Today I wanted to show you a really neat tool that I know not everybody is going to find useful But I think it's pretty cool from a security standpoint for those of you that do work on machines and you drop to a TTY which is a virtual terminal a virtual console and Sometimes you have to leave that machine and you don't want anybody else to come to that machine Where you're already logged into this TTY as whatever user, you know You want to be able to lock of that virtual console down. Well, there's a program that can do this It's called V lock. So let me show you this program in action Let me switch over to this virtual machine of a boon to here and of course, we're in a graphical Environment, we're actually just gonna drop to a TTY in a second But since I had to log into the graphical environment, let's go ahead and sudo apt install V lock here in this terminal inside Ganon and V lock is the name of the package in Debian and a boon to base distributions V lock is also the name of the package Inside fedora. So you need to install V lock to get the V lock program on Arch Linux You need to install a package called KBD That is found in the core Repositories for Arch and once you install KBD, then you should have access to the V lock command So let me go ahead and switch to a TTY So I'm in vert manager here So I'm gonna go to the menu here for send key and I'm going to do control alt F3 And that gets me to TTY 3 here I'm gonna go ahead and log in as my home user, which is the DT user here Let me go ahead and scale the display. So hopefully you guys can read that a little better Make this full screen and the way V lock works out of the box is let me man V lock It has a few flags and options here So we have a dash a for lock all console sessions dash C to lock the current session Dash S to disable the sys RQ function and really those are about it I mean, there's a few other flags, but those flags I just mentioned are the most common so just V lock with nothing else No other flags is actually the V lock dash C command with the current command What this does is now this TTY the current TTY session we're in It's locked. You see it says press enter to unlock So what you would do is press enter and then it's gonna ask you for the user that was logged into this session His password. So let me enter DT's password and now it is unlocked But let me rerun the V lock command. So we've locked TTY 3 here And then let me get out of full screen. I'm gonna switch over to TTY 4 here with control alt F4 And you see I can log in just fine here, right? There's no lock here But if I go back to TTY 3, you know, it's still locked So V lock with no flags is just locking the current virtual console It doesn't lock them all so what you would want to do Let me go ahead and enter my password there What you want to do is do V lock space dash dash all or just a single dash and a and that locks all The virtual console sessions. You see you get a different message here It now specifically states the entire console display is now completely locked So if I go back to TTY 4, you see that session is locked Of course TTY 3 was also locked if I go to a new TTY TTY 5 even though I wasn't logged into it yet. It's locked as well So let me go ahead and enter my password and unlock everything But the command you probably will want to use with V lock as far as the flags and options I would recommend is the dash a flag for all I would also give it the dash s flag to disable the sys RQ key Which is sometimes called the magic sys RQ key, right? It's a key in Linux You guys if you have a full 110 keyboard, you probably see that weird key the sys RQ key What does that do? Well that key on Linux what that does is it allows you to perform various low-level commands Regardless of the system state. So if your computer is hung up, you know It's frozen or something the sys RQ command can allow you to still run some some commands some low-level commands Well, you you want to disable that function obviously if you're going to the trouble of locking out your virtual terminals You also want to disable that key and that's what V lock dash AS is going to do and now all the virtual terminals are disabled sys RQ is disabled until you hit enter and enter Your password so rather simple command. There's really not much to it And I know a lot of people are gonna wonder would they ever have a need for it, especially desktop Linux users I'm how often do you drop to a TTY and then want to lock out the session, you know That's mainly for I don't know system administrator types Probably would find V lock useful for those of you in graphical sessions.  Well, these are you know basic things you're probably already doing so Typically if you're not the only person that has access to your computer when you're done with your computer You should probably log out right just log out of your desktop environment or window manager If you're using a login manager then anybody else that wants to use that computer would have to log in with your user name and Password and if they don't have it obviously they can't use it if you want some other safety benefits Some safety features and most desktop environments such as Genome here There are settings for a timeout right you set a timeout for five ten fifteen minutes Meaning if nobody does anything at this computer for the next five minutes, you know The mouse keyboard are never touched then automatically Genome will lock the session meaning you're gonna have to enter the password of the user that was already in this session To get back in now a tool I like to use on my own system is a suckless tool called S lock So let me switch over to my main production machine So this is my main production machine running Arco Linux at ArchBase Linux distribution And there is a program that I have installed called S lock Let me zoom in here S lock again. It's a suckless utility All it does is when S lock gets executed you could set this to a key binding So anytime you're done with your computer you just hit a key binding to automatically run S lock and watch what happens The screen turns a solid color in this case black There's some configuration you could do with S lock, but it's a very simple tool the screen turns black And now I have to enter my password As I'm typing my password the screen turns blue letting me know hey, I'm typing and then when I hit enter It unlocks the screen now if I had typed a bad password Then when I hit enter the screen would have turned red to let me know wrong password Retiped the correct password and hit enter so that is S lock a very simple screen locking utility I did a video a while back on S lock So go check that out for more details about that particular application now before I go I need to thank a few special people I need to thank the producers of this episode and of course I'm talking about Devin Gabe James Matt Michael Mitchell Matt and Paul Scott West I got them all out of order Alan Chuck commander angry Dioca Dillon George Lee Linux Ninja Maxim Mike Erion Alexander peace archer for door Polytech Red Prophet Stephen Willie. I Missed that up, but hey, I want to thank each and every one of these guys. They're my highest tier patrons over I'm patreon because without these guys this episode you just watch would not have been possible The show is also brought to you by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen as well all these names You're seeing on the screen right now These are all my supporters over on patreon because I don't have any corporate sponsors It's just me and you guys the community if you like my work And you want to see more videos on Linux and free and open source tools like V lock Please subscribe to distro tube over on patreon. All right guys. Peace. I Never bother locking my desktop. I use x-mo Ned. Good luck cracking that nut


Roll it with these guys. Oh, did I win that? What? I literally was just bashing like, all right, I lost that one, but no, I won. How's it going, everybody? Dottonoi here back with some more Dragon Ball Fighters rank matches, and this time playing a team of some of the more annoying C-assists in the game, including Team Gohan, Super Saiyan Vegeta and DBS Broly. Yeah, so I actually got this idea from going on Twitter. I thought of like, man, I really don't like playing against Team Gohan C and Vegeta C. And so I asked the, you know, the community over there, what do you guys think is the most annoying C-assist? And a lot of them were just Beam Assist. There's a lot of C-Beam Assist in the game. I decided to go with Broly just because no reason other than I really, out of all the characters that have one, I think Broly is my favorite to play. And I don't know how he could not be, dude. That character is a monster. Don't try that on a character with a DP I am out here. Oh, two H as well. All right, decent bit of a start. Dragon Rush, nice and early. Again, we use the C-assist there for a lot of coverage. I guess I should, I should probably go over why I value some of these C-assists so much. Not necessarily. Beems were an assist that I only just recently started really starting to like. Not even like, I still don't really jive with them too well, but I like the option a lot more, I guess, if that makes sense. Just because, man, do they give you a lot of midscreen when you can actually like capitalize off. Oh, I went way too early for the Vegeta-assist. You can really capitalize midscreen with a Dragon Ball. That was sick. Yeah, I didn't know what to do there, honestly. Oh, where are you going? Leave that key bless hit me. I have a nice conversion as well. I had to go silent for that one. I was not, I was not playing no games. Oh, four frames for the Dragon Rush. No, I don't think I would have teched it anyway. Let's be honest, if we could just be honest with ourselves for one second, was I going to tech that 75 percent of me wants to say yes. I'm a proud, I'm a proud human being. What can I say? I got to, I got to give myself that. Oh, I'll take that as well. Did I mean to do that? No, not really. I dropped it. Try to get as much. Try to get as much value out of that as I can. Don't do it. OK, I'm watching you. I'm watching you, dude. Oh, I got that other assist, though. Try it. Oh, nice tech. Oh, this is getting exciting, dude. This is getting exciting. Who's going to come out on. How did I not block that? Five frames. Wait, how did I wait? I was just holding down back. Maybe my finger slipped for one second. I don't know. That was crazy. I didn't expect to get open. I just had the sad part is I had just blocked a low medium. Oh, that was clean. Dude, I'm going to see a sister so good. I got to know. I don't know why I tried that. I am not I am not DBZ Broly. I really went for an ex grab like I was going to armor through something. That is crazy. Am I dead for that three bars? I don't know, but you know, these combos, how they like to extend forever. Tech that. OK, good. That's a good starter. Again, he must be getting tired of that now. He's got to be getting tired. Just run up, drag and rush. We are definitely not doing that next time. We have got to get in his face and click a button for that. He just he didn't do that. I'm going to pretend he didn't do that. I'm going to pretend he didn't charge at me like that because I definitely was charging at him, too. I was going to swing. That energy cutter assist from behind was pretty godlike.  Don't level three. Oh, we got to take a mix. Mix is on the table, but I don't know what I'm seeing. What's the options? When am I trying to get slid? I'm looking for everything. I'm looking for the overhead was surprising to say the least. We might still be alive. I'm not sure on the damage or two bars. We might be dead. Yeah, I think we're dead on this one. That was a lot of bar. Oh, how many takes? How many takes? Oh, was that the last one be like that? So I'm not a fan. All right, but that was how long was that game? That was a really long game. And there was a lot to improve on, too. We definitely out opened up by like, I don't know, the one sticking out in my mind is how we got hit by a low. A low after blocking a low. Like I don't even I don't even know what I was doing there, honestly. But she is this kind of can I please get some respect on that one? Why? Why? Why did it lag right there? Vanished was not my my choice. I didn't choose to finish. I don't want to live like this. Oh, you better be careful.  Well, you're playing a dangerous game. Oh, nice tag. I definitely called out the seist again. All right, sending me back to the corner. I can respect it. It's mostly going to be what is he going to hit me with here? I'm looking for a raw tag. I'm looking for it, but I'm not gonna find it here and with this amount of bar I think it's over for team go on. Oh He's just flexing at this point. He's trying to save but it lagged lag The lag has saved me. We move boys. We move five frames. Who said he can't come in clutch throw this man, Broly Does that work? No, what am I thinking here? Do I got any assist? Do I got any assist on the board? Vegeta Oh Keep last we're we're about to be here for the next couple hours. Anybody got any podcast discussions? Anybody got a book by audible comm sponsor not not included. I like that dropped it. No, oh We're going all the way down. I Love mashing. I love it. Don't test me on my love for mashing beam. See assist. Oh My god, this team is spicy. Oh I shoulda ex legs instead of all that super dash not oh, this was uncalled for this was unexpected and uncalled for Cell we live though Hmm I always forget so has that move That was a command grab by the way, so I was blocking but yeah command grabs don't care about that too much Vegeta help not you've not no, okay, Vegeta fell out I didn't even notice he actually managed to get out of there But we are going to see a cell level three here now We have been saving spark some would argue maybe for too long. I think just the right amount honestly. Oh Yeah, oh got a little ahead of myself. Hey, I got I actually got hit by that But but a graceful save. I don't know what I want to do. I'm just gonna go with this I guess I don't I don't know. I don't know. I was freestyling. I was freestyling to say the least Love to see it though.  Here we go. This is the real test We have a sea assist in our back pocket So we get one combo or chip him out.  I was just panic mashing vanish That was a big one. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. We landed it. I definitely um Definitely wasn't sure what would happen there. I'm gonna I'm gonna go I'm gonna switch out into base for G of the G to see assist.  I got oh No, okay, that's fine. We still reset neutral. That's okay. Not the worst-case scenario again That was another plus of bringing Broly out. Oh, oh, no Okay, I can't believe I didn't get the block on that. Oh wait. Oh level one I can't believe I didn't snag the block on that one. I thought I had that for sure Yeah, that's a very strong move though. Very very strong. We're down zero two and it's already been 20 minutes No, it hasn't been 20 minutes, but it definitely feels like it's been 20 minutes All right, this could be the final game if we don't get our act together We we've had it so close, but we just you know do some small mistakes here and there and some pretty big mistakes, too But let's pretend those didn't happen Love that ceases look just because of that ceases we're able to get so much more off of what we Really should have been able to expect there guard cancel love to see that as well Oh, don't even get me started on that one. Oh That one was that one was that one. Well, that was something for the history books. Oh, no. Oh What a huge mistake. I really I really thought Vegeta assist would work there. That was big. That was big I really honestly like this team a lot These ceases are so good man. You could definitely get something rolling with these guys. Oh Did I win that? What? I literally was just matching like all right. I lost that one, but no I won Teen go on his bill. I think I might be dead here. This was a perfect attack unless he drops it He did and I'm not I'm not playing any games, dude. Oh I try to deep eat so I guess I did play a little I played a little bit of games You know, I played some small games here and there nothing nothing more than a little indie game But I think it might result in my death. Nonetheless We're out. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, okay.  Yes, you cared. I completely forgot. We actually got rid of sell so where we're gonna live. Oh, that's so annoying I love it.  Oh, I thought I'd have a chance to move after that That was sick. Oh a bit of lag there See assist. No, it's invincible and he went out into a level three. I don't know if that was necessary Was it I guess no, I guess it was I technically had a lot wait I mean, it was it wasn't scaled or anything. So, you know, it's it remains to be seen That actually hit me. I was running up to try to answer your grab big mistake again That blue health is kind of bothering me not gonna lie. No, that's not good That blue health is bothering me No way that move is cheap That's cheap Cheap, okay. Okay, hug. We could still win this. I still want to win. Oh, I didn't know our health was that low Hold on. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. It's over The bar game was really a drop it drop it drop it drop it. No Okay, well that is going to be the set that was really fun If I wasn't if I wasn't recording this day of I'm not even joking. It is what's today This is July 19th. So if you're watching this July 19, I was a little behind not gonna lie Some things were going crazy, but this was a lot of fun. Thank you to my opponents for the games I low key dislike you a lot. I'm kidding. I Loak you dislike that my ceases scheme didn't work out, but thank you so much for watching Down below. Let me know your favorite ceasest or I guess least favorite ceasest They could kind of go intertwined but while you're down there Make sure to leave a like as well and subscribe to the channel if you enjoy the stuff You see here and check out some of the other videos with a little less ceasest that should be on your screen above Other than that, I have been Dr. Doi. Thank you so much for watching this one Seriously, that was a lot of fun and I will see you in the next video


We got NFL MVP odds. I'm gonna run through my pick, my best value pick, and who I'm staying away from. Definitely staying away from any non-quarterbacks. It's a quarterback award. I'm also staying away from Aaron Rodgers for obvious reasons, and Tom Brady, he is the GOAT but he's not gonna put up MVP stats. I like the value in Josh Allen on Lamar Jackson, but I love the value on Deshaun Watson because if there's a slightest chance he plays, he's a top three or four quarterback in the league, and at plus 5,000, it might be worth a flyer. And my pick is gonna be Kyler Murray, the most dynamic quarterback in the NFL at plus 2,300. He's due for a huge 30-year breakout.


JSA TV and JSA Podcast, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Jamie Scott-Okutaya, CEO of JSA, coming to you from Data Cloud Global Congress 2021. Joining me today is my good friend, David Fox, he's the Director of Business Development for American Tower. David, welcome to JSA TV. Thank you so much for the opportunity to be with you. We are so honored. And first off, let me just start by congratulating American Tower. You guys have been shortlisted for Data Cloud Global Awards 2021 for Excellence in Data Center Americas, which is very exciting. Tell us more about American Tower's Metro Data Center in Atlanta and why you feel you are nominated. Well, first, thank you for the nomination and we're really excited about being nominated. The Atlanta Metro Data Center is a world-class facility and it offers interconnection solutions to domestic and global carriers and enterprises. It's located, as you said, in Atlanta. It's one of the fastest growing data center markets in the country. And I think though, we really pride ourselves on offering cost-effective solutions such as how we run cross-connects within our facility and we're really, really focused on unrivaled customer service and providing remote hand services where we can during business hours. New customer portal that allows customers to get in there and track all their trouble tickets and request remote hand services. So we're really, really involved in where it is today and how well it's run and what it looks like today and how we can improve it in the future. We serve this market as it's very competitive but we want people to know that they can count on us for consistent uptime and that customer service and we're always looking for ways to improve. Yeah, and your story, your timeline is really amazing. Back in 2019, that's when you really officially, American Tower made its foray into data centers with, of course, this Metro Data Center in Atlanta. And then in 2020, you announced your expansion into edge computing with six edge data center locations. Tell us more about this timeline. Yeah, so we were really excited to be able to enter the market and learn the market. That was the purpose of purchasing Metro ATL at the regional level was to learn how that business operates and how it would integrate into our business models with the overall vision of us looking at how do we utilize our other real estate to continue to expand. And just within Metro ATL, we've been expanding. We recently acquired the 16th floor from CyberWorks which is a privately held Atlanta based technology company as well as the second floor which was formally peerless. And we've taken the facility up to quickly. Just over the past couple of years, we've taken this facility from what we originally purchased at two floors and two megawatts to four floors and six megawatts. We have meet me areas and ability to cross connect to 30, 40 different types of carriers. And we're looking at other expansion and renovations. We're looking at how we improve logistics into the building. We're looking at how we improve storage and parking within the facility. And it is, it's been a quick timeline but it was a very purpose timeline to get in, understand the business and look how we expand out to the edge. You know, four floors, six megawatts, meet me areas, all the great stuff. Why this expansion? What's driving this expansion? It's Atlanta. It's really Atlanta. It's growing very fast. There's a lot of demand that we're seeing in the marketplace. And so, you know, we want to be able to offer that type of high density racks that the industry is moving to, you know, you really need to be able to provide the cooling, provide the power inside a footprint that meets the new equipment that's entering into the marketplace. And we want to be ready for those customers. Not only are existing customers that are looking to upgrade their equipment, but new customers that are coming into the marketplace that are seeing Atlanta as a valuable place to co-locate outside of the other traditional major markets. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. So you guys had a blockbuster 2019. You kept it going even through the pandemic, 2020. Tell us what's in store for 2021. Well, again, you know, it's really looking at our edge sites. You know, we built six edge facilities at our tower sites through the pandemic also. And we're looking at expanding that. You know, we have a huge distributed real estate portfolio across the United States that allows for this what we call far edge compute, hyper small 900, sorry, nine rack facilities. And we're gonna continue to look at that and how we create a complete ecosystem at the far edge to service the ever-changing environment of workloads that need to be done further out closer to where people are and looking at 5G and how those things are going to change. We wanna be ready for when those new applications come to market and we wanna be ready to host those. So our focus is developing the product, developing the ecosystem, continuing the expansion of the edge facilities and listen to our customers of what they want and what's gonna help them so we can integrate it into the product offering. Well, David, I love that. The complete ecosystem at the far edge and 5G ready. I just love that. So where can our viewers go to learn more?  And please feel free to reach out to me directly if you'd like to learn more. Again, the most important people to us as the customer and learning your use cases. So we're ready for you when you're ready to come to market. Thank you so much, David. We love that. And again, David Fox guys for all of you at the Data Cloud Global Congress 2021 and all of our listeners out there. We welcome you to check out americantower.com, Solutions Data Centers. Thank you for your time here, David and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts. Happy Networking. Thank you.


Hi everybody, Joe for jazby's case breaks calm coming at you with a 2021 tops Archive signature series baseball active player edition 10 box random player break number seven from a fresh case We only sold 19 spots each spot gets seven players from this big list below These are the encased autographs the one autograph per box. So it's about 133 names on here There's all the names into this big list right here So let's multiply your names by seven. There's one two three four five six and Seven and final time so that should get us to 133 right there perfect So let's copy those names put them into this blank list here and Then we'll put the results in the randomizer rando results tab the randomizer results tab names and players Randomizing six times one and a five one two three four five Six in final time after six we got Ryan and down to David One out of five six times for the players one two three four Five and sixth and final time good luck After six we've got Starling Marta all the way down to Michael Chavis. So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna scroll through this list just as is Just so you just see exactly how the results played out and Then I'll Sort the list by your first name so you can see everything that way as well. So here's the here's the first part right here Just so you know full transparency everything's on the Up and up just want to get this on the video on wax On tape they still put things on tape right and wax All right, so there you go now Let's shoot up to the top of the list here sort by column a A to Z Adam there are your players there Ali Fonzo Berry Charles David Gast Jimmy Brandt Terrell Taylor John Jonathan Matt Nick Ryan Ryan Ryan Kasin this time Ryan Cardone Ryan Kasin Scott And last but not least Walter there you go. All right. I gotta go grab the case I didn't bring it. I'm gonna pause the video when we come back We'll see if there's any trades and then we'll do the break stick around the RB All right, welcome back folks. There were no deals done. So let's pop this case open see which ten boxes we're gonna do Hopefully pop some monsters out of here. All right, so there's ten boxes on the left side ten boxes on the right side We're gonna select a die. We'll select that die right there one two three for the left side four five six for the right side Three left side right here these we will save for next time we have this is a So random player seven is what we're doing right now random player eight is on the site right now second half of the case Some infinity symbols there Just so we know they're all from the same case actually. This is the only case we have so all right. Good luck I'm thanks for getting in. I appreciate it Let's run this Let's run this one back tonight first one out of the gate is gonna be Dylan cease that's cubs edition of Dylan see 17 out of 81 Nice who's got Dylan on this random player break? That will be Jarell Taylor Dylan cease Next one BAM Jorge Polanco 61 out of 99 It's all-star game Jorge Polanco Where does he go Jorge Barry Roberts with Jorge Polanco next? See what we got here. It's jumbo shrimp Isan Diaz 31 out of 42 The Jacksonville jumbo shrimp shrimp. All right Isan Diaz Alifanzo Next up Clark. It's your next one four out of 15 Trent Clark from Milwaukee There's his credentials right there Trent Clark that will go to I see a Trent Grisham. Is there not a Trent Clark on this list? No, no Trent Clark. So that'll be randomized to someone in the break. We'll use the original 19 names for that Mark Kana 39 out of 87 Mark Where do you where will you go? You will go to? Go to Adam Knudsen Another five here. Good luck 59 out of 59 Daniel Vogelbach big Dan going to Scott Scott J with the Daniel Vogelbach We have at Alberto Montesey 66 out of 93 He is Adelberto goes to Jarell Taylor Raul Montesey's kid three bucks to go His dad had a plate for the Dodgers for a little while cannon for an arm next up is Mike Soroka 81 out of 99 on the Mike Soroka great picture for the Bravo's Mike Soroka, where are you gonna go?  What do we got? Oh, David Bodie? One of one David Bodie He's gonna get a lot of opportunities this season in the Cubs rebuild. He's got the David Bodie Barry Roberts with the David Bodie and All aboard the Big Head Express The final box is gonna be bam. It's gonna be Jorge Soler 74 out of 74 there's his autograph kind of hard to see But it's there. There it is Jorge Soler David Gast With the Horatio Soler. There you go ladies and gentlemen. All right now Trent Clark wasn't on the list So let's randomize it to somebody. Yeah, there was like three X Cubs in that break Rex is pointing out Let's grab the original 19 names There they are And a new dice name on top we'll get the Trent Clark autograph after six times Good luck one two three four Five and six and final time after six name on top bonus auto Matt McLaughlin there you go Matt Trent Clark going your way. I'm Joe for jazzy's case breaks calm. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us I'll see you next time for the second half of this. Bye. Bye


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Good morning everyone, and can I welcome members to the 16th meeting in 2017 of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee. Agenda item 1 is a decision on taking business in private and it is proposed that the committee take item 7 in private. Item 7 is the consideration of the committee's work programme, so are you content that we take item 7 in private? Agenda item 2, which is an instrument subject to the affirmative procedure and no points have been raised by our legal advisers on the draft in Solace regulation EU 2015-848 miscellaneous amendments Scotland regulations 2017 or the draft Human Trafficking and Exploitation Scotland Act 2015 relevant trafficking or exploitation offences and relevant UK orders regulations 2017 or the draft Criminal Justice Scotland Act 2016 consequential and transitional provisions regulations 2017. Agenda item 3 is an instrument subject to negative procedure and the next instrument for consideration is the M90A90 trunk road admiralty interchange to the many variable speed limits actively managed hard shoulder and bus lane regulations 2017 SSI 2017 number 129. The regulations provide for variable speed limits a bus lane and an actively managed hard shoulder on various sections of the M90A90 Edinburgh to Freyserborough trunk road from admiralty interchange to the many. Regulation 6 applies the motorway traffic Scotland regulations 1995 to the relevant road as if they have been modified to provide for an actively managed hard shoulder. The relevant road is the M90A90 Edinburgh Freyserborough trunk road from admiralty interchange to the many. That will permit the use of an actively managed hard shoulder on the new Queensbury crossing by specified buses in certain circumstances. Regulation 6 among other things modifies the 1995 regulations in their application to the relevant road to make provision for how restrictions on stopping and other traffic restrictions apply to an emergency refuge area. The definition of that expression in Regulation 6Ai appears to be defectively drafted. It is defined as a part of the relevant special road, which meets certain criteria set out in heads A and B. The relevant special road is not identified by this instrument, the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, by virtue of which it is made, or the Motorways Traffic Scotland Regulations 1995. Accordingly, do members therefore agree to draw the regulations to the attention of the Parliament on reporting ground A i as they appear to be defectively drafted for the reason I have just outlined. The Scottish Government has indicated to the committee that it will keep the possibility of an amendment to correct the drafting area under review when considering further future regulations in this area. I take some comfort from the fact that the Scottish Government recognises the drafting error. However, on this occasion, I do not think that it is comforting enough that it will be looked at at some time in the future that is not defined, as we know from this committee that these commitments can sometimes drift on. I prefer to see a commitment for this to be dealt with with some urgency. I think that you make a good point. I understand that this could affect the outcome of road traffic offences or not. Since it is a new construction project, the legislation should also be new as well and absolutely fit for purpose before it starts. Alison, do you want to see it? I absolutely concur with Monica Lennon. I think that in this instance it really should be dealt with as a matter of urgency. I think that if we leave this unattended, it will have an effect possibly on people's lives and I do not think that that is acceptable to the road traffic instances. I suggest that Regulation 6 of the instrument makes provision for the actively managed hard shoulder on the new Queensford crossing, which is a development of major significance. Does the committee therefore agree that the error should be corrected by amendment as soon as possible and that we would invite the Government to do so? Thanks. The next instrument for consideration is the town and country planning fees for applications and deemed applications Scotland amendment 2, Regulations 2017, SSI 2017 number 149. Those regulations were originally laid before Parliament on 21 April 2017. Members will recall that its meeting on 9 May 2017, the committee agreed to draw the regulations to the attention of Parliament as they appeared to be defectively drafted. The regulations before us today were laid before the Parliament on 10 May 2017 and correct those defective drafting emails. They come into force on 31 May 2017, apart from Regulation 2, which comes into force on 1 June 2017. As a consequence of the Scottish Government correcting the drafting errors identified by the committee, the regulations do not respect the requirements that at least 28 days should elaps between the laying of an instrument that is subject to the negative procedure and the coming into force of that instrument. Accordingly, does the committee agree to draw the regulations to the attention of Parliament under reporting grounds G as the instrument fails to comply with the requirements of section 28.2 of the interpretation and legislative reform Scotland Act 2010? However, does the committee agree to find the failure to comply with section 28 to be acceptable in the circumstances as the regulations correctivously defects which the committee has identified in the town and country planning fees for applications and deemed applications Scotland amendment regulations 2017? Furthermore, in accordance with the committee's objective of reducing the number of outstanding instruments that need to be amended wherever possible, does the committee agree to welcome the Scottish Government's intention to bring forward this amended instrument as soon as possible? No points have been raised by our legal advisers on the academic awards and distinctions university of the Highlands and Islands Scotland Order of Council 2017, SSI 2017 number 146. Is the committee content with this instrument? Thank you. Moving now to agenda item 4, which is instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure and no points have been raised by our legal advisers on the human trafficking and exportation Scotland Act 2015 commencement number 3 and transitional provisions, regulations 2017, SSI 2017 number 140. So, is the committee content with this instrument? Many thanks. We now move to agenda item 5, which is the Air Deporture Tax Scotland Bill. On agenda item 5 is the consideration of the Scottish Government's response to the committee's recommendation at stage 1 of the Air Deporture Tax Scotland Bill. Members will recall that the committee recommended that amendments to the bill be brought forward by the Scottish Government at stage 2 in two areas. Firstly, the committee recommended that the Scottish Government bring forward amendments that make detailed provision for exemptions from the definition of chargeable passenger and chargeable aircraft, which would afford Parliament the best opportunity for full and effective scrutiny of this significant aspect of the bill's policy. Secondly, the committee recommended that the Scottish Government consider bringing forward an appropriate amendment at stage 2 to more closely align the power in section 10.2, with its stated policy intention of enabling the Scottish ministers to make provision relating to the core structure of ADT as provided for in section 9 of the bill, which does not relate to tax bans or tax rate amounts. The Scottish Government has responded to the Finance and Constitution Committee and, in so doing, has responded to the recommendations of this committee. In its response, the Scottish Government has advised that it will bring forward amendments to the bill at stage 2, providing for passengers and aircraft exemptions. The response further notes that the Scottish Government is exploring issues concerning the introduction of an ear departure tax exemption for passengers flying from Highlands and Islands airports. However, the Scottish Government has advised that section 10.2 of the bill is currently drafted and, when read in context with section 10.1 and 10.3, it is consistent with the policy intention of bringing a secondary legislation power to make provision relating to the structure of the tax beyond defining tax bans and setting tax rate amounts. As such, the Scottish Government does not plan to bring forward an amendment at stage 2 with regard to the provision. Accordingly, does the committee agree to welcome the Scottish Government's intention to bring forward amendments that make detailed provision for exemptions from the definition of chargeable passenger and chargeable aircraft? Does the committee agree to note, however, that the Scottish Government's position on section 10.2? We move now to agenda item 6, which is the Railway Policing Scotland Bill. Item 6 is the consideration of the Scottish Government's response to the committee's recommendations at stage 1 of the Railway Policing Scotland Bill. The committee recommended that the power in new section 85c1 of the Police and Fire Reform Scotland Act 2012 inserted by section 1 of the bill be amended at stage 2 so that it is subject to the affirmative procedure. The Scottish Government has responded to the stage 1 report of the Justice Committee as the lead committee on the bill and, in so doing, has agreed to the committee's recommendation. Accordingly, does the committee agree to welcome the Scottish Government's intention to bring forward an amendment at stage 2 to make the power in the new section 85c1 of the Police and Fire Reform Scotland Act 2012 inserted by section 1 of the bill, subject to the affirmative procedure? I move the meeting into private.


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Education System in general and the adoption of ethnic studies standards would really I think make it a lot easier on teachers because it would be embedded so much in the curriculum a lot easier on teachers to facilitate like the education of this important part of our history that has been so much neglected in education for honestly for centuries that we are going we are moving through high school and graduating from high school I mean for some of us graduating in June this year with so little with this huge part of our history and our societal context just missing from our education and the addition of these standards would really ensure that it's sort of a great equalizer across the board would ensure that we are graduating with this knowledge and ready to be contributing systems contributing citizens excuse me with this full and well-rounded and complete education that is sort of lacking in our current system there are no fault of the individual teachers or curriculum but just because we're missing these standards that are so necessary for us to graduate and to even move through our high school lives since this is a motion from pre-k through 12 to grow as citizens in a way where we are more aware of and more educated on ethnic ethnic studies as well as all of the wonderful other history that we are currently educated on thank you hi I'm Matt Kuski I'm also a senior at one pillar high school and I'm testifying in favor of age seven nine four sort of to reiterate what people have said this bill is it to me it's more about the ethnic studies standards are more about providing a full education because people of color in this state are part of the identity of the state so if we're learning Vermont history or for learning American history part of that history is the history of people of color and the people of other ethnicities and that's just this this central purpose of our history classes if the central purpose of our education system is to actually allow us to participate in the democratic process to our fullest ability then we need the fullest education we can have thank you so I'm curious are you encouraging these ethnic studies standards to correct something that some that was lacking in my career high school or do you you support it more because you want to make sure that students in other high schools throughout the state have the access to the education that you have gotten it I think we're really looking at a combination of the two in comparison I mean I don't have the context of other high schools in Vermont to be able to speak to that but I think I mean I've been through three high schools out of the state of Vermont and I found that Montpelier High School makes a very active effort to include reference to and context for ethnic studies in all of our classes but I mean I took AP US history last year and we hardly touched on anything but white Eurocentric history and that's really through no fault of the teachers or the administration of the school but through the curriculum there's no there's no requirement to there isn't much of a requirement to teach like ethnic history there's no there's nothing forcing us to do that and I don't think that I think after a while after the implicated after the implementation of ethnic study standards it will no longer be a forced thing because this is a part of all of our histories and a part of all the students histories of the teachers histories in the states history so I think with the implementation what we're advocating for really is to have that sort of required so that it can become a natural part of the classroom environment and of everything that we are taught I have noticed that Montpelier High School there isn't really any conversation about native history in the state of Vermont so sort of when you bring up the history of the avanakis in Vermont and the uroquois in Vermont there's no there's no context for people to have conversations about native history so I think part of the most one of the most important things about this ethnic studies bill is that it could have the potential to open up those conversations and allow people to recognize how this state was created I think on one hand I've had I've been in several different school systems throughout my life but I think that the education that I'm receiving at Montpelier High School is by far like I think it's a phenomenal school system in relative to like in context that's relative to other school systems in the nation and I'm really thankful and privileged that I'm able to receive an education in Montpelier but at the same time I know that there are a lot of students who don't feel supported and feel like they're not learning about the history of their own culture and it is something that they're forced to sit with every single day and I'm thankful to the teachers at Montpelier for their efforts to expand their curriculum so it's more comprehensive but at the same time there's still work that needs to be done so I think that was going to achieve that. I recently learned that there was actually a family two families of African-American descent that farmed in Starksboro there's now one of those highway signs that marks the location of that farm where you taught anything about the African-American farming community in Vermont of actually pre-civil war? I wasn't taught anything in school but I do work at a library and that's the only I like I shelved a book that was about black farmers in Vermont and that was the only time I ever interacted with the black history of Vermonters and for me what that shows is that ethnic studies is sort of a it's the responsibility is placed on the student in Vermont and that's not necessarily that that's not the most effective way of bringing about an educated populace. So when you're with your teachers let's say history teacher do you ever as a student say I would like to discuss the black history of farming in Vermont or the Abnakis or whatever or does that conversation not exist in your in your class? Well it doesn't really exist in our classes. So you have no conversation about what is going to be taught or what could be discussed if it were appropriate. Can I have one more follow-up? Yeah sure. You've been to a number of schools. Can you say where where you've been? I personally I grew up in Brooklyn New York and so I went through the education system there for quite some time and then I went to U32 for a bit. Where is it? U32. In Brooklyn yes I'm not sure there's a community more diverse in the United States of America than in Brooklyn you came here with a whole different attitude and idea of what not to expect or what to expect in terms of your education and your fellow students. Were you in a private school in Brooklyn? A mixture of private and then public. I think it was just I was it was a culture shock the transition but I was surprised at a certain type of like homogeneity that I was sort of shown but that that isn't necessarily really like the true Vermont and I think that's part of the reason why I've started like becoming really involved in like politics and like racial justice in the first places because I really want to educate others and advocate for diverse populations. You can be heard here where in Brooklyn you were just part of the population so to speak. Makes big difference doesn't it? Great. Thank you. Representative Webb. I'm curious and maybe you can even help on this. I'm curious if you know if there are other states that you think are a real model for bringing in ethnic studies into their curriculum. Well I know that Oregon has and that certain districts in Los Angeles and Connecticut have as well and I don't know exactly how they've implemented it or like the specific details but I know that Vermont can just certainly do the same. Have you talked about this along with your teachers because you know one of the things that somebody commented to me in the ethnic studies bill is that really what we're missing is some requirements that teachers have some experience and some expertise in the topic and in your conversations with your teachers have they said you know I agree with you but I don't have the background I'll have the education to really provide what you're looking for because you know during their time it really was a white Euro century history that everybody was talking about. I think teachers and especially history teachers and English teachers who would be who these standards would be really focused on absolutely have the skill set to provide us with this education because it's more about an understanding that can be done by reading up that can be done by like Matt said picking a book off the shelf at the library it's just that not all students are going to go to the library and pick up a book not all of us are gonna be lucky enough to come across that so with it's it's not like we need necessarily need like new teachers who have like studied like you know ethnic studies in university and have degrees on the subject it's more a matter of like a perspective switch in our classrooms and I think that our teachers are our teachers especially in the Montpellier public school system are so wonderful and so like open to this change it's a matter of like curriculum change I've spoken personally to a couple teachers who after our schools racial justice alliance spoke up about English classrooms and specific but also history classes and social sciences that are not giving especially students of color the background and like the context on their own histories in their own environment and their own lives and the teachers are sort of saying we want to but we're required to teach these texts or but we're required to teach to this end and the implementation of these standards would open up for teachers who are perfectly capable of teaching more it's more of a systemic the way I see it is it's more of a systemic restriction than a restriction that comes from the teachers themselves represent a great answer yes in your classes at Montpellier high school do you guys in your class use a textbook or do you teach you deal without a textbook well on the majority the classes are textbook free the only class the only classes I've really used a textbook and have been like science and math courses and AP us history so in other words the teachers whatever they would like to teach without the textbook to some extent yeah they usually bring in texts from writers of interest or whatever they've encountered and there is some flexibility in what they're able to introduce but not not it's not like whatever goes they still have to match up to certain learning standards thank you have you studied the Holocaust in your school I am right now okay okay I mean I am but I'm taking an online AP European history course so that's sort of outsourced and it's not like the education system of Montpellier a great thing about the Montpellier public school system is that we have opportunities to take such courses but not specifically in Montpellier high school I also moved to Montpellier high school midway through junior year so I don't know if I'm the best person to ask I just to follow up on that did you in the in your course of study did you ever study the history of Nazi Germany in the 30s yes in I started high school in Dar es Salaam Tanzania in an international school and we did a lot of world in sophomore world history we did have a pretty extensive unit on starting with World War one and sort of going through the Weimar Republic 20s Germany and then 30s Germany the rise of the Nazi regime and looking at the just the way the structure of the right Weimar Republic opened the door to certain discourse and then we did do a Holocaust unit through we read Mouse do it's like a graphic novel series so this is this is an interesting conversation so I just listened to a the summer of 27 which it was generally speaking considered sort of like a travel writer but he writes about the summer of 27 and I learned that Lindberg was a Nazi sympathizer I didn't know that I learned that the flux clan ran many city governments and state governments in this country I didn't know that you know nothing I ever had in my high school studies did you understand those kinds of things about US history I'm not quite to that extent there there was like a little bit of touching on like there were some decent that was sort of glossed over as for me I'm currently going through my sophomore year and we started with the Russian Empire in the collapse of like the stars and then we transitioned into like the Weimar Republic and how Nazi Germany sort of germinated and then developed and then we transitioned into the Israel and Palestine conflict so it's a very it's a current application of learning but I think that the reason I like learning what I learn is because there's that I don't just an opportunity to receive an education that like not many students in Vermont might be getting from their high schools and I want that to be something that's more of a that spreads around a bit just curious for the two seniors are you planning anything beyond high school do you have post-secondary education plans or personal plans and curious yeah I I got I'm going to college next year where you going Swarthmore what are you gonna study do you know not really probably probably I'm probably going to do like a double major in a statistics and creative writing I don't know where I'm going but I'm going to college I've got a sort of waiting for the rest of my decisions from colleges but I'm hoping to double major in a combination of English literature theater studies and history some combination of the three so can I just follow up so a question for me is I know I've heard from any students who don't necessarily feel engaged by the curriculum in schools or a public school setting and so I think that's something that we grapple with here is how do we love creativity and for people to get into experiences that are outside of the classroom right so I'm curious do you think there are students who would benefit from this type of process where educators and students are taking a look at their curriculum we're creating curriculum curriculum that's more inclusive of individuals and if so do you think more students would be engaged with that because I really like now I'm a history guy and I'm looking at this stuff and it interests me but it doesn't interest every student do you think this would broaden the appeal of the subject matter I think it would because it would it would focus the education on the students needs and sort of it would make makes I think it would make students feel more involved yeah I mean I love history too I I'm a history nerd so anything about history is fascinating to me but I think what's more engaging than anything else is what I can relate that history to myself so I mean I'm someone with like a huge diversity of like international heritage and one of the coolest things I've ever learned about is learning about Indian history because I have a lot of Indian ancestry and that was like really cool to be like well yeah that was like my family several hundred years ago and like it's that relatability that I think like you know maybe I'm kind of an odd case with like the Indian ancestry and like Swahili ended ancestry but I think for students in general to be seeing how their own heritage is important in history and relevant and those perspectives like we're not just seeing like dare I say the white man's perspective on history we're seeing like had I been alive 400 years ago what would I have thought and that's so powerful and it comes to also like women's history and like everything yeah yeah it's relatable I think education is engaging to students when students are allowed to actually like engage in their learning and it's a mutual process like it's not just being like taught at it's having a conversation if you will and it's being able to reciprocate like putting effort into your education and I know a lot of students that were able to work on changing some of the curriculum at Montpelier High School to an extent and just like introduce new books and when students are I know that we're reading an entirely new book in the class that I'm taking right now because students were able to correct what the teacher had sort of failed to understand because they go through an entirely different perspective as students than a teacher would and there's no way teachers going to know what their students are how their students are receiving the curriculum and their lessons without actually asking the students and I'm listening to students opinions which is why I'm so thankful we're able to be here today but we're reading like a whole new book and I know that that's just something that a lot of students wanted and now it's here so it's not an accident that you're here you're three engage curious determined students to say something to the state legislature what about those kids that you have your classmates in class that sit in the back of the room are disengaged and say you know whatever I'm sure you've heard it and are a lot more interested in who's playing in the football game or when they go hunting or what the what the drinking games are for the weekend how do you how do you think we engage those students better than we are now well I don't know if there are necessarily I feel like there are a lot of kids who appear to feel that way but that they're not necessarily that's not necessarily their entire thought process and if you do get get into conversations with them about history or literature they will generally tend if you if you interact with them on like a human level they will tend to start to acknowledge some of the relevance of the curriculum to their own life I think we have like a huge societal issue for teenagers here which is like way beyond this bill and way beyond like anything that we can comprehend but when you're in a social group where it's really cool to be excited about the work you're doing where it's really cool to like you know say I want to go to a competitive college because I want to be challenged where that's like a relatable and cool thing like we thrive and we all learn more and I think that since I moved to Montpelier like the people I've made friends with and the people I've surrounded myself with have helped me to do that much more so than like freshman and sophomore year when I lived in Darcy long Tanzania and my friend group was totally different and it wasn't so cool to be into learning so I think it all like a lot of the kids that sit in the back and like seem disengaged it's a lot of it is performative like Matt said that might not be actually what they're thinking but we lose potential to engage when we're not encouraged to and like allowed to get excited about learning so I think that's I have no idea how we can start to address that but perhaps just maybe for some kids to see more of themselves in their curriculum and to see like a more well-rounded like we're missing this chunk of our education and to have that chunk filled in maybe we'll grasp it a few more hands that are interested in in learning and interested in things and maybe this bill is a start I think there's a long way to go with like all the social issues that high school kids face I think that a lot of the students that I well a lot of the students that I spoke to express disinterest in learning or seem disinterested in their learning because they believe that education isn't practical like when you speak about hunting and football games it's what's that what they it's what they feel relates to them and it's what they feel is most practical to them and is like in the short term and therefore most important and when I speak about public school like the issue with issues with public school and the status of public school in America a lot of times students feel as if it's pointless and like pointless or not to receive an education but that they like don't truly know what it means almost to an extent and that we just have to work actively to like let students know that education is important and it's not just about conformity and clocking in your hours but that it should be like an interactive and engaging experience and I think that education can change your society and so I think that's a way to get those students that are disinterested involved is to just make it like not even make it seem like a practice like a practical thing but to show that it truly is a really valuable thing to learn so how do you interact with the guidance counselors I mean her seniors aside from the college application process personally not too much yeah I've had a lot of help and like what you're gonna do with your life come June but that's yeah other than that not much for me it's been just like once a year when it's time to schedule my classes so you think you're as needed in career choices perhaps or college choices or just daily life I mean with what's going on in your community what's going on in your school drugs marijuana whatever the case may be I I think there is kind of a level of like needing to increase awareness of certain opportunities one of my friends talks about they feel like there's not really any not not enough of a safety net and like an awareness of like class issues in the Montpelier education system and like financial assistance like being educated about like how to get financial assistance for college is something that I think could be work on just raising awareness go college go where you're gonna go go get the next level and come back we need you so thank you very much we all often get a chance to hear from and we should take more time and effort to hear from students so thank you very much for sharing your thoughts


Now that we have some matrix arithmetic at hand, let's take a closer look at elementary row operations. Let A be an M by N matrix. Find, if possible, a matrix R that corresponds to the elementary row operation of multiplying the first row of A by some constant C. To solve this problem, we need to set up a system of equations. First, we know A is an M by N matrix and R A must also be an M by N matrix. So if we go over our rules for matrix products, this means that R must be an M by M matrix. Now by matrix multiplication, the entry in the first row, first column, must be the sum of the component-wise products of the first row of R with the first column of A. And we'd like that to be C times A11. And this has to be true regardless of the values of the entries of the first column of A. And that means the only way that this can be guaranteed is to make R11 to be equal to C and R1I to be 0 for all the other entries. Now if this is the first row of our matrix R, then when we multiply this by the second column, we'll get the first row, second column entry, and that's going to be C times A12, which is exactly what we want. And if we do this for all the other entries of the first row, we see that making this, the first row of R, will in fact multiply the first row of A by the constant C. What about the entries in the second row? Well, these will be found by multiplying the second row of R by each of the columns of A. So the second row, first column entry, is going to be... And this has to be equal to A21 regardless of the values of the entries of A. And the only way we can guarantee that that will happen is R22 has to be 1, and every other entry in that second row of R must be equal to 0. And if we take that as our second row of R, then the entries in the second row of R will be unchanged. This generalizes, and that allows us to find the remaining rows of the matrix R. Trust me, I'm on the internet. Or verify for yourself. So again, an important thing you want to do as a mathematician is to, more or less as a matter of habit, ask yourself the question, how can we generalize this? Well, first of all, we have to produce a name for it. And so this matrix, which can be used to perform an elementary row operation, is referred to as an elementary matrix. And the thing to notice here is that this elementary matrix is the identity matrix with C instead of 1 in the first row. And a good habit to get into as a mathematician is to ask how this generalizes. In this case, what changes if we want to multiply the kth row of A by our constant C? And if we examine what actually changes, we come to the following theorem. The elementary matrix correspond to multiplying the kth row of a matrix by C is the matrix R, whose entries are going to be C if i is j and j is k, 1 if i is j and j is not equal to k, and 0 everywhere else. And again, this is just going to be the identity matrix with a C in the kth row instead of a 1. Another way to generalize this problem is by noticing that we tried to find row operations by multiplying on the left. What happens if we try to reproduce a row operation by multiplying on the right by some matrix? So again, let's let A be a matrix. And if possible, I want to find a matrix R where if I multiply on the right, I will multiply the first row by some constant C. So again, I'll set up our system of equations. And again, we'll want to make sure that our first row first column entry is correct. So we get this entry by multiplying the first row of A by the first column of R. And this tells us that R11 will have to be C and Rn1 will have to be 0. Since we now know the first column of the second matrix, we can find the first column of the product. So let's multiply the second row of A by the first column of R and get what will be the entry in the second row first column. Unfortunately, when we do that, we find that the second row first column entry is going to be C times A11, which is not what we want it to be. And what that says is that we can't find a matrix R that multiplies on the right and gives us the matrix form by multiplying the first row of A by a constant. And so no such matrix exists. Another elementary operation is multiplying a row by a constant and then adding it to another row and then replacing that other row. So let's see if we can find an elementary matrix that corresponds to that row operation. So again, we'll set up our matrix product and the first entry of the second row will be and now if we compare coefficients, we see that R21 has to be equal to C and R22 has to be equal to 1 and all the other entries in that second row of R will have to be equal to 0. And so this choice gives us all entries in the second row and since every other entry in the product of the two matrices is unchanged, all the other entries are going to correspond to the identity matrix. Trust me. And again, we can generalize this result if we want. The elementary matrix corresponding to multiplying the kth row of a matrix by C and then adding it to the mth row of the matrix is the matrix R where the entries of R are going to be 1 if i is equal to j. So it looks just like the identity matrix with the exception that we're going to have an entry C if i is equal to m and j is equal to k. And one thing that's worth noting about this is that as long as we don't do row interchanges and as long as we work from top to bottom, these elementary row operations are going to correspond to lower triangular matrices.


day to all of you and I'm glad that we started hearing the silence and it is said in practicing psychology that when somebody speaks it makes it easier to counsel and somebody doesn't and think about women we are talking about a generation a group a community which belongs to all of us and we don't speak and what we don't speak is cornered and shadowed somewhere in our just now we are reading we are getting discounts on household things kitchen accessories and what about discounting our emotions so I think today is the day when silence can be heard and grateful to Manipal Hospital because not every women can come to the hospital but we are reaching you and we are there so what are we creating we are creating a chain of support which will have confidence courage and kindness I don't want to speak more because I want to work on this campaign more and I think the last line which I've read somewhere a few years back we all are born and I think our qualities whether it is waiting for your children waiting for your husband your parent even at 2 o'clock at night for dinner serving them hot and delicious food forgetting about your pain and still saying that I mean Tika chief I'm fine don't worry so it is basically the quality which makes us a woman so let's stick to that let's deliver the qualities we have and believe in ourselves thank you so much


So this is a video that I actually did about a week ago, but it Was deleted by yours truly, so I am now recreating it and the topic of the day is What are the three? biggest fixes that I found when you feel overwhelmed by life when you get that feeling that Things are moving way too fast for you Life is constantly happening and everything is changing around you And you just you can't keep up keep up You can't you don't have a chance to think to sit down like over warm over warm over warm Like you're going down the river and you have no idea how to stop or how to navigate it so people come up to me of the question of how do I solve it and they usually mean like Pretty much all the time they mean How do I change my thinking? Like how do I practice my schedule better? How do I? Manage my time better, you know, I think this is the solution, but I always actually take them to the physiology first before the mental level because for most people The problem is not in the head.  So your body it would be more accurate even scientifically to think about your brain as Your body as your brain obviously concentrated in the head, but but spread out throughout the body as well and I really don't get the people that just think You know, it's all in the head man, you know, just it's about the mind Just think just if you think properly, it's gonna work It's you know, if you're tired, just just Change your thinking or something like these people have never read history like they don't realize that in Soviet Russia and the 40 some million people that got interrogated by the The police there that were trying basically to incriminate them to make them sign Papers admitting to treason and going against mother Russia To be shot and put in jail for anywhere between five to 25 years in starvation What they did they tortured these people and they tortured them in so many different methods but The one thing that was consistent in all these 40 some million Tortures was this they did not let these people sleep They didn't let them sleep for days and weeks So all these people that say, you know, the brain as well matters what they felt you to realize is that your brain It's not really like the rational part of you. That's the least Developed part. That's the least fundamental part in our brain because it's the least old part The older the part of your brain is the more power it has to override the other parts And for example a person who's not fed a person who did not eat anything for a few days That person will have a very very tough time being rational because the brain Overrides the rational part the prefrontal cortex in order to get immediate food So, where am I going with this? I Don't necessarily contend that all feelings of being overwhelmed are due to Physiology only but I would contend that the vast majority almost all of them are Caused by physiology, so it's not a problem of thinking or Just bad time management or scheduling. It's literally just your body Physiologically is not getting what it needs and is not functioning properly you're not able to think properly and That's why you feel overwhelmed now, of course, I'm not talking about crisis situations. I'm talking about life, you know, assuming there's no Crisis currently happening.  So what are the three biggest things that? Fix this problem. So every time somebody comes up to me again, I changed their mind I tell them, you know forget about the time management forget about the scheduling and do the three things that I'm going to tell you now and You're immediately going to see a massive massive improvement and the feeling is going to be, you know It's going to disappear. So the first thing is simple Every person that tells me that they're feeling overwhelmed. I always ask them this one question How much time do you sleep on average and the answer is always about six hours Five six hours and even if it's seven it's it's not really seven. It's what's it's a dirty seven because it's like six Six and a bit plus like half an hour of sleep. So it's basically rounding the numbers against yourself. I tell every single person that You know just for three four days Do whatever it takes to get eight hours of sleep and there's no such thing as I can't You just do it and and some sometimes people ask me wait But how is it that there's people who you know, they sleep four or five six hours and they're still successful I explain them look they're successful in spite of not sleeping enough not because they don't sleep enough Like yeah, okay, you get an extra fucking yeah hour two hours in the day Great, but what about the fact that you lose brain capacity You lose your ability to think clearly when you don't sleep well your cortisol goes up you you're under stress Never mind that I'm not going to get into that argument, but The the idea is first of all fix your sleep so even for just three four days sleep eight hours Properly quality sleep, you know in the dark without too much noise use a kind of like eye Blankets if you need so that you don't you know see light and That's the first thing second thing is in terms of diet most people have really really shitty diets and I found that it's better to Put in good foods rather than try to get out bad foods like it's always better in in life to Create a good habit then to focus on removing a bad habit now I'm not talking about like heroin addiction or something I'm talking about you know being lazy or porn addictions or any anything of that sort The best way to replace it is by putting in something else that is good so what I want you to do is to again and this is an experiment and Be honest to be you know be a person of Integrity and if you are feeling overwhelmed just try what I'm saying for four days If it doesn't work drop it because but if it does it's worth the world If you can stop feeling overwhelmed and be able to think clearly again So what I want you to do is to start drinking a Fruit shake every day as the morning would be the best like before any before anything for eating anything just drink a fruit shake either make one or just buy one and Ask for as many fruits as possible. So what I like to do is I go up to the You know the the person that makes the fruit shakes and I asked like can you put everything and they always give you like that?   It's not gonna be good It's it's just some it's okay. Trust me and and by the way, let me tell you it's gonna be delicious like good fruit shake with all the fruits Literally just tastes super sweet. Like there's no not like a specific taste. It just tastes really good and Never got why people say it's not good I never ever talked never ever had somebody who did not like, you know, I give them to try and they didn't like drinking a fruit shake with like 12 different fruits and Also, I want you to drink a vegetable juice because both of them are important Now if you don't want to do those things then do this a minimum of two Fruits and a minimum of two vegetables every day different vegetables and different fruits But if you can do the shakes thing That would be like maximum benefit What would happen is you'd feel a lot more Energetic you'd feel a lot less hungry You have you'll have this clean energy of clear thinking And it doesn't go up and down all the time. It's just very consistent And also fruit and vegetable shakes are delicious. So, you know, no problem there Uh, the vegetable juice If it's not tasty enough, I would recommend putting in two bananas The cool thing about bananas is that they completely overtake the taste So if you put two bananas, it doesn't matter if you put in like all the, you know grossest green vegetables Uh, you just won't taste them. So you get the benefits, but you can don't get the taste Which you know, it's like kind of like getting kicked in the face by a horse Okay, uh, that's the second one now the third and final tip is regarding exercise So I have, uh, you know, people that came up to me and told me again about feeling overwhelmed and Ask them, do you exercise and say yes? So I say, okay, what do you do? Uh, they sell something like oh, I dance Um, but but dancing is not what I consider exercise. Obviously it does Fall under that definition and you know, it is physical exertion and you might even be You know really sweaty and tired afterwards But the type of exertion that I mean is the type where you actually take your body to a certain limit Because dancing for example is An activity where you're always kind of a bit fatigued But you never actually reach a point where like you can't take it anymore. You know, it's like you reach a limit so limit type exercises, that's what I mean like lifting really heavy weights and kind of reaching the limit of what strength you can create or Running on a treadmill and just really killing yourself on the treadmill So any kind of limit type of exercise activity Uh, will greatly increase your energy like whatever time you spend in the gym You're going to get back like four or five fold that time in Energy and you know, it doesn't matter Clock time like it doesn't matter if you work four hours or one hour What matters is how much you got done And the higher your energy the clearer you're thinking the more you get done in less time So again the hour in the gym is worth to you like three four hours of Concentration time on whatever, you know, it could be work relationships You're just going to get back that time in energy Quadrupled So these are the three Things that I'd like you to do so try them for four days five days maybe a week And by the second day you'll already feel immense benefits now every single person I told to do this Not only did the problem of feeling overwhelmed go away But they actually began to think a lot more clearly They began to have a much better mood Everything just started getting better, you know, so they started seeing colors more vividly It's it's such a huge shift When you fix your physiology And at that point now that you're thinking actually works now you can actually start working on Time management and scheduling. So again the people That's the problem. They work on these things before they fix the physiology That's like having a car with a semi broken engine that can barely drive And focusing on you know, is my map good? Is the map correct?  I'm sorry. I'm cursing so much.    You eat less shit, you know less sugar less refined things Suddenly you think clearly, you don't feel overwhelmed anymore and you know Life moves on and and everything changes But you always feel like you're on top of things you always feel like you can at any moment just just decide to think and and strategize and and make plans and it's so Like a breath of fresh air and I'm I'm so passionate about this because I've been there like I've literally Spent months maybe years of my life early on Thinking of there's something wrong with me thinking like my mood problems the fact that my moods were constantly like like like getting hit and And the lack of energy and the inability to sit down and write like a freaking person like I could not do it And once I fixed the food I started working out.   Okay start sleeping eight hours because you're gonna function properly And then from that place of sleeping eight hours and being able to think Now you can actually strategize how to you know do your experiments and sleep less sure but but start with fixing your thinking your brain, you know Saying you want to sleep four or five six hours and do that really productively That's not an excuse to basically neglect sleep and not be productive. So that's my message for you today Uh, I know this video sounded a bit like the beginning of me selling some sort of a fitness wellness health course Uh, but I'm not there yet. I don't think I'll ever be so Thanks for listening subscribe if you haven't click the links below to find out more about me and Hope you're the best. See you soon


Naval Academy seniors will experience a night they'll remember for the rest of their careers this Thursday night. With all the excitement of the NFL draft, these future surface warfare officers will choose their very first ship. Commanding officers, command master chiefs and other special guests will be there to greet the midshipmen upon their selection. After graduation, the new SWOs will immediately report to the ships they chose and begin their naval careers. Special guests at this year's ceremony include Commander Naval Surface Forces Vice Admiral Tom Coatman and the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, Vice Admiral Michael Miller. Check out the event broadcasted live from Mayhan Hall at the Naval Academy and hosted by Petty Officers Brandy Wills and Amara Timberlake on the Pentagon Channel, Direct to Sailor and the Navy Live Blog. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Ian Cotter.


Welcome to the ISS. Welcome to space. Hello, how are you? Thank you for your calling and I'm so glad to talk with you. Yes, thank you. In fact, I'm going to have my own entire flight. It's flying with me on board the space station for six months from here. I'm trying to advocate for the topics that we have covered in security, the questions of hunger and climate change, resilience of the agricultural systems. It is a privileged vantage point for not here. You can see a lot of phenomenon happening on the global scale and I'm happy that we can take this time today. Thanks very much for your time today. I hope you can be a fitness in the space and with the health food. That's why we are promised to offer the more health food to the consumers. Of course, you are one of our billions of consumers.  Chili peppers are important for us for our food, our future growth, so for nature, which is important for human beings. Even in the technological environment, very hostile, we're trying to still grow our food, grow plants, see what it takes for them to be more resilient to a harsh environment, to be applied on the ground. That's also a very emotional connection to the earth. I hope you keep your very health and I'm waiting for you to host you in Rome. Yeah, I'm looking forward to this and looking forward to coming back to earth and continue to talk about these topics and talk about what the experts have to say when you're crossing the action on the field and hopefully we can do this together. Thank you, Thomas. And I wish you all the best. Let's share all your experience in space from a different angle to look at what we are doing here on the planet. And let's work together to address all the challenges in this small planet. See you all the best. Thank you so much. Bye-bye. Thank you.


Time heals all wounds. Have you ever heard that or had that said to you or said it to someone? It's not true, of course. It's a myth. You can still have an intense feeling about something that happened two years ago or 22 years ago. It's not time that changes that. It's leaning into and committing to the healing process that enables us to process what happened to us and to move forward. Don't ever buy into the idea that by now you should be over something. It's not just with time. It's to do with the amount of effort we put into the healing required. Move on from something that hurt us, damaged us. Hope that helps. Love you guys.


Welcome to the Argos Toy Unboxing. Today we're looking at real FX slotless racing, combining breakthrough artificial intelligence technology with a unique customizable track for the ultimate video game style racing experience. In the box there are two cars, two controllers and 20 pieces of track. It's really easy to set up as you'll be raring to have a go, so let's start racing. It's super cool and with no slots in the track you can overtake your opponent for a real race and with over 40 different track combinations you'll never tire of testing your skills. Each car is fitted with infrared opto sensors which read the track 200 times per second to help you drive like a pro. There are four modes to choose from. In practice mode you can hone your race skills and beat your lap times as the handset will accurately call out your time to 100th of a second and let you know if you've achieved a new record. There's a championship mode for racing your opponents with fully customizable race settings. You can enable virtual hazards such as oil spills, choose the number of laps and even set race conditions such as tyre wear and fuel consumption to make the races as realistic as possible. There's also pace car mode where the cars can drive around the track completely by themselves so you can still race against an opponent even if you're the only player. And RC mode for if you want to switch off the sensors and race your car off-road.  We hope you've loved this Argos unboxing with Real FX Slotless Racing. We know you're just desperate to have a go. Happy racing!


Hey everybody, Forrest and Donnie here with the 2023 Bowman Baseball Choice and Super Jumbo 7 box match number 17 picker team style. You've got ammo with the Padres, Anthony S. Yankees, Barry G. Pirates, Caleb N. Brewers, Chris L. Reyes, Eric W. Mariners, Gabriel C. Rangers, Gavin K. Astros, Glenn W. Guardians, Marlins, Jeffrey H. with the A's Giants, Jeremy H. Cubs, Twins, John F. Braves, Jordan C. White Sox, Kevin D. Red Sox, Kuniaki Tigers, Lursak Reds, Mark L. Dodgers, Michael P. Rockies, Mitchell D. Nationals, Nate M. Angels, Patrick Z. Cardinals, Peter S. Phillies, Ryan S. Diamondback, Steve C. Royals, Steven U. Metz, Victor F. Orioles, and Utah with the Blue Jays. So how we doing, Mitchell? What's up, buddy? Donnie's a Hugh Jenkes fan? I know. Donnie said I'm Hugh Jenkes fan. I've done all the cash, so... Oh, that's weird. Must be Donnie because it's all caps. Yeah, I never turn my caps lock off. Guys, who should plan some big troll tonight for Sam Stream? Ooh. Some monumental troll. Like, you'll never... Is it like a trolling service I can pay for? Yeah, of course. How much are you talking about? What's up, Alexander? Doing well. Uh, paper base all is gonna split even in this break. I'll split even. Just the base. No pink goes to the Padres, Zavala. Samuel Zavala. Can we get Sam negative likes tonight? I guess you can give them a discount. I was gonna say, I don't think you can go negative, can you? Max Clark. Sparkle, Red Louder, Red's first moment. Yeah, Sam was wanted to be well rested for the 30-Caser. So he showed up two hours and 45 minutes before he's supposed to start. Refractors of Cole Young, Hunter Haas, Gabriel Gonzalez, McDaniel Young, Mercedes Davis Vargas, first auto goes, Red Louder, Red's first moment auto. Congrats, Sinsi. Good hit there, Churio and Jacob Gonzalez. That's debatable, Sam. That's debatable. Or you could, since you clearly have a firm grasp of what time you're showing up, you could show up at the regular time. Got Wyatt Langford, like Donnie. Donnie is an exemplary employee. Yay. If only everybody else here was Donnie. Yay. Lunar glow of Marcello Meyer for the Red Sox. I got complimented. Nonsarcastically, I think. Refractors, Montero, Waldrip, Guanipa, Mitchell, Emmett Olson, Alberto Rios, Drew Jones, Caraco in a blue wave, first moment auto, Zach Levinson for the Cardinals. This guy's all over choice, isn't he? 53 of 150. He's getting mad, chat. Not mad. Not mad. Said I'm not mad. He's angry. Got Colt Emerson. Gold after a Colt Emerson mood ring for the Mariners. This is a gold first-moment Justin Reimer, 26 of 50, Boston. Boston. Fractors Diaz, Sim, Jorge Schlegger, Gordon, Clemmie, Baez, Bashir's first-moment autograph, Eric Patanti for the Brewers, Santana Schienes, light blue paper to $4.99, Xavier Isaac Reyes, Sparkle of Chase Davis for the Cardinals. Christmas dinner pizza? Christmas... 713th. 713th. Gonna get a magic win pizza next time they win. Fractors Anthony Belio, Apor, Walters, Toren, Eldridge, Valdez, Dylan Head in a gold wave, first-moment auto, Matt Zach Thornton. Mike keeps cutting out. 1950 gold wave, Thornton for the Mets. I don't know. Anyone else have any audio issues right now? First time we're hearing about it. Aqua Pink to $1.99, Jake Cunningham for the Orioles on the paper. Bradfield on the glass. It's like here and there, that's very weird. Baby Refresh, I don't know. What's up, Alvin? Yeah, we pulled two yesterday. Bradfield glass, purple, Regio to $2.50 Yankees. We pulled one on YouTube, one on Fanatics Live. So two at Leighton. Refractors of Early Smith, Nichols, Foster, Barry, Horvath, Lee, Soto, a gold for the Guardian's Cooper Engle, first-moment autograph. Number 35 out of 50. Nice hit, Guardians of the True Gold Engle, moving on to choice. It's fine. What? It's facing right side up. Base, first-moment auto, Twins, Brendan Winnaker. Winnaker. Winnaker. Next up is a choice, first-moment auto. Raise. Colton led better to $1.50. Tampa Bay, $4.8 of $1.50. And a base, first-moment auto of Cooper Engle for the Guardians. This last name is close to another name. Do I want to? Engle. Do you see what I'm saying? Base, first-moment auto. Nice one, Cubbies. Matt Shaw. Matt Shaw has made his appearance. That's the first Shaw I've pulled out of choice. Jeremy H, there you go, sir. Choice, first-moment auto to $1.50 is White Sox Grant Taylor. 30 of $1.50. And Green Lava. First auto, Maui Ahuna. Giants. 61 of $99, Maui Ahuna. For Jeffrey. Cubbs, first-moment base auto. Michael Carrico. Choice, first-moment auto to $1.50. Logan Zolles. Chicago teams hitting well here. Jordan C, with the White Sox. Good hit, good hit. And a base, first-moment auto now. Grayson hit, Diamondbacks. That's pretty nice, Mitchell. That's pretty nice. What was that? Insert auto? Who dat, who dat?  Draft, insert auto. Gold, mini-diamond, Noble Meyer. 33 of $50 for Miami. Remember, 10 overall pick, yeah? This is draft, doesn't say what pick he was. I think it was 10. A Green. It's true Green. First auto. Dylan Head for the Padres. Great hit, sane. Diego, that's going to ammo. Nice one, 49 of $99. And choice, first auto to $1.50 is Tayshon Walton for Philadelphia. 102 of $1.50, Walton. Philly. Philly. Philly, Philly. I probably shouldn't say that over here. What? Philly, Philly, I shouldn't say that around you. Probably gives you eight years. Not anymore. Damn Brandon Coke's concussion.  That's insane. That's so insane. Getting tortured, like, not that guy. Don't put him in. Anyway, Jayce Borefin, first-moment auto blue Jayce. Belichick will be gone soon. That guy stinks. She's never done anything for us. First-moment auto blue Jayce Borefin. It honestly is about time right now. Right now it's warranted. First-moment auto for the Cubs. Jackson Wiggins. Wonder where he's going to go. He's going to coach more. Wiggins for the Cubs. Green Lava. First-moment auto. Giants Bryce Eldridge. That's a sick hit for Jeffrey. 80 of 99 Eldridge Green Lava. Last box at choice. We've got a Tommy Hawk first-moment autograph or a Fractor to 499 Guardians. Panthers, dude. No way he goes to the Panthers. He's going to go to at least a semi-competent organization. A gold shimmer here. Eleon Soto first-moment autograph. 44 of 50 Nationals. Nice color for the Nats. Going to Mitchell D. And a base first-moment auto Dodgers. Is Dylan Campbell. Going to recycle to a recap. Light blue paper to 499. Xavier Isaac. Cunningham to 199. And Zavala. Numbered Cromes of Regio and Rimer on the gold. Autos of Wiggins. Borofen. Campbell, Grayson hit. Carrico, Shaw, Winnaker. Ingle, Vitanti, Lauder. Refractor to 499. Tommy Hawk. Blue Wave, Levinson to 150. Zavales, Taylor, Walton, and Leadbetter. Green Lava, Ohuna. Gold Shimmer, Soto. Gold Wave, Thornton. True Gold, Ingle. And a gold draft insert on a Noble Meyer. A few golds like to see that. And Eldridge, Green Lava for San Francisco. And a true Green Dillon head for San Diego. That'll do it. Another mixer coming up.