surprise flicks greetings laddingtons I'm checking in from beautiful Lothalorean here in Middle Earth aka Sweden Sweden in June what a time to be alive so today I thought to radicalize you all with my teachings but before I begin to do so I would like to offer a fair warning to all parents if you have teenage sons that watch too many of my videos I will just give this heads up that they might start going to such extreme measures as to stop watching porn start going to the gym start going to read more books start having an aversion to drugs and alcohol and start generally taking more care of their mental and physical well-being so be prepared for that just thought to give that fair warning so you all know what is up when you come to my channel no that being said I have a lot of fitness and health videos in incoming I thought about making many of these before but then the whole censorship scandal broke so I had to deal with that first but I'm trying to catch up on the videos I have promised you all especially you on patreon and subscribe star I've said that I'll make videos on it this is one of them so shout out to you again for your support so basically what it means intermittent fasting as you see in the title is that you eat during a window during the day so between a few hours you can eat and you can decide yourself on how long that window will be so I first stumbled upon intermittent fasting via my Swedish countryman Martin Birken a few years back on his page lean gains and I link it below because it's important to give credit where credit is due and I thought it seemed perfectly reasonable everything he wrote and if you want to look at the scientific studies behind what I'm talking about you can check that out there I mean starting from my own personal experience so basically the first step is to cut out breakfast basically and that is the main point for me when I talk about intermittent fasting because most people they aren't really that hungry in the morning and for me also personally I like to get things done in the morning I don't want to waste time on making something to eat I can have a coffee or a tea in the morning I made a video a few weeks back and to again clarify I don't diss about coffee in the list I think it's a great supplement I think it's a great light drug as it were it's an it's a healthy drug but use it would care for me it was just a personal choice of cutting down somewhat on the consumption but if you want to start doing intermittent fasting and you still have that hunger or craving in the morning you can just have a cup of coffee instead and let that be your breakfast so that's the first step to cut out breakfast because unless you are a bulk bra or if you are younger you're still growing and stuff you can you can cut out breakfast and place that those extra calories if you need them at lunch so lunch then becomes your first meal of the day and this is something I've done for seven or so years so that lunch is the first meal then again if it's more convenient for me to eat a breakfast or because it's part of a certain experience so if I'm at some sort of hotel it's a nice breakfast of course I will partake in it so I'm not that static that I let it go out over my enjoyment of life as it were and then also if I know that eating early on in the day is the only time to eat during the day because of some reasons then I will obviously do it so first step cutting out breakfast and for me it's a matter of convenience I just like to get a good start of the morning get things done and not be as dependent upon food and that's the second aspect I would like to enlighten you to it's the aspect of becoming less dependent upon food so if you're used to not eating for longer periods of time it doesn't matter if for whatever reason one day you are longer without meals so if you get used to doing longer fasts you can deal with certain situations in a better manner and then also if we're talking about for you who are interested in survivalism etc getting your body to be a bit more comfortable with going longer periods of time without food it's obviously a very good idea so for example if I'm out and about and I eat my first meal at 16 or something like that it's perfectly fine for me my cognitive ability isn't reduced where as if I would have been dependent upon eating every three or four hours my cognitive ability and the general mood would be lessened because you all know it's not nice to be hungry but if you are used to dealing with longer periods of time without eating it will affect you less then last aspect it's also a matter of if you want to get shredded if you want to lose some weight there is there are plenty of ways to do so for me to just recommend intermittent fasting to someone it's a good first step now keep in mind that if you want to lose weight it's about calories in versus calories out so you have to spend more calories than you take in and restricting your eating is a great way to not have to think all too much about what you eat and also if you want to lose even more weight you can cut out all liquid calories so that you chew all food you take in then of course you can drink coffee water tea etc that do not have any calories in it but that's another aspect so you eat your last meal at 20 or 22 depending on when you get home from training so for me if I train at 21 I get back at 22 perhaps then I eat my last meal or if I'm training at 19 I get back at 20 or something I eat my last meal then brush my teeth and that's the end of the day now for the sake of transparency I'm not as strict when it comes to the evenings sometimes I eat anyway but if I'm trying to get shredded I'm more strict with the evening timing as well but when it comes to breakfast it's a rarity that I eat it so that was my thoughts on intermittent fasting I hope it was somewhat helpful and informative at least and thank you for watching be sure to follow me on telegram as well ex 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Have you ever had a happy meltdown? Most meltdowns I have are usually due to anxiety, anger, over-socialising or sensory distress. But a few years back, and more recently, I found positive emotion way too overwhelming. What do happy meltdowns look and feel like? Confusion. Very loud and talkative. No filter. Constant backtracking and shame, due to that lack of filter. Heavy dissociation. Overwhelming irritability. You can't stop smiling. Difficulty transitioning out of social mode. And finally, zero shot to memory.  You can't get control of your brain and get it to do what you want it to do, and just chill out.


Hello, everyone. I'm Susan Kyushima from ATT Research. I'm going to talk about my work, Round-Optimal Blackboard Commitment Proof with Saxing Communication. As the title of this work suggests, in this work we study Saxing Commitment Proof protocols. In particular, we obtain a new Commitment Proof protocol by using two round-saxing diagram. So, in this talk, I will first explain two round-saxing arguments and the Commitment Proof protocols, and next explain our result and techniques. So, let's begin from a two round-saxing argument. So, what is a Saxing argument? A Saxing argument is a two-party protocol between a Proof of P and a Verifier of P. The goal of a Saxing argument is that the Proof will compensate the Verifier of the correctness of the state. In this work, we focus on two round-saxing arguments. So, the protocol consists of just two messages. The first message is a query message from the Verifier, and the second message is the answer message from the Proof. For the security, a Saxing argument is required to satisfy completeness and soundness, whereas completeness requires that when the statement is true, the Verifier always accepts the Proof made by the honest member, and the soundness requires that when the statement is false, the Verifier rejects any Proof made by a malicious member. And additionally, as an efficiency requirement, a Saxing argument is required to satisfy succinctness, which requires that the communication complexity is very small. So, for example, it is often required that the communication complexity is polytogalithymic in T, where T is terminated for checking whether the statement is true or not. And here I would like to note that all the succinctness sometimes also requires that the running time of the Verifier is very small. In this work, we only focus on the succinctness of the communication complexity. And informally speaking, the existing two round-saxing argument can be separated into two groups. So, the first group is the scheme-phase of non-Forschfeld assumption, and the second group is the scheme-phase of Forschfeld assumption. So, regarding the scheme-phase of non-Forschfeld assumption, all I need to say is that the non-Forschfeld assumption is considered as a strong assumption in theoretical curriculum. So, even though the many of the schemes based on non-Forschfeld assumptions satisfy real property and practical efficiency, in this work, we do not consider these schemes. And rather, we focus on the scheme-phase of Forschfeld assumptions, and in particular, we focus on the scheme by color, light, glossogram, and the subsequent works. So, from now on, whenever I say succinct argument, I always mean succinct argument based on Forschfeld assumptions. And these schemes are not as powerful as the scheme-phase of non-Forschfeld assumption, but still they satisfy several nice properties, like they can prove any statement in P, or even some statement in FB, and also they can be proven sound and standard assumptions, like light with air, or more concretely, support fully homophobic encryption, or two-round private information retrieval systems. So, essentially what I would like to say in this slide is that we already have a really good result on two-round succinct argument based on Forschfeld assumptions. So, now, given this state of the art, a natural question to ask is, further we can obtain as a succinct protocol by using a two-round succinct argument. So, for example, since an interactive argument has been used in many cryptograph protocols, in the form of several arguments, two of which is indiscriminate argument, I think it is natural to ask whether we can obtain a succinct version of this cryptograph protocol by just using an existing two-round succinct argument instead of a normal interactive argument. Unfortunately, there are several difficulties to what is M, and the main difficulty is that the existing two-round succinct arguments are less powerful in several aspects when they are compared with the typical non-succinct argument in cryptography. So, the first weakness of the existing two-round succinct argument is that the current result for open-out page is not guaranteed. So, this means that for each application we need to see what kind of anti-statement needs to be proven, and then we need to see whether such statement can be proven by existing two-round succinct arguments. And the second weakness is that the witness' privacy is not guaranteed, and this means that we need to cause the addition mechanism for guaranteeing witness' privacy, like between distinct superiority or their own knowledge. And the third weakness is that the public verifyability is not guaranteed, at least we will focus on skin-based, well-studied assumptions, like lagging with air. So, this means that the periphery actually have a succinct information, and the verification cannot be made without this secret information. So, despite of this difficulty, we actually have a few examples using succinct argument to obtain other succinct protocols, such as succinct access control or more performant access structure and succinct non-succinct computation. However, the number of applications is still limited. So, it's important to study more about whether they exist and as an application to run succinct argument. And as I said earlier in this work, we study applications to commit and prove protocols. So, next, let me explain commit and prove protocols. So, what is commit and prove protocol? So, commit and prove protocol is basically a commitment scan that has an additional proof of existence. So, in particular, in the commit frame, the prouper can commit to this equal input just as a standard commitment scan. And later, in the additional prove phase, the prouper can prove any statement of the committed value without opening the commitment. So, in particular, for any adaptability of the function F, the prouper can prove that the committed value W, satisfied F of W, is equal to 1. So, the most famous application of the commit and prove protocol is a compiler from semi-honest security to malicious security. So, suppose there exists a semi-honest protocol in which a party P1 sends a message M to a party P2. So, by using commit and prove protocol, we can make this protocol maliciously secure by considering the protocol where P1 first commits to a random-storing R1 by using a commit and prove protocol. And then, after receiving a random-storing R2 P2, P1 imputes a message M using I1 plus R2 as randomness and then proved by using a commit and prove protocol that it computed M-honest. And here, I would like to note that we cannot replace the commit and prove protocol with a standard commitment scheme and the semi-honest argument for all that be it when black box use of a grid or graphic creative is desirable. So, this is because the use of semi-honest argument for all that be inherent will require the non-black box access to the code of the primitive like a commitment scheme. And in contrast, the commit and prove protocol can be black box in the sense that it uses the underlying crypto-black primitive only black box. So, currently we already have several black box constructions of commit and prove protocols. And in particular, we have both random map of direction and the succinct of direction. Here, the round-optima constructions have four rounds and this is an option in the sense that this construction can be used as black box element argument which are known to require at least four rounds. However, we currently do not have construction that moves round-optima and succinct and this is what we study in this world. So, now let me explain our result. So, our result is a succinct commit and prove protocol that satisfies the following properties. First, our basics. Our basic scheme satisfies witness indistinguishability and constant sound error and it can be upgraded into one with zero-narrate and negligent sound error by using the existing transformation by Krzysztof Czciński and Szyniewicz. Second, our commit and prove protocol has four rounds and after being upgraded into zero-narrate and negligent sound error this round-optima is optimal when our commit and prove protocol is used as a black box element argument. Third, our commit and prove protocol only require a relatively mild assumption and it particularly only requires sub-exponentially hard, collision-resist hash function to run the private information retrieval and the two round-optimist transfer protocols. And here I would like to note that sub-exponentially hard and silly quarries since in the analysis we use complexity rebalancing techniques. And finally, our commit and prove protocol is black box in the sense that it uses underlining cryptograph operative or rebalancing. Now, I have to explain our result. In the rest of the talk I'm going to explain our techniques. So the starting point of our construction is following non-succinct construction based on the famous MPC in the head technique. The same that we have two private M-part MPC protocol where M is any constant and assumed for simplicity that this MPC is deterministic. So in the commit phase the prove will split its secret input W into M secret shares W1 to WM and commit to each of these shares by using any succinct commitment scheme. In the prove phase for adaptive retrosion statement M, the prove will first run the MPC protocol in its head where the input to the M-part is the M secret shares W1 to WM, respectively. And the functionality to be computed is F-prime where F-prime is a functionality that takes the secret shares input and then reconstructs the secret share and then variates the statement M on the reconstructed secret share. Then the prove and M-fire execute the two-round M-part protocol where the prove sends the commitment to M secret share along with M-parties and the variator picks a random pair of MPC-30, I-thumb jester and obtaining every I-thumb jester which includes the secret share and MPC-bues of I-thumb jester. Finally, the variator checks whether the MPC-bues of I-thumb jester satisfies the following conditions. First, the MPC-bues of I-thumb jester are consistent in the sense that in the bues, the message is that I-thumb jester is equal to the messages that I-thumb received from I-thumb and by sparse. Second, in the bues, the input to I-thumb jester is equal to the commit secret share and the I-thumb of the jester which is specified in series of tables. Third, in the bues, the output of I-thumb jester is equal to I-thumb jester. Now, let's see this game is two written indistinguishable commitment-full protocols. First, this game is written indistinguishable because the sender privacy of OT guarantees that the periphery obtains MPC-bues of I-thumb jester and the two privacy of MPC guarantees that the periphery can apply and issue greater information in this case. This game satisfies soundness because of the following reasons. First, the receiver privacy of OT guarantees that you are able to complete the periphery with sufficiently high probability. It's proven to send a set of MPC-bues such that each pair of MPC-bues satisfies the three conditions that the periphery checks in the verification. Now, it is not hard to see if the correctness of MPC guarantees that the output of the functionality F prime for input of the committed share W1 to Wm is equal to 1. And then, from the definition of F prime it follows that the output of the statement F on the for input of the committed Mw is also equal to 1. And finally, this game is not succinct because the previous sender secret share of the committed value other MPC-bues serve all the protocols. Now, our high-level idea to upgrade this non-succinct construction into a succinct construction is to let the prove approve the consistency of review etc. by using two non-succinct arguments. So, please, we consider a protocol where instead of sending MPC-bues themselves, the prove that just keeps succinct commitment of the views and then proves that each pair of the committed MPC-bues are consistent etc. by sending a succinct argument for each pair of the views as a result of the protocol. So, in total, the prove as the MSQA succinct argument as a result of the protocol. So, good news is that even after this demotivation which is in distinct clarity of the protocol. So, in particular, even though existing two non-succinct arguments do not provide evidence privacy, this is not problematic since the verify obtain a succinct argument or a pair of MPC parties and the two privacy of MPC guarantee that the verify cannot run any secret issue. Information from MPC of any two parties. However, a problem occurs because of sound loss. And in particular, the problem is that existing two non-succinct argument are not provisional for the particular and best statement we consider. So, we consider the protocol where the proof activates a succinct argument for each pair of the MPC parties and in each of these succinct arguments, the statement is that they exist MPC input or signature W1 to WJ and MPC view P and VJ such that they are committed in the succinct commitment and the second the MPC views are consistent etc. Now, roughly speaking the analysis of the existing succinct argument does not work for this particular statement since some element of the witness in particular MPC views P and VJ are committed adeptively after the very various query message queue of the succinct argument. So indeed, if the entire witness was committed and non-adept just like MPC input W and WJ in the committed phase then the analysis of the existing succinct argument could be used naturally for a certain aspect. So, essentially the problem is that the witness included MPC views P and VJ. Another solution to this problem is to analyze the status of all the succinct argument joint view. So that is, rather than individually analyze each succinct argument, given for each pair of the committed MPC views we jointly analyze the MS squared succinct argument simultaneously. So the key point is that if we analyze all the succinct argument joints essentially the witness is MPC input that views all the party instead of those of only a pair of parties. And since the MPC input of all the party uniquely determine MPC views of all the party we can analyze soundness as if the witness is MPC input alone. And now as I said earlier since MPC input are committed in an adaptive way in the commit phase in this case the analysis of the existing two succinct arguments can be used naturally for upsetting us. So unfortunate news on this solution is that in order to formulate this idea post the constructions and the analysis need to rely on low level detail of the succinct argument of KRR14. So I won't explain the detail but I just would like to know that no significant modification is required and only natural adjustment are required. So to conclude this is the summary of our result so thank you for listening.


Terrific. Caroline, I started off this morning by noting that Eugene Myer in an earlier session with Carl had kind of endorsed the basic thrust of law.gov to make the law publicly available by making it easily accessible. And noted that this may be one of the only issues that you and the head of the Federal Society agree on. I'm not sure that's true, but maybe one or two others. But on a serious note, how far fundamental is this to actual law reform from your perspective? Is this a tertiary issue for techies only, or do you see this as really being an important part of the way the American Constitution Society sees the development of justice really in the society? Well, John, first, thank you for the nice introduction. And I'd like to also thank Carl for thinking of including us. I do think this is fundamentally an extremely important project for the American Constitution Society. We'd obviously much more importantly for our nation. Actually, when I first heard about the project, I sort of scratched my head and thought, well, why didn't we think of this before? Why isn't this already the case? It's sort of, and as I've talked to people subsequently, including my husband last night driving home, talking about the event you're holding here today, and he said, what, that's crazy. And it is really so self-evident that this is something that we should have already in a democracy that I, it's a real testament to Carl and to others who've been engaged in this, to pushing it forward, because I think as we bring it out to a broader public, they will also think that this is self-evident and what we are absolutely entitled to in a democracy. And let me just say, I don't know. There may be something else that the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society agree on, but I think it's a pretty good indication of how broad and widespread the agreement is that such a change in how our government provides information is of a fundamental nature. And let me just say so that the American Constitution Society functions as a network of lawyers and law students and scholars, policy makers and judges who believe in the vitality of the Constitution and the fundamental values it expresses. Individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, access to justice, democracy, and the rule of law. And access to information is seen as, is characterized as a basic human right because it precedes the exercise of all of these other rights. And then the ability to learn about and share information about our laws is really a conditioned precedent to the fulfillment of each of the principles that I mentioned that are the component of the ACS mission. That is individual rights and liberties, equality, access to justice, democracy, and rule of law. None of these can really be achieved without governments making the law available to everyone for review. So I think it is not just something that I think is a great idea that American Constitution Society would benefit from because we are made up of lawyers and law students and law professors and judges who could obviously use this, but it is I think a central way of actually achieving the mission that we believe so deeply in. You've worked on the Hill, you've worked in the White House, not you've worked in NGOs. How do we make that happen? How do you, as a practical matter, this is an extraordinarily complicated set of actors who are either, if you think of it, part of the problem or part of the solution. It's not just the federal government, the states, the counties, the municipal entities that are involved in creating the law. What's a sort of practical way for moving Carl's project forward? Well, you know, I think it's an extremely good question. I think the workshops that are being held already are a key component because it's very hard, John, as you know, better than anybody to actually make any changes in the way the government does business, pass legislation, regulations, et cetera, without actually having some part of the public who's engaged in that area. And I think engaging the broader public in a discussion about what, again, I think people will think is something they should have already had. I think is a key part of this. And so continuing the discussion and continuing to have the discussions with people on the Hill, with people in the judicial system. I know Carl had told me he's going to meet with the night circuit, engaging the judges, engaging law professors. And I think the other anecdote that was really very meaningful to me was this morning discussing the Pacers system and how law schools are discontinuing access for students or not allowing them in the first place because of the cost. And the idea that our law schools think that students, you know, that they're not allowing students access to the cases in a user-friendly format is incredible. I mean, that is really, it's a loss to our entire society that students come out less well educated. The process is complicated. But I think that's another area where engaging the students and the professors who are actually using this data all the time to start engaging in a more public way.


In Korea, you start your anti-aging routine as early as 11. And even babies get facials. Sounds like we've got some catching up to do. It's time to sprinkle a little substance into our beauty routines. By learning the roots of your favorite trends, who history's earliest trendsetters were, and how to rock the looks they inspired. Sheep mass! Before it's over, you'll be asking, can I borrow that? Imagine approaching your skincare routine the way you might approach nutrition or fitness. In Korean culture, this is the way of life. And now, the highlights of Korean skincare history in under 60 seconds. The roots of Korean skincare can be traced back to principles of Confucianism, which dominated Korea in the 14th century. The focus was on inner beauty. So clean and unadorned skin was a must. To keep skin healthy and youthful, it's not uncommon for Koreans to take frequent trips to the family facialist. And now, Korean skincare has expanded worldwide into a $6.5 billion industry. Some ingredients found in K-beauty products include ginseng, aloe vera, bee glue, and snail mucin. That snail slime, folks! But don't be grossed out.  Joining me is beauty editor David Yee, who provides skincare tips both men and women can use. David has perfected the 10-step Korean beauty skincare routine. I'm so excited to get your skin on fleek. Koreans are all about healthy skin from the inside out. Where do we begin, and how can I help you? Yeah, so the first step is a double cleanse. And that's going to start with an oil cleanse. An oil cleanse is great because oil traps oil. So this one is amazing. We're going to use just a little dollop, and then you're going to apply it to your face.  I'm going to splash this just really... Like we're in a commercial? Oh. It's like a major genocore. Look at me. So graceful. Okay. So the next is a cleanser. You can use a foam cleanser. You can use whatever cleanser you like. After your oil cleanser gets rid of your makeup impurities, this one actually cleanses it very thoroughly from the inside out. So what's the next step? The next step is my face is super dry from patting it. So I like usually just misting. Do I have permission to do this? Yeah, let's do it. Okay. How do you feel? Refresh? I feel refreshed. So we're going to go immediately into a toner. Do you use toner on a daily basis? Okay, you don't. Think of your skin as a dried sponge right after you put water on it. It hardens. And so if you're going to put moisturizer onto hardened skin, it's going to evaporate, get on your pillow. It's not really going to be useful. You just dab a little, you put in your hands, and this bounces out the pH, but it also softens your pores. I feel like I'm not doing my skincare right. What do you do? Soap and water. Okay, we're going to- Okay, sometimes I do clay mask. I do, you know, I do moisturizers. I feel like I do the base level. So this is really helpful. And the thing is about Korean skincare. It's just about intention and what you really need, what your skin is speaking to you. So a lot of people don't have, you know, perfect skin. Who has flawless skin? And so when I am experiencing kind of some pimples or blemishes, I always turn to pimple stickers. It's a hydrocolloid sticker.  First of all, I just put it on like that. Good job. Anywho, let's move on to the next step. It's exfoliation. And we're not talking about walnut scrubs. We're not talking about anything abrasive. We're talking about acids. A lot of times when you do have pimples or blemishes, it's because your pores are clogged. And so think about skin cells as glue together. They're super, super tight. And so an AHA acid will actually break the scent cells apart. So I will probably do this probably three times a week. Three times a week. So you don't want to do it too much. And so I'll just swipe just so gently. So I feel that in K-Beauty, we would be so remiss if we didn't speak about what? Sheet mask. They not only hydrate your skin, they treat your skin. They soak your skin with essences and vitamins that you don't really get elsewhere. So this one is a hydrogel mask, and this is an upgrade from the sheet cotton masks. Okay. But this comes in two, but I'm going to let you handle. Oh my God! This is the most amazing feeling ever. But then the bottom half, you'll have to be my mirror. Okay. You did an amazing job. Like, you're an expert, obviously. So you're going to keep this on for a good 15 to 20 minutes. Do not sleep with a sheet mask on. Okay. Because it'll do the opposite. It will actually dehydrate your skin. Okay. So what's next? The next step is the essence.  This one has pure vitamin C. Love that. Vitamin C is all about brightening, not lightening the skin, brightening your complexion. I can relate to dull skin because my skin can look so dull. Oh, really? Flat, absolutely. So I look for products that have this brightening component that can help it come to light. And so what you're going to do is, you can put this directly onto your skin, just a little drop. You put it into your hand. Got it. And then you can just dab. Love it.  So the next step, we need to get into eye care. So the eye cream trick is you put it on your weakest finger, which is your ring finger.  I kind of separate the two. And then I'll gently dab, dab, dab, dab, dab up. I'll dab up to the brow bone and then back down. So now that we've done eyes, are we at the last step? We're at the last step. This is really cool. It's a sun oil. And an SPF 50 is really important because it prevents the 99% of UVA, UVB rays into your skin. So when do you do this routine in the daytime or in the nighttime? I'll do this in the daytime. It'll probably take, if we're not talking, maybe like 12 minutes. And it's perfect time to just unwind and just be thoughtful and mindful of what you experienced in that day. All right, so David, I learned so much, but I want to know, how did you get into this? It was just a natural process of growing up. Just as you was wash your face or you would bathe, you would do a 10-step Korean routine. Skin care allowed me to be very self-reflected. And so skin care to me isn't just about healthy skin. It's about reflecting on who you are as a person, as an individual, and loving yourself from the inside out. I feel like you are so in tune with your Korean identity. Was that a journey for you? Yeah, I mean, I feel like for a lot of Asian Americans living in a white culture, you kind of go into two different camps.  And I just really embraced who I was. I was very self-aware that, okay, I'll never be white. I'm never gonna look like these people. But why would I want to? My Korean culture is beautiful. I love my almond eyes.  It's who I am. It's who I am at the core. And being Korean, being Slasian is amazing. I have to admit I'm very jealous because growing up as a South Asian girl, I wished I was white. So it took me a long time to come into my own and learn how beautiful my differences were. And I hope more people can kind of hear your story and just really own the things that make them who they are. Thank you so much, David, for showing me your 10-step routine. And I want to pick up the conversation with you guys. So how many steps are in your routine? Let us know in the comments down below and we're excited to keep the conversation going.


Hey friends, have you ever wondered if you've been manipulated? It can be difficult to spot because it can occur in many different ways. Sometimes it's obvious, other times not. A person can sometimes be so good at manipulating that you don't even know that they're doing it. To understand what a manipulator can look like, here are six signs of an emotional manipulator. Number one, the manipulator constantly judges you. When you're with someone who is manipulating you, you may feel you're always judged, and no matter what you do, it's never quite right in their eyes. They make you always question yourself, which is an attempt for them to earn your trust that slowly eats away at your self-esteem. Number two, they twist the facts to fit their narrative. Manipulators are sneaky in their ways to get you to believe them. They may try to make you question your reality sometimes. This is called gaslighting. Or they may make you feel that you misremembered something or that you can't think clearly. Other times, they could twist the facts to make it seem as if they were the victim and that everyone is against them. But they rarely take accountability for their actions. Number three, they shower you in affection. It may seem obvious when someone is being manipulative, such as gaslighting, insulting you, or lying, but other signs may go unnoticed. Love-bombing is when a manipulator showers you in affection to make you believe that they are wonderful. This can be especially true at the beginning of relationships, where they're the perfect partner, but then suddenly change. Or they may suddenly act kindly to you to keep you from leaving in order to gain and maintain your trust. Number four, they listen to you at first. Manipulators will go to any length to get you to trust them. Similar to showing you affection, you might find that manipulators are amazing listeners and seem genuinely invested in what you have to say. This is because they're looking for things to manipulate you with later. When a manipulator knows how you work, they use this to their advantage. All of a sudden, you may find that this once charming and empathetic person is now ignoring you and using your emotions against you. Number five, they are never wrong. A clear sign that a person is the manipulator is they can never be wrong. Somehow, they will always try to make themselves seem right in a situation no matter what. They'll twist facts, sometimes outright lie, or gaslight you to prove their point. While at first they may seem ridiculous, over time you may find yourself believing them. Number six, they have power over you. When a person is manipulating you, they always try to maintain some level of control in any situation. At work, they may talk to you as if you're clueless about what you're doing or might try to get you to come to their territory. Somehow, you always have to go to them, but they'll never come to you. While manipulation can occur in many ways, it's extremely damaging to you. Dealing with manipulators can be extremely difficult and feel like a constant, exhausting uphill battle. Talking with a professional is a great way to help navigate your feelings and learn ways to establish boundaries. Have you experienced any of these tactics? Share with us in the comments below and be sure to let others know who might benefit from this video. The references and studies used are listed in the description box below. Thanks for watching friends and see you next time.


Okay, we're live now, Adam. Welcome everybody to Credit for February. This is our first credit showcase in 2017. It looks like we have four presenters today. We're going to demo some of the stuff they've been working on. And just as a reminder, for those of you who are joining us, we are running a survey on credit to get a sense of, you know, how this is working for people and what sorts of things we might do to improve it in the future. Without further ado, let's get on to the demos. It looks like the DJ is online and he's going to talk about bringing responsive design to the desktop skin. That is the idea. Hello. Let me see if we can start screen sharing like this. I see your desktop. Yeah, good. Good. So let's first talk about some of my motivations in this. I've been experimenting with mobile, of course, for a long time. Many people might not know, but I was actually involved with the very first mobile skins and services that we created. But also recently, I've been using a 27 inch IMAX screen and that actually presents its own problems with using a website full screen, or at least for a large part of your screen. So I got the idea of actually trying to improve some of those things and see if I could just, without getting into all the trouble of making patches to the core already, see if I can just lay everything on top of what we currently have. And mostly I'm rather annoyed that we have all of these enhancements into mobile front end, for instance, for narrow screens. Whereas many times on the desktop, I also use a narrow screen or at least a narrow window of my screen. For instance, to stack things next to each other, etc. So this is a fairly standard article. Let's start with this one. So one of the things that I've been doing is take this screen and let's put it into a narrow view, right? For the UI, we actually already have some changes in there. Let me actually do it like this. We have some changes in the UI already. It's not well known, but actually inside our core we have some changes to Vector which resize some things. This is an addition of my own personal tools, but some very small things is that, for instance, there's normally the read tab here. I just hide it because we're already in read mode. I'm going to present the talk tab and vice versa. There we go. So now it says article. Yeah, it's not read in English Wikipedia. So I just hide the tab that's already selected. It saves a lot of space and all the rest of the UI goes basically to the bottom. It's not very nice, but we could enhance it with some JavaScript or anything. But this we'll do for now. But the more important thing is actually the content in this respect. So let's start with that. Well, first proof is actually responsive. Look at that. Isn't that beautiful? There's a few things that I'm doing here for the content. Let's select an iPhone 6. And some of this has been taken from the standard stuff that the mobile skin is doing actually. But take info boxes and tables and images. They are all forced to clear the contents surrounding them. They're all in a separate stack. They're centered. If they're narrow, I'm not sure. Oh, here's a piece of content that's narrow. So they're centered and they're all clearing their content. But some very simple, for instance, is that I'm also, if you have a white, if you have a redness screen, it's very easy to use double resolution images, which also means we can just blow them up. So this image is actually 100% white. This image is 100% white. It nicely fills out the screen width. This image is upright. But of course, if you're upright, you don't want to fill the entire width height of the screen. So there's actually a limitation on this here that it should be full width, but only up to, I think, 60% of the screen height. It's a very nice addition to make sure that an upright portrait image does not fill the entire screen and takes up all the space, the visual space of your screen. It's very simple to do, actually. At the bottom of the screen of the article, the references become single column. It's a two column, usually, but in this layout, it just becomes single column, where it is cut off somewhere there, two to single column. It's the same as the mobile skin does as well, but now on the desktop skin. This is very handy if you have two windows next to each other, for instance. Something else that you might notice is that if we go a little bit up, I actually slightly decrease the size of the font on a redness screen so that you can still read it. It's a redness, so you have a very high density, so it's still readable. You can fit a little bit more content inside that width of the screen, then. And the same works for Info Boxes, for instance, here. It's just full width, works very nicely. Oh, this is also interesting. We have a full width table here that's wider than the screen, so the same as on mobile, we just cut that off, and you see here a nice animation that shows that it's actually scrollable. So you can just scroll inside this table, and you now have a hint that this table is scrollable. I just took the first image of a four-pointed arrow that I could find, maybe you can do something nicer there with a wobbly animation or something. But it works. This is another enhancement that I made. The maintenance boxes that we have at the top of the article, they take up a lot of space, and when that's a lot of vertical space, that's not very nice. But all these boxes actually also have a short version of them, and we use them in the section when they're inserted into a section of the article. So what I'm doing here is that I'm just only showing the part that we normally would show in sections. And if you click it, it hides the rest, hides or shows the rest of the description of what's wrong with the article. Very simple, but very nice, especially for our editors as well, who are very keen on having this inside their articles. Let's go to another example. Oh, I also made some enhancements to the main page, for instance. So I'm forcing everything into full-width columns, not this problem which we normally have where this one column becomes very narrow. Now, if you just make it a little bit more narrow, then at some point it will just jump beneath it. And that works. It's not perfect, actually, because you still have some scroll bars here, but we can figure that out if we have to. One more thing, white screens. So if you have very white screen, at some point it actually becomes a bit annoying to read these articles, but I've now evicted all the right-floating thumbnails, like this one, for instance. I evict them into a special sidebar. You can see it here a bit clearer, perhaps. So now it's still inset into the article content, and now it becomes clear of it, and it actually also fills out this entire area with your image. So if the image is smaller than the 350 pixels that's on the right side, it will actually enlarge it slightly. It knows about this centered element. And this is a very enjoyable way to read it, but if the screen becomes even larger, it's also actually evicting the left-floating content into a left sidebar. And then at some point it will just start limiting. I've now made it a bit smaller. It will actually start limiting the width of the entire page.  I'm trying to emulate. This is a very nice setup if you have one of those 27-inch IMAX. Sure, you have a lot of white space now on the left, perhaps, but at least the text becomes readable and the length of the lines becomes more useful. And most importantly, this is all just user script. It's all a user CSS file. I will link them later for you below, but basically this is everything for the vector skin and this is everything for the content. That's all the changes that I've made. And I think with so few changes and no JavaScript, it's actually quite an impressive result. And that's all that I had for today. If there are any questions, I would love to hear them, by the way, later, after the other presentations. Cool, thanks, everybody. If you have questions, please enter them into the Etherpad. Also, given that we have four presenters today, maybe we should yield a bit of time at the end and see if anybody wants to post them in IRC or perhaps during the Hangout or direct the question from the room. Cool, thanks. Next up, Steven. Random Dev locale. Hey, everyone. I hope that you can see my screen right now. Yes. So I'm going to talk a little bit about localization in the Android app. So the Android app currently supports almost, claims to support almost 300 languages. And for single-lingual or even bilingual developers, they might only see their preferred language most days. And this is a small change to try and encourage folks to see the other side of Wikipedia, which is primarily non-English, but also languages other than the one you're most familiar with. So I'm just going to quickly show. I've got the Wikipedia Android app over here. I'm going to uninstall it. And you'll notice that I have the beta flavor and the development flavor. The beta flavor has the blue icon and development has green. So I'm just going to uninstall that. And I'm going to install a new version and launch it. And if you look at the text here, you'll see that... So my primary language is English. If you look at the text here, you'll see that it's non-English. I'm afraid I don't know what the language code of MN is, but that's the current locale. And we're now using the Android app in that locale. So this is a one-time change when you install the app as a developer. We'll pick a random language and set that as your default. And if you change it, we'll respect that. But at least for that moment, we're going to force you to see a little bit of what the rest of the world sees. And actually, I'm not sure if my emulator has frozen or the app has frozen. Looks like the emulator is okay. I found another bug. I found one this morning that I wasn't aware of where a Wikipedia had been shut down and we were still using that language. So I'll have to look into this one. That's it. Thanks, everyone. Thanks. Okay. Sage, on a Wikipedia translatable training modules. Hi there. So I've spent most of my time now working on the Wikiaid dashboard which also runs the programs and events dashboard for helping new users get started on, like editing Wikipedia projects and then keeping track of what they're doing. And one of the things that is sort of one of the central features of it is, let me just find the right screen to share, is the training module system that we have. And so we have, you know, modules that someone can go through and get sort of bite-size bits of information that are tailored to, like, the way that people learn well as opposed to, like, Wiki pages where all of the examples that we have of training systems on Wiki, like, there are links everywhere and you sort of get lost easily. And so this is sort of a focused user experience where you can walk through and see, you know, how-to information about how to get started on Wikipedia. And we've had, like, really good, like, responses from the people who've used these. And so one of the things that I wanted to do was try to see if we could make this work for sort of community-built training modules. And so with the ongoing support and safety training module program as sort of the testing ground for it, I've been working on pulling in training module content from Wiki pages. And so I have that up and running now on the link that I put in the etherpad. But this is the entire, like, draft of one of these training modules from the support and safety team. And these are all defined where each slide is being pulled from the corresponding Wiki page. And so you can, you know, go here and edit this page and you could also translate it. And then your locale, you would see the translated version when you were over on the training slides. And it also has support for quiz questions. So you can set up quiz questions where you say, like, you know, have people check their knowledge and then if they pick a wrong answer, they get an explanation. If they pick a right answer, then they see the explanation for that and then they can proceed. And these are all done with, like, pulled from corresponding Wiki pages. So I just sort of adapted the template that they had for, like, doing these little self-assessment things. And all of that training content, that quiz question that you just saw is being pulled from the source of this Wiki page right here. So it's not yet sort of not quite yet ready for live primetime, but it's really close to it. And it'll sort of open the way for people to build their own trainings around whatever specific topics that they want and have, like, a nice framework for presenting that to people. That's it. Great. Thanks, Sage. Dmitri, I think you're up next. Stop line developments in the Android app. Hey, can everyone see my screen? I see it. Excellent. Right. So, hey, everyone. So you're looking at our Wikipedia Android app now, but I need to give a little preface to this. So I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with Kiwix, which is probably one of the better known ways of browsing Wikipedia fully offline. And the way that Kiwix does it is by making you download a full collection of articles. So you have it locally on your device. It's called a Zim file. And it's a single file. That's a dump of the HTML of the articles and the images that go along with the articles, too. So once you download that collection, you can just use their app to browse the contents of the collection anytime, whether you're offline or not. And the idea is to download a Zim file. That's the largest possible subset of Wikipedia that can fit comfortably on your device. So, like, for example, they have a collection of the 45,000 best or topmost articles in Wikipedia, and that's about four gigs or so. So that's like the kind of sizes we're talking about here. So I cheated a little bit here, and prior to this, I actually downloaded a Zim file, and it's on my phone right now. And here are the enhancements that I've been working on in our app related to this. So right now we're online, and I'm using the app, and they have a feed, and, you know, I can browse an article. I'm online. But then, let's go offline. I'm going to turn on airplane mode. And when I turn on airplane mode, the app detects that we're now offline. We're now browsing Wikipedia in offline mode. Please note that offline articles may not be fully up to date. And what the app is doing is it automatically detected that I've downloaded a Zim file in the background, and it is now using that Zim file as the content source for Wikipedia within the app. So what this means is, for example, if I go to search, if I click on search, we are now searching within the Zim file. And if I select an article from the search and open it up, this is opening up the content from the offline Zim file. But the key is that the app, it's kind of transparent to the app where it's getting the content from, which means that it's enjoying all of the benefits, all of the embellishments that we've made onto this presentation, like, you know, the collapsing of info boxes and searching within the page and table of contents and so on. But this is all coming from the offline file. And, of course, you can click links, and you can navigate links, but this is still all offline and all coming from this offline collection. I'm going to go back to the feed. And portions of the feed still also work. Like, you can continue reading articles that you had been reading online, but you'll just fetch them from the offline collection. So you can click something and continue reading it. And we also have the randomizer function, except it pulls a random article from the offline collection. So what this is, is basically seamless interoperability with existing offline collections that already exist. And I think all that really needs to happen to push this forward is a better user experience for initially downloading a collection for offline use, because that's really the non-obvious part. How do you get the user to download that collection in the first place? So that's something still left to work on. But for the most parts, yeah, it's come a little way, long way so far, and it's almost ready to go, except for that one crucial component of downloading the collection. I think that's all I wanted to show. Nice. Okay, let's open it up to questions. I think the DJ, you're still here. Are there any questions in the etherpad that you wanted to address, or did you want to just take it to the etherpad later? Actually already, so I answered quite a few questions in the etherpad, things that might be worth mentioning is people have been asking what is different between these changes and things that we've tried in the past sort of. And I think that one of the most important differences that I have in mind changes compared to what we've had in the past is that I've made them very explicitly limited to certain user groups. So if you have a retina screen, you get certain enhancements. If you have a very wide screen, you get certain enhancements. If you support this very new feature of CSS, you get that one specific enhancement. I think that's one of the things that is a bit different from my code. Also, something that's a bit different is that if you look at my responsive content, for instance, the sidebars are limited to just working in content space. They only work in namespace zero, article namespace. So it's, again, it's limiting it to a very small subset and that makes it easier sort of. You have to take into account fewer edge cases that might bother you. And I've given some more hints to that in the etherpad. But if there's any other question, please do ask. And I think, Sage, there might have been a question for you in the etherpad. Yes, someone asked whether it works on mobile. And the quick answer is that it's usable on mobile. Actually, like there's some issues with the rest of the site in terms of like the navigation that gets squashed and don't look right on mobile. But the training content itself actually looks pretty good and you can proceed all the way through a training on mobile. It's something that we never really prioritized because our training modules for students in the education program involved throwing them over to Wikipedia to do guided tours and have some practice actually editing and some other things that sort of involve experiences that wouldn't really work on mobile. But for just a basic training module with just images and content and that kind of thing, it is quite good on mobile in terms of the experience of going through it. And I think there was a question for Dimitri and etherpad as well. Dimitri, you want to speak to that? I'm not seeing it. Maybe my etherpad is stale, but can you ask it over there? In one control, what is downloaded somehow? Oh, okay. I saw that question in IRC. But also what I'm envisioning is that we provide a number of different types of collections of offline articles varying by size or complexity or use case. For example, the one I showed was the 45,000 best articles from Wikipedia, which probably covers 95% of most offline readers' use cases. But that's four gigs. So then we can say, well, what about the top 1,000 articles, which would probably be much less size than that. That still would cover a sizeable use case. Or we could say, how about a collection of just the text of articles with no images? I'm sure that could fit into a much smaller space. And then specialized collections like all medical articles or all articles about physics and science. So different segmentations of collections. And then I'm seeing like the design for choosing which collection to download would be just a pop-up where you either browse them or you enter a search term and browse existing collections or maybe request that a collection be created for you, some kind of community consensus on what kind of collections need to exist. Something like that. Did anybody in the office have a question? Did anybody catch anything on the Dash Office Free Node channel that should cover? I don't think so, Adam. I think everyone was just engaging on IRC or Etherpad that's in here. Okay, cool. Well, I think that's it. So I'll be sharing out a link to the video. We usually have the stuff on YouTube as well as on Commons. And a reminder for people to fill out the survey around credit. We'd love to hear your feedback. Thanks everybody for your demos and for the great questions. Have a nice rest of the day.


Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. We got a three pack of news for you today. Before we get into it, I wanna remind you that our channel and this video is sponsored by E-Win Racing. You know, the good old chairs that can do this. We're all good. That's right, E-Win Racing. You can use code Nintendo Prime for 20% off your order. They also have gaming desks as well. Lots of different chairs for all sized people. Little, big and tall, little bit rotund. Whatever suits your needs. They got a chair for you. Make sure you get your 20% off with our code and let's get into the video. So our first story to talk about today is Hogwarts Legacy because we now have a finally, finally have a release date for Nintendo Switch. But for starters, let's begin with the full context of this game. So the PS5 and Xbox series edition of the game is gonna launch in February, like the current date is. However, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are gonna be launching on April 4th. The Switch version, however, isn't going to launch until three months later on July 25th. Notably, there is actually a gameplay showcase today at noon central time. So I'll have a link to that showcase and stuff down in the description if you wanna go check it out. The game does look pretty fantastic so far. And what's interesting about this story is what a fellow YouTuber, Zach from SwitchForce, noted in a video late last night where he kinda said that he feels like the timing of this could have to do with new Switch hardware. Now look, I don't really know about all of that. I do think it coming on July sort of indicates it's not gonna be a cloud version of the game because cloud versions of the game are pretty easy to get up. There'll be no reason for the Switch version to be so delayed if it was that. So I do think the delay is a good sign it's gonna be native, but also this game is a visual feast. I don't really understand how it can run remotely okay. Maybe it's one of those impossible Switch ports and they pull it off like the Witcher 3 and Doom Eternal and the rest. Or maybe it's gonna only be on new hardware. I don't know, I guess time will tell. Next up we have some news on Fire Emblem Engage. That's right, that Fire Emblem game that comes out next month. And you know what? We have news because previews have dropped. In fact, let's watch some footage from IGN's preview here. And what's interesting here are just some of the things they note throughout every preview I've seen. And one huge thing that gets noted are the visuals. So apparently this is just a visual feast when it comes to Fire Emblem and looks significantly better than whatever we had going on in Fire Emblem 3 Houses back in 2019. And one thing they really talk about a lot outside of how crisp the game looks. It looks like a modern game running on a current generation system is the animations. They have really animated almost everything, the idle animations, the character animations when they're chatting, they're not just still images. There's movement to them. A lot of this just feels super modern and is not something we're actually used to seeing in Fire Emblem. So they're just seeing the presentation, the animation, the visuals, whatever they decided to do, whatever intelligent systems did this time around seems to be really clicking with a lot of the people doing the previews. One thing they also change from prior Fire Emblem games is when you go over your unit in combat, all the stats for the units are actually at the bottom of the screen. So you don't have to go through a bunch of sub menus to sort of get to the stats and figure out the best matchups and just this thing faster than this thing. You don't gotta worry about any of that because all the stats are gonna be right there quickly and easily accessible. I kind of feel like this is a quality of life thing we should have seen in Fire Emblem a long time ago, but hey, it's in this game. Also the engage feature seems really cool to a lot of the people who played it. It combines characters in the past with the present. It felt really familiar to the way things happened in Awakening when you could have two characters sort of team up and battle other people, but it's fresh enough and different enough that it's sort of created an all new experience. They do think a lot of the appeal of this feature will be on nostalgia and people who might be really into older games or maybe put Fire Emblem heroes and kind of like dragging characters all around from different Fire Emblem universes, but also it's just fun in general and you end up wanting to try all the different combinations you can just for fun. So there is that. Again, it was a really short preview. They were only allowed to play one combat scenario essentially, but the game apparently looks really, really damn good. They all say, well, this looks like a finished product. Well, it should be a finished product because it comes out next month. So really cool to see Fire Emblem engage getting a lot of attention. Obviously Nintendo announcing the DLC pass over at the game awards. So Nintendo's even pushing this game really hard. Cool. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. I'm probably gonna end up getting a day one because I actually really enjoyed Fire Emblem Three Houses and even the Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes.  Last up, we're gonna be talking about a brand new album release for the 20th anniversary of the Wind Waker and it comes from Zero, aka Zelda Re-Archistrated. This group has actually been re-archistrating Zelda music for a long time, but they created this really awesome Twilight Princess album using actual, you know, orchestras and real people playing instruments and it's to this day some of the best Zelda music has ever sounded. Nintendo ended up shutting them down back then, although out of respect for the artistry that went into it, they did allow people who had ordered on Kickstarter and stuff to receive their items and the album is out there and freely available on the internet. Nintendo hasn't shut that down. They just wanted to stop the sales of it after the Kickstarter and that's really all that happened. They haven't really done anything since, however, this time around, they did actually get licensing from Nintendo to do this and now they are back to give a re-archistrated version of the Wind Waker stuff with actual people playing instruments. There's actually a ton of artists heavily involved in this project. Way too many for me to list in a little news segment here on Nintendo Prime, so we'll have a link to all the information about this. It's called Second Quest and they do have one of the songs, it's a 12 track album coming out with about 15 minutes of music and one of the tracks is out for free called The Great Sea. Here's a quick listen. Go ahead and listen to that single pretty much anywhere any streaming service, Spotify and et cetera will have that single. If you wanna actually buy the album and stuff that's available on iTunes, Amazon Music and Bandcamp, there will be a physical CD release of it in March of 2023. Again, more details on that later as we get closer to that physical release and as I said, all of this was performed on actual instruments by masterful artists. So yeah, I'm really excited for this. I've actually known about this for a while. I've been hearing previews of this. I actually have access to some of the music before it launched today or well yesterday I guess is when it officially launched. I just wanna let you guys know because I know we have a lot of big Zelda fans and while we might not have the Wind Waker HD, we do have a re-orchestrated soundtrack of 12 of the masterpieces from that game and to me, that is awesome. Anyways, folks, I wanna thank you so much for tuning in this morning to this edition of, I don't know, this is Prime Five, this is Prime News. Whatever we call this, I hope you enjoyed it. I'll catch you guys in the next video.


Team keeping clean. What's going on is engraving here with another video. And in this video, Gus Edwards. Hey, EDC said it yesterday. He said Gus is going to be a member of this team one way or another. He didn't just give one definitive answers. He gave several. He gave several. So, and now he's backed up his claim. He's backed up his claim. Well, so far because it is still possible that Gus plays elsewhere. I don't see it happening, but it is still a possibility. But we'll talk about that in a bit. But EDC yesterday in the press conference, he made it clear that Gus Edwards is in the Ravens plans for the immediate future. Now there was some other players where he said we expect them to be back. But that's why that wording is very important. Very important to listen to. It's not always what somebody says enough times it is, but it's how they say it. But in this case, it was a little bit of both. But anyway, Gus Edwards. The Ravens place a second round tender on restricted free agent, Gus Edwards. And I know a lot of people have been asking, what does that mean? What does that mean for his future? What does that mean for the team? What does that mean for the Ravens? Well, we're gonna explain that. But Gus Edwards, this comes as no surprise that the Ravens issued him a tender. No surprise, no shock or anything like that. Because what we've been saying all throughout this past season is that this was an expectation. This was an expectation that the Ravens issued Gus Edwards a tender. And they keep him on the team another year and for as cheap as they possibly can. Because, hey, that's part of the business. And it's a nasty part of the business because these guys, they put their bodies out there. They put in all this work, all this hustling, whatnot and all this production. And these teams are like, hey, we don't really wanna pay yet. We wanna try to do some other things, pay some other guys and, but that's part of the business. So it is what it is. That's why you can't be mad when these players try to get their bread, when they hold out, when they ask for trade, when they ask for this and that. Anyway, so Gus Edwards, second round tender. What does that mean for the Ravens? Well, the Ravens value Gus Edwards enough to where they issued a second round tender on him. And once Gus Edwards, once he signs that tender, then all 31 other NFL teams, they have an option to sign Gus Edwards to an offer sheet. Then just, I'm just using these teams as examples. Not anything, no rumors, anything like that. These are just examples. You know what? I'll just use team A and team B as examples because I don't want anybody to start anything below. Oh, and Raven said that 15, no. Anyway, team A, the Ravens, they signed Gus Edwards to the tender. He signs a tender with them for the second round. So team B, they like Gus Edwards.  Let's sign him to an offer sheet. And that offer sheet, we're gonna sign him, let's say a three year deal worth 21 a meal. So seven meal per. So the once, if he signed that offer sheet, he's like, oh, okay, this is nice. Oh, I like it. So he signed that offer sheet with team B, then the Ravens would have seven days to match that offer. Seven days. You can't go lower. You have seven days to match that offer. If you don't match it, Gus Edwards, he goes to team B. He goes to team B. But the Ravens don't, they don't lose everything. They do lose Gus Edwards, which would be big. But remember the tender that they placed on Gus Edwards, the second round tender? Well, they will get a second round pick from team B. That's what would happen. So again, with the dates, I gotta get an update on when those dates are that that can go down, but it's gonna be a seven day window, or is it a three day window? I forget what it is, but I believe it's a seven day window for the restrictive free agent tender and for the team B to offer Gus Edwards to sign him to an offer sheet on a deal that hopefully he can refuse and hopefully the team can refuse because that would be very unfortunate if Gus Edwards left to go play elsewhere. That would be no fun. No fun. But Gus Edwards, he wasn't the only player that got a restrictive free agent tender. The Ravens, they also, Tristan Colón Castillo, they placed a low round tender on him. And also, and of course, we know he started at Center for the Ravens a couple of games and he was somebody that, I think he'll be in the mix, he'll be in the competition for the center position this year, but I think the Ravens are gonna go with somebody different.  But that's a whole another conversation for a whole another day. And also Christian Welch, you know about Christian Welch, fast linebacker, he got some boom to him too. He hit, but he was primarily a special teamer. The Ravens also placed a restrictive free agent tender on him. So that's what's up with those guys and we'll see what happens. But Gus, hey, Raven, you better get something done. You guys to get something done, man, because Gus Edwards, man, ever since he came on the league, in the league, ever since he came on board with the Ravens, man, he's been doing nothing but putting in work, man. And there's a lot of guys, Gus Edwards is a, I was just talking to one of my guys about this, my guy Jason, I was talking to him about it the other day. And I was like, man, Gus Edwards, he is just a perfect fit for the Ravens because he shows up, he does his job, he does a very good job at his job. He don't talk, you, if I heard Gus Edwards talking, I wouldn't even know that it was him talking. Cause you never hear him running his mouth. You never hear him chirping back and forth with anybody. No, you never hear that. He just shows up, does his job, run a couple people over, score a touchdown or two, go home, boom, done. And he does a very, very, very good job at it. So keeping Gus Edwards is a no-brainer. Having him and J.K. on the same team at the same time is a no-brainer. And what I think they'll do, I think they'll end up giving Gus Edwards a three-year deal to where Gus Edwards deal goes alongside J.K. Dobbins deal. And they can run it up together because you have two starters. You have two starters. And yes, even though J.K. Dobbins was a rookie last year, we saw that he was more than ready to start. Now he got to work on them playoff hands and him cold weather hands. I'm not sure what was happening toward the end of the season with his hands, but hey, he'll get it together. Gus Edwards, certainly, he worked on his hands. We saw him catching everything thrown his way. So that's what Gus Edwards, his value to this team, it's up, man, it's up. And he's showing you, hey, I can do that. I can do that. Always bring up the story when Raven signed Mark Ingram. I was cool with it, but I wasn't like, oh, yeah, let's go. I was like, well, why? Well, Gus Edwards, you got him. He can do all that stuff. But it seems as if Mark Ingram, he definitely helped Gus Edwards out a lot and really transformed, not transformed, but evolved Gus Edwards' game and helped Gus Edwards take his game to another level. And it's paid dividends for Gus Edwards. And when he really gets that money, I mean, this'll be a nice raise. This'll be a nice raise for Gus Edwards. But when he really, really gets that money, you know, he gonna send Mark Ingram a text like, hey, I finally got it, man. I finally did it. Finally got the contract. Whether that be from the Ravens or from somebody else. But this is the first move of a sort of a stepping stone move to hopefully get the Ravens to sign him to a long-term deal. Hopefully this will be like a, this is sort of like a baby franchise tag. A baby franchise transition tag. So hopefully Gus doesn't end up going anywhere, but you never know till you know. Anyway, team, keep it clean. I love y'all. Make sure you check out the most recent episode, the newest episode of the podcast that just dropped today. Just came out today. So, hey, have a listen. It's just a lot in there, man. You know we talk about everything in there. But I love y'all. I appreciate y'all so much. Shout out to all the patrons. Thank you, special thank you to all of y'all. Make sure you subscribe, turn your notifications on cause this is going to be very crazy couple of weeks. Lot of activity going on. Not just with the Ravens, but with the NFL in general. And it's just gonna be a bumpy road. And so buckle up. Anyway, team, keep it clean. I appreciate y'all. I love y'all. And just like Gus Edwards hopefully won't be and hopefully they get this thing ironed out and hammered out and done. So Gus Edwards won't be telling the Ravens, ha ha, I'm out.


So artificial intelligence and machine learning give us an incredible opportunity to extract useful information from petabytes of data that are available and I'll provide three examples about how the forestry division is using this approach. The first example in the Great Green Wall we have this really important tree called the Bulbab that provides fruit, shade and value for local communities and we're working with UNCCD to train AI models on the location of Bulbab trees. This will use drone imagery and basically train in a module within FAO's CEPAL cloud computing platform to then predict the location of Bulbabs across the Great Green Wall countries. This is really critical for local communities that are trying to protect and restore this really valuable resource. The second example is where we are working with US Forest Service and many other partners to develop what we call early warning systems. These systems use artificial intelligence and machine learning to sift through the petabytes of geospatial data that's available to identify rare deforestation events in remote forests and this is really powerful for governments to then act on possibly illegal deforestation earlier. Previously it took two to three months to do this but now it takes two to three days and this is also thanks to high spatial and temporal resolution data coming from Norway's International Forest and Climate Initiatives data program. The third example is the forest data partnership where we work in with an incredible set of partners such as Google, World Resources Institute, NASA and Unilever to basically use artificial intelligence and machine learning to extract the best truth from several incompatible geospatial data sets. I mean this sounds very complicated and maybe that's where AI and machine learning has its role is that it can basically allow us to understand useful information from a lot of information and for this particular case, the forest data partnership, we would like to understand the deforestation footprint of the commodities that we consume. This is really powerful data for consumers, things like cocoa and chocolate, things like palm, soy, beef. So this five year project, the forest data partnership, we would like to have an architecture using AI and machine learning to have the best truth on where the commodities are coming from and their deforestation footprint. So the project really aims to accelerate innovative monitoring for forests and then deploy that to FAO member countries over five years, 24.5 million pounds and we'll be innovating, I'll provide four examples of how we're innovating. In the forestry division we're really pioneers of what we call digital public goods with things like sepal and open forest. These are completely open source digital goods that are widely used by FAO member countries. We'll be strengthening them under this program and deploying them and making them even more useful and accessible. The second innovation is we're going to be using a lot of novel learning methods under this program. We're going to be using online facilitated courses. We're going to be using standalone e-learning to really try and maximise our efficiency in technology transfer and capacity development. As an example, one of the first activities under the program is an online facilitated course in the use of sepal for producing good data, for doing restoration, for restoring your forests and already we have thousands of government officials enrolling this and we'll be running this over a month and it's really innovative, efficient and a great way to transfer technology to the FAO member countries. The third innovative approach is we're using what we call a country led planning process in this program. We're developing this with the Global Forest Observations Initiative and it's about putting the country in the driving seat on deciding what sort of technical assistance they need, how they need it and when they need it. So we really want to turn the normal paradigm around. We want the country to tell us what they need, when they need it, how they need it and we will then support them. We think this is much more effective and we'll allow the country to be more independent and make better decisions about the technical assistance we're providing. The fourth innovation is all the data, the methods, the outcomes of this project are going to be completely open. This is something that the Forestry Division is a pioneer on. Open data allows all stakeholders to have access to the data which is critical. It enables transparency and it just enables a really good practice for a project because all the information lives on after the project or the program as an open source resource. So through the program we'll be developing a lot of innovative methods, a lot of innovative data sets mainly tailored for national governments but we're really keen to make sure that Indigenous peoples and local communities are also able to use this technology and data for their own purposes. I mean there's mounting evidence that Indigenous peoples and local communities are the best stewards of their forest. So we want to find a way to use the innovations, the data to help them monitor their forest area in the most effective way and strengthen their stewardship role which is already shown to be incredibly effective.


Hey guys, I have another you and me challenge from Christine Stahl and she sent me this wonderful package of Loaded with a lot of goodies including two index cards Some rip beautiful ribbon really cute playing card with some washi tape some words Some little mini dictionary text look at this the littlest thing you've seen I love that some scrapbooking papers and napkin Some stamped images. I haven't this is the first time I've looked at it. I just pulled it out of the envelope.   Oh Paperclips. Yeah Fun paperclips All right, so and she sent it says some extra goodies for me to enjoy Which includes some fun like die-cut papers and some doilies and Some homemade stickers, which is fabulous. All right, so we are going to Do our two I'm gonna make two cards one for me to keep one to send to her. I'm gonna fast forward through the process I'll be right back Okay, there you have it. They're still wet So I need to let them dry overnight before I can wrap them up and stick them in the mail But that was a lot of fun. I can't wait to send them out to her. I hope she likes it They're both so very different, but the P I never know how these are things are gonna turn out depends on the bits and pieces I get I Had no idea they would turn out this way, but I like them nonetheless. All right. I love it So just grab a few random bits and pieces and see what you can make with them try to make them work together That would be fun All right, that's it for today. Don't forget to go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself Play with some randomness. It's not all about perfect composition in Picasso You can just play and have fun and enjoy that process. All right. All right, that's it for right now I'll see you all later. Bye