Hello friends, and how are you all doing today? My name is Priyanka. The question says, find the equation of the normal to the curve y is equal to xq plus 2x plus 6 which are parallel to the line x plus 14 y plus 4 is equal to 0. My hair, we are given the equation of the curve y as xq plus 2x plus 6. Now, I am differentiating it with respect to x we have dy by dx equal to 3x square plus 2 and therefore this is the slope of the tangent 2 at point x and y. Now, slope of the normal is minus 1 upon slope of the tangent which is equal to minus 1 upon 3x square plus 2. Now, the slope of the given line that is x plus 14 y plus 4 is equal to 0 that means 14 y is equal to minus x minus 4 or y is equal to minus x by 14 minus 4 by 14. So, slope is minus 1 by 14. Now, since we are given in the question that normal is parallel to the line. So, we can say that the slope of the normal that we have found out above is equal to the slope of the given line that is minus 1 by 14. On simplifying we can write it as 3x square plus 2 is equal to 14 that is on reversing the equation which further gives us 3x square minus 12 is equal to 0 or x square is equal to 12 by 3 that is x is equal to plus minus 2. Now, we need to find both the points when x is equal to 2 we need to find the value of y and when x is equal to minus 2 then also we need to find the value of y. The value of y will be 2 cube plus 2 into 2 plus 6 which is equal to 8 plus 4 plus 6 which is equal to 80 and here it will be minus 2 the whole cube plus 2 into minus 2 plus 6 which is minus 8 minus 4 plus 6 which is equal to minus 12 plus 6 which is minus 6. So, the equation of the tangent that passes through 2 points are 2 comma 18 and minus 2 comma minus 6. Now, let us find out the equation of normal points 2 comma 18 and minus 2 comma minus 6 respectively which will be y minus y 1 equal to now slope of the normal found out above was minus 1 by 14 x minus x 1 which implies 14 y minus 18 into 14 gives us 252 equal to minus x plus 2 which gives us x plus 14 y minus 254 is equal to 0. And here we have y plus 6 equal to minus 1 by 14 x plus 2 we have 14 y plus 84 equal to minus x minus 2 which is equal to x plus 14 y plus 86 is equal to 0. So, the answer to the given question is x plus 14 y minus 254 is equal to 0 and x plus 14 y plus 86 is equal to 0 right this completes my solution hope you understood the whole concept well do take care of your calculations and meet you next by the now.


I was a communist for the FBI. Starring Dana Andrews and an exciting tale of danger and espionage, I was a communist for the FBI. From the actual records and authentic experiences of Matt Sevetik, how many of the incidents in this unusual story? Here is our star, Dana Andrews, as Matt Sevetik, who for nine fantastic years, lived as a communist for the FBI. The Communist Party professes to have a great contempt for money and the money-making habits of capitalist democracies. But the big-talking hypocrites know the party wouldn't last a week without money, and they'll do anything to get it. This is a story of very low finance, as practiced by men who are money-mad. In a moment, listen to Dana Andrews as Matt Sevetik, undercover man. Sevetik, under this story from the confidential file, is marked the Innocence Club. Unquestioning obedience is what the Communist Party demands of its members. Orders spiral down from above and are not questioned. The comrades trust nobody, not even each other. When I'm favored by a personal visit from Walter Skolvik, leader of our cell, I know it isn't a friendly call. Skolvik doesn't waste time on friendly calls.  He looks and acts like a little Napoleon. When he talks to you, you feel that his mind is far away, scheming. But he wants to see me, and I let him in. I'm glad I found you in, Sevetik. Sit down. Well, thanks for the hospitality, comrades Skolvik. Don't be facetious. That's a bourgeois luxury. I have something to tell you. I'm listening. Are we quite alone? Of course. What's on your mind? Sevetik, I've decided to let you help me on a most important assignment. That's kind of you, comrade. What is it? I'll fill you in on such details as you must know later. I want you to be downstairs at the curb at eight o'clock. What's the occasion? You ask too many questions, Sevetik. Just be there. I'll pick you up in my car. Yeah? Where are we going? I'll tell you when I pick you up. Who's calling you? How should I know? All right. Answer it. Hello? Hello? This is the city laundry. No, my laundry hasn't arrived yet, and I'm pretty sore about it. Why isn't the driver here? I'll see what's holding it up. All right. They can call me back later and I'll tell you if he's been here. All right, we'll do that. That laundry is always losing my shirts. I forget mine to take my business to somebody else. Under a communist regime, such inefficiency would not be tolerated. One day we will change all this. Be ready, they're the quacks, Sevetik. We have a lot to do. I'll be there. Hello, city laundry. About those missing shirts... Well, it's okay. My visitor is gone. Good. We've just been called in on a case. A guy named Arnold Johnson is in jail. He works for a government agency. The charge was simple theft until they found some secret government documents at his appointment. That makes the charge espionage. Right. That's why we've been called in. I think I read something about it in one of the papers yesterday. Something about a committee that's been organized to help him claims he's innocent. That's right. Can you find out if any of your commie jumps is involved in it? Well, do my best. Thanks, Matt. Time is important on this one. So long. I don't know what's going to happen yet, but I can feel it means trouble. I can feel myself rushing into it a mile a minute. If there's a connection between Johnson and my comrades, I have to find out what. I didn't realize how quickly I was going to find out. At eight o'clock I'm on the street waiting for Skolvik. He's there on the dot. All right, Sevetik. Hop in. Where are we going? To the jail. Anybody I know? I don't think so. We're going to see a man named Ronald Johnson. One of our comrades? No, not yet, but he's of great assistance to the party, Sevetik. Do you recall the communication from Moscow a few weeks ago stressing the urgent need for more money for our cause? Sure, but I don't see how Johnson ties up with that. You'll see presently. I can tell you now that the man we're about to see is helping us raise the money. That's Skolvik's way, handing out information at grain at a time. I was impatient for the rest of it. I wanted to put the pieces together, but I didn't dare press him. We enter the prison and get to see Johnson and his cell. He's young, about 25, tall, sandy-haired with cool gray eyes. Skolvik introduces us. Mr. Johnson, this is Mr. Sevetik and I'm Walter Skolvik. We want to talk to you. About what? About getting you out of here. Where your friends? I don't think I had any. You'll have, Johnson. Good friends. I certainly need some, except my bail's so high I have to stay here till the trial. Imagine me important enough for 100,000 bail. You can count on us for help in due course. Mr. Sevetik and I represent the Justice for Johnson Committee. We want you to give us a statement that we can use in building your defense. I've heard about your committee. Why are you so interested in me? We're always interested in getting justice for those who are innocent. Suppose you tell us what happened. Now, I should tell the police came to our apartment room with another government clerk called named Martin. They said government property was missing. They found it in my coat, but I didn't take it. You can count on our help, Johnson. We know you've been framed. You do? How? We've been investigating. We always fight for victims of oppression. We know you've been victimized by Gestapo tactics. Gestapo tactics? What kind of double talk is that? What are you, anyway, communists? It's the only real party of the people. Who else would come to help you? Sure, it'd be sensible, Johnson. I don't want your kind of help.  All I need is your support, and they'll be sure I'm a spy. No, I'm not buying it, Mr. For all I know, you might have framed this whole setup to get me working for you. Take it easy, Johnson. That isn't a nice thing to say.  You're a very foolish young man, but you're getting our help whether you like it or not. My spine feels like ice when we leave the jail. The Communist Party has a big interest in a man who's in jail, but they don't care if he rots there. They have a gimmick, an idea for making money out of the deal. And if I don't stick my neck out, they're bound to do it.  Skolvik beefs me on all the details of the scheme as we ride back in his car. A very suspicious fellow, this Johnson. But it doesn't matter. He has no friends and no money. Yeah, a classless white collar worker. Exactly. He'll be afraid to open his mouth about us. And what could he say if he did? The Justice for Johnson Committee is above suspicion. Its president is a great champion of civil liberties. The crusading publisher Lexington Lyman. Pretty big fish. In our net synthetic. Then you organize the Justice for Johnson Committee. Who else? It's our booby trap. Our Innocence Club. The finest way of raising money on a large scale. Gullible American liberals will always contribute generously to see justice done. Especially if an important man like Lyman is president of the committee. If I can keep Johnson in jail long enough, I can raise a fortune for us. It's a great idea, Cameron. How do I fit into the picture? I have two assignments for you. First, I want you on the board of directors of the committee. What do I do on this board? All of the contributions are being deposited in the bank. In order to make everything look very legal, we have it arranged that funds can be withdrawn from the bank only on presentation of four signatures. The president, financial secretary and two directors. Who's the financial secretary? Comrade Cahill. And I'm on the board of directors, understand? Yes, Cameron. That's very clever. The only outside signature we need is Lyman's. And he's such a busy publisher. He won't have time to inquire about the disbursements. You said you had two assignments for me. What's the other one? I'll tell you about that after this meeting. We have another visit to make. Here we are at the hall. There's a telephone in the lobby of the hall. I'm dying to get on it, but Scovic is at my elbow. Steering me up to the president of the committee, Lexington Lyman.  He's taken the committee very seriously and doesn't realize he's being played for a second. Mr. Lyman, I'd like to present Mr. Sevetik, the man I mentioned for the vacancy on the board. Happy to meet you, Mr. Sevetik.  Thank you. The fight for civil rights needs everyone who can help Mr. Sevetik. And when injustice has been done, all of us must pitch in to see that it's corrected. You're absolutely right. Somebody's got a route for the underdog. Right. But I'd better get this meeting started. Ladies and gentlemen, I won't take up much of your time. We are gathered here in the cause of justice. Justice for a man named Arnold Johnson. He's a little man who thought he was friendless. And we are here to prove that he has friends. My newspaper, always at the disposal of those who fight for righteous causes, will continue to campaign for the release of this innocent man. We solicit the aid of every one of you. And whatever you can contribute, we'll help in obtaining competent legal aid for the defense of Arnold Johnson.  The contributions poured in. I wanted to do something to stop them. I wanted to get up and say, you people are chumps. You're not giving your dough to help a man in jail.  But I don't want to commit suicide, so I keep my mouth shut. Skulvik is still at my elbow as we leave. Still no chance to use that telephone. We get in the car and make another visit to an apartment across town where I meet the second part of my assignment. A man named Nick Martin. Look, Mr. Skulvik, I did the job for you. Johnson's in jail, isn't he? That's true, Martin. But Savannah and I are here to see about the rest of the deal. You agreed to deliver certain papers from the files at your office. Sure, but the job's tougher now. What do you mean, tougher? Aren't you going through with your assignment? Well, you know I'm in a hot spot. Johnson and I room together. We both work in the same office. Suppose they get the idea that I took the papers and put them in its coat. Now, where could they get an idea like that? The only way they'll get that information, Martin, is if you don't deliver what you promised. If you don't come through, you'll be thrown to the FBI wolves. Now, wait a minute. If I go to jail, so would you. Indeed. Remember, my young friend, that it would be your unsupported word. You'd better come across, Martin. I can't do it right away. I need time. Why? We're all being watched in the office. The heat's on. It'll cool off. I'll give you one week. No more. Sabetik will get in touch with you. All right. I'll see what I can do. That's better. So long, Martin. You'll be hearing from me. I finally get away from Skulvik and walk down the street looking for a telephone. But I can't get to it. Somebody is shadowing me.  I've got the information for the FBI, but I can't get to them. Me, I don't feel so brave. Not when I look at what's following me. I don't care to be a dead hero. Calling as Matt Sabetik. And I was a communist for the FBI and the second act of our story. Tons of telephones, but I couldn't get to one. I had to rejoin Skulvik at the meeting in half an hour. During this half hour, I'm going crazy trying to get to a phone to let my FBI contact know what I've learned. But everywhere I go, I'm shattered by a big goon who won't let me out of his sight. No time for me to go home. If I don't get to Skulvik on time, he's bound to get suspicious. It's like running down a blind alley, trying to find a doorway and seeing nothing but stone walls all around you and a dead end ahead of you. I get to the meeting. It's just winding up when I walk into the hall. Oh, hello, Sabetik. Mr. Lyman and Mr. Cahill have just been going over the final contribution figures for tonight. Right, sir. Have you done pretty well, Mr. Lyman? Wonderfully well, Mr. Sabetik. What does that bring the total to, Mr. Cahill? A little over 100,000 accounting pledges that haven't been made good yet. There, gentlemen, is proof that Americans are not selfish and indifferent to the fight of their fellow men. I'm proud of the part my paper and I are playing in this fight. I don't think it could be one without you, Mr. Lyman. Oh, that's kind of you, Mr. Skulvik. Well, I must be going now. By weekend, I expect we should have close to a quarter of a million in our fund. Enough to carry the fight through to the Supreme Court if necessary. Good night, gentlemen. Good night, Mr. Lyman. We're doing a wonderful work for us. What a pigeon.  We need his signature to get the money out of the bank. How are we going to get it? Cahill and I have it all figured out. Sure, I'll go down to his office and have him sign a couple of the committee checks. I'll tell him there for petty disbursements that I'll have to make later. You mean you'll leave the amount blank? Sure, he trusts me. After all, I'm the financial secretary. It's a very clever system if it works. If it doesn't, we can always invent enough expenditures to get the money out in smaller amounts. We misuse our brains faster and better than our enemies if we're to change the system. Well, I think we've done a good day's work. We can all use some rest. Sevetik meet me at the office at nine tomorrow morning. I want to talk to you about getting in touch with Martin. It's late when we leave the hall. I'm still looking for a telephone. But one look behind me convinces me that I'd better go straight home. I finally get to it and I'm inside the door watching Stoneface walking past like he's out for a late stroll. Now I can make that call. Just a minute. Oh, good evening, Mr. Sevetik. Martin, what are you doing here at this hour? I know it's late, but I wanted to talk with you. Sure, come in. I thought maybe I could have an understanding with you before we had our business transaction. Okay. Sit down. Tell me what's on your mind. I, uh, well, as you probably know, I agreed to get my roommate caught with the goods and also to deliver certain other documents from the files for a flat sum of $3,000. They got paid, didn't you? Well, yes, I did, but I'm hard up. Now Mr. Skolvik gave me a week to get those documents for you. Look, suppose I were ready to make delivery in less than, well, in less time than that. Do you suppose it might be worth saying another $2,000 to him? It might. How soon can you make delivery? Whenever I get a call. What about that heat you said was on at the office? I'll risk it. Okay, Martin, I'll talk it over with Skolvik and see what he says. Thanks a lot. I'll be waiting to hear from you. Good night. Good night. Hello? Hello, this is the city laundry. Okay, I've got the dope you wanted and how I've got it.  Up to their ears. Matt, you know where the penny arcade is? Sure, about two blocks from here. Right, it stays open pretty late. Take me there in ten minutes. Give me a dollar's worth of time. Thank you. Anything good on this machine, bud? Great, great. A day in the life of a hula dancing. That sounds very educational. I've always liked artistic pictures. What have you learned? The comrades are mixed up in it all right. A guy named Skolvik paid Johnson's roommate three grand to frame Johnson and deliver some important papers from the files. Delivery hasn't been made yet. What about this Justice for Johnson committee?  Skolvik organized it until Lexington Lyman into taking the presidency. They've raised over a hundred thousand already. By the end of the week, it might be over a quarter of a minute. Who controls the funds? It takes four signatures. Lyman's the financial secretary and two members of the board of directors. Skolvik and I are on the board. Our board key hails the financial secretary. Patterns for manager. Four signatures gives it a legal aspect. How do they get through Lyman? They're planning to shove a few blank checks at him for petty disbursements. They'll tell him he's a pretty busy man. He trusts people. Sometimes it's a bad habit. The only way to stop them from grabbing all this dough is to turn Johnson loose. Once he's released, there's no excuse they can give for spending the money. No, we can't do that, Matt. We're guilty once. Sure, sure. But we have to get him with the goods. That's your job. You've got to set him up for us. See what you can do. I walk home, but I can't go to sleep. I'm awake half a night, trying to figure out an angle.  He's just digging his fingers into my throat when I wake up in a cold sweat. It's morning. Time to stop in and see Skolvik. Good morning, Sevetik. You look terrible. Thanks, Comrade Skolvik. I didn't sleep too well. How's the money raising going? The committee bank fund, as of this morning, totals $164,000. Cahill has the figures. Sounds good. And we'll get more. Yes, but I've decided not to wait too long. It's risky. That's why I've decided to withdraw the money from the bank tomorrow. Just before lunch, Cahill will see Lyman and get his signature on two checks. Five after twelve, you and I will meet Cahill at the bank and add our signatures so the money can be taken out. This happens tomorrow. Right. Well, that gives me a free day today. No. I have worked for you, Sevetik. I've decided there's no good reason why Martin can't deliver those papers today. Delay is dangerous. Too many things can happen. I'd like somebody to go along with me when I meet him in case he gives me any trouble. Oh, you'll worry too much, Sevetik. I say there won't be any trouble. I'd like Cahill with me, just to make sure. Very well. Cahill will be here in 15 minutes. Suppose you get on the phone and tell Martin to meet you at 11.30. His lunch hour begins at 11. It'll be natural for him to be away from the office at that time. Okay. I think I know a good spot to meet. Mr. Martin? Yes, speaking. This is Matsevetik. Do you think you might be walking south on Marine Street near 6th at 11.30 this morning? Yes, I think I might. I might be walking north on Marine Street at the same time. If you happen to drop something while you're tying your shoelace, it might be picked up. Well, we'll settle that later. You just be there. A good arrangement, Sevetik. Simple enough to be effective. Coming from you, Comrade Skovik, that's very high praise. Jack Cahill came in a few minutes later and I explained the assignment to him. I had a plan worked out finally, and I hoped it would do the trick. It wouldn't do anything except help the communists get their hands on secret information unless I could let the FBI know what was going on. This is the time Cahill picks to be a bosom buddy. He sticks to me like a poor relation. Two hours I've got. 120 minutes to call the FBI, and this joker is with me every minute. And now it's time for our appointment with Martin, and all I can do is go through with it. That's Martin down the streets, Betty. Yeah, he doesn't see us yet. Now, remember Cahill, as soon as he spots us, he's going to bend over to tie his shoelace. When he does, he'll drop an envelope on the ground. And we'll pick it up, right? Right. There. He's seen me. He's bending over to tie that shoelace. I see the envelope. Will you pick it up, Cahill? Sure. Why not? I'll walk on so we won't look conspicuous. Fine. I'll get it. That envelope your property, bud? Well, it was lying on the sidewalk, and I just sort of picked it up. Yeah, yeah, I know. Like Mr. Martin just sort of dropped it. My partner has him. You better come along, too. I never had a happier surprise than when I looked back and saw two FBI men picking up Martin and Cahill. That's what I wanted to happen, but I didn't think it would because I hadn't been able to phone my contact. I go home and look at the late editions of the paper. There's a lot of news about the Communist plot to take money out of a guy they'd framed. There's a story that they've picked up Walter Skulvik as the mastermind and are holding him without bail. There's mention of Cahill and Martin, too. But there's nothing about Sevetik, and that's good. I'm still in business. It's late evening, and I get a visitor. Well, I see you're reading about it, Matt. We've rounded them all up. Well, that's fine. But I had a bad time about whether you would be there. I couldn't reach you. Yeah, I figured that. But we had Martin covered. Johnson agreed to stay in jail and help us. And I certainly swear to this one out.  Stony? He's one of our boys, Matt. He was assigned to protect you. Now you tell me. Yeah, now he tells me. And that's usually the way I'm told when it's all over. Plans? Who can make plans in this crazy quilt world where I live in the half-light of deceit, intrigue, and dishonesty? Another day of this dawn-dust existence. But this day turned out all right. Yeah, this day. But how many more of them can I take? So I'll take them. Keep them to myself. I'm a communist for the FBI. I walk alone. Andrews will return in just a moment. Andrews reminding you that what we love and cherish in our land is made possible by a life called liberty. But we can't take it for granted. We have to guard it and keep it burning bright, so no enemy within or without can snuff out that light. In the story you've just heard, names, dates, and places were fictitious to protect innocent persons. Many of these stories are based on incidents in the life of Matt Saabedic, who worked undercover for the FBI. Next week, another fantastic adventure. Join us, won't you?


But before we do that, you might notice that there's this little slide going on where it says, scam alert, Dan will never contact you. Look, I've been getting a lot of different messages that there's somebody in, who knows, Telegram or some of their different places where they just keep talking about how, oh, you reach out to us and we paid you a bunch of money, now where's our promotion video or whatever else? And I don't do that, I don't reach out to you. So when I say I'm gonna keep this up for as long as I possibly can, where I talk about I'll never contact you, I will never contact you, period, for any type of promotion. I get 30 offers a day, I don't need to contact you for anything that I wanna do. It's hard to make it like that, but it has to be harsh, never believe that I contact you, because I won't. So that's what's going on there.


Hello and welcome to this presentation of the STM32 Cube Firmware Drivers including Hardware Abstraction Layer and Low Layer Drivers. While this presentation is specifically about the STM32L4, the STM32 Cube HAL is a platform common to the entire STM32 family of microcontrollers. The STM32L4 firmware package offers the standard HAL as well as low layer drivers and examples. STM32 Cube L4 gathers in a single package all the generic embedded software components required to develop an application on STM32L4 microcontrollers. In line with the STM Cube initiative, this set of components is highly portable not only within the STM32L4 series but also to other STM32 series. STM32 Cube L4 is fully compatible with STM32 Cube MX used to generate the initialization code. The package includes the hardware abstraction layer and low layer drivers that cover the microcontroller hardware together with an extensive set of samples running on ST development board. The STM32 Cube L4 package also contains a set of middleware components, full USB host and device stack supporting many classes. Host classes, HID, MSC, CDC, Audio and MTP. Device classes, HID, MSC, CDC, Audio, DFU, LPM and BCD. STMWIN, a professional graphical stack solution available in binary format and based on ST Microelectronics Partners solution SEGAR MWIN. CMSIS RTOS implementation with free RTOS open source solution. FAT file system based on open source FAT FS solution and touch sensing library. They come with free and user friendly license terms. Several applications and demonstrations implementing all these middleware components are also provided in the STM32 Cube L4 package. Low layer drivers are included in the STM32 Cube L4 package along with some examples using either the HAL, low layer drivers or both. The STM32 L4 firmware architecture allows applications to directly access HAL peripheral drivers or low layer drivers without using HAL peripheral drivers. STM32 Cube offers a highly portable hardware abstraction layer or HAL built around a generic architecture. It allows developers to implement application functions by building on layers such as the middleware layer without requiring any in depth knowledge of the MCU used. This improves the reusability of the library code and guarantees an easy portability to other devices. In addition, thanks to its layered architecture, the STM32 Cube L4 offers full support of all STM32 L4 microcontrollers. The user has only to define the correct macro in the STM32 L4 XX.H file. STM32 Cube L4 features a rich set of examples and applications at all levels, making it easy to understand and use any HAL driver and or middleware component. These examples run on the ST development boards listed in this table. The STM32 Cube L4 firmware solution comes in a single zip file, having the structure shown in this slide for all STM32 series. The STM32 Nucleoboard supports these examples of low layer drivers. For more information about STM32 L4 firmware, please refer to the STM32 Cube user manual getting started with STM32 Cube L4 for STM32 L4 series, as well as the other documentation listed on this slide available on our website at www.st.com. Thank you.


Thank you commander and thank you all. I am truly honored and humbled but I would not be the servant or the person I am without the constant support of my family and my fellow veterans. I'd like to start by thanking my family here today, my sons Ian, a Navy veteran and Eric, an Air Force veteran.  There are many reasons why not the least of which my five beautiful grandchildren who you've given me and are here with us today. Olivia, Emma, Ryan, Desmond and Echo. We are all keenly aware of the sacrifices our families make when we decide to wear our nation's uniform. Let's also recognize the sacrifices they continue to make so that we can go on serving long after we take the uniform off. Whether it's a chapter meeting of volunteer opportunity or a multi-day convention thousands of miles from home, they understand that we are called to serve. I also want to thank the veteran role models in my family for setting an example for me as a young child beginning with my father Joe Delfino Espinosa. He enlisted in the Army during World War II and served four tours in Germany over his more than 20-year career. During his first tour he served with the Monuments Men and was a guard when they returned Leonardo da Vinci's Woman with an Irmine to Poland. He was a DAV life member but died at 42 before he could become active in his chapter. My uncle Fred Chavis is the person who introduced my family to the DAV. Fred was a tough Marine. He served during World War II and was shot during the Battle of Saipan in 1944. He became a department commander in Utah and at the time of his death was treasurer for chapter 14 in Davis County. I took over that position when he passed kick-starting my service with DAV. Then there's my uncle Benny Chavis, a 93-year-old Korean War veteran and fellow chapter 14 member. He volunteered for many years at the local VA hospital and provided military honors for service members until he was over 80 years old. Because of his example I plan to serve DAV as long as my body will allow. I also want to thank my mother Eleanor Chavis. She was a tough lady who got things done in the face of adversity. She became a widow at a young age and had to raise three children on her own. She instilled in us the value of independence and hard work. Have a car, have a roof, have a job she'd always say. When mom told me I needed to get a part-time job to help pay for school clothes, I responded to an ad for a clerk typist. No experience necessary. The position turned out to be with the United States Army Reserves and launched my 15-year military career. 10 years later I went on active duty and later transitioned to the New Mexico National Guard. When I separated in 1990 I immediately joined DAV. I had witnessed what this organization did for my family and I knew I'd find the support I needed. What I did not expect was how much our cause would fuel and fulfill my desire to serve others. I've since had the pleasure of being commander for the Department of Utah just like Uncle Fred as well as Adjutant. I'm also a proud member of Chapter 14 where I continue to serve as treasurer as well as a chapter service officer. I've also had the honor of serving as director of DAV's Charitable Service Trust and was a member of the POW-MIA Interim Committee. So many in our DAV family have supported and encouraged me all the way to this podium. I never thought I'd be here and if it hadn't been for some gentle nudges and kicks in the pants I wouldn't be. I want to give a special thank you to Department of Utah and Chapter 14 where my journey with DAV began. I'm also grateful to have served alongside our amazing team of national line officers and NECs including the 17th District's Floyd Watson Jr. who has been one of my biggest cheerleaders. Lastly, I want to thank the person who inspired me to think bigger and do more than I imagined. I have a feeling she's done that for many of you in this room. I met Delphine Metcalf Foster in 2014 during Utah's Department Convention. We went to lunch and soon realized we had much in common both coming from families with legacies of military service. She quickly became a treasured mentor and an honored friend. I was it was Delphine who ushered me into the national organization and opened the doors to our larger community. A few years later, she showed me what was possible when she became the first woman elected to lead DAV and the first woman to lead any of the top three largest veterans charities. Delphine, as you've done so many times before, you blazed a trail and left directions for those coming behind you. You have lived in service to your credo.  Thank you for showing me the way. Thank you for helping us see who and what we can be. Being part of DAV is a point of extraordinary pride for me. A large part because of members like Delphine and those who wholeheartedly welcomed and supported her leadership. You did so because of her qualifications and her record of dedicated service. For many of you, her gender wasn't even a consideration. While you celebrated the historical significance of electing a woman to serve as national commander, it wasn't what motivated your support. And yet, this organization and its members understand the importance of making sure all our voices are heard and all of our needs represented. We recognize that for decades, too many of those voices were silenced, sometimes intentionally, but often unwittingly. Whatever the case, DAV and its members have shown we must and we can do better. While we love the underdogs of the world, we have to remember that those who have been underestimated have often been underserved, underrepresented, and underrecognized. Take, for example, late DAV member Kouru Motou, a second generation Japanese American born and raised in Hawaii. When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, Motou, already in the military, was called to serve his country. By all accounts and despite the internment of Japanese Americans and the hatred spewed toward people who looked like him, Motou served with the utmost integrity and bravery. On July 7th, 1944, near Castellina, Italy, Motou was a scout leading his platoon to higher ground. After he spotted a machine gun nest, he captured a German gunner. Taking his prisoner with him, he took cover at a house a few yards away. After engaging the enemy in fire and forcing most of them to withdraw, a single remaining sniper fired at Motou and struck his left leg, severely wounding him. Injured and bleeding, Motou spotted another enemy gun nest and opened fire, wounding enemy soldiers and forcing them to surrender. For his actions, Motou was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Italy's War Cross of Military Valor. However, he was denied the recognition many agreed he deserved, the Medal of Honor. But he wasn't the only one. Motou was part of the 100th Infantry Battalion, a unit composed mostly of second generation Japanese Americans, or Nisei. The battalion, which later merged with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, became the most decorated unit of its size and length of service in military history. Its soldiers became synonymous with bravery, yet it was clear that they would not be considered for the nation's highest honor amid a climate of racial prejudice. Finally, in 2000, after a thorough review, Motou's Distinguished Service Cross, along with those of 20 other Japanese soldiers, was posthumously upgraded to the Medal of Honor, correcting the record and more accurately reflecting his contributions. Motou's Medal now sits in an exhibit called the Nisei Soldier Experience at the National Museum of the United States Army. His story illustrates the struggles so many Japanese Americans faced at home and abroad, and their courage on the battlefield. DAV was lucky to call Motou a dedicated life member. His son, Brian, said DAV gave his father community and camaraderie during his postwar years. For the Motou family, DAV was a pillar of support, at one time awarding a scholarship to Brian so he could go to college fulfilling his father's dream for his son. In 2022, Brian paid it forward when he named DAV as a beneficiary of his estate. Nobody knew whether the Nisei of the 100th Battalion could make good war fighters or if they would even willingly fight. They were the definition of underdogs. They proved to be, as Brian Motou calls it, an American story to which all can aspire. As a Hispanic woman with a family legacy of military service dating back to the Civil War, I've always had an affinity for those who face down doubt and adversity. Military history is brimming with such stories and it's easy to see why. Service appeals to the best in us and the best of us. It calls to our grit and determination. It tests us and pushes us to our limits, not for glory or goods, but in service to others. It says to the underdog, you are meant for something bigger than yourself. Those in this room have heard that call at one time or another whether because of the color of your skin or your gender or the circumstances of your time. Many of you have been the underdog. You were met with doubt and prejudice, unfair treatment and towering obstacles and yet you answered the call to serve. When your uniform, when your job in uniform was done, you were faced with more hurdles. You had to learn to live with disability. You struggled to readjust to civilian life. You fought against misconceptions and yet once again you answered the call to serve. This time the call came from DAV. Through volunteerism, legislative advocacy and benefits assistance, you have helped lift your fellow underdogs to new heights. You have proven time and again that we should not be underestimated. You've succeeded in making sure your fellow veterans don't go unserved, unrepresented or unrecognized. We must continue that work with the grit and determination that inspired our military service. Not because we have something to prove but because it's who we are, the underdogs who refuse to back down. Thank you for this opportunity. I do not take this responsibility lightly and promise to give you all my best effort in this role. I look forward to channeling the warrior spirit of my ancestors and the force of character that fills this room as we work toward our shared mission of serving veterans and their families. Thank you.


Good morning. I'm Jordan Naftoff, the co-CEO of the Foreign Policy Youth Collaborative Nonprofit. Today, however, I'm speaking to you not as a CEO, but as a 16-year-old high school senior who has grown up in a variety of educational environments. I'd like to talk a little about my personal experiences with gaming, both inside and outside the sphere of education, and how those experiences have shaped me as a student and as a person. My first interaction with online games in a classroom setting was in first grade when we were learning how to touch type. We would spend a couple of hours a week in the school's computer lab playing typing games. These games often had animations to go along with them, cartoon animals dancing or running, stopping or slowing down when you made a mistake, stumbling and hitting obstacles. Their speed and agility would increase as you hit a streak of fluent typing. These games incentivized achievements, often giving you a score and star rating after completing a level, much like beloved apps such as Cut the Rope or Candy Crush. I would play these games for hours and still sometimes do for fun. It was one of the first skills I mastered and has been incredibly useful as every year more and more of our education is online. From writing essays to doing research, the typing games were incredibly influential to my development and I remember them fondly. Even my friends who hated our computer classes enjoyed these games. It brightened everyone's day and left an atmosphere buzzing with excitement as we lined up outside the computer lab. Touch typing is a skill that is almost vital to success, especially in today's digital world. A task that could be menial and dull was made exciting and fun thanks to a few animations. This is a common and effective tactic when teaching young children. Introduce a storyline, bright colors and characters. So why does gaming stop appearing in education after early ages? For the next few years, the only aspect of my education that could be considered gaming was trying to use the smart boards that had been newly installed in our classrooms. At that point, they were constantly glitching. To draw a straight line about a foot long with no interruptions would have been a miracle. Nevertheless, teachers attempted to integrate the malfunctioning smart boards into every lesson for the first couple of months of each new school year before giving up and using them as whiteboards. As far as my own experiences go, no one is using gaming in its traditional sense in education. In our chemistry classes, it's fairly common to complete virtual labs. Online simulators designed to mimic experiments that can be unsafe for a classroom setting or simply too time consuming for the desired outcome. Teachers are hesitant to give students a jar of an acid and a jar of a base and tell them to just go for it. So we use an online simulator to see the effects of mixing the two, often with other mixtures present as well. Virtual labs were usually either really fun or really boring. The boring ones were the ones with very exact instructions, almost as if we were completing a real lab and needed to follow precise instructions for our safety. The fun ones were the ones that took advantage of the fact that the lab was online and posed no real safety risk, allowing us to play around with it. We definitely learned the most when we were given a simulator and free reign to reach a set of objectives and observe reactions to different combinations and ratios.  I've dabbled, Sonic and Disney Infinity when I was younger, Mario Kart with Friends, and this year, to my surprise, I had a Destiny 2 phase. My first experience was with Sonic when I was six years old on the computer of a childcare center at our local gym. No one had ever explained the rules to me. I sat down and started pressing random buttons until something happened on the screen, which led to very frustrating sessions of Sonic where I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. There came a point where I was stalled. There was nothing more I could achieve without someone sitting down and explaining the rules to me. At that point, I approached the computers two or three more times before stopping entirely. I lost interest in the game. The same thing happened when I began playing Destiny 2 this year. With a new stadium subscription, I was quickly drawn into the universe of Destiny, customizing a warlock character. I became enamored with the quick rise of my score, leveling up and gaining new weapons and gear. In Destiny 2, there is a soft cap and a hard cap on your score for each season. Once you hit the soft cap, it becomes much harder to raise your score and practically unfeasible for the average player to reach the hard cap. Once I hit the soft cap and advanced about halfway to the hard cap, it became next to impossible to complete the quest that would raise my points without the weapons I would have received as rewards for completing the quest in question. While my score was rising, I was gaining weapons and gear and I stayed motivated. I could see myself improving as a player by the day. As soon as my score became stalled and I stopped getting exciting new gear, I lost motivation. The only way to advance beyond that point was to google different hacks and watch walkthroughs, which takes away from the sense of reward and achievement after finishing quests or fending off enemies. The same thing that had happened with Sonic when I was 6 happened 10 years later with Destiny 2. In short, once there was no indicator that I was, in some way advancing, I lost interest and motivation and abandoned the game. One reason why Destiny 2 was so appealing to me is that games with that level of complexity, another world with its own backstory, often have female characters that are sexualized or don't represent other cultures in a PC way. Destiny had female characters that wore the same gear as the male characters, just as covered and designed to mimic gear that would actually protect rather than embellish the characters' features. While still lacking in its diversity of skin tones, it stayed away from inappropriate representations of other cultures or ethnicities as well. However, Destiny 2 involves mythical species that aren't human, so it's still hard to feel represented in the game by my avatar. The main reason I didn't start playing other games after getting into Destiny 2 was that every time I found one that seemed interesting, the sexualization of female characters prevented me from getting started. If we expand our definition of gaming, I enjoy Sims and I think it's a great example, a large variety of customization for our characters, one of the best ranges of skin tone I've ever seen in a game, and almost entirely custom placement and size of features. In reality, I struggle to think of video games in which I feel I truly have representation.  Like most high school seniors, I'm currently applying to colleges, filling out form after form of information, completing lists of internships and extracurriculars, and writing dozens of essays about myself and my aspirations. As I work through the stage of life, I find myself wondering about the origins of my interest in politics. The first time I clearly remember feeling passionate about political theory was in my US history and government class in eighth grade. My teacher, Mr. Tahiri, was a big fan of incorporating online simulators and games such as Kahoot. I'm not sure if you're familiar with Kahoot. It's essentially a trivia game that factors in speed, accuracy, and the number of correct answers in a row, calculating a score that determines a ranking for each player. It's been a staple in my education since I was in elementary school, and we continue to use it enthusiastically today. In Mr. Tahiri's class, we eagerly awaited our end of unit Kahoot games, the Silicon Valley classroom environment spurring fierce competition. To my surprise and delight, I had a knack for these Kahoot sessions. In my other classes, I was fairly mediocre at Kahoot games, but this subject matter and my ability to retain it as well as my competitive nature practically guaranteed a win in his class. This, of course, made me extremely passionate about US government, a passion that I would later realize I had subconsciously retained. In his class, we also used an online simulator to learn the process that legislation undergoes, specifically the process of a bill becoming a law. Playing the role of a president, you observed the proposed bill bounce back and forth between the House and the Senate, eventually reaching you where you could either sign off or veto the bill. When I think about an ideal new gaming experience designed to inspire youth and political theory, it stems from the simulation we played in eighth grade. This experience would consist of a simulation allowing kids to design their own system of government, borrowing from countries around the world, as well as famous theories by Locke, Burke, Bentham, and more. They would have the opportunity to design a national economy guided by computer-generated characters and compose bills and legislation, watching it travel through their governmental systems and see the impact it has on their general population. In political theory classes, it's very easy to look at historical shortcomings in political systems around the world and believe that you have a simple solution. In fact, it's human nature. However, so many complexities exist that make political theory an intricate and often unpredictable art when being applied. The new game I'm proposing would be specifically designed to help kids understand these intricacies and learn to think both about the details and the big picture of politics. It would lead them away from black and white thinking in politics, learning to think dialectically. The game would have options to play out four years in about 20 minutes or, alternatively, one hour, customizing your experience to either a quick simulation or a more detailed game. If I had had the chance to experience this hypothetical simulator, I would have become invested in politics and realized that it's what I want to pursue much sooner. When I think of the future of learning, I think of a learning environment that can be customized to the individual students' needs. When I was little, I used to go to a French international school in Texas, and I was extremely lucky to naturally learn well in that environment. The methods used to break down complex math problems provide background for each method used and prove why those methods work were perfect for my learning style, but not all of my friends were so lucky. Some of my closest friends who were incredibly intelligent ran into roadblocks when trying to absorb the information during our math classes, often getting low scores on math tests. Their frustration grew by the week and they were scolded by teachers, regarded as less gifted, and expectations for their success were lowered. Most teachers wouldn't take the time to sit down with them and figure out how they learned, leading to detrimental gaps in their learning. I moved to Silicon Valley when I was 10, and I was thrown into a drastically different learning environment which left huge gaps in the math and science I learned in 5th grade, my first year in California. I was suddenly forced to use new methods to solve math problems instead of being allowed to use the ones that I had already learned that made sense to me. My teachers simply glanced over my papers and declared that they didn't understand the method, so I had to use theirs, without ever taking the time to ask me to explain my work to them. It was extremely frustrating and stalled my learning for a year. For my junior year, I was in an early college program which allowed me to study on a college campus full-time to acquire my high school graduation credits. The minimal interference by professors and general attitude that it was up to the student to find ways to absorb the lectures and complete the work allowed students to use their own strengths to work, and almost all the students in the program saw a great difference from how they were expected to succeed back at their home high schools. Students shouldn't have to rely on personal tutors in order to be taught in a way that makes sense to them and allows them to succeed. The learning experience should be customizable and adjust to an individual's learning style with modules for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners. This is becoming a more realistic goal by the day as we see advancements in technology and gaming. From touch typing to chemistry simulators, technology is fairly integrated into our learning experience, but gaming is rarely used after first or second grade, which happens to be around the time that students begin to lose interest in school and declare that they hate it. In gaming, as long as success is being incentivized, whether that be through progressing in levels or a score that increases, players will stay engaged and continue to strive for success. When looking back at my experience in schools, to me, the future of learning is one in which every student has a more customizable education which sets them on a path to success by using their strengths and weaknesses. Thank you.


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