excited he's here kind of assessing where he's at and then blessed Austin out of Rutgers wrapped it out of the Jets been with the Seahawks he was out we've worked him out but he's here and then Matthew Trickett it was a it was a kicker rookie that we had a rookie minicam so those are the seven guys along with the 90 that are on our roster that'll be out there yeah we I'm constantly in communication with Eddie so you know again Mike you know everybody is at different points in the career and the one thing we're gonna be you know criticizes being too conservative but a guy hasn't played till the last three years as he's working himself back in the in the shape where we're trying to be smart so I know that could be subjective but that's what we feel comfortable with with Eddie and look forward to training camp and get him out there and let him compete same same thing you know and we'll see you know obviously we'll make those like with Caleb you know those will be assessed right before we start camp but we feel pretty good about where everybody's at you know obviously Avery's the one that I talked about last week that there would be nothing here in the short term with Avery sure we're just gonna you know can everybody's body is different I mean I know you took a long time to come back from me but and so with Caleb again we'll just assess but you know I'm optimistic and I don't want I hate to put that out there so I'm not gonna give you a date but certainly trending in a positive direction the next week individually means different things for different guys but for the team what do you hope to get accomplished these next few days exactly the same thing we've been you know we look at this as a build-up phase and guys are at different points you know some guys have different workout programs but that's what it is I mean contrary to you know it was asked last week we put the pads on we can't you know that was asked by a legacy writer so this is just it's non-contact it's a passing camp it's a build-up it's a basically a sense of OTAs you know you can do a little bit more through the meetings you get the physicals and you know assess certain areas but that's what it'll be it's just another phase we'll throw some other situational stuff in there and then obviously they're gonna be there's a break and so that's been our intent the whole time that's what we call this time of year it's a build-up it's a passing camp non-contact and then as we in the training camp obviously we'll be in the training phase there building up for the season where it's been said in his build-up to camp who you say it's or Kyle Kyle Kyle feel good I mean the same thing with those guys feel good about where is that we were talking to Grady last week and he made the comment that having Cleis Campbell around is is really special to him especially considering that Cleis chose to come here when you kind of think about the decision for for a guy like Cleis to come here what is that I guess mean in the context of having that guy choose to be in Atlanta well I think it speaks you know a lot to what we've been building here it's a place that people want to come to work and that excites you you know obviously when you get in the free agency you know think with things being equal we've got a we've got a lot to sell and you also want people want to be here same thing with bud Dupri you know but but it could have gone other places and you know we're excited to have bud but with all these guys you know when things are pretty even with David a lot of people if you're cynical you know I don't think anybody's ever gonna turn down two million dollars less I don't know if I've ever seen that but when things were you know equal Tory we feel good about what we have to offer and it would be like it's said a couple months ago it's gonna be a lot of good competition this camp and we feel good about where we're at I know everybody's optimistic this time of year but it's been a productive spring for us and looking forward you know we'll get away for a little bit but I'm excited about training camp yeah what have just been your early impressions of Scotty Miller and how valuable is that speed that he brings yeah everybody's you know everybody's different so obviously Scotty as an instinctive player you know he's you know I'm pretty well it better our division he does he's fast it's legit you can feel it even this time of year when it is a passing camp I mean you his speed is real but you know I think over the years I think he's an instinctive player I'm seeing a lot of that so can he's excited we got a group of guys in here those guys are doing good job in the receiver room I'm excited about training camp as well hey coach I want to ask about your running back room with Cordero Patterson you think about how valuable he's been in different roles over the past couple years and now you draft a running back how does that affect your approach with Cordero moving forward he's a big part of our offense so can whatever room we put them in I've said this many times whether they're in the tight end room receiver room I mean we've got a really versatile group I think you're seeing a lot of that come out of high school football and how skilled these players are CPS I mean he's done a lot of jobs his role on 21 was very different the start of 22 and you know I'm not gonna get too specific and it'll play itself out but I'm excited CPS still here looks good and that's a good problem to have when you got guys that are versatile I mean the way to go back and look how he was using a 21 very different and they're just about it some of those out of necessity and where we're at last year you know he was more traditionally as a running back so those are good problems to have you know you get into certain personnel packages whether you know whether it's him it's Bijan certainly Tyler I mean Al John John who can go back there and run the football if we have to so it gives us a lot of flexibility and a lot of different formations and whatever you want to call the personnel groups we can play an empty you can play what looks like 10 personnel it looks like 22 21 12 so that's fun and he's certainly a valuable person to this program and we're excited CP still here thanks thank you kind of following on that a little bit is the amount of versatility you have offensively is this kind of when you started dreaming up offense what you thought you were aiming toward yes good question I certainly I think it helps I mean the way we play I mean we're not as we don't stay stationary we're not you know there's a lot of stuff you see pre snap and you've got to have smart instinctive players to do that and I think it makes it hard and some of those is certain things in my past experiences help and then just kind of as we've evolved and you know that may change in two years or whatever you know you hope as you say sustained success like we're gonna keep our core values but we're always looking to adapt and evolve and even in our short time here we have done that I think there's a lot of commensual wisdom that says oh you're running the football go back and look how we ran the football in Tennessee and out around the football last year completely different we didn't we didn't do all the pistol and the zone read and some of the stuff we've evolved to personally it's fun and we'll continue to try to stay ahead and evolve and it will look different this year and how we deploy our personnel groups and how we want to attack and there's always trends going on how people try to defend you so those are those are the games within the games and we got a lot of smart football players on this team so and you know the biggest thing too is about staying healthy and you look at a lot of times this year as it's you know ranking season list season whatever you want to call it get to the summer people are bored you got to fill airtime so you get a lot of lists the thing you've got to be aware in the NFL is it is it you need your need depth you need to have contingency plans because he's unfortunate but you know every team's a key injury or two away from being you know top five of the draft so that's why depth is important and being able to problem solve and adapt and we feel good about our depth certainly going into training camp right now I know you're on social media all the time trying to I'm on right my crossing getting rid of the bots out there I know it's important to you you're running back CP I don't know if there's a free agent out there that he does not want to bring to this team master many media manipulator he's playing chess and you know people are following playing checkers and he's got a future GM in this in this league well I don't know I would argue that you know you got a maybe it'd be a Premier League GM right that they have budgets so maybe it's a hot button but depending on who's back in your team in certain leagues maybe they'll let you spend more than others so certainly NFL is a salad cab so I don't know that's a good subjective that'd be a good question for social media you know you on tiktok are you on Twitter what's your form of choice Twitter I thought you were a tiktok guy you never know nobody's judging we get rolling with CP is a man United's a new German manager there with which I've done on the I know it's been a lot of talk about some of the offensive moves and some of the talent y'all brought in over the last couple which I've done defensively this past all season with finally having some what were you looking to do with that what's I know it's early in the process but what are you seeing from that and and how confident of you that that's been obviously a weakness of this team for a number of years now and to kind of step that up yeah I mean absolutely that's we've invested heavily on that side of the football you know it's where you invest to you know you look at it and we invested some early capital and some offensive players and then you know obviously some of those mid veterans or you know we've got some guys like Kaleas but different parts in their career it's important you know as you're trying to have a complete team and where we're at and we've got some good guys that are young guys and it will continue to push take another step with TQ Graham Harnell Abercady you know D'Angelo Malone you know Zo you know he's been in the league but those you know still he's 27 years old Lorenzo Carter is still prime agent so we've got a good mix then you've got Grady you've got David a lot of guys in there so we've got depth up front and then linebacker versatility you know where the games played you know we do have we feel good I mean you actually look at us if you're looking from like that coach's view I mean it does I mean we look pretty heavy up front but we've got guys that can run I mean Troy's as fast as any running back in this league give or take a couple guys that speeds real at that size and then Caden and Mike Walker's got length and so it gives you some unique matchups as other teams are trying to deploy right they got backs they want to put out in space and run option routes on you and you have to be able to match that and then we've got some corners with length you know we're trying to defend and so we do we feel good about our depth and the key is trying to stay healthy and keep developing guys but we've got a good mix of young guys guys have played a lot of significant snaps for us and you hope that experience cares over we get guys in the middle part of their career guys we signed in for agency obviously Jesse to go along with a lot of those other guys on the back end so that's the name of the game you know when you're playing 17 games and you're every time it's trying to prepare you've got to prepare it up for the long haul that depth's gonna come up you may have a week where you're your shorter corner to it if you don't have depth and you're in a matchup with a team that's got three really good wide outs that'll be hard to problem solve so that's what we're trying to build I know it's a ramp up period but when you talk about these offseason veteran additions that you brought in how do you feel their presence felt this time of year well I mean I give a guy like David on Yamada I mean David's a guy that you really feel the connection him and greater make you know there's so much that goes on there's so much pre snap stuff so even if you had a guy that was a traditional three or traditional nose depending on what you want to do your front people people move the tight in so much to try to change the strengths on you so you really got to be able to your inside from tackle tackle got to play so there's a lot of communication goes on so you you feel that chemistry and I always think that leadership needs to be authentic and a guy like David I mean you know where he's at in his career it's those habits that you respect even Jesse you know everything that you know depending you talk to him and Jesse was obviously a big free agent target but those habits are real and so you feel their presence guys kind of gravitate towards them they're trying to learn how we operate and their role but there's a lot of ways you feel them on a day to day just watching the consistency I'm curious with bud to pray what did you identify in for agency that you thought it could bring and kind of what was your pitch to him as far as how he could fit in but we're just careful here but the buzz of physical football player kind of like that he'll set an edge was a guy who wants to be here he fits our culture going going on the other side you know when I've coached against bud and watching some of the things he brings to the table it's another guy value his experience but buds a tone center let's put it nicely so coach this is kind of drilling down because we talk a lot about the rookies and kind of what you're looking to see out of them or even some of the veterans especially during this bridge time but what about maybe the second-year players I know Desmond Ritter was talking about how the game is slowed down for him and he's starting to see what that looks like in voluntary OTAs of any camp AK talked about you know one skill set that he's kind of brought to the table for year two what are you looking to see in them in this we'll call it this bridge time from voluntary to training camp yeah I think guys that you know they stay in that right mindset to continue to improve whether they're going under year 16 and certainly there's a there's a lot of gains have been made I mean you could see it with Richie Grant even TQ last year from year one or year two they made significant jumps certainly looking for those guys in that last year's class to do that too and you know I think that experience taking that next step certainly will help those experiences as a lot of a lot of starts that's the hardest thing to replicate at the hardest position to me and all pro sports is that quarterback I mean everybody's you've seen a lot of vaporware sold come and go from virtual reality everybody's trying to solve that problem how you develop quarterbacks that you got to play and so you know maybe I'm the odd person out but I think a developmental league is important I think those reps matter I don't want to get off on tangent but it does he's got a lot of starts and then and then obviously they adapt into the NFL it does you know you only get comfortable in a scheme but those reps matter and so same thing with AK you know there's this it's such a long year for these rookies and we're we try to aim the program to understand how long it is it's the longest year of the career talked about it's gonna go from the All-Star game the track circuit you know with the pre-jaff workouts combine all that stuff so hopefully really short answer significant gains I don't know how much time you spent with David but clearly he made an impression with that you mentioned the habits what did you see in him that stood out that had your attention in positive manner he was a paying the ass to game plan against when I was in Tennessee and you had to bleep that out but that's a that's a huge compliment and so you know a lot of times if you'd study the history you know there's a lot of a lot of mistakes have been made in phrases sometimes and you're trying to gather a lot of information you'll never be perfect but you feel like you got a pretty good understanding especially in your division and I'd argue too that over the years I think if you go back and someone in New England runs they had pretty good success on some of those guys that they signed from their division you know was Walker those guys certainly helps but David you know I've been trying to scheme against them four times 19 in Tennessee you hear just listen to your players who the guys they they hate blocking so if you get those guys and hopefully David continues to take another step but glad he's glad he's on a Falcons logo not a Saints logo just to confirm really quickly will TQ be out there today he will he will so the four guys on the on the actor roster you won't see out there will be Kyle Caleb Eddie and then Avery okay I was just making sure when it comes to to TQ kind of revving back up a little bit what do you kind of want to see from him during during this time to get back out there yeah I mean I think a lot of times people focus on the physical thing I know Michael you asked about Kyle you know physically a lot of times too I think people forget is the mental part I mean you're away you know there's a lot of things there's a lot of time that I don't think it's talked about enough is the the mental rehab to get back out there and a lot of it's you know barriers and mental hurdles and everybody's different but with TQ it's good to get you know we got him out there a little bit last week and give him an individual same thing so hopefully he feels a little more confident as he ramps up going into training camp I know obviously the the injury and him not being able to finish out the year I know there are a lot of guys who talked about how unfortunate that was for him because of the way he was playing when you kind of look back to what he did those first few months last year what stood out to you about what TQ was doing yeah I mean he'd play a lot of snaps I mean Grady I mean that's one thing we hope to have a lot of depth that keep you fresh as a game and really for the long haul of the season but did a lot of the grunt work you know taking on a lot of those hard blocks the hard getting those combination blocks it's not for everybody in there and I thought TQ did a nice job does a good job playing with power could pad level you know those are things to he's got to get back as he continues to make a leap in your year three but you know just mentally physically the confidence but he had a very productive season for us just a couple other clerical things Jalen Mayfield you only see him as a tackle at this point and with Ogendayji is he gonna be more with the defensive line now or does that work the cross training stuff you've done in the past trying to be a smart out here Mike I appreciate that but anybody if you're gonna be if you're not gonna start you need to have versatility you know because you know how do you problem solve on game day if you're in the top eight so you're gonna have to have versatility up front if you're a one-position guy you better start so obviously Jalen can just add a necessity played left card but kind of where we're at where we feel good and these are conversations to I mean the players have to say you know these are conversations we have but Jalen's been working the right tackle in the versatility so we'll see don't do well so it looks like in camp and I day you know if you really study that's what so much gets made out of it and whether you're three four four three you're gonna play five down what are you doing really in the back end and how do you how do you want to play the run that's are you a two-gap do you cap in half your single-gap defense you know where do you want to fit it's just a math game upside so whether you're a Jack linebacker Sam linebacker some defensive column Leo closed in open in an edge player and so how do you want to break it up and you know we spent a lot of time cross-training guys and certain things or certain job descriptions they may have to do you know some three-floor that Sam linebacker drops more than others some teams are three four they bring five all the time he's an all he's on the line player and has been that so that's not unfamiliar and guys like him and AK and D'Angelo you know they take on different different roles so even last year in a different scheme you know depending on what the call was in motion you have some looks I don't like 4-3 I'm gonna take the four guys down three guys behind them one of those guys may be on the ball backer putting on formation the call so you're gonna see that I mean out a he's been more the edge guy anyways so that that really hasn't changed that does that specifically specific I know that's a clerical question but gave you a longer answer Josh you got nothing kind of quiet you're doing all right great thank you oh sorry


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Welcome back AT&T Training Camp. I'm Dave Archer. Well we look at the DBS today and it's a it's a really interesting group because it's a bunch of young guys and I'm talking about young guys that can play now. We know about AJ Terrell rated one of the best corners in the National Football League from a young player standpoint coming up and now you got Casey Hayward on the other side a guy that's gotten it done for the last nine seasons going in his 10th year out of Vanderbilt. Casey Hayward on the other side but how about the two young safeties Richie Grant and Jalen Hawkins both have come up with interceptions over the last couple of days that's what you're looking for guys taking the football away just 20 takeaways a year ago those four guys coming together as a unit. Now what's going on the nickel spot Mike Ford's doing a really job of stepping in there we're still waiting for Isaiah Oliver to get back up to speed after his injury Darren Hall contributing well at the corner spot there's some guys that people don't are sleeping on that are going to contribute on this football team that got experience from a year ago so don't sell the DB short now this is the DB group that's young athletic and they're hungry


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Welcome to WTDC 17 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We're very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Shiv Bhakshi who is the VP for industry relations group function technology for Ericsson. Shiv, thanks for joining us in the studio today. Thank you for having me here. Now I'd like to start off by talking about the theme of WTDC 17 is ICT for SDG. I wanted to ask you what role do you see private sector companies playing in promoting the use of ICTs to achieve the sustainable development goals? First, let me express my my goodwill towards this entire enterprise of the WTDC, which I think is very important in bringing together shareholders across the globe in meeting some of the sustainable goals that have been set. This is the first major conference after the setting of the SDGs. And I think that is tremendous. With question, with reference to your question that what is the role of private sector? The way I understand is that the state actors in the form of regulators, policymakers, they normally tend to set the direction, identify the needs and provide the circumstances, incentives, etc. for those goals to be met. The actual exercise of meeting the goals is handled by the private sector, which is why we do a lot of innovation in technology and business models and try to see how we can achieve the goals that have been set by the state actors. So the need then is a closer partnership so that we have a better understanding of the goals, the direction, and then we can sort of create the technologies and the solutions that meet those goals. Now the digital economy is inundated with new technologies, 5G, IoT, artificial intelligence, etc. I want you to find out how important are these technologies in the attainment of sustainable development? Not all of them, let me be very clear about that, not all of them are relevant to the same extent or in the same manner, but to the extent that they provide connectivity, they provide new business models in being able to serve different parts of society to be able to be more inclusive, whether digital or financial inclusion. I think they do serve the SDGs. In case of telecom, what is even more important is that we not only create less emissions ourselves, but we become the cause through the various solutions that we offer of causing less emissions in society in other sectors as well. So I think the ICTs are very relevant to the SDG goals, but then like I said, not every single goal is served equally or to the same extent by the ICT technology. Now what regulatory and policy reforms would you like to see put in place in order to reach the next billion, especially those in remote rural areas? When it comes to regulatory and policy reform, I always have two or three things that I talk about. The first is to provide regulatory certainty. If you're going to do public-private partnership, if you're going to invite the private sector to come and contribute to finding the solutions, you have to provide regulatory certainty, for instance, in the case of spectrum. If you are going to sort of look to mobile to reach the margins of society, we need to be able to have a clear understanding of what spectrum is available at what time, so on and so forth. So regulatory certainty. The second thing I think is what I call regulatory forbearance on the part of the policymakers in the sense that there are other institutions in society that can actually address some of the new developments that will happen as a result of these technologies. So my suggestion is do not be in a hurry to bring down the heavy hand of regulation on a fledgling market or a nebulous, you know, development. Let it develop, let it take shape, then you will have enough time to regulate. So that's one and two. The third one, I think, which is single most important thing that should happen in the policy arena. Various segments of the government, various parts of the government need to talk to each other. What you end up seeing is the telecom regulator using universal service funds and other innovations, spectrum and everything else, trying to sort of be more inclusive, trying to bring the cost down, trying to sort of enable collaboration between private sector players to go reach the goals that were set. And then you see the finance sector, for instance, running to its own, marching to its own tune, you know, taxing or not reflecting properly on how the taxation structure should work. Those kinds of things can add to a little bit of confusion and delay. And my suggestion would be that the greater the conversation within the government, within the different parts of the government, the better of the goals will be served. Essentially, it has to start from the top, from the prime minister or the president so that the entire government is geared to meeting the SDG goals, and then they can collaborate and find the proper solutions. Finally, why is WTDC important to Ericsson? And what concrete outcomes would you like to see come out of this conference? The WTDC is an instrument of the ITUD, which is an instrument of the UN with respect to implementation. The ITUD does a tremendous job of capacity building. The WTDC does a tremendous job of bringing together stakeholders from various countries across the globe to come here, and not only the state stakeholders, but also the private sector statehood. So what ends up happening is that we have a better understanding of what the needs are, where capacity building exercises need to take place, what kind of capacity building needs exist, and then I personally have gone to several of these seminars that have been held by the ITUD for capacity building, and I think that's a tremendous job. The other more important element, equally important element, I would say, is the identification of the agenda for the next four years, the study group questions, the resolution, so that we bring into focus things that should drive and things that should capture our attention and motivate us. So to be able to identify the questions, to identify and understand the resolutions, I think that is very important and that's why Ericsson is here, so that we can actually participate in this, both contribute and learn from the whole process. Well, we welcome your participation and we thank you very much for being in the studio today. And we look forward to catching up with you sometime in the future. Wonderful. We look forward to it. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.


Psychology is in a period of turmoil right now. It is discompobulated. Look it up. There have been two releases of the two major diagnostic texts. Well, psychologists and psychiatrists use books. They are known as diagnostic manuals. In North America, especially in the United States, it is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, DSM. And the text revision of the fifth edition has been just released a few weeks ago. The original fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual had been published in 2013. Now, nine years later, there's a text revision. At the same time, the World Health Organization is releasing the eleventh edition of the International Classification of Diseases, which is the text the rest of the world uses with variations. Even in Russia and in China, they have their own diagnostic manuals, but they are largely reflections of the ICD. So, simultaneously, we have new texts, new diagnosis, new definitions, new criteria and new clinical insights. That is a lot to digest. In my previous video, I surveyed, I reviewed the new approach to narcissistic personality disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual edition five text revision. Before that, long before that, I've made a video about the changes in the ICD, the International Classification of Diseases, and down, down, like not up, not up, but down. In the description, you're going to find a link to this video about ICD versus DSM. And just not to keep you in suspense, the ICD wins big time, hands down. Today, I'm going to review the new approach to borderline personality disorder. There are important developments, critical developments in the way we see this disorder, the way we conceptualize it. I mentioned in earlier videos that the distinction between complex trauma, CPTSD, and borderline personality disorder is blurry, is vague, and many, many very important scholars like Judith Herman and lesser scholars like myself, we've been advocating for decades to merge the two, to consider various personality disorders, including narcissistic and borderline as post traumatic conditions. And so there's a lot of this going on in the background. And there is the question of whether borderline personality disorder is a personality disorder at all, or whether it has merely to do with the inability to regulate emotions. The ICD has a lot to say about it. So strap yourselves for the ride, this rollercoaster of clashing concepts, the clash of the Titans. And we are going to emerge from this joint journey with a totally new way of looking at borderline personality disorder. My name, just to remind those of you who haven't been traumatized enough. My name is Sam Bakhnin, and I am the only sole exclusive author of Malignant Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited. I'm also for reasons unknown, Professor of Psychology, to generations of long-suffering post traumatic students. Okay, enough, enough kidding, Bakhnin, get to the point, will you? That's something you're not very good at. Right, right, I heard you loud and clear. I love these American idioms. Borderline personality disorder, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Edition 5 text revision, as is the habit, incorporates the diagnostic criteria from the fourth edition 22 years ago. So the nine diagnostic criteria of borderline personality disorder are still there in the latest iteration of the DSM, which is not to its credit to use a British understatement. And it is the outcome of cow towing or succumbing to pressure by the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry. These diagnostic criteria are outdated. They absolutely diverge from what we know today about borderline personality disorder. They are categorical, so they are polythetic. They merge seamlessly into other disorders, so that creates a lot of comorbidity. In short, it's a bloody mess. Had the DSM been written by disinterested professionals, professionals with no axe to grind and no hidden special interests, the DSM would have looked completely different. It would have adopted the alternative model. Now, in the DSM 5 and in the DSM 5 text revision, there is a section of the book at the very end, which is dedicated to how the DSM could have looked had it been written ethically and evidence-based scientifically and academically. And this section three, how the DSM could have looked, is called the alternative model. Now, several personality disorders have alternative models in the DSM 5 text revision. One of them is narcissistic personality disorder, borderline, antisocial, avoidant and so on. And we're going to review all of them. And today's review is of borderline personality disorder. Now, rather than talking or discussing the text, I'm going to read to you the text with interspersed commentary, a little like the old Talmudic rabbis when they analyzed the Torah. So, let's delve right in. Here's what the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Edition 5, text revision, has to say about borderline personality disorder when it gets the nerve to discuss current knowledge in the alternative model of borderline personality disorder. I'm quoting from the text, typical features of borderline personality disorder are instability of self-image, personal goals, interpersonal relationships and effects, accompanied by impulsivity, risk-taking and or hostility. Two important points here, my commentary. One, identity disturbance. There is, as the text says, an underlying instability, a lack of stability, a lack of predictability is the core of borderline personality disorder. And it is coupled by behaviors which are very reminiscent of psychopathy, like novelty seeking, impulsivity, reactance and defiance, risk-taking and, as the text says, hostility. This is one of the main reasons we are reconceiving of borderline personality disorder as potentially facto to psychopathy. This is especially true in women, by the way. I'm continuing from the text. Characteristic difficulties are apparent in identity, self-direction, empathy and or intimacy, as described below, along with specific maladaptive traits in the domain of negative affectivity, and also antagonism, exactly like in narcissistic personality disorder and disinhibition. Okay, what are the proposed diagnostic criteria in the alternative model of borderline personality disorder, which is a dimensional model and should have been the only text in the DSM. The DSM should have discarded the text in Edition 4 and Edition 4 text revision. It should not have incorporated them in the new editions. So this is the real text and the only text in my view. And so what are the proposed diagnostic criteria? A moderate or greater impairment in personality functioning manifested by characteristic difficulties in two or more of the following four areas. Number one, identity. Markedly impoverished, the identity is markedly impoverished, poorly developed or unstable self-image, often associated with excessive self-criticism, chronic feelings of emptiness, dissociative states and distress. You've heard it all before on this channel. Some of these things make it for the first time into the diagnostic and statistical manual. Thank God for that. And I'm an atheist, imagine. Number two, self-direction. Instability in goals, aspirations, values or career plans. Number three, empathy. Compromised ability to recognize the feelings and needs of others associated with interpersonal hypersensitivity, prone to feel slighted or insulted. This is a very crucial paragraph. This is the first time the diagnostic and statistical manual acknowledges the work of Otto Kernberg and others who have insisted. That borderline personality disorder is intimately linked to narcissistic personality disorder and the two are actually facets of the same coin. Indeed, the DSM admits that borderline personality disorder includes a compromise sense of empathy, impaired empathy, exactly like the narcissist and the psychopath. Another connection between borderline and psychopathy. Yes, borderlines appear to be empathic. They sense empathy. They claim vociferously that they are empathic, but they are not actually. They are hypersensitive. They're prone to feel slighted and insulted, exactly like the narcissist. They're hyper-vigilant. They have ideas of reference or referential ideation. Now you understand the movement of empaths online. Empaths are either covert narcissists or they're borderlines. They confuse their own hypersensitivity and hyper-vigilance with empathy. But hyper-vigilance and hypersensitivity lead people to behave in ways which are callous and ruthless and cruel and aggressive. Hyper-vigilance and hypersensitivity are the opposite of empathy. They negate empathy. So borderlines are very much psychopathic. When borderlines are under stress, exposed to stress, or to abandonment or to rejection or to humiliation, they react even worse than the narcissist. They become aggressive, violent, defiant, reactant. They act out. They consume substances and do crazy things. They're dangerous. They're positively dangerous. And this has to do with a decline in empathy. This decline in empathy could be extreme. For example, after a stage of decompensation, when the borderline switches to secondary psychopathy, or it could be background, a background lack of empathy. Very similar to cold empathy. The borderline's lack of empathy is tempered somehow by the fact that the borderline is capable of experiencing positive emotions. The narcissist's lack of empathy is cold. It's dead. The narcissist is like a dead fish. There are no positive emotions there. And even when he does have empathy, cold empathy, it doesn't come across because it can't communicate anything effectively when it's emotionless. The borderline has the added benefit of positive emotionality. Too much. Emotions which are too strong. Emotions which overwhelm the borderline. Coupled with even a reduced amount of empathy, it comes across as much more human than the narcissist. I continue from the text. Borderlines have perceptions of others selectively biased toward negative attributes or vulnerabilities. In other words, borderlines are very judgmental. Very judgmental. They catastrophize. They anticipate the worst thing in and from other people. And they would push other people to behave in ways which confirm to them their negative view of other people. And this is known as projective identification. Again, a major change in the text. I'm going to read it to you again. Perceptions of others are selectively biased toward negative attributes or vulnerabilities. The text continues. Problems with intimacy. Intense, unstable and conflicted close relationships marked by specifiers, mistrust, neediness and anxious preoccupation with real or imagined abandonment. Close relationships often viewed in extremes of idealization and devaluation exactly like the narcissist. And alternating between over involvement and withdrawal. This has to do with engulfment anxiety. It is the first time that engulfment anxiety, however indirectly makes it into the DSM. The borderline is torn between abandonment anxiety, also known as separation insecurity and engulfment anxiety. She is terrified of being abandoned and then she is terrified of intimacy. He is afraid of being rejected and humiliated and then he is afraid of being smothered and subsumed and consumed by the partner. So there is approach avoidance. The borderline approaches the partner because she wants the partner to regulate her internal world, to regulate her moods and her emotions, to tell her what to think, to help her with reality testing. So she approaches the partner and hands over her mind to the partner. He sort of assumes control over the borderline's inner state. But having done that, the borderline panics. She realizes that she had ceased to exist, that the intimate partner has merged and fused with her and taken over. It's like a hostile takeover. So she panics. She approaches and then she avoids. And this is known as approach avoidance, repetition, compulsion. It's common in narcissists as well. The borderlines, as the text correctly observes, idealize and devalue exactly like the narcissist. The text continues. Four or more of the following seven pathological personality traits, at least one of which must be five impulsivity, six risk-taking or seven hostility. So the new definition includes seven characteristics. And to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, you must have four of these seven. And out of these four, at least one must be either impulsivity or risk-taking or hostility, which brings borderline personality disorder very close to psychopathy. Do you realize how close it is to psychopathy? So these are the seven criteria. Number one, emotional ability. It is an aspect of negative affectivity.  Criteria number two, anxiousness. An aspect of negative affectivity. By the way, common among psychopaths, contra to the nonsense spewed online by self-styled experts. Anxiousness, intense feelings of nervousness, tenseness or panic, often in reaction to interpersonal stresses. Worry about the negative effects of past unpleasant experiences and future negative possibilities, catastrophizing. Feeling fearful, apprehensive or threatened by uncertainty, fears of falling apart or losing control. Criteria number three, separation in security, also known as abandonment anxiety. An aspect of negative affectivity. The borderline fears of rejection by or separation from significant others associated with fears of excessive dependency and complete loss of autonomy. I'm going to read this criterion again to you because it for the first time in the history of the DSM accepts that borderlines are torn between two types of mutually exclusive anxieties. Abandonment or anxiety or separation in security on the one hand and engulfment anxiety. A fear of being consumed, of disappearing, of being taken over, of being controlled by the intimate partner. So I read to you again this. This is again a massive change, a very important change. Criteria number three, separation in security and aspect of negative affectivity. Fears of rejection by and or separation from significant others associated with fears of excessive dependency and complete loss of autonomy. Criteria number four, depressivity, an aspect of negative affectivity. Frequent feelings of being down, miserable and hopeless, difficulty recovering from such moods or pessimism about the future, pervasive shame, feelings of inferior self-worth, thoughts of suicide and suicidal behavior. Now this is again very important. Everything that is described in this criterion is typical also of the narcissist, but the narcissist has defenses, constructed defenses in early childhood against this. So the narcissist also experiences depression very frequently. The narcissist also is pessimistic about the future.  The narcissist feels inferior and has a lack of self-worth. His self-worth is fluctuating. He cannot regulate his sense of self-worth. Everything exactly like the borderline, but the narcissist has the narcissistic defense. He has a facade, the false self, this extraneous entity that takes over and suppresses the true self with its inferiority. And the false self affords the narcissist the ability to deny, repress and ignore his deep, pervasive shame and feeling of inadequacy. These defenses are not available to the borderline, which is exactly why Grocstein, the famous psychoanalyst, suggested that borderlines are unfinished narcissists. The half-baked, borderlines are half-baked narcissists. When the child fails to develop narcissistic defenses effectively, usually because of parental interference, then the child remains stuck at the stage of borderline. And when we take away from the narcissist the narcissistic defenses as I do in cold therapy, the narcissist becomes borderline. Criterion number five, impulsivity and aspect of disinhibition, very common in facto 2 psychopathy as well. Acting on the spur of the moment in response to immediate stimuli, acting on a momentary basis, without a plan or consideration of outcomes, difficulty establishing or following plans, a sense of urgency and self-harming behavior under emotional distress. Criterion number six, risk-taking, an aspect of disinhibition, again very common with facto 1 and facto 2 psychopathy. The borderline, what does the text have to say about the borderline's risk-taking? Engagement in dangerous, risky and potentially self-damaging activities, unnecessarily and without regard to consequences. Lack of concern for one's limitations and denial of the reality of personal danger. Criterion number seven is hostility, an aspect of antagonism and very common in both narcissists and psychopaths.  Simply wrong. Hostility, an aspect of antagonism. Persistent or frequent angry feelings, anger or irritability in response to minor slights and insults. This is the borderline. Doesn't it sound like psychopaths and narcissists? It does. The text continues to describe the borderline. Trait and level of personality functioning specifiers may be used to record additional personality features that may be present in borderline personality disorder but are not required for the diagnosis. For example, traits of psychoticism, cognitive and perceptual dysregulation, they are not diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder but can be specified when appropriate. Furthermore, although moderate or greater impairment of personality functioning is required for the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, the level of personality functioning can also be specified. So there are minor variations and the diagnostician is well advised to note down everything he sees. What's happening with the ICD? The ICD, the latest addition of the ICD is ICD edition 10 cm. But edition 11 has already been released in effect. It's available. The text is available. In the 10th edition, the authors depicted the committee depicted different types of personality disorders including emotionally unstable personality disorder, EUPD, emotionally unstable personality disorder. But the recent edition, edition 11, the most courageous undertaking in diagnostic literature ever, if you ask me, edition 11 does not identify different types of emotional dysregulation. Edition 11 has realized, they have realized that there's an overlap between personality disorders. So instead, the whole edition is focused on personality traits and severity. There are no demarcated diagnosis, differential diagnosis. It's like there's a single personality disorder with different types of severity or traits or manifestations or emphasis and so on. Some very courageous, dimensional approach. Emotionally unstable personality disorder at the time in ICD 10, which is still widely used, don't misunderstand, was one of 10 personality disorders. In the classification system of ICD 10, there were 10 personality disorders. Emotionally unstable personality disorder was described as pervasive instability in interpersonal relationships in self-image and mood and impulsive behavior, very close to the DSM, actually. The cause of emotionally unstable personality disorder is unknown. There is some research and there's a suggestion that adverse life events, known as adverse childhood events, ACE and genetic factors are in play. There's neurobiological research and it suggests that abnormalities in the front Olympic networks somehow have something to do with borderline personality disorder. We also know that emotionally unstable personality disorder, which is effectively another name for borderline, is very runs in families. You're much more likely to develop borderline personality disorder if your mother and aunt have it as well. Emotionally unstable personality disorder causes significantly impaired function, feelings of emptiness. It's exactly borderline. Lack of identity, unstable mood and relationships, intense fear of abandonment and dangerous impulsive behavior including severe episodes of self-harm. There's a pattern of rapid fluctuation from periods of confidence to periods of despair, which is why very often people with borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder are misdiagnosed as suffering from bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is very often misdiagnosed. People with emotionally unstable personality disorder are particularly at risk of suicide. Transient psychotic symptoms, including brief delusions and hallucinations, may also be present. And not to mention that borderline personality disorder or emotionally unstable personality disorder, there's a dual diagnosis. Usually they go hand in hand, for example, with substance abuse disorder. So borderlines are much more likely to consume alcohol and drugs. There's a substantial impairment of social, psychological and occupational functioning quality of life. Many people recover from borderline personality disorder or emotionally unstable personality disorder over time. The spontaneous recovery, which is one of the main reasons we believe that it's a brain abnormality. But they still continue with some behaviors and there are still difficulties socially and interpersonally. So the most important feature of emotionally unstable personality disorder is, as I said, a pervasive pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships. Self-perceptions and moods, which are also very labile all over the place, fluctuating, out of control. Impulses are also out of control. Borderlines or EOPDs, they are very impulsive. And sometimes they appear psychotic. The intensity of the disorder pushes them into persecretary ideation, paranoid delusions, a hypervigilance which borders on literal, literal insanity, confusion of internal and external psychosis. I mean borderlines are on the verge of psychosis, which is why we call them borderline. They are on the border between neurosis and psychosis. They are, however, very powerful neurotic features. For example, borderlines as opposed to narcissists. Borderlines do have many autoplastic defenses. In other words, borderlines do feel shame, regret, guilt and responsibility for their misconduct. They are likely to apologize and try to make amends, modify their behaviors in the short-term until they are again overtaken by their emotions. Narcissists are incapable of this. This is the neurotic side of the borderline. At the time in the ICD-10, emotionally unstable personality disorder was divided into two subtypes, the impulsive subtype and the borderline subtype. And I'll read to you the criteria in the ICD-10, although I repeat, these criteria have been abolished in the ICD-11. They are no longer valid, but it's interesting to see how our thinking had evolved until about 10, 15 or 20 years ago. So EUPD was divided into two types, the impulsive type. The predominant characteristics are emotional instability and lack of impulse control. Outbursts of violence or threatening behavior are very common, particularly in response by criticism by others. Or I would add rejection, humiliation and perceived real or perceived abandonment. And then there's a borderline type. The borderline type was defined in the ICD-10 as including, includes several characteristics of emotional instability. The patient's own self-image, aims and internal preferences, including sexual preferences, are unclear or disturbed. They are usually chronic feelings of emptiness. A liability to become involved in intense and unstable relationships may cause repeated emotional crises and may be associated with excessive efforts to avoid abandonment in a series of suicidal threats or acts of self-harm, although these may occur without obvious precipitants. All this has been abolished, demolished, eradicated, erased and deleted. We don't divide EUPD to two subtypes anymore. Impulsivity is an integral part of borderline. It's no longer divided from borderline in the ICD thinking. And exactly like the alternative model of the DSM-5 text revision, the ICD-11 focuses on dimensions like identity, like empathy, like antagonism, which includes negative affectivity. These are dimensions. And because they are dimensions, they lie on a spectrum. They are gradations, they're nuances, they're variants. It's much closer to reality.  And I've suggested the mechanism of collapse as an explanation as to why. But scholars may come with much better mechanisms, I don't know, in the future. We are beginning to realize the unitary nature of the human condition that even mental illness expresses ineluctably.


The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children. And Jacob crossed the Ford of the Abuk. He took them and sent them across the stream and everything else that he had. Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched Jacob's hip socket. Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then the man said, Let me go, for the day has broken. But Jacob said, I will not let you go unless you bless me. And the man said unto him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob. Then the man said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men. And you have prevailed. And then Jacob asked him, Please tell me your name. But he said, Why is it that you ask my name? And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the name of the place, Peniel, saying, For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered. The sun rose upon him as he passed Peniel, limping because of his hip. Therefore to this day, the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob's hip on the sinew of the thigh. Genesis 32. It is, of course, a fable. First thing, notice that Jacob is alone, existentially alone. Everything he has is gone, everyone he has is gone. Technically, isn't the same state like Job much later in history. He is a human alone, faced and facing the universe. Being human is about fighting nature, fighting the angel of God, fighting men, fighting the universe. It's about not being. It's about nothingness in the sense that you have to renounce everything outside yourself.  We all end up wounded, some of us at the hip, some of us all over. But we all end up blessed. If we choose this path of struggle, this path of withdrawing from the world and from the suffering it can inflict. Happiness comes naturally from the inside. It is slow and steady and safe unfolding. It is not the ephemeral pyrotechnics of fireworks. Happiness never depends on anything external. Never depends even on anyone. Happiness cannot be bought. Happiness, therefore, can never be sold. It is a state of mind, not a state of affairs. Happiness is self-love and self-acceptance without the narcissism. Happiness flowers in the least expected moments and it brings to life the moribund, refreshes the stale, infuses everything with color. Happiness is being and nothingness. At the same time, we all pursue happiness in the wrong ways. Nothing is more sad and lonely than having casual sex in order to feel less sad and lonely. Nothing is more deceitful than brutal honesty. Because brutal honesty pretends to offer empathy and succor. But it is merely camouflage sadism and hatred. Nothing is more vain glorious than false modesty and pseudo-humility. Nothing is more hateful than the ineluctable expiry of love. And nothing is more wrong than being right all the time. Nothing is faster than life and nothing is slower than dying.  Nothing is more attractive than the self-sufficient. Nothing is more attractive than those who don't need you, they are self-sufficient. And nothing is more repellent than the clinging and the needing. Don't be one. Nothing is more corrupt than conformity. Nothing is more noble than being oneself in splendid isolation. Nothing is more dignified than honouring others and nothing is more awful than what we already have. Nothing is more blind than merely observing and nothing is more deaf than merely hearing. Merely observing and merely hearing. These are disabilities. Nothing is more present than the past. Nothing is less certain than the future. No gift is greater than a smile and no harm is more debiliterious than rejection. No risk is grander and no reward is more substantial than to live life to its fullest. Only the craven and the foolish extol and recommend death or asceticism as bravery or wisdom they are not. Reality is in our mind alone and what is out there is solely what we make of it. Go forth to this new year, to this new world, to this new normal and be brave. Make them love you. The way out is your only entrance. Your exit strategy is the only strategy. Exit the world not physically, not foolishly. Exit the world mentally so that you can experience yourself above all else. What did life teach me? I'm 60 years old and I have let the combined lives of 10 people at least. I have learned that life doesn't always accommodate your plans and wishes but it always turns out to be far better than your fears. If you just let life happen, life takes care of you. We have only limited information. Life has a lot more. Events that look like disasters are usually agents of positive change. Trust life. Do not fight life. Plan flexibly, execute wisely, retreat smartly, advance promptly. Invariably celebrate all these steps on the path that is who you are, your being. Assume the worst. I am no Poliana. Assume the worst but expect the best. Settle for the real. Even when you're stuck, you're carried forward at blinding speed. Love the innumerable gifts that you had been given. Life first and foremost amongst them. Clichés are golden truths forged by experience. Sadbacks are opportunities. Raw gold never glitters. The grass is green and every cloud has silver. Tunnels always end in light. These are all truths. Be positive and not gullible. Positive but not gullible. Assured but not grandiose. Happy but never euphoric. Some emotions are bad advisors. Others, indispensable counselors. No, which is which. And yes, change what you can but only what you can. Do not aim for the stars. Let the stars aim for you who are made of stardust. Remember, this dream you're in, it ends one day. It ends one day. We all wake up to our mortality. The only things we take with us are CPM memories. They are the only thing we live behind. Work on having a life worth remembering by both yourself and others. And if you are the victim of mistreatment and abuse, resolve. Resolutions are notoriously fragile and ephemeral but you can't afford this cavalier attitude. Your mental, your physical health depends on strictly observing at least some promises to yourself. I will treat myself with dignity and I will demand respect from others. I will not allow anyone to disrespect me. I will set clear boundaries. I will make known to others what I regard as permissible and acceptable behavior and what is out of bounds. I will not tolerate abuse and aggression in any form or guise. I will seek to terminate such misconduct instantly and unequivocally. I will be assertive and unambiguous about my needs, my wishes, my expectations from others. I will not be arrogant but I will be confident. I will not be selfish and narcissistic but I will love and care for myself. I will get to know myself better. I will treat others as I want them to treat me. I will try to lead by way of self-example. If I am habitually disrespected, abused or if my boundaries are ignored and breached, I will terminate the relationship with the abuser forthwith. Zero tolerance, no second chance would be my maxims of self-preservation. The world is changing because the world has always changed. Change is the way of the world. This is the new normal. Make it yours. Make it yours by focusing on the only thing that matters in this world. You. On the only one that matters to you. Yourself. Nothingness is not about rejecting life. It's about embracing life. Nothingness is not about ego death. It's about reality testing, which is the hallmark of a healthy ego. Nothingness above all is distilling the wisdom of the ages. And leveraging this wisdom to finally maybe experience happiness. Good luck in 2021.


Hello there, I'm Sandy Allnach. Welcome to my YouTube channel where today I'm gonna be showing you more with my mom's vintage pencils. In my previous video, I showed you how I sharpened them. Got them all nice, they were really dull and that's one of the reasons she hadn't used them in years, but she bought these back in, we believe the 80s was kind of her best guess and I wanted to sharpen them up and get started with them. So in my last video, I talked a lot about sharpening and these are pastel pencils but the same applies to colored pencils. And in today's video, I'm gonna be comparing colored pencils and pastel pencils with a full piece of art. Well, mostly full piece of art in pastel but these lovely delicious pencils with a couple of different brands are going to be used today. So let's get started. Now I have enough experience with pastel to have an idea of the difference between these but when I had so many people asking what the difference was, I thought it's about time to show you a little bit of a head to head test and I'm gonna start with colored pencils and these are Prismacolors, I believe both of them are Prismacolors, I'm just gonna layer them and just make a little swatch of blue that turns into a green that goes to yellow and with colored pencils, you can layer them on top of each other with just really soft layers building them up. This Stonehenge paper that I'm using has a lovely texture for colored pencil. I love the texture and I would in general just keep working with those colors to get them to blend but since a lot of people like to use blending solutions I'm gonna use some Windsor and Newton sans odor. You can also use Gamsol or any number of solutions with a blending stump and wetting it in that little cup. I put a cotton ball in there so I won't spill things everywhere but I can just dab that onto the cotton ball and then get a little bit of moisture so I can start blending the colors even more and it intensifies them a bit. It also pushes them into the paper so that there's not gonna be a whole lot of pigment like flying up in the air. It's not real dusty in that sense. And even if you have just regular colored pencil that you've colored onto a piece of paper with you can move your finger over it and you get a little bit of little color moving but not a whole lot. Quite the opposite with pastels. Now pastels are very, very, very soft. Think of them as like almost dust in a pencil because they're gonna make a lot of dust. You can layer them over top of each other like this, get some blending going, you can use your finger or here I'm gonna use a soft tool to do some blending. And I didn't test out what colors these were gonna make when they blended. This was not the best comparison apples to apples but you can see that you can get a really smooth blend pretty quickly with pastels. Pastels are built for speed even if they are very messy. When you blow off the excess, all that excess dust you do end up getting some on your table. I usually keep a little dust buster around on my desk. Yes, a dust buster. Every once in a while, getting all that dust off but you can blend it with your finger. You can blend it with a cotton ball. You can blend it with a lot of things but when you do blend it, it lifts up pigment. So you may need to add more to it, that kind of a thing. And if you have just plain old color on the paper it's going to make a bit of a mess. So if you are trying to use these for say greeting cards or something this is not a good medium pastel pencils because anybody that touches them is gonna have a mess. You could build like a little frame around it and make it as though it's a shaker card but just have the pastel included on the inside. So if you wanna try pastels, you could do that. You can buy pastel pencils in singles on some websites. I will find some links and put them in the doobly-doo if you just wanna buy a couple colors and try them out and see what you think. Now in making just a blend in a circle, I thought I'd try that. You can see above my circle where I blew off the excess with my breath. There's a little spray of color. So that is just something that you need to get used to if you're going to blow it off your page. That's generally not the safest way to go because you're gonna end up with dust all over your studio and in your lungs. So generally I don't do that except on this really quick little test here.  With color pencil, you can do the same thing and create a blended circle just using the same colors. And in both of these, I'm just gonna use some greens in between to make the blending go faster but you can layer colors in the same kind of a way as you do in a strip and just make something that looks more rounded with the sunshine on one side and the dark on the other kind of an ode, I guess in some way to the full eclipse that we just had. Did anybody see the eclipse? I was on the West Coast and we didn't see much of an eclipse at all. So I had a lot of FOMO but I saw lots of beautiful pictures of it and it was quite amazing. We won't have another one. I know in our newspaper it said we won't be able to see one until maybe 2044? Like that's a long time away but whatever. You can travel the world. Apparently there's an eclipse every 18 months somewhere. Now with color pencil, you can't really go over those colors and try to brighten them but you can with pastels. You can go over top of it with a white, make a white highlight. You can add more yellow to it, brighten those things up. You can't necessarily with colored pencil. So there's some things that one medium or the other does better or worse and it's all a matter of what you want for your artwork. So let's take a look at a drawing that I did. My mom had given me of course these pastels and I wanted to use some pastel matte to make an animal drawing. Pastel matte is kind of like a super fine, I hesitate to call it a sandpaper because it doesn't feel like sandpaper but it does have a surface to it that's great for pastels. The pads come in different collections of colors and this one I selected this kind of blue grayish color because I wanted to draw a seal and the seal is sitting on a big rock and I began by just simply drawing it in a white pencil. Now I was trying to use only my mom's pastel pencils. I have a couple other sets but I really wanted to play with these and say, mom, this is from your pastels because she gave them to me and I wanted to honor her in that. So I'm kind of making do. There is one white pencil and it's a general charcoal pencil so it's technically not a pastel pencil and there is gonna be a spot or two. I'm gonna use some actual soft pastel sticks because I just got tired of trying to do larger areas with a pencil because a pencil is just gonna take longer. But I'm gonna show you a technique that I learned and I'm just really excited about. I wanted to try it on the main element of the drawing. I've done it in a background before but I watched a video in which, and I can't even remember because I watched a whole bunch of them at once and I don't remember who the first one was that I saw but the person had used isopropyl alcohol to melt out all of the pastel in a particular layer. Now you can do that strategically in one of my commissions that I did. I did the blanket. There was a blanket in the background of it and I ended up putting the red down across the blanket and doing this technique and then doing the pattern on top of it and you'll see why that makes a difference when you see how this goes. But I'm just kind of throwing colors in here. Notice I'm not being real careful with it. I'm just being kind of a mess and in that little jar is some isopropyl alcohol and mine is 99%. I saw the video that I remember seeing, they said you could use 70% but 99% is what I had, so that's what I used. And I'm just using a regular old brush and I'm just painting the pastel. You can see it just kind of turns into almost watercolor. You can get a watercolor effect and just leave it as that or you can use it as the base color underneath everything else. And one of the reasons that this matters and that I discovered it and like my mom was sitting in her hospital bed and we were having art chats while she was there and we were talking about pastels and I said, oh mom, have you ever used isopropyl with your pastels? And she's like, why would I do that? And I said because and then I explained to her how this works and her eyes just lit up and I was thinking she would love to go into her studio and go try it because she would just fascinated with the idea of it. But I explained to her that the part that you paint with the alcohol and it has to be done on a paper that's strong enough to handle it becomes like just dry. Like it doesn't lift up anymore. So this first layer, messy as it is, doesn't go anywhere. So now I can draw on top of that. I've got all that color underneath so that's why I put blues and purples and things into the black so I can have some color coming through. Most of it I end up covering when I'm doing the rest of the drawing but I can lean on this and not make a mess of all over it.  So when I discovered that I was like, oh wow. And additionally, like with that blanket that I told you about, the red of the blanket stayed in place and I wasn't fighting it every time I was trying to put part of the pattern of the design of the blanket on top of it. So there's a lot of different uses for this. You can also just do a particular portion if you just want to, you know, do this for the background section or if you just wanna do it for an element in the piece of artwork. Cause you can just, you know, you can move it wherever you want with a brush. Just let it dry completely cause you don't wanna use the pastel on top of the wet paper, but it dries super fast. And what I have seen in a number of videos that I've watched since I found that one is that a lot of people who go out and do plein air and I haven't tried plein air pastel cause I don't know, I have no idea how I would pack for that. I think I'd have to pick out colors first cause I can't take all the pastel I have. So maybe I'll figure that out at some point but they take isopropyl alcohol and then they can get at least a base layer that's gonna stay put. When you're outside and there's wind and everything, I would think that would be super helpful to be able to use this technique. So I'm just adding color on top of the color that's already there as the base. And with pastels, as I said, you can layer lights and darks, interchange them. Most people, I think, do with pastel, they do the darker first and the lighter on top but I think it depends on the element because sometimes I find the opposite will work better, really depends. Like here on this one, I could have put a dark color in for all the white areas of the fur seal and I decided to do some light colors in there. So I would have a light base underneath of it. Now also with the sharpening, probably looking at my pencils going, man, those are dull pencils. The tips are very sharp when I want a really sharp line but there's a lot of this I wanna soften. So I haven't really stressed out too much about getting every single pencil sharp for every mark I'm making on the paper. Pastel pencils are going to dull quickly because they are so soft. And I guess I shouldn't say they're all so soft. There are some brands that are made as heavier, more hard line types of pastel, the same with sticks. You can have ones that are really soft or ones that are harder and they're good for different techniques. But what I ended up doing as I worked my way through the drawing is just going back and forth as I was putting the detail in and I would sharpen the pencil for just the section that I was working on. And lots of them could do with just the very, very tip of it being sharp. I would use the soft tool to do a little bit of blending. Most of the time I wasn't trying to get rid of every line. I just didn't want the seal to look like I was drawing every piece of fur because that to me just ends up looking very busy. So I would soften some of it and end up kind of trying to create some subtle differences in texture. And in this particular one, I wanted to have the sun really hitting one side and creating just a nice halo of cast light around the seal. And I also wanted to have some kind of a blue halo on the backside, just so that there was almost something surrounding him, but it didn't look, I don't know, didn't look like it, it was a glow necessarily.  So a lot of it I ended up doing with a light blue and you'll see when we skip to right here, all the shadow on the left side of the seal was made with the light blue pencil and white. I just layered the two of them together and kind of kept blending in layers underneath and then drew on top of them. But that's a lot of blue in there to create that kind of really soft color. And yes, I know I didn't film every step of it. Apologies, but we would have been here all day because I didn't want to speed through this. I wanted you to be able to see kind of how I make my strokes on the paper. I am relatively new to pastels. My mom had given me her pastels a number of years ago. I had done some drawings with pastel but I hadn't really focused on it very much. I didn't do much research about learning new techniques or anything. I just tried some things for fun. There's one drawing that's supposed to be any day now arriving at my house. It was a drawing that I did for my mom. It was my first finished, like I'm proud of this, drawing that I did of two penguins, a mom penguin and a baby penguin. And my mom said she wanted me to take it because we were packing up her old apartment and moving everything into the new for her hospice location. And we were cleaning out the old stuff and she wasn't really gonna be putting stuff on the walls. So she was encouraging her daughters to just start claiming stuff and I wanted to get the stuff that I didn't want her to feel like she had to ship. So I packed it up in a box and shipped it to myself so it should be here any day. I will share that on socials when I get around to getting that in the mail. So for the rock that the seal is sitting on, I wanted a completely different texture and that's why I switched over to using pastel sticks because you can get all kinds of funky textures using different tapping motions. I was using the side or even the end of the piece of pastel just to create something interesting for the seal to sit on. I wanted one side of it to be super bright sunlight so there's lots of yellow, lots of white because there was a lot of yellow also in the highlight side of the seal and more blues, cooler colors on the shadow side and then started working on how to put the texture in it. Some of that was done with soft pastels using a gray soft pastel and I can't tell you what any of these colors were, by the way, because when my mom kind of put all of her pastels into this big rack, there's like a giant container thing with all these little stacking shelves almost in it, she didn't mark any colors or any brands so I have no idea what any of it is. I just kind of look at it and say, does that look like a color that maybe I could use and then I try it. Like here I ended up using a pink. I thought that was more of a whitish color but it was pink and it was looking okay so I kept going with it because I don't know what colors anything is. At some point, if I ever get through using her older pastels, I did buy a set when it was on clearance at the Daniel Smith store when they closed a while back during the pandemic. They closed their retail store and they had a set of Jack Richardson, like all the colors and I bought that as a treat for myself and it's still in the box but I wanna use mom's first. So I'm just layering these colors on here using my finger to blend, sometimes using a tapping motion to retain texture but still get some blending going on, playing around back and forth and every time I would kinda get to a place where I thought maybe I was making progress, I would step back and look at it and squint and then I would go back and end more because I just couldn't seem to get the whole thing to look right. I wanted the shadow side to look like it was in shadow but not so black of a shadow that it doesn't look like the same rock and yet not have too much of the lighter colors in there either so using some of the blues and browns in the shadows and then I even went back and added some blues into the front of the rock just so that would tie together a little bit better and I added some of the kind of reddish brown in there and a little more gray. It was just playing around back and forth until I was satisfied with it which is kinda how things go when you're working on something that has this much texture in it. So I did use the pencils for the final touches and the final layer on the rock because then I could draw in actual lines and make different kinds of folds and holes in the rock and really play around with the texture and that probably the whole rock may have taken more than the seal did quite possibly but here again you can see my pencil is not sharp but it doesn't need to be because I wasn't drawing something that was like really really careful I was just drawing little shapes that every time you sharpen a pencil you're losing pigment because you're shaving off some of the pigment on the outside of these pencils and I want them to last as long as possible so I only do any of the sharpening when I'm really really really needing it.  So there is my seal I hope mom is proud of this one. I sent it to her and I haven't got an answer back yet by the time I'm doing this voiceover but I hope she's gonna like it as my first drawing with her pastel pencils because I wanna do her honor that way. I did end up finishing off the rock out to the edge of the piece of paper when I saw the little border around it and I thought I don't really need that border so it goes all the way out to the edges of my nine by 12. So there's my seal, I hope you enjoyed the video and I will see you guys again, yeah, in a couple of days. I'll see you next week and I'll talk to you then. Have a great weekend, ta ta for now.  Bye bye.


Hello, welcome back to Rotor Riot. It's that time again we are doing the Rotor Riot Community Spotlight hosted by Jaboi Vortex. We're just going to jump right into this, okay? So first up, we have the Under 1K Club.  We're going to get you guys some more subs because you guys got good stuff. So first up, we got Shiny FPV. So I don't know where this guy is at, but take me there because it's getting cold here in Detroit. I'm ready to get out of here. Check this out. This is about the best golden hour footage I've ever seen. That's looking nice. It's nice just to see some beautiful scenery and that's what we got here. Good stuff Shiny FPV. Next up we got, oh Chris Quad. This guy reached into my brain and stole my idea. He took his video and the intro of it is like an old school Nintendo video game and I had this exact idea to do it and it's amazing that it turned out so cool. It starts off, you have to pick your location, whether you want to do the Bando or the cool scenic place. He even made it Detroit, Michigan. This is amazing. You can pick your character if you want to be Final Glide, Ladrub, Mr. Steele or Chris Quad.  Good stuff. Very well done, very creative. I like to see that kind of stuff. Next up under 1K, we got Dozer FPV. I believe he also goes by Charlie Potter on the old Facebooks. He's just killing it with some tight proximity and kind of like Johnny FPV type of style where it's like low tilt but really precise and he keeps it all in this little small area which I like to see stuff like that. And then he does these really cool like float up stop for a second and then float back down. It's just like awesome. It's just good solid flying. Rollo FPV. And yeah, I just really like this good vibe funky music he picked. Little smooth solid flying through the trees kind of reminds me of like old school Skidzo at it. Keep it up with the good vibes and the funky beats man, I like your style. Nobody FPV. And I don't think you're a nobody nobody, I think you're somebody because it's pretty good flying here. This is my style of spot, it's a nice Bando. Hitting those dive gaps, I like it. He really gets in there and explores pretty well. Overall solid work, good job, nobody FPV. That is it for the under 1K club. Next up we got Location, Location, Location. We're going to go with ironic GTI FPV. I think I feel like he's been on here before already, I'm sorry I'm really trying not to repeat people. But this is awesome. This is like the most epic place I've ever seen flown. I like how the music matches the vibe of the video. It's kind of like this constant build up going on. It's this epic gap in the rock, it was really cool. Very good. I like all the transitions. So thank you for posting this and keeping this entertained with this gorgeous footage. Okay, next up for Locations I picked Gal the Tall. It's not exactly the scenery like the last guy I had, but you gotta admit that's a pretty sweet spot. The building that's about to be put together is a limited time to fly these types of spots. It's going to not be like that very soon and he gets pretty risky in this video too which I like. I don't know how much access he has to go get his quad back if he crashes in there. It plays with their cranes really tight. Solid edit. Next up for Location and also a collaboration. We have Pika FPV. Pika is flying some gorgeous mountainside castle looking thing, but then to top that off he's got a friend in the video that he's working with. It looks like she's some kind of interpretive dance person. I like to see stuff like that. I like to see you use the hobby as a way to film subjects and like not just flying around for the hell of it, just to also have some kind of subject that you're going to capture with it. I think that's really cool. Really cool to see you collaborating with other people. That's awesome. Really Zerman, I believe. Sorry if I'm not pronouncing that correctly. We have another long range mountainside flying which is starting to get somewhat common that's not too special, but whoa flying through the clouds bit. That's what really got me to pick this one so you don't see that one every day. Yeah, at one point he's just pure cloud. You can't even see the ground and then just kind of slowly falls through it. It's amazing. All right, next up we got Skywook. Once again, locations tend to be these huge, vast mountain ranges, but this guy gets extra points because it's covered in snow and he's getting like super low down into it, which is like super ballsy. Very impressive. I would not do that because I'm not a hiker. I would just lose my quad and never be able to get it. But where are these people standing when they're doing this? I don't understand it. I'm used to flying the bandos in such a tight little space. Like this blows my mind and that's going to do it for the locations. Next up we're going to move on to the killer edits. We got my buddy Tengu. I was aware of this guy before I ever even got into quads because like me, he was into 3D helicopters before quads and he was a beast with those two. But in this one, it's not so much about his like crazy flying. It's about this really cool edit that he put together. The concept is like the fear of being a dad overcoming that. So it kind of ties in with the song and everything. And it's like, it's just cool to see someone dedicate a video to their child. That's only one years old. So this is really good stuff. You put some cool transitions in here. Congrats Tengu on making the list and congrats on being a proud father of a one year old. Just by chance with his Drift FPV edit. So we've all seen a bunch of Drift edits before, but this is I think one of the better ones. It's really cool. I like that he's using different perspectives. Like you get the looking out the window of the car shot and then the chase shots. Got some really cool slow-mo shots at golden hours. It's just a really good edit. I like it. Oh, this one's awesome. This is one of the best videos I may have ever seen for FPV. This one's called Drones Change My Life by Westside FPV. This is like a little short movie. This is just awesome. There's so much crazy editing work in this with all the overlays and quick cuts and effects and everything. But more than that, it's like telling a really good story, which is why this hobby is so important and what it's all about and touching emotional video. You should watch it. I feel like this hobby kind of gives people a little bit of an intro into more like typical filmmaking. It gives you a reason to start making videos. So I love to see when people take that and like actually really make a little short film type of thing. Like that's really cool. So again, very well done. For my next killer edit pick, I'm going to go for this video called Supervision, which is not on Air Blaster's channel, but he worked on this. So all the drone shots are from Air Blaster, who you've probably seen here on the spotlight before. And this video is just awesome. It's really cool to see what we can do integrated into a bigger film production. Seeing it just use as part of the storytelling and not all of it, but give those certain angles. And you've got shots from inside the car. I don't know how he's getting such a long reverse shot. Does he have the camera on the back of the car? I don't have Air Blaster. I'm going to have to ask you some questions, because I don't even know how you do all this. Next up, we have a category that I just created today called the I Scroll Through Facebook for five minutes looking for cool videos. Because nowadays, there's so many good pilots and cool people. It doesn't take very long to find something that's really cool. So first up, we got my boy Dave Hines, AKA Copper Top FPV with a video called So Much Gold. What I like about this is that I like how Dave, and similar to what I do, he cuts to the music really good. To me, it's like really important that you cut on beat. So what you're seeing and hearing matches up. And it's like the personality of the video. I like the personality of the guy. Dave's a really cool guy. It's gotten a lot smoother. Everybody has, seems like everybody's killing it these days, flying real smooth. Good work, Dave. Next up, we have this crazy clip that Finke posted. Even though it's not him, it's actually his buddy Jay Tru flying, which is like, he does some kind of crazy tiktok-y, reverse-y, flippy thing, which is awesome. Really why I wanted to put this one on there is because I like how Finke has been highlighting other people on his channel. I think that's really cool. It's not just all about himself. He likes to feature other people. That's cool. And just giving other people shine, it's kind of like what we're doing right now. So it's really cool to see him do that. Last up for my Facebook scrolling, Liam Flanagan. He titled it, what should I call this? The reverse knife edge? And I just picked this because it's like, again, really good, close proximity flying that I really like.  You can just kind of keep it in tight. Good job, Liam. That was awesome. Okay, it is time now for Jaboi to hand out this month's Rotor Riot Medallion Award. Icky. FPV saves us. It saves us from ourselves and from the noise around us. We're gonna give it to Icky FPV for his, this is why we FPV at it. Icky is super talented. It's almost like a mini-documentary style video, like the way he does the voiceover and everything and kind of pulls in different footage from like stock footage and stuff. But this is really cool way to show what this hobby means to him and to a lot of us and kind of explain his viewpoints on what it means to do FPV. I feel like he always puts in so much effort and makes a really polished product. What he was able to put together with this I think was really special. So that's why we're giving you the Medallion Award, Icky. So that's gonna do it for this month's community spotlight. I hope you enjoyed. I tried to not pick too many people that have been on here before. Hopefully I expose you to some new people that you hadn't heard of. Make sure to give all those guys some support. Subscribe to their channels. Show Rotorite your support by shopping at the Rotorite store. Sign up for quad camp online. Sign up for quad box. Thank you guys for watching and see you later. See, clap. Dang, we really are in sync. This is good.


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