Yo, what's poppin people welcome back to another episode of kicking their bass TV If you guys are new to the channel hit that subscribe button hit the notification But also the like button if you guys have been enjoying the content today We're doing a top water fishing showdown and some ponds I'm excited to bring it to you guys the weather is actually cooled off a ton And we're gonna be hoping the fish are gonna be biting today, but I got my boy Fletcher What's going on man doing good. This is the first day of the year. My nipples are hard He's not wrong. He's not wrong. I walked outside this morning. I have one of the new look at this Put it on me. What are you showing us over here? No, so I'll put one of the new big bass energy shirt It's a big inshirts on okay by the way, you guys can check them out kicking their bass calm link can be down below Look at this boy. Hey, what is he doing? Oh, how do I zoom on this your head over here? I don't know how to zoom Anyways, you guys can check them out kicking their bass calm. We got some of the new hoodies on as well Yeah, I walked outside I was in a t-shirt and I was like I have to go back inside and give me one of these comfy hoodies So if you guys want to check them out kicking the rest calm, I appreciate the love and support Let's go ahead and show you guys what we're going to be doing today. So we got a bunch of mock baits right here Look at that ton of mock baits if you guys want to check on mock baits They're available on mock nation comm link to be down below So we're only going to be using the spraying Shad and the patroller today. So Fletcher This is the rules. So we're only allowed to use those two baits both top waters. I'm following spraying Shad Patroller, okay, okay, and you can check them out on mock nation comm if you didn't already know. Oh You know where I'm going after this. So what we have to do is we got to catch two on each bait whoever catches two on each bait first Wins the challenge. Okay pretty simple, right? Nothing crazy. I mean, we don't have to catch like five on each bait There's two fish on each bait and the winner takes home the prize So we're gonna go ahead and get rigged up guys I hope you enjoy this one if you do hit the like button check out Fletcher's channel down below Let's hop right into it. So guys, this is what I'm gonna start off with I got a white patroller here on the kick in their bass ex lose combo if you guys want to check these out only available on Kickinthebass.com link can be down below Fletcher, what do you think your choice is going to be to start off with? I'm really feeling the patroller man. I don't know about fall weather top water moving baits I really think that's gonna get these basses going But I might start with the spray and shadow I'm just gonna have to get them tied on or take a look at them once I get this rigged up and see what I'm gonna Go with I at the end of the day I got fish with them both So maybe I might just start with the with the spray and shadow just to get that one out of the way And then move on to the patroller and you know just take home the victory after that But we're gonna we're gonna see what the fish are in the mood for well either way We've got to catch two fish on each. Yeah, I mean maybe I could get ahead on the patroller because I love the patroller I know you do too, but then again, we got to catch two on each one. So we're gonna see what's gonna happen guys Let's go ahead and hop into it and see if we can catch some big ones for y'all My heart's telling me to go with the patroller to start with but I think I'm gonna have to put this on the back burner and get Started with the spraying shad because I do think this is gonna be the harder the two baits to catch some fish on just because of The conditions and whatnot I'm gonna go with this color right here bone color is really good on cloudy days So that is going to be the color of choice. Let's get this little puppy rigged up a snip snip, and we are ready to go guys All right, Fletcher. You ready? You don't want the smoke boy. Why are you walking so fast? That's why you like just kind of kind of creeping up The question is are they gonna eat the top water? So obviously You guys know the weather last week me and Fletcher were gonna fish, but There's kind of a hurricane Bonin So we didn't get the fish and our question is especially with the cold cold weather right now Are they gonna bite really good or you think they're gonna bite really bad? I really don't know. We just had that big storm blow in When was the storm Fletcher like three days ago? Yeah, two or three days ago, so I'm hoping these fish are gonna bite I just I think it's either gonna be really good Or it's gonna be really bad like these conditions look so good for top water, but at the same time The air is cooled off at time. I can only assume the water temps Cool off To adjust to it Yeah, that's what I'm worried about. I just I just hope they didn't get hit in the head too hard with this and We're gonna see By the way guys these mock baits you can check them out on Dick's Sporting Goods too And your local Dick's Sporting Goods should happen gosh, I'm praying that these fish are gonna bite guys kind of This weather's kind of has me a little worried just a little worried You see a few aggressive ones Only got to catch four fish to win the challenge today So but it might be a hard four fish to catch. That's why that's why I didn't make it like 10 fish or anything I was like just four fish to do it Trying to see if I can get one on the edge of this grass to calm. I'm just Going pretty fast. You guys know I like to cover a lot of water I'm trying to put this grass out defectively These mock baits come with the most razor sharp hooks you all have ever seen these things are tack sharp I one time I just barely hit no in the leg with with one of these things I just went right into his skin like all the way. I don't know guys My hunch is telling me the conditions are gonna be tough today because usually this corner is Pretty much a dynamite for like at least one or two fish I'd say like 98 out of a hundred times we come to this pond we catch one in that corner almost immediately and I took a few casts in there and absolutely no luck and That was been working his way down the bank over here. Haven't heard any hooting hollering from his direction So it looks like these fish are going to be a little bit on the tough side today Dude, there's a boil right there. He tried to eat me Dang it dude Literally thought I had one under me. That's a good sign though I'm losing my marbles guys. Come on. Will he do it? Did you guys see that? I wish I hope you guys saw that on the GoPro Dove over it like a freaking shark. That's a good sign though guys. It's a great sign Cannot believe that Today I just feel like We can't have many missed opportunities if we're one to win this little challenge that we got going And he just didn't commit much. I feel like we're gonna see a lot of that today But I'm just glad that we saw a fish try to eat this. That's unfortunate. He didn't Really try to eat it. You see how hesitant he is?  They're kind of like peck at it And that was kind of that same situation, but just with the top water there You know that fish came up you rolled on it and followed it back rolled on it And then I threw it back in there and he kind of rolled on it again. I mean you just No, no commitment there Guys that does it for pond number one fishing was not good I'm just thinking it's this front, you know has them a little messed up and of course We're trying to catch them on top water today, which is probably the worst thing that we can we can throw out of bass It's really lethargic and kind of beat up from this weather But we're still gonna do it. You know, that's what we do here on the channel They come out even when the conditions are tough There's some weird baits too and we're gonna see if we can make it happen. I love a top water bite So I'm hoping we'll end up catching them Rolling up on spot number two It looks a little flooded.  Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's bait flickering in there schoolin on them So we saw a few fish kind of flutter out here. I don't know if those bait bass Brim we're gonna try it's kind of hard to fish this popper in these reeds Feeling good about this one guys This is the cast Really take the lead first fish on the board baby Big boy big boy Tell me that's what y'all are gonna do today. I need y'all to bite You gotta eat that was a freaking good boil too, man. I wasn't this long That was a bite too, buddy Yeah, thank God You're not even that big, but he looks freaking Monstrous when he hit that thing whoo gotta get us started. All right guys. We are off to a good start Let's get it baby That bite was friggin aggressive.  I guess today started. Let's go just three more to go guys I just had a good instinct to throw back over there. I don't know what it was I like kind of made some other cast and I was like, you know what? I'm gonna try it again Not threw back over there and sure enough. He just clobbered it He hit it hard I'm assuming that was the same fish. I don't want I mean it could have been a different one But just the way he boiled Was similar to the first time he freaking tank that thing Let's go man. I'll tell you like I love top water fishing But it's even more rewarding when you know the conditions are super tough and you just get up and get one to slam it like that That's a great feeling Hey He ain't big Well, I'm cutting mine off. So you want to take it you're more than welcome Hey, Fletcher, that's a minnow dude, but guess what? Okay guys normally I wouldn't be too proud of this little guy, but hey today Fletcher, how are the conditions today? It's pretty rough ain't it? Like this fish makes me so happy plus I haven't fished in the last few weeks and like just catching anything right now I'm enjoying Thanks, buddy. Oh gosh No, it's freaking chilly That fish splashed me. I thought it was gonna feel good, but it does not feel good right now Not really put your hand in it like compared to the like I would think it would be a lot warmer than there All right, I'll me and Fletcher just did the little train Yeah, Fletcher said they're not biting this the best right now which honestly now I'm thinking about it. So at the beginning Fletcher, I was popping it And the steady retrieve well, you know, I got a couple swirls on it But I think the steady retrieve they were just more aggressive with it because it's trying to get away from them Yeah, I just think this popper is so slow which it could be good But I feel like with how lethargic these fish are they really want to kind of turn up on something Yeah, I feel like you just got to get that reaction strike. Yeah, exactly exactly I don't know this is gonna be a little difficult guys, but I'm gonna try I think we can still get a couple on this You've got to catch up Fletcher. You got to catch one or two the two cast wanderer. I want to see it All right, I want to see it Hey, just don't let me get up three to zero that's The water's actually really clear walking around to the secret dock back here Not too many people know this is back here. It's kind of hidden away Weakle down through the bushes Let's find ourselves a nice LMB. All right y'all. We're at our third pond of the day Two fish so far a little slow See what we can do Hope I can get a couple on this popper. I'm ahead of Fletcher by two right now. I'm in a good spot I just I'm kind of concerned about this popper because they're so finicky today But at the same time that that patroller Literally just is so like aggressive that I think I suppose fired them off to buy it I really don't believe that this fish wanted to bite. It's just that thing was so mean and aggressive around it past them But he's probably gonna end up getting slammed I don't know if my best bet is to like pop and pause or like to just work it super fast I really don't know And my best bet is here because these fish are like not aggressive. I need to fire them up somehow All right, just point over here to the left. It's the money spot And this is where I'm feeling like just instant bite Come on Come on Oh, there we go. Heck yeah, that fish crushed it Stay down you sucker Oh, baby. All right, Noah. We're coming back, baby We are coming back a nice one too. She's nice and healthy and chunky Probably about two and a half. She's she's fat, man. She's got some some girth to her Look at that Fat mama That's a nice one the first of four because we're catching four before Noah does So let's go ahead and get this sucker back in And move on to the next. Whoo Holy dude, she's dancing for us. This pine trowel is It's gonna be the death of us back here.  All right bond number four that's a That is an interesting question because Did I? Oh, oh shoot. Yeah right there on the bank. I didn't even see that Oh First cast that's a good one. That's the best one so far today easily four pounds Three or three and a half four pounds That's a fatty crush it first cast Boom Dude, look at that one.   I mean first cast I can hardly get my hand around her Hold on. I'm gonna get some pliers because she's floppy my gopro died like right when I turned it on So I was like I'm gonna run back and get the camera began our surgery procedure here Like you're done with the plop now you got to go to the I know now we're all tied up, baby and You know now it's the uh Who's got more heart more determination To get through this weather, but I'm liking the signs of what we're seeing right out the gate Bro, what do you think? She's do you think she's pushing forward? Yeah, she's close. She's she's not that long She's fat. Holy dude. She got some thickness on her man Good job, dude. I love it. That's a good one. How's it going for today? Well, let's hurry on back and Get her right back in here See if we can't get some more of where this back girl came from give her a nice release And we own to the papa. I don't have a bone, but I actually One that's not quite as chrome in here, which is the one I think I'm gonna go with So I don't really know what's going on with the bite here today guys Because so far Noah's had two bites on the bank both of my bites just came randomly out in the middle So as of right now, it doesn't seem like there's really any rhyme or reason as to What these fish are doing or where they're hanging out. So we're just gonna get out there start casting around See if we can't make something happen.  This thing is so subtle Especially right now with how they are. They're just not one to One to grab. I don't think it's impossible. I think we can still catch them on it But the patroller is definitely outperforming the way I'm gonna work this thing Trying to work it fast Dang you're real on it. Yeah, it's a big one too He's stuck Oh, no, he's out. He's out.  Oh, I knew we could do it.  It has not been an easy day But we've came out with some freaking fatties. Let me tell you that Pudger just caught a a good solid like four pounder. I just got this good solid three number And that is a He got slammed too.  I caught that second one in I started fishing it fast And sure enough that this showed up and swept it boom by the being It is a race to the finish guys three to three Going for the fish bump over here Oh, that is a nice one, dude Hey, this is gonna be down to the wire, baby Holy cow Boom They're all a bit more active in here fishbump, man. Boom. Holy cow. This has been a challenge guys Oh, watch out. You're about to get hooking your foot. Yes Oh when that would have been that would have been something Just slurped these guys right past here. I got one more fish I got a run back I shouldn't have ran all the way over there while they wasted my time Because whoever catches on the next dish one We're talking about how the patroller is getting all the bites and then we Both get slammed back to back That was a freaking fatty, man. Can't be doubting spraying shad too early. Good one, too Oh We gotta land them guys gotta land a baby That is the challenge boys. Look at that, baby. Dude, we freaking smoked them right here, man The spot man, why don't we start here? I don't know. We went all around the world guys.  Yeah, man. That's a good fish This place is looking spicy for the top waters But there we go guys. That's the winning fish. We caught some good ones in here and had a good time I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did, please hit the like button Check out some of the mock baits down below. Check out Fletcher's channel as well And I will catch you all in the next video


final piece of information we need is s sub d, the standard deviation of the differences. Now you recall when we were running the hypothesis of this test I said check that box that saves the differences. Here are our differences and now all we need is a standard deviation of that and we can get that very quickly with summary stats columns and I want to go on the differences and all I really need is a standard deviation compute and we get a standard deviation f sub d of 1.067 which is the answer in the test. So I hope you learn to use your technology tools to help you get through and I hope this helps.


So everything is up to Hashem. All success comes from Hashem. I think that there's one thing that a person has the power to tap into success is to put themselves out there a little bit. That one point of courage, whether you're going to be a matzli or not, that's up to the Averstair. But you have a choice to put yourself out there. You have a choice to get up and try.


Who the heck, bro? Buddy out there's having a fantastic time. And today, we're going to be working on my brand new trailer that I picked up a couple of weeks ago. This is my brand new 24 foot long Striker Car Hauler. I got rid of my old trailer, and I ended up going with a solid steel Car Hauler trailer from Striker. And this is a hydraulic tilt trailer. So no ramps to deal with, none of that mess. This trailer completely tilts up and down, just like a rollback.  The fender on the driver's side does come off if you need some extra room. And this winch is also a Harbor Freight Badlands winch. This is a 12,000 pound winch that I installed that was on my old trailer. And that winch right there is absolutely badass. For the money, you cannot beat it.  So today, what we're actually going to be doing is this trailer has just a regular manual crank trailer jack. And we are going to be installing the new electric trailer jack. This is from Harbor Freight.  And it's a 3,500 pound capacity, which should be more than enough for what I'm doing with this trailer and my race truck on top of it. And usually when you're hauling some weight, most of your weight's over the axles anyway. So we're not going to be having 3,500 pounds of tongue weight on this trailer ever. But this jack will do more than enough for what I'm going to be using it for. But it's completely electric. It also has a built-in light to help you see the hitch area at nighttime. And it also comes with a manual hand crank just in case your battery dies or if this device was too malfunctioned, you can still use the jack. But we're going to install it on the trailer. And we're going to try it out, see how it does. Pretty simple install. We're just going to unbolt the old trailer jack and basically bolt this one on, make a couple wiring connections, and then we'll be able to test it out. But I do want to show you. I will do a better review on this trailer here soon. We'll hook it to the truck. We'll put frostbite on top of it. And we'll go out and do some driving with it and do a better review on this trailer for sure. But I will show you the tilt feature on it that's very badass and very simple to use. All you do is raise up the door right here.  And then they have a remote control right here that is also magnetic. So you can basically stick it anywhere, which is pretty nice. And all you got to do is simply hit the button. And here we go. Pretty awesome. And like I said, for hauling frostbite around, this is what I think this is the best way to go. You don't have to deal with ramps. You don't have to deal with the kicker ramps like I had on my old trailer on the very back. Or some trailers have them tucked underneath. No messing with ramps, none of that garbage. Tilt it up, drive on, let it down. You're ready to rock and roll. All we got to do is remove my old jack, which is three bolts right here. And it'll come out. I am going to get a floor jack real quick to lift up the front of the trailer so that we can obviously take all the weight off of the trailer jack and then unbolt this. And then we'll slide the new one in and bolt it up. And we should be good to go. Keep in mind, this trailer jack from Harbor Freight basically does replace any A-frame type trailer jack.  A couple of 9.16s wrenches should do the job. So we're going to get these bolts out real quick. All right, once you get the bolts out, jack is basically ready to come out.  And old jack is out. Now it's time to put in the new jack. All right, so we're going to get the new jack right here. This is a new electric jack. We're just going to grab it, simply drop it in where the old jack was. All right, and the next step guys is putting the bolts in for the new jack. Got my son out here helping out and we are putting in the new hardware for the new electric jack. So we're going to tighten this guy up after we get the bolts torqued down, then we're going to be working on to the wiring, which is pretty simple. You got one wire, which this goes to the positive side of the battery and then you're pretty much good to go. The system grounds through the jack. So just make sure you have a good ground going from the trailer, the new electric jack to the trailer frame and you should be good to go. All right everybody, we have the new electric trailer jack installed from Harbor Freight. Very simple, bolts right on and you have a one wire connection. Pretty, pretty easy. So three bolts down there. This switch is your up and down switch. This trailer jack also has two lights. It's got a light on each side for nighttime applications. And then there's a button right here on the back, that red button, and that is what activates the lights. So if we press the button, you'll see the lights has came on and they're actually, it's daytime right now, but I can tell you, they're going to be pretty bright lights. Definitely better than nothing when you're trying to hook a trailer up at nighttime, it should help out a lot.  Now you can see me, I'm gonna operate the up and down feature with the electric jack. It's definitely not very fast. It's geared very low so that it can pick up to 3,500 pounds. But I'll tell you, it's definitely better than doing it by hand with a hand crank. So I'm gonna go down. As you can see, we're going down with it right now. And then I'll go up. So there you go. It works great. Like I said, not super fast, but I'm perfectly fine with that. As long as this thing keeps working, we'll be good.  And let me show you what that is.  There's a rubber plug.  And again, that's a, if you're screwed situation where maybe your battery on your trailer has died or worst case scenario, this doesn't happen, but the electric motor or something on this jack malfunctions, you can still let the trailer up and down manually. Just throw the hand crank in the truck, keep it with you. And then you always have a backup if something happens.  So there you go guys. Hope you enjoyed the install. It was a fun little project. Didn't take long at all. We probably spent 30 minutes on this. Very simple. It works just like it should. Harbor freight, go grab you one. I said they're a little bit over $100. I think it was around 120 bucks, $129 somewhere right there. And yeah, I'm going to enjoy it. This trailer is definitely going to be nice. It has the hydraulic tilt bed. Now we have an automatic electric jack.  So other than that, we'll see you guys on the next one.


Your Excellency, President Ronald Reagan, Excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of my ASEAN colleagues, and in my capacity as chairman of the ASEAN Standing Committee, I am privileged to extend to your Excellency and the members of your delegation our warm welcome to this meeting of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers here in this beautiful and memorable Isle of Bali. ASEAN treasures the warm and close relations with the United States, a closeness that we have nurtured through the years. It is in this spirit of warm friendship and mutual respect that we hope to hold this dialogue. ASEAN believes that it can further strengthen this close relationship with the United States through a frank but friendly exchange of views. We in ASEAN attach a great importance to this meeting because the success of this meeting will determine to a large extent the future course of ASEAN-U.S. relations. ASEAN also counts on the United States as a longtime friend and dialogue partner to support ASEAN's position in the Tokyo summit, the Tokyo Economic Summit, the outcome of which could greatly affect the future course of world economic policies. We view your presence here today, Mr. President, as a clear manifestation of the importance which your country attaches to ASEAN. Indeed, the strategic and economic importance of the Pacific and Southeast Asian region today cannot be discounted. And we are glad to note that the United States has continued to play a major role in maintaining peace and security in the region. ASEAN shares your view that free trade and investment are essential for growth and development. It is with this in mind that we have continued to work together to achieve economic growth. This is not to say that our economies are devoid of problems. For us developing countries, the sharpest effects of adverse world economic conditions have been most felt by us. Mr. President, the ASEAN ministers have for the past two days been deliberating on the economic issues that are to be brought to your attention. Because of time constraints, we have agreed to trim down these issues to the most essential, leaving the other items which are just as important for discussion during the annual ASEAN-US dialogue. Some of the issues to be discussed in this meeting may transcend our bilateral relations. This is because ASEAN believes that the United States, as the world's leading economic power, has the capability to influence the economic policies of other industrialized countries. The United States is in a position to initiate positive steps to alleviate the present difficulties of developing countries. Perhaps the extent of the contributions of the United States to ASEAN's economic development can be better appreciated by assessing the extent to which ASEAN-US relations have grown. During the past decade, our relations in the area of trade, investment, and economic cooperation have become more diversified and strengthened. Today, the United States is one of the top three trading partners of ASEAN and a major source of loans, investment, and technical assistance. Foreign exchange generated from these sectors has helped cushion the impact of unfavorable world economic conditions in our region. This historic propinquity can be attributed to the importance which ASEAN and the United States attach to each other. The efforts of the United States government to revive the American economy is for us a welcome development. It is for us like rain after a long drought. The health of the American economy is of major concern to us because it directly affects our economies. Mr. President, in a short while, my ASEAN colleagues and I will be discussing these issues with you in greater detail. In our view, this meeting would have served its purpose if it could effectively bring about a better understanding of ASEAN's major concerns and thereby lay the basis for a steadfast and mutually beneficial relations between ASEAN and the United States. Thank you. To your excellency, President Ronald Reagan, ASEAN has a population of 290 million people, is rich in natural resources, strategically located, politically stable, and economically healthy. ASEAN's significance should therefore become more important. The prosperity and success of the ASEAN countries have tremendous demonstration value for the principles of an open market economy is already being felt. Past experiences in Southeast Asia have shown that threats to the region could come either from outside of ASEAN, the achievement of regional resilience, through the development of national resilience of its respective members, is essential for regional stability. In 1967, the ASEAN area has developed into an area of peace and cooperation, thus refuting to overcome the problems of common concern through consultation. ASEAN is now in the process of establishing relations with outside powers in a way that would promote the establishment of peace, freedom, and prosperity in Southeast Asia. Regional harmony and economic development are therefore essential to ASEAN. It is its industries. It is fast becoming more equally in the interests of the United States to cooperate fully and effectively with ASEAN in promoting ASEAN economic and trading potentials. While developing its economy, ASEAN is presently confronted with the dramatic fall in oil, agricultural, and commodity prices. Introduced flow of foreign investments and financial resources, ASEAN urges the United States to facilitate the access of ASEAN products to the US markets. This, Mr. President. Mr. President, Vice President ASEAN foreign ministers, ladies and gentlemen, I appreciate this opportunity to discuss with you the wide range of issues that are of mutual concern to our peoples. Since coming to the presidency, I have stressed enterprise, not redistribution, as the best means of improving the economic well-being of any country. I've emphasized the importance of free people cooperating together to meet the serious challenges that are loose in the world today. Our talks then have particular relevance. Since its founding in 1967, ASEAN has been a shining example of enterprise and cooperation. It was my honor earlier to have met and conferred with President Suato. Our discussions were friendly and carried out with the mutual respect one would expect between the leaders of two great nations. I'm confident that our discussions will be in the same spirit. I mean, our discussions here. And I'm looking forward to hearing your views. You know, there's a story back in the United States about two men out in the woods on a hike. They saw a large bear coming over the hill directly toward them. And one of them sat down, took off his knapsack, reached in, got out a pair of tennis shoes and started to put them on. And the other one looked and says, you don't think that putting on those tennis shoes, you're going to be able to outrun that bear. He said, I don't have to outrun the bear. I only have to outrun you. Well, if there is a bear coming over the hill, unlike that hiker, the American people can be counted on to stick with our friends. We won't put on running shoes. Standing together, we can make certain the people of this region remain free and secure. Today, there's an ever-increasing recognition that our futures are linked in so many ways. Two ASEAN members, Thailand and the Philippines, are treaty allies. All of you are friends with whom we work closely. The United States sees ASEAN's unity and decisiveness as an example to other free people. The ASEAN collective voice of responsible international behavior has been amplified throughout the world.  Support for and cooperation with ASEAN is a linchpin of American Pacific policy. Nowhere has your leadership been more inspiring than in molding the world's response to the Vietnamese invasion and occupation of Cambodia. After the collapse of South Vietnam, ASEAN took a strong stand against Vietnamese expansionism. When Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978, you recognized the threat and acted quickly. The strength of your commitment and the direction you've provided on this vital issue have been much admired by the United States. In 1981, ASEAN organized the International Conference on Campuchia. We continue to support the basic principles for the settlement of the Cambodian situation agreed upon at that conference. The complete withdrawal of Vietnamese forces under international supervision, the restoration of Cambodian independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, a Cambodian government chosen in free elections under international auspices. ASEAN's efforts are consistent with American desires to bring peaceful resolution to the tragic cycle of events that has plagued the Cambodian people. We continue to believe a negotiated settlement with ASEAN is in Vietnam's interest and in the best interest of everyone in the region. We're prepared to participate constructively in a regional settlement and call upon Vietnam to answer your reasonable proposals for negotiations. The contrast between the two or between the economic conditions prevailing in Vietnam and ASEAN is striking. Their continued occupation of Cambodia is simply widening this gap each day. Cambodia is, of course, something we will discuss further this afternoon along with other issues of regional and global importance. In approaching our discussions, let me just say the United States considers itself a Pacific rim country with a heavy stake in the outcome of events in this region. The Philippines, for example, is a country with which the United States has deep and abiding ties. We hope that recent events there will increase the chances of unity through democracy and enable the Philippine people to a greater degree to join in the economic advances so apparent throughout the region. Before I left Washington, we announced a Philippine aid package to help our Filipino friends during this difficult period. This region's economic stature continues to grow. Collectively, ASEAN is now the United States' fifth largest trading partner. Our trade with you, as with all of East Asia and the Pacific, is growing faster than with any other region of the world. When this organization was founded back in 1967, our annual trade was running at less than $2 billion. In 1985, US ASEAN trade reached $23.5 billion. As you're all aware, there's growing pressure in many industrial countries to restrict trade. Well, I'm certain that you agree that any substantial cut in the commerce between nations would be an unmitigated disaster. It's only right that we're meeting prior to the 12th Economic Summit in Tokyo. One of the messages I'm bringing to the Economic Summit concerns the necessity of keeping open the avenues of world trade. This is something that the United States and ASEAN should work closely together to achieve. It is fundamental to the well-being of both our peoples. As part of my preparation for the Economic Summit, I'm also looking forward to hearing today your thoughts on issues that the summit conferees should keep in mind as concerns of the countries of ASEAN. We're pleased as a Pacific Rim partner to take your ideas to the meetings in Tokyo. Our progress has been based on freeing not restricting man's commerce, energy, and creativity. A strong commitment to the principles of freedom and independence and a fundamental trust in free enterprise and open markets have propelled ASEAN countries far beyond what others would have thought possible. The decision makers of your countries have proven their wisdom and good sense. But I have a favor to ask. I think the leaders of the developing world could use your advice. Give a man a fish, and he won't be hungry today. But teach him how to fish, and he'll never be hungry again. You can do a great service by telling others, especially those trying to improve their lot, how to follow the path of personal incentives to economic progress. I would like to mention a humanitarian issue of great personal concern to me, my administration, and the American people. It's about our men still missing in action from the Vietnam War. Vietnam's recent apparent attempt to link this last vestige of the war to other issues is a great disappointment to us. We were pleased with the evident progress over the past year. It indicated Hanoi had agreed with us that resolution of this issue was in their national interest. We appreciate all that you have done to help us on this, and we hope that Vietnam will soon resume these important talks. In closing, I would like to say the United States is proud to be a partner with ASEAN in the quest for peace, freedom, and greater prosperity. I'm looking forward to our meeting this afternoon and to the continuing close relationship between our governments and people. Thank you all, and God bless you. Thank you, Mr. President. Before we ask for a one-minute recess to enable the members of media to lead


A warm welcome to the seventeenth lecture on the subject of digital signal processing and its applications. We used this lecture to build a few more ideas in the context of system theoretic concepts in the z domain. So, in the previous lecture and in the lecture before that, we had looked at the rational z transform in detail. In the previous lecture, we also saw an example of an irrational z transform and we also explained, you know, what we meant by a rational z transform in detail, what the consequences were in terms of invertibility and so on. Now, what we need to do is to look at systems which have rational impulse responses. In other words, rational systems and we wish to characterize those systems from the point of view of other properties that an LSI system may or may not have. So, in fact, let us quickly recapitulate. We have so far talked about rational systems. So, rational systems are of course, LSI. They are LSI systems whose impulse response has a rational z transform. Incidentally, we also talked about the importance of rationality from the point of view of being able to convert a system into a realization. We saw last time that a rational system can be realized. In fact, a rational system can be realized with an L double CDE, a linear constant coefficient difference equation and a linear constant coefficient difference equation can be translated into a hardware or a software structure. We saw that too. In fact, we saw a specific form of realization last time. There are other ways in which the same rational system can be realized and in fact, we shall be spending quite some time on the subject of realization of rational systems later. However, at this time, we have assured ourselves, we have convinced ourselves by example, that it is possible to realize any rational system by converting it into a corresponding linear constant coefficient difference equation and then realizing that linear constant coefficient difference equation. Now, what we did not carefully note last time was that the system that we had realized was also causal. Stable is not an issue. You know, you can realize both stable and unstable systems. But, realizability also does depend on whether the system is causal or not. I mean, there are two ways of looking at it. One is that if you are dealing with the system in real time, then unless the system is causal, it cannot be realized because you cannot have future samples available to you when you are processing the current sample. That is one way of looking at it. The other way of looking at it is even if you did the structure of the system must be such that there is a unique way in which you can proceed with the computations of the samples. If that is not true, there is a problem. Now, instead of trying to explain this in general, we would look at the requirements on a rational system for it to be causal and stable and thus convince ourselves of the context in which we want to remain in the future now. You know, instead of trying to look at all possible things that we may not be able to realize, it is much more meaningful to look at what we want. Namely, we want a causal system. We want normally a stable system. If you want it to have a frequency response and in that case, we need to characterize the rational system by looking at its poles and zeros and anything else that characterizes it to see if the system is causal and stable. Now, let me put down the problem that we are trying to address clearly. Issues. A rational system is of course linear shift invariant, but is it causal? Is it stable? May or may not be? In fact, it is not at all difficult to see that there are examples of all possibilities. Causality and stability are independent properties. You may have four kinds of rational systems. Those that are not causal but stable, those that are causal but not stable, those that are neither causal nor stable and those that are both causal and stable. In fact, I go back to the examples of the rational transform that we have dealt with to date. So, let us look at the rational system with system function 1 by 1 minus half z inverse 1 minus 2 z inverse. Now, please note the moment I write this, you should immediately ask me what is the region of convergence. I told you, we often forget that a rational system must be characterized by both an expression and a region of convergence. So, here I have three possible regions of convergence. Let us look at each of them in turn. Let us look at the region of convergence mod z between half and 2, in which case the impulse response, I leave it to you to complete the working, but I will straight away write down the answer. The impulse response would become some constant, I mean you know in fact, let us do one thing. Let us complete the working by decomposing this into partial fractions first.  So, when I want the term in 1 minus half z inverse, I multiply by 1 minus half z inverse and put z equal to half. So, I have 1 minus 2 by half or 1 minus 4, that is 3 minus 3 and then I multiply by 1 minus 2 z inverse and put z equal to 2. So, I have 1 minus 1 fourth in the denominator, that is 3 fourth, so 4 by 3. Am I right? In fact, just for convincing ourselves, let us verify that this is indeed the decomposition. You do not need to do this every time, I am just doing it a couple of times to convince you that we are doing the right thing.  And we can see that the constant term is 4 by 3 minus 1 by 3 that is 1, the coefficient of z inverse is minus 2 by 3 plus 2 by 3 that is 0. And therefore, we have this equal to 1 by 1 minus half z inverse 1 minus 2 z inverse. Anyway, now we see that the system function can be rewritten as minus 1 by 3 1 minus half z inverse plus 4 by 3 1 minus 2 z inverse. We need to invert this for each case of the region of convergence. So, as I said, let us take the first case as we have considered namely mod z between half and 2. Now, when mod z is between half and 2, for this mod z is greater than half. So, you have a right sided sequence coming out of this. And for this mod z is less than 2, you have a left sided sequence coming out of this. So, all in all, you get impulse response h n to be minus 1 by 3 half raised to the n u n plus 4 by 3 into minus 2 raised to the power of n u minus n minus 1. In fact, let us sketch this impulse response sequence to get an understanding. You see, half raised to the power of n starts from 0. So, you have 1 half, 1 half squared and so on. This is half raised to the n. Similarly, 2 raised to the power n u minus n minus 1 begins at minus 1. And at minus 1, it takes the value minus 2 raised to the minus 1. So, minus half. At minus 2, it takes the value minus half squared and so on so forth. So, this is 2 raised to the power of n minus 2 raised to the power of n u minus n minus 1. This is right sided, this is left sided and you can put them together. You take minus 1 third times this sequence plus 4 by 3 times this sequence. Of course, luckily they do not overlap. So, anyway it means you just multiply the corresponding samples either by minus 1 by 3 if they are between 0 and infinity or by 4 by 3 if they are between minus 1 and minus infinity. Easy. So, we know what the impulse response is. And in fact, here we can find the absolute sum of the impulse response with great ease. We can easily see that the absolute sum is very easy to calculate. It is 1 by 3 summation n going from 0 to infinity half raised to the n plus 4 by 3 summation n going from 1 to infinity again half raised to the n. And that is 1 by 3, 1 by 1 minus half plus 4 by 3 into half into 1 minus half. And of course, you can simplify this, but anyway it is absolutely summable. So, clearly this system is stable. Now, we take the second region of convergence mod z greater than 2. And there of course, you have the impulse response to be very simple 2 raised to the power of n u n plus half raised to the power of n u n. Incidentally, the system that we have just seen is stable but not causal. That is easy to see because the impulse response is not 0 for all n less than 0. So, system is not causal. But here we have a causal system here, but clearly unstable. That is because summation n going from 0 to infinity 2 raised to the power of n diverges that arises from here. That term diverges. So, the system is unstable. Now, we take the third region of convergence mod z less than half where upon we have minus half raised to the power of n u minus n minus 1 minus 2 raised to the power of n u minus n minus 1. Of course, by the way a little correction here I should put the factors along with it 4 by 3. Yes, 4 by 3 and yes. So, it is a linear combination. So, it is a factor here and factor here. I am just in general writing. So, you know 4 by 3 and minus 1 by 3. The factor should come. So, that correction should be there. Here again the factor should come 4 by 3 and minus 1 by 3. That is okay. That does not seriously affect the result. But clearly this is totally a left sided sequence. This is non-causal. And here it is not this, but this term that creates the problem. Half raised to the power of n u minus n minus 1 is the troublesome term here. It in fact, becomes a growing exponential. So, this is the troublesome term. The system is unstable because of this term. It is not summable. It is not absolutely summable. So, we have an example of all three kinds. Non-causal and unstable, causal, but not stable and not causal, but stable. So, both negatives, one negative and one positive. Now, both positives, we want to see an example of both positive. That is of course, very easy. So, if you have the system, LSI system with impulse response h half raised to the power of n u n, the system function is 1 by 1 minus half z inverse mod z greater than half. And this is both causal and stable. So, now we have an example of all four. And in fact, we will take this example or this pair of examples to draw some conclusions. You see, if you notice among the three regions of convergence for the first example, it was only one region of convergence that gave you a stable system. The region of convergence which included the unit circle, where the frequency response was defined. In the other two cases, there would be no frequency response defined. That is because the unit circle is not included in the region of convergence. So, it looks like the unit circle has something to do with stability. In fact, we will soon see that that is really what matters in a rational system, whether the unit circle is a part of the region of convergence or not. Secondly, we noticed that causality really related to being right sided. That is to be expected. If you want the system to be causal, the impulse response must be one sided. And if at all one sided, right sided. And otherwise, of course, it must be a finite length and all the samples must be at 0 or afterwards. So, right sidedness is required. Now, when you have right sidedness, then the region of convergence is outwards beyond a certain circle. If a sequence is left sided, the region of convergence is inwards, inside to the interior of a certain circle. So, being interior and being exterior, this matters in causality. And how far exterior can you be all the way up to infinity? So, whether or not z tending to infinity is included has something to do with causality. Now, we will formalize this.


to my channel, Apple's NTRS. So today I'm gonna be doing my birth story video and I have a guest with me today. This is Cash. He's kind of between asleep and awake. He's conducting the orchestra right now. So if he fusses, just ignore it. So I'm gonna tell you guys the story of Cash's birth and all the little details that go with it. Monday, November, yes. Okay, so Monday, November 6th, I woke up around 2 a.m. with terrible contractions and they were definitely contractions because I hadn't really felt anything like that before and they were coming between 7 and 10 minutes apart. They weren't super bad on Monday, but they were enough to wake me up and keep me awake. So Monday evening rolls around and I had had contractions pretty much most of the day. They weren't terrible, but Monday night rolled around and they started getting really, really painful and between what, four and five minutes apart. So Monday night we took a trip to the hospital just to get checked because I, at that point it was a 10 for me, 10 out of 10 pain level. So we decided to go to the hospital and get checked to see if I was dilating at all and when we got there she said that I was dilated to a 1 and that she was gonna come back and check me in an hour. She ended up coming back like 10 minutes later and sent me home. So my whole family's over here. So we went home and I was able to get some sleep. They kind of subsided around 5 a.m. and I was able to sleep. But then Tuesday came around and I woke up with them really bad, had them all day long, was tracking them. They were coming between 7 and 3 minutes apart and then they started getting consistent and coming about 5 to 3 minutes apart. So Tuesday night we went back to the hospital. This time we left Scott at home because we didn't want him to go if we were gonna get sent home and they would only allow one person in the room and my mom was really, really like the biggest help because she had been through it before and she knew what to ask and you know everything. So mom and I went back to the hospital. It was what? Like 2 in the morning. And so we got to the hospital. She checked me again. I think I was still dilated to a 1. Maybe a 2. I don't remember. And so she decided to keep me for about an hour to monitor me. She had me walking around and at this point my contractions were so painful that every time I would get one I would have to drop to the floor in child pose just to get through it. So we ended up getting sent home again because I just wasn't dilating. So we got sent home but my contractions were still awful. Like they were at least 3 to 4 minutes apart. Super painful but no dilation. So Wednesday morning comes around. We call my doctor and we tell her you know that I'd been to the hospital twice that they kept sending me home. She was really angry that they kept sending me home. She said even if you weren't dilating the fact that you were contracting so bad I would have kept you. So it wasn't really the nurses that made the call of getting to stay or leave. It was the doctor that was on call and those two doctors that were on call those two nights didn't want to keep me. So Wednesday we went to my doctor and I was having contractions 3 minutes apart. Super painful. Awesome. So we went to the doctor and she decided to strip my membrane again because she had tried a few days earlier and this time she really got in there because I was dilated to about a 3 and she was able to get up in there to strip my membranes but it was so painful.  I think that that part was more painful than like any other thing. Any contraction, any experience throughout the whole thing that was the most painful part and I started gushing blood all over the doctor's table. Scott was crying hysterically. My mom was crying hysterically. I'm screaming at the top of my lungs so then she the doctor calls the hospital and says Charlotte is coming in. She's dilated and she actually lied for me. She's like dilated to a 2 so that when I got there they would think that I had progressed so that they would keep me. Hi sweetie. And so when we got to the hospital they monitored me. They checked me. I wasn't dilating so they let me walk around for like what an hour and every time I would pass a chair I would get a contraction so I would just sit and breathe through it and then keep walking and I would just like try to get from chair to chair throughout the whole maternity ward but I was contracting what every like minute two minutes. It was bad. So finally they decided to keep me and they got me into a room. We got some laughing gas to help me through the contractions just until my anesthesiologist got there. They got me an epidural within what an hour? Yeah I remember we demanded that. Less than that. We got an epidural within an hour of being admitted and I forgot to mention because my mom just reminded me we the nurses didn't seem like they wanted to keep me. They weren't going to admit me and I told them I wasn't leaving. I said I'll sit in your lobby until you admit me so and my mom was like a huge advocate. She was telling the nurses we're not leaving so you need to admit her because she's been going through this for three days. We're done like she's finished. She needs something for the pain and so anyway they got me the epidural within an hour and it was so magical. Once I got it I was like in heaven and it didn't even hurt like I was more scared of the epidural than I was like giving birth or having a c-section or anything and it was like the best. Just knowing that my pain was gonna go away instantly like made it painless and you were even telling jokes. Yeah I was super jokey and super funny but once I got my epidural they had me laying on my side with the peanut between my legs to help me dilate more because I still was only at a three and so I had to switch sides a couple times.   So they had me switching sides and I had pitocin going through me for about three hours but cash wasn't liking the pitocin and because I was laying on my right side the epidural started to only work on the right side so I was starting to feel the contractions again throughout my left side and it was starting to get like uncomfortable and so they thought okay well we'll move you to your left side and then to your middle but as soon as I moved to my left side his heart rate began to drop and it started freaking everybody out. They had nurses coming in and checking monitors and they're like okay well we need to get you back on your right side so I like pushed a little button to get more epidural dose through my IV and it wasn't working and every time I would switch to any side but my right side his heart rate would drop so they took me off pitocin for a while had to give me oxygen and his heart rate would go back up but I still wasn't dilating and by now it was like eight o'clock at night and we got admitted around noon so eight hours had gone by and nothing was happening. The only thing was that his heart rate was dropping no matter where I was laying no matter what side and I wasn't dilating and he wasn't responding to the to the pitocin so because of his heart rate dropping they decided to do an emergency c-section on me and I think I was prepped and ready to go in like 10 minutes and yeah oh yeah and when they broke my water he had more there was marconium in there so he had pooped in there and my placenta was no longer a safe place for him to be so they needed to get him out so we got sent to the OR they got me um the anesthesiologist actually took the epidural out of my back and put in a spinal um a spinal block I guess they did a spinal block and I actually knew my anesthesiologist I did theater with his son all through like middle and high school so that was super awkward that he saw me laying there on the table getting prepped and he was like oh my god I can't look I was like it's too late you've already seen it just do it so I got the spinal and I think he was out within 10 minutes and it really freaked me out because when he first came out he didn't cry for like 30 seconds so of course I'm panicking but finally he cried and he was perfectly fine he came out set six pounds three ounces 19 and three-quarter inches long and with a full head of hair daddy got to cut the cord so it was a stressful hour like the first few hours was fine but then that last hour was pretty stressful and um so I did end up getting at that C-section um and now almost three weeks later I'm basically healed but that first week was painful the C-section was not comfortable I couldn't get up and down out of the bed so Scott was changing all the diapers I was doing all the feedings and it was just really uncomfortable I don't know what it's like to do a natural with meds birth um so I couldn't tell you a comparison but I do know that um the C-section wasn't really that bad and my scar is very small and the reason that we all believe that this is how this is why this happened is because I have a tilted cervix so instead of cash coming through the birth canal straight down he was coming at an angle and that's why I wasn't dilating so no matter what I would have done I probably never would have dilated past the three so next time if we have any other kids we will just do a scheduled C-section so that mama doesn't have to go through all that pain but nothing so anyway that is my birth story um I hope I kind of I think I explained it pretty much how it happened um but he's here he's healthy and mama's good mama's happy thank you guys for watching and I'll see you in the next video bye hi guys it's char I just wanted to say thank you so much for watching my video today and for supporting my youtube channel by subscribing don't forget to click the little bell next to the subscribe button so that you can see when I put up new videos I hope you have a magical day