Good afternoon chaps and chapesses. Welcome back to the Asperger's Growth channel with me, Mr Thomas Henley. Today, we're going to be talking about the eccentricity of the autistic mind. Have I said that right? I don't know, but I'm going to keep going with that. Going to keep it going. A lot of socially advanced autistic people can usually slip under the radar of any sort of professionals, autism detection radar, and sometimes even autistic people. For the most part, for most people in general, wider society, these people just seem to be a little bit eccentric, a little bit strange, quirky, unique. And today I'm going to give you a personal story about someone that I know that I like very much indeed and I think they're great, but I'm going to explain just how this occurs and give you sort of a personal story side to it so that it's a bit more understandable. Asperger's syndrome to many people in research is classified as the invisible disability. So a lot of people on the autistic spectrum, they don't even think it's a disability. Where am I? I'm sort of in the middle, you know, there's good things and bad things. But that's beside the point. Autistic people can learn social skills. We can learn what to do in different scenarios. It's just that we find it a little bit more stress provoking, difficult, uncontrollable. We find socializing difficult. We do. There are some things about socializing that we can't always grasp. But if we spend time in an environment that we know very well, we do some research or we learn about people and critically analyze ourselves. We need to do it in order to get ourselves out in the world, get friends, have relationships, have good work relationships as well with our colleagues, you know, going about and getting money and not really feeling like you want to hang around them. Great relationships. But although we do struggle, a lot of people see autistic people as being sort of linked in very heavily with not being able to socialize, being outcasted, being alienated. And for a lot of autistic people, this rings true. It's just that there is a small, you know, not a small and minority of autistic people who have wets on these things. And for a lot of people, they can't tell. Because a lot of the signs are very socially visible, you can see. Of course, there's that other stuff, you know, just being a bit more single minded, being a little bit sort of unemotional and robotic and wanting to dissect everything that's meaningful in life into cold logic. But those things sort of get swept under the rug when people read about what autism is about. Because a lot of the problems come from the social stuff, as well as the sensory stuff. But that's more of a childhood issue for most people. Not most people, but you can't see it. We deal with it on our own, spinning around in a little bedrooms. Satisfying those sensory needs. So without rambling too much on as I do when I keep going on and saying words and other words and making links and associations, let's get into some concrete example of this eccentric, very well socially developed person. One of my friends, one of my friends that I'm very close to, he's awesome. He hosts parties, you know, he's got a girlfriend, he's got loads of friends, he's got people that he's very close to, he's very socially active, and he's got a job and is very well stable. When I met him, I wasn't too sure about what he was about. I wasn't sure whether he was just eccentric or autistic. It only came to, you know, only came to light when he actually told me about this. And I was partially surprised, because I'd never come across someone who had such a high level of social understanding, and also being autistic. Very much cognitive dissonance in my mind at that point. But it was very interesting for me. One of the things that I first noticed was the very robotic, rigid eye contact. So this means, although the eye contact was very good, and he could sort of look around and when he was talking to people, when he was, you know, telling a story to a group, he would look around and he would do all of the things that are really important for telling a story. When it came to situations where the eye contact was not there, it was very robotic and fleeting, meaning that it was more like, rather than sort of smooth transitions. And that was one of the first things that I was very confused about. The second is that he's very strong-minded. But one of the issues that I've found with that for other people is that it can sometimes be misconstrued into being rude. He will regularly tell people that his opinions, whether it's the norm, or whether it's, you know, something that's away from the norm. That's a very admirable thing to do. But it's not something that everybody does, even the people who do express their opinions. Because it was to anybody, it was to anybody in the group, in the place, he would tell them their opinion, his opinion, which is good. It's not bad. The centricity of this character, this person, this amazing man, lovely guy, comes in different forms. There's someone else that I know that's on the autistic spectrum who is fairly socially active and does sort of the same thing, but is a lot more relaxed about it. There are a few things that they share in common. Firstly, they have interests in things, and they are not afraid to show that they are interested in it, whether it be collections of pillows or, you know, obsessions with, I don't know, rocks, could be. They want to display that they like it. They'll buy things that are related to it, they'll display them, they'll wear things that are related to it. But most people wouldn't sort of gravitate around that just because it's not cool, or the norm. Which is a very cool thing, I think. Don't you? I'm sure you do. If you don't, get off my channel. You losers. Now, I'm just kidding. I love you. I love you dearly. Another thing is very repetitive body movements. So if an autistic person has gone about learning how to use their hands and their body posture and their eye contact, then it will always be in a very sort of similar fashion all the time. Meaning that if they are talking to somebody in a bar with a mate or something, it will look very similar to how they would do a presentation, or how they would talk in an interview, all of these areas of their life, which most people differentiate into different ways of acting, they act the same throughout. And that is something that I've come across with recently, not recently, about a year ago, but in general terms, in terms of the entire lifetime of the planet, it's a very short time. This also comes out in the fashion. I know I've said about the, you know, t-shirts relating to things that they like, but they will often dress in ways that they like as well, not being confined to the average way that someone should dress or the proper and attractive way that someone should dress. They'll put on what they want to put on and they'll run with it. Now, if you think of the character, if you think of the eccentric man, okay, you know, sort of a rich guy with a cane and a top hat and a fancy colorful suit with a bit of a mustache and a monocle who very much like studying birds, you can kind of see the comparison to an autistic person in these two accounts I've talked about. You'll also find that that particular stereotype of that eccentric rich man also comes in his mannerisms, so he will speak in a way that seems a little bit over the top or have opinions that are a little bit over the top and well not over the top but different and he will explain that and he will talk about what he wants to talk about and be upfront about things and direct. That sounds very much like an autistic person, if I'm going to be honest. It's just that not all autistic people fit that stereotype of quickness and weirdness, uniqueness, eccentricism, eccentric people. This eccentric behavior is very tightly linked to autistic people in general. It's just that those who you don't pick up as being autistic but are eccentric, maybe they are autistic, maybe they do have Asperger's syndrome. Not everybody, of course, and that is not a signal for a diagnostic tool of yourself or anybody around you. I'm just making this work because I thought it was interesting. Thank you very much for watching this guys. Social media accounts down there. If you want to leave a like, you want to leave Old Tommy Boy a like and try and push his videos out into the world, go ahead and do that. If you don't like it, give it a dislike. I don't care, son. I don't care. And if you want to give me your opinion of this, maybe you've got some stories about people that you know or some stories about your own eccentric behavior or strangeness, your uniqueness, embrace it as I do.  It's fun. It's good.  The impending nihilism is entering my mind once more. Again, thank you very much for watching. Hope you guys are doing good. Let me know what you think of this video and I'll see you in the next video. See you later.


Hey you guys so it is almost a week into wearing my hair in this wash and go style I really haven't been paying attention to my hair. I haven't been trying to maintain this I should say so I had just put my hair up in these clips as I did my makeup And so I'm just removing them all I also used like two or three goody stretchy bands in the back of my hair to try To stretch it the night before I didn't do anything the first two days I didn't put goody stretchy bands all over my hair just to make mini pineapples to maintain it So as you can see here, I'm lightly misting my hair with water now. You don't want to apply up too much I'm applying more than I normally will I should say more than what you would Because I have a lot of hair and it's very thick at the back So yeah going in quite a bit with the water then I'm going to be using blue magics argan oil Leaving conditioner. I do have a separate video review in this product and then using a little bit of oil So what I'm going to do you guys is just pin the side of my hair to the back and do some pommadour in the front Just going to be going out today Have a school event and some other errands to run so not too fancy, but this will probably be One or two more usages or I should say one or two more days Where this particular style and then I will need to wash my hair.  That's cute. Isn't that cute now the hair clip because I can't find no more of my Bobby pins and Baby, that's it. That is it. Yeah, see how that's kind of white. That's just the product So This is a week after originally sitting my hair in a Wash and go So this is what it looks like in the back. I'm trying to get this Girl, so now is that this 4c is definitely getting Afro-textured and I mind you my hair is a few inches from waist length I'm like three inches away from what he sold. I feel like I've been that way for the past Five years, but I digress I digress. Let's turn around to the back girl. What is that? Oh, that's my hair Y'all, I'm just extra don't mind me honey. All right Are you guys so I'm gonna turn around to the back so that you can see all the glory that shall be revealed I did in the boy will be washing my hair in about one to two more days Okay, so I got tons of compliments on this particular style I think because I was just so comfortable with wearing my hair So big and in this kinky estate, I don't mind it at all So thank you guys so much for watching and thank you as always to all of any subscribers. Take care. Bye. Bye


Part 2 Chapter 7 of Canada's Hundred Days. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Gerald Hawkins, Santa Clara, California. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. Recording by Gerald Hawkins, Santa Clara, California. We will let the First Canadian Division again tell its own story. The attack of the First Canadian Division was carried out by the Third and Second Brigades from right to left, respectively, the First Brigade being held in divisional reserve. On the morning of September 2, at five o'clock, the artillery and machine-gun barrage opened and the infantry at once began to move forward into what proved to be a day of bitter fighting. The Third Brigade, at the time of the opening of the attack, had two battalions holding the line, the 15th, recruited from the 48th Highlanders of Toronto, and the 14th, the Royal Montreal Regiment, the two remaining battalions, the 16th, Canadian-Scottish of the West, and 13th, Montreal Highlanders, carried out the assault on the Drogor-Cueilon line, and were then to be leapfrogged by the 15th and 14th, who were to capture Bois de Bouches, Bois de Lausanne, and Cagnacourt. The Second Brigade, on the left, were attacking on a one battalion front, and were using two battalions, the 7th of Vancouver, to capture the Drogor-Cueilon system on their front, and the 10th of Alberta, to carry the attack as far as the western outskirts of Bussie. The First Brigade was to continue the attack from this point and secure the crossings of the Canal du Nord. The attack proceeded rapidly, and according to plan, up to the time of the capture of the Drogor-Cueilon line on the divisional front, in spite of a very heavy enfilade fire from the right flank, southwest of the village of Cagnacourt. The tanks, of which there were eighteen operating on the divisional front, did great service in the capture of the Drogor-Cueilon system. Strong resistance was met by our troops east of this trench line, and the attack slowed up very considerably. The battle devolved upon platoon, company, and battalion commanders, and it was only by the initiative and determination of all ranks actually engaged in the foremost lines that the enemy was slowly but surely pressed back. On the right the chief obstacle was flanking fire from the south. On the left, the strongly fortified village of the Yer-Le-Cagnacourt, and an isolated factory on the R.S. Combré road, were the center of resistance. By four o'clock in the afternoon, with the assistance of batteries of artillery attached to battalions, and under cover of machine-gun and Lewis-gun fire, our line had been established east of the villages of Cagnacourt and Villarellec-Cagnacourt. A supplementary barrage was arranged for six o'clock that evening, and under cover of it the infantry again advanced. By this time the leading battalions of the First Brigade, the third recruited from Toronto District, and the fourth, Central Ontario, had become involved in the fighting. The struggle for the capture of the Boussie switch and for the sunken roads leading south from Boussie was long and desperate, but by individual perseverance our troops, at eleven o'clock that night, had reached a line running roughly north and south, just west of the village of Boussie. The third brigade had suffered very heavy casualties during the day, and were therefore relieved during the night by the First Brigade. The fourth battalion going into line with the second battalion, Eastern Ontario, in support, and the first, Western Ontario, and third, in reserve. At dawn, therefore, of September III, our line ran along the railway, and rode east of Wadibush, as far as the Boussie switch, and then due north to the R.S. Combury Road, with a defensive flank thrown back along this road for a distance of nearly two thousand yards. After a day of intense hand-to-hand fighting, this was a result of which the division was proud, in spite of the fact that the enemy was very strong numerically, as witnessed the two thousand seven hundred forty-six prisoners captured in forty-eight hours of battle, and that he fought desperately, a fact amply proved by the five hundred dead in the area in front of the drocore coin on line, and around the villages of Cognacourt and Villere de Cognacourt, in spite of these obstacles and the high number of machine guns with which the enemy was armed, the line reached by the leading troops of the First Division was well in advance of that reached by the flanking divisions. In fact, throughout most of the day, the division had fought with both flanks in the air, although troops of the sixty-third British division succeeded in reaching Inchie that evening. The infantry was well supported by all other arms of the service. The artillery, both in its concerted barrage fire and in the work of its advanced batteries, was responsible for the creation of many openings in the enemy's defenses. The attached machine gun batteries operating with the leading infantry had many opportunities of inflicting casualties on the enemy opportunities that were seized and made the most of it. The tanks, too, were a great factor in the forcing of the drocore coin on line. After our artillery barrage died down, however, every one of the eighteen tanks became a casualty. So ended the fight for the drocore coin on line. There still remained the canal denour to be crossed. Only a gallant deed was done that day, but none finer than that of Lieutenant Colonel C.W. Peck. MP for Schena, B.C. A man well into middle age who commanded the sixteenth battalion, Canadian-Scottish, recruited from Winnipeg to the coast. The sixteenth battalion, as has been seen, was given the task of capturing the drocore coin on line on our extreme right flank, which was in the air. Lieutenant Colonel Peck's command quickly captured its first objective, but progress was held up by enemy machine gun fire on his right flank. The situation being extremely difficult, he rushed forward and made a personal reconnaissance under heavy machine gun fire. Having reconnoitred the position, he returned and reorganized his battalion, and acting upon his knowledge, thus personally gained, pushed them forward and arranged the protection of his flank. He then went out under the most intensive artillery and machine gun fire, intercepted the tanks and gave them necessary directions, pointing out where they were to make for, and thus away was opened for his battalion to push forward. He subsequently gave the requisite support to his men by his magnificent display of courage and fine quality of leadership. He personally led the advance, although always under heavy fire, and contributed largely to the success of the brigade attack. Colonel Peck rallied his battalion at a critical moment by instructing his piper, always attached to his person, to march ahead with him into action, skirling his pipes. The piper was wounded, but another took his place. Some days later this piper in the casualty clearing section at Duessin, when asked how he did, interrupted thus, how his old sigh peck, and on being told he was uninjured, cried, then if he's all right, I'm all right. In its assault on the Drogor-Quinna line on the morning of September 2, the seventh battalion of Vancouver had, as we have seen, a very hard task, and was by the individual initiative and daring of the rank and file that the positions were taken. Thus Corporal Walter Leigh Rayfield, a native of Redmond, Washington, rushed ahead of his company a trench filled with the enemy, banning two and taking ten prisoners. Later he located and engaged with great skill under constant rifle fire, an enemy sniper who was causing many casualties. He then rushed the section of trench from which the sniper had been operating, and so demoralized the enemy by his daring and coolness that thirty surrendered to him. Again he left cover, and under heavy machine-gun fire, carried in a badly wounded comrade. The tenth battalion of Alberta passed through the seventh at Valera Lake Canyacore, but for a time were held up. After an unsuccessful attack, Sergeant Arthur George Knight, a native of Redhill, England, led a bombing section forward under a very heavy fire of all descriptions, and engaged the enemy at close quarters. Seeing that his party was still held up, he dashed forward alone, banning several of the enemy machine gunners, and trench mortar-crews, and directing his fire on the retreating enemy inflicted heavy casualties. In the advance of his platoon in pursuit, Sergeant Knight saw a party of about thirty of the enemy go into a deep tunnel which led off the trench. He again dashed forward alone, and having killed one officer and two NCOs, captured twenty other ranks. Later on he routed single-handed another enemy party, opposing the advance of the platoon. Sergeant Knight, who enlisted at Regina, died of the wounds he here received. In this brilliant action he was assisted particularly by Private Eddie Hume of Calgary. Corporal W. Padgett of the same battalion performed an exceptional bombing feed in front of Canyacore on the same day, breaking up a strong enemy point of resistance. Both of the Combray Road are troops after their initial success had before them an extraordinarily difficult task. The fourth Canadian division, attacked in the first place, drove Corkway online in front of Dury, in itself a veritable fortress. This village is situated on the crest of a slope which here presents all characteristics of a smooth glosses, and across this, each seventy-five yards deep, were three solid tiers of wire. Behind them, and on a higher plain, ran the sunken road from Hendicore to Dury, and in this road enemy machine gunners, ensconced in steel and concrete posts, swept the entire field of approach. Walking over this slope a day or two later a British staff officer remarked that the position was impregnable, had the enemy chosen to defend it. Ah, no, our dead tell the tale. Extraordinary gallantry was shown by the troops. In storming the sunken road, where tank aid was lacking, the seventy-fifth battalion recruited from the Mississauga horse of Toronto suffered very severely, its loss in two days being twenty-four officers and three hundred ten other ranks. The fourth Canadian division, attacked at five a.m. In spite of numerous machine gun nests inside our barrage, good progress was made, and by dint of stiff fighting in many places the droke or quay online in this sector was captured on time. Just beyond the last trench of this system the eleventh brigade, and certain battalions of the other two brigades, were to leapfrog and continue the advance, but the approach to the leapfrog line and the ground for a great distance beyond it was swept by a terrific machine gun fire from several angles. Our barrage here had shot itself out in the first phase of the attack, and the only other weapons left were powerless to support further advance of the infantry under the circumstances. The second phase of the attack was therefore postponed until the next morning, but during the night the enemy retired to the far side of the canal de Nord. The eleventh brigade, while waiting to go through, was badly cut up on the R.S. Combré road, where enemy machine gunners lined the trenches on the slopes on either side, just east of the Artois. The tenth and twelfth brigades lost heavily in their advance, coming under enfiléed fire from the flank. But the spirit of the men was unconquerable, and even the walking wounded had no thought but a victory. The Bosch is fighting damned hard, said a sea-fourth Highlander of Vancouver, seventy-second battalion. But our lot have taken three trenches and are still going strong. Beyond Dury the ground slopes back into a depression and then over another bare hillside down again into a rolling valley, commanded from the right by the heights held in strength by the enemy immediately west of the canal de Nord, and north of Marquille, and from the left by the fortified triangle of the three villages, Soudemont, Rumacourt, and Écourt Saint-Quentin. While the hole was swept by the enemy's heavy batteries situated on the east side of the canal, on the commanding eminence of Voici-le-Vergère, whence direct observation was obtained west to Dury, and along almost the entire Cambrai road. In front of these defenses, on the open ground which nowhere afforded cover of any kind, was an elaborate system of trench and wire with permanent machine-gun posts, and it was before these that the division found it could make but very slow progress. Further to the left the fourth British division had a task no less difficult, though different in character. On its immediate front was a high, bold hill, strongly fortified, and its left flank lay down in the valley of the Trinqui River, and amid swamps and marshes. The enemy clung all day in great force to the village of Itang, which was not captured by this division until the following morning. In the first rush forward good progress was made, many prisoners being captured. The men of the division were delighted to find themselves alongside the Canadians. �We helped you Canadians save Arras last April,� said a wounded man of the First Hans Battalion, �and now we are pushing in with you again but to a very different tune.� After the close of the battle, Sir Archer Currie addressed a message of congratulation to the fourth British division as follows. Your task from the beginning was an exceedingly difficult one. You took over in the middle of the battle and advanced steadily each day over very bad ground against most serious opposition, finishing up by what must be for you one of the most satisfactory engagements in which you ever participated. Your success on Monday last was in keeping with your best traditions. The fourth division testified in the most forcible manner to the fine fighting qualities of the troops comprising it. To me it was a peculiar satisfaction to have the fourth division associated with us, because it was with them the first Canadian division received its first instructions in the art of war. Monday's battle was not merely a success. It was a glorious victory. In the hand-to-hand fighting which characterized much of this day's battle, loss among regimental officers and NCOs was severe. Among the wounded were Lieutenant Colonel L. T. McLaughlin of the Second Battalion of Ottawa and Lieutenant Colonel C. C. Harvottel of the Seventy-fifth Battalion of Toronto. Casualties in this fighting were very heavy and was only by the greatest exertions and contempt of danger that our stretcher-bearers were able to bring in our wounded. Thus private John Francis Young was acting as a stretcher-bearer attached to D. Company, 87th Battalion, Grenadier Guards of Montréal. This company, in its advance over the ridge, suffered heavy casualties from shell and machine-gun fire. Private Young, in spite of complete absence of cover, without the least hesitation went out, and in the open fire swept ground, dressed the wound. Having exhausted his stock of dressings, on more than one occasion he returned under intense fire to his company headquarters for further supply. This work he continued for over an hour, displaying throughout absolute fearlessness, and his courageous conduct saved the lives of many of his comrades. Later when the fire had somewhat slackened he organized and led stretcher-parties to bring in the wounded he had dressed. Our medical officers, too, displayed the greatest gallantry, of which the following is an example. Captain Belender Seymour Hutchison, who enlisted at Toronto, went through the Drogor Quay online with his battalion under most intense shell, machine-gun, and rifle-fire. With an utter disregard to personal safety he remained in the field until every wounded man had been attended to. He dressed a seriously wounded officer under terrific machine-gun fire. With the assistance of prisoners succeeded in evacuating him to safety. Immediately afterwards he rushed forward in full view of the enemy under heavy machine-gun and rifle-fire to attend a wounded sergeant, placing him in a shell-hole preceded there to dress his wounds. Similar devotion to duty was exhibited by the Chaplain Service, thus Captain Graham, Chaplain of the Thirteenth Battalion, when that unit suffered heavy losses in front of the Upton Wood, went out repeatedly in front of our infantry line, carrying in our wounded from off the wire. He was subsequently wounded. Casualties among the battalion chaplains were particularly heavy during these operations. So ended the great battle. Following its conclusion the Third Army south of us were able to march ahead, rescuing village after village without firing a shot. Everywhere south of us the enemy was falling back. Only to the north, behind the flooded valley of the Scarpe and the Sensei, he clung to his line. CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER VIII of Canada's Hundred Days with the Canadian Corps from Amines to Monts August 8 through November 11, 1918. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org, by Mike Venditti, Canyon City, Colorado, mikevenditti.com. Canada's Hundred Days by John Lipsley, Part II, Chapter VIII. After the battle. Fighting went on during September 3, 4, and 5. When the enemy was forced back to the east bank of the canal to Nord, all along the line in the Canadian Corps came into possession of the watery triangle formed by the canal on the east and the Sensei River on the north. On our right, south of the rarest Cambie Road, the first Canadian division had not much difficulty during the day of September 3, pushing forward to the line of the canal, to which the western bank sloped gently down through water meadows, the only shelter being a few narrow low polyards on the bank. From Sands Les Mokwinn, north the area was flooded and the enemy had good protection for his machine gunners in the woods that thickly clothed the steep eastern bank. North of the road, our fourth division had a much harder task and had sharp fighting before the area was cleared. On the divisional right, the 10th Brigade fought its way forward to the canal through the enemy defense system, resting on the three villages of Saumont, Icon St. Quentin, and Romacourt, the latter being captured by the 44th Battalion, formerly Winnipeg but now recruited from Nubrunthwick. These villages had been untouched by war and contained great store of ordnance and material with a complete hospital train, tucked away behind the impregnable Dorcourt quaint line and beyond the area we shelled, he had built up there a great depot. From a distance it looks as though a pocket handkerchief might cover them. They stand intact, the churches rising above the red-tiled roofs, the whole nestling and wooded groves. The sight of these villages amid green fields is more eloquent than anything that has gone before of the success of the battle. Over here, as in former years the Bosch had settled down for the winter, he had filled them with his materiel of war. But intact though they seemed from a distance, on entering there is evidence on every hand of the process of ruin, for hardly is the enemy driven out than he pours upon them the whole fury of his rage and disappointment. From across the canal guns great and small keep up a ceaseless canonade, and for days gas hangs heavy. In their narrow streets a beautiful spire is that of the church of Ecor San Quentin. But even as one admires a shell hits fair and square and it disappears in a cloud of dust. Nevertheless, the fields are still green. Soldiers gather pumpkin in the village gardens. It is an astonishing experience to pass into these lush pastures to remount the blight and the taint of no man's land. Ecor San Quentin must ever figure in Canadian history as the village where Canadian troops first rescued the unhappy, imprisoned French people. Viva la Canadians, viva la brave Canadians. It was a glad cry from the heart, soon to grow familiar to our ears. But it was first heard at this village. Twenty-six persons for four years, held in slavery, hid for several days in one small cellar, when the order had gone out for the villagers to be evacuated, half-starved, emaciated, but very happy and vulnerable when we found them. Their deliverance was actually affected by Major General E. W. B. Morrison, General Officer Commanding Canadian Royal Artillery. A young girl, a slender brunette, embraced him, kissing him on either cheek. In me, she cried, my general, the French people salute our saviour. With saddened hearts, these poor folk passed back through the desolation of no man's land, where they had been want to visit the feasts and feast days of neighbouring, smiling villages. Cagnacourt and Dury, Chesterie and Vizanet Torres, now not to be distinguished from the general ruin. The Eleventh Brigade had some hard fighting, mopping up along the Canal Bank, where enemy posts held out substantially. Brigadier General Odium finally cleared up this situation after he had made a personal reconnaissance, during which he was wounded slightly. Our Twelfth Brigade had a very difficult task, in the marshy area between E. C. St. Quentin and the Sensei River. The Eighty-Fifth Battalion Nova Scotia in particular suffered heavy casualties fighting its way through swampy ground, here bisected with ditches and swept by the fire of any machine gun posts north of the river. They finally cleared the area, with the capture of Paulol, a village signature at the juncture of the Canal du Nord in the Sensei, which from here east is canalised. But we were up against a dead wall. The enemy had blown up all the bridges on the night of October 2nd and 3rd, says Sir Arthur Currie, and was holding a commanding position on the eastern bank of the canal, with a large number of machine guns. His artillery was very active, more especially from the north, and it was impossible to send bodies of troops by daylight over the long and bare slopes bordered by the canal. Our left flank was now very exposed to artillery fire from the north, and the nature of the ground we were holding, the strength of the obstacle in front of the core, and a resolute attitude of the enemy forbade any attempts to further exploit our success. It was necessary to repair minutely the details of the operation required to attack successfully the canal du Nord line. Accordingly, no further attempts were made at this time. In the night of September 3rd and 4th, the 2nd and 3rd Canadian divisions relieved the 1st and 4th Canadian divisions respectively, and the 4th British division was relieved by the 1st British division, which had come under the Canadian core on September 1st, and had been concentrated after that date in the Montchai-les-Prés-vis-en-Artois-Guay-Meph-Aria. The left flank of the core was again very long, and in accordance with the policy adopted by the 1st British division, was transferred in the line from the Canadian core to the 22nd core. I handed over command of that sector, extending from Paulel exclusively to Tang Inclusive, and facing north to this G.O.C. 22nd core at midnight, September 4th and 5th. The enemy had flooded the valley of the Sensei River, and all the bridges had been destroyed. Our engineers were very actively engaged in an effort to lower these floods and rest the control from the enemy. On a right flank, the 17th core was engaged in heavy fighting, in and around Mosul routes, and all the attempts to cross the Canal du Nord at that point had been repulsed. A thorough reconnaissance of our front had shown that the frontal attack of the Canal du Nord line was impossible. The eastern bank of the Canal du Nord was strongly wired and was generally much higher than the western bank. The whole of our forward area was under direct observation from Oisele Vigore, and the high ground on a northern flank, and any movement by day was quickly engaged by hostile artillery. No battery positions within range sufficient to carry on the preparation of the attack, or to support it were available, and any attempt to bring guns forward of the general line, builders says Concorde Brisee, were severely punished. The battery positions south and west of this general line were subjected to intense gas shelling every night. The Canal du Nord was in itself a serious obstacle. It was under construction at the outbreak of the war, and it had not been completed. Generally speaking, it followed the valley of the river Artgage, but not the actual bed of the river. The average width was about one hundred feet, and it was flooded as far south as the lock, eight hundred yards south west, Oisele Vigore. Just north of the core southern boundary, south of this end, to the right of the core front, the canal was dry. Its bottom was at the natural ground level, the sides of the canal consisting of high earth and brick banks. The attack of the Canal du Nord could not therefore be undertaken singly by the Canadian Corps, but had to be part of a larger scheme. This required considerable time to arrange, and, until September 27th, no changes developed on the core front. The obstacle which had stopped our advance also made our provisions very strong defensively, and advantage was taken of this fact to rest and refit the divisions. As much of the core artillery as could be spared was withdrawn from the mine to rest the men and horses. The line was held very thinly, but active patrolling at nights since sniping were kept up.  The core heavy artillery Brigadier General R. H. Massie carried out wire cutting, counter battery shoots, and gas concentrations daily in preparation for the eventual operations. Light railways, roads, bridges, and water points were constructed right up to the forward area and the bridging material which would be required for the Canal du Nord was accumulated well forward. Ammunition dumps were established at suitable places. Detailed reconnaissance of the canal and trenches were carried out by aeroplane and also by daring patrol and all available documents regarding the canal construction were gathered with a view to repairing the plans for the future attack. On September 13th, Major General then Brigadier General F. O. W. Loomis took over command of the 3rd Canadian Division from Major General L. J. Lipset, who went to command the 4th British Division. The former was succeeded in command of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade by Brigadier General, then Lieutenant Colonel R. P. Clark. The direct observation from Oyse Le Viguerre, to which the core commander alludes was very annoying to our troops. The Arezcambre Road was still the main line of our communications roads to the north being shot up by the enemy batteries now commanding are left flank from north of the river, for miles back. While the secondary roads further south had been blown to pieces and it took time to repair them, a lorry could not pass along the Canberra Road without being subjected to shellfire and high explosive. But nothing could daunt these lorry drivers. The personnel of the Army Service Corps men bringing up ammunition and the drivers of ambulances the road was strewn with wrecked lorries. But they carried on their task, driving steadily at the speed of not more than five or six miles an hour, picking their way among shell holes in the paves and giving no more heed to the dangers encompassing them than if they were teeming in their own hometowns. And this was not all. With the quieting down of the battle, the Air Force with the core was reduced to the artillery observation buses and a few scouting machines. The enemy took advantage of this to send over an occasional circus, which for the time held command of the air in this sector. Late in the afternoon of a September day, one of the East made its appearance from the direction of Duvay. Flying high above the plateau just west of the canal, against the leader a lone fighting plane whose wings bore the familiar red, white and blue circles of the British RAF, launched his attack. Fast and high he flew. But the enemy was higher still, attacking the enemy leader from an angle below. He fired off his machine gun, missed and swung around. But at that instant the enemy caught him with a volley. And his machine gun burst in flames slowly, fell.  He fell into a swampy place and was buried from human kin. Encouraged by this success, the entire circus swooped low down on a Cambry Road, flying westward just over the tops of the trees, machine gunning as they went. Then when they reached the crossroad to Dury, they swung off south, down the Dorsher Quintrench system. But a few feet above the ground, blazing away into our men crowding there in support, our arches and even field batteries directed on them. A tremendous fulsade, and our men could be seen firing their rifles, but only one shot seemed to take effect, and any machine limping off like a wounded duck back over the canal. The rest of the circus passed out of sight south. But it was not always thus. Old Joey, a slow-flying artillery observation plane, was loafing along, one day, along the canal to Nord, when down on him swooped an enemy fighting machine. Of far greater power and speed, Old Joey pursued his course unperturbed until Hiney was upon him, then swung smartly around, bringing the only gun to bear, and in a minute Hiney went crashing. We had time to count the spoils since August 26, the Canadian Corps and the British Division's fighting hundred had encountered and overwhelmed no less than 11 enemy divisions, while four other divisions had been engaged partially and identification secure developments of three more. Five complete trans-systems were taken and the captured area approximated 56 square miles, with an average penetration of 12 and a quarter miles. 10,360 prisoners of all ranks were captured in 22 villages while the material was great beyond reckoning. Chief Bing, two 4.1 inch long naval guns, 89, heavy and field guns, 1016 machine guns, 73 trench motors, two search lights, and one helio, besides wagons, horses, and vast quantities of ammunition and engineering supplies. But war is not all victory. There is the agony and sacrifice, busy across this rolling plane or our burial parties, and it is not only the hun they bury. Some of our men lice dark and huddled under lee of enemy machine gun posts. Others still hang in the fastness of the wire. Long lines of red cross lorries move to the rear, far across the seas from Cape Brenton to Vancouver Island from the international boundary to remote northern outpost. Soon we'll flutter little yellow messages bringing sorrow and anguish to quiet firesides. But they have not suffered in vain by their exhortations and their sacrifice. They have brought the war appreciably nearer as close. There's a melancholy scene down the Cambry Road through this and Etro's pastury. On the left, and visitor the card not on the right, all this desolate. There's a typical no man's land landscape. Countryside is pitted with shell holes and scarred with trenches. Avenues of trees along the road show only blasted stumps. There's not a green thing. Everywhere is the debris of war. The litter and the ruin, broken lorries, shattered remnants of an armored car, the twisted rails of a light railway, scrap iron, of all descriptions, ammunition boxes piled high. These things cumber the roadside. Everywhere are horses in various stages of decomposition. Here and there arose of our dead, waiting burial parties. Overall is a brooding stench of decay and stale gas. End of Part 2, Chapter 8, recording by Mike Venditti. MikeVenditti.com. Part 2, Chapter 9 of Canada's Hundred Days. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit thelibrivox.org. Canada's 100 Days by John Livesay. Part 2, Chapter 9. No Man's Land. On September 3, the day after the Drew Court client line is smashed, the first echelon of Canadian corps headquarters moves up from Noir-Vian to Nouvelle-Vitasse. We follow the headquarters of the first Canadian division, and that in its turn had taken possession of a captured enemy headquarters. Two miles east of Nouvelle-Vitasse lies the village of Wankor, row-lying on the banks of the Cougure. And between them is the valley where our troops in support are crowded. A secondary road, in shocking bad condition, runs east from Nouvelle-Vitasse downhill through this valley and so up over the Wankor ridge to drop down into the valley of the Sensi at Ché-dice, continuing its switchbacks over one ridge after another through Hendencourt and Riencourt to Cayant. From the eastern suburbs of Arras, through its entire length to Cayant, the road bisects no man's land, which here therefore has a depth of twelve miles. That is the segment of total destruction and does not include the tattered fringe west of Arras and east of the canal de Nour to Cambrai. About a thousand yards east of Nouvelle-Vitasse, where this road debouches from the slope into the valley, what is little more than a track turns off to the right, passing up over the Heneil ridge in a general southeasterly direction. Like so many roads in the district, this track, by the wear of centuries, has become so worn down as to present the characteristics of a sunken road or defile. A few hundred yards toward the ridge, the enemy had here established his divisional headquarters with an elaborate system of dugouts on the west side of the road, protected by the high bank from all but plunging fire. The disadvantage of taking over enemy dugouts in any situation, at all, is that the defense is exposed in reverse, or in other words, enemy shells may explode right in their mouths facing that way. Nothing of the kind indeed happens here, but it is a fact worth bearing in mind as a constant feature of our advance. In the old days of trench warfare, when we thus captured and consolidated an enemy trench system, we proceeded at once to dig shelters on the opposite side, as being less exposed. But in the advance that was now beginning, and was to gain more and more impetus as the weeks went by, there was no time for anything of the kind. Not until we cleared the entire trench system and began to billet in inhabited villages did our men get any kind of comfort or shelter. For the most part they slept in the open field, each man scooping out for himself a shallow shelter, digging a pit at the bottom for drainage. This track leading up to core headquarters is a villainous mudhole, and in the days to follow, the most distinguished visitors, including high French officials and or army commanders, come to congratulate the core on its achievement, as well as parties of Canadians from London, are all too apt to mire their cars in its treacherous bottom. The dugouts do not accommodate all the staff, and some of its higher ranks live and work in armstrong huts erected along the sunken road. But most of us are under canvas, the whole camp being neatly camouflaged with particular view to the aspect from the sky. We remain in this hideous spot, the very heart and core of no man's land, most of September. For days on end it rains. Tens are crowded close on every available piece of high ground, but the floor of each must be sunk below the surface. And in effect, becomes little better than the bottom of a shell-hole. Canadian engineers are soon at work laying duck-walks along the road, but whole sections disappear at night, passing seripidiously into these tents to afford an uneasy footing above the standing water. Such mysterious depredations daunt the indefatigable engineer not one wit, and about the time we move on to Quion, the camp presents a neat and ordered appearance, with a solid road-bed built up from the ruins of the neighbouring villages. In early September, however, a worse situation cannot be imagined. Haina is a fairly regular visitor at night, and no lights are allowed. The bugle call and the dreary cry of Lights out, Lights out, is as regular as dinner-hour. It is impossible to take two steps in the dark without falling into a shell-hole or stumbling over wire. Very early in the morning, Fritzi has an uncomfortable habit of waking us up with a fuselage, and during all these weeks he continues sending long-range shells into arras, plastering the railway station and yards. At set intervals there is a wine overhead, and long after comes the muffled sound of an explosion. Back behind the camp, on top of Henniel Ridge, is the corps' wireless plant, where signals is at work day and night. From here, a wide view of the surrounding country presents itself. North-east, across the valley, Monchilapyr, stands out a sentinel. At sunset, a few misshapen tree trunks, stripped of their foliage, etched sharp against the western glow, mark the ridge of Nouvelle Vitasse. For four years, this desolated strip, east of Arras, has been the battlefield. We are situated indeed in midst of the original Hindenburg line. In the dim days of creation there might have been such a scene as this, the earth void and formless, but to it are added the despair and the melancholy of the blotting out of what once was a smiling countryside. Villages dotted these hills, but where once was the village park, now only are the maimed and blackened stumps of trees, and below a rubble of brick and charred timber. Even the street outlines have disappeared. Bothless necessity of military roads has cut straight through the debris. The soil is a good light loam on chalk. Generations ago, so it seems, these broad uplands were intensively cultivated by their thrifty peasant proprietors. Now the most careful search fails to reveal the mark of a plow or any trace of the hand of man. It is as if a malignant subterraneous power had fretted the surface and robbed it of all form and meaning. Pocked marked by shell holes, great and small, scarred by deep trench systems old and new, each sunken road lined with the foul mouths of dugouts. These once bright fields are as inanimate as a corpse, shrouded in ceramins of rusted barbed wire. Dreary, desolate, and gray, it is a landscape that crushes the imagination and torments the spirit.  The filthy trench and verminous dugout was their sole alternative. It is incredible that they should have endured, have fought on, have abandoned themselves to such a life in such a place for an idea. With no hope, no prospect of alleviation or change saved through death and the hospital caught. In their myery squalor they could not see the bright dawn of today. Yet they took everything in trust, they grumbled, they suffered, but they endured, they fought on. This frayed fringe of battle stretches from Flanders to the Vosges, varying only in comparative terms of ruin. The Hun may take of the life, but not of the character of the French people. There is something cosmic in their mute unconscious resistance. Not so much of the men, nor of the admirable women and children, but of the soul of a nation that suffers, but does not despair. In this brooding area are to be marked the distinctions between the waning and cessation of life. Before us all has gone, but in Arras still is some sign of life, and further back the villagers, their roofs untiled and windows unglazed, carry on the daily task, dulled even to a sudden burst of long-range shelling, or the rain of blind hate from a starry sky. This no-man's land is a technical term of the war whose significance can be captured only through the imagination. Here once a village flourished, mill-wheels turned, and hither creaking wagons drew loads of grain. Here processions wound up the village church, gay for the marriage festival, or white-bannered for the solemn pledge of youth and maid. Here wended also the decent funeral-cortage. Here on his appointed day, Monsieur Le Maire made his oration on France and her free spirit. Here the good citizens chatted at evenings upon the benches in the square, and here worthy pupils, duly garland, received their modest honors. It is necessary to reconstruct these humble scenes to appreciate the devastation. The areas of such villages are wiped out. Their familiar features have vanished. Which two are their children? Some are dead. Some cower in cellars at the fringe of no-man's land. Some have been taken by the hun, homeless and afraid. Here are fair lands of France. Here to the cry of the plowmen, the yoked oxen strained, and in due season the binder reaped of the earth her abundance. Ordered stacks peopled the valleys, and into their fastnesses drove the threshing machine. In and out of that pleasant scene ran the shuffle of children's feet and the bright thread of children's laughter. All are obliterated. Blotted out are the villages and the countryside. There remains the anguish of a people that would not be subdued. And in its hoarse note of defiance there mingles as bitter as seed from the trodden grape, the pitiable note of stricken childhood.  It is an implacable generation France is rearing on this borderland. The scene is on the road from Valenciennes to Mons, long weeks after. Our troops streaming forward, crowd against the left ditch, another current trickling westward. It is the French evacuees returning from liberated Mons to seek their homes, but much against the wish and advice of the civil authorities. A woman, old and bent, is pushing a two-wheeled cart, piled high with bedding, all she saved when evacuated. A sturdy lad is yoked in front, throwing his weight on the rope. We ask some questions. And where are you going? Back to our home once here, he cries joyfully. Back to our home in Wencourt. In Wencourt, these two must pass through the Drewcourt-Criant line. End of Part 2, Chapter 9, recording by David Lawrence in Brampton, Ontario, January 2010. End of Canada's 100 Days, Part 2, by John Levse.


So, we have a very great structure at the city with a very wonderful management team that works with me and we just all have to dive in and come together to help communicate to our department heads and division heads and all of the city's frontline staff on what the expectations would be, how we would continue to provide services to our citizens, non-stop, which we never have stopped and that just brings me such a sense of pride because I think when a community sees that its government is still working, even the midst of a global pandemic and the uncertainties that brings from a health perspective, they at least know that all of their basic services are still in place.


Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm Petty Officer Jen Blake. The Navy released a new Neve Admin to solicit nominations for the 2014 Annual Navy Community Service Award Program. Each year, the Navy recognizes the top community service program initiatives by individual commands. Commander Navy Installations Command is overall responsible for coordinating the awards program. All Navy Commands are eligible to compete for the 2014 Navy Community Service Awards. Commands must submit nomination packages by September 5th, and the award period can only cover July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014. The awards board will meet and select the winners to be announced in a Neve Admin by the end of November. To find out the award categories, check out the Neve Admin on the Navy Personnel Command website.


Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, civil defense, and today we're going to install this. I have a suppressor waiting to get on the suppressor jam, and in the meantime I need to install some muzzle devices. So this is a dead air flash hider is really what this is. I have a couple of these I need to put in a couple different guns. Today we're going to put it on an AK. So I have verified that the AK is unloaded. I've removed the former muzzle device. This just came with a slant brake. It was pretty simple.  We're not going to be using this little push button here. I'm not sure if you can see that, but we're not going to be using that today. And then I just have some rock set and I have this fancy tool here that goes on a ratchet or a torque wrench which is supposed to use, but we're just going to do it down dirty here today that fits inside the muzzle device.  If I didn't have that or you didn't want to buy that, this muzzle device and most of them are going to have some kind of wrench flats. So that you can just hand torque it on with a normal wrench. Ordinarily you'd need to clean it or remove anything. This is a pretty brand new rifle. It only has like 30 some rounds through it or something at this point. So it's not going to need any cleaning or anything like that. Threads are clean. The muzzle device itself is brand new. So we'll just put some rock set on both of them, hand tighten it on and then crank it on. A couple things to note here. If you do want to buy that fancy tool, that is made by AAC. So that's their fancy flash hider tool. If you search like AAC flash hider tool, you'll be able to find that. I think it ended up costing like 30 some bucks. Another thing, if you want to time your flash hider, you know, because you want to get the edges lined up perfectly and everything, you can use shims to do that. I don't care about that. If it was a muzzle brake, I'd be a little more concerned. But with a flash hider, just a three prong flash hider, that's not really going to bother me which direction it's exactly pointing. So I don't care about that. You might. Again, you do you on your gun. Okay, so that's it. That's the muzzle device right there. All I do is crank it. I keep it pretty simple when I make these. If you want to use a torque wrench and you want to specify the poundage to pull, knock yourself out. I'm sure some people will say I did it wrong. That's fine. This is just how I do it. I'll let it set for 24 hours, and then we'll do the pew-pews. Do brave deeds and endure.


A warm welcome to this first live interaction between me as the instructor and all of you as students and teaching associates. I am very happy to welcome all of you once again in person in the second course on signals and systems into module 3 where you are looking at sampling and reconstruction and you are going to bring together ideas from discrete and continuous systems.  We are looking at what we can do to reconstruct the signal from its samples. So, in effect what we are saying is in practice it is unlikely that we can really look at a signal all the time and try to study its characteristics and particularly if you are trying to deal with a signal using computing devices I can only sample the signal at certain chosen points and I can try and infer characteristics of a signal or what would happen to the signal when it goes through a system from these samples. Now, in keeping with that objective we have built up some ideas in the first week and I am very happy to see that some of you have responded with some interesting questions. In fact, let me now point out to some of the questions one by one that have been raised on the discussion forum. I have a question here I am going in order in chronological order of the questions that have been raised. So, I will begin with of course, there are several points of discussion that have been there on the discussion forum. I am focusing on the ones that pertain to technical questions or where people have tried to propose the answers to technical questions. So, the other administrative issues related to the examination and so on I am very happy to see that my teaching associates are doing an excellent job of sorting them out with you and I think that should be good enough. But then let us come to the technical questions. So, I see that a few days ago Raman 111 that is his name, this is email name has posted a question. What prior information do we have when we sample an audio CD and why do we choose 44100 hertz the sampling rate of an audio CD? Is it because of the prior information that we have? And in fact, you are lucky to see a very beautiful response from my teaching associates. First Pratik Fegde has responded explaining in some detail how one chooses that sampling frequency. In fact, he is very correct in saying that typically audio is restricted in its frequency content the Fourier transform of audio seldom goes beyond 20 kilohertz. So, in fact, even 20 kilohertz the rather high frequency in audio it is only the very high frequency note in audio that goes up to 20 kilohertz. Now, if there were 20 kilohertz then you will see that you require at least two times that as the sampling rate. So, you need at least 40 kilohertz the sampling rate and my teaching associates Sujath has said this in so many words that you would be studying this in greater detail and I strongly encourage Raman 111 to listen to that part of the video carefully and I am sure he will be able to respond with a better understanding after he looks at the reference which Pratik has given and after he listens to the lecture which Sujath refers to. Now, there are some other interesting questions let us look at to the question on a priori information. So, Texan Jimbo has posed a very interesting question what kind of a priori information is typically known and or determinable in real world situations. So, professor Gadre has hinted that the signal may be bandwidth limited which is relevant to the Nyquist sampling theorem this bandwidth limitation seems to be one kind of typically relevant a priori information, but what other kinds of a priori information would typically be of interest. My teaching associates Sujath Nair has very beautifully answered the question to some extent. So, he is talked about the example of images it is two-dimensional information. So, there is some part of the image which is smooth. So, in fact, if it is smooth enough to be a constant you need just one number to represent the whole region of smoothness that is an extreme case of a priori information in a certain region. So, what Sujath has also tried to point out is that you might be able to give different kinds of a priori information for different parts of an image the same could be true of a signal. So, you may not have a priori information all over the signal, but you might be able to say this part of the signal is say constant in which case one number represents it completely or this part of a signal is a segment of a sinusoid a sine wave. If you know the amplitude the frequency and the phase of the sine wave then you can draw the sine wave completely. So, three parameters constitute a sine wave and therefore, if you have that a priori information you need to ask for only three kinds of information further. Now, let me you know in fact ban limitedness is of course one kind of a priori information, but let me now take another question which another student has asked and I will relate this question by Texan Jimbo to the question asked by the other person who has made a query. So, you see one person has asked a question this is P K Sharma 143. So, he has asked a question in one of the video lectures. In fact, in week one a priori information and measurements simple examples. I have a question that in this video lecture there was an example of an exponential signal is the equation of a signal as given or the graph of the signal as given. If the equation of signal is as given then we cannot he thinks we cannot evaluate the value of a function at different intervals at t 1 and t 2 because there are two unknowns in the equation and for reconstructing we are evaluating those unknowns with the help of these samples. So, please tell me more about it Pratik Fedre my teaching associate answered this question and he is given a very good answer. In fact, let me say a little more about now I am going to relate these two questions the one asked by P K Sharma 143 and the one asked by Texan Jimbo earlier what other kinds of you know. So, for example suppose let me take the example of an RC circuit. So, suppose I knew that I am getting my signal from an RC circuit you know. So, I have a very short pulse which was applied to the RC circuit a very narrow pulse you could almost call it an impulse and you are observing the output of this RC circuit the output is going to be a decaying exponential. So, you can actually sketch the output here and you could model the output in the form if this is the time axis t some a e raised to power minus t by tau of course, you should be writing u t because it starts from t equal to 0. Now, these RC values typically have to do with certain parameters related to that circuit. So, you know this RC circuit could be a good model for a practical system it could be a small filter it could be some part of an audio system you know. So, my teaching associate Pratik has given a very interesting example you know he said that you can have a speaker and some part of a speaker could in a crude approximation behave like an RC circuit could have resistive and capacitive elements. So, you know that part or for that matter you know this even if you do not take the context of audio it could be some other context where you know you have typically you know a first order kind of response this is called a first order kind of response where you have essentially one exponential emerging. So, that one exponential situation is not impractical you know it is often true that you can model a system as being close to a first order system first order system is one with one time constant and that is what I mean when I say an exponentially decaying or exponentially growing waveform whatever it is. So, in that situation what I meant when I said use the a priori information is that you could just observe this at two points. Let us say you could choose two points any two points and you must of course record where you are observing them. So, you have two measurements now. So, a e raised to the power minus t 1 by tau and a e raised to the power minus t 2 by tau and we know t 1 and t 2 we also know these measurements. So, if I divide x 2 divide by x 1 I would get e raised to the power minus t 2 minus t 1 by tau where upon we could get log natural x 2 by x 1 or x x 2 minus x a log natural x 2 minus log natural x 1 that would give us minus t 1 minus t 2 rather minus t 2 minus t 1 by tau and you could take a negative sign. So, you see this is equal to minus t 2 minus t 1 by tau where upon tau is essentially minus t 2 minus t 1 upon log natural x 2 by x 1. So, you have an explicit expression for tau this gives you the time constant explicitly. Now, once we have the time constant with knowledge of tau we can now find a from here because you know t 1 and you know x 1 and now you also know tau from here. So, this is the way in which you would obtain the two parameters the amplitude and the exponentially decrease the time constant. Now, what I said in that part was that if I knew that the signal was of this form then these two measurements would immediately allow me to reconstruct the signal. And this is an example of a priori information that I might have if I know the circuit is an RC circuit or if it is a composite RC circuit is more than one stage I would know how many exponential parameters it has. So, for example, it could be a sum of two exponential or exponentially decaying functions even then I can formulate a generalized approach starting from this idea and I could reconstruct a signal from a few samples. So, this answers the question you know what other kinds of a priori information might I have you know where I might and this is not atypical you see when you have systems that are closely modeled with closely modeled by LCR like circuits, circuits which have inductances resistance and capacitances. Then essentially you would expect responses which are either exponentials or exponentials modulated by sinusoids. So, this is not imprises a situation which can occur in practice or at least approximately be true in practice. So, that is to do with this example that we talked about. If it is still not clear I would be very happy P. K. Sharma and Texan Jimbo posed further queries or put further comments and observations on the discussion forum. Now, I also see to my very pleasant surprise that Raman 111 has posed a very important solution to the question that I have given. You know in the first week I have talked about adding the original sinusoid to the impostors and I believe Raman is going in the right direction. Raman so what you should try to do is now to take this further the reasoning is correct you must take it further and in fact you know you try and add more and more terms and see how the summation comes at a finely chosen grid. You know what I mean is take the sampling points and take a large number of points between the sampling points and evaluate the sum of these original sinusoid and imposter terms all together at a very finely chosen grid. So, large number of points between samples and choose a few sampling intervals. So, you will see what is happening and you are going in the right direction. If there are small errors they will get corrected as you go along. So, well done it is good to see that and I am hoping that other people will also contribute to this discussion here. Well, I believe for this week these are the questions at the technical level which have been posed. I am very happy to see that this technical discussion is taking place. Now, there is one which I am going to take up in some depth yes here it is. So, ETK 150549 has brought out a very important issue and of course, I have traced the whole discussion there. The discussion starts with the you know what has been raised here by ETK 15049 549 is the issue of what happens when you take all sinusoids with the same samples. There was some confusion you know about the idea of measuring the difference between two samples in terms of the phase change and measuring it in terms of time. Now, of course, to cut a long story short my teaching associates have actually given a very thorough explanation and I am glad to see that ETK 150549 has understood the answer, but I also wanted everybody to look at this discussion carefully because if you remember in the email I sent in the beginning of the course I said you must critically review you know though the general idea is correct you must be convinced about the nitty gritties of what is going on. So, which are the sinusoids which all have the same samples the same sampling points and why are these imposters created? This should be appreciated. I am insisting on your appreciating this idea of imposters because otherwise very often you know in a formal proof of the sampling theorem this insight is omitted. So, I would be happier if all of you obtain this insight of how several sinusoids actually have the same samples at the points of sampling and all of them when they come together they create impulses of the points of sampling and all other points they have destructive interference that is all of them together destroy one another that is interesting. If you just take a few of those sine wave they may not come to destructive interference between the samples, but all of them together become destructive between the samples. This needs to be appreciated and you know I would strongly recommend that you see that discussion because it could be a confusion in the minds of many students. So, I am very glad that ETK 150549 has taken it up and discussed this whole question of which sinusoids and how you measure the what is the interpretation of measuring the phase difference between sampling points and so on. So, well done. I believe that is enough for this discussion session. I am sure that with this discussion that we have had this live interaction that we have had many of you will be inspired to post more queries and more comments and more discussions and observations and more responses to on the discussion forum and I look forward to that and to talk into you again after a few days. I hope you are all enjoying the course. We are all very happy to have you and goodbye. See you in the next response session. Of course, see you in between in the regular videos. Thank you so much.


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Asexual reproduction, first the contents, definition of asexual reproduction, identical organisms are produced in asexual reproduction, methods of early life or reproduction, and examples of animals with asexual reproduction. So, first what is asexual reproduction? If we look at the word students first, A means without and sexual means sex. So, means it is a, the word of sex is used for male and female. So, in asexual, there is a method of asexual reproduction in which both male and female are not involved. In fact, it is a single organism where it is moving forward, reproducing. So, asexual reproduction is a method of reproduction in which there is no fusion of gametes. Different types of definitions can be made. The first definition is asexual reproduction is the method of reproduction in which there is no fusion of gametes. Fusion is a combination. The second definition is asexual reproduction is a method of reproduction in which only one sex is involved. One organism can reproduce, can continue its generation. So, third, we can say that asexual reproduction is the method of reproduction in which there is no process of fertilization. So, what is the output of asexual reproduction? Asexual reproduction is due to mitosis. So, the two methods of cell division are meiosis and mitosis. Now, in asexual, basically mitosis is involved. And the cells that are made in mitosis are identical. This means that there is an organism where asexual reproduction is made through mitosis. So, in this way, the young one will be identical to its parent. So, what will happen to the parent? It will be identical. So, when identical parents are there, there is no genetic recombination. There is no genetic recombination. There is no gene shuffling. And this is exactly because of which it will be copied. So, now, if there are genetically identical organisms, they will not have variability. They will be exactly the same. So, in this way, they will not get the variations in their features and traits. So, asexual reproduction was the only way of reproduction during early life. When life started on earth, it was about four billion years ago. Four billion years ago, when life started on earth, the method of reproduction of that time was asexual reproduction. And it was about two billion years ago. That is, if the first two billion years of life, the two Arab years, were reproduced by asexual reproduction through the same organisms. So, after two billion years, the method of sexual reproduction evolved and the animals started to reproduce asexually. So, after that, both asexual and sexual are present. Now, if we look at the evolution of life, the first two billion years, since asexual reproduction is going on, there is less diversity in asexual reproduction. There is less genetic variability. When genetic variability comes, the process of evolution will also be slow. So, when we look at the evolution of life, the first two billion years, the first two billion years, the evolutionary process of life is very slow. Then, when sexual reproduction came, the evolutionary process became fast. What are the examples of animals with asexual reproduction? If we look at asexual reproduction, we have the protozones. We have protozones like amoeba, paramecium, and then we have euglena, tetrahemina. We have unicellular organisms, and then we have the malaria parasite. This is also the protozones. So, when resources are available in protozones, they are reproduced by the asexual method. In a specific environment, they also reproduce asexually. Lower invertebrates, Hydra, jellyfish, obelia, even planaria, and many other starfish. Different types of animals, such as tapeworms, these invertebrates do reproduce. They have a potential for asexual reproduction. What do they do through asexual reproduction? Let's move on. It is important to remember that all the organisms we have mentioned, all the animals, they can reproduce by asexual and asexual reproduction. The asexual method is also present in them, and the asexual reproduction method is also present in them. So, from this, if we look at asexual reproduction, the lower invertebrates are more. The lower invertebrates, the lower invertebrates are the file of the beginning. File of protozones, porifera, sealant, rata. We will get more asexual reproduction in these files. While in the end files, arthropods, mollusks, we will get less asexual reproduction. Because the simpler the file, the greater the regeneration capability and the better it will be to reproduce asexual reproduction. Let's talk about types of asexual reproduction. In animals, there are four major types of asexual reproduction. First one, there is the fission. Fission comes up to divide. So, fission method. Second one is the budding. Third one is the fragmentation. And the fourth one is the parthenogenesis.


A social cultural group, Yoruba Council Worldwide, has offered free legal support to the family of Ileoli Oluwa, Olajimidja Loba, popularly known as Mubad, whose tragic death on the 12th of September has continued to generate controversy. Speaking at a world press conference in Abuja, president of the council, Aire Olladotun Hazan said the group is ready to offer assistance to the Nigeria police in facilitating investigation over the actual cause of the megastar musicians' death, whilst demanding for justice for the late singer, Aire Hazan, coden governor of Bajideh Sao Olu and the inspector general of police to tackle the high cases of cultism and drugs prevalent in the music industry. It is in this light and as part of our responsibility to call on President Bola Mertunubu to see into this gruesome, premeditated murder of Mubad and also the governor of legal state beyond the investigation of the legal state police command, there is a need for the governor of legal state, Mr. Abu Bajideh Oluwshola Sao Olu, to ensure due diligent investigation, guaranteeing safety of human lives as far as legal state is concerned, in view of the courtesan of high level drug addictions and the entire gamut of illegality that has ravaged our entertainment industry. Hazan also advised upcoming musicians and actors on the need to engage their lawyers before committing themselves to signing contracts with promoters and record labels. We call on the government to support our work so that we can help our young people to come out of these situations. Mubad, is an example of a young person who was failed by society, he has been failed by his community, he had little or no parental guidance, however when he found himself in situations that questioned his morality he tried to pull back, however there was no support for him, so society failed him as a whole, and we as Amolwabi, we want to do better for also all young artists out there, whether in modelling, whether in knowledge wood, whether in music, we are offering that legal support for you so that your rights will not be trampled on us.


So the next one is a double hand over so with this one I'm gonna do I'm gonna do push this towards his face and then circle it downwards okay so that's the first one and it makes him kind of do that okay so I'm gonna go boom so I'm doing is doing a chuchu train okay chuchu trains go like this see my elbow is always down chuchu trains don't go like this that's not chuchu train that's not a train this is a train right okay so that's what I'm doing if I try doing this doesn't work if I lift my elbows I have to keep it like a train okay so in and out okay now if it doesn't work it's the next step okay bring your elbow over so it's nice you do that it doesn't work shit I can't do it so once you have to get one bring your elbow over and once the elbow goes over the form sink it down okay so circle in elbow over sink it down back fist pull up okay so elbow do a train elbow over this form sink it down back fist pull up make it fast okay the reason we do the train first is because if I try to get elbow he's just gonna lift it up he won't let me do it okay I go like this then it makes him go like that and then now you get ready all over so two oceans so first practice the chuchu train okay make sure your hands open again use your whole body you can do it you can use your whole body add one momentum into it and then add the train elbow train elbow practice that and then you can practice the technique so if you let's see you do it open the hands yes open the hands make sure you go in first to his face yes and then open the hands but I still cannot in the face and then circle circle this way right yes that's better there we go you think it's too slowly actually it's better okay so when you start going like this doesn't do anything when you start doing quick motions actually doesn't work very well the best way to practice this in two slow motions see is see I'm moving his whole body his spine because I'm going against his thumb here that's why that's happening if I go like this I'm just moving his arm I'm just moving his arm right but like this I move his whole spine see his whole body is moving right so do it slow first see this circular motion right while you were doing it was going back and forth that doesn't do anything so you make sure you have to circle and then while you open your hands so that you can chop it down like that like how we slice the slice the corn slice the corn slice the corn okay okay so when you have that also it makes it all balanced that's when you can bring this elbow over so let's see do that do it slow first see you can connect to to his body open the hands still slow slow just practice the slow part open the hands do it with the actual feel feel it on his thumb on his thumb that's it so when you bring it over just sink down on you can change your stance that's it all right so just practice the important part is getting this part here this part okay this part is important part once you get this part and the next part is easier because you don't if you don't have that you can't you can't just go over top and it should be pretty relaxed once you can get the momentum and you can also do the same thing and open so relax and then boom open the hands you're that's how I can do it without even the elbow okay it just shocks the his you gotta open it and you have you have to coordinate it perfectly yeah you have to go like if you just open and then do it open and do it or do it then open maybe maybe do the same time you can't grab on but that takes practice boom okay that's the also the same thing with inch punches with a short inch ring power but you don't need to do that you just need to do that and you can get up okay so so those are all the techniques and then we'll show you some drills to do the next video


The Olsen twins, A.K.A. Mary, Kate and Ashley were basically my entire childhood. I was obsessed. In recent times, I've stayed out of the spotlight for the most part and choose to live in New York City rather than Hollywood. Where it is, Mary, Kate has been going through some divorce drama during the global pandemic forcing her to house hunt for a new place, but both of the twins have been calling some gorgeous places home in New York and today we're going to take a look. We even found the listings. Mary, Kate and Ashley Olsen, also known as the Olsen twins as a duo, were child actresses whose careers took off when they were merely babies. Michelle, you don't know how to jump rope. Yes I do, make the rope go. Michelle. Me and my name is Michelle. Aside from full house, when the twins were 6, they started starring in their own TV film and video roles which became a whole brand and empire. I swear I have all of their books and Barbie dolls. What a time to be alive. Sir, if you could hurry 4 for 4, I'm a half hour late and I'm never late. Last time I was late was in 1986 when I was born. That was my sister's fault. You know she had that infillical cord thingy wrapped around my neck. Their company dual star which made all of this happen allowed Mary, Kate and Ashley to join the ranks of the wealthiest women in the entertainment industry at a very young age. As the sisters mature, they opted for a less public Hollywood lifestyle and turned towards the fashion industry. They've become icons especially married Kate with her signature hobo chic look. They're also successful fashion designers. Most recently there's been some trouble in Olsen twins' paradise for Mary Kate and her husband of 5 years Oliver Sarkozy. Not only has she signed a divorce petition, she's gone so far to request an emergency order so she can file ASAP. The pandemic has made this process pretty slow but MK feels it's urgent and was even claiming that Oliver was terminating the lease on their place they were living in without her consent. All that being said, Mary Kate and Ashley are estimated to have a current net worth of $500 million or roughly 250 mil each so I don't think Mary Kate will ever have to worry about being homeless. Hey guys it's Kara and today we're doing another house tour here on Famous Entertainment. We'll be looking at where the famous twins Mary Kate and Ashley call home and although they don't live together anymore they do live in the same city. I'll show you both Mary Kate and Ashley's luxury houses in New York. If you like these videos make sure you're subscribed and ring that bell to be notified when we post you can always be up to date. We also do before and after videos on this channel where we talk about celeb transformation so you should check out some of our latest ones and likes of Britney Spears and TikTok star Charlie D'Amelio. Follow me on Instagram to chat and as usual let me know who's house tour is next in those comments down below. Now let's get into this video. After cycling through several properties on both coasts the twins are most recently living in luxury departments in New York each with a style completely its own. First let's take a look at Mary Kate's place. Like I mentioned Mary Kate is apparently moving due to her ex-husband Oliver allegedly terminating the lease on their current place. They were living in a fancy apartment in Gramercy and also own a gorgeous town home in Turtle Bay but I'm not sure yet who's keeping this one. This historic town home was located in Turtle Bay a tiny neighborhood wedge between the tall towers of Midtown and the United Nations complex along the East River. In 2014 Mary Kate and her man dropped 13.5 million on this beauty which is part of the famous Turtle Bay Gardens enclave. This micro neighborhood was part of New York's glamorous history created by Charlotte Martin in 1920 when she bought a collection of town houses transformed them and sold them to her closest friends. The 20 houses and gardens face an elegant communal garden where over the decades some of the most celebrated personalities have called home from Bob Dylan to Catherine Hepburn and more. Mary Kate's Turtle Bay mansion stands 6,971 square feet inside with four or five bedrooms two full baths and three half baths. The 38 foot home features a small hall of mirrors leading to a double height grand ballroom with 22 foot woodcarve ceilings, two fireplaces, bookcases and a walk-in bar and pantry. Above you'll find an expansive double height sky-lit ardy studio. The house stands five floors above ground and has an additional basement level. The long narrow galley style kitchen is located on the ground floor and there's also an elevator here, a roomy reception foyer with powder room and a bi-level dining and sitting room with fireplaces on either ends. Not to mention there's a garden slash family room lined with windows opening up to a private garden space with fountains and an entry to the common garden. The second floor also known as the Piano Noble has a small landing, a street facing parlor and a panelled bookcase line library. French doors here open to a large roof terrace with staircase to the lower level garden. Two bedrooms on the third floor share a roomy his and hers bathroom with curved wall and the fourth floor holds the large loft style space which could all be a bedroom. Finally the master suite privately takes up the entire top floor. There's a master bath and dressing area slash walking closet attached and French doors open up from the bedroom to a stone column lodger that looks over the tree tops. The main area of the master bath also opens to a slow roof space with tiled walls and an above ground exercise pool. There's also a super convenient for New York City one car garage with direct entry to the house from the kitchen. Like I said I have no idea whether Mary Kate or Oliver is keeping this place or if they're selling. However I heard Mary Kate may now be living in the Hamptons after having to leave the other apartment. She and Oliver owned a place in Bridgehampton but I don't think this is the one she's living in. Reportedly Mary Kate's renting a spa in the Hamptons for 325k but that's all we know about it. Oh and the million dollar estate has its own private dock on the water naturally. So now let's look at the other half of the Olson twins Ashley. Her life is even less in the public eye than her sister but she too lives in New York City as we know. In 2016 Ashley spent 7.3 million on a gorgeous full floor apartment in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. In this neighborhood Ashley is surrounded by the likes of fellow celebs such as Alec Baldwin who owns multiple properties here, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bon Jovi and more. Ashley's penthouse is in a vintage building constructed back in 1896 that was restored in 2014. Despite the remodel the building still showcases the original cast iron facade that provides perfect historic backdrop for the modern yet classic interiors of the residences. The interior of Ashley's apartment features walnut floors, barrel vaulted 11 foot high ceilings with skylights and exposed columns. Her penthouse spans 6,325 square feet which to me is much larger than it looks from photos and offers 4 beds and 5 baths. The apartment has a large formal living room with wood burning fireplace, a library and a sun filled kitchen. The kitchen also has custom white oak cabinets, marble countertops and a spacious dining room closed back. The layout here is airy and open with windows that let in a ton of light. Ashley's master suite here includes a dressing room and marble bath with a soaking tub as well separate stall shower. However, the powder room holds its own special design feature. The vanity is reclaimed marble from none other than the Museum of Modern Art. Fancy. Another highlight of Ashley's penthouse is definitely the top level where you'll find the glorious rooftop terrace spanning over a thousand square feet of space. You can reach it by elevator or stairs if you want a bit of a workout and a landscaping and architecture here was done by a master of the craft Harrison Green according to the listing.  Her sprawling terrace offers skyline views of Midtown's most notable buildings. Ashley's building only holds six units and has tight privacy and security perfect for a celebrity. Amenities include a full-time doorman, building gym, humidification system and private storage, but I guess no swimming pool. So now we've taken a look at Mary Kate and Ashley Olson's homes and although the famous duo doesn't live together anymore, who knows now with Mary Kate's divorce, maybe she'll crash at Ashley's for a while. We do know she has a gorgeous place to stay in the Hamptons for the summer though. After looking at both Mary Kate and Ashley's luxury New York City abodes, which was your faith? I loved Mary Kate's previous Turtle Bay home best. I think because of how historic it was and the classic elegant look it had. Anyways, be sure to let me know down in the comments as well as whose house swear should be up next. Follow me on Instagram if you want to chat, be sure to like, hit subscribe and I'll see you all in the next video. Bye!