Wait, wait, wait, hold on. Before you smash that dislike, let me elaborate something. None of the games on this list today are bad games. Can I clarify that? Off the bat, I'm not using the word bad, worse, terrible, none of that. All of the games I'm talking about today are at least possible, but even a couple of them, I would say are really good games. I at some point talked about how excited I was for these games to release. All they were just really big popular releases that managed to find their way to the Switch and then a lot of you guys were hanging around asking me, why didn't you talk about that? Well, um, here's why. I guess I want to tie some loose ends and talk about a bunch of games that aren't necessarily bad games, but I had bad experiences with, and as a result, I don't really like them that much, personally. Please remember that as you go into this. I don't want to have a Xenoblade situation all over again, okay? 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Nostalgia. I was just excited to pick this game up because I was fresh off the heels of Team Sonic Racing, which I actually really enjoyed. And I really thought leading up to its release, Crash Team Racing looked, oh, a million times better than Team Sonic Racing. So if I enjoyed that, I was gonna love this. No. This game is really, really hard. And that's fine. That's why I still think it's a good game and it definitely has its place in the kart racer genre. For those people that kind of want that whimsical fun kart racing experience, but also want a brutally tough challenge that you really have to get picture perfect at to have any fun playing, this is a perfect combination. But for me, who was looking for more of a lighthearted fun experience in my kart racing? It really wasn't to be found within Crash Team Racing. I'm still not sure. I swore the rubber banding was broken. I mean, okay. At first I swore there was rubber banding and then I thought it was broken. Now after playing it a lot more, I still really can't tell. And even like looking at forums online, people go back and forwards with is there rubber banding or not? And it seems like the common opinion is no. Let me explain what rubber banding is. It's essentially kind of what it sounds like when you pass another kart on the track, they'll get like a little bit of a speed boost so they can go ahead and blitz right past you to kind of keep the game, I guess artificially challenging. But I think what I have settled on is it's just that everyone else is just faster than you. And that really forces you to get picture perfect at the game, to nail the drifting mechanic. I don't know why I just cannot get my head around this drifting mechanic. I am fantastic at drifting in Mario Kart, but this is a whole nother beast. Every moment you are driving in a straight line, even on straight pieces of road, you're just losing time. You need to be drifting every single second. You need to be hitting those boosts. You need to be making sure you're getting all of the apples. You need to be doing every single thing possible to make sure you're staying ahead of the other cars. Easy is way too easy. And then anything above that is just way too brutally hard. And the adventure mode, that's where I started playing the game and like three or four days into playing it, I was stuck on the third race. I couldn't beat it. For the life of me, I tried again and again and again. I was really struggling to have fun because I could not win. And like in the adventure mode, you have to come first to continue on. So I kind of just gave up on the adventure mode and started playing online. And that was pretty great because everyone has the same base speed. And I was managing to win the online a lot when the online was actually working for me because the online had a whole other bunch of issues, which made that kind of frustrating. And I kind of just took a step back and I looked at Crash Team Racing as a whole and realized that if I really wanted to have fun in this game, I was going to have to pump in just countless hours to get really good at it. And it wasn't something I was willing to do because I wasn't having fun as it was. So I shelved the game and never went back to it. I'm not saying it's bad. There are plenty of you out there that are really great at this game. And if you're good at it, I can see it being oh, a ton of fun. Plus it plays really great on Switch, surprisingly great. This game is gorgeous. I would say it's by far the best looking racer game on the Switch, even better than Mario Kart 8. Mario Kart 8, there's something about that game that is just endless fun for me. Whereas Crash Team Racing is just drift, drift, friggin drift, to boost as much as you can. Are you drifting? Make sure you're drift, you have to drift. Oh, I... So Crash Team Drifting is fun if you can pull that off. But for me, not so much.  So who knows? Oh, you're still here? We probably haven't hit 10 minutes yet. So I mean, if you want to talk about another game, I can try and figure something out really quick. I mean, Mario Maker, Realm Royale. I kind of like Realm Royale. Stranger Things, The Game. Well, there's an unremembrable experience. Let's talk about that one. Really know where else I'm going to be able to gush about how much I love Stranger Things, The TV Show. So I guess I'll take like a minute to do it now. Wow! Isn't this show amazing? I wish as a content creator I had an extra platform where I could talk about movies and shows I really love because while watching Stranger Things, I just wanted to review it or talk about it or share my love for it in some way. They've managed to so perfectly hit the nail on the head with so many different genres and themes from the 80s and 90s and bring it all together into a fantastic TV show for the 2000 and whatever we're in. Steve is by far my favorite character. If I could work for a week in Scoops Ahoy, I would love that. Actually, now it's kind of like I do work there. What flavor do you want? They're all in the back and there is a video game made for the show released on the same day. The show came out July 4th. It's a beat-em-up that follows the show's story to a T. It's essentially you do play out every single episode. The game's even broken down into chapters like the show is. Believe it or not, I enjoy myself a good beat-em-up. The Scott Pilgrim versus the World Game was incredible. Actually, it's my favorite beat-em-up of all time. So I went in really hoping it was going to be good. But having looked at all the trailers and promotional material leading up to it, it kind of did look very barebones basic. And then I got my hands on the game and it started okay. Again, it directly follows the show. So having just seen the show, that was a little bit lackluster. It was kind of cool to see how they taken the entire story and squished it down into a condensed 16-bit beat-em-up experience. But it really left no twist turns of surprises as far as the story went. So okay, that's fine. Well, now I'm here for the gameplay, right? That's what's left. It's the game itself and the structure of it, the pacing and the gameplay. And all of that is really slow. The gameplay mechanics are pretty simple. You wail on an attack button to do a basic attack and then you have a special attack for every character, which is essentially just a big explosion of some kind. Some characters do have certain elemental effects, like fire or poison. But at the end of the day, it doesn't really add too much of a difference. You just pick your favorite character and then you'll use them. I will say that almost every cast member from the show got their own playable character in the game. There's a lot of different playable characters and that was really cool. But after playing the game for about an hour, you will experience everything the game has to offer. There's a bunch of mediocre puzzles that are more frustrating than anything and they feel completely random at times. And then the combat and the enemy variation, it's essentially just random dudes and rats. There's a lot of rats in this game. Some things I really did like about it is it's an open world-ish game where you get side quests that you can complete if you want to. They're optional. And honestly, the side quests I would say were more fun than most of the main quest because I didn't know what was going to happen. One element of the game I really did appreciate was it had crafting. You can equip yourself with up to five items to give you a certain kind of boost, like more health or more damage or more defense etc etc. But there was issues even with that mechanic too. For example, every item you could craft needed like between four to six other things to make it and I never seemed to find any of them at the same time. Oh and furthermore, the items you needed to craft an individual item were so random and redundant. I was like, okay let me list these items for you and you tell me what you think they make. So if I was to combine glasses, a lead pipe, a rake, a lighter, a bottle of water, and a coin purse, what do you think those things would combine to make? I'll give you a second to figure it out. A wallet. That's how you make a wallet within the game. I don't know, I would have appreciated it more if I was combining like a lead pipe, a rake, and a lighter into something like, I don't know, a flamethrower. You know, like the pipe sits on the rake and then put a ladder at one end, maybe some gasoline somewhere else. I don't know, but it makes something that actually looks like the items that come together. But you're telling me, if I want a larger wallet to hold a few extra coins, I need to go around trying to find a rake and a lead pipe and binoculars. It's just random, pointless garbage. They decided that's what you need to make a certain thing. So many people wanted me to talk about blood stains specifically on Switch because it's one of those really big, awesome releases that so many people were excited for. I was excited for it. The big question is, because it's gonna be on Switch, how does it play on Switch? How does it look? How does it run? Because it's the perfect game to play portably. So if it's gonna look and play just as good on my Switch as my Xbox and my PlayStation, I may as well buy it on Switch and have that portable aspect to it. And sadly, it really just didn't pan out the way I wanted or really anyone wanted it to on Switch. This one kind of throws a curveball into the mix because for half of it, it has nothing to do with the game itself, more so with my Xbox. All right, let's get started. I will say, the game is great. I really love the way it turned out. The combat, it's a little clunky for me, but it gets the job done. It is pretty varied later in the game. I was having a good time playing it until I was. So here's what happened. I initially picked it up on the Switch and I started hearing a lot of really bad negative things about it. And then the curiosity in me went online and started looking at some side-by-side comparisons of this game versus PlayStation and Xbox. And it was a pretty big jump. It was a pretty huge difference. And I was really excited for this game. And looking at the side-by-side to this game on Switch and then on PlayStation or Xbox, I wanted to play that version. I wanted to play the beautiful, crisp, 60 FPS version, but I decided to persevere and start my playthrough on Switch. Immediately, I noticed some pretty big input lag. But again, I went online and I talked to my buddy Spawnwave. And apparently, yeah, the Switch version has pretty noticeable input lag. And then about an hour or two into my playthrough, that's when the devs tweeted that they were going to shift all of their focus towards fixing the Switch port. Because they had listened to everybody's feedback, they were taking it on board. They realized it wasn't up to everyone's expectations and they wanted to get it there. They wanted it to be the game they promised. And I really loved that. I really appreciated that, but I didn't want to wait to play the game. So I started it on Xbox and it's so much better. Like, it's honestly, it's night and day. This game on my Xbox was so detailed, crystal clear, bursting with color, HDR turned on. I love the way this game looks. Having to start the game again, made it a little slow for me. And then even like three or four hours in, I kind of felt like I was just chugging along. But then after you beat that twin-headed dragon thing, which was a really cool and frustrating fight, the game really opens up and explodes. And I was starting to have a ton of fun. And then the area I live in had a huge lightning storm. And short circuited my entire house.  But my Xbox One X wasn't on a surge protector. And you might be wondering why.   My buddy Spawnwave fixed it. Thank you so much, Spawnwave. Here's a video about that coming. So subscribe to his channel and make sure you look out for it.  My experience is being ruined. And I don't think it's inherently the game's fault. But I went back to my switch, hoping there was some kind of update. There wasn't. They still, to this day, right now, they haven't fixed anything. Apparently there was one small update that fixed the shards in the game. But it's not a fix that helped anything. And after playing it on my Xbox for eight hours, going back to the mud visuals, the framerate issues, and the input lag, it was hard to enjoy that experience as much as I had just enjoyed the last eight hours on my Xbox. So after an hour or two of trying to get back into my switch, the issues and all of that, it kind of just, I put it down. Mario Maker came out. Dragon Quest Builders came out. I think, ultimately, my takeaway is, of course, I think it's a really great game, as I said. And I just had a bad experience. But if you guys can take anything away, I'd say stay away from the Switch port if you haven't bought it yet, and wait to see if these updates, whenever they come out, actually do bring the game up to where it needs to be. And if you just can't wait, because the game has been out for a while, I would recommend picking it up elsewhere. I don't like being negative about video games. I'm well aware that pretty much everyone else is going to have a different opinion to me on this, so feel free to leave it down below. And I would end this by saying, if you like the look of any of the games I talked about, go ahead and try them out for yourself. And don't take my word on this one. This time, in this specific case, usually I would say, trust me. But in this case, do not trust me. I hope you hit that like button today, and not the other way around. I wouldn't blame you, but I tried my best. If you're still here, you should probably have left on that subscribe button. I'm just going to go before I upset anyone else. Okay, see ya.


Blonkey. Guys, I'm getting a phone call. Let me get the phone call. Hello, hardware sugar. Ah, this is Uncle. Actually, I'm live now. See, just like very briefly, sorry para we can get back onto the stream. So, yeah, we're... Sige. Sige, al. Alright, so you know we're live because sometimes I get interrupted by shop stuff. Actually, that was a good call. Mabili ka nang busy. Os ay di kailaw na windows. Pero, stan ko kung kawa nang legit windows. Daming options, daming prices. Aka nito. Gudi na lang. May CD keyovers dot go. Madali lang ang order. Search for the software you need. Add to cart. Daan ka sa payment options nila. Wala pang 5 minutes finished. May legit, working CD key ka na. Para sa windows mo. Gamitan nang aming code para makakuhapan ng discounts. Kaya kung nagahalap ka ng legit, mura at original software. Check out CDKEovers dot go. The customer was asking if we do cleaning. So I'm like, yes, we do cleaning, it's 1.750 cleaning and cable management. He was actually looking for a build last a year and a half ago. Tapos, he called up the shop inquiring and then apparently one of the guys told him na sorry sir, we don't do budget build. So medyo na hurt siya dun. And rightly enough, I would also be, depending of course on how it was said, we just don't have those parts that you're looking for. How do I say this in a nice way? Kasi nabagit ko nga kanina to do 10 to skew high end. Hindi rin makanda paking gan na. Sorry sir, we don't do budget builds para ang snobbish. Sometimes we get a lot of inquiries and a lot of them are just phishing. Sir, anong bagan ng build and then they'll take those specs. Nagpahirap ka, you spent a lot of time coming up with a build and then you won't hear from them again. And then a year later, the message na, sorry bakin na ka problema. Tapos exactly the same specs bumili sa iba. So it's a little frustrating on everybody's part, on my part, on the staff's part to have to deal with inquiries na medyo feeling mo nag-phish lang. And some people would argue, you know that's your job to handle inquiries like that. On one hand it's true, but on the other hand, parang medyo in bad faith naman that you know you're not gonna buy from us but you take apart time. And we do a lot of outreach, like you already have a build, we'll troubleshoot for you for free through the forum, puminsan through the chat and things like that. So on one hand, I'm trying to defend my staff. On the other hand, I do agree with the customer that I can understand yung frustration yung parang ang snobby naman ng PC shop na ito. Hindi rin naman maganda for any customer, even myself if I'm told basically that you can't afford what we have. Definitely, that's a no-no. And that's not what the shop stands for. The shop is always about being friendly, about trying to assist people as much as possible. Again, to try to defend the one who answered that, baka na pagod lang siya. We do have a lot of inquiries na na hindi mo alam sa nagagaling, but you do need to spend time answering them. That's in part why we don't have lazada in shopping now kasi ako rin yung sumasagoton. So parang na pagod ako sa quality of customers dun sa lazada and shopping. So it shouldn't be like that, but maybe our guy just was having a bad day. He had to deal with a lot of other stuff. And then you have an inquiry that you're not sure exactly where it's coming from. Actually, that's why, just tell us your budget upfront. Parang this isn't poker, guys. This isn't poker na you need to keep your cards close to your chest o kung sabihin ko yung budget ko 100,000, they're gonna raise the prices on me. Hindi ka may ganon. That's why it's also frustrating for us na, you know, we're playing 20 questions. We're trying to guess ano ba yung budget mo, ane yung maganda sa'yo. If the customer is upfront with what you're planning to spend, then we can try to accommodate based on that budget. And we won't. Hindi namin tatasin yung presyo kasi alam namin yung budget para magasus malang yung budget. Believe me, 95%... Ako yung sumasagot sa 95% of the inquiries on Facebook.  And the build I'll give is like 10,000 pesos cheaper than the overall budget. Alam ko naman kung sa nagagaling yung tech guys namin. Alam ko rin naman kung sa nagagaling yung customers. So again, I'm trying to walk that fine line between trying to understand the customer and I do understand that emotion is very raw. Nobody likes being told that you can't afford what we have. From the point of view of the tech guys, baka when he heard na, okay, this is the GPU that I'm looking for, 1060. Baka there was assumption that this is a budget build and we've never carried, never in the entire history of the shop have we carried a 1060. What I've always wanted for the shop is for it to be a friendly place na kahit wala kang malasyadong alam sa computer, you come to us and we'll try to help you out. We might not have the parts that you need depending on your budget, but we can definitely point you in the right direction. Thanks for watching. And thank you to our top fans. Na-affordo namin to kapua na to, and edo club. Thank you to Leah Magnaya, Ian Meru, ITX Addict, John Ruben Ocha, Christian Espinoza, and Rafael James. Thank you for supporting the channel.


Oh my god, the train broke! What's happening? It's a scramble! It did too bad. Too much of a flip. Oh, my arms are dead. Alright, sip of coffee now for that. That was good. That was fun. Oh my goodness. That was a good train. We're still here though. We didn't all die. I died. What? Yeah, the best people are out of the train, man. Wait, whoa, I'm still in the train. What are you talking about? Fully good, right? All the same. It's all drifting. Yeah, I'd rather get that, actually. I don't mind it. If I get trophies, it's kind of fun, no?  No, he finally got out of the car. He didn't want it.  Very good. How are you? We didn't all die, I don't know. I'm sorry. Just save me.  I got saved, but I killed everything. That just went out of control. Let's leave it to me to screw it all up. Alright, let's do this. Guys, go ahead of me. Wait, wait, wait. Go ahead. Go, go, go, go. I'm going for all these guys. I'll go and follow the snacks. Hook up behind the snacks. I'll try to. I'll try to. I'm good enough for a bit. I'm good now, man.  Alright, I'm behind snacks now. I only have the gloves on, man. Only the gloves? No shoes? My bad.  Everybody, I'm going to pass you there. Nick died? Nick died. Thank you for getting about the tires. They need heat. So grippy now. I forgot how much angle this 86 has. I need heat in the tires, man. Come on. Give me the heat, man. He's like, driving straight. What are you, a camera car? I'm doing it to be okay. You a camera car now? Oh, Jesus. There you go. Whatever. That worked. Okay.  Are you good now on tires, Rhodes? Yeah, I'm getting some heat in those ploppies. I literally thought it was almost like that at all. It is. I can't be dead late when I'm still around. You can transition. You don't want to be put on a Rhodes hit list, do you? Well, I'm following behind him and he's not transitioning. Oh, now he's dead. No, I'm not dead. You're dead. Oh!  I would say thanks, but you killed your smoke. Oh, Jesus.  Sorry, Rhodes. I'm sorry, man. I believe you.  All right, come on. Bring it. Oh, God.  Let's go. What's going on? No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. Go, go, go, go, go. Go, go, go, go. Who's behind me? 86, that's no grip, dude. Who's behind me? Okay, and an 86. And an 86. Oh, two-billed in the air. This has become a basher session. Oh, my God. Holy moly. Whoa, whoa. So, if you... I wonder if anyone knows, if you want to lower the grip in your car. Increase tire pressure. And increase tire pressure and add some camber. Increase? Add some camber. Less contact patch. Okay. Oh, my God. This angle. I'm sorry.   We're good. Oh, my God. I'm the most dangerous car driver in the West, dude. But Biff Coast was, like, nonexistent. 30%. So, the... Increase... Are you having a problem getting an angle? No, but... I got too much. When I'm snapping into angle, it's hard to pull out of it again. It makes too much. It's all good. I was trying to keep up anyway. Try turning your toe to more pox. Oh, save me. Thanks. Positive or negative, I can't remember. Chris, to make the rear end grip a little bit more. Toe in. Toe towards the positive. And the front end a bit negative. I don't know how it works on the gauge on this car, but you look a bit on the gauge on the right side and you can kind of notice if your toe is gaining or you're going negative or positive. I don't know how it works on the gauge on this car, but if your toe is gaining or you're going negative or positive. So, toe in is... Higher number? Toe in should be in the positive. And should give you a bit of grip.  It's doing too much of that, actually. That's what I want to change. You want more parallel down then. So, it's more like zero toe in the back and a bit of slight toe out in the front. So, you're going to have a switchback controlled because it's going to be a bit less controlled on the straight line because of the toe out, but it's going to be way more controlled under switchbacks and stuff because you're just giving more angle. Who drives these cars in straight lines? I don't. No, there you go. Yeah, I have a drag belt. Yeah, what do you mean? I'm going to jump here. Most people run like five negative camber in the engine. Oh, shoot. I'm sorry, night mode. All right. I'm falling too. I always fall. The whole train followed me. Yeah, I'm going to drink my coffee because I went out too. I bounced out to try to jump behind the train. Like imagine, like if I had my three monitors set up, I could just drink my coffee and keep falling. Let me just say. This car is narrow. Why does that 14 is narrow? It's fun because your mod works with the shake of my wheel. Oh my God, my car just died. I don't know if you guys will be able to hear it. One sec, I'll try it. No, no, no. It's my wheel when it vibrates. It's just like it imitates the engine. You can't really hear it. I was just expecting to hear it. You can't really hear it. Oh my. Dude, there's like a rabbit on my rail. Oh God. I can't. Big old fight. I was just like, I'm just going to run. I was just like, I'm just going to I'm going to assassinate your door this lap. So expect to be scraped on the entire lap. Is that some kind of sexual? Somebody just fun? Oh my God, that train. Hello. That train just died.  Oh God.


In this video, I wanna talk about the second principle of induction, sometimes referred to as strong induction, which is a variant of the first principle of induction we mentioned earlier, sometimes called weak induction, in which case, also called induction. So just reading the statement here, let Sn be a statement about integers for in as a natural number, and suppose the statement is true for Sn sub zero for some integer Sn. Also, if for all integers K, which are greater than equal to N equals zero, then S, we're gonna assume Sn sub, Sn sub zero, Sn sub zero plus one, Sn sub zero plus two, Sn sub zero plus three, up to SK, this implies SK plus one is true, then Sn is true for all integers in greater than or equal to N sub zero here. So what's the difference between the first principle of induction and the second principle of induction? The first principle of induction, your inductive hypothesis only assumes the statement is true at SK, and then using SK, you prove SK plus one. The second principle of induction, instead, we assume that all statements are true up until SK, and then that implies SK plus one. And so this is often called strong induction because the inductive hypothesis is a stronger assumption. We're assuming more things are true than as opposed to the original version of weak induction. So it's kind of weird. Weak induction just means the inductive hypothesis is weaker, which actually leads to a stronger proof, right? If you can prove more things with fewer assumptions, that's a stronger proof. So it's kind of weird. Weak induction has weaker assumptions, but it does a stronger proof. Strong induction has a stronger assumption which makes it weaker proof. So the names honestly seem a little backwards to me, but honestly, I myself don't use the names too much because honestly, strong induction is logically equivalent to weak induction. These two versions of induction are logically equivalent. That is when you're defining the actions for the natural numbers, you could take the first principle of induction and you'll can prove the second principle of induction or you can take the second principle of induction and prove the first principle. The fact that if the first principle of induction holds, then the second principle will hold very easily because the second principle takes more assumptions with the same result. So first principle implies second principle, but the domino effect actually shows that the second principle implies the first principle that the reason why you can get away with just the last assumption here is because of your base case, if you apply the inductive hypothesis to the base case, then you'll get the second case and then the third case and the fourth case all the way up to it. So even though strong induction looks like you're demanding more, it actually doesn't weaken the situation whatsoever. So you can use the first principle and the second principle interchangeably and there is no logical difference. So if you took like a introduction to proofs class like at SUU, that's math 3120. If you took a class and someone gave you a bias towards one version of induction to the other, I am telling you to throw away that bias.  I only prefer 3 sixths. It seems like a very arbitrary distinction between two equivalent things. The two are interchangeable. Use whichever one is more convenient. If it's easier to prove having a stronger inductive hypothesis by all means do it. You're not losing anything. You're not a coward by using strong induction. You're actually being a very wise proof writer. So use the strong induction whenever you seem as it seems to be appropriate.


This trustee August is hotter than ever at Appalachian Wireless as they are slashing all normal contract pricing on all smartphones by 50% when you sign up for service. Better service, bigger saving. Serving you for the last 25 years at Appalachian Wireless. Well the idea you know in the beginning was always to help some riders out throughout the region and it worked out for us where it kind of falls in the middle of a lot of the area so it's now we've got it established there and we had a lot of people driving from Pike County and from Hazard and from Johnson County so the idea now is to expand out and give some of these other songwriters a chance to perform. Not only has the Prestonburg songwriter sing been helping local singers and songwriters but the local economy as well. What happens a lot of time is Tuesday nights and these bars tend to be slow anyway and these restaurants and things so you have a crowd coming out that you wouldn't have normally on Tuesday night and it benefits the the venue because they're not paying anything for this it's all sponsored by Prestonburg Tourism so it's free entertainment for them it's an opportunity for people to perform and it's a way to try to get everybody working together basically. We hope to tie a bunch of artists and venues together and get these connections so that everybody has different places to play. We're sharing the art between the counties.


Hello, my name is Eilord and I work as a researcher at University College London. We've had a lockdown in the UK over the past two months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Like many of you, I have been baking quite a lot. So here I have a slice of freshly baked bread. Turns out that this slice is not only great for feeding my household, but can also help me tell you a story about our lungs. This bread is much like other bread. It's some kind of flour that makes up most of the bread and it has air pockets. So we can think of it as a part of somebody's lungs, where the white part and the air pockets represent the normal bits of that person's lungs, which allow that person to breathe in air to bring oxygen into the body. This bread also has seeds in it, however, which are tasty and I don't sell very much like in my bread. But the seeds can also represent maybe something a bit more dire. In our case, they represent disease that is growing in this patient's lung. We call this disease lung fibrosis. Fibrosis is basically when parts of the lung start to sort of stiffen up and the lung begins to lose its ability to draw in air efficiently. For example, people who smoke a lot are at higher risk of developing this type of disease. When someone presents with breathing problems at a hospital, what we often do is to take three-dimensional x-ray image of that patient's lungs. We call this a CT scan or a CAT scan. And similar to an x-ray of somebody's broken bones, this image actually allows us to look inside the lung and look for signs of disease. Now, if fibrosis is found in an image of a patient's lungs, we usually follow up with another scan of that person, perhaps half a year or a year later, to see how the disease has developed. And here we have another slice of bread to represent that follow-up scan. We'd now like to measure how extensive the disease is in both of these scans to see if the patient's treatment is working. It's kind of like asking someone to count off the seeds in these two slices of bread or rather the two whole loaves of bread that these slices belong to. Quite tedious. So for doctors who don't tend to have a lot of time on their hands, the best they can do is to get an overlook of the two images and give approximate answers. You might say something like 5, 10% increase in disease or that the disease is slightly worsening or stable. And they are very good at this. However, this is where computers can come in and help out. With me and my fellow group of researchers at UCL are working on is developing software that allows a computer to analyze these lung images and basically count up the number of disease image pixels. It's a tedious task, but the computer doesn't mind it. It just turns away looking at the whole image and in under a minute it gives us a number to represent the amount of disease on each image. This can give vital information to healthcare staff about the patient's disease and provides them with another tool to help them look after their patients. I hope you enjoyed this chat. I'm going to enjoy some freshly made bread. Thanks so much for listening.


Hi, I'm Dr. Gene Preuss. I'm your history professor for Texas History. I wanted to give you some information I hope you had a chance to look over the syllabus and to log on to Pearson Reveal so that you can get access to your textbook. You can use the 14-day free trial This is a short semester and it will save your grades as far as I know And I can import them into Blackboard. So if you want to do that, that's fine If you want a print version of the book, the bookstore does have some print versions Or you can just use the online edition that's in Reveal your Syllabus is online. Please go over it carefully. It has due dates. It has information about the assignments and Check there first because I put a lot of time and effort into the syllabus so it should cover many of your questions that you might have and If you ask a question and I say hit check the syllabus or check the assignments The assignments will have lots of information as well So whenever you log on to Blackboard and you log on to Pearson and you get access to the textbook You'll see that the chapter is broken down into parts One of the things you're going to want to pay specific attention to are the quizzes that you have By the end of this week, you're going to have several of those chapters You need to take a few questions on those are your quizzes that will account for a large part of your grade over the whole semester But throughout the week if you miss one or two or if you don't do so well, don't let that get you down That's not where most of your points come from most of your points come from the exams the essay exams and from the Weekly discussions, I'll post those you'll reply to those and those will be on Blackboard Now in the discussions you need to not only formulate a good response on your own But you'll need to respond to at least two other people's response to other people's posts so it needs to be a real discussion not just you typing something and and We want to have some Correspondence some back and forth as far that's how we learned it helps us to learn better and the reason why the essays their short essays 250 500 750 words those are each one page So the essays are supposed to be two pages of text the two pages of text. That's 500 to 700 words Typed out double spaced the formatting information is all on your in is all on the essay prompt there's also a brief little essay called how to write a good history paper and That is going to have your rubric that I'll be using to grade your exam your essay and A lot of other information questions that you might have should be answered in those directions So please look over both of those and that'll give you more information in short I've put a lot of detailed information on each of the assignments that should help you get started now for this first week We're going to be looking at chapters 14 through 19 And this is going to take us from the end of the Civil War the reconstruction period putting the Union back together All the way to World War one the beginnings of World War one and how America the United States Grew and developed in that period you're going to see a lot of things changing first of all one of the big questions This is the question we're asking throughout the course is what does it mean to be an American? That seems very Intuitive it seems very obvious and yet for many years and even today that is still a question We're dealing today with questions over. How do we deal with immigrants with DACA recipients people who are protected under that? Act how are they Americans? How do they get their rights? Do they have rights? So these are questions that we still face today. What does it mean to be an American now after the Civil War? We had six million African Americans who had once been enslaved and were seen as property Now they are Americans in 1866 how does the United States respond to them? What rights do they have? Then as America starts expanding it starts growing. What about Native Americans who are living in the West? What about Mexican Americans who are living in the West? What about Filipinos and people in Cuba as we start to expand leading up to World War one What about all the immigrants coming in are they Americans? Do they have the same rights as citizens do? Well, these are questions that are going to be addressed and going to be come up during this first week of class And so please look at the chapters look at the parts that I've Kind of laid out for you the questions that I laid out for you. This should lead you to some sort of Understanding or at least being able to formulate a question Historically, how have we addressed this question of what does it mean to be an American in this period? This is going to be the topic of your essay and if you'll look on the textbook Website in Pearson's revel website for the text There is a part of the chapter is called primary sources source collection in each of those Collections for each chapter There's five to six primary sources. These are documents written at the time by people who live through it and so this provides you with kind of insight into what people were thinking during the period and this is the Stuff of what history is made of this is the ingredients for the Cake of history as it were so look at these primary sources and when you develop your questions You need to choose at least one source from eat from three of the chapters You're gonna have six chapters this time So at least one source from three of those chapters and you can add in other sources Little hint the more sources the more analysis you do the better your essay is going to be but the primary point of your essay Is to develop an argument? How do you answer the question that the prompt gives you? What does it mean to be an American during this period and look at those primary sources? Develop your response your answer that is your thesis and then the rest of your essay should flow from there to support Your thesis. Why do you feel this way? What about the documents lead you to believe this way? The essay also asks you to use a secondary source now in this class is a shortened time period So you're not going to have a secondary source a secondary source is a monograph. It's a One or two or three people authored book that or essay That addresses a question that's based upon the primary sources now You don't have time for that in this class period So you're going to use what we call a tertiary source a third level source and on that third level source Primary sources secondary sources. These are books Essays written by historians tertiary sources written by historians too, but it's built upon the other two So I've got more information about this and how to write a good essay You're going to use your textbook your textbook provides a broad picture of what's going on So under this umbrella as it were of historical evidence and how historians have looked at the past You're going to figure out your own interpretation Your own ideas your own explanations for using the primary sources to what people were thinking in the past and develop your argument based upon that in the framework provided by your Tertiary source in this time. So it sounds complicated. It really isn't I think as you Begin doing it. You'll understand how it works. It's a short paper. It's only three pages. Stay on point.  Don't go down any rabbit holes You don't really have the time to do that pick a few sources at least one from each chapter and Using your book as the framework develop your argument within that context the final thing is the responses for the weekly Discussion I've already gone over those. Those are pretty straightforward as you progress each week. Look at those sources Go through the textbook. Look at the chapters. You'll have a pretty good idea of what happened So good luck. I'll be back with more video Information at a later point and I will post those assignments by the end of the night. Have a good night


What's up everybody? Jason for jazzy's case breaks calm This was our last filler to sell out the last 16 teams and limited picker team number two with this 21 2021 mosaic football hobby one-pack break random teams number five So again guys this is a 32 total spot break or to do the break first randomized because we're names and teams It should be the hits out then at the end of the break will take all 32 customer names randomize them and half of you Guys top 16 will get a team from this list here from number one to New England all the way down to Las Vegas So I already have that ready to roll right there In the meantime though guys, let's do the break first and then we'll come back at the end and randomize customer names So let's roll it Full 12 6 into 6. This is for the break 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 12 times Betta page down to Martin Well, you guys you have to hope that Mac has a bounce backseason and stay healthy I feel like Mac hasn't really done too much in the last two years with Chicago But you guys are obviously banking on them to happen You know Raiders got their night Raiders still got some good DNs for you guys to you know Don't sleep on the Raiders All right 12 times one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven 12 12 times 12 times Boom. No, this isn't a team random filler. This was the A packed filler.   I think it was against the Falcons, right? Had a monster game night that Super Bowl Think you're like six touchdowns or something crazy All right, here we go Here's the dice rollers a customer names now remember top 16 get in and you match up with those teams there one through 16 Roll it One of them four or five times. Good luck one two three four Our top 16 are in so as you can see from Benin at 17 down to 32 Thomas are not in But congratulations to Brian Wofford you're in at 16 Carl at 15 Chris Martin Nicholas Chris Harry Mike Logan Carl Chris Chris Mike Anthony Chris and Mike F Boom Now remember guys also to if I remember correctly. I think at least the top. Oh, I Think at least the top 11 teams were like at a hundred bucks or more So, you know, you guys got some pretty good value here actually With the top 11 at least but everybody is guaranteed a team though, so That's kind of the beauty of it. So Mike You have the New England Patriots, I'm pretty sure we're a couple hundred bucks It's the same thing with Jacksonville for Chris Anthony with San Francisco Mike with Chicago Chris was Cincinnati as well as the New York Jets Carl with TV Logan with Miami Mike with Houston Harry with Minnesota Chris with Philly Nicholas with Indy Martin with Arizona Chris with Buffalo Carl with New Orleans and Brian with Las Vegas KG for life. I don't know if you heard me earlier There's two fillers that we need to do Right here, but they do two of them first one that's 17 next one We haven't posted it yet once we sell those two out. We can break that so until then I can't really tell you Won't we'll break that so there you go guys. Those are the customer names in the break now Thank you guys so much now coming up next is limited number two


Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. I can't believe it. We are on week seven of the Chloe Ting challenge or doing Chloe Ting's exercises for seven weeks now. So like all my other update videos, I'm gonna tell you what I did. Pretty much the same exercises. So I'm not gonna put the picture on the screen. I just feel like it kind of gets redundant.  It's gotten a lot smaller, but she still loves me. She still wants to hang around. Okay, so starting off Saturday the 29th, I did the 15 minute workout, the ab workout, and the arm workout. So now I'm just talking so I can put in the B roll and it won't be totally unmatched with what I'm saying. Sunday the first, I did the 30 minute workout, the ab workout, and the arm workout again. I think throughout the entire week I did the ab and the arm workouts. Then the next day, Monday, March 2nd, I did the 45 minute workout. I really like the 45 minute workout. It focuses on different parts of the body and everything. And it's full body, but it also targets other things like your abs, your legs, all of that stuff. So I always try to do a 45 minute workout. Then also, like I just said, I did the ab workout, which is 10 minutes, and then the arm workout, which is 10 minutes. So Monday, I got a very good workout. Tuesday, don't work out. There's no footage there. Wednesday, the 4th, I did the 15 minute workout and just the ab workout. I did not do the arms for Wednesday because on Wednesday I work, so I don't like to have to do a whole lot of other workouts. Then on Thursday, there's no footage because I don't work out on Thursdays. And then today, I did the 30 minute workout, the ab workout, and the arm workout. And I'm actually filming this and doing the workouts pretty later in the day. It's about like 3.30 right now. And I normally do this a lot earlier in the day, but I had a lot of like errands to run and everything. So now I'm just going to give you some updates before the pictures. And I don't have a lot this week. I saw my Aunt Wendy this week. If you saw the coronavirus vlog, she's in that one. And she said that she could tell that I'd lost weight in my face. I think I see it too. Let me know down below if you can see a difference in my face. I can certainly feel a difference because like when I'm lounging on the couch, my double chin isn't as big.  And I'm not saying that I was like that big that I couldn't like breathe and stuff. But I just like when you can feel it, it's kind of like the back fat situation when you can feel it. It's kind of uncomfortable. And then also my cheeks, when my cheeks are fat, my cheeks can be in my vision because my eyes are so tiny. I know that sounds crazy, but I'm just telling you the truth. So I'm really happy that my face has slimmed down. Also, I just wanted to plug in my TikTok. It's at Alex Jane underscore. I'll leave a link down below. But I just wanted to include this in my updates, because I have been making some TikToks, the dancing ones. And guys, I work up a sweat when I learn those things. So I consider that kind of working out because I break a sweat. And like with the our movements and stuff, like, yeah, you're kind of getting a workout in. And I know that doesn't really count to some of you, but I just want to throw that in there. Also, follow me on TikTok because I'm having so much fun on that app. Also, I would myself again today, not disclaiming like numbers because remember, numbers don't define you as a person, as long as you're just feeling better about yourself, you're seeing results. It doesn't really matter. But I did want to say I have been losing some weight, which is awesome. It's very encouraging and stuff. Even when you do see this little fat roll, I'm like, okay, it is going away because I feel it and everything. Also, I want to say when I went to the KK and baby J meetup, I was wearing these high waisted shorts and they were a little loose around like my waist area. The shorts that I was wearing and there's another pair of pants that I wear. And they're actually kind of loose. So that's always a good sign for me. I have found that it's a lot easier to eat better on the weekends because I can have my fit life foods. I'm normally typically at home and I can like not control myself from snacking, but like I don't snack because I'm doing other things or I'm watching a video that I don't really like need to be eating. It's a lot easier and controlled like during the week, I'm like, Oh, I'll have that cookie at work or you know, there's the snacks. I was not good with the snacks this week. I did have a snack almost actually every day. I only worked three days. So but the snacks were okay. I had pita chips. They were like the plain kind. I had the baked lays and then on the last day, I was like, I caged, I had some cheez-its this past weekend. It wasn't too good with the diet or like watching what I eat just because when I go out, obviously I'm going to have some fries not going to lie. So anyway, overall, we're doing okay. Before we get into the pictures, I just want to say this is the week before my period and I know that's TMI, but I am bloated down here. I'm just going to say the pictures don't look different because it's that time of the month and my body always, always lets me know and has changes in it and doesn't really, it doesn't matter like what I'm eating or what I'm doing, whatever it's okay, you guys can judge. So here it is. Here are the pictures. Alex on the left is from last week. Alex on the right is from this week or today, I should say. This is the front view, not too different, but I just want to show you guys. Here is the side view of that. So Alex on the left is last week and Alex on the right is today, right now. And here is Alex pre-workout versus now. So on the left is pre-workout Alex and on the right is current Alex and this is the side view of that. So overall, I haven't really changed much, which I'm okay with. I just want to say I can tell a huge difference in my legs. I know in the pictures you can't really tell, but me in real life and like me owning these legs and having them being attached to my body, I can feel such a difference in them. I do know the places that it's just harder to lose weight for me, which is like probably my stomach area like here and obviously like somewhat my arms. They can tone, but like getting rid of like the fat is just so hard. Let me know if you are doing these workouts and if they're working for you. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Give it a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel for more updates and I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye


I'm Parth Vora reporting for CalTV News. On March 18, 2016, UC Berkeley student government unanimously passed a resolution advocating medical abortion services to be initiated on campus at the Tank Centre, alleging accessibility and cost as primary daunting factors for students who face this crisis. Student Senator Anchal Chugh spoke to CalTV giving her insights on the bill while encapsulating the benefits of this measure to be initiated. So the Medicated Abortion Bill was passed in the ASUC Senate this past March and one of the things that I think is important to first recognize about the bill is that it's calling for medicated abortions, not surgical abortions. And so medicated abortions are when you ingest a pill instead of surgery and what you would need more qualifications and more qualified physicians to receive. A lot of folks are saying that while abortion is just going to promote unsafe sex or reckless teenage behavior, that's not the purpose of abortion. Abortion is a very emotional process for the woman. Student health is a moral and valuable thing that we cannot say is immoral or devilish. There's nothing against God by saying that we want to advocate for student health. Coming from different backgrounds and cultures, students at UC Berkeley have diverse perspectives. Subjects interviewed express their varied opinions both approving and disapproving the bill. That's important to realize that the university has committed itself at least in theory to student health. And they've also committed themselves to providing the full spectrum of pregnancy options because medical abortion is, it can be done very easily at the tank center with the existing resources that they already have. I don't think it would require a lot of additional infrastructure. Despite the loaded cultural, political, and religious valence of abortion, it is an essential medical service. It's a basic, fundamental right. I believe the abortion rights movement as a whole expresses a mentality that is degrading to women. It's degrading in the sense that it forces women to see their pregnancy as a crisis rather than an empowering act that should be supported by society. I think the ACC resolution would further stigmatize pregnant and parenting students on campus. It's also the killing of a human life. At the moment of fertilization, a unique DNA code that is distinctly human and unique all in its own is existing in the fetus. Therefore, it is a human being. We also need to empathize with the girls who suffer because of not being able to carry out abortion. I really feel that if we are a liberal community, we should be in favor of this bill and not against this bill. The president of Students for Life at Berkeley spoke to CalTV expressing her concerns and apprehensions. The bill carries the attitude that forces women into choosing between their child and their education, which is something that no student should ever have to do. The administrators should focus on education and instead put their money into supporting women who are parents so that they can continue their education while supporting their children. Although this resolution has yet not been implemented by the Tank Center, the University Health Services completely supports women's access to the full spectrum of contraception, emergency contraception, abortion and other pregnancy alternatives. They believe that the Berkeley campus is well surrounded by a network of high quality individual providers and community clinics who can provide these services efficiently. The University believes that it is not common for abortion services to be performed on college campuses and in recent years, the need has decreased significantly. Disability rights advocates on campus fear that the University is failing to meet the needs of disabled students.


Section 10 of Stories by Foreign Authors, German Authors Volume 2. Section 10. Chapter 5. Peter Schlemiel by Adalbert von Camiso. Chapter 5. I was now left equally without gold and without shadow, but a heavy load was taken from my breast and I felt cheerful. Had not my menna been irrecoverably lost to me, or even had I been perfectly free from self-reproach on her account, I felt that happiness might yet have been mine. At present I was lost in doubt as to my future course. I examined my pockets and found I had a few gold pieces still left, which I counted with feelings of great satisfaction. I had left my horse at the inn and was ashamed to return, or at all events I must wait till the sun had set, which at present was high in the heavens. I laid myself down under a shady tree and fell into a peaceful sleep. Lovely forms floated in airy measures before me and filled up my delightful dreams. Menna, with a garland of flowers entwined in her hair, was bending over me with a smile of good will. Though the worthy bendel was crowned with flowers and hastened to meet me with friendly greetings, many other forms seemed to rise up confusedly in the distance. Thyself among the number, camiso, perfect radiance beamed around them, but none had a shadow, and what was more surprising there was no appearance of unhappiness on this account. Everything was to be seen or heard but flowers and music of love and joy, of groves of never-fading palms seemed the natives of that happy climb. In vain I tried to detain and comprehend the lovely but fleeting forms. I was conscious also of being in a dream and was anxious that nothing should rouse me from it. And when I did awake I kept my eyes closed in order if possible to continue the illusion. At last I opened my eyes. The sun was now visible in the east. I must have slept the whole night. I looked upon this as a warning not to return to the end. What I had left there I was content to lose without much regret, and residing myself to Providence I decided on taking a by-road that led through the wooded declivity of the mountain. I never once cast a glance behind me nor did it ever occur to me to return, as I might have done, to Bindel whom I had left in affluence. I reflected on the new character I was now going to assume in the world. My present garb was very humble. Consisting of an old black coat I formerly had worn at Berlin, and which by some chance was the first I put my hand on before setting out on this journey. A traveling cap and an old pair of boots. I cut down a knotted stick in memory of the spot and commenced my pilgrimage. In the forest I met an aged peasant who gave me a friendly greeting and with whom I entered into conversation, requesting as a traveler desirous of information some particulars relative to the road, the country and its inhabitants, the productions of the mountains, etc. He replied to my various inquiries with readiness and intelligence. At last we reached the bed of a mountain torrent which had laid waste a considerable tract of the forest. I inwardly shuddered at the idea of the open sunshine. I suffered the peasant to go on before me. In the middle of the very place which I dreaded so much, he suddenly stopped and turned back to me to give me an account of this inundation. But instantly perceiving that I had no shadow, he broke off abruptly and exclaimed, How is this? You have no shadow. Alas, alas, said I, in a long and serious illness I had the misfortune to lose my hair, my nails and my shadow. Look, good father, although my hair has grown again, it is quite white, and at my age my nails are still very short, and my poor shadow seems to have left me never to return.  But he did not resume his narrative, and at the very first crossroad we came to, left me without uttering a syllable. Fresh tears flowed from my eyes, and my truffleness had fled. With a heavy heart I travelled on, avoiding all society. I plunged into the deepest shades of the forest, and often, to avoid a sunny tract of the country, I waited for hours till every human being had left it, and I could pass it unobserved. In the evenings I took shelter in the villages, I bent my steps to mine in the mountains, where I hoped to meet with work underground. For besides that my present situation compelled me to provide for my own support, I felt that incessant and laborious occupation alone could divert my mind from dwelling on painful subjects. A few rainy days assisted me materially on my journey, but it was to that no small detriment of my boots, the souls of which were better suited to Count Peter than to the poor foot-traveller. I was soon barefoot, and a new purchase must be made. The following morning I commenced an earnest search in a marketplace where a fair was being held, and I saw in one of the boots new and second-hand boots set out for sale. I was a long time selecting and bargaining. I wished much to have a new pair, but was frightened at the extravagant price, and so was obliged to content myself with a second-hand pair, still pretty good and strong, which the beautiful fair-haired youth who kept the booth handed over to me with a cheerful smile, wishing me a prosperous journey. I went on, and left the place immediately by the northern gate. I was so lost in my own thoughts that I walked along scarcely knowing how or where. I was calculating the chances of my reaching the mine by the evening, and considering how I shouldn't introduce myself. I had not gone two hundred steps when I perceived I was not in the right road. I looked around and found myself in a wild-looking forest of ancient furs, where apparently the stroke of the axe had never been heard. A few steps more brought me amid huge rocks covered with moss and sacks of fragrant plants, between which whole fields of snow and ice were extended. The air was intensely cold. I looked round, and the forest had disappeared behind me. A few steps more, and there was the stillness of death itself. The icy plain on which I stood stretched to an immeasurable distance, and a thick cloud rested upon it. The sun was a red, blood-color at the verge of the horizon. The cold was insupportable. I could not imagine what had happened to me. The benumming frost made me quicken my pace. I heard the distant sound of waters. And a one step more I stood on the icy shore of some ocean. Enumerable droves of sea-dogs rushed past me and plunged into the waves. I continued my way along this coast, and again met with rocks, plains, birch, and fir forests, and yet only a few minutes had elapsed. It was now intensely hot. I looked around and suddenly found myself between some fertile rice fields and mulberry trees. I sat down under their shade, and found by my watch that it was just one quarter of an hour since I had left the village market. I fancied it was a dream, but no, I was indeed awake as I felt by the experiment I made of biting my tongue. I closed my eyes in order to collect my scattered thoughts. And presently I heard unintelligible words uttered in a nasal tone, and I beheld two Chinese whose Asiatic physiognomies were not to be mistaken, even had their costume not betrayed their origin. They were addressing me in the language and with the salutations of their country. I rose and drew back a couple of steps. They had disappeared. The landscape was entirely changed. The rice fields had given place to trees and woods. I examined some of the trees and plants around me, and I entertained such of them as I was acquainted with to be productions of the southern part of Asia. I made one step towards a particular tree, and again all was changed. I now moved on like a recruited drill, taking slow and measured steps, gazing with astonished eyes at the wonderful variety of regions, plains, meadows, mountains, steppes, and sandy deserts, which passed in succession before me. I had now no doubt that I had seven lead boots on my feet. I fell on my knees in silent gratitude, shedding tears of thankfulness. For now I saw clearly what was to be my future condition, shed out by early sins from all human society. I was offered amends for the privation by nature itself, which I had ever loved. The earth was granted to me as a rich garden, and the knowledge of her operations was to be the study and object of my life. This was not a mere resolution. I have since endeavored with anxious, an unabated industry faithfully to imitate the finished and brilliant model then presented to me, and my vanity has received a check when it led to compare the picture with the original. I rose immediately and took a hasty survey of this new field, where I hoped afterward to reap a rich harvest. I stood on the heights of Tibet, and the sun I had lately be held in the east was now sinking in the west. I traversed Asia from east to west, and thence passed into Africa, which I curiously examined and repeated visits in all direction. As I gazed on the ancient pyramids and the temples of Egypt, I described in the sandy deserts near thebes of the hundred gates the caves for Christian hermits dwelt of old. My determination was instantly taken that here should be my future dwelling. I chose one of the most secluded but roomy, comfortable, and inaccessible to the jackals. I stepped over from the pillars of Hercules to Europe, and having taken a survey of its northern and southern countries, I passed by the north of Asia on the polar glaciers to Greenland and America, visiting both parts of this continent, and the winter, which was already at its height in the south, drove me quickly back from Cape Horn to the north. I waited till daylight had risen in the east of Asia, and then, after short rest, continued my pilgrimage. I followed in both the Americas and the vast chain of the Andes, once considered the loftiest on our globe. I stepped carefully and slowly from one summit to another, sometimes over snowy heights, sometimes over flaming volcanoes, often breathless from fatigue. At last I reached Elias' mountain and sprang over bering straits into Asia. I followed the western coast in its various wind innings, carefully observing which of the neighboring isles was accessible to me. From the peninsula of Malacca, my boots carried me to Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok. I made many attempts, often with danger and always unsuccessfully, to force my way over the numerous little islands and rocks with which this sea is studded, wishing to find a northwest passage to Borneo and other islands of the archipelago. At last I sat down at the extreme point of Lombok. My eyes turned toward the southeast, lamenting that I had so soon reached the limits allotted to me and bewailing my fate as a captive in his greated cell. Thus was I shut out from that remarkable country, New Holland, and the islands of the southern ocean so essentially necessary to acknowledge of the earth and which would have best assisted me in the study of the animal and vegetable kingdoms. And thus, at the very outset, I beheld all my labors condemned to be limited to mere fragments. Ah, come me so. What is the activity of man? Frequently, in the most rigorous winters of the southern hemisphere, I have rashly thrown myself on a fragment of drifting ice between Cape Horn and Von Demon's land in the hope of effecting a passage to New Holland. Reckless of the cold and the vast ocean, reckless of my fate, even should this savage land prove my grave. But all in vain, I never reached New Holland. Each time, when defeated in my attempt, I returned to Lombok and seated at his extreme point, my eyes directed to the southeast, I gave away a fresh to lamentations that my range of investigation was so limited. At last I tore myself from the spot and heartily grieved at my disappointment, returned to the interior of Asia. Setting out at morning dawn, I traversed it from east to west and at night reached the cave in Thebes, which I had previously selected for my dwelling place and had visited yesterday afternoon. After a short repose, as soon as daylight had visited Europe, it was my first care to provide myself with the articles of which I stood most in need. First of all, a drag to act on my boots, for I had experienced the inconvenience of these whenever I wished to shorten my steps and examine surrounding objects more fully. A pair of slippers to go over the boots serve the purpose effectually, and from that time I carried two pairs about me because I frequently cast them off from my feet in my botanical investigations without having time to pick them up. When threatened by the approach of lions, men or hyenas, my excellent watch owing to the short duration of my movements was also on these occasions an admirable chronometer. I wanted besides a sextant and a few philosophical instruments and some books. To purchase these things, I made several unwilling journeys to London and Paris, choosing a time when I could be hid by the favoring clouds. As my ill-gotten gold was exhausted, I carried over from Africa some ivory, which is there so plentiful in payment for my purchases, taking care, however, to pick out the smallest teeth in order not to overburden myself. I had thus soon provided myself with all that I wanted and now entered on a new mode of life as a student, wandering over the globe, measuring the height of the mountains and the temperature of the air and of the springs, observing the manners and habits of animals, infestigating plants and flowers. From the equator to the pole and from the new world to the old, I was constantly engaged in repeating and comparing my experiments. My usual food consisted of the eggs of the African ostrich or northern seabirds with a few fruits, especially those of the palm and the banana of the tropics. The tobacco plant consoled me when I was depressed and the affection of my spaniel was a compensation for the loss of human sympathy and society. When I returned from my excursions, loaded with fresh treasures to my cave and thieves, which he guarded during my absence, he ever sprang joyfully forward to greet me and made me feel that I was indeed not alone on the earth. An adventure soon occurred which brought me once more among my fellow creatures. One day as I was gathering lichens and algae on the northern coast with a drag of my boots, a bear suddenly made his appearance and was stealing toward me around the corner of a rock. After throwing away my slippers, I attempted to step across to an island by means of a rock projecting from the waves in the intermediate space that served as a stepping stone. I reached the rock safely with one foot but instantly fell into the sea with the other, one of my slippers having inadvertently remained on. The cold was intense and I escaped this imminent peril at the risk of my life. On coming ashore, I hastened into the Libyan sands to dry myself in the sun but the heat affected my head so much that in a fit of illness, I staggered back to the north. In vain I sought relief by change of place, hurrying from east to west and from west to east, now in climbs of the south, now in those of the north. Sometimes I rushed into daylight, sometimes into the shades of night. I know not how long this lasted. A burning fever raged in my veins with extreme anguish I felt my senses leaving me.  On recovering, I found myself lying comfortably in a good bed which with many other beds stood in a spacious and handsome apartment. Someone was watching by me. People seemed to be walking from one bed to another. They came beside me and spoke of me as number 12. On the wall at the foot of my bed, it was no dream for I distinctly read it. On a black marble tablet was inscribed my name in large letters of gold, Peter Schlamil. Underneath were two rows of letters in smaller characters which I was too feeble to connect together and closed my eyes again. I now heard something read aloud in which I distinctly noted the words Peter Schlamil but could not collect the full meaning. I saw a man of benevolent aspect and a very beautiful female dressed in black standing near my bed. Their countenances were not unknown to me but in my weak state I could not remember who they were. Some time elapsed and I began to regain my strength. I was called number 12 and from my long beard was supposed to be a Jew but was not the less carefully nursed on that account. No one seemed to perceive that I was destitute of a shadow. My boots I was assured together with everything found on me when I was brought there were in safekeeping and would be given up to me on my restoration to health. This place was called the Schlamilium. The daily recitation I had heard was an exhortation to pray for Peter Schlamil as the founder and benefactor of this institution. The benevolent looking man whom I had seen by my bedside was Bindel. The beautiful lady in black was Menna. I had been enjoying the advantages of a Schlamilium without being recognized and I learned further that I was in Bindel's native town where he had employed a part of my once unhallowed gold in founding an hospital in my name under his superintendents and that it's unfortunate inmates daily pronounced blessings on me. Menna had become a widow and unhappy lawsuit had deprived a rascal of his life and Menna of the greater part of her property. Her parents were no more and here she dwelt in widowed piety, wholly devoting herself to works of mercy. One day she stood by the side of number 12's bed with Bindel. He said to her, noble lady, why expose yourself so frequently to this unhealthy atmosphere? Has fate dealt so harshly with you as to render you desirous of death? By no means, Mr. Bindel, she replied, since I have awoke from my long dream all has gone well with me. I now neither wish for death nor fear it and think on the future and on the past with equal serenity. Do you not feel an inward satisfaction in this pain a pious tribute of gratitude and love to your old master and friend? Thanks be to God, I do, noble lady, said he. Ah, how wonderfully has everything fallen out, how thoughtlessly have we sipped joys and sorrows from the full cup now drained to the last drop, and we might fancy the past a new prelude to the real scene for which we now wait, armed by experience, how different has been the reality. Yet let us not regret the past but rather rejoice that we have not lived in vain. As respects our old friend also, I have a firm hope that it is now better with him than formerly. I trust so too, answered Mena, and so saying she passed by me and they departed. This conversation made a deep impression on me and I hesitated whether I should discover myself or depart unknown. At last I decided and asking for pen and paper I wrote as follows. Matters are indeed better with your old friend than formerly, he has repented and his repentance has led to forgiveness. I now attempted to rise for I felt myself stronger. The keys of a little chest near my bed were given me and in it I found all my effects. I put on my clothes, fastened to my botanical case around me, wherein with delight I found my northern lichens all safe, put on my boots and leaving my note on the table left the gates and was speedily far advanced on the road to Thebes. Passing along the Syrian coast which was the same road I had taken last leaving home I beheld my poor Figaro running to meet me. The faithful animal after vainly waiting at home for his master's return had probably followed his traces. I stood still and called him. He sprang toward me with leaps and barks and a thousand demonstrations of unaffected delight. I took him in my arms for he was unable to follow me and carried him home. There I found everything exactly in the order in which I had left it and returned by degrees as my increasing strength allowed me to my old occupations and usual mode of life from which I was kept back a whole year by my fall into the polar ocean. And this, dear Camiso, is the life I am still leading. My boots are not yet worn out as I had been led to fear would be the case from that very learned work of Ticcius, the rabbi's guestess Pulacilli. Their energies remain unimpaired and although mine are gradually failing me, I enjoy the consolation of having spent them in pursuing incessantly one object and that not fruitlessly. So far as my boots would carry me, I've have observed and studied our globe and its conformation, its mountains and temperature and the atmosphere in its various changes, the influence of the magnetic power, in fact, I have studied all living creation and more especially the kingdom of plants more profoundly than any one of our race. I've arranged all the facts in proper order to the best of my ability in different works. The consequences deducible from these facts and my views respecting them, I have hastily recorded in some essays and dissertations. I have settled the geography of the interior of Africa and the Arctic regions of the interior of Asia and its eastern coast. My Historia stirpium planetarum utriusque orbus is an extensive fragment of a flora universalis terai and of a part of my system naturei. Besides increasing the number of our known species by more than a third, I have also contributed somewhat to the natural system of plants and to a knowledge of their geography. I am now deeply engaged on my fauna and shall take care to have my manuscript sent to the University of Berlin before my deceased. I have selected thee, my dear Camiso, to be the guardian of my wonderful history, thinking that when I have left this world, it may afford valuable instruction to the living. As for thee, Camiso, if thou wast live amongst thy fellow creatures, learn to value thy shadow more than gold. If thou wast only live to thyself and thy nobler part, in this thou needest no counsel. End of section 10, chapter five, Peter Schlemiel by Edelbert von Camiso.