My name is Chelsea Knudsen. I am a certified holistic health coach and I coach women on how to heal naturally from female related issues. Also I have missed you all tremendously. I guess I didn't realize it really but I've had some sound issues and I didn't even know I had sound issues because on every other platform that I use when I do videos people seem to be able to hear me but for some reason you all weren't able to hear me and I hope that you can hear me now. If you can hear me please just say I can hear you. I am using a microphone this time so hopefully you can hear me. Please let me know. But today I want to talk to you briefly about what is PMDD. It stands for premenstrual dysphoric disorder. Thank you Jasmine. Okay I'm glad to hear that. All right so um but before before I get started I want to remind you if you haven't already thank you. Thank you Gaila. All right um if you haven't already signed up for your free coaching session please do. There's a link in the description box. Sign up for that. It's 30 minutes long. I think that the people that have been able to coach with me have gotten something out of it. I know there's only so much we could talk about in 30 minutes but it's something. Also if you haven't joined the foods to avoid uh Facebook group join it because I'm talking all about the foods to avoid and teaching you how to recognize those foods because it's pretty sneaky the things that they put in foods these days. Um so but that's all the um thank you Maria. So that's all that I want to talk to you about as far as updates.  So I have a juice recipe book that is going to be coming out I think it's February 1st that is going to be dedicated to female health issues. So look out for that coming up if you haven't already gotten on my um email list get on my email list and you'll be able to have access to that. But I want to talk to you about PMDD and I have a friend that suffered greatly with PMDD. I mean it it literally ruined relationships um she was miserable um it affected her in raising her child it destroyed it helped destroy her marriage I mean it was terrible but PMDD is a severe form of PMS and it includes physical and behavior symptoms that usually resolve resolve once your period actually comes on and starts like once you start bleeding all the symptoms kind of go away. But some of the symptoms of PMDD are extreme sadness hopelessness irritability anger plus all of the other common PMS symptoms that people get such as like breast tenderness and and bloating and cramps and all kinds of things which I in fact I don't think any of that is normal. So you know I told you about my friend and really what PMDD in my opinion is is a hormonal imbalance and it usually hormonal imbalances come from the things we think the things we eat and drink the lifestyle we live the things we put on our bodies the um activities that we participate it all affects our bodies. So we have to learn how to get ourselves in balance learn how to eat well learn how to live well learn how to detoxify our bodies so that we don't have excess estrogen swimming around in our bodies causing our hormones to be all out of whack. So PMDD can be cured the the medical establishment I believe there are medications that they do give my friend said that she was on like 30 different prescriptions and nothing helped her and she went to you know doctors and you know all kinds of things and the only way she got well you want to hear it is by eating a whole foods plant-based diet um eating primarily raw and detoxing her body that's how she got well and this is exactly what I teach people to do every day to shrink fibroids to uh get rid of those heavy menstrual cycles to clear out those block tubes to heal up that endometriosis and all the myriad of diseases that come from hormonal imbalance this is what I teach people to do. So if you have questions you can start asking me I'm more than happy to answer your questions today but I'm actually I'm so happy to be here and you actually be able to hear me that I don't know what to do with myself but um so if you have questions go ahead and ask but that's really all I was going to say about the PMDD it's very simple it's kind of like you change your lifestyle you will get the healing that you're looking for the problem is with changing your lifestyle it's not always easy to change your lifestyle it's hard to walk through the journey because we are so used to eating the traditional standard American diet and it's not easy to make those changes it's just not so do you have questions that you want to ask me today also if we are on here I mean if you watch this video later and you have questions please put the questions down in the comment section I will answer every question that I see within like at least a week of you posting the question I try to go in at least once or twice a week and answer questions when I have time but also if there are video topics that you want to know about please feel free to let me know of that um yes oh and I'm having a um wide deep talks webinar soon the link is not in the video now at the time of recording this live video but I will put it in later today so if you're watching this video later and you want to go and be a part of that webinar all you have to do is go in the description box below and sign up and you can be a part of the webinar so if you have questions go ahead and ask me if you don't have questions I'll go ahead and leave it until later and um ask questions below later and we'll talk again soon I'll be back on next week at noon eastern standard time I'm talking about another subject that is um female health related I pray that all of you are healed okay I got a question I am vegan from time to time and enjoy king while usually by the organic in in the freezer section oh great what kind of issues do you struggle with that you're trying to heal from I noticed you said you were vegan from time to time but I heard the microwave is bad for you you know the microwave you know I think that's the least of our worries I think the thing that's worse is the hormonal food um but yeah if you can get away from the microwave it'd be great but like I don't think that's what causes female issues I really yeah I don't I don't think it's that big a deal I mean that's just my personal opinion you might talk to the person down the street and they're like throw the microwave in the trash but for the types of foods that I eat um I'll answer that question about I IBS and in a second that the foods that I eat they rarely go in the microwave anyway so if I put something in the microwave I don't think it's going to be that big a deal okay you had a question about IBS you know I realized that the doctors say that you shouldn't eat raw vegetables on when you have IBS and I understand where they're coming from so I do have recommendations for those types of people for people so struggling with that thing so that they can get their digestive tract in order um but if I were you if you want some more specific information about that sign up for a free coaching session so I can get a little bit more information from you because um everybody's not created equal but the key is is if you have IBS you've got malabsorption issues and you need some nutrients so we have to make sure that you get your nutrients in your body and normally that happens through raw foods or foods that are minimally cooked um try drinking juices like fresh pressed vegetable juices and drinking smoothies but it really depends on what's going on in your body so sign up for a free coaching session and we can talk um more about that anybody else have any questions


It was surreal. Just watching the last two days and seeing people's names get called. It's a little different. Like you watched the draft like growing up and you just like, you're just watching it to see like where players are going but being in the draft and just watching us like. I have a real calm feeling about myself but it was just starting to get a little anxious and making up early this morning and getting that phone call was crazy like. I'm just blessed really I'm just blessed. I don't like the feeling got perhaps like unexplainable. I can't even put it into words like. I'm on sitting there watching it's like the second pick goes third pick is this as a pick is then I get the phone call. And I'm like. I answer it. I answer it and it's like, hey, how you doing? I'm like, hey, I'm trying to like keep myself calm or just keep the emotions down really and. I knew it was going to happen like always knew that this time is going to come as there's going to come but having it come in. Actually hearing those words is crazy. Um, just never never given nothing never nothing was given to me. I had to work hard for everything that I obtained and playing football and my whole career. So just knowing that I have that chip on my shoulder and the adversity I've gone through. It's just going to lead me and help me go help me when I'm out there on the balcony. So I'm just excited to get to work. I can't I can't even tell you how I feel.  It's like a mixed emotions of everything it just doesn't make sense.


Hi and welcome to the session I am Deepika here. Let's discuss the question differentiate the following with respect to x cos x upon log x where x is greater than 0. So let's start the solution. Let y is equal to cos x upon log x where x is greater than 0 therefore dy by dx is equal to we will apply the quotient rule here log x into derivative of cos x that is minus sin x minus cos x into derivative of log x that is 1 over x upon log x whole square. Therefore dy by dx is again equal to minus sin x log x minus cos x upon x upon log x whole square and this is again equal to minus x sin x log x minus cos x upon x log x whole square and this is equal to minus x sin x log x plus cos x upon x log x whole square. Hence the answer for the above question is that the derivative of cos x upon log x is minus x sin x log x plus cos x upon x log x whole square where x is greater than 0. And this is the answer for the above question. I hope the question is clear to you. Bye and take care.


So the word of the day, you can see on the screen, my screen is already shared at the Xebo. Please note down in market attendance. Thank you.


Hi and welcome to the session. I'm Shashi. I'm going to help you to solve the following question. Question is check whether the first polynomial is a factor of second polynomial by dividing the second polynomial by the first polynomial. First polynomial is t square minus 3 and the second polynomial is 2t raised to the power 4 plus 3t cube minus 2t square minus 90 minus 12. First of all we should understand that the first polynomial is a factor of second polynomial if on dividing the second polynomial by the first polynomial the remainder is 0. This is the key idea to solve this question. Let us now start with the solution. We know dividend given to us in the question is 2t raised to the power 4 plus 3t cube minus 2t square minus 90 minus 12 and the divisor given in the question is equal to t square minus 3. Let us start the division now. We see that the first term of the dividend is 2t raised to the power 4 so we will multiply the divisor with 2t square to get the desired term. Multiplying the divisor with 2t square we get 2t raised to the power 4 minus 60 square. Now subtracting the right terms and rewriting the rest of the terms of the dividend we get 3t cube plus 4t square minus 90 minus 12. Now our first term is 3t cube so we will multiply the divisor with 3t. Multiplying 3t with the divisor we get 3t cube minus 90. Now subtracting the right terms and rewriting the rest of the terms of the dividend we get 4t square minus 2 means 4t square. So we will multiply t square with 4 to get the desired term so multiplying the complete divisor with 4 we get 4t square minus now subtracting the right terms we get remainder equal to 0. Our remainder is equal to 0 this implies t square 2t raised to the power 4 plus 3t cube minus 2t square minus 90 minus 12. Therefore quotient is equal to 2t square plus 3t plus 4 and remainder is equal to 0 plus 3t cube minus 2t square minus 90 minus 12 is the required answer. This completes the session. Hope you like the session. Take care and goodbye.


Hello, I am sitting here in the studio in the World Transformed with the excellent David Graber, who has just, I believe, been on a whirlwind tour of Europe, spreading the word of bullshit jobs. And I just want to start with that, really, just to say, because this started as an essay, right? And it's an idea that seems to have really struck a nerve. Yeah, I had no idea when I wrote it. I mean, I kept meeting people when I came here. I guess the way to understand how I wrote this is I don't really come from a professional background myself. I come from a working-class background. So I've always been trying to figure out what do people actually do in offices all day? What does professional life actually consist of? And I kept winding myself in situations here in the U.K. where I would meet people and I'd say, what do you do?  You know, they thought they were being modest. Sometimes they actually admit, no, they meant it literally. They're literally doing nothing all day. So I thought, how common is this? And a friend of mine was starting a new radical magazine, Strike, and he said, you got anything really provocative, you know, something nobody else would print, potentially controversial? I thought, yeah, I could do that. So I wrote this piece saying, maybe that's the reason why we're not all working a 15-hour day like we're supposed to by now. You know, we've created all this technology, like most of the jobs that eliminated and say the 1930s have been eliminated, yet we seem to be working, if anything, harder rather than last. You know, maybe they're just making up dummy jobs to keep us busy. It was basically a joke, right? But it just went crazy. I mean, like within two weeks it had been translated into something like 13 different languages. It's up to 28 now. Excellent. It's just come out in Persian.  Wow. I'm sorry, because it does seem to me that it picks up that category of kind of left-wing theory, Marxist theory in particular, that category of alienation, which is obviously kind of important in Marx, and then picked up throughout the 20th century philosophically as well, developed, and then kind of sort of seemed to disappear as an analytical framework for a while. Do you see them as resonant? I guess the last gasp of real proper alienation theory was the situation. But they're already overlapping alienation just misery. Yeah. And this is kind of more on the misery side, because alienation is you're separated from the product of your work. Here there is no product of your work. So I mean, I talk about the trauma of failed influence psychologically. It's the inverse side of the pleasure it being caused. At least an alienated worker has the knowledge that they did do something, even though they're incredibly frustrated, because their actions don't belong to themselves. But here their actions not only belong to someone else, but they don't even actually do anything. One of the interesting questions I think this brings up is that, like a standard strategic way of thinking on the left is to say, okay, well a worker can take a special kind of political action because they can gum up the machine of capital. When workers are organized together and strike, there's a real material tangible impact. In a world that's characterized by bullshit jobs and by these kind of extremely immaterial jobs, does it mean that we have to do a kind of rethinking of that sort of strategy? Well there are workers of very, very strategic roles, but a lot of them know. I mean, one example that people trundle out a lot is the banking strike in Ireland in the 70s.  But then there's a question of whether the entire banking industry is useful. Because, as I think Rutger Bram pointed out, there was one point where they had a strike, I think it was in the same year, a garbage strike in New York and a banker strike in Ireland. In the case of the garbage collectors, within 11 days they'd brought the city to its knees. They basically had to give in to almost all their demands. In the case of the Irish strike, after six months they gave up because nobody cares. Turns out you don't really need banks at all. You can just write checks to each other and the checks will circulate and you just created money. So this question, because obviously I'm always thinking about politics and political strategy, and this question leads me to this kind of wider sense because we're here at the World Transformed, the big kind of festival really bringing together the different sides of a kind of left politics that don't always meet. I just want to think a bit about that with you. Strategically. Yeah. I think there's a very strategic message that comes from this. I think that what we need to look at is not the people who are trapped in already completely bullshit jobs, but the bullshitization of real work as a political issue. And this is coming up because, increasingly, one of the interesting things that people don't talk about in automation is that it makes manufacturing much more productive. It has the opposite effect on anything that even vaguely resembles care work. Anything like education, health, providing social services. Of course, as automation proceeds, more and more jobs are going to be doing that simply because you don't want robots doing that. There's a wonderful example I found from the tube strike a few years ago when a lot of Marxists even were saying, well, who needs ticket booths anyway, you know, if the capitalists don't need them to hell with them, you know. And they pointed out that, all right, fine, you know, let's go to a tube station with nobody working there. Let's just hope your child doesn't get lost. Let's just hope no drunk guy starts following you around.  So even a lot of working class work already is care work, a lot more than we were willing to acknowledge. And so as that becomes more important, we need to deal with the fact that, you know, automating that stuff is just an excuse to bolsterize it. And that happens because they're constantly adding more and more layers of parasitical administrators on top. I mean, nurses, like right now in New Zealand, apparently, nurses are on strike, and partly because they haven't got a raise in 10 years, but that's largely because all the money goes to the administrators and they keep hiring more and giving them raises. But it's also because those guys aren't really necessary. So to make some excuse for their existence, they constantly have to make up more and more paperwork. So like a lot of nurses, 50 to 80 percent of their time is filling out forums. They don't have time to take care of their patients. So they're actually... Yeah. It's interesting, though. I mean, the question of bureaucracy is always an interesting one and, like, particularly its history, right, because it kind of comes out in the French, like after the French Revolution when they're trying to say, okay, what we need is a state that's kind of transparent rather than based on, like, personal favor and this kind of, like, continually paranoiac, you know, courting influence. Was that promise ever fulfilled? I mean, there's a certain degree, I imagine, where, I mean, obviously, in personal structures, there are some areas where you definitely want to have in personal structures of some kind. And I don't imagine we'd ever completely get rid of that even in a sort of libertarian socialist society. But what we have seen is that, you know, this weird dynamic for the last, at least the last century, whereby every time there's a liberal reform meant to unleash the market and get rid of paperwork, it actually creates more paperwork and more bureaucrats that existed before. My favorite statistic about this is between, I think, with 1992 and 2001, the total number of bureaucrats, civil servants in Russia, increased by 25%. That was a during shock therapy. The economy shrank by something like that. They ended up with more civil servants that they had under the Soviets. Just mentioning libertarian socialism there, I guess one of the things to talk about here at the festival is that, you know, we have here, you know, a really strange change in the British left. People like you have moved from background in movements that have been kind of historically skeptical about institutional politics, about the politics of parties generally. I guess kind of, you know, owning up to the fact that maybe we were a little too broad or categorical about that denial. What do you make of that? Particularly here at the World Transform, you have the social movements butting up against the party form and thinking about what it means to work in that sense. As someone who has spent a long time in the social movement, what do you make of that, this kind of direction? Well, I think there's a lot of things to be very, very careful about. I mean, I think if we're going to win, and I'm speaking as an anarchist, yes, I want to win. I don't think a lot of people do want to win. I've come to the conclusion at a certain point that a lot of people, purity is more important than winning. But at the same time, I do want to need, I do feel we need to acknowledge that there's real pitfalls, that preserving a space, the prefigurative space where you're not in any way dependent on funding or political power is absolutely essential to what we're doing. On the other hand, if we do not form any alliances with the parliamentary left, then we're screwed too. I mean, one thing I find so inspiring about the UK is that the mainstream left, well, not the mainstream left. Well, yeah, I mean, the Blairites aren't left at all. So, yeah. In a way, Corbyn has become the mainstream left. The institutional left here actually understands that you don't want to co-opt, you don't want to simply absorb the extra-parliamentary left. You need to have people who are completely independent of you, creating those prefigurative spaces, opening up horizons and territories that maybe they can later move into. Also, you know, that just make them seem more moderate in comparison. I mean, the right wing has always understood this. That's why the right is doing so well in America. I used to yell at liberal so much, and it's like, don't you understand? Like, you can't actually screw over your radicals on policy issues if you already screwed them over on existential issues. That's true. Yeah, right. Of course, they're going to screw over their radicals on policy issues, but like they want them to be there. And, you know, if the left in America was as religious about the First Amendment as the right is about the Second Amendment, Occupy would still be there. You know, apologists would look totally different. So, you know, here we have people who understand that, but they don't want to absorb the extra-parliamentary left. And, you know, speaking as someone who is an anarchist and feels that it's absolutely critical that there be an autonomous extra-parliamentary left, that finds some way of complementarily working with people who are working within the system. I find that inspiring and incredibly, incredible relief. However, you know, there is the danger that at one point I actually had someone call me from the Corbin camp and suggest that I write an op-ed opinion piece calling on people to stop waiting on Corbin. That's excellent. Yeah, which is nice that they would do that, but on the other hand, it shows a certain danger that the very fact that you're mobilizing on the structure creates a certain passivity. So we have to figure out how to fight that and how not to co-opt even passively about realizing what you're doing. Organizationally, momentum is very interesting that way. Because when it was first founded, it was meant to sort of, on the one hand, sort of divert resources to and encourage people working outside the system. On the other hand, I'd reform the Labor Party for Move In and you can't use the same structure for both things. As it turns out, they really ended up doing the second thing. But I think that we need to look around the world of people who have successfully integrated those two bottom-up and top-down structures. Where would you look for that? Oddly enough, I think that that's something they've managed to do fairly well in Rojava. I mean, it's kind of surprising to say because it's a kind of unique historical situation. It's a place where you have the same, you have a dual power situation with the same guy set up both the top-down and the bottom-up structures. Basically, they're in a situation where, in order to be taken seriously by the international community, by aid people, by other powers, you have to have something that looks like a government. So they set up something that looks just like a government. It's got a parliament. It's got ministers. It's got all that stuff. You go to the office, you can get forms and they'll stamp documents for you. Internally, they don't do that. When I sort of test case the last time I was there I was like, are they really serious when they say they aren't a state? What do they do about cars? Turns out you don't need a driver's license. They only give you license plates if you're intending to leave the area. And they do have traffic cops, but do you know what they do? They're basically there to pull kids out of cars and say, hey, you're aid. You can't drive. So they have the top down. They have the top down, but they also have the bottom up the Democratic and Federalist stuff, or they have delegates on different levels. And what they insist on is it's not a state because anybody who has a gun is answerable to the bottom up structures and not the top down. So there's no monopoly, of course, of force. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's intriguing. I mean, the question, of course, people say is like, well, who has time to go to all those meetings? Who has time? Is there an answer to that? It isn't just alienation is bad. It makes you think. Well, I mean, I think that in places where there is a long standing tradition of direct democracy, there's two ways of doing that. Either you reduce working hours, I mean, you do have more time and you make it fun and people want to do it. Which is the technique used in traditional societies. They have like fun rhetoric. When I was in Madagascar, I mean, the rhetoric was considered so entertaining and so much fun that people would do little sets in between music, you know, if there's a concert. So like that big kind of sense of a thick social movement movement in sort of areas. Yeah, it was beautiful, it was poetic, it was fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Democratic sublime. You really put that guy down. But it was subtle. Yeah, that kind of effect. Yeah, you can make it fun. Or the other thing you can do is you just like, I mean, this is what happened in a lot of Kabut Sim, I know of. There's like a third of people who are going to be political junkies and they go to all the meetings and everybody else is like, yeah, whatever. But they know perfectly well that if they make a decision that other people don't like, those people are going to start sharing meetings. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's equally oppressive to insist people participate than to deny them, you know. I'd leave it up to people to decide what they want to do. But the knowledge that they could show up at any time is usually enough to make all the difference, you know. Brilliant. The Democratic Sublime. David, thank you very much for joining me. Oh, it's a pleasure. And we will, I hope, have you on for a longer interview on the show. I'd like to talk about the labor implications of bolsterization because I'm thinking about that. I believe there's a revolt of the caring classes happening globally and it faces real pitfalls because the professional managerial classes who are basically like the people doing the bolsterization and the enemies of the care workers are also the guys who dominate the mainstream left political parties. Excellent. Well, that was a preview for a Navarre FM discussion soon.


Let me ask you one thing, is this a result that Diego Simeon wanted, let them just not get a goal and if they get a goal one nail, then at home will go and unleash. Do you think Diego Simeon will win tonight? I'm looking at that game being a game that many will be quick to call and say city will win. Of course we expect the odds being city will win but against English sides since Atletico Madrid lost to Ajax at home in the Champions League in 1996-97 they've never lost to any English side in the Champions League. So on Wednesday, when Wanda Metropolitano, Atletico Madrid, team Diego Simeon, team Kwekabasi will be welcoming them on the city side. They were saying the last time these two met Atletico they sat too deep, too deep and I'll say again they sat too deep for Man City. It took an intervention of Foden to give Kevin De Bruun a sublime pass, very revisionary pass to unbreak the deadlock. Let me ask you one thing, is this a result that Diego Simeon wanted? Let them just not get a goal. If they get a goal one nail, then at home will go and unleash. Do you think Diego Simeon will win tonight? I'm looking at that game being again that many will be quick to call and say city will win. Of course we expect the odds being city will win, but against English sides since Atletico Madrid lost to Ajax at home in the Champions League in 1996-97 they've never lost to any English side in the Champions League at such a stage. So inasmuch as they may try to look at that history coming to play, they will try to look at the performance of the Manchester City. Remember this Manchester City is not just any other team. It's a team that you defend with 5-5-1 like he tried to do. You are not even attacking and still it has never even happened that you don't have a shot on target. And still Manchester City with the type of players they have the kali but the likes of Phil Foden.  But I'm looking at an Atletico side that will try to build on that 1-0 result. They know people expected city to beat them even 3 or 4 goals, but they took a 1-0 loss. So to them it may not be a very big disadvantage and they might want to maybe now go out and maybe try a taxi whether they can get a goal or two because they've seen city play in the Champions League before and if city are not going to ensure they play the way they've been playing and be solid because we saw them against Chelsea last year. Kelvin you have players like Carrasco, how Felix Suarez, you have Griezmann, why defend so deep? Do you think Diego Simeon making this team to be underperforming? Because when we have Koke in the midfield, these are players that they can attack if you need them to be. Do you think the type of play Diego Simeon is using may be backwards for them?  Sterling defends and attacks in equal measures? Even he has cost headers, these are teams that really understand each other very well and if Diego Simeon style of play of trying to be so much defensive really thinking they might maybe get a chance to counter it backfired in the first leg and if they are to use that same tactic to them Manchester City will be even be comfortable if they get a 0-0 draw. Is there a difference between Burnley and A3.3? There is a very big difference but I'm looking at No, in the style of play, in the style of play I think that's how they play Ya, we can say at the moment because even in the past when they were defending at least they could defend and attack because if you have Karaskov very passive you are very promising youngster Suarez a target man Ya you have Griezmann, you have a very big pool of players to pick from and this pool of players is a pool that has talent these are players who want to perform these are players who don't want to sit back and defend ya they know they can compete maybe to be the top goal scorer of the competition and if you are making them to see like they are underperforming then it becomes a task given to them because it gets in their mental, in their mind and it affects them if you are told don't attack just sit and defend it will be a very bad thing but anything tonight Simion will see that he has maybe everything to lose and also everything to go for so he really will want to attack and maybe see whether he can get a result tonight this score of 1-0 to me if you ask me I think it favours Manchester City because it will now need to come from the comfort zone to try and score and we always know that when you try to do that Manchester City will get those chances and will hurt you we saw they did that with PSG in the past if you were Diego Simion right how would you set up your team to play and at least get a point because for them to qualify tonight they need to score more than 2 goals yes I really think Simion should come into this game knowing he should attack you are not going there to sit back already you are losing so you don't want to keep adding muscle to the wound you don't want to keep on losing you don't want to sit back and hold the ball or maybe not even have the ball and let city control the ball have zero shots on target what are you doing what are the strikers for if they cannot even get a shot on target try even get the balls into the box try to disturb Manchester City we've seen them being porous like losing to Palace they are games they've lost so if you are to look at how they played and how the other team like Palace played and then try to see whether you can build something on that and maybe get a result maybe go in front take the first goal if Atletico just scored the first goal I know City now will not even be comfortable because if City understand that Atletico are very defensive and that's how they played in the first leg we are not going to give them the ball we will possess and try to attack when we can and if now Atletico will decide that they want to go all out attack and then leave spaces at the back they will also be punished so today it will be a thing of mental balance the tactics that comes to play who are you picking who are you putting in front and how do you want them to play remember today we don't expect to see Griezmann in the box defending try to have even one man in the opponent's half maybe if you get a chance to counter then you will score look at Karim Benzema the way he plays he is in the opponent's half that's why when many gave the ball away and the defender could not control because of the awareness of the strike and the positioning then you can score but if you are in the opponent's box and the ball is just there then you can't punish such errors you can't punish such errors indeed Manchester City they have the advantage but the good thing is they are playing at home and let me ask you as we finish this thing Atletico Madrid what's the final score Atletico Madrid 1 man City 2 Diego Simena to Toka Inje I'll tell this to Atletico Madrid fans and the pannies out there that watch this football is that if you look at this man City side if you want to beat them look at how Crisopales look at how Liverpool scored 2 goals against them they have the weaknesses but all you have to do is attack man City if you attack man City you will get the chances and if you get the chances I think Atletico Madrid they have the players that can score the goals in Luis Suarez how Felix Maslamar these players can hurt man City but only if Atletico decide to attack but if you defend you are waiting for the corners you are waiting for the dead balls man City are very good at defending such balls my prediction is man City 2 Atletico 1 meaning man City will go through man City will go through


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there's so many things you can do from sports law to entertainment law, to criminal law, to tax law, and to, you know, anything you could imagine there's a legal component to it. So it's one of those fields that's so broad and provides so many opportunities and options no matter what your talents or interests are. So welcome to the podcast, Deborah Whitson. Thank you, Kyla. So great to be here. Yes. So would you share a little bit about your background with the audience? Sure. So I've been a practicing attorney in New York State for almost 29 years now. In addition to that, and prior to that, I had careers in marketing for IBM Corporation. So I did big corporate stuff, run a couple of small businesses over the years in addition to running my law firm. And I also have a virtual online mediation company that provides online mediation for all manner of family and relationship issues. So pre-nuptial agreements, post-nuptial agreements, separations, divorces, etc. So family law mediation. Yeah, for everyone that's listening or watching, I do have every guest complete a pre-recording questionnaire. And Deborah, you mentioned that a close family friend actually was involved in a criminal matter. And that was what prompted you to go to law school. Could you share a little more detail about that? Sure. So when I was 14 years old, one of my brothers had a really good friend. So we were all in the same high school together. I was ninth grade, and my brother and his friend were seniors. And the seniors had just graduated really shockingly and tragically. My brother's friend was murdered that summer. And we were growing up in a sort of a small town, small city, and it felt very safe. And so this was the first time that something like that had really hit close to home for me and my family. So we followed the criminal proceedings very, very closely. I said everybody in our town and in our school, the perpetrator almost got off on a legal technicality. And as a 14 year old, I thought that that was really just shocking, because there was, you know, overwhelming evidence of guilt. But there was some issue in the case that nearly let him walk free. So at that point in time, I thought, well, there's something wrong with the legal system or the criminal justice system. And it's broken. If that could happen. I didn't know at age 14 that that's lots of protections for people in the law. But in my youthful view, the system could have been improved. And so that was my mission. And I went to law school with the idea that I want to be a criminal prosecutor. And indeed, that was what I did for the first 10 years of my legal. You said that the friend of your brothers, when all of that happened, you were 14 years old. What did you actually study when you were in undergrad?  But what was that process like? Yeah, so the beauty of law school, I guess they call it sometimes referred to as, you know, the last great general education, it really teaches you to think critically. So the beauty of that is you can really major in anything as an undergrad and go into law. So since I knew I wanted to go into prosecution, and I had an interest in psychology, there was a psychological defense, a, you know, in that particular criminal case. So I went to Cornell University as an undergrad, and they had a program in the College of Human Ecology called Human Development and Family Studies. So that was my undergraduate major. It was a lot of psychology and sociology. Yeah, I love that. And I can see how that would play into working as a prosecutor and then now working in family law mediation. Yeah. Okay. That was awesome. Very good. So I have so many notes here. I'm going to try to get through most of them. Your prior experiences in sales, would you explain to the audience if there was any tie or relation between sales and then being a lawyer? Yeah, there's a huge tie in my mind. So I was in sales for IBM, and I also was a real estate salesperson. That's how I paid my way through college. So I got my real estate license at 18. And in law, we're storytellers, first of all, I tell my clients that I'm there to tell their story to the court in the most compelling way and persuasive way possible. So we're storytellers and we're persuaders. So sales is spot on applicable to the legal practice, you know, we're selling a position, we're selling our clients' versions to the court. Yeah, definitely. I even think, you know, when you're filling out when you're writing a resume, that's sales. When you're interviewing, that's sales. Yeah, everything is sales. Yeah, it just can get a bad rap, but lawyers can get a bad rap too. But we're all selling all day every day, you know, and how we deal with our co-workers and our romantic partners.  It's a persuasive process for sure some days. Absolutely. I have a two year old and every single day is a negotiation. You can wear the dress, but with just tights. Yes. Absolutely. I find that so fascinating that you were a criminal prosecutor for so long, and then you switched to family law and mediation. What happened that made you decide to do something else or were you just like, let me just test myself and challenge myself with a different field? Well, you know, prosecution was a really, really fulfilling career, but government work has its advantages and disadvantages. And so it becomes a time that I think many of us had a place in our lives and our professional careers that we want to do something new and different and branch out into something. And so in the course of being a criminal prosecutor, I specialized in special victims prosecution cases.  I developed an expertise in working with victims of sexual and domestic violence. I thought it would be logical to put that knowledge and that experience to work in the family court setting or family law setting. And so that's, you know, what sort of led to that transition from government work to private practice and they sliding myself into family law just seemed natural based on my career focus during the years I was a prosecutor. Yeah, especially because you were in that SvU type area with special victims. So Deborah, let's take a couple minutes and discuss your book, which is divorce like a pro. Excellent, excellent read. You did send me a copy of it. Thank you for that. And so what made you decide to write a book, right? You have all this knowledge you're working with people on mediation. But why did you decide to put it down on paper? Well, I put it down on paper because I find myself saying it over and over every day as I'm talking to existing clients or potential new clients.  We have laws for keeping society safe and orderly. And when people break those laws, there are consequences. Having made the transition to a family law, I've been doing that family law pretty much exclusively now for 15 years or so. I came quickly to realize that courts are really not as well equipped to deal with the nuances of family dynamics, especially in families where there's children. So in custody, just divorces for children is the court, the judge, you know, no matter how caring and knowledgeable and concerned he or she may be, they're never going to know the parents' skills and aptitudes and deficits as parents, they're never going to know the aptitudes and challenges and talents of the children involved in the family. The way that we would want them to know if they were making a decision about our own children, you know. And the fact that the court system is a plaintive versus a defendant, right? Every case has a caption about somebody versus somebody else. And that's true in family law too. So it's an adversarial system by its institutional design. And I think that's just terrible for families. You know, seeing what warring parents do to their children and the lasting effects it has on their relationship as parents and their ability or lack of ability that are effectively co-parent, moving forward and emotionally on the children. It's really heartbreaking. I'm a mom too. And I'm very blessed to have had an intact family. My husband and I remain married for 32 years and going very strong. And our kids are now young adults. So blessed that I didn't have to introduce my own family into that system, but I wouldn't want to. So I find myself every day explaining to my clients that there are better ways. There are other options, you know, running to the courthouse and filing, you know, a mud slinging affidavit against the other party. Isn't necessarily the right way to do this. And it's mostly it's typically much more harmful, stressful and expensive and lengthy to proceed in that fashion. So I try to be a problem solver. I try to help my clients reach their goals creatively with the least amount of negative ramifications. So this book is all about that. It's about that the courthouse door and the courthouse steps should be your last resort and that there are other paths, including, you know, for some people that could be just sitting down and and talking through and negotiating on their own the things that they need to address when they're separating or divorcing. Now, I realize that that's maybe for a relatively small percentage of the population because, frankly, if their relationship is broken, probably it's because communication isn't very effective. So negotiating on their own may not be right for everybody or possible for everybody, but there's mediation and collaborative divorce as options before you get to the court option. And then even if you're in the courthouse situation, because in my state of New York, we don't have mandatory referrals to mediation or alternative dispute resolution for divorce in our state. Many states do have that and I think that's a wonderful thing. But in New York, you have to be into voluntarily willing participants in the alternative dispute resolution methods. So if you don't have that, the other person is just entrenched and they see court as the only option. Then if you're in the court situation, you can be practical and pragmatic and a problem solver in that forum. Because in the end, I don't know exactly the statistics currently, probably the pandemic has skewed some things, but 98% of all cases, no matter what type of case it is, end up settling. The question is, does it settle early on before you've spent a lot of money and done a lot of emotional damage to yourself and the other party? Or does it settle way on the line after the lawyers have made a lot of money and you're now broke and you're settling because you're out of money to litigate anymore? So hiring a problem solver attorney, even if you have to go to court, is preferable. So that's what the book is about. It's just explaining to people that they have other options and there are better ways. I lay out the pros and cons of all the options and the relative cost and speed of those options, etc. Yeah, there's a chapter of the book called divorce shouldn't be ugly. And I was like, man, right? Even if you picked it up and you're like, is this important to me? And you're like, well, of course, it's ugly. So the fact that you're just saying, no, it should not be ugly, right? You're the expert. You've seen this tons and tons of times. And I love that because divorce is always shown as being really adversarial, really nasty. And it doesn't have to be, right? So I like that you're presenting an alternative to what people are used to. You know, divorce is always painful. It's second in the sense of loss and grief to losing a loved one by death. So but the thing with death is that that's a process. You go through the grieving process and the loss has an end, right? So the other person has died and then you have the healing process. But with the divorce, if it gets drawn out for a long time, you're just really exacerbating and prolonging that grieving and loss process.  And it just makes the whole thing much more painful.  There's a real, a real loss and sadness about that. And that's natural, but the process shouldn't make it worse. Right. Yeah, I love that part. And then there's also a section about how mediation can assist in divorce. And I think, especially with what you just explained about how New York state doesn't have a mandate that you have to go through mediation. You know, a lot of times people may not even know that that's an option. Or even to your point, a lot of times if divorce is being discussed, it's because there is no communication. So you might need that third party in there. Yeah, I think that it's interesting that as I'm mediating with couples and putting into place some ground rules and some guardrails of the process is productive and respectful and civil and safe. And suggesting how people can present their proposals and positions in that forum. People learn a lot about more effective ways to communicate. And I have many couples who go through the mediation process. They reach a full separation and settlement agreement. And then they say, you know what, we don't want to go the next step to get the settlement turned into a divorce because we want to now reevaluate whether that's the route we want to go. Because now they're seeing with a little bit of help and training, they can communicate more effectively. And then they start to think, well, maybe we're giving up on this too soon. Let's give it a try. So I have a lot of couples who reconcile actually after going through the mediation process. And that's not the case for everybody. You know, that heals all relationships. But it is an interesting phenomenon that I've observed. As I've gotten more and more people doing mediation, the pandemic really directed a lot more people into mediation because the courts were limited access and they were slow and they're backlogged and it was cumbersome to do virtual proceedings, et cetera. I'm seeing more people realize that if they just had some training and guidance on how to communicate more effectively, that maybe their relationship is salvageable. Yeah, I love that. I can imagine also during the pandemic that people are like, I just need help now, whatever mediation is sure. And then they get there and it ends up being beneficial. Yeah, definitely. Did a lot of emergency mediation when people were trying to figure out what do we do about our parenting schedule and exchanges when, you know, we were on, you know, more restrictive lockdown type rules. So a lot of people were really confused about what are their rights and their obligations and what made most sense. And so there was a lot of mediation in those early days with people trying to navigate through how we live our lives when we are more restrictive. Yeah, absolutely. So Debra, I have to say, I'm just going to take a minute to say if you are watching the podcast on YouTube, thank you so much for watching. Debra has this gorgeous backdrop. I'm like, I need some pictures in my room. Your office looks wonderful. And if you're not watching, please take a moment when you get done listening to the podcast, go over to YouTube, search Kyla Denigno and take a look, right? This podcast episode is there. You hear I've lost my voice. I'll talk about that in a minute. And but yeah, see what we're doing. Talk to us, share the episodes with other people. Okay. So Debra, I would like to talk about Zonta International. Did I pronounce that correctly? Yes. So I went to Paris in December. I went for a week. Yay. And I loved it. It was my first time using my passport in five years. And for one, I had a toddler through there. I got married. There was a pandemic, but five years. And so Europe was the best place to go. But why are you involved in Zonta International? Well, so you've already heard if you've been listening to the podcast that I have an affinity for working with women and girls and children. I mean, when we talk about sexual violence and child abuse, it's not limited to female victims, but it's overwhelmingly female victims. And so Zonta International is the oldest service organization that is focused on improving the lives of women and girls around the globe. Their basic tenant is that women's rights are human rights. And until women have equal rights to all other beings on the planet, all other humans on the planet, Zonta's got work left to do. So they're an amazing organization. They do incredible things around the globe. And Zonta International is a standing member of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. So it gives us additional clout and ability to deliver services around the globe because we're partnered with the UN. Yeah. So along with advocating for women and girls, and why do you think that traveling is such an important aspect of their lives? So I'm an avid traveler, foodie, so I travel to experience new cultures, but I also see good food around the globe. But I think gaining a first-hand sense of what are the conditions, what are the human conditions of others around the globe? And we get a greater understanding the more you're exposed to different cultures, different races, different ethnic traditions and things like that. That's what unites us because really prejudices are grounded in fear and lack of knowledge. And so for me, experiencing that has been really key, just on a personal note, where I live and where my office is located is in the northeast corner of New York State, just below the border of Quebec, Canada. But we are not a very heterogeneous population in terms of race or ethnicity. I was concerned about that. I was concerned about raising children where they would think the world is entirely white. So we have made it a point to make sure from the time the children were born to make sure that they heard other languages, that they were supposed to other cultures and other people with other skinned colors and etc. So we've made frequent trips to Montreal, Canada, which is a short drive away and it's a much more international city. And we've hosted international exchange students, five of them over the years so that our children would have brothers. I have boys. So they have brothers from all over the globe, which has been very, very impactful for our family. And so, yeah, I have sons everywhere now. Oh, that's awesome. Okay. So Debra, is there anything else that you would like to share with the audience about the importance of the different types of law that you practice?  Well, I would really love it if people would grab the book or recommend the book to anybody going through a separation or divorce. I think the more people that I can deliver that message to about stop, think and plan about how you want to approach that process so that you can save yourself and your family a lot of stress and money. So that's something I want to say and I just want to encourage anybody who is considering law. I mean, there's so many things you can do from sports law to entertainment law to criminal law to tax law and to, you know, anything you could imagine, there's a legal component to it. So it's one of those fields that's so broad and provides so many opportunities and options. No matter what your talents or interests are, you can find something to put your legal knowledge and degree to work and doing good work. Yeah. So I'm a big fan of legal education. And if you don't mind me piggybacking off what you said, if for any reason you're practicing law and you're like, okay, this is fun, but you can always switch fields, right? Deborah was a criminal prosecutor and she didn't say, I'm absolutely done. I'm burnt out. I'm over it. She did family law mediation, right? So you can, you can change into a different field as well. Yeah, absolutely. There's a lot of flexibility and I still believe it's a noble profession. I know that we get a lot of slack sometimes from media and popular opinion, but you could do a lot of good work with a legal education. Absolutely. Well, thank you so much, Deborah Whitson, for being on the UR Lawyer Podcast. I will link your book, Divorce Like a Pro, in the show notes for the podcast and the YouTube video. So please, everyone, take a look. If you know anyone who's considering divorce, maybe you want to just download it for yourself to have, just in case you need some more information about mediation, the link is there in the show notes, okay? Bye. Bye, Kat.


Alrighty, so we have an interesting video today. I'm finally gonna touch on this whole dive coaster model and Six Flags parks and why I've been talking about it and why it's even been on my mind. So a lot of you know that Six Flags sent out a survey and in the survey, the dive coaster model was listed in it and that's what sparked this whole dive coasters and Six Flags conversation. Anyways, I'm gonna finally touch on it. I'm gonna talk to you guys about what Six Flags parks could be getting this model, what kind of the model or what version of the model I think they could be going after. Will Six Flags go after records? Will they smash Yukon Striker out of this world? Like, and just overall, like what the survey could have meant and how we can use these surveys in the future to kind of get a grasp of what Six Flags is planning. But let's get right into it. So, will Six Flags break records? Well, this is an interesting viewpoint. It's an interesting topic of discussion actually. So they could go down two different routes. If they're going to be building it for bigger parks and I'm gonna get to the two parks that I think are gonna get this model, if they're gonna build it at a bigger park, I really do think they're gonna break records. I think Yukon Strikers quaking in its spot right now, shaking at the idea of Six Flags even planning a dive coaster because if a big park like Great Adventure were to build a dive coaster three to 10 years from now, it's going to break its records. There would be no point for Six Flags to build a dive coaster three to five years from now or three to 10 years from now that wouldn't break records. Now, if we're looking at other parks like La Ronde or Darien Lake, then it very well probably won't break records. I'm actually thinking the D6 model would be the model that Six Flags chooses for the smaller parks if it were to get one. So something like Valkyria might be in mind if Six Flags were planning for the smaller parks or that's not necessarily a bad thing either. Valkyria looks like an amazing coaster and even great competition for something like Yukon Striker despite it being smaller. A lot of people underestimate the power of a small coaster and when you're on those coasters and you're in those Titan versions and those quick maneuvers, you're blown away. So something like the D6 model wouldn't be a bad thing and it could still give a big coaster a run for its money. So it's all on what side of the fence you're on. Will Six Flags invest in the bigger model, the D8, the D10 or will they buy a D6 and it be smaller? So yes, I do think there's a lot of potential for Six Flags to beat Yukon Striker's records in the future. I don't think it's going to be happening in the next one to three years, but three to five or three to 10, I do think Six Flags is going to go after the dive coaster record. And I do think that this survey is hinting at a dive coaster in Six Flags' future, but I'll get to that in just a bit. So which two parks in the Six Flags chain do I think are going to get this? This is going to be different for everyone. So comment down below, I totally understand a lot of you are going to disagree with my two parks that I'm choosing. Comment down below the two parks that you think could be getting the dive coaster model if they were to get a dive coaster. But my two picks are definitely Six Flags Fiesta, Texas and Six Flags Great Adventure. I could even throw in their Six Flags Magic Mountain. That park is being heavily invested in. So one of those two to three parks I definitely could see getting the dive coaster model, maybe all three. We're seeing huge success with dive coasters. I mean, Canada's Wonderland has had its biggest blow-up ever announcing this dive coaster. Some of the videos out there for Yukon Stryker have 18 million views and news outlets are going crazy. We're hearing rumors that Discovery Channel is doing one of its biggest documentaries for a really popular show and series that I can't announce.  They're just really simple coasters to market and the world goes crazy for them. Yeah, they're not that thrilling and they're not amazing and unique compared to, you know, mocks or intimates out there nowadays, but they're still pack an amazing punch and people love them. So why do I think this is gonna happen? Well, the survey is definitely hinting towards dive coasters. I think that again, Six Flags is gonna be looking at the Success Seater Fair and other parks have had with the dive coaster model. And I think Yukon Stryker is going to push a lot of other parks, not just the Six Flags chain to purchase dive coasters again. I think the dive coaster is coming back from the dead and you're gonna see a lot of them. I know a lot of people are groaning. No, I don't wanna see a dive coaster. Well, they're really successful and they're gonna boost your park's attendance which will in turn get you more rides down the road. Anyways, hope you guys really enjoyed this video. Don't forget to give the video a like, subscribe if you haven't and share this video for others to enjoy. Have a good one guys, bye.


Abstract microporous annealed particle scaffolds, maps, are a type of granular material made up of interlinked micro gels. These micro gels can be designed with various mechanical or bioactive properties to facilitate cell infiltration and modulate host response. Changing the chirality of the micro gel cross-linking peptide from L to D amino acids has been shown to lead to significant tissue regeneration and functional recovery in D maps, treated cutaneous wounds. In this study, the immunomodulatory effect of D maps in a subcutaneous implantation model was investigated. Macrophages were found to be the key antigen, presenting cells responsible for uptaking and presenting these biomaterials to the adaptive immune system. A robust linker-specific IgG-2B-slash-IgG-1 response to D maps was detected as early as 14 days post-implantation. This indicates a fine balance between pro-regenerative and pro-inflammatory macrophage phenotypes, suggesting that regenerative scaffolds may have potential applications in tissue engineering. This article was authored by Ening Liu, Alejandra Suarez-Arnado, Shematha Shetty, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Having it all comes from Helen Gurley Brown, the editor of Cosmo, who wrote Memoir in the early 80s about having it all, and it was a kind of self-consciously elite, wealthy, you can have it all. You know, if you think about Cosmo, the sort of the perfect woman, I didn't know that. I grew up with the idea that having it all meant you had a career and a family too. That women could have what men had, which was a career and a family too. But I have since been convinced, A, that it has no legitimate feminist pedigree, but more importantly, that it is exclusive in all the ways we've just heard. That the idea of having it all for people who have barely enough to either feed themselves or maintain their families or hold on to their jobs, that frame is exactly counter to the conversation we're trying to have here. The bottom line is it is about really figuring out a way within our society to empower our community so that everyone has a fair shot to be in a position where they can be close to having it all. But what does that mean? So I think in order to understand what that means, I think we have to take a baseline analysis in terms of what really makes a family whole. When we invest in community, when we invest in people, when we work to build power and elevate that power, again, not create it. These are leaders. They're leaders. Women are the backbones of families and communities. These are leaders. But when you provide the tools and resources to do advocacy, to speak out, to raise the issue, to tell their stories, to testify in front of elected officials, that is a place where we will see change. It is critical to engage the community, engage those most impacted to be the voices of change. Even as this kind of have it all and what is work-life balance, like for so many of us, especially those of us that come from low-income backgrounds or are continuing to be in low-income situations, you know, and are passionate about change, it's all the same. It's all the same thing. It's work and life is all together.  And it's like, no, I'm fighting for my people every day and that may or may not be how I'm getting paid. As we consider the limitations and strategies that address making the integration of work and life a reality for Americans, regardless of race or class, let us consider the parallel effort of growing the pie of talent and enabling progression for those who are stuck inside and outside the job market but want to get in on the act. Because until we solve this problem, the balancing act that we speak of will seem like more of a luxury to many than a dilemma. When I first started doing this work with Family Values at Work and the Labor Project more directly five years ago, we had about 700 coalition partners around the country. Now we have more than 2,000 just under the Family Values at Work umbrella and the Labor Project umbrella. And at the same time, we also have a significant number of other organizations that are gravitating their interest to this work to paid leave, paid sick days, scheduling, pregnancy accommodation because they see that we've got to figure out how to address caregiving and working in America. It doesn't have to be either or and it shouldn't just be for people who are middle class or upper middle class and have jobs that are considered essential. It should be for everyone. In order to change the industry such as I'm in, you need to have women at the top of the organization who said we need to do this now. We need to make these changes and I insist upon it. And that woman has to be a woman whose front line, who has revenue impact because that is what it's like being in the NFL. You're going to have to be a player on the field. So you want those women out there as really strong advocates and pushing for it and you're beginning to see pieces of that. If you look at these organizations, they're changing in some ways. In some ways they feel like it's 1962, but in others it is changing the type of flexibility and the questions that you can raise. Half the reason I'm still doing this and I'll be 61 in three weeks is I'm not leaving until we get it the way that it needs to be.


Not sure what to watch this weekend? Use that platform to make change. We begin with the man whose music is as controversial as he is. It would seem that his middle name is Trouble. All Eyes On Me. This biopic of Tupac Shakur is set to cover the untold story of the late rapper, producer, and poet. The making of All Eyes On Me was not without a bit of drama. It seems that telling the real story of Tupac was originally in the hands of his poetic justice director, John Singleton. Thing is, Singleton in the studio couldn't seem to agree on the right way to tell Tupac's tale, and so he bailed on directing the project. And not so quietly. In an Instagram post, Singleton called out the filmmakers involved for not being respectful to Tupac's legacy, stating that they had to go so far so as to sue Tupac's own mom in order to get the rights to tell his story. The movie comes out on June 16th, which would have been the rapper's 46th birthday. Despite the controversies surrounding the film or promises of new perspectives on his life and music, Tupac's story of what it means to be a black man in America, his rise as an artist, and his revolutionary beliefs are as relevant and as compelling now as they were 20 years ago.  For as soon as we hate them, we become just like them. Next on the list, Rough Night, because we've all had them. Although maybe not as rough as these gals. Five best buds reunite at Miami Beach for the bachelorette weekend of a lifetime. But it all goes dark when their hunky stripper for hire gets dead and they have to clean up the mess. On the surface, this film could be summed up as a female version of The Hangover or Very Bad Things, a weekend at Bernie's. The list goes on. But we suspect there'll be more to this comedy than a mere gender flip.  Hi, Alice. Peter!  Not that there's anything wrong with that. Culturally speaking, it's part of a larger conversation around female-driven films. In fact, in 2016, women made up 52% of the US movie-going audience. And last time I checked, that's a majority stake. So it makes sense that studios are responding with more female-friendly fare. They're simply following the dollars. Party starts now! Oh, that was bad. Yeah, we're in an airport. Go, go, get out of here. Jurassic World director Colin Travorro is returning to his indie roots with the book of Henry. And we're pretty excited about this one. Our legacy is in how many commas we haven't made until it's who we're lucky enough to have in our lives and what we can leave them with. Part gritty family saga, part dramatic thriller, part adventure, part coming of age tale, the book of Henry blends a variety of familiar genres to create something that feels fresh and new. What gets us most eager to see this film, though, is Colin Travorro. A man who has been likened to the evil Knievel of film directors by Rodrigo Perez of IndieWire, Travorro is probably best known for making the leap from indie darling to mega blockbuster hero in a single bound. It'll be interesting then to see how his experiences in big budget studio land have impacted the way in which he tells smaller stories like this one. Seasoned author and comic book writer Greg Hurwitz wrote this script and given that it attracted talent like Naomi Watts and Jaden Lieberher, we're guessing the material is pretty top notch. The one thing we do know, we're here now. So I say we do the best we can while we're on the side of the dirt. What's your favorite female-driven comedy of all time? Does showgirls count? Thrust it! Thrust it! Come on! Because if it does, that's totally my pick. Let us know in the comments below for Hit Fix on Uprocks. I'm Mary Jettigan.


A map shows land and water. A map usually has a key. The key uses symbols to show places on the map. This is a map of Washington State. You can see the key on the left. There are cities, highways, mountains, rivers, and an ocean. This part of the key shows the sizes of the population of cities with bigger or smaller letters. This part of the key shows symbols for highways and other forms of transportation. This part of the key shows symbols for streams, rivers, lakes, mountains, and the ocean. This part of the key shows distance in miles. This is a compass rose. It shows the directions north, south, east, and west on the map. Here you can see many cities in Washington State and their sizes. Here you can see the three mountain ranges in Washington State. The Olympic Mountains are by the Pacific Ocean. The Cascades are in the middle. The Wenatchee Mountains are east of the Cascades, under smaller. The Columbia River is a large river between Washington and Oregon. Interstate 5, or I-5, is an important highway in Washington State. Last, the Pacific Ocean is to the west of Washington State. The End


Kia ora and welcome to UWA Weekly. My name's Tim and we're coming to you today from the old government house. Are you keen to give back to your community and get involved? Head over to the Volunteers Expo on the 26th of April at the City Campus or the 27th at the Grafton Campus and visit a range of organisations and opportunities. Are you keen to live in the heart of the city? Applications for semester two are now open at Carlow Park Student Village and Te Tidohanga or Te Swangarua. Visit the University website to apply or find out more. Are you an engaged and culturally aware university student who's highly fluent in English? The English Language Academy are looking for volunteers to run discussions with international students both in campus and online. If you'd like to learn more or to volunteer send them an email. Are you interested in learning more about studying climate action projects in your community? Come along to the Climate Action Conference on the 6th and 7th of May in the O&G Glen Building and hear from speakers such as Sir Ashley Bloomfield and Chloe Svobrik as well as meeting like-minded peers. Do you have what it takes to represent the University at the National Tertiary Valuable Trials? Trial dates have been confirmed and registrations are open. We'll see you there. The launch of the University of Auckland's new Marine Science Research Vessel Te Kai Horpata is being held as a major improvement to our understanding of the marine environment. Read more now at the University of Auckland's website. Are you keen to meet women working in the industry and other like-minded engineering students? Come along and hear from Auckland's women to talk about their experiences working and meet others over a free morning tea. That's it from us this week and we hope you had an enjoyable mid-semester break. If you'd like to contribute or to learn more visit the what's on page on the University website. Arohanui!


I'm Tim Serowicz with the Linux Foundation. In today's video, we're going to talk about Kubernetes news for April 2020. Let's start by looking at some highlights. Kubernetes version 1.18.0, named a bit quirky, which was inspired by the large Adrien Collider, was released on March 24th. You may want to check the overall release notes, as well as any of the sigs that you are keeping track of. Inside of that, you're going to find kubectl-diff command. We can now see the differences between a YAML file, or standard in, and the live configuration. Another change to kubectl is the lack of usage menus being printed out when you make a mistake on the command line. Instead of a page or two of information, now you'll just see the errors printed to the screen. HPA, horizontal pod autoscaler, now has a velocity setting. This feature allows us to modify the velocity of change once the HPA starts to work. So if the alert manager or some outsourced resource causes the HPA to start, you can say, will I do one pod per minute, or as fast as it goes, you are not going to have that a stampede if the demands on your cluster change dramatically. Immutable secrets and config maps. Historically, if you changed a config map or a secret, when any of the pods restarted, they would use the updated secret, meaning that I have an application in production with different configurations. When doing rolling updates or just typical pod determination and replacement, this can cause a lot of headache. Now we can set it and have a much more granular configuration. It becomes immutable until we go out of our way to change it. Pod topology spread setting goes beta. This affects how the scheduler handles out-of-resource issues, for example with critical pods, and how the pods should be distributed across the nodes in the cluster. IPv6 support continues to grow. We have cube proxy IP tables now supports the dual stack, both IPv4 and IPv6. And there's quite a few new Windows features. The run as username allows you to set a UID for that process to run as when integrating back with Linux systems. QBADM now is going into beta on a Windows system, so instead of downloading a series of scripts and causing it to join the cluster, we can use QBADM as we would with other Linux nodes. GMSA support moving towards active directory identities support is being added. Azure disk fixes and write accelerator to make performance even better. Looking forward, pod security policy or PSP, it might be replaced by Open Policy Agent OPA, otherwise known as OPPA. OPPA can be implemented as an admission controller or as a CRD. OPPA allows us to have a central and consistent policy framework for multiple projects, not just Kubernetes, but most of my environment then can have policies set and configured from a single tool. The OPA gatekeeper project for Kubernetes is something to take a look at. There's a proposal that the cube CTL command have a debug sub command. There are three features that are proposed, would be to create an ephemeral container in a running pod to attack debugging tools to a distrelist container image. To restart a pod with a modified pod spec, this would allow us to do in place troubleshooting using different images or permissions or settings. The third option inside of the proposal is to start and attach to a privileged container in the host namespace. You can start troubleshooting and working with some of the namespace issues. Endpoint slices is something else the community is talking about. Currently, with changes like rolling updates and so forth, the endpoints are recomputed, saved to disk, and then referenced continuously. This is not the most efficient way of doing it and can cause a bottleneck. That bottleneck then, especially during things like rolling upgrades when you have lots of pods getting terminated restarted, can cause other secondary issues. We're moving then, or the proposal is to move then, towards a backend discovery API instead of having localized information. Next up, let's talk about some of the deprecations. As with any release, you should go through your YAML files and look for deprecated APIs or other settings. The only thing constant so far in Kubernetes is change. So expect that some of your YAML files may need to be edited. And if you are changing to a new API, be aware that some of the settings are likely to change as well. Deprecated metrics are being pulled out. They were actually renamed back in the 1.14 release. QBDM is dropping Qube DNS support. And the core DNS feature gate is being removed, or DNS being wonderfully stable. All of the generators that we used to use with the Qube CTL Run command have been removed. Now, Qube CTL Run will only create pods. QBDM upgrade node config has been removed in 1.18. And the hard pod affinity symmetric weight setting has been removed from the configuration in favor of the plug-in config. These are some of the features and deprecations going on with the 1.18 release of Kubernetes. Now you might be asking yourself, can I get a discount? Yes, I have a discount for you. Go to training.linuxfoundation.org. Find a class you might be interested in taking, such as the LFS 258, Kubernetes Administration, or LFD 259, Kubernetes for Developer Course. And then use this code to get 10% off. There are some terms and conditions, such as not being able to stack the discount with others and so forth. Thanks for watching.


PDFs are used almost everywhere. PDF documents are vital to business applications and workflow. Many industries and companies are scanning both printed and handwritten materials on daily basis. Though scanned documents can help many businesses transform and improve their performance. But it still has a few setbacks. A scanned document is just a photo or image, so the text or handwriting within that image cannot be edited nor searched, which creates a problem in many situations. Let's consider a scenario. You are reading one ebook which contains a lot of scanned images of text and you want to search some particular word within that text. But you cannot do that because a document that consists of scanned images of text is inherently in accessible as the content of the document is images and not searchable text. Say for example, let's consider this PDF file. In this PDF file, say I want to search this item word and you can easily find that word by typing it over here. So we can easily find this word from this PDF because this PDF contain a normal text. But let me open another PDF. So as I said, this is not a normal text. This is a scan images of text. So let's say I want to find this word. So if I type over here and click over here, then did you see this tool can't be able to find this word because it is not a normal text. So how to make this PDF searchable? This PDF multi tool provides a very smart solution which turn image based PDF into a searchable PDF and you can find your important information in a matter of second. So to use that feature, let me scroll down and here you can see that option. So let me click on this link. When you click on this link, it will open this window where you can see the OCR related options like language of the document or do you want to detect the page rotation or not. So OCR is the optical character recognition where the engine reads image and recognize each characters and output it as a text. Some images can be damaged. For example, some of the images is too noisy or too dark. So if you select this gamma filter checkbox, then it is correcting colors and brightness on the scans and say if you select this median filter checkbox, then it removes the noises and all these options leads to the better and more accurate text recognition from the scan documents. Now the same with remove vertical lines options also. This cleans lines out of the scan and it leads to the better quality of the text extraction. And then there are two buttons. When you click on preview OCR button, then it previews the image with selected filters applied. So you can visually check if this filters improved the scan visibility or not. Rule of the thumb is that if you see that text is more visible and more readable after filters, then this filters will provide a higher accuracy for text extraction. Now when you click on process document button, then it will ask me to save the updated PDF file. So let me click on save button. So here you can see the newly generated PDF file with more visible and more readable text. So now you can search text within this PDF file. Say for example, see, so same way you can also achieve the same thing using offline or on-premises PDF extractor SDK tools. So let's open that. So for this feature, you can find the ready to copy sample code in eight different languages. Let me click on my favorite language. C sharp and let's find the method name. Make searchable. So as you can see in the sample code that first you need to give the reference of byte scout dot PDF extractor DLL. And then you need to create an instance of byte scout text extractor object in which you need to specify your registration key and name. And then you need to specify a sample PDF file as input. And then you need to set up this OCR related options. And then when your application execute this make searchable function, it will generate the output file, which we have already seen earlier. Now PDF extractor SDK can also provide the online web API option. So for that, let us click on web API sample example. And let me drill down this make searchable API. And let us go to the C sharp option. And let me click on this. So here first you need to set the registered API key. And then you need to specify the sample file URL, which you want to make it searchable. And then you need to specify the page number. And if your PDF is password protected, then you need to specify the password over here. And then you need to specify the OCR language. And then you need to specify the destination file name or say output file name. And after specifying all this parameter, once you invoke this API, then it will generate the output in JSON. So let's see this API in action in postman. All right, so here in the postman, I have already set the required input parameter such as this URL, file name, password, and in the headers, you need to set the API key. So now it's time to invoke the URL. So let me click on this send button. So this is the response which we have get after the successful invocation of API. So here the status is 200. Okay. And here is our output file name. And there is no error. So the error status is false. And our new PDF file is generated on this URL. So let me copy this URL. And let us open it. And this is our newly generated PDF file, where I can select this text, and I can copy it or I can easily find it like this. So now we hope you got a better picture on the different options for extracting data from PDF documents and how we can make it searchable using the different different tools provided by by Scout. Now let's move ahead and explore another feature.


All right, so now you've got your sink thing, where does it go? There's three different locations that we've designed it to work. One is on the floor, if you're on a stage and you want it to be down at the bottom of your feet and pointed up at you, put it on the floor and you can face it up at you. If you're working at a table or a desk and you want it to be kind of here, it can easily get put on its side like that so that it's a little more facing your head on. And then our preferred location is right on your mic stand because when you're performing, it's a lot closer to you and you get like a really clear, great sound. You can hear yourself really nicely. So to get on the mic stand, you just slide it through here and then just clip it on and voila, mic stand mounted.


Wrap the decorating tape around the toilet paper roll to really show off the color. I like it. Triangles to make your crown have points. Make sure your parents know you're using scissors. Pretty. I'm punching holes in my crown for my headband. Give the hole punch a good squeeze. Put gems on your toilet paper roll to really make it sparkle. Add some dazzle and some gems. Get up the headband through the holes. Slide your headband onto the crown. Tiny princess crown is ready for the world. I'm going to be a ballerina princess. I'm going to be a su-


Hey guys, welcome back to Tech Talk. My name is Chase and today we're going to be discussing nav lights. So nav lights are something that are very simple, but often times overlooked on the water. So unlike cars that have headlights, boats have nav lights. So they're going to have a green on your starboard and a red on your port. You're also going to have a white all around light in the rear of the boat. This helps for navigation. So similar to channel markers, if you're leaving going offshore, you'll have red on your port side, you'll have green on your starboard. Same on the boat. So when you're riding, if you see someone on the port side, you see their red light at night.  If you look over the port side and you see their green light, you know they're going with you. So it's just something that'll help you at night. Obviously with the boats, they're traveling on water. It's wide open unlike vehicles that are on lanes, so a tight path. This is just something that's going to help you navigate in low light situations. Be sure it is required by law to have them on from sunset to sunrise. So it's also something to note.  So as you can see, the switch is two-way. So we got an off. So we're going to go to nab lights.  Click it one more time. It'll slide over to A for anchor.  And again, that's what you're going to need to have on if you're stationary at night and not moving. Alright guys, thanks for watching that quick video on nab lights. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below. Like and subscribe. And if you have anything that you guys would like to see, please email us at the address listed below. And we'll see you next time.


Hi and welcome to the session. My name is Priyanka and let us discuss the question. It says, evaluate the following. Here the fifth part is, 5 cos square 60 degrees plus 4 sec squared 30 degrees minus tan square 45 degree upon sin square 30 degree plus cos square 30 degree. Now let's proceed with the solution. Let us rewrite. We have 5 cos square 60 degree plus 4 sec squared 30 degrees minus tan square 45 degrees upon sin square 30 degrees plus cos square 30 degrees. Now before proceeding on, we should be well versed with the values of cos 60 degree, secant 30 degree, tan 45 degree, sin 30 degrees and cos 30 degrees. This will be the values from our table 8.1 which we have learnt in our previous questions too. The value of cos 60 degree is 1 by 2. The value of secant 30 degree is 2 by root 3. The value of tan 45 is 1. The value of sin 30 degrees is 1 by 2 and the value of cos 30 degree is root 3 by 2. Now with the help of these 5 values, we will be evaluating the given question. We will substitute all these values above on doing so. Now we have 5 into cos square 60 degree will be half square plus 4 2 by root 3 the whole square minus 1 the whole square upon 1 by 2 the whole square plus root 3 by 2 the whole square. Here we have the value as 5 into 1 by 2 square is 1 by 4. So we have 5 by 4 plus 4 into the square of 2 by root 3 is 4 by 3. So we have 4 multiplied by 4 by 3 gives us 16 by 3 minus the square of 1 is 1 upon square of 1 by 2 is 1 by 4 and the square of root 3 by 2 is 3 by 4. What we need to do next is we just need to simplify it. We have here 12 as our LCM for this we have 15 plus 64 minus 12 and it is getting divided by 4 by 4. Anything divided by 1 is equal to thing itself so it is equal to adding 15 and 64 gives us 79 minus 12 upon 12 which gives us 67 by 12. So the answer to this part is 67 by 12. So hope the process was clear to you and take care of your calculations. Have a nice day.