My teammates actually gave it to me used to be V8. I used to weigh number 8, gave me V8 and then like I used to be running and playing everybody just started saying slide. I had to get stuck with it. You got to cut it loose. Ridley, touchdown. Talbot, Ridley. Ridley, touchdown. The way I'm from man, there's everybody's good. Everyone. I mean, you know you know people who haven't made it into the NFL or made it to college or you know made it just a high school but there's a lot of I mean talent where I'm from. You got to be creative. You got to know angles. You got to know how to like you got to see his legs. You got to see his feet. He moved. Okay. I got him now. It's not a science. It's an art. It's art. How do you foresee Calvin Ridley making the jump to the next level? I really think Calvin Ridley's made this great coming out of the break and really drop his weight separate out of the break. But you know this guy is really a hard working, very dependable receiver. Great hands. One thing I did do a lot man that I not that I sit right here and look back. We trained a lot like me and my teammates and my homeboys. We actually went to the field, put a ladder out there, trained. We played football all day. Like I could honestly sit right here and look back and say man, I was training the whole time. I would you know go straight to YouTube for that. I go Mark Koop, AB Julio. I just you know go straight to YouTube honestly watch it. I could watch anybody and just take it from the YouTube to the field. I was fast. I knew I was a fast kid and I played running bags. They just gave me the ball and ran. But when I got into high school that's when I started to develop you know the separation and trying to create space in my roster. I want to run off the line fast. I want to scare them. When I'm coming out the ball I just want to scare the guy with speed. Yeah, heck yeah. I ran. I think I scored in Dallas on that. I can make it look different every time. I'm just tighter. Emotionally we're trying to see if you get a man's own read which is know his man. Now I know I'm getting it now. So I'm like alright, I'm just going to spin him around. Trying to get him over as best I can. And then I slipped him. To make him think I was going in, then I slipped him back out. Because once I got inside of him he going to think I'm running the basics. Because this is a known concept on the red zone.  Now I know I got him because he's not even looking. Touchdown. Slide when you score when you go all the way. That's what slide is. There's Ridley. Because Calvin Ridley was a stride and a half. Oh man, Julio was a huge, huge, huge. Not only Julio, Mohamed Sanu and Justin Hardy. I can honestly say that. But Julio definitely just, I mean obviously he's one of the greatest. So I always had my eyes locked on him. And just the way he did things and just the way he carried himself, he was confident. It was easy to watch him. You know Moe, they also did things right. And I would play that high level. I thought they were really good and caught the ball really well. And just, you know, they were all locked in at all times. I always watched them. But Julio, man. It's confidence. I learned that from him and I thank him for that. My own flavor. That's a C-Red. I'm C-Red right now. I put my own flavor on it. Give me an opportunity to get the ball. I'm always excited to get the ball. Especially when it's a good look. Be able to make a play. Yeah, that's a lie right now. That's a lie.


Why do you want to destroy him? I destroy his family! How long have we been in him? With iterations! How long have we been in him? Spirit of what? Suicide! Right now! Suicide! Who else? Who else is in his body? Pride! Pride! He has an incredible testimony to share with all of us, and I will just have you start from the beginning of your childhood, okay? So I grew up with two addicted parents, foster care of drugs, addicted to drugs, my father was never around. So I was exposed to drugs at a young age, went to foster care, had to live here and there, which eventually led to my own addiction, starting at age 14. Just started with just marijuana and alcohol, and then it led to pills, eventually led to meth amphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, and I was basically doing everything, drinking a lot, doing a lot of horrible things. Can you tell us through your addiction, like you mentioned that you had a couple of overdoses, can you mention how many and what happened there? Yeah, so I've experienced six overdoses total. Woke up in the hospital a bunch of times, not knowing what happened at first. The worst one, I was found at a park, don't know how I got there, my chest was broken from somebody doing CPR, they got me in the ambulance, got me to the hospital, the doctor hit me with Narcan five times, that's the drug that counteracts fentanyl. And then he gave up on me because I was gone. And then all of a sudden I started puking and came back to life. And I woke up the next morning in the hospital. And tell us, yeah, come on, God's hand was evident in his life, even through those six overdoses. Now can you tell us a little bit about what ended up your encounter with the troop officer and go from there? So I was living homeless, living in a tent, addicted to drugs. This was last July, when the Lord sent a state trooper. There was a crime that had been committed up from where I was staying. It was a fire in a train car. And the state trooper responded to it, walked down the trail and seen me there, standing there. I was waiting for him to harass me or something, I asked me if I had done it, which I didn't. But he didn't ask me anything like that. He actually invited me to church. Yeah. Me and him were texting for about a week or so. And he asked me, do you want to get your life better? Do you want a change? And I did. I didn't want to die in addiction. I didn't want to end up like my family. So he knew the director of Teen Challenge up here in Tri-Cities. And because the director at the time was actually a police officer in my hometown before he came up here, has actually arrested me before. But yeah, they brought me up here. And that's the second day I was in Teen Challenge. When I gave my life to Jesus. Yeah, I just, I couldn't, I couldn't ignore him after everything that had happened and how I had gotten here. And the director came and he sat down next to me and he just looked me in my eyes and he said, God's going to do such amazing things in your life. And I just, I believed him. I broke down. I started crying. I threw my hands up. I said, God, I won't ignore you. I can't ignore you. I just won't ignore you. And so that began a journey of really trying to just get to know God as best as I can by trying to do everything to do, to be pleasing to him. I started to pray a lot, started fasting, started reading Bible. You know, oh yeah, I was delivered from drug addiction. The moment I gave my life to Jesus, I've never craved a drug ever since. So let's give God some praise. Come on. So yeah, it's just been a, I'll be 27 in about a week. But this year has been the best year of my life. I've never experienced such amazing things. And I'm just thinking, if I can experience this many blessings in one year, like imagine the rest of my life, I ... Amen. Now, for timeline sake, you are 11 months in team challenge, correct? Yep. I graduate next July 14th. And tell us what happened about a month ago. Oh, so I came here to Hungry Jen and experienced a deliverance from demons. So yeah, it was really intense. Yeah, it was amazing. And yeah, I just found that afterwards it was amazing. So after that, I experienced a deeper connection. You know, I watched Pastor Vlad a lot and I got a lot of inspiration through your ministry. So yeah. So where was I? So no, that's okay, Nathaniel, that's why I'm here. This is the part where you were mentioning about the difference where you received deliverance and you saw and noticed how something was heavy on you and it was gripping your relationship with the Lord. But once you received freedom a month ago, you said that things were lifted off. You were able to praise, you were able to worship and pray and get closer to the Lord and love on people. Now that being said, you're 11 months in, you're about one year to graduate from team challenge. Tell us what are you up to? What's your next step? What do you want to do? So in August, I'll be starting at Bible College in Phoenix, Arizona. It's a college called American Indian College. I'm a half Native American. And so I've seen a lot of darkness in my people, in my tribe, a lot of lack of God. And so I plan to just be an evangelist to the Native people around the country. Let's give God some praise. Come on. God is good. He's alive. And he right here shows God's resurrection power in Jesus' name. Amen. God is so good. Such a powerful testimony, Nathaniel. Can you just give last words of encouragement for moms, dads, or anybody that is suffering in a drug addiction or they know someone that is struggling in a drug addiction? What do you want to tell them today? So I would say the best thing that you could possibly do because it's really hard to try to know what to do for somebody that's addicted when they don't listen, when they don't react the way that you would hope and they don't see the fact that you care about them. I would say prayer. Just cry out to God. Literally just get on your knees and cry out to God. I have a sister that she literally would stream tears and cry out to God for me. And she told me when I got here and I gave my life to Jesus, I was a couple months in and I was like, sister, dude, I was like, I can't really believe this happened. She's like, I knew it was coming. She said, I knew it was coming. So yeah. So yeah. Prayer. Thank you so much, Nathaniel.


Hello, I'm your host Alex Friedberg and this is the Alexa Analyst Show. Thank you so much for joining me today. We are going to be going out to LinkedIn to look at some jobs that are completely unrealistic. And I think that a lot of people can resonate with this, especially during this time of COVID, where it seems like these unrealistic job expectations are just getting out of hand. Five, 10, 15, 30 years of experience for a junior data analyst position. I mean, where does it end? Where does it stop? And I think that, you know, we need to be able to laugh at these jobs, smile up about these jobs, and bond over them instead of letting them defeat us. And so that is what we're going to be doing today. I am going to pull up real quickly my screens that we can look at these together, walk through them, and help you identify what completely unrealistic job expectations looks like. So you do not fall victim to these. I'm going to pull up my screen real quick. I'm going to be using my fake accounts that nobody can identify who I am. Let's go over to the very first job. This is a junior data analyst position in Kansas, Overland Park, Kansas. And let's take a look at our very first job and let's just dive right into it. I got a few pulled up as you can tell. And we're just going to walk through them and, you know, see what we got. So this one is a junior data analyst position. And they are asking for two plus years as a junior data analyst or data analysts associate in an established organization. If it's unestablished, no can do. Now, here's my problem with this. If you have two plus years experience as a junior, sorry, my wife texted me, as a junior data analyst, don't you then think you would be a mid-level data analyst? I mean, genuinely, am I wrong about this? Or is your career goal to really just be like a junior data analyst forever? And it could be. I'm not here to judge. I'm just saying it does not make sense. Like, if I have two years of experience as a junior data analyst, I will not then go and look for another junior data analyst position. It does not make sense. Let's look at some of the things they're going to be using. Okay, SQL Excel, business intelligence tools, CRMs, ERPs, Salesforce. Yeah, I mean, everything else looks pretty normal. And they're going to be working with people like software developers, data engineers, data analysts, like everything else looks normal. It's just, I'm so confused. I'm like, it does not, it doesn't make sense to me. It makes zero sense to me why they would do this. They're just like, you know what? Why would we give someone a chance when we could keep them at the exact same level that they're currently at? Why promote? That's not what we do here at Sunlighten. That's a terrible name. All right, let's go into our next job. I glanced at these again to find them. And so I already know this one. I think I might apply to this job in a few years. This is for the Air Force Nuclear Weapon Center at Hill Air Force Base Ogden, Utah. And you're going to be working with intercontinental ballistic missile weapon system. I'm just going to stop right there and say, this is amazing. I want this job, but it is a junior data analyst position. And in order to get this, in order to get this job, you need nine years experience or basically a combination of like five years experience with a bachelor's degree. And you need top level security clearance to get there. And I mean, honestly, it's obscene. But at the same time, I like really want to apply to this job to see if I can get it because I will take the hit and I'll take the junior data analyst position if I can like work on some ICBM stuff or some nuclear launch codes or I don't even know what they do. I mean, it's top secret. So I thought this one was really interesting. So if you have nine years of experience and you want to work with ICBMs or some nuclear launch codes, this is your job. I think it's a very, very small market. Let's see. They posted it four weeks ago and they still don't have 25 applicants. So I think I have a really good shot at this one. So, you know, if I can't do this show anymore in a few weeks, it's because the Air Force told me that it was a national security risk. That's the only reason I would stop doing this show. So this next one is a junior data strategy analyst and this was in Hawaii. Hello. That's what I'm talking about. In this role, you need a master's or bachelor's in computer science. One to seven years of experience in data strategy management, data analytics, or data science role. Why one to seven years? Again, going back to the last job, if I had seven years, the one before, if I had seven years of experience, why would I be taking a junior role unless they're paying just really good money? Let's look at some of the things that they want. Some of the skills that they're wanting is a broad range of data tools and technologies, not, you know, the staples of SQL and Excel for like a normal, you know, a normal junior role. No, no, no. We want someone who knows Oracle SQL, SAP IQ, visualization tools like Tableau, click, micro, strategy, SAP business objects, as well as machine learning, because why not? Why not just toss, everyone's toss machine learning and their job descriptions these days, just in case we don't do machine learning. But why not? So you need to know Python, our studio Java C sharp and SQL and experience developing machine learning models. Now, yes, your job title is junior data strategy analysts. We know this, but you will be doing the work of a mid-level data scientist. So be prepared for that. And be prepared to not be paid for that is basically what I'm saying. In US citizenship and security clearance, oh, this one's a security clearance one as well, national capital contracting. Oh, this is, yeah, this is probably some military thing. Man, these military job descriptions are insane. I would love to do some contracting for the military, though. You, I may have to quit the show if that ever happened. Like if I went FBI, CIA, something like that, I'd do it. I'd do it though, because I'm just, I'm super curious and I'd love to do that. Anyways, I think that was another, I think that was another military one. I'm just going to throw that out there. This one is a junior cloud data analyst, and this is at Deloitte. That's a, that's a good company to work for. I've heard, I don't personally work there. Some of your responsibilities are project planning, sure, generate design, develop, wait, what did I say? Generate design, development, test plans, inflow charts for programming, sure. Develop data pipelines, APIs using Python SQL, potentially Spark and AWS Azure or GCP methods. My goodness. And build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks and AWS Azure GCP cloud platform. Okay. First off, this is a junior cloud data analyst, right? This isn't like a data engineer, database developer. I get it's in the cloud, but you can't just say cloud and then demand like, demand you be able to like build APIs and data pipelines and all these things. That's not what data analysts do. All right. So let's, let's go down to the qualifications real quick. Okay. So they're not only demanding odd, I guess I could say it, odd skills that you're going to be doing or odd responsibilities, you need to have the qualifications to back it up to get this junior position. So you need one year experience data engineering, emphasis on data analytics and reporting. One year's experience using like AWS, Google Cloud Platform Azure. A year using SQL data transformations, statistical analysis. And why not troubleshooting across more than one database platform? Cassandra, my SQL, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Azure SQL warehouse. I mean, I'm not going to read all through all these because it just, excuse me. It's just getting insane. And then they're even talking about like Kafka down here. This is not a data analyst role, but they want to pay you for it. They want to pay you like it's a data analyst role. And trust me, they will. They will pay you less than your worth. And this is, I mean, I'm going to get to this later. I will go on my rant as per the usual for this show at the end. But to give you a kind of a little taste of what we're going to talk about is why on earth do companies feel like they can just like throw like machine learning data pipelines, being able to develop APIs into data analyst roles. That's not what data analysts do. And so they're trying to like like keep adding on all these things that data analysts don't do. And then they're like, but we're going to pay you out of data analyst salary. So whether or not you're doing data sciences work, data engineering work, all these things, you know, this is a junior data analyst role. Don't don't get it confused. All right, let's move on to the next one. I'm not reading through all that. It's going to make me angry. All right. So this one's a junior data analyst. Again, these are all like junior entry level data analysts. This is that blue skies consulting never heard of it. But candidate must have top four consulting experience as well as three to five years deploying SAP MDM projects. I don't really know what MDM is to be honest. But let me see. Okay. Responsibilities tells me nothing, but the qualifications basically say you need two years of management consulting experience from the big four. Management consulting is so different than data analysis. This is like, again, the job description does not fit the title. Let's see if there's anything else that's interesting in this one. Okay, you need no sequel. You need to be friendly, respectful, courteous, selfless and modest. Of course. Yeah, I mean, there's nothing else really in here. Understanding data gathering, inspecting, cleansing treatment. There's nothing else in here that really sticks out to me. It's just this job description is like, it's not really a data analyst role. But again, they want to pay you like a junior data analyst role. Don't get it confused. Don't get it confused. All right. Let's look at this one. This is a junior data analyst role. And this is for CGI. Never heard of it. Not a lot of applicants for whatever reason. Well, I guess we'll find out. But this one says you need a bachelor's degree. You need three years of experience. And let's read through. So you need filtering and cleaning data. And then, oh, of course, you're going to be doing a little bit of artificial televisions or AI. I don't know what I just said. Machine learning. You need ideation, solution, concept development, prototyping, validation, operational environments. And importantly, in the sustainment of AI ML solutions for CI CD, I don't even know what this I don't know what these things mean. I'm not a data scientist. And this is a data scientist role. If you're doing artificial intelligence, that give me a second. Give me a second, Joel. This thing is running out of battery. Let me see if I'm going to go plug it in. I'll be back in like two seconds. All right, I'm back. Yeah, I know. It's not the most professional thing to, you know, go plug in your baby monitor during the middle of a show. That's just real life. And that's what this show is all about.  We have this baby monitor. And if it's plugged in, it works perfectly fine. But if I unplug it, it dies in like an hour. And that was an hour ago. So now it's dying and trying to tell me that. And so that's all that was. Let's move on to the next one. And let's see what this one has. This was an entry level data analyst. So entry level data analyst. Some type of consulting group, some type of technology group in New Jersey. Let's look at the requirements real quick. They need to have analytical skills, sure. So they need to know MySQL, Excel. They need to know experience in MSBI. So SSRS, SSIS, SSAS. I don't even, I've never used SSAS. SQL server, data warehousing. T is very strong in experience in T SQL. Very strong. Not just no T SQL. You know, SQL start procedures and then design data architectures. And then the daily things you're going to be doing is write T SQL, ETL book insert with SSIS, and a bachelor's and master's. Okay. So I was kind of on board for a little while until they started throwing in like very strong experience in T SQL. I still don't have very strong experience in T SQL. I've been a data analyst for quite a while. You know, and I'm okay. I'm pretty good at T SQL, but very strong experience. That's maybe where I am now after like quite a few years. I would not expect that of, was this an entry level data analyst and also designing data architectures. There is a job called data architect who designs data architectures. A data analyst does not design data architectures. Maybe they do at this company, but that is not a normal thing that a data analyst does. Again, they want to pay you a data analyst salary to do data architecture work, data engineering work, data scientists work. I'm going to stop because I'm about to talk about this in a little bit. All right. Here's the thing. It is almost laughable how ridiculous some of these jobs are. And let me tell you something. It was not hard to find these jobs. It took me maybe 10 minutes to find these jobs. I maybe looked at 30 jobs and out of those I found one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Right. So that's almost a third. The little under a third is probably like 22%. Let's take a random guess. I don't know. I need a calculator. But that is, it's just like, I get it. You know, you're trying to get the best value for your money. Every company is doing that, especially during COVID, but it almost feels a little bit predatory. Right. It's like, hey, there's a lot of data analysts out there who are down on their luck, who have lost jobs. Let's make the requirements really high so that those people who are mid level or senior level are now taking entry level data analyst positions. That's how it feels. And that may, that may not be the case. You know, this may be, this may be HR. This may be HR who's writing this. This may be like a recruiter who's writing this, who does not know what they're doing. And so I don't, I wouldn't feel as bad.  And I feel bad. I genuinely do feel bad. Excuse me. That's really all I had to say. I don't want to go to, I feel like I could just go off on this, but I just, you know, sometimes you just got to laugh. There were so many other really good jobs. And I think I'll do a video on like, what good data analyst job postings look like. Because when you see stuff like this, it kind of like is like really like demoralizing. I'm glad that we as a community can watch this and be totally fine.  You just got to kind of play along. And so I'm glad that we were able to talk about this and look at this. And I thought it was fun because Lord knows I have applied to jobs like this. I didn't hear anything back, but I applied to jobs like this when I was an entry level data analyst. I didn't know anything. I just applied to jobs. We have come to that time in the show where I would like to give a shout out to our sponsor. It is you, everyone over who is supporting me on Patreon. You are who I'm giving this shout out to. Thank you so much. I appreciate you. I love you. And if you want to feel loved and see pictures of Max, me, my Christmas tree, which I put up and posted just yesterday, if you want to see those things and you want to support the channel, head over to Patreon, support the channel. It would mean a lot. I would appreciate it. Moving on to the next even probably more important section is the question of the week. Now I got to be honest and I'm being very vulnerable with you guys. I did not plan a question of the week this week and I feel bad about that, but during this whole thing, this whole conversation, I was able to go through and find the very first question I chose. If it had a question mark in it, I chose it and we're just going to run with it and we're going to go with it and see what happens. This is from Baloram and he says, sorry to say this. This should be good. In this video, you look like you're disturbed or in some hurry. Is it any? And the video that he commented on was in the last week's ATA show, which it was, what is no code analytics? And so I want to Baloram. I want to ease any concern that you have. I am perfectly fine. I'm in good health. I don't believe I'm disturbed. You may say differently. Other people may say differently. I don't believe I'm disturbed. I got to be honest. The thing I think that he was thinking of is because I'm tired and I have just been perpetually tired for like the past two years. If you have kids, you know what I'm talking about. And I do shoot these very late. As of now, it is 12.15. I started recording videos, prepping, doing all this extra stuff that I do before my videos are on 9 o'clock. So from 9 to 12.15 now, I have been up doing this stuff. And on normal days, I'm off doing work, responding to YouTube stuff, like doing my day job work. I mean, so, you know, that may be what you're talking about. And I appreciate you being concerned because that's how I'm going to take it. I'm just going to take it that you were concerned about me. And I appreciate you being concerned about me. That means a lot. Now, even on to the, what I would consider the best part of the entire show, which is the ending where, and I don't know how this started. Actually, I do know how this started, but I don't know why it's become so fun for me. I continue to do it time after time. My wife tells me to stop. I don't care. You tell me to stop. I don't care. I have fun doing this. This is for me. It's not for you. This is for me to have fun, which brings us to the keyword of the week. And so this week's keyword, something that I personally don't like very much. But one of my favorite characters on my favorite show of all time loves, which is Beats. And so if you watch all the way through, you watch through my ranting, you watch through me plugging in my charge over here for, because it was starting to die, you'd comment below Beats, B-E-E-T-S. This is not like Rita Vega of last episode, where I had you basically spell it blindly, right? I'm going to give this one to you. It's B-E-E-T-S. If you spell it incorrectly, I'm just going to assume you didn't actually watch it all the way through. So if you put like Beats, B-E-A-T-S, you're a good person, and I appreciate you trying. That is all I've got. Thank you so much for watching. I really genuinely appreciate it. I'm glad you made it up this way. I mean, this is, I don't know, this might be a long video, maybe not. Let me see. This is a short video. You guys made it. I appreciate you. I appreciate you joining me. I think I might start bringing like coffee on the show, because genuinely, I need it during these times. Like, it's really late, and I'm trying to stay up and shoot these, and then I'm going to, you know, download them all and then start editing them all tomorrow. I genuinely think I need some coffee. And so I might start doing that. Who knows? And we can have coffee time in this, and I do release these in the mornings. So maybe you can be like coffee time with Alex. I don't know. I'm just spitballing here. I'm just throwing out ideas. If you have any ideas, let me know. That'd be really cool. Maybe hot chocolate. Hot chocolate with Alex. I don't know. Again, I'm tired and disturbed. Thank you for watching. I appreciate you. Have a good night. I will see you in the next episode. Bye.


This paper presents a numerical simulation of crack propagation in concrete using the scaled boundary finite element method, SBFEM, for both monotonic and cyclic loading conditions. The authors compare their results to those obtained from existing literature and find them to be consistent. They also investigate the influence of various parameters on the load displacement curves and conclude that the damage accumulation parameter is the most important factor. This study provides a valuable tool for understanding the behavior of quasi-briddle materials under cyclic loading. This article was authored by Omar Alres, Carson Konk and Kater M. Hamdya.


Namaskaram Sadhguru! You have said that if somebody is really willing, you are available to them beyond their logic. So, if anybody in this room is really willing, can you read their mind or say I am in Shimla and thinking about you and really willing that, yes, please initiate me or guide me, will you know about it? So, can I read your mind?  I don't read even my mind because it's a trash bin. Because what is in your mind? Do you have a choice what is in your mind? From your childhood, whatever you're exposed to, what you see, what you hear, what you smell, what you taste, everything is in your mind, isn't it?  You have no choice. If this person speaks, speaks, I will take it. If this person speaks, I will not take it. Do you have such a choice?  Hello? So, it is a trash can. It gets everything. You can choose what to use and what not to use. That choice you have, if you're not in a reactive state, but you have no choice about what is in your mind, isn't it? Just everything that you've been exposed to is there in your mind. People who are busy spreading lies in the world talk about a pure mind. How can trash can be pure?  If you remove half the brain, pure mind. Otherwise everything that you gathered is there. The choice of what to use and what not to use, that is your choice. Hello? That differentiate you from each other. One person chooses the right things, another person randomly chooses whatever, so accordingly your personalities get determined. But do you really have a choice what to contain in your mind? All the filth in the world is there in the mind, isn't it? You have no choice about what to hold in your mind. If you think, I should not hold this, only that will stay. Right now as an experiment all of you, just close your eyes. Ten seconds, you should not think about a monkey. Okay, no monkeys for ten seconds. Only monkeys, isn't it? So I'm saying you don't have a choice. Everything that's good and bad and nonsense, everything that's come your way is in your mind. You cannot choose. You cannot choose what to hold. You can only choose what to use. That choice also many people have lost. So don't talk about reading your mind. I don't want to walk through all that filth. Hello? I don't even go through my mind. Forget about yours. But the basic question is something else, it's just I picked on something on the side. I must tell you this, I have initiated more people in the world whom I have never met than people that I have met. I have met a few million people, but I've initiated many, many times more people who have never met. They have never seen me. They have never know anything about me. Just if they were in a moment of absolute willingness, we won't miss the chance. So what absolute willingness means is you are conscious and you have no will of your own. You are simply here. If you are like that in Shimla, it doesn't matter. You are Shimla or North Pole, it doesn't matter because consciousness has no distance. You are talking about being in the same room. This is only the problem of the body. Your body is there, my body is here. It's very clear. This is my body, that's your body. This is my mind, that's your mind. Clear? Here and there it may overlap, we may agree a little bit, but this is my mind, that's your mind. Never have you found another person whose mind is exactly like yours, have you? So you thought when you were in love, but the moment you got married you realized they have their own mind. Hello? No, you're a young girl, you don't know probably. It will happen. So this is my mind, this is my body, that is your body, that is your mind. These things are right now, at least for now, distinctly separate. But I want you to understand there is no such thing as my life and your life. You hold a little bit of the same thing, I hold a little bit of the same thing. It's like in Simla, you grew up in Simla? In Simla do you blow soap bubbles when you were in school or something? You did. Suppose you and me, today we have a soap bubble competition, you and me going to blow soap bubbles. My bubble is this big, yours is this much. So I say, see look at this, this big bubble is my bubble. Look, it went. Then I don't say this is my air, that is your air. When the bubble is holding, this is my bubble, that's your bubble. Just like that. This is my body, that's your body, right now. The moment it breaks, there is no such thing as my life and your life. It's one life. So will you experience this or will you believe the nonsense that I'm speaking? This is the only question. If you experience it, after that, I don't have to tell you be nice to the person who is sitting next to you, don't rob them, don't kill them, don't do this, don't do that, would you need it?  Did anybody tell you? Why you're taking care of it? Because your experience is a part of myself. If you experience all life as part of myself, then nothing would be needed. Everywhere it's connected. So I'm saying in similar or wherever you want, if you simply sit there, not as a man, not as a woman, not as a person, just as life, we are always waiting. You must do some inner engineering. There's a program called Inner Engineering. We can do one thing. Only if you're committed, because we don't want to offer this to people who don't value this, because this is a tremendous tool. Millions of lives have been transformed with this. There is a seven-day online session. In all languages it's there. In English it's in my voice, in other languages it's dubbed. Simple seven steps that you take to undo your mind. Then there is a simple practice which has to be done more directly, which is called a Shambhavi Mahamudra.  Is it true that you gathered this body over a period of time? Hello? You gathered it. Is it true you also gathered the content of your mind? Yes. What you gather can be yours, can never ever be you, isn't it? Suddenly if I pick up this vessel and say this is my vessel, you will think, this guru has some problem, but everybody says he's wise, let us listen some more. After some time I will say this is me, then you'll say let's go. The moment I say this is me, you know this is a case, but this is happening to you every day. Food comes in front in your plate.  It's a case, isn't it? Hello? Hello? Case or no? The moment you believe what is not you as yourself, then you are on the pitch of madness. Your only comfort right now is everybody is like this only. That's how it is in a madhouse.  Others are all normal only. Yes. I'm saying, suppose you take these two fingers and start poking your eyeballs, we would think there is some ailment, isn't it? Hello? Yes or no? If you start hurting yourself, every day you take the sharpness of your mind and keep poking yourself. Is there an ailment or no? That's all. If you're causing any suffering to yourself, that is the case. But everybody is like that only. That is the advantage right now. That is a cover-up. Everybody being like that doesn't make it normal. Hello? No, I don't think that's normal. So if your normal life, even for one moment, will get you in Shimla. And what is that? 99999. What is the frequency? No, without that frequency, we'll get you on the hundred. Thank you. Thank you very much.


Mr. President, I know you're going to be happy to be here. Well, I'm pleased to see you. Well, come in here. You have so many stuff to do. Yes, I would tell you quickly. Reflecting reports in the region, do you have hard evidence that the Sandinistas have invaded Honduras? And if so, how concerned are you about that? Well, obviously we're concerned. But yes, the information we have is that Nicaragua has crossed the border in Honduras. Are you considering using U.S. troops, introducing them in combat, sir? We've been in consultation with the Honduran government, but I can't comment on anything. Do you know anything about a coup in Panama, Mr. President? Some shots have been heard at the... That's all we know either. Some shots have been heard and we've heard nothing else. Mr. President? Are you giving up on the peace plan and view of Mr. Shamir's rejection of the continued killings in the occupied areas? We have not yet had our meeting. Well, you've heard of his rejection, though, haven't you? Well, we're going to, I think, have a discussion on all these things. Mr. President, given the Robert McFarland guilty play last week and the impending indictments of Oliver North and John Point Dexter, do you stand by your statement that you don't believe any laws were broken? I have no knowledge of anything that was broken, and I am the one who gave all of you the first announcement of the discovery that there was extra money and so forth, because I have learned that after the covert operation was exploded by the press. But why do you think no law was broken? Why do you think no law was broken if you found money that was improperly used, misappropriated? Because from all of the investigation and everything else that money came from, we don't know who had it and we don't know where it went. And you don't know that Oliver North can't do anything. Thank you all. Thank you. Why do you think, Mr. President, that we have to purchase price for you to ask for it? Why do you think McFarland pleaded guilty, sir? He just pleaded guilty and not telling Congress everything and wanted to know. Well, don't you think that's wrong? It doesn't have to be myself. You do that yourself? No. Now don't distort that. No. What did you mean, sir? So we understand. Well, I just think that Congress would like to be asking questions about almost everything. Don't you think they should in terms of the laws? This is even the course. Let's wait and determine whether they've said the law. Well, they've already said he pleaded guilty. Mr. President, please. Thank you. This is yours. Yes, sir. It's the President. What are you going to say to our Prime Minister? Well, I think we're going to have a fruitful discussion. We always have in. Mr. Prime Minister, what other words? Mr. President, I think we're going to have a fruitful discussion. We always have in. Mr. Prime Minister, what other words? Mr. Prime Minister, what other words? Mr. Prime Minister, what other words? Mr. Prime Minister, what other words? Mr. Prime Minister, what other words? I think we will discuss all the aspects of this agreement, our area and our relations in the United States. Our Minister has remarked about the short initiative for true any agreement you could come to this meeting today. Well, I'm not going to have any guess about the latest. I've always had a congenial relationship. I'm looking forward to talking to you. Thank you. This way. This way. We're going out this way. We've been a bit delayed by the press. Through our visit comes at a pivotal time, and we believe there's a real chance to make progress toward peace. We share with you the conviction that peace cannot be made under the threat of violence or terrorism. The PLO has once again revealed its true colors and its real intent. It says no to peace and yes to terrorism. And we're not going to give in to the PLO. Or will we allow extremists in the Arab world to think that a wage can be driven between the United States and Israel? Those who think that are wrong, and those who think that violence and terror will weaken us or the Israelis, they're really resolved, I think, are wrong. So while proving them wrong, we must also search for ways to give moderate Palestinians and Arab governments a stake in becoming a surrogate. The developments in the territories may become more dangerous, not only by repressive measures, fueling even greater extremism and fundamentalism, not only in the territories but in neighboring Arab states. This could threaten the relative stability of the past few years. The new weaponry in the Arab world and the evidence of fundamentalist power, I think both want to avoid this sort of a regional threat to Israel. Political response is needed, and those in the Arab world who see the danger of continuing upheaval must see there's a basis for negotiating peace with Israel. This would serve their interests as well as managing the extremists. And that's what our initiative I know is all about. It satisfies nobody completely, but we think it meets everyone's essential needs and objectives. There is a security in the need for transitional arrangements, and the Palestinians in terms of possibly gaining meaningful responsibility for self-rule. King Hussein's in terms of guaranteeing talks on final status and holding bilateral negotiations under the international umbrella. Egypt, we know is supportive. Hussein is interested in the other Arabs are sympathetic except for Syria, and we feel that there is some hope. We've just discussed momentarily in the other room your problems with an international conference. Since you were here last February, we've said that we could accept such a conference if it makes direct bilateral negotiations impossible. We also said we would go along with a conference that obstructed such negotiations. Yous haven't changed, and we will not permit a conference that has the power to shape or to pass judgments or to dictate to the bilateral negotiations. Here I am. I know you've got an agenda for your own. I'll quit talking, and then we'll hear and turn it over to you. Well, I have now to meet you again and discuss with you the situation in our area and the excellent relations between our two countries. I'm very proud to remind you that in the same place we have decided, you have decided about establishing. This is going to be a friendship. It's a mistake. Some days it doesn't make any skills. That's a good idea. What's your understanding of all these clusters over there? Lebanon. You have any feelings on that intelligence? We have some intelligence, but it's not enough. We have also our own intelligence. I know. Until now, nothing could go better. Retire, hold the promise. There's always a form of warfare in the world. It's just barbaric. We have a level of fanaticism and brutality in that part of the world that is not current anywhere else. Look at the way the Iraqis and Iranians are blasting each other's cities. It's a senseless brutality. In our speech last night, which I said that, these PLO's, they're just terrorists. I'm dealing with that. If we've got the Muslim community in Lebanon, I'm sure that they'll thank you for telling me that. They have a religion. We're the Christian Lebanese. I'm not endorsing it, but I'm just telling you where you're going. Your relationship with that region is valid. It's the northern part of the southern part of the region. The Muslim jihad and the Muslim holy warriors, which is what we have in the West Bank and Gaza, I think they get a lot of their inspiration from so many. But there are more and more signs for a tradition between the Khizrullahs.


Today on the island of Greenland, as part of man's continuing efforts to master the secrets of survival in the Arctic, the United States Army has established an unprecedented nuclear-powered Arctic Research Center. Located in a wilderness of ice and snow, Camp Century is 150 miles from Tule, its nearest base of supply. This is an ideal Arctic laboratory. For more than 90% of Greenland is permanently frozen under a polar ice cap which covers all but a few coastal areas of the island. Camp Century is buried below the surface of this ice cap. Beneath it, the ice descends for 6,000 feet. In this remote setting, less than 800 miles from the North Pole, Camp Century is a symbol of man's unceasing struggle to conquer his environment, to increase his ability to live and fight if necessary under polar conditions. This is the story of Camp Century, the city under ice. It was in May 1959 after more than a year of preparation that a small party of Army engineers conducted the final search to select a site for Camp Century. Listen now to the voice of Captain Tom Evans, the young officer who was in charge of the construction of the camp. This was the day we really got underway. Colonel Kirkering, commanding officer of the United States Army Polar Research and Development Center, was with me when we made the final reconnaissance. We needed a flat surface, a level with less than one degree of slope. This would minimize construction problems by enabling us to keep all of our tunnels on the same level. We finally picked this plateau, a smooth white plain of ice for as far as you could see. This was the closest location to Tulee, our supply base, which would not be affected by the summer thaw. That first day we set out flags, marking the boundaries of the camp. This is rugged country. Nothing lived on the ice cap, not even seal or caribou survived in this climate. Our job was to cross 150 miles of ice, much of it split by crevasses, and then build a city under the ice, experimenting with new concepts of polar construction. It was several weeks later, at a point where the ice cap sloped down to a narrow strip of barren land along the coast, that our supplies began rolling in by truck for transfer to sleds. To make this transfer possible, we'd had to build a three-mile road up onto the edge of the ice cap. We brought in everything this way, construction materials, steel arches, clothing, nails, steel beams, prefabricated houses, lumber, food, even ice cream. In the months it took to build Camp Century, more than 6,000 tons of supplies were used. Even the vehicles we used at the site had to be transported over the ice on big bobsleds. We called these convoys of 10 and 20-ton sleds heavy swings. Crawling up the ice cap at approximately 2 miles an hour, a heavy swing would reach the camp in about 70 hours if everything went well. We used wooden caboose-like trailers, wanigans, to house members of the construction crews for the three-day trip. Muckluck, a three-month-old Eskimo sled dog, went along as camp mascot strictly against regulations. Caterpillar tractors with extra-wide treads pulled the heavy swings. Each tractor could pull from 50 to 100 tons. Finally, like a wagon train in the Old West, the first heavy swing got underway. At the same time, we used another type of smaller vehicle to transport an advanced party. These pole cats would average 10 miles an hour and make the trip in little more than half a day. A convoy of pole cats, each section carrying six men, was called a light swing. We also used light aircraft. Throughout the operation, these flights brought in key personnel, special cargoes, and mail. We couldn't forget anything. This was a country in which to turn around and go back. A compass was useless this close to the pole. Instead, our convoys followed a series of trail markings. Traveling in a Wanigan was a long way from the early tractor trains of the 30s with sourdough biscuits and warmed-up beans. From the days spent loading the heavy swing, the men's faces were already deeply sunburnt. During the trip, in shifts, half the men rode and half slept. Navy-type bunks were used for sleeping if you could sleep in the 24-hour sunlight. First to arrive at the surface work camp were the aircraft. A few hours later, the pole cats pulled in. For the next several months, this primitive scene of crowded James Way Arctic huts with outdoor latrines was our home.  All together, I had four other officers and a hand-picked group of 11 non-commissioned officers to help supervise the military construction crew of Camp Century. Plans for the camp had been developed months in advance. The basic concept was simple. A system of 23 trenches would be dug into the ice cap and then covered with steel arches and snow. Branching off the main communication trench would be a series of lateral trenches housing complete research, laboratory and test facilities, modern living quarters and recreation areas, and a complex of support facilities. Since transporting great quantities of diesel fuel over vast arctic was impractical, we would install a nuclear power plant. To be absolutely certain that work was progressing properly, I held nightly construction conferences. Each of the men assigned to me was an expert in some aspect of heavy construction. We got to work immediately cutting trenches. This snow-milling machine, the Peter Plough, was our pride and joy. Manufactured in Switzerland, it could handle up to 1200 cubic yards of snow an hour. Designed to clear roads in the Alps, it was ideal for our purpose being capable of making extremely precise cuts. It was usually operated by two men, one controlling the machine's horizontal movement, the other controlling its vertical movement and speed. When a trench was several feet deep, planks were put down on the shoulders of the cut. Later on, these planks would be used to support the steel arch roof which would cover the trench. Camp Century was starting to grow and so was Muckluck. We used three Peter Ploughs to cut all the different trenches we needed. By making a series of undercuts, the width of most of the lateral trenches was greater at the bottom than at the top. This cut down on the amount of roofing material required. Before long, the first roofs began to go into place. Constructed of overlapping steel arches, these roofs could be put up very quickly. By this time, we had a crew working in a snow quarry cutting large bricks of snow. In this way, we made maximum use of the materials available at the site. Somehow, Muckluck seemed to be everywhere, always making himself useful. When a roof of steel arches was in place, it was covered with snow. Because it had been milled, this snow would harden into an extremely durable surface. Inside each tunnel, at the end of joining the main communication tunnel, passages were cut through. Not all the excavation could be done by machine. The shovel was still a very useful tool. Next, work began on foundations for the prefabricated buildings that would be placed within the tunnels. Leveling the floor was very important to provide a good bearing for the foundations and prevent any building from settling unevenly. This was cold work. The temperature within these tunnels sometimes went to 20 degrees below zero, and this was summer. Prefabricated sections were delivered by forklift. The non-conductive wood and the air insulation barrier below it protected both the building from the cold of the ice floor and the ice floor from the warmth of the building. Every prefab that went into Camp Century had been pre-erected, tested, and then shipped to us as a unit. Every clip, every doorknob, every light switch came in a single shipment. In this way, we knew there would be no delays caused by missing parts. This is a standard T5 engineer arctic building designed for cold weather use. Composed of plywood insulation panels, these buildings would provide space for comfortable working and living under the ice. Since every unit had been checked out in advance, our crews could put up one of these buildings in less than a day. As soon as the shell was completed, crews began to wire the buildings for interim power provided by diesel generators. As each unit was finished, I marked it off on the chart on my office wall. As the major interior work within each tunnel was completed, the entranceway was blocked up with bricks of snow. It took about two days to build one of these walls. Once in place, these bricks would bond together into a solid wall, and only a small entranceway would be left. We then used a bulldozer to push loose snow into the doorway of the tunnel to complete the seal. Later, an escape hatch would be placed at the end of a small wooden form for an emergency exit. When it was completed, the entrance was weatherproof and serviceable. Throughout the long period of construction within the primitive facilities of the work camp, the men solved the everyday problems of working and living as best they could. Meanwhile, work had begun on the four nuclear trenches. These were the widest and deepest trenches and did not use the undercutting principle. On this cut, we used three plows simultaneously, two plows throwing up snow from below, the third cutting a spoil trench up above to prevent loose snow from sliding back into the cut. To avoid melting caused by the sun, much of this work was done at night. These scenes were filmed at 2 a.m. The continuous sunlight caused us plenty of headaches. A black tarpaulin was used to protect the section of this 40-foot cut, most vulnerable to the sun's rays. Below, foundations and structure for the reactor building were put in place. Until the trench was covered, there was always a threat that the 40-foot arches would collapse the shoulder already weakened by the 24-hour-a-day arctic sunlight. The faster the roof went up, the better. The frame for the reactor building was made of steel beams. Despite the cold and the constant winds, my construction workers climbed like monkeys over the scaffolding and rode the beams into place. At this same time, within the tunnels already completed, we were installing piping for water and electricity. Heavy insulation material was wrapped around every pipe to protect against the extreme cold. A copper heating element inside the insulation kept water lines from freezing. Flexible sewage lines also had to be run through the camp. At this time, to keep on schedule, we were using 12 and sometimes 14-hour shifts. For like any modern city, Camp Century required a complex of interconnecting corridors carrying a maze of piping of all sizes and shapes. One of our proudest achievements was our solution of the water problem. A steam hose with a special drilling nozzle was used to melt a hole 3.5 feet in diameter, 120 feet down into the ice cap, until a pool of water formed which did not drain off. This pool provided 10,000 gallons of fresh water daily. Throughout the camp, an extensive electrical system was now installed. For electrical heating would not only be clean, but it would also reduce the threat of fire. And fire was the worst hazard under the ice. From the very beginning, we had to take precautions against fire or a storm closing the ramps or any other disaster which might block the regular entrances to the camp. 16 of these escape hatches were strategically located throughout the various tunnels. Off-duty hours, the men did what they could to amuse themselves with the recreational opportunities at hand. Bronco busting was one favorite pastime. By this time, muck luck was almost full grown. Living in the work camp was pretty much a do-it-yourself operation. Everything took longer and time was always short. Since our crews were working around the clock, if a problem came up it couldn't wait, we tried to resolve it immediately. By early July, most of the heavy construction work on the tunnels was completed. Throughout this operation, it was a steady stream of heavy swings moving back and forth across the ice, more than any other single factor that made it possible for us to complete camp century on schedule. 25,000 gallons of diesel fuel, 110 tons, an all-time record sled load. The continuous flow of tractor trains bringing in enormous cargoes were like the dependable tortoise, slow but steady. But they were our lifeline to service our many vehicles. A maintenance shop was constructed closer to the surface, both as a repair shop and as a garage, where the sub-zero temperatures meant equipment had to be kept warm. Otherwise, engines wouldn't start, lubricating oil solidified, and electrical connections froze. It was at this time that the marine fiddler arrived at Tule with the nuclear power plant, designed for air transportability but transported by sea to reduce costs. The nuclear plant was the last major phase of our operation and the most difficult. This unit, for example, part of a vapor container, weighed more than 21 tons. Awkward to handle and with high centers of gravity, these packages were delivered to the ice cap over a road built specifically for their transport. More than 400 tons of piping and machinery arrived in this one shipment. Since the Arctic cold makes metal very brittle, each unit had to be handled with great care. Even a routine impact could cause metal to crack or break. Both Colonel Kirkering and the swing commander checked the loading. The vapor container, the largest single item in the power plant, was carried on a special flat-bottom sled, built expressly for its transport. Everything seemed fine the morning the heavy swing moved out. But unfortunately it was only a few hours later that one of the worst storms of the season blew up. To complete preparations to receive the nuclear plant, my crews bundled up and kept on working. The opening and the roof of the main nuclear trench now had to be closed quickly before the trench began filling with snow. Despite the storm, the heavy swing was still moving. My crews kept working. It was the only way we could be ready. Out on the ice, the storm cleared a little and notwithstanding the tremendous load and the weather, this swing made the trip in record time. Just as the swing arrived at the camp, the storm let up entirely. Work began immediately unloading the shipment in preparation for its replacement. Covers were removed, crates opened. None of the excitement affected muck luck in the least. Boxes of piping and wiring, each item carefully labeled, were opened so that each unit would be available when needed. Major components shipped in pieces because of weight limitations were reassembled before being moved into the trenches. The condenser, 15 tons of steel, was one of the first units to be moved into the tunnel, prepared to house it. When the condenser was slowly winched forward, small track rollers supported its entire weight. Next, still mounted on its special sled, the vapor container was eased down the ramp by three tractors, one in front pulling and two in back to keep it from slipping. To bear the weight of the vapor container, the reactor building was constructed around a framework of steel beams. The floor was of heavy planking mounted on other steel beams. We had to use hand rigging methods, the best we could do under the confined conditions to put the nuclear equipment in place. Every step had to be checked very carefully, since the power plant had been pre-fitted in the United States and must be emplaced within a tolerance of one-eighth of an inch. The power plant consisted of four basic elements, a nuclear heat source, equipment that would convert the heat energy into electrical energy, and a system to dispose of excess heat, all regulated by an extensive network of instruments and controls. The last buildings to be assembled were those that would contain the nuclear sections. These shells were built around the nuclear system equipment only after every major component had been put in place. The next phase was to be the activation of the nuclear power plant. Wearing the white safety hat is Captain Jim Barnett in charge of this operation who will tell you about this critical phase. We took every precaution in the book and some that weren't there to make sure this would work right the first time. When the entire system had been carefully tested, it was put into operation. We were then ready to begin loading the reactor core. One by one, the fuel elements were removed from the barrels in which they'd been shipped, carefully separated from one another. Each of these bars containing approximately 500 grams of uranium-235 was then unwrapped, inspected, and wiped clean of any dust. Crewmen wearing protective clothing began to load the fuel elements into a fuel storage tank. This preliminary test proved that the fuel elements, when assembled, would not go active prematurely. After each element was in place, instruments were read and an evaluation of reactivity was made and reported over loudspeakers. The crewmen were protected by a shield of approximately 8 feet of water as they lowered the fuel elements into the fuel storage tank. Later, each of these steel and uranium bars would be transferred underwater to the nearby reactor core. Every step of the testing was meticulously monitored and regular announcements made to the workers assigned to the loading crew. 35 content of the assembled core is 13.376 kilograms. Coefficient of reactivity, 0.935. The assembly is still subcritical. When all preliminary tests were completed, we began to transfer the fuel elements one by one and started loading the reactor core. As each fuel element went into place, the count rate of neutrons released gradually increased. Within the core, to prevent the reactor from inadvertently going critical, control rods were in place. This gradual activation of the pile took almost nine hours. In this tense atmosphere, we changed crews twice. Above us, it was dark and miserable. With the approach of winter, the sun was preparing the set for the year. Finally, our meters reported a significant increase of reactivity. The whole cap was standing by, waiting, tense. By the ninth hour, the last fuel element had gone into place. A plot showed the location of every bar. Then the control rods were gradually withdrawn until the reactor went critical at 6.52 a.m. Now here it is. With all pipes and control rods withdrawn, 6.24 inches, PM2A went critical at 0652 hours. Within the next few weeks, the final touches were put to camp century. Today, powered by its nuclear reactor, this unique installation is a completely modern community, deep under the ice. This is a far cry from the primitive James Way huts of the work camp where three showers served 250 men. Here there are showers for all, and facilities for every modern convenience. Among the many sophisticated facilities at camp century is the dispensary, complete in every detail. For while the remote research community is isolated by 150 miles of ice and snow, its medical capabilities can cope with almost any emergency. It also has a small chapel for regular religious services. And it boasts the largest deep freeze in the world. Here is enough food to feed the camp for several months. Everything from steak to fruit salad. The modern spacious kitchens provide a well-balanced and appetizing menu. To satisfy the enormous appetites that working in this climate produces means extra rations, but there's always more than enough. Except for the fact that they have no windows, the men of camp century live exactly as do other soldiers. Their quarters are modern, spacious, comfortable, and are not lacking in any detail. Today camp century is being operated as a year-round Arctic Research Center. The men who built the camp have long since been replaced by military and civilian scientists from the Polar Research and Development Program. As part of man's efforts to probe deeper and deeper into the secrets of the universe, an elaborate program of tests and experiments is being carried out. At this very moment, somewhere, men from camp century are at work within the city itself or out on the ice cap. Only muck luck remains from the original contingent. This is the story of camp century, of the army engineers who carved out the underground city, of the many other men of the United States Army who made this project possible, and of man's never-ceasing quest for knowledge.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com, coming at you with a little team random here, which fills up score, football, pick your team two, which will be in a separate video. We sold six spots, we're doubling up your names, and in this case we're randomizing both your names and teams. Both names and teams. So let's double up these names here. There are the teams right there. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. Three times. One, two, and three. So it's a random team break inside of pick your team break. And then three times for the teams. One, two, and a third, and final time. Titans down to Steelers. All right, there you have it. Steve, you have the Titans, we'll put a little rooftop next to your name. Zach with the bear. Steve with the packers. Justin with the Texans. Ryan with the Redskins. Justin with the Seahawks. Ryan with the Panthers. Joe K with the Saints. And Jets, Jared with the Combo Falcons and Lions. Jared, you also have the Broncos. And Zach with the Steelers. There you have it. In a separate video will be the break itself, Jaspy'scasebreaks.com.


Alright guys, time for another book review, a running book review. We are reviewing Faster Road Racing by Pete Fitzinger and Philip Ladder. So Pete Fitzinger is a former Olympic marathoner, a renowned coach, exercise physiologist, one of my favorite running teachers and Philip Ladder, I don't know that much about him, says here that he rides for runners world, running times and he's also a runner himself. We'll go through the contents of the book a little bit, but first of all I want to just say what makes this book so great is Pete Fitzinger's style, or I guess the style of the book, they're both involved in it, the style of the book is very Everything's just very well explained, okay? It's just if you're a beginner or an advanced either way this book will teach you the basics of running, particularly from 5k to half marathon, and of course the other famous book he wrote, probably more famous than this one, is Advanced Marathoning by Pete Fitzinger and Scott Douglas. We'll talk about that in another video and what's sort of the whole mark of these two books is that everything is very simply explained. Well, that's not right. It's not simple It's complete, it goes through exercise physiology basics, talks about the different styles of training and why they're good and what kind of adaptions you're getting as a runner, so he definitely goes in depth, but he explains it in a way, or they explain it in a way, that's understandable to pretty much anyone. Let's look at the contents. So basically, I'll read through the chapters Elements of training, balancing training and recovery, supplementary training, the well-fed runner's diet, considerations for master's runners, tapering for p-performance, follow, and then it gets into the schedules, that's like some training programs included here, following the schedules, base training, training for 5k, 8k to 10k, 15k, 10 mile, half marathon, and training for multiple distances. So if you're into racing essentially, if you're into performance and you're not just running for fun, if you're actually, well, it's a lot of fun to train, but you know what I mean, if you're running for performance and you want to perform well in different races from 5k to half marathon, this is the book to get, seriously, it's just, it's excellent. And if you want to buy it, just mention it. There is an affiliate link in the description, an Amazon link, if you click it and you choose to buy, we'll get paid a little bit of a commission, but the price remains the same for you. So if you want to check out the book, you can click that link, and that would support the long trail YouTube channel. So let's look a little bit into the book here. It talks about lactate, right? Lactate threshold pace, what is it? Understanding lactate threshold place, typical lactate threshold values, what is VO2 max training, what does it mean? Equal training, right? What length of interval should you do? What the recovery period should be? He's building a lot on Jack Daniels type training. I made a review of Jack Daniels distance running formula in another video. I'll put a link to it there. So do check that out. He's building a lot on his concepts. And of course that further builds on Arthur Lydia's concepts. And so it's well proven coaching advice, and of course based soundly on exercise physiology, evidence based training. He goes into some exercises you can do, some just general strength exercises, talks about tapering, you know, before a race. The role of iron in the runner's diet talks a little bit about nutrition. He goes into supplementary training, as I said.  What kind of pace should I hit? How often should I do a tempo run? What is a tempo run anyway? What about interval training versus long runs versus recovery runs? How do I know the difference? That sort of thing. That's all in this book. And of course, as I said, it ends the latter part of the book, the second half, I guess, is full of these schedules, where it goes through 12 weeks of training, different sessions, and they're all based on different race distances and different weekly volumes, depending on your time investment.  So just an excellent book of all the books that I've read, and I've read a lot, I would say this is the one book to get if you are a beginner. As I said, it's perfectly fine for advanced runners as well. But if you are a beginner, you know, something like Jack Daniels distance running formula might not be exactly what you're looking for.  So if you maybe you have a friend who's just getting into running, or maybe you're getting into it yourself, or maybe you've been into it for a while, but you want to take it more seriously, take it to the next level. This would be probably the book I would recommend the most. So if you're interested, go to the link in the description, the affiliate link and check it out on Amazon. It's a fine day here in the Nis, southern France. It's a recovery day for me. So I'm just relaxing. I might do a little bit of an easy run this afternoon. But right now, just making videos and getting some work done. Thanks for watching. Please subscribe if you haven't done so already. I would love to have your subscriber to my channel. And if you're interested in more book reviews, I have made quite a few of them. I'll put a link to my book review playlist somewhere here and you can check that out. Thanks a lot. Have an awesome day. I wish you all the best in terms of running, training and life in general. Thanks. Bye.


Here we have a perfect example of why you always want to inspect inside a CRT no matter what. Now this is one of the most desirable 13 inch Sony PVMs. This is the 1405, the multi-format CRT and it's been performing fine but I'm going to show you a couple reasons in here specifically why you would want to always inspect inside of your first off. Just look at the amount of dust buildup inside of here. All the components and cables are heavily coated with that dust and that's very dangerous. Look over here we could have some spiders living in this area. You literally do have cobwebs so there was a spider set up in there or there currently is one living in there. I haven't seen one jump out at me yet but do you see how that could easily cause these components to be stressed by either holding in and insulating excessive amounts of heat especially on these heat sensitive items like the capacitors. This is the deflection board right here with our daughter board and our main deflection board. So that's the big reason is this stuff right here is not very good for the PVM. There's not a lot of space inside of this one and it's been mostly clogged up with spider webs and then buildup dust and that dust also in the worst case scenario could cause something to short out such as one of these ICs on here or something or even an IC on like say the neckboard. Just look down inside here but just look at how dirty it is inside of the actual area in here. Now this side is where the input card goes in. So the main thing we're looking at is dust but the next thing we need to be mindful of is look at this. Now this is a 17 year old CRT. It's got just some really delicate plastic on it. See how this board it should be up in here about like that. That's the other side just a connection board here. That should be a back against there. You can see where a piece of plastic has come off there. It's missing over here and just to kind of show you what I mean check this out. This is all the plastic bits that I found just laying inside of the PVM. So none of that's really good. It'll heat up and melt and again not it's not safe could damage something. So that's all out and what we need to do now is just set up and the first thing I really want to do is I don't want to cause any more damage to this board and we're going to service this board. So I'm going to take it out first and this daughter board and probably the board behind it will disconnect all that and we'll move this entire plastic piece out of the way and then we'll clean the rest of this monitor and then we'll service this board. So let's get that set up. I've moved to my garage just to make sure I don't get any of this dust down in the bunker. Let's take one last look at just some of the build up here. Of course the deflection board is out and being serviced. We still have the D2 daughter board down here in the way but just look at all the build up in here. We're about to clean all this out and I'm going to use just some brushes some safe ESD brushes and also an ESD cloth to clean off that neck of the tube and I'm going to use my compressed air to blow all this out. Alright our CRT has been reassembled and before I did that you could tell I thoroughly cleaned inside. There's really no cobwebs left or anything. I did a nice polish on the back of the tube where there's not that important paint. You want to make sure you don't rub that off but there are some spots on the tube that was dirty and we were able to clean up. We were able to clean up the anode cap and that cable there and really all the boards were cleaned up. It's much nicer inside and then we also serviced the main deflection board here and I will show you a copy of the capacitor list. I often get asked about the capacitor list so here's one for free from me to you and you can just take a look at that and those are the caps that were serviced on this one. The biggest and most important thing for this one was to get cleaned out and to get that loose plastic removed from the inside of the monitor where it could have either knocked off on something or caused you know a short it could have I know it's not conducted the plastic itself but it could have done something like pushed against two points that were metal and caused a short. Now it's just time to turn it on and see if it works so we've got it hooked up with a Super Nintendo through RGB and I'm just going to slowly rotate it here while it's turned on and you'll notice some sound coming up and all right so let's make sure it's on external sync that's it so it was on RGB just no sync all right it seems to be running great so just remember always clean inside these old CRTs I mean even this one is only 17 years old I say only because that's kind of young for a CRT most CRTs are well older than that 20 to 30 years old and you could really find some crazy things inside them I've seen some really bad spider webs wasps nests all kinds of crazy stuff inside of these and so not only can it be you know bad for your environment in your home but it's also not good for the inside and the CRT if you could begin to use it so always good to get in there and clean things out you do not have to discharge this to clean inside you can leave the anode cap in there and the end result is a clean device that will last a whole lot longer than if you did nothing and just waited for a fail thanks for watching me today let me know what you think with a comment below and I will see you all next time with some more retro content


Despite high hopes, Ukraine will not receive US F-16 fighter jets this year. Ukraine will not be able to protect its skies with US-made F-16 fighters in the coming autumn and winter. Yuri Inat, spokesman for Ukraine's Air Force, said this. Despite having high hopes for American-made F-16 fighter jets to safeguard their airspace, Ukraine will not be receiving these aircraft during the upcoming fall or winter seasons. Unfortunately, it is already clear that we will not be able to protect Ukraine with F-16s throughout the fall and this winter. There were high hopes for these aircraft that these could really become part of the air defence, he added. Highlighting progress on the matter, the spokesperson said that Ukrainian pilots would soon undergo training to operate the aircraft. Additionally, Inat stressed the importance of enhancing Ukraine's defence capabilities against drone assaults. He expressed his belief that fortifying the country's air defences is imperative. He added that Ukraine still has a need to strengthen its air defence systems. Earlier, Ukrainian Defence Minister Olexiy Reznikov articulated the military's requirement for aircraft with a preference for F-16 fighter jets capable of functioning as integral components of the air defence system and possessing the ability to engage ground targets if the situation demands. The Washington Post, citing Ukrainian, European and US officials and military personnel, said Ukraine will likely face another year without F-16 pilots.


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Welcome, traders, to another Tick Mill Earnings Report preview with me, Patrick Manole. Before we jump into today's material, it's important that we adhere to the risk disclaimer. The material provided is for information purposes only and should not be considered as investment advice. The views, informational opinions expressed in this recording are solely mine. They are not indicative or representative of those held by Tick Mill UK or Tick Mill Europe Limited. It's also important to understand that we are talking about CFDs, they're complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 71% and 65% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with Tick Mill UK and Tick Mill Europe Limited respectively. Okay, let's jump into today's report and we are taking a look at Tesla. So Tesla has confirmed to report earnings after the bell today in the New York trading. Consensus earnings estimates is for $2.27 per share on revenue of $17.76 billion. There is a whisper number on the street of a potential $2.41 per share on revenue as high as $17.86 billion. As usual, Tesla have already disclosed its first quarter vehicle delivery and production numbers, which drives the vast majority of the company's revenue. Earlier this month Tesla confirmed that it delivered just over 310,000 electrical vehicles during the first three months of the year. That's yet another all-time course of the record for Tesla in the seventh in a row and a massive result for a first quarter, which is generally viewed to be weaker. Delivery and production numbers are always slightly adjusted during the earnings results for revenue. Analysts generally have a pretty good idea of what to expect thanks to the delivery numbers Tesla always attempts to be marginally profitable every quarter as it invests most of its money back into growth and it's been successfully doing this over the past two years. The earnings are a little bit more hit and miss since it depends on how much Tesla is spending for this specific quarter and with supply chain issues and costs increasing at new factories being bought online, it could be not as profitable despite the real potential for another record when it comes to revenues. So in terms of what we can expect from a statistical perspective around the release, the stock has gapped lower actually eight of the last 12 quarters, so 75% of the time for an average loss of 1.2%. Shares have moved lower in the immediate aftermath of earnings, eight of the 12 previous reports. Again, on average, the stock has moved down about 1.2% in the first day after the company reports earnings. However, based on the previous 12 earnings releases, shares are more likely to trade lower one day after the earnings, but the five-day performance importantly shows an average gain of 7.6%. In terms of what options traders are pricing in around implied volatility around the release, we're looking for about an 8.6% move on the earnings release and the stock has averaged about 6.5% in the recent quarters. From a flow perspective, an options flow perspective giving us that sentiment view, it is noticeable there was a decent buyer on April 14th of 15,063 contracts of the 1001 call expiring on Friday 22nd of April. In general options flow has been more bearish. Investment sentiment there going into the release has a 72% positive expectancy for an earnings beat. Short interest has increased to 12.9% since the company's last earnings release, while the stock has actually drifted higher by about 5.5% from its open following the last release to the 11.3% above its 200-day moving average at $885.33. So let's jump into the technicals now and see what we're looking at in terms of actual trade levels and opportunities in the post-release. So the structure at the moment for Tesla is bullish. I'm actually watching here potential five-way designs. I'm just going to draw this in for you. So we have a one, two, we have a three, way three high here versus this potential wave four low at $97281. I'm actually targeting a five equals one minimum upside objective of $1162.69. So I'm looking for prices depending upon where the release comes in line, if it does come in line or slightly better, I'm looking to be long through the high volume mode here at 1036, looking for prices to grind up into this target zone, five equals one of 1162.69. If the earnings come in below consensus on the weak side and we get any pullback back into the ascending trend line support here just above the $900 mark, again I'll be watching the bullish reversal patterns there to build long positions, ultimately looking for this move up to test above the 1160 level. As always traders, plan the trade, trade the plan and most importantly, manage your risk. Until next time, thanks very much.


For this week's Circuit Python Parsec, I wanted to show you a little trick you can do with swapping out colors in an image palette using Display.io. I'm just using the Iterford image load to load this BMP image up on screen. But the trick, the thing I wanted to show you here, I'm going to uncomment my code and resave it to the board. And now what you're going to see is it's going to go through and one by one replace each color in the palette with green. You can pick any color you want, you can do more sophisticated things. But here what you'll see is just every time it loops through, it's going to display the original image for a second and then it's going to start just making its way through the palette and switch the palette value for green. If I change this out we can do something like, let's say red, it's not quite as visible actually because this starts out as an orange image. But you can see there one by one each of those colors changing and this is a really neat trick. It's something that has its roots in video game art using palettes to swap how things look so that you don't have as many big heavy assets in your scene was a common trick. Take a look at the code here. We're doing an image load, we're setting up some Display.io stuff and then this function here image and palette are cast into this Iterford image load load and then the name of your BMP image sets up the bitmap as a tile grid image using a pixel shader based on the palette and then in the main loop what I'm doing is grabbing that palette and then one by one I go through however many colors are in the palette and I'm saying take each one starting on the first one and replace it with whatever color I've picked. So if we go in here and change this to blue let's say. So now what you'll see is it just goes through one at a time changes it takes a little a moment there and then it holds that image for a second and repeats it. So that is how you can replace the colors in an image with a specific color using Display.io's palette shaders and that is your circuit Python Parsec.


I want to discuss the economics of high density cities. So kind of business model for high density cities, so to speak. The question is, how can we make these cities livable and affordable to more people? So in Chinese cities, in Chinese characters, you're made of Cheng, which is a building and physical capital, and the city is people and the market. Okay, so last year, Chinese invested more than 50% of GDP in urban real estate infrastructure and manufacturing jobs to create cities. And this is a model, a high capital intensive model for fast urbanization. So the question is whether a huge investment can create livable cities. Now, livable cities are not just a place that's nice. Livable cities enable people to meet and trade easily so that they can be creative and productive. It's a place that people can use less resources and manage the resource well. Okay, but we often price cities for its capacity to generate GDP. And we can have more GDP by just investing more capital in place, hire more people, mass production, and we can mass produce cities with capital. But the capital intensive urbanization makes people dependent on cars and other capital for their mobility and for their livelihood. And ironically, higher car ownership does not always make mobility easier in the city. And it does reduce the space for pedestrian and for community life. And the mass production of housing does not always make urban living affordable if people have to depend on distant jobs and depend on high consumption of energy. So the capital intensive urbanization inevitably reached diminishing returns. And this is a case in China where we can see the investment spree in the last decade has made many Chinese cities highly in-depth. And that shows more capital investment doesn't generate livable cities that can generate enough income. So we need to employ our capital more smartly to make cities do more with less so that urbanization can be sustained. So capital should liberate people, enable them to contribute to communities. So if we use the capital smartly, livable cities don't have to be expensive. Kutibang, a Brazilian city, about 1.7 billion people is a good example. It's bus rapid transit system is cheap, it's low cost, but it's so good that it reduced the car traffic in the city by 30% while the population tripled in 20 years. And the city also has recycled programs that allow people to be productive, even children can be productive to help the community to reduce waste and make the community clean. So livable cities are not real city projects. So livable city is about choice of how we live and how we work. It's a choice of technology and institution that enable people to shape their built environment and the collective behavior. Livability also creates high density by attracting people in close proximity and they enable public collective choice that manage the resource well. So the good news is the technologies are becoming more scalable and more intelligent and that enable give more possibilities for people to be productive in different ways and to manage resources more responsibly. But for the benefit of the new technology to be realized, we need innovation and innovation requires communities, requires collective actions by community that take ownership in their environment and in the deployment of technology. But one question you may ask is whether this decentralized investment decision making by smaller communities would produce inefficient cities. And here we have an example of a relatively small country but with highly decentralized and diverse urban system. So Swiss cities are very efficient and inclusive and environmental friendly. So the question I have for you is how do we enable innovations that make city do more with less and provide something for everyone. And with these innovations high density cities can be livable place where everyone gains.


This study examined the essential elements that contribute to the successful implementation of cloud computing and small-scale construction projects in Malaysia. It found that four key factors were important for success, cost, quality, time management, planning success, organizational success, and communication and coordination. The study also identified the importance of these factors in relation to each other and how they interact to create a successful cloud computing environment. This article was authored by Esan Wakar, Kristof Skrzepkowski, Hamad Almujiba, and others.