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Hello there everyone, welcome to Fall Fashion. I hope you're as excited as I am. Give a thumbs up if you are.  Every one of these outfits does incorporate a piece from Farfetch. So let's show y'all some fits that I will be rocking. First fit is me out of my comfort zone and I hope you guys can find the inspiration to do so yourselves. I'm rocking these insanely wide leg pants, balloon pants basically, and man was it kinda tough. These pants are from a brand called 5CM that I bought myself from Farfetch because they were decently affordable for this type of pants. And what I really like about these are the draw cords which adds an extra element to the fits kinda like Akron and pants. But also the cut is so out there that I really like it. It comes in this light green colorway and I felt like pairing it with the Nike Blazers in the Maroon colorway. One, because Maroon is a complimentary color to green. And two, because the haircut will pair really well with the wide leg opening in my opinion. I did try these on with some Vans slip wands and they do kinda give off those Bruce Lee vibes. I think it looks pretty good and I did try on some more chunkier sneakers because that's what everyone says. Wider pants, chunkier sneakers. In my opinion, it didn't really look as good. Sometimes you gotta do some trial and error yourself to see what you like. Then I paired the pants with a slimmer, not fitted, more of a regular fit instead of an oversized car heart hoodie. Which Farfetch, what's kinda enough to send over. And I really dig this hoodie because of the wash. I am a sucker for that slate gray wash look. It's not like gray, it's not black, it's the perfect wash. And I did get a size medium because I'm looking to layer this as well. Typically when you pair an oversized hoodie with a more slim jacket, you look puffy and it's not really a good look because I'm definitely gonna be layering this wash with more slim jackets. And I always prefer smaller low key logos on my tops. And yes, I do have the same piece you guys have probably seen it before just in a shirt. Then just a simple cap along with the car heart sling bag which was gifted to me as well. And I forgot to mention this is car heart WIP which is their work in progress line. These are their more fashion forward pieces while regular car heart is really meant for construction workers and all that. Obviously I'm not a construction worker. Now I really like the bag because orange and green is always a good combination of colors. I don't really get why they're not complimentary colors. Maybe it's because of pumpkins or something like that. But yeah, I think this fit is the definition of fall for me. As we move on to the next, this fit is more for the top of the fall season end of summer. So it's still gonna be pretty warm but not peak summer where it's 90 plus degrees and super humid. So let's start off with one of my new favorite shirts and that is the a cold wall brush stroke shirt. So I'm typically not into graphic tees. I do have a few, but it's just not my preference. Now patterns I like something like stripes. This shirt is the perfect mix. It kind of has a graphic with the brush stroke and it's simplistic while being complex. So this shirt is easy on the eyes, no crazy logos or graphics, but it is strong enough within its design to be considered a statement piece. The shirt is very soft, stretchy and definitely made of premium materials. And you can just tell when you touch the fabric and the fit is really oversized. Definitely not for everyone has a huge drop shoulder. And I'm really glad I put myself out of my comfort zone, tried on oversized clothes. I can wear extremely oversized clothes or extremely tailored ones and everything in between. Now the denim is from APC, which was also gifted to me by Farfetch. This denim has a more old school feel. Kind of hard to explain. There's no tapering, double knees or wide relaxed fits. It just has the old school vibes and that gray wash really emphasizes that. And you could also just tell because there's absolutely no stretch. It's very uncomfortable to wear. I think we've all been blessed by stretchy denim. So yeah, they're not as comfortable, but I really appreciate the design and how it is cut. I paired it with these multicolored SB blazers. Big fan of these regular blazers like in the last fit are still nice, but the SB blazers come with more heel support, more durable materials and a zoom cushion insole at the same price because it is meant for skating. Now, if these pants did have stretch, I would easily consider this a more skate fit. Definitely a super chill fit. You can go have a session, but these are very rigid, not much stretch. But yeah, I really dig the colors. It adds a nice pop to an otherwise neutral colored outfit. And finally, I topped it off with this Chicago hat that I got from the Sears Tower. You all know I love getting stuff at museums and gift shops and all that. So I just came back from Miami and I got this shirt from Windwood Walls. Go support your local businesses. Anyways, I finished it off with this folk bag and it has a tan olive colorway that really complements the rest of the fits. And I really enjoyed this one just like I really enjoy shopping at the sponsor of today's video, Farfetch. Farfetch is the best place to shop for new and old pieces, old collections you might've missed, new drops. And remember when I said shop local, well, you technically are with Farfetch as they do act as the middleman to mom and pop shops all over the world. Come on, we love that. You know, some local businesses don't have a huge online presence and Farfetch provides that. Plus, sometimes you might find an item on sale from those local shops that you otherwise wouldn't find at the actual brand's website. Or you just might find some pieces that would normally be out of stock. Like everyone's already heard of the Vans vault models but where are they? Because Vans doesn't even have it on their own site. Check these out. Farfetch sent over these vault slip on Vans which are made so much better. They're more durable and they look better because it lacks that black stripe that you get from normal models. And I've looked all over the place at Vans' actual website and they don't have it in stock. So that is why I love Farfetch. They have pretty much every brand that you can think of.  That would have been nice to have that code for myself whenever I got some of these items but it's all good. It's all good. I'm gonna use it the next time I shop there which will be after I film this video. I got y'all, Farfetch has got y'all and thank you Farfetch for gifting these items and sponsoring this video. Let's get back to the fits. Up next is one of my favorite fits.  You've seen me in many variations of this outfit and yeah, this fit never fails. So let's start off with the Rick Owens Converse Dark Shadow Turbo Chuck 70s. It's basically your low top cream chucks but with an extended squared off toe and an extended tongue.  I'm a 10 and a half or an 11 and these sneakers just really emphasize how big my feet are. But I don't really care because fashion's all about fun. The pants are the new Y3 cargo pants in the shadow green colorway. Thank you Farfetch for sending these over. I was about to buy these myself. So I really love these pants but my only gripe is the pretty large cuffs. Fortunately in the tech wear space this is still seen in some pant designs or maybe I'm just a huge Yoji fan. I'm just rationalizing everything. These are made of ripstop fabric so it can take a lot of punishments. There's a ton of pockets, regular pockets, zipper pockets and they're all stacked on top of each other which gives these pants quite a nice look. There's belt loops which should be standard. You don't really notice it until you get a pants that don't have belt loops. This is annoying but you can clip your keys to it. You can wear a belt and these pants are super comfortable. The jacket is from Alpha Industries. It's the classic ME1 bomber in a slim fit paired with the Uniqlo Erasm tank top because it's still quite hot outside and because it's so hot I did push up the sleeves just so I could show off the accessories and get a little bit more ventilation. The necklace is from Acne Studios provided by the sponsor and this is just a really nice necklace. So it's just a T-shaped anchor with two rings and it makes this look more different and more unique than your average necklace and I'm really enjoying this one. Then I topped it off with the Y3 hats which I did want the logo to show because why not? I think the white square patch adds a nice contrast and really completes the outfit in my opinion. I've tried it on with just a regular black hat and it didn't really feel complete to me. And you know I cannot go one video without talking about tech wear. And now that it's fall it's the perfect season because it's been too hot. I've been missing layering. Hell, even filming this video and the outfits for it was too hot as well but you gotta do it for the content and I'm trying to find any way to layer. Now the sneakers are the Nike ACG Mountain Fly. These were the first versions and these are made of Gore-Tex material and because it is the first version it has a very simplistic design. It's got a chunky design with an ankle sock area that I think really looks good in tech fits. These are meant for hiking but they're also quite nice for walking around the city. Now if you don't like this version they do have the Mountain Fly Lows which I think looks better. They have a ton of colorways as well but it does lose the Gore-Tex materials. The pants are the Deploy Cargos from Nike Lab ACG. My favorite pants of all time. I wear these a ton and I highly recommend it if you can find a pair. For the top I'm rocking that same Uniqlo Erasm tank top for more breathability because the jacket is a raincoat after all which is from a cold wall. I just think raincoats, trench coats, any extended length jackets add a really nice element to the fits and this jacket is water repellent and wind resistant so it's perfect for those early fall mornings and just late fall in general. What I love about this jacket is the translucent gray material. It gives the jacket some more dimension, some more texture rather than just being your regular black raincoat and the zippers are made from metal. You can just hear them clinking around. Feels very premium. You got your standard pockets, a chest pocket, adjustability in the hood and sleeves area and yes, I did get this from Farfetch as well but with my own money and now my wallet hates me. And last but not least is a fit with color. I think I needed it with all these outfits. All these outfits have been black and olive or just very neutral. This has some color. You're welcome. So the denim jacket is from 5CM. It's pre-color blocks so it has your standard wash and your extra light wash and it kind of has that patched denim look without any patches. Definitely the statement piece of this outfit. Then I got the same Erasm tank top because I just think white and light denim pair really well together. If I wore a black tank top I think it would have looked weird. Just my opinion though. And the pants are one of my favorites as well. These are the Alpha Industries Jack Cargos. These are made out of ripstop fabric. They're very comfortable to wear. Has knee articulation, very stretchy and it does have that straight cut relaxed fit which I really enjoy. And because of that military vibe I did pair it with these sneaker boots from a cold wall and Converse. I've been wearing a lot of a cold wall in this video. Yeah, I would consider these a sneaker boots. These are water repellents. Has a nice sleek gray colorway. Very simplistic with its design but really stands out.  And because of the denim jacket I thought why not lean into it and throw on a sling bag from Fundamental Denim. It's a brand I highly recommend. If you want that Japanese denim vibes check them out. And overall I do like this fits but it does give off more spring vibes. So with that I think if I do on a beanie or some sort of headwear I think it would have really completed this fit. Made it lean more towards the fall time. By the way I like the fit. All right y'all those are my fall outfits. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Found some inspiration. Let me know what fit was your favorites in the comments down below. Follow me on Instagram and TikTok at Fly With Johnny Tye. And until then stay fly, check out Far Fetch Deuces.


Now it's my pleasure to introduce our next two speakers. Katie Moriarty is on the faculty of the Frontier Nursing University here in the United States, which I believe is the largest educator of midwives in the United States. Katie originally studied nursing in Ontario, Canada. She is a certified nurse midwife here in the United States. She was the first midwife certified by Acupuncture Canada and her doctoral dissertation focused on acupressure as a pre-birth treatment. While she was at the University of Michigan, she launched an integrative healthcare and complementary therapies clinic in pregnancy and reproductive women's health within their nurse managed center. She's just re-elected to her second term on the board of directors of the American College of Nurse Midwives. Katie has years of experience with acupuncture, mindfulness and integrative healthcare. Helping Katie with this presentation is Janelle Kamarowski. Janelle is also an assistant professor at Frontier Nursing University. Janelle began her midwifery career as a direct entry midwife in California. She had a home birth practice there for a decade before returning to school to become a certified nurse midwife. She has years of experience with home birth and hospital births. She managed a free-standing birth center and is now a laborist at a community hospital. Katie and Janelle, we'd love to hear what you want to tell us. Thanks so much, Seal. We want to say hi to everybody. It's really exciting seeing all the different countries and everybody here, and it's a real honor for us to be able to participate.  Some of the objectives that we're going to do is we just really want to go get some groundwork with some definitions, and then we're going to go over some uses and some trends, and then we're mostly going to focus on education. And then we want to talk to you about some implications for educators and researchers and clinicians. So there's a lot of definitions of health, but the World Health Organization in 1948 endorsed this definition, which was a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. And we see that that's actually 69 years ago, but there's a huge shifter from that time of thinking about health as being not just an absence of disease, but really a much broader concept of prevention and optimization of wellness. The Institute of Medicine and Summit Perspectives on Integrative Health. So the Institute of Medicine and the Summit Perspectives on Integrative Health, at that time the president of the Institute of Medicine was Harvey Weinberg, and he actually, prior to the conference, had really said that when we looked at a definition for integrative health care or medicine, that it almost felt like a Rorschach blot, and there were just so many definitions, but at the end of the conference they really felt that they saw these five commonalities, which were really that first that there's a broad definition of health, so that it really needs to include physical, mental, emotional, spiritual factors, and enable a real comprehensive of what makes a person really healthy, that there's a wide range of interventions from prevention to treatment to rehab and recovery, that we see a real coordination of care, so that care comes across from an array of practitioners and caregivers and institutions. One of the most fundamental and probably one of the most neglected aspects of really high quality care they felt was that it really needs to be patient-centered care, and that there's a variety of modalities included within an aspect of this. So in the United States we have the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, and that's housed in the National Institute of Health. It used to be called NCAM, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, so they've kind of reworked the terminology as time kind of progresses, we see a progression then in terms. So for complementary, when people utilize that term, it really usually means that someone's using something that's considered maybe non-mainstream, but that they're using it in conjunction with conventional medicine versus an alternative healing or an alternative therapy is usually referring to someone who's using a non-mainstream approach, but they're using it in place of completely of a conventional kind of biomedicine or allopathic care. When we look at integrative health care, these are two definitions. One is from the University of Arizona, the Integrative Medicine Department, and then the other is from the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health. So we usually see integrative health care really kind of reaffirms the importance of the relationship between that practitioner and the patient. It focuses on the whole person, it's informed by evidence, it makes use of appropriate therapeutic approaches. The healthcare professionals and disciplines help to achieve kind of optimal health and healing. So by definition, we see integrative health really addresses that biomedical, but as well it addresses sociocultural determinants of health, and it takes a real broad view of health creation and disease prevention. So we're really then focusing on prevention, patient empowerment and activation, and not treating just a patient but looking at that woman, that family, and then the impact that that has on the community. So it has kind of the potential for really significant contributions and specific to decreasing morbidity and mortality in our society, and we really see currently that it has the potential to really help with many things that are considered to then go on to have chronic health problems such as obesity, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and depression. For functional medicine, it's kind of a relatively new approach to care, but it assigns kind of a central role to the interactions between a patient and their environment from their GI system, their endocrine, and their immune system, and that the practitioners of functional medicine usually focus in on those interactions and then have a really individualized treatment plan. When we look at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, they usually kind of categorize things, kind of into two big subgroups. One would be natural products, and the other which is, I'm sorry, there's all of a sudden something coming across my screen here. Sorry. Most complementary therapies, so they fall into these two subgroups, one being natural products and one being mind-body practices. So when we look at natural products, this group usually includes a variety of products such as herbs which are often called botanicals. We have the vitamins and minerals and then probiotics, and they're usually widely marketed and to consumers they often consider them dietary supplements. In the latest national survey in the United States, about 17.7% had used a dietary supplement other than vitamins in the past year. And mind-body practices include a real large and diverse group of procedures or techniques, and it's administered or taught by a trained practitioner or a teacher. So we definitely see veering amounts of research on mind-body approaches where some are quite widely looked at, such as acupuncture, yoga, spinal manipulation, and meditation. And then in other practices that are listed here, sometimes we have much fewer studies on some of these practices. So some don't fit into either the natural products or the mind-body, and those usually are things that might fit into a whole medical system. So those approaches often are really built upon a real system of theory and practice other than the system of allopathic or biomedicine. So there's examples here of what we often see within the Western culture, and even though both of these originated from Europe, examples could be homeopathic medicine or naturopathic medicine. And then examples in more of a non-Western culture where we have a completely different, almost like language or thought process would be traditional Chinese medicine where we're looking at Xi and Meridian and Yin and Yang, which would be kind of different paradigm or worldview. Within the United States, we might overlap that onto kind of neuroanatomic acupuncture, but it's so much wider than that. It just doesn't fit into any other category, and then Ayurvedic medicine, which originated in India. So the National Health Interview Survey is the main source of information for Americans' health, and it's conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And beginning in 2002 and every five years since then, they've included a section on complementary and integrative health. Information was collected on adults in all three of those years, 2002, 2007, and 2012, and they began collecting on children in 2007, I beg your pardon. So they found that in 2012, there were 33.2% of U.S. adults that used complementary health approaches, and 11.6% of U.S. children from ages 4 to 17 used complementary health approaches. So there's a significant number of people that are using these, and the most commonly used complementary approach was natural products such as dietary supplements other than vitamins and minerals. Pain is the most common condition that people use these complementary health approaches for, and more than half of people that had used complementary products had had pain during the three months prior to the survey. In 2012, Americans spent about $14.7 billion out of pocket on visits to complementary practitioners and $12.8 billion on natural products. However, there's disparities in access to integrative health care among the populations. So you can see in 2012 that complementary and alternative products were significantly used by non-Hispanic whites in much greater percentages than blacks or Hispanics. An exemplar is yoga and national use in 2012 was 8.4% of people, but it was 6.5% of whites compared to 3.3% of blacks, and we can see down the list that college education, higher income, ethnicity all affect people's access and how well they can get access to these integrative health care modalities. And so this has implications for us, not only as educators but also as researchers and for clinicians. We need to look at the rationale for education, for understanding the trends of use, the safety issues that have to do with the products that our patients are using, how it relates to cultural competency and the increasing evidence base that we're getting out of these surveys and studies for use of these products, and faculty development of competency in these areas is also important. So implementation, like how do we go about increasing knowledge and education? Some can be standalone courses. So you might have a brick and mortar classroom based. You can have web based online modules within standalone courses. There's ways to weave things through. If a program just doesn't have room they feel in their curriculum, then there's ways to weave things through their curriculum. So incorporating it into existing courses. And here are some examples of ways in which you can incorporate modules. So within health care policy, health assessment, really focusing on history taking, pharmacology, making sure that we include vital information about herbs and homeopathy and essential oils, nutrition and then research classes, evidence based courses, research courses. Other ways if individuals have finished their primary education is continuing education post-graduate. A lot of people are involved in experiential learning, sometimes going back and then getting a minor or major within that field. And then we're going to finish as well and talk a little bit about a new program that's an interprofessional, integrated primary health care program that's just had a pilot and is still in the process of launching their program. So we're going to start off with a kind of an exemplar of a standalone course that I taught at the University of Michigan. So it was taught through the public health department and then it was also cross-listed within the School of Nursing. And this course really examined principles and practices, use and outcomes of complementary therapies and integrative health care. And it really provided an overview of the field, it reviewed selected areas, and it focused on specific healing modalities that are really widely used in the general population. And students learned to use evidence-based criteria to evaluate the benefits and some of the potential risks of selected complementary therapies. We had learning experiences that included lectures and seminars, assigned readings, demonstrations, videos, group work, and the production of an evidence-based poster or a patient handout on a complementary therapy of the student's own choosing. So we had a lot of emphasis placed on how you go about taking an integrative history to really facilitate shared decision-making, so really working on decision-making regarding what they were going to utilize. The communication between all providers, so really interdisciplinary communication, and then really then we also had the students go out and engage in the observed care in the office of a practitioner. Along in that course, people had the opportunity to sign up for an extra credit, one extra credit of a mind-body skills lab, and that opportunity was just for more extended practice of mind-body skills that are thought to enhance not only the student's understanding of healing modalities, but also what could be used for themselves. So not just their patients or the clients that they're working with, but themselves as well. So in this mind-body skills lab, we met eight times during the semester for two hours per session, and each session the students were introduced to a new mind-body practice and kind of the theoretical and the research base underlying them. So we had an acupuncturist come, we had an art therapist, we did yoga, we meditated, so it was a really great experience. And the sessions focused on experiential practice, kind of introspection, self-reflection, active listening, and self-disclosure. And now Janelle's going to talk a little bit about how we weaved things through at Frontier. So at Frontier Nursing University, we both teach an evidence-based practice course. And one of the beginning assignments is asking the students to post a question that they have wondered what the evidence is about. And we have found that many of the students posted questions related to integrative care, complementary, and alternative therapies. And so we have tried to weave this into this course that teaches them how to critically appraise evidence. We emphasize the evidence-based medicine triad, which includes and places equal emphasis on the patient's values and expectations as well as individual clinical expertise and best external evidence. And we emphasize to the students that your patients are using these modalities and you need to be familiar with them so that you can adequately care for them. We also introduced them to the hierarchy of evidence and how they can find evidence on specific modalities and to understand that there are many different types of evidence. And different types are more appropriate for different types of clinical questions. To date, our course includes readings, lectures, and a discussion board where we bring up topics that are related to integrating complementary and alternative modalities into healthcare. We have one lecture that's specifically on appraising the evidence of integrative healthcare. The students do a research matrix and a critical appraisal of the research and develop a poster on a topic, and many times we have included in that topic integrative modalities. We also have them watch a couple of videos on functional medicine and join a discussion board discussion on that. And we review the purpose of the NCCIH and they can go to the website and find a lot of information and then we require them to complete a CEU course which takes about one hour on neural basis of mind-body pain therapies. And it's a free course that they can get on that website. I highly recommend it. It's excellent. In October of 2014, the National Center for Integrative Primary Healthcare was launched as a collaboration between the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and then the Academic Consortium for Integrative Health and Medicine. And it was supported by a HRSA grant, Health Resources and Services Administration grant. And the primary goal of the National Center for Integrative Primary Healthcare was really to develop a core set of integrative healthcare competencies and educational programs that will span the interprofessional primary care training and kind of the practice spectrum. And ultimately, it's hoped to become a required part of anyone who's going to be a primary care educator in primary care. Team members that were within developing the competencies represented nursing, physicians, pharmacy, public health, acupuncture, naturopathy, chiropractic, nutrition and behavioral medicine. So the next couple of slides go over the competencies that were presented and were kind of the basis of a 45-hour online curriculum that was produced for the use of anyone who's going to be a primary care practitioner. And it was really piloted to a wide range of programs in early 2016. I was really lucky to be part of that pilot program and then really got feedback from individuals that were in the program and then they've gone on to revise it and they're getting it ready for kind of wider use now. So the pilot was 13 weeks and it really focused on 17 units, kind of the integration or the intro to integrative healthcare. Really focused a lot on learning motivational interviewing and lifestyle behavior change. It focused on the healthcare of the professional themselves and their well-being. It looked at primary healthcare professionals and a wide spectrum of backgrounds, how to take an integrative health assessment, a variety of modalities were covered. It looked at the community and the systems at large and then there was a final reflection and post assessment. So the competencies are really meant to really focus on patient-centered and relationship-based care, really focusing on how we go about doing a health history, collaborating with individual families to have really individualized and personalized care. And really focusing on kind of lifestyle counseling. Demonstrating skills and utilizing the evidence as it pertains to integrative healthcare and really being able to critically appraise. Demonstrating knowledge about major conventional complementary and integrative health professionals and health professions, facilitating behavior change in individual families and communities and how to work effectively as an interprofessional team. We were expected as well to really engage in behavior, our own personal behaviors and self-care practices to optimize our own health and well-being, kind of walking the walk and talking the talk. How to incorporate integrative healthcare into community settings and healthcare systems and then really looking at ethical standards of practice into all interactions with individuals and organizations and community. So we really do need to expand the evidence base and really encourage individuals who are currently incorporating or practicing and integrative or complementary therapies are certified. We really do need to all kind of make it a personal goal and a professional goal to really write more and disseminate more information and get out information. We really talk a lot in our course as well that how do we critically appraise because there's a lot of critique sometimes that RCTs per se, but a lot of people don't want to be randomized into a certain arm. So why don't we expand what we're doing and have preference RCTs so that trials can include randomized and non-randomized arms and kind of look at the comparison between both of them. That studies of instead to have bundles of therapies together rather than kind of altering how individuals actually really incorporate a complementary therapy into their own treatment plan. Really focusing on interdisciplinary and mixed methods. So Janelle, so clinicians about hello, Janelle are you there? So clinicians, what can you do for your patients? You can take an integrative healthcare history, ask people about their over the counter meds and herbs and supplements, ask about what modalities people are using, ask about what support systems and stressors they have and emotional and spiritual health and know where to get information and think about what you can offer from the community to support the whole person. Janelle, there's integrative techniques that can complement conventional methods by understanding what patients are using. You can provide better care and really assist with shared decision making. I'm not sure why this is forwarding, sorry. I'm not sure who's messing with these slides. And by understanding how to use some techniques, you can also refer others. So you can give some information but also refer to others. We just kind of wanted to finish with, this is actually a project I did with some of my students as an independent study. It was called Feng Shui Project but really anyone can take a look at their environment and how can we impact what we're doing with our clients, looking at all of our senses. What do people see when they come into a clinic or what do we see when we're working with people from seeing, smelling, tasting, what people are hearing. So really kind of looking at your environment and what is the kind of message that we're sending to people. Does it resonate with that person? Is that environment uplifting? Does it feel good? What is the lighting? How do we put our exam tables? Do people feel safe? Having clean air, moving fans around, sometimes we utilize aromatherapy. What we hear is really important. Both from our words are powerful but also kind of the science of even positivity, different music that you can utilize. And then taking a look at yourself as a caregiver. What kind of compassion do you bring to the table? Making sure that we're non-judgmental, that we come into our interactions with a positive demeanor. Kind of having peace within yourself, making sure that we are of service. So taking a deep breath, per se, and really being with women. And this last slide, we're just some pictures of some artwork that we utilize just to kind of hold that image for our clients. Any questions that people have? Comments. Here's our, if anyone wants more information about anything, we'd love for people to email us. And we also have some great resources at the end here from the National Center of Complementary and Integrative Health Care, to the Benson Henry Mind Body Institute, the Cochrane Database. Love the University of Wisconsin. They have fabulous resources and modules available. And then Janelle had introduced me to two fantastic personal history and self-reflection inventories. The Duke Integrative Medicine and the Functional Medicine Inventory of Idaho. I'll put back our contact information. Katie, can you hear me? This is you. We don't know if anyone... Yes, I can. Good. I was having some microphone trouble there. I had a question. I can't hear Janelle. Janelle, are you there? We may have lost Janelle for a minute. Janelle says she can hear, but she just can't speak. I was having some issues too, and I had to log out and log back. Okay. Katie, I wanted to ask, so many of us are in busy practices. When you think that a particular woman might benefit from a complementary therapy or some sort of integrative health technique that it doesn't sound like she knows, how do you work that into a visit? You know, a lot of us have multiple rooms that we're utilizing. So, first off, I would say some of the integrative history forms are things that people can even complete even prior to coming into their care.  Often people don't even think of certain things that they're using, possibly herbs or dietary supplements, and they often don't share that because it's just something to them that they think, oh, this is natural, this is normal, and they might not even consider that. So really getting at a base of what people are currently doing, and then I think being open and talking to people about ways to optimize their health. The biggest thing at least in Detroit where I work, you know, we have the worst infant mortality in the United States, and we just see people with chronic and toxic stress. So we really have to introduce, even weave things through, ways to, you can't always change the level of stress, but you can assist people in how they might perceive or handle that stress. So we actually used a centering model with our clients, and within that we often weaved mindfulness through that and talked to individuals. We often would have people download apps onto their phones and help to utilize ways like that. What I often used to do too is because I'd have several rooms that I could use at the same time. So if I had someone who said, oh, I have, you know, horrible nausea, then you might want to have like acubans right in there. I would actually give them an acupuncture treatment and maybe, you know, turn on a kettle and make them a small cup of ginger tea. So doing things like that might seem like, gosh, that would just take too long, but it actually really doesn't.   Often you would have people that just left so happy. They felt taken care of, they had felt heard. So small things like that, sometimes I would have a meditation tape. I'd ask them if they're open to that. And so after their appointment I'd say, do you want to just stay in here and I'll turn the lights down and you can just do this meditation and I'll come back and check on you. So then go on and see another client and then come on back and come back to that room. So there's ways that we can weave things in and also knowing who in your community are really good practitioners that you can refer to. You really have to have, people are using things. We know that and we want to encourage that and we want to be able to know who to refer to and then also what can we incorporate. I mean we're using guided imagery when we are in labor with people. We are using breathing techniques. We are using acupressure a lot of times when people are in labor. So just kind of connecting those dots. I'm going to guess that we use complementary therapies more in labor than we do in our office practices. So we have real opportunity to expand more into the offices. We definitely do. And when we look at most people's common discomforts of pregnancy, I remember Dr. Komarowski, Janelle and I were talking when we had our students share a shared decision-making tool. We were really taken back by the number of students who actually sometimes brought up midwifery students a shared decision-making tool on what antidepressants they could utilize with their clients. And we were both really taken back that that was kind of, we'd have to stimulate and think for them, okay, well within this shared decision-making tool, anything about mind-body work, about meditation, about going to the, I don't want to say lowest intervention because that is high in work sometimes. Some people might think well it's so much easier to take a pill. But it still doesn't get at the root issue or problem of what someone is confronting. So kind of working with someone. We're now seeing, I mean they told us, oh, there's no problem with antidepressants and we're seeing more research that's coming out. So almost all the common discomforts of pregnancy, you can really utilize complementary therapies. I've had patients come to me, I had a physician who came, they were a surgeon and they needed their hands and they had horrendous purple tunnel. And they would come a couple of times a week for an acupuncture treatment and I taught them acupressure points as well and they were fabulous and able to continue. And I loved because this physician was like, I have heard about this, I do not believe in any of this but I need to keep working and so I'm willing to give this a try. And I said, you're the perfect person to come. I love it when someone doesn't believe in it. So let's go ahead and let's try. And it was fabulous experience for them. But so for nausea and vomiting, sciatica, stress and anxiety, back discomfort, increasing breast milk supply. It's really the front line thing that I'm usually utilizing with my clients is mind body work, acupressure that they can incorporate, dietary changes. That's usually, that's my front line. You mentioned increasing milk supply. That's kind of interesting. Do you have a favorite technique for that? There's acupressure points. So there's a fabulous website by Deborah Betts who I absolutely love. If you Google acupressure and labor and spell it L-A-B-O-U-R and then you can put in Deborah Betts, B-E-T-T-S and she has a free downloadable booklet that people can utilize for labor and discomfort but she also, what I love about her website is she has different things for nausea and vomiting. She has it for breast milk, increasing breast milk and she'll have little vignettes that you can actually pull up a YouTube and learn the acupressure points and then she'll also kind of go into from a traditional Chinese medicine perspective different dietary things that you can include as well. So really check out that website. From all of my clients, I ask them to print that off and put it in their bag. I spend one appointment where I really go over a birth plan and what are their expectations but working as a family and their partner, whoever their partner is, and teaching them some techniques and empowering them to utilize these techniques and then when they can see, they'll just go right on the computer when we're in the clinic and I'll show them the website and I'll say, here, so you don't even need me. You've got these vignettes. Let's practice. Let's make sure you feel comfortable doing this yourself and it's very empowering for individuals. Nice. Thanks so much, Katie. We have time for one quick question. Is there anybody among the listeners who wants to type in a question or come on over the mic? While we're waiting, Janelle, is there a last comment you'd like to make for us? I think she's typing. Janelle, I don't think she can unmute herself for some reason. My microphone is acting very finicky. I'm not sure what's going on. But I really encourage people to contact us if you need any resources. I would really check out the interprofessional that 45-hour online module that primary health care practitioners can utilize. And then Janelle wrote, I encourage everyone to look at the links for the health assessments. They give great ideas of what you can incorporate into your patient intakes and lead to really great discussions. And those are right here on the last one, the Duke Integrative Medicine Personal History and Self-Reflection Inventory and then the Functional Medicine Inventory of Idaho. I really encourage people to also take a peek at the resources from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Raeckel is there, and they've got a great integrative health program there. Great. Thanks so much. I'm going to leave that slide up for just a minute or so if people want to take another look at it. Janelle, it took a little while, but your comment has popped up encouraging everybody to look at the links for health assessments. We really appreciate the time you both have spent with us. Thank you so much. An area of midwifery practice that we can enrich and certainly needs a lot more investigation. Thank you. Thank you both. Katie, just remember now to mute your mic if you're going to stay listening. I've got a little more housework to do. I'm going to turn off the recording.


Good morning and welcome back here to my channel, The London Writing Academic and I am here to talk about something really interesting, which I find interesting for myself, and hopefully useful for anyone else who's watching. And that is the stage at which you should write an introduction to a piece of writing. So by a piece of writing I mean it could be anything from a short text. Like for example an abstract to something longer like a full thesis or dissertation. Now traditionally, I have always written an introduction first. And to be honest, I have found it quite bizarre why people or how people would leave the introduction last, and I have heard people do this. There just haven't been one of them. I think for me it just seems logical when you do your plan. Obviously, you put the points that you'd like to make in the introduction and you can see from your plan what needs to be an introduction and then if you have anything in the rest of your structure, for example the main body and things like that. You can just navigate it through to the introduction, which is the idea for a plan it's supposed to, you know, it's supposed to sit through things and organize it for you so for example the stages. If you're familiar with any of my guides on how to develop your essays, we always begin with a brainstorm of ideas and things like that then we organize and then start drafting. In the process I feel like it just makes sense that you have your introduction. When I do the plans and when I teach people to do plans. I always do it like in three. So the introduction the main body and the conclusion. Now of course this is for a piece of writing like an essay, or just a standard paper of between 500 to 5000 words. I think above 5000 words I would consider to be pretty much a thesis or dissertation, but I always in my own opinion, and in my own practice and experience I would always do an introduction first, and it's always worked for me. So when people say they leave the introduction last. I mean, the argument they make is that they then know the points that they want to put. Now to me. That sounds like given an overview. And I think the introduction should include an overview, but the introduction shouldn't be just an overview. In my book, an easy guide to writing essays I do actually go through the stages and how to write an introduction, and the introduction isn't about just given an overview but it should a good introduction should kind of, it should give an overview to the reader of what's to come. So I feel like when people decide to leave the introduction to the end, and they want to know what they've written and then they want to put that into introduction but I feel at the stage of planning, you should already have an overview of what you're going to discuss. And then it's completely normal. It's completely acceptable to then revise it and then change things. But the writing the introduction last is something that I personally don't recommend. And it's something that I just don't do. And now of course you know if something works for people. I don't want to say don't do that but definitely that is not the way I would teach it if I'm honest it's not the way I teach it, and it's just not the way I do things. Then come to my PhD dissertation, my thesis which obviously is a considerably long piece of writing. And my supervisor and I, what we did is I have on my computer so I have a complete device that is for my thesis. And then I have another device for everything else so on the device which is my Microsoft surface pro and I use that specifically for my thesis. I have a file. And I have folders in there so I have the folders for all the chapters of my thesis. And so the introduction and then all the five chapters. And then I have another chapter for like things like the article and the work in progress and just like bits and, you know, pieces for organization and kind of just like content storage. We decided with my supervisor and I decided that we would start with a literature review and that's what I've been working on for the past six months. And we decided that I wouldn't go and start an introduction because kind of my introduction is basically like my confirmation document which is the paper that I had to write in order to get approved to go on to the thesis stage of my PhD. And then I have a kind of introduction flying around in my mind and in my PhD cloud. However, what I found is in my literature review there's a lot of background information that's just kind of just hovering, and then I feel I need to clear away from my literature review and would make sense in my introduction which is why having the folders for the chapters in my thesis is really useful because I can just easily move content from one chapter to another. So I am now I have worked on three drafts of my literature review which I've submitted to my supervisor and we've sat down and discussed it and gone through where she's given me feedback and I'm kind of at the final stage for the time being because my literature review is an ongoing thing. It's not going to like just stop until you know I actually finished my thesis, but what I am doing now is I'm moving a lot of like background information and things that are quite general into my introduction and I feel I'm going to have a stab at my thesis introduction which is called introduction chapter, which of course is every chapter at this stage will be a work in chapter, because there will be a point where I come before I submit my thesis and I'm going to spend a good chunk of time, revising everything. The chapters will considerably change, but I just feel that having the introduction at this stage, where I don't regret starting with my literature review I think my literature review is essentially the foundation because it's giving me a lot of basically I've done a lot of reading and I kind of am able now to be like okay this is what I need to separate from my systematic review. This is too general this is too you know too much of a background content or context setting. I know this needs to be in the introduction but I feel that to really like get my thesis like to just get it really moving in the way that I want it I feel like now is the time that I'm going to fully do my introduction which of course like I said is a working introduction. I will be revising it constantly until the end where I may change it entirely, but what it will do is it's kind of like I know that I've done the intro, and I felt, what I feel is that all the time in the path where I started off with the introduction it's given me a setting, and kind of like, you know, the foundation to go on. So, that's just my little food for thought on this Monday morning is like at what stage do you write your introduction, and I do feel that just a general paper, like an essay, or review, I feel that the introduction is just something that should be done just like you know from the onset, but of course something that is more intricate and, you know, a bigger piece of writing or a much, much larger piece of writing like a thesis is something that you can consider doing the introduction at a later stage, although in my own personal experience I personally feel now that I'm not. I want to get it done at this stage before proceeding on to chapter three, which is going to be my methodology and then of course you know the data collection all that kind of stuff, and then the analysis. So, yeah, what do you think of that, what is your experience and what stage do you write your introductions are you one of the people who writes your introductions. What are you in my team, where we do the introduction first and then let the rest of the paper follow. I would like to hear your thoughts on this. You'll see me in my next video, or over in my academic community on Patreon where I am posting content for IELTS writing task one throughout July. Okay guys, bye.


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There are a number of artifacts, which can still be found all over the Earth, that are extremely hard for modern academia to explain, using their popularly attested and often regurgitated views regarding chronological timelines of the developments of man. Most of these surviving objects are locked away within the collections of wily individuals, people aware of the many other such artifacts, which have been found, stolen, and never seen again. These guardians of the artifacts have often encountered attempted robberies, switch tactics, and often offered large sums of money to allow these artifacts to just simply vanish. Yet fortunately, many still cling to existence thanks to a handful of individuals guided by a moral duty to share them with the world, and our next artifact could be seen as such an object. Known as the Doshka Stone, it is a controversial artifact that it is believed by some to be the guidelines used by the quote, Architect of the World. Also known as the Map of the Creator, the Doshka Stone tablet has baffled researchers since its discovery in 1999, and as impossible as it may seem. A number of specialist Russian experts, after in-depth analysis of the Stone, have concluded that it is indeed a stone map that is as much as 120 million years old. Created from a bird's eye view, presumably from space, the Doshka Slabs depicts in detail the peaks and valleys of the Ural Mountains, including a series of very ancient civil engineering projects, including 7,457 miles of channels and dams with notations made in an unknown hieroglyphic language with an as-yet unknown origin. Although mainstream academia will simply deny the possibility of the Doshka's true purpose and indeed age, many who have researched, mapped, and analyzed the slab have concluded that it is indeed somehow authentic and well over 100 million years old. Initially discovered by archaeologists from the Bashkir State University, it was actually found within the Ural Mountains of Eastern Russia. Researchers were understandably stunned when they realized that the tablet displayed a highly accurate topographical map of Bashkiria, a specific area of the Ural Mountains, at a scale of approximately one inch to one kilometer. The map of the Creator also retained clues to its artificial origins within its structure, comprised of three layers, each of which strongly suggesting to geologists that it did not originate in nature, but was indeed artificially created deep within antiquity. The first layer is roughly 7 inches of a primitive cement ceramic compound. The second layer is roughly one inch thick made of diopside glass, enriched with silicon, and the third layer, a mere few millimeters thick, is made of a calcium porcelain mixture. Who created the Doshka's slab? Did they really create it over 120 million years ago? Like many specialists have reluctantly become convinced is the case? The Bashkir researchers derived this date from a pair of ancient seashells found locked in the stone slab. The first shell, Navicopsina immunitus, of the Gyrodydae family could be as old as 500 million years. The second shell, Eculiophallus princips of the Eculiophallinae subfamily could be as old as 120 million years. How these shells were still intact, and if they were actually incorporated into the tablet purposefully, can never be known for certain. Regardless, it is unquestionably a remarkable object and one which deserves a lot more attention. Many people are aware of the archaeological site known as Gobekli Tepe, an astonishing site of clearly great antiquity. A site like many others which dot our earth, which displays a far more sophisticated understanding construction and living practices to that of which would be publicly accepted by much of modern academia. Instead, it is often more favored to merely ignore such data as abnormalities, or it seems, if possible, to lock such controversies away from inquisitive minds deep within archives or underwater. And our next site is no exception. Although Gobekli Tepe has become a synonymous candidate for evidence of a once highly advanced ancient civilization which once flourished here on our planet, it is not the only site to be found within the area, or even the most astonishing. Known as Norsen Tepe, this is the real gem of archaeological turkey, and yet just like Waffle Rock, a site we have previously covered on our channel, located within the U.S., it lay at the bottom of a man-made dam, submerged deliberately and conveniently very shortly after some highly controversial discoveries were beginning to be made at the site. An enormous mounded fort, designed and shaped with a purpose of providing a sophisticated living quarters when the site was excavated, it was found that no less than 40 inhabitations were present within the strata. These were conducted between 1968 and 1974 by the German Archaeological Institute. Archaeologists, led by Harold Hopman, the Heidelberg Professor of Prehistory and Early History, found considerable evidence to suggest that many of the later inhabitants of this sophisticated fort were themselves highly advanced, seemingly preserving many mysterious items left by many as yet unknown people. Why a government would make the move to flood such a location remains a subject of debate, and one which has led some to accuse the Mexican government of being complicit in the cover-up of a highly advanced ancient civilization which once lived here on Earth. The fieldwork was finished by 1974. Shortly thereafter, the construction of the Quiband Dam works began, rising the water level and submerging the site away from prying eyes. Who built Norsen Tepe? Why did they build it? Were they at war with someone? It seems this fort has remained impenetrable since the day it was built, even successfully keeping out the elements for untold millennia, preserving untold treasures from a bygone era, treasures which seemingly shone too bright a light for some to bear. What kind of controversial archaeology is Norsen Tepe protecting? What are these government's bodies attempting to hide? These are questions which must be answered. Thanks for watching guys, and until next time, take care. In 1994, Klaus Schmidt of the German Archaeological Institute began excavations at a Neolithic site located within modern-day southern Turkey. Noted for its immense size and its undeniably incredible antiquity, Göbekli Tepe is an ancient structure made up of at least 200 T-shaped stone pillars, some of which measuring an impressive 6 meters in height and weighing a respectable 22 tons in weight. However, although it has been admitted as one of the oldest sites on Earth, undeniably contradicting modern-day paradigms in regards to the claimed dates of modern ancestral migration routes, the pillars are also covered with mysterious symbology, some of which has since been identified in an ancient group who not only share these same symbols within their culture, even to this day, but have since been hypothesized by a number of individual researchers as the possible culprits for the construction of the site itself, dating back to what we feel is a now lost antiquity. Göbekli Tepe has been academically dated as being at least 12,000 years old, yet any logical explanation as to who or indeed how the site was constructed remains conveniently elusive. Yet regardless of the unanswered questions that many people are still left with, even after academia's explanation, intrigue has seemingly increased since its exception into known site of Earth's antiquities. Modern studies have discovered compelling links between the symbolism of the site and that of the symbolism still used within Aboriginal groups of Australia. Famous for their ancient ancestry and their claims of a lost time before history books began, which they now call dream time, it seems that further to these curious beliefs, they also share an ancient language of symbols with the site, whose meanings has unfortunately been lost to the chasm of time. Yet regardless of their lost meaning, the similarities between this mysterious language and that of the symbology carved upon what is claimed as the oldest site on Earth is undeniable. This realization has enabled a number of individual researchers to conclude that there was once a now lost civilization who they now believe and claim was once made up of Aboriginals, who they also claim seemingly survived upon the continent of Australia, but were mysteriously wiped out upon the many other continents of the Earth. Furthermore, it seems that there are a number of areas upon the site that mainstream sources would prefer stay covered up. The Turkish government recently visited the site and committed an act of criminal vandalism, filling a number of intriguing voids at the site with cement. The question is, what were they so desperate to conceal? Could there possibly be compounding evidence at the site supporting the new and current hypothesis of the site once having Aboriginal origins? It's undoubtedly a site which deserves more protection, one which we find highly compelling. Thanks for watching guys, and until next time, take care.


Suppose we have some kind of an alternating voltage. We've already seen how to visualize them. Here it is again, just a quick recap. So we visualize the oscillations this way. We imagine the voltage is oscillating between plus V naught and minus V naught. Now in this video, we're gonna introduce another visualization called phasor diagrams. We'll see what they are and why should we care about them and ultimately why phasors are so awesome. To understand phasors, imagine we have a vector which is sleeping right now, whose length is exactly equal to the peak value of the alternating signal. We're gonna imagine that as the signal alternates up and down as we saw in the animation, our vector is actually spinning this way. Okay, and we're gonna imagine it's spinning with a constant speed, uniform angular speed omega, the same angular frequency that we have over here. Okay, so how do we connect this spinning vector with the oscillations over here? More imaginations. For that, we imagine there is some source of light over here, sun or maybe a flashlight, which is giving you light, and you imagine here we have a wall. And now the shadow that is casted by this vector on the wall represents this oscillation. For example, right now it's completely sleeping and therefore it's not casting any shadow over here and therefore right now the value of V is zero. But a little later in time, we have some value of V. The oscillation has started. And we can say that's happening because this vector has spun by some angle. And as a result, notice it's now casting that shadow over here. So the shadow represents the value of V, the oscillation. And as the vector keeps spinning, you can see the shadow becomes larger, then it becomes smaller. And as it continues, the shadow will keep oscillating, representing this oscillation. I have an animation over here with which you can see things better. I couldn't animate the light. So you have to imagine the light yourself, but you can see this is the shadow that is casted by this spinning vector. But then I'm pretty sure there are so many questions coming to your mind. First of all, why is it called a phaser in the first place? Why is it spinning anti-clockwise, not clockwise? And why does it work out like that? Why does the shadow so nicely, so beautifully represent the oscillation like that? What's going on over here? And finally, even if everything works out, why should I care about it? Why should I imagine a spinning vector? Okay, let's try and answer all of these questions. So let's take these questions one by one. Why is this called a phaser in the first place? Well, consider a situation, let's say that time t equal to zero, the vector is sleeping this way. And because it's casting no shadow over here, the value of v is zero. Now let's say after time t, this is a new situation. Now in that time t, the vector, our phaser, would have spun by some angle. And my question to you is, what is that angle through which it has spun? Well, it is spinning at an angular speed of omega. So in one second, it spins an angle omega. Then in t seconds, it spins an angle omega t. So this angle over here represents or equals omega t. And omega t is the same angle that we find inside this. This angle is called the phase angle or just the phase. And since our vector helps us easily see the phase angle, we call this the phaser. So it's called a phaser. It's very hard to look at the graph and figure out what the phase angle is. I mean, if you just look at this graph, could you tell what the value of omega t is? I mean, sure, you can kind of guess. You could say that, okay, because v is positive and v is not maximum. Maybe omega t is somewhere between zero and 90. You can kind of see that. But when you look at this, you can immediately calculate. If you could measure this angle, you can immediately see what the phase angle is. And that's why it's called a phaser. Okay, secondly, why do we consider it to be spinning in the anticlockwise direction? Why not clockwise? That's just taken as a standard because phasers are also useful in mathematics. And in math, you might know in graph, we start with the first quadrant here, then the second quadrant, third, and then the fourth. And so even in graphs, if you've seen trigonometry or unit circles, you might see that even there, we like to consider anticlockwise rotations as positive. So we like to use the same convention. Okay, on to the third question, the mystery question. Why does the shadow casted by the vector exactly match with the oscillations? Why does that happen? Well, trigonometry can help us answer that. This shadow basically represents the vertical component. Now, what do you think is the length of this vertical component? We have the value of the angle here, omega t. We know the hypotenuse in this triangle. Can you pause the video, use trigonometry and figure out what the vertical component is and see if you can answer your own question? Okay, in this right angle triangle, the vertical side represents the opposite side. And since I know the hypotenuse, I'm gonna use sine. So sine omega t equals the length of the shadow or the vertical component divided by the hypotenuse, which is v naught. And from this, the length of the shadow is v naught sine omega t, which is exactly the oscillations. And that's why a vector having a length exactly equal to the peak value and spinning with the same angular speed as the angular frequency over here, casts a shadow which perfectly matches the oscillation of this signal. All right, now to the final and the main question. Why should I care about this? Why should I care about visualizing the phase angle? How does it matter? A couple of reasons. First of all, imagine this. Let's say that this was the voltage through a capacitor. And I asked you now to draw the graph of the current through the capacitor. What would that graph look like? We've already seen before the current in a capacitor leads the voltage, I know that. But can I draw the graph with that? Sure I can, but it's not that straightforward. I have to think really hard about it, isn't it? And maybe after doing a lot of thinking, I can do that. So if you draw the graph, it turns out to be somewhat like this. But it's not very obvious that the graph would look like that. It's not so straightforward. But now I ask you to draw a phaser for the current. How would you do that? Hey, that's not so bad. I know that vectors are spinning in the anticlockwise direction. And I know that my current is 90 degrees ahead of voltage. Just from that, can you try drawing a phaser over here? Phaser for the current? Pause and then try? All right. So because it is 90 degrees ahead, my current phaser is gonna be 90 degrees from the voltage in the anticlockwise direction. So it's gonna look somewhat like this. So this would be my current phaser. And it should have the peak value. The phaser should always have the length peak value. And this would be 90 degrees. So that the phase of the current is now omega t plus pi by two. Isn't this so much easier to visualize and so much easier to draw? Okay, you try one. Let's say this phaser represents the current through an inductor. Can you draw the voltage phaser at this point? Pause and try. Okay, in inductors, you might remember voltages lead the current by an angle of 90 degrees. So where should we draw them? Let's see. Can I draw it over here? Well, no, remember, this is how it is spinning. So this still represents current leading the voltage. We want the voltage to lead. So voltage needs to be ahead. So voltage will be somewhere over here. Make sense? Okay. Let me give you another example. Take a look at this graph. Again, if the brown is the voltage and the pink is the current, can you tell what is the phase relationship between them? Well, again, you kind of can say that the current is a little ahead of voltage, but it's again, not so straightforward. Even if I were to look at the animation and look at the oscillation, ah, it's just a mess. You can kind of see current is leading the voltage, but could you tell exactly by how much angle? No, not so straightforward. But now let me show you phasor diagrams. Wow, look at the phasor diagram. I don't need the animation anymore. I can just look at the diagram and I can say, hey, the current is ahead of voltage because they're all spinning anti-clockwise. And if I just measure this angle, boom, I get the phase angle between the two. So phasor diagrams are really awesome at figuring out the relationship between the current and the voltage or between any two oscillations. But you know what? The real power of phasors can be seen in circuit analysis. Although we'll be doing a lot of them in the future videos, let me give you a sneak peek so that you can actually appreciate phasors. So let's say I have an inductor connected in series with a resistor and I've given you the values of the voltages across them. Both are alternating voltages. My question to you is what is the total voltage between A and B? What's the peak value of that? Let's say I just want to find the peak value of the total voltage. How do you figure that out? Well, one way is to directly add them. We do VL plus VR, add them, and then we have to simplify, which means you have to use trigonometric identities. Yuck! Instead, let's do a phasor way. So first I'll draw phasor for, let's say, the resistor. You can draw phasor for any one of them. You can draw the phasor anywhere you want. Just make sure that the length of the phasor, length of the vector equals the peak value. So let's say I've drawn this represents the resistor voltage phasor. Now the inductor voltage is, see, omega t plus pi by two. It's ahead of resistor by pi by two. So all I have to do is make sure that the inductor voltage is 90 degrees ahead, anticlockwise remember, so it's gonna be this way. And its length will be the peak value given over here. And now, now the total voltage can be found out just by adding these vectors. And we know how to add vectors. We can do parallelogram law, which becomes over here at a tangle. And the diagonal represents the resulting vector. And from Pythagoras theorem, if this is three and this is four Pythagoras triplet, this is going to be five and boom. That means the peak value of the resulting voltage is five. Got it immediately. Isn't that awesome? Tell me, tell me if it's not awesome. Now of course, I just took this example to show you how awesome phasors are. I don't expect you to completely get this right away. You will have to practice and we'll get that practice, don't worry. Long story short, phasors are rotating vectors which have a length exactly equal to the peak value of the alternating voltage or the current. And they're spinning in the anticlockwise direction with an angular speed exactly equal to the angular frequency of the oscillation. The vertical component or the shadow casted by the vector on the vertical wall represents the oscillations. And they are super useful in visualizing phase relationship between currents and voltages or if we have to add voltages or alternating currents or alternating voltages. In short, they're simply awesome.


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Hey, welcome to the first tutorial in Out from Scratch to Python series. In this tutorial, we're going to make a text file that is going to contain a list of words and sentences that we are going to unpack in Scratch. Yes, it's a little bit cumbersome and yes, it's maybe not going to be the most exciting project that you ever worked on, but it is definitely going to help sow the seeds for you to build your understanding in Python. Now I'm the surfing scratcher and I'm here to help curious learners just like you along on your learning journey. So let's get stuck into it in just a sec. So the very first thing that we need to do is go ahead and create a text file. So let's go and do that. If you're on a Windows machine, open up Notepad because you just need to use a text file. And if you're on a Mac like me, open up TextEdit. So I've got my text file open now and our words and sentences are going to take this particular format. So we're going to have a word and we're going to have a colon character and then we're going to have some kind of sentence. And this is going to become a little bit more clear as we move into Scratch and Python. But we basically need to use this colon character to separate out the word and the sentence. Now, since this is a spelling game for some level three, four students, for some younger students in a school, we need to have a spelling list. So I'd encourage you to make something like 10 words and sentences for this list. So let's, let's give you an example of what I mean. Let's say I'm having trouble spelling the word because. So I want to get the word because to practice, I'm going to type that word, put a colon there, I'm going to put a space. And then what I want to do is create a sentence that has the word because in it. It's very important that this sentence doesn't have any commas in it. The reason for that is when we import this into Scratch as lists, the comma is sort of used as an automatic delimiter. I'll show you what that means in a little bit. But anyway, let's get this word because into a sentence. So I'm going to surf today because the swell in the wind are perfect. You can see that I put that word because in my sentence and we've got the word because at the start. So what you'd want to go ahead and do is just say create 10 of these. You can create more if you want to. But I'm just going to go for 10 cause that is a nice round number. Now, if you're kind of struggling to come up with your words, go check out this website here, sentence.yourdictionary.com. I'm going to jump across to the browser so you can see that. Okay, so I've just entered that URL into our address bar here. And I'm going to type the word because into this field. And then I'm going to search for it. What happens is it auto generates some sentences for you. So I think he felt included because he was helping as much as we were. So this is pretty neat. The thing that you've got to watch out for here is if there are some commas in these sentences.  So sometimes there might be some commas in here like this. So just do a search for a comma inside that file. And you can also just put a replace character there. And we want to replace with nothing there. So let's replace all of them and then the commas will be gone. So that's how you can get rid of the commas. Now I'm just going to magic this and populate this file with 10 different words and sentences. Okay, so I've got my 10 words here. My first word is dash. And you can say, should we try and make a dash for the car? Second word is bath, apologize, join, sick. I just came up with these words randomly. I think through a random word generator. Obviously use words that you're trying to spell or use words that younger students are also going to have difficulty spelling. Now that we've got our list, you need to go ahead and save it. Make sure that you just save it in a directory that you're familiar with. So if you're at home, I'm sure you know what to do. If you're at school, then maybe you save that in your student folder. That would be a good spot for it. I'm going to save it in my folder that I'm also going to be working on the scratch project in. And you can see that up on the screen here. I've got my scratch project and I've also got my text file here. If you're wondering what the scratch project is, I'm just working in the offline scratch editor and I've just saved my scratch file here. But if you're working on line scratch, then you can just work in there and keep your text file separate. The last thing I want to say about this text file is we're going to use this same text file for both scratch and Python. So that's pretty cool. We've got one data source, which is this words dot text. I'm going to use it for two different environments. So let's save this file and jump over to scratch and get these lines of this text file into scratch. Okay. So over here in scratch now, we're going to make a new list and we're going to call it lines. I'm assuming you know what lists are because you're wanting to go over into Python. So I'm not going to go over that. Okay. So we've got our lines here on the stage. What we need to do is import all those lines of that text file. So do that. We right click and we import. We navigate to that text file and we click open and but a bing, but a boom. We've got all those lines as a list items in our lines list here. I'm just going to jump back over to the text file and I'm going to put a comma in here. Now I'm going to save it. I'm just going to delete all of these files here and we're going to import get that words dot text file and open it and nothing actually happened. And I think this is a bug with the offline version where that comma is actually going to break it all. If you're working in the online version, what would happen is it would truncate on the lines. I'll show you what that means. So just bear in mind that we've got the comma after should here. So I'm just going to get rid of that comma now and save it. Import that list back into scratch and but a bing, but a boom. We've got it all back in here now. But in the online version, it would truncate from that comma. So what that means, it would just delete all of that text after should because it uses a comma as a delimiter. And what is that fancy word delimiter that I've said a couple of times? It is just something that we use to separate out items in a list.  And basically each value is separated by a comma in those list items. So a delimiter is just something that we use to separate items. And for us, I just randomly chosen a colon character here. Cool. So just make sure that all your lines don't have any commas in it. So I think we'll park this tutorial here. So they don't get too long and unwieldy. So in this tutorial, we created a text file and we imported it into scratch. So following along with this same format and that's what we'll get stuck into into the next tutorial where we'll go through one of these lines and we will start to figure out how we can separate the word and the sentence. I look forward to catching you in that one.


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