Strong mental health is considered an unavoidable requirement for success and effectiveness, while mental weakness is a sure road to failure. Our brain, being the powerhouse of our body, is so important that keeping it healthy should be a priority. A lot of poor habits can drain our mental abilities and put our physical health at risk. What is mental strength? When a person is mentally strong, it means he has a measure of resilience and control of his psychological and emotional well-being. As a result of this sound mental toughness, they can stay in touch with creativity and will be able to remain positive enough even to focus and overcome difficult situations. With strong mental health, a person's problem-solving skill is intact. This quality will also promote so much effectiveness at work. This is not the same for the mentally weak.  It equally means that you can perform efficiently and effectively under pressure and your problem-solving skill will remain intact and may even be heightened.  If this continues for a long time without being checked, it will lead to something drastic as important and strong mental health is. It takes commitment, dedication and patience to build it. It's with every good thing that comes at a price. If we understood the importance of being strong mentally, perhaps it would encourage us to be willing to pay the price. We can improve our mental resilience just by making certain changes intentionally. There are things that we do that certainly hurt our mental resilience. If we would keep away from those things, you may be well on your way to building a mental fortress where your mental resilience is greatly heightened.  First, push these things aside and you may be well on your way to achieving long-lasting mental resilience. 1. Being indecisive.  With that pressure comes mental stress. Done too much, this will lead to poor mental health. Just realize that all decisions are not usually perfect and whether you like it or not, you will always look back with regrets on certain decisions you make. If you're too afraid to make a mistake, you're most certainly bound to make a mistake. People who are slow in making decisions or who are very indecisive tend to disregard or distrust your own judgments. Since you distrust your own judgments, you would always want to be in control, which is impossible. And you may be unhappy with every result you get. Know that you can't control everything that happens to you. Distur decisions and if they were mistakes as a result of your choices, successful people have learned never to take themselves too seriously. Instead, they learn from their mistakes and move on. 2. Being overly self-indulgent. A self-indulgent person loves to have what he wants. When he wants it, to the extent that he wants it, without often considering the future or even thinking things through, such a person is thrown about by his own impulses. He's a slave of his impulses, always so quick to respond to the demands of his flesh without considering how their actions affect their future or others. A self-indulgent person lives for now and never for later. It doesn't matter how that affects him. With such recklessness, self-indulgent people do not have enough self-control and they like the patience needed to maintain resilience mentally. It takes discipline and self-control to keep your appetite in check. If you are able to do this successfully, you are automatically becoming in charge of yourself.  Self-indulgent people sacrifice their long-term happiness for temporary relief by responding to every little desire they have. It's discipline to not indulge and that helps your mental health. You're safe, emotionally and psychologically. 3. Being afraid to be alone. Letting the fear of being alone drive your life. Could mess up your relationships as your fear of loneliness will affect your judgments in such relationships. While we do not discredit being abandoned and a relationship could be challenging, people who do not love to be alone or people who are mostly dead scared of being left alone do not have a deep sense of self-love. They are yet to accept themselves and they do not understand and appreciate what it takes to be in their own company and have fun anyway. As much as we humans are social beings, loving yourself means that you are comfortable with yourself and are never thrown back because you are alone or because someone left you. It may not be easy, but learning to love yourself and your own company is key to staying mentally strong. When you're always wanting to hold onto others, clinging to them because you don't want to be alone, you'll only feel more lonely and deep down, you would still feel empty. Desiring the company of others before you're ever happy is attempting to cover up the emptiness you feel on the inside. As much as you should build relationships with others, learn to love and appreciate yourself and be comfortable in your own company. Wanting everyone to like you. Even though we all know that being a people-pleaser is never a good thing, sometimes we just can't help it. Most of us have been guilty of changing some aspects of ourselves, whether it's the way we look or the way we dress or the way we act, to fit in with people we like and impress those we admire. But having such a strong need to be liked by everyone and gain their approval can foster feelings of insecurity and self-loathing. 5. Dwelling on the past. Sometimes you can feel like going back to the past to change some things there.  Do you often wonder about what could have been and find yourself coming back to certain mistake, memory or past relationship over and over again? Be careful. Dwelling too much on the past and not being able to move on is detrimental to your mental health. It keeps both psychological and emotional wounds from healing and only serves to make you more remorseful, sorrowful and helpless over the things that have happened to you. 6. Giving up easily. Countless studies have proven that mentally strong people can remain strong and will persevere when they are faced with failure, adversity or rejection. As a result, it should come in as no surprise that giving up too easily is not good for your mental health. People who are easily discouraged by difficulty tend to be less successful, less accomplished and less emotionally fulfilled than their more determined counterparts. So, while it may feel easier just to give up sometimes, know that it may come at the cost of your mental and emotional well-being. 7. Having a sense of entitlement. Having a sense of entitlement means that you feel like the world owes you something, like you deserve special treatment for no good reason and while most of us aren't usually aware when we are acting entitled, our sense of entitlement shows every time we complain about a setback or an inconvenience, expect things just to be handed to us or get upset when we don't get our way. Mentally strong people, on the other hand, understand the value of hard work and know that no one owes us anything. 8. Letting your emotions control you. While expressing your emotions can be good for you, letting them control you instead of the other way around isn't going to do your mental health any good, because in getting carried away by what you're feeling, you could easily become unstable and lose your sense of control. You become emotionally volatile and let your emotions cloud your judgment, making you more prone to reckless behavior, rash decision-making and overreacting to situations. 9. Neglecting your self-care. Finally, but perhaps most importantly, neglecting to take care of your physical and emotional health will undoubtedly take toll on your mental health as well, only when you understand the importance of self-care and start prioritizing your own well-being, will you become mentally strong and stable? Ways you may be neglecting your self-care include overworking yourself, not getting enough rest, not doing the things you love and not dealing with your emotions. If you do any of the things mentioned above, you don't have to worry or feel guilty. You can start to make the right changes so you can improve your mental strength. You can spend time to meditate, stay alone, control your emotions, manage your time well, practice self-care and establish some boundaries and relationships. If this video inspired you, like the video. We love you.


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Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything one piece. Today we are going to be consulting the Animal Kingdom once again for the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia by examining the Mogu Mogu No Mi. The Mogu Mogu No Mi is a zoan-type fruit that allows its user to transform into a mole as well as a human mole hybrid. In the series it was eaten by Miss Merry Christmas a member of Baroque Works and first took the stage during the Alabasta Ark. Mogu is a shortened version of Mogura which is the Japanese word for mole which also happens to bear strong similarity to the verb Moguru which means to go underneath something which is very very applicable to the digging habit of moles. Speaking of digging we have another of what I would call horrendously bad translations of this devil fruit spawning from the four kids dove who decided to call it the Diggy Diggy Fruit and this time around we have quite a complicated reason for the change actually because it all started when four kids changed the name of Miss Merry Christmas to Miss Groundhog's Day which also included changing her zoan powers into a groundhog rather than a mole in which case calling it the mole mole fruit no longer fit and the groundhog groundhog fruit obviously doesn't have that great ring to it so hey they landed on uh diggy diggy it's like getting trapped in a web of lies really you tell one lie and then you have to lie again to keep the first lie consistent and then eventually you implode and your horrible dub company breaks down and files for bankruptcy twice you know that old tale but sadly this translation was also passed into the vis manga but as per usual the passionably late to the party funimation was able to fix this for their dub and simply called it the mole mole fruit. Now as many of you may have picked up on by now by far the greatest advantage that the mogumogunomi has to offer comes in the form of digging now generally according to established mole facts this creature is able to dig at a rate of about four and a half meters per hour and i'd say yeah that's pretty good for using your bare hands but the digging powers granted by the mogumogunomi differ incredibly allowing the user to dig just about anywhere they want near instantaneously in fact i'd compare the digging abilities of the mogumogunomi with the general act of swimming this is largely due to the impressive claws granted by the fruit which appear in both full mole and human mole hybrid form not only are they powerful enough to dig at absurd speeds but they are also able to slice through harder substances such as rocks as if they were the geological equivalent of butter encountering a warm knife so this obviously lends itself to most professions involving any sort of destruction or excavation although i'd say that the mogumogunomi only really lends itself to mass excavation rather than more detailed work due to the nature of the ginormous claws they really aren't made for detailed work at all so that's somewhat limiting however there are a wide variety of industries where these abilities would be beneficial such as construction plumbing and even grave digging furthermore in the world of one piece this devil fruit could be put to incredible use by borrowing undersea tunnels between islands particularly in the grand line where sailing above the water presents incredible dangers and we even know that this is possible to perform thanks to godatsu's cover story in which he encountered a giant mole known as the dirt boss who dug an undersea tunnel to the nation of alabaster and speaking of giant moles i think that's a decent segue to discuss the potential awakening of the mogumogunomi sadly i can't use manga material but here is a lazy rendering of what the dirt boss looks like which is pretty much what i imagine the awakened outcome of this devil fruit would be just with a bit more of a human element involved which would be a pretty damn terrifying creature really very much capable of ripping the average person to shreds in an instant should it desire which is always something to keep in mind as moles are indeed carnivorous i mean they generally eat worms but a supermassive mole may be more adventurous with its diet so the awakened user would certainly need to get that under control but once that's all said and done an awakened user of the mogumogunomi would probably be able to revolutionize the landscape of the world as we know it digging tunnels all over the grand line and possibly even out into the four blue seas in order to provide a safer method of travel for the inhabitants of the world which would be a far more effective way to bring an end to the great age of piracy rather than actively trying to arrest pirates but with that let's examine how this fruit was used in the series by miss mary christmas as an agent of baroque work she used the powers of the mogumogunomi mainly for combat which given those horrific looking claws is a pretty fair use i'd say miss mary christmas has a variety of punchy swiping attacks but she also makes use of her digging powers to construct a series of tunnels on any given battlefield she ends up on in order to provide herself with a terrain advantage and finally miss mary christmas has a particularly brutal use of the mogumogunomi whereby she grabs an opponent and smashes them into a wall at great speeds which just sounds painful some other miscellaneous things to consider when becoming a mole human moles are one of the very rare creatures in the world that can smell in stereo so not only would you be able to detect odors immediately but also the direction they traveled from so if you were a mole person stuck in an elevator where someone let one rib well you'd know exactly who to blame interestingly enough the mole is classified as a venomous animal as it contains a toxin in its saliva which is used to paralyze worms for consumption so it's only natural to assume that this trait may be passed on to the user of the mogumogunomi albeit in a more potent form in summary the mogumogunomi provides its user with quite a competent ability becoming a mole has no inherent drawbacks although the benefits gained are very focused in one particular area essentially if you have no interest in digging then this probably is not the fruit for you however if you do possess a fine enthusiasm for making holes or tunnels well then this is your perfect fit and with that we are going to commit the mogumogunomi to the devil fruit encyclopedia next week we are finally going to be traveling back into the domain of the paramecia in order to examine the super super spiky toge toge no me if you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produces in general then please do consider donating to 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Welcome back to our lecture series Math 1050, College Oddsworth for students at Southern Italian University. As usual, I'll be your professor today, Dr. Andrew Missildine. In our last lecture, number 46, we discussed that length and notion of domain of a function, but not so much about range. In this lecture 47 and also in 48, I want to try to remedy that for algebraically represented functions. That is, how do you calculate the range of a function is given by a algebraic formula? Well, the issue says it's a whole lot harder to determine the range of a function than it is to find the domain of a function. That's because there's much more nuance to determining the range. Basically, we want to rely on the graph of the function to be able to determine its range, which requires us knowing a lot about the graphs of functions, their asymptotics and discontinuities, all of that type of stuff. But there is one simple example that I want to discuss in this video right here. One way to compute the range for a one-to-one function, that is, those functions which pass both the vertical and horizontal line test, is to compute the domain of the inverse function. Because the domain of a function becomes the range of its inverse function, and in the direction we want to go, the range of a function is actually equal to the domain of its inverse function, assuming it has an inverse function. If we know how to compute the domain of a function, then we can compute the range of it if it's invertible. Now, not every function will be invertible. It's got to be a one-to-one function, but in those cases where it is, we can actually find its range. So consider this one right here. Let's find the range of the one-to-one function, f of x equals the cube root of 2x cube plus 1 over 5x cube plus 1. So it might not be obvious from the get-go that this is a one-to-one function, but it in fact is. So we take this expression y equals the cube root of 2x cubed plus 1 over 5x cube plus 1. And when you draw your square roots here, do make sure that you extend it to the bottom of the fraction. So you see that the denominators also included in that. So this is the equation that determines f. If we want to switch over to the inverse function, f inverse, we have to swap the roles of x and y. So the y will become an x, and each of the x's will become a y. So we get 2y cubed plus 1 over 5y cube plus 1. And so this might seem intimidating. We have to solve for y here. We can do it. We have to first start freeing the y's from their captivity. So to get rid of the cube root on the right-hand side, I would want to take the cube, which what's good for the goose is good for the game. We have to do the both sides of the equation. So you're gonna get x cubed is equal to 2y cube plus 1 over 5y cube plus 1. So next we're gonna clear the denominators, multiply the right-hand side by 5y cube plus 1. But what's good for the goose is good for the game. And we have to do it to both sides the same. So it cancels on the left, and we end up with an x cubed times 5y cube plus 1. This is now equal to 2y cube plus 1. We're still trying to free the y. So we have to get y out of its prison. We got it outside of the radical. We got it outside of the fraction. And now we have to get it outside of these parentheses, which that's easy to do just distribute the x cubed. And notice you're gonna get a 5y cubed x cubed plus x cubed is equal to 2y cube plus 1. We wanna combine together the y cubed. So let's bring all the y cubes to the left-hand side and let's move everyone who's not a multiple of y to the right-hand side. So we end up with a 5x cube y cubed minus 2y cubed. This is equal to 1 minus x cubed like so. And in which case on the left-hand side, we can factor out the y cube. Cause notice that we have a multiple of y cubed right here. We have a multiple of y cubed right here. If we factor it out, we end up with y cubed times 5x cubed minus 2 equals negative x cubed plus 1 like so. And so in this setting, we can divide by the coefficient of y cube, which is 5x cubed minus 2. Divide both sides, 5x cubed minus 2. In which case then we end up with y cubed is equal to negative x cubed plus 1 over 5x cubed minus 2 like so. And therefore to solve for y, we're gonna take the cube root of both sides. Make sure you do it to both sides. And so in the end, we end up with the expression f inverse of x is equal to the cube root of negative x cubed plus 1 over 5x cubed minus 2. So we went through all this effort and now we have the inverse function. So the inverse function wasn't actually our target. Our target was to find the range of f. So the thing here that's critical is that the range of the original function f is gonna equal the domain of its inverse, f inverse. So what are the potential problems right here? Well, we have a cube root, right? There's no problems with the domain of a cube root, like taking the cube root of a negative is not a problem. So the only real concern here is going to be what makes the denominator go to zero. That's what I'm concerned about. So let's solve that equation. The denominator would go to zero when 5x cubed minus 2 equals zero. So we add two to both sides. So we get 5x cubed is equal to two divided by five to get x cubed equals two fifths. And then taking the cube root of both sides, we're gonna get x equals the cube root of two fifths. So that is the value that makes the denominator go to zero. In which case that's the only number in the domain of f inverse that would make, it's not inside the domain, excuse me. This is the only real number for which is outside the domain of f inverse. So our domain here is gonna be all numbers from negative infinity up to the cube root of two fifths. And then you union that with the cube root of two fifths to infinity. So the domain of f inverse is defined for everything except for the cube root of two fifths. And therefore that's gonna be the range of the original function. You get every y coordinate except for the cube root of two fifths. Let's look at another example of this. Let's take this time the function g of x equals two e to the x plus one over three e to the x plus seven. And so if we think of the function f right here, it's given by the equation y equals two e to the x plus one over three e to the x plus seven. And so as we switch to the inverse function f inverse right here, we're gonna swap the roles of x and y. So we get x equals two e to the y plus one over three e to the y plus seven. And so this functions to solve for the inverse functions can be very similar to what we did last time. We need to solve for y. So I'm gonna begin by multiplying both sides by the denominator. That is I wanna clear the denominator. So they cancel here, but what's good for the goose is good for the gander. We have to do it to both sides the same. So we end up with x times three e to the y plus seven. And that's equal to two e to the y plus one, for which then we can distribute the x, distribute it there. So we end up with a three x e to the y plus seven x is equal to two e to the y plus one. So again, combining like terms, let's move all the multiples of e to the y to the left hand side. And everyone who's not a multiple of e to the y will move to the right. So we get three x e to the y minus two e to the y is equal to negative seven x plus one, like so. On the left hand side, as everyone's divisible by e to the y, we can factor it out, we factor it out. In which case then we get e to the y times three x minus two and this is equal to negative seven x plus one, for which then we'll divide by the coefficient three x minus two on both sides, like so. We end up with e to the y is equal to negative seven x plus one over three x minus two. And so how do we solve for y in this situation? We have to get rid of the base e. So we're gonna take the natural log of both sides, the natural log, the natural log. This then gives us y is equal to the natural log of negative seven x plus one over three x minus two, like so, for which now we wanna determine what is the domain of f inverse, right? So this right here is our inverse function, f inverse of x. So remember the range of f is gonna equal the domain of its inverse function, like so. In which case then the next thing to do is to see what problems does this have with its domain. We have a natural log, right? So we have to be concerned with negative seven x plus one over three x minus two, this needs to be greater than zero. We also can't let three x minus two go to zero, but that will be taken care of that when we think of the vertical asymptote of this rational function. If we were to graph this real quick, right? There is a vertical asymptote at two thirds, positive two thirds, so that's a problem. There's gonna be an x intercept at one seventh. So let's mark that, one seventh is smaller than two thirds. The y intercept, if we plug in x equals zero, we end up with negative one half. So y intercept would be something like this. And this is a balanced rational function in which case as x approaches infinity or negative infinity, this thing would approach negative seven thirds. Negative seven thirds of course is further down than the negative one half we saw right there. So connecting the dots, we would anticipate a picture looks something like the following, something like this. So where are we gonna be greater than seven? I was not greater than seven, excuse me, where are we gonna be greater than zero? That looks like it happens only in this sector right here as we go from one seventh, one seventh to two thirds. That's the only place where that thing is gonna be positive, one seventh to two thirds. So that gives us then the domain of, I guess I called it f inverse, I started this problem with a g, g or f, it doesn't really matter too much the name of the function. Sorry about that. So we get the domain of g inverse is gonna be one seventh to two thirds. Now the domain of the inverse function gives you the range of the original function like so. So what I wanna do here, when you look at these examples, they looked really intimidating, right? So these examples A and B right here looks really intimidating, but I promise you that it turns out that this is sort of like a cheap little trick that makes it look super hard but turns out it wasn't as bad as it might seem to be. So first of all, when you have a function like, f of x equals like A x plus B over C x plus D, right? These are called, this function's called a linear fractional function for which it's a linear function divided by a linear function. Makes sense. And these guys are always gonna be one-to-one functions. And I wanted to kind of show you that we can kind of shortcut the calculation of this inverse function very, very quickly by the following principle, right? If you take y equals A x plus B over C x plus D, if you look for the inverse function, we're gonna get x equals A y plus B over C y plus D. Kind of proceeding forward here, the first thing to do is clear the denominator. So you get x times C y plus D is equal to A y plus B.  And then dividing both sides by C x minus A, you're gonna get y, which is actually the same thing here now as f inverse of x. This is equal to negative D x plus B over C x minus A. So notice here, if you compare the original formula with the inverse formula, what happened? You'll notice you have these coefficients A, B, C, D. There's some movement around here. Notice that the A and the D swap places and you switch their signs. So now it's a negative D, negative A, okay. And then the B and C actually don't move around. So if you see something like that, it's like, hey, I can notice a pattern here. This makes the computation of their inverses a whole lot easier. Like for example, if we come back up to this example right here, I'm gonna quickly make the substitution u equals e to the x.  The inverse of this thing, the inverse of this function would then look like negative seven u plus one over three u minus two. And I feel like we saw that somewhere, right? Oh no, negative seven plus one, three and negative two. So the coefficients we are able to predict but what if the natural log, right? So when you look at this function right here, this function g of x, I'm gonna erase it for a second. The thing that we wrote right here. This function g of x can actually be decomposed in terms of composition.  And then you've composed it with the function e to the x. That as you put e to the x in for you, you have this composition of function. Okay, and I compute the inverses of these things individually. So the inverse of this linear fractional I can calculate by the formula. And then who's the inverse of e to the x? We've seen it somewhere before. Aha, it's the natural log. See that connected? That's natural right there. So we can actually do these things individually. And so when you have a function decomposition like this, so we have something like, so f of x is equal to g of h of x like so. Then if you wanna calculate f inverse of x, what you get is the so-called shoe sock principle. That is if f is equal to g composed with h, then the inverse function is gonna swap those roles around. And we call this the shoe sock principle for the following reason.  When you invert it, you have to switch the order of these things. And so with this example in mind, our function g of x, which was given as, what was it again? Two e to the x plus one over three e to the x plus seven. We can factor this thing as two u plus one over three u plus seven composed with e to the x right here. Well, what I know here is that by the shoe sock principle, the inverse of g is gonna look like switching the order. I first take the inverse of e to the x, which is the natural log of x like so. I'm actually gonna call it u. I always call the second one u here. And then you're gonna take the inverse of this linear fractional, which we saw was negative seven x plus one over three x minus two. And so then when you compose these things together, this function goes in for you. You end up with the natural log of negative seven x plus one over three x minus two. So when you have sort of like those, when you can see the function decomposition, you know how to calculate the inverse of the linear fractional. That problem of finding the inverse becomes so much easier. What about the previous example, right? What if we were to do f of x, which on the previous slide, I'm just gonna write it here on the screen. We have the cube root of two x cube plus one over five x cube plus one. Well, in this example, let me illustrate to you that this has a natural decomposition. This looks like the function, the cube root of u composed with, we're gonna say two v plus one over five v plus one composed with x cubed. All right, so we can see three functions here. I'm gonna put x cubed inside of the fraction and the fraction then goes inside the cube root. So therefore, when we compute the inverse function, we're gonna end up with the shoe sock pencil reversing the order. We're gonna take the inverse of x cube, which is the cube root of u. We're then gonna take the inverse of the middle function, which as that's a linear fractional, you're gonna get negative v plus one over five v minus two and then you have to take the inverse of the cube root, which is the cube like so. So because these guys right here are inverses of each other, it doesn't look like we went in the right order, but we did, we in fact did. And then when you put these things back together, we're gonna put a cube root inside of this and then this goes inside of, we're gonna put a cube inside of the fraction, the fraction goes inside the cube root. We end up with the cube root of negative x cubed plus one over five x cube minus two for which you can then see that was, you can double check earlier in the video here. I guess I'll just bring it up over. Let's see, let's go back. Where was our good friend? Aha, here it is. We actually were able to find the inverse. We can find inverses very, very efficiently, but remember the reason we brought this up in the first place is that if you have a one-to-one function, its inverse can be used to find the domain.


Welcome to the monthly news number 34. So this month, a lot of people left the workspace, including Philip, who was making the videos. So this means this month, I'm making the monthly news, cool. The main thing this month is that we had to be out of all the houses we're living in. There was a lot of houses and with more than 100 volunteers over the year, we have accumulated a lot of stuff, like mattresses. So it was a lot of work. So we did a couple of meetings, we organized, and then we started cleaning. There's a lot of stuff to take care of, trash, wood, glass, having a fire, burning some pallets. I've been tidying up the mess of 100 volunteers. We've been cleaning a lot and we still have a lot to clean. That's a lot of cleaning. And that's not all. We've also been doing a lot of organizing and shredding of the plastic. Let's go see Julia about that. So it's a mess, so we are cleaning. We collected HDB, PS, and BP and we have been shredding a lot with the new shredder and at the moment we are just separating all the types of different boxes. We put this into the box so we know what kind of plastic it is. We are sorting all the plastic by color and then I'm going to sort it back if it's dirty or not and we are going to shred the one that is clean. This one is pee-pee. Because we have a lot of pee-pee. I think also all this cleaning has made us a little bit crazy. Cat made bread shaped like people. You should hug yourself like that. No, wait. That's your creation, huh? No, wait, wait, wait. But yeah. Serfina knitted like 20 hats. She was knitting the whole month. Alejandro built a Temazcal in the garden. What are you doing, Alejandro? Alejandro is here. We are going to do a Temazcal. So it's like a spiritual thing from Mexico. You get hot stones. Basically the Temazcal is you burn, you heat these rocks, you put them there and what do you put there? And you put water. Water. Yeah, water. It's a sound, isn't it? Yeah. Well, so the houses are empty. Most of the people have left. I feel like December is going to be a pretty quiet month. And before I forget, it's time for the monthly raffle. This month we're going to give away these nice beach towel clips from Bacon Tilly. And that's the side, the magic of plastic, who it is. And the lucky winner is Jasper Jew. Yeah, we're going to contact you and have fun with your beach towel clips. Next month you can win this nice board from Thresh Birds and yeah, I wish you good luck. Hello everybody, I'm Cathy. Today we're reporting from Dhaka, Bangladesh. It seems like the whole team got some sort of sickness. So that's what I'm doing this today. We're setting up a workspace here. So if you want to follow the project, just follow our Instagram stories. So let's start with the community news now. Have you seen the plastic fruit from Limpi? Is that orange that they recreated? And what's interesting here is the texture that they develop. So it's cool because it inspires more people to play with textures. We've also noticed that a couple of people started making the machines as a table version, like the people from Las Vegas, Spain and recycling the spot from Germany. This reduces the size and the costs and makes the machine more mobile. Great stuff. Now it's time to feature Plastica Rafiki, a project run by students from the International School of Kenya. Thanks to their t-shirt, they could include precious plastic on their curses. They've been working a lot with local artists and other local techniques, like recycled flip-flops and came up with very interesting products that fit their context and uses. Very cool to see and keep up the good work. Okay, so that's it already. I'm trying to get our team back on track and see you next month in this. Alright, that's it for the monthly news this month. So don't forget to support us on Patreon if you can. It really helps us a lot. And if you have any questions and comments, you can comment below and subscribe to this channel to see more updates next month.


Why should we avoid using images that depict self-harm and eating disorders when teaching about these topics? I'm going to share with you three reasons why I think it's really important not to share pictures of stereotypical self-harm and eating disorders but before I do that I just want to reiterate I think it's really vital that we do actually talk about these topics so I don't want you not to teach about things like self-harm and eating disorders I just urge you not to use images like cutting and emaciated images which have traditionally been used alongside teaching these subjects. Now the reasons are these. Number one is that we can end up reinforcing an unhelpful stereotype. So with self-harm the images which will often go alongside that will be images of teenage girls and cutting and razors and this reinforces the idea that cutting is the only form of self-harm. Actually we know it's a very, very wide range of behaviours. It reinforces that this is something that happens only with teenage girls. Actually we need young people to know that self-harming can affect all sorts of different people of any gender and lots and lots of different behaviours. Likewise with eating disorders we often find that the kinds of images that are shown are of extreme underweight and actually that only represents a very narrow number of the people who are affected by eating disorders and in fact most people who are affected by an eating disorder will either be a normal weight or overweight. A small minority might be very underweight due to anorexia nervosa but most people with an eating disorder are not underweight so it's reinforcing again our unhelpful stereotype and again those images are largely often of females and we need our people to know that these are issues that can affect anyone of any gender and also any age and any culture and just anyone really. The second reason why we need to be careful about our use of images when teaching about self-harm and eating disorders is that sometimes those images can be actively triggering for young people who are vulnerable to those thoughts, feelings and behaviours in the room. So when we are sharing these images often what we're looking to do is to try and put people off from this behaviour. So we might think that by showing an image of extreme thinness for example that might make someone shy away from wanting to engage with eating disorder behaviours because you wouldn't want to end up like this. Likewise we might think that images of severe harm might make someone less likely to engage in that behaviour but we know that when we show these images in a class with vulnerable individuals that for a small minority of them it doesn't put them off from those behaviours but instead actively encourages them to engage with those behaviours and specifically when we show images of underweight this can cause quite a competitive sort of behaviour in young people who are vulnerable to eating disorder behaviours and a young person might see that image and instead of seeing something that they don't want to look like or be like or feel like instead they see something with which they want to compete and they might be already starting on the mental arithmetic of I wonder what that person weighs I wonder if I could weigh less than that how many calories would I need to eat or purge or whatever in order to get to that weight so these images might be off-putting of these behaviours for vast majority of your students but for the small minority who are most likely to be affected they can actually trigger the kinds of behaviours that we're looking to avoid. Number three the third reason why I think it's unhelpful to share these images is that sometimes when we share these images they can actively stop young people from engaging in help seeking behaviour now the reason that happens is that when we share images as part of our teaching we tend to show the extremes so we tend to show emaciation or severe self-harm and what that can do is it can send a message to a young person in the room who is engaging in these behaviours but perhaps whose weight is not extremely underweight or whose self-harm injuries are relatively superficial and it can send the message to them well you're not as bad as this so you don't need help that's not the message we're trying to send and we absolutely wouldn't want to stop our students from coming forward if they feel in need of help but sometimes when we share these more extreme examples it inadvertently sends that message so where does that leave us basically when you're teaching about these topics and please do teach about them it's not helpful to share these kind of sensationalized images of thinness or injury instead if you want to have images in your lesson what's really helpful to do is just to share images of a really wide diverse range of different people not looking to specifically portray eating disordered behaviour or injury but instead looking to show young people that this can affect any one of any age from any culture of any gender any skin colour any ability or disability any anything a really key message we need to get across here is that no one is immune to these thoughts these feelings these behaviours and we want to encourage help seeking from our students if they're worried about themselves or about a peer I hope this was a little bit of helpful food for thought I'm really happy to create further videos about the safe and sensitive teaching of these tricky topics as part of your curriculum if you think that would be helpful then do leave a comment below and let me know and I'll put together some further guidance for you and I look forward to hearing your comments and please subscribe and tune in for future videos on Tuesdays and Fridays thank you and goodbye


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering Discover 2016 Las Vegas. Brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Now, here are your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Las Vegas for HPE, HPE Enterprise Discover 2016. This is SiliconANGLE Media's theCUBE. It's our flagship program where we go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier with my co-host Dave Vellante. Our next guests are Colby Dice, Marketing Director of HPE, Eucalyptus and Cloud, and Bill Franklin, CUBE alum, VP of Eucalyptus Business at HPE Enterprise. Welcome to theCUBE, welcome back guys. Thanks, nice to meet you. We'll shake hands on that one, good. I want to shake your hand because you've been through the evolution of HPE. You've worked for all the guys who were spearheading the cloud, going back four years or so. And we've seen the evolution. Deeree Singh now at Cisco, and then Bill Hilf and then had a public, had a little bit of public, private, hybrid. Sargal, I was in there for a while. He's now running the NFV, communications, business solutions. But ultimately, the quote, cloud strategy buzzword, people, the press would ask you guys, what's your cloud strategy? Like, it feels like an answer. Has more, but still early. I want you to comment, take a minute to comment Bill, specifically around HPE's cloud strategy and why now the wave is still here or maybe to squash some rumors or conversations that people say HPE's late to the cloud. Yeah, well, I think it's a great question. I think in HPE's instance, we originally, when I joined HPE almost four years ago, we had a public cloud, but we also had cloud system and a variety of different products.  But the bet that HPE made at a fairly early stage was it was all going to be about hybrid cloud.  But the actual fact of the matter is, be it for data sovereignty issues, compliance issues, security issues, ego issues, people want to keep some data private. And before we were talking, Dave and I were talking about the aspect of, you know, a lot of this cloud stuff is really about all the data. And the data can be huge. People are building data warehouses, data sovereignty issues. So this hybrid aspect allows you to place the workloads where you want. If it's, if you're using Amazon public cloud and Amazon doesn't have a data center in that country, you might do a private cloud instance. People might have OpenStack on a private sense and they're bursting to AWS. So it's all about blending all that together. And I don't think we've moved off that course terribly, but the industry has changed a lot. So the core strategy, we will give you guys props at what you guys were right with hybrid. And VMware was there too. You got to give the elsewhere credit on that. He called multi cloud as well as hybrid. But now the cloud strategy seems to be getting a clear line of sight around where it is ultimately going, which is multi cloud. But integration now is a huge discussion. So thoughts on how cloud fits into a customer who says, hey, you know what, I'm going to have a bit of everything for the reasons you mentioned data sovereignty. But how the hell do I integrate this thing? What should I do? What are you seeing out there in terms of just the guiding principles around, okay, it might have multiple clouds around specifically integration. Yeah, that's a great question. A variety of ways. And I'll touch on part of it and I'll let Colby finish part of it. But I think one of the ways is people who've started to go down the Amazon path, when they come to HP or they come to anybody, they've already made the decision that they want to be consuming things. So a lot of that integration is around integrating with services because they don't want to stand up infrastructure. So in that case, Eucalyptus is a private managed cloud fits into that category. In other instances, they're using platform as a service, they're using containers, they're using a variety of technologies to integrate and really break loose from individual implementations. I don't know if you'd... Yeah, well, I'm just thinking about the integration challenges that our customers are having. You know, they want to go to the cloud. They're adopting the cloud, but it's kind of fragmented, right? It's its own little bit. They still have their traditional IT and their traditional applications and all their traditional data. It's a bit of a challenge. I think we're seeing customers now starting to understand how to develop cloud native apps while still using the older data, wherever it exists. But that blending, the blending that I think they're struggling with is really around tracking how to monitor everything that's happening in both these environments. They want to take an old style approach to a new platform. And that's a transition. It's a mental shift. It's a cultural shift that has to change. When a customer says I want to go to the cloud, what are they really saying? Aren't they saying I want to change the way I operate, change the way I service my business, service customers? Entirely. What are they really saying there? Yeah, it's... So I refer to it as a lot as cloud is the third revolution of computing, mainframe being the first client server, being the second and cloud being the third. And if you think about what happened in the revolution moving from mainframe to client server, it didn't just transform IT, it transformed the entire business, right? People who had little access to information now had huge amounts. Cloud really, not only is it changes in how architecture works in implementation and how you integrate it, but it also shifts from, cloud becomes very much more of an OPEX spend if you treat it all as consumed because you're not spending capital. The cost of capital has gone up a lot in the last few years. So when customers are often saying they want to go to cloud, they're talking about not only transforming their IT department, but transforming the corporation in terms of how they consume compute resources, how they use it, how they access it. And cloud allows them to fuel sort of that transformation through agility on the development side, through being able to deploy stuff really quickly, to being able to change their cost structure for it. They enter new markets, they can easily get there. So often when customers come to HPE to talk about cloud and they want to get there, they're often talking about much more fundamental business transformation that they're trying to pull off. And we're trying to enable that transformation much more so than changing what they were doing with a three tier to a multi tier web app 10 years ago. I almost feel like, go ahead. Well, at the end of the day, I think they were just trying to go, they want to go faster. Saying we want to go to the cloud is I just want to move much more quickly. I need to be much more agile. The competition's getting very fierce. We're seeing more competitors show up who don't have infrastructure. They didn't have to think about anything like that. They don't have any of this legacy. And now they're starting to disrupt businesses that have been around for a long time. And our customers have a long standing history, really good strong relationship with our customers. And they want to retain that and continue to offer the innovative capabilities that they're seeing show up. If people talk about waves of change, I almost feel like, and we've talked about this, John, we're entering a third phase of cloud. The first one was, well, let's just try it, mobile apps, whatever, startups. Second phase was during the downturn, people said shift CAPX to OPEX. And now it's about deeper business integration. So what should a CXO know and pick whatever X you want about HPE's cloud? What should they know about your value problem? It's a good question, it's also a tough one. So I would say it's a number of pieces with HPE we're very strong in all of the big cloud place. So OpenStack, AWS, Azure, we're also a pretty significant player in the PaaS space. I know you guys have talked to a number of the PaaS people. And we have a huge pedigree of managing and taking care of really, really large enterprises. So it's often a case where we understand how the enterprise works, we understand all of the pieces. So if I would say a short answer to that, it's deep knowledge, multi-cloud knowledge of your business. And those are generally the three big things customers come to HPE for around it. Because we're trying to solve business, at the end of the day we're trying to solve business problems and the developers and others help produce those business problems quickly. But the approach that they have to take is a bit different. They have to recognize it, it's a completely different way of operating. You're not going through the same models of provisioning resources, even through self-service portals and the way that people have been building them up for a while, right? It's drastically changed now. So you can programmatically get access to the resources and you're expecting the infrastructure to sort of take care of a lot of things for you. I would also say the operating model is changing also there for the economics. And you can put the economic in front of operating and you see that here at HPE Discover, HPE Discover where you're seeing the change of the services, ES going out with CSC, because those are changing the delivery model. So delivery models impacted significantly because if the customers want to operate differently, how you service those customers are certainly will be different. And I think that's something I think Wall Street, I don't think yet understands about what you guys are doing. And the other area I want to ask specifically and we've talked about microservices and Docker prior to coming on just now was the developer community has always been that startup cloud phase one as Dave said and then cloud native kind of phase two. And now you have this third phase of developer, enterprise developer.  But now with an Apple relationship they're bringing Swift programming language. So you're seeing the confluence of the mainstream app developer or mobile developer, web developer, whatever, together DevOps come together with the enterprise. So question for you guys is beyond Docker, beyond containers and microservices, what is the state of enterprise developers? Where do you guys see that? Because you guys have a view of that because you're touching AWS. You see what's going on internally to your customers who may not be that agile yet, but want to be. Well, I want to comment on one thing that you said at the beginning of that, which was HPE enterprise services and CSC. And where Eucalyptus fits in. So one of the things that Eucalyptus has been observing is people come to us about purchasing Eucalyptus, but they're coming to us because they've already chosen AWS.  They want to consume play for a private cloud. So Eucalyptus moved into enterprise services to support that because mostly all the customers want to consume play. And what we find out from the developers in that customer community to answer your question is the profile of the developers really changed in the last, I would say enterprise developer last five years. Incidently. It's a combination of, you know, they show up and they're used to using all their favorite tools, right? And their programming language and other stuff. And being able to swap them out. Yeah, so they'll show up and there may be a corporate standard, but the corporate standards have so now morphed that you have developers who fundamentally, as Colby said, are driven by agility and speed. So if it's I can use this container, I want to use this container technology, but there's this native service on AWS and there's this other thing over here I want to put it together. And loving computer history would got son and HP and IBM into Wall Street at the beginning of the client server revolution was all the smart kids who'd graduated with degrees in physics and computer science and math and responding to their manager and going, you want me to write this on a mainframe? It'll take me a year. Hey, if I can get that son workstation or that HP UX box, I can program this really quickly. And we're seeing that same repetition of history now. But it's happening faster. Yeah, so it's happening at internet speed. So there has to be a corporate standard for off-standard. Yeah, it's a free-for-all. You have to leave it open. You have to leave it open for the developers to move very quickly and to deliver the value. You're seeing, so there was time. The resources wasn't around much. Open source was a second tier citizen back then. Yeah, I know it's definitely first class. And everybody looks to it to grab the pieces, the resources to put them together. Okay, your point was about the developers. Andrew, I'm sorry about that. Yeah, it's just that developers need to have that freedom and the flexibility to move and adopt new pieces without having to wait. Yeah, so if there's a business case, go. Yeah, we'll solve the problem. So where I was going to go with this is, what we're seeing as developers and application architectures are getting more modular. There was a time when we were all talking about service-oriented architecture and we were decoupling or decomposing and then decoupling parts of the applications. And I think that's what we used to say we were doing, but now we see that in earnest. And more and more developers are able to just build it. And so whether they're using staccato, they're using a pass, right? Or they're using containers outright or the services directly from the cloud platform itself, they're able to pick and choose each of the individual pieces, build the modular bit and quickly, rapidly. It's a horizontal freedom, if you will, not to be dogmatic about this is how we do it before. This is just what we use. I think the change, and it's exactly what you just asked Dave about, so the standard is there is no standard. What the really, I would say savvy IT executives are doing is instead of saying you have to use this tool and you have to do this, they're trying to create a culture where the developer community is doing the right thing for the business. So instead of teaching the developer what to use, teach the developer what the right business outcomes are and what's good for the business and let the developers who probably know far more anyway choose the right tools, but make that choice and what's the right thing for the business. And that's the cultural change as opposed to get the project done on budget on time. That's right. And then you're done. And that's a really fascinating thing at HP. We've got such a good relationship with IT leaders, with the folks who need to deliver those capabilities and enable the developers to go and do it. You bring up a good point, Bill. I'm going to drill down on that because there's a thread going around on the internet past month, specifically around developer community, especially in DevOps and mainstream, around how to benchmark a successful project. It used to be activity-based, now it's outcome-based. So if you organize the teams that's on activity, hey, look at all the tasks we've done. They end up kind of like nowhere versus more outcome-based developer process. So not only is waterfall ending or changing. So hasn't everybody in the business become closer to the customer, right? They're getting closer to delivering value to the end user. Developers are creating new capabilities that are specifically in response to a customer need, right? In a way that wasn't there before. You had multiple layers where you had to get to, you know, I take the requirements and I give it to the developers. That old story. So I got to ask you guys a question since we're getting down dirty on this, it's really awesome. So a customer, because of the way the cloud is enabling because it's kind of horizontal, where data is at the center of the value proposition. Now you have multiple tools for the job. The old, the way it used to be to take a retail app for some customers a retailer.  Now the same question is different. Yeah, you'll need software for that point of purchase, but that point of purchase is now omni-channel. It's data-driven. Oh, by the way, I need to get data from the other data warehouses that are in different silos. And by the way, that's a DevOps problem, not necessarily a retail app problem. Do you agree with that premise? And if you do, what would you share with people who are facing this challenge? So it's interesting. You talk to, I would say, the really savvy IT managers now, and they'll have a development team of people. And the team has a goal around an outcome.  And, but the team overall knows, well, I got to talk to this data warehouse, and I got to talk to this, and I got to talk to this, and I got to talk to this. And they're building that solution that may be touching 10 or 15 different sort of small applications to deliver that kind of outcome. And it comes back to their tool choice. You know, where there isn't an underlying standard, because these guys at the end of the day are driving for that outcome, and they're going to deal with all the different existent things that are inside the enterprise. What I find fascinating is how they gather all the information that these things are out there in that enterprise. The aspect of discovery of which data warehouses exist, and where is it, and how do I talk to them? That always to me winds up being more of the challenge. And certainly one of the things we just talked with Chris Sellen about on the big data platform is, access to the data in disparate locations is not only critical, but having it move in real time, not so much past or future using analytics, analytics for in the moment now, where they say a retailer fraud transaction potential going on, they need that data fast. And they need that data in a compliant way, because they may, to make a business decision, need to access data that lives in countries where there are data sovereignty issues. So they can look at it, they can analyze it, but the result of that analysis may need to live in a certain place. And developers often do not know that compliance. Okay, we got a wrap, but I want to get you to comment on the final word here. In order to make that happen, we just talked about it's really, really hard to do. How do customers make it easier to get that job done? What should they, how should they organize, how should they be thinking? What's their culture? We have a quick advice for the folks trying to make that job easier. Training, lots and training. Get everyone skilled up, get the developer skilled up, get IT skilled up. You're going to have to transform the way that people are operating. Yeah, and I would, I mean, I would use the word transform the business, which is a significant component of it is training, but it's a new culture to capture all this new IT. Yeah, keep your eye on the prize, get in the business outcome, let that drive and let the tools settle where it is. Colby, Dice, thank you so much. Bill Franklin, here on theCUBE, sharing their insight on the transformation, digital transformation in the world of the enterprise. HPE for Enterprise. This is theCUBE broadcasting live. Join the conversation, go to crowdchat.net slash HPE Discover. Check out the CUBE page, it's called crowdpages.co slash HPE Discover for all the videos. 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Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. So it's been a few days since I've uploaded a video. I just kind of took a little break that I needed to take this week, but I'm back at it. And we had a fun Valentine's Day party at our house with some of our closest friends this week. And it was so much fun. The girls had a total blast. So this was actually after everyone had left and I started in on my weekly cleaning routine. So if you're new here, I put up a video every week with my weekly cleaning routine and I've been sneaking in some deep cleaning here and there the last little bit. And yeah, I just show you kind of what I do on a weekly basis. I am thinking that I'm going to make a daily cleaning routine video because my daily cleaning routines are a little bit different than like my weekly ones. It's just maintaining and keeping up with everything so that it's not a huge disaster whenever I hit that weekly day where I clean most of the house or the entire house. So that should be coming out sometime soon, but the first thing I do is kind of some general pickup. I vacuum everything and then I get into kind of some more detailed cleaning like the bathrooms and the kitchen and that sort of thing. This is my daughter's room and actually this has been one of my focuses lately. I am getting ready to do some DIY stuff for both of my daughter's rooms. I have some fun ideas up my sleeve that I really wanna do. And if you're new here, we've recently moved into this house a few months ago. So I feel like we're still getting settled. I'm still kind of decorating. Also, I got a sticker off that pillow. That's what was going on there. Oh my goodness. I really, really dislike stickers right now, but my girls are at the age where they love them and they get stuck on everything. Anyways, I am kind of thinking I'm gonna do some DIY decor pieces for both of their rooms. And if you guys watch my vlogs, that will be coming up soon. So this was the aftermath of the day before they had made some pretty big forts or like tents that they like to make with a lot of blankets. So that's why all of that was out. And then, of course, obviously, there was a lot of little ones playing with the Valentine's Day party. So it was a combination of all of that. And I just wanted to get it cleaned up quickly. Other than that, on the daily basis, the girls actually clean up their own toys. I really wanna know, really wanna know if I'm falling down, I will keep on searching for my eyes. You can say I lost my mind, I will keep on holding my head high. Even the sky's falling down. Jumping from cliff so high. Trust in our wings to fly. Sometimes we're crashing down. But we get up and start from the ground. This was the next day and I kind of divided up everything into two days this week again. I think I did that in my last video as well. Some weeks, just depending on our schedules, it works better for me to do part of the house one day and then part of the house the other day. But doing an entire clean sweep is just so important and it really helps keep things in order, even with my daily cleaning routines. It really helps to go through the house and do the whole house. And you'll see the random Valentine's balloons floating around the house. Am I the only one that whenever there's parties or anything that involves balloons ends up having a total heart attack at night when you get up and you see the balloon floating around the house? Oh, I also wanted to mention that this degreaser from Method is literally amazing. It's definitely gonna be on my list to order from Grove every time I order. And for those of you that haven't tried Grove before, I wanna mention that I don't order from Grove every single month. I have mindset up that I just order as I need. So a lot of times it ends up being every other month, every eight to 10 weeks, something like that. And I really like how you can customize all of that. If you've never tried Grove or never even heard of it, there is a link in my description box that you can get a lot of free cleaning products. And a lot of their stuff is a little bit more natural and less harsh than traditional cleaners.  We so rarely drink wine, it's just not my thing. I know a lot of moms really like their glass of wine at the end of the day but I would just rather have a cup of decaf than wine. My stomach just doesn't agree with it very often but it was pretty good. It was a nice change up for our norm. So if you watch my videos a lot, you know that I have not been using this mop since we moved. And the reason I haven't is just because I don't have a lot of area to mop and I was using my Norwex mop, but I will say this, after getting this out and using it again, I really think I'm gonna go back to using this. I just felt like it did a lot cleaner of a job. I don't know, I just really liked it. So I think I'm going to go back to it. I know so many of you have bought this and thank you so much for buying it through my link but I really, really still recommend that mop. Next I moved on to my daughter's bathroom. This is also where when we have guests they use this bathroom and I don't often clean the shower and now you're seeing my little secret behind the curtain. If this was our house we would just remove the doors but we do rent this house. So this was my way to kind of hide the outdated glass doors. Anyways, we had had my in-laws over the weekend and everybody used this shower so I went ahead and washed it but on a normal basis, my daughters actually take baths in our soaker tub in our bathroom. So I went ahead and did that. Another thing I've been so hooked on is these method all purpose wipes. They're so convenient, especially for like daily clean up, just wiping down the sinks and toilets, that kind of thing and they smell so good. While since I've had an actual like tub and shower cleaner and this one from Mrs. Myers, I have been so impressed with plus the lavender scent, it smells so good. I love how the bathroom smells whenever I'm done with it. And another thing I use on my tubs and showers is Mr. Clean Erasers. That is something that is like an absolute staple in my house. I use it to wash up walls and baseboards, all kinds of things and that combo just makes the tubs really clean. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you're new here, don't forget to hit the subscribe button for lots of motivating videos and give this video a like and I'll see you guys in my next video.


What's the word y'all? I'm recording this July 1st, bright and early in the morning. You could probably hear that in my voice. You'll probably see it in my face. But I didn't want to record this yesterday. Just a case of the crazy happened overnight. Nothing did. Zion got an extension in the early mornings and Ricky Rubio got a three-year contract with the Cavs, it's just so great. Coming off a major injury, you don't really expect people to get a multi-year contract, but he played some of his best basketball of his career with the Cavs and he helped them become one of the, the premier league pass teams last year and made them compete for a playoff spot last year. So I'm happy he's back with the Cavaliers, but I will say they won a free agency, absolutely men. I'm being honest, the best name to go to a different team was Jalen Brunson. And shout out to Kevin, I guess, because if it wasn't for Kevin requesting a trade, I don't have anything to talk about today. Or you can look at it the other way where Kevin requesting a trade is the reason why we haven't seen a lot of player movement because the other 29 GMs are getting on the phone and trying to figure out, are they actually in the Kevin to rent sweepstakes? And once they figure out that they're not, then they go out there and spend some money.  All right, so this might be biases talking here, but it feels like when I'm comparing 2021 free agency to 2022 free agency day one, 2021 is going crazy. It is killing 2022. And I said it might be biases because I'm a Chicago Bulls fan and the Bulls is one of the biggest buyers last year with DeMar DeRose and Lonzo Ball, Alice Caruso all signed into the Bulls in a matter of a couple hours. But like listen to the other names and the other things that happened in 2021. Chris Paul got an extension. They got a lot of people talking. Are you gonna be paying this old man Chris Paul for four years? They will be. Jared Allen got a $100 million contract. Cal Lauri left the raptors to go to the Miami Heat. Norman Powell got a five year contract with the Trailblazers. Like I mentioned, Lonzo Ball, Alice Caruso, DeMar DeRose and like these are big time things that happened in day one. And the best thing to happen yesterday was a bunch of extensions. Shout out to the young guys that's getting their max extensions, super max extensions. So showing them below from you. A lot of extensions and Jalen Bronson. That's it. And then like backup players, Andre Drummond, Isaiah Hardenstein is a Nick and I'm so jealous. I'm so jealous. Shout out to I Heart man. I wanted him in the Bulls, Jersey so bad. So shout out to the Knicks because they souped him up for the long. But Bradley, Jokic, Carthony Towns, John Morant and Zion, Anthony Simons. These are all people that signed a big extension. So shout out to them and their families because that is generational wealth. We talk about Jokic signing the biggest contract in NBA history. That's generational wealth. Let me nip this in the bud right now. Jokic becoming the, getting the biggest contract in NBA history is not a surprise.  The NBA salary cap is going up every season. Now it's not the crazy jump that we got when Kevin Arant signed the Warriors. But still it's going up every season. So in two years somebody else is gonna sign a contract bigger than this. It's just the way it goes. It feels like every year we see somebody signing the biggest contract in NBA history. It was Steph Curry signing the biggest extension in NBA history. And that was Nicole Jokic. It's a lot of money in the game of basketball and it continues to go up. So we're gonna continue to see bigger contracts. Okay, cool. Let's talk about Kevin because that's the only thing that matters at this point other than Ludoor signing the bag and Bobby Port is re-signing. Like again, it's just a lot of re-signing here. Oh, and there are more is getting the gang back together in Houston. That's another big storyline, a fun storyline. But everybody's thinking and talking about Kevin. A couple of days ago, Carrie Irvin opted into his contract to stay with the Brooklyn Nets and he said, see you in the fall. And I thought that was gonna be at least the end of the Brooklyn Nets saga or rumors for at least a couple of days. And it wasn't because Kevin went into the front office and went to the owner and said, I'm a question to trade. And I'm thinking about Miami and I'm thinking about the Phoenix Suns.  This is another time where he's going to a different team and the top teams on his board are a team that basically won their conference, the best team in their conference. The Miami, he would have won C. The Suns were the one C. The Warriors were the one C. Kevin Arendt don't care. He wanna play with good players and those are some of the best players. He say he wanna play with Jimmy. He say he wanna play with Devin Booker. So the Miami, he wanna put together the package. It can't even include them on a bio anymore. And I'm seeing so many trades being drawn up. And my mentions are on the timeline. And I think people are really undervaluing Kevin Arendt on a four year contract. It is a bit iffy though because let's say you are one of the teams that Kevin Arendt is not excited to go to. You got him on a contract for four years, which is great. But who says Kevin don't do this exact same thing in two years or next season once he can because he didn't wanna be here in the first place. It's different than the Kawhi Leonard thing. Kawhi Leonard didn't wanna play for the Raptors but he only knew that he only had to be there for one season and that season was successful. But Kevin, you trade him to a team that he don't wanna go to. I don't know what happens. There's just so many different things to talk about just Kevin Arendt stuff and I know I'm not gonna cover it all. Let's just keep it 100% honest. The Brooklyn Nets were a failure. In just three years time, they signed two max players, all-star, superstar, caliber players at Kevin Arendt and Kawhi Irvin and then they ended up getting James Harden and they won one total playoff series. Kevin Arendt, eventually James Harden and Kawhi Irvin were all on a same roster and they won one playoff series and this is about to be tore down. They gave up all the pick equity, all of the young players that they had and Jared Allen and this player and this player and they're about to go to a reset, rebuild, retooling, whatever you wanna call it. Now, I do not believe that they're going to try to bottom out because they don't have a reason to bottom out because they gave up all of their picks in the James Harden trade. So they're not about to go do a Dijonte Murray-type deal where you're getting only draft picks because they don't have a reason to be terrible. They're going to want, and at least this is what I think, a young up-and-coming star player plus draft capital. This is still Kevin Arendt we're talking about but again, like I mentioned earlier, it let's say I'm just throwing out a team. This is not a rumor. This is not something that I think it would happen. Let's say the Pistons go all in and trade for Kevin but Kevin don't wanna play for the Pistons. Why? Even though Kevin Arendt is Kevin Arendt he's one of the greatest players of all time. Why should I give up my entire future when we're not even sure Kevin would wanna be here for longer than the season? So these are the type of things that's going on and that's why it hasn't happened. I don't think the Bricklenets should be rushing to make this deal happen. They have an entire off-season to figure out. I didn't expect Kevin to be traded in the first 24 hours if he requested to trade because there is no rush. Either way, Bleach Report put together this article late last night, trade packages and landing spots for star Kevin Arendt since he requested to trade. The Miami Heat are one but I don't think they even talk. Okay, so it's Cal Laurie, Tyler Hero, Nicola Jovic, three first round picks and three first round picks swaps. This is what I'm talking about as far as pick equity. When you're talking Kevin Arendt is going to be something like this.  But I don't know if they believe that Tyler Hero is the type of guy that we want to give a bunch of money to. Cal Laurie is good and Nicola Jovic is the 28th overall pick in this year's draft, whatever he was. Phoenix Suns make is interesting because if another team just throws an offer sheet to Deondre Aiden, it completely tears up anything that the Phoenix Suns could potentially do. Deondre Aiden, McKell Bridge is three future first round picks and two swaps. Now we're talking. Now we're talking. And I know there's some Phoenix Suns fans out there like, oh my God, that's a lot. Remember, we are still talking about Kevin Arendt and just based off pure talent. I don't know if this is a lot. You know what I'm saying? Of course, there's baggage that comes along with, as you know, Kevin has been on a couple of different teams and it seems like every time he leaves a different team, there's some type of falling out in one way or another. So there is some things that come along with it. But if your goal at the end of the day and it is the goal for all 30 NBA organizations is to win a championship, Kevin can help you do that as a hired gun. And we saw that for two out of three seasons with the Warriors, the Memphis Grizzlies. Ooh, Jaren Jackson Jr., Zaire Williams in four first round picks. This package up here looks a little bit better than this package right here. I'll say that. The Toronto Raptors, can the Toronto Raptors do it again? Last time they traded for a superstar player, it was an absolute steal. They gave up an all-star and a future player and won one pick. This is gonna cost you a little bit more than what it costs you to get Kawhi Leonard. Let's see what they're saying. OG, Gary Trent, four future first round picks and three swaps. That's seven years of pick equity for four years of Kevin DeRess. Sheesh, and then the Trailblazers. How is that? Anthony Simons, who just resigned. So I don't know if this is, I don't know. Sharp, Josh Hart, three future first round picks and three swaps. What I'm figuring out is that nobody really knows what the package could look like for Kevin DeRess. Bobby March is talking about just gonna be the biggest trade package in NBA history, which is very interesting. But I wanna go back to talk about the Brooklyn Nets as a whole being a failure. Because like I said, you had all these players, only one one playoff series and that's because of injury. That's because vaccinations. That's overall because of just people being out of the lineup. That's turmoil within the locker room, teammates not getting along. And me and the guys were talking and I'm praying that other teams are seeing what's going on and realizing that the super team era should be over. The orchestrated super team era should be over. We got money for two max spots. Let's go get two superstar players. That has not worked out to the way that a lot of people anticipated. Kevin Durant, Cary Irvin and James Harden were the championship favorites. Like two of the three years that they were together. And again, one playoff series went. It is crazy to say aloud. And now when me being 25 years old, I'm looking back on those Miami Hedals, one of the original super teams is going to call it that. And the fact that they got two championships seems like a huge success now. And the moment we were like, oh man, this is a failure.  You only want two out of four. When you look at all these super teams that came after that two out of four, the Bricklin Nets will be be super happy with two out of four. You know what I'm saying? And I'm talking about the orchestrated super teams. I'm not, I do consider the, when Kevin Durant went to the words, I consider that a super team. But in the heart of that is homegrown with Steph, with Dre, with Clay, right? In the heart of that, it is homegrown. I'm talking about the super teams that seem like we gonna make a tray here to get a star. We gonna sign a player here to get a star and boom. Now we just throwing the balls out there. And these guys who've never played any minutes together are gonna do it. I'm talking about the arrow. We got three max players and the rest are minimum players. That is dead or at least it should be because these guys gave up all the pick equity in the world. They traded away all the young players that they had for the opportunity to bring in these three players. I'm looking at the front office over there and I'm thinking about like, who has the leverage here? You would think that the front office of the Bricklin Nets will have the leverage because well, Kevin Durant has four years on his contract.  We gonna do what's best for our organization. But you also gotta think about it from the player empowerment era that we're in. If the Brooklyn Nets trade Kevin Durant to the dead last team on his board of teams, that's gonna set them back as an organization when it comes to the future. When it comes to these other players that might be interested in joining the Brooklyn Nets. Cause I saw when Kevin decided that he didn't wanna play here no more, they did him dirty. And again, I know it don't make sense because before that they gave Kevin everything he wanted. He wanted Reed, we got you Reed. You want James, we got you James. You want to start Deandre Jordan?  But all of that goes away. If you trade Kevin to one of the teams that he absolutely despised. And I know it makes no sense, but that's just the way the NBA is. So we see the Brooklyn Nets two times in the last 10 years bottom out at the sniff to bring in some really good players, trade everything for a sniff to be in the conference finals to get a championship appearance. And every single time it has failed, how many championship appearances that KG and Paul Pearson, Dare Williams get? How many championship appearances did we get from KD, Kyrie and James? It has failed over and over and over. I would never do this again if I'm a general manager. I'm gonna try to do my stuff through the draft, do my two-diligence through the draft and then try to build a team that way. And if we're one piece away, then I'll give up everything to get your holiday. If we're one piece away, I'll give up everything to get this. But bottoming out like last year, two weeks ago even, I was saying that if I was a general manager and I had the opportunity to get KD and Kyrie, I'm doing it no-brainer. And now I have decided it's not a no-brainer anymore. It's just not, it's not a no-brainer anymore. In that moment, if I'm Sean Marks, 100% I'm doing. In that moment, if I see that James Harden wants to come to my team, 100% I'm doing it. But in hindsight, it's 2020, yes for show. Hindsight is 2020, I'm not doing it. And that could be James, that could be Kyrie, that could be KD, that could be Shave, that could be John Miranda, it could be Zion. It could be any two collections of superstar players. I don't know if I do it anymore because it doesn't seem like it has been working. Idle Porter's just signed with the Toronto Raptors. Hey, Toronto got, that is young back and now they got out of Porta. They're getting the Windy City Bulls together. Wow. Yeah, man, I'm just curious. I don't believe that we're gonna get a camera rent rate anytime soon. And when I say soon, I mean like today or tomorrow, I guess it definitely is a possibility. But you know, I don't think it's gonna happen. I don't see why they would rush it unless, unless there's one team that's giving everything, three picks, four picks, swaps, a young up-and-coming player, plus this, plus that, and then you do it if it's a no-brainer. But I just don't, I don't see it happening anytime soon. The Miami Heat, again, one of the teams that Katie wants to go to, their package doesn't look as enticing as some of the other teams that can put it together. The Phoenix Suns has a good package if they're willing to give that.  They said that. He said that. They don't care about draft picks. They don't even be doing scouting like that. That's how you get Jalen Smith instead of Tyrese Halliburton. That's how you get Jalen Smith instead of whoever.  So why not trade all the picks away anyway? What you got to lose?  James Johnson, because if this don't work, you're probably getting fired anyway. And then those picks that you gave up for 2029, not really your problem anymore, right? Shaw Marks, job security, probably in the tank.  So if Shaw Marks has a job at the end of this off-season or next year, wow, that's a lot of loyalty. It's a lot of loyalty. I mean, he showed before him, he was really good with the Jared Allen era, the Angelo Russo era. Team is really fun. I think that's why I wrap up. I don't have anything else to say. I don't know, you might be getting multiple videos in a day depending on how things go. Like if I publish this video, Kevin O'Regg is created in two hours. There will be another video. But either way, let me know what you think about free agency so far. Kevin O'Regg situation, I'll be down there.


You've found some amazing sources and you've gotten some really great information. How do you go about using this information in your own writing? In this video, we're going to talk about some techniques for how. Probably speaking, there are four main ways in which you can use information from a source. Firstly, you may be quoting from a source and this involves using a narrow segment of the source and using the exact words. You may also be paraphrasing part of a source and this involves putting a passage or a small excerpt of text into your own words. Paraphrase material is normally slightly shorter than the original passage, but the important thing is that it's in your own words. You may also do some summarizing and this involves putting the main ideas of a large section into your own words. Often, summaries are much shorter than the original, making them slightly different to the paraphrasing approach. And then finally, you may be simply referring to a source. You may not be using any of the ideas or words directly. You may just be referring to it to support your own point. Irrespective of which of these ways you use, you must acknowledge the original source, often by providing a reference of some description. Quoting is often done to capture the exact words of the original source. And this may be because the exact words of the source are essential. For example, when you're doing qualitative research, participant words in, for example, psychology research are really important. They might capture important opinions or things which may be lost if we weren't directly quoting. You also might want to direct quote in subjects like English when you're asked to refer to a particular section of the text. Quoting might also be important for you when stating the exact words of a theory or law. For example, the law of conservation of matter or other laws like that, which have existed for a while, may have specific wording, which can only be written so many different ways. So quoting them may be the most appropriate way to go about it. However, try to avoid quoting to explain a concept or idea as much as possible. Try to explain these in your own words. Quoting for explanations sometimes comes off as a bit of a question that comes off as a bit of a cop-out. It looks like you're trying to get away from explaining the concept on your own, so you're using the source itself. Try as much as possible to avoid this. Also try to avoid quoting just simply for convenience. Again, this comes across badly in writing, and instead it's better to use quoting for specific analytical purposes as needed. Given on the right here are some examples of quotes in action. Paraphrasing is often done to capture the meaning of something but using different words or sentence structures. This normally ends up with the text a little bit shorter than the original, but the important part is that the meaning more or less remains the same. Paraphrasing can be quite necessary in some cases to avoid any academic integrity issues or plagiarism issues, but the key thing is to use paraphrasing when you're focusing on a section or part of a text that you're required to write it in your own words, which is normally the case. Use your own words and, importantly, your own sentence structure as well. Just simply changing a few words here and there may not cut it. It may still be too similar to the original. Given here is a piece of text. Pause the video and have a go at paraphrasing this to the best of your ability. Now, I'm sure you may have come up with way better paraphrases, but here is an example of what this would look like paraphrased. Notice that both the sentence structure and the wording has changed and the length has shortened a tiny bit as well. Finally, summarizing is a technique used when you're creating a shorter version of a longer text. This is normally to give a concise overview of the main points or ideas without using some of those broader details that are irrelevant. Our summary captures the overall message of a text, but it doesn't use the words of the text much like paraphrasing. It uses its own sentence structure and wording. When summarizing, ask yourself a few key questions. What are the main ideas? What details in the passage are needed to support these ideas? What details are irrelevant for your specific purpose? And then try to use keywords or phrases to identify these as appropriate as possible. Have a go at summarizing this method section from a research paper. Now, again, you might have come up with much better summaries than what I'm going to show you here, but a typical summary would look something like this. Notice that the text is quite a bit shorter, but it's capturing all the important detail. Irrespective of how you use your research in your writing, you will need to acknowledge your sources. This normally involves doing some sort of referencing. Now, referencing could be either in text referencing or a reference list or probably a combination of both. The best thing to do is check with your teacher or instructor to see what is required. In text referencing is basically a citation thrown into the sentence to show where some of that information has been obtained from. Often there is a corresponding reference, full reference in the reference list that gives you more detail. When you are quoting an in text reference would look like this. At the end of the quote, you would have the last name of the author or multiple authors and a date of publication. When paraphrasing or summarizing a similar deal, you'd have the author's name as well as a date somewhere in sentence towards the end, the difference here being there's no actual quote. When simply referring to a study, once again you could do so. You can refer to the study by name over here, but you would have the last name of the author as well as the date. In all of these cases, there would be a corresponding reference in the reference list. This would be the full reference with details of the journal as well as where to find it. In conclusion, try to pick the tool that best suits the purpose. Be selective, pick the most ideal approach as needed for the context. Quote, if the exact words are important, use paraphrasing if you need to explain things in your own words. Summarize if you need to shorten quite a bit and explain things in your own words. And then just refer to if just using the source to back yourself up. Always remember to acknowledge your source, but the key thing is take ownership of your writing. Pick the approach that works best for you, your style of writing as well as what is required of the task. Thanks for listening.


Part two on anticipatory anxiety. What can I do about it? That's what everybody wants to know. So I'm going to give you three concepts that you can work on, but be warned, none of these is designed to instantly make it go away. There is no such thing. We could get better at dealing with it over time, and that's how it improves. So the first concept is the idea that your anxious brain is insisting that if you keep thinking about the event and worrying about it, somehow you'll make it better for yourself. That is a lie. It's making it worse. So you have to learn to disengage from that when your brain is trying to drag you into that thinking cycle. How? Concept two, mindfulness. Learning to live in the moment and bring your focus back to the current moment rather than living in the future is important. This is a thing that you can practice and get better at over time. And the third is indecision. That is not helping you at all. Decide to either cancel the event or don't cancel the event and go through it. But don't spend weeks going back and forth. That makes things worse. I hope that's helpful. There's more on my YouTube channel.