Hello, and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brandon today. We're on episode 47 of the para 101 musketeer walkthrough series If you haven't gone and checked out last episode go do that Just ignore my phone. That was awkward. Um go do that. It was um It was pretty good. It was quite a long episode, but it was um really fun So yeah, and if you haven't checked out the other episodes go check out the playlist links in the description But yeah, let's start by talking to Yuji Shinjin sent you finally someone to help us against general so we have suffered too long for his vain glory So's war machine is fueled by our sweat and tears So's army is mobilizing for some grand new campaign and we must feed them with our rice General so has levied more rice than we can spare. We will starve this winter unless something is done Take through the skyways and attack general so ships take back the people's rice. I will give it to the villagers here Okay, you come in only a memory warrior can tell you where the captives are being held in that maze Defeat them and make them dark Was that another I think that was already a cycle said I got yeah Yeah, it was um, okay, so I will be right back once I've defeated these um So warships and collected the rice Okie dokie. I am back I just finished off that um Took a while there was like eight or nine battles. So yeah, it took a long time Um, but yeah, let's go in and speak to Yuji again Do You have done a great good for my people and struck a blow against a tyrant with this rice we can feed those who go without You have humbled general so's fleet, but now you must rob him of his honor You will humiliate the general in front of his followers So is sponsoring the wedding of takeda mumori one of his most trusted henchmen You will see that it does not go as planned First we will need to get you into the wedding as an honored guest a simple matter of deception and trickery Go to the home of tsuna moridate a respected samurai Steal his invitation and take it to chosuke the forger in oyabun shinjin's cave Ok, um, do we need to come back here? Probably um Yeah, i'll mark here just for loss. Let's go. Um, okay. Let us head back to What's his face this cave the kyu yakuza cave? I think it is. Yeah Or maybe not Where are we going this way? Okay That's cool Um, so yeah, that battle took like a really long time I was watching youtube during it. So maybe that's what took longer, but It took a long time. Um I actually hate ship battles so much. They're so tedious Um, but anyway, I did that Yep Where are we even going? I don't actually know where we're going. I can't remember this, but um Let's go where are we going? We are going over this way. Oh, literally right here. That's cool. That's good. That's good. That's good. That's good Um, let's see Here you are. I remember you It must be quite the event to draw a guest such as you The model you have brought me is suitable I will make you a copy, but I need materials Go to hamamitsu from the station or shop. I require fine paper and abon ink Tell them I sent you You must also borrow the imperial visio stamp from the governor's palace. Give him this He will grant your request. Okie dokie. I'm back made it made of a tamamitsu Um, let's go and talk to this dude here Here you are. Hello Here take this paper. It is my best and this ink as well. No, no, no, no charge Anything for friends of chosuke Let's get the ancient time as well sweet. Okay, we're two next. I think it's the governor's place the town hall. Yeah Um, let's head over there. That's here as well. And then I will Head my way back. Where is this? It's a big building. I remember that now right here Perfect Such a big place Okay, um, I will be right back when I am at Chosuke again Uthation spider I hear you have much potential come see me. You have much to learn So ready to learn some real shooting come see me.  You have it an invitation for the wedding of tekei the Momori a grand event sponsored by the evil general This invitation is my finest work It will pass all scrutiny if it does not You will know soon enough Take it back to yuji in suji more of village My invitation can get you into the wedding But yuji will tell you how to get there Okay, um, let's Go to yuji. I left a mark at yuji so I didn't have to go all the way back because he's a wee white way um, which is good and Yeah, basically, that's pretty good. Let's see. Hello I will return to nomori datte's invitation now that we no longer need it. I'm tempted to keep the stamp But no to bring dishonor upon general so you must humble his lieutenant at his own wedding Takeda mumori must be humiliated head to the mumori clano and destroy this wedding Steel general so's gift deface takeda's mansion and disrupt the entertainments You will have help toro mumori is disgusted by his clan's association with general so Find him once you enter mumori clano If you wish to help the focus we are he dwells in a house next to the graveyard from where he gets the wrong material for his necromancy oust him from our village You know what might as well get that one as well. Okay, let's go over To mumori compound. I don't actually remember where this is so The time has come at last for my uncle to pay the price for following general so Here is a key that will offer you entry into mumori mansion and my uncle's audience chamber. You know what to do Okay, let's go This is gonna be fun another dungeon just just for those into now going Okay, let's go Two one, yay, let's go Go go go go go go go go go go Guard hello Let me see your invitation Very well, you may enter enjoy the wedding sponsored by general so may he live to be 1000 years old There are guides everywhere a frontal assault will never work. We must use our wits and coming Gerald's plan quietly the celebrations are just beginning mumori's audience chamber should be empty Let us take the gift. Okay. Let's go and get the gift real quick And then I think we need to like We go on stage and like perform or something along those lines. I don't know. I can't remember. It's been a while But I think that's what happens next Okay, easy peasy, let's go. I think this is our first battle that we're actually doing on camera That's funny Let's do this Um agility agility move up Accuracy done amazing Sweet The agilities more agilities All the agilities Nice Perfect Okay, um, what are you doing? Where are you going fools?  Yeah, you have first tracking bladestorm I'm gonna go down there. Actually, you know what might as well might as well. Just just get him Just get him locked really that's not fair Cool nice Pull up block. No, okay, that's fine Not even running. That's upsetting Cool That was good. Okay Pull up Perfect Overwatch amazing They all like attacking him.   I swear that's what they're thinking um Let's just do that because I can get a lot of them Okay, let's just see how this goes but Nice, that's one down Three to go Yay Not even a relentless outtoro. Come on Really stop dodging. That's cheeky Nice Not like diversifier. That's good Yeah, take me. That's good. That's good Up nice work Okay, what are we gonna do here? I can get both of these falls. So let's do that Done. Okay. Let's do this That's quite cool. That's a cool That's quite a cool animation One down Okay, now let's get out these musketeers Really? Okay Let's get these musketeers because we don't like them Um, perfect. We can go one of you. Actually do we have the better one? Three Yeah, this one's better Done. Okay That was me. That was good Kill it Nope. Okay. That's fine Okay, don't kill it. That's fine again Really? Okay They're on like no health. This is not cool Keep dodging. Dodging in. Nope. Okay, that's fine Yay. Thank you pit We must have been on like two health or something Okay, let's just get this last one out. Here would be dead really quick Perfect. Done. Dead Dead. Nice work.  You're just getting toasted Block nope. Okay, that's fine Fortunately now we have no um Overwatch any of us, but that's fine Um because we still got like one nearly dead. So I'll just focus on him. I think Yeah, I'll just focus on him You can go on him though done Nice That's actually really good. Whoo Really Nice that was good from El Toro Pretty good block. Nice repost. Perfect Thank you bladestorm. No, okay. Did I not give you bladestorm? I thought I did Maybe I didn't obviously I don't who knows No, I gave him double relentless. That's right. I didn't give him bladestorm yet Let's see. What are we doing here? Okay, um Yeah, I Might Can get both. I might as well just like target him That's that you and you can go on the musketeer again because I don't want you getting hit unnecessarily Nice Perfect That's amazing. Can you kill? Nope, you can't kill. That's fine. Okay That cheeky block though Do I have double burst fire? That's weird. Didn't think I had double burst fire either. I need to pay more attention. I think I need to pay more attention Okay, what are we going to do here? Do I have double burst fire? Elusive to burst fire one probably a short quick draw overwatch double tap Overwatch quickly just double tap. Okay. Um, we'll get you you can get him You can go on him done perfect that Amazing double tap perfect Yay Okay, we're slowly getting them all down, which is good Okay, um, what are we doing? Yeah, what are we doing? What is your formation?  He's dead Nice, there we go That should hopefully yep, that's juju. Nice. Nice. That was pretty good pretty pretty good Okay, steal the wedding gift Is the gift to face the mansion? Yes, ain't exactly what I show you we go Okay, let's go nearly done um Let's see. Yeah Where are we going this way literally right next door? What? What what is this? What is it? Okay, one two three Four Okay, let's go and wear the costume I love this but it's quite funny. It's quite funny very very funny Um, yeah Do Okay, where are we going over here and to here still in the costume Perfect. Oh make mischief now go over the scenery run around on stage. You will make a shambles of everything Momori will be ruined. This is actually really funny It's very funny Amazing. There's also a treasure chest there Oh, okay There's a chest behind there, which I'll get in just a sec, but we better defeat these guys Better defeat these fools. Yeah, you can move up. You can buff done. Perfect. Amazing Yay Boom nice. Okay more agility. Yay Perfect Okay, um, yeah, you move up a bit. That's nice. That's nice of you. Very very thoughtful Um, okay, we are going to One of you we could have also got these guys as well, but I'm Saving for a bit later Okay Nice that was good Okay Another double tap. Yep burst fire amazing sweet nice Block. Nope. Okay, that's fine Okay, cool Um overwatch nice Overwatch nice Attack not so nice Okay, um overwatch cool. I love overwatch. It's so good Oop Okay, what are we gonna do? What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do? I suppose we could do that and get two of them I suppose we need you out because you're causing trouble. So done But but nice double tap. Okay, that's fine About double tap again. Perfect. Let all of the people that's fine Nice. Okay. Oh But but perfect Okay Someone's angry. Jeez Blop nice Not too nice Okay overwatch nice Block. Nope. That's fine. That's fine. Don't block and wanted anyway Um, what are we gonna do? I'm quick to get both of those guys, but I kind of want all of them So let's just drop some bombs There, um, we'll get you and you you can go on home done. Okay Nice Really These guys block too much. It's actually annoying. I don't approve There we go. Perfect Nice except not nice because she's about to die We're gonna have to heal from tell elusive Um, what we can do what we can do what we can do what we can do is one of you Done. Okay. Perfect Good good sweet. There we go. That's dumb. He's dumb Amazing perfect Time for the oil bun to fulfill his end of your part as much as I love a good party I fear we have Beyond here before they know what hit him. Give my regards to the brand Okay, let's just get this treasure chest because treasure chests are amazing And they give you some gold and by gold I mean 214 of it, which is fine and let's run through the theater And go and do the next bit I think we have to like defeat like more people Um, okay. I'll be back once I've Done this battle because it's basically just the same thing over and over and over again Which is a bit repetitive. So I'll be back in just a sec back. Just finished that I was gonna start early and my recording was like being weird and laggy, but um, El Torre sang will never reach the gate this way. So we gotta go this way um Find a safe exit. So yeah, let's go Oh, no, it is blocked. Okay, let's go to the gate then Um, okay. Yeah, yeah Okay Gotta defeat them. I will be right back once I've defeated these guys once again. Okay. Okay. I'm back Um, and we're going through the the gate because the way is clear according to rap bed. So let's go And we're going to go speak to egg foo young That battle was again just the same as the others. So nothing too Difficult about it. Um, so yeah, let's go and speak to egg foo young Where is he he's in the yakuza cave. What do we have close to that suji mora village is probably a good one to go to um, let's see I think that's where What's his face is Yeah, that's where what's his face is. Okay. Um, yeah I will probably cut here and be back once I'm at egg foo young Is an enemy to the emperor and to the people as long as he is in power the folk of mushoos suffer So is too powerful to fight even if defeated It will be thought of as a hero. You must expose so for the traitor. He is So supports bandits plaguing suji mora village work with constable tatam and find proof of general so treachery Okay, so next episode we will continue along hopefully getting um eggs piece of the map soon Um, so remember to leave a like and subscribe And if you've already subscribed press the wee little bell so you know exactly when next episode comes And I will see you next time. But remember craft outside the box


So my beauty for people today. I'm back with another dying light to video today guys We're gonna check out the authority pack DLC and the contents within it now match Lee currently on the game Another downloads available that isn't here for me I'm gonna have a quick look on steam and try and figure out how we install that I would have to quit out of this game. It is not long treated out to say it's available now So I'm hoping I can find it guys. I'm hoping I can find it So let me just quit out the game and see what we got to do people Okay, so on steam it seems you need to click down light to within your library Come down to the offer to pack if we don't like to DLC First by the way tells you the first contents. It does actually tell you the second contents as well And the third contents. Well, so we get in On a 16th. It's only a couple of days away. We're getting the three remaining pieces of gear Or a character to wear and then on the 18th. We're gonna be getting the weapon So when you click on this pack, you'll have to click that banner there again Come down guys click on this banner here Come down guys and click free download It's wild how they just don't just pin it. Oh, I don't even know it's just nuts It's nuts I'm kind of disappointed to in at the same time That they're just stretching out this this a three content One of us give it in one. I thought 103 was gonna be PK two or three maybe renegade three or three survivors peacekeepers, whatever a Full set for each but no one set spread out Stretching out that kind of tent Okay, so it's in my stash in my stash But yeah To be honest I ain't do optimistic about what this gear is gonna offer either it's free to everybody I don't think it's gonna be anything great But we will see we will see now Well my game loads of I apologize guys. I'm playing on pretty average PC We do what you gotta do man. Okay, so stashio here we go Extras yeah, okay, so there's a few pieces Level six Yeah, it's pretty bad It's pretty bad considering most my gear is eight and nines You would have thought he would have scaled with you to be honest Rolls, I'm a pretty dire to don't know why these are definitely shouldn't be my opinion Wow kind of trash people a kind of Man, we know what I actually thought this was gonna be the case because Like I said, they're giving them out to free for everybody. So Well, let's see what happens if you put them on dude. I mean, there's no chance. He's gonna scale. What were they? They were the chess piece was it? No, what was it? Can't even remember guys. What was it? What did I just redeem? I've every deemed them into my stash knowing me.  Let's go to my stash again So let's go back up To all here we go. Okay, so they're here.  Still can't remember what they were. Okay, so we've got the chess piece. So They've got nothing assigned to them. So let me equip it. Yeah It's just not it's just poor. It's shocking. It don't scale Rolls a set Unless there's gonna be sort of mouse in the future that we can use to change these because they give itself Looks pretty cool when you get the full set on Man, it's not even worth taking out my stash Garbage garbage Oh dear, let's pull it back in Let's pull it back in never gonna use this rubbish. Never gonna use it. There we have it guys. That's how you get on steam I'm guessing on console You have to go to your store and probably search the pack and then download it But yes in my opinion not even worth it. I'm hoping the weapons gonna be better. It probably isn't going to be though But hey ho it is what it is, but I don't expect nothing more for free anyway, so we'll see either way but guys The end of the video has arrived if you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out and hopefully guys I'll see you on that next one


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Hello, this is Nick from Laptop Media and today we will show you how to open the 14-inch version of the Lenovo Legion Slim 5 Gen 8. To open this laptop you have to undo 10 Philips head screws. Then pop the bottom panel from one of the top two corners and after that, pry the plate with a thin plastic tool starting from the back. Please remember, it would be of great help to us if you just hit the like button and subscribe to our channel. That would motivate us to make even more and better videos for you. There are two thermal pads on the inside of the metal bottom panel for cooling the SSDs. This device has a 73.6 watt hour battery pack. If you want to take it out, detach the connector from the motherboard and undo the four Philips head screws that are fixing the unit to the chassis. The battery lasts for 9 hours and 5 minutes of either web browsing or video playback. That's a good result considering the high-res OLED panel of our machine and the powerful hardware under the bonnet. To achieve that, you have to select the balanced preset and the Hybrid IGPU-only mode in the Lenovo Vantage app. The GPU overclock should be turned off. Also, you have to apply the switchable graphics mode in the BIOS and set the performance mode setting to default. The last step is to activate the balanced preset in the Windows power and battery menu. The memory is soldered. However, the maximum possible amount of 32GB of LPDDR5X, 6400 MHz RAM should be enough for most users. For storage, you get two M.2 slots compatible with Gen4 SSDs. The thermal system seems massive for such a device. It has a pair of fans, a thick heat pipe shared between the CPU and the GPU, and one more for each chip. The fourth pipe connects the two large metal cooling plates. We can also spot four heat sinks.


Jerry, of the circus! It wasn't special, but I didn't think we'd find some, or something someplace. Well, maybe we'd better buy some cloth and let Clara make you one. Never. I'll go without a vest until I get the right kind. And now Clara's too busy today to be making me vest. Yeah, I suppose so. See, shall we walk down this way? We might just happen to find something. Okay, but don't mind telling you, I'm so desperate that if I saw a man with the right kind of a vest on, I think I'd take it from him if he refused to tell it to me.  Guess you and I'd end up in jail. Then we wouldn't need a vest at all. See, what's all the excitement? Don't know. Sounds like a runaway. Golly, you don't think some of the circus horses are loose, do you? Yeah, out of chance. Yeah!  Look, he's got the bed.  There, the other fellow's helping. There, you're slow down now. There, I got him too, Darryl. That's the ticket. Take it easy. That's it. I'm closing out. He's still on. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, funny. Most kids nowadays hardly know what a horse looks like, let alone how to manage them. There you are. Take it easy now. Nothing to get so excited about. He talks to that horse like they were buddies. Hey, kid, is it your horse? No, but she's all right now, I guess. Who does she belong to? I don't know. I'm a stranger myself in these parts. And you don't see nags like that on the street much anymore. Hey, hey, thanks. Gee, is she all right? Nolly, did you get scared, old girl? It's your worst kid. Yeah, my boss is. What happened? I don't know. I was doing an errand, and I heard some car honking. I guess it's worth too close or something. There's a rule, Nellie's pretty steady. But she must have gotten pretty scared to go careening off like that. Well, I'll say she must. Took a block right along with her. Wonder that wait didn't break up the payment. Lucky she had it on her. We might not have caught her so easy. Gee, I'm mighty grateful to you. I'd have gone into a lot of trouble if anything had happened to her or to the wagon. Gee, I don't know how to thank you. Well, that's nothing. Glad we happened to be together. Most kids want to know what to do. Say, how'd you happen to stop her? Well, I just jumped for a bit and hung on tight. I knew she couldn't go on forever with me dragging her head down like that. That's swell. I don't think I'd have ever been able to stop her so good. Well, you see, son, Gary here is with Circus. He's used to handling horses. It's pretty much his business, you might say. With the Circus? You mean you work with the Circus that just come to town? Yeah. Golly. Gee, you too? Yeah, me too. Say. I never met Circus folks before. Heck, that's real interesting. Well, oh dear, Dolly, hold your horses. I've never seen her jittery like this before. She looks kind of thin. Yeah. She eats so much compared to the kind of horses you're used to, I guess. But I like her. She's the best friend I got. I just mean she needs fattening up a bit. She's marked nice, got good points. Yeah, and she's built well, too. You think so? Sure I do. Looks like she comes from pretty good stock all right. Well, she's not been treated so well, but I do everything I can for her, at least way since we've been buddies. You lived around here long, kid? Uh-huh. Yeah? Know the folks around this town much? Well, kind of. Of course, I'm just, well, sort of a hired boy, but... Uh-huh. What's your name? Tom? Tom. That's a good American name. My name's Slatz, and this is Jerry. Slatz? Jerry? Is Slatz your real name? It is now. Why? Don't you like it? Oh, sure, I... Well, I just guess I never heard it before.  I asked him the same question, and he acted real feed with me, too. He's proud of that name, and he's got good reason to be, too. Well, I sure have. When I was younger than you boys, I was the skinniest kid in the business. Dad and I didn't act all over the country. I guess you're both too young to have heard of Slatz and singles. Say we were terrific. Folks used to think his dad starred in because he was so thin. Yeah, and when we joined the circus, first the manager wasn't sure whether to put me in the ring or with the freak. You're honest. Sure thing. Why, I remember once some humane society or something got after dad and he had a terrible time getting us out of town. Had to get doctors and everything to prove I just grew that way. Gee, that's awful funny. Yeah? And we didn't think so then. Now look at me standing here talking. And what I wanted to ask you was if you knew any folks around here might have some old clothes. Well, I don't know. He doesn't mean worn out clothes. He means old-fashioned clothes that perhaps belonged in the family years ago. Well, I guess some folks keep them around in attics. My boy's got a trunk out in the barn filled with a lot of crazy old things.  And no self-respect in secondhand mannered by him. Yeah? Any colored vests like folks wore years ago? I don't know. I never go near as things. He's kind of touchy about... Well, I never do that's all. I'd pay well for the right kind of a vest. You don't suppose he'd sell it to me if he had anything I could use? Sure. He'd sell anything if he could get real money for it. He'd sell me, I guess, if he could sell people. Sell you? Do you belong to him? Well, kind of. He'd try to sell Nellie a couple of times, but she's so old no one will pay much for her. And she still works. He grumbles about the feet she uses, but it doesn't look like she gets much of that. Well, I know it's something fierce. Kind of all I can to try and give her. Say, listen, it's getting late. I got to get busy before the matinee. Jerry, do me a favor. Sure thing. Go along with Tom and see if you can find any kind of a vest around these places and I'll pay for it. Meantime, I'll go down these back streets and see if I can find something someplace myself. Sure, I'll be glad to. Guess I know about what you want. That is, if Tom will take me. You bet I will. Gee, I guess we'd just about get home before the old man leaves for work. You mean your boss hasn't gone to work yet? This late in the morning? Well, he works nights. See, he's got funny hours. Good. Then you kids get going. But whatever you do, Jerry, get back to the lot before the matinee and if Tom can't help you out, he may know some neighbors with addicts or something. I sure be glad to try and help. Shall we get going, Jerry? The sooner the quicker. Okay. Hold still there, Nellie. Come on, Jerry. Climb on. You're okay. All right. Sure. See, this is well. Well, Slat, we'll try and find some kind of a vest for you. Where are you better? I don't want to have to go on without the right kind of props. Well, that's changed my act. Well, so long, kids. We're seeing you. Come on back with Jerry. Tom will catch the show. I'll get you. Gee, honest. Thanks, Slat. Get up, Nellie. Come on, see in the circus. Sure. Of course he did. Honest? You know, I never seen a real circus. You haven't? No. I always wanted to, though. But somehow I never had no money, and I was always working. Couldn't get away, no how. Oh, that's awful. Well, you'll see the circus today. Don't you worry. I'm afraid he'll never let me go. Who? The man I'm hired out to. He sounds kind of mean. He's the meanest man I know. Well, what do you work for him for? Well, I can't get away. What do you mean?  Well, yes. Of course I could run away, but if I did that, I'd probably never see that again. Gee, that's awful. Yeah. Get it up, Nellie. We'll never get home. Oh, you live far from here? Well, it's on the edge of town, not far from the tracks. It's kind of a little farm. You see, we raise our own vegetables. Looks like it's in the direction of the circus lot. Say, Jerry, how'd you ever happen to be with a circus? Your folks work there? Well, they used to, but... Well, both dad and mother are dead, and Mr. Angle, he's the owner, you know. He took me in. I've only been with him part of this season. It must be awful, excitement. You bet it is. Here, Nellie, take it easy there, boy. Take it easy. Hey, do we go off on this dirt road? Yep, this is where we turn in. See, that's funny. The car's gone. You mean your boss isn't here? Yeah. See, that's awful queer. They don't usually get down to the station so early. Station? Well, sure. You see, he's a baggage man at the Hansburg Railway Station. Baggage man? The man you work for? Sure. Oh. Well, why? Say, I don't think we dare open that trunk while he's gone. He'd about skin me alive, I guess, if he thought I was snooping around. But we just got to see if he's got a vest. We wouldn't hurt anything. Well, there, Nellie. Well, go. Well, come on. May as well get down. He'll be back soon. Gee, Tom, I can't wait. I gotta know if he's got anything we can use, because if he hasn't, I'll have to ask around the neighbors and all. Well, I suppose he can't give me any more than a licking. I've had them before. And it'd be worth it to see the circus. Oh, no, I don't want you to get into trouble. I'll tell you what. We'll just take a quick look through. I guess we'd hear his car all right if he came back. It isn't like we take anything. Well, all right, if you think it's safe. Of course, if he has anything we can use, we'll pay him for it. Okay, then. Come on in here. There. You see that old trunk over the corner of the barn? Yeah. Well, that's it. Come on, let's open it quick if we're gonna. Okay, if he says so. Gee, it's pretty rusty and dirty. Yeah, no one ever uses it. He just keeps a lot of things that he don't want. Here, I'll open it. Say, Tom. Yep. This man you work for. You say he's in charge of baggage at the railroad station? Sure. Why? His name isn't Platt, is it? Well, sure. How'd you know? Oh, I don't know. Maybe you mentioned his name. I just thought it was Platt, but I wanted to be sure. Did I? Sure, I musta. Well, you wouldn't know it, would you? Say, yours's lots of stuff. Gee, this is pretty good red sweater, too. Say, it's a dandy. Look, there's some old-fashioned stuff. Would this be any good for you, Jerry? Get out of there. Both of you. What are you doing with my things? Gee, Mr. Platt, we didn't hear you. You thought I wasn't home because the car was gone, huh? So you're a thief now. Get out of there, both of you, and follow me into the house. I'm calling for the police, and I'm calling quick. But, Mr. Weedon... None of your left. Leave it, both of you.   Get going now and move fast.


Now, we talk about the movements across the cell membrane. This is very important actually one of the most important features of the cell membrane that it is semi permeable. It allows certain molecules to pass, it does not allows other molecules to pass and also this actually very technically separate the internal and external environments. There are certain molecules which are lipid like, as we know from the structure that the cell membrane overall so if a molecule is like a lipid for example there is a fat type hormone it can directly pass through the cell membrane and come inside or it can pass out but the other things the other molecules like proteins like carbohydrates they cannot pass through like ions water they cannot pass through directly through the cell membrane because it is a fluid it is a lipid and lipids they actually repel those molecules. So what happen that for movement of this type of molecules cell membrane have channels the ways from which these molecules can pass and these channels these ways are made up of proteins. These proteins are very very specific in their structure. One type of channel usually allows only one type of molecule or ion to pass for example there are channels called water channels or aqua for ins aqua or water for ins force. So these are the protein channels channels made up of proteins present inside the integrated inside the cell membrane which allows only water molecules to pass. There are certain other channels for example sodium ion is a very important ion present inside the cells and in their extracellular environment sodium ion have particular channels through which it can pass we call them sodium channels just like that there are protein channels there are calcium channels they are potassium channels and so on and these channels are not many of these channels are not always open there are few channels which are always open we call them leak channels from this from these channels ions or molecules can pass against a concentration gradient for example if they are more outside they will move towards inside if they are more inside they will move towards outside but there are other channels which allow only specific type of molecule to pass and they open and close as required by the cell certain signals come and tell these channels to open or other signal comes and tell these channels to close so these are open and close upon the requirement of the cell for example during nerve impulse when a message from brain is transmitted for example to the muscles our message from muscle is going to the brain there are sodium channels which need to be open and these are opened with the help of a stimulus that is some signal when a stimulus come signal come these channels open and allows the sodium to move in and the cell transmit a message here you can see a diagram in the diagram that you can see on your screen right now it can show you various types of channels view on your left are open open protein channels view on the other side shows when they are close so channels open and close and how they open and close they open and close by a conformational change I hope you understand the conformational change but I simply describe it conformational change is this that arrangement of molecules of a macro molecule or arrangement of atoms of a molecule in space is changed this is called a conformational change for example if they were towards right they move towards left with the result channel open or close


Hi, this is Amber Blackwell and I'm going to show you how to use Canva for student creation. Okay, the first thing that you want to be able to do is make sure you are logging in correctly. You can sign up or you can log in to Canva and it will either use your OriCountySchools.net email or your g.OriCountySchools.net email. One of those will give you the education version of Canva and that's really important is to make sure that you have that education account and OriCountySchools has that for us. So when you get on there make sure if it says free under here you need to change it and you can look at the tutorial on the PDF and it will tell you how to get there so that you can have all the premium features for free. All right our first thing we want to do is be able to create classes within Canva and you can do this one of two ways. On your account you're going to want to go over to the settings, this little gear button up at the top and you're going to click on billing and plans. From there at the bottom you're going to create a new team and this would be for each class that you have so whether you are blocks, a day, b day, however you want to name them but the group of kids that you want to have assigned the same assignment and turn them in together so you will put your name there. Once that information is verified I believe you do have to verify it as well. You will see it on your homepage. You'll see your personal account and then you will see the two or three however many classes you have that you have created. Another option is that you can create groups. This is more of something that everyone is going to share the materials together and work together on something. You could use this with kids as well but I personally would see this more as teacher collaboration of sharing presentations and etc. Our next task is to create an assignment and share that with the students so if this were one of my assignments and I wanted to be a template for them to complete I would go over to share at the very top and I would click on assignment. From there you can either have them submit work through Canva or Google classroom. I personally like to just use it straight through Canva but you can add it into Google classroom. From there they're going to get a whole template blank their own copy just like this that they can fill in the information. I would put my assignment instructions here and then I can select if I have specific students or groups that I want but it's automatically going to go to my class that I have already put in there or my teams and so right now I have not shared it with them but they could view it and they could view other people's work or not share at all and then I will publish it. So from there I can look at some of my assignments that I would have by going over here to classwork. Once I look at classwork I can see a spreadsheet that shows everything and the students have submitted. This is what that screen would look like if I had students in that class and they had already submitted work so you can see over here where it shows what they've submitted with the screenshot it has the names of the students and their status so whether it's approved in these changes I've asked for revisions and what time that they have done all of that. Now to create a template from scratch is very easy Canva has all of these icons up here for you that can give you all kinds of ideas but if we wanted to do some type of infographic I can actually just type in here and it will give me all kinds of templates that I can use so I can look at themes if I want to or I can create my own and it already gives me a good size about it. If I click on this one about oceans it will say customize this template I can favorite it I can share it with other people once I'm in here if I wanted to assign this template to my students I can leave parts of this blank I can take out these pictures these should be just frames and I can insert whatever picture I want here or I can leave these blank and then I would do the same thing go into share go to assignment and it would assign this blank template for them everything's already sized for them the format all that is done so it's a very fill-in-the-blank activity for them if I want to look at something like storyboards again I can just search for it I can find a lot of templates that already have storyboards laid out for me I can do the same thing with posters if I wanted something if I want them to create an Instagram story or an Instagram post it will already have the size and the formatting already there it also will give either you or it can give students the option of backgrounds and templates if we look down here different types of backgrounds and font combinations so they can change that later if they choose so if for some reason you're on here and you realize you actually want this to be an 8 by 10 or 16 by 24 poster you're going to go up to the top where it says resize it's going to put this in pixels but you can change it and I highly recommend doing that and then you can change this to an 8 by 10 you can also go to already resize common sizes for various projects and just click there if you're doing it this way there's a couple things that you can do you can either copy and resize it's going to make a copy of this project and resize it so you have two versions of it or you can just resize it it's going to mess up the formatting a little bit but you won't have two copies so if I go and I hit redesign it now makes it like this I can change it however I want to if it needs to be resized or if the font needs to change a size or color and pictures etc if I wanted to take this presentation and I want to present it and record it for my students then I will go to present I can also hit the share button it'll take me there as well and I would want to do a present and record present record is going to give me a little talking head here and it's going to I can move this around but this will help them see me like you would do for any other voice or video recording program now when it's time for students to submit their assignment they are going to go over here and to share there's a look a little bit different than mine but they will want to hit this collaboration link and it should it could have the class here so everyone can use it but there should be one that says anyone with a link or it will say submit assignment to the teacher they can copy this link but please make sure if they're doing this it should just have that they can view it anyone with this link can view they do not need to leave it on the only you can access if they do that then you as a teacher will not be able to see the assignment either they can also download it into a Microsoft version of it whether that's a PowerPoint or a dot you can also give them a view only link and they can send that to you as well on their screen though it will say submit assignment if it is assigned into that classroom or that team that you've created on Canva thanks for watching don't forget to like and subscribe for more video tutorials


This year we've had about a hundred PhD students starting and that's been the largest number that we've had so we wanted to give them a really good welcome to the Faculty of Science. I'm in the School of Human Sciences. My research is on children's growth in East Timor. I am really happy to be part of the Faculty of Science, especially I'm in the School of Human Sciences and I've found that doing a PhD was such a really, really good way to feel like you were actually involved in the university being a post-graduate student is a really good opportunity to actually get to know a lot of academics and feel like you're contributing to being a part of the Faculty. I really like the people here, I really like the culture and in WA I think it's laid back and I feel like I can work in my own pace, I can motivate myself, I feel inspired here. Also we want to really add more value to the PhD and so this is the start of the science passport journey.


Great, so welcome everybody to this session Today, I'm very happy that I get to speak about something that I'm very passionate about which is Essentially organizing meet-ups organizing events, but ultimately it's more about building communities Very quickly My name is Juan. I was born and raised in Colombia. I am based in the Netherlands I work for a Dutch company called Sivia We do all sorts of consultancy. We're here with colleagues that do everything dev of security Me specifically I work in data But I guess Literally everything that I'm gonna say during these presentations should be relevant regardless of what you do like tech or not and the beautiful thing is that even though I didn't originally thought of this as As something that is similar to open source The truth is quite a lot of the things that you learn from contributing to open source projects are very similar to the things that you learn and you do when you're Contributing and organizing events. Let me tell you a little bit about myself back in 2011 I Became very popular and I I am asked quite a lot of friends Because I was just really good at organizing student parties for me it felt effortless to Throw something up and with very little preparation just get a room full of people that were having a blast And that was kind of the moment when I realized like oh, I have an interesting superpower. I Had no idea was gonna be ever useful outside of university time But it was Back when I graduated For the first couple of years. I was completely broke. I Think back then the coolest life hack that I ever learned was if you go to a meetup You might learn a thing or two maybe land a nice job, but more importantly there is often free food So during these two years of my life, I think I was attending one two three meetups a week That was a little bit of my cycle and I did learn quite a lot Besides the free dinner, of course Back in 2018 something magical happens. I attended this meetup and At the end of the meetup I thought to myself You know, it's like the organizers were not even trying there is so much that you could have done better around this meetup and That's when they hit me that is like well if you're so opinionated about this and why don't you organize your first meetup? And so back in 2018 I started organizing this community called the Amsterdam data visualization meetup and It was amazing Back then I didn't have any support from my company To organize these events. It's not that they were against or anything But it was more a thing that I did in my free time It was just me approaching other professionals. Just Making sure that people were in a room and that was really contagious really Just the fact that with very little work. We're talking roughly 10 minutes of work. Sorry 10 hours of work You can gather some very interesting people in a room you can learn from them and You can just improve the community that you have around your city Now back in 2020 2021. I Also gave it a try. I started a couple of meetups was not my cup of tea But I'm happy to tell you that this year alone. I've organized eight meetups I know work for a company that loves it they actually have a space where we can organize meetups and My boss is super happy that that's my superpower Like I don't write blocks I'm probably the worst programmer in this room But yet somehow I Can provide a lot of value by doing this little activity Let's talk a little bit more specifically the why behind meetups I think there are three very compelling reasons to organize them The first one is marketing Meetups can cost somewhere between zero euros to maximum three thousand and And the amount of relevance that you get from this like there is no marketing effort That delivers you a hundred people that are passionate Experience around the topic and that live close to whatever it is that you're working Like that amount of relevance is insane for something so cheap the second approach is Sorry, the second reason is just leadership It is amazing for the people who decide to organize these things Because you get to practice project management You get to practice networking. You get to practice public speaking For those of you that maybe don't have a leadership role, but that you think that you might want to grow into that direction a Meetup is a very low stakes opportunity to practice all of these skills and not only leadership that also goes to Everything marketing skills building making banners landing pages all sorts of things that maybe you don't get to do in your day-to-day work And the third one is because of the marketing. That's our networking During these meetups one you get to meet peers that you would never normally Like not meeting the wild these are people that fully understand what you do your profession But maybe work for another company So this is kind of like the only place where you can really exchange ideas freely With I like this air of competition Also, if there are some people that you really admire Organizing a meetup is the perfect opportunity to reach out to them. I said, hey, I think you would be an amazing speaker. I Think I met some very interesting people just reaching out to them And if they feel that your intentions are really community driven more than just like getting a few hires here and there people are very open towards volunteering for meetups now One of the meetups that I'm currently organizing is the analytics engineering meetup If you have never heard of this profession, that's completely fine this term started back in 2020 So it's a really really new concept But back then back in the same year. I thought to myself I really want to claim the analytics engineering meetup for myself and It paid off nowadays that are like eight of them, but they always have like analytics engineering meetup London So it was an interesting idea These are numbers of exactly how it all started like Back when I organized the first meetup it took like a couple of months Like I mentioned not more than 10 hours of planning But these were the numbers that we were able to amass This is just a funnel of how many people during the group and ultimately 40 people stayed the whole time So this was enough to really prove to my manager to my colleagues like hey, there is something in here We just spent almost nothing to organize this and we just got the attention of 40 people. That's Sadly enough. That's much much better than they are a Gmail campaign now, let's let's say that I inspired you and You want to go home tonight and organize your first meetup. What are some of the steps that you need? The first one is what I call creating an identity so First you need to determine a topic You can go for something super broad like Developers meetup or something very specific like Kubernetes security The more specific your topic goes the more likely it is that your community is gonna be smaller But you're gonna attract more advanced and more knowledgeable people Well broader topics than to attract more beginners There is no right and wrong approach. I personally at the moment I am having a meetup that is very beginner friendly and one that is much more advanced and I really like that balance Second thing is you need an identity Like what is the thing about your event and these? This is really all sorts of things from is everybody allowed to be a speaker. Are you gonna pursue diverse speakers?  Are you do you care if people do sell speeches or if a talk feels like a marketing? Thing or are you gonna ban certain technologies? Even I've seen some meetups that make it a thing to organize a pop quiz at the end and that was kind of their gimmick All sorts of things can go into their identity And finally how you're gonna push this now the beauty of things is meetup.com It's an amazing platform. It's quite cheap Think it costs like 70 euros a year and it is surprisingly democratic. So it's not that you can pay Actually, I don't know if that's fully true, but the point is with the 70 euros subscription You get advertised and those people that are in the platform get a really good chance to find out that your event is happening But of course you can set this up in all sorts of ways Once you have it all set up and you have an idea of how your meetup is going to look it's time for you to start organizing the first event Before the meetup, there are three things that you need to arrange The first one is a sponsor quite often the sponsors are in charge of providing the venue And or things like food and drinks In return, they sometimes get to send the speaker. They sometimes get to put a banner. They sometimes You always have to of course be careful some people might have some intentions on In fact, I one time was gonna speak at a meetup and because the sponsor was one of the competitors They decided that I was not fit to be a speaker So I guess you'll know this It's difficult because a lot of people might be willing to sponsor but You also have to be careful not to sell your soul There is the venue quite often the sponsor would provide it But sometimes that might not be the case now For the very first meetups that I organized one time I had to pay it out of my own pocket and in the end For one of the meetups I organized I ended up losing 200 euros which wasn't that terrible, but It's still kind of a challenge to find a venue because even though most companies have offices that are completely empty during the afternoons Sometimes they might not be fine with bringing strangers The average meetup just for your reference is in my experience minimum five people but maximum a hundred hundred twenty and You don't fully have control over how many people are gonna show up So that's what makes a venue a bit difficult Just having some sort of place like a hotel or a conference venue like this Until them. Hey the day before or two days before I would tell you how many people will show up Already like these carts some people so really finding a venue it's tricky I'm lucky my company super happy with me sponsoring this at their venue. So that's amazing and Finally, it is the speakers like the real meat and bones of the whole Events you need to find at least two speakers that are gonna be part of the program in theory Everybody who has something to say that they wish they would have known a month before Counts as a valuable speaker You shouldn't really discard new people whenever they want to speak But at the same time it depends a lot on your audience and Finding very knowledgeable speakers if you have some sort of requirement is tricky To be really honest with you. I think the most difficult part of organizing meetups is always finding speakers Because most people are either on holidays on those moments and personal commitments or The truth is there is also quite a lot of people that feel that they're not interesting enough So this is always something that is interesting Amazing life hack check all their similar meetups in the area if they have presented for those Chances are huge. You're gonna say yes to yours Or contact me happy to present whatever you all are based Now I normally hate adding a lot of text to my slides But since these slides are public I just wanted to show you this is the template that I use whenever I reach out to a speaker You can read it or not, but there's some things that are interesting to contribute is Normally when I reach out to a speaker, this is my templates I make it very clear that I'm not selling them anything. I'm not trying to recruit them Very early on it has to be transparent that It is really an open source thing. I just I think it's super fun when professionals gather and speak nothing to sell you second thing is Any tint of hesitation regardless the event It's a massive Red flag for people. So if you said, yeah, depending on your availability with my plan this we might See if enough people are interested people tend to pick up on that. So My rules at least whenever I organize a meetup is I prefer To be the only speaker and be very strict about my vision Rather than giving impression to people that the meetup might or might not happen But that's just me the next point that is important to handle is marketing Now as I mentioned meetup.com does a lot of it for you. You just create the page and people will find out And that's like amazing already Organically quite a lot of people sign up. I think for the average meeting without too much trying Between 30 to 60 people just come just from it up even before you start advertising the whole thing But then of course that are paid advertisements and things like LinkedIn or Facebook fact LinkedIn is quite interesting because you can literally target Every person that has these job title or that uses these tools or that has this particular software in their profile It kind of goes a little bit against the whole like Community and organic growth and everything but if you really need to reach out to everybody that has an expertise and that's your thing You could do that with paid ads The most important for me is word of mouth Like reaching out to people personally and giving them the impression that they are gonna be missed if they don't join It's much more powerful When you tell a professional like hey, I really admire your work. I'm organizing these events and I'm very curious about your feedback And when you reach out to your colleagues, I hate I think these picker is interesting because you seem to work in something similar Whenever you build that bridge and reach to people personally the chances of them coming up is much higher. I Think we have all been guilty of ignoring those invites that Oh, they invited 2,000 people so they're not gonna notice if I'm not there Yeah reaching out personally Seven days before the meetup is where the most action takes as I mentioned my other rule is I Really tried my best to keep meetups under 10 hours of work Just because you could organize a conference like this But then it stops being fun and it becomes like a full-time job Well, if you have a team of two or three people and you keep them to 10 hours of work That's very feasible for everybody both But it gets a bit more intense seven days before first. That's when you have to start doing the most marketing because the most people sign up to your event the same week and The people that sign up in The last moments are the ones that are the most likely to attend So it sounds weird, but you really want to prioritize people that sign up one hour before the event starts Over the person that sign up like a month or three weeks in advance It's a matter of fact. I also only make the events available two weeks before Just for decent purpose Also, it's very important to confirm to the speakers tell them. Hey The event is going on. This is the address. We expect you here if you need to work or have a call before you can do here food is there and You should bring some people Now if you have three speakers and you tell those speakers to bring two people That's already a massive quite a bit of people in there So if every speaker would bring two or three colleagues You don't have to worry too much about turn up And finally one thing that most people don't do but it's very important is send some sort of confirmation to the attendants Reach out to them on Slack on meetup on LinkedIn maybe even personally I Generally make one message on meetup.com saying hey, this is the event is gonna happen here Just telling all of the little details. We're gonna be the speakers and very importantly asking them If you cannot make it, please We draw your RSVP that helps us make a much better estimate Because yeah, you know for these things. I really don't like the meetups that charge you money Not even like symbolic one or two euros. I'd really like it if it's free and fully democratic But when things are free people might sign up and not show up Just little nuts like please help us be more clear if you're coming or not makes a massive difference On the day itself you have some tasks first one is welcome the guests or Be the ceremony master really Introduce the speakers make sure that Everybody gets a little introduction Reach out to the speakers ask them all sorts of things like how do I pronounce your last name? Last week I had a speaker from Finland and I'm like, how do I pronounce your last name? I don't want to mess it up on stage So just those little things are important. I Also think it is very nice when you're doing this with colleagues because then you can assign roles what I tell my colleagues is If you want to help with meetups, even if it's just one hour of your time or less Fine with that. I don't expect them to be fully involved Because there are quite a bit of roles that they can take during the day The first one is of course the host Which is probably like the most intensive in terms of public speaking and I Know quite some people don't like to volunteer for that The second one is tech support which the gentleman at the back know how important it is just having somebody to handle the slides and the Presentations and assays the speakers the microphones their recordings and so on but I also really like the figure of the body as In getting a colleague and tell them if you see somebody Being shy you're in a corner alone or checking their phone Try to talk to them If the event happens at your company and you work there, it's much easier for you to like reach out to new people than vice versa so having somebody there to create an atmosphere for everybody is a Really like a great thing that doesn't happen too often and then finally there are the drinks Whenever you do drinks you need to work a little bit of catering Maybe the sponsor the venue already provides that service In the past they have been sometimes where I have to like bring the crates of beer myself and Just stand behind and give it to people and assist them a little bit So if you have some people dedicated to Ordering the pizza giving it to people and so on Putting it nicely that that works quite well the tip that I also give is Don't go cheap on drinks because The most value that comes out of meet-ups Is in the drinks afterwards? Sure, the talks are really nice for people that want to learn but the conversations that happen after That's where recruitment happens. That's where like friendships happen where Even you find new clients you find everything To me that's really the core where the most interesting things are happening So I really want to prioritize that Now I maybe should have mentioned this because I noticed some people taking notes But if you're interested in this topic, I actually created a good book Page you can scan it you can go there. It has all of the notes With all of my knowledge and organizing meet-ups Essentially when I created this page, it was just for people that might want to create one All of the steps that I mentioned and even more are pretty well detailed in there So feel free to check out these links send it to anybody. It is completely free completely anything and Michael Yeah, my call to action for all of you is one consider meet-ups They're amazing for a lot of reasons as I just told you really underrated tool for companies to Check out the link Maybe there are a couple of things here and there that you or one of your colleagues might appreciate and tree if you're organizing a Meetup or an event. Let me know always happy to speak about meet-ups or something else Thank you. I guess we can open up for questions People And if they attend to the to the meet-up Then afterwards we return back the money So only those that register but don't come back don't attend the meet-up and then we've moved for from a 3540 percent of people showing up Tomorrow less 95 percent of people So no, I wanted to share that. No, that's an interesting strategy maybe my remarks there is It's tricky because what that would mean is that now you're allocating people to like checking Who's coming and making sure that you have a list? So like that creates a little bit of overhead if it's worth it. It's worth it what I also do is One I completely overestimate the number like if I have a venue for a hundred people. I invite a hundred fifty and that evens out but it's It's also important to To always remember that Like people have busy lives. It's also hard for me. Sometimes you organize something and the turnoff is a bit disappointing But you also have to know that okay, people have a lot of priorities and rather being sour that people don't show up consistently It's about being grateful about the few people that show up and made it up. So Attendance is always a tricky topic But yeah, that's a that's an interesting system of getting the money back I don't know if I would do it for my meet-ups, but if I have time I would write it down there Maybe put you on that one and also is a measure that if one or two weeks before the meet-up We only have ten people registered then we can cancel the meet-up. Yeah If not, yeah, you don't you don't know yeah fair enough Yes Thank you for the talk my question is how long before the meet-up do you send out the first invitations? To the participants or to the speakers to the speakers and to the participants in general so Speakers I am constantly looking for them like it's 24 7 I meet somebody in a company I'm a consultant so whenever I go to a new assignment and like hey, you could be an amazing speaker so You really try to create this pipeline of people I Think for speakers, maybe two months in advance quite often is a good estimate Just because I'm quite a lot of speakers in my experience would say immediately no if you give them less than a month I don't know But when it comes to attendees when exactly you invite them My golden rule is never more than three weeks in advance Between two and three weeks really because if you start the event like two months before a lot of people will sign up on the first Weeks and the likelihood of those people showing up is almost zero But you also don't want to give it way too little time for people not to plan so two or three weeks This is also the Netherlands. I I understand people in the Netherlands like to plan their weeks further ahead, but Depending on where you're based that might be a bit different Thank you. Yeah, I have actually been running a Linux users group for almost 30 years now and I like a lot of the features that meetup.com has I am still Not real pleased with the way that they decided to start monetizing back a very long time ago And I've largely been boycotting them ever since I don't really begrudge them making money. It's just they started charging organizers and you know And it was a and it was a large sum of money for me at the time So I was I was a bit offended anyway, I have been Trying to use a An open-source tool called it's a it's it get together dot community it does leave a bit to be desired and I Would love to see them build a bit more of a community around it But I was curious if anyone here had any other Alternatives that they tried that they like To to be really honest and if somebody has something let me know afterwards, but my experience is Most of the alternatives are rather dying than growing if we had this talk like ten years ago We could have said like oh Facebook events is a great tool and so on but Now it feels like people are engaging much much less on social media. I Still see that some people still go to meet up like for example When I first came here to will bow. I'm like hey, let's see if that are interesting meetups And a lot of people have a habit of doing that So to me the beauty is that even though it costs and everything it does bring some people that come to the platform All of their alternatives so far I haven't been super happy, but I've tried it. I Always try them first with like personal parties and things like that see if my guests like them But so far I haven't been too happy Yes This is about the one strategy also do make people appear. What do you think about the co-hosting? Or a co-organizing with someone else like a colleague or someone you can trust you see Well in my experience of also organizing parties and things like this.  I don't know maybe 20 people that say say hey, please come to this. I'm organizing this Well as a Talking of the appreciation they will go but if you do that for with three or four organizers that they have the same word Yeah, that 20 might become like 50 or 60 and I'm speaking about big numbers, but Do you see any disadvantage or do you see something like it? Why wouldn't you do that? Yes, okay, so we it's a it's an interesting trade-off. I've organized meet-ups just by myself and we groups of I Think the biggest group was nine people And what I noticed is the smaller the group the faster the decision-making is Maybe the quality of the end result is not that amazing But to me it's very important that meet-ups don't overtake your job and don't become a burden. So Nowadays I try to organize them with three people Just because it's quite feasible to split and like you do four hours. I do four hours and so on and if somebody's a bit busy You take over But the more people you introduce in the event one You suddenly shift into becoming a project manager and making sure like do you reach out to the speakers whose responsibility was that You sometimes start having a Kanban board for your meet-ups and and Then when you have very large groups like it has happened to me when I organize proper conferences It becomes very hard to have some discussions I've seen somebody it's really pro something and the other person is sent in You spent a lot of time like mediating these these stocks So it is really the trade-off between quality and overhead that you want to have I'd really like three or less And it gets much easier after you have done it sometimes like I wouldn't be afraid of organizing on my own But I guess for the first time she's nice To have a small group Are there any questions online? Somebody watching online. I don't know good if that was it once again. Very happy to have you here Very curious about your stories. Why exactly you carry out meet-ups. I understand now some of you already organized them So happy to chat feel free to check the resource that I share on screen All of my contact information is in there in case you want to reach out Have a chat once again invite me as a speaker But with that said, thank you very much for attending and I wish you an amazing few last days in Bilbao


Welcome, everyone. It is Monday, April 24th. We're speaking with our good friend and colleague, Louis Rene. Many of you will recognize his name. He's someone who writes frequently at mises.org. He also spent a couple of summers here in Auburn with us as a summer fellow. Louis is currently a graduate student finishing his master's in economics at Sienc's Poe University in Paris. And in the fall, he'll be moving back to the United States to pursue a PhD in economics. So all that said, Louis, welcome. It's great to see you again. Thank you for having me. Well, first and foremost, what are your initial thoughts about the election yesterday? Do you think Le Pen underperformed or overperformed relative to expectations? Okay, I think that the main surprise is not that much that she's close from Macron, but rather that actually Fignon performed pretty well with all the justice issues he had. He's at 20%. You have a difference of less than two points between him and Le Pen. So it's actually quite impressive, but I didn't expect him to be in the second turn of the election because you had too much problems with his personality. Well, there's justice issues, yeah, I am. Right. And where do you think most of his voters will go in the second round election? I think it can be divided in three parts. Like one third is abstention, they won't vote. So one other third will be Macron, and the last third will be Le Pen. Really? I think so. So a bit of a split. Well, that being said, what do you think Le Pen's chances are in the second round? Do you think she can win? I think you don't have many. Maybe some people are already too optimistic about Macron and because they say almost declaring him as a president, a little bit like in the U.S. with Clinton, and maybe you remember Newsweek cover about President Clinton, and some people seem to act the same. But I don't think she has many chances to be elected. Okay, well, when we're looking at Macron, he's a very unknown quantity in the United States. In reading about him, clearly the Beltway favors him in this election, including Beltway libertarians, I might add. Now, it appears that he's truly an independent in that he ran without an established party in the election. Independence in the United States have had a very hard time winning without the Democratic or Republican machines behind them. How do you think he was able to do this as an independent? Well, in France, it's the same, like independence, we call them centrists. They always had a hard time to be elected. But I think it's a very peculiar situation we have now. We have a very unpopular president in the polls. He had only 4% of favorable opinions. So it's a very, very historically low. And yeah, also, people are seeking for other ways because they are disaffected with politics in general. So the fact that this guy never really even received a mandate from anyone before, worked a little bit in the private sector, although not much, well, probably made a difference. Well, if you consider being a Rothschilds banker, private sector, I guess he did. So what he did is like public relation. The guy just did a school that we call Lena, which is a national school of administration where also high ranked public officials go to beer. High ranked public officials. And afterwards, he was on the Atali Commission, which was a commission to seek for solutions for the French economy in 2007. And in 2008, he met François Hollande and actually kept pretty close to him. So he's a little bit more free market friendlies than François Hollande, the current president. But I mean, it's nuances and not really anything. Right, a little more free market than Hollande. That's a ringing endorsement from you, Louis. Exactly. Yeah, well, I'm not endorsing him on anything. I just say that also how he got known is actually by talking to the right wing people. What he did is to make some very controversial claims to give you an example, controversial claims about the legal working time limit or about one day he said, if you want to buy a suit, the best way is to work. So that's very controversial things for socialist people. And people in the socialist party and he was a minister in the socialist government. So he represented a more moderate or more free market branch of the socialist party, which doesn't mean much, but actually played a huge role because right wing columnists and intellectuals said, oh, this guy is pretty good. Maybe there is something. And after during the campaign, he became more and more leftist and gave up his more free market ideas, just giving and this to everybody. And so now he pretty much has no program. We discovered this program very late. It's a 17 pages long program, which is very short compared to the other candidates. And actually it's not detailed at all. He says, oh, I will deregulate some stuff, but we don't know what. I will reduce some spending, but it's not specified, but you have some increase in spending too. On a general level, what is also worrying is that actually some libertarians defend this guy because he wants to reestablish a draft. I don't think that any libertarian can defend somebody who wants that. That's maybe one of the biggest point in libertarianism. The draft is something really bad. It's the equivalent or almost the equivalent of slavery. Right. Well, let's forget what he says for a moment. What do you think is in his heart? Do you think he's closer to a true believer Bernie Sanders socialist? Or do you think he's closer to a Hillary Clinton neoliberal globalist? Oh, no, a Larry Clinton type. Yeah, for sure. The Bernie Sanders type would be Jean-Luc Mélenchon who lost in the first turn of the election, but actually did a very, very good score and also improved a lot. So he is at 19.5%. And he did an amazing campaign. I would say that he did them on a technical level. He did the best campaign this year, especially on the social medias. Right. Well, you know, Americans who think that France is more socialist than the United States, if Bernie Sanders had been on some sort of open primary ticket here, he would have gotten easily 19%, probably much more than that. So we're, I think, just as far along as France in terms of our ideological errors here. Louis... Well, but you have also candidates also that were even more radical than Bernie Sanders and openly Marxist and revolutionary candidates. I don't think those can exist in America. So there were something like 11 total candidates on the ballot? I think 10, yeah. 10. Okay. In California, for instance, in the United States, we have what's called a jungle primary where anyone can enter the primary and the two highest vote getters proceed to the general election, regardless of whether they're both Democrats, for example. In the French second round system, could you have two people from the same party in the second round or is that not how it works? No, no, no, no. Okay. It does not happen. Particular party gets one representative in the earlier round. There could be two people who have similar ideas. Right. But not two people from the same party. What I was I did is to... So the two major parties before the election, so the Socialist Party on the one hand who just collapsed completely, it's at 6% in this election. So it's completely almost vanished. And Republicans, they said, well, we are going to do primaries before the election because it's a way for us to ensure we monopolize public debate. But it didn't work very well since, well, none of them are actually selecting in the second turn of the election, so. Right. Well, last time we spoke, we talked a lot about Marine Le Pen and this distinction that exists in America as it does in France between urban versus rural voters. This city versus country divide was a big issue in the Trump campaign. And since we last spoke, there's been yet another article on this. And this time it was by Christopher Caldwell on The City Journal called The French Coming Apart. And he talks about the French version of what we call in the US a rust belt. He termed it Le France, Paris-Farique, Paris-Farique, periphery. I'm probably pronouncing that badly. How much do you think that played a part yesterday in Le Pen having a decent showing? Is this really a Paris versus everybody else election? Well, there is something like this, yes. In the sense that Macron in Paris received something like 34% of the votes. So it was really over-represented. What happens is that you have two geographical areas that really vote for Le Pen. So you have the South of France where I live actually. So that's the traditional right wing region. So they vote for either the Republicans or the National Front massively. And they are more traditional. They are more like the Bible Belt in the US. And you have the North of France near Picardie and near Belgium. That's the equivalent of the Rust Belt in America. And those are former socialists, voters that are switching to Marine Le Pen. And so you have this divide amongst the National Front because they don't have the same ideas, but they coexist. Well, you wrote an article actually a few months back which we recently republished called as Marine Le Pen, the French Donald Trump. And I was wondering if you could just highlight for us. You draw out some pretty significant differences between Le Pen as a candidate and as a movement and Donald Trump and his phenomenon in the US. So talk about the differences, why they're not such a good analogy to each other. Well, so I wrote this one month ago because Donald Trump seemed not to seek for any endorsement from the establishment during the campaign. And definitely that's not the strategy Marine Le Pen thought in the sense that she also tried to attract people more or less from the establishment. Her right arm, for example, Florian Filippo is also from the ENA, the school I told about, Macron went to. So she opened the party to the young people, she really tried to make it more mainstream in a way, more diabolical, as we say in France. But now, obviously now that Trump is elected actually he is getting along pretty well with the establishment. So, well, that's something. But I would say that Marine Le Pen's father wasn't at all in this strategy. He really didn't like political correctness, et cetera. He was, this one was really a fascist type of right-wing politician, but really he didn't want to make any compromises. Well, it was a different thing. And you also point out that Marine Le Pen is a career politician, which I think is a big distinction with Trump.  And it's a bigger difference with Macron, actually, because Macron, again, is not a career politician. But she is. Right. He's also young-ish, about 10 years younger than her. He's got this strange situation where he married a much older woman who is his high school teacher. I think this is gonna win him the feminist vote. Well, I don't know. I think compared to America, we don't care as much about family life. It doesn't play as much of a role in French politics as it does here. Right. Well, I'll leave you with one last question on Le Pen. Obviously, you're a great libertarian. You're somebody who's read Mises and Rothbard and Hayek and presumably also read all the French classical liberals and libertarians. You know, what's the response to a disaffected French person who says, I don't like the changes happening for us. I don't like the secularization of French. I don't like the small towns losing their identity. I don't like mass amounts of Muslim immigrants occupying whole neighborhoods in places like Paris. I mean, what's, from a libertarian perspective, we certainly can understand the appeal of Marine Le Pen. How would you respond to someone asking, bringing up these kinds of problems in France? Well, I'm not a politician. So probably it's not to me to answer to this question. There will be two good politicians to do it, if that exists. But maybe just doing things that actually work, I think that one of the big problem with the current situation is that policies were made that just don't work. Holland drastically increased taxation and the size of the state, so did Sarkozy. And now we are in a big financial trouble. And actually the only candidate during the first turn that talked about this is Fillon. But I don't say that he was a libertarian because he wasn't, and he was a prime minister for five years. So why would we trust him? But he was the only one to talk about public debt, the excessive size of the state, et cetera. Marine Le Pen wants to increase the size of the state. And Macron is just more, while we are just going to leave things at ease and just do a European government with a European budget, and we are going to fight fiscal competition. So that was actually one of the worst rate of his program. Well, you bring up an interesting point, which is that there are huge structural problems in France, just like the United States, which maybe can't be solved politically at this point. There's at least not through voting because people will always vote for things that aren't necessarily possible. So thanks for your time, Louis. It's great seeing you, great talking to you. And perhaps we'll talk to you again in a couple of weeks if Marine Le Pen surprises everyone.