Well, hello and welcome to understand men now. I'm your host Jonathan Asley of Jonathan asley.com And I'm so excited to be shooting this short video for you today our topic fifth wait Fifty percent of men and fifty percent of men are seeking this type of relationship. Should we do it this way? Fifty percent of men are seeking this type of woman. I should say so Really quickly before we get started if you have questions based on this video Please post a comment below. I do my best to read all of them. I try to respond to some of them So definitely if you have some questions write them down Okay, let's talk about the 50% of men who are seeking this type of woman And the reality is is well most of my channel is or most of my audience is those in midlife Which is after baby making years and before retirement So if you're 42 to 69 you're kind of in the right place Although I got to tell you a lot of 30 year olds are watching my content because I'm coming out I'm here as your big brother. So I'm the heart protector for women single-looking in love and those in relationship. So But what's unique about midlife is that as we get older our childhood wounds and traumas begin to surface our childhood wounds and traumas begin to surface and Certainly we have adult traumas people are going through divorce. They're going to some of them are going through contentious divorces sometimes they're going through issues at work, maybe there's a Volatility at their work. Maybe there's a lot job loss. Maybe someone's starting over in their life Maybe they have elderly parents that are going through some stuff Maybe they have their children that are going through some real serious kind of tough stuff and All of this emotional chaos is weighing on them emotional chaos is weighing on them And it's weighing heavy heavy heavy in their life and they're literally their life is like on quicksand Like in other words the life below them just the foundation below them seeps so weak and many of these men are either avoidant or Anxious love attachment styles or either avoidant or anxious a love attachment styles And if you're not familiar with the book Attached the book attached you definitely want to check this out because it talks more about how we attach to other people based on our Childhood patterning our childhood wounds. Okay, so I want to go deeper into this guy that his life is in chaos His life is literally struggling And what's so fascinating that there are so many women out there that are highly attracted to this kind of guy He's the kind of guy that has no problem being vulnerable. He has no problem Expressing what dysfunction is going on his life and what's sad in this particular case is many women hear this Is this if it's music to their ears? Ah, he's being vulnerable with me.  He's emotionally available Bump bump bump. He's emotionally available because he's vulnerable And yet that's the furthest thing from the truth because what these men are Genuinely seeking or what they're most attracted to is that beautiful quality in almost all women that beautiful nurturing mother quality That nurturing mother quality that quality that says you're going to take care of me And men whose life is on weak foundation Want to be taken care of Because their life is such in chaos. So they gravitate to that beautiful woman Who's sadly an enable not an enabler per se, but a nurturer on some level there is enabling going on So what happens with these men they choose these type of women And what happens is they begin the relationship and all of a sudden You know what you're too good for me. I'm not ready for a relationship.   I was a train wreck after my divorce. I lost my quarter million dollar a year job Okay, which was my identity I was going through a divorce and then the market crash of 2008. I got a seven figure wipe out And I used to go to bed wishing I didn't wake up That's pretty sad because I have two children. I mean, sadly, I've now lost a child So but that's enough for another conversation. But those who follow my work know that that's my son Connor I always changed the pictures up, but I sadly lost him in 2018 But um, not but and I don't like saying but I always want to change it to and But when I look back to right after my divorce, I was a train wreck and women used to eat me up I mean in the dating process. I was so open and vulnerable I was able to lean in and share all my dysfunction and there were so many beautiful nurturing women that would just say I'm gonna covet you. I'm gonna take care of you and then sure enough as soon as I hit my Threshold of how much I could emotionally invest in the relationship. I was gone Because the foundation underneath me wasn't solid and there is probably 50 percent of men out there And that I know that's a high percentage, but and now that that 50 percent it varies There's the extreme men that their life is absolute quicksand and they're like they're like drowning in it They're drowning in it and then there's some I was like up to here But some that's a little bit lower. They're able to move through it and they because they have a plan They have a plan of moving through their dysfunction But be very careful because you might be thinking about the guy who's got a plan that's moving through his chaos That's one thing. He's still on a weak foundation But at least it's a lot better who's the guy who's just falling in and he's going to take you in for a ride And believe me. I've witnessed this so many times so many times in relationship That's why I want to encourage you to invest in your own personal development your own Emotional sovereignty and if you follow my work, I talk about my book Frequently what the heck is self-love anyway what the heck is self-love anyway as a way to Basically prepare yourself for those men who are in emotional chaos because when you're in a solid foundation of who you are Your own sovereignty You won't be attracted to those guys You will actually repel those guys because they're going to be afraid of you right from the get-go But if you haven't done the inner work, which i'm a huge proponent watch all my videos I bring up book after book after book Because when you're a solid in your own sovereignty You're going to repel those guys those guys you're going to lose interest in them right away Now, I know some of you will run for the hills from those guys. I get it You'll run from those guys right away great Because that high quality guy you're looking for Hey, his life may not be perfect, but the ground beneath him feels very Fairly solid and when it's solid they can actually build a house together with you that house of commitment that house of partnership that house Of a co-created relationship And that's the kind of guy you're seeking Don't seek those 50 percent of men seek those guys are in the other 50 percent whose ground underneath them is solid All right, as I said before I want to hear your questions on this Please post it below I want to hear your thoughts if this resonated with you if you've got more to say if you got a question post it And if you like my content you go god, I want to work with this guy. I want to talk this coach Okay, I'm a coach. It's what I do check out the link below to schedule free discovery call to see if coaching is right for you Okay, I'm gonna wrap up this video as I always do giving you a big gigantic job at the bear hug if I have your consent Oh, thank you Wishing you a wonderful day. Thanks so much. Bye. Bye now


All right, water. Let's start out with a definition of osmosis. Osmosis is the movement of water, but it has to be across a semipermeable membrane. Now think about this for a second. You don't have any semipermeable membranes to move water across. That's a definition of a cell membrane. A cell membrane is semipermeable. So yes, osmosis is going to happen in cells. We're going to be able to move water across cell membranes in and out of a cell.  What's going to happen if water goes into a cell? What's going to happen to the cell if water goes into it? Are you like, dude, that cell is going to swell. Do you agree with that? Like water is going into the cell, and of course the cell is going to swell. What happens if water goes out of the cell? Now think about this. Water, here's my little round cell, and water leaves the cell. What's going to happen to the cell? It's going to shrivel. How cool is that word? It's going to shrivel, shrivel up. Have you ever thought of that word? What happens if water goes in and out at the same rate? Do you agree that if water goes into the cell and water goes out of the cell at the same rate, such that it is in equilibrium, what's going to happen to the cell? Nothing, there's going to be no change in the cell. It's not going to shrink, it's not going to swell. It's just going to stay the same because water is moving in and out at the same rate. Now watch this. I'm going back to this little beaker that I drew, and I'm going to throw some water in it, and I'm going to throw fresh water in it. I'm just going to say this is just pure fresh water. There's no solutes in there, so it's not concentrated with anything. It's a very low concentration. And now I'm going to throw in my friend the yellow cell.  In the yellow cell, there's particles in there because the cell, the cytoplasm, isn't pure water. It's got proteins in there, and it's got ions, it's got potassium ions, it's got all sorts of great stuff for doing its stuffy stuff. Okay, if, if the particles can move, what's going to happen to the system? If the particles can pass through the cell membrane, what's going to happen? If the particles can move, they're going to move down their concentration gradient into the fluid until equilibrium is reached. That's not osmosis. Water didn't move, the particles moved. That's just diffusion, and we totally just did it and fine, that's cool. Nothing's going to happen to my cell. My cell isn't going to swell, it's not going to shrink, it's just going to, like, stuff's going to go out and whatever. But what if those particles, they want out, right? There's a billion of them in there.  This is the particle coming in and it bounces off, it gets rejected. It can't get out, none of these particles can get out. Now, are the concentrations different? Totally. And can you imagine what is water going to do to try and, like, to try? It's not really trying. Water is going to move across this semi-permeable membrane until equilibrium, equal concentrations, are reached inside and outside. Is water going to move out to make the inside have a smaller volume and be more concentrated? Or is water going to move in to try and decrease the concentration inside? I think of it as a wholly concentrated pile of concentration outside. The particles can't move, water is going to go in. If water goes in, what's going to happen to my cell? You know it's true. It's going to fill with water. It's going to swell. If the cell swells in a solution, solution, I love this, is hypotonic. And we're going to be able to see this. We're actually going to cause cells to swell, and we're going to cause them to shrink. If the particles, if it was way more concentrated outside than inside, I just feel like, dude, I can't do this without drawing you a picture. Here's the beaker. Here's the fluid. I'm changing the scenario. Here's my yellow cell, and it still has purple particles in it, okay? But now I'm not going to repeat this and the whole thing because I just am not going to. But do you agree that it's more concentrated than purple particles outside than inside? Please say yes. Please say yes right now. You can see that, huh, there's no comparison. It's way more concentrated outside. Now, talk to me. Water. Remember, my particles try to move. My particles are actually going to try to get in, but oh, they're going to get rejected. If they try to get in, it's not happening because the cell membrane is impermeable to these particles. Now, water is going to want to equal out the concentrations and water is going to move out of the cell into, I should have done it this direction, from the area where there's lots of extra water out here to almost try and dilute this and what's going to happen to my cell itself? Here goes little shrinky shrink as the water leaves. Do you see that? How cool is that? Guess what that's called? The cell just shriveled. When it shrivels, it is hypertonic. The solution is hypertonic to the cell. Do you have that? Does that make sense? You're going to have to mess with it because I'm telling you this concept is not easy. If, I just can't help it, this is how much I love you, if the concentrations inside and outside are the same. So here's my solution. Here's my little yellow cell and I'm telling you that do you agree that my concentrations inside and outside are basically the same? What's water going to do? Water's going to move out and water's going to move in and is there going to be any change in my cell? No, no change. This solution, if the cell does not change, the solution is isotonic. True story. You got it? Of course you do.  Cell concentrations don't change. All cells, and whenever you say all in any kind of biology class, you know that's not always the case, but most of the time, all cells are a consistent concentration inside their intracellular fluid. So it's not like they're just going to go around changing all the time. So if you can assume that, okay, these cells are probably the same concentration and then all you do is change the solution that they're sitting in and then see what happens. Did the cells shrink? Did it explode? Did it stay the same? And then you can make an assessment about osmosis and figure out what's happening there.  And now you've transported and cell membrane and celled and chemistry and science did and life did. And now it's time for an exam. Let's do it. Bye-bye.


The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security, and Rural Development, in partnership with the Taiwan Technical Mission through the Serving Crops project, has introduced new technology and crop varieties to farmers in Denry South, with a clear objective of bolstering agriculture to reduce the country's dependence on food imports. The demonstration on Cantier Samuel's farm showcased the use of a tiller, highlighting the substantial reduction in labour and cost, compared to manual work. Samuel expressed his enthusiasm for this innovative approach in helping him achieve reduced costs and greater profits. With this small machine, I must say, before it would have been hard and backbreaking for me, it would have cost me, say, like about $500 just to plow a small little plot of land with two guys. But now in less than two hours, we can plow, you know, half an acre, just for, just a little, just about, say, $140, $140. So I give thanks for them being around for all the ideas, for all the help. On a neighbouring farm, a trial was also observed in which the Serving Crops project introduced new varieties of cucumber to farmers being grown on a trellis, which has varying qualities to be best suited for different preparation methods. Production specialist attached to the Serving Crops project, Eric Chen, says the new cucumber varieties open up exciting possibilities for farmers, as they can cater to different consumer preferences and culinary uses. We are not, we are not trying to beat the varieties, the existing variety, which is Tropicuque. We are trying to compare, to see if consumers can prepare their dishes in a different way, according to the characteristics of different varieties. And we are trying to see, for example, Tropicuque is actually really good on the ground. It's not better on trellis because there are so many branches. So the leaves overlapping and the branches tangling, it will decrease productivity, actually. So we are comparing all these varieties to find a best method and to find out the best way to prepare it. Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development, Hon. Alfred Prosper, expressed his excitement about the future possibilities of these newly introduced technologies and varieties. He also thanked the Taiwan Technical Mission for their ongoing assistance in building capacity in the agriculture sector and encouraged young farmers to embrace the new technology. And I was very happy to see so many young people attending this session. And this is where I appeal to them that we need them to generate greater interest in the agricultural sector. We know that they are concerned with what happened to their parents and grandparents because of the hard work and very little income. But I believe now it is time for them to see and understand that the new technology in agriculture will make things better for them. It will reduce the cost of production. There will be less reliance on labor. And they can use certain pieces of equipment that can make life easy for them. Under the same Crop Programme, I want to take you over to thank the Taiwanese Mission for the assistance it has been given to the Ministry of Agriculture. And it is very good to have the ambassador and team to demonstrate these two areas to our young people in the result. With the introduction of innovating farming techniques and new crop varieties, as well as funding opportunities provided under the youth economic agency, Minister Prosper says there is great potential for reducing food import expenses and ensuring a more secure and sustainable food supply for the country. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, I am Anicia Antoine reporting.


Movie Workshop. I'm Peter and joining you from a different seat today.  So we're going to start with a movie with David and then afterwards we'll take a 10-minute break. Then we have our breakout rooms where we can share our emotions or anything that came up for us during the movie. Afterwards we'll have a 45 minute break and then followed by a closing session where I'll be hosting the closing session today and we can go a little bit deeper into anything that came up. So to start with I'm going to pass it over to David now. Hi everyone, welcome. Oh so good to see you all. We have a beautiful movie today and we have some beautiful topics to help us with our healing. I'm very excited about today because it's always interesting for me to watch the themes that receive the most votes and then just to pray as the week goes on to see what Jesus is going to give us all and we all are always in for such a treat with the combination of the themes and the movie that is given us. So today we had a combined movie poll that the top theme received so many votes received 94 votes was 19 votes more than all the rest. So this movie is a direct opportunity to really go deeply into our first theme and that is our our lead theme we'll call it staying present when darkness is moving through. I know all of us really appreciate knowing how to stay present when the darkness is moving through because when darkness comes up it can feel so scattered you can feel so much fear or guilt anxiety you can feel overwhelming emotions tears the emotional intenseness of darkness moving through consciousness as it's being brought up into awareness for release is probably one of the most practical topics that we could ever address because as we know with the Course in Miracles Jesus is telling us we have to go through the darkness to the light so we really need to know how to stay present when the darkness is moving through. Coming in second was opening to healing on a deeper level. Most of us have gone up and we have been raised with this idea of healing on a very personal level when we have an ailment that seems to be related to our body when we have a physical symptom healing comes into the forefront of our mind when we are struggling emotionally with depression or anxiety or panic attacks then healing is something that's on the forefront of our mind but we usually don't think about healing too much until we're presented with an extreme form of sickness and then healing pops into our mind and it pops into our prayers we're like please God heal me I'm heal me of this emotional or physical experience that I'm going through and that becomes the forefront of our thoughts so opening to healing on a deeper level is opening to healing about our identity it's not that we're trying to pray to God to heal our personality self or our body because Jesus is telling us in the Course he says don't ask the Holy Spirit to heal the body ask the Holy Spirit to heal your perception of the body because the body is part of the ego's perception of the world and it's just a part a tiny piece of our perception of all of the cosmos of time and space and when we focus on healing the body we don't realize that the body is not sick it's the lens that we're looking through that is perceiving a fragmented world that's what's sick our perception is sick because the ego invented our perception it's what the Course calls wrong-mindedness that's what sickness is sickness actually has nothing to do with the body at all it has really nothing to do with time and space it's a misperception in the mind of perceiving the world in a fragmented way instead of the holistic way of the Holy Spirit and Jesus so when you pray for healing that's what really you're praying for at a much deeper level you're saying Holy Spirit Jesus heal my mind I'm looking at a crazy wacky world it's cracked my perception is cracked I have a cracked perception of the world a split perception a fragmented perception I'm not seeing as the Holy Spirit sees with the ego I'm seeing everything is fragmented everything is broken into pieces almost like if you had a giant mirror a cosmic mirror and you put pressure on that cosmic mirror and it all of a sudden started to splinter and shatter into trillions and trillions of little bits and pieces that would be a description of fragmented perception and that's what's sick our mind that perceives a fragmented world is what the sickness is so when we have a theme called opening to healing on a deeper level we're really praying show me first of all help me remember first of all that I have a perceptual problem because I cannot accept the solution for the problem if I miss define the problem if I think I have a sick body I am mistaken my perception is sick if I think my cat is sick I have a that's a problem too but it's a perceptual problem if I think I might have a flat tire my car is sick it is a flat tire no Jesus is always with us laughing reminding us no it's a perceptual problem and some of you are very familiar with workbook lessons 79 and 80 number 79 is let me recognize the problem so it can be solved and then lesson number 80 in the workbook is let me recognize my problems have been solved already they are solved but Jesus is telling us in the workbook even if you have the answer which you do the Holy Spirit it's not going to help you at all if you missed to find the problem it's like saying okay I I've got the solution and it for instance it looks like a it looks like a we'll say a cylinder and Jesus is like well even if you have a cylinder as a solution if you're if you have a square peg or a triangular hole the cylinder won't fit in the triangular hole you know it won't do you any good if if you needed to hammer a nail into a hard piece of maple or oak wood and somebody gave you a screwdriver you'd say well actually that's not very helpful and I got a feather instead in it no the feathers not going to work either I need a hammer and what he's telling us is the Holy Spirit is the correction but as long as you think you have physical problems as long as you think you have financial problem as long as you think you have interpersonal relationship issues as long as you think you have an issue with the the ecosystem of earth do you think with the pollution or with traffic or with the pandemic Jesus is like no no no no no no no no that's not it it's a perceptual problem the problem is in your mind and that's why you can be healed instantly is just through the recognition that first the admission I have I have a perceptual problem and then quickly accepting the immediate solution of the Holy Spirit which has given you as soon as you admit honestly that you have a perceptual problem so sometimes people say I've heard you say this David hundreds of times over the years thousands of times but I still don't get what you mean by I have a perceptual problem well today's movie will help you grasp the understanding of that because today's movie is going to be about schizophrenia it's going to take a look at a psychotic episode we're going to see the hallucination of imaginary characters that are generated from the mind some of you may have even heard of multiple personality which is technical term is DID dissociative identity disorder and in DID what it is is each of the altars in the the multiple personality perception each altar has seemingly a mind of their own has has it's their own physical characteristics and so forth if you've ever watched the movie Sibyl or what was the one that came out more recently split yeah it was this much more recent trilogy actually the split it was three movies and some of you know Bob Rosenthal too who's the co-president of the foundation for inner peace he's he's written some beautiful pieces on DID as it relates to a course in miracles but the entire projected world is an example of DID all the characters that you perceive in your world including the one you think you are each seem to have a mind of their own thoughts of their own their own personality their own personal history their own ambitions and goals their own emotions and this is what I mean by a perceptual problem it's it's fragmented now you may say David I have not been diagnosed with DID that's right your character is part of the DID your dream character is part of the dissociative identity disorder you forgot that you're the Christ that your spirit and now the character that you seem to be watching every day and believing that you are is part of a mind dissociative identity disorder I'm not saying that you personally are diagnosed like like Sibyl with multiple personalities I'm saying the sleeping mind that has forgotten that it's one with God that has forgotten that it's the Christ is going through a dissociative identity disorder and it has dissociated the Christ and now it has accepted an egoic substitute called the personality self and the fragmented world as its identity so this is a major identity distortion how major you we can't even imagine how far the fall from grace of being one with God and then perceiving yourself as an individual identity we did a little skit recently was COVID what was it concept of vast individual delusions concept of vast individual delusions the next time someone tries to get into an argument with you about COVID COVID and whether you should get vaccinated or not say oh no I'm not working on that question of whether to vaccinate or not I'm working on COVID COV ID the concept of vast individual identity delusions that's COVID that's what you're working on the course is a perfect answer for COVID and I'm not talking about the pandemic here I'm talking about the I the forgetting the amnesia of forgetting that you're one with God and believing you're separate from God that is is much more deep than then the pandemic which is just on the surface of consciousness so don't get distracted about whether to vaccinate or not we're going much deeper now we're going into the identity distortions the third theme in the poll is committing to the Holy Spirit listen and follow and this is why we're always I we're just emphasizing guidance because guidance is your direct link to your higher self and to the Holy Spirit guidance is the most practical tool to help unwind your mind from the ego and release yourself to remember that you're the Christ and that comes in to listen and follow so we're used to listening to many voices we're used to listening to maybe family friends co-workers bosses colleagues children parents neighbors and we listen to what everybody has to say and then we have to decide what we're going to do usually after we've talked to a number of other people this is not really a good problem solving direction listening to the Holy Spirit is is going to get you into the awakened state in a very direct way but if you're just listening to the advice and opinions of people on the news on the radio on the internet or to family and friends that are constantly giving advice you're going to feel very confused and the reason you're confused is because it's schizophrenia you're listening to characters that aren't even there that are just acting out the unconscious thoughts and beliefs in the mind and for many of us this is a shocking discovery again I'm not saying that you personally have gone to a psychologist or psychiatrist and have been diagnosed with schizophrenia I'm saying that the character that you're looking at and all the characters you're looking at are part of a mental schizophrenic state and that the sleeping mind that is the mind that believes in the ego is definitely schizophrenic it is generating people and characters that aren't there you don't have three imaginary friends like in the movie from years ago a beautiful mind with the famous mathematician John Nash which was a beautiful movie because it brought into awareness this condition of schizophrenia which most people are not that familiar with unless you happen to be a psychologist a psychiatrist a counselor or unless you have somebody in your family or you yourself have experienced schizophrenia most people are like freaked out by schizophrenia like that's that is freakish what do you mean they have to deal with imaginary characters in their life that aren't really there listen we're dealing with this every day there are seven billion imaginary characters that have been generated by the ego just on planet earth alone i'm not even talking about other planets i'm not talking about the angels i'm not talking about the aliens et i'm just talking on earth alone we've got seven billion imaginary characters that are just running around in the ego mind and they're all just generations of beliefs and thoughts that the ego made up you may say that that's a little extreme you're saying that the human condition is schizophrenic by nature that's exactly what i'm saying and i'm saying that as the course teaches jesus tells us god did not create the body because the body is temporal and god and spirit are eternal you don't get temporary creatures from an eternal being god did not create the world god did not create time and space god did not create the bodies this is a schizophrenic condition and this movie is going to help us deal with this today because this movie like that movie a beautiful mind will really bring it home of what it's like to deal with dark thoughts to deal with an unconscious mind of darkness to deal with all these characters that aren't really there and to deal with all the emotions that come up when we perceive these characters so this movie is is a pure gem uh the fourth one the fourth theme is discernment between the egos and the spirit's use of words most of us are very accustomed to the human condition and human race and so we think of words as as language and as communication jesus tells us that words are a very crude form of communication that he says in your natural state in the kingdom of heaven there are no words everything is telepathically known all you know is love and you don't even need words because love is everything even the beetles told us love is all you need and they were pointing towards the kingdom of heaven and nirvana but in this world jesus tells us words are symbols of symbols twice removed from reality so in our schizophrenic sleeping state of mind we are using words very crudely because they're representative of the thoughts and beliefs and concepts that we hold in our mind for most people you know we think of words as conversation i had a conversation and jesus would say well the it's not so important that you have a conversation it's actually the purpose for which you have the conversation that's important like he says in the workbook a telephone is for reaching someone who's not in your proximity but then he says the real question you should ask yourself is what do i want to reach him for he's not interested in the words that you speak he's interested in the purpose that's in that's either inspiring the words from the Holy Spirit or the ego is using words just to maintain and reinforce itself so we need to discern between the ego's use of words and the Holy Spirit's use of words in the upcoming movie which we're going to see very shortly there is a there is a priest named father patrick and this is beautiful because he's a pretty open-minded priest and he's a good listener and he's funny and he's got a beautiful heart and and he's going to be the helper character in this movie he's he's like our our holy spirit helper father patrick and father patrick is going to be an example to us of of more of a helpful use of words a lot of the characters it will be the ego the darkness using the words and that's why the human condition is so confusing at times it's because the ego is the one that is using the words and that's why things can seem very dark and heavy very sad at times for us as we go through this journey is because we still haven't freed our mind from identifying with the ego and the ego uses words in a very dark way and finally the last theme is facing the fear of loss and loneliness why is there such a fear of loss and loneliness it's because with this schizophrenic condition in which the ego has peopled the world and put all these characters there every single mind that identifies with the body is going to experience depression jesus tells us that in the course that he says when you equate yourself with the body you must experience depression why is because we're spirit and spirit is our natural state of happiness and joy and love but as we equate ourselves with the body we experience depression and sadness we also experience guilt anxiety shame many other emotions and none of them are happy emotions but they all come from one thing from a body identification now in this movie our main character is his name is adam some of you did see that movie a beautiful mind i see our tabula rasa group there hi tabula rasa mystery school group you saw a beautiful mind i believe this week lisa showed a beautiful mind and in that movie the main character was john nash was was this amazing noble laureate mathematician who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and he had to deal with three imaginary characters and he got married i think some of you remember jennifer connelly played his wife in the movie and he also developed a cooperative theory of dynamics group dynamics and and dynamics so he was a brilliant mind a brilliant mathematician and yet he had to deal with schizophrenia and i think that movie of all movies i've ever seen that brought the awareness of of the diagnosis of schizophrenia what it really is into awareness for many moviegoers all over the world today's movie the main character his name is adam you gotta love it adam when you go to the bible and you go to jenesis the first book in the bible what's the first human being ever mentioned in the bible adam the first one and now jesus is showing us a movie where the main character is adam i have to say i think jesus is saying listen you guys ever since the first human being which was a projection of of a false mind god didn't create adam and eve adam and eve were projections of of a deluded mind because why because oneness is one spirit is spirit love is love and as soon as you get adam and eve and then we get all the begatts you know begat begat begat begat in the bible there's a lot of begats a lot of procreation going on a lot of children can enable and some of us know our biblical literature just goes on and on now we're up to seven billion good lord what a schizophrenic state we're up to seven billion hallucinations and i wonder we can't find the answer of peace of mind in the hallucinations because you don't you don't solve schizophrenia by tinkering with the characters or by tinkering with the planet or the cosmos you have to accept the atonement in your mind and that's what the course of miracles is doing it's saying oh i'm going to make it so simple for you now i'm going to show you how to release the schizophrenia of of the ego all these hallucinations of characters that aren't even there some of you say well wait a minute that's pretty radical remember theme number two is opening to healing on a deeper level what does that mean david on a deeper level well let's just refer to workbook lesson 132 and if you go down inside of that lesson you will see jesus say the phrase with sentence there is no world period he says it in lesson 132 he comes right out he doesn't mince any words he comes out in lesson 132 and says there is no world period now that's a good reference point for deeper healing because if you're just trying to heal persons and you're trying to heal countries and you're trying to heal things like like pollution or the pandemic or racial tensions or sexual tensions listen you're not even close to healing that's so far on the surface that you know we've had the united nations existing for years decades united nations and the united nations help us with our ontological belief in separation no united nations has not solved the ontological belief in separation from god has medical research done it no has philosophers done it no psychologists no education education teaching education is the answer no nada nada nada education hasn't even made a dent in the ontological belief in separation from god you want some education i'll give you some education here we go this is education this is education to release schizophrenia of the mind and while we're at it we've already talked about the id and schizophrenia let's let's go for psychosis too psychosis what is psychosis is a break from reality when a human being is diagnosed as being psychotic they tend to have experiences and visions that don't fit in the norm of the bell curve of the human race and in this movie our our adam our main character he's going to he's going to have a psychotic episode in his his senior class of chemistry he's in his chemistry class he's going to have a psychotic episode where he will lose touch with what the world calls reality but remember what the world calls reality is just your everyday experiences as a human being what jesus calls reality is eternal spirit and when you forget eternal spirit and believe that you're a time space creature that's a psychotic break a much more significant psychotic break than things being out of the norm the normal patterns of human being that's a psychotic break from from reality and i'm talking reality with a capital r you know we we have a bad habit in this world of referring to reality as time and space even new age teachers even teachers who teach the secret or manifesting they will teach you can create your own reality and they're referring to reality as the perceptual world that's not it even when people say well that's a new a new thought thing too you we can create we can create our reality no we can't god is the creator of reality and of course the miracles in this sense is not new age at all it's not the slightest bit new age because the new age teaches that you can use your thoughts to create reality in time and space and jesus is saying quite frankly that's impossible because spirit's already been created it's already perfect and you cannot create spirit in form because spirit is not form form is of the ego if you if you're concerned about whether that's pure course go read the beyond the idle section of of course the miracles where jesus says god knows not form we can put those lines together beyond the idle god knows not form and lesson 132 inside of it where he says there is no world who you can start to realize that what we think of as a human condition is a schizophrenic psychotic d id experience if we use those terms from psychology and psychiatry and it's in the mind we're not saying that the all human beings exhibit these characteristics we're saying the mind that perceives this world of linear and time and space yes is psychotic it's schizophrenic and it's d id and i could go on there's there's some other ones too but i'm just going to stop i don't want you to be too depressed before we start the movie remember this movie's about happiness and joy and healing but i'm just kind of giving you a context so so there's some kind of context for what what we're going to see so in this movie our main character is adam he's 18 years old he's he's in his senior year of high school uh he lives with his mother and we'll see that his father has left left the picture so he's being raised by a single parent by his mother and and she's just doing the best job she can as single mothers do and and she will end up getting a boyfriend in the movie paul who will move into the house and the character that will be used by the holy spirit to help adam our main character with his um his difficulties of navigating and through life in high school is going to be uh his his his girlfriend she'll turn into his girlfriend and i love it adam was the first name of the first human being in the bible and genesis but instead of eve his girlfriend will be maya maya oh jesus is having some fun with these characters anytime you think you have a relationship issue with anyone on planet earth just remember your issue is with maya this is god this is too good too good the main characters named after the first human being ever and his girlfriend is named maya and jesus is he thinks this is a comedy movie but but this is a very deep healing movie i will assure you you know and uh and then of the his mother uh uh her boyfriend paul he's kind of an interesting character too he's kind of like paul in christianity paul in the bible some of this theology wasn't always so good everybody were a little concerned about paul and his uh his theology of sacrifice but actually we have a paul character in here and and this movie is about exposing private thoughts this movie is about exposing secrets this movie is about what do you do when the darkness comes up and you start hearing those dark voices in your mind that that are always putting you down that are always telling you that you're no good uh and and then on top of the darkness coming up into awareness which is a major uh issue that everyone faces on planet earth the he has three imaginary characters and uh one of them is called rebecca and she's very kind of airy fairy she's kind of angelic and new agey and she's always super positive and super uh loving and then he's got another imaginary character in this movie that is like he's like the protector uh he's the bodyguard imagine if you had an imaginary character that you were generating from your mind that was your bodyguard always looking out for you to protect you and this guy carries a baseball bat and he has a cigar in his mouth i mean he's like a thug he's like a real thug always there in your scenes to protect you so he got the airy fairy angelic one character we got the bodyguard the thug and then to throw it in you this is a teenage boy remember he's adam he's got his his sexual fantasies played out in a in a man who's kind of like focused on sexual obsession so what what a combination of imaginary characters that this teenager has generated from his schizophrenic condition the bodyguard the airy fairy angelic rebecca and then this other character who is always into sexual obsession everything is sexual with him those are those are interesting archetypes to have projected as your as your imaginary characters now a lot of us we probably could go back through our life and we could come up with our own bodyguard sexual obsession and angelic characters that we have and so this movie is going to be really helpful for us because if you have to deal with this on pretty much a daily basis um it's enough to deal with the characters that that seem to see each other but if you have imaginary characters like a whole other layer on top of that plus your emotions plus your hormones and i don't know do any of you remember the high school days can any of you remember back to when you were in high school what a trip what a trip i can't even believe i made it through high school what a trip you know you've got your hormones going you've got your the rules and structures of the of the school the principal and you know you've got teachers writing detention slips and and teachers that carry paddles and will smack you they'll actually hit you uh if you do something and then you've got to deal with the emotions of relationships oh my god teenage relationships my god how did we make it how did we make it we it was a miracle that we made we made it out of high school well we're going to revisit those days because this is not john nash uh this isn't a professor in princeton we're going to see schizophrenia through the eyes of an 18 year old boy who is trying to handle all of the pressures and emotions of high school and there's a lot and then you're going to see throw the schizophrenia on top of that and then throw the psychotic episode that he has in his uh his chemistry class whoa he's got a lot on his plate he's going to help us really get in touch with what's going on in our mind maybe we've repressed it but now it's going to come up during this movie because whatever we've been dealing with he's dealing with in the extreme and that's going to help all of us learn to release the ego because sometimes we need extreme examples and this is definitely a very very extreme example so today's one of those movies where you definitely want to keep all of your fingers on the carpet uh because the buttons are going to get pushed today because you're going to be watching a teenager who's very witty he's very sincere I think he's he's actually quite funny you're going to be able to relate to this main character Adam and he's going to show you what's going on inside of the mind he's going to act it out for all of us to help us get in touch with whatever we denied from awareness he's going to show I see Maria there you've got a son Augustine you know you know what uh teens and young children go through and because you you deal with with it with your son well now you're going to get to see this acted out with Adam and his relationship with Maya and his relationship with mom and his relationship with her boyfriend Paul and his his teachers this movie goes after peer pressure you know if we thought it was hard to fit in in high school imagine having schizophrenia and and feeling the pressure of all these eyes looking at you like why are you so strange and why don't you fit in so he's going to act out for all of us all the intensities of the human race just for us to have a healing so sit back enjoy the ride today I will come on for some commentary from time to time and let's let the Holy Spirit unravel the whole human condition today let's let's take a ride for all of us because when one is healed everyone is healed and when we go through and face the unconscious mind in a in a direct way it's intense but I'll tell you you come out on the other side of it all and you're smiling in the happy dream you come soaring with the Holy Spirit into the light and you leave the darkness behind forever and that's what this movie is going to help us with today so enjoy the movie I'll be


Just tell us. Okay. Oh, support us. Thank you. I'll look back to the start. Okay. So, who is familiar with open source design? A few people know, most people are not so sure. Excellent. So, my name is Bernard. Hey, I'm on it. And today we're going to be the Dev Room Managers. Yeah, whatever that means. So, I'd like to welcome you to the open source design Dev Room. This is our sixth year, surprisingly for us. We managed to get this organized. And we'd like to give you just a really short introduction to what and who open source design and collective is. And during the day sometime today we'd like to get like a big group photo. Okay. Because every year we kind of put a photo together just to say who we are. So, this was taken last year in the Dev Room. This is about a third of the people that were there. Just in terms of, you know, people coming and going. We're always reasonably full Dev Room, which I think is a good indication. We're a collective of UX designers, graphic designers, visual designers, user researchers who advocate for more user-centered design processes and methods in the design of open source software. We started in kind of late 2014. And every year we've been kind of growing a lot. So, what is the purpose of open source design? Well, we've got sort of seven goals that we're trying to achieve, slowly but surely. You can read what these are. I'm going to go through sort of some of them, how we actually put these goals into practice. We're a small collective of sort of core people who are trying to do this. So, you know, everybody is welcome to contribute. And if you've got one of these goals, you'd like to sort of, you know, champion. You're very welcome to do that. So, in terms of the second one, make designers contributors. That's the wrong one. But anyway, we run a jobs board and we host job advertisements for free. So, this is for open source projects who are looking for designers to take part in the design of the software. All we ask is that the job must be related to an open source project. It can be from a company. It can be from a project. It can be paid, unpaid contribution. It's open. So, the project can post a job, explain what they're looking for, and then it goes out to, it goes on to our website. We publicize it on Twitter, mastodon, et cetera. Over the years, we've got quite a good number of jobs from both small projects to large organizations. Last year, one was from Passbolt, like a collaborative password manager, where they hired a designer from the open source design website, which was a good, I think, a good thing. We also tried to provide a community for designers who either sort of know what's involved in open source or don't know what's involved in open source and are looking for an easy way in. A lot of it is sharing our experience, sharing our expertise about open source. This can be about UX methods, particular methods that work really well in open source or methods that don't work well in open source, how to get involvement from the community, both in terms of the contributors who are making the software, writing code, and from users, because in comparison to more commercial UX work, you're dealing with a community of already existing people, and it's important not to alienate those people. We run a bunch of repos with articles, articles that we've written. Conferences that we've attended, just sharing the knowledge that we've managed to put together. Ah, this is completely out of sync. So jobs boards, as I said, here's some of the jobs. Yeah, from Scribus, the project people know. Tales, logos, interaction design, lots of different stuff. Design events. So I counted up all of the different talks that we either did or we curated over the past six years. So we've curated over 100 talks, 11 different conference tracks. So at FASTEM, yeah, come on in. FASTEM 2015 to this year, FAST Asia, ApacheCon last year, ApacheCon Europe, and also our own open source design summit we did for two years. We've also taught design students in universities about how to contribute to open source, what is open source, and how it's a little bit different from commercial work. If you're interested in getting involved in the curation of our conference, come on in. Hi. Our conference tracks, you're very welcome. Just come to the forum and introduce yourself. Funding, we don't have any. We basically run on contributions from the community. Two years ago we got quite a big contribution from discourse, both in terms of finances and actually also powering our discourse forum, which was very helpful. We're affiliated with the open source initiative, Free Software Foundation Europe, also EFF. This is really important because it allows us to basically bang the very big drum about design and user-centered design and usability in organizations that have predominantly been about technical, about code contributions. So, sorry, but surely we're getting traction there understanding the importance of design in open source software. Our affiliation with EFF is around usability and security and privacy. The EFF advocates for a lot of use of open source software for people who have certain security needs. As we all know, a lot of that software is difficult to use. People are now starting to see the importance of, well, if you want to keep your users safe, they also need to understand what they have to do, what happens when the software goes wrong, and trying to reduce that usability barrier. We have one, two, three, six, eight meet-ups. Some are very active, some are not so active. Yeah, this is a bit of a strange kind of layout of my word cloud. So it's Boston, Portland, Denver, Bangalore, Freiburg in Germany, San Francisco, Brazilia and Madrid. If you're interested in running a local meet-up, you don't have to ask permission, you don't have to ask for anything, just go and do it. We have a section on our discourse all about local meet-ups. It's basically to try and, again, get the word about user-centered design and design it in open source software. That's about it. We do have an open collective. We have the grand total of $1,517, which, yeah, if you're interested in helping, you're very welcome to. And that's it. That's very quick and very short. If you want to get involved, the easiest thing is to go to discourse.opensourcedesign.net. We have a nice welcoming introduction thread. Come on in. Just introduce yourself as much as you want to. We're quite friendly.  We answer every kind of question. One of the things we're trying to kind of do a lot of is go and talk to university students who are starting on their design career. And before the Adobe's and the other people kind of get their hooks into them, we're trying to say, hey, there's a lot of other software that is maybe not as good, but there's no reason why it cannot be as good. Come on in. And basically show them about a different type of design. I think a lot of designers are starting to be more aware of, thankfully, of ethics and privacy and security and it's not about conversion of clicks and it's not about all of these kind of things, exposing what's going on in certain algorithms. And while that's not our exact focus, that is certainly something that is built on top of open source software. So the other thing, yeah, we have our wonderful Twitter, where we post the jobs that we get and yeah, we're reasonably active there and that is it. So a reasonably quick sort of whirlwind tour through open source design. So we have, no, that's something else. We have our first talk at 10. We have like 13 minutes for any questions or I'd also like to understand and know a little bit about who's here. I don't need to know everything about you, but if you want to say sort of, you know, what you do or what you identify as in terms, yeah, come on in. Okay, or not. And if there's anything particular that you're looking to get from the dev room today. So I'll start. I'm Bernard. I'm a user researcher and interaction designer. I work for myself. I do work mainly in like public services. So how to get a driving license, but online. I also work in the internet freedom space. So internet censorship circumvention, privacy and digital security. I'm one of the founder members of open source design with five or six other people. I live in London currently, but who knows what will happen after. At the moment. Yeah, so that's me. Do you want to? Yeah. Hey, I'm Amit. I work as a computational designer. So I'm working with architects or different like geometry and fabrication and different design processes. And that's like a big chunk of my work. And I've been exploring a lot into like VR and other sort of technologies to give like a 3D perception of space for users. And that's where like my work starts overlapping with the whole UX aspect of things. Okay.  In the back. Yep. Yep. Well, if you want nicely lined up, if you want at the very end of the day, we have a picture project session, which is basically either designers looking for open source software to work on or open source based projects, companies looking for designers. So it's like a four minute super, super fast pitch. So you're welcome to, to. Okay. Well, there's also the jobs board. Excellent. Okay. Anybody else? Yes. Totally agree. Anybody else? Yep. Hello, I'm Pablo. I'm the CEO of Akalators, the fine company of Taiga, across the main open source. Also, the fine company of UX box. Open source online. So that would be. Yes. I'm very interested to see your talk. Excellent. Anybody else? Super. Welcome, Alan. So we're just doing a little bit of introduction. If anybody wants to say, you know, sort of who you are, what you work on and what you'd like to get from the dev room today. And hopefully we can, we can give you that. Excellent. Yep. Super. Excellent. Well, you're, you're all very welcome. Brilliant. We're working. We can talk. We can talk. Excellent. You're very welcome. You're very welcome. Super. Anybody else? Yes. Excellent. Well, the first step to fixing the problem is acknowledging the problem. You're very welcome. You're very welcome. Anybody else? Yes. Just give me a talk. Right now. Excellent. Excellent. Well, that's a really good thing. And I hope to see lots more designers from Africa as well coming, coming here to tell us all about the interesting things that you're doing. So you're very welcome. Anybody else? François? Okay. You're very welcome to use it. Wow. Okay. Digitizing smell and taste. Okay. I don't even know where to start with that. You're very welcome. You're very welcome. Anybody else? It's really early. I know.  Ah, thank you. Okay. Thank you very much for that. Ah, I'm going to go back to that. Okay. Super. Well, you're very welcome. And thank you for your contributions. I, I've, I'd seen people, you know, fixing things and like, I don't know where to start with that. So thank you very much for, for your time. So we're doing a little introduction, just sort of, you know, who you are, what you do and what you'd like to get from the, the, the, there from today, if there's anything. Yes. Okay. Well, you, you're very welcome. You're very welcome. I just want to make sure I'm not. Okay. So it's 10 o'clock. We have four minutes. I think I'm going to stop talking because I'm, I'm tired of hearing my own voice. I'm sure you are as well. So, um, we'll get pieces, computer connected and everything working. Um, yeah. And we'll start, start proper.


Hey guys, it's Brandon, creator of Happily Dressed, a fashion blog dedicated to self-acceptance, self-confidence, and self-sufficiency, and welcome back to the channel. Today, I thought it'd be fun to do more of like a sit-down, talk-to-you-guys video as I go over my unfinished projects. I haven't posted a video in a while, but that's because I've started a lot of projects and just have not finished them. Or like this one, I've started a project, finished it, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted. Follow me on Instagram, and if you're not, you should at Happily Dressed.  Like, I mean, honestly it looks kind of cool in the camera right now, but like the brim is just so big. That's not what I was going for. I had to like bring this in some. I still need to like probably this seam right here. I need to like bring it in some more too, so it sits upright, but it's lined on the inside, which is exciting. But yeah, like this was really, really fun, but it didn't turn out exactly how I wanted it to. Would I still wear it in the winter? Probably because you just wear goofy stuff to stay warm anyway, so I will wear this one. But yeah, so I guess that's project number one. Technically, not really, because it is finished, but I'm not gonna wear it slash. I have to like go and make some alterations, but I'm too lazy. So the next unfinished project would actually be what I'm wearing currently. This is this amazing green fleece that I got from Joanne Fabrics, but originally I made it to be like a sweatshirt that's gonna have like buttons here, and then like some rib knit here. So what's unfinished is the fact that it's not closed currently. I still have it open here on the side, and then it's not hemmed up here on the sleeves because I want to add some ribbing on the sleeves. And then like the neck is technically finished, but I wanted to add buttons and buttonholes here. So what actually inspired this was an image that I saw on Instagram of, is her name Zoe? Oh, okay, no it's not. Anyway, I'm showing you the screenshot. That was the original plan, and I was gonna have like the pocket too. I thought the pocket would be a little too extra, and honestly like I used the hoodie pattern that I featured actually in my last video, so it's not drop shoulder like hers is. But I think I went a little overboard on the width of the pocket, like it should be a little bit skinnier, like maybe like a half an inch skinnier, and it should go down more. I already thought this would be low enough, but it's not exactly what I wanted it to be, so I haven't had the motivation to finish it. I feel like we all have unfinished projects, so I'm really happy to be filming this video so that way we can like relieve each other's anxiety about having it unfinished knowing that other people who sew or just make any kind of crafts will have unfinished projects while they're making new projects. So the next one on the list is actually these pants, which I'm still really excited about, but for some reason just haven't finished. This is a floral fabric that I found at this fabric store called Fabric World. They were having a really big sale to where you can get like rolls of fabric, like big old rolls, like sometimes you see them in the back of my videos, for $10 for like eight to nine yards of a fabric. It was buy two, get three free, and so I bought like two upholstery type fabrics that I wanted to make things out of. And then I bought this material, which I think is really cool. It feels like a cotton polyester blend, maybe, or cotton linen blend, linen polyester, who knows? It's, it's stiffer than normal, but it's still very, very soft, but I love the print on this. I just thought it was so cool. I love this like darker sage green. It's wrinkly now because it's just been sitting on my chair, but these are really neat. They fit well. I have to just make a waistband for them and him the bottom. I didn't put any side pockets in them because for some reason my side pockets haven't been turning out the way they need to. Like they'll, they'll be bulgy. I'm not used to that happening. So I have to figure out what's going on with that. There's also two well pockets in the back, which are really nice. So yeah, these need to get done. I don't know why they have it. I put two pleats in the front too, which I thought was fun, or one pleat on each side, which I thought was fun. Maybe it's just not fall enough around me for me to want to complete these. So I want to do this with, so I'm looking in the mirror. I want to do these like with like a matching blazer because I got a blazer pattern as well from Joanne's. They're having a really big pattern sale. So I like scooped up a bunch, but I want to have like these pleated trousers, like with a blazer and the matching fabric. So eventually that'll get done when I like need to like show out on a fall day. But when will that day be? I have no idea. Okay, we're kind of winding down. The next two projects are actually the same, but I just stopped because I ran out of material or like notions. So this one is this button up from a fabric that I got from Joanne's as well. I thought it was so neat. For some reason, I thought I'd make a really cool button up, like paired with some black cargoes and a black, like bucket hat similar to like the floral one that I made with the strings and like some chunkier shoes. I thought that would just be a really cool, like street style print to wear. I haven't finished it one because I don't have any buttons for it right now. And then I also need to hem the sleeves and then hem the bottom of the garment. But yeah, that button up pattern that I have, I don't know if I made a YouTube video. I didn't, I didn't, but I recently made a button up with a new button up pattern that was really fun. I'll insert a picture. I made it from a shower curtain, believe it or not, that I found at Goodwill. But yeah, I used a pattern that I got from Joanne's and it really worked well. And I was like, damn, this was amazing. I want to do this again. So I did this, but before I did this, I used one of those upholstery fabrics to try out the button up, like just for like a shoot purpose. Like if you follow my Instagram, you know that I will do like some editorial type shoots with clothing. So like not always my clothing that is wearable but just like fun to look at. So I thought this could be one of those pieces and I was going to do this with like a matching pair of pants. But if I'm being honest, no, like this fabric probably will work well for a cool decorative pillow. And that's it. Like, I don't know what I was thinking when I got it. I was like, oh, this would be so neat as a pair of pants and a jacket. Or maybe it actually would still be cool as like some kind of jacket. But right now I'm just like not feeling it and not feeling inspired by it. So this one will probably never get done. But this one will get done eventually. I just need to get some buttons, him the sleeves and him the bottom. And then I'd be done. But I love the way you put the collar on this cause it's like so easy. The last button up video that I have, or like the only button up video I have on here, that collar was really tricky. And I was like, I don't know how to do this. This one, piece of cake. So I really enjoy that. Let me show you the pattern. So it's the Simplicity 9279 pattern. But that's the one I use. It's more of a boxy fit too, which I really enjoy. All right, so my last unfinished item, it was not tough to make in the sense of construction, but the material I chose to use was really tough. And I think that's what stopped me from finishing because I'm literally buttons away from being done. Everything else is finished, but buttons. Yeah, even the hem is done. But the material is just so tricky and also it can get linty very easily. But no more suspense. I made this amazing jacket out of this wool fabric that I found at Goodwill a while ago. But I got the pattern and was like, oh, I need to use that wool. Like this would be such a cool jacket. I had this patch that says like Harley Davidson that I added on there. I love the inside. Like there is a yoke that I use, a different material to do it. It's like this plaid that I got from a drape that I thrifted. It has a cool pleated back that you can see right there. But actually this jacket is so cool. I used wooden buttons for all the pockets. And I wanna use wooden buttons for the cuffs as well because I did that, like those are done as well. But it just needs a button and a button hole to be able to close. And then buttons down the front. But I actually might not even do buttons down the front just because I think the wooden ones on the front pocket plus the wooden ones on the sleeve. Once I put them on there will be enough. The collar was really easy to do because of the back yoke as well. So this was really, really fun. Let me see if I can put it on. So like this was so fun to make and do. It's just that this material is like pretty tough when it comes to making it do what you need to. And then also it gets really thick in the sewing machine. So I think I broke a needle making this. And if I didn't break one, I bent one really badly to the point to where I just had to get a new needle. But once I had the wooden buttons here, I think we'll be good. Like I don't always have to close it. But I do want to try this pattern on a more easy to use material than wool. I just haven't found exactly what I want to do. Maybe there's some stuff over here that I think would be really cool, but I can't get out. I've been using so many store bought patterns that I feel like I've been neglecting my pattern making skills that I've acquired over the last two years by not using store bought patterns. So I feel like I'm in this tug of war now on the reason why I haven't finished most of these is because they are store bought pattern and I really want the pride of being like, oh no, I like constructed this for like my own measurements and dimensions, et cetera. Like I drew the pattern myself instead of being like, oh, you can go find this pattern here. But I will say that coat pattern is, well, this was a display one. So it's R11228, but it might have another name, but you can probably still Google that and find it. But it was this coat pattern. So it comes in like three different lengths. So C is the shortest, that's the one I did. So C was the length I chose, B is a little longer and then C, A, excuse me, it's the longest one and that's what she's wearing. I just thought that it was really cool. I thought it'd be a great fall piece to make. And it was really easy to follow. Like I literally had maybe 65% of the jacket done on day one. And I was also with cutting out the pattern from here and then cutting out the pattern in the material. And I still got like 65% of the jacket done. But yeah, I wanna get back to like drafting my own stuff. I feel like I just felt like 100% I'm part of the process. And like that's kind of my thing when it comes to sewing is that I wanna be as in it as I can be. And though patterns are so much easier than drafting things out yourself. Like the notches are really helpful with lining things up so you're never like over or under your seam allowance and things like that. But I do miss it. I miss the challenge. I miss working through the challenges, perfecting a pattern and getting to like just keep doing it and knowing that wow, I made this from straight off the dome, no help. But anyway, two of these projects actually were self drafted. So this was self drafted, that's probably why it's so big. And then the pants are using my pant pattern which I'm still trying to perfect because I know I said I'm gonna get that video out for you guys but for some reason, I don't know why my pockets are bulging like that and I don't wanna give you guys any like wrong advice. So that's it for my unfinished projects. Thanks for coming along this therapeutic journey for me and being very honest with the fact that there are several projects that I do not have done and several projects I still wanna start. Let me know what your unfinished projects are. I'd love to be in the know and like relieve any anxiety or pressure you may have to finish your stuff. That's all I have for you today. I will catch you all in my next video. See you guys later.


I think I have found the perfect keyboard for the iPad mini. So stick around and I'll tell you all about it. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. Now I've recently acquired the latest iPad mini and I am in love with the iPad all over again. I did buy the first iPad mini when it came out and it was for me the perfect size. I'm a fan of the smallest iPhone and the smallest iPad and then pair that with the biggest computer. That is the way that I sort of work because the iPad I want is something that I can just sort of take out with me, still get stuff done on it but it isn't going to be too cumbersome for me to carry around. And just to give you a bit of context, what I tend to carry around is my daily carry. There is a thing every day carry, isn't there? And I'm not going to turn this into an EDC channel by the way, but I will just show you this nevertheless because I am in love with this bag, the Peak Design tech pouch. So it is a great little bag and I'll just show you this is what I carry around day to day. I'm not going to start pulling it out. I know there are channels that do this but this is not one of those as yet. But I do like the way that it is really hardy material, whatever the grade of nylon it is, but you just open it up like that and it's got all these different pouches in it for storing cables, various different things like that instead of headphones, got a little microphone in there, all sorts of different things. And it's just some really good sort of organization, little stretchy pockets and so on. Now what I used to carry around with that, and of course there are the obligatory pen holders there tucked away in the pocket in the top there. And what I always used to carry around in this was my Baron Fig Confident Notebook. These are my notebooks of choice, the DotGrid version in case you're interested. And so this fits perfectly in here and so that's what I used to carry around with me when I wanted to make any notes and I would obviously already have my phone with me and stuff like that. So when I got the iPad Mini, I was not surprised to know that it fit perfectly in here because actually the makers of the Baron Fig Notebook made it exactly to the dimensions of an iPad Mini, literally to the corner radius and everything with space for the pencil along the side there. So that is the dimension. So the iPad Mini does indeed fit perfectly into that bag. So then there is the potential now to get some real work done on the iPad Mini and as I say, with the iPad Pro, I just found that I wasn't really using it that much. It was too big and cumbersome to take out with me if I was going anywhere where I just wanted a small bag. If I'd got my laptop bag, I would invariably have my laptop in it and then just around the house, it ended up just getting used for, I guess, sort of content consumption, watching YouTube videos, things like that, I guess. But usually these are now cartoons that have been watched as my daughter has sort of acquired it from me for the past couple of years, in fact. Although I do still grab it and get it when I'm doing a telestration and things like that for meetings and so on while she's at school. In any case, I digress because we're talking about the iPad Mini. I am totally in love with the iPad Mini once again and with the whole iPad ecosystem really. I'm definitely in love with the paper-like feel that you can get for the, that was a bit of a messed up sentence, wasn't it? The paper-like screen cover that you can get that makes the screen of the iPad feel just like paper. It doesn't make it feel just like paper but it certainly comes a lot closer and it does feel that it feels more like you're writing on paper as opposed to writing on glass with a stylus. So I'm really loving that and I am using it a whole lot more for my note-taking and things like that. It has become my note-taking tool of choice over and above the old notebooks. So then, if I'm gonna do some real work on it then I also need to be able to type on it and this is the problem that I've always had with the iPad Mini or with iPads in general really is the fact that the keyboards that you can get for them are never really that good. I know that the latest Apple keyboard for the larger iPads is supposed to be very good. I've never actually used one myself because I don't have the larger size iPad but certainly the one that I had with the iPad Pro, the original iPad Pro, it was all right, it was good but it's not really the same as writing on a regular size keyboard. There are people who make keyboard cases for the iPad Mini or they'll make portable keyboards that are the same size as the iPad Mini so that you can still fit them in your bag and whatnot. But the problem about that is though, I'm back to my little cramped fingers on the typing surface whether it's a physical surface or the glass of the iPad and it's not really very manageable like that, is it? For me, if I haven't got a proper physical keyboard where I know exactly where the keys are then it's pretty much useless. I do like the fact that the iPad is something that you can actually hold like this and type so I'll often find myself doing that if I'm just taking, have just the iPad in my hand it is quite good for the odd occasional casual note and things like that or for searching on the web. But yeah, to get real work done, it's a bit of a problem. There are a number of folding keyboards on the market. I always have a problem with these though because it is the way that they fold. And if I just pop one up for an example this is the Microsoft Folding Keyboard. Really good build quality, really lightweight, good battery life, all these sorts of things. Sort of like a rubberized feel to the case of it and then hard keys in the middle. So it's certainly, I think that this is a better in terms of the functionality than the original Apple Keyboard case. However, it still has this big issue with the Folding Keyboard which is it has this big gap down the middle of it. And that is pretty useless if you are used to touch typing that everything is sort of slightly out of place. And so that is why I've never been a fan of these. So this is the problem that I was looking to solve and I have actually found what I think is almost the holy grail and it's this. It is a folding keyboard that in my mind actually works. Now, first of all, let's have a little look at the size of it. In fact, let me bring the iPad back and I'll show you the size of it next to the iPad. So there you go. It is a bit thicker than the iPad, not quite double the thickness, maybe one and a half times as thick, something like that. But you can see it's nowhere near as long or not quite as long and not quite as wide that there is in terms of size. So how does this function in terms of an actual keyboard? Well, check this out. This is in fact a full size keyboard. So here is my Apple keyboard and this will fit exactly over the top of it because it is an identical match in terms of the size of the keys. It's amazing. It is a work of art in my mind. And how they've achieved this is by the folding mechanism. Can you see how there is no sort of almost, I mean, there is a visible join, but there's no obvious join because the way that it folds is, as it folds in, some of them fold under and some of them fold over, if you like, I guess. And so although there is a single line of a pivot point, which is down here, the actual joining edge is not straight. So it sort of zigzags around all of the keys. And that means that as you fold it, everything tucks up nicely away. You've got this protective edge around here that sort of covers all of the edges. So as I'm folding it in, that just sort of locks it in place. And it is a work of art, an actual full size keyboard. The thing that I had an issue with some of the other folding keyboards that I've tried, because I've tried quite a few in the past, was that they were either made of plastic, so not very good, or they were made of metal. But in any case, there was often some slippage, shall we say, or there was no strong mechanism to actually fix them in the middle. So I had one that folded out, there was plastics, we used to slip all over the place. But also the issue was that there had to be sort of a physical locking mechanism to try and hold it flat. But when you lock that, it never felt really strong. Well, the thing about this one is, the main central part is the actual body of it, so there's no central fold. You've got these two folds at the edges, but then also you just have these two little feet that fold down. And what that means is that when it's folded flat, it sits on the little feet at the end, and then these two parts here, and then the folding foot at the other end. But the other thing is the folding feet have little rubberized ends to them. So when it's sitting on the desk, it actually doesn't move around. And when you are typing, there's no slippage. It's not just sliding all over the desk. At a push, you can also just use it on your knee as well because the fold, there's two folds either side. So you can actually just rest it on your knee and type with it like that if you wanted to. I'm usually sitting, I don't know, in a coffee shop, on a plane, or wherever it is. And so it's sitting on a hard surface. But because of the way that it folds, you could actually, it doesn't physically lock in place, but you could actually just rest it on your knees and type with it. I've done a little test just to see that it works and it does. I won't be doing a lot of work like that. But when it's on the desk, I really could get a whole load of work done on it. So as well as being full-size keys, the other thing that I really like about it is that it does have literally the full keyboard.  But it does have the number keys and then also the function key row as well. The other thing that's great about this is it will pair with up to three devices, Bluetooth. It's Bluetooth 5.1, so it's the latest Bluetooth. So you're not gonna have quite as many potential connection issues because that's also another bit of a bugbear with some of these Bluetooth keyboards is you sort of dropping letters and things like that. So this is gonna have a good connection and you've got these three different Bluetooth devices and you just hold down the function key and you can just switch between those. It has obviously got things like, obviously if you're using with iPad, then you can go to the home screen and all these sorts of shortcuts. Once you use a regular keyboard with an iPad, it's a bit of a game changer anyway if you haven't done this already because it does open up a whole load of things like, you know, keyboard shortcuts that you would use on the Mac. A lot of those translate over into the iPad as well. But if you are really paranoid about the Bluetooth and have issues with using Bluetooth keyboards, well, guess what? There is also a, quite a long cable actually, a regular keyboard length cable, I would say. I don't know exactly how long it is, probably about a meter. And it's got a little charging socket on the bottom so you can charge it up. By the way, the battery life is around about, I think a hundred hours, something like that. So you're not gonna worry about the battery running out. But if you plug this into the back of it, I'll plug it in the right way round, it's a USB, a micro USB rather. So this is how you charge it. However, you can also plug this into your computer or if you, like I've got in my bag, have got a micro USB to USB-C, you can actually just plug it directly into the port on the bottom of your iPad mini or into your computer or wherever your laptop. And then as well as the three Bluetooth options, you also have a wide option there as well. So you can just press the function key and that and then it was literally just a wide keyboard. So while it's charging as well, you can just use it as a wide keyboard. So if you have got any concerns or issues with using a Bluetooth keyboard with your iPad, you can just plug it straight in. What more can I say about this? Well, I can tell you what else I can say. I bought the wrong one. I didn't really buy the wrong one, it's just that the right one wasn't available. So this is the iClever BK20 Special Edition. And this came out, I don't know exactly how long it came out, but it was a later model that came out, but they have now released one, which is the iClever BK05, which is exactly the same as this. This was almost like I suppose the prototype for that. The difference with the BK05 is it's exactly the same, but it has got backlighting on it as well. Obviously you're gonna sacrifice a bit of battery life if you have that switched on, but the beauty is you don't actually have it switched on. So let me just quickly show you this because it is amazing.  I think you're gonna be pleasantly surprised by this. Let me just come over to this view for a moment. There we go. It is the iClever BK05 is the one you want. And if I just come onto here, you can see you can choose between red backlighting, green backlighting, and blue backlighting. I mean, that's a really nice touch actually. Certainly if you're on planes and things like that, the red in the very dark environment, if you're on a night flight and you're working through the night, the red certainly works well, but it's nice to have these three different colors actually. Like I say, I can't demo that because I got the other model because this one sadly wasn't available in Thailand. I did look at it actually to get it from Amazon, obviously. But what I noticed was there was quite a lot of shipping and import duties to allow for it to come in. So you can see that it's almost one and a half times as much as the product itself is for shipping to Thailand, which is where I am. So I figured, and as well, not knowing how well it was gonna perform, I figured I'd just get the one that I could get locally, but now I might be looking to, might be looking to get this one, but I don't really do much night flying these days. In fact, I don't really move that far from the house. I'm either in the house or in the coffee shop. Now, one thing to be aware about if you are, I'll leave a link to this one in the description below, but when you are looking for these, there is an easy mistake to make. So this is the iClever BK05. There is an iClever BK03. This is actually the first model that they bought out quite some time ago now. And as you can see, it looks pretty much identical from these pictures. However, what you'll see is when you look at it closer up, it has actually only got the number row and the function keys are, literally you have to press a function key first to activate them. And it's much, much smaller as well. It is one of these sort of micro keyboards, if you like. So you can almost see I guess where this guy's hands are. It is really tiny. So if you are looking for a much smaller folding keyboard, this is, I think when it's folded up is about the width of a plus size iPhone. Then this is another option. There is another one that they make, which is interesting, which basically combines this keyboard, but they've actually built in a trackpad to it as well.   But the prices of these are all pretty similar, actually. The one with the trackpad is about the same as the one that I'm using, or at least the backlit version of the one I'm using. And then the teeny tiny one is a little bit less. I'm really happy with it. I've only been using it for a little while now, but I will be doing a sort of full in-depth review, I guess, after I've been using it for a couple of months because, yeah, see how it works sort of in the field as it were, but certainly my first impressions of it, I've been using it for a few days are very good and it's working exactly as advertised. It feels sturdy as well. It does also, if this is an issue, not an issue, if this is a selling point, it does come with a little sort of velvety bag.  It also just is instant on and off. So when it's closed, it's off. And then when you want to get to work, you literally just open it up like that and then that's it, it's on. The pairing of it is pretty simple. You've got the function key down here and then you've got a little pairing button there. So you just select the particular one, two or three Bluetooth that you want and then select pairing and it will come on. You can also check the battery level by pressing that. It will just flash to tell you how full the battery is. But like I say, I don't think you need to worry too much about battery. I think with the backlight on, then battery life is more like about 10 hours, something like that. Don't quote me on that. But certainly without the backlighting, then even if you're using the backlit model, but just with that function turned off, then yeah, it's something like 100 hours or something. So I'll give this a full test and see how long it lasts. But yeah, certainly the build quality feels great. The functionality is great. And I think I have now just made myself that much more productive in the coffee shop. Maybe I'm just looking for an excuse to go to the coffee shop more now that things have opened up a bit. I'm not too sure, but in any case, it's a really great product. I'll leave a link to all three models down in the description below, obviously. And if you found this useful, then while you're down there, obviously don't forget to hit the like button, subscribe and turn on notifications. And if you're really feeling like you've found it useful, then you can also head over to my Buy Me A Coffee page buymeacoffee.com slash take one tech. So I've just got distracted. Somebody's just come into the room. How rude, nevermind. For now, that is all for the micro keyboards or folding keyboards, but I'll leave a link to some more great content over on the right hand side. So don't go anywhere, stick around and I'll see you in the next video.


Two things to consider to plan lessons effectively. Lesson planning is at the heart of being an effective teacher. It is a creative process that allows us to make our understanding of second language acquisition, and language teaching pedagogy with our knowledge of our learners, the curriculum, and the teaching context. It is a time when we foresee the learning we want to occur, and analyze how all the pieces of the learning experience should fit together, to make that learning a classroom reality. Lesson planning There are several benefits to writing a lesson plan. First, lesson planning produces more unified lessons. It allows teachers to think deliberately about their choice of lesson objectives, the types of activities that will meet these objectives, the sequence of those activities, the materials needed, how long each activity might take, and how students should be grouped. Teachers could see how the links between one activity and the next, the relationship between the current lesson and any past or future lessons, and the correlation between learning activities and assessment practices. Because the teacher has considered these connections, and can now make the connections explicit to learners, the lesson will be more meaningful to them. Self-evaluation The lesson planning process allows teachers to evaluate their knowledge with regard to the content to be taught. If a teacher must teach, for example a complex grammatical structure and is not sure of the rules, the teacher would become aware of this during lesson planning, and can take steps to acquire the necessary information. Similarly, if a teacher is not sure how to pronounce a new vocabulary word, this can be remedied during the lesson planning process. The opportunity that lesson planning presents to evaluate one's knowledge is particularly advantageous for teachers of English for specific purposes, because these teachers must be not only language experts, but also familiar with different disciplines like business, engineering, or law, fields that use language in specialized ways. A teacher with a plan is a more confident teacher. The teacher is clear on what needs to be done, how, and when. The lesson will tend to flow more smoothly because all the information has been gathered, and the details have been decided upon beforehand. The teacher will not waste class time flipping through the textbook or thinking of what to do next. The teacher's confidence will inspire more respect from the learners thereby reducing discipline problems, and helping the learners to feel more relaxed and open to learning. Record of your work. Lesson plans can be useful for substitute teachers who face the challenge of teaching another teacher's class, and appreciate receiving a detailed lesson plan to follow. Knowing that the substitute is following the plan also gives the regular classroom teacher confidence, that the class time is being used productively in his or her absence. Also lesson plans can document for administrators the instruction that is occurring. If a supervisor wants to know what was done in class two weeks ago, the teacher only must refer to that day's lesson plan. Finally, lesson plans can serve as evidence of a teacher's professional performance. Teachers applying for new jobs might be asked to submit lesson plans as part of their job application, so that employers can get a sense of their organizational skills and teaching style. Do you want to plan your lessons effectively and teach English all over the world? Take a TEFL course today. However, some school of thought suggests that lesson planning is not a good idea as it creates a more fixed teacher-centered lesson. Too much reliance on planning can indeed make lessons rather rigid and stop the teacher being flexible to the needs of the students. However, it is very difficult for inexperienced teachers to be able to be as flexible as this would require. The teacher is expected to let the students decide what to do in the class, but an inexperienced teacher would find great difficulty in being able to conduct a lesson. In short, the benefits of having a lesson plan far outweigh the cons of not having one. Here on the left for more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online.