Hi, this is Leanne Hagen, and I'm going to show you how to make Google Sheets work for you. Google Sheets is a powerful tool that can be used to organize data quickly and easily, and if you know how to use it, Google Sheets can be a teacher's best friend. We're going to begin with a data set that I used to organize a field trip for our entire grade level. It's a lot of data, and right now it's not very useful for me. Let me show you a few things we can do right away to make the sheet easier to read. The first thing I want you to notice is that when I have set up my spreadsheet, there is a standard width for columns. So that's actually not what they're at right now because I kind of adjusted them just so you all could see this, but normally you're going to see that they're all the same width as i, j, k, and l over here. What I want to do is show you a quick way that you can make the columns all the right width so that you can read everything in the column very easily. So I'm going to start by highlighting the column, and I'm just clicking and dragging all the way over from a through h because that's where I have data.  So that's one way that we can quickly make this a little bit easier to read. The next thing that I would like to do is add some borders so that we can see the data very clearly and have it divided up nicely. I'm kind of funny about borders, and I don't like them all to be the same. So I'm going to show you some ways that you can make the borders a little bit different. So what I want to do first is I'm going to highlight all of my data. So I'm just going to scroll down and see it's a lot of information. So I'm going to scroll down and get all of my data highlighted, and then I'm going to click where it says borders up here. So when I do that, this gives me a lot of options. Now a quick and easy way to make all your borders the same is just to click all borders, and it's going to make boxes all around everything. I don't really love that. So I'm going to undo that, and I'm going to show you just the way that I would do this. So I actually like to work on my interior borders first. So if I click inner borders, that's going to only do the borders within the data. So I'm going to change the format. I like to make those a dashed line. So I can come in here and I can click dashed line. It's going to give me the color options here. I'm not going to change the colors. I'm going to keep it black, and then I'm going to click inner borders. And what's happened now is I've got these kind of nicely separated without it being a major harsh line. That's completely user preference. I just like it to look like that. Now I'd also like to have a heavier border around the outside of my data. So if I do that, I'm going to come back over here and I'm going to click on, actually I have to click this button right here. I'm going to click the outer border, and then I'm going to change the format of that. I don't want it to be dotted. I'd rather that be a solid line, and it's heavy there. If you don't like it that heavy, you can click the options here, and you can click a lighter border. So it's not quite so heavy, but you can make it solid. You can change the color of that border if you wanted to. There's lots of different options for borders. So don't feel limited by what's here. Know that there's lots of different ways that you can do this. So now my data has lines in it. I'm happy with that. But the next thing I want to do is I'm going to create alternating colors on the rows to make that even easier to read. So in order to do that, again, I'm going to highlight all of my data. That's kind of the first step to anything in Google Sheets is just get your data highlighted. And then I'm going to go to format, and then I'm going to select alternating colors. Now this gives me so many options. I personally really like purple, so I'm going to click that button right there, and it's kind of purple. And then what you can see is you can change the alternating colors if you want to. You can adjust the different shades that's totally up to you if you want to go with school colors or whatever makes you happy. The other thing that happens in this menu is you have the option for there to be a header. So I'm going to just move my mouse over here and scroll up and see what this is looking like at the header. You'll notice the header, the first row, is a darker color than the data. I think that that helps to kind of distinguish that header. And so I like that. I'm going to keep that as it is. I bring my mouse back over here, scroll down, and then click done. And now I've got a data set where I've got alternating colors, and I've got some lines on there that are making me feel like this is a little bit more put together. The next thing I want us to notice is that when I scroll down right now, I'm losing my headers. They're not staying with the data. And I might need that as I move forward and I'm looking at all of this data. The easiest thing that you can do is freeze this first row, and you can freeze as many rows as you want to. But what that's going to do is it's going to allow you to then scroll down and keep your headers in place. So the easiest way to do that is if you come right up here to this kind of empty box in the top right, I'm sorry, that's left, top left, you're going to move your mouse down. You see that little hand grabs that gray bar. So it turns that gray bar darker. If I click on that and then drag it down, what that does is it moves this gray line underneath of that first row. And now when I scroll down, you'll see that that first row is frozen. That's a really nice feature. You can also freeze columns. The same procedure, you just come up here to the column line right here and grab that over there. So maybe what you want is to keep the name of the student there. So when you scroll over, you can look right next to their name. That helps to make things a little bit easier to read. Okay, and I'm collecting a lot of information in this spreadsheet. And I think one of the easiest things that I can do is add check boxes for when I receive information from students. If you notice, I'm collecting a permission form from them, a deposit, and then a final payment. So what I want to do then is I'm going to insert check boxes. And that's going to make it possible for me to just check off on this list when students bring information in. So I would go up here to insert and I would click checkbox. And then what happens is a little box gets put in there. I can click on that box and it becomes a check mark. There's a couple of ways that I can add check boxes to the whole column. If I put the one in the first cell there, I can click and drag on that little corner. And if I do that and then let go at the bottom, it's put a check box in every single one of those rows. Additionally, what I can do is if I highlight both of these columns where I want check boxes to be, then I can come in here again, hit insert and hit check box. And now they're all there. So there's different ways to go about doing that, but that it's an easy thing to do. Notice once you have alternating colors set up to the check boxes are different colors too. So that makes it kind of nice and easy to see. The last thing that I want to make sure is on this spreadsheet before I start collecting data and doing anything with it is I'm going to need my student's t-shirt sizes for this field trip. So the easiest way I have found for inputting that kind of data consistently is to use what Google Sheets calls a drop down. So I'm going to click right here in this t-shirt column and I'm going to click the insert menu. And when I do that, there's a drop down option. Again, we're going to see a menu pop up on the right and this is where we're going to set the rules for this. So I have several different t-shirt size options. So I come in here where it says option one, I'm going to put extra small and I might want extra small to be pink. Then I might change option two to small and maybe I want small to be green. Now I've got several sizes so I can use add another item to be able to add another option to my drop down. I'm going to kind of keep going over with this and go large and large can be purple and then add another item as my last one extra large. I'm going to leave it that gray color. So once I've got that set up, I'm going to click done and what we'll see is that there's this little check box that is now in my t-shirt column. If I click on that, I have all of those options. So now I can copy them. So now my drop down menu is everywhere and I'll just double check like can I make sure I get extra large will fit in there? Not really. So I'm going to double click again to make it that fit and now I can go through and when the children bring in their their permission forms that have the t-shirt size on there, I can input that and it'll be a consistent way of inputting the data. So what we've done here is we've just made the the sheet look a little bit better. There is one more thing that I would probably do just because I'm a little bit crazy about this and that is I would go to my first row and I would probably wrap the text. It's kind of bothering me that permit the permission form column is so wide and that's just again I'm just a little bit crazy about that. So I'm going to highlight that first row and then I don't see my wrap text option up here. So I'm going to click this dot dot dot and this little arrow right here that says text wrapping if I click on text wrapping now what I can do is I can actually bring permission form sorry I can bring permission form you see what happened there wrap that text around and I might do the same with final payment and then I'm going to get crazy and I'm going to probably want to bold my headings and then I'm going to want to center them because I just like the way things look nice and neat. Now you saw what happened there I have to come in here and resize so that I can get the word permission the word deposit and there's no funniness no funny business happening there. Okay so now my my sheet looks a little bit better it's easier for me to read and I'm ready to start collecting data in here and then I'm going to show you some other tricks that we can use that will allow us to make this even easier to go back and look and see who's missing what. Google Sheets has a tool called conditional formatting that can be very useful for teachers. This tool will automatically format cells based on the conditions that you set. I've got a list of student scores from a quiz I gave my students using Google Forms. I'd like to focus on the students who did not pass the quiz and I can use conditional formatting to easily do this. First I'll select the range of data that I want to apply the conditional formatting to. So that would be all of the scores of the students. Once I have that highlighted I'm going to click the format menu and open up conditional formatting. This brings a toolbar to the right hand side and it allows me to set my my rules for the conditional formatting. There is a default that applies and that default is that if the cell that I've highlighted is not empty then it's being changed to green. That's just always going to happen when you open the conditional formatting menu. We're going to adjust that. What I'm looking for is students who failed which would be scoring less than a 60 on the quiz. So I want to come here to where it says is not empty and click the drop down. There are just a ton of different options that you can use to set conditional formatting rules here. You can kind of explore all of these. They all work the same way that I'm going to show you but with different kinds of data. So what I'm going to do is just click less than and I'm looking for a value of less than 60. Now you'll notice on the left hand side that that green kind of adjusted. It's looking for those values that are less than 60. It's defaulting to changing to green. I think when they're failing something that that's a red flag so I'm going to change that color to red and then I'm going to click done. What happens here is it shows me where I've got my conditional formatting rules and that's going to stay there.  But what I can see now very easily is I have a quick snapshot in that red color of the students who did not pass the quiz. And so that is one use of conditional formatting that I find can help me to see things a little bit easier with Google Sheets. Once you understand the basics of conditional formatting you can begin to apply formulas that can make your Google Sheet follow whatever rules you would like. I have a Google Sheet here that I'm using to keep track of information for a field trip I'm planning for my students. I'm collecting several different things from each student and I'd like for the row that contains the student's information to change to a different color once I've collected everything from a student. Conditional formatting to the rescue. I'm first going to go ahead and highlight all of my data that I would like to follow the conditional formatting rule and that for me is everything here. You can kind of adjust this it doesn't have to be everything. So I'm collecting a permission form a deposit in a final payment. What my goal here is is that when I click that final payment button I want that whole row that contains Brandon's information here to change to a different color and that's going to let me know that I've got everything from him. So I'm going to go into the format menu and open up conditional formatting and my menu is going to pop up on the right. The next thing I want to notice is that everything's now turned green. That's following that default that Google Sheets has set for conditional formatting but we're going to adjust this. My range is already highlighted if it wasn't I could just click this button right here and then it would allow me to select everything in the sheet but I went ahead and did that to start with. So here I'm going to go to my format rules and rather than is not empty and really rather than anything that Google already has set here for me I'm going to go ahead and make a custom formula. Now this is one that I had to just Google and figure out how to do and this is one that I used all the time so I have this in my brain I just know how to do this. Anytime you're using a formula on Google Sheets you have to start with equals and what I want is for any time I click this final payment button I want the whole row to turn yellow. So the final payment is in row I'm sorry in column E and I'm going to start with cell E2. I want that to happen in cell E2, E3, E4, E5 and in Google Sheets the indicator of that is the dollar sign I don't know why it just is. So I want everything from E2 and below to change to a specific color when I click the box. So I'm going to click the equals button and what I want is to tell Google Sheets that if the box is checked then I want this to happen.  So now I can check to make sure this works by coming over here and just clicking this button. See how when I clicked final payment this whole row turned yellow so it won't happen when I click permission form. It won't happen when I click deposit but once I get that final payment that student is going to turn yellow and that's going to let me know okay I've got everything I need from that child. Click done and my rule is here and this is going to work no matter which row that I'm in and I just love it when things like that happen. If you have a lot of data that you want to sort in order to see it easier or if you just want to look at a smaller set of your data you can use filters in Google Sheets to do that. Filters are going to pull out only the data that you want to look at. I'm going to show you how to make that happen. So I've got a set of students quiz scores and what I want to do is see which students made an A and really I want to find out how many A's did I have. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to come into the data tab and I'm going to click the little option that says create a filter. What that does is it puts this little funnel right here and that's going to give me a way of filtering very easily. So when I click on this I've got all these different options for how I can filter. I can filter by color which doesn't make any sense here. I can filter by condition which is what I'm looking for. When I click this what I'm looking for is who made an A. So I want to know which of these numbers are greater than or equal to a 90 and when I do that and I scroll down and I click okay and now what it's done is it's only got those students who made an A. Now I have their names hidden but normally I could be able to see that and what's really nice about this is in addition to showing the scores and just showing me the A's it gives me a count at the bottom right hand side of my screen. It shows me that 44 students made an A on that quiz which is great and so this is just an easy little snapshot. If I'm done with that filter I can come back in and click remove filter under my data menu and then I can go back and I can sort of the different way. So a really really cool tool. Let me show you in a little bit more data how I might apply those filters. So I've got this data sheet again that has all this information about students and what I'm going to use this for is a field trip. So I've got their t-shirt size. Let's say that I really wanted to know like how many large t-shirts do I need to order for my for my trip. So what I would do is come back to data and I'm going to click create a filter again. Now this defaults to putting a filter on every single column and it does kind of mess up your formatting but that goes away once you take the filters off so that's going to be totally fine. So I want to know in this column I'd like to see the largest only. So in this case I'm going to filter by values. I'm just clicking that little funnel and I'm going to go down to filter by values. I don't want anything except for the larges. So I can hit clear and then I can click large or you can uncheck the other ones kind of either either way it works for for this. When I click okay what it's done is it's now taken my large t-shirts and that's all I've got on my sheet now and I know I need 24 larges. I can do the same thing and come back in and say okay well I want to know. I'm going to select them all I want to know how many smalls there are. So I can click clear and hit small and now I'm going to know I need 57 smalls. This makes say ordering t-shirts really really simple. What I really love is when I can start stacking those filters so I'm going to go ahead and just select all of these get everything back on my sheet and I'm going to now filter by their bus number. So what I might want to do after I've got my t-shirts ordered it's the day of the trip and I want to hand out t-shirts by bus and I'm going to say okay well how many small t-shirts does bus three need. Well that would be really complicated to figure out unless I use filters. So I come in here and I say okay well look at only at bus three click okay. So now I've only got bus three on here. Now I can take that data first of all it shows me I've got 47 students on bus three which is good and then I can come in here and say okay well how many small t-shirts do I need for bus three. So I've kept the filter on for bus three now I'm on the t-shirt size and I click okay and now I know that bus three is going to need 21 t-shirts. Now this is a really practical application but there are so many different options that you can use with sorting your data with filters but I think this is a great tool that everyone who uses Google Sheets should know about. 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Once the system gets regularized, you will see diabetes should go. Within six weeks, we will see your diabetes is gone. The important thing is, there is a general destabilization of the body. We just taught them some simple processes to stabilize their energy system and their body. It's a very low-release cereal, that is, there will be no sugar spikes. I know today one of the largest pandemic on the planet is diabetes. Well, today people are just checking the sugar, either in their blood or urine, and arriving at a certain conclusion, sugar being there related to a particular organ like pancreas, either it's dysfunctional or not functioning properly, but that's not how we see it in yoga. In the yogic system we say, if your Vyana Prana doesn't function well, one manifestation is diabetes. Essentially, it's destabilization of the body. You are looking at only the sugar, sugar may be high, but that's not the thing. The important thing is, there is a general destabilization of the body. If you do not have any other sadhana, the simple way is to keep in touch with the earth or the soil. The richness of the soil and the richness of the body are related. And if you connect with the soil, maybe do, if you don't do agriculture, maybe do little gardening at least, bare feet and bare hands. If that is also not possible, you're living in a nest. So if that is so, at least get yourself a mud bath. Get some soil and smear it across your body, wait for it to dry up 30-40 minutes and wash it off, at least once in a few months maybe. So at least a simple thing like working in your garden without your footwear could stabilize your Vyana to a reasonable extent. There are careers to stabilize the system in such a way that naturally it will impact the sugar levels later. We have hundreds of people who have completely walked out of their diabetes with us. For most of them, we didn't treat the diabetes at all. We just taught them some simple processes to stabilize their energy system and their body, out of which they have come out of their diabetic condition. The Shantavi Mahamudra is also capable of doing that. Once the system gets regularized, you will see diabetes should go. But if you want a quicker, more effective way of getting out of it, if you spend six weeks with us, most probably 70% of the time, within six weeks we will see your diabetes is gone. There are some people who are hardcore sweet, they may take a little longer time, but at least 70% of the people will be out of it within six to eight weeks of time. If you have diabetes, we have powerful systems in Siddha, we can do that. But Siddha is a little bitter.  Siddha Vaidya to some extent Ayurveda and proper diet and exercise, one can easily reverse this process. When it takes time to cook, it cooks little more than the rice, but it does a lot more. It's a very slow-release cereal, that is there will be no sugar spikes because of you eating a millet. It releases its glucose part of it very, very slowly. So particularly those who suffer from diabetes or whose life is threatened by diabetes. Ragi and other millets also does a fantastic job.


Hello and welcome to the session. I am Shashi and I am going to help you with the following question. Question says, find the following integrals. We have to find integral of 2x square plus e raised to the power x dx. First of all let us understand that integral of fx plus dx dx is equal to integral of fx dx plus integral of gx dx and integral of k fx dx where k is any real number is equal to k multiplied by integral of fx dx also integral of x raised to the power n dx is equal to x raised to the power n plus 1 upon n plus 1 plus c where c is any constant and integral of e raised to the power ex dx is equal to e raised to the power x plus c where c is any constant. Now these four expressions are the key idea to solve the given question. Let us now start with the solution. We have to find the integral of 2x square plus e raised to the power x dx. Now using expression one of the key idea we can write this integral as integral of 2x square dx plus integral of e raised to the power x dx. Now clearly we can see 2 is a real number. So we can write this integral as 2 multiplied by integral of x square dx plus integral of e raised to the power x dx. Here we have used second expression of the given key idea. Now we know integral of x square is equal to x raised to the power 2 plus 1 upon 2 plus 1. Here we have already shown that integral of x raised to the power n dx is equal to x raised to the power n plus 1 upon n plus 1 plus c where c is any constant. Now here value of n is 2. So we get integral of x square is equal to x raised to the power 2 plus 1 upon 2 plus 1. And here we have written that integral of e raised to the power x dx is equal to e raised to the power x plus c. So integral of this function is equal to e raised to the power x and c is the constant of integration. Now this is further equal to 2 upon 3 multiplied by x cube plus e raised to the power x plus c. So required integral of the given function is equal to 2 upon 3 x cube plus e raised to the power x plus c. This is our required answer. This completes the session. Hope you understood the solution. Take care and have a nice day.


Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Sonali. Welcome to a new vlog. I thought I would vlog this weekend because today I'm going to Worst Fest and I've never been to it, but apparently it's kind of like a October Fest kind of, wait, is that what it's called, October Fest? I feel like it's kind of like that vibe, just like a festival I think. I'm not really sure, but I'm gonna take you guys along and we're gonna figure it out. It's actually a new Braunfels and if you guys are new to my channel, I live in Austin, Texas. Yesterday there was like a tornado warning, I don't even know. Basically it rained a lot and today is freezing. Well, maybe not freezing, but to me I get so cold so easily so I thought it would be a good time to finally pull out my fall clothes from last year and I put them in this vacuum sealed bag and holy shit guys, this thing weighs like so much and I'm really excited to open it because I feel like I forgot all about these clothes and I'm kind of interested in to see what is even in here. So let's open it. It's here, I forgot it's like already expanding. I bought these on Amazon and these are just like the smartest thing ever. I'm gonna link them down below in case you guys are interested. I loved this little hoodie sweater thing last fall. I don't even remember where half these clothes are from, misguided, that's what it said. Ooh, a sweater vest could look super cute for today. I really wanted to wear like booties but I just feel like comfort is the most important thing. So we're going from like three to nine-ish and I don't wanna be cold and I don't want my feet to hurt because I don't know really how much we're gonna be walking. I love this one is from Nasty Girl. I loved my sweater vest last season. You can't tell. Ooh, wait, this could be so cute for today. I don't know why, but I feel like this is a vibe so I'm gonna put it on this side. I also forgot I had this huge puffer and that's great because I was literally looking to buy an off-white puffer. I'm also going to New York at the end of this month and I am so excited, you all. I haven't been in New York since like middle school or something but I am kind of nervous because I feel like I have a lot of expectations for you New York, which I feel like then creates disappointment sometimes and I'm really trying to work on just not having expectations for many things especially now that I'm adult. I just feel like so many things are not in my control like the weather or I don't know, there's so many other factors but I don't know, I'm still excited. I just don't even know where to start with like planning because I think we're going for like a full week. I need to book our stay, I finally booked the flight so that's all good but I need to book this day and then I also need to like go through like what areas for what day because I definitely don't wanna be bopping around town and spending like so much on Ubers and like Subways and all that kind of stuff so we'll see about that. Basically the moral of the story is that I really wanted to start planning out my New York City outfit and I wanna start shopping online if I need to because I'm leaving Austin to go to Georgia like around November 20th and then going straight from Georgia to New York. So I'm deciding whether I want it to be shipped to Georgia or here but we'll decide later. It's got really wrinkled so I might throw it in the dryer but one of my favorite coats from Express I love this like little camel situation it's a wrap one so there's no buttons. Oh my God everything's like super wrinkled. My handy dandy trugrit. Are these even still like a thing? I remember when they were a huge thing back in Georgia and it's actually really funny to like talk about what was a big thing where you're from because some of my friends here obviously are not from the South. I have one friend from Philly and then one friend from Arizona and in Austin there's like a lot of water like activities like you can go to the lake you can go paddle boarding all that kind of stuff and these two girls like never had water shoes but me and my Georgia friend always had our Chocos and we were trying to sell them on Chocos but they thought they were the most hideous things ever which they kind of are but they serve a purpose and I'm like y'all need to get some dang water shoes. Okay another white puffer but this one's a long line one. Okay this is actually gonna be perfect for New York. It is very interesting to talk to them about like what was trendy in their hometowns because it's so different from like where I grew up. I don't know just like random things like fightings. Do you guys know what fightings are? It's like the little like necklace that is like an athletic necklace. I remember Ryan having this anymore every single day but it was such a big thing and I feel like no one knew what that was when I brought it up but this was the last thing in the bag. This is also one of my favorite coats from Red Dress. Okay so we have this as an option tonight. I could do like a long sleeve shirt. I'm really sad that I didn't get any skims long sleeve shirts but they were like all out of stock when I made my purchase so I only have the short sleeve ones and I feel like a long sleeve one is needed but maybe I have a like body suit. I don't know I feel like this could be really cute but also I kind of want to be even warmer like to have a full kind of jacket or like a jacket but I was just on the phone with my friend Maddie and she was asking me what I was gonna wear and this is what inspired bringing this out and she said she was gonna wear a jacket so I don't wanna like you know steal her style for today. So we're gonna see what's in my closet and figure this out. Also I'm really hungry. It's almost about to be noon and I think we're gonna make some avocado toast. I finally went grocery shopping yesterday in my last week of my life vlog. I swear I was gonna do that every single day but I didn't but my boyfriend was in town and I don't know like especially because he's not here all the time now we like to eat out like we're big foodies especially like with each other and we have our places that we like to go in Austin and we didn't have that many days together so you know we didn't really wanna cook at home cause you know he was here and he wanted to eat his favorite foods. I feel like I'm blaming him but I definitely was loving it at the time but after I dropped into the airport I just made a very simple healthy meal and I was like yes she's back. That TikTok sound that's like she's back. I feel that now I can finally eat at home and just get back into that routine. But anyways, let's stop rambling. Let's find an outfit so I can eat. I know this is not the greatest cause I definitely need to change some things up but this is the first little trial and error. I think there's just too many like collars going on. I feel like if this sweater was like a scoop neck it would look really cute. But I also just really loving these Uggs and I cannot take them off and I really wanna style my outfit around them just so I could be super comfortable. They're like the platform. I think they're like Taz Uggs, T-A-Z-Z. But I'm gonna find like just a basic long sleeve and see what that looks like and possibly change up the jeans. I feel like these pants are a little bit baggy but like all my jeans are baggy cause I like baggy jeans. But these days for some reason they're just like not giving what they need to give. Just did my makeup and I filmed a TikTok while I was applying it all. But I just got the notification that my Amazon packages got here and they were delayed like one day. In my week of my life I was like, I'll try one for you guys and then they got delayed. There is one sweater in this order that I'm really hoping that works out so I could wear it today. All right, this is the sweater. I just FaceTimed Ryan and he said that the first outfit with the like white long sleeve and fuzzy vest is better. I love this top though. It's 221 and we have to leave here by 240 and I still haven't really eaten like a good meal so I need to do that ASAP. I love how I changed like a million times and I'm just back on the first outfit. But this is what we're wearing today. I'm pretty sure this is for misguided bodysuits, Abercrombie and then my jeans are at Amazon and they have these really cool like split hem things and then I'm just wearing my Uggs like I wanted to. And we're gonna mean I'd cat downtown. I don't think I've ever been there but that's where the bus is picking us up. And I don't know if we're actually going in the bar or what, I feel like I'm gonna have to pee when I get there because I've been trying to hydrate especially before I go out and I've been drinking a lot of water but I was thinking I have a big ass topochico and I like tried to stuff it in my purse just in case we needed to go in the bar but I doubt they're gonna let me bring that in the bar but we'll see. Since we're drinking today and going on a bus to a different city I'm just gonna vlog everything on my iPhone. So I kind of wanted to talk through this experience of going to worst fest for the first time so we met at this bar, we hopped on this bus and we bought tickets for this bus. It was $49 I believe. You could just bring your own alcohol. The drive was longer than expected. I think it took like an hour and a half to get there but when we got there there was some walking to do and once we got to the festival grounds we realized that the bus ticket didn't come with the worst fest ticket so the entrance fee was actually $20 so we went and got our ticket before heading in. First stop was obviously the bathroom then we got our drink tickets which was honestly very annoying because it was just one more line you had to stand in but they did have white claws so I was very happy. I'm not a huge beer drinker but as you can see some people actually dress up for this event but I just kind of went with the fall look. We went inside this huge like warehouse thing where they had like a live band and this is where all the bars were and here is the menu of drinks if you guys are interested in seeing that. Everyone of my friends got Steiners or whatever they're called like I said I just got a white claw. Then we headed down to the river we took some pictures just like chilled out a little bit enjoyed the view and then it was time for food which is honestly the only reason I really wanted to come to this festival because it just sounded like they had great food. So we got this huge sausage on a stick highly recommend it was so juicy. We also got some turkey legs and I was trying to like chew the sausage with my teeth. If you guys don't know I have veneers it was very tough but we also got funnel cakes and I was in heaven. If you guys get the toppings like this like the strawberry or cherry toppings, jail, immediate jail. You just need to get extra powdered sugar. It was honestly such a vibe to walk around during the nighttime but we had to head back to the bus because it was picking us up at 9.30. I'm pretty sure the buses just kept rolling all day so technically you did have a time that you had to be back but I'm pretty sure you could just take the next bus and this is what we looked like on the way back. Happy Sunday I just made myself some breakfast avocado toast with Mike's hot honey new favorite breakfast fixation for sure and I'm still doing my little soft scrambled eggs but today I tried something different. I added that like soft cheese. I think it's called bursin or something like that and it's the garlic and herb flavor. I'm so excited I got it at Costco so should be really good. I think I'm gonna set up shop on the couch and just like watch some YouTube while I eat my breakfast but this morning I got up really early. It is daylight savings day, the most dreaded day of the year for me at least because I just hate when the sun sets at 5 p.m. Like it just sucks but I do wanna take advantage of like being able to wake up earlier, like just having my body clock wake me up earlier because this morning I think I got up at like 7 I was like heck yeah, like I got so much done. I edited a full vlog. It was the first time I ever timed myself. It took about two hours and 18 minutes to get the whole vlog edited and then the thumbnail done. So that was very interesting. Everyone always asked me how long does it take me to edit a video and I never know. Honestly every video is different though. I feel like for my week in my life videos I know exactly like what goes where and you know all that kind of stuff. So it's a little bit easier just of the flow of it all but for sit down videos you know sometimes I wanna be more creative with the like title cards and everything like that. Dealing with After Effects and motion graphics and stuff takes so much longer but like I said for my week in my life vlogs I have already made like overlays that I can just pop right on. So it's a little bit faster. So I'm glad I got that done. I posted it so definitely go and check that video out if you haven't already. I'm pretty sure the Sephora sale ends tomorrow so I went ahead and made my order. I did it super last minute this year but there were some things I just wanted to restock and then of course I get sucked into buying stuff that I've seen on TikTok. So I wanna run down my list even though I'll probably do like little unboxing haul in my next week in my life but we'll start off with foundations that I got. So I really needed a refill of the Makeup Forever HD stick and I wanted it in a lighter color so I got that. I also have heard so many good things about the House Labs foundation from Lady Gaga's line. And so I decided to try that out and then I got a refill on my Anastasia brow pen in the color medium brown. There is this hair towel that I've been having my eye on for so long and I know they're probably like cheaper dupes but I just really wanted to try something out from this new brand that I've heard of called Crown Affair. So I finally got my hair towel and then this one girl I follow on TikTok. I can't remember. It's getting like so randomly bright. I guess I'm not really complaining though but it's like going in and out. But she always talks about the Hourglass Ambient Lighting like palette and that definitely was a splurge but it comes with like six different colors. I cannot with this lighting right now. And I got the one that's like the tiger one. So it's like a little bit darker. I'm literally about to give up. Then I got the Tower 28 lip gloss in the color almond. I got a few makeup brushes, two beauty blenders. Got stuck up on those while I can. And then the Charlotte Tilbury Lip Sheet lip liner in iconic nude. My friend Kiera when I was at home she was like that's like my favorite lip liner and I love Charlotte Tilbury lip liner so I wanna try that color out and I'll report back. Hopefully this week cause I did pay for expedited shipping. It said it was gonna ship like literally in a week and a half. And I was like, I can't wait that long. So I paid the extra. It is currently 2 p.m. and Sunset's at like 5.30 now. I put on makeup because I wanted to film content today but I just, I don't know. I'm just like chilling on the couch and I'm just getting distracted. I think something that will help kick start me into actually filming is some kind of caffeine. So should we do a matcha or chai today? Trying to think. I just got oat milk. I feel like I'm craving a matcha. So let's make one. You guys know what time it is. Taste test time. Not bad, not bad. I think I could have done a little bit more matcha but I did realize that the first couple of times I made matcha it like tasted kind of bad because I used too much powder. So it's kind of like hard to get the sweet spot. Also the counter behind me looks so cluttered. It is making me a little bit anxious. I don't think I told you guys this yet but I bought stick on backsplash from Amazon because I'm just like really wanting some white backsplash. I love my apartment but I just wish like the kitchen was like all white especially these countertops.  I feel like like why, like why couldn't you just give us like even just white and speckled. I'm not asking for like a nice marble or anything but just like white. We're working with what we got. So like I said, I bought this stick on backsplash and it gets here today. I think I'm gonna put it on later this week though cause I feel like it might take a lot of time and I wanna like make sure I am not rushed through the process. So I'm super pumped for that. And then I've also been wanting to really just like declutter this whole counter space cause I feel like since I have that corner back there I feel like I stick a lot of random shit back there and just try to hide it. But honestly it's gotten a little crazy and I just feel like I use that side as my little catch all and it just needs to not be like this because this is again making me very anxious. Hello. You got something to say?   She's very persistent about getting food. So, but I was just filming a TikTok on these new like accessories that I got and I'm obsessed with popsockets. I found that they actually have MagSafe popsocket accessories now. And obviously you have to have like a MagSafe case minus from Berga. I freaking love this case so much. It's like a shiny back too. So it like sticks on really well for the MagSafe. But this one is just like a MagSafe popsocket. And then this one is a freaking portable charger MagSafe popsocket.  The ones I had, they worked really, really well and like charged a lot because they were bigger. So I don't know if this does like, you know two charges or just one charge, but I like that it's more sleek because I was able to put it in my purse yesterday and my purse was definitely on the smaller side. And I just love that it has a popsocket too. I will link these down below in case you guys are popsocket lovers like me. The first of many five PM sunsets. I'm so sad guys. It's 6.46 and it is time to make some dinner. And I was kind of craving butter chicken like a day ago, but now I'm not really craving it but I still wanna make it because I already defrosted the chicken. So we're just gonna roll with it. I seasoned the chicken with paprika, garlic, powder, salt, pepper, cumin. And I think I'm just gonna cook the chicken and then remove like half of it so that I can put the other half with this butter chicken sauce because I don't think there's like enough sauce for all this chicken. And I'd rather it be more saucy than more chickeny.  So maybe tomorrow I can make the rest of the chicken into something else, I'm hoping. For some reason Sundays are a really good time for me to post on TikTok. Like I feel like my TikToks do really, really well on Sundays, no matter really what I post. But that's also kind of annoying because like then on Sunday nights I'm kind of just like stressed out trying to like post whatever I can. I'm just really hoping TikTok comes out with the feature to like schedule TikToks because I know it's supposed to be like super in the moment or like whatever, not like super curated I guess. But my TikToks also do really well at night AKA like non-working hours. So every time, you know, I do bachelorette night with the girls they come over to watch Bachelor in Paradise and I'm over here trying to like, you know post this TikTok and making sure it goes live and everything like that. And it's just kind of annoying, you know? So really hoping that becomes a thing soon. I think while this chicken cooks I'm going to get in my jammies and take off my makeup.


I created a company called Bumptop, which was my start off with a master's thesis a year and a half ago it was, we sold it to Google, okay this is Bumptop, 3D desktop user interface uses physics to try to give life to, you know, the lifeless kind of pixels on the screen, uses multi-touch, also using the side of the finger and, you know, using, trying to make things like a real desk, it's like you can use all five fingers, flip through objects, trying to take a fresh look on the kind of desktop metaphor that was, you know, more or less the same and thinking about how we can use multi-touch to do that, so this is a photo and to crop it you just slice it, like it was a real physical object and it crops, you can rotate around the space as if it was a 3D world with your fingers and trying to make it much more intuitive and visceral and that sort of thing. So I thought like, you know, this idea of overnight success, I remember when our first Bumptop video made it big on YouTube that, you know, six months should be all it takes to, you know, figure out where this is going anywhere and should be able to give up or whatever and so we had this YouTube video in a couple months, it got formerly in views, it got really popular, there was interest from Steve Jobs and Apple and got invited to speak at TED but through all that it still took two years to raise any money for the company to fund it and to push it forward and it took four years after all that to, you know, get acquired by Google, so it was an immense kind of continuous journey with lots of rejection. The best example of rejection was from Google during those four years, you know, I had a job interview and I didn't get the job, I mean, I didn't pass the phone screen even, they didn't invite, you know, I didn't get to have an in-person interview, so this is an example of the kind of constant rejection that you have to, you know, be prepared to deal with I think as you know, want to go through this journey.   I thought, and then I moved to Silicon Valley, which, you know, I realized it's kind of like a Hollywood for nerds, I mean, like, it's, I remember I was eating dinner one day, four or five friends, and it hit me like every one of these people has been bought by some other company, like, it was all 20-somethings, you know what I mean? It was like, okay, so maybe not a big deal.  And then that'll help you kind of reassess, I think, whether it's worth that, and, you know, how you might shift that and what. And for me, it was figuring out, well, I figured out like, it's about that kind of what got me here in the first place, that kind of creative spark, the, you know, you know, pushing, pushing around ideas, interfaces, digital stuff. And I want to show you a piece of technology which I've, I'm a company I'm working on called String, that really has me excited. It's augmented reality technology that the quality of which I think is really high. So, this is a picture of a sneaker. I'm going to go ahead and put this down on this table here. And then on the iPad, you'll see that there's a virtual sneaker on the screen. And I can turn it and touch it, rotate. And it's as if it's really in the room. So if you even look, it can go right up to it, and I can see inside it. Now you can apply this concept, not just inanimate objects, but to characters. So here's a little character here who's living in this marker. And I can tell him, hey, go over here to this corner of the table. Come over here closer. So the other cool thing is he literally like lives in this marker. So let me just grab it.  So put him back. So the last application I'll show you is a 3D drawing tool, which is kind of interesting. So let's just draw a little square. It's a little bit noisy here. But now move it around. You can see that square I just drew is like living in a 3D space around the room. And I will actually, I can go in and draw, let me draw another circle. And then I'll move back a little bit, draw another one. And another one. Oops, so it's a little bit noisy. So you can see, let me just move to the right here. And you can see that those are living off the page. And let's just complete it with one last line through the whole thing. And so in a way, you can create this kind of abstract sculpture. Let's just move to the right here.  That's a piece technology I'm pretty excited about. And, you know, I just wanted to share that story with you and kind of give you an idea of what's got me kind of jazzed up and excited again and kind of complete that circle. So thank you very much.


Hi. My name is Sandil. I've been open source developer, self-learned programmer for the last two decades. I've built a couple of companies in service space. I'm more known in Ruby community than in Python, but I'm in Python because of new areas of interest, especially natural processing, data and other things. Basically, I'm here to rant about things. Everybody comes and says this is the next cool thing happening, happening, happening, and it makes our life miserable. Okay. So let's start with that. Okay. My time starts. Okay. Okay. So long back, there used to be a simple thing. There was a blogging service where we post a blog. People need to discover it. So they built a small service which will report to a aggregator that new blog has been created. And this was XMLRPC. I don't know. Many people may not have used it, but it's a very simple thing. Simple XML, because XML is standard at that point. And it worked. Okay. And since it was becoming popular, big companies came in, Microsoft, Sun, a lot of people came in, and they said, okay, let's add some more feature to it. Simple thing which works. They added more and more features, made it enough complex, and that is what SOAP is. Okay. Each company has spent millions of dollars building the specification, and only their tools can build a bunch of implementation for it. As an open source developer, each time you see SOAP, I dread it. Because I build companies on it, so if your developers can't do it, you have to do it. Language, encoding, technology, port, unknown parts. Okay. On the blocks, there was another simple API which was usable. It was called RSS. You can get all the feeds. You can have a new seeder. See, whoever wrote a new blog post, you can discover. You can have a small RSS reader application on your desktop, and you can do it. And then came Google. They said, okay, let's get all the feeds. We will get you for you. Let's do with the Google leader, everything. They ruined it for everybody. But in between, there are other standards which came in. Atom, different versions. And now nobody knows. Okay. Earlier, browsers will notify there's RSS feed on your browser head. It's gone, actually. Okay. Then Amazon actually proposed REST APIs. Okay. So, no, this is 2005-2006. So, you have to read the documents. So, since I'm a self-run guy, so you have to read the RFC. There's a RFC. There's an implementation or some talk. Read the spec. Try building it. Does it work? And then you implement in your project. Often, if you're a small company, you can get away with it. Large companies, there's a process. Or if you're clients, convincingly, it's required. Okay. So, REST solved a lot of problems. It created sort of own problem as well. Then they said, okay, no, REST is too many endpoints. I think there's a post which is coming earlier as well. And the problem was, how do you make it better? So, they said, okay, let's also put all the endpoints inside the REST API itself where you need to call. And that was called hypermedia. Okay. Even this was kind of okay. Then again, Google, right? It loves anything which runs on browser. So, they used to offer SOAP APIs. They used to offer REST APIs. They didn't offer anything anymore. Everything is now linked with OpenRT, OID, or this is a different version which came in. So, even if you're using a mobile app, if you don't authenticate with Google API, it will open a browser interface inside the native application where you have to authenticate into Google to get that part done. Okay. Then also, there were other versions. How do you make it standard? How to compress the request? XML was too big. JSON was simpler. They want to compress data even further. Then we had this protobuf, GRPC, and other kinds of shenanigans which came in along with it. Okay. Then we also had other kind of thing which came along with big companies. Okay. So, what application we built which had a lot of experience and they call it monolith. You have a Java application, Python. A lot of things are done together. It's a monolith. Let's not go in that way. Let's make it microservice. Build smaller services, build simple APIs, and that should solve everybody's every problem. And again, companies went and did a lot of this part. But if you remember, there is to be something called database developers, database administrators, right? There will also be CIS admins. Now, they're all DevOps. Because of, let's say, ORMs, the database developers have become somebody else now. I don't know what they are now. Maybe they are ETL developers or they are big data guys. I don't know. And those people who read couple of weeks of online courses, they become data scientists. I have a lot of problem with all of these guys. Okay. You have not built large applications. You don't know what challenges it faces. Okay. So, 2008, I was part of a team which had to implement something. So, at the time, Rest API was kind of okay at that point. And we had to scale it. So, APS scaling has a lot of challenges. Okay. Caching was a big problem. Okay. And now, I think we have two or three talks happening in GraphQL. Even the talk before here, before lunch was on GraphQL. I want to rant there.  Okay. You are saying lazy front-end developers or marketing-driven developers, what problem they are solving for them. Okay. It ruins our life. It ruins our weekends. Right. You want to have a release? How many requests are going to come? I change the phone. You want to have same font size. You want to make 20 requests. 30 requests. Where do I catch what? Earlier, we used to optimize database. Okay. Don't do N plus on queries. GraphQL never solves N plus on queries. Again, GraphQL is a Facebook product. See, every technology company is promoting their technology. Each, let's say, company has their own language. Google has Go, Dart, Twitter is promoting Scala, Microsoft has a whole bunch of languages, the whole .NET, F-sharp, everything. So, that's happening. Again, database also, it's happening at that level. So, a lot of these paradigms are being pushed. If you go for machine learning, Keras, TensorFlow, again, technology specific for that company. Okay. So, GraphQL is very specific to what, do social graph. It's not solving your problem. Okay. If you're a small company, small startup, whatever you understand very well, please implement that. Okay. Scaling challenges will come all the time. Right? There are people who can help you. See, Facebook did not release implementation of how to implement GraphQL DB. They gave us Peckpat. And what we have is a Node.js version called Apollo, which is running on a server and Apollo client. And why do they build it? Because they didn't want to build a native application iOS. They want to have a hyper... React.js was supposed to cross compile into Android plus iOS. Okay. So, they are solving some different problem because of some reasons. So, just don't fall into that trap immediately. If you want to implement a lot of implementations, learn, understand, whatever you understand, only implement that for now. And let big companies spend on GraphQL, other technologies for now. And let's see how that catches up. Thank you.


This is American Issues Take Two, and we have our regular co-host, Tim Apachella. We have our regular contributor, Stephanie Stull Dalton. And we have our special elite guest, Tarjad Shackli-Refetro and Maui. So thank you all for showing up today. Thank you for the time. We're going to talk today about, you know, what else can America do for Ukraine? And what can the government—what can the government and you do about Ukraine at this point? How important is it? So I guess the big news which just came out this morning is that after a little bit of resistance from isolationists in the Senate, 11 of them, the Senate did pass the $40 billion aid package that the administration proposed for Ukraine. So, Tim, let me ask you to start. What does that mean? How important is that and, you know, does it change the game? It continues the game—oh, by the way, thank you, Jay, good morning—it continues the game. And that is to say that Ukraine has held in their tough because they've already had weapons from England and from the United States and training. And as we discussed before this show is that their sense of battle or their armies were kind of reorganized to mimic some of the Western-style abilities of armies to operate in the field, which is to say you have battlefield command that you can have the autonomy to make decisions as situations change in the battlefield. And Russia doesn't have that. They have a top-down kind of style of command and control. And I think that's really a big part of why Ukraine is doing so well. And so now this $40 billion I just learned that it's, you know, part of it's going to be for military weaponry and then the other part for humanitarian purposes. But it's critical that the Ukrainians get these high-tech anti-tank, you know, stingers and javelins, but also the traditional, in the field, long-range, distant, you know, weaponry like cannons and anti-aircraft. So this $40 billion comes at a very good time. And now the key is to make sure it's implemented quickly and get those weapons in the field to the Ukrainians as soon as possible. But it is a game changer. $40 billion is nothing to sneeze at. Yeah, Shackley, you know, you've had time in the service. You've been observing the way the military works for a long time. So I give you, on a given Thursday morning, I give you $40 billion. How would you spend it? How would you leverage the best way possible? Well, I'm not a battlefield commander, but it seems to me that unless the Ukrainians are willing to accept the Russian ownership of their, the southern part of their country along the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, they're going to have to become more offensive. And they're going to need offensive weaponry to do that, such as tanks and armored vehicles and probably aircraft. And so I understand that I saw something on YouTube that the government is trying to mobilize a million Ukrainian men to rebuild their or expand their military forces and they're going to need enormous amounts of equipment. But some of it has to be offensive, but they're going to retake ground. Well, if I asked you to round up a million men and probably some women too, where would you get them from? Well, they have a country of what, 40, 44 million people, less a few million refugees now. So there must be a huge and also they prohibited men from what, 18 to 50 from leaving the country, I think, once the war started. So they have a huge, I guess, a huge manpower pool that they could draw upon. And they certainly have a lot of a spree to core in terms of wanting to remain an independent country and fight the Russians. So it seems that they probably could do that if they had the resources to organize all that. And that may be what the humanitarian assistance is partially for as an addition to weaponry. You know, we learned a few days ago, Shackley, that American intelligence was feeding information regarding the Moscow ship there in Black Sea, regarding the number of Russian generals and so forth. And it could be just a view through the keyhole into how much intelligence, how much support the United States is providing to Ukrainian government and military. Because I don't think we're hearing it all. And in fact, there was resistance about that issue about how much intelligence we should be providing. But I would guess, and I wonder what your thought is, I would guess that we're providing a lot of support, moral support, you know, non-kinetics support, but nevertheless, people giving advice and counseling and intelligence through the Ukrainian military and government. Don't you agree we must have a much greater presence than appears on the surface? Yeah, I think, well, that's my view. I think we have to recognize that we are for all intents and purposes into a World War III, undeclared World War III. If you look at all the nations that are lined up providing support for Ukraine, it's about the same number as we're on the allied side of World War II. And there's tremendous amounts of obvious effort being put into supporting Ukraine and making them effective militarily to fight the Russians. And all this, the regime of sanctions that have been imposed upon the Russians. Sooner or later, that's going to have a real strong tell on their economy. So I think that we have to recognize that we're, that's where we're at and step it up. It's also a great opportunity to degrade the conventional military capability of Russia so that we can keep them in a box and they won't get ideas about Poland and the Baltic states and Moldova, for instance. Yeah, yeah, well, that's a great concern. And it's funny that a week or two ago, seems to me, maybe it's subjective, but I was more concerned about that then than I am now. And therefore, I believe this 40 billion is a great moral support, not only for the Ukrainian government and military, but for all of Western Europe anyway. Stephanie, are you worried about Vladimir Putin moving west, digging his heels in, continuing a war of attrition, continuing to do this hybrid thing he does with the countries in the Baltics and the Balkans? What's your level of concern about the Russian, his ability, his will to keep on pushing? My worry is very high about that. I have absolutely no confusion about where his trail is marked to go. And of course, we're the end of it. But all of the actions of Finland and Sweden are very, very knowledgeable with the history that they've had with Russia over the centuries. And certainly, the little guys to Lithuania and all the rest of them are at great risk. And so we'll see how that goes now. And the question about the intelligence out of Ukraine is an interesting one because the embassy is going in or has gone in or is eminently going in. But they raised the flag yesterday. That's right. He raised the flag yesterday. And so they're putting state department people in there. And I guess USAID, which will be helpful, is from the humanitarian point of view. But the question is, then, does that mean there's intelligence going on there? I would think that it does, even though there's no security yet. And that's a very risky business to be in that position for duty. There's no cover. There's no cover at that embassy. Yeah. And one missile, and it's all done. Yeah. Well, yeah. So let's see what happens. Because if he's not provoked, if Mr. Putin is not provoked by this, as we've been worried, I think, Biden has said he's worried about Putin being provoked by all of this aid, that that could be on his screen as a whole, you know, you're going. Well, do you think the 40 billion makes him more dangerous? No, less because there's some defense that it increases the defensive capability of the Ukrainians. But I mean, he could certainly wipe it out, as you say, with one missile. But will he do that? And it looks like Biden's, but he's not. And it goes back to my other concern, which is that the military of the Russians has stopped in very impressive and keep on stumbling and falling back and doing just awful things. So why do we think their nuclear arsenal is all locked up in gorgeous condition? I now question whether he's got that. You know, a rusting nuclear bomb is not effective. It does sometimes. But anyway, those are the questions. So yes, it's still very dangerous. But I think Biden's getting very aggressive and has a lot of confidence that we're not going to get whacked back. But that going in with the embassy and the 40 billion, those are big moves. Big moves. Let's see if we will swallow that. Well, you know, we got some strange things going on in Turkey and in Hungary. The question, they're trying to block the efforts of Finland and Sweden to join NATO and try to block the action by NATO to accept them. How concerned are you about that, Tim? Well, you need an unanimous decision. Obviously, Turkey is leveraging. What exactly they're leveraging for remains to be seen. Obviously, they're stating that they want the PKK or the PPK out of Finland or Sweden. They want those folks handed over. Like they wanted people in the United States handed over when Erdogan said that the ringleader of the failed coup d'etat was sitting in the United States and he wanted them. Well, you never got them. So, Turkey will come over. They'll get a concession here or there, but they'll bend and this will occur. Okay, I take that point. They'll get Finland and they'll get Sweden to come into NATO. Well, I take that point. I agree with that, I think. And I think that the 40 billion from the U.S. encourages NATO to do that. It's kind of a morale booster. As a second part though, the 40 billion, really, if you think about it, it's just a down payment. So if you look at the title, what can be done to help Ukraine is Americans need to get behind this. They're going to have to recognize that GOP and the Democrats for the first time are going to have to cooperate over a shared interest. And if that means the Americans have to call their congressmen or their senators and say, hey, good job, but don't stop at 40 billion and let the senators and representatives know that they have the backing of their constituents. That's a vital portion of where we go from here into the future. I want to get into that. Putin playing a war of attrition wants to anyway. And indeed, over time, you have a deterioration because just as the Russian economy is suffering, the European economy is suffering in many countries, including Germany. And people, these are democracies and people get a little unhappy when they see the inflation, when they see the price of oil going up, when they see the troubles caused by the war. And that's so in the US and you get a fatigue factor that creeps in after a while. And some say that the longer Putin can make a war of attrition, the attrition is not only the attrition of the Ukrainian troops fighting with him, but it's the whole coalition in Europe. And it's our government and actually beyond the government, our people, there's a certain isolationist strain in the American sensibility, which may pull the other way. So I mean, how concerned are you about that? Because it depends on which is moving faster, the success in the Ukraine, or the fatigue in Western Europe and the US. Well, yesterday on my show, I mentioned a CNN poll about where the voters were for the midterms. And you reacted quite strongly to when I said their interest is 59% of the economy, 30% to social issues, and 3% to foreign policy. And that was disconcerting because Ukraine certainly is, whether we like to admit it or not, a national foreign policy. And that is funding them through taxpayer dollars. So I think the interest the United States will still continue, the American public is still behind it, but it can't be taken for granted. And that means there's going to be, and that's up to our commander in chief to keep interest rolling as the dollars keep being spent.  Yes, Shackley. I have a question. Do you have any sense of how much the NETO and other other allies in this effort are putting forward like our $40 billion? Is anybody matching that? I would guess this, but it's only a guess. I would guess that they're spending more than they thought they would spend by far. But they're not turning upside down over it. And I think there's a certain level of concern in all of the countries of Western Europe that they cannot afford to spend all that much. And I agree with your implication, namely that they're relying on the U.S. to bear the brunt. Yeah, I think my own feeling is a substantial effort needs to be put up to organize that support from the NATO countries and the other allies to stay in the game. And right now it looks good. But as you say, interest will wane once the perceived danger maybe decreases. But Germany and oil and gas from Russia, Italy is now talking about paying rubles for oil and gas from Russia. And I think there are other ways that we can support those countries so that they don't go back to their sweetheart deals with Russia because easier to do that. I don't think we want them going back there. And if that means producing more oil and gas here, then that's what we ought to do. Well, you know that there's two pipelines of gas going from Russia to Germany, which is a really important player here, Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2. They stopped Nord Stream 2 early on in the sanctions. And Nord Stream 1 is still functioning at 200 million euros per day paid to Russia by Germany. That one's still functioning. On the other hand, the United States is building out infrastructure to deliver LNG to Germany and replace that. Problem is, and this is really an important element of our discussion, the problem is to get its act together. It's going to take two, three years, maybe close into three, to build that infrastructure out so Germany can reliably have that supply of gas from the U.S. to replace the Russian gas. And so, and I'm asking it as a question, do we have that much time? Or will this deterioration intervene before we are ready to help them? Well, I think it's going to last for a while, because I think the wake-up call was pretty strong. Germany had made a lot of deals with Russia under Angela Merkel, and other countries had received benefits from Russia. And now they're realizing that they've compromised themselves by doing that, and what compromise can lead to. And so I think it'll last a while, but it needs to be carefully managed, this one, I guess I'm getting at. And we need to pay attention to it. Well, you know, Shafi, you've been talking about the Russian economy, and there's an article in the paper, or two or three articles in the paper every day about the problems in the Russian economy. And likewise, the problems of understated protest, or sometimes visible protest by Russians, despite the state television. Russians in Russia and outside of Russia saying it's a bad war. So do you see as a possibility, it's really a social political question, a political science question, do you see as a possibility that Putin will have to stop, that the Russian people will make him stop, that he will run out of support, and that will happen suddenly, say, within two or three years? Well, you know, I'm worried that TikTok here too, because right, Mr. Putin may be thinking he's got a last ditch effort that could really turn things around for him, and that's called the winter is coming. So Europe with no oil and gas is not going to be in good shape for the kind of things that are on the weather horizon. So I think that that's very, very concerning, and that might be a part of his game plan. And if it is, that means that's a long time from now. We're talking about months and months, if he thinks he can drag on there in Ukraine, and get to that point where he'll really have another Trump, he'll literally took a card to play, a big one, because they're not going to be able to sustain the reduced energy getting into December and January. So I mean, and the other point that's important to make is that Mr. McConnell came out yesterday or in the news anyway. And he made the point that we need to think about how much support this is that we're giving them. And that we, what's important about it is that it's a much better thing to do that now than to not give them any support. So think about what would happen if we don't give them support and what the circumstances can be. And of course those, and I want just one more point on the grit of these Ukrainian people.  The story about this woman who paints flowers around bullet holes, she goes from the bullet hole to bullet hole bullet, is something out of the flower children of the 60s. Well, it's truly impressive that they, and I think the Germans are kind of like that too, but they were really raised to the ground. But in this case, even though their damage is just tremendous, they're in there. In fact, I look at what they're sweeping around, and it's just like nothing left, but they're still cleaning it up. So hey, it's just another salute to the stamina and the courage of these people. It's a tremendous asset for their effort in the war. Tim, one very interesting thing is there was a book that came out on Lawrence O'Donnell last night at MSNBC called Betrayal by Ira Shapiro, the journalist, and it's all about Mitch McConnell. And it talks about all the back and field things that he's done over the past few years and how he has not served the American people or any issue, including climate change.  But we know that he's changed his mind a few times now. He went to Ukraine mysteriously last week. And he claimed in the newspaper that he was going to argue with Rand Paul about the isolationist position of deferring the $40 billion aid package this morning. And he apparently succeeded, according to his own aspiration in the matter. He may change his mind. And the 11 people in the Senate who opposed the aid package were motivated by Trump. And Trump stands a fair chance of becoming the Republican candidate for president in 2024 and even winning, getting back into power. Now, I don't know if this is going to happen or not. Anything could intervene. But this has to affect the drama. It has to affect the way Putin sees the future of this. If he can wait until Trump is back in power, he's in much better shape. And Europe would worry about it. And for that matter, we might not expect the same kind of support from Congress anymore. What are your thoughts about that? Where does that play in planning and providing more aid and other support to Ukraine right now? Well, I think Shackley hit this one right on the head. And that was his comment or question about what are the European countries contributing for the assistance to Ukraine. Because if you remember Donald Trump's first declarative statements as a candidate was, NATO is not paying its fair share. Therefore, we should question our involvement with NATO. And so Europe has to recognize that if Donald Trump is the nominee, this issue may once rise to the surface of Donald Trump looking at what their contributions are to Ukraine versus what the United States is paying. And I think that they need to be proactive to make sure that per capita or their GMP, that they're providing a certain percentage of assistance, not just nominal dollar amounts. And that way we keep Donald Trump at bay at least on this particular issue. Shouldn't he become the nominee? So I think pre-planning and being proactive in that effort will, well, if you will, foil any kind of criticisms about how we fund our involvement with Ukraine. Shackley, I'm looking at everything we talked about this morning and I'm thinking that we stand a better chance of solving this problem, of stopping this war, of having Putin withdraw or lose power in Russia if we move with speed. And that is that we have the $40 billion, or at least 20 of it, for military affairs. And we should take aggressive steps now. The more aggressive, the better in order to get him out of there. Get him out of there before the attrition takes hold, before we get into political issues in this country, before there's a deterioration of the coalition, and before he has a chance to use his hybrid, you know, kinetic and non-kinetic, you know, tricks to change public opinion through hacking and propaganda, what have you. So don't you agree that if we are going to, if we have this money, and we have a timeline that requires, you know, quick action, that we should take quick action? You know, time is definitely of the essence here. But sustainment is also important too. I mean, if you're thinking that Mr. Putin would withdraw at some point, like he did from Kiev, that he's has to be convinced of the deterrence that our support and NATO support for the Ukrainian people provides. And then it has to be real deterrence, and it's going to be there for as long as it takes. But, you know, there are some questions about that because of our history. But what about, you know, you and I have talked about this, what about the no-fly zone? You know, in the beginning, Joe Biden was pretty tentative about everything, worried we'd have a nuclear war and all this, you know, didn't want to take these steps or that step, didn't want to provide certain kinds of weapons, wanted to keep it very, very low key, and no-fly zone was out, and, you know, the government must have said that a hundred times. You know, but we're in a different place now. Russia's in a different place now. He's already revealed his war crimes approach to things. Do you think we could be more aggressive? Should we be more aggressive? You mean in actually involving our troops? No. In organizing, for example, no-fly zone. Well, that would involve our airplanes, right? Not necessarily. They don't know how to fly our airplanes. And so it would have to be MiGs, but they're all MiGs in various, you know, Eastern European countries that could be used. Well, I've actually heard, I understand Israel is going to provide Iron Dome to Ukraine and some of their resources, which are very high quality. It seems to me that the airplanes that the Poles had should go there. I don't, and I think that we can provide enough anti-aircraft capability to pretty much achieve a no-fly zone. As I understand it right now, a lot of the Russian aircraft are actually not leaving Belarusian or Russian airspace to in their sororities, although some are, of course. So I don't know what else to add. I don't think we ought to be flying F-15s in there. No, that would be war. Yeah, but it seems to me we could achieve pretty much a no-fly zone through anti-aircraft capability. Stephanie, you know, one of the elements that we should discuss is what can we do about it? What can you and Tim and Shackley and me do about it? You know, I mean, there's all this political stuff going on in the country, and I get requests for money every six minutes on my internet and my mail, and they're all asking me to support this, that, and the other thing. We have a sort of a national public opinion poll on everything. And query, you know, and they all have a different way that I can help them, even though I don't know who they are or what state they come from or what their positions are, I get requests. But this is an overarching, and my question to you is, what can the average citizen do to make sure that Joe Biden hangs in there? Well, I think that we can talk up more what it is that Joe Biden is doing. And I think that he's really operating at a meta level. And he's been, and even at the same time that he's doing, he's not getting much credit for this, but he's, you know, we've sneaked into Russia and taken out that base that was the pie and stuff. And now all this money's going over. And now you all are thinking that maybe he'd even be willing to put a plane in the air, which Zelensky had asked for, but that everybody kind of shot down is really actually a warlike act that Putin would respond to. But all of these things that Biden is doing, I think we ought to take a look at it, really think about them and see them for what they are, which is masterful for handling this. How's his rhetoric? Is it strong enough? And it's red because the Democrats don't take any credit for anything. His rhetoric. How is Joe Biden's rhetoric? Oh, the rhetoric, yeah, pretty good. Yeah, I think he's saying stuff like it is. And coming out with the McDonald saying what he says, I think that is educating the population to understand this is serious. There are consequences for us if we don't get something to happen here. So I just think the individual people to not tolerate all this sniping and criticizing Biden about to look at what it is that he is doing. I think he's going to come out of this at the end. If Putin doesn't go crazy and push the button, I think, and Biden's walking that line, but where he knows the guy's over there with his finger on the button. So he keeps creeping up a little bit more. So I think there's some real strategy going on here. Exactly. Should we be worried about crossing the line? Should we be worried about provoking Putin? How worried should we be? Well, if we're going to provide deterrence against him, then it has to be deterrence. I think we should do less ringing our hands about threats from Putin and more telling him that if he crosses a certain line, he and a lot of his friends may die. On the other hand, he makes ostensibly credible threats that we and a lot of our friends may die. Can you wake up in the morning wondering and accepting that? Well, I'm hoping that our leaders are a lot more clever than I am and we'll figure out some way around that. But deterrence has to mean deterrence. Otherwise, we have a situation like we're living with right now. Yeah, absolutely. He wasn't deterred. Right. It's hard to deal with a pathological leader like that because he's good.  He's good. And we're seeing the problem is that he's not that good. I don't feel it was smart. I know he did exactly the same thing. So, Tim, trying to get a handle on all of this, how important is all of this? How important is the liberal world order? How important is it that we support Ukraine? How important is it that we make sure that they have a good chance of winning this thing? Well, Jay, it's not just a matter of supporting Ukraine. Although they're not a NATO country, there's the principles that might doesn't make right that Putin could come in, a very strong nation, a very strong as far as weapons and military force, and pick on someone, bully them. And so it's critical that the democracies of Europe and of the world come together and say, this shall not stand. So it's a principle beyond the formation of NATO and the NATO countries. It's a principle about autocracies and two-bit dictators trying to run the world and democracies saying, no, you won't. To you, Shackley, we're almost out of time, but this plays a role in history, for sure. And we are at an inflection point, for sure. I don't think anybody would argue that. The world has changed. The world has changed big time. Yeah. And I ask you the ghost of Christmas future question. Suppose we fail. Suppose we can't keep the coalition together. Suppose we can't get public opinion support, necessary funding and military assistance. And we lose this. And Zelensky loses it. And Eastern Europe loses it. What happens? Well, we're back to the Cold War, Soviet versus West. What does that look like now? Well, it looks like it would have did then. We were worried that we were going to be attacked and we had huge forces in Europe to try to prevent that. Although a lot of people felt that they would roll through to the Atlantic coast anytime they wanted to. So it was a great deal of fear at that time, if you recall. And that's why it went on so long. You say Cold War, but wouldn't the failure of Ukraine, of Zelensky, the failure of the country, have an effect on the ostensible emergence of autocracy in so many places? Which is butting autographs everywhere, it seems like. Wouldn't that encourage them? And thus change the balance of democracy, Colin? It could well do that. I mean, Stephen Kotkin of Yale was making that point the other day that Russia feels that it has a right to influence all these countries of Eastern Europe. And we feel just the opposite that we should have the right to deal with them as individuals. And as long as that difference of opinion persists, we're never going to be able to make deals with Russia. And so the people of Eastern Europe are going to have to constantly keep in mind that this mindset exists in Moscow and deal with it accordingly. Right now they're doing fine because they all want to join NATO and that's very helpful, but that could change. Yeah. And one thing to add to that is, it's very interesting to see these quote, I put them in quotes, peace talks, a truce talks, if you will, between Russia and the Ukrainian, going nowhere. And I think a good part of that, I would favor the Ukrainian view of it, is that you can't trust the Russians. You can't trust them in any discussion leading to peace because they simply don't mean it. It's all just a tool. Yes, I agree. And I hope we don't force the Ukrainians to sell out and leave the Russians in control of the southern coast of Ukraine. Yeah, amen to that. Okay, we're almost out of time. Stephanie, you go first. Final comments. Oh, I think the stalling in the peace talks, Zelensky has said he's given no inch, not an inch of any of the dirt over there that's called Ukraine. So probably this is going to be a real headbanger. So I think that if we don't win this, or if the worst happens over there, that Biden's going to take that hit and he's going to go down. And for us, it's just going to be a disaster because we're going to get Trump back in blowing his horn about how he can fix it. We're going to get him back in and we're over. We're living a new life in that condition. It's nice. I'm very, you know, I'm very worried about it. Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, the thing about the world order is it can change quickly and it can change your life quickly. Jacqueline, your last thoughts about this? Well, it's World War Three. We have to stay the course and win. Simple. There you go. And Tim, your wisdom, please. You know, I'm reminded of what Ronald Reagan said. Countless times to Michel Gorbachev. He dove in the proven eye. Trust but verify. However, I agree with you, Jay. There is no trust with the Russians. And it was a fool's errand in the late 1990s to think that Russia could come into the world stage as a Democratic country and interact with the rest of the world as a team player with democracy. They've shown their hand and the hand is obvious. Or to put them on the Security Council in the United Nations where they have, you know, completely neutralized the United Nations. Well, thank you very much, Shackley. Thank you for coming around. Thank you for making the time. Thank you, Stephanie. And thank you, Tim, for being my co-host and organizing this. And we'll go to, what is it, American Issues Take One on next Wednesday and number two, American Issues Take Two on next Thursday. And we'll keep it going. And Shackley, I hope you come back and talk to us again soon. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Yeah, thanks to me. 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