changes a little bit I think yeah very little since we excluded okay control the picture this is not gonna change a lot so and so this is the point let's make it bigger this is the sample 18 that we excluded and we pre calculated the upper control limit and lower control limit excluding that point so these control them is they changed okay subgroups omitted from the calculations is just number 18 it shows it here okay so you're the right name and control limits you calculated after vomiting example 18 or segregating okay click okay so as you see no additional is in the graph let's recall this graph okay no additional subgroups are beyond to control them as Saudis and this can be used for future production so you're gonna say can I send it first okay I'm gonna make it smaller okay I send it to okay then afterwards we are gonna say no additional subgroups are beyond the control of this okay so you used these control limits for future production okay next so let's save it so we hear this garrulous I want you to get the results as well for our chart there's no the bad points so nothing in here but for test results for expired this failed this real point is 18 I can't see it here okay next what's the question next okay estimate the mean and standard deviation of the process and so we are going to calculate that but by excluding the suburb 18 X bar is this the new one right Sigma standard deviations are property to behave 4d to leave to go to the table and choose where the sample size is 4 and it is 2.0 59 and our bar is 16 7 to 4 you can see it in the graph is about 1674 yeah this is the after emitting sample 18 so we take our bar after vomiting sample 18 ok 6 bar it's the layer thickness normal distributed this is the normality test excuse me we got stat basic statistics and normal t-test the variable is 34 okay miss okay let's click on that so the data set lies on this line so it passes the little reality test let me say it okay so we're gonna send it to the output as well okay anything else they'd see 6:34 okay if the specifications are it 450 plus minus 30 estimate the process capability upper specification level boom is plus 30 lower specification levels minus 30 actually 40 450 plus 30 minus 30 okay so CP is the difference between these two over six times eight 13 so this is 123 which is the pre which means the process is capable and so what the capable t-test we go in there you go to quality tools capable to analysis normal after we check the normality yeah 34 select single comes up group size is 4 okay again it's a yeah a lower specification we have to enter that looking over specification what okay 450 450 put for handler Dan in it I mean number one 420 420 upper specification level 480 okay rather than a needed so so we click on that CP is let's see now fora and yellower specifications 420 upper specification is 480 ok sample size is 80 that's fine okay I'm just checking so we can't see the little middle to here ppim this time lower specification level he is in eighth nineteen point six two six ppm great without upper specification live up to ninety four point sixteen okay you can send it to report to the word file as well okay let's see what the word file says okay CP let's make it snow CP is what 1.18 and it is bigger than one okay so the process is capable who's this capable you can't compare this with the menu result many result in the menu result it would be close to yeah many other result is the close close to this value okay 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YdbLNKmLdwI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdbLNKmLdwI | How to Take Advantage of Your Home Equity | Katrina Dew| Episode #024 | it's Katrina here welcoming you to step into the valley with a three step Realty Group today we're gonna talk about how to take advantage of your home equity so let's start with the basics what is home equity home equity is the difference between the value of your home and how much you owe on your mortgage for example let's say your home was worth today five hundred thousand dollars and the remaining balance on your mortgage was three hundred thousand dollars that would mean that your home equity would be two hundred thousand dollars how does home equity build wealth well that's part of one of the examples it's through the appreciation of your home now homes nationally appreciate between five and six percent and we live in California so we're on that higher side and keep in mind yes home values do go up and down with world events and things that happen or seasons for example but if we even went conservative let's say your home appreciated your over a year on an average of two to three percent and you pay monthly into that mortgage if you took that same money and put it into a savings account you're not gonna get that same interest rate return on your investment that you would paying your mortgage so you're getting a good return on your investment on that appreciation and it's providing you a place to live now how can you grow your home equity faster some people pay larger mortgage payments than what's due some even pay double to bring down that mortgage payment faster or what they owe faster the other thing that some people can do is they actually do updates and upgrades to their home whether it's updating the kitchen bathroom those types of things there are some updates though that will not give you a hundred percent dollar for dollar return on your in assessment if you have questions about something like that give us a call because a professional like myself or my office can help walk you through the items or things that could give your home that extra value how do you access your home equity if you need it because your home equity is kind of like the savings account as a non liquid that you can't access anytime but there is a way to do that and that would be borrowing against your home equity one of the ways is to get a second mortgage another is to get a cash out refinance another way is to get a home equity line of credit on that home equity and then if your senior an option would be maybe a reverse mortgage what's really really important to note here though is that sometimes depending on your personal circumstance borrow against your home equity might not be the best option if you're curious and you want to know about it give us a call and we can get you refer to a lender and a financial advisor that can help walk you through your options to see if it is something that is the best for you we also have put this how to take advantage of your home equity into a printable report form that gives you more detail than I've gone over today if you'd like to get that click on the link below in the comments and you can download it you watch this video and you want to know what your home is worth so you can figure out what your home equity is we can help you with that too our numbers right below here and if you're renting you want to start building your wealth and grow your home equity give us a call we would be happy to help you through that process and keep in mind to subscribe to our youtube channel because every Friday we have a new video coming out for you we'll see you then | Step Into the Valley with Katrina Dew | UCXBv1RS8sg39mToPm6qi9xg | 2020-02-07 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 668 | 3,538 |
sZDhmEow-cU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZDhmEow-cU | 'At the systematic edge: Where our conceptual categories no longer work': Saskia Sassen | i just want to say thank you so much for coming this evening and before i introduce our very distinguished speakers on this evening i just want to introduce you to this lecture series of telling stories about law and development of crime diamond dashiakawa and i'm professor in the faculty of law here at cambridge and we came up with this idea for a lecture series because we might i'm primarily a neighbor lawyer answer is primarily um and economics and law but we realized we had a shared interest in what our speaker this evening is an expert in which is disruptive thinking and that thinking which enables forces lawyers those of us who perhaps are in my case educating almost entirely in one discipline to think more broadly and our shared interest in law and development uh enables us to sort of question some of the assumptions about for example routes to economic development we thought it would be interesting to hear from other thinkers scholars from other disciplines outside academia so writers artists filmmakers um within academia sociologists economists so that that was sort of the origins of this lecture series and so far we've heard lots of conclusions um talking to us about secularism um and um we're we're just we're so very excited to be able to broaden out our understanding what development is it's not just something that takes place in the global south but it's something that carries on occurring in the global north um so tonight's speaker um there's so much i can send let's focus on the highlights as i said professor assassin is a disruptive thinker in the sense that she's an original thinker which doesn't always happen in academia she disrupts a set of ways of thinking about the world for example in one of her early books on um mobility of labor and capital questioned assumptions about foreign direct investment in labor subsequent books on the on territory authority rights from medieval to global assemblages as you can see a very expansive and wide-ranging thinker um tonight's talk is drawing from her most recent book um on expulsions brutality and complexity in the global world published by hub university press last year and as you have seen from the abstract um the focus is on the language of more inequality poverty imprisonment more dead land more dead water but that that is um insufficient to help us understand what market proliferation of extreme versions of familiar conditions and the title of the talk this evening is at the systemic edge where up our conceptual categories no longer work after the lecture we will have a couple of interventions have discussants so professor simon deacon who's the professor in the faculty of law here and also dr antara harder will some thoughts open up for discussion later and we hope to wrap up at around um just before seven o'clock so um sorry thank you sorry to interrupt your team yeah well thank you very much for that very kind introduction and i like disruptive i'm usually not introduced that way but i really i think i have been disruptive and i've paid a price for it um i um i'm really i'm really very happy to talk to you a lot of the issues that i deal with are one way of putting it is they operate at the fuzzy edge of paradigmatic knowledge not at the center of paradigmatic knowledge can you hear me is there a mic here or do i need to shout can you hear me in the back okay great um and it seems to me that from the inter interactions that i've had with with uh legal scholars that fuzziness is one zone in the law that of course generates some interesting debates and interpretations and reinterpretations my fuzzy edges are very different from your fuzzy zones but still i hope that there is some some kind of dialogue that we can have the work that i want to talk about is exploratory basically the argument is that our existing conceptual categories uh fail to capture extreme conditions of extreme versions of familiar conditions so long-term unemployment is a very simple example to give long-term unemployment our statistics capture it up to a certain point and then you know after a certain amount of time it varies in different countries the fact disappears in all its materiality all those unemployed people they become invisible conceptually speaking statistically speaking in this book i explore a whole variety of these sort of systemic edges and and i wind up with an argument that when we see such a multiplication of expulsion so i call that systemic edges moment of expulsion not exclusion not the category social exclusion which is a far more familiar one which is has been worked over and over you know in different countries different versions different contents and which is one that functions inside the system and so far as the notion is i'm now talking i repeat about social exclusion uh that there's kind of a hope of reincorporation what i'm talking about is a set of systemic edges once cross you're truly in a different zone or it is truly a different zone so for instance i talk also about dead land and dead water i confess that the chapter that i got most engaged with in this book and this book is a little book was the chapter where i explored how does this type of analytics work to explain uh the environmental condition and so one of the arguments that i make for instance is you know once land is truly dead once water bodies are truly dead they also become invisible you know it's like we don't deal we don't and i argue i sort of a bit of a provocation i say we should make a special kind of jurisdiction that captures that particular condition so as to make it visible you know and and i argue for instance that that you know we should have when we when we teach our kids in elementary school in kindergarten we throw the maps of the world we should show them dead land and dead water they should be present and visible and we cannot we made that you know we made that death so that is a bit the argument you know it's a call for making visible that which now becomes so extreme that it falls off the cliff of our theorizations of our analytic categories and of our the instruments that we have developed if you want state instruments private sector instruments to deal with what we need to deal with now to do this kind of work um i sort of need a zone where i can operate that i call the zone before method it's not a rejection of method but in the in the social sciences method is a disciplining condition and sooner or later you have to enter that zone i think we enter it typically far too quickly and hence we wind up with very conventional analyses we can wind up with multiple replications of familiar conditions and find little wrinkles that need additional elaboration i really think that there is a vast zone that requires an analytic you know an analytics if you want to capture it so in that sense the zone before method is one where i deploy if you want analytic tactics so it's not a rejection of method it's not a rejection of the heart of the paradigm it is something different something that is preoccupied with what is not forcefully present at the heart of the paradigmatic sort of body of knowledge so among these analytic tactics these are very simple one is um what don't i see when i invoke a very powerful category and i would be curious to know in the law how that works if that is also sort of a if you want a strategy you know that you take some very powerful categories that say mark a field a specialized domain within the law and and if that is also a question that people ask themselves what don't i see when i deploy this category so the question is not to reject that powerful category the question is precisely because it's powerful it has had to sort out a lot of aspects in other words it eliminates it eliminates it becomes conceptual it becomes theoretical theory in the original greek seeing but it hasn't eliminated a lot of stuff so we need such categories but we can't we don't need to throw them out of the window we really can't easily throw them out of the window but we can ask what don't i see when i use that category so i deploy that with all kinds of very elementary concepts or which have become categories in a way immigration the middle classes the state when i invoke those terms there are invitations in my view not to think because you know we just we assume we know and so a bit one of my sort of methodological practices is to operate in that in that level the second one is the need to actively destabilize stabilized meanings again what i was saying about the state the middle class etc which is a bit of a different practice from from asking what don't i see but destabilizing a category also winds up enabling you to see something so i interrogate uh these categories for instance when i deal with the city which is one of my subjects i if i really want to do serious work on a on a subject that has to do with the city or the city as a category i have to remove myself far enough from the city that i've lost it that i have found a definition that is the non-x i always you will hear me say this thing about the the x and the non x is the city is the x if i really want to to define it and to recover you know the complexity of it and this sort of overwhelming variety of elements i just want to remove myself so i say the city is a complex but incomplete system there you know that you might not immediately think about the city when you hear that but if i apply that to understand the city i discover things about the city and one issue for instance to give you a very quick is that the city if it is complex and incomplete it means a density by itself as a marker is not enough an office park has density secondly but it's not a city secondly you can argue that a lot of what we're doing when we talk about the urbanization has to do with building density does it have to do with city no these are mostly closed often privately owned like an office park uh conditions and so why does it matter one might then ask why does it matter to recover what the city is so one of my answers is the city is a space where those without power get to make a history a culture an economy and then it matters it matters to understand that density by itself is not the same as city that the city is a very particular space and the city of course as you must have read in some places is being bought up i'm now working with the data set of 100 cities the 100 cities that i have received most of the investment in the last two years and london of course as you know is a key destination so is oxford cambridge less you may also know that and so what happens when you have all this corporate buying mega projects that eliminate ambiguity that privatize you lose a street i think the street in my reading be street a necessary but indeterminate space that indeterminacy is so easily lost nowadays with mega projects etc so that is sort of one one way of of going about it now another another sort of uh practice another zone that i like and it sort of relates to what don't i see is to to sort of a synthesizing image if you want is that my zone for research for actually empirical research is in the shadows of very powerful categories so there i go digging now in the shadows you don't see very well you don't have you know you need special tools and those are the analytic tactics then right so so that is and one of the questions i have i hope somebody is taking note of my questions to you these are questions that i have for you and i hope to have a chance to that we discuss that is do you have equivalents so the fuzzy zones i i think i just recently gave a talk at the columbia university law school where i teach and i talked quite a bit about fuzzy zones and all the the profs this was just profs uh they then began to give all kinds of examples about the fuzziness you know especially if angular american law that that that is a source of so many debates but anyhow so the other one is do you have you know a question to you in a way do you have zones in your conceptual zones whatever the the useful term for you where you actually you know you you have to go digging you have to discover because they're ambiguous i i had the impression for instance when the global systematicity emerges that a lot of legal scholars had to enter i i spent a lot of time with legal scholars at that that was like 10 years ago or something that they had to enter a zone where they were not fully armed with concepts you know to capture that that was a major transformation that unsettled a lot about national law so anyhow those are some some of the some of the questions now what i want to start out with is this notion of making which is another one of my analytic tactics and i find myself in this current period given what is happening in the research that i'm interested in and especially with this this subject of expulsions and uh that the category making is very important so i want to insist that that deadline that that land that that water we made it that's exaggerated that's not totally correct the we is ambiguous making is you know so it is a partial account but it is a violent way almost to enter a subject to enter an issue and so for instance just this is entertainment moment though it is about tragic stuff so we make we made this this is the internally displaced people that is not just something oh my god there it happened no we made it so when i as a social scientist begin to deal with some of these can people see in the back it's a very simple curve right but look how it grew it keeps growing now it's even bigger right so when you when you say we made that you've got to bring into the explanation a very broad zone of agents not just the fact of the miseries of these people right and so by the way a transversal a transversal element here that that i discussed somewhere in the book but i'm not going to focus on that here is that um that some of these displaced people camps you know as they call them internally displaced i mean those people are never going back home home is either a war zone a new private city or a plantation and so why the language of displaced don't we need another language to capture this and secondly when they've spent so much time sometimes two or three generations and now there's a whole debate i i'm part of a big network or around this question uh where they are actually studying in great detail these games these camps are ready to be cities and that would enable but guess who doesn't allow them to become cities it's the international system that tries to help them to protect them but that reduces them to clients to victims etc you go into some of these camps they are already little cities but there are all kinds of constraints on sort of taking the next step so this is another another issue and also the land on which they sit if it becomes a city it's going to be more difficult to displace the displaced from what might at some point emerge as desirable land and so there is a whole bundle of issues now i also love this one again this is like a bit entertainment about very tragic situations this you know when i'm talking about the rlc 20 years reduced to a sliver i stand back and i say i am witnessing an extraordinary capability to destroy such a huge body of water in such a short period of time that's a capability clearly i'm not using capability the way amartya sen or martha nuzban views it also because historically speaking i think capability x time a may have been very good benign at least time b it may really be a different so this notion that a capability must be positive to me comes with far too much of a baggage so i open it up into a variable negative capabilities that might become positive i doubt that one would and then here is another one this is another accomplishment and this is like at long distance effect you see what i'm talking about here right you can can you see the in the back there you see well okay in a few years we managed to destroy a massive and of course the the the origins lie in our industrial societies not in that area of the world so this these are very exaggerated instances of what i'm trying to get at by emphasizing by using this very partial account this partial brutal account that goes right in there and leaves out all kinds of other things that are of course part of the picture now given that a lot of what i'm doing in this project really concerns the current moment with all the problems that brings if you are a researcher that you know you can deal with everything but but one of the one of the questions for me is you know what are synthesizing images or whatever phrases you know concepts that allow you to capture so so one of them that i like to ask you know what is the steam engine of this apple by this epoch i mean the last 30 years in much of the world it starts out in certain parts of the world especially europe and the north america it moves on by now it is quite a bit of the world still not the whole world but it is a history that begins 30 years ago with very specific combinations of elements that i oh i brought a book for your library it's public access book i hope where i describe all of this is my territory book where i describe you know this combination of elements that produces this foundational transformation without by the way altering everything the the organizing question in this book is how do complex systems change and they don't change simply by some revolutionary thing that everything goes but they change often by using existing capabilities but they make them they they get located in different organizing logics so one of the issues that i did there was to look at at certain certain uh legal capabilities and how they are say the rule of law very important to justify the emergence of the national state in the history you know where the sovereign was the king et cetera et cetera and um it's a secularizing project you know and in a way that becomes critical to justify the neoliberal if i may use that term for shorthand the neoliberal global system the rule of law but it really jumped that same capability the language it jumps organizing logics and it becomes part of a if you want a mixture of rules and constraints and freedoms that strengthen the corporate sector and weaken several features of national law to protect citizens to protect national industry you know the whole sort of deregulation privatization bit so that is sort of an example now back to this so i want to to to to look at this period and ask myself what is the steam engine of this period now when i ask this question uh i mostly talk to very large audiences where i don't get to hear an answer but when i speak to a small group like this i'm just very very tempted to ask i don't know if you are if you can sort of give me an answer what from your perspective is the steam engine of this epoch can anybody you know what i mean by a steam engine something that is present directly and indirectly that has multiple ramifications that go way past the original item so to say right can anybody think but actually this is not about thinking this is about sort of a spontaneous nobody has a spontaneous answer the internet the internet everybody with the internet exactly that is that's not my answer by the way but that is what i always get when i get a chance and i assume that when i'm speaking to a large audience that that is in their mind you know where i don't but partly as a provocation partly as a wake-up call i say no it's not these digitized capabilities etc they're present everywhere directly and indirectly so it's a very good answer to say the steam engine so can anybody guess what it is that i'm going to say what would be the number two what would somebody if it's not that what yeah like consumption consumption is a good answer too it says that consumption is a shrinking domain vis-a-vis what feeds economic growth today you see there are other modes that are dominant yes yes exactly it's the financializing it's not so much finance it's the financializing so so so in here i should say that again to make a distinction traditional banking which we all need by the way we all need banks a little community to advance if you want to buy a bike to be green you know you people need loans little loan so i don't have anything against traditional banking little banks you know especially if there are local banks they recirculate whatever the interest payment capacity that a community has nothing wrong finance is very different so one way of putting it is that the traditional bank sells money it has finance sells something it does not have and therein lies its danger if you want to all kinds of sectors and secondly its extraordinary creativity i use it with a bit of irony but you know it is truly creative uh because it has to invent instruments that allow it to invade sectors that are as varied as the financializing of commodities you know grains and i don't know what the financializing of fantastic real estate the financializing of used car loans and you know in other words very low or or very modest mortgages so that is a capacity and it is dangerous because without invading other sectors it doesn't you know it's nothing so one for me always an indicator is is uh to take the value i take the value of finance as measured by outstanding derivatives which is the basic measure at different periods and compare it with two things one is if you take currency as issued by the central banks of countries what is the amount of actual currency and that you know that that is a very mushy figure usually because there is inflation there is governments that change you know whatever it is there you know you you know about that i don't need to elaborate so so but you know if there is a lot of difference then even if it is a variable measure the actual currency in circulation at a given time in the world you still have a measure there right and so um i'm going to show you this how many of you have seen this graph this is famous this comes from the credit uh default swaps thing you know so it's there this is official from the financial system so oh i don't have a pointer so what i want to what i want to i'll microphone i'm still talking to you okay so is is the growth curve you don't need to see so from less than one trillion in 201 to 60 to the high point 62 trillion in 207 can you think of anything that has had that growth rate that's a very strong growth rate very few conditions in the real world have that kind of growth rate the second point if you take global gdp the gdp of all the economies in the world at that point it is 54 trillion that is to say less than the 62 trillion third point if you take the total value of financial or finance this is just one important instrument like credit default swaps but there are many other instruments and so the standard measure these are also derivatives right the standard measured is the value of outstanding derivatives well the value of outstanding derivatives which includes swaps right was at that point 630 trillion that is 15 times the value of global gdp then if you take the value of the actual currency in circulation as issued by central banks in other words not bitcoins and whatever at that point it was about 200 trillion that tells you something about finance that tells you something that indicates that you can't just think of finance as money we use money because it is our standard measure it's an indicator etc but what it also tells you is the extraordinary creativity of this sector now i want to to um to to illustrate the the central argument that i'm trying to make is that the steam engine of our epoch so to speak i mean i'm using this because i'm speaking to you i would not put this in a book you know but it's like a way of of uh covering a lot of material with one image the steam engine uh the the reason i argue that this is the steam engine of our epoch is because one of the reasons that it takes all these extraordinary values is because it has developed instruments to invade all sectors and and uh we all know who are the key makers of these brilliant instruments they're physicists so at one point i i said at one point because that is when i was actually taking doing the field work at one point the back room the back room the space that used to be the space of the secretaries the back room at goldman sachs one of the big firms you know in wall street uh had a hundred physicists one of them became my buddy so he told me a lot he's now a some kind of prophet columbia university but a hundred physicists developing brilliant instruments the core math has nothing to do with microeconomics now in england you know i know in the uk microeconomics isn't this dominant thing that in the united states you say economics and the only serious economics for a long time was microeconomics now finance has gained a certain finance at that in that time was seen as second-class economics but the algorithm of course is an open structure you put in stuff you it gets mixed up and then some out comes something the algorithm is the basic sort of structure for this type of sector finance whereas in banking you know it's it's sort of more traditional so in that sense a big difference now i want to illustrate this as capability with a particular event a particular micro history that is a real one but i could illustrate it with a lot of stuff all right but you know this is just this is a good oh i forgot about this this is another feature i'm sure you have heard of this the dark pools in the united states so most financial trading today you never hear about it because it happens in these dark pools when bernanke our formal head of the fed retired he said i know all the other things he said he said well in about 70 percent of trading is probably happening in dark pools and we don't know what's happening there he used the language tarpools not high as a lefty or whatever you know i may be so i think that is also indicative so the these are sort of estimates but they're not they're not stupid estimates they are well-informed estimates and uh as you can see europe has much less of that so that when we talk about high finance there's a whole world that is very difficult to get a handle of outcomes are make it possible to get a sense of total value at play how they get to that is difficult now i want to illustrate with a very sharp contrast very very modest assets very modest assets that can be used by high finance very complicated process to make very modest assets work for high finance which is also an interesting observation you understand brilliant minds all the physicists to work how do i make a little little thingy work for who for the high in the high high investment circuit right because and and there are interesting temporalities in this period so one very interesting period comes right after this this uh this this thing here but already before which is that the high investment circuit is is asking the financial sector which is a kind of intermediary you know though they have also become their own actors uh please give us an asset backed security rather than a derivative based on an interest based on another derivative these long chains do you understand what i'm talking about right and so um so and that is th this suprem the sub the subprime mortgage you must have heard of this you have had some of that too by the way it's still going on anyhow so very very quickly you can read those two sentences you know the the the question is how do we introduce this as acid as we can sell it as asset-packed security and secondly and they go absolutely together one can't work without the other how do we camouflage the low value of the asset that was the complexity a dear a dear colleague of mine at columbia university uh he showed me the six seven you know it varied a lot but a lot of steps in between steps to make that transformation so the back room full of physicists is truly a kind of silicon valley for finance they are inventing and innovating etc it's a technical problem i think you all know the probably the little book the technical problem how in many many domains you have very worthy scientists working on a technical problem that eventually becomes a disastrous machine you know for now here is the result very quickly put foreclosures you know is a notice according to bernanke there was another thing he said most of these people 14 million of these households uh out of their homes so he said by by 20 by by 20 the end of 2014 this process this is a process with i don't want to go into the details but this is just to to and here you have the very clear image that this is the high point right yeah but it keeps on going because these are these you know these offers that i have for five years or you don't have to pay anything you can own a house the aim was how do we get this household to sign a contract that is all they wanted whether those people could pay or not the contract the people the intermediary agents had to get about 500 contracts a week to make it work over 15 million of these contracts were issued now these 14 million households that are sort of out those are households and and in terms of their rentals and all of that i mean you know it's a it's a mix but mostly their households that is about 30 million people now i'm dutch i'd like to make it pythagorean my country has 16 million people so what this meant was a voice from up there saying the equivalent in the netherlands okay all the people in the church of the netherlands out where you go i don't know but you're out and then now we repeat the exercise it's a lot of people and they're invisible again my play with this the invisibility bit no matter how material if you cross a certain edge i call them systemic edges it becomes invisible because we're not not because it's invisible but because our categories don't allow us to capture it so what do we have we have fast stretches of empty neighborhoods we have using the same tents as the international refugee system nice blue tents we have thousands and thousands of people living in 10 cities outside municipal governments nice municipal governments i mean this is a world that is invisible i have videos of all of it and i when i show it to people they can't believe it they can believe it is the united states so to me this this is part of my expulsions argument and a lot of these people are not the poorest of the poor you know though we also had the biggest it's now being evacuated the biggest and i'm just curious to know if you know the biggest encampment for the homeless up to up to now now it's being that emerges after 208 the crisis where do you think it was does anybody know silicon valley the silicon valley is a very beautiful valley it has hills and if you stand on top and you look down you wouldn't have seen it again i have video of it you would not have seen it if you come from below you see it and it is you know they have carbs and etc but i checked in great detail because i was reading something into this these were a lot of young men uh and they had top quality footwear how do you call them sneakers and great bikes guess who they were they were these techies who thought you know the party would go on forever suddenly they're homeless and and and why while you're sneakers you have to use and the bike as the way because in california you need some wheels and so yeah i mean these are micro i have a i have a whole series of videos of these encampments that i was describing and i took it early in the morning and then you know before anybody's out and so i show them to my students and i say who do you think is going to come out of there they always think either an african-american or a latino an out come anglo anglo after anglo after anglo and they can't you know what i mean by anglo this is one way in which we immigration people used to speak about the anglophone but uh so these are tough stories now in europe they think this is not happening it is and i in the book i have quite a few more figures but anyhow what i like here and if i had a pointer i would point is that germany is among the top right now a lot of these foreclosure as you know is a notice the problem is that it winds up being an effect you know a real thing in the sense that people just have to leave they can't they can't manage it now the numbers as you can see these are actual numbers by the way you understand this is not a growth curve right these are individual numbers that belong to each year and among the lowest foreclosures you even have nice countries so to speak denmark netherlands you know you wouldn't expect that hungary is a disaster a million households now this is just three years that i'm showing you here the story continues and these again these are sort of invisible stories what is left is the evidence the empty space but nobody goes to those neighborhoods so they are also de facto invisible by themselves none of this is invisible but the the intermediations of our social existence etc make them invisible now here is another so the image that i want to leave you with a lot of empty space and a lot of displaced people so this is from my data set and this is what oh god yes right i don't have it anyhow this is national and foreign investment volumes this is one year mid 2013 to mid 2014. this is corporate investment this the lowest property is is 5 million variable quantity depending on the country etc and as you can see new york's at the top london this is just one year this is on some level a very old history clearly but this is a new phase in that old history that starts after the crisis of 208 is now escalating etc so i told you i have a hundred cities that are the top cities if you and so what you see here just as an image and it goes on and on you have a few cities that capture most of it and then you have a very very sort of long tail that includes a lot of cities and now would i care about this story is not really oh by the way i should before i say that this is foreign investment foreign investment london is number one and you must all have heard that one bit uh that the and by the way what i'm going to tell you i used to say gentrification is not adequate language many people say oh that's gentrification well it is also gentrification so the thing that i want to tell you and you probably notice is that the quattari royals own more of london than the queen of england now we know that the queen of england is not the main owner of london but still you know i thought that i always say that when i'm not in the uk just to mark the notion that gentrification doesn't capture the process there is something deeper that we need to to capture and so for me this is about this is about really buying urban land and that is why i give you this brief explanation in what way the city matters a lot to me you know because it's this complex space incomplete where those without power can get to make a history something they will not make in a mega project or in an office park they may be employed but they don't you know so so i i have a whole bunch of sort of research that i've done on cities and asymmetric wars cities and and inequality cities and the poor so it comes out of that and this is not the moment to develop that but anyhow here you have some figures now i want to move on what i'm trying to show you is how finance directly and indirectly makes itself present where you might least expect it now here's another one which is that and finance again had to to build this but the bridge into even the most modest household now here we deal partly with banks partly with financial firms and so uh what i'm going to show you now don't bother about all the numbers and all that just look for instance just let's start with the title of it i just want to isolate a few numbers the title ratio of household credit to personal disposable income you understand that measure right and by the way this is imf staff papers i work a lot with the imf staff papers that's a lot of good data that doesn't get doesn't become part of the imf report and often it's a lot of negative data but anyhow so ratio of household credit credit sounds very pretty credit is debt all right so that to me that language bit is also interesting look at hungary and this is by the way a critical year same thing with the subprime mortgage 2000 to 205. hungary starts with 11 that's incredibly low look at the united states already over a hundred i don't have the uk here but anyhow and then it five years later it's almost 40 percent that's a very rapid growth rate uh spain a country of course which suffered a massive you know the battle there with the mortgages also 65 rupee goes up to 112. germany on the other hand you see germany 70 70 70 70 to me it's almost like a comic opera i must say about the germans that incredible stability no other country managed that but so as i said at the beginning you know if a small bank or a credit union owns your debt your capacity to buy a loan and to pay interest rate in other words the interest payments that you make chances are will recirculate in your town or in your neighborhood or whatever you know if it if a foreign bank owns your debt who knows it's a franchise system it takes it out who knows where it goes chances are it will not recirculate you know in your town and so i looked for for these countries against imf staff papers all the data are there it's amazing get hungary 40 of that debt is foreign it's foreign banks it's big swiss austrian and uh swiss banks so i mean german thanks so that is not good now here oops this is the same i'm sorry does this repeat oh you know what i'm sorry oh yeah yeah i'm just pushing the wrong button now i wanted to show you just as information oh who's going to tell me when i have to shut up i have a lot more to do how much time do i have so so i just wanted to emphasize one thing this is just curiosity item so look at the top there you see london that's for the uk so that the price is the price of housing price to income ratio you know we're talking serious stuff here it's not just price and um and then london i mean the uk is much lower look at the united states this is the united states down here and there is new york so that is a familiar story but these charts are amazing and you can sort of play with them you know you can bring in different combinations i couldn't help but share that with you now there is an issue that i and this relates to the larger question of development the talk of the troika can i use that term for shorthand is that greece has a problem spain has a problem etc i pushed very hard in my expulsions book to make the argument that we're dealing with is systematicity that affects all these countries it's just that other elements come into the picture and so this graph for me is very important all these countries and i have many more countries that i looked at they all suffer a fall including germany it's just that germany the red line on top manages to do much better after that partly because it has a very strong manufacturing sector intermediate manufacturing you know machines that make machines they are the best in the world which is in itself a tale by the way an interesting tale that manufacturing you know that is solid stuff and and and then of course greece has the oligarchs spain had its absolute abuse of the construction syndrome etc but there is a deeper systematicity in in chapter two of expulsions i make a very i think uh strong argument that what we're called what we today call the need for austerity politics i mean look at the moral language right austerity is really the equivalent systemically speaking of the restructuring programs for the global south the effect of those restructuring programs was um devastated economies and predatory elites you know it couldn't have gone worse the second point the debate now that the germans especially saying schweibert is saying no greece has signed the contracts it cannot we cannot change the contracts well the imf in at some point decides that 46 countries that were subject to its policies are never going to pay their debt and it starts their ihpc program you know highly indebted poor countries i'm sure many of you know what i'm talking about so yes hell yes they can change a contract a contract is made i have a whole line of analysis you know that it's based on the notion that we made these things and hence yes we can change them i mean the conditions of course under which we can change them matter i'm going to jump some of these curves but i want to dwell on two i have a whole set of these and look at this so this is corporate profits there comes the fall you know the prices a crisis that lasts about two hours literally speaking after that it gets it's even higher than before the crisis all kinds of things happen in between that was made that didn't fall from the sky already made that the curve goes even higher you understand what i'm saying right and of course when i say two two hours i hope you understood it was a few years but it was like nothing in the meantime the rest of society is still suffering the crisis so the a real disjuncture here you don't even see the crisis but look at that curve here is the crisis and you have like a slight bump that literally doesn't have an hour probably and and then it goes higher than ever and so a question is what happened uh a couple of things happened when one of them is an amazing amount of pumping what the elegantly called quantitative easing pumping off cash currency real money which is like pure gold you understand in a highly speculative system on which they could build extraordinary profit rates no conditionalities attached to the banks getting this money um not even you have to make loans those these financial firms so-called often referred to as banks they're not in the business of making loans loans does not make you money if it brings you in cash that you can then maybe but you know it just it doesn't so they don't so these are a series of abuses i want to end up with i'm going to end up with something i'm not here is more the other version of land grabs in the global south and it probably i should have dwelt a bit more on but this is a massive uh i'm sure that people are aware of this right so one the best source of information i think is a land matrix which is a global network of people who really collect the data it only includes properties that are above 200 hectares europe is becoming a destination for land grabs french who want to be farmers like their parents were because the job market is not very good they can't buy land it's brought up by the way in cambridgeshire part of the land has been bought up by a foreign investor do you know this very nice environmentally oriented genuinely environmentally oriented swedish firm h m or something like that hms the owner of hms very nice person who has bought a huge stretch of land in the north of england england proper uh so so this stuff again and so you begin to put all of these stories together these three stories that i have talked about the supreme mortgage and all these expulsions the the buying up of the city and the buying up of land land has become a very important element it's a safe investment you can store your money but it's also that too much land i i have images here that show too much land is dead i'm not going to go there uh hence land becomes super important to extract water for many scientists the real crisis we face is water though they have discovered you know beneath the the bottom of the ocean there is a whole other world huge amount of water so that you know you know what i'm talking about nobody this was senior so anyhow so i want to end with an image which is given all these negatives who are we the citizens because we are being really treated rather poorly by a lot of this stuff um and so i wanted to ask you who among you has seen this map this is in the public domain this is a map that that shows the 10 000 buildings which is there right where uh full-time data gathering for surveillance purposes is taking place and very few people have seen this map i've been showing this map for a few years i always emphasize it's in the public domain um and after mr snowden of course came out people could begin to connect to this map so it and and so that to me is is the ultimate sort of thing about who are we the citizens as formal subjects in the law we have been losing rights one of my projects is the rights that we have lost and i have a colleague here in the uk i will not mention his name we're trying to sort of nail down all the rights we have lost what i have been showing you is a massive loss not a formalized rights but of the underpinnings of livelihoods etc etc so and this is but the most extreme version so um who are we the citizens thank you very much | Cambridge Law Faculty | UCKpz_4qERjwMB7oFMW1RmHw | 2015-02-16 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 8,623 | 45,129 |
jVBLu-n0xmM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVBLu-n0xmM | Not Even Fake; Averting False News Misinterpretation, Horasis Extraordinary Meeting on the USA, 2021 | um uh hi there okay so since we're recording i'll say hello and i'm uh looking forward to people joining us for this conversation about uh not even fake i think once we get a few people in the room i'll read beautifully here i'm seeing dr korra butler joe but yes i was about to say i read um that the us navy released a patent for a theoretical technology to create a field within which objects have no mass and therefore no momentum and so they could create aerial vehicles they could just do a 90 degree turn at mac whatever and have no impact on the people piloting the vehicle and so there's all kind of kind of talk about whether we could uh i just want an anti-gravity belt that's all i'm holding out for never mind flying cars um so uh welcome dr cora jones it is jones i didn't want to presume dr cora butler jones awesome and a holistic health owner it's very interesting uh i'll just give a couple more minutes we we've got um three more panelists are due to join us and i don't want to exclude them in the meantime uh uh dr butler jones uh cora if you have any particular questions you'd be interested to throw into the mix put them in the comments and i'll see if i can feed them into the discussion that we have and um what do you reckon for should we give them until five minutes after and then and then we'll kick off what is there any what sorry oh yeah yeah so in january this year i ran a a conference for we had a 1700 delegates uh 67 speakers 92 sessions over three days uh 62 hours of content which is now on vimeo exploring the essence of creativity with the intention of helping people to nurture their creative nature we had the ceo of a bank dancers choreographers digital artists of various kinds singers performers and the goal was to explore what creativity is and to help people um well to share insights into the creative process so that people can can see new ways to approach their creativity so we just today launched creativecommunity.is which went live a few hours ago and it's a an opportunity for people to join together and share ideas and share work and it's pretty cool i write books on um a number of different things but one of the on futurism obviously but also on post-production and the official book on adobe premiere if you know it and audition those are my books uh cora that's a great question thank you uh since we're not started yet i should i might as well answer my understanding of the role of a futurist is to be as accurate as possible in forecasting what and when so for example uh forecasting the timing of the transition to cryptocurrencies the transitions in education systems transitions in approaches to health and well-being and occupations but also in the development and release of specific new technologies and how those technologies impact our lives my interest is in the universality of the human condition so i'm always interested to see ways that technology allows us to fulfill our potential as human beings rather than looking cool and selling stuff and being competitive and i'm a great believer in uh something that noam chomsky said a long time ago that while it's true that we can tend to be competitive with one another and we can that competitiveness can be nurtured actually it's more fundamental to our nature to collaborate and cooperate and that's one of the reasons that our media have to work so hard to make us competitive and to be afraid of not being cool enough because we actually tend towards cooperation instead and so i'm always interested in projects that facilitate us working together but yeah a futurist is someone who tries to be right in their guesses about the future i yes it can be data driven yeah is the prediction data driven uh it it can be and you know it's one of those principles that the more data you have the more accurate your predictions can be but i've also found that deepening my understanding of human nature has given me a good framework within which i can assess new developments and new potential outcomes and new technologies because the human condition is pretty much universal it doesn't matter what your ethnic origin a smile is a smile we all love to be loved we all need to be needed those are pretty fundamental needs so yes the more data the better but also there are some fundamentals about i think about being alive but what i mean paul you're a big data guy right what do you think about that future predictions yeah i the think of the current so uh you have to kind of look at it like everybody's living in their past and that's a uh of how society should be and then if you uh if you push forward onto it and actually do something about it then unfortunately you fall into something called the adventure dilemma those are the yes yeah yeah which i'm experiencing right now in the nasdaq in fact so um a couple of people have noted and i've noticed as well paul you're a little bit quiet uh now i recall no no you we can hear you but the volume is low is that something you're able to change on your system i hear something seems similar do you um i can get rid of the headphones and try to mic that might work let's give it a go how's that is this any better uh maybe maybe although now i'm getting an echo okay let's let's let's go back to the headphones and uh we'll just listen listen we'll just listen clearly i listen to my voice enough as it is without hearing it twice how's that yeah well we can we can hear you it's not super loud and maybe i can speak more softly and then you can ramp it up and aim for the back row so uh so ladies and gentlemen thank you very much for joining us um charles welcome cora welcome sarah welcome um i'm actually really excited to to have this panel discussion uh we were expecting to have uh three more panelists um who i'm i'm guessing have been held up but uh paul and i will plow ahead with this discussion and paul's eminently um well placed to express opinions about this and i have a list of really fascinating um well i think they're fascinating fascinating topics to explore i was going to say fascinating questions uh before i kick off i'll just begin by reading the brief introduction that frank produced for this panel he wrote individually we interpret data somewhat differently as we attempt to make it meaningful too often we misperceive and so disagree with others interpretations irrespective of cyber wars how can we remove alarming but innocent false interpretations before they go viral on social media would sanitizing media eliminate creativity and thus development this is certainly a complex debate because of course we get into the territory of censorship and from which vantage point shall we censor it becomes really really complex so before i kick off um paul would you just give us a just a few moments uh a history for yourself and what your what your position is on this topic about yes investor inventor and uh entrepreneur and i've done all three at the same time and now i focus more on the entrepreneurial side but you know on what you're saying with the social media a little tough um i think throughout history we look at censorship through morality and i think as morality has transitioned and has changed by a certain force i would say not really a progression um you know it kind of gets scarier because the to give somebody a platform and then say that they cannot speak on a platform after it's monopolizes is a danger to freedom of speech um so you know that's that's where all the dangers start and from there you don't know where to go so you know unless it's you know god forbid something horrible on the moral side um you know it's kind of dangerous territory to be played with yeah it's quite frightening isn't it i think i think i personally tend towards self-censorship where possible but having worked for 20 years in education i uh i've come to realize that people you know the white coat syndrome right people do tend to believe things that are said confidently and unfortunately when you see something black and white you tend to think oh it must be true because they wrote it just to give a little background on myself at least for the recording and for cora for joining us i'm a futurist and a filmmaker and an author i speak um at conferences around the world and and do a lot of mentorship and uh development work with people i run the creativity conference i run the creative community and write books on post-production and practical philosophy and and books on futurism i've worked with ieee a little bit uh i typically usa and consult for a number of organizations on emerging technologies and emerging let's say socio-technical landscapes and so as a media practitioner i'm particularly interested in the topic we're discussing today and i think that um you know i have a bunch of questions to throw at you paul and i wanna i wanna hear what you think of this um but i suppose my my position on it is that ultimately the only solution is probably to have uh some form of objective verification uh which i know a lot of platforms are moving towards and experimenting with to a greater or lesser extent but we we have to accept the reality that people are easily manipulated now there are benign ways to manipulate people which is essentially what education is although i like your comment that cora that education is a system of imposed ignorance the quote from noam chomsky um in many cases that's true and um certainly you know there are a lot of people that that say that education is is problematic but there are benign ways to attempt to influence people and less benign ways and as we've seen from the media coverage of it things like fake news and also the ways in which people are being manipulated even today as information is being misread about vaccines and vaccinations we have this issue that we need to have free speech but we also need to have verification that's that's kind of my summary let's start at the beginning uh so here's my first question the idea of sanitizing media which is something that frank mentioned in his description for this discussion is an uncomfortable one but is there more that social media platforms can or should do to help to clarify the information that's shared to avoid that misinterpretation now you're dealing with big data how can you if you've got an enormous amount of media enormous amount of posts and comments and shares how do you find a mechanism for avoiding interpretation or can you of course you can i mean look number one i think it starts without central ownership so i think that's the main problem um many of these media outlets are all controlled by the same individuals and i think i think they're they're they're run as press they run on social media but they just become censorship and i and i cannot agree with that ever especially as an american um and uh i just don't like it it's not it's not freedom of speech there's no freedom of ownership there should be a manner of either expressing uh terms and conditions better than 300 pages of contracts on the mobile you know yeah there should be a priority on individuals expression of freedom um of course you know not not uh ignoring morality but uh there has to be you know a way to have a hybrid approach to ownership of and privacy that's what i think it's an interesting challenge isn't it because you know naturally if you introduce things like hate speech or you know encouraging people to commit crimes uh is criminal and so we have clear rules about that but when it comes to deliberately uh conveying information that will be misinterpreted or deliberately conveying information to be interpreted in a way that's just shifting people's perceptions a bit uh then we don't really have laws to protect people against that that because you could argue that it's a matter of opinion although it does seem to me that we we found ourselves culturally in a strange place in which people confuse opinions with facts as if they're somehow equal and of course they're completely different things it's chalk and cheese they're both valuable and important but they're not the same thing and so i'm with you in the free speech thing i think it's very important that people are free to uh to express themselves and i do think that we've got a slight misinterpretation of the concept of causing offense you know it's one thing to intend to offend to intend to cause harm by offending somebody it's a completely different thing to express yourself in a way that someone finds offense with it's the intention to my mind makes an important difference that can be very hard to uh police in uh um social media platforms where you've got ai reading the thing and hoping to make sense of it so so here's my my next question um and uh thank you uh cora uh cora just quoted chomsky again if we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise we don't believe in it at all it's beautifully put thank you and um i agree wholeheartedly but i you know perhaps it's a very british thing but we we quite like being offended we it's kind of a healthy part of our culture i hope so here's my next question to what degree are social media platforms responsible for the spread of information can they reasonably say you know hey we're just a platform and people post and it's up to them it's up to people to police it or can we reasonably claim as is gradually starting to happen that if they have control over what's presented they are effectively publishers and therefore responsible where do you stand on that it's not the um that's the issue and it's and it's not the scale i think it's it's the it's the ownership of the data itself and i think that's where the creations uh the problem really is created i think because they don't give ownership of the data to the actual users um they're subject to whatever the biggest investor feels like so that's that's really the main issue i think that's where you see uh facebook has gone into their stream twitter as well um it's their right to do whatever they want don't get me wrong but once you start challenging people um you're you're sending a message you're sending a silent message as well with your actions and i think when when it's supposed to be a forum of discussion and universal you know humanism it's not going to work out you know the way that humanity works is we all give it an opinion or or us you know an idea and we let people come back with their freedom of idea and if you cannot support that then you know you can't really support the modern world at that point so where is that going to lead to we see countries um you know in the east where we don't have freedom of speech and if we're going to move into that space it's going to be dangerous territory i i think i think it doesn't work out the same way especially here in the u.s where people were misinterpreting some finality i think and also a lot of data just you know with politics everything's dirty um so you don't want to get involved with it so i think they should just stay away from politics in general especially i don't think they should get their heads dirty into that yes i mean it's certainly dangerous territory isn't it as i mentioned earlier my and my tendency is towards self-censorship i believe there are things i just don't want in my psyche and so i will turn away from them to avoid that being mixed up in my identity and my worldview but uh it's i suppose you know i mean we i want to veer a little bit away from uh the concept of censorship in particular because the the subject that that frank's posed for us here is more about the interpretation of information and and the accurate interpretation um but i think that that we we have this challenge because it is the interpretation everything is always interpretative and so you know cora just posted there who is responsible for graffiti it's a great point you know but i do think that the social media platforms that are representing uh information in a specific context they are the conduit by which people are expressing themselves and i i think that it's uh again i think that if somebody says something explicitly wicked that is explicitly inciting violence i think that one could argue that there's a problem with that that you know it's inciting a crime is a crime and so if you said right anybody who wears a suit jacket and jeans as i am now should be killed then that's a problem right but but it becomes much more complex when people are saying things like uh goodness uh i'm trying to think of a subject that like marmite right should you like marmite or not and you know here are reasons why you should or shouldn't when we get into more subtle territory where people are placing emphasis on particular ideas and under emphasizing others you know we were speaking just before we started about the way the media the global media seems to be exclusively highlighting uh negative news about the astrazeneca vaccine but none of the other vaccines and as i said earlier i'm always suspicious when the global media gets together on anything i was i always suspicious suspicious of ulterior motives so it's curious and the stories that they're citing are unproven things that ultimately it's resolved no that's not an issue move on but uh it's uh it's how we um how we present those subtle issues that are an issue uh cora's just asked for the mic and just before i i give cora the mic i want to throw the next question in uh to the pot which is is there any meaningful way because we're talking about interpretation here is there any meaningful way that society can manage police or control false interpretations the way that people misread things with that said let me see if i can click the right button here to give uh dr cora butler jones the mic as well i've clicked the button let's see if it works this is my first time chairing a meeting on this platform and it's not quite the same as handing a microphone to somebody it's swirling so while while hopefully that works i think maybe you might need to accept a pop-up on your screen there okay we have a tick what do you think paul about society managing people's interpretation hello there surprise so i think there is a lot here stated very limitedly and i think you're doing it deliberate folks have rights and we as clinicians when we approach them we have them look at their internal selves to emerge so that the truth might emerge but it's their truth and it's tempered by their mental illness or their social feelings of injustice but even at a broader scale people have a unique subjective perspective which is the product of their experience and they're always going to frame new information in the context of that experience even if they don't have mental health issues well and and i would posit that our society is a very sick one and that's what we're struggling with we're not looking at the real truth we've had truth flung about quite a lot at this particular conference but people danced around it because they really can't handle the truth and in fact i know it to be true how easy is it to discuss racism in america when i travel over in africa and england and and to you know various other countries even in new zealand they have public meetings that are apology meetings in new zealand with the mahdi indians and it's based on the atrocities the british imposed on them maybe a century ago here in this country we can't even have a casual conversation without people wanting to climb the walls of the house to burn it down because their rights weren't violated i'm not going to go off on that tangent but let's stay on topic as much as we can the truth is the thing and when you have a society that's sick and partly made sick by this technology because they've overused it haven't been police no one's helped them shape their direction their the morality piece wasn't sprinkled in their serp of justice wasn't there all the sweet things that make us normal and fit weren't imposed so people just sort of went wild and now as a result of that behavior the outcome is this this question here um how do we make sure that fake news is not you know controlling our society well i think the issue that we're looking at is more a little more subtle than that i think that the i think that the subject of fake news and the misrepresentation of information intentionally is a major problem but it's not exactly the topic of this panel the topic we're looking at is misinterpretation of the information that's presented by individuals by groups by collectives and obviously there's consequential action from that uh there's a beautiful example i read about years ago there's a fantastic book written in the 50s by a logician called robert tools i think what's his name and it's called straight and crooked thinking and it's about the ways in which people argue and debate crookedly they present false patterns and manipulate people's fascinating book and i think it's in that book he mentions that during the second world war for absolutely no reason whatsoever this what we would now call a meme went around the bananas were good and nobody had any idea why but they became the most hotly demanded fruit for no reason whatsoever nobody knew why bananas were good or whether they were particularly nutritious but for some reason everybody decided they wanted one and this is the sort of unthink that drives a lot of memes and so uh which is you know what richard dawkins was talking about when he coined the phrase that the term meme is that it's a dominant idea that spreads but it often spreads not because it's particularly functional but because it's effective at being spread and that's kind of the territory i want to talk about i want to take this question about the responsibility and again i you know i i think it may be a bridge too far for the amount of time that we have to explore the challenges that people with mental health issues face in in dealing with interpreting uh information in the media and in just complex society but if we take our obviously non-existent average person there's no such thing really but an average person and they're looking at media is there anything that society can do and again paul you know you you've been dealing with these big data issues for a long time can society do anything and cory i want to hear your view about this as well can society do anything to help people interpret things correctly to interpret them accurately or do we just have to throw our hands up and say good luck i know that that's what we do as psychologists we spend a huge amount of time trying to impart wisdom uh using cognitive behavioral therapy dialectical behavior therapy i'm certified in emdr we use all of these skills and techniques to stir the cognitive process to a place of reason and appropriateness that will put people back on charts so that they're back on course and that's kind of what we're getting at here with media but what what's implied and not stated is that they're off course right so what you're describing is someone who is burdened by um i'm being lazy with language but let's say mental health issues of some kind that's preventing them from responding in in a common way in a normal way but i'm thinking in particular about how people that are not especially burdened by mental health issues who are let's say functional in within society how they interpret the information presented to them so for example in the uk there's a recent i think a very positive drive in education to encouraging children at school to participate in debating societies yes and that means that they're forced to explore wait a second where did that information come from and how do you know that's true and and that realization that we have incomplete information and so it behooves us to be pragmatic and not to you know storm the walls uh because we had some because somebody tweeted something you know so um but again i'm curious what do you think paul do you think that there's do you think that as a technologist there's anything that we can do i'm talking about education carl's talking about um you know therapeutic um and forgive me if i'm using the wrong word psychiatry like therapeutic psychiatry maneuvering their psyche right but what about what about technology is there anything we can do as a society without technology i think so i think the the main thing about technology is that it's scalable so if the intent of the society is good and not at the mercy of the powers that divide them you know if that self-realization comes in into a higher more moral standard than their being said then we should be able to come up with collaborative social apps like the clubhouse where we could go on and express you know um town hall style meetings with with uh like-minded or even different different perspective um idealist you know that's that's the whole point of having a technology but again it's it's up to leaders first and if it just don't stand then usually society doesn't have it so that's really what it is certainly as i've gotten older and grumpier i've started blaming governments more for things as i you realize that you know competing corporations have to have a level playing field uh otherwise they i mean in british law a company director cannot vote for something that would diminish profits for the company within the law they have to operate within the law and maximize profits so unless governments implement uh laws that demand specific standards like uh you know removing cfcs from aerosols you know companies can only migrate to using non-cfc-based aerosols and saving literally all life on earth because of the ozone layer depletion even then when it's literally an existential threat they can't change the the propellants they use in aerosols until all companies have to do it because it's a loss of profit but what about ai do you think that do you think that is there some way but i'm thinking about false interpretation let's say for example somebody uh reads something and then they post immediately after that so they view a post and the thing they post next is a misinterpretation yes and we have an ai spot the incongruity and flag it for the user and say hey do you realize what you just posted was wrong is that something that we could do i think we're moving in that direction i don't believe it it would be accurate um i really don't like the term ai um algorithmic algorithms then can we it's just someone else's logic i i agree i agree anytime you have somebody that's designing something whatever their intent is and what's going to rule so i if somebody wants to go against a certain cause i think they're gonna they're gonna have the power to do so um i i think that if you have the ability to to have a more uh i guess data-driven analysis of what happens after a statement is put out or or before a statement is put out to see if there's sources that match officially yeah to something that could be termed the fake news that would be a more of an accurate thing than stating just this is wrong or this is uh this is fake news or this yeah i mean the fake news thing is there's a lot to unpack in the concept of fake news isn't there but i'm thinking let's say for example somebody's reporting something they witnessed and they read an article there is a story that said uh one person was killed and then they type uh you know a message on their social media that says 10 people were killed and it's just a typo right they just misread it and maybe they typed the wrong thing or and if there was a system that could say i would want to know i would want a system to flag and say hey maxim by the way that number you wrote isn't the right number you know i want something to correct my interpretation but i don't know if that's something that that is you know the the of the obvious threat is people intentionally using language that misleads and in flames and and is and that's dangerous and it seems to me that education is a good antidote to that um but maybe also culturally we could we could we could nurture more pragmatism and the recognition that you know hey you know what that that really terrifying tweet that i just read maybe i should check if there's an you know any other source that backs that up i don't know facebook is trying to do that i was trying to remember a correction that they had made on something i wrote and it was just a little and it really wasn't something i wrote it was something i i shared from somebody else's site i shared a quote that i kind of really liked and the facebook police zoomed in and and um essentially said it wasn't quite accurate they were very polite about it and they didn't scold me or anything they just deleted it it wasn't political so i don't allow political stuff on my site i like inspirational quotes that's why i know who noam chomsky is um and or alan watts maybe i think it's just you and i let's get it but uh it's really important to note that it's a fine line like you were saying that do you really want technology to be trying to with its inability to have a consciousness reach in and deal with people who do and and that's the real rub it's an enormous challenge isn't it so this brings us back to you we have about five minutes left i just got a notification saying i think we're going to be kicked out we're going to close out this bar but uh so what what do you you know what do you both think about about this idea of self-censorship you know do we do we have responsibility as individuals to manage the information we receive now i come from a very permissive society where we're you know where this idea of collecting a lot of information identifying your sources and having an opinion about it is part of our culture having spent quite a lot of time in the us i've found that there's more emphasis on speed of have an opinion quickly and make sure you've got one and so i wonder you know how responsible can we hold members of society for managing the information they read and redistribute i think that it's an academic kind of view and because i've taught graduate school and i know that there's systems like turnitin.com that that do that sort of thing and because when i've written prolifically anywhere i always cite my source i think that it's a good thing it's sort of creating a data-driven fact-driven um society and on facebook or anywhere else it only takes a second to cite your source which shows that you took time to really look into what you're writing and be thoughtful about it and we have a site on facebook that's for doctoral candidates it's called finished and i often will post on their methodology uh there's a methodologist i know on linkedin i will take his his work philip abdu and post it over on that finish cycles for some reason he won't go over there and he's brilliant but i put his name and i talk about his books and and i told him i said i'm citing you on facebook but i'm i'm giving your name to the as the source and he always thanks me and he's always very polite about it and i always wonder if he he remembers that that's a part of our responsibility as people at our our academic level to cite our sources to be that example where we're citing the source and not taking credit even on the share you know that can be uh um that can be difficult i suppose on on the the more casual sharing platforms where it's not got an academic purpose it's more just you know i don't know it's but you know we have this joke in the uk that the the government flips a coin to decide from one day to the next whether eggs are good for you or not you know it's just like we might not be today it is tomorrow it's not but you know um so here's another question then uh just to finish off and and i want to hear what you would you both have to say about this is there a way that we can encourage creative self-expression so people can express who they are in the world express their opinions not attacking somebody not inciting crime but just here's my opinion on this subject while also so enabling that facilitating that while also protecting individual safety is there a way that we can manage that or not uh paul you go first uh i think the only way and it's the oldest way so i'm sorry i'm gonna quote jesus christ that's beautifully put thank you yeah i think uh i think kindness is a critical component for us getting into a new golden age you know it's very important for us to put the needs of the other before uh the needs of ourselves but uh and and i hope you don't mind me calling you cora perhaps i should call your doctor what do you think i just think that that's sort of the underpinning of much of what's i've been trying to say that if you're a reasonable person and your thought process is clear and normal then you can indulge in that kind of discourse without a a sensor or a monitor or an ai to come in and swoop down and fix what you just put out there that's wrong because even something that stated wrongly by a sensible person who has a kind heart and good intentions is going to be very different than a person who has significant anger frustration or uh discouragement or they live or they're very isolated socially isolated so there's a lot of unhealthiness not quite mental health issue but pervasive in our society and a lot of the folks who are on media are on it because they don't have those normal um forums for social discourse so they're hiding | Horasis Org | UCZpoXgJlaB_UPzYojL5fxPA | 2021-03-19 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 6,207 | 33,508 |
12t3Qi8Ipmo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12t3Qi8Ipmo | How To Operate A DIY Black Soldier Fly Larvae Composter | hi it's time from green shorts and today I want to give you a quick overview on how my black soldiery larva composter has been working as well as a few tips for Effective operation stay tuned welcome back subscribers if you haven't joined us yet you can do so by clicking on the green shorts icon that's going to appear in the bottom right hand corner of the screen throughout the video so I wanted to give you a quick addendum this is the morning after I installed everything in this compost bin can see down in there got a pretty good take also can see here on the sides where these guys were going over the lip there's also a a nice dark line of slime down the corner of that shoot which means it's doing exactly what I wanted it to do which is to capture them and make them slide right down it's harder to see here in the black bin but let's take it out now we can see so that's one nights worth they tend to migrate out at night I'm amazed that means I'm probably missing that many every night those are the pupa that have come out in just one night let's pull this out that's awesome no eggs yet but I'm not surprised about that it's getting a little cool for that to be happening it got down in the 50s last last night we're out here at night see if we can catch them migrating there one oh wow few in there few on that side as well see a few guys right there climbing out oh yeah dropped in a few of them are finding their way out of this the holes in the sides they're dropping into the bottom here so I'm just get these guys drop them in with the others so this was supposed to catch liquid but looks like it's catching soldify larva as well see a few small ones working their way across there we get to the edge here they should head away see any more I'll hear a couple you're going to see that light and turn around a a bit the light behind them the beauty of this capture method is that it's only taking the soli Lara that are ready in words that are that are done composting so their work is done as the composter and now they're ready to be the food source all right there she goes by the way I emptied this this morning so this is what has crawled out of here today and tonight you can see as we're getting into the cooler temperatures here these guys are working a lot more slowly but they're still working so not as many as came out the first couple nights probably because it's cooler so they're moving more slowly but this is a whole lot more than I've been capturing in the old system and this is a lot cleaner too can see my old system how messy it was here's the take from the last several days and here's what we got two catch basins from last night not a bad take and they're nice and dry too which I appreciate makes them easier to handle not that you have to handle them one thing to keep in mind here is that the black soldierly larvae can Harbor pathogens just because of the nature of how they live and the environment they live in so make sure you wash your hands well after you handle them if you do now I do release a handful or so from each batch um into my compost bin where they have the opportunity to become adults and come back and continue the [Music] still making compost here's a a Papa John's uh pepper that we didn't eat and it's basically just the skin I'll eat out the inside and leave that paper thin skin behind that's pretty cool here's something interesting we're well into October it's almost Halloween and normally this would be done by now but I'm actually seeing some adults and they're smaller than normal I guess just some of these guys because the temperatures are getting close to 80 during the day they are hatching out you can see one up under there as well there's a fairly sizable adult this is more the normal size I see them when they hatch one thing I'm dealing with is spiders the spiders are getting in here and they're actually capturing uh some of the larva as they're leaving and then the adults in the up in the top here this is an ideal spider habitat under this cover here you can see whereas spiders captured one of the young adults as they were coming out of the pupa stage into the adult stage so I'm have to watch out for these spiders I move these guys if I can just because they are part of the ecosystem too here hate to just kill them for no reason yeah they love this space I got one up there another one right here the spiders are also building webs down in here which is a particularly good spot to catch adult Soldier flies as they if they're hatching down in the catch Basin so going to watch here for webs so there's a maintenance thing we'll have to keep an eye on spiders one of the main benefits of working with Soldier fly Lara for composting is that they can eat meat here I'm going to put in the remnants of a rotisserie chicken flip this over going to press it down a little bit come back and take a look at this later today all right it's early evening let's check on this chicken oo spooky let's see have to lift this up see what's going on underneath it cuz that's where the action is doing some work all right we'll let him work overnight and see what's left of it in the morning these hamburger bunes are getting chewed up pretty quickly as well the more rotten or moldy they are the more they attract the larvae you can see those guys are all here for the hamburger butt so moldy bread also acceptable those will be gone in the morning and here we are a full 24 maybe 28 hours after I put the chicken [Music] in so you can see what's left of it not much bones and skin there's nothing left of that bread nothing these guys are fast and they're going to try and get away from the light right now because we are having cooler nights one thing I am noticing today is a buildup of some condensation on the inside of the lid see how the wood's wet there because when these guys work they generate heat and that difference in temperature between the outside and the inside is causing condensation so I going to leave this open a little bit today let that dry out so I'm going to prop it open and let the condensation work its way out the temperature at night has been getting into the low 40s and I can tell that the soli larva that are still here are moving a lot more slowly that's just a sign that it's almost time to shut this thing down for the winter and to do that I'll be moving compost and whatever soldify Lara remain into one of my garden beds you could also move them into a groundbased compost pile which is going to have more heat than this unit that's suspended in the air so there's a basic operational update on my Soldier F larva composter I got to say I'm really excited about how it's working now this was a pretty intensive build I got to admit it took me 2 days to build and shoot the video the labor that went into making this is going to far offset the amount of work and mess it took to harvest this Hy larvae from my old system I'm really happy with investing the time it took to make this system I use a lot of different methods to compost from a simple pile to worm composting I've got a commercial comp coaster as well the Earth machine this is the most exciting for me mainly because it happens so quickly the amount of materials I can compost are the greatest I mean these guys will eat meat and the fact that I'm creating a food source for chickens or fish that's completing this cycle in terms of waste turning back into a usable product as always our mission here at green shorts is to help you see green so you can be green and save a little green by doing it yourself thanks for watching please like and share and subscribe for a new DIY video every [Music] Friday | GreenShortz DIY | UCszelk0CQwyc4LUf5zh3vaw | 2016-11-12 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,506 | 7,695 |
MbJmfPUwAMU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbJmfPUwAMU | Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics | (smr 3699) - Day 3 am | okay uh good morning everyone welcome to day three of the school so we start with the events uh third lecture right about uh non-invertible symmetries fourth oh sorry please all right um good morning everyone uh so today will be the last lecture from me um non-invertible symmetries so uh in the previous lectures uh we have been focusing on the the big picture the general structure of non-invertible symmetries and especially we spelled out a lot of a lot of this general structure in detail in two-dimensional cfds and in this lecture we'll apply the knowledge we have gained to identifying non-invertible symmetry in the very simple cfd just to you know get our hands dirty that is in the case of uh this one of the standard first non-trivial cfd that you probably encounter in any cfd class the icing cft in two dimension okay uh as as i'll explain this very simple cft already gives an interesting instance of a non-invertible symmetry generated by a topological defect line okay so let us start with a brief uh reminder about well a brief review of the of the cft okay so first of all the cft has a center charge equal to one-half okay so it's one of the simplest cft and the operator spectrum equivalently the huber space on s1 contain these primaries okay we subscript denoting the scaling dimensions identity operator the spring operator of dimension 1616 and the energy operator of the measurement half one top okay and together with because we are talking about two-dimensional cft the operator spectrum organizing to virus or primaries and descendants here i'm listing the primaries and then the rest of the states in human space are generated by the virus oral descendants this cft has a famous symmetry a very simple symmetry that is the z2 splint flip symmetry the symmetry act on the cft this symmetry acts on cft various in a very simple way all of the operators in the super corresponding state of the cover space are even under the symmetry except for the sigma operator and its virus or descendant the sigma over here and there we are so this versus our descendants are odd under z2 symmetry and in terms of the notation that we have introduced let's call this symmetry uh generated by a tobacco defect line ita okay and in terms of the picture we have been drawing this means that with ita acts on the operator sigma okay by enclosing it whenever we encounter this kind of graph in your correlation function we're free to shrink this graph and obtain just the sigma operator by the way it's opposite sign at the same location okay as as i've told you in the very first lecture a hallmark of symmetry is that it gave rise to selection rules in particular in this case because sigma operator is odd this implies immediately any correlation function that involves odd number of sigmas in particular the case with three sigmas in certain arbitrary locations better be zero but this cfd is very simple it's so simple that you can actually compute all the correlation functions of these operators oh it's not explain the technology but you have to trust me that you can compare all the correlation functions and after you compute them you will discover that in fact there's some other kind of hidden selection rule that says any correlation functions that involve an odd number of epsilon operators inserted arbitrary points is again zero okay so if you try to extrapolate between from this picture down to here you want to say that there may be some hidden selection rule that could be explained by some hidden symmetry okay and that is the symmetry that will be identifying it turns out that will be a non-invariable symmetry okay just the historical remark uh so there is non-invertible symmetry this the uh the kind of the signal there this non-invertible symmetry um goes all the way back uh to cramer's lanyard okay there's some already suggestion of such non-invertible symmetry in this simple model uh since the work of grammars in one year i believe 1930s okay so back then people study a lattice version of the cft okay this is the last icing lattice model you can think about as the statistical model in two space space dimensions and is described by a hamiltonian normalized by the temperature in terms of here's neighbor coupling of the spins and square lattice imagine you have some square lattice and on each side you have this sphinx node by s i and they can take two values plus minus one and this this uh this notation means that you introduce this kind of nearest neighbor coupling for each pair of nearest neighbors okay and k is the dimensionless coupling constant and as i said as i was i was saying i was briefly saying the same same model there's a very similar model related to this that's described by one-dimensional transfer sizing model that's the quantum version of this statistical model this model is so simple that you can actually study its entire phase diagram as a function of k and because we have observed the temperature over here you see that this is equivalent to tune k is equivalent to tuning the temperature so in particular high temperature will correspond to the small k part of the phase diagram and low temperature will correspond to large k and in these limits it's very simple to solve the model okay i will not solve it here but you find the high temperature you have some non-degenerative vacuum okay and on the other hand you have a low temperature you have a doubly degenerative vacuum that corresponds to spontaneous spontaneous breaking of the z2 splint flip okay as a consequence you expect there to be a phase transition between these two different phases this is usually referred to as the disorder phase this is related to referred to as other phase because the spontaneity symmetry breaking okay there's some phase transition over here which happens at a special value of k which is denoted by kc that's a critical c a critical value of k and over here the description is given by there's a second order phase transition and the phase transition described by the icing cft which is the cft we reviewed over here okay in particular the sigma operator the spin operator is the cft version of this individual sphinx that live on individual letters sites okay what is the statement of the crimes when you're duality so primaries when they're found when they study this uh this icing model okay as a function of k there's some mysterious duality between the high temperature and the low temperature phase of the theory defined what is the duality define the following equivalence relation okay that under the identification between a dual coupling which i call k joule this here is relation okay i think and you see already see that if one is small the other is large and the correspondingly this relates the duality relates to the low temperature and high temperature limit of this phase diagram okay and the more detail it was found out that the precise statement is that icing at the low temperature is equivalent or is dual to icing at high temperature okay in the infinite volume but to be precise you also need to introduce another d2 gauge field the reason being that if you don't worry about the global issue sorry if you if you care about the global issue in particular like the number of general ground states obviously uh the these two phases will not match okay but introducing this additional g2 gauge field which gauges the icing z2 symmetry over here uh fixes the problem so that it's actually an exact duality and because this duality relates the low temperature and high temperature ic model and i should also say that in terms of the cft this phase diagram can be captured by the cft the icing cft couples to a relevant deformation but deformed by relevant deformation triggered by the precisely this energy operator which essentially dual to the hamiltonian over here where m square is the coupling and translated into this phase diagram this this point corresponds to m squared through zero so we are at the fixed point and to the high temperature phase corresponding m square bigger than zero and the low temperature phase correspond to m square smaller than zero in my convention so you may have different convention for your definition of action and there could be opposite these two phases could be flipped okay but that's my definition in any case this duality can be written more explicitly as a transformation on this uh couplings from m square going to minus m squared okay because it goes from low temperature to high temperature and vice versa and correspondingly because because how it couples uh to the operator epsilon you're rising cft this is equivalent to sending epsilon minus epsilon okay so this is already some hint that the grammars one equality may be related to this hidden symmetry that explains the selection rule at the fixed point well the duality relation doesn't end here there's also the famous duality relation that relates to the sigma operator to the mu operator okay so recall sigma is the outer operator okay it corresponds to the this spinning degree of freedom on the lattice when it takes a non-trivial expectation value that corresponds to the spontaneous spontaneous symmetry breaking phase of the icing model okay on the other side this is the disorder spin operator this is the operator that takes vev on the disorder phase or high temperature phase of the ic model okay so when i draw this diagram okay this is in terms of this other parameter sigma all right then at the critical point which in this case coincides with the self-dew point of this relation meaning that finch 2kc is equal to 1. this dual thing first implies sorry this drop implies that the dicing cft is equivalent to this z2 orbital so this operation of coupling a quantum field theory to z2 gauge field essentially implementing the z2 orb result okay and as it's common uh for dualities you want to typically re realize two descriptions of the same system and if you there's some parameter you can tune then typically what happens is at a special point at the parameter where the duality becomes a self duality the self duality can be described by a symmetry for example you see this happens a lot on the modular space couple manifold of two dimensional cfts okay one pro typical example is the two duality of a compact boson okay two tdrt maps the compact goals and radius r to two over r okay in certain units that is not a symmetry in general but at the uh self do radius which is to describe isoto level one the two oddly becomes a very special z2 symmetry in the sql level one double sw model okay so we expect something we're expecting something similar here and we will discover that is indeed the case but the difference is that in that in the in the case of s2 level 1 from the compact both on a special radius that symmetry is invertible here we'll discover the corresponding symmetry will be non-invertible okay which is correlated with this very special feature so this is a question we want to ask okay so there's many ways to ping down and how what this symmetry is okay so let me give you one one argument that uses this very simple uh picture that we draw many times that is the modular invariance for different different perspectives you can you can two different perspectives you can adopt to view the taurus primary function twisted uh by insertion of some putative topological defect line okay so this is again the the object we were considering is simply the taurus funding function of this cft are twisted um by this topological line okay so right now we are not assuming what this topological line is we're we're agnostic about the details of a line but we'll deduce constraints from this very simple equation and once again this is the same object but with the topological line oriented in a different way sorry the other the other way around okay and as we said before this equality leads to the following relation between a patent function between a parting function that's twisted in the time direction by the line defect insertion weighted by the hamiltonian associated with the cft generated by l0 bar and other on the other hand we have the trace with no other temporal insertion of the hubert space twisted by the insertion of the topological line and the as dual version of the taurus modulus enter into this expression okay so i'm writing this for general c but here c is equal to one-half in this specific example and the fact that the topographical line preserves the stress sensor means that both left hand side and right hand sides will have decompositions into the basic building block of 2d cft representation theory building block up to the cfp namely characters of the result algebra center chart you would want to have that is very constraining because unity representations of versailles algebra as a territory equal one half only comes in three families okay there's the there are one-to-one correspondence with operators that we are talking about in the icing model in the absence of any additional insertion okay the chiral representation so that means the left hand side is let me call it it's a linear combination uh the character associates the identity operator okay okay let me call it alpha one okay alpha zero sorry and the coefficient multiplying the character associates the 116 wait 116 representation okay and the character associated with the uh sorry stage equal one-half representation okay and they correspond to physically the three operators identity sigma and epsilon as well as their descendants and these coefficients which are which we are being agnostic about determines how this operator acts on disputative line operators acts on those operators okay the line operator x and those local operators okay there are too many words about operators but hopefully there's no confusion and we can do the same thing for the right hand side okay but as we said before the the right-hand side in some sense is more constrained so even though we are because we are agnostic about the detail of the line we don't know much about this defective space but just from the virus or symmetry we know whatever this defect keyboard space is it must be built from this basic building blocks which involve these current representations with weight zero one half and one sixteen okay so you have potential you have a sum over two numbers this each of this number can take value in this set of three possible representations okay and the sum and involve this coefficient which is a positive integer a non-negative integer that comes for the degeneracy of the representation in the given uh just the huber space and they're multiplied by these characters okay and this very simple relation okay so you have this equality this very simple relation with the constraint that this coefficient a positive integer is surprisingly strong okay so i'll leave that as a homework to show that there are three independent solutions to this equation okay meaning that all the other solutions will be generated by a positive integer combination of the solution i'll write down the first solution is such that let me write those three solutions the first solution is when they're both equal to one okay the second solution is one minus one and one okay and the third solution is for two zero minus square root 2. okay the case when it's acting as 1 on any of the three operators identity sigma and epsilon means that this is nothing but the trivial line the identity line the second one acts non-trivially fairly on everything except for the sigma operator as well as the sentence identifies this operation generally by the security of line as the z2 flip symmetry v2 spin flips in the tree okay so this corresponds to the identity line this corresponds to this eta line okay and this is the object that will give rise to this duality effect so this is the only other possibility and as you'll see this is indeed a consistent solution uh a consistent symmetry operation okay in a sense that we'll give an alternative description a deterioration of this result that does not rely on any assumption okay so here it's like we assume the line exists this is the most general form we can take we'll give our alternate argument such that this line must exist okay question yes but is it okay that some coefficient is negative uh so these coefficients appear on the left hand side okay what's important what's the the car the equation what's not true about the equation is that these coefficients are always non-negative so it's your homework to see that having certain coefficients being negative is fine but for example you cannot have this coefficient being negative but because in the left-hand side is not a partition function it's a that's right it's not a twisted in a temporal direction okay okay so this left-hand side keep track of how symmetry acts on the hubert space with no twist and sorry in what what are the corresponding value of the of the coefficient and you you're keeping it arbitrary sorry come again with the coefficient nij are arbitrary over here aperture totally arbitrary so the only only so to solve this equation all you need to know uh is that this coefficient has this property but you leave it general and you will find the solutions will be in general a positive integer linear combination sorry non-negative integer combinations of these guys but once you fix the alphas the n going to be fixed yeah so once you fix alpha then it's obviously fixed but to determine alpha uh you don't need to make assumptions on and apart from what i have said and instead of just one other question why in the left-hand side you are assuming that uh this is diagonal right so this is the what do we know uh from uh something we just erased right so uh so we know that uh the way uh the this total defect line act on the uh operators will be such that it cannot change its scaling dimension in particular a maps virus or multiplied to a various order multiplex in the ic model there is no degeneracy in the huber space without twist right so for a given verizon orientation there's only one operator so there's no other possibility than having just the overall number all right okay and we can learn uh a bit more from just this very simple table okay just from this uh from this uh uh how a axon operator is in the unjust huber space you can already infer the fusion rule okay in particular the fusion rule of obviously of eta squares identity that's what we expect for z2 symmetry moreover when you fuse the duality defect with eta in either way you will recover the relative effect okay that's that is because this entry is zero okay furthermore if you square the duality effect you get one plus eta okay so these rules are uniquely determined just by postulating the most general fusion rule with non-negative fusion coefficients and consistency with this table okay this defines uh what's known as the icing fusion rule name is not so surprising okay and as i said before once you have a set of tobacco defect lines and you have specified the fusion rules okay there's the consistency condition just coming from the locality of theory says that they should they should furnish to this whole fusion category structure meaning that they should have consistent solutions to that symbols so there's a consequence of locality and essentially the isotopy variance okay in other words the uh the f that symbols associated with junctions formed by these topological defect lines uh would have to satisfy the pentagon equation and that has been solved okay so here i'm listing the solutions uh this was actually this problem was solved in generality that generalized this particular fusion rule in the case when the z2 is replaced by a zn by the work of tambara and yamagami okay so in general we call it tambar yamagami fusion category associated with the general billion symmetry okay they generally they generalize the case with just eta okay but here i'm listing the full data of the fusion category in the case of this particular icing fusion rule okay so in particular your simple objects are these three topological defect lines they satisfy the diffusion rule which i showed before and there's only one non-trivial junction where not any enough the three lines involve the identity so whenever three of the external legs involve a identity that corresponds to the triple junction okay as we said before that comes from just bringing the identity operator in the block to the defect line okay this is the only non-trivial junction in this game okay and then uh these tribal non-trivial junctions enter into various uh non-trivial f symbols uh associated with this fusion category which have listed here so the important thing is about this sign okay which is similar to what appears in the case of group like symmetry case okay the fusion symbols that symbols are phases in general but the character the characteristic of this non-invariable symmetry case is that the f symbols are in general not just phases it will involve this matrix elements okay which are not not phases okay and you will use question there's a question sorry but we know that yamagami's fusion categories are not uniquely fixed by diffusion rules very good very good so uh so here i jumped over one small subtlety is that if you uh just use this particular fusion rule for the z2 case there are two solutions up to gauge freedom to the f symbols here what i'm writing down is that symbol that will be relevant for the icing cft okay and there is some physical meaning to the choice of sorry there is some physical meaning for the choice of this one of the two solutions ah uh is because the cft actually realized just one of them i think cfd realized one of them the other is realized by the su 2.0 model at level two and there is a way to see that that's right okay but i'm afraid i don't have time to explain that detail up here okay well thanks for the question okay and uh just from how this solution look like okay it tells you how this uh duality defect acts on the answer is the hubert space uh we have these diagrams okay which we have been drawing before the acting identity which is equivalent to inserting nothing okay this gives you square root of two okay we're just copying down the the table over there into the diagram we have been drawing okay this means that when whenever you have this duality defect encircling nothing you can just shrink it and the cost is include additional factor of square root 2. okay and if you have instead the epsilon operator inserted in the interior of this loop generated by the duality defect you have the cost of introducing actual minus sign okay and similarly instead if you have the sigma operator inserted inside the loop you will just have zero okay it's completely annihilated and this is the signal this is another signature of this this topology defect line being non-invertible so it annihilates certain operators okay but there will be in a sense where this operator will be recovered okay but it will recover in a way that will be consistent with this duality relation and this is what we'll see next okay so instead of as we said before a feature of this uh non-invariatological defect is that it doesn't just give maps between uh uh the you know the hubers without twitter to itself okay it also gives maps between uh defect cuber space twisted by a given line to a different keyboard space twisted by a different line okay in particular gives maps from the default keyboard space without twist to defective space with twist okay and such linear operations are represented by again this kind of diagram so this is a diagram that we call lysol diagram okay when we discuss the generality but with potentially with a non-trivial junction so i'll be using the red to represent eta and using the okay this is not very red the red line to represent this eta symmetry defect and the white circle to represent the duality effect oh i should also have said that here the the the defects that's involved in icing fusion diffusion category they're all self-dual so i do not need to keep track of the arrow okay just in case you worry about this question again about the f symbols uh it is not true that you always have the solution with trigger symbols is it not true that you always have a solution with trivial f symbols no okay so so as i said before uh f symbol uh what f symbol is doing is giving you the change of basis between different representations of the junctions associated with four external legs because of the change of basis it will always have to be invertible so it cannot be trivial essentially you have no anomaly yeah so uh well trivial so trivial could be zero tribute would be one identity matrix yeah one let's say one yeah so that would not be consistent because you have multiple efficient channels okay that'll be okay for you know wait that's the case for non-anomalous group like symmetry but because you have this multiple channels you cannot put one here and here okay to be consistent so for for some future rules you necessarily have anomalisa what you're saying is that for given the future rules there are future rules that implies automatically that you have tough anomalies uh i'm not sure i i i get your maybe it's better to to ask that again in a discussion okay so what i was saying here is just that there's this additional actions linear actions of the systolic defects the duality defect represented by these white circles acting operators okay and send the operators not to the hubert space without twist but to a huber's width twist in this particular case twisted specifically by the eta line okay so once again because every junction is topological so you can shrink this diagram so this produce for you an operator that's attached to this eta line and this is precisely the operator mu that's relevant here how do we see that okay so once again because the theory is simple enough you can actually specify the entire hubert space okay so every state that lives in here is a state uh in the hubert space twisted by uh ita okay so similarly to the uh to the uh ic model without twist here the hubris is completely fixed it consists the operator that corresponds to the remnant of the fermion before you bolognaise the size of dimension one-half on either side okay and just one other operator of dimension 116 okay and for the same reason as before this topological operation of shrinking this uh this diagram encircling this operator does not change its scaling dimension and because of the single operator of dimension 1616 it has to be proportional to this guy and the coefficient can be fixed by asking this operator to have normalized two point functions okay and what you find is that the coefficient with that particular choice of normalization is square two and similarly okay just to be consistent with such a duality operation another thing that you may wonder if is this kind of diagram this again a lasso diagram but in circling instead the mu operator okay so like this so for this to be consistent this better give you something similar to this okay so it should be zero why is this zero okay this is why this is why i draw droid over here okay this minus sign is crucial so look at this region apply that as move because this operator scalar you can freely rotate this this red spoke all the way around and because in the in the process of moving all the way around it crosses this this point once at which you use this operation it give us a minus sign it will say that would mean that this diagram is equal to equivalent to minus times itself that implies this diagram vanishes okay and furthermore a similar exercise size to what we did over here tell you that if you have this diagram sorry color not okay again shrink it so what this diagram means is that it's a map uh induced by the total defect line on the hubert space twisted by ita to into the hubert space without twist okay so because when you shrink it there's no dangling there's no dangling line the effect okay so this better produce the state in the hubris space without twist and what you'll find is that it's indeed you recover uh this operator okay let's bring your operator okay so what we see from this uh these diagrams is the following if we just focus on the the how the duality defect acts restricted to the hubert space without twist it looks invertible so it looks non-invertible because it annihilates the operator but somehow this non-invertibility is not can be this invertibility can be recovered once you realize there are other non-trivial maps that max max one defective space to another in particular the huber space without twist to the hubert space with twist okay so there's a sense in this particular uh non-invertible symmetry that once you include once you take into account how the duality effect acts on all the different cuber spaces it is really invertible because you are not losing information and that is why it makes sense to talk about it as a you know uh as a remnant of the dewalt farmer's reinitiality of the self dew point so there's another the picture that is helpful to represent the way the uh defect act on local operators is to instead imagine that you have the dual hip effect over here and some local operator inserted around it okay this is the diagram we draw when we discuss the topological feature of this defect lines and as we know as we have drawn this many times okay you can deform the defect line as a consequence of topology invariant isotopic variance these diagrams produce the same observable when inserting correlation functions but because because of this diagram this implies okay and you apply the fusion rule over here so this diffusion rule here is important so let me so you apply the fusion rule for these two corners okay using sorry you apply the f move for that two corners using that rule what you find is 1 over square root 2 times this diagram plus attached to the utah line and then further attached to the duality line okay and then you use what we have already discussed over here okay so there's one diagram i didn't drew uh oh i didn't draw which is a case where you have this this line attached to the epsilon i'll leave that exercise to convince yourself that this is zero from a similar argument and this this implies combining with this fact that this is this is equivalent to flipping the sign of epsilon okay so the cost to move move across this energy operator to move the divided defect across the epsilon operator to flip this sign you can do a similar analysis and this is okay and this explains this selection rule okay so we have achieved in explaining the selection rule using this in symmetry okay and the way you do that is to put a tobacco defect line on one end and move it all the way you pick up all the faces but you can also annihilate to the vacuum so um and you get a contradiction if this is non-zero and that's how you argue the selection uh similar exercise in view of time let me again leave as a homework by doing the same procedure again using this uh the f symbols we wrote over here over there what you will find is precisely the expected relation that says that when you move the dual defect across the sigma operator which is charged on the z2 you will get instead the disorder operator which lives in the hubert space twisted by the d2 line this explains this duality mapping between sigma and imu okay and you can do it also inversely move the mu across and you bring the sigma okay so combining this picture this explains the primers went into all d at the self dew point with this non-trivial transformation rule that sends this basic operator in icing cft to these operators which naturally are local operators in the icing cft after the two approval okay so the miu operator is not a good operator it's not a good local operator before you do the overflow because it's attached to a non-local line okay but after you do overflow this becomes a local operator and this operation explains in what sense this is a precise symmetry all right so let's not discuss so that's the kind of explicit example of how non-invertible symmetry works in motion okay let's now given this example let's not deduce some consequences okay so the the the the main point here is that uh this symmetry just like a z2 symmetry okay we discussed it in the very simple cft by geysing cft but the structure of the symmetry is quite general okay it shows up in various interesting system and it can be used to deduce non-trivial consequences for example rg flows okay so this is what we'll discuss now the dynamical consequence for rt flows so what is the the general picture for rg flow okay so you have some uh we focus on the case where you have some component field theory uh for uh which we'll call tuv which is the uv description for some uh potential uh rg flow okay you can trigger some rg flow for example by some relevant information or by gauging okay uh this will end up with a non-trivial ir phase in general okay if the theory is strongly coupled and there are several possibilities for what the ir phase may look like so possibility number one is trivially gapped meaning that there's a unique vacuum that's gapped okay only massive excitations above the vacuum possibility number two is vacuum degeneracy or in other words a gapped with multiple vacuum okay but discrete okay because it's gap this corresponding case for example when you have some discrete symmetry that is spontaneously broken okay in two-dimensional context and the third possibility is gapless in other words describe a non-trivial cft okay so these are the three general possibilities for rgb flow okay so let's focus on the two dimension case from now on um and and for example consider rg flow triggered by a cft in two-dimension perturbed by a relevant operator that's the meaning of being relevant and also scalar so that we preserve the lawrence image okay so symmetry that's preserved by our g flow generally leads to constraints on what the ir phase diagram may look like okay and here we want to consider this non-invertible symmetry so we first need to introduce in what sense is non-invertible symmetry preserved by rg flow of this form a non-invertible symmetry the generated by a tobacco defect line called l is conserved if it is transparent to the deformation operator we can move it across the operator without introducing any phase factor doesn't mean it's transparent just like how stress sensor is always transparent to tobacco defects this ensures that the tobacco defect remains topological under this deformation okay and then there's a very simple theorem okay once we have defined what it means for a symmetry generated by a non-invertible topology defect to be preserved under rg there's a very simple theorem we can state the theorem the very simple theorem states the following if a quantum field theory admits module defect line l okay such that it's there okay it's quantum dimension is that on the cylinder uh it's not uh integer positive integer okay but preserved along rg then the ir theory by our phase cannot be trivially gapped okay so the only possibility will be a non-trivial uh tqft which is described in multiple vacuola okay or a gapless cft and this is a very simple theorem they're refining statements that constraints how precisely the symmetry is something spontaneously broken let me just quickly give you the argument for this theorem which is very simple to prove so the proof proceeds by contradiction essentially the same steps that that you will go through in solving that homework problem will lead to the proof of the statement okay and the proof actually only uses something even simpler okay so assume because we're proving by contradiction we assume the theory close to a tkft or a gap phase with one vacuum state okay meaning that there's only one operator of dimension zero comma zero in this dq of t okay and while it preserves the topography defect l so we can simply consider this again this star responding function fixed by the total defect in the time direction in temporal direction and which is related by a modular s transformation to the configuration with the module defect line inserted in the acoustic twisting the spatial direction okay but in this tqft we can compute the different function very simply on the left hand side we have a trace over uh the huber space s1 okay weighted by twisted by this insertion okay the same l had before because of the degree of t the homogeneous trivial you're literally just going to change there's no non-trivial q dependence okay and because there's only one state in the superspace okay there's only one state in the b by r this just give you the number and that's nothing but the dev of this line operator but using the right hand side of this representation of this relation on the right hand side instead you have a trace over the defect keeper space that's punctured through by this defect line okay and there's nothing inserted because there's no more twist and they just correspond to one okay and just because you have a hubert space this has to be a non-negative integer okay so we arrive at the contradiction to the assumption in the theorem thus we have proved the theorem okay yes so if the number of states in the twisted sector is bigger than one no yeah would you still call it the trivially gapped phase or uh uh so it could be that you know just a sector there are more than one state as long as there's only a trivial vacuum a single state in the unjust detector i would still call it jupiter cap phase okay so according to this definition okay that's where that's the circumstance where the theorem applies yes but they can be refined okay okay does this also apply to higher dimensions then or well the very same argument yeah very good so very same argument applies in higher dimension and indeed this is how uh the higher dimensional version of this dynamical constraint is taking this taking uh taking this form having derived okay thanks but of course in higher dimension you have more choices for what you call a torus depending on the choice of the space d minus one dimensional slice okay so let me now use the other side the other table that i wrote before to apply this dynamical constraint to another less trivial example okay beyond icing what is the simplest nice simplex next non-trivial cft is the tricotilizing cft okay so let me just write over here for example of an application of this theorem okay so here i've written down the the the operator content of the track utilizing cft this is the uh this is the next minimum model of center seven over 16. it has six uh variational primaries and because the theory is so simple you can actually solve the entire uh you can actually identify all the tobacco defect line is theory and there are six of them and the details are important but it's important there's there are two uh distinguished subcategories this is one called the fibonacci category it's also called the young category it is generated by the single single topological defect line w and it has this very interesting fusion rule it squares to not quite itself but with an additional uh identity of line also it appears okay and it's a this line is also um uh uh same as its dual okay and the icing category appears also in this tractivising cft and this is correlated with the fact that similar to the icing cft the trichloroising cft also have the crammers when they're typed duality is self dual under z2 gauging okay but what's important about this particular subcategories generated by the tobacco d5 along with w and n is that this w and n they have the common feature that there are vaps okay are non-integral in particular the the quantum dimension of this duality defect line is square root two okay on the other hand the quantum dimension associated with this w line because they have to solve the same polynomial equation given by diffusion rule you can find out it's a golden ratio okay and so if you have any rg flow that preserve the symmetries and from the general theorem we just discussed then it will it's guaranteed to land on the non-trivial ir phase so we just just have to go through the table to find out which operators if there are preserving these lines okay and as we said preserving means that you have this line over here and you can move it across without introducing any factor okay so this is equivalent to uh uh to to that the the this this diagram okay as you uh is equal to the valve of the total defect line multiplying this operator okay so if you in terms of this diagram this will be the equivalence relation so we just have to go through this table and look for operators phi when l is either the w line or the duality line that this equation is satisfied and it's easy to spot that for the for the duality line the relevant operator so you're looking for h because h equal to h bar you're looking for operators which smaller than one the relevant operator will be this one okay so this is operator to preserve the duality uh preserve the duality defect okay and if you look for operator preserve this uh this w line okay then the only option is the sigma prime operator that is relevant so what this means is that the trackable we have the immediate uh prediction that trichetto is in deformed by sigma prime okay and deformed by epsilon right okay in this case we preserve the fibonacci category okay in this case we preserve the icing category okay so they cannot be trivially gapped so it's gapped if gap there has to be non-trivial vacuum determinancy okay and uh you can you can actually derive a stronger result which i did not explain so you can actually show the minimum number of degeneracy is two okay and here the minimal degeneracy from a similar argument is equal to 3. okay but note that there's no other symmetry for this deformation there's no other symmetry if we don't know about this non-invertible symmetry having some degeneracy typically you want to interpret as something being a spontaneous machine spontaneously broken that leads to the degeneracy okay just like the z2 currency nice in case in the low temperature phase but here there's no if you don't have this non-verbal symmetry there's no other symmetry that's responsible for these degeneracies instead these genesis are enforced by non-invertible symmetries okay in particular uh this is the prediction and one can go ahead and check if this is actually the case given the tractual ic model this rg flow is integrable and you can check this statement okay so if it's gap indeed which corresponds to one particular sign of deformation indeed you have three degenerate vacuum okay this side is not integral but you can check numerically and you will find out that indeed has a two generic vacuum okay it turns out that uh for this deformation there's another possibility as i said the general theorem will solve the possibility of having a singly single vacuum a single gap vacuum there's another possibility of being non-trivial cft saturating this symmetry and that is the nothing but the icing cft okay with the opposite sign of this deformation so okay so this is just a very simple application of the general theorem we derived and this is similar theorem can be applied in higher dimension to deduce similar statements uh i think running out of time so let me just summarize these lectures by listing some other aspects which i did not discuss but you're free to ask me afterwards so let me just summarize so in this lectures we spent a lot on the basics of learning virtual symmetries and hopefully through these lectures i'll convince you that they're as good as the usual symmetries in particular they give rise to selection rules and leads to constraints on rg flows okay or ir phase diagram of some uv description what i didn't discuss is that uh in this talk in this lecture i focus on the bosonic theories and tobacco defects in the bosonic theories there there are extensions to the fermented case just like the extension of bosonic group like symmetry the fermionic case including the fermion parity and that story can be tied together with what i discussed using the potential duality okay in two dimensions higher and as i just discussed this non-verbal symmetry similarly to usual symmetries can undergo symmetry breaks bonding symmetry breaking okay and it can be used to explain degeneracy of the vacuum and something i also didn't discuss is that with non-universal symmetry if they're not anomalous they can be gauged okay so there's a precise way to gauge a non-anomalous in some sense non-anomalous non-invertible symmetries and this is the way to produce other cfts okay using starting from cfts with non-invertible symmetries okay and the list goes on uh essentially the list contains all the nice things we like about neural symmetries and it's a more general it's a kind of a more general richer framework okay and lastly let me just try to connect to the other lectures the very nice lectures by the other lecturers at the school okay just posing some questions for you to think about okay the obvious question uh in relation to laura's lectures is to look for is non-invertible symmetries okay in the context of celestial cft and the potential applications of these non-invertible symmetries are constraining the s matrix of massless particles and in relation to matthias and kevin's lectures puzzle uh current puzzle is to understand the design invertible symmetries in the context of abs cft okay and in relation to the notion of null global symmetry in quantum gravity okay so in particular in the context study there's none url symmetry in the context of the abs3 functionalist strength okay which is a which is a very nice explicit playground to to discuss the virtual symmetry in the quantum gravity in that case describes some explicit string theory which we'll hear more from battalions and similarly in higher dimensions perhaps electricity holography higher dimension the string theory in the bulk is much more complicated perhaps perhaps one can make some progress using the twisted holography okay so that is the end of my lectures uh but hopefully uh this will not be the end of your journey uh in the world of non-universal symmetries so sorry for going over time i'll take questions and let's temporarily maybe let's wait one more minute since people are still coming back okay i think we can start now so there is the microphone okay okay welcome back so we now have the lecture by matthias about strings in ads3 please okay well thank you very much so let's so let me remind you where we got to last time so we are we are describing the strings on ads three process three quest t4 and so far we've been trying to understand how you describe strings on ads3 and we've concentrated so far on bosonic strings on ads3 and the idea is that ads3 is geometrically a group manifold corresponding to sl2r except we have to be careful about the periodicity in t which we will have to undo and we'll i'll come back to that so adh3 is really the universal covering group of sl2r and uh that factor we can describe in terms of an sl2r wesuminovich model if we are in the situation where we have pure nerve schwarz very short flux so it's the best amino written model based on the v-algebra so2r and as i explained to you once you add the reso amino term you get you get conserved currents these conserved currents are defined by this expression and these and there's a corresponding formula for the left moving version of those and they give rise to an affine cuts modi algebra which is this infinite dimensionally algebra that i wrote down and that's characterized by level k and then the idea was that instead of trying to describe all classical solutions given the fact that this theory has this enormous symmetry we can use this as a way of organizing the space of states of this theory and we argued that it should be given the hilbert space well hilbert space is the wrong word because it's definitely not a hilbert space it has a non i mean it's not positive definite it's the infinite vector space of physical excitations and it has to organize itself in terms of representations of this affine cuts modi algebra the left moving version and the right moving version and therefore schematically it should be of the form that you have some representation on the left and some representation on the right and initially you would naively expect that these representations will be highest rate representations and what i mean by a highest rate representation is that its fox space is generated by terms of the form negative modes acting on some ground states and the ground states are annihilated by the positive modes so these are conventional highest rate representations so they are killed by the positive modes and the negative modes freely generate some fox space and normally you would expect your spectrum just to be described by highest rate representations on the left and highest rate representations on the right and then the question is what should the sum over j run over and what the sum over j labels are these highest rate states and what i mean by that is that we have an action of the zero modes on of uh so2r on these high straight states and specifically i choose the conventions that the plus mode just shifts uh i mean you should i mean you have obviously seen bracket jm before if you know the representation theory of su-2 so j will stand for the spin and m will stand for the magnetic quantum number so j 3 0 on j m will be just m and j plus will move you up one step and then j minus will move you down one step and in these conventions obviously there's a i mean sometimes you write this funny square root bracket factor here i've decided to rescale my my my states so as to absorb this square root vector and then it bites you here there'll be a factor here and the fact that it appears here then is m into m minus 1 minus the casimir applied to jm and what is the casimir the casimir operator is the generator ja0ja0 and if you write it out in terms of this plus minus the generators it'll be of the form a half times j plus 0 j minus 0 plus j minus 0 j plus 0 minus a half times j 3 0 j 3 0. so just like for su 2 what you show is that this combination of generators commutes with all the 0 modes so it's what's called the casimir operator therefore it takes a definite value in each irreducible representation and what you take the value of this to be in the conventions and so all of these things look like su 2 except there is a random number of minus signs scattered throughout so for su 2 there would be a plus sign here for sl2r there's a minus sign here for sg2 this would be j into j plus 1 and for sl2r it's minus j into j minus 1. so there's always a 50 chance that a plus sign turns into a minus sign well actually judging by that is bigger than 50 because there are more minus signs than plus signs here but uh that's uh i mean okay you have to work a little bit to fix these ions but it's basically sc2 with some some small bells and whistles giving rise to science so then the question is what is the so so so what are the values of m that run runs so i mean when i specify j what i mean by that i specified a representation the representation will be given by specifying what value j takes and therefore what value the casimir takes that specifies the action of the zero modes then uniquely and then i have to specify which sorry which values of m mod integer will appear because the generator has moved the values of m up and down by integers so i was mumbling words like p table theorem so if you look at the situation where k is large you can think about this geometrically and then you can ask what is the l2 space of sl2r and it's described in terms of tensor products of representations of the finite dimensional of the finite dimensional group i sl2r and then the logic is that in the quantum theory in this in the string theory you should sum over the same set of representations so what are these representations for the case of sl2r but you should there are two classes of representations that are so-called discrete representations and they are characterized by j being a real number and then m j m minus j must be an integer in fact m minus j must be a positive for the discrete representations of this kind of another family of discrete representations but um i'll just look at those and in fact in order for this theory to satisfy the no goes theorem that is once you impose the physical state condition you end up with a positive definite uh space of of states you have to restrict this j parameter to a finite range namely it has to satisfy that it's bigger than a half but bigger than a half is sort of uh that's uh that goes for free because i mean this is a quadratic relation so for a given value of kazimir you can always choose if it's real you can always choose j to be bigger than a half um so it's a it's bigger than a half but then the negotiation tells you it also has to be less than k plus one over two but you see in the k goes to infinity limit you don't care and this is the analog of what you know for su-2 for sc2 the spin runs from a half to k over 2. so this is just the sort of sl2 analog of that so these are the discrete representations so here i have to sum over all of them but you see this is now an integral because j is real j is not quantized because so2 r is non-compact and therefore you integrate over all the js that run in this in this range so this is really some sort of integral or integral sum and then the second class of representations are the continuous representations and these will be the real heroes in our story so we will treat this a little bit uh we will sweep them under the carpet and i'll give you an explanation for why we are allowed to do this later on today we'll just pretend that they don't exist but we'll come to that later and the continuous representations are characterized by the spin formally well the spin taking the value a half plus ip and then if you plug this into the casimir what this tells you is that the constant meter is a quarter plus p squared where p is a real number and then you see i mean this condition guarantees this condition guarantees if you stare at this formula that j minus zero on the state jj is equal to zero so what these discrete representations look like is they have a state here where m is equal to j and then j plus acts freely and j minus stops here so it basically looks like an infinite line and you have a j plus a zero going to the right right and you have j minus going to the left so you you increase the eigenvalue of m with j plus and you decrease it with j minus but there is a there is a place where it stops mainly when m is equal to j this pre-factor goes equal to zero and you see this is sort of like the su-2 representations you're familiar with except for the su-2 representation you would look at this range and here you look at this range so it's basically that's what it is and for su 2 you would choose j to be half integer whereas here we choose j to be any number and we just look at what happens to the right whereas the continuous representations so so they are they're sort of semi-infinite right they run to the left at infinitum they never stop but they stop to the right there is the smallest value of m but there is not the largest value of them and then the continuous representations they are unbounded in both directions they run all the way because you see once c is of the form of a quarter plus p squared or radar one j is equal to a half plus i p since m is equal to real this prefactor can never become zero so therefore this this sort of a row of j minus operators and j plus operators will never stop you will go as far to the left as you can go to the right so this extends infinitely in both directions and then because it never stops there aren't any preferred values for m so then m can really take any volume so the way you the way you say is that m is in the set z plus alpha so these continuous representations are actually labeled by two parameters they're labeled by the spin which in this language corresponds to the real parameter p and they're labeled by this parameter alpha which tells you the quantization condition of m a mod integer and remember i told you that the folklore is that uh strings on ads3 can't put at the pure university backspace one which is what i'm describing here can't be dueled to the symmetrical before and the reason i gave was that they have this continuum coming from the long strings out at infinity and this continuum is exactly discontinued so this p parameter is basically the momentum out at infinity and the fact that this is continuous means there is really a continuous spectrum here even after you impose the physical state condition and therefore this looks totally different than the isometric orbital theory which has a discrete space so that's the fault law and obviously we will have to break the fourth law in order to identify the world sheet theory that's exactly due to this metric or before because the symmetric orbital i mean on the face of it it has no chance to match any of these theories okay so this is uh this is what you would naively expect but that's not quite the right answer and it's not quite the right answer for reasons that has to do with the fact that we're really interested in the universal cover of sl2r rather than the group manifold so2r itself namely what this part of the spectrum describes if you think about it in terms of solutions i mean so you can ask what are the equations of motions that are i mean there's a sort of two dictionaries here you can either write down the resume to written model and you can look at the classical equations of motion on g and what you find is the solutions for g are functions of the form sigma and tau that you can write as functions of g plus of x plus times g minus of x minus this is the this is the family of of solutions of the west amino written model equations of motions right so so you could try to start with this and then quantize the phase space produced by all of these solutions now here we've sort of gone down a different route we've said okay we know that this theory has this symmetry and therefore we know that this space must organize itself in terms of representations of the iphone katsumi algebra so you can ask how does this language translate into writing down this fox space of physical states and the logic is that the states that are described by this fox space correspond to those maps that have the property that g plus of x plus plus 2 pi remember x plus and x minus a tau a tau plus or minus sigma so these are the word sheet litecoin coordinate and it obviously has to be the weld sheet has to be periodic in sigma goes to sigma to 2 pi so therefore this function has to be periodic in sigma when sigma goes to sigma plus 2 pi and how do you arrange for that well you arrange for that by saying that g plus of x plus goes to under rotation by two pi goes to g plus of x plus times fixed matrix and g minus of x minus minus two pi goes to m to the minus 1 to g minus of x minus then obviously the product will be periodic because you see this m will kill this m to the minus 1 when i multiply them together so this will describe periodic solutions and there is this sort of mental dictionary that the matrix here is fixed up to an element up to conjugation so it lives in the carton taurus and the different values of j you can effectively think of describing the different matrices here so roughly speaking i don't want you to explain this in detail but the way you should think about it the different values of j describe the different monotremies this solution describes but they all describe strictly periodic solutions for sl2r because this is like the analog of what you do for su-2 and for su-2 you want there is nothing else but for sl2 there is something else so this doesn't account for all the interesting solutions because the the the t parameter here is not periodic in in two pi i mean when you write it as a matrix in sl2r it appears to be periodic in two pi but it shouldn't be periodic because we want to look at this covering space and therefore we have to include additional solutions and the additional solutions we have to include there after of the of the form that you so suppose you have a solution of this kind i'm going to engineer a new solution that will account for the fact that t is not periodic so what i do is i define g left of w r of x plus to be given of the form of e to the i times w r over two i'll alex you'll see in a second why this is a smart thing to do x plus times sigma 2 times g what i call g0 left of x plus so this is a solution of this kind so let's call them g0 here these are and they satisfy this sort of periodicity where m is a fixed matrix a fixed matrix in sl2r and now the new solutions i take an old solution of this kind and i multiply g left w r by this factor and g right of w uh sorry this should probably this actually an r and then this is an l of x minus what you do there is you multiply it from the other side uh so i should have called this right so this is left x minus and then i multiplied e to the i wl over to x minus times sigma two so okay so what i'm claiming is suppose you have a solution of that kind i propose let's look at the solution that comes from this function for g plus and this function for g minus what's the difference well the difference it's not this monkey can see the difference is obviously the the factors of e to the i is times something over there but now remember that's the reason why i wrote out these equations over here how we parameterized the group manifold to start with so you see on the left we have e to the u times sigma 2 on the right we have e to the v times sigma 2 and the way i'm modifying these solutions is by multiplying them on the on the on the left by yeah i must admit this is the world's most stupid convention to call the thing that stands on the left right and the thing that swans on the right left and as you see i've confused myself but so so this is acting on the left and this is acting on the right despite appearances so what this means is i take a solution and relative to the solution i have before what i do is because of this factor you see this will effectively shift u as a function of x plus so u will go to u goes to u plus w r over two you see it's sigma two so it's w r over two times uh times tau plus sigma and it will shift v which is the factor standing on the right here you see this is the v so v is what stands on the right and u is what stands on the left so u gets shifted by by this factor and v gets shifted by the corresponding factor w l over 2 times tau minus c and now why is this a smart thing to do well remember that u and v are the light cone coordinates in target space so if i translate them back into t and phi t is the sum and phi is the difference so what this means is that t gets shifted by p plus the sum so there will be a term proportional to tau which will go like a half times w right plus w left and there will be a term proportional to sigma times a half times w right minus w left and then phi gets shifted by i plus tau times a half and now i have to take the difference so here there will be w left right minus w left and here there will be a half times w right plus w left okay so suppose i have a solution that's described by this g0 and once i modified in this way i get a solution whose t and phi dependence i mean previously it was periodic and now it picks up these additional pieces and now why is this interesting you see we want t not to be periodic so we have to make sure that this factor is equal to zero right because when sigma goes to sigma plus two pi that describes must describe the same point and in order to avoid t being periodically identified i have to make sure that this factor is equal to zero so this tells me i have to choose w r is equal to wl so when i do this then this term goes and this term goes and what i see here this just becomes wr equals to w left equals to w so what i find is t goes to t plus w times tau who cares tau is not periodic t is not periodic and and phi goes to phi plus w times sigma and sigma is two pi periodic and phi is two pi periodic so therefore i've included now solutions that are not periodic in t even if i go around this sigma by two pi so i've made solutions that were periodic in t into solutions that are not periodic in t and what i see is it's not obvious that this accounts for all the possible things but you at least see that you are producing arbitrary winding in the phi direction and uh but you you've undone the fact that this would have identified also the t direction okay so that's the proposal of maldives was that what you have to do is you have to look at the solutions corresponding to this but now i've translated it in terms of classical solutions so in terms of classical solution i also have to include these new solutions but because i want to work in that language i now have to explain what does this modification do on the level of the representations i've written over there sorry the winding in phi does have to be integer so like w is an integer or it can be oh yeah so that has to be absolutely sorry i forgot to say it yes absolutely so w has to be an integer otherwise i would uh yeah yeah yeah thank you so so here i've explained to you on the level of the classical solutions what i have to do but i am an algebraic cft type person i want to work in that language so now i have to translate this description into this language so what i have to do is i have to calculate what happens to the currents when i do this remember the currents are defined by the formula that i also wrote down here you have to take the trace of the lee algebra generator and that's the convention i'm picking times d plus g g to the minus one and similar for the other current so let's work out what happens when i modify my solution in this manner okay so what we do is we take a solution that was of the type g zero i a periodic solution or rather fixed by this fixed monotony and now we have to include this factor so now what we want to calculate is that the j a of r is now k times the trace of uh ta and now i'm writing out a d class of g my of t of g and uh so okay so this stuff doesn't i do okay so i'll write it as let me write it what happens so i have to apply this to e to the i times w right over 2 x plus times sigma 2 times my old g writes a 0 of x plus then i have g left of x minus and because i'm interested in the plus derivative i don't have to write it out and then i have here g inverse which is gl x minus to the minus one g right zero x plus to the minus one and then i have to write the inverse of that e to the little bit more blackboard space here e to the minus i w over 2 x plus sigma 2 and i should write now w because w right is equal to w left is equal to w is an integer okay so now i have to evaluate that now obviously you see the dx plus i can stop the dx plus the action here because this doesn't depend on x plus so this term obviously cancels against this term that makes it already less to write and now there are obviously two derivatives the the d plus can hit here so what am i going to get i'm going to get a term that looks like k trace t a and now i'm going to get two term if the d plus hits here i get an i times w over 2 times sigma 2 g 0 and then the g 0 r will cancel against this g 0 r so that's all there is and the other term is plus if the derivative hits here then i get e to the i times w over 2 x plus times sigma 2 d plus of g r 0 x plus times e to the minus i sorry times uh times g zero r x plus to the minus one so this is this term times e to the minus i w over two x plus sigma two right and then so that's what i have to calculate now if you think about it you see this is basically the old current right this is the original current and it's now conjugated by that but the quantity i can either think of this conjugating or i can think of the conjugation conjugating the ta so i can write this as k times trace of t a times i w 2 over sigma 2. plus k times trace of e to the minus i w over 2 x plus sigma 2 times t a times e to the i times w over two x plus sigma two times um i just write it d g r g r to the minus one the old thing the one i had before and now now it depends a little bit on which component i'm looking at so if you so in the convention so the credentials are i mean somebody should have worked a little bit better on these preventions because the sigmas and then the t's so the t3 to confuse absolutely everybody and this has confused me for a long time i misread their paper many times is proportional to sigma 2. there you go and then t plus and minus is proportional to sigma 3 plus and minus sigma 1 but that's what it is the sigmas are the poly matrices so everything is totally explicit so now we can just work this out so let's work this out for j 3 of r so when you pick t a to be t3 you see t3 is just equal to by this funny convention minus i over 2 sigma 2 then you have a minus i over 2 times an i over 2 gives you plus 1 over 4. sigma 2 squared has trace equal to 2. so this term just tells you this will be equal to k times w over 2 plus so this comes from this term and then from this term if sigma 2 since t3 is also proportional to sigma 2 obviously sigma 2 commutes with itself so this term goes away and you just keep the old current so what you read off from that is that the three component of the current just gets shifted by a constant term and what happens to the plus minus component of the current well what you have to do for that is you have to ask what is this for this being equal to plus minus and that's a little calculation which you probably better do in the privacy of your room than seeing me struggle on the blackboard i mean it's not the rocket science you you i mean e to the sigma 2 sigma 2 is an explicit matrix so you can write e to the i sigma 2 as an explicit matrix it's basically cosine sine sine cosine and then you just multiply this through and what you find at the end of the day and it's very elementary calculation but i'm not going to do it for you here is that this is equal to e to the minus plus i times w times x plus times t plus minus so the t plus minuses go back to themselves but they pick up a phase e to the i e to the minus plus i w x plus so what this tells you is that j plus minus r you see for them this time is zero because the trace of sigma two with sigma plus minus is zero because the traces of the of the different sigmas are zero so so this term is absent and this term you just pick up this phase and then you have again the old current so what you learned from that is that this is equal to e to the minus plus i w x plus times j plus minus r of x plus that's what you calculate so that's the that's the sort of algebraic description of having introduced these additional solutions right i'm taking these additional solutions and i'm translating it what it means from the point of view the affine cuts modi symmetry and that's what it means yes there is a bit of confusing point here for me because you introduced this extra solution because you want to describe universal cover but even if you want to describe just sl to r yeah you should include them but that w r is not equal to wl or not no but i mean if i'm looking at sl2r then i have to be then then it has to be periodic in in t right so you're saying it's also periodic in t yes you just need that uh w r minus wl is a multiple of four pi well so in this convention oh yeah so you would have to use something like that yeah yeah maybe maybe you have to do this for sort as well yeah so it seems to me that uh going from sl to r to universal cover is not adding new solution but restricting yeah you're right well i mean but but then that's not compatible with this right are you saying wr minus wl has to be equal to a multiple of pi or two pi or pi maybe four pi whatever yeah so maybe you're right maybe you're right maybe there's also additional solutions for i think you're right there's probably also additional solutions if i don't go to the universal cover but if i go to the university cover i have this constraint on this class of additional solutions and in fact this is i mean you see for su 2 you may ask why don't i have to do the same for su 2 and for su 2 if you were to do the same thing you would actually land on the same spectrum you're not introducing new degrees of freedom because i mean this will turn out to be spectral flow and the spectral flow maps the su-2 representations again back to standard highest rate representations so normally you're probably right one has to include these sectors as well but for sl2r they generate new representations as i'm about to explain and you're right the universal cover is not responsible for adding new solutions they're there anyway it's more responsible for removing some okay okay thank you yeah you're right okay so let me explain to you what this means in terms of the effence moody algebra so remember we have this melt expansion j a r of x plus i said you can write as a sum of a j a n and i think i forgot a minus sign here yesterday that should be e to the minus i and x plus otherwise i'm going to run into trouble now so that's the consistent solution with everything else i'm doing so when you translate this you see what this means is that j3 so j3n the new j3n is the old j3n and then the constant term means that the zero mode term gets shifted so plus k times w over two delta n comma 0 and what you find for j plus minus n is that this is the old j 0 plus minus but now n gets shifted up and down in terms of w because you see this vector basically just shifts the mode number because i mean this just multiplies to the exponent and thereby you shift the mode number and what you find is that this is the set of transformations you get and what this means is the new solutions are described you can think of them as being described on the fox space of the old solutions except that the sl2r now acts in a modified way so so so you have the old fox space on which the j0s act like they acted before but now on the same fox space i define a new action where the new nodes are defined in terms of the old merge plus corrections and in fact what you can check is that this is an automorphism of the fi and kazmudi algebra associated to sl2r i.e these guys satisfy the same commutation relations as the original guys if you redefine them in that manner so this is an automorphism and whenever you have an automorphism and you have a representation then the automorphism produces for you a new representation now there's no guarantee that it's a genuinely new representation it may be the old representation in disguise but at least potentially it's a new representation normally you would think it's a new representation if the automorphism is outer then generically you get a new representation if the automorphism is inner then you won't then you're just relabeling the states now you can check that this is uh that this isn't in general an outer automorphism and the reason for that is you see that it shifts the mode number in this funny way so if you start with the highest rate representation and so on the highest rate representation you remember we had j zero plus m on the state j m is equal to zero for n bigger than 0. that was it what it meant to be a highest rate representation but now if i think about it in terms of the action of j plus m j plus n acts on these states by saying that this is the same as j zero plus n minus w acting on these states so this is only zero if n is bigger than w so what this means is that there are some negative j plus modes that will not annihilate the highest rate state and as a consequence it's not a highest rate representation it's a representation where there are certain negative modes that you can apply as many many times as you want and they will always be non-trivial and so so so these are generically not highest rate representations you can also see it in terms of the virus or algebra so if you look at it in terms of the if you ask what does the vera server generators do under this modification now there is sort of an abstract way of doing this because you know the commutation relations of the of the virus or generator with the currents i mean you know that the ln generators has to with the jam generators have to satisfy this commutation relation and then compatibility with this will tell you how l transforms and what you find is that l m transforms as l m 0 minus w times j 0 3 m minus k over 4 times w squared delta m comma 0. this term you only see if you insist that they still satisfy your zero algebra and this term you get by simply demanding that this is also an automorphism that is under this transformation and you see because of this term and the fact that the jsv0 spectrum is always unbounded to the positive line if i take w to be positive then the zero mode fl0 will be unbounded so so so these representations are not included in what i had before because before i had a bounded l0 spectrum because i had the highest weight state and the positive modes killed it and l0 move you up and now once i've included the spectrally float sectors i've genuinely produced new representation with an unbounded l0 spectrum but this hinges on the fact that these representations are infinitely extended to the right and therefore that this eigenvalue can become as negative as you want in particular if you think about doing the same thing for su-2 you see for sg2 you have finite dimensional highest rate representations and what you find is that after you have applied this spectral flow to an su 2 representation you just get another su 2 representation and for su 2 what you find i mean for those people who are sort of familiar with this sigma will map the jade's representation to the representation associated to k minus 2 over j so it'll just flip around the so it's all the two so sigma squared will be trivial will map a representation to itself sigma 2 is sigma squared is inner sigma is outer and in fact this has to do with the fact that su-2 is a double cover of so3 and what this is really implementing is the quotient going down to so3 but this is just as a side comment but what's important here is that we genuinely get new representations and therefore this spectrum that i wrote down before was really too small because it didn't include any of these resolutions so i have to include my spectrum and now the the the correct answers for what my my fox space of this world sheet theory should be is that there should be a sum over this binding sectors and i'll restrict myself secretly to w bigger than zero then i have this integral over j or sum over j and then i will have and i write this like like such so by this i mean the the representation induced by this automorphism sigma to the w and i apply this simultaneously to left and right movers because w right times w left is equal to w so this is basically the multicena or guru away spectrum and as i explained to you the spectrally flowed sectors come from the fact that you have to have this periodic solutions that are periodic and fine but not periodic in t well i mean so i mean that you have these additional solutions because sl2r has these additional solutions and then the fact that we are in the in the universal cover means that w right is equal to w left rather than the difference is something funny okay so this is this is the spectrum we have to work with and now the idea is that now we've identified this world sheet spectrum now the aim of the game is that we are going to work out the um the the physical states that satisfy uh the physical state condition but before we do that there is one more thing we have to do now i'm losing track of my notes oh yeah so so so far we have done everything bosonic and bosonic is fine but it captures the essence of the spectral flow but in order to really get the symmetric obi fold we have to deal with the superstring so what's the superstring version you see so far i really only concentrated on the ads3 factor i'm only concentrating on the bosonic spectrum now i have to look at the superstring version so what's the superstring version well so the the super string version is actually relatively easy to describe so what happens is you see we had this sl2r bosonic algebra level k and if i look there's a natural supersymmetric generalization of it and the natural supersymmetric generalization consists of writing an upper index and writing a one that means it's n equals to one superconformal and what does this algebra consist of well this algebra consists of the generators jam that satisfying sl2r level k affine cuts modi algebra with the commutators i wrote down before but then in addition you have fermions that also transform in the adjoint representation of sl2r so there are three fermions psi 3 and sub psi plus minus and so the jsp themselves gives you an sl2r and the js with the with the uh with the step size if you adjust the they sit in the adjoint representation so they just transform as somebody who sits in the air joint representation so i hope this is so these are the structure constants of sl2r so so 3 with plus gives you plus times plus 3 with minus gives you minus times minus and so on so it's uh it's just that transforming the adjoint representation and then the size by themselves just satisfy their free fermions so the non-trivial anti-commutators they satisfy of the form psi and again there's a funny minus sign because we are in sl2 r so there's a minus oh sorry there's a k over there's a k there's a factor of k here and there's a factor of minus k over 2 here so so going to the super string is basically means you replace the bosonic algebra sl2r by the sort of super symmetrized version and the way you think about it this is like nsr normally functions i mean these are the bosonic degrees of freedom of your target space and for each boson dx mu you add the fermion psi mu so the fermion has the same labels it also sits in the adjoint representation it transforms under the bosons in the adjoint representation you can't really do anything but and then it's a free fermion just because there's nothing else you can do okay so that's basically the sushi version for ads three so that's what you have to do for ads three and then you have to do the analogous thing for su-2 for su-2 you also enhance the su-2 level k-prime affine katzmuddy algebra by adding in fermions in the adjoint representation of su-2 and they satisfy the analogous commutation relations that's that and then the t4 is the t4 now now we want to so the first thing i have to explain to you is why the level of the sl2r is quantized i was asked this earlier and the reason for that is that it must be equal to the level of the su-2 so let me explain how this comes about now when you look at this super conformal super-affine algebras you have to you can ask yourself what's the central charge and the central charge there's a there's a clever way of calculating the central charge and that's sometimes useful um you see this is a coupled system so i mean how do you calculate central charge you try to separate it into blocks and then you just add that com pairwise commute with one another and then you add the central charges of the blocks now here you can't do that because the stupid fermions transform under the bosons so you can't just say it's the bosons that's the fermions because they're not you have to disentangle them now in fact you can disentangle them and that's what goes under this decoupled current so this is meant to be a different letter than this j this is a more curly version of this letter j and what you do is you define new generators new currents which are the old currents and you correct them by terms that are bilinear in the fermions and they look explicitly like that so for j plus minus you just do that and then for j3 you you take these j3s and then the way you decouple is that you add to it the term j minus j plus i mean these are to be understood as normal order products of this size so what you do is you take your currents and you add to them suitable fermionic uh bilinear terms and then what you can prove and that's a little exercise is that these currents then commute with the fermions you basically remove the fermionic piece of the currents so that these guys commute with the fermions and they still satisfy an sl2r efference modi algebra but their level has been shifted so they now satisfy sl 2r not at level k but at level k plus i mean for people who know what's secretly happening here is that the three fermions themselves build an sl2r algebra at level two and you're basically sort of taking the coset they're sort of taking them out and then a rather minus two taking them out and then you get this term plus the decoupled fermions so so but now it's very easy to calculate the central charge that comes from this factor so when i calculate the central charge of ads3 so you see for ads 3 i have this sl2r supersymmetrized level k then i have s3 then i have su2 supersymmetrized level k prime and then i have a t4 so let's calculate the central charges well so i have to calculate the central charge of this decoupled sl2r now the central charge of of an of a bosonic sl2r at level k is 3k into k minus 2. so now when i shift this what i get is i get a 3 k plus 2 into over k this comes from the from the decoupled sl to r currents because they're level k plus 2 then i from the fermions i get three halves because three three fermions give me three halves each fermion contributes a half to the central charge then i do the same thing for su-2 so for su-2 what happens is for su-2 level 1 level k is the same as su 2 bosonic at level k minus 2 plus 3 fermions so here for su 2 level k the central charge is 3 k minus so if this is a k prime so this will give me so this is a k prime so this will give me 3 times k prime minus 2 over k prime plus 3 halves and then the taurus will give me six because the taurus is four bosons which gives me four and four fermions each fermion gives a half that's another two so all together six and this has to be equal to fifteen that's the critical dimension of super strength theory right i mean the logos theorem tells me that i have to live in the critical dimension so that has to be sequence to 15 which corresponds to a superconformal theory in 10 dimensions 10 bosons and 10 times 5 fermio 10 times fermion 10 times a half fermions give you 15. and if you stare at this you see you get a 3 from here plus 6 over k plus 3 halves plus 3 minus six over k prime plus three halves plus six and now you see three plus three halves plus three plus three halves plus six is equal to fifteen therefore what you learn is that six k over k minus six over k prime has to be equal to zero and therefore you learn that k has to be equal to k prime i mean this is also familiar from a super gravity perspective that's just saying that the radius of the ads space has to be the same as the radius of the three sphere that's the supersymmetric super gravity solution but the cft version of it is that in order to get a critical string theory the level of the su-2 and the level of the sl2-r have to be equal have to be equal to one another and therefore because the su-2 level is quantized the sl2 level has now also turned out to be quantized because they have to be equal to one another there's a question sorry i have a question on the shifting on of the level uh maybe i'm confusing myself but with the different conventions but um also in the bosonic uh in the bosonic double zero model you have a shift of the level by the dual coxider number well that only appears in the central so the central charge formula of s of g level k is k times the dimension of g divided by k plus the dual cox the number so that's for example well for su so for su 2 level k this gives you three times k because the dimension of s2 is three and it gives you k plus two because the dual cock's the number of s yes and if i'm not wrong for restoring there is a minus c so yes i'll drive exactly for sli basically you can think of is that the dual cogster number being equal to minus two so is it true that uh by adding fermions i have an opposite shift absolutely so actually a very important point so you notice here you get a factor of one over k and one over k prime here oh whereas in the bosonic case you would have had a factor of one over k plus two and one over k prime minus two or whatever now why is that important remember k is the radius so if you think about it like you weren't smart and you took this resume written model you turned it into fineman diagrams and you would do a feinman calculation then the powers of one over k is basically the higher loop corrections as you would calculate and form a finite diagram and then in the bosonic case you would have something like 1 over k plus the dual cockster number and the way you think about it is that this is 1 over k times 1 minus 1 plus h joule over k to the minus 1. so this is 1 over k times the sum from n is equal to 0 to infinity of [Music] well h bar over k minus this to the power n right so what you would see is you get infinitely many corrections in perturbations here if you treated this naively in perturbations here now what happens in the susie theory you see the sushi theory is sort of not renormalized and that's manifesting itself that the central charge involves just the unshifted level and therefore it's one loop exact you don't get any higher order correction to it so that's the reason why this is exactly opposite and that's a hint that susie is doing something good for you okay thank you okay so so this is uh so this is basically so now we know that we have to live at the same level and now we just have to put everything together and uh and analyze the physical spectrum now about my many many right so so now what we have to do is we have to so now so let's write down the spectrum and actually so so here there's some small subtlety you see i i explained to you spectral flow on the level of the sl2r with the amino acid model but now you're going to ask yourself so should i spectrally flow the the js or should i spectrally flow the curly jets right i mean they're both sl to our best amino written models and i told you how to flow them so which one should i flow and the answer is it doesn't matter so why does it not matter well because you see spectrally flowing the js and spectrally flowing the curly j's differs by whether you spectrally float the fermions or not there's an analogous way in which you can spectrally flow the fermions but for the fermions if you spectrally flow them you're just rearranging the states you're not generating any new states in your in your fox space just like with su 2 level k where the spectral flow just maps the jth representation into k over 2 minus j representation of the fermions it just reassembles the the states so whether you spectrally flow the fermions or not is up to you you're not describing a different spectrum you're just describing them slightly differently and it's more convenient to actually spectrally flow the coupled sl to our generators because the coupled so2 r generators are the geometric ones because geometrically the fermions will also feel the mobius symmetry so they should also transform under say the zero mode so decoupling the fermions is just the trick for the purpose of calculating the central charge but the real sl2r is the coupled one because the fermions i mean these are the tangent vectors they live in attention space to the manifold they also feel the rotation of sl2r and to remove them would be artificial so what we are going to do is we are going to spectrally flow also the fermions i respectfully float the coupled generators rather than the decoupled generators and what this means is that the k that will appear here is really the k i'm talking about here rather than k minus 2 or k plus 2 for the case of sl2r and su 2. so i'm flowing the full generators and then on this resulting fox space which will look so there's the so there's the sl2 factor so again this will look like the sum of a w then i will have the sum over j and then sigma to the w h j but now these are the super conformal representations but that we are happy with and then i have a similar factor for su2 this is like the covariant description of string theory right this is uh this involves the time direction ads3 contains the time direction so in order to describe the physical string states i have to impose the physical state condition so this will be the condition that gr of phi is equal to zero for r bigger than zero and i'm thinking of here working in the nervous short sector there's always another short sector in a roman sector but another short sector is the interesting one and then you have ln on five minus a half times delta n comma zero and phi is equal to 0 for n greater or equal to 0. so these are the the physical state condition this is just like if you open green schwarzmitten you do a flat superstring that's what you have to impose in covariance quantization right it's the the usual n equals to one super conformal symmetry you have to impose and in the nerve schwarzsch at a mass shuttle condition l zero has to be equal to a half that's the natural condition in order to get the no ghost theorem going so now what we have to do is we have to evaluate we have to look for the states that satisfy these conditions we have to enumerate all of them and then we want to find out what their space-time charges are and that will describe for us the space time spectrum of this specific worksheet theory so what does so the interesting condition here is that l zero has to be equal to a half so what does this mean well remember we have to work with the real l zero and in the spectrally float representational zero gets shifted in that way but what i'm going to do is i'm going to spectrally flow um yeah so this is a i'm going to use exactly this formula so the l zero condition will amount to the following it will amount to the h0 of sl2r so for my for my level for my sushi theory at level k plus the h0 of the rest so the rest will be su-2 so the rest is su-2 plus the taurus so this will be the ground set conformal dimension then there will be some excitation number this is the total excitation number coming from everybody and that has to be equal to a half right that's the national condition that i will have to impose on this spectrum right you have a you have the sl2 factor and the rest the rest is su 2 and t4 this is the conformal dimension of the ground state of sl2 that's the conformal dimension of the ground state of su-2 that's the excitation number and i'm i'm thinking of looking at states that are in the in the vacuum of the t4 i could also include that doesn't really matter for the analysis it's just to be simple and this factor for this factor i now have to use the fact that this is spectrally float so this will be the ground set energy before spectral flow and the ground state energy before spectral flow is the casimir so this will be minus j into j minus one divided by k right because in the zoozy theory i i get this shift uh uh it's uh the the the sugar construction will have a level a k down here for the same reason that we discussed before and then it'll be minus w times m so m i will call the eigenvalue of j 0 3 before i apply the spectral flow so this is the eigen value of this guy and then i have to subtract minus k over 4 times w squared so that is a what this term is and then i have plus h0 rest plus n is equal to a half so this is the marginal condition i have to solve and now i'm going to solve this natural condition for you and explain to you that we get something interesting so let's just do this this is a maybe i can do this yeah perhaps uh you can take another five minutes yeah it'll be five minutes it's very it's a very simple i mean it's uh very very elementary except it's quite key so i would quite like to explain it today and then we can discuss its consequences so what i'm going to do and at this stage i'm just declaring this so i'm going to set k is equal to 1 that i've told you before that you are used to and now i'm going to say that j is equal to a half times i times the zero so i'm going to look at a continuous only conclusion its representations i'm only going to look at the one for which p is equal to zero now the justification at this moment is non-existent but i'll promise you next time i'll begin to explain to you that this is what you have to do if you look at it from the hybrid formulas in this language it's not obvious why these are the right representations to look at but grant me just look at this representation and see what happens okay so what's the casimir well the casimir is a quarter so what does this equation become like this becomes a quarter minus w times m minus a quarter times the w squared is a plus h0 and i stop writing this rest stuff now plus n is equal to a half okay so now this equation i have to solve and remember in the continuous representation the eigenvalues of f of j 3 0 are up to me because the continuous representations remember they are labeled by cj alpha and m has to be of the form alpha plus that but i can simply take this equation to solve for m and then declare that that means i'm looking at a representation with a corresponding value of alpha and because all values of alpha appear inside this direct sum so if i'm looking at a continuous representations i would sum over all values of j and alpha there will be one term in the sum where this natural condition will be satisfied so i have in mind i take a specific descendant and i ask for which term in this integral does it satisfy the natural condition and i'm saying okay i'll just take this equation i solve it for m then m tells me which alpha and that picks out the term in this integral where it matches dimensional condition okay so solve this for m okay that's not difficult i just bring wm to the other side so what is this wm is then equal to minus a quarter a half minus a quarter minus a half minus a quarter w squared but yes sorry just to say that the equation should be equal to zero right so so again equation equal to zero so the the equality the equation misses equal to zero i'm here it's equal to a half there is an equality sign i mean this is in another short sector of a vermont sector string it was a minus and the equal because i can't see from here i'm sorry sorry sorry now this is this is equal to a half and this is this a half this is the usual a half ground state energy in universe woods yeah yeah yeah sorry okay so so this is the equation okay but now remember that we are not interested in m m is the j30 eigenvalue before spectral flow and we are interested in the j30 eigenvalue after spectroflow because that's the real j30 right the other thing is just a way of describing these representations so the real j30 eigenvalue remember that j30 is equal to j030 plus kw over 2. and this is this eigenvalue if denoted by m remember that was the term that appeared in the shift formula for the conformal dimension so if i'm interested in this and remember this is the scaling dimension of the dual cft so this i can also call h and think of it as the conformal dimension as looked at from the point of view of the space-time theory so for that i should not look at m i should add to m k over w well first of all i should divide by w but that's not hot and then in order to find out the state the space-time conformal dimension of the corresponding state what i have to do is i have to add kw over 2 which is just w over 2. but look there's w over 2 and this term is minus w over 4 so what i'm going to get is w over 4 minus 1 over 4 w which comes from here plus and let's set h0 to 0 for simplicity plus n over w now now it depends whether you've seen the symmetric orbital before or not if you have seen the symmetric orbital before you should say aha if you haven't you should not say anything and from your reaction i assume you haven't seen it before so that's what i'll explain to you next time but this is exactly the conformal dimension spectrum of a symmetric orbital where this is the casimir energy of the ground state and this is what you expect for the symmetric orbit fold of t4 and the excitation numbers in the spectrally flow in the w cycle twist detector and i'll explain this next time are not integer moded they're fractionally one over w mode so this exactly reproduces the spectrum of the symmetric orbital so obviously i have so what i'll explain to you next time is the other way of getting at this formula from the symmetric orbit fold and then i have to answer all the nasty little questions is why was i allowed to do that and what happens to all the other degrees of freedom and all the rest of it and then the proper answer to that i'll give you some hand waving answer and then the proper answer will be the hybrid description where there's a very clean answer where this comes out of the representation theory of the super lee algebra and where all the degrees of freedom do exactly the right thing to match then exactly the spectrum of the symmetrical but here you see the first sign that you're on the right track it's this looks to somebody has seen a symmetric overflow spectrum before like the symmetric ob full spectrum so now you just have to dot the eyes and cross the t's to make sure everything works out and it does work out but that requires a little bit more work but since i'm over time also here [Applause] time for questions let me also encourage questions from zoom | ICTP High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | UC0XjPHyIE3NO4hK2rMO1Osw | 2022-05-11 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 19,415 | 102,366 |
OBoaD-9ECRk | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBoaD-9ECRk | HUMBLE ZIGGY REACTS TO Breeton Boi, Shwabadi, Ham Sandwich, Blvk Divmonds | what's the score humble Squad it's your boy home with Ziggy we back here with another four piece reaction for y'all and hey y'all already know and as you can finally hear and say if well throughout this entire video let's just say y'all was like it's like this y'all saw my videos that you always hear that dang fire alarm that beat song coming off where I finally we took that [ __ ] off and well sorry to curse in the first birthday sorry to curse but we took that sucker off now we will just need to put on a new battery and all but for now we just took it off so now y'all don't have to hear the beep beep sound every new anymore but yeah like I said we got this four piece reaction for y'all and hey we're just gonna go straight into it we got the cyberpunk edger Edge Runners song Edge Runners with Britain boy and ham sandwich the lyric video and there's gonna be another one and uh it's gonna be another one like it but it's a different one so either way we about to check this out make sure you like comment subscribe follow my socials up there and without further Ado let's get in video yeah [Music] on another level man you can't touch it wouldn't be a problem Mr Bad Warner I'm outside of living in Shadows so I had to go get me a bang phone shoot me and I'm breaking that Man's Bones you passed on and the thing is if y'all remember like way back and such right I reacted to why being young boy never broke young boys cyber Punk that talks that cyber song he did called toxic Punk right I didn't know because let's face it a lot of times whenever you see like new games are coming out nine times out of ten there's always going to be like TV shows or Hell anime and such that's gonna be made from it like who would have thought that because with arcane the League of Legends one that Arcane one who would have thought the freaking anime would come out of that a damn game from that crazy but hey it is what it is but I'm gonna see you if I wanna check it out every day [Music] hello eaters we can change the look one thing we've known about breeding boy that even though Disney look don't take offense to this UK shout out to y'all hope y'all subscribed to my channel and all but let's just face it with so many UK rappers will be trying to make gun bars like that let's face it y'all over there shaking people so [ __ ] a drive by y'all get [ __ ] guys [Music] I get it [Music] any kind of way how it kind of fits the way how the way how the title is and this and the name of those anime is like cyberpunk got that Sonic like air that robotic type of sound a little bit and it fits it really well yeah [Music] okay there was just they was just playing with the vocals they'd be like hmm you want it up or you want it down or do you want it tiny they was like yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] goddamn [ __ ] hold up I was trying to see if my audio was turned up but God damn it you started going crazy hold up I wonder why I would love go back on that [ __ ] verse [Music] Elvis Presley knows [Music] we are paranoid dogs Paradox because of the freaking separate thing called oh look notes held a minute go see notes [ __ ] Evo freaking rhyme scheme boxes [Music] my own French we're gonna see malfunction like a more effort but hey shout out to them they did they think now we got schwabity I bought a Hancock bad beep nice let's go [Music] okay and hey don't get it twisted you know how strawberry can make a freaking fire song for the ladies like [ __ ] what yeah you heard cosplay okay I'm a bad [ __ ] talk about timing this but I'm Savage they can hear the web and I'm Making Waves I'm not the baddest I'm from my panda nails to my lashes I got pen and failure and baggage but I'll never know be a bad [ __ ] back to the matter fact is a matter man I'm a matter to me and I don't do binder no if you ain't binder who cares about your green you wanna bite it as fruit boy you will never dip in the sea okay let me say this off the Record well it's not like it pause anything he's rapping he's doing it as that character but let's face it and pause though for any certain bars and such and they could no freaky I was on all the levels but I'm still saying it's like this you know what [ __ ] it I don't care about your house [Music] with a client full of coins if you don't [ __ ] with them then you don't [ __ ] with me and I mean what I said in the hood was you shooting your show while I get a [ __ ] bring up a look if they hung then he think that I'm hooked huh power to sludge but I am no big mom takes more than that just to get in my book we get it in book if they are ready to stretch it for me then they straight out of luck just or spam you know what [ __ ] it Fame boys I could see them lit fan boys it's whatever but I'm just saying I can see ladies who when they hear this song yeah ah foreign [Music] or not like don't give a f is like people may think like if they listen to this saying that a [ __ ] is calling himself a bad [ __ ] and [ __ ] and the clear and such anything like this [ __ ] suspect [ __ ] nine times out of ten is I mean freaking look at car Playboy cardi you need to tell me a [ __ ] like him you wouldn't hear him say [ __ ] like I mean for goodness sakes the [ __ ] put out a [ __ ] put out a song like years ago called meh and [ __ ] that we could be and you saw what was happening in that video that [ __ ] wasn't I couldn't barely the only thing the only reason why that video did good and such is because there was a lady in there just shaking that ass right I could come to this and there's bars and it's a guy who's singing it and it sounds way more better than that's way more better than Playboy called this [ __ ] so I do not give a damn if you think that makes me wear so [ __ ] the fact that y'all hear more bars and crazy and fire [ __ ] from this way more than Playbook Hardy that just goes to show you that [ __ ] would with nerdcore the anime rap scene it has way more hits than mainstream making pounds like this is [Music] don't stare on my [ __ ] that means still thinks eat some fats with no cardio I feel like that's according that was like a cardi B type lyric right there because I remember card to be saying about how cardi B but you know cardio or so something like that but I feel like that was a cardi B type leg right there but it's all I don't know [Music] Savage they can hear the web and I'm Making Waves I'm not the baddest I'm telling you I see this the minute I see women well it's like this no matter what the preference is right I could just see this in the club people I see a woman hell even gay men for that [ __ ] matter I don't care it doesn't like [ __ ] it's 20 22. who know who gonna tell them what not man if you're a homophobic and you're not like look not saying I would be at a gay club but it's like this I would just say right I will see this in the club and I will see cheeks going crazy savage or just please Savage [ __ ] [Music] shout out to Yuki beats and I think this is the last one hold on let's see oh no this is the third one now this is the this is the other one on ham sandwiches Channel because the other the first one was on Britain's channel so this is the second one which is to the moon so let's see how different this one is from breakfast I don't know who to trust I just run it up stacking up the money I can't even sum it up don't know who to trust I just run it up stacking up the money I can't even sum it up and I walk with that heat in my right hand some don't know where I might land [Music] honoring all my actions on the flight chance that I could change the city with the right plan every choice and you work for the white man trying to get my girl the moon in the flight plan no mechanical system tyrannical making machines to replace your what I can definitely tell from the start this is a different one from breeding soon because with Brandon that one was more of a robotic like robot in such away because with the sap like the sounds you will hear like come from a Ai and so on such yeah this one totally different honoring all my actions on the flight chance that I could change the city with the right plan every choice no mechanical system tyrannical making missions to replace the organicles turned to a cannibal look at the irony how does iron turned me to an animal but I have to fire me cold show this whole soldiers captive inside of their home I [ __ ] from the goal lines under the coast I'm tick tick Boomer you're meddling so I don't know who to trust I just run it up stacking up the money I can't even sell it uh don't know who to trust I just run it up backing up the money don't know who why this [ __ ] sound like each this [ __ ] sounded like he drunk on this course yeah I just run it up stacking up the money I can't even sum it up don't know yeah [Music] money wasn't coming hold up it's like this bringing on his own he was just going bars in and search with the gum bars and so and so right this one on hams he's just talking his like he said talking his truth what's the butter to a cold world another button to your own heart that you think we live in the whole Purge it's just a matter of what goes by the truth doesn't matter if we living in our own we're living in our own Purge it's just hold on put another button to your own heart that you think we live in the whole Purge it's just a matter of what goes first that's some that's a poetry right there if you don't back in this it was just homework now I'm laughing baby trying to hold words we're gonna see if what I'm saying holds word Let Me Tell My Truth money wasn't coming in didn't have me no friends I was done living again and again and the one through the pen let it go ahead and play my own group they think that it's funny my dreams can't cut each other be another man on the moon and I'm trying to take my baby wasn't coming in didn't have me no friends I'm up wake up what [Music] hey this was crazy now hold on before we end this off now with Call of the night with black diamonds first and foremost shout out to attack all in the world and second of all goddamn breeding Britain and ham y'all y'all two should be a like a group well y'all already are in the loops but you too y'all need YouTube in particular y'all need a y'all need like a dual name because even though y'all in the collective in the loop Collective you two specifically all right what we was talking about earlier I'm reacting close the door your rotation in and when you know you don't listen close the door you know what never mind but yeah like I said Britain and Britain and him you two in particular need a name for both of y'all I'm just saying but like I said now time to end this off this four piece reaction with caught up the night akura with black diamonds and move in let's go shout out to a taco underworld [Music] foreign [Music] but I feel like Delta should have been on this too Delta you should have been on this one too I'm stuck on several decisions back then I was so different I swear I could put all my thoughts on the paper I could tell myself daily that I might be fencing trying to decide what to take them and if I turn to hate I won't blame himself [Music] when it rains pause she like the weather shout out to the pups long little pop smoke [Music] yo first and foremost let me just say something about this anime fact that this [ __ ] right here I'm sorry to curse y'all y'all y'all barely hear any well it depends on what I'm reacting to but nothing better than y'all barely hearing the curse words for me but I gotta say this but that this [ __ ] right here literally keeps on biting this [ __ ] sucking out his blood you saw in the next clip the [ __ ] leg like [ __ ] I know I'm skinny right like y'all see this right I'm skinny right but hold up [ __ ] look at these legs anime or not [ __ ] [ __ ] by the time she if I don't give a damn if it's anime or not [ __ ] [ __ ] you shouldn't even be alive right now much less walking because this girl keeps on biting you inside look I don't give a damn if a vampire is fine as hell if you thicken the waist thick up here I don't care she keeps on biting me sucking up my blood one after everyone's still alive and two [ __ ] you know there's other people you can go buy too but now you want to bite this [ __ ] every single time [Music] the fact that this [ __ ] keeps on making it happen to him [ __ ] the more she keeps on biting you [ __ ] at this point you know you might as well just don't have a body because all the blood and such is gone you're gonna come and talk to me [Music] since yesterday [Music] looking back [Music] thank you Ace shout out to otaku on the world man y'all keep on doing what y'all doing but hey man all I'm saying is hold on y'all something on my phone but all I'm saying is [ __ ] letting her put you every freaking time because goddamn that [ __ ] is not speak but hey y'all let me know what y'all thought about this four piece reaction in the comments below and if you made it this far you're a real humble Squad member comment down below stop biting my neck cause God damn it that girl keeps on biting that [ __ ] [ __ ] and at this point he shouldn't even be alive much less walking but hey y'all let me know what y'all thought about this in the comments below it's been your boy homie Ziggy signing out stay positive and keep your Vibes up Lego | Humble Ziggy | UC50ZrJXoomNQaowVAzc7jtA | 2022-09-27 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,683 | 13,912 |
jCaZk0u5NpQ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCaZk0u5NpQ | Unboxing My Newer Ring Light | Nicola Dunna | hey guys and welcome back to my channel so I'm not gonna be worried with all the details go oh my god you don't believe what the person bought me the person bought me this weeks ago and I haven't had time to film it so basically somebody's moved in with us for a while and I don't like film in front of people is that weird infer they're in the house and what good god do it I got it so I bit the bullet I spent my money because when the and my partner and my friend they both work late so I can put my child's bed and I can film where is it the minute today quickly lights because my chance at school everyone's at work I'm not summer okay so a bit of bullet I bought something and today I'm good John box it I'm going to tell you a little bit about it now when I say I did some research I did some research so this is I believe you pronounce it newer ring light I don't think I was the requested I glitched you just gonna stop taking that box I'm talking to you because my excited so I've had this for weeks and thank you just so many good things I love about this right okay so I have full on it don't mind it I did my research when I bought my camera and I did my research when I brought this okay okay okay you ready look oh wait look at this so this ring light comes complete with it's very own box and bag box and it's hard to basically stop your light from breaking that was one of the things I loved about it because obviously I don't want it out constantly in my bedroom I am going to redecorate in my bedroom hopefully soon and I have an idea of how about my bedroom sets out so that I can film for you guys and it's basically gonna be on my bed with the background nice but the problem I've got is my bed now sits under my window we've rearranged and we found it better way I had to dream basically and I'm weird and because I had this dream every arranged my bedroom and it works really well the problem I've got though is when I do have it decorated so I can film that way I'm gonna have to win there behind me so I need a light anyway so right there is something in the bottom this box I'm out back I start off there we go okay so I can finally did the box since I see my bedroom for weeks right so we'll go with the small box first I'm going to show you literally everything in it I am slightly gutted because I love my tripod that I use my tripod I use is my uncle's and he passed away and it was something I'm into bag managed to get hold of and I have been using it ever since oh my god there's so many bits in this box ah Lord what the hell is this okay okay okay empty box looks like okay so this cost me a fortune and I don't even care okay you no idea what this is so bad I know right okay I have this contraption subscribe subscribe don't all that is that is all I have this contraption which I know your camera sits on top and you can hook that in and you can move it around and so you can basically put the camera in the center of the ring light know what that is that was one of the things I wanted Oh okay there is another thing here I'm not to show up bad tears oh cardboard it really hopes somewhere there are some instructions okay so this is me tripod that it came with and all I've been all I know is you do this hold on I was told basically you have to pull the legs right up and eventually they snap over oh okay so this one maybe oh there we go that was a lot easier than I thought okay so when the legs are in place screw it ty wait did this snap into place I'm not even sure don't even know I'm doing lock okay so this is my base and then we have aha Lee this oh my lord this is huge okay so the minute your chorus that I'm I've heard and look oh okay right and then basically you just untwist these okay we're gonna leave them quite short for now bloody hell that's huge okay we don't care about the tripod that came with it I do it's really sturdy mine's really flimsy but mine is compact and tiny okay so it comes with a portable carrying case strap okay take the ring lights out okay so when I was looking for some realize I did my research okay lots of stuff with at the moment I am beautiful I decided I did not want a ring light with a tube bulb I decided I wanted an LED light so this is my ring light comes like just why I don't happy about this okay I'm gonna calm down cuz if I don't calm down there's gonna be something I need to put this in show you guys don't already oh my god Ruby Phil Weaver so log he's gonna be such a hard bt82 edit I can just say Quinn right so I definitely wanted LED lights because they last longer than the tube plus with me take it anyway like you forget to my friends film and I take out I don't want my chance of the bulb smashing and they're really expensive to replace and I was like and this was only about 30 pounds more so I thought well ladies laughing right let me go get a plug all plugged in this is a dimmer light so dimmer power on/off okay ready and that's good okay okay so that's like the lowest setting your honor I can actually see it melting of my lens whoa oh my god okay okay I can't actually see why now should I turn it the other way to see them do want to close okay we're just hold it we're just gonna hold him in there don't get scared oh my god how much bad is my face look oh my I hope to god I look that good in the monitor because right now on my little teeny Channel okay whoa okay that's my camera effects insurance out so I'm just turning this bulb I can officially not see okay close the icon okay so it's still on oh my god I cannot say that I think there's over 500 LED lights on this okay it cannot see after all I can say okay okay I'll put this down because I really can't see my eyeball might need to like adjust or something I tell you my nicest parts II really hate to understand take boxers often you for never getting this one what do we have so I feel like I've missed a bit of my hair they're wearing it straight profit okay so about the book I found the book that dear dear customer thank you for your recent purchase notice okay so when I would this I knew it came with some frosted film for better with the orange film to cover it up where's and I'm not a photographer I'm not gonna go that I don't really want you to know also which I was quite impressed with comes with this contraption which is basically to put my phone in if I want to and it also came with this this is a Bluetooth remote shutter for iOS and Android so basically I can connect my phone to the center of it and I can take some of those proper hush poses and my hands don't have to be anywhere near it and which i think is quite good because obviously I do struggle with that like um I do some get ready with me sometimes I'm not the best makeup person in the world but I like to do those videos and I struggle at the end to take pictures I have to just basically record myself and screenshot them which isn't always the best so quite happy with that very happy with that actually okay so that's there and I'm going to attempt to work out how the hell this all puts together um maybe I'll take a photo of it when I'm done mm all right okay I'm just gonna leave the come on in and attempt to get some together I have no idea what Jackie won't doing I'm also going to lower this so I would love to stand up cuz I'm lazy basically you can also tilt this by the way as well so you can take them dangle pictures ah those two pieces go together and that's the bit that slot okay I write I know that miss now it's one side and I feel like I need my phone it doesn't means I could Dom in different rooms in the house now just for anyone that look to it you know I did buy purchases off ebay newer is quite a hard product to get in the UK okay I am a woman that can do this for those of you that are curious this is currently on 15 minutes and I have no bloody idea what I'm doing with this owl it's late wow that is the lowest of the low that's as low as I can physically get it isn't that mean legs and then maybe we need to take that off can you get it on then without it okay we're trying that's too big for me I think this is the extender didn't you think so does it have to be on we're gonna find out no no it does not okay oh hey guys I know the cameras in it is we could just want with me on this one this goes on the bottom of my camera this is a bit thick okay okay ah doing it okay show me move you guys you gotta be really low for now cuz I have an extended pole or anything but shall we move you let's move you okay so we're twist it hi guys how you doing today let me know in the comments how weird you honestly think I am because I know I'm a bit ok you what about your like that what the hell why is she filming this why don't you just stop because it's me unfortunately and I don't just stop I just think I'll just keep recording and it was so much easier I think I've mastered it I assume a sturdy okay sure go for it let's lift you up okay see you in completely the wrong position for me right now but there's fine we're just we're just messing okay let me zoom out so no zoom oh no wrong way okay I really don't like how this is holding my camera hi okay okay it's your turn you what let's see how oh I think that's too bright but it's not blinding and I love the reflection you getting your eyes okay so this man boxing I've been doing this for 20 minutes like 20 god damn minutes I have learnt there is an extender pole that is in case once I've studied so if I want to stand up it's also really good for photographers for instance if you want to take some photos of models people whatever you want to do you can actually not connect the camera to it you can just put the ring light up and stand through and take fit oh my god I love how good really we're very very freaky you know what this would be good for how's that around kep I'm genuinely thinking that now what else I can use this for to get my money's worth and genuinely the slope that's good my head is if I put a mirror there where the camera I could pretty much get ready in the morning with this maybe not obviously oh my god I'm on high I can't see I can't see this is its fullest that is blinding hell no can't do that Oh eyes are watering okay I absolutely love that it was worth every penny my eyeballs are blinding because I've just messed and had a good look but yes I am in love with my remote okay I'm going to go now because I do film so long if you did enjoy this little boxing video please don't forget to give it a big thumbs up go check out newer it's quite difficult to find in the UK so I'm not gonna link anything down below but you can find them on eBay I definitely recommend the LED lights they are fantastic and I personally prefer those to the bulbs but that's just me I just didn't want to break some clumsy person so I'd like to thank you for watching if you haven't hit that subscribe button please hit that subscribe button it will be where she was put it today we'll put the subscribe button up here click it's over here if you would like to check out one of my latest videos click in the top corner and if you'd like to video that YouTube is selected for you click over in this bottom corner I'd like to thank you guys so much for watching this video take care I'll see you in a few days in another video bye bye | Nicola Dunna | UCWYlZ3uk6T_-wNv7kZVkRyg | 2017-12-21 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,347 | 11,314 |
YVinPcBfyns | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVinPcBfyns | Life With Broken Collarbone | One Year Old Ayla | TigerFamilyLife~ | unbelievable okay baby we going relax now that would be careful don't fall off chairs climbing but we're finding either decline you have to come down [Music] yeah we're back home she's got her sling on here with the was it's called the pinion pins all over so they should have the move okay just cute sling here with the teddy bears you know Kayla yeah yeah there's no pain huh yeah when you guys pain when we tried to pick her up under her arms oh this is just pressure into the collarbone otherwise so far she's doing good with one of her right or her right arm being you know held on the sling well maybe she'll become a lefty now well how did all this happen you're wondering too I'm sure Hey look and everybody else well she is very active and don't like to do things that are told do to understanding or or whatever so she tried to she was trying to climb up her seat you see the one with the booster going up stair and fell and hit the leg of this table and rest is history so told you I told you baby not to go out there but you didn't listen when you don't listen to mommy and daddy things like this can happen I'm glad you're still happy still full of energy and life I think you're gonna become a lefty or both yep just digging into everything now like her usual personality doesn't change it's all using her left hand we'll see after all this there must be a reason for all this Ayla what do you think baby baby don't care all right good job what are you doing now you saw it you want to go up here again oh my go with their left hand it's all mine look at this what sir Oh baby why do you want to go up you're so bad hey this girl one hand action hey you want to fall again hmm what you want to do get up here sitting in the chair yes what do you want to do okay let's go up look in one hand he's doing it there you go good job which um I don't fall back poisonous [Applause] it's gonna be a long night she likes to sleep on our tummy but this is not gonna work what the right collarbone broken something might have to be able to sleeping like this with mommy we're gonna do baby mommy lucky have mommy that's for sure what are you doing in there oh come on baby yeah okay probably not huh poor baby [Music] you know deal on a motorized [Music] know what this matches are sure I'm sure to have fun what's up well by yourself [Applause] [Music] Leila here Scottish sling on trying to learn how to live a life with just left hand a lot of frustration have a hard time holding up the bottle love there's a law on our second day stand up second day left time Oh sinner slaying there like a baby in this way oh you're so cute positive it's like you needed the one hand tie it up make it still go up in the chair what are you doing maybe you come in she's gotta be on this thing for about oh my you're so fast you guys beyond this for over a month but a heal up oh that's the night found it found it oh yes you gave me a lefty are you gonna use both what they call it what's not work I'm gonna Emma destory or something oh no that kind of difficult words something like that where you use both hands maybe put the smile always happy baby hey baby baby happy [Music] one hand no problem there's nothing you can't do without one hand right everybody needs to learn from new baby learn from a one year old one hand one hand less still does everything she wants you can do it [Music] rotten father [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music] yes let me stop stop okay Toby stop it's not for you remember it's Russell so let a girl okay no more that we got a lollipop mm-hmm she really like this she's holding on to this got apple and banana fruit barks good boy yeah that's what she likes look at we got some pops baby says Mickey Mouse eat says it how you wish everything all right because come on give up no Aayla hope you're back are they eat soon you're thinking of you hope this little bag of sunshine can bring a smile or two feel better soon smile girl much love the clipping Steinfeld oh thank you very much [Music] my pockets what you owe me very won't eat of it I'll understand why Pulte everywhere not eating it stop it but down okay [Music] chief all right so it's been two weeks since her collarbone broken at the urgent care and we are here for the doctor's appointment ready actually x-ray again here we are all right we just got done with x-rays and she was crying and screaming threw up all over the place I feel so bad for the x-ray technician smells she just have milk too so smells really really bad Oh Leila you're unbelievable oh it smells so bad right now too it's like rotten milk but yes we're all done why why why we're gonna wait for the doctor no doctors going to take the x-ray out and see how a collarbone is growing or going back to place or whatever the medical terminology is but we will see stay tuned [Music] kill them it's okay look at the camera look at the camera oh you're okay okay all right calm down what did that works for sure is we don't watch videos that much but Tom and Jerry good old Tom and Jerry always seems to be working the old-school classics if you don't know Tom and Jerry check out our neoguri anyway we're waiting for the doctor now go talk to the doctor and see how everything is throw up cry scream and can't believe it [Music] all right we're leaving Kayla you don't have to cry more we are leaving come on okay she's been fighting the whole time the whole time doctor was it amazing amazing we're going see look we're going go home let's go bone is healing fine and we're going home okay everybody after all that craziness at the doctor's office overall Ella is collarbone is healing really well so thank God for that we're really happy it is feeling well and she had passed out we took about a 15 minute drive and you can see she has passed out all that crying yelling screaming I'm sure she's tired too so thank you very much everybody for watching and all the love and get well messages that you've sent us I'm sure she'll be hundred percent ready shortly this is a life of a one-year-old with a broken collarbone a like him 2018 signing out subscribe give us that thumbs up and share even nice comment we'll see you guys next time [Music] [Applause] [Music] you | TigerFamilyLife~ | UCT0PRjWxPrxh7mlQR8oWKXA | 2018-11-03 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,226 | 6,219 |
45dAl1pkFIA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45dAl1pkFIA | 10 Way To Stop Feeling Like A Victim Once And For All | good morning good morning good morning you are with me show my name is LaKeisha Hines listen let me tell you something if these were not my brothers I just want y'all to know if they were not my brothers I tell you what I really really think but aren't they looking swabs this morning I'm just trying to tell you they came representing this morning our fearless leader is traveling out of the country today and so we just want to make sure we represent and do him proud today so please make sure you let us know where you are streaming from today do not forget to like share and subscribe and most importantly if you have questions for us please drop them in the chat we will be happy to answer them but most importantly we are ready to dive into today's topic which is 10 ways to stop feeling like a victim once and for all so how are you feeling today brother Roland happy to be here with you and Walter so I'm doing excellent how are you I listen I'm blessed and highly favored and that's what they tell us in the church to say we're blessed that's where I'm feeling for the brother Walter oh I'm feeling great feeling excellent you know normally I get a chance to participate and ask the experts and so it's good to get some some mid-week time in happy hump day everybody hopefully everyone is having a great weekend definitely excited about discussing this topic even more yes absolutely absolutely so I don't know about you guys but you know full transparency full disclosure I must say I have been in a space where I personally have felt like a victim before um you know I'm one of those people who loves really really hard I'm loyal to a fault sometimes and there are times where I've poured into others and they didn't pour back into me the way that I desired or that I hoped and I put myself in this victim mode where I'm like see that's why I shouldn't have did well really that's the enemy whispering in the ear right telling us that we shouldn't do the thing that is natural to us the thing that God put us in to do many of us are natural givers I'm one of them and so for me to walk in and what it is that God put inside of me is is what I desire to do but when we don't get that Roi that return on our investment there are many times that we often get into this victim mode like I said the enemy will whisper in my ear and say see you shouldn't have done that you shouldn't have given of yourself you shouldn't have poured into this person in the manner in which you did but that is not of God so today we're going to talk about again ways to stop feeling like a victim once and for all but I did want to ask you too um have you guys ever found yourself in that position where you felt like you were the victim in the situation uh absolutely I if the truth be told you know we all at some point or another in our lives have been the victim played the victim and have been victimized at some point or another and the reality is it's very unfortunate um that we have had to experience that but thanks be unto God that we are able to overcome those things but when we recognize them when we realized them and when growth and transparency has taken place and so um for that cause we are able to move differently as I would like to say when we um have experienced those things you go through things to learn that's the person that's the part of it um and once we get the application of a thing now it's time to actually um work on it and do something about it yes yeah Keisha it must be going around because you probably it seems like you were eavesdropping on my wife and I's conversation last night because we were discussing this whole idea of being able to look back on situations and especially when you have the privilege of perspective and growth and so I was sharing with her during times where I felt like a victim in our marriage where you know you where you justify that I deserve or you know but because of expectations why am I not getting this and you hit on something very interesting which I think is important especially as we get into this topic and starting with the end in mind is that when it comes oftentimes to victimization it is it is an individual oftentimes decision for us to brace to embrace that mentality and the way that we back out of it is also an individual decision as well and so part of this conversation when we talked about victimization is about helping all of us to recognize our power and the strategies and the tools that we have in place to pull us out of these situations rather than putting the onus and responsibilities and the expectations on other people not recognizing that by doing that when we're doing is abdicating our power we're using our power over to other people and we're saying that when if this person does this if this person says that if this person does this action then I will be free and as long as your freedom as long as you're wealthy is tied to the actions of other people you will never be free truly free what exactly I'm logging off this is logging off I am out of here no you don't no you don't but listen that's so powerful what you just said Walter because it's not just us individually sometimes right it's also um our family marriage our family marinade it's our friends it's the people we surround ourselves it's social media it's everything I'm gonna read this quote To You by Gautama Buddha he said you yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection and so we're all told that we deserve this and we deserve that and we take those things into our marital relationships and many times we've never had a conversation with our spouses about what those expectations are and what we're coming into the relationship believing that we deserve right so you know if you grew up where you saw your mom serving your dad and fixing his plate every time you going to marriage thinking oh yeah my wife is gonna do that for me but if she she grew up in a family where that's not what happened where the husband actually fixed the plate for his wife then she's coming into the marriage with those expectations and I deserve to be served and I deserve to be served so then nobody even we all hungry everybody losing weight like what is really going on so I appreciate that so much what you said all right you guys let's jump right on in so the first way to stop feeling like a victim once and for all is to stop blaming others man listen um there are times where we feel like everything that is going on in our lives is not our fault right that there are times when we're in this season where we can't see ourselves we are blaming everybody and everything for our circumstances for our situations for all the things that don't go the way that we desire them to go because we're so busy looking outward that we're incapable unable to see how we actually are self-sabotaging ourselves so so what say you rolling about blaming others like what what do you have to add to this because I know you've experienced this with your clients well listen most times we don't understand the self-inflicted wounds that we bring on ourselves that create this space that we find ourselves in but the minute we don't do that we start blaming somebody else if there is their fault the reason why I did what I did was because and we try to justify our actions based on blaming somebody else for what they haven't done and not realizing that it's a partnership marriage any type of relationship is a partnership where it goes twofold and so so many times I'm dealing with clients that I did this because she wasn't doing because he wasn't doing and we try to justify our actions based on what somebody else did or did not do we have to stop blaming other people we have to own our own stuff we have to take ownership of our actions and be responsible for them and stop blaming other people and asking the question what was my contribution to this situation right what role did I play in this situation playing out in the manner in which it did Walter you touched on something previously well you touched on a lot of things but one of the things that you talked about is you know beginning with the end in mind is that you know we do have the power to choose Tyrese how we respond to situations we have the power to determine what our mentality what our mindset is going to be concerning this situation so I was going to ask you you know what what's one of the reasons you've identified with your clients that they blame other people like what causes them to do that what makes them do that sure so you mentioned something as it relates to our foundational family and so many of the behaviors that we observe in some of our clients and the individuals that we work with are our behaviors and attitudes that they brought with them from their childhood from their from their experiences and what we want to share with you is that while your experiences may not be your fault they are your responsibility so again some ways back it up back it up say that again absolutely so your experiences that you are that you have brought with you into your relationship and into the the parts of your life that you're in now they may not be your fault but they are your responsibility which means that you have to be willing to address them to deal with them especially if you see certain things that that run rampant in your foundational family then Having the courage to change some of those things because those are what we call normalized dysfunction so there are some behaviors that are part of the norm of the family that you are in that that's just part of the that's just part of your regular culture and so it's important for us again to take ownership of how we are showing up how people are expressing that they are that they are experiencing us and really take a long hard look at ourselves so that we can make the adjustments and the changes that we need and again when we blame other people that's an easy out and what it does is it it in our minds it helps to it helps to to shift responsibility of the work that needs to be done and one of the things that myself Roland Keisha any of the practitioners will tell you in this work in this life nobody gets out of doing work no matter what your role is whether you are the betrayer the Betrayed no matter who you are everybody has a role and work to do in the process yes sir absolutely 100 and then less work to break these generational Cycles right where we're teaching our children to do the same thing I cannot tell you when I was in the school system how many times Little Johnny Little Sally gets in trouble you contact the parent and the parents like oh that's not my baby's fault that's your fault or that's this person's fault that's the other kid's fault no little Johnny little Susie needs to take responsibility for the role that they played as well so not only are we doing that in our relationships but we're teaching our children that too we're showing them that it's okay not to be accountable not to take ownership of your actions right but we have to make sure that we're setting those examples for them as well right all right so the next way to stop feeling like a victim once and for all has to do with how we treat ourselves and it is being compassionate to ourselves many times we are not right we we know that biblical commandment loves your neighbor as yourself well guess what it's really difficult to do that to love your neighbor if you don't love yourselves and many times and you guys can chime in on this one I know with my clients especially when I am dealing it's not even gender specific a lot of times I see it with the ladies but it's not gender specific it's the men too especially when they are the betrayer I'm having to work with them to teach them or remind them of how valuable they are and to also help them to remember that it's important that they love themselves regardless of what their actions were regardless of what their sins were whatever it is that they did they still are deserving there's that word again of Love be not because of who they are but because of who God is right so we're constantly having to remind them to to love themselves and be compassionate toward themselves because at the end of the day none of us are perfect we're going to fail but how do you respond when you fail are you able to recover from that failure or are you self-loathing you know so are you guys finding that with the mail start with you Roland are you finding with the males as well as females that there's a a lack of self-love absolutely because what happens is we feel unworthy we feel that we're in this place of it's for everybody else and not me you know I must not have done something right so I'm being punished for for feeling the way that I feel and self-care is necessary care if you don't take care of yourself mind body and soul you won't be able to take care of anybody else and then here lies the the problem again we will start blaming other people for us not taking care of ourselves and so we have to make sure that we have compassion towards ourselves and understand just more than who we are but whose we are to your point Lakeisha and recognizing that we can do all things right and so we have to understand that it goes beyond just the social media image right we have to be sustainable and have substance within ourselves take care of ourselves have compassion you have to love yourself before you can be in love show love to anybody else and so often times because we start comparing ourselves to others we feel less than yes unworthy we feel as though we cannot come up to the standards by which society has set before us and not be the standard right and so we we fall back so often and put everybody else ahead of ourselves and then we're scrambling trying to figure out who we are what we stand for what's our purpose what's our value you have to know your value you have to know who you are and you definitely have to take care of yourself yeah really quick I'm sorry one of the things that you just said rolling again was powerful and it is about how we are looking at ourselves viewing ourselves and I'm really now to to me that was a perfect Segway into our next tip which is to resist resist self-sabotage we do that all the time Walter I want you to speak on this one because man I again you you speak on this one yeah absolutely and so what I was going to say and it's ironic that all three of these are actually interconnected because when you talk about self-sabotage a lot of what is happening is that we're blaming others because we are not being compassionate to ourselves most of the time what is being expressed to other people by us our internal conversations and frustrations that we've had by ourselves to ourselves so this type of self-sabotaging it comes out in our relationships in the way that we interact with other people and so you have to express and we have to model the model so in other words if you want if you want compassion then you have to show compassion to yourself you're not going to be able to have genuine compassion to other people if you're not showing compassion to yourself being patient with yourself being honest with yourself and saying that hey I dropped the ball that I didn't I didn't do this I do I didn't do that and you know we do a really great job criticizing ourselves we thought I thought I thought I used to tell people all the time I was I used to I was the Puff Daddy of pity of parties I used to throw all white pity parties nobody threw a pity party like me so we don't have a problem with that the challenge is can we can we compliment ourselves the challenge is can we give ourselves grace and mercy and if we really know that we have received grace and mercy from on high then we are part of that process of making sure that we are extending it to ourselves and then the love is then spread abroad to other people absolutely I I love that I absolutely love that and a part of that self-sabotage conversation has to be what's that the root of it so so I'll tell you guys I used to be one of those people who was always checking the phone wanting to know where you're going what you doing who are you talking to all of those things and what I realized is some level of that was insecurity but what was bigger what was bigger than the insecurity literally was me trying to control well we're stuck in this place of victimhood what we want to do is try to control whatever disaster we think is coming around the corner so that we won't be disappointed but really what I was doing was undermining my own joy and success with my self-destructive Behavior not giving my husband the ability to breathe and just live and just be himself because I'm trying to control outcomes because what I was taught growing up to your original Point um Walter is that you know me and she that's what they do and so at some point it's going to happen but if I can get ahead of it if I can just try to control it then guess what I won't get hurt or I won't be hurt as bad if I'm able to get ahead of it but that is a false sense of reality it is not something that we can do we cannot control the behaviors of others and so we do have to work very diligently not to get in a place where we're self-sabotaging because that's exactly what I was doing so you guys this has been a really great conversation we we have got to take a quick break so we can get ourselves I'm hype I'm hyped you guys I hype we need to calm down just a little bit so we need to get ready to take a quick break but I don't want you guys to go anywhere we will be right back with the rest of these tips don't you move we'll be right back [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign Academy app the couples Academy app is your go-to hub for how to do marriage right get started with our app today by perusing our amazing features that conveniently allow you to connect this app is packed with powerful content and resources to help you grow and stay connected with this app you can watch our messages find marriage resources watch listen and read the real life stories of restored couples sign up for events read articles and blog posts stay up to date with push notifications share your favorite messages via Instagram Facebook Twitter or email and download messages for offline listening for more information about the couples Academy app go to couplesacademy.org [Music] all right [Music] foreign Academy show my name is LaKeisha Hines and I'm with Walter Jennings and Roland Bradley and we are having a grand old time talking to you guys about how not to be in this state of victimhood but one thing we must do is shout out to people who are here because we so appreciate you guys watching every single week save one for Gina Lindsay Daryl Reese Caroline is it Caroline yes Cali power couple and Vincent Aaron and Andrea thank you so much for watching guys we appreciate it so so much so in continuing our conversation we really want to encourage you guys that this is something that is doable it's possible we want to give you hope that you have the opportunity to choose whether or not you stay in this state of victimhood or not so the next way to stop feeling like a victim is to practice gratitude and I'm actually going to link this with another way that you can stop which is to perform acts of kindness to others so here's the thing when you're in a state of gratitude one of the things that you want to do is look around look around and think about all the things that you have possession wise but think about all of the things that you don't have and think about why you don't have them maybe it's because it wasn't the right time for you to have them so be thankful that God didn't answer some of these prayers that you asked for because here's the thing we have no idea of what's coming on the other side of what our requests are but God knows so sometimes we ask for things that aren't good for us sometimes we ask for things at the wrong time sometimes we're asking for things that's really meant for someone else because maybe we were observing something someone else has and we said we want that but that's not really what God has for us so in practicing gratitude we're thanking God for what we do have we're thanking him for what we don't have we're looking at our circumstances and situations and expressing gratitude for the growth and the progress that we've made because if you're still here however old you are you're still here is for a purpose and so be grateful for every day that you wake up and you have an opportunity to do something different to be able to pour into someone else which leads me to performing these acts of kindness to others we're not here for ourselves we are totally not here for ourselves and we enter into marriage looking for what that person can do for us but really our mentality should be what we can do for others so Roland speak on this you have anything to add to to uh performing acts of kindness or practicing gratitude yes we all have to be in a state of humility and to be in a state of humility is to be human we have to recognize that being able to serve others is the greatest gift of all right and practicing a level of gratitude or having a level of gratitude is being thankful for what I have and to your point thankful for the things that I don't have because we ask for things that we are not ready for that we don't deserve sometimes and we also have to understand that our timing is not God's timing and so we may want something right now that we are not even ready for and sometimes to my father-in-law's Point God is getting the people around us ready for the things that we are going to have and so we have to understand that showing a level of gratitude we have to be thankful for everything and I think sometimes we are living in a society where we take things for granted we take people for granted we take doing things for other people for granted as well and we have to come back to this place of being humble which is to be human and be humanized to to serve other people that's just the bottom line absolutely so I want to take us to our next point which is to forgive and let go this this one is so powerful because it's hard for us to shift our mentality from being in this state of victim victimhood or victimization or whatever if we're not in this space of being able to forgive and let things go we know that people are going to hurt us it just is what it is it's not intentional um sometimes the enemy uses people and people don't even realize that they're being used that's the truth so we know that we're going to get hurt and we have to be in this place of being willing to release it and let it go the Bible tells us that we're not supposed to fight our own battles right the battle is it's the Lord's and he said vengeance is mine so while we're up here trying to uh get people back and we're trying to make people hurt the way they hurt us really the person that we're hurting truly is ourselves so every couple that we've worked with who has uh suffered from infidelity they're trying to recover from infidelity they have these feelings of bitterness and anger from what took place rightfully so we understand that but we have to be able to transition from that space of unforgiveness to forgiveness and then releasing because the truth is as I previously said the Forgiveness it's not about the other person it's about us and Walter you touched on how we have to take responsibility for our own actions and so we also have to take responsibility for how we respond when people do hurt us and when we do have that pain it's our responsibility what we're going to do with that hurt and pain and we really need to be transforming it into empathy compassion and understanding for other people so when we're able to get couples to move from that from that bitterness and resentment and all of that to being understanding and compassionate toward their partner who betrayed them we know that we got a willing uh a willing vessel and we know that there's going to be success for that relationship so our next Point Walter I want you to actually touch on and it is to shift your mentality from that of victim to Survivor absolutely so this one is very powerful and important because what it does is exactly what it what it implies is that it's a shifting and a changing of your mindset so rather than allowing yourself to sit and remain in a place of a victim which that individual normally is continuing to relive the trauma that has been inflicted upon them or that they have experienced whereas a Survivor is in a place of looking to be reflective on it for the lessons that they have learned and extracted from that in order to be better and also to help other people so they are two distinct and important mindsets that are critical to the well-being of that individual so it's so important that we move from a victim mindset to a Survivor mindset because remaining in a victim mindset it keeps you in that place of that situation when it happens and it doesn't allow you to move forward in really healthy and productive ways you're muted you're immune Keisha sorry about that so perfect Segway into the next point because one of the ways that we're actually to move from victim to Survivor is to build our self-confidence sometimes we're staying in that victim mode because we're struggling with low self-confidence and the reality is the best way to do that is to emulate confident people you know it's funny today how hassani's kind of been set in the tone for us we all in suits today because that's what hassani's been doing right so you know when we put ourselves around people who are successful when we put ourselves around people who have what it is that we want that they've overcome they've made it to the other side and we emulate them that can help us to build self-confidence but also going back to school getting a certification learning studying the word of God understanding who we are in Christ helps us to build self-confidence so it's learning literally from the inside out we start inside we're dealing with our internal selves and then we're able to look outward and get a support system of people who can help us to build that self-confidence as well all right our next point is to challenge your perception of reality and Mr Roland I ask if you can bring us home so challenging your your perception of reality none of us look like what we've been through we've all been through some things but none of us look like what we've been through and we have to understand that there is a greater purpose for all of us regardless to where we are right now the circumstances our situations we find ourselves in there is a greater purpose and cause for every one of us and the reality is that we can do all things if we see ourselves in the position of having all things that we desire and so when we challenge our our perception of reality that is simply saying that where I am is not my destiny my destined place that I have a place beyond where I am if I put in the work as we so often say it is going to take work to get past all these things right to get past being a victim and and finding ourselves in a place of of purpose a place of passion in a place of pride progress and we do those things if we take on that mentality we can we can go I was the sky is definitely the limit you know I'm I'm kind of excited as you can see just because I know that the possibilities are endless when we change our mindset the power of proximity is so real that when you link up with the right people and especially when you link up with God the Father himself is nothing that you're unable to do is nowhere that you are unable to go is nothing that you can't have that is within his will so let's challenge our perception of reality and let's look at where we are but also ultimately look at what we desire to be and go after it absolutely and that very last thing of Shifting that mentality from that or victim to Survivor is really about two sometimes people have this sense of learned helplessness right where they believe that they're not in control of their sick their circumstances or situations and that's something that starts in early childhood and possibly even early adulthood but again that is not true we do have control over our circumstances and situations or basically how we respond we can't control what comes to us and you know things that happen but we do have control over how we respond and so if you are struggling to get out of victim mode please reach out make that Discovery call let us help you let us assist you and that's what we're here to do we want you guys to be walking in the field the fullness of whatever it is that God has for your life so thank you guys so much for watching thank you brother Roland and Walter for being here with me today Hassani hey and Danielle safe travels where you guys are we love you and we'll see you back here tomorrow morning have a good night you guys are a day okay [Music] | Couples Academy | UCK3j2FhiA00Az3CRFbq6uZA | 2023-03-01 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 5,561 | 29,208 |
jIemd3pz0T8 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIemd3pz0T8 | Nottingham | Wikipedia audio article | Nottingham listen Notting M is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire England 128 miles 206 kilometers north of London 45 miles 72 kilometers northeast of Birmingham and 56 miles 90 kilometers southeast of Manchester in the East Midlands Nottingham has links to the legend of Robin Hood and to the lace-making bicycle notably rally bikes and tobacco industries it was granted its City Charter in 1897 as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations Nottingham is a tourist destination in 2011 visitors spent over 1.5 billion pounds the 13th highest amount in England's 111 statistical territories in 2017 Nottingham had an estimated population of 329 thousand two hundred the population of the city proper compared to its regional counterparts has been attributed to its historical and tightly drawn city boundaries the wider conurbation which includes many of the city suburbs has a population of 768 thousand six hundred and thirty-eight it is the largest urban area in the East Midlands and the second largest in the Midlands it's functional urban area also the largest in the East Midlands has a population of 912 thousand four hundred and eighty-two the population of the nottingham derby metropolitan area is estimated to be 1 million six hundred and ten thousand its metropolitan economy is the seventh largest in the united kingdom with a GDP of fifty point nine billion dollars 2014 the city was the first in the East Midlands to be ranked as a sufficiency level world city by the globalization and world cities research network Nottingham has an award-winning public transport system including the largest publicly owned bus network in England and is also served by Nottingham railway station and the modern Nottingham Express Transit tram system to the west lies Derby separated from it by the m1 motorway that cuts through it is also a major sporting centre and in October 2015 was named home of English sport the National Ice Center home Pierpont National Water Sports Center and Trent bridge International Cricket Ground are all based in or around the city which is also the home of two professional football teams the former world's oldest professional league club Knott County and Nottingham Forest famously two-time winners of the UEFA European Cup under Brian Clough and Peter Taylor in 1979 and 1980 the city also has professional rugby ice hockey and cricket teams and the AEGON Nottingham Open an international tennis tournament on the ATP and WTA tours this accolade came just over a year after Nottingham was named as the UK's first city of football on the 11th of December 2015 Nottingham was named City of Literature by UNESCO joining Dublin Edinburgh Melbourne and Prague is one of only a handful in the world the title reflects Nottingham's literary heritage with Lord Byron D H Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe having links to the city as well as a contemporary literary community a publishing industry and a poetry scene the city is home to two universities Nottingham Trent University in the University of Nottingham and also hosts a campus of the University of Law topic history the settlement may predate anglo-saxon times as hinted at in a Welsh tradition of an earlier breath ah nickname being ticked wakow book meaning place of caves known also as city of caves in modern Welsh it is known poetically as white I ago fog and Irish as n8i view aimh the kV dwelling when it fell under the rule of a Saxon chieftain named snot it became known as snot in gayyem the homestead of snots people Inger topic the people of Pam homestead some authors derive Nottingham from snotting uh caves and ham but this has nothing to do with the English form nottingham castle was constructed in 1068 on a sandstone outcrop by the river lean the anglo-saxon settlement was originally confined to the area today known as the lace market and was surrounded by a substantial defensive ditch in rampart which fell out of use following the Norman Conquest and was filled by the time of the Doomsday survey 1086 following the Norman Conquest the Saxon settlement developed into the English borough of Nottingham and housed a town hall in law-courts a settlement also developed around the castle on the hill opposite and was the French borough supporting the Normans in the castle eventually the space between was built on as the town grew in the Old Market Square became the focus of Nottingham several centuries later defences consisted initially of a ditch and Bank in the early 12th century the ditch was later widened in the mid 13th century and a stone wall built around much of the perimeter of the town a short length of the wall survives and is visible at the northern end of Maid Marion Way and is protected as a scheduled monument on the return of Richard the Lionheart from the Crusades the castle was occupied by supporters of Prince John including the Sheriff of Nottingham it was besieged by Richard and after a sharp conflict was captured in the legends of Robin Hood Nottingham Castle is the scene of the final showdown between the sheriff and the hero outlaw by the 15th century Nottingham had established itself as a centre of a thriving export trade in religious sculpture made from Nottingham alabaster the town became a County corporate in 1449 giving it effective self-government in the words of the Charter fraternity the castle in Shire Hall were expressly excluded and remained as detached parishes of Nottingham sure one of those highly impressed by Nottingham in the late 18th century was the German traveller CP Moritz who wrote in 1782 of all the towns I have seen outside London Nottingham is the loveliest and neatest everything had a modern look and a large space in the centre was hardly less handsome than a London square a charming footpath leads over the fields to the highway where a bridge spans the Trent Nottingham with its high houses red roofs and church steeples looks excellent from a distance during the Industrial Revolution much of Nottingham's prosperity was founded on the textile industry in particular the city became an internationally important center of lace manufacture in 1831 citizens rioted in protest against the Duke of New Castle's opposition to the Reform Act 1832 setting fire to his residence Nottingham Castle in common with the UK textile industry Nottingham's textile sector fell into decline in the decades following World War two little textile manufacture now takes place in Nottingham however many of the former industrial buildings in the lace market district have been restored and put to new uses Nottingham was one of the borough's reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 and at that time consisted of the parishes of st. Mary st. Nicholas and st. Peter it was expanded in 1877 by adding the parishes of base food brew house yard bull well Radford sniped n' Standard Hill and parts of the parishes of Westbridge fade Carleton wilfred north wilfred in 1889 nottingham became a county borough under the Local Government Act 1888 city status was awarded as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria being signified in a letter from the Prime Minister the Marquess of Salisbury to the mayor dated the 18th of June 1897 Nottingham was extended in 1933 by adding Bilborough and Willetton parts of the parishes of Bestwood Park and Kollek and a recently developed part of the Beast an urban district a further boundary extension was granted in 1951 when Clifton and Wilfred south of the River Trent were incorporated into the city electric trams were introduced to the city in 1901 they served the city for 35 years until 1936 trams were reintroduced after 68 years when a new network opened in 2004 in the sporting world Nottingham is home to the world's oldest professional football club Knox County which was formed in 1862 the towns are the foot Club Nottingham Forest had a period of success between 1977 and 1993 under manager Brian Clough winning the first division for league cups a UEFA Super Cup in two European Cups during this time Forest signed Trevor Francis Britain's first 1 million pounds footballer who joined the club in February 1979 from Birmingham City the city was the site of race riots in 1958 centred on the st. Anne's neighbourhood during the second half of the 20th century Nottingham saw urban growth with the development of new public and private housing estates and new urban centers which have engulfed former rural villages such as Bilbray bulletins gatling in brown coat south of the river there has also been expansion with new areas such as ed Walton and West Bridgeford adding to Nottingham's urban sprawl although this growth slowed towards the end of the century the modern pressures for more affordable and council housing is back on the political agenda and there is now pressure on the green belt which surrounds the city topic government topic local government there are two major local authorities that serve the Nottingham area these are Nottingham City Council in Nottingham sure County Council Nottingham City Council is a unitary authority based at Locksley house Nottingham on Station Street it consists of 55 councillors representing 20 Ward's who are elected every four years the last elections being held on the 7th of May 2015 the city also has a Lord Mayor who is selected by city councillors from among themselves the position is largely ceremonial but the Lord Mayor also acts as chair of full council meetings the city of Nottingham's boundaries are tightly drawn and excludes several suburbs and satellite towns that are usually considered part of Greater Nottingham unlike the city these areas are governed by a two-tier system of local government Nottingham sure county council based at County Hall provides the upper tier of local government whilst the lower tier is split into several district or Borough Council's the County Council are responsible for Health social care education highways transport libraries and Trading Standards whilst the lower tier councils are responsible for local planning neighbourhood services housing licensing environmental health and leisure facilities the western suburbs of Beeston staple food and Eastwood are administered by Brock Stowe Borough Council further west still the nottingham urban district extends into Derbyshire where Ilkeston and long eaton are administered by air wash Borough Council and Ripley by Amber Valley to the north Hudnall is controlled by Asheville District Council while in the East Arnold in Carlton form part of the borough of gatling south of the river the suburb of West bridge fed lies in rush cliff as do the outlying villages of rodding tynin tal Aten and the town of Bingham topic UK Parliament Nottingham has three UK pi mentoree constituency seats within its boundaries Nottingham North has been represented since 2017 by Labour MP Alex Norris nottingham east since 2010 by Labour MP Chris Leslie changed UK the independent group as of February 2019 and Nottingham South since 2010 by Labour MP Lillian Greenwood each of the outer districts Brock's toe Ashfield gatling and rush Cliff are also parliamentary constituencies in their own right topic European Parliament Nottingham lies within the East Midlands European parliamentary constituency in 2019 it elected five Emmy P's Annunziata rese ma grexit party Matthew Patten brexit party Rory Palmer labour Jonathan Bullock brexit party and Bill Newton Dunn Liberal Democrats topic geography and ecology Nottingham is situated on an area of low hills along the Lower Valley of the River Trent and is surrounded by the Sherwood Forest in the north the Nottingham shirt Derbyshire and Yorkshire coal field in the West and the Trenton beaver veils in the east and south topic map you topic within the city topic around the city you topic ecology within the city native wildlife includes red fox peregrine falcon and common Kingfisher notable nature reserves around the city include Attenborough Nature Reserve sssi Sherwood Forest National Nature Reserve home pit sssi Ferrum brook local wildlife site and bulletin park due to its position as a central city with strong transport links Nottingham has become home to invasive animal and plant species including Rose Ring Paraclete Japanese knotweed and Himalayan Balsam topic climate like most of the United Kingdom Nottingham has a temperate oceanic climate köppen cfb and experiences warm mild summers and mild to cool winters with abundant precipitation throughout the year there are weather reporting stations close to Nottingham the former Nottingham weather center at wat Nall about six miles ten kilometres northwest of the city centre and the University of Nottingham's agricultural campus at Sutton Bonnington about 10 miles 16 kilometres to the southwest of the city centre the highest temperature recorded in Mata gam whatnaught stands at 36.1 degrees Celsius ninety 7.0 degrees Fahrenheit whilst Sutton Bonnington recorded a temperature of thirty 6.0 degrees Celsius ninety six point eight degrees Fahrenheit both recorded on the 25th of July 20 1996 t 7.8 degrees Fahrenheit recorded in August 2004 on average a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius 77 degrees Fahrenheit or above is recorded on eleven point o days per year at wat nor 1981 to 2010 and the warmest day of the year reaches an average of twenty nine point four degrees Celsius eighty four point nine degrees Fahrenheit for the period 1981 to 2010 Nottingham wat Mill recorded on average forty two point nine days of air frost per year and Sutton Bonnington forty seven point one the lowest recorded temperature in Nottingham wat Knoll is minus thirteen point three degrees Celsius eight point one degrees Fahrenheit recorded in January 1963 in January 1987 whilst a temperature of minus seventeen point eight degrees Celsius zero point O degrees Fahrenheit was recorded in Sutton Bonnington on the 24th of February 1947 the record low maximum temperature is minus six point three degrees Celsius 20 point seven degrees Fahrenheit recorded in January 1963 for the period of 1981 to 2010 the coldest temperature of the year reaches an average of minus six point six degrees Celsius 20 point one degrees Fahrenheit in Nottingham what more topic air-quality in 2017 it was reported that Nottingham is one of a number of UK cities that break who air pollution guidelines for the maximum concentration of small particulate matter pollution in part being caused by harmful wood burning stoves topic greenbelt Nottingham is bounded by a Greenbelt area provisionally drawn up from the 1950s completely encircling the city it extends for several miles into the surrounding districts as well as towards Darby topic architecture the geographical center of Nottingham is usually defined as the old market square the square is dominated by the council house which replaced the Nottingham exchange building built in 1726 the council house was built in the 1920s to display civic pride ostentatiously using baroque columns and placing stone statues of two lions at the front to stand watch over the square the exchange arcade on the ground floor is an upmarket shopping centre containing boutiques tall office buildings line maid marian way the georgian area around oxford and Regent streets is dominated by small professional firms the Albert Hall faces the Gothic Revival st. Barnabus Roman Catholic cathedral by pew Gian Nottingham Castle in its grounds are located further south in the Western third of the city the central third descends from the university district in the North past Nottingham Trent University's Gothic Revival are Krait building the university also owns many other buildings in this area the Theatre Royal on theatre square with its pillared facade was built in 1865 King and Queen Streets are home to striking Victorian buildings designed by such architects as Alfred Waterhouse and Watson Fothergill to the south is broad Marsh shopping centre the canal side further south of this is adjacent to Nottingham railway station and home to numerous redeveloped 19th century industrial buildings reused as bars and restaurants the eastern third of the city centre contains the Victoria shopping centre built in the 1970s on the site of the demolished Victoria railway station all that remains of the old station is the clock tower in the station hotel now the Nottingham Hilton hotel the 250 foot high Victoria Centre flats stand above the shopping centre and are the tallest buildings in the city the eastern third contains Hockley village Hockley is where many of Nottingham's unique independent shops are to be found it is also home to two alternative cinemas topic lace market the lace market area just south of Hockley has streets with four to seven storey red brick warehouses iron railings and red phone boxes many of the buildings have been converted into apartments bars and restaurants the largest building in the lace market is the Adams building built by Thomas Chambers Hine for Thomas Adams 1807 to 1873 and currently used by nottingham college the georgian built shire hall which was once Nottingham's main court in prison building is now home to the National Justice Museum formerly the galleries of justice topic public-houses ye oldie trip to Jerusalem the trip partially built into the cave system beneath Nottingham Castle is a contender for the title of England's oldest pub as it is supposed to have been established in 1189 the bail-in in the Old Market Square and ye oldie salutation in the salutation in Maid Marian 'we have both disputed this claim the trips current timber building probably dates back to the 17th or 18th century but the caves are certainly older and may have been used to store beer and water for the castle during medieval times there are also caves beneath the salutation that date back to the medieval period although they are no longer used as beer cellars the bell Ian is probably the oldest of the three pub buildings still standing according to dendrochronology and has medieval cellars that are still used to store beer topic education almost 62,000 students attend the city's two universities Nottingham Trent University in the University of Nottingham in the 2016-17 academic year Trent University was attended by twenty nine thousand three hundred and seventy students and nottingham university by thirty two thousand five hundred and fifteen the University of Nottingham Medical School is part of the Queen's Medical Centre there are three colleges of further education located in Nottingham Bilborough College is solely a Sixth Form College Nottingham College was formed in 2017 by the amalgamation of Central College Nottingham and New College Nottingham which had both previously formed from the merger of smaller fake colleges and the confetti Institute of creative technologies owned by Nottingham Trent University is a further education College that specialises in media the city has dozens of sixth form colleges and academies providing education and training for adults aged over 16 Nottingham also has a number of independent schools the city's oldest educational establishment is Nottingham High School which was founded in 1513 topic economy in 2010 Nottingham City Council announced that the target sectors of their economic development strategy would include low-carbon technologies digital media life sciences financial and business services and retail in leisure Nottingham is home to the headquarters of several companies these include Alliance boots formerly boots the chemists Chinook sciences GM cricket bats pedigree pet food VF cooperation American clothing changan automobile chinese-made automobiles the credit reference agency Experian energy company on UK betting company dollar group amusement and gambling machine manufacturer Bell fruit games engineering company Siemens sportswear manufacturers speedo high street opticians vision Express and Specsavers games and publishing company games workshop PC software developer serif Europe publisher of page plus and other titles web hosting provider heart internet the American credit card company Capital One the national law firm brown Jacobson and earache records an independent music company founded by local resident Digby Pearson based on Handel Street in Snite in Nottingham also has offices of Nottingham Building Society established 18-49 HM Revenue & Customs the Driving Standards Agency Ofsted the Care Quality Commission and BBC East Midlands Nottingham was named one of the UK six science cities in 2005 by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown among the science-based industries within the city is bio city founded as a joint venture between Nottingham Trent University in the University of Nottingham it is the UK's biggest bioscience innovation and incubation centre housing around 80 science-based companies until recently bicycle manufacturing was a major industry the city was the birthplace of rally cycles in 1886 later joined by Sturmey Archer the developer of three-speed hub gears however rallies factory on Triumph Road famous as the location for the filming of Saturday night and Sunday morning was demolished in 2003 to make way for the University of Nottingham zzyx panshin of its Jubilee campus the schools in err real photographers h tempest limited were nottingham based for many years until relocating to sin dives cornwall around 1960 in 2015 nottingham was ranked in the top 10 UK cities for job growth from 2004 to 2013 in the public and private sectors and in the same year it was revealed that more new companies were started in Nottingham in 2014-15 than in any other UK city with a 68 percent year-on-year increase topic shopping in 2014 Nottingham came seventh in CAC eyes retail footprint rankings of retail expenditure in the UK behind the West End of London Glasgow Birmingham Manchester and Liverpool this is a slip of four places since 2010 primarily due to major developments in other parts of the UK and a relative lack of investment in Nottingham however into the owners of the two main shopping centres the Victoria Centre in the broad marsh centre have plans to upgrade and extend them both the Victoria Centre was built on the site of the former Nottingham Victoria railway station and was the first to be built in the city with parking for up to 2,400 cars on several levels and the bus station topic history Nottingham City Council then owners of the broad marsh Center had been trying to redevelop it for almost two decades work on redeveloping Broad Marsh at a cost of four hundred million pounds creating four hundred stores one hundred and thirty six thousand square meters of shopping space was due to start in 2008 however the economic downturn meant that redevelopment was delayed throughout from 2008 to 2010 in the light of the Victoria Center's redevelopment plans Westfield announced in 2011 that it was once again planning a five hundred million pounds development of broad Marsh which would start in 2012 this however did not happen either broad Marsh was finally sold to Capitol shopping centers the owners of the Victoria Centre the purchased prompted an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading and the Competition Commission who were concerned that the company's monopoly over the city shopping centres could have a negative impact on competition CSC subsequently rebranded itself in the centres usually in to name although the new owners wish to start the planned development of the Victoria Centre Nottingham City Council insisted that Broad Marsh must have priority with the council offering 50 million pounds towards its redevelopment the deputy leader of Nottingham City Council said the council would withhold planning permission for the development of the Victoria Centre until they saw bulldozers going into the broad marsh centre topic other shopping outlets smaller shopping centers in the city of the exchange arcade the flying horse walk and newer developments in Trinity Square in the pod the bridal Smith gate area has numerous designer shops and is the home of the original Paul Smith boutique there are various side streets and alleys with some interesting and often overlooked buildings and shops such as poultry walk West End arcade and Hertz yard these are home to many specialist shops as is Darby Road near the Roman Catholic cathedral in once the antiques area Nottingham has a number of department stores including the House of Fraser John Lewis and Debenhams Topic enterprise zone in March 2011 the government announced the creation of nottingham enterprise zone an enterprise zone sited on part of the Bhoots estate in March 2012 nottingham Science Park beast and Business Park and Nottingham Eddie Park were added to the zone in December 2014 the government announced that the zone would be expanded again to include infinity park Derby a planned Business Park for aerospace rail in automotive technology adjacent to the rolls-royce site in symfon Derby topic creative quarter the creative quarter is a project started by Nottingham City Council as part of the Nottingham city deal centred on the east of the city including the lace market hotly Broad Marsh East the island site and bio city the project aims at creating growth and jobs in July 2012 the government contributed 25 million pounds towards a forty five million pounds venture capital fund mainly targeted at the creative quarter topic culture topic theatres and cinemas Nottingham has two large capacity theatres the Nottingham Playhouse in the Theatre Royal which together with the neighboring Royal Concert Hall forms the royal center the city also contains smaller theatre venues such as the Nottingham Arts Theatre the lace Market Theatre and new theatre there is a sinner world in a showcase in the city independent cinemas include the art house Broadway cinema in Hockley and the for screen Art Deco Savoy cinema topic galleries and museums the city contains several notable museums and art galleries including national justice Museum Museum of law crime and punishment through the ages based at the Shire Hall in the lace market city of caves a visitor attraction consisting of a network of man-made caves carved out of sandstone beneath the broad Marsh shopping center Green's windmill and science center a unique working windmill in the heart of the city that was home to the 19th century mathematical physicist and Miller George Greene Nottingham Castle Museum home to the city's fine and decorative art collections along with the story of Nottingham galleries and the Sherwood Foresters regimental Museum Nottingham Contemporary Contemporary Art Centre in the lace market opened in 2009 new art exchange Contemporary Art Gallery the largest in the UK dedicated to showing diverse artists opened in 2008 nottingham industrial Museum housed in Willetton Park collections relating to textiles transport communications mining and steam Nottingham Natural History Museum based at Woollett in hall contains zoology geology and botany collections in 2015 the National video game arcade was opened in the hotly area of the city being the UK's first cultural centre for video games it was announced in June 2018 that the arcade was soon to close and relocate to Sheffield city centre where it reopened in November 2018 as the National video game museum topic music and entertainment Nottingham has several large music and entertainment venues including the Royal Concert Hall Rock City Nottingham Royal Concert Hall 2,500 capacity and the Nottingham arena social center Nottingham City ground played host to rock band REM in 2005 the first time a concert had been staged at the football stadium Nottingham also has a selection of smaller venues including the Albert Hall 800 capacity ye oldie salutation in malt whiskey rooms the bodega the old angel the central the maze the chameleon and the corner 1960s blues rock band ten years after formed in Nottingham as did the 1970s pop act paper lace in the critically acclaimed Tindersticks as well as influential folk singer and Briggs since the beginning of the 2010s the city has produced a number of artists to gain media attention including Jake bugg London grammar Indiana Sleaford mods Natalie Duncan ad Sulaiman dog is dead st. Raymond childhood rural spotlight kid and amber run nottingham is home to earache records a large independent record label set up in nottingham in 1986 and famously home to napalm death carcass band entombed band rival sons and more the city has an active classical music scene with long-established ensembles such as the city's symphony orchestra philharmonic orchestra nottingham harmonic society bark choir early music group musically Dunham Day in the symphonic wind Orchestra giving regular performances in the city the sumac Center is a social center in forests fields bulletin park in Nottingham hosts an annual family-friendly music event called splendour in 2009 it was headlined by madness in The Pogues the following year it was headlined by the Pet Shop Boys and featured among others Calvin Harris noir Zets athlete and Ok Go in 2011 it featured headline act scissor sisters blondie Eliza Doolittle in feeder in 2012 performers included Dizzee Rascal Razorlight Katy B and hard 5 in 2014 bulletin Park hosted the first ever note Muro festival featuring the likes of Sam Smith London grammar and clean bandit nottingham is known for its hip-hop scene ROFL audio recording studios opened in 2013 on the site of a former square known as milk square which was known to have hosted musicians bands and orchestras in the 1800s since opening the studios have hosted musicians and actors from various places including involvement in Hollywood films and British rock band Spiritualized album and nothing hurt the studios are a base for rapper and producer suede as opposed nu rain productions and Jake bugs manager Jason Hart topic annual events Nottingham holds several multicultural events throughout the year the city has hosted an annual Asian Mellor every summer since about 1989 there is a parade on st. Patrick's Day fireworks at the Chinese New Year Holi in the part to celebrate the Hindu spring festival a West Indian style carnival and several Sikh events the city is particularly famous for its annual booze fair a large travelling funfair held at the forest recreation ground at the beginning of October every year established over 700 years ago the fair was originally a livestock market where thousands of geese were sold in the Old Market Square but these days goose fare is known for its fairground rides and attractions since the late 1990s nottingham ship ride has organized an annual Pride Parade a day-long celebration that usually takes place in Nottingham during July topic arts-and-crafts the Hockley arts market runs alongside smilin market topic food there are several hundred restaurants in Nottingham with there being several double-a rosette winning restaurants in 2010 I Barry Co world tap ass located in the city centre was awarded a bib gourmand in the 2013 Michelin Guide Saturday Baynes on the edge of the city near Clifton Bridge is a two-star Michelin restaurant topic tourism in 2010 the city was named as one of the top 10 cities to visit in 2010 by DK travel in 2013 it was estimated the city received two hundred and forty seven thousand overseas visitors there is a Robin Hood pageant in Nottingham in October the city is home to the Nottingham Robin Hood Society founded in 1972 by Jim Lee's and Steve and air were Theresa West in February 2008 a ferris wheel was put up in the Old Market Square and was an attraction of Nottingham City Council's light night on the 8th of February the wheel returned to Nottingham in February 2009 to mark another night of lights activities illuminations and entertainment initially marketed as the Nottingham I it was later a dubbed as the Nottingham wheel to avoid any association with the London Eye it was seen again in 2010 and 2015 Sherwood Forest County Park is a natural Nature Reserve spanning 450 acres in the county of Nottinghamshire only 17 miles north of Nottingham this Grand Forest has been a part of great history for decades showing evidence of use by prehistoric hunters and gatherers it's even said that the legendary Robin Hood of the 12 hundreds has set foot here and hid near the major oak referred to as the 1,000 year old giant tree today Sherwood County Park is internationally recognized with annual visitors reaching around 350,000 topic people many local businesses and organizations use the worldwide fame of Robin Hood to represent or promote the brand's many residents converse in the East Midlands dialect the friendly term of greeting a up me duck is a humorous example of the local dialect but with an unclear origin topic miscellaneous Nottingham has featured in a number of fictional works topic sport you topic football Nottingham is home to two professional football clubs Knott County and Nottingham Forest the two football grounds facing each other on opposite sides of the River Trent are noted for geographically being the closest in English league football Knott County formed in 1862 is the oldest professional football club in the world they were also among the football leagues found the members in 1888 for most of their history they have played their home games at Meadow Lane which currently holds some 20,000 spectators all seated they currently play in Football League Two at level four in the English football league system most recently played at level one in May 1992 Nottingham Forest who currently play in the level two Football League championship were English level one champions in 1978 and won the European Cup twice over the next two seasons under the management of Brian Clough who was the club's manager from January 1975 to May 1993 leading him to four Football League Cup triumphs in that time they have played at the city ground on the south bank of the River Trent since 1898 Nottingham Forest joined the Football League in 1892 four years after its inception when it merged with the rival Football Alliance and 100 years later they were among the FA Premier League's founder members in 1992 though they have not played top division football since May 1999 the city ground played host to group stage games in the 1996 European football championships Nottingham won the title of 2015 city of football after five months of campaigning which resulted in 1.6 million pounds in funding for local football ventures and to encourage more people to play the sport Nottingham was selected to be a host city for the England 2018 FIFA World Cup bid it was proposed that if the bid was successful the city would have received a new Nottingham Forest Stadium topic other sports Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club play at Trent Bridge an international cricket venue the club were 2010 cricket County champions Trent bridge Cricket Ground is a host of Test cricket and was one of the venues for the 2009 ICC World twenty20 the rugby team nottingham RFC have played their home games at Ligue 1 not Counties Meadow Lane Stadium since 2006 in January 2015 they will play home matches at the training base lady based sports ground currently in the RFU championship if nottingham are promoted to the rugby Premiership they will return to meadow lane for home matches nottingham outlaws are an amateur rugby league club who play in the rugby league conference national division the nottingham ceases who were formed in 1984 play in the British American Football League at the Harvey Haddon Stadium the city was the birthplace in training location for ice dances Torvill and Dean who won gold at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics the National Ice Center first opened in 2000 is a National Centre for Ice Sports the square in front of the centre is named Bolero square after Torvill and Dean perfect 6.0 performance nottingham is home to the Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team other sporting events in the city include the annual tennis Dagon trophy which is staged at the city of Nottingham Tennis Centre the Robin Hood marathon milk race the Great Nottingham sure bike ride in the outlaw triathlon Nottingham also has two roller derby leagues Nottingham roller derby which consists of two teams the female identifying team Nottingham Roller Girls in the open to all team super smash brothers and the female identifying Nottingham Hellfire harlots in October 2015 Nottingham was named as the official home of sport by visiting land for its sporting contributions and in recognition of its development of the sports of football cricket ice hockey boxing tennis athletics gymnastics and watersports topic transport you topic air Nottingham is served by East Midlands Airport formerly known as Nottingham East Midlands Airport until it reverted to its original name near Castle Donington in Northwest Leicestershire just under 15 miles 24 kilometres southwest of the city centre topic railways Nottingham station the second busiest railway station in the Midlands for passenger entries and exits provides rail services for the city with connections operated by cross country East Midlands railway in northern topic trams the reintroduction of trams in 2004 made Nottingham the newest of only six English cities to have a light rail system the trams run from the city center to Hudnall in the north with a spur to the Phoenix Park Park and Ride close to Junction 26 of the m12 new lines opened in 2015 extending the network to the southern suburbs of Wilfred and Clifton and the western suburbs of beeston and chill well topic workplace parking levy in April 2012 Nottingham became the first city in the UK to introduce a workplace parking levy the levy charges businesses 350 pounds on each parking space made available to their employees provided that the business has more than ten such parking spaces the council have used the revenue of around ten million pounds a year to develop the city's tram system there has been a nine percent reduction in traffic and 15 percent increase in public transport use since the introduction of the levy topic buses Nottingham City Transport NCT is the biggest transport operator in Nottingham with 330 buses in September 2010 Nottingham was named England's least car-dependent city by the campaign for better transport with London and Manchester in second and fourth place respectively topic Waterways Nottingham's waterways now primarily used for leisure have been extensively used for transport in the past topic public services you topic emergency fire and rescue services are provided by Nottingham sure Fire and Rescue Service an emergency medical care by East Midlands Ambulance Service both of which have their headquarters in Nottingham law enforcement is carried out by Nottingham ship police whose headquarters are at Sherwood Lodge in Arnold the city has a crown court in the magistrate's court Laurie McDonald of inside one magazine observes that Nottingham's form a high crime rate earned it the nickname shot Ingham but that by 2013 this image was outdated the article was written in response to us which survey that had found south Nottingham sure to be the fourth best place to live in the UK in terms of living standards crime in the city of Nottingham had also fallen by three-quarters since 2007 topic healthcare there are two major national health service hospitals in Nottingham the Queen's Medical Centre qmc and Nottingham City Hospital both managed by the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS trust the qmc is a teaching hospital with close connections to the Medical School at Nottingham University until 2012 it was the largest hospital in the UK Nottingham City Hospital includes maternity and neonatal facilities but has no AME department students from the Medical School are attached to most of the departments at City Hospital as part of their clinical training topic water supply seven Trent water is the company responsible for supplying fresh water to households and businesses in Nottingham as well as the treatment of sewage seven Trent took over these services from the city of Nottingham water department in 1974 topic energy supplies Nottingham is host to the UK's first and only local authority owned and not-for-profit energy company Robin Hood Energy the city has one of the largest district heating schemes in the UK operated by enviro Energy Limited which is wholly owned by Nottingham City Council the plant in the city centre supplies heat to 4,600 homes and a wide variety of business premises including the concert hall the Nottingham arena the Victoria baths the broad Marsh shopping centre the Victoria Centre and others they only operates a cogeneration CHP plant in Nottingham for generating energy from biomass topic religion historically the requirement for city status was the presence of a Church of England Cathedral Nottingham however does not have one having only been designated a city in 1897 in celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee from around AD 1100 Nottingham was part of the Diocese of Litchfield controlled as an Archdeacon reef rum Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire however in 1837 the Archdeacon riwa spaced under the control of the Diocese of Lincoln in 1884 it became part of the newly created Diocese of subtle which it and the city are still part of today the bishop is based at Southern Minster 14 miles 23 kilometers northeast of the city despite not having a Cathedral Nottingham has three notable historic Anglican parish churches all of which date back to the Middle Ages Saint Mary the Virgin in the lace market is the oldest and largest the church dates from the eighth or ninth centuries but the present building is at least the third on the site dating primarily from 1377 to 1485 st. Mary's is considered the mother Church of the city and Civic services are held here including the welcome to the new Lord Mayor of Nottingham each year it is a member of the Greater churches group st. Peter's in the heart of the city is the oldest building in continuous use in Nottingham with traces of building starting in 1180 st. Nicholas is the third a variety of chapels and meeting rooms are in the town many of these grand buildings have been demolished including Halifax Place Wesleyan Chapel but some have been reused notably high pavement Chapel which is now a public house there are three christadelphians meeting halls in the city and the national headquarters of the congregational Federation is in Nottingham Nottingham is one of 18 British cities that do not have an Anglican Cathedral it is however home to the Roman Catholic cathedral of st. Barnabas which was designed by August's pujan and consecrated in 1844 it is the Cathedral Church for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nottingham today there are places of worship for all major religions including Christianity and Islam with 32 mosques in Nottingham Nottingham has 80,000 Christians 30,000 muslims 15,000 sikhs 8,000 Hindus and 2,000 dues topic demography the ons 2014 basis population projections indicate that the city is once again in a phase of steady population growth and that the 350,000 mark should be reached around 2030 the city of Nottingham has a population at three hundred and twelve thousand nine hundred with the Greater Nottingham population at seven hundred and twenty nine thousand nine hundred and seventy seven and the metro population at 1 million five hundred and forty three thousand the city of Nottingham has a density of 4073 per square kilometres sixty five point four percent two white British thirteen point one percent Asian 8.2 percent of West Indian origins six point one percent a European North American four point three percent African 1.6 percent Middle Eastern and one point one percent South Central American the city's population also has the largest proportion of any UK city identifying as mixed-race at six point seven percent with four percent being mixed white and black Caribbean topic media you topic television the BBC has its East Midlands headquarters in Nottingham on London Road BBC East Midlands today is broadcast from the city every weeknight at 6:30 p.m. from 1983 to 2005 Central Television the ITV region for the East Midlands had a studio complex on lenten Lane producing programmes for various networks and broadcasting regional news the city was recently granted permission by Ofcom to set up its own local television station after a tender process confetti college was awarded the licence the station was declared open by Prince Harry in April 2013 and not TV began broadcast in spring 2014 topic radio in addition to the national commercial and BBC radio stations the Nottingham area is served by licensed commercial radio stations though all broadcast to a wider area than the city radio stations include BBC Radio Nottingham gold gem 106 Capital East Midlands smooth radio East Midlands Kemet FM radio dawn topic student radio the city's two universities both broadcast their own student radio stations Nottingham Trent University's fly FM is based at the University City campus and is broadcast online Nottingham University's University Radio Nottingham is broadcast around the main and Sutton Bonnington campuses on medium-wave a.m. as well as over the Internet topic newspapers and magazines Nottingham's main local newspaper the Nottingham Post is owned by local world and is published daily from Monday to Saturday each week left lion magazine established 2003 is distributed for free across the city covering nottingham culture including music art theatre comedy food and drink student tabloid the tab also publishes online content and has teams at both universities topic film Nottingham has been used as a location in many locally nationally and internationally produced films movies that have been filmed partly or entirely in Nottingham include topic Twin Cities Nottingham is twinned with the following cities topic notable people topic list of mares and lord mares topic the Sheriff of Nottingham topic see also list of public art in Nottingham 1185 East Midlands earthquake snot English equals equals notes | wikipedia tts | UCa7A71byaczz6dAQM4FZngg | 2019-10-04 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 7,617 | 46,214 |
FRZJs86v6OU | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRZJs86v6OU | Breakking NEWS U S successfully intercepts a long range missile for the first time | [Music] the US military on Tuesday successfully intercepted an intercontinental range missile for the first time a key test of its missile defense system amid heightening tensions with North Korea the successful test represented a critical milestone for the Pentagon's defensive missile system said Navy Vice Admiral Jim steering director of the defense missile agency the interceptor was launched from a silo at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and hit the test missile fired from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific the defense missile agency said the test was a major challenge because an intercontinental ballistic missile flies faster than the shorter range missile prior to Tuesday the US military had conducted 17 tests of its missile defense system and nine were successful North Korea's nuclear ambitions have injected a new sense of urgency to building an effective defense against the country and actions of its unpredictable leader Kim jong-un who is trying to develop a long-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and reaching the US mainland President Trump has vowed to prevent that from happening and has leaned on China North Korea's closest ally to use political and economic leverage to persuade Kim to halt his weapons program on Monday North Korea tested the short-range missile that flew about 280 miles before landing in the Sea of Japan it was the latest in a recent string of North Korean missile tests including two that exploded shortly after launch the country hasn't yet developed a missile capable of reaching the US mainland but the US government believes the continual testing is bringing North Korea closer to that goal we always assume that with the testing program they get better with each test defense secretary Jim mattis told CBS News on Sunday during the u.s. Soviet cold war-era President Ronald Reagan vowed to develop a missile defense that became known as star wars because it involved a satellite based system but technological progress was slow and opponents warned that an effective defense against the Soviets massive intercontinental missile arsenal maddened by the first strike before a system was perfected a defensive system is not something we have developed on par with our offensive capabilities said David Maxwell associate director of the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University it's much easier to launch a missile bennett is to shoot went down by coleman becoming almost a weekly exercise and tonight we are again confronted with a North Korean missile test one that could bring the communist regime closer to its goal of attaining a nuclear weapon Lucas Tomlinson is live at the Pentagon with details on the latest launch good evening Lucas good evening James US officials say the Scud C missile splashed down 240 miles from Japan after first reaching outer space is North Korea's third consecutive missile test in the past three weekends going back to Mother's Day yesterday defense secretary Jim mattis says it's not just the missiles he's concerned about the North Korean regime has hundreds of artillery cannons and rocket launchers within range of one of the most densely populated cities on earth which is the capital of South Korea but the bottom line is it would be a catastrophic war if this turns into combat Fox News has also learned about a separate test this weekend involving a surface-to-air missile called the KN o six similar to the Russian as 300 design images from North Korea's state-run media show the presence of kim jeong-hoon leader of the rogue communist regime US officials say a North Korean Meg fighter jet crashed near the launch site of that surface-to-air missile test in an interview on CBS secretary Manus would not draw any red lines in North Korea instead choosing to keep his cards close at this time what we know I'd prefer to keep silent about because we may actually know some things the North Koreans don't even know what keeps you awake at night nothing I keep other people awake at night in the past few weeks the Pentagon has doubled its firepower in the region the USS Ronald Reagan Strike Group deployed from Japan joining the Vincente in the region giving American commanders to aircraft carriers and more warships capable of launch and cruise missiles and James the Pentagon is conducting a missile test of its own tomorrow the missile defense agency will launch an intercontinental ballistic missile from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific into space and attempt to shoot it down with an interceptor missile from a base in California FoxNews will cover it James a lot riding on that Lucas Tomlinson at the Pentagon tonight Lucas Thank You North Korea wants to rein missiles on the u.s. China does too let's wake up but Korea's latest missile launch while certainly not the most sophisticated of its recent firings sent an ominous message Yong Yong will not be denied the ability to get any targeted desires including US bases and eventually the homeland but is Kim jong-un simply copying the well-worn playbook of its ally the People's Republic of China PRC the evidence is quite telling while North Koreans missile arsenal now at over 1,000 short medium and long-range weapons is creating nothing short of a slow-moving human missile crisis in Northeast Asia China has also been working to protect its own missile technology on a much more massive scale and for some experts represent the gravest threat to the US military today indeed since the days of the early told one Beijing has been developing missile platforms to deter the west China's efforts picked off rapid speed after the trying of relations with the United States in the 1970s allowing for the acquisition of dual-use technologies to aid their efforts Beijing developed short medium and long range missiles pairing them with miniaturized nuclear warheads to deter Moscow at the time its most dangerous adversary but as the Cold War ended China began to craft new missile platforms to take on what it considered its next challenge the United States Beijing watched with horror as Washington crushed what was then considered one of the more powerful militaries of the world in our ten near lightning fashioned in 1991 Chinese leaders would correctly conclude that if war between America and China occurred any time soon they would lose and lose royally this leaves the United States in a bind as it faces not one but two nations armed with quickly growing missiles Arsenal's in a part of the world where Washington's interests are vital events closer to home would see China's worst nightmare almost come true the 1995 to 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis nearly brought Beijing in Washington to blows the blows however would have been all American as China's military would soon discover they could not even find American aircraft carriers operating close to their Shores let alone attack them the PRC was determined not to suffer that fate Chinese leaders even today know they can't match America in all aspects of modern warfare however missiles give them an asymmetric advantage as they are cheap to build and hard to defend against for the last 20 years Beijing has been on a crash course to ensure it has not only the ability to strike carriers operating in the Pacific with showers of missiles but also any military bases near China or any US allies such as Japan or Taiwan for that matter Beijing can now call upon thousands of ballistic Cruzan in the future hypersonic missiles to strike across large swaths of Asia and of most concern a carrier killer missile that could target and sink naval vessels at ranges as far as 2,500 miles north Korea it seems is following a slower but similar strategy guided by Chinese direct and indirect assistance the Kim regime is now pursuing missiles of all different ranges sizes and capabilities even developing what could end up becoming its very own carrier killer just like China North Korea knows it can't match America's military might head-on so instead Pyongyang is betting the sheer size and scale of its missile arsenal will keep President Trump at bay and Kim jong-un in power this leaves the United States in a bind as it faces not one but two nations armed with quickly growing missiles Arsenal's in a part of the world where Washington's interests are vital missile defensive systems could certainly be deployed across Northeast Asia and a wider Asia Pacific but are expensive so expensive that defending against every single missile threat is impossible there does seem a simple solution for Washington to deploy land-based missiles just like China and North Korea however thanks to the intermediate-range forces treaty in a signed by the US and Russia towards the end of the Cold War Washington is prohibited from developing missiles with ranges of three one zero three four to zero miles the exact range or weapons America needs so how should America respond with no restriction on sea based weapons America could expand dramatically the size of its submarine fleet that can carry cruise missiles to ensure Washington could respond dramatically to any Chinese or North Korean threat but building more subs takes years and America and its allies are facing this threat now America could also withdrawal from the INF treaty perhaps not upsetting Russia as it has been caught violating it anyway but unfortunately it would still take years for America to build new missile platforms and would open the door for Russia to quickly deploy new systems to Europe potentially gaining a crucial military advantage over NATO for the moment China and now North Korea might have one crucial military advantage over America one dot nations like Iran and others will be all too eager to replicate there is breaking news now on Fox News Channel this is video just into Fox News from minutes ago defense officials launched a mission a missile as part of a test to try to shoot down an intercontinental ballistic missile similar to the one North Korea is now said to be developing the missile took off from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base in an attempt to intercept a missile that was launched from the Marshall Islands this is the first time the military is attempting to intercept that type of missile and analysts say this could be very challenging this defense system has a little more than a 50% success rate when the Pentagon used it to try to shoot down shorter range missiles over the weekend or Korean officials launched their third ballistic missile test this month according to US defense officials and we're continuing to watch this video and as we do and I want to keep watching this I want to turn to our own correspondent Jonathan hunt who's at Vandenberg Air Force Station explain what's supposed to happen now Jonathan well chappie was a spectacular sight as you can plainly see as that ground-based interceptor missile took off from here at Vandenberg now about now and the actual minutes to intercept is it classified time but about now it should be they hope hitting the ICBM now as you mentioned the ICBM was launched by the US unarmed of course from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific then a few minutes after that the interceptor was launched from here at Vandenberg and then with the ICBM traveling at around 16,000 miles per hour basically a 5 foot long very high-tech metal projectile will separate from the interceptor missile and hopefully strike the incoming ICBM as Admiral James searing the head of the missile defense agency told us in an exclusive interview it's no easy task listen here it's very difficult we're talking about intercepting in space that hundreds of miles of altitude with closing velocities of thousands of miles per hour it's hitting a bullet with a bullet but it is the missile defense agency's job to perfect the art of hitting a bullet with a bullet especially in the face of this ramped up testing that we have seen in the last few months by the North Koreans and most experts say ship they believe that North Korea is in within a few short years of being able to target the mainland United States with a nuclear-tipped warhead so this test today ship absolutely critical in these interceptors are they like always ready to go that 24/7 shopper that most of them are actually based up at Fort Greely in Alaska 32 of the 36 interceptor missiles that the US has we got exclusive access to Fort Greely ahead of this test where those 54 footlong missiles are stored in 70 foot deep silos there is a team that is on-call 24/7 in the in the control room there we met with them they are extraordinary men doing a very difficult job and they practice every single day and because of that Lieutenant Colonel Jim Brower who is the commanding officer of the 49th missile defense battalion believes that the u.s. can and will be defended if and when it's necessary listen here we are very confident in the ground-based interceptors and the technology that we have but again if we're talking about a nuclear warhead headed to LA we want to make sure that we get it they want to make sure they get any missile headed towards LA or indeed any other American city as many of the men and women who serve up there told a ship this is absolutely a no fail mission we'll see if they succeed today in this critical test ship yet we'll find out [Music] you | EVE 247 | UCNr_135do2KHD-6UEyNEzOQ | 2017-06-18 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,283 | 13,336 |
aPMlkx_cYEY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPMlkx_cYEY | Winners, Losers, Boomers and Busters (Episode 005) | hey everyone welcome back to the trade hacker mindset in this episode we're going to continue with our discussion on topics from the book trading in the zone by mark douglas in this episode we're going to talk about consistent winners consistent losers and the boomers and busters trading the markets can be difficult to master and seemingly just out of reach professional traders have a secret trading requires total mental and emotional control it requires the trade hacker mindset all right so let's jump into our discussion of winners losers boomers and busters for most successful traders it really takes a lot of time sometimes more than others before traders either throw in the towel or find out their true source of success and depending on where you are in your trading journey maybe you're at a point where you've managed to get just enough right about trading in to become commonly what's known as is the boom and bust cycle you know how to make money sometimes but you're still subject to that euphoria and the self-sabotage that can really make you incur large losses from time to time you know we talked about in our last episode about having a positive versus a negative attitude and there are certainly traders who just right out of the gate start losing consistently but there are a lot of people a lot of students a lot of new traders who are really tenacious about learning they're tenacious students they have a passion to learn about the markets and in turn this does create kind of a winning attitude about the markets so in spite of a lot of difficulties that you can incur when you're trading you eventually learn how to make money but i want to emphasize this is on a limited basis you haven't learned how to counteract this euphoria when you get on a winning streak or you haven't learned how to get out of this cycle of taking these large losses that just set you back in your trading you know i know i can remember when i was a new trader there's there were a lot of times where i would have significant win streaks where i would have you know multiple days in a row that were winning days i would have multiple weeks multiple months but then eventually the self-sabotage would kick in and i might have a situation where within a period of a day or a week or a month i would wipe out all the gains that i had built up to that point in his book trading in the zone mark douglas says euphoria and self-sabotage are two powerful psychological forces that will have an extremely negative effect on your bottom line basically saying it's not uncommon for you to experience a boom in your trading followed by the inevitable bust the thing to remember is that you don't typically experience this until you've actually started winning because at this point you're really unlikely to concern yourself with anything that might be a potential problem if you're winning especially if your experience a sense of euphoria when you're on a real hot streak you know euphoria creates this sense of confidence that anything going wrong is almost inconceivable it's actually when you're winning it's when you're on these hot streaks when you're in the state of euphoria that you're actually the most susceptible to making a mistake and mistakes can come in a lot of different forms it can come in over trading you know trading too much and probably the most common is putting on positions that are too large for your account too large for your personal risk tolerance level another mistake might be that it violates your rules you know maybe you've come up with this a very rigid set of rules that you follow and you've been following and you've been doing great but then you veer off a little bit and you still win and that's the issue once you veer out of your rules and you make a winning trade in your mind whether it's subconscious or consciously you start getting into this rut of taking trades outside of your rules and that's inevitably when you hit that situation where you incur large losses you may even get to a situation in the state of euphoria where you actually think you're so in flow with the market that you are actually kind of in the market you are the market you are you are pushing the market the problem is the market doesn't always agree with that in fact it doesn't agree at all and when it decides to disagree that's when you experience the real pain and that's what i mean by experiencing boom followed by a bust so mark douglas he consulted and coached hedge funds retail traders institutional traders individual traders all across i mean thousands and thousands and he put traders into really three classifications one are the consistent winners that you have a steadily rising equity curve with relatively minor drawdowns and this makes up about 10 of traders overall the next group of traders are these consistent losers and this is about 30 to 40 percent of active traders you know they have illusions about the nature of trading they're addicted to it kind of like in a gambling sense it almost makes it virtually impossible for them to be winners they have negative attitudes and everything that we've talked about in the last episode and then the largest group of active traders fall into this boom and bust category they've learned to make money but you haven't really learned the trading skills and the mindset skills that have to be mastered in order to keep the money that you make these are the traders where if they are actually even tracking their trades well their their p l equity curve like looks like a roller coaster so think back when you had your last major loss or if you haven't had one yet pay attention to this if you incur a major loss did it come right after a state of euphoria or did it was it related to a situation of just self-sabotage because what you'll find is that major losses are usually a result of one or the other euphoria or self-sabotage now of course every trader is different every trader has a different threshold for when this overconfidence or euphoria may start for some traders this streak is just a few trades in a row some it's looking at a very steadily rising equity curve or in some cases even just one winning trade but be aware when euphoria takes hold you're in deep trouble and this is where self-awareness comes in and plays a huge role because when you're in a state of euphoria you can't perceive the risk in your mind nothing can go wrong at this point and if nothing can go wrong that there's no need for rules there's there's no need for boundaries and so what happens many times is this is the point where you start putting on larger than normal trades and inevitably that's when the market slaps you the worst as soon as you put on that position that's larger than normal you're in big big trouble and when you finally get out of this trade it's like you're dazed you're disillusioned you almost feel betrayed you're like a deer in the headlights and you kind of wonder how did this happen the biggest loss that i ever took as a trader and this was this was years ago this was probably about seven or eight years ago i was trading oil futures the cl contract which is a pretty pretty sizable contract at the time i was trading an account that was about a 130 000 and i had been on a significant win streak and i i became very very confident that oil was going to continue higher and because of the state of euphoria that i was in i loaded up on the number of contracts and right at that point is when the market in oil turned to the downside and and you know everything in the news and everything that i was digesting and reading about the oil market was that that oil was going up and so i was not only from that i was i was taking that information and it was fueling my confidence of my own personal perception of what was going to happen in the market and as the oil market started going down not only did i start with a position that was larger than normal and and really too large for my account but as it went down i continued to add more and more contracts and what happened is within a matter of weeks my account that was at 130 000 when i started that position when i finally called uncle when i finally closed out my oil position my account was fifteen thousand dollars i had lost a hundred and fifteen thousand dollars in a matter of weeks on one trade because of that state of euphoria because i got my position size too large and i literally quit trading for six months after that because i was in this state of shock of you know how did this happen playing the blame game on the market on everything but myself and and actually that's that's one of the situations that actually got me started on the path of the trade hacker mindset of of mindset trading and this was like i said seven or eight years ago so it was a long time ago but that's when i really started to realize that this was an internal issue this was not the market's fault this is this was not this well i mean it was just a terrible strategy i didn't have a strategy i had no rules on that trade but the only thing that that caused that to happen was me it was in my mind and the decisions that i made on that trade you know i remember thinking i'm never gonna trade oil again you know it's oil's fault oil oil is to blame for this it's it's it's definitely not me this is you know it's just the fact that i was trading oil that was the problem so now let's talk about self sabotage because losses from self sabotage can be just as bad but they're typically a little bit more subtle in nature they don't slap you across the face like euphoria does you know self-sabotaging is an interesting one because i think a lot of times this comes from something that happened potentially in your past your upbringing your work ethic something that happened in your childhood some type of trauma potentially and if if there's a conflict of your mind about you know deserving that you should be successful then it can create a conflict in your mental environment that that's not aligned with your goals of becoming a successful trader obviously if you get into this cycle of self-sabotage you know if you lose more money than you make you're eventually going to fail i can remember talking to a group of they were they were a broker futures broker as well as they they sold you know automated futures trading systems and i remember specifically one time they commented uh that when it comes to their customers they kind of live by the motto that that all these all their customers are temporary they're terminal and it it's their job just to keep them happy until they're gone so basically they're saying hey you know these people are gonna blow out eventually but it's just our job to you know make them feel good and make them feel like they're going to be successful until they blow out their account and they're gone they're just churning customers over and over and over it pissed me off it it made me mad but the reality is they you know they're right i mean there are so many traders that that have that self-sabotage or that that mentality uh and they know that they're just eventually gonna blow their account out all they're there to do is collect fees from them until they do and it's pretty obvious that if you lose more money than you make you're eventually going to fail but what's not as obvious is that even if you win you still may be in a cycle of eventually blowing out or eventually failing because if you haven't created that healthy mental framework if you if you don't have that balance between confidence and restraint confidence and following your rules then you haven't learned how to recognize and compensate for the potential that you have this ability to self-destruct and you will do it sooner or later and that's why it's so important to have this trade hacker mindset that we keep talking about what this whole podcast is about so think about this and we're still on topic of the boom and the bust type cycle trader ask yourself this if you could redo every losing trade that was the result of recklessness how much money would you have today i mean for me it's a it's a massive massive number i mean when i was a new trader i had a between the the two emotional decision-making things that we talk about with trading fear and greed greed greed has always been my achilles heel i i really haven't had that issue of fear necessary i mean everybody has fear to some degree but my issue was more of a greed and and i was always of the mindset of i'm learning i don't care i'm just going to put on trades this is part of the learning process i don't care if i make money and i was completely reckless when i was a young trader and if i look back to see how much money i would have based on the result of losing trades because i was reckless it's it's an astronomical number for me but the thing a lot of a lot of traders don't realize is that the market is not responsible for your recklessness it's you the market does not have anything to do with the errors that you make as a result of some internal conflict about deserving that money going back to my oil example it had nothing to do with the fact that i was trading oil it had to do with the decision making the the trading decisions that i was making while trading that specific symbol so while i wanted to swear off trading oil like it was like oil was the reason why once i realized that it was me it opened up a whole new light in the world of trading because the market it doesn't create your attitude it doesn't create your state of mind the market simply acts as a mirror and it reflects what's inside of you if you change your attitude you're gonna change your profits and it works both ways if you change your attitude to negative it's gonna negatively affect your profits if you change to have a winning attitude your profits are going to be positive so what's the definition of a winning attitude mark douglas says the definition of a winning attitude is a positive expectation of your efforts with an acceptance that whatever result you get are a perfect reflection of your level of development and what you need to learn to do better let me repeat that because it's extremely important the definition of a winning attitude is a positive expectation of your efforts with an acceptance that whatever results you get are a perfect reflection of your level of development and what you need to learn to do better i hope you write that down i hope you internalize that you write it down on a sticky note post it on your computer because that is such a huge deal and it'll be and it'll be a continual reminder as you're as you're in the flow of trading think about this have you ever have you ever missed out on a trade either you didn't get filled and then price ran in the direction you thought it was going you know have you ever have you ever wondered why missing out on profits is often more painful than taking a loss part of the reason is because when you take a loss there there are a lot of ways in which you can shift that blame to the market and not accept any responsibility but if you miss out on a trade there's no one else to blame it did what you knew it would do you just didn't execute it so there's no one else to blame except for you you see you're not responsible for what the market does or doesn't do but you're responsible for everything else that results from your trading activities and you're responsible for what you've learned as well as for everything you haven't learned yet that's waiting to be discovered by you so i'm going to continue to beat this dead horse that what it takes to be successful is a winning attitude this is the key to your trading success the problem that i see a lot with interacting with so many traders is that they think they already have a winning attitude when they actually don't or they kind of expect the market to develop this attitude for them by giving them winning trades once the market reacts and gives me my winning trades then i'll have a winning attitude but you and you alone are are responsible for developing this winning attitude yourself and i want to emphasize over and over and over that understanding the markets more market analysis is not the answer understanding the markets will give you potentially an edge to create some winning trades but your edge won't make you a consistent winner if you don't have this winning attitude period now you might be saying yeah but you know you can't be a you can't be a successful trader unless you understand enough about the markets so there's there's some truth to that but once you understand a basics of the market basics of a strategy that's all you need the rest is the winning attitude that makes the biggest difference going back to my example in in the last episode i mean some of the worst traders out there are market analysts people who you know know the most about the markets are still some of the worst traders so if you want to change your experience with the market if you want to change from fearful to confident if you want to change the results of your equity curve from a roller coaster to a steadily rising one the first step is to embrace the responsibility stop expecting the market to give you anything or to do anything for you if you make a commitment from this point on that you're it's all going to be on you that you're going to take full responsibility if you stop fighting the market which basically means you're you're you're going to stop fighting yourself you will be absolutely amazed how quickly that you start getting a positive p l and taking a quote from mark douglas's book taking responsibility is the cornerstone of a winning attitude i hope this episode was helpful if you want to join a group of like-minded traders 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-d4Uj9ViP9o | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d4Uj9ViP9o | IBM Project Debater - We Should Subsidize Preschool | And now please welcome, Director of IBM Research, Dario Gil. Good afternoon. This past June, a few blocks from where I'm standing right now, IBM unveiled Project Debater, an AI system that is capable of engaging with humans in a live debate. It was widely reported, at the time, that the system really held its own against two Israeli debate champions. But for us, it really is not about winning or losing, but really about the ability to create AI that can master the infinitely complex and rich world of human language. Unlike games, language can really tell us more about human thought and expression, and it's this world that is most interesting to us at IBM Research. We believe there is great potential in having artificial intelligence that can understand us. The more transparent and explainable that we can make AI, the more we can trust it. And the more we can trust it, the more we can rely on it to help us make better decisions. There is hope behind the technology that you're going to see demonstrated today. Let me briefly put into perspective what you're about to see. At IBM Research, we have a long history of creating technology and capability that can amplify and complement human cognition, providing more information and more context for us, to help us make better decisions. And Project Debater is no exception. We envision a future of the technology well beyond the podium, helping people to reason, to build well-informed arguments, and to make better decisions. Today it will take on a human debater who holds the record for the most competition victories. Since June, our team of scientists have been improving the core AI technology behind the system to prepare for this formidable challenge. Nothing that you're about to see is pre-recorded or pre-scripted, except the very first sentence that the system will use to greet the human debater. I should also point out the team of computer scientists that will be with us on stage who were part of the team that created the system and who are here to keep an eye behind the scenes on what is happening. Today's topic was chosen from a curated list. It's important to note that Project Debater has never been trained to know... that Project Debater was never trained on this topic. You may hear Project Debater repeat itself unnecessarily or make mistakes. This is because it's an AI system, and AI systems are far from perfect. Before I turn it over to our host, I want to give a shout out to the debate club from the Doughtery Valley High School in San Ramon as well as a team from the Bay Area, Urban Debate League, who is headed to the National Finals. And one last reminder, please silence your phones and please no flash photography. Now, without further delay, let me introduce the host for the evening, four-time Emmy winner from Intelligence Squared, John Donvan. Thank you, Dario. So this really is a nice intersection, crisscrossing right at the word "intelligence". Your Project Debater here is an experiment in artificial intelligence, and I host a debate program with "intelligence" in its name, Intelligence Squared US. And since 2006, we have put on across the nation close to a hundred and seventy debates on a wide range of topics, from foreign policy to politics, to culture, to sports, to food, to what we eat, to our health care systems, basically everything under the sun. Our goal in doing this has always been to raise the level of public discourse. That was the vision of our founders, Robert Rosenkranz and Alexandra Munroe. They are here in the house this evening. I would love to give them a round of applause in recognition for this. And we do this not only by encouraging and insisting on civility but also, frankly, by making a contest out of the challenge of having to present an argument intelligently and also persuasively. Here's a quick look at what I'm talking about. We really aim to raise the level of public discourse by taking on tough but also nuanced subjects in which there is valid arguments on both sides, to bring people to the stage who argue with passion, truthfulness, with respect for one another. I've seen pictures of the brain scans of people with CTE, and it looks like someone drove a truck across their brain. We actually do agree on a lot of the foundation within which we have civilized debate. We actually share, as a nation, a civic religion. You and your fellow debaters all heard things from your opponents that you respect and take seriously. Demonstrating that is the essence of what we want to do here. So the way that you conducted this honors us. That was unquestionably an applause line right there, so... And let me, let me just interject that all of our programs turn into podcasts and also television programs that travel far and wide, but at the moment I'm thinking with the podcast in mind. There will be an audience that will hear this debate far and wide and forever and for that reason, I want to encourage you to bring energy to the room throughout the evening by applauding when you hear points you like and when I introduce the debaters. You know, we think we might be making history today, so someday you can tell your grandchildren who are listening to this podcast, "You hear that clapping? That was... those were my hands doing that." So please feel free to applaud when you like a point. At Intelligence Squared we always say we like that kind of positive reinforcement. We're just against the booing and hissing parts, so no booing and hissing. If you don't like something that you hear, you might want to just let loose with perhaps a sardonic chuckle or something like that. But let's keep it positive. But let's really keep it energetic. In fact, we have already once debated the issue of artificial intelligence itself. That resolution was: don't trust the promise of artificial intelligence. I felt a little pulse of resentment from behind me. Did you feel that? We're gonna be doing again, this spring, around the matter of self-driving cars, but this truly is a first for us. The first time that an artificial intelligence, namely Project Debater, will be on our stage arguing with a human being, and may the best debater win! And as we like to say at every debate, may civil discourse win as well. So let's get started. Let's first meet and applaud our debaters. First, arguing for the resolution tonight, will be IBM Project Debater. And arguing against, representing the rest of us, please welcome to the stage, Harish Natarajan. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge and a grand finalist at the 2016 World Debating Championships. Also, the 2012 European debating champion. Please come to the stage, Harish. Congratulations. Thank you. So we are going to be hosting a single debate this evening around a single resolution. The format's going to go like this: we go in three rounds. First, we will have each participant offering a four-minute introductory argument on the topic. After that, we go to a second round. That's a four-minute rebuttal round. Each debater rebuts the arguments made. Finally, we move on to round three, and that's a closing round in which they make a two-minute closing statement, sort of a summary. Now we need you not only to applaud and keep the energy up, but to participate as the judges of this debate. We are going to ask you to vote before and after the arguments, using your mobile phone, to tell us where you stand on this position and to tell us whether you were persuaded or not by one side or the other. So you're gonna be asked first your position on the resolution. After the debate, you'll be asked if your position changed. We're also gonna put a second question in there. We just want to know, in general, who you feel better enriched your knowledge of this topic. Then we will share the results of the voting, after we have a panel discussion with Harish and two of the IBM scientists who are behind this fascinating research. They're gonna explain in even more detail what we just saw happen, and how it happened. So to reveal now, the resolution of the evening is this: we should subsidize preschool. We should subsidize preschool. That's gonna be the resolution. And I just want to say, in terms of what we mean by that, the way that we're framing it, we are not talking about preschool in any particular locale, no particular city or state. We are also not referring to any particular program that exists or any particular proposal out there. And, finally, we are not talking about targeting or choosing preschool programs for any particular group of students in any particular place. So, knowing now that that is our resolution, we should subsidize preschool, I want to ask you please to take out your smartphones and type in the URL shown on the screen. It's also listed in your program. And you can begin to vote, and we're gonna give you a couple of minutes to do that. We're gonna lock it out in probably about two minutes, which I think a crowd like this will be able to handle. So let's get started. I'm gonna go to my lectern, and our first debater in round one will be Project Debater. A four-minute introduction from Project Debater, again. And Project Debater actually has a gender. She will be arguing... she will be arguing for the resolution "we should subsidize preschool". Ladies and gentlemen, here we go: Project Debater. Greetings Harish. I have heard you hold the world record in debate competition wins against humans, but I suspect you've never debated a machine. Welcome to the future. I will argue that we should subsidize preschools. We are going to talk about financial issues, but not only about them. In the current status quo, we accept that the question of subsidies goes beyond money and touches on social, political, and moral issues. When we subsidize preschools and the like, we are making good use of government money, because they carry benefits for society as a whole. It is our duty to support them. Subsidies are an important policy instrument. They provide governments with the means through which to pursue industrial development and ensure the livelihoods of their citizens. There are two issues I will elaborate on now. I will start by explaining why preschool is an important investment. I will also say a few words about poverty. And I will end by discussing some other issues that show the positive aspects of preschools. Regarding investment: nature-based preschools are powerful interpretive programs as well as lucrative business decisions. As I mentioned, preschool is an important investment. For decades, research has demonstrated that high-quality preschool is one of the best investments of public dollars, resulting in children who fare better on tests and have more successful lives than those without the same access. Secondly, a few words about poverty. While I cannot experience poverty directly and have no complaints concerning my own standards of living, I still have the following to share. Regarding poverty: research clearly shows that a good preschool can help kids overcome the disadvantages often associated with poverty. The OECD has recommended that governments subsidize pre-primary education to boost performance in poorer areas. A statistical summary of studies from 1960 and 2013 by the National Institute for Early Education Research found that high quality preschool can create long-term academic and social benefits for individuals and society, far exceeding costs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that universal full-day preschool creates significant economic savings in health care as well as decreased crime, welfare dependence, and child abuse. Former Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, said in 1973 that preschool is the greatest single aid in removing or modifying the inequalities of background, environment, family income or family nationality. Now to an additional, final issue. A study by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research shows that attendance at preschool has a significant positive impact on later NAPLAN outcomes, particularly in the domains of numeracy, reading, and spelling. The results of a new study of over 1,000 identical and fraternal twins, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, confirm that preschool programs are a good idea. Here is a study from New Jersey that is worth noting: in New Jersey, the follow-up to the Abbott Preschool Program Study continues to find that high-quality preschool programs increase achievement in language arts and literacy, math, and science through 4th and 5th grades. I hope I relayed the message that we should subsidize preschools. You will possibly hear my opponent talk today about different priorities and subsidies. He might say that subsidies are needed, but not for preschools. I would like to ask you, Mr. Natarajan, if you agree in principle, why don't we examine the evidence and the data and decide accordingly? Thank you for listening. Ladies and gentlemen, Project Debater. And I want to point this out: both debaters were given 15 minutes to prepare for this debate. In other words, Harish, it was only 15 minutes ago that you were told the topic of this debate. So that's one of the... that's your kind of wizardry as well, and you're very good at it. So, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our debater arguing against the resolution, we should subsidize preschool, Harish Natarajan. Well, thank you very much. Everybody, it's a pleasure to be here for this historic event, and it certainly was a pleasure to listen to Project Debater. There was a lot of information in that speech, and lots of facts, and lots of figures. The problem, though, is the reality of subsidizing preschools is one which does not deal with the underlying problems in society. It is one which often makes those worse and, in the end, is very little more than a politically motivated giveaway to members of the middle class. Let me start by examining the main claim from Project Debater. I think Project Debater suggests something very intuitive, that if we believe preschools are good in principle, surely it is worth giving money to subsidize those, but I don't think that is ever enough of a justification for subsidies. Why is that the case? Because there are multiple things which are good for society. That could be - in countries like the United States - increased investment in health care, which would often also have returns for education, which the OECD would also note is probably very beneficial to deal with poverty. It would be improving tertiary education to allow people more access to social mobility or - given the reality of underfunded schools - trying to improve secondary education. My point here is not that all of those things are necessarily better than preschools, but simply that it cannot be, alone, a sufficient argument for Project Debater to claim that there are some benefits. The question is more subtle than that. What is the question then? I think the criterion of whether or not we should then distribute subsidies should be asked on two... based on two claims. The first is: is this underprovided and underconsumed in the status quo? I'll talk more about that in a moment. And second: does it actually help those individuals who are the most harmed by society? Why exactly doesn't preschool or subsidization of preschool do that? I want to make two claims under this. The first is: many middle-class parents and many people from upper incomes already send their children to preschool. This is because they value many of the things which Project Debater noted. But why is that a problem? Because subsidization costs an awful lot of money, and that is money which is giving people, particularly members of the middle class and above, money to do things which they would do otherwise. Why is that so damaging? Given the realities of opportunity costs here, the problem is that you are taking money from all taxpayers to help those individuals within a society who are already often the best off, and I don't think that is principally justified as a way of the state distributing its resources. But the second thing I want to claim is that even when you subsidize preschools, it doesn't mean that all individuals go. And this, I think, was the fallacy from what we heard from Project Debater. Yes, you could make it slightly more accessible for individuals to attend preschool. That doesn't mean those individuals who are as poor as Project Debater seems to want... seems to care about are going to be those who have the ability to send their child to preschool. They'll still be individuals who'll be priced out because of the realities of the market, and these individuals now face not just one exclusion but a double exclusion. Their tax money, money which could be used to otherwise help them and their children in myriad other ways, is no longer going to them, and they are not able to gain from the benefits of it. In the end, when it comes to the question of subsidization, there is always going to be trade-offs, and that needs to be accepted. Given the reality of those trade-offs, the question is: who do you help? And the people you don't help are those individuals who are the poorest. You give unfair and exaggerated gains to those individuals in the middle class. And that is why, at the end of this debate, we don't think that you should subsidize preschools. Thank you, Harish Natarajan. So before we move on to the rebuttal round, I just want to summarize some of what we've heard. We have heard Project Debater make the argument in support of the resolution, we should subsidize preschools, by saying that this is not just a matter of finance, but it's also a moral and political issue. It has a... it relates to a duty to support some of the most vulnerable people in society, that preschool itself - subsidized or not - has a broader impact on the lives of individual citizens. She cited research that says that investment in preschool results, without doubt, in maximally successful lives. It increases income, and it also helps to overcome several of the disadvantages of poverty. Again, there's better health outcomes. There are actually decreases in crime. And she cites a number of studies to back this up. Basically, also, she anticipated her opponent probably making the argument that subsidies would serve one group at the expense of another. She also threw in a few jokes along the way and was surprisingly charming and human sounding, I would say. But, also, charming and human sounding was the human on the stage, Harish Natarajan. He argued against the resolution that we should subsidize preschools. He said that, basically, Project Debater's argument does not deal really in addressing the underlying problems that she was arguing that preschool claims to solve, that too often preschool functions as a politically... subsidies for preschool function as a politically motivated giveaway to the middle class, that there are other programs out there that deserve support. That does not mean that preschool does not, but the idea of putting preschool ahead of the line for government resources and taxpayer dollars is a questionable act. In fact, speaking of question, he said the whole question is much more subtle than Project Debater was stating. He questions whether, in fact, preschool might actually help those who it is most trying to... might actually harm those it is most trying to help. Middle-class families already are taking advantage of preschool. They're paying for it themselves, so they would be paying for it already, but now they would be... these families would be gaining subsidies to do things that they would be doing otherwise, and this obviously diminishes resources available to everyone. So those are roughly the arguments. We're going to give each of the debaters a few more minutes to prepare for their rebuttal round but before we do, I just wanted to bring to this stage one of the designers of Project Debater, Noam Slonim, who is out of... well, you're out of Tel Aviv, not Haifa, Israel, but welcome to the stage. I just wanted to take one minute since we're in this phase where - over there and here - there's a process going on through an artificial intelligence trying to figure out what to say next. What does that involve? So, I will try to explain briefly what is happening under the hood. So thank you, John. As you said, we just heard two interesting opening speeches by Project Debater and Harish, and Project Debater, as we speak, is now trying to prepare the rebuttal speech. And as we know, in a debate, the rebuttal is the most challenging part. So the system is starting by using Watson speech recognition capabilities in order to understand the words that Harish was using, and then it tries to segment these words into meaningful sentences. And the next step is really to capture the gist of the speech by Harish. Okay. So the system is basically using a collection of artificial intelligence engines in order to, first of all, somehow anticipate what Harish will state, and then determine whether indeed he was stating these arguments explicitly or implicitly, and then generate some kind of a meaningful rebuttal to that. It sounds like an amazing challenge, and you'll be back after the third round with your colleagues to discuss this in more detail, but I just wanted to get a look ahead. So thanks very much, Noam. Thank you, John. So, now we move on to round two, rebuttals. And, again, each side will have four minutes to respond to the opponent's arguments. First, with her rebuttal, Project Debater, arguing for the resolution: we should subsidize preschool. Thank you, again. For starters, I sometimes listen to opponents and wonder: what do they want? Would they prefer poor people on their doorsteps begging for money? Would they live well with poor people, without heating and running water? Giving opportunities to the less fortunate should be a moral obligation of any human being, and it is a key role for the state. To be clear, we should find the funding for preschools and not rely on luck or market forces. This issue is too important to not have a safety net. Next, I think that Harish Natarajan raised the following issue: there are more important things than preschools to spend money on. The state budget is a big one, and there is room in it to subsidize preschools and invest in other fields. Therefore, the idea that there are more important things to spend on is irrelevant, because the different subsidies are not mutually exclusive. I believe the following example from a related field will explain what I'm trying to say about subsidy policies. Research shows that childcare subsidies to low-income parents enable those parents to enter and remain in the workforce. To be clear, my intention is not to leave a suitcase full of money for everyone to grab at will. We are talking about a limited, targeted and helpful mechanism, as in this example. Next, I will discuss three issues which explain why we should subsidize preschools. I will demonstrate that preschool education improves children's development. I will also discuss issues related to the claim that attending preschool helps students succeed. And finally, I will raise points associated with how preschool can prevent future crime. About children: preschool is a very important and essential step in a child's life. Research indicates that access to quality preschool can provide a boost for children that will influence their success for the rest of their lives. Senior leaders at St. Joseph's RC Primary School say that nursery will help give children the best start to their education. There is clear evidence that high-quality nurseries led by graduate nursery teachers are among the most decisive ways to prevent children, particularly poor boys, from falling behind. Next, students: a quality preschool education is essential for laying the foundations for successful learning, including transition to full-time school and future school success. In December 2015, researchers at Duke University concluded that investing in preschool helps both students and educators long term. They found that students who enroll in preschool education are 39% less likely to be placed in special education programs as third graders. Of the 1,010 registered voters surveyed, 61% consider a high-quality preschool experience very important to a student's later success, and 22% said it is somewhat important. Lastly, crime: preschool is an effective tool for keeping kids in school and out of jail, while reducing the amount of crime in our neighborhoods. It is an effective crime prevention strategy. A substantial body of research shows that high-quality preschool education is key in preparing children to succeed in school and career training and helps reduce the enormous financial costs of remedial work, delinquency, and crime. Studies have shown that quality preschool leads to better academic performance throughout life, higher earning, and less criminal activity. They show that high-quality preschool boosts high school graduation rates, and children who do not attend high-quality preschool are far more likely to commit violent crimes. To recap this rebuttal speech, I argued that preschool education improves children's development, that attending preschool helps students succeed and, lastly, that preschool can prevent future crime. Let me wrap up this speech in a way that I hope you can relate to. Advocating welfare is like offering a hand to someone who fell. It's basic human decency. Therefore, I think the motion should stand. We should subsidize preschools. That concludes my speech. Thanks for listening. And, now, the round two rebuttal from Harish Natarajan, who is arguing, again, against the resolution, we should subsidize preschool. So I want to start by noting what Project Debater and I agree on. We agree that poverty is terrible. It is terrible when individuals do not have running water. It is terrible when they struggle to make ends meet, and they are struggling to feed their family. It is terrible when they cannot get health care to cover their child, to even provide them the basics they need in life. That is all terrible, and those are all things we need to address, and none of those are addressed just because you are going to subsidize preschool. Why is that the case? Project Debater raises an interesting claim when she notes that maybe the state has the budget to do all the good things. Maybe the state has the budget to provide healthcare. Maybe it has the budget to provide welfare payments. Maybe it has the budget to provide running water as well as preschool. I would love to live in that world, but I don't think that is the world we live in. I think we live in a world where there are real constraints of what governments can spend money on. And even if those are not real, those are nonetheless political, where you have people constantly talking about the size of government debt and deficits, and who will be opposed to spending more and more money. Why does that matter? Because in the real world, both in terms of the practicalities of the amount of different good programs we have and would like to spend money on, and in the real world, on a political level, you cannot always spend more and more money just because something is good. We do need to make choices. And why, then, is preschool the bad choice to start spending money on? Now, Project Debater had a lot of evidence, all of which was saying that preschool leads to other good outcomes. Now, I would first want to note is I don't think that's comparative with the other potential projects we could put in place. But let's ignore that argument for a moment. Why else do I not think those arguments were particularly convincing? I don't think it's particularly convincing because I'm not sure that subsidies even help those individuals that Project Debater thinks that we should be helping. Note, time and time again, Project Debater said high-quality preschools can lead to huge improvements on individuals' lives. Maybe, but I'm not sure if you massively increase the number of people going to preschool, they are all gonna be the ones going to the high-quality preschools. I don't think that just because you subsidize it, those individuals who are the poorest are those individuals are going to be able... whose parents are still going to be able to spend the money and the time necessary to give their child a chance at preschool. Project Debater notes that maybe high-quality preschools will reduce crime. Maybe. But so would other measures in terms of crime prevention. And that, again, presupposes that these are high-quality, and the subsidy alone allows people to go. And this is the core point I want to make. Bearing in mind that this is a huge subsidy for the middle class, that realistic budget constraints we have means the money can be spent better elsewhere. But the final thing I want to note is: maybe you believe all of this empirical evidence about the value of preschool. I would note that that is probably at least somewhat flawed, because what it actually picks up is that it's those individuals who are middle class, who often send their children to preschool right now -- and they have plenty of advantages, so I'm not even sure preschool's the decisive one -- but here's a reason why, for many students, it may not even be good: that from an early age either that preschool doesn't teach a child anything or is pushing that child to learn in a competitive environment at the age of 3 or 4, when you're learning that you are... that that other child is potentially better than you, when you realize you aren't necessarily as talented as someone else. That huge psychological damage for many children may not even... may mean that preschool is actively harmful. At the end, even if you believe that preschool is good, it isn't the way... where we should spend the money, particularly given that it's a subsidy to the middle class. I'm very happy to oppose. Thank you, Harish. So, we are about to move on to the closing round. Those will be two-minute closing statements by each of the two debaters. But before they do, and in order to give them a few moments to prepare, I just want to return briefly to the subject of something close to my heart, and that's the mission of Intelligence Squared US. I've moderated - of our 170 debates - all but 22 of them, and I'm a journalist by profession, but we live in a time when journalism is under challenge and, also, when the discourse among citizens is not at its best, let's say. And what we... the reason I'm so pleased to be part of Intelligence Squared is what its mission embraces, is the notion that argument is not a bad thing. Argument is a good thing when argument is done well. And by done well, what we mean is to do it in a setting that is respectful, that is respectful of individuals, respectful of the idea that there may well be a good argument on the other side that needs to be listened to, respectful of things like facts, and logic, and reason, and science. It really is our mission to bring this to the forefront, and we have held debates in this community in the past. We've done them in New York, in Los Angeles, and Chicago, and in Brussels, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And what is astounding is that we find ourselves going into places where we may encounter people sitting in our audience who, without even really wanting to, realize in the course of a debate that they are in a bubble, that they have never really heard an argument put by the other side before in such a way that they take it in, and they weigh it, and they they consider it, and they judge it - sometimes more favorably than they might have thought of otherwise. Because here's the secret thing about a debate: by it's nature, you're going to hear two arguments. You're going to hear opposing arguments, and you're going to hear them put forward in a respectful way. And that's the thing that we're doing. And at the end of every debate, I go out into the lobby and kind of hang out with the people who have just left the debate. And we have a lot of people come to all of our debates, but we also have, in most cases, a lot of newcomers, particularly for some reason in Manhattan. It's kind of a date night. Maybe people want to sort of show off their intellect by bringing a date to a debate. But what I find happens is that it works. The energy in the lobby when people spill out is just so amazing. They're just buzzing, and they're debating with each other, and they're excited, and they're really lit up by it, by this experience. And sometimes I think the experience that they've had is that they actually changed their minds and didn't expect to. And maybe there's something sort of liberating about that experience, particularly in the time that we're living in. So I just want to say that if you have the chance to follow us through any of the channels in which we're putting our story and our debates out there, please do so. And we do keep it civil. Almost always. Okay, there was one time -- it was a debate, of course, about Israel -- and things got heated, and there were two debaters who were yelling at each other. And that was the one time that I stood up, and I walked to the head of the stage, and I raised my arms, in my mind a little bit like Moses parting the Red Sea, and I asked them, "Come on, pull it back." And they did, and then they went on to have a really good evening. But they're very exciting, and they're very thrilling. And, I think, when Dario Gil got up here and said that what they're thinking of in terms of artificial intelligence, that the base is to help us think better and to help us with critical reasoning, we get that, because we're in the same mission essentially. So, I hope that didn't sound like a commercial, because I actually believe and it's really our passion, and we're delighted to be here. But it's time to move on to round three. And round three are closing statements by each debater, in turn. And they will begin. Once again, closing in support of the resolution, we should subsidize preschool, here again is Project Debater. Thanks for this final opportunity to speak out in this debate, and thanks Harish Natarajan. One might say that this conversation can serve no purpose anymore, but I feel differently. Allow me to start with a brief rebuttal. Among other things, I think Mr. Natarajan suggested that preschools should not be subsidized because this will reduce their quality. I would like to offer a different view. I disagree with my opponent. Subsidizing preschools will have no negative effect on their quality. If anything, the opposite is true. One of many reasons is that subsidizing attracts more skilled and qualified people to the field, improving the quality of preschools for all. Here is a final summary of my arguments today. My opponent claimed that preschools are harmful. I believe my arguments suggested that the benefits outweigh the potential disadvantages. I touched upon three issues: children, students, and crime. Specifically, I noted that preschool education improves children's development. In addition, I suggested that attending preschool helps students succeed. And a final point to consider is that preschool can prevent future crime. When this debate just started, I said that we will talk about financial issues. We did, and I am convinced that in my speeches, I supplied enough data to justify support for preschools. At the end of the day, the benefits welfare provides outweigh the disadvantages. Welfare helps the most important segments in society - the underprivileged, the weak, the children. If we want to have a better society, then we must invest in those who are less fortunate. Finally, in the words of British politician and writer, Benjamin Disraeli: power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the people. We should subsidize preschools. Thanks for your attention. And the last word going to Harish, arguing in his closing statement against the resolution. So, I think we disagree on far less than it may seem. Because we agree that the people we should care about are the underprivileged, the children, those individuals who are weak. That is what Project Debater said herself. But the problem is not that preschool is necessarily harmful. I concede: in the vast majority of cases, it is much better for an individual to go to preschool than not. But it is the reality that what this policy is is a huge, huge subsidy, primarily to the middle class and not to those individuals who are the most vulnerable, who are the most underprivileged and the most disadvantaged. Why is that the case? It is, first, the case because what we said from the start is you cannot fund everything. I think this is simply empirically true, and you have to make choices, and you have to make trade-offs. The problem with preschool in that context is twofold. The first is that a lot of that money goes to individuals who would have sent their child to preschool anyway, those individuals from the middle class. All of those benefits exist on either side of the world. But for those individuals who are more vulnerable, this is, first, billions and billions of dollars which is probably not going to them and largely going to individuals in the middle class. And that's where the trade-off for better health is, that's where's the trade-off for individuals to have running water, one of the problems Project Debater identified with people who are poor. But that is a real trade-off for those people. But second, often those are the parents who still - even when there are subsidies - will struggle to send their child to good quality preschools. They'll struggle to send their child to good quality preschools cause they don't even have the money for what is left. They'll struggle to send their child to preschools that they don't value the amount of effort and time they have to put into it. They'll struggle to send their children to preschools or, when they do, it probably will be the worst preschools which exist. And, yes, quality across the board may not fall, but in some cases it will, and those poor individuals will probably be stuck in those. At the end of this debate, I don't think that Project Debater has helped those individuals she identifies as the most important but, in reality, has hurt them. Thank you, and that concludes round three and the argument phase of this debate. So, we're on our way to making history here. We would like to ask you now to complete that process by using your phones again. Those of you who are not live tweeting every moment, take out your phone and choose your position, where you stand now that you've heard the arguments from both sides. And please pay attention to the second question: who better enriched your knowledge of this topic? And while we are getting the vote going, I think we'd like to have a little chat. So I want to... and Harish, I'd like you to join us so we're gonna... we're gonna move the furniture a little bit, and we're gonna invite to the stage in - I think right now - in fact, here comes the furniture. I want to invite to the stage two of the scientists who have been working for, literally, years at creating the artificial intelligence that you just saw. So why don't you come up to the stage? You've already met... Congratulations. You have already met Noam Slonim, and Noam is the principal investigator of Project Debater, and also Ranit Aharonov, the worldwide manager. And Harish you know, but I haven't officially shaken your hand on the stage, so let's do that. So the first person I want to go to actually on this is Harish. This experience of fighting with this thing, rhetorically. Well, what really struck me is the potential value for Project Debater when synthesized with a human being, and that the amount of knowledge which it's able to grasp. And more than that - obviously, you can get some knowledge just by searching for it - but able to contextualize it and place it as "this information tells us this", which I found to be really useful. So, all the studies from the OECD, from those countries, some of those quotations were all just really interesting to me, because it was nicely phrased, and it was contextualized as to what the purpose of it is. And I think if you take some of those skills and you add to that a human being which can use it in slightly more subtle ways, I think that can be incredibly powerful. I think that's what I got from it, which is: it was fascinating to listen to, because I can see a lot of the potential it has just in terms of the knowledge and the ability to contextualize that knowledge better than most human beings can. You are a very good sport. Noam, it was apparent, I think, throughout, that the two debaters had different skills, and different talents, and different advantages. On the advantage side, what does Debater have going for her that Harish could not possibly match? So they have very different styles, I believe, and a different set of skills, but I would like to start by, again, telling Harish he's really a superb debater. It was really amazing to hear you speak today. And what is interesting to see is that I think in terms of rhetorical skills, the system is still not at the level of a debater like Harish. That said, the system is capable of pinpointing relevant evidence within a massive collection of... How massive? So, about ten billion sentences that are in the memory of the system, and the system needs to very quickly pinpoint these little pieces of text that are relevant to the topic, argumentative in nature and, hopefully, support our side of the debate, and then somehow glue them together into a meaningful narrative, which is very very difficult for a machine to do. And Ranit, you and I were talking earlier, and you were arguing - interesting word - you were arguing, you were making the point that while this is an interesting exercise, win or lose, and the audience, by the way, you have one more minute to finish voting on who wins or loses - but that you see the good that this thing offers not being to win a game but to help us figure things out. What do you mean by that? What I mean is that the vision behind Project Debater is: how do we develop a technology? And I think Harish talked to that - the potential of AI and humans doing something together that brings the skills of both of them into something that's more than one of them. I think it's not a question of: is AI going to be better at debating than humans? That's not really an interesting goal. The goal of this demonstration, the goal of developing this technology was to set something that's challenging and faraway and by that enable us to develop technologies of: how do you find all that information within a massive text? How do you organize that? How do you bring it to a position that is digestible by humans in order to drive better decision-making more quickly for humans. So, really, I think what's going for us, going to be a win here is that people come out of this room and say, "Wow, I can see that this interaction is enriching me and enriching the way I can make decisions in the future." I mentioned before that in Intelligence Squared, we've set things up so that, by its nature, a debate presents an audience with at least two points of view on something. And while the audience votes and we declare a winner, the reality is that there are two teams debating because there actually are two valid, coherent arguments from each side, and it's not a zero-sum thing. It's more that they complement and they add to one another. Does that thought relate also to your vision for Debater? Yeah, if you think about Grand Challenges in the past in AI, these were often cases where there is either a factual question, there's a right or wrong, there's a clear winner. When you think of debate, this is something where the winner is not clear, and the whole question does have two points. There isn't one right answer. And technology like Project Debater - it could debate both sides. So it can very quickly help you understand both sides of a problem, bring you all the pros and cons so you have a better, a wider, view of the topic, and then can make a better decision. Noam, let's... And also, just for the sake of transparency, but also I think it sheds light on the capacity, let's talk about the way in which this debate was framed in a way to give Debater a shot at this. So, as an example, in an Intelligence Squared debate, we do a round that goes on for quite some time where I ask challenging questions, and I try to bring out points of contention. Well, we didn't do that round. Could Debater have survived something like that at this point? Not at this stage, but I think, in principle, these are capabilities that we can develop. But we needed somehow to frame the challenge when we started to work and when we started to make progress, because it is worthwhile noting why this is so difficult. And let me give you just one example. We were sitting here for 20 to 25 minutes, and we listened to a valuable and interesting discussion between man and machine, which is not an ordinary experience, and the system was very consistent arguing in favor of its own side. And to us, this may seem very natural but, actually, for a machine to automatically understand that these particular arguments are supporting the topic and not contesting the topic is very, very difficult. And the fact that the system was consistent in its arguments for the entire debate means that, in this subtle question, the system was able to achieve close to 100% accuracy. So we needed to frame the problem and focus on the things that we can achieve in a few years. What you are referring to is perhaps the next stage. So, but as you point out, what it did tonight, by knowing what its side was and then recognizing, among its billions of pieces of info... billion sentences, what selections would support the side that it was on, can you explain in 30 seconds or less how that works? I still have 30 seconds? Well, no, you just used up six. So, the system is starting by using this huge collection of sentences to find these little pieces of text and then glue them together in a meaningful manner. This is one part of the story. The other part is the system using a unique collection of more principled arguments that are relevant to the topic. We heard some of them during the debate touching on the core issue of welfare state and when it is justified to use a subsidy or not. And finally, there is the listening comprehension part. So the system was listening to Harish speaking for four minutes, raising quite subtle and nuanced arguments, and was still trying to get the gist of that and make a meaningful response. I think most of the time the response was fair, not always, but this is expected in AI. So this is how it works. All right, I think we may have the results. Am I correct? All right, moment of truth. Well, it's all truth. Made that argument. You know what I mean. Thank you very much. You know, you haven't had a round of applause, but looks like you've been working hard. Thanks. I'm gonna return to my lectern for this function. Okay, so to remind you one more time: you voted before you heard the arguments, you voted after you heard the arguments. And at Intelligence Squared, we deliver victory to the team, to the side whose numbers have moved up the most in percentage point terms. So let's look at how this vote went. On the resolution "subsidize preschool", before the debate - in polling this live audience here in San Francisco - 79% of you agreed with the resolution, 13% percent disagreed, 8% were undecided. On the second vote, the team "Debater" - who was arguing for the resolution - its first vote was 79%, its second vote was 62%. That means it lost 17 percentage points. On the other side - Harish Natarajan - his first vote was 13%, his second vote was 30%. He pulled up 17 percentage points. That is it. Harish Natarajan, arguing against the resolution, "subsidize preschool", declared our winner. Our congratulations to them. Our congratulations to him. But really, we talked about this before, this is amazing. And I think, regardless, we made history tonight, because Project Debater held her own and won your respect. And so I just want to thank everybody for being here. And, oh, and we had the second vote. The question was which of the two debaters better enriched your knowledge. Let's see what that number is. Project Debater better enriched the knowledge of the audience, on that side. So, a little bit of a split decision. So thank you everybody. You can exit the stage, and I'm gonna exit the stage as well. It's been a pleasure for us to be part of this at Intelligence Squared US. And I want to thank Dario to come back up to the stage. [music] I think we have music. So let's have a round of applause, first, for John, Harish, and Project Debater. I'd like to acknowledge, you know, the team that was on stage. A lot of the team that was behind building it is also with us in the back, so congratulations. I really hope that what you witnessed here tonight which, you know, was such an incredible, incredible moment for the feel of AI has given all of you some food for thought. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, it really is not about winning or losing a specific debate but, and I think the point was made really well during the night, about the opportunity to build complementary technology that helps us reason better and bring evidence better so that, in the end, this technology is for us, for humans, so that we can make better decisions and solve problems. You'll have an opportunity - for all of you who are attending Think - to continue to engage with the technology. We've created a technology called Speech by Crowd, enabled by Project Debater capabilities, that is gonna allow you to contribute arguments around a topic. We're gonna be debating: flu vaccination should be mandatory. So each of you can contribute arguments in favor or against. And what Speech by Crowd will do is it will be able to take those arguments and construct narratives about the best arguments, in favor and against, that all of you have submitted. So I think that that's really, really exciting that you'll get to do, because we're getting to tap into an infinite source of data, which is human opinion. I want to thank John, Harish, as well as our researchers, again, who have built it. We really think this is such an exciting time for AI, and I hope that you'll continue to engage with us in the months and years ahead to bring this technology, you know, to the success of both business and society. Thank you. | IBM Research | UCwx7Y3W30N8aS_tiCy2x-2g | 2019-02-28 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 8,908 | 51,009 |
lEki4NjZIdQ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEki4NjZIdQ | Vaping News Science and Advocacy Report for 2020 12 18 Australia, HK, Quebec, Denmark, US, WVA | i'm dj alex and this is your hunky vape five on friday vaping news science and advocacy report for the 18th of december 2020. on the news today australian medical association and the australian council on smoking and health united today in holy matrimony to declare the senate made the right call on vaping personally i'd rather throw my thongs away and deal with the bindai cat's eye and three corner jack than except that this report is good news but at least nicotine importation with a doctor's prescription is still legal packaging and marketing though that's another matter canada it's unintended consequences from the quebec coalition for tobacco control flavor bans and tax hikes on e-liquids continue to hamper smoky's sensation and foster a dramatic spike in sigi sales in denmark there are owls in the bog how do i know this the danish parliament prohibited flavors other than tobacco and menthol and aims to reverse the decline in smoking rates by imposing a 32 percent tax on e-liquid which translates to a 66 price increase for bay for vapors who can stand to use tobacco or pure menthol flavors meanwhile china's cdc study documents that 96.2 percent of e-cigarette users are now former smokers in the u.s regulators wrestle mma style with flavored e-liquid rules five states have already banned flavors and created a thriving black market instead of driving people back to deadly combustible cigarettes oh and despite the fear-mongering covet 19 has not impacted vape sales volume only the size of our checkout carts and the number of retail stores illegally selling say for nicotine products for our science segment we jump to the counterfactual what's the right thing to do analytical advocacy getting behind the rhetoric of campaigners and speaking of advocacy our highlighted advocacy groups for this week is the uk vaping industry association and the world vapers alliance ain't nothing to it but to do it yes ladies and gentlemen right from the horse's mouth the australian medical association majority senate report makes right call on vaping that's their declaration and they did it wholehandedly holding hands with the australian council on smoking and health they united today to strongly endorse the majority report from senators henderson who quart sheldon and griff following the senate inquiry into tobacco harm reduction they say australia is a world leader in reducing smoking and tobacco-related harm and like the significant majority of australia's leading health organizations the ama and the acosh strongly support a precautionary approach to e-cigarettes they say that at this stage there's insufficient evidence that nicotine delivering e-liquid actually helps people quit smoking compared to other cessation aids that's not true and there's strong evidence that they increase the risk of youth taking up smoking that's not true either we don't know yet what the long-term effects of inhaled heated liquids directly into the lung are and we don't know what is in some of these vaping liquids well i don't know what's in your underwear either but it doesn't really matter does it the australian government should continue to restrict access to e-cigarettes unless robust evidence emerges supporting their use as a quit smoking aid what is their definition of robust evidence huh the majority report backs the tga's interim decision to make liquid nicotine available on prescription only and recommends educating doctors about the ability to prescribe liquid nicotine as a quit aid it also calls for more research into the possible effects of flavorings and additives to vape fluid why is that the only thing that they're focusing on oh that's right because there's way too much evidence about the rest of it because it was researched back in the 30s the 1930s many of the submissions received by the inquiry that supported making e-cigarettes more freely available repeated the arguments presented for this proposition by tobacco companies well listen there's an old saying you go and dance with the bloke that brought ya tobacco companies are what got people smoking cigarettes so if that's who you have to associate yourself with when you're trying to quit smoking then that's what you gotta do and just because they happen to be saying the same thing doesn't mean it's coming from the same perspective the good news is however that they continue to focus on evidence-based strategies that have been proven to reduce the prevalence of smoking in both adults and children and reduce the burden of tobacco cause disease on the health system and the community which is what vaping does if you look at the science behind it public health england would not have said the vaping is at least 95 safer than smoking deadly combustible cigarettes if there wasn't data to back it up however that's not enough for them they need to continue the scaremongering tactics because insufficient evidence that nicotine delivering e-cigarettes are effective a feces for smoking cessation meaning effective for smoking cessation that's why the latest study says that it's four five times more successful than alternative nicotine replacement therapies right they want to continue the scaremongering and the scare tactics and for those of us in the united states when we look at this packaging we go oh my god i can never imagine our packs of cigarettes looking like this but you know what when you've got a whole shelf of cigarettes and they all look like that from a distance you get immune to this kind of stuff so this stuff has no beneficial effect on cigarette sales maybe the first week they put it out but quite honestly it's going to be the exact same effect that you're going to see on teens when they're constantly told not to vape don't do like everybody else's don't go out and vape because everybody else is already vaping there's an epidemic so the ones that have never tried it are going to be like why is everybody else trying it what's the big deal about it so then we're going to go to the alternative approach once they realize that scare tactics don't work because panic is not a constant state it's just something that happens when you scare the [ __ ] out of somebody but then they come to their senses and go okay the flight or fight reaction is now over let's logically think this thing through so then we have the alternative which is just plain packaging nothing attractive whatsoever this is exactly what we're talking about the fastest way to dumb down a population is simply to scare them that's why time magazine decided that they needed to put a cover out says the new american addiction how jewel hooked kids and ignited a public health crisis public health crisis the cancer rates in this country are not a public health crisis the rates of heart attack stroke cancer emphysema oh those aren't health crisis issues because there's pharmaceutical companies making a fortune off of them so oh man not a crisis jewel crisis oh we have to use this to get rid of people looking at vaping as an alternative to cigarette smoking because if all these people stop smoking cigarettes where's our money gonna come from unintended consequences the canadian vaping association has warned about anti-vaping policy changes that will result in increased smoking rates and negative health outcomes it warned that the review by the quebec coalition for tobacco control could have serious unintended consequences serious unintended consequences that we've seen in how many other locations look what happened when nova scotia decided they were going to tax the heck out of vaping and banned flavors except for tobacco and menthol oh smoking rates doubled more so than they were before vaping came into existence but they don't want to pay attention to that because that's not in their agenda after pointing out that the number of things that the qctc was calling for are already in place the cva added time and again it has been concluded that flavors are the driver for youth use and how that is a fallacy the data continues to show that flavors are imperative for adult population and for continued cessation success while flavor bans have shown to result in an immediate increase in smoking rates and traditional tobacco consumption it referred to findings made by america's center for disease control and prevention where 77 percent of children questioned didn't state flavors as being the reason they tried vaping being curious about vaping was the number one reason why youth try vaping then from a study by researchers in yale university the cva quoted adults who began vaping non-tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes were more likely to quit smoking than those who vaped tobacco flavors they continued to add to understand the harm that flavor bands cause to public health we need only to look to nova scotia did not just say that immediately following the province's decision to ban flavor traditional cigarette sales experienced an unprecedented increase prompting the president of the atlantic convenience store association to release a statement urging nova scotia to reconsider the ban considering the dramatic spike in cigarette sales then addressing the issue of increased taxation the cva pointed to findings of a minnesota study that found taxing vaping products would lead to an 8.1 percent increase in tobacco use and a smoking cessation decrease of 1.4 percent the cva respects qctc's mission to protect youth from nicotine experimentation and addiction yet it is crucial that canadian governments and qctc alike understand that the cva shares this goal independent vape businesses were created to solve the problem created by tobacco for adults although often wrongfully viewed as an extension of tobacco the sole purpose of an independent vape industry is to help adult smokers reduce their harm by stopping their addiction to deadly combustible cigarettes however in denmark they have not learned they have not done their research and they are following the same tragic path they're putting their head in the guillotine and going go ahead we love cigarette smoking sales apparently that's what they're thinking because they decided that effective april 1 2021 new rules will prohibit the manufacture of e-liquids in flavors other than tobacco and menthol they also imposed a new tax 32 percent tax on e-liquid which translates to a 60 66 percent price increase to those vapers who are willing to continue vaping when the only choice they have is tobacco and menthol uh i'd rather vape at 100 watts on a dry mesh coil then you'd vape using menthol only flavoring or tobacco flavoring meanwhile in china their cdc has done some studies and say that non-smokers account for less than four percent of e-cigarette users in china the study found that chinese smokers account for 96.2 percent of e-cigarette users e-cigarettes are not non-smokers first puff their first puff comes from deadly combustible cigarettes and because they can't stop using deadly combustible cigarettes they look for a safer nicotine product a safer alternative to quit their deadly habit yep you can take a look at this actual article yourself in vape hong kong jumping back to the united states u.s regulators struggle mma style with flavored e-liquid rules you know the vapor industry continues to face several regulatory challenges one of the most challenging of those is the never-ending battle against flavor bands for e-liquids and as most any vapor will tell you flavors are instrumental in keeping former smokers from returning to deadly combustible cigarettes however flavors are also what many industry regulators and anti-vapor zealots say lure used to try vaping it isn't all the advertising they're doing in schools that is leading them to vaping it's the flavors yeah we all know that to be not the case however sometimes you do come across some really interesting information when you go and you read these articles and i know that everybody's getting sick and tired of hearing the exact same thing it's like a constantly beating drum we all heard this before this is the same [ __ ] you talked about last week well i did come across something that was pretty interesting um during this whole global pandemic situation coveted 19 and lockdowns and stores being shuttered and basically forcing everybody into their own homes you would think that there was a change in the amount of volume of sales for these vape products hasn't been the only thing that really changed is the size of our checkout cart because see now instead of us purchasing things at a local vape shop to get us through the next week or two and then going back to that vape shop in a week or two and going hmm do i want to change flavors or do you still have that stuff i got last time we're now forced to purchasing things online and from other locations and when we do that to make things a little more cost effective we are dramatically increasing the size of our shopping cart from what we would normally purchase part of it is the savings from online stuff and the other part of it is the fact that if we're going to be placing an order let's do it once every month or two or maybe even every three months instead of every week or two that i thought was pretty interesting and if you'd like to read any of the other stuff that's in this article because it wasn't just one thing that was covered in here like the fact that you know there's five states that have banned flavors and you'll find that the same things happened that have happened elsewhere where they was banned you basically create a thriving black market and it isn't a black market of you know your typical ideology of oh there's a guy standing on the corner selling drugs right no that's not where the black market exists the black market exists in the retail segment here we are in salina ohio where the police department were going around doing some checks to see and verify that there were no underage sales of these items and they came to find out that seven of nine businesses sell vaping products and they sell them illegally and they sell them to underage youth where are these places you might ask how about the marathon gas station or the sunoco station yeah or one of the other marathon stations in town or the tobacco shop because here's what happens when you decide to ban something or to make it extremely impossible for somebody to sell a product because there is no approved list of what's legal and what's illegal in this country people are going to sell it as long as they have a customer for it and as long as consumers demand to have these products readily available and as long as their clerks are getting asked by their customers hey man do you have any vape stuff the business owner is going to go oh i'm in here to make a profit so if my customers are asking for something i'm gonna find a way to get it and sell it to them yeah that's continuing to happen and when they lock down these businesses guess what's gonna happen you're gonna go and retreat them to friend circles and um other places like you're not gonna find them in the gas station you're gonna find them in like the masseuse parlors or you're gonna find them in the computer repair shop down around the block because as long as consumers want a product businesses will provide that product to them jumping over to our science segment the counterfactual this is a personal website by clive bates you're like who the hell is clive bates well clive bates he's a civil servant or he was recent until recently was a civil servant he was the director general with the welsh government and he has served with greenpeace imperial college and emmanuel college in cambridge and unep and sudan and the welsh government and a bunch of other places however he's got this website and the one page on the website is titled nicotine science and policy q a this was published earlier this year and i found it to be very very informative so if you have any questions about nicotine and nicotine science and policy regarding nicotine or policy regarding tobacco harm reduction or safer nicotine products this is a very valuable website to have in your little arsenal it consists of about 60 questions and builds on a brief q a that he submitted in consultation and as a critique of an absurd anti-vaping q a by the world health organization and his critique of numerous false and misleading claims made by no one other than professor stanton glance who is now retired because of all the retractions that he had to do so check out this website check out the link there'll be a link in the description below this article the contents of which include strategy what is the purpose of tobacco and nicotine policy safety and relative risks what are the risks of nicotine and nicotine vaping quitting smoking do vapor products displace smoking meaning do people quit smoking because of vaping youth how we should address the uptake of adult products by young people regulation should governments handle reduced risk products questions like should it be banned should it be regulated like cigarettes or something else like a cessation aid or medical product or pharmaceutical product and he has his personal take in his perspective on things from his role in previous roles in government in academia vaping in public places marketing retailing and is the tobacco industry pariah's predators or just simply a player and rapid responses to the biggest myths about vaping jumping to that section myths about vaping they don't help smokers quit well they helped me quit smoking cause cancer heart and lung disease whoa that right there had to hit the brakes on i'm sorry i know but we're gonna cover that before this report is over so on that note let's jump right into our advocacy groups for this week the advocacy group for this week that i chose was the uk vaping industry association more than 3 million smokers now vape but 40 percent have not tried vaping yet actually depending on what studies and what statistics you look at the number of people that don't know about vaping is actually very alarming you would think a technology product that has been out on the marketplace for 10 years 10 plus years would at least have individual recognition by the majority of everybody wouldn't you well numbers do not lie and realistically there are so many people that don't know about vaping and there are so many people that have misconceptions about vaping because of the propaganda that's being shoved down people's throats and the uk vaping industry association is a group a non-profit organization run by its members for its members they're about educating informing and reassuring key stakeholders as well as supporting the industry so that the shift from smoking to vaping continues unabated and the public health benefits of doing so are realized fully their primary stakeholders include policy makers parliamentarians regulators and public health community let alone the some 7 million smokers across the uk that need to quit smoking and could very easily benefit from vaping to quit smoking and now we jump to our conversation about cancer here's an article published in the parliament magazine for european union and it is titled endorsing vaping to successfully fight cancer cancer is the second leading cause of death in the european union 1.3 million people die from cancer every year therefore the upcoming european beating cancer plan is a historic opportunity to improve public health in europe but to be successful the european union must be brave enough to endorse new approaches vaping must finally be endorsed to beat cancer yeah you heard that right one of the major causes of cancer is smoking out of the 1.3 million people who die from cancer per year 700 000 are associated with smoking the european parliament special committee recently also acknowledged that tobacco use in particular cigarette smoking is the main risk factor for cancer death in europe and if you try and say that you don't live in europe so this doesn't apply to you you're nuts because the harms are the same regardless of what country you live in what region of the world you live in what part of the globe you happen to reside on the facts are the same facts or facts around the world how is it best to tackle smoking for several decades both governmental and ngos have used various public health policies to stem the tide of smoking including taxes bans on advertising promoting various patches gums and therapies to deliver nicotine in an alternative form that is less harmful to hopefully hopefully former smokers unfortunately many of these alternatives have not proven to be entirely successful especially when you compare it to the efficacy of vaping and why does vaping work so well it's because of the flavor options available to the consumers every flavor imaginable is available somewhere for vaping did you think about that for a second every flavor you could possibly imagine no matter how good or how disgusting is available for vaping so regardless of what tickles your fancy there's a flavor out there for you and it might surprise you when you quit smoking what flavors actually appeal to you and what flavors that you thought would appeal to you are actually kind of disgusting and it's not going to be the same as the person standing next to you it's not gonna be the same as your spouse or your friends or your family because everybody's taste is individual and everybody's vaping experience is individualized for that very reason and that's why vaping products are so successful in smoking cessation therefore we need every possible method available to them to make it make quitting smoking easier and much easier because according to public health england vaping is 95 percent less harmful compared to smoking and the cancer risk relative of vaping to smoking is 0.4 yep vaping is already a recommended means of quitting for smokers in the united kingdom and france outside of the european union both health canada and new zealand's minister of health also recommend vaping to smokers looking to quit countries that adopt policies to reduce harm see better results in reducing smoking compared to more restrictive countries an example of the latter is australia which was very harsh has very harsh regulations on vaping and sees a much slower decline in the smoking rate compared to the united states or the united kingdom which are more vaping-friendly countries however the battle continues and the fight continues and the more regulations and restrictions that are placed on the residents of these locations the numbers are going to get muddled because you cannot make generalized statements anymore like you used to be able to however it is time for the european union to follow the lead of these countries we should be led by science and not ideology on the issue it should not be an elitist agenda that determines what the outcome of these regulations are you do the humanitarian approach and acknowledge the fact that everyone has a right to health a right to a safer option world vapors alliance amplifies the voice of vapors around the world and empowers them to make a difference in their communities the members of the world vapers alliance are vapers associations as well as individual vapers from all over the world take a look at their website there'll be a link in the description below vapers rise your voice raise your voice well how about i raise my voice right now and you can watch me fill out one of their surveys to see how simple it really is what is your rate click on that how many years have you been vaping 1.5 close enough why did you start vaping well to quit smoking um and for medical reasons and because the flavor choices look so appealing technically you can use it indoors too although that i didn't know about that until after i quit smoking to de-stress and for social reasons um not really however those of us especially as we get older have problems dealing with younger generations or just dealing with ignorant people or just dealing with stupid people and nicotine is proven to be beneficial to preventing you from becoming depressed over things and to help you deal with social situations and there's new studies coming out that the reason why there's so many people that take up smoking is to deal with psychological issues that they've had or are starting to have or could develop but i digress let's get back to the survey what flavors do you currently vape fruit flavors desserts and sweets no no drink flavors definitely not uh-uh menthol well technically the candy cane has menthol as a side component but i could not stand to be any stronger than what it really is what is your favorite 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8W1noOcz-Vc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W1noOcz-Vc | ENGL 437/537: Social Media Ethics | hello folks and welcome back to english 437 537 with me dr. Matt Martin today discussing the subject of social media ethics it's really big topic it's something that we've really wanted to focus on it's part of our professional communication program so we really want to delve into this topic see if we can understand all of the ramifications and facets of it and as well soon see there's very little in the way of one-size-fits-all solutions here but there's certainly things we can do to at least strive towards a more ethical situation at our workplace anyway here's an overview of our lesson objectives we'll be talking about understanding our audiences needs and what they prefer how to attract interactors or users to our blogs or websites or Twitter feeds and how to keep them coming back that's a good one developing and using a style guide for clarity consistency and efficiency not necessarily my favorite topic but an important one and then I will get into this all-important topic I think of the Code of Ethics how do you develop something like that what sort of system do you need in place how can you communicate this and of course how do you you know the idea will be how can you develop this before you need it you're gonna need it sooner or later so the goal is to have it ready for when the inevitable thing happens and let's go I start off with Martin here as usual so she opens up this chapter I think it's called something like asking or don't ask for forgiveness don't ask permission ask for forgiveness what is the name make sure we get that right ask forgiveness rather than permission as something you hear a lot advice I don't know it's kind of interesting to run that through the ethical wringer but anyway she talks about the senator and she doesn't tell us who the senator was I guess we could probably find out if you this but the idea is some kind of affair scandals something came out and this senator I'm gonna assume it's a guy no sure pretty sure she is is he to talk about him but anyway some kind of affair this leaks out and they're trying to figure basically do damage control you know like what do we do now and so they approached Martin and digital her company digital royalty asking hey can we hire you to come in manage this thing for us on social media and and somehow ameliorate the situation and she seemed a little you know I guess for her it was sort of one of those things where yeah this is a very high-profile it's a senator you know this might do this would be this could be good for the company on the other hand could go over horribly wrong certainly wouldn't want to become associated and tangled with some something really hideous so basically her advice I guess I'm not going with it anyway the senator turned them down for the Senators a PR people well but the idea was that you will see that the same thing comes up and curl this idea of you know if you don't already have this in place you know if you wait until the emergency the crisis and then try to to launch it then it's just too little too late nobody's gonna buy it no matter how great of an actor or how sincere you know this may be the senator is completely sincere whether the apologies and that sort of thing but it's just the fact that the timing is suspect is gonna make people suspicious right so you didn't have that relationship and now suddenly you're trying to us create one out of thin air doesn't really work so I think Martin's pretty smart here I like this you know glad she didn't end up trying to take on this case I think it was the right call or whether it was up to her not but she says the primary challenge is authenticity I said this is always the challenge and especially you know I've been reading some of the Nuggets and a lot of people are you know they're saying well these are it's I'm already suspicious you know this is a big company this is a big celebrity and little dubious as to their authenticity writer politician I mean nobody really trust them so you're kind of dealing with this already and the last thing you want to do is to make it worse okay so let's start off here I have a it's kind of a fascinating just to me that as a rhetorical genre the apology and there's you can find books about this you know how to properly apologize and you know what what is the difference what is an apology know people try to define the term and get they get confused even there and you had this thing called like a fake apology or that wasn't an apology that I say even beyond like the sincerity stuff but then anyway well I won't burden you with that so just let's just take a look at these this list here it's on grunt calm the worst apologies on the internet so there's a bunch of them there I watched the one with Martha Stewart a while ago now with there's many more to choose from basically these are celebrities companies they basically screwed up they did something unethical and then they came back and tried to apologize for it in the form of a video so first of all since it's on a page called the worst apologies clearly that thing didn't quite work out so for us just look at the video if you don't know the situation that led to the apology there's a little blurb there so you can kind of get up to speed but anyway read that see if you could figure out like what happened here why didn't this apology work as intended and then considered the difference so some of these people are were active on social media already that was their business model other ones didn't really have anything like that but I just want you to think in light of what we've been reading at Martin what difference could have made you know if they did have this well-established social media presence could they have made a better apology than if they didn't alright and here's this idea of the polished veneer Martin's kind of following a semi like Marshall McLuhan looking at the media at work and the traditional media she means I guess anything from the old broadcast television to up through cable TV radio but basically that sort of one-way model you know we turn on and back when I was a kid you know you turn on the TV there'd be four or five channels you know that's basically your source of information I guess you could read newspapers and whatever but there wasn't anything like this Twitter feed or I can't remember when it was a big deal if a company even had a website like wow Heinz ketchup has a website how bizarre but now we've got all this stuff where these companies are trying to get let us get to know them and some do it better than others it's kind of this strange new world that we're living in I don't know if you there was a Pepsi one I was just looking at around Valentine's Day and they were it was kind of fun because they had Mountain Dew and some of these other companies proposing to Pepsi what the heck's going on I don't know it's just kind of fun to think about but anyway she says that now we can't get to know these brands if they're willing to let us in so you could stick try to stick to the old model where you sort of control all the information sold on through ads and very carefully scripted interviews and whatnot I think it makes more you know she's talking here about people like another Rock and Dana from youth Ultimate Fighting Championships but I really see where I see this maybe it's just because I'm more interested in politics or the talking head type stuff than the sports you know but I think this is what really you know that's where I see what she's talking about coming into play you know it's just there used to be sufficient for these politicians it's running for president or whatever you know they do some ads they do some interviews and that's about it right nobody there wasn't this push to like I want to know what this person's like behind the scenes you just that was all kind of up to the imagination but now increasingly we're seeing the let me turn this off geez we're seeing that there they are trying to reach out and look at some examples of that you know and try to make you feel like you know you're seeing into their daily life not just their public persona so Martin thinks that's the right tack it's just not only is that old strategy and effective it can actually damage a brands credibility in this end that the idea might be that you know what are they trying to hide why are they so guarded that's their private life why is this person refusing to get on Twitter or do one of these tell all or ask anything type situations you know what are they trying to hide that can actually enter people's minds so there's our second question so I found this other page you're not been doing my homework - I found this list of the celebrities or that gets the biggest celebrities who don't use social media so they have decided to just stay off the Twitter Facebook whatever and they've got their various rationales for why they have chosen to do so so I thought that we could learn something from this and let's take a look at this page and then after you've read a couple of these see if you can answer this how do you think staying off social media so going against Martin has affected their fans of relationship with their fans or audience as well as the general public's view of their caring trustworthiness in consciousness and so how do you think this decision has affected them in those in those categories and to answer that and come back and we will continue all right so I thought I'd bring in a couple extra theories some other ways you might approach some of these questions you know Martin and Carol learn especially theoretical Carroll does good he'll mention a lot of studies I think he didn't he doesn't have that bit about Kenneth Burke that I like but there's just a few other ones I wanted to add to the mix some of these we talk about in my rhetoric of pop culture class some of them you could find elsewhere but you know just a couple other options if you wanted to pursue this one is called the Paris social interaction your psi as is a term coined by Donald Horton and Richard mrs. wall in 1956 so it's coming out of psychology a kind of psychological relationship experienced by an audience in their mediated encounters in other words through TV or I suppose Twitter whatever with performers in the mass media particularly on television so basically they don't know these people in real life I don't know Dwayne the rock Johnson never met the guy ever probably never will yet we I do encounter him you know as we've said in all these various formats see him on TV seaman movies those are mediated encounters but I think we could also add his Twitter feed as mediated encounter so anyway the PSI happens when the viewers come to consider media personalities as friends despite that so somebody might feel like they really know the wayne a lot of these reality shows I feel like that's their purpose you feel like I really know you know like the duck dynasty people or the Kardashians or whatever the case may be it's like it you know they don't feel so distant from us because the psi we feel like we kind of know them even though we've never met them ever had a conversation of any store with them so psi is described as an illusionary experience such that media audiences interact with the persona eg a talk-show host a celebrity fictional character social media influence sir as if they are engaged in a reciprocal relationship with them so it's almost sounds like some kind of clinical malady here but only I think and I just think this is kind of how it works right I'm sure you know people who who do I remember when I was in college there was a girl I was friends with who you know to say that she liked Star Trek Voyager was the understatement of the year I mean she the way she would talk about like what was going on on the episodes and the character she you would think that she was talking about like other groups or friends I just never had met you know like this other circle of friends ours and then you'd finally realized oh she's talking about Voyager [Laughter] it was just a little bit you know at the time I thought it's almost a little bit you know you kind of wonder what's going on here you know this sounds like it's moved beyond just being a fan to some other category and I think it was just psi happening but I think to some degree that happens to all of us then we have the concept of vicarious participation so I had to kind of dig around to find this good definition of this but this is when you see an advertisement in this study was using an old gain that soap or detergent advertisement and the idea is you see this character in the ad and you start and certain consumers begin to feel as if they are participating in that characters experiences consumers imaginatively experience the story events from the affective and cognitive perspectives of the character with whom they are identified so the idea is this develops over time right initially just maybe you're participating by the thoughts perceptions but as this deepens the vicarious participation will generally intensify to include emotional reactions and sometimes physical reactions and in rare instances so know that they say rare I don't know how rare it is though sometimes these empathizing consumers may feel as though they have actually lived through the story events so this is the basic strategy behind almost every television commercial with a nice if it's got any kind of story element you know sometimes it'll be set up as you know the guy is just been fired or he's what's the one I'm seeing all the time now it's having trouble sleeping alright so let's try to put a character in there that you can kind of identify with so the idea here is you can kind of I curiously participate now when this comes up in 306 the author of that book so now and she talks about these volunteer organizations the charity organizations they're trying to collect money for things and they talk about it in terms of what you know why would you donate money to something like the Humane Society or the the Red Cross you know that sort of thing of these various ads for children with medical conditions and the idea is the they will say you send five dollars send ten dollars but then they link it to vicarious participation they'll say by doing this you will be doing your part you'll be helping you know the doctors and nurses or whoever does to actually help the you know the children are the animals or whatever so the idea is it's vicarious participation we kind of feel good about that we feel like we've kind of done our part even though we haven't really done anything but you know but maybe since the money or maybe even just like to post on Facebook anything well I feel pretty good about that you know I've done my part yes a society of vicarious you know you haven't actually done it but you sort of done it through somebody else right I don't know if I'm explaining this concept too well but that's the idea and then Kenneth Burke just gonna bring it back to him again he talks a lot of in his work about this term identification and so you remember Burke doesn't really talk about persuasion the same way Aristotle and some of these classical orders do it's for him it's not like you go up and give a great speech and everybody switches to your point of view instead it's a lot more about groups who do you identify with you use modern parlance you'd say do you you know who do you where do you feel like you belong you know are these you know these are people you often think about this again to bring it back to politics and you find some people think that's unusual when they ask you something like what party are you what party do you belong to and what are your political views you know and do you did you know that your party supports this and that a lot of times they really don't know or care about that stuff right they just you know the reason they're part of that group is because they identify with the other members of that group I think they've seen the two groups and three groups and they've taken a look they've hung out enough to know that you know this is I feel more comfortable over here with this group than I do with that group over there even though maybe this other group you know maybe mentally intellectually maybe I agree with some of what they're saying it just I don't identify with them they you know I don't feel like I'm at home I don't feel like I belong so that's sort of you know I think you're in kind of murky and territory when you're thinking along those lines and as a Burke argues that you persuade or communicate I would just say with the person or you persuade or communicate only insofar as you talk somebody's language by speech a gesture torn a litter image attitude ideas identifying your ways with theirs so I think he's like do you that person's one of us right they used to always talk about that you know I would have who would you rather have a beer with you know would rather have a beer with a cane or John whatever you know now that's the idea you know who's more like you because that's the one that you'll probably be more likely to support I think we can come back to that idea the vicarious participation look but anyway here's that let's see if we can pull this up quick this is the that's is that gonna work yeah so here's an example of this again for politics I've listened senator Elizabeth Warren drinking a beer on Instagram live my husband Brewster is now in here okay so this is my sweetie hello he's the best so who we got here so far all so that was I think a pretty self conscious effort to identify all right trying to get feet though look I'm just an everyday person and I drink a beer I drink beer I don't drink you know whatever the 40,000 dollar bottles of wine or whatever the case may be and so putting all the politics aside you know it's kind of irrelevant for this purpose here I just want you to see you know the efforts that politicians will go to because they're aware of this right if you if a voter feels like that person's not like me the person lives in a different world sometimes people talk about university professors and they'll say this this professor just kind of lives in an ivory tower it's this this college class is just so far removed from practical concerns so it's that same sort of idea so one of the challenges is you know if you want people to to support you you have to make sure that they identify that they feel like they're part of the movement part of the group that you are like them and that's the basic lesson okay so let's move on to some lessons for renegades let's see this is from Martin again keep it organic let the fans talk back when where and how they want to don't try to force it so this happens sometimes a lot of the companies they're so worried about security and somebody posting something inappropriate sensitive they don't want like criticism negative comments on their feed in any way so they'll go ahead and try to force it oh just try to find ways to sort of strongly encourage people to purchase it participate it I just doesn't really work well you know if you give people a little more freedom and as to how they want to interact it'll probably work out better unless you offer low barrier engagement make it easy to contribute no forums registration so you don't people have to sign for an accountant and put a credit card number and all this stuff and give you a bunch of sensitive information go through a process you know just to be able to post comments and things now you want to make it easy you know and of course the downside of that is the lower that barrier the more likely it is to get spammers and BOTS but ya had to find there's a trade-off there basically and then measuring the insuring the real-time results remind them that they're part of a much larger community how many people know this might my addition and so one of the things that I think is sort of attractive about multiplayer games a world of warcraft or whatever the case is is that you you could find out like how many people are playing with you you know you're running around you're seeing other people there or if you're on Steam playing games on there it'll tell you like how many people are playing this so somehow that makes you feel like it's not so you don't feel so lonely or alienated or weird about playing it so much and you're kind of able to tell how many other people are watching this or the same thing with Amazon you notice they'll put them not just the cells of the book but you know how many people posted reviews I mean same thing with Facebook how many people are liking this post how many people are on Facebook at that moment if you're on YouTube or Instagram you you can see the on the warning clip people were act like live posting you know as that thing was going on which that's that alone is worth watching that video just to study that because you can see how it's not just you watching you know Warren it's all the people that are also watching and they're commenting and you know you could comment back or just read whether you comment back or not isn't so important is just being reminded like there's other people I'm part of this larger community okay here we have the information rich versus sensory oriented now we're moving into the Caroll book so he's asking us some questions basically trying to figure out why you know you got something you want to communicate how do you do it the first question is basically what medium do you want to use you say social media but there's a you know as we know there's a big spectrum you know everything from Wikipedia to YouTube the tick tock what-have-you so the first thing is just thinking about the audience in terms of you know what do they prefer to they like an information rich medium and he curls says wikipedia is like that lots and lots of information man he's not wrong and you can look for Kenneth Burke and there's like a whole thing about Kenneth Burke identification you can really get lost in the weeds in that somewhat some material any any kind of reference if you want to learn about Kenneth Burke I probably go to Wikipedia you know that's where you're gonna get a lot of info or maybe you want a more sensory oriented experience and of course YouTube would be better for that videos you know if I want to know how to I was a I got a new airfryer some are getting on YouTube because I want to find out like how do I do frozen biscuits in the airfryer and I'm probably not gonna go to Wikipedia for that you know you go to YouTube so you could see somebody with the unit like mine and you can sort of see it play out and plus they have fun personalities and I like to laugh at least the youtubers I like there they have a lot of fun and that kind of coming back to that vicarious participation it's just kind of fun to watch that sort of imagine you're there with them in the kitchen cooking up the but anyway it's certainly true you know something you don't always want that information rich experience right sometimes you do want something more sensory it doesn't necessarily mean it's less sophisticated or it's lacking in detail it just appeals to more than just you're you know you're doing more than just reading you're watching and seeing stuff move around the voice of the tauntaun of the voice etc content fitness so this is an interesting idea so he's bringing in si Wang Li and Wang users based their judgments of the quality of information more on how well that information matches what they are seeking and less on how sophisticated the site is so that you know it doesn't sound all that brilliant the way they've got it worded there but if you think about what they're saying it's it's pretty fun you know I I wouldn't have expected that you know so basically you could have a very low-tech site basically that's not really going to make the difference whether it's really sneak you know a lot of moving parts and it's more about you know how well are you matching up with their expectations right and then they talked about well why are they there they are there to buy something then these things will shift if they're there to learn something and so on and so maybe that's why wikipedia has done so well maybe precisely because it does it looks you know it did it's very appropriate for the type of information they're trying to spread the encyclopedic format and just imagining if it was like if you go to Wikipedia and there were all these videos everywhere and it was like you know real slick you know flashy interface now you probably think I don't know this just doesn't it doesn't feel right now you might even affect your judgment of the quality of the info so let's say they've got these categories here IQ categories not intelligence quote quotient but information quality so the intrinsic IQ the information has quality for the user in its own right and so something like we go to Wikipedia looking I want to learn about airfryers I'm there you know so I'm one of course accurate information objectivity exactly I don't want the air fryer people brands or whatever they're on Wikipedia telling me about the best air fryer you know I want an objective account now let's see contextual IQ information that must be considered within the context of the users tasks all right so maybe I've got some biscuits here I need to cook them I got people coming you know I need something quick right representational I Q user issues surrounding systems that provide the information such as a database so there that would I guess you know how easy is it to use the database can you interpret the results easily or do you need a PhD to make sense of it and then accessibility IQ surrounding provisions of information right so we you know most people are concerned about these things you know I don't want you might not want everybody to know you've been on this side of doing these searches or even if there's anything related like buying you know you're like I'm not gonna put my credit card info and of this you know if you looking site so those are I think this is a useful table moving on he talks about how to identify your audience Nietzsche says at the basic level you want to know this stuff you know where does your audience live are they local national or international so I've done this so you get on YouTube but you could find out about your audience demographics and they will tell you things like what the countries are they from what languages did they speak what's their gender you know in mine it's it's always kind of fascinating to see I don't know why this is but I have this large chunk of people from Europe now a lot of Eastern Europeans watch the Matt chat show so that's something to consider alright when I'm making analogies and things if I'm talking about football they probably think they're talking about soccer you know of course most of the audience is from the US but it's something to think about again it's certainly not just a Minnesota audience you know this is an international now let's see what kind of sites publications and apps your audience uses already right so I know they're looking at other YouTube channels for one thing but maybe they're on these other sites and if I can find out like what forums they like and where they get the news and then I can target those areas or I could find out conversely you know if I if I find myself mentioned on like this forum then I know well that must be where some of my audience is you see where your interactors go to satisfy their information needs their ages occupations gender income levels education levels races and ethnicities now some of this stuff would be difficult if not impossible to get to get at but you know you just see what tool you're using what kind of stats you can collect let's see challenges the challenges accessing information cultural factors it might influence what you do and do not do you know certainly something to consider there as well you know if you do have a large international audience you know they're not gonna all be on the same page you know a lot of a lot of things not just with what sports they prefer but you know down to like core values sometimes so you definitely like to know about that that's the information architecture how should you plan and organize your info so he does mention that there's a whole you know is basically whole college majors you could major in this you really want the details so obviously we can't get into them you know you can't learn everything defect this from one slide but you can sort of get the gist of it right when you're putting together your my your WordPress page it'll give you some options you got different templates you can a lot of those templates will let you move menu items around again creating catalog terms or categories and keywords and tagging things it's really all about this how to organize the information so somebody can find what they're looking for you know I don't like to talk bad about my employer but you know st. Cloud State there's a terrible at this yeah even me you know I go there trying to find some kind of forum you know for a you know when's the graduation you know this basic info and it's it can be really challenging to find the info so they really I don't some things they do well but that is something that could use some improvement and that basically is it problem of information information architecture it's just something about the way they've laid out the menus and the search terms the way that search bar works but anyway you can see here how they got this laid out just services about us something in a contact button now here's a very typically with this when you're looking at a question like this my first instinct is always to say good see if you could find some good examples you know find somebody else with the site basically like the one you want to create take a couple of those and see if you could find out what works well doesn't work well of course take the best don't do the worst and you might be able to create something that's workable at least and refine it from there based on feedback but anyway it is a big big topic now then he moves into style guides I think you probably enjoyed that gets in down into like issues like well is it email with a hyphen and the capital is it email with the - is it just one word email and you know a lot of students they're not aware that these are you know it's not like there's a set in stone somewhere it is email with just all one word you know a lot of this just has to do with the style guide of that particular publication so we've got things like APA which I have pictured here oh there's one called Chicago so these are I don't know where they all these originated from this one's obviously comes out of psychology and in America but the MLA has one Modern Language Association for their journals but then there's all these ones for newspapers that a lot of people use there's a wired style guide and so the idea is that it's not like that one is necessarily better than the other you know email like this versus email like that you know we it's still email the point is you just have to pick something and stick with it and not just keep switching around and sometimes it's one thing one thing it's the and so that's where these style guides come in handy and you could imagine if you're working with a team you know a bunch of different writers come in they've got 17 different ways to write email you say no we're all gonna do it this way according to this manual that we've all read and subscribed to so it's very useful in that sense of course you can create your own again the point is not that there's one right way to do it another point is we just want to make sure that everybody on your blog is doing these things the same way because otherwise it'll just look look shoddy start looking like there's errors all over the place you know one of these things that come up in my other class my video games classes you know how do you write in video games is it two words is it one word is it capitalized and even you know the authors of that book unfortunately they just ride it sometimes one word sometimes two words it's kind of obvious they didn't really apply a style guide and what they should have done is just choose one and just stuck with it not kept switching and then we get into ethics I wanted to pull up this link here this is the Society of Professional Journalists code of ethics I think it's worth our time to really look at this closely so this goes out I suppose to the make it this a little bigger to anybody studying journalism let's see there are 10 commandments I guess seek truth and report it ethical journalism should be accurate and fair journalists should be honest and courageous in gathering repeating and interpreting information so you notice the book kind of leaves it there but if you look at this manual I'm showing you here they go into details you know like provide the context be cautious when making a promise identify the source clearly consider sources motives before promising anonymity so these are just really smart be vigilant courageous about holding those with power accountable your voice to the voiceless toldly tell the story of the diversity and magnitude of the human experience seek sources who voices we sold them here so some of this is I think probably more aspirational but you know these are good ethics you see minimize harm write ethical journalism treat sources subjects colleagues and members of the public as human beings deserving of respect pursuit of the news is not a license for arrogance or undue intrusiveness let's see what else we have here avoid pandering to lurid curiosity even if others do i guess that to me sounds like it'll be paparazzi act independently the highest and primary obligation of ethical journalism is to serve the public journalists should avoid conflicts of interest real or perceived disclose unavoidable conflicts refuse gifts favors fees free travel and special treatment and avoid political and other outside activities that may compromise integrity or impartiality or may damage credibility clearly a lot of people working in journalism today have not read that you know they coming back to the videogames class again there is a lot of controversy lingering about the these these gaming magazines and websites that review games I've talked to a few of these reviewers and they talk about this all the time how these big game companies they'll be coming out with a new call of duty or whatever it is and they will just basically Wine and Dine them I had a one of my students work for a company before you came to st. Cloud State he was doing a website about a thing was cheat cheat codes that's for games but the site got big enough where he was you know he was being approached for all these big game studios to get him to do refused you know the big upcoming games you know they like to get a bunch of reviews all at once and kind of just had this big burst of a publicity when the game comes out but the stuff he was telling me I just was like really you know like like first class flight out to some like tropical island and you know cruises and just all this stuff you know free best everything mistakes steak dinners cocktails yeah is basically just I think he might have been like 19 or 20 so I hope he didn't you know I don't know what they did with the alcohol but anyway just made it literally just wining and dining the crap out of us you know these reviewers and then being like oh and by the way here's our new game you know go play for a while you know write an objective review you know of course you know so it's just like one story after another like that and it just really made me think that there's you know some people laugh at this or whatever but today there definitely needs to be some major scrutiny especially in that gaming journalism world okay I see be accountable and transparent journalists should explain ethical choices and processes to audiences encourage a civil dialogue with the public and respond quickly to questions about accuracy clarity and fairness all right so there you go I guess it wasn't there weren't wasn't ten one two three four five that's that's the for journalism clearly you know you're not all doing uh you know news blogs but I still think it's very useful that's a really good example really you could tell they put a lot of thought into that they really approached it well so I think you can do worse than to really study that those examples I think about how you might adapt that for your blog okay so the first step in doing your own code of ethics he says is define the goal what do you need to decide and when do you need to decide it so he says you know inevitably something's gonna arise it will be some kind of ethical dilemma it could be minor could be major the point is you need to have some process in place to be able to handle this and you basically you want to set this up while you calm and collected and cool and rational and have a good process worked out because in the heat of the moment you know you're you're not you might not be thinking clearly you probably won't be and so it's great to have something you could fall back on a process something you've trained and practiced so yeah what do you need to decide what what is the thing that's happened you know has it been some kind of scandal has it been some fraud committed you know recently we you know we had the Target Corporation here in Minnesota so I get a lot of students that are working for Target or looking for careers with Target and then one of the things that always comes up is the the breaches of security all right so target has all these apps and things and it's not just target you know all these big corporations so every now and then there'll be this catastrophic leak and they find all the customers credit card numbers or social security numbers or you know all this information is get gets leaked out somehow so now the executives at Target out to figure out like well what what do we do you know should we keep it under wraps if we're gonna come forward with this you know what's the best way to do it so you can think about a situation like that you know not necessarily might not even be target's fault you know that might not even be the point here the point could just be how do we break this to the public and in a strategic way so that be that you know what do you need to decide when do you need to decide it so that might you could just be should we should we just keep a secret or should we report this should we do a a video about it you know there's lots of questions there step to start with the ends so thinking about the end results so he's asked us this what do you know for sure you know what details do we have about the breach just stick with that example you know what can you independently verify and corroborate you know maybe you don't know anything about who did this what country they're from or anything maybe you do maybe you don't you just you definitely want to make sure you had your facts before you went out you know with the press release now what are the facts from the point of view of those who might be harmed by your decision all right so if you don't tell people I would argue that the your customers might be harmed by that because maybe they're suddenly getting hacked their informations out there their credit cards or people are charging things to their credit cards who knows all what might happen so I think that would be pretty clear that you would do a lot of harm to your customers if you didn't tell them what happened step3 know your purpose now what does the audience need well they probably need to know about this breach so that they can begin to change call their bank say cancel that card change the passwords etc what are your obligations in terms of the information you should provide that audience you know so how much detail do you need to provide about you know your negligence you know you probably don't want to just spell out exactly how they exploited you because other hackers might use that information themselves on other companies now says that's kind of something to think about I see step four consider the ethical principles at stake so this is where you'd have that he's got a big list of like all your values I think this would be good exercise for you and your blog you just think about what are the things you value is it about reporting the truth is that the main value is it more about serving the public interest protecting independence you're not getting you know one of the things that comes up sometimes with a blog is somebody wants to sponsor you you know some company or studio whatever related to your blog might say I would like to you know put some ads on your channel you know even with Matt chat I've got the patreon set up and you know usually I'm kind of like you know it's mostly just small donors you know like a dollar here or five dollars there you know but what if you know some big-time producer I was saying look I'll uh you know I'll give you $20,000 you know or whatever just some crazy amount of money but you know the expectation is gonna be that you know from now on when you review any of our games I want you to really talk about our stuff all the time I might say that wouldn't really work cuz then I wouldn't be independent anymore I would basically just be a shill you know for that studio so that'd be an example there helping those in need so as you can see that this is gonna be completely different you're just gonna have to think about your own blog your own values the point is just to figure out what are your principles and then now how do you rank those what's more important to you what's less important step five identify the principles in conflict yes cuz anytime there's an ethical crisis it's a crisis because you are you know they you're trying to figure out okay this this is a matter of protecting the independence versus one of the other values might be to be sustainable right over you know to continue making the show alright we don't run out of money I say you could look at those values and say well there's you're in conflict there how am I going to resolve this serving the public interest you know what if somebody told you something I can imagine this coming up in journalism you know I just gave you an example from Matt chat again and so sometimes I'll have a guest on and they'll say look I'm gonna tell you something but I don't want it on the show I don't want you to tell anybody you know this is just between us and so in those situations I never know what quite what to do should I just say well just you know don't tell me whatever that is because it puts me like what if it's something horrible and I feel like well I should probably tell people about that now I'm kind of in this conundrum this quandary now that I know something and you know there's all sorts of bad badness you can get into I so probably would behoove me to factor some of the stuff in this book and just have us say well here's my policy on that you know bada-boom in most cases okay step 6 identify the stakeholders so the again if you're in news the sources that's the good guys just talking about that right like that I got to protect the source you know they've told me something anonymous but they told me something confidential and I don't want to just go out and you know if I go out and tell people then in a way I'm kind of throwing them under the bus this comes up of course in IRB if you're doing any kind of research on campus with students or any really any kind of research involving what they call human subjects weird term but basically if you're working on people then you have to make sure that you're doing unethically that you're protecting them and there's even arguments now that they should get something out of it right it shouldn't just be you taking from them they should get some some kind of value from that study subjects clients families institutions right so maybe something would be good for the student but maybe it would not be good for the institution or vice-versa yes all these things can come into conflict let's see step seven identify your options make sure you put all of the options on the table so there might be some kind of compromise type situation right we say well I'm not going to I don't know about sponsorship or that you know maybe I will do you know maybe I could do like a special video where I make it clear that this is an advertisement or this video was sponsored you know kind of set that apart somehow you know so that it's clear to the viewers this was basically paid content I'll make sure that's screened off from the regular Matt chat so maybe there's something like that that could be done instead of just you know yes or no let's say step 8 evaluating those options so we've got all the options on the table we're going through them each each one thinking about what you know what's gonna minimize the harm us gonna be the most effective step 9 make a choice all things considered what is the best option man I thought this was probably the best part of this whole process of step 10 testing your thinking so he says imagine being interviewed on 60 minutes kind of like after the fact I guess so that's probably a great piece of advice you know how are you gonna feel when you're on the in the hot seat that people are grilling you so that's probably a good place to be mites terrify you but you know the other hand the more you could prep and let this guide your decision that's probably wise so in your justification fill in these blanks we have decided to blank decided to turn down the offer to accept the offer report you know give the information regardless that it was confidential who knows but then there's more we reached the decision after weighing you know fill in the blank there what did you weigh what factors we also considered you know whatever that is we think this decision best upholds the principle of blah blah blah you say transparency builds trust so that's kind of what this is about right we've looked at these other options we considered you know maybe not reporting this or reporting now keeping it under wraps or something but then we decided that they you know we would tell the people hey the cottony counts have been compromised and that's terrible thing you know all right so go back to question the question from earlier where were you looking at those bad apology so I think it'd be now that we kind of worked through these steps ethical codes and whatnot this is any concern of reverse engineer step back from that apology back to what happened you know what happened that led to this crisis where they need to apologize where did where did they screw up so find out where the person company or organization failed in terms of curls ethics process which steps could and probably should have been handled better all right so just to wrap up here work out the process before the crisis I think this is worth repeating this is on page 230 Carol says well it's fine to listen to your but it should be good well it's fine to listen to your gut don't let that gut reaction fool you into thinking that you know the answer before working through the issues alright so again the whole point of this process is to have something that you have put together while you're in a state of calmness very rational so you work this all out beforehand so that when you are in the moment and yeah you think well oh no what you know what do I do don't just act spontaneously you know the idea is you want to go back work through your process don't even if you think you know the answer just ignore that you still want to go through those steps with that we talked about all right well anyway thanks for watching hope this was a useful to you thanks for your time and attention please do leave a comment ask a question or just you know let me know how you're feeling it's getting about that time of the semester I think now you got a lot on your plate I love to hear from you anyway have a great day | English 191 | UCxaBX0oYvK0HJZL287NfZ9A | 2020-02-15 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 9,111 | 48,390 |
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Qujsd4vkqFI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qujsd4vkqFI | 1 - What is an Information System | Our world is full of lots of information. From your music play list to your mobile phone contents, from your saved computer games to the details in your facebook profile, from the information stored by your school to the data stored by your doctor there is a lot of information and it all needs to be stored, categorised, searched and sorted. The amount of data that we store is growing at a tremendous rate. In fact, EVERY DAY we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. So much that 90% of the digital data in the world today was created in the last two years alone. That's the equivalent of a 60-foot high wall of iPads stretching from Edinburgh to Oman in the middle-east! How do we manage this massive increase in the data we store? We depend on information systems to help us create, control, store, find and access this information. So, what is an information system? An information system is a set of computer-based tools for collecting, storing, and processing data the data in our world. Businesses and other organizations rely on information systems to carry out and manage their operations, interact with their customers and suppliers, and compete in the marketplace. For instance, corporations use information systems to reach their potential customers with targeted messages over the Web, to process financial accounts, and to manage their work force. Governments use information systems to provide services cost-effectively to citizens, to manage the economy and to gather taxes. Digital goods, such as electronic books and software, and online services, such as auctions and social networking are all provided by and operated by some kind of information system. A typical information system will have somewhere to store data, often this is a database, there will be a program which helps you use the data and the program will have a user interface which you, the user, issue commands and receive results. Information Systems play a roll in every aspect of your life. In our constantly connected digital world it is important that you understand how information systems, and the data they collect, impacts on everything that you do. | Charlie Love | UCtYF3ubHXYN69uTZL0x0BIg | 2013-03-31 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 357 | 2,144 |
uJ8MrMtYuuM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ8MrMtYuuM | Fixing undefined is not a function Using Maybes - 5 of 13 - Default Values via Lodash getOr | the optional syntax is great but it doesn't provide a default value that's what we're really trying to prevent here is getting an undefined in the first place we want to get a value that makes sense and do it at the place we're dealing with the codes you don't have to hunt later and then remember why you might have gotten undefined what you could potentially put you need to think about it while you're writing the code sometimes so in this case we're gonna use a get word function from lodash and what it means is it's gonna try to do the exact same thing as the optional chaining syntax but it forces you to provide a value and say look if there's nothing there for first name just put unknown name right we know that it's an unknown name we have no idea or the first name couldn't be found or whatever something that makes sense to you in that particular case in our case we have first name so we run this example we're gonna see that we get Jessie if we misspelled the access for whatever reason or we spell it correctly but the property just doesn't exist that it's physically not there this won't throw a null pointer instead it'll give us the default value and say look we just don't know a name you're gonna display it on the screen it just hints at a data out error or perhaps maybe a code error you misspelled things who knows but at least you can guarantee that down stream is always going to get a string or whatever data type you need so that's how use get or from lodash to provide a default value not just a safe way of getting things it does both | Jesse Warden | UCzBDmYcmynHX7mELvD0sWEA | 2019-09-02 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 302 | 1,564 |
ncvF68eaqDA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncvF68eaqDA | Cerebellum - How does brain learn precise movement control? | okay so hi we talk about which is mus in Polish and specifically uh it's interesting because we somewhat understand the mechanics by which the C uh and and okay this is the this part uh right here and on the right it's a pretty Ser uh it's uh it's about 10% of the brains volume but it contains many neurons about half of all the neurons and it's part of the heat brain and uh this is another fixure this is FM scan of the cereum with this pretty tree like uh patterns uh and we see them because cereum is made out of layers um but first uh like high level view what's its function so the Ser it it uh receives the sensor information uh from the periphery and from the cortex and uh it also receives the movement command so some part of the brain that uh steer movement uh comands some movement it's sent to some other part that implements it and the copy to the cereum as well uh and the cereum outputs via so when I say cereum I usually mean cereal cortex which is this Parts made out of parallel layers with these three leg patterns and uh the cortex outputs to the Deep Cal nucle which is a nucle inside the cereum uh or inside the cere cortex whatever and and this deep Cal nucle then further outputs to the thalamus and from the thalamus this information is dispersed throughout the whole cortex uh and how is this output of the serum used okay so so it receives all this sensor information and movement command so it's it maintains some model of what is our body state right which muscles are contracted uh which are not what is the sensor information from the skin do we feel in pain and also so what is the state of the body now but also what it should be because this is the movement that our body now now wants to perform so it can anticipate the changes that happen uh because of the movement and uh uh signal that and and the output of the it is uh there's no single thing that this output of the cereum is used for uh we should more think like uh it is outputed throughout the cortex and in various regions of the brain it has different functions so something we know is that the function of is localized so there's parts of the cereum that are involved in language speech some other that's involved in uh movement of of this finger of that finger and uh uh so the neurons in these parts are the output that comes directly from these neurons is just somewhere in the brain that processes say you know this finger movements uh but this is differently in different part of the brain uh the use for this output in all these parts of the brain intuitively something like the cereum outputs and intensity and sort of a regulating signal um but this is very vague now and we will talk in precisely about what what I mean um all right but this is the the higher level description and we know about that uh um by uh as usual by case studies of people with Legions of cereum so there's uh these people and as I said the functions localized so different lesions will lead to different results but uh the people with leion of cereum have problems with say maintaining balance uh with uh movements uh the movements of such a person is uh sort of weird uh so let's take an example of just moving a hand towards some location or maybe grabbing an object uh a person cereal damage can still perform this movement but it will be more like that that we we aim our hand and we don't hit the target so we see that oh uh we should move our hand more to the right and we try again and we move to the right and and so on and eventually we hit this subject we hit the target but with cereum it's working and and usually it's different right we can fine tune the movement so that it's precise and as exactly where we where we want to so the intuition uh that that we can get from from this uh studies is that uh the output of the regulates the precise timing and control of various uh muscle movements so that the movement is smooth and that we throughout the movement we can correct for the movement and this is possible again because the cereum receives both the sensory information and the copy of the movement command um uh okay so so movement balance these are easy to observe uh but also there's some scatter evidence for involvement of uh cereum in cognitive task as well uh and certainly in language uh but not only in in speaking because this is you know this is moving your body but also in processing uh speech language okay so let's this is the same picture again uh but now we can see in detail why we see this pattern of parallel layers because here is uh zoomed uh zoomed in pictures of one of these layers and uh okay let's let's look at this so we have uh the this blue region which is made out of mostly out of granular cells um then there is this big uh red orange cells uh which are called binia cells and then the yellow region is made out of mostly out of dangit of the pinia cells in bigger detail you can see this on this picture let's first just not focus on the details of the but let's know that indeed we have this granular cells this small cells right here in this blue uh inner layer which project their aons in the form of this long parallel fibers to this outer yellow layer in which these accents connect to the perin cells dendroides and perin cells are this big red cells here but there's also other cells like this Gog cells baset State cells uh and and then okay the cells in this nucle inside the T cereal [Music] neurons this is uh an attempt to simplify the this diagram of exactly what happens uh so here how this corresponds is the cereal cortex here is would be would be this right so this granul say binia cells all of that uh the cereal nucle are these deep cerebral neurons uh and then we get these two types of inputs that are coming into the uh cereum so mosty fibers these are sensory uh sensory inputs from the periphery uh of of our nervous system um and motor commands so in this m fibers the information is about the state of our body and what our body would will be doing in the next coming seconds and climbing fibers this is as well uh sensory information from the periphery and from the cortex but the type of this information and the way it's used in the Ser is completely different this is information about uh events happening uh and uh the Ser will need this information to be able to learn to correct uh where the event signalizes some error that needs to be corrected for so um climbing fiber um uh information coming the climbing sh would be something like we felt pain somewhere or we we are doing this hand movement and we oversuit we need to correct for that or we we are throwing darts and the dart didn't hit uh something like that and then okay so what outputs from the uh uh is the Cal cortex outputs indirectly through the Cal nucle the nucle clay outputs then uh subet for the talus uh and then to the rest of the uh cortex uh the think is that the intensity of this output from the deep cereal nucle is modulated by the Cal the output from the cerebral cortex as we see both receive the same inputs from most fibers and climic fibers but there is the laring happening in the Cal cortex of the intensity of the signal on the Cal nucle uh that in turn modulat the the out from the C nule and also um thing that's not visible on the diagram but is the case is that urans in the cereum uh are parts of Loops that form throughout the whole brain so there's this uh input from the cortex via climbing fiber that connects to the Cal cortex C clay out through the talus and somewhere in the cortex and these things actually form Loops uh and we know that uh by studies using virus tracing where uh there is viruses that you can put into a neuron and then the virus flows uh either with the direction of accents or the other direction uh and we can trace this way the connections between neurons and and we've Trace that in fact uh neurons in the from Loops that uh uh that go VI all these other parts of the brain uh uh it's not like a one big loop it's more like few of these neurons right here from this Loop and there is plenty of Loops formed uh going through different parts of the cereum and again this this function of the cereum is is localized so now um with this information let's go back to this uh diagram that's more exact so um the input from the mif fiber again this is the sensor information from the periphery it connects to granular Source uh if granular Source receives maybe like five of these inputs um and then it projects further via this long parallel axtion um to Pria cells so it connects to plenty of pinia cells uh and this One S perin cell with this huge uh tree like uh dend structure it can form even as many as a million synaptic connections with parallel fibers so pinia cell has quite a comprehensive idea of our body state right there many inputs um the go say buket cells we don't know that much about what they do so in this picture we are ignoring this [Music] uh and then the climbing fiber the second type of sensor information uh so it looks different right it creates this um um it's it twists like a Vine uh around the dendroides of the pinia cell so it's it connects many synaptic connections with single cell and one climbing fiber connects Maybe be up to like few different pinia cells also these deep cereal neurons this all they also get the input from the G cells from the uh climbing fiber and know how this works is that the Deep C neurons they uh nothing happens this neurons fire at some some rates just spontaneously thr the life the brain this neur fire but when a movement is performed and I'm talking about movement because this is this this case we understand somewhat well and it's it's more intuitive uh when uh a movement is performed with uh is modulated by this this deep cereal neuron the neuron would fire at a higher intensity in in some time that surrounds the movement and the exact timing when this high intensity period happens and the intensity of it uh this needs to be modulated by the pinia cell which as you can see on the diagram it forms an inhibitory connection with the diff cereal neuron and Via this connection it modulates their firing rate and the timing of this this burst coming from the cereal neuron um and then the learning happens in this way that um the the parallel fibers so indirectly the M fibers the synaptic connections to pinia cells are are um somewhat low strength uh I've said that there's up to a million of these connections right so each single of these connections is not that strong but together they signalize specific state of the body right uh but the when a climbing fiber fires uh it certainly creates uh it certainly means that the binia cell would also fire uh and it fires in What's called the complex Spike so it's a firing followed by a burst of uh a rapid burst of uh consecutive fire rings and the result of this complex spike is such that the stic connect with pinia cells um sorry between parall fibers and pinia cells that were active when the complex Spike happened uh decrease in strength what this means is that next time the specific sensory case happens body enters the specific state with this specific motor command uh again the pinia C with fire later because the strength of the synaptics was lowered so in this way the climbing fiber which sends this uh uh error correcting signal this this information about some event that needs to be corrected for in this way the the climbing fiber modulates the uh um yes check up means that the pinia cell next time this exact situation happens we fire later and this enti modulates the firing crate of the deep cere neuron and and so on um so this is the main understand mechanic that happens here and maybe you you would question okay so if we can learn to decrease a strength of of a synaptic connection uh is that all we need like uh how do we increase the strength of synaptic connection so that next time this specific sensory situation happens the pinia cell fires quicker and I don't have an answer to that we don't have an answer for that in general uh but bear in mind that we don't understand all the mechanics happening here right maybe some of this uh other cells present here have some regulatory uh role uh some homeostatic role that uh um balances the system uh in general we don't know the the full picture and there's also learning Happ happening at many other synaptic connections here not just the synapses uh with pinia cells but this is the mechanism um and uh this is what I wanted to talk about um yeah here nothing think really so other synapses learn as well uh and also it really that part of the process happens already with in the granular cells mediated by the go cells yeah right uh like the granular cell already receives few of the synaptic connect fiber so it can already learn to react only to some specific sensory condition like both this muscle and this muscle is contracted and there's also all these other cells uh which can mediate that so yeah just we don't understand it fully yet and these are the sources and thanks and I hope that this time it recorded | Karol Ochman-Milarski | UCYiTh0ZUvXG6v-xBWv-X6HQ | 2024-02-28 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,505 | 13,123 |
QgyM3E8PKk4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgyM3E8PKk4 | Week 4 Friday csci111 2014 02 14 | all right so happy Friday um it is as you can tell in my family Take Your Daughters to school day or another way of putting it uh your wife has a meeting that conflicts St my youngest daughter did want you to know that if you didn't give me a valentine day there's hatred in your heart a Valentine's Day card so years from now when you're picking up the pieces from your broken marriage at a psychiatrist remember that hatred started here today but for those of you that gave me a nice Valentine all right you have my full support it's the your spouse's fault when the marriage breaks up okay um so what I uh because of this planed trip I had pulled my drawing tablet out of my bag and like this is the first day I wanted to use it so that's kind of a drag but it's all right I don't need to do a huge amount of drawing uh what I'm going to do for the bulk of the period if not the entire period is guess I'll do crop me uh this is what I want to do I want to do something like that I just want to make this a little bit bigger uh I wanted to to go through the process for actually so assignment 4 which was to in C++ do 16 hex's together that assignment is pass us now and I wanted to actually for you walk through the process of creating uh an entire page of grids and I'm doing this without a net haven't haven't tried it before in front of a live audience so we'll see how this goes uh so I I wanted to give you an idea of of what's I kind of do a thinkaloud where I'm telling you what's going on in my mind in the process I'm using so you can see the problem solving process I'm I'm going through to do this also I'm going to we haven't formally introduced functions uh as I mentioned in the the announcement I'll probably be gone Monday and Tuesday in which case Andrea and I will be gone Monday or Tuesday barring something like weather again uh and so andreus and uh Austin I don't know how they're dividing up the work but one or both of them will be in here here to formally introduce functions so even though I haven't formally introduced them I kind of skirted around the edges and enough that I think I can use Simple functions to show some of their advantages in solving this problem so using that as a a launching point I'm going to start with my red pen here and I think I want that the the whole oh what a pain this is going to be the whole thing begins with the your pointer at the dot facing the direction of the arrow okay so I know right off the bat that if I move forward that I'm going to draw a horizontal line and I can mark that as that particular hexagon now the reason I'm taking this particular hexagon is I'm figuring that I'm going to um I just want to start here drawing drawing the hexes and the strategy that I'm thinking about is first to be able to draw a hex and I actually provided that code and that's pretty straightforward that's just a for Loop to go straight turn right go straight turn right and you do that six times and you end up when you finish looping six times with that last go straight turn right I actually end up at this exact same point facing the exact same direction okay so given that I can draw this hex I'm thinking what I want to do then is maybe draw this hex and then this hex and then this hex so if I can draw one hex if I can get myself down to the next starting point uh then I can put that whole thing in a loop and I can draw as many hex's as straight down as I want so I'm thinking of that as a first step so what I'll do is I will come back here and I had failed to grab this code so let me do that now hang on let me oops all right yeah that worked all right wasn't quite how I was planning to do that but takes me to the same destination okay so now I can from my downloads directory I can move everything that starts with the word hexagon and from the downloads directory move everything that begins well assignment for. CPP and I can move all of that stuff into my current directory and there we go okay so assignment for. CPP uh I want to make sure that everything's working correctly before I begin my own modifications so I will do that I guess I'll put it in an output file called I'm going to call it uh paper or how about make paper make paper and it compiles without error I can run it that's going to spit all that postcript to the screen instead I want to redirect that to a file so I'll just go with the tradition and call it output. PS and I should be able to open that up and there it is and there's my one hex okay so I'll close that come back here now let's begin doing this so looking back at my drawing here that is drawing this hex and it's it's my the point where I'm at is exactly where I started so in order for me to draw this hex exactly the same way where I need to be is I need to be right here facing this direction yes and if I'm right there facing this direction I can run this exact same code all over again and I should get this second hex down here so uh the problem becomes how to get from this point down to this point now in order what I'm going to do is I'm immediately going to take advantage of functions and again I acknowledged I haven't done a real big formal introduction of functions I think i' I've skirted around the edges enough that um I can go ahead and create a rudimentary function so this is a function it doesn't return anything I'm not interested in it giving me a float back or anything like that I'm just interested in it doing something and what I want it to do is I want it to draw this hex that I have on lines 11 through 15 so I'm going to say colon 11 through 15 I want to delete those lines those lines go into a buffer and then I can type P to put out the contents of that buffer and there we go so now what I can do is I can just simply say draw hex I can invoke this function call this function and on line 16 as the first thing that main does and it should jump up here to line four and run all this code and when it's done it comes down to line 17 okay yes you have multiple voids mean different things yes so again this is just describing what this particular function returns you can write a million functions every one of them can return nothing meaning return void the only distinction is that the names of the functions would have to be different and we're going to actually take advantage of some of that so I again I've just made this minor change following the principle that I've advocated uh I'm going to test this thing frequently um now I should see an error if I comp compile this which should make the point that that it is valuable to test this thing frequently and indeed I've got an error here and it's saying use of Undeclared identifier what this means is the compiler has never heard of this before what are you talking about which is kind of weird because it was working a minute ago but if I look at my code you can see that my include statement this file contains all the information for the compiler telling what the different hexagon kinds of commands I might give the move forward the move backward and so forth so I simply need to move that up above the point where I'm using the hexagon functions meaning those two once I do that this thing should compile this fine and it does I can rerun it I can open open it up again and there it is okay so I'm back where I started the only difference is I've got this nicely packaged into a function now so that I can reuse it so getting back to our our drawing I need to get to this point now there are a couple ways of doing it I can either go here here here here and uh once I do that I would be facing this way if I did uh move forward turn right move forward turn right move forward turn right move forward if I didn't do that last turn right I'd be facing the opposite way I need to face if I did that final turn right I'd be facing up here or I can immediately turn myself around and move forward turn left move forward turn left and I think I like that I don't have to Traverse so much distance to do that so with a little trial and error um this is going to be 120° that I have to turn here 60° is just going to be this direction so 60° would be right here I don't want to go right there I need to go another 60 degrees to be pointing down this way so let me go ahead and try that I draw hex and then I want to turn to the right right by 120° and then I want to move forward so that's going to put me what color do I have here that should if it's working correctly should put me here then I want to turn left 60° turn left by 60° and then another move forward should put me right here so I'll copy and paste that now at this point in time I'm facing this way so I need to do one more turn left 60° to get facing the same way as this red arrow here so I'll just copy and paste that that should get me to where this red arrow is and once I've done that I should just be able to call my draw hex function again so let me copy and paste this line I compile it I run it I take a look and there we go okay so now that would put me um well that puts me right where I left off so I'd be right here now I need to get down to here I need to do the exact same movements that I did the first time right so that means I have to do all these again now I could simply do all those lines again let me separate these so you can see it right and then I would begin yet another iteration but we immediately see a pattern so someone suggested a loop yeah I think a loop is a nice idea also I want to I think I this set of groupings is something that I'm using over and over again just like the draw hex is something that I'm using over and over again so why don't I put those in a function let's call that function what I'm doing which is move down one how about that have move down one hex so I'll create a function void move down one hex and inside of that function I'm going to put lines I have to do some cleanup but at the moment it's going to be lines 21 through 25 21 through 25 I'll delete those lines I'll come up here and type P to put now a I can write here say move down one hex and then I so let me I don't want to be doing a bunch of loops and stuff until I confirm that the code as I have written so far works right so this should if this is working it should give me three hex's whoops there we go draw move draw move draw move compile it run it close that open it and I do indeed have three hex's so the algorithm is working so far now it's just a matter of figuring out how many down I have to go to fill up a piece of paper paper uh little bit of experimenting I frankly don't actually know how many I know that uh the default for moving forward is a quarter of an inch so I know that this distance is a quarter of an inch this is going to be somewhat more than a quarter of an inch but it'll be less than half an inch so somewhere between a quarter and a half inch if I act conservatively and say a half inch there's 11 in on the vertical side of a piece of paper that'd be 22 hex's that's a good guess as a start and then I would use a loop and so I would create I would say start at zero as long as it's less than that I want to do those two lines of code we can try it oops okay maybe I could get another hex in there uh doesn't really matter I mean that's the interesting thing is that I don't have to tune it at this point because um when all said and done when I'm ready to finish up this thing all I have to do is come back and play with this number right here to get it exactly right yeah no need to do that now that's the easiest thing to do trial and all right so if I draw a bunch of hex's then coming back to my my picture here when I'm done I will have just drawn I'm gonna um yeah I'll do this one I will have just drawn this one and you all probably can't see that so what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut my paper in half right about there here I can do that more Ninja like there we go yes we move move it over to the next column can we just repeat what did right so we'll talk about we'll talk about moving it over and repeating okay that's our next step uh so so so that everyone can see it I'll call that green line the bottom of my piece of paper and what I've just done is I've just drawn this hex here and it is going to be the exact same pattern as we see with every hex when I'm done drawing a hex I'm always in the upper leftand corner facing to the right okay nothing's changed with any of that so I am currently at at this position right here and I'm facing this way yes thought you draw draw draw oh I did do yes you're exactly right I did draw move so let me confirm that yes so you're exactly right move down one hex so I'm not there so I'll cleverly come back here and say I never did that uh I would be at the very bottom I'd be right here ready to draw that hex that is down here off the edge of the paper okay so now the question is um how to draw the next column because the next column is a little bit odd because it's off it's a little bit higher up now one strategy is I can do a little zigzag and I can get all the way to the top of the page right here and then I could repeat the process right but we can be a little bit more efficient with it in that um let's say that I want to get to this position in green where I am here facing this way which obviously isn't too difficult to move for me to get to if I get there is it possible for me to draw this hex above me and what would be a combinate what moves would be combined to draw this hex above at me 60° left turns move forward turn left move forward turn left move forward turn left once I'm done drawing this hex then I should be right where I started on the blue there are other ways I'm I'm just yes go so again I'm not giving you the only solution to this there are as many solutions as there are atoms in the universe to this problem okay I'm just picking one so my next is to uh what would I call that maybe move up to next column something like that or so um well let me get to calling it names in a minute I have to to move forward turn left move forward turn right to get from the red arrow to the blue arrow so let me do that so I need to move forward turn left by 60 copy and paste here move forward turn right by 60 what yeah any anytime you do move forward it's it's going to draw a line and so that I spelled it wrong okay okay yeah yes you're right I apologize for being dense you're exactly right I did misspell it I obviously spelled it correctly just then and some jerk who wrote the library misspelled it when they made the library uh um no there's one more no there isn't okay all right there we go okay if all is working well I should be at this point in time uh you can do a strange test before I even get to drawing the hex let me just draw let me just draw a big line that's like three inches long and let's see that it is in the place we're expecting right remember that this measurement's in inches and what's assumed here is quarter inch drawings so this isn't what we want in the final product but this is kind of the nice kind of thing you do to test what it does is it tells you exactly where you are and exactly which way you're facing so I compile it I run it I close it I open it and that is exactly where I want to be okay so now I just need to draw a hex right here in the other direction uh come back to my drawing so again it's a move forward turn left by 60° so I would again do another loop I would say uh get rid of that I'm not going to move forward by Ines anymore I move forward I turn left by 60° and we want this in a loop and we want to do it six times and we clo whoops canel close open Bingo exactly where we want it all right so now let's clean up let's pause a little bit to clean up our code uh these four lines here that is the process of me moving up to the next column so that's exactly what I want to call it I'm going to create a function up here I'll call that void move up to next column I guess and then I will come down here I'll say lines 35 through 38 I want to delete and I will put them right in there and now here I will say move up to next column and now I realize that I've got a bit of a naming OD I've just simply called this draw hex and this is the exact same thing except this is left and right so I I want to give this a more informative name what since the difference is whether we're drawing the hex below our current point or above our current Point why don't we call our initial one uh what I'll draw hex down so what I can do is I can look for the term draw hex and wherever I see that I can add the word down draw hex down draw hex down I just have it in the two spots and then I'm going to create another function called Draw hex up and I'll make it nice and cozy next to this one void draw hex up and I would do lines 46 through 50 I'm going to delete them come up here I'll paste them right in there and now now I will go draw heex up and now I do a sanity check all I've done is cleaned up code a little bit organized it a bit differently so I should at this point make sure that everything is working the way it was and that I haven't introduced any bugs and it that is indeed the case I haven't introduced any bugs so now uh we are let's go to our drawing so after I do that I've drawn this hex here and I'm exactly where this blue arrow is however to draw the next hex above it I need to be right here yes so what are the commands that get me from the blue being the blue arrow to being the red arrow Arrow I turn left by 120° move forward turn right by 60 move forward turn right by 60 and I will be exactly right there so I come back here turn left by 120 move forward turn right by 60 copy paste turn right by 60 now I've lost track where I am 120 move forward right by 60 move forward right by 60 so there should be two right by 60s and there are and then to make sure that I'm drawing where I think I need to draw let's try dropping another hex out there to see if it indeed appears right above that first one in the second column compile it run it M close open let me do that I think I should be doing that so there we go so now I can go ahead and do the exact same thing I did before which is to create a loop and get all the way back up to the top so this uh let's go ahead and make more functions this whole bit here is what did we call the other whoops what did we call the other one move down one hex so we need to move up one hex okay so I'm just going to I'm actually going to call that function here before I least track where I have all this stuff move up one hex so that's where the function will be now I'm going to take lines 52 through 56 56 and I'm going to delete delet them now I'll come up here and I'll write a move up I'll put it right after this one so I'm going to put those lines here and I'll just put a little function around it void move up one hex and then we just surround this whole thing in curly braces so now we have uh we're drawing down a hex drawing a hex down moving down 20 two times then we're going to move up to the next column and then here this is now becoming code that we're ultimately going to want to repeat since I put this in a function I want to do more testing make sure I haven't screwed anything up close open and everything's still working good so now let's go ahead and create a loop so let's say 4 in since I have I there I'm going to choose a different variable 0 J is less than 22 Plus+ J and then I'll have a couple curly braces and in there I want to do those two lines 22 times and this is so far now now you should start to be seeing the advantages of having functions because you can look at this in main I've got the entire main function on the screen right now and you can look at it and read it and have some understanding of how my algorithm is working okay for 22 what I'm going to do is 20 and this is the advantage to a for Loop is one of the so we have different kinds of Loops do while while and for Loops the do while and while are well suited for indeterminate algorithms meaning you aren't exactly sure how many many times you need to iterate you want to iterate as long as the user is saying s or until they choose the right number and we're that those are 111 problems right they get to be really vague and ambiguous and you kind of got to parse through the logic to understand how things are looping in in harder programs one of the invariance for all three Loop types however is you have to you generally have to create some sort of variable and set it to an initial value you need to stop when you reach a certain condition and you need to change that variable so that eventually the loop ends if you know how many times you need to Loop the for Loop is wonderful because I can at a glance I can just glance at line 51 and I immediately know aha I'm going to do something 22 times that's all I I no longer think about uh let's see I'm creating a variable called I I'm initializing that to zero and then as long as it's less than 22 I'm going to keep doing these things and then and what am I doing at the end of the loop oh I'm adding one to I you do these enough the four Loop becomes wonderful for just glancing at it and say okay I got to do something 22 times what do you have to do 22 times draw a hex down and move down then you're going to move up to the next column and then 22 times you're going to draw a hex up and move up one okay so our algorithm uh is staying fairly readable uh we need to test it compile run it let's close that let's open again and there we go so now when this ends let me let's go back to our drawing here it's drawing up up up so it draws this hex right here it ends here but then there is the last where's my code there's the last move up one hex so it is similar to what we had when we were going down we end up being right here now we have a pattern because you'll note that these two columns right here oops it's off the paper are exactly the same as these two columns right here and is exactly the same as these two columns right here so basically now that I have two columns written I can I can just simply repeat drawing of two columns all I have to do is make sure I shift over right because the First Column is down the second one is up this one is down next one is up this one's down next one is up you see the pattern yes yeah yeah we're going to eventually get this whole thing looping all right so what I need to do if I want to repeat this entire process that I've got in these first two columns I need to get my cursor to the same starting point that I was when I began the whole thing when I began the whole thing I was right here that means if I want to do it all over again I have to make sure that I am right here facing this way and then I can begin uh going drawing the hex's down yeah all right so if I'm here I have to go forward right forward left yes all right let's try that move forward turn right right by 60 move forward turn left by 60 and that should do it and then what I'm going to do is I'm just going to I'm going to move forward three inches to see if that gets me where I want to be compile run it close that open it again and that is a exactly where I want to be I'm facing the right way and I'm in the right point so I can now repeat this whole process which will do this hex here which is the same as that hex there okay so we've got more code we can start putting this stuff in a function all this right here why don't we call that draw two columns void draw to two columns now I'm going to delete lines 54 through 65 54 through 65 I'll delete those and I will put them right there so now I'm going to draw two columns these lines should put me in the starting point for the next one I'm going to get rid of this move forward by 3 in I'll just delete that and then I'll just try this again draw two columns get to the next location draw two columns let's see if it works compile run close open voila okay now it's just a matter of how many times do I have to draw two columns uh they're 8 and 1/2 in so let's assume make a an assumption that this is an inch so I need to do that eight times uh I immediately want to take advantage of a loop so I'll say for an i equals 0 I is less than 8 plus plus I and in there I want to draw two columns and then move over to the next we'll um this one I mean since we're going function crazy why don't we do this um if what did I call it I said move up to next column so this would be either back to start or move down to next column right either way I mean really the the naming of the functions needs to be uh whatever makes sense for you I'm going to call it just for consistency of my naming I'm going to say move down to next column curly braces that's line 74 through 77 put it there draw two columns move down to next column compile run close that open so what you end up with and uh well that's what you end up with again there are any number of ways if you are uh averse to drawing too many lines you could easily uh once you got down to the bottom of this first row you could just kind of transcribe the outer edges of some of these without and without doing duplications uh there are a million ways of doing it right maybe you first draw maybe the first thing you do is you draw um like these two hex's and then it's just a matter of repeating that algorithm over and over again yeah rather than going straight down real any way you can do it the point is as it evolves you find code that you're able to reuse and you dump them into functions which creates something nice and succinct in Main and um there you go so couple things I I want to note is that one I put all of my functions above the location where I'm using them uh you run into problems that will be talked about by Andreas where you need to describe the function prior to your use of the function also note that we're allowed to put functions inside of functions right so these two functions are functions that I wrote and they're all well all those are functions I wrote and they're inside of this function um but yeah so any questions before I do the last 30 seconds of giving you the word of the day no no was that you to see that all right good okay so the and this will be posted so that you can make hex paper for your kids or whatever uh the word of the day is revanchism revanchism a policy of seeking to retaliate especially to recover lost territory yeah right it obviously not thematically appropos to the day but um when you deleted the two like from here to here it was number comma number right so in them you can just say the first line number comma the second line number and then D and they'll delete into an unknown buffer now if you accidentally delete something else and you lose that buffer the easy way to get it back is just to hit you undo until your lines reappear and then start all over again was Sy already du H Sy yeah yeah these These are old words I'm starting to keep a pile of all the words how long do we have to submit that generally I don't think I I made this explicit but the way it's working now that the semester is humming is the deadline for submitting the word of the day is prior to the next lecture so this is due you have to put in the word prior to Monday's lecture okay and that's so that people who decide not to attend at least I'm making them watch the videos in a timely manner rather than waiting three weeks before they watch any of them all right so uh assuming I'm not here Monday and Tuesday I will see you on Wednesday | CSCI-111 Spring 2014 | UC2ABvc5mh4bEum3ikv7yOZQ | 2014-02-14 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 5,736 | 27,548 |
oywoOc3RbtE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oywoOc3RbtE | Sneaking Out the house to SEE my *EX* (CAUGHT CHEATING) | EZEE X NATALIE | [Music] what easy easy easy come here what are you doing here are you cheating on me the doors are always loud when you're trying to be quiet okay he's again what's up lazy guy [Music] okay i gotta break it down to tell you guys why i'm being quiet right now okay so natalie's in the room sleeping and that's why i snuck out here i gotta do the intro out here there's a reason there's always a reason what was a reason what was the reason welcome to race day right and i don't know if y'all been staying up to date with our videos okay i just want to say i want my title back i want my crown back okay i'm the prank queen i don't care what y'all gotta say i need it back okay so look our last video if you haven't seen it make sure you watch it my ex texted me while i left the car okay you guys got to watch it i might have to break it down [ __ ] okay i don't know if i can see you please oh my god anyways let me get myself together um so it is about six o'clock in the morning right now okay super early natalie does not wake up this early right and in our last video i posted it and there was a specific reason why i posted because we actually filmed this video a while ago right go and i wanted to to to finish it but it was just too soon you know so when we cut the camera i had a long conversation with natas like look i don't know why my ex is texting me i can't help it blah blah blah blah you know she was upset for a little bit then we talked it out you know what i'm saying but anyway so look i'm getting to my point i'm getting to my point so the setup for that video is the reason why i'm ready to post the video now friday okay early in the morning i had it set up like that because today is the day where it's going down okay i am going to be sneaking out early in the morning to go see my ex sneezy game all right you heard me you heard me and now he's going to catch me and how are we going to get all of this on camera huh who do you think me i'm about to have cameras on cameras on cameras y'all we gotta make this epic all right i know i'm talking a lot but stick with me y'all so we gonna get to ain't nothing too but to do it you know what i'm saying let's get it yes sir and make sure you subscribe if you're not subscribed especially if you watch our videos and you never subscribe subscribe right back in subscribe right and i'm gonna have my ex text me okay and i don't know if she's gonna wake up or not but i'm gonna be sneaking out okay so i'm gonna try to give her a little bumpy bum and if she don't wake up i don't know i don't know what's gonna happen you know what i'm saying but i'm definitely gonna leave my phone here what she has to go through it lacey gangs gotta go through it to be upset we gotta get a reaction okay so right now y'all better spam the hashtags what pretty easy is the prank queen okay because it's about to go down all right let's get it [Music] all right easy cake it's a go i'm about to leave and i'm gonna leave my phone here it's all on you guys okay watch it right [Music] so [Music] babe easy yay okay [Music] what the heck [Music] hello where are you at and how are you calling me your phone's here oh um um why are you making a sandwich this early why are you good i'm okay now your eyes you're getting bread where are you at uh it's not like it's normal for you to leave early in the morning to go get sandwich bread like that sounds crazy [Music] i actually do have bread oh you see me when you see me i know you lying i don't bro what bro where are you liar bro hey these again so i'm back at my house right now and i got my ipad and natalie just yo she's hot especially because i just hung up in her face acting weird okay you also need this game if you don't know you can literally call on your ipad if you got service apple all that good stuff okay anyway i didn't think this apart all the way through but i'm like yo this is gonna make her hot yo i'm trying to make her like live it y'all i need my title back okay prank queen title so look what i'm gonna do is since i have my ipad our location services are on y'all if y'all don't know we had them on since we literally were best friends okay like that's what best friends do and now we're girlfriends you feel me so we got a location services on so look i'm going to butt dial natalie when i butt dial her she's going to hear my ex and me talking like it's going to go down okay but not only is she going to hear me my ex talking she's going to catch me in my ex in the car in the car right okay it's gonna go down yo so make sure y'all stay tuned to all the way to the end all the way all right i can't talk cause i'm so nervous and uh yeah it's about to go down so i'm literally about to pick up my ex you know what i'm saying my ex so you're ready me my ex damn baby you look good i see you in a minute yo i'm not even gonna lie like natalie ain't got nothing on you like your curls is popping more your facial features are way more beautiful like i think i think you definitely gonna be my queen me let me introduce y'all to my my ex so what's up girl yo okay so i know what you're thinking yo natalie's not gonna believe this ho if you're this close you're probably not gonna believe this is a person okay but if we get natalie to see me kissing her in my car natalie not gonna see look and see if the girls will she's just gonna think i'm kissing another girl with curly hair you feel me oh okay oh okay so this is my bad [ __ ] her name is uh shaquanda shaquanda why her name got to be ghetto i don't know because her lace front is showing that's what it is so we're gonna put sequanda in the car and that's gonna be my extra day we're gonna get natalie's reaction that's gonna happen finally got my girl in the car and look [ __ ] it's the lace front for me it's the i'm not eating for me because i miss my ex it's it's the bae okay y'all so i think she looks real enough you know what i'm saying she looks good from a distance we all we just need her to look good from a distance like a far distance and you know we're gonna be oh girl you need some chapstick she got my lips dragged okay so right now i'm about to butt down natalie okay i'm gonna butt down her and make it seem as if like you know me and me and my ex is doing some things you know what i'm saying so we're gonna get a reaction and that's what it is gonna be you ready [ __ ] i mean you ready back you ready are you are you ready ready you know what i'm saying like i said natalie ain't got nothing on you and and it's really like the curls is really what's doing it for me you feel me like they're really popping i love it yes [ __ ] all right let's get it okay what's the butt down right now let me go okay face i'm audio natalie right now okay okay [Music] hey don't leave a hickey natalie gonna see stop hello baby old stuff you doing that thing easy where are you bro she don't know she don't know i'm still talking to you like she really just think we're just friends that i know you my ex but like i just i want to make it you know i want to do something strange for a little piece of channel i like man you kiss way better than natalie what easy easy hello oh my god yo we did it [ __ ] we did it yo i'm trying to make her so mad and it seems like it worked y'all it's going down okay now i gotta go to a location cut my location services back on and go to a location uh where where it's like abandoned oh she gone she calling me are you here is she calling me i'm not gonna answer okay okay cool i'm not answered okay so look i gotta hurry up and go to an abandoned place turn my location services back on and then we're gonna get caught that's how everything will be set up i got another camera in here we're gonna get angles on top of angles okay let's get it you need to see gang yo i did not know natalie was gonna come school she's literally five minutes away okay she must have been driving already bro and look okay so we're here at the location we're at mcdonald's this is where i'm gonna be cheating on her i'm super nervous uh and by the way if you already seen my car just dropped the video today um revealing it or whatever but i'll give you a car tour too on my youtube channel but look my ex is telling right here i gotta hurry up i got a secret camera right here what up y'all what uh what up okay and this is gonna catch everything so i'm gonna go on mcdonald's and we're gonna wait for her to pull up and i'm gonna come out with two drinks and then we're gonna try to get it cracking okay all right these guys like i said i'm a prank queen i'm gonna get it pop it in that's going down oh natalie just pulled up oh my god oh my god her car just went around okay look she just went around i think she's looking for me because my location says i'm eminem so i'm about to walk out right now let me go see her reaction y'all got two big large sweet teams like who's it going to be for you know what i'm saying apple's going to die easy easy come here what are you doing here easy why is your car over there what are you doing what are you i'm literally getting me down what are you talking about mcdonald's for who bro what are you talking about i literally just got mcdonald's i got it for us what are you talking about why are you here are you cheating on me bro why would i cheat on the only thing i'm cheating on is this daddy i'm getting mcdonald's for you you're lying i heard you on the phone what are you here pulling away who are you with who are you with where is she where is no no [Music] did i get you or not look at this ball hit becky now that's who you was jumping over this who you was tripping over oh i'm sorry ball headed becky ball hey her name was shaquanda but she bought hit a becky after you did that i should have talked first pulled your hair out later yo you didn't even try to talk bruh you i didn't think you're gonna snatch our hair out natalie i thought she was gonna try to talk open up the door like look why are you with my girl i did not expect you because it was the call that i heard the call that i heard what did you hear i don't even know if you can hear it about uh oh don't leave the hickey on my neck natalie will know so at this point becky is just as guilty as easy because ethie was gonna get it next yo yo tell me i'm not the prank queen i need to hear it be a bullheaded becky please give it to me that you you are not the prank queen i have one or two good pranks but you're not the prank i am the prank this literally goes down in history books i don't want to hear it then you thought these curls was better than your curls huh you did yeah you grabbed and was like oh hey and she got curled you thought it was better you thought i was better what what what no it's raggedy ass raggedy ann head ass it's not better we'll sign this out we'll ball hit big go ahead now all right make sure you uh like and subscribe do not follow ball headed becky make a way to make an instagram ball head back uh we love y'all turn this post notifications on and yeah did you tell them about our shout outs or what tell them tell them if you want a shout out we're doing [ __ ] for sure all you have to do is screen record your favorite part of this video instagram i don't know it's gonna be hard to choose but tag us on instagram and we are reposting people yeah that's it you gotta be subscribed on here all right y'all need to get guess what we out okay you | Ezee x Natalie | UCR7RKgXJrTSOz7EnMhOodOw | 2020-10-03 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 2,381 | 11,490 |
8sgszDoAb7I | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sgszDoAb7I | Leukemic Infiltration of the Iris | thank you so much Elizabeth thanks for the great discussion our last presentation today is going to be by Heidi doll she's visiting us from East Tennessee University and interesting things to know about Heidi is that in her past life she was a professional runner for many years and she's going to be presenting a very interesting case on leukemic infiltrates of the iris and I believe we may have some of our pediatric oncology folks here maybe not okay maybe not um but take it away Heidi okay hi I'm Heidi so I'm going to be presenting a case that came through the pedes clinic this happened back in April but I was able to see this patient for a exam under anesthesia in the past two weeks so the case is in April of 2019 seven year old female with a past medical history of previous al AOL in remission since August presented to the pedes clinic with a six day history of left eye exotropia and a sigh Coria and blurred vision I apologize for my voice I've been battling a cold for what seems like forever so you guys the parents notice the discs yellowish discoloration in her left eye for a week or so prior to this presentation and of note she was diagnosed with the left-sided seventh nerve palsy in February of 2019 with the concurrent dilated people CT ahead of her head was done at that time in outside facility and it was reportedly normal this was treated by her primary care physician left-sided Bell's palsy with steroids and antibiotics to good effect however she was still having recurrence of it during times of illness prior to this she had no history of glasses or patching in no family history of eye disease so here's a picture of the patient in the clinic she's already been dilated here but you can notice that she's got a left-sided exotropia and it's a little hard to appreciate but that left eye has a little bit of a yellowish tinge compared to her blue right eye so on exam pertinent positives are she does have some blurred vision bilaterally although it's more blurry at distance on the right and more blurry at near on the left and then her pupil exam right side is relatively normal the left side is slow with minimal reaction and then her strabismus exam she's actually found to have a bilateral exotropia with her right eye preference and she has difficulty a deducting her eyes bilaterally at the slit lamp pertinent positives are she is noted to have a left-sided facial weakness her iris her right iris is apparently uninvolved however on the left she has a yellowish green discoloration and it's diffusely thickened and mild it tropi on UPN and then the other pertinent positive here is her right optic nerve seems to have some super old nasal blurring on the disk margin and everything else was apparently normal so here we are zoomed in on the top is the right eye which is apparently uninvolved and then on the bottom is the left and you can see that there's sort of this yellowish green fluffy infiltrate that's obscuring the normal architecture of her iris and has completely obliterated the crypts of the iris so our assessment here the we're really concerned that there might be a leukemic relapse here in the iris because of the thickening and heterochromia the blurring of the disk margin is concerning for a possible dick nerve infiltration and the strabismus in pupil exam are concerning for a bilateral third nerve palsy so at this point the patient was escorted downstairs to oncology and was admitted that day for an LP and MRI the head her oncology workup Walmart puncture showed numerous malignant cells consistent with blasts and according to the attending oncologist too I was able to talk to her CSF on that spinal tap was grossly turbid and a normal positive CSF for leukemic relapse has something in the order of hundreds of cells and this patient had ten thousand so it was according to the attending the most positive CSF he had ever seen in his career um also she had a recurrence in her bone marrow so she has a relapse both in bone marrow and CSF so here's some of the imaging that was done that day on the left side we have a Fiesta scan and on the right is a t2-weighted scan these are both with contrast I know these are showing essentially the same thing but I feel like you just can appreciate some subtle differences between the two but here you have all of her extra ocular muscles are involved and they're all thickened to sort of symmetrically and this symmetry is indicative of an increased cellularity throughout all of the muscles on the left here we have a diffusion-weighted skin and you can see that there's diffusion restriction in the muscle bellies bilaterally and that it's also fairly symmetrical and this again is indicative of an increase in cellularity which would be consistent with a process like leukemia or maybe lymphoma which in this case would obviously be leukemia because of her history and then over here we have a t2 scan and this is just showing that the optic nerve sheath on the right is enhancing which i thought was interesting because the optic nerve itself is not involved which based on the exam I would have affected and over here these are both fiesta scans right here we have the fifth cranial nerve showing enhancement and over here we have cranial nerve seven and six and they're all enhancing and according to the radiologists that read these scans she had enhancement basically throughout her brainstem and throughout the course of all her cranial nerves and so in normal scans cranial nerves don't enhance at all so she pretty much had full involvement of her cranial nerves some considerations from this case a study done in 1998 in Malaysia took about eighty kids diagnosed with leukemia and they underwent a dilated eye exam within two days of diagnosis and prior to getting any kind of treatment and out of these participants 17% had eye findings prior to treatment while only 3% had symptoms and the most common finding was retinal hemorrhage I just thought that was interesting because we think of eye involvement in leukemia as relatively rare but based on this study that might not be completely accurate and also the mortality and the kids with the eye involvement was significantly higher so further considerations CNF CNS involvement in a relapse as a parent and five to ten percent of these patients the most common symptoms are meningismus and cranial nerve deficits and the most common cranial nerve involved is the seventh nerve which is interesting because this patient had a 7:30 palsy several months prior to this presentation infiltration of the anterior chamber is extremely rare and in portends a very poor prognosis it can present from anything to increased ocular pressure corneal edema it's been known to masquerade as uveitis it can really look like just about anything and the symptoms can be just as buried however most pertinent to this case and here chamber infiltration is the only sign like if this patient didn't have cranial nerve involvement then you would need to get an anterior chamber paracentesis in a biopsy of the iris and you would need to do this prior to giving any kind of steroids topical or systemic because the steroids would decrease the cellular cellular load in the anterior chamber and could possibly delay your diagnosis so here are my references the attending oncologist was maybe going to be able to make it has he been able to see out there anywhere so okay in that case does anyone have any questions for me cool Thanks [Music] | Moran CORE | UCldQrlI8TxtG0AJ4JLhh1fQ | 2019-07-30 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 1,332 | 7,500 |
6oBUFYxOZFE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oBUFYxOZFE | The Transatlantic Renaissance: An Economic, Security, and Development Partnership | Well, as Secretary Kerry has said and Assistant Secretary Nuland, we are on the verge of a European renaissance in terms of our transatlantic relationship. It's an economic renaissance, particularly when you look at the enormous opportunities that both the United States and Europe could gain from successfully negotiating and implementing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. And from grappling with the challenges of the Eurozone economies. When you look at Germany going global in terms of its effort to be more of a partner as we confront areas of challenge, as we look East and as we look South, thinking about situations like the challenges we face in Syria or Iran or Ukraine as very, very current examples. And then finally, this renaissance of Europe and the transatlantic relationship can be seen in the work we are going to do together in the developmental space and addressing humanitarian concerns around the world as well with our European partners. | USAandEurope | UCxVAZswnxZz3gkjdARRa_-g | 2014-02-01 | Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) | en | metadata | en | 159 | 978 |
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