How are you today? All right this month my design team for 2018 has come up with some fabulous ideas. I wanted to get come on camera and share with you the new teams links which are in the description below and we are doing a bunch of different projects this year including collaborations one of whom is with none other than Miss Shannon Green and we each have her custom keepers this is actually the big one I actually have three of them. Can you tell who I like them? I have this big one that I wanted to show you on camera because it's already decorated and I have two that I've purchased from her and they're both about the same size this is one of them the other one's out in the front room I'm not going to go get it right now but this one's been painted the other one's not and collaged on and you know what it worked really well I put some rub-ons on here and then I I did seal the whole thing and you know it's held up pretty well to being opened and closed and you know shoved into different places and it's wearing a little bit on the spine and cracking a little bit on the spine can you see that but it's not too bad and you know I like when my journals get distressed anyway she did send each one of the design team a small pocket-sized one and these this is how they come when you buy them from her they don't come with the elastic tied so that you can take the elastic out decorate the cover if you so choose and then put the elastic back this one fits as you can see this is an eight and a half by eleven piece of paper fold it in half then fold it in half again it fits right in here and it comes with directions on how to tie it you also usually get some sort of packet of little you know goodies her business card and things when you buy any of her custom keepers so anyway each one of the design team members got one of her little custom keepers and a bunch of various things from my Etsy shop along with a stamp set of their choosing and stencils to have some fun with and we had so we have some new stamp sets for 2018 this is number 12 the undersea theme I love the turtle he's my favorite number 13 number 14 and the big hit so far number 15 so the design team members got to choose from one of the new sets or the old sets I have 15 total stamp sets now and they got to choose from new and old stencils I did create one custom special stencil for the team and that will be available to the public for purchase shortly probably February 1st it's not yet but they're all going to share with you I think or some of them at least are and anyway I want you to check out the video description for their links check out their channels check out their videos they've come up with some great projects and you know support them like share and subscribe if you want to buy any of my stamps or stencils you can in my Etsy shop the link is in the video description there's a link down there that says link tree and then slash my name if you click on that you're going to find every place I am on the internet you'll find the link to my PayPal tip jar if you want to tip me to support the free content here on YouTube and over on Facebook you'll find my Amazon wishlist you'll find my website my Etsy store my I think my link I think my LinkedIn resume which hasn't been updated in a while but I think the link is there you get the idea my Facebook link is there for all my groups my Instagram my Twitter all of it so if you click on that you're going to find all my links I want to also share with you really quick that in my custom keeper I have these random notebooks that I've had in my stash or I don't even know how long some of which were gifted to me and I decided to put them all in here I can fit four of them in here I probably could actually fit one more and I've been going through with some of my stamps old and new and just randomly stamping the pages to put something on the page and I don't know yet if I'm going to use this journal for writing or for our journaling I don't know yet but I like the idea of going through all of these notebooks and taking some time and just using my stamped images on here and so I've been using archival ink and black archival ink so it works really well and as you can see you get some ghosting through to the back but it's not too bad I can work with that and for the most part because this paper is thin I would probably be doing single sided pages anyway so it's fine all right that's it for today don't forget to check out those links like I said in the description and to do the most important thing go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it maybe shop in my Etsy shop or over in Shannon's I'll link her store in the description below too that's it for right now see you later bye guys


Hey Psych2goers, welcome back to another video. To start off, we would like to thank you for all the support you've given us. Psych2go's mission is to make psychology and mental health more accessible to everyone. Now back to the video. Have you ever put someone down for their appearance or intellect? Emotional abuse is one of the more common forms of abuse that uses behavioral or emotional tactics to gain a sense of control or to maintain the upper hand in a relationship. It may be subtle and hard to recognize since it often gets swept under the rug as just a part of normal disagreements. Before we begin, we would like to mention that this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended to offend or trigger any of our audiences. This video is created so that anyone who sees themselves in these behaviors can use this information to improve their relationships and lives. With that said, here are 7 signs you might be emotionally abusive. Number one, you jokingly insult people. Have you ever made a joke with the intention of hurting the person you're making fun of? While family and friends may enjoy playful banter with each other, teasing and playful put-downs can end up crossing the line into emotional abuse when the jokes become aggressive and used intentionally to send a negative and hurtful message across. This especially applies when you continue teasing the person or brush it off as only a joke, even though they've told you to stop and that your comments have become hurtful. Number two, you dismiss others' feelings. Have you ever purposefully ignored or dismissed how someone felt because you thought they deserved it? Every day life can sometimes be so hectic you lose sight of what's happening in other people's lives. After all, you can't know how your loved ones are feeling all the time. But not recognizing someone's feelings may become emotionally abusive when you tell them their feelings are wrong or that they have no right to be so upset. This psychological invalidation of brushing someone's feelings off as irrelevant or dramatic can lead to feelings of rejection, alienation, and depression. Number three, you like to embarrass others. Do you bring up someone's embarrassing moments to make them feel guilty or ashamed? Have you ever humiliated someone out of anger or because you feel threatened? It's one thing to laugh about the past moments in a fun and loving way, but this may quickly become emotional abuse when you go out of your way to humiliate them as a way of punishment or reminder that you are the one in control in your relationship.  Number four, you like to push buttons. Did you know that constantly doing and saying things to get others to react is also a form of emotional abuse? Doing unpredictable things to keep the other person on their toes can be a form of emotional abuse. Instead of being spontaneous to do things you both enjoy, you may use this unpredictable tactic to say or do things to purposefully anger and upset them, especially in front of other people. This may include broadcasting a secret they told you in confidence or making social media posts you know that will trigger them. Number five, you tell people their version of reality is wrong. Have you ever dismissed someone's experience as imagined? Gaslighting is a psychological term for negating someone else's reality and it involves intentionally using someone's words, feelings, or actions against them. The goal is to completely discredit anything the other person has to say so that the abuser can maintain control over the narrative. This may include telling them they are crazy, accusing them of lying or making decisions for them without their input. Number six, you use your emotions to get people to do what you want.  Expressing your emotions can be great for your mental health. Appropriate self-expression facilitates open communication and prevents many resentments. However, unleashing your emotions becomes destructive when you use it to manipulate another person. This may include impulsive shouting or screaming, using threats or ultimatums, blaming them for fights you started or using information they've told you in confidence against them to maintain control and power. Number seven, you use silence as a weapon. Are you the type who deals with conflict by shutting down and running the other direction? Have you ever used the silent treatment on others to get what you want? Emotional withholding, a form of emotional abuse that involves using affection, validation, love, and praise against someone is a form of emotional abuse that includes what you might know as the silent treatment. Although it's normal for any relationship to go through periods of silence, it may become abusive when you start to use it as a way to punish, control, or manipulate. Withholding affection or positive emotion through the silent treatment is a toxic way to gain the upper hand in any relationship. This also includes talking to everyone about the issue except the other person involved or wanting the other person to feel bad or guilty. Do you relate to any of the signs mentioned here? If so, what do you plan to do next? Tell us in the comments below. If you find this video insightful, please like and share it with others who may benefit from it. Don't forget to subscribe to Psych2Go and hit the notification bell icon for more psychology content. All the references used are also added in the description box below. Thank you for watching and we'll see you in our next video.


Hey guys welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food and in our household it is me and my husband and our six-month-old baby. I typically cook five to six times per week just depending on the amount of leftovers that we have and we are kicking off another week of What's for Dinner with a quick and easy recipe that I used to make all the time and then I stopped for some reason but it is rice-a-roni casserole and so for this recipe you're going to need a box of rice mix I am using a store brand beef flavored rice mix of course rice-a-roni is the name brand and then you're also going to need some ground beef which I've already cooked up this is just a pound of ground beef and then you're going to need some fried onions and you're going to need some cream of mushroom soup and you're also going to need some cheddar cheese so all I'm going to do now that I have prepared the beef rice mix according to package directions is add in my ground beef in my can of cream of mushroom soup I'm going to stir that in in I'm going to add in about half of this can of french-fried onions so this is a six ounce container so I'm going to add half of that into the mixture and then I'm going to put this into a sprayed casserole dish probably an 11 by seven or eight I'm not sure I'm gonna put it in there and then I'm going to top it with some more of the or the rest of the french-fried onions and some cheddar cheese and I'm going to bake it it's so quick and easy I'll show you guys what it looks like when it comes out of the oven I have another recipe that I recently recorded a video for and I'll make sure to link it in the description box and also in the cards above is a Texas barbecue rice skillet similar to this and that it uses a box rice mix as the base so if you like if you think you'll like this dish that I'm cooking today you'll probably like the other recipe as well so I'll go ahead and link it for you guys but I am going to mix this up and pop it in the oven and then I'll show you guys what it looks like okay guys so here is the casserole I baked this for about 25 minutes uncovered in the oven 350 degrees and this is what it looks like on the inside when I cut it open and this is Howard's plate right here and with it I'm just serving some green beans these are the green beans from all these and all I do is just stir fry them in a skillet with some olive oil and I season them with garlic salt so this is a quick and easy meal and this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time hey guys I thought I would pop in really quick to show you guys what I'm having for breakfast I picked up this ego french toast from Kroger on my last haul and I'll make sure to link it in the description box and also in the cards above but I mentioned that I really like this french toast and I haven't been able to find it for months so I thought I would show you what it looks like so here it is on my plate so the directions on the package say to put it in the microwave or in the oven and I always grill mine so here it is excuse the pan it had butter in it and that's what I fried my french toast in so I make it just like I'm making regular french toast yes of course I could make my own french toast but I don't always have butter milk or bread in the house so I am having my french toast with some butter I'm going to add some on top and then I always use maple syrup I've been using maple syrup for years I haven't used table syrup in a long time and let me show you this is the one from Costco and you keep it in the fridge and I just pop it in the microwave so that it's nice and warm and then I'm just having some pre-cooked bacon so this is what I'm having for breakfast today um if you like french toast I definitely think you'll like this they have the classic and then they also have a brown sugar and I do not like the brown sugar at all it does not taste the same as the classic so anyway this is what I'm having for breakfast today and I'll see you guys for dinner hey guys so we are having a quick and easy meal tonight we are having just some beans and rice and so I have well I try to keep canned beans in my pantry so I'm using some pinto beans tonight I got these from Aldi but I also have black beans I have black eyed peas I have filled peas and it's just a quick easy go-to for us of course I do have dried beans as well but when I'm in a hurry all I do is take some canned beans and doctor them up I didn't want to add any meat to these but of course you can add bacon or ham hocks I just decided to use some bouillon that I had in the cabinet this is ham flavor so I use that I also use some onion salt I mean onion powder garlic powder and I also use some seasoning salt as well and I just simmered them down until the sauce got a little bit thick and then I am serving it over some jasmine rice I'm eating first Howard is taking care of Harrison but he is going to add avocado to his he always likes to have avocado with his beans and rice so quick and simple meal tonight beans and rice see you guys next time hey guys so we are back to our freezer for dinner tonight we are having General So's chicken from our freezer and then also these pork egg rolls and they are from Tom Thumb the General So's chicken is from Wynco which is a local grocery store and so here is what it looks like on the plate you just prepare it in the skillet and I am serving mine on top of just some jasmine rice here is the egg roll and the egg rolls come with little four individual little packets of sweet and sour sauce so Howard likes these I probably won't be using one I'm not a fan of sweet and sour so anyway this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time hey guys so for dinner tonight we are having this mama cozy's pizza it is one of the taken baked pizzas from Aldi it is a medium meat pizza with sausage pepperoni beef philly steak meat bacon crumbles four cheeses on a traditional crest this is my first time getting it it's 12 inches 100 cheese I went to Aldi today and I'll make sure to link that grocery haul in the cards above and also in the description box and so I wanted to try this pizza because people have been talking about it for a while and so it's actually really good I'm really impressed with this pizza it cost four dollars and 49 cents you cannot beat that and here it is you bake it on the oven at 375 for 15 to 18 minutes and Howard baked this one for 18 minutes there are five servings in this pizza and we just cut it into fourths and then we split one just to try it on camera I mean just want just to try it to tell you guys what it's like on camera um but we really like it um Howard gave it a three I gave it a four and as you can see all that meat on there there's the philly cheesesteak um well philly steak meat sorry not philly cheesesteak pepperoni sausage bacon I really like it and I would definitely buy this again I'm really impressed with this little pizza so anyway this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time hey guys so for dinner tonight Howard grilled some beef smoked sausage from hillshire farm these were in our freezer and I wanted to use them so five come in a package and here are the rest of them here is my plate all I have on mine is just mustard I just like regular old mustard on mine and then I'm having some cheddar and sour cream chips from winco which is a grocery store around here these were in our pantry and I wanted to use them and here's what the chips look like and then this is Howard's plate now if you've been watching our channel for a while you know that Howard likes a lot of stuff on his sandwiches hot dogs hamburgers you name it he likes a lot of stuff so on the very bottom here we've got some sliced cheddar cheese and then he has some tomato and he has some avocado and then he has some mayo that's it right yep so that's everything that he has on there I can't remember if I said he is having spicy doritos or spicy nacho doritos I should say and these again are in our pantry so this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time


Everybody forest here ripping 2022 flawless baseball hobby two box full case number seven random teams take a look at the results And you can find them anytime at leotensportscards.com Thanks for joining and good luck everybody. See what we got Hold a bat not out of anything in a long time or a barrel barrel be cool too either way No, not at all because they're like they're all they're all game used pieces of that obviously Hey, Yogi, how you doing man every time I ask somebody that tonight. They're like just preparing to freeze Preparing to be frozen Bus here in Florida. I'm like, oh make sure you put on sunscreen today. It's E5 degrees Which is definitely better than negative 30 with one chill.  Yeah, it's probably gonna be sunny too as the front's coming through Chill in the evening. Oh, oh That's a subvert. Yeah, man. Love the love the the bat a name plate the bat barrel name plays There's an extra hit in this it seems like there is that was a really thick box Dual patch for the Mets Vince or Vince Coleman. Yeah, 10 of 10 Go Mets great pads on the left there. Those are game worn It'd be a good night to watch out late in sports cards. I'll tell you that Good day and night on on a Saturday Eddie Murray guardians dual patch nine of ten four colors on the right Eddie Murray as a guardian Be good day to watch the NHL all-star game Vaughn Which is surprisingly low on Bruins Jason Dominguez quad patch or quad relic for a 10 Yankees. That's pretty cool showcase quad relic player worn Let's take a glove top left Rest look like Jersey pieces and maybe a sh maybe a lace right there a shoe lace All right into the autos we go we've got an Emmanuel Rodriguez twins auto two of seven rookie patch auto Tigers Matt Manning seven of 25 Tigers on the RPA the partial that should be the the scripted D Right there. That's pretty sick partial logo essentially Next up dual patch auto red socks and rays Jaren Durand Josh Lowe four of 20 Should be random at the end unless somebody has both teams do a real quick check here Boston is Justin as Tampa Bay is Scott are that's a random at the end Durand and Lowe dual patch out on 20. I saw a family of penguins now We got Corbin burns out on number seven and 25 Brewers Burnsy and a show the gifted sub Yogi appreciate you two of seven quad patch auto Rangers should be a rookie this next year It's Josh young great patches there. I don't know what that one is but that is sick Is that like the inaugural stadium patch? I really do not know Player worn nice Josh young Could be an impact a big impact rookie this year for Texas and Padres on a flawless performance is auto mani machado five of five sweet machado Or as Donnie says mani machado Don't weird that he says it like that, but I guess I do Mani machado diamond guarantee for This Rangers diamond of Corey see here 18 of 20 in RPA pirates O'Neill cruise 11 of 25 three-color patch Pittsburgh Pretty good box there Gregory H with the pirates How you doing AC? Eagles got it. We better Got it. Don't worry See You need you need crews on with on the Yankees with judge and stand Tallest lineup in baseball hits the hardest homers in baseball Yeah, Yankees needs some line of depth for sure. That's probably the only weakness or pitching is fantastic You know quad patch Reds no avi Marte seven of ten the Mariners patches. He was part of the Luis Castillo trade Big time Reds prospect now the lovely Marte quad patch for the Tigers KC my is eight of ten I'm sure what that one is And I probably only player warns up they have of him to put in cards Honestly, especially when flawless being made few a few months ago. I'm guessing. Oh That's pretty cool. That is a Bobfeller Eddie Murray dual patch card to 15 Guardians the Coach Warren feller game Warren Murray. That's really cool 14 to 15 Guardians Yeah, that's probably best case AC is if I mean Volpe should be ready. Hopefully parisa gets more time Donaldson's kind of a clown Triple patch rookie auto 5 by 20 Matt Manning Tigers that guy likes to pimp homeruns that are actually fly balls 5 of 20 Tigers on the Manning God Josiah gray rookie auto 5 out of 10 We're doing pretty well AC. We're doing pretty well. Here we go Yankees blue Jays dual patch auto Luis heal Alec Manoa, that's a cool one as well for some pitchers 15 to 15 I'd imagine that's a random at the end Ryan K with the Yankees and blue Jays is on Han That's a random at the end. Yep guys 11 to go on iMac and mosaic mixer coming up soon First baseball break of the night or basketball break of the night. Excuse me Signature prime materials patch auto Mets Dwight good and that is so cool man 20 of 20 dot good and game Warren patch Mets Peter D. Congrats Peter. That's really cool Padres First home run in Biggs auto 4 of 10 CJ Abrams will follows achievements auto CJ Abrams Good break for the Padres had a Machado and now and now CJ and memorable marks Rocky's auto Larry Walker six of 15 Larry Walker Rocky's Hall of Famer there. There's a diamond guarantee For a USA Baseball Ken Griffey jr. Double Emerald five of five Now to refer to the checklist on this one. I Would imagine it goes Mariners right for if it's if we're going my longest tenure Ken Griffey jr Gem USA parallels yet mariners yep card 73 mariners on this one He only has one auto as a red. So yeah, everything else to be Mariners griffy. It makes sense longest tenure This one there And on the back big show Otani auto one of ten angels Big show with the shoe deal You guys gonna get yourselves a pair of shows there you go premium ink angels. Congrats great-looking autograph Number to ten great card design as well Gold foil premium ink LA angels. Let's see who's got this one Gregory H again. Wow Gregory. Good. Good job, man Both in case hits went to Gregory H That's awesome, man two randoms Not gonna recap this one really quick break not gonna recap this one. No way. We don't do flawless All right First one is Yankees blue jays the 15 Louise heel and Alec Munoz dual patch auto and the one after that is Red Sox Rays Gerard Durand and Josh Lowe dual patch auto to 20. Good luck Four and one five times Trevor teams are up top Will get the cards one two three four and five Yankees up top and five times on the next one one two three four and five Rays up top That's gonna do it. Thanks again everybody We got more baseball coming up


Welcome folks, we have the Dow Industries finish up 211, NASDAQ up 87, S&Ps up 28, and we take a look at this market. What you're going to see out here is we go to the comp first, bottom on you get a bounce out here, you get the bounces on light volume and what we did have inside the comp as well as the NDX100 folks is that you absolutely have a failure. And what that means is this, you got higher than the high of yesterday and then you closed underneath it. It couldn't even bounce over the high of yesterday, so we hit 7776 inside the NASDAQ comp, we closed out at 7734, 7760 was the high of yesterday. We go look at the NDX100, you're going to see the same type of setup inside the NDX100, we got to a price point of 7449, you closed at 7401, 7433 was the number. In both cases, bottom line couldn't even hold price at that level and when you're talking about volume, you're talking about the contraction of volume that's pretty dramatic. 73 million shares inside the SPI versus downtown of 127 versus what you're going into is 103. We take a look at the NDX100, you're going to see the same type of setup out here. 39 million shares versus downtown yesterday of 67 versus what you're going into is 55. It's a classic B to C of a potential ABC structure on the way down. Now what has happened, and this is where it's going to be really wild, actually when you take a look at this SPI, what you actually see is that we're still on a one-way route on the way down because we've had a couple other bounces along the way here, but bottom line as it pulled off, it couldn't handle it. We had the bounce out here on Friday, but bottom line gets up to 282 and just gives it up in spades. So bottom line, I expect the existing lower price is still coming at you. Gold contract. Gold contract was down $5.40, you had light volume on that pullback there. Notes and bonds still want higher price. It's going to be pretty amazing watching how these notes and bonds are shake out. What we have out here, I have no idea what just happened here, but I think I do because what happened is I know I was getting an upgrade and a Bloomberg, but this is so cool it just happened. Yeah, so now I'm getting all different cheats. Anyway, so notes and bonds, 10-year note traded down $1.30 a bond was down $5, both light volume. Bottom line, higher price, lower yield coming at you. Stay right there, folks. We'll get some numbers coming out after the close. It's going to be coming right back.


The Huddle with corporate cars delivering affordable luxury European vehicles nationwide. It is now 20-6, Josie Pagani is with us. Hello Josie. Hi Larry. Cameron Slater not quite set for a start Josie, so yes he is, here he is, just hold on. And Cameron Slater from Whale Oil has turned up, hello Cam. Hi Larry, how are you? Josie, Malaysia Airlines MH370 going missing, crashed, plane broke up, terrorism attack, we just don't know and it's all a mystery, what's your take on this? Well that's the thing, no one seems to have any new information, so we're all just grasping at straws literally and the biggest straw that we've got to grasp is these supposedly four false passports, at least two we know for certain. And it does seem extraordinary doesn't it, I know you've been saying this but the fact that we go through all this airline security, you take your shoes off, you get your nail scissors confiscated, constantly upending your makeup bag and yet you can get on a plane with a false passport that's not referenced checked with Interpol's list of, what was it, a billion passports last year I think Larry that were on Interpol's list. No no, it was about 39 minutes, around 40 million Cameron, I think that seems to be a very concerning issue and from what we can make out immigration here is not connected to that database, I mean they haven't told us they're connected, so what do you make of it all? Well the thing with the aircraft, these 777s have been around for a long time, I think this actual airframe is about 11 years old in this case, is not likely to have a catastrophic era at two hours into a flight, that's cruise time, even if engines fail you've got time to make calls and do those sort of those things before the plane falls into the water, so it's suggested it's some sort of massive catastrophic failure that didn't allow the crew to make calls, that then coupled with the false passport starts thinking like it's some sort of calculated terror act or something like that, but again no one's claimed any responsibility, terrorists usually like to Skype about these things. Yes, if it was a terrorist attack you want the links to be found, so the other option I suppose is that it's illegal immigrants who are using these stolen passports trying to, and I mean Southeast Asia is known to be the biggest booming market for stolen passports. They don't tend to blow up planes with themselves on it though. No, there is one President Kam of, I think it was in 2009, the Air New Zealand flight that crashed tragically and many people were killed then, that was mechanical failure and that was... Yes I know, but it was also on approach to landing and those... That's when these catastrophic things happen in approaches to landing while taking off. What's so interesting about it was that it was in cruise mode which is, as you say, very unlikely and also what happened was that it took months and months to find the debris and I think a year before they found the black box or the data. One thing people haven't been asking about is whether or not it's a missile strike and of course they're flying over a hotly contested South China Sea and the area that's in dispute with China and Vietnam and Indonesia and the Philippines all disputing that particular area. It is possible... Well actually, it's interesting you should say that because I think it was in the 1980s, wasn't it, where the US accidentally shot down an Iran air flight and again, 290 people were killed. When the Russians of course shot down the Korean air flight as well. Yes, yes, so that has happened, these things have happened. But the weather was good, so it's not the weather that was apparently blue skies. It seems unlikely it's a mechanical failure, but you just don't know. Alright, we'll come back in a moment to Joseph Begani, Cameron Slater with me, News Talks at B, it is now 16 to 6. It's election year and it's Larry Williams drive with ANZ, the bank with more local experts on News Talks at B. Cameron Slater and Joseph Begani on the Huddle, Cameron issue number two election date is September 20 earlier rather than later for obvious reasons. What do you see? Well, I think John Key's been quite cunning about this. He's picked a date that allows the government to be formed in time for the G20. Or G21 as people are liking to call it. But more importantly in the key date here is Parliament Rises on July 31st. Now what that signals is that National is planning on running basically a long campaign. It's not going to be a six week or a four week campaign. It's going to run from July 31 right through to September 20. And I think that they will basically grind down and wear down the Labour Party over that time just because they can. I think it makes sense to, I like this tradition of letting people know early as early as possible. And it makes sense from National's point of view to call the election this week. It's been a bad week for Labour. And September the 20th. Again, I agree that John Key today talked about a September to September cycle which does actually make sense as Cam said. So I think look it's better that we all know we can all plan. We can plan our holidays to go way after the election. You get through it. Cameron the other thing is state funding of political parties seems to have read its head again. Labour seems to be angling for this. What do you see in this? They have seen, as when my father was the president he used to constantly battle off with the president of the Labour Party who tried to always do cozy deals with national, get the two biggest parties to agree to state funding of political parties. It's always been Labour's dream to have such a thing. And I think that they've been milking this donations and alleged scandals of drinking milk and all of that. It's designed purely for them to continue that narrative that we should have state funding of political parties. And all that does is protect incumbency and it rewards the existing parties that are in Parliament. And it's bad enough we're funding their media budgets for elections. I just think it needs to be opposed at every step. I actually think we've got the right balance as it exists now. We've been mixed in New Zealand. So the taxpayer funds political parties in Parliament, funds their research. They can phone the Parliamentary Library, funds their activities to go and talk to journalists or go out and meet people and front the public. I think that's all very healthy in a democracy and funding broadcasting too. But it expects parties to go out and win support the hard way and raise your own money. So I think it's a good mix and I don't think we should go about changing it. That's interesting because I just don't think taxpayers should be paying for political parties. I just don't think it's on. I want my tax dollars came from the Green Party. Part of it. I just think you get a balance where you're right. You have to go out and actually win support. So you have to go out and this has all come about because of the Antoine dinner fundraising that John Key had and people paid $5,000 for tickets. And Labour does the same sort of thing. That's right, they have fundraising. Parties have to do it the hard way and that's good. But if your funding think really important stuff like the ability for political parties to do research in Parliament or to pay for air fares to go in front public and actually go eyeball to eyeball with the public, I think that's healthy in a democracy. I think what is outrageous though, Josie, is that the only parties that are allowed to have any allocation for broadcasting are essentially existing parties and there's no ability for a new party and Kim.com is going to find us out very quickly. There's no ability for a new party to purchase broadcasting time on television or on radio that's tightly controlled. Kim.com has paid for his own adverts and we've all seen the back of the bus and TV stuff. If you can go out and raise the money, then go for it. But otherwise, the taxpayer will pay for election advertising. I don't believe we should. You should be able to buy whatever ads you want. But then you get people like .com dominating the advertising cycle. Yeah, but if they've got some ideas, it doesn't matter because some ideas are dumb ideas, no matter how good your advertising is. But if you've got money, doesn't matter how good your ideas are, you'll be on air all the time. I think this is a fair balance. I think we've got it right. I think, you know, if the balance is better and it's worth protecting. Thank you, Josie, and thank you, Cameron. That is Cameron Slater and Josie Pagani on the huddle. We have some sport in just a moment. It's now 9 to 6.


Hi, this is Michelle Swab from the Health Sciences Library at Memorial University, and this video demonstrates how you can use SINL headings to search for qualitative studies in the SINL database. All of the journal articles in the SINL database are read by either a subject expert or a librarian, and then they are tagged with a subject heading or a SINL heading. These headings can really help you in your search. So if you look below the first abstract there, you can see the subject headings assigned to that particular article. To search for SINL headings that you can use in your search, click on the SINL headings button at the top of the screen. Then what you'll do is put in terms that sort of match what you're looking for into the search box, in this case qualitative studies, and select browse. On the screen you'll see that qualitative studies is one of the options that is given to you. From here you'll be taken to the tree view for the subject headings, and this is just a list of terms from really broad terms like science and study design, down to narrower terms like qualitative studies, and then grounded theories below that. So each indent is a narrower term. It's important to remember that articles are only tagged with the narrowest term. So if you want qualitative studies in action research and ethnographic research, you're going to have to tick that explode box. So now that I've selected my term, I'm going to click on search database. You can see that the term I selected is now located up here in the top search box. From here you can add in additional terms that would match the kinds of studies you want to find. So in my case, I'm going to add in multiple sclerosis to bring back qualitative studies about multiple sclerosis. There are other useful subject headings, or senile headings to use when you're searching for qualitative studies. In particular, study designs are a really good way of getting at the qualitative literature. So for example, I could put in focus groups, which will bring me again back to the tree.  I often will include the data collection method or search using the data collection method when I'm trying to find qualitative studies in senile. I can't explode focus groups anymore. It's grayed out, so I'm just going to leave it at that. And then I'm going to click on search database. In this case, for this search, I have already searched for the senile heading for students nursing, and I can combine them all together in the search history box with and to bring back articles about focus groups and nursing students. So if you've got any questions, don't hesitate to contact us. We'd love to give you a hand with your search.


Early on in my career, I thought political skills were just for business leaders. I also viewed political skills as skills employed by those that manipulate, that use others' success as their own, and who are looking after themselves and not the wider team. As I headed into middle management ranks, I learnt I was wrong, and I learnt the hard way that political skills for leaders are positive skills to have and are central to be more effective in delivering results and value for the company I worked for. Unsurprisingly, most of us develop political skills by learning from our mistakes or watching what others do in the workplace and trying to copy them. I can't remember at any point in my career a manager sitting me down and explaining what political skills for leaders are or why they become so important to be effective. So that is what I'm going to outline in this video by taking you through five essential skill sets for influencing others and becoming more effective as a manager and a leader at work. My name is Jess Coles and I've had a 25-year management career in corporates and household names through to SMEs. I've also spent a few years as a consultant, going into organisations and having to grasp the politics very quickly to be effective, i.e. work out who is aligned with who and why, and how the leadership team dynamics work, etc. If you're new to this channel, Enhance.train provides online business courses to help you improve your performance and that of your team and business. And if you like this video, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe. So let's start with our first skill group to build political skills for leaders and that is your personal skills. And there are a lot of skills that go into personal skills. I'm going to talk about three main ones, self-awareness, exerting self-control and being proactive. Being self-aware is such an important skill when dealing with others. If you don't know about your emotions and how they're influencing you and how your experience colours your views and ideas, how you're going to manage yourself. So pay attention to what makes you angry, what excites you, what frustrates you and learn how to best manage your emotions at work. Knowing how you are reacting to situations and others gives you the ability to exert self-control over your own reactions. Before you can effectively influence others, you need to be able to influence yourself and manage yourself. When you experience negative emotions, work on mechanisms that allow you to keep control of your negative emotions and channel them constructively. And how you do this is very personal. What works for one person doesn't work for another. So try out different approaches. Being proactive is critical to influencing others. You can't be reactive to what others are doing. You have to lead to formulate what you're wanting to achieve and then proactively influence others to help you achieve your goal or activity. So decide what you want to achieve first and then work on proactively achieving it. The second skill group to build political skills for leaders is to build your interpersonal influence. I'm going to cover quickly five key skill sets. The first is listening to others. This is such an underrated skill and it's so important for influencing others.  When you really listen to someone, you can find out lots about their interests, their motivations, their concerns and so on. All of this is great information to help you influence them. Second is thinking before speaking. Be careful in how you phrase what you say. Keep in mind how the other person will react to what you say and feel afterwards. Being diplomatic and considerate goes a long way to building trusting relationships. With a relationship, you can influence. Being honest and sincere in how you deal with others is huge. Humans are very good at spotting fakes and nothing destroys trust quicker than trying to be something you are not. Be open, be honest and be sincere in how you deal with others and the trust you get back will only increase. Fourth, be interested in other people. Be curious about what they think, feel and do. If you're genuinely interested in them, they will think a lot more positively towards you and your ability to influence will increase. And lastly, make sure that you manage upwards well. Keep your manager proactively informed about what you're doing and why and ask their input. A supportive manager helps you massively and to get a supportive manager, you must proactively help them. The third skill group to build political skills for leaders is to work at reading people and situations. And I'm going to cover three key skills that will help you. The first is seeing the perspective of others. Put yourself in others shoes and think about their values, motivations, agendas and goals. What do they care about in the workplace and why? And how can you align their goals with yours? Next is being aware of the business goals and work to understand the power structures, i.e. who influences who and how in the leadership team and the management layers. Observe the body language and interaction between different members of the staff. Less than 10% of communication is via the actual words said. How the words are said and the body language clues are very important, so consciously work at reading these. Third, think about how your agenda could cause others to feel threatened. An example could be a new system implementation could reduce certain individuals' influence and thus they may oppose the implementation even though it's in the best interest of the company. Work out how you're going to overcome their self-interest or reduce the threat to them. The fourth skill group to build political skills in management is to work at building alignment and alliances. Networking is at the heart of this. If people don't know you and you don't know them, how can you build alignment and alliances within the organization? Network with your peers, those above you and those below you. Get to know them on a personal and a professional level. Then you can work out who will be easy to work with and who will be more difficult. The more your interests are aligned and the better the relationship you have with the individual, the easier you'll find it to influence them. And always remember you may need to exclude individuals to achieve certain goals if they're going to be blockers to that project or activity. Take the time to understand each person's goals and agenda. The more you understand what they need, the better positions you'll be to show them that by helping you achieve XYZ goals, the more this will help them achieve their goals and thus create a win-win solution. This is a great way to create alliances and align goals and effort. The fifth skill group to build political skills for leaders is to work out strategic direction and your wider awareness. Building influence usually takes time and maintaining it takes effort. Keep a sense of purpose and direction and being able to articulate this clearly is very important in keeping people on side. If you keep chopping and changing the direction or message, you lose the confidence of others fairly quickly. When we have a clear sense of strategic direction and your goals, choosing which battles to fight and when is a lot easier. Give ground on the battles which will not significantly impact you reaching your goals and fight hard, putting in the favours in the battles which will really matter to you reaching your goals. And don't forget about timing because timing is important and choosing favorable timing can mean avoiding a battle in the first place. And lastly, keep your awareness of the company and the wider team and your supporters and their detractors. This is really important as things change. Like when you're driving a car, if you want to keep the car on the road, you'll need to steer around corners and hazards and other obstacles. Be on a constant watch out for hazards and obstacles internally and externally to the company. So there you have five skill sets to work on to build your political skills to help you influence decisions and the outcomes by getting more people aligned to your direction of travel. Develop your political skills in management so you can become a more effective leader, a person who instigates and implements value-adding change. And you can be a leader regardless of your actual job title and deliver even more value for the company for which you work. In turn, this will help speed up your career progress. So enjoy building your influence within your company and getting more achieved. And do visit us at enhance.training and take a look at the courses on offer to help you improve your performance. Thanks very much for watching and I look forward to speaking to you again soon.


Hi, my name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food, and today I'm sharing a quick and easy recipe for meat lovers breakfast sliders. So let me show you what you're going to need. You are going to need some eggs, and you're going to need some seasoning, whatever you would typically season your eggs with, that's what you'll use. I am using salt, pepper, and some dried parsley. You're going to need breakfast sausage, milk, melted butter, cheese. I am using a cheddar cheese blend, but use whatever cheese you'd prefer. You're going to need some Hawaiian sweet rolls, and cooked and crumbled bacon. So let's get started. So I'm going to get started by whipping up our scrambled eggs. I've got eight eggs that I've cracked. I'm adding in a fourth a cup of milk, and then I'm just going to season it with my salt, pepper, and parsley. Just going to whisk it up. Okay, so now it's time to make those scrambled eggs. I've got two tablespoons of butter in my pan that I've melted. I'm just pouring in the egg mixture, and in the pan that's right next to me I've got my sausage cooking up. Now I'm just going to let these scrambled eggs cook. So for this recipe, you're going to want your eggs pretty soft, just like this, because you're going to pop them in the oven, and they're going to continue to cook. So a soft, cooked, scrambled egg is what you're looking for. Okay, our sausage and eggs are done. Let's start assembling these breakfast sliders. All I've done here is just take the entire package of the rolls, and I just cut it in half with a serrated knife. Don't try to use a regular knife. You do need it to be serrated, because you're not going to be able to cut through it with that regular knife.  So I have it here on the bottom. I'm going to use half of my cheese and place it right on top. And if I didn't mention it, I'll make sure, of course, to link the recipe in the description box. So now we're going to put our sausage on top of the cheese. And don't worry if your ingredients come off of the rolls, not a big deal at all. Now I'm just adding the eggs right on top. And if I didn't mention, I'm using an 11 by 7 pan. Now we're going to add on our crumbled bacon and the rest of that cheese. All right, so I've placed the other half of my buns on top. I'm just gently kind of pressing it down a little bit. Now I'm going to pour the melted butter right on top of those rolls. To my melted butter, I added a little bit of dried parsley and also some sesame seeds. Now I'm going to let this bake in my preheated oven. It's preheated to 350 degrees for about 15 minutes or until that cheese is nice and melty. Make sure to check your oven or check on the sliders periodically just to make sure they don't burn. So here are the sliders. I ended up baking them for about 16 minutes. This is such a quick and hearty breakfast recipe. I hope you all enjoyed it. If you did, please make sure to give us a thumbs up. And if you haven't subscribed to our channel, we'd love to have you. And I have an entire playlist of quick and easy breakfast ideas that I will link in the description box. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you all next time.


So this is monster clay and this is what it looks like in the package when you purchase it It is a sulfur-free oil-based clay that comes in this black Microwaveable and oven-safe container. It's made by the brand Monster Makers and it comes in a variety of Softnesses you get four and a half pounds in a container and I recommend going for the medium. It's middle ground and Has the most universal purpose. It'll be marked on the side of the container as well It's a non-toxic clay that never cures So that means you can reuse this as many times as you would like so that makes it a great candidate for practice sculpture But also anything to do with resin casting and it reheats to a malleable consistency It comes in this color gray or this terracotta the terracotta is more standard And you'll find it more frequently the gray is a little more translucent I would probably go for the terracotta if you were to choose one but having both colors serves a purpose as well so here you can see that it is a Plastic-y consistency it is quite firm when it is cool like this and you can mess with it with your fingers But it is quite solid and hard to work with in this state It's also not very messy and I find that it doesn't leave a gross residue on your hands And I guess the negative to this particular clay and sculpture method is that if you do want to create an original sculpture for Casting purposes you're not going to be able to ship these sculptures very easily to a casting company So you'd want to perform a waste mold Which is basically where you would mold the model in silicone and create a single resin cast to detail with a clay similar to epoxy and then that would be your master copy that you would send away So that's a little risky Especially if you're new to mold making and that's personally why I stick to the epoxy Originals because I'm able to just send the original in the mail and not have it damaged and Not put three years of work into a monster clay sculpture only to have it ruined in the mold making process You can imprint your nail into it fairly easily though as you can see So it's not completely solid another product You're going to want to get when using this clay is isopropyl mirror state Which is a product that is used in cosmetics But the monster maker company sells one that is made for the clay This is the smoothing agent and I store a little bit of this in a glass jar It will erode some plastic So you have to be careful what you store it in but I also got this really awesome Nail polish remover dispenser which allows you to pump up some of that solution while you're using it without Forgetting to you know close the container when you're done sculpting Then I have a selection of tools that are specific to monster clay separate from my epoxy tools And I like to have a variety of them. I gravitate towards the metal based tools for this clay It's a bit too firm for any of the silicone shaper tools I don't find I use them at all and these are some of my favorite tools So these ribbon clay tools I actually found on Amazon and I'm gonna link them in the description below because they are Incredible they're super strong super high quality and because they're double-sided you get a ton of different options I also got these miniature sculpting tools off of eBay. I'll link them as well I find the mini spoon tool the most useful. They're good for fine detail work for sure I also like this flat little metal spoon and this pointy or metal tool as well I like to have a collection on hand and whatever works best for you Also, you're gonna need some cheap synthetic brushes and before working with this clay I do recommend taking off any jewelry because it will get caught in your rings So here's a blob of clay that has been chilling out in the container And if you mess with it, it is quite firm Even the medium consistency is quite hard to make malleable and it'll almost break off in chunks So I find like peeling a tiny piece I'm able to warm that up in my hands by kneading it in between my fingers But it takes a lot of effort and your hands would inevitably get very very fatigued and very sore and like early onset arthritis So I don't recommend taking chunks of this clay and trying to warm it up purely with your hands This stuff is so easy to use in the sense of just popping it in the microwave Like I said before, it is in a microwavable safe container You can also heat it up in the oven. There's directions on the side of the package for that Throwing it in the microwave here, I put it in for four minutes and that makes it the perfect temperature And make sure that you use oven mitts to take it out of the microwave so you don't burn yourself And you can see here that the container itself isn't too hot on the edges But the consistency of the clay is very soupy in the middle So it is very warm and more malleable for sure Like this is taking no effort to move around Another example I'll show you is that if you put a small portion into a microwavable container You can melt it down to a literal liquid And that means that you have options for casting, mold making You can find a lot of different uses for it in this liquid state because you can purely pour it out So here you can see that the clay is very hot and you want to be very careful not to burn yourself in that liquid stuff And I find that the microwave heats the underlayer of the clay a little more than the upper layers So you have to be careful digging into this stuff And you can see it's really gooey and it's getting all over my hands And it's like this is going to be a hot mess But the more that you work with it in between your hands and it starts to cool to room temperature It all sticks to itself and none of it will remain on your hands It's wild, it is like the coolest stuff ever I find this process very therapeutic because it is so warm, it's nice to work with And that's a nice change because I do feel like my hands fatigue quite a bit in the sculpting phase I have really weak joints and I'm prone to arthritis So working with this consistency of clay is so liberating and actually enjoyable So here you can see it has a very stretchy consistency as well And you can dip hard pieces that have cooled into that molten lava And then we mix them to make a better consistency for working You can fuss with this and find what works best for you Another tool that a lot of people will recommend and I have tried is heating it up in a crock pot on the low setting I have this little different crock pot that doesn't have temperature setting on it But I find that this just turns to straight liquid and actually makes it too warm Because you don't want to overheat it to the point where it's boiling And I feel like that's what this does so I don't recommend using that Now Monster Clay you can use to create your own original 3D sculptures They can be freestanding because this stuff solidifies hard enough or you can do it on an armature pole I also really like using this clay for my personal medallion sculpture And I was able to salvage this apple medallion out of the original mold So it's good, hearty stuff You can use this clay to create pieces that you intend on casting You can pour your mold silicone right over it It works in great conjunction Here you can see that I've imprinted my nail into this horse sculpture I'm working on And I can just smooth that out simply with my thumb I find if you're working for flat medallion like sculptures using a kitchen tile with a smooth finish On a tabletop art stand is really beneficial So here I'm just gonna put some of that warm clay onto this sculpture of a horse here I can do a lot of the beginning fleshing out with just my thumbs and fingers It smooths really nice with just your thumb texture But I find that these ribbon tools are the best tools And you will complete your sculpture in a subtractive sculpting method Where you will simply peel away the clay almost like chocolate And it looks like chocolate And when I'm sculpting I crave chocolate But I find that these work the best for it So you're gonna do your original sculpt in kind of a sketchy manner And then you'll be able to buff out a lot of the imperfections And smooth this all down with the mirror state I find it a really different sculptural process than the epoxy clays But I find it a little more practical for practicing and for understanding form and understanding anatomy It's a lot easier to use And you can work on these projects for a year if you wanted to So not having that timeline of the epoxy clay makes this stuff a good choice for when you're starting out and learning Here I'm using that mini spoon tool to flesh out some of the eye detailing And it works really well I'm just using a scotch bright pad to buff out some of the imperfections This work says like a sandpaper on this clay Here I'm just demonstrating that if you just put it on a straight brush and go to town It's not really gonna smooth anything out It doesn't work like isopropyl So I take this blunt brush that I cut the bristles off of And I use that as a sandpaper source as well To smooth out all of the little imperfections that those ribbon tools made in the clay I'll just buff everything out And then I can apply the mirror state to the sculpture to smooth out the clay And this will give it a relatively smooth finish But it does give it still a bit of a sketchy or a bit of a more organic look And I think that's why this clay is so popular It takes detail really well If you want to use the mirror state really sparingly And I recommend dipping your brush in it and then blotting it out on a paper towel Before smoothing the sculpture Because if you add too much to the surface it's going to turn to soup Another little tip Using a hairdryer I can just warm up the clay on the surface Until it's a little bit shiny And then I can smooth it out with my thumb And that works a lot easier than dragging my thumb over that hard hard solidified clay And then if you need things to cure really quickly Because you don't want to be smushing them around If you get some canned air and hold it upside down and spray This instantly cools the clay in an almost magical way It's quite fun to watch, so... Thank you so much for watching I hope that you learned something And Monster Clay is a really great tool to use And I use it quite a bit now in my studio practice I really like working with it It's really easy stuff to have fun with There are links in the description below on where to buy Monster Clay And how much it will cost for you If you have any questions or concerns Feel free to email me or message me Make sure to like and subscribe to my YouTube channel For more tutorials and art related content Make sure to check me out on Instagram and Facebook as well Thank you so much for watching Happy sculpting Get out there and make something


I'm Rod Parker, manager and director of Gwalior Health Care. I started in 1968 by my grandfather. I'm one of three generations to run the business. We started primarily as an injection holder, eventually then moving on into healthcare packaging and now, most recently, into the supply of medical devices. In 2015, we decided that we'd done all we could with packaging in the UK for healthcare and looked for new markets. On a visit to the hospital, I saw a lot of medical devices and wondered who would make those and thought who better than ourselves in Wales, Gwalior Health Care. In 2020, we got attacked by Storm Dennis and are quite seriously affected. Then only six weeks later, Covid came along. We came to the call of Welsh Gov in the UK and started manufacturing sanitizer. During this period, we saw a requirement for people getting back into the workplace, back into public spaces. So we developed a technology with a local company called HyperSan, which was a product which you could spray around rooms and big areas, allowing you to decontaminate it in a very quick time and allow people to get back to work within five minutes of decontamination happening. My grandfather started the business in 1968. To be nominated, I think my grandfather would be very proud to be here now and to see where we are. It's humbling.


Gille, I'm Will. I'm a Year 8 student. Some of my teachers have taught rural. It's great to hear about their adventures and what they learnt. Everybody benefits when a teacher has rich career experience. So, how did they find out about these career opportunities? I'm glad you asked. Welcome to the Teach Rural Career Fair. Let's check it out. Come on, I'll show you around. Career fairs aren't just for teenagers. This one is aimed at teachers and soon to be teachers. The career fair has been absolutely fantastic. It's been running now for the last couple of years and it gives each grad or people that are already in schools the opportunity to come and talk to all the regions. That's a big plus for us. For schools, it gives us an opportunity to get in and engage with the next generation of teachers. They're the ones who will carry the lamp forward. So for us to be here, to identify those who are going to be the makers of the new generation through rural communities, is vitally important for our profession. It gives us a chance to meet those people and also to partner with our other regions. So it's a great day. I've come down as a principal from Oreck West State School and I am looking for four teachers to commence the 2019 school year. I have some excellent leads and I can't wait to follow up with them. The Teach Rural Career Fair is excellent. Educational opportunities are generally greater and often richer than what you'll find in large urban areas because in a country area, everyone needs to participate. Everyone gets a chance to do things. That was awesome. Thanks for joining me at the Teach Rural Career Fair. Will?


In the last class, we were looking at how the tires behave during longitudinal run and of course, we started lateral husband, but we will come to lateral in a minute or maybe after some time. We will look at the longitudinal force development through a very simple and very nice model called the brush model. The brush model is very nicely explained by Professor Pajekai in his classic text, Tire and Vehicle Dynamics, which has gone, I think it is the third edition. It is a very nice book, mathematically very rigorous. It would be very nice if you can have a look at many of the mathematical models that are developed in this book on tire mechanics, though we will not be able to go into those models in this course and we will be talking about very simple models, because we have to move into vehicle dynamics and discuss lot more things on vehicle dynamics. Tire mechanics being extremely important, I am going slow and we are looking at how actually the forces are developed and so on. There is a question just before the class whether we will have some mathematical model in this course. Yes, we are going to do a simple mathematical model, which is going to be called or which is called as the brush model. But there are very complex models that are available for the force development in tires, but we will not, of course we will talk about a very broad, I will give you a very broad picture in the next class about what are all the tire models that are available for modeling the longitudinal as well as the lateral forces, but this model brings out the physics of the tire behavior in the longitudinal direction. One of the things that we saw in the last class is that there is a pressure, I am just summarizing what we did. There is a contact pressure, there is a contact pressure under the tire and there is a longitudinal force. In other words, contact pressure can be converted into force and so on, but the total force F is it. So, there is a contact pressure and there is a longitudinal force due to which there is a shear. Now, we also saw the difference between braking and traction. So, we said that there is a region, there is a region where the tire is going to stick to the ground and there is a region after which when the shear stresses exceed the frictional mu into Fz, the normal force multiplied by mu or pressure multiplied by mu, then we said that there would be a slip. In other words, if this were to be the contact patch, then there is a region where the tire is going to stick to the ground, this is the region where it is going to stick to the ground and this is the region where it is going to slide. When I said slide, remember that these guys are going to just come in a bit till again equilibrium has reached and so on. So, in other words, the maximum force that could be withstood is obviously in a simple model of Coulomb's model is equal to mu into Fz. What is our goal? Our goal is to find out how Fx is developed mathematically, express it and what is it related to? What is it related to? In passing, we define what is called as slip and we will see how the slip actually enters into the mathematical model and what is the relationship between Fx, the force developed versus the slip. This is the whole idea. So, how do we do this? Simple, by means of what is called as a brushed model. These are the bristles which are sticking out say for example, from the carcass of the tire and they have a stiffness, let us say lateral stiffness, say lateral stiffness for unit length which we would call as Cpx which is the lateral stiffness for mm or unit length. So, what we are going to do in this derivation is that I am going to find out what is the deformation. So, the first step is what is the deformation of this bristle or this cone of bristle which I would call as u. So, once I know what is the deformation, the next thing I am going to do is to find out or multiply this to find out the force which is nothing but the Cpx into u. The third thing I am going to do is to assume a pressure distribution because one is left hand side and the other is right hand side of the equation. So, I will assume a pressure distribution which in this case we are assuming it to be parabolic. Assume a parabolic pressure distribution and call it as Qz. The next step I am going to write down the equations but I want to give a broader picture. The next step is obviously what is the next step? So, once I do it I have the left hand side of the equation, what is this force? The longitudinal force and this is the right hand side of the equation and I can find out mu into Qz. I can find out the left hand side and the right hand side and then what do I do? I find out point at which the slip starts or sliding starts. Be careful to use the word slip because we are going to give a very specific meaning for slip. So, in other words let us call that as Xs. Yes, this is a Cpx, the longitudinal stiffness. A good question. See please understand that this results have two stiffnesses. Stiffness is now you know what is stiffness. So, the stiffness is here in this direction and stiffness can also be in a direction which is perpendicular to plane of the board. So, which you would call as the lateral stiffness. So, which is Cpy. So, Cpy is the lateral stiffness. Oh sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh God! See longitudinal stiffness, longitudinal stiffness. So, Cpy is the lateral stiffness. I did not notice that sorry. That is the lateral stiffness. Though usually it is assumed that Cpx is equal to Cpy, it is not so there is a 50% difference between the 2 and so on. Good. I am sorry that I hope it is. So, the point at which sliding starts. Then as a last step what I am going to do is to find out the total force that is in the X direction which is the sum of the forces that is generated in the sticking region plus the sliding region. Sticking region plus F. So, F sticking plus F sliding. So, that is the total force. This is how our derivation is going to progress. Clear? The derivation is going to be exactly the same when we look at the lateral forces. We will come to that. The same similar model is going to be used for lateral forces, but I am not going to derive this in detail. People who are interested in this derivation which is going to be exactly the same can refer to a book by Prasekhar. Actually, he has derived the lateral force and said that is similar in longitudinal force. I am going to do the other way about so that you will have both the derivations with you. I am going to derive the longitudinal force and then say the lateral force is going to be very similar. Of course, we will discuss the physics of that a bit later. Just before we proceed with the word of a comment that though we are discussing longitudinal and lateral separately, there are conditions under which you will have both lateral as well as longitudinal forces developed. In other words, when you are cornering and breaking, for example, cornering and breaking, then there is a combined lateral and the longitudinal deformations and hence there is a force which is both fx and fy. We will just mention this as we go along and again we will not be able to derive that completely, but at least we will just see this like this and see what are the final equations.  It is always better that before we derive, better that we write down what are the steps we are going to do, then maths just follows the physics. Now, I am going to make some assumptions because I have told you this is a simple model. So, there are a number of assumptions which we are going to make to keep the maths within our bounds. Let us assume that this is the figure from Pasekha. We redrawn it and in order to understand how the deformations are going to take place. Let us assume that there is a point S. This is a point which lies on the rolling, this radius R which is such that it rolls on an imaginary circle without any slip. So, on an imaginary ground like that. So, in free rolling, S, the velocity of S in one direction, this direction which is omega into Re is equal to the vx. So, it does not slip, point number one. On the other hand, when there is breaking or when there is acceleration, the velocity of S is different from vx. We saw that. Hence, there will be a movement of vs or there will be a velocity of vs which we would call as vsx. We will see what this definition is in a minute, vsx depending upon the breaking or accelerating. It would be one direction or the other. We will use the same thing like the v which is in this direction for the tire can be assumed to be v in the opposite direction for the road and that it is rotating at a stationary position. Let us assume that there lies a point. There are slightly assumptions here because you may be confused as to about the Rs. We are going to make some assumptions. One of the assumptions we are going to make is that these radiuses are so large when compared to the lengths of these bristles and so on that we are going to write down this in terms of radiuses which we have defined. In other words, we are going to make some assumptions on the radiuses to make again things simple. Let us say that S prime is a physical point. It is a point in the tire which moves with the same velocity as that of S which moves the same velocity as that of S. We assume that these bristles which are sticking out, these bristles which are sticking out, though we have discrete bristles, actually you can assume that they are continuous but then continuous bristles do not give that physics and so on. You can do that and later when we integrate it, we will make it continuous. These bristles have a base, two things. One which is sticking to the, you can call as the tail which is sticking to the carcass and the other which is sticking to the ground, which is sticking to the ground. There is a difference between the two. What is sticking to the ground is going to move with the velocity of the ground and what is sticking to the base is going to move with the velocity of the tire, the tangential velocity of the tire. Since these two are going to be different in braking and that is what we are going to see now, there is going to be a deformation of these bristles. That is what we said first that we are going to look at the deformation of the bristles. This is the first thing first. So, let us look at what is V sx. So, V sx is, as I told you, is the difference between the velocity, that is we will write that as Vx, velocity of the ground minus omega into Re and that is where s is sitting, which we can call as r. So, let us say Vr, say Vr is equal to omega Re, say so that V sx is Vx minus Vr. Any questions? Slip, slip is a very technical quantity which we defined in the last class. We are going to define it again. English slip, English word slip means it is slipping. In tire mechanics, slip has a very specific definition. So, though you can say that slip and slide are synonymous, so you can use the words interchangeably, in tire mechanics slip is a definition. I am going to define that again in today's class. Sliding is the word which we use where when the force exceeds the mu into F, slides moves. So, do not get confused between the two. I know this is common confusion. So, I am going to define slip now. Just wait for a minute. Now, the first thing is that I want to know how this tail has moved. What is that? It is moved. So, in order to do that, let me introduce a coordinate system with this as the base, sorry, this is 0, x is equal to 0, positive in this direction. I know this is a very busy picture. We will understand this picture slowly. So, that is x is equal to 0 and that, this is the positive x direction and that this contact, look at that, this contact patch is plus a and minus a. So, that is again a. On either side of 0, this is plus a and minus a. Now, the first thing is that since these points here are moving, all these points here are moving with s prime which is moving with the velocity of v r, the motion of the base point, let us say to a point which is x from this point, which is x from here. In other words, that the base point travels a distance of a minus x at a time which is equal to delta t. The base point is travelling with the velocity v r and hence the base point moves with the velocity, sorry, with the at the time a minus x into v r. At this time, this is the base point moves. This is say for example, this is moved from here to here. At the same time, the tip of that bristle or the head of that bristle, that has moved, that has moved a distance of at the same time, the distance moved by the head is equal to v x into delta t. So, at the same time, the distance moved is v x into delta t. So, you can say that the distance moved from here to here, suppose I say that here to here, this distance or let me put it like this. This distance is v, this is a minus x and this distance is equal to v x into delta t. So, because it is simple, it is not even a figure, it is required that the base is moving with the velocity v r and hence that is the time that is required for it to move and the head is moving with the velocity v x and so the distance moved is equal to v x into delta t. Any questions? Simple. So, what is the deformation? The deformation is the, of this bristle, one at one hand it is moved this and the other hand that is the distance.  It is the same as s, s prime velocity same and v s x. So, yes, the question may be, is it re? Is it sitting at re? What is that? Yeah. So, that is why I said initially that we are going to make some assumptions. We are going to say that r is so large that there is a small difference. It does not matter and that is how we are defining it. Substituting the expressions, so I can write that to be v s x, what is v s x?  So, let me define that as v x minus v r or sorry, this can be v x minus v r. So, that is the deformation. That is actually the deformation. That is equal to v s x into delta t and delta t is a minus x divided by v r. So, into a minus x. So, we are considering breaking. I have to be careful correctly. We will write.  Since the deformation is in the, my coordinate system is positive along this direction. The deformation actually is in the negative direction. So, I have to write the deformation to be minus. I am going to define two slip quantities. One of the slip quantities called theoretical slip, sigma term given by Pasekhar that it is a theoretical slip is defined as this difference v s x by v r. So, that u can be written as, u can be written as minus a minus x into sigma x. We also define a quantity called practical slip kappa, which is used by the industry. Usually people in the entire industry talk about kappa, which is the, what we would call as the practical slip is given by minus v s x divided by, this also will put minus. So, that v r. We use the same quantity. There are plus, minuses. There are so many definitions. I will stick to that definition. So, that u can now be written as, sorry, I will remove that. I will put a minus there. Can be written as, in terms of kappa as well, you can find out the relationship between sigma and kappa from this and can be written as a minus x kappa into 1 plus kappa. So the first step is over. So, we have found out the deformation. I hope my signs are correct because one more thing is that I am deriving, breaking. If there is any sign difference I would, hopefully it is correct and I will correct it later. My next step is, of course, finding out the force. We will come to that in a minute. My next step is to assume a distribution for the normal forces. I said that we will assume a parabolic distribution. So, that q z, very common distribution that is assumed all through is equal to. So, what it should be in terms of, total f z and in terms of a. So, we will write that as, 3 f z by 4 a into 1 minus, what should be the quantity there? It should be, you can take a guess, x by a whole square. So, that when it is x is equal to a or minus a, the term in the bracket goes to 0 and so q z goes to 0. So, it is maximum when x is equal to 0. Let me now get to q x. So, these two are fine. q x is quite simple. So, what is the way we write it? So, q x is what? I know the deformation multiplied by the stiffness C p x into a minus x into sigma x or kappa by kappa plus 1, 1 plus kappa. So, the point which I was trying to say is that this is what we define as slip. That is why I have to be careful when you use the word slip in time mechanics. That is fine. So, the next step for us is to find out when does the slip happen? Is it slip? When does the sliding happen? When does the sliding happen? When does the sliding happen? What do you think? Yes. So, mu n. Now, q z I know, q x per unit length. So, q z. So, it should be equal to q x should be when it is less than q mu q z. There would not be any slip, sliding, sorry, sliding and exceeds. So, I will write that condition is equal to mu into q z. Let us define a quantity called theta. Just to make things easier for us to write, let me define a quantity called theta, theta x, because you can define similar one for this is the, this one. That is the assumption I make as to how contact pressure is distributed. So, that you know the contact pressure is like this. Why? Basically, because when I integrate this expression, I should get F s n. Integrate it from minus a to plus a. I have to get the back this expression. So, that is the expression. Let us define theta x to be 2 by 3, let me just write that carefully, 2 by 3 C p x a square mu into F s n. Let me simplify this expression now. Let me simplify this expression. Can you do that? Let us simplify this expression. Write a minus a squared minus a is x squared into a plus x into a minus x, substitute for theta and get me a value of the relationship of a plus x into a plus x into a minus between theta and sigma x. So, the first thing let me, I mean nothing great. Let us say that x is the point at which, point at which sliding takes place, x is the point at which sliding takes place. Let me also call this as 2 a lambda following Paceka. It is a fraction of 2 a. It is a fraction of 2 a. 2 a is the total length of the contact patch. 2 a lambda is what we saw as x is. Now, let us take this expression and write down this expression, substitute for theta and write down what is x is. So, just do that and it is very simple, 3 by 4 mu F z divided by C p x a squared into, that is the a squared into a plus x s by, right. What I did was, just this is a plus x into a plus x into a minus x. My goal is to find out when total slip takes place. When is the total slip takes place? Lambda is equal to 1. That makes my job easy. Now, substitute for x s to be 2 a lambda and that is the point at which this lambda, I mean point from the, if this is the contact patch, that is what we called as 2 a delta. So, that lambda is equal to 1 is equal to 2 a, but in terms of our x, note this carefully. There is a difference, right. So, that because we are looking at x from that point, from the center, right. We are looking at x from the center. This is at x is equal to 0. So, in other words, this point is x is equal to plus a and that point is x is equal to minus a, right. So, let us substitute that in this expression. x s is a minus a minus 2 a lambda, that is what is x. In other words, that is x, that is a minus 2 a lambda, right. And hence, I would write sigma x to be 1 by 2 theta x into a plus a minus 2 a lambda divided by a, which I am going to simplify. I am not going to do every simplification. You can do that and that is why I am writing it. And hence, lambda, the point at which it starts is minus theta x sigma x. So, lambda is equal to, right, okay. I said that lambda is equal to 1 where the complete, you know, the sliding takes place. 2 a, that is, this is completely the sliding. So, you can write that. So, theta x to be plus or minus depending upon. So, let us now find out the force f x. Now, let us now find out the force. As I told you before, the force f x is the force developed in the sticking region plus the force developed in the sliding region. So, I can write down x s from my previous expressions, whatever I have done, to be very simple. You can see that f z omega r e divided by v s x is equal to x into C p x. Very simple, whatever I have done, just substitute that. So, f x can be written as a to a minus 2 a lambda, sorry, lambda is equal to not 1, 0. I think you guys had not, okay. A lambda should be equal to 0 for this. That is why you get this. Just be awake, right. Lambda is equal to 0 is where complete sliding takes place. Not a lambda is equal to 1, right. So, that is why you get theta x sigma x equal to 1. No, good. That is the point, complete sliding, just moves like that, right. What is that I did? Simple, C p x sigma a minus x e d x e divided plus this one. And x s, I have got from these expressions. That is all, right. Integrate this and I am giving you a final expression. I am not going to do the integration. It is not a very difficult integration. So, you would notice that, this is the expression. You would notice that I can draw f x now in terms of sigma. So, now, if I now plot f x versus sigma, my graph would look something like this. This is the sigma versus f x. For very small slip, sigma you can assume it to be equal to kappa. First term gets into picture. So, you can, one of the quantities of interest to us, you will see that later is always the slope here, which can be approximated by, if you look at kappa, it is approximated to be 2 p, 2 c p to a square. And what is this quantity? That is the maximum force. And the maximum force would always, you need not even look at any of these things. Maximum force would always be equal to mu into f is it. So, this would be mu into f is it. So, essentially, this is the brush model, where we found out the deformations. We found out where the sliding takes place, the place where the sliding happens and we just found out the force due to just deformation and due to sliding and then we wrote down a complete final expression period. Look at that. This is slightly different from what is given in Pasekha's expression, but I think this is correct. Have a look at it. Now, practically this may not be a straight line and that is because we have assumed mu to be a constant, but there is going to be heating and there is going to be dynamic friction and so on. And usually the mu here as a constant may not be valid and you would have a drop here. We would talk about that again in the next class. But before that, let us now look at the lateral deformations. Any questions here? The slip condition at which the slip happens, that is what we said, the condition under which the slip happens is equal to, this is the condition where both of them are happening, is equal to the q x per unit length, force developed per unit length is equal to mu into q is it. This multiplied by dx, that in the q z is what I had written down there. So, that per unit length, so mu into q z is equal to q x developed and both of them are the same, then that would be slip. So, this may happen, say for example, at this point. If it is completely sticking, this is how it would happen. It would look like, when for example, here is where that excess where sliding is going to happen, then this guy would actually start slipping, sliding. He is going to slide. So, this is how it is going to slide. q z is a normal, see what I am using is nothing but mu into f or normal force, very well known is equal to, that is all I am using. Only thing is I am using it per unit length. So, whenever this is actually an inequality, this is not an equality, this is an inequality. So, whenever f is greater, it will not slide, that is all. Whenever it is equal, it will slide. No, sticking is a portion which is before. When it reaches, what we said is, when it reaches mu multiplied by this quantity q z, when it is equal to q z is equal to q x, it slides. That is the point by which we found out lambda or excess. Clear? So, they are when they are equal. So, in other words, if this is going to be the contact patch, sorry about my diagram, then we said that this is where it is sticking and this is what we defined as 2 a lambda or this is what we defined as excess, which is equal to a minus 2 a lambda, sorry, I should not say excess, 2 a lambda and that if this is the x is equal to 0 and then this distance is what is called as the excess, which is clear. So, we equated it to find out that point at which sliding takes place. So, at these points, we assumed that the force is given by mu q z per unit length dx multiplied force per an infinitesimal length dx, then we integrated it throughout. Actually, it is x into integral excess minus a, which is strictly speaking, I should write it like this, excess to minus a. Any questions? Clear? Now, let us look at quickly a lateral force development. I think we have to find get back to this figure again in the next class. Let us do that in the next class. Apurva has drawn it so beautifully, I feel bad that I have to rub this and we will do that in the


Howdy guys, all right, so I just wanted to show you guys, you know, some progress on the Firewatch Tower, something I've been working on for quite a while here and there, you know, on and off kind of thing And so I restarted it and this basically is the Firewatch Tower from the game Firewatch game I really like to play and I really like the look of and so I really wanted to start to Replicate, you know, the look but also make it procedural as well. And so this is basically where I'm at and so To dive in really quickly here. I just want to show you some of the cool tricks of this guy here If you go into the tower node All of this starts from a single grid and the way that I do things like the stairs and the the tower is By using a copy transform node say this copy transform node and I basically lift it up and then per copy I basically scale it down a certain amount right For the stairs itself The trick here is to basically for every single copy is to rotate it 90 degrees and The reason why that works for the reason why that's cool is because then you can use a ad node, right? And you can skip every fourth point basically and that gives you a nice spiraling Curve to use for the stairs and so I actually have a little node here that basically goes and builds the stairs for you Right. And so if you dive inside there All I'm doing really is just I'm blasting one of the particular Curves you can use whatever whichever curve you want, you know one or two or three right from that whole thing and you'll get The stairs generated for it Right, so this whole network right here. We'll go through and generate those stairs for you So some cool techniques in there. I'm still working on it. I'm here and there's definitely a side project for me But I do actually like work on this on this thing There's lots of really cool techniques in here and I really want to make it so that you know We have all the props and stuff inside and really develop a nice set of HDAs and Tools here inside of your D need to create these types of props Another cool technique that I did was the shingles for the house over here And so I need to find it again. I need to organize this stuff all back up But for all the patrons out there, you guys have access to the files so you can sift through it Yeah, here we go. Here's the roof so basically I come through and Let me turn on my wireframe. I Go and create the roof just by extruding the top grid up there, and then I divide it so many Rows basically using a divide node here And so I just use some expressions there to go and divide that stuff And then basically I go through and I have this side switch in here So I have this loop that loops through and creates the actual Shingles for you And what I'm doing is I'm using this side switch, which is just a regular node to to determine if the current incoming polygon right is Larger in the x direction or in the z direction then I switch and basically subdivide it based off of that Right and so once you run it through the entire loop you get This and then I have this group by range just to kind of randomly select tiles that should be or shingles that should be darker Ended up working quite well So from there I also am making sure all this stuff is UV'd as I'm building it. You'll notice if you sift through the The graph here. I have this Where is it? This HDA that I built yeah, this wood plank which basically is used throughout the entire Node network this basically will is what's responsible for you know creating all the posts and anything That's a wood plank basically, but the nice thing about is it's automatically generating all the UV's for me, right? So I can put it all into a Texture sheet Right and so if I were to actually go into the final deal here You can see that all the UV's are laid out Into a texture sheet so I can use those guys and I basically am creating all these textures these trim sheets inside of the Quixel mixer here and so the technique to do that to create these Trim sheets here is to create a mask and I just use this position gradient and then you basically can Let me actually hold down shift here You can basically use that to determine where it goes usually put it at some sort of defined value like point point five in this case You actually do that. There we go. Then hold down shift Yeah, so that's how you can do that. Let me open a couple of the others here So I have like the accessory sheets. I don't want to save that guy so this one it has all the The texture for the shingles and all the cement stuff or anything that's cement and then I have another version of wood So I have two wood sheets for this guy And I created in here Yeah, it turned out pretty good. It's working out.  So anyway, I just wanted to do a really quick one through I didn't really want to you know, do a full tutorial on this just yet because I'm Not totally done with it. And so just kind of a sneak peek. Like I said, all patrons Have access to these files so you can see how I'm doing it Hopefully at some point this coming year, I will have a new course I really want to do like all the terrain and like foliage using the latest stuff on who do 18-5 So anyways, yeah, it's pretty good If I were to change stuff something like let's put it to like a total number of three Here you can see that it's changing as well.  And that's just because I'm also UV mapping everything. I also have AO turned on for this But you can see that the stairs are falling it everything is procedurally done. And so Yeah Super cool stuff. You can change the footprint scale for like the building up here Just got to let it process. Now one thing I want to do is I want to basically make it so that You have the option to switch off the UV's and all the AO and stuff I mean currently you can't switch off the AO makes it go a little bit faster But the UV's definitely are the things that are taking the longest and it's usually these UV layout nodes that take the longest And so I want to put in a switch for all that stuff Put this tower height back down to like 2.5 So, yeah, there we go If you are interested in the project definitely go up to the any pixel patreon and check it out. Thanks much


Hello, this is Professor Steven Esheba and I'm just going to take you through some steps on how to do an Albedo calculation. So the first thing you'll want to do is here in our Canvas page, click on this and you'll want to save that link as and eventually move that up to a Google Drive and I've already done that. So I'm going to move on to the next step which is you're going to click on this link for Albedo and it should open up like this. You want to open up with Colab as I've done here and as soon as it comes up we'll see something like this. Now what this does is you're going to import, bring in a file and then there's some resources that you won't have to change, mainly we're just going to look at this last bit here. But first what I want to show you how to do is go to that place there and in your, this should open up your drive and as I say I have already imported my files called green and so there what I'm going to do is go to that part and say copy the path which is what you'll do but based on your own drive and then I'm going to put it there. Now the way you execute each one of these cells, we can do it sequentially, you can press on this button and so that's going to execute that cell and then when you're done with that one you can execute that one. You can also just go to run time and say run all which is a little bit easier. And as you can see what it's done is it's loaded up the image file. The idea here is that this part of the white is an Albedo of one, it reflects everything, the green part will not reflect all light and the black will have an Albedo of zero. And what's shown here is going from left to right across here right in the middle and you can see that the white part has a high brightness level, 0.6 on the scale. The green part has a lower brightness which is like 0.45 then it goes back to white then it goes to black which has a very low Albedo. And so the way you can do this next step on your own if you like or here in Python, what I've done is I've said okay what I really want to know is what's the ratio of the green part to the black part relative to the white part to the black part because that's going to tell me what the Albedo is and that's what I've done here. So that's 0.45 minus 0.05, that part there on the black, divided by the whole range white to black which is 0.6 divided by 0.05 and I had to print out the Albedo which is 0.72 for that green.