In this video we are going to be talking about EV training and how to do it. Basically this guide is going to help you understand the fundamentals of this and help you create very powerful Pokemon that you can use in competitive battling as well as doing high-level difficulty raids. Pay attention to everything in this video because it's going to help you out a lot and that way you're not left with any questions unanswered. Two questions that I want to get out the way before we go in this video is can you get EVs via auto battling? The answer is no. Is there a Pokerist in the game to help with EV training? The answer is no. What are EVs? EVs are like base points. Pokemon get these EVs every time you capture or battle them. In fact, every single Pokemon that you battle has a specific EV in a specific stat. For example, when you encounter Lechonk in the beginning of a game and battle it and defeat it, it's going to be responsible for giving you one EV of HP. To put it into better perspective for you, four EVs are equal to an increase of one stat as your Pokemon hits level 100. For example, like I mentioned, killing off one Lechonk equals one EV in HP. So if you knock out four Lechonks, four EVs in HP are equal to plus one stat point in HP. So I'm going to need you guys to put your math caps on. I know it's Pokemon and we're gaming, but this is the best way to understand it. Now all Pokemon have six stats. HP, attack, defense, special attack, special defense and speed. And every single different Pokemon that you're going to encounter is going to have an EV stat that they're going to be giving you in one of those stats. Now while you're EV training your Pokemon, each Pokemon can have a total of 510 EVs maximum. You cannot get any more than 510 total gain from battling or catching Pokemon. Each specific stat like attack, speed, special defense, HP and special attack can only have a maximum of 252 EV points in each one. A stat again can only have 252 EVs in each. So if I train attack, I'm only going to be able to have maximum 252 EVs in attack. I cannot break past that barrier. If I train something else like speed, I'll only be able to have 252 EVs in speed and add those two together. And the remainder is six more EVs to be used in wherever you want and that will give you a total of 510 total EVs. Unfortunately based on math, there is always going to be a waste of two EVs. I don't know why, but there is always a waste of two EVs. Now every single player has the freedom to put these EVs wherever they want. You necessarily don't have to put 252 in one stat. You can distribute them everywhere you want, but most people who want to maximize attack, special attack, if they have a fast Pokemon, they're going to prioritize things like speed and dumping it onto speed. Those things are going to be important for those players who are doing competitive and terror raid battles. That's the best way to optimize these EVs. It can even be more powerful when you combo EV training along with breeding and IVs and natures and Pokemon moves, but I go over a lot of that stuff in my Pokemon breeding guide and pretty much you can make a Pokemon unstoppable with these two guides together. Also, if you could please hit that subscribe button. I put a lot of effort into these videos, and it means a lot that you guys can just subscribe to it. It's just a button. It's going to show up on your feet anyway, and you're going to watch it, so might as well just hit subscribe while you're here. Let's talk about resetting your EVs.  Well, there's a way to actually fix all their stats, because most likely their EVs have been spread out all over, and it's an absolute chaotic mess, and those 5-10 EVs are everywhere. So there's a solution to that, and this game has added specific berries to do that. These berries are the Pomeg Berry, which lowers HP, the Kelpsie Berry, which lowers attack, the Quadlet Berry, which lowers defense, the Hondu Berry, that lowers special attack, the Grep Berry, that lowers special defense, and the Tamato Berry, which lowers speed. Now, each of these berries will be able to lower a specific stat of a Pokemon down by 10, but something cool that Pokemon has added in is that if those EV stats for one thing is way over 100, let's say you have like 200 EVs in attack, who give a Kelpsie Berry to lower it, the first Berry will always bring down the EVs to 100, no matter how high they are. After that, every single Berry afterwards will just be minus 10, minus 10, minus 10, minus 10. So in total, to lower a maximized EV of a Pokemon, all you have to do is just give 11 berries of that specific type. It's that simple. Where can you find these berries? That's the big question. You can either find these berries in raids, you can find them at the auction house, but the easiest way is just to ride around and pick them up. What do I mean by that? Okay, getting berries is actually a lot easier than people think. You don't have to just raid for them, and you don't have to go to the auction for them. They're right over here in this area. All you have to do is come over to Artezon and you're going to notice that there's two areas. It's kind of between La Vincia and Artezon, but there are two areas. This is area one, which is marked right here, East Province area one, and then you're going to cross over this lake if you jump over or if you just take the pathway across this bridge, and you'll enter area two. All six berries are going to be located in this area, but what the game did was nicely split them up in two sections. In area one, you're going to be having the qualit, the grepa, and the tomato berry, and the way to find them is pretty simple. You just have to look in the grass for sparkling items, and what does sparkling items mean? It doesn't mean it's going to be red.  It's really going to be the sparkling things on the floor, so not this. Oh, cool, got thunder fang. We're going to be going for things that are very bright and sparkly, so let's go ahead and see. Okay, here we go. Boom. I got two tomato berries, so you get even more than one. And right off the bat with those two tomatoes, I can lower my speed by 20 EVs. There, I guess got one grepa berry. Just like that, I now can lower my special defense by 10 or get it down to 100 if it's over 100. Another sparkly here, there's another grepa berry, and the qualit berry. Sometimes you might even get lucky and get 10 stacks of a berry. Now, when you make the jump over to east province area two, the berries that are going to be on the floor are going to completely change. You're going to be able to get access to the pomeg berry, the kelpsey berry, and the hondu berry. Kelpsey berry times 10. There we go. There's just a stack of 10. I can fully reduce one entire EV stat with 11. And as you can see, I haven't done much in the game in order to get these berries to spawn. They are just going to be here for early game players and late game players who just want to farm. And if you want to refresh all the spawns that show up on the floor, all you got to do is date skip. So you want to save your game and exit out of it. And once you're here, go into your settings and scroll all the way down to the bottom.  Boom, 23rd. That's how to do it. And then when you go back in your game, all the items should be respawned on the map. What are the methods of EV training? Method number one, vitamin EV training. For this, all you have to simply do is give your Pokemon vitamins. You will find vitamins scattered throughout your journey in the Paudia region. But you can also purchase them with money or LP from the Chancey supply shop. Now, the easiest way to find a Chancey supply shop is simply by zooming in all the way on the map and just looking at the store. It'll say Chancey supply. And if you don't know how to identify them, there are the simple green buildings over here that have a Chancey on them. Now, these items start to show up in the shop as you start completing the game and moving forward. So if they don't show up for you, you most likely have to beat the game, but you have HP up, and this is going to increase your HP stat. You're going to have protein that's going to increase your attack stat, iron that's going to increase your defense stat, calcium that's going to increase your special attack stat, zinc is going to increase your special defense stat, and carbose is going to increase your speed stat. Each of these vitamins will increase your Pokemon's EVs by 10. One vitamin equals 10 EVs in that specific stat. So in order to maximize a stat completely, you're going to need 26 vitamins of that specific stat. In order to max out all your EVs, you're going to need a total of 53 vitamins. But remember, it's only going to be 26 vitamins for one maximum, and then you have to get 26 vitamins for another stat. And then the leftover are going to be used on another stat. So just keep that in mind. This method can start to get really expensive if you're starting to train a lot of Pokemon and making bad already Pokemon in the game. But it should be a joke in order to get all the money needed to buy these items by the time you have them available in the shop at the end game. So to put the money idea in perspective, it's going to be 10,000 Poke Dollars or 10,000 LP for one vitamin, which means it's going to eventually cost you 530,000 or 530,000 LP to buy all of this. So it's going to be that much to raise the stats of entire Pokemon with just using money alone, which is not too bad if you're making a lot of money. Now there's also a cheaper alternative to raising Pokemon stats that just require you to pick up certain items.  You're going to find them in Rage. You're going to find them at the Auction House. These are going to be sparkling items that you're going to be picking up, and they're going to be around the Casa Royal Lake. These include the Key Health Feather, which is going to give you one HP EV, the Muscle Feather, which is going to give you one Attack EV, the Resist Feather, which is going to give you one Defense EV, the Genius Feather, which is going to give you one Special Attack EV, Clever Feather, which is going to be one Special Defense EV, and the Swift Feather, which will give you one Speed EV. While this sounds like a nice free method, remember you need 252 EVs to fully train a stat. That means you're going to have to find 252 of that specific stat Feather in order to do this. So while this is a great method to pick up some free Feathers, I wouldn't suggest relying only on this, but if you do like swimming, go ahead and do this. You're probably going to need 510 Feathers in total, and hopefully you get the right Feathers that match your stats at this lake. A quick tip that the game added in as an indicator is that once you max out a complete stat, there's going to be sparkling stats when you have it maxed out. To see if you maxed out a Pokémon stat, go ahead and click on the Pokémon hit check summary, and then when you're on their stat distribution page, just press L that says Switch Graph View. Once you do that, you should see something that looks like this on Special Attack, which is nice and shiny. This indicates that this is fully trained in that stat. By the way, to get this, I killed 28 Side Duck, and this took me about 12 minutes. Another pro tip is meeting in the southern part of Levincia, and you'll find a woman there with her Luxio who will check your Pokémon effort values. Even though you can check the values yourself, like we just said, you can check with this character to see if you have your stats maxed out, and you'll get a bonus for this because she'll give you something called an Effort Ribbon because you have maxed out the stat of a Pokémon. The Effort Ribbon is basically just a flex, and people might wonder where you got it from, and you can keep that to yourself, and you got this from the sky here.  This is method number two, EV Battle Training. This is the classical way of doing it. Since you can't turn off EXP share in the game, this can also be used to your advantage to train an entire team of Pokémon when you catch or defeat them. Every Pokémon that you battle in the wild gives you their own EV point in that specific stat. Lechonk gives you one EV in HP, so you would have to battle Lechonk 252 times in order to max out that stat. That's a lot of Lechonks, and that's going to take you a very, very long time. Luckily in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, they already give you access to the EV training items at the beginning of the game. So for those people who want to be hardcore EV trainers from the start of the game, this is the solution, and it requires you to not have to knock out 252 of one Pokémon. Let me introduce you to the power items. These power items can be found if you open up your map and go to a town and select the Deli Bird presence. You can identify a Deli Bird present shop by the red and the fact that Deli Bird is on it. Inside the shop, you're going to select on to general goods. Once you do that, you're going to see all the power items listed here. The power weight is going to help with HP, plus 8 EVs in HP. The power bracer will give you plus 8 EVs of the attack stat. The power belt will give you plus 8 EVs of defense stat. The power lens will give you plus 8 EVs of special attack stat. The power band will give you plus 8 EVs of special defense stat. And the power anklet will give you plus 8 EVs of speed stat. Keep in mind, the inventory at Deli Bird also expands as you progress through the game. This will cost you a total of 60,000 Poké Dollars to get all of these items.   That way you can not worry about the front party Pokémon just battling whatever they want, while the ones with the correct power items according to their stats benefit from that. Now let's go back to our Lenchonk Encounter. When you battle a Lachonk, you get 1 EV point in HP. We're going to give Lachonk a power item. In this case, it's going to be the power weight, which will increase the EV gain by 8. So that when you do fight a Lachonk in the wild, you'll then be earning 8 plus 1 with a total of 9 EVs in HP per battle.  So if you get anything from this section, just knock out 28 Pokémon that have the same EV stat with the corresponding power item to maximize that stat completely, just 28. That's it. That's all you gotta remember. Also, please remember, once your EVs are maxed out at 510, you don't have to worry about battling anything else that'll ruin your EV stats that you've gained. Fully EV-trained Pokémon cannot be messed with unless you give it berries to reduce the EVs. Now for my favorite part of the video, Pokémon EV training locations. I'm going to be focusing on the first area to make your EV training a lot more simpler. That way, you don't have to travel across the map and fly to different spots just to get EV training done. Just go to the first area, follow these ones I'm listing out and you should be done in 13 minutes or less with one entire stat. Some great Pokémon to do EV training on for HP will be Lachonk in the starting area, Houdian Wooper and Azuro around South Province Area 1. These Pokémon will all net you plus one EV stat in HP. Another great encounter to have in the starting areas are fighting Flamigos. These Pokémon actually give you plus two attack stat and it would probably be faster to go through a bunch of these Pokémon here. A great spot to find Flamigos will be in the South Province Area 1. The trained defense stats in the game, a great Pokémon that you could bump into are Tarantulas. They are literally also everywhere in the starting area and these Pokémon will net you a plus one EV defense. You can also fight Scatterbugs, which also give a plus one EV in defense. And you can see that they're also around the Tarantulas. Some Pokémon in Area 1 that you could use for special attack EV stat training include Psyduck. This should give you plus one EV in special attack.  These are the ruins over here and Gasly's will also be able to give you one EV stat in special attack. And there's a lot of Gasly's here so you can have a lot of fun with training that. You'll find a bunch of Houndoors here. Each Houndor will give you one plus EV yield in special attack in the cave that you and the legendary Pokémon explored at the start of the game. If you're trying to train special defense, I highly suggest Hop Eps there, literally everywhere, and there are a bunch of them. Each one of these Hop Eps will be giving you plus one special defense stat in EV. These are all located in the starting area of the game. Pokémon that you encounter in Area 1 that gives speed include Buizel, Pytoh, Fletchlings, and Pommies. All these Pokémon together will give you plus one EV stat in speed. You can do a combination of fighting any of them. As long as you're able to knock out 28, you'll max out the speed stat. EV training is only just the beginning of understanding how to make a powerful Pokémon. Click on this video to see how you can make your Pokémon even more powerful.


As a brain researcher, this is my opinion on contact sports. Researchers suggest that people who play contact sports are prone to getting longer-term brain injuries and later in their life that might increase their risk of getting dementia. These kinds of sports include high impact sports such as AFL, rugby and boxing, but also lower impact sports such as soccer when you have the ball. The repeated blows and continued impact to the brain and spinal cord involved in these contact sports will ultimately cause the brain's natural protective mechanisms to fail over time causing brain injury. So whilst it's important to stay physically active and involved in the sports that you love to be involved in, there's still a lot of ongoing research to better understand the mechanisms behind the concussive effects on brain injury. So bottom line is it's better to prevent rather than to treat.


Studying John Egard's poem, Half-Cost, here is how you can analyse this poem. He mentions Tarkovsky and this noun is a reference to the famous classical music composer. He refers to Oxymoron black and white to talk about how when Tarkovsky is performing the piano he uses both keys, much like, for example, black and white racers mix to make a mixed race person. He asks, does this make this action unnatural? He mocks the idea of being half-cast, meaning that you're half a person, by saying that he's listening with half of his ear and half of his eye. He uses ear, eye and hand, which belong to a semantic field of body parts to show how he is dehumanised for just being labelled in terms of his race. The repetition of the word dream is quite humorous. He's mocking the idea that if he's half a person then he dreams half a dream. Yet the repetition of whole here shows if people are open minded to see how narrow the racism can be then maybe they might understand the world better.


ASU versus Arizona, a little in-state rivalry. ASU is up 4-3 in the top of the sixth inning. And we got a ball down the line, past the diving third basement into left field. Left fielder chasing after it. Can't come up with it. Can't come up with it. Can't come up with it. Can't come up with it. Guy on the fence just chilling. He says, time. I can't find the ball. That's what everyone thinks in live time. They're like, the ball's right next to you, kid. Meanwhile, number 44 in Arizona rounds the entire bases. He scores. This guy turns out he knows exactly where the ball is. His foot's stuck in the fence. Never seen this happen before. His foot got stuck in the fence. And he was like, time blue. I'm trapped. I'm just like, I don't know what to do for you. I mean, you can't get out. And then he gets out. And they're like, well, maybe you should have done that when the runner was at second base. So he picks up the ball. It's probably a little embarrassed because his foot got stuck in the fence. And then it was inside the park home run due to his foot being stuck in the fence and him not getting his foot out and thinking that he could call time for that. Maybe he could officially. I don't know. I don't think so. It was really wedged in there, though. How'd that happen? Fault defense. Look, here's the replay. So down the line, look where the runner is when he gets to the ball. Probably would have held him to a double easily, but he's stuck. And now he puts his hands up right there and the kid is just rounding second. But I mean, if he picks it up, like we saw how fast he got his foot out when the Ups had to get your foot out, probably could have hold him to a triple. I just don't know. Here he is. He comes up to bat in the next inning. His cleat looking nice. He puts the ball in play. He's going to induce a little chaos himself because they run into each other. He gets on first base. Look at this. This whole game was kind of just mayhem. I've never seen a guy get his foot stuck in, probably seen a field run into each other. They pinch ran for him. Maybe his foot hurt from being stuck in the fence because his foot got stuck in the fence. So number 28 pinch runs for him. He gets to third on that ball. And that was a quick pitch. This dude was asking for time and he was like, all right, I guess I'll just swing. Not going to grant me time. And then he hits a double. I go, look, time, time, time. Oh, okay. Be funny if that kid was like, that's going to be my new approach now. I'm going to just last second react. Then the runner scores. So the kid who got his foot stuck in the fence, he got on base, he got pinch run for. That becomes the go ahead run after they tied it. But they lost this game. Anyway, they lost it anyway. Arizona came back in one again. But yeah, that kid got his foot stuck in the fence for sure. For sure stuck in the fence.


Today I'm having a Donald Duck moment, or is it a Donald Trump moment? Lately I and the rest of the world am not so sure. At any rate, today we have a core new copia, core new copia, looking up online. Many many interesting and fascinating things from all corners of cyberspace plus a central theme, a central topic. And then this will be followed by quotes from books as had become a tradition. My new Instagram channel is called Narcissism with Vakny, one word, Narcissism with Vakny. That's my new channel because my old channel has been blocked by Facebook. And I've been asked on this channel, I've been asked by one of my followers, why did you delete your Jerry Springer video? I thought it was honest and ballsy. First of all, I did not delete it, I had moved it to the playlist section. All the videos you think, well most of the videos you think had disappeared because YouTube had deleted a few of my videos.  But all those who survived and you can't find them on the main screen, they are in the playlist. There are seven or eight, I don't remember, nine playlists on my YouTube channel. Just go there and you will find the missing videos. Okay, scan the page, you will find it. Playlists are mentioned in a variety of places. Okay, but what struck my interest in her comment was the use of the word ballsy. She connected honesty with courage.  And she responded, well it takes courage to be that honest with strangers and with yourself, also known as ballsy. And my response was, you are confusing courage with impulsive recklessness. An infantile narcissist is never courageous. He is just oblivious. He is indifferent to the consequences of his actions. Sometimes if he's antisocial, he's defined. Also if you hold people in contempt, if you don't care what they think about you, it takes no courage to be honest and open. The potential consequences, the court of public opinion, don't matter. Finally, negative supply is preferable to no supply. The narcissist will go to any length and distance, even self-degradation, even self-humiliation, even self-destruction, self-shaming and self-trashing in public in order to secure supply. You can see this on the Jerry Springer show in Dollops. The C word here is not coverage, it's compulsion. The narcissist can't help it. Okay, today, later, the second half of the video, I'm going to read to you book excerpts from three books. One of the excerpts will provide a very unusual view of empathy. The second excerpt, that's Martin Luther King Jr. about love, what he had to say about love. And the third excerpt is about fear. And now we had become a culture of fear, risk averse, danger averse, thrill averse, novelty averse, how we cocoon ourselves and how we socially distance long before the age of the pandemic. Fear had become the defining, motivating factor in our civilization. But before we go all there, I want to read to you a quote, a surprising quote, is from a book called Cattle Kingdom. Cattle Kingdom, the Hidden History, the Hidden History of the Cowboy West. It was written by Christopher Nolton, and it was published in 2017. And there's a sentence there caught my eye. The long-awaren bull was notoriously ornery, sullen, morose, solitary and pugnacious. As one cattleman put it, the longer he lived, the meaner he became. I thought this applies to the long-awaren bull, as well to one of our acquaintances, the narcissist. I've been asked, aren't you ashamed to not be a man? Aren't you ashamed to admit in public that you're not a man? And to this I responded, aren't you ashamed to not be an astrophysicist? Aren't you devastated by the fact that you're not a psychologist? I am both. I learned to be both. I acquired the skill set of an astrophysicist, and the skill set of a psychologist.  I didn't learn to be a man. You did. Should I be ashamed of it? To be a man is to play a role known as gender role. It's to act in a highly specific manner, according to a script provided by society and the culture we're embedded in.  I had been taught from age four to read, to write. I finished devouring my first encyclopedia at age seven, 30 volumes almost. So I didn't have time to learn how to be a man, and I don't play this role well. I also, I have another shameful, disgraceful disclosure. I don't play football. I don't play baseball. And you know why? Because no one taught me how. I don't drive. I don't do many things. I'm not a father. I don't have children. Why should I be ashamed of any of this? On the other hand, you can only dream, can only dream of to do what I'm doing. I have so many skills that you can only dream to possess.  Why are you shaming me, trying to shame me, for not being a man? Response to another misif. I want to explain to that eternal professional victim, because she was very proud of the fact that she's a victim, that she'd been purely victimized, that she can't find any fault in herself, any fault in her behavior. She is the utter, perfect, unadulterated victim. So I want to tell you something. To refuse to victimize is also to victimize. Some victims are so invested in their victimhood, it had become a determinant of their identity. And if you refuse to victimize them, they resent it. They consider it abusive. To refuse to victimize them is to victimize them. So they sublimated, they converted somehow.  Some victims consider even negative attention, like physical abuse, verbal abuse, as a form of caring, as a form of sharing, as a tenuous connection. And when it's absent, they regard themselves as having been rejected, having been abandoned.  They complain that the partner doesn't read, doesn't read, she complains that the partner didn't read her mind, didn't foresee her needs, was not sensitive enough. She complains that he didn't pay her any attention. And when you go through the letter, the email, you realize she's talking about negative attention. She complains of gas lighting because he refused to accept her version of reality. Projective identification and introjective identification are techniques used by perpetual professional proud victims to force other people to abuse and victimize them. Why? Because they love to be victimized. They feel good only when they feel bad. Victimhood, abuse is their comfort zone. They had been conditioned from early childhood to identify abuse with love, to identify victimhood with care, to identify battering with attention. So pay attention. Search your souls. Are you this type of victim? Okay. Lydia Angelowska in one of our endless exchanges suggested a new concept, which I found very, very fascinating. She said the same way a narcissist collapses and the same way a histrionic collapses, the same way perhaps a borderline collapses. Sources of narcissistic supply can also collapse. Sources of narcissistic supply can suddenly stop providing narcissistic supply. They can turn off the faucet. They can go away. They can break up. They can upset themselves emotionally or physically or both. And at that moment, they stop providing the narcissist with what he needs most, secondary supply. We'll talk about it in a minute. And they become collapsed sources of narcissistic supply. And it occurred to me that Angelowska's innovation, because it's a totally new concept to the best of my ability, Angelowska's innovation fits well with the collapse of other elements in the narcissist's eternal quest for the holy grail of narcissistic supply. The source of supply can collapse, as Angelowska had suggested, but also the pathological narcissistic space can collapse. Sources of primary supply can collapse. Intimate partners are sources of secondary supply, never primary supply. So sources of primary supply can collapse. And how does the narcissist cope with this? He copes with this via something called auto supply or self-supply. He uses auto supply or self-supply to create an equilibrium. Let me give you a simile or in some ways a metaphor. Those of you who remember your school days, if you had studied physics, I don't know, in Europe, physics is mandatory. I don't know, in the United States, with what's left of their education system is physics, if physics is mandatory. But we were taught about communicating vessels. Communicating vessels are containers, containers which are interconnected with pipes. And when you fill one of them with fluid, the fluid goes through the pipes to the other containers. And the level of the fluid in all the containers is the same. This is known as Stevin's law, Stevin's law of communicating vessels. Stevin was a fascinating character, Simon Stevin. He was Dutch, which already makes him interesting. In Latin, his name was Stevinus. He was actually Flemish, to be more precise. He was a mathematician, physicist, military engineer. He did amazing things. For example, he created a yacht, a land yacht. Kind of a yacht with sails, but on land. I mean, he was a bizarre character. He translated many texts and so on. He said, his famous quote is, a man in anger is no clever dissembler. So Stephen Simon, Stevinus was the guy who came up with the idea of the communicating vessels. And it's a perfect simile to narcissistic supply. Because you pour narcissistic supply into the first container, into the first vessel. Jar, jug, glass, doesn't matter. You pour narcissistic supply and it spreads equally. Across the various emotional and psychological needs of the narcissist. If you pour an insufficient amount of supply, the level will be very low in all these areas of psychodynamic functioning. The narcissist needs a constant infusion of supply to maintain the level across all communicating vessels high and the same. When there's not enough supply, when supply is missing, the narcissist administers supply to himself or asks his intimate partner to administer supply to him. When the intimate partner administers supply to the narcissist, that's secondary narcissistic supply. And when the narcissist does it to himself, when he fulfills these vessels with narcissistic supply by himself, it's called auto supply or self supply. To refresh your memory, there are two categories of narcissistic supply and consequently two categories of narcissistic supply sources. Primary narcissistic supply is attention, both in public forms like fame, notoriety, infamy, celebrity and in a private interpersonal form, adoration, adulation, applause, fear, repulsion. It is important to understand the attention of any kind, positive or negative, constitutes primary narcissistic supply. Infamy is as sought after as fame, being notorious is as good as being renowned. To the narcissist, his accomplishments can be imaginary, can be fictitious or only apparent as long as others believe that he is an achiever. Appearances count more as far as a narcissist is concerned, count more than substance. What matters is not the truth, but the perception of the truth. It is impression management on steroids. Narcissistic supply comes in two forms, animate, animate, direct and inanimate, indirect. Inanimate supply is composed and comprised of all expressions of attention which are communicated impersonally, not personally. For example, in written form via third parties or as views on a YouTube video. Inanimate supply also includes aggregate measures of popularity and fame, number of friends and likes on Facebook. As I said, number of comments on YouTube, numbers of readers and a blog, statistics. That's inanimate supply. It has no face, it's faceless. Animate supply requires an interpersonal interaction with the source of the narcissistic supply usually in the flesh. To sustain his sense of self-worth, the narcissist requires both types of supply, inanimate and animate, but especially the animate variety. He needs to witness firsthand the impact his false self has had on living, breathing, flesh and blood human sources and on his immediate environment. That's why isolation, quarantine and social distancing are very, very difficult on narcissists. Now, triggers of primary narcissistic supply include being famous, being a celebrity, having notoriety, fame, infamy, I mentioned that. Or having an air of mystique when the narcissist is considered to be mysterious, inaccessible. Or having sex and deriving from it a sense of masculinity, virility or femininity. Or being close or connected to political, financial, military, spiritual, movers and shakers, power, authority, or yielding and wielding this power. All these are triggers of primary supply. But who provides the supply? Sources of primary narcissistic supply are all those who provide the narcissist with narcissistic supply on a casual, random basis, not so secondary narcissistic supply sources. Secondary narcissistic supply includes leading a normal life. Normalcy, just being able to present yourself to appear to be normal is a source of great pride for the narcissist. Having a secure existence, economic safety, social acceptability, upward mobility and obtaining companionship. And so having a mate, having an intimate partner, possessing conspicuous wealth, being creative, running a business, and of course the business is transformed into a pathological narcissistic space, possessing a sense of anarchic freedom, being a member of a group or a collective, having a professional or other reputation, being successful, owning property, flaunting one's status symbols. They are all secondary narcissistic supply. But this source of secondary narcissistic supply is the narcissist intimate partner. She has a very important function. She records his moments of glory. And when he's down, when he cannot obtain supply, when his supply is deficient, she reminds him of these moments of glory. She's like an external hard disk, external memory. And she stores supply. She witnesses the supply and she stores it. And then when the narcissist needs it, she releases. It's like a slow release pill. She releases the supply. This way, she regulates the supply. That's her main function. The main function of the narcissist intimate partner is regulatory to regulate the flow of supply. When there is a collapsed source of narcissistic supply, again, suggested originally by Lidia Wengerowska, when there's a collapsed source of narcissistic supply, the narcissist will try to compensate for this. So when the source of secondary supply had collapsed, the narcissist will try to obtain more additional primary supply. The narcissist will also try to provide himself with supply, auto supply, self supply, which we're going to discuss in a minute. When there is a collapsed source of primary supply, primary narcissistic supply, when the sources of primary supply vanish, disappear, mock the narcissist, when they create external modification and so on. When the narcissist remains bereft of all sources of primary supply, he's going to put the onus and the pressure on the source of secondary supply to regulate the deficiency, to cover up for the deficiency, to release memories of past moments of glory, past moments, past accomplishments, so as to compensate for the deficiency. And again, he's going to use auto supply, self supply is a regulatory tool.  So when the pathological narcissistic space collapses, the narcissist tries to compensate by obtaining more primary supply. What's the role of auto supply or self supply in all this? Again, it has a regulatory role. And in this sense, it's the exact equivalent of an intimate partner. Again, we see auto eroticism, libidinal investment in the self. Auto supply, self supply are as good as having an intimate partner. They're interchangeable. Don't have an intimate partner, supply yourself as a narcissist. You can't supply yourself as a narcissist. You look for an intimate partner. It's all investment in the self. You can supply yourself in really dire straits when, you know, when as a last resort. So it's a regulatory mechanism. It is tied to schizoid states where the narcissist is isolated, withdrawn. I refer you to the previous video that I made. And so he has no access to people. He has no access to an intimate partner. He may have divorced. She may have abandoned him, cheated on him, betrayed him or whatever. So he's in a schizoid state, isolated, withdrawn, recluse, lone wolf. And so at that moment, he will try to compensate via self supply or auto supply. Now, what is self supply? What is auto supply? It's anything, anything that grants the narcissist narcissistic supply, but is not dependent on any input or feedback from other people. In other words, you remember that in narcissism, there is a God of confusion between internal objects and external objects. The narcissist misconstrues and considers external objects as totally internal. So it worse comes to worse. Rock bottom. What the narcissist does, he begins to relate to some of his internal objects as actually external. And he derives from these internal objects narcissistic supply as though and as if they were external. He may uplift himself with positive automatic thoughts. He may tell himself that he's great, that he's a genius, misunderstood, but still a genius. So he will give himself pet talks and so on. Not in a healthy way.  So he's going to have a dialogue. He's going to establish a dialogue with his internal objects, thereby estranging himself from his internal objects to the point of psychosis almost, almost to the point that he mistakes his internal objects as external. He still maintains a modicum, a measure of reality testing. And he knows that he's talking to himself. He knows that these objects don't exist out there. But he tends to identify them with external objects that had existed in his life from his past. And he tends to kind of, in a process that I call twinning, he tends to twin in a current contemporary internal objects with the past external objects. So he would identify, for example, an internal object with his ex, with his ex-wife. He would identify an internal object with his teacher, who admired him, he would etc. So he would kind of twin, twin the past with the future, with the present. And so this leads to several types of auto supply. The most prominent by far is paranoid or persecutory ideation. Think about it. Paranoid ideation, the belief that you are at the center of some kind of collusion or conspiracy theory, aggrandizes you, makes you appear important, at least to yourself. If you believe yourself to be at the core, or at the crux, or to be the pivot and the axis of processes around you, that is the kind of magical thinking that elevates you, that renders you the center and the focus of attention. So paranoid and persecutory ideation are highly narcissistic, and they are a form of auto supply, self-supply, because you don't need anything, and anyone to buttress, prove, substantiate your paranoid and persecutory ideation on the very contrary. Paranoia is a very solitary, very solitary kind of state of mind. The second type of auto supply or self-supply is delusionality. You can simply develop a delusion or a series of delusions. Some people develop a delusion that God himself is interested in their lives to the minutest details. He micromanages their lives. Others believe, others develop a delusion that, yeah, my wife had left me 46 years ago, but she will be back one day. I mean, there's no end. There's no way to specify all possible content of delusionality. But delusions are a very crucial, important mechanism for self-supply and auto supply. Actually, there is even a therapeutic technique. It's called anchoring, like anchor of a ship. And it is when we reorient the narcissist towards self-supply, we push the narcissist to sort of win himself off narcissistic supply and to substitute for it, to replace it with self-supply. Rather than resort to figal and ephemeral external sources of narcissistic supply, the narcissist is taught in the anchoring technique he's encouraged to resort to himself for supply, to look forward with excited anticipation to the structured pursuit of, let's say, hobbies, vocations, to develop certain traits and skills and reward eliciting behaviors. And this self-mastery is a major source of supply.  And it renders the narcissist emotionally self-sufficient and proud of healthy progress. So here's an example of a therapeutic technique that uses knowingly, consciously, mechanisms of self-supply and auto-supply. But let's elaborate a bit on delusions, because delusions, delusionality delusions, that's the family of coping strategies that the narcissist had his most acquainted with. When the narcissist is a child subjected to trauma and abuse, nowhere to hide, nowhere to escape, he's being instrumentalized, parentified, ejectified, beaten, sexually molested is what to do. Well, the narcissist as a child escapes to delusionality. He develops a delusion, which is essentially the false self, a god-like entity, totally delusional, an imaginary friend, a comfort object that is delusional. So the narcissist's default when there isn't enough supply, the narcissist's default is delusion. Unable to completely ignore contrarian opinion and data from reality, he transmutes them. Unable to face the dismal failure that he is, the narcissist partially withdraws from reality. All together, he loses reality testing to soothe and to solve the pain of disillusionment. The narcissist administers to himself a mixture of lies, confabulations, distortions, half-truths, and outlandish interpretations of events around him. And these solutions, these delusional solutions, we can classify them into groups. Let's start with the delusional narrative source. The narcissist constructs a narrative in which he figures as a hero, he's brilliant, he's perfect, he is irresistibly handsome, destined for great things, entitled, kind-hearted, wealthy, the center of attention, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. He is the protagonist of his own novel of fiction. The biggest strain on this delusional charade, the greater the gap between fantasy and reality, the more the delusion coalesces and solidifies. That's the irony. Delusion is a defense against reality. The more reality challenges the narcissist, the more delusion he becomes. That's why it's very wrong in therapy to challenge the narcissist's delusions, to introduce him, to force him to accept reality. Because when you do this, it entretches him. It becomes even more truculent, obstinate, resistant to treatment. And finally, if it is sufficiently protracted, this delusion replaces reality altogether. And the narcissist's reality testing deteriorates. He withdraws, he draws, he withdraws bridges and may become schizotypical, catatonic, or schizoid. Again, I'll refer you to the previous video I made. Then there is the antisocial solution. The narcissist, all these solutions to remind you are in case the narcissist is unable to obtain supply. So here's the second family of solutions, the antisocial solution. The narcissist renounces reality to his mind. Those who pusillanimously fail to recognize his unbound talents, his innate superiority, his overarching brilliance, his perfection, his benevolent nature, his entitlement, his cosmically important mission. These people do not deserve consideration. They are, you know what? They are intervention. They are not human. They are subhuman. Anyone who can gaze at the face of the narcissist, he is the sun. You can look at his face because he is glowing. There's an aura. He is saintly and godlike and he is an amazing genius and he is unprecedented in the annals of humanity.  What's wrong with you? You're not fully human. You're indistinguishable for monkeys and apes. So you don't deserve. You have no rights. You don't deserve any consideration. And the narcissist has no obligation towards you. The narcissist's natural affinity with a criminal is lack of empathy, lack of compassion, deficient social skills, his disregard for social laws, social morals. Now this affinity with a criminal erupts. It blossoms. It flourishes.  He ignores the wishes and needs of others. He breaks the law. He violates all rights, natural and legal. He holds people in contempt at this day. He derides and decries society in its codes.  And that, that is because these people, to his mind, drove him to this state of deficient supply. They acted criminally. They are the criminals. They had acted criminally, but and so he's just reciprocating.  Defiance, tit for tat, quid pro quo. That's the second family. Now the third family is, I mentioned before, the paranoid schizoid solution. When narcissism fails as a defense mechanism, the narcissist develops paranoid narratives, self-directed confabulations, which place him at the center of others allegedly malign attention. Intention and attention. The narcissist becomes his own audience, self-sufficient as his own, sometimes exclusive, source of narcissistic supply. The narcissist develops persecutory delusions. He perceives slights and insults where none were intended. This is known as hypervigilance. He becomes subject to ideas of reference, referential ideation. He believes that people are gossiping about him, mocking him behind his back, prying into his affairs, cracking his email, and that reminds me of Donald Trump so much that I'm going to take another seat from the Donald Trump, Donald Duck. Come on. The narcissist is convinced that he is the center of malign and malintentioned attention. People are conspiring to humiliate him, to punish him, to restrict him, to abscond with his property, to prevent him from realizing his potential and self-actualizing, to delude him, to impoverish him, to confine him physically, to dwarf him intellectually, to censor him, to impose on his time, to force him to action, to force him to inaction, to threaten him, to curse him, to surround him, to besiege him, to change his mind, to part with his values, to victimize, to murder him, and so on. Knowledge, escalation to the end. And all this, the narcissist is the center of this universe of collusion, conspiracism, and inanity. Some narcissists withdraw completely from a world, from a universe populated with such menacious and ominous objects. But these objects are really projections of internal objects and processes, as you realize. And these narcissists avoid all social contact, except the most necessary. They refrain from meeting people, falling in love, having sex, talking to others, or even corresponding with others. In short, these narcissists become schizoids, not out of social shyness, but out of what they feel to be their choice. The schizoid doesn't have a choice, the real schizoid. Schizoid simply dislikes people, doesn't need sex, and is utterly a social, a social, not antisocial, a social. Here, the narcissist makes choices to let go, to give up certain proclivities and predilections that he has, certain tendencies and inclinations. He gives them up knowingly. But he gives them up, gives them up in his view, in his distorted mind, in self-defense. The evil, hopeless world does not deserve me, they say to themselves. I shall waste none of my time and resources on it. grandiose exit left. Now the next family is the paranoid, aggressive, explosive solution. The previous family was the paranoid schizoid solution. There's another variant, the paranoid explosive solution. Other narcissists who develop their secretary delusions resort to an aggressive stance, a more violent resolution of their internal conflict. They become verbally, psychologically, situationally, and very rarely physically abusive. The insult, castigate, humiliate, chastise, parade, demean and deride their nearest and dearest, often their well wishes and loved ones. They explode in unprovoked displays of rage, indignation, righteousness, condemnation, and blame. There's is an exegetic bedlam. They interpret everything, even the most innocuous, inadvertent, and innocent comment. It's designed to provoke and humiliate. They sow fear, revulsion, hatred and malignant envy. They flail against the windmills of reality, pathetic, forlorn sight. But often they cause real and lasting damage, fortunately, mainly to themselves.  I refer you to videos on this channel which deal with passive aggression or negativistic personality disorder. Another family is the masochistic action, masochistic, self-harming, avoidant solution. Some narcissists, when they cannot secure a supply, they are angered by the lack of narcissistic supply. Such a narcissist directs some of this fury inwards, punishing himself for his failure to secure a supply. And this is masochistic behavior and it has the added benefit of forcing the narcissist closest and nearest and nearest to assume the roles of dismayed spectators or of persecutors. And so either way, to pay him the attention that he craves. It's like he's shouting from the rooftops.  I'm about to harm myself. I'm about to hurt myself. It's a cry not for him. It's a cry for attention. Self-administered punishment often manifests as self-handicapping masochism, a narcissistic copout. By undermining his work, his relationships, his efforts, the increasingly fragile and vulnerable narcissist avoids additional criticism and censure, avoids negative supply.  He is in control. This is a technique very often used by covert narcissists. Masochistic narcissists keep finding themselves in self-defeating, self-destructive circumstances, which render success impossible. Millen wrote in 2000 that masochist narcissists do this. They sabotage everything. They undermine everything. They do this to prevent an objective assessment of their performance to render it improbable. They act carelessly. They withdraw in mid-effort. They are constantly fatigued, bored, sick, disaffected, and so passive-aggressively they sabotage their own lives. Their suffering is defined in your face, suffering, conspicuous victimhood, ostentatious self-reignation. They get drunk. They do drugs. They overspend. They overeat. And so by deciding to abort their lives, to reject their lives as gladly put it, they reassert actually their omnipotence. Not only am I in control of myself, I'm in control of your emotions because I make you sorry for me. I make you sad. I make you depressed. I'm going to induce a state of mind in you.  I'm going to sacrifice myself to f-up your mind. The narcissist pronouns and public misery and self-pity, they are compensatory. And again, as Milon said, they are intended to reinforce his self-esteem against overwhelming convictions of worthlessness. The narcissist's tribulations and anguish render him, in his eyes, unique. I am suffering. So I never heard anyone of anyone that suffered like me. I mean, what he did to me, I think no one else had ever experienced this. It makes him saintly. He's suffering. This victimhood is virtuous. It's righteous. It's resilient and significant. He becomes an empath. Then he graduates and he becomes a super empath. Then he graduates and he becomes a supernova empath. This empath label is grandiose. It's highly narcissistic. These are narcissists who had chosen the masochistic solution. These narcissists are, in other words, self-generating what they do. They replace narcissistic supply from the outside. Or they react to narcissistic injuries and modifications by generating supply from the inside, self-generated narcissistic supply. And they generate the supply by playing the victim, by becoming the victim, by identifying with victimhood, not only as a state of mind, but as an identity.  The more horrible is unhappiness, the more relieved and elated such a narcissist feels. He feels good. He feels really good. What he feels really, really bad. So a narcissist reacts to a deficient narcissistic supply very much as a drug addict reacts to the absence of a particular drug. The dwindling or absence of supply is a trauma and the narcissist experiences post-traumatic stress. The narcissist constantly consumes praiseable, adoration, admiration, approval, applause, attention, other forms of narcissistic supply. When lacking, when they're deficient, a narcissistic deficiency dysphoria sets in. The narcissist then appears to be depressed. His movements slow down. His sleep patterns are disordered. He becomes insomniac, sleeps too much. His eating patterns change. He gorges on food or avoids it all together. The narcissist is constantly dysphoric when he doesn't have supply. He's unhedonic, so he's sad and he finds no pleasure in anything, including his former pursuits, hobbies, professions and interests. The narcissist is subjected to violent mood swings. He becomes mood-lap-lapile. Mainly, he has rage attacks and he has visible and painful kind of emotional dysregulation. So in a way, deficient supply pushes the narcissist to become a borderline. The scholar Rothstein suggested that borderline personality disorder is failed narcissistic. When the child fails to develop narcissistic personality disorder, the child ends up being in a midway house and that is borderline personality disorder. It's a failed narcissist. So when the narcissist fails, when he collapses, he reverts to a borderline state and you see these extremely anguishing efforts at self-control and they fail. He compulsively and ritually resorts to some addiction, alcohol, drugs, reckless driving, shopaholes. He develops obsessive-compulsive rituals. This gradual disintegration is the narcissist's futile effort, both to escape his predicament and to sublimate the aggressive urges that he has. He's frustrated. Dulland in 1939 suggested the frustration-aggression hypothesis. He said frustration becomes aggression. So the narcissist is frustrated. He cannot obtain supply. He becomes aggressive. His whole behavior seems constrained, artificial and effortful. The narcissist gradually turns more and more mechanical, detached and unreal. His thoughts constantly wander or become obsessive and repetitive. His speech may falter. He appears to be far away in a world of his narcissistic fantasies, where narcissistic supply is a plenty. So the narcissist withdraws from his painful existence where others fail to appreciate his greatness, his special skills, his talents, his potential, his achievements. Narcissus seizes to bestow himself upon a cruel, indifferent universe. He is punishing humanity for its shortcoming, its inability to realize how unique he is and what a gift he is. When narcissism fails as a defense mechanism, the narcissist develops paranoid delusions, as we said, self-directed confabulations, which place him in the center of others' legendally malicious intention. The narcissist becomes his own audience and self-sufficient as his own sometimes exclusive source of supply. And again, to remind you, some narcissists go into a schizoid mode. I refer you to the previous video I made. Narcissistic or schizoid withdrawal. This kind of narcissist isolates himself. A hermit in the kingdom of his heart. He minimizes his social interactions and uses messengers, flying monkeys, to communicate with the outside, devoid of energy. The narcissist can no longer pretend to succumb to social conventions. His former compliance gives way to open withdrawal. It's a rebellion of sorts. Smiles are transformed to frowns. Courtesy becomes rudeness. Emphasized etiquette is used as a weapon, an outlet of aggression, an act of self-righteous sanctimonious violence. The narcissist, blinded by his pain, seeks to restore his balance, to take another sip of the narcissistic nectar that his narcissistic supply. And in this compulsive quest out of his control, the narcissist turns both to and upon those nearest to him. His real attitude emerges. For him, his nearest and dearest are nothing, nothing but tools. One-dimensional instruments of gratification, functions, sources of supply, extensions, pimps of supply catering to his narcissistic lust. Having failed to procure for him his drug, narcissistic supply, the narcissist regards friends, colleagues and even family members as dysfunctional, frustrating, potentially hostile objects. He develops what we call persecutory objects. In his wrath and fury and unmitigated rage, he tries to mend these people, to fix them by forcing them to perform again, to function again. He's very adamant about it, relentless, callous, reckless. This is coupled with merciless self-flagellation, a deservedly self-inflicted punishment the narcissist feels. In extreme cases of deprivation, the narcissist entertains suicidal thoughts, suicidal ideation. This is how deeply he loathes his self and his dependence on others. Throughout this mess, the narcissist is beset by a pervading sense of malignant nostalgia, harking back to a past which never existed, make America great again, except in the thwarted fantastic grandiosity of the narcissist. The longer the lack of supply, the longer supplies missing, the more the narcissist glorifies, rewrites, reframes, misses and mourns a totally invented past. This nostalgia serves to enhance other negative feelings, mounting to clinical depression. The narcissist proceeds to develop paranoia.  He creates a giant game of thrones and gives everyone a room, every place, every person, every event, all his personal history. This gives meaning, this online virtual game, this MMOG multiple player game. This gives meaning to what is erroneously perceived by the narcissist to be a sudden shift from oversupply to no supply. In this imaginary paranoid universe, there's a reason he's not getting supply. It's a conspiracy. It's a collusion. There's no other explanation. He's so self-evidently superior. He's so much to offer. He's so much to offer. He's such a gift. He's such an endowment. He's so perfect. He's so brilliant. He's so handsome. He's so smart. All narcissists have 100 and 90 acute. Didn't you know? And yet he's rejected. He's ignored. He's mocked. He's ridiculed. He's abandoned. He's disrespected. And it grates. And in extremes, it modifies, creates modification. And so he needs to concoct to create external modification.  It's all, it's everyone against him. It's malicious, malevolent intent, working behind the scenes to deprive him, to discriminate against his injustice, writ large. It's institutional. It's individual. It's individuals acting within institutions. Everyone, everywhere is against him. Otherwise, he would have received much more supply. Proof that this paranoid ideation is not a delusion is that he's not getting supply. Does it stand to reason? Of course, he should have received supply. Plenty. Those, these theories of conspiracy account for the decrease in narcissistic supply. The narcissist then frightened, in pain, in despair, embarks upon an orgy of self-destruction intended to generate alternative supply sources, alternative attention at any cost. The narcissist is poised to commit the ultimate narcissistic act, self-destruction in the service of self-advertisement. When he's deprived of supply, both primary and secondary, the narcissist feels annulled, nonexistent, hollowed out, mentally disemboweled. This is an overpowering sense of evaporation, disintegration into molecules of terrified anguish, dissolution, helpless and inexorable. Without narcissistic supply, the narcissist crumbles. Crumbles to dust, like the zombies of the vampires one sees in horror movies. And the only, the only sustenance is not blood. It's supply. It is terrified. The narcissist will do anything to avoid this fate. Think about the narcissist, consider him as a drug addict.  In the absence of regular supply, narcissists often experience brief decompensatory psychotic episodes. This also happens while in therapy or following a life crisis accompanied by major narcissistic injury. And these psychotic episodes may be closely allied to another feature of narcissists, magical thinking. Narcissists are like children in this sense. I keep saying it in all my videos. Many narcissists, for instance, fully believe in two things, that whatever happens, they will prevail and that good things will always happen to them. It is more than mere belief. It's magical thinking that is experienced as reality. Narcissists just know it the same way one knows about air or gravity directly, immediately, assuredly, unthinkingly, automatically. The narcissist believes that no matter what he does, no matter what he does, he will always be forgiven, always prevail in triumph, always come on top. I call it narcissistic immunity. The narcissist is therefore fearless in a manner perceived by others to be both admirable and insane. The narcissist attributes to himself divine and cosmic immunity. He cloaks himself in this immunity. It renders him invisible to his enemies and to the power of evil. The narcissist is a comic strip. It's a Marvel movie, not Marvelous, Marvel. It is a childish phantasmagoria, but to the narcissist is very real. The narcissist knows with religious certainty that good things will always happen to him. With equal certainty, the more self-aware narcissists, and there are quite a few of them, this kind of narcissist, self-aware, knows that he will squander this good fortune time and again. It's a painful experience best avoided. He knows that. So no matter what serendipity or fortuity, what lucky circumstance, what blessing the narcissist receives, he always strives with a blind fury to deflect them, to deform them, and to ruin his chances. And this is his only success, self-destruction. Now, the next video, I'm going to read three excerpts from three books, a very surprising excerpt about empathy. Martin Luther King's words on love, which should resonate through the ages, and an excerpt about the cultural fear.


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nephew lee roy down the hogan brother's department store to buy him a suit and while he was there he bought one for himself too did he have it wrapped not the water commissioner he's wearing at home and it's quite a suit you bet latest thing dill pickle green you what for my boy there's not so many people over there with you in that suit walking in this crowd is dangerous for a little kid they get to look at you walk right over me now lee roy let's not be jealous you have a fine suit too holy cow on that color dill pickle green you can wear that to a masquerade party masquerade sure put on a mustard shirt and it goes a hamburger well do leave you just a little boy you don't know anything about fashion this color is so new it hasn't even been in the magazine yet hey i'll cover getting some popcorn and going to a movie no we have to get home lee roy birdie will be wedding dinner for us right George this is a good-looking suit nice lines snappy pardon me madam well I just glanced into a shop window color fits nice too just like a squad why do they make the store windows so short and get a good look at yourself before you hit the doorway excuse me all right I'm looking for something right here in fact in this big shiny window this is more like it you can't tell anything those triple mirrors where they sell the suit you see too many people store let's go home well I may want to buy some white lead yes sir gillis lead you look pretty good if this coat with a belt in the back makes those shoulders look fine the pants are nice too I read a story once about a guy named Narcissus huh who all he did was sit and look at his reflection in the water oh you know what happened what he fell in the lake all right lee roy will go home my name isn't our assistant I'm not going to fall in any lake hey you got a tag on the back of your coat hey this is your name oh it's clear it probably left it there what does it say that died boiled and pre-shrunk nice me did your bird okay there mr. gilfrey if you got a new suit too sure latest thing buddy this is what they're wearing in New York now has pleats in the pants I got cuffs on mine how do you like this coat but the way that coats made your shoulders and catching up with your waistline of course I only bought this suit because I needed it man has to have more than one suit especially when he's the water commissioner for corn sake yeah how do you like the color bird all that nice what color is catfish green still pickle green all the young men are wearing it this year well it sure makes you look young mr. gilfrey well I am young bird yes in that outfit you could go to the college football game and set in the root and section sure I could you could go to those games and help with the root and section yeah I know but you'd be right into that root and section you're all right but you know what you can do it plenty of fire in me yet I'm full of beans hello Uncle Mort oh my dear hello my dear oh Lee Roy you look so nice yeah my dream you notice anything about me well here we go again oh that's a lovely suit on catfish green still pickle it gives you a wonderful figure Uncle Mort like a dill pickle me Roy well isn't the suit at all my dear most of this figure is mine around the waist it's all his little jokester the trouble is my shirt the clothes I've been wearing before made me look older than I am I'm not old of course you're not right in my prime man doesn't come into his full strength until he passes 40 that's right on key yes sir because my waistline is a large but I'm not fact I'm just heavy oh you're wonderful Uncle Morton we love you thank you my dear don't we love him Lee Roy I think I'll go upstairs and wash your little face for dinner well I'm going out and help birdie on key great think I'll slip in to take a peek in the hall mirror couldn't see much in that paint store window well that's better you know I'm not being like that fellow Narcissus who kept looking himself in the water I guess let me look at it why George Gildesley why don't you admit it you're a powerhouse look at those shoulders and those arms really a sleeve full yes sir the head of the household the white stallion leading the wild horses the bull moose leading the mooses there's Bronco I'd forgotten about him oh Gildesley hello Bronco Marjorie here's your little husband hello Bronco darling hello Marge baby my little family what do you have in the package darling hold this these are some scales scan yeah I'm gonna put them upstairs so I can watch my weight I weighed myself today mr. Gilder sleeve and I've gained three pounds well good you're growing that's what worries me mr. Gilder sleeve I got quite a shock yesterday no when I dressed in the morning I forgot to put on my belt and I didn't notice it until noon what was holding your trousers up that's what worries me oh Bronco you've never looked better certainly you're just a boy you could use a little weight if you're gonna lead the wild horses I mean be the head of a family you've got to build yourself up like me oh no mr. Gilder sleeve just because I'm gonna be a father I'm not gonna let myself go just a minute oh he's being silly isn't he Anki look at the muscles in his arms show him your arms Bronco oh Marge now Leroy Bronco doesn't want to show his muscles Whitley grows up that buffalo is gonna get bigger embarrassing your brother-in-law he's just a boy buffalo there boy Bronco remember how you used to chin yourself in the doorway go ahead show us how you chin yourself no hello doesn't want to chill himself he doesn't have to I don't even know if I can do it now I can only do 12 oh pretty bad oh that's not for a fat man I think not that you're fat I mean for a large man oh is that so I'm not fat I'm just well built go ahead on all right stand aside you're breaking the door frame me of the day we come to the table Bronco you sit on the left largely over here Leroy over there this is why we always sit well sit there Leroy Margie married a husband not a performing seal I remember that trick Bronco was the only boy at school who could do it ready bring the dinner did that one Bronco no I couldn't do it sure you can Leroy he said he couldn't don't you believe it go on darling you can do it well all right oh my goodness this is pretty difficult you've got to go around the back of the chair touching the floor what this Bronco Leroy don't be silly I couldn't begin to do that oh I couldn't I wouldn't try it if I were you mr. killerslee you keep out of this I'm the bull moose I mean I'm the head of household I can do anything that kid can do and I can do it better I can do it mr. Gilles leave the chair excuse me what about dinner aren't you gonna eat I'm not hungry I'm going to my room hall mirror just an old tub balloon going down narcissus you fell in the lake the Great Gildersleeve returns in just a moment it's fresh fresh really fresh always fresh that's why it tastes so good it's parquet margarine made by craft naturally when you buy margarine you expect it to be wholesome and nutritious but when you buy parquet margarine you can expect it to be something else as well you can expect it to be fresh really fresh always fresh no matter where or when you buy and because it's fresh parquet is the margarine that always tastes so good yes parquet is always fresh it's made fresh from selected products of American farms it's rushed fresh to your store in refrigerated trucks it's sold fresh by your grocer every package of parquet is flavored dated and grocer's stocks are regularly inspected by craft men that's why craft can positively guarantee to you that no matter where or when you buy parquet margarine it will be fresh fresh really fresh fresh always fresh that's park a y parquet margarine made by craft let's get back to the Great Gildersleeve in the story of snow white the wicked queen had a mirror that told her anything she wanted to know up in his bedroom this morning the water commissioner has a mirror that's telling him a few things you give this leave you may as well face it you look like a hippopotamus a water soap hippopotamus no wonder the family laughed when you couldn't chin yourself even once when you fell off that chair trying that trick in that bronco thinks he's smart well I'm smart too I'm not so fat either well my chest up a little this mirror must be warped I wonder what the family will say when I get on breakfast they probably won't say anything probably forgotten the whole thing she'll I'll just act as if nothing had happened right George I may bruise easily but I heal fast coming ready morning my dream good morning Mr. Gildersleeve good morning Bronco leave you in it's all forgotten how's the extra about this morning acrobat what do you mean now leave Roy you hush sit down on key I put a pillow on your chair for you uncle I don't need it your chair in the dining room is going to be all right Mr. Gildersleeve I'm gluing the seat back on that's fine but here's your baby tonight Mr. guilty thank you buddy you ought to have a good appetite this morning missing your dinner last night oh yes we're all very sorry about last night Mr. Gildersleeve it was my fault oh no it wasn't rock we'll just forget the whole thing let bygones be bygones oh that's mighty nice of you Mr. Gildersleeve you're a big man thank you we all want to apologize uncle more we we didn't mean to I mean when you fall off that chair going if I can squeeze through the front door I'm gonna waddle downtown I'm not so big yourself give the sleeve you are too well confounded if I can put on weight I can take it off lots people do those ads in the paper Mrs. Hodg tight clune of elbow Indiana loses 20 pounds in eight days I'll show that family I'll trim down I may be a barge today but tomorrow I'll be a speedboat yeah I'll bet pv can help Mr. Gildersleeve what can I do for you this morning and I want to get some reducing medicine pv for a friend of mine oh yeah fine fellow but he's a little chubby well I have a number of popular brand does your friend have any preference no he doesn't know much about these things of course neither do I know I don't think my friend would care for Dr. Beagle now here's the preparation that quite a few people are buying and Marion's waistline reducer very effective a teller the fellow who used too much in his waistline disappeared entirely my goodness he had quite time keeping his trousers up finally used his wristwatch for a belt is that story true no but it tells a lot of merchandise well let's get back to my friend no right mr. Gildersleeve how many pounds do you want to lose oh about 50 I didn't say it was for me all right it is for me but it's not that I'm overweight for my size p I just thought I'd trim down a little before the winter probably the cheapest way to stop eating it's very effective I know now look at the camel when he goes a long while without eating his humps disappeared baby I'm not a camel only trying to be a service have you tried judge hookers rowing machine say I'd forgotten about that rowing is awfully hard work but I'm desperate you might get the judge's call no I don't want to risk a call the way I feel today I could get stuck in that phone booth you know I'll go right over to the judge's house and get started in that rowing machine good job don't fall overboard see you later be you're perfectly welcome to use my rowing machine gilder it's here in my bedroom well let's get started judge my position is headed the family is at stake I'm gonna lose some weight if I have to row this thing clear to Greenland there's nothing like a rowing machine gilder that's how I keep my perfect 36 all right every morning a breast turn at the oars and then I have a pick me up half a ride bun and a beaker of K lab water judge please I haven't eaten anything since last night oh would you like a snack gilder no thanks maybe those camels have an idea what was that guilty nothing judge oh brother I'm weak it helped me into the boat there you are gilder now you're at the oars I call my bedroom hooker lake 250 strokes on the oars will get you across that is from wash stand they took a slip point all right judge let me get started left or what's the difference I'm rowing but you can't get across the lake let you go straight left or yes are you in the boat with me certainly it's a long trip I'm going along to keep you company oh brother going across hooker lake on a rowing machine with an old goat what a commissioner this time you've struck bottom we made it you rode across hooker lake how do I look judge ever lost any weight oh I'm sure you have gilding you're the picture of hell well thanks for the use of your rowing machine judge but guilty you're across the lake aren't you going to row back no you can row it judge way I feel I'll just catch the first breeze and fly back guess if you look awful thing I do you feel right I feel fine but never felt better in fact where the children miss margin mr. Bronco upstairs Leroy's out in the yard you're just in time for lunch lunch no no I'm not going to eat but I'm reducing I'm losing weight but you gotta eat everybody's gotta eat well not me but call the children I'll sit down at the table with them but I'm not eating I'll sit down here at the table where they can see me when they come in I very noticed I was dinner and the children are bound to see it right George Gillis leave when you set your mind to something you do it hello wonky hello my dear mr. Gillis leave having lunch with us I see well not exactly hi oh you children notice anything about me it's our spot on your neck tie it's something bigger I mean don't you notice something I don't see anything on key you look fine to me mr. Gillis leave children can't you see I've lost weight I'm thinner I haven't eaten anything I've been exercising Uncle Mort you aren't doing this because because we laughed at you well oh mr. Gillis leave not because of us well yeah we didn't mean it you didn't oh on key we wouldn't have you changed for anything we love you just as you are sure don't ever change mr. Gillis leave children this touches me very deeply though I should have known you wouldn't excuse me I can't get up I'm going out in the kitchen for a drink of water but now I can't move it's my own fault not eating since last night rolling across Hooker Lake my strength is gone I can't get up mr. Gillis leave I know why you can't get up I glued the seat of your chair this morning and it wasn't dry yet my new suit right back tomorrow when you shop remember this the margarine that tastes so good because it's always fresh is parquet margarine made by craft in states where colored margarine is sold get yellow parquet already colored and ready to serve in its wonderful new aluminum foil flavor saver wrap elsewhere get parquet in the handy color quick bag or regular package in any state in any package parquet tastes so good because it's always fresh that's park a y parquet margarine made by craft get some tomorrow yep you can give me a double banana split with plenty of whipped cream and don't be stingy with the nuts double banana split with whipped cream and nuts that's what I thought you said yeah I'm all through trying to get thin baby a man should be what he is not try to be something different look at you you're a quiet little druggist you wouldn't want to change you wouldn't want to be a big shot you wouldn't want to have a mansion and a yacht and run around with beautiful movie stars no no no we can change that good neither would I goodnight boss you know this lead is played by Willard Waterman the show is written by Paul West, Johnny Elin and Andy White with music by Robert Armbrustin included in the cast of Walter Ketley, Mary Lee Robb, Lillian Randolph, Dick Crenna, Earl Ross and Richard LeGran this is John Heaston saying goodnight for the craft foods company makers of the famous line of craft quality food products be sure to listen in next Wednesday and every Wednesday for the further adventures of the great gilded sleeve here's a quick pleasant way to make leftovers more delicious just add a little craft prepared mustard and you'll add a lot of tang hidden flavors in boiled ham sausage most any meat pop right out every bite tastes better now you can get two kinds of craft mustard salad mustard delicately spiced for those who prefer a milder flavor and craft mustard with snappy horseradish added have both kinds in your pantry then with every meat dish hot or cold just add a little mustard and you'll add a lot of tang craft prepared mustard for a half hour of spine tingling excitement listen next Sunday afternoon to the Falcon over this station check your newspaper for time of broadcast and hear the Falcon solve the case of the double nephews gilded sleeve on your marks for Groucho on NBC


The footprint of NextLink has grown massively over the last few years. We put up, last year we put up 135 new towers. We're now 400 tower locations and close to 22,000 subscribers. It was probably two or three years ago. We started putting towers kind of on top of towers and then we had towers that we were starting to co-locate with other ISPs. And so when our access points started to fill up, it was very difficult to put, to overlay another access point because of the spectrum. It was either us or competitor had eaten up most of the spectrum. So that's when we started looking for a different technology or different ways to mitigate the interference. And so we started putting up smaller towers in smaller areas, but our access points still started filling up. And so that's probably when, two or three years ago, when I went to WISPA and saw the product there. So we got a couple of them and put them up on a tower and noticed really quick that it helped with the interference. And we said, OK, well, let's throw up a whole tower, a complete tower with them and see how it performs. And they performed really, really well. We put it on a tower that had another service provider on it. And noticed that the interference almost went away completely. So we were pretty excited about the performance. And since then, we've put them on pretty much every tower that we've had. So in the last couple of years, we've put up real close to 2,000 RF element in tennis. We were nervous about them at first because it was low gain. But after actually throwing them out in the field, that low gain, but being able to cut out some of that signal, was actually able to increase some of our link budget. So better modulation rates and actually better signal levels in a lot of some areas that we've seen. After introducing the RF elements, we saw a major decrease of just all spectrum related issues. The bleed through was gone. The true side to side interference, we didn't see it. So it was great there. It reduced our workload completely. At that time, we had three personnel running 24-7. So to have that into our network was great. Once we've transitioned to the horns, we've been able to really increase the amount of customer capacity on the access side in terms of spectrum availability. One of the benefits we've seen with the horns is we got to a point where people are requiring more bandwidth and we've had to limit the amount of people that are on our APs. And with a horn, when we max out that limit, we're able to easily go up through a small antenna to feed 10, 15, 20 people without overloading the power. With RF elements, we've got 12 access points on this tower. One side of the tower is getting really, really full with customers. So with RF elements, it allows us to throw up another access point. So in that particular area, now we have actually, we've overlaid the tower three times in that one direction. So 12 original antennas plus three more antennas facing the same direction. And it's, I mean, they're working perfectly. You know, the horns have helped us out a lot in that situation instead of just blurring out the signal with the sectors. We've been able to focus the signal more into the areas that we're trying to hit instead of just throwing a bunch of noise out there and everybody interfering with it. Our competitors are also starting to go to horns too, so it's a win-win for everybody. As far as our customer service, it has tremendously improved. We have been able to get a lot better clarity on getting the interference out of there and making sure that we can get dedicated connections to those APs that we have. We can increase our customer base because we don't have to worry about so much saturation on the RF side. We're now starting to offer 35 and 50 meg packages off of the same access points that we were offering, you know, 10, 15 and 25 meg packages. So now we're offering 50 meg packages off basically the same platform, but because the RF elements and antennas allow us to mitigate that noise, we can now offer those 50 meg packages. We do four towers a week, probably 12 towers a month around there is average. And that's 100 plus horns that we're getting done. And with the size of these and the efficiency of putting them on the pipes, it goes quickly and smoothly. Whenever we backpack these ones up the tower, it's not a lot of weight. There's a really light. I mean, really, when we go to mount it, there's not a whole lot you got to do in the mountain, you know, you just put it up there and stuck the bolt right through, tightened it up and we were good to go. When we deploy a tower, we'll run spectrum analysis on everything, find the cleanest channels and we'll try to basically use an ABC configuration. For our towers that have 12 APs on them, we'll use 12 RFE 40s. That way we get a little bit of overlap on each side so that it makes up for the human error as far as pointing them. With the eight APs, we'll use RFE 50s. And then once we get the six APs, we usually stick with the 60s. We haven't really seen much of a gap in the APs with those. We are using the GPS sync on it. We use the ABC channel plan. Usually our opposite-facing APs are on the same channel. And we've seen to have pretty good results with that. On our newer towers, we deploy the horns initially. And we've noticed that there's been a lot more consistent performance on the GPS synchronization, a lot less GPS frame loss. So our overall performance has been much better. Just seeing all of that technology getting better, it just makes us better as a company to be able to deliver the best product that we can. And so from where we started to now is drastic change. It was a perfect solution for us. And at that point, we don't put any other antennas up. It's all RF elements from here on out.


So now that we've talked about what authority control is, let's talk for a minute about why it's important. There are a few different functions that authority control serves for a library catalog and a few different reasons why it's useful. One of these is called disambiguation. This can be useful for telling apart, for example, different people who have the same name or similar names or, for example, words that can be used to mean different topics that are used as subject headings. For example, if you had three men who all wrote books using the name John Smith and that's how it appeared on the title page, you would need to provide an authorized access point that would allow library patrons to distinguish between these three men. So one of them might have a middle name that starts with P and so you can go include his middle initial in the authority record. If two of them have the same middle initial, you might need to go further and use a birth date or death date if it exists if they're not alive anymore to distinguish between them. So John P. Smith, John S. Smith who was born in 1969 and John S. Smith who was born in 1982, they are all different people and authority control and authority records allow you to distinguish between them even if they all use the name John Smith when they were writing. Another function of authority control is called co-location and this, instead of distinguishing between different people or different subjects, this brings together everything that is written by a particular person or everything that is about a particular subject. For example, if you had a person whose name appeared differently on the title page, for example, the first thing they published maybe was the dissertation. They used the middle initial and it was John P. Smith but then later when he published books it just was John Smith and you want your patrons to be able to know that these two items are written by the same person, even though he used his name differently and therefore it appears differently in the title and statement responsibility field, you would use the authorized access point. So if the authorized access point was Smith, John P., you would use that in your 100 field regardless of how the name appeared on the title page. Another useful thing about authority control is that authority records usually contain cross references. This can be helpful if your patron is doing a search in the library catalog but they don't know the authorized access point. If your system makes full use of cross references and sadly not all catalog systems do, but if it does, if your patron typed in Roosevelt comma Teddy looking for something either by or about Teddy Roosevelt and if your authority record has a cross reference that directs them from Roosevelt comma Teddy to Roosevelt comma Theodore, then your authority record and authority control will have done its job in helping your patrons find what they're looking for. So those are the basic functions of authority control and why it's important.


The World Health Organization, WHO, conducted a survey to assess the status of sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, SIRMCA, policies in 150 countries. This survey was the first of its kind, allowing countries to compare their progress in adopting who recommendations in national SIRMCA-related legislation, policies, guidelines and strategies. It also created a global database and searchable document repository. The survey results were used to identify gaps in SIRMCA policies and provide a platform for policy dialogue. This article was authored by Elizabeth Katwan, Jeffrey Biseborwa, Betsy Butron Riveros and others.


Today is International Universal Else Coverage Day. The theme of the day is Unite for Universal Else Coverage. Now is the time for collective action. Partners around the globe now have a unique opportunity to engage in multi-sectorial dialogue and advocacy efforts as we work together to achieve target 3.8 of the Sustainable Development Goals. The 3.8 focuses on the achievement of Universal Else Coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services, and access to safe, effective, affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all. As Director-General of IOM, I am very encouraged to see that the leave no one left behind concept has been highlighted as a key thematic area. For all people, regardless of race, gender, age, citizenship or ability, need to be included in the Universal Else Coverage movement. By building resilient, accessible and equitable health systems, Universal Else Coverage can and will be attained. But it will not be truly universal if migrants continue to be excluded from health services. Despite migrants' considerable contributions to the development of host and home communities and the obvious public-else arguments for including them in Universal Else Coverage, many are still left behind. In November 2017, IOM joined the Universal Else Coverage Partnership 2030, a cooperative effort to ensure that the health of migrants is explicitly addressed in national and global development strategies. The realization of Universal Else Coverage for migrants will require innovative policies and sustainable financial mechanisms to ensure that migrants are accounted for in financial risk protection schemes. IOM remains committed to this effort, alongside partners like the World Else Organization and the World Bank. Furthermore, the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration presents us with a significant opportunity to foster intersectoral partnerships and policies that include migrants in the global else discourse in the spirit of leaving no one behind. Through our robust partnerships with the World Else Organization, the UNH 2030 Partnership and Member States IOM commits to championing efforts around migration to lead to a high-level meeting of Universal Else Coverage into 2019. We stand united with all stakeholders and ready for true collective action towards the achievement of Universal Else Coverage for all. Thank you.