dystopian times. Stephen Crowder is trying to spin this as it's not necessarily him that got embarrassed. It's actually Ethan of H3. You can't say that Sam was embarrassed because Sam absolutely objectively was not embarrassed, but it's Ethan Klein of H3 who's the coward. So look at this title here. The greatest self-own H3, H3 Rex himself brags about it. So he did change the pinned comment. At first he was calling Ethan Klein a coward, and then a lot of people responded saying, oh, actually you're the coward, so he changed it. But I just want to go through some of these comments before we discuss, and I feel like Matt probably has some insight inside that he can give us. So first of all, this comment here, 20,000 likes. Looks like someone's father wasn't around to teach them how to be a man. I mean, it's just, it's beautiful. He literally showed himself getting up and checking if the other guy was live. And he admitted this. Like, I feel like, I genuinely, like I hate Stephen Crowder. He's a terrible human being. He's a homophobe. He's a transphobe.  But even I felt bad. Like seeing how embarrassed he was, like this is like the definition of cringe. Gus says, I can't believe he hit his face from the camera. I cringe so hard, I couldn't feel my face. And that's like, that describes me. It's that secondhand embarrassment. It's like quintessential cringe. So am I the only one that wanted to see the debate? I would have loved to see the debate if, and we'll stop that with the comments there. Here's my take on this. It wouldn't have been as bad for Crowder if he just stayed and debated. The fact that he ran away made it so much more worse. And this whole debate, me bro, culture is slowly but surely falling apart. Matt, please, please, please give us the juicy tidbits that we missed. Well, I think, honestly, most of it is public now. I think Sam went through the whole story on his show about how it went down. You know, if you don't know, here's a quick summary. Basically, Sam was scheduled to debate Crowder at a politicon a couple of years ago. Once Crowder found out that Sam was who he was going to debate, he pulled out of the event on a recorded call that Sam has aired. Politicons, one of the political bookers have gone on the record to say that Crowder's dad pulled him out and once they found out, he would be debating Sam's eater. So Sam has pursued this like one would do once finding this out, right? I mean, if anything, it makes for good content that someone is literally running scared from you. And then, you know, this came up with Ethan of H3H3. His producer apparently is a fan and told the story that I just told you guys on their show, and then they had this idea to bring Sam on because H3H3 and Crowder was feuding. And Crowder wanted to debate Ethan from H3H3 because and Ethan has said on the air his himself, you know, I'm not a political person. This isn't I don't do a political show. I just had some thoughts about the CDC and COVID. And that's what Stephen Crowder was so mad about. And Crowder even called it a layup to his face. Like this is going to be an easy debate.  And so, you know, the fact that Crowder ran away from this tells you everything you need to know about, like you said, the debate, me bros, their house of cards is falling apart when someone with some sort of skill and knowledge of the issues wants to discuss it with them. Because here's the thing, too. You know that if Crowder stayed there and actually debated Sam, like, you know, his audience would have been able to spin it much easier. You know what I mean? Like, Crowder would have been better off. But even if he lost the debate to anyone who, you know, has a unbiased mind, his crowd still would have looked at it as a win because they've already used to his talking points. They would view them as the winning view. But, you know, they couldn't even do that. Like he was that scared to be called out by Sam. It's just bizarre that he would do that. I think that's really weird.  We know for a fact. What was that about? Did you see the Mug Club member calling in to Sam's show and saying, like, I really wanted to see him debate you? Like, he can't prime your audience for multiple years to debate people. And then, like, just turned down like obvious debates that you said were going to be easy. Right. Yeah, absolutely.  And Sam isn't either, by the way. There are people who think like Sam goes around doing this. Sam literally takes calls every single day, Monday through Friday on a show. Anyone could call in. He's just happened to create this persona because so many right wingers, especially libertarians, would call in and debate Sam. And Sam would, you know, to be fair, dispatch them with ease. And so, you know, people will like seeing Sam debate. And, you know, if Crowder never was set up to debate Sam at Politicon, this would have like this never would have been a thing. Like he wouldn't just go after Crowder for no reason. Same with Dave Rubin, by the way. Dave Rubin was supposed to discuss we're supposed to have a sit down, I guess, a debate with Sam and then the late great Michael Brooks said something on an episode prior to the debate that really hurt Rubin's feelings. So from that moment forward, Rubin, maybe he canceled the debate and refused to have any sort of interaction with Sam. I mean, if you asked me, he was just looking for an easy out. Oh, yeah.  Like Sam saw an opportunity to put this guy on blast. And it honestly, you can say whatever you want to say about it. It 100 percent worked. And I love the people who are Crowder fans who are who reply to people on the left who are talking about how much Sam, you know, put them on the spot who are like they're owning Ethan for being scared of the debate. I mean, Ethan said himself, this is not my thing. And also no offense, Ethan. But, you know, we're not that this wasn't about Ethan.  Like, you know what I mean? You want to disparage Ethan that go ahead? He's he's not someone like who represents the left. I think the only reason why Crowder really ran was because he didn't want this to be the the fourth, maybe even the third biggest disappointment that he had in his life to his father. You know, he pulled him out.   He knows your he knows his limits, OK? Like, Crowder is still on training wheels when it comes to like debating people. That's why he sits down and talks to like college freshmen's walking to their English class in like three p.m. OK, and make sure that he records it like two weeks in advance and hides his entire like travel plans to make sure nobody who ever has a platform can ever find him and still sometimes he gets bodied. He still gets bodied there. So if that's the case, then obviously he's not going to be there or with anybody who knows what they're doing. I mean, come on now. He the the second he was talked about with anybody with anybody else like a OG sort of YouTuber, my man was like jumping at the bit to talk to talk about some like mid third talk to some like debate, some mid thirties like comedy, massive vape, bro, YouTuber who slouches in his chair and and coughs and like and just talks about internet culture as his job. OK, and that was his that was the peak debate to him. And finally, someone who comes up who actually knows what they're talking about is there.  Hey, take the glasses off. Let me see your velveteen rabbit buttons, which if you didn't know, I'm 90 percent sure that's an anti-Semitic reference. Yeah, actually.  I think I think we all just about know this. Oh, oh, yeah. And also talking to Sam would have been, I think the second largest person that he would have like debated besides like, like, like, Cenk Uger, but he didn't really debate Cenk. If you he didn't.  Instead, he went to go crash a and this is up on this channel. He went to a crash a panel that Cenk Uger was at.  All right. But not for like the recent Crowder ones.  You're done.   He's bad. And that's that's it. And it goes on. It goes on like an impractical Joker skit.  Like, it's so cringy. I couldn't finish and it goes on for like four minutes. The guys like and that's like the best comedy that he possibly has. Right.  He didn't know. See, the thing about that is he didn't know when to end it. Like if he made a one minute appearance, crashed the event and then bounced, that would have been OK. I mean, it still was cringe worthy. But the thing is that he he doesn't have like he's not very self aware and shark, you kind of helped me remember what I was going to say. So like his sick offense, they believe that Stephen Crowder looks fine. But I mean, like people who are neutral, who don't know who Ethan Klein or Sam Cedar or Stephen Crowder is, if they see this, like there's no spinning this. Like he looks like a coward.  And before we we move on to the next segment, which we're going to let Joy jump in and she's going to take control of the next segment. I just have a question for Dylan. Dylan, is it possible that you could possibly get our boy, Stephen Crowder on the hippie-dippy round table? Is that not not that there is something else possibly in the works with Stephen Crowder? But I I don't want to say anything at this point. What I will say is this, this is the most hurt he's been since he was clocked by that union protester in 2011 after he shoved him to the ground. And not only that, but the thing is with with with Stephen is he made this thing of like, well, he's a one million Andy and I'm so much bigger. I'm five million Andy. He debated like Jeff Holiday when he was like a hundred a went about how Stephen Crowder tried to downplay how hurtful A's was the United States and different communities. If he's willing to debate him on something as as ridiculous as that, then why can't he talk to Sam about like the CDC or what a politic on at one time, Gavin McKinnis and as somebody who's, you know, had to deal with the proud boys coming into my community and burning the property of black churches. I'm no fan of Gavin McKinnis or the proud boys. Gavin McKinnis made an offer to Sam Cedar to come on his show. Sam wasn't interested, but then he said, hey, I can get Stephen Crowder. And then Stephen Crowder just turned it down. He's had multiple opportunities.  So not like it was going to benefit Sam Cedar. And if he really is such a small Andy, why was he literally spying on his show the week before? Watching it, monitoring it, because then when it went down, he cancels in the next week after he pre-recorded it because Sam is big brain. Then he comes on and does the show. It's if you think someone is such a small creator that they can't even be bothered, Sam, who is what he said? Then why were you like basically spying on the program? Also, can I can I just say one? Yeah, absolutely to the next topic very soon. But there was also someone that like pointed it out, like he makes like this after he says like, oh, what a surprise or whatever. He makes his visual like or like physical cue. And he's like, lacky starts like walking over to the chair. Right. Leprechaun. It's because when I watch it the first time, I for some reason thought he was already sitting there. But then when you watch it the second time, you literally watch him get into position. And it's so embarrassing. I couldn't even have the camera on him for three minutes. The camera was off him. I can only imagine he was over there. I was just like, I'm like 90 percent. So what he does before the show is that what they they he tells them he tells his lackeys to do the soundcheck. He goes to sit in another chair and he opens his phone and he's watching his phone the entire time. I'm 100 percent sure he's watching Sam show to make sure that he that he's going live.  Yeah, right. He's a gosh. He doesn't know who Sam is yet. He also had his whole apparently his comedy career in his back pocket ready to run through. That's a weird material that and, you know, he, like you said, monitored his phone. And also I enjoy it. I think Sam mentioned it on the show today and he enjoys it now, too. How Crowder mentioned how Rogan won't have Sam on and the Weinsteins won't have Sam on and Sam Harris won't talk to him. And it's like, OK, you and Tim Poole on one of his, when he discussed it on his show yesterday, he mentioned vaguely how he knows of a podcast, major podcast that have blacklisted Sam. And it's like, again, you're just naming these, outing these guys for being scared of Sam. Like, thank you. You think I'm a coward? We're all the cowards together. Also you're keeping track of like all of the things Sam related, like, oh God. And the saddest thing is like, there was a very key part of his argument that was like, well, my viewers wouldn't even want to see you, Sam. And like, I watched a little bit of the stream from the majority report, like after that whole shebang the next day and there was like a caller who came in and he was talking with like a really heavy Southern accent. He's like, I'm a Crowder fan. I got his mug. Love this guy. But, you know, I'm going to be honest, I didn't know who you were, Sam. But to be completely honest, I would have wanted to see the debate. I'm actually sad you guys didn't get to talk. I don't know anything about you.  But I wanted to see the conversation.  And like Sam's, or sorry, not Sam, Steven Crowder's whole argument is like, no one would want to see you. It's like. Well, here's the thing. And, you know, I've heard this from people when I was a regular producer there and I hear it from my show now. Cause on my show, I usually cover, you know, right wing movements and, you know, conspiracy theories on the right. And people reach out to us and say, you know, we found your videos. We were a Crowder fan, Tim Poole fan, Ben Shapiro fan, whatever. I mean, people were tweeting it out today to explain that why it was so important. Like this isn't just like YouTube drama. People see this stuff and, you know, a lot of people don't have their ideology set out in the same way that, you know, all the people on this show probably do. People just come across these big right wing channels because they're really big and popular and they watch it and they enjoy it and they don't get to see anything else. They don't get to see the other side. Unfortunately, there aren't that many big leftist channels because to be fair, the outrage machine sells a lot more on the right and that's not really a thing on the left.  Like you helped show me other YouTubers. Now I watch, you know, I watch Vosh or I watch Kyle Kalinsky or I watch the Humanist Report. And, you know, now I'm in this world instead of that world and things make a lot more sense. The thing, the last thing I'll say about Coward with Crowder is that what I, why would he go after his comedy career? That seems like a weak point for him to start off of considering that Crowder is literally a failed comedian while Sam speaks on, is a voice on Bob's Burgers. No simple word is MSNBC correspondent, Bob's Burgers voice actor, and Crowder like dropped his comedy career because he got clowned on by Amy Schumer. Like, oh, I remember? Amy Schumer! Yes, Amy Schumer. Like Amy Schumer isn't even like the beacon of like comedy either. She's like been out at multiple times for stealing jokes and this is who defeats you. I'm like, oh man. And then he's out of the game.


Alright you guys, I'm going to show you how I have been making or how I made this batch of Finagreek oil. Now these are Finagreek seeds, organic methi or Finagreek seeds that I purchased from Amazon.com I will be linking it down below. I'm familiar with Finagreek only because my husband is Ethiopian and when I do cook their traditional food I typically use the Finagreek powder for certain dishes. So I'm going to show you guys that's it in a jar I'm going to show you guys the oils I use. Now I have a lot of different oils I was gifted some oils and I just had some oils on hand So we have here Jamaican black castor oil, regular castor oil, Swing almond oil, olive oil, MCT oil, and then we have hemp oil. I also have argan oil somewhere down here. Actually it's over here Yeah, which I did not I did not put that in this mix. So I put down here. This is about three tablespoons of Finagreek seeds and I personally use Jamaican black castor oil, sweet almond oil, olive oil, the MCT oil, and I Something else tea tree oil. I use eight drops of tea tree oil. Now this was originally up to here Okay, I let it sit in here for three days and then I poured it into this applicator jar Okay, now you can see that It's a little it's a little thicker than what I would typically like my oils to be but I can correct that by adding some more sweet almond oil Castor oil and olive oil tend to be a heavier oil So they're gonna be thicker your sweet almond oil grape seed oil is another one. That's great I don't do all rinses. It's just an extra step I will be adding it to my deep conditioner because I do use all of my deep condition But if I forget it is what it is now I will be using this oil. I'm gonna give it Honestly, I'm gonna give it a good 30 30 to 60 days Now I'll let you guys know I'll track my progress This is supposed to grow your hair and I'll let you guys know How it goes, okay?  I'm getting over some allergies. So now I'm on my second batch of Finagreek oil Now one thing I do want to let you know is that I still have the first batch I have enough for honestly for about three weeks But I wanted to go back and add more black castor oil. Excuse me Jamaican black castor oil Here is what I'm currently using you can definitely tell the difference between the color This right here has quite a different bit of different oils I will say that this oil mixture in in addition to having more Jamaican black castor oil I also added avocado oil. I use less olive oil. I find an olive oil and avocado oil Have the same type of Components that are beneficial for your hair, but I wanted to use a little bit more avocado oil and pull back some on the olive oil Avocado oil is not as heavy too. It's a lighter consistency I also all added basil oil in addition to tea tree oil I Do have hemp oil back there you guys again. Excuse my voice is cracking I do have hemp oil, but I want to test it on my skin before I decide to add it to any oil mixture I have not used it before I'm telling you I literally I had a company send me some Hair oils because I helped them on a project and I am over With hair oil with the most being castor oil. I just love castor oil. I have right now about a gallon I'm not even I can show you what it looks like. I have about a gallon of castor oil Yeah, anyway, what I plan on you doing specifically with this is I'm going to let this seep in hot water Over the course of about 24 hours And I'm gonna keep this in a very sunny area. Thankfully. I live in Phoenix, Arizona I'm gonna keep it in a sun area So it can get direct sunlight for a good five to seven days So in the next two to three months what I plan on doing in addition to using this particular I will be using it to do hot oil treatments and massages massages for your hair We all know it's so good. So and I also will be doing Using just a little bit. I will say one teaspoon of this I know you guys are seeing thinking that's not enough But honestly if I'm going to be doing Massages scalp massages a teaspoon and my deep conditioners is just okay. I am my opinion. That's okay Yes, she's dry. So we're gonna go ahead and section my hair off to make it easier to apply the silent products Now I will be using water before applying anything and my great mister here And I will be using oil to seal in my the moisture. So you guys I've been using which will be a separate video I'm gonna figure out how to basically track this but These are fenugreek seeds and I've been using this oil now for about About six weeks. Yeah, so yeah, so let's go ahead Hey, you guys so I am back today getting ready to do a pre-poo using Primarily fenugreek oil with a little bit of the VO five hot oil treatment now My hair is very old like three weeks old I have some olive oil juice along with some water and a spray bottle that I'm gonna be using to lightly Missed my hair before applying the oil along with the leaving cream now you guys I've been using fenugreek oil off and on for about a year as I stated earlier in the commentary I stopped there for about three or four months because I just felt like I Was doing too much. So I did pause for a minute But I'm back on it and I'm going to be usually Exclusively using fenugreek oil along with my edges and for my scalp I feel like my hair on the side here is thinning out some I really do not Notice that a couple of months to go to be quite honest I know to y'all may not but I used to have hair growing all the way down here So yeah, you can even see when I do this see how yeah, that's a little yeah That's a little thin for me because if you look on this side I really don't have that problem is it starting to thin now, but even the middle of my hair you can see Yeah, so thinning some on this side. All right, you guys So let me have ship. I'm gonna go ahead and start sectioning my hair off Spritzing it with the olive vera juice Concoction and then applying the hair oil. Okay To my hair now I do a hot oil treatment only once a month because I already add the fenugreek oil to my deep conditioner Also, I like to do my hot oil treatment before I shampoo my hair I just feel like if I shampoo my hair afterwards I'm able to get all Of the oil out of my hair, but I still have the added benefit. Okay, so I left this particular again doing a Scout massage. Excuse me. I left this particular hot oil treatment on my hair For about an hour. Then I rinsed it out and as I stated earlier, I followed up By cleansing my hair with shampoo and then conditioning my hair. Okay Okay, you guys so here are clips of my hair about four weeks after I started using fenugreek oil So not really enough time to notice a difference But I just wanted to show you what my hair looked like and this is my hair Jess About well last month. Yes, you can see how my hair is definitely fuller. It is healthy at a healthier Place in my opinion than it was the previous year. So turn around to the back. You can see the fullness So definitely definitely I do see positive results with a consistent regimen and incorporate infinite greek oil Hey you guys so I am back to give my final thoughts on using fenugreek oil This is the mason jar that I kept my seeds in and the oil in you can still see there's Girl, that's probably like one or two drops of the oil But this is what the seeds look like and of course I would toss this because this is done So I have been using fenugreek oil now off and on for almost a year Um, I had stopped there for about three months because I had some issues going off my hair So overall I feel like fenugreek oil made my hair stronger Now Yeah, I'm I'm going to be very honest. I don't know if it really helped my hair to grow um Basically, I don't know if me using the fenugreek oil Helped my hair to grow as opposed to not using it. However, I definitely see the benefits my hair feels fuller It does feel healthier It feels shinier, you know, you can see a natural sheen Yeah, I put some oil in it, but there's a healthy sheen and shine to my hair that I appreciate Of course continue to use it on my edges weekly, but scalp treatments. Absolutely as far as a hot oil treatment Yes, I do But I will say just try it for yourself. You know, you have nothing to lose but a little bit of more time um, because like I said, I do see the added benefits And I will continue to be a little bit. That's the thing you guys you have to be consistent And it does help that I cut down on using a lot of different products I had used some really bad products their Mid-year and it set me back my hair and that's unfortunately that's unfortunate Be consistent with your regimen be consistent with your products Don't try to do something that or will counteract your hair growth or whatever your hair journey. So Um, yeah, y'all that is it. I hope you enjoyed this video. Take care. Bye


So what is the utility of the package JSON file? That's a tough question to answer because it really does a lot. And depending on what you're using NPM for, it might be doing different things for you. But I'm going to assume right now that you are just building apps. So what's the big utility of having a package JSON in your app? Well, right now I know that if I run NPMLS, I'm going to see React and all of its dependencies. We ran NPM install to get those. And NPM install added it to our dependencies. Now, this is really important when we're building apps because maybe we're using GitHub to work with other people and push changes to this app all the time. Now, we have React, but let's assume that we didn't. Let me quickly remove everything that is in that directory, that node modules directory. We'll run NPMLS again. And whoa, it's not happy. For the first time, we're seeing actual errors. And the errors are that all of these things that we need to run our application are missing. So this is representative of someone who joins our team and clones our app for the first time. They're missing all of these dependencies. And we know that they're missing because they're in the package JSON listed right there. So now instead of that person having to specify exactly what needs to be installed, they can just type NPM install. And with the package JSON file in place, it will resolve all those dependencies. NPMLS again, and everything's perfect. This is the big role that package JSON plays when you're working with a team on an application. We'll cover how package JSON is important to library creators in another course.


Hello everybody, Andrea here with dental L. I have been in a dental profession for about 17 years now. I've worked in dental offices, but now currently I have my own mobile dental hygiene practice and I see clients in my own home. Also, I have a dental chair just over there, so it's fantastic. But what I want to talk to you guys about is being a dental hygienist in Ontario, so specific to Ontario. We have different rules, regulations than the states, than let's say Manitoba, we have different things. So I want to give you guys a good recap of things that you need to be aware of. Whether you're a new dental hygienist, you're just fresh out of school, you don't know the rules yet. You know, yes, you learn them in school, but it's different, it's easy to forget. So I'm going to go everything with you kind of step by step. But also if you're moving from another province and you're like, okay, I'm moving to Ontario, what do I have to know? We are definitely more strict, okay, than some of the other provinces out there. So that's what I'm going to talk to you guys about. I do talk about a lot more inside my full course. If you do need specific help with that, please reach out to me anytime because there are differences. As an example, if you're moving from the United States, you're going to have to take our Canadian board exam, okay? If you're still within Canada, you do not have to take another board exam, but you'll need to be aware of certain processes that we have. So just a quick recap here. So in Ontario, we have a quality assurance program. So we are audited a full audit every four to six years depending on our registration number. It's a full audit. So meaning when we get audited, it's chosen at random, but everybody gets audited like within six years. I've been audited a few times already. I've been doing this for 17 years, but they just started this program. I want to say 10 years ago. Maybe longer, but when you get audited, you have the choice of submitting your professional portfolio or taking the quality assurance exam. The quality assurance exam is similar to the board exam, but not as difficult, but you have to answer questions of your knowledge of being a dental hygienist. I do have a full prep course on that, so don't worry. Don't stress about that yet, but I can help you if you need help. But or you will submit your professional portfolio. So what is that we have to maintain courses we have to maintain our continuing education by taking courses, going to classes, you know, learning new things, they can be all online so it doesn't have to be in person. You don't have to take certain classes, but we need 75 hours every three, three years so it could be 75 hours in one year and then you're fine for two years, but it has to be at least 75 hours of courses that we have to take. Yep. So I have to take a test when I get audited for 20 years. Having that said, though, I guess I shouldn't roll my eyes. I take courses all the time, but I'm a nerd. I love to take courses.  So having to think, wait a minute, I have to take a test when I get audited. If you've been a hygienist for 20 years, that probably scares you, right? But again, you guys don't worry, I can help. In Ontario, you can be an independent dental hygienist and that means you can have your own practice without working under a dentist, but there are many different rules and regulations concerning that, whether you're a sole proprietor, whether you're incorporated, I could talk about that for two days. But again, this is a recap video you can be your own boss, which is fantastic. You do have to take those certain courses. You have to register with the CDHA to be an independent dental hygienist. You have to confirm everything with the CDHO. That is our governing body, the CDHO, the College of Dental Hygienists of Ontario. You have to be a part of them in Ontario. We have yearly fees. They seem to go up every year. Right now it's about $430. I'm a specialty though.  Again, I could talk about this for two days too, but you can be a restorative hygienist in Ontario, but you do need to take a course in order to do that in college. Another course that's offered right now to be a restorative hygienist is in Toronto. So feel free to look into that or I can help you.  So I'm a specialty. So I pay a little bit more. If you're incorporated, if you do have your own dental hygiene business and you're incorporated, you pay more with the CDHO every year. Here, they just love us, right? But if you're just moving to Ontario, I feel like that would be very overwhelming for you to think, oh, I can have my own business. Let me focus on that. First, let's get you here. Let's get you settled. Know the audit process, that kind of thing. Here in Ontario, you can work for a dental office when you're applying for a job. What I want to know is if you are registered, you need to be registered with the College of Dental Hygienists of Ontario to work in Ontario. And you also need to be a part of either the CDHA or the ODHA. So there's two. The CDHA is the Canadian Dental Hygienist Association. The ODHA is the Ontario Dental Hygienist Association. You need to be registered with the CDHO always because they're our governing body. But then you have to be a part of either the CDHA or the ODHA. That just gives us the additional insurance that we need. It has benefits for us, like member benefits, courses we can take, but you have to be a part of that. I forget the price on that. Could be 200, could be 300. I'm not sure, but more fees we have to pay. I know. But those are, I would say, the most important. I do offer more inside this course if you feel like you're like, okay, I'm confused. I'm scared. What do I do? Where do I go? I need help. Then feel free to sign up for my course down below where I have many, many videos going through everything for you. The auditing process. How to start your own mobile dental hygiene business or how to have your own practice in your own home. I talk about all of the fees you have to think about. I talk about the rules and regulations working in a dental office. Certain paperwork you have to sign. You need a standing order policy. We need to be aware of client specific orders for X-rays. We need to be aware of what we can sign, what we can't sign. Here in Ontario, it's very much the dentist does certain things, the hygienist does certain things. We do work together, but we can't overlap on a lot of things or you can get in a lot of trouble. I talk about water line maintenance. So when you're working in a dental office, you have to know how to run the water lines, disinfect, how to do culture testing for the water. It's not like that everywhere. So this might be new to you. I talk about handpiece maintenance. We have to take apart our handpieces, the high speed, the slow speed, sterilize them. I talk about infection control. So how we sterilize things are different. You might not be used to putting your instruments items in pouches. You have to wait for them to be quarantined before you can use them. Or there's certain called Class 5 indicators that if they're in the pouch, you can use right away. You guys, I can talk about this for hours. I won't because it's going to overwhelm you. But if you need more help, sign up for the course down below. I have everything for you. It is constantly updated. So it's not as overwhelming for you. I know if I was a dental hygienist from another province moving to Ontario, I would want to know everything so I don't mess up. You don't want your license taken away. In Ontario, you guys were extremely strict. No joke. It's a good thing, but it's also kind of hard for us too, right? Like I feel like we're being watched 24 seven. But let me help you so you don't have to worry about it. So comment below if you have any questions. If you're moving to Ontario, welcome. This is exciting. If you're a new dental hygienist working in Ontario, welcome. Let me help you. Okay, you guys, thank you so much. And I'll see you guys in the next video.


Hi, I'm here with Mr. Stan Fonsworth from Nova Centrics. Stan, can you tell us what Nova Centrics involvement here at our Heidi Tech X show in Berlin 2015 is? Heidi Tech X at Berlin in 2015 is one of our big shows of the year. We participate here because it's a tremendous gathering of the community. Certainly throughout Europe, we have North American participants here. We have Asian participants that come to this event in Berlin. Berlin is a tremendous location. Our participation here, we certainly have an exhibition. We always bring equipment to this conference. We have R&D equipment, we have production equipment. We're also emphasizing collaborations. That's been a key concept for us. But also, we try to do something fun. This year, we're working with Heidi Tech X to sponsor Happy Hour Networking with beer and pretzels. We're in Berlin, beer and pretzels, that's what we do. So we're looking forward to use that as an opportunity to meet with people that come see us, to visit with them about what we're doing that might not otherwise have experience with Nova Centrics. But also, we provide updates on what we're doing. This event in particular, we have updates about some new roll-to-roll R&D equipment that we're getting ready to allowance and getting ready to release this summer. We've also had continued traction in a couple of key markets. RFID with our partners and mobile hours continuing to really advance. We're doing additional work with displays. We're doing additional work with optical coatings. We're doing additional work with other types of flexible touch sensors. And as always, one of the fun parts of our exhibition this year is the wearables that we're doing with Jotempsa. We have this nice t-shirt. It's really fun with the LEDs. And that's something that gets people's attention as well. So we're having a great event here at P.E. Berlin 2015. Stan, I really appreciate your time. Thank you very much.


You have international friends talking smack behind your back. You use Google Translate You're looking upwards for a French class. You're good taking You use Google Translate You're in a foreign country and just want to ask the waiter for some extra cheese on your taco. You use Google Translate Google Translate has quite the eclectic of applications, but have you ever wondered how does it translate stuff? How is that all working online? We're going to answer these questions today tech.  I'm gonna make sure you all follow along and learn something interesting in the end This is code Emporium and with that let's get started Language translation How do we translate a sentence in one language to another language to make things concrete? Let's say that we're translating from English to French Our first trial would be you take every word in the English sentence for every word you find the corresponding French translation Then spit it out and we repeat this for every word in the sentence It's a simple strategy and honestly, we don't need machine learning for this If we just have a curated database with English to French word translations, then we're all set For every English word look it up in the database get the corresponding French word and repeat this for every word That's great, but there's a problem with this if you're a bilingual or even if you just know English Then you know that language has two important components. That's tokens and grammar Tokens are the smallest units of language Grammar defines how these tokens should appear so that they make sense So in this context tokens are words every word is a token it's a beautiful day has five word tokens and Grammar is basically a guide or a set of rules that defines an ordering for these words If language was constructed from tokens and grammar didn't matter then language translation would be so much easier And our simple word translation system we came up with would actually be the state of the art translator However, that isn't the case grammar exists and we need to incorporate it in translator logic In order to incorporate grammar we have to ensure many things the first is syntax analysis Syntax is basic structure. It's basically asking the question does the structure of the sentence look correct? In English, we could have an adverb followed by an adjective followed by an noun like very big cloud And then we have semantic analysis Semantics is meaning and it asks the question does this sentence make sense in context? If we don't follow this then we're just outputting gibberish Language translation as to the chaos as we need to make sure the translated French sentence follows the similar rules Clearly language is more complex than simply an assortment of tokens Instead of trying to explicitly define our own grammar What if we let the machine's neural network do it for us? If you haven't heard of neural networks, don't worry about it too much Just think of it as a component that learns to solve problems by looking at hundreds of thousands of examples This allows the network to learn patterns and data and eventually it would be able to translate a given English sentence to French all on its own Now this sounds interesting, but what exactly is this network? Now we can actually derive the neural network architecture required based on the problem We are trying to solve in this case. We need a neural network that solves the problem of language translation Some English sentence is the input and it should spit out some French sentence The first thing you notice the input and outputs are both sentences or a sequence of words But computers don't understand sentences like humans do So we need to convert it into a form that they do understand and that's numbers More specifically vectors and matrices, which are just an assortment of numbers representing data And so we have the first part of our network a sentence to vector mapper This part of the network takes an English sentence and spits out a vector of numbers that the computer can understand Now this box here is a neural network and since we're dealing with sequences or sentences We use what's called a recurrent neural network Now again, if you haven't heard of a recurrent neural network think of it as a neural network that learns to solve Problems that involve sentences Since we're dealing with the problem of language translation and language translation requires sentences Well, we think recurrent neural network So we took our English sentence and with our current neural network. We converted it into a vector Now we need to convert this vector into a French sentence This vector to sentence mapping can be done with another network and once again since we're dealing with a sentence Transformation we use another recurrent neural network and Together these two recurrent neural nets make the bare-bone structure for our language translator What we've constructed here is a fundamental structure for the translation and it's called the encoder-decoder architecture The first network encodes the English sentence to computer data and the second decodes the computer data to the French sentence But what are these boxes these RNNs exactly? They are actually long short-term memory recurrent neural networks or LSTM RNNs We use LSTM cells specifically because they can deal with longer sentences fairly well It's a very interesting neural network that was conceived way back in the 90s as simple as it sounds this encoder-decoder network with LSTM cells is the basis of several papers and Was a state-of-the-art network in 2014 not too long ago This was the first time recurrent neural networks became wildly successful for language translation In fact, if we take a look at performance the x-axis here represents the number of words in the sentence and the y-axis is the blue score It's basically the accuracy of translation hire the blue score better as a performance So it looks like this encoder-decoder architecture works well for medium length sentences with about 15 to 20 words Let's see how this does with longer sentence translation with an example say we have an English sentence that we want to translate to French An admitting privilege is the right of a doctor to admit a patient to a hospital or a medical center to carry out a diagnosis or procedure based on his status as a healthcare worker at a hospital Now this is a long-winded sentence, but a valid one It's saying a doctor has the right to admit a patient for further testing If we were to pass this into the LSTM RNN encoder-decoder that we talked about we would get this French translation A privileged day Admission is the right day a medicine to recognize a patient a l'hôpital or a medical day a Diagnostic or to take a diagnostic in function de son état de santé Now I don't know French so I can't directly verify how correct this is But let's pop this into Google translate and see its English translation a Privilege of admission is the right of a physician to recognize a patient in the hospital or medical center of a diagnosis Or to make a diagnosis according to his state of health By comparing this with the original we can see that the meaning of the sentence breaks just after the term medical center The phrase medical center of a diagnosis doesn't make much sense But still it's not bad. It was able to keep up for about 20 words Now let's try another one Consider the English sentence this kind of experience is part of Disney's effort to extend the lifetime of its series and Build new relationships with audiences via digital platforms that are becoming ever more important. He added When popped into the RNN encoder-decoder we get this French translation Let's now once again pop this French translation into Google translate and see what it spits out in English This type of experience is part of Disney's initiatives to extend the life of its news and Develop links with digital players that are becoming more complex Now first off it didn't generate a closing quotation mark Instead of an audience with an online influence. They were addressed as digital players That's okay. I guess but then it says the links are becoming more complex But that isn't the case in the original sentence where it says the relationship is becoming more important Once again, though, not too bad But you can clearly see the quality of the model isn't quite optimal when translating much longer sentences So what can we do to improve this translation? Remember what I said before about language? It has two components tokens and grammar and it is this grammar that makes language so complex The problem with the current model is that it's not entirely addressing this complexity The thing with recurrent neural networks is it's using past information to make decisions about the present This means that while generating the tenth word of a translation in French sentence It looks at the first nine words in the English source sentence But we know that a word not only depends on the words that come before it in a sentence But also the words that come after it in a sentence all of this gives rise to the context of the word So in order to look in both directions forward and backward We replaced the normal recurrent neural network with a bidirectional recurrent neural network Interestingly these by RNNs were introduced way back in 1993 but gained popularity recently with the emergence of deep learning So if we're performing English to French translation while writing some word in the French translation We are looking at words that come before it and the words that come after it sweet But which words exactly should we focus on more in a large sentence? This could be difficult to figure out a Method to figure this out was devised in a 2016 paper learning to jointly align and translate I'll explain what this is. So don't worry consider an English sentence the agreement on European economic area was signed in August 1992 And this is the corresponding French translation la core sur l'espace économique européen a été signé en août 1992 Our translator will generate the translated French sentence one word at a time While generating some I th word like eté which words in the English sentence should be considered One solution would be for the I th French word consider the I th English word But then we get the old word word translator that we talked about in the beginning of the video and that's no fun Since it's more complicated than this it needs to be something the translator learns on its own So given the English sentence and its French translation our translator will try to align them in This example eté is lined up with the English words was and signed Really white means super aligned or more attention is focused on that English word while generating the French word While generating the French word European it looks like the only word it would consult is the English word European The same goes for ute The model learns to focus its attention only on the English word August while generating the French word ute In this way the model looks at thousands of other English sentences and their corresponding French Translations and it learns which English words to focus its attention on while generating the words of the French translation This alignment is learned by an extra unit called an attention mechanism and it sits between the encoder and decoder So during translation an English sentence is fed to the encoder It's encoded into some vector, which is just numbers the computer understands. It's basically the same English sentence in the computer's eyes Then we use an attention mechanism basically asking which French word will be generated by which English words The decoder will then generate the French translation one word at a time Focusing its attention on the words determined by the attention mechanism So that's sweet. This actually performs better than the original encoder-decoder architecture The sentence translation is now more closely aligned with the original Google Translates AI works exactly like this. The only difference is everything is scaled up By this I mean instead of using one LSTM for the encoder and decoder We use eight and we do this because deeper networks help better model complex problems So this network is more capable of understanding the semantics of language and grammar Just to recap on the final network. You want to translate English to French You pass the English text word by word to the encoder and it converts these words into a number of word vectors That's the numbers representing these words These are just numbers that represent the words themselves of the sentence these words are then just passed into an attention mechanism and This determines the English words to focus on while generating some French word This data is passed to the decoder which generates the translated French sentence one word at a time and That's it. So if you understood this you understood how Google Translates AI works So yay Just know that every time you use Google Translate from now on something not so magical is actually happening behind the scenes Thank you guys so much for watching and if you liked the video Show some love with a like and subscribe for more awesome content, and I'll see you in the next one. Bye. Bye


When a narcissist rejects you, these narcissists have a mental illness. Many of them have no job. They're living at home with their parents.  But many of us are empaths. Many of us are good people. And we see it as an opportunity to help someone. And that is our idea of a relationship, improving someone's life. Even if they have nothing of value to provide to us. Even if they're not physically attractive. Naturally, you would assume that they would be more receptive to you. You would assume that they would be more inclined to receive. But no, narcissists who are unattractive do not get much attention in real life. They might get plenty of likes on social media or on dating apps. It's very easy for them there. Because it gives them the ability to make themselves look more attractive than they actually are. And there's plenty of desperate people on there who are also lonely and looking for attention. But if you approach a narcissist who is unattractive and overweight in real life. They are going to take great pleasure in that.  Which is more potent than a thousand likes. When you approach a narcissist in real life. They're going to think they're superior. They're going to think they're as good as it gets. And because they rarely get approached in real life by someone like you. They're just going to take the opportunity to reject you. And they're going to do it in a very cruel way. They may even go on social media and tell everyone about how they rejected you. Because it feeds their ego and supports their false image. It makes them feel like they're special. It makes them feel like they're better than they actually are. When you approach an unattractive and overweight narcissist. They will always overdo their reaction. They will blow it up out of proportion. Deep down they know they're not someone that would be considered attractive or desirable. So they have to make it seem like they're being approached by so many people. As though so many people want them. So in the rare case where someone actually does approach them. They're going to exaggerate it. They're going to make it seem like it's more than it actually is. When you approach a narcissist. They're just going to frighten you away. Because deep down they know they're not deserving of you. Which is why you should never try to date someone who is narcissistic. Because they're just going to create a disturbance. They're going to act out. Because deep down they know you don't really want them. They know they're not attractive. I'd bet that most of you who are watching this. Felt that when you met the narcissist. In the back of your mind you knew that you deserved better. You decided to give them a chance. When you should have listened to that voice in the back of your head. Because it was telling you that something was wrong. But when a narcissist rejects you. It's because they know that something is wrong. They know you don't really want them. They know that you can do better. They know that even if they accepted your proposal. It wouldn't last long. Because at some point you would realise that you deserve more. So although it may seem like they're rejecting you. They're actually rejecting themselves. Because they know they're not up to your standard. They know that you can do better.  So when you do it. They're just going to look at you like they're better than you. And then they're going to go on social media and tell everyone about it. Because they know that it's going to benefit them more to reject you. Rather than to accept your proposal. And give you the opportunity to realise that they're not what you want anyway. Which is why you should always pay attention to the red flags. Listen to that voice in the back of your head. Avoid people who seem narcissistic. Date people who you think are better than you. Because they're actually not better than you.   So you think you're not deserving of anything more. Which is why you settle for people who are narcissistic. When the truth is that you do deserve more. And you can have more. It all starts by believing in yourself. So stay away from these types of people. They're not going to be receptive. They're only going to take the opportunity to reject you. But even if they did accept your proposal. You're going to be involved in something that's less than what you truly deserve. And they're going to pick up on that.  They're going to make your life miserable. Because deep down they know you can do better. And it's just going to make them very insecure. They're just going to play games with you. They're going to act out. They're going to give you the sign of treatment. Because deep down they know they're not good enough. But when you meet someone who is secure in themselves. They can recognize your value. They can go with the flow. Without feeling the need to play games. While these narcissists already know they're not good for anything. So they're just looking for attention. They're just looking to use you to elevate themselves. Because they feel like they're not good enough. Which is why you need to stay away from them. Because they're only going to make you feel the same way. They're going to reject you in a harsh way. And then they're going to tell everyone about it. How a person feels about themselves. Determines how they will treat you. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonates with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate. My PayPal link is in the video description. Coaching queries. You can email me at Coaching at Art Survivor at CoDUK. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


AI is going to bring a lot of wealth to our world but we can't count only on markets for that. There are aspects of what AI could do which are not going to be typically picked up by companies and so we need organizations like the UN governments philanthropy to work together towards goals that are important for the whole of humanity and not just the typical applications that companies will look at. AI over the next decades is going to bring a lot of changes to our societies and we need to prepare for those changes. As a comparison if you think about what happened with the Industrial Revolution from you know the 19th and early 20th century it there's been a lot of misery that came along with those changes. If we had put in place for example the social safety net that only came around the Second World War in the 19th century then a lot of that could have been avoided. Now instead of taking a hundred years to come it's going to take you know a few decades or maybe just one decade so we need to start thinking about those changes and put in place the policies and regulations to make the transition better for everyone. So my hope is that a lot of the research mental energy that now is being put by AI researchers to develop the next gadget for your phone will be put in thinking about questions that are important for the poorest on our planet like like hunger like agriculture like health but you know the kind of medical applications which will help the many which don't have medical services at all right now. So there are a lot of questions or also the environment where there isn't necessarily a strong commercial incentive so we need universities we need organizations like the UN funding organizations in various countries to make sure that there are incentives for researchers or even startups to use their their creativity their brains their expertise and to talk with the people who know about those issues the social scientists the people working in the field to bring those people together for example to build maybe a repository of datasets of importance socially and and connect those researchers who don't know anything about those issues but there are experts in AI with the people working in the field trying to solve these social problems around the world. I don't think that humans are going to be replaced by machines anytime soon I think there's a lot that machines can help us with and we need still humans to take the important decisions to care for human values of course it you know in some very remote future things may be different but I think for the foreseeable future humans remain at the center stage.


Hi everybody, welcome to Barton's Takeout. I'm Robin Creran, Collections Research Coordinator at the Bartons Foundation. Today I'm going to talk to you about this portrait right here that's on the east wall of Room 5. It's by Franz Halls, who was a Dutch painter of the 17th century. He was born around 1582 in Antwerp, but he actually moved with his family to Harlem in the northern Netherlands, not too soon after. And that's where he lived and worked until his death in 1666. He studied under the artist Carl van Mander, and he joined the Harlem Painters Guild, which was kind of the sign of like the beginning of his career in 1610, and married soon thereafter. So the sitter of this painting or portrait was unknown for a long period of time. It's rather austere, simple nature made it a bit hard to identify who it might be. So if you look at the dress of this man, he's wearing really dark colors, which make it even hard to kind of differentiate the different parts of his clothing. So he's actually wearing a cape or straps over his right shoulder, and then it's being held almost in place underneath his right arm by his left hand. And if we take a really close look here, if we kind of, if we squint our eyes, we can see that there are some buttons on this vest or coat. And then he has this really simple white collar here. His mustache and beard are rather luxuriant, not necessarily particularly common for the time period. So that could be something that's helping to identify him. And then he has this dark cap or hat on his head. One thing that does kind of pop out though is this watch right here. So it's something that we'll talk about in a moment. But first, let's talk about his dress. So the dark colors and the simple dress of him suggests that he could be a Mennonite. At the time period, Mennonites, they dressed in very restrained colors, dark browns, blacks, grays. And they did not wear the kind of common white cuffs that you would see on sleeves of the more wealthy individuals of Harlem at the time. And so those things all kind of together suggest that he could be Mennonite. And like I said, Mennonites, they wore very reserved dress. They practiced really reserve and restraint in their conduct in dress. So if we think about that, then this watch then seems a bit oddly placed. But if we kind of zoom in a little closer to the watch, it's not particularly complicated. It's a rather simple type. It has a pierced cover. And the chaptering and the caseband, they may have been applied silver, although they look somewhat gold in color. But even that is somewhat simple. But because it's in this painting that is rather dark, and like I said, his dress kind of suggests that he's a Mennonite, it could be that this is an attribute of the sitter. Franz Hals as an artist didn't use attributes very much. He didn't use them rather sparingly in his portraits. An attribute is something like an object or an animal that helps to identify an individual. They're often used in like religious paintings to identify a saint, but they could be used in a portrait to help identify the sitter. So if we think that Franz Hals is using these attributes rather sparingly, and this man is dressed in this rather restrained manner, then this watch really does seem that much more important to identifying the individual. So how do we use this watch and the fact that the sitter is Mennonite to identify him? Well, if we look back at the first known owner of this painting, who was Isabella von Liwaden, she died in 1773. And at the time of her death, her belongings were put up for sale or auctioned. And when we look back at her as an individual, she had converted to Ruhmannstrand, a different religion in 1736. But she had previously been Mennonite, and her ancestors had been Mennonites. And if we look a bit more deeply at her ancestors, we actually see that she came from a family of prominent watchmakers, Mennonite watchmakers, in Harlem. So this scholar, Franz Heizerhout, he looked through her ancestors, and he used a little bit more information, which we can see on the painting. Right here, if we zoom in a little bit, we see that it says 57. So the age of the individual was 57. He was 57 when this was painted in 1643. So when he looked back at the ancestors of Isabella, he found that there was only one person who fit that description. And that was her great-grandfather who was Matthias Jan Buchels. He was a prominent Mennonite watchmaker in Harlem, along with his brother Iaan. So, and then when we actually look at another painting, this painting was part of a set, a pair of portraits, the other one being a woman. When we look at that painting, we also see a similar inscription, which says that she was 52, and then again it was painted in 1643. So when we look at hers, that helps us to see that she was the wife of Matthias, and her name was Maria, and she was around 52 in 1643. Her portrait is similarly somewhat simple. She's wearing darker clothing. She does have some fur on her dress, which does imply that they did have some more wealth, but it is in a bit more of a restrained manner. So the two individuals, her portrait, kind of faces him. So she's actually facing the opposite of him, and they're kind of, they may have been hung together side by side, and then they were like facing one another. So the two paintings were always sold together when we look at the ownership history or the provenance of the painting. They were always displayed, they're always sold with one another, until Barnes purchased it in 1928, and that brought it across the ocean to Philadelphia. The other painting now is in the National Museum in Stockholm. So when it entered the collection, it's possible that when it left, when it kind of separated from its pair, that that's when the identity of the sitters became a bit more obscured. But it's very likely that we now know who this sitter is, which is an interesting and exciting thing to know about the painting. So I hope that you enjoyed digging a little bit deeper into this beautiful portrait by Franz Halls. I encourage you to take a closer look at it when you come to the Barnes Foundation the next time. Take a look at this really interesting watch, which really does seem like this really important part of the painting. So that's it for today. I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below. And if you enjoy listening to this and would like to hear more, please subscribe to our channel. I'm Tom Collins, new Bauer family executive director of the Barnes Foundation. I hope you enjoyed Barnes Takeout. 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What's up everybody? Jason here for jazby's caseworks.com. This inception baseball picketing number one R&B sells out the break This includes the Red Sox, Phillies, Orioles, Mets, Royals, Brewers, and Guardians and again guys There will be non numbered base cards. Everything else should be numbered There are numbered base cards, numbered autographs, patch autographs, etc. etc, but there should be some non numbered base We're just gonna randomize all that in one lot at the end of the break So once we finish up the break anything that's not numbered of course will be randomized One person gets it all in one lot and the teams that are including this random number block are the Red Sox, Phillies, Orioles, Mets, Royals, Brewers, and Guardians. You get a piece of all these teams Random number blocks down where we go by the first number on the left side of the serial number dash And there you go there Here we go. Here's the dice really bearing down a dusty and we got zero to nine Let's roll it and do the randomizer four to six ten times one two three four five six seven eight nine ten Boom ten times Bury down to Bury times one two three four five six seven eight nine ten Boom ten times ten times Six down to four. I buried six Patrick with three dusty with one Any one ones and zero any in all redemptions for you for these teams seven bury with five dusty with eight nine two And then bury with four.  So good luck guys


Hey guys, my name is Riccardo DeCosta. You've interfaced with Linux many times before because so many devices run Linux, phones, TVs, networking devices, corner sales systems, game consoles, in-flight entertainment systems, as well as stock exchanges. You've also heard about buzzwords like the cloud and a lot of people may think that clouds are made up of water drops and dry air, but it's really mainly just Linux systems. Think about your favorite applications on the internet for things like mail, productivity suites, watching entertainment, they all run in the cloud on Linux-based systems.  Containers are Linux. Even the Large Hadron Collider runs Linux. So no matter who you are, you've interfaced with Linux at some stage. In fact, the very platform that you're watching this video on is probably powered by Linux too. If you're a systems administrator wanting to work with cloud technologies, containerization, and automation, it's in your best interest that you learn Linux. Now, you're probably wondering what I have on screen. This is the source code for Ansible. Ansible is powerful software that can be used to automate a number of tasks. Now, Linux is open source software, and what that means that it's protected by a license in a similar way to Ansible is that provides that the software is freely available to anyone who wants to see it, contribute to it, and improve it. Now, that's powerful. Now, think about this for a moment. If there's a problem with the code that you're looking at right now and the code didn't make use of an open source software license, who would fix it? Who would fix performance issues? Who would fix security issues? And who would enhance the software to make it better? With the close-source software model, the only entities that could deal with that would be those who have exposure to the source code. Like the developer, maybe the team of developers, or the organization behind the behind the close-source software. Now, think about this. Your productivity, security, and features may be limited to the collective technical capabilities of those who have access to the source code. Now, you see with open-source software, anyone can contribute to it, be it code, ideas, or otherwise. Now, a lot of you may think that open-source software is powered by volunteers, and it's not. There are many companies who employ developers to contribute to open-source software.


Could this be the most important key to prayer? How do you approach God? Do you approach Him by wondering if He hears you? Do you imagine that He's just barely tolerating you? Do you constantly beg and plead for His attention? When you approach God as if He has to be convinced to listen, you become discouraged and might even lose your passion for prayer, because you see connection with God as something to work for, rather than something you already have. But we don't pray to connect with God. We pray from connection with God. When you pray, you can't forget what could very well be the most important key to prayer. And that's faith. Approach God boldly, knowing that He's already listening, and happily so.


Hello. This presentation is going to focus on the ESA methodology of teaching. In our teaching methodologies section, we briefly had a look at what ESA was about, but in this presentation we're going to look in greater detail about that particular methodology. This particular methodology is accredited to Jeremy Harmer from his practice of English language teaching book. It's a three-stage methodology, and what we're going to do is to look at the purpose of each one of these stages and some typical activities that take place during those stages. So the first stage is known as the engage, and its sole purpose, as the name implies, is to get the students talking and thinking in English. There is no reason whatsoever when these students come to your class that they should have said a single word of English up until that point in time during the day. So we cannot expect them just to come in and immediately start talking in English. We need to have some activity such as the engage to get them warmed up. There are a number of activities that we can do in order to do this, and what we try to ensure is that these activities involve everyone in the class, that they are interactive and fun. So some examples of these activities, again, that we can play is known as fizzbuzz, and in fizzbuzz what you do is you go around the class, each person saying a number. Let's say we start off between the numbers one and thirty. They just go around the class, each person going through the numbers. In the second round what we do is we ask them for every number that is a multiple of three, three, six, nine, twelve and so on, they say the word fizz, and then in the third round they not only do that, but every number that is a multiple of five, five, ten, fifteen, twenty and so on, they say the word buzz. This really gets them to have to use their thought for English as to whether they say the number, or they say fizz, or they say buzz, or indeed with numbers such as fifteen, whether they say the word fizzbuzz. So it's a very nice activity to get them going. A second idea that we could use here is that we get them to create lists. So we give them a topic, let's say fruit and vegetables, and they go around the class having to produce a list of various things. Another idea may be something like an alphabet game, where they have to create nouns following the letters of the alphabet. So each of these ideas is purely and simply to get the students talking and thinking in English. They are interactive in that the students have to communicate to us. And the third thing we need to ensure is that everyone in the class has said something by the end of our engage phase. The second stage or phase of the lesson is known as the study phase. And really the purpose of this phase is to cover the actual teaching of the lesson and to check understanding of that material. Typically in an ESA lesson the study phase will have two parts. The first phase of the study is to cover the actual teaching component in what's known as the board work. And what we try to do in the board work phase is to elicit to gain information from the students about the teaching point. So this is very different to the normal didactic way of teaching where someone stands at the front and explains the information. In the ESA methodology wherever possible we are trying to draw the information out from the students in this process known as elicitation. Once that information has been generated on the board what the teacher can then do is cover any gaps in knowledge that they are unable to elicit from the students. The teaching point then being complete we can then move over into the second part of the study phase which is to check the students understanding of this information. The second part of the study phase once we've elicited this teaching point from the students is to then check their understanding. Now one question that's often used in classrooms to check understanding is do you understand. Really this is a waste of time because the students will quite often say yes whether or not they do. So in order to check understanding what we have to do is to ask targeted specific questions about the teaching point. So what these questions have to tell us is by answering them the students have an understanding of the material that we've covered in the teaching point. The types of questions that we ask could be for example what are known as gap fill activities so quite often they have a sentence where there is a gap and they have to choose typically a vocabulary word in order to complete that sentence and make it make sense. Another example of an activity might be something like a matching exercise and there are all sorts of things that they could match. For example they might match a word to a picture or they might match a picture to a description or they could match a word to a description itself. So again both of these activities are very targeted in that the students have to be able to understand the material in order to get the answer correct. Another type of activity that can be used here we could describe as word order and typically you will take a sentence and scramble it up and the students then have to recreate that sentence in the correct order to make it sensible. Again this will show understanding of the particular vocabulary or grammar point and so on to the final phase of the ESA lesson which is called the activate phase. What we have done so far if you remember is to engage the students to get them talking and thinking in English where possible we've elicited the teaching point from the students and covered any gaps in knowledge to make sure that the teaching point has been fully covered and then we've checked understanding of that teaching point by asking targeted and specific questions. Usually the types of activities that we've done for the study phase will involve using a single word in order to answer those questions correctly. This however is not how language is actually used. When we use language we always use it in some form of context. So the purpose of the activate activity is to put that teaching material into some form of context something realistic that the students would actually use. Okay so let's look at some typical activities that could be used for the activate stage of a lesson. Remember what we're trying to do is to get the students to use the language that they've learnt in some form of realistic context. So typical activities may include role plays where the students take on the role of a doctor or a dentist or a patient and they actually generate a set of language that uses this particular teaching. Another example that they could do would be surveys where each of the students get up and they go around and they ask questions of all the other students. This type of activity where all students get up and interact with each other is often called a mill drill. The final type of activity that we'll put in here is that the students can have a debate about a particular subject. Now if we think about the activities that we're doing here what we can see as opposed to the study activities where we had targeted specific language each of these activities is actually going to generate different answers depending upon which student we interview or have the role play for. So this is using language in a realistic way rather than just answering a single question. This particular methodology that we've run through this morning is known as a straight arrow ESA lesson. If every single lesson that we undertook with our students was a straight arrow ESA lesson then it is quite possible that the students would be able to predict what is going to come up next and whilst this is good for the lower level students then it could potentially become a little bit boring for our higher level students. So what Harmer did in his ideas about ESA was to generate two other types of ESA lesson that we can use to try and generate a little bit more interest. So the other two types of ESA lesson that we can follow the first is known as a boomerang lesson and the second is known as a patchwork lesson. And what we're going to do is to have a look at those other types of ESA lesson in a little bit more detail. So what we'll do now is to go through each of the types of lesson to see how they are created. The straight arrow as its name implies is just running through each of the three phases E, S and A in a straight line. The second type of lesson is known as the boomerang and as the name implies what happens in a boomerang lesson is that we send something out to start with and that comes back to us. So a typical example of a boomerang lesson would be something like this. We always start whatever type of lesson it is with an engage phase that's to get them talking and thinking in English. But from the boomerang lesson from the engage we then move directly into an activate activity before we have studied any of the language. What is likely to happen here is that the students are not going to create the perfect language either in terms of their vocabulary or in terms of the grammar. So this is going to indicate a gap in the student's knowledge. What we can then do knowing what that gap in the knowledge is is to study that particular gap. And once we've completed that we can then reactivate in the second activate phase to see whether they are able to use that knowledge. In the patchwork ESA lesson really all we can say here is that we're going to start with an engage phase we're going to end with an activate phase and really anything we like can happen in here in terms of the A's and the S's and the E's. So in the patchwork lesson what we're doing is putting together all of these different components E, S and A in no particular order. What we'd like to do now is to have a look at actual examples of each of these three types of lesson so that you get a clearer idea of what they might involve. So now an example of a straight arrow ESA lesson. For our engage phase what we're going to do is get the students a video of animals and they are going to say what they like about those animals and try to create a list of some more. So remember what we're trying to do here is to get the students talking and thinking in English. We're using a typical engage activity which is to create a list and we try to make sure that all the students have been involved in some way in creating those lists. Moving on to the study phase the first part is going to be the board work and the teacher is going to try to elicit from the students what each of those animals can and can't do. Typically what the students will say is just single words so run, jump, fly etc. What we would then need to do is to make sure that each of those things are put into a sentence. So for example what we will do is to run through each of the animals and get the students to tell us in full sentences what it can and can't do. This will be covering the actual grammar point that we're trying to cover and so what we then need to do is to make sure that the students understand this particular grammar point and we can cover that with the use of worksheets. So for example we may have a gap fill and we may have a matching activity on that particular point. Go on to the final phase of the lesson which is the activate. What we're going to do here is to get the students in pairs to create their own super animal and once they've drawn that particular animal out they're going to write a number of sentences to tell us what it can and can't do. After that they're then going to present that information to the rest of the class. Our next example is going to be that of a boomerang lesson and remember the structure typically is something like this. So again we're going to start with an engage phase and for our engage the students are just going to have a discussion about jobs, what happens at interviews and so on and so forth. So during that engage phase what we would hope to do is to elicit some useful language about jobs and interviews and the types of questions that are being asked. Then we're going to move immediately into an activate activity and this is going to involve a role play. So we'll break the students into pairs one will be an interviewer the other will be an interviewe and they'll generate the language that that role play will produce. What the teacher can do whilst that is taking place is to go around and make a note of any mistakes in either vocabulary or grammar that are taking place. What you can then do in the study phase of the lesson is study in the board work taking your cue from what happened in the role play then we can study that particular language and grammar which will be helpful for their role play later on in the lesson. So the students will cover any useful language and grammar needed for that particular role play. Once that has occurred we can then do worksheets. Those worksheets will be to check their understanding of that particular language and then finally we can repeat the role play as our final activate activity perhaps swap down the interviewer and the interviewe so they get to play a different part but what they should now be able to do is to make use of this language and grammar in their second role play. Hopefully what we will show the students is that there is a gap in their knowledge in this first one and that they can then use that language in one. So a boomerang ESA lesson is very good for indicating a learning need and showing that that learning need has been covered. Our final example is going to be an example of a patchwork ESA lesson and remember we said the form of this particular lesson will start with an engage as always it will finish with an activate and there will be some variation of E, S and A within the brackets here. So we are going to generate our patchwork ESA lesson as follows starting with the engage the students are going to look at holiday photos and talk about what they like and don't like from what they see. From that we are going to move directly into an activate phase and what the students are going to do is to make comments about holiday brochures and try to act out a role play between a travel agent and a customer. As this is taking place the teacher will be moving around and looking for gaps in knowledge in terms of their vocabulary and their grammar and these things are then going to be covered in the first study activities. So in the board work phase of this study activity the teacher will cover any gaps in knowledge indicated by that first activate activity. What the students are then going to do is to move into a second activate and here they are going to use the information from the study activity and they are going to try to create their own travel brochure. Again once the students have created that travel brochure we are going to move into the next phase which is going to be another engage this time about a slightly different topic so this time the students are going to be asked what they like about particular radio or TV adverts. So we will get the students to tell us which particular adverts they like and why, which ones they find amusing which ones generate their interest and from this we will move into another study phase where the teacher is going to cover the types of language that is generated by those types of advert. What we are going to do to finish the lesson off is a final activate activity where hopefully we are going to bring everything that we have covered so far in the lesson together and the students are going to create their own TV advert and they are then going to present that to the rest of the class.


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