So if dealing with an array is dealing with a collection of data types, what happens when I want to work with a collection of a collection? What if I want to work now with a table? Well, we actually kind of work the same way. I thought about this as just one group of elements. For example, Chicago, I would come in here and do a traditional int square bracket. Chicago equals curly brace 0, 9, 8, 3, 7, 8, 7, 7, 1, 4, 1, 37, 5, 9, 6, 7, 1, 87. I didn't say this all correctly, but I would store this just like any one of these normal arrays, a single dimensional array. But now I want to deal with the fact that I'm going to be handling not just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 different cities in this case. So now what I want to do is I want to look at this and go, all right, well, how can I store this information? Well, what I want to think about is this guy right here, this guy right here, this is actually more along the lines of saying I have a collection of integer data types. So what that means is now we can take that same idea and we can expand on it.  Well, what I'm going to have is now I'm going to have a collection of a collection of data types. Basically, all I do is I add a square bracket to the very end. And this allows me now to create a table. Now the same kind of concept would come in here if I said something like distance equal new end. If it was a single dimensional array, I would use just one square bracket and I would say how big it is in our case seven. Since I'm dealing with two elements, two dimensions, I'm dealing with a row and a column. I would then in turn come in here and I would say the second dimensions length. Now the one thing that I want to throw out there is this first one. If we're looking at this as a table, this is dealing with my row. This is dealing with my column. So you might remember way back in the day you learned in Microsoft Eclipse. If I needed to reference an element in a cell, I would do something like B13. This was my column. This was my row. The same things coming on here except for we've just swapped the positioning of these two. Now if I wanted to in turn take this data and apply it. One thing that we can think about is this array instead of Chicago, Boston, New York, Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Houston. What I would in turn think about is more on the lines of looking at it in the idea of indices. Now I'm not just dealing with one indices. I'm dealing with two indices. And again just like we would in Excel and I basically play battleship with my indices to figure out which one I'm dealing with. Now say for example this guy, this 214 right here. I want to store that one. Well actually that's a 21. So row two column one. So what I would do is I would come in and I would state, let me scroll down a little bit, distance at row two column one equals 214. And I could do that with every single one of my elements. If I wanted to come in here and do it for two zero. Again if we just look up at that table, two zero, row two, zero column, which is 787. I would come in here and I'd just pass that number in here.


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This is UNFINISHED, the only place so we get to finish UNFINISHED matters. I am your host SK Gitonga and today we are talking about side hassles. Let me know what you think in the comment section at Y254 UNFINISHED. Statistics actually show that a third of the Kenyan population and more from their side hassles than their actual job and the 67 remaining percent are actually willing to keep their jobs but also work on their side hassles. This leads us to the first question, would you quit your job to join your side hassle? Let me know what you think in the comment section. I would because actually most 925s are tiring, they are physically demanding and online side hassles. Most of the time they don't take much of your time so if it hangs more that's more money less time so I get more time to do other things I would have to do. Rest, hobbies, whatever it is so yeah I would. Absolutely I would definitely quit my main job if my side hassle is making me more because honestly if you start a side hustle you're doing it to the intent of something you enjoy doing. So for example I make music so if my side hassle is making me more money than my main job 100% I'm leaving, my 95 it's boring, I like having fun, I might do my side hassle, I might do it to the best of my ability. I would consider quitting my employment or whatever it is that I've been able to do and opt for my hassle most definitely because if it's paying more then that means with the rising economy of Kenya of course I need something that is paying me much more. So there is no place for me to go and I need to consider whether I'm employed or not. But of course if I'm opt for something like that I'll make sure I use the right protocol so I just quit immediately. I mean why not? It depends with also what the side hassle is. For me I think I'll put my job to take something that is bringing more income to my account. Why not? I believe so if it pays more because I think money is the real thing when you're looking for a job so definitely if it's paying more and it's consistent I will definitely go for it. If the side hassle is paying more I can quit. As I focus on the side hassle I quit. Because you know being employed has so much. There are rules you must abide, there are times you have to go, there are times you have to talk. Well it's good to be a free man, freedom. So if the side hassle is paying more I quit my job. 9 to 5 a.m. job I'll quit that because it has too much pressure. I think I'll quit my job because maybe the side hassle in part it has a coin to pay more. It may be paying more than the job. Then another thing for SIDA so I don't think it's tiresome like job. For the job things it's always tiresome. I'll quit my job because I always rely on job to get most of the successful people to get. According to me my own perception. The people I've acknowledged about me go to school get a job. I'll have to work 9 to 5 and have that. So according to me I didn't have plans. I'm focused on my own business. There are multiple ways of making money. You can drop shipping, you can mass, you can resort. So I come up here on our website and show people how it's done. I love to sell powder. So that's among our well-being and my business. Yes I will because it makes more money. It's not often it pays. So if 9 to 5 in a quarter or some corner and I make more money than the side hassle then why should I stay in the 9 to 5? Of course I would quit because currently we are in the state of Kenya. Money is everything. The cost of living is rising. So many people actually want to quit their job. They say this job is paying. But in the budget expenditure you are spending a lot of money. Yet you can do it. You can do it online. You can do it at home. No transport costs. So you can establish it online. You are saving a lot from online jobs compared to the government works. It's not limited to government works even, even some private organizations. I would say no. This is a quit job. In most cases it is side hassle. Usually you spend more money than a full-time job. This is a quit job. Most of the people who say a full-time job is to buy credit than a side hassle is to run. But again, a full-time job is to take more time than a side hassle. So it's more of an identity. This side hassle is what I am talking about. I have a question for you. Do you see the Chimba Chaw or the Salaw Pitao? The Chimba Chaw or the Salaw Pitao. If you want to make money from that side hassle, then you don't have to do it. But now that you have a side hassle, then you don't have to do it. You have to do it straightforward. I will, any time, absolutely. Because again, a side hassle is something that you can plan for and you are in control of everything. And your own posts. Most sites at side hassles again give you an opportunity to explore the other area that you are not able to explore in your main job. That's interesting because I believe we are here to make money anyway. So if I have side hassle that makes more money than what I do, I would rather go for it any day. Yeah, I think I'd quit my job to join my side hassle because if it's my point of interest, I'd like to engage in something I love doing. So I'd rather quit my job and engage in something since it also makes more money. Personally, I don't think I would quit my main job for my side hassle because I feel like they are both equally important. And when it comes to money, I don't think in the Afikanga point where you feel like, keep SSI metosha. And then also it helps you build on your portfolio and it also gives you exposure and it helps you learn how to save and use your money. On to our second question. Do you think online jobs are a way to earn extra income? Let me know what you think. Back to my first point, online jobs are less physically demanding. You can do it from the comfort of your home. You don't need to go. You can just wake up, do any online jobs. Most online jobs pay very well in fact. Online writing, from what I've had. I think with the way technology is advancing all day, I think definitely online jobs are a source of income. Especially if you do jobs which are really sought after. I think video editing, photo editing, those kind of things. They're really sought after by companies nowadays because with technology advertisements are getting more and more in your face. So if you do photo editing, video editing, those are companies, companies highly sought after. Like those kind of skills. Online jobs in the forms of said household. If they are legit, then it's forms of said household. But then Kenyans should be aware that there are online jobs and of course they're legit. If you want to advertise something, you post on your stations and maybe you're supposed to be paid depending on the number of views that the state has given you. But then again, if you want to advertise something, then the city of your factory will be able to sell online jobs. But once online jobs are transferred, then if you want to sell online jobs, maybe if you want to sell online jobs, then it is the best thing. It is always wise to have extra coins. It depends on what you're taking. Right now, online jobs are really paying a lot. If you have an understanding about it very well and you have been in there for a long time, it's very easy for it to be a job and have a said household that pays you well. But if you're not familiar, I think it's easy to be scammed. We have some things like freelancing. Some writers, they do this as said households. Others, they take it as a main job. We have some developers. We have so much, but we have forex traders. Yeah. There's one online job I've been doing, like writing, where somebody sends you his or her work from outside the country. Then you do edit. You do some things. You look at it. You do a lot on it. So you may get something like $5 per page. So I think it's a great thing. A lot. The only thing in space is not to well expose, not to well explode. The job I have here is scammed. But it's a legitimate business. I have people. I don't want to make it through online stuff. I think it's possible. I tried some and they are good. And I'd encourage someone to try online jobs. You and I are equal. Because currently, I have an experience. I'm a social media influencer. I run Twitter hashtags. So as much as I do some work switch in your office also, I also do some online jobs. I guess I pay a lot of money and even compare to online jobs. Because when you can navigate just to access your laptop or smartphone and internet. You can do your online jobs. Online jobs are limited to one job. You can do even five online jobs. So the more the online jobs, the more the money helps. Online jobs are limited to one job. You can do any type of online jobs. Imagine the whole day you run a computer and you can do any type of online job. Maybe you are too practical. You can do any type of online job. You can do any type of job. If you are not good at online jobs, it's a part of your life. You can do any type of online job. If you are not good at online jobs You can have a comfort zone plan, so I feel at least that's what I want to do. The extra source is that some guys are not off, online jobs are not the main job. So at 27, an extra two-year domain. So it's not only the main job, it's also the main job. It's also the extra and the baddest, the better now. The better now, the better. The online jobs usually will come at some odd hours maybe at night or they will come at a time when you have freedom, maybe it's a weekend or you're on leave. They will definitely add something to your income. And again, you see how Kenya is today. You need an extra coin any day. Yeah, I have seen people make a lot of money with online jobs and I think it's the way to go. People are having so many opportunities here and there and then you operate outside the working hours so it is easy to make a lot of money. Yeah, I think they do earn some extra income. Since it's a job you do maybe after your main job so you get some extra cash from the main salary that you earn. Online jobs are a great way to earn because this is something that you get to do at the comfort of your home. If we're talking about online writing, this is something that has actually been eye-meaning some of my friends, some really, really good cash. And also when you talk about content creation, this is something, I mean you get to do what you love and get paid for it but you also have to be very cautious because not all online jobs are genuine. We're going to take a short break. We'll be back with two more questions.


In a kind and gentle universe every matrix will have a complete set of eigenvalues and every one of these will be real We don't live in that universe Where were we? Oh, yeah If we can write a first-order linear system of differential equations in the form dx equals ax Then our theorem says that if lambda v is an eigenvalue eigenvector pair for a C e to power lambda t v is a solution to the differential equation By linearity any linear combination of these solutions is also a solution You should probably prove that Now if all the eigenvalues of a are real and distinct we can find the general solution this way, but what if they're not? So one possibility is our eigenvalues might be complex numbers To handle this situation. We'll go back to 1722 when the English mathematician ever Hamden-Rov described the following relationship If a and b are real numbers then e to power a plus b i can be split into a real component e to the a times a trigonometric component cosine b plus i sine b and This suggests that if lambda equals a plus bi x is an eigenvalue eigenvector pair for a then C e to power a t cosine b t plus i sine b t x will be a solution to our system of differential equations Except there's a problem if our original system of differential equations involved real Coefficients only we would expect our solution to involve real coefficients only and this isn't real So what can we do? In order to reduce this complex solution to a real solution. We need the following theorems First suppose a is a matrix with real entries and lambda v are an eigenvalue eigenvector pair That the conjugates of lambda and v are also an eigenvalue eigenvector pair This is easy to prove so you should actually prove it It's somewhat more difficult to prove another important theorem Let dx equal a x be a linear system of differential equations if y equals f of x plus i G of x is a solution where f of x and g of x are real-valued then f of x and g of x separately are also solutions and This isn't too difficult to prove though. We do have to establish that imaginary numbers act just like real numbers when it comes to differentiation However, once we've established that we can handle complex solutions of real differential equations So for example suppose I have this linear system We can rewrite this in operator form the coefficient matrix will have characteristic polynomial And so we'll have eigenvalues plus or minus 2i For lambda equals 2i the eigenvector will be and so an eigenvector will have x2 equals 2i And x1 equals minus 1 This gives us the solution e to power 2i t times the vector minus 1 to i Now we do need to split this into the real and complex portions of the functions So we'll use them off theorem e to power 2i t times our vector is going to be our vector times Cosine 2t plus i sine 2t We'll rewrite our vector in terms of its real and complex components multiply out all of our terms and Simplify and so now we've written our solution e to power 2i t times a vector in terms of a sum of a real part Which we can write as a single vector Plus a complex part Which we can write as i times a single vector And our theorem says that the real part forms a solution our complex part forms a solution and Linearity guarantees that any linear combination of these two will also form a solution And so we have the general solution Or do we Remember that this was just for the eigenvalue lambda equals 2i There was another eigenvalue lambda equals minus 2i and that should give us another solution Well, let's be clever about it While we could find the eigenvector for the eigenvalue minus 2i This will just be the conjugate of the eigenvector for 2i and Consequently this eigenvalue eigenvector pair will give us a solution the conjugate of the eigenvector Times the conjugate of the solution But that will just be the conjugate of the eigenvector times the solution and we already determined what that is and Since we've now split this into a real and complex part we can find the conjugate directly We'll just change the sign of the complex part and again the real and complex parts give us solutions The real part here is the same and so it'll produce the same type of term in the general solution and While the complex part looks different remember that this is going to be multiplied by some arbitrary Constant and we could absorb that minus and that gives us the same solution for the complex part


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And what we do is we don't have a positive case to argue against it. But I think that the underlying principle of us, unfortunately, that's how I view it, is that they say that if we promote non-consumerism, we can do stuff to be happy and help other people as well. Yeah, what the socialists say about sweatshops is, well, we're rich, we should just pay the kids not to be in the sweatshop.


Can you hear me? Hmm, don't listen. Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel. Hope you're all doing really, really well. So I am now in mine and Cameron's new flat. If you saw my recent catch-up video, then you'll know that we moved flat recently and we're all in now and settled and I am absolutely loving it. I'm currently sat in our living room on our green sofa which is one of my favorite things in the whole flat. We found it for like 50 quid in a charity shop. This won't necessarily be my permanent filming space. I'm still playing around with some ideas but this is it for today. Thank you to everyone who was so enthusiastic and kind about the idea of me doing a flat tour and a bookshelf organization video in the new flat. I'm really excited to do both of those things. They will be coming soon, I promise. And also I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who was so kind and welcoming on my last video that I did with my mom. She was so nervous about filming that video and you were all just so nice to her and made her feel really welcome and she really appreciated that, so thank you. So today I'm going to be doing a very overdue August and September recent reads video. I've read a fair bit over the past couple of months. I did some book reading and I read some poetry and some historical fiction and some literary fiction and the books that I read ranged from DNFs to 1.5 star reads to five star reads. So let's just go ahead and get started. I'm going to try and keep my reviews quite brief in this one because I think this could be quite a long video. And I do believe that I was sent all of these books in this video by the publishers, so heads upon that and thank you very much to the publishers. So I started off August by doing some book prize reading and the first book that I read was The Wall by John Lanchester. So to put it simply, I really, really disliked this book. So this book has the most basic transparent dystopian plot you could think of. It's set in a world very similar to our own and there has been a wall built around the country's borders. But I was like, it's cool, it's fine. The book will probably do something really interesting and exciting that it doesn't want to give away in the blurb. I thought the book might offer some really interesting insight or the characters might be so well drawn that you really believe them and you really sympathize with them. And it will be a really humane book that looks all of our current struggles. But no, none of this happened. Firstly, the writing in this book is very, very poor. John Lanchester tells you everything that happens in this book in the most monotonous and mundane way. He uses the same descriptions over and over and over again. It's very frustrating. There is no trust put in the reader whatsoever. He literally spells everything out for you, literally everything. This whole book is just incredibly heavy-handed in everything it's doing. It's basically just saying, let's not build a wall. Let's not make the sea levels rise. There's just nothing interesting or surprising about this story whatsoever. And there is so much room for interesting discussion here but hardly any of the themes are delved into basically at all. I thought that the book might delve into the idea of otherness, for example, but it just didn't. There was actually one character in here that that theme could have been really well explored through and John Lanchester just did nothing with it. The character's voices in here were also incredibly flat. There was basically nothing to the characters. I can't even say that they were one-dimensional because some of them didn't even have one key recognizable trait to me. Like I couldn't even tell some of them apart. I was reading it and nothing was happening and I thought something huge must be about to happen at the end of this book. But it didn't. The ending was really poor and disappointing as well. So honestly, I don't really know what this book was trying to do or who it was trying to target. It didn't have good characters. It didn't have good plot. It wasn't very reflective. I'm just confused. I'm confused as to what this book was and how it made it onto the book along list. It should not have been there. And in the end, I gave this one 1.5 stars. I then went on to read another bookabook and that one was Frankenstein by Jeanette Winterson. So this book is about a lot of things. We have a transgender doctor who is leading the debate in AI.  There is a man who is making a new generation of sex dolls and then there is also Mary Shelley in 1816 writing about a non-biological life form. So firstly, I loved the sections focusing on Mary Shelley far more than I thought I would. I loved her voice. I loved her musings. I thought the writing really well complemented her character. It was very stream of consciousness-y and she just came across as a very distinct character to me. The whole atmosphere and whimsy and contemplative nature of those sections were by far my favorite parts of the novel. But I didn't love the modern day sections in this book nearly as much as I thought I would, which was a surprise to me. I kind of thought that it would have been the other way around. I did enjoy the modern day sections in light of Mary Shelley's sections. I really liked the parallels that were drawn between the two and I thought this was handled quite well. And the modern day sections did touch on a lot of really interesting themes. I mean, we had AI and philosophy and gender, but I did feel like they were merely touched on regardless of how interesting and thought-provoking they were. I just wanted a more in-depth discussion of these themes and if I'm honest, I have found this in a few books recently that have discussed kind of philosophical themes that I've already studied and I do think that this may be because I do have a philosophy degree. I have studied these things in the past and so I have already thought about them and engaged with them more than the average reader. So that may not really be a very fair criticism of the book. It probably doesn't apply to many readers, but for me, it kind of leaves a rather unsatisfying reading experience. I also didn't really find the storyline that interesting. I know that wasn't really the main focus of the book, but I wasn't really that engaged with it. I also didn't care about the characters that much, apart from Mary Shelley. So overall, I would say that I loved the structure of this book. I loved the themes that were explored similarly and differently across both of the different timelines. I loved Mary Shelley's section. I thought she was fab and I was really engrossed there and I also really enjoyed thinking about some of the themes that cropped up in the modern day sections. But ultimately, I was just left kind of cold by this book. I was kind of unsatisfied. Essentially, I think I went in expecting greatness and I just didn't get it. There wasn't enough for me to really get my teeth into. So in the end, I gave Frankenstein three out of five stars. The next book that I read was a poetry collection and that was Reckless Paper Birds by John McCuller. This is a contemporary poetry collection which is published by Pendin the Margins, who are one of my favorite publishers ever. They make some of the best contemporary poetry collections there are. Last year, I read Spacecraft by John McCuller and it became one of my favorite poetry collections of all time. So naturally, I was really excited about this one and while I didn't love it quite as much as Spacecraft, I did really enjoy it. As in the last poetry collection, this one explores really intimate and individual experiences as well as exploring a whole host of social issues. The poems in here come in a variety of structures which I really, really enjoy and paper imagery and falling or diving imagery is used in this collection a lot, which is beautiful. John McCuller is just such a talented poet. He has everything I want from a collection. His language use is gorgeous. It's really lyrical and spell-binding but it's punchy when it needs to be. The imagery he evokes is wonderful. He explores timeless and timely issues and at the core, he just writes really emotional and raw poetry which really, really affects me whenever I read it. I can't recommend his poetry more highly for anybody who's wanting to read some contemporary poetry. They explores society and social issues and love and identity. He's just brilliant. As I said, I didn't love this one as much as I loved Spacecraft but it was still a really, really great collection and in the end I gave it 3.5 stars. The next book that I read was another Booker book. I don't have it to hand because I'm actually lending it to a work friend at the moment and that is Lanny by Max Porter. So this was hands down my favorite book from this year's Booker reading I did. I thought it was amazing. I absolutely loved this book. The book is set in a small English town and it follows a young boy called Lanny who goes missing. We get to learn about Lanny's parents and Lanny's friends and other people in the community as well as Old Papatooth Wart who is a creature from legend that lives in the town. Firstly, I just want to say that Max Porter is one of the most evocative and unique writers I have ever read works from. I really enjoyed his other novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers but I loved this one so much more. I felt like everything he did well in the first novel he did even better here. The craftsmanship here is just impeccable. The structure of the book is really broken up so that we're hearing from a jumble of different people. The writing just perfectly echoes all of these different people's thoughts and feelings and emotions and it just really captures all of these different voices that make up this town. There is such an engrossing and convincing feel to this book and of course it also feels really magical and whimsical the use of myths and legends that's woven throughout this book was sublime. I absolutely adored that. It's just amazing to me how real and raw this book feels at the same time as feeling so fantastical. It's pretty special writing. I also found this book to be surprisingly emotional so to some extent I kind of expected the inventive captivating writing and the lush atmosphere but I didn't expect this book to explore such raw and emotional themes in such a real and impactful way. Parenthood and loss are two major themes in this novel and I really felt them. All of the characters felt so real in here so when they were impacted by something I was impacted too. This is a truly brilliant book in so many ways. I absolutely loved it. It definitely should have made it onto the book a shortlist. I don't really understand what the judges were thinking. In the end I gave this one a five out of five stars. I adored it. The next book that I picked up recently was The Confessions of Franny Langton by Sarah Collins and I don't actually have much to say about this one because I actually DNF'd it. This is a historical novel that follows a young woman called Franny who is a servant and ex-slave and she's convicted of murdering her employers, a scientist and his French wife. I love dark historical novels every now and again. I absolutely crave them and so when I picked this one I was really in the mood for it. I was really hoping for something dark and sinister and addictive and twisty-turny and I did really enjoy this one at the beginning. This book moves from a sugar plantation in Jamaica to the Georgian streets of London and I really enjoyed both these settings at the beginning and I was quite excited about the prospect of piecing everything together that happened to this young woman. But then the book just lost me. It was too long and it was overwritten and by the time you get to the second third of the novel the pacing is just all over the place. The characters didn't really grab me. I wasn't convinced by them. I wasn't interested in them. I didn't care about them at all and it ended up just being a bit of a drag so I ended up putting it down. I have heard some pretty good reviews of this by other people though so if it sounds like your thing then maybe give it a go. Next I read another book, a book and that one was Nightboat to Tangier by Kevin Barry. This book opens in a ferry terminal in Spain when two men, Maurice and Charlie, who are longtime drug smuggling partners are waiting for Maurice's daughter to turn up. Throughout the book we get to witness this present day timeline as well as learning about these men's histories of violence and romance and betrayals. This book is very different to the kind of books I tend to read. It isn't the kind of premise that I would typically be drawn to but I really enjoyed this book. I really liked the characters in this book. The two men, Maurice and Charlie, were so fascinating. I found them to be really well drawn, really believable and really interesting and their relationship with one another was so cool to read about. They definitely have a very complex relationship. They had a lot of ups and downs along the way that is fair to say but it's really interesting to see the way they clearly care about each other in this very quiet and detached way in which men do tend to care about each other. Their dialogue together is hilarious. This book has a really dry and dark and sinister sense of humor that runs throughout it which I thought was spot on. It was such a pleasure to read. This book is way more about these characters and their stories and their relationships rather than any kind of crime or plot driving force but there is some kind of intrigue and mystery surrounding Maurice's daughter and as we learn about these men's pasts we are kind of piecing everything together to figure out what's happened to Maurice's daughter in present day. I really enjoyed that balance throughout this book. I thought it worked for this story perfectly and the whole reading experience was really, really good. So this book didn't blow me away. I didn't fall massively in love with it but it is clear to me that Kevin Barry is a really talented and proficient writer. Once again, this book definitely should have been on the book of shortlist. In the end, I gave this one four out of five stars. The penultimate book I'm gonna talk about in this video is Ask Again Yes by Mary Beth Keane. This novel follows two neighboring families from a suburban town in America from the 1970s to present day. It looks at the relationship between the adults and a bond that forms between the children and the tragedy occurs that haunts all of them for many, many years. This book is just perfect for me. It is My Cup of Tea and I knew this as soon as I picked it up. I love novels that focus on families and family relationships. I love novels that span a few decades and that have a bit of drama in them. This is a very character-focused novel which you all will probably know is my favorite kind of novel. You really get to know all of the different family members in these two families in this novel and seeing the ways in which they all change and develop and adapt in response to everything that happens in here is brilliant. One of the main themes in this novel is memory and how memories can change as we grow into adults and have new perspectives to look at things through. And I thought this was handled really, really well. This book also looks at so many more interesting themes I absolutely love reading about. It looks at intimacy and marriage and forgiveness. There's friendship and parenthood and illness. There is also a love story that runs throughout this novel which is tested in so many ways and it is beyond doubt one of the best romantic relationships I've read about in a very long time. It was just so raw and real and throughout everything the two people in this romantic relationship just make real efforts to remain understanding and generous and tender towards one another. And I just thought it was so lovely. I just found this book to be so luminous. It had everything for me. It had the characters and the relationships and the themes and the story. It was really emotional and insightful and definitely heartbreaking at times. I couldn't recommend this book more highly. If you are a fan of Celeste Inge at all then you must read this novel. You will absolutely love it. And of course I ended up giving this book five out of five stars. And the final book I'm going to talk about today is Clock Dance by Anne Tyler. This book follows a woman called Willa from when she is a young girl up until she is an older lady in present day. So Willa's life has always been determined by the people around her whether it was through her mother leaving her when she was a child or being proposed to when she was 21 or being made a widow in her 40s. But then one day Willa's son's ex-girlfriend is shot and Willa flies across the country to help her and her daughter and their dog. Willa then finds herself in this new community and for the first time she is choosing for herself how she wants to live her life. So I love Anne Tyler as an author. I have read a few of her novels now and loved them all and this was no exception. Anne Tyler's strengths definitely lie in her characters and their relationships. Her characters are all really raw and believable and really well drawn. They're usually slightly quirky, which I really enjoy. She pins down family relationships so well. They are always so real and believable. And ultimately I find her books to be just really relatable overall. This novel in particular focuses on themes of hope and fulfillment and regret. And I found that to be so interesting. They aren't themes that seem to crop up much in books and I really enjoyed thinking about them. I did enjoy the first half of this novel a bit more than the second half of the novel. The sections where Willa were a young girl were particularly delightful. Her dialogue between herself and her sister was so sweet. I thought that was so great. But more than anything, I just enjoyed the overall message of this book that it is never too late to change your life. Willa is a 70 year old woman who decides that it's never too late to change. She's going to live her life the way that she wants to live it from now on. And I find that to be so valuable and inspiring. So overall, this wasn't my favorite anti-novel. It didn't sparkle for me in the same way that they often do. And I wasn't as invested in the characters as I would have liked to have been. But I did really, really enjoy it. She is such a lovely and solid writer.  So in the end I gave Clock Dance four stars. So there we go. Those are all the books that I read in August and September. This was very, very overdue, but I wanted to catch you all up on what I'd been reading anyway. And it was really fun to just talk about them all. I kind of feel like I haven't done a recent reads in a while. So this was really nice. I would love to know what you guys have been reading recently. I'm feeling a tiny bit out of the loop as I've been so busy recently. And I haven't had as much time to watch BookTube and go on Goodreads as much and Twitter. So please let me know what you've been reading recently and anything you've been particularly enjoying. I hope you're all doing really, really well. Please let me know down below. I can't wait to chat to you all. And hopefully I should see you soon with another video that may be a flat tour. Thank you so much for watching this video everyone. If you've made it to the end, I appreciate you so much. And hopefully I will see you soon. Bye guys.


Good evening. I've played Half-Life 2 a lot, in a lot of different ways. On PC, on console, through Synergy, through Half-Life 2 Update, through the Day 1 build, through Overcharged, and M-Mod, and even through Garry's Mod. Needless to say, I recently have been feeling like there's not a lot left for me to do in Half-Life 2. But a little while ago, I was introduced to an interesting little challenge by my friend Wolf Clock, a challenge he calls weaponless. Now this has probably been done in the past by at least one other guy, but I personally had never seen it before. And it sounded really hilarious. So after briefly consulting with my friends for some tips, I gave it a try on stream.  Before we start, I want to clarify that I started my journey on the map D1 Train Station 06. Not only because it's the first map you can pick up a weapon on, but also because it's the centerpiece of an exploit I made use of that makes Metro Cops passive. This makes playing the game without weapons a lot easier, at least for the first half of it. And while the challenge might be possible without that bug, I don't think I'm cut out for that kind of a grind. I struggled hard enough as is. But without further ado, here is Half-Life 2, but I can't pick up any weapons. I hope that you enjoy it. Alright, um, progress? A little bit of a rocky start, but it'll be okay. Oh, this one was! Let's go with this. How are you doing, Richter man? I'm doing pretty well. Do you think it's a lot better? What's up? I'm a bit bent. Yeah. Okay, there we go. Let's go. This is very useful. I have a button that toggles clip brushes so I can see what I can and can't jump over. Very, very useful. I was, uh, I was bred for this. I think I'm going to have to do some fuckery to get through this vent because I, yeah, unless the CPs shoot it, but they don't. So... Fuck. Come on. No!   No! That was my last save. You're joking. Okay, good. Okay, good. Thank Jesus. No, not again. What if I try the crate? Maybe I could have some luck with the crate. Oh, why have I not been doing it in the corner? That's the smarter way to do this. That was not smart at all. Now I have to use the crate. There we go. Extremely freaked up. Uh, gotta get down. All right. There we go. Hey guys. That's a mean prank to play on your friend there. That was not very nice of you, guy. Fine. I'll keep moving. Hmm. How am I gonna get over this guy? Hey guys, uh, can you mind getting out of my way? Hey, you guys are in like a real inopportune position for me right now. Can you guys move? Please? Can you f- No! My freaking barrel. But I feel like that's almost like necessary. There we go. Thank you, Jesus. That took forever. All right. So this place is clipped to shit, and it's kind of a mess. I'm trying, man. I wish I had a prop that wasn't this. Is there one in here maybe?  TV? Are any of these physics props? Any of them? Bucket. Can't take that. I don't know, this is physics props. So much for a physics-based game. I gotta boost over a TV to get out of here, buddy. It's not as easy as it looks, okay?  Let's go. This part's gonna be tricky, though. Oh, I- Trigger? Trigger? Where's my trigger? Hey, that worked. Okay, thanks, Will Clark. Here we go. All right. Sorry about that. It took a little bit longer than anticipated. Damn. This is really, like, ruthless. That's a shame that I can't do anything about it, because I don't have a gun. I don't have a gun. Damn. This is really, like, ruthless. That's a shame that I can't do anything about it, because I don't have a gun.  Might have to get a prop to distract them.  Let me through here. There we go. Is this a pacifist run? I don't know about necessarily a pacifist, but I don't have a gun. Hunter Chopper is going to be violent, though, so, um, we gotta skedaddle, folks. I didn't know how I did that. Fuck. Are you counting the gravity gun as a weapon? Um, if I can't find a way to skip getting it, then I'll just have to pick it up. Oh, Jesus. Alright, so there's, like, a gun over here that I don't want to pick up. Yeah. No pistol for me, buddy. Alright, so... Wolf Clock be damned.  But... I don't know how to trigger it, right? No human is meant to play this game like this. Yeah, look at that.  Oh. Yeah, I did it. Now I have to let Manhack Matt die, which is the saddest part of the whole run. Thanks for the medkit. I'm gonna have to let you go now, though. Bye-bye. Have fun dealing with that.  Gotta go. Gotta go. Gotta go. Boom-boom. There we go. Alright, I'm gonna have to do, like, a prop fly over this. Oh, no, I won't. Manhack did it for me.  What's up, gentlemen? How you guys? This part's tricky. This part's really, really annoying. Uh, you have to use a Manhack, and it takes ages. I also want to pick up that health, but not the, uh, gun that comes with it, so... That is going to be quite a task. There we go. No, it won't. I'm awesome. Whoa! Fuck. Alright, buddy. Can you come blow up this explosive barrel without killing me? Just, like, run into it and blow it up, but, uh, make sure you don't kill me. Um, not quite good enough. Gonna have to do a, uh, take two on that. Uh, maybe from over here might work better. If you would, please. Uh, just, uh... Okay, let me move it a little closer. Can you just go into that in the corner? Um, and just, like, hit it with your little Manhack blade. Smartest Manhack arcade player. Come on, guy. Blow up the barrel. You know you want to. Come on. I don't have all day. Nodged that in the corner. Please, please. You're right there. Corner, please. Whoa! Hey! That's awesome. Can you blow this up? Thanks! Um, awesome. Uh, proving once again I am the best known-to-man best guy. That was painful. Imagine how it felt for me, buddy. Oh, Jesus. This part is, uh, actually very painful. Um, I think I need a barrel. Something. I need something. Hey, guys. I don't have any props. This is a pro-uh... Oop! Can you close that? Yeah. Alright, that'll give me some time to think. Uh... Hey, okay. You. Um, can you... Can you fly into that? Please. I'm begging you. Every fiber in my being, I really need this. Just fly into this. You guys are so close. Yes, thank you. Uh, now I have 28 health, though. That's a bit of a problem. And I think I need one of them to follow me in here, too, to get this to break. I do. Okay. Shit. Um... This might not be possible.  No physics objects at all. Other than this, this... This is gonna break the second a manhack touches it. Okay, one of you needs to go into this little tube. Tube thing, please.  I'm dead. Oh, if I had a little more health, I can break the vent by carrying a barrel in with you, putting the barrel underneath you and jumping on it. The collision causes the vent to break damage. Okay, um... What if I do it with a freaking plywood? What if that... Would a plywood work, maybe? Uh, under some... I'm crying. I actually did it.  Plywood worked! Plywood is my new best friend.  For health, excellent. Not a lot of fun here with all these manhacks. I'm gonna have to make, like, a beeline. Fuck.  Okay.  Hey, guys, can you arrest that manhack that's accosting me? Thanks!  Uh, isn't there health in here? There is. It really tries very, very hard to make you pick up the SMG in this area. See? I don't even know where the gun that I picked up was. Mudskipper! Who cares? They're not even attacking me. I'm gonna have no problem dodging them, I promise. Alright. Still no gun in the actual, like, boat part. Still don't have a gun or even a crowbar.


dismissals are cases where we were able to get the prosecutor to dismiss the charges before we went to a jury trial so this is not a jury finding an acquittal which we have numerous acquittals but this is convincing a prosecutor to drop the charges for example we've had several where Lisa Randall she was a high profile capital murder case where they were seeking to kill her they were claiming that she killed a four month old baby while that baby was in her care as a daycare provider they were completely wrong we were able to prove that it was a medical rule out that this child had a virus was incredibly sick and basically died of a SIDS-like incident this case was not only dismissed but it was dismissed with prejudice which means they could never refile the case against her down the road and that's very rare this means that she could go on and live her life without the fear of looking over her shoulder for the rest of her life most cases are dismissed without prejudice which means they have a certain amount of time to refile them or in a murder case if new evidence came to light 20 years later they could refile them but we have lots and lots of cases that have been dismissed everything from capital murder down to simple DUIs simply go through our website and find the situation that applies to you


Alright guys in this video tutorial series what we're going to do is a ball bounce animation in Maya Featuring a bit of squash and stretch. So to give you an idea of what we're going to be building Here's one I prepared earlier. So if I just hit play you can see that the ball starts up in the air And then it's moving across it hits the wall bounces back losing momentum all the time And it's got a bit of squashy and stretchiness to it to add a bit of exaggeration to it amazing So now that you know what we're doing you're going to need to know what we need. So I'm using ultimate ball rig Ball rig which sounds like a Piece of torture equipment, but it's not it's actually a really good rig available from CGI meet-up I will put a link to this rig in the description below So you'll need that before moving on to the next video Well done for making it this far. I have high hopes for you So let's get into putting this animation together. So as you can see I have downloaded the ultimate ball rig And I'm going to get that open. Hopefully this won't take too long. Oh It's trying okay Let's have a look at this rig them so as you can see it is A ball, but it's got a few controls on it And if I move these around you can see this one here controls squashy and stretchiness We've also got One of those on the bottom if you want to have the reverse effect We have this controller in the middle that kind of controls position of the ball and then right at the bottom You've got the root controller which contains all the sort of extra controls So what we're going to do is we're going to start by using this extra control to change the type of ball And by default you'll get this stripy ball Which is actually really good, but one of the quirks to this rig is that you can either do an animation with the ball rolling or spinning Or you can do an animation with the ball Squashing and stretching, but it can't handle both. It's not set up properly for that So as we're doing squash and stretch for this exercise We need to make it so that this line is not here otherwise it'll kind of shatter the illusion So make sure that you've got this controller selected We're then going to scroll down in the channel box and where it says ball type We're going to change it from basic to simple if you are interested. There are lots of other fancy little balls in here But today we just want simple Okay, the next thing we're going to do before we get this bad boy bouncing is we're going to change this Um Situation down here. It's starting to frame zero at the moment. I can't handle that that stresses me right out I start my animations at frame one. It's just a matter of pride. So We need to sort that out first thing I do them is I select the number in this box. Yeah Type one I press enter and then I just move my play head over to frame one I can now see frames one to 100 and I feel much calmer already Brilliant, okay next thing we're going to do it's already set up properly on mine But I don't know whether or not it's set up properly on yours We need to go into the animation preferences, which is this Chap down here in the bottom corner that looks like he's running away from a gear that's going to kick his ass And once you've clicked on that, it's this playback little chappy here And it's the playback speed. It should say real time mindset to real time 24 frames per second Yours might be real time 25 or 30 frames per second But as long as it's real time if it's set on play every frame It's going to go way too fast and it's going to go mental so we don't want that so make sure it's on real time and then press save Okay, we're now completely set up to do this animation. So let's get into it right What I want to do first of all is change my view but before I do that I'm going to select the controller that Handles the placement of the ball And that's because I can't see it as well to select it in the side view, which I'm going to move to now So here's the side view I'm just going to zoom out so that I can see the ball Give myself plenty of space Okay Let's move it over here a bit So first thing I'm going to do is set position one of the ball, which is going to be up in the air And just because it's kind of easier for My maths I'm going to move it up by about ten units. So I'm watching the translate Y Number change here. I'm just going for about ten units And once I'm happy with that on the keyboard, I'm going to press S and that sets Position one and now everything's going to happen from here So the next step once I'm happy with that is I'm going to move to frame 10 and I'm then going to put the ball back in the ground position Now here I get to tell you about one of the good bits about this rig because the way it's set up to treat the the bottom of the grid as the floor Anytime we put zero back in the translate Y box of the channel box It just goes back down to the floor So we'll know that it hits the floor perfectly every time as long as we put a zero in that box So what I'm going to do now is press S again if I just scrub between these two key frames You can see the balls coming down, which is exactly what I want it to do Now as the ball bounces it loses Mentum so the energy that it's got some of it dissipates into sound and Heat and all the types of energy so it's not going to bounce up to the same height And it's also not going to take as long to get to that height So it's taken in this case nine frames to come down So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to take six frames So I'm going to go to frame 16 to go back up and I'm going to go up about six units That'll do and I'm gonna press S again Now one important thing to get a ball about looking convincing is that a ball should always take exactly the same amount of time To come down as it took to go up. So it's taken six frames to go up So now we're going to take six frames to come back down. So I'm going to move to frame 22 That is having six on it Yes, okay, and then I'm going to Put zero in that box back on the ground Press S and then I've now got the ball coming down going up coming back down So far so good Now I need to take some more frames off it and some more high off it So this time I'm going to go four frames along. So that's going to take me to frame 26 And I'm going to go about four units up Maybe just below four units And then I'm going to set that and then four frames later, which will be frame 30 back to zero Press S and set that keyframe Okay, so we're just taking more height and more time off it each time Okay, so now I'm going to go three frames one two three And I'm going to go up to about two and a half this time SS and then I'm going to move another three frames on take me to 36 I'm going to go to Zero press S and Then I'm going to go another two frames on take me to 38 and I'm going to move up to about Maybe one point four ish and set that Frame 40. I'm going to go back down to zero and set that and then I'm going to start moving in One frame at a time just to get the little bounces at the end so frame 41 I'm going to go up to about Just below one and then the one after that back to zero and I'm just setting each one of these as I go so the one after that I'm going to go up to 0.5 and I'm going to set that And the one after that back on zero And set that and I'm going to do maybe two more of these little bounces So I'm going to go to not point to this time Back to zero and set and then a really really tiggy one just at the end Maybe just below not point one and then back down to the ground on the final one and press S So that's taking me up to frame 48 Okay, so if we look at what? Effect that's achieved. I'll just play that on a loop if I press play now That's what we have so far not very convincing And that's because there's some more work needed on this in the next step We're going to play with a graph editor So in the last step we got as far as this motion that we've got here Which is just making the ball bounce up and down, but it's not convincing at all It kind of looks like a yo-yo, which is not what we're going for so we're going to sort that out So making sure you've got the right controller selected Which is the one that we set the keyframes on so it's that little chappy there You'll know if it's the right one because you'll get all the red ticks on your timeline And once you've got that we're going to go into um windows animation editors and graph editor And you'll be greeted with something that looks like this I'm going to press a on my keyboard just to make this kind of fill the screen Um, and this is the animation that we've got Now what we need to do Is make this line look more like a bouncing ball As soon as this line looks like a bouncing ball The ball we've animated will look like a bouncing ball So what we've got here is we can see that at the top of each of these curves It's kind of doing what we want in that it's rounding But the problem is it's rounding at the bottom as well, which is not how movement works So we need to sort that out. First of all, we're going to do the bottom So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to click and drag To get a selection and I just want all those keys along the bottom and you can see I've got them now They've gone yellow And what I'm going to do is I'm going to change the tangent Which is the type of curve that's used to interpolate between each of the keyframes At the moment it's just on whichever is default But I'm going to use this one, which is linear, which means straight line So if I click on this All the ones at the bottom go straight, which is exactly what we're looking for Because that's how a ball works. It hits the ground and then it comes straight back up So straight away the ball will look better if you want to test it It will already look better But we're going to further improve on this to make it look even more better So I'm going to start on this first point here And what you can do with these points is you can change them So if I was to, so I've clicked on this one, if I now click on this Side of it and with my middle mouse button click and drag You can see that I can have an impact on How these curves are working. The problem is that they're stuck together So if I put a bit of a slope on this first curve It's having kind of an adverse effect on the other side of it, which I don't want So the first thing you should do is select your keyframe And then this little chappy up here is called break tangents And that means that one side of the curve will be separate to the other side And when you move on you won't cock up the other So I'm going to break the tangents on that I'm going to click this side of my curve and I'm just going to Change it so that now the ball hangs in the air for a bit longer It's quite a cartoony exaggerated ball bounce, but that's what we're going for And then I'm going to do that on the other side So I select that one and I'm just going to Bend this out just to get the ball to hang in the air for a little bit longer And now I'm going to repeat this along all of the points at the bottom until I get a nice curve Okay, so there we go. You might have noticed that I didn't bother doing the two at the end That's because the curves aren't really big enough to need that doing But you can see these arches on On each of the bounces are now much nicer The only other thing I'm going to do is I'm going to try and keep the drop-off rate a little bit more consistent So here they're not very consistent.  I'm just going to pull that point down a bit Uh, and that's just going to necessitate A little bit more messing around with the curves because now they don't quite work in the way I want them to So I'll just change that Uh, I'm going to bring this one down a touch as well And then I think I'm happy Okay, so now at this stage, we're just going to test that out So if we play that you can see that the ball is much more convincing It looks like it weighs something it hangs in the air It pops straight back up from the ground making it look like it's got a bit of boundlessness to it So that is exactly perfect spot on what we want for this point of the animation So so far if you've been sticking with the exercise We've got the ball dropping out of the sky and it's got a nice Curve to each of the keyframes so that it's hanging in the air and it's pinging back up But what we're going to do now is add a bit more cartooniness to it with some squash and stretch So in order to do that, we just need to get hold of a different manipulator wrong view So We're going to do the squash and stretch with this manipulator. So this is called control top So I'm going into my perspective view just to get it selected And then I'm going to go straight back into my side view because this is where all the magic is going to happen Okay So the first thing I want to do is on frame one I just want to set this keyframe as it is. It's a perfectly round ball at frame one. There you go. That's round And that's how I want it to stay. So I'm going to press s on my keyboard to keep that state And now what I want to do is stretch it out that's stretching Um on the keyframe just before it hits the floor. So that should be frame nine which it is And what I'm going to do is I'm probably going to stretch the ball by about 0.4 I'll do it And that's just before it hits the ground and then I'm going to press s So you can see that as the ball nears the ground as it's picking up speed It gets a bit more stretched, which is kind of a very cartoony convention Uh and then frame 10 the following frame when it hits the ground We're just going to squash it down a little bit and I'm going to squash it by about the same amount that I just Stretched it so that the energy that was there is now being kind of spread out So I'm going to set that And now what I'm going to do I'm going to work a little bit out of sequence here just because I find it easier I'm now going to go to the top of the next bounce, which is frame 16. I believe And I'm just going to set the shape of the ball back to normal by putting a zero in the translate y controller and then I'm going to set that And now I'm just going to work backwards You can see that that was all kinds of wrong. So in the frame after um It was squashed I am just going to stretch it out but not by as much as it was previously So I'm going to go to about 0.2. I think And I'm going to set that So now what this looks like is it goes into the bounce and we've got a bit of a stretch It then pings the ground and squashes and then comes back up With a bit more of a stretch just to sort of show the speed that it's going back up with Now what we do is we repeat this process Two or three more times Until we've got all the squashes and stretches how we want them taking a bit off each time So the next one then It needs to be just before it hits the ground again, which is frame 21 And I did about 0.4 last time So I'm going to do about 0.2 this time I'm going to set that there And then frame 22 and it hits the ground minus 0.2 ish And then the frame after that I'm going to do about 0.1 Just below perhaps And then at the top of the next bounce, which is frame 26 Set it back to normal So I'm going to put a couple more of these squash stretches in and then we'll have a look at the result Okay, so now that I've put all those in let's have a look at what it looks like Lovely so you can see earlier in the animation the squash and the stretch are quite exaggerated And then they're toned down as the animation goes on as the energy kind of dissipates from the ball All right guys, let's get this ball bounce animation finished So if you've been sticking with this exercise so far what we've got is a ball that Starts in the air bounces down has a few bounces. It's got a squash and stretch. It's got a nice weighty look to it So far so good But to add a little bit more realism We're going to try and move this from one side of the screen to the other have a little bounce and then roll to a nice stop So we're going to put that all in place Right now What I'm going to do is I'm going to select this controller here Which is the one that's controlling the position of the ball And what I want to do is add another layer of animation to it Now there are different ways I could go about this, but my personal favorite which I found quite neat Is to put it into a group and then animate the group And what that means is that I'm putting animation onto something clean So it's kind of like an an empty vessel that I can put keyframes into So I'm going to select this controller. I'm going to hit ctrl and g on my keyboard And I'm just going to call this movement Just so that I can find it in my outline if I ever need to And what that will allow me to do you can see there are no keyframes on here now But I can move the ball side to side Kind of on a fresh timeline, which is How I prefer to work so Let's get this animation set up. So I'm going to go back into my side view And I want the ball to start currently where it is. So one frame one.  Let's just expand the timeline a little bit. Let's go to about frame 30 I want it to be in the air actually About frame 33 I'm going to move the ball I've got about 12 units to the right And I'm going to set that keyframe And then I'm going to bounce it back. So I'm going to go I think in this case to about frame 60 So well after it stopped bouncing so it gives it time to roll I'm going to move it back not all of the way to about there. So now I'm about four units away from where I started Okay, so that's the base of the movement. Let's have a look how that is looking Okay, not bad But it's picking up and losing speed at the wrong times and that again as it was with the bouncing Is down to the way that the curves are working in the graph editor.  It's this keyframe And the line should be straight because it's hitting a solid surface So I'm going to slap this keyframe and make the linear tangents there I'm also I'm going to make this one linear too because I want it to start off at constant speed And then I just want to Come to a more gradual halt than it currently is doing So I'm going to set this keyframe here again. I'm going to break me tangents break those bad boys And then I'm just going to smooth The curve out Now as you can see that's had a bit of a weird effect because now it's going to bounce off the wall faster Than it originally came off the wall.  I'm just going to drag And then That'll allow me to just come to a more gradual stop and match the speed that I had before Okay, so hopefully that's going to lock how I want it to look so let's Rewind that and have a look That's not bad. It is still bouncing off the wall a little quicker than I would perhaps have liked it to But overall I'm fairly happy with it um Yeah, I think I'm just going to remove this keyframe So I don't know what it's doing And then just check that again. Yeah, so I just think on this keyframe. I'm just going to move it back a bit I'm going to Reset that See what we get Yeah, and we've got a nice little rollback animation as well so The reason we get that rollback animation Is a happy accident and it's because My curve has gone past the the original spot, but that's kind of what you're looking for in a ball bounce animation anyway So we're basically finished The one last thing I want to do you can follow me in this step if you want to or not I'm just going to put in Um a bit of geometry So that it looks like the ball's bouncing off it. So I'm just going to create a cube I move it over here And then I'm going to scale it up And it's just going to kind of represent a wall There we go. I just need to now go into this field because it's not going to be Thick enough in this direction There we go And then I'm just going to put it into Edge mode Slap this bottom edge. I'm going to press control and e to extrude it Then I'm going to go straight into my move tool I'm going to pull that edge along just to make a bit of a flaw And put it back into object mode Okay, and now it'll look like it bounces off A wall hooray amazing.  I'm just going to make sure that is Connecting with the wall Isn't quite so I'm just going to reposition that That's pretty nice And there we go a ball bounce animation So hopefully that has given you everything you need to know It's a very sort of basic introduction to character animations. So it introduces timing introduces squash and stretch introduces giving weight to a character in this case a ball And it also covers Some useful tools in Maya such as the graph editor. So that brings this exercise to an end Make sure that you subscribe if you want more exercises like this one If you've got any questions or you need any help then you can either email me or you can drop a comment below the video And the final thing I'd like to do in this video is thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next one


The most highly requested video that I got for the new Shane Dawson conspiracy theory video was about the theory surrounding cartoons and depression. What is up everybody this is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health and what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. If you're into that stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and speaking of subscribing and ringing the notification bell you guys I am freaking out I've been freaking out because I love you guys so much we are at 92,000 subscribers we are so close to 100,000 subscribers and like it's crazy I just got one of those Facebook things from like a year ago and a year ago in January I was like so ecstatic that I got a thousand subscribers and I'm not gonna get all sappy right now I'm gonna save it for the 100k video but like I never thought in a million years that this channel was gonna do anything I was like people don't care about their mental health like that's why I started this channel because I'm like people don't care about their mental health I want to teach them you know about their mental health you know but like man I love that people care about this stuff and that you guys are on this journey with me and you guys are taking care of your mental health as well and we're doing this thing together so I just wanted to start out by saying I love and appreciate each and every one of you so so so much alright but yeah anyways let's talk about this specific conspiracy theory that Shane Dawson was talking about so basically for those of you who didn't watch Shane Dawson's video which I doubt happened if you're here at my video one of the conspiracy theories was around violence and suicidal tendencies and cartoons and how it influences us and it went on and on and on so not only was he showing things from my Spongebob and older cartoons and all that but you know then he kind of went into some different things about big pharma and antidepressants and all that so like I was sitting there I was like now no this ain't right I'm like you know I'm gonna use some psychology to do bunk this thing so I started doing some research and it's actually kind of scary so the first thing that we're gonna do is I'm gonna introduce you to this dude and his name is Albert Bandura okay so this guy is a social psychologist and he is most famously known for social cognitive theory alright more specifically he's famous for the Bobo doll experiment so what is this experiment so what they did was they had two groups of kids alright and they had these kids watch a woman play with this thing called a Bobo doll what the heck is a Bobo doll it's basically like one of those old school clowns like it's like inflatable and has sand at the bottom and you like hit it right so with one of the groups of kids the kids watch this woman play with the Bobo doll and she was like nice with it and playing with it and all that but with the other group of kids like they had this lady straight up attacking this Bobo doll right hitting it like pinning it on the ground and like punching it in the face and like throwing it up and kicking it and doing all this stuff and then what they did was they put these kids in a room with the Bobo doll alright and they want to see how the kids interacted with the Bobo doll so with that first group of kids like they were pretty chill they were cool with the Bobo doll they played with it you know it was all nice and friendly or whatever but the kids who watched the woman attacking the Bobo doll they went in there and they were jacking this doll up and not only that but it got a little crazier because inside this room they put like toy weapons alright so some of the kids like they would start out like just like hitting the Bobo doll and kicking it and throwing it you know getting kind of violent with it but like kids naturally went towards like weapons like there was either like toys in the room they went towards weapons like guns and knives like they wanted to mess this Bobo doll up alright so social cognitive theory is basically talking about a learning theory okay so kids who witness this type of behavior they were more likely almost a hundred percent likely to go and and recreate that type of violent behavior that's some scary stuff so this was more about just like what kids are seeing what kids are learning so by the way parents out there quit being you know crazy and abusive in your household because your kids are learning from that but I wanted to see I'm like okay well there's no way that you know cartoons are influencing kids but I actually pulled up this study that was referenced in a Psychology Today article and it's actually true they've done these studies with children watching violent cartoons and the kids who watched cartoons that had violence they were more likely to do bullying violence and all that kind of stuff I'm like that's pretty crazy that's kind of messed up all right now what's really fascinating about this is I grew up with video games and I really hate the narrative that like video games are making people violent and you know all this other stuff but what's interesting is there's a lot of studies that have disproven the argument that video games make kids violent so I'm not really sure why that is maybe it's because you're taking on the role of that character but anyways like let me know what you think down in the comments below and maybe we'll do another video on that but why do you think that kids watching cartoons they're more likely to be violent than kids who are playing video games that have violence in those video games you know what I mean like I find that pretty interesting so what does this all mean what does this all mean based on Shane Dawson's conspiracy theory all right are these cartoons the reason why you're depressed no are these cartoons the reason why people have suicidal ideation no they are not are these cartoons some part of some massive conspiracy behind big pharma to push antidepressant medications no but big pharma is trying to push antidepressant medications I've done videos about that but there is you know a lot that we should learn from this conspiracy theory and the psychology behind it and social cognitive theory one of the biggest things that I was thinking about while watching this was that we as youtubers like we have a responsibility we have a responsibility to the youth of the world all right so a lot of people don't like the word influencer but we are we are influencers so this is a message to all of you youtubers out there we need to be mindful of what we are putting out online based on social cognitive theory children are watching us children are mimicking our mimicking our behavior children see what we're doing and children are linking that together with success or what's being cool so we need to watch what we're doing you guys this is one of the main reasons why I point out bad behavior or toxic behavior in my videos of other youtubers because I'm trying to reverse some of those effects I'm trying to take these examples and saying yo like this might be entertaining to you but you need to make sure that you're not modeling this behavior because it is not healthy behavior right but even more so than the youtubers we need to take responsibility as parents like I mentioned a little bit earlier this is why we as parents need to make sure our mental health is in order okay because like studies have shown like children who grow up in abusive households they're most likely to get into abusive relationships when they are older children who grow up in households where there is substance abuse with alcohol or drugs they are more likely to abuse substances when they are older okay children are watching us they see what we're doing so if you are a couple and you think fighting is normal that's one of the biggest questions I get about relationships is how much fighting is normal is this fighting normal and all this other stuff like think about it like if you're a parent ask yourself this question do you think it would be normal for your child to fight that much and that might not even be a good question because if you were raised in a household where there was a lot of fighting and arguing and you know that you might think it's normal but no it's not normal okay arguments you know debates all that stuff that is normal but if you're in a household with this happening on a regular basis and blowing up and freaking out on one another that is not normal and that is not a good example for your children because they are more likely to get in bad relationships but aside from that I as a parent I know that I'm not going to get the youtubers of the world to change what they're doing they know what gets clicks they know what gets views whatever they're gonna do their thing so what I do as a parents is that I take responsibility I take responsibility and monitor what my child is watching and I think the best way to counteract this because we're never going to fully be able to 100% monitor what our children are watching but we can like have a good idea okay and we can talk to them about these things like I've mentioned this in other videos before no matter what my child is watching we watch it together the best thing that you could do is pause it or after the video sit down and have a conversation with them ask them what they thought what are they thinking about this like if you're if your child is idolizing some of the bad youtubers that they're watching and when I say bad youtubers ones showing bad behaviors if they are idolizing these people it's time to have a conversation and explain like is this the person that you want to be this is what can happen this can get you in trouble in school this can you know hinder you getting a career later and all those other things so we as parents need to take more responsibility as well alright but anyways anyways if you want more videos about like the source of depression that isn't cartoons and stuff like that I have like about 800 videos on my channel go check them out alright but anyways that's all I got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and 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So I think the biggest way in which I've kind of learned something new is in terms of video communication. It's something that we'd done a little bit before at FEMS, but suddenly all of our meetings are being done online. So we try and keep regular contact with the team, both for meetings and social events. We actually had our first ever online board meeting with the board of directors, which is something we've never done before, but went very well. And I think we'd never really got round to doing that if it wasn't for these trying challenging circumstances. So it's an area definitely in which I've got better and more used to it. All of the different methods of online communication. I feel like I've had at least a couple of meetings with all of those. And although I think we are always heading in the direction of having more online meetings, it's really accelerated the pace at which we kind of move to having more flexible and more online meetings. It's important at this time to remember that physical distancing doesn't mean that we can't still be in touch. It's probably more important than ever that we communicate, we stay in touch, we interact with people. At FEMS we have online coffee breaks, as well as the regular meetings that we now have online, just to retain that sense of interaction and normalcy and seeing how all of our friends and colleagues are doing. It's easier than it's ever been to stay in touch with people and the brain can't differentiate between face-to-face meetings, be it online or in reality. So I think there's a real important need just to stay in touch and know that people don't have to face these challenges alone. The pandemic has really taken up a lot of our attention and our resources, and I think that's entirely appropriate, but we also have to be very mindful, actually, that there are all sorts of other activities that still need planning, that still need support, and we must be very careful that they don't get ignored or forgotten in this way, actually. So while we have had extra meetings and extra attention and ongoing preparations for COVID-19 and its implications, actually we also have a work plan that we follow FEMS and we check in with this every week, and although we're kind of saying what are the really, really important things that must still be done, and is there anything else that we perhaps need to postpone, what we're making sure is that everything else gets attention, everything that we said we wanted to do at the start of the year, we still go through together as a team and say, is this worth doing? Is this something that we should be doing? We allocate resources that are appropriate to that. So although we're paying more attention to COVID-19 and that is our main focus at the moment, we're trying to make sure that collectively there's also lots of attention being given to all the other things that we like to try and do, all the business as usual that still needs to happen despite all the challenges that we're facing.


Hey there friends. Thanks for checking in at the range now And we're going to do a comparison with the Walther Q5 match polymer frame versus the Grand Power X caliber I love both of these guns both competition guns both with five-inch barrels and I voned them both for a little while anyways a little longer with the Grand Power and I and Very much impressed with both of them. So this will be a good comparison I mentioned this is the polymer frame the steel frames getting all the attention that one's a bit more expensive Definitely into four figures this one right around eight hundred dollars will get you the Q5 match Now it has that Walther cross-directional texturing on the grip that is so comfortable so many PPQ fans love it and I do as well ambidextrous slide stop and magazine Release can be switched over to the other side lightning cuts in the slide all throughout even underneath with a pick rail and a blue trigger which is Something that the Q5 match has makes it a little bit different also cut for an optic up there You can see that I did not add one and a fiber optic front sight adjustable rear sights Trigger pull it's a striker fire gun. I'm measuring a little under five and a half website says 5.6, but That varies from gun to gun But here we go. Let's see how the Q5 Max does. Let's start with the rabbit Just as I remember it nice gun 15 round bags and they use the same bags that the PPQ uses Nice handgun breaks down real easy But here we have the Grand Power X caliber This is the the main gun in the grand power Grand power line is DX caliber and this thing is sweet also has 15 round mags, but what this has is A rotating barrel. Well, let me see if I can do that so you could see it rotating barrel And a fluted barrel All right, it's got some flutes in there very nice a little different disassemble once you get used to it It's fine. This is a hammer fired gun. So it's a double-action single action the single action. I'm measuring right at Three and a half pounds. Some people are measuring it even lower with this gun also lightning cuts Fiber optic front sight five-inch barrel adjustable rear sight. I think that they are making this Cut for an optic these days when I got this it didn't not that it would matter I'd keep it the way it is for now Accessory rail and additional back straps the Q5 match has this additional back straps, too This is also a thumb safety that is ambidextrous. So it is an ambidextrous gun with the slide stop as well. I Think I covered it all Let's see how it does short Man these five-inch barrel guns give so much confidence and I Really do enjoy them. I Shoot these very well. I hope I demonstrated that I don't know if I if I missed I'm sure I did but I Struggle with this one because I Love them both and they're both fine guns now the the X caliber Used to be 5,870 now I'm seeing them around $700 if you can find one they're hard to find and This is not all over the place either. I mean people love them people want them But all the attention is on that steel frame model I'm still liking this one a lot the disassemble on the Walther is so much easier Just as we are familiar with with Glock and so many others same type of deal This one is a little more difficult, but I've got it down pretty well Which one do I shoot better? That's a tough one at any given day. It could be different But as far as this comparison is concerned if I had to keep one I'm taking the Walther Q5 match I love this. I always have loved this from day one This is just a simpler and easier design and I don't think that the recoil that is a little bit minimized with The X caliber with that rotating barrel makes much of a difference with 9 millimeter What I want to know is which one do you prefer if you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe


Dr. Fauci, we don't know whether the pandemic started in a lab in Wuhan or evolved naturally, but we should want to know. Three million people have died from this pandemic and that should cause us to explore all possibilities. Instead, government authorities, self-interested in continuing gain of function research, say there's nothing to see here. Gain of function research, as you know, is juicing up naturally occurring animal viruses to infect humans. To arrive at the truth, the U.S. government should admit that the Wuhan Virology Institute was experimenting to enhance the coronavirus's ability to infect humans. Juicing up superviruses is not new. Scientists in the U.S. have long known how to mutate animal viruses to infect humans. For years, Dr. Ralph Berick, a virologist in the U.S., has been collaborating with Dr. Xi Zhengli of the Wuhan Virology Institute, sharing his discoveries about how to create superviruses. This gain of function research has been funded by the NIH. The collaboration between the U.S. and the Wuhan Virology Institute continues. Drs. Berick and Xi worked together to insert bat virus spike protein into the backbone of the deadly SARS virus and then used this man-made supervirus to infect human airway cells. Think about that for a moment. The SARS virus had a 15% mortality. We're fighting a pandemic that has about a 1% mortality. Can you imagine if a SARS virus that's been juiced up and had viral proteins added to it to the spike protein if that were released accidentally? Dr. Fauci, do you still support funding of the NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan? Senator Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Do they fund Dr. Berick? We do not fund gain of function research. Dr. Berick does not doing gain of function research, and if it is, it's according to the guidelines and it is being conducted in North Carolina. You don't think concerning a bat virus spike protein that he got from the Wuhan Institute into the SARS virus is gain of function? That is not. You would be in the minority because at least 200 scientists have signed a statement from the Cambridge Working Group saying that it is gain of function. Well it is not. And if you look at the grant and you look at the progress reports, it is not gain of function despite the fact that people tweet that. So do you still support sending money to the Wuhan Virology Institute? We do not send money now to the Wuhan Virology Institute. Do you support sending money? We did. Under your tutelage, we were sending it through EcoHealth. It was a sub-agency and a sub-grant. Do you support the money from NIH that was going to the Wuhan Institute? Let me explain to you why that was done. The SARS-CoV-1 originated in bats in China. It would have been irresponsible of us if we did not investigate the bat viruses and the serology to see who might have been infected. Or perhaps it would be impossible to send it to the Chinese government that we may not be able to trust with this knowledge and with this incredibly dangerous viruses. Government scientists like yourself who favor gain of function research that are not correct. Government defenders of gain of function, such as yourself, say that COVID-19 mutations were random and not designed by man. But interestingly, the technique that Dr. Barak developed forces mutations by serial passage through cell culture that the mutations appear to be natural. In fact, Dr. Barak named the no-seum technique because the mutations appear naturally. Nicholas Baker in the New York magazine said nobody would know if the virus had been fabricated in a laboratory or grown in nature. Government authorities in the U.S., including yourself, unequivocally deny that COVID-19 could have escaped a lab. But even Dr. Xi in Wuhan wasn't so sure. According to Nicholas Baker, Dr. Xi wondered, could this new virus have come from her own laboratory? She checked her records frantically and found no matches. That really took a load off my mind. She said, I had not slept for days. The director of the gain of function research in Wuhan couldn't sleep because she was terrified that it might be in her lab. Dr. Barak, an advocate of gain of function research, admits, the main problem that the Institute of Virology has is the outbreak occurred in close proximity. What are the odds? Dr. Barak responded, could you rule out a laboratory escape? The answer in this case is probably not. Will you in front of this group categorically say that the COVID-19 could not have occurred through serial passage in a laboratory? I do not have any accounting of what the Chinese may have done, and I'm fully in favor of any further investigation of what went on in China. However, I will repeat again, the NIH and NIAID categorically has not funded gain of function research to be conducted in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. If you support it in the U.S., we have 11 labs doing it, and you have allowed it here. We have a committee to do it, but the committee has granted every exemption. You're fooling with mother nature here. You're allowing superviruses to be created with a 15 percent mortality. It's very dangerous, and it was a huge mistake to share this with China, and it's a huge mistake to allow this to continue in the United States, and we should be very careful to investigate where this virus came from. I fully agree that you should investigate where the virus came from, but again, we have not funded gain of function research on this virus in the Wuhan Institute of Virology no matter how many times you say it did happen. There was research done with Dr. Shi and Dr. Barrick. They have collaborated on gain of function research where they enhanced the SARS virus to infect human airway cells, and they did it by merging a new spike protein on it. That is gain of function. That was joint research between the Wuhan Institute and Dr. Barrick. You can't deny it. Senator Paul, your time has expired. Dr. Fratsche, I will let you respond to that when we need to move on. Excuse me? I will allow you to respond to that, and then we'll move on. Yeah, I mean, I just wanted to say, I don't know how many times I can say it, Madam Chair, we did not fund gain of function research to be conducted in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Thank you. Senator Schmidt.