We're now going to move on to some slightly more complicated 3d modeling to get this table like shape What I want to do first of all though is just make one more adjustment to this image plane because currently The lines are going to be following a kind of flickering in and out And that's because this is currently unfiltered this image. So what we'll do is just make sure we select it We're going to go to the attribute editor, which for me isn't showing up so I'm going to press ctrl and a to make it pop up and Make sure that you can see image plane shape one This will show you the image and you can see there's a texture filter here and Basically what you need to do is just swap to a different one of these whichever one works best for you I've tested and I quite like the mipmap trial in here So it makes the lines not quite as bright, but I can now see them all all of the time Which is much easier to work with what we need to do first then to create this shape Is we're going to start as we have done so far with a cube So we're going to create a cube in one more different way that we haven't done yet to create our cube Then what we're going to do is press and hold space bar and that's going to bring up this menu here Which is known as the hot box and if you're a Maya pro This will give you access to the entire my user interface without having to have it up here and all around Which can give you more working space if you want to be a pro This is the way that you need to get comfortable working So from this menu, I'm going to click and hold on create if I don't hold I won't be able to navigate the menus So click and hold I'm going to go to Polygon primitives and create a new cube You'll see that that's created up here because that's where the origin is and what I'm going to do first of all is just move this Into place as close as I can get it Now what I want to do is just give this some subdivision so you can see that these lines running up here What allow us to change the silhouette of the shape and we need to add those to this cube? And we do that by going into inputs clicking on polycube for is what mine's called and we're going to change the subdivision's height to 15 And you can see that now we have Subdivisions running the height of the cube whilst I'm in the channel box. I'm also going to rename it So we're going to call it table leg There we go, and now I'm going to use my resize tool just to get the basic shape of this So I'll just try and get it pretty much so that it's high enough This does not have to be perfect. It's just to get us close.  We have these icons that allow us to change between different modes This is object mode here. We've also got vertex edge and face mode This is UV selection mode, which is more to do with texturing So for now, we're just going to click on here that will take us into vertex mode You can now see the purple vertices and we need to be able to select these in rows And this is a really important thing. I'm about to show you pay attention If I was to just click on this one at the bottom here and then used shift and click I would have them both and it would look like I had the whole row selected But if I go into this view here, you see that I've got these two at the front But not these two at the back if however, I do a marquee selection like that You can now see That I've got the front and the back and for this to work We must do that on each row as we work our way up. Otherwise, you're going to have a bad time and have to redo it So we're in vertex mode. We have our bottom row of vertices selected What I'm also going to recommend is that you use number four on your keyboard and Number five on your keyboard to switch between wireframe and shaded mode just so you can see what you're doing So now that I've got wireframe mode on I'm going to use a combination of my move tool So I'm just going to move that down a little bit and my scale tool I'm only going to scale out on this axis Like that that then is going to help us create our shape So then I'll move up to the next row get a marquee selection And I just want to show you why I'm only scaling on the one axis So you can see that that has gone out evenly And if I scale on the one axis it stays even you can see that that's nice and even If however, I scale from the middle to scale on all axes. It's also going to scale outwards, which we don't want So in this view it would still look right, but in this view it looks oh so wrong So it's kind of important that we don't do that by mistake. Let's now go into each of these rows and We're just going to create our shape So we'll do move tool first get the row in place and then scale tool to get it to line up with our guide So I'm just going to speed this up. Let you guys follow and I'll meet up with you at the end Just here you can see that I'm about to get an overlap So if I want to move this next row up to here, I'm going to overlap them. That's a bad idea So what I'll do is just get a few more rows and I'm just going to move them up together So that means that I can avoid this overlap because I don't want this topology to start overlapping and getting messy So that is our table leg complete. We can go back into shaded mode I'm also going to just drop this back into object mode and we'll see how it looks in Perspective view so the silhouette is looking good The width of this or the thickness is far too high for my liking So I'm just going to change this as an overall shape something like that looks nice And then what I'll do is just use my move tool To move it over to one side of the table That looks nice. I am now done with this reference piece So I can just select it hit delete and that will do it for this step in the next step We're just going to finish this piece off with a bevel and we'll add these pieces to a layer So we can hide them whilst we continue to build our skills. We're not quite done with these table legs yet We need to put a little bit of embellishment on them before we duplicate it over But the next step is going to be about setting up for that. 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Welcome to BCH Technologies. This is Kevin. Today we're going to troubleshoot the problem that cartridge cannot be recognized. This is different than you press the OK and then you press the white button. And if after that is still not recognized, then you're going to watch this video. So what happened is, during the shipment, you may have this thing get knocked out of the balance. So it doesn't have a good contact with the printer. So we're going to hit OK to move this to the center. Remember the white reset button only works if this is in the center. So that's why you need to hit OK first. You can see this board is kind of leaning this way now, so that probably is the reason. So what I do is I use my finger, just put this back. Now I use my finger to squeeze the G board and make sure it has a good contact with the assembly. This is how the electronic board gets assembled on the back of the board. So if this one is out, it may influence the other contact points. So this feels good. And then I want to check G boards. They are down. The absence G board is removable. So sometimes it pops up like this.  So you can just use your finger or something to push it down. And let me pop another one. You can see it didn't completely pop up, but it's already offline. So you can just push it down. So for here, because we have a problem with the magenta, I'm going to use a pin. Oh, it actually says up. So I'm just pushing it to make sure they're all down in the outs. Where the problem is? OK, problem fixed. OK, let me show you what if the chipboard is completely bad. So you have to replace the whole chipboard. So we go to setup. And maintenance and in cartridge replacement. And click start. So now this is going to move to the middle. So I use my finger, pull this back. I may need to remove a little bit. Some of this to get the chipboard. OK, make sure all the tubes are not twisted. OK, now get a new one. So what you want is the first thing is you go straight in. Like this. And then you clip. And now to a final check of those pins. I hope you enjoyed this video. Visit us at www.bchtechnologies.com or locally at Greensboro, North Carolina. Thank you. Cheers.


relationship, you know, prior to getting engaged. And I got me thinking about all in and how that relates to commitment. So today we're gonna dive into the four stages a man goes through before he fully commits. And I think this will be really valuable information for everyone. Now, we have to recognize that a lot of couples today attach at a very, they attach and bond in an unhealthy way. I'm gonna repeat that. They attach and bond in an unhealthy way. In many cases, people are experiencing childhood wounds and traumas and adult traumas that make it very difficult for them to actually form a healthy, happy relationship with another human being. And because humans are thirsty for companionship, they're thirsty for connection, they're thirsty for physical intimacy with one another, there's this hyper focus on attraction in the early stages without really determining true compatibility with another human being. Say that, let me say that again, true compatibility with another human being. Why did these men take so long? Because compatibility takes time, building a relationship with a person takes time and you have to really lean into that desire for men in particular to reach that point of saying, I want to be all in and what is all in? It means I want to take care of you. I'm gonna repeat that one more time. I wanna take care of you. That's what all in means. That doesn't necessarily mean financially take care of you, but it's like the wedding vows for better, for poorer, for richer, for thin, for richer, for thin in sickness and in health. In other words, it's not just about the good times. See today, most relationships hyper focus on all the good and they're unaware of these four stages of really building a partnership with someone that helps develop that healthy, juicy, delicious, happy relationship I often talk about. So the other day I was reading about, this is something I've known for some time called the 90 day rule, the 90 day rule. And basically it says something to the effect that if a relationship reaches a 90 day mark, it has a greater chance for relationship success than it doesn't. Now that seems to make sense and I wanna share my own personal experience here. After my significant relationship ended some six years ago, actually, yeah, it was six years ago, the beginning of this month. I didn't think about it. My dating was rather sparse and what I mean to say, I made effort in dating, but it was certainly it wasn't this going out on a date once a week. I was a bit selective and I found myself going through experiences like this and maybe you can relate. I'd meet someone online through a dating app, dating apps, right? Dating apps, all my apps are no longer on my phone, my dating apps and I'd connect with someone, we'd go back and forth, we'd communicate with one another and we have a first date. Now it seems to me that probably in those six years before or those five years before I met my sweetheart Marie, there's a picture of her right there. I went on several dozens of first dates and of those several dozens, I think it was probably maybe 30 in a period of six years, maybe 40, something like that. I think only three of them ever got to a second date. Three of them out of these 40 in this period of time, never got to a second date. Now for some of them, most of the time I wasn't interested in them and there were a couple that weren't interested in me and I do specifically remember that two of them turned into second dates and in these two second dates, actually these numbers aren't accurate, there were more than three that got to a second date or but let me just keep going with this. Now that I come back, there's a couple other women in there. So really quickly, very of that 40, 50 people, maybe now I'm increasing it to 50 because I'm not 100% sure because I had a lot of meet and greets, very few of them got to a second date and I remember specifically only one ever made it to three, four, five, six, seven, eight dates of those one. And so coming back to what I was talking about within this 90 day rule, you think about it, at a 50, let's say meet and greets, only one of them got to a third, fourth or fifth date and that one didn't even make it to the 90 day mark. Now this can be very discouraging to think about this but that's the reality of life. We're not a fit for most people. Most people aren't in an emotionally healthy place to actually form a healthy, happy relationship. So when I talk about what I'm gonna talk about today is for those people who are serious about a relationship, they're serious about partnership, they're serious about commitment and they're in an emotionally good place to get there because when you attach to someone in an unhealthy place, okay, why would men hit this 90 day mark and bail on someone, okay? And I had a few of those prior to, shortly after my marriage, I had a few relationships that hit the 90 day mark and it didn't go anywhere. It was because I realized in the beginning stages when the chemistry was taking us off in the rocket ship and I was excited on that high, once I got past that high, I had to evaluate is this person really right for me? Do I really feel this, do I feel like this is the right person for me? And usually it took off in six weeks and then it started to drop after six weeks and it hit that 90 day mark. This isn't an accurate number, this is just merely a guideline, but after 90 days, and I think this is true for all men, we kind of have this evaluation, is this person someone I want to go on this ride with? Do I wanna go on this ride of being in relationship with? And yet, here's the tricky part. An emotionally unhealthy man, emotionally who is wounded, who has unresolved traumas, unresolved unhealed wounds in his life, he's going to want that companionship connection and sex and he'll settle for mediocrity.  This got me thinking, and now I'm gonna do a rabbit here. This got me thinking to how many men are in marriages who are unhappy in marriages, but won't go anywhere? Do you realize that women initiate 70 to 80% of divorces and men don't? Why? Because a man will be in an unhappy relationship and stick with it. Now some of those men might cheat and get their needs met elsewhere or they hyper focus in their professional capacity to get their needs met, but think about that for a second. See, women initiate more divorces because they want something deeper, which I'm about to share. So I'm gonna, today I'm gonna apply, I have to read my notes for a second for everyone because this isn't something I memorized. Today I'm going to apply the Tuckman model to illustrate a point, the Tuckman model. Tuckman stages of development, the FSNP described the four stages of psychological development a team goes through as they work on a project. Teams move through each stage as they overcome challenges, learn to work together and eventually focus on accomplishing a shared goal. Can I read that again, everybody? The Tuckman stages of development described the four stages of psychological development a team goes through as they work on a project, teams move through each stage as they overcome challenges, learn to work together and eventually focus on accomplishing a shared goal. See, don't you all want to be in a team? Don't you wanna be in a partnership with someone? I know that when Marie and I first met, we wanted that. And in a moment, I'm gonna share those four stages, but we had to get, and so those four stages are critically important. So I want you to take notes. If you're watching the replay, write this down and eventually go Google this. And again, I'm applying something to romantic relationships. For the first stage is the norming stage, the norming stage. Now, norming is mostly focused on attraction, okay? But there's more to it than that. And when I think about Marie and I in those early stages of dating, what was it that got us in this norming stage?  I read it wrong. I apologize. The forming stage, the forming stage. I wish I could go back and edit this, but I can't. I was reading my notes and I read it wrong. The forming stage. Just like Marie and I began to form this relationship together. Now I made some notes of what it took for us to get in this forming stage. Of course, we had mutual attraction for one another. I think it was physical and emotional, but it wasn't off the charts attraction. There was actually more emotional chemistry between the two of us than it was actually physical chemistry. We both had time to invest in the relationship, the getting to know you period. We had the time to invest. This is where a lot of you get involved in these long distance dynamics. See, this only counts once you're physically, physically in each other's space and you're physically getting together with one another on a regular basis. In our case, we had time to invest. We also vibed well with each other. We just vibed well with each other. We just seemed to share the same things in life. We didn't have a lot of friction. We didn't have arguments about vaccines or politics or religion. We just seemed to vibe well together on the things we were both interested in. We had similar relationship visions. We were both financially stable. I think that's a critically important piece of the puzzle because when you consider that 50% of all marriage divorces cite money as the problem, it's good to be in a good financial place. We lined up sexually with one another. We had really good sex once we began being physically intimate with one another. We shared similar values. I know one of our values was punctuality and there's multitude of values. If you Google, just type in list of values, you'll see what values and I would invite you to look at the most important ones for yourself. And we tended to operate as a team right from the very beginning when we were planning, we were a long distance relationship. When we were planning trips together, we worked as a team. We took turns paying. It was like figuring out our schedules. We were planning trips together. It was like figuring out our schedules. We were operating as a team. We were in this forming stage in our relationship. And this is true of the beginning stages of commitment. We need to form together, okay? In a healthy way. Many of you are attaching in an unhealthy way. We can talk about that when we do Q and A. Now the next stage, and again, I wanna repeat, I misspoke in the beginning, it's forming in the first stage. The second stage is storming. This is where your differences begin to emerge. I know, see in your storming stage, this is where your differences begin to surface up, surface or to the top, rise to the top. And this is where it can be, oh, excuse me for slurping. This is where it can be contentious. Your communication styles can be different. Your investment in the relationship can be different. In other words, your desire for commitment could be different. When I talk about communication styles, I know women oftentimes expect men to initiate all of the communication. And I can tell you for most part, men in midlife are tired of being the ones initiating. Now, doesn't, but that means he's not a man, Jonathan, because men are provider protectors and they're supposed to initiate and they're supposed to lead the relationship.  So again, the expectation of communication style might not, might create tension between two people as an example or the expectation of how much you communicate. And they start having these differences and through these differences, they're storming in the relationship. Now, a lot of men want it easy, so they bail in this space. Oh, I should have said in the early, in the forming stage, remember that 90 day period where it takes off and kind of comes back down, they're in that forming stage, kind of keep getting confusing the two, the forming stage and they go, you know, she's not the one for me. And by the way, you ladies go through this experience as well. Sadly, many of you will bond to a man that you're not happy with either. I want you to think about that. How many of you are attached to, have been attached to a man who wasn't right for you and yet you wanted to make it work? You found the money pit and you're like, I wanna invest more and more of myself into this broken home, hoping it's gonna yield some results later on down the road. So coming back to the storming stage, this is where most people fall apart. Men sadly want it easy. Most, let me reframe that. Most unconscious, emotionally wounded men want it easy. Someone like myself, I knew this was going to happen between the two of us and we've had a couple, our differences certainly do surface up. And we have the capacity to talk through these differences and in the friend of mine calls them threshold barriers. When you cross a threshold barrier, a storm with someone, it strengthens your relationship. It's like the way steel is made. When you temper it with heat and then pound it and temper it with heat and pound it. That's how it becomes stronger. See, it's through the storming stage when you can overcome the bumps. Now, sometimes they're just little bumps and sometimes they're gigantic bumps. A lot of people don't make it past that. That's just the reality of life. But when you get through the bumps, you reach the next stage of, of norming, overcoming the differences because the whole is greater than the parts. What that means to say is you're in a state of gratitude for this relationship because there's more good in the relationship than there is bad. Now, for some people, the bad is just unbearable and it's not worth staying in. This is true for men and women alike. But when you can get to this norming stage where you've gone through some of your bumps and you can start, you know, and you feel a sense of trust with one another. You feel a sense of trust. In that trust, trust isn't just about fidelity. Trust is, does this person have my best interest at heart? See, that's what should start to feel like in the norming stage. You should feel a sense of trust. Now, for some couples, they've reached this space of calm, but they're actually, they're still in mediocre relationships. They're in mediocre relationships. This is where they feel unfulfilled. So you can reach this stage, but still feel unfulfilled in this space. This is why reaching the fourth stage is critically important. And that's the performing stage, the performing stage. And I'm gonna repeat all these one more time. Can someone write it in the chat box or someone write it in the replay in the comments? The performing stage, a shared vision and growing together consciously. It's finding that space where you really bond together in a common way, where you have this shared vision, this shared passion with one another. You know, I think for my sweetheart, she's addicted to travel and I've certainly got the travel bug right now. And so that's something we have a shared vision. We have already, we have trips planned for the next year. We have three big trips planned over the next year and we're working, actually, technically we have four. We already have this plan. We have this shared vision. It's in this space of growing together. We do work, oh, by the way, someone, let me just put these stages again. The first stage is forming. The second stage is storming. The third stage is norming and the fourth stage, which I'm talking about right now, is performing. And this is where you actually are mutually investing in the relationship from this heart-centered space of talking about more intimate things, because in this space, and you're talking about your passion, your dreams, your vision, and you find that mutual space together, that's where you're actually performing at a much higher level. And so the Tuckman model that I'm using for this illustration, I feel it can be applied in relationships as well. In fact, there's a really interesting book I wanna share with everyone. This is a business book called The Partnership Charter, How to Start Out Right with Your New Business Partnership. You know, why I'm recommending this book is because when you think about it, when two business people get together and they decide to form a partnership, there's this mutual exchange that happens with one another.  And I'm here to say the best relationships are a co-creative dynamic where you take the strengths and weaknesses of another and you balance it together and you find what you're good at, like Marie is good at travel, she's good at planning these things. I'm terrible at this stuff. See, this is where we reach this performing stage as an example and you take your strengths and weaknesses and apply it to the relationship, not in a one up, one down dynamic that we've been sold for hundreds of thousands of years, but in a partnership type of dynamic. Because you don't need a leader in the relationship, what you need is a co-operative person in relationships. The best relationships are with two givers. And being co-operative in a team like fashion, think of all the basketball championships like the Boston Celtics or the Lakers had. It's because they had coaches that taught them to work as a team. And I'm here to say, just like those guys that talked about earlier that said it took them a while to get to all in, I want to encourage how to get all in at a earlier stage by recognizing these stages of relationship and applying just some of the simple tools I shared today to help you form a healthy, happy relationship. All right, I'm gonna repeat it one more time. It's the forming, storming, norming and performing. That's the Tuckman's model, Tuckman's model. All right, I hope you have found value in this. If you did, please hit that like button. Please share this video. Please subscribe to my channel, hit that bell. If you have some thoughts, please post a comment below. I'd like to hear them. If you need some support, check out the link to a free discovery call with me to see if working with a coach is right for you. All right, it's time for Q and A since we're doing a live stream for those who know my format. If you have a question, write the word question then post the question thereafter or purchase a Super Sticker Super Chat. It's the little dollar sign in the chat box. All of the monies from the Super Sticker Super Chat goes to a scholarship fund in the name of my son, Connor Asley. That's a picture of him right there. He's my son who passed away going on five years ago in two weeks. And his honor I donate to causes like the Hoffman Process Insight Institute and the Seeds of Love, which is an organization that helps children who've been abandoned by their parents because they have a terminal illness in the country of Columbia. And we donate to them as well. So all of your, all the monies from the Super Sticker Super Chat goes there and the super thanks if you're watching the replay. All right, let's see who has some questions. I saw one earlier pop in. Crystal, I've been in a relationship for almost a year and last night he called me wifey. Does this mean something special? What I mean is, is this a sign to me that he sees us, what he sees for us? You know, it's interesting. First, my first thought is this, Crystal. What is the context that he means wifey? For example, if I had a contentious ex-spouse who was demanding, controlling, needy, belligerent, bitchy, whatever the term you wanna use. And I was experiencing the same thing from you. I might illustrate, you remind me of my ex-wife, okay? Not in a good way, okay? Now, I doubt, Crystal, that's exactly what he was talking about. I think what wifey means is acting in partnership. So certainly he recognizes that there's something in your dynamic that feels, I suspect, feels good to him like a partner and he was illustrating that. See, what I would encourage you to do is ask what that meant to him. What was the context? You can simply say, Tim, you know, you said something the other day that I found really interesting. Is it okay if I share it with you? He's most likely going to say yes, because you framed it in a positive way. You called me wifey the other day and I'm really curious, and you do this with a big smile, I'm really curious what that meant. And you could even add a twist to it. It goes, you know, I know a lot of men have unhappy relationships with their wife. Is that what you're experiencing?  I wouldn't go with that. I would simply go, wow, that was kind of interesting. What inspired you to say that? See, create a dialogue with one another and this builds intimacy. That's right, this builds intimacy.  You're not having deeper conversations with one another, particularly about your relationship. You know, for those of us in midlife, we don't have time to mess around. I'm here to say, the sooner we get to an understanding of is this person really serious about commitment. That's really one of the first things you have to recognize is this person serious about wanting a life mate. By the way, I'm going off on a tangent, Chris Stoll, but I'm here to say, ladies, that's one of the most important questions you want answered right from the very beginning. Does this person want a life mate? Most people only want, I'd say 80% of men only want a casual relationship. And maybe of those 80%, you know, few of them think it might turn into, okay. When a man enter, it's like, if you enter into a job half-assed, how successful are you gonna be at this job?  And I know that goes against all the rules out there. But I'm here to say is you're either all in or you're all out. There is no in between. Many of you are experiencing these in between relationships. And let me ask you, how fulfilled do you feel in these relationships? Probably not very fulfilled. All right, Crystal, so coming back to it, I would just have this happy conversation to ask him. And then this allows for deeper intimacy to be built between the two of you, okay. Thanks so much. Hey, by the way, everyone, I want you to think, I want to thank you all for the kind Father's Day comments. I really appreciate it. I'm heading out with my son today to go grab breakfast together and I'll post a picture in the community page later. Ava G says, these four stages are also part of project management. That's exactly what I said, Ava, in the beginning. This is the Tuckman's model that uses for team building. And I'm applying it to relationships as well. All right. Catherine says, I agree, partnership and teamwork are absolutely essential. I agree. Megan wrote, I have a constant struggle as a woman between desiring commitment and fearing it. I don't feel like I'm not very experienced with men at 40 post-divores. You know, I want to address something to Megan and this is for everybody. Rejection is part of this process. See, everybody wants to believe that relationships are easy or that finding a relationship is easy. Finding a relationship is easy. Almost everybody has this fantasy. I'm going to dare say delusion that finding a really good life mate is easy. I'm here to say it is far from easy. It is herculean work in many cases. Some people get lucky very early on. But like myself, I've had to persevere through, you know, I've been through a significant marriage and divorce. I went through a significant relationship. It didn't work out. I've had hundreds and hundreds of meet and greets in my life. After that, maybe, you know, dozens and dozens of second or third dates with people, a handful of short-lived experiences. Okay, I'm not proud of that. I'm sharing with you that bonding with another human being is a complicated thing. And the one thing I recognized after my son passed away that the missing ingredient most of the time was me. What I mean by missing ingredient was I didn't really love myself. That's why I went on to write this book. It's not a dating book.  By the way, there's a link below to get a copy of all the books I recommend. It wasn't until I was in a really good place to be a partner for someone. And even after I began this journey into that one when Connor passed away, it took me another three years or four years to really be in a place where I could be partners with someone. See, you said fearing it. And I desired commitment, but I was both fearing it and I had a lot of baggage, a lot of luggage, a lot of trauma that still needed to be healed. And remember I said earlier, there's the forming, storming, norming and performing. Part of the performing stages with my new relationship, I'm still healing. And I believe she as well are wounds that caused us to be in the position that we're in. And what I mean to say is when a person is in their sovereignty, their wholeness, their self-reliance, they have strong self-worth, self-esteem, self-reliance and self-confidence, they're not going through the hundreds and hundreds of experiences I went through. So I get this is what you're feeling, but remember, there's nothing easy about this work. There's nothing easy about finding a good partner, but I had one thought that overwrought everything.  I knew I wanted it and I would do the work to get there and I recognized that rejection, disappointment, unfulfillment, frustration, even pain was part of the process. And all that did was make me stronger. Just like I talked about forging steel through the heat and the pressure can something become strong enough to really be able to be a good person in relationship as well. Thank you so much for your share. I really appreciate it. Hey, Leafs is in the house. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. All right, Gina writes question. He took me for a massage dinner and dessert on my birthday. He calls me special of late. Is this man in love with me? That's certainly a good sign. He cares for you deeply. That's certainly a really good sign that he cares for you deeply. You know, love is such a fickle intangible. It is such a fickle intangible. And you can love someone and they still not be right for you. You can love someone. See, love to me is just another word for strong care. See, we oftentimes idolize love as it's the all in that we talked about before. See, love doesn't mean all in. Love doesn't mean all in. We want it to mean all in, but it doesn't mean all in. When I say I love you, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're the right person for me nor do I want you to be the right person for me. It just simply is an expression of care. He has certainly done loving acts. And what I would encourage you to do, depending on how long you've been dating with one another is begin to bond through emotional intimacy, emotional intimacy. If you're not familiar with the book, Emotional Intimacy by Robert Masters. By the way, there's a link below to get all the books I recommend. Read this so you can understand where true bonding lies together within couples. Most men bond with women through the doing of things, which includes sex. That's how we bond. It's in the doing of things and it's in the building of friendship with one another. See, friends are those people that you can share your most inner thoughts, feelings. And a lot of couples are just going through the motions and relationships. By the way, I would say probably 90% of all dynamics today, experiences today are very transactional, especially for those men that desire a one up, one down type of relationship.   I pay the bills and you look sexy hot so I can show you off to people. See, it's very transactional. Most people are experiencing transactional relationship. I'm here to encourage deeper commitment. By the way, I'm not here at the expert showing you how to get there. I'm just pointing you in a direction. I want you to read these books so you can find your own way to a better relationship. So thank you so much for your question, Gina. All right, Kim Kim Kimmi writes, Kim K writes. How do you know if you've met the one? You know, I'm not sure if I believe in the words the one, but I do know I've interviewed hundreds and hundreds and it's not thousands of happy couples. They all first say the unique aspect of their relationship is they are in relationship with their best friend. That's what it feels like. So first you feel like the two of you feel like, not that you feel like it's the best friend, the two of you feel like you're good friends with one another. In other words, the person you get up in the morning and wanna share your happy joys with one another, that's how it should feel. It should feel calm, it should feel relatively at ease. That's when you know you have a really good potential partner in your life. It feels calm, you feel at ease. All right, thanks for that question. I really appreciate Bella writes question. What's a good way to raise the fact you're keen to meet his family when he's not showing it as a big deal? He seems to say, just not that important to him. I don't want to sound needy or chasing. Well, it's disappointing that someone with view meeting family is not a big deal. That's disappointing. I would think, you know, introducing each other to your family is something you should do with pride. I mean, that's sad. I remember when Marie met my son, I did that with pride when I met her children. I was very proud to see that. So what does this say? He doesn't value family. You know, ask him about his values. Does he value family? What does family mean to him? If the meaning is low, then you have to ask yourself, do you share the same value when it comes to family? I know without it, it would be a challenge in my relationship if we didn't value the importance of family with one another. And so in this particular case, I definitely invite you to really dig in, dig deep. Because this isn't about you being needy or chasing. Family is an important root. When you're connected with each other's family, that's a strong root to build trust with one another. Once you think of a tree in a hurricane wind, if it has no roots, what's gonna happen? It's gonna blow away. Our family connections are an important root to establish a real healthy relationship. So coming back to the hurricane wind, the storms, when you're rooted there, it helps bond your relationship together. So Bella, I would invite you to find out what does family mean to you? By the way, does everyone agree with me? Please let me know in the comments. All right, Gina writes, would you consider me not meeting his kids after 15 months? Not at all. Happy Father's Day. Well, would I consider me not meeting his kids after 15 months? No, if you're gonna be forming a solid relationship, you should be meeting the children. So I would think that's an important part of build. I just said it a moment ago to Bella. It's an important part of building trust with one another is connecting the two of you this way. By the way, think of this too. Families can strengthen a relationship and they can destroy relationships. So I would rather take the risk that it strengthens your relationship because it will come back to bite you if you don't assess this bond with family with one another sooner rather than later. So I would hop on that, Gina. Thanks for asking that question. All right, Megan writes, thanks for that shift on how much work finding a partner is. Had a lot of judgment on myself. It has taken me five years to date post-divorce, been on 23 dates. So sorry about passing your son. Thank you so much. Yes, you know what folks? Look, rejection. I had a friend says she's invisible to me. No, she's an old model car so she's invisible to men. Rejection, frustration, disappointment, all those experiences. Okay, let's think of an Olympic athlete for a moment. Somebody who wants to win the gold medal as an example, think of all the hardship they go through for so many years just to get to this one place in life. Why do they do that? Because they have a vision, a singular vision of being to winning the gold. Well, I invite you to have that singular vision of why do you want a relationship? I want you to really invite everyone right now. If you're watching the replay to pause this right now after, as soon as I say this, I invite you to all right, why do I want a relationship? Why do I want a relationship? And really, just like the Olympic athlete, why do I want to win the gold? Whatever that why is, your why is what gets you up in the morning to say, okay, I'm gonna endure the frustrations, the rejection, the feeling invisible. I'm gonna do all this so I can be prepared. I'm going to do all of this so I can actually be prepared for a healthy, happy relationship someday. Because it is knowing your why is your carrot. And I invite Megan and everyone to really know your why. Is this sinking in? Is this resonating? Please let me know. All right, Della's right. My boyfriend of almost three months still has a picture of his ex-wife and their daughter in his living room. His reason is to bring up, wait, for his reason is to bring up his daughter to see mom and dad as friends. Should I worry? My first reaction was, wow, that's a really conscious father to say, I want my daughter to know that while we're not together in relationship, we are still friendly with each other.  I think what he appreciates most is on his birthday, just a few weeks ago, we went out to dinner, his mother, my ex-wife and I, and my son went out to dinner. Now, Marie was invited, and it was actually Marie who encouraged just the three of us to go out, okay? Because it just wanted to be the family, if you will, that blood family, if you will, in this particular case. And it was a great, encouraged, by the way, my ex-wife came to my home, hung out for an hour before we went out to dinner. So there was an interaction with Marie as well. But my point in bringing this up is, should I worry? No. Okay. Now, if he has pictures of his ex-girlfriends and they're all in bikinis and bathing suits and stuff on his Instagram, maybe that and I'd start to worry. If his Instagram is loaded with hot women, dressed scantily, maybe that's when I'm worried. But I think it's absolutely beautiful that he wants to encourage his daughter in a way to say, mom and dad are still friends, even though we're not together. So Dallas, I hope that helps. Pamela says, you have to remember that some of us had cut off toxic family. Why would you go back to introduce a significant other? That's okay, very valid point, very valid point. There are certainly many people who have toxic relationships with family members or have a toxic family member and they're not gonna be part of the equation. In some cases, very few people have very limited family. I think of my son who's lost his brother and many of his family members live far away. But at the end, and that's for someone, a young person, but for those of us older, we might have very few family members in our lives. Family and friends though, are important facets to a healthy, happy relationship. And the more you can merge those healthy relationships together, the stronger your relationship will be with one another. All right, let's keep going. CeCe writes, did you and Marie date other people during the time period to meeting? I'm talking with a guy, but want to continue to date because he had just got divorced. Our relationship dynamic was a little bit unique because we had distance. Actually, at the time we met, we had some surface relationships. And what I mean to say is interaction with people, but it wasn't a significant relationship for either one of us by the time we met. By the time we had our, we met when I was in Chicago, by the time she came to Los Angeles, and we spent four days together. And in the time that we had talked until our next meeting, which was two weeks later, we did basically close up some loops that were in our lives prior to that, okay? Because we knew that if this was gonna work, listen, given it was a long distance, we knew that we'd have to be committed to the process of getting to know one another. And we knew that the best way to do that first is to be unencumbered with other entanglements in our lives. And so coming back to your question, but I'm a big proponent, listen folks, I'm a big proponent of dating one person at a time for the most part. Now, when I say dating, when you fully know you want to engage in exploring a relationship with someone, that to me, if we call that dating, dating is another word for getting to know you. When you know you wanna explore a relationship with someone, that's when I recommend doing it one person at a time. It's just too convoluted to be actively dating multiple people at the same time. When you wanna explore a relationship with one or multiple people, that can be exhausting, and quite frankly, it's usually imbalanced, and in that imbalance creates all kinds of chaos, and I'm not a big proponent of that. So thank you for that question, I really appreciate it. Tell it, I'm not sure what this says.  Well, this is how this male feels, okay?  That's another alternative as well, if that's possibly the case. I understand for those of us in midlife, we may not wanna get married because of the financial consequences associated with that, but do you wanna be partnered with someone? Ladies, recognize that people that have an aversion to partnership are just looking at a temporary relationship with you, and do you wanna be someone's temporary? It's like, do you wanna be an employee that's going to get terminated at some point? I'd rather not invest in that. Hey, one of our Facebook group members, if you want to have regular access to me on a regular basis, check out the link below to Midlife Love Mastery. We have a private group where I'm streaming this as well. She says, I agree, I value spending time with family and looking for a man who values time. Thanks so much. Cupcake wants to go on to say, I think having that photo is a positive thing, I agree.  My boyfriend is having Father's Day dinner with his daughter and ex, should I be bothered? Okay. Again, I went out to, this just happened two weeks ago. My son and my ex-wife and I went out to dinner together. Now again, my ex-wife and my sweetheart Marie got a chance to break bread for about an hour. We had a cocktail together before we went out to dinner. So should you be worried? Well, okay, so there can be some suggestions for worry. Okay, first and foremost, who ended the relationship? Was it her or was it him? Did he feel, does he still love this person and want her back? That's another thing to find out, okay? What's the status of her relationship status in her life? Is she in a relationship with someone? I'd wanna know what were the reasons for their divorce and what is their co-parenting agreement? So rather than should I be bothered, what I would have want you to do is do way more due diligence in the early stages. This is what I teach in my private coaching, how to vet for a healthy partner in your life.  See, there's a lot of, should you be worried? No, I'd be focused on why did they end the relationship? How long ago did they end the relationship? Does he, was he blindsided by the ending? Did she, you know, what were the reasons? Because there could be something to worry about. There might be a reason, but I would wanted you to find this all out before it got to this place because it could be something innocent or it could be something he's still pining for her. Okay, hope that helps, Delos. Ah, Alexandra says, comment. If you're invisible, he isn't the right one. The right one will see you, don't be blind to them. They may feel the same. They may feel they are invisible as well. You know what, you bring up a good point. There's a significant percentage of men who feel invisible to women as well. So out in the dating marketplace, people are feeling invisible because A, you know, there's all this activity going on on these dating apps. And some people feel a sense of frustration because they're getting little or no activity and you can start feeling invisible. Now just recognize out in the real world, in the real world, like when I go to a grocery store or something before I met Marie, I might look at a woman briefly for a second, but I wouldn't approach her. Okay, I didn't like approaching people randomly. It just didn't feel right for me to connect with someone who just based on looks. So you might feel invisible out in the real world because a lot of men in midlife just don't want to approach women nor do they want to get rejected. I remember in the early stage after my divorce, I did, you know, at grocery stores and such, walk up to some women, I got rejected a lot. You know, it would always be, oh, I'm already in a relationship with someone else or I'm married and that got frustrating after a while. So I didn't make the effort. You know, keep in mind, it might be that you're not invisible but they just don't have the desire to connect with someone. They don't know. It's the same with online dating. This is why the best relationships are the ones that are formed within your social circle but that's rare these days. That's just part of life as well. All right, Alexander, I appreciate that comment. Della says, thank you, Jonathan. It helps a lot. I will stop talking about it before I damage our amazing relationship. Good to hear that's an amazing relationship. Oh, here's something. I don't know what, let me just read this. I didn't meet my husband's family until we had been acquainted for three years. After I met them, I knew why. They were red flags but I went ahead with the relationship to marriage. It's been rough. You know, when you buy the cow, you buy all of the family that goes with it and that's part of the equation, whether we like it or not. All right. Kala says, marry twice and they weren't committed. Why did they get married in the first place? You know, men are lazy. Men oftentimes when they attach themselves, okay, they could be unhealthy attachment. They could be bonded. They could be lazy. In other words, if, you know, what I mean by lazy is that they've got a good prospect. They'll marry them, but they won't invest in the performing stage. Remember when I talked about the four stages, the forming, the storming, the norming and performing, they're just lazy at the performing stage of the relationship. And what I mean is to co-create a bond with another human being and they, and that's one of the reasons why women end relationships because they're with lazy men. That just, men will nest into relationship. Ladies, this isn't easy stuff. This is why I'm a big proponent of you doing your work first, be in that good place and start attracting a partner who's also in a good place. When you're in a good emotional place because you've done the work to heal childhood wounds and traumas and adult traumas and you're coming at it from a positive perspective, then you become more of a magnetic attractor for attracting that type of person. And if you keep attracting the wrong person, then you've got to go back and say, what is it within me that accepts the wrong person over and over again? Is this syncing? And this is why I recommend reading the book, Getting the Love You Want by Harvelle Hendricks and Helen Hunt. By the way, link below to get all the books I recommend. Why am I recommending this book? Because we have patterns. We choose people based on historic patterns. And when we recognize these patterns, we can break these patterns so we become a magnetic attractor for who we want or who's more aligned for us. And by the way, those two relationships might have been for your benefit too. I invite you to ask yourself, what positive things about myself did I learn in these relationships? What was good about each relationship? All right. Leafs goes on to say, excellent points, Jonathan. Heading out, we'll catch everything again when I get back. Thank you for your time. Happy Father's Day, our big brother. Have a special day. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Well, I think on that note, I think we'll wrap up today. I hope you found value. Oh, by the way, Janet says, thank you, Jonathan. I thought after marriage, my husband's family would be respectful and back off. It didn't, ladies, buyers beware. Yeah, we've got to recognize. And it's not just their children. Oh, by the way, I have a dear friend. She got married. The daughter sabotaged the marriage and he asked for a divorce after six years of marriage. So yes, family is an important part of this decision-making process, whether we like it or not. All right, folks. Once again, I want to thank everyone. I hope you found value in this conversation. The four stages men go through before they commit. I just want to repeat them really quickly. Someone can write this down. It's the, and this is Tuckman's model for team building. Forming, storming, norming and performing. Forming, storming, norming and performing. Hope you found value in this. If you did, please tell your friends. Please hit that like button. Please share this video again with friends. Please subscribe to my channel if you're brand new and hit that notification bell. If you want to connect with me, there's in the show notes or in the first comment, you can schedule a discovery call with me. You can join my group called Midlife Love Mastery. You can join the group here on Facebook membership. You can check out all the books I recommend, okay? And you can follow me on Instagram. And don't forget my dating bowser there and also Naked Discovery, Naked Recovery, Naked Divorce, check out their group as well. All right, we're gonna wrap up this video as I always do.  I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay. I'm gonna ask you to turn to someone, a pet, a teddy bear pillow, and give either of them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love. And let's face it, we could all use more love in our lives. I wanna thank Nicole and Joyce and Anna and Leafs and Cupcake and our Facebook member and Bella and Janet and Elena and Sunshine and Gigi and Latasha and Kahlia and Cassandra and Alexandra and Dells and Tam. Cupcake, everyone. Thanks so much. Be well. And thanks for the Happy Father's Day wishes. I really appreciate it. 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Hello and welcome to our video summarising all you need to know about the play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. My name is Barbara and in this video we'll examine in lots of detail the play's plot, its key characters, the main themes you need to be aware of as well as important information about the author himself which constitutes as part of the context. So let's get started. Now Waiting for Godot as I've mentioned earlier is a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for the arrival of someone named Godot who never arrives. While waiting, they engage in a variety of discussions and encounter three other characters. Waiting for Godot is Beckett's translation of his own original French language play En Aton Godot and is subtitled in English only, a tragic comedy in two acts. The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949 and the premiere, which was directed by Roger Blin, was on 5 January 1953 at the Theatre de Babilon, Paris. The English language version premiered in London in 1955. Samuel Beckett himself was born in Dublin in 1906 and he befriended famous Irish novelist James Joyce and his first published work was an essay on Joyce. In 1951-1953, Beckett wrote his most famous novels, the trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies and the Unnamable. Waiting for Godot, Beckett's first play was written originally in French in 1948. It premiered at a tiny theatre in Paris in 1953 and the play began Beckett's association with the Theatre of the Absurd, which influenced later playwrights like Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. So now, when you're thinking about the plot in a nutshell, essentially we meet two men, Vladimir and Estragon, who are near a tree. They converse in various topics and reveal that they're waiting there for a man named Godot. While they wait, two other men enter. Pozzo is on his way to the market to sell his slave Lucky. He pauses for a while to converse with Vladimir and Estragon. Lucky entertains them by dancing and singing and Pozzo and Lucky leave. After Pozzo and Lucky leave, a boy enters and tells Vladimir that he is a messenger from Godot. He tells Vladimir that Godot will not be coming tonight, but that he will surely come tomorrow. Vladimir asks him some questions about Godot and the boy departs. After his departure, Vladimir and Estragon decide to leave, but they do not move until the curtain falls. The next night, Vladimir and Estragon meet near the tree to wait for Godot. Lucky and Pozzo enter again, but this time Pozzo is blind and Lucky is dumb. Pozzo does not remember meeting the two men the night before. They leave and Vladimir and Estragon continue to wait. Shortly after, the boy enters and once again tells Vladimir that Godot will not be coming. He insists that he did not speak to Vladimir yesterday. After he leaves, Estragon and Vladimir decide to leave. But again, they do not move as the curtain falls, ending the play. Now when it comes to looking at this play in a more detailed way, let's start with Act 1. So we have in Act 1 Pozzo and Lucky's entrance. So Estragon is trying to take off his boot when Vladimir enters. The two men greet each other. Vladimir examines his hat while Estragon struggles with his boot. They discuss the versions of the story of the two thieves in the Gospels, and Vladimir wonders why one version of the story is considered more accurate than the others. Estragon wants to leave, but Vladimir tells him that they cannot because they're waiting for Godot. Who they are supposed to meet by the tree. They wonder if they're waiting in the correct spot, or if it's even the correct day. Estragon falls asleep, but Vladimir waits him because he feels lonely. Estragon starts telling Vladimir about the dream he was having, but Vladimir does not want to hear his private nightmares. Estragon wonders if it would be better for them to part, but Vladimir insists that Estragon will not go far. They argue and Vladimir storms offstage, but Estragon convinces him to come back and they may come. They discuss what to do next whilst they wait, and Estragon suggests hanging themselves from the tree. However, after a discussion of the logistics, they decide to wait and see what Godot says. Estragon is hungry and Vladimir gives him a carrot. They discuss whether they are tied to Godot when they hear a terrible cry nearby and huddle together to await what is coming. Pozo enters, driving Lucky ahead of him by a rope around his neck. Vladimir and Estragon wonder if Pozo is Godot, but he tells them that he is Pozo and asks if they have heard of him. They tell him that they have not, and Pozo commands Lucky to put down his stall and sits down and begins to eat some chicken. While he eats, Vladimir and Estragon circle around Lucky, inspecting him. They notice a sore on his neck and begin to ask him a question, but Pozo tells them to leave him alone. Estragon asks Pozo if he can have the bones from his chicken, and Pozo tells him that Lucky gets priority over him. Estragon asks Lucky if he wants the bones, but he does not reply, and Pozo tells Estragon that he can have the bones. He comments that he has never known Lucky to refuse a bone and hopes that he is not sick. Vladimir suddenly explodes with anger at Pozo's treatment of Lucky, but then seems embarrassed about his outburst. Pozo decides to go, but then decides to stay and smoke another pipe. Vladimir wants to leave, but Pozo reminds him of his appointment with Godot. Estragon begins to wonder aloud why Lucky does not put down his bags. Pozo begins to answer the question after much preparation involving his vaporizer spray, but gives a convoluted and contradictory response. Vladimir asks Pozo if he wants to get rid of Lucky. Pozo responds that he does and is taking him to the fair to sell him. Lucky begins to cry, and Pozo hands Estragon a handkerchief to wipe away his tears. Estragon approaches Lucky, but Lucky kicks him in the shin. Pozo tells Vladimir and Estragon that he has learned a lot from Lucky and that Lucky has been serving him for nearly 60 years. Vladimir becomes angry that Pozo is going to get rid of Lucky after so much time, and Pozo gets upset. Vladimir then gets angry at Lucky for mistreating Pozo. Lucky Pozo comes down, but he realises that he has lost his pipe and begins to get upset again. While Estragon laughs at Pozo, Vladimir exits, apparently to go to the bathroom. He then returns in a bad mood, but soon calms down, and Pozo sits down again and begins to explain the twilight. When he finishes, he asks him to evaluate his performance and then offers to have Lucky perform for them. Estragon wants to see Lucky dance while Vladimir wants to hear him think, so Pozo commands him to dance and then think. Lucky dances and Estragon is not very impressed. Pozo then tells him that he used to dance much better. Vladimir asks him to tell Lucky to think, but Pozo says that he cannot think without his hat. Vladimir puts Lucky's hat on his head and he begins to think aloud, spouting a long stream of words and phrases that amount to gibberish. As he goes on, the other three suffer more and more and finally throw themselves at him and seize his hat and make him stop. Pozo tramples the hat and the men help Lucky up and give him all the bags. Pozo is about to leave, but he finds he cannot. He decides that he needs a running start, so he starts from the opposite end of the stage and drives Lucky across as they exchange goodbyes. After Pozo and Lucky depart, Vladimir once again tells Estragon that they cannot leave because they're waiting for Godot. They argue about whether Pozo and Lucky have changed and Estragon suddenly complains of a pain in his other foot. A boy enters timidly, saying that he has a message from Mr. Godot. Estragon believes the boy, who reveals that he's been waiting a while, but was afraid of Pozo and Lucky. While Estragon shakes the boy, badgering him to tell the truth, Vladimir yells at him and sits down and begins to take off his boots. Meanwhile, Vladimir talks to the boy. He asks him if he's the one that came yesterday, but the boy tells him that he is not. The boy tells Vladimir that Mr. Godot will not come this evening, but that he will surely come tomorrow. Vladimir asks the boy if he works for Mr. Godot and the boy tells him that he minds the goats. The boy says that Mr. Godot does not beat him, but that he beats his brother who minds the sheep. Vladimir asks the boy if he's unhappy, but the boy does not know. He tells the boy that he can go and that he's to tell Mr. Godot that he saw them. The boy then runs off stage and as he goes, it suddenly becomes night. Estragon gets up and puts his boots down at the edge of the stage. Vladimir then tells him that the boy assured him that Godot will come tomorrow. He tries to drag Estragon off stage to shelter, but Estragon will not go. Estragon wonders if they should part, but they decide to go together. As the curtain falls, they remain still. Now moving on to act two. This act begins in the next evening and at the same time and place. The tree now has four or five leaves on it. Estragon boots and Lucky's hatch remain on stage when Vladimir enters, looks around and begins to sing. Estragon enters and suggests that Vladimir seemed happier without him. He says that he does not know why he keeps returning to Vladimir since he too is happier alone, but Vladimir insists that it's because Estragon does not know how to defend himself. Vladimir suggests that things have changed since yesterday, but Estragon does not remember yesterday. Vladimir reminds him about Pozzo and Lucky and they begin to argue about whether Estragon has ever been in the Macon country. Estragon once again says it would be better if they parted, but Vladimir reminds him that he always comes crawling back. They decide to converse calmly and soon run out of things to say, but Vladimir grows uncomfortable with the silence. Vladimir then looks to the tree and notices that it's now covered with leaves, although yesterday it was bare. Estragon says that it must be spring, but also insists that they were not here yesterday. Vladimir reminds him of the bones that Pozzo gave him and the kick that Lucky gave him and shows him the wound on his leg. He asks Estragon where his boots are and when Estragon replies that he must throw them away, points out the boots on the stage triumphantly. Estragon, however, examines the boots and says that they're not his. Vladimir reasons that someone must have come by and exchanged his boots for Estragons. Vladimir gives Estragon a black radish, but since he only likes the pink ones, he gives it back. Estragon says he will go and get the carrot, but he does not move. Vladimir suggests trying the boots on Estragon and they fit, but Estragon does not want them laced. Estragon sits down on the mound and tries to sleep. Vladimir sends him a lullaby, he falls asleep, but soon wakes up from a nightmare. Vladimir is pleased to find Lucky's hat on the ground because he believes it confirmed that they are in the correct place. He puts on Lucky's hat and hands him to Estragon, who takes off his hat and hands it to Vladimir. This switch occurs several times until once again, Vladimir wears Lucky's hat and Estragon wears his own hat. Vladimir says that he will keep Lucky's hat since his bothered him. They begin to play Pozzo and Lucky's roles with Vladimir imitating Lucky, telling Estragon what to do to imitate Pozzo. Estragon leaves, but quickly returns because he hears someone coming. Vladimir is sure that this is Godot coming and Estragon hides behind the tree. He realises he's not hidden and comes out and the two men begin a watch with one stationed on each side of the stage. When they both begin to speak at once, they get angry and begin insulting each other. After they finish the insults, they decide to make up an embrace. They briefly do some exercises and then do the tree staggering on one foot. While Vladimir and Estragon stagger about, pitting themselves, Pozzo and Lucky enter. Pozzo is blind and runs into Lucky, who's stopped at the site of Vladimir and Estragon. They fall along with all the baggage. Vladimir welcomes the arrival since it will help pass the time. Pozzo calls for help while Vladimir and Estragon discuss asking him for another bone. Vladimir decides that they should help him, but first he and Estragon discuss how they should have kept their appointment. Pozzo continues to cry for help and eventually Vladimir tries to assist him. However, he falls also while trying to pull up Pozzo. Estragon threatens to leave, Vladimir begs him to help him up first, promising that they will leave together afterward. Estragon tries to help him up, but ends up failing as well. All four men now lie on the ground and Vladimir and Estragon begin to nap. They are woken shortly by Pozzo's shouting and Vladimir strikes Pozzo to make him stop. Pozzo crawls away and Vladimir and Estragon call him. He doesn't respond and Estragon decides to try other names. He calls out Abel and Pozzo responds by crying for help. He wonders if the other one is called Cain, but Pozzo responds to that name as well and Estragon decides that he will be all of humanity. Vladimir and Estragon decide to get up, which they do with ease. They help Pozzo and hold him up and Pozzo tells them that he does not recognize them since he's blind. They tell him that it is evening and begin to question him about the loss of his sight. He tells him that it came upon him all of a sudden and he has no notion of time. Pozzo asks the men about his slave and they tell him that Lucky seems to be sleeping. They send Estragon over to Lucky and Estragon begins kicking Lucky. He hurts his foot and goes to sit down. Vladimir asks Pozzo if they met yesterday but Pozzo does not remember. Pozzo prepares to leave and Vladimir asks him to have Lucky sing and recite before they leave. However, Pozzo tells them that Lucky is dumb. They exit and Vladimir sees them fall off stage. After Pozzo and Lucky leave, Vladimir wakes Estragon. Estragon is upset and be woken up but Vladimir tells them that he was lonely. Estragon gets up and his feet hurt so he then sits down again and tries to shake off his boots. Meanwhile, Vladimir reflects upon the events of the day. Estragon does his off again after unsuccessfully struggling with his boots. The boy enters and calls to Vladimir. Vladimir recognizes the routine and knows what the boy is going to say before he says this. They establish that the boy was not there yesterday but that he has a message from Mr. Goddow saying he will not come this evening but definitely tomorrow. Vladimir asks the boy what Mr. Goddow does and the boy replies that he does nothing. Vladimir then asks the boy about his brother and the boy tells him that his brother is sick. Vladimir asks that Mr. Goddow has a beard and what color it is. The boy asks Vladimir what he should tell Mr. Goddow and Vladimir tells him that he should say that he saw him. The boy runs away as Vladimir springs towards him. The son then sets and Estragon waits up, takes off his boot and puts him down at the front of the stage. He approaches Vladimir and tells him that he wants to go. Vladimir tells him that they cannot go far away because they have to come back tomorrow to wait for Goddow. They discuss hanging themselves from the tree but find that they do not have any rope. Estragon says that they can bring back some tomorrow. Estragon tells Vladimir that he can't go on like this and Vladimir tells him that they will hang themselves tomorrow unless Goddow comes. Vladimir then tells Estragon to pull up his trousers which have fallen down when he removed the cord, holding them up in order to determine whether it will be suitable for hanging. They decide to go but once again do not move as the curtain falls. So now when it comes to the characters and analyzing each character, the first set of characters of Vladimir and Estragon. Now in spite of the existential concept that man cannot take the essence of his existence from somewhere else, in viewing this play we have to view Vladimir and Estragon and their relationship to each other. In fact, the novice viewing this play for the first time often fails to note any significant difference between the two characters. In hearing the play read, even the most experienced theater person will often confuse one of the characters with the other. Therefore, the similarities are as important as the differences between them. Both Vladimir and Estragon are tramps dressed in costumes which could be interchanged. They're both wear big boots which don't necessarily fit and both have big bowler hats. They're suits are baggy and ill-fitting. For instance in Act Two when Estragon moves the cord he uses for a belt, his trousers are so baggy that they fall about his feet. The costumes recall the type found in Burlesque and vaudeville houses. The type often associated with the character of the little tramp portrayed by Charlie Chaplin. The next set of characters are Pozzo and Lucky. Together they represent the antithesis of each other. Yet they're strongly and irrevocably tied together both physically and metaphysically. Any number of polarities could be used to be applied to them. If Pozzo is a master and father figure, then Lucky is the slave or the child. If Pozzo is the circus ringmaster, then Lucky is a trained or performing animal. If Pozzo is a sadist, then Lucky is the masochist. Or Pozzo can be seen as the ego and Lucky as it is according to Freudian analysis. An inexhaustible number of polarities can be suggested when looking at these two characters. Other minor characters to consider offer see the boy who appears at the end of each act to inform Vladimir that Godot will be coming that night. In the second act, he insists that he was not there the previous night. Godot is the other character to consider. He's the man from whom Vladimir and Estragon wait unendingly. Godot never appears in the play. However, his name and character are often thought to refer to God. Now, when it comes to the author himself, so Samuel Beckett, the Irish playwright, theater director, novelist and poet, is one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He's a modernist, often associated with what's called the theater of the absurd and his work tends to eschew conventional plotting or structure while exploring the human condition in ways that are both bleakly humorous and profound where laughter is a weapon against despair. Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906 where as a young man, he studied French, Italian and English at Trinity College. He went to Paris for the first time in 1928 and he'd spent most of his adult life there to teach English. During World War II, his Irish citizenship allowed for him to remain in Paris and he worked as a courier for the French resistance. Foring arrest of members of the group by the Gestapo, the German Nazis, he fled to the unoccupied zone where he remained until the end of the war. After the war, he settled in Paris and began a prolific period as a writer. His most famous play is Waiting for Godot, the play in which, as one critic put it, nothing happens and it was first performed in 1953. He's also the author of several other plays as well as novels. So that's all. If you found this video useful, do subscribe to our channel and give us a thumbs up but also make sure you visit our website which is www.firstreadtutors.com. There you'll find a variety of revision guides, model answers and essay samples that you can use in order to help you when you're studying this and different texts in English. Thank you so much for listening.


ఆపార్యి కారిల్నిండి ఆరిర్డి నుపినినిండి. সা মা রীজকা� Myshaigian matter work in hospitals are in hospitals which are very difficult, পিষলা সাযাসা পিযไনীনা পিনানাযไনতাভাযবরত আিপা. রীজাযไনবন জাযাযไরররবতা পিযানাযব আল়আযবপিররতাযব.


What is being referred to as astral bodies is just allowing the etheric body to float around. It needs enormous sadhana for a person to do that. Getting the pranic body out and putting it back is easy. Ethheric body needs much more sadhana. So, it's the research journey, both of the bodies stay out for some time and then come back. See, most of the people, I know there's a lot of stuff going on here. In the United States, everybody is doing astral journeys, it's just hallucination, okay? You lie down and just imagine that you're flying here or flying there, that's not it. Unfortunately, everything becomes ridiculous when all kinds of people start handling it. What is being referred to as astral is there are five kinds of bodies, physical body, mental body, energy body, etheric body and bliss body. These are five dimensions of the body. We are referring to everything as body in yoga so that you can understand it as a physical entity. Though the last two are not physical, still we are referring to it as a body because yoga is a method, not a philosophy. It is not a philosophy, it is a method. So, we are seeing how to employ a certain method to make use of certain things. What is being referred to as astral body is leaving the physical body, mental body, energy body and the bliss body intact and just allowing the etheric body to float around. That means you can conduct your activity here because your physical body, mental body, energy body is intact. But just allowing the etheric body to go, that's a certain kind of mastery. You can't just psych yourself into it. It needs enormous sadhana for a person to do that. Compared to etheric body, pranic body is physical. It's more physical kind of presence. It's energy, but it's a physical energy. Ethheric is a transitory energy. It is neither physical nor beyond. It is a transition. Bliss body is totally beyond the physical. So, getting the pranic body out and putting it back is easy and it's a much stronger experience because a physical part of you goes out and gets back. Ethheric body needs much more sadhana because that is not even in your experience. It is not something that you can touch unless you're in a certain level of sadhana and intensity within yourself. But every street corner they are doing astral travel these days, that's just hallucination.


That's going on everyone. Sam here with Leighton sports cards. We've been one box of 21-22 Panini, Donress, Optic, Fast Break, Basketball, 4, Jesse C. Good luck, Jesse. We've had some pretty dud polls, like, not just from me too. So maybe it's just you, Synvicta. Maybe it's you. Have you ever thought of that? Like, when I'm not even, when I have nothing to do with what goes on. Tray Murphy, Chris Duarte, Bass Rookie, Devin Booker, there's Reggie Bullock on the disco. Like, I will admit, I have not pulled very many good things yet. Well, a couple. We've had our moments in. We pulled that Matt Stafford. Auto was pretty nasty. Obviously, your mob leads were pretty big. Dearon Sharp, Optic, Fast Break, Rookie Auto. Going to the Nets. Thank you. Thank you. There you go. Jeremiah says it's not me. I'm always pulling straight fire. Two out of 50. Except for Syn. I don't pull anything for Syn, usually. Feel bad, dude. Luca Garza. Got Kessler Edwards on the disco rookie. Yeah. Oh yeah. On Scotty Barnes. I know. Let's see a nice Scotty for you here, Jesse. Tray Mann, Charles Bassie. There's a Silver Franz Wagner hollow. And Red Jaw. That was a great pack right there. Congrats, Jesse. That's 81 out of 85. Oh, we did. Yeah, we sent you some one-on-one autos. Me and Sean. There's a Jalen Green base rookie. Kessler Edwards. 75 years. Kate Cunningham rookie. There you go. And light it up. Jason Tatum. Shreve Cooper. Zach Levine. There's a Denny of Dia on the hollow, or the disco. Disco hollow. Hollow disco. Zaire Wood. They have a Johnson. Kara's Lever. Cameron Dobbins. That's funny. That's funny, Syn. Got three McDonald's French fries. Got three Dominators, Nicola Jokic. Oh, man. That time of the night, man. It was just punchy, man. That is funny. That is good. That is funny. Isaiah Todd. That is Zaire Williams on the disco. Nice one there. You should have finished that with the lizard things. Yeah. Or the, this one. Yeah. Or the, Syn always does the crying, laughing emoji with the mad eyes, too. That one's funny. Whenever we pull points, it's always points with that emoji. There's a Kate Cunningham, the rookies, and red Eric Gordon, 36 out of 85. So funny. That'll do it for your box there. Jesse, congrats on the hits, buddy. We'll get them right out to you. Thanks as always.


Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101. Difference in a way, like you guys started, when you guys started, it was a different time, a different era, you talking about 70s? No, no, no, no. Look how he came in. Okay. Same way I came in. We come to you, it's a challenge. So it wasn't no easy road. I promise you, every opponent back then were worthy opponents that you can speak of that. We talk about Raymond Washington, Turkey, Lil James, Compton, Barefoot, Pookie, Michael, Conception, I can name them all day long, just all day for the 50 years that I've been around.  So that's how everything was encountered, because at that time in our days, you couldn't tell this before colors. You couldn't tell from blood, because that wasn't even thought about. In fact, it wasn't even those sets, eight trade, 60s, just when it was west side and east side, Compton. So it wasn't just like we were dominant. No, that wasn't the case. Everybody from the early 70s were very real respecting and about that business. Well, as far as me and others, we never thought about it expanding or going into what it is now. We were just young kids. We didn't know where we was lost. Not misguided, because there was nobody telling us what to do. See, we didn't have, contrary to what people think, Raymond and them, they had army and this and that. No, they were the faces of the Crips, but they were 18. We 14, 15 year old juveniles before they even had this type of situation where we was getting two or three years of homicide, a car jacking was called, GTA get caught with a gun, they give it back. So a lot of the things, most of the guys from my ever from 71 to 75, from 14 to 18, we either got 25 or better arrests in a four year period or either they got a murder conviction or either if they still allowed a day they have over 25, 30 years in prison. Two of those three they usually have before they would say 18, so we had a free wing. It was the Wild Wild West, but it was honorable when people getting involved, it wasn't involved and signed up for it. So a lot of innocent people wouldn't get hurt as it is now where anybody because of the area you stay in, it could be detrimental, so. Wow. And so, and you mentioned prison along the way, I know that when you're incarcerated, that becomes a deal as well, where there's members of Crips, Blood, different Muslim faith, all these different section of groups and it's a different, it's like a different structure when you inside of the walls than it is when you outside. Actually, it would almost seem as if it's more, more like it's more togetherness when you inside. What do you think about that? Yeah, I don't know. It's about to be together when you inside. You understand me? A lot of, a lot of, shout to me ever, man. I'm gonna get this, now I gotta get the, get the star stud out of my head. Oh, no, it's all good, man. Get to me, man. OG zero. Yeah, real talk, that's catty, man. Real talk. Spirit confusion. But anyway, man, it's a difference. When you outside that world, you can run from hood to hood. See, that's what them youngsters know when they get on this game, this game, see, I don't game bang. I don't game claim and I don't got nothing to do with the game. I got one game, I'm in God's game now. That's my game. That's my only game, one on one. And we know that now, but I'm gonna stick to the topic but I still, but back then, you know, they get in these games and it's time to go to reap the benefits of what the game has for you, which is the penitentiary of the grave. When it's time to reap the, one thing that you know, when you in the streets, I can, I can hit you and run over and hide in his hood.   You run into them all now. It's time to reap the benefits. You know what I'm saying? Ain't no togetherness. You're going to penitentiary and find out them niggas or nothing. This is roof, this is the ones in the streets. But there ain't no out of it.  Niggas, some of them, some of them creeps in there when they go in there.  They come in there and they, they, they, they, they, they not the niggas they in the streets. They not the creep in the street when they is behind them bars. You can do a lot that, like I tell you, ain't no pistols in the penitentiary. I got a major announcement to make but I'll wait to break that later. Now, let me a little bit about California prison system. Y'all read my book, The New Slave Ship, a ship that does not sail that deal with this new industry called prison. But when we first went to prison, there was no creeps. There were very few because most of us were juveniles at the time in 71, 14, 15, 16, 17. So when we got the age to where we can be sent to prison, everybody also need to know that California is the only prison state that has no segregation. They segregated. When I was in Georgia prison, I don't had Latino, facility, white, but California is the only state in the United States that segregate and this is why. Most people don't know the difference between the street gang and the prison gang. Like you say, you don't go in there with a pistol. We call it you check your guns in at the county. Okay. So now you're coming up close. You got to come up close. But what happened when we first started going to prison? Here it is, these guys, you got the right after George Jackson, the Soledad brothers, Fleety Gromgrove, Hugo Ponell, Rest in Peace, who got killed in slain for some after 50 years and solitary confinement into his daughter, Allegra, my own girl. But anyway, so now when we got to prison, now you got the BGF, Black Arilla family. You got the Black Panthers. You got the ABs and Brotherhood. You got the Mexican mafia. You got the Northern familiar. You got the Muslims. You got the police. And then later on, you start breaking it in that CCOs, Crips under Constitution, Blue Notes took in them, Vanguard, Blackcoats, UBN that's in New York, Peabody and all them that started that. So when you're in prison, it's a difference. Believe it or not, in California, it turns into racial. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101.


Hello everyone, this is Brad again, and if you've been following along, this is our tenth video in our HTML tutorial. Today we are going to learn positioning. So far everything that we've done has been justified or positioned to the left. Now how do you get this to the center or to the right of the page? Well, today we're going to learn that. It's actually very simple. Go into our handy little template here, and the first one you're going to learn about is the center tag. I'm sure you can hear me typing. My gaming keyboard is a bit loud. Save our work here. Refresh and you see I'm in the middle. And that's all there is to it. Just center, in center, put what you want in the middle. Now one of the tags that we've learned before is the paragraph tag. Remember it's just, oops, help if I put the in bracket here. Now when you save that, refresh your page, you see the text is left justified by default. So how do we manipulate this text within the paragraph? Tell it where to put it. Well, the answer to that is an attribute called a line. And in this case we'll say write. And we'll just put the text to the right side. And just to cheat a little bit here, we will copy this, paste it. And for this we will put center. And you can even justify it to the left. But it's rather pointless seeing how it justifies to the left by default. But just to show you for the sake of education what this does, save our page, refresh it. And you can see you can put it in the left, in the center, or in the right. Now you might be asking, why do we have two commands to put things in the center? Center works just as good as paragraph align center. The answer to that is simple. The HTML protocol has actually evolved over the years and the center command actually appeared before the paragraph command. Paragraph just creates a section of the page called a paragraph and then allows you to align it through this attribute called a line. That's really all there is to positioning text and objects around the page. I mean you could, instead of text, you could put an image or a flash script or whatever you felt like putting in there. Thank you for watching. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, join my channel or send me a message or not, right? Thank you for watching.


Alright guys, we've got another battle vid for you. This time it's between the brand new Apple AirPods Pro, the Amazon Echo Buds and the Sony WF-1000 Mark IIIs. Let's get rolling. So the brand new Apple AirPods Pro retail for $249. They are the first ones you're looking at here. It comes with a brand new case and a totally new design, shorter tip, better fit in your ear. That to me is golden and changes the way this actually works and functions. If I shake my head well while using them, it doesn't fall off. It does come with multiple tips so I can actually get a better fit and there's an app, sorry not an app, but there's a process that allows you to see how your your ear tips actually fit best, which you know ear size. So that's actually pretty cool. Now connection to your device is pretty fast and simple.  Now the case itself comes with 24 hour battery life. You have five hours with the AirPods themselves, the AirPods Pros and you do have wireless charging built in something the other two just don't have. So that is a plus for Apple with the AirPods Pro. Now moving on to the Amazon Echo Buds. They come in an all-black case. This has micro USB for charging, which is kind of a bummer here, although it's priced at $129. So put that in mind. Now the Echo Buds are all black in terms of look, but it comes with multiple tips, ear tips and also has ear hooks. Now for me, they fit comfortably and have probably the best fit out of all three. So while I'm shaking my head and moving around, this will work well and that is also really nice to see. Now this has touch controls, double tap controls on either ear tips. What you do have though is you do have Alexa with voice and you also have the ability to add in another assistant. So you can actually have dual assistants running and the Echo app gives you so much functionality built into this thing. It's truly amazing. I do like it. You can customize your pass-through levels, your sight tone levels. You can go ahead and change the functionality of the touch buttons themselves. Your EQs also to get better music audio there, which we'll talk about in a second. So you've got a lot of functionality in there. The case has a 15-hour battery life and you do have five hours with the Echo Buds themselves. And finally, we do have this Sony WF-1000 Mark III retailing for $229. They come in a black and copper case. Also, there's kind of a copper and off-white case as well. The case is bulky. It looks really nice, but it's the biggest case out of all of them. USB Type-C charging does have NFC tapped to pair as well. So that gives you easier connectivity. They all kind of connect pretty easy actually all the way. Now, in terms of the earbuds themselves, they are the biggest of all of them. And they have also kind of the funniest shape, if you will, in terms of just the angle of fit. Although they do fit nicely and they do have multiple ear tips and different types of ear tips as well as comply from style ear tips. So giving you enough kind of comfort for your use. The case gives you 24 hours of use time. The earbuds themselves give you six hours with ANC and eight hours without ANC. So that is actually pretty cool there. Now, the application is probably one of the best out of all three. It does have the ability to give you adaptive sound. So basically understanding where your noise cancellation is, it will actually figure it for you. You don't have to tap or hold or press. If you're staying at home, if you're on the train, it recognizes that. And to me that is absolutely awesome. I think it also has probably the best active noise cancellation out of all three. I think the Sonys are number one. The EchoPods are close number two. And the Apple Airpods Pro are number three with ANC. Now, when it comes to sound, this is the biggest area here. And looking at all three, I think they do a good job. Apple has, I think has seen the biggest jump here with the AirPods Pro sounding really good compared especially to the original AirPods. The AirPods Pro have a better sound signature and also does a better job in giving you a better seal. So it sounds really nice. Your mids are solid.  Though the lows have come down as not as high. The lows are not as expressed as the other AirPods. And the highs are not as high as I would like, but a really good sound stage in total. So I'd say this is a really good effort here. Now the Echo Buds come in at my number three here because the sound stage still sounds a bit crowded. I think the active noise cancellation affects this quite a bit. So really box out a lot of noise, but also you can hear everything trapped in a bubble if you will. So the EQs do help to customize the sound as much as possible. And the lows are really good. If you listen to a lot of hip hop, this will work out well. They're not overpowering lows, but they're really, I would say maybe they're better tuned lows if you will. The highs don't really reach out as much. And the mids are kind of okay here. So they're good, but not as good as the Apple AirPod Pros. And finally, of course, the Sony WF-1000 Mark IIIs, I think have the best sound overall. The sound stage is really good, especially with active noise cancellation. You don't get that cramped up sound stage. You get something that sounds really robust and full. The highs and lows and mids do really well. The lows really come out so clean, especially if it's into high-fi audio. It is golden. This is still the gold standard when it comes to listening to music here. Plus, they do have 360-RA audio, reality audio, which basically gives you this immersive sound altogether. Now, the only problem with this is, of course, it's limited to a couple of applications like Tidal so far, so hopefully that expands. But it truly is a different listening experience when you try that out compared to just what you already get with this. So in terms of audio, this definitely does a good job here. So speaking of microphones, that's another key thing here with, of course, earbuds. You want to know who has the best microphone here. I think all three do a good job with microphones, but if I want to rank them up, I think the Sony's coming at number three. They do sound really good, but they also do have slight dips here and there in terms of audio quality. Now, my number ones tied are, of course, the AirPod Pros and the Amazon Echo Buds. I used them in conversations with friends. I couldn't notice a difference with any one of the two. I switched up calls. I think they both do a really good job with the microphones. Apple's really good. Amazon's really good as well off the bat. So I have to say, when it comes to the microphone quality, you're going to get really solid stuff from both of them right off the bat. Now, finally, you're asking who is the best? What's the best here? What should I pick? Well, my number one is still the Sony WF-1000 Rock 3. It has the best audio out of all three. Listening to the Sony's is just a full step ahead over the Apple AirPod Pros, over the Amazon Echo Buds. It also has a good mic, not the best mic, but a good mic. It has, to me, still the best active noise cancellation here and also the best application which gives you so much more robust field nature. And you also have 360RA audio, which is an extension of what you can do, a little bit more, a little extra there. My number two is the Apple AirPods Pro. They are nice. They are much improved. I would say, if you're in the Apple ecosystem, you want to get AirPods, don't get any of the other ones. They're terrible. Just get these. Yes, they're $249. They're pricey, but you do have wireless charging in there. You've got that simplistic connectivity as well. And you also have something that I think will transfer with any of your Apple products quite effectively. Now, finally, the Amazon Echo Buds, a nice start from Amazon. I think the sound stage needs some improvements, but really good microphones on there for conversation. Also, some really solid audio and a really good app plus the Alexa integration. I found it quite wonderful to be able to use Alexa so seamlessly through voice and also the ability to also switch up and use Google Assistant at the same time, I think is really awesome. And that flexibility there shows me a lot of promise from Amazon. So those are the three there and that's my ranking, but I do have one more for you. If you can't afford any of the three and you're going, okay, $229 for the Sony's is too much for me. $249 for Apple is definitely too much for me. And $129 might be pushing past my budget. I do have a pair from you from Anker. These are the Soundcore Liberty Air 2s. They're right here. They kind of look like the original AirPods, but with tips, they do fit better in your ear than the original AirPods and even the AirPods Pro 2. Now, some of the specs this thing has is really, really cool. It has wireless charging built-in. It's got USB Type-C. It will give you 10 minutes of charge. It will give you two hours. It also has seven hours playback time. Then with the case, you've got 28 hours. So a lot of specs in there plus the Soundcore app that gets to kind of test your ears to see how your hearing is to customize the sound. The sound is really good, especially with some of the nine bucks. This sounds almost as good as the AirPods Pro, just saying. But my best, still the Sony number two, the AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro and number three, the Amazon Echo Buds. Have any questions or any comments, let me know. If you want to check out any of these headphones, I have the links for you guys down below. Thank you very much and always enjoy entertainment.