What's going on everyone? Sam here with Layton's Sports Card, Drippin' 2020. Bowman Baseball, HDA Jumbo. Two box break, number four, Random Team Style. There's a look again at your random results. As always, you can find these on the website under the results tab as well as the link in chat. So good luck guys. Here we go. Sorry again that we are behind. Next up we've got Super Jumbo. Full case of Super Jumbo. Thanks for the sub there, Eric. Got four to go on Bowman Inception Divisions as well. I'll have Donnie drop you that link really quick. Ace of Zardo, Base, Oscar Gonzalez first. He's one of those Corbin Carroll insert autos. There we go, Candler. That'd be kind of awesome, dude. Something got a purple coming up here. But Brandon Howlett, that is 20 out of 250 going to the Red Sox. There you go, Felix. Congrats on that, buddy. That is Brandon Howlett. Purple. Thanks, Muncie. Robert, plus all on the first. At least do that on like an auto. He has to wear it out. On a base paper. Yeah, he has to wear it out. It's the first thing that I see. Totally get it on an auto. Even a base auto. You're Don Rookie, nice one there. On a base paper? It's a little march. Jared ran first. It's when everyone expects it. Exactly. That's why he shouldn't do it. Bye, Lane. All right. Still shimmer, keep it Reese, still a Dodger in this. That's 8 of 125. By the way, y'all, I'm going to be listing pre-orders when I get home. So if there's upcoming products you're interested in, keep an eye on this. Contenders football. Oh, already listed contenders football. Ace auto. Vidal Bruhan on the first. Nice one there for the raise. Tampa Bay going to Felix and congrats, buddy. Vidal Bruhan, AJ Puck. Prism photo, potentially I would thank Joshua. What's up, Nanny? Wedding went great. Hey, congrats again, man. Congrats again, buddy. Glad that everything was okay for you there, too. Yu Cheng, Jeremy Pena first. Sitting in the hard rock. Now I just want to pop in and say hi. What's up, dude? What's up, Nanny? What's up, Nanny? You're really cat food at the hard rock. There is a Bobby Whit first paper. Only went there to go walk around.  Lose money at Blackjack. There you go. Pro at doing that. Put the wedding money on red. Jason Dominguez first paper. What's up, Max? Still in shot from the Brady last night.  Max hit that. There's Anthony Volpe. Max hit the Brady, which is kind of wild. Oh, nice. Yeah, that was awesome, dude. Zach Thompson refracted at $4.99. Donnie. Donnie's top loading. Yep. Christopher H, what's up, dude? Thanks for the sub there, buddy. Jordan Rookie. Yeah, another purple auto. No, we got a purple paper. Sheldon Noisy Rookie, $2.50 for the athletics. Not quite Johnny, but I mean... Basically. What's up, Johnny? Happy birthday, Johnny. Bobby Whit, chrome first. Donnie does keep coming back for the punishment. I do. Forrest opened it up and cleaned it up good. Yeah, Forrest made sure to get some of that weird blue ink off that was on there. So Forrest spit-shined it for you, Max. I don't know what that blue ink was doing on there, but it's off for it. Don't worry, man. Forrest got the old Windex out. Donnie's going to straight it out the corners for you before we ship it out today. Oh, yeah. Bobby Whit, insert. Tray Turner, rookie auto. That's pretty cool after he hits the walk-off. I probably will hit the walk-off tonight, too. Yeah, that is awesome, Max. That card is so cool, dude. It's so cool that Brady was in there, you know? Joe Adele, Riley Greene. Purple Tanner Hawke to 250, or how I should say. His Blake always corrects me on this. I have two autos in this, right? Should be a clear auto, right? Yeah, it looks like there is. Face auto. Thomas Dillard for the Brew Crew. Nice one there. Brew Crew. Louise Patino. Sharon Durand, first chrome. Timmy. Space. Some more orders coming in here. Prism order, another prism order, and a Prism PYT orders. Very nice. Thank you guys again on that, unless you're illegal. True. See me tomorrow if you do well. Good luck, Manny. Again, guys, four to go on Inception Divisions. Breaking relatively soon. Refractor. Dustin May, rookie auto. Nice one there, too. $4.99. Best hair in baseball. Rowdy Tolez, hidden finds. He kind of was a hidden find. Rowdy Tolez. Anthony Volpe, chrome first. Nice. Donny needs some help, bro. No. Oh, yeah. Jason Dominguez, chrome first. Some roto. Anything illegal does. I want to do the opposite. Yeah, I could just call myself $30,000 Louis Hamilton. We've got JJ Blatay. Nice one there for the Marlins. That's pretty cool. There you go, Miami. Going to Ed. There you go, Ed. Robert. Plus all. Yeah, upset all you want. It's going to keep you. Just got to accept it, dude. I want to go home. You got to accept it. Sorry, buddy.  Who? I don't know. Who's going to be willing to come in and take your job with me breaking? I'll see if Dylan wants to pull Dylan. Okay, Dylan, calling you in. Everybody jumped in chat right at that moment. Like, nope. Nope. I heard my name. No. Yeah, Blatay is going to be solid, dude.  They're saying Mom, pick me up. I'm scared. It's a teal, Nick Madrigal to 125 for the White Sox. Ooh, WWE revolution has kabooms. Interesting. That sounds cool. Donny's like chrome dust. Yeah. Donny runs on straight caffeine and chrome dust. I mean, basically. Kind of. Face. Complain to Cortice. She'll straighten me out. Oh, yeah. I was a mess with her yesterday. I was like, there's like an open case of five star back there for like group breaks or something. We're just keeping it for now. Yeah. And then there was like an open case back there and she put like in all caps. I was thinking, you know, this is not for personals. Cortice. So I was like, hey, Cortice, I just opened up the case of five star. She's like, I don't know. The police are just going to come up and see that Sam got shot when I have nothing to say about it. Jared Durant first chrome. Yeah. Revolution getting a nice boost with kabooms being in WWE. That'll be nice. That'll be really nice. Honestly. Bunch of orders coming in guys. Thank you again. Muhammad taking some spots. Callum taking some spots. Carrie taking a 10 bucks Tuesday basketball. Bunch of prism spots. Prism might be completely sold out. Sky blue paper. Robelle Garcia 2499 for the cubbies. I think it did drop. Did it not drop yet? We're at six on prism. Yeah. And guys, check out Bowman Inception, Random Division style.  It gets you a random division. So what would be five teams? Or five teams. Thank you. Good call. Wow. Look at me drop baseball. I know. Wow. Who would have had that on your bingo card today? Not me. Jeremy Pena, chrome first. Nice one there. Someone's been sorting some baseball. Sixto Sanchez, the 499. What's up, chipmunks? Or Alvin, I should say. What's up, Alvin? Alvin, I sub to you on YouTube. What does Alvin do on YouTube? Plays like slots, like online slots. Yeah. Mayax, I've got a Jason Dominguez blue, or not a base. Checklist is not okay. Must have just been like the preview then. I was looking at. True blue, Antonio Cabello, 2150. You got him in. I got to pop into one of your lives at some point. Caused some trouble. Yeah, division's definitely the way to go, I agree with that, Ed. Definitely the way to go. Bass Otto, Adam Hill. Nice one there again for the Milwaukee Brewers. Yeah dude, one of the case hits, like the super short prints, are sick. That is Bobby Whit Jr. Origins basketball. There's a case hit called Tiger Eyes. Really cool. Not really a case hit, but like a super short print. This is just like Tiger Woods' face in the back room. Just you imagine, that'd be pretty funny. Recap guys, got Adam Hill, JJ Bladet, Dustin May, Thomas Dillard, Vidal Bruhan, and Purple Brandon Howlett. That'll do it for the break, everybody. Thanks again for the film. Next up, we've got Super J-


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When you lose a child, there's something that happens inside of you that it's not something I could describe to anyone unless you have experienced it and I don't wish that my worst enemy. When we lost Joshua, we were faced with a system that was not set up to learn. We were faced with an organization that was very fearful. A lot of people accept it, they don't want to dig into it or they're not being told the truth and they accept it and they say this was God's plan, this was God's will. But when it's needless, that is the biggest dagger. I kind of thought it was a one-off for us, just a horrible chain of events but then we started to see that these were actually medical errors, these were mistakes.  I first saw it in the hospital where Yogi Raj died but it didn't take long at all to realize that it was happening in hospitals, not just in the United States. It was happening in hospitals around the world. And for me, the dynamic around not just that we need to be transparent but we need to teach transparency. We have spent 12 years now basically bringing awareness, educating the public and doing everything that we can to allow families not to go through the same tragedies that we went through of losing Nile at 15. So it's very important to us that we participate as much as possible and to do everything that we can to pass this information on to others. How can we take these tragedies and try to make something positive out of them? We have a voice to say, hey, we don't like what you're doing and we want to help you do it better. There are so many facets of it that we have to be working at simultaneously in order to get positive health care outcomes for everyone and it's going to take all of us being involved and having a seat at that table and being part of that discussion, being out on our communities, being part of organizations that are actually out there on the forefront fighting to ensure that we have change. I want patients to be confident and to trust your gut and to trust your instinct, advocate for themselves, advocate for their loved ones and then for those who can, advocate for their community and beyond. Everyone has the ability to fix this problem and prevent harm and death and so we bring the joy of our son Nile, we bring the music, we educate the public and we do it in a way that is memorable so that the next time somebody is going into the hospital, they're going to know. And we've seen changes and we've seen the adoption of some of the new technologies and it's just been wonderful to see how this is catching on. So we're doing our part. When we went to the state legislature, they were very surprised to hear our side of the story, the patients that have died from being opioid naive and so they moved it all forward with no negative votes and the biggest thing about it is they're going to start doing some research to find out more about it and the exact cause. When we come here, it's refreshing to hear other stories but it's also very sad because you know they are going through the same heartache and the battles and they are not quitting.  You know, you're not alone and you're not crazy. We are right. We did bury our loved ones and it was needless. I have to have a reason to put my head in my pillow at night and go to sleep and so if I can just do that one single thing each day on behalf of my son's name and help maybe somebody else not grieve the way our family did and I constantly do, then I've done something and Josh did not die from nothing. That's why it's important to me.


Quiz Automatic Grading If you want to assess learners formatively or summatively with questions for which there are specified answers, Moodle's very powerful quiz enables you to do this. We can only look at a few of the features of the quiz in this screencast, but it's worth exploring more yourself and in the Moodle documentation. A quiz allows you to use different types of questions, not just multiple choice, and it also allows you to add, as here, media, images, video, sound files as part of your questions. If we go to our course and see how to add a quiz, the first thing to note is that in the more link from the gear menu, we can access the question bank. When a quiz is created in Moodle, you create the questions separately and store them separately so they can be reused by you in a later quiz or by your colleague in the same course in a different quiz. So if you wish, you could start by adding your quiz questions to this question bank here and then make a quiz another day. But we'll make our quiz straight away, so to do that, we turn on the editing from the gear menu and then in the section we want the quiz, we click add an activity or resource. This takes us to Moodle's activity chooser and we scroll down to quiz. Quiz is an activity because the learners are interacting with it. If we click it once, we get information as to how best to use a quiz and then we can click the add button. Or if we understand about a quiz and don't need to read the information, we simply click the radio button twice and this will bring up the setup screen. The first thing that we do is create the front page, if you like, of the quiz. The name and the description which quiz learners will see and if you want the description to appear on the course page, just tick the box display description on course page. There are many different settings in a quiz and it is worth exploring all of them. If there's anything you're not sure of, the question mark help icon gives you extra information. For now, we're just going to click save and display and we have a blank quiz and what we need to do is to start adding some questions, which we can do by clicking the button edit quiz or edit quiz from the gear menu. We then see add and if we already have questions we could add a random question to our quiz or a particular question from the question bank which we might have added to earlier or a colleague might have added to earlier. But we are starting anew from nothing so let's click to add a new question. We are then presented with a list of question types to choose from and just like with the activity chooser, if we click the button next to the question type, we are presented on the right with some information as to what that question type does and note that although most of these questions are questions where you provide the answer, it is possible by choosing essay to have learners typing an essay which we would then manually have to grade. Note also there is a description question. This isn't a question type as such, it's just a text editor into which we could add an explanation, some instructions, images, videos or sound. For the purposes of this quiz, I'm just going to add a multiple choice question. We are then sent to the setup for this particular question. We have to give it a name although the name doesn't appear in the quiz but it's important because it's how it would be recognised in the question bank in the future particularly if we have a lot of questions ourselves and perhaps shared with colleagues. In the question text that is where we type the actual question and then when we scroll down what we see will depend on the question type but we'll always be able to add general feedback for any question and then in the answers because it's multiple choice, we add the first possible answer with the grade. None, we add none if the question is wrong or 100% if it's right. However, there are as you can see options in between. We can give specific feedback for each individual answer and if we want to do more than just write simple text, we can use the icons in the text editor. So again, we write in our other choices, choose the grade and we continue. When we click save changes, we have our first quiz question which we can preview by clicking the magnifying glass icon. So we then go on and continue adding questions to our quiz. Finally, looking at a quiz that's already been made, it's easy to change the order of the questions by dragging them up or down and to add or remove page breaks by clicking on the icon and we can divide our quiz up into sections as well.


Thanks Lisa. Yeah, we're talking here on Thursday of week 18, which means things will definitely change before Sunday But still some good values in the board as we're talking here right now The first one to me is Christian Kirk at $6,200 of the Arizona Cardinals He has a 24% Targeture in three games post Deandre Hopkins the Cardinals want to win this game to lock down the NFC West They still got a chance to do so if the Rams were to lose So I think that they'll be playing all out that boats well for Kirk who's had a really good role recently Same thing is true for Devon Singletary at $6,700 the Buffalo Bills He has emerged as the clear lead back over the past four games. He has yardage upside. He's scoring some touchdowns $6,700 versus the New York Jets. I will take that every time. I also like the ante foreman now Foreman's floor is not as good. He's in a three-back committee for the Titans But we did see last week the Titans committed more to Foreman playing him at a 62% snap rate He's had 130 yards the scrimmage twice in the past four games Facing the Houston Texans in a spot where the Titans want to win to lock down the one seed So to me Foreman does stand out Derek Henry back at practice this week, but not expected to play just yet So I think these three values although things will change prior to Sunday are ones we can count on for week at


Did you do your memorial day thing?  I'm ready if you don't know how to go to his Instagram Yeah, every memorial day I go when I visit a soldier named Stephen Walker because I well you should see it on there You can also say Instagram Twitter for more juicy content. Thanks for Roop Roop Paul I Was succession you enjoy it. Oh my goodness. Yeah dope. I haven't given it. I'm not even on the current season, so I'm way behind I just it's just obviously I've heard everybody loved it. Yeah such a Start to finish brilliant beautiful show incredible thespian attic muscle from the cast And as always WGA more power to you the writers man life blood of the craft Yeah, oh and today we're doing a movie review And we're doing a review of the new 2023 film that just came out Sometime last week go sometime. Yeah, we could go I Thought it was called Banda, but it's I know It has a full name. It has a really long name. Yeah, the full name is surf egg Banda coffee hay or hi I don't know what that means advertise just the bond is the biggest word something about a common man being a hero I think man versus God, man. Yeah directed by and forgive mispronunciations as always ladies and gentlemen a poor of sing karki and written by Deepak Kangrani and starring our Dosti of Dosts Manoj by Manoj Buzh by he and he will he will once do something really good some day some day I you can see them. You can see the potential Maybe after some of my acting class He could reach the potential he's striving for yes, right? Yes, I'm sure anyways Sent it in it's also on Z. So if you haven't watched it's Exclusive it didn't go to have a theatrical release. So when it's straight to Z5 Yeah, so if you haven't watched it go watch it on Z5 there. It'll be Yeah, non-spoiler Spoiler want to get into some spoils will get into some you want to get spoiled go to the back That's that's what happens at the hustler store This synopsis is a common man with honesty integrity can take on the system when he has truth on his side Just like us. Yes. Yeah, always have truth on my side. Yeah. Anyways, so once again Tattoo non truth non-spoiler At the beginning and then we will tell you before we get into some spoils So Rick your initial thoughts of the film initial thoughts are that I liked it It I didn't love it, but I liked it a lot. I loved as what a surprise He's he's mr. Durability mr. Dependability That's what Lou Gehrig was to the Yankees just you put him on the field He's gonna be there every day and he's gonna do exactly what you need him to do that is That's what you get with Manoj Bajpayee. Yeah, there there were just there were some things I'll get into Probably well, we could get it in the initial thoughts. There's just a couple things that had to do with Just stylistic. There's nothing wrong with it stylistically It's just not my preferred style of of a courtroom drama But I I can see the audience they were intending to go for so for the audience they're wanting to reach I think they did a very good job, but I didn't I didn't love it. I just I liked it and I would recommend it No, I really actually enjoyed this movie. So I'm interested to know your thoughts here on it But yeah, there's I there's a lot. I really enjoyed specifically certain elements of The courtroom drama in terms of what they actually went for as opposed to normal courtroom dramas. Mm-hmm that I Manoj Bajpayee II I asked on Twitter days ago. I said, who do you think that's acting now that is not currently? Called in goat status, right? I'm talking about Sean's Right here and they have to be living in the Syria and still acting right So you can't include Nassir. You can't include I'm a talk box on Mohanlal. Yeah taboos the people that are already in the conversation of the good and have been for decades. Yes So yeah, and he's living as well And so I was like, who do you think could be by the end of their career known as the goat? I have no doubt Manoj Bajpayee Will be known as one of the goats by the end of his career especially Hindi cinema of Just his versatility and what he can do Because he he's one of the most versatile actors I've ever seen Because obviously he's in the same echelon as you know your funds of the worlds and bankages and the wazas and and and those people But man, he has such versatility and he's always choosing these roles that are So heavy and and grounded, but he always brings a uniqueness. Yes to it. Yes, he does So I I loved his performance. I thought it was Super no, I can't talk about specific parts because it's non-spoilers. There's so many parts in it that They were really interesting decisions that he made I would love to talk to him about just decisions in this like this. It was a fully fleshed character It wasn't just this man always a man that was Holier than ever like better than everybody else.  Yeah, he also there's specific nuances that they gave him that was like he's actually a little little grayer In these areas and also like he certain things that he did that I was like it's super endearing for this very Humble. Yeah, very very cute But then also he turns it on when he needs to turn it on he's a fully fleshed out human being makes no It's no surprise. Yeah from the notion by you. Yeah, the greatest Of all time in Indian cinema in the world right now. Yeah, if his name There are many people that if their name is attached to something You'll know one thing They're gonna do a great job Even when they're given scripts that aren't that great, which is very difficult to navigate Thankfully for the most part when you reach the stature of a monage, you're not gonna agree to something till you've read script By the way, you should do that anyway Irrespective of where you are in your career I would hope that as an actor you're only going to do projects that resonate with you and you read words that you believe you can incarnate and Just he's he's always always good as are a lot of the familiar faces that are part of the cast that we've seen many many times Just the minute you see them on screen You're excited because you know, they're gonna do a great job with this role. Yeah, I the the other Attorneys as well. Yeah All the one all the and our main judge our main judge the the main attorney and then all the separate attorneys that came in The the guy who played the priest or the not the priest. Oh, yeah, the godman Babu Yes, forget remember his name. He didn't actually say a lot, but I could tell like you could he gave the Feeling of a of a man who and and looked like him because of the images I've seen of the actual man He's very representative. Yeah, and so All of that was for the dad. I thought the little girl did well. Oh, yeah, I wanted to give a shout out to her I'll mispronounce your name probably Adria Sina But this is her first feature really she's done Eight episodes of another TV show. Okay, but this is her first feature film. Wow, great job great Yeah, I wanted to commend you. That was a lot of emotion a very difficult role to portray and make us Believe you are that girl and I see why they chose you and you did an excellent Excellent job, and I'm looking forward to what else you do because that was very strong very very strong I liked it a lot. Yeah her performance. I did really surprising that it was like her first. I know I was I was very surprised and and very happy hats off to the director there for for taking and we've seen a lot and casting and for Shivan Gupta great great casting all around in we've seen a lot in Indian cinema taking People that aren't actors at all from villages, right or young actors or just non-experience actors and just getting really good performances out of them Yes, it's it seems like a common theme it is and I'm because it's not a common theme here No, it's not and it's it's this so resonates with me right now because I've been I've been working on Articulating and and weaning down everything that I'm gonna do for my my acting classes that are coming up in June and July and That's one of the things I'm just saying over and over again is that acting isn't easy But it doesn't have to be hard and that's one of the great examples of that is when you see people because at its basis There are some particular skills and some particular disciplines, but too often a lot of actors particularly American actors There's either two problems they face one is they just want to be stars so training doesn't matter Yeah, or they have training, but there's there's so much of the different approaches and processes They don't even they don't know they're up from their down or they're left from the right and it's very difficult and and and Yeah, that's that's one of the great things about a good director who knows how to speak the language of acting at a very basic level to explain Here's what I bought. Here's this is just what I want you to do and it shows. Yeah. Yeah And the one of the thing I really enjoyed about this was it and you could tell me what you maybe this is for you Didn't like I don't know This Because in normal courtroom dramas that there's something awful that happened just like this a rape or whatever, right? Something terrible. Yeah, it's normally The like either the other lawyer usually has an upper hand. They're better at what they do or like the the The laws that are in place make it so the other guy gets off right or whatever I really enjoyed the fact that through every single step Manoj always seemed like the most prepared and Skilled lawyer in the entire thing so it gave me actual hope for for the Legal system, which these things know don't normally do that for me. I know they don't because too far too often He's he has a line. Yeah, he has a lion in there. I don't remember who he said it to this isn't a spoiler by the way It's just it's it's a part of every movie about Yeah, law yeah, and and he said I think he says it to the judge at one point very early in the film when he said It's not about who's right, but what's right and too often law in all countries is More about knowing how to work the legal system and prove your case prove that you are right Versus us knowing what is right. Yeah, where is the justice? Yeah, where is the truth? So yeah, I this is very encouraging to know that yeah, it's based on the true story Yeah, this this is the man is yeah in prison for life. Yeah, thank God. Yeah, which doesn't normally happen to know Rapists too often they get away and the woman is shamed. Yep too often It's with the majority and it was so sad obviously when it's not a spoiler just happens in Indian culture sometimes obviously Like she's meant to put a something around her face like she did I know right now But by the way, we're comfortable telling you outcome of cases in because this is so Prevalent and known. Yeah that the moment you even look up this film. You're gonna see Boom is you know, you it's not about the verdict. It's about what transpires and if that's a just verdict. Yeah, right? Yeah, exactly But what was I saying? I don't know. I'm sorry. I went I just wanted to make sure that the disclaimer of No, you were talking about Women and the veil. Oh, yeah.  No, I know it's a true story That's one of the things that's what I said at the outset is that it was designed in such a way as to be palatable to a broader audience Yeah, that felt very clear Throughout that they were making choices based on we want to take a very serious story and we we don't want to dilute it But we also want to make it accessible. Yeah in a different way than say deli crime Yeah, which took a comparable kind of Disgusting this and was a bit more just raw. Yeah real Rated R. Yeah, and and that's just a creative choice And that's what I meant by one of the things for me is why I prefer a little farther It's just my personal preference. It says nothing about the capacity of the film or the quality of the film Yeah, it's just my personal preference I would prefer to see a film that is covering such serious subject matter in a way That's more akin to deli crime, but this has its own benefits Yeah, so that's why I'm just being honest about the differentiation of loving it versus really liking I get that I actually just I actually Really appreciate the fact that I didn't feel Like normal disgusted that I normally do because I was it makes it accessible. That's also different Yeah for this genre. It makes it accessible normal thing that you would feel is the Just you feel gross very and it's it's a it's a it's a movie. I don't know how many people would do it Absolutely would have done this if when when my kids were teens This this would be a movie that would be important to share with a teen who already understands the birds and the bees that's case in point big time and Understands this issue and that this is a real issue in the world not just to be protective of yourself and others But to know this kind of thing goes on in the world and justice needs to be served And this is a really good film to do that with somebody who's but they did also teens and at times with with certain Characters that died and actually like yeah, there's there's dead. I don't want to give anything away Oh, they're there. There's something shows certain things. Yeah, I'm like whoa They didn't they didn't they definitely didn't defy it nor did they make it. No a general admission. This is PG 13 Yeah, yeah for sure And I also I enjoyed the score. They were at times that I wish they would have put less score Sometimes not all the times normally I probably 90% of the film I really enjoyed the score But there are there were times like when I can't give anything away because obviously I know but that thing away That was the other thing for me Yeah, the two things for me that changed a little over score a really like yeah was what I just mentioned in regard to Stylistic decisions that were just my preference But then the other one and this also is another stylistic choice I think the majority of Indians who see this won't have a problem with scoring because they're so accustomed to Yeah, for sure, but for our liking. Yeah, it was way over scored Way over I wouldn't say it was way over scored But there were definitely times that I was like the I wish you would have not even put music Yeah, there were moments when they came back. I was 20 minutes in I thought oh goodness Please don't keep doing this. Oh, yeah And then it got to the point where by the time we're gonna the end of the film Like clockwork. It was predictable and there it came and I went It wasn't that bad for me. It was for me Anyways, so I would definitely recommend this film I would do I would put it easily in one of the best films of the year So far of the year in the five months that we've had of the year so far For especially for Hindi cinema, you know, I can't even tell you what other and I it's there have been something I just can't remember and I don't I don't know how Specifically correct I did as we usually do some research to find out that the majority of the large Events and the story are factually accurate. Yeah, they're whether or not for example Dialogs or monologues that take place in the courtroom I have no idea if those were scripted out of the transcripts from the actual court cases Or they were just inspired by the case and then dramatic license was taken. Yeah for sure either way I I agree with you. I this is that's a it's a worthy watch primarily for for the acting and the importance of the story in an Accessible format. Yeah, I think it's a little more than that, but I get it.  There are times there are times Yeah, most of the time. Oh, I understand.  Yeah, this is fine But this is our that was a non-spoiler review Full Monty if you haven't seen it, please go watch We're just gonna get a little more in depth and certain things we wanted to talk about Could you believe that everyone died? I did I Can't believe you dropped that nuke. I know right in the court. Anyways, so if you haven't watched it This is for those of you who've seen it certain things about my nose I wanted to talk about because I really pretty his performance is obviously the main Thing of this film that you is we're probably gonna talk about the same nuances. We don't miss you Yeah, so first thing even before Was actually the fact that I Was super surprised at what he did to his kid Remember that when he has the eruption when he has the eruption, right cuz like yeah, that didn't shock me before That you were like this man. He loves this and I have no doubt that he still of his job That's what I'm saying not at all.  What do you assume with Indian culture? He's probably hitting him in the face And yeah, that's just kind of a norm, right? But it gave him more of a gray Area For this character. Not that he's bad at all made him human But yeah, it was like oh, you're taking this man who's Seemed very righteous in court and all this stuff, but he's not perfect No, and I and you understood why because he was like he thought his kid was dead He thought of the right or they kidnapped his kid, right? He was just and so all that frustration came out and you don't want him to do that But you like you understood it and but it was also super interesting that they they gave his character that little Element so you're like oh, yeah, and obviously we don't we don't know the real relationship between the actual attorney and his son No, no, but the endearing nature of them calling each other buddy Yeah, yeah giving you within the text a closeness without having to show that to you later on is a forgivable Expositional it's not even exposition. It's just character set up But the thing I liked about what you're talking about is it's what Guillermo del Toro said in a conversation about why he Lives monsters and why he does not like Characters that are just nice all the time because it's not believable and Guillermo said at 9 30 you wake up And you're a good neighbor and then at 10 45 you're a bad son and at 11 o'clock You're a very good parent and then at 1 30 you're a terrible citizen We're all complex and none of us is just nice or always good Yeah, and that's one of the great things about the way he's depicted is that though He is the moral compass of the story. He's a human being Yeah, and the other elements of him that I really enjoyed where he's in court when he He was so Like you could tell he's looked up to these certain attorneys that are probably these heroes like really yeah high-end expensive attorneys that he's read all their oh, they're his hero shings Yeah, you could like you saw that admiration for them Which is actually it's not uncommon in courtroom films because even though like one is arguing for and one's arguing against they They realized that they are Professionals and this is their job their job and everybody knows each other. Yeah small industry But you like you saw especially like when he was trying to emulate I Okay, that's one of the things I wanted to know if that was scripted or if that was just Because I Loved because he takes note of the pounding on the table and as you watch him take note of the my name while he was talking Yeah, he's just admiring the prowess of this great litigator and this great defender and this and and then you see him Incorporate that and you actually watch him in the moment have a recognition of Checking himself as to whether or not that was genuine or if he was caught Copying his idol across the aisle from yeah, and it there was no indicating at all So I don't know if that was scripted or if that was just Manoj being the character Yeah, great moment his character was so because he obviously had such power and he was so good at his job Yeah, which was one very watch very very, but then he had so many moments like when he was getting the principle or whatever Her name is to admit that she forged it right and he just turned to her and he smiled Yeah, it's such an endearing smile. He's very much very much. No malice in this guy No, he's just doing his job and doing it extremely well. Yeah, even even when he is clearly upset He has a very level head about knowing what this legal process is gonna be at the outset telling the dad Are you prepared for the fact that you're gonna be blamed for this? Mm-hmm because you need to be he has absolutely full realism and you don't even see he knows it's reprehensible But the disgust of what happened. He doesn't let it out Until his final monologue in his closing statement and even when he does he recognizes He kind of went beyond decorum a little bit by imposing his own feelings into it and apologizes to the court Yeah, yeah really wonderful, and I was just brilliantly done by a brilliant actor. Yeah Always wonderful Always good and so different little think of his entire career and how different every character is. It's insane The end that those are my favorite types of actors are the ones that you can look and you're like wow Those are all so different from each other even though when he did last year of the little small film that we love so so different and such a Differently Complex kind of a human being in that film which challenge wise was we we said that in that review if you haven't seen that movie The challenge that that role cannot be played by anybody his rather than someone at the level of women Oh his role in Satya his role in gangs his role and like he's just so different his role in family man Yeah, even though like ear fun one of the goats you always see ear fun usually though Like in his roles. You're always like this endearing beautiful Brilliant actor of a man. You always see ear fun. I don't always see Manoj Which is it's just a different style of acting different It's I mean he would tell you he's there like just like no one doubts Michael Cain and his greatness I'm always aware. It's Michael Cain. No, there's yeah, there's a differentiation It also it also depends on the roles because for example the most astonishing shapeshifter Daniel de lewis. Yeah, there are a couple of his roles that are really approximate the most Approximate being phantom thread. Yeah, but even last of the Mohicans has an approximation. That's somewhat him Yeah, whereas Bill the butcher and Daniel plain view are not even and Lincoln. They're not even remotely close. Yeah To him, but yeah, he he has the capacity There are some actors who all actors ought to use and incorporate themselves into character But there are some who have a gifting it can't be taught. Mm-hmm. They have a gifting that allows them to be Shapeshifters. Exactly. Yeah. Anyways, was there anything else you want to talk about? No, I everyone else. I thought was really solid. I I felt the dad and mom were really good. Yeah, and I I Ultimately like I had said the only yeah, the only things that kept me from loving it where the style of it Kept me a bit Distanced in terms of the riveting nature of it. Mm-hmm. It's not anybody's fault It's just my preference and style for this kind of story and then the score being too much. That's it. I understand. Yeah, that's it I Really really enjoyed this film. It's one of my favorites of the year so far So and again Shout out to the young lady. I'm excited to see what else she can she can do because she did a very good job Let us know what you thought about this film what should be our next minoche bus We still have a lot of we have a lot of never gotten to yeah for minoche And let us know what that should be down below


Welcome to the GVSU Calculus screencasts. In this episode, we'll calculate the values of a few functions defined by power series. Remember that a power series is a series of the form sum, say, k goes from 0 to infinity of c sub k x to the k, where these c sub k's are just real numbers for each k. And in this screencast, we're going to evaluate a few special functions defined by power series at a few points. As an example, let's define f of x by the power series sum k goes from 0 to infinity, 3 to the k x to the k. This power series defines f as a function whose inputs are those values of x for which the series converges. And if we input a specific value of x into our function f into this power series, then we end up with a series of real numbers. For example, f of 1 quarter would be the series that we obtain by substituting 1 quarter in for x. So f of 1 quarter is the sum k goes from 0 to infinity of 3 to the k times 1 quarter to the k. And if we look at a few terms of this series of real numbers, when k is 0, we get 1. When k is 1, we get 3 quarters. When k is 2, we get 9 sixteenths and so on.  Now in fact, this series for f of 1 quarter should be familiar to us. Pause the video for a moment, look at the series, figure out why it's familiar, and then evaluate f of 1 quarter by finding the sum of this series. And resume the video when you're ready. f of 1 quarter is the sum as k goes from 0 to infinity of 3 to the k times 1 quarter to the k, and we can combine these terms together into 3 fourths to the k. We should be able to recognize this as a geometric series with a ratio of 3 quarters. Remember the sum of the geometric series with ratio r is 1 over 1 minus r, so f of 1 quarter is 1 over 1 minus 3 fourths for 4. So in this case f of 1 quarter is just 4. This calculation of f of 1 quarter provides us some insight into finding a general rule for f of x. Why don't you pause the video for a moment and use that idea that we used to find f of 1 quarter to find a rule for f of x by summing this series. And for which values of x should we expect the series for f to converge, or in other words, what's the domain of f? Now the thing to note here is that f of x is the sum k from 0 to infinity of 3 to the k x to the k, and again we can put those two terms together into just 3x quantity to the kth power. And we can recognize then that f is a geometric series with a ratio 3x. We know that the geometric series converges as long as the ratio is less than 1 in absolute value. So our power series for f will converge as long as the ratio, in this case 3x, in absolute value is less than 1, or for x's that are between negative 1 third and 1 third. And in these situations we can sum this geometric series with ratio r, the sum of the geometric series with ratio r is 1 over 1 minus r, and f of x is just equal to 1 over 1 minus 3x. Let's look at another example. Let's let f of x be defined by the power series sum k goes from 0 to infinity x to the k over k factorial. If we evaluate this function of x equals 1, we get f of 1 is the sum as k goes from 0 to infinity of 1 to the k over k factorial.  Again, this series for f of 1 should be familiar. Pause the video for a moment, reflect on what this series looks like and how it's familiar to you, and then sum the series to find the value of f of 1. Resume the video when you're ready. If you remember our Taylor series, the Taylor series expansion we found for e to the x is the sum k goes from 0 to infinity of x to the k over k factorial, and this expansion was valid for every value of x. That means that our function f of x is really just e to the x. As a result, f of 1 is just e to the first power or e. Let's look at one more example. Let f of x be the power series sum k goes from 0 to infinity minus 1 to the k, x to the k over k squared plus 1. If we evaluated a half substituting 1 half in for x, we get f of 1 half is the sum k goes from 0 to infinity minus 1 to the k, 1 half to the k times 1 over k squared plus 1, and that's equal to the sum of the series 1 minus a quarter plus 1 20th minus 1 80th, if the series converges. This series for f of 1 half is not one that we know, but we do have some techniques that we've developed that allow us to approximate the sum of the series as close as we like. Pause the video for a moment and find a value of n, so the nth partial sum of this series approximates f of 1 half to 3 decimal places. And while you're at it, why does f of 1 half even exist? Resume the video when you're ready. Note that the series for f of 1 half is an alternating series, so we can apply the alternating series test. The sequence of positive terms here 1 over 2 to the k times 1 over k squared plus 1 decreases to 0, so the alternating series test tells us that the series for f of 1 half converges, and so f of 1 half does exist. We can use the alternating series estimation theorem to find a value of n so that the nth partial sum s sub n of our series for f of 1 half is within 3 decimal places of f of 1 half. Remember that the absolute value of the difference between s sub n, the nth partial sum, and the sum of the series, which is f of 1 half in this case, is less than the n plus first positive term, c sub n plus 1. And in our case, c sub n plus 1 is 1 over 2 to the n plus 1 times 1 over n plus 1 squared plus 1, because remember we're using the series for f of 1 half. All we need to do now is find a value of n so that that c sub n plus 1 is less than 0.001. This we can do by trial and error, just substituting different values in for n until we find one that works. And we can see that by just trial and error, a value of n equal 5 makes c sub n plus 1 about 0.004 something, which is certainly less than 0.001. That means that the fifth partial sum of our series for f of 1 half approximates f of 1 half to 3 decimal places. And just using a little bit of technology, we can find the fifth partial sum of the series for f of 1 half. It turns out to be about 0.79. So f of 1 half is about 0.79 to 3 decimal places. To summarize, a power series is just a series of the form sum k goes from 0 to infinity, c sub k, x to the k, where c sub k, these are just real numbers. And a power series defines a function whose domain is the set of all the values of x for which the power series converges. We use power series then to define new functions. One of the problems with power series is that it's difficult, if not outright impossible, to find exact values for functions defined by power series at given inputs. But we can use tools like the alternating series estimation theorem to approximate values of power series at given inputs, assuming that the series that we get is an alternating series. That concludes our screencast on evaluating power series at points. We hope you'll come back again soon.


Swindon the Robbins in traditional all-red and Bradford in all-white, which makes identification very easy today This is the referee who is Andy Durso from Villa Ricky in Essex And it's up there and Mills swung the boots and connected with fresh air Turned back to Jacobs, wide is big Rick Feed Jacobs back in And a brisk enough start from Bradford, but now they will have to defend against the pace of the Enda Testing himself here against Moore. Enda recross, he comes on all for Swindon, even it's played Well, as Swindon fans are jubilant, the former Huddersfield striker on Yorah is jubilant We all leave people who aren't to the Bradford players and fans But it was a good break that with Enda showing his skill and his pace Holding off Darren Moore, and it was such a teasing crossing But if he on Yorah from well inside the six yard area Forced the ball through, I think it came off a defender too, but it's in the roof of the Bradford net and it's 1-0 Swindon Blake not the tallest man for Bradford, easily beaten there by Willis, but it's come into Bradford hands with Lawrence Eyes it through there for Blake and that was a good ball And once Blake has got his footing, he'll steer the ball back into the path of Begri here and Peter Begri First shot, a good one, second one from Gareth Wally, whizzes by the left hand upright And how close is the difference between success and failure? A matter of inches Counted to run through and Robinson feed it into the area, but it's just too far ahead of Scott Leach's run Wally was caught there by Leach and just for a moment it appeared that there was a threat to the Bradford go-through on Yorah But the referee came to Bradford's aid with the whistle Mills, good turn from a big man who now run at the Swindon defence tries to get back onto Blake's ball Blake still seeking to win it and he through goes Robbie Blake and Robin It's the sort of goal that's going to happen today in these conditions And it's out much there to Robbie Blake's tenacity After Lee Mills have caused one of two problems for the big Swindon defenders Blake just kept nibbling away and then he found himself into the clear and chipped it Delightfully into the welcoming net Well Robinson's going to be hemmed in here, Lee Mills stretching there I think the referee will say that he made the tackle from behind on Robinson and as a result of that Lee Mills is cautioned Begri runs enthusiastically after it And he's done well because Mills comes on to the end of the ball Oh, but again there's a vulnerability about Swindon there Robin it's left in the half and the very good half it's been to Lawrence able to nick it here to Lee Mills who goes for goal Talias spills it, Blake's in and was he taken down there? Bradford appear for a penalty and it's the turn of their fans to boo Blake felt he'd been tripped and I must admit my initial observation was that he had been Well it was beyond O'Brien, Walters nods on, Walters goes on and cuts it back in here He was for Scott Leach there It's so much to Mark Walters Walters getting into the clear, getting into the danger zone and Scott Leach looked as though he was going to have a clear shot on goal, he did it Paul sensibly rolls it into the bat, Steve Wright And here goes Robbie Blake now and Mills is in the middle It's a good looking cross, there's Mills beautifully created and delightfully executed and they applaud Bradford's leading scorer and a stylish goal McCall started that and a little sensible square pass Wright then drilled it down the line, Blake continued the chase and the cross was inch perfect for Bradford's top scorer and Lee Mills plunges his 12th of the campaign Well it was a classic counter attack and I've got plenty of appetite for the fight You can see that, but here goes Leach for Swindon Oh he's caught Mike Moore and Moore, a face of Darren Moore there He felt that Leach was trying to get him booked I'm pretty sure he is going to be, interesting scenario, this one Oh the referee interprets it He's already booked one player for diving and now he's booking Leach Scott Leach is shown a red card, he's on a controversial decision and in fact he's now continuing his argument by speaking to Begri, it takes the long and lonely wall, went to win it and the referee's opinion was that Leach made a meal of it and he has played the penalty with a red card happened to enter their lead with Begri and there are three up in white around the edge of the area one of them here is Blake, who will turn and tease and go for goal This is the friend Tally after event, Bradford going 3-1 up Well Robbie Blake is on fire at the moment he really is having the best spell of his Bradford career and it's a cracking shot that one and the mere fiddly touch of Tally at ease it out of the net which is finally played out to Lawrence who can attack and use his pace from here and gets a cross ball in, it's Blake and it's tucked out for the corner kick by Hall only to take it but in half a mound and disheveled at the back there they should surely have spotted the run of the big man and Wally's corner is met perfectly by Lee Mills dashing into the six yard box and a firm header collapsing wide of Dolby for Tally and Bradford have a two goal cushion it's a lovely ball he's played and a good turn there nearly got Jacobs in he does enough to get the ball back to Begri again he'll drive it long and Mills is given offside and the ball came over to him from Begri he breasted it down behind the defender the whistle had gone he continued to hit in a shot and that is seen as time wasting and so Lee Mills gets his second yellow card and subsequently a red one surprised that Paul Jule has not made a single substitution yet Begri's ball looks good all right he's good it's Blake and he's finished it now Tally it's set a match to for Robbie Blake to go with the two for Lee Mills and it's Bradford's most comprehensive away day of the season a wonderful ball played into him there though and Robbie Blake needed no further invitation than that and he slipped it between Tally's legs and there's a resounding link to this score line Swindon Town 1, Bradford City 4 just talking about Robbie Blake because the more I see him the better he seems to get he must not see him very often he's the right, he didn't have a bad game you know he did well yeah well I'm always on his back because I know how good he can be and we've been always pushing him all the time working on his fitness he's off-fitting now and he's got more strength so his ball we can play wide right wide left behind the front players and today I thought he was terrific I was pleased for him I was proud of the little thumbs I've got as a trike


The Sulphus just got done turning everything you believe and know into garbage. They took your beliefs and twisted them and turned them around and, you know, said, you know, the truth is basically what you make of it and, you know, you just might as well just use it to meet your own ends. You know, it might be a bit of an unfair characterization, Sulphus, but that's not far from what they're doing. And pretty much, you know, direct opposite reaction to the Sulphus is Socrates. Socrates comes in and tries to give at least something of an idea of truth. The Sulphus are reacting to all of the work of the priestocratics, noting that there's all this disagreement, so there must not be any truth. And Socrates is going to come in and try to fix the situations because, you know, not all hope is lost. There's something that we can salvage from all of this. And there's something we can salvage from it, such that we can live full and good lives. So one of the first things we're going to look at is why Socrates rejects the Sulphus just, you know, really kind of using their own reasons. And from that even, he's going to try to provide his account of truth. One of the first things that Socrates notes with the Sulphus argument is that their arguments rely upon definitions, meanings or essences, what it means to be that thing. So for instance, Protagos relies heavily upon the idea of perception, knowledge, perception and knowledge. Thersemicus relies upon definitions of culture and justice, power. Gorgias relies upon definition, lots of definitions, right? Existence, comprehensibility, communicability, symbols. He relies, they all rely upon these definitions or essences. So Socrates asks a question, or he could, you know, say Socrates asks a question this way. Do you mean the same thing every time you use that word, or do you mean something different? Well, if you mean something different, then the argument isn't going to follow through. It's called equivocating. It's using multiple definitions for one word. So if I say to make a mistake as human, and I say to be human means to be a warm blooded to be a mammal that's bipedal and uses reason, and I infer therefore to make a mistake is to be a bipedal man who uses reason. Well, no, that's kind of a silly conclusion because you're using human in two different ways. And the first way we mean something like, well, it's very natural for a human being to make a mistake. And the second way, we're trying to give a biological definition of human. So if they're using the words and the meanings in different ways, their argument isn't going to follow through. Well, so we go with the other option. We say that they are using meaning, are using the word in the same way that there's one definition for the word to talk about one concept. So if you're using an argument that uses a meaning in different ways, the argument is not going to work. So we go the other way. We try to say that the meanings are fixed, that the meanings of the terms don't depend upon really anything else. Well, then guess what? You're talking about something that's fixed. You're talking about something that's permanent. That's true. That's real. So if you're dealing with these definitions, in order to make, in order to claim that, you know, if you're trying to make protagonists claim that everyone is right and you're trying to make gorgeouses claim that everybody is wrong, you're trying to make the simicists claim that morality is immoral, right, that justice is immoral, and you rely upon these fixed meanings of terms, then you're not dealing with some, with any kind of relativity. You're dealing with something absolute, you're dealing with some absolute truth. So Socrates' point here is to say, look, Sophus, you want to say that the truth is such a relative. The truth is what you want to make it. But you have to assume that what's true is fixed in order to make that argument. You're contradicting yourself from the beginning. And that is not a successful argument. So Socrates made this argument against the Sophus. He's made this point that the Sophus have to rely on something fixed, something absolute, something that doesn't change, something that's not relative. And that's meaning or definition or essence. So this becomes a really big, important thing for him, trying to figure out what a definition or an essence is. He's trying to figure out what the thing is, what makes that thing, that thing. And he basically starts a love affair of definition in the West. So So what is Socrates doing here? He says, look, when I look out into the world, and this should sound a little familiar, when I look into out into the world, I notice that there's lots of things changing. There's lots of change. There's very little is permanent or stable. But at the same time, I still call these things, I still identify these things. You know, like into kinds or groups. So I'm currently leaning up against a tree. But there this tree wasn't always here. And sadly, there were come a plant in which this tree will cease to exist. But there's lots of other trees, you can see some of them in the background. There are trees all over the place, and none of them look like this one. Even the ones that are the same breed, right, I think this is some kind of oak. Oaks come in a wide variety of trees, you know.  Not the biggest expert, Botany. Now, when looking at an individual thing that's changing of this tree, this tree goes through changes. But what is it that remains the same such that it's the tree? What is it about this tree compared to the rest such that they're all trees? Another way of saying it, in the midst of all the changes, what is the essence? What is the meaning that remains behind and survives them? This tree will cease to exist, but the meaning, the essence, the universal of tree will continue to exist.  So this is what Socrates is getting at when he's talking about this definition, this essence. What is it about this thing and about the things behind it? About the other trees that you've seen, such that they're trees. When you start understanding what that is, then you know what the meaning of a tree is. It's fixed. Now Socrates isn't interested just in trees. He actually is interested in some really big, important things, goodness, beauty, truth. So the way to start investigating these things is to start looking at things that are good, things that are beautiful, things that are true. What do they have in common? What is it that makes them good things, beautiful things, true things, compared to things that are not good, not beautiful, not true? What's the difference? You have to start with the individual things in order to know the meaning, the essence, truth. Well, let's just say for giggles that right now I'm only interested in the meaning of tree, the definition of tree. How do we go about doing this? Well, Socrates has pointed the way that we have to understand the particular things, the individual things, in order to understand the definition. The meaning. So looking over at this fine tree over here, I start inspecting it. This is noting the particular thing, noting its properties, what it looks like, what it's made of. I see bark, it's rigid, prior to cut it open I'd see wood, maybe some rings. I'd see sap, you can't see it too well, but up there are needles for the tree. And I start kind of cataloging the details, the particulars of that tree. This is called inspection. Inspection is when you look at the particular things. Now returning to what Socrates had to say about definition, the definition is what all the trees have in common. That's called a universal, what they all have in common. The universal is the definition, the essence, the meaning, the abstract. But that right there, that's a particular tree. So the process I start with is inspecting that particular tree and I note what's particular to that. I even begin observing the tree at a young age and see how it changes. I wouldn't stop with just that tree, I would look at other trees. I'd look at the ones behind it, because, well, that one's a little bit different. There isn't an oak within sight now, but I would look at oak trees. I would start noting the similarities and the differences, still looking for what's common to all of them, what's universal to all of them. And finding that universal, that's interpretation. Through inspection, we find the facts, the particulars, the observations, the details. Through interpretation, we interpret the facts. We find what it means. We find what these facts mean, what the definition is that comes from them. There's two very different processes. Inspection happens here, with your senses. Looking at the tree, feeling the tree, that's inspection. Interpretation happens here. Well, we have a good and a bad new situation here with defining, with finding out these differences, these definitions, these meanings, these universals. The good news is you're not alone, because we're all involved in the same project. The bad news is you're not alone, and we don't always agree. So finding this definition, this meaning, is going to involve inspection and interpretation. But you're not alone in this endeavor.  And this starts a process that is called dialectic, it's kind of a back and forth. And the idea is that we're trying to, in a sense, test the definition versus the particular instances, versus the cases. So for instance, this begins kind of a back and forth discussion. And we might even characterize it as suggestion, objection, reply, rebuttal, rejoinder. So these are kind of fancy words for describing a dialectic going back and forth. Suggestion is the initial idea trying to provide the definition. The objection is showing where there's a problem. The reply either tries to reject the objection or tries to fix it, then there's rebuttal and then rejoinder. So it involves this back and forth. Now when we are comparing ideas of one another, we're engaging this dialectic, a lot of the times we're trying to compare definitions against cases. So for instance, I might say something like, well, all trees have leaves. That's what makes a tree a tree, is that it has leaves. Now the objection can work something like this, well, these things have leaves, but this is ivy, this isn't a tree. So I might try again, say, well trees are always upright and they have leaves. Well the objection, you know, the counter example, the problem there, I said, look, here's a tree. It's not upright. So dialectic begins this process of back and forth, comparing ideas, trying to test the ideas versus particular instances. Every so often, when you're engaging a dialectic, somebody or one of the objectors can show a contradiction, and a contradiction would be something like, you know, your definition says that, you know, suppose my definition of tree says that this is a tree and it isn't a tree. When you show a direct contradiction like this, well, when Socrates did this, this is called an elencus, an elencus, or an elencus, excuse me, and he engaged in this process quite a lot. The dialogues are full of examples of this, where he took somebody's initial definition for something and generated a contradiction. Now between inspection, interpretation, and then the dialectic, the idea is that we come to know what the definition of a thing is, because we continually refine our cases, and we come closer and closer, maybe arrive at the meaning of what this thing is. Well, you might start wondering at this point what the big deal is. I mean, after all, this is philosophy, not English. Why would philosophy be interested in definition? Why would Socrates be interested in definition? Okay, so maybe he finds this absolute truth, this, you know, fixed meaning of what things are, but how's that supposed to impact my life? Think about it a little bit. How do you care for a tree? You have to know what it is. You have to know what it is.  There is something of what it means to be that thing, to thrive as that thing.  You try to know real hard what it means to be a zebra in order to care for a zebra. Same thing is true with you. Socrates was really interested in the question of what it means to be human. If we know what it means to be human, if we understand what we are, then we know what it means to thrive, to be a human. And you already have some idea of this.  You're not thriving if you're miserable. You're not thriving if you're, you know, let's just start picking your favorites. You're not thriving if you're continually hungry all the time, right? You're never getting enough food. That's not thriving. Because part of what it means to be human is taking in nutrition. Not only, you know, energy, you know, food for energy, but food for building blocks of the body. You're not happy if you're not thriving as a human being if you're hopelessly addicted to heroin, right? It's not that people addicted to heroin are just bad people. They're miserable. So what Socrates is getting at here, with this idea of definition of how it's supposed to impact your life, is if you know what you are, you know how to thrive. You know how to be complete. You know how to be the best version of what you are. That's why it's important to know, you know, by the way, it's not enough just to know what you are. You have to thrive in the world. So you have to know at least something of what the world is in order to thrive. That requires a lot of knowledge. So this idea that there's something that means to be you, that means that there's something that means for you to thrive, is at the heart of Socrates' moral theory. His theory then about reality is teleological. The idea is that if there's something of what it means for you to thrive, then you have a purpose. Now, don't think of purpose as something that's kind of like added on to what you are. It's like, here, I'm going to tell you to do a particular job. That's not what he means by a purpose. That's not what he means by teleology. All he means is that, you know, it's hard to deny that people are better off thriving than not thriving, right? There's something of what it means to fulfill your being, to be complete. And the idea then is like your purpose is to complete your being, to be full, to be satisfied, to be happy. So Socrates has this idea of a purpose. And we know your purpose by knowing your meaning, by knowing what your definition is. So this leads to his ethical theory. And for Socrates, there is vice and there is virtue. Now we don't use these words very well in today's culture. The idea behind virtue is, you know, it's these things which help you complete your being, which help you thrive, to be what you're supposed to be. That's what a virtue is.  So, you know, under this picture, heroin use is a vice. Not because they're mean, cruel people who are morally less valuable and should be ignored. That's not what's going on with vice. Heroin is a vice because it hurts you. It prohibits you from being, from completion, it prohibits you from being what you should be. And there's lots of things that are vices. Now here's the interesting thing. So, Socrates thinks this is true. And we think this a lot of the times too, that nobody knowingly hurts themself. Nobody knowingly hurts themself. And in a sense, to use his language, everybody intends to follow virtue. And the reason is, is because virtue is what makes you better. Virtue is what makes you be complete, helps you thrive. So, but there are plenty of people out there who follow vices. I mentioned the unfortunate heroin addict. So what's going on there, Socrates, you know, so you might ask Socrates, what's going on there? Well, Socrates has something of a surprising conclusion. The heroin addict does not believe that the heroin is bad for the addict. So this follows from what he says. Nobody knowingly does what harms them. If they do something that harms them, it's because they have a false belief or they believe something else is going to help them or something like this. Nobody knowingly pursues vice. Nobody knowingly does what makes them miserable. It's a bit of a strong conclusion.  They just made a mistake and reason. So this is the idea behind Socrates' claim that knowledge is virtue. If you know the good, you're going to do the good. Knowledge is virtue. Nobody knowingly does what's wrong. Hard to accept, hard to reject.


The right triangle theorem claims a relationship between these sides and hypotenuse of a right triangle. It's usually called the Pythagorean theorem, but we should stop doing that because the actual Pythagorean theorem has nothing to do with triangles. The right triangle theorem first appeared in Mesopotamia, around 1800 BC, and it was explicitly stated by ancient Indian geometers by about 800 BC. There's a claim that ancient Egyptian rope stretchers form 3, 4, 5 right triangles. The evidence is based on the existence of ropes of length 3, plus 4, plus 5, 12. Since the only conceivable use of a marked rope is to form right triangles, and surveyors have no other method of forming right angles, and the ancient Egyptians actually cared about right angles, this must be true. Or it could be wild speculation based on equivocal evidence and dubious claims. There are over 100 different proofs of the right triangle theorem, the exact number depending on how you define different. The earliest, a proof of a special case, appeared in Plato's Meno. The general case and converse would be proven by Euclid in the last two propositions of Book I of the Elements. The proof in the Elements is believed to be original with Euclid, and Book I seems to be organized with the proof as a goal. The Euclidean proof is based on constructing squares, that's Book I, Proposition 46, what we now called side-angle-side congruence, Book I, Proposition 4, and the equality of parallelogramic regions, Book I, Proposition 41. The construction procedure as follows. Let A, B, C be a right triangle with our right angle at A, construct the squares on the sides A, B, A, C, B, C, join B, K, A, E, and then drop A, L perpendicular to B, C. Now, because a diagram is evocative of a windmill, Euclid's proof is sometimes known as the windmill proof, although Euclid himself wouldn't have used that term since windmills first appeared in the Islamic world a thousand years after Euclid wrote the Elements. So, let's consider the triangles B, C, K, and E, C, A. B, C is C, E since they're sides of the same square, A, C is C, K since they're sides of the same square, and angle E, C, A is a right angle plus angle A, C, B. B, C, K is a right angle plus angle A, C, B. So, angle E, C, A is equal to angle B, C, K, and so now we have two sides in the included angle of one triangle equal to the two sides and included angle of another triangle, so triangles B, C, K, and E, C, A are equal. Now, notice that triangle B, C, K is on base C, K with vertex on A, H parallel to C, K. So, it's going to be half of the square A, C, K, H. Likewise, triangle E, C, A is on base C, E with vertex on A, L parallel to C, E. So, it's half the rectangle C, E, L, M. So, the square A, C, K, H is equal to the rectangle C, E, L, M. By essentially the same argument, the square A, B, F, G is equal to the rectangle B, M, L, D. So, the squares on the sides A, B, A, C are together equal to the square of a hypotenuse, B, C. And that completes the proof. It's worth noting that in this form, we're talking about the literal squares on the sides of the hypotenuse of our triangle.


Howdy, my name is William Rumley, I'm the court director for the Fort Worth Municipal Court. Today we're going to be sending a few minutes to learn about the clerk of the court division of the Fort Worth Municipal Court. I have two of our outstanding managing team members here today to talk about municipal court and I'll let them introduce themselves. So Andrew if you'll go first. Hi I'm Andrea Crater and I've been with the city of Fort Worth since May of 2016 and I'm currently over the operations section of the clerk of court team. Antonio. Hello my name is Antonio Olivos, I've been with the court for 16 years, I'm over the services section of the municipal court. I started my career here at the court as a senior municipal court rep, cashier, then I promoted to supervisor and now I'm at my current position of a deputy court clerk. So just for the benefit of the audience, could each of you tell me a little bit about what is a deputy court clerk and specifically for you what are the duties you do as a deputy court clerk? As a deputy court clerk we actually manage our supervisors. We are the leaders over our supervisors who actually manage our frontline staff. Currently I have our warrants team, our arraignment team, we have our case management team which would consist of docket clerks and our jury section. I also have our phone team, our public information team and our records management clerks. So what does a warrant clerk do? What warrant clerks do, currently we have two shifts, warrant clerks confirm on our capious profile and our capious warrant with the court. So those are related to classy misdemeanors, fine only and just for the benefit of the audience. So while we only have fine only offenses, when you, when somebody fails to appear for court or they fail to comply with the judge's order, there can eventually be a warrant or several steps to get there. So you mentioned some other teams, so what does the records team do? Records team, they are actually the forefront runners of the court. So once a citation is assigned to a person, the records team actually inputs the information. So it's basically data and they are inputting information off of the citations and we also have electronic citations. So they ensure that those are put into our case management system correctly as well. Great. And so you mentioned the phones team and so just kind of quickly, what do they do? Phone team, they are one shift, they are eight to five currently and they handle all the incoming calls for the municipal court. They also handle our chat line as well. So doing with the chat line, especially during COVID times, the chat line was very, very sufficient. It helped out a lot of areas to where if those defendants or the community couldn't make it into court, they typically ask their questions via chat as well. And then the docket clerks support the judges in the courtroom? That is correct. We currently have five operational courts in person and we currently also have virtual courts as well. So we are doing in person and online. So with the docket clerks do, they do support judicial staff as you stated. They also provide our jury backup as well. So we actually start our jury on tomorrow, which is October the 19th. So you mentioned there's a 24-7 operation within the clerks division. I believe it's the arraignment court. So what do the clerks do there? With the clerks do in the arraignment team, there are three different shifts. They support our judicial staff along with our arraignment that happens off-site.  Well, thank you, Andrew, for letting us know a few minutes about yourself and your team. So Antonio, kind of what areas do you cover and what does your teams do? All right. So I'm over the services area of the municipal court. I'm over financial management, which consists of the mailroom, parking office and bonds. And I'm also over collections and enforcement. Great. So kind of financial management, really the cash area, if you will. So what do those staff members do on a daily basis? Financial management, we are the first line of service for anyone that comes into our building. We do offer customer service first, and we also offer information on people's options on what they can do with their tickets. This includes payment in fulls, defensive driving, information on deferred. We send people to the walk-in and help people process their not guilty options as well. So you mentioned bonds, I think. So what do you all do with the bonds? Yes, sir. So we do have a bonds window in the event. Anyone is incarcerated. This is for attorneys or bondsmen. They have a window to go to to submit bonds, which helps send a release for anyone that's incarcerated. And we can process their paperwork and send them a court day to appear. And then even if they're not incarcerated, but they have a warrant, can they still post a bond to keep from being arrested? Yes, sir, exactly. If they have an active warrant, then we can accept a bond, and that would clear the warrant for that time. So, Justin, if somebody was interested in becoming a clerk, I know there's a couple things. We're really trying to professionalize our clerk of the court division. We've really put in what's called an automatic reclass program. We're really lean on the state, Texas Municipal Court Education Center and certifications and really bringing our team up to that next level of service and professionalism. So let me just start with you, Andrea, for your service area. What kind of skills are you looking for for somebody who may be interested in becoming a clerk? So we're looking for customer-friendly team members, those who are very strong-minded, strong-willed, who get data entry skills. Those, for my team, the majority work with the judges, so good personal skills, personal relationship skills. We have different variations of customers, internal and external. A lot of my team members work with police. They work with the marshals. Every officer possible that you could think of. They also work with the attorneys and our city prosecutors as well. So those who are really good customer-oriented and who are willing to go over and beyond. I think what you emphasize there is that somebody can work independently and also, like I said, great customer service skill, community-minded, and can work with all levels of folks, whether it's an attorney or another clerk or a police officer just a myriad. So, Antonio, for your service area, what types of skills are you looking for? We're looking for people with experience in banking, preceding money, tenders and cash checks or credit cards. We have people who process mail, so you have to pay attention to detail who can multitask. But most importantly, we are the first contact in the court. So we are looking for people who can make a lasting first impression with all the citizens who come into our building. So definitely, you know, we talk often amongst ourselves. So municipal courts see more people than all the other courts combined. And sometimes this may be the only experience somebody has visiting Fort Worth. And so we want that to be a positive one, even though getting a ticket, nobody likes getting a ticket. So the clerks take a lot of that on on a daily basis, right? Y'all are, as you said, whether it's on the phone or in person, you are engaging folks. And while clerks don't give legal advice, they do give information to help folks to be able to determine how they may be able to resolve their cases. So with that being said, you know, thank you all for spending a few minutes with us today to talk about the clerk of the court division. Thank you all as we hopefully helped you to kind of understand what clerk the courts do, or the clerks do within the clerk court division in municipal court.


The US Empire will be defeated by the US Empire notes from the edge of the narrative matrix Empire managers Putin invaded Ukraine public. Oh, no. What should we do about it? Empire managers greatly increase military spending work to weaken Russia and censor dissenting opinions Public wait, aren't those things you've always wanted to do anyway Empire managers Russian propaganda poses a much smaller threat to the Western world than the various government agendas that are being rolled out under the justification of fighting Russian propaganda Fuel prices are soaring in part because of an economic war the US Empire willfully initiated in response to a proxy war the US Empire deliberately provoked and Westerners are being trained to look at their shrinking bank accounts and yell damn you Putin Only by massive amounts of propaganda would people consent to the unprecedented acts of economic warfare Which directly hurt them and benefit them in no way shape or form as the world slides closer to nuclear war It would be cool if Americans could take a break from a debate about gun laws that will with absolute certainty lead Nowhere and seriously discuss whether they want their government waging a rapidly escalating proxy war against Russia The spectrum of acceptable debate on US foreign policy ranges from a war hawks who insists the US has never done anything wrong To be progressives who say the US is basically a good-faith actor who just makes well-intentioned oopsie-poopsie mistakes But should still definitely keep arming Ukraine Position B is the furthest you're allowed to go away from the US never does anything wrong in mainstream discourse It includes Bernie Sanders is foreign policy advisor who smears and dismisses Leftists who say the US is acting in a malignant way in Ukraine No voice at all is ever given to the in my opinion correct position that the US is a tyrannical regime whose immense body count is Explained not by accidents, but by the desire to dominate the world at any cost The elimination of this position from the debate is by design Sure, noble wars can be fought in theory and have been fought in practice It's just that you've got swamp water for brains if you believe that's what the US is doing Never attribute to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by the inevitable corruption and tyranny of status quo capitalism Whatever ends up collapsing the US Empire is far less likely to come from Russia or China than from the US Empire itself a Big part of the Western nervousness about China revolves around the fact that we're about to be surpassed by an ancient civilization of non White people who are indigenous to their land and have never truly been conquered and colonized by Europeans If you don't respect the way China has been able to pull so many of its people out of extreme poverty And don't get why such actions would cause such unified support for their government It's simply because you lack an adequate understanding of the anguish of extreme poverty I've met some cute kids in my time, but nobody's as adorable as Westerners who talk about Chinese people being propagandized The Chinese government exerts a lot of power over its population, but it also takes responsibility for the way it uses that power The USA's rulers exert a comparable amount of power over its population But they never take any responsibility for what they do with it Can't believe Muhammad bin Salman is sullying Saudi Arabia's name by meeting with the president of the United States Putin should try staging a few mass beheadings and dismembering a Washington Post reporter with a bone saw to get on America's good side Many Empire apologists aren't actually defending the Empire They're just defending against the suggestion that everything they believe about their nation their media their government and their world is a lie The most impressive feat of engineering this century has been of the social variety Funneling mainstream political attention into agendas which don't inconvenience the powerful in the information age Where the ravages of capitalism and imperialism are right there to be seen in plain sight the social engineering Necessary to keep politically inclined people fixated on agendas that either won't lead anywhere or which trouble the powerful in no Way even as we entered an unprecedented age of information access is one of the most awe-inspiring human achievements in history