What's happening my friends my family a silent Mike back with another check fix Clean up free coaching clean your technique up This is a series where I take your guys as subscribers followers on Instagram my family and help you out with your form If you want to get involved, I need a landscape video preferably two different angles 70% for sets of three send it to ask M-i-k-k-e At gmail.com. That's ask Mike with two K's at gmail.com for a submission and maybe you'll get chosen If you guys are new be sure to subscribe be sure to give it a thumbs up and let's get after my man here Deadly forms actually pretty dang decent one thing obviously right off the bat I would say is that you need a little bit flatter shoe Many basketball shoes running shoes things of that nature are made to kind of absorb cushion They have a ton of padding so when under load you cannot feel the ground as much as we would like so you want a flat shoe Barefoot is fine besides the obvious dangers of dropping shit on there, which does happen and you can get injured I even with a shoe on crushed a toe so now my second toe on my Left foot almost looks like a thumb by dropping a 25 pound plate from about eye level straight down on that sucker So even with shoes it can be dangerous without a shoe. It can be very dangerous But a flat shoe would be best an overall your form. I would say from this angle looks really really good on the way down Your knees are pushing forward a little bit too much You need that chest to fall forward if you're going to control that eccentric We want a little smoother way down. You want to hinge at your hips first letting your chest drop just slightly But on the way up from that angle looked awesome. I can already tell from this angle as well The flatter shoes will help a lot and feel great Hip position is pretty dang solid the the one little nitpicky piece We could probably flex those lats a little bit harder So not only do you want to pull them into your body? But you want your shoulders to be as far away from your ears as possible We want our shoulders to be as far away from our ears as possible So forcing them down one thing that will help is bending that bar around your shins another thing That will help is trying to get your elbows pointed backwards So you torque that bar you're bending that bar with your arms around your legs forcing it backwards Again, no need. I am a fan of a shorter Range of motion when possible so a closer stance may help with that But there's absolutely nothing wrong with your stance right now again The only thing I would suggest is flat shoes will feel amazing over time You'll be able to really dig your big toe your peeky toe your heel everything into the ground nice and firmly You're keeping the bar close to you, which is actually very very good But I think it's because you do have a little bit of a shorter torso and longer arms Which just kind of puts you in advantage to pull but flexing your lats getting your shoulders far away from your ears Covering your armpits with your shoulders whatever Q might work for me bending that bar around your shins the tighter We can get those lats not only obviously where we build them But the tighter overall we could be In our pull and it will feel so much lighter over time people talk about getting tight What does that mean majority of the time it means our breathing embracing again pushing into that belt I think about breathing underneath the belt So the lower part of my stomach under the belt in the front sides and low back Pushing out into it and really holding my breath in my stomach not my chest And then flexing your lats as much as you can It's slightly different in each lift for this one. It's pulling it into yourself again So really solid work pretty dang good deadlift Onto our next gentleman moving into some straps again if you're competing in powerlifting I typically say unless you already are fairly advanced to know what the heck you're doing I would say avoid straps looks like you have some kind of cross-training shoe on It's fairly flat, but the flatter the better so I look into that And overall looking pretty dang solid a couple of these reps It looks like your hips may sink a little bit too low And you're wiggling that head a little bit, but otherwise it looks pretty dang good my friend Again those lats I think could be slightly tighter You can see some space there basically what you want to imagine is someone sticking their finger right there Watch where your heads are going you perverts sticking your finger right there in your armpit on the back trying to tickle you And you're trying to cover that up with your shoulder trying to block the tickle like a karate block with your shoulder over the armpit So you don't get tickled But it's not really karate and it's not really a block But if you were to really cover right there you can see in that tank talk loop You're trying to bring your shoulder down to the bottom of that seam if that makes sense again shoulders far away from our Excuse me shoulders far away from our ears Hopefully I'll do a video on that soon and maybe direct you guys a little bit cleaner with oh We got a two-fer my man's trying to get a two-fer here. You try to sneak one in But actually pretty dang good deadlift dude. I do think that the flatter the shoe the better I know those shoes and they're fairly flat But I do think you know a wrestling shoe Something really basic and flat will work a boxing shoe a little bit better One thing off the bat too many steps and probably two biggest steps under maximal load You won't be able to kind of lunge out that way So you want to take two or three very efficient steps just maybe one back one out one out or one back and out one out to get to your spot Overall from this angle again looks pretty good. Looks like you may have a hair of but wink It may be your shorts I did a pretty dang good video with Kelly Storette back in the day If you guys just Google silent Mike but wink check that out ways to fix it Again because you had to take those two big steps You then had to readjust and take smaller steps getting forward and under heavier loads one that becomes dangerous too It's just a waste of energy and time we want to be most efficient We can with every single thing we do in the gym because we're really trying to squeak out every pound we can It looks from here. We'll be able to see in a second, but it looks like you might have a thumbless grip I know a lot of people are big advocate of it and there's not necessarily inherently wrong with it It can relieve some pressure on the elbows or on the wrist which lead to the elbows in the shoulders You know, that's another common question we get all the time is how do we relieve stress on the elbows with a low bar position? You know the truth the best answer is to build a bigger back or figure out a way to work around it because powerlifting kind of hurts You know deadlifting correctly getting really tight doing a lot of volume. It kind of hurts You got to figure out a difference between injury and hurt But it does hurt Benching getting really tight really freaking tight over and over and over it hurts You know wrist start to hurt back starts to hurt hips start to hurt But it's just like again a part of the game So thumbless grip not a big deal, but I'm not the biggest fan I think if possible we should try to get our hand around the bar squeeze the bar as tight as you can And also pull it down and into it So think about pulling those elbows forward slightly but more down and spending that bar over our shoulders Or our traps again, maybe even a slightly lower bar position might be more comfortable Stance width looks pretty good knees actually look very very solid where you have them Breathing looks pretty dang solid Eye position everything else looks really really good But the tighter we can get our lats the tighter we can get our midsection and again if we're trying to keep our hips to our shoulder as Stable as possible again our hips to our shoulders stable as possible Not let the weight move at all and then we're allowed to push into the ground with everything we have And the more stable it is the more transfer of power from your legs low back into the bar You can have better off we're going to be so flexing those lats On top of the breathing embracing which already looks solid But overall both man the squat and the deadlift Very very very solid form you may have a hair and uneven squat It's hard to tell and not everybody's built even so it's hard to fix But some tempo squats really taking your time feeling it out going back and forth Or just spend a slight little bit of extra mobility onto that right hip and you know guys You know me. I don't talk a lot about mobility, but sometimes it is needed Moving to some squats here again We might have some a butt wink and for those that don't know basically butt wink Just means our tailbone or a low back starts to curl forward At the bottom of the squat and a lot of times that has to do with lack of mobility in our hips And the hip flexors pulling our knee up with a flat back against the wall is kind of a way to tell You should be able to pull that knee pretty close to your chest on its own or with your hands Without that low back curling and what causes this is tight hip flexors among some other things, but Sitting at a desk for a very long time Obviously having a flex position of the knee over and over and over is this a different gentleman same den gentlemen Oh, man. We got to get back to the other guy But that looks pretty dang good in terms of the squat again.  I'll fix it slightly My man right here looks very powerful looks solid. It looks like your hair high We're gonna have to get a little bit deeper and two ways.  I don't hate or neglect anything But if you can't hit depth there your your hips just might not be able to take it So I'd move that stance in get those toes a little bit straighter And then what I want you to do is push into your knees a little bit more right there You have a fairly vertical shin again That's not right wrong or the other some people can get away with it But when you're lacking in depth and your chest is falling more and more forward throughout the rep a Little bit of a lean and the squat with a lower bar position is okay But if your chest collapses or falls more drastically the degree Of tilt from your hip it gets worse throughout the set. We have issues. So narrower stance Knees more forward pushing into your knees almost that's that's right there really Where you walk it out, maybe just an inch out from your walk out and forcing in your knees It also looks like you're a little uneven here knees caving out feet or caving out your heels are moving We need those feet stable And I have a feeling that moving your stance into where those knees are naturally going is going to fix it So take this shot right here Screenshot that guy right there and I want you to move your maybe your heels out an inch from that And try to squat there with some lighter weights for about four weeks till see how it feels Again with all these technique changes guys powerlifting among other things But this sport if you get a good cue or a good tip you can see you're uneven there man You're gonna get a lot of issues down the road We got to fix this right Frickin now you're tilting to the left the left knees slamming in that right knees not doing a lot of work on the right leg So these tips and tricks will work over time, but you have to trust in them You have to trust in me you have to trust in the process you have to trust in yourself You have to trust in doughnuts ice cream and the power lifting gods And give it four to six weeks of practice with lighter weights inside a little bit of volume You know again the submaximal 60 between 70% Just doing it once it won't feel good and then you're gonna go through and say oh Mikey's suck I didn't feel good at all.  Rather than give it a single chance give it four to six weeks And then if you still don't find progress more comfortable a little bit more pain or a little bit stronger Excuse me a little less pain or a little stronger Then you can go back to your old ways, but give it a chance give me a chance give the power lifting God's a chance to give ice cream a chance Overall pretty dang solid right here my friend It looks like a higher bar position which is fine for me again The guy before my friend that had the wobbly knee let's try a lower bar position as well Walkout seems pretty dang decent breathing abrasion seems a little bit pretty dang decent to be honest Let's see as we're going here slow-mo take it with me again guys Please do your boy a favorite give us a thumbs up a share it subscribe score back to the beginning of the video Watch this 30 times. I'm trying to help you guys as much as I can in as many ways as I can But make it time efficient for all of us this angle. It looks a hair high, but I think if we watched it from the side It's not too bad. So again guys give me a side view and a front view if you can knees everything look pretty solid with that Higher bar position. I'd like to see you try to force your elbows not only together But forward and under the bar slightly more You're leading pretty good with your hips here I would try to lead with your knees a little bit more if you can last big rep A nice big breath pushing into those knees overall pretty dang solid squat But out of the hole we need to keep that chin tucked elbows forward and back. I appreciate you guys silent mic I'm out of here until the next one


Welcome to our presentation here at VMworld 2017. I'm John Furrier, co-host of theCUBE with Dave Vellante, who's taking a lunch break. We are at VMworld on the ground on the floor where we have Googles, Vice President of Product Management, developer platforms. Sam Ramje, welcome to theCUBE conversation. Great, thank you very much, John. So you had a keynote this morning. You have came up on stage, big announcement. Let's get right to it. That container as a service from Pivotal, VMware and Google announced kind of a joint announcement. It was kind of weird. A fully joint but it really came from Pivotal. Clarify what the announcement was. Sure, so what we announced is the result of a bunch of co-engineering that we've been doing in the open source with Pivotal around Kubernetes running on Bosch. So if you've been paying attention to Cloud Foundry, you know that Cloud Foundry is the runtime layer and there's something called Bosch sitting underneath it that does the cluster management, cluster operations. Pivotal is bringing that to commercial GA later this year. So what we announced with Pivotal and VMware is that we're going to have constant compatibility between Pivotal's Kubernetes and Google's Kubernetes. Google's Kubernetes service is called Google Container Engine. Pivotal's offering is called Pivotal Container Service. The big deal here is that PKS is going to be the standard way that you can get Kubernetes from any of the Dell Group companies whether that's VMware, EMC. That gives us one consistent target for compatibility because one of the things that I pointed out in the keynote was inconsistency is the enemy in the data center. That's what makes operations difficult. And Kubu was announced at Cloud Foundry, Stu Miniman covered it, but that wasn't commercially available. That's the nuance, right? That's right, and that still is available in the open source. So what we've committed to is we've said every time that we update Google Container Engine, Pivotal Container Service is also going to update. So we have constant compatibility that that's delivered on top of VMware's infrastructure including NSX for networking. And then the final twist is a big reason why people choose Google Cloud is because of our services. So big table, right? Big query, a dynamically scaling data warehouse that we run an enormous amount of Google workloads on. Spanner, right? Which is why all of your data is consistent globally across Google's planet scale data centers. And finally, all of our new machine learning and AI investments. Those services will be delivered down to Pivotal Container Service, right? That's going to be there out of the box at launch and we'll keep adding to that catalog. It's just that Google Next has a lot of conversations like, oh, Google's catching up to Amazon. Okay, Amazon's done a great job, no doubt about it. We love Amazon. Andy Jassy was here as well. Super capable, very competent. There's a lot of workloads in VMware community that runs on AWS, but it's not the only game in town. Jerry Chen, investor in Docker, a friend of ours, we know, called this years ago. It's not going to be a one cloud winner take all game. Clearly. But there's the big three lining up. AWS, Microsoft, Google, you guys doing great. So I got to ask you, what is the biggest misconception that people have about Google Cloud out in the market? Because a lot of enterprises are used to running ops. Maybe not as much dev as there is ops. And dev ops comes in with cloud native. There's a lot of confusion. What is the thing that you'd like to clarify about Google that they may not know about? The single most important thing to clarify about Google Cloud is our strategy is open hybrid cloud. We think that we are in an amazing place to run workloads. We also recognize that compute belongs everywhere. We think that the durable state of computing is more of a mosaic than a unidirectional arrow that says everything goes to cloud. We think you want to run your containers and your VMs in clouds. We think you want to run them in your data centers. We also think you want to move them around. So we've been diehard committed to building out the open source projects, the protocols to let all of that information flow and providing services that can get anywhere. So open hybrid cloud is the strategy and that's what we've committed to with Kubernetes, with TensorFlow, with Apache Beam, with so much of the open source that we've contributed to Linux and others and then maintaining open standards compatibility for our services. Well, it's great to see you at Google because I know your history, great open source guy, you know open source, it's been really part of your life and bringing that to Google's grades of congratulations. There's a reason for that though, it's pragmatic, right? This is not a crazy crusade. Value of open source is giving control to the customer. And I think the most ethical way that you can build businesses and markets is based on customer choice. Giving them the ability to move to where they want, reducing their costs of switching. If they stay with you, then you're really producing a value-added service. So I've spent time in the operator's shoes, in the developer's shoes, and in the vendor's shoes. When I've spent time buying and running software on my own, I really always valued and preferred things that would let me move my stuff around. I've preferred open source. So that's really the method of the madness here. It's not about opening everything up insanely, giving everything away. It serves customers better and in the long run, the better you serve customers, you'll build a winning business. We're here on the ground floor at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, where behind us is the VM Village. And obviously the same was on stage with the big announcement with that pivotal VMWare. And this is kind of important now. We had a debate now. Usually I'm not the contrarian in the group. I'm usually the guy who's like, yeah, raw, raw, entrepreneurial, optimistic. Yeah, we could do that. The future's here. Go to the future. But I was kind of skeptical. And I told VMWare, and I saw Pat Gelsinger and Michael Dell in the hallways.  It was their big announcement. But I was kind of like, guys, I mean, it's the long game. These guys in the VMWare community, they're operation guys. They're not gonna connect the dots. And there was kind of an applause, but not a standing ovation that Google would have gotten at a Google Next commerce, where the geeks would have been like going crazy. What is the operational dynamic that you're seeing in this market that Google's looking at and bringing value to? So that's the question for you. This is what the big change in the industry is, is going from only worrying about increasing application velocity to figuring out how to do that with reliability. So there's a whole community of operators that I think many of us have left behind as we've talked about clouds and cloud native. We've done a great job appealing to developers, enabling them to be more productive. But with operators, we've kind of said, well, your mileage may vary, or we don't have time for you, or you have to figure it out yourself. I think the next big phase in adoption of cloud native technologies is to say, first of all, open hybrid, run your stuff wherever you want. Well, you guys have experienced running cloud. Now you're bringing that knowledge out here. And that's the next piece, is how do we offer you the tools and the skills that you need as an operator to have that same consistency, those same guarantees you used to have, and move everything forward in the future? Because if you turn one audience, one community, into the bad people who are holding everything back, that's a losing proposition. You have to give everybody a path to win. Everybody wants to be the good guy. So I think now we need to start paying really close attention to operators, and be approachable. I would like to see GCP become the most approachable cloud. We're already well known as the most advanced cloud, but can we be the easiest to adopt as well? I think that's our challenge, the experience. You got to get that touch that these enterprise companies, oh, historically have had. But it's interesting. I mean, the mosaic you mentioned requires some unification, right?  I know you guys are building out for that. But the question is, for you, because Google has a lot of experience, and I know from personal knowledge, Google's depth of people and talent, not always the cleanest execution out to the market in terms of the front-facing white glove service that some of these other companies have done, but you guys are certainly strong. So the question, I think this is where Diane Green is driving the transformation.  So being both a board member at Google and being the SVP of Google Cloud, she's really bringing the discipline to say, no, white glove service is mandatory, right? We have a pretty substantial professional service organization and building out partnerships with Accenture, with PWC, with Deloitte, with everyone to make sure that these things are all serviceable and properly packaged all the way down to the end user. So no doubt there's more room for us to improve, right? There's miles to go on the journey, but the focus and the drive to make sure that we're delivering the enterprise requirements, right? Diane never lets us stop thinking about that. It's like math, right? The order of operations is super important, and there's a lot of stuff going on in the cloud right now that's complex. Ease of use is the number one thing that we're hearing, because one, it's a moving train in general, right? But the cloud's growing, a lot of complexity. How do you guys view that? And the question I want to ask you is, we know what cloud looks like today. It's Amazon, they're doing great, no multi-horse race, if you will. But in 2022, the expectations and what it looks like then is going to be completely different if you just take the trajectory of what's happening. So cleaning up Kubernetes, making that manageable, all the self-updates makes a lot of sense and I think that's the dots, no one's connecting here. I get the long game, but what's the customer's view in your opinion as someone who's sitting back and with the Google Perch looking out over the horizon, 2022, what's it like for the customer? That's an outstanding question. So I think 2022, looking back, we've actually absorbed so much of this complexity that we can provide ease of use to every workload and to every segment. Backing into that, ease of use looks different. Like let's think about tooling. Ease of use looks different to an electrician versus a carpenter versus a plumber. They're doing different jobs, they need different tools. So I think about those as different audiences and different workloads. So if you're trying to migrate virtual machines to a cloud, ease of use means a thing. It includes taking care of the networking layer. How do we make sure that our cloud network shows up like an on-premises network and you don't have to set up some weird VPC configuration? How can those just look like part of your land subject to your same security controls? That's a whole path of engineering for a particular division of the company. For a different division of the company, focused on databases, ease of use is, wow, I've got this enormous database, I'm straining at the edges. How do I move that to the cloud? Well, what kind of database is it, right? It's a SQL database, there's no SQL database. So engineering that in, that's the key. The other thing that we have to do for ease of use is upskilling. So a lot of the things that we talked about before are the need to drive IT efficiency through automation. But who's going to teach people how to do the automation, especially while they're being held to a very high SLA standard for their own data center, and held to a high standard for velocity movement to the cloud? This is where Google has invented a discipline called SRE or Site Reliability Engineering. And it's basically the meta-discipline around what many people call DevOps. We think that this is absolutely teachable, it's learnable, it's becoming a growing community. You can get all Riley books on the topic, so I think we have an accountability to the industry to go and teach every operator in every operating group. Hey, here's what SRE looks like. Some of your folks might want to do this because that'll give you the lift to make all of these work loads much easier to manage because it's not just about velocity, it's also about reliability. It's interesting, we got about a minute left or so. I'm going to just get your thoughts on this because you certainly seen it on the developer side. Stack wars, we were going, well, my stack runs this stack, but last night I heard in the hallway here multiple times the general consensus of two stacks coming together, not just software stacks, hardware stacks. You're seeing things that have never run together or been tested together before. So the Site Reliability is a very interesting concept and developers get pissed off when stacks don't work. So this is a super kind of nuance in this new use cases that are emerging because stuff's happening that's never been done before. Yeah, so this is where the common tutorials get really interesting, especially as we build out a planetary scale computer at Google, right? We're no longer thinking about how does the GPU look as part of your daughter board? We think about what about racks of GPUs as part of your data centers using NVIDIA K80s? What does it mean to have 180 teraflops of tensor processing capability in a cloud TPU? So getting container-centric is crucial and making it really easy to attach to all of those devices by having open-source drivers, making sure they're all Linux-compatible and developers can get to them is going to be part of the substrate to make sure that application developers can target those devices. Operators can set a policy that say, yes, I want this to deploy preferentially to environments with a TPU or a GPU and that the whole system can just work and be operable. Great, Sam, thanks so much for taking the time to stop by. One-on-one conversation with Sam Ramj, who's at Google Cloud, he's a Vice President of Product Management and Developer Platforms for Google. We'll see you at Google next. Thanks for spending the time. I'm John Furrier, thanks for watching. Thank you, John.


We're shaken my name's cam welcome back to another video. I bet you didn't know this, but I'm I'm a fantasy guy. You might be thinking a but wait, that's not Daniel Green and you're right. I'm not you'd be right. Although I do own Fantasy book. I have seen fantasy movie and you know what? I have enjoyed Fantasy song from time to time. I've done videos about cliches and tropes in fantasy before but today I really wanted to kind of hone in on some of them specifically some of the tropes that make me feel good or bad I just did a video like this on the romance genre So if you want to see me do a video like this on another genre just leave a comment I won't just be giving you a list of the tropes. I like or don't like in fantasy I'll also be talking in a bit more depth about exactly why I think they have that effect on me. Anyway, let's just jump right Almost all of my favorite fantasy stories take place in a medieval Europe type setting and that in itself Isn't a huge problem. That's fine. I don't hate that a lot of fantasy stories I read have a strong Western influence in a lot of ways that makes sense when we're talking about fantasy. That is English written But let's be real It can get a bit boring a lot of the creatures especially when I read fantasy May be described differently, but most of the time they come from the same Small source group Vampires werewolves goblins trolls elves you get my point the same kind of goes for landscapes as well Usually, it's just forests and oceanside villages I remember when I was younger and I watched the first episode of supernatural I had nightmares and wet the bed constant. You know what? That's not really important I was so fascinated by the creatures in the show that I would spend days Browsing the internet for like myths and legends from all over the world And I would write them down in this little notepad. I had one particularly terrifying creature that kind of stuck with me All these years still is a bit of a legend from Japanese folklore. It's called the umibozu It's a dark mysterious almost Cthulhu like creature that lives in the ocean Depending on who you're talking to it could look a bit like a lizard fish creature Or I think more terrifyingly a giant Well, just a giant a giant figure shrouded in shadow Anyway, my point is that there are thousands and thousands of myths and legends cultural power structures and writing designs that fantasy can explore rather than just Knights and princesses I remember I was super excited for black leopard red wolf to come out because it was going to be my first dive into a fantasy That was inspired by African myths and legends. I ended up not liking it but for a whole number of Other reasons I did a whole review talking about why I didn't really like that book But you can check it out up there if you want I suppose what I will say is that I do understand the hesitation from writers to kind of dive into fictional settings that they maybe themselves aren't directly Uh experienced in even though all fantasy pretty much is the author's spin on existing myths and legends I imagine there could be at least some people that might get Angry if you tried putting your own spin on cultural legends that you yourself aren't really accustomed to I don't know that that's a whole other that's a whole other topic that I'm not even going to begin to get into But it is what it is It might seem a bit odd talking about how much I love the wise old wizard trope After just talking about being bored with commonly occurring things in fantasy because of all the fantasy tropes I think an old wizard is something you're probably going to find in almost all of them But I do love it and maybe I have a bit of a bias because I loved the character of Gandalf growing up You know along with Dumbledore I pretty much grew up with two of my favorite fantasy series having a central wise old wizard Here's the thing when referring to Joseph Campbell's hero's journey card up there The mentor is a story device that will almost always come into play when you're talking about adventure stories like this The mentor being a character that brings the protagonist from their life of comfort into more immediate danger in pursuit of a Better status quo or to combat the potential of a worse status quo And you know it makes sense that the mentor would be an old timer That way we can trust them when it comes to being an accurate source of knowledge or experience about What exactly is at stake and when it comes to wizards I feel like they might be a bit of a fallback in fantasy in particular because the mentor Usually isn't meant to be like the brawn because that's more the protagonist's journey becoming the physically stronger one The mentor's job usually and primarily is to be wise enough to get the protagonist from there to there And wizards specifically happen to be quite Scholarly in most fantasy stories wizards had to train for years and years maybe even decades Pouring over books to get stronger rather than swinging a sword That's why I think the wise old wizard trope is as popular as it is anyway and personally I like it I think mostly because one of my favorite things in a fantasy story is reading about this You know wise old grizzly wizard who never quite shows off what they can do They usually sit back in all of the fights You spend the whole story waiting and waiting and they keep teasing and teasing that they are going to Do something big but you never really see the wise old wizard go all out until you do Usually the bit right before that wise old wizard dies, but it's still awesome. That's always a really exciting moment for me Strangely enough. I really do like the chosen one trope. I I like it. I think it's just a Perhaps overused escapist fantasy where the reader imagines that one day they will find out They are more special than they think I enjoy that however I don't really like it when the simple farm hand protagonist is revealed to have been a forgotten prince or princess All along, but you know what's especially embarrassing about the fact that I don't like this trope I've used it in my writing before I kind of I kind of boxed myself into a situation Where I thought the protagonist being revealed as a Forgotten prince was the only way to move forward. It wasn't it wasn't good But that's why I moved on from that series I thought a lot about why I don't like this trope and to be honest I think this might just be a case of it being overused I don't know if there's any actual deep reason I think it just comes down to the fact it's been used so much And maybe because it's such an easy way to make your story seem more interesting The idea of simple little john or sally from the shire finding out they're meant to be on the throne back in the empire Sounds great as a story idea. What a great character arc you could get from that truly But unfortunately the fact of the matter is now that almost all fantasy authors Have taken a stab at this and personally I find it something I kind of actively avoid when I'm looking for a new book to read So the heroes need help from a thief an assassin or a smuggler. Where do they go? crime city population 2000 and falling I really love this trope.  Nonetheless. I think what makes the crime city trope so great is that You know, there is going to be some kind of big Confrontation soon. There's a conflict or a danger that's about to happen So there's always this feeling while you're in this environment There is a static tension that kind of sits with the reader right up until that conflict happens When written well the atmosphere of these locations in fantasy can end up feeling very Noir and sometimes almost gothic. It's like being dropped into Gotham in the middle of a fantasy book How groovy is that in a lot of cases as well The crime city trope usually leads into some kind of dark backstory for one of the main characters Crime city can be pure anarchy and I love seeing authors have their fun with that and just go wild So the prophecy I know the prophecy is something that's talked about in pretty much any video ever where we talk about Fantasy tropes. I know I'm sorry But I do think it's just another case of an interesting idea being used way too much But maybe more than that. I feel like maybe this trope is just an easy trick for writers Let me explain Hey, uh, hey man, um I was just thinking why does the like, why does the little humble farmhand? Why does he have to be the hero? Oh Good question. First of all, um, you know, it's it's just because um, it's the prophecy really that's Simple as that. Okay. Um, but like what's the deal with the prophecy like Why is it set in stone? Doesn't doesn't really matter. You know, it's just It's just the prophecy. No, no. Yeah. Yeah.   Okay What do you want me to say? You get my point the prophecy trope in most cases where I've read it Has been used as a bit of a cheap tool for exposition or to create a phone motive for the hero I haven't got a whole lot to say about this trope Just I guess that it's not really to my personal taste the protagonist who grew up in an impoverished area That falls in love with the prince or the princess. I mean, I get it I get that this story device creates a convenient bridge between the social classes in the narrative But I do feel like it relies just a bit too heavily on the royal love interest having a very strict Character arc. Okay. I made that sound way more complicated than it needed to be basically In my personal experience the royal love interest will only have this very particular Character arc they feel smothered by their noble life and also feel bad about the neglect from their kingdom of the peasants In trying to connect with said peasants and make their lives better They will meet the protagonist and by the end of the story They will realize that they had no idea what life is really like outside the walls of the castle That's usually it is all I'm saying Aladdin already did it and no one is going the top Princess jasmine on my disney crushes list. So leave it be There's plenty of other fantasy tropes that I have feelings on but I didn't want to just list them out for you I wanted to actually talk about them a bit. So I did have to keep the list kind of short Hey, um, what tropes do you like or hate in fantasy? 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This happens to the narcissist once you moved on once you finally move on with your life This is what happens to the narcissist The narcissist would love for you to think that there's so much happier without you They would love for you to think that there's so much better without you It's the same story every time The narcissist wants everyone to think that you were this horrible person And that you made them the way that they are and yet somehow they managed to move on and be happy without you It's a good story Which has been told millions of times by narcissists all over the world And for someone who has been abused and is suffering from CPDSD It can be quite believable You have been taught to ignore your own intuition You have been taught to seek validation from your abusers So whatever they tell you Whatever they display to you You just accept it It can be painful to accept that the narcissist has abused you and completely ruined your life Only to move on and be happy with someone else And that's often the reason why they want you to think that It's further abuse They want to abuse you even while they're not a part of your life Because they don't want you to move on They don't want you to be happy without them The truth is that there is no such thing as an abusive or manipulative person That has moved on or feels good about themselves That is a contradiction in itself Because if a person was happy without you They would feel no need to abuse or manipulate you They would feel no need to hurt you The narcissists will post pictures on social media With a sole intention of hurting you Or they will use their flying monkeys To tell you that they've moved on and they're happy without you Just to make you feel bad This is all designed to make you feel like you ain't shit As though you're worthless and insignificant As though you never mattered to them When really that is not the case If you were their primary source of supply They didn't just move on without you They are not happy with someone else They are still thinking about what they had with you But they know they can't come back Because of how things ended They smeared your name and made you look like a bad person Because it was the only way that they could protect their image But now it has made it impossible for them to come back Because no narcissist is going to choose their source Over their false self Once you've moved on The narcissist doesn't just forget about you Narcissists are so bitter and resentful They can hold grudges for the rest of their lives You didn't let them mold you into what they wanted you to be You didn't let them control you And that is something that they will never forget Because they didn't get what they wanted from you That is something no narcissist will ever forget Because normally They're so used to people being susceptible to their manipulation And get what they want But that didn't work with you You didn't just hand over your loyalty and commitment to them You chose to move on because you realised that their false self wasn't real You realised that it was just bits and pieces That they took from other people's movies or magazines It wasn't authentic They were just whatever they thought people wanted them to be And once they realised that you've figured them out You lose value to them They no longer have any use for you Because the whole point of them having people around them Is that they're supposed to prop up their false image The false image was designed to get them what they want But it didn't work on you And that is why they're so mad That is why they will hold this grudge against you For the rest of their lives They will never forget you They will never stop thinking about you They will try to move on with someone else But it's never going to be the same Because deep down they know that whoever they're with It's never going to value who they really are They're only with them because of their false self This character that they've created from watching other people or movies It has nothing to do with them It's a fabrication And deep down they know it But no matter what They have to keep up the act They have to make you and everyone else think That everything is better now Even when it's not Because the only thing that's more important to an artist is And their happiness and satisfaction Is their image and reputation And they will sacrifice their happiness If it means that they can look good to other people So they will continue with their facade They will continue with their deceptive outward appearance Acting like everything is okay But just remember when you first met them How they acted like their lives are perfect And everything was going great for them But over time cracks began to show You began to realise that their lives weren't so great after all They had all of these problems And because they're so focused on their image and reputation They don't look within or self reflect They never take the opportunity to work on themselves They just continue living a lie Acting as though everything's great Just as they did when they first met you But nothing's changed since then It's still the same narcissist They're still chasing after something outside of themselves Still depending on someone or something For their happiness or sense of wellbeing When no one can make us happy It didn't work with you And it's not going to work with anyone else Because happiness is meant to come from within But the narcissist abandoned everything that they had within A long time ago Which is why they have to use people To make them feel better about themselves Which is why they have to post pictures on social media Or use their flying monkeys to get reactions out of you Because that's the only way that they can feel better about themselves But as I said before People who are abusive or manipulative Do not feel good about themselves That's why they do what they do When you've moved on The narcissist is still keeping tabs on you They're still making sure that they always know where you are And what you're doing They have to feel like they're in control of you Because in their minds you still belong to them In their minds you're still their property Even if they know that they can't come back They will still be lurking in the shadows Watching everything that you do But because they don't reflect and realise That they've become the psychotic, crazed, obsessed stalkers They begin to think that maybe you haven't moved on Now everything that you say or do Everything that you're involved in Makes them question If maybe they're still on your mind If maybe you haven't moved on Even if they don't even cross your mind anymore Narcissists are paranoid and hyper-vigilant And this is how they think They think that you're thinking about them Even when you've moved on without them But as you may remember from when you were with them They are obsessive They can't let things go They are still obsessing over you And if you've moved on and you've become happier And more successful without them Of course they wish they could come back They're always looking for a more fearable situation But if they know that you see through them They're not going to come back It would be humiliating for them to be around you When you've accomplished so much without them It reveals who the problem was in that relationship It reveals that they were holding you back From being your best self But they will never be happy They will never move on They will always be keeping tabs on you They will always be bitter and resentful And it just gets to a point Where they begin to lose the only thing They ever really cared about Their physical appearance Their image and reputation And then even the superficial people Who stayed around just for that Will begin to fade away The majority of narcissists do not become successful And once they get to a certain age Their behaviour is no longer accepted By the people around them They end up alone and miserable Unless they can find a dormant to walk on But even that type of person Wouldn't have any respect for them They can only exist around other fake people Other people who ignore what's beneath the surface They have to avoid reality And peering in on what you're doing Is the only opportunity they get to see what real life is really like But they never move on They're always watching you Comparing their situation to yours They were never grateful or appreciative of you And they don't appreciate what they've got now They're always looking for something more And that is why they haven't moved on That is why they're still keeping tabs on you They're still trying to hold you back Because the last thing they want to see is you moving on When they can't move on When someone has really moved on They will want you to move on But the narcissist is still holding a grudge They're still attached to you And they hate being attached to you Especially when the thought of them Doesn't even cross your mind anymore Which is why they will continue watching you They will continue popping up in your life The thought of you will continue to preoccupy their minds Continually and to a traveling extent This is just what happens to the narcissist Once you've moved on Thank you for watching I hope this video wears out with you Please like, comment, share and subscribe Click the bell icon for seed notifications For my future videos Check out the new Narx Fiverr website At www.narxfiverr.uk Where you can read my blog posts Or coaching sessions and join a support forum If you're likely to donate My paypal link is in the video description Coaching inquiries, you can email me at coaching.narxfiverr.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


Hey guys, it's Jen from I Create Crafts. Today I'm gonna show you how to make this kind of funny sign for your bathroom using wood, a Cricut machine, and some vinyl. It was so easy to make and so much fun to make, and I hope that my kids will listen and know what the times that are going on today that it's very hard to come by toilet paper. So I thought this was kind of funny. I'm gonna hang it up on my bathroom, but I'm gonna show you step by step how I do it. So I'm gonna make a sign like this, and I have my board here. I'm just trying to figure out how big to do it because I'm not putting a border around my sign, but instead I'm going to put like rope around it. So I'm trying to figure out how wide, obviously it's gonna stay this wide, but I need to figure out how big I want my words. I want them a little bit bigger so you could read it. So I'm thinking about 10 inches by, I think this board's nine. And then add two inches on each side on the top and the bottom with the rope. So it would be 14 inches for the whole board. So I'm gonna cut this board out at 14 inches, and I'm gonna sand it and get it really smooth because when you apply vinyl, you need it to be smooth and nothing attached to it. So I'm gonna cut it out at 14, and then I'll sand it. Just because you put the vinyl just on one side, I like to do both sides, and I like to do the edges as well. So I'm just gonna sand this up really quick for both sides and all the edges. One thing with sanding is you might or might not know, but when you sand it, you wanna make sure you go with the grain. And then also, like I said, I do the edges because I don't like the rough edges. I like it to have a nice curved edge on it. So another thing is, is look at this board and you can see how nice and clean it is to what it was before. The more prep time you take, the better the vinyl's gonna stick and the longer your piece is gonna last. So I was hunting and I found some stain that I'm going to use. I'm cheap. It was $7. I got it on sale for a dollar. I like this way. It's called Jacobine. Jacobine, I don't know how to say it, but I'm gonna do it really lightly. My board is nicely sanded. I did the edges really well. I did the back as well. So I'm gonna stain the whole thing. So this next part is gonna be a lot easier. I'm in design space and I just need to write in my text to make my vinyl decal for my sign.  And I'm gonna change the width and the height to be 12 by eight. So I'm gonna do that quick. I'm just gonna click on the unlock box and then change it to 12 by eight. And the reason I did this is because now I can see how large my board is and it's gonna make it much easier for me to center and make my words big enough for this sign. So I'm gonna change the color quickly of this just to white. So this gives you a black outline, which is much better. So I'm gonna move this just for a second and I'm gonna go in the text box and I'm going to type in the first couple of words. I'm gonna move this up, whoops, I don't want both of them. So I'm just gonna move this, turn this again. And I'm gonna change the font on this because if I continue going, it's not gonna change the font.  The reason I click on the system is because I don't pay for the Cricut access so I do not get all the fonts for free. These are the ones that Cricut gives you for free or these are the ones that I downloaded from DeFont and put into design space. If you're interested in learning how to do that, a few videos back, I teach you how to do, take the font from defont.com and put it into your design space. So I'm just gonna click on one that's a little bit thicker. And I kinda like how this looks. So I'm gonna leave that and I'm just gonna continue to work with the wording. So I'm gonna double click on this so it brings the box up again and finish writing it. So here we go. You never know what you have until it's gone. So I wanna align this. I'm gonna, with it already selected, I'm gonna go to the alignment and I'm gonna click center. And then I can bring my box back and kinda eyeball it and see how big it is. So again, if I didn't know the size or have the box behind it, I would think this would be just fine. So I'm gonna work with this. I'm gonna unlock it and I'm just gonna move it over a little bit more to get the most out of the space up here. And the 12 by eight is not the size of my board. My board is a little bit bigger than this. So I know that I can reach out to a 12 by eight. I'm gonna shrink it up just a little bit. And in between here, I had a little, I don't even know what you would call it. I just looked up on Google leads. I found this one. So I'm just gonna click on this and insert image. And here it is, just a little something to kinda break them up. So I want two of these. So with this selected, I'm just gonna hit duplicate. And then there's the other one. So I definitely don't want it to look like that. So I'm gonna go up to flip and I'm gonna flip it horizontally and kinda work with it and leave it maybe like that. Right now I'm just gonna leave that. I'm gonna go to the next writing part. So I'm gonna click on text and write the next part. But I don't want both of these fonts to be the same. So I'm gonna click on this and do the same thing. Go back to the font and then just search for something else that I like. That's a little bit bold still, but not the same kind of font. Now I like this one, but I don't like how it has the little holes in it. So I'm just gonna keep looking. So this one's kinda cool. It's kinda like funny looking, I guess. So I'm just gonna do the same things before I double click on this and then just finish it. And then again, I want it centered. So it's already selected. I'm gonna go to alignment and then center it. There we go. And again, I'm gonna make this a little bit bigger. I don't want it as big as the one up top, but I want it big enough that you can read it. And then I can work with these guys a little bit. Maybe I'll make them a little bit small. Whoops, I moved the box instead of the image. There you go. Make them a little bit smaller, maybe. Just something to break them up in between. I'm gonna make this guy a little bit smaller. Move them over here. So I like how these look. So if I click on this, it's gonna give me the box. So I'm gonna click out of that and I'm gonna hold down the control button and I'm gonna click on this one. And I'm also gonna hold it down again and click on that one. So it gives me that image. So right now I'm gonna attach those together. I do not want those to move away from each other for the next part. So since this is all selected together and this is all together, the last thing I wanna do is actually align everything. So I'm gonna click away. I'm gonna hit select all and then I'm gonna go to the align button and center horizontally. So that makes everything right directly in the middle. So here it is. I really like how it looks. The only thing I'm going to actually change is the font color. I think I'm gonna leave the font white and then maybe make these little leaves brown. So I'm gonna click away again and then I'm gonna do the same thing. Hold down the control button and click on the first part. I still have the control button down and I'm gonna click on the second part here. So it looks like it's selected everything but it only selected the wording. So I'm gonna go up and change the color to that, to white. And then the same thing with these. Since I already attached these together, they are one piece. So I'm gonna go in and change it to a brown color. And there we go. So this is all gonna be white. My background of my sign is a stained brown color. So I think that will go really good together. I think one last thing is I maybe wanna make this just a little bit bigger. You don't have to use this as just something to break them up from each other. So I like how it looks. So I'm actually gonna go to make it and I'm just gonna cut it out really quick. So since I did not attach my two words, they are gonna be separate if you can see these. Whoops, one thing I forgot to do was erase the text box or the box here. So I'm gonna cancel this and I'm glad it told me. So I'm gonna click on this and I'm gonna get rid of that since that was just to know how everything was gonna look together. So again, I'm gonna click make it. And here we go, that's much better. So this is how it's gonna print, this is how it's gonna cut out.  And lined up with my line and then I can move it up here. It's closed together as this other one that I can get my scissors in between these and now I can cut it out as all one piece so I can save all this part and all this part. So just for next time, it gives me a little bit of a better, a bigger area for me to use next time. So I'm gonna cut this out the way it is. Here's my brown one and it's gonna cut it out exactly how you see it. So I'm gonna go ahead and push, okay, on that one, push continue on this one. And then it's gonna ask me to connect my machine. I have the Cricut Maker, so my screen might look a little bit different than yours. So I'm gonna finish this up. I'm gonna push, these are my favorites that I use all the time, stencil vinyl, copy paper, heat transfer vinyl. So I normally use this one, the stencil vinyl here and it just cuts it out much better than any of the other programs ones on here. So I'm gonna go ahead and cut this out and then I will show you the next step. Okay, so I have it all cut out already and I had weeded this out. So here's the first part, but I wanted to show you this really cool light. I bought this off of Amazon. It's called a Cricut Bright Pad and it works really well, especially if you have light stuff that you can't see. But I weeded this one out. I don't know where the other one just went. Oh, this one I weeded out as well and I'm just gonna do this one. And the first thing I'd like to do is take out the little spots that you don't need like from the E's and the O's. I'd like to take those out first. Just makes it easier when I peel the whole thing off. But I'm just gonna quickly take these out. So now I have all those off and I'm just gonna take the side of it and just start pulling it back there. So I have it all finished, here it is. And then this is gonna go in the middle. I'm gonna grab my board really quick and then I'm gonna put some transfer tape on it. I'm gonna put it all on here, spread it out really well, use my scraper that I have and scrape it on really well and then I'll show you how to apply it to the board. So I have my transfer tape on here already and I used my squeegee and I squeegee it really on really tight. And here is my board that I had created. It's nice and smooth, it's really dry. You wanna make sure that it's smooth to the touch and that it's dry, that nothing's gonna come off.  But I wanna make sure, I'm not gonna put it on yet, I wanna make sure that it's even on both sides and also at the top. So I'm gonna put this down here at the bottom so I have a little room for this little thing to go in as well. But you wanna measure the sides. I like to just take a Cricut mat and just kinda go that way since I already have it here. So it's like a two on this side and we'll just measure this side and make sure. So it's actually perfect where I have it. And then you just kinda wanna look at the top to see if it's even on every side before you go ahead and lay this down. So I'm just gonna peel it up and look at the top and make sure that it is lined up perfectly. So I like how it is. And again, I have the sides here that I'm going to put rope around here. So just to give it a little bit more depth. So I'm just gonna use my scraper, scrape it on really well. And this is why you want a dry and smooth so that it will stick to it, you won't get any bubbles. And it will stay on forever. So once you've got it on, you just take a edge of your transfer tape, if I can find mine, and peel back slowly. And the reason I really like stain over paint is if you mess up on your paint, it will come up with your transfer tape. So I love using stain because you know it's gonna stay there. And I'm just pushing down on the letters that are peeling up. It's just the top for some reason that they're coming up on. Perfect, I love it already. So it's on, I'm just gonna use my fingers and make sure that there's no parts coming up and it's very flat to me. So then I'm gonna do the same thing for the next part. I have this one. So I'm just gonna do the same thing, just peel it back slowly, making sure that it's stuck on. I already scraped it on. And then again, find the center of your spot. I just put it down gently and not push it in, just use my mat. You can use, you know, a tape measure, whatever you want. I just have this and I already see the lines and stuff and have the numbers on it. So it looks like it's three on the edge here. So I just wanna make sure the same side looks pretty good. So once you get it where you want it, again, just push down really well. Use your Trista scraper. Or if you don't have a scraper, you can use a credit card, whatever you have.  I've never really cleaned off, but it works really well. I would suggest getting one, if you do not have one, and just scrape it on really well. Get all those bubbles out and then just do the same thing. I can find it, peel back the transfer tape. Perfect. So again, I just use my fingers, go over it lightly, make sure it's not sticking up anywhere. And then I'm just gonna do the same with the last part. There we go. So this part is all finished, it's on really well. If you have any parts that actually come up or anything on it, you wanna push your fingers on it, or you can even take a hairdryer and lightly put it on here and just kinda push it as you go and that will help stick on better. And also make sure that none of your pieces are gonna come up, but these are sticking really well, so I won't have to do that. So I'm gonna set up my next part to put the twine around it. All right, so here's my finished board. I really like how it turned out. I'm gonna put it up on my wall and hopefully my kids will figure out what it's supposed to say. And take care of the toilet paper. I did put some twine around it. I just secured it on the back and I put a hook on the back as well so I can hang it up on the wall. But here's the finished product. It didn't take me very long to do. You can follow the same procedure and make your own kind of sign. It doesn't have to say this, but that again, for the time that we're going through right now, it'd be kinda funny to hang this up in the bathroom. So I'm just gonna hang it up really quick.


Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. This is Melissa with the stockswish.com and a review in GPS. Boy, this was a tough one today. I actually am retaking this a second time for the late play. Again, I rarely take late plays. It's like once in a blue moon that I do, but I really have like my feet on the ground today where I'm just insisting to have a day here. This gapped, but it had absolutely no volume in the morning, so there wasn't anything to do with it. It had zero volume, actually. So I didn't train the first trade on this position, which is unusual for me, but I didn't rate the gap because there wasn't anything to do because it actually didn't even gap in the morning. It opened in the gap, but it had no volume. The volume came in here and quite a lot actually, so then it was valid to do, but of course because I wasn't watching it in the morning, I didn't get the first setup. The first setup was amazing as usually the four setups are in a gap, but you have to be able to qualify the gap and see the gap in the pre-market, otherwise, how would you get it? So anyways, here it is, setup in here, dropped, fell, fell to the first target, and I did not do this trade. But then it came up. I did watch it, and I watched it for a while, and I waited, and I was very, very patient, and I knew there were two areas in this that it needed to hold. I held a lower area, so I did the trade, and then I stayed with the trade, and I even tightened up on it. Whether I tightened up it or not, it wouldn't have mattered in the end because then it went over both the initial area and the secondary, tighter area, and the original area, which I had it at 45, so either way wherever you had it, 42, 43, 45, 41, it went over it. I kept watching it though, the next level held, and then it set up on the 15-minute chart, so I'm back in it. I'm actually in this twice now. The potential for this is good, or I would not be in a trade this late on a Friday. The potential meaning that this is not going to $40 today, so I feel like this is worth it. This is actually worth it to be in the trade, and if it goes on to work, I will make my money back from the loss on this first one here that I did. Let me just review it. Here is the setup, 31 by 50, it's a good entry, it's 20 cents, and I was watching it here and watching it here, and I just lowered my stop. I lowered my stop now to 33 and took more. My stop now is basically negligible. What does that mean? It means that if this doesn't work, I'm not going to lose what I originally risked, and if it does go on to work, I'll have a really, really good day here. I'm being extraordinarily tight with it now, because I don't want this to rally at all, not on the 15-minute at all because of the large rally that it had in here all morning, literally from the drop-off it had into the open. It did nothing but rally. This cannot rally anymore in the 15-minute, or it flat-out is just done for the day. I have the stop at 41 33 now. I just lowered it. This is it. This is like the whole shebang for this sucker now. The market is not going to help us go. The market is rallying. It's rallying and rallying and rallying and rallying. The market is strong, which I've been talking about for a long time, but this is one of those days where you have to have a gap in its own accord, or it's not going to work. There's many days I do do gaps of working in their own accord, even in this bullish market. I created my bearish system in a bullish market, but today was one of those days where actually you have to have real solid weakness in the stock to get it to drop today because the market is holding in a very unusual area, in a gap that wasn't great in the market, but it's holding in the sky because the market is showing extreme, extraordinary, incredible strength today, which actually it's been showing, and I've been saying that. I've been talking about it, but even I am a little surprised at how well the market is holding in the gap today. I will do a video on that later after the close, but I am in this trade and have to focus. This has been a little wily in here. It finally, finally, finally broke the area. I wanted it to break in the morning, which was under 20. If it stays under that, this will be super-duper. Again, I have to watch this around 75, 70, or 60, 40, 50, but there is potentialness to go to $40 today. It should rock and roll under 41. I don't know when it hits under there. It is 12 o'clock noon right now, so it's obviously not going to hit that number by 12 o'clock, but this is underway. It's working. I am up in it now, and there should be no looking back, and it can't do anything even remotely like a rally in the 15 minute, again, the rest of the day here. Let's look at the 30. This looks really good. I knew this was good. On the first trade, I could have put the stop over 50. I knew that was an area, but it really looked like it was going to break down right away. The market was so strong. This is extremely weak, though. It's too bad that this didn't have volume in it in the pre-market for me to get the gap out of the gate. If I had gotten that first trade in this, I wouldn't have done anything else the rest of the day. I usually get the first trade in everything as long as it's gapping, but I can't do something that doesn't have any volume in it or that's not even gapping. This is GPS. I'm in the second trade here. We'll see where it goes. This has the potential here to make my day. I'm going to try to hold the conviction and stay with it as long at the biggest number that I can. I got nothing to lose now. I tightened up the stop. I decided to do this the second time. It's 12 o'clock. It's Friday. I'm going in the weekend. This is it for me. We'll see where it goes, and we'll do a video at the end of the day. Good luck, everyone, if you did this. If you're back in it, this is Melissa with thestopswish.com. This is GPS. This is a late trade. Very unusual for me to take a late trade, but it's valid. It's good. And this is absolutely weak today. Have a great day, everyone.


Kremlin instructed to mobilize 300,000 troops for new offensive. In the near future, the Russian authorities plan to mobilize at least 300,000 troops to begin an operation to encircle the second largest city in Ukraine, Karkiv, four informed sources told Verstka. The next in the plan is Karkiv and holding the city. This is possibly only in the case of the encirclement. There is a shortage of 300,000 troops. Therefore, everything is ready for mobilization. 2.0 said a source of the publication in the internal political bloc of the presidential administration. According to him, no one wants to turn Karkiv into a second Mariupol, so there is an idea to make it a showcase of how Russians know how to fight in a civilized way. The need to mobilize 300,000 troops was confirmed by one of Verstka's sources from one of the western military district offices. The source noted that recruitment to the front could begin as early as March the 25th. They'll try to call reservists to fight in Ukraine, men who are in reserve, but have signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense on inclusion in the mobilization human reserve. They can work at any job, but twice a year, they are obliged to go to military training camps, which until 2022 were formal. There are about 2 million of them in Russia. Something is planned. Reservists are being recruited now before mobilization. Whether it will happen or not, I do not know, but last time the procedure was the same, says an officer of one of the military bases in the Zabejkalsky cry of Russia. Although military enlistment offices will begin work with those who have not signed contracts with the Ministry of Defense, but are in the reserve of the armed forces, including those dismissed from service, those who studied at military universities, those who did not serve for any reason, those who completed alternative civilian service, and women with military specialties. Military enlistment offices have pasted mobilization orders into military tickets of many of them previously. They will also try to send conscripts to the war, whose terms are about to end. The task is to sign contracts with those who are ending their service by April and those who ended service last year, says a source close to the presidential administration. They will be persuaded by all means the interlocutor from the presidential administration confirmed. A new wave of mobilization is also possible. The largest seaport in Russia's St. Petersburg region has stopped handling explosive ammonium nitrate amid drone attacks. Comersant writes about this with reference to informed sources.an official source told the publication that the Russian government is wary of a possible provocation that could have devastating consequences, the port receives in ships about three million tons of saltpeter annually. The interlocutors of the newspaper noted that producers are looking for other export options. The most convenient option may be the US TLUF terminal. But for this, the terminal needs to be improved. The complex receives some seven million metric tons a year of gas condensate, a type of light oil, from Novakets Pirovsky plant in western Siberia to produce oil products such as naphtha, jet fuel, and gas oil. Novatech's complex produces mostly naphtha for Asia, including China, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia, as well as jet fuel with delivery to Istanbul for Turkish airlines. Analysts said Novatech will now be forced to export more gas condensate instead of high-margin fuel via other terminals. Sources of the newspaper said that the demand for saltpeter in the market is expected to increase. Ammonium nitrate is an inorganic chemical used as a fertilizer in agriculture. When the temperature rises to 170 degrees, the decomposition process begins. In case of ignition of ammonium nitrate, the explosion can have destructive power. Since the beginning of the war, the Ukrainian army has started targeting Petersburg for the first time since the beginning of the year. The city has already been attacked by drones several times.


A while back on the channel, I had a habit of making a monthly video called top Linux apps of the month and I kind of got away from those videos, but it's time to jump back in. So this month I have five awesome apps for you and I think you'll enjoy them. But before I jump into them, if you haven't already hit the like button, I'd really appreciate it. So let's go ahead and jump into the top Linux apps for June of 2023. The first one on the list is a self hosted app called image. Now image is, like I said, self hosted and it is meant as an alternative to Google photos. Now, usually when I hear alternative to Google anything, I kind of shy away from it simply because there are a ton of them and about 90% of them are utter garbage. But image is absolutely not one of those. It is fantastic. It's fast. It's fairly easy to set up as long as you have somewhere to host it. Like usually you're going to want to be PS of some kind of Linode or something like that in order to host it. You're going to need obviously some storage in order to go along with this because you're going to be storing photos. And one of the great things about it is that it does have cross platform support so you can obviously upload pictures from your mobile devices if you need to do so. The web interface is spectacular. That's what I'm showing on the screen right now. It is very, very fast has almost all the features that you want from a storage service for photos at least and it just does a fantastic job. Now one thing I will say that it is missing, at least from what I can tell is the ability to edit photos within the web interface. It doesn't seem to have that, which Google obviously does. So if that's something that you're looking for image may not be for you, but it does a lot of other stuff that Google does well like recognizing faces, allowing you to see photos from locations and stuff like that, creating shared albums so that you can share them with your friends or family or whatever. It does all of the basic stuff that Google Photos does and it does it really, really well. One of the things that I was most impressed with when it comes to image is that it was very, I mean, it was just really, really fast. A lot of times these self hosted things are just slow because they're not well designed or well developed. This one, the photo is just load automatically was really kind of surprising. So if you haven't tried it out yet, try out image. The second one on the list for this month is a very small application for GNOME and that is called Spacebar. Spacebar basically puts an i3 style workspace switcher in your GNOME bar, the bar that goes along the top of GNOME. Now there are many different extensions that do this, but by far I think Spacebar does the best job and allows the most customizability. So as you can see in the B roll here, basically what this is is a workspace switcher that goes up at the top of the bar. It shows your workspaces. You can rename them if you want. By default, they're just the numbers of the workspaces and it just basically shows you how many workspaces you have active, how many which workspace you're on and so on and so forth. It does have several settings that allow you to customize how it looks and feels. You can change the font size. It doesn't allow you to change the font itself. I'm assuming that it inherits the font from the system, which means that you can change it elsewhere, but you can change the font size. You can change all of the colors, the transparency, the font way, all of the stuff that you would normally expect to change when it comes to something that really has a lot to do with the way your workspace actually looks and feels. So I really enjoy this. If I were to use GNOME, which you guys know me, I'm not a big GNOME guy, but if I were to use GNOME, I'd have this set up so that I would be able to see what workspace I was on and it would make the workspace functionality of GNOME much more usable, at least for me. So that is spacebar. It's a very simple application. You can install it via the extensions manager or through the GNOME's extensions website. So that is spacebar. So the third one on the list is one that I don't think is going to be useful for a lot of people. But if you have any use of transcribing audio into text, whisper AI is fantastic. Now, the first thing I'll do before I get into what this is actually is I'll caution you, if you don't have a very powerful CPU or GPU, this is going to be very hard to run on your computer because it does take quite a lot of resources, especially if you're talking about transcribing audio longer than a few minutes long. Like I tried to do the podcast and that's usually about an hour long. It took about seven hours to actually do and I have a fairly powerful system. So what is whisper AI? Basically what it does is it takes an audio file and then transcribes it into text and it gives you several different files. It does a raw.txt file, which is just the transcript. It does a couple others that have timestamps on them so that you can upload them to like YouTube or other services that have the ability to translate that into actually creating timestamps on videos or on audio. So it allows you to basically have a transcript or subtitles for your videos or your podcasts. Or if you're a if you need accessibility, if you wanted to have a transcript of something audio like, you could use this to have a text transcript of something that you could then go on and read instead of listen to. It does several other things as well. So if you have a recording in another language, it will allow you to transcribe that into English, which is really nice. The one thing that it doesn't do as far as I can tell is transcribe from English to other languages. I haven't seen it be able to do that yet, but that's something that'd be really cool in the future. One thing I will say is that just watching the output in the terminal is kind of memorizing because it does a really good job sometimes.  The last thing I will say is that it does have several different language models that it will use. And the smallest ones obviously take the least amount of power for you to use in order to transcribe your stuff, right? So if you use the tiny model, it will go faster than if it uses the extra large or whatever they call it model. And it does allow you to choose that, which is nice. So if you don't want it to be as accurate or you're going from English to English, the smaller language models are usually OK. If you're going from one language to English, you're probably going to want one of the bigger models. Overall, the accuracy was fairly good when it comes to normal speech. Now, obviously I didn't try any of the other languages yet, but I will say that for the most part, normal words, it does a good job with. It doesn't always do good with Linux terms. So the podcast has had some interesting flubs. But other than that, it was pretty good. That's whisper AI. The fourth one on the list is a typing tool for the terminal. Now, there are a lot of these things. It seems to be something that people who are learning how to program actually do in order to learn to program. But this one here is very, very full featured. So if you if you've used things like monkey type or similar tools, you know that they have a lot of options for customizing the typing test. And term type or is kind of like that. It has a lot of different options. Now, obviously it's in the terminal, so it's not going to be the best in terms of aesthetics. It's just going to look like it's in the terminal.  But for me personally, I like to do typing tests. I also like the terminal. So putting these things together was pretty good. And like I said, like monkey type, it has a ton of different options. So you can choose the difficulty. You can choose the confidence mode. You can turn on blind mode so it doesn't show you your mistakes. You can change how the cursor looks. You can change how the ability to delete work. So if you don't want to be able to delete your mistake, you just want to have to continue on, you know, you can do that. You can change if there's capitalization or punctuation, you can do that. You know, there's a ton of different options. So if you're looking for a very fast, very easy to use typing test and you like to do things in the terminal, TermTyper is a good option. So that is TermTyper. So the last one on the list is an app called Foliate. Now Foliate is a eReader application. Now I don't like to read books on my computer all that much. It's really not an enjoyable experience. Usually when I'm wanting to read an eBook, I'll either grab my iPad or my phone and then go somewhere else.  But every once in a while, there is a book that I want to open up on my computer, whether it's a technical manual or something like that, or something along those lines, I can open up in Foliate and just read it. And one of the things that I like about Foliate is that there's a ton of options. You can change the theme. You can change the text or the font. You can change the text size. You can change whether it's a scrolling mechanism in terms of going between different pages or flipping. You know, there's several different options there. You can change the spacing and the margin and the padding and the width and all this stuff. There's a ton of different options. Now I will say this as a kind of a caution. It is kind of crashy. I'm not sure what's going on there. Every time I change the theme, it crashed. I'm not sure why, especially to the dark themes. So you'll see, you'll notice in the b-roll, I never actually changed the theme. That's because every time I did, it crashed. There was a couple of other times that when I went back from reading a book to the library, it also crashed. So I'm not sure if that's because I was doing it in a VM or if there's just something wrong with the snap. Not sure. But I just wanted to put that out there. It does crash a little bit. It's not that big a deal because it does remember your position, which is like the most important part of a ebook reading application. You wanted to remember your position because you don't want to have to go find it again. It's the most annoying thing to get three quarters of the way through the book and realize that it didn't remember that you were three quarters of the way through and it puts you back at the beginning of the chapter or worse, the beginning of the book. That's just annoying. That's an immediate delete the application for me, right? If that doesn't work. So it does remember your position, which is good. The design overall is very nice. I wish it didn't crash. So I'm a little upset about that. But overall, Foliate is a really good app. If you want to use ebooks on your computer. So those are the top five applications of the month of June 2023. 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