There it is. Oh, wow. Okay. I have any zoomed in all the way on it There you are. Oh, wow, look at it. Come here. See it. Yeah, you guys want to see this? Hurry up because it's gonna be it's gonna kind of setting right now But there it is Look at all the colors Wow And it's just amazing isn't it? Planets don't do that. No, no, and there's nothing really really wild in it. Yeah, and there's nothing there. I'm not gonna adjust it So hopefully I don't lose it another app sky That's what I have okay, and it's not there Yeah, the colors Zoom in all the way there we go.  I don't know. It's just yeah, I Love it. It's cool. Definitely you guys take care now Look how huge it got. Oh my god.  Oh really and it's there's nothing on my cell phone Yeah How big it's getting as we're talking yeah You're seeing that through your Yeah, it's zoomed in a hundred and forty times right now And that's a star and it and when you zoom in on it yeah, I can't be a star It's not a star or a planet when you zoom in on it. Oops. No, nope. It's there every night Every night every night coming in at the same angle Yeah, yes that one that's kind of twinkling straight ahead that's twinkling red Oh There's nothing there's nothing on solarium No Yeah, I have that I have the I have sky I think it's UFO Yeah, it's been doing that it got really huge on us not too long ago Yeah You got to be kidding no We're not absolutely not when you go on to sky you'll see Arcturus to the right Right there, but that's over there And then of course, that's that's Venus over there But this is straight ahead nothing absolutely nothing I believe it was no one else How can you deny that I try to I've been on Arcturus is off to the right No, it's not a star it's not a planet it's not a comet it's not a satellite What is it? It's has you lose look how big a gap right there. You got a lot bigger. Yeah. Yeah I think it likes the interaction, but I'm it's gonna adjust it a little Yes, yeah, I think I got it could be light years away Yeah, we have quite a few people looking and following right now I I Try to I've been documenting I have a website where I've been documenting this. Yeah WW what it's called in 5d. I am the number five I am like in 5d 5d yep.com.com. Yeah Well, you know a lot of us have been noticing this and I've been getting responses from all around the world from Japan, Australia New Zealand Ecuador people are following this now. Yeah, and where is October? It's off. It's to the right almost like one o'clock ish to the right of it. I Can show you? Yeah Yeah, so our tourists is over there Actually, it's apparently it's about four o'clock Yeah, yeah, so we're looking Right, right, and what we're looking at is straight ahead over here, which there's nothing absolutely nothing there, so It's a good point All right today is October 26th. It's 744 p.m. And this video is being taken on Turtle Beach on Ciesta Key in Sarasota, Florida off the Gulf of Mexico and If you want more information about this, there's tons of video on in 5d.com I suggest you check it out there. I've been documenting this for past week and I've got a lot of video footage of it on there Using a Canon power shot camera and it's zoomed in to a hundred and forty times As I've mentioned before on other videos I've already ruled out that it's not our tourists, which is right now Approximately in the five o'clock position From what we're seeing right now and off to our left. You'll see Venus shining brightly in all of her glory With our tear or anteris off to about the five o'clock position as well from Venus Oh look how big it's getting Now once again, you'll have the illusion of this Object this UFO Setting and as you'll see it on the camera screen. It's going Down, but that's only because our planet is spinning on an axis and as we spin around Increase the illusion of the stars setting and you'll see that with Venus and most of the other stars at night except for like the North Star So I have to adjust the camera when it gets low like this And hopefully we can keep it on the screen


One last Summer Manga Hall, folks. August 2023. Let's do it. Hey everybody, welcome back to the Manga Geekdom. Today we're going to go over all the cool stuff I got in the month of August. I'm sorry that this video came out so late, but I wanted to wait for all the August releases to get here. We're going to start it off here with Pokemon Adventures, Black 2 and White 2, all four volumes. Like I mentioned before, I haven't read all of the Pokemon Adventures series, just the first couple of generations. Gen 5 here, never read it, so I'm excited to relive my memories of the video games in Manga format. I love the art and I love the spine designs for these books. I do have very fond memories of the original Black and White game, but I never played Black or White Version 2. And nowadays it's super expensive, so if you guys know where I can find a cheap copy or something not so expensive, let me know because I would really like to own version 2. Speaking of Pokemon, I'm collecting a lot of Pokemon stuff, video games, merch, figures, stuff like that. I decided to create a little cube area in one of my displays strictly for Pokemon. And I was looking at it the other day, actually a couple weeks ago, but for the purposes of this video a couple days ago, I was looking at it and thought, huh, aside from adventures, I should probably get other spin-off material when it comes to the manga side of things. Now I'm not really interested in getting the Ash Ketchum stuff that adapts the movies and all that, but there are a couple things out there that I do want to get and one is this very book right here, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Genji's Rescue Team. This is a one and done book based on the Mystery Dungeon series, I believe the first set of games, and it follows our main character here as he finds out one day that when he wakes up he is now in the body of a torchik. So we follow his adventures communicating with the other Pokemon. I love the Mystery Dungeon games. I really do enjoy the art here by Makoto Misubuchi, and yeah, happy to add this to my Pokemon shelf. But we're not done, let's switch on over to Gen 6. Here we have Pokemon X and Y. I got the first three volumes. I found an eBay seller practically giving these away for, I believe it was $10 for the first three plus shipping. The grand total was 14 something, and that is just a steal. After I got that I decided, okay, I might as well add four, five and six to my upcoming September orders. So technically you're not seeing it here, but spoilers, behind the scenes I do have them already. So I do have all of X and Y with me, and that is super awesome. Black and white too, Mystery Dungeon, and of course, X and Y. Let's continue, since we're doing Vizbooks, right? Let's talk about Cat-Eyed Boy from Kazuo Umez Volume 1. Cat-Eyed Boy, nobody likes him, nobody wants him. The demons don't want him and the humans neither.  Kazuo Umez, I like some of his stuff, I gotta be honest, not everything, but I really do enjoy Cat-Eyed Boy. I love his take on the supernatural and Yokai lore and all that stuff. So I was super excited when Viz announced that they were bringing back this series in Deluxe Hardcover. Large trim size, yes please. So it'll be collected in two hard covers. Love the art on this book, fantastic build and just amazing panels and just the drawings here from Umez are really nice to look at. Sometimes grotesque but beautiful in a twisted way. If you're into this sort of thing, I highly recommend you add Cat-Eyed Boy to your collection. Finishing off another series, even though I don't get Shonen Jump books for my collection, simply because most of them are long running series and I don't have room for them. I did pick up Ayashimon Volume 3, the final one. It's a shame that this series got cancelled, I think it had potential to keep going, but I'm happy to have a complete series on the shelf regardless.  It knows what it's doing, it's a parody of action manga with Kaiju and Tokusatsu stuff. It backs up its ridiculousness with the amazing artwork. I highly recommend it. If you guys have not checked out Rooster Fighter, what are you waiting for? It's literally a rooster fighting against giant monsters invading Japan. How can you not want to pick that up? You'll love it. This is another manga that I totally forgot to own for so many years, and it's been out of stock pretty much everywhere. Of course, I'm talking here about Sandland from Akira Toriyama, one of my favorite non-Dragon Ball material that he did, and this one-off book is picking up Steam in popularity because it's getting an anime movie adaptation and a video game adaptation as well. And if that's not enough, Japan's also releasing this book in a deluxe edition. Yes, I had to get it, and I looked everywhere and I couldn't find it. So I ended up grabbing it from, I believe it was a half-price books online, and I was scared because it's an old book and I got it for like five bucks, and I said, this is gonna be beat the hell when I get it. But I'm ready for it because, again, five bucks, I got nothing to lose. And to my surprise, as you're looking at it here, it looks great. This is practically brand new, and I am so happy to have this on my shelf. Now, this next one I debated if I really wanted to grab it, and it is, of course, Natsume's Book of Friends. Here we have volumes one and two, which were reprinted recently, and they've been in stock for a bit. And the reason I didn't jump on it is that the rest of the series is really hard to get. Some volumes are still available, but for the majority of it, you're gonna have a tough time, and I don't have stores where I can just go in and find, hey, a random volume of Natsume's Book of Friends. I love this series, I watched the anime adaptation of it, really enjoy it, and I wanted to own it because, you know, I'm that guy, that manga guy, that loves Japanese folklore and yokai, and this, I think, is one of those essentials to own on your shelf.  So I guess I'm putting this out there. If you're watching this video, let Viz know that we need reprints of these books quicker. I did get one art book, and that is JoJo's 6251. I don't know if that's the proper way to call it, but that's what I'm naming it, so there you go, from Hirohiko Araki's World. This is an art book from, I believe, only the first four parts of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and I really wanted this. When it got solicited, I was really happy when it came out. I totally forgot to grab it because I'm not huge on art books, simply because I think I'm not gonna go back and revisit them as often as I would like, compared to a regular manga volume where I can go back and reread it, and enjoy the experience, blah, blah, blah. But with this, it's a little bit different. The art is so good. I love Araki's artwork, even though I don't collect JoJo's Bizarre Adventure simply because I don't have room to grab such a long-running series. I did want to grab this. I'm a fan of the manga. I'm a fan of the anime. I do have the anime on Blu-ray, and I just love that world. So I think this is a happy medium for somebody that can't grab the original source material. At least I can get this. Also, I did not know that this came with posters, and I'm so happy about that. I don't know if I'm gonna take them out, honestly, but I don't see myself displaying them, but you never know. Still, really cool to have them. And I love just the art here on display from his earlier works and to see the progression of this wonderful artist, and of course to read on the inspiration for characters and the standabilities and all that stuff. So yeah, I love that it's not just about the art, but it's about that world and the information in it, and I think it makes it more valuable to keep in my collection. Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko Deluxe Edition Volume 3 Let's Go! We got two more to go, if I remember correctly. And yeah, I also made a video on this on one of my reading vlogs. If you wanna check it out, I love this series. I love the idea of it combining futuristic themes and tropes and characters like an android, but scaling it back and giving us a very human story through the eyes of a non-human and her experiences with a world that is drastically different than ours. So yeah, lovely art too. I cannot recommend Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko enough. Go pick it up if you can. Next up we got Level 1 Demon Lord and 1 Room Hero Volume 5. I'm officially up to date. I could have gotten this many months ago, but since we only have five volumes and number six I believe comes out next year, I took my time with it and occasionally just added one of the volumes to an order. The Night Blooms Behind Castle Walls Volume 3 The final volume. It's only a three volume set, really fun, really detailed, lovely artwork, and her story is gonna be hard because she can't just become a knight. She has to start from the bottom as a squire and all the trials and tribulations that accompany that. So I do recommend it if you want sort of an action historical fiction with a little bit of slice of life element to it. Don't call it mystery volume two. This has volumes three and four in it. Of course it's a two in one. I made a video on volume one if you want to check it out. I was really proud of that one. I know it's not your typical manga geekdom video, but I really enjoyed making it. It's a short but sweet one if you want to check it out. I put a lot of passion into it. And if you guys are interested and you want me to cover this, I can sort of make it a series of like, talking about don't call it mystery. Obviously if I were to do a second video, it would be much more spoiler heavy and going into detail with the story and of course what happens here with the second volume or I should say volumes three and four which are collected in this omnibus edition. Really nice build. I love this series so much. I love Totono and his inquisitive nature and the quirky situations and cases that he gets involved with. The valiant must fall volume two. Wow, volume one came out, I believe at the start of the year. I really enjoyed it. I thought it was a nice way to make a samurai story feel refreshed, adding some new elements to it. The fact that the girl here is an immortal and the main character is kind of seeking a way to die until the two meet and that changes and they're on this quest that I won't necessarily spoil here but it reminded me a little bit of Blade of the Immortal obviously not as grandiose but there are some themes out there that are pretty similar. If you're looking for a different sort of samurai epic I would recommend the valiant must fall. I do have a video for it on the channel if you're interested. From Yenpress, we got interspecies reviewers volume eight. I'm not ashamed of it. I thought the anime was hilarious. I really enjoyed it and it made me want to pick up the manga. To my surprise, the anime is much more risque than the original source material here but I do like it.  I think if I were to look at my whole entire manga collection this would be the only Nazi for work thing I own and it's not even that offensive.  That's it. Or naked creature people. I don't know what to say. It's interspecies reviewers. I can't even show you the entirety of the book.  I think it's a pretty unique twist. Obviously, it's for degenerates but what are you gonna do, you know? Toge Oni is the next one here. I really enjoy the premise for this. I haven't read it yet but I am going to make an upcoming reading blog including a bunch of these books that I'm mentioning here and some others that I've missed. So look forward to that. I love the art on this and I like the fact that it's very primeval. It's set like what, hundreds and thousands of years in the past with like the first civilizations. There are giant creatures and monsters and sacrifices. This is on my alley. I do recommend it and the art on this is just exquisitely done, in my opinion. Here we have the second hardcover for Old Boy. This is published by Distrito Manga. This is a Spanish edition. Larger trim size, hardback edition. Super cool hardcover to get. Unfortunately, not a lot of people are excited because it's in another language. If it were in English, everybody would be going crazy about this. I love the art on this. The larger trim size does wonders to this story. Really great build and the first hardcover I found at Walmart of all places but the second one was available at Amazon for pre-order so I jumped on it. The third one comes out December 2023. Of course, if you have this in, I assume, Latin America and Spain it already came out. But yeah, if you speak Spanish this is a great addition to own. We got some codoncha books. Here we have Battle Angel Alita last order volume 16. I finally made it to the single releases. I previously got the omnibus edition, the first five and to my surprise, volume 17 is really hard to find. So I'm really bummed out about that. People have asked me in my Alita video that I did last year. Like, hey, are you going to cover last order? I'm like, yes, I'm just waiting to get all of it. But yeah, I did start reading it and look forward to my thoughts on it on a separate video. But yeah, last order volume 16 looking really wild here. Inspector volume 14. Now, Inspector is pretty weird and I don't have the full series. I started collecting the manga after what was the first season of the anime. So I have from 7 to 14 now and I need 15 through 18 to be caught up with the Japanese releases. I don't know when I'm going to get the first six volumes because even though I love the show I do think that is the weakest part of this franchise. And there's also the fact that two of the volumes I think it's four and five are horribly out of print. For a while, they haven't come back. So I don't know when that's going to happen. But I got volume 14, so that's awesome. Next up is Rent-A-Girlfriend volume 20. Now, I did like Rent-A-Girlfriend when it first started. I do recognize that it's it's kind of a trashy series, honestly. Not the most beloved main character. But honestly, it's sort of a guilty pleasure at this point. And here we are with volume 20. I think this series should end. I think it's still being published. Just call it, my dude. Seriously. Sugumi Project volume two, continuing that series. We recently learned that it is ending in Japan. So I think it'll be around six volumes total or maybe seven. I'm not too sure. And I'm sad, but I'm happy because I don't have to worry about space. I can manage a six volume series. So yeah, Sugumi Project really cool. If you like Hell's Paradise, it's like that. But in a modern, futuristic setting, a lot more grimmer with like, Kimura Beast and the main human characters have modern weapons and all that stuff. So yeah, if you like post-apocalyptic stories, this will be right up your alley. Go check it out, Sugumi Project. Finally, Paradise Kids, the 20th anniversary edition. This is a manga that I've been wanting to get for at least 20 years now. I remember when the anime of it came out and I really liked it. I thought it was cool. I like that at the time when I was reading and watching stuff, it was so different. Talking about fashion and romance and drama and all that stuff. As a kid, I'm like, whoa, anime can do that. That's so cool. It can go that realm. So yeah, it always stuck in my head that I wanted to read it or watch the anime and 20 years passed and nothing. So recently, I was looking through some eBay sellers, looking for old manga, and I found this seller. I can't remember the name right now, but they had a bunch of books in great condition. I think maybe it's like, overstocked from a store and they were just selling it through eBay. But I found this omnibus edition for Paradise Kids for $16. I don't remember what the shipping was, but yeah, this is a steal. I love the art on this and I love the story here. So yeah, I don't know if this is something that you guys want me to cover, but I'd be down to do like a retrospective take on a series like Paradise Kids. I don't know. Let me know in the comment section. I'd be interested to find out. So that's the manga haul for August and for the past two months, I have not done the anime portion because I was waiting to group everything together and to my surprise, it's still, I'm still missing some stuff and I couldn't show everything, but it's pretty big enough that I can show you this. You're looking at it right now, right? Edea Zerum, the animation. This is set between the two movies and it's an OVA of six episodes, I think, and much beloved by everybody. I haven't seen it. I own the movies, those are great, but I've never seen the, this anime version, so I'm really excited to check it out. Urusei Yatsura, here is the first collection and the second collection. I got the first two. Super happy about that. Disco Tech did a wonderful release here and I'm excited to own the Urusei Yatsura series. After that, I guess I'll have to collect the movies. I'm in no rush, however, and this is a series that I love. Lum is one of my favorite anime girls of all time and unfortunately I don't have the manga simply because it's made for so many volumes. So this is a nice compromise where I can just safely store this with the rest of the anime and have a part of Urusei Yatsura in my collection. So yeah, really happy about that. I'm excited for volume three which comes out soon by Halloween, I think, and I think it'll be one other volume and we'll have the entirety of the anime and then, like I said, I would have to start collecting Pokemon Indigo League, the champion's edition on Blu-ray for the first time, I should say. I really wanted to own this and I found a seller on eBay that was practically giving this away for, I think it was 50% off and I jumped on it real quick. I really wanted to own this. I don't think I'm going to grab any more for Pokemon and this is going to sound weird but I dislike the fact that yes, we have the series that's great, everything's collected but I don't like that it's just the dub release and yeah, I grew up watching the dub but I really enjoy watching Pokemon in Japanese as well and I don't think we're ever going to get that anytime soon but with season one, it's so emblematic and it's what made me an anime fan because I was there for the big, the real big three which were Dragon Ball Z Sailor Moon and Pokemon I watched all three back in the day when they first started on US Airwaves and yeah, the rest is history here I am doing a YouTube thing talking about anime and manga so I at least wanted to own that first season. I do maybe I'll get the movies some of the movies just for fun but I don't plan on collecting any more than this who knows, I don't know maybe if I find them for dirt cheap but enough I'm foamoying myself into getting stuff that I don't need right now. Let's move on Pokemon wonderful spectacular anime and here we have for the first time the first season remastered on high definition reQtieHoney Complete Collection, this is the OVA series from Gainax and HideakiAno so yeah, I'm not huge into QtieHoney honestly but the creative team sold me on this and I hadn't watched this before so I knew I had to pick it up as a HideakiAno fan I wanted to have this on the shelf it's a little not safe for workish with the ecchi fan but it's alright it's no interspecies reviewer so I'll tell you that much Project Echo 4 the final OVA movie beautifully remastered here by the folks at Disco Tech, really awesome to have this and now that I have this of course they're gonna announce Project Echo Ultimate Collection all four on one box set or something cause that's how things roll, right? Gunbusters, the Complete OVA series that's another classic that I really wanted to own finally have it so cool of Disco Tech to get this licensed and remastered on Blu-ray looks fantastic, I think everybody should pick it up now for some retro stuff if you're looking at it here the Tenchi Muyo here we are, 2023 and I'm collecting DVDs this is the original OVA series followed by Ryooki which is the sequel OVA series we have the Viridian Collection for that from Funimation the original I have here is the Ultimate Edition that was put out by Pioneer now the reason I grab this instead of the Blu-ray is that the Blu-ray is a grail at this point it's really expensive and out of print from Funimation I was shocked by that and from what I've looked online there's not a demand to put this out on Blu-ray unfortunately or reprint it I should say so I don't think we're going to get that anytime soon I was confident in my decision that I wanted to grab the DVDs and you're probably wondering why Tenchi well, I looked at my anime shelf and I realized that my goal with it was to have everything like the essentials but also the stuff that I really love and that are near and dear to me like I mentioned with the Big 3 I have some of Dragon Ball Z on DVD I have Sailor Moon, now I have Pokemon on Blu-ray so I wanted to add more classic stuff from the 90s which is when I jumped in watching anime and Tenchi Muiyo was a huge part of that so my goal is to collect all of Tenchi Muiyo that is available on DVD and Blu-ray so you're looking at the two OVA series here followed by Tenchi in Tokyo and Tenchi Universe these are Genon releases, Complete Collections everything in one bundle there were other, I think Funimation did DVD collections of these but I got these for cheap and I'm talking like less than 15 bucks compared to the Funimation stuff which is still fetching the $30 $40 range I didn't feel like spending that much on DVDs this year but yeah, Tenchi in Tokyo, Tenchi Universe spin-offs, alternate universes of the original Tenchi Muiyo followed by the Tenchi Muiyo Movie Collection now Funimation did put that out on Blu-ray but again it's sold out, it's out of print really expensive but I grabbed the Genon DVD versions now what's cool about that is that you can get the three movies for real cheap I'm talking like less than 10 bucks each but they released this all in one or three in one set and it was a little bit pricier than that, I think it was like regular retail price of like 20 something bucks but I thought it was worth it to grab all three in one go so yeah, happy about that and moving on to the final piece here for this haul video to close it out we got the second volume of The Magical Project this is one of those alternate realities spin-offs with Sasami as a magical girl now I could only get volume two because volume one is pricier and I'm still on the hunt for that but I grabbed this for I think it was $13 on a bid I haven't bid on anything in ages so I gave it a shot and won it so yeah you can see here comes with some nice artwork, two discs lovely so there you go, that was a long ass haul I do apologize, I didn't think we were going to go on for so long but a lot of interesting things that I'm a fan of and I cannot wait to talk about on the channel and some things that I am super happy to add to the collection so yeah, we're done thank you everybody for tuning in God bless, stay safe out there I truly do appreciate you liking subscribing and being awesome I cannot even begin to tell you how happy that makes me and before I close out the video here because I'm just rambling at this point I do want to make a quick announcement because I haven't done my monthly Q&A videos live streams I do want to make an announcement and it is that I made a discord server of my own so if you want to hang out with a wholesome crowd laid back fun individuals anime, movies, tv all that nonsense promoting other small content creators and all that join my discord server the link is in the description I will also add it to the comment section if you guys want to join I would appreciate it pretty nice little wholesome community so super happy about that the manga geekdom discord server I didn't think we were going to make that happen but I did for real now, thank you everybody stay safe out there, I will catch all of you on our next video


The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obie, has condemned the Sunday attack on the senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Senator Ifai Ngubah, in a tweet on Monday, Obie said the attack is condemnable and unacceptable. The former Nambra state governor also re-emphasized the urgent need for enhanced security of lives and property in the society. He demanded the use of all machinery available to the government to promptly punish those who engage in these dastardly acts in accordance with the laws.


On our first day at Ellington Airfield, we participated in an orientation describing how the program would proceed and were briefed on important safety information as we would be working in a busy hangar around NASA's reduced gravity planes and ground crew. We'll welcome my name is Doug O'Bourg, I'm the co-director of NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Superflight, our educational flight program. What I really need to pay attention to are anything safety related. The first order of business after orientation was to unpack the supplies we had shipped from North Carolina and begin the assembly of our experiments. During a break, we examined the plane we would be using, a modified McDonnell Douglas DC-9. It flies a series of parabolas over the Gulf of Mexico during which time varying degrees of weightlessness are achieved. In the next phase, we constructed the box that was to house our experiments. Then we mounted the three experiments and conducted ground tests. One afternoon, we left Ellington and drove to the Sunny Carter training facility operated by NASA. This building houses the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, one of the largest indoor pools in the world. Inside the pool are mock-ups of key parts of the space shuttle and the International Space Station. The Neutral Buoyancy Lab is used to train astronauts in preparation for spacewalks and working in microgravity. The Sunny Carter facility also contains a hypobaric chamber which was used to test our flight readiness. Within the chamber, our behaviors were observed as pressure was reduced to that of an altitude of 25,000 feet. Finally, the experiments were loaded and ready. The plane was on the tarmac and we were lined up ready to board. Jelf Milbourne and I flew the first mission. After some tweaking, the experiments were flown again by Bob Gottwals and Rachel Brady, our NASA mentor. On each flight, the first two parabolas simulated Mars gravity, the next two parabolas that of the moon. And during the final 26, we experienced microgravity. While we tended our primary experiments for the first 30 parabolas, during the last two, we were encouraged to conduct secondary experiments.


Hello, so just started the recording here. Good afternoon, evening, morning, for whoever would join the call later. Welcome to this June 16 GSOC office hour. Thank you for joining for some people. It's already late. So besides the heat, which is a subject here in Europe, but I think that in India, you're playing in a different league where you use too much higher temperatures than what we complain here in Northern Europe. So I just would like to go round as we go usually. So we have several people. I wait a couple of seconds. So we have three projects, four projects being represented here. So let's go round, round, stand up style and see what has been achieved done during this last week. And are there any impediments preventing to move forward? So let's start with Roushikash. I hope that was nearly good. Roushikash, go ahead. Yeah. So last week, I worked on building the UI where administrators can take throne syntaxes as input provided as input to schedule the maintenance task. This week, I worked on adding form validation and which throws errors on the UI if an invalid throne syntax has been entered. Then there's a save button on the UI. Once the administrator clicks on the save button, the data is saved internally in an XML file. So that whenever Jenkins is restarted, the data can be retrieved from this file. So that's what I have done this one week. So the next week's agenda is to schedule maintenance tasks by adding it into a queue for Git version greater than 2.30. Okay, very good. Is everything running as you expect? Running into troubles? No, no. Okay, big question. Having fun? Yeah, yeah, full fact. It's always important. Okay, nice to hear you. To hear that, thank you for the update there following the order of... I can't watch the chat together. So if there is something I should know, say it's nothing. I'll call it out. No worries. Okay, thank you. So let's go, let's listen to what Diraj has been up to. What happened last week or this week? Yes, thanks a lot. So in last week, I published... I pushed my first PR to the project repository. And I got to know that it was a rather long PR. I realized it later. So I feel bad for the reviewers. It's like, very long. So Adrian, they made some comments and I'm working on them. And they were very, very useful review comments. And so it might take some time. And after that, Adrian has also created another task for me and added it to the milestone one under the GitHub projects section that is there for planning. So another task awaits me when this one gets completed. So going good. Great. So there is always a question I asked, do you have any impediments or things that are preventing you to move forward? Currently, I don't think so. Not really, because all my questions are answered by Aditya and Adrian and Jake, my mentors. Okay, great. I'd like to pick one of the points that might be of interest to the others. So you realized that your first PR was quite long. Yes. And it was not easy to review. Can you give us a few details there? And maybe this could be interesting for the others? Sure. How long was your PR? It's 985 lines of code. 925, to be exact. I can give you the link as well. And so it actually sets up the project, then fetches the data and populates it into the database. So this can be divided into three parts. First, setting of the project, PR for that. Another one, fetching the data from somewhere from an online service. That can be PR2. PR3 can be populating that data into the database. So that's how it should have been. So it would have been easier to review.  Exactly. I still do the mistake myself. And this may be something interesting to do or to know is it's like when people are eating, you don't load your plate too much. So it must be in eatable chunks. Otherwise, you end up with a pile of things and the people that are going to review would like to help you on that are going to say, okay, I'll never go through all that. So it's sometimes interesting to discuss with the reviewers, your mentors to know what is an adequate size. And the other hints I can give there, but discuss that with your mentors is you can create several PRs one after the other because each item, you can do as many PRs as we don't pay for PR. And I like the comments that you made. You felt sorry for the reviewers. And this is a very, very valid point and very good point. Thank you, Doras. Thank you for sharing also your experience on that. That was good. Thank you so much. Okay. The next one in the list, Vihane. Hello, everyone. Hello. You know the questions that are going to ask you. So just a reminder. What happened last week? What do you plan to do? And do you have any impediments or difficulties or worries? Yes. So I started working on the task one, which was to create a sidebar, a separate sidebar for the documentation. And that has been going quite well. So I have put up the first pull request of the project. And there have already been a lot of comments about it. And I have also pushed another commit to address those. So yeah, I got some help from Tim as well with regards to what can be the possible ways to do it. And today I think I was able to get a more finished version done and pushed. So I think in this week, we can, if the reviewers agree, we can close the pull request and I can move on to the second task next week. Okay. So I see that you're progressing. That's good. Any worries or difficulties that we should know about? Not really. So any things, any worries, issues I've already asked on the GitHub or GitHub. So I think everything is going smoothly. Good. Okay. Nice to hear that. So good progress there. Yiming, so you know the ritual, stand up ritual. So nice to have you on boards on this call. So what happened last week? Oh, okay. Thanks for asking. I finished designing the function structure last week. But it seems that I need to redesign the feature now because I didn't meet the need of the project maintainer. Our expectations are pretty different. So but now we just came into agreement at the channel discussion about what the feature needs to be. You can see it in the, in our channel. And I'm coding on based on the expectation. So I will start a proof of concept project firstly to show that I understand the concept completely. Okay. Thank you, Yiming, for sharing that. I've been involved in that discussion. So and we'll have a discussion tomorrow there to make that progress. There are a few lessons that I'd like to share about that and things to know. The first one, there's no wrong answer. So we're working together and what is very important is that you share what your intention is, what you want to do and people can react to it. It can be discussed and negotiated. And see, I see it more like this. I see it more like that. Need to think now. What I'm cautious is and what I react to in the way you explain it is I did not meet the expectations or the requirement from I'd like to put some, some, some a grain of salt there and say, don't, don't stop to that. It's important that we listen to each other and that we correctly understand the various arguments. Do you understand my point, Yiming? Yeah, yeah, I understand. The reason why I say like that is that our expectation is on totally different directions. So that's all I want to say. Okay. And this is perfectly okay. It's not because somebody else has another opinion and view that your view is wrong. It's only let's discuss it together. And in Chris, your one of your mentors is also there. I can join into the discussion. Let's put our heads together. And what my goal is, and I shared that also on some channels there, my goal is that you learn how it works, what is the process of thinking together. Working on open source is not as when you work in a company or in a paying company. It's a different process. And this is what I want. I know who am I, but that we want that you experiment learn there. So do you understand that point? Yeah, you're right. The processing in the company is different. So most of the design works can be done by the product manager. So in the open source program, it seems that the contributors need to take care of it. And we're going to see I will discuss with Chris and the rest of the team. I will also discuss with Oleg. I'd like to have a compromise there and that everybody agrees on what to do, the objectives. And don't forget it's your project. It's with your mentors. Okay, let's see in practice how it is, how it goes. In the case of Oleg, Oleg has some very strong opinions because Oleg is joining right now here. So hello, Oleg. You can listen to the recording afterwards so that you know what the point is. So in a summary, what I said is that it's important that the opinions are shared openly and that you find an agreement together. And I was just going to add that for you, Oleg, this project is very important for two reasons. First, because Oleg put an immense amount of energy to make that project achieve that result. And the other thing, Oleg has very high standards in quality. Now, as I said before, this is your project. And there may be differences and let's discuss them together. And tomorrow we'll have a meeting where we'll find. So what is very important, and this I agree with Oleg is, the idea is what you intend to do, the plan and all that needs to be written down so that everybody can see, discuss, eventually advise you and guide you where to go. Is that okay, Yiming? Yeah, I also want to make this feature have a high quality as Oleg, that's right. Okay, so don't worry. We have a discussion tomorrow between mentors. And I want to have first between mentors that we have a consensus that we know how we're going to steer that for the best of everybody. And then we'll have a discussion or your mentors will have the discussion with you to see how this will be done. Okay, great. Don't worry. The purpose is to have fun and to learn things as the others have had. I think we went now round the various projects have the status. Are there general questions, comments, or statements to do I open the floor to anybody? So I have one point that I'd like to add. I leave a few seconds more. So if somebody wants to speak up so well, I will basically have three. So first thing is that I'm going to reach out to everybody. So to contributors and to mentors individually, I'm going to set up a one on one with each of you and we're going to set up and that we can have a private conversation together. I want to be sure that there are no worries or you know, I'm looking for stones in the shoe. You might not realize that the stone is there. But if we don't remove that stone during the summer, you're going to end up with a very sore foot and this is not what we as or admin want to have. And I think it might be easier for you to have this one on one conversation. I will organize that at a convenient time for everybody. The end of June start of July. And so this one point reminder, we're going to have and discuss that with your mentors. We're going to have end of July, an intermediate checkpoint. There's one that's formal for Google that needs to be done. And the other is we're going to have an informal checkpoint. As I said, I'm going to ask every contributor to make a small presentation of his project, what has been done, and eventually a demo or so. It will be a 10 minute presentation. Don't be scared because I know that it can be as scary, especially if we open up the audience. So don't worry. Your mentors are there to help. I can help you also for that. But your mentors are there to train, to know what to say, how to say, and so on. It's important for two reasons. One reason is it's part of the training, of the GSOC training to learn how to do these kind of things. And the second thing is to draw attention from the community on the work that you're doing. Because you can be proud of what you do and you can honestly brag about it. And don't be shy about that. But the other thing is also to attract support and also ideas or recommendations. And it happened already previous years that some project got attention and some very useful ideas were added to the project. Last thing, important takeaway that I liked very much in what Raj raised on the thing is a very common mistake that I do myself to is don't overload your PRs. Don't make them huge. Just envision a plate where you have a lot of food on it. It will fall off and when you bring it on the table of your guests, you're going to scare them. So as you're a good eater, like I am, but this is another story. But trying to make small PRs, this gets it really very efficient. So let's share also these kind of experience what works and so on. Last call, is there somebody who wants to add something or needs to add? Then we're going to end the call and I will request the help from Alyssa that's on the call to process the video recordings so that we can put them online after that time. I can't. You got it. I will work on it later today. Great. Thank you very much, Alyssa. I wish you all a nice end of the day, a lot of fun with your projects, and continue like that. Looks really, really great for you. Okay. Bye-bye, everybody. Thank you, Mark. Bye-bye. Thank you, everyone. Bye. Bye-bye.


let's do this. Let me see your face. Hey, welcome back to Life Lessons and Film. Today we're gonna be making sense of life through quills. Try to summarize this movie. It takes place in 1795, I believe, in France, just after the French Revolution, or one of them, during the time of the Marquis de Sade, who is one of the main characters. He happens to be at this point in an asylum. So the Marquis de Sade is there because he writes pornographic books. And so he's an influential guy. His wife is influential, she got him to be placed in an asylum versus going to prison because of his position, his social standing. He has a bigger room. He has all of these amenities because the wife is basically just kind of giving the asylum more money to house him in that way. Yeah, we see the goings on in the asylum. One of the helpers who does the laundry, she helps the Marquis de Sade get his, the city's writings out. The Marquis de Sade is secretly still writing, even though he's not allowed to, unbeknownst to the person who's in charge, which is the Abe, through the Chambermaid played by Kate Winslet, I don't remember the name. Yeah. What's her name? Madeleine. Madeleine, yeah, through Madeleine, is able to get his books published secretly. And then Napoleon finds out and enlists the help of this other guy who also kind of is in charge of other asylums. And he's just, you know, go there and sort this out. He has some special skills, a.k.a. torturing people to restore discipline. The movie continues as eventually they keep trying to make it harder and harder for the Marquis to write his books by taking away all his quills at first and then by taking away all his possessions and taking away his clothing because at one point he started writing on his clothing, you know. He uses wine first. Wine, yeah. Because he doesn't have anything else to write on. Blood. Then he uses his own blood. Then feces. Like he's fighting for his life. Anything you can think of to write. So that's basically it. The movie follows this guy who refuses to be repressed. He's finding every single way to. To work out his, what he calls like his vices or his perversions or like the inner demon to kind of, that's how he gets it out instead of acting it out that he puts it on words and that's his therapy. That's his way of coping. Gosh, I'm tired, maybe we should have. I think, you know, a lot of the main things with the movie are dealing with, for instance, humans in a whatever kind of society they find themselves in, they're the things that are acceptable. Is that acceptable behavior? Acceptable virtues, acceptable norms and everything. And then there's the stuff that is buried or suppressed or illegal, right? Or criminalized. And a lot of these things are just also still as natural to the human condition as the things that are accepted. I was upset about Madeline's passing. I really like Madeline. She's a foot soldier. The kind of foot soldier you want.  I think that's just something that is so rare for all of us, whatever caused your rallying behind. There's always this fear hovering and it'll either stop you in your tracks or every single step you're taking make you question things. And that chips away at the strength of whatever it is, whatever vision you have and whatever hope you have for a future, you know? But with her, she, no matter what happened, that did not dissuade her even when they brought Michael Cainan and there were all of these kinds of guards who are looking over the asylum to make sure to find dissenting dissenters. That still did not dissuade her from what she believed in. That's something that I know personally that I do really admire. It's very rare to find people who have faith in something and are able to actually stand by it because standing by something, have faith in is very, very hard. I think she also respected the marquee for having such dedication to something he believed it was important. So that's the thing that made me really sad when she passed away because I was kind of, I was like, wow, what an incredible woman to have passed away, you know? She deserves so much more. There's a lot of extremes and it's hard to find that balance where the marquee has an extreme of freedom of speech and creative expression, right? To the point of his own health and others where he just smears feces everywhere. That at that point, you're just hurting everyone involved or exactly even before then when he's just if he continued to write at that point would shut down their silent and that would mess up everyone's situation. He'd say, well, you should do stop because someone is trying to stop you from doing something necessarily, but he's not also really considering how his actions affect other people either, right? So it's kind of a selfish thing. Then yeah, you have Michael Cain who's law and order at all costs and doesn't understand the importance of creativity and community and connection because he's a very- Or just plain kindness. Kindness, he's just cool to everyone. With Abe, right? You know, like they're people in the real world, outside of movies who will look at things like, well, you know, he's coming from a tough background. You know what I mean?  He's sick, he doesn't understand. Let's show him love. He murdered my mom, yes, but he murdered your mom, but remember. Forgive like God would forgive. Forgive like God would forgive this man who was tortured as a child. That's where his extreme is too far. Yeah, that's where his extreme is too far because you are, I think it is true to be understanding of people's histories, whatever kind of, you know, bad things that happened.  Your safety, boundaries, health, just because someone went through a traumatic experience. Yes, just because someone went through a traumatic experience or something that was hard that led him to be insane or led him to be upset or be a mean, it does not absolve him. What he does today, his past does not absolve him of the bad things that he's doing today. They still have consequences and they still need to be righted those wrongs. I think they all, because they're all in this kind of oppressive situation, they all, it drives people to extremes. Michael Cain, you can even understand to a degree why he's so obsessed with law work because it's a bit of a mad house going. It's a bit of a crazy environment, a hard environment to live in. So for some people, they'd be like, we just need more rules, regulations, strict things and to keep things workable. You can understand that to a degree, right? But then you can go to the extreme. And Marquis, you understand why he needs to let out all these things inside him because otherwise you'll just like, what's the point of living? Have you no true sense of my condition, of its gravity? My writing is involuntary like the beating of my heart, my constant erection. And then with Abbey, I thank the man of God, the man of the cloth, but being in such an environment where there's so much pain and vice and sin, you know what I mean? And like, it's just, it's a lot to deal with every day. He tries to be compassionate to everyone. That's also very draining. And I think that's, so his extreme is to be just so pious and so righteous. But I think hard environments drive people to extremes. For no one, you will not even write your own agonominious name. Are your convictions so fragile? They cannot stand in opposition to mine. We show God so flimsy, so weak. For shame. Are your convictions so weak? Are they so weak that they wouldn't stand against, stand up against mine? Yeah, because I'm doing things differently. Yeah, and so he doesn't want to actually have that conversation. And that's something that everyone struggles with. A lot of people, if they don't have firm convictions in terms of values or how they're living, then that's what affects them when other people are just doing even the smallest things differently. Because then they feel like, why aren't I doing that? And it gives them questions that they didn't want to have to deal with. Think about why they're doing things. There's so many things that happen that really change him. Every time something happens, he just kind of keeps adjusting to the point where he ends up going crazy, right? Like he gets harsher and harsher to the marquee, which is something that we never thought would happen. Because love, everybody, even the patients, deserve love, treat them kindly. And then all of a sudden he's like, well, why are you sedating him?  I've opiumed to numb the pain. Our intention has penetrated. If we numb the pain, what's the point? So these are the extremes, right? He starts off that way, the soft, kind, gentle person to that. And so that's an example of, okay, so his convictions maybe did not, but at the same time, I'm like- He was also tested. Yeah, exactly. He was tested a lot, and that does happen. In life, it's kind of unfair to say to someone, okay, you're a rich conviction, so when life is happening and yes, convictions are tested and yes, you become a different person because things are happening and- It's easy to stay firm in your beliefs and your convictions and values when you just live in an isolated bubble. Exactly. Nothing changes or everything is cocooned. Nothing bad ever happens. Yeah, when nothing bad ever happens, there aren't any huge shifts. When you have that luxury of stability, you know what I mean? Some people have that luxury of stability enough that they continue to be the same kind of person you knew and they never change. That is a luxury that a lot of people can't afford because they have a lot of hardships to face. I actually really don't mind convictions changing. In fact, I feel like that is the whole point of life for you to have an openness to your worldview adjusting every single time, every time you meet someone, not to say that we want you to end up killing people, but if you're removing yourself from the asylum, but as you're existing in the world, that's the whole point, isn't it? The more key, the thing I think that was that made his books so well received was that, just the fact of other people seeing someone else write about things that they couldn't do themselves and the curiosity, you know? The curiosity of just having your mind open and learning about stuff that you didn't know, having it, looking at life differently, like Michael Keynes' wife, right? She's 16 and she says, like I was in a convent. And so with nuns, all I had were books to teach me about life. So that's what changed her worldview. It molded her, being strong and knowing what she wants. And so I don't necessarily think that having your convictions change is necessarily a bad thing. No words, Joe! Who's showing you the fuck's sake of it?  Would you condemn the Bible? I think not. Well, would you blame the Bible for someone drowning because they tried to walk on water? It's like, would you blame literature completely 100% for something that happens because someone wanted to mimic it or someone was inspired by it or wanted to recreate? Can you blame the artist? Can you blame the artist for the ramifications or the natural consequences of them doing something? And that's also, at first I was like, you know, maybe think, yeah, because that was a negative thing that happened because of Marquis writing. So maybe there is some restraint needed or some kind of forethought about like, what's gonna happen if I put this out there? But then again, you got the wife who positively benefited from wanting to try out these things that she was reading or try and learn more about it. So then she meets this guy who's much healthier for her than Michael Cain character. So the stuff she was getting from this was positive. Now the stuff that the one guy was getting was negative, but that's the whole thing also with like, the Marquis playing the telephone game with all the patients is you're gonna get the filter. Everything that is created or that is done is gonna be filtered through everyone differently. Everything that you say is filtered through different ideas, different worldviews, different ideologies at the end of the day. So you could present your argument or your point, you can present your art in whatever form it is. And you're going to have different people digesting it differently. Some people are gonna agree with you. Some people are gonna disagree with you. Some people are gonna be harmed by it. However, is it really the artist's fault or the presenter of the views? Is it their fault?  Is it my fault or is it your fault?  There's no way of misinterpreting this. There's no way of taking this and creating a harmful ideology out of it. People will find a way to do that out of anything. If they're in a hard environment, it pushes them to an extreme, they will find whatever they need. Any action you take, no matter who it was influenced by, any action you take is your responsibility, 100%. If I literally was encouraging you to engage in carnal knowledge at a Walmart. Yes, good place for that. For example, and you decide to go and do that, you're responsible for that. You should be held accountable because when you're an adult, you get to that point of taking everything with a grain of salt. Even people that you believe in, you still take it with a grain of salt. You have to apply your own intelligence, your own... Situations. The context. Your own abilities. Your own abilities. You know what I mean? Accountability, a dash of skepticism. Yeah, that's the whole point. Learning or being taught, someone sharing information. I don't believe in digesting things dogmatically. The debate probably around platforms. People having platforms are being deplatformed or not shouldn't have these people don't have a voice.  The thing is, everyone's influencing everyone all the time. Which I think is good, well, whether it's good or bad, it happens. So it's kind of immoral in that sense. It just kind of happens.  Who's to say that? And also, even if that person didn't have a platform, this person that you don't want to have a platform, the people who agree with the person and then maybe back to the person and do what the person asked them to do. Even if that person didn't exist because of how they are, because of their own personal convictions, they would have done it anyway. Someone else would have steered them in that direction that you are thinking currently that that person who has a platform and shouldn't have that platform is steering them. That's my point. Platforms and people. It's all about who is the audience. If the audience is receptive to what you're saying, even if the information you're presenting is new, if the audience has a specific worldview or specific leanings, it will make them more receptive or more amenable to whatever it is, the information you're sharing. Put government in a different audience and it's never gonna work. So it's always predominantly about the person receiving the information and not the artist, not the presenter. Which is probably why you should never even necessarily worry about someone having a big platform, I feel like, because there's only a certain percentage of people that will ever receive it anyway. They'll be receptive to it. If there's someone that is writing books, is going to speaking events, is whatever, made films, that kind of thing, documentaries, even if you feel like this person is talking total nonsense, the fact that they're doing that stuff means they are being received or they're receptive for some people. And so it's also worth looking at reasons why. But going back to you. You can disagree with Jordan Pearson, but it's hard to deny that a lot of people are receiving things he's talking about. So why is that? There's probably reasons. Same thing with Noam Chomsky. Why are so many people receiving and so strongly connected to what he's talking about? There are probably reasons. And creating movements around what he's saying. There are struggles that people are going through that these people are targeting, we're directing, or confronting. Why are people reading this guy's book? Because you are living in a world that is repressing nature. People like carnal knowledge. The church is practicing in a very toxic way. These are the times where even when you're married, you can only do the missionary position and you cannot do anything else pinky. That's not straight because that's not God. That's not God. Even though you're married now, you know what I mean? Why are people doing that? Because people are repressed and they just feel like, oh my gosh, I need something, I need an outlet. I need to like break free. I want to break free. Why the marquee has so much support is because he was holding up a mirror to so many people. A lot of people could relate to what he was writing about. They could vicariously live through the characters because they were too ashamed and the world that they were living in made them feel too ashamed to actually act out their desires. What else was there? My notes, huh? Quite a bit. Let's see. In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the full measure of man. How can you really be a virtuous person or a complete person in general? If you haven't ever allowed yourself to be bad, I think that's what he's saying. Like to be a really complete and good person, you would have had to make a lot of mistakes. Hard people, hurt yourself. That's just part of becoming a good person. You don't just become a good person. How do you even know what's good? If you've never been tested, if your goodness has never been tested or if you've never been bad, do you? Well, and also being bad, I don't necessarily see it as like, you have to murder someone to know. I don't like that and I'm gonna not do that ever again. Being bad could just be, you raise with a certain set of virtues and morals to follow but that could just be putting you in unhealthy patterns. So maybe being bad in this case is like, actually I'm going to say no for once. I've always felt the need to say yes and that's how I help the world, improve the world and I'm good to people. I always say yes and lend a helping hand but I'm actually gonna say no and this for me is actually kind of doing something selfish or it feels like I'm my bad person. I'm challenging this. Because you grew up in an environment that made you say that's forced you, that's had you say yes all the time. And then you find out, oh, that wasn't actually necessarily harmful to me or to other people. So then that also allows you to push out of your own matrix of morals and ethics that you have. Yeah, I absolutely love that because a lot of the times people ascribe negativity to things that aren't even that negative. It's all because of your own conditioning. We all of us have individual conditioning and our condition has been conditioned. Because of that, then every single thing we're doing, all our actions, how we interact with people, how we interact with ourselves and life, there are all of these little sensitivities, eggshells that we walk on. And then only to realize that you think that this would be, you're catastrophizing or something that is not even a big deal but it also could be the best thing ever for you. With Abe, he catastrophizes everything, love. He catastrophizes his love for Madeleine. This thing that means so much to him, the love. And this person that means so much to him. He catastrophizes that, oh my gosh, if we do this, this is against God.  Do you know what I mean? Of course, she's upset by that because she realizes she's like, hey, God's watching. If you've grabbed me a final favor, I'd like the chance to explain myself. Don't come any closer, Abe. God's watching. She's like, really you're sticking to these kind of rigid ideas of how you should be or who you are when clearly it's against how you feel. Does that make any sense? And what you want? Does that make any sense?  And it's harming everyone. The ending hurt me. Yeah, it daggers through the heart. The injustice. I know. You have all the people that are wanting to put good into the world. They all either end up dead or crazy. Or committed. And I've lived to the tell. He's just kind of like, I've been through life. You know, I'm basically now living. And so that's insanity. The fact that I want to live honestly now, which was what the Marquis wanted. It was during the whole time.  Wanting to live normally in an abnormal world or will make you seem abnormal or wanting to be sane in an insane world will make you seem like the one that needs to be cured. Or just breaking the mold. People don't like that. Don't be different. Marquis wasn't a crazy guy. And I felt like even with Abe when he ends up in prison, I don't necessarily, I don't think that he was crazy. I think he just gone through some rough stuff. Full of grief and shame and regret. Yeah.   Beloved reader, I leave you now with a tale penned by the Abbey de Crumier, a man who found freedom in the unlikeliest of places at the bottom of an inkwell on the tip of a quill. If I color outside of the lines, you know what I mean? It just doesn't matter anymore. That is what I want to do. I just realize how little abiding by the dogma gives. It doesn't give me anything. It doesn't make me happy. And so forget it. Yeah. I don't believe it. The Marquis decide you're, you're actually publishing his novels. Ever since his unfortunate death, there's been a surge of interest in his works. Of course, I will use the prophets to restore Sharon Tom to its former glory. The worst guy in the movie, he profits. He profits from the very guy he was trying to... He loathes. That he loathes. After he died, the popularity was just so intense. And so of course I had to make money off of it. And all of a sudden, it doesn't matter anymore. The immorality of how this guy lived, of his art, it doesn't matter anymore. It makes money now. So, you know, we can work with that. And from the immorality, we can harness it into good. It's fun to the asylum. So it benefits us all. Yeah, himself. That's usually how it goes. There are lots of ways of exploiting or profiting off or appropriating someone else or something else. Yeah, for gains. So, but you're appropriating someone else, their way of living. Even though you're like, I would never let them into my house because they're dirty. But I'll take their money. I'll take everything about them. Yeah, I'll take everything about them except that I don't want to have to see them. Yeah. Yeah, so that really hurt me because it just felt like the bad guy wins. Which happens. My heart still hurts. I don't even want to speak in my queen's voice to read where I'm speaking in the queen's English. And we're speaking in the queen's English. That's my movie, Goofy Flies. No, the queen's English is... Is Accent or...? The Accent. Verbiage. The Accent. The twang. I thought it was like speaking the queen's English was like using a certain dialect. Yeah, the queen's English is this. Is that... Is that not the queen's English? Rick. She's Rick, I was gonna say, yes. We're speaking in the king's English. No. Thanks to John Cox for putting quills on our radar. Yeah, we love it when you guys recommend or bring up other movies that mean something to you. And we'll always check them out because we love movies. You know, we're not always necessarily gonna cover them but it feels great to have you guys engage with us in that way, so. We watched quills and it was just... Yes, just kind of spewed out. It was just juice. Yeah, put stuff on our radar. We like our radars having tons of blips showing up. That was some stuff we had to say about quills. But yeah, what do you guys think? Please let us know in the comments if you guys have seen it and what you guys think of the movie. Is anything we talked about here resonating with you? Making a sense of resonating? Or maybe there's some stuff we missed, but either way, let us know. Share your thoughts on our thoughts. Yes, please do. Or just any thoughts. Anything. Until next time. Yes, we are. Bye. We must show you shout-out. Keep the chain going. We've got to stop it before it gets to the end. We need more people out there.


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It's refreshing and the good easy chewing gives you comfort and satisfaction So chew Wrigley spearman gum often every day Millions enjoy it and you will too and now Wrigley spearman chewing gum brings you Luigi as he writes another letter describing his adventures in America to his mama basco in Italy mommy In a few days that we celebrate in the birthday of a great American No, isn't that to me as Abraham Lincoln? And my mummy if a georgia washington it was the father of his a country then I think Abraham Lincoln was his a favorite his son Here in America. There's there's a hundreds of the things are named after this a great demand And they got a link in a memorial a link in a brasska a link in a laundry And I read the ones in a Los Angeles. They even have got a link in a jail But are you sure to see my shirts mama Mia today? They come back from the link in a laundry and an honor of a Lincoln's a birthday. They freed all the buttons in American mama Mia if you're very big Then they put your face on the money Well, they put mr. Lincoln on a five dollar bill But to show you how fair and mr. Lincoln was he's also want the poor people should see him too So he's he's a put his face on a penny Oh How do you delay the something I can do for you?  He's a very nice man. I want Lincoln. I want him at two Lady, please please understand. Huh?  All the year.  Oh, but that's ridiculous. No, no, it's not the ridiculous. It is a respected Here's a very good and pickaxe. It's a Washington a bed. I don't want it Besides every antique shop has a Washington bed. You're right the lady There's so many Washington beds are for sale. You would think Washington is a slept all through the revolution How's about this nice a picture of Washington? And in 10 days, I don't sell a human either. Why not? That's a here's a birthday then I Never heard of anything so crazy. Please the lady don't be mad. Wait. Wait. I'll show you something else By by Andrew Jackson at Betty Ross. You're gonna be very happy living with them. Look at this a statue of Apollo Revere He's a soul I mean you want to feed the his a horse a carrot, but I want the Lincoln picture I want to give it to someone on Lincoln's birthday But if you give it to someone then then I want to have it. Well, if you don't want to sell it What are you in business for? You're right the lady. Maybe I should have been a popper go in the business a popcorn is a never have a birthday Good bye. Goodbye. I'm I'm sorry Mama made this this day as it's no start out the right. I afraid there's a bad sign But don't you worry, mr. Lincoln you may we're gonna celebrate your birthday together Even if somebody's offering me about thousand of dollars are for you thousand of dollars Well for thousand of dollars, I sell a both of us and we still to get it Luigi my friend Hello, Luigi. Hello. Hello. Hello, Pascale. Tell me little banana. No, sir. I see you business Picking up. No, Pascale is a still laying down Could it be mr. Bigger businessman because you don't sell a Lincoln pictures and a Lincoln's birthday, maybe because Are you was a listening from your restaurant? Oh, no, Louise. I got a portable ears that there was a hiding under your chair What a boob Lady, I can't sell you Lincoln. I say it's a birthday. We're gonna celebrate it together Luigi, maybe you I could make you happy and start the civil war over again, huh? I tried to sell you something else. Sure. I heard you lately buy Washington's a bed Even if she said everybody else is a guy and you could have said yours is a different you could have show it's got a inner string of mattress What a bus quality in a Washington's a day. They didn't have any string of mattresses. I know that's what would have made it so different Oh, what city used to talk to you couldn't sell a straw to a drown in a man Squally that's a silly what the foot a man wants to drink it when he's in a water Well, the greenhorn millions of countrymen and I had to bring you from Italy. Why couldn't I bring patrillo?  That's that's it the way I am That's not the worst thing in a whole world. Ah Listen to him admit it.  Yes a flop F. L. A. P. Flapp You are failure in America squally don't say that I'm a no failure.  Oh, no, what are you gonna do with this broken down harp slice of hard-boiled eggs?  No, but squally down a place I have a respect for Paul it available. Maybe you don't know this but here's a famous ride This is maybe saved. It's a holy country. Yes.   That's the right. I take you store you take on my daughter Rosa Sorry, I'm no one a trade. Do you keep your horse? Listen a mr. Flop You got an all right back that way the only reason you know marry my roses just because she's a happened to weigh 250 pounds right right well, that's approval. I still put a businessman you are when you marry a woman You've got a looker for value value sure when you buy toothpaste or what do you buy the small size of the medium size? I know you're super squally.  You mean little packages today I'm a push in a big package No use of to talk to me but squally I'm not taking them all right to mr.   You can't talk like that.  I'm an old failure. I'm an old flopping and I'm a donor And I bet you're afraid to ask you school chops at all. No, I'm a nut.  He's a feel bad I'd have a sign man. All right quiet class. I'll call the roll. Mr. Basko. Yeah, Mr. Harwood. Yeah, Mr. Olson Hey, Mr. Schultz never swap horses in midstream Well, since you must be so smart, Mr. Schultz who originally said never swap horses in midstream Of course it was Abraham Lincoln. Yes now class I asked you to read the chapter on Lincoln in your history books Are there any questions before I begin the lesson have miss budding I'm I'm like that's very important a question. Well now by that tone in your voice I think it's a personal question, isn't it? Yes, we then save it for later Please mr. Basko was a very important. Well then gentlemen, let's get on with our lesson. Mr. How it's you may tell us when Abraham Lincoln was born and when he died slightly Abraham Lincoln died on April 15th 1865. Yes, and when was he born? You must be joking miss folding Mr. Horowitz when was Lincoln born on Lincoln's birthday. What else? Tell us the year mr. Horowitz 1809 go on the month February today. Well, all right now mr. Schultz if you ask me about time it happened And who was the doctor I am finished Mr. Olson tell us something about Lincoln's boyhood, please this folding I would be just over your aid to tell you Well, yeah, he goes old faithful is about to spout some hot air Well, he was born in a log cabin in Kentucky During his youth he worked on a boat. He owned a general store He was a farmer a real spitter a postmaster a surveyor, but he wanted a job with more security.  Schultz go on mr. Olson miss folding I have dozens of books about Abraham Lincoln before I continue with his youth Perhaps you would like me to recite this Gettysburg address or his second inaugural address or his famous reply to Douglas Or perhaps I could put excerpts from his most famous letters Olson, why don't you just go home and bake Lincoln a birthday cake? Mr.  Olson. Thank you Now mr. Baskoff Come on. I'm a spotting is all right if I ask that a question now you better let him spoil you He's gonna explode and blow up the whole school All right, I suppose you want to have some more information on our weekend excursion We can excursion or what's that? I didn't have a chance to talk to him about a chat miss Paul Well, I've decided to take the class on a two-day bus trip in and around Chicago pointing out the various sites We eat our meals out. We sleep in our hotel. Oh, there's a wonderful idea. Love each very education Oh, yeah, besides it gives us a chance to get away from our lives Mr. Schultz, please Mr.. Baskoff we're all going in the cost of the entire trip including meals is $18 and 75 cents But I'm a spotting. I'm not got the AT&T 75 Don't you ever have any money?  I'm a bank it up. Now, Luigi, you don't get excited. I'm only kidding. I loan you the money I'm gonna win alone. I'm gonna want to nothing.  Don't say that He's gone now. What do you suppose we said the chase to mouth? I don't know but if I ran out every time my wife said a nasty word. I would freeze to death in the cold Before we Spearmint gum handy and chew a stick from time to time You see the smooth easy chewing helps relieve the strain and tension most of us build up during the day Makes it easier to relax and helps you get more enjoyment out of the things you do Then to wriggly spear mint gum tastes good You like the lively real spear mint flavor flavor that freshens your taste and helps keep your mouth feeling moist and clean So for good easy chewing and pleasant relaxation For refreshment any time and any place get a few packages of refreshing delicious wriggly spear mint chewing gum Millions enjoy it and you will too Now let's turn to page two of Luigi basco's letter to his mother in Italy Well, I'm a man. I'm gonna want to tell you all about my troubles I'm a feeling so terrible today. I don't even feel like to write to you So don't be surprised if you don't get this a letter because it may be I'm never gonna send it anyway Anyway, mama me What does the mother but you Luigi you look like an airdale with the air leaking out If you'll feel any better, I'll apologize for whatever you wonder should apologize for what I said in the class last night You know in front of the fellas and the sparkling. I'm sorry in the school house. I know My shows isn't that you it's it's initials. I'm a flop failure Just like a post quality is it said to me and and all you're in the class is agree with him No, that's not true. You you could do anything you want though. That's what I told a post quality. I'm I'm a no good in the antique shop, but I told him I could get a job as a paint the carpet Maybe bricklayer, but he said you got to belong to the Union, but that's right Luigi He said only job. I'm can get I'm sure to succeed is a job as a husband. Then what did you say? I'ma said the way he's a daughter eats. I could never pay the union dosing Yeah, but that better don't make me a successor shows and shows you what I'm gonna do Luigi smile you don't worry. We'll think of something no himmel himmel into my head an idea just who what Do do you think you could be a barber? Once in a while. I used to give a haircut. Oh, that's wonderful You could open your own barbershop right away. Who did you give the haircuts to Uncle Pietro's gut? Well Luigi here we don't let our beards grow so long But I think I got it a good idea you're gonna learn to be a barber and learn about who's are gonna learn to me Himmel Luigi what grammar it who is going to learn? I? Sure, sir, the do the barbers make good the money money for sure. There's plenty of profit and it all comes off the top Smiley with you are not your failure.  I'll give you the money and when you become a barber you can pay me back in haircut No, no, no should say thanks about how many I want to nobody's the money I'm how am I gonna start out of my own on your own on your own what you ain't got nothing It's another don't run. It's your store if anybody leaves. It's gotta be me I'm appreciate what you're stop. I'm not gonna let you alone Just truth is this is enough for me to do. I'm I'm I'm a canticelle. I'm I'm failure That's not true Luigi. Anybody can learn how to sell look at me I never sold a thing in my life till I opened up my delicatessen store today There ain't a case of hardburn in the neighborhood that can't be traced to my salami I don't want to be salesman Luigi you got to want you are living in a country where everything is Competition if you don't learn to sell sell sell you can't exist everything is salesmanship Everything certainly without salesmanship. We would all be bachelors What I'm it should do well the best way to learn is to get a job as a salesman here Let me look inside newspaper. I'd like to hear No, no, here's the salesman's jobs right here. What come cleaners Most of these you got to know something about here here closing salesman needed for Lincoln's birthday Luigi, this is ideal for you You don't even have to lose a day off from business and you can see how you're gonna make out All right, all right, I try yeah, and when you get back, we're gonna have a little celebration prepared for you Yeah, now take the paper and let me see one thing now stop it I'm not got the coffee in my pocket. I got the coffee to the story. No, I mean a smile I Think you'll do fine, mr.. Belasco No, no, it is a basco. Luigi basco.  Well, thank you, mr. Lighthouse. That's it. It's white house White white I think of the color white house just as in Washington, DC Think of the capital of our nation and you'll always have my name on the tip of your tongue It's white and white house Now now our operation here is very simple. We run a very high-class operation on commission Oh, very very you stand outside the store when someone passes by you shake hands with them I'm gonna shake your hands with them exactly and when you do you don't let go until they're 50 feet inside the store Mr. Wineous house White stone white stone white. I mean white house Say it Must I yes remember house What's the use it's not every day I can get salesmen in here especially those that speak the language now, mr White housey. I'm trying to think of your name Bosco Bunko White to face it All right, let's forget it.  Oh very very we don't pay a regular salary You work on commission the more you sell the more you make That's a good way to learn how to be salesman excellent now our store is strictly one price What a price exactly we don't make much because the quality of our merchandise is very high Now for instance, here's a suit right here this brown check now It's strictly one price when a price if you sell it for $18 you keep nine for yourself I mean the one of price is any price I sell it to fight that is up to you now say a customer comes in Now don't get into a long conversation with him that way you reach a stalemate Huh a stalemate. Don't you know what that is? An old wife No, no, no, it simply means nothing happens immediately you try on a suit Of course you treat him courteously, but try to make the sale Exactly if it's baggy on him you tell him it's a new style But sell him if it's tight on him a new style. What's the old style when it's his own suit Well, what do I see here a customer coming in and take care of them You think I can do it you can try I'll watch you this once. Yes, sir I'm the general manager of the store and this is our head salesman. He'll take care of you. Thank you Go ahead. Go ahead. I've had a salesman. How do you do mister check your hands. All right Now what I'm sure to pull him No place. He's inside already Sell him. All right to sell him. Mr. I think you need a new suit because you look a little baggy That's fine fine, but I'm mr. Just so it shouldn't be a stalemate I'm gonna give you any new style in the house won the price I'm also throwing the manager because he's a make a nine dollars What are you saying I'm saying that you keep your job if I'm gonna make a living like this is a better We should about to stop so goodbye, mr. Bricker house I Was probably sure so how do we salsa? I miss miss falling. What are you doing here? Well, I told you we must gonna have it as a leverage. This is sort of a surprise for you You know we give us you we call the store downtown. I said you were going hours ago. What you do in the meantime Well, I'm I'm gonna want to go home. So I'm walking around the town and see the planet. I'm zoo like Labirin Luigi, don't tell us you got a job as a guy This is nothing to laugh at Appreciate how you want to help me out the friends and make me sell them and everything, but I'm a flop failure. I'm I'm a nothing Luigi you are taking a very pessimistic view Now watch the post quality he knows what I mean Luigi look on the cake, huh, but for you Happy birthday Mr. Lincoln and I paid for myself Luigi Maybe you're right if you don't want to sell the picture if you want to celebrate Lincoln's a birthday Then we all are going to celebrate But it takes everybody still still it only changed me that that I'm a failure I'm I'm a couldn't even a cell of suits nothing mr. Basco Let me tell you something about a failure a man you idolize Abraham Lincoln Failure these are facts Abraham Lincoln had less than one year of schooling He could be considered a failure as far as education goes. He worked as a rail splitter He clerked in a store. He did odd jobs even managed a mill if you said he couldn't hold on to a job You wouldn't be far from the truth. He couldn't even run a store story Store like me. Yes, that's right He even had a partner, but the store went into bankruptcy He served a term in Congress but considered himself such a failure there that he retired to private life Even then when he did come back into public life. He tried to become a senator and failed He failed again as a possible candidate for vice president He changed his party and again ran for the Senate and again he failed ma'am. I'm a felon as a married things as a Lincoln did Yes, and you know what that means. Yeah, that means that Luigi is going to be our next president It means very simply you're never a failure until you consider yourself one Miss Barling Thank you miss Barling. Well, come on everybody. Let's cut the cake. I got some wonderful food Speaking of waiting Luigi, you know who else is awaited. No, hope us Scotty. Who you take it? Rosa Rosa That's my little log cabin Rosa, say hello to Luigi Rosa today's Lincoln's a birthday. What do you say to Luigi?  Isn't she cute?  No, no for Scotty. I'm no failure. But that's the biggest success. I'm no one to be Friends the makers of wriggly spearmint chewing gum Hope you enjoyed tonight's episode of life with Luigi and they want to remind you that chewing wriggly spearmint gum is enjoyable too Yes, the moment you sink your teeth into a smooth piece of wriggly spearmint gum You start to enjoy the lively real spearmint flavor flavor that tastes good and helps keep your mouth feeling fresh and clean Then too you get a good feeling from the pleasant easy chewing The kind of natural chewing that helps relieve strain and tension Makes it easier for you to relax And you know you can enjoy wriggly spearmint gum just about any time and any place So get a few packages of wriggly spearmint gum next time you're out millions enjoy it and you will too That's wriggly spearmint chewing gum healthful refreshing Delicious The makers of wriggly spearmint chewing gum Invite you to be sure to listen next week at this same time when Luigi basco writes another letter to his mama basco in italy Life with luigi is a cy howard production The script is written by mac benhoff and lou derman and directed by mr. Benhoff Jay carol nags is starred as luigi basco with alan reed as basquale Julie gilbert is rosa mary shift is miss pauling conch conreed as jolt joe forte is horror with 10 peter's at olsson Sondra duel is the customer and hal mark as the salesman Music is under the direction of lutz blustin charles lion speaking This is the cbs radio network


A dovetail to that yeah, maybe that I think I don't know if I mentioned on the show or in the pre-show One point not too long ago where my wallet was not syncing to my watch Yeah, I did how did you fix that solved it?  So there was some stray bit in there somewhere Refusing to allow my wallet to sink to my watch. Yeah, and so that that fixed it Not not the easiest fix It's kind of the last thing you want to do But I set it up as new and then brought all my apps in again and you know, but but that worked out really well And I'm okay. Yeah, I'm actually I'm glad you brought that up because I know we were we were trying to figure out what that was Problem, but they didn't know why and it only happened on some and they couldn't duplicate it But and then the other thing along that line with the wallet and the watch Not many people know this you can leave your phone in the car Inevitably and use Apple pay on your watch. You don't have to have your phone with you even if it's not a cellular watch That's right. Yeah, Apple pay does not rely on You having a data connection it relies on the merchant having a data connection. That's right It keeps the pay token with you. Yeah. Yeah, your token is your token, right exactly. Yeah Yeah, that's okay. No, that's a really good point because go ahead John No, I didn't know that I thought that your phone needed a Data connection of whatever sort in order for Apple pay to work. You're saying that's not the case That is not the case. No, it is just an it just like your credit card doesn't for NFC, right? Like right, okay same similar kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well, that's a good way to think about it Yeah, it's just yeah, I mean ish. It's it's not exactly that but it's close enough. Yeah


This e-lecture discusses the driving forces of language development. In fact, various enabling factors for language acquisition have been proposed. They concern positive evidence that is supporting our children during the language acquisition process, the question whether children imitate adult speech and the importance of reinforcing children's utterances. Further questions to be dealt with concern the role of the language we use to address our children, child directed speech, and the debate between nativism and more empirical views of language acquisition. Let us look at the driving factors first. Children definitely have to be exposed to a language in order to acquire it. They need the opportunity to hear and understand words, phrases and sentences within meaningful contexts first before they themselves can begin to produce language meaningfully. Comprehension thus necessarily precedes production in language acquisition. However, the exposure does not have to be direct, that is while it certainly facilitates acquisition, if adults talk to children as they do in most cultures, it is not an absolute requirement. In some cultures, adults do not speak to children at all until the children are using at least some words in a meaningful manner. Could it perhaps be that language acquisition is some sort of imitation of adult language? Well, this would be a very simple explanation of how children learn their language. From this point of view, children just reproduce what they hear. While imitation plays an important role in learning how to pronounce speech sounds and words, this is not true of the larger part of language development. Let us look at some counter-arguments. First of all, children make mistakes that adults wouldn't produce. Here are two examples. A child says something like, mama is a boy, here a girl, or daddy went at home, utterances that we wouldn't produce in this form. Children are creative, they produce novel utterances that were not contained in the adult speech directed to them. And last but not least, children often have imitation problems. That is, they cannot imitate adult utterances if they do not already have heard these in the speech directed to them. So he's going out, the child would still say he go out, cannot imitate this utterance because the child hasn't mastered the combination of an auxiliary and a main verb here. Or when an adult says, say what I say, where can I put them and the answer is where I can put them, then clearly the child hasn't mastered the strategies of question formation. Reinforcement is an important issue in our driving forces. This proposal suggests that language acquisition is basically a process of strengthening and shaping particular behaviors. And these behaviors concern the child's utterances. In fact, there are two types of reinforcement. Positive reinforcement occurs when adults simply support correct utterances. So if the child says that's a dog and this is certainly right, adults would respond with yes to positively reinforce their child. The opposite is negative reinforcement. So as soon as children come up with something that is not in line with adult speech such as the utterance here, she hold it the baby rabbit. No, an adult could respond. She held the baby rabbit. This would be called negative reinforcement. Although this proposal has an appealing simplicity, there is much evidence against the position that reinforcement is a central part of language development. So for example, often adults correct the meaning and not the form. Here is an example where the child uses the term animal farmhouse instead of lighthouse. The next problem is the problem of early comprehension. Some utterances are understood before they are produced, so reinforcement doesn't apply here. And here is another problem, the occurrence problems. Only utterances that have been produced can be reinforced. Thus there is no account for why utterances should occur in the first place. And finally, children start producing the correct forms. Here we have the correct form went. For the past tense, as an example, then they come up with a form that doesn't occur in adult speech. So they replace the originally correct irregular form by a regular form which they think might be the possibility. And later they come up with the final form without being reinforced. Since correct forms are reinforced, the internal stage is not what should happen. Well, in summary, the driving forces discussed do play a role in the acquisition process. In fact, they often interact as shown by this little animation from the virtual linguistics campus. However, they do not constitute the basis for the acquisition process. Could it perhaps be that the way we address our children is the key for language acquisition?  The special way of talking was originally called motherese or alternatively even baby talk. But it is now called child directed speech in short CDS because it is not restricted to mothers. Here are some of the essential properties of child directed speech. First of all, and we all know that child directed speech is phonetically different. It starts with something that you might want to call secondary articulation feature, for example, labialization. As soon as we address young children, we start rounding our lips to address our sweeties. It is phonetically different. It is slower and shorter. It is to a high extent simplified. We use fewer affixes. That is, the inflection is simplified. The vocabulary is restricted. We use baby words such as moo moo. And we clearly segment the utterances to make them audible in a much better way for the children to who we talk. And often it is more exaggerated in intonation. It is higher pitched. We often use a high pitch in order to make things more expressive. And sometimes it's just strange, isn't it? Why don't we use pronouns to address ourselves? Why do we say things such as daddy will be with you soon, my dear? Well, furthermore, many parents also expand their child's incomplete utterances into appropriate full sentences or paraphrase a given utterance. Some sort of reinforcement, if you wish. Generally, it has not been shown that children whose parents use child directed speech pass through the milestones of language development any faster. But having said that, children certainly benefit from their parents speaking slowly, clearly and succinctly to them. The final issue we have to discuss is the question about innateness. A major issue in the study of language development concerns the extent to which our language abilities are innate. Well, the main claim is that language capacity is present from birth that we use some sort of special purpose language acquisition device, universal grammar, and that language acquisition is just the setting of some central parameters. The controversy centered on this issue is known as the nature versus nurture debate. Whereas the nativist approach believes that language acquisition is based on some innate mechanisms, the empiricist view favors an approach whereby language, like many other aspects of knowledge, derives from experience. So these are then the two extremes, nativism versus empiricism. More recently, a third position emerged which is between these two extremes. It acknowledges that there are certain innate abilities that make language development possible. But in contrast to the nativist view, it argues that these abilities are not specific to language, so it's somewhere in the middle. Well, after three e-lectures on language acquisition, we should have got some basic understanding of the enormous complexity of this field. Yet there are further issues we have to solve. How do we know about the child's linguistic competence especially at an early stage of language development? What are the main strategies involved in the language acquisition process? These and some other questions constitute the starting point of our e-lecture Language Acquisition 4.