Hello everyone, welcome to another NARC Survival Live video and in this one it is a different type of topic, not something that I've really spoken too much about before but yeah when they realise that they're not going to find better than you because this is something that I stand by, it is something that I believe in and the evidence is right there I mean it is pretty obvious that they are not going to find someone who cares as much about them as you did there's just no possible way they're not going to find someone like that again and how do I know that well the evidence is right here on my channel I mean you found my community you watch my videos because you are interested in the inner workings of a narcissist you're very curious and fascinated about them you want to learn more so quite clearly you do care you care enough to find these videos whether it's just to protect yourself or maybe you were trying to find a way to work things out with a narcissist so you clearly cared quite a lot and how did that work out for you where did that get you I'd assume it didn't get you anywhere because they just took you for granted it's like they didn't even take you seriously so what makes you think they're going to run into someone else who cares just as much as you did or more but then this time they're going to treat that person right and not take them for granted the reality is that anyone who cares about a narcissist anyone who is kind and helpful to them they're nice they're friendly any type of person like that is going to be used manipulated exploited deceived chewed up and spit out and that is a fact and I know that's a fact because all of the thousands of people who are going to watch this video I can guarantee that at least 90% of you can relate if not everyone who watches this video can relate with the fact that you are this person who cared more about them than anyone in their entire lives no one ever cared as much as you did they never even cared that much for themselves and then you came along and how did they treat you they took you for granted and a person like yourself is very rare I wish I had someone in my life who cared as much as you did for the narcissist someone like that things could go pretty well as long as you appreciate them and you reciprocate back how could that not lead to success but the narcissist took you for granted and the odds are they're not going to find someone like you again if you are an empath as I've said before only one to two percent of the world's population are empaths and even if in the extremely unlikely case that they did find another empath you've only got to remember how they treated you to know how they're going to treat the next person their disorder is maladaptive people with high narcissistic traits they don't tend to change they tend to get worse so they're going to go off try to find a new source they're going to go through many different sources each time it's going to fail it's not going to go anywhere and at some point I mean of course they're not completely detached from reality they're not completely insane so at some point of course yes I mean you cared about them more than anyone else in their lives you did more for them than anyone else and it did of course they're going to use you as a reference point for future supplies you're going to be that measuring stick for everyone else who comes after you and the reality is that no one else is going to measure up no one else is going to be what you were to them so it's going to conclude in their minds at some point they're just going to accept that the odds are they are never going to find better than you yes they will realize it but they can't entertain that thought for a long period of time especially if they know that they've burned the bridge and there's no way back to you all they can do then is just suppress that thought and act like they don't care even though they do care very much but they have to pretend like they don't they have to pretend like it's okay they can just move on and find someone to replace you even if it's nothing in comparison to what you were yes they have no choice at that point but to pretend but to act like it's not bothering them when the reality is that as I said everyone who comes after you and you may have seen this already everyone who comes after you they're measuring them to you to what you were to them you become this reference point for everyone that they're dealing with because no one ever cared that much no one ever noticed them like you did and they may have told you they may have given you all of this praise and compliments in the beginning they idealized you they put you on a pedestal because the odds are they probably never ran into anyone like you before they never found anyone at your level and I don't just mean your qualities and abilities your empathy but also just that special touch you paid close attention to them careful consideration you were there for them you listened to their hour long monologues two o'clock in the morning first thing before you went to work you really think anyone else is going to do that you really think anyone else is gonna be that person for them that you were I mean come on let's be real that's never going to happen there's no way there's no way anyone else is going to see them in the way that you did I mean you were at their beck and call you were everything that they needed you to be whenever they needed you to be it you went above and beyond and not only that but you were they targeted you because they viewed you as the best as greater than all of their other options and that may be because of your physical attractiveness your power your wealth your success your intelligence your connections whatever it was and not only that aside from all of that but you were there for them at the same time now that is rare because even if in the extremely unlikely case that someone else came into the picture and they were more physically attractive or wealthier or whatever it is more than you even then they're going to see themselves as being superior to the narcissist they might just treat the narcissist as their subordinate they're not going to be there for them like you were they're not going to care that much it's just extremely rare in this world to find someone at that level who is also a good listener kind caring loving nurturing all of these wonderful qualities that you possess you really think they're going to find someone else like that again no way even just an empath that's one to two percent of the world's population and even then how many of those are healed how many of those are awakened how many of those are actually capable or fit for being in a relationship all of these things we have to consider and on top of that remember that like attracts like they only managed to get with you because they tricked you in the beginning otherwise you did not naturally belong around them that's why when they began to devalue you you just wanted to get away from them you didn't want to be with them anymore so at some point yes they do realize that they are not going to get better than you they're going to realize that you are as good as they get and I'm not just telling you this to make you feel better after they have discarded you look back at my my portfolio of videos over the past five years I've been doing this for a long time I don't just tell people what they want to hear I tell people the truth and I will admit that over the past few years I have gone back and forth over whether or not the narcissist does actually feel regret over whether or not their past decisions haunt them and I can tell you that at this point at this level in my experience and research yes it most definitely does it does haunt them remember narcissists are shame-based people who are doing everything they can to avoid reflecting on their shame if you take away the shame you wouldn't even have a narcissist anymore and the same thing goes for psychopaths as well take away the shame and they would just be normal people but they're doing everything they can to avoid reflecting on their shame they suppress it or they deflect it they do anything else other than confronting it and that's why the shame continues to grow within them and it also perpetuates their abusive and dysfunctional behavior where they mistreat us so it causes them to mess up every relationship they get into and then it builds up even more shame which causes them to become even more abusive again so you just got to think this person who is so full of shame so bitter a resentful so abusive what chance have they got at finding someone like you again what chance have they got at doing that there's no way that is ever going to happen but they will get on social media and flaunt their new supplies to try to make it seem like it's something that it's not they did the same thing with you remember they took all of these pictures with you they put it on instagram facebook twitter what was going on behind the scenes while they were posting all of these pictures what was going on when they were doing that they were treating you badly they were abusing you while they're just putting on their show on social media to validate their false image yes it is all fake they're never gonna find better than you they're not gonna find anything close and that's just something they're going to have to accept and part of the reason why they're not going to find anything even anywhere near to what you were to them is because of how they treated you yes that becomes their karma because let's go back to the shame rage abuse cycle they feel shame from how they treated you no person is immune to this when you treat someone badly and you could be a narcissist a psychopath it doesn't matter who you are when you do that it builds up shame and you've got to think that narcissistic people they do not confront their shame they suppress it they deflect it they do anything they can to avoid reflecting on it so the shame builds up within them their past actions or behaviors haunt them which then perpetuates the cycle of abuse with their next victim so it's inevitable so it's inevitable that whoever they get with next no matter how great they are it's inevitable that at some point they are going to abuse them as a result of the shame that they feel for what from what they did to you so that makes it pretty much impossible even in the extremely unlikely case that they found another empath or that they found someone better than you because of the shame abuse cycle they're just going to end up abusing them and this is how you know when someone treats you badly when they disrespect you you're like an adult like oh they've hurt me they've damaged me i know they're getting away with it they're running off with their new life and they could be so much happier without me no that is not how it works at all if you really understand bullying and abuse and the effects that it has not only on the victim but on the bully itself as well they're running off with far more damage than whatever they inflicted upon you and there is no getting away from it the effects of what they did to you it builds up this shame inside of them it haunts them no matter who they are even if they're a full-blown psychopath it's still the same if somehow by magic we could take a full-blown psychopath and just take away all of their shame which is as a result of their past actions of behaviors the abuse that they inflicted on people if we could just just take that shame away that person would no longer be a psychopath they would become normal so i hope that's enough for you to understand the link between the shame that they feel and then how they end up abusing you and then that perpetuates the shame and makes it inevitable that they are going to abuse whoever they're off with next so there is no way i mean as i said even in the extremely unlikely case that they found someone at your level they're just going to mess it up and you should know that based on how they treated you and on top of that quite clearly they did not care about you so how are they going to care about anyone else they lack effective empathy they don't feel what you feel they don't care the way that you care they don't feel your pain as if it's your as if it's their own if they did where are they now where are they now why aren't they there comforting you they may look like they're off with someone else but that is fake it can't be real otherwise it would have been real what they had with you so they do not find anyone better than you and i want you to know that i want you to be aware of it and i hope that it does comfort you seen a few comments of the live chat earlier in a live video i did earlier today i'd also on tiktok i know some people saying that they feel alone i'm so sorry that you feel that way i don't want anyone to feel alone i don't know if it's the result of you dealing with a narcissist the effect of the abuse maybe you're isolating yourself or you've been isolated following a smear campaign just seen a few comments and i want you to know that you are not alone you've got all of us on here this community i post several videos a day i go live every day sometimes twice a day i'm available for a one-on-one coaching session which you can book anytime through my website it's narksafiver.co.uk and you can also follow me on instagram send me a message on there it's narksafiver youtube you still feel alone just book a flight let's all meet up together let's organize a meet-up for everyone who's feeling alone there is no reason why anyone has to be alone or has to feel alone we are all here we are all your company so i don't want anyone to feel like that i mean i'm doing this every day putting these videos out there i'm available anytime that you'd like to talk as i said we can even organize a meet-up in person if that's what it is if it's you know just the video you want more than just video that's fine i'm sure we can arrange something somehow just send me an email coaching at narksafiver.co.uk follow me on instagram it's narksafiver youtube there is no excuse for anyone to feel alone it doesn't matter what you're going through i don't care what it is smear campaigns gang stalking i'm not one of those losers and i know many people on here they're not a part of that shit so whenever gonna be a part of that we are our own individuals we don't join these silly groups and even this community it's about promoting individuality it's not about everyone being the same so no one has to worry about that no one has to worry about being alone feeling isolated you are not alone you got me i'm right here right now and anytime that you need me you can email me you can DM me on instagram we can even arrange a meet-up in person we can organize events we can do all sorts of things and no one can do anything about it no one can stop it we are together we are all a part of this community and no one no one is excluded i don't care who you are what you're meant to have done it in the past let's leave that behind now what are you doing now what are you going to do that's more positive let's talk about that all right so there's no excuse for anyone to feel alone i know i noticed a few comments on the live video earlier today and in my tiktok you are not alone at all we are all here with you and don't worry about that narcissist trust me i have been studying this every day for almost six years now there's very few people in this world who understand this disorder and narcissism as much as i do i understand it more than most i could write a book i could write a hundred books and remember the the shame abuse cycle that pretty much guarantees that they're not going to find better than you or anything close to you even in the extremely rare case that they did they would mess it up they would abuse that person just as they did with you until that person is no longer any good for them and then they would discard them and go off and find someone else so there's no reason to feel jealous when they flaunt this new source on social media there's no reason to feel like you're missing out so as though you should have done something different and then you could have got this better side of them there is no better side of them what you saw that is who they are that is what they had to give anything else you're seeing it is fake otherwise they would have used that to secure you to manipulate you even more if they really believed that it was going to be effective quite clearly they believed that devaluing you ghosting discarding you that was going to be more effective so that should tell you everything you need to know because if a person really believes that that great that that special especially someone who is narcissistic they're going to make sure they leave one hell of an impact on you so that you never forget it and that's how you should know you're not missing out on nothing the only thing that you're missing out on is the problem and yeah you're not alone but you know what having some alone time there's nothing better than that it's good it builds character gives you time to get to know yourself and like I said the best relationship or rather the most important relationship you will ever have in your life is the one you have with yourself no one else is going to know you like you know yourself no one else is going to care about you the way that you do even other empaths codependence I mean even then they're just trying to fulfill an unmet need from childhood where they couldn't please a narcissistic parent so even then that doesn't have so much to do with you no one's going to care about you more than you so yeah alone time is good I love being alone I had a great time myself driving in the forest here in Japan I went hiking to a waterfall it was such a peaceful experience I wished I could have just put up a tent and camped out there all day but of course I do have other things to do I've got to get on here do these live videos and I'm always working on other things as well behind the scenes so yeah I think that's enough to cover this topic but you know if you do have any questions if there's if there's anything you're not sure about I mean I can expand on this even more if it is needed if there are any questions I'm sure I can answer them whatever the question may be so you let me know if there's anything you're unsure about if you're still worried you feel like you're missing out you feel like the narcissist has something better without you whatever it is let me reassure you you just let me know in the comment section down below and I will I will take care of it for you and if you found this video helpful don't forget to give it a thumbs up down below as well very important as it helps the youtube algorithm to get this message out there to other viewers who may need it and hit the subscribe button and click all notifications so that you will be notified when I upload a video if you would like to book a one-on-one coaching session with me you could just go to my website it is knocksurvivor.co.uk and don't forget to follow me on instagram as well it's knock survivor youtube okay thank you all for joining me on another knock survivor live video and I will be back again tomorrow with another one but until then I do have a premiere that is beginning in about three hours so keep an eye out for that as well other than that you will have a great day and I'll talk to you soon


finished last class positive projecting conduits in this case one thing will continue that is your plane of equal settlement plane of equal settlement when a high field exist over a conduits that means what do you mean by plane of equal settlement if I say that means when a high field exist over the conduits then the settlements are more in the top it is more on top and progressively decreases you can say that progressively decreases top of here top of conduit you can say that progressively decreases towards top of the embankment at certain height he above the conduit you can say that at certain height he above the conduits a horizontal plane exist a horizontal plane exist at which differential settlement is 0 at which differential settlement is 0 differential settlement is 0 this plane called plane of equal settelment this plane is called equal settlement plane of equal settlement above the plane of equal settelment central zone this high zone settles equality if I draw it, if I draw it diagramically in figure a positive conduits with this, this plane is called plane of plane of equal settlement, this is your top of embankment, top of embankment and this height is known as h e and total height is your capital H and this is called this is called your critical plane. If you look at the definition plane of equal settlement that means when a high fill exist over the conduits that means the fill of height of the fill is very high, so that over burden pressure will be more this is called a when a high fill exist over the conduits and in this case what will happen exactly the settlement is more on top of the conduit look at here this settlement is more at the top of the conduits and what will happen the settlement will be progressively decrease the settlement will progressively decrease as you proceed from top of the conduits this is your conduit top of the conduit to your top of the embankment condition one there is a high fill there is a high fill, so once there is a high fill what will happen the settlement above the top of the conduits will be very high and this settlement will be slowly slowly it will decrease slowly slowly it will decrease it will decrease what happen at certain point at certain point there is an horizontal plane exist there is a horizontal plane exist at which the differential settlement is zero differential settlement is zero this plane is called plane of equal settlement that means plane of equal settlement means the settlement here here here everywhere else around and above the top of the conduits will be equal whatever it settle will be equal this is called plane of equal settlement so that means h is your height below your equal plane of equal settlement to your conduit top surface h is your total height below which from the top of the embankment where the where the conduits is there so why you are interested for this plane of this plane of the equal settlement or plane of equal settlement line if you see type of positive projecting conduits if i write it type of positive projecting conduits for a complete these conduits complete these conduits h is less than equal to h c h is less than equal to h e h is less than equal to h e so r p is equal to negative then complete projection conduit complete projection conduit in this case in this case sorry for complete this conduit h is less than equal to h c for complete projecting conduits h is less than h e in this case r p is equal to positive then incomplete these conduits incomplete these conduits incomplete this conduits in this case h is greater than h e where r p is equal to negative then incomplete projection conduits incomplete projection conduits in this case h is again greater than h e where r p is equal to r p is equal to positive so these are the all classification based on your plane of equal settlement from this because once the moment you identify your plane of equal settlement then you know your h e height above the conduit that is your h e that is called plane of equal settlement and depending upon h e is greater than h or h is greater than h e it should be classified as it should be classified as complete this conduit h is less than h e complete projection conduit h is less than h e r p is negative or r p is positive then incomplete this d i t c h incomplete this conduit r p is negative then incomplete projecting projection conduit r p is positive it depends upon that how h and h e are there so some relationship has been given by some relationship have been given by for this positive conduits plane of equal settlements by this author this is m a r s t o n mars turn as given the following expression for positive projecting conduits in this case gamma b c square c p where c p is your c p is equal to coefficient coefficient this is equal to e plus minus two k mu prime h by b c minus one minus one divided by plus minus two k mu prime this is for your positive conduit this is for your expression for positive projecting conduits similarly for incomplete conduits similarly for incomplete conduits similarly for incomplete conduits your c p comes out to be c p is your e plus minus two k mu prime h e by b c minus one divided by plus minus two k mu prime plus h by b c minus h e by b c into e to the power plus minus k mu prime h e by b c so these are the two relations based on your plane of equal settlement mars turn has given for positive projecting conduits and incomplete conduits now next part of this we are going to start that is your negative projecting conduits of your complete derivation as well as a theory behind it so negative as i said earlier this positive conduits negative conduit as well conduits as well as imperfect conduits the definition has been explained by diagrammatically. So will start this negative projecting conduits case now first case is over for positive projecting conduits now second one is your negative projecting conduits if I draw a diagrammatically how it looks it has been used for culverts example for culverts so this is your top of embankment this is your plane of equal settlement plane of equal settlement then if I start with this negative projecting conduits below this top of the embankment there is a culvert and drawing this how it works slightly increasing diagrammatically let me put it in this way this is your delta g p b d and this part will be rho d plus sorry delta d plus delta f plus delta g and this is your critical plane critical plane and this is your critical plane after settlement and if I take it this two this is your kind of dc bc bd and this part will be your coming delta f so as I said in case of negative projecting conduits r p comes out to be delta g minus delta d plus delta f plus delta c by delta d so where delta g is equal to settlement of ground surface delta d is equal to settlement of backfill in trench delta f is equal to settlement of conduit foundation dc is equal to vertical deflection dc is equal to vertical deflection vertical deflection of conduit so as usual it is weight w c is equal to gamma for negative case bd square into c n c n is your c n is your coefficient of negative projecting conduit c n is equal to coefficient of negative projecting conduit and c n comes out to be e to the power minus 2 k mu prime h by bd minus 1 divided by minus 2 k mu prime when h is equal to less than he and this will be with the same term same term plus h by bd minus he by bd e to the power minus 2 k mu when h is greater than he if you look at this negative projecting conduits where it has been used negative projecting conduits example is a culvert so there is a culvert here i have drawn the culvert there is a culvert here in this culvert this conduits is there above this is your top of the embankment top of the embankment that means filling part is there so if i draw this if you look at here one is your plane of equal settlement one is called plane of equal settlement it will be below your top of embankment so that means up to from plane of equal settlement to top of the embankment whatever the settlement is going to happen it should be equal it should be equal now the settlement below this if you look at here there are things like critical plane this is your critical plane then this is your critical plane after settlement there are particularly four type of settlement observed delta g if you look at here delta g settlement of ground surface the ground surface in this particularly conduit at this level so this has been settled with this your dotted line because what will happen once there is a conduit try to understand once there is a conduit above this there is a filling material what will happen the conduit also settle then the material above the conduit also it will also settle along with side by soil also it will settle so in this case delta g is your settlement of ground surface that means it is nothing to with this it is only the ground surface how much amount it settle it is your delta g then delta d is your settlement of back filling trench what is your delta d if you come back here delta d delta d is your settlement of back fill in the trench that means whatever back fill you have done particularly above the trench because this is a trench this is your trench above the trench so that is your delta d is settlement of back fill in the trench and delta f is your settlement of conduit foundation if you look at here conduit is resting over the pressure of the soil what will happen the conduit also settle the conduit settle where below this there is also soil so conduit settlement of conduit foundation this is called below this called conduit foundation so this part is from here to here it is called delta f that means this is your conduit settlement dc is your vertical deflection of conduit if you come back to your dc at the top part how much it will because once the conduit will settle at the top conduit will settle at the bottom at the top what will happen this is we called a vertical deflection of conduit the conduit will be deflected some part of vertical deflection then at the bottom conduit will settle at the bottom conduit will settle because here there is a soil here below the conduit there is no soil this is a water pipes or maybe something it is a concrete so this is called deflection here we are calling it as a settlement so there are four type of settlements one is your settlement due to your ground surface because of your ground surface then second is your settlement of backfill in the trench third is your settlement of conduit foundation this is your conduit foundation fourth is your vertical deflection of conduit fourth is your vertical deflection of this conduit this is vertical deflection of the conduit and now with this this is this is complete how the settlement of conduit how the settlement of foundation soil how the settlement of particularly your kind of ground surface all if you look at here conduit settles above the conduit soil settle below the conduit what what will happen ground surface settle and below the conduit also foundation also settle so everything has been taken into consideration based on that as I said r p r p is your delta g minus delta d plus delta f plus delta c by delta d so based on that based on that the w c is coming about gamma b d square into c n c n is your coefficient of negative projecting conduits c n is your coefficient of negative projecting conduits in this case c n comes out to be this top once h is less than equal to h e where is your h e as I said h e is your distance of the conduit distance of the conduit above the conduit to your plane of equal settlement this is my plane of equal settlement this part is your this is your h e now what is your h h is your from here to top of the embankment this is your h now as I said when this plane of equal settlement you are going to observe if this height above the m conduit is more high that means filling material is more high so it will be in that case you are going to get plane of equal settlement that is the condition otherwise you will not you may not get your plane of equal settlement so these two terms depending upon that you can say that if h is less than h e what is that c n coefficient of negative projecting conduits if h is greater than h e what is the coefficient of negative projecting conduits so these are all about this how it settle how the behavior will settle what will happen what will happen in this case what will happen this settlement will be kind of this this kind of settlement it will go all of a sudden it become a plane of equal settlement plane of equal settlement means the settlement at the ground surface settlement above the conduit settlement off conduit settlement of foundation surface settlement of ground surface all will be equal all will be all will be suppose it is suppose somebody say if it is a 10 mm of settlement are the plane of equal settlement that means delta g is equal to ten m m delta d is equal to ten m m delta f is equal to ten m m delta c is equal to ten m m. So this is called plane of equal settlement. So how this in this case negative projecting conduits what are the what are the effect how the effect has come it has been completely drawn in a figure where b c is equal to b c is equal to diameter of conduit b d is equal to width of your trench width of a trench because this is your culvert this is your culvert width of trench where trench has been made then culvert has to be erected. So this is your b d is equal to this. So this is all about your negative projecting conduits may be next class we will start about some special conduit cases of the complete derivations. Thanks a lot.


Hi everyone, in this video I'm going to do something a little different. Very soon I'll start releasing tutorial videos covering Unreal Engine 4, but before I do, I want to share with you how to find and install the engine for free. Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, made it available for free back in 2015. And this isn't just free for educational use, or free for non-commercial use. You can use Unreal Engine to create games, visual effects, architectural visualisation, you name it, and all for free. So how do Epic make their money? I hear you ask. Well, they only succeed if you succeed. So if you make a gross revenue of $3000 per quarter per product, then you'll need to pay Epic a 5% commission. Even then, that still sounds pretty reasonable if you ask me. So how did you get the engine installed? First of all, you'll need to go to the Unreal Engine website. The link is in the description below. On the homepage, click on the big blue Get Unreal button. You'll then be asked to either sign into your Epic account, or to create one if you haven't already. If you're watching this video, I'll assume you haven't got an account, so you'll need to tell them where you're from, give them your name, choose a display name, and also add an email address and password. Make sure you agree to the terms of service, and then you can click on the button to create your shiny new account. Once you have your account, you can use it to sign in. This will bring you to the download page. You'll be given a couple of options. You can either download for Windows PC, or if you're an Apple Weirdo, you can download for Mac. If you're using Chrome like I am here, the file will be downloaded, and you'll need to choose to keep it. When the download finishes, open the file and the installer for the Epic Games launcher will open. Click on the Install button to get the installation underway. This won't take long. When it's done, the Epic Games launcher should open. To install Unreal Engine from here, you need to click on the big yellow Install Engine button located at the top left corner of the window. This will begin the process of installing the latest version. Choose a location to install to, I just left it at default, and then click on Install. This begins the long process of downloading and installing the engine and some additional starter content to your PC. As you can see it's quite a big download, over 5GB for me, so you might want to go off and make a cup of tea or something while you're waiting for it to finish. When the installation completes, you'll see that you have the option to launch the engine. Click on the launch button to take a look at your shiny new game engine. You might need to allow access through your firewall if you have one running. Once the engine opens up, you should be greeted with the new project tab and a range of options for you to choose from. So this is where I'll leave you. If you found this video useful, then please hit that thumbs up button. I've got some Unreal Engine tutorials coming up where I'll be introducing you to the engine as well as looking at the pipeline for creating 3D game assets starting out in Maya through to importing and optimizing in Unreal. Make sure you click on the subscribe button to make sure you don't miss out on those. Right, that's it for this one, thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.


and flowering garden is over yeah so now it's in the transition stages between flowering garden and food and wine so I don't want to call it regular Epcot but it's no non-festival Epcot at the moment which I actually enjoy it's like classic Epcot yeah so we got two and a half hours here before I gotta go to work let's do this first stop club cool we just ran into Jenna from Resort TV 1 and they were live streaming and I was a surprise live stream because they had 29,000 subscribers that's crazy who knows you guys awesome and she said that she was gonna do a shot of Beverly if they got 350 lights they only got 321 so she gave you the shot of Beverly so we're gonna do a shot of Beverly in honor for them and congratulations on their success all right you ready yeah cup in hand let's do this hey safety first Prince charming dev guys see ya wow it's really sinking in the flowering gardens over I mean this is a still very pretty pretty scenery but it's a lot prettier with those flowers you know what we're gonna do what wait for the monorail shot oh yeah I guess we are gotta wait for that monorail shot all right here comes that monorail shot we started at 426 what time is it now 431 431 5 minutes look at here she comes but this isn't the shot there's the shot wow look at her go one thing I noticed about world showcase when there's not a festival going on the pathways are wider there's not that good smell coming from the stands and it's quieter smells like no matter what festival it is yeah but no matter what festival it is I always enjoy the smells of walking around world showcase when they're cooking up the good stuff what do you smell right now though nothing duck what so we stopped over in the Canadian pavilion and I got this very nifty pin here celebrating Canada's 150th but it also makes you an honorary Canadian for 2018 and I think I'm gonna make Veronica an honorary Canadian yep look you're an honorary honorary Canadian of 2018 I don't know what's happening right now well while we are in old Canada might as well stop over here and check out the waterfall because it's beautiful and it's a good way to cool off I had to raise my voice because I know the water is overpowering she's all the way back there that she was behind me the whole time come on thank you we got to get the kid caught look at Victoria Gardens it's very pretty kind of makes me Miss flowering garden a little bit doesn't it Victoria Gardens oh you are small in those ducks but I figured you can make some stuff in the kick-cut fun spot hey Nate look at this no crowds this is a beautiful time to be at Epcot and there are children playing in the water following the Fritz pavilion so we walked Jay over to her dinner reservation at chef de France yes we're not eating there but I want her to get a swan yes get the swan yes really bad we've been talking for months yes waiting to meet her so bad I really came out here because I really want to meet her oh yes you don't say it with me and then I come over with you yes yes our American and British change Bob Ross does a smile oh yes he does well so this is pretty nifty you can actually see the construction for the Guardians of the Galaxy rollercoaster beyond her over there oh love that's very lush let's see if we can get some zoom on it here look at that very nice that is gonna be massive isn't it is massive massive what we stopped into the UK gift shop because we needed to get some AC but we wanted to point out Christopher Robbins room for you real quick so now this is cast members only but this used to be the meet-and-greet for Winnie-the-Pooh it's Christopher Robbins bedroom well I bet you can get a better view of it over there so if you're in the back of the UK pavilion you come all the way back here there's no rope or anything like that you could probably see a little bit better into the old Winnie the Pooh meet-and-greet and it's left just the way it was Christopher Robbins look at that what if I can open the door no I bet you if we ask we can go in there we're gonna do that they said no I can't look inside the door is open but you know you still got to respect Disney's wishes if it says cast member only only with permission it's still pretty nifty Veronica's making friends on this rainy day we're gonna go check out the chase picture opportunity up here we don't know who's your characters are gonna be though it is happening well worth the wait so while it's raining we stopped in to the Disney visa or chase picture opportunity here at Epcot and look at this Epcot wall it's beautiful like you you do match wow this is one of the coolest in the rooms look it's really coming down out there and my favorite monorail shot right here get that hello it's the goof alright go ahead you guys go in yes watch him he's like go go go Don't tell anyone. Aww. She's not even frightened at all. Loves the goose. You're looking. You're running. You're hiding. Hide and seek. Hide and seek. Hide and seek. And there she is. Yep, yep. Hide and seek. And him? Are you guys conspiring against me? Good thing. Good thing. What is she looking at the puddles? Oh, yes. Guard. He's got Skell. Goofy. Some Skell. He got it a little better. Turn around. We stopped into the Baymax inside Almea and Greed area. Yeah, because it's so cold. Yeah, the AC is pounding. So we're soaking wet and then trying to get pounding cold. Oh, it's perfect. It's a good mixture. It is. And there's Baymax being Baymax. Aww. Favorite character to hug. Didn't have to wait for that monorail shot. Kinda just walked right into it. Alright, so our time has come to an end. Yeah, it's run out. I gotta go to work. Unfortunately, well, the rain just started. So I guess it's not too bad. I don't feel too bad leaving the park. But we had a lot of fun. We got to run into a lot of great new friends. Katina and her family. We ran into Renee, James, Henry and Jack. They were a lovely family. Oh, yeah? And Dave, of course. And their two daughters, which are lovely. And then we have Jay and Gordon. Oh, Jay, Jay, Jay and Gordon. But we did, we get to run into people. And then we ran into Prince Charming Dad, Jennifer from Resort TV1. Yeah, I was a day full of lots of cool. Just two hours at Epcot. So love the life you live. And if it's your first time watching, subscribe to our channel. You might like it. We'll see you next time.


British Council says it has ensured robust and trusted relationship between the public and police in Adamawa state in the last five years through its conflict management program that has led to reduction in police brutality from 46.8 to 11.9% in some communities in the state. Speaking at the winding up of its operations after five years of intervention in peace building and conflict management in Adamawa, the body said with the cooperation of government and traditional institutions, the headers and farmers conflicts have been laid to rest through intervention projects. Speaking in Yola at its winding up program, the implementation partners said they were able to build trust between police and some communities members through the assistance of traditional leader which led to reduction in police brutality. Speaking in Yola at its winding up program, the implementation partners said they were able to build trust between the police and some communities members through the assistance of traditional leaders which led to reduction in police brutality. Adamawa advocated for the setting up of better and more sustainable structures in the communities to ease opposition against moves by the federal government to release more repented members of the dreaded Boko Haram group to state government for reintegration into their respective host communities. He advised that structures to be created would have to entail collaboration and dialogue among stakeholders towards reintegration of repentant Boko elements into the community. There was a lot of resistance, but we have today now how communities are telling us that because of the sensitization, because of the engagement and dialogue with the community to understand that bringing in people back to community and reintegrating them is better for achieving peace and overcoming the challenges. The implementation of the program in the 11 selected local governments of the state explained what they were able to achieve in restoring peace and stability as well as ending rampage farmers and headers conflicts. The relationship between farmers and headers has improved greatly over time because of the cordial relationship that CPS was able to create between them. Some headers even helped farmers clear their farms during the harvest period and leaving the foliage for the headers to feed their cows.


When Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January, 1759, the son of a tenant farmer from Allaway in the west of Scotland, no one could imagine that still today, over 250 years later, people all around the world would gather to celebrate his birth, his poetry and songs, at dinners known as Burns' Supperers. Burns wrote from the heart, chiefly in the Scots vernacular, and he collected and conserved traditional songs too, including Ald Lang Sign. Inspired by everything from a field mouse to the lassies he loved, to the radical thinkers of his day, he created vivid characters like Tamar Shanta and wrote enduring love poems like Red Red Rose. In 1795, the year before he died, he wrote A Man's A Man for All That. The poem, which talks of international brotherhood, was performed as a song at the opening of the New Scottish Parliament in 1999. A sculpture of Burns is on display in the Parliament building and on the external cannon gate wall, quotations from two of his poems are inscribed on stone plaques. Robert Burns' Scotland's bard, but his poetry, speaks to everyone.


For everybody who doesn't know me, my name is Caitlin Alley-Pena. I am the Director of Operations and Programs with the Center for Election Science. We are a nonpartisan nonprofit that studies and advocates for better voting methods. And right now we are just trying to engage people and provide them with ways to stay connected to democracy and different subjects around government and civics while everybody is kind of stuck at home. And we thought that connecting with iCivics to help you all access resources while you're at home with your kids or if you're an educator who's trying to figure out how to teach online, we thought that would be a great opportunity right now to provide those resources to you all. So I'm assuming that most of you are at least somewhat familiar with iCivics, but if you're not they are also a non-profit and they engage students with civics lessons and discussions by providing teachers with the resources they need to create interactive lessons. And I think Amber might touch on this, but I'm pretty sure that you guys are kind of moving to provide some resources for parents as well. Correct me if I'm wrong, but today I think Amber will be focusing a little bit more on parents, but of course this should hopefully be helpful for both educators and parents alike. So without further ado I will introduce our presenter today. Her name is Amber Coleman Mortley and she is the director of social engagement at iCivics. Before joining iCivics she was a decorated college athlete and she worked for about a decade as a PE and health teacher and a varsity head coach at Sidwell Friends School. She has a BA in African American Studies from Oberlin College and a Master of Communications from American University in Media Entrepreneurship and she's also an NBC parent toolkit expert which is really cool. Amber also has her own blog called Mama Vault Capes and she covers parenting strategies and ed tech, civic education, parent-teacher partnerships, and social-emotional development. So she's obviously got lots of expertise for us so I will go ahead and hand it over. Awesome. Yay. Thank you everyone for joining this evening and for the people who will be watching the recording later. So welcome, welcome, welcome. I do want to give out a shout out to Caitlin for reaching out to us. Thank you so very much for allowing us the space to commune with your community. So thank you, thank you, thank you. We do have some isolationist people who are also on the webinar so please as we go because I will be focused on my presentation. If you have questions as we go along I will shoot it to, you know, Emma Humphrey she's in the chat. Kristen Shapron is in the chat and I think I see Laura DeSalvo as well. So hopefully they can answer your questions as I go along. All right I guess let's get this party started. I'm going to share my screen here. All right hopefully everyone can see that I click present. All right so we are here this evening to discuss teaching your kids about democracy with iCivics and I'm just going to give a really, you know, hopefully quick overview so that we leave enough time for questions. All right so as I was introduced before my name is Amber Coleman-Mortley. I'm the Director of Social Engagement at iCivics. In my spare time I'm a parent blogger and I also am at Mama Ball Cates on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Feel free to reach out to me during and after this presentation. I am a mom of three. I have an eight-year-old, a 10-year-old and an 11-year-old so you know iCivics is really a great resource for the kids in this age group and so I'm super excited to talk about the ways that you can connect this resource with those ages and other ages as well and then yes I am a former PE teacher and health teacher and varsity coach. So before we get started all right I just want to touch into like what does it mean to teach your kids about democracy all right. So the first thing that it is not, it is not political tribalism. This is not about raising more libertarians or more Democrats, more Republicans, independents or Green Party voters all right. What teaching your kids about democracy actually is is getting more engaged citizens you know raising independent and empowered thinkers that understand how government operates and functions in their lives. Hopefully when they do that they do it with zeal and enthusiasm to solve the most pressing matters in their communities.  So today's agenda all right. We're going to cover obviously I'll give a brief introduction about iCivics. We're going to talk about responding to school closures and remote learning. We're going to talk about the other resources that are available for parents and how you guys can use those grade level and then we'll talk about what to look for at iCivics in an election year and then we'll open it up for Q&A. All right so about iCivics just really quickly. We are an online digital resource. We have 20 games. We have over 200 lesson plans. We do have ELL resources and we have questions about English language learners. Kristen can answer those questions in a chat for you. We do have resources in Spanish as well. We do have digital literacy tools and then there are also projects that you can do with iCivics. We have over 200,000 registered teachers and have been used by over 6 million students last year. So we've been around for 10 years. Justice O'Connor is our founder so we've reached our stride with educators and we are hoping that we can connect with parents more as well. That's why we're here today. So when you get started with iCivics I would love for each and every one of you if you're not an educator to create a free parent account and so you're going to go to icivics.org backslash login. Once you've logged in I will be totally honest. There is so much on iCivics. It is a rich resource rich tool so we recommend that you start with the games especially for parents to start with our games. Now your your child can play the iCivics games without logging in and creating an account. Our resources are free but if you want to use some of the other resources you're going to have to create an account. We are working on building out more resources specifically for parents so that's why we really want you guys to go to the games and then also know that our games are tablet compatible. They're not compatible on smartphone unfortunately but you can find us in the iTunes and Google Play stores. All right so we're going to talk about responding to remote learning and school closures. So in the chat you know just let's drop some answers in because I love engagement so hopefully this isn't just static but you know kind of share with the rest of the group go into the chat and just kind of answer this question what are you feeling during this unprecedented moment and I'll just you know let a couple seconds go by please use the chat you know are you feeling overwhelmed moderately stressed a little stressed are you cool with a cucumber does it vary upon day-to-day you know I'll be totally honest with each and every one of you some days I really feel like I'm killing it and then some days I am literally crying so I think you know just kind of keeping it in perspective is great. There is a range of emotions that you're going to feel during this time and thank you guys for responding in the chat really appreciate it. This moment can dredge up a variety of emotions right but I want to share with each and every one of you that the most important thing that we can do with parents is kind of take a deep breath and step back and also ask for help right so if you're ever on the icidic site and you're like completely stuck or you're like she said this resource I don't know where it is you know feel free to tweet me on twitter or DM me on twitter feel free to reach out to icidics on twitter or email us at support at icidics.org we are happy to help you to make sure that you have what you need because it's tough we're being asked to do a lot right now so because we're asked to do a lot right now we have put together a landing page to kind of assist parents and educators with some first start resources to help with enrichment while students and kids are at home so again we suggest starting with our games right they're educational they're fun they're engaging they provide structure in a home schooling setting and then also the games take about 30 to 45 minutes to play so if you're trying to get through a meeting and like I know today like my daughter was trying to interrupt the staff call you know I put them on icidics and I was like hey y'all play icidics for this next 30 to 45 minutes they did it it was great after the staff call we checked in about what they've learned the one thing I want to say about icidics games you don't really want to focus on like winning winning winning right anytime you play an icidics game you win of course we do have points but the most important part of this is having fun and then learning as you go so just want to keep that in front of mind you can find new and existing resources at icidics.org backslash toolkit and I do want to say that after this webinar I'll be tweeting out all of the links at mom of all cakes so please check those out so if you miss anything they will be there but go to icidics.org backslash toolkit and that is where we've curated you know these are the things that you could use to get started you can also reach out again to the icidics curriculum team after this webinar with questions at support at icidics.org we are here for you all right we are totally all in your corner so I'm going to cover some more resources for teaching about democracy at home so you know these are a couple ways that you can use our games so icidics covers a variety of important topics these topics are local government the elections the constitution citizenship we do cover landmark supreme court cases how to run for president so there are a lot of civic topics that are covered on our site our games cover a lot of these topics as well again they're great starting places to get started so here are a few strategies that I have for you to go deeper with our games one is a family leaderboard right so you know mom or dad or grandma or parent guardian play the game right you post your score up on the family whiteboard or just you know say hey guys this is my score and then you challenge your kids to beat your score on the game again like you learned something they learned something you know who doesn't want to try and beat their parent at a game and it's just a really fun and engaging way to get the whole family involved around civic a certain civic topic the other way that I love to use icidic games is sibling play so I will pair my sixth grader with my third grader or my fifth and sixth grader together or my fifth and third grader together and say all right you guys play together we often ask teachers to execute this strategy it includes it encourages conversations between kids it gets them thinking and working together you know it might be a great exercise and having siblings who do not get along to get along for 30 or 45 minutes it also will give you a break because you're putting more than one child into an activity together right and then it's also great leadership for your older child and your younger child to engage with each other and have these kinds of discussions and making choices during the game another way you can play is gameplay with post game questions so we do have some post games discussion questions for parents I can tweet those out for you guys we you know encourage you to play the game and then kind of think critically like what are some of the things that you learned when you played the game like what was what was this how did this amendment speak out for you what was something when you ran your own county and county's work that you really focused in zero to anyone all right so you kind of want to talk to your kids about like you know what would be experienced like our games are simulations that put kids in the driver's seat kids and adults actually you know most of us aren't going to run for president but you can run for president when you play when the white house you know so that gives you a kind of an idea of like what it's like so there's that also gameplay and family discussion so it's kind of like the post game questions you're going to want to talk about like you know just a wide variety of civic topics are happening all around us local government is happening right now all around us you know so bring up discussions about what you guys are seeing in the news and see if you can relate it to the gameplay again I highly encourage parents to play these games as well but of course you can just let your kids play and then also we have bingo a bingo card you'll find that at icivics.org backslash bingo students will play the game and then you're going to challenge them give you your kid print it out give your kid the bingo card and then let them go you know on the icivics site and there are a variety of different challenges on that bingo card that will get your kid hopefully just channeled in for hours at a time so those are a few strategies that I've used to help my kids you know kind of play with democracy in our homes using icivics games and they prove them to be pretty fun and engaging activities for us so we're going to talk about grade levels because I get a lot of questions from other parents that I know okay well my kids in second grade or third grade like what can I do on your site right so you know icivics has been used as lowest third grade all the way up through community college and even undergrad right our games are super fun and engaging they are read heavy so that's why I say third grade if you have a super second grade level you know second grade reader who's on a higher level they can also play the games we do have voiceover in some of our games and again there are ELL supports for ELLs and struggling readers that are great as well so the games that I recommend for our elementary third through fifth these are we have a coloring book the my county's work coloring book we have do I have a right where you can run a constitutional law firm in english or spanish we have county's work where you run your own county next month aka tomorrow is national county government so it's a great opportunity for you to kind of dive into local politics around you also immigration nation so you can learn the path to citizenship that game is available in english and spanish as well and so to help you guys out we have the photos here when you go on the icivics site this is where you can find them or this is what they look like and again we do have them available on the itunes and google play store games for elementary I highly recommend siblings playing together this again you know takes the reading part off with one child completely by themselves our games just work better with conversation you know we do like to if games just give you a lot about the clinical thinking process but it's really great to partner your kids up if you can also using our bingo card with the elementary students that's just another great way to get them to kind of like try and like you know get five in a row before the end of the week all right so here are the best games and resources for middle school kids sixth grade through eighth grade and again like our resources are essentially crafted for middle school we do also have high school resources as well but we when we first started our organization we really focused on the middle school level because that's where civics is generally taught so we have every single one of our games can be used for middle school but I think that these are the best at least this is what I hear and this is also what my children tell me do I have a right again county's work immigration nation then you have executive command where you can be the president and run the hopeful office you have branches of power where you're balancing all three branches of government and then you have newsfeed defenders where you're fighting deceptive ads and viral deception in the news so that touches on media literacy skills and so again here are all the photos of the game games you know with middle school you want to use our game guides and have family discussions you also want to use that bingo card maybe you'll want to like challenge your kid you know say you know hey I got the score can you beat my score you know middle school is a great time where you can you know try and get more parent-child engagement because I know for sure it's tough they want to be on their phone they want to be on tix up might not want to talk to you so I found that with my sixth grader getting her to engage with me at these games has been pretty beneficial so best games and resources for high school you can again just like middle school use the game guides have family discussions think about that bingo card I also want to encourage you to think about you know 9th through 12th grade you're getting ready to release a voter into the world right so you know really think about like how can we have this individual start to formulate their own ideas about their role as an active and engaged citizen so great to have both discussions in the house I also listed a few games here I've added race to ratify for high school that is a game where you work to ratify the constitution you can be a federalist or an anti-federalist it's really cool also we have study edge for the ap exam this we have over 100 videos and study guides here available to help your student who's studying for the ap test so please take advantage of that again I'll be tweeting out all these links and all this information after this webinar but if you want to get free access to that through the end of this school year please email icivics at studyedge.com and so I will show you guys the photo so this is you know what I'm thinking of are the best resources for our high school kids again you're thinking like I'm about to release a voter into the world so how can I begin to get my kid to pay attention to the news but then also not just award the news as you know truth how do I formulate my own opinions and thoughts about civics and politics and how that relates to me all right so speaking of releasing voters into the world this is an election year so are you ready I live in the DMV so we are always ready every year is an election year for us we're always thinking about politics and government here for better or for worse so more engagement in the chat please do you feel confident talking about the election with your kids you know so there's a variety of answers you don't have to necessarily say A, B, C, D or E you could pick your own you know but you know I've got this no worries you know I can hold my own I can get it but not with confidence not so much in no way please share your confidence level about talking about the election with your kids in the chat all right so one thing I will say you know we don't want to shy away from the election you know the last election was a bit contentious it was frustrating for some awesome for others you know there's a range of emotions connected to the election and the results but we don't want to shy away from it right now is the perfect time to have these discussions especially with the November it's going to be a super you know excited time so you know use this time where you're home with your kid to begin to have those discussions about like what does it mean to be an informed voter you know why do I vote this way but you know I respect if you don't wouldn't vote this way right again when you're talking about voting and talking about elections you want to make sure that you allow your child to have the space to formulate their own opinions and their own ideas and have discussions with you again you're not alone right like if you're like oh the election there are a lot of parents and even educators who are a hundred percent confident about engaging with the election and that's where we come in right there's a lot of like maybe I don't want to give my kid my ideas about things or I don't want to be and I don't want to be too biased right how do I how do I work around that all right the first thing is you can do this all right our games introduce your kids to the election in a fun and engaging way right we have two games that are election focused we have cast your vote right where you can prepare yourself to vote with great information and make great choices based on candidates platforms we have one the White House where you're running your own presidential campaign so you're learning about what is polling and all these other great things that go into a great campaign all right so you know play the games as a family once again then discuss the election process the candidates the issues and then there's so much more that you guys can bring up after playing these games I think with the electoral college especially trying to understand electoral college versus popular vote when the White House is really amazing at giving you a hands-on experience about how all of that works so right into when the White House so when the White House what is it you're going to learn about the issues related to the 2020 election so we've kind of freshened up the game to make sure that it aligns with what is happening or what will be happening in the parties now yes it only covers Democrats and Republicans I'm sorry we do not have like you know the Green Party or the Libertarian Party you know we just do those too players will learn how to create a slogan and they'll you know engage with the public in this game they also will have to secure funding and do some fundraising they you know manipulate ads and work with the media they poll the different states and then again you're trying to get those 270 votes once you've gotten those 270 votes you've won the White House so that's essentially your goal in this game yes you can turn a state like Texas who's generally red blue in this game we want to give you space to kind of like figure out how to manipulate the map a little bit and you know and have fun with that okay so you're going to learn how difficult it is to actually win an election you're going to learn about campaign strategy and then you're going to learn about also how long and expensive the campaign process is so this game is about 40 minutes or so depending on how quickly you move through it but it is one of our most fun games people love this game adults love this game so I really encourage you guys of the family to use this one for one of your challenges all right so we're going to move into cast or vote so cast your vote just recently got a facelift so we revamped the game a little bit we added some more stuff to it and cast your vote you're going to learn about issues related to informed voting practices so players will evaluate candidates based on their qualifications right evaluate candidates on their experience and their voting record right all the things that we as adults want to make sure that we're doing as informed voters highly encourage adults to play as well you're going to compare different perspectives and issues and then align them with your own personal views and issues in the game there you're also going to touch on like you know town hall debates local elections and obviously issue voting and candidate platforms so really recommend this game it's a really great way to teach you about like what am i looking for if i want to be an informed voter what are the things that i need to pay attention to when i'm looking at a different candidate and and how do i make those choices you know weigh those choices when they come all right so we have an election headquarters in an you know we have it's a presidential election year a lot of people are paying attention to it there are a lot of great learning opportunities that align with election years you know this election headquarters is very teacher-facing but the parents can also find a lot of interesting stuff here that i highly recommend i recommend looking at the infographics that are on this page so it's icivics.org backslash election you know look at the infographics on this page our infographics are pretty infamous and amazing they give a lot of information in a very short amount of time infographics are really awesome teaching resource to use at home you can print them out and put them up on your wall if you want have your kid read them and maybe you know write a little bit about what they've learned from the infographic so i definitely recommend you use those infographics on that site also you know our educator network members these are our teachers who you know really love icivics and they want to have a deeper relationship with us they're on almost all 50 states they do a lot of writing for us and a lot of other awesome things so definitely check out the blog post that they've written and then there's another a lot of other activities and we as november approaches will be adding more and more and more to that site so definitely keep your eyes out there okay so i have a little bit of homework for each and every one of you one would be to create a free parent account right if you're not a teacher right um and you're just i'm just a parent definitely create a free parent account um at icivics.org backslash login um other homework i have for you connect like let's be besties right connect with us at icivics.org you can connect with me at mama walk apes on twitter um email us at support if you get stuck or have questions or you know if i went too fast and you know you're like uh where is that um definitely email us at support at icivics.org um you know start a family leaderboard and then share it with me i really would love to see um you know the different ways that parents kind of engage and challenge their kids and you know it doesn't mean that everyone plays on the same day at the same time right you could just say our family leaderboard is for this week this week we're going to play win the white house all right you know johnny plays on monday and pita plays on tuesday and by friday you know mom and dad have played and like we'll see who wins you know maybe put some stakes on it all right um but please share your leaderboard with me i would love to see it you can tweet at me on twitter um and then visit our remote learning toolkit so that's the place where we've collected you know resources to help with the learning that's happening at home icivics resources can be used supplementally so if you have like you are your teachers have already assigned your kids stuff and let's say they just my kids just breeze through everything really quickly and they're like what else can i do um i'm like all right you're going on icivics so i definitely recommend um going to that toolkit bookmark this toolkit um and start with the games that we recommend there uh there are also blog posts on that page um and there's just a variety of other resources and tools as well and then explore win the white house and cast your vote those are two great places to start up the conversation about the election but most importantly i hope that you guys take care of yourself because uh in this this is a super stressful time and a lot of being asked of us and you know we just want to make this as easy as possible you're doing a great job you're here this evening you know looking for more resources to engage and empower your kids so that is awesome um i really would encourage you to you have a a work call or you need to just pick a break from your kids because i get it put them on icivics for 30 to 45 minutes um and let them play and learn and um you know have a good time so with that um i would like to open it up with questions because i didn't want to talk the whole time all right let me exit and stop sharing are there any questions that haven't been answered yet hey amber thank you so much for this this is great um one question i have is how do you create the family leader board okay so i well so the way that we do it we just use our white board we don't use like icivics for um for that you could create like in icivics you can create your parent account and then create accounts for your child um and then that way you see their score and you see how long they've played um i think we should we could do another webinar on that maybe um but i would definitely recommend just somewhere in the house just like kind of like put up a piece of paper if you have a white board where the activities are um just kind of write up the game write up the you know when it's when is the last day that people can get their scores in you know and then have people just record that way that would be the easiest way okay great thank you thanks for your thanks for your question more questions all right i see anna in the chat she says how can i relate to a teenager 13 year old how important it is to learn this ah okay yeah 13 is tough um anna like i used to coach and teach 13 year olds and they are a pretty fickle bunch um you know first thing is just kind of building rapport and just having like very basic conversations like you know i run my house like a semi-democracy right so my home it's already a democracy and so for my kids i tell them like hey like you guys get to vote on dinner right like you know i don't run this like a dictatorship you guys get to vote on dinner the same way you guys get to vote on dinner like i get to vote on whether we get speed bumps on the street right or whether this council person has done a great job and they should come back next year right um you know as you ride around town with your 13 year old right point out the different places in which civics is happening like you know the stop sign that's there that is civics right that someone said that that was important to put there um you know the reason that our lives operate the way they do is because we are either super engaged or we're not engaged at all right and we have the power to change that um and i would definitely just try to continue to relate like if you want things to go better around you you have to be paying attention you have to be informed about it and you have to want to engage with that process i hope that that answered your question um okay so um oh thank you so much oh thanks any other questions any other questions please ask you can ask anything all right i guess i killed it yes that's it yeah you you answered everything with your presentation so no needs for follow-ups oh fantastic um somebody did ask they say they were late and can they get resources or the presentation um yeah marjorie we will be sending out an email um with the recording of the conversation and icivics has a bunch of resources that they're going to include in that email as well so we'll follow up with that tomorrow and um i will also tweet out at momofallpapes um some of the links as well so that if you're looking for them just i'll be on twitter and um you know putting them out like rapidly so if you missed any there um and then you know i can i'll follow up with you later okay awesome well if there's no other questions i want to thank you amber and the rest of the team at icivics this was great i think that people got a lot of really important information and resources and hopefully these are some fun ways that they can keep their kids occupied right now because i know that times are tough and it's hard to keep kids occupied when they're stuck inside 24 or seven so um i think these will be really fun learning opportunities for them so thank you to everybody who participated and thank you to amber and the icivics team we appreciate it thank you thank you so much to the central election science we really really appreciate you katelyn thank you everyone thank you for taking the time thank you viewers later on the on the recording appreciate it yeah no problem thanks guys we'll talk to you later


a optical communication lecture. I am Rahul Konapure from WIT, Sholapur. So, these are the learning outcomes. At end of this session, students will be able to explain optical communication system and its optical fiber. So, before starting to the optical communication, what is an optical communication? So, just recall. So, basic block diagram of an communication system. So now, as shown in this figure A and B, so this is the basic block diagram of an communication system and this is an optical fiber communication system. There is a slightly a modification done in the normal communication system here. So, what are those? So, we will understand by looking at this diagram. So, in basic communication system, there will be an information source, which can be a text file or video file or the whatever the data you want to send here. Then this information source is given to the transmitter section that is an modulator. So, that is known as an modulation. So, here all the things of an modulation can be done at the transmitter side here. Then whatever the signals are going to be there, first information signal is being converted into an electrical signal which is transmitted through a transmission medium. So, the transmission mediums are of two types that are nothing but the radio communication that is a wireless communication and wired communication. So, by depending on the applications, you want to send the signal, it has been chosen and it is given to the receiver side here. So, here whatever the modulation you have done, so we have to get back the original signal which is there at the transmitter side. So, the reverse process of an modulation is done here that is known as an demodulator and whatever the signals has been received, it is given to the destination. So, this one is known as the basic communication system, where there is three main blocks are there transmitter, a transmitter medium and receiver here. So, now let us understand what is the optical fiber communication system here. As we know that the information source will be the common for the communication system here. So, whatever the data you want to send, so that is been applied at the information source here. So, where you are going to convert that signal into the electrical transmit, here the main block which is added to the communication system of an optical fiber is this block that is the optical source. So, optical source are nothing but because in optical communication, so the data is being sent in the form of light here. So, in the form of light, so that is why there are only two sources available right now here that is an LED that is light dependent resistance like this and one more is the laser here. So, these are the two optical sources are used to transmit the data in the form of light here. Like what we have seen in this communication system, the transmission medium is used like an wireless and wired connection. So, basically after the optical source which has been used like a laser or LED depending on the application. If you want to transmit the data on the longer kilometers or the larger area, so then you have to make use of the lasers here. If you want to transmit the data at the shorter area then you have to make use of an LED here. So, which is given to the optical fiber cable here. So, it will be an wired communication here. So, the optical fiber is between the transmitter and the receiver here. So, optical fiber cables are given to the optical detector here because whatever the source is used like laser and LED where the modulation is done. So, that the reverse process often the optical source has to be done that is an optical detector here. So, the optical detectors should have the very fast response as because the transmission of the data in the optical fiber is very large or very fast as compared to the normal transmission medium here. So, the optical detectors used like an pin diode, APD that is avalanche photo diodes or photo transistors or photo detectors here. So, these are the optical detectors used to detect the light whatever the data you want to there and then again it will be an electrical receive here. So, that electrical signal is being converted into an original signal and that has been given to the destination here. So, slight modification in the optical fiber communication is that that is the optical source as and as well as the optical detector because the transmitting medium and the detecting mediums are different as compared to the normal communication system here. So, this is the block diagram of an optical communication system. Now, we will see what are the advantages of an optical fiber communication. So, as we have seen this the list of the advantages there is more advantages as we compared to the optical fiber communication here. So, the first and the most important thing about the advantage of using the fiber optical communication is the enormous potential bandwidth. So, as we know that if you transmit the data in the microwave region it is up to 10 raise to 9 gigahertz here, but in optical fiber communication it can be used up to 10 raise to 12 to 10 raise to 15 gigahertz, ok, terahertz of data here. So, that is the potential bandwidth, ok. So, when we see the optical fiber communication its size is very small and light in weight here. So, whenever you have seen the optical fiber communication, so its size is very small and its weight is very less here, ok. And next important thing is about the electrical isolation as we are not going to transmit the data in the copper or the wired material or wireless. So, there is no any interference of EMF generation here. So, that is why it is known as an electrical isolation. So, there will be a no EMF inducing between the two signals here that is why it is known as an electrical isolation here and immunity to interference and the crosstalk here. As we have seen in the basic block diagram of an communication system you make use of and the transmission medium like wired or the wireless. So, there is a crosstalk in between the two signals here like FDM and TDM. So, that is why we insert the guard beads into that because of this the transmission of data in the form of light. So, that is avoided in this year because there is an electrical isolation between the two signals here, ok. Next most important thing about the signal security is what you are transmitting the data in the form of light. So, that is why what happened if you try to tap that signal. So, the light will disperse in the environment here. So, it is very difficult to trap or to hack that signal here. So, that is why the most advantages of using the fiber optical communication is the signal as security here. And most important thing is that low transmission loss as the optical fiber is made up of silica and glass. So, there is a loss transmission is up to only 0.02 dB per kilometer which is very less as compared to the other transmission which is done in wired and wireless communication. So, it is very less as compared to other here, ok. And most important thing that is the system reliability and ease of maintenance here because the optical fiber is laid down into the earth. So, there is no any damages will takes place like an wired communication here. So, and it is easy to maintenance. Only the disadvantage of using the optical fiber communication is that while installation of a fiber optical it requires very high cost because of laid down of the optical fiber here and which is connected to widely for each and every city or the main main places all over the world here. So, now we will see the basic structure of an optical fiber here, ok. So, up till now what we have seen? We have seen the basic block diagram of an optical fiber communication system and after that we have seen the what are the advantages why we opt for an the optical fiber here, So, basically as shown in this figure here. So, it consists of a core and cladding here and above this there will be a one buffer coating and a mechanical coating of a black color here to avoid any damages here, ok. So, these are the now we will see the basic structure what is there core inside which the light is going to transmit the data here, ok. So, this is the thin glass at which the fiber core through which the light travel, ok. So, it should follow the total internal reflection. So, we will see all this in the coming lectures here what is total internal reflection, how light should be traveled inside the core only, ok. So, the next part is the cladding here. So, this is the outer material that protects the inner glass core from the elements and the light is reflected back into the core here, ok. Because the light should transmit only in this core section here. So, there has to be a some medium one more that is the N1 and N2 here. So, N1 will be the air suppose and N2 will be the glass here that is the denser medium and the lesser denser medium. So, that it should follows the law of reflection and law of refraction here because that light should stay inside the core only here, ok. And one more thing is that that is a buffer coating which is often the black color, ok. So, this is the plastic coating that protects the fiber from the damage and moisture from the outside world here. So, it is the black color coating which prevents or the protects the fiber from damage any damages here and the moisture from the outside world here, ok. So, this is the basic structure of an optical fiber here, ok. So, these are my references, ok. Thank you.