Electrical storms are one of nature's most spectacular and unpredictable phenomena. Despite our technology, we remain powerless to control this awesome force. Nevertheless, the conditions that cause lightning are at the very heart of a groundbreaking experiment at NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland. The Solar Array Module Plasma Interaction Experiment, or SAMPI, is an essential step toward the development of future high-voltage power systems for space exploration. Dr. Dale Ferguson is principal investigator of the SAMPI project. He and his team are nearing the most critical phase of the experiment, flight testing in low-Earth orbit. Before Earth-based technologies are used for space applications, they must be thoroughly tested to ensure that they will perform as needed in the space environment. Flight testing is crucial to the engineering process. Historically, electric power generation in space has relied on photovoltaic solar arrays. Photovoltaic cells, commonly made of silicon, are semiconductors that convert visible light into direct electrical current. The cells are covered with a transparent housing that allows light to easily penetrate them. Excess current is stored in batteries. Photovoltaic power is routinely used in such low-voltage items as calculators. The amount of current created by photovoltaic cells is a direct function of surface area. The greater the surface, the greater the power. Cells are connected in small units called coupons, and coupons are strung together in larger sheets known as solar array modules. Photovoltaics has proven to be a reliable source of electricity for the 28-volt power systems inherited from the aviation industry. However, future space exploration will require higher voltages, as much as 160 volts DC. On Earth, when you want to increase the power of a photovoltaic array, you increase the number of cells. And as the number of cells goes up, so does the power. In space, adding more cells increases the voltage that the system will operate at. And a high voltage in space can be a problem for a spacecraft. When we think of the space environment, we immediately think of zero gravity. However, what poses the gravest problem to designers of a high-voltage power system is space plasma. Plasma is created when a gas is subjected to high temperatures or bombardment by ultraviolet rays from the sun. The electrons are literally stripped away from their normal orbits around the nucleus. When this happens, the gas, which is normally an excellent insulator, becomes a fairly good conductor of electricity. This chart depicts the density of the plasma relative to the altitude above the Earth. The density decreases as we increase in altitude. For low voltages, plasma does not present much of a problem, but at high voltages, in low Earth orbit, it's a stumbling block. When the electric potential between two points is great enough, the gas between them ionizes, creating a path of low resistance for electricity. And when that happens, arcing takes place, and undesirable, undestructive current is unleashed. It's lightning, with all of its hazards and unpredictability, only on a smaller scale. Arcing can destroy or degrade most materials it contacts, from the delicate solar arrays to such durable materials as anodized aluminum, which is used as the primary structural material for satellites and other space payloads. Arcing can also cause current disruptions that could hamper in-space operations of every type. Among the important questions the SAPI flight test will help answer are... At what voltage does arcing occur? At what rate does arcing occur? At what intensity? And specifically, what effect will arcing have on all the various materials and geometries currently designated, not only for the solar arrays, but for the whole space station? Will other materials need to be found? How can we protect them? And ultimately, what steps can be taken to eliminate or minimize arcing? The SAPI payload consists of an electronics enclosure with an experiment plate fixed to the top surface. It will be mounted directly to the top of a hitchhiker M carrier. The instruments and electronics that run the experiment and record data are located inside the enclosure. The experiment plate will expose more than a dozen different materials, geometries and technologies to conditions identical to those the space station will encounter. Extensive ground testing is always conducted first and is critical to research, but certain conditions are simply impossible to simulate on the ground, such as pressure, plasma flow and electron temperature. For example, results from previous flight tests of silicon solar cells differed radically from the ground tests of those cells. The SAPI experiment plate will flight test leading edge technologies, but more familiar materials are also represented. All US spacecraft that have flown to date have used silicon solar cells. They therefore will provide a baseline for us to allow us to compare our data with data that has been taken in the past. Even though other technologies are more efficient, silicon is still the cheapest and is still the most commonly used. We have to take a look at what happens to silicon then. Also to be tested is a coupon of advanced photovoltaic solar array or APSA cells. These cells hold great promise because they are much thinner and lighter than silicon. SAPI will also test the impact of arcing on several state-of-the-art alloys being considered for use on the space station. When the SAPI experiment completes its set of flight tests, the on-orbit data collected will be brought back and analyzed by scientists and engineers at the Lewis Research Center. This flight data will provide the foundation for developing future high-voltage space power systems for NASA into the 21st century and beyond.


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This study investigates the use of silver nanoparticles, SNP, coated with antibody, AB, to improve the effectiveness of radiotherapy in treating breast cancer cells. The researchers found that combining the two treatments resulted in greater cell death than either treatment alone. Additionally, they used Raman spectroscopy to measure the amount of cellular change caused by the combined treatment, which could be used to determine the optimal dose of radiation. This article was authored by Shaheen Agamiri, Ali Jafarpa, and Mohsen Shodja.


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The only way a narcissist can change the narcissist will always be a narcissist That is something they cannot change, but they can change their behaviors The narcissist can change but they are unwilling to change Because there's often no incentive for them to do that for the narcissist to change They would have to admit that what they did was wrong. They would have to take accountability for their actions But narcissists are generally unwilling to do that however in some situations There is an incentive for the narcissist to change But they only change because they're motivated by their own self-interest Rather than being motivated to change for other people Which is why when you tell the narcissist how much they're hurting you It doesn't change their behavior It doesn't mean anything to them. They just see it as though you're blaming them Which then triggers their shame and their shame always comes out as rage Because blame feels like an attack to the narcissist So when you try to blame the narcissist for anything You will never be able to get through to them Because their disorder prevents them from being able to continuously reflect on their shame The narcissist does not care about you or your feelings They only care about themselves They only care about their own feelings And you cannot use logical facts to get through to the narcissist because they see their feelings as facts So whatever they feel becomes the truth Which is why they can often seem so unreasonable Which is why you cannot reason with them. There is nothing you can do to motivate them to change They will only change under their conditions If it benefits them to do so Not because it's good for you Many of the narcissist's behaviors are habitual They are settled in regular tendencies That are difficult for them to give up Because they've been doing it for a long time They decided a long time ago that it was okay for them to act this way And since that time Their behavior has been enabled by the people around them Narcissists are like children Their behavior was rewarded So it was repeated Until it became second nature Until it became a tendency and habit That has become characteristic and instinctive Because it's been reinforced It's worked for them in the way that they needed it to work They got attention They got whatever they wanted But because their behavior has been reinforced for such a long period of time It may no longer feel like a choice to them They may say that they have no control over it But it's not that they don't have control over it They're just very impulsive They don't think before they say or do something They're constantly reacting Because they are driven by their emotions They're not thinking about the consequences of what they're doing All they care about is what they want and need All they care about is their own emotions They have magical thinking Where they believe their own ideas, thoughts, actions and words Can influence the course of events in the material world They believe that unrelated events are connected Despite the absence of any plausible link between them So they assume that everything will be okay They're in denial So they're able to justify their actions But when narcissists are forced by some external circumstances To think before they're acting It then breaks the pattern And puts them in a different pattern of behaving Because then there are external consequences But narcissists don't really care about what you think Your feelings and accusations have no effect on the narcissist It just makes them mad The only way a narcissist can change Is by disliking their behavior By being so ashamed of how they behave And not wanting to feel that way anymore And then remaining focused on that Even while they're angry or upset Because the only thing that will motivate a narcissist to change Is their own feelings But usually They just end up justifying their behavior Or they deny it Or they believe someone else Rather than realizing their own behavior is the problem What causes a narcissist to change Is an internal consequence Rather than an external consequence And that internal consequence is their own feelings But it is very difficult for a narcissist To realize that their own behavior is the problem They justify their behavior And it's very difficult to change your behavior If you believe it is justified If you believe you have a reason for doing it Even if you believe it's wrong As long as they can blame someone else They will feel like their behavior is justified Which is why they don't see a problem with their own behavior They always have a reason for doing what they do It's always because of something you said or did Rather than having anything to do with them Narcissists know the difference between what is right and wrong But they don't believe that what they're doing is wrong Because they have reasons And their reasons always stem from their own feelings Thank you for watching I hope this video resonates with you Please like, comment, share and subscribe If you would like to donate My PayPal link is in the video description Coaching inquiries You can email me at coaching.narcsurvivor.uk Thank you for watching And I'll talk to you soon


Hi everyone. Hello. I'm from the, I'm still here. She hasn't kicked me out yet. Why would I? So, welcome to another date night. Today's in the US. What is that? 25th? October 25th. I've been, I've been here a little over a week. We get married in 10 days. And everything's done. It isn't. And Ally is as cool as a cucumber. No, not really. It's under control. It's just tough to do. Yeah, so everything's, everything's going in the right direction though. Yeah. Yeah. Apart from really just to remind you, we have a couple of things that I had hadn't organized. So still got to do that. Okay. Yeah. Welcome. Welcome aboard. Welcome to Karina and Vera and up three. Thank you for joining us. No. Live from the UK. So yeah, a few minutes ago. So I'm still, I'm, I guess I'm still on America time. Cause like Ally woke me up like 15 minutes ago. And I had like a sleepy face. I threw my shirt on. It was wide open. I go, I'm ready. Yeah. And I was ready. And then I wasn't ready. I'd forgotten that I had done this and I haven't done that. Yeah. And then, and then I had to get verification and to get on today.  They didn't recognize me. They, and initially so it's, it's my fault that we're late. And mine. And so yeah. And I'm, I'm, I'm tired. I'm still tired. So we're not going to have as long of a, a date night tonight, but we're here. We're still here. Yes. It's still crazy enough. Yes. Oh yeah. Very much so. Yeah. So how are you, how are you all doing tonight? There's Paul and Sarah. Hi, Sarah. Hello Debbie. Happy date night. Love. Best wishes on your marriage. Yeah. You will be Mrs. Prescott. Yeah. Mrs. Prescott. Wish it was official, official. Yeah. But it will be. It will be. But we didn't ceremony. Yeah. And I can get you to get married on the beach in Florida. We'll make it official. Yeah. And with that, what we need is some help with eliminating the need for people to get jabbed to come into the US. Yes. But I think that's, that's happening. I think that's, you know, we're heading in that direction. As of December 1st, the PCR tests are no longer going to be done. That reminds me. Paige was asking me, I got a message on Facebook from Paige who wanted to know if you're what the process was, was like. So I had to take 72 hours. I needed to get a PCR test. Got that done. No problem. And you get the hardest part is relying on the fact that you're going to get that test back in 72 hours within three days. Because if you don't, you can't go and you need those results. So I did. I got them back quickly, you know, without any problem. And then you need to, before you leave, you need to arrange a day two and a day eight PCR test and have that sent to wherever it is that you're going. So mine, I ordered mine. It came to your place quickly. Yeah. Yeah. So and then I decided to get a day five because I found out that you can actually end your quarantine early if you have a day five test and test negative on that. So that all that stuff was here waiting for me. And that's it. And you get the test results the following day usually or so. So I would just make sure you have a place to have all that stuff sent and the results will be quick. That's basically it. I'll message you for some tips. Yeah. Yeah. As well. So I'm not going to go into that here. But yeah. It works. Yeah. Yeah. So that's that. It's official in the eyes of the lovers. Yes, that's true. Did I show him around the countryside? It's countryside all around us really. Just drive a little bit out in this countryside. Mrs Prescott in the kitchen with crystal wand. He's in the kitchen. Yeah. I'm the cook. Yeah. He's amazing. And today the cleaner. I know you did that. And the massager. Yeah. And he's sorting out my feet. And my legs.  I have water retention on my feet. So yeah. So yeah. I learned a really cool massage technique to get everything circulating. And you can visibly see the difference. You can. Yep. Have to get the measuring tape. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anything for you. I do. I do. I want to lean. Yeah. Because I can't lean on my back. It's a bad day. Yeah. If you see Ally rocking, you know why. Yeah. We're not going to have a long one because of that. And because I need to get my beauty sleep. So I'll be sleeping for the next two weeks. Don't be silly. What do you like? As Greg could driven my car. No, you haven't yet, have you? Not yet. No. No. I could. Yeah. If I had to. You could. I could. Much more comfortable watching you drive. We should go around to car park or something again just so that you're getting used to it again. Well, there's nothing to get used to in a car park. That's a parking lot. So I mean, it's automatic. I'm not shifting or anything. I suppose so. Yeah. It's to do with the closeness of other vehicles around, isn't it? It's narrow. It's more narrow than driving in America. See, you can't put your foot down as much as you would do in America. No, you can't. See, he's nagging me on that, on that trip to nowhere video. He's going, he was taking the mickey.   So it's like, you can't. Yeah. That's what I say.  You've got to be careful. How cold is in the UK? Cold. But I'll tell you what, guess who's the bigger baby when it comes to cold? Yeah. He's coping really well because we still haven't got any heating here. It's worked out that the thermostat is broken, isn't it? Well, when they changed the boiler, the thermostat didn't get lined up with the boiler. So Bluetooth or something. Yeah. It didn't get lined up. So they've ordered another part. So we're still without heating. We've got a little blow heater there, but you're coping fine. Yeah. Yeah. She's the one with cold feet and blue lips. Yeah. Who'd have thought it? Hey. Yeah. Yeah. I love the Starlight Projector helps. Oh, you've got it. That was quick, Vera. Because the Starlight Projector that I'd raffled off, it's going to Paula Fitzpatrick. She won the raffle. So Vera liked it so much. She thought I'll buy one. So it's actually colder in western Pennsylvania than it is here. I don't miss that, Susie. Is Pennsylvania near New York? Yes, right below it. That's it. So when I used to drive from New York to Pennsylvania, as you're entering each state, there's a big sign, welcome to Pennsylvania, welcome to New York. And as soon as you enter Pennsylvania and New York, both sides, it didn't matter. Big potholes. So it'd be like, welcome to Pennsylvania. Welcome to New York. Really? Yeah. Big potholes in the roads. Oh, worse than ours here in England. Oh, yeah. I'm telling you, because there's so much snow, and they use so much sand and ice and all this stuff. Get rid of it. Yeah, it gets really bad. The cars are really bad there. Lots of rusty cars.  Not today. No, he's rubbing my spine, and it's really bad. Yeah, this time. Last week I was, and probably next week I will be. But this time. Sympathy rubbing today. Yeah. Oh, and that. No, it's just so nice having him here. I'm going to be really sad. It's going to be worse than last time. Because I think last time, we didn't know about this lock-in so much, or the flights being stopped, did we? So it's like I was arranging, you was here, to say, September, I think, and I was going to fly out to you in October. So I'd got my flight booked and everything. So I thought, I can cope with that. It's just a little gap. But now I know, it's not going to be Christmas, is it? So talking. You know your dress is inside out? Just kidding. Silly things that you do that you don't recognize. Like if you're in pain, or if I'm tired, I could have put my shirt inside out and not known. Any different? What do you think, darling? What's this? That's fly. That's insane. I know. Teasing me. Oh, we had so much fun the other day when Allie had, well, she did the weekly energy forecast. Astrology. Yeah. Astrology forecast.  Our stomachs were hurting. I don't know if any of you guys saw that. It's on Allie's Facebook page. You've been very childish. Oh, very childish. Oh, God, that was funny. It was very funny. Yeah. Yeah, he was just doing these random farting things, weren't you? Yeah. And booze and cheers. Yeah. When people were picking numbers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or if Allie were to bend over, I'd make that noise so it looked as if it was me. Oh, my God. We were so childish. But it was funny, at least to us it was. It might not be for other people, but we found it funny. Yeah. Most people did, didn't they? Yeah. But that's just the inner child coming out. Yeah. Playing. I love your inner child. I love yours. Yeah. I do. I'm gonna. I will. Yeah. Tammy T., Stephen Jenkins, Susan Poli, Katarina Dea Moore. That's Allie. Poli. Poli. Poli. Everybody, isn't it? And how do you pronounce her last name? I would say Hempel. But wrong. It's not. It's not. Hempelie. Hempelie. Yeah. Very good. Very good. Yeah. Definitely say Hempel. If it was, if that was in front of me, that's what I would say. I would have said Hempelie. Like P. L. E. is like the last name of a soccer player or first and last name. The soccer player. Hempelie. Yeah. That's funny, Vera. Yeah. He's blaming it on these farting noises. Sound effects. Yeah. Not all of them. And I say all of them were YouTube? No. No. Oh, yeah. It was the first day I got here, and I did the last time when I was here, but I'm like, screw it. It happens. It's a natural effect. And yeah, first day, I let one rip. I don't care. He did. Yeah, he did. Sort of said, say. Don't know. There's only big glasses on, don't I? I don't love doves. I'll be on. On and off. Spitting calls. Saw some of that astrology video part way through. It was hilarious. Just like this six-year-old. Yeah. It was funny. It was raised as the vibration, doesn't it? In more ways than one. Yeah. Something as silly as that. It's theater child. And some people might not find that funny. We do. Yeah. So if it offended anyone, we're sorry. Yeah. But we're just. We can't change being us. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. So I'll be probably having another contest with your brother. Yes, that's all said. Oh, no, no, probably about it. That's right. He already asked me. Yeah. He's definitely having a problem. Yeah. So he said, eat something gaseous the day before. And they're going to be bending over playing barbelliers. So I'm going to be not sitting anywhere near that end. Yeah. It's going to be wiffy. Yeah. It's going to be fun. So we're having two Hennens tags, aren't we? Are we? I didn't know that. Yeah, you do. No, I didn't. We're having a meal. Meal. Oh, okay. Yeah. Friday. And then Saturday, we are out with Jake and Nikki. Yeah. It's kind of what's going on. Okay. Good. Good. Sounds good. And where are we going for the meal? Well, Rhea wants us to go earlier so the kids can come. And if we go to the wheat sheaf, it means that there's a play path outside. I've been there. Did you like the food there? Yeah. So perhaps we'll go there then. I'll talk to mum. Yeah. So if I book it there, and then if we do it earlier, what do you think? Yeah, I'm in. Yeah. Yeah. I'll go with you. Like you said, oh, it's just Twitter. We'd like you said to do it all in one night. Well, that might be a bit much. Yeah, it would be. Yeah. Yeah, we did it separately. So ladies never asked your man, do I look all right? So what's my answer? All right. All right. Yeah. You look all right. You look all right. So yeah. Yeah.  Do I look all right? Yeah. You always make me feel beautiful. So even if you're joking, I don't believe it. He just does. I could be looking like a bag of poo. And he's sitting with that makeup. So that's it now. Yep. And she's gorgeous. Yeah. So there's a song by Joe Cocker. You are so beautiful. And I play that line for her. I've got a cute up to that line where he sings that right off in the beginning of the song. And I play that for her all throughout the day. I do. I do. Very romantic. I love it. Really do something childish after that. So. If I'll be better sitting that side. Yeah, that's true. You turn the camera off a minute as well. I will shift. Yeah, we'll just go like this. Oh, that's a good idea. We're still here. We're still here. Yeah. Okay. I need to lean up. Yeah. That's my love. We're still. Wow, that's an unusual angle I'm giving.  And never mind. That sounds wrong, doesn't it? Yes. Yeah, that should be better for me. Maybe not for you though. That's it. And then I can lean over. Okay. Thanks for that. Oh, you know what? This way it looks like it did now when we were, you were here and I'm in the States. Now I'm on the, we're both on the correct sides. Oh, yeah. Yeah. See, like over here. Yeah. But we're not, we're here. Yeah. We are. I don't think, without you telling them that, I don't know. They wouldn't know, would they? I think you kept it obvious. Are you sure it's his drink then? That was funny. That's something in my phone. Allie gives me this rickety old table. What is it? It's a fold up table. Put my computer on. This one's not so great either. But at least it locks in. Yeah, it does. Don't you put that as the, as the thumbnail, me yawning. That would be funny. You did it last day, I think. No, we had, no, the last, the last day and night we had, you get on YouTube, you get a choice of three pictures and I chose the one I showed you the best. And I'm like, she has a pretty smile. I'm like, it's usually me doing the dorky face. Thank you, Elizabeth, for the super chat. Greatly appreciated. No, not at all. Of course I am. You can lean on me. Okay. No, I'm fine. I'm fine. We went over for a takeaway at my daughter Reyes. So he met the dogs. Take out, to go. Well, not to go. I guess it's just pick up, but yeah, take out in the states we call it. They call it takeaway here. And it was good. It was, it, we've got better. We've got better take out. Was it okay? It was okay. It was okay. Was it all right? It was all right. All right. No, it was okay. It was okay. You had more than I thought. There's more choices there. Yeah, I did. I tried, I tried a few things that I haven't had before. Yeah. And the thing about Chinese here versus in the States, there's different things in both places. Like, they don't have like the general Tao chicken here. Yeah. And that's just one. I don't know. I don't go for chicken or for Chinese often. But we do have Chinese. And I know that that is different in the States. But it was, it was, it was good. We'll have to try the other one. Ming Garden is the best in this area. In Hurn Bay, I think. Yeah, this is the best. But they, they don't do cash. I mean, we did have cash nights. We could have. Yeah. Usually, I mean, whatever Chinese or restaurant doesn't take card payments is ridiculous. But they don't. And they're the busiest around. You have to literally keep doing redial because it's so busy. Wow. But, yeah. That's, they don't want to be busier than that. They what? That's, they don't actually want to be busier than they are. Maybe. I don't know. Yeah. Donna Rose says I should stay until Christmas. Thank you, should. We're enjoying you too, way too much. Yeah. You should. I need to buy a new ticket. I can't. I can't. So we saw Logan play soccer. We did. Yeah, he's very good. Football here. He's very good, isn't he? Yeah. So that was on football Sunday. Yeah. Yeah. He enjoyed us going there, didn't he? He did well. He kept messaging saying, you sure you're going to come? Yeah. He's a goalie and they pulled him after the first half. They were up two to nothing. So as a goalie, he had a shutout. And they pulled him for the backup goalie because he's not going to be able to play this weekend. So the backup goalie needed some practice. So with them being up, it was okay to pull the goalie and let him get some action in. But he's clearly the better of the two. The other goalie led a goal in. Although that was a good goal that the other team scored. It was a low shot in the lower left-hand corner, which for if you've ever played goalie or know anything about soccer, that's a hard shot to block. So give credit to the other team for that shot. Hmm. That would have been difficult for him to, for Logan to have blocked. Of course, he would have, you know, because he's family. I don't know.  Don't kick the table. Sorry darling. What are you doing? Sorry darling. Don't make me beat you again. Yeah, you. Give that a go. Again. No, that's not right. Oh, I see. Wait a minute. No. What we have wanted to do is like this. You need your lead. You need your lead. Does it matter? Your power lead? Yeah, kind of. Okay. Yeah, or else it would be a really, really short show. Does it not hold the battery then? Oh, it does. And it probably, we would be fine. So your phone marked there. Claudette's there. Oh, Elizabeth Badger. Donna Rose. But one. Amirah. Amirah. How would you pronounce that one? Amirah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a new name. Yeah. I've seen that one before. Yeah. Hi. Welcome to our, our date night. I'm usually more lively. Oh no. I'm just suffering a bit. Yeah. Yeah. She's suffering because she's putting up with me. She can't wait to get rid of me. Yeah.  Rub your feet every day. Yeah. Pam for me. Yeah. Cook for you. Cook for me. How rude.  How rude of me. Romance. Yeah. Okay. I can't believe what a narcissist I am. That was funny. That was funny. He was called one, wasn't he? Was it last week? Yeah. On this? On date night. Yeah. Because all I did was look at you and adore you. Yeah. Yeah. That's what makes me a narcissist. Yeah. Yeah. Apparently so. You know when some people are trying to find any weakness that they think that you might have and then use that, I think that they're paid trolls. Definitely. I do think that they are literally on the books. It's like you've got to peel off that, those people and that's how it goes.  It wasn't even worth answering. I just deleted and blocked the view. I checked out his perverse YouTube channel. New user. No comments. No videos. That's how you know, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's silly.  I mean, I feel sorry for him really. I can't read those comments you see. I say it's not great. That's why you keep saying I look attractive because you really can't see me. I get it. What are you doing? There you are. I don't know how you get the comments on that. Anybody else having trouble with their phone not recognizing their thumb prints or fingerprints? Does anyone else have trouble? Because you've witnessed it now. It could be that I'm doing an update like now. Oh, there you are. Okay. That's better. Patriot double down concert or conference. Mark said and it's okay. It just went on me. Metta Man who worked for Trump as campaign director in 2016 was organized. It was organized. The event around the world. All United States. They're coming to Florida. Oh, nice. Oh. You saw one of seven as well as met David Nino Rodriguez and shook his hand. Asked to be his mod and he said yes. Wow. Okay. Yeah, what is the Patriot double down? Is it a conference? Is that with? Oh, what's his name? Scott McKay. Is that with them? Because he's doing that. His knees going round to do lots of conferences and things. Probably something similar, but probably not that exact same thing. Yeah. Lisa. Lisa. It's Thursday. This Thursday is Patriot. Patreon video chat. Yeah. Patriot. Patriot. I know it's because I'm in pain. All four days. Oh. I'm reading it off my phone because I can't read those comments there. I should get some context though because you wear them, don't you? I wear contacts. Yeah. I'm going to get them. I think I'm going for an eye test soon. I've got to make sure that that happens. And then when that does, I'll get the context. Do you have to have both? Do you have to, when you go to get context, do they say, right, either or? Or can you have glasses and? No, you can have glasses and contacts. Yeah. I think, yeah. Well, you see me wear glasses. Yeah. Not often though. No. You guys have seen me wear them? Not often, but I do occasionally. Scott McKay. Yeah. So Scott McKay. 40 other plus speakers were there from around the country and world. Oh, that sounds like an amazing event. Yeah. I feel like we're on the precipice.  Yes. Time. Yeah. I do. It's been time for a long time. It's been time for a long time. Yeah. But every day there's more and more light shining, exposing the dark. And we win. We're on the winning side.  We're still going to come through on this. We win. Yep. Well, you said it's because of the planets at the moment. They say Plutus. Plutus and Capricorn. Yeah. Plutus. Plutus and Capricorn. When I'm in pain, it just affects everything. Plutus and cornucopia. Plutus goes into Capricopia every 30 years. Plutus is known as the destroyer. I used to love you. No, I don't. All right, I love you again. No, it's just a second. But I love you. He does take the mickey out of me, bless me, but I do deserve it sometimes. Sometimes. I'm a bit doughnut.  Yeah. But I thought I'm not going to go there. I'll show it to you. Yeah. The funny picture of Hillary Clinton holding up a doughnut and she's with someone else holding up another doughnut. It's just funny though. Oh, it's a meme. It's a real picture. Yeah. Oh, is it? Yeah. And I said the bottom line was some memes don't need any words. Okay. But the hole inside Hillary's was huge. And the hole inside this young pretty-looking woman was tiny inside the doughnut. And? So what do you think that implies? What do you think that implies? Oh, that's rude. I know. That's funny though. It's funny. That's funny. Can't show it on here. No, that's not so good. Trying to keep this a family event here. You're talking about doughnut holes. Well, that was me.  Naughty boy. Yep. I love it. Oh, it's nice. Pamela said, nice to see you together. Oh, yeah. We deserve this. We've waited a long time, haven't we? The Pandora papers. Pandora papers. Are they the papers that prove that there's financial? You know, they're taking the finances. There's bad things going on with the finances. I'm not sure. Is that what Pandora papers are? I haven't researched that. Yeah. Yeah. Funny together. Oh, thank you. We're happy. We're ecstatically happy. You can change the size of the letters, Vera said. But then, you know, I can read it like this. That's all right. Yeah, because that's a bit blurry for me. I can read the capital things like. If everybody's typed in capital letters, you could read it. Yeah. Yeah. If you don't mind doing that, that's great. I'm kidding. I am joking. Oh, doughnuts there. Doughnuts. Yeah. Yeah. Send in love from Canada. Yeah, we have. We have two more date nights live together from the UK. Yeah. Sorry, because that sounds just going too quick. I know the first week went by like that. So, all Google. I mean, Google, Edgar Case. Yeah, I've got connection with Edgar Case. You won't need glasses. It worked for me. 11 years improved my eyesight. I'm 16. I've never owned reading glasses. Wow. Oh, there's a base method also that you can do.  And you can improve your vision naturally. It's called the base method. There's an article on N5D about the base method and I did it and I improved my vision by doing it, but I didn't continue doing it. So, I only improved it a little, but it does work. Yeah. So, you can. If you did that constantly every day, forever, how long it takes to get you to be at 2020, what that does is somehow it refocuses your vision. So, when you're focused on your thumb, it's taking everything else in and readjusting your vision as you're doing that. Yeah. I didn't know that. That's news to me. Yeah. So, BoxySama. The path to be with your soulmate is growing closer for me, unlike for which it is in full moon for you, which is in full bloom. So, does that mean that you've got a soulmate and you're wanting your soulmate to grow closer for yourself? Is that what you mean? Are you actually in the physical? Yeah. Or have you met? Or do you just feel like it's right about to happen? Yeah. What's going on, Phil? Yeah, the silver is a big change in silver, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Cliff High was talking about $600 an ounce silver coming soon. Yeah. That's exciting. It is. I have a little silver saved up. For those who have bought silver, it's about, he said there will be a time where silver is more valuable than gold. It's always a good idea, I think. Five countries. Yeah, to have. That's the one thing that will survive through a depression or a recession. Even an EMP, if there's an EMP and you have cyber currency, that's worthless. You won't be able to use it or access it. But if you have silver, physical silver, what you want to do is get both those coins, like one ounce coins, and what they call junk silver. And that would be in the United States any quarters or dimes that were made from 1964 or earlier. And just for example, and if you had a silver dime, it's 90% melt value. And that melt value would be worth maybe $3.50. So with that silver dime, you could buy a dozen eggs and a loaf of bread maybe. You can use that to barter. And then that's little things. Yeah. Yeah. So that's why you want to have that junk silver. It's not junk at all, but it's worth bartering. So would you like to do the list? Yeah. Yeah, I can tell. My baby's going through some, please send Allie some loving healing energy for her back. She's having a little issue going with her back. So we're going to make this a little quicker tonight. And Allie's going to be doing the reading of the names soon. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. If you want, we can sign off right now and you can do it afterwards. No, no, I'm good. I'm good. Yeah. Yeah, I'm good. All right. So if you purchase marked silver, make sure it's $9.99. See ours silver is $9.25 on ours. Okay. Yeah. 92.5% silver. Okay. Oh, there's Sharon. How's your website? Go and check out Sharon's website. She's got a new website. And I think you've got an offer, haven't you? At the moment, Sharon, some sort of deal, I think. I'm talking about that. Do you hire consciousness? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, thank you, Amirah. Thank you. Do you want to show you? Yeah. Do you need your, what do you need? Right there. What? Yeah. No, it's beyond that. Oh, that. Oh, okay. I didn't know, darling. So, yeah. You guys know that I have a website. It's called Hire Consciousness Gip Shop. And I got everything. There was, I had a slight issue with the site and everything's working fine right now. As a matter of fact, Phil ordered, yeah. What's that? Did you just do that? I just did that. Yeah. Yeah, look at that. Oh, I think it's finished actually. Phil ordered a sweatshirt and it should be there. Actually, no, they're mailing it out, I believe, on the 28th. So you should be getting that one real soon. It's great. They mail it out here in the United States. So it should be shortly after that, that you get that. So I'm excited for you on that. But for me, I have to fly to get here and they make you wear masks when you fly. So this is the one I wore. And if you have to wear one, wear one in style. That's what I said. That's the one I wore on the way over here. I also wore this one. It's a tie-dye one. And I got this one. I love this. So if you have to wear a mask, I totally get it. I won't wear a mask when I go into a grocery store. Neither will you. But there's places where you do have to wear them. And if you go into a hospital or if you have to fly, you have to wear them. So if you have to wear one, make a statement and do it in style. And you can find that stuff at Higher Consciousness Skip Shop. And there's all sorts of other things, sweatshirts, shirts, dresses, towels, sandals, all sorts of, yeah. So I'm able to get these prints on a lot of different items there. So check that out. Do you want to do a screenshot? No, I don't have that set up. Maybe next week. Okay. Do you have your list on there? Yeah. How are we going to do this? Well, I'm going to get up anyway then. Is it all set up? Yeah. Good. Yeah, they are. I mean, it's not just masks on there. There's all sorts, isn't there? Yeah, sweatshirts, shirts, dresses, towels. So it's a lot of them. You've got what elements if you got on there already. So it's like hoodies and things like that, haven't you? Yeah, it's worth it. Okay. Yeah, this is what you'll find this on there. Hoodies, tote bags, flip-flops, tap-streets, face masks, novelty, and leggings, pillows, beach towels, all sorts of stuff at Higher Consciousness gift shop. You do pull them leggings. Yeah, yoga pants. They're written. Yeah. Yeah. So that's that. There's lots in there. Yeah. And you know, there's different colors and styles like for hoodies. You see what I've got the air element. I'll be doing all the elements on here. I also have the Awakening Third Eye and Crown Chakra. That's the purple and the indigo colors. Right there, which looks really cool. This is the one I got, the Flower of Life unisex hoodie. Actually, I got the zip up, zip hoodie. Yeah, but yeah, all sorts of different ones there and different styles. I'll be adding the other elements as well. So check that out, Higher Consciousness gift shop. Good quality. It is. It is. Before you actually put it out there, you actually ordered some things to test it out.  Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. So I've got an offer at the moment is back on for an hour. It's a price of an hour read. You get 90 minutes. So that is out there at the moment. Yeah, definitely take advantage of that. PsychicAllie.net. And when you go there, you're going to see a new website there too. Yeah, I've been working on my new website. That's right. Let me screen share that. So this is what Allie's website looks like now. Yeah. Thank you for doing that for me. Yeah, you're welcome. So yeah, Allie's got a new looking website. So yeah, you can book a reading. You can go to her shop. Yeah. Yeah. And classes, that's workshops free online. So yeah, that's what it looks like now. It's looking really sharp. Yeah. So that's okay. So yeah, definitely go there. Check it out. Book a reading with her special that she has going on. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, I want you to get going with the reading. So, okay, Allie's back is hurting her. I'm going to step away from the camera and it's going to give it all to my love. Yeah, of course. Where's your lighter? It was sticking out of that pencil jar. No? Is it not on the side there? This one? No. I don't know where it is then. No, it's like a tall lighter. Don't worry. Yeah. Don't worry. Okay, so I'm just going to move this over a little bit. So there was somebody last week who I needed to add to the list. So if you are watching, and you did add your name last week, and I didn't, and I haven't got it down on here. So yeah, just message again if you can. And I apologize, but the intention is going out there anyway towards that person. So yeah. Okay. So I'm going to do the list now. So if anybody would like to light a candle and tune in and start to think positive thoughts about these people as I read their names out. This is for the twin flame energy to, now I don't know where it is, somewhere on my shittle there. It's pink and it's long. But I'm not saying, I'm not saying anything, but don't light a lighter over there at the moment. That's all I'm going to say. Oh my goodness. I'm lost. I'm totally lost now. Yeah, it's gone. We go again. So if you wanted to add your name to this list, you can. This is for people who want to find true love. If that can be sometimes the love of yourself, sometimes it's about confidence building. Sometimes it's about family members. And sometimes it's because you want that twin flame energy, the soulmate, that special person coming into your life or strengthen up an existing relationship. Me and Greg are on the list, even though we are here together now, we still want it to be permanent. So that's why we're still there. You couldn't chuck me in my mouse, could you? It's somewhere on there. Okay, so I'm going to read the list out. The list is over there. So that's why I'm looking over there. Okay, so here we go. Start thinking all those positive vibes. It's like living with children here. It is. We're playing darts. Oh, I nearly smashed you then. I need to turn the camera around then. No. Cool. Because that's yours. Okay, you ready? I'm ready. Aaron M. Edina M. S. A. Me. S. Alex V. Alexandra G. Allison James. Allison L. Allison S. D. Ali F. Allison H. Allison N. Y. Amado T. Amanda L. Amanda M. Amanda W. Andrea J. Angie H. Anna O. C. Anne E. K. Anthony P. Ava F. Bo R. Becker D. Benisha M. Benji N. Betty B. Blake J. R. Blake T. Bob N. You're not allowed to look at that. Bob N. Brandy H. Brandy L. L. Com S. Carol L. L. Caroline M. Caroline E. G. Karen D. Carrie L. Cat M. Caesar L. Chad F. Charlotte P. Charlotte U. Cheryl S. Chrissy E. Christina C. Christina M. Christine M. Claire S. Claire W. Claudette M. Contra Y. Constance W. Carina W. Chris D. H. Crystal D. H. Cynthia F. Daniel J. Daniel J. Dana C. David S. Davina M. Dawn H. Dawn P. Deb M. Deb P. T. Deb W. Debby B. Debby H. Debby L. Debby P. Deborah M. Deborah S. Denise C. Denise K. Devin S. P. Desi. Diana A. M. Diane B. Diane S. Dijie B. Dominique H. Donna R. L. Dauphine F. Dauphine F. Dulcey V. Ellen E. M. Alyssa, or Elsa, sorry, V. Elizabeth B. Elizabeth C. Elizabeth P. Ella M. O. Eloise C. Emma K. B. Emma K. Erica. Gabrielle G. Gale A. Gary H. Gale B. Georgia V. Gerardo A. Jill P. Gracie W. Greg Prescott. Gertrude M. Gypsy J. Hanging L. Hailey C. Heather H. Holly A. Holly M. Jackie J. Jackie W. Jacqueline S. H. Jacob A. Jacob B. James O. James F. James S. C. Jane H. Jane M. Jane M. Jane M. Jane P. Jason B. Janet C. Janice D. Geoffrey L. Jenna R. Jenna S. Sorry, Jenny S. Jill C. Jill C. Jimmy M. Joanna C. Jody E. Jody S. Jody G. John F. Josephine R. R. Judy M. Julia D. R. Julia R. Julie B. Julie R. June N. Justin B. Carolyn M. Karen B. Karen B. Karen M. Karen S. Karen Ann B. Carrie J. T. Kate P. Kate W. Kathleen L. Kat L. Kelly F. Kerry D. Kim W. Kimberly S. T. King B. Kirsten W. Canola A. Kwan Y. Latisha W. Laura N. Leila S. Leanne D. Lea P. Leanne C. Lee O. Leslie A. Lahomo Y. Lily J. Linda P. Linda S. Linda W. Lisa B. Lisa C. Lisa D. Lisa D. Lisa S. Liz L. L. R. Liz C. Louise M. Louise M. Linda T. Lynn M. Lynn M. Mufelda T. Marie Maria N. Mark W. Marcia M. Marie Ho-J. Marilyn K. Marish M. Mary S. Mary T. Matthew C. Maureen W. Megan D. Megan S. Melissa D. Melissa R. Michael B. Mike M. Mimi B. Min D. W. Miranda H. Murrays. Neil C. Nini J. Nikki P. Nicole B. Nicole H. Nicole I. M. Nicole K. Nora C. Page H. Page H. Pam C. Pamela R. Paris P. Patricia J. Patricia W. Patricia W. Paula A. Paula F. Penny D. Peter W. Peter W. Phil Pristafas. Pippa A. PJF. Rachel D. Rachel N. R. Ray J. G. Ray R. L. Rashpal K. Renee R. Ria C. Robert F. Robert H. Robert R. Robin P. Rose K. Ros-L. Ruth B. Sam P. Sam S. Samar. Samantha H. Sandy P. Sandy P. Sandy R. Sandy V. H. Sarah G. Sarah R. Sassy M. Sorry it's muted off. Scott O. Shannon F. Sharon G. Sharon G. Sharon H. Sharon J. Sharon P. Sharon. Charlene C. Sheri S. Sheri S. Sheri J. Shirley S. Siobhan D. Sky M. W. Sonia R. Stacy M. Stacy C. B. Stacy G. Stella M. Stella S. W. S. M. Sorry. Steph K. Stephanie M. Stephanie S. Steve. Susan M. A. Suzanne W. L. Suzanne D. Suzanne M. Tomorrow B. Tomorrow S. Tammy T. Tammy C. Tammy K. Tammy T. Tanya R. Tenor R. Tessa O. Tina C. Tina F. Tracy R. Tracy H. Trina R. P. Trisha K. Trisha W. K. Trisha B. Trisha G. Trisha T. Tayed A. Valerie A. Valerie C. Valerie J. Valerie O. Burcos TV. Victoria J. Wanda E. Yvonne P. Martha K. Robin E. And Lenore F. S. So 319 names at the moment. So there you go. Filsen Super Chat. Thank you, Phil. Thank you, Phil. Yeah, so if you didn't hear your name on there, if you're new to our Tuesday night date night, this is what we want you to have this. This is amazing. It's so easy. It is. Everything. Flows. It's like being in love with yourself, but not in an egotistical way. Right. It's just. Everything just fits and works so easily. Everything. Right down to a T. Yeah. Yeah.  Even, you know, they're not being together. They're being apart all that time. And it has not stopped us, is it? No. Nothing has. So. You know, when you meet that person, the one, it changes everything. We were just talking the other day how, and we've mentioned this numerous times on date night that neither of us were looking. I was just getting out of a relationship. You weren't looking. And I thought, there's no way. But when I saw you, I knew you're it. I have to be with you. Yeah. Now, look at me. Yeah. Yeah. I love her. He's got the broken version of me. No. Not to me. Yeah, I am. No. Not to me. You have to put up with all me aches and pains. I'm not. Very patient. When you're in love, when you love that person, when you find that other half, doesn't matter if there's any disabilities or anything like that. None of that stuff matters. Wouldn't matter the other way around. Of course not. And it didn't. When I had my stomach, you didn't care. No. It made no difference. You wanted me to come over them. Yeah. I wanted to fly to you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I would have been a hindrance, but I wanted to be there for you. Yeah. Yeah. So I feel I'm very lucky to have you in my life. Yeah. Yeah. So we want this for everybody, either in your existing relationship, you know, just to be loved unconditionally without having to prove your love every day. You do it because you want to do that. Because you want to show that person their much love. But it's not to get anything from it. Right. It's just because that's how you feel. Because you love them. Yeah. And you want them to feel happy. Yeah. We do that in our own ways. And, you know, it's not a competition. No. No. It's bliss. Yeah. Yeah. So thank you for joining us on our date night. Yes. And I'm sorry it's cut short. Yeah. We're going to wrap it up early tonight. But we shall be back next week. We're going to be doing the group meditation. Oh, yeah. And that's going to be, we hit change at the time. And I'm really sorry, but it's because there's so much going on. Obviously, we've got the wedding. We've got the grandchildren who are doing trick-and-treating and coming around. Bless them. So we're changing the times and everything. So I think now we're going to do 9 p.m. meditation and positive energy going out there from 9 p.m. And that's on Halloween 31st of October. So that's what we're planning to do. So our next date night will be on November 2nd, three days before we get married. And our last one from the UK will be married. We'll have a ring on my finger. Yeah. We are going to be wearing our rings from that point. I mean, obviously I've got my engagement ring, but yeah, we're good, aren't we? And we'll be going live with the, you guys have been with us throughout the whole entirety of our relationship. And we're bringing you into our wedding as well. The ceremony will be live. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, we're going to wrap it up there. So on behalf of my love, I'm Craig. And thank you to everyone who joined us once again in the live chat. And for those who are watching on the recorded version, we love all of you. And we'll both send you all infinite love and light. Till the next time.


Yr unig. Yn gyfnodd ar gyfer a fydd yn ymweld fyddiol yn gwybod i chi'n gweithio. Mae'n gweithio ar y tîm a bryd a ddych yn ysgrifennu ffobl yn unig yma. Mae'n gweithio ffobl yn gyfnodd yn ysgrifennu ei wneud. Mae'n gweithio'r ysgrifennu ymweld i'r ysgrifennu yn y ffobl yn ysgrifennu ei wneud. Yn gweithio, mae'r ysgrifennu erbyn i'ch ysgrifennu ymweld i'ch ysgrifennu of the capitalist mobilisation of productive bodies of the population. It would be my assertion that self-tracking functions as a means for enabling the mobilisation of the entire physical, symbolic and affective lives of the population through capital accumulation focusing on encouraging activity. So I've been seeing activity in really broad terms, in both physical terms and in the production of communicative symbols. But I'll start with just very briefly introducing what it is I'm talking about. So I'll talk about the use of self-tracking devices in workplace wellness programmes. So these are any devices really that are used to monitor activity. It could just be a pedometer, but in a lot of cases it's Fitbits or similar devices. This Virgin Pulse One is produced by one of the providers of these. And they're used in initiatives which are designed to improve the health and wellbeing of employees. So Virgin Pulse is one of the companies, I think they're mostly in the United States. GCC or Global Corporate Challenge is another. And this sort of feedback model is the suggested means in which this works, this functions. It suggests you get a little cue from your device which tracks your steps and sometimes other things. Which could just be that you see how many steps you've taken and you think I should be doing some more, should be running or walking more. Or it might give you a little notification saying that you have walked enough or you haven't walked enough. And then this spurs you on to go out for a run or a walk and then you get a little reward which could be a virtual trophy or it could be moving up to the league table or something like this. And they have various suggestions as to why these things are useful. And they're mostly focused around improving the health of the employees but also improving productivity of the company. And one thing which is the most thing I've focused on most really is this issue of engagement. And I think this is a stronger engagement in the middle there which I think is more significant than they suggest. So these are the kinds of initiatives that I'm discussing. But I'm going to focus on and draw on this quotation from the sociologist Boltanski and Keopello. And they suggest that activity has become what they call the general equivalent. So activity is the general equivalent. It's what the status of persons and things is measured by. It surmounts the oppositions between work and non-work, the stable and the unstable, wage earning and non-wage earning class, paid work and voluntary work, that which may be assessed in terms of productivity and that which not being measurable eludes calculable assessment. And they say that this is becoming increasingly the thing against which we're always judged. And I think we can kind of see this playing through in what some people have called the cult of busyness. Everyone needs to be busy all the time. Everyone has to have a project on the go. And an increasing preoccupation with individual and state level productivity. Productivity is a big problem for everyone apparently. So I place this valorisation of activity, which I think we can see in the context in which work is becoming increasingly central, I think, to all aspects of our lives, but at the same time that it seems to be declining in the social imaginary. And I think that this is occurring for the reasons which some Italian autonomist Marxists have suggested, is because actually work is just moving outside of the factory walls. Really we're kind of working all the time, not just when we would kind of clock in before we'd clock out. And so I'll try to articulate what all this means. And this is happening, I think, for certain due to certain developments within capitalist structure. And so Marx's concept of alienation doesn't really stand anymore. For Marx, he suggested that the capitalist production process wouldn't allow workers to be creative or emotionally engaged so they started to feel kind of like robots. So they were alienated. But in the contemporary economy is our emotional and social lives which capitalism needs to appropriate as well as our physical working bodies in order to generate profit. So emotional labour, social networks, the relationships between people are all central to the productive processes. And I think self-tracking is one means of enabling the appropriation of this, of all these different aspects for capitalism. So I'm going to suggest two ways in which activity has become valorised and then self-tracking enables and encourages activity. So the reproduction of productive bodies and the generation of symbolic value, data and network connections and various other things. So I've seen these both as types of activity, as physical movement and also the production of symbolic things. So first in terms of productive bodies. So I'll suggest that, well, actually no, I'll just put this quote up. So this is from Gray and Delay, my French pronunciation is not too good. This is kind of the mantra for this section. They suggest that the living machine must become as adapted as possible to the social mechanism into which it is in fact integrated. So that its productive act develops in optimal conditions and its gears don't grind too loudly. So they were talking about mid 20th century psychology and suggesting its place within enabling the integration of individuals into the productive processes of capitalism. They don't want their gears to grind too loudly, just want them to get on with being productive. And I think we can see the aspects of self-tracking I'm discussing as being part of a similar kind of process. So when I went to speak to some people who were involved in implementing these kinds of wellness programs to see why they wanted to do it. And they were all super enthusiastic about them and they thought they were great. But they acknowledged that they didn't really think that they actually really made anyone much healthier or improved their wellness in particular. And this is because most people engaged with it. There were usually these, how these projects work is that people get together in teams and track their steps collectively for six weeks or so, compete against other teams in their organisation and elsewhere. To see who can walk the furthest distance over that time. So it's kind of like a group project. But they suggested that actually in most cases people didn't really keep that up for very long. Even for the six weeks most people kind of their interest dropped off after three or four weeks. And they only really benefited super competitive people who were already kind of running marathons and things like this anyway. So it's kind of an optimisation. But they thought it was great anyway. And it's for these kinds of reasons. This is a quote from one of my respondents. They said, as well as competing with other teams, they're also competing against themselves. Every day you'll try and work more steps. You'll try and build a healthier lifestyle and healthier habits. Someone else said, it's about yourself as an individual. You put your goal, it's about setting your goal and then trying to meet that. It's about this kind of internal process of pushing yourself on to be more active. Rather necessarily than actually achieving any greater healthiness or anything like that. So I suggest this is really actually part of building an entrepreneurial self. I won't go into too much detail about this because I think other people are going to talk about very similar things actually from reading other people's papers. But it's about making people more competitive, more driven, getting them to focus on being tenacious, adaptable, restless, always striving to be doing more all the time. But in order to build an entrepreneurial self, we need to construct a certain kind of subject. And there's a fantastic book by Ulrich Broklyn called The Entrepreneurial Self. And he says about how entrepreneurialism is inherently connected, is intimately connected with notions of empowerment. And we can see these devices and programmes as means of empowering workers within a certain kind of way. And he suggests, in order for empowerment specialists to promote people's potential to self-govern, they must first frame their problems as essentially caused by a lack of self-government. So this certainly involves individualising if not the causes of the problem, then the solution. So they need to encourage people to think that the way to being better, healthier, just to generally a better person is individual and is down to a lack of self-government. And I think we can see this in the ways in which many self-tracking devices are also effectively productivity devices, productivity measures. The withings health mate is a self-tracking iPhone up, but it's a steps tracker and life coach and the two go together. And life coaching is a big part of entrepreneurialism as well.  And it's all about these kinds of ideas. And it's the same kind of thing I think that saw at the beginning with those. It's about individualising this kind of process of self-improvement by tracking yourself. And I think there's a big alignment between productivity and self-tracking here. But what I think this is kind of really about in specifically a workplace context is down to kind of changes in how we're managed at work. And we don't really allow ourselves to be submitted to authoritarian bureaucratic controls, or not everyone does, in the same way that we perhaps used to in the past. This is where, again, what Boltanski and Capello have suggested in their analyses of kind of management strategies, that today we're controlled by transferring constraints from external organisation of mechanisms to people's internal dispositions. So in order to get us to work and work harder and be productive at work, we won't just be told this. Our managers try to get us to internalise these ideas, internalise this kind of entrepreneurial self. So I think that this is very much connected to ideas around engagement at work. Because if we won't be submitted to these very authoritarian controls at work, we have to be encouraged to be productive at work by our employers. We have to be engaged. And in the management discourse around this, they make intimate connections between engagement and wellbeing. And the two go together for them. And what engagement here really is about encouraging people to work to align their own goals with those of the organisation, that's what they really mean. So when they talk about employee engagement, which I think is central to this, they define employee engagement as, this is in the kind of management literature, being positively present during the performance of work, by willingly contributing intellectual effort, experiencing positive emotions and meaningful connections to others. That's in regs I'll come back to that later. And they suggest that an employee is positive emotional attachment to their job and our colleagues and our organisation, which profoundly influences their willingness to learn and perform at work. This is kind of the holy grail of kind of work management is to get people to be engaged in this kind of way. So one of the key challenges for contemporary management is to enable workers to feel free and autonomous at work and to see workers a means to achieve their personal goals, but also to attract rather than direct them to aligning these goals with those of the organisation. And I suggest that self-tracking is one of the ways in which they do this. And I think we can see this play out if I look at some more of the interviews that I am conducted. Because the people I spoke to acknowledged that they were only really engaging some of their workers. As one person said, I'd like to think we target these events and activities to different groups that mean everyone at work, but the participation of ancillary roles was very poor. By that they mean kind of lower grade workers. So it would be more your sort of mid to higher grade positions. They, the lower grade people, just want to come into work, do their job, get paid and go home. So they're not interested in these kinds of activities apparently. Another said, maybe from a fitness point of view they, the lower grade people, are less important because they're less sedentary. So perhaps you don't need to worry so much that we don't engage them. I'm not sure there's much of an appetite for, but I don't want them to think this doesn't include them, whether they come or not. So the issue here is that those kind of lower grade people who just want to come to work and get paid and go home, they're not interested in this kind of thing. And it doesn't really speak to them. I think this is because these are different kinds of notions of engagement. And if you look at the management literature they talk about transactional engagement, it's where people are driven to meet expectations in order to earn a living and progress, or emotional engagement, which is a desire to do more for the organisation. And they're looking at that second kind of engagement, I think. It's the kind of people that higher grade the kind of more management positions, or possibly like all of us, who won't have this authoritarian kind of micro management. They have to seduce us into doing what they want. So what they acknowledge in these kind of quotations is that these initiatives are not really about improving people's well-being as the last, actually sorry, I'll come back to that. As I say in that second quote, not sure as much of an abstract for them but it doesn't matter, this doesn't include them, whether they come or not. This isn't about people taking part in stuff, it's people knowing that it's going on and feeling good about employer that does these things. So I'll come back to that point. It's about this emotional engagement with your employer. And again, from the management literature they say that employees will also need to be persuaded that engagement has something in it for them. So we need to show more clearly that engagement improves individual health stress and well-being. So workers need to be engaged in a way in which it seems to improve their well-being, improve their life for themselves. So that's one way, which I think these programmes, these self-tracking programmes, when they're inflated in the workplace context are about, I suggest, improving productivity but making people more engaged and more productive at work in this detached fashion. But I think they're also about producing symbolic value. This is the bit that I've maybe worked out the least, so I'm really interested to know what people think about this. It seems like a side product but it's actually I think more central than is acknowledged, is the production of symbolic value through these devices. And I contextualise this in the insight from Franco Baradi, he suggests that now we're in a state of semiocapitalism, which takes the mind, language and creativity as its primary tools for the production of value. In the sphere of digital production, exploitation is exerted essentially on the semiotic flux produced by human time at work. So all kinds of self-tracking, including the workplace ones I'm talking about, produce symbols, data, as people have already talked about, such as these kinds of things. They produce, you can maybe generate Strava badges like this and produces data on you. And what these do is they turn exercise activity into something obviously quantified, but also as Lomberg and Fransen have suggested in a great paper that should read into something communicational. Of course any kind of exercise activity or human activity could be meaningful and communicational in certain ways. If I go for a run as well as trying to exercise I might be portraying myself as this healthy virtuous person. But also in this context when my exercise activity is turned into a number it becomes directly communicational in a different kind of way. Because all the heterogeneous different kinds of exercise activities that lots of people engage in become standardised and then they can be combined together, they can be compared. We can compete with one another, we can communicate with one another in this kind of way. So that's just that digital tracking is productive of certain kinds of meaning. I'll come back to this, but that math is from a symbol of one of these projects that was set up by my organisation themselves and it was where we got into teams, we had to collectively try to walk from London to Rome over kind of six weeks period. That's another way in which I think it becomes communication. We all become this symbol on a map that we're kind of that we're moving across Europe. But I think that we need to understand this in the context in which as other people such as Gold Harbor and Christian Morazzi and Bernard Stiegl have suggested that we live in an attention economy. And in the kind of societies which like the ones that I think that we all live in, which are dominated by cultural and knowledge-based industries where cultural production is abundant, the scarce resources is actually attention. So I have more playlists saved on Spotify than I'm ever going to listen to, more PDFs saved on my Google Drive than I'll ever read, a longer Netflix list than I'll ever look at. The cultural products aren't scarce, but attention is. And in this context Bernard Stiegl suggests that we've seen an increasing significance of what he calls the programming industries by which he means kind of media and actually really this is spread out into virtual areas, which are engaged in a form of psychopolitics, which is that he suggests contemporary power technologies no longer mainly aim at disciplining bodies or regulating life processes, but controlling and modulating consciousness. And that media technologies such as these self-dragging devices are engaged in trying to modulate our consciousness to direct our attention in certain ways because it's our attention that is needed. And again this is related to that notion of engagement and engagement at work. We can't be kind of directly, strictly controlled by management. They have to direct our attention in certain ways, whether that's towards ourselves to kind of self-discipline ourselves or, as I'll suggest in a moment, outwards. So this is about, for me, about the kind of capital appropriation of our emotional, our effective lives, our symbolic lives. So just to return to this quotation, as I said that last point, this isn't about people taking part in stuff, it's people knowing that it's going on and feeling good about an employer that does these things. It's about managing our attention, our emotional and our effective lives. And to take another, another quotation from one of my interviews, what someone said was, we call it employer brand. So in terms of us, in terms of return on investment, it's about improving our employer brand so that we attract people who want to work for the company. So this isn't about, again, it's not about making people healthier or fitter. It's about managing their, the perception, managing the attention of their workers, so their workers will think, this is a good place to work, this is good, and also they'll be able to attract other good, other good workers as well. And the, advertising for the Virgin Pulse initiative says some things and it says, show them some love, they'll love you back, support what gets your employees going, they'll care more about your business. It's about managing the relationship with your employees. And this is in the context in which I think there's been a, there's been a change in discipline and there's lots of people, Zygmunt Baumann for one suggested that the panoptic model of domination isn't really kind of, holds sway so much necessarily anymore, at least not for certain groups of people. So rather than being drilled and disciplined, we're managed, he suggests like swarms of bees. If you want to manage a swarm of bees, you can't, you can't train them in a training camp, you have to attract them to the nice pretty flowers and they do, they do the same kinds of things. And this is particularly the case I think with social media, which works off developing a buzz and virality and this kind of thing. And again to return to the kind of management literature on, on engagement, which I think is intimately connected with, with this, this is understood as the emergence of employee engagement as a, as an important thing was described as the realization that there was a huge potential reserve of energy and commitment in organizations which could be released by making meaning for people. And highlighted the fact that people desperately need meaning in their lives and will sacrifice a great deal to institutions that will provide this meaning for them. So this is kind of, this is latent energy in the, in the population of workers that needs to be harnessed, you harness it by generating meaning, us, and certain kinds of meaning, employer brand for instance. And again from the management literature, people are seeking something more meaningful and sustainable than engaging with a corporate strategy. Many employees want to engage with social missions beyond the organization. So this is partly the, the rationale for kind of corporate social responsibility, but also for these kinds of programs. And that, that social, that, that mission might actually be quite individualized, like with those Virgin Pulse kind of images. It's actually about developing yourself project, becoming happier, healthier, this kind of thing. But this is about another kind of engagement. This is the, the point about network connections I was making. So just again, just to return to these quotations where I've highlighted, it's about making meaningful connections to others and it's about an emotional attachment to your colleagues. So not just emotional attachment to your boss or your organization, but to those around you. And I think that these kind of programs are useful for this as well. So this is again from the, the program that was implemented at my, my university. We were very encouraged to be posting things on Twitter about how far we've walked and what we've been doing. We were, we were provided with a selfie stick, so we could take pictures of ourselves, as people have done here, all of their dog wearing sunglasses, things like this. And so this is about, I think, engaging people's attention towards this thing, managing the, the, the, the, the flows of attention towards these things. And so partly to think I should be doing that, I should be pushing myself more, but also to manage this emotional relationship. And again, to return to Bolton's Cepillo, Cepillo, they suggested that today, the ideal, ideal typical figure of contemporary capitalism is connectionist, someone who's connected to lots of networks, someone who is connected to lots of people and they know what connections to exploit and which ones to ignore. And as Dugay and Morgan, who were writing about Bolton's Cepillo, the network extender is the nodal point of various networks. That's the ideal person, the person who's connected to lots of people, who's got 5,000, 10,000, 1 million Twitter followers, whatever else. And I think that these, these are encouraging people to do that. It's encouraging people to connect with others in this kind of way. And again, some of the quotations from my research, one person said, that's why, why they thought it was good. They said it's the camaraderie, because actually most of the teams are in the same departments. They see, they, each day, they start bouncing off each other. Someone else said about why they wanted to do it. It's a healthy workforce, but it was engagement as well, the whole staff engagement thing. The feedback we got from people who did this, aside from some of the competitiveness, was it was more of a real team spirit. There was a buzz in the air around departments with people doing things as a team, speaking to people they wouldn't normally do. People making connections, becoming connectionist. And so I just did, I weren't going to much detail on this, but I did a very brief kind of basic Twitter analysis of the hashtag for this initiative, which is called Beckett Steps, Leeds Beckett University, to see who the most influential Twitter users of this hashtag were. It wasn't, there wasn't a vast amount of use of it, as you can see. But the two big ones, which have got their nose highlighted and ready, Beckett Steps, which is the official Twitter account, and then the second one at the top in the middle, the Dean of the Faculty of Health, who were the most prolific tweeters on this hashtag. And as you can see, just very briefly, what this formation, this particular formation, this style type formation, means is that they were very influential, they were central to the networks, and they were directing the meaning. They were very powerful in constructing the meaning around what was going on here. And everyone else was relatively not influential. And again, just at this point that it's about generating meaning in certain kinds of ways, and actually that health isn't really a very big part of it. I asked them about how they measure well-being, or what it kind of means to them. And one of them said, trying to quantify the benefits of wellness programmes is a challenge. How you quantify it really is on feedback. So we use a couple of different feedback systems, but the feedback for this was overwhelming positive for this GCC programme. So that's, they thought it was good. The feedback was good, so they thought it was successful. Someone else said, one really good indicator at the moment is if you look at our staff survey last year, the question was, the organisation is interested in my wellbeing. We got 72%. So 72% of our staffs think that we're interested in their wellbeing. And as they're going to say, the national survey for that sector, that they averaged was 52.6. So they were doing well. So they're managing that emotional relationship. That was a good outcome, not improving health. So just to kind of end up, what I suggest is kind of going on here is it's a particular kind of control. So encouraging and stimulating activity, both a physical activity, movement and also of engagement under the generation of symbolic value on social networks and things like this. What is occurring is a form of what Richard Lazzarrotto drawing on Felix Gattari suggests is a form of diagrammatic control. She says it's something which circumvents representation, consciousness and language and initiates a process exploits the difference between subjection and enslavement. And what he means by this is that we're engaged on the level of what he calls a signifying semiotics. So signifying semiotics is kind of normal kind of language that we find in a book or something. A signifying semiotics are things like data and algorithms and codes and tables and things like this. These are not aimed at subject constitution but at capturing and activating presubjective and pre-individual elements affects emotions, perceptions to make them function like components or cogs in the semiotic machine of capital. And so what he means here is that when we're being engaged on, not on the subjective level but on the presubjective level what Delers will call the divisual below the level of the subject. And so just to kind of highlight how this, I think this kind of works is really that in a basic level this is being entered into a spreadsheet. So this is just a fairly basic spreadsheet for my program I engaged in at work. You have to enter your data into the spreadsheet. There was also a kind of a knockout competition sort of like a Euro 2016 kind of knockout running alongside it. And if you're encouraged to think about yourself on that level you can't really argue with it on a subjective level.  I mean you can argue in a broader sense but on that basic level you are just that bit of data. Or in terms of like with this map. You can't engage with this in any other way. You're either moving towards Rome or you're not. And as with this network this is the kind of form of diagrammatic control I'm part of this network and I'm getting these kind of flows of data coming at me and controlled in a diagrammatic way the meaning is being controlled outside of my level of consciousness in a sense. I also did just another very basic kind of network diagram of the hashtag around the GCC the kind of global corporate challenge hashtag and basically really all this is showing is that the most influential nodes in this were the official GCC Twitter feed Richard Branson who owns Virgin Pulse and merged with that company and then a few big employers a few big banks and kind of councils and things like this. There is them that are generating the meaning and the kind of control in the network as we know kind of control today doesn't function through hierarchies it functions through networks but it's kind of more hidden. And this is what I'm out of time I'll just be two minutes what Richard Latserato calls machinic enslavement that we're engaged not on the conscious level but on the kind of pre-conscious level. So again it's this kind of feedback loop of developing a habit and it's also notions of nudge and gamification which other people have talked about but just very briefly I like this explanation of how nudge works nudge works if you want to get a mouse from one side of the table to the other you lift up the table with gamification you put a piece of cheese at the other end so with nudge you make it you manipulate the choice architecture to make it easier to run to the other side the other UM put some cheese there but a lot of reward but that's kind of engaging on that pre-subjective level it's not engaging you as a kind of discursive subject it's engaging you just on this kind of automatic level this nudging that's just pushing the habitual level so as Latserato says machinic enslavement takes over human beings from the inside on the pre-personal level as well as from the outside on the super personal level kind of the network if you like by signing on certain modes of perception and sensibility and manufacturing an unconscious so it kind of manipulates us on on a kind of an almost pre-conscious level pushes us and nudges us into being more entrepreneurial more productive and more engaged in those networks and that's the kind of the quote I started with this is about integrating the living machine as much as possible into the productive into kind of the capitalist machinery so the gears don't ground too loudly so we're smoothly integrated with systems of capitalist production and I won't go through that baroddi quote but it's kind of saying a very similar thing but the last one from Guru and Delay they say that capitalism tries to appropriate not the means of production but the means of productivity or the inner springs of production which is our kind of as I said our physical bodies but also our emotional and our affective lives are kind of appropriated for the means of capital appropriation in order to keep the kind of wheels of productivity going and that's it thank you sorry I run over him slightly


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You're getting a proper reception man. I know. That video was good by the way, thank you. Alright dude. Alright, alright, alright. Shall we then? How's the, how's the knit? Shrug with that hat. That's a nice one. But yeah, but it doesn't take it away. While you do it, you feel it right and you come out here. No, no, he jumped the pin. Pin? Yeah. I'll leave them around. I will. Use the red cone, just marching, no skip. Use the red, just start getting into a pop please. And do whatever you want on the way back. When you hit the white cone, start hacking over please, end of the twist. Straighten up and then cut back to the white. That's it, walking back red. Just a couple of reps on this please. Look at the other side. We're walking up to half when you're done. And we've got your, your. Get into a weave for me as well. That's it too. That's it too. Now get up there quickly now. I'm not looking to really step in and coach certain points. If I see something repeating, now I feel that it's important that we stop at that source and step in and try and correct it for you. Other than that, we just want to play. It's early doors, it's about getting on the ball, being sure that we'll get those football movements that we need to get, get up to speed with. That's all it will be. So it's more about football rather than coaching points today. Okay? Okay. It seems like it will be, so just another point. We'll mix and match it. Don't read anything into it. I know you always do, but it's not the case. We just mix and match different formations against different formations. Just so that everybody predominantly is, is in their, their position, their favorite position. Okay? Okay, let's go. Okay, so two and a half laps. We're going to be finishing over there where the right pulls are. Head on, we're going to be finishing there. Two, three, four. Just the first group. Three, two, one. Let's go. Second group, yeah. Two, three, four. Six, seven, eight. Bro, you've got to watch, bro. You've got to win there. How far do you want to win?  Second group on, mate. Yeah. I've been good for you behind. Four minutes! Second was too late. Second was 37. Good job, boys. Good job. Good job. Go, go. Good job! Go on, boys! Come on. Come on. Good. Well done, mate. Good. Not good. How'd you find that, Rye? I feel like I'm trying to find marathon. Timmy, first day, how's it been? Tiring, long, but it's been good. Good, you feel like you've been welcomed into the squad? Oh yeah, massively. It's a good group. It's a good group.


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