What's happening guys? Salah Mike welcome to another rendition of me coaching you guys fixing your form coaching subscribers a foe free If you want to get involved a send a video to ask M-i-k-k-e at gmail.com We need 70% for a couple triples and shoot the video landscape high quality First thing I see on my man's squat right here is we need to get that walk out a little bit more efficient We want two to three steps Maximum one we're gonna save energy and two we're gonna allow ourselves to stay tight in a good position without the bar wobbling Three I know no one wants to hear it, but it looks like you're a little bit high We got to work on that depth. I believe you have a healed shoe on so you can see your feet move around and kind of wobble around I'll try moving that stance in a little bit and also pushing forward into your knees more at the start You may have a wrestling shoe either way knees forward a little bit more As well as knees out and continue to lighten the weight and work on your form My man right here first suggestion. I got for you is we need a flatter shoe those look decent But the flatter the stiffer the shoe the better Otherwise our forms looking pretty dang solid As tight as you can get that upper back if the bar position is comfortable I'd say keep it moving a little bit hair down may be okay But what I'd like to see is as active as you could be with pulling those elbows Not only together trying to touch your elbows together behind you and also pulling those elbows down So not necessarily Down towards your front of you But think about doing a lat pull down or pulling that bar down into your traps pulling the bar into your body bending it Almost over your neck. Otherwise the form seems pretty dang decent From this angle depth seems solid.  We got another angle. Yeah, those those shoes are fairly flat I think they're like a trail running shoe, but a lower to the ground Thinner shoe would be better from this angle still pretty solid that second rep You just rush yourself and that's why the hips shoot up your breathing embracing looks good First and third rep are a little bit more solid because you don't rush it So you don't have that collapse of your torso angle With the hips shooting up early, so breathe embrace. We want to be quick but not hurry on the way down We want to control ourselves But yet still be aggressive so we can get some rebound Again, if you push your knees forward and out Keeping your hips back and just a little a little bit of wiggle on that setup is just fine But again, we want it as most as most efficient as we can But overall seems pretty good So not collapsing the whole biggest things people always talk about it hips shooting up out of the hole on either squats or dead List it doesn't really matter It tends to happen when one our back is not tight enough and our breathing embracing is not correct I want to control that midline and what I mean by that is we want to get as stiff as possible between our hips and Our shoulders stay stiff Out there gentlemen tip from Salamac So as tight as you can breathe you want to breathe into your belly button your sides your low back Flex down you want that in a straight line as well as flexing your lats And that's what I talked about earlier of pulling those elbows together and downward that'll keep that torso rigid So when you do push into the bar, you'll be better off your legs can move The force from into the ground and into the bar again that cue of driving your shoulders Pushing your back into the bar is what I think basically My form is decent, you know, I've squatted for many a many year and the only cue I get is when I'm unracking I get as tight as I can squeezing my back almost painfully So pulling that bar across for me and then out of the hole I'm just thinking about driving my shoulders pushing my back into that barbell that set looks really solid Here we go at the slow-mo. We got the tushy wiggle and slow-mo. You can do anything It somehow turns into a dance or a twerk My man really solid squat one of the most solid squats. We've seen on here to be honest I don't know why you have gloves on you might get ripped for it again I'd like to be positive through this whole thing But if you're trying to get your powerlifting life on we're gonna have to toughen up those hands some wrist wraps on a lower bar Position can be helpful But if you plan to compete in powerlifting and there is no Excuse me a gloves allowed. So let's toughen up those hands squats. It should be fine And really good work on the squat Who and what do we have next again if you guys are new be sure to subscribe to this thing Give this video a thumbs up share with your friends drop in this video every Sunday with this series trying to coach you guys And then every the other days we got vlogs instructionals all that Here we go next squat Right there looks pretty dang solid I would like to see my man not over press or over push at the top and make that little wippy effect Although it feels good to be aggressive and lock out at the top at the top quarter can cause injury in the long term We have a slight arch in the low back going into there and from this angle It looks like that belt may be a little bit tight a Commonality I see is obviously people have an issues with breathing embracing, but not only breathing embracing incorrectly To think about but the cue but the issue is that the belt is too tight And you can't breathe into your stomach and now again You can't technically breathe into your stomach But we want that belt with maybe a finger With of looseness on there so you can shove your finger in there and then we want to fill that up with our stomach This pole actually looks really really solid backs in a good position Femurs are fairly short and arms are pretty long So you can kind of get into a kind of a squatting position right there What I would like is maybe a hair higher hip position from that Because on that last year if you could see your low back around a little bit in a higher hip position At the start almost falling backwards pushing to the hips that I've talked about so many times May help you out Bench I think we got our same gentleman he threw all three in here and all three look pretty dang solid Maybe we get another angle or maybe we just get the slow-mo. We'll see what's happening But for on those reps bench look good what I always suggest for anyone is working on the bench press a liftoff I know there's big lifters.  I kind of talk about grip width and the shoulder and its role kind of in Pressing movements Here we go. We got more walkout issues everyone Maybe have to do a video on walking out itself to kind of teach you guys the two or three Walk step out again. If you guys want to be involved with this, I'd like to see around 70 percent 75 percent for sets of three because once you start to get too heavy If you guys are novice or even intermediate, it's kind of hard to tell what's going on with your form For my man right here again the belt may be a hair tight I'd like to see a maybe a bit looser so you can breathe and push out into it From this video from this rep right here. I'd also Probably suggest Experimenting with a narrower stance Your knees are just kind of in an odd position right there So if you could move your stance in maybe even toes a hair straighter And then on your descent you're going to push into those knees a little bit You have a very vertical shin, which isn't necessarily wrong I just think for the majority of lifters To get a little bit more quad activation to hit depth a little bit more efficiently a little faster Is this the same gentleman going a little bit lighter? I can't tell I thought they had similar shirts To get a little bit more efficient depth and to get more activation in the legs Which obviously is going to help you lift more weight in the long run A stance in pushing into your knees and maybe toes a bit straighter Kind of looks like the same guy because the squat form looks similar You do have a little bit longer femurs and from this angle. It's not as bad But I do suggest moving the stance in maybe an inch or two each side We want to get that knee perfectly onto kind of the ball of our foot or the mid foot at the bottom of the hole Set up, you know, you you have your tradition you have your routine And that is something I suggest everyone does some people look silly Some people like to make noises some people do a little dance whatever it may be But as long as it's repeatable And it's something that gets you into the right mindset to do the same Thing every single time because every rep regardless of weight should be the same So the setup should be the same whatever it takes for you to get mentally ready and physically tight and ready to do the set I do suggest kind of getting routine like a basketball player shoots a free throw The squats really solid, you know, you obviously handle well over 400 pounds. So it's pretty dang decent Back looks fairly tight. I'd say if you can move your hands in a little bit It'll only help everything tighten up But the main gig we're looking at is moving those feet in about an inch Maybe even two inches per side pushing into your knees a little bit let them float forward And then really driving up into that barbell what we got next we got some sumo action Not too bad not too bad A little bit of head movement. So on all three movements We'd like to keep our head in the same position, especially while under load It's just going to keep us safer help our balance and help the repeatability of the lift Something very common here, which we talked about I think last week's episode of fixing your technique Is squatting the weight up now it takes a very unique individual on how they're built and how strong they are To be able to squat the weight up the majority of us really have to hip hinge and dead lift the weight up So for you my friend, I'd like to see your hips a hair higher You can see you're kind of hinging on your belt and we need to hinge on our hips So a really big breath obviously would help the little bit bigger Breath into the stomach and flexing a lot But I'd also think a higher hip position and more vertical shin in your case You can see the bar floating around it has to go around your knees because your knees are going forward 80 or plus percent of you that pull sumo we need a vertical shin not everybody but the majority of us So a higher hip position pulling that bar into you and getting your weight falling backwards Is going to be the ultimate way to do that for you my friend You do have a little bit longer torso. It seems like you have a little bit of hip flexibility, which isn't bad It's actually good So maybe even moving that stance in an inch hips higher and then you have to fall backwards and we can't have you Just jerking that weight up because once the weight gets too heavy your chest is going to fall forward Your hips are going to shoot up and you won't be able to complete 90 95 and 100 without throwing all the load into your low back Again guys, I do appreciate you thumbs up subscribe Videos dropped in Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday every week. Let's go


Hey everyone, good morning and welcome to Tuesday tea. It is a beautiful Tuesday We had actually a great weekend of warm weather here in Kelowna. It's a little bit cooler in the last couple days But lovely day for tea, which I have here this Tuesday tea We're looking at personal branding tips for sales professionals in 2021 and I get it we're already a quarter in to the year So I really debated if this was the kind of blog post I wanted to do But at the same time the end of March signals a full year that I've Had to make a pivot from the industry that I came from which was the meetings and events industry so I've had a year I guess of observations and so that's why I was comfortable doing this post at the end of Q1 About 2021 and personal branding tips and here's the thing some things obviously have not changed at all But the things that I'm talking about today are things that we that have changed and so while the blog post and the the video do Dive into these seven considerations today. I want to look at them a little bit deeper and more importantly answer your questions or Have that dialogue with you. So I'm hopeful that you will Show up into the chat drop your questions into the chat And of course add some dialogue as we go through these seven considerations So without further ado, let's look at the seven considerations That I feel we should be addressing as we build our personal brands here in 2021 The first one is the belief that we should have an own our own personal brand And here's what's different between last year and this one on this one is that with all of the transitions especially for people who Have had to leave their place of employment or find new employment Now is the time to start creating a personal brand It may not have been something that you considered in the past But as so many people are going through this employment transition I think it's more important than ever to have a brand and have a brand that's separate from Your organization now the two brands can obviously be aligned Hopefully you're working for an organization that shares the same values Shares the same beliefs shares the same drive that you have But having a personal brand not only is going to attract business to you as a salesperson But in turn of course your organization is going to benefit So believing that you Can own and develop your own personal brand especially as you go through any employment transition Is key for your success as you head into 2021 So I would love to know if you are in an employment transition right now Be it you're looking for employment or you just got new employment if personal brand has been playing In your mind as you've been going through this journey number two is to know yourself and What 2020 did for a number of us was give us that great pause, right? We call called it the great pause of 2020 Where we had no choice but to step back from our chaotic lives we had no choice but to Stop driving kids to sports and stop going to all of the things that we had planned for ourselves as well We had no choice but to kind of Rest in our homes and in our communities and kind of wait things out And that great pause did give us opportunity to learn more about ourselves More about our family dynamics. That's for sure So that great pause I'm hoping we took advantage of that pause And it came out the other side knowing more about what's important to us I know I certainly did spending time with my family In particular my husband we both work from home But can go days without seeing each other because we're so busy with our work But that great pause where we were able to Get into the garden together a lot more often that was the knowing of thyself for me and I guess reordering my priorities How important my family was to me how important my marriage relationship was to me so knowing yourself and Determining what are those things that drive you? What is your idea of success? What is your idea of a personal brand and the things that you want to amplify? We really had opportunity to kind of take a step back I can tell you we've just gone into another round of restrictions here in british columbia canada So I think there's another pause here coming As we're no longer Doing in-room dining and so now we're kind of relegated to our homes and communities again So we're kind of in a mini pause right now Which for some could be a really great again opportunity to kind of take a step back Take some time to reevaluate what it is that drives you what you're passionate about and getting to know yourself better So that's consideration number two number three Is is critical when creating a personal brand because of the uptick on social media Because of what's happened is being consistent with your time and talent and here's what I mean by that When When the pandemic hit last year and we all went through this year The only way that we could interact with each other and show up with each other Was predominantly through social media And of then of course through these zoom meetings and phone calls, etc But social media sure saw an uptick in particular You see clubhouse now For apple users a great uptick in clubhouse LinkedIn had a massive uptick Through 2020 and when you show up consistently with your time and your talent regardless of your platform That's what's going to help help develop your brand So Because we were all online so much more than I think we were before um Giving of your time and talent in and the consistency in your scheduling I think is more important now than ever It's certainly this was one of the considerations that you needed to have before 2020 But it's more prevalent now here in 2021. That is for sure Here is the biggest uh consideration in my opinion the biggest consideration And the biggest learning curve for all of us when developing our personal brands in 2021 and that is mastering the virtual We've never been on video More so than we have in this past year and for some of us that was a blessing some of us that was an absolute curse Uh virtual is not comfortable. Um, it's not comfortable for a lot of people It takes a long time to get comfortable with virtual But given where we are, this is one of the skills that we need to master in order to amplify our brand And create connections with our clients our prospects Our colleagues our friends our collaborators, whatever that looks like So mastering the virtual this it's almost a no-brainer but at the same time if you haven't taken the time to learn how to Uh capitalize on the virtual platforms. Um, this is the year to do so And number five, which is similar to number four is of course mastering social media um I've been on social media For a long time. I was I think twitter was my first social media platform Um, I was one of the early adopters with twitter. Um, I'm on clubhouse now not an early adopter Well, I guess you could call me an early adopter. I got on in january. It started back, uh last august So I have a comfort level with using social media But there are some social media platforms that are kind of fairly new to me. And so this is a learning curve for me Uh clubhouse for those of you who are on clubhouse It gives you opportunity to link back to twitter which check mark for lienne and also to link back to instagram Um, I wasn't really great at instagram. So now my learning curve is um mastering the instagram platform, which Is a huge huge project for me. So How you want to amplify your brand and when you decide what platforms you want to be on mastering that platform Is going to be key in 2021 because social media is not going away anytime soon Like I said, there just seems to be adding platforms So it's it's a great right now if you're in b2b like you like I am LinkedIn is going to be the platform that you want to look a little bit closer at Um, linkedin is really exploded over the past year. Um, again because of that employment surge and people looking for jobs Um, and now now there's a hiring surge again. So there's a ton of recruiters Um, capitalizing on linkedin to find talent to fill the gaps that may have been left When this all happened. So do you see what's happening? It's just this perfect storm of people coming to linkedin to be seen And to see people so this is the year for linkedin if you're in b2b my friends And if you've already mastered linkedin, there's these other platforms like clubhouse like instagram like facebook that you might want to look into um, so that brings us to number six. This is probably the The the most abstract I suppose of the considerations And everything that's happened over the past year the the big one of the most abstract considerations is to show empathy Um for one and for all so 2020 uh saw the rise of black lives matter Now here in 2021 we see the rise of stop asian hate. Um, even before 2020 we We were all on a learning curve of how to be more inclusive of people with different genders and different sexual orientations and showing empathy for everyone regardless of What they look like what flag they carry? Who they're married to who they're not married to is so critically critically important when Developing your personal brand For a number of reasons number one Love rules all right right number one Love is going to what's going to bring you success and happiness. It's not going to be hate. So that's easy one, but number two with um the awareness of The the need for compassion and empathy for one and for all With the introduction of cancel culture and you've probably heard that term And what cancel culture is is basically cancelling out someone who Exhibits hate in some way shape or form um, so it's an interesting dialogue the the dialogue of authenticity versus cancel culture But my hope is is that when Our authentic personal brands is a brand of love and compassion And so this one might be very easy for you Maybe you had tons of love and tons of compassion Before 2020. I know this one's relatively easy for me, but I have a lot to learn And so that's what falls under this consideration for me Is I have a lot to learn about some of these issues and how I can be more compassionate and loving towards all people into 2021 So that's why I wanted to include that consideration as well And number seven which falls very much in line with number six is just to keep your brand respectful number seven and keeping your brand respectful is more again about the amplification of your brand It's so critically important that The content that you're putting out there Does not harm hurt in any way shape or form And that you are respecting of all individuals in the content you put out there Again, this one might be easier said or might be easier for some people than others But so critically important as we all work towards Being a more loving and compassionate society in 2021. Uh, it's been a difficult year for everyone Difficult year for those who have lost family members Due to COVID-19 or otherwise and weren't able to celebrate their lives Through the funerals and the celebrations of life in person It's been a difficult year for My extroverted friends who have really struggled to get together with other people And I think about some of my single friends and how their situation was so So different from mine because I had a family and a dog and You know a bubble of other married couples that I could Lean on So being respectful To every person you come across you have no idea what they're going through on a daily basis That is definitely a key consideration in 2021 So I would love for you to uh drop in the comments any questions you have or Anything you would like to ask about branding considerations in 2021 These of course may change again in 2022 and I'm hoping that it does The one thing with our personal brands is it's always a journey Personal brand is not a destination. It is definitely a journey And there are some great sites to see along the way It's so exciting when you start to be intentional around your personal brand So those are my seven ways to be intentional About your brand in 2021 Again, if you have questions or you'd like to even drop in the comments, which consideration is most important for you In 2021 would love to hear that Thank you so much for joining me and joining me for a cup of tea today on Tuesday tea Next week we are I'm so lucky I am honored and privileged To be sitting down with my good friend Heather reed. We're going to talk about imposter syndrome How it's cropped up for us over this past year and some strategies on how you can uh help Help endure You can help battle imposter syndrome when it shows up in your life Thank you again for joining me. Have a great week and we'll see you next Tuesday same time same place Bye for now


Given two sets A and B, we can combine them in two ways. We can talk about the union, A union B, and we can also talk about the Cartesian product, A cross B. Now, if we have two groups, G and H, can we combine them? Yes, if we're careful. Well, let's think about that. G times an H plus B groups with operation times in G and plus in H. The important thing to realize is the binary operation times only works on elements of G, while plus only works on elements of H. And so the union, G union H, will contain elements for which times is undefined and will contain elements for which plus is undefined. And we'll have no idea how to handle expressions like A times X if A is an element of G and X is an element of H. Unions are useful. Well, OK, at least not for algebraic structures. On the other hand, remember that a Cartesian product takes elements from two sets and forms an ordered pair, and this suggests the following. Let G and H be groups with operations times and plus, respectively. The direct product of G and H, typically written G times H, is a set of ordered pairs, G H, where G is an element of our group G and H is an element of our group H, where we define the operation plus by, in other words, we operate on the elements of the ordered pair using the appropriate binary operation. And remember, there are only so many symbols. We have to recycle them. So this circle plus is a way that we can indicate that this is a new type of operation, but we shouldn't rely on having new symbols for every operation. And in fact, we'll adopt the convention that the binary operation is always understood and used juxtaposition. So AB plus CD will write as ACBD, where it's assumed we'll use the correct binary operation from each of the two different groups. Now, of course, the question you've got to ask is, do we actually have a group? And so we'll prove that if G and H are groups, the direct product is also a group. So our binary operation is closed and associative, and we'll leave the proof of closure and associativity to the viewer. To find an identity, we need some element X, Y in our Cartesian product, where for any G and H, we have GH plus XY still gives you GH, and also XY plus GH still gives you GH. Now, our definition of this binary operation tells us that the left-hand side here is GXHY or XGYH. And in order for these two Cartesian products to be equal, they have to be equal component-wise. So here on the left-hand side, we have GX must equal G and also XG must equal G. And this can happen if X is the identity element of G. And similarly, if we look at these second components, we see that HY must be H and likewise YH must be H. And so that tells us that Y must be the identity in H. And so the Cartesian product G cross H must have identity, e.g. EH, where EG and EH are the identities of G and H, respectively. Now, we have closure, associativity, and identity, and all we need at this point is an inverse. So if G and H are elements of our Cartesian product, then the inverse is also an element of our Cartesian product. And again, we'll leave the proof of the presence of the inverse to the viewer.


Good morning, Hank. It's Wednesday. It's Pizzamas! We've just come from the Save the Children Gala. I met Jennifer Garner. That was weird. And I... But she seemed cool. Uh, stood nearby Olivia Wilde. It could be a gala. Or a gala. Do you want to answer some questions that people just sent? John Green, what is your opinion on lamps? I am opposed to them. I love lamp. Debate over the best kind of chocolate. White, milk or dark. I don't know if this is going to be a debate, but I actually have a very strong opinion. So, let's just do this one, two, three. One, two, three. Dark! Oh, thank God! Because we were about to not be brothers anymore. Will there ever be Dear Hank and John merch? That's what the world is missing is Dear Hank and John merch. You know what kind of merch we do have? Pizza John merch. And now, only for a couple more days! At dftba.com. Pizza Miss merch. It's like suits. But mostly t-shirts. Actually, you know what? I was wearing shoelaces. But the whole time. He likes to keep me close to his heart. John, do your best impression of your favorite dinosaur. We don't know what dinosaurs sounded like. It's true. Bleh! It might be. It might be. I'm glad you made, at least you made a noise. That was a depoticus. My favorite dinosaur. But we don't know if that's what they sounded like. Bleh! We don't know. We have no, we have no. Bleh! We have no, we have no.  There it is like, But I like that dog from that, that thing on Tumblr. Hop-hop-hop-hop-hop-hop-pada-da-da. Rosie on it took away my Tumblr Password so I don't know what's happening on Tumblr anymore. Haga-da-bak-aga-ga. Sounds funny. It's, it's pretty funny. Why didn't you take away my Tumblr Password? There are so many lovely things happening. Haga-da-papa. Nicole's question is, What are your holiday traditions? Say what we're thankful for. Oh, our mom always puts tremendous pressure on us. And then there's a great deal of pressure. To come up with like a new thing that we're thankful for So if I say like I'm thankful for my kids Mom will always say no no no no no You said that in 2011 Hahahaha That I'll have to think of something new that I'm thankful for And I'm 38, you know? Yeah 38 years of having to be grateful Yeah, you know I take individual foods Hahahaha This year I'm thankful for green beans God, I'm so grateful for cranberries Where would we be without them as a species? Yeah, roughly, yeah, exactly the same place But where would cranberries be? They would be dead Uh, like 40% of species which we've eliminated in the last 500 years Go team! Actually, no That was not an appropriate high five Well, I mean 99.9% of species that have existed no longer exist Right, but uh Usually not so rapidly We've eliminated more in the last 400 years than in the previous million Yeah Yeah, we're roughly on par with an asteroid We are killing it Oh, literally Hank, can you please describe the meaning of life From the perspective of a chicken?  I met my wife, she lived across a uh A desert A continent hallway An ocean From my dorm room Alright, room service is here, we have to go Hank, thank you for being awesome I like your time, by the way Welcome, I got it at Banana Republic DFTBA, I will see you right now and also tomorrow


Welcome to our yearly traditional Blender Network Presentation I think I see more people than than usual and that's it's very fun I'm very curious to know why you guys are here as a matter of fact Our plan is to keep this presentation very short and to ask you a lot of questions actually to try to make this as much of a discussion as possible So this is the Blender Network you can actually see it right in front of you. It's a world network of Blender professionals our mission is to connect Blender professionals and As you can see in Europe, there are a lot of Blender professionals and you know, you can have There is education. There is companies. There is single freelancers. There is people in every single state in Europe In average is many more people in Europe than in the US. That is interesting fact that we always observe and also in other continents, but That's still it has grown in the past Since the past currently we are around 250 I think Members which is Which is great. We are really happy with the level and with the quality of the profiles that are there Because the whole point of the network is to make sure that it stays and it is a List of highly qualified people that are really good at what they do So that then when we send people to this network, whatever profile they click on whatever they search for They will find someone that we trust and someone that knows how Blender works and that knows how to work with it In whatever context for whatever project they might be needed for So this year we worked on a few things to improve the website that now Pablo is going to walk you through but Mostly we've been doing our usual work of supporting users Which is we get a lot of incoming requests of support. How does Blender work? How do I render the default cube and they send these questions to The Blender network support and we answer all of them because it's very important that people who reach out to a Blender and Blender Connected Organization they get an answer and Sometimes the answer that I would like to send is something else that what we actually send but We actually send very helpful answers Okay, anyway, I will give it to Pablo so he's going to talk more about what we did for our users and for people who browse the website Hello there So the main thing that that we work on this this year on a technical level Was that we we had last year when we this this talk we had I think way less than we were more around the 200 Profiles and then we noticed like when people were browsing the website They're a bit slow like you could see a little bit of the profile, but you couldn't really see Like the skills or they are the gallery a quickly see the gallery of the people big part of the Blender network is artists and they have pretty cool picture So we wanted to show that so what we did is a first flow based Search and listing that we first implemented on the jobs list that is our It's the most visited website part of the website is a job support. So we applied it here as well so what you see is basically the the same kind of filtering that we had before now you can also filter by Certified trainers. So if you go to the bottom you can choose if you are a certified trainer and you can also limit by The skills they have and then If they work online, that's also very important There's a lot of people that apply to the network and say but I'm not really looking for work Should I be on the Blender network and yes, the answer is yes you can just say that you're not available for work right now, but It's important that your your face is out there, especially if you're academic if you're doing training and you're working in a new university or Research for example, that's very important So what I know that guy. Yes So what we did is like what is my internet is terrible here, but basically it's a way that you can Pre-review yeah, you can not visit the profile. It's just preview If you can keep clicking you can just keep loading and let it a little bit of the What what they got at what this profile is about Without actually going to visit the whole profile and then you can visit. Oh nice Coming and this is twice. I like it so much that I put it twice But then you can hold visit the whole profile, of course and with this thing in mind is flow-based Listing we also apply it to jobs search All right, so keep talking the jobs list this year last year we was around the same but this year We've seen a growth on full-time jobs offers people are looking for full-time Blender everything the from artists to generalists to Animators as well. So the full-time as you can see here. These are all recent. There is like October September September August. They're all full-time works jobs applications for There's one in in Russia. There was so like the planetarium was was looking. That's super cool I really wish I was either Russian or Close by because working on a planetarium doing like space stuff with Blender. That's what I see pretty cool Full-time even so That is pretty exciting. This is something we We didn't see a lot in the past and now we see it and it's great So the the technical side is similar that the browsing is so similar to what we always explaining on the the professionals page but basically you can you can go and click back click back click back on all the job applications that you have here and The maybe we can show the list of yes slash BST That has a special extra filter for pre for Continent so the way you can see it trainers When when I came to Europe it was the first time it surprised me how close everything is You just fly a couple hours and so having this is very important if you can get trainers from From within a few hours from where you live So there is 28 currently 28 Blender Foundation certified trainers in Europe and we need to keep working and bringing more people to Africa and South America Okay, so at this point Let's talk about the real deal so Here it is so Our system for joining the Blender network has been the same since we took over it a few years ago And we have these three different memberships that everybody pretty much knows of and We Think that this is still a fair rate for people to join the academic Process is a bit more elaborate than simply just clicking to join There is a more in depth review So we really make sure the people who apply for academic have an academic background They work with teaching or they do research. There's really legit academic people and In the other cases, of course, also we check that people are actual professionals, but the main point is We have been thinking of ways to improve this how to make the network more inclusive how to reach out to more users and While this system is good for classifying people, maybe it's not the best way So we are thinking of alternatives because sometimes people are Free Lancers, but sometimes people they just Are working on something for a company, but they still want to be on the network because maybe they want to be a Speaker of the conference one day or they want to share their professional work somehow But if but right now they don't have the chance and we've been through a few brainstorms thinking of ways to make this better and It very quickly tends to become something like let's make the network fee for everyone to join Everyone can get a profile and then you can just be there if you want to be really a professional You can be up there and it sounds very exciting. It's like you build your own Blender Facebook But in the end is this really what we want to do because the mission and what the Blender network is is the Biggest network of Blender professional so the people who join should be professional should have a professional mission And so how do we make this work and we don't know yet? We've been we are working on it We are thinking about it But we want to take the chance that there is a room full of people here to actually ask why you are not on the Blender network Yes, okay, that's right who is on the Blender network right now and Now all of you other guys and girls why are you now? Okay, so as you can see like this not everybody's there and that we would really like to know the reasons and to Understand that and also we are super happy to hear feedback from you about it so If you have any comment Don't be shy. We would love to hear from you. So let's get started I'm just not good enough in the program. I'm very good for making stories designing things and Designing puppets designing animals, whatever you want, but I'm not very good at the program itself That's why I'm here to connect with people who are better at the program than I am but maybe less in making stories That is actually a great point because Yeah, lots of people. Yeah, okay. I will let's let's let people talk. I stop talking I have two thoughts about the Blender network because being there already for few years is just like having something like business card I'm plugged in the network. I have my small portfolio there I'm there but there is after those first steps. No, not much there So maybe there will be needed some kind of for the structure for example for joining two different parties Not only by simple relation. I'm working with him But also we can collaborate on higher level. That's the one thought and another one No, thank you for that another one is maybe we should have there something like tags or badges and This will all you allow you to just create something like not only three types of account But also mixed accounts. Maybe somebody is on academic level like I for example I'm working for the university and I would like to have some kind of academic account there, but I'm also Another one. I'm a freelancer there So this too, I don't know if they could exist both of them if you take some something like tags It could work this way. Okay, so that's two for two cents for me. Okay. Thank you here I am working with Blender full-time in a game studio and But I don't really see any Because I don't I don't really have time to work. I don't see the benefit of joining the the network Just Why I'm here that when if I'm like joined for 50 bucks a year, it's not a lot But I don't see a reason to be there if I'm like busy with work even when I'm professional Yeah, that's a very valid point. We seen that in the past if I'm not looking for work Why would I want to be there? Why would I want to show show it off there? there is There in this case for example, you're at the Blender conference you are here to learn you're also for networking Maybe you're you want to see people that are working on the same on the same topic or in the same area or in the same Things that you're doing, right? Well, the blender network is like the online version of that So you're not looking for work. You're not available to travel There is like options there that you can you can enable then we can we want to make this a bit Maybe more more clear it may be just hide the option completely or maybe just have a different listing But the fact that you are doing something with Blender Even though you're not looking for work or anything It's Awesome to have it out there and it's great to have it here at the Blender conference and other people can see it Maybe you can give a talk about it or lining talk, but having an online place where you can actually point people and One day we we can build these sort of groups That connect people that they're not looking for work, but they connect them right there that they can share I mean their research they're doing or Documentation that they're working on so it does it's not really just for like looking for work or applying for work But just get people together and get get to get them out there that they're doing awesome stuff with Blender There's someone in the back someone over there Thanks, have you guys ever thought about having some kind of like an enthusiast level? like between academic and professional and maybe even have some kind of a credit system for Support where they buy credits to get extra support well this kind of Can turn a little bit the network itself into What already is becoming which is a bit of a support platform for For anyone that is using Blender so finding a way for people to be there It's it's important and that's one of the things I was mentioning earlier like not everybody fits those categories So yeah, we've been thinking about it, but we don't know yet how to make it work. So it's a good point Okay, next Thank you. You actually already Replied to this by your mail, but since I'm here I'm gonna tell it So me I recently Subscribed to the network, but it took me it took me some time because what What bugged me it's it was the fact that I had to pay for it and Also What I really like about this website is the map because In my area there are really not many professionals and I think also it would be I agree with Piotr Piot that it would be cool to have a free account maybe Not professional account, but it could also be Ignored in a research like when you're hiring you you're looking for only professionals you can uncheck the box for enthusiasts for example and This will this would maybe bring more people so that we would have a bigger map and So that professionals can also make connections with non-professionals, but it's still useful to build your network this way Okay Yes, yes, like that's indeed we discussed this previously. So it's a good point I don't know overall how you how you guys feel about it and if there are oh, yeah, sorry Now what I was thinking like as was mentioned as well having some sort of basic account where people Can't necessarily apply for a job where they can just showcase their work But maybe that could work with like a one-time donation just to be a part of the network So you guys still get some funding out of it Because I do think for people that want to join but just kind of want to look around a bit I think 50 euros is a lot more than Yeah, I mean I'll put it this way There's a lot of websites out there that like you showcase your work for free obviously So maybe that's an idea just to have like a separate tab that doesn't show up when people are looking for professionals So you don't show up in that list because you're not necessarily available for work Yeah, that's similar to what he was saying that having a part of the Being part of the network and showing it on a map even though they're not professional You can highlight the profession highlight the professional differently, but that's something we we had in mind and we put a lot of thought into it and Might become a reality because it happened in the past there is this website like meetups dot something That is for meetups, right that you put there your email and they put advertisement and stuff And then you you get that's you get the meetings there set up and that's great We also have an events part of the of the network where we we is more of course Blender focused but Having a place that maybe just not for professional for our entusiasm how I want to get together and want to see people around them That thing is that's pretty pretty important their websites where people there is that the how is he called it the website that where You can see in a Google map Everybody like the Blender users. There wasn't Blender artist. It was the thread about it Blender world user map. Yes, something like that. I remember like ten years ago I added myself there in the south of Argentina and I was pretty excited because then you could see people even though I was 15 years old and I wasn't really like a I wasn't 15 in 10 years ago. It's a bit more ago but All right, but it was pretty exciting for me to see my little bubble there as a Blender user and see other people that Actually were in the area using Blender So I think that that is something that maybe that it fits completely here. It's not but of the the professionals People are actually making a living with Blender But it's important for for networking because one day these people are going to start making a living with Blender and then They become professional Like the single donation could keep it from turning into Facebook basically You know as much as everybody uses Facebook or whatever. It's not a great website for that kind of stuff or professional stuff I think LinkedIn has sort of turned into Facebook as well a little bit So I think it might sort of be a good Little gate to keep the people out that don't necessarily have the best intentions or aren't really that into it in the first place Yes, I mean the We we really We will look at this like we have to seriously think about it and how to make it How to make it how to change it? Maybe maybe we really it changes a little bit the meaning and In the past, you know, we've been thinking about if the I'm doing in the network was for free but then you still have a selection process like would that help and things like that so we we want to keep the website fresh and working and Offering a platform for people to meet that that's important. But one thing that This is a big a big problem for us is half because we can push the website, you know Like we can we can make it larger and we can make it more inclusive and get the whole Blender community there But is that really what our mission is like it doesn't mean connecting Blender professional connecting Blender Users with each other or we should also just try to reach out and connect them with the rest of the world too Because Blender is growing and that's what is important Like do we want the Blender network to be a place for people that come from the outside that are looking for Blender expertise? Blender TD is Blender trainers because they're switching to Blender like we get so many emails so many support requests from big studios They'll actually want to switch to Blender and they don't know how do I do it? Which you know, they stay subscribed to training websites because that's the best kind of training they can find But you know, if you get an in-house trainer in one week of in-house training You can probably get a lot out of that then subscribe into a website for example and So if we want to be ready for that then that's a different dynamic So this is also something that I think is very important for the future of the network that we keep in mind that we are actively doing right now And that is really invisible because everybody here knows each other Here at the Blender conference everybody is Blender Blender focus then is good and Blender is becoming bigger and bigger every day Not just because of this but because people from the outside see us for what for the community that we are and for what Blender can achieve and More people join and more people talk to each other and that's the that's the most important part. They think So, yeah Which is to close that that topic I think the donation could help in a way, but we're still not prevent from having Professors unless you leave it in a way you just allow it. I don't know name and location which is what the the world map thingy Used to have I think that maybe that that is a Maybe that's a good way to go and then in professionals could pay At the the bid extra for having their own gallery and everything in there on on their on the actual professionals listing But yeah, maybe that could be one way to go because as Francesco was saying it's not only a selection But also a rejection Process that we go through like every week we get plenty of some missions and we have to go through all of them sometimes translate Whatever they are writing and see if they're legit seer. Okay their website there if they're active on social media like Like everybody that is on the on the network is actually we go through the process of seeing their work Asking them again, maybe they they submitted. I don't know 10 pictures and eight of them were maybe not as good It's okay to remove those eight leave the best ones and just like there is a selection process that goes through it So if you open that for everybody then it will be just way too much work for the blender foundation and when they're into to take Care of so maybe just allowing Yeah, maybe then the name on the location Maybe that's one way of and maybe like a tagline or something that would be a good way of Including those people and then giving that extra for the people that want to be more visible Jenna Okay, so It's this sort of question. It's kind of like an idea Maybe the website in some way should be more focused on the artist's work So have kind of like a common gallery that is I don't know with boats from other artists because what I Feel about it is like it's a little bit disconnected from the outside world Like if you go to art station, all you see is like fantastic work from the artists that are there And then you can contact them or see more work from them and here you start like okay technical part, right? But then if you encounter a website that has work doesn't matter with it It is it from then you can get in and then be more interesting hiring these people But you go through the process the the other way around here, right? So you need to know what you're looking for and then you start looking for profiles and if you showcase more work Maybe this will connect more blender artists to more work because I think one of the reasons that people are not getting into the blender Network is because even though it's cool and it's growing It's still not attracting much employers or much more people to be interested in like I've been in the network for three years I think and I see like every every single time that there's any job I go inside and and look for it But we still get like one or two postings or maybe more a month But still not enough to keep it flowing and to be and to say like okay This is really really worth paying because I don't care pay 50 euros a year If I'm getting like one job a month from it, right? But when when it's not really working that way that much I think it needs to get more exposed and bring people because It's good that there's professionals there only professional work But it needs to connect with the outside world the ones that demands this professional work so yeah, I Think we we had that in mind once to make a special like a wall right now on the front page of the of the network you have a A feature profile that sort of it Kind of has that idea But maybe the whole world could have a grid of pictures like our station that you were saying But that will have to be curated manually I guess have to be like go through every picture and then just like say okay This picture is cool this one doesn't that one and then just build a wall Yeah, yeah, it could be coded by the other people just way by making them But how do you prevent people from you know like fraud like so there has to be some work than there But yeah, it's a it's I think it's a valid point. There is also why we shouldn't forget about academics and Developers developers there are developers here here. I see a developer this on the network So I think we should also or maybe they could post good pictures about their their work But yeah, we should try to include everybody and it's a good idea Okay, well our time is is up. Unfortunately. I thank you very much for joining us and If you have any question, we are going to be around we are around in the open studio on Monday So if you want to give us more suggestion if you want to talk if you want to be in the Blender network Please just talk to us any moment. We are super happy to hear from you. Thank you very much


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Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we are going to discuss the following question and the question says that, find area of triangle where angle B is equal to 52 degrees, A is equal to 43 centimeters, C is equal to 54 centimeters. We know that the area K of any triangle A, B, C is one half the product of the length of two sides and the sign of the included angle that is if we have this triangle A, B, C with sides A, B and C opposite to the angles A, B and C respectively then area K is given by 1 by 2 into BC sign A which is equal to 1 by 2 into AB sign C which is equal to 1 by 2 into AC sign B. With this key idea we shall proceed to the solution. We are given a triangle ABC where angle B is equal to 52 degrees length of side BC which is denoted by A is equal to 43 centimeters and length of side AB which is denoted by C is equal to 54 centimeters. We have to find its area. Now C we are given A and C and the included angle B so we can use result of area of triangle that is K is equal to 1 by 2 into AC sign of angle B. Now if we put the values of AC and angle B we get 1 by 2 into 43 into 54 into sign of 52 degrees which is equal to 43 into 27 into sign of 52 degrees. Now this is further equal to 43 into 27 into now using calculator we find the value of sign of 52 degrees and that is 0.78 so this is equal to 43 into 27 that is 1,161 into 0.78 which is approximately equal to 905.58 so area of triangle is 905.58 square centimeters approximately which is the required answer. This completes our session. Hope you enjoyed this session.