Most sailors receive basic training in how to repair damage or put up fires on a ship. But damage control men like Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher Miller specialize in fixing the ship in a crisis. As the ship's resident experts on broken equipment, they also teach their shipmates what they know, so they're prepared to deal with the dangers of shipboard life. I feel we're probably pretty mission critical and when you get to start dealing with older ships, you get a lot more casualties because pipes start to fail more frequently, you develop leaks, equipment fails, sometimes it may catch on fire, and it's good for crew members to know how to handle that so that we get that muscle memory. You know what to do without thinking about it. With damage control men on board, sailors will keep learning how to fix the ship and save lives. Petty Officer Nicholas Vickery, Lead Activities, Sassabot Japan.


We're installing a Petra antenna. That's the pre-exit telemetry rain transmission amplifier antenna And what that does is allows us to radiate data from inside the missile canister prior to launch So that we can collect that data when the warfighter deploys it's important for them to have trust and confidence in their weapons and the data that we collect that allows them to have that trust and Confidence so they deploy they know their weapons are going to work the way that they're supposed to work NAFC Corona, we are the only ones who do this. We install on cruisers destroyers everything the Navy sails We'll put telemetry equipment on anyone who shoots missiles. We do deploy with the ships So when the ship does a live firing, we are on board collecting live data. We record that data We save it and we're also transmitting that data across To people on the shore an Admiral in Washington DC can watch a reconstruction of this missile flight You know based on the data that we collect the PA 484 telemetry group It's probably the best team that I would want to work for on this base. We're a great group of people Everybody works hard everybody knows their role and it's in to contribute for the success of the mission


Narcissists are these amazing beings, fascinating, intriguing creatures, at least to the professional psychologists. I mean, just look at me. On three hours of sleep a day, I'm thriving, I'm energetic, I'm flourishing, I'm even growing orange hair. So when you observe outliers, exceptions, freaks of nature or freaks of psychology, you learn a lot about healthy people. You learn a lot about other abnormalities.  It teaches us a lot about the healthy state, mental health, the healthy state of the human mind. And today, I'm going to explore these disconnects, this disjointedness at the core of narcissism and what we can learn from it, these disparities. And I'm going to start by citing one of the most prominent psychological authorities in recent history, Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe said, if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe was, of course, borderline, but borderlines are grandiose. And this is the first interface, the first tangential connection between other mental health disorders and narcissism. So why do I say that narcissists are amazing? The thing that amazes me most about narcissists is, as I said before, the fact that they are segments of the personality, their constructs, their pieces of the narcissists, their fragments of the narcissists, which don't fit together. It's like two jigsaw puzzles, two giant jigsaw puzzles, who had been flung into the air and then all the pieces descended, fell back down to earth by force of gravity, but they intermixed. And so now we have two jigsaw puzzles. But we can't put them back together, like Humpty Dumpty. So narcissists display traits, behaviors, cognitions, that are incompatible with each other. And they do this simultaneously. It's exceedingly disconcerting. It's like watching a shapeshifting person, you know, these images in horror movies where the face moves very, very fast and it's very frightening, that's a narcissist. Consider for example, the narcissist self-awareness. Most narcissists are self-aware, actually. Most narcissists are aware of their behaviors. Most narcissists can detail everything they had done to other people and brag about it and be proud of it. Narcissists consider their narcissism as an evolutionary advantage. Their narcissism renders them superior to other people. Other people are inferior because they are not narcissists. So narcissists refrain narcissism, their own narcissism, but they're fully aware at least of the behaviors. They're not aware of motivation, but who is? People who are not psychologists are not aware of motivations most of the time. And yes, I am a psychologist, or at least a professor of psychology. My name is Sam Vaknin and I'm the author of Malignant Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited and a Professor of Psychology. And so, narcissists are self-aware. But at the same time, they have an utter lack of transformative insight. Let me explain what I'm saying. They may be self-aware. They may even confront themselves from time to time, look themselves in the mirror. This is called modification. They may gain knowledge about the way they function and even about why they function, the way they function, but none of it leads anywhere. None of this information, none of the gleaned knowledge and wisdom, no input from other people, no feedback, no amount of therapy, no amount of intervention, no number of circumstances, nothing transforms the narcissist. This is the only case, the only case where learning something, acquiring new knowledge, acquiring new data has zero impact on the acquirer. So you can find, you can come across a narcissist who knows a lot about narcissism. Here, here. You don't have to go far. So and yet, none of this knowledge had any impact on him and he remained basically the same. That's the first disconnect. It's as though the narcissist compartmentalizes his cognition, puts his cognition in a drawer, doesn't allow his cognition to seep into via osmosis, to seep into other parts of his personality. It's like his personality is this enormous chest of drawers, this enormous cupboard with various doors and drawers and shelves and none of them touching each other. And so the narcissist personality therefore is not integrated. There are no pathways leading from construct A to construct B, from emotion A to emotion B, from cognition A to cognition B, and from cognition to emotion and from emotion to internal logic, from internal logic to construct, etc. Everything is disjointed, separated. Everything is compartmentalized. Everything is up in the air, so to speak, levitating out of the reach of everything else. It's like a circus show, it's like Hokus Pokus. It's like numerous balls suspended in the air, in mid-juggling. The narcissist is like the famous painting by Dalí Galatea, a series of round molecules just somehow intangibly, tenaciously, tenuously holding together, but just almost. And so this is the first disconnect. The second disconnect is between the intelligence of a narcissist and his ubiquitous pseudo-stupidity. Many narcissists are intelligent and there are even narcissists who are hyper-intelligent. I know one of them intimately and personally. And yet, this intelligence does not affect, is not reflected in day-to-day decision making, in life choices, in mate selection, in career progress and path. This intelligence remains abstract, disembodied. It does not interact with anything, nor does it influence anything. It's like the narcissist has this artificial intelligence program that decifers everything perfectly, catalogues everything impeccably, there's a taxonomy, there's a lot of data at the disposal of the narcissist, and there is the intelligence to process this data and put it in new ways together, what we call synoptic intelligence. Narciss has all this, as long as it doesn't pertain to himself.  How do you put the two together? How do you reconcile this?  Intelligence is a mode of interacting with the environment that guarantees favorable outcomes. So the more intelligent you are, the more favorable your life would look, the more benign, and the better the outcomes you would derive from your human and physical environment. Intelligence is a guarantee of success, definitely academic success, intelligence is highly correlated with higher lifetime earnings, intelligence is a good predictor of college performance, for example, and yet in the case of the narcissist, none of these things, none of these things is guaranteed. Never mind how intelligent the narcissist is, he's likely to drop out, he's likely to not complete anything, he's likely to have very dysfunctional relationships, he's likely to mismanage everything, and narcissists can be a psychologist, and yet have the worst relationships with his wife and children and friends, and he wouldn't be able to implement or apply his intelligence to these problems.  Another disconnect is between the sagacious wisdom which many narcissists possess, many narcissists display, and the aforementioned inanity and stupidity. Sometimes you see gurus, public intellectuals, experts, coaches, you see people who are supposed to be wise, sagacious, knowledgeable, guides, people who are supposed to impart the wisdom of life to you, people who are supposed to provide you with signposts, and supposed to affect your behavior and structure it so that you're more self-efficacious and definitely more happy. These are wise people, these are sages, and yet they're narcissists, and many of them possess and display, at the same time, enormous extreme wisdom coupled with total, total impassility and idiocy. It's very hard to reconcile.   So it's like there's a private persona and public persona. The private person, not persona, the private person is actually a typical narcissist, disempathic, exploitative, grandiose with cognitive deficits, impaired reality testing, that's a private person, but the public persona is the exact opposite of all these things. It's a person well grounded in the reality of human relationships, a person who understands the world, the universe much better than anyone else, a person whose wisdom, knowledge and guidance are indispensable to millions. How to put these two together? Are we talking about multiple personality? Not really, because there's no wall of dissociation between these. These are self-states, but in most cases these self-states do not involve dissociation, they involve a transition.  Now narcissists, like borderlines, like schizoids, like paranoid, they have self-states. And when they are under stress, for example when the borderline is rejected and humiliated and abandoned, when the narcissist is challenged or modified, when they are under normal stress, there's a dissociative wall between these self-states. Another self-state comes to the fore, the narcissist changes and there's dissociation, it doesn't remember how we used to be before. But this is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about someone who in the daily course of life and without any stress and any distress, simply transitions from the most amazing religious figure into the most corrupt and decrepit low life scum. And he does this within the hour, knowingly and consciously. Again it's like an actor, actor taking off his disguise and uniform, it's like a snake shedding its skin. It's like the narcissist is acting the guru, pretending to be a sage, playing the role of a public intellectual. And then when it's all over, when the limelight is gone and the projectors and cameras are turned off, he can be himself. And himself is the utter opposite of the role that he had played hitherto. So narcissists for example are goal-oriented, exactly like psychopaths, they're goal-oriented. Their goal is to obtain narcissistic supply and yet they always fail. They are ineluctable failures. Even if they are successful for a limited period of time, they always end in calamity, catastrophe, disaster and failure. If a narcissist attains a position of power, if he becomes an authority on some topic, if he reaches the upper echelons of the corporate world, if he becomes a pillar of the community and of his church, if the narcissist does secure, does display, does show some accomplishments, it's guaranteed that he will destroy all of it, that he will eff it up. Narcissists live behind scorched earth, they burn all the bridges, they alienate everyone, they end up miserable, they end up lonely, alone, they end up in prison, they end up in bed shape, disreputable shape. So how can one explain that the narcissist is so intelligent, so possessed of all the right advice and tips which he doles out to others as a guru, so goal-oriented, knows exactly what he wants and yet unable to put all these things together to guarantee success? How can we explain this, disconnect? This is what renders narcissists amazing. This utter, utter schism and rupture and split between some aspects, some traits, some behaviors, some cognitions, some emotions and others in the same person, sometimes simultaneously or at least in rapid succession. Take for example the fact that narcissists have no positive emotions, they cannot experience positive, they have positive emotions but they are repressed, they are denied, so they cannot experience positive emotions, they never experience for example love. They experience other things which they mislabel as love, they experience dependency for example. In the love-bombing and grooming phase of the shared fantasy, they would tell you that they love you, but they are incapable of experiencing any positive emotion, let alone an overwhelming positive emotion like love. So at the same time they are capable of experiencing the most extreme, radical, drastic, dramatic, dysregulated negative emotions. While they can experience no positive emotions, they are emotionally numb when it comes to emotional positivity. When it comes to emotional negativity, they are all over the place, they externalize very often, they become aggressive. So hatred, envy, rage, anger, vindictiveness, hate, all these, the narcissist experiences is consumed by all these negative emotions. Now, we believe in psychology that the capacity to experience emotions, capacity to emote, is what we call an extensive property. In other words, if you can emote positively, you can also emote negatively. If you can emote in general, you will experience both positive and negative emotions. You will not be selective, you can't be selective. Either you can emote or you can't emote. If you cannot emote, it's a pathology. Maybe you experienced some trauma in early childhood and you have numbed your capacity to emote. But if you are unable to experience emotions, you are unable to experience any emotion, negative and positive. And we call this flat effect or reduced effect display. There are people who show no emotion, schizoids for example, trauma victims. Some people with DID, dissociative identity disorder, some of the authors show no emotion. But they don't show any emotion, not positive, not nor negative. The narcissist is the only case we know who is capable, when the narcissist is capable to emote, but only selectively, only negatively. We have no explanation for this. We don't know how this is happening. The psychopath for example has flat effect. So we understand that. The psychopath does not express emotions, positive or negative. It's a classic case. We know everything about emotional numbing, reduced effect display and so on. But we don't know to explain how someone can, it will so to speak, be extremely emotional minute and then totally emotionally absent the next with flat effect. We have no idea how this could be done, how this is happening. It challenges our models of emotionality and the connection between emotions and cognitions. And consider another disconnect for example. The narcissist's innate emptiness. The narcissist has a schizoid empty core similar to the borderline. This schizoid empty core simply means that the narcissist does not experience his own existence. The narcissist experiences feedback regarding his own existence, but not never his own existence. Where a person should have been, where a human being should have been, there is a huge void. There is a black hole which consumes everything that comes near it. This is the innate emptiness of the narcissist to borrow a phrase from Otto Körnberg. And yet many narcissists are prodigiously creative, precociously creative sometimes. Proficient and prolific in their creativity. How can someone who doesn't exist? How can an absence? How can an empty void? How can deep space? How can a black hole create anything? How can these people, how could these people have created the most beautiful music? The most amazing paintings Picasso for example. How could they have done this? Where did this creativity come from? Where did it emanate from? There is no core, no core identity, no regulatory mechanisms, no memories because there's a lot of dissociation. If there's nobody home, there's nobody there, who is the one doing the creation? Who is creating? It would be safe to say that a lot of the treasures of human arts and human cultures, many of these treasures were created by narcissists who would be safe to say this. And yet we cannot explain the disconnect between the narcissists' arid wasteland of an inner landscape and his technicolor spectacular accomplishments in the arts and sciences. We can't explain this, there's no transition, there's no pathway, there's no trajectory, there's no psychodynamic that we know that can bridge this gap and challenges our perceptions of psychology regarding creativity. How do you explain that the narcissists can emulate love, imitate love, provide a mimicry of love, simulacrum, that is very convincing? So convincing that people fall for it, they take it to be the real thing. Then on the one hand, and on the other hand, he is unable to consummate his love, sometimes even sexually. How do you explain that a narcissist does a great rendition of love and yet cannot carry to the end, ever? Why not carry to the end? Something is missing, some ex facto, some element, some catalyst is missing in this chemical reaction. In other words, the narcissists can emulate and imitate only the first phases and stages of love, but never the last ones. Why is that? What sets apart consummated love from initiated love? What's the difference between loving and love bombing? We are not quite sure. We don't know why the narcissist stops in mid track. We don't understand how the narcissist can at first, convincingly, love, or at least give a great thespian production of love, and then suddenly lose all capacity to carry through and continue to imitate it. Why doesn't he continue to imitate? We are not quite sure. We have hypotheses and so on, but we are not quite sure. It's another mind boggling disconnect. Narcissists are supposed to be self-sufficient, and they are unmitigatedly self-sufficient. They are self-contained, and yet they are totally dependent on others. Even as the narcissist brags, I don't need anyone. I don't need anyone. I'm self-sufficient. I'm enough for myself. Even as he brags, he is actually the most extreme form of dependence. Narcissism is the most extreme form of dependency. You could easily say that narcissism is a special case of dependent personality disorder. Narcissists depend on other people for narcissistic supply. Without narcissistic supply, they fall apart. They crumble to dust. The whole house of cards, cards that is precariously balanced, falls, you know. So narcissistic supply is the prerecondition, sufficient and necessary condition for self-regulation. The narcissist in a landscape is generated and regenerated and regulated via other people. So narcissists depend on other people to exist. When the narcissist does not get supply, when supply is deficient, the narcissist feels that he is dead. He comes alive with supply the same way plants or flowers come alive when you water them. So it's extreme dependency and if the narcissist would deny it, he would say, I'm not dependent at all. I'm the most autonomous, independent, self-sufficient person I know. But narcissists rely on other people not only for narcissistic supply. For example, they convert people into parental figures in a shared fantasy. People fulfill all the ego functions of the narcissist, the narcissist outsources his inner world to other people and they become internal objects. From now on, these people around him constitute his psyche, his mind, his soul. The narcissist is a hive mind. He is an agglomeration, an accumulation, a kaleidoscopic collage of everyone around him. Any descents, he doesn't exist at all. Should all these people disperse, so will the narcissist. It's a disconnect. The narcissist has the cognitive, linguistic and analytical capacity of a brilliant man or woman, same as a psychopath, by the way. Not all psychopaths are brilliant, they're not all narcissists are geniuses, of course. But generally speaking, narcissists are proficient, they're well versed in cognitive, linguistic and analytical capacity, or at least there are no disabilities as far as cognitive, linguistic and analytical capacities go. Not like in autism spectrum disorders, for example. It's the same for psychopaths. So when you come across a narcissist, he appears to be totally normal. His cognition is okay, he analyzes things sometimes brilliantly. His use of language is fine, or beyond fine. And so you say to yourself, that's a brilliant man, or a bright woman. But at the same time, this overlay of adulthood, this veneer of maturity hides unboundary emotional immaturity. The narcissist is impulsive, there is reactance, there is pseudo-naivety. His mental emotional age is anywhere between 8 and 11, and that is the most high functioning evolved narcissist. The majority of narcissists, the mental age is two years old. And yet, these two years old, these two years old emotionally, these children who are immature, impulsive, reckless, defiant, pseudo-naive, pseudo-stupid, these children also have the cognitive capacity, the linguistic abilities, and the analytical width of a top university professor at an Ivy League university. How do you put the two together? How can a child of two years old possess all these skills? You see it again challenges psychology, as we believe that all these elements inform each other, rely on each other, and build upon each other. We believe that these elements are inextricable, they are parts of a whole. There's a whole, W-H-O-L-E, there's a whole which comprises a totality. Which comprises all these elements into completion. But for the narcissists it's like there's a divorce, a divorce between these. On the one hand is a sage, intelligent, mature, analytic, cognitive, linguistic, genius.  Harvey Cleckley called it the mask of sanity, and his masterpiece, eponymous masterpiece, same title, masterpiece. He describes people who today we call narcissists, he called them psychopaths but actually they were narcissists. He described narcissists or psychopathic narcissists, he wrote a book of 400 and something pages wondering at these incongruities, at these incongruences, at these discrepancies, at these divorces and disconnects, and this jointedness at the narcissists core. He was amazed at how these people who have all the gifts, all the opportunities, all the help, promising careers, brilliant minds, how can they reject life, a life unlived as Jeffrey Seinfeld called it? How can they give up on so much so flippantly, off-handedly, absent-mindedly? Give up on everything, give their bodies away to strangers, give their life savings, do the most crazy, self-destructive, self-defeating things, unthinkingly on a whim, he couldn't understand it. You can see a man tormented and tortured by his exposure to these psychopathic narcissists and he didn't, it doesn't have the answer, hardly correctly wrote his book in 1942, that's 80 years ago, nothing has changed since, narcissists be narcissists be narcissists. This is the biggest lesson we can learn, that narcissism is immutable, non-transformative, unchanging precisely because it is imminently and immanently contradictory.


I'm going to be trying to make this mug, and there are a couple of ways I could approach that, but all of them pretty much have the same thing in common. I'm going to be trying to generate the center part of the mug and then the handle separately. The center part of the mug could be done using a shell or a thin feature, but for the moment I'm going to be drawing the inside and outside surface on the same sketch and then revolving them around a center axis to produce my shape. Then once I have my shape, I'm going to draw a cross-sectional view of the handle on the front plane, and then I'm going to extrude it to create the handle. So if I jump into SOLIDWORKS, I'm going to be creating a new part, and I'm going to start with a sketch on the front plane. So I need to draw half of what the cross-section of just the center part of the mug would look like. So the basic shape of that is going to be a line, and I'm going to start that at the origin, a line, and then I need an arc.   Now I can start to constrain and dimension that shape. So I know that the inside is going to be the same basic shape, so if I dimension and constrain the outside, I can just copy that to make the inside surface. So let's start with that arc. That arc needs to have a radius of 4.5 inches. So I go up to Smart Dimension and then click the arc. I can give it a radius, and I'm going to say 4.5 inches. Then I can also recognize that the outside of my mug here, that, or should I say the outside top part, is going to have a diameter of, let's see here, 3.5 inches. So I'm going to make a construction line in the center to represent my axis of symmetry, and I'm going to make that infinitely long and vertical, and then I'm going to constrain that to the origin because I missed that click. Now I can tell Solidworks that this top outside part of the mug should have a radius of 1.5 of 3.5 inches. So 3.5 divided by 2. Cool. Broke it already. Now I'm going to be dragging in this point down here in the corner. So I'm going to exit out a sketch dimension, or Smart Dimension, and then shape this a little better. Then I'm going to click this line and shift click the arc, and tell Solidworks I want those two features to be tangent to each other. I'm going to give it the horizontal distance of the bottom part of the mug, which I know from the sketch has a diameter of 1.75 inches. So 1.75 divided by 2 would give me that radius. Now you see how the entire sketch is fully defined except for this blue dot up here. That blue dot, if I drag it around, is not vertically constrained. So I should add a height to my mug, which is shown over here in the side view. That height is 4 inches. So if I click the dot and the line, and then drag that out to the side, I need that to be 4 inches tall. And that's the basic shape of my mug. Now I'm going to duplicate those. So I'm going to repeat the same. I guess I could repeat the same process, generate an arc, generate a line, generate a line, or if I wanted to, I could highlight these three lines that I just drew and use the offset entities tool as kind of a shortcut. So I want to make those lines be duplicated a certain dimension in. So I'm going to look at my part here and I see that I want the thickness of that wall to be 0.085 inches. So I want this to be 0.085 inches. And if I hit OK, it will duplicate those lines, create a copy of them 0.085 inches in. So I'm very nearly there. I need to close this sketch by adding a line at the top to represent the actual top surface of my mug. And then I'm going to close down here. So that solid works knows the actual region that I want to revolve around this axis. If I left that open, it would have had to guess that I wanted the axis to be the center, sort of like using the fill tool and paint. You know, if you don't have that region closed, it could fill everywhere solid works to get a little bit confused. So I'm going to use features. And then I want to use the revolved base to create my 3d part around that axis of revolution that I already defined. That was my construction line. And then I want to select the contour to revolve. And I'm going to click this region and hit OK. And I'm now looking at a mug without a handle. So that's okay, we're starting to get a handle on this. So if I look at it from the front view, the region I chose the front view is because I'm going to be drawing in the front plane. The reason I know I'm going to be drawing in the front plane is because I want that handle to be visible from the front view. If looking at it from the side, I should see just a rectangle. So on that front view, I'm going to add a sketch to represent the shape of the handle. And then I'm going to use the extruded base to actually generate the 3d object. So I'm going to create a new sketch. And I'm going to create that sketch on the front plane. Now I know that that handle actually consists of two semi circles. There's this semi circle up here, which has a radius of 1.15 inches. And that starts or rather the center point is right here on the edge of the mug. And at this intersect between the arc and the line that we use to generate the middle part. So that center point will be on the edge of the mug. And then I want it to end horizontally aligned to that center point. Then the second semi circle has a center point horizontally aligned to the center point of the first arc. And that has a radius of 2.15. So I'm going to create those basic shapes. I want to create a center point arc. I'm going to click here to represent the center point of my arc. I'm going to click up here. And then I'm going to create an arc that ends horizontally from the center point of that arc. Now I'll add a dimension. I want that to have a radius of 1.15. Then I'm going to add another center point arc. So I want that second center point to be somewhere else horizontally aligned with that first center point. So I click over here. And then I want the arc to start with this arc and then go down and stop at the edge of the mug. And then I can dimension that and say it has a dimension of 2.15 inches. Then I want solidworks to know that these two arcs need to be tangent to each other. And now you see that line is fully defined. So I can repeat the same process I did earlier. I can highlight these two arcs and use the offset entities tool to create a duplicate of them in a certain direction. In this case that offset needs to be 0.15 inches. So I'm going to say 0.15 inches. And then I will accept that and it'll create that duplicate. So there are a couple of issues here. The first issue is the fact that this region still isn't closed. I need to close this region in order to extrude it. So Solidworks knows what I actually want to extrude. The second thing is that if I were to start this handle at this surface of the mug, like if you looked at it from the top, if I extruded that line away linearly, it wouldn't actually follow the surface of the mug. The mug is round. And if I extruded linearly, I would end up out here in space. It wouldn't actually be touching the mug anywhere but at this center point. So what I need to do to fix that is not actually start my handle at the edge of my mug. I want to start the handle a little bit inside of the part of my mug. So by starting inside of the mug, when I extrude, those bodies will all be combined. And I will end up with a handle that follows the surface of the mug. So I'm going to jump back to my sketch. And I'm actually going to remove this constraint that I added earlier. I'm going to click on that green box. And now that dot has turned blue. And I can drag it around. I clicked on that box and hit delete, by the way. So I'm going to drag it inside. And then I'm going to make this follow that dot. I want both of them to be inside. Now how much inside depends. I really only need enough to ensure that when I extrude, that it isn't outside of the surface of the mug. But just for convenience's sake, I'm actually going to constrain these two points to the inside surface of the mug. So if I change my view style from shaded with an outline, by clicking this button up here, the fifth button from the left or sixth button from the left, and then change it to hidden lines visible. Now I kind of have an x-ray view of my mug. And if I click on this dashed line, that would represent the inside surface of the mug. So if I click on that line, and then I shift click this point, I can hit coincident. And now that dot is actually aligned with the inside surface of my mug. So by starting from the inside surface and extruding linearly, I ensure that I never actually go into the inside of my mug. And I am definitely going to have a handle that is inside the the mug thickness the whole time. The nice thing about constraining it as opposed to dimensioning it is that now if I needed to resize the mug, it's likely that the handle would follow this and not be screwed up. Another way to approach this would be to create a single entity for the big mug, add a handle, and then add the cut after the handle, the cut representing the inside of the mug. If I cut out the center of the mug after I had added the handle, then it would cut out the material of the handle as well. And I wouldn't have to worry about it. But continuing this process, I'm going to click that point, shift click this line, hit coincident. Now both of these two points are on the inside surface. I'm going to repeat that process down at the bottom. I'm going to click this point and then click the line and then click can excuse me, coincident. So let's try that again point line, coincident, and SOLIDWORKS is throwing up an error. So I'm going to remove the coincident and try to diagnose the air here. Let's try that. Maybe the third time is a charm. Something doesn't work just continue to try it until it works for some reason. Great. I'm going to remove this coincident and repeat the process. There we go. Now I have my handle constrained to the inside surface of my mug. Now I need to close the sketch, which on the top part is pretty easy. I just add a line between these two points. Now on the bottom part, if I were to just use a line to connect these two points, then geometrically speaking that line is going to be not quite aligned with the arc that represents the actual inside surface of the mug. And that line in reality would be on the inside of the arc representing the curve of the inside of the mug. So for good practice here, let's create an arc that follows the actual inside surface of the mug. So I'm going to use the center point arc tool again. And I'm going to start my arc from the center point of the arc that represents the inside surface of the mug. So the way I got that center point to appear is just kind of by hovering over the inside surface, and then the relevant geometry kind of popped up. So this dot over here on the left represents the center point of that arc. So if I click that, and now click on one of these points, and then the second point, I now have a fully defined, excuse me, I now have an arc connecting the two points. So I'm going to click on that arc, and now click on the inside surface again, shift click. And I want those two arcs to be curatial and concentric. So they have the same radius and they have the same center point. Now that line is black, it's now fully defined. So if I look at my sketch, I don't see any blue parts, which means that I have a fully defined sketch. Now I can use the extruded base to add some thickness to my handle. I'm going to use the midpoint or midplane extrusion. And I need that handle to be 0.5 inches thick. So 0.5. Then I accept, and I have a handle. So if I switch back to my shaded with edges, then change that to an isometric view, there's my mug.


Good afternoon and before we start our session, and I know Mr. Secretary You will be in very good hands with my friend Tom Friedman, but allow me to be very personal It's your last Session in your official capacity here in Davos, and I want to Use this opportunity to thank you You have been such a great friend, a partner of the World Economic Forum You have been a personal mentor to me. I remember so many hours we spent in your senator's office Many years ago already you have been 11 times here and Davos so that's a opportunity to thank you from all our heart and You Mr. Secretary, I think you are an example and the role model for everybody in terms of your Engagement for world peace and I can tell you as a forum will continue to act as an ambassador and Let's say as a kind of keeper of your legacy and in order to do so I hope even if you are not anymore in office We have many opportunities to see you back. So thank you so much Class thank you, Mr. Secretary. It's a it's a treat and an honor to be able to do this with you You're at you're at the end of your term. I've had a chance to cover Four or five secretaries of state now and yours was a very consequential secretary of stateship both in what you achieved and Well, I think what you what you tried to achieve Look back for us a little bit. I want to just start where what are you most proud of? Getting here alive Since this is the last time I'll be talking to a secretary of state, I mean Well, I I Let me just begin by saying that I don't view this as an end. I'm ending a Term of being secretary of state, but I'm not stopping being and therefore given the issues that are on the table and the Challenges we face globally. I intend to be extremely active and involved and continue to Press in the same direction that we've been pressing it what I think If I have to summarize it, I mean it's and I hate doing that. I don't want to get it on the record I don't like to sort of say well, this is the biggest thing or whatever But I'm proud of the engagement of the obama administration proud of the vision that we applied to What we've tried to do and I think people need to remember the state of the economy in 2008 in the fall I mean I can remember in the senate Watching a secretary of the treasury come up literally pale and quaking and Talking to us about the imminent implosion of the global financial system And president of the united states before he was even sworn in began to weigh in with president bush And make decisions and and he made some very tough decisions I mean bailing out the auto industry doing the things he did Well today as I sit here We are the strongest economy in the world by far And the dollar is stronger than it has been in years That is not great on some Accounts in terms of emerging markets and other things, but it nevertheless is a very important factor and And we have been engaged broadly around the world In fact, I would submit to everybody here and I and I'll defend this anywhere in the world The united states of america has been more engaged on more issues with more crises simultaneously And with greater outcomes and consequence to that engagement on a global basis Then at any time in american history and I am proud Of all of the things that we've been doing simultaneously an incredible kind of juggling act if you will between the rebalanced asia Bringing china along twice to ratchet up the the sanctions with respect to north korea. Is it enough? No, not yet, but remember how long it took to build the sanctions on iran Ultimately that brought us to the table That also is an accomplishment of the obama administration But you know the south china sea we have stood up for the principle of non interference of Resolving things by rule of law. We've stood up for freedom of navigation. We've exercised on our exercises We've mobilized we've deployed Including the possibility of fad and aegis in order to defend our allies and ourselves against the potential of a nuclear weapon and a reckless young untested and and and uh You know impulsive dictator We If you all recall two christmas ago people were predicting a million people were going to die in western africa Well, the president deployed 3 000 troops and we built health care capacity and we Stopped ebola in its tracks And we not only didn't have a million people died. We saved hundreds of thousands of lives and had a minimal loss Afghanistan we had a flawed election run by the international community We had potential of no government or even civil war And i managed to negotiate a new concept of the unity government and dr. Abdullah and dr. Ghani have been working together Not always easy, but it's still there and it's held afghanistan together And we are working with various parties to reach out to the taliban and see if their engagement could produce something Uh, even with russia where we obviously have big differences We also made certain We didn't let them get in the way of the capacity to make progress. So russia was in fact integral to The efforts to create a multilateral unified front that brought about the iran Agreement and the iran agreement itself. I mean, I can't tell you now We haven't talked to iran at a high level in 35 years I met with zareef in the united nations. We forged a relationship. We built trust In a place where it's very difficult to do that And in terms of the outside forces that we're pushing in on us And the rest is history. There are now no longer 19 000 centrifuges spinning and enriching There are 5 000 which is the agreement There's no longer a 12 000 kilogram stockpile that could produce 10 to 12 bombs There's 300 kilograms Measurable every single day and you can't build a bomb with 300 kilograms They're no longer enriching at 20 percent or higher They're limited to 3.67 percent and we measure that every day So I believe this is an agreement that can endure and there is no question in my mind The world and the region are safer because a country with whom we still have differences on yemen and syria on hezbollah, etc Is not hurtling towards A nuclear weapon and all of the tensions that that would create We are on the cusp of having the first generation of children born aids free in africa Why because we plused up that program worked with the gates foundation worked with mgo's and have done a I think an extraordinary job of Of changing life for people and Not just there but elsewhere in the world who face this scourge and so In paris we had a trifecta if we just did paris That would have been an enormous accomplishment But we not and by the way the reason paris was able to get done frankly I mean just speaking handedly at the end here Is because we went to china I went there within six weeks of my being sworn in seven weeks and the second trip I made and We we we built off of the failure of copenhagen and said we can't do this We have to find a way forward the world depends on it And so we set up a working group with the intention of being able to announce our intended reductions in emissions Within a year and guess what president she and president obama Stood up together and announced those reductions and that galvanized the rest of the world to say hey The two biggest emitters in the world are on board. They're serious and the world changed and we moved towards a signal to the market Even though we know We are not holding the rise of our temperature to the two degrees centigrade that we need to hold it to We sent a signal to the marketplace about the largest market in the history of humankind So, I mean I and I'm just honestly I'm scratching the surface here We we we we we have a plan for peace on yemen that's on the table now President hadi just accepted it a couple of days ago. It took longer than it should have We hope to get to kuwait the new administration will have to manage that but There is a way forward to settle the war in yemen libya. We're working with the maraudes with the with the emirates with the Egyptians to try to rein in general heftar to create a responsible Government national court that can solidify libya. I mean all of these things can be solved and the reason I believe We're where we are Is because we've been willing to try to put engagement and negotiation ahead of a rush to war And I'll just tell you I just came from vietnam I was I was in vietnam and I went back down into the mikong delter where I was as a young naval officer and It was the kota to to 40 years of work really. I mean we did not have peace in 1975 or 1980 or 1985 We were at war with ourselves after vietnam You can remember a newsweek magazine with a headline saying are there still POWs alive in vietnam. This was in the 1990s So we had to deameth, you know, we had to get at that We had to take every single shred of evidence from 1960 something on To find out if there were any prisoners live or anything happened. I spent 10 years doing that Enlisted john mccain in the effort. We went together to vietnam 16 trips And built a capacity so that president george herbert warpger bush could begin to lift the embargo Then we could move with president clinton to the to the Normalization and I went with president clinton in year 2000 to to celebrate that But then we had another number of years where we built now Something very different vietnam is now one of our strongest partners. We're we're cooperating on security We have ship visits going into danang going into camera and bay again We not only I mean I went there to quote defeat communism in the context of the post world war war two world in the 1950s and 60s And and we all learned what a terrible miscalculation of the realities it was to do that and guess what Without ak-47s and without m16s today vietnam is a raging capitalist country authoritarian one party yes but no longer communist And it is moving rapidly with facebook membership. That's quite extraordinary dialogue Labor unions other things happening. Let me let me just pick up there if I could just leave one last story We just announced and we are building the fulbright university in in ho Chi Minh city Which has been granted after much discussion pure academic freedom it will be a Integrated world-class educational institution in vietnam and it's going to make a world of difference to the future So to me that's that's the legacy. It's engagement. It's diplomacy Doesn't always work. It can fail and war is the failure of diplomacy But I'd rather be on the side of the ledger that we were on I think we've left us our country And and notwithstanding I mean And there are a lot to talk about in terms of the changes you've just written a book on it but A lot of those ills and anxieties get Thrown onto the administration and people say oh my god, you know the narrative is one of disengagement. It's it's not We're more engaged than we've ever been in the history of our country So let me pick up there if I've only been here a few hours, but If I had to write a column right now the headline there a few minutes The headline would be one of total um disorientation. We had the president of china Give a speech this morning that if you had just read me the words I would have told you I didn't know president obama came here That defending capitalism globalism free markets free trade And juxtaposed with the headlines in the paper that president like trump Is really indifferent to the fate of the european union and um things nato is obsolete so there is um There are a lot of people here mr. Secretary myself included Who are walking around with a pit in their stomach a fear that so many of the things you just articulated and achieved could be reversed In a week, I don't believe there will be I just don't believe that I mean take a round for instance If the united states were to decide suddenly and say hey, we're not going to pursue this and so forth I'll bet you I haven't talked to all of them, but I'll bet you that Our friends and allies who negotiated this with us will get together And that russia china germany france and britain will say you know what this is a good deal We're going to keep it and around and the rest and they will keep it And we'll have made ourselves the odd person out. We'll have injured our own credibility in conceivably a reputable way Not irreparable things time and yeah, that's just too dramatic, but But we will have done great entry to ourselves and it will hurt for the endurance of You know a year two years, whatever wildly administration is there But it's unnecessary What these people these people have dirty minds I told you I was going to be active No, I just honestly I NATO the european union. Um, what you know I a question that's been posed to me here and and we can both only speculate is You know, is the president like putting these things out as a negotiate employer Do they really believe some of this somebody knows and I can't I'm not going to guess I can't come here venture, but I didn't completely answer the other question when I was talking about if you just did Paris and this is let's talk about each one because I want to bring this into this issue of going backwards. Yeah um If you just did paris, it'd be one thing, but we did, uh Ikeo The airlines industry we brought the airlines industry together the airline industry put together represents The 12th largest emitter in the world if there's a country would be the 12th largest emitter They were not included in paris. So we brought the airline industry to the table and have an agreement We also in kigali With a lot of work. I'll tell you I mean I was on the phone to the Saudis who needed high ambient Concerns being addressed and other countries that needed it But we managed to work out a way to satisfy their needs But still bring the world to a place where we are going to reduce our dependency on hfc's hydrofluorocarbons, which are a thousand times more damaging than carbon dioxide and and Just what we accomplished in kigali has the potential of keeping the warming of the earth Half a degree half by half a degree centigrade restraining it. So those are three then we got russia again russia cooperated And putin I talked to him personally about it and he said i'll evaluate it and he did and guess what they came out And they agreed to do it So we have the marine protected area of the rashi and that are the greatest marine protected area in the world So I just you know what you're saying is there's a lot of um constraints There's a lot of structural constraints on versing some of these things There are structural constraints, but there are also possibilities Tom that I think when I hear this narrative, which is a false narrative that the u.s Wants to vote now. I don't know what's going to happen in the days ahead But we certainly didn't want to pull that we we we've stayed Deeply engaged in those ways. I mean we created the the ian international series support group I did that personally we pulled people together to vienna. We had two Meetings in a month during which we had iran and russia at the table And we got everybody to sign off on a solution to syria, which is you have a A new constitution you have political process Call it transitional process whatever you want to call it where people are working on the new constitution and how people are going to participate And then you have an election now the parties are going to have to sit down and debate What a side's role will be or won't be but getting to the table has proven to be so difficult because of the A number of dynamics inside syria itself, but when it is solved and I predict it will be I believe that the parties are now reaching a state of exhaustion, you know near exhaustion that they understand that the dynamics have shifted and that did the day that putin went in And you've got to be honest about that And and therefore I think there is a way to get to An end game here And I regret that you know, we won't be there to do that, but I'm confident can be done I'm no doubt about it And I think that people are shifting on sort of how that can happen because they realize they've got to focus more on isle more on others and and but The bottom line is that I think that You know we have been able to Deal with some of these issues in ways that some people didn't like but guess what they were effective. Let me give examples Ukraine There was a big debate. Oh, you got to arm them. You got to give them lethal weapons. You got to do all this stuff Well, you know They were stopped Look at russia today making any of you when you do this. I know An economic analysis of russia not not pretty but the analysis In terms of the ruble in terms of debt in terms of the investment in the future Massive numbers of old people the demographics. I mean, there are a lot of reasons to have serious concerns Not about where they're going. So it was a focus on this westward stuff But where they're going to go in the long run and what kind of What that really represents The sanctions worked and we worked Unbelievably hard to keep europe united around those sanctions And they have been and so they didn't get lifted And and mince I regret has not been fully implemented obviously But I think it it it it had an impact. We also engaged in the front line state reassurance program for you know, poland, lithuania, latvia, etc and and We put 3.4 billion dollars, which is a quadrupling of what was being spent Into this reassurance program and in the last few days you all have seen images of cold war with troops Going to these countries in order to provide a framework structure to make it clear Article five is meaningful and nato is meaningful now I don't know where the new administration is going But my Message to my friends in europe and they are friends and I loved working with my 28 colleagues In the EU who who are all thoughtful and and engaged folks My message is europe's got to believe in itself europe's got to remember what we why we Have been on this 70 year journey Which nobody should devalue and people are devaluing it for you know, for lack of Definition and perhaps even for lack of leadership to some degree But europe needs to recognize that the reason people came together was not just economic in fact, it wasn't even principally economic It was to stop Europeans from killing europeans It was to stop the carnage that came out of world war one and world war two And you know going back in history the 30 years war and so on and so forth and It's worked folks It's been the most literally on the face of the planet No region No assembly of countries has grown as significantly and as powerfully as europe has Where the standard of living has gone up remarkably where security has been stronger where trade is taking place And there's been amazing progress and then all of a sudden the anxieties that you described so effectively in your book and have from years Which many of us have been talking about are Targeting certain people In political life to blame the wrong target Trade is not The most culpable entity for the loss of jobs 85 of job loss the united states of america is because of technology And i can't wait to see how the incoming administration deals with ai that's coming down the road And a bunch of other issues Uh, that's the reality of where the challenges how are people going to work? What are they going to work at how you do it and you're not going to solve it by running away from this You've got to see the strength in unity and i think there is strength in unity and this current Process i think is very very risky and i think it emboldens people who would love to see europe divided against itself So i think we have to stop and think hard about Where we're heading you know one issue that um you devoted so much time to and i think came up with um One of the most creative security plans for was to preserve the two-state solution you you gave, uh Uh Really quite remarkable speech on the history of that whole diplomatic process um, you took enormous grief uh from it from some quarters Is it over uh, it's um Not from this quarter, but um uh President elect trump Says he's going to sign his son-in-law to the peace process His expertise seems to be that he once went to jewish summer camp and um, uh Um, i'm just curious Um Is the two-state solution over jim. No no it's not over Which is the point that i was really trying to make and i will try to emphasize here today Um, i am a passionate supporter of israel. I believe in israel believe in the dream of uh The jewish people having a homeland of their own and i supported it Completely and totally as a united state senator and as a secretary of state I have defended israel in morphora and prevented resolutions that were one-sided or Delegitimizing Just plain unfair and we as an administration have done that president obama vetoed Many efforts to try to delegitimize or to move the bds or go to the icc or all these kinds of things But our credibility is important too We're a nation the united states of america's sovereignty and our policies and our morality also matter And we have republican and democrat administration alike for years for decades been opposed to settlements Now i've had Well more than three hundred and seventy five hours of conversations with the prime minister of israel whom i've worked with closely and you know we've had Many personal moments and real exchanges and and we've considered ourselves friends But in almost all those conversations i've said look, you know, you're affecting the ability to make peace You're changing the peace map and you're doing it unilaterally and if you continue to do that You're gonna have trouble also with us because our credibility is on the line We can't say we're against settlements and then turn around and turn away From an effort to try to do something about it when you continue to build So what's happened is and people don't know this in the world and it's a hard thing to be the messenger of of truth Because it quickly gets distorted into one sentence or one attack But but the reality is that in 1993 under oslo Area c Which is 60 of the west bank was supposed to be turned back over to the palestinians and it didn't happen for a number of different reasons And palestinians weren't faultless and all that but The concept is still something everybody signed up to and that matters Because you have to build capacity among the palestinians to be able to be a state I mean it takes time And none of us are said not not me not president obama None of us are suggesting that you're going to pull out and suddenly turn it over in three years five years That's going to be Gaza next week. Of course not. You can't do that Israel's security is a paramount consideration as a final status issue But we saw a process taking place whereby The west bank is slowly and steadily being eaten up where Where municipal boundaries of settlements are expanded well beyond The settlement buildings themselves and if you take all the concentric circles of the municipal boundaries around these Settlements, you actually see that most of the west bank has been reserved for the exclusive use of israel That's not a palestinian state You see 11 000 demolition orders for palestinian homes Right now and they're taking place at an increased rate You see the 110 000 Settlers that were there in 1993 when oslo was signed is now 385 000 and growing And 70 000 of them are east of the separation barrier, which israel itself decided Where it would put it and and build So It's impossible to say that every person you add isn't a complication when you decide What kind of state you're going to have and if you keep building in the corridors Where you could have a contiguity between that state, you no longer have a contiguous palestinian state so you know It really was important for us to Make a statement and and frankly ignited debate and i think that debate is now on Let me say to my friends in israel that uh You cannot be a unitary state And be democratic And jewish at the same time it's you can't do it and already today The population between the mediterranean and the jordan river valley Of non-jews is greater than jews So you and the questions i raised in my speeches You know already you have palestinians in the west bank living under israeli military law But israeli is living in the settlements are living under israeli civil law So you already have two legal systems Being applied to people who live in an area that's supposed to be a state separate from israel What happens when those folks go down the road and start to raise questions about the future About their rights about their voting And and and where they vote what law they're under and so can you imagine in the middle? So this is not a recipe what is happening today tom and you know this very anybody you cut your chops with uh From beirut to jerusalem i mean you understand this well as anybody that That that's a recipe for permanent insurgency permanent conflict And and unfortunately the majority of the cabinet there today has already declared they don't believe in two states But the majority of israelis do believe in two states The majority of american jews believe in two states And so all we're trying to do is preserve What is the broadly accepted? Remedy for this conflict that has been accepted by people all over the world and a couple of days ago in paris 70 nations came together and said they didn't bash anybody it wasn't negative It was remarkably constructive in fact i thought But they all embraced The the the imperative of holding on to the two state solution You know just quickly on this that if if trump actually appoints his bankruptcy lawyers ambassador For the first time bb will have an ambassador from america. That's to his political right I mean we've never had an american ambassador anywhere near there and i dare say he will miss you a lot because i suspect Um, uh, he goes into many cabinet meetings saying to the far right there. Look, I do this, but john carry that He and obama. I mean i would do this of course, but they're not going to have you as an excuse anymore And um, uh, you know when the debate was around two states the debate within the american jewish community was right left You think the line should be here? I think it should be there But when it moves to one state the debate will be right wrong and when that happens You will fracture every synagogue and every jewish institution in america and I would suggest all over the world And I think we're close to that so thank you on behalf of this one person For for drawing that red line Last question You served on the senate foreign relations committee. You traveled the world. You were a soldier for america abroad And you got to be secretary of state for the united states these last four years What surprised you about the job? What what did you learn that you you couldn't see from there that you could see from here? And that if you did get a chance in it, you know In a friendly way to write your success or a letter that he should know But being the secretary of state of the united states in the early 21st century Well, first of all, it's been a remarkable privilege and a great journey and and I don't regret You know any moments of it in that regard A number of things have really struck me first of all I I Well, let me come to that at the end the beginning. I'd say to you I and I don't say this I think those of you who know me well know I say this without an ounce of chauvinism without any arrogance at all but Madeline Albright's description of the united states as the indispensable country Just comes home to me every single day And and You know because we are blessed with this powerful economy and because we have a military second to nobody on the planet And because we have the value system that we do have shared by many other people in the world We have a responsibility and and I think It's a privilege To exercise that responsibility, but you have to do it With enormous sensitivity and judgment And and apply all the wisdom in the world you can find to do it properly And we haven't no, I mean, I'm sure we've made mistakes, but But I think our intent and our our our purpose has always been The best the highest sort of you know Set of possibilities. That's number one And the power that we have to have an impact Is enormous and I I think people need to understand that The second thing is that Uh It's really dangerous to play to the lowest common denominator of american of global political life The history of the world when economies are having a hard time and There is fear and anxiety in the workplace enhanced by Religious extremism And exploitation of ethnicity and sectarianism You wind up with really bad outcomes And the last century in europe is the greatest You know Testimony to that reality and we got to be really careful here. We have been here before We have been here before and the disastrous consequences and so I find that in the arab world and elsewhere in the world in the muslim world The world of islam People are sensitive about this people You know, most of these countries Are are really tuned in to not wanting to see it exploited and not wanting to have a confrontation But there are dangerous forces out there and people who are falling into it who are Exploiting that lowest common denominator and pushing A sectarian divide that could be very dangerous for everybody and I I think I would warn against that I think it's we've got to be really careful. The final thing I'd say is this I I know some people are looking at the world and saying oh my god, you know the world that we're just coming apart and this and that No, it isn't folks And it won't You know, I'm I've been around long enough to remember walking the streets of new york in 1964 when linden johnson won a Landslide race against barry goldwater and everybody said the republican party is dead Four years later richard nixon was president of the united states And then we had watergate and we lost nixon and then we've had you know, and and I went through the assassinations of president kennedy bobby kennedy martin luther king medgar evers all of this this touched our generation And so I've seen it bad The world we're living in today is filled with possibility and opportunity And yeah, there's some bad things happening like I sold that's another thing by the way A lot of people said oh you got to go invade and go after isil. Well, you know, we did we rebuilt the iraqi army And we put together a 68 nation coalition And now we have liberated to creed liberated ramadi and liberated feluja and we're about to liberate mosul And we're going to liberate raka and we are going to defeat dash And we're going to do it without losing our way of life and without Losing our values and so forth. That's not unimportant tom And I would say to people, you know, don't just rush headlong to that sort of first easy political Respect. I think that the world we're in right now is much more understandable than people are making it All the anxieties of the workplace are absolutely legitimate and a lot of us have been talking about it for a fair amount of time When I was on the super committee in the senate, I tried to get people to do a global deal So that we dealt with entitlements and we dealt with You know the healthcare all at the same time and had tax reform Tax reform simultaneously so we could repatriate two trillion dollars and have an intelligent simplified system that was fair That allowed working folks Who are not seeing the benefits of globalization earn more as they work harder and go up that didn't happen It went the other way And there's and and so I would warn you know strongly now. Obviously the new president is tapped into the anger But has he Seen the way in which this could be solved that doesn't undo your economic opportunities and it doesn't Create more barriers and more turmoil. I'm not sure we don't know the answer to that yet But I would say to everybody that Is enormous opportunity right now We have some very clear challenges The foremost of which to me beyond the sort of immediate threat of a kim jong-un or finishing dash and and dealing with violent extremism Is to get underneath that violent extremism and deal with the I talked about this in Davos last year the failed and failing states of the world Bad governance corruption the degree to which we are seeing The degree to which you you you see Young people in country after country Being deprived of legitimate sense of possibility in a world in which they're all in touch with everything else in the world And everyone else because they all have smartphones They all have access and they not only see what everybody else has they see what they don't have And that's that to me is the great challenge We have a billion and a half kids 15 years or younger And fully 350 400 million of them will not go to school That's our challenge and I think that the global community has to come together and put together a modern-day Marshall plan With all the lessons we've learned from the millennium challenge corporation and from the virtues of good Impact investing in the world and there's some good impact investing taking place And and while it's not a 7x or 5x return, which a lot of people like to try to find It's it's a one-point-something x and there is a return But there's a bigger return in what it does to help build capacity and change communities And deal with this problem that's coming at us of a world that feels disenfranchised Now I think that if you really look at the world technology has made In the end a more positive Change all over the world.  We're below extreme poverty 10 level for the first time in human history I mentioned the AIDS virtues. We're curing diseases. We never thought we'd cure We've raised productivity. We freed people up to go do other kinds of things. I mean, they're enormous virtues to what's happening We just have to make sure that it's That it's flowing up and down the food chain in a more Get the best out of it fairer way and but I think the new administration frankly is coming to power with The wind at their back Because of the strength of our economy and because of the role that we've played being engaged with countries in sound diplomacy over the course of the last Eight years and four for me and I think that I think there are great opportunities at us if we will calm down Focus on what we know how to do unite developed and near developed countries In contributing to this pot and build do the infrastructure and other things, you know One billion dollars of infrastructure invested in the united states of america creates 25 27 000 to 35 000 jobs In america who doesn't understand that we don't need to rebuild our rail do light rail do people moving Build roads our bridges our airports. I mean we have massive infrastructure needs We could do that actually leveraging private sector dollars with a minor amount of federal input And some kind of discount rate at the federal window And you'd have a spread sufficient to be able to attract a hell of a lot of capital To the job of rebuilding the nation we could do that all over the world When there is many people who are poor as there are today There are schools to be built healthcare to be delivered clinics to be built teachers to be Educated children. I mean there's massive amount of work to do. So i'm an optimist. I believe That we will come out of this sort of you know hand-wringing and self-inflicted despair And kick ourselves into gear and get things done. Well, you know, mr. Secretary if I could just close by saying them I'm not good at much, but I'm good at naming books and I've got the title of your memoir Okay, uh, and it comes from my friend amary lovans the physicist who wants Whenever he's asked are you an optimist or a pessimist? He says i'm neither because they're just two different forms of fatalism Everything will be great. Everything will be awful Amary says, uh, I believe in applied hope and I think you believed in applied hope And I think you applied a lot of hope to your mission and as one little american. I thank you for it. Thank you, sir


What is going on everybody? It's Stas here. Welcome back to yet again another video. So in today's video, we're going to be doing an overall market update as always. Taking a look at the Dow, the S&P, the NASDAQ. We're going to be doing a trading update as well. Talking about what did I end up doing in terms of my trades? Did I make any swing trades? Did I place any trades to swing in my day trading? Did I day trade today? We're going to be talking about that in today's video as well as my personal opinion on the market. Where do I see it heading over the next week? What do I think a couple of scenarios that can play out over the next week are? And we're going to be talking about the specific tweet that I'm sure a bunch of you guys have heard of by now that I think pumped up the market towards the end of today. And that tweet was from the man himself, Mr. Donald Trump, President Donald Trump. So let's talk about that guys. But before we do actually one more quick announcement, for those of you guys that want me to talk about a stock or an ETF, leave a comment down below on this video. Typically, on Sunday, I'm talking about 10 stocks or ETFs that I'm watching for the upcoming week and some that you guys actually call out for me to personally analyze on the video. So drop a comment here or in the call out section in our Discord group chat linked down below of a stock and ETF and I'll get to it. So without further ado, guys, let's just hop right into it now. So the SPX ended up closing the day miraculously up $10.68 up 0.37 in terms of percent guys. And let me tell you today was an absolute roller coaster. You thought a couple of days ago was a roller coaster. Today was even crazier. The point swings that we had in the markets were absolutely ridiculous. So going over here to the Dow Jones industrial average ended up closing the day up 114 points up 0.447 or 0.44 rather percent here pretty solid green day in terms of the net or the Dow Jones going over here to the NASDAQ guys this is the future mind you it's up about 16 points right now up about 0.21% but if we're going to the one day one minute to see exactly where it closed at about 4pm Eastern Standard where I personally am in my time zone we can see it was about 14 points lower from where we are right now putting it at about a $2 day in the green so pretty much a break even so over the three main indexes that we use that I talk about in this on this channel you know it was a pretty solid day in the overall markets but just looking at the closing price today does not tell the story the whole story whatsoever so let's hop into some technicals here and I'll tell you what I've been doing over these past 24 hours which the gist of it is I've been glued to my TOS think or swim platform literally throughout the entire day because there's been a bunch of stuff in the markets especially something that happened last night that I personally thought would fluctuate the markets a lot and it did guys and that was the tariffs from China they're going from 10% or to China rather they're 10% they were yesterday and trump jacked them up to 25% on a specific number of goods and this went through last night and I no joke even when I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom I was checking the ES here which is or which are rather the S&P 500 futures which pretty much runs right throughout the night so this at about 1 30am eastern standard time again this is the future this is after hours pretty much throughout the night on the east coast we were down trending pretty heavily and then at 950 once the market opened we saw that big tank right so I kind of wanted to see the whole gist of that is I kind of wanted to see and what I've been waiting for was to see how the market was going to react if those tariffs were in place and originally it started the downtrend and then we saw that big drop but one thing that I'm seeing here guys and why I'm still being pretty cautious and why I'm being cautious we'll get into that in a second here but what I'm seeing on the SPX is a potential breakout right is this you know another one of those bull traps I don't know right what do you guys think about that let me know do you think this is a legitimate breakout where we'll continue to go up or do you think we're going to sell off let's say if china retaliates to these tariffs if something escalates next week who knows right what do you guys think about that let me know but pretty much what we're seeing here on the SPX on the five-day five minute is a reversal to the upside what do we notice here the 50 and the 180s who made the green the yellow they're both resistances and today we were actually continuing this downwards pattern here of making lower lows lower highs right we pushed to a lower low lower low from the previous one that we saw yesterday everything was looking solid but then once we saw this test here at the 180s may at about 130 p.m eastern standard you know we broke right out of that right we broke right out of it we pulled back we even held it as a new support and we pushed to a higher high completely blowing through that resistance so this is why I'm being cautious right this could be the start of a breakout pattern but we're not there yet on a full technical confirmation for us to consider it that right I'm still being cautious I still think there's a chance we can sell off here which is why to be honest with you all I'm completely cash right now you guys saw I took a loss in Google Facebook this earlier this week I took a profit today on Procter and Gamble and I did a day trade that we're going to be talking about but this is why I honestly guys I'm being a bit cautious because this could be a false breakout and I don't want to be caught in the mix here until we get the further confirmation so going over here to the Dow it's pretty much the same thing right we're noticing the same breakout on the five day five minute but actually let's go back to the SPX and see a longer term view we're noticing on the SPX here that we are holding above the 2855 level of support and seems like we are pushing up now to test that 50 simple moving average so I would say right now the next uh resistance on the SPX is at about let's say 2900 so keep an eye on that level for next week if we end up getting rejected and maybe breaking below 2855 again we might be heading down that's what I'm personally thinking right now but again it hangs in the air right now with a bunch of the drama that's going on I personally don't think um everything in terms of the volatility in the stock market is quite over yet and I'm going to talk about that in a second here so let's go back to the NASDAQ very quickly we can see or actually the Dow rather not the NASDAQ the Dow again just like the SPX very similar pattern here we're holding the 180 SMA support on the 184 hour chart we're still maintaining the 25 500 level that rough area in terms of uh support as well we actually sold off roughly close to that area I think we bounced on top of that area as a support yet again from yesterday which is a good sign here for the Dow and if we're going back to that five minute five day chart we can see the same thing right this is kind of a double bottom almost which does signify a potential bullish reversal we are getting the bullish cross here of the 50 SMA above the 180 SMA and we are getting candlesticks above resistances but again I don't want to be caught in a false breakout here I want to get a further trend up before even taking any swing positions quite yet so that's what I'm looking at in terms of the Dow the SPX and uh what's it called the um the NASDAQ and the NASDAQ again not really anything crazy today right we're just consolidating here on the 75 30 not much not much to say right old just holding an old resistance as a new support on the five day five minute you know same thing we're seeing that potential breakout here keep an eye for the 76 50 level that could be a potential breakout spot if we break that resistance and now let's just quickly talk about this tweet that Trump sent that I'm sure a bunch of you guys already saw but I'm going to read it very quickly on this video that I was literally watching you know I have his tweets on notifications by the way and I recommend you guys do that if you are on Twitter if you're not on Twitter and you're trading stocks you should probably get on Twitter just to follow Donald Trump right just put his things on notifications so he tweets something it pops to your phone and you can see how the market reacts to it and I kid you not I was watching the SPX literally as he tweeted what I'm about to read to you and let me tell you this so at about 230 that was it was probably right around here 3 330 it says about three hours ago the tweet was made and I'm recording this video at about 650 so we can see here over the course of the past two days this is what he tweeted the United States and China have held candid and constructive conversations on the status of the trade relationship between both countries the relationship between President Xi and myself remains a very strong one and conversations into the future will continue in the meantime the United States has imposed tariffs on China which again we talked about which may or may not be removed depending on what happens with respect to future negotiations so I personally think here this pumped up the stock market because it gave the stock market some optimism right I personally think this is just leading us on I'm not really falling for this you know this this go this go lucky like happy you know President Trump and see a relationship I don't think it's that great of a relationship right now they're obviously in heavy negotiations right no one's really agreeing to anything there's just a bunch of you know tension and he's just trying to tweet something positive here in my opinion to relieve us the people in the market the investors the traders and if if China retaliates quite frankly maybe they slapped some tariffs on us I was reading some stuff about that you know this could send the markets down you know this next week this can cause more volatility right I'm just being cautious because I still think there's more volatility to come to be quite honest with you guys because China I don't think you're just going to back down like this we'll see what happens so let me know down below in the comment section what you guys um think about that and another thing I want to mention very quickly is remember how during this time period right we talked about this in a couple of videos ago but we were talking and we were seeing Donald Trump you know he was kind of spewing to to the media through Twitter that during this time period everything with China was great right they were trying to come to a deal they were about to come to a deal he was kind of leading us on which was pumping up the market right and then once we got this you know this bad news a couple of days ago it tanked the market very quick so just be careful right things can change in a jiffy and don't always just believe everything right because it could pump up the market right people sometimes lie on the media not not that I'm saying Trump's lying but just just be careful out there that's all I'm trying to say here so proctor and gamble that's what I traded today I completely sold out of it towards the end of the day today because we saw the huge move that it did ended up making right and I wanted to just play it safe here I took my profits at about $106 again I was pretty much watching the market for the latter half of the day here I took my profits there this was a swing trade from a couple of weeks ago and I do plan on re-entering this one but I just wanted to get out of it just in case the markets get funky on Monday Tuesday and then I end up losing my profit right so I just wanted to lock it in here and again I'm looking to re-enter if the markets point are pointing up on Monday so what did I end up day trading today guys I did day trade ticker symbol a a p l apple corporation guys apple ink this one you know I was watching mostly large caps this morning as well as the markets and we saw the big tank that the spx took and apple actually got hit very hard guys they took a hit all the way down to 192 and as I saw the strong consolidation at this level and then I noticed the markets were starting to pick back up at around 1151 roughly to noon if we go to the spx we can see that right at about noon it started to take off and we broke that resistance from back at 1115 am eastern standard you know that was a pretty bullish breakout on the spx and what do you know apple ended up following that trend I started to buy in at about 194 into the 195s that I ended up selling off a little bit actually was it yeah it was after this dump and then the little push up here by the time it filled this gap I ended up selling so it was at about 196 like 90 or something like that so let's say my average cost was at about 194 85 I was buying all the way up here as we broke the gap you know up to about 196 90 it was only about a 1% right it wasn't a crazy trade but at this point profit is profit and I'm happy with it guys these markets are very volatile we don't know the exact direction that we're going in and during these time periods like I said like I've been saying over the past couple of videos I like day trading volatility I like day trading some large cap stocks on maybe a comeback right like we saw today and I kind of keep the swing positions on the left right on the kind of on the back burner until I find some better trends right in the overall market so that's pretty much it for today's trading update really I'm just all in cash right now you know waiting for this upcoming week very excited to see what happens guys because again China can retaliate who knows right maybe Trump opens his mouth again starts talking crap you know on China or something crazy right who knows what's going to happen at this point today's day and age literally one tweet one one click of a button can change the entire market in the matter of minutes it just blows my mind the day and age that we're living in but that's it and that's how we have to you know deal with it we have to just realize that's how it is nowadays right so in terms of what I'm looking at for next week guys just keep an eye out for Sunday's video I don't want to keep this video too long and again just drop a comment down below with what you want me to talk about an ETF a stock just drop a ticker down below and if I see potential in it myself I'll talk about it right and also don't feel shy feel free rather feel free please to DM me on instagram on discord wherever you guys want if you have any questions any stocks you want me to break down personally to you you know if you want have any questions about long-term investing stocks want me to look at you know I'll do that for you happily so that's it for today's video guys drop a like if you if you enjoyed the content subscribe to the channel if you're new to the channel hit that notification bell so you're notified every time that I make a video keep an eye out for Sunday's video guys it's going to be a 25 30 minute video of me breaking down stocks I'll catch you all then there might be an upload on Saturday maybe not right we'll see what ends up happening but if there is I'll catch you in that video I'll see you all have a great weekend peace out


Hey, what's good y'all should boy down from the down showing friends and we're back for another kpop reaction video So check this out y'all. So today what we're going to do is straight kids maniac dance practice video Um, I definitely look forward to this. Um, from the very beginning. It's already looking crazy So listen, um, you don't know. I just got out of surgery. So, uh, I have a hard time, uh, talking Um, my bottom lip is trying to get better. So excuse me for that. Um, But I'm going to keep doing these reaction videos for y'all. Um, because I've been showing love So I want to get these videos out. Um, because day by day I do get better So if you see that I'm really mellow or not really smiling It's really because of the fact that this is still healing. All right. So, um, let's get right into it We got straight kids maniac dance practice video Sign up before I forget if you have a list of bands Um, especially the women in kpop And that you want me to watch when it comes to dance practice videos choreography Can you literally go in my comment, right? And if I if you did this already and I missed it I do apologize. There'd be a lot of comments and I can't get through all of them Make me list And I'm going to react to them. I want to be able to make sure that I'm looking at all parts of kpop Okay, not just the men, but I want to do the men and the women for real. Okay So do that for me. I truly appreciate the time doing that. Um, but in that let's get right into this. All right. Here we go three two one Here we go Let me see what they was working with because the music video was crazy Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. I thought I missed something Yeah Yeah They waste no time getting there Let's go Let's go Let's go So Let me say this If you've seen the music video You're probably watching this like wow The music video Is the total opposite of the dance practice That music video was ridiculous. So to see just the choreography and how crazy it was This choreography is tight. It's really really tight huh So that's what all they did for that part. Okay, because I saw the music video. I reacted with my boy carter Okay tie tie Like I'm I'm just I just love this part Right here. Oh, yeah Yee Okay Hey, he Let's go Sheesh very a lot of illusions A lot of illusions A lot of illusions for this and it makes so much sense if you've seen the music video It's a lot of illusions. Like this is how you know Why the music video was crazy like the The choreography is very creative. Um, it was definitely built It was built how it needed to be built for real for real. This is different. This is different This is like seriously. This is different like you can be abstract and different and still represent the whole Like idea of what the music video was going to become and like watching this is like, yeah That's all I got. Yeah This is this is tight. This is definitely built for the music video for real Uh-huh Hey, he over there practicing making sure he got that stuff down. I know that's right. Hey, it's a dance practice Okay Yeah This is really built for the music video, but of course you can take this on stage and and get crazy with this This part's still tight Now if I'm correct, then the wasn't a formation different when they did that part Let me see Sorry, I'm really watching but I just want to Just want to see something real quick. I think it's like right. Yeah, here we go. I think it's like right here. Let me see No, no, no, no, no Yeah, here we go. Here we go. Let's see. What was the formation for this one? Yeah. Yeah, it was different. It was different It was different It was Uh-huh. It's okay. We can watch it again We might miss something You gotta sometimes go back And the fact that the choreography is different listen to the name of the track is called maniac So you you really got your choreography like set up for this Hey That dink dink dink This gave me an idea Shout out to straight kids for giving me an idea. Thank you. I just thought about something that I could do with my choreography Huh, ta da da ta. I heard that Ta da da ta Hey Oh, so he came forward with this and he the two artists Oh Okay Yeah Yeah Uh-huh Uh-huh, let's go. Hey nice turning I see the illusion the symmetry. That's one thing about them that I respect It's that they're Like, you know when Carter was talking to the music video if you haven't seen the music video Um, please check it out. We definitely reacted to that and Carter gave us a great stuff But even in a choreography There's balance like I'm talking as a dance teacher if you're used if you're not new to uh, if you're not used to my videos I focus on dance a lot and so just to let y'all know A lot of people make choreography and I'm guilty for this as well is I don't have good balance sometimes So I had to like go back and reconstruct my choreography And the one thing that I'm noticed with straight kids is that they got great symmetry But they also great will have a balance on the left and the right side of the stage when they do In that movement and you might be like, oh, who cares about that? Let me keep real with you Being in this dance world. I've seen a lot And dancers that's watching this you know to talk about when you watch choreography and you'll be like, yo There the balance between what's on the left side and right side is straight off and you'll be like But this is not the case This is not the case. They got it together very well Like they got it together very well Hey, remember this is a dance practice. So they're getting everything they're getting they said right they're getting everything right Yeah, if you don't hit them chest pops, you got to hit those Regardless if it's a practice and they definitely just hit those Mmm Yes Tack tack tack uh-huh That was a nice setup Maniac I like that You better be breathing all hard. Shoot the way that uh music video look was crazy Yeah, I would it. Okay simple thoughts for me watching watching this video And recognizing how crazy The music video was how abstract and creative the universal dimensions that they played with was definitely dope Like definitely dope. And that's the main reason why I had said When I was doing the music video like I won't be surprised if you saw this song in straight kids because like it was feel like It was playing with different dimensions and universes. So You got me. So if you notice, I'm not smiling like that. It's because Surgery. So I apologize. You're like, man, you don't have no face impressions Still working on this So I'm with it I bang with it. It was great um, all I gotta say if I see this on The new soundtrack before Dr. Strange, I won't be surprised Because I can see it like I can I definitely can Yeah, that's all I got like I already knew straight kids was gonna kill the music videos the past two music videos that I saw crazy choreography crazy because everything looked like it was a setup So what I mean by that setup wise is like Set up about like what they was gonna do on camera So like if you watch the dance practice, go watch the music video and look at the choreography It's a lot of setup with like the the creativity behind the cinematography work behind it. So That's all I have Great. Amazing. I rock with it. I'm gonna continue making more videos Please remember what I said if you made it to the end of this video If there are bands out there That I have not got a chance to watch especially the women in kpop Can you please do me a favor? Please put the links in the comments so I can check them out and I would like to review and react Okay, I thank y'all so much for your time and patience with me And I thank y'all for like introducing me to all of this. I appreciate y'all y'all have a safe day Please eat stay hydrated And um, yeah, and don't mess up your lip. So you won't have to get surgery like me All right y'all y'all take care Peace