Hey, it's Bridgette. Welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope. Today's channeling session is going to be a little bit different because I'm actually going to communicate with someone who I get tons of requests to communicate with. But this is a big humongous but I am going to do it in a way that is respectful to everyone that is connected to the person and the situations around this person and to the best of my ability, I am going to try to stay respectful and compassionate and I can't promise that I will 100% achieve that goal, but that's what my intention is.  And no, back and forth and no, I take this side, I take that side. I don't want that. That's not the point of this. And I recognize that no matter what I want or don't want, there will be people who view this video who are not polite and considerate of my wishes for sharing the video. And so we can't expect everybody to have really good manners. I'll do my best to keep weeding the garden and keep the comments in a place where it's not hurtful to the individual people who are commenting because I don't want fights in my comment section. Now I say all this stuff because I anticipate as I'm saying this, I'm like, why am I even channeling this person? Why? I've channeled them before and that's exactly what happened. So I may end up not having comments on this video and that's just the way it is. So and if you send me emails about it, I just won't be reading them. I'm just going to be honest and let you know that straight up front. So we're going to talk with Michael Jackson and the reason why I thank you, Bridget, he said thank you. Thank you, Bridget. He's got his black hat on his hair is kind of hanging down his face. It's very, very white, very white pale, like almost like he has talcum powder on it and you're sitting down and I am channeling Michael Jackson because he is top of my mind today and here's why. So I have a playlist. I call it my walking and running music, which I don't really run. I mean, on the run, you know, like doing errands and I have a playlist and I have a wide variety of music.  You know, Michael Jackson, Prince, all of just so many different, you know, a lot, lots of different kinds of music and stuff and that would spark probably all different age groups and things. So I was on a walk and I was thinking about, this was in my playlist and I always, I got to some Michael Jackson songs and I thought, you know, I wonder if I should, how do I really feel about connecting with his music now? After he and I have talked for the past few years off and on and kind of worked in private session and I mentioned this in a previous video. Check out the Michael Jackson playlist if you're interested, where I think I probably, I know I shared that I kind of, the first couple of experiences I had with Michael Jackson was almost like as a coach or therapist with him and I'm not a therapist. I'm not a counselor.  I am a coach, a really good life coach and where he was talking to me about things, about his personal life, about the charges against him, allegations against him, but all sorts of stuff and I could see different facets of his personality and different kind of tactics and the way he was presenting himself energetically, knowing that I was a huge mega fan from like fifth grade, sixth grade, seventh grade. And I loved Michael Jackson. I had all, in fact, one of the videos I show all my memorabilia that I still have from when I was like in fifth and sixth grade, loved him, loved him. God, did I love him. And, you know, had the glove, had the doll, had the books, had the, I mean, posters, buttons, all of it, you know, and kind of coming to terms with his humanity or his humanness and the flaws around him as a person and trying to understand if it was like celebrity or the way he was raised or his unique talent or his, his mental health, his, did he have a problem? Was he a predator? What, you know, trying to come to terms with all these different parts of him that I know. And so today I'm connecting with him because he, I thought about the songs in the playlist and he came again. I could see him and he has come before. And oftentimes he'll try to come when, or how should I say this? I will notice his energy sometimes when I'm channeling with Prince, then all of a sudden I will feel Michael Jackson. And probably because Michael Jackson and Prince had kind of this two different camps of fans, it wasn't likely that you were a fan of both really. You were like a diehard of Michael or a ride or die for Prince. And it was kind of, it was pretty segregated from my experience anyway. You were one or the other. And, and they were both getting really, really popular during that time, too, because like Purple Rain came out to not to, you know, during that time as well that Prince is moving and stuff. So there was kind of this, a little bit of a competition or rivalry, I think, between the fan bases. I don't know, personally those two, but the fan bases specifically. And so I, to just feel into his energy just with him is unique for me for a while now, because as soon as I had channeled them the first time, I wasn't interested in doing it again. I am talking a lot and people are going to hate that. He says, oh yeah, people are going to complain. He says, Michael Jackson does have some very wise words. He says, people are going to complain no matter what you do. You can't make everybody happy. He said, you should know that by now Bridget. I do know that. And, and I appreciate having conversation with you. And I feel Elizabeth Taylor with you. She was someone that loved you very much. Oh yes, she did. She was like a mother to me. He said, but don't, don't, I don't know that she would want me to say that because she doesn't want to consider herself old, you know. I know. I do know that. Yes, indeed. I know that. And then he says something about, so do you think bad of me now? He's literally asking me what I think of him. And I have my sunglasses on you guys because it's really, really bright out here. Maybe I should just take them off and try to just, because then you can see, right? You can really see. Sometimes you can tell a person's truth by their eyes, right? All right. So I'm going to be blinking a lot though because it's very bright out here.  He has such beautiful eyes, Bridget. Thank you. That's very nice of you to see that. Thank you. Thank you. I think you were partial to blonde hair and blue eyes, huh? I think so. Well, Debbie had that, you know, yeah. Just he says beautiful. He says it seems like, you know, people always want, we always want what we don't have. Well, maybe in some cases that might be true. Yeah, that might be true. I don't want you. He says, I don't want you to thank poorly of me. I know. And I can't tell you that I don't either. I'm, I really don't want to judge. I don't feel like I should be a judge or critical of anybody else's life choices or behaviors. It's easy for us to do that, you know, to look at someone else and say, you're bad. But yeah, there's also this part of me. I'm a mother, you know, and there's a lot of blame to go around. Let me say that. There's a lot of blame to go around and a lot of responsibilities, a lot of individuals that are responsible that have not taken responsibility, including you. And so I have, yeah, I take an issue with that. I do take an issue with that because I think publicly it puts people like myself in a difficult situation who are fans. Like, I'm a fan of Michael Jackson, but am I a fan of Michael as an icon or as a human being? Like the music, the genius, can I still listen to your music and appreciate you and your work and your performance and your entertainment when I have such a conflict about you and your behaviors as a person, as a human. And no one actually knows the truth, so to speak, or the facts, and except the people who are directly involved. And so let's be clear on that. So everything is alleged or allegations and, you know, all of that. And so I don't want to take sides, but I do, I am going to tell you that I'm very conflicted. And I want to be clear with the audience and the viewers here at Above Life Channel about that too, because I feel, and I'm not coming from a place of conflict from fear, like I'm afraid necessarily of how other people will judge or what they will stay in the comments or even though like I went and did that whole thing about the comments, but let's be honest.     He says, yeah, you feel protective of your fans. You feel protected. Yes, I do. I do feel protective. Well, I felt like that too, he says. I felt like that too. I felt like that too, but what if nobody is there to protect you? Nobody's there to protect you, he says. Nobody's there to protect you. Nobody protected me. Who protected me? Oh, Michael, I would say a lot of people protected you. I think there was a lot of controversy, a lot of very serious, very serious criminal questions about your choices. And I think that's fair. I think that's 100% fair, not because you're a celebrity, but because you're a person whose behaviors called into question what is morally right and what is wrong and what is hurtful to others, especially to children, especially that someone in a position of power utilizing power in a way that is not healthy or safe for others is not acceptable and should not be acceptable. To me, it's not acceptable. That's not the kind of environment we want in our society, like for our kids, for each other. He says, well, I can understand that. I can understand that, but you also don't understand. You don't know. You don't know. He says, you don't understand, Bridget. You don't understand. You're right. I don't understand. Can you explain to me?  Can you explain? Because you never, that wasn't something you ever, you said, yeah, I had kids in my house. I had kids in my bed. I had boys in my bed. I had, you know, can you explain that that's normal? You think that's like an acceptable behavior? How would you feel about your sons in that situation? He says, now that's not fair. That's not fair. He says, now that's not fair. I think it's up to each individual parent. They must really trust the people that are around their children. And I was trusted. Those families trusted me. I was like a member of their family. And he says, when you go on a vacation with your family and a brother and sister would sleep in the same bed, you wouldn't say that was out of the ordinary or improper. But yet you and others will judge me for that. I don't know that I'm judging you for that.   And I'm going to be very blunt with you because I think you can handle it. And I'm a bit frustrated with the way that you work the energy of things and understanding that now as a spirit, you would have a higher, more evolved view of things. He says, but I'm not, but I'm not, I'm not okay. He says, I'm not okay, but I'm not okay. Because I know that there's other psychics, Michael, that talk with you and get a totally different perspective of you. And as I have in the past as well, and I've tried to stay away from this whole topic. And I feel like that's wrong of me to do that. It's wrong of me to not be open about the questions that I have. And I don't know that it's going to resolve or change anything for me. I don't know if I'll stop listening to your music. I can't even imagine that. It's such a huge part of my life growing up. It's such an important part of my life. It makes me remember things and brings me right back to a time when, you know, you're more carefree, but knowing that, that during that time and on, that you potentially were hurting others that are vulnerable. And you're so charismatic. You have this charisma about you, this charm, this boylike charm and this energy about you that you can convince anyone to believe in themselves. And you can see things in them and inspire them. And yet I feel like that could be really manipulated. And that's not fair. That's not right to do that. That's really hurtful. Even if there wasn't criminal acts or criminal behavior, just those things alone are not circumstances or situations that would feel just for me. Like, that's just not okay to even act in that manner or be that way until I kind of misuse your powers, what it feels like. So you don't understand, you don't understand. You don't understand. You will help me understand. Help me understand. There are a lot of parts of my life that I don't discuss, that I haven't disclosed. And I know, and I know that because you've alluded to that we've had talk around this topic where potentially you were an abused victim yourself. And in fact, I may have actually talked about this in another video. I can't remember what I've actually shared publicly and not because I've had multiple conversations with him, many that I have not shared because I just, I felt like I just, I didn't really, and to be honest, I was an above life channel too early. And I didn't want to invoke a big fight. Like, I didn't want to become a target of hate myself just because I was talking about this difficult issue. But I feel like now it's important. It's like, well, why now, why now? Because it's important to recognize that children or anybody that has been through any kind of trauma where they trusted a relationship with an adult and other adults, not just you, but maybe their mom or their dad, their parents, that kind of a thing. And they were betrayed not just by you, but by that, but by their parents who are supposed to kind of be a buffer for them. And I'm not suggesting that it's the parents fault or that it's that I'm not blaming the parents, I'm a parent, I'm not blaming the parents because I know as a parent, you can't know everything about all your kids. And, you know, and I'm also not going to make excuses for them either because there has to be some responsibility from the parents and from you, the person that has the power in the relationship. And it was unequal power. Like, you had something that they wanted. And he says, well, who uses who like who is in the wrong, the person seeking to get something from me because I have fame, or me just seeking the companionship and friendship of others that I can't get.  And I wanted a normal life. I wanted some. No, no, no, no.  You can't have it both ways. You can't have a normal life, three days a week, or for a week or something. And then all of a sudden go back to Oh, now I'm the king of pop and I can get access to this hotel and that that Disney and close it down at night and all that you can't have it both ways. He says, well, why not? Is that fair? Is that fair? So I do get this this very distinct difference. There's a line that's drawn between the part of you, Michael, that's an inner child part of you that really is not developed. There's an underdeveloped part. You guys hear me say this in his spirit. That's the inner child that's very underdeveloped. That's not attached in a healthy way. That doesn't have healthy relationships with adults that didn't grow up being in a position of power, even though you, Michael, had the talent and the skill and all of it, but you were controlled by others, particularly your father and others in the industry. And there were so many expectations on you. I'm not saying that that's any kind of an excuse for your behavior as an adult, but I am offering that I can see your inner child not develop, not attached. I have personally been learning more about trauma and the effects of long, long-term of trauma on people and the distrust and relationships that occur because of it, whether it's like a toxic stress kind of a thing, like a repetitive pattern of just incredible amount of stress, expectation, intolerance of stress, or whether it's specific traumatic events, a series of events, such as abuse. And I can see that clearly you have the signs of that. When I look at your life and I look at your career and some of the seemingly random things that were reported that you did, or kind of the crazy things, and then also the allegations against you, and then the settlements that happened, and then all of the stuff, and all the mental health stuff, it's clear to me that you suffered trauma. And this inner child, when I look at you, I see this inner child that's not developed, not able to attach. And so part of me knows then that there is a compassion that is required in this situation that is deserved also, that you did not have the nurturing, the loving, the normal life opportunities that other kids have had. And so it would make sense from a psychological standpoint that you would want to maybe fill that void or fill that niche, or find that part of yourself, or invite that childhood part of yourself in to have the love and the experiences and the fun that you didn't get to have. So I understand that from that perspective, but I don't understand what I don't understand is the long-term persistent behaviors that appear to be almost calculated. But then I also feel like there's this part of you that you can't help yourself. And I'm not suggesting that that's okay. I'm just acknowledging that you guys, I can feel this, I can't help myself, I can't help myself. Why did you prefer being around children, having friends that were young, all the kids that you surrounded yourself with? Because they're great. He says they just, they look at you and they just appreciate everything. They appreciate, they are appreciative. They don't want anything from you that you can't give them. Oh, interesting. So in adult relationships, did you feel like you were on even ground with the people that you were in relationship with? Like I know, like you and Debbie, that you were friends and things like that. Did you feel like you were on even ground with her? And he says, I could trust Debbie. Like we could, you know, have a conversation and really talk about things. And she knew me, or at least she thought she knew me. And I thought I knew her, but then she, he said, but that changed. There were some things that happened and that changed. He says, there's a betrayal there of trust and that changed. So Debbie must have betrayed his trust and that changed. And then what about Lisa Marie? Because Lisa Marie Presley was a wife, was someone that you were married to as well. And she was someone very famous and things. You know, our relationship was very, it was mutual. When you're both very famous, he says, when you're both very famous, it's, hear the train, you guys. Of course, the train's going by. Get on the train. When you're both famous and you've grown up famous, it's, it's like normal, you know, to have paparazzi and cameras and you don't have to explain it. It just, it's just an understanding.  So were you in love with her? It was, he's making me feel like they were going steady almost like, like young, like you feel really young. Yeah, she made me feel like a kid, you know, like a teenager, like I could date and stuff. And she made it easy to just be Michael Jackson, you know, she made it easy. She, she understood. She knew what it meant. So was it like a normal marriage? Like what they're, were you guys intimate? I mean, I know that's really personal to ask, but I'm going to ask because I think it's, I feel like there's questions around that. Yes. He said, yes, I think that's private. And he said, I think that's private. I don't know. I don't really want to talk about that, but yes. He said, yes. Okay. And so did you love her? Yes, of course I did. Of course I did. I still do. He says, I still do. I love her. And why didn't your relationship work out? He says, it was mutual, but I couldn't give her what she needed. I think that she looked, he says, I think she looked to me. I think we were both lonely and frustrated with trying to live alone and to be alone. And I think we just found each other at the right time. I think it was maybe more of a timing thing, but I love her. He says, I love her. And it feels like a friendship. Yeah, very much. He said, yeah, yeah. Okay. I hope you don't think I'm being mean to you. No, I expected you to have questions and challenges, and we're not going to, I'm not going to talk about details of things, and I'm not going to get into things specifically. I just, I felt like I needed to acknowledge and have this conversation with you because I thought it was the right, you know, the right, the right thing to do and to record it. I don't know for sure if I'll share this video. I would like to, but we'll see. We'll see. Would you be mad at me if I did? That's what I'm telling him. No, I think you, I think you are afraid to talk about all the things. And I understand that you don't want a bunch of hateful comments. And I understand that. And that's what I would get if we went deeper. And we really talked about stuff. And I shared some of the energy of what I see and sense and feel around you around the situations. But I also want to honor anyone that has been in a situation where they have been abused, and that the abuse, voice matters, that the person who is the victim, the person who is in the position of lesser power, deserves to have a voice and deserves to be heard and deserves to heal, regardless of what other people believe or don't believe they deserve to heal. So I'm going to say that as well. And to me, that's incredibly brave for someone to come forward and to tell their story, regardless of not just the situation, but any situation or circumstance. All right, so that's what I have to say. I said, are you going to keep my songs? Yes, for now I will. Yeah, for right now I will. I will right now, yeah. All right, you guys, that's a deep conversation with Michael Jackson in the afterlife talking about some very serious things energetically. And I've talked about some issues, I've talked around some issues, because I don't want to use triggering words or phrases or things like that here, especially on YouTube. But I also want to respect the different views and opinions and feelings of all who may watch this video. Again, in the comments, please be kind to one another. There's no sides here. I may actually disable the comments. If there's a problem, if it becomes a problem, I will disable the comments. I'm not sure if I'm going to share this. Like I said, I hope so. Maybe I should really give a lot of variety of perspective to afterlife channeling and communication and how we can get different pieces of information at different times and through different connections with the same individual. They can get different pieces of information that give us more of a fuller view and an understanding of that person's life and their experiences as well. So this is Bridget. You've been watching Above Life Channel. Every week I channel afterlife celebrity guests and the goal is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope. This week I hope that we've done that on the part of being an advocate for people who have gone through incredible traumatic experiences, especially those who have suffered abuse and that they have so much courage and so much honor in sharing their story and in healing. All right, you guys, thank you so much for watching. I'll see you again next week.


What is up you guys, welcome back to another one. If you're new to the channel, I am Gold Pony, I do new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube. And today, we are in the new 2021 Nissan Altima courtesy of Hanover Nissan in Hanover PA. For more information on their inventory, please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. And so, wanted to hop in this one today. This car has actually been in production since 1992. So it has certainly been around for quite a while now. Not only that, believe it or not, well above average reliability rating by consumer reports, which is the very highest rating that you can get when it comes to reliability at least. So that is pretty darn cool. Also available all-wheel drive, not every sedan out there these days has that. Like for instance, the Honda Core doesn't have it. The Hyundai Sonata doesn't have it. So the fact that you can get all-wheel drive on the Altima is pretty darn cool as well. And of course I will be testing out everything from acceleration, braking, handling, sound system, exhaust clip, all of that stuff in this video today. So having said all that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. And so as you can imagine, there are several different trim levels for the 2021 Nissan Altima. First one being the S starting at $24,300. SV for $25,400. SR for $26,200. SL, which is the one we have today starting at $29,990. SRVC Turbo for $30,650. And lastly, the Platinum starting at $34,100. And so as you can imagine, that one trim level where I emphasize turbo, there are actually two different engine configurations. So the first one is going to belong to all of the trim levels minus that VC Turbo trim. This one is going to be a 2.5 liter direct injected inline four cylinder, putting out 188 horsepower at 6,000 RPM for the front wheel drive, 182 horsepower actually for the all wheel drives, a slight power loss there. Not really a whole lot though. 180 pound feet of torque at 3,600 RPM for the front wheel drive, 178 pound feet of torque for the all wheel drive. Of course, power center front wheels were all wheels through a CVT with paddle shifters with the SR trim level only. That's how you're going to go ahead and get those paddle shifters. But all in all, zero to 60 time comes in at approximately 7.4 seconds. We're going to give that a go later in this video. With MPG numbers coming in at 28 in the city, 39 highway for the front wheel drive configuration, 26 city, 36 on the highway for the all wheel drive. We actually do have the all wheel drive today. We're just pretty darn cool because we just got snow last week here in Pennsylvania. So I've got to love it. But either way, taking regular unleaded fuels to get to save a little bit of money there at the pump as well. But so then like I said, there is one other engine configuration. This one belonging to that SR VC turbo trim level. That one is going to be a two liter turbo charged inline four cylinder, putting out 248 horsepower, 5,600 RPM, 273 pound feet of torque available at 4,000 RPM, sent to the front wheels through a CVT with paddle shifters. Zero to 60 time for that one comes in at 5.9 seconds, which is pretty much right on par for the course when you compare it to the competition. For example, a core touring comes in at 5.6. The Camry TRD I know comes in at 5.8. So it's pretty much on par for the course, not a whole lot of a difference there. MPG numbers for that engine configuration come into 25 city 34 on the highway. Again, it's as expected for that engine. And so when it comes to the fuel requirements, regular is actually required. However, for those power numbers I just rambled off, premium is recommended. So of course you can fill it up with regular unleaded. It's not going to harm the ultimate at all, but you are going to see a slight power decrease when you do that. So just wanted to mention that, but do want to also mention there is a DS or drive sport mode for that engine configuration that essentially gives you full manual shift made for the paddle shifters. By the way, to put it in that sport driving mode, there's actually a hidden button. It is a horizontal line on the shifter there. Just simply press that. That is going to put it in that DS driving mode. So have a little better acceleration there. Just the throttle response and the shift points essentially. So although we don't have the paddle shifters here today, we do have that all wheel drive 2.5 liter engine configuration. So having said that, what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straight way here on the back roads and PA. Let's give this one a shot. Let's see how quickly we can get this new 2021 Nissan Altima here up to speed. All right, so before we do this, you guys, the roads are a little bit slippery right now.  There's still puddles all over everywhere. And having said that, let me pull out onto the road here. This is a somewhat of a straight away, I guess, but from a standstill in three, two, one. No slipping whatsoever. I absolutely love that, but little bit slow from the get go there. Not the quickest acceleration in the world, but it's pretty much as expected for a car. Like the Altima with that engine configuration at least, but not the quickest thing in the world. But I absolutely love there was no slipping whatsoever. Even with the competitors, if you really try to gun it, putting power to the front wheels like that, you are going to get some slippage. But with an all wheel drive system like the Altima has, there was nothing that was absolutely amazing when it comes to zero slippage on that acceleration. I will say that. But anyways, to go along with that acceleration, as always, braking is equally important.  As far as that 60 to zero stopping distance goes, it comes in at 116 feet, which is certainly respectable. A lot of synands come in at the 120, some even at 130 feet. So 116 is plenty fine there. And as far as that braking feel goes, it's maybe a little bit on the softer side, but the number says it all. Certainly no issues with bringing the Altima to a stop. So absolutely love that.  And if you were to go with one of the SR trim levels, you're actually going to get a sport tune suspension. So you can expect a little bit firmer of a ride quality. However, a little better handling on the back road. So that's really the trade off, I guess, with that one. But overall, when it comes to ride quality in our SL trim level we have here today, at least it's been perfectly fine. So certainly no issues with the Altima, not soaking up Pennsylvania's road of perfections or anything like that. It's not the very best ride quality, like luxury like, but it's pretty much as expected. So I got no issues with it. When it comes to this steering feel, it definitely leans a little bit more towards the heavier side, which is a good thing. It's better helps to put you in the direction that you want to go. And I was kind of looking for that quite honestly because the Altima doesn't have any driving modes to really adjust that steering sensitivity. So I would hope that is a little bit on that heavier side. So it works perfectly fine for me. I actually do enjoy the steering feel on this one. When it comes to cabin noise, let's go ahead and get up to 50 miles per hour. That's usually the number I look for. Not a whole lot of exterior wind noise coming into the cabin. So I do like that as well. I've certainly heard worse. So cabin noise is right on par for the course once again. That's actually due on par because if you were to go with the SL or platinum trim levels, you're actually going to get acoustic laminated glass, which is really going to deaden a lot of that exterior wind noise coming into the cabin. So only those two trim levels are going to give you that. So we did want to emphasize that. So if you wanted a more serene cabin, go with one of those two trim levels. That touching on visibility, actually perfectly fine out the back. Usually with cars like this, you will have absolutely no issues whatsoever when it comes to visibility. So definitely on point there as well. But that about rounds out the performance segment of this review. You guys, let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2021 Nissan Altima. All right, so here she is, you guys. The new 2021 Nissan Altima finished in super black in case anybody was curious of the color name. Let's go ahead and start up front on this one here. Active grill shutters will come standard across the board for all trim levels, adjusting based upon the engine cooling that is needed at any given time. To the sides, halogen headlights will come with the S trim level. However, every single other trim level of the Altima will actually give you LED projector headlights. That of course is what you guys are looking at right now. So a little better illumination at night if you don't go with that S trim level at least. They will of course come with LED daytime running lights. Either way, you're still gonna get the automatic feature as well. Meaning when it starts to get dark out at night, those headlights will turn on automatically for you then. Looking down towards the bottom, we actually do have the LED fog lights. They will come on the SL trim level and platinum trims only. Every other trim level will not get those LED fog lights. Open to mention that. And of course, front and center, you will get a chrome V motion front grill for the non-SR trim levels. However, if you were to go with one of those SR trim levels, that will get changed to a dark chrome finish. In case you guys were curious of the differences there. But let's now go ahead and make our way to the side of the Altima here. And so since we are around the side of this one, chrome belt line molding will come standard on this one. Body colored door handles coming with the SR trim levels. However, they will get swapped out for chrome door handles for every single other trim level that is not an SR. So it's kind of interesting there. Black side mirrors coming with the SR trims, body colored side mirrors for all other trim levels. And of course, when it comes to those side mirrors, they are power adjustable across the board, but they will be heated. If you were to go with the SL VC turbo or platinum trims, and those setups also come with LED integrated turd signals as well, therefore that of course is what you guys are looking at right now. Take a look then down at the wheel setup, 16 inch steel wheels with covers coming with the S, 17 inch aluminum alloys coming with the SV and SL, and 19 inch aluminum alloys coming with the SR VC turbo and platinum trim levels. So that about rounds out the side. Let's go ahead and make our way to the back now of the Altima. And so now since we are around back, when it comes to the rear spoiler, that is going to be an option. You can get it. However, it doesn't come standard on any particular trim level. So I wanted to mention that, but also in case you were curious, walking around a dealer's lot, trim level badging will come standard across the board. So you guys can see that in the upper portion on the passenger side of that trunk there. Charcoal rear diffuser coming with the SR trim level looking down below. However, for all other trim levels, you're actually gonna get a body colored rear diffuser. And it's hard to see now, I guess because we have a black exterior, but it is down there, trust me on that one. But either way, dual exhaust outlets will come standard. You will get chrome tips on the SR trim level and up. So therefore I do believe you guys know what we have to do next as always here is that exhaust clip. And so now since we are around back of the Altima, when it comes to opening that rear trunk, there is a button on the key fob. That is one way to go ahead and open it. There is also of course a button on the trunk itself that is yet another way. And lastly, there is a button by the driver's side left knee as well. But once opened up, cargo capacity comes in at 15.4 cubic feet, which is a very respectable amount back there. If that was not enough space, there is a 60-40 split, meaning the rear seats do fold down for quite a bit of extra space then. If you needed it, also within that cargo area, you do have cargo lighting back there. And there is a very tiny amount of in-floor storage if you were to lift up that cargo floor then as well. But then, making our way to the rear legroom of the Altima, that comes in at 35.2 inches. So I'll give you a way for reference here. I am an even six feet tall. This is how much space I had in the back of the Altima here, sitting behind my own driving position to not adjust any of the front seats here. Rear ventilation is going to come standard on the SL trim level and the platinum trims. That's how you're gonna go ahead and get that. We'll get rear center armrest with cup holders back there. There are some front seat back map pockets as well. And as far as the charging ports go, you will get a USB charger and a phone charger as well back there. So that is definitely convenient, but now let's go ahead and make our way to the front seats of the Altima. Eight-way power driver seat actually coming standard for every single trim level. You don't always get that with sedans. A lot of times it's manually adjustable on the bottom trim level, so that's pretty cool. Four-way power adjustable passenger seat with the SL and platinum trim levels. You will get powered lumbar adjustments for the SL trim level and up. Memory settings for the platinum trim level only. As far as finishes go, you will get a cloth finish for the SSV and SR trims. However, that will be swapped out for the leather seating if you were to go with the SL that we have today or the platinum trim levels. As far as heated front seats go, that is going to come on the SL trim level and up. And seats are plenty comfortable, not the most comfortable I've ever felt, but certainly not the worst either. So there are pretty much as expected once again. Taking a look then at the steering wheel. It is tilt and telescoping. It is leather-wrapped for the SR trim level and up, and it will be heated for the SL and platinum trim levels. And that heated steering wheel button is actually located right where all the climate control information is in front of the shifter there in case anybody was curious. It's very nice on these super cold days in Pennsylvania like today. Kind of, kind of like today, I should say. Anyways, let's go ahead and make our way to the startup. Let me first start by showing you guys the key here. Essentially all of your buttons are located on one side of the key. You do have your Nissan logo at the very top, lock unlocked above the popular hatch. That little circular button below the Nissan logo. That is going to be remote start, which believe it or not, comes standard for every single trim level across the board. That is pretty darn cool. That means you can heat up the Altima in super cold days so it's all warmed up for you by the time you actually get inside. But it is also a push button start for all trim levels. So all I'm going to do, simply put my foot on the brake and press that engine start button, which is located directly in front of the shifter there. And so once started up, tachometers all the way to your left speedometer is to your right. There is a fairly large digital display front and center to control what is on that digital display. There are steering wheel mounting controls located on the left side of the steering wheel. It will give you plenty of information up there. There is actually digital speedometer if you wanted to go that route. There's your average miles per gallon at any given time. There's also your trip A, trip B. That's expected radio setting, safety information and really the list goes on. So quite a bit, you can certainly check out on the digital portion of those gauges if you wanted to. Now, let's go ahead and make our way to overall interior quality. There will be a power moon roof coming with the SL trim level end up, auto dimming rear view mirror for the platinum trim level only. You will get home light controls if you were to go with that platinum trim level as well, dual zone climate control for the SL trim level and the platinum. Also kind of like, I know this is going to sound weird, but I like this fake wood trim that is surrounding the infotainment screen just above the passenger side glove box. It is certainly not real wood, but it does look like real wood and it is a pretty cool look to it. So I do like that. Also like the gloss black finishes around the cup holders as well. A lot of times manufacturers will leave that a boring matte gray plastic. So I like that Nissan finish that with a smooth gloss black finish. I do like that as well. Just the front of the shifter, you have a USB charging port, phone charging port, auxiliary port and 12 volt power outlet and a little rubberized storage area where you can perhaps store your cell phone up there. To the right of the shifter, you of course do have your cup holders. Behind the shifter, you have an electromechanical parking brake as well. And within the center armrest, there is a decent amount of storage in there as well. But overall, interior quality is pretty much as expected. You also have an overhead sunglass holder found on the roof of this one as well. And like I said, it's pretty much as expected for this segment there. But now let's go ahead and make our way to the tech display on this one. Seven inch color touchscreen display coming with the S trim level only. Every other trim level for the Altima though is going to give you an eight inch color touchscreen display. Either way you get Bluetooth and audio streaming, but you do need the eight inch color touchscreen display to get Android Auto Apple CarPlay. So that's a big one because that means if you have a smartphone, simply just hook it up to the Altima and you have free navigation through that smartphone. Also the ability to like and dislike your Pandora songs and there's a couple other compatible apps up there as well. If you wanted a factory navigation system, you're going to get that SL and platinum trim levels.  And by the way, when it comes to the sound system, there are two different sound systems that come with the Altima. The first one is going to belong to the SSV and SR terms. That is going to be a six speaker sound system. However, if you were to go with the SL or platinum, you're going to get a nine speaker Bose sound system. And that of course then is the one we have today. So having said that, what do you guys say, let's go ahead and turn on the radio so you've got playing today and let's test out the clarity of this one. Yeah. Serious, serious bass on this thing. That was pretty crazy. Definitely enough of a sound system for the Altima without a doubt. The bass again on that Bose sound system was nuts. Anyways, last thing I wanted to mention to you guys on that tech display is of course, when you do put the Altima in reverse, you will find a rear view camera coming standard across the board, letting you know who or what is behind you, which is always is going to lead us into safety. And so first thing I wanted to mention is the Nissan Altima is an IIHS top safety pick. So that is always a very good start to begin with there. Front side, side curtain airbags do come standard driver and passenger knee airbags as well. In the back, you're going to have latch, AKA lower anchors and tethers for children for the rear car seats, rear child door locks, tire pressure monitoring system, but also coming standard across the board, adaptive cruise control, forward collision warning, automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection, lane departure warning system, lane keep assist and automatic high beams as well. That is certainly a good bit. Then if you were to go with the SV trim level and up, you will get in addition to that a blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert, reverse automatic braking and rear parking sensors then as well. And so when it comes to my final thoughts here of the 2021 Nissan Altima, I absolutely love that all wheel drive is available on this one. I really wish every single sedan made out there comes with that optional all wheel drive system. You know, we don't all live in Florida. Some of us do live in Pennsylvania and other Northern states where we do get some snow from time to time. So all wheel drive is definitely peace of mind there. I love that the Altima has that. The turbocharged four cylinder is definitely a nice option. I really wish it would have come with an available all wheel drive system though. Having said that, that is a lot of power that's going to be sent to the front wheels. I can imagine there is going to be some slipping with that one, although I didn't test it today. Also would have liked to have seen the Altima wireless phone charger. Digital gauges would be nice. Multicolor ambient lighting. These things, a lot of the competition are starting to come out with. So there are definitely some nice features that I think sedan should come with these days as well. Tough competition out there. Having said that, the Honda Accord is definitely quite nice although it doesn't come with all wheel drive. Toyota Camry of course is the super reliable pick. Although Consumer Reports did rate this one very well as well. And that one also comes with all wheel drive. Hyundai Sonata perhaps is going to give you the best bang for your buck with things like that wireless phone charger. Digital gauges, ambient lighting, panoramic moonroof. But that one does not come with all wheel drive once again. So that is where the Altima really pulls ahead. So overall, if I were to sum this one up, if you were looking for all wheel drive, this is definitely one you're going to want to check out not only because of the stellar reliability. Really, if you're looking for all wheel drive, it would be between this one and the Camry in my personal opinion. You can also get it with the Kia K5 and that is some really stellar looks. I will say that, but the fit and finish isn't quite as good as the Camry in Altima. I will say that. Let me know what you guys think of the Altima in the comments section below. 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Hi, I'm Brad Langdell and in this video I'm going to talk to you about the three trig ratios you should know for physics 20. Here's an example. We've got a triangle and we're going to solve for the side x. We know one side of the triangle is 4.0 units long and we know the angle down there is 56 degrees. Here's the two steps you're going to need to solve this problem. Number one, you want to name the sides of the triangle. This is often the part where students run into trouble. It's tricky because the opposite and adjacent sides of the triangle flip depending on which angle you're looking at. So start off by identifying an angle you want to use in your calculation. Here I'm going to use 56 degrees because that's the angle that's given and look at the side that's across from that angle. That will be the opposite side of the triangle. So in this example the opposite side will be what we're solving for. It'll be x. Now starting from your angle again look at the side of the triangle that is right next to the angle. That's going to be your adjacent side. So in our example the adjacent side is 4.0. Once you've named the sides step two is to match those sides to a trig equation and to go through and solve it. So in this case because I have opposite and adjacent I'm going to use the tan ratio. Tan of the angle theta equals opposite over adjacent. I can put in 56 degrees for the angle theta. The opposite side is x and the adjacent side is 4.0. To solve that equation I multiply both sides by 4 and I get that x will be whatever 4 multiplied by the tan of 56 degrees is which will work out to 5.9. Let's look at another triangle. Again we're going to solve for the side x but in this case when we name our sides we see that the x is the hypotenuse. I know this because it's the longest side and it's across from the right angle in the triangle. The side that I have given for me is the opposite side. It's across from the 59 degree angle that I'm going to use my calculation. So in step two I need to find a trig equation that has both opposite and hypotenuse in it which is the sine equation. I'm going to substitute in for the angle 59 degrees and make the opposite side 3.0. Then I can substitute in x for the hypotenuse. To rearrange this I get that x is equal to 3 divided by sine of the angle so that means the unknown side is 3.5 units long. In our last example we've got a triangle where we don't know the angle but we do note who the sides. So what we need to do in this case is again start by naming the sides. I have 8 being the side that is next to the angle so that's the adjacent side and I have 12 being the side that is across from the angle so that makes it the opposite side. Just like before I'm going to find a trig ratio with opposite and adjacent which is the tan ratio and just like before I'm going to substitute in opposite and adjacent sides but the difference here is I've got to find the angle. So the way I write this is by saying the angle is equal to the inverse tan or the tan to the negative one of 12 over 8 and we're going to type that into our calculator by pressing second and then the tan button then 12 over 8. This will give you 56 degrees.


Until the early part of the 20th century, it went without saying that the matter we see is most of the matter there is. That would be protons and neutrons with accelerating electrons creating the light we see. But that came into question in the early 1930s when Fritz Swicke, a Swiss astronomer out of Caltech, studied the coma cluster 321 million light-years away with a thousand galaxies spanning 25 million light-years in diameter. He looked at it in a number of ways, two of which are very revealing. In one, he used galaxy motion to calculate mass and in the other, he used galaxy luminosity to calculate mass. His processes are not precise but they do provide ballpark figures for the mass of the cluster. For motion, he had the cluster galaxy's radial velocities from the Doppler shift in the light we see. He then generalized them into their three-dimensional velocity dispersion statistical equivalent. This galaxy motion gives us the kinetic energy for the cluster. Swicke used the well-understood virial theorem that has the kinetic energy of a system equal to one-half its gravitational potential energy. This allows us to solve for the mass of the cluster. This is the mass as measured by its gravitational effects. The second way he calculated the cluster's mass was to use the cluster's luminosity. You may recall from our discussion on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram in our How Far Away Is It Segment on Distant Stars that there is a relationship between a star's mass and its luminosity. We can use that relationship to estimate the mass of groups of stars by measuring their luminosity. We use the mass to light ratio of the sun as the base for comparisons. Swicke measured the luminosity of the average galaxy in the Coma cluster. Using a mass to light ratio of three, he calculated its mass. When he multiplied the average times a thousand galaxies in the cluster, he came out with a number that was over a hundred times less than the mass calculated via the virial theorem based on gravity. In other words, the motion of the galaxies in the cluster indicated a mass that was over a hundred times the mass from luminous matter. Swicke concluded that either the laws of gravity as we know them, Newtons and Einstein's, did not work for volumes as large as the Coma cluster. Or the luminous matter is only a very small part of the total matter of the cluster. He called the rest of the matter dark matter and suggested that gravitational lensing could help quantify this dark matter. But back in the 1930s, nobody believed him.


If you want to know how I'm using Audio Hijack in my productions, or if you are new to Audio Hijack and just want to know exactly what it is, then this video is for you. Hello, and welcome to Take One Tech. My name's Alec. Now I've had a few questions recently about Audio Hijack, which is a Mac application to process audio on your Mac. And I had a question about it privately through email, but then I also had it come up on a recent livestream that I did where somebody asked me to just walk through how I'm using Audio Hijack and Loopback. I'll cover Loopback in a separate video. That one's got a number of different use cases, but I thought today I would just share with you how I'm using Audio Hijack and give a bit of an introduction to the application, what it's used for, and as I say how I'm specifically using it. So I'll come over to my desktop, first of all. Audio Hijack is an application in simple terms that takes any audio source from your computer, either an external one plugged in, such as a microphone, or it could be an internal audio source, such as, for example, if you are watching a YouTube video in Safari, then the audio coming out of that would be classed as an audio source. The application then performs a number of different processes on that audio, so you could change the pitch of it, you could perform all sorts of other things that I'll talk to you about shortly. And then once it's processed the signal, it outputs it to an output device, so that might be a set of speakers, for example. So that's in essence what Audio Hijack does. It hijacks some audio, it processes that audio, and it puts it back out somewhere else. So it's anything that you want to do in terms of changing any audio on your Mac. Now I use it because I have a Shure MV7, and I have most of the sort of signal processing, if you like, is done using the Shure Motive app. Now I did a whole review on the Shure MV7 and on the Motive app as well, and explained in there how it allows me to apply compression, just the volume, the gain, things like that of the microphone, and so as I say that's all handled with that app. The one thing that it doesn't do is noise cancellation, and it is very good at blocking general sort of background noise. However, I am working on a rather old Mac, and so the fans are generally working overtime to keep it cool, and I also have an aircon in this room, which is working overtime to keep me cool. So there is quite a background hum in this room, and if I didn't have any noise cancellation on, then it would be quite noticeable. And in fact, I can show you how noticeable it is by just quickly going and deactivating my noise cancellation, and you tell me how you think it sounds. So I think that you can probably hear there is a background hum, maybe not too loud, but it's there nonetheless, and I think it would be a little bit annoying. So I'm going to just turn the noise cancellation back on again, and I'm going to run through basically the way that you use the application, and then we'll come back to that noise cancellation a little bit later. So as I say, it can grab on to any sort of audio input that you've got. And so those are listed up at the top here. We've got different either applications. So you can specify a particular application. So as I say, if you are doing watching a YouTube video and you wanted to perform some action on the audio, then you would need to select Safari if you're watching YouTube in Safari. There's also input devices. So again, I'm using my microphone, you could have a number of different microphones, those are all clusters input devices. And then there's also the overall system audio. So if you just wanted to capture absolutely everything that would say normally becoming out of your speakers from your computer, then that would be that one. You've also got the outputs. So after it's done the processing, where is it going to send the sound to? So it could be an output device such as a set of speakers, something like that. You can also send it to a recorder that audio hijack has built in. So that allows you to actually record any audio from your computer as well. And finally, we've got a couple of options here to actually broadcast. So either streaming to an online server or streaming to a dedicated streaming server. And by that, I mean audio streaming rather than live video streaming. So those are the sort of inputs and outputs. But in between there, there's a whole host of things that you can do with your audio signal. So if I scroll down here, there's a number of different effects. So we can change things like the, imagine a graphic equalizer, then it's got one of those. So you can change the levels of your audio. You can also change the balance between left and right and also simple things, you know, bass, treble and so on and so forth. And all the way down, you've got things like a low pass filter, high pass filter and so on. These are all things that I currently have handled with my short motive app. But if you haven't, then there was a great ways to adjust your mic levels that are coming in. And then we have some advanced options, which I'll come back to. And we've got some meters as well so that you can have a graphical view of the levels that you have coming from your different audio devices. And then there's some audio effects. So you can add delay to it. For example, that's one that's quite useful if you are recording, and you have a video feed coming in from one source and your audio is coming in for another. And then often there can be a slight delay between the audio and the video. So you can add a delay in manually using that feature. And then there's things like adjusting the pitch and so on. You want to give yourself a deeper voice, for example, or a really high voice, whichever you want. You can do that in here. And yet there are loads and loads of different options for very specific cases. I don't really use any of these. The one that I bought this app for was indeed that Denoise. And that comes in this little advanced section. There's Denoise there. Incidentally, they've also got some other ones in here, such as ducking. So that is where if you have, say, two people on a podcast, for example, and you want somebody to have the dominant signal, then it means that if that person speaks, then it will sort of dim or reduce the volume of the other people speaking. So there's things like that. And there's an input switch so you can switch between different inputs and various things like that. But what I'll do now is I'll just run through my actual sort of audio signal chain, if you like.  So I could drop that there. And then I just click in it. So that's selecting an application. So if I wanted to grab the audio from Safari, for example, I would just come there. And now I've set that up as a little audio source and then say I wanted to, I don't know, maybe the volume is too loud from coming out of, obviously, I'm making all of this up. There's plenty of other ways to do this. I'm just showing you how to build these building blocks up. So there we go. We want that volume one and I want to be able to reduce the volume in there. And then maybe we want that to go to a recorder because we just want to record the audio out of a video, for example. So then I would go down to my outputs, recorder on. So you can see how easy it is to just sort of build these things up just by dragging them onto the screen or right clicking and just deleting them.  So you could actually leave them on the screen, but turn them off. So that is how easy it is to actually build out these signal chains. Now, if I come back to mine for a moment, which is this one, this is my main one that I use. And you can, by the way, have different profiles in audio hijack. So that's quite good if you have different use cases, then you can set them up and you can just simply load those as and when you need them. Also, I should also point out if I just pull the bottom of the app up into view because it's slightly out of view there. There we go. So what you'll notice is there is this button at the bottom and this shows that this particular instance has been active for 52 minutes and it does actually have to be running in order for you to actually have your signal coming out. So when audio hijack is running, it is actually grabbing those audio sources and literally hijacking them. So, for example, if my audio, my MV7 is going in here, then it won't be going to anywhere else. So if I was to switch this off for a moment, then you'll stop hearing me for a moment. Jiton, then you should start to hear me again. So I hope you missed out a little bit of that. That was just to say that when you activate it, then that is, that's the only time that you're going to actually hear the output. So that is why it also featured on my checklist that I did, my Going Live checklist. I'll leave a link to that video down below as well, because that is one where I talk about all the things that I run through before I start one of these videos and also before I start a Zoom call as well because this is how I have my audio setup for my normal Zoom calls if I'm not going through Ecom Live, which I do as well sometimes. So that's going to be a video for another day as well. So when I get around to making my Ecom Live and Zoom video, then I should drop that into the link, into the description as well. But anyway, coming back to my signal chain. So we start with my Shure MB7 and then it goes into this D noise here. And if I just click onto here, you can see that basically I've got a couple of different functions. But if I switch it off, you should actually hear what my background noise is like. So I don't know if you can hear that. But that is my fan from my computer, which is whirring away as it's technically obsolete, it's eight years old, and it's running Ecom Live. So thanks to the Ecom developers for doing such a good job with that. But it is, as I say, the fans are running on it. And I also do have an air conditioning unit over to my right hand side that is keeping me cool. So lots of cooling going on in this room. And so, yeah, if I don't have the D noise on, then you can definitely hear that sort of hissing and humming in the background. So all I do is if I, when I've added this block in, you just simply switch it on and then you've got this learn noise. So it says inactive at the moment and it just sort of listens to the background noise for three seconds. And that's it. Hopefully the background noise just miraculously disappeared. So that is basically the sort of standout feature that I personally use it for. But obviously you can see that there are a whole host of other different effects and things you can add on to it. But that isn't quite all I use it for. It does have some other benefits that I use it for at the moment. So next, after it's gone through that D noise, it also goes into a set of meters. Now I always have this application open and I have it open where I can see it when I'm on my particular screen, where I have my Zoom or my Ecom Live. And so those meters, as long as those meters are just bouncing up and down. And you'll notice also that there is, if I mute my mic, these little yellow lines will disappear that are connecting it. So that shows that there is no signal going through it. So I know that it is working and my mic is on. And it is trying to suppress the background noise as long as I can see that this is active and this is on. So I keep that as a sort of visual cue that everything is running OK. This then feeds into a virtual device, which I have called Processed MV7. So that is when I go into my Zoom or Microsoft Teams or Skype or in Ecom Live, for example, where I've selected the audio input rather than selecting the shore MV7. I've selected my Processed MV7 because that signal has now been processed. I'll come back to this bottom section in a little moment. But I also have it going up to here, this set of menu meters. I've actually deactivated them from my menu at the moment. They are sitting down here, but normally they sit up in my menu. And so you can see these meters here. And that, again, is just a visual cue that there is sound. So even if I haven't got the app open at the front or I'm on a different screen, then I can still see that there is activity going on. So that is another little thing in the audio hijack. You've got some meters here in the meters section. So you can either add menu bar meters or you can add the peak RMS meters such as I've got here. Or I could add a different kind of set of meters, which is like this, which is similar sorts of thing, but just a different look to them, really. So yeah, I find these other ones easier to read and easier to see. So that's the ones that I have. So I can just delete that one again. And then finally, I have this going out to an MP3. So that means that I can also, if I want to, I can just record any audio. So it would record my audio, but it would also record anything else that is feeding into this this virtual device, this processed MV7. Now, what I also have is at the bottom, I have a couple of options here. So I've got the system audio, but then I've also got application audio. So that means that if I'm on a Microsoft Teams call or a Zoom call and I want to just quickly be able to add in the system audio, then I can just switch this one on like this. And it is now grabbing any audio from my system. And that is also feeding through into this virtual device. So although I've only got one device selected in my Zoom or whichever application I'm using, it will still have the audio from the system feeding into there as well. If I didn't want the whole system audio, but I wanted a specific application, say I wanted to play a YouTube video or something through into the meeting, then I could click on Safari here and switch on. So now I've got just a isolated application. And then this little switch allows me to just choose between the two. Do I want it to be the Safari, the block, or to be the system audio block? And then that then goes through a little volume control because sometimes if I'm sort of speaking over something, you might want something that is, you might want to reduce the volume of whatever is your playing. And so that allows me to do that. And then this then feeds through again, another one of these meters. It's not doing anything at the moment because there's nothing actually playing from either Safari or the system. But this set of meters is the same as that one. And again, it just allows me to hear, if or see at least the levels that this is coming through to the attendees on the meeting that I'm on or wherever I am rooting the audio to. Now I mentioned before that audio hijack, as I say, it does actually hijack the sound and take it over. And so as soon as I put this one on, then I don't get to hear the system audio the way that I normally would back through the system because it is taking control of it.  And this is coming back out to my in-ear monitors basically. So the output device is set to my short MV7 because my MV7 has a headphone socket in it as well so that that plugs into my in-ear monitors. So that means that whatever I am playing through, I'm also hearing back as well. So that is how I am using Audio Hijack Pro. And I keep saying Audio Hijack Pro. It's not been called Audio Hijack Pro for, I think about five years, but I still keep calling it that. It's called Audio Hijack. And it's version number three actually. So Audio Hijack, I don't know how many times I've said that in this video but I apologize for the incorrect name. It's Audio Hijack. Now, there is another way that you can get audio into your Zoom calls. And especially if you're using Zoom with Ecamm Live, which I do, and for that we use the application Loopback. So I will be making another whole video specifically about Loopback and how I use that. But this is more just the way that I do it. Sometimes I just jump on a Zoom call quickly and I don't have Ecamm running or something like that. So I can just still use this and still have all the functionality of feeding the audio back from the system into the call as well. And by the way, why is this important? Well, as I say, it isn't actually something that if you have a mic selected and then you want to look at something whilst you're in Zoom and for everyone else to hear it, it doesn't automatically play through the system so that they can hear it. And the number of meetings that I've been on where somebody said, oh, I've just got something to play for you. And then they spend five or 10 minutes trying to figure out a way to do it. Sometimes joining the meeting remotely but from a mobile and holding the thing up to get the sound to come through, it doesn't certainly add to a productive meeting if you spend time doing things like that. So having something like this makes it a lot easier to be able to just simply come in here and switch on your audio and feed it into the meeting. Now, one thing I should point out though is the one thing that Audio Hijack cannot do is you cannot use it to actually create virtual devices. So I have actually had to create this virtual device, the processed MB7. I have had to create that myself using Loopback. So I've used the two programs together in that respect but so that's just something to bear in mind. If you have got a particular device that you want things to go to then it will show up in here. So if I go into my output devices, I have got a number of different things that I could send it to but as a default it, I've created this device rather in Loopback but that should all become a lot clearer once you watch the video that I'm about to make on Loopback but I will keep them separate because it is a separate application. 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Edibles account for somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of our our gross sales here in the shop. What's happening a lot with the edible manufacturers who have focused on a hard or a soft candy is that the most cost-effective way for them to bring that to the market is to use knockoff candy and so they'll buy it in bulk form and they infuse it by using the viscous hash oil. They spray that onto the candy and once that candy dries there's really no way to tell the difference between infused and candy that's not infused. The problem is is that some of these products look so similar to candy that's been on the market that we've eaten as children that there's really no way for a child or a parent or anybody even an expert in the field to tell you whether or not a product is infused or not. Once you take something out of one of these packages put it next to something that isn't infused it's very difficult to tell the difference. What we would recommend is if anything that your child brings home that doesn't look like it's from a company like Hershey's or one of the larger manufacturers who ever owns Sour Patch Kids or any of those they don't look like something familiar you've been through it's best just to toss that stuff into the trash and not let your child consume it. If it looks like the package has been tampered with whatsoever we should use those same practices we've been using since I was a child that it's best to dispose of that candy. I think that the only ones that'll be upset about that are the children's dentists.


On Shibor vs. Elena Rabakina is the final for Wimbledon for the ladies for 2022. And both ladies have had different roads to get to the final stage. In her semifinal, Rabakina would take on the number 16 seed Simona Halib, who'd won this tournament back in 2019. But Rabakina would play one of her best matches, destroying Halib in straight sets, 6-3-6-3, to advance to her first Grand Slam final. Jabir would take on the unseeded Maria, who had had a phenomenal tournament beating the likes of Sakurai and Osta Penko to get to the semifinals. And after cruising through the first set, Jabir would lose the second, but eventually prevailing 3-6-2-3-6-6-1, to advance to her first Grand Slam final. These two have played three times before, with Jabir leading 2-1 in the head to head, but they haven't played on a grass court before, so that could be a big difference in this final. If Rabakina is going to win, she's going to have to serve well. She played so well on the serve of Halib, and also the returning on the second serve of Halib, which forced a lot of double faults out of Simona Halib. So Rabakina is going to serve well, and also hit big, and keep Jabir on edge. If Jabir's going to win, she's going to have to add the variety. Like she always does, but she's going to have to do it even more so against Rabakina, and keep Rabakina moving. Don't let her stay on the baseline, like she did against Halib, because Halib was destroyed by Rabakina's power, and Jabir needs to mix it up, so that doesn't happen. Both players are playing their first Grand Slam final, so this is really tough to pick who can win, because it's a very tough match-up, as it is. But I'm going to go with Jabir. I think Osta Bear's going to win in three sets. I think she's going to work it out at the end, but this could be one of the all-time classics. Both players are going to be nervous. Let me know down in the comments below who do you think is winning the ladies' final.