So, what's one of the simplest little habits that throwers create all the time that's absolutely screwing them up, causing fouls? Are you doing this? We're going to talk about in this video, so check it out. Hey, everybody. It's Eric Johnson from Airtate Throws Nation. And in today's video, what we're going to talk about is a simple thing that a lot of throwers, whether they're young or older, more advanced throwers, get in the habit of. And that is looking at the throw at the point or after release. Now, what I'm talking about specifically is we don't want to look at that throw too early. And remember, we're assuming that you're understanding how the throw works. We have the six-pillars that we talk about in the throwing chain reaction. Again, when you watch these videos, if you're new to these videos and you don't understand what we're referring to in the six-pillars, grab the link in the description. We have our free rotational throws, TCR six-pillar mini course, and our glide TCR six-pillar mini course. So, check those out. One of the things that we're doing is we're trying to get our athletes as they come around. The head's going to kind of now stay with the chest, and what you tend to see with so many throwers is they hit it, they look, and they start looking. And so, while they're trying to regain control at the point of their reverse, they're looking at the throw, and it's continuing their momentum out of the ring. So, many times what you're seeing was a lot of throwers. You'll see that I have some of my youth and high school athletes, and what they'll do is they'll hit that throw, and then they're coming around, and they're looking at it. Rather than getting themselves here, everything's nice and clean, regaining control, and then looking at the throw, they're trying to look at it as they're gaining control. So, you'd be surprised how many people get into this habit, and then they wonder why, damn, I can't really hold the throw clean because they're so used to hitting and doing this while they're still regaining control, and that's going to pull your momentum and pull you outside the circle. So, it's a really simple thing. These are some of those detail things that you can add even if you don't understand the throw, and you're still new, and you're off balance, and that's what we, again, the mission here with our site is to provide you good, solid, usable tips to keep you on the right track, to have you focusing on the right things, and for those of you that really want to dig deep, that's what the Throwing Chain Reaction System's about, and that's what it's helping for coaches and throwers. We want to elevate the sport. We want to get more guys to reach their potential. Simple tip today, don't look at the throw. Make sure you regain control before looking at the throw. You can be moving around while that's happening, but you don't want to be hitting your reverse and actually looking at it, which pulls you out of the circle. All right guys, so thanks so much for watching. Hopefully you enjoyed this video. Be sure to hit that subscribe button. Give us a thumbs up, comment below on anything you'd like to see, and we will see you on the next video. One of the things we talk about is when we're here and we start our one, two, three, four, five, what you're going to notice is


Welcome. Hi Agile India. Sorry I couldn't be there in person and or present virtually I needed to pre-record these these presentations and due to personal conditions. I hope you're all having a great conference. It certainly looks like it was going to be an awesome experience. So I want to talk about unleashing the resiliator within. We all have a resiliator within us and the reason we need to unleash it is because change as you guys will gales will know in the world of agility and every other world change is getting faster. Change is constant and it's increasing in velocity. So how are we going to be prepared to embrace constant change? Embrace the uncertainty. Embrace the fact that we cannot often cannot predict what changes are coming our way. Just like we can't control the weather we can't control change. We were not able to control this pandemic that we're all in at the moment. We certainly did not see it coming and whatever industry we're in that can change at the drop of a hat. The introduction of a new competitor, new product, new service, technology disruption, new customer consumer and constituent demand can all make changes to our organisation and I don't care what industry you're in change is constant and we all need to get ready to change. Some organisations we often think of as the ones that are changing faster and faster like the Googles and the Amazons and the apples of the world but even if you're in government then there's somebody it could be a government administration there's someone out there ready to do what you do faster, better, cheaper and they will come in and do it. So it's in our interest as an organisation as an individual to be ready to embrace constant change. So for the next 40 odd minutes what I'd like to talk to you about is why we need to stop talking about resistance to change. We hear a lot about resistance to change and you know I believe people generally don't resist change when it's done with them, they resist it when it's done to them. So let's stop talking about resistance, start doing change with people and making them resilient in the face of it. We are going to unleash the resiliator. So before we get into it I'm just going to show you a short animation to set the scene. Constant, volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous change is now our reality. As competition, customer and consumer demand and digital disruption increases, resilience is paramount to the endurance of you as an individual and your organisation. So how can you become resilient? Simple by unleashing the resiliator within. Within us all are superpowers that we may have unknowingly used in the past to help us through various challenges in life. To become the resiliator however we need to become aware of these superpowers and nurture them so that we can use them on demand depending on the situation. Some situations may require only one superpower while others may require multiple. Practice makes perfect and the more you use them the faster you'll be able to identify which superpower to use and the better you'll become at using them. Luckily we don't have to become experts in all of them. We just need to know what they do and when to use them. Once you learn how to unleash the resiliator within you'll be able to achieve better physical and mental health, perceive life as a series of challenges not problems, thrive in situations of high demand and ongoing pressure, view failures as learning opportunities and bounce back from setbacks, unconquered, triumphant and undefeated. So welcome to the resiliator. Before I carry on I'll just put it into context. So that video you saw there that little animation was talking about superpowers for individuals and they were shown on the screen and we also have 20 superpowers as well as for individuals 20 superpowers for leaders and I'll talk about that a bit later. So what resilience brings us and resilience can be learned. Let's break that myth straight away. Let's break the myth that resilient people have suits of armour, they don't, they have setbacks like anyone else, it's just the way they respond to them that's different and I often say they don't bounce back, they bounce forward having learned from a situation. So they have good days and bad days just like all of us but they deal with them in a way that makes increases their resilience. So when resilient we have both improved mental and physical health. Resilience will reduce stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and burnout and none of us want any of those things and just to clarify when I talk about stress there is good stress and bad stress. What we need to avoid is the bad stress. Good stress is when you're going to speak between before an audience or you're going to lead a team meeting, you're stepping out of your comfort zone, the skin is tingling, the adrenaline's going and that's good stress. It doesn't feel like it at the time but it is. Bad stress is when you are into the terrorism. So that's when you just can't cope with the amount of change, the pressure it's bringing etc. I want to share some facts and figures with you briefly just to get a sense of what this actually means. Now last year the World Health Organization recognised burnout as a thing. So it's now on the International Classification of Diseases, ICD-11, but it actually recognised it as a syndrome that needs to be addressed. So these are some statistics I managed to find for those of you who are in India. I've presented this in the UK, in the US, in New Zealand. So I try and find statistics relating to the country in which it's been presented. So according to Opdom in 2016, 46% of the workforce in organisations in India suffers from some or the other forms of stress. So the stress, 42.5 of corporate employees suffered from depression. These are scary figures. 48 are respondents that they feel fatigue on a regular basis just due to anxiety. This isn't overwork or long hours, this is anxiety. And 27% in another survey said they suffer from regular headaches. And the World Health Organization last year stated that India will suffer economic losses amounting to a staggering $1.03 trillion from mental health conditions between the years of 2012 and 2030. These are figures that should make individuals and organisations sit up and take notice. And I'll talk about why in a moment. And only 15% of Indian adults are on need of active intervention for mental health issues. 29% of Indian companies, only 29%. So only a third of companies had a mental well-being action plan in place, even as mental health continues to deteriorate across the country. And another report last year from the Economic Times said one in five employees in India is suffering from workplace depression. Now what happens when we have mental health issues in the workplace or lack of resilience is that it's costly. You have increased absenteeism, increased presenteeism. You have decreased productivity, decreased engagement that all affects the bottom line. You have increased attrition. When people know that organisations look after the mental well-being of their staff, you will attract talent and you'll retain your talent. There are many, many reasons to do it. Let's look at that return on investment. So here in Australia, back in 2014, a charitable organisation working in the area of mental health commissioned PricewaterhouseCoopers, the name of the charity was Heads Up. And they asked PricewaterhouseCoopers to do some in-depth research, in-depth study, which they did, to say what is the return on investment for organisations that invest in the mental well-being of their people. They said on average for every dollar that you spend, the return is 2.3. Every dollar, you'll get 2.3 back. So it is well worth the investment. And that's because your productivity goes up. Therefore, your profitability goes up. You don't lose people. It's expensive when people leave organisations. And last year, the World Health Organisation said that that one dollar investment on a global basis is generally worth $4 return.  So it really should be a no-brainer. Unfortunately, there are not many organisations that are doing this and doing it properly. They will say to me, we have mental health offices in place. And I'm like, well, there's still a stigma about mental health in the workplace. People generally may not want to reach out to that mental health officer and admit that they're struggling. They'll say, oh, we do have mindfulness on a Monday. Not everyone wants to do mindfulness. These are not enterprise-wide initiatives. And when I say enterprise, it could be organised over 10 people, 100 people, 10,000 people. But we need resources that everybody can access at any time that will help them increase their resistance. So I mentioned at the beginning about change being constant. And I'll put this acronym in it up. Many of you will have already seen this. Volatile and certain, complex and ambiguous is how we describe change in the workplace today. It's volatile. It's constant. It's significant. It's uncertain. We can't predict it in many situations. It's complex as many into many moving parts and variables and ambiguous. There's a lack of clarity. There's no precedence. There was no precedent for COVID-19. So we have to recognise there's unknown unknowns. And we'll only be able to deal with it once it's happened. And that can be a scary situation to be in, which is why we need resilience. And the organisations that are going to survive this pandemic and come out the other side stronger for it are those that have invested in the resilience of their workforce. And the companies that are going to survive, if companies want to survive, they're going to have to do this. They're going to need a resilient workforce in the face of constant change. So we have to make sure we have an enterprise capability to support our employees. So what does resilience look like? What do I actually mean about it? And I always have this slide, but it's more important now because resilience is actually a word because of COVID that's just been banded about. And I think the significance of the word and its meaning is getting lost. So that's the definition from the Collins dictionary, recover strength, good humour, etc. Quickly buoyancy. I don't want to be buoyant and just keep bouncing along in the storm. I want to actually make some progress. So as I said, resilience to me is not about bouncing back after a setback or facing a challenge or whatever it might be or a problem. It's about bouncing forward. We have to learn from the situation and be better because of it. And that's what resilience is about, about making the best of situations because of the way we think about them and look at them. So we need to understand the behaviours of ourselves and others when we're under stress. What are our triggers? And you can only change what you know. And this is all about emotional intelligence, self-awareness and self-regulation. We need to embrace the fact that constant change is the norm. We can put our head in the sand if we want, but it's not going to make a difference. It is here to stay and it's only going to get faster and harder and more disruptive. So we need to be able to adapt. We need to be able to continually change. Being agile is being adaptable. We change direction as we need to. We flex according to the situations. And we analyse situations and say, okay, this is what I'm being faced with. How do I want to respond? Because we have a choice of how we respond. We're flexible. We use problem solving techniques to overcome things as opposed to letting them overwhelm us. We anticipate change. We need to sense and respond. We need to keep our eyes and ears open about what's going on. We need to try and be proactive. And we need to change before we have to. So we always need to be ahead of the change, if you like, in the best way we can. And we do that through being resilient. So the key thing to remember as well is resilience can be learned. So it's time to unleash the resilience within. When you do that, you will thrive in the face of constant change. So let's look at what that looks like. So in the animation, you saw some of these superpowers. Now, these are the 20 superpowers that individuals have. I also have 20 superpowers for leaders. But we're just going to look at the ones for individuals. And that's everybody including leaders. But leaders have additional ones because they need to create an environment in which resilience can thrive. And as the animation said, you do not need to be an expert in all of them.  So we know that the solver is about problem solving. The observer is about self observation. The revealer is about being your authentic self. And when you get to know the superpowers, you'll know which one or two will meet your needs in a given situation.  And they have lots of superpowers they can pull on at any time. They don't necessarily use them all. They might use their X-ray vision for one situation they're in. And they might use their ability to morph into a different shape in another situation. So it's always going to vary. So you'll need to understand what you're facing and which is the best superpower or superpowers to utilize at that time to overcome the challenges that you're facing. Excuse me. So we can use them in the workplace. We can also use them in our personal context. And this was a situation in which I used some of the superpowers, probably without realizing it at the time. So back in 1998, I made one of the biggest changes in my life. And I've ordered a plane from the UK to Australia to start a new job and what turned out to be a new life at the same time. And it was a massive move for me.  You know, they might go to an adjacent city, but they didn't go very far. Probably the furthest they would go is to get on a plane for a couple of hours to go to Spain. And which I did was like a two-hour flight. And when the plane landed, everyone would cheer and clap like it was a big event. I can't imagine any Australians who fly all the time ever clapping and cheering. Ooh, it landed in Sydney. It was a very different experience.  We weren't encouraged after school to go and travel and then go to university. It just didn't happen.  I'm not sure what the just-in-case was, but we just didn't travel. So this for me having that experience and that upbringing was a really big deal. This was a really big deal. And it was probably the first time ever I'd been on an aircraft on my own. And the only saving grace, I guess, was that they spoke English in Australia. So that sort of eased my anxiety and stress, I guess, but it was absolutely big. I knew nobody in Australia when I got on that plane. So the superpowers that I used were three of them, the adapter, the believer, and the futurist. So I used the adapter to, you know, adapt to the situation knowing that I was going to have to change the way I thought of things. I'm going to have to change the way I think about travel and going to change the way I think about working or existing without family right by me and what changes I needed, I needed to make as a result. I also needed to believe that I was doing the right thing. I needed to have self-belief that I was going to be able to do this job. I was going to hell of a long way for it. That I was going to be able to do this job that I was only able to survive the early months when there's probably going to be homesickness, lots of unknowns. So I wouldn't, if I didn't have the self-belief, I would never have gotten on that plane. And I had to be the futurist as well. I had to look ahead beyond the initial, this is a massive journey. I don't know what it's going to look like when I land. I don't know what my boss is going to look like or be like. We hadn't, we'd only talked on the phone. I don't know what my colleagues are going to be like. I don't know what the first organisation I'm going to go in as a consultant is going to be like. There were so many unknowns, but I had to look beyond that and say, okay, let me put myself into the future and as a successful career in life in Australia, then those concerns suddenly didn't look too bad. So the adapter, the believer, I believed in myself and I had to look to the future rather than the immediate issues. So these are our superpowers. As I said, there's 20 of them here. So what I am going to do is look at, not look at all of them. I'm going to look at as many as I can within the time that I had. I've set the scene about why we need resilience. We can practice it. And the aim of these superpowers, and I say there's two books which I'll point out at the end, is that they can be accessed at any time that you want to. So let's start off and let's look at some of the superpowers. So the first one we're going to look at is the revealer. And the revealer is about being your authentic self. The revealer tends up to the workplace as themselves. Often we try, and people call this sometimes imposter syndrome now, but sometimes we try and be what we think other people want us to be. The person other people will like, the person other people will look to, the person other people will respect. And we have a skewed idea that if we do have a particular persona, then we will get people to like us. But I can tell you now, there is nothing more tiring and fatiguing to hide behind a mask, to not reveal your true self. And that doesn't mean you have to be, you know, totally viewing about everything that's going on in your life. But it's about being true to yourself and your values. If you don't agree with something, be able to speak up. If you don't have all the answers, say so. If you say you don't understand, say so. So don't pretend to be someone you're not. And one of the reasons, and I'll call it out now, because this is where it makes the most sense, and excuse me, I've got a terrible itchy nose. The reason there's also superpowers for leaders is that if I said to someone, you need to be your true self. And if you want to question or ask questions about to your leader in a meeting, you should do so. And then that person comes back to me the next day and says, Karen, that really didn't go very well, because I was put, they were put down or reprimanded for questioning. And of course that one obviously then wasn't a leader, it was probably a boss, a bad boss. But so we need people on the other side, the coin that will create an environment in which you can be your authentic self, that you can feel free to say, can I ask a question about that? So being authentic might make you feel vulnerable, but vulnerability is a sign of courage, not weakness. So it is a strength.  And it will boost your stress and your anxiety, and you will be stronger because of it. The next superpower is the regulator. So the regulator, this is all around emotional intelligence. So being self aware and being able to self regulate your emotions. We often react to situations, what we need to do is respond. Understand what it is that are your triggers, the things that set you off, the things that make you stressed, things make you anxious, and then be able to respond accordingly. So the regulator can regulate their emotions and they don't turn a drama into a crisis. So as I said, emotional intelligence, understanding what triggers you, things that distract you, and we need to try and restrain our reactions. And once we know that, then we can re-regulate. And Daniel Goldman, some of you may know, his book Working with Emotional Intelligence is a really good go-to piece of work about emotional intelligence.  And then self-regulation being about self-control, your consciousness, your adaptability, and also your ability to innovate. But it's really important to understand your triggers, because then you can deal with them. You can't manage what you don't know. And there's a lot of depth to emotional intelligence. I'm just touching the surface here to sort of introduce you to some things that we can look at to be better and be resilient. The Empathiser is one of the cornerstones of emotional intelligence as well, as explained in the publication from Daniel Goldman I just mentioned. People often say that when you empathize, you put yourself into another person's shoes. I disagree. I think when you empathize, you are understanding how that other person feels in their shoes. But without understanding other people and their feelings and concerns, it's very difficult to work alongside those people. And to be resilient, we need to do that. And we need to be able to help others be resilient as well. Because it's all right saying, well, I will be resilient, but you're the only resilient person in the workplace. You'll very soon not be. I assure you. So empathy is about understanding and being able to sense how other people are feeling and reaching out to help and being able to listen. Listening is a prime trait of people who are empathetic. Because when you empathize, you don't have to have all of the answers to whatever concern or need that person may have. You just need to understand where they're coming from. And if anyone's interested in empathy, I highly recommend seeking out the Brené Brown video on empathy versus sympathy. It's only short. It's humorous, but it really makes the point. So it's Brené Brown on empathy. So yes, we need to be empathetic and to do that, we need to be able to listen to what other people are saying. Listening in itself is a skill. The reframer is a great superpower to have to be resilient. So when we look at a situation, generally, we look through a frame, or you might say a lens, we see situations in a particular way. We make an initial assumption and we interpret it. That is the frame. When we reframe, we look at it from a different angle. So we take the situation observed from one angle and view it from another to give it more contact text. That's when we reframe. So the reframer is looking at a situation and saying, how can I remove the negativity from my perspective? So looking through a different lens and how can I increase the positivity by looking for the positives and the opportunities this situation might bring me? We know that we can't often control what happens to us, but we can control how we respond to those situations. So when we reframe, we're more focused, we're more creative, we're more innovative and more resilient because we're removing the stress and the anxiety because now we see the opportunities and the positives in the situation. The believer, as I mentioned, was one of the superpowers I talked about when I moved to Australia, about having confidence in your own abilities and when you're confident in your abilities, you're resilient as a result. And believing in yourself is at the heart of being resilient. And self-efficacy, self-belief, is having the strong and positive belief that you have the capacity, the competency and the skills to achieve what you're setting out to do. And there was a psychologist called Albert Bandura and he defined self-efficacy as one's belief in your ability to succeed in specific situations. And he said, those people with high self-efficacy, self-belief, are those that believe they can perform well and they're more likely to see difficult tasks as something to be mastered rather than something to be avoided. So they embrace the situation. And he named four types or four sources of efficacy. One is mastery. So one is practice, if you like. So it's actually keep trying, keep trying, keep trying it to master a task. And it's about small steps going forward.  And I'm going to have to practice a lot. And then I have to practice regularly. But my self-efficacy tells me I will achieve that. And therefore then I will put in the hard jobs to do it. Also, he talks about vicarious experiences. So watching other people succeed. How did they go about it? What were the outcomes when they achieved it? What setbacks did they have? And how did they overcome those? Verbal persuasion, he also talked about. So in a nutshell, that's getting other people to support you. To cheer you on from the sidelines. And strengthen your belief that you can do it. So reach out and get support as well to strengthen your belief. And it's also remembering. And this is key to well as well as being the believer, but the key to understanding resilience is that recognizing that you're emotional and your psychological state will have an impact on your self-belief. So when you've had a bad day for whatever reason, and your emotional psychological state is a bit wobbly, that's not a medical term, is a bit wobbly, your self-belief will probably go down or could go down as well. Or you tried something and you had a bit of a setback. And as well as being resilient, you know, resilience is a point in time. I could do a resilience assessment today and, you know, my meter could be there. I could do a resilience assessment tomorrow and my meter's there. Because something happened. I had a really bad night's sleep. I woke up and the coffee machine broke. I went to put the dishwasher on and that didn't work. That has changed my emotional and psychological state and that in turn will impact my resilience and my self-belief perhaps. So we need not to beat ourselves up when that happens. Remembering it's a point in time. I've mentioned the superpower of the listener. And effective listening is so important to building and maintaining resilience. Because when we listen effectively, we avoid misunderstanding, which in turn leads to avoiding conflict. And there's nothing worse than misunderstanding and conflict in the workplace because it will decrease your resilience. So effective listening means we don't jump to assumptions or unfounded conclusions. And if we're going to be resilient, we need to fully understand the situation we're finding ourselves in, the problem or the challenge we're facing, and the options that are available to us. You know, if we make assumptions, we're going to be off kilter and make the wrong decisions. So listening is about really hearing what the person is saying to you, giving them time to actually say it without you interrupting. You need to be looking them in their eye and watching body language as best we can virtually. But watch body language. Listen to tone. Because that can tell you things as well about what they're saying. Watch their eye movements. You need to avoid distraction. You have to be in the moment with that person. Encourage them to keep talking, nod. And when there's a pause, don't automatically think you've got to fill the silence, the vacuum. You haven't. The person probably just stopped to think. So let them think. And when they do pause, it's a significant pause, then you interject and say, from what I'm understanding, this is what you're telling me. And you play it back. So you make sure you have understood and you have really heard what they're saying, so that you're both on the same page. It's absolutely so important. And if we can't do that, how can we be empathetic? How can we collaborate? How can we problem solve with other people? So listening is really so, so, so important. And the adapter as a superpower, adaptation means that you're resilient because you can be flexible and agile when change and uncertainty is there. It's if you are fixed and you're going in that direction and then as a change comes along as is not, we're not going in that direction anymore. We're going over here. The change in that direction is probably not because it's incompetence on the seventh floor in the corner office in the C-suite. It's because something has happened that has forced the organization to change direction, competition, technology, startup, whatever it might be, customer demand. It's like, we can't go down that path anymore. We've got to go over here. And it could be a slight adjustment or a major adjustment like the pandemic causes to do and get most of our employees to work from home. So, and the reason we did that successfully was our ability to adapt. And most of us adapt because we knew there was a burning platform. But we need to be able to do that all the time, however large or small the change is.  We cannot spend lots of time managing pockets of resistance in the organization. We need people to say, I understand the why of the change. I get what the burning platform is. I get what's in it for me. And I'm resilient to embrace it and say, bring it on. So, you know, any organization going any change, whether it's becoming more agile, whether it's digital transformation, whatever it might be, we need to make sure our people are resilient to get through that. Now, as you can see there, I haven't gone through all of the 20 superpowers. What I wanted to do was give you a sense of some of the behaviors and the traits that will help you be more resilient in the face of constant change. As I said, there's a handbook for individuals that introduces all of these superpowers, gives examples of case studies, if you like, of how they're being used, and then actions that you can take to increase resilience in that particular superpower. The idea being to go in and find out what they are and then knowing which ones to use when you need some help. And there's also, as I said, a handbook with 20 superpowers for leaders, such as the caretaker, making sure the psychological safety in the workplace, the connector, making sure we manage to get everyone to connect cross-functional and breakdown silos. So, the two handbooks that go hand in hand. There's also a program of work that introduces the superpowers, works with leaders to identify signs of low resilience and take appropriate action and help in every individual in the organization utilize these superpowers to be more resilient in the face of constant change. So, there's a picture of the two books. As I said at the beginning of Karen Ferris, check out Karenferris.com. There's lots of blogs and videos and stuff about resilience. You can get the books there, but you can also get them from Amazon. If you order the books from Karenferris.com, you're going to pay Australian shipping. So, I encourage you to go to Amazon, Booktopia, the Book Depository. All of those good online stores have those books available. If you want to reach out to me, there's my email address. I'll be happy to answer any questions that you might have. So, wishing you all a great Agile India 2020. Hope to see you in the future. Bye.


A cross-section of Nigerians who have exercised their civic responsibilities by voting during the election says though the process is usually stressful, it is worth it as it gives a sense of fulfillment as a citizen. In this report, our correspondents just sent out a vehicle x-rays, ways of ending voter apathy. One responsibility of citizens is voting. The law does not require citizens to vote, but voting is a very important part of any democracy. By voting, citizens are participating in the democratic process, but when not, they hand over political power to views they may oppose. While some say they are not confident in the election process in the country over the years, others believe it is their right to choose who governs them irrespective of the cumbersome voting system. It will make me feel fulfilled like an Nigerian because I voted for the person that I needed and they gave me the person. That was 2011 when Gulok and Bwari, the first time, that was nice. I voted and I enjoyed that time because it was free and fair election. Well normally in this country, we just vote, we try our best to vote. So if you vote and it turns out negative, you try again another year. I have voted before several times, I can't count it, and why we are voting is because if I am voting for somebody, I am voting because I want the person to lead us very well. I will still continue to vote because I believe one day, everything will change for good. My perception concerning our election is that our vote doesn't count, but I felt if we continue saying that, it won't go anywhere. So I decided to go out and then cast my vote for who I voted for. Political analyst Professor Sani Fege shared his voting experience which he believes has been worthwhile. He spoke alongside Babatunde Olaulua who is an executive member of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State. My first time of voting was in the Sakhar Republic, that was 1979 when I was a graduate assistant. At that time, there wasn't much hustle in terms of voter registration. It was quite an arranged OK system, the process was smooth and the people were elated. We were well educated in terms of what was expected of us as voters. The political parties campaigned vigorously to enlighten the electorate. Our voting for the first time occurred in 1983 during the UPN days and in those days there was a sense of fulfillment. Before the day came up, you will be yearning for it because it was a performing government. It was a government that had direction and because it impacted positively on the people, particularly those of us who were younger ones, are still going through education then and we wanted that government to continue in office. The state of the country today and in the future is in their hands because democracy has given us the opportunity to shape how things will go in terms of politics and governance. All of us put together need to talk to ourselves. A kind of orientation that is injected into the youth at these days about voting is not encouraging and I think something needs to be done to ensure that we have every individual of voting age to vote at every election so that the government put in place will be the government of the people. Recently, the renowned clergy pastor Enok Adeboye charged his congregation to ensure they all participate in the next elections as it's still right.  You have a duty to your country to register, to vote, to make sure that your vote will count. You have a duty to belong to any party of your choice at the very grassroots. You can sit down, fold your hands, refuse to vote and then begin to complain about the government. Perhaps this is a clarion call to all Nigerians including human rights activists, the mass media and even political parties to begin engaging the people in voter education. With many big names aspiring to lead especially from Asuror, 2023 election may just be a game changer for eligible voters. Jacinta Obuco, Plus TV News.


Hello, everyone, and welcome to the 9.30 a.m. to 10 o'clock a.m. session of the 2021 Open Simulator Community Conference. In this session, we are pleased to introduce a panel called Virtual World's Education Consortium Across the Metaverse. Our host is Dr. Valerie Hill, a.k.a. Valibrarian Greg, and she is joined by fellow panelists and members of the VWEC Founding Board, Dr. Becky Adams, a.k.a. Elly Pinyon, and Kevin Fienen, a.k.a. Feiland Corma. Renee, a.k.a. Zinnia Zauber, is not able to join us this morning. Valerie is a library and information science educator, a VWEC Founding Board member, and the director of the Community Virtual Library. Becky has taught online for 15 years and developed and currently teaches teaching and training in virtual worlds for the University of New Mexico. Kevin is the founder and president of NoMaze Corporation, an IT management consulting company and Rockliffe University Consortium. Please check out the website found at conference.opensimulator.org for speaker bios, details of sessions, and the full schedule of events. The session is being live streamed and recorded, so if you have questions or comments during the session, you may send tweets to at opensimcc with the hashtag oscc21. Welcome, everyone. Let's begin the session. Thank you. Welcome, everyone, to virtual worlds education consortium across the metaverse or VWEC for short. The VWEC started at the beginning of this year, believe it or not, even though many of us have been around for 15 years, this is new. It started on January 6th, 2021, after several educators discussed the various obstacles that we all face teaching in virtual worlds. For example, many of us believe that virtual worlds provide great potential for education, but one of our biggest challenges is too many options. Second life, OpenSim, Kitely, Avocon, DigiWorlds, and many more virtual worlds are available. Plus, now educators are exploring VR worlds on VR headsets, ScienceSpace, AltSpace VR, and many more. This can be overwhelming to many educators. We believe that virtual worlds are virtual reality, just without a headset.  Watching a machinima video just does not do it justice. You really have to be there yourself, embodied as an avatar. The virtual worlds education consortium will strive to advocate for virtual worlds through sharing examples to those who are unaware of the potential for learning. We can show the variety of teaching styles and learning environments from the traditional simulations that may look like a traditional library or a traditional classroom to the totally inventive and creative spaces that people can create. And you can see on this slide our mission. The goal of the Virtual World Education Consortium is to bring educators together, both to share what has been successful and to tackle obstacles across virtual platforms and communities. We meet in second life quarterly, as I mentioned. Four times a year, anyone welcome. And you don't have to be a formal educator to attend. You can be a person who is just interested in helping other educators or a lifelong learner. We meet in second life, but we're very excited to announce our new pavilion in Kitely. Because we realize that second life is but one proprietary company and not the only virtual world in the metaverse. So as the metaverse evolves, and you know there's a lot of hype about that word right now, we've understood the metaverse for years, but that definition is now evolving. And as the metaverse evolves, the Virtual World Education Consortium will strive to be inclusive to all educators and willing to try new environments, realizing that some people only want to use one particular virtual world. I'm going to hand the program over to Ellie, one of the Virtual World Education Consortium founders. Ellie. Thank you, Val. BWEC is currently holding quarterly meetings, as Val mentioned, open to all who are using virtual worlds for education and training. Our meetings are primarily for supporting educators and groups by gathering educators' opinions, advice, and ideas. And to share updates on our progress with areas that have been identified in previous meetings. We also sponsor cross-community campfire chats to give one-on-one support to educators and facilitate support for the educational community. Midori Linden has been leading a monthly campfire chat hosted at the BWEC pavilion that has been very productive. We love those who do this. We would love to do this in other worlds as well. Our meetings are hosted by a different educator each time. Our initial meeting was at an introduction to the BWEC, led by Val Librarian of the Community Virtual Library. The participants used the Google Doc to brainstorm ideas for overcoming obstacles in virtual worlds and better networking to avoid reinventing the wheel. I led our second meeting in April, which focused on mentorship with participants breaking into groups to discuss their approaches to it and identify needs. We then asked how BWEC can help them. In July, Zinnia from Peninsula College hosted our third meeting. In this session, we asked participants to brainstorm what they needed from virtual worlds. In breakout groups, participants discussed what helps them and what are barriers. We then shared a more formal survey to gather data to guide our efforts to address their needs. Our October meeting was led by Sheila Yoshikawa, leader of the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable and coordinator of activities on Infolite High School. She used the theory of change framework to draw on goals and desirable developments identified in previous quarterly meetings and work towards more specific plans of how do we get where we want to be. Our next meeting in January will be led by Marley Millenia, who will be hosting our discussion on lifelong learning in virtual worlds. Already, we feel our efforts are paying off. We have heard directly from groups and individuals who are teaching and training in virtual worlds to identify successful practice issues and barriers and identify resources needed. We have set up communication tools, portals for support, and collaborated with existing databases that list educators and educational entities to bring groups and individuals together. We are working with Linden Labs to address barriers there and we have set up cross-community campfire chats for us to get to know and help each other. Kevin, would you like to share how we are working with Linden Labs and beyond? Thanks Becky. In March at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices and Education Conference, we hosted three workshops with the development and design team from the mid-labs. The idea was to help bridge the gap between what we as educators need to effectively design and deliver curriculum and the challenges of what a platform like Second Life can provide. In April, Rockcliffe started to work with Linden Labs to start weekly discussions on improvements to the platform. Shortly thereafter, those conversations were expanded to include the VWEC and eventually led to a Second Life Usability Survey that was distributed in July of this year. At the same time, Nory Linden brought forward several challenges when the labs was experiencing and managing educational expectations. Some of these challenges were inconsequential to open sim due to the segmentation naturally exist between grids that provide greater security and control. However, several are common to all open environments regardless of which grid we use for educational instruction, most especially when it comes to the safety and protection of K312 students. These issues are pervasive regardless of whether we are in a specialized grid running open simulator in Kiley or other forms of virtual environments. What we learn here benefits everybody. Beyond this was also a recognition of a shared need for an educational non-profit reserved space. This would allow for education-related activities to be distanced from more adult-oriented marketed activities and services. Further, this would also allow for education-focused stakeholders to be able to leverage and share services in close proximity to each other, allowing for a greater sense of community. We're going to do a pilot of the Move Procedures with Linden Labs in the next few weeks with the expectation that we will fully roll out communications hopefully and I apologize in here we say it by the end of the month but it's you know hopefully by the end of July uh uh January sorry my apologies uh as a result the Second Life Usability Survey and the ongoing discussions at both the VWEC campfires and the Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable, ROCLAF has been helping to bridge the technical divide between new ideas for Second Life and Second Life's product development life cycle. We're currently in the process of putting the finishing touches on a forum for all educators to contribute to those discussions and to comment on change requests before they go to Linden Lab. You'll see more information about this in January. As a lead up to this we will be starting to conduct quarterly architectural review meetings with Linden Labs senior design team to review new feature requests and ensure a higher probability of those requests being accepted. As Becky indicated earlier it all starts with understanding not just who we are and how we can help each other but also how we are using these platforms and be forward thinking in what we want out of these platforms in the future and I believe uh Val is going to be talking about uh how we're going to be connecting collaborative. It's actually me. Oh thank you Kevin. Yes no problem. Thank you Kevin we we are united together as one. Respect, responsibility, reliance and resilience are the cornerstones of our foundation and future.  We are equals and all of us have unique experience and expertise to utilize. The challenges of COVID highlighted what we have been doing for years. Virtual worlds helped us as educators to have professional communities of supported friends to engage with while in this lockdown. These fellow educators and advocates have been here for many years. It has been lovely to feel secure because we could express our fear, our frustrations and our future hopes even when there was uncertainty around us. Having dependable people to connect with who are innovators and problem solvers makes difficult times turn into defining times. This extra time together supporting each other helped facilitate the formation of the virtual world's education consortium. A consortium is a cooperative partnership that shares objectives on a joint adventure. We are a fellowship and no matter your size or origin we are equals on this quest. Our future goals encourage you to join this journey. Resources, solutions, showcase and advance. Remember our differences are our strengths. We prosper as a whole as we showcase our exceptional solutions and develop new tools collectively. Identify learning resources already created with links and apps to find them. This includes people. We are a very optimistic and inclusive group focused on supporting each other's work. Remove barriers to learning by brainstorming missing components to devise successful shared building blocks to create bridges. Capture and showcase the treasures and serious research of our fellow educators and promote outside of our typical areas of adventure or I mean service. As you can recognize that is Cinnia's Burbage and we love it. So show off and hit that share button. Variety empowers evolution. A consortium is a continuum. This is a continuous progression forward connected and distinct. One and all have a voice. Everyone brings courageous questions, imaginative answers on spine challenges and innovative solutions. Join us around the fire or host a community campfire chat to foresee into the future. Together we love to discover and solve problems. We welcome diversity, curiosity and you. Thank you back to you now. Thank you and we're so sorry that Renee Zinnia could not be here to share this herself. You can see in her slide various people sitting around a campfire and note cross community campfire chats. So your community can also hold one of these and better collect collaborate across communities and we'll share more about where you can find information about the cross community campfire chats. So we hope that all of you are feeling the excitement in our voices as we think about the future of education across the Metaverse. The VWEC is inclusive to all and we believe that it's going to take all of us to advocate for virtual worlds to help newcomers adapt and use them to document the progress of the great educational things that are being done to share research and to keep up with all the changes and the challenges ahead. I'm going to pass out a note card for those of you that are in world that has links to our database that we are forming at the virtual world education consortium and in the text chat you can find the form that you can fill out to become part of the directory and the database. The VWEC database is also here in the local chat. The chat logs of all of our quarterly meetings will be archived on the community virtual library website which is communityvirtuallibrary.org and on our final slide you'll find our contact information. We are but four of the founding members and there are many other educators across the Metaverse that can join and collaborate and help each other. As I said face the challenges of advocating for virtual world education and also archiving the progress that's been made. So we want to thank you and we hope that we see you across the Metaverse as it evolves and I think we have time for a few questions. Feel free to put them in the local chat as I drop you the note card. All right it looks like we do have a couple of minutes. I have a question. I think I might have missed this while you were talking. There will be educator meetings in your new area in Kitely is that correct? We don't have a date yet for our Kitely expansion. As we said we started in January of this year 2021 and our next meeting will be January 5th 2022 and that will be in second life. At that meeting we'll discuss branching out across the Metaverse and maybe having our session in Kitely. Okay thank you. Lisa Laxton asks if there's anything you need in terms of online resource help? I'm going to say absolutely we want to reach out and help each other with all the technology that is at our fingertips. Kevin or Ellie have anything to say about what kind of help we need? Well I think we need help always. So Lisa will be in touch for sure. We have quite a few people giving us access to their toys and tools but we are always interested and we sometimes don't even know what they are until you offer them to us. So thank you. We also would like more help with our Hypergrid Resource Center. We have a Hypergrid Resource Center and library in Kitely and being able to connect and collaborate across grids is a goal that we all share at the consortium. Okay and there's one more question very very quickly because we're almost out of time. Is there a location for the Kitely arm? Yes we put that location on the note card and also go to the community virtual library.org website and as the Kitely VWEC expands all that information will be there. Okay great well thank you to our panelists for an informative and interesting panel. As a reminder to our audience you will want to check out conference.opensimulator.org to see what is coming up on the conference schedule. You won't want to miss our next session which will begin at 10 o'clock a.m. in this keynote region and is entitled system design design of the Outworlds Dreamgrid. Also we encourage you to visit the OSCC 21 poster expo in the OSCC expo 3 region to find accompanying information on presentations and explore the hypergrid resources in OSCC expo 2 region along with sponsor and crowd funder booths located throughout all of the OSCC expo regions. Thank you again to our speakers and the audience.


All right, so Locke is trying to distinguish his account of knowledge from Plato's, right? He's rejecting Plato's account. That's fine, right? We know that much. But the question is exactly how is he rejecting Plato's account of knowledge? And for this, he's going to reject in some way Plato's account of the forms. So if you remember from that discussion that we had when we deal with Plato's account of the forms, he's got four characteristics of form. We have that form is known through reason. Form is objective knowledge. Form is the universal. And form is eternal. So we looked at this question as far as rejecting Plato's account of the forms. We looked at this before when we dealt with Aristotle. Aristotle rejected the last condition. That form is eternal. So here's a question. How does Locke reject Plato's conception of form? Which of the four, or all of the four, are some of the four of these characteristics that Locke reject?


The professional networking is unbeatable. This is where everybody who's involved in data governance comes eventually.  You can Google all you want to Google. You will not get the comparison and the context of this unless you come to an event like this. Energizing, because I know what needs to be done, sometimes it's hard at our company to do the right thing, but you say, okay, I'm on the right track, I know what needs to be done today. And we are getting into this journey of data governance and that is why my interest to attend this TGIQ and so far it's been like all learning experience. Like I'm right now a sponge when it comes to data governance. I have all the lessons through my data analytics, like my career has been in data analytics, but never specifically into governance space. So I'm thoroughly enjoying every part of it. It's been great. It's really given me a solid base in data governance to go back with. I have my whole team here, so we've been collaborating, you know, touching base after our sessions. Without dataversity, we wouldn't have the venues to be able to come here and it's not just networking, which we do. We get a chance to share our ideas. We get feedback. Ma'am, this is a really just great environment to learn, obviously I mean San Diego is gorgeous, but a lot of really smart people that have learned, I think a lot about best practices and things like that. Well, the wonderful thing about dataversity conferences is we're all here because we're data nerds or we're data governance professionals or we're very close to data. So we've brought a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds and people together from everywhere, but we all have a common thread amongst us. So it makes it much easier for us data folks to network in that kind of environment. The experience of being together in person with that rich community of expertise and experience is, I think, quite unique. In the case of this particular meeting, it's even the environment that we're meeting. You know, there's places where you can sit down around a campfire, quite literally, to share stories and learn from each other. So it's fun, it's educational, it's tremendously valuable, and it's really one of the things that makes this community unique. We walked into this event, as many people do, and go, ah, we found our peeps. You know, this is where we've been looking for. These are people who want to talk about data. This is the way we should be talking about data. It's been absolutely wonderful. I think the biggest thing for me has been the networking and getting to meet people with similar interests or different interests that are complementary. Absolutely. For me, it's a mix of getting to see old friends that I haven't gotten to see for a couple of years now, and then always, as we're talking to people and we see folks coming into this organization, it's some of the community for the first time and realizing they're not alone in the data world. And just the way it lights up their eyes, that just makes me so happy.  So, like, it's what I call a shared learning experience. So you have people who know certain things about data governance, other things about privacy or information quality, and I feel like we're all on this path and we're all bringing our own strengths to come together. I think the experience of being face-to-face with your colleagues is virtually irreplaceable, or irreplaceable through virtual means. You know, a colleague of mine used to say a five-minute conversation with the right person is worth five hours of research online.


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In the area if young speaking there about the tweeter ban and of course the suspension of the ban and moving on and the bulletin rivers residents Calling for the adoption of modular refinery clean energy residents of what I could reverse state capital have described the state government's fight against illegal oil Bunkering and suit in the state as a welcome development in a broadcast the governor had declared 19 illegal oil Bunkering kink pins wanted in tasks council chairman and traditional rulers to guard their domains against the activity We have a report The suit emission in potter cuts and heat environs Continues to be a major concern for residents who attribute the cost to illegal oil Bunkering and gas flaring by multinational companies in the niger delta Do not think the reverse state government is doing enough to tackle the issue of suits If enough was being done the governor would have released the report of the committee He set up on suit which we've not seen the report today But if we see that report, which is a process of investigation we'll get to know the sources of this suit If the state government said the local government should calm down on bunkering activities It is going to be a holistic matter We are responsible men of the society who've engaged to engage this bunkering. It can be a dialogue thing But if you say you can get a huge Boys that are not properly fed to go and start fighting bunkers This bunkers will take care of these boys and then this menace will continue It will be recalled that in the past few months Petron has been fighting this battle We have been going from places to places Smoking out the operators of attestinal refinery otherwise do not go fire and reverse state We are happy that The reverse state government has come all out To the directors of the governor the local government chairman to fight this fight They suggest that the best way to curb illegal oil bunkering is by creating jobs for the team in youth We here at youth and environmental advocacy center. We are working at modalities Of creating and establishing solar farms in communities starting this 2022 So that you two are involved in these processes Can get other alternative opportunities Within and around those solar power systems To be able to end their living diplomatic solution can also be on stream if you arrest or Clean down of the attestinal refinery operators you bring them to book and give them a Alternative of setting up a modular refinery. I'm sure that between now and the next few months This area would have been turned around to become an employment hub for the nation Is it wrong for a state government to do the refinery? Every Nigerian state is big. They can be the refineries For them produce If it is the modular refineries, you do it and do it well. Let the boys come engage them The police has a big bone in the throats of illegal oil bunkers in recent times a move commended by the people And we now be joined by an environmentalist of Engineer adibola Shaby who was also a one-time managing director of the legal state environmental Protection agency. Good to have you join us engineer Yeah, good afternoon Yes, good afternoon from the u.s. It's it's late in the night here in Nigeria I'm sorry about that All right, I've listened to your conversation on different types of pollution and that that's starting from noise to fumes But this time around some parts of the nider delta is plagued with Suit but I could and river state and its environment Environments with extension to neighboring by Elsa state. I've been living with suit pollution for about Five years now. That's in rivers. Now the governor of river state Blamed this on illegal bunkering activities Do you agree with him or are there other factors responsible for suit? Yeah, I had what um one of the speakers said earlier on This is due to um unemployment over there I mean, we have all these young guys young boys around Doing nothing They definitely they we Drove into illegal things Right and um, that's why they have resulted into illegal bunkering And annoyingly to them That this oil the oil we're talking about is highly flammable So the moment there's any thing over there Any little scratch or any little light over there that explosion So when there's an explosion, there's going to be so there's going to be a lot of air pollution Some of these gases in the environment Unknowingly to them that they are also endangering their lives Look at them doing all this illegal bunkering not knowing that the films from the from the from the oil Definitely is it is the pms. They're using a product right now the films definitely we definitely penetrate into their respiratory tracts Most of these boys most of these young guys when you take them for um medical checkup go and check their lungs They have most of them going to have lung cancer or some respiratory tract diseases and so on and so forth Look at the issue of the carbon monoxide coming out from that from that Films we look I mean the fire we're looking at the carbon monoxide over here now They're definitely going to a hell this thing. It's definitely the gas and it's going to react Or depletes with the oxygen in their bloodstream causing carbon oxyoma globally So it means you're agreeing with the governor of river state That this is caused suit is caused by illegal oil bunkering I was asking if there are other factors that could be responsible for suit Yeah, there are other other factors. I just told you look at it Is you now that they are um doing illegal bunkering Unknowingly to them that in case of any scraps over there. There's going to be fire Right That is one of the causes of that suit definitely out of suits. You can get it from vapor emission. You can get for your generators You can get from burning of coal and firewood You understand that is why the government is working on this aspect. I mean the federal government of nigeria Is working on that aspect that we should all resort into using LPG gas Okay, let me take you let me take you down to since you've mentioned the federal government Do you know the nigerian government had long launched an initiative to reduce dangerous air pollution And that's that initiative is called supporting national action planning SNAP as an acronym now this aims at reducing short-lived Climate pollutants like the suit and others just as you've said but is there really a willpower to have Clean air in nigeria As other parts just as you mentioned, it's not just from the illegal oil bunkering But other fumes from the cars from generation. Is there really a willpower From the side of the government to ensure that nigeria has clean air Yes, i'm going to use legal state as an escape Let me use legal state now Legal state is doing a lot on this issue of air pollution Um in Lagos today now We have what we call the vehicular emission Your vehicles must undergo vehicular emission tests every year So that is another source of reducing emission to the environment number one number two legal state has introduced um This issue of the LPG gas that you see in Lagos today I will i'm saying i'm using Lagos as it does the go out in Lagos today Most of the houses that were using stove that were using firewood in in the past About 70 to 80 percent Are now they are now using gas to cook so that has reduced The um the air emission So then I don't know what we're doing in nigeria. What are I mean? Do we actually have all these datas? How many houses have resulted in using gases? How many are still using um firewoods and stove? Do we have all these datas? That is the question I'm asking we don't have all these things if we have all these Data's i'm talking about now. We can improve on this data to ensure Before the end of 2025 we could have gone out with the issue of air pollution So you think about definitely so you speak about the yeah, please go on It is it is um Look at um, I said legal state. I'm going to use I suppose building doing a good work and doing a lot of advocacy in the issue of reducing of this air pollution They have strong many air Air monitoring stations around Lagos state to capture some datas But I don't know how it has been translated now But I know they're working seriously on this Okay, you talk with the wall bank with the wall bank and legal state government They are procured some air monitoring stations for Engineer you engineer you spoke about the LPG and of course it's not coming um With a low price. I think I got one recently. I think the 12 kg About 7 000 plus. Thank god it's even down a bit at a lower price So how can how can the country then have the data of people who Can afford the LPG when the price is already very high? So they go back To things that would cost suit Yes, definitely. You are 100% right. That is where the federal government needs to come in now to subsidize that issue of the LPG guys, right? um, Mr. President President mama, I could remember last year. It was at the climate change summit in Paris, right? And he committed that Nigeria will reduce the issue of the greenhouse gases to the environment You understand what I'm saying now, but are we doing enough? That's the question mark The only state, um, I think is doing his best And I know with what you just said now about of governor wiki governor wiki to governor wiki. Um, Excuse me is doing his best to but it's not only this illegal concrete There are many other things look at the oil companies over there What are they doing to update the environmental degradation over there? Are you with me, uh, loretta? All right. Thank you. Are you with me? Yes, I am with you. You want a round of What are the the the oil companies doing to remedy it? They are not doing it now Right, they are water on the ground water the surface water over there are highly polluted In the in river states So the governor should be more proactive to let them know to do more to that In Lagos we're doing our best Thank you very much Blue hold on a second. I will strongly tell you look at the way Lagos is doing now Doing or trying to do away with the issue of the plastics too. You know, there's another thing We are not thinking about in Nigeria today is the issue of the plastic pollution Are you getting me now that lassepa is two steps ahead now Thank you very much engineer at the walla shavi And do have yourself a wonderful day Out there and we'll reach out to you again as time goes on Enjoy your vacation Enjoy your vacation to see you again Hello, hope you enjoyed the news Please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button So you get notified about fresh news updates


And another quarterback I'm surprisingly low on this week is Andrew Luck. Now don't get me wrong, you can start him and still be fine. I'm mostly saying that I don't think he's a locked in QB1 as he's been over the last three weeks. I think you can make arguments for quarterback streamers over Andrew Luck this week. The bill's defense is not the problem for Buffalo. They've actually been pretty good, ranking third in the NFL in sacks, while holding Aaron Rodgers, Kirk Cousins and Deshaun Watson to low end QB2 performances. But we know the offense isn't good, which has led to a lot of positive game scripts for opposing offenses. Indianapolis isn't exactly used to that. They've run 300 plays this season while trailing, which is the second most in football. That's why their pass to rush ratio is the highest in the league. So my fear isn't so much that the Colts won't score. I think they can find the end zone against Buffalo. It's that those scores may not be of the passing variety because they'll be playing with a lead, or they might be playing with a lead. So I think Luck is sort of in that Drew Brees range this week, while it seems like a lot of rankers are good with him as a QB1.


Hi everyone this is Professor Howard. I wanted to take just a moment to address this idea of language and identity. So when we start talking about psychological disorders it's very easy to slip into patterns of language about clients that can fall into one of two major camps. So on one hand we have this idea of identity first language. Identity first language refers to the idea that you will describe a diagnosis and then describe the person. This might be something like autistic teenager or bipolar man. In this case you see the diagnosis comes first before we include the descriptor of who it's referring to. On the other hand we also have this idea of person first language. Person first language again just flips that dynamic so that we refer first to the client and then to whatever their particular diagnosis happens to be. In the examples I just gave you we described identity first language being an autistic teen or a bipolar man. In person first language we would flip those around so that you have a teen with autism or you have a man diagnosed with bipolar disorder. And the folks who support the idea of person first language do so for a few different reasons. First there's this idea that whenever we're working with someone we're always considering the client first. So when you have person first language it's more consistent with the idea of person-centered planning. We're putting the person at the center of their treatment plan their hopes their dreams their goals their desires are considered first and we're not necessarily approaching their treatment as well this works for this diagnosis but rather given you and your unique personal circumstances your community your surroundings the things that have worked for you in the past we think that this may be the most effective form of treatment for your particular symptoms. Another reason that you'll see proponents suggesting that person first language is better is because it's deemed more respectful to the client rather than labeling them or diagnosing them or leading with their diagnosis and considering that being the most important quality about them you're leading with the idea that they are really a person first and then everything else falls later. What may be conceptually the most important factor for person first language is this idea of linguistic determinism. Now we know in psychology that the language that we use frames our perceptions. We've talked about this previously in psychology in psychology courses when we talk about cognition but the idea that how you talk about something influences what you think about it. So even in very subtle ways if you choose just by default to use identity first language you may find that you're perceiving your clients consistently in a fashion that treats them like a diagnosis first in a person second. So those are a lot of the advantages for person first language both in practice and conceptually. Now some critics argue that well this is just you know political correctness gone wild and it really shouldn't change how we treat our clients and that's absolutely true. Sometimes you'll find that in practice this idea of the gold standard of person first language can be over applied and that's where you start getting into some pragmatic issues related to whether you choose person first or identity first language. Fundamentally what it comes down to is you should always respect your client and respect the autonomy of your client. So if you have a client who prefers identity first language if you have a person who connects with their diagnosis who consider considers it a part of their identity then choosing to use person first language could be deemed as disrespectful. Fundamentally what it comes down to is follow the lead of your client when in doubt you may default to person first language but if you discover that your client really identifies with their diagnosis for instance many people in the autistic community will consider themselves autistic first and really identify with that label. If you find that your client is identity first and prefers identity first language then that is a language that you should choose. Looking forward to hearing what you have to say and let me know if you have any questions.


Hi stampers! Welcome to Watch It Weekly Wednesday. I'm Jill and I'm here to show you a card idea that I came up with. I came up with this card idea. I used these wonderful patchwork pieces dies. There's two of them. They come in a set and they make this illusion right here of the starburst and also a wave idea. Let me show you how I did this. I'm going to bring in the stamping cut and emboss machine because I'm going to actually cut it out for you showing how it works.  I love using a big piece of designer series paper because it, you're going to pull these apart and it really shows the design in a cool way. I went ahead and cut this out and if you notice on the center it's all connected. So what you're going to do, you can go ahead and put it right down like that but I'm going to pull these apart and I'm going to use this Tombow adhesive glue to go ahead and adhere these. And the reason why I like the Tombow is because you can actually position your pieces and kind of move them around a little bit if you don't get them the way you want.  This piece of cardstock, the black cardstock is five and a eighth by three and five eighths. So and you don't really have to be exact on this I mean as far as how close they are or how far apart they are because it's going to look good once you get it all done.  Well that's why I love it. You can trim this after you're done to be able to fit the size that you want for your cardstock or the edge around it. It doesn't have to be perfect it's a star burst die and so it's really forgiving and once you put your sain on there it won't really matter one way or the other. As you notice that these are going together you'll notice there's like a hole in the center of the card. We're going to cover that up with our sain so you don't have to worry about that as far as that it's there or not there. And if you make a mistake you can cover it up with your sain so that's what I like about doing a hand stamp card with our images. Isn't this a fun way to show off your design of Sears paper especially the design that you really like you've got that space in between and it really shows it off. Okay so I went around like that and I put it together. Now I'm going to go ahead and stamp the little thank you so much. This stamp set that I'm using is called layering leaves and I like the option of being able to choose so many different sains out of this stamp set. So depending on which side that you do I'm going to move this over to the left of this card so I can cover up that little mistake that I made. So there again we have that. I'm going to go ahead and trim this on the one side and I'm going to head and glue this down and that will cover that little spot in the center too and we'll go ahead and use our ribbon to go around it. I am in love with this gingham ribbon. It's so popular right now these colors. Black is always one of my favorite colors in stamping and also in clothes. Now I'm only using this one designer series paper but I'm going to show you several cards done with two and three different designs. So we've got that layout and it goes on top here. We're going to also want to use some little bling on top of that. I'm going to show you the card. This is the finished card and you notice that I stamped on the thanks so much right here on a companion product. That's amazing. I love using companion products. Stylish shaped dies has banners, squares and it also has circles. So it goes with all these patchwork dies because it's got the little hashes or the little dots. Let me show you some other ideas used with these dies using one piece of designer series paper too that like we did. See how cool it is with that bigger layout and then this is just little. Let's go ahead and go to the two. Here's two pieces of designer series paper. So I used every other one. So when I pulled them out I just pulled out every other one and this is the one the wave. I like how these fit right up next to each other. You don't want to pull these apart because then they don't fit. They don't have because it's not a diagonal. So here's one vertically and horizontally done. I love how when you use a dark and a lighter designer series paper it really shows that wave of an image. And you can even do four pieces. This idea is done with four designer series papers. One, two, three, four and so you'll cut out four different pieces and then you'll just pull them out so you can actually make four cards with this whole thing. Just move them around, move the pieces around. I hope you enjoyed these ideas that you've seen with the patchwork pieces dies and the companion dies. The stylus shape dies. 15 dies are in this. It's amazing. And if you like these products, if you like these products, click the link below. If you like these products, click the link below and we'll see you next time on Watch It Weekly Wednesday.