What's up everyone takedown here welcome back to another video now today is going to be a two part video not only I'm going to be sharing with you guys some more things that I picked up from thrift stores for really cheap to not only resell but also keep my collection I'm going to be giving you guys an updates on one of my very first flipping for profits episodes and that's with those Xbox one games that I purchased let's get right into this so I'm going to start with the updates from the flipping for profit series now back a couple months ago I did purchase a bunch of Xbox one games there was about 25 Xbox one games some Lego figures and Disney Infinity figures in the lots and I only purchased it for $40 so as of right now I have about seven Xbox one games left they're all sports games and the Disney Infinity figures and so far I am at $110 profits right now I've sold $150 worth from that lot so not only do I have $110 profits but I'm extremely excited to find other stuff to flip for profit because that was a great deal and for me personally I don't come by those deals too often so I did make great profit from that Xbox one lot that I purchased and I only purchased it to flip for profit because you guys know I am a PlayStation guy all day so that's the update from the first episode from the flipping for profit series here on the channel now for the second thrift haul I have ever done so the first thing I bought at the thrift store recently I've went to two so that is the Salvation Army and Value Village so up first is a book I think I got this at Salvation Army and that is Mick Foley mankind have a nice day this is a hardcover book they did actually have the softcover as well but it was the day that they had books for 50% off so instead of $3 this book here was a $1.50 this is actually staying in my collection for now now whenever I purchased it for $1.50 there is still profit to be made however for me I'm a huge wrestling buff I love everything and this is from the 90s a lot of stories from ECW so I actually have started reading this book it's a really great book and now I know for myself personally I want to look for some more wrestling books from not only the 90s but early 2000s that's whenever I was heavily invested and get them from my own collection in the future I might sell this or get a few more and sell them but for now it's going to be staying in my own personal collection I only paid $1.50 and the books actually really awesome it was the first book from a wrestler that wrote his own autobiography in the WWE next up is something for myself and I seen it it was really cheap and that is this change then now I already have it about half full of my chains changed now this here it's hockey related I only paid a dollar and that's why I decided to do it but it is extremely heavy right now and it's barely even at the halfway mark this was purely for me but because it was hockey related that's why I decided to purchase it it's not something I needed it's something I wanted just to put my change in to help with my theme of hockey that I have all over my room here the next thing is a few CDs I actually like and enjoy going to thrift stores for looking at CDs now I don't take too long and I don't go to scan through all the CDs with the eBay or Amazon app but I do find some things they tend to just jump out at me so the first ones here are Will Smith this is big Willy style his Will Smith CD and another Will Smith CD for Will Smith Wilnenium now these ones here back whenever these were released I was not listening to Will Smith but they do have some songs of his that I like on them and I don't have any Will Smith in my collection and you guys know I do collect CDs these here were only $2 each like most thrift stores are but you can spend hours going through their CDs because normally they have tons of them these ones here just within two seconds both of these jumped out at me now this one here is a little bit scratched up so I don't know 100% if it works but for collection purposes these were great finds for myself and the last thing in my opinion is the most profitable and it is another hardcover book that is for Star Wars the complete cross section so this talks about a lot of the ships within the Star Wars universe now originally this was released in four books this is all four books in one so this here was in the kids section and it was only $1.50 at Value Village which is incredible so this one here I did scan it on Amazon and it sells used for $80 now if it was brand new never opens and there is a couple dings around the edges so I can't sell it as new but if it was it'd be about $160 on Amazon to me that is a really really crazy and really really high but it does seem to sell on Amazon for that price so that is crazy so right now I think I'm going to be saving it for Amazon and whenever I have enough stuff to send Amazon this is going to be going with it but that was incredible to find a book with so much profits for that much now I only paid $1.50 on eBay it's selling for between $30 and $40 so if I don't want to wait to send it off to Amazon and if that might be a while because I'm not finding that much stuff to send Amazon these days I might just list it on eBay and see what happens but that to me was a great find for only paying $1.50 for it that's me was incredible it's kind of like the Transformers book I bought a while back in the last thrift video that I did because I only paid $1.50 for it and it's worth about it's anywhere between $30 and $50 so finding books that are of value at thrift stores is kind of hit and miss because I find there's a ton of books to go through but what I do now is I simply go in I scan for certain things hockey books wrestling books or anything that is Star Wars Disney or that sort of thing they tend to sell for a little bit more or anything that is like Stephen King if it's one of his best sellers and the top Stephen King books they might sell for a little bit more so since I'm still just new to thrift stores and finding out deals and selling and flipping for profit and that sort of thing I'm just starting out so I definitely want to look for more books in the future those seem to be more profitable for me but it is a lot of fun just going through a thrift store and finding great deals and finding out what things are worth and being able to sell them for profit it's a huge huge adrenaline rush for me so I absolutely love doing that so that's all I have for today hope you guys enjoyed this thrift haul video and also me giving you guys an update on my first flipping for profit series on my channel with the Xbox one games I'll give you guys an updates in the future for some of my other thrift haul videos and some of my other flipping for profit videos whenever I do sell a lot and have enough to share with you guys I will announce that in future videos as well so I'm going to leave this video here hope you guys enjoyed please take care peace


Semuanya, saya Arfin. Dan owner ini. Jadi kita di sini, mahu berkongsi sedikit tentang tech saturday dan apa yang kita lakukan. Jadi projek kami di DIY bio. So tech saturday adalah meet up. Kita ada ini setiap saturday. Apa yang kita lakukan adalah kita mahu berkongsi kultur yang berlaku. Jadi segalanya yang kita lakukan, segalanya yang kita lakukan kita mahu berlainan ke sustainability. Mungkin kembali, sustainability, sosial, atau even money tree as well. We also collaboration. So what we do is a public program. So if you want to join us, it's just open for you. We meet every saturday at DRWC, UWC East. And what we want to do is to share our learnings. So today also is a means for us to share what we have learned, our mistakes and how we can then move on after this. So this is what we do usually. So we open up a project to public, can sign up, and we learn how to make stuff and then we make the things and you know, obviously it is not done. Later we'll talk about it. And then we share about what we have learned. And every week we have our updates in this Facebook group. So you can check out the maker circle. We have updates every week on our project. So today we are going to share a few two things. Number one is the incubator. The next one is the magnetic stirrer. For incubator, well it's a device that is used to grow and maintain microbiological cultures, cell cultures. So we have a space in our lab that is still empty. And we want to make it into a DIY biolab. And you know we have microscope and stuff like that but that's all we have. So we want to start everything from scratch. We want to build our own incubator. So yes, we need an incubator because there's a lot of biological things that requires temperature to be constant for it to be maximum. For it to for example enzyme reaction, DNA interaction and the stale state. For example, you want to grow bacteria. You want it to be about 37 degree Celsius, 40 degree Celsius so that it can grow the best. So to build our incubator, we first check out online. And we realize that there's this online course on on DIY bio by the W.A.G. or what, societies. It's BioHack Academy. So they run this from Netherlands. But they have centers in some part of the world like China. I think China have Tokyo, Korea and they run it. And we thought hey, this is good. We can try to get some of their designs and make it ourselves as well. So for incubator this is what they have. We we get inspiration from here and we just modify it according to what we have. For example, for the okay, for the cabinet itself some size consideration is the size of the petri dish. So you want a box that's big enough to put in about 9 cm diameter petri dishes. And at the same time, so you don't need to big because for ourself our lap is quite small. It's about 3 by 3 3 by 3 room space. So we don't want the incubator to be too big as well. And then for material we just get whatever we have in our lap. So 3 quarter inch wood sheet quite thick because we want the insulation. Ya the acrylic sheet is used for the for the window at the front with the door and we also have aluminium sheet to make it look more shiny. So for the heat source we were thinking what to use. Right, we have a few heat source that we can find around lying around our lap, you know. We have the soldering iron that we can hack and take the the heating element. We have the head dryer and so we have the this is the heating element from coffee maker and we decided that okay let's just use that. You know. So coffee save the day once more. For temperature control we use the Arduino as the as the brain. Alright. And we use relay to turn on and off the heat the heating element. And that two button is just to to change the target temperature. So we can change it 40, 35. So we we put on everything we put it inside and it worked. Right. So as you if you see here this is the temperature inside 43 right now degrees Celsius but it's not hot enough for now what we want to try or what is the maximum we can try. So we want to do rapid prototyping what we did is just insulating it by using tape. So we use tape and insulate everything around and we manage to get into 60. So right now the challenge for us is to insulate it with things other than tape. Alright. So our plan after this is we we are going to this is the freezing schematics that we make want to share it in instructables when it's done. So if you are interested can check out our instructables soon. Right. The next thing we want to share our donor will share is the DIY magnetic stirrer. So Great. Dona. Just doesn't actually. Yeah, it's okay. Choice. Okay. So for the incubator if you want a demo of it we will show it after this talk because it might take a little bit of time right now. Yeah. So moving on to the magnetic stirrer. So basically this little device here is what we made to basically stir liquids ideally it would have a heat pad as well because this will help with chemical reaction and whatnot. So yeah. So it's a laboratory device it emplies a rotating magnetic field. So over here actually you can't see it yet but inside there are two magnets and over here this stir bar which is now in two which is one would be spinning around when the fan inside rotates. So this will cause the spin liquid ends up spinning and we've got a method to control the speed as well. So this little DIY experiment of ours turn out quite well. So just to share a little bit about the process we wanted to it's important to actually control the speed of your spin this will depend on your different experiments. So what we did is that we used a single turn potential meter we used it as a real set you know this are just it's one of the ways you use a potential meter I guess most of you would understand this. Yeah so we wanted to use we wanted to adjust current flow which will help with controlling the fan speed. And initially the fan that we wanted to use was a salvaged it was salvaged from a CPU we were very excited about using something salvaged very cool Unfortunately it had an IC in it which meant that you know we found out by actually experimenting we wanted to turn it around positive and negative only in a certain direction it works the other way it didn't work so then we realised that our circuit wasn't working because having the IC meant that we could not use a potential meter with it. So we went to Simlim Tower and got ourselves a more simplified DC no integrated circuits we also got ourselves a high voltage battery 12V, very cool on our switch and our circuit works after that. Really simple setup so once we got our circuit working we basically went about building this little box and you'd be surprised how difficult it is to build this box with precision so this is, you know how many makers does it take to make one box I only quite a few So this is some people from the team that were helping out and yeah so over here on the bottom left you can see we were actually in a car park because there was a top going on at the time in the lab so it was a bit noisy so we actually moved the jigsaw out to the car park and continued our work because work never stops so yeah so after that we built this a little box and over here you can see a very simple basically what's inside because I can't open it up right now everything connected really well and we added a little light as well so that when you turn it on, it's pretty obvious so now let's see yeah so we're I don't know if you can see this but basically right now the battery has died so this is great okay okay so we changed the battery can you see this yeah it's not working but we might have to change the battery again so you can see it yeah you can see it sometimes with the liquid in it basically it just spins it's a really easy setup and the beauty of this is that you'll be surprised how many things in the biolab you can just make yourself you know wax with it what Arvind was talking about it's got all the instructions you need and if you want to join us come back on Saturdays yeah we're there from what 9 to 9 to end to depending on the project 12 or 10 p.m so yeah if you have any questions anything


Very good. Okay. First of all, you have to try to do something. Establish friendship with him. That helps. That's cheating, but that's okay. Oh. Please. I know. How many visitors? Hundreds.


To me, that is why I feel the most confusion. And in the mind training, obviously, in order to really get clear, one would have to go through the false beliefs to get down to that instant that we're talking about, where the decision is seen between the ego and the Holy Spirit. But in the mind, it's all jumbled up. I mean, it's like the mind seems to be chattering constantly, and it's like, watch my thoughts. Gee, you know, it seems like a real big job, but the Course says the simplicity is down here at the bottom. And one of the things we can talk about with giving, I mean, that's a good topic area to go into, in a sense too, in the sense of when you're bound to form, then a lot of your ideas about giving have to do with giving in certain ways. Whether it's giving through gifts, form gifts, or giving time, or how to give. And what the Course is saying is that, truly, the only gifts that we give, and what we really give is what we receive for ourselves at a thought level, that ideas are strengthened as they're given away. And that literally by giving the Holy Spirit away, by sharing the Holy Spirit, which again gets to how you share the Holy Spirit, you have to be clear on that by giving those thoughts away, that you can get away from this belief in loss. Because I think a lot of codependencies in enabling beneath it is still the bargain. It's like, I give so much, I give so much till I'm burnt out. But can that really be giving if we feel burnt out? Probably as long as you're giving ideas from the Holy Spirit, but if you're giving otherwise form, it's going to go. It's always going to be expectation, I'm sure.


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Hello everyone, welcome back to our channel. I hope you all are safe and sound. In the past 2-3 months, I'm sure you must have tried out every trivia game there is out there, including the famous logo quiz. After having played so many of them, how about making our own version? In this video, we'll show you how to make your own logo quiz. This is a laptop or a computer with latest version of PictoBlogs downloaded and a good internet connection. You'll also read images of some famous logos for the quiz. Visit the link given in the description box to download the images which we will be using. Also, you can download the all-new PictoBlogs from the link given in the description box. Let's begin by adding the Artificial Intelligence extension, Open PictoBlogs. To work with the all-new AI and ML extensions, you need to keep two things in mind. First, that you must sign in or login into PictoBlogs from here. Second, you must have a good internet connection. Click on the Board button and select Evive. Click on the Add extension button. Choose the Artificial Intelligence extension and wait for a little while till the models get loaded. Let's begin by adding the Sprites. In our case, we will have the logos of the brand that we'll be using in our quiz as Sprites. Thus, let's upload the logos one after another. Click on Choose a Sprite button and choose Upload Sprite and add the first logo. Rename the Sprite to Logo. We'll add a rectangular box around each logos. Thus, click on the rectangular box icon and draw it around the logo. Make sure that you keep the fill as transparent and outline size as 20. Select the logo and the rectangle together and resize it to the dimension of 200 by 200, which you can have a look from the card here. Now to make sure that the position of all the logos are same, drag and drop the logo and the rectangle such that the top corner touches the center part. Set X as minus 30 and Y as 80. Similarly, we'll be adding other few logos too. But make sure to upload other logos as the costume of the logo Sprite. Copy pasty rectangle around the other logos too and resize and reposition them like in the previous logo. We have added a few. You can add as many as you want. Now let's set our stage. Click on the Stage palette. Now click on Choose a Bag Drop button and choose Blue Sky from the library. Now let's add a small text on the Bag Drop. Thus, click on Bag Drop using the text tool Write Logo Quiz. Now that the stage and the Sprites are ready, click on the code tab to start the script. Select Toby Sprite. We need to execute the program as soon as we click on the green flag. Thus, drag and drop the event flag clicked hard block from the events palette. Now we will make three variables for hints, scores and the hint letters given. Thus, go to the Variables palette and click on Make a Variable button. Make the variables, hint letters, score and hints one after another. Uncheck the hint letters checkbox as we will only be showing the score and the number of hints left on the stage. Set hint letter to one, score to zero and hints to three. From the Controls palette, drop the forever block to run the script continuously. As we need the computer to recognize grants from the stage, drag and drop the Recognize Image features in Image from the Stage block from the Artificial Intelligence palette. With the help of this block, you will be able to recognize image features such as face details, recognize handwritten text and printed text from either a backdrop, stage or costume of the sprite. To ask the user to guess the logo of the brand shown, drag and drop the Ask block from the Sensing palette. Write which brand's logo is this in the space given. To check if the answer is correct or not, get the if-else block from the Controls palette. The answer is correct when the recognized brand is equal to the answer written by you. Thus, place an equal to block from the operator's palette. Drag and drop recognized brand name reporter block from the Artificial Intelligence palette and place it into the first input. This block contains the answer obtained by processing the image with the AI blocks. Place answer reporter block from the Sensing palette into the second input. If the answer is correct, we will change the score variable by 2. And we will make Toby say yes, correct answer. Also before moving on to the next logo, Toby will say, your next logo is, thus, place another say block below it. Now we'll broadcast the message, change logo to bring on the next logo costume. Select the logo sprite. Drag and drop the when I receive broadcast block from the Event's palette. Step the next costume block from the Look's palette below it. Now let's go back to the main script. If any hints were used in the previous round, then to again start with the first letter of the brand name, we will set the hint letter to 1. Now let's write the script on what to do if the brand guest is wrong. We will make the Toby say how the letters of the name of the logo as a hint to help the users guess the logo correctly. So for each hint, we will reduce its value by 1. If the number of hints is less than 0, then we need to stop the game. Thus, place another if block below the change by block. Drag and drop the less than block into the hexagonal space. Place the hint reporter block into the first input and write 0 in the second. Drag and drop the say block into the if arm and write game over into it. To stop the script, place stop all block from the control's palette. Now, we will make Toby say out loud the letters one after another. Thus, place a say block. Drag and drop the join block from the operator's palette into the space given. Write the letter add position into the first input and place another join block into the second input. Drag and drop the hint letter reporter block into the first input and add another join block into the second input. Let's minimize the stage for a little while to get a better view of the code. Write in logo name is into the first space and another join block into the second. Place the hint letter reporter block into the first input and recognized brand names in the second input. As we have provided the hint, change the hint letter by 1. As the script is ready, click on the green flag to start the script. Logo quiz and challenge your friends and family. Don't forget to share the results with us in our picture blocks community on Facebook. If you like this video, subscribe to Stempedia and follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Bye bye, stay safe.


Winners and losers there, I've got to say Matse Janowski down at 14th, certainly would have been disappointed there. But the top three, let's just have a good look at that Max Frick. Decent effort from Max Frick, we'll be pleased with his some work here this evening. Last year's winner of course. On a 13.223, that puts him into third place and I'm sure there will be more than satisfied with that. And in second place we'll see the silky smooth style, that's the silky smooth style of Max Frick. And we like the look of him, that's for sure. But this man came from 14th, he came into his last session and he produced a stunning time of 13.175 on his 13th lap. And no real surprise, he seems to be able to find it when he really needs it. And he pushed his way up into second place, giving himself a very good opportunity for a good pick for tomorrow evening's Grand Prix. We're actually doing qualifying, ordinarily on the permanent tracks, we did the qualifying at one o'clock on race day, but we are five o'clock in the evening, we started qualifying. But this man, what an evening's work this is, this is really great stuff from him, has not been renowned for his qualifying speed, really hasn't shown anything remotely like this up until this very point. But clearly he's back on full health, he's in good form, he's in third in the championship chase and comes out on top. That's a great effort from him. Great effort known as fast ready lingering, we haven't seen that speed in qualifying until today. And a mighty fine effort from him. He actually looked quick, he looked like he was carrying speed everywhere.


Okay, if you've been following this series, you know that we've made a very simple application using HTML and Java script Let me bring that up here that window this window. Yes, this window Close that. Okay. So this is what our application looks like. I have it both running on my Web server and locally because there's no server-side script so it can be served up either way We've already gone over two options that will be a cross-platform for desktops Using Python or C++ with WebKit either with GTK or QT to see that Just click on the annotation that should be on the screen for the playlist and we'll bring up the full playlist for this series It's a simple little has a list of options here that you can quickly search through and of course you can open this up on any Web current web browser whether it be on a phone tablet or desktop well today We're going to be looking at one option for packaging it for mobile devices So far as I said, we've done desktop stuff So now we're going to create a take it and throw it into a package for Android as an APK or whatever an iOS package is or a Windows mobile which is an X AP or HP which is IPK which is also used for some other Linux distros such as Open WRT As well as Blackberry and now maybe some other options here We're going to do it very simply using some tools that are out there for us I have myself played with a few options As far as making Android applications and I will do in this series in the coming video how to manually create a very basic Android application and packages as an APK for use on your phone But here is a very easy way to make it for not only Android, but but other platforms as well and as I was saying I've played with one past made by MIT Which I think was called App Inventor which was all right But it only did Android from laced last I checked and that was a while ago So I don't know if that's changed since then but today we're going to be looking at phone gap And phone gap is an open-source program made by Adobe. I believe you Adobe and basically you take it you point it towards your package of Of html and its files for it and it creates mobile packages for you And it is an open-source application here But we're not going to download and install it One reason is I don't like installing things outside of my default repositories when I don't have to and Yeah, that's the main reason if it wasn't the repositories I most likely download this and install it I haven't actually used the actual program, but they do have an online version Which might not be as full-featured? I couldn't really tell you but if we go to instead of phone gap calm We go to build dot phone gap comm we get the the online builder and it's very simple to use So I'm gonna say let's get started Here you have unlimited open-source applications, which is great. They're saying if you're making an open-source application That's you're gonna be using like github for Storing the the program you have unlimited. So I love when when I see this, you know As long as you do an open-source, you know, you can do as many as you want When you have it so you can Collaborate and invite other people to develop and test on it you have unlimited if you're gonna make a private app You get one free. So so if you're just making something for yourself personally if I was making it for myself I would just Open it up in my web browser really when I'm making packages like this. It's to give to other people But here we go. I'm gonna click completely free my one private app Here you have an option you can use Adobe ID to to sign in here. I have not Try that option. I chose try github, which will bring you to github here I already have a github account before this tutorial. I'm just going to say let's sign up I'll pick a username. I'll call it films by Chris Test sure and I'm not gonna put my email address here I'm just going to use I've talked about in the past ten minute email I'm gonna just copy this temporary email account into here since this is just for the video and Then I'm going to create a very simple password because after I write this video I'm going to either delete this count or just never use it again. So create an account. There we are now that we've done that Now if you already have github a github account, this is great You you're probably logged in you can upload all your files to github and then point it to it Since I just created this count. There's nothing in here I'm going to hit back arrow a few times till I get back to my Builder phone gap site here and click github again and this time it's saying since I've already created account that I'm logged into Give get a give phone gap Access to your github account. So I'm going to say authorize this app Okay, now it's saying this email address will be used. That's fine. That's the email address I just got from ten minute email once again if you're actually making an application You can log in more times. You're not going to want to use a temporary email account That's just for this tutorial. I'm going to say I agree to their terms. I don't care if I get any updates Complete my registration. Okay, so I have my github account set up. I have my Phone gap build account set up. So I'm ready to go now if I already had a github Project going I can once again do as many open source I want here since I'm already logged in and I given Phone gap builder access to my github account when I click here It would show all my open projects and basically you just need to have a project with an index dot html And it will package everything from that and make the index that html your home page of your application Since I'm not uploading anything to github And I'm not going to get into uploading stuff to github in this tutorial I'm going to say private and you still have the option to choose something from github But I'm going to say upload a zip file, but I have to create the zip file first So let's go back to our shell here, and I'm in the folder with the project that we've been working on I've got my index dot html, which is my main page I got all the JavaScript and CSS in here as well Also, you know, this is just like any other web page if you want to have a bunch of pictures in your applications You could put sub folders in here and whatnot, but I'm just going to use zip I'm going to say zip dash R for occlusive because I do have folders if I didn't do that It would skip the folders so dash R and I'll call it mytestapp.zip And I'm just going to put an asterisk to put everything in this folder into that zip file And it shows you right here, it added all this And if I list it out, you can see my zip file right there List it out, it's only 110 kilobytes Now I can go back to the website, click upload a zip file Once again, the uploading the zip file is an option that you can only upload one application to this site So you can either create more accounts or make them public on github If you're uploading your files to github, once again you can make as many as you want It's just because I'm considering that the zip file is considered a private upload So I'm going to click on the zip file that I created here Mytestapp.zip, open and it uploads the files And then at this point, you know, I can give it some information here I guess this is the title, I'll call it mylistview And enter a description if you'd like And at this time, I'm going to click ready to build And it's going to start building it for all these different operating systems I'm going to click on the iOS, that's the first one to build And you'll see I get an error there, and I know I'm also going to get an error on the BlackBerry build as well And the reason for both of them is they both required keys And so you can click here, I don't know much about iOS development Or BlackBerry, or really anything outside of the little bit I know about Android development But luckily for the most part, we don't need to know much All we need to know is our JavaScript and HTML Which is the whole point of this series So you can click this and it says add key And it'll ask you for a title and ask you for the file I'm assuming that you have to get that certificate files from Apple So you'd have to do that Same with the BlackBerry, it will give me an error here It will say that I need to click on the signature file So I'm not sure exactly how you get those signature files That's outside the scope of this tutorial, but Google that And just upload your certificates and those both should build alright Android has an option for a certificate key But it's not required I think that if you, and I could be wrong on this If you're going to put it in the Google Play Store or their market I think it has to have a signature If you're going to host it on your site or just email it to somebody Or you're going to give it to somebody else some other way It doesn't need a signature, I'm pretty sure it's only if you're going to be putting it in the store But once again you click on this and it's going to say add a key And it'll just ask you to upload the file So once again you'll go to the Google Play and sign up for an account I assume they give you a certificate file and you'll upload it there But at this point I can download the APK My XAP, my IPK, my WGZ for whatever operating system That is, that has a little icon for an eye But right off the bat we're ready to go with pretty much everything except for Blackberry and iOS You just need to get those certificates I can download those packages or I can scan this barcode With my phone using something like Google Goggles And it will download that, I click install And I will now have this application installed on my phone And it will run very similar to how it would run the web browser It's just that you have a package that you can now distribute Now there's, I haven't played with this very much It looks like you can choose an icon here under settings Obviously you have an app title You can tell it the version and give it a description Delete this app if you want to delete it You can also upload source code I guess So a lot of options in there I know that this is mainly using JavaScript and HTML Basically whatever you would in a web browser I think the full application here As well as the one I mentioned earlier by MIT The App Inventor The App Inventor actually is not just using the HTML It actually has all the components of an Android program Using their APK Or their, what's the word I'm looking for Anywhere, their files rather than just a web interface But since this series is on taking your web application And packaging it for distribution as an application Rather than through a web browser I'm not going to get into that But you may want to also look into that Once again the full version of Phone Gap Or also Google the MIT App Inventor I have very little experience with all of these But they do work I have scanned this after uploading our files And it does install right and open properly I know that when I've used in the past the MIT App Inventor You do have options for the web view As in, as such as either you can allow zoom Or disallow zoom And if you have a lot of stuff people are going to click Sometimes I find one of the advantages of Actually creating an APK And installing as an app on an Android phone Is that you can disable that zoom feature Which the zoom feature can be a plus sometimes But if you have a bunch of check boxes Or something for people to click If they try checking them too fast Instead of checking the boxes it ends up zooming in So being able to do this as an APK package And being able to disable that Is definitely a plus if you don't need that zoom feature I do not know of a way to disable that in the web browser The default web browser on Android So once again this is using Phone Gap And we use the online version Just go to build.phonegap.com And zip your HTML code and all the files for it Into a zip file, upload it And now you have your application Ready for six different mobile devices As long as you get signature keys for a few of them Anyway, I hope you're enjoying the tutorial I hope you're seeing how easy it is To create an application that is Just easily distributed amongst all devices Really this is possible with most programming languages Since everything kind of breaks down to C And C basically breaks down to assembly So if you're writing stuff in Python, Perl Or whatever languages Some operating systems are very restrictive iOS being one of those Android a little bit but not impossible You can get all that stuff running But if you are looking for just a simple Way to create a user interface HTML, JavaScript, CSS These are great tools for that And once again if you actually host this In this case we uploaded a zip file With all the information But you could point it to your website I guess the way you would do it with this Is basically make an HTML file That has a redirect using something like JavaScript to redirect to your site And basically you'd upload a zip file here And nothing but that HTML file That redirects to your website Once again all depends on what you're trying to do Do you want it to be stand alone With no internet connection Or are you going to require internet connection And have the capability to update, change, monitor What the app is doing at any time That they're connected to the internet All depends But another advantage of having it On your own web server as I keep saying Is you can use your own server side scripts At that point or server side programs And then you can write it in whatever you want You can write your server side programs In C, C++, Bash, Python, Perl PHP I suppose if you're running a windows server You can even write your server side scripts In something like visual basic Or a batch file I'm not too familiar with Windows servers but I don't see Why you wouldn't be able to do that Even if you're calling it through another language like PHP And that gives you full control You can now write applications For mobile devices In any language you want Just using HTML And CSS as your user interface Just as when we're programming In Python We tend to use QT or GTK It's just a different package To display the interface The background code is all the same So now that I've been talking quite a bit Once again please visit my site filmsbychris.com That's chris2k, there should be a link in the description I hope you enjoyed this tutorial If you're liking this series Be sure to give the video a thumbs up Comment below and let me know what you think If you have technical questions That's more that you think might be more than just a simple quick answer Definitely don't put it in the comments below For multiple reasons One, once a video gets a little old I don't really check the comments on it I have too many videos to keep up with all the comments And two, it's just a horrible place To answer technical questions So as I say at the end of most of my videos If you have technical questions Try to catch me in the IRC channel Or talk to the other people in the IRC channel That's on FreeNode Pound Filmsbychris Chris with a K Or just go to my site filmsbychris.com 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Evan Lawrence Bayer, Staff Sergeant, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 121st Infantry, 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. I'm a fire team leader, Georgia Army National Guard. So I'm over here for my father, Lawrence W. Bayer, Jr., and I want to say Happy Father's Day, hope your foot's healing, and I love you and I'll see you in a couple of days. Douglas Flowers, D-O-U-G-L-A-S Flowers, F-L-O-W-E-R-S, Specialist, Charlie Company, 2-1-2-1, 48th Brigade, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, 48th Infantry Brigade, Georgia Army National Guard, Happy Father's Day Dad, I love you. Jonathan Wilkinson, J-O-N-A-T-H-O-N, W-I-L-K-I-N-S-O-N, Specialist, Charlie Company, 2nd Foot, 121st, yeah, 121st Infantry, 3rd ID, Georgia Army National Guard, Happy Father's Day Dad, love you.


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Thank you. You are looking nice. You are looking amazing. But, sija sema jina zen yun na takamji seme. Jua kwa na wewa, meni ambe jina pa kani gawalek. Haa? We can catch up here. Good morning. My name is Lillian Mora. Araita, a published author. Ya. Amazing. Ash published author. Okay. Good morning. My name is Lillian Onyango. By profession but I'm going by the name of Lillian Ahoni. And I'm a journalist as well. And I'm a writer. I write lifestyle and humanitarian stories and development stories. Why? Now I know what you're talking about. I know what you're talking about. Let me ask you. Muka na wa poa? Muna jo hii sila basi jukunye me tufiki siya sai? You? Mata lillian miwa na mtu, sorry. Mata lillian miwa na mtu tufiku kwa mstolen? Hhee? Because, let me even read you what that person told me. Eh? Where is this person? Ali, nya mbe ya? Umefiki watu kwa, ali nuliza mstolen niku gani tena. Hii sila basi na kimi asana. So that's a meme. Then I was like, ah, Tushafika kwa mstolen? So tu kwa kwa mstolen? Wo kwa api? Mini kwa kwa poa. So, Jala, muli pelika na outa maku yenda agi. Kia miyam, intresen tu no. Boyfriends of this generation have suffered. Why? It's really crazy because yesterday they didn't know that it's a boyfriend's day. Wow! I didn't let that night. So, it's connected to me actually. Mi, by then, nijualeo. Mijualeo say, nijualeo as a boy. Nijualeo say, nijualeo as a boy. Nijualeo say, nijualeo. Nijualeo say, nijualeo as a boy. We celebrate our boyfriends daily. Siniyo? Kamu kore una celebrate daily. Aa, sila ubaya. But then again, yesterday was a day that everyone was supposed to like.  Good things about them.  No one is posting their boyfriend. Instagram, no one is posting their boyfriend. WhatsApp, no one is posting their boyfriend and you're wondering, okay, wait. Nijualeo tu muna say, manga muna date. But why your boyfriend? Muna date akinanani, where are your boyfriends? But then you realize this generation tumifikaile pointia. I'm not too sure if Piyae ana need date. I might be dating him, but her need date.  So everyone is holding back. So you have a boyfriend, but you don't want to go the extra mile kwa like sikushuwa niko peke hangu na sikushuwa hakuna watu wengine na sikushuwa kama tia ana need date, amana niku kwa for a ride. Okay, this is a tit for tat. Kamu kuli kwa na girlfriend's day, they didn't post her. Thank you. Thank you. Do you know what they say during girlfriend's day? Let me tell you what they said. I was even saying it this morning. I said it. They told us during world's girlfriend's day at the world's girlfriend's day is a day for girlfriend's to celebrate themselves. Like you say mimi na wengu tu mele kanya wengu.  Girlfriend's day is for women to celebrate other women. They celebrate themselves. So Piyae wao boyfriend's day. Boy's day out. Boy's night out. Let me ask you. How much is too much to celebrate a man? How much is too much to celebrate a man? Okay, my idea will be, give what you not will. What you aita kuma ukiluz. Like sila enya ikishuna fikiria. Oh my God, nani litu miya this amount of cash on him. Oh my God nani limfanya. Like give whatever you willing to lose but it won't pay in you. Okay, give whatever you willing to lose but it won't pay in you. I have something to ask you. Okay, according to me, I think that it's not too much when it comes to love. When you love someone, you can give what you are willing to. You can give him something expensive because that's how you are going to show him that you love them. So it's not that much. Let me, I also have something for you. I have tea for the brother of you. Let me ask you. Okay. When you say, give what you are willing to lose, doesn't that make you feel like that person ume mwikwet na they are not that much worth it? No, they are worth it. I can give you so much because I feel you are worth it nabado at the end of the day. Even if things don't work out, sit I feel like I will study it on you. Okay. And you, let me ask you Lilian. Okay. When you say, give something that is worth it. Like give something that come any expensive. Ilesi kwenye mta chana, ame Ilesi kwenye ataku take for granted. Out of feel ni kama, I also is that. Okay. What you can do is say ma, you don't have to regret. You will want to pay na. It can end in the end. Like we say, leo kama to me kusana. Yes, tu na kusana leo lafukesho ni kwa na umingine. Ama na ogat na narudisoko. So you say. Where? Where? And then you know. It's all about you. We are women of this generation. Guys, generation of women, we are nice. We can give you something and we don't. Take it back. We are giving you what we are willing to lose. Ntaku pay atu na ikisha imeisha. You know, ama na on the other hand. Eh, tu mawana watu wa tinyanga niwa iPhones. Magari zime rudishwa. Once it ends, it ends. So let me ask you. Comparing the poor, I'm stalling, I'm perfect, pokot that you have. Comparing bileye uku gift. Nabilama unam gift. On a scale of imbalasy. Would you be able to match up what he gifts you? Okay, what I can say is that, mtu na kupatia nisimbe amakununia, ame kubayawain. Na onam bayao watch. Iyo ina manisha, like even na kuret. Gift that a man is giving you, ina masya even na kuret. For example, mimi ni kubayao watch, na kubanda kubayao watch, say watch chip, let's say 20,000. That's how I rate you. I love you that much. That's why I'm showing you that. Na ukuju ni pati koinpe kiaki. Onanin rate you, maybe. But I don't care. Kama gift niki dogo amani ni, so long as my love language na juna penda gift amani ni, because kila mtu akuna different love language, maybe nantaka to touch. Maybe I just want you to be there for me. Tell me I love you or what. So I don't care. So I don't care. So I don't care. Because I tell me personally, I don't think. I think he does more of the gift. No, let me tell you. He does more of the gift. If we can actually think about it. Some men out here in Jitu Masala, we can't much up. Like, like, much up. Yeah, they're willing to spend more and more. I love you. What's the worst gift a man has ever given you? Worst. Uli feel like, oh please, you could do better. Especially if he was in a position to give you something better. What's the... Persona desina mimi. Hauna? Every gift I would receive.  Like something I mentioned and they got it and they brought it. But random gift. Mimi, t-shirt. What was wrong with the t-shirt? No, what was wrong with the t-shirt? Hauna, have you ever seen me wear a t-shirt south? T-shirt landing. But let me tell you. I gave the t-shirt out the other day without having one day. No, let me tell you what happened. I had been with for a very long time. We were getting married. So they tend to not get married.  So he bought me a t-shirt. So you remember when I'm thinking, you spent a lot to buy this t-shirt. So you buy your shoes. Do you have any original... Sneakers and stuff. Those ones. Like it's a brand. So I imagined he had spent a few thousands to buy that t-shirt. I was feeling like, I want to buy a chocolate. I want to buy t-shirt. So in my mind, I felt that was very thoughtless. Or maybe he was introducing you to something new. So he wanted to gift me which I am introducing now. I am introducing something that I want us to talk about. People that gift you in their love language. True. What are your thoughts about it? Mimi na kupia gift wasababu mimi na penda t-shirt. But siku wasababu? Uuna taka t-shirt abu na penda. Mutumunya na kupia tia, kitu he munya na taka uvae. Mutumunya taka kukuchu change. Like webi a kupendi, he want to change maybe. Interesting. Maybe wuna penda kufuva, nisa nmemi penda kufuvaewe wunye mevaewe longi. Maybe it doesn't like that. Kupia wuna penda tia. Muna tika uvaewe wunye. Muna tika uvaewe wunye. Muna tika uvaewe wunye. Awebewewe wunye. Muna tika uvaewe wunye. Muna tika uvaewe wunye. So like ana tika kukupiqchabu shengini. Webi exwa kia jagit over the ex. Ana tika uvaewe fadanena exwa. So yeah. That's what I can say. Yeah. Mora, I can see your official expression. Because I'm thinking exwa, like why you ever not do want me to look like you. But ideally I think some people are clueless. Let's just admit the fact that some people are clueless. We were brought up differently. We view things differently. So it's a matter of communication.  Speak it out. You first say thank you for the gift. At least let me get my girl something. But then again, days later you can come and be like, we've been appreciating umgeni baya viatu instead of the t-shirt. I think if he's an adult and someone with a sound mind next time he will do better. Yeah, with a sound mind. Next time I'll do better. But Iki wa ni mazoe ya, but see I think in your aspect you can learn and say. What is the next time you buy a gift, you appreciate the gift? No, that's what I've said. You start by appreciating. First say thank you. At least it was a thought on his mind. Effort counts. And then later on you can go and clarify. Okay, I actually prefer this to this. Yeah, if it's someone who is thoughtful atashika, next time I'll let her get to Greece has said she likes shoes. I'm going to get to Greece shoes because Greece doesn't like t-shirts. So it's important it's important that we ask or rather they ask what to gift someone. Yeah, I think it's important to ask because we ladies we tend to buy cheap things for men. Maybe we think that they don't. We notice the little things that they don't. Happy socks. Yeah, socks, handkerchief, because these are something that they don't replace every now and then. And if you ask them what do you want, you find that a man will tell you I want a wash and it should be expensive because you find that men discuss what their girlfriend gives them. Someone gives them this and that.  So this one, the ego, this ego is being depreciated. You don't feel good about the gift that you give. You give the gift with love but then what did you give? You try to compare himself with the other man, the gift that other man received. So it's okay to ask. But why they comparing? Why they comparing? I don't know. Men do talk about the gifts we do give them. Hey! The same way we do it. Hold the thoughts. Hold the thoughts. Hold the thoughts. What you do now what you want to come to now and I say to my nene Joshua Mulendo and I say to my watching out my you guys. Thank you Joshua. Watching out I need to ask Mr. Wazeri and I say watching out to Kisumu and let the iPhone 15. Man! Men, we have to sit here stand up here. I'll be I say ma wihiga mago center tuned Thank you Tismo and I say ma Donny representing Val Val Val atakuja Ustijali utamauna pa next week. Val, kuna mtu ala kumis mahali. Joshua Mulendo and I say ma good morning then Johnny K.E. And I say those babies made my day. Watching from Olkarrol. you more. Thank you so much Johnny. Lean sana from Kaganda Murangam. Then purity so ita anasema watching life from Limuru Massive. Then there is Kamao Musenangu. Anasema good morning. Pamoja sana hapa kiyomongi division Gatundu South. Thank you. Then kandomaina anasema watching JJ. Anasema mombasani watching then someone else saying watching life from Ilasat. Then paradise anasema watch milimani estate na kuru pamoja addita mati na mamdriliat na male. Then uh someone is asking valentine will you marry me? Val. Let me ask you someone have anasema a letter iPhone 15. That brings me to the next thing that I'm thinking about. What makes a gift touching? Like is it because it's expensive? Is it because it's what makes a gift touching? Because ntrolas ma paleta iPhone 15. One there's someone who will say iPhone 15 such a good gift because it's expensive. Then there's someone else who will be like should have bought me something else. So what makes a gift sensible should be the question actually. Hmm. For me it will be if they can take it as a personal anasema aji. It they can relate with it like um you have to say me a guy who likes listening to music right and then you get him these nice brand bluetooth speaker that he can use whenever he's going wherever he's going to listen to music. I think they will find it very thoughtful and they will appreciate it. Like find what someone likes get them something in line with what they love. It will always be appreciated. It doesn't have to be more of me expensive or not like me. I like writing. I journal, I write, I do everything.  Trust me I was so happy like at a salea me how much it I would have wanted a phone. It's something like I know I will put into use in inside Yahapa. I think it's more of how can I relate with the gift in human pair. Okay. How can she relate with the gift in human pair? Lilian. I think I'm going to support Lilian or I'm going to support her. Okay. Gift is all about I know this person. I know what they want. How can I make sure that they know how I feel?  I don't know back on the stage or in the market or whatever the place you're going to go back.  Maybe after you've known this person. Maybe you've been watching. Maybe they love respond or what. Something that you think they love the most. Okay. Go back and then give that gift to them. It doesn't have to be expensive. It's all about love. Yeah. I think the best gift should come with love. Okay. Come with love. But as well. Something she can relate with. Yeah. But as well. Come to think of it from another aspect. Imagine you have this rich guy. Then she's going to give it to you later to give it to Flaani. Funny, funny to her. I'm not having an issue in Kenya. I'm saying later. You don't even look when I say ma, you know they can afford more. Yeah. They can bring you better. Mm hmm. Come on. Kiyatu unajiwa. If he is to go to but get me a certain type of shoe, he can afford it. But amyamua, hkwa kwa street. And I'll be wondering. Bano umyamua kwa kwa chukwa izizi zi kwa kwa street itao na how is it kwa. Like something new. Oni later it's more of umeni reitaji. Kuna eleya. You don't want to spend on me. Kuna pinyo umeni eka paha hali. Pia at some point I add up if you have this much man yandere unashina. Amyamua kwa kwa hali kwa kwa hali kwa kwa kwa. So if they have money they spend it. Yeah. Is what you think. What you think. Okay, you know those women? Okay, I think I come from a very different of women who feel a type of wearing a spend a lot of money on me. Oh. But one is like. Uhum. Uhum. Wachakuni anani?  But let me tell you something. And those women, you buy me something expensive and billek. Anakunua? But I'll be like, okay, that money we could have used it for something. I enjoy life. I enjoy life. It's a great thing. It's a great thing. Kwa kwa musikun yota, kwa kwa kwa kwa regret. Great thing I need to tell you. It's a day. It's a day. It's a day he brought. It's a day he brought me this expensive earbuds. Uhum.  Niki Kuwaitu Kenyan money na una ni forty four thousand. And you think he no more earphones will have dandruff, right? Eh man, they got your earbuds. E expensive ones. E earbuds ni menda kusiba hiya kaaba. This kiki, ini tradini this case. Case na mzuwa one thousand. Niko, like they money for my in this case is nishi for my another earphone. Likin suha araba? Okay, then in a moment I'm thinking, no if you give to me with this expensive. I'm no reported. Man I can't buy earbuds that forty K, my dear. I... Sometimes they don't need to measure up with them. Medin sa zingina wa taki, hawa na aja They just want to They're doing it just because they want to You have money man Almost certainly So you feel like umtu akifanya iwo anataka yu reciprocate No, no, no, I don't feel like umtu akifanya yu reciprocate because he doesn't want me to reciprocate anything I mean I can't reciprocate anything that man does for me was his gifting is out of this Ya, his birthday was just the other day Nili taftaki to kumbeyan kakosa But then you know I didn't gift him for his birthday I did not because I could not buy anything I was imagining kama ni shoes alava shoes is at my 1000's is at 20 I was thinking me am I going to buy 20,000 to buy shoes If it's a watch, he already has a watch worth over 100K So I'm imagining You know Umbaya socks So I didn't buy anything I did not like kumbeleka out I didn't get the option By taking him for lunch or something Ni kajua Sabah, ee meisha Nasa sa lunch for him No more lunch for him Ni sige So you know So for someone like that How do you gift them? Ok maybe umtu nyanak patia gifts Maybe love language is a gift So say I can love language Ni gift, that is my problem Ni gift He is love language And that's why He is love language Because he will always be buying something Buying something I think It's difficult kumgift I feel guilt talking patia something less But have you been studying before? No A bit right No just try You'd be surprised Ni kwa kwa na teka kukufanya Even when the extra woman Because I think When we talked about How much do you want to spend In moment I'm thinking So don't put me in that position How much I want to spend for you He was like how much do you want to spend on a gift Do ni kwambia nibayi a nini Usi nibayi kitu ni nini I was like What do you want No you tell me how much you want to spend I was like 5,000 Niki dongo Ureza ntaftia He didn't say niki dongo He was like look for something shu related By shoes from Stointown But in moment I was thinking The shoes I have seen you wear You're telling me to go buy shoes for some time I was like 2 dinas But here You get it Women are at a place where We don't know how to What is enough What is good enough should be the question What is good enough As we wind up This conversation It depends on the person you have It depends on the person you have It depends on the person you have Lilian what is good enough It depends on the love The person you have You just made the effort If for effort If for effort Kendo go to Will you buy a man Will you take a loan To buy a man something No we don't take loans to buy this I can never do that Will you take a loan To bail out your man out of a serious Financial issue No you're not buying him something You're bailing him out of a financial crisis He's a husband Yesawid Boyfriend No Okay Lilian Yesawid is washing I don't know what to do I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know Okay I have no idea This is a loan This is a financial crisis And then you take a loan To bail him out of there I'm not sure if you're going to take a loan I don't know He's saying he will be husband I don't know if he's a husband I think I would of that for my husband For boyfriend And then they say You know they're type They find another type premises this will be finally opened should you not invest it has nothing to do with you this is not the end of the conversation I will say I want a gift for giving birth to more than 20 children 20? kwa nikiwa? Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa nikiwa? Nikiwa hapana kwa na maesi inbungoma counti, Thank you, then Hesruna nma watching live of Abenda sa na tu na kupa nazi pia, Nyakakanda ana sema me nyeri, then Nwawero ana sema Danny, Thank you Pita ana sema. Hue na maela gift ya kumana, Nuwewa 20 children, so I think ana try to explain ana sema, and I'm a waka gift yakumzaliwa what it was idea twenty. We're inna nita kwa tojiwa.  Acha tu ni nya maze but anyway ni kondani na shio na wakili shabungoma county thank you. I'm Serem from Eldorat Morning thank you. Walker is saying following thank you. Jera is saying ginger. Mugi na nasema Edgar nasema nyahuru ruchun. Thank you so much for giving us feedback for talking, for commenting, for liking everything. We love you. Thank you for coming. What this I think we need to to to to to have a part two of this segment of gifting. We need to we have not exhausted everything there is to gifting boyfriends and commemorating the world boyfriend's day but tell us. Ukananpo nataka kusalimia. The you can give us a parting shot in 2020. That's your camera. Kusalimia yung poa. No, I'm not salimia yung poa. This is just a reminder for everyone to be kind to people out here and love your partner according to your love language, to his love language or maha love language. Usimpe gifts na apendi gifts. Labda na apenda quality time so. Be attentive to what they prefer. Amazing, Lillian. Yeah, what is big enough? Okay, so. Misina ampua. Umem kata on television. Misini me kata. Ngekwa na ampua, ngekwa na ring kwa ampua no. Like? Batsuna ring. Oh, maisha mamkua makatun pake leskenye to la ring kwa. Before, lewe hea. You see kusasa. So as long as badom tu jentoha kwe tu. Yeah. So what I can say is that what is big enough. I mean the gift that has weight is the gift that come with love. So if you have someone out there just know them. What do they want, what do they love and give them that gift. Yeah. That is what is big enough. Well, thank you so much for coming. For you out there. Misina ampua. I mean. Thank you so much for keeping me company and keeping us company. The whole day has been such a vibe. My name is Grace Mind. You do have a lovely day. God bless you. See you tomorrow, same day, same time, same everything. Love you.


Have you ever been emotionally shamed or manipulated into making a decision that you didn't want to make? Maybe make a sale, buy something you didn't want to buy, maybe make a decision you didn't want to make or maybe not make a decision that you actually wanted to make. Anyway, if you have these kinds of regrets because people emotionally manipulate you or shame you into doing or not doing certain things, in this video I'll show you how to never ever have that happen to you again for ever. So I'll start off by telling a story that actually a true story that happened to me when I was 18. I was in Hamburg in Germany and I was in a street called Rieperbahn, which is sort of like the red lights district of Germany, kind of a big street filled with strip shows, brothels, cool restaurants and shows. And I was walking along in that street, I was on tour then and I saw this kind of strip club place and I really wasn't very interested in going in, but so I kind of went along. But then the guy at the entrance, the doorman, kind of told me like, hey dude, look, come inside. And I was like, no, no thank you, you know, I'm good, I don't want to spend any money there. I don't want to do anything. It's fine. And then he tells me, look, it's completely fine. You can just sit down, you can just look at the girls, have a drink. If you don't want to pay for anything, that's completely fine.  And then I go into that place and then I sit down on the sofa and the girl comes up to me, starts talking to me and she's very flirty, very nice, you know, she kind of tries to create chemistry between us. And I'm like, okay, that's cool. And then she offers me a private lap dance in the back. So I tell her, look, I'm not about that. I don't want to do this, sorry, it's fine. And she says, no, no, it's free, it's on me. I think you're an awesome guy. I just want to give you this gift.  I was like, oh yeah, make sense. You know, of course I'm an awesome guy. Of course you want to give me a free lap dance. So she takes me to the back and it's like a big round room. And I sit down with her and then maybe 10 seconds later, this other black girl comes in with a tray and a bottle on it of wine. And she asks me if I want some wine and I said no. And then what she does, she pours wine to herself and to her friend and they start drinking wine. And we kind of have fun, talk a bit.  This doesn't make any sort of sense. So I ask them, hey girls, does any of this cost me money? Like, does any of this cost money? They ignored me. And then I ask again, look, does any of this cost me money? They ignored me again. So I just stood up. I was like, look, do I need to pay for anything that's happening here? And the girls basically said, yeah, of course, you need to pay for the wine. It's 1,200 euros. And I was like, look girls, I'm originally from Israel.  Like, maybe this works on Europeans, but you haven't met any Israelis probably. This won't work. Sorry. So then the girl says, oh, look, we're going to have a problem then. And she goes out and gets this manager girl that comes in with a six foot five monster Hulk guy, super scary guy. And they both enter the room and now there's four of them. And they tell me, look, you have to pay. And I go, no, I don't. I didn't order the drink. I don't drink alcohol. You wouldn't find one drop of alcohol in me for the last more than six months. So sorry, I'm not paying anything. And then the tough guy came, Mr. Frankenstein.  It's going to end very bad for you.  And we kind of went back and forth. And I basically kept stating the truth and just saying the facts of the situation. Look, I came in here, they told me it was free. Nobody said I need to pay for anything. They actually explicitly told me I don't need to pay for anything. I didn't ask for a bottle.  I didn't drink. Not you can't charge me for anything. And they're like, no, but here's the bill. I'm like, yeah, but I didn't ask for anything. She said it was free. There's no reason I should pay for anything. And then he says, yeah, but the girls rank. Yeah, but I didn't order the drinks. I didn't ask for anything. And then this goes on for a while and they try kind of all sorts of scare tactics, intimidation. So finally I simply asked them like, hey, look, if I don't pay, are you going to beat me up? And the guy just says, look, there's a police station three minutes from here. And if you don't pay, we're going to get the cops and then you're going to go to jail. And for me, that was like heaven because I knew I wasn't guilty. And I knew there were probably that the police know they're crooks. So I was like, yeah, great. You know, I'm not willing to pay. I'm a thief. Sure, call the cops. Please, I beg of you, call them. And basically they started losing leverage and eventually I just realized they were not going to do anything and that they don't have any leverage on me. I just got up, started walking away and then the manager ran to me. He's like, no, no, no, okay, at least pay for the girls.  Got out of there, took a cab, split off. Now the story is a lot more, I talk about it a lot more in my new book, the one I'm writing right now, but that's basically the gist of it. And what actually happened there, it's like in a very extreme case of emotional manipulation, like when your mom tries to manipulate you into not doing something or a sales guy tries to pressure you into buying something. And I want to explain what happened. So the moment that I realized that they're trying to do emotional pressure on me to make me basically buckle, make an emotional decision, I immediately resorted back to the facts and the truths of the situation. So that's step one. It's just whatever the truth of the situation, the facts, you just start saying them and repeating them over and over and over. Let's say, for example, some guy you had a business partnership with decides that you need to, maybe the business failed and he's like, yeah, so now it's because of you so you owe me money and then he does some sort of pressure on you. So you just tell him, okay, we went into a business together, we took the risk together, the business failed and you're asking me to pay you. The business, and then you say again, we went into a business together, the business failed, we took mutual agreements and then you asked me to pay you.  So you just repeat the facts. You're like, I live in this house and because I live in this house, that means I have to do what you say. I live in this house and because I live in this, you just repeat at like the most surface, direct level of what's going on. And the reason for that is because when people emotionally pander to you, you always have this balance between being rational and being emotional. So most of the time, most people are fairly rational. So when you're rational, you act through your best interest and your brain can use all the data you've accumulated in your life to basically make the best decision for you.  When somebody manages to get you, basically like in the cases where they try to intimidate me, somebody gets me like 80, 90% emotional, then I know I'm bound to make a really, really, really, really bad decision if I don't handle it really fast. Like, have you ever been in some sort of an exchange or sort of a debate?   Or maybe you're in an argument and then your brain, after the argument, your brain's like, oh, you could have done this, you could have said this. You were right because of this and literally it gives you the right answer.  So the reason that that's not an illusion, by the way. So the reason that happened is because once the event is over, your brain's logical analytical capabilities come back because you become less emotional.  And if you argue with somebody who's emotional, because when somebody tries to emotionally pressure you, he has to act emotionally on himself, it's impossible to just pressure somebody with logic emotionally.  So if you can actually stay logical or return to logic, then what's gonna happen is you become more logical than the person who's emotional because they're trying to emotionally pressure you. So you actually are gonna win the argument.  As you can see, even four people try to extort me, still when I became rational, it was like 70, 80% rational. I was like, shit, get up, walk away, just do it now. And I just did it and it worked. And I had no doubt it would work because everybody was emotional and I wasn't.  So how did that work? Again, when you keep, when people try to get you emotional, the thing about emotions is that emotions are passing. There's something that comes and goes. So when you don't feed the emotions, let's say you're angry, you're sad, depressed, whatever it is, when you don't feed the emotions anymore, then it usually takes like what? Like 10 seconds, half a minute, maybe a minute for the emotion to start passing. So these people know that they basically have to take advantage of you as fast as they can possibly do because even if the emotion is very high, it can't last forever. Logic on the other hand is absolute. It's infinite. It doesn't have an expiring date. It just keeps being the right thing all the time. So when somebody tries to pressure you and immediately you can feel your logical mind going down and the emotions going up, maybe it's fear, maybe it's excitement, could be even happy emotions, even that's not too good. What you wanna do is again, keep talking about just the fact of the situation and the truths, don't say anything else. Just whatever people ask you, just say this is the fact, this is a situation and just repeat it and it's easy to know. You can be as emotional as you want, it doesn't matter. If you're depressed in a suicidal manner because you're so depressed, you can still be I'm laying in my room, I'm very depressed, I feel like shit, that is the situation. I'm very depressed, I'm sitting in my room, I'm thinking about my life and that I should kill myself, I'm very depressed. Just repeat it, repeat it, repeat it, repeat it. But the thing is you have to repeat, you have to say it over and over and over again to not allow your brain to go along with the emotion because when you have an angry thought, you're gonna start to have an angry emotion, you're gonna start to have angry thoughts. When you have a scared emotion, you're gonna start having scared thoughts. So by repeating your mantra, which is basically the situation, the truth of the situation, you're both communicating with the other person and you're giving yourself a chance to start recovering from the emotion.  Once it goes up enough, you'll have the right answer, you'll feel confident, bam, you do it. And then whatever you say or do, you can be confident that it was in your best interest.  Once you really, really, really apply this 100% of the time, you'll never, ever have a situation again in your life where you did something and then you regret doing it. The only things that you'll regret doing are things that you did from emotional decisions, not from logical decisions because your logical decisions will always, always, always be the right decisions at that moment because your brain is like a perfect analytical machine that always takes all the data and gives you the best possible solution. It can't be wrong. It's like a calculator. But if you feed it with wrong data because you're emotional, then you can't blame the calculator. It's basically like doing one plus eight, but holding down another number, then you get like a weird result and that way people take advantage of you. So just to summarize, three things you should always, always remember. First thing is that when you get emotional, when you start getting very, very excited in the up zone or when you get in the scared down zones, like sad, angry, maybe scared, anxious, never make decisions in these emotional zones because you're probably gonna regret them no matter how good they look or how scared you are and hopeless you are. Always wait for the logic to come back and you do that by repeating the truths of the situation. Just the truths and the facts. That's it. Just repeat it like a mantra over and over again, either to the person or to you or even if you're alone, just talk to yourself. It's the best thing you can do. And within a minute or two, you're gonna be logical again, at least logical enough to make a decision that's gonna be in your best interest. Second thing is that you never, again, never ever make a decision when you're not rational. Second thing is that you need to remember that other people don't necessarily have your best interest in mind. Remember that even somebody like your mom doesn't necessarily want the best for you. She wants the best for you, but through her values. So what she values, you don't necessarily value. So there's gonna be a conflict. So if you listen to her, you might take advice from her, but if you listen to her and just do what she says, then you're basically almost guaranteed to get the wrong kind of decision. Even your best friend often doesn't know to 100% what your values are at any given moment. So don't let other people make decisions for you from an emotional standpoint ever, because again, they have their interest in mind. I'm not saying they're selfish. I'm not saying try to take advantage of you. I'm just saying they don't look at the world with the same data you have because obviously you know yourself best better than anybody else. Finally, always remember that the facts and truths of the situation are your anchors. Facts and truths will always, always, always be emotions because the truth and facts are absolute. Logic is absolute. While emotions quickly come and go. So if you can stick in there and basically anchor yourself to the ground within the whole emotional storm by using the facts and the truths, you're guaranteed, guaranteed, 100% guaranteed to win because if you don't make a decision until you get rational, which you have to get rational if you anchor yourself, then you will always win.  I don't want that opportunity. There's not a single opportunity in this life that's time sensitive where you have a very limited amount of time to make a decision where you won't end up regretting it. And if you do win, it's just gonna be luck which luck is very bad in this world.  I'm special, I make good decisions and then anyway you're gonna lose it later. So I hope this helps you. Basically this is my philosophy for never ever getting emotionally manipulated. It works perfectly. And this is just one of the many, many stories that I talk about in my book that I'm actually writing right now. I think I'll be done by the end of the month. The book is about my job life journey and so far. And all the things I went through in this life and what happened to me, you know, the various different lessons I learned. And I think it's gonna be an amazing read for you and you're gonna love it. But for now, I hope you just enjoy this video. Keep watching, have three more videos to go today and keep being awesome.


Welcome to Learning English, a daily 30-minute program from The Voice of America. I'm Ashley Thompson. And I'm Dan Novak. This program is designed for English learners, so we speak a little slower, and we use words and phrases, especially written for people learning English. Coming up on the program, Faith Perlow and Andrew Smith have a story on a kidnapping scam targeting Chinese students in the U.S. Gregory Stockle reports on a new study about an ancient species of great ape. Dan Friedle has the Health and Lifestyle report on an ultrasound tool that can help deliver Alzheimer treatments to the brain. Later, Andrew and Jill Robbins present the lesson of the day, but first... Late last month, 17-year-old Chinese student Kai Zhuang was reported missing near Salt Lake City in the American state of Utah. He was found days later, alone and cold in a tent in the mountains north of the city. Officials say the case was part of a cyber or online plan by criminals. The criminals tried to get $80,000 in ransom money by making Zhuang's family believe he had been kidnapped. Ransom is money that is paid to release a kidnapped person. Zhuang's case is one of many in which unknown criminals target Chinese students around the world and pretend to kidnap them. The criminals often pretend to be Chinese police or government officials. They convince the students to leave the places where they live and go stay at a hotel. Then they threaten the students' families and ask for tens of thousands of dollars for the release of their children. On January 3rd, just days after Kai Zhuang was found, the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a warning about the fake kidnappings of Chinese people in the United States. Criminals have also attempted fake kidnappings of Chinese students in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan, VOA News found. It is not clear whether the criminals are working together or separately across these countries. Teresa Payton is Chief Executive Officer, or CEO, of the cyber security company Fortalus Solutions. She told VOA News that the complex relationship between the Chinese government and its citizens may move worldwide criminal groups to target Chinese students more than students from other countries. Other security experts say that the criminals pretend to be Chinese police or government officials for a reason. They are using the strong Chinese security system to their advantage. Chinese people are naturally afraid of the police, said Han Jiang Du Diao Seng, a pharmacist based in the United States. He runs accounts on YouTube and Weibo that are popular among Chinese exchange students. Seng has helped four Chinese students caught up in cyber kidnapping, he said. He explained to VOA News how the scam or illegal trick works. The criminals, pretending to be Chinese officials, first ask students if they have recently received money from their families. If they say yes, the criminals lie to the students. They may tell them that the money was sent illegally or they may tell them their families are targets of criminals. Then they tell the students to stop communicating with their family while officials look into the problem. Soon this makes the family believe their son or daughter has been kidnapped. In the cases Seng worked on, he said, the criminals forced all the students to leave where they lived and go stay at a hotel. This made their families believe the students were actually kidnapped. Seng said Chinese parents may be less likely to report their cases to American police. He noted that there is distrust among Chinese people of American police. Chinese state media often show American police as violent and irresponsible, Seng said. There is no clear information on the number of cyber kidnapping cases in the U.S. or around the world, cybersecurity experts told VOA. However, the number of cases appears to be growing. Improved technology, especially with artificial intelligence, AI, might make the cyber kidnappings easier for criminals, experts say. AI can create deep fakes. Deep fake audio and pictures can make it seem like victims have actually been kidnapped, said Peyton, the Ford Elise Solutions CEO. Joseph Steinberg is a cybersecurity expert based in New York City. He said improvements in AI mean that criminals do not even have to speak the same language as their victims. AI is only going to get better, and that means that the attacks will only be more and more realistic, he told VOA. Last February in Canada, police said Chinese students had been tricked out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by scammers, claiming to be Chinese government officials. In Japan last summer, at least six Chinese students were targeted in cyber kidnapping plans, local police said. The Chinese Embassy in Tokyo issued a warning about the scams in August. Police in Britain issued a warning about cyber scams targeting Chinese students in September. And in October, the Australian government issued a similar warning. Cyber security experts recommend families set up a password to check one another's identity over the phone during these kinds of situations. The cyber kidnapping scam very much can happen to anybody, Steinberg said. And that's what people need to be aware of. An ancient species of great ape likely disappeared hundreds of thousands of years ago when climate change put their favorite fruits out of reach during dry seasons, scientists recently reported. The species is known as Gigantopithecus blackie. It once lived in southern China. It stood three meters tall and weighed up to 295 kilograms. It represents the largest great ape known to scientists. It's just a massive animal, just really, really big, said Renault Joannès Boyo. He is a researcher at Australia's Southern Cross University. He helped write the study, which recently appeared in the publication Nature. But its size may also have been a weakness. Joannès Boyo said, when food starts to be scarce, it's so big it can't climb trees to explore new food sources. The huge apes likely looked similar to the modern orangutan. It survived for around two million years in the forested land of China's Guangxi area. They ate plants that included fruits and flowers until the environment began to change. Starting about 600,000 years ago, Guangxi's forests began producing fewer fruits. The area was experiencing more periods of dry weather. Researchers examined pollen and sediment found in underground areas called caves to learn more about the changes and their effects. The giant apes did not disappear quickly, the researchers say. They likely went extinct sometime between 215,000 and 295,000 years ago. As the climate changed, smaller apes may have been able to climb trees to search for different food. But the researchers found that the giant apes ate more food that provided less nutrients. That less nutritious food included tree bark and thin grasses called reeds. When the forest changed, there was not enough food preferred by the species, said Zhong Yingqi of China's Institute of Verdebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology. He helped write the study. Most of what scientists know about the extinct great apes comes from studying their remains or fossils. The fossilized bones they studied included teeth and four large lower jaw bones. All of the fossils were found in southern China. No complete skeletons have been found. Between around 2 million and 22 million years ago, many species of great apes lived in Africa, Europe, and Asia fossil records show. Today, only gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and humans remain. I'm Gregory Stockle. Researchers recently said a new tool that uses what is called focused ultrasound can help deliver important medicine to the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly reduces the brain function of patients, causing confusion and other problems. The new delivery method helps drugs remove the brain-clogging plaque the disease is known for. The small sound waves created by the ultrasound tool create openings in what is called the blood-brain barrier. It is the protective lining in blood vessels that prevents bacteria and other damaging substances from getting into the brain. However, the barrier also prevents Alzheimer's medication from getting into the brain. The new technique permits the medicine to get into the brain more easily and remove the plaque faster. So far, the tool has been used on only three patients. Each patient saw a faster removal of plaque than with a traditional treatment. Dr. Ali Rezai of West Virginia University's Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute led the study. Our goal is to give patients a head start, he said. Some of the new Alzheimer's treatments take a long time to work, he explained. But with the ultrasound tool, the drugs move into the brain faster. The medicine delivery requires three steps. First, doctors inject tiny bubbles into the bloodstream. Then patients put on a special head covering that permits doctors to send sound waves to an exact area of the brain. The waves vibrate the bubbles, which loosen the blood-brain barrier just enough for the drug to get in. Before Rezai's study, other researchers discovered the ultrasound technique was able to make small openings in the barrier. The openings closed up after 48 hours. Rezai's experiment showed that the technique could be used to deliver medicine. Many of the recently approved Alzheimer's treatments take a long time to work. Patients must come for injections every few weeks for 18 months. The new treatment offers hope that patients can get results faster. Why not try to clear the plaques within a few months, Rezai asked when discussing the reason behind his study? His team gave three patients a dose of the drug, Agi-helm, each month for six months. Right after each injection, his team aimed the focused ultrasound at part of the brain known to have the plaque buildup. As a result, more of the day's dose of the drug got through the blood-brain barrier. The team scanned the patient's brains before and after the treatment. After six months, scans showed a 32% reduction in plaque in the areas that were targeted compared to areas that were not targeted. Dr. Eleizer Moslia of the National Institute on Aging was not involved in the research. Moslia said the trial brings some hope for Alzheimer's patients. However, he advised that larger trials are needed. It's very exciting data, he said. It opens the door for more extensive larger studies. Moslia warned that one concern that must be investigated is whether the faster delivery of the drug will create side effects, such as swelling and brain bleeding. Rezai said he is about to start a new study using another Alzheimer's drug called Lekembi. He added that larger studies would be needed to see if combining focused ultrasound with Alzheimer's drugs makes a real difference for patients. Other researchers may start studying whether the technique works for the treatment of other diseases that affect the brain, such as cancer. I'm Dan Friedel. Dan Friedel joins me now to talk more about today's health story. Welcome, Dan. Thanks again for having me, Dan. Today's story was about a doctor in West Virginia who was testing a system that may help Alzheimer's patients get better results from some new treatments. Can you explain why Alzheimer's has been so difficult to treat until now? The problem is that Alzheimer's disease affects the brain, and the human brain has a special protective membrane that keeps bad things from directly entering the brain. That's a simple way to explain it, but the basic idea is that the barrier called the blood-brain barrier keeps bacteria and other harmful substances from entering the brain through the blood. The problem is that the barrier also blocks helpful substances, such as drugs that can treat diseases. Thanks. So tell us a little bit more about how this new system works and why it can make a difference in treating brain diseases. Well, Dan, the new Alzheimer's treatments approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration take a long time to work, and even after a year and a half, some patients do not see good results. Because of the blood-brain barrier, the drugs need to be strong, and they can have negative side effects. I saw a story that said only 1% of the beneficial antibodies from the drugs are able to enter the brain in traditional treatment. So this new system works to open the barrier for a short time and permits the helpful drugs to enter the brain. This does sound like a positive step forward for Alzheimer's patients. Are there any concerns about this treatment? Yes, Dan, there are some concerns. They mostly center on the fact that the trial in West Virginia did not test many patients. So while doctors are hopeful about the way this system works, they want to continue the tests on many more people to be sure it is safe. In addition, the tests needed to show the difference between using the focused ultrasound on one part of the brain and not another part of the brain. So even the patients involved in the test did not get the full benefit of the system. Well, it sounds like there's a lot of work to do, but this is a step in the right direction. Thanks for answering my questions today, Dan. You're welcome, Dan. Happy to help. VOA Learning English has launched a new program for children. It is called Let's Learn English with Anna. The new course aims to teach children American English through asking and answering questions and experiencing fun situations. For more information, visit our website learningenglish.boanews.com To the lesson of the day on the Learning English podcast, my name is Andrew Smith. And my name is Jill Robbins. Thanks for joining us. Today's lesson will help you learn more about the English you hear in our video series Let's Learn English. The series shows Anna Matteo in her work in life in Washington, D.C. Here's Anna introducing herself. Hello, my name is Anna Matteo. Today's lesson talks about the verbs hope and wish. Wish and hope are similar, but we generally say the word wish when we think it is unlikely that we can or will do something. So if I say, I hope I can finish my homework by tomorrow, that means I'm not sure I can finish it, but it also means I think I might be able to finish on time. But if I say, I wish I could finish my homework by tomorrow, that means I do not think it is possible for me to finish on time. And by saying wish, I express the idea that I want a situation that is different from my real situation. Andrew, is there something you cannot do but wish you could do? Hmm, that's a good question. I think I'm pretty happy with what I can do, but I wish I could speak more languages. I think I would like to speak Chinese. How about you, Jill? I wish I could go scuba diving. I have a certification, but I don't have the chance to go to a place to dive nowadays. Now let's listen to Anna in lesson 10 of level two of Let's Learn English. She is talking on the phone with her friend, Bruna. Be sure to listen for the verbs hope and wish. Hi, Anna. Hi, Bruna. What's up? I thought we could meet for lunch today. I wish I could, but I can't. I have to research Peru for a story. How's it going? Not so good. I've been reading about Peru and listening to Peruvian music. I really want to understand Peru. I hope it's enough. You should visit Peru. I wish you can. Bruna, I don't have the money or time to go to Peru. My deadline is tomorrow. No, I don't mean to really go there. The museum where I work is having a Peruvian festival today. At that last part, Anna got so excited when she heard about the festival that she just left her office and forgot to say goodbye on the phone. Now let's talk more about the verb wish. We wish for things we cannot do, be, or have at the present time. That's why when Bruna asked Anna to go to lunch, Anna said, I wish I could, but I can't. I have to research Peru for a story. For things we cannot do but wish to do, we add the modal could after the word wish. Listen to these three examples. I wish I could speak Chinese. I wish I could visit my family more often. I wish I could save more money. In those three examples, the speaker cannot speak Chinese, cannot visit family, and cannot save money. But the speaker wishes he could do those things. Next, for things we do not or cannot have, we put the word had after the word wish. Listen to these examples. We'll say what we don't have and then what we wish for. I don't have much time. I wish I had more time. I don't have many friends. I wish I had more friends. Next, for situations or states of being, we change the form of the verb be. After the word wish, we say were. Listen to these examples. We'll describe a situation and then say the different situation we wish for. I am not young. I wish I were younger. It is not sunny today. I wish it were sunny today. You are not here with me. I wish you were here with me. Now, here's one more example with Bruna and Anna. They meet at the museum. Listen for the verbs hope and wish. Don't forget this festival also shows Peruvian art. I hope I have time to see everything. Anna, I wish I could join you, but I have some work to do. Of course, of course. You go back to work. I'll check out the art. Andrew, I wish we had more time to give our listeners ways to practice using the verb wish. Me too, but don't worry. In our next lesson of the day, we're going to explain more and give our listeners ways they can practice using the verb wish. I hope they will listen to that lesson. Me too. And we hope you've enjoyed today's lesson. Remember that you can also find us on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. Thanks for listening. I'm Andrew Smith. And I'm Jill Robbins. And that's our program for today. Join us again tomorrow to keep learning English through stories from around the world. I'm Ashley Thompson. And I'm Dan Novak.


Animals are gone and the exhibits are packed up, meaning the Beltrami County fair has come to an end. The five day fair, which came to a closed Sunday evening, was one of the largest fairs in recent years. Despite rainy conditions on the first and last day of the fair, officials are saying that ideal weather conditions for the majority of the fair brought out a record number of people to the fairgrounds over the weekend to see the exhibits and take part in all the fair events. Thursday, Friday and Saturday were excellent. We think that we maybe broke a record for Friday night because we had over 10,000 people and yesterday on Saturday we had well over 9,000 people. So those are really good days. We think that 10,000 mark may be our top number ever. Now we want to thank all of you who stopped out at our Lakeland Public Television booth at the Beltrami County Fair. It was great meeting everyone who stopped by to say hello. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.