Ryan Gracely with Wikibon. We're here at the CUBE DevOps Enterprise Summit here in San Francisco. And excited to have a guest right now, Paula Thrasher, Application Delivery Lead for CSC. Paula, thanks for being on. Ah, thanks for having me. So you work in the federal government space. You've been here speaking, you're helping federal government customers transform. The government has a tendency to want to do big things. Big, broad things that help them get elected or help get funding. A lot of the DevOps talks are, start small, do a lighthouse. How does that sort of contradiction work? How well does that work? Well, I think that is actually a really big challenge in the federal space. I think all organizations sort of have like the IT model that matches their organization and we get, in the federal government, you get funded to do big things. You get your money is to accomplish things and very big blocks of money and programs are designed to do that. And so convincing an organization that you can do things incrementally is actually very hard. And I think the challenge is being able to convince people that you can still do the big thing but to get to the big thing, you're gonna take a lot of small steps to get there. And I think when you can do that and say it's okay that we're gonna do a few things incrementally and then at the end, we'll get to the big thing. If you can accomplish that from a motivational standpoint, you can still do the thing that was intended. And actually with better outcomes because we have systems that we report to congressmen on how it's going and being able to say, I'm not giving you a report, I want to actually give you a demo. The leadership really likes that because that makes them look good. It's not fictional. They can actually see how we're spending their taxpayer dollars. And so there's ways to do it but it's definitely a cultural challenge. I think it's one of the largest ones we have. You know, it's cliche but a lot of people want to say, well, Washington is bureaucracy and it moves slow and so forth. How do you get across this idea of being agile?  What sort of metrics and terms do you talk about to the agencies to get them to go, okay, that applies to me, that motivates me? Yeah, I think, you know, the funny thing is early in my career, I was doing a lot of agile but I wouldn't call it agile because that was not an accepted thing to do. So I would just be like, we just have a methodology that goes really fast.  That sounds great. But as we've actually talked agile, for us it's a lot about the mission and I especially found a real audience in the military domain but it was true in the civilian side as well in that being able to respond very quickly to mission needs is very motivating. More so a lot of times in profit because in profit is somebody else's money. And a mission, a lot of these people, you know, they've been the one who's lives on the line and I think it's actually a really cool opportunity when you work for federal government because you can literally work on systems that save lives. And there's not a lot of other people that do jobs where you get to say that. So I think that's one of the things I like the most about the kinds of things we do is that we do actually do missions that really matter. Yeah, one of the things that I know Jean talked about, you know, some of the speakers, you know, Target was talking and one of the women's speakers had just gotten promoted. Jean talked about some other people. How do they deal with sort of the rock star and visibility that goes along with doing things different and fast? How does that work in the federal space where maybe that hasn't been the culture so much? You know, I think the interesting thing is that the federal space doesn't, I think you can actually be really successful without being a rock star. I do think there's a lot of people that do public speaking in that space, a lot of the leadership, and they see it as a way to motivate their own, you know, employees and the contractors, I think, to do great things. I mean, I think it's an interesting challenge because it's not an industry that rewards sort of public accolades, but at the same time it does. I mean, I think all industries sort of reward people who share a good story about something they did that was successful and that encourages somebody else to do that same thing. So I think a lot of it is more about evangelizing and it's a really nice community in the federal government. I think people really share a common purpose and they're really willing to tell, you know, which a lot of times companies won't want to do. They don't want to tell you, this is my proprietary thing and I don't want to tell you how I did it. But in the federal government, they're really open to actually sharing. This is what I learned and this is what worked and this is what didn't. And actually that's kind of a nice community. Yeah, so this week is a lot of community. Lots of sharing, lots of... Washington DC, that whole area is as dense in terms of companies and technology as here out in the Silicon Valley area. How well does the sharing sort of community piece work there? Do you see a lot of sharing? I mean, I know there's obviously in some cases you talked about military where there's restrictions that are legal restrictions, but in general, is it a sharing culture? Do you see people moving between agencies or how does that work? Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of actually, I mean, it is really a community of people that work in the federal government and there is a lot of people changing agencies and come not as much maybe. I mean, I don't know how that compares actually to commercial, but I do feel like there's a really good community there and a good technology community and there is a lot of sharing, although it's definitely challenging because I think sometimes the political environment makes it a lot harder for us to sort of geek out that's the thing that a lot of it is more mission oriented. When you actually wanna talk about something under the hood about technology, they go, whoa, that could be a security problem. I don't know about that. So I think we want to share, but sometimes the politics of it make it a little bit harder for us to share than maybe it should. We've heard a lot of stories this week where some groups within the organization will sort of start out as gets grass root. They'll get some successes, some lighthouses and then they go find executive support. They'll find leadership support. Do you find the same thing happens in the federal space just because of the way they're budgeted or are there patterns in terms of how they go from old ways of doing things to starting new ways to doing all the new things? Yeah, I mean, I think the story of transformation in the federal government is the story in any large enterprise, right? It comes both directions. Sometimes it comes because it's top down, right? There is a new leader and they say, look, this is gonna happen, right? It's not very effective in the federal government, I think because the leadership is more transient than the employees. Unfortunately, it's kind of a short timer, short of roll sometimes. So top down doesn't work very well and the employees can't be fired easily as they can in the public sector. So that's a hard way to do it. So I think most of the transformation has been very grass roots. And I think actually there's some people doing this in the federal government for a lot longer than people realize. It's just that we're finally starting to get to a critical mass where we're actually doing things that are really making a difference. We see all the way up to the president. I mean, Obama at one point, he's got a CIO, he's bringing in people from Silicon Valley. How much of that is trickling down to the work that you do? I mean, is it making a lot of changes or is it just bringing awareness that we need science and technology to be more forefront? How much is the culture or maybe the temperature around Washington DC and how much we wanna be innovative changing in your space? Actually, so this is a little bit what I'm gonna talk about. I think there's nothing better to get a conversation going like a crisis. And in a weird, weird way, I think healthcare.gov was the crisis we needed to have DevOps in the federal government. I think without that, it was a side project that there were a lot of people very interested in doing and there were a lot of companies that were interested in doing it, but it wasn't the compelling call to action. And that made people realize that like, we can't do things the way we used to and we really do actually have to take this seriously. This is not just a side project. So if there is a positive outcome of that, I think is that it actually has, I think, changed the conversation. And I'm looking forward to actually seeing that go somewhere. Good, good. So one of the things that I know from your bio, you've done some work with the AWS.gov cloud. You've helped some agencies transfer some applications. That in and of itself working with the public cloud is its own change, its own culture. And then you've got the, like how are those two things intertwined in terms of Agile and the public cloud or how are you helping customers feel comfortable dealing with that? Yeah, I mean, there's twofold. There's a technology revolution and there's a culture revolution. And the technology pieces, I think are really, Amazon, they've got a great solution and I've certainly helped in that regard. We're CSE, we're partners with Amazon and we've done some good work with them. And I think the most interesting piece is it actually changes both because it's both a technology change, obviously we're using a new platform to deploy your software and all that stuff, but it's a cultural change too. The idea that infrastructure is code, the idea that you're just gonna automate, I mean, both deployments that we've done to Amazon fully automate everything from dev to production and that's like a culture change in terms of thinking, like maybe I don't, not quite know ops, but a different way of thinking about how we do ops and that cultural piece is actually harder. Like a funny story is that I was actually internally, we were doing some stuff with Cloud and I was talking to somebody, I said, look, this other team over here, they really want to test your thing and they, can you spin up an instance for them? And the project manager instantly said, well that'll be two weeks. And while he was saying that to me, his lead engineer in the background was like, I got it, who am I giving access to? Who do I send the IP addresses to? And it's like the mentality that this takes two weeks is harder to fix than the actual technology of it. The technology piece was easy. The mind shift of now we can actually go faster, that's the hard part, and that's probably true. I mean, that's true for us in the government, but I'm sure that's actually true in a lot of organizations. No, and that's exciting. I mean, it gives people hope when they're seeing the government doing things faster, they're doing things more nimble, it gives people hope. Paul, with that, thank you very much. It's great to see so many different industries, so many different segments of not only here in the States, but around the world, making this shift, going faster, taking advantage of new technology. We're gonna wrap up with that here at DevOps Enterprise 7, here in San Francisco. Thanks for watching.


Welcome to Toffy TV, it's the Everton News Daily. Everton defender Neilson Cuncw has hinted that he's likely to leave the football club this summer as he wants to settle down at a club. The 22-year-old, rather, has scored six times and got six assists from 15 games in league two since moving to St Etienne in January. He's done really well for them, they're playing them a little bit higher up the pitch and he's had another assist at the weekend. They won three-one this weekend, three-two rather this weekend, but in Cuncw, he has suffered from multiple managers as he's come in under Carlo Mantialotti, he's had Rafa Benitez there, Frank Lampard and obviously now Sean Dyche, although he hasn't worked with Dyche. He is better going forward than defending. I think that he seems almost like the perfect wing back, that kind of player, but you know St Etienne have apparently got a clause in the agreement in which they can back. It looks as though he's going to move to there when the season finishes. Everton are today being linked with 21-year-old Villa Rayal and Senegalese forward Nicholas Jackson. Blues have been linked with them before, heavily linked with them in January, but they've been linked with them again today. A couple of other Premier League clubs also linked with them can play right through the middle or play on either side of the front three. He has played 33 games altogether this season, scoring eight times and having two assists as well. He's obviously had a good age as well for Everton. Again said that before, you would expect Everton would have to remain in the Premier League if they were to go through with this one, but he is quick. That's the kind of profile that I imagine Everton will be looking at as we move forward. Everton defender Vitaly Mikolenko has opened a century peace garden today for the Ukraine. It's one of many events taken place this week as they build up to your revision. Obviously the Ukraine won your revision song contest last year, but Liverpool have agreed to host it due to obviously the ongoing war with Russia for them. Mikolenko is down there to open that today. It is in the Baltic green, which is in the Baltic triangle, so come check it out. It should be really good, but Mikolenko posed for some photos with Evertonians who were down there today. Chelsea are apparently interested in signing Everton and England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford this summer. Chelsea apparently want to replace Kepper as day number one. Pickford has been put forward by Frank Lampard, former Everton manager being recommended by him. Chelsea do have an interest in Pickford, which has been there for some time. Obviously heavily linked to them and Graham Potter was the manager. They are managerless at the moment. Lampard is on the interim role. Potatino expected to take the reins in a few weeks when the season finishes and Jordan Pickford apparently top of their list to replace Kepper, so we'll have to wait and see what happens with that one. Pickford did, of course, sign a new five year deal with Everton back in February.


Hi, I'm Brendan Simmar, qualified firefighter at Danny Ong Fire Station B Platoon. I'm here today at the CFA Project Expo with the Attack Pack hose coil project. The project came around after we had a number of incidents where the initial attack line was delayed due to kinking or issues with deployment. Through some research on the internet we found a system from the United States, the Cleveland Load or the hose coil. It was developed by their forestry service in the late 70s, early 80s and has been proven to work really effectively in urban environments. The hose coil pretty much consists of a 30 metre length of hose that's called around itself, a retaining strap and some elastic bands. Very simple to carry. We can either carry it on our shoulder or under our arm to the incident. Once the coil has been deployed and charged with water we end up with the full 30 metres charged in an area no bigger than two to three square metres. It has a number of benefits. It's simple to deploy. We get 30 metres of hose at the deployment site. We can deploy it in high-rise or multi-storey environments on landings and then stand the hose up out of the way once it's been deployed. Also can be used in wildfire environments if you need to bowl out another length of hose or add an additional length of hose in a wildfire environment. Very simple to use in that facet as well. The other benefit of the hose coil is that we can pick the fully charged line up and stand it up against a wall or handrail if we need to create access or regress for anyone evacuating the building or for firefighting operations. Those pretty simply in our current vehicle. We've got it stowed here in the flake tray from a heavy pumper at Danionong.


A 90-year-old man, Yusuf Yakadere, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEE, for selling drugs to the youth in his Yakadere village in Rimi Local Government area of Katzina State. The non-generian confessed that he has been selling cannabis to the youth in his community for eight years due to their demand for the illegal substance. And the same vein, an narcotic officer and the understate command of the agency have arrested two teenage siblings along with other suspects for dealing in assorted illicit drugs in the state capital.


Game of Thrones season one episode four, cripples, bastards, and broken things. I still don't know what the sphere is though. Like, what is that sphere? This is the Dyson sphere.  You know what that is, babe? Is it just an never ending spinning sphere? No. It's an object made by an advanced civilization to harness the power of star. Oh, does it make sounds? I don't imagine it makes sounds. Okay, because Dyson fans don't. Alright, pay attention now. Winter fell on it. No one told me what that tree is yet. Maybe because they're not supposed to. Thank you guys, if you're not. Oh, well, there's the animals. That's not the animals I was talking about. I'll show you the animals. If we had binoculars, we could see Tyrion peeing off the side. Oh, it said just skip King's Landing. We don't need to go there. I can't ever read that though. Me either. It looks like it says Duffpack. Oh, I thought it said horse park. Okay, those look. Okay, hold on. No, we ain't supposed to pause. Hold on, let's go back. I just want to see what they are. Okay, so. We know that one's the wolf. So wolf, deer head.  It looks like a snake head. A snake head and a- Like one of these, have you all ever seen this before? Yeah, it does look like that. Yeah. Anyways, yeah, we don't really know too much about animals. Now I'm just playing, obviously. This is not, this is not on my old channel. It looks like a wolf and either that looks like a dragon or a snake. I'm gonna say a dragon though, honestly. Yeah, because we heard their dragons on this as long as they don't freaking talk. They're dragon eggs. I'm gonna bring that up again if they talk. It's over. All right, let's lock in, lock in. Let's go. I do that noise a lot. He's walking, but he's walking. Oh my God, he is walking. This is before? Yeah, this must have been before. Oh my God, that sparrow had three eyes. That's a crow or a raven, right? With an extra eye. The little Lord's been dreaming again. Maybe it's like a Cyclops, bro. No, Cyclops has one eye. A triclops. Yep. That's the guy I don't know who he is. I don't wanna see anyone. I was cooped up all day with no one, but this old bat for company, I go mad. Anyway, you don't have a choice. Rob's waiting. I don't want to go. Neither do I, but Rob's Lord of Winterfell. It means I do what he says and you do what I say. Hold on. Hold on. Help Bran down the hall.  Any man of the Night's Watch is welcome at Winterfell. But not I, eh, boy? Not your boy, Lannister. I'm Lord of Winterfell while my father is away. And you might learn a Lord's courtesy. So it's true. Hello, Bran. Do you remember anything about what happened? He has no memory of that day. Curious. Why are you here? Neil Hodall. Do you like to ride, Bran? Yes.  But I did like to. With the right horse and saddle, even a cripple can ride. I'm not a cripple. Then I'm not a dwarf. My father will rejoice to hear it. I have a gift for you. Give that to your Saddler. He'll provide the rest. You must shape the horse to the rider. Start with a yearling. I'm blueprinted. And teach it to the reins and to the boys' voice. Oh, he's about to go on a specter gadget on him. On horseback, you'll be as tall as any of them. Is he doing this because he did it? Why do you want to help him? I've a tender spot in my heart. Cripples, bastards and broken things. Idol right there. You've done my brother a kindness. The hospitality of Winterfell is yours. Spare me your false courtesies. There's a brothel outside your walls. There I'll find a bed and both of us can sleep easier. Yeah, why'd he do that? What? That nice thing. Honestly, I'm not sure. He's not my master. Of course not. What happened here? Where is Lady Stark? Why didn't she receive me? She's not in Winterfell, is she? Where did she go? The ladies were about to know. The lady. Your loyalty to your captors is touching. How do you think Baelin Greyjoy would feel if you can see his only surviving son has turned lacking? I still remember seeing my father's fleet burn in Lannisport. I believe your uncles were responsible. Must have been a pretty sight. Nothing prettier than watching sailors burn alive. Shame how it all turned out. We were outnumbered ten to one.  I suppose your father realized that when your brothers died in battle. You're paying. He's talking that junk, ain't he? Careful, Imp. I've offended you. Forgive me. Been a rough morning. Don't despair. I'm a constant disappointment to my own father and I've learned to live with it. Your next tumble with rals is on me. Oh my god. I'm still not sure who that guy is.  Right, but do they even know? Do these people know that the blades is? No, obviously not. Well, I don't think they care, right? Just John, maybe? What in seven rals is that? Samwell Tarley of Harnhill. I mean, I was of Harnhill. Come to take the black pudding. Well, you couldn't be any worse than you look. See what he can do. I don't know. He might take you. Never mind. On your feet. Why is he there? Oh, what did he do? He must have committed a crime. No, sometimes he said they can just be hungry. Like, they can just be looking for a steady meal because they're like that poor. So they'll join it.  So you could just be... He yielded. Looks like the bastard's in love. That's some ragtag gear, though. Wait, when you first start the game, you haven't got your number up yet?  Sure you want to do this? No. No. Drop! Deal, deal, deal! How you doing? He didn't even let him go over there. Go clean the armory. That's all you're good for. He's just that unsatisfied coach. You can't win. So basically all day they just stand around and like halfway train.  I'd be like ragtag training, yeah. Look at the background, we're just too much. There's like...  I'm gonna get any easier, you know. Why didn't you get up and fight? I wanted to. I just couldn't. Why not?  The wall's no place for coward. Are you alright? I'm sorry. I just wanted to thank you. How do you not like that guy, though? Like, he's so nice. Yeah, he's nice, but he's like liability nice.  No, but think we're cowards too.  Quick now, before Sam is over. Nice dodge. They called it summer up there. That's tough. Where are they going? They're across the ocean, right? Mm-hmm, but they're going somewhere. I don't know if they're like...  Or I don't know how that works. You just go get some chips. I wonder if it becomes winter there also. He still doesn't get it, does he? Look at this guy. He's like, just show some humbleness, my guy. Is that him? The blonde guy? He just taking the lead? Like, they're not going that way anyways? He must have done something bad then because Ned's pretty cool. That'll do it. Is he talking literally right now or just metaphorically? I don't know. Oh, the throne really looks like swords put together though, right? It does. Oh, they're extinct, huh? Yeah, it looks so dingy in there, doesn't it? Yeah, it looks so dingy in there, doesn't it? If you only had girls, I suppose the throne would pass to Prince Joffrey's little brother. And everyone would hate me.  Joffrey does. Nonsense.  Please shut up about it. Who built the Iron Throne? Aegon the Conqueror. And who built the Red King? What's that? My grandfather and uncle were murdered here, weren't they? On the orders of King Ares, yes. The Mad King, why were they killed? You should speak to your father about these matters. I don't want to speak to my father, ever. It's the hands tournament that's causing all this trouble, my lord. The hand wants no part of it. Call it what you will, Lord Starkser. The city is packed with people and more flooding in every day. I need more men. You'll get 50. Lord Baelish will see it paid for. I will. If I'm running for a champion's purse, if I'm running to keep the peace. That's right, Ned. There you go. There will be puts of good use. Sooner, this is over, the better. This is sooner, man. Why is he so sketched? Like, I just think he's, like, thumbs up with him. What, a little weasel? Yeah. Till tomorrow, my lord. I've been hoping to talk to you about John Arryn. Lord Arryn? I took personal charge of his care. Was that the hand of the king? John Arryn, or him? Not that he said Lord Ares. No, John Arryn was. I don't know who Lord Ares is. I have been grand my stuff for many years. What did John want the night before he died? Oh, he came inquiring after a book. I fear it would be a little interest to you, my lord. I'd like to read it. Oh, so he's trying to get some evidence that his, he wasn't, he was killed, but the guy was killed.  Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, it kind of is, isn't it? I only know one of the three of those things. But Lord Varys is a unit. Everybody knows that. There's someone without a nut, right? What? A unit, someone without nuts. What does that mean?  Sorry, I forgot. There was people watching. I'm pretty unigly, then.  I think that's what it means. It could mean something, like, more specific, but let's just have it. What is this? Sirio says a water dancer can stand on one toe for hours. Sirio says every hurt is a lesson. Tomorrow, I'm going to be chasing cats. Sirio says every swordsman should study cats. You have to be quick to catch them. He's right about that. Now the brand's awake. Will he come live with us? He needs to get his strength back first. He wants to be knight of the king's guard. He could be lord of a holdfast. Who sits on the king's castle? Or he might raise castles. Might brandon the builder. Can I be lord of a holdfast? You will marry a high lord and rule this castle. And your sons shall be knights and princes and lords. So he just wants the best for her, huh? Mm-hmm. That's not me. I'm 12. I know this, OK? Yeah, she wants to fight. She wants to learn balance and keep people in the head. Where are we at the wall? Hello. Oh. Sir Alice has said I'm to be your new watch partner. He's like, oh, God. I don't see all that well. Oh, what does he do well? John seems like a good guy, right? That's the vibe I'm getting without. Like a compassionate person. You can't fight. You can't see. You're afraid of heights and almost everything else, probably. What are you doing here, Sam? On the morning of my 18th-name day, my father came to me. I'm not worthy of my land and title. Tomorrow, you're going to take the black. If you do not, then we'll have a hunt. And somewhere in these woods, your horse will stumble and you'll be thrown from your saddle to die. Oh, my gosh.  I'm not going to get any better, you know. Oh, that attitude. I hear you're reading a boring book. I sell talks too much. Oh, he never stopped. Do you know Sir Hugh of the Vale? Until recently, he was only a squire. John Arons Squire. He was knighted almost immediately after his master's untimely death. I'll speak to him. A singularly bad idea. Do you see that boy there? One of Varys' little birds.  That's wild, y'all. And do you see that scepter?  No. She's one of mine. They all have spies. Is there someone in your service whom you trust completely? No. Yes. The wiser answer was no, my lord. Get a message to this paragon of yours. Send him to question Sir Hugh. I have my observers, as I said, and it's possible that they saw Lord Aron visit this armorer several times in the weeks before his death. Why isn't he investigating that then? Perhaps I was wrong to distrust you.  Yeah, he's so quick to just give up all this information, but he's sitting there, they're in the capital, right, where the king and queen reside at? With all those spies around. Right, and he's just talking. It almost makes me think he's leading them to something he's not supposed to like. Or like he's lying. He's setting them up or something. Yeah. Right. I'm manipulating him. As you can see, I'm busy. That's the guy they're looking for. I've seen a way off of Lord Eddard Stark. Dang. Little brat. Ah, a knight. Stripped around like roosters down here. Even the ones who've never seen a narrow coming their way.  He kind of looks at the knights like the people of King's Landing look at the knight's watch. They don't take it seriously. Maybe he just thinks they're Aryan or something. What did Lord Aron want? Came to see the boy. As you wish, my lord. He said, anything to get out of work. He's long for his age. He works hard. Show the hand the helmet you made like. This is fine work. That's not for sale. Boy, this is the king's hand. When Lord Aron came to visit you, what would you talk about? Just ask me questions, his own, my lord. What kind of questions? About my work. First, then he started asking me about my mother. Why did you sell him? She died when I was little. She had yellow hair. She'd sing to me sometimes. I'm really confused that while we're talking to this guy, but who's he supposed to be? Someone that King's Hand wanted to talk to before he passed. If the day ever comes when that boy would rather wield a sword than forge one, you send him to me. What would Ned look like in that helmet, though? Badass.  What? Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. I heard that right. King Robert's son. Lord Stark. Is he sure? That's what he said. How many do you think are in there with him? Who likes to do this when I'm on duty? Makes me listen as he insults my sister. We've met before, you know. The Siege of Pike.  Eye. One of the Greyjoyers nearly took my eye. I saw the youngest of the Greyjoy lads at Winterfell. Just like seeing a shark on a mountaintop. Theon. He's a good lad. I doubt it. So he does all that when he has to stand outside the door to torture him? Basically, yeah. But what's his beef with the brother and stuff? Have they explained that already? Or did I miss it? Why do they have so much tension? I think he just don't like Lannisters. That's what I got. Why didn't you marry one? Maybe for money. Because remember they have to borrow all the money and they're so in debt. That's the only conclusion I have, is it has to be money related. Because they don't like each other. Where have you been? Watched duty with Sam. Ah, Prince Polk Chop. He wasn't hungry. Impossible. They're so rude. Sounds no different from the rest of us. We're not going to hurt him in the training yard anymore. Never again, no matter what Theon says, he's our brother now and we're going to protect him. You are in love, Lord Snow. Slap it. You girls could do as you please. But if Theon puts me up against Lady Piggy, I'm going to slice me off beside the bay. Ken and John like whoop all of them at once. Why doesn't he just do that? No one touches Sam. Dang! His dog has been there. Look at that attitude. Piss. Attack him! He said I'm not getting bit up, boy. I'm dead or not. Just do a roll and make it look dramatic. Go on, hit me. Oh, he's pissed. You think this is funny, do you?  I understand his side totally, though. Yeah, but the way I see it, man, don't make that guy so mad at you that he ain't willing to, you know, get ate for you. You know what I'm saying? You need him. Yeah. I should have sent you back her head. Look at this, you are harsh now. It's all right. Oh, yo, we got a punished brother, bro. You do not command me. I wasn't commanding you. I just wanted to invite you to supper. What's this? It's a gift. I had it made for you.  Oh, Lord. He's so mean. Next, I want to braid my hair. You've no right to a braid. You've won no victories yet. Don't talk back to me. Now you've woken the dragon. He caught himself the dragon. That's a spider name. Oh, she just slapped him, too. I am a Khaleesi of the Dothraki. I am the wife of the great Karl and I carry his son inside me. The next time you raise a hand to me will be the last time you have hands. Let's go. He needed that. Yeah, I mean, I don't really want to see her turn into a tyrant because I kind of like her, but, yo, he kind of needs that. Yeah. Don't you think it's a little bit unfair making us take our vows while they sneak off for a little sally on the side? It's absurd. I didn't think you'd be so upset about it because I'm fat. No. But I like girls just as much as you do. They might not like me as much. Poor dude. I've never been with one. You probably had hundreds as a matter of fact, the same as you. I find that hard to believe. What are you doing? Farting with her? There's a lonely room with a naked girl. A whore named Rose. Oh, that's the one that Tyrion was going after. How was it? Why exactly? Did he not make love to Rose with the perfect? What's my name? John Snow? Why is my surname Snow?  Oh, so that's the default? My mother. Name? Yeah, maybe. I don't know if she's living or dead. That's why he's not stark. He just gets snow because he's like from the North. So we're sat there in the brothel. Rose took off her clothes, but I couldn't do it because all I could think was, what if I got her pregnant? She had a child. Another bastard named Snow. Dang, a lot of people don't think like that inside a brothel. He got her dead because he's going to be like 45.  He ain't even going to know. You didn't know where to put it. You're cold, boys. It was a bit nippy. By the fire, indoors, it's still summer.  How long has it been now? What? Ten years? I remember. Was it uncomfortable at Winterfell? Were the days when you just couldn't get warm? Never mind how many fires your servant's built. I build my own fires. That's admirable. I spent six months out there beyond the wall during the last winter. It's supposed to be a two-week mission. The Wild Inns who fight for Man's Raider are hard men.  They know their country better than we do. They knew there was a storm coming in. So they hid in their caves and waited for it to pass. We got caught in the open. They jammed 100 foot trees straight from the ground, roots and all. Like a hurricane or a blizzard. You don't know cold. Neither have you do. The horses died first. Eating the horses was easy. But later when we started to fall, that wasn't easy. We should have had a couple of boys like you along. Shouldn't we? They didn't eat them. I think he's talking about the dude on the right. Yeah, him.  We'd have lasted a fortnight on you. Well, good thing you joined. Soon we'll have new recruits. You lot will be passed along to the Lord Commander. They will call you men of the Night's Watch. Oh, so I get it. So when you're up there in the Night's Watch, you actually have to go on missions beyond the wall. Frequently. I guess so. So that's when you have to train in the field. But I guess only certain ones do because Benjen said you have to earn it. Who's Benjen? The uncle. His uncle, baby. In the last one, he went up there and talked to him and he said he'll be gone for a month. He's Ned's brother.  Because I have to watch it four times and I take notes. Do you want to see your brother sitting on the iron throne? No. The common people are waiting for him. They don't care what games the High Lords play. What do you pray for, Sedgiora? Home. I pray for home too. My brother will never take back the Seven Kingdoms. He'll never take us home. She had a really big turnaround from, I don't want to marry him to... Now she really wants to rule, huh? Yeah. It looks like either that or get away from her brother. That's his whole fiance. That's what I want to know. What? That's it? Imagine that being your king. Yeah, she's miserable. She just wants to go hop on her brother's horse. Oh, God. I'm starting to think that guy's kind of an important character, right? The guy with the messed up face. His brother. Oh, yeah. He seems like he's like the executioner or something. Something. I've just seen him in every episode almost. Yeah, and they don't really said much about him. Right. Don't you win this by like dying? The other person dies? I don't know. I've never jousted him. Well, I went to Medieval Times and that's what happened. Yeah, you ever heard of Medieval Times? We live like 10 minutes from there. Oh, and that's the guy he had to question. Oh, everyone just saw that. Welcome to King's Landing. That's your life now, little red-headed girl. He looks almost empathetic. The guy with the messed up face.  Is that the true story? Is that the like exaggerated little finger version? He just like dropped that on her and said, don't tell anyone, bye. Yeah, but why did I get the feeling that he'd done it like calculated? Yeah, that's what it was. Like, he's weird to me. I don't get him. He's conniving. He like shares what he wants and he knows a lot. There's something. I thought we might put what happened on the King's road behind us. Nah. Ugliness with the wolves.  Though sometimes we go to extremes where our children are concerned. How is Sansa? She likes it here. Is he only stark? Who does? Not much of the north in her. What are you doing here? I might ask the same of you. The King called on me to serve him and the realm. And that's what I'll do until he tells me otherwise. You can't change him. You can't help him. He'll do what he wants, which is all he's ever done. You'll try your best to pick up the pieces. She's so bitter. It's so weird.   Your older brother was trained to lead and you were trained to follow.  That was kind of bold. As was I. That was bolder. That was intense. Why are they so like, that stressed me out. That whole conversation gave me anxiety. That's wow, because that's the hand of the king and then she's the queen. The queen, yeah. So that's like drama. She's like, what are you doing here? Like, I think she thinks he's up to something. I love the way these look. These, whatever these are, cottages or whatever. Oh, good idea, grandfather. I'm starving. A song, mommy white. Rather throw myself down a well. The only music the northerners knows is a howling of wolves. I'm sorry, my lord. Wow, they would. Every room. My man can sleep in a stable. As for myself, I don't require a large room. Shoot him a little bit. We have nothing. Is there nothing I can do to remedy this? You can have my room. Oh, there's a clever man. Night catch. You can manage food, I trust. But all of Lannister entertain you while you eat. Nothing would more likely ruin my supper. Lady Stark. Dang, thank god. Unexpected pleasure. I was sorry to miss you at Winterfell. Oh, no one in there knew who she was. She's trying to. I was still Catelyn Tully the last time I stayed here. Is that the black bat of Harrenhal I see embroidered on your coat? It is, my lady. And his lady went, a true and honest friend to my father, Lord Hoster Tully of Riverrun. She is. The red stallion was always a welcome sight at Riverrun. My father counts Jonas Bracken amongst his oldest and most loyal bannermen. Our lord is honoured by his trust. I don't quite see the purpose of this. Is he trying to drop some towel on him? I know your sigil as well. The Twin Towers of Frey. How fares your lord, sir? Lord Walder as well, my lady. He has asked your father for the honour of his presence on his 90th name day. He plans to take another wife. This man. Oh, she's about to accuse him. And there are conspired to murder my son. In the name of King Robert and the good lords you serve, I call upon you to seize him and help me return him to Winterfell to await their king's justice. Oh my gosh. That was planned. So that blows up the show, right? They just took a family member of this tyrant-ass lady. Oh my god. That's it already? Okay. Yo, this show is busted. Okay guys, so that was cripples, bastards and broken things. That episode was crazy. So to me, babe, the whole point of that episode was definitely that Ned's wife, I'm so bad, I still forget her name.  Lady Stark. So Lady Stark just basically arrested Tyrion. That's huge. That's a big deal because you see how tyrannical this family can be, the queen. The thing about her, baby, she seems very egotistical. The idea of Lady Stark thinking that she has the authority or the audacity to take a lannister, basically, and to hold one under bondage of some way. Just seems like that's really gonna upset her ego and I can see, basically I said it in an episode before, I can see how war is brewing. So I'm definitely seeing war coming. Baby, what am I missing? Okay, so my question about what you just said is are they gonna care if they take him? Like, is their family ties that strong? Because I feel like to me, he's the weakest one of them.  So what you're thinking is the brother of the queen. Jamie. Jamie. Yeah, Jamie. So Jamie pushed the kid out the window, right? So your prediction or what you're thinking is when they've done that, they basically try to pin it on Tyrion. Right. I think they tried to pin it on Tyrion by, or somebody, it might not have been them, maybe not, but or someone they hired. But my thing is like, if they could pin it on anyone or make any type of story or whatever, why would they pin it on someone so close related to them? I don't know because maybe like it happened when they were in the town and it had to be someone. I don't know. I guess we're gonna see. Obviously, we don't know the answer to that because what you're saying is not really making any sense. But I mean, that's okay because we haven't seen the show. Yeah, we have theories. I don't think that that's right. We're gonna see how this is tying in. I don't really know why they went and talked to Robert Baratheon's son that was in there. And there was also some dialogue in there that I definitely need to rewatch. Well, let me say something. If they're gonna, if it was like a huge mystery for that, the hand before Ned to look into this guy, that means something was up with that guy. And when they said it was the king's bastard, they stopped that. But like to me, that means like something important, right? Because isn't that maybe something to the throne? Or like, is that, does that make the king like not able to be a king because he has a bastard?  Yeah. I mean, I don't know what that means. I see what you're saying. You're saying like, how does, how does the presence of the king's son just being out there in the ether, how does that affect the politics of like who falls in line?  I guess there's just more story there. Yeah. There's a lot more story there.  Right. Maybe that's the mind that'll have to murder eventually. I have no idea. But yeah, man, I, you know, we've gotten a lot of praise.  You know, you are paying such attention. You're catching all these details. Thank you guys, man. We really appreciate that. It's probably gonna get worse. Okay. This episode was a lot harder to follow to me. There was definitely a lot of dialogue in there about past relationships and past history in terms of like, Which just went like this a lot because I was like, Yeah. Who are these names? What are you talking about? Exactly. So by the time we watch the next episode, guys, we'll have a better understanding of what they're talking about. And we'll be able to have a better conversation there. So I did see in the comments, guys, which was a good thing when someone said to understand the episode look to the title. And the title was Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things. And I think the bastards was important because John kind of had a come up story in this. Like he kind of was like, Well, I don't know if he had a come up story because that was actually like he, the guy was kind of telling them like y'all are, this is like fun and games. Y'all don't know what's about to come. Y'all, this is not cold basically. Yeah. He's saying you just have no, I don't know that guy's name though. It's like slipping my mouth. The guy who's basically in charge of the wall. Yeah. I guess he's like, because like I told you the, in the last one upon editing it so much, the uncle is the head man of that. So I guess that guy, we don't know him because he's just the villain. We met a new character too. Sam. Sam. Right. Really easy name to remember because we did watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy. And Sam's the best character. Right.  So same vibe. I didn't think of that. Right. It's the same vibe to this. Oh, I love that. I thought immediately. I hope we love him the same. Hopefully he's good. So my prediction is this guy is brought on to the show to make you love him. Babe, I don't think he's going to make it. I think he's, my prediction is I think they're going to have to go beyond that wall. And I think that he's going to die. Right. And that's going to show the Warriors basically how important it is to really get it together. And I think John will end up doing that. So we know Khaleesi's pregnant, but also her altercation with her brother, where she was trying to like, you know, give him a gift and calls it rags. Oh yeah, he's wild dude. Yeah. It's like she's embracing it because I feel like she's smarter than him. Oh yeah. Definitely. Because she, because she's embracing it, I think to figure whatever the next step is where he's trying to just be like, yo listen to me, you're my army. I mean, yeah, she's definitely playing chess. Yeah. He's playing checkers. She's in the long game. He's in the short game. Right. And she said very clearly, if you raise your hands of me again next time, you're not going to have any. So there's definitely a power shift there. Like I don't know if that's going to make him lash out. I don't really know much more than what's going on over there really.  Well yeah, that's kind of what I'm trying to say. I don't literally, they said they have to cross the sea with ships and they've literally said that they've never been able to do that. So my prediction is that they're just, I guess right now they're basically just trying to show you that she's eventually going to be like the queen to Drago, right? The guy. So the brother is going to get pushed out. And I guess, I guess that's where you're going to have to do, man. They're going to have to find ships. So they'll build ships.  So that's what I'm seeing happening so far. But I think, I mean, we just don't know how they're going to get ships. We'll see in my mind, when I think that far down the road, I think, well, how would that look? Maybe if she built a really strong army, brought a really strong army over there, had like the best ships, they could learn how to like, you know, form some type of Navy, whatever the case may be. Maybe they win because what I think the show is trying to do is to show you that King's Landing, that place where they're at, like, I say King's Landing. The King and the Queen basically, and their whole dynamic of what they got going on, looks fractured, right? Yeah. The hand of the King is basically at open war with the Queen. So they are not in any position to be battling like an outside invading force. And I think that's where the show is probably going, man. I think. They're going to get all corrupt over there and then get like attacked. Yeah, basically that's that's my prediction. They're going to like destroy themselves within, so to say. Right. Which is not good, but we're starting to pick up on that, especially when they were in that courtyard and Littlefinger was like, that's a spy, that's a spy, that's a spy. And this is all people on their council. This is really like simple mind and man, because I'm definitely not a writer, but I could also see how like, they're like, oh, John, get your troops together, get your people together. Like, don't you sort of think that maybe it's because later down the story, they're going to have to come in and help the people, like their people from the invading force. Maybe like they're going to have to come together. Like it's like they're kind of leading it up. So they're making it sort of seem like he's going to lead his basically his army from the north against the invading army to help. But the thing that's confusing me about this is like kind of the miscommunication with like the understanding of Tyrion with the blade. Like it seems like some people know, and some people don't. And that's what's confusing me is like. Right. There's a lot going on there. But also the communication is hard because it's with the Raven. Well, there's a lot of like, I don't like you. We have underlying beef. We mug at each other because of the past. And there's a lot of dialogue as I was saying that I'm sort of missing this. I did my best to catch it. But I definitely need to rewatch it because I need to understand who is in relation to who in the past and what happened to make, you know, present day relations so volatile in a way because there's a lot of negative energy with Ned and the Queen. But whenever we're talking about the Targaryens though, aren't they like last of the Targaryens? Like that's the end of the bloodline. Those two because they've mentioned when they say that they'll say like the like they'll say, because when he said that, didn't he read that note? He said that they were like, she was ready to like breed someone else. And that's why he said war was coming. Cause maybe like she'll come for the throne. The kid will.  That's a little past me. If they did say that they were the last of their bloodline. I missed it. But I mean, that's what I'm saying. If their dad was the king before Robert is that their dad. That again, their dad was the king before Robert Robert. Jamie killed him. Remember they've mentioned that. Okay. Okay. Okay. So you're bro. Okay. So I'll be honest. I was a little confused why, what the blonde dude's motivation was. His dad was the king before. Yeah. The one who's like, let them all burn that guy. Yeah. The Mad King who said burn them all. His name was Arius. His name was Arius Targaryen. Jamie killed him. But the thing about him to me is, I don't know exactly how thrones work, but like, you know, in like normal life, your son always gets it. So I think that's what they're going to try to preach to somebody. I don't know. Like we're going to, this guy, the blonde guy, I think he's going to try to tell people like, I deserve it because my dad got killed because he got overthrown by rebellion. Oh, so he's saying, okay, I see what you're saying. So he thinks that he should be like, like I think he thinks like it's his, like it's his to take. So to say. Okay. That's what I think. Okay. Yeah. That makes sense. That makes sense. Okay. I see what you're saying. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So there you have it. It's mind blowing. Yeah. Yeah. Because like, because if you think about it, he's going to have to do so much to get there. But is he the rightful heir to the throne then?  I mean, then there is no rights to the throne. It's just whoever like survival of the fittest. Right. And if that's the rules they play by, the rules they play by. I have no way. That's something we're going to have to watch more to know, I think, but I don't know, man. All I know guys is this junk has way too many tidbits of information. I'm doing my best to keep up with it. So as Mrs. October, I'm having a lot of fun watching this guys. You can like, subscribe, turn on notifications, hit us up on Patreon. 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Potential energy of gravity. Potential energy, again, is energy which is stored. And in particular, we're looking at when it's stored such that a mechanical force is ready to do some work. Now, in the case of gravity, what I'm talking about here is that if a mass is lifted upwards, then the gravity force is ready to pull it back down. So that's going to do some work. If I take a look at that work, what I see is that the potential energy stored is equal to the outside mechanical work needed to prepare the system. And in this case, preparing the system means lifting the mass up.  And that means the potential energy is going to be an mg y. So our equation for the energy stored by gravity is the potential energy of gravity is equal to mg y. Now, you'll also see it written very commonly as mg h. So we'll discuss that one, too. In both of these equations, m is the mass, and g is gravity. That acceleration of gravity are 9.8 meters per second squared. And the y, or the h, is the vertical position, or height. So it really means the same thing. It's just some textbooks tend to use h. Some textbooks tend to use y. Gravity, in terms of the energy, it could be expressed not just as pe sub g, but e of gravity. So that'd be the energy of gravity. Or some textbooks use a capital U for potential energy, so it'd be u sub g for the potential energy of gravity. And some textbooks don't even differentiate between what type of potential energy you have. So they'll just use a capital U for the potential energy of gravity, or any other potential energy. Let's look at a quick example here. If I've got a 50 kilogram object, and it's lifted 3 meters up in the air, what's my potential energy? Well, if I go back to my equation here, what I see is that my 50 kilograms gets plugged in for m, my 3 meters gets plugged in for y, and g is a value that's a constant, so we know that on Earth it's 9.8 meters per second squared. So plugging all three of those values in, what I'd get is 1,470 joules. Now a quick note on the units here, if I've got kilograms times meters per second squared times meters, well, that's going to give me kilogram meters squared per second squared. And that is equivalent to my unit of joule. So there's your potential energy of gravity.


Hi, my name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. And today I'm showing you the state of my pantry and freezer after my eight week pantry and freezer challenge. Now, what you're seeing is how things looked before I got started. Things were totally in disarray. I didn't try to make it look pretty for the cameras. I wanted you to see how things actually looked. So now let's see if I made any progress. Okay, so we'll start with the pantry and I am giving you an overview right now. And then I'll get in a little bit closer so you all can see things a little bit better. So I'll start off at the top. Still got some canned goods. I've got some pinto beans. We've got some crackers up there, some snack food items. And then I have my jarred sauces like spaghetti sauce and other types of sauce. Howard's cashews are right there that he loves so much from Costco. On this shelf, I have lots and lots of condiments and as you can see, I've got some Velveeta cheese. I've got some Eagle brand cheese with some evaporated milk.  Now I will say for the pantry, we did eat a lot but also I cleaned out the pantry. There is a website that I use and it tells you how good food is past the expiration date. So I use that in my decision making to get rid of some of the things that I had that were just expired. But a lot of it we ate and of course, as you can see, we're still going to be eating a lot of it. On this third shelf, I have tomato-based products like Rotel, enchilada sauce and then I have my Campbell's condensed soups. I've got green chilies and then I've got beans, green beans, corn, that type of thing. On this fourth shelf, I've got some breakfast stuff or not necessarily breakfast, but oats, waffle mix. On this shelf, I have a lot of my Asian type of cooking sauces and things. Everything from chili sesame oil to right back there, you see some shallot sauce, I've got some salt, I've got boxes of pasta that wouldn't fit on my little pasta shelf, which I'll show you in a second, some Trader Joe's spice chai concentrate down here and I do not have matching baskets. I wasn't going to spend any money to work on this pantry so I use what I have, but in this basket, I have pasta. As you can see, I have tons and tons of pasta. I've got some granola right there, some popcorn and then in this basket, I always tell you all I have so many packets of food items and this is what's in that basket. You know, I've got carne asada stuff, I've got lots of Asian mixes. You all can see back there, just miscellaneous stuff that I really need to get organized and use but it's all here in this basket one of my favorite barbecue sauces. This bag is just a bunch of different kinders type seasoning mixes, meatloaf seasoning, Mexican seasoning, you name it.  I think my mom made me this to put those things called like grocery sacks in there, so that's in there. Down here in that basket, I've got popcorn and then dried beans. So again, a lot of stuff as you can see. So let me show you the door. Now that top shelf, it's a bunch of onion soup but it's not just onion soup, it's different flavors and usually I'll buy two of something so like beefy onion soup or vegetable soup or whatever. So that's what's up there, noodle soup as you can see some Italian seasoning packages, that second shelf, just some candy miscellaneous things in a basket, drink mixes, tea, some food dye. Right here I have a bunch of chili, these are different chilies. Did y'all know Tony Sasseri's made a chili? So I've got some chili mix there. Let's see, over here, these are like little drink mixes, peanut butter and jelly covered raisins. Right here I have a bunch of like stir-in paste and these haven't been opened, that's why they're on the shelf. This shelf, again, just miscellaneous stuff. I need to, like I said, get it better organized but like supplement drops, throat drops, things like that, cough drops, some cup of soup. Down here I got a bunch of oils and spray oils. I have some corn syrup as well. And then down here miscellaneous stuff, again, it's not organized. And then down here is mostly like breadcrumbs, salt, stuff like that. I have a chai latte that I need to fit or put somewhere else. So this is a pantry, let me show you my cabinet. Okay, so here's that pantry inside my kitchen. I know it still looks full but believe you me, I did work through a lot of that stuff. So on the top shelf, there is no longer food up there and I did have food in there before but again, we ate through stuff. And this is what happens when you don't know what's in your pantry and you keep buying stuff. So as you can see, I've got a bunch of boxes of that craft spaghetti mix that I discovered during a, I did this video on like cheap store-bought dinner mixes and I discovered how much I loved it. I'll link it in the description box so you can check it out.  Like macaroni and cheese, jiffy cornbread, stuff like that.  And then on the bottom shelf, we've got, let me see, so like rice erronea and stuff is back there, velvita, like macaroni and cheese, you name it, rice, et cetera. Got Kool-Aid packages. Again, this is not that organized but I want it to be, give you a real life, look at what it looks like right now. All right, so next let's go to the inside freezer. Okay, so here's the inside freezer and I made a lot of progress in this freezer.  So you're gonna hear it beep and I'm sorry about that. But this top shelf, again, it's not the best organized but I did what I could. So this top shelf is basically like sweets and things. You've got Howard's ice cream. He loves this Haagen-Dazs, rum tres leches. Got ice cream bars, just dessert type stuff. This second shelf is just kind of prepared food. You can see we've got some shrimp bites, we've got some bear nuggets back there. And then we have this stuff in here. These are chicken and meatballs. And then this shelf is mostly meat stuff. So that's a ham bone right here, bacon, that's some cooked ground beef in the bag, bunch of pepperoni, but basically just meat products. You've got some boneless skinless chicken breast. And down here, down here, excuse me, bread products. So I've got pie crust, pizza crust, pizza dough. My mom made dressing over the holidays and this is the raw dressing before it's baked. She gave it to me in a Ziploc bag. So that's bag, so that's down there. Rolls, bread dough, you name it. And then these shelves. Oh, that's in the wrong place. This is meat, which should be up there, but just like vegetables, really that's not it. French fries, just veggies and things like that. And then cheeses, you know, so that's there. And then in the side here, again, it needs to be organized, but cheeses, cheeses and nuts and things. All right, so let's go outside to the outside freezer or garage freezer. Okay, so here is the garage freezer and it still looks pretty packed, even though we have been eating a lot out of it. So let me jump in. Again, you'll probably hear the alarm because the door is open. So right here in the door, we've got some sausage, butter, what's this? We've got some shrimp, smoked sausage. And what is that? Oh, that's a roast. A roast that wouldn't fit in my roast drawer, which I'll show you in a second. So on this very top shelf, all poultry products, chicken, chicken meatballs, we've got chicken tender, chicken range, you name it. I put it all in one place so that'd be easier to find what I'm looking for. And this drawer is mostly like sausages. So different types of sausage. We've also got some bacon in there too, but all sorts of stuff is in there. This shelf is prepared stuff and also pie crust. So there's pie crust in there. There is like chili changas, my favorite taco shells that I eat all the time. Pieces are down there too. These Trader Joe's kebabs, which I really wanna try though. I mean, you name it. All sorts of stuff is in this small second shelf. This third shelf, that's all pork. Tons and tons of pork all in there. Everything from pork steaks, shaved pork, Italian sausage, smoked ham hocks, you name it. It's in there. This bottom shelf is beef. Ground beef, we've have ox tail, we've got, I don't know what that is. These are our short ribs that I love so much that I tell you that I buy them on sale, then I put them in marinade and fill them in the freezer. That's what these are. Oops, we have a couple of bags of that. And in this drawer in the freezer, we've got roast. Pork roast, beef roast, you name it. Actually, that roast that's here can fit in that drawer. I'm not sure why it's not in there. But anyway, that is it. I hope you all enjoyed this follow up video. As you can see, I've still got a lot of food to go through, even though I'm not going to be doing an official pantry freezer challenge, I'm still gonna be working on stuff. And I hope you all enjoyed this video. If you did, please make sure to give us a thumbs up. And if you haven't subscribed to our channel, we'd love to have you. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you all next time.


The most common problems Portuguese native speaking students when learning English. I have had the pleasure of living and teaching in Brazil over the past two years and in my time in this country I have learned a great amount about the difficulties that are seemingly unique to native Portuguese speakers trying to learn English as a second or even third language. There seems to be deeply ingrained assumptions within the way Portuguese speakers approach both the pronunciation of words based on their spelling, and their understanding of grammatical structures and the usage of said structures, vowels and pronouncing at the first and foremost point to address with respect to what the typical Portuguese speaker has ingrained as an instinct with respect to the pronunciation of words as they see them in writing certainly has to be, in my opinion, the simple fact that in the Portuguese language, every single vowel is pronounced as either an alphabetical vowel sound or relative vowel sound. There does not exist within the Portuguese language the concept of a schwa or a silent letter which can be in the form of a vowel. Therefore, as an example, we see a massive problem with the pronunciation of any verb that a Portuguese ESL student encounters that they find to be in the simple past. Here I am discussing those verbs in the simple past that are also regular verbs and not a regular, therefore ending with an ed, as in walked, or rendered. Looking at walked and rendered as examples they would both be pronounced in a completely phonetic manner, maybe with the exception of the L and walked as many of these students would most likely have encountered the verb in any beginner course. This point is just the tip of the iceberg with respect to the issues facing Portuguese ESL learners in terms of the way they approach the pronunciation of unknown written words that undoubtedly arise from the difference in the rules of pronunciation that are instilled in these students from their native language, Portuguese. English is highly analytical, whereas Portuguese is intrinsically inflective. The second major point that I will argue is a major hurdle for the majority of native Portuguese speakers learning English as a second language is hilariously the utter simplicity of English grammar and its analytic approach to sentence formation and especially word structure within said grammar point. English is highly analytical, whereas Portuguese as a romance language, is intrinsically inflective in written and spoken language. This can be demonstrated with a quick description of the verb conjugations that are available to the native Portuguese speaker and a quick example to conclude my argument. To put it simply, Portuguese has six grammatical verb conjugations at their disposal, as well as two or three moods, I cannot even begin to explain what moods are as there simply is no equivalent in English. And as an example, this total of nine different forms for saying and spelling a verb attribute to the phenomenon of having roughly 50 forms for any given verb. 50. Can you imagine having to know 50 different ways of saying eat? I certainly cannot. Are you ready to take a TEFL course? Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Okay, it's great to be coming home to you. I've got that song in my, my, I'll be home for Christmas.  Yeah, it's, we have such a deep connection with spirit and Christmas time is just that time. It's a symbol or a reminder of that connection to the love that we are, to the Christ that we are, the Christ within. And there are just so many opportunities to open your heart and to feel the miracle of Christ's love. And that is our dedication. We've just given our lives so fully over to that. And now we have many, many things that are swirling around us, happening around us. They're just miracles every day. There's a celebration of the spirit. It's a consistent experience of the joy of this Christ's presence. And there's so many ways to connect with this. And I'm happy that I can reach you through this video and this newsletter and also all the resources that we have, all the avenues of connecting with us. Of course, it's, it's possible to come and visit us and stay with us. And we have those opportunities throughout the year for devotional stays and retreats and conferences, whether they're here in Utah or in different parts of the country in the world. And then there's online ways to connect. You can just go on our nation builder, which is our support, a circle of support. And there's ways to connect in there where you just open up and share what it is that you are inspired by, what it is that you are looking for, what could be helpful to you. Just to make that contact, just to reach out and talk to somebody, write to somebody, share something with us, share something that really is on your heart. And then let us respond to you. And that starts this spark of this holy encounter.  Of course, the miracles, Jesus is always talking about the holy relationship. And the holy relationship is a phenomenal teaching and learning device for coming inward so deep that you come into the holy instant. But holy relationship is really a purpose that we all share. So in that sense, you can have this perception of holiness and holy relationship with many, many people in your life, because really it's a state of mind. But you have to be guided in a practical way into the state of mind. What you're working with in terms of people, relationships, you might have job relationships, family relationships, partnerships, neighborhood relationships, all different kinds of whole gamut of relationships. But also until your mind has a unified purpose, it can seem like there are different purposes for different relationships. And what we're coming to experience through practicing A Course in Miracles is that we share the same purpose. We all share the same purpose. And you can call that whatever you want. You can call that being happy or you can call that forgiveness. You can call that your function. But it doesn't really matter the words you use that you have an opportunity to really join in and deepen in that purpose, that function and deepen in that experience of holy relationship. So we're just overflowing with love and wanting to connect with you in all kinds of ways, whatever ways are given by the Spirit. There's a spaciousness with that. There's an ease with that. It's a natural feeling to feel that connection. I actually had someone a couple of days ago, they wrote to me through this service called LinkedIn. And they said, why are you writing to me and requesting for me to be a contact? And I said, I love connecting. That was my answer. And they said, that's the best reason I've ever heard for a LinkedIn invitation. Frequently too, over the years, I would even have a mobile phone and I would end my greeting on my mobile phone with, I love you. And people would tell me, you can't say that on a phone greeting. But you can share it if it's actually how you feel in your heart. Anything that comes from your heart, anything that's really authentic, that is really coming from the core of your very being can be shared. And you realize you don't have anything to hold back. It's so precious. We have so many precious opportunities and we don't want to waste those opportunities. So for me, the Christmas season is just a time of remembrance. It's a time that you give yourself permission to sink inward into that calling of your heart into the devotion of your heart. And also it's a time to let any emotion surface that need to come up and to be full of allowance and permission and and let them move through. There's no point in trying to hold onto them or push them down. There's no point in trying to wallow in them. But they do need spaciousness. They need to be allowed to move through. And we have had that great allowance in our community. And our community is really a community of the heart, a community of our mind. But also it plays out in very loving, practical ways. And so we still have all the hugs and kisses and the smiles and all the warm gestures that naturally flow through. Whether people say they're on a spiritual journey or not, it doesn't really matter. You know, the love in the heart is what it's all about, the connection. And you know you can extend that anywhere you seem to be or anywhere you seem to go. There's no limits to that. There's not a single limitation on the love in our hearts. So I invite you to partake in our Living Miracles community. Come in as deeply as you feel guided. Come as close as you want to come. None of us are where we don't bite. We are actually here to welcome you with open arms, knowing that you appreciate nurturing, you appreciate support, you appreciate a kind word that comes just at that time when you need it. And I assure you that as you reach out and open up to that, you will find that we are here waiting for you and waiting to extend to you. There's no greater joy for us than extending. And therefore, there's no greater joy for us than the invitation to extend. And you are definitely that invitation to us. So I give you all the love in my heart and I welcome you to come and partake in anything and everything that we have to offer. Merry Christmas. Blessings.