Today we want to talk about Stackless. Former name was Stackless Python. I don't know how many people know about this project already. It is a rather old one. And in the last couple of months a lot of changes have been made. A lot of enhancements which really make Stackless very usable and a drop in replacement for C Python. And that's mostly the work of my colleagues. And one of them is Ansem Koiz who is giving the majority of this talk today. I think to do an introduction about what Stackless Python is. And then we get to the new things and... But please interrupt me when I'm quibbling too much. I would do the same for you. Okay, so... Is that good? How is it looks? It was okay. Presentation mode? Okay. So what is Stackless? It has been around since 1998 and had its shadow existence behind regular Python and it is kind of a niche product which tries to do things that normal Python cannot do. So it is called that Stackless is a Python that does not use the C stack. That's a lie because of course it does use the C stack. It does not have problems because of that because the C stack is always built up and removed again. So Stackless means that there is no dependency from the C stack. And that is the main reason to be able to do task switching and other stuff. So actually Stackless is a Python version that does not keep state on the C stack. It has some state sometimes but at certain times where it can perform some context switch, this stack state is removed completely. So it's breathing up and down until something else has to be run. So this is... Yeah, theoretically in an ideal world it would work this way but in the real world in 90% of all cases it works in this cooperative manner but not always. So Stackless is like C Python. Unless you import the Stackless module there's nothing changed at all. Not even the behavior, the creation of recursion level limits and all of that. It's all original C Python. It can do a little bit more than C Python. So there's a Stackless module and you can import the Stackless module and that suddenly creates a lot of new... a few new functions with a lot of possibilities. So it looks a little bit like an extension module but it is no extension module because Stackless Python requires quite a lot of changes to the interpreter. This does not change the way how you use it and it does not change the format of pickled things or anything else but the way the virtual machine is working is different from that from C Python and I think Stackless does it the right way and C Python does not but that's a long fight. I will probably lose in the end. So yeah, what is really... what is it about Stackless? Yeah, you have a little tiny... tiny programs. These tiny programs can be switched forth and back. You can communicate over channels between these tiny programs. The tiny programs are called tasklets. It's similar to so-called micro threads but there are no threads at all. A tasklet is just a tiny piece of program that runs a while and at some point it decides to yield its time slice to someone else and then it continues in another place in the program and that's a difference to C Python. That's something that was invented for C Python in 3.3 or 3.4 I think by using yield from constructions or so Stackless had that since 19 or since 2002 I think. Okay, so actually we have tasklets which are a little like coroutines and this can switch freely between each other and the ability to do so is yeah is the way the interpreter is constructed which is non-recursive but it's only doing small calls and going back before it switches to something else so we have no contention of the C stack which in C Python you have the C stack and if you have three nested calls of a Python function you also have three nested calls of C functions which do this Python function and that's exactly what Stackless does not. Okay, here's a little example we have some cooperative multitasking we import Stackless we define two functions receiving tasklet and a sending tasklet and then we just start them I did some examples just in order to save me from typing because typing is not so well but we can have some examples afterwards so let me skim over this so when the tasklets are communicating you see some protocol where you see that they are jumping from one context to the other and well some people might say why don't you just use the greenlet the greenlet is actually quite famous and very complete and good implementation of the task searching it does that with some technology from Stackless Python which is called hard switching it does that by slicing the C stack into small pieces and really brute force context switching so it is quite perfect because the greenlet has been unmaintained for many years and it's always working because it does not know anything about the things it is switching so it is very stable and very major but it has the drawback that it's slower than Stackless Python and it has some things that it cannot do so the technology of the greenlet is quite close to Stackless 2.0 where we only had this hard switching grabbing pieces of the stack and moving them around the soft switching does that in a cooperative manner so the stack is actively unwound and the context switching is built into the interpreter and that is much more work because it's harder to maintain it's also much more efficient and has some other advantages we come to that later so we might talk about the hard switching but I think maybe not now hard switching and soft switching is some real difference between Stackless and greenlets but the real thing actually is with Stackless Python we can pick a program state so we don't have only the ability to switch around like greenlets can do but we can pick the program state we can run a program to a certain point then take a snapshot of the program and take that snapshot on another machine or tomorrow or whenever in the cloud and continue the program from where it was picked so I have a little demonstration that takes simple recursive functions just to show how that you have a recursive function that calls itself until certain level and then winds back and well if you run that then you see the function prints one to nine then some word and then it goes back comes out of its recursion and the interesting thing is when we restart that program later on then we can see it continues exactly at the point where the program state was saved and continues to run that part of the execution okay yeah okay okay this is the we have that as a running demo as well and I think we should show it right now or later now okay okay so I have well do I need to make this bigger okay I run the program this is the recursive run and it's a little bit enhanced the example I worked on that yesterday the recursive function goes to a certain point comes back and then it says well I was recorded on Darwin so it was recorded on this platform I can now run it it has written its output as a pickle into a tasklet dot pickle and I can run the program again and give it the the pickle as an argument and you can see here at the point where at the high that was the the the program state was written to the pickle and here where we restarted the pickle it was it came out of the recursion so the the stack with with all the recursive calls was pickled and was now revived and continued to run and we can do even more because sorry so I will now it's dangerous because I'm now starting Windows and I have prepared a Windows share let me see if it works okay yeah we are now in the same on the same virtual drive in the virtual parallel windows machine and we have the same program here and I can run that okay so I started the same program on Windows it returned from the curtain and tells us I was recorded on Darwin but continued on win 32 and it's actually really the same tasklet pickle we recorded you look at the timestamp just four minutes from now and actually we are using this technique in production at large important German auto manufacturer is how to make us to control high performance computing jobs where you start on the desktop engineer on the desktop of an engineer running Windows and then move a program to an HPC cluster running Linux so that's working well okay so I will do the same thing the other way around and then close the Windows shell because okay so I did the same thing here no I'm stopping the parallel desktop and run the same thing on the other side and let's see what it tells us now yeah I was recorded on win 32 but continued on Darwin so just so everybody believes that we moved a running program from Mac OS 64 bit to Windows 32 bit and it still works okay well that's just a summary of think about what you already told us green that was a stack less yep okay now she skips this slide yeah I think I said it all right okay so the reason why stackless really makes a difference is oh it's still a bug we have the persistence we can use persistence the cloud computing move running programs around use a different computer use a different operating system do it in a cloud the cloud is the only thing that I didn't show right now we can save snapshots you can also use multiple snapshots and whatever you want so actually you can do with stackless everything you can do with regular python it's fully compatible to regular c python and it's much it's even much more fully compatible now as it was before yes indeed we fixed some corner cases where extension modules that didn't adhere to the coding standards for python extension modules didn't work with the stackless unfortunately there are quite a few and important extension modules of this kind for instance pie side and pie side is a very important thing I'm working with pie side since 2011 and I could not use stackless Python it was crazy in spring this year this problem has been solved now it runs really well with yeah right I actually actually I have another thing to show um what you see here is a little puzzle game and this puzzle game is that visible yeah this possible puzzle game is written in is a demo from pie side and this runs on top of stackless python so the old problem has been solved we can well and so on another little demo is for instance so we have a little painter demo painter demo some different colors which are painted uh with different styles and certain rotations so all great things it's actually stuff for for an extra cute pie cutie or pie side talk I was just so happy that this now really works with stackless so I had to show that the last thing uh a nice embedded dialogues here we go this is um a projection of a dialogue into an open gl perspective and so it's very sophisticated huge stuff here and you can have that all in uh in stackless python now so yes yep I think that was about what I wanted to show and say and I might pass over to you now okay so um there's also a few things that stackless can use for uh Christian didn't mention yet so um you can use the build as a primitive functions stackless provides especially the task is in the channels to build a control structures for higher level scheduling paradigm so you can we can implement for instance a c-sharp style async programming or um we can implement so go less things uh Christian could uh tell something about it I'm not so in this business I'm more in the um pickling and migration of programs so now we have seen what stackless is and we have to talk about the stackless project too um the stackless project well who is it that's all so we are some uh of course the maintainers uh and but also all stackless users so who's using stackless and well there are a few uh few well-known users as a nagari I hope I pronounce is correct a web framework is based on stackless then ccp games the company behind their eave online multi-user online game you probably know it yes as some spacecrafts flying around and so very cool graphics and I can show it here I have it on the machine well actually um they use stackless since many years and have bought a large part of their infrastructure on stackless then there are few less known users um customers of the company I work for science and computing using stackless pisons on a few thousand systems and the systems all together have over a hundred thousand cores so that's quite a bit and well then there are also unknown users so I recently uh looked at the um access log files of www.stackless.com and I was very surprised to find that we have about 220 downloads of the windows installer each day and 85 downloads of the source archive so I don't know who's downloading it but obviously someone does it and we also uh see that 98 percent of the windows installer downloads are for pyson 2.7 and for the source archives are 96 percent for pyson 2 so it looks like the production usage of pysons three is quite low so uh Christian already talked about the history and stackless was formerly known as stackless pyson I will probably say something about it and it's invented by Christian and I think the first version was a 1.5 is this correct? Yes the first was a 5 and 1.5 and it was continuation based and much more complicated so the history is the same Christian knows best but this talk is not about ancient times and the history of stackless pyson but about the recent changes some more information about the stackless project who's working on that well we are just a few uh volunteers Christian and son Christian Willard Johnson Richard Tew the what's the pronunciation of Richard? Richard Tew? Yes that's correct and myself and all in all we have it's less than one full-time equivalent yeah so so we can't do very much we have a few resources um so it's a stackless website stackless.com so you can get stackless pyson and so it's a primary address for this project then we have the documentation it's now hosted on Reeds and Docs and so it's very fortunate because we can now host as a documentation for every version of stackless so that's really a good thing and since a short time we have moved the development environment a bit bucket and we have the project stackless depth stackless and also I have a project for the stackless as a installer that can be used with the installer pip and I have to say we have a really really happy that there's a wonderful infrastructure provided by BitBucket and Reeds and Docs without this infrastructure it wouldn't be possible to maintain such a project so how can you use stackless well you have to install it obviously yes and there are few options the simplest and most common way is probably to get the installer from stackless.com and the installer is available for Windows and for Macintosh OS X so just download it and install it it's a usual MSI installer I don't know the format that Mac is yes and that's something really great because the installer for OS X I used that the first time now it just replaced my standard CPython from python.org it continued to run with all installed extensions because it simply swapped out the interpreter so I was very pleased with that it's a great experience now to have installers I never used installers but but now I'm very keen on that sorry yes that's fine and then we have for the Linux people and also for Windows if you have on Windows and using virtual and for instance and great way to install a stackless we made an installer an umbrella installer that that's a stackless python here and and if you install this umbrella installer with pip or easy install it detects your system and then in a second stage downloads a pre-compiled package that only almost only contains the Python library and executable and three or four library modules and installs them in a way that doesn't hurt your existing python installation you get a new command SL python stackless python and well it's working because stackless is almost CPython so we have no problem to implant this new command into an existing installation of course on linux if you do this for the system python you need appropriate access why it's probably you have to be rude and finally you can get to source code and compile it just as you can do it for the regular CPython and if you need something like a debug build or special installation options then that's the way to go so if something doesn't work that's all final theory but the practice is sometimes different but first stackless is major yes for the biggest part it's just CPython and 2.7 is uh now really solid and it has many users so usually things work stackless 3.3 is also good that's currently the only maintained version of python 3 we don't maintain a 3.2 or we don't release uh for 3.2 anymore because may I add that right now we have stackless python 2.7.8 which is very complete and working we failed to finish the python stackless 3.4 version and we want to do that on the sprint in the next few days maybe it works so it's actually my intent is to support python 3 as much as possible but it's quite some hacking and fixing so yeah so there are a few bugs in the area of pickling because that's where we have stackless specific extensions and also as python 3.4 got an extra and new version of the pickling protocol but we invited to participate in this yeah so if something still doesn't work we have the mailing list and we and you can always open an issue on our big bucket side and sometimes you might need commercial support and well unfortunately there's a that's a bit of a difficult topic you can ask christian he is probably will help you if you can and you could and negotiate an agreement with science and computing but we are more focused on bigger companies so the agreement might be too expensive but we can provide stackless support around the world 24 hours a day and 7 days a week if it is necessary and then I think you had a we had something you wanted to show interactively and we're running out of time oh okay fine yes good I will just go to the reason that one month um we switched I told already told it we improved stackless a bit low level tasks with methods are now much more complete and importance that customer interest scheduling is working more stable we are better have a better compatibility with c-poison and the documentation has been updated and we got a better debugger support recently so that's very important and a few other bug fixes and we also did something that didn't work out the documentation it's now on read the docs and that's the most important point and it is the retro c-poison documentation and a stackless specific at the end of an additional chapter and this chapter is now also complete and correct it wasn't sometimes ago and we also adhere to the pysons software foundation trademark uses policy for the trademark pyson and that's also the reason we changed the name because as a PSF says you should not use the name pyson alone so the source code also contains a well maintained change log file now and our wiki pages still need some love I probably will go over the technical details very quick we have a more complete set of low level methods and you can find that in the documentation it's usually not so interesting but we have here an image and it shows you that we have added a few that's a state chart of the tasklet yes and the tasklet is created it's not alive and then it's alive and scheduled eventually and you see we have added a few red arrows that weren't available previously so you're no much more flexible we have an enhanced functionality in the schedulers it's not long necessary to run the scheduler from the main tasklet you can run it from every other tasklet or from within a library or something like that kristian valio johnson implemented it and he was very excited about it but it's fairly new and there are no I don't know any application of this new functionality yet custom scheduling is no possible using the new method tasklet switch it simply transfers the control from the caller to the argument of the tasklet switch function and that's independent from the scheduler and it's an atomic operation so you can build your own scheduling based on it um there are known applications for instance we have in the stacker slip that's a library collection of functions you could use for your programs with stackers yarn it's not really necessary to use them up but there's a module called async and it is c-sharp style asynchronous programming and it also provides some futures pys and futures based on uh targets can you quickly show your interactive so let's move on uh multi-interstrate scheduling is probably not so interesting uh sub-classing also we have bug fixes already kristian showed you the pysite working and we have better debugger support now because we added some hooks for debuggers and we got uh two new eds working the wingward debugger is support stackers since ever since ever but now uh pydef and uh all the py charm started supporting stackers and hi yes yes yes yeah here we are so i will show the pydef debugger and we have a very very simple program it's an demonstration program from the stacker source and it shows you how to implement a mood tax uh using uh channels and uh targets that's really not important if you run this program i simply um run it yes it has some output yes uh we have here the three named uh targets and say uh the target function is this function f and while it acquires a lot as a mood tax and then it schedules it passes the control to back to the scheduler and then it releases the mood tax again and if you run it you see uh well it's a expected output yeah so run uh interleaved into each other so now let's debug it i already set up breakpoint here and we debug it as a python run um pydef switches to the uh python debug perspective and we are here so we step over that's the question of the task let's debug is that's false yes so now let's step into and here you see the uh actually the sweats or frame stacks that are known to the debugger now i switch here and we see how we got um still the main thread is now f but we got a paused main task that of main sweat and if you look here yeah that's the run that was the main task so now it's a different task that running so let's stop uh this one we will get the lock that's that's not surprisingly because we are the first task that uh so hey we're back here but now if we look oh there's another target so we have no three and you see uh that's the scheduled target ticks that was the target we have seen previously and it's sitting here in the schedule and writing to be reactivated and again but now if we look go into lock here with uh we will see here it blocks yes now we have the third target so you see the debugger perfectly supports uh the switching between the tasks and the switching between the context of the execution and that's important where without this support you wouldn't be able to debug this reasonably so i just continue it and done with it now and i think we have very few things still to say um future goals in the immediate futures we would like to find additional volunteers to help us yes then stack us as 3.4.1 and we also would like to install the pip installer to cover more versions especially pass and 3 and later yes we will probably still need additional ideas and uh i also would like to update the stackless implementation such as contained in pipi yes that's also something we could try on on a sprint to work on that because that's a few changes and it's quite a mixed of stackless programming with the pipi guys maybe interesting and well there are some uh things we also have done that was a thing that didn't work out we had problems with the visual studio install uh compiler with the old visual studio 2008 and um then we made a patch uh to build uh python 2.7 with the visual studio 2010 and if you don't change the name of the python dll then you can get serious problems because if the dll was um compiled with a different compiler it uses different c runtime library and this can cause all sort of problems in the end we uh currently can't publish it because we have no resources and it's so the possible violation of the trademark python and so it's uh still amounts are in our repository but it's uh well that's the question do we want to support a non-existent python 2.8 in the form of a stackless 2.8 which grabs all the things that are missing from c python or do we not want to do that and i know there are a couple of people who think it's a great idea and other people are there who think it's a very bad idea so we are really undecided and wanted to leave that to hear your opinions about should we do something about that yes okay and so surely we can't do it without participation yes and probably it would also need some funding yes so that's all and any questions so far


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All the calisthenics for another lesson. If you haven't yet, click subscribe for Tim Tells what today's lesson is. Today's lesson is an exciting one. We're going to talk about how to get dead strong. So today we're going to talk about how to get dead strong. What that means is that there's certain movements in calisthenics where we've got to transition from something where we haven't got any movement, any momentum, a very still position into producing force. So there's a number of different practicalities of that, but we have to train it quite specifically. We can't just assume it's going to happen. So Jaco's going to give us some examples.  Yet you've been working on your wall handstand push-ups where you go up and down, up and down. You can bust maybe five, six, seven, eight, even 10 of those out. But every time you're going down and coming back up you're actually using momentum from the rep on the way down to help you get back up. And this idea of what Tim's going to go through in terms of starting from dead positions, static positions, that's what you've got to do with that frog to handstand transition. You're there in that frog stand. You've got no momentum, nothing's moving and you've got to be able to create starting strength or that force at the beginning from that static position to get yourself up. It's the same for your muscle up, the starting position of your muscle up, you're hanging there, you've got no momentum. It's difficult to get that static strength to go up.  And Tim's going to go through some of the science behind why that momentum helps and what the body is actually doing. To the graphic of the stretched shortening cycle to put it into context a little bit, eccentric phase is when the muscle is going to load, it's going to start to store that energy into our concentric, but it all revolves around this bit here, the amortization phase. A word you've probably never heard before, but it basically means the transition between the eccentric and the concentric. Now, the longer that is, the more energy we lose, the faster it is, the more we store and therefore convert. So if we're going to try and train for a dead strength position, what we need to do is extend this bit. So if we're going to work into our handstand pushup example, it might be going down onto the ground, holding that dead position or getting the head on the ground for sort of two, three seconds, killing the movement and then producing force out. That's how it's going to apply in some of the positions. And it explains why that second, as was that example, we gave that second rep of your muscle up where you come down fast and you spring out of that bottom position where that is as minimal as possible. That explains why that second rep feels better. And then we're going to go through some examples for you where we can do it on some of the simpler things, even just as simple as our pushup, how we can elongate or lengthen that phase there with that pull so we can start to build up that dead strength that we're going to be putting in. I think you can feel that. If you come down a second rep of muscle up, you literally feel that spring bringing you back out of it. And this is all about understanding how to train for what you, to get the benefit that you want. Like if you want to do some more kind of rep those out and get the benefit of this, sometimes you use our elastic response because it helps. Other times you might find that actually you can't do something and then you need to switch your training strategy up and this is one of those things that you might have in your locker to pull out and go right. And it's going to go and train some dead strength for the next block of work. So let's get some practicals and we'll put this into interaction and see how it all fits in. We're going to have a look at this stretch shortness cycle in action using the handstand pushup. So I'm going to get a jacket, just a bantical reps out. You're going to see the difference in how easy it is.  The difference comes if I ask him to drop in, pause that bottom position for a couple of seconds and then try and produce a force. I'm going to get him to kill it completely. So head's going to go on the floor pretty much. Take all the tension out and he's going to drop in. So we're going to go one, two and then you now he's got to try and drive out of that. You can see the speed that he's coming out of that movement. He's not making it up for the purpose of the video. It's genuinely a more difficult thing to do to actually start to get strength and produce force in a dead position as opposed to using that elastic stored energy that we talked about with the stretch shortness cycle. Woo! That's hot. That bottom position, that amortization phase there, two or three seconds long, makes a big difference. So if you want to just rip that out to kind of put some strength in the shoulders, then you can just go for eight reps of the bounce. But if you're working towards a more specific transition or something which requires you to move from nothing to something, then this kind of practice is going to be really useful in your training. Yeah, I think it comes in in that, those that are trying to work on that frog stand, getting round and up into that handstand, that starting position of your frog is a static position.   You're not able to use that stretch shortening cycle by coming in and bouncing out when you're doing free standing handstand push-up. So it's really, really relevant for that. And you can see it's hard like I'm out of breath and I'm in two of them. So we probably dropped the reps down for that. It becomes more like a maximum strength type exercise for a lot of people. And again, you can use progressions within this. But you might be working rather than going eight to 10, you might be working five reps of those. Just go down, hold that position and drive out. And then that will have a great transfer back into these positions that we're talking about. We're going to try and get that transition from nothing to something. So we'll also look at the muscle up now. And then Tim's going to give us a demonstration of starting from that dead position having the strength to come out of there and then seeing the difference it is or how hard it is compared to when he does his second rep when he's going to come back down and actually use that stretch shortening cycle to come back up. Okay, so Tim's going to jump on. You see it starts in his that completely dead position. So now he's got to create all of that strength, that tension himself. And you see it's not easy at all. But now when he comes back down, he's going to come in, hits that position and springs back out. The second rep is an awful lot easier because he's using that stretch shortening cycle. Thanks for the demonstration, Tim. But he's using that stretch shortening cycle. So if you want to get better at your, your muscle ups are getting out of that position. First thing is when you're doing your pull-ups and you're practicing your work, make sure we're getting into that deep position. We're actually going to that full range of the bomb.  But then work from that dead position and it links into the stuff we did on the previous muscle-up. Why you can't muscle-up yet to do with the speed of when you're doing those high pulls, get to that bottom position, kill your rep and then drive up and see how hard you can get. So Tim, just give us a demonstration. Let's say he's going to be on the bar. He's not going to do his actual muscle. He's just going to go for his high pull but he's dead in that position and then he's going to create all of that tension. Bang, gets the bar below his chest and he stops again and he's dead before he goes and then does that second rep. Perfect. Yeah, so keep working on those. Dead hang, straight up, fast, nice and high for those muscle-ups. If that's difficult for you, you can put a band on like we showed you before. We can start to work the strength out of this dead position. We can apply that principle of starting from dead positions or going down and killing it before we push back out to any of the exercises you want to do. Something from me, if you're going to be working on your frog stands and getting out of that frog stand, something that would be great to do that on would be pike push-ups, so having your feet up, coming down, pausing at the bottom, nose just brushing the floor and once there's no momentum and then driving back up after like a two, three second pause, you can do it as simply as in just normal push-ups. I bet if you can do 10, you're a beginner, you can do 10 push-ups up and down, up and down, up and down. How many can you do if you go down, stop, wait for two seconds, three seconds and then push back up. You might want to be able to do five or six. It's one of those ideas of just starting to look at your training and to develop strength in a lot of different positions. Calisthenics is you're going to move from one to the next, you're going to find all of this when you hit a stumbling block and if you're kind of not quite there where you're thinking about tiger bend push-ups or anything like that, it's a good time just to start to put something into your program, see how you are at it, see if you're any good at it and if there's a little bit of work there to do, then just get into it. I think it's a great little addition to training a program, adds a different stimulus to it. Yeah, if you haven't done this before pausing, you're going to notice that it makes it flipping 10 times harder and without having to find a different progression that's harder or add a weighted vest on, this is going to keep you progressing because all of a sudden you go from being able to do 10 or something to be able to do three of them and then you can build up your strength that way. You can also impress your friends by saying that you are just going to extend the amortization phase today. Yeah. Science boring, but it's just my approach. Just how we roll. Drop that into your conversation if you can, get your bonus points for that. If you can pronounce amortization then you're doing well as well. If you haven't yet subscribed, click there. If you haven't got a free beginner's guide, that's down there. And then if you have one, want to have a look at some of our other high twos, that's up by Tim Zed. Until next time. Class dismissed.


He went on a third quarter heater 19 of the 45 points coming in the third. How'd you do it? Just teammates that great screens for me the paint was opened up because we were spaced out properly and you know I was able to knock some shots down So I want to keep it up and look forward to the next game. When do you know that you're in the rhythm for a binge like that? When I wake up They closed out back-to-back wins in his many nights where would you assess where the team is at right now a little over the Quarterway of the season. Yeah, I mean we've been through a lot so far You know getting the 500 is definitely a goal of ours a couple last couple of weeks We've been right at the cusp, but you know, we just want to keep progressing I like where we are like that guys on the same page and coach the staffs on the same page So we'll see what happens going forward and congratulations. Thanks for the time Hope it's another successful wake-up call for you tomorrow. Thank you


I'm looking into the Antarctic Springtail, which is a small little bug in Antarctica. It's about one and a half millimetres. They're pretty much top of the food chain in Antarctica. So it's a really simple system, and these are the biggest guys in the little soils there. There's the Southern McMurdo Dry Valleys, which is this expanse of desert, and there's only one species there, and it's not until you get to this area called the Mackay Glacier that the two other rarer species occur. And these are actually quite rare and haven't actually been studied very much. So some of the only records we've got of them date back to the 60s. We were actually getting the first records of species from these locations and or going to a spot that hasn't seen springtails or haven't. Springtails haven't been collected from there since the 60s. So we've actually discovered three distinct new populations, which are quite different from the other ones. Much of Antarctic research is trying to answer the big question of what's going to happen to these systems in the future as a result of global climate changes. But one of the main limitations of that is we still don't really know what's there now. And until we discover these things and find out baseline levels of diversity, then we won't be able to predict what's going to happen in the future. And there's so much of Antarctica and that's still unexplored and undersampled.


Following the incessant kidnapping of students across the country, the Adamawa State Police Command has vowed to ensure and secure both private and government schools in the state from kidnappers. The State Police Commissioner, Adamua Liu, disclosed this during an interaction with journalists at the Command's headquarters in Yola, the Adamawa State Capitol. Students in Adamawa State, northeast Nigeria are yet to experience any incident of kidnapping of boating students since the incident started, but the police have promised to safeguard all schools across the state. Insecurity is rife in Adamawa, but the State Police Command also appears battle-ready to flush out miscreants. Part of the strategy adopted is that we engage all the principals and the leaders of all schools, secondaries, primary, and we keep patrolling most of the schools, and we equally go to the extent of advising the management of those schools to employ the services of vigilante and all these hunters, which we collaborate with them and we visit them, but visit give them support. Nigeria Union of Teachers at Adamawa appeals to government to take serious measures that will give students the confidence to study without fear or threat. On government's position regarding local hunters and other security outfits in all the schools across the country, the State Chairman of NUT has this advice. Parents and other education stakeholders in Adamawa can only hope that with adequate government support for the police and other security outfits in the state, students and indeed all citizens can sleep with their two eyes closed.


Any effort to eradicate hunger and malnutrition begins with making sure food systems provide a variety of healthy foods that are accessible and affordable to all consumers, including the most vulnerable. Food systems should also provide equitable income opportunities and have neutral or positive impact on the environment. Small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, make up the bulk of agri-food businesses worldwide. Representing a significant part of all formal agri-businesses and more than half of their full-time workforces. Yet, there's still little awareness of the role SMEs can play in making food systems supportive of healthy diets and nutrition. FAO supports SMEs on many fronts globally and locally to improve their contribution to sustainable food systems and healthy diets. In Ghana, Kenya and Vietnam, FAO and its local partners have introduced mentoring programs for local enterprises, seeking to boost skills and competencies so they perform better in local markets. FAO and its public sector partners are also working to create the conditions needed for SMEs to contribute to healthy diets. This includes working with local universities to mainstream nutrition into academic curricula for both agriculture and nutrition professionals. FAO is also developing e-learning courses for professionals and policymakers working with SMEs, introducing tools and innovative approaches to the role of SMEs in food systems. Nutrition is a worthy investment towards sustainable development and SMEs can make the difference in breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty and malnutrition.


Hey guys, it's Liana and I'm here today to talk about Odell Hatred by Joe Abercrombie. Well, yes, I do have quite a few additions here, so let's just go through them real quick. Oh, if you don't know what Odell Hatred is or Joe Abercrombie, then you're new to my channel and he's the bestest ever. So I have here the Ark, which my friend sent to me. I have the Goldsboro Edition with sprayed pages. I have the Barnes and Noble Edition, which is signed. I have the Waterstones Edition that has an extra story, and I have the regular, was whatever edition that was sent to me by the publisher. So which one should I hold up while I talk? The US cover or the UK cover? This one's very shiny, so oh, maybe I'll hold up the less shiny one. That seems like a good plan. So yeah, I'm super excited. I haven't had a new Abercrombie book to talk about, like, well, since I started my channel, he hasn't had a new book come out. So this is very, very exciting. A Little Hatred takes place in the world of the first law. I have a couple videos. I have one video that's about the first law, like, world, maybe that's it. I feel like my channel is, like, all Abercrombie content all the time, but really, honestly, it's not, because he doesn't have, like, a million new books to talk about. Anyway, the world of the first law is the first law trilogy, and then three stand-alones that also take place in that universe, and then a series of short stories. And now this is his return to the universe. And this is kind of a continuation of the trilogy, but the events of the stand-alones, which chronologically take place after the trilogy, are also, like, have affected the world. So you can't really, I mean, I guess it's being sold as, like, its own new series. It's the Age of Madness Book One. I think you could read it without having ever read any Abercrombie before and, like, get it. You would know what's going on, but a lot of what makes it amazing and great is the nuance that you only pick up on if you've read the previous books. So technically, you can read it first, like, and only. But I wouldn't recommend that, because part of the joy of it is these characters that you either know something about, have heard something about, or they are the children of characters that you have heard about, know something about, or followed before. So a lot of the, like, subtleties and nuances to the relationship dynamics, you don't have to pick up on them to know what's going on, but he's done the work of, like, building that into it, and it's, like, an absolute joy to read that part. So to get maximum enjoyment, I wouldn't recommend reading this without having read, at the very least, the first-law trilogy, but ideally, the stand-alones as well. So yeah, this takes place, like, 30-ish years after the first-law trilogy ends. And I guess it's kind of spoilery for the first-law trilogy, too, because there's some characters that have survived from the first-law trilogy to be in here, so that means that they didn't die. And that's a big spoiler in an Abercrombie book, since people drop like flies. So this follows, I guess it also spoils some other character relationships, regardless. This is kind of following the next generation. So you've got Giselle's kid, Glockda's kid, you've got the dogman's kid, and then they're all in it too, Glockda, Giselle, and the dogman. And then there's a bunch of new characters as well. It's not just rehashing the oldies into a new generation. There's new characters, too. I mean, honestly, the part that had me most excited, and it did not let me down, was Sandan Glockda being back. Oh, I miss Glockda so much. Such a weird character to fangirl over. Like, I feel like most people are like, you know, my book boyfriend is Sandan Glockda.  And seeing him with his daughter in his relationship with his daughter.    And it's not just Glockda. I really like the character of his daughter, Savine Dan Glockda. She's an incredibly well-written character, holy moly. Before I read this, I would have said my favorite Abercrombie book of all time is Best Served Cold, and probably one of my favorite female characters he's written is the main character in Best Served Cold on Scarow Mercado, who's known as Monza. But Savine Dan Glockda and A Little Hatred have dethroned those. This is the best Abercrombie book I have yet read, and as you know, I'm a fan, so that's saying something. Oh, this book is so freaking good. It's taken the world of the first blob, what we built up in the trilogy, the politics, the war, the everything, the characters, and built upon it so magnificently. And now he's telling a story that's more rooted in like industrial revolution, populism, that kind of thing. And it feels so relevant, but not in a way that feels too on the nose, if that makes sense. Like, I hate when I read books that are like trying to be relevant. It just is relevant. Like, it's telling a story that stands on its own. Anytime you'd read it, you'd be like, this is an excellent story. But it just happens to be so relevant for the times right now. And so in a meta way, in addition to just being in and of itself, like an extremely well-written and well-told tale, in a meta sense, like it just, it's resonating with me as a present-day reader, so much more than it would have any other time.  The jokes are great. The like grim, dark, gallows humor is fantastic. Once again, Abercrombie has like demonstrated his ability to do character studies, like nobody else. Once again, most of the characters are not likable, at least not entirely likable. And also then, there's things about them that you find extremely problematic. Their selfishness, their short-sightedness, their like, there's multiple layers to these characters. They're all so messy. And Glokta is still Glokta, but also like, he's not exactly who he was 30 years ago, because that wouldn't be realistic or good character development either. But he is Glokta. Like, I still feel like this is the character, and exactly how the character would be 30 years down the road, given his situation, his position, his job, his family. He is exactly as he would be, and oh, it's so, so well done. I was a little nervous about like new characters in the first law, about returning to this world and just being like, it feeling kind of trying to force more into a world that everything's been told already on a thing. You know, like squeezing out on one more. But this is like, it's whole new thing. And it is, I can't wait for the next book. Oh my god, like, I know this just came out, and I read it like in two seconds. But I need the next book now, because, oh my god.  Like, I don't, can I try, I can try to be more articulate, but really it's just, if you love Abercrombie, and you love the way he writes, if you love the way he writes characters in a way that is layered and complex and they surprise you, maybe he writes stories and plot lines that like, they're intricate and complicated, but they're not constantly like, gotcha type twists where it's a twist to be a twist. Like, it's so well constructed and so rooted in like, grim and jaded realism that it's, oh my god, it's just masterful. And watching the pieces of it, you can't really root for any particular side, because all the sides are equally flawed, and you're just watching it unfold, and it's like watching a master conduct an orchestra of depravity. It's a symphony of cynicism. It's incredible. Yeah, again, like the rich people are insufferable and rich and selfish and short-sighted, but the poor people are insufferable and selfish and short-sighted, and all these conflicting and sometimes aligning, but more often conflicting goals of the different moving pieces. Oh my god, it's just so well constructed and well told. Amazing character is amazing writing, because I've talked about that before. Joe Abercrombie's prose is also just artfully written and a joy to read, because he just tells it well in a way that you want to read it. Oh my god, this book was amazing. Like, I was worried, I expected it to be one of the better books I've read this year. Like, I never, I don't think Joe Abercrombie's capable of writing a bad book, but I was like coming back to the first law world, kind of like with the iron gold and going back to the Red Rising world, I was like, is this a good idea? And then iron gold turned out to be my favorite and a little hatred has turned out to be my favorite. So at least in these two cases, returning to the world was a great idea. Apologize for doubting, you know. This was more than I could have ever imagined or hoped for. I expected it to kind of be more of the same, which is great because I loved it before, so more of the same is going to be fine because I liked it. But it was its own thing, but also so, so utterly Abercrombie. Ah, ah, this is a six out of five stars. I just, I kind of want to read it already again because I don't have anything else to do until the next book comes out. Maybe I'll just read all the first law world books again, and maybe by the end of that reread, the next one will be out. We can hope. Let me know in the comments down below if you're an Abercrombie fan, if you've read a little hatred already, I read it like the moment it came out. I started reading the arc of it before it came out, but I read the bulk of it after it came out. So I've been kind of sitting on this review for a couple weeks, and by the time this video is going up, I think it's going to have been like well over a month since I read it. So it's been out. So you had time is what I'm saying?  Read it? It's so good. Oh, after so many disappointments this year, I was so let down by so many of my favorite authors this year. Again, so I was like the curse of 2019. I was like please don't let Abercrombie also be victim to this curse. Like please let his new book be the exception. And it's the exception that made all those disappointments worth it. If the price of this book was hating all those others, I will pay it twice over. This book was everything. And now I've oversold it. So when you pick it up, you're going to be disappointed because I've overhyped it. So forget everything I said, except the part where I said to read it, but like go into it like me expecting like well more first love. I guess you know, that's that's good. Like it'll be fine. Go into it like that is my recommendation. Go into it expecting a decent book and then come back and be excited and blown away with me. Let me know anything and everything in the comments down below. I post videos on Saturdays. So like and subscribe and I'll see you next Saturday. Bye.


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This is Think Tech Hawaii. Community matters here. Aloha. I'm Marcia Joyner and this is Cannabis Chronicles, a 10,000 year odyssey. And as we know, the hemp plant produces lots of wonderful things. It's a God-given plant. It's a weed and it just grows. However, the part of the plant that is for medical cannabis is the flower. And then there is the hashish and then there's the industrial hemp. And all of these wonderful things that God gave us. And then we have little dwarf, which is named Sessions, trying to, oh never mind, let's don't go there. Anyway, today we are going to talk to a beautiful, beautiful, wonderful friend of mine, Tanya Johnson from NOAA Botanicals. Now, NOAA Botanicals is one of the newest dispensaries to come on board. And as you know, the state made all of this legal in 2002. And they're just getting around to opening the dispensaries. Oh God, if you'd been sick and waiting on this, just, anyway, let's do it. Welcome, Tanya. Thank you, Marisa. Thank you.  Thank you, thank you. So tell us exactly what is medical cannabis and how does it differ from recreational cannabis? So the plant itself is the plant. There's some difference between industrial hemp and the cannabis that is regulated federally by the government. And it relates to one component of the plant, which is the THC content. Right. So what's different in Hawaii from the rest of the mainland is that we're medical only, which means you have to meet a qualifying condition and have a medical card to possess, grow your own or buy from a dispensary. The components of and the plant that is used for medical and recreational are the same. It's just different laws. The only difference in states in the mainland that have adopted recreationally says, well, is as a medical patient, you can continue to see discounts on taxes and you in some states can buy higher dosages of the same product that cannot be purchased on the recreational side. Oh, great. So now, since this is Hawaii and is medical only, do you grow your own or how is that done? So that's, it's a unique situation. So I came on board with NOAA after the license was one awarded. And so a little bit, I'm not, I've watched some of your other videos and who you've brought on. What's unique to Hawaii is that we're a vertically integrated model, business model here. And so when the regulations were being put forward and the number of dispensaries was being decided, I wasn't involved in any of that and I wasn't even exposed to the industry at that point. So there are a lot of different business models for the cannabis industry across the United States. Hawaii chose to adopt a vertical system at this point in time. And so what that means is each licensee has to grow, manufacture and sell our own. So when I came on board, standing up this company is essentially standing up four companies at the same time. We're bringing a brand new team together. Once the license was awarded, we had to build a company. And then at the same time, we were a construction company building our facilities. And now you're an agricultural business growing a plant and you're a manufacturing operation taking that plant and turning it into your any product you see, right? Your tinctures, your lozenges, your vape oil, any of that. And then you're now opening and running a retail location as well. Yeah, so we've been open since October 9th. And one of one of the areas of education that we work with the most with our patients who have maybe been to the mainland and been exposed on the mainland to a horizontal model is just that. That anticipating what patients may want and need with a plant that takes four months to grow. And not only what types they might want but the volume that they will purchase. And then the amount of time that it takes once the plant is ready to sell is flower to then go through a manufacturing and extraction process and all of that testing and then put it on the shelf is incredibly challenging. It is. Now you said okay that's four different businesses. All at once. Each licensee has to do that. And so that's why you that's why you may see variety amongst the licensees and when we're getting open what we're opening with what we're able to keep in stock and the frequency with which you know we can restock. So do you let's say that I am a farmer and I know how to grow your particular plant. Could I then just work for you to put this business together and then here's another dispensary that needs my services. Can that person grow? So you know I'm just saying that to create four different businesses. Right I see what you're getting at. So from an ancillary support right service right. So no so when it there are a lot of ancillary businesses that support our industry here in Hawaii that have created new businesses that didn't exist before which I love. I'm sure about that I would think right. So we the company that we get all of our bottles from our local startup that started through UH Shidler that supply all of the dram jars and everything that we need to use. So everywhere we can we're encouraging entrepreneurs who want to attach to the industry somehow to help them figure out how they can do it and service the industry. There are some areas that are very very clear in the law that we cannot. So the plants is a good example. We we cannot sell clones or seeds or even donate clones or seeds to patients or anyone else and we we can't take them either. I was thinking more of another dispensary not not patient but another dispensary. If I say I can build this for you and now I have built this facility for you. I can I like any other contractor go do it for someone else. There is that would depend on each licensees confidentiality agreements right and then there are some things that state regulated during the startup process of whether a particular person or entity could be attached to do two dispensaries at the same time. Yeah just because it's you know there's concern and you know this several business models were presented as the business model that would be right for Hawaii's beginning part of the industry and there are you know benefits and drawbacks of any of those business models. And I was just thinking of all of the allied businesses that can support this because I've since in July I had no idea of any of this and I've just watched it grow just since I've been doing the program and it seems like there's such an opportunity for so many new businesses to support that. Yeah and I agree and I definitely can see a path forward for that and for me personally what this industry itself can do for the economy in the state of Hawaii in a variety of fashions over the next three to five years is encouraging to me it's the amount of time it may take to have that happen. So right now today what can happen are those ancillary businesses can come up. For example there are things that either don't financially make sense for each dispensary to do because we're doing as much as we can to keep the cost as low as possible. We already have so many challenges by being vertically integrated and being a startup still a startup industry right you have to remember that the state got this all going at the same time we all are and so we're working well together but we're all still this is year one right really of anyone being in operation and the majority of the dispensaries aren't open yet we don't even have we have four open right now two on Maui and two here on Oahu. And the two here are so close together across the street from each other and if you live in right what if you're not sure why not but then you've got to so that's a whole day trip. It is and we have patients who you know they plan doctor's appointments or whatever in town I used to live country I grew up in remote remote country and you know you go to town once a month into your Costco shopping and whatever else and then you don't come back again so that's definitely a challenge and we are allowed each a licensee is allowed to have three retail locations but this year in particular will every year in any new business and particularly new industry is a little bit of wait and see with how much risk can we take and so the card the patient card counts are not increasing at the rate we we would had hoped to see and so looking at the expense of opening a second retail location producing enough volume to handle both locations and looking at the number of cardholders currently on the island of Oahu it's a matter of you know of economy now the state says that they issue about 1800 a month so that includes renewals unfortunately right now there's not a way to know whether they're new patients or existing patients renewing so if you were to open a new place that would be retail only yes wouldn't be the growing so each licensee can have two grow centers up to two grow centers and three retail locations so that you could conceivably grow where you are right and just have a storefront absolutely and on the North Shore right so we chose Noah chose to go ahead and build a production facility to handle the capacity of plants and inventory we estimated would be three to five years from now so we wouldn't need to construct our second production facility for a while and could just ramp up the number of plants were growing in our existing facility to handle different retail locations that makes sense to me that yeah rather than build a whole thing out which would increase the cost right so if you just had another retail outlet yeah yeah and that's that's where we all want to be right all of the licensee is want to be able to provide medicine to as many people as possible there are very strict requirements about where our stores can be located in terms of distances to schools or public housing and we're on an island right so all three of the current licensees on a while who our first storefronts are all within a mile of each other and we didn't even know it until we all got close to opening and then we were like you're there oh of course but if you think about it especially on an island you're so it really restricts where you can even have a shop so so while we're all allowed to basically we could eventually have nine dispensary locations on this island nine storefronts right between the three of us where are they all going to go are there even nine locations on the island that fit in all of this criteria so can't be near school can't be public housing public housing it cannot have a lien or a loan on it because you can't have a bank or loan or a mortgage attached to it because it's federally legal so yeah once you go through the whole list it's really very restrictive it's absurd yeah there is you know it is convenient for the patients though to be able to just you know be especially if they're coming from out of town you know they can they can just shop through you know like we do at Alamona so and you know it is I think it's an interesting industry for me to come into having come out of the one that I did so I see it a little bit differently than I hear people speaking about it and working with the regulators so it's it's challenging but I'm also very very glad we're here now today and that we are open we are able to start providing you know medicine to patients well Tanya we need to take a break and we will be right back and with Tanya Johnson from NOAA Botanicals this is Think Tech Hawaii raising public awareness some say scuba divers are the poor man's astronaut at dive heart we believe that to be true we say forget the moon dive heart can help children adults and veterans of all abilities escape gravity right here on earth search dive heart org and imagine the possibilities in your life aloha my name is Mark Shclav I'm the host of Think Tech Hawaii's law across the sea law across the sea comes on every other Monday at 11 a.m. please join us I like to bring in guests that talk about all types of things that come across the sea to Hawaii not just law love people ideas history please join us for law across the sea aloha I'm Marsha joiner and we're back with Tanya Johnson from NOAA Botanicals and this beautiful lady you wouldn't think was a CEO CEO CEO so tell us about you tell yeah yeah sure so I grew up in a small town in northeastern Wyoming my family are cattle ranchers my parents were very young when I was born and then we I actually finished school high school in northern Nevada my dad was working in the gold mines I got married very young had a couple of kids very young and then struck out on my own and went back to school I moved to Idaho and so my formal education is actually in anthropology and archaeology and business so I came out of that experience and moved to Utah and it wasn't actually practical for me to be an archaeologist in the way they worked at the time because I was a single mom and I couldn't be gone for days and weeks on end so because I had some business savvy and some other skills that I had accrued along the way I immediately went into the business side of the organization so I was in environmental consulting which covers everything water plants animals everything and so it was just an amazing opportunity a melting pot of regulatory environments and law and statute and all kinds of things that I grew up in for about 15 years and along the way I really attached to the inner workings of the business the company was quite small when I started and they were all interested in being scientists and not running a business so I got a lot of free range to just figure things out and run with things and so I wound up where the last five years that I was there I was turning around failing operations starting new ones bringing large-scale pipeline projects and very contentious very in the media in the news projects you know back on track or out of litigation or deciding whether we were even going to stay attached and so I moved to Hawaii in 2011 I came here on vacation and decided I needed to live here so I went home and packed up my kids and came out so I continued in the environmental world when I moved to Hawaii the scope changed of course from archaeological projects to ocean work and a lot of water work at least like that but the thing that's interesting so when this opportunity came up for me to come in and help start up this company and in the I knew absolutely nothing about cannabis had never even consumed it I just had no reason to have an opinion about it right and so it's been an amazing learning curve but from more from the perspective of sitting at a table with six or eight regular leaders with laws that have been in effect for 30 40 50 years and you can't get anyone to budge on anything and so trying to affect change at any kind of a scale is just embryonic the pace and so coming into this industry while it's super sexy and exciting and it's what everybody's talking about right now for me it's it's it's really nice to just have one regulator at the table and what I've seen in Hawaii with this industry also being a new industry for the state standing up the dispensary system is the willingness to sit down at the table with all eight licensees and talk through things that were written into large statute before any of us were trying to actually make this work right and so now that we're operational we're able to sit down and say this is working this isn't here and now that we're open being able to take feedback from patients back to them and say for example pre-filled vape cartridges currently when there's a pre-filled vape sure so you can smoke the flower you can have a tincture you can have an edible cooking oil we're not allowed to sell edibles in the state right now the other area we are restricted that you won't see in the mainland as we can't sell anything that contributes to contributes to the smoking of cannabis so we can't sell any of the paraphernalia that they would need to consume it and that includes if you've seen like vape pens or e-cigarettes people walking around smoking the electronic devices oh yeah so you can create a distillate of a oil that goes in that cartridge that people prefer to use to medicate rather than having to grind flour and smoke flour and all of that and so particularly for patients that have seizures or room toward arthritis or Parkinson's right now we're not allowed to sell those cartridges already filled with the liquid so on the mainland you can buy the whole cartridge you just screw it on the pen and you can inhale here you have to get this kit and then the way you buy that oil from us as a syringe and so you have to very carefully hold the syringe and slowly fill it because it's like caro syrup consistency into the cartridge and then screw the top on and you have to get it on right and all this stuff has to happen oh my before you can use it so if you have arthritis yeah good shakes or anything else and so there's some limitations there that you know the intent was there when it was written and put together but now that we're on the ground boots on the ground if you will with the stuff we're starting to see where there are some limitations so the other thing about the state that I appreciate is that every year a cleanup bill goes through right and so last year what was most significant for the dispensaries was we were allowed to increase our plant count in our buildings and also add a third dispensary what was significant for patients who homegrow is they were allowed to go from seven plants to ten plants and also the period of time they can continue growing their own extended so I think you know it's progressive even though it feels like it's slow and it's been a long time coming well I know the big issue for some of our regular listeners is de-scheduling yeah and hopefully that can happen yeah so many of our legislators do not understand that in 2006 the US Supreme Court said the states have a right and it kills me to say states rights but we do yeah and so many of the legislators do not understand and so that's a big issue yeah and I think that for me and and because of how we know each other we've met you'll you'll understand this right I I spend space in my life thinking and planning about how what I'm doing today can affect things tomorrow but the truth is the most power I have is what I can do today with the with the tools I have available to me and so and maybe I can say this because I was not attached to the industry before I also had no opinion about cannabis before what I had was a passive opinion and I didn't see that until you know six or eight months ago when we were developing our mission and vision statement and what I mean by that is I learned somewhere along the way in school that cannabis was a gateway drug into opioids that Reagan era right this is when I grew up and I just never decided to think anything other than that I didn't educate myself I didn't inform myself so when this opportunity came to me that I sat down and I did a bunch of research to decide whether it was something I wanted to be a part of from a business perspective yes starting up a business from scratch yes bring it on but I have to believe in what I'm doing as well and the goal of what I'm doing and so as I I mean the cultural you know the defacing of different cultures by using it in that way to break apart different cultural groups and just the history of the criminalization of the plant just blew me away right and yes and that yes it does and so yeah so for me moving forward now the biggest thing is educating people and asking people to educate themselves I mean you have a smartphone Google spend five minutes googling you don't have to be out there waving a flag like I am but at least be supportive that if a family member wants to explore this as an option for medicating themselves you know whether you want to be supportive over that of that or not even if you don't want to use it because there is still a lot of gray area and dark area and people feel like they're doing something wrong or bad and you know we don't want that what I've noticed is those people that still even the attorney general sat right where you are and said he knew of his bias and it came from his parents telling him this was a gateway drug he said while he knows better but there's still that part of him that's still there that still recognizes that that gave me hope at least yeah that he recognizes that it's there and that's what it will take is more people talking about it in a different way and I personally what happened when Jeff Sessions did what he did is I appreciate when things like that happen because things like that ignite actual activism right and so something that may have been talked about for a long period of time it infuriates people enough to actually step up and take action and force and voice right so I'm encouraged you know even going on as a result of that even in the Congress this is hard to believe there is a cannabis caucus and it was created by Republicans which is really hard to believe that but they would take a stand but most of them are from states where the hemp grows and it's industry and they see what what it used to be and how they made money and what not with the industrial hemp but yep since he has taken the stand yes I have seen more people talk about it more people write about it so I have to believe that that will have a good outcome well for me it's economics right as and even for the state of Hawaii and when people come to me when I do talk story sessions and come to Brian you know we don't need a dispensary we grow around I I respect that there is a culture and a group of people in the islands who have been doing this for a very long time and I wouldn't want to take that away from them and you know we're another option yes for people who choose to choose to have that the the financial the ability to make money generate jobs create another industry in the state of Hawaii outside of tourism that will keep a brain trust of people in the state and provide money to education it seems like a no brainer to me I I totally agree like I said in the months I've been doing this and just watching it grow and the people I've met it is so different than what they would lead you to believe some dark dingy you know right somebody on right right well we're fighting the pop culture yes vision of cannabis right I mean that's where we are today because you might one response I get is oh yeah I did that in college yeah and the other is oh you know it's it's a gateway drug it's a bad thing yeah and the fact that Hawaii is the only state that in legislature last year changed the name yes it's very encourage marijuana to cannabis yeah medical cannabis while medical marijuana has a certain lilt certain ring but for the state to spend the money to change all of their literature to say medical cannabis well darling it's been a pleasure it's always a pleasure and you will come back yes of course thank you so much thank you Marsha and we'll see you next time


equity is not an advantage. It is a human right and there is no advantage when a student is starting from behind. So when we look at a mainstream traditional neuro normative classroom setting, it is built on a foundation of neuro normativity. There is an assumption that the students that will show up and participate in the curriculum and the curriculum delivery and sit in those classrooms will be neurotypical. That's how society works and that doesn't mean that it's right or it's okay, it's just how it is. We live in a world where everyone is expected to behave as though they are neurotypical. We take children, we put them through an assessment and diagnosis process, we check off the criteria and we say yes, they're autistic, yes, they're demand avoidant, yes, they're ADHD and then we send them off to school and pretend that never happened. We do that in the way that school systems often expect our neurodivergent children to learn in the same ways. So it's important to know that when we are building an IEP, an independent or individual education plan, the goals are never, they should never be formulated around having the student become normalized. The goals are not to take this neurodivergent individual and have them learning, behaving, living as a typical person. That's not what our education plans are about. It's about looking at the students learning pathways, their needs and appropriate accommodations and figuring out how they can access the same education in a different way. That's what equity is. Equity is taking individuals and allowing them access to the same outcomes but the delivery is different or the way to get there, the pathways are different. Now when you're autistic, ADHD, PDA, demand avoidant, there's no advantage and a lot of adults believe and I've faced this at university myself as a student when asking for accommodations I've often been told more than once that I can't receive materials to prepare to get my head around inflammation because that's me having an advantage. There's no advantage when your cognitive processing needs additional time. There's no advantage when your cognitive processing works completely differently. When you have sensory overwhelm and when you have an ADHD profile as well, there's no advantage there. So where typical students may be starting here, we're down here. So there's no advantage. So getting appropriate accommodations and accessibility sometimes might give us this as a starting point. More often than not it actually doesn't. So this is what equity is about. It's not the same as equality. It's not everybody getting the same thing the whole entire journey. It's everyone meeting those outcomes in ways that work for them and it's a human right.


So within the latest this week at People Can Fly we are calling Mr Twap, PCF talk about the future of the game. Clear up what's happened over the past few days and talk about the next patch for our riders. Today we get into it all people. How's it going guys? My name's DPJ and if you enjoyed the video leave a like, it really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe. So over the past week since the last patch which was actually quite a decent patch for the game we have seen news break actually from PCF talking about how Square Enix haven't sent over any realtors yet and PCF actually don't know themselves exactly how many units outriders have sold. A lot of people took this information and thought there was something going down between PCF and Square Enix but that doesn't seem to be the case. Within this week's dev news it's all covered so let's get into it people. Starting with general news there's been a lot of discussion about riders this week and we're sure that everybody has many thoughts and questions about their understanding of the situation and what it means for outriders and its future. However there's only one thing to say. Our plans for the future of outriders remain unaffected. Nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. We together with People Can Fly are continuing to work closely together on improving and expanding the core outriders experience and all platforms and remain very excited for the future of the game. It's worth mentioning that as our patches to date have and are continuing to address most of the bugs that players may have experienced our teams are beginning to shift more focus towards working and implementing much requested new features and content. We'll talk more about this new horizon as well as the other outriders related things we've been working on. In the near future so yes people basically clearing up any mishaps that people may be feeling due to the statement pulled out by PCF which I have covered over the past few days and it seems as though the future does look right for this game. I mean exactly how bright we won't know until this new content comes but for me it does look promising. Okay so we're going to get onto the patch news right now. Our latest patch is currently undergone the usual test cycle but we wanted to share some highlights of the upcoming fixes and changes with you already today. Please do bear in mind that our current testing is still validating the real old fixes so some of them may not be 100% guaranteed for this patch. Also note that this is not an exhaustive list and is still subject to change as we pass through the testing phase. The final patch will include more fixes and improvements. Okay so further improve the visibility of the booed mother surge area of effect skill limits. Fixed a bug that was preventing players from arriving themselves and other players after using the tricks as borrowed time skill. Resolved an issue that could cause the game to start when engaging crawlers in battle during expeditions. Resolved an issue that could cause players to stutter when entering the drain lake during the third enemy encounter in the scorch lands expedition. Resolved an issue that prevented secondary characters from picking up journal entries if they had already been collected on a different character. Resolved an issue that would force matchmaking provisional settings to default to open. The provisional settings should now remain closed when set. This should help further reduce afk matchmaking. Added an afk status for players and friends lists. Change the behavior of the devastators in pale so that the game will detect impaled enemies as dead even before they disappear. Devastators reflect bullet skill will now protect from scavenging projectile attacks. Fixed a bug that could prevent devastators from being able to consistently dodge if they had the auto reflect mod active. Fixed a bug that could cause client shots to sometimes deal no actual damage to enemies. Fixed a bug that could cause the technomancer's plague sour set bonus to not proc consistently. Fixed a bug that could cause the plague sour and the cannibal legendary sets to not retain their set bonus after a transition. Fixed a bug that could cause certain mice like grand opening to not proc if the player was on their last magazine. Crash fixes and other minor bug fixes. So those will be apart while not 100% for most of those will be apart at the next patch so I'll probably say it will be coming next week and hopefully next week we hear more about new content for this game because that's basically what we all want now. We want to hear about new content people it is as simple as that. But yes guys that is it for the trap and this week our people can fly. If you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out. If you're new around here and want to see more outriders be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button. Guys thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I will see you on that next one.