Hey, fellow buddies. Thanks for watching. All right, if you're new here one thing you're gonna find out about me is I Pretty much sell almost Anything and I like to sell weird stuff things that maybe most people would walk by I do Replacements sometimes like I just sold something and I talked about it in another video It was a remote control and it was missing the battery cover and I'm like I Got this at the bins. I picked it up. I looked at it. I'm like there's no back And I'm like I've sold this before and it sold fast. I bet somebody is looking for this and guess what I Sold it. So you'll have to check out that video for more details This is a bread and butter video. That is where I talk about items that I sold on eBay for $35 or less I'm gonna tell you where I got it what I paid for it and what it sold for What you are gonna see is I pick up a lot of maybe unexpected weird items that you would walk past and I source Cheap so my margins are usually pretty good even if it's not a huge sale I'm still making money and I recommend that everybody has a wide variety of items in their store That's my personal thing. I know a lot of people just sell in certain categories and that's okay, too So let me know down in the comments. What is your business model? What works for you and everybody can check that out and kind of see what everybody else is doing? All right, let's get started with my first bread and butter bolo All right, so the first item I sold is definitely a weird item I picked these up at the Goodwill bins and I had no clue what they were I'm just like these are interesting. They're small cute little toy figures Many of you will not mess with these because they're not gonna bring you huge Profits, but I will tell you I was at the bins I had never seen them before and Sometimes the things that are weird that you've never seen before can go for big money I've seen small figures like this go for 25 to $50 if they are rare and hard to find Unfortunately, these little guys were not rare and hard to find I had just never seen them Yowie world monster it is a booth and crag I used Google Lens to identify that if you don't know what Google Lens is you definitely need to figure it out I have a video type in Bolo buddies Google Lens and I'll show you how to use it It's free you guys every reseller should have this app on their phone So I sold these little guys for $7 and 44 cents plus shipping The next item is this vintage JCPenney pantyhose. I got these at the Goodwill bins They sold for $21 and 70 cents plus shipping Discontinued new old stock pantyhose definitely can be a Bolo. There are many that I have sold in the $50 $60 range A lot of them go for 10 or 15 It really just depends on the brand the size, but definitely look them up if you see them These are micro drifters. What is a micro drifter? Let me show you they have these little balls on the bottom and These were I did take an offer of 35 on these. I got them at a garage sale I can't remember what I paid. I feel like I paid up a little bit for maybe five dollars for all of them I also think I could have held out for a higher price But they had been listed a little while and I had that offer of 35 so I went ahead and took it Snoopy holiday Snoopy by applause This one right here. I got at a garage sale for $1 and you can see he's holding wood stock I sold this for $15 and 50 cents plus shipping The next item I got this out of the Goodwill bins. Can you believe it? It made it in the Goodwill bins It's a glass most items at okay Let's say that again at my Goodwill bins. There is not a lot of glass I was very very surprised to find this in the bin, but I definitely picked it up It's a miniature oil lamp and I ended up taking a best offer of $17 plus shipping so I'm pretty sure I had this on sale. I had it for 40 had it on sale It's not showing you my sale price. It's just showing you I took a best offer So that's kind of a new thing for eBay as well along with this sold banner. So I wish I could see what my Sale price was so you could see What I accepted an offer of off of because it wasn't $40. I accepted offer of 17 It was whatever my sale price was I accepted an offer of 17 if that makes sense The next item is this pep of the pig ferris wheel and Pig I got this at the Goodwill bins. I sold it for $13 plus shipping This is a another thing that came from the Goodwill bins. I just thought it was really cute I figured somebody could put this in their fairy garden and I use that in my title dollhouse fairy garden accessory and it actually It's so fairly quickly not super fast, but it was a good Bolo probably had a dollar or less in it from the Goodwill bins and I sold it for $14 best offer plus shipping see this is what it should look like Um, but it's weird Because I took a best offer on this but this one is not slashed through and it's showing you my Sale price see how they were different. I don't know what's going on Maybe eBay is making some changes Vintage wraparound ostrich feather ring. I got this out of a dibble box from donna telebottolino's youtube channel And it took a long long long time to sell But it finally sold and I sold it for a best offer of $20 plus shipping You can check out donna telebottolino on youtube and she is now on what not as donna tele And she sells to resellers and I have gotten so many amazing dibble boxes from her It's a dibble bit of this and a dibble bit of that and it's a big reseller box And this isn't this was in one of those items Vintage fisher price loving family dollhouse. This has the rotating tv and then it also has the little disc And or the vcr tapes. These are harder to find I actually thought this was going to sell quicker and for more I do feel like the fisher price loving family items are a little bit down right now. They used to sell for more I sold this for $18 and the buyer paid shipping This is a vintage kramer Kramer or crommer. I'm not sure how to say it new york flower reef brooch I actually got this at the goodwill bins couldn't believe it But I found a brooch at the goodwill bins sold it for a best offer of $20 plus shipping The great denim bag kit from 1975 this item was very very long tail It took a long time to sell I got it at the goodwill for $2 And I sold it for a best offer of 20 plus shipping This is a veggie tails noah's arc replacement. This is petunia rhubarb miss noah Big idea from 2011. I do part these out typically I sold this for nine dollars and 75 cents plus shipping and this also came from the goodwill bins This star trap or star wars thing. I am honestly surprised that this sold Because I got it home and I'm kind of like what is this? Is this a mcdonald's toy? But it's not I don't think it's from 1996. It's a magic box cube. Let me show you here It looks like this it's it's weird. It's just a weird little toy So it has darth vader on one side and yoda on the other I don't know I got it at the bin So I had like less than 50 cents in it sold it for seven dollars and 80 cents plus shipping So I was happy that sold as quick as it did Vintage sea world shamu killer whale plush stuffed animal mom and baby I had two of these so I went ahead and put them together Why did I do that? Because there were quite a few listed and I thought having two together like a mom and a baby Would make my listing stand out. I don't think these really go together. I just put them together Got these at an estate sale sold them for $15 and the buyer paid shipping This is a paragon needlecraft tree peace christmas Collection kit and I had this up for auction. It sold the buyer didn't pay. They said they were gonna pay on wednesday They never paid so I relisted it and one of my bolo buddies Uh Oh, she's not a member but somebody I know from like what not and she buys from me on what not and She's a friend of the channel. She reached out to me with an offer of $32 And the buyer paid shipping and that is basket case mama's fab finds you can find her on what not definitely check her out I think that's her ebay store name as well, but it's definitely her what not name So go give her a follow but she wanted to do this She wanted this for personal use and I was definitely happy to sell it to her at that price. So Can't wait to see the finished product. Oh my goodness. She's like when I can find time to do it, right? I mean, that's a big deal right there. That's a big craft. That's gonna take a while Lot of two slide hair pins stick bret accessory brown multicolor. So these are hair accessories And I got these at the goodwill bins sold them for $15 and 50 cents and the buyer paid shipping This little elephant is an enchantimals elephant. I figured that out with google lens Got this at the goodwill bins took a best offer of $8 plus shipping you guys when I tell you google lens is amazing It's going to you take a picture of it.  All right Needles and hoop autumn harvest sampler. I Got this from an estate sale. I have sold four of them. It looks like I have one left Sold this last one for $17 and 36 cents in the buyer paid shipping I do have one current sale going on right now If you don't know how to create a coupon, there's three different types of coupons that I use One that I send out to followers and people who have bought from me in the past One that I give to my viewers Which you will find down in the description of the video And then also one that's available to anybody that comes in and looks at any of my listings And that is buy one get one 25% off with code Bolo coupon at checkout. So if you want to learn how to create a coupon I do have a video on that type in to the youtube search bar Bolo buddies coupon. I walk you through how to send coupons to your followers How to send coupons to past buyers and how to create a coupon like this I think that this really really helps your business and I highly recommend it It's a free tool offered by ebay definitely use it It is a little confusing the first time so I do have that tutorial video for you All right, I'll try to remember to link it down below, but if not just put in Bolo buddies coupon The next item is this little monkey and it is a small plastic figure. We play family zoo Hong Kong I got this in a thrift store mystery box and I sold it for $8 and 68 cents plus shipping This came out of a dibble box. It was a toy box from donatella bottolino and I sold her for $7 best offer And the buyer paid shipping. It's barbie's sister skipper babysitter doll with purple hair This is a tiger tail toys plush big green turtle children soft stuffed animal I got it at the goodwill bins and I sold it for $11 and 16 cents and the buyer paid shipping Martha's stork craft punch retired look all of these up some of them can go for big money This one was a bread and butter sold it for $15 and 50 cents plus shipping This is a 1999 matel barbie wizard of Oz and it had some stains on it It was on one of the barbies. I do believe and I took it off and decided to sell it separately I sold this for $10 and the buyer paid shipping. This came out of the dibble box that I got from donna It was a toy box wasn't really a dibble box It was more of a toy box with a bunch of damaged dolls. Oh my goodness. What a mess. I have a video on it and Noelle farm girl scavenger. Noelle bought that box from me. You guys gotta check out that video I'll try to remember to link it down below But it is hilarious Wait until you see it but wait until you see how much money I have made on this box And noelle bought that for me as a gift and I listed everything to teach you guys that damaged items do sell So check that out Disney applause donnell duck hand puppet got it at a thrift store for a dollar sold it for 650 plus shipping This is disney store inside out sadness blue plush stuffed animal toy Um, I do recommend putting plush and stuffed animal into your title if you have room I paid 50 cents at a garage sale for this took a best offer of 13 plus shipping Fisher price my first doll house crib got this at I don't know probably a garage sale or a thrift store in bulk So probably a quarter or so in it sold it for seven eighty seven dollars and eighty cents plus shipping The next item came out of a collaboration video I did with the rebel reseller. So the rebel reseller and I both bought A plush lot from donna telebot eleno. So she will sell plush to resellers in bulk We paid 50 dollars free shipping and she did a box and I did a box and We asked you guys who had the better box. So you guys can check out those videos. It was a lot of fun Um, I think we both had really great boxes But this is one of the items that was in my box and I sold this line for 19 and 50 cents plus shipping This is a tie. It's from 1996. It's vintage, but it's a 15 inch and I have done pretty well with the tie brand Bigger plush now the little beanie babies. I don't mess with but these bigger ones. I will pick up This one right here the wiggles. Uh, this sword would only play on Try me mode. So it was damaged. So I listed it low and it sold I want to say within 24 hours. Maybe it was 48. It sold so fast Sold it for six dollars and 50 cents plus shipping probably could have gotten a little more But I wasn't sure if they were going to be able to get it working But still a cool fun toy nonetheless got it at the goodwill bends kind of heavy So probably didn't make a whole lot on that one This is a ninja turtle sewer layer replacement ladder I parted out. I have done this twice the Ninja turtle lure. Uh, I'm sorry ninja turtle secret sewer layer I have parted it out two times. You can definitely make a lot of money parting out this set It does take time and there are part numbers on there, which is really really helpful This one item sold for seven dollars plus shipping lol dolls I put these four together and I sold them for a best offer of 10 dollars plus shipping and I got those at the goodwill bends All right, you guys, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for watching Be sure to like comment subscribe and share leave me an emoji down below Let me know which item you didn't know about and as always. Thanks for watching


gentlemen a good day over here thank you you're good to be here thank you were you ready okay prime minister moody uh it's always good to see you i'm looking forward to seeing you in japan uh about the 24th of may and uh i was honored to welcome you to the white house last september to discuss us in the relations uh to meet with our fellow quad leaders and uh i'm pleased to have this opportunity to speak to you today virtually and with your two ministers and your ambassador here in person it's a contemporaneous oh i'm sorry there's two vibrant democracies who one is learning how to make sure i can do this contemporaneously but two vibrant why we have a we take uh the same concerns about the global challenges we face with COVID-19 advancing health security and tracking the climate crisis and we share a strong and growing major defense partnership at the root of our partnership is a deep connection between our people ties a family of friendship and of shared values on that note i want to welcome uh india's humanitarian support for the people of ukraine or suffering a horrific assault including a tragic shelling in a train station last week that killed dozens of innocent children and women and civilians attempting to flee the violence the united states and india are going to continue our close consultation on how to manage the stabilizing effects of this russian war and i'm looking forward to our discussions today mr prime minister our continued consultation and dialogue are key to ensuring the us india relationship continues to grow deeper and stronger delivering our people and our global good good that we all are seeking to manage particularly in your part of the world uh and the floor is yours mr prime minister president biden as our raksha or videsh mantri kus derbaat two plus two format may be linked with the family our e-mail account unki bachit ko disha de ne ke liye mahato poon hai at this virtual mula kaat ka initiative aple liya is ke liye bhi me aapka abhinandan karta haa actuality pichle saal september me jammu washington aya thaar arjis ka apne abhi jikra bhi kyaar arthab apne kaha thaar ki bharat america partnership bahut si bhai shrikh samashyao ke samadhan me yogdan deshakti me aapki baat se poornataya sahimat bishwa ke doh sbse bade aur poorni lok tantra ke roop me hum natural partners aur pichle kush varshom me haa maare samandho me jo pragati hui haa jo naaya momentum bana hai aaj se ek deshakt pehle bhi shahed aisi kalpna karna muskil tha aksalansi aaj ki haa maari baat cheet aise samai par ho rahi hain jab ukrain maa sthiti bahut chintajarag bani hui hain kuch sbta pehle tak bhi sajar se adhik bharti a ukrain me fahse hui hain aur enime se adhikaun yuvaat chhatra the kaaphi mehanat ke baat hum unne bahaa se sakushal nikale me saphal hui hala ki ek chhatra ne apna jeevan khodia is poore ghatnakram ke daoran mehne ukrain aur rus dono ke rashpatiyon se kai baar phone par baatit ki mehne nasirb shanti ki appeal ki balki mehne rashpatiy putin ko ukrain ke rashpatiy ke sath seedi baatit ka sujhao bhi rakha haa maari saunsad bhi saunsad me bhi ukrain ke vise par bahut bichar vistar se charcha hui haal me bucha shahar me nirdosh nagrikon ki hatyaon ki khabar bahut hi chintajanak thi humne iski turant ninda ki aur ek nispaksh jaanj ki maag bhi ki haa hum asha karthe hain ke rus aur ukrain ke bhiich chal dahi baatit se shanti ka maar niklega excellency humne ukrain me civillian janta ki suruksha aur unko maanviya sahayata ki nirbaad apurthi par bhi mahatwa diya hai aur jiska abhi apne praram me jikra bhi kiya humne apni tarab se dvainya wa anne rahat samagri ukrain aur unke padoshi deshon go bhiji hai aur ukrain ki maang par hum sigra hi dvainyaon ka ek aur consignment bej rahe hain excellency apne apne kairakal ke shuru me hi ek bahut mahatupun slogan diya tha democracies can deliver baharat aur amerika ki partnership ki safhalta iss slogan ko sarthak karne ka safse uttam jarya hai iss sal baharat apne iswatantrata ki pacchatar bharj grant maanah rahe hain aur hum apne diplomatic relations ki pacchatar bhi salgira bhi maanah rahe hain mujhe bhi swaas hain ki baharat ki agli 25 saalon ki vikas yatra main amerika ke saath humari mitrata ek abhin ang rahe hain ek bahar fir aaj ke aayujan ke liye apka bahut mahat dhaniwaad prime minister we're gonna hold for just a moment mr prime minister while the press leaves the room


Hi everyone. Thank you so much for attending this FGO. I think it's a little different than the usual one because we're doing this as an update as well as an EMA. I'm going to start presenting just a second. I'm assuming people can see my screen and everything. Okay. I'm in full screen mode, so let me know if there's any problem here because I can't see anything, but presenting part. So I'm going to go through this and then maybe after I'm done with my slides, then I'll look at all the chat questions, if that's all right. Cool. Well, so this is a cloud-related alliances update, an EMA. So one of the main reasons to do this is I want to introduce myself. So I'm Priyanka and I'm going to be a director of alliances focused on cloud-native. I'll tell you a little bit about myself. So I have a background in observability for the last two years. I was working on distributed tracing particularly. So there's this project in CNCF called Open Tracing and I was on the founding team for that. Open tracing is an API spec to help you instrument your software system so that you can pull tracing data out. And we were the third project to join CNCF, so that helped really build a close relationship with the cloud-native folks and as a result, I've done a bunch of work with them. I'm planning a conference with them just before KubeCon, et cetera. Another part of my background is startups. That's actually how I came in contact with GitLab over, I think, three and a half, four years ago. I was doing my own DevTool company, which was a time tracking application, and we applied to my combinator and we had an interview. Someone connected us to SID as a great person to learn from for the interviews and that time I think GitLab was like 10 people. And since then, I kept in touch with SID and the company did some small advisory work last year. And finally, the time was right this year to join. I'm about two weeks into my job right now and it's awesome. So really quickly, my role at GitLab is a hybrid role in some ways. So I am doing alliances and I'm going to focus on the cloud-native ones, which think of it as the Kubernetes ecosystem. In addition to that, I'm also responsible to help uplift the technology brand or rather, I shouldn't say uplift, rather, uncover the technology brand for GitLab in the Kubernetes ecosystem. So the projects that I have going right now. The day I joined GitLab, my first minute on the job was a meeting in person at a potential partner's office, which was definitely intense, but went quite well. So I'm working with Google folks to partner for Cloud Next, their event that's next week. We're primarily in contact with cloud build folks, which has been like an opportunistic thing we're doing because they are very excited to include us in their demos and things like that. As we go forward, we want this to shift focus towards serverless. Then the other thing I'm working on is OpenFaz, which is just to help build out serverless support in GitLab. We just had a few calls with them and we're going to be hiring an engineer to focus on this, which is really exciting. On the CNCF front, which is Cloud Native Computing Foundation, just in case, I've got some meetings going at Google Next to start leveraging their leaders and their reach for GitLab. It's very open-ended and we'll see what we get out of it. So as I mentioned, thought leadership and technology brand was part of my responsibilities at GitLab. So I'm actually right now at Ascon, which is the big open-source convention in Portland. And yesterday I gave two talks on observability. I've linked to my talks here. It's been intense because both these talks are actually new talks. So I speak often and I have spoken at countless places over the last two years. But usually it's a talk that I've given before and that I'm extended. This time it's a new repertoire that I started and I was collaborating with new people. So both talks were high stakes, definitely very stressful, but it seems like the audience enjoyed them so I'm really happy. I've included links in here so you folks can see the presentations if you like. I also did a blog post which some of you saw and I got a lot of positive feedback on from both inside GitLab and outside about why I'm joining the company. Today, sorry, time is a blur. Today I am speaking on a podcast called ChangeLog. They invited me to talk because I guess because I was here at Ascon. It's very open-ended so I think I'm going to be focusing on a little bit about observability and also about kind of the topic of the blog post which is why I'm joining GitLab and the potential and existing success of the company. So the things that are coming up soon at Google Next will be part of a talk on CICD for hybrid and on-prem folks. And there will be GitLab demos in that. I can send out the exact timing if people are interested afterwards. We want to, as I said, start focusing attention on the serverless efforts so that's what we'll be trying to navigate to. I also saw there's a Cloud Native Day by Redpoint Ventures so I'm going to be attending that. That's a good place to meet potential partners, customers or even press an analyst. If anyone is around, this isn't going to be Monday next week so if anyone's around and is client-facing or just generally interested in the Cloud Native Space, you're welcome to come with me because they said I could bring a colleague. CFPs are another big thing that I need to look at. So the KubeCon Seattle, I think it's Seattle. The KubeCon Seattle CFPs are open for, I think, two more weeks. I'm preparing my submissions for that. This is something I think it will be really helpful if folks who have a really great story to tell with their customers, particularly around Kubernetes from EPS, or if there are technical challenges and successes in our own work related to the cloud migration, it would be really helpful. I think they love hearing stories which are not product pitches but rather workflow stories, technology stories, or end users succeeding. That kind of stuff. So I would love to collaborate with anybody who has ideas. We can definitely help you polish up the submission. Also can help you with speaking and we can also co-present if you feel more comfortable that way. So please reach out. This one can be great. Just a quick note on some numbers I collected for the blog post. I had a pretty decent engagement on Twitter for it. This was completely unpromoted in terms of, in a sense, it was all organic. So I had about 26,000 impressions on Twitter and over a thousand engagement on each platform, Medium, Twitter, and LinkedIn. So as I mentioned, I'm at Oskon and it's been a great conference for me. I've been trying to make it a point to meet people about GitLab and learn their opinions and uses of the product. So on the left side you see Kelsey Hightower. Some of you may know him, but he has been the lead evangelist for Kubernetes and he's really put it on the map. He was the chair for Oskon and KubeCon for the last two years. I would say he's Kubernetes famous and he took a great interest in talking about GitLab and how he sees the story. And that was really useful because this is a guy who really knows how to tell the right narrative that is interesting, human, and also sales. I met the NSA. So this is someone from the NSA who was at a workshop I was conducting and they love GitLab and I'm going to be trying to maybe record some testimonials or something with them today. I spent some time with Topo Paul from Capital One. He mentioned just how excited they are about trying out our CI product. He gave me a good set of thoughts on how he thinks of us in industry, where he thinks our managers are really useful for me as I'm bringing myself up to speed to what our customers love and need. I spoke to a few other folks, quite a few other folks that I didn't take a selfie with everyone. AT&T, Delfix, Salesforce, etc. So I've gotten contacted from a bunch of folks and today that all my talks are done, I believe I'll be doing more of that because I'll be less stressed out working on my presentations. Just added some snippets here because people seem to enjoy my talks and it's a good feedback loop, not trying to not trying to toot my horn just seeing that it seems to be working.


scientists at the International Center for Neuromorphic System announced that they have developed a supercomputer purpose built to operate like a network of neurons. So they even picked hardware that would be good at this. It uses less power than a more generalized computer because of that. Our brains, which use actual neurons only use 20 Watts. Deep South won't be quite that power efficient, but it will take advantage of some of the same efficiencies and operations that we do. The aim is to model a human brain to understand how it works. They are not trying to create a human thinking brain with this. It's two pieces that I got of this. How the brain works, which is really cool. The more we know about the brain, the better we can do with medications and stuff like that. You know, therapies in the future. But really it's just if you can decrease the amount of power that computers use to do the things they do, you'll make a much better world.


Hello again. In the following I will introduce you to the analysis of sound waves. In fact there are several ways of presenting sound wave information. There is for example the waveform view, then we have the frequency spectrum and last but not least there's the spectrogram probably the most important display of sound wave information for the analysis of linguistic sounds. Let us look at these ways of sound analysis in more detail. The waveform view provides a general view of the sound wave and displays the amplitude information over time. Here is a waveform for the short sound sample acoustic phonetics. And as you can see we have various portions of silence. For example small portions of silence that signal some sort of closure during articulation. So these typically occur before plosive consonants. Then we have longer portions of silence, most obviously between words acoustic phonetics. And we can see well visible portions of friction noise associated with fricatives such as the S in acoustic, the F in phonetics and the final S again in phonetics. And even voicing as complex periodic sound waves can be identified especially when you zoom into such a waveform. Okay so much for the waveform. The frequency spectrum as shown here is a two-dimensional plot of the sound wave at a point in time. The horizontal axis shows the frequency. The vertical axis the amplitude of each frequency line. A frequency spectrum is highly detailed in its frequency information. However it is only one snapshot of the linear sequence of acoustic information at a given time. With modern visualization techniques frequency spectra can be animated like this. Phonetics again. Phonetics. Or if I move the slider very slowly you can see what happens at a given point in time. Phonetics. So with modern visualization techniques such frequency spectra can be animated and thus can display detailed temporal information. The most important technique for the acoustic analysis of speech is however the spectrogram. It displays the exact formant structure of speech sounds as shown here in the spectrogram that again displays the phrase acoustic phonetics. Acoustic phonetics. The patterns we can see on the spectrogram enable us to differentiate vowels from one another and may help us to identify the character of an adjacent consonant. Before we look at the spectrographic information in detail however let us go back to the early days of acoustic phonetics. Because the availability of spectrographic information goes back to the 20th century and to using the spectrograph. During the 1940s the sound spectrograph in its original version it was called K sonograph. Well this sound spectrograph was designed to analyze and to display speech spectra. The machine recorded speech, analyzed the sound waves into their frequencies by means of an array of electronic filters and then presented the result on a special electro sensitive paper. The paper had to be placed around a drum so that the stylus could make its marks on it. Due to the size of the drum recordings were limited to only about two seconds. But what am I telling you? Here is a short video we recorded in our department of phonetics about 10 years ago they still had a K sonograph then. Until recently spectrograms were produced using the K sonograph a device invented in the 1940s that analyzes a sound wave into its component frequencies and displays the frequency spectrum on paper. With a sonograph spectrograms were generated according to the following steps. Step one live recording of a sound of about two seconds. Step two calibration and monitoring of the recorded sound. Step three location of the onset of the recording on the drum. Step four placing of electro sensitive paper around the drum. Step five setting the filtering and drawing levels. Step six drawing the spectrogram. The result of this procedure is a black and white presentation of the sound wave with a relative intensity of each component frequency shown by the darkness of the mark. Well today this sound of spectrograph is obsolete since computer based techniques allow the making of spectrograms in real time. Let us illustrate this. Here is an example. I have a software here and will now record acoustic phonetics in real time and you can see the spectrogram being created live. Here we go. Acoustic phonetics and here you can see the spectrogram. Acoustic phonetics but what does a spectrogram like the ones shown display well basically a spectrogram displays the spectral data over time with the amplitude shown in different colors or as shown here in different shades of gray. In particular the horizontal axis displays the duration of a sound in seconds or milliseconds. The vertical axis shows the frequency values and most importantly we can identify the intensity of the various resonance frequencies the formants by means of the degree of darkness or in terms of colored spectrograms by means of a particular predefined color. So let's mark a few aspects on this spectrogram before we go into a detailed analysis. For example all vowels have a formant structure. Here we have the vowel E with F1 down here and a very high value for the second formant F2 F1 or we can identify portions of friction noise for example friction noise for the fricative S. We can identify closures. Here is a portion of closure before the plosive K and so on and so forth. So the spectrogram is the most common representation technique in acoustic phonetics since it contains almost all data necessary for the analysis and the acoustic description of speech allowing the relatively precise analysis of vowels and consonants in terms of their acoustic structure. So let us look at vowels and consonants in detail and let's start with the vowels. Here are the spectrograms of four cardinal vowels which I produced earlier on. I said E, A, R and O and this is what the spectrograms look like. Like all vowels these vowels can be classified by means of their first two formants, formant 1, F1 and formant 2, F2. These resonance frequencies can very roughly be associated with the size of specific cavities in the vocal tract. F1 is always associated with the pharyngeal cavity. So let's mark F1 in yellow and let's associate F1 with the respective pharyngeal cavity size. So here is the cavity for E, a very large cavity and not surprisingly F1 is relatively low. For R, well the cavity for A, sorry for air, the cavity is about here and well F1 is a little bit higher probably here. For R we have an almost identical situation again. This is the pharyngeal cavity and the value of F1 again is a bit higher than the one of E but similar to the one of A and for O, well the pharyngeal cavity is relatively small so not surprisingly we have a very low value of F1 again. So these are my formant 1 values. Let's now look at the second formant which is normally associated with the front with the oral cavity. So let's mark that using a different color. For E we have a very small front cavity leading to a high frequency of F2, very high. For A we have a relatively large cavity, front cavity, this part here, leading to well a mediocre value for A, something like here. For R the cavity is quite similar perhaps a little bit lower than for A and for O, well there we only have a very narrow cavity leading to a low frequency value for F2 perhaps around here and again let's write down the F2 value. So these are formant characteristics for the four cardinal valves. Let's now plot these frequencies on a specific acoustic chart where we plot the frequency of F1 on a vertical axis against the frequency of F2 on the horizontal axis. Let's do it. The frequency values, the formant frequency values for E are something like 300 Hertz for F1 and 2600 Hertz for F2. So here is our cardinal valve E. O by contrast has a very low F2 value, only 900 Hertz roughly but the F1 value is pretty similar so we have it over here. In looking at A we find that A has about 700 Hertz for F1 well and roughly 1200, 1300 Hertz for F2. Well and cardinal number four O is quite similar only the value for F2 is a little bit lower so we have this position. Well if we combine these four cardinal valves we get a picture like this. Does that ring a bell? Well it looks like the pattern of cardinal valves on the cardinal valve chart. Take a look. Here you are. This is the acoustic valve chart. This is the auditory valve chart based on articulatory principles. However the match is not exact because the articulatory chart is based on the point of greatest tongue constriction only whereas the acoustic chart takes its data from all vocal tract resonances. Okay let's now continue with consonants. Before we do that perhaps you should find out the values for the other cardinal valves and you will see that they somehow match these lines so you would have A, A, you would have O and O. So the acoustic valve chart is quite similar to the cardinal valve chart with the differences however that I mentioned earlier on. Let's now take some consonants and look at their spectrograms. Here I recorded some consonants in the environment of cardinal one, E-C, E-C, E-Q, E-RI and E-MI. Well and consonants however cannot be classified on the basis of a well-defined formant pattern. Here we have to take into account voicing, noise frequencies, formant transitions and portions of silence. Let us look at our consonants here. Well for the two fricatives for example we can identify clear-cut portions of noise for the sir. The noise frequency is pretty high between 3,500 hertz. For sure it's a bit lower so it goes down from 500 to about 2,000 or 1,500 hertz and this is a remarkable difference between these two consonants, the frequency of friction noise. Plosives typically involve a portion of silence especially when they occur between vowels such as E-Key and this portion of silence of course is associated with the closure that we create in the vocal tract and then in the case of voiceless plosives they also involve friction noise for the little puff of air that is released when we open the closure and which we call aspiration in articulatory phonetics. The two consonants E-RI and E-MI are different because they are voiced and so first of all voicing continues so these portions down here denote the fact that the vocal chords continue to vibrate. E-RI is quite interesting because here you can see typically the closures and openings in terms of well very short spikes that occur in the spectrogram E-RI. Nasal consonant by contrast have some sort of formant patterns. The formant pattern however is not steady state it is associated with the place of articulation for E-MI the closure between the lips creates a sort of transition of F2 down and up again whereas F1 remains well relatively stable so nasals have some sort of formant pattern which takes up the formant of the surrounding vowels. Okay that should be enough in this e-lecture as a result of what I told you you should now have some basic understanding about the analysis of acoustic data using modern sound analysis tools and in particular you should understand the analysis of spectrographic information. You may find this very difficult at the beginning but in our spectrogram analysis videos that are either freely available in our YouTube channel or that are associated with the virtual sessions of our classes on the virtual linguistics campus you can familiarize yourselves with this technique of acoustic phonetic analysis. That's it for now thanks for your attention.


Hi everyone. I'm Bing Shen Zhang from Lancaster University. I'm a Program Director of the Cyber Security Master Program here. Our master program is one of a few fully recognized by GCHQ. Now it's known as NCSSC. Our university is also among the first eight certified by GCHQ as an Academic Center of Excellence in Cyber Security Research. Today I'm going to talk about a Treasury System project which is in collaboration with IOHK and it's a subproject under the Cardano. So when we are talking about the Treasury, we need to first go back to the blockchain. So when we say it's a blockchain, it's a cryptocurrency, that's not our company. So the cryptocurrency itself does not have money support. The blockchain itself does not have money support. I mean the real-life money. So the Treasury System aims at solving two things, how the funds come from and how the funds are decided to use. So if you think about current funding strategy, maybe there are some non-profitable organizations such as Bitcoin Foundation, Ethereum Foundation. They say they are volunteered to take in charge of developing, maintaining the underlying cryptocurrencies or the underlying blockchains. That's a way of finding those cryptocurrencies.  Then you use that money to find the developers, to find the scientists who make some new algorithms or to find some marketing team. The problem of those funding strategies is they are not sustainable in a way that what if the money runs out? For instance, if a cryptocurrency purely based on donation money, what if the donation money runs out? Then suddenly you don't have the money to hire the developers, so suddenly the software will stop being maintained. Then the less people will start to use the software and the cryptocurrency will die out. So alternatively, there are some other funding strategies, more sustainable. For instance, we see a model like Zucco with Zcash. When a miner gets some block reward, certain percentage, say 10%, 20% will go to that company. That company will be in charge of developing, maintaining, marketing, etc. So that's one way of doing it. Another way is like a Dash Governance System. You take the money also from the miners, let's say 10%, 20%. You put it into an account called a Treasury account. Then later you decide how to use it. So the main difference between the aforementioned way of handling the funds is centralization vs decentralization. So for the organization-based funding management or the company-based funding management, the biggest problem is the risk of centralization. So who is going to decide how the money is going to be used and how they are going to develop the next generation of the protocol, etc., a very small group of people and not the actual user, certainly not the majority of the stakeholders. So if you are looking at, for instance, the Dash, they are trying to resolve the problem by making the Dash system, have a Treasury system, and supposedly everybody can join to participate in the voting, and then the decision-making process can be more decentralized. But there are a few problems with the Dash Governance System so far. It's great as a first step, but we also have saying it does not have privacy. And when it does not have privacy as an existing one, when it does not have privacy, which means it does not support the freedom of choice for the voter to vote because it may subject to coercion. If there is no privacy and you don't assume the underlying blockchain system gives you fully anonymity, then if anybody can see how you voted, then basically you can sell your vote, for instance, and maybe someone will also coerce you to voting a certain way, then it will affect the soundness of the voting result and also does not represent true democracy. So the project we are working on the Treasury system wants to resolve this to bring a next-generation Treasury system that is private, that is coercion-resistant, and that supports some new fancy term called liquid democracy. I will mention it later, what's liquid democracy. So first let's have a look at how the money comes from. There are three main resources of the Treasury, one supposed to be mint. So basically it's like a Bitcoin, every block you mint 50 coins at the beginning, and now it's 12.5, et cetera, half every four years. So a Treasury system may have a Treasury account, and that account at each block you may mint certain amount of coins. Second is tax, so taxation. For some blockchain system you create all the coins at the beginning, then basically if you start to mint coins you may create unnecessary inflation, but those blockchain systems we can take tax from the miners' block reward, such as Zen cash, such as Dash governance system. Let's say we take 10%, 20% the block reward as taxation and fit it to the Treasury account. And the third way is donation. Donation is not sustainable, so it's there to address the current issue with the charity account. So if you think this Treasury as a charity, someone gives a donation to this Treasury account, then we can actually make the charity more transparent by using the Treasury system to do so. Next question, what is liquid democracy? That's the key word, sorry. So if we have a very small amount of people, very small set of people, typically the best way to achieve democracy is called direct democracy. So we have an issue, yes, no, and everybody will directly vote for this issue. For example, if I propose a project and anybody can vote for yes or no, directly when we have a small amount of people. When the number of nodes going bigger than this, let's give you another example. When the number of nodes going bigger than it's like a country election, nowadays we are using so-called representative democracy. So we actually have a fixed set of delegators. Nobody can vote directly on this issue. You can delegate your vote to either one of them and they will vote on your behalf, either yes or no, and then we come to the result. Okay, that's called a representative democracy. There's a small problem with this setting is maybe because this set of people are fixed, maybe you don't trust any one of them, but you have to delegate your vote to them, that's by design. Or maybe for a particular issue, none of them are actually familiar with those issues, but they have to vote because that's their duty. So what is liquid democracy? Liquid democracy aims to make a hybrid system between these two. So let's say we have a bunch of people for different issues, different people of them are experts, are familiar with. We are going to vote for yes or no. If you are a voter, you might vote directly, maybe because you really care about the outcome of this issue or you really want to express your opinion about this issue or you are actually an expert, you really do not want to delegate to anybody else. You can vote directly or if you're not familiar, you can delegate your vote, voting power to someone you know, not a fixed set, anybody you trust, you know, and that guy can even delegate further if they want and that guy can also directly vote if he's already an expert. So a liquid democracy basically says any voter can either vote directly to the issue or delegate their voting power to someone, anyone they trust and those guys can either delegate further or vote. So a rough graph could be like that. So then we come to the votes. So such kind of system, we do have some realisation but not so secure realisation in reality. For instance, Google has an experimental project called Google Vote. It tried to implement liquid democracy using the social network, Google Plus. It does not have privacy but as I mentioned before, if a system does not have privacy, maybe subject to coercion, maybe effect the soundness of the election result. So we want privacy and for many, many years, nobody has been proposed the liquid democracy e-voting system with very good security considerations and at Lancaster, we actually implemented the word first liquid democracy e-voting system with very high provably secure security guarantees and we implemented it. For the treasury system, we did a few more tweaks to make it more decentralised because if you think about the environment of the blockchain and the environment of traditional e-voting, the traditional e-voting have centralised usually small scale or centralised election authorities who are in charge of the election but for the blockchain, there's no such authority. So we want to further make decentralisation of it. Okay, so let's have a look at the big picture first then go back to the voting. So let me also remove this. It has three phases. First, pre-voting. In a pre-voting phase, anyone can propose a proposal. So you can propose a project. So in the pre-voting phase, anybody can propose a project and the users can register themselves if they want to be a voter or they want to be an expert or they want to be participating in the election committee. By the way, not necessarily you register as an election committee we will let you be. Just show your hands and later on we will run some cryptographic algorithm to select a small set of election committee members and with certain assumptions we can guarantee majority of this set will be honest. Okay, so voter, if a user wants to be a voter you need to deposit or log a certain amount of money. The exact amount depending on the underlying blockchain system depending on the total amount of the coin supplies, et cetera. The expert, they are like the normal voter. The only difference is they actually by declare they are expert they now can receive delegations. In a treasury system, the voter will receive the incentive, the reward proportionally to their deposited stake.  So for example, if I'm a voter, I deposited 10 coins and after I cast my vote, after I participate the voting phase at the end I will get some reward proportionally to 10 coins. Now if I'm an expert, if there are 1 million coins worth voting power delegated to me then after the voting phase I will get a reward based on that 1 million delegations. So it's worth mentioning a traditional voting. In a traditional voting each voter have one voting power, have one vote. In blockchain we certainly cannot do that because maybe there are civil attacks. The adversary can generate a lot of vote, fake voting accounts, then start to vote. So we definitely need to put a minimum amount of stake to guarantee that you need certain amount of stake to be a voter, for example to provide or deny a service attack. And another thing is we want to assume the majority of the stake is a hold in good people's hands. So if a voter cast a ballot, his voting power is calculated proportionally to the amount of stake he deposited. If this is an expert, his voting power is based on the amount of stake he deposited and based on the amount of voting delegations he received. Well for example if I'm a voter, I have 100 coins, I delegate to the expert. Now the expert get my voting power corresponding to 100 coins then the expert can vote on my behalf. So committee members, it's a role. So their job is to participate in the election, take in charge of the election process, make sure the election terminates, prepare the election, calculate the election result, announce the election result, sign the result and enforce the execution, post election execution which I will mention them later. So now the next phase after certain period the voters, the experts, some people want to register as committee members or registered, then we go to the voting phase. In a voting phase, at the beginning of the voting phase, we use the idea like a cryptographic sortation, we use some seed, a random seed coming derivated from the underlying blockchain. So note that it has a different concept than the proof of stake. In a proof of stake system, you are using such kind of seed or what we call beacon, you are using such kind of seed or beacon to guarantee consensus. But the treasury system are built on top of the blockchain layer, so the consensus already done. But we are using this seed to select a small set of committee members. So now the first thing is the committee election phase. We use some cryptography algorithms to use a seed, supposed to be random, supposed to be unpredictable, to select a set of committee members among those who registered. Proportional, well the probability you get selected is proportional to the amount of stake you put. With the assumption that if the majority of the stake is good, then the majority of the committee members are good. It's a small set of committee members. They will be in charge of the election process. So after they get elected, the first thing they do is to set up the election parameters, such as the key set up. They will do a decentralized, distributed, threshold cryptographic algorithm to set up the election key and to put it on the blockchain. And once they set up this, all the voters can start to submit their ballots. So it's called ballot casting. For voters, the ballot contains two sort of behaviors. One is a delegation, one is a voting. Oh yeah, it's worth mentioning why in the history there are not so many good system or secure system can achieve liquid democracy. Either because of there's a one conceptual barrier, people think delegation phase must happen before the voting phase because of the concept coming from the representative democracy. Let's say everybody first delegate, then those representatives start to vote. But when you are talking about the blockchain, can we merge these two phases? Why I have to first delegate, then those guys to vote, can I do them simultaneously? That's a conceptual breakthrough. First, everybody needs to clear because that's a conceptual barrier. Because in blockchain, you may vote directly while someone else is delegating. Well, why doing that? Because that gives you maximum privacy. Otherwise, people just by looking at, oh, this guy actually casted his ballot way before that guy. Which means this guy actually is delegating to someone because nobody else is casting a vote yet. That guy now start to cast a vote, then he definitely did not delegate to anybody. He definitely cast a vote directly. That's a privacy violation. So we want to group them together. We want a ballot can simultaneously represent to a delegation ballot or a direct vote. When you are a voter, you are allowed to indicate to yourself who you want to delegate to. And you can also indicate the direct vote opinion. So for each project, you can vote yes, no, upstate. The same for the voter, the same for the expert. Just one exception, the voter can actually delegate further. You can decide which expert to delegate. So you cast the ballot. Of course, we have a lot of fancies. There are knowledge proofs to guarantee the correctness of the ballot. Okay, now the third phase is post voting phase. After everybody has casted their ballot, the election committee members will do the tally. First, calculate the tally. Announce the tally. Give necessary zero knowledge proofs to show. By the way, when I say zero knowledge proofs, usually it's non-interactive and succinct. But do not miss it with a snag because it's a fixed term. Standard for a very small group, a small set of technology of zero knowledge technology. So if we use non-interactive zero knowledge proofs, doesn't mean we must use a snag. But a snag could be one small part of it. Okay, so now you have a tally. You proved the tally is correct. Then you need to do some post election actions, for example, execution. So at the end of the treasury system, the proposal will be ranked. Ranked based on the amount of years minus the amount of no. So the net years. So if a system has five people voted for yes, if others or abstain never participated, then this system should be better than a system have six people voted for yes, four people voted for no. That's our understanding. So you rank the project according to the difference between yes or no. And we actually have a cutoff line. If some project, the percentage of yes minus the percentage of no, is less than 10%. So basically less than 10% of people thinks more favorable to fund the project. This project will not be considered in the ranking, even the treasury system still have money. So now we rank the project, let's say P1, P2, P3, P4, etc. Then there's a cutoff line. Okay, below that the amount of yes minus the amount of no is too low. So we do some threshold. So we do not consider. Now we start to fund the project one by one. So okay, let's look at how much money we got in the treasury system. How much money this project wants. If the project wants a certain amount, then okay, we take this, then we find the next. Do we still have money left? Okay, this is also possible. Maybe at a certain stage we run out of money, then we cut off here. For example, this is the last project we found, then we cut off here. So the execution will be we found those project from the treasury account. Then we reward the committee members, we reward the expert, we reward the voters. For the voters, as I mentioned before, reward is based on their participation, based on the proportional to their stake. For expert proportional to their delegations, because we want to avoid the malicious user to claim they are expert, actually they are non-expert. So if there is an expert who received zero delegation, he received zero reward because nobody delegates to him. He actually did not contribute to the voting at all. For the committee members, if they behave honestly, they get a reward. If they refuse to, for example, open the tally, some of them may refuse to open the tally, and their deposited amount will get, for example, a discount or a punish depending on the actual setting. The system currently is designed in such a way, if majority of the election committee members decide to open the tally result, the tally result will be open. Otherwise, the tally result cannot be open because it's due to privacy. However, we can show mathematically with a good quality of the seed, with the majority of the stake are good, we actually can guarantee with very high probability, majority of the members in the election committee are good. In the worst case, maybe due to some very unexpected event, for instance, majority of the stake holds in the adversary's hands. For instance, some of the cryptographic primitive, such as the hash function, is broken. The majority of the committee members may be all bad. For example, all the election committee members are malicious. What can they do? In current design, the only thing they can do is to prevent the election from terminating. As a side effect, they can learn how the voter votes because they can decrypt the ballots. We need that because they can calculate the tally, which means definitely they can decrypt the ballots. For instance, if there is only one vote voted, they need to be able to pronounce the tally, which implies they actually need to be able to decrypt that vote. Other than that, they know how you voted. They can block the election from terminating. They cannot change the election result. They cannot change the tally result. They cannot deviate it. It's guaranteed by end-to-end verifiability. This is the first system. We can support the liquid democracy. We give the end-to-end verifiability, and we prove universal composability model, which is the UC. Let me go on for the general picture. In a general picture, we have a decision-making.   A lot of people who want to be voters. They will cast their ballot to the decision-making process, or they can delegate their voting power to the expert, and the expert can vote. All of these are backed up with a stake. It has a stake escort. Everybody has a stake escort. At the end, we can actually calculate what is the total amount of percentage for the stake to participate in the election-making. Oh, there's a committee, and then the committee will announce the result, the Tali result. Based on the Tali result, we actually start to execute. We still need another party, proposals. We have proposals, project proposals. There are certain project owners make a proposal, and then we have the treasury. Let's say once per month, we have this process. Now the voters come, the expert comes, they jointly do a collaborative decision-making, and the committee takes this to give the execution. Because we need a seed or a beacon to select the committee member, so actually at the end of the election phase, the committee member will do a coin flipping. Well, because we already have the public key crypto system, the coin flipping is quite easy. It's much more efficient than a coin flipping from the scratch. So they do produce an encryption of a seed. And at the beginning of the next voting epoch or voting phase, those amount of committee members will decrypt that seed so that we can use that seed to select a new set of committee members, a new set of committee members, and then the system can go on. Okay, so what is missing? Cost. How to minimize the cost? One way is via random sampling, like a cryptographic sortation. Let's say we have a lot of people who want to participate in the decision-making. We can randomly sample, let's say 10% of them. Then we basically reduced the amount of cost by one-tenth, 10%. Then if the decision-making process gives a very good margin, very good separation, then basically we can use the randomly sampled voting result as the general result. Another way is like what we did in the liquid democracy form. So let's say I'm a voter, but I can choose not to participate. I can delegate my ballots to some other expert. And the expert can keep delegations further, or the expert can directly participate in the decision-making. So for each project, the voter-voter, yes, no abstain. For each project, the voter can delegate to different experts because they are domain experts. The expert can be familiar with one project, can be not familiar with some other project. In the future, so what's the future? In the future, what we're going to do, if you look at this decision-making process, it's about the same as a governance system because the core part are the same, a decision-making, collaborative decision-making. So at some point, we want to upgrade the system to handle software fork, for example, hard fork, soft fork, to have a governance system on top of the treasury system using the same decision-making protocol. Or hypothetically, we can even make the underlying cryptocurrency more resilient. For instance, sometimes due to emergency situations, there is a need on the liquid, on the circulated coins. For example, maybe at some moment, we instantly the market really need a lot of coins at that time. Hypothetically, we can use the treasury system to do QE because if majority of the stake want to do the QE, they can actually do it. So instead of we have a regular money supply, we can actually alter the money supply process with the collaborative decision-making. That's one way. In the future, we are going to deploy. Currently, the system has been implemented as a proof concept. We do have a benchmark. We currently are in process of developing the first system in collaboration with ZenCache to integrate our system with their system to tailor-make the parameters to make sure it is suitable for that cryptocurrency. But in general, this treasury system is based on modular design. It can be suitable for any blockchain, any cryptocurrency. It does not necessarily rely on smart contracts. But for each cryptocurrency, we have certain parameters. They need to be tailor-made. For example, how to fund the treasury. Sometimes, mint is not good for some cryptocurrencies. Mint is good for some. For example, if we want to use the treasury system for charity, then maybe donation would be the major source. How to define the minimum amount of stake the voter need to deposit, the minimum amount of stake the expert need to deposit, and the minimum amount of stake the committee members need to be deposited. All these are depending on the underlying cryptocurrency, depending on the blockchain. So the treasury system has a modular design, has a lot of parameters need to be tuned. We currently are having some game theoretics to analyze those parameters. And the first pivot system we are going to do with ZenCache probably in 2018. The academic paper will be submitted for peer review and will be available on archive online. Okay, thanks for watching. Hopefully, this gives you some rough idea about the treasury system. Of course, I hide a lot of details about the collaborative decision-making process. How to support the liquid democracy because it's an academic paper, unpublished paper. I don't want to review too much detail, but stay tuned. I will put the details on archive very soon, potentially by the end of this year. Thank you.


I have downloaded countless Dragon Ball Fighter mods, but none have scared me as much as the one I've downloaded for this video. And that mod is Arcade Tenkaiichi. What this mod does is add boss battles to your standard Dragon Ball Fighter Arcade mod run. Just think of all the raid battles I've done with other people that I've never beaten, and make it single player. Yup, this is easily going to be one of the hardest videos I've ever done. Will it even be possible? I have no idea, but I think a big part of it's gonna come down to character selection. So let's go ahead and take a look at who my team's going to be right now. Realistically, I should go with OGs, but I'm thinking something different might be exactly what I need today. So up first, obviously, I think we're gonna have to pick Android 17, the MVP. He won the tournament of power. He can beat a few boss fights in Dragon Ball Fighters. Next, we're going with Bardock. Bro stood up to Frieza alone. He can stand up to a couple boss fights alone. And the final character I'm thinking, obviously, we need to go with Jiren. Jiren's a staple of the team. This guy does not trust anybody. He doesn't need any friends, which is exactly why he's perfect for a 3v3 team fighter. Let's go. Here we are. Arcade Tank IHE Act 1. So we're just gonna be going through the boss battles. You can see I have a final rank of nothing and a score of nothing as I've never beaten this. But today's the day that changes. UI Goku's up front. We lose. What is this disgusting team I'm looking at? Bro, I know it's a boss battle, but we did not need to do this. Let me get my gloves on. Take better care of the plants around you, or become the fertilizer that feeds them. The choice is yours. Classic line! This boss fight don't know what's about to hit him. And he's blocking everything. Oh, he just reflected everything. Notice how I had to run away. I had to find my footing. Lightspin. Oh, that's not a real knockdown. I'm- I'm- Oh, the 5L. Why is it doing so much damage? Oh, it hurts. Oh, my God. To be fair, that might have been normal damage. That's just UI Goku talking. But I do not think we're doing that much damage to him at all. That was a full combo? Oh, full block? I have to. Okay, I definitely thought I was gonna get a little more bang for my buck there. Oh, huge 2H from 21. That's bad. That is not good for me.  Yeah, keep blocking. That was a block string. That's a block string. Ever heard of those bots? Yeah, I didn't think so. The AI doesn't know what classic good fighting gameplay looks like, and I'm showing it to him. Hold on, hold on. I'm gonna hit him with every bar I got. Another one. Take one more from the- MVP. I can't speak, because it all comes down to the mix. I got no mix. What the- Oh, I forgot the- I'm so rusty, I forgot that was a cross-up. How much damage is this? How much damage? Oh my god, it's like I'm in a raid battle. I don't have sparking. I'm dead. There goes 17. He's not coming back.  I mean- No, I went for a jumping heavy, not an instant overhead grab. Oh, come off it, man. Okay, I'll take that. I think it's important to get 21's blue life back, though. That is a lot of blue life. Get him back in. All right, my thought process right now is we just take out 21. She actually doesn't seem to have that much health. I don't know if Goku has a higher health value or what's going on with 21, but she should be out of here. Yeah, she's gone. That felt normal to me. I don't know if 21 had an enhanced health. Oh, brother, not Broly. Hey, Broly, get countered. Yeah, thought so. Thought so.  Yeah, what do you think about that, Broly?  What do you think about that? Oh, he tried it. He really tried it. Broly tried to break out of my block string. Not happening. Oh, wake up, level 3 super. I'm shaking in my boots. Except I'm not... That was a mistake. I made a mistake there. That won't happen again. Let me hit up with the Bardock Special. I'm low on health, but I'm not losing on boss fight 1. I'm not losing on boss fight 1. I got a little scared, but I ain't doing it. Oh, oh, Bardock. Let him know. Let him know. All right, UI Goku is definitely the boss here. But does that scare me? I'm going to say no and just run at him. Let's go full auto combo. He tried it. That was the wrong combo.  Block. Yes. That should be it. He's out of there. Goku is out of there. We beat the first boss. Boss stage 1 is down. Hopefully we get a full health redo. There's no way we don't get a full health back. Like, all of our teammates should be back up and running. Damn, a solid D rank on that one. We are not fighting that. How are you going to give me a D rank and send me to go G to blue? Yasha. Wait, what? Oh, no. Wait, why am I fighting a bot based off an actual pro player? How is this fair? I got to ask. How is this fair? Did I get my full health back? I do at least get my full health back. Now we're just going up against an actual metadragonballfighter's team. This is definitely fair. They're mixing the help. He's got mixups. I'm dead already. It was one combo, bro. Come here.   I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh, he missed. Bro actually just missed. Embarrassing. Oh, he did. Gojira punted me. It didn't matter that he missed.  There we go. Vegito is not as scary as Gojira. I'm going to be honest. I'm going to be honest. In Dragonball Fighters, he's not as scary to me. You could argue that he's better, but I just don't think so. I don't, well, I think he's better, but I don't think he's as scary. Oh my God. Like that. Level three. Let him know. I ain't afraid of him. Take the driver seat and I'm the one driving the car. I'm sitting at the big wheel. I got my big steppers on to reach the gas pedals. Yeah, I'm 5'4", what of it? Oh, free 2M. That's a bad guard cancel. The bot might be the most intelligent AI, but he's no human. All right, we're going to bring back in that blue health just because it's a lot of blue health. Oh my God, this is scary. I need to use every block string in the book. Go for the mix-up. He tried to hit me with the shield top. Block that bad guard cancel again. Oh, but I dropped the combo. Oh, but it doesn't matter.  You actually need a license to pilot Barrock. That's why I'm officially Barrock licensed four years in a row now. It's like being forklift certified. The ladies just can't, the ladies can't deny it. They want it. They want somebody that's Barrock licensed. Back into the air with Gojita. We're going to do the standard medium mixer. We want it back on the ground.  Oh, a huge level one. Gojita going to hit me with a bad flip. Oh my God. That's so much damage though. Oh, he charged on me. Barrock has no respect. And that's exactly why. Because he can just hit me with an overhead. How much damage? Jesus. Ain't no way he just did that much damage to me. Respect. Why is 17 hitting so hard? Is he the actual boss of this team? I thought it was Gojita to get him out of here then. Actually, no, no, leave him in. I don't want him to get the burst. There we go. Oh, he might be the boss of this team, but he ain't the boss of me. And even if he is, I'm clocking out. Uh-oh, that's not a real combo. I blocked that. That was sick. But I can't block the rest. I just simply can't block the rest. Come on. We got to make it through boss two. It's just boss two. That connects. That's cheap. I've got seven bars. I might as well let it fly. That was nice. That was nice reset. That's fresh damage. Upper cut. Big level three. Don't miss. Yes. Perfect. He falls right into Barrock's hands. We're going to do a big level three in a mix. Now we have to remember Gojita has a wake up DP, but he won't use it. That's what I thought. That's what I thought. You ain't going to use it. You ain't got it.  And that's a much easier task than it looks like. Never mind. I dropped the combo. All that fake confidence gone in just a matter of seconds. He just reflected Jiren from behind. He wasn't even looking. This guy is good. This guy is good at the game, but he's not as good as me. Oh, I'm scared. I'm scared. I'm scared. What? He used the super dash and vulnerable move to get through my guard cancel. That was nuts. Oh, I don't want to die. I'm blocking that. Oh, don't even try a Dragon Ball. Oh, Bardock. What is he doing? Oh, he didn't block the overhead. Oh, I'm scared. Stop. Okay. I'm scared. This is the most intense fight I've ever had. Of all time. Yes. Yes. That was so intense. That was, I was actually, I was speechless. Bardock is clutching up for us right now. Bardock does not lose boss fight. Let's go. Let's bring it on. Who's next? Come on. If I couldn't get taken out by a professional, by a professional, why is Android 20? Why is it evil Android 21? Wait, Arxis OC Donut Steel? What the? This can't be real. This can't be real. This can't be real. No, dude. No, I was on the worst path. So now I have to fight Android 21 Evil. This isn't even a real character in the game, by the way. This is from story mode. Oh, that looks sick actually, though. Why is she glowing evil? Oh, no, this is the bad end. This is the bad end, because of it. Oh God, dude, this is the bad end. Don't super dash. How many times I got to teach you this lesson? She might be the final boss from story mode, but she ain't as good as me. This is actually crazy, though. We're fighting a bot from story mode. She's blocking everything, except she can't block overhead. Level three.  If this one shots me, I don't know what to do. I'm up. I'm up. I'm good. I'm dead. Well, this is not good. This is not good. I haven't even gotten through Android 21 Evil. Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is not how this ends, 21. Damn! 2H root across the map. There we go. Big hit. I've got limit break now. The damage is going to be a little better. We have to take every level three possible.  Clutch up. Clutch up. Clutch up right now. Clutch up. Watch that. That's a safe jump. The bot doesn't know about safe jumps. That's rookie level mistake. Where did my key last go? What is that? What is that? What are you? What is that? What was that? That was not real. Was that from the story mode? That was so sick. I've literally never seen that. That should be in the game. That was such a cool move. Oh my God. It almost one-shot me, too. I should have just... I should have just hit her. I don't know why I didn't. I was scared. Who is this? Android 21 Normal Version? Now, I'm not trying to fight no Normal Version. Android 21, get this lane. Out. Okay. All right. I'll put a little more respect on your name, I suppose. I'll put a little more respect on your name, not much. Give me this level three. The Evil Version surely has to be like the boss of the team, right? Surely it has to be the boss of the team. Nah. Not interested. I dropped the combo. No. No, no, no, no, no, no. She would say, oh my God. That was insane damage. No, my team got turned into a dessert. I know I lose. I didn't need that. Damn, she doesn't even have a win quote. Would I like to continue? Yeah, you know, I'll go ahead and continue. Look, hey, this boss thought she was so good, but she didn't know I just had to continue, but boom. How many times is it going to take me to beat this Android 21? I don't know, but I don't care. It's going to take as many times as it needs.  Oh, she had to call me a man. Oh, she had a gun. That's just normal 21. We're not scared of that. Wait. So much damage. For what? Stop. Wow. She reflected me into her own teammate. That is nuts. Why is not Evil 21 kind of nuts at the game? Oh, the damage off the assist is so bad. Okay, that super didn't hit. That super did not hit like Evil 21. I'll tell you that right now. Look at that health bar, man. These combos do nothing. Stop it. Yeah, stop it. I knew you were going to try something. I knew you were going to hit a button. I'm not going to let you do that every time. I simply am not going to let you get away with that overhead. There we go. Now we just do standard during combo. I can do this combo in my sleep, actually. This one is basic. I dropped it. That's embarrassing. But it doesn't matter. It's been a little while since I played Jiren. But it hasn't been a little while since I've taken out Good 21. Oh, I only have one bar. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Of course you tag in. Oh, she got me. She got me pretty good on that one. I'm not going to lie. That was a crazy mix. Oh, I don't like hearing the crunch. Those are my bones she's crunching on. Okay. Well, Jiren is gone. Bro got eaten. Why does she come in with full powers every time? Oh, she used her level three. Alright, we're going for the blue health. I really just want to get down a character here. Good 21 needs to go. Well, I'm not going to forgive you. Oh, I need to use sparking right now. Spark, get all that blue life back. Get all of it back right now. Get all that blue life back right now. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Alright, so we did get hit by a raw level three, but we had to use spark just to get that all back. It's not too much of a loss here. This could very well be the time we get through this. If it only takes me two attempts to get through Android 21, I'll take it. I know it's the lowest possible ranking boss fight because these things are hard, but I mean, I'll take a win-to-win against any of these bosses. From the top rope. Oh, I did the barrier again. Oh, don't even talk to me. Barrier. Oh, I'm probably dead. Wait, that's not evil 21. Nope, it doesn't matter.  Come on. I know it doesn't look good, but this is the time we beat this boss. I promise. Oh, a risky 2H, but it actually works. And now we're here. We're not going to do any cuts. This is the final boss battle. And I'm going crazy. I'm starting with EX. I got five bars to spam. Why not go nuts? What is that? She was doing a barrier. I win here. Come on. Everybody can hear my soundtrack, too. The music is going crazy. That's music for me. It's protagonist theme track. It's for me. It's for Bardock.  Damn, that did no damage. Bust out the Bardock combo. That's nuts. That's good damage. That is good damage against the bot. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. This comes down to the last final mix-up. Does she get hit? Yes, she does. And we've sealed away the evil. The Bardock has done it once again. As he's been asked multiple times tonight, he's answered back with a resounding going to change the future. And so he did. He changed the future tonight, folks. And we got another D rank. What is a boss mode run if we don't just get D ranks all the way through? Congratulations. You've beat them. You've beat the hardest arcade mode with the lowest possible score. Damn it. I got another D rank. Hey, but at least I got Snakeway Sensei. You completed... Wait, boss battles number two? What is boss battles number two?  Oh, no, dude. Not... Oh, there's a second boss battles. There's a second boss battles. I'm going to do it again. I'm going to do boss battles number two, but I'm going to do it next time on the channel. So stick around if you want to see more of that. Leave a like, subscribe, check out some of the other videos that should be on your screen right now, and make sure to come back for boss battles number two. If it's harder than number one, I don't know if this is going to be possible.


So an important extension of the whole number system occurs when we expand to including what are called signed numbers. And we'll introduce them this way. We'll make the following definition. The additive inverse of A, written minus A, is the number that satisfies the equation A, plus the additive inverse is equal to zero. Now if you've seen this before, you might be tempted to read this as negative A. And while it's true that this is the same as negative A, how you speak influences how you think. And so it's useful to read this as additive inverse of A, because it reminds you that this plus A is going to be equal to zero. We'll introduce a few other quick definitions. The whole numbers, together with their additive inverses, form the set of integers. And these are both definitions. They're both very important to understand. Less important, but extremely useful, is the following theorem. Addition of the integers is both associative and commutative. And remember the importance of that is that any addition can be rearranged in any order that we want. And finally, an important idea in mathematics and in life. You can have anything you want, as long as it's paid for. Let's see how that works. Suppose we want to find twelve plus the additive inverse of three. So we know that the additive inverse is the thing that's going to satisfy number plus additive inverse is zero. And so that means we know that three plus the additive inverse of three is going to be equal to zero. And what this means is that if we can somehow get a three into this expression, we can simplify it using this definition of the additive inverse. And we actually have a three buried in here. Since twelve is equal to nine plus three, the equality means that we can replace twelve with nine plus three. So we'll do that. We know that addition of the integers is both associative and commutative, so we can do this in any order that we want. We want to do this in the order that makes use of the fact that three plus the additive inverse of three is equal to zero. So we'll add these last two terms together to get zero. And nine plus zero is equal to nine. And we might make a quick note. Twelve plus the additive inverse of three is equal to nine. Meanwhile, the same numbers, twelve, three, and nine are related by twelve minus three is equal to nine. And what this suggests is that for any integers A and B, A plus the additive inverse of B is equal to A minus B. So we might take eight plus the additive inverse of three. Our theorem says that if I add a number at its additive inverse, it's the same as subtracting, and so this is the same as eight minus three or five. How about three minus twelve? To subtract twelve, we need to have twelve. But if we don't have twelve, we only have three. Well, remember, you can have anything you want as long as it's paid for. We note that three plus nine is equal to twelve. So if we add nine, we'll have a twelve. But we have to pay for it. We need to subtract nine to keep our expression the same. So three minus twelve becomes three plus nine minus twelve. And then the bill for the nine comes due. And we have to subtract nine at the end in order to keep our expression the same. And now we invoke our order of operations. We have to do addition and subtraction from left to right. So we'll take care of three plus nine first. And the rest doesn't change. Twelve minus twelve is zero. And the rest doesn't change. And, uh-oh, now we're trying to take nine away from zero. If we couldn't take twelve away from three, how can we take nine away from zero? Remember, our theorem works both ways. A minus B is the same as A plus the additive inverse of B. So zero minus nine is the same as zero plus the additive inverse of nine. And because we're adding zero, this is just going to be additive inverse of nine. And once again, we might make the observation the numbers three, twelve, and nine are related. Twelve minus three is nine, while three minus twelve, what we just found, is the additive inverse of nine. And so this suggests another theorem for any integers A and B. A minus B is the same as the additive inverse of B minus A. To find seven minus fifteen, our theorem says it's the same as the additive inverse of fifteen minus seven. Well, fifteen minus seven is eight, and so our result is additive inverse of eight. What is important is that you will very rarely only ever have to do one thing. More often than not, you'll have to combine several things. And so being comfortable with the combining and recombining of different ideas is an essential part of mathematics. So for example, let's say I want to add five plus the additive inverse of eight. Well, we have two theorems at our disposal. We'll have many more by the end of the day. But right now we know that for any integers A and B, A plus the additive inverse is the same as A minus B. And also A minus B is the additive inverse of B minus A. So let's see which of these applies. Five plus the additive inverse of eight, well, that looks like this first theorem. And so we know that we can rewrite this as five minus eight. Unfortunately, barring some creative accounting, I can't subtract eight from five. Fortunately, we do know that for any integers A and B, A minus B is the same as the additive inverse of B minus A. So I'll rewrite this additive inverse of eight minus five. And I do know what eight minus five is, that's equal to three. And so my final answer, additive inverse of three. So let's put our theorems together for plus the additive inverse of nine. Adding an additive inverse is the same as subtracting, so this is for minus nine. But I can't subtract for minus nine. But I have a theorem that says that A minus B is the same as the additive inverse of B minus A. So if I can't find four minus nine, I can find the additive inverse of nine minus four.


A very simple kind of built in notification in type form is email notifications. And there are two different kinds here. There are self notifications where you receive an email when something happens. And there are respondent notifications where you send out an email to somebody who answers one of your forms. Now everybody who signs up in type form gets to do self notifications. But the respondent notifications, those are for the paid accounts and so I'll talk about them in another course. But right now I want to just give a very quick review of self notifications.  And once you're there, really what you have is an email template. First it asks where it should send the notification and you can put in more than one just put a comma between them. And then we have the subject line of the email and by definition it's type form new response. And then this in gray is a variable, which is the name of the type form or the survey that people are responding to. You can add other information here, you can come over to add a variable. And this is the information, both from the general account, as well as specific questions. You can change that to be whatever you want. And then for the message itself type form does this information where it puts in the name of the type form, it'll give all of their answers will give you links to download the information. And there's a lot of stuff. And so that works really well. If you want to change it, it's an easy thing to do. So for instance, I'll say here, you know, I'll just say at the top, I Bart, because that's me. And you have a new response. And I will just say that we have a new response from a particular person, and I can do that because one of the things that I asked in my form is for a person's first name. So I simply get the cursor where I want to hit add variable. And then these are the stems of the questions. Now you have to know from this that the first one I actually ask their name. And so the answer to question number one is going to be their first name. So I'm just going to put that right there. And it will say I have a new type form with a response from this person, you know, you can do whatever you want. And then when you're done, come down to the bottom and turn on the notifications. Now you see we have the green bar across the top confirming that we'll hit update settings. And now anytime you get new information, you'll also get an email that gives you that information so you know when you need to react and what you need to do.


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Deepika here. Let's discuss the question Find the approximate change in the volume V of a cube of side x meters caused by increasing the side by 1% So let's start the solution Let V be the volume of a cube Therefore V is equal to x cube Because x is the side of a cube Therefore V by dx is equal to 3x cube Now it is given that percentage increase inside is 1% this implies Delta x is equal to 1% of x That is 1 over 100 into x and this is equal to 0.01 x that is delta x is equal to 0.01 x Let delta V Be the approximate change in the volume V Therefore delta V is equal to dV by dx Into delta x and this is equal to 3x cube Into delta x is 0.01 x and this is equal to 0.03 x cube meter cube hence the Approximate change in the volume V of a cube of side x meters caused by increasing the side by 1% is 0.03 x cube meter cube and this is our answer. I Hope the question is clear to you. Bye and take care


This is my new book. It's called Triptych Caliform.  So I'm really happy with the cover. The book is in three sections. The first section is cinema and all about the movies and the second section is about BDSM or kink lifestyles and the third section is just about California generally and they all kind of dovetail with each other. There's like recurring themes and stuff. So the poems are all short. I'm gonna read two from each section, that's six. So start with the cinema ones. The first one is called How on the silver screen of her dream, matinee idols in cloaks of darkness swoop down like bats and do unspeakable things to hapless maidens in gowns of velvet, curtains and helmets. How warriors in helmets, sandals and swords wreak terrible vengeance. How gods are invoked. How she manages to be ravaged just out of frame. How cats are to blame, the evidence hovering in the corner ripped bodice, discarded scarf, dropped suede glove, bottle of hard liquor lying on its side, contents spilt like tears. How she pursues those bad, bad boys, those laconic mechanics, those hardworking farm hands, those dapper gents and sure footed dancing princes, those articulate diplomats and sons of captains of industry. How she settles for chain smoking clerks, unemployed drag racers and actors working as waiters. How they usually leave when the going gets rough. How she wonders if there is something wrong with her. How she is suddenly 30, then even more suddenly 40. How the squalls of babies drive her mad. How the smell of diapers makes her sick. How she ends up semi-comatose, Xanaxed, in front of the TV watching Ellen and turn a classic reruns of Pretty Lady.  The next one, I've been fascinated by Eileen Warnos, the alleged serial killer and that film monster and I ended up doing a lot of research into Eileen and I went down a bit of a wormhole with Eileen and this poem came out of it, it's called Serial Eileen.  So I had to turn tricks on the highway and because you had that 22 in the glove compartment waiting there just for me, I shot you. Because the robbing alcohol, because you had that cheesy mustard polo shirt with a little guy on a horse with a golf club that said stuff to me about a world I would never understand because everyone said, you don't belong here because Edgewater, Florida.  Because you said a hundred in Brevard County but you only gave me 50 and how am I supposed to pay the motel for me and my lady with 50? And there was 300 in your wallet, thanks for that.   Now, here's a couple from the kink section. The first one's called Cross Dress about enforced feminization. Somebody's gotta do it right. Thank you, Virgie, I love your life. Let me glue down your man brows. Let me pan stick shade grease paint and contour you. Let me spangle shadow and eyelash you top and bottom. My flirtatious slave. Let your mistress line you outside your natural lip line for the appearance of a big glossy mouth, welcoming and wet, open and luscious.  Ease into this elasticized slip, tight, firming, and assist me to slither your long legs into both these pairs of nude flesh pantyhose. Don't you look lovely? Slip into these five inch heels. Walk for me, very nice, slower, provocative.  Let your mistress zip your slender frame into this vermilion-rushed cocktail gown, skin tight, so inviting. You are asking for it, aren't you? Anyone can take you, do what they want. In fact, I think I will. Or not, this one's called Rope. I am beyond excited the first time you tie me up, your hands fast over serpentine red nylon and hemp. Your constrictor knot restricts my chest, your daisy chains makes my buttock pop. You send me home to practice my midshipman's knot, my fisherman's, my sailor's coil. My scaffold knot and figure of eight will be used to bind other slaves under your direction, of course, my mistress. My monkey's fist and common whipping knots are clean.   Here's a couple from the California section, House of Sticks. Yes, I'm lying on a flattened box outside the bout, handle with care, product of Vietnam, this way up. They call me homeless, but I like to think of it as electively residential address free.  I learned about that when I worked in admin at the county hospital. That was before I got laid off. That was before I got a bad credit score, before my boy Mikey got himself killed in Afghanistan and before my husband hung himself in the garage one Tuesday afternoon in bare feet in his suit and tie. One minute I'm working at county hospital and next I'm a patient on a gurney, the dirty lady in curtain seven. I can't afford any shame. I built myself up on a scaffolding of grade score average and credit rating allusions, but those stats don't mean jack.  House of sticks, house of sticks, the whole damn thing's just a house of sticks. I don't need your pity. You can put it back in your organic backpack, honey. I've busted out of this house of sticks.   The last one's called Give It Away. I don't want my Mercedes Sports Coupe ice blue or my three bedroom condo with ocean views. You can have it too. I'm giving my designer clothes to you, my Versace's and my Gucci's that still fit.  Take the lot at bargain basement prices free. Take my designer shoes, my Jimmy Chews, my bed, bathroom, beyonds, my curling wands, I've got two. I'm gifting a signed warhol print condition mint and an artisanal macrame wall hanging or two. Do you know what?  I don't even want the skin I'm in. It's been inked and lasered to within an inch of its life and resurfaced, burnt, cut with a knife. All the sunspots have been burnt off. Take it, use it, feed it to the dogs. I don't need it anymore. I'm stripping my assets down to the core to reveal my authentic self in a yogic gesture of Buddhist rebirth. You can have my diamond engagement ring, three carrots, no inclusions, clear as a bell and lots of other stuff as well.  I'm going off to a mountaintop to survive on granola and a bowl of rice, an occasional apple and chamomile tea. I've got a whole lot of books I don't read. I'll pack them up in boxes or give them to the library. I've got a set of bentwood chairs, Viennese. If you want them, they're yours. Take them, please.  I'm getting rid of my hair to a good home. Also my acrylic nails, my reconditioned liver, my kidneys and various other organs, one eye and a heart in good order, pristine. I'm gonna dance around in my bones for a while then totter off in a skeleton boogie to the graveyard club or the mountaintop. I won't even need the granola or rice, the begging bowl or the saffron robes. I'll be stripped down to nothing and I'll be leaving only footprints and you can have those too. I'll be fashion conscious ashes to ashes and dust to dust, dust or bust. Thank you.


Hello everyone, I'm Alicia Woodruff and welcome to the Fort Report. So don't let the 80 to 90 degree days fool you. The holiday season is almost here. And once Thanksgiving's goose, sorry, turkey is cooked, Fort Worth is kicking into full holiday mode with time-honored events and a few new favorites. Thousands of families will be trading their dining room chairs for lawn chairs November 23rd and for an event that's much brighter than the midnight lines at Black Friday sales. The Chesapeake Parade of Lights, presented by Chase, makes his 30th journey through the streets of downtown Fort Worth with more than 100 lighted floats and 500,000 lights decorating Cowtown streets. Started in 1983, when downtown's big revitalization was just getting started, the parade has become a holiday staple for Fort Worthians and has only gotten more exciting as new development has come into the area. This has become a centerpiece event with all of downtown decorated for the holidays, the lights and the trees and the Sunday and Square Christmas tree that's lit that same night. And it's just a powerful feeling of closeness and togetherness. And that's really, you have to actually be here to get that sense, but it's just an amazing scene. It's going to be a spectacular parade and some special effects.  Just as downtown has grown and changed in 30 years, the parade route has grown as well. This year, the parade is extending the route as far south as 9th and Houston streets. The best street side locations go quickly, but you can reserve street seats and learn more about this year's event at Fort Worth Parade of Lights dot O-R-G. If a parade featuring Santa and Sun Dance Square's giant tree doesn't get you in the holiday spirit, the Fort Worth Symphony has just what the doctor ordered. The annual Home for the Holidays concert features Christmas carols, a bell choir, a family sing-along and, of course, a Santa cameo. The events continue the weekend of December 1st with two more kid-friendly favorites. Christmas in the stockyards puts a western spin on holiday tradition. Where else can you see a tree lighting and rope a ticket? And if you think having your kids give gifts to fowl is more in the Christmas spirit than roping them, there is the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens Birds Christmas Tree celebration. Children of all ages will prepare some biodegradable treats from our feathered friends and hang them in the garden's grove, and, as always, keep your finger on the pulse of events around Fort Worth by visiting the Convention and Visitors Bureau website calendar.