Allison, can you hear me or I can hear you, but I guess I was doing a whole introduction and no one could hear me because I was on mute. I apologize about that. So I'll just start again. Hi everyone and welcome to our virtual program. With coronavirus fears challenging times. We're all navigating through and serve me. For ourselves, our loved ones and our community, we are very thankful to have Sarah, a licensed clinical social worker with us today. She is the director of the East mountain youth lodge at Hackensack meridian carrier clinic. A residential treatment program providing long term treatment for adolescents. Who struggle with emotional behavioral psychiatric and addiction issues. Sarah is passionate about helping teens and family strengthen the relationships and is also passionate about animal assisted therapy. Sarah oversees the animal assisted therapy program for the East mountain youth lodge that uses horses, donkeys and goats to assist youth and families in achieving. Treatment insights and goals so just a few items before we get started. All lines should be muted. If they're not, please make sure your line is muted. And if you're on the computer, please also make sure that your camera is turned off. Again, if it becomes a muted, make sure to mute it. Also, if you're on the computer and would like to submit a question or a comment, you can use the chat feature that should be up at the top of your. Screen, we are hoping for no technical issues, but please bear with us if there are any. So, at this time, I am going to turn it over to Sarah. Thanks Allison and thank you so much everybody for calling in. I really appreciate your attention for a few brief minutes tonight. To talk about what is happening in our world and obviously these are really unprecedented times. All trying to navigate and the times are creating significant changes in our daily lives are routines and our overall sense of safety and security. So I wanted to start I'm going to give a very brief introduction to what I why I think these times are different and then go through. 9 specific tips on how to help kids navigate these times and then I'll do some questions and answers at the end. I may mention a bunch of websites and resources and those, I believe, will be posted at the end by Allison. So I appreciate that. So, I just wanted to talk for a minute about what makes this pandemic different from other times of severe stress and trauma. And typically a trauma or a grief response is experienced by a family, maybe a community, a house of worship, a school, and may even make national news. However, most of the time, not all the time, but most of the time, we are able in our grief to see outside life continue as normal. So in other arenas, like for example, if there is a traumatic loss in your family, your children may be able to go back to school and see normal life continuing. You may slowly begin to re and integrate into normal life outside of your grieving, which may look like a return to work or going back to the gym or even just watching social media and talking to your friends and seeing that life is continuing. What is and it helps us in our dysregulated state to see outside of ourselves a sense of normalcy and begin even in little ways to return to a sense of normalcy where people are much more regulated. But what is happening now is in our personal dysregulated state, which most of us are struggling and fearful and concerned and our lives have been changed in some very significant ways, which is what I'll refer to as being dysregulated. Our emotions are not balanced all the time. When we look outside, that is also the state of everything else around us. So there is a great sense of collective fear and dysregulation really everywhere we look and a lot of places that we look to for normalcy for a sense of normalcy have either been closed down, have gone virtual are not occurring at the current time are not open. So that is really causing a great amount of distress for a lot of us. And it's very hard to regulate our emotions when we can't see a sense of normalcy outside of ourselves. So I just want to hold that as a context for the tips I'm going to give. And I want people to think about ways that they can and do see regulation, because any amount of regulation, which are balanced emotions, we can provide for ourselves or each other is going to help the greater good, so to speak. So let me start with the first tip. And again, this is how to help kids cope with COVID and the implications. But to start with, given that context, I want people to hold on to a simple belief that we are all doing the best we can. And others are doing the best they can to. So any reminder for people to be kind and gentle to themselves and others right now is a good place to start. The human spirit holds extraordinary resilience to get their difficulties. We see this all the time. One of the most critical things that I can suggest in how to help kids is to make sure that we are taking care of ourselves. Because again, the reason for me to start with talking about how dysregulated our communities and our country and some parts of our world are right now is that we need to show some semblance of collected, organized thoughts and feelings to help our kids. The kids absorb how we are feeling and right now most of what they are taking in is fear, people that are highly concerned and scared and worried and lots of grief and loss and change and things that are not normal. So the more we can show a sense of calm, the better. And the only way for us as caregivers and adults and caring adults role models to do that is to prioritize self care. So while kids are looking to parents to gauge how scared they should be, it is very important for parents to take the time to make sure that they can regulate their emotions when they're talking. And I know this is hard to do and it's not going to go well all the time. But if you are able to prioritize some self care tasks and strategies, things that you do that make you feel better. So you can enter into some of these conversations with a little bit more regulation and balance. The better your kids will will fare sometimes. So that's tip number 1. Take care of yourself. Tip number 2 is to consider your child's state of mental and emotional development. Kids of different ages and maturity levels handle different types of information from simple to more complex. The more you can tell the truth in a way they can understand the better. I wouldn't recommend not talking to your kids and sometimes people want to protect and shield their kids from tragedies and and pandemics and things that are very upsetting and challenging. But they know what's going on because they're absorbing the energy and they're hearing information and it's much better to tell them the truth in a way that they can understand. So the best way to provide information to kids and here's a little recipe is to give some facts, some feelings, some actionable steps and lots of hope and encouragement. So those would be the main ingredients to communicating with kids about this pandemic and it may look like this. For younger kids, there is a virus that is making some people sick. Doctors are working very hard to find the right medicine. So those are facts feelings. It is very scary and sad that we can't see our friends and you can't go to school right now. Some things that we can do and these are the action steps. Washing your hands will stop the germ from spreading and then some encouragement and signs of hope. We think that the scientists and doctors will find a way for us to manage this soon and we can get back outside and you will be able to see your friends. And for now, I think it's really fun a lot of times that we get to spend this time together, although everybody might not believe that or feel that way. But something that feels hopeful and encouraging. So let me move on to tip number three. Take time to really listen to the concerns and fears of your kids and try to validate their feelings. This is a scary time for everyone. Acknowledge how this can be scary. Listen to your kids. Don't avoid the topic and don't jump in too quickly to try to reassure your kids. Really listen to what they're thinking about what there's something called frightening fantasies. And when children, when children are listening to a lot of things that are scary and adults around them feel fearful, they will begin to make up information if we don't share the information with them. And oftentimes what they make up or imagine or assume is far worse than what is actually happening and the pandemic's bad. They may come up with things much worse and they may be concerned about themselves, their caregivers, the family members that they love their school. So you want to really listen and once they tell you ask for more, what else are you concerned about? You may not have all of the answers, but you can get the answers. You want to really listen to what are they hearing, ask questions about what are they hearing? What are their friends concerned about? What kinds of information have they heard from other sources? Take as much time as you truly need to listen to everything that's on their mind about the situation. Allow the kids, allow kids to feel their emotions. Try your best not to shut this down or interrupt this too quickly with reassurance. Let them talk it out and feel it out. And again, ask what else, tell me more, is there anything else? Then once you've listened to everything, give some facts in a way that they can understand. Don't give too much information. Watch for your child's cues. If they start looking off into the distance, they begin to play. They tell you they've had enough depending on their age. Listen to those cues and when they've had enough, that's the end of the conversation. Follow up with the recipe, which is some facts, some feelings, some action steps and lots of hope and encouragement. And remember that it may not be a one and done conversation.  So you may, and you know your families, so you may have an agreement with your children that if they have any questions or concerns or thoughts, they will bring them to you. You may decide to have a weekly COVID meeting where you open it up for conversation and you talk about everything that's of concern. Make sure when you have a discussion that there's closure to it and also try to avoid discussing it constantly. So have a set time, talk about it and then close it up. Okay, this was a good discussion about the pandemic. Let's move on to the next thing we're going to do, like getting ready for dinner or going outside to play. Is there anything else you want to say about it? No, okay, let's move on. Let me move on to tip number four. Let kids know and make sure that you reassure them that there are many, many people, adults, doctors, scientists, medical professionals who are working very hard to try to fix this problem. All over the world, people are trying to develop solutions, be comforting and reassuring and remind kids again about action steps. What can we do to stay safe? And we all hear these things every day. They're on TV. They're in literature. They're online. Wash your hands. Maybe kids can help wipe off counters and doorknobs, buff into it, clean X and throw it away and continue to social distance. Those are the things that we can do to make sure the virus doesn't spread further while these people are working on a solution. Tip number five, remind kids about what is staying the same. So much feels different right now and their lives have been interrupted in so many profound ways, especially with the closing of school, with virtual school, with social distancing from loved ones and friends. It's really a tough time and we're more on edge because our lives have been disrupted. So I think to remind kids that some things have stayed the same. What are those things? Make a list of those things. Any rituals or routines that you have at home or in your family that are continuing. I think it's important to mention those things. Also, and I'm sure everybody's heard this, this is still tip number five. If you don't have a schedule or a routine, make one up and there's a ton of. Ovid schedules online that you can look at, but to try to take a scenario that can feel very disrupted and chaotic and put some organization to it is really helpful for kids. So if you have a wake up time and outside time, breakfast time, virtual school time, recess, what are you going to do then after school? What do you do? It could be things you typically do, but putting them down on a piece of paper as a schedule is really helpful for kids to feel there is a plan and there is a routine and things just aren't completely chaotic. So that's tip number five. Tip number six, ask your kids for ideas about what could help them stay in touch with their family and friends to remain connected. I know there's a lot of ideas out there. People are utilizing virtual technology to stay in touch. And it's true. It is not the same. Kids miss their friends. Kids miss their families. But any ideas they have that may be satisfying to them, kids love when they get to implement their own ideas. So let them come up with ideas to stay connected. Tip number seven, be a role model for the behaviors you wish your kids to follow, especially when it comes to social distancing. Model and teach stress management, but model and teach social distancing as well. So if kids can't see their friends but they see you outside chatting with a neighbor, it may just be more difficult to explain that. If you do some things to manage your stress that the kids can also participate in, that's a win-win. So role model going outside, playing with your pets, playing a game with them, cooking, baking, breathing exercises, writing in a journal, writing a story together. Also set kids up for success. So if you believe it will be really hard for them to social distance, if you take them to like a park or a playground, I would avoid those situations. It's going to cause more angst and anxiety for everybody. So tip number eight, and some people may not agree with this, but I'm all for this. This may be a perfect time to grant some special privileges. If there are things that you and your children or your family have talked about possibly doing, if it's buying a certain video game system or potentially fostering a kitten or a puppy, maybe learning how to ride a bike or something that you were kind of holding off on, this may be a great time to consider jumping into that. There's nothing like something exciting to distract kids from what they're struggling with. So also anything that might help kids feel a better sense of control. So these special privileges might involve repainting their bedroom or redecorating their room or some kind of project around the house that gives them some sense of control over their environment could be really helpful. It also takes up time and it's something to work on together. And the last tip is just thinking about the best way to decrease the potential for long-term impact of trauma in kids is to really remain connected to them about how they are feeling and coping emotionally. And again, to give them the opportunity to express their concerns, express their feelings, give information. And for you to be looking for persistent signs of things that are unusual and that don't get better. Some people wrote in questions about kids being anxious. I'll talk about that a little bit in a minute. But please remember what your resources are. So reaching out for mental health support from a professional could be really important. Again, if you see symptoms or signs of something that's persisting that doesn't seem to be getting better over time. There are a lot of virtual supports right now to help people feel a little bit more connected similar to this phone call. There are houses of worship, local mental health centers, school systems that are all putting on programs virtually to try to share information and give out information. And I hope people will continue to look for those resources because there's a lot out there. And this is a really, really important time for people to utilize them. So those are the nine tips. Allison, do we want to go to some questions? I almost did it again. Started talking, being on mute. I just want to point out and sorry, I don't know if you want to add in, but this slide that's up right now is the barn animals, the barn style. Dress reduction tips. So I don't know if you want to add anything about that. I can't see the tip. I can't see my screen, but I can say that one of my favorite personal favorite things to do is go out and be with the barn animals. Again, I'm a huge believer in the power of animals to help soothe and decrease stress and anxiety. So if people feel like they have something special also that helps sort of bring down their escalated heightened emotions, please spend time doing that. I know by heart, I think what those pictures are, and it's one picture of the two horses chilling out, but they're facing away from each other. So they're kind of social distancing. I think there's a picture of the goats just taking in the sun, which is such an important thing for us to do to just be outside and enjoy nature. And one of the donkeys I think is rolling in the dirt and just having fun and just to be able to go outside and let a little steam off and roll in the dirt is good for everybody.  Let me get into the 1st question. Some people submitted questions about how to help children grieve loss of life, but also of lifestyle that they're used to seeing friends and loss of rituals like birthday parties, proms and graduations. What is the recommendation to assist kids in coping and grieving? It's a great question and obviously things. This is such an extremely stressful time for everybody. The changed lifestyle has been referred to as people grieving their, the loss of their freedom loss of financial stability loss of employment. There's so many losses going on. And that's all in addition to the actual loss of life due to COVID. So there's a lot of grief and grieving. I think it's a good framework. So I want to talk for a second about the stages of grief. And the stages are shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, testing and acceptance. So all of those stages help people begin to reorganize around a new normal and they are not necessarily linear steps. So you can go back and forth. And I think using an example of a child that isn't able to see their friends. They may be in shock over that. It's a surprise. Then they're in denial. That can't be true. Then they're angry. Sometimes the kids that stage lasts a long time. Then there's some bargaining going back and forth. Then there's the sadness. They may do behaviors to test and then hopefully eventually as they go through these stages, they get to acceptance, which is how they begin to reorganize around this new norm. And this can take time. And as people's grief deepens or they feel it in certain ways, they may go back to one of the old steps and then start moving forward again. There's a couple of websites that I want to recommend to people that talk a lot about how to help kids grieve in the time of COVID and their grief websites, but they've updated a lot of information around COVID. So one is called the Duggee Center. It's D-O-U-G-Y. I think it's the Duggee Center, but it's the National Center for Grieving Children and Families. The other website is called the National Alliance for Grieving Children. And the website is actually childrengrieve.org. And both of those websites have a lot of information about COVID, the losses associated with COVID, and how to help kids. So I think those will be posted and I found both of those websites pretty helpful. Perfect. And they are actually posted for those that are on the computer. They are posted up on the screen right now. But for those not on the computer, if you registered with an email, we can send this information out to everyone. So moving on to the next question, there was definitely a few people that asked questions about how to help specific age groups deal with their anxiety, acting out behaviors, not knowing what to do with their emotions. And to go along with that too, there was also any tips with virtual learning and how to deal with that, that kids are over it or just frustrated by it? Yeah. I really appreciate people submitting the questions. And obviously in this timeframe of 30 minutes, it's hard to get to every question. It's very hard to address individual questions about individual kids and situations when I don't have a lot of information about the child or their situation. But I want to give a little bit of sort of general and then some resources. And I certainly appreciate what people are going through with homeschooling and kids not really being able to go out at all, see their friends. It's a lot. It's a lot for kids and families. But let me start by saying it is important again to look at the age of your child and their stage of development. And that's going to help you understand what kind of information they can take in and the best way for them to understand what's happening. Also, when you're looking at that, there are behaviors that may coincide with the pandemic reaction that are normal. And I think we're all experiencing the level of grief and anxiety and kids may become more clingy. Kids may become more fearful. Kids may be much more afraid of what's going to happen in the future. And some of that is just a normal reaction. I think what we want to look for are reactions that don't get better over time or that you think are really out of the norm for that child or that you feel concerned about. So first, try to remember that kids absorb our anxiety. So the more we are able to stay calm, the better. The more you can keep the lines of communication open over time with kids, looking for these signs and behaviors that are of concern and assessing that at what point you feel professional guidance is warranted. And I would strongly encourage as a therapist that people reach out for guidance because every youth might be reacting differently. And it's really a matter of looking at your child and what's the norm for them and what's unusual for them and what doesn't get better over time. Some resources for addressing various age groups. I just want to throw these out there because there are websites that talk about stages of development and what is reasonable for a youth to be experiencing now in times of COVID. So I want to give some of those websites out. There was a website that I thought was really incredible. It was called 023. They gave a tremendous amount of information related to COVID and how to talk to little kids. There was a comic book that was posted. It's probably in different places, but I saw it on npr.org. The comic book is called Just for Kids, A Comic Exploring the New Coronavirus. Probably really good for kids of latency age, like 10 year olds, 11 year olds. And it really explained in a kind of a cool way what's happening and what kids needed to know. I saw that Sesame Street had a TV special about COVID. I didn't get a chance to watch that, but I do plan to because they're usually pretty good at talking to kids. So I think that may be something that could be helpful to people. UNICEF has a website that has a lot of resources on it. So I would check that out and lots of it is related to COVID, how to help kids, how to talk to kids, how to support kids, and parents too. There was an article published by Harvard and it's called How Can Parents Talk to Children About COVID and Its Impact. The article went into age specific symptoms you might see from kids and how to talk to different kids in different developmental stages. There's a really good article. So there are a lot of resources out there and hopefully some of these can be helpful to you. Perfect. And just want to pay attention to the timer a little bit over. So I'm going to wrap it up with one last question. There was a few questions related to medical issues like diagnosing the virus and compromised youths and having to wear masks. Do you have any feedback on those? I think in terms of the medical issues, it's really important that people reach out to their primary doctor and their medical professional who treats their child, because a lot of kids have compromised health issues and any child that you believe might have symptoms of the virus, I would want you to reach out to your medical provider right away to talk it over because they have your child's medical history and would best be able to answer those questions. And again, I just want to really thank everybody for tuning in tonight and I really appreciate everybody's time and I hope everybody stays well and I'll turn it back over to you. All right. Thank you so much, Sarah. That was very helpful and informative. And I just wanted to share two other resources that one of our participants shared on the chat. So we'll definitely add this to our list of resources and send it out to everyone. But there is a YouTube video how to explain the coronavirus to kids. It's a cartoon. And then there's also for older kids, oops, I just lost it, for older kids, home chats, parents guide to healthy conversations during the coronavirus outbreak. So thank you very much for sharing those resources. And thank you again for all of you for joining in tonight's program. Please watch your email for an evaluation for the program. We'd love to hear what you thought about it and if you have other topics, suggestions. This program is being recorded. So if you know someone that might benefit from it, please check back on our website and it'll be there to listen to. And then we are working on planning additional programs in the future. So please always check our website and keep your eye out for those. And thank you again for joining us and enjoy the rest of your night and staying safe.


This video is part of a series. Check out the link in the description to the full playlist. If you get to videos that are mark private, that's because they haven't been published yet. And last time I showed you how to do basically just overlay some 3D objects over a video very simply. Today we're going to do it again, but we're going to do some motion tracking with it. If you've watched my videos over the last couple of days, I've uploaded the test videos that I've created for this. Go ahead and grab those if you want to use those or use your own videos. I'm using Blender 2.78a, which is the most current, I believe, at the time recording this, although I think they're getting ready to release a new release. And what I'm going to do first thing is I'm going to set the frame rate over here to 30 frames a second, because that's what my video clip is at. Again, that was more important in older version of Blenders. In a lot of instances, when you import videos into Blender now, it will ask if you want to adjust that and usually the default is yes. But let's go ahead and get started. So, in the 3D view, I'm going to hit one and I hit Control-Alt-0 to move the camera to the front view. And then I'm going to go back up here and I'm going to go into where it says motion tracking. Here I'm going to click Open and I'm going to choose a video that I have already recorded. Open, Center-Scroll to get back out. Now we can click Pre-Fetch and you'll see this line getting darker purple, or I guess it's a lighter purple. But for me, it's only getting about halfway and that's because of the quality of my video. By default, Blender only gives you about a gig of cash for videos. And this has to do with your RAM. So, be cautious with this, but we're going to go up to File, User Preferences, Over to System, scroll down and I'm going to change this. Since we're about halfway, two is probably enough, but I'm going to set it to three gigs, so 3,000 for me. And now, I can close this and I'm going to Pre-Fetch that. And what that will do is load the video to RAM so there's no... Otherwise, when you go to Play, it might be jerky if it's a higher quality video. Now, I can play the whole thing by hitting Alt-A without it being jerky at all. So, I'm going to escape. We're at our first frame here, but we don't need this first part of the video, so let me find right here where I start talking basically, which has around 30 frames. So, start frame to 30 right here. And at the end, we're going to go a little past here, a little further. And it looks like I'm done talking and smiling. Hey, about 333, that's what it was last time. I'm just eyeballing this. So now, we have all that. And again, I'm going to click Pre-Fetch, or let me hit... Go make sure we're at the first frame here and the Pre-Fetch is completed. Now, we're going to do some motion tracking on this screwdriver I'm holding because it was something that was lying on my desk when I went to record this. You know, it's even in this first frame, it's already blurry. So, we might need to give it a little help along the way, but for most part, I think we'll track it pretty good. Blender does a pretty good job. And I think it's Control-Click. Yep, Control-Left-Click, we'll place a marker, and then S to scale it up. So, I have it on the head of the screwdriver here. I'm going to make some changes over here. Instead of Match Key Frame, I'm going to say Match Previous Frame. I find that that works better. And then here, the track settings, there's a default and that it should be set by default, but it's at Fast, I guess it's remembered from what I did last time, I guess. Fast motion is what we're going to select. I watched a video saying that that tends to work better. So, let's go ahead and give this a go. Make sure we're at the first frame. We're going to click this button here or press Control-T, it will start tracking. And you see it's lost the track a little bit. So, all we have to do is hit G, reposition it slightly and hit Control-T again. It will start tracking again. Tracked quite a bit more. Again, we're just going to move it, Control-T again. And basically, I'm moving it so fast, it gets kind of blurry so Blender kind of loses it. But it's doing a great job. I only had to move the marker two or three times during that and it did the other 328 frames for me, which is a lot better than trying to track it by hand and it will look a lot better than tracking it by hand. But I can hit Alt-A at this point and you can see the track marker tracking the screwdriver. Perfect. So now at this point, up in the 3D view here, we never delete our cube, so I'm going to delete that. And over here on Solve, with that marker selected, I'm going to scroll down to Geometry and I'm going to say Link Empty to Tracker. And it put an empty here. So now we can go back to our 3D view. We're done with the tracking. So I'm going to go back here to Default and here you can see there's an empty, which is basically a marker you see in editing here, but it will not render out. I can hit Alt-A and you can see it moving around. But what's it moving around to? Well, with your cursor over the 3D view here, make sure it's over the 3D view, hit N, scroll down. Just like we did in the last video and choose Background Images, Add Image, check this to Movie, Uncheck Camera Clip. And then instead of clicking Open, we've already imported our video, we click this drop down here and choose our video. And now, if we go over the 3D view here and hit Alt-A, you can see the empty is now following the video. So let me go ahead and drop in some text and I'm going to hit RX90 to rotate it, Enter. Tab to edit that. Again, I'm going to leave it as the default text. I'm going to do some flat text here. You may want to change the font under the Font tab. I talked about that in previous videos. And I'm just going to type, this is a screwdriver. Tab to get out of edit mode. And I'm just going to hit S to scale that down to about there. I'm going to put it right there. And if I hit F12 now, you'll see it renders out. It looks black because the light is behind it. In this particular case, I'm going to do something different than I did in the last video where we added some lighting. I'm actually going to add a material to that. I'm going to set it to total white, but it'll still render out black at this point because there's no light on it. But I'm going to say, shadeless. And that just makes the whole thing white. And this is good for text, something like this. Otherwise, lighting will affect it, and there might be shadows cast on your text. So we have that. Next, I'm going to add a little pointer, just a little line. So I'm going to hit space and I'm going to type in plane and choose add plane under mesh. RX90 to rotate that. I'm going to scale it down quite a bit. Scale it on the Z. Scale it on the X. Make it a thin line. I'm also going to make it the same material as the text. I'm going to rotate that. Move it to here, rotate it a little bit more. Scale it down. So I have a little marker going to that. And the empty is following our screwdriver but the text and the line isn't. So we're going to choose our text, shift select the line or any other object you want, and then shift select the empty and hit control P. Make sure the empty is the last thing you select and click parent to object. Now, Alt A and it plays and you see everything is tracking. If we hit F12, you'll see our text there with a great background. We went over this in the previous video. I'm going to go to render settings here down to shading and change alpha to transparent. Hit F12 and now we have a transparent background with our text that we can overlay on our video. Just like we did last time, we're going to go to composite, choose node backdrop and auto render if you want. And I'm going to up here in our node editor, hit shift A, input and choose movie clip. And again, movie's already been imported. So instead of open, we're going to click the drop down here, choose our video clip. Grab it, right click and G. So we're using G, the same keys you do in the 3D editor. So G to drag things around to grab them, G for grab. And we're going to hit shift A and we're going to go down to color, alpha over, put this here, put the again, top video in the bottom input and the background video in the top input, kind of counterintuitive, hit F12 again. It's not lined up right. You'll notice that it isn't pointing at screwdriver again. As we talked about in previous video, you'll notice it's cropping. That's because we're rendering at 50%. Let's go ahead and hit shift A, distort, scale and drop it in there. And now let me zoom in so you can see here. Instead of relative, I'm going to choose render size. Now if I hit F12, you can see it's rendering out properly. And that is it for all of that, except for our audio. Let's go into our video editor here and we're going to again go add, movie. Go to our movie clip, make sure sound is selected, set the start frame to one and hit add clip. And again, the bottom clip is your video so you can right click that and hit delete. We'll go back to our default view here and now we have to make sure we set this to a video output. So I'm going to choose Xvid, but you can choose any of these formats that you prefer. Under encoding, even though I choose Xvid, it doesn't necessarily set it to Xvid. Interesting, it's always been like that. Under presets, I'm going to say Xvid and that will change our format to Xvid. And we have to choose an audio if we want audio output. And again, I'm just going to choose MP3 just because it's right there. And now give our video a name and I'll call it basic motion tracking with Blender 3D. Take example, .avi. And now scroll up here instead of hitting render, we'll hit animation. And you might be like, oh no, it's not running in the background all the time. And that's just because it's rendering our 3D scene and then it's throwing the video back there but the video takes so little processing power compared to rendering the 3D view that it goes onto the next frame before you see that. So don't worry if some of the frames look like there's no background. As long as you see it occasionally like this, you should be fine. And right now it's rendering pretty fast. I mean, it's pretty simple. It's not very complex. And it's rendering each frame in a 15th of a second, not a 15th of a second. Yeah, .15 seconds for each frame. In fact, we're almost done. We're at frame 270 and we're going to 333. So that's it. That's how you do that. I do thank you for watching. I hope you have a great day. Please visit my website, filmsbychrist.com. That's Chris of the K. There should be a link in the description of this video. Also a link to my Patreon page, patreon.com, forward slash middle X 1000. And I just realized I rendered this out at 50%. That's why it was rendering so fast. Still shouldn't take that long. So I'll just change that. And again, I'll hit animate and it will automatically override that. A little bit slower, a little less than half a second for most of the frames. Anyway, yeah, my Patreon page, patreon.com, forward slash middle X 1000. Go there to support my channel if you enjoy my videos. There's also a PayPal link on my website. Link's in the description. As always, I hope that you have a great day. 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Welcome back everyone to theCUBE's live coverage here in Barcelona for Mobile World Conference, now called MWC 2024, I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. theCUBE's coverage, great to have back CUBE alumni, Michael Dell, who's the CEO of Dell Technologies. Quite a run past decade. We're now on the AI wave. Welcome to theCUBE. You know, it feels like we're just getting started, guys. I mean, this is all very exciting and it has been a fun decade, but when I look at what's going on in the world and especially here at Mobile World Congress, well, it's like a whole new world of opportunity opening up with the cloudification of the telco networks. What's going on with AI at the edge, the explosion of data, which we've been talking about for some time. Lots of fun. You know, Michael, I wanted to ask you when you came on, because I've been watching your social love when you threw the throwback, your dorm room photos, you know, back in reminisce, the glory days found in the company, but also, Dave and I have been debating on our CUBE pod about how you transition to the web, okay? And these big waves, their transitional moments, AI is one of them, you saw it early.  It was all AI and data. Again, good call there, but now we're seeing, this is a wave. This is a embryonic and growing fast change in user behavior, user expectations. Every vertical is disrupted. We're in another transition, and you're in the middle of it again. What is your vision of this transition and how you're getting through it and how are you advising your peers and other companies, your customers? Well, first an interesting observation, you know, it's about every 10 years it feels like another wave comes. And they're built always on the previous foundations that have been set. So you wouldn't be able to have this wave unless you had all the advanced semiconductors, the data, the incredibly fast networks, the super fast storage to feed the GPU, the data, you know, fast enough, all the advances in computer science. But, you know, this feels, first of all, it feels like it's going 10 times faster than previous waves. And of course we're moving from calculating and computing into cognition and brains, which is a totally different space than we've been in the past. And that is, you know, kind of wonderful, exciting, bit scary as well, but I think it is ultimately an enormous moment for the expansion of the economy, human potential, creativity, and ultimately, you know, technology's always been about how do we make humans more successful, safer and, you know, healthier in everything that we're doing. And I think technology is going to do that even more so now that we have these AI superpowers. We were doing a look back this past week and everybody's talking about, is this the AI wave? Is it like the dot com bubble? And we did a look back just because we lived it through it. You obviously did thrive through it. The CAPEX investments for the internet were just enormous. And now you're seeing similar CAPEX investments here. And of course the cloud guys are pouring in money as well. So that CAPEX is just to your point, it's just going to allow people to develop on top of that, make their lives better. How do you see these two eras? There are a lot of similarities, a lot of differences. The big difference I see is this is going 10 times faster. So, you know, think about how long it took us to get 5 billion people on the internet, to get 5 billion people on AI is happening almost instantly. And, you know, we're seeing it quickly move from the cloud service providers and hyperscalers to the dot AI companies into enterprise. Hundreds of enterprises deploying these systems. And again, I talked about in my keynote, you want to bring AI to your data, not data to your AI. And most of the data is still on-prem and most of the data in the future is going to be created in the real world at the edge.  You know, supercomputing this past event we went to, it has the same pattern here. You're seeing a couple trends, the telcos and networking. But on the supercomputer, AI and HPC went well together. Data and clustered systems, we're calling it. You got more horsepower needed on-premise whether it's a GPU cluster or a compute cluster. But now workloads need hardware and software working together in a new systems way. In a way, it's almost like a new kind of server-like model. But it's not a server, it's a new thing. Yeah. What's your vision of this? Well, of course, you need data because if you have no data, you have no AI, right? You have bad data, you have bad AI. And, you know, the fuel for these systems is enormous amounts of data. That's a topic we know a lot about and spend a lot of time on, right? Dell Technologies with our great combination with EMC and that's worked out really well. Still number one in data storage, bigger than number two, number three, number four and growing and that's great.  It's a new kind of compute as you've seen with GPUs. You got memory, a new kind of memory, high bandwidth memory. Then you get into networking, right? You know, you got a new kind of networking and storage is particularly important here because if your storage or your memory or your networking are too slow, you won't be able to feed the GPU fast enough and your GPU will sit idle for a lot of the time. And given the cost of these GPUs, again, this kind of complete system architecture and being able to, you know, make that incredibly efficient is very important. And our demand, our backlog, our shipments of these systems with the GPU being at the center of it are growing at a rate like nothing we've ever seen.  And so here you go by the Dell booth, big, big presence here, but it's going to take a long time to get the payback in this industry. What did you see? Why are you making the investments? You're doing some things with Vodafone and Dish, Dish actually reinventing itself. What did you see? How do you see that playing out? When do you get the return? And in my keynote, you know, we had Chris Sambar from AT&T come on stage with me and the big deal they announced with Ericsson, well, Dell's providing the servers as part of that deal. So, you know, OpenRAN is happening at AT&T with Ericsson and Dell. And so, you know, that's a real business. And I would say most, the vast majority of the network virtualization, cloudification of the network and O-RAN type deployments that are happening in the world were in the middle of them, whether they're programs or pilots.  We want to buy your servers. We said, great, here's the servers. Go knock yourself out, right? And they said, but we need special things. He said, well, you didn't tell us that, right? So, we went off and we then created special infrastructure and software for automation. Then we started creating these building blocks, specifically for Telco. Open ecosystems are great, but carriers don't want open ecosystems. They want something they can rely on. So, we work with companies like Red Hat and Wind River, Amdox to basically build a certified solution that we know works and we can deploy consistently. So, they have a platform and then they can just put the applications on it, repeat it, and it helps them make this transformation to a cloud network, Telco network much faster. The question I have for you on the networking is kind of the last area we're seeing in cloud native where the work's being done to go faster. You mentioned that in this new systems architecture that's emerging, I'm calling it clustered systems with like a better word, but these are new micro clouds, a micro, and they're sitting on premise and the edge. So, you got the edge developing nicely with AI kind of forcing that out, as you said. Bring your AI to the data. Where do you see that opportunity at the edge? Because I think that's, to me, the key. The network has to be faster, okay? What's your vision on how you guys are solving that network problem as these new systems get built? It might be network controllers of the new switches or, hey, maybe we can reconfigure things certain ways for more compute in this case, more GPUs in that case. These are new system architectures. The network has to play the key role, otherwise it's a bottleneck. What's the problem to solve there and what's your vision on that? So, you know, keep in mind another way to describe the edge is it's the real world, right? It's like the physical world. It's like where stuff actually happens, right? And so, you're talking about manufacturing plants and retail stores and hospitals and logistics centers and anywhere where real stuff happens, right? And we've been seeing this move of compute into those environments. And now, you know, you want to connect it, right? And so, Private 5G is playing a role and we've also got some great partnerships there with folks like Nokia. We've got great Private 5G solutions, again, using our server and storage infrastructure. And you're right, the network has to become a cloud so the operators can stand up services so that application developers can write to that. That's what AT&T is doing. That's where all these carriers are going and we're going to help them get there. How long is the line to get your AI servers? A lot of people want to do this stuff on prem or have a hybrid, it must be out the door right now. So what's the situation like for you guys? The H100 lead times are down and literally we're like a 10 week lead time on H100s. So we're delivering those rapidly and in enormous volume and we're taking orders for H200. Those will start ramping around the middle of the year and look, I mean, it's a whole ecosystem of capability here that we're bringing together. I talked a little bit about the storage. We just released new versions of PowerScale, the F210 and F710. And these systems are two times or greater faster than our competitors in right performance in feeding the GPU the data. Is it really important, right? Because if you've got a $50,000 GPU and it's idle 20% of the time, you just lost a lot of money. So you need the networking to be really fast, the storage, the memory. And we're thinking generations ahead about how you really build these systems to be incredibly performant. Whether they're in mega scale data centers or on prem or at the edge. I really appreciate your time. I know you got a hard stop. I do want to get one last question. Dave will probably get one in too. What's your vision as you look at Dell Tech World coming up with your customer events happening? We'll be there. This year, what's going to be the theme? Can you share a little bit of the vision of what you're going to go into Dell Tech World? What's it going to be about? Obviously AI will be a big theme. What's the key vision that you're going to be hitting the marks on?  AI, AI will certainly be a big theme. And you're right, there are new computing architectures here. But it's not all about training. Actually most of the AI will be about inference and will be in the real world. And so kind of architecting the systems for the future and it won't just be in the data center, right? It'll be the AI PC, right? So AI is a great opportunity to reimagine everything that goes on in the world. And we're making it pervasive across everything we do. Our customers are embracing it and we're helping them. Thank you so much for your time coming by theCUBE. As always, awesome. Great to be with you guys, great to see you. Okay, thank you. Michael Dell doing a cameo by theCUBE has usual great content. The systems are changing, opportunities are everywhere. The world is going to get more productive and faster, smarter and hopefully more efficient. This is theCUBE live coverage from Barcelona. Thanks for watching.


I just like to take a minute to go back through S24. Our goal on Friday will be to make any changes that we think need to be changed and move the bill out of committee. There are two ways we can move the bill out of committee. One is to just simply vote it out. Then it sits on the calendar, and then it goes to economic development, and then it goes to finance. The other thing that I'm thinking about is after we've had our discussion, simply to relieve our committee of the bill and send it to economic development, where it originally had started, and I've talked with Senator Sorokin about doing that, and he's fine with that. All right. Jen, do you want to just quickly remind us of what S24 includes? Sure. That would be helpful. All right. It would be. Are you wanting me to put it up or just describe to you what's in it? Let's put it up. Nellie has also put it on your committee page if you're interested in pulling it. I will tell you, I understand that the Vermont NAACP is sending us a letter of support for the bill, and there are others who are similarly positioned who may also be sending us letters of support. We'll see that. For the record, Jennifer Kirby, Legislative Council. This is S24, an act relating to banning flavored tobacco products and e-liquids. It starts out with a number of findings. I'll just scroll through here. Then it updates definitions in the first case here in the definition of tobacco products. It's really to remove some ambiguities and inconsistencies with the definition in the tax statutes. Then also make some changes to the definition of tobacco substitute, which is the statute's term for electronic cigarettes and similar devices so that it's a little bit broader and captures some emerging products. Then we have the definition of e-liquid, which is the solution substance or other material used in or with a tobacco substitute that is heated or otherwise acted upon to produce an aerosol vapor or other emission to be inhaled or otherwise absorbed by the user regardless of whether it contains nicotine. You'll see the e-liquids term being either introduced or used to replace some various other terms throughout some statutes. Starting with this next one here, which is the license required to sell these products. Same thing in this next section, also including tobacco substitutes and e-liquids in this exception about where items can be displayed. Then the proof of age statute, again, adding e-liquids in here. Seven VSA section 1005, this would remove the penalty for possession of tobacco products by minors. So it would then just prohibit the purchase and the misrepresentation of age for purchasing. Jen, so what we've, sorry, go ahead Ruth and not all last one. On that, on page eight, line 13, this is a very specific question. The sale and purchase of bidders? BDs is my understanding of the pronunciation. Okay, what is that? Well, happily for us, it is a defined term in statute. So I'm gonna have to pull it up and tell you what it is. But in the beginning of this chapter, seven VSA chapter 40 in section 1001, BDs, and there's also another spelling, B-E-E-D-I-E-S, means a product containing tobacco that is wrapped in Timberney leaf, and then parenthetically it says diospirose melanoxalin, which I'm probably butchering, or tendu leaf diospirose exculpura or any other product that is offered to or purchased by consumers as BDs spelled this way and BDs spelled together. That is the extent of my knowledge. Okay, I've never heard of this thing. Okay, thank you. Well, you're not allowed to sell or purchase them currently. Okay, we'll do, we'll don't. So I was gonna, that was so, that was exciting. Thank you, Senator Hardy. I do remember a previous conversation about that, but I'm glad you brought it up. Not this year, another year. Yes, this particular language has been in the statutes longer than I've been working on tobacco stuff, which isn't all that long, but it's been in here a while. So we are taking out the penalty for possession. Yes, this would get rid of the $25 penalty for possession, which is in here somewhere. All right. Yes, there we go, in here in P. So it's sort of the civil penalty of $25 civil penalty brought by the Ed and the Judicial Bureau for possession. It does maintain it for purchase. Yeah, okay. This is an area that I think economic development, well, they have a bill on POP purchase issues. Right, they do have a bill and actually in that bill it would, I don't know if it's decriminalized because I don't think it's criminal, but unprohibit the possession of BDs because it is getting rid of all prohibitions on possession. So at least as introduced, it would allow for the possession, but not purchase. Okay. All right, section 1006 is adding the E-liquids to the placement of posting of signs in retail establishments. Section 1007 adds the E-liquids to the prohibition and penalties for selling or furnishing products to minors and then goes into the compliance testing and then updates and corrects the name of the reconstituted tobacco evaluation and review board which became part of the substance misuse prevention, oversight and advisory council along with some other boards and councils. Section 109 makes some updates to the contraband and seizure statute to pull in some of the, pull in some conforming changes with other or provisions with other statutes. So it would have the contraband and seizure provisions apply not only to cigarettes and tobacco products that were sold, offered for sale or possessed for sale in violation of certain statutes but also would add tobacco substitutes and tobacco paraphernalia and then would add this new E-liquids language as well and also reflects some of the other sections that prohibit or place limitations on the sale and possession for sale. And then makes a conforming change down here to be to incorporate all of those items. Section 1010 is the internet sales provision and it corrects that or changes that definition or that language around the E-liquids and also adds some of the other types of products into what constitutes a separate violation for separate shipments. And we get to 1012 which is currently liquid nicotine packaging and instead using that new terminology around the E-liquid consistency. And then finally we get to the new section here, 1013 on the flavored tobacco products, a flavored tobacco substitutes and flavored E-liquids being prohibited. And there we have the definitions. So the characterizing flavor, the flavored E-liquid, the flavored tobacco product and the flavored tobacco substitute and the tobacco retailer. And it prohibits anyone from engaging in the retail sale of any flavored tobacco product, E-liquid or tobacco substitute. So again, here it's not the possession, it is the retail sale. It's not even the purchase, it's the retail sale. No retail sale of any flavored tobacco product, flavored E-liquid or flavored tobacco substitute. And if a retailer or their agent or employee violates the section, the retailer would be subject to a civil penalty like the penalties for the sale to minors. And it would be again brought in the Judicial Bureau, that's what it means to be brought in the same manner as for a traffic violation. Then it gives the Judicial Bureau jurisdiction over that new offense and also revises the language of the minors to be purchased and not possession. Then we get into some conforming revisions elsewhere in the statutes. So this is an existing statute elsewhere in title seven that talks about the penalty provisions that apply to other types of products, not applying to violations that are dealt with separately under the tobacco statutes. And so adding E-liquids there. Adding E-liquids to the prohibition on the use of certain products on public school grounds. Adds it also to the language around the substance misuse advisory, substance misuse prevention, oversight and advisory council and makes some conforming changes in the tax statutes definition as well. It's my understanding there's no actual policy implication here but using this same E-liquid language and also just making some grammatical changes in that definition. Then section eight would have the office of the attorney general report back on whether and to what extent Vermont can legally restrict advertising and regulate the content of labels for electronic cigarettes and other vaping related products that has been an issue of interest to a number of people and there are a lot of complexities around the federal law, federal preemption and case law including constitutional issues. And the act would take effect on September 1st. Okay. Go ahead. Question. So just in general, this bill would, everybody moved, would get rid of the violations about possession of tobacco products. But what about purchase? So it would not allow, it would continue to prohibit the purchase by minors. It does not address the purchase of flavored products. It prohibits the sale of flavored products. Okay. So the sale of the retail sale. The retail sale of flavored products and that would include internet sales as well. So these products are not allowed to be, are already not allowed to be sold online, direct to consumers. That was something you enacted. I think it was last biennium, maybe last year, last biennium. So nobody can ship products ordered online to anyone other than a licensed whole sale dealer or retail dealer. Okay. So for regular quote unquote regular cigarettes, non-flavored, just the run-of-the-mill cigarettes, it's no long, this bill, according to this bill, there's no longer a violation for possessing them, even if you're- By minors, right. By minors. But purchasing by minors is still illegal or there's a, that's a, and retail sales to minors are, is a violation. Right, still not allowed. That's right. So it doesn't do anything with the purchasing and that's something that the other committee is interested in looking at potentially or has a bill that's related to- Right, there's a purchase use and possession, some people call PUP, Purchase Use and Possession Bill that is in the Economic Development Committee. Okay, but this one only deals with possession, not purchasing use or trying to figure that. Right. This is just possession. This is just possession for minors. And retail sale of, of flavors. And retail sale of flavors. Okay, got it. All right, thank you. Okay, good. Other questions at this point? I mean, we have been through the bill previously and I did wanna, I do have an interest in how folks are feeling about the bill at this point and I don't know if you wanna do a little show of hands who supports passing the bill out of committee. That would help me. I have a question, Janine. Yeah, go ahead. With your other choice of sending this bill to Economic Development again. Well, I still wanna know how my committee feels about the bill. The question is, do you anticipate them including, you know, kind of melding the two bills, their bill on? I have, I don't know Senator Hooker, they may or may not. I think it would be, I think it would be very useful to have that happen. The, the per, per, per, the POP provisions are kind of anachronistic and they capture people for doing something that, you know, I think as Senator Cummings and I have talked about this and it's the, it's the kid driving down the highway smoking being pulled over for smoking a cigarette and especially if it's a BIPOC person, you have concerns about that.  You're muted. As long as I'm muted, I can't chime in. I voted for this bill last year with reservations. The most reservations were around the sale to adults of flavored tobacco and that includes grandpa's cherry wood pipe tobacco. We did this prior to COVID. It was sitting waiting for next week in finance and since that time, what, who we did hear from this time to anywhere near the extent we did last year were the adult users of vapes and people that use vapes to step down and it's debatable, but there were a significant number of people. We had one retailer who was a firefighter and decorated and everything in his hometown who has moved his smoke shop to New Hampshire and is presently servicing all his Vermont customers a mile away. This time, I'm not gonna be able to support the bill with the ban on menthol. I really have a problem. A history, one of the reasons I voted for the cannabis bill was the testimony of teenagers that it was easier to get cannabis, i.e. there was always somebody in the parking lot than it was to buy alcohol because you had to get an adult to buy it for you. We admitted when we did that bill not that it was a good thing and it most certainly is not gonna be a good public health thing but because prohibition didn't work. All prohibition of alcohol did was create a huge explosion and organized crime, Vermont being like Champlain being one of those conduits. I don't see that prohibiting adults from making bad choices is going to stop them from making bad choices. It will just make them find other ways. My other concern is we did this bill pre-COVID. I assume all of you were getting the pushback on mask wearing, pressure to get vaccinations. We have asked more of people, vast people to give up more in the last year than we have since World War II at least in the way of things you just can't do for the public good. I don't think this is the time to tell them when their stress levels are up and they've been making sacrifices for the public that now we're gonna take away your menthol cigarettes that you by the way are totally addicted to and tell you that you've got a smoke, nasty flavored tobacco. And I just think the timing is wrong. I think people, and there's nothing in this to increase prevention or cessation services. I mean, we're taking a crutch away and we're not putting a cane in there for folks. So I just, I have great sympathy and I will take anything away from kids. I have a concern kids are gonna move down the table. The cannabis or back to pills, but I just don't feel this is the right time to do it. And I've changed on this one. Okay. Thank you, Senator. Well, I do want to say that if we look at the testimony that we've heard, we understand that the, that COVID has increased the use of these things and the public, health crisis associated with it. We've also heard that kids are getting this. So easily everything from. We don't know where, but they're getting it. And in our conversation, find it in Vermont. They're, they're getting, they're getting, getting it, but they're not over the internet is what we have heard from kids. They'll keep getting it there. So I'm the, that when a child begins this process, they become addicted and those, they become adults who are addicted. The, the issue around flavors is something that the cannabis bill took up and specifically banned flavors for the same reason. That we are interested in banning them here. 30% of the can cannabis. Tax revenue will go to prevention and that will include substance use disorder prevention overall and nicotine. I, you know, so we can, we can agree to disagree on the timing of this. But in terms of our awareness of public health, it's never been higher than it is now with, with COVID. We hear you, Senator. And I understand that. There are some passionate people out there who believe that men fall is helping them quit. The data and the supporting evidence is just not there. It just makes it easier to smoke. Because it's not, we're actually over our, a lot of time today. I do want to give everyone a chance to kind of weigh in. We'll come back to this bill on Friday very briefly. And then we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll deal with it. And, and see how it goes. I see one vote against the bill. And I would be helpful for me to understand how the full committee feels about the bill. Obviously I'm going to support it. And I'm. Willing to listen. I have to go to money chairs. Yeah, I, we have another meeting too, but Senator Tarenzini, go ahead. Well, out of respect for, for you, Senator Lyons and the committee, and I can give my reasons as well on Friday. I know that we're over, but I, I too will be in no vote on this. And I, like I said, I want you to know. Today versus way until Friday that I'll be a no on it.  So. Thank you. I appreciate that. All right. So let's, let's call it a day. And we'll. Tomorrow we meet. I'm sorry to do this to you, but. 8 a.m. We're going to have fun. We have a full day of testimony on S. 20. And it will be a full day on PFAS. We'll, we'll see, I'll see you all then. Thanks for hanging in there today. I think we've done a lot of good work. Appreciate it. I'll be late. Yes. Yeah. Jenny. Again, I'm, I'm dealing right now with. I understand. I understand. I understand. And I can't get a time. So.


The Conference of Speakers and Heads of African Parliaments COSAP has called for debt cancellation and end to insistent coups including other palliatives to help Africa cope with the effect of COVID-19. The members came with the Communicator address key issues facing the continent. They also stressed the need for the leaderships of the Parliament of member nations to aggressively pursue these courses. Speaker of the House of Representatives Honourable Femi Bajabiamila is the host of the event. He emphasized the need for debt cancellation as the only way the world can truly assist the African continent in getting over the devastating effect of COVID-19 on the economy of the continent. There is a need for African economies to build resilience against external and internal shocks, eliminating dependency on external institutions, lenders and grantors. In essence, Africa has to stand on its own feet. Also is the issue of resource mobilization. There is a need for parliaments to create legislation that support mobilizing domestic revenues by safeguarding resource revenues and expanding tax bases, rationalizing tax incentives, simplifying tax filing, improving compliance strategies and enhancing automation. The burden, the debt burden on not just one, collectively, on all African countries was stagnated our development. We have been talking to international lenders and we hope and believe that at the end of the day if we speak collectively as one, as opposed to individually as a country, as different countries, our voices may be louder and clearer, more audible and clearer for our creditors and we have advanced several reasons why because of COVID-19 which exposed the underbelly and the vulnerability of the continent. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


After Trump was elected, the Democrats and their media mouthpieces joined forces with corrupt elements of the government to deny the election results. Then they spread real Russian disinformation in the form of the Steele dossier and a grand attempt to undo those election results. The people behind this effort were called the Deep State and we were told that they didn't exist. If you really believe that, this may change your mind. I've covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career, have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous and contemptible than today's Republicans. Nothing close? Think about that. The editor of a major news publication just labeled one of the two major American political parties worse than the most violent and extreme ideologies he's ever covered. Now, just take a wild guess who retweeted and agreed with this incendiary rhetoric. None other than former CIA director Michael Hayden, who said, quote, I agree and I was a CIA director. I know it's hard to accept, but it's true. Half the country, the political party in power wants you dead or in a gula.


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A useful strategy in life, and in math, is look at a problem from different directions. We've been looking at areas by considering the sum of rectangles oriented vertically, but what if we oriented the rectangles horizontally? Well, if you don't play, you can't win. Let's see what happens. Now, why would we want to do that? Well, let's consider the following integral. We need to find an anti-derivative of log x, but we don't know it. Question in the back. The last time I took this course, we learned this. Well, yes, that's true. We will learn how to do this eventually, but remember, a problem exists whether or not you know how to solve it, so let's try and solve this now. Now, remember, one interpretation of the definite integral is that it's the area between y equals f of x and the x-axis over the interval from a to b. And so this integral corresponds to the area between y equals log x and the x-axis over the interval from 1 to 2. So let's draw a graph of our region, and if it's not written down, it didn't happen. Label the graph. If we try to find the area of the region by summing horizontally-oriented represented rectangles, we get the following. So the length of each rectangle, well, that's end minus beginning. But since our rectangles are running horizontally, these are the x-coordinates of the end and beginning. So regardless of where the rectangle is, the end is always at x equals 2. So that means the end is a constant 2, and we can use the value 2. Meanwhile, the beginning is sum x-coordinate, so we'll just use x. And the height of the rectangle is some small portion of the y-axis dy. So these rectangles have width 2 minus x, height dy, and we'll sum them up from x equals 1 to x equals 2. So remember the differential variable is the only variable allowed since our differential is dy, then everything has to be rewritten in terms of y. Since y equals log x, then x equals e to the y. We also have these limits x equals 1 to x equals 2, and those also have to be rewritten in terms of y. So x equals 1 since x equals e to the y equals means replaceable, then solve. Likewise, x equals 2 becomes, and so we can rewrite our integral as. And at this point, this is an integral we can evaluate.


Hi, everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com. Happy Tuesday, coming at you with 21-22 hip parade, the Rookie's Graded Basketball Edition Series 6. Random team break number one. I guess there's not too many 21-22 products coming up, but that's how they chose to label it, although the picture is different anyhow. It's Rookie's, it's Graded, should be nice. Big thanks to this group right here for getting in on the action, appreciate it. And all 30 teams are in, I appreciate the teams. Let's roll it, let's randomize it. Three and a one for names and teams. Oh, no worries, Darren, congrats. Sean Jaspy might be interested in those, Darren, so make sure you charge him as much as possible. Three and a one, four times for names, one, two, three and a one. Four times, there's four right there. We've got Brian Heyman down to next, over. Three and a one, four times for the teams, one, two, three and four. After four times, we've got the Trail Blazers and the Phoenix Suns. All right, Brian H, Trail Blazers. Kayama with the Nets, Nick with the Cavs, Brian Frank with the Bulls. Steve Wright, you got my Lakers.  Some good coverage there. Eric with the Magic, Sean M with the Rockets, Shane with the OKC Thunder, Rosario, Golden State Warriors, and Nick with the Phoenix Suns. So let's sort this by column B, and we're gonna pause the video. When we come back, we're gonna see if there's any trades. Trade at your own risk, no other breaks to go around. Be right back. All right, welcome back, folks. No deals were done. Everyone seemed to be happy with their teams. So here on a Tuesday, thanks everybody. That list, hot off the presses remains the same. Thanks everyone for getting in. Now, let's not forget, I forgot last time, let's not forget the Hit List promo. Let's see what's going on here. Hit List promotion, at the end of the break, we'll take all 30 names and randomize them. The top 10 names will win a pack each. That's not really a Hit List, Nick, did you mean all the Hit List people? In this Hit Parade break, you say Hit List promo, at the end of the break, we'll take all 30 names. All Hit List names. It's a Hit List promo, folks. It's gonna be all Hit List names. I mean, it could be 30, if it's a bad break, it could be all 30 names. No, it'll just be Hit List people, ladies and gentlemen. Sorry about that. But the top 10 names of the Hit List will each win a 2020, 2021 Prism cello pack. Wow, shipped to you seal, it's a $40 value. About half the cost of the spot. So I'm gonna flip back to the screen in a second. So I have your names copied into that column right there. I'll just delete them as we go along in this break to keep track of Hit List folks. Here we go, series six, good luck. Knife, I need a knife, where's my knife? Kingdom for a knife, all right. So as the box suggests, these are all rookies and they're all graded.  Boys and girls, first box. Let that open this way. All right, good luck. Yeah, Rich, we always get Hit Parade stuff, so just keep an eye on the website, jaspyscasebreaks.com, we're always posting stuff. I think there's a random Hit Break on the site right now, Rich, if you wanna check it out. And Nick Jaspys saying, speaking of basketball, Nick Jaspys says, obsidian basketball, pick your teams are posted, and if you grab two or more teams, it's the two, one entry, four, two entries, et cetera. There's some break credit we've given away, 400 bucks. So check out the website for details, jaspyscasebreaks.com, pick your teams, that drops tomorrow, and I'll be here in the morning. So we'll get a head start on that early in the morning. All right, first graded rookie is Michael Bridges. PSA 10, nice. 2018, a prison basketball, Green Parallel. Phoenix Suns, Nick Stober. There you go, Nick. Suns had a great year last year. That's good for the hobby. Next box is, ooh, is Kobe, Kobe Bryant, 1996 Ultra, Fleer Ultra, Kobe Bryant. PSA 8, wow, that's really nice. Who's got my Lakers, Steve has my Lakers, there you go. See, right? Congrats, next box. We're doing all 10 boxes right now, oh yeah. Full case break. Next rookie, graded is Carmelo Anthony. 2003, a Bowman rookie and stars, Carmelo, PSA 9. Kind of looks young and skinny right there, look at that. There you go, Mello going to Denver. And that'll be for Sean with the nugs. Here with the Lakers now. You can share your hit with Hit Parade as well, with the good people at HP. Hit Parade, next one, this is a BGS 9-5. It's Donovan Mitchell, prism, basketball, base. Centering is a 10, corners are a 10. Edge is 9-5, surface a 9, Utah. Big boys, 007 with the Jazz. Nice, all right, next up is, oh, Luca Donicic. 2018, prism, basketball, not silver, just the base parallel, but still a PSA 10, Luca. Nice, could be a big year for him, Tom with the Mavs. Just another year of NBA experience under his belt, to think that he could just be getting better. It's a scary thought for the association. Next, Lakers have media day today. It's pretty exciting, trying to get basketball. Preseason hockey is around, it is happening. We're already going to week four in the NFL season, mass car playoffs, baseball playoffs. Hachimura, 2019 Mosaic basketball. Green Mosaic, PSA 10, NBA debut. Rui Hachimura, Tom with the Wizards. A lot of upside for that guy as well. All right, next is, Cam Reddish. Another PSA 10, love those PSA 10s, just base version. Still nice, ATL, Ron Wester with the Hawks. Hawks look really great last year, Cam Reddish could continue growing. Tommy's saying it's funny how the rest of the media predicted poorly Luca would be a bus, especially Stephen A. Smith. Oh, you made the mistake of listening to Stephen A. Smith. If you listen to people in the media who actually know their basketball. Ooh, that's Lamello. Donrus basketball, rated rookie, graded at nine five Lamello ball. Mike Tower with the Charlotte Horns, congrats, man. I mean, this car could keep going up, especially if he starts his second year off strong, which everyone expects him to do. He's got another, he's got a season of experience, NBA experience under his belt. He can keep growing. He had a great year last year too, in spite of the injury. All right, next up. Oh, I know Ben, Ben's like, man, he's got the Grizzlies and the Pelicans. Can't get scunt, right? Not possible. There it is, not possible. 2019 Panini Select Basketball Red Wave, John Morant, PSA nine. And that is concourse level. You got some extra PSA information right there. Very nice. I want him to do well too. I want all these rookies to do well. That's hashtag good for the hobby. I'm rooting for you. I'm rooting for the hobby. All right, final box. Thanks everybody. Keep your eye out for more. Hit parade. Hit parade, baseball, football, basketball, hockey. Got all sorts of hit parade. So keep checking the website. We're always trying to procure more. All right, final card, PSA 10. It's James Harden. 2009 Panini Prestige Hoops, Jimmy Harden. Thunder, OKC. That is for Shane. Nice, Shane. Thanks very much everybody. Oh man, I was so excited about these hits. I did not keep track of the hit list. So Shane just got a hit with OKC. Ben just got a hit with Memphis. That was the John Morant. Lamello, Reddish, Atlanta, Hachimura. Donchich, so I was just so excited about all these great hits here. Jazz with the Donovan Mitchell, the Carmelo for Denver, Kobe, Lakers. And the first hit out of the gate was Michael Bridges for the Suns. All right, so let's flip back to this list right here. Let's gather all these names. So there's 20 names there. There's some new dice showing up right now. There it is. My Jedi powers weren't working there for a second. Let's clear out the blank lines here. All right, so let's roll it and randomize that. Six and a three, nine times. So once again, top 10 hit lists after nine. Get some packs. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and ninth and final time. Top 10 after nine, Nick, Daniel, Brian, Sean, Nick, Kym, Anthony, Kym, Brian, Frank, and Eric. Congrats to you. The 10 of you are gonna be getting a pack each. A 2020, 2021 prison basketball solo pack. Ship to you sealed. About a $40 value, that's pretty solid. You can rip it if you want to. You can sell it if you want to. It's yours. You can gift it if you want. It's a nice little gift. Gift it if you want to. I'm Joe for Jaspy's casewrakes.com. Thanks for getting into the action. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.


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earthquakes. They are one of the dangerous events in the environment. See whenever we see earthquakes in the news, what do we see? We see an entire building collapse to the ground, people roaming in the streets in panic, people losing their lives or people hiding under the table, right? But have you ever wondered what causes this massive event or where it gains the strength to collapse an entire building? All the answers to your questions lies in this video. Watch it fully. See in simple words an earthquake is the shaking of the earth. See it is a natural event and caused due to the release of energy which generates waves that travel in all directions. Now you may have a doubt. From where this energy is released and why does the earth shake? See the release of energy occurs along a fault. Here a fault is a sharp break in the crustal rocks. Know that the rocks along the fault tend to move in the opposite directions. But however their tendency to move apart at some point of time overcomes the friction. And as a result of friction these blocks get deformed and eventually they slide past one another abruptly. That is quickly. And this causes a release of energy and the energy waves travel in all directions. See this abrupt or quick slide past event causes the shaking of the earth. Know that the point where the energy is released is called the focus of an earthquake. And it is also called the hypo center. See the energy waves traveling in different directions reach the surface. The point on the surface that is nearest to the focus is called the epicenter. See the epicenter is the first one to experience the energy waves and it is a point directly above the focus. Now talking about the types. See earthquake waves are basically two types. They are body waves and surface waves. Firstly let's see about body waves. See body waves are generated due to the release of energy at the focus and they tend to move in all directions. Know that body waves travel throughout the body of the earth. And then the body waves interact with the surface rocks and they generate new set of waves called the surface waves. Now let's see about the surface waves. See surface waves move along the surface of the earth. Here the velocity of the waves changes as they travel through materials with different densities. So denser the material the higher is the velocity. And also note that the surface waves are the one that are most destructive. They cause displacement of rocks and collapse of structures like buildings houses etc. So this is about the surface waves. See as for us the types of earthquake waves we saw two types. One is body waves and the other one is surface waves. And the body waves it is further classified into two types. One is P waves that is the primary waves and the other one is S waves that is the secondary waves. Firstly let's see about the P waves. See they move faster and they are the first to arrive at the surface and that is exactly why they are called as primary waves. See these P waves they are similar to sound waves. So they travel through gaseous, liquid and solid materials. Now the second type is S waves. See they arrive at the surface with some time lag and these are called as secondary waves. An important fact about S waves is that they can travel only through the solid materials. And this only helped the scientists to understand the structure of interior of the earth. So this is all about the basics of earthquakes and the types of waves. Now finally let's see how earthquakes are measured. See earthquake events are measured using two scales. They are magnitude scale and intensity scale. See the magnitude scale is known as the Richter scale. Here the magnitude relates to the energy released during the earthquake. In Richter scale the magnitude is expressed in absolute numbers that is from 0 to 10 and this is about the magnitude scale. The second one is intensity scale and it is also known as Merkali scale. Here the intensity scale takes into account the visible damage caused by the earthquake event and the range of the intensity scale is from 1 to 12. I hope you all got an idea about what is earthquake, how it is happening, why it is damaging the infrastructure on the surface and how it is measured. So if you want to know more geographic events like this subscribe to Shankar Iyer's Academy's YouTube channel. And if you are an UPSC aspirant and if you want to know more about geography related topics watch daily Hindu news analysis of Shankar Iyer's Academy.


Again, real is a relative term, but I'm talking a real day in, day out relationship. Are you a woman who wants a day in, day out relationship? If you truly want a day in, what is day in, day out? It's seeing each other a cup, two, three, or four times a week. It's shared activities, it's hobbies, it's mutual interest, it's spending time with family and friends. It's traveling together, it's teamwork building schools both in your personal and your professional life. It's intimacy, both physical and emotional intimacy, and leading to either moving in together or getting married. Folks, is this what you really want?