so as i told you we will do one problem very simple problem very very simple it is nothing to do with what we have done with the complicated equations for complicated equations for the problems to be done i have actually asked you sent you last night the assignment so that is why particularly the problems given in smith the solved examples please go through first go through the solved examples and then try to solve them the problems which you have given okay then i tell you definitely if you are able to do on your own as a group one or two also you can do together okay two three but not only one doing and other people just sitting all three discussing and doing will be very good do it then it will boost your confidence like anything that means not only this design if you are able to this design even distillation column design absorber design all these things will look very trivial if you are able to take up this design to even the mechanical design part mechanical design part means you calculate what is the total amount of catalyst then you have to think how do you put this total amount of catalyst what should be the diameter what should be the height and how do you put them support because when is a packed bag you have to support the packing on something that is the distributor plate otherwise if we simply take without any holes a plate and then support it you cannot put anything no the gases cannot go inside no perforated plate perforated plate design also is very important which we have never told you in during distillation design okay that is why i told you know i think my example all our Indian movies where we stop where we stop after marriage subhum means in a marriage there must be marriage all people laughing that is the last scene in every in every movie they don't know that real problem start only after marriage okay similarly here finding out ten plates is not much for distillation column how do you put these ten plates okay what is the geometry of these these ten plates so that is the problem how do you fix these plates to shell how many problems much more difficult you know marriage problems you can solve but these problems you cannot solve so easily okay because you have counsellors and all that for marriage but i think here distillation column design only you have to do with a degree if you go to that is what i am telling you know you cannot go to consultant if you have a chemical engineering degree right where do you go right someone can go if he doesn't have a chemical engineering degree he can go to consultant no problem at all okay good so that is why it will really help you in understanding if you are able to solve and if you have time please try that two dimensional model also where for finite difference method is used it will be very good good but for that you have to spend some time right but unfortunately i have given this time non catalytic reactor design if i could have given the actual catalytic reactor design as a project those techniques you could have learnt but this is totally your imagination so that is why this non catalytic reactor what i have given that is incineration is totally you have to imagine everything only thing what i have given is how much yeah waste is to be incinerated waste to be incinerated that's all okay so you have to choose the system you have to find out what is the carbon content and you have to say no please don't give that you know the because this since it can be land filled incineration not necessary you know two lines design is over you are not allowed to do that it is a non catalytic reactor you have to design it yeah and the reason also why you can't do that is nowadays there is no place for landfill particularly in Andhra there is no place because every politician has taken thousands of acres so i think there is no place to put even this waste solid waste okay in Tamil Nadu also no they are not because i told you know all Indians are brothers and sisters so their ministers here also they have brothers and sisters so these people also have occupied but anyway technical solution you have to give not simply landfill okay yeah good so this problem simple problem i will try to do in a please take this problem i will dictate i don't have to write the whole thing a second order reaction a going to r you have calculators with you know yeah a second order reaction second order reaction problem a going to r this is second order reaction second order reaction is studied the second order reaction a going to r is studied in a recycle reactor please see in a recycle reactor good in a recycle reactor with large recycle ratio and the following data are recorded and the following data are recorded so void volume of the reactor void volume of reactor 1 liter 1 liter weight of the catalyst used weight of catalyst used 3 grams feed to the reactor to the reactor is let us say u0 equal to 1 liter per hour initial concentration CA0 is 2 moles per liter 2 moles per liter and CA out exit concentration exist concentration C out equal to 0.5 moles per liter okay so then the problem is a find k that is 1 calculate k value okay other one is b how much catalyst is required in a packet bed reactor for 80 percent conversion of in a packed bed reactor for 80 percent conversion of 250 meter cube 250 meter cube per hour of feed per hour of feed of concentration feed of concentration 1 mole per liter no recycle is used full stop there no recycle is used the other one is part C repeat part B if the reactor is packed with one part catalyst to 4 parts inert solid this addition of inerts helps maintain isothermal conditions and reduce possible hot spots okay so the other data which I have to give you is XA equal to 80 percent and V0 equal to 250 meter cube per hour and CA0 equal to 1 mole per liter you have to find out what is W right okay so now you have the calculators right with you most of you yeah it is a second order reaction please see that I think you know it and recycle reactor okay so what we have here is recycle reactor something like this this is the catalyst 3 grams we put it goes small amount is taken that is recycle okay so I can close also this this is W 3 grams W 3 grams and of course the feed is given U0 velocity is given as 1 liter V0 not U0 volumetric flow rate V0 V0 is 1 liter per hour per hour and CA0 equal to 2 moles per liter anything else is given yeah that is all CA out here equal to 0.5 moles per 0.5 moles per liter good so what is the problem now see this is typical Levenspiel problem I am just indirectly trying to tell you you know examinations right all typical Levenspiel problems you starting from second second first semester first chapter does not have any problems then onwards he gives some clue in the beginning and you have to get some information from the first part and then use that first part in the second part to calculate something else okay so first part he is asking you K and data given recycle reactor is given so now what equation you use to calculate this is ideal plug flow because nothing is told about non-idealities right simply ideal plug flow and this is how most of his problems are formulated because this is what is happening most of the time in industry if you are developing a new process in the laboratory you conduct some experiment get the kinetic data use that kinetic data to finally scale up the industrial process okay and here to avoid complications we are simply taking plug flow isothermal there is no temperature variation and all that so the simplest problems we are trying to attempt so that you know slowly you can graduate if the complications are increasing later okay but currently it is only the simplest problem isothermal plug flow and it is recycle reactor with a large recycle ratio what is the meaning of that then what is the equation you use to calculate K it is second order reaction please remember you are okay and you do not have anything no calculator nothing but you do not need calculator also I think it is calculations are very simple very very simple they are not that difficult w by f A not equal to x A by minus r A which is nothing but k C A not 1 minus x A correct no this is the equation okay substitute the actual units and then try to find out I say substitute the actual units there f A not is moles per second moles per hour later hour gram that is the one later square mole gram catalyst hour yeah and if you write 2 I will not give you I think not even half mark there negative marks only will be given if you are a shokumar if you just write only 2 got it correctly later square yeah so that is the one actually so this will be after substitution of all I was simply writing here 2 later square mole gram catalyst per hour so I just want to tell you you know because this is a peculiar unit you would have never imagined that this kind of units will be there for k values because we always know for second order someone was telling you know mole later hour yeah that is what what we remember that is L K G long time back over okay so for heterogeneous system you can have anything any units okay good these right you got it Kavya yeah Anand Kumar no okay so what is the next one next one we have this is A in B we have the packet bed okay you have to find out packet bed where you V not given as 250 meter cube per hour V not C A not equal to 1 mole per later okay and X A equal to 0.8 question is what is W now this is a packet bed what is the equation use yeah but what is the other side yeah again W by F A not equal to integral yeah now you say you integrate and tell me W by F A not equal to 0 to X A D X A by minus R A it is second order reaction second order reaction anyone Renitha anything your handwriting is so beautiful I say I want to see she writes very clearly 125 for 250 grams correctly substitute all that you also got same thing how much you got 500 into 10 is to I mean into 10 to the power of 3 grams 500 grams 500 kg correct no yeah but what do you mean by too high how much you expect how much you expect I say it is industrial reactor 250 times 250 meter cube yeah so that is why it is more only yeah check whether yeah K value 2 see yeah and the problem is that you know you think that you are right and you go to hostel and tell that he gives always less marks okay not only you all I told you know all Indians are brothers and sisters there is no change right so whatever you write I have to give the marks or not the correct answer 500 500 kgs per meter cube okay now you tell me how do I put this 500 kg per meter cube after marriage okay yeah so 500 kgs we got the catalyst so how do I now choose my dimensions for the reactor you should have some dimensions know some days some diameter and some height if it is a cylindrical can you also use square cross section and some height no why in the corners are yeah corners are always bad even if you have sharp corners better come out of that okay we also have sharp corners so we want only rounded personality but I think round reactors we can't use because flow is very difficult there so that is why cylindrical reactors we use okay which represents us I think I told you know last semester all human beings can be classified into three groups first group is straight lines in the class I think Renitha is straight line y equal to MX plus C okay yeah only one dimension you have other dimensions are not there right very tall and lean people I say okay where one dimension is seen earlier in very old movies there used to be in Telugu there used to be an actor Ramana Reddy excellent representation of one-dimensional model you know single straight line okay so they look almost something like this you know that is the straight line okay and other category is cylinders these are normal okay all of us and other category is somewhere legs somewhere hands not as you already I used to see always this spherical coordinates with that you know that Adnan Swami or someone was there what that yeah he's I think now he reduced it I think maybe 250 kgs 120 kgs exaggerated multiplied by 2 okay so 250 kgs I think you always you can see now you can start looking in the road when you are moving you can see most of the time straight lines cylinders spheres now in India this spherical coordinates are increasing all of us starts here like this okay third category because they take almost highly nutritious food so that is why third category means spheres only yeah that is what I am telling if you take too much fat and all that you become like that okay so earlier it is not much maybe 50 60 years batch a bag state lines were there but I think spherical coordinates are not that much for human beings but nowadays it is very happy you know to have that kind of coordinates what I say you see most of the young boys and girls it is not missions I think you know I tell you in our society the problem is that when we were born for each parent minimum it is 7 or 8 okay children right yeah not only starvation attention is not there I think mother also don't remember to which kid he she has fed okay so but on the average everyone is equal sometime they will get some food okay but nowadays it is 0.5 or 1 children yeah 0.5 children so are there okay one children but now everything and also now most of the time now all the parents are very well well off that means they have sufficient money and all that because mother and father both of them are working so many things are happening both of them are well educated so now everything they want to give to the kids if there is a burger immediately advertised in TV they will run through that shop buy and then put in his mouth or her mouth okay Krishna sweets advertisement go buy 10 kgs of Mysore Park put in his mouth or her mouth so what will happen after sometime he thinks that my god I have to take everyday 10 kg sweets that buy you know kid he does not know many things and also any advertisement in beautiful clothes like jeans pant that fellow will be 1 inch and you know so they they will design I think 0.4 inch jeans pant so mother father will run to that jean shop you know it is a express mall and what are other malls in either some other malls are there no lifestyle or many places so they go buy and then even he is weeping he will put or he will parents will put and anyway car and all that that is the same arrogance which has come to the society so that is why if he comes to class 1 he thinks that he must be the first everything you should get right or wrong whether he writes are wrongly like you are telling no 200 or 100 whatever you write I have to give the marks because parents are giving everything okay so like that whatever exams you write like that school education will be over and you feel that you know you are the top and this is how the society is moving because this arrogance has come because of the parents we have now only 1 or 0.5 we have not mentioned the particle size for example okay there are so many assumptions okay what are the assumptions particle size is not given 3 kg is told there what size not known okay but will it be different size or same size we have to use laboratory have taken some data using 3 grams and the 3 grams also we will have some size definitely is it the same size or different size you use exactly same size you have to use what will happen if I do not use same size I will use something different you do not know whether there may be mass transfer effects if you take large particles mass transfer effects okay and if you take very small particles pressure drop effect because again you have to put in the packet bed know so all that so that is why there are so many assumptions here which we normally do not tell we will just give you as an academician this is the problem I have not told you in packet bed I mean packet bed behaving as plug flow okay so there are so many things which we have to really use if you go to reality reality is your industrial reactor where I have to put this 250 kg is 250 500 kg is where first of all you have to question what is the particle size right so the same size only you have to use which you should hear because otherwise your kinetics will be different your k value may be different okay because intrusion of diffusional problems all that may come right so that is the one then what is the diameter you put you have some thumb rules I just want you to recall your memory we have some thumb rules already yeah so if the diameters let us say 6 mm particles which we have used so then minimum diameter should be how much yesterday we have some criteria R by R by DP less than 4 what will happen why why why that means you have uniform distribution okay so you should maintain that much okay good but the problem now is if you take only that diameter and pack 500 kg it will go to the top to the moon okay so that is why as an engineer you have to balance because I have taken the data using this kind of condition particles and diameters particle size temperatures flows and all that can I maintain the same kind of conditions and reduce the height also right otherwise pumping cost and all that will be per unit length you know delta P all that so that is why most of these design problems are having open-ended solutions if you are a very good engineer you design it wonderfully it is like architect constructing the house you know if he is a good architect you can see the beauty of the house if it is a lazy fellow we can also see the laziness of the house so that is why simply leaving here 500 kgs and then finding out okay somehow you put because we never tell you how to put in fact right starting with the distillation even for heat exchangers right we normally give you in the class find out what is the total area you say 10 meter square how do you put this 10 meter square what is the diameter of the tube and how do you arrange these tubes okay so all these are the problems which you have to note down somewhere right so that is why packet bed reactor even though we have used simply this is the packet bed reactor nicely all academicians are responsible for this also because we never tell the we also live in only real imaginary world not in the real world okay so if I am able to really give you what is this size how it should be I am giving you the general thumb rules what should be the minimum length because here we have plug flow diameter we told at least minimum length how much you have to maintain so that you will have plug flow almost L by D greater than almost plug flow if you do if you use that much that means if you are using 6 mm particles okay 190 means 200 you take right 200 into 6 1.2 meters that is minimum height if you are able to go beyond that you are happily going for plug flow but the problem is if you have more and more lengthy reactor then you have the pressure drop more and more and you cannot afford that because whatever you are getting gaining the what is that yeah if you get more money more money also will go so that is the reason why you have to really balance it good okay so these are the things what we have and yeah another one next one see because I know you are hearing as if it is Harikada kalakshepam or something like that okay but unless you write somewhere you will not remember afterwards all the questions what I raised what should be the height what should be the diameter you know in fact how do you design the distributor plate you need one distributor plate at the bottom and one distributor plate at the top here here you should have one distributor plate here you have you should have another distributor plate and the another question is Kavya would you put this packed bed horizontal or vertically yeah probably why vertical he says like this and I will also ask if you say horizontal why horizontal why correct that is why usually all reactors are if I put horizontal it is very good I say I do not have to pump at all right pumping cost is very very low if I put horizontally what do you mean by contact I think it is going you know you see simple things I say very very simple things why do you want to put all reactors as proposed only vertical we got to put horizontal not only that I can also tell you actually mixing is bad for reactor why do you need mixing you cannot have mixing contacting between what and what yeah by putting horizontally what will happen in the reactor how the contact is less there is no two phase only one phase you know for example gas yeah what will happen if I have for example distillation column horizontal distillation column instead of vertical I will put horizontal yeah because it is two phase very clearly seen that liquid is at the bottom gas is at the top and then the contact is only where interface so that means you are not able to generate bubbles generate large amount of surface area and contact the liquid something like that can you also think when you put horizontal packed bed it is after all catalyst okay and your packing you cannot have exactly yeah there will be slightly some gap between the top wall channeling channeling channeling is the main reason because when you put horizontally the particles try to consolidate themselves and then you will have definitely something or other on the top more wide edge so when you have more wide edge more and more gas will try to go on the top because less resistance okay so that is the reason why most of the time in all these case I think as Prabhu said you know most of the time we use all columns vertical only in chemical engineering we do not know x direction all chemical engineers know only y direction distillation column same thing absorption column same thing all extraction columns all mass transfer heat exchangers by the way why we cannot have put vertical we cannot have put vertical why horizontal that is right question is right most of the time they are surface area you are putting all the tubes know all these surface area is given by the number of tubes inside outside you have a shell that is the correct answer why why it does not matter why it does not matter it actually depends on what temperature gradient depends on what is the contact between liquid and solid tubes it does not matter if you are able to fill up the entire shell and also entire tube if definitely matters if you have two phase flow again in heat exchangers particularly when they have steam generation yeah condensers and all that you have to go for vertical condensers horizontal condensers no okay so you see these are very very simple things but we never bother to give some attention to that okay so that is why I think equipment design is one of the wonderful subjects for example all these things will come there know this is process design in fact what we calculate to 500 kgs and then just leave it that is the process okay using that the equations and all that this is the amount I got but equipment we design only will tell me how do I put this 500 grams or 10 meter square area for example heat exchanger okay or 10 plates or 20 plates how do I put it okay and what kind of plates I think you also know that in distillation itself we use sieve plates bubble caps and sieve plates with down comers what is the difference between sieve plates with down comers and sieve plates without down comers remember problem any time where where we will weeping occur in which plate sieve plate or why why why weeping should occur you are not supposed to operate in that regime that is why floor regime maps are given to you you are not supposed to operate in the where you have the weeping of the liquid correct no that is not operational regime and you cannot also go for flooding regime where you have too much vapour phase and too less liquid phase and it is not allowing liquid to come down that that also you cannot operate you should not so when do you choose what also is very important when do you choose for example sieve plate with down comer the best thing is sieve plate only why because in each sieve each perforation will will definitely develop one bubble so that bubble will contact the liquid which is just above the plate now in sieve plate what happens is the liquid and gas both of them have to come through the same sieves right so through some sieves gas will go through some sieves liquid will go right so that is the reason why you have very quick flooding and there is no good contact because if you take 2 meter diameter 2 meter diameters also can be the diameter of distillation columns so one corner you will have only liquid coming down another corner only gas going up you will not have uniform distribution of exact distribution of gas bubble generating throughout that is why what compromise is okay let let us allow the liquid to go through down comer and allow only gas through the sieves where you have each and every bubble forming then that will contact but anyway above that you know there is a flow here and then comes out and the bubbles are going and then contacting the liquid one of the best designs then you have other one that is packet beds packet bed distillation for example when do you use packet bed distillation when do you use plate distillation plate column distillation so many things are there even heat exchangers when do you use coil type heat exchangers when do you use simple shell and tube okay and plate type heat exchangers are available plates one plate next plate next plate goes like this and within the plates you will have again another volume available for flow so many wonderful design there is no limit for chemical engineering thinking you think that all the things are over in chemical engineering limitation was only your brain not the subject in fact in any subject this is the limitation not the subject itself okay good so these are all the things but now we are not discussed see no oh yeah let us discuss okay yeah see repeat pot B if the reactor is packed with one pot catalyst what will happen will the conversion change that is all only weight of the catalyst sorry weight of the total amount of solid will increase but it is not going to change the conversions right and because you are sending the same thing and only thing why we are doing that is for maintaining isothermal conditions this is what I mentioned also sometime earlier to maintain some isothermal conditions people always but if your volume is so precious why should I use five times larger than you know the active catalyst alone if that is more important then I think you have to look at only one part of catalyst and then try to live with that but if volume is not the constraint for us then you can go for more volume maintaining isothermal condition is thermal is easy to design and no temperature controls and all that so that is the reason why but everything is again economics finally you have to do this this this this and compare which one has the best system and what is your objective function cost finally cost everything is money okay but without doing anything we want money you know that is what is nowadays our trend I should not do anything but I should get crores and crores of rupees okay with that attitude we cannot design anything but I think you have to know all this do everything and then try to find out which gives you the minimum cost of production then you can sell with some profit and you will get some profit after the design okay so I thought I will start fluidized but I think we will stop here okay so now I think I have thoroughly done packed beds but the thoroughness will come to you provided you work hard okay please spend some time and all of you are not taking 100 courses okay and it is varying from 1 2 yeah 1 2 maximum 3 or 4 correct know 4 so that is why it is not too much load because we have 24 hours per day we cannot ask more than that so then I think definitely you can spend some time in learning this okay so the good so I think we will stop here and then meet on Monday with fluidized beds thank you


The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, NCPC, celebrated its 10th anniversary during the observance of Productivity Awareness Week from October 9 to the 13, 2023, under the theme, Journey to Excellence, Leveraging Opportunities for Collective Advancement. Productivity Awareness Week is an annual event that allows the NCPC to profile productive activities within the public and private sectors that enhance competitiveness, economic growth and national development. Deputy Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Ernest Hiller declared the week open. When we start speaking of productivity and competitiveness, also add a focus on how we change our thinking and our attitude to performing and for us to constantly speak about striving for excellence. Form three students from across the island participated in the NCPC's first-ever Spelling Bee Competition on Tuesday 10th October. This highly competitive event saw Elaine Polius from Education District 6 emerge as the winner of this inaugural event. I suggested to the government sometimes ago to build a bridge across the harbor. Yeah, it's always nice to have all the recommendations but somebody needs to implement the recommendation. This panel discussion highlighting the loss of productivity on the island's road infrastructure network brought together stakeholders from the public sector, youth, the civil service association and the minibus sector to discuss problems and propose solutions to improve the situation on the island's roads. New roads to connect the north on castries. On Wednesday 11th October, the NCPC was out and about promoting the Productivity Measuring Tool ProTool to four small businesses in Monfortune, Anselaree, Canaries and Souffre. That tool then takes all of that data, it assesses it and it gives you rankings according to every aspect of it. The team comprised NCPC staff plus a representative from the Community Tourism Authority and a quality consultant, Betty Comby from Moz Inc. So we'll basically be taking you about to see our various businesses. Zafiqe de Exposition, a business finance expo, was a highlight event for Thursday, October 12th at the Finance Administrative Centre. The event provided the opportunity for entrepreneurs and business-minded individuals to access information on grant and soft-loan financing while providing the avenue for some entrepreneurs to showcase their products and services. The week culminated with a recognition event for staff, former council members, and current and former planning committee members for Productivity Awareness Week over the past decade. This was followed by photo ops and entertainment in celebration of the NCPC's 10th anniversary. On the heels of what has been hailed a successful Productivity Awareness Week 2023, the NCPC has already commenced the planning for Productivity Awareness Week 2024. For the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, Glenn Simon reporting.


Are you following a good strength training muscle building program and want to know how to incorporate cardio to maximize your results? Watch this. Our next caller is Rachel from Texas. What's up Rachel? How can we help you? Hi, how are y'all today? Good. Um, I just had a question over training and I'm kind of new to doing one of y'all's programs. So I started in November, um, doing Matt's hit and I ran that through November and December and took a break, um, during the holidays and then I started up anabolic in January. And I'm currently doing with friends prior to that, the friends that I'm doing with, um, we were online doing another platform and we were probably hands down overtraining, um, at least personally I was, but some of the things that we did on that online platform like hit or cardio or, um, burpees, you know, a lot more cardio intensive training. Um, I missed and I'm wondering how I can incorporate it even if it's one day a week or how I can incorporate it with my current program. Yeah. Did you, are you wanting just to do it because you like doing burpees or are you looking for the best results? Both. So I know that's hard, but I truly enjoy doing, I know that sounds damn, but I truly enjoy doing that form of training. So I don't, I don't want to go back to my old ways. So that's, I'm for sure do not want to do it. It's not dumb, by the way. It's a lot of people, a lot of people. Very common. Now, if you like it, then you can throw it in on some of your off days. Not a big deal. Just don't overdo it and listen to your body. But if it's something you enjoy, and this is what we've always said this, look, all activities, so long as it's done appropriately. And what we mean by that is you can do any activity wrong. You can, you can use it in a way to hurt yourself or over train, no matter what that activity is, but so long as it's appropriate and you're, you're recovering and you're not overdoing it, not hurting yourself. If you enjoy it and you actually get value out of it, just even if it's just quality of life, do it. I don't care what it is. Go for it. So if you enjoy it, do it on your off days. Now I'll add this, you're doing maps and a ball like, but you like some of that other stuff. Maps performance would be amazing. That program's got some unconventional exercises. Phase one's going to be similar to maps and a ball, but you started moving to phase two, three, and then four. Three especially. You're, yeah, you're doing like, you're doing some of that stuff that you're talking about. You're just doing it in constructive, effective ways. So if you enjoy or appreciate that athletic aspect of it, the heart pumping, the cardio aspect, the conditioning, maps performance would be a program I think that you would enjoy. I do want to caution you though. Okay. It's just, and that's just because at least eight out of 10 of my clients that would say this, because it's actually a lot more common than you think. We're, we're addicted to the feeling they got after that way of training more than anything else because you get this spike in cortisol and it feels amazing. It's like taking a shot of, of, of espresso or double shot of it, right?  And so, but the truth is most times it's not what's best for my client for their, for the most results. So I just want to caution you that like, I'm all four clients, if I have a client says, Adam, I love to go, you know, for a five mile run, at least two or three times a week. It's like meditating for me and I enjoy it, feels good. I could, I'll do it for the rest of my life. Go for it. I'm not going to tell them not to do that, even if it's not what's best for their goals. I'm going to allow them to do it because I'm all for that. But I just want to caution you on being able to really understand what it is about burpees because I, there's not people that really like burpees. I feel like you're lying. Yeah. Well, I love them. In fact, like last March, the ladies that I currently am doing anabolic with, we did a challenge of how many burpees we can do in March and we, everyone did 2000 to 3000 burpees in March. So like, I truly enjoy them. Now that was a bit overkill and it took it over my life. So it's not something I want to repeat, but I just want to throw them in every once in a while. It's necessary. So, so I hear your words that are coming out of your mouth, but I have a different, I feel like they're not, you're not 100% honest, either with us or with yourself. You loved it so much, but I think I overdid it and I don't want to do it again. Doesn't sound like they, they don't, they don't match. And so now I don't know, Rachel, but you sound a lot like a lot of people that I've trained who say this to themselves, but don't really mean it. Really what they're doing is they're trying to bolster or strengthen their little bit of addiction to exercise. I get it. I'm the same way.  I'm just saying that's what it sounds like to me, or at least it's what it feels like. Well, listen, I taught, I don't know how much you know my history or how long you've been listening to the show, but you know, I got the opportunity to be a coach, not that long ago, it was less than 10 years ago, at Orange Theory where you have this circuit-based training and I'm not sure how familiar you are with it or not. I know Orange Theory. Okay.  They, it's not so much the class, it's the feeling that they get after. It's the, I accomplished that.   But then they're also, but I can't seem to lose this last 15 pounds I want to lose so bad. And it's, and I assess their diet, I assess their routine and what they're doing. Well, it's because you're doing the wrong thing for what the results that you're trying to achieve. So that's the one thing I would caution you is, make sure that your goals that you have align with what you're doing.  But if you have goals that you're trying to move your body, I want it to look a certain way or I want to drop a certain amount of body fat percentage, or I want to add strength or build muscle, if you have specific goals like that and you're stuck at a plateau, meanwhile, you're training this way, a lot of times that is the reason why you're stuck. You're stuck because your body is not, well, your body's responding exactly how it should be, but you're sending the wrong signal to it based off of what your goals are.  But where I have a problem with it as a coach, when I assess somebody that they tell me they have this goal, Adam, I want to lose 15 to 20 pounds or I want to drop my body fat percentage by 5%, or I want to add this much to my bench press and get stronger, and then they tell me this is how they're training, I go, well, you're sending a competing signal to your body. You're training it to be efficient and working out hard and really good at it. You're not training it to build muscle. You're not training it to lose body fat.  It's a psychological challenge. That's right. That's my biggest problem is the mental struggle that I want to do it, but that I don't know. Obviously, I was doing it not right before and too much of it, so I want to do it, but I also want to. I do have body goals and I want to lean out just a little bit. I build muscle very easily, and so I just want to lean out, but so I'm worried if I throw in one day a week that I'm mentally going to want to keep going more because I do like the feeling. I do like the feeling of accomplishment of challenging myself. You can come back to it, I guess is the point. This is not something that you need to completely abandon, but if you want to really dive into something that your body's going to have a new response to and a new stimulus towards, like you got to challenge yourself to really psychologically place yourself and find the benefits of the other side of the training and focus on that. I mean, I go through this. We all go through this because I'm a creature of habit. I like a certain way of training. I like only doing one to five reps.  There's periods where I want to just focus on challenging myself to respond differently and change my body. If you really want change, that's just something that you have to consider. Well, also, Rich, where are we at? Do you have any idea where you're at calorie-wise?  Do we know any of this? Yeah, so I was. I started tracking November and December, and I was not in November. I was not eating enough. I was around, like, 1,450 calories. So when I started listening to y'all in October, I realized that error of my eating was probably not right. So I started tracking, and then I started fully pushing my protein up and my calories up, and I probably got to, like, 1,800-1,900. Okay, okay. So if you were my client and you gave me the green light to truly coach you, and you said, Adam, I'll do whatever you tell me. I trust you.  I'll follow whatever you're saying, even if I don't really want to do it right now, but I trust the process.  I want to build strength.  That would be the desired outcome right now. And then I would say, once I get you there, then we can start incorporating your kickbox and incorporating your burpees and incorporating some of these high intense things that you enjoy to do. And not only that, when you get to go back and do that, your body's going to respond the way you want it to respond based off the effort that you're putting forth. If you go and start to incorporate that stuff right now when we're only about 1400 to 1600 calories, your body then is going to revolt.   So if we want to, if we want to have our cake and eat it too, if we want to be able to train this way that you want and you're going to be able to shred body fat and kind of get both the best of both worlds, then we first need to do, we need to do the things that we have to do now so we can do the things that we want to do later. Which right now what you need to do is to build your metabolism. Is to strength, so strength train something traditional like a three to four, three to four time a week full body routine. I would actually follow anabolic right now based off what we know now and then maybe go into performance after that. But I would follow that and the goal, the mindset that I would want you to have is let's get stronger. Let's get stronger and see if we can slowly increase our calories without doing all this crazy other high intensity stuff. And then, and we would set a goal together. I'd say, okay, let's agree that we're going to get you up to that 2300 calorie mark without putting any body fat on. And then when we reach that, whether that takes us three months or eight months, depending on how consistent and how much your body responds, then we can start to play with the things that you really enjoy doing that are more intense based.  That way you can incorporate these high intense training sessions with also losing body fat. Otherwise, if you introduce it to you right now, where you're probably still just barely recovering since it wasn't that long ago when you were training this way anyways, your body's not going to respond the way we want to. Does that make sense? Yeah, that makes sense. So if I'm in phase three of the anabolic, I know I've heard you all say you can run it in an elope. Would y'all just start over? Yeah, actually, if you're doing it already, I think mass performance would be fine. And I think you'll have a lot of fun with mass performance. I agree. So we'll send over mass performance to you. Okay, Rachel. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much. Stay in touch with us. Let us know how it goes. Okay, thank you. All right, Rachel. Bye-bye. Yeah, she's not being honest with herself. Well, I mean... Well, that's why I went out. You know what the challenge is here? The challenge with doing these calls is if this was a client of mine, I wouldn't tell her right out the gates. You're not being honest with yourself. The thing going to work. It would be a long conversation over other sessions. You're the leader to that. Yeah, I'm not going to... I mean, this kid, I know I'm going to be a little harsh here, but here's a few things that she said. One, she's got a history of overtraining. Two, ooh, I love burpees are so awesome, but looking back, I was too much and I probably shouldn't have done it. I'm not going to do it again. Yeah. Three, I was eating 1,400 calories. What we're dealing with is an individual that is struggling with a little bit of an addiction to exercise, which is quite common. And she's not being quite honest with herself. Does she love it? No, she loves the addiction to it and it's not working for her. And it's probably the last thing she needs to do for herself. And again, this is a longer process and I know it's going to make her... Talking to her this way is just going to strengthen that and make her defend herself. And she's... But the truth is it's all wrong. It's not good for... Well, the association of just moving that intensively is always about burning fat. And I think that's where I have the biggest issues because I had a lot of clients like this. I have to keep this though and I love it because it's burning my fat. Well, I'm also trying to build muscle.  Some of the hardest people to convince this of are women in groups of other women that do these challenges together.  Like, oh, me and my girlfriend... Pull my wife out of a group like that. Yeah, me and my girlfriend did this Burpee challenge. You just talked about that not that long ago. Yeah. It means she was in the cardio kickboxing and we were trying to get them to run math's program and they just turned it into a big cardio fest. And I'm like, you're out, okay? You can do this on your own. You're cut out. Yeah, you cut out. Let them figure it out. It's really hard. They're part of a group. Everybody's suffering together. There's definitely value in working out together in that camaraderie. But no, she's lying to herself. Well, I mean, I'm glad you started from the compassionate side first of, hey, if you love doing these things, I'm never gonna... You know, it played out the way I thought it was gonna play out, which is, you know... Because it is at least 80 to 90% of my clients that would make this claim that they love burpees, which that was rare. But the ones that would say this or love the hard circuitry, they think they attach it to results. They actually think it's what's best for their body. And they also... They're not receiving those results. What else is common? We actually didn't get into it with her, but maybe she'll get a chance to listen to this and she can assess even further. But it's very common with my clients that are sleep-deprived, low calorie, high stress. That's all part of the same package. How many times do you have someone come up to you, one of these clients, and they've got the dark circles, they're weathered, they're sweaty from the workout they just did. Just came back from an injury. And they're like, oh, but I feel so good. Well, so you get to explain where that is, right? Oh, well, if you... Look, your body starts to become a little resistant to some of these stress hormones. Because you're hammering your body with stress hormones.  And then you got to throw caffeine on it. And then you got to do more of this intense stuff. And then the fear is, if I stop beating myself up, oh my God, I'm going to gain all this body fat. It's a very tough position to be in and you will lie to yourself. And that's exactly what you're doing. I mean, when she says, I love it, it's so great. But looking back, it wasn't good for me and I shouldn't do it, huh? Which I want to, again, and we said this, but I just want to reiterate, it's if she was at a place where she was happy, she was not trying to get stronger, she wasn't trying to lose body fat, she just did it for the enjoyment of it. Yeah, she's not trying to change. Like she's not trying to change anything. They keep doing what you're doing. They keep doing it. I got nothing wrong with that. And eating 1600 or so calories, not a bad place, could be better, but not a bad place. And doing what you love, having the body you want, having the strength and energy you want. That I have nothing against anybody doing marathons, with doing burpees, with doing high intense stuff, so long as they love everything about it. But what always happens is I get someone who tells me, I love all these intense, crazy things, but then I also want my body to change and I can't figure out why it's not. Well, let me tell you why it's not.  If that's cortisol spiking, it gives you this little high. Keeps you going. And it feels really, it feels really good, but it's not what the body needs to see the change that you want. And so you're in this weird predicament of, I know that stuff makes me feel good when I do it, but I also realize now it's not what's best for my body. And the first program, I didn't actually say the first program that she did was Matthew. Of course, yeah. Of course she did. That's why we didn't, that's why we waited so long and it comes with a warning. I hate to say that this sounds arrogant, but when you train people for decades, you start to see commonalities. And this is a very common avatar and persona of a client that would do, and say exactly what she said. 85 to 90% of my clients tell. I will say this though, and it does make me feel good, because here we knew, we waited to put it out for a long time because we were afraid that it would do nothing but attract the wrong people. Yeah, the wrong people are going to want to do that. But what is great is that, look, here we are having a conversation with her. That's right. It got her in because she saw, oh, this is the way I like to train. And then she's listened to the show and she started to piece together, maybe this is not what's best and now here we are on a phone call and so hopefully we can set her on the right track. But I tell you what, if you're listening right now and Maps Hit was the thing that attracted you to, if it was the first program you bought of ours, you might want to question if you're in the same boat because it's- We're going to have a hard conversation with you. That's right. It's very common. She's way more common than she probably thinks she is. A lot of people- And this is why our marketing team- Her mindset is shifting, so there's progress there. So we can highlight that and hopefully she goes through the program. And if people only knew how at odds we were with our marketing team sometimes, because we tell people not to do these popular programs that we could sell the shit out of if we just lied a little bit. Yep.


Hi everyone, welcome to Barnes Takeout. My name is Kaylin Jewel. I am senior instructor in adult education at the Barnes Foundation. And for today's little chat, I wanted to discuss a painting for you that is on display in gallery number 23 on the North wall. And we are looking at gallery 23 here and it's this painting right here. Let's zoom in on it for just a sec. So it's this little picture by Almir Matisse. It sits above or hangs above this painting by Picasso that I've talked about in a previous Barnes Takeout. Also, there are other works on this wall that my colleagues have chatted with you all about. Let's look at this picture more closely. So the title here is Young Woman Before an Aquarium. It was painted between 1921 and 1922 by the French artist Almir Matisse. It's a picture that is depicting a woman gazing into a bowl of goldfish. She's seated in sort of an intimate interior setting with lots of objects and things on the wall behind her. This is a subject matter that in terms of the goldfish that we see here is a subject matter that we've seen in other paintings by Matisse and at least one other that is at the Barnes Foundation just next door in gallery number 19. So here's gallery 19. We're looking at the South wall here and there have been several Takeout videos about pictures by Amadeo Modigliani and most recently Nancy Ierson discussed this landscape. And then my colleague Martha Lucy was discussing this picture from 1912 by Matisse called Studio with Goldfish and she discussed the really interesting tension between depicted objects and this kind of mysterious space that they're set within and notice this bowl of goldfish here. So it's a theme, it's a subject matter that Matisse was interested in. It's related to his trip to Morocco that he took in 1912 where he was interested in the phenomenon and seeing people in Morocco gazing into bowls of goldfish. So it's something he starts to depict in his paintings. The model for our painting that we're discussing today which was painted about 10 years later than Studio with Goldfish is depicted in several pictures at the Barnes Foundation. Her name is Henriette and she's depicted here in this interior scene of two women playing chess. We see Henriette in a couple of more paintings at the Barnes, several more paintings at the Barnes, three of them on display here in gallery number 10 on the South wall, so this is downstairs, this is a great gallery with lots of smaller paintings. But we see Henriette here in this, what is one of my personal favorite paintings, this woman reclining, we see her here. We see Henriette here, her distinctive dark hair in this painting called Chinese Casket. And then we see her represented in a more abstracted way in this reclining nude image up above the Picasso. So let's return back to gallery number 23. The great thing about digital technology, we can travel through the galleries quickly. So here we have again, young woman before an aquarium painted between September of 1921 and February of 1922. Now I give you those specific months because in September of 1921, we know that Armitice had moved into an apartment in Nice, which is in the South of France. Let's look at a Google image of Nice. So this is Nice, Nice, a coastal city in the South of France. And he moved specifically into this building right here. And it's when he's in this building that he starts to more or less make himself at home in the city of Nice. And he starts to bring objects down from his studio in Paris and put them on the walls in this new studio that he's setting up in this apartment in Nice. He had already been in Nice in the previous several years before this, but he was living in a hotel. So he didn't have all of his personal objects with him. For those of you who might know anything about Matisse, you know that he is an artist who was very attached to his objects. And we often think about Matisse and not just him using paint as a means of creative expression, but he's also using his objects that he has collected over the course of his travels. We see some of that on display here with the inclusion of this red fabric that is on the wall behind him, behind in the background of this image. So what we see here in this interior setting is a young woman. We know it's the model Henriette and she is intently gazing into a bowl of goldfish, which in terms of the subject relates back to Matisse's interest in what he was observing in some of the people in Morocco, gazing intently into bowls of goldfish as a way to meditate and to relax. Now, the fact that we see her so focused on this goldfish bowl, notice how her eyes are directed towards the fish that are swimming around in the goldfish bowl. And there is this intensity in her, the directionality of her gaze, but the way that Matisse has painted it is anything but still. So while it has a stillness in kind of its overall subject matter, a static bowl filled with water, but it has these activated goldfish that are meant to be swimming around. We should be thinking of them as swimming around in this water. And this woman who is very quietly sitting in a chair with her arms folded, leaning on a wooden desk or a wooden table, I imagine many of us have done this before. Those of you who might have fish in your homes might spend time looking at them or if you have pets you spend time looking at them, right? And just kind of contemplating them. And so we see her contemplating them, but the way that Matisse has painted it is anything but quiet, as I mentioned. And notice this kind of quickness of the brushwork that is in portions of the canvas. I see that most pronounced in this strip of browns that rise from the shoulder of the model. So this area here, we can get a sense that he's really kind of applying and dragging his brush across the surface of the canvas. And when you start to look closely at this canvas, and that's one of the great things of being able to look at these in this digital format, especially because this one hangs, you know, kind of high up on the wall in the gallery and it's a little bit difficult to see, is that when we look at it closely like this, we can see the weave of the canvas itself. If we zoom out to look at the dimensions of this painting, the dimensions are more closely aligned with what we would expect for a portrait painting. But instead of being a vertical format, he has taken that vertical format and turned it horizontally to create almost like a landscape. It's perhaps we can think of it like an abbreviated interior landscape. One where we have the inclusion of nature, so a woman within nature. This is something that my colleague, Martha Lucy, has talked about in previous Barnes Takeouts with respect to Matisse's paintings of women in nature. And also the inclusion of water here, which is another aspect of many of these earlier paintings of images of women within nature, you know, bathers next to water, these kinds of things. So we see this quickness in the brushwork juxtaposed with the remarkable stillness and the intensity of the gaze of the sitter. This quickness though is also sort of evoked by the inclusion of these white rectangles in the background.  These are little drawings. So Matisse, as we know, kind of loves to often include his own paintings or his own works of art in his works. And we see that here, but he hasn't included final paintings or finished paintings. Instead, he has included these sketches, these drawings, which is again an interesting juxtaposition of a quick, hasty sketch within this finished oil painting. The last thing I'll mention about this picture is that the quality of the oil paint is different across the surface of the canvas. I mentioned that you can see portions of the canvas peeking through when we look at some of these areas where you see the canvas kind of poking up through the paint. And that's because he's using a relatively thin application of paint. It's almost as thin as watercolor. Of course, it's oil painted, not watercolor, but it's a really thinned out version of oil paint. But he doesn't do that all across the canvas because if we look at her face and zoom in on areas like her forehead here, notice that we see this interesting mixing of pigments to create a sense of volume of the curvature of her forehead.  So we can see that in the way that the paint is sort of mixing here. We can also see that in the way that he's adjusting portions of this composition. So this white stripe that we have here, which you might not have noticed until we kind of hone in on it, but this white stripe here was applied after he had created the volume of the back of her head. And he's applying that white stripe of paint because he's wanting to adjust the size of the back of her head. So he's making these little tweaks, these little compositional tweaks, but he doesn't smooth that out, does he? He leaves it as that white strip that has blended with the brown of the hair and creates this kind of ethereal, almost a halo-like effect, which I think is pretty interesting when we think about the long tradition of painting and the types of paintings that Matisse himself was very knowledgeable of, including medieval art, for example. So when we go back to the gallery view, you can see how small it is and how much richness we can get out of this close-looking of this painting and this visual format. And I would encourage you to check out our collections website where you can zoom in on both these ensembles and these individual pictures themselves, and you can find out all of these interesting technical aspects of the pictures just by looking at them, which is, of course, something that Dr. Barnes is encouraging all of us to do is to spend time looking at these paintings. So thanks for joining me today with this Barnes Takeout, and stay tuned for the next one. Take care. I'm Tom Collins, Newbauer Family Executive Director of the Barnes Foundation. I hope you enjoyed Barnes Takeout. Subscribe and make sure your post notifications are on to get daily servings of art. Thanks for watching and for your support of the Barnes Foundation.


There was a time when I was the biggest distro hopper in the world. I switched distros like every week Sometimes I didn't even make it a week. It was seriously really bad for a long time Especially when I first started I was switching back and forth between distros like sometimes every day it was It was done. I mean really cuz I mean I didn't know anything about Linux really So every time I encountered a problem. I didn't search out how to solve the problem I just downloaded a different ISO and said you know screw this. I'm gonna go find a different distro It's honestly a shock that I ever stuck with Linux for as long as I did that being said I don't do that anymore Thank goodness. I just I I don't have the time to do that any longer but I still hopped between window managers and desktop environments a lot and Really, it's not a big deal because I have them all installed on this machine here. I have DWM which is the one I spend most of my time in I have BSPWM i3 sway Qtile X monad herp slough open box KDE xfce I'm sure I'm missing a couple It's it's astonishing how many different desktop environments and window managers I have installed. I Don't use all of them very much, but I do switch between them quite often like yesterday I popped into X monad just to Remind myself why I don't actually like X monad, but I do enjoy having them installed so that I can go through and use them When I get bored of one particular window manager It keeps me from having to distro hop something different because I have that whole ADD thing going on If you're like me and have multiple window managers or multiple desktop environments installs you can find it really hard to actually manage them in terms of remembering the key bindings Ricing them and keeping them and their rices kind of separate It's really kind of hard and I mean there's a reason why they tell you not to install Multiple desktop environments because a lot of times a lot of this stuff conflicts and it's really bad when you have both a lot of GTK based desktop environments or window managers and a lot and KDE plasma on top of that because a lot of that stuff really does conflict and I'm kind of in that situation. I Really like KDE plasma, but it has a tendency to kind of infiltrate everything it if you go into KDE plasma and you Customize stuff. It changes your icon set system. Why not just for Q apps, but for everything, right? And that really is it sucks because like I have my GTK stuff set for a specific rice my DWM rice in this case and I don't want them to be changed every time I happen to log into plasma. It's a it's annoying So what I thought I would do today is talk about a few tips I can give you for managing Multiple window managers and desktop environments. Now. This is no my no means a perfect System there are things that you're just not gonna get passed like that icon thing I just mentioned that there's not a lot you can do about that. It's just the way it is Don't install KDE and GTK apps side-by-side They don't like playing together very all much because KDE likes to be in charge and can all maps like to be in charge and You change one in one place it changes in the other places it just gets a little messy But there are some things you can do to make your life a little bit easier if you do have multiple Window managers or desktop environments installed. So that's what I'm going to be talking about today. Let's go ahead and jump in So the first tip I can give you is that you should use a lacquerty So chances are one of the things you probably do is select a color scheme for your terminal And that color scheme probably matches the rice of the one of your desktop environments or window managers If you have multiple window managers or whatever installed You probably have different rices and color schemes So the great thing about a lacquerty is it allows you to launch a lacquerty based on different configuration files using a flag and Basically what this will allow you to do is that when you're in say BSPWM with that certain rice you can launch from one configuration file that has those color schemes and then you can Go into DWM which has a different rice and launch from a different configuration file, which has a different set of colors It's a great thing. I don't know if there are other terminal emulators out there that do the same thing or not Kitty might do that. I'm not sure but for sure a lacquerty does The next tip I have for you is to not theme your GTK apps as rice specific So what I'm talking about here, and it's not something I'm actually good at doing But it's something that I want to get better at doing is just to choose a GTK based theme That kind of is generic that something will fit in every single rice you have no matter what the color scheme is and What that will do is it will save you from having to rewrite those things every time you switch window managers especially if you switch those window managers every day that can get really annoying and And that means that your GTK apps like your file manager or whatever your, you know Firefox all these things will kind of just kind of blend into your rice no matter which rice you're using The next tip is to use a hotkey demon something like SXHKD There are a few other ones But SXHKD is probably the best one as long as you're on a window manager or a desktop environment. That's using xorg There are there is a version for Wayland as well, but I'm not sure what that's called But basically what SXHKD does besides give you headaches every time you say the name is It allows you to set key bindings running through a demon in the background So what this me allows you to do is to create a single file that you can take with you into every window manager That holds specific key bindings that you're always going to use So let's say you always want super W to launch your web browser if you put that in your SXHKD RC file That key binding will go with you everywhere You start SXHKD in the background and as you can do this in pretty much every window manager That means that you no longer have to have Your super W key combination in every single Configuration file and that just saves one less thing you have to change in a configuration file So and you can do this for pretty much anything so specific specifically Key bindings to launch apps are great for this type of use case Because those are the things that are not window manager or desktop environments Dependent things like moving windows back and forth that's very iffy because there are only certain window managers out there that will allow you to go through and Control window movement outside of the configuration file So for example, I3 will allow you to do it. I believe Sway will allow you to do it I really haven't messed around with Sway as much as I want to yet BSPWM obviously will allow you to do it because SXHKD was actually built for BSPWM It wouldn't surprise me something like Spectre WM would allow you to do it But I'm not actually sure about that But anyways, there are only a few of those window managers will actually allow you to control window movement outside of the configuration file So those key bindings will have to remain inside the configuration file, but things like launching your different applications Controlling the volume of your computer and things like that can be controlled through something like SXHKD And then you just take that file with you for every window manager that you have The next tip I can give you is that you should use get to back up all of your configuration files And that you should organize them well so that they're easy to redownload later on because chances are When you distro hop or whatever you'll want to reinstall some of these window managers Maybe all of them and it's a lot easier to do that if you've gone through and backed up your files and Have organized them in such a way where you can just download them put them in the proper place install the proper things that you need to install and You're good to go if you don't back up your stuff where you keep them in separate places and they're all over the place It just makes it a big hassle now one warning about this do not just upload your entire dot-config file I've made that mistake in the past. It's not a great thing to do because a lot of Files in your dot-config file actually have some personal information So you want might not want to upload things to Get hub there, you know Have that kind of information so don't upload your entire dot-config file just upload the The files that you need for your specific window managers and so on and so forth The next tip I have for you is to ensure that your configs are commented very well So there's a good chance that if you have multiple window managers installed You'll probably come across a situation where you haven't been in a window manager in three four or five months or whatever And eventually you do go back to it But you haven't been there in a long time and if you haven't gone through and Commented that config very well. You might have made a change You know way back when and that you don't really remember anything about and You don't know really know what you're doing. So it by commenting your configs very well It will remind you where you've made changes and that's a good thing because it will keep you from stupid bugs and it will keep you from having to Really dive deep into the configuration file because comments obviously stand out The final tip that I can give you is to create a cheat sheet for the key bindings that are exclusive to your window managers so a good example of this for me is that the Scratch pads between DWM and X monad are controlled differently and they have different key bindings so in DWM, I have it set for super M super Y and so on and so forth in X monad they use a key cord. So They're done with control M and then a certain key. I'm never gonna remember that So what I've done is gone through and created a cheat sheet for both DWM and X monad so that when at any time I go through and have forgotten something I can just bring up that cheat sheet of key bindings and remember it very quickly So you can do this through a bash script you can go through and just cat them all out into a file and then then bring that file up You know in whatever way It's very easy to do. I have a video on how to do it. It's not a very good video I will also link to my friend terminal for life's video where he critiques mine and does a way better job at creating one for DWM it's basically the same process for any other window manager you just have to go through and Tweak those scripts in order to bring out the right and tax from the configuration file I don't foresee a future where I don't have multiple window managers installed I like switching between them way too much So these are tips that I actually need to follow a little bit better because I do go through I theme my GTK apps I shouldn't do that because their spirit then they're very right specific and it's hard to go into like BSPWM Where I have a different rice than what I have in DWM And then open up Nemo and have it black and purple when the rest of the same is you know One dark or grub box or something it sticks out like a thruster or thumb So that's definitely one of those tips where I'm gonna have to follow it way better than I do in The comments below. I'd love to hear if you have any tips for actually running Multiple window managers or desktop environments other than don't do it. I mean that's a an appropriate piece of advice But that's really not the point of the video. So let me know in the comments if you do have constructive advice for everybody else You can follow me on Twitter at the Linux cache You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash Linux cast before I go I'd like to take a moment to thank my current patrons Devon Marcus Meglin Donnie Sven east coast web Chris Mitchell. Mr. Fox American camp. Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you next time


How long should you pray daily in order to be used by God with great power? This kind of question assumes that God's power depends upon our devotion. Let me explain. To be clear, you should pray every day and all throughout the day. Additionally, you should set aside time that's totally devoted to just the Lord. You need both spontaneous prayer and scheduled secluded prayer. And of course, every believer should live clean and in the awareness of the Holy Spirit's presence. But I don't count the hours I pray, just like I don't set a timer when spending time with my Jessica. If we count hours in prayer like points, then when God does use us, we might be deceived into thinking that his power moved because of our prayers. Live a yielded life and let God do with it what he will. Don't have faith in your own prayer life. Don't even have faith in faith. Have faith in Jesus. Give him all the glory for however he chooses to move in and through you.


Hey everyone, before we get into this video, I want to remind you to enter our Animal Crossing New Horizons giveaway. In order to enter that giveaway, all you got to do is like this video, leave a comment down below, subscribe to the channel, and hit that bell icon. If you do that on every video for the rest of the month through March 18th, you get an additional entry on every video. And then, hey look, we announced the winner on March 19th. It will be a digital code, it will be the North American version of the game, but hey, the switch is region free, so it doesn't matter, it works worldwide. Today folks, we're talking about Breath of the Wild 2, or the sequel as it's officially called, because there's some information that came across my desk. I've heard some whisperings about this game behind the scenes, but I am never really comfortable with the sources quote-unquote I have to come forward with things because I like to get verified from multiple places, and the things I'm hearing are just coming from like single sources in different places, no one's corroborating anything. So I just kind of let it go unless I hear something else. And what happened is over the weekend, my good friend Game Over Jesse came out with an interesting video and essentially confirmed a bunch of things that I've been hearing. And today, we're going to be talking about how there's a new mode in Breath of the Wild 2, the sequel. There's a change to weapon durability, those are like the two big things we're going to touch on, and potentially a new enemy being added to the game, a new enemy type, of course there's going to be new enemies in the game, it's a new game, they're going to put new enemies in, but this one kind of back in, you know, goes back to Ocarina of Time. So let's get into it. So as I explained my game over Jesse, and he has sources directly connected to Nintendo, like literally one of them is a Nintendo employee. That's all I can really say on that front, he's not revealing much more than that. It's that Breath of the Wild 2 is going to have a new mode. And that new mode is going to be an easy mode. Now in the past we've seen master modes and hero modes and all of these more difficult modes, some of them added with amiibo, like the Ganondorf amiibo and like Twilight Princess HD, all the way to master mode in Breath of the Wild. Obviously we've had modes in the past on Twilight Princess HD, the Windbreaker HD, etc. There's been, you know, even even Skyward Sword, you know, I have one built built in. Obviously the last time we had to pay for it, this next time we don't, etc. So there's been a lot of different hard modes added and chances are I would assume there's going to be a hard slash master slash hero mode or something added to this game. But that wouldn't be a new feature. And wouldn't be worth talking about unless it's something that, hey, you could you could play that right away from the start or something, you don't have to beat it in normal mode or whatever. But we don't have any information on that front. Again, that mode is likely to exist. But this is a different mode than that. This is what's being called an easy mode. Now it's not going to be called an easy, you know, easy mode in the final version of the game or anything that or when it's even unveiled to us. But what it is, is it adds one major difference. And I'm actually surprised they don't just make this a toggle in the items menu, you know, or in the items menu in the menu of the game, the options menu, you know, it makes more sense as a toggle than a whole mode. But I guess this is to address a lot of complaints in Breath of the Wild. Now there's been numerous complaints about Breath of the Wild over the years, the game's massively popular, of course, there's going to be people finding things they don't like about it. And one of the major criticisms really dating all the way back to the E3 2016 demo is item durability. No, the durability system isn't going away for those that were hoping it might maybe let us vanish because it's a core component to how the open world works and how combat works in Breath of the Wild. But what easy mode does do is make all of the items more durable. I believe something around twice the durability, however, the exact amount is more durable isn't fully known because it hasn't been fully tested. But the idea is that items are much more durable and much harder to break.  But in general, you know, if you're whacking someone with a stick, that stick's gonna last twice as long. And the idea behind this is to keep your favorite weapons around even longer and lower the barrier of entry for new players. Now, honestly, it's funny that to talk about this as a lowering the barrier of entry for new players because I don't think the durability system is about new players. I think it's just people that don't like or think that the durability of the items are, you know, aren't as strong as they should be, you know, that a steel sword should last a little longer than it does in this game. So the idea then is to offer this easy mode that makes things more durable and it does not affect enemy damage to you. It does not affect your damage to other enemies. It doesn't affect the game in any other way. It's just a mode that enables you to have better weapon durability. So this might become the default favorite mode for a lot of people who really, really detest the current weapon durability system in Breath of the Wild. Now again, this is just for Breath of Wild to the sequel. It's not being added to the original game, but it is a change nonetheless. Now, it doesn't mean there can't be other changes in the game, of course. And this part gets into a little bit of speculation, but you guys remember like the champions weapons, how they like can break and then be reforged or repaired. It's possible that that could be done in this game too. Again, more speculation than anything else. But if they're obviously looking at weapon durability and trying to improve that for the people who are complaining about it, while normal mode is going to keep weapon durability the same as it always was, it's possible they're also looking at ways for certain items to not be breakable, or if they are breakable, that they're able to be reforged or repaired. I think earnestly a reforging system is the real answer to weapon durability because there's people that have their favorite weapons and they break and it's hard to get that weapon again. Maybe the ability to reforge it could be something that they could look into like they did do with the champions weapons. But just something for Nintendo to maybe consider in the future now. The other part of all of this is a rumor that's supposedly going up today and I'm calling these rumors for my sake because I can't verify this information, but where it's coming from in game over Jesse, I inherently trust him wholeheartedly. He has been spot on with a lot of his leaks, a lot of his things like you know he said there'd be three different Zelda games talked about at E3, this last E3 and there were cadence of Hyrule, Link's Awakening, Breath of the Wild 2. He knew about that before it happened and that's because he has connections. He has literally had all the major voice actors from Breath of the Wild on his podcast. He has interviewed people from Nintendo. He has connections believe it or not and because of that I fully trust him. He is someone I've worked with directly in the past both as a YouTuber. He's been in our podcast. I've worked with him at other Zelda sites in the past. Zelda Informer and Zelda Dungeon and Universe, those were the trifecta, the triforce of Zelda sites out there. I literally trust this guy with anything that comes to Zelda info because he does not put out things without having verifiable sources and well I can't verify these sources. I trust him in who he says these sources are. Now this next one about an enemy, this one is not as set in stone. He's only had one source on this so if he does put out a video on it today he's going to note that he's going to call this one a straight up rumor because he's not talking about the easy mode and the durability stuff is a rumor because he fully believes it and the people he's heard it from he's got multiple sources on it. This one he only has one so far so he's only going to kind of just mention that he knows about this but it might not be true and that is a new enemy type that comes from Ocarina of Time. Now at this point in time I could take some guesses he kind of hinted at it towards the end of his video but I'm not exactly sure what enemy it is. I don't know if we're talking about BMO so if we're talking about you know whatever because he kind of just shows the laser being shot from you know the in Breath of the Wild from those enemies and we don't know what that means and the other other enemies I can think of laser shooting from our BMOs so maybe that means BMOs are coming back or something. I don't know that'd be kind of cool I wouldn't be shocked or surprised at it it's just something that is to pay attention today so make sure you check our game over Jesse's channel later today as I'm sure he'll be dropping a video on it at some point and yeah I mean that that's really all I got for you besides just in general being hyped for Breath of the Wild too. Again we have a rumor of a direct coming this week from last week you guys remember my last Prime News episode there was a talk about a direct coming this week based on updates to the Nintendo Direct playlist in Japan there's been other rumors out there that Breath of the Wild 2 will be in this direct Breath of the Wild 2 will end up coming out this year that that's kind of floating out there it was also a rumor from about a month ago that Breath of the Wild 2 has been delayed until 2021 of course officially there's no delay because we don't have a release date it's still TBA in the financial reports but there's just a lot going on out there and the more and more I'm starting to hear much more trusted information about Breath of the Wild 2 the more and more I'm starting to believe yeah it really could come this year because if we're hearing this information now and they're talking about different modes in the game clearly the game needs to be at a state where it's coming close to completion coming close to going gold and that means a likely release date of this year so that's something to consider as well again you know that's speculative but I do believe when you hear about these kind of rumors and uh these rumors are from someone that I really trust this isn't Emily Rodgers this is someone I know I've met in real life I know this guy I know Jesse so I know that this isn't just BS he just throws out there and knowing this and trusting him and trusting this information makes me believe that 2020 is happening Breath of the Wild 2 is coming this year so um stay tuned because we're going to be talking about a lot of the Breath of the Wild sequel this year Breath of the Wild is my favorite game of all time I'm a Zelda guy you guys seem to really like talking about this Zelda stuff whether it's speculative or rumors or whatever um maybe I need to talk more Zelda at this channel it kind of gets back to my grassroots as a Zelda fan site owner and runner um it's a lot of fun I actually used to have a series called Zelda inquiries if you guys remember way back in the day shout out to anyone who remembers that uh but anyways you guys let me know what you think about this uh and if you want me talking about Zelda maybe once a week here so because man I do I love not just the news I just love talking Zelda I love talking future Zelda games uh so let me know what you think down in the comments below I am Nathaniel Robojans from Nintendo Prime I want to thank you so much for tuning in uh if you're wondering if there's going to be a prime news episode today the answer is unfortunately no um I had a scheduling conflict come up but there will be a new prime news episode dropping tomorrow I'm starting a regular schedule for it uh but once that schedule starts I'm sticking to it it hasn't officially started yet that's why I haven't announced anything uh but there should be a prime news episode tomorrow starting at a regular time uh more on that later be sure to enter our animal crossing new horizons give away about liking subscribing uh commenting and hitting that bell icon otherwise folks I'll catch all of you guys in the next video


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How does it feel to be a TEDx speaker?  I wish I could have rehearsed a little more and could have perfected it, but so far so good. I'm pretty happy with it. It was a really good speech. I don't know what you could have made better in it. It was already really nice. Your speech did include what StoneSoup does, but in simple words, how would you like to summarize what StoneSoup does and what's your role in the whole process? Sure. So I had strategy at StoneSoup. And StoneSoup is a creative solutions agency. So it basically helps clients out with predominantly communication but can go into the tech side of things with a website or an app as well. But anything under the marketing spectrum is what we kind of work with. In terms of strategy, my job is to kind of understand what the client wants, take that to my creative team and pull out the best version of the idea that's going to raise the odds of making it really effective. So bringing in new perspectives to attract new customers. Where did this idea, where did you get the inspiration to start this company? Was there an instance where you felt like this was needed? So I always knew that I wanted to set up my own agency. And in fact I was at a crossroads once I quit my previous agency where I was going to go study, but I chose not to because one, I met my business partner who had already set up an agency called Social Cat which is what we kind of rebranded and took forward to StoneSoup. But I also knew the fact that in five years time this would get harder. It's going to get harder every five years because the categories will get monopolized. Platforms will get harder to navigate through. And yeah, I feel like I was already late to the digital game. But yeah, I'm happy that we started and set off. Absolutely. So if all the young viewers and the people who are just coming out from their undergrad or postgrad who also want to start their own companies, what would be your advice to them? My advice would be there's going to be no time that's better than the start today. Like do not get stuck in paralysis by analysis.  Start, you're going to learn on the job more than you ever have. And yeah, I mean, give it a shot. You've got nothing to lose. Fall back on a day job at any point in your life. But definitely it's worth the ride. Absolutely. So how was your experience today? Did you enjoy? Absolutely. I just love the campus here. It's such a privilege to be here. I wish my school conducted dead talks like that's insane. But I guess that's the privilege of being in Pune, right? Yeah, I think overall it was a great experience. And I'm going to check out the rest of the speakers online later today too. Thank you, Mr. Rahul. It was an amazing speech.


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