Most people just often have never heard of a micro-business. My name is Danielle Smith, and I am the CEO of Soundbat. We are husband and wife team. We run Austin's first cut-to-order cheese shop. We like to think of Lost Republic as representing the California spirit, being independent, being a little bit different. In the 21st century alone, we've had three major economic shocks. Dot-com bus, the Great Recession of 2008, and we're in the midst of the economic upheaval of COVID-19. Tracing back the impact of micro-businesses, we can see that communities that had a higher than average number of ventures withstood these shocks far better than communities that did not. Ventures are directly associated with helping drop unemployment rates. This effect held through COVID-19 communities. When they have more ventures, we start seeing a decline in low-income job loss. So ventures help buffer and mitigate against the effects of COVID-19. Doing that little bit of payroll that I do makes me so happy, because I know I'm circulating money in our communities and our homes and in our families. I make sure that I'm not just hiring transplants who are just coming in and out. All my employees and everybody who's around me is part of the community. We also found that communities with a higher than average number of ventures also had higher levels of prosperity. And when we look at prosperity, we're looking at the combination of effects, whether it be migration patterns, whether it be lack of poverty, whether it be graduation rates. Many of these businesses are the lifelines in their communities for jobs, creating incomes for others. Our study of micro-businesses also helped us understand the unique needs of micro-businesses. When I started, I really didn't know what I was doing. I did everything. I did the bookkeeping. I did everything. If you don't have access to capital, how do you fund your ideas? How do you finance your ideas? A lot of clients that we work with need help with cash flow management, just making sure you have enough to cover the expenses of the business. I don't know how I'm going to make any money, what I'm going to do, but all I know is I'm going to create this community. Micro-businesses are everywhere. They're having a positive impact across all borders, across all ethnicities, across all economic classes. All of our data and insights are publicly available, and we want to arm policymakers so that they can make the decisions and help these ventures in their communities take more root and thrive further. We want to get Americans back to work. Businesses need to be ready so they can employ them. And so our hope is to tailor our gift to serve the community and change it for the better.


Our next speaker will be Brad Carmack. Brad graduated from the JD-MPA program at Brigham Young University in April of 2011 and became a licensed California attorney that same year. Currently, he works for Yahoo in California, a religious activist and member of the LDS church. Brad loves to write about transhumanism, bioethics, and religion. Please welcome Brad. Thank you, Lincoln. Glad to be here excited this morning. Speech today is a call to action more than it is a presentation of information. The title is about Grounded Giving. I'm gonna talk to you about charitable giving. I'm gonna have a few specific invitations that I'm gonna ask you to change your behavior going forward. The subtitle is How to Maximize the ROI of your charitable dollars. How to maximize the ROI of your charitable dollars. I'm gonna discuss that in some detail. I'm gonna do so in four steps. I only have a few minutes, so I will be concise. First, I'm gonna state my purpose. Second, I'm gonna talk about why we should give, why we should engage in charitable giving.  And then fourth, how to give smarter going forward. So we'll start with stating my purpose. What I want you to do as a result of this presentation, two things. I want you to donate your charitable dollars more efficiently going forward. And second, I will invite you to donate more charitable dollars. So I'm gonna do a quick poll. These three gentlemen here with the middle, with the glasses, I don't know you. Hopefully we'll become friends afterwards. I try to pick on strangers to become my friends later. But raise your hands if you are relative to when you walked in this morning. If you will donate more, your charitable dollars more efficiently going forward. That's fine if you don't raise your hand. And if you're committed to donating more charitable dollars moving forward. So their hands aren't raised so I should keep talking, this is good. Okay, so let me try to persuade you. Why should you give?  One, charitable giving makes life more meaningful. I think that as we reflect on our own experiences giving charitable, we would come to that conclusion. We'd also remark that some of those instances where we've given charitable have been very pleasurable. Personally, I can definitely attest to that. But I do want to offer some specific statistics. A lot of them come from the research of Arthur Brooks. This book here is called Who Really Cares? And it's a lot of research about who gives, why they give and what the effects and results are of charitable giving. So I'm gonna quote some stats from his book. One thing he notes is that in 2004 there was a big increase in charitable giving. And he noticed that that $2 billion increase in the US led to $36 billion of a boost to the GDP of the economy of the United States. So charitable giving does have a lot of spillover effects in the economy. I think it's about a one to 19 ratio for every dollar of charitable giving. It has a multiplier effect in the economy of about 19. So it's good for the economy. More reasons why you should give. How about some personal ones that have an effect that accrues to you? On average, charitable givers earn $14,000 more than those who don't charitable give in a typical year. And second, this is the most interesting piece. So this guy came to the Master of Public Administration program at BYU that I graduated from and he gave this presentation to kind of rock my world. But he talked about how there's not only a correlation but it seems the data suggests that there's this pushing effect of charitable giving on increased income. And he said for every dollar you give, and of course there's some constraints here in diminishing returns, but generally every dollar you give drives $3.75 of extra income to you personally. So you think that doesn't really make sense, right? You give your money away, you're making yourself poor, but there does seem to be a relationship, a positive one between charitable giving and extra income in the ratio that he found there in his research. Also, if you're public about your giving, other people that see that you're giving are more likely to give as well. So for about every dollar you give if you're public, there'll be about 14 cents more for every dollar that you give that are given by other people, which again has some of the spillover effects into the economy and helps benefit those that give. So I'm hoping that you guys are considering maybe raising your hand a little bit more on the second one at least. I do want to make a quick note. Jesus did talk about charitable giving and donating alms and suggests that we should do it in private. I think that's some terrible advice. I think you should give publicly because it helps other people to give more and helps to benefit them as well as the recipients of the charitable dollars. Okay, last three reasons. Folks that give are 43% more likely to say that they're very happy. So giving charitable can increase your health, your wealth, and your happiness. That goes to my second point here. 25% are more likely to say that their health is excellent. This is again comparing those that give charitable compared to those that don't. And third, this is an important thing. I love coming to these conferences, but sometimes as intellectual stimulating as it is, I want to do something different to really change the world. And I'm not super good at some of these health technologies and life extension and some of the hard brass tax of advancing technology, but one thing I can do is donate some money to people that can. And so I think a way that all of us can get involved in these transhumanist projects that we care about is being very smart about how we donate our limited funds. So these are all reasons for giving. I hope I'm helping to persuade there. Now I want to talk briefly, this is one of my most important points about why we suck at giving because I really want to focus on how to give smarter. But generally, I think if you consider maybe the last say 10 times that you made a charitable donation about the motivating factors and the analysis that you did before you gave, I think you'd probably come to the same conclusions. A lot of times the reasons we give aren't terribly good. Oftentimes it's because we're feeling guilt or compassion. We do it because somebody else did, because you did the same sort of donation the year before, so it's a habit. And you can imagine putting yourself in the investor's shoes. Imagine if you invested and you were hoping to get a return on your investment and you made decisions the same way. So rather than looking at their balance sheet, rather than going to the market to find out how other revenues are gonna do, what kind of impact they're going to have in the economy if you just sort of made decisions about investments for these reasons of emotion and because you did last year and things like that, you probably wouldn't get a very good return. Now, it comes to charitable giving. I'm gonna assume that most of you have pretty similar interests as I think, as I would, and you want to help people to be able to have more happiness and less suffering. That's kind of the bottom line equation. It's a pretty typical preference utilitarianism view. And I'm gonna say and claim that the utility of any donation is equal to how likely a group of folks is to experience a benefit multiplied by the size of that benefit. And I think in this transhumanism community, we see some really interesting ways that that's manifest. Things like reducing the suffering associated with aging, enabling people to have enhancements if they want them to be able to run faster, defeat disease, live longer if they want. These are things that can really affect that bottom line equation. And your charitable dollars can make those things come to pass if we're smart about it. Okay, so bottom line here, we don't give very smartly as general rule. There are some ways that we can give smarter. I'm gonna explain them. Oh, by the way, I guess I should take a quick poll for my three guys there. Relative to when you walked in this morning, are you likely to give more over the next 12 months? Raise your hand if the answer is yes. Okay, I'll keep talking.  Okay, so we're a third of the way there. Good. So a couple tips. And these are hard. I realize I'm asking you to do some tough things. Again, I was gonna, if I have more time, I'd have you go through this exercise of really thinking through the last 12 months and what charitable donations you've made. Think through the reasons why you gave them. Think through whether or not they're going to have a big impact, how you quantify that impact. How do you measure the return on your investment of charitable dollars and kind of go through the exercise of evaluating your giving. Don't have quite that luxury, so I'm gonna make some summary tips here. One of the most important things that I think you can do is to say no. It's tough. A lot of the times the pitches that we get to donate our charitable dollars aren't always gonna be the highest ROI ones. Some of them are sort of the low hanging fruit. I think of some of the runs that I've done for good causes, breast cancer awareness or things like that. These all have good effects, right? They're all good causes. They're not always the most efficient ones. They don't always have the biggest bang for the buck. You've gotta be hardheaded about these decisions. And that's sort of the uncomfortable piece I'm gonna invite you to do is to be more hardheaded about your charitable giving. Just sort of counterintuitive because it's sort of the soft compassion thing, but we really should be more hardheaded about how we give. So the first one is to say no, at least at first and insist on some research. And since all of us have limited amounts of time to research how the charitable things are done, I'm gonna suggest that you trust the experts. I'm gonna list the most experts on this next slide, but I wanna tell you why I'm suggesting to trust the experts. It's not necessarily because they know the best charities or they know the best ROI or because they're right, but because they're more likely to be right than you or I am because we're just not very good about evaluating charities. We don't have a lot of time to invest to see how are the dollars spent? What's, how do you major and quantify the social impact? But there are folks that are pretty good at this. Arthur Brooks, folks at some of these institutes I'm gonna show you. When I was in the MPA program, we kind of became exposed to folks that are in this space about measuring social impacts and being able to kind of major on the baseline of the utility equation. There are folks that are pretty good at it. So these are four that I'm gonna recommend. They're kind of, I write them by how many organizations that they rate and what these organizations generally do is to give you some, usually kind of two different indicators. One is what percentage of your donation ends up going to the target audience, kind of the overhead, which is a valuable indicator, but not always the most important one. The most important indicator is what's the impact that people feel of the dollars, right? So they can give you some insight on that. And so the one that I use often is GiveWell. There's a few others here that do a good job of rating charities. So I encourage you to use those. So I'm running low on time. I'm gonna kind of recap what we've done. So stay on my purpose, which is a call to action to invite you to give more charitably. It makes you healthier, wealthier, and happier. It helps the economy. And it can also help you to advance the transhumanist's objectives and projects you care about. Talked about why you should give. So I had some research from Arthur Brooks. Briefly discussed why we generally suck at giving and gave a couple tips for how to give smarter. And with that, I will, I guess I won't pull you, but I do want you to consider relative to your last 12 months of decisions where you gave to really think about how you could give more smart, more intelligently, more efficiently, have a greater impact with your charitable dollars over the next 12 months. And with that, I close. Thank you. Thank you, Brad. On that note, I want to share with you some information, some thoughts about the Mormon Transhumanist Association as an organization and this conference in particular. Our donors to this association highly subsidize this conference. The gathering of people from all over the world. We help pay for travel costs. In the case of our keynote speakers, of course we pay their way completely. Our other speakers that might be traveling long distances, we pay half of their travel costs to get here generally. We also purchase food. We also run a website. There's a lot of things that we do that cost money. None of our leaders are paid for any of this work that we do. So if you feel after your study, as Brad pointed out, after you study the Mormon Transhumanist Association, if you feel that we've been creating value for you and if you have the means to do so, please do consider donating generously to the association. That's the only reason why conferences like this are possible for us to do. And if you are interested in donating, where's Carl Hale? At the front table outside, Carl Hale can assist you with making a donation and I encourage you to meet with him if you have the means and interest in doing so.


So, we will now start the tutorial. So, for a disk what is the mass moment of inertia about the center? m r square over 2, I am just giving that I am not deriving it, but you can see the I think there is a yeah. So, if you look at the mass moment of inertia about the center about the z axis it is rotating. So, what is the mass moment of inertia? I have m r square over 2. So, just note this down and then we can solve this problem. By the way anyone could tell me that whether we have to really take into account gravity effect or not in this problem. So, we do not have to you can try to solve it by first considering the static equilibrium, because as we can see that there will be a static equilibrium configuration when this spring is going to stretch and this is actually coming down. We can start the problem from there, but ultimately if we really look at the oscillation from the static equilibrium configuration your equation of motion will not have any G on it ok. So, gravity will not come into the picture if I consider the static equilibrium configuration, oscillation from the static equilibrium. So, that configuration you can choose just along the line a b. So, line a b we can just say that ok it is my static equilibrium configuration ok and just give it a small rotation theta. So, it is a two line problem basically yes why not we have a spring no no no it is rotating you know the it is rotating along with the disc this bar is rotating along with the disc no that is attached to the disc that is firmly attached to the disc. So, that is a good point the bar is firmly attached to the disc and it is rotating otherwise it will collapse immediately if there is a thing. Yes the whole idea is to draw the free body diagram very quickly and solve that is all just draw the free body diagram get the equation of motion. So, time period of vibration omega n anyone got omega or capital T anyone no I have numbers no just use the numbers because to how much please no yes no it answer is 12.6 did anyone get that it is not that difficult you just there is a this force you find out no with the rotation is r theta. So, rotation is theta then we have the displacement r theta right and then that k r theta is the force and that moment of that is k r square theta and then from this side from the rod we are getting right ml square over 3 that will be added with the m r square over 2 I at least I am now expecting one answer because we have quiz also after 12 anyone got 12 12.6 is the answer yes. So, we will move on to the solution. So, here you know what we have done we have taken the I B directly here. So, that will have two components one is the m l square over 3 coming from the bar right because this bar if I look at the inertia force about these rotational inertia force then we are going to have m l square over 3 right and from the disc itself we have m r square over 2 ok and from the spring we have basically k r square. So, this is the equation of motion that we are going to get and omega n is going to be this oh that spring you see here what is the displacement we are getting here. So, if I move the system no. So, this is r theta in small displacement. So, spring force is k r theta we take the moment about a. So, that is k r square theta k r theta multiplied by r clear. So, remember in the mass here you can also show the mass you know at the lumped mass here with a translation if translatory force and the inertia force that can also be done or ultimate expect will come here that is m l square over 3 ok. So, in that problem. So, ultimately we have the time period of oscillation that is 0.496 maximum velocity at n day remember how we calculate that we know the solution for theta theta 0 is given what is theta 0 18 divide by 900. So, that is my theta 0. Sir. Yes. Can you go to the previous slide. Sir in this slide from D L M Byrd's principle in this we had written, but in this mass of rod is not you know taken care. No, I will just I think I will what I will do I will do this here right here because what is shown here is directly taking the I b there. So, we can actually do this see first we make a lumped mass here right and then we show that it is being rotated here. So, this should be l over 2 theta ok. So, that will be m l over 2 theta double dot right along with that I will have an inertia force to equilibrate this. So, direction will be this ok. So, this is the mass center is rotating. So, that value I know m l square over 12 theta double dot ok. Then remember I can draw this thing you know in a different way it was shown directly there. So, here I am getting the moment of inertia of the disc itself right. So, disc is rotating about its center. So, here I can show that this will be m capital R square by 2 theta double dot ok and then I have k r theta. So, that is the complete free body diagram we can draw. Now, remember these two forces that translator inertia force and the mass moment of inertia. So, these two if you are trying to take the moment about this ultimately become what? This will become equivalent system if you look at right that is going to be m l square by 3 ok. So, it will be ultimately m l square over 3 if you take a moment about this here and this is anyway going to add to that ok. So, ultimately we are going to get m l square 3 that will be coming from the bar about this point plus m r square over 2 ok. So, effectively I can show like this. So, ultimately what I have what I had shown there that I have a I b ok and that I b was equals to if you go step by step that is actually m l by 2 theta double dot.  So, ultimately what we get is m l square over 3 theta double dot plus m r square over 2 is that clear now. So, we can simply show like this also, but it is always better to you know go to this mode because what we are doing is from the beginning this is the right approach. So, the approach is very simple as such we are just looking at you can connect this very easily with the virtual work that all I am doing here is that I am giving it a displacement right which is small comparable ok that both the cases we have we have you know we kept doing this one that we have to find the displacement at various point in virtual work you are just doing the work done right. In this case I am just saying take a moment you can also solve this using virtual work as we have seen any question on this clear. So, next problem therefore, just a little variation the problem statement is clear there is no friction about O. So, that is any case all the time ignored and we just have to displace the system that means we have to rotate a system by small amount you can give it in any direction you want it is a single degree of freedom system or is it a single degree of freedom system or not it will be because ultimately this mass is going to come down depending on how much I rotate. So, they are connected interlinked ok I have it in little different form, but you are correct yes. So, as such it is a very simple problem and remember you can always exercise this whether the gravity is going to you know affect it or not. So, it is a very good exercise if it is if you really have to take the gravity into account or not ok. So, I will again I will just ignore the gravity effect part, but we can show that you know how the individual things looks like. So, actually if you can consider these as a static problem also first to begin with. So, what happens due to this mass there will be rotation theta s t right. So, what is that theta s t can we calculate that. So, that can be calculated very easily you may or may not want to take two free bodies, but we do so because there are indeed two bodies. So, we can detach them. So, just this spring is going to take care the mass here ok that spring force. So, ultimately what will happen this is my static equilibrium consideration if we do then we take the moment about O right. So, that is static you know displacement or rather static rotation can be defined as this. So, make sure to substitute T s t equals to M g. So, that is my static configuration I have then we give additional rotation. So, now system is moving from the static equilibrium configuration right by an amount theta then again you redo the problem. Everything has to be you know recalculated when you go to static equilibrium configuration then I give it a small oscillation just take a look how the free bodies looks like what are the forces in the free bodies. So, that is my UAM for the block remember what is happening. Now, we are in dynamic right due to the dynamic effect this mass will now experience the inertia force translator inertia force that is equals to M r theta double dot remember since I have detached it. So, there is an increment in the therefore, tension in that cable right. So, T s t plus t. So, that T is the new tension right because we know there is inertia force already. So, T has to you know change it cannot be T s t ok. So, as I am saying you may want to detach it or you do not detach it it is up to you ok you may not want to detach that mass at all. So, ultimately you see I do this exercise just go through it very simple. So, for this mass small mass M g I have this equation of motion established ok and then you do the equation of motion for the dicks right. So, that will be some of moment about its point O equals to 0 ultimately you can prove that gravity will not play any role ok. So, there will be a part cancel this T s t M g this equation is in turn going to be carry forward and it will cancel. So, ultimate equation will become this right and some of you have got this right. Now, probably you have done. So, without taking the gravity effect that is fine because indeed I can prove that gravity will not play any role in this problem ok. So, just look at it you know these are exercise we give to understand that whether you know gravity effect is coming into play or not we can also do this without considering the gravity effect that is what all of you have done. If from the very beginning I do not say M g is there you see I have dropped the M g here I do not have M g now that is dropped I can solve it. So, I have shown you now both approaches one is to you know just look at the static deflection then from there we start the motion and there are problems where it may affect there are problems where it may not affect and it will be affected gravity will affect it as long as you have a inverted pendulum or a pendulum type problem ok that is pinned about point A somewhere you know vertical bar going like this. But in all of these cases we are not going to get any kind of gravity effect is that approach clear again you may see this one as I said since there are two free bodies therefore, I have detached it, but it is not necessary you can simply keep just say M r theta double dot and do not take into account t that can also be done. So, then you just say M r theta double dot is directly acting on this body in the direction of the cable ok and you take the moment of that thing about any question on this clear yes. Which one? See if you rotate it by a theta clockwise right clockwise one is one is compressed yes. So, if compressed then how it gives the force back to this that way right then other one is in the tension yes now that what it does that actually pulls that pulls. So, ultimately you have compression as well as you have the pull. So, both are in the same direction ok any question done? Now, last problem is going to be interesting. So, you want to determine the P that will cause the natural frequency of the rod approach to 0 for smallest whether very very nice problem again it is a its concerns actually stability of the system ok. So, you will be able to find a P where t tends to infinity time period tends to infinity or omega n equals to 0. Now, we can show statically also using the potential energy approach that if the P is less than that then it will never be stable ok at that theta equals to 0. This problem is just two lines problem and I would expect that more of you get involved and just give me the answer get the equation of motion first and set omega equals to 0 or t tends to infinity whatever way. See, you have to make sure that in this problem gravity will enter ok say inverted pendulum ok. So, you see that. So, gravity has to be taken into account from the very beginning you cannot ignore gravity and we have solved the similar problem remember there was a bar with two springs and attached mass was there. So, gravity was that there ok. Yes. It is a very large value we are going to get. What was that you said kilo Newton right and not 15 50 is not. Anyone just draw the free body diagram clearly what are the forces by the way 34 kilo Newton is the answer yes. So, just take a look at the free body diagram here quickly. Now here again you know I have taken here this as equivalent moment that is coming from the rod. So, this is m L square over m L square theta ok. So, ultimately we have this force right here there is another spring force both should be in the same directions. If I oscillate the system this way then remember there is a compressive force in this spring. So, that will act towards left this will also be tensile this will act towards left. So, there are two forces just calculate the displacement properly. Then we have the P that P will create a torque about this m g will create a torque about this and ultimately there is a distributed mass here. So, that will be m L square by 3 is this you can also lump it here no issue. If you lump it then there is a translational force and there is a rotation about the own center right. So, that can be done that way also, but see ultimately I am transferring the effect here already to here and that we have already learnt right m L square over 3 will always be the inertia force about the pin ok. Is that steps clear everyone ok. So, ultimately as you got the answer. So, roughly 34 kilo Newton 33970 Newton roughly 34 kilo Newton is the answer. Now, you can do a very you know good exercise here you know what I would ask you to do. Can you use potential energy approach and show that theta equals to 0 is a solution ok and P less than this will be the solution where it is stable. See as soon as P is greater than this it is going to be unstable even at theta equals to 0. So, ultimately start from potential energy forget about the dynamic ok. Suppose at omega equals to 0 we already said. So, now it is a static problem I have a P right. So, can we show that fall P less than this system is stable otherwise it is unstable is that clear using potential energy right that was done yesterday. How do you do the same approach? Now, there is no dynamic there is no inertia force all I am saying now the bar is straight right here and determine the stability that is all at theta equals to 0 configuration determine the stability of the bar whether it is stable or whether it is unstable period. Can we do that. So, what would be the potential energy of the system all of these are actually going to be you know there except for that you drop this one you can also do it in a finite rotation fine ok sin theta cosine theta can come to play, but small deflection you know your potential energy you just have to put together what is the potential energy. So, that will be half k delta square for the spring then you have the force right and you have the mg. So, all of these needs to be taken into account ok. So, I will show that quickly. So, there is no virtual work there is a mistake here. So, this is the we are just talking about potential energy. So, can we see that this is the expression for potential energy. If we can get that that is the energy you know expression then problem is solved then what we do dv d theta equals to 0. We can actually show that theta equals to 0 is indeed a equilibrium configuration right first and then we check for d 2 v d theta 2 greater than 0 right what is d 2 v d theta 2 greater than 0. So, the next step would be if you get that potential energy that is it. So, dv d theta we do right and ultimately see you have two cases here and we can show that theta equals to 0 is indeed an equilibrium condition right then question is whether it is stable or unstable. So, we substitute we do that d 2 v d theta 2 greater than 0 and for theta equals to 0 we get this expression back. So, this is the expression which says that p should be less than this. So, I have not incorporated all the algebraic quantities so far sorry it was done in terms of algebraic quantities. Now, let us put the numbers here. So, if I put the numbers you see the problem ok. So, p less than this it can only be stable see what happened in dynamic case with that p it has actually gone to infinite oscillation right. That means, it cannot come back as soon as see this is actually limiting condition that p equals to that is the limiting condition it cannot come back. So, what we have shown through potential energy that as long as p less than this it will be stable as soon as let us say p equals to 34 kilo Newton actually it is going to collapse it is unstable. So, you can link see what I have done today essentially I have also told you that virtual work why it is necessary I have ultimately told you that why potential energy is also coming into play to really do certain amount you know certain dynamic problems ok. So, everything is interlinked and as long as we feel that civil engineering we really do not consider those rectilinear motion curvilinear motions see ultimately we do not you know use the problems involve really lot of you know curvilinear rectilinear impulse momentum type of stuff what we really focus on the vibration for civil engineers. In fact, mechanical engineers they have lot of problem for vibrations aerospace lot of vibrations problem. So, we really in dynamics what we thought of doing in IIT and as you have seen that all the other things that we have done is very exhausted ok. And therefore, we just made a common platform of all the disciplines and we tried to say ok let us try to at least tell you know students that we can derive the equations of motion for spring mass system type of problems where you know which is applicable to many disciplines. And ultimately we are able to give you know some kind of flavor that ok we can link those problems with the you know stability, unstability. We can also do the virtual work instead of saying that moment equals to 0 can we use the virtual work to solve the equations of motion ok. Is that all? Any question? We will just do the you know but we can definitely discuss if you have different requirement we can try to see if that can be fit in into the main workshop for the dynamics ok. But for statics even we have to think whether we are going to be so exhaustive in the you know kind of in the main workshop. But we felt that you know whatever we do we do we do at a great depth I mean that is what most important than just doing it bits and pieces ok.


Good morning John. What are you doing tonight? In fact, everybody watching. What are you all doing tonight? Watching some movies, maybe? Got to see some TV? Scroll through the infinite scroll on Tumblr, maybe? Or on Facebook? Maybe you're gonna catch up a little on work. Read a book, do some errands. No.  Instead, we, all of us, we're gonna do a thing together. And no exceptions. We are all going to write a letter to someone who represents us in government. It's an assignment. You're watching a video and in return, you're getting homework, basically. If you don't want to write a letter, put a stamp on it and put it in the mail. Stop watching this video right now because I'm gonna make you feel really guilty if you don't do it. Unless you live in a country that doesn't have democracy, in which case it is your responsibility to make all of us who do live in democracy feel real guilty for not sending letters. So I'm gonna talk about how to send a good letter to your government representative or someone who works in your government. I'm actually writing one of my letters by hand. Now, of course this is not necessary, but I'm doing this because I know that this is all about time capital. It's about value. And sending an email is easy while writing a letter by hand and hand delivering it to the person's office. That's hard. That's more likely to get noticed. And the nutty thing is these letters actually matter. I actually had a hard time believing this, but I've talked to a lot of staffers from congressional offices and they agree letters matter and phone calls matter and they matter more than Twitter and email because they show that the constituent cares more. Letter to a government representative should be respectful. No curse words, no anger. It should outline who you are and that you are a part of the community that that person represents. You can outline how you are a part of that community if you wish. You should also get to the point really fast. If there's a way that this particular issue is affecting you in particular or you have a personal story, you should share that, but do it quickly and without griping. Outline, ideally somehow separated a little bit from the rest of the letter what exactly you are requesting. I'm asking for a ban on assault rifles in America and for Congress to allow the CDC to study and fund the study of the public health effects of guns after a 20-year ban. It's important to understand this particular representative's perspectives on the issue that you care about so you know whether to thank them for their positions or not. I've put some info in the description for how to find government representatives and how to look up their voting records. Remember to include your address on the envelope in case they want to write you back, which remarkably they often do. I actually wrote three letters, one to each of my senators and one to my representative. The text of which can be found in the description. Feel free to pull from those or to be inspired by them, but of course make them different. Form letters are noticed immediately by staffers and not given the same weight. Of course your issue can be whatever you want your issue to be, but I want us as a community to reach out to our governments, whatever country you're in, and let them know that we care about our countries. After watching Hannah's video this week, I simply could not not do this. Right now or tonight, but in the next 24 hours, do this thing. Do it for me, do it for you, do it for your country, do it for whatever you want to do it for. We confine our shouting to the internet, to Facebook and Twitter and Tumblr and talking to other people who agree with us. We might make ourselves feel better and feel righteous, but we are not on the path that creates the most change. So one day for one hour, instead of doing whatever you were going to do tonight, do this thing. So you've written your letter, if you want to share it, you can send it to me on Snapchat or Twitter or Facebook or Tumblr. You can use a hashtag or a tag if you're on a place that sports those things so you can see other people's letters and if you see them, thank them for sending their letter. Thank you for doing this. I found it empowering and a little scary, but if you're not doing something that scares you every once in a while, you're doing it wrong. John, I'll see you on Tuesday.


So my beautiful people, I am back with another hour of doing good video and today guys I showcased you the entire Alexander quest line which sees you earning a great talisman the shard of Alexander How's it going guys? My name's DP Jane if you enjoyed the video leaving a like will help us out And if you like what you see you want to see more be sure to subscribe Okay, so the Alexander quest line actually isn't too long of one For you get what you can see on the screen now the shard of Alexander Greatly boosted attack power of skills. Yes people. It's amazing. Yes people. It's a must get Okay, so this quest where does it start? Well? For everybody it will start as soon as you defeat Rodan But some people may have spoke to Alexander prior to defeating Rodan and that's fine You can find him located in lime grave, but it doesn't matter. You don't have to go there and speak to him So we're gonna start this quest and this guide from the point that we defeat Rodan now We're done guys if you don't know you ain't got this far yet go down to the far south east of the map You'll have the impassable great bridge next to it You'll have the chamber outside the plaza and just slightly upper that you'll have the red dawn fight if you go here Guys go to this red main castle. You'll get the quest to defeat Rodan Once you defeat him you're good You can start this quest whenever you want because I've actually already completed the game I've defeated most bosses. I could still come back and start this quest without Alexander He was still sitting here waiting by Rodan's remains for me to start this quest with him and No, I never spoke to him prior to defeating Rodan never saw him. So yeah So once you defeat Rodan right next to his body guys, you'll see the tin pot Alexander What you want to do here guys is speak to him and clear out all Dialogue now from here guys You need to check if you have any oil pots in your inventory if you do you can skip this part If not, we need to head down into knock run the eternal city find a vendor by the recipe the cookbook And then craft them he's a nomadic warrior cookbook 17 And you'll have to craft a couple of these oil parts with mounted mushrooms But unscrew now guys you can see where you go to get into the knock run city the eternal city and as follow the path I take unscrew now guys to actually get to this render You will have to fight and defeat the mimic tear boss to get past him to get down to this Vendor but once you've done that just follow the path I take unscrew now guys all the way to this grace point Which I initially just activate because his area can be a little chaotic But from the grace point you then make your way to the vendor Now while you're at this grace point if you don't have any of those mounted mushrooms because that's what you Call to actually create these oil pots There's one right by this grace so you can farm that over and over by simply picking it up going back to the grace Rinsing and repeating guys and get as many as you need probably say about 10 will do you just fine But yeah do as I do on screen now if you ain't got none of these mounted mushrooms gather up and you're good Then make your way to the vendor So once you're at the vendor and you've wrote that cookbook the one you need I broke both of them I just make sure I got the right one and then just go into your inventory and craft the oil parts Which we found a marauder mushrooms for not long ago in the video So yes, just craft away guys, and I mean you only really need one or two of these but just create as many as you can Now guys you want to go to the Korean study hall on the map This is where you'll find Alexander. He will be stuck in a hole So any grace point around here on the map guys You'll be fine So use any of them and then come down to where Alexander can be located by the point of put on the map What you want to do here guys is then throw a couple of these parts at Alexander to get that oil All over him and then hit him a few times to knock him through you can use any weapon to hit him I mean I use my most powerful weapon and it didn't kill him. So yep knocking through guys and then clear out all dialogue He has From here guys you need to head to the left hand side in a volcano manner Area here you will have to fight a magna worm boss who can be a bit of a handful Now if you don't know your way to here guys I'll showcase to you exactly do you need to take from the deptus lift So you will need a deptus medallion also guys do a quick search on YouTube It's quite easy to get then you can activate this lift and come up to this area that I'll just put all then follow Do you I take on screen now guys all the way around to this lava bath where you will be met by a Boss called a magna worm now I've already took him out. So he isn't there for me, but you will have to fight him first So yes, once you've took him out guys You'll find Alexander at the back of the spot Inside of that lava here You have to be really careful speak to him as quickly as possible because your health will drain Then guys quickly jump back onto that rock Afterwards luckily he hasn't got too much dialogue here.  So follow the path I take on screen now guys to get to this dragon temple lift Now you will need a stone sword key to activate the lift. So make sure you have one of those So once you are in the lift guys follow the short route I take out of the lift and head to Alexander avoid all enemies on your way Just run straight to him once you get next to him guys This is basically the end of the quest where he challenges you take him out and the quest is done And it's amazing tally's man. He's yours. It really is that simple guys And there we have it the end of the video has arrived If you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out feel like what you see and want to see more out of the ring Be sure to subscribe and hopefully my beautiful people. I will see you on that next one Live as a warrior to his last


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Wait, it's kind of hard. My favorite thing is that Edinburgh is such a beautiful city with Arthur Seath and Gatenhill right up to like 10 minutes walking distance. I feel like it's such a great place to just take a walk anytime of the day and it's still so pretty. Oh, I love the people. They're really kind. And at first it's really hard to understand the accent because Scottish accent is more difficult than like general English. And after living here like for six months, I used to it. How walkable the city is, I'm a huge fan of the local city. So where I live and I can just walk around the city and yeah, it's really nice. And I love the food as well, like Scottish food, Hankeish. The school is also amazing, University of Edinburgh has a good building and the environment is just like amazing.


There's no doubt, everyone of us wants to sound smart or be viewed as intelligent, especially when conversing with others, strangers or not. To be smart means to be intelligent or well informed. It also means that you are quick to understand. You have a sound thought and good judgment. People who have these qualities are likeable and everyone always wants to hang out with them because of their sharp mind and abilities to make the right decisions per time.  It starts with your conversation. Do you know that even when you meet a person for the first time, you can tell whether they are smart or not from the way they converse? Well, in this video, I'll share with you how to sound intelligent in any conversation. If you're new here, consider subscribing so that you don't miss out on exciting videos like this. 1. Understand what you're talking about There is no way to sound intelligent or convincing when you are unsure of what you are saying. You need to understand fully the subjects you are addressing if you genuinely want to look smart. So, as much as you want to be articulate, you also want to be persuasive and eloquent. You want your words to be memorable because there is a lot of sense in what you say. When you know what you're talking about, your communication will be more persuasive and on point. To do this, you have to feed your mind by reading. Have you ever had a conversation with somebody so knowledgeable about a particular subject that you are amazed at how many books or articles that they have read to get that much information? It is important to read because by doing so, you'll be showing others that you are working on your intelligence by opening your mind up to a world of ideas and this makes you what listening to them. So, for people to see you as being intelligent, you have to first of all understand the subjects that you are discussing. Intelligent people show that they are valuable by providing useful information and knowledgeable about their fields or area of expertise. Look at it this way. If they are only going to provide you with random details that you can quickly get on the internet, why then should you even bother listening to them in the first place? I'm pretty sure it doesn't make much sense. 2. Use simple words that people can understand Don't make your conversation sound too complicated by using so many complex and unfamiliar words. Yes, you want to sound smart but you also don't want to look snobbish in the process. One way to achieve this is to avoid the use of complicated and uncommon words otherwise no one will understand the point you are trying to make. However, when you use unexpected yet common words, your speech will be memorable because of its simplicity. It doesn't mean that you can't use unfamiliar terms. However, if you must do, define the words in plain language and make it easy for your audience to listen to you. Being an eloquent speaker is about how you make people feel. Intelligent people always leave behind memories of their conversation with the parties involved. It's not just about how well they speak but how accessible communication was with them. People for communication or conversation should connect you with people physically and emotionally because according to Maya Angelou, an American poet and right activist, people will forget what you said and did but they will never forget how you made them feel. So if you're going to create a lasting memory, you have to sound intelligent, emotionally intelligent as well. To do this, you have to forget about trying to prove a point, speak as audibly and as simple as you can. Use words that people can understand and relate with quickly. 3. Use a low pitch. Most times, people associate a high pitch with shyness and nervousness. So if you want to get people to listen to you, speak calmly and with a lower pitch, it projects confidence. However, in a beat to avoid using high pitch, try not to do too much downward vocal inflection or down talk so that you don't appear rude or confrontational. Better speak loudly enough so people farthest from you can hear but not so loudly that it's uncomfortable for those in front. You see, when you yell, it makes you sound insane rather than eloquent. 4. Use the right tenses.  You don't want a situation where you are mixing up present continuous verbs with a past tense.  For instance, people often misuse words like must of, could of and should of for must have, could have and should have. Although it's all in the pronunciation, if you get it wrong, your credibility will be instantly doubted. 5. Use pauses to create emphasis. Saurav Richardson, an English actor, said, the most precious stains in speech are the pauses. Silence is golden. That's a phrase you've probably heard countless times. And when it comes to eloquence, it indeed proves that it is golden. For instance, you can create suspense when you are about to say something important by pausing. It'll make people hang on to every word. Similarly, a pause after you've said something important emphasizes its importance and also gives your listeners enough time to reflect on it. 6. Be confident. Not in projecting intelligence as much as confidence. To be confident, you have to believe in yourself first. According to research, believing in yourself improves your performance on cognitive tasks. On the other hand, however, when you doubt yourself, it impairs your performance.  7. Mind your language. Communication is about a mix of your words and body language. Your body language can make your words powerful or not. For instance, when sitting, you can incline forward slightly to emphasize your points. Use your hands to highlight critical points.  Similarly, when you are downcast, it means you are already beaten down. Eloquence is more than just how you use your words. It's how you use your body language as well. When you realize this, it will help you communicate in a manner that people will love. If you stand up tall with a confident demeanor which owns space, while speaking clearly and confidently, you will automatically be assumed to be the head of the pack and therefore someone what listening to. Thank you very much for watching our videos. If you like this video, watch more videos on our channel and subscribe. We love you.


Happiness models a lot for not just you, but also the people around you. When you're happy, you'll have better health, greater resilience, thriving social relationships, higher productivity and reduced levels of stress, anxiety and depression. By extension, you can help people around you feel better about life and improve your productivity level as a result of the positive vibes they get from you. So you see, your happiness can affect the rest of the world in one little way or the other. Hence, the need to understand the concept of happiness better. Most importantly, you need to learn how to stay happy and positive as often as possible. In this video, I'll share with you 10 best books on happiness. If you're new here, consider subscribing so that you won't miss other exciting videos like this. 1. Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert According to Gilbert, the Harvard professor who wrote this book, we aren't very good at predicting what will make us happy. So the book helps us challenge our imagination of the future while striking a balance between feeling good enough to cope with a situation but bad enough to do something about it. It's all about using your emotions as a compass to tell you what to do. Gilbert explores psychology, behavioral economics, cognitive neuroscience, and philosophy to show what scientists have found about our ability to imagine the future and predict how happy we will be when we get there. 2. The Art of Happiness by Delilah Lamar In this book, Lamar explains the best way to deal with life when things get complicated and little frustrating. According to him, take a step back and remind yourself of your overall purpose and goal. Take the time to think about what brings you happiness and then rest your priorities accordingly. You'll be surprised at the new perspective that this can bring. When it does, you can make decisions in the direction of that perspective. 3. The How of Happiness by Sonja Diubomiske Why does happiness matter? How does it work? How can you create happiness for yourself? Diubomiske answers the three questions in this book. In her words, the coming-lastingly happy demands making some prominent changes that require effort and commitment every day of your life. Pursuing happiness takes work but consider that this happiness work may be the most rewarding work you'll ever do. Also, to reach your happiness potential, you have to be willing to exercise because the effects are not only instant but also lasting. 4. The Happy Life Formula by Nels Salzgeber Salzgeber's The Happy Life Formula explores how happiness works, outlines the 26 proven happiness-boosting strategies and finally shows you how to build a happy life. The book is more about practicing the theoretical facts that we already know about happiness. It's about learning how to incorporate happiness into every structure of our lives. 5. The Happiness Project or Why I spent a year trying to sink in the morning, clean my closets, fight rides, read a restitle and generally have more fun by Gretchen Rubin Rubin helps you feel comfortable about your life by being open enough to talk about her shortcomings and her willingness to address them. However, for people who might not be able to relate to her story because she is lucky enough to have grown amidst a healthy family with financial stability, Rubin's principles are universal. Anyone can apply them into their lives and get the same positive result. Some of Rubin's principles includes setting measurable goals in the areas of your life you want to improve such as marriage, parenting, work, self-fulfillment, etc. and building on those goals cumulatively with specific action steps. 6. The Happiness Advantage by Sean Acker Do you know how financial investment works? Okay, it's like this. When you invest today, your returns don't come in today. They come later in the future when you seem to appreciate it even more. Building new habits works in a similar pattern. Developing one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come. To build happiness that will last long, then you should be willing to learn and develop the right habits that will put you up for it. 7. Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman There's pleasure and then there's happiness. Pleasures are the fleeting bust of positive emotions we get from playing video games, watching movies, eating specific meals or having sex. Pleasures are easy to come by. They don't take much effort neither do they lead to true happiness.  Unlike pleasures, it is hard to create and it takes time. However, it leads to lasting satisfaction and fulfillment. 8. The Slight Edge, Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness by Jeff Olson Having dreams and aspirations are commendable. However, it is the small things we do at the moment that culminate and have a compound effect. So, you can achieve anything that you want but you have to realize that the only way to make it happen is not by taking quantum leaps.  9. The Happiness Strap, How to Stop Struggling and Start Leaving A Guide to Act by Ruiz Haris Have you ever heard of the concept of acceptance and commitment therapy? Well, Haris introduced it in this book, The Happiness Strap. Most people become miserable in their quest for happiness. However, if you learn to use the act introduced by Haris, you'll become clear on how to live in the present moment leading to satisfaction in life. The book explores how to handle negative feelings effectively and moves forward healthily. It's about learning to overcome habits that might be self-destructive. 10. Happier Human, Fifty-three Signs-Backed Habits to Increase Your Happiness by S.J. Scott and Amit A. When you ask a lot of people what they truly want in life, they say happiness. If that is the case, why then do they continually chase after things like money, fame and job advancement as a path to happiness when these things do almost nothing to increase happiness? Well, Scott and Amit provided answers to this question with so many science-backed methods to achieve greater happiness. There you go, enjoy a fantastic read. Thank you very much for watching our videos. If you like this video, watch more videos on our channel and subscribe. We love you.


I'm from a place in New Zealand that I can pronounce. So three is all the way to five. Hello and welcome to everyone. In Aotearoa, New Zealand, we have two official languages. Te Reo is the language of indigenous Māori and English. Te Reo is widely used in our education system, in our public sector and in our news media. So much so that many New Zealanders, particularly younger ones, are fractionally bilingual without even realising it. Language has been bringing up Te Reo after decades and decades of it being banned from being spoken in our schools and in most of our public spaces. Re-serving Te Reo and bringing it up into an elevated state has just been one way that our nation has tried to address the massive inequities of colonisation. And language has been an important part of the journey that we have been on at voice artists. I'm going to attempt the tricky thing. I'm going to attempt the tricky thing. I'm going to attempt the tricky thing. We are a charitable trust which means that we are not a prophet. We work to support the development, the cognitive and social and emotional wellbeing of older people, including those living with dementia. We work with approximately 200 odd people every week in open and closed community settings. We like to say that the exercise of the mind, the voice and the body and the fact that joy and laughter was the medicine and the class of voice arts is the prescription. We are a pākehā-led organisation. Pākehā means white European and our practice is a white European practice. Over the last 18 months, as an organisation, we have tried to discover ways that we can make our service and our spaces more recognisable to Māori kaumātua, Māori elders, and more aligned with tiau Māori, tiau meaning the world view of Māori, and language was where we standed. We recently adopted in New Zealand a te reo term for dementia after a range of consultations would come out to identify that the word dementia does not sit well with them. It's a Western word that has a lot of fear and stigma attached to it. So, we now have, I'm going to use the pākehā-led name. Yes, beautiful. We now have this term, mate wai wai. Mate refers to being simple, aiming wai wai means to forget. And so now we talk about dementia, mate wai wai, or sometimes just mate wai wai. In that same consultation, Kaumātua will ask, what is it that you need to feel agency and dignity in the support services that are now wrapped around you with a diagnosis of mate wai wai? And this is what one of the names of key things that they ask for. Tīkana, phenomena, which directly translates to social connection. They also ask for tātumādua, which directly translates to spaces for the open and healthy expression of emotion. They also wanted spaces that practiced. So, tīkana is the process and the protocols that work around spaces and are culturally sensitive to Māori and the tīau view of the world. If you are doing the phenomena, social connection, that you need kāi food. And if you are doing kāi, you need kaakia, which is prayer to acknowledge land and ancestors. So what we recognise as an organisation is that we were doing all of those things, but we were calling it that. And so that is the first thing that we had done, is now, can you look back? Yeah, awesome. So now that's what we do, and not just the material that we use to raise awareness about classes which are pretty evident to attend, but also in the classes themselves. And we use the language without the translation. So we talk about, we're going to take a break for kai, let's do a kaakia, and we come back with no use in passing on our language. And even in spaces where we do not have Māori participants, or we just have Akihau participants, the feedback on that change has been significant for us because people feel like it adds an element to the space that feels important for New Zealanders as we transition through this very nifty time. Every so often we get resistance because we work with older people and these changes are happening very, very fast and some people do not like them, but very rarely do we as facilitators need to deal with that because the group generally always call it out. The second thing that we try to do, so language is easy, right? We can do that really efficiently. The other thing that we wanted to try and look at was how we align the practice. And that's our pattern, but I had the beautiful gift of meeting an Acherangi, a teacher of Indigenous Māori games, and discovered, of course, the clay's universal. And he taught us a couple of beautiful Māori games that we now use in our dementia spaces. I just want to talk you through one very quickly. So this is a hand activity that's used to teach children the life cycle of planting from seed to harvesting. There's eight movements, and the first one, tāhi, is the ground, the second one, rūa, is the seed that goes into the ground, and toro is the first sprout that comes up. All together it looks like this. Tāhi, rūa, tō, whā, rīma, onu, vitu, wil. So eight movements, and we teach this game, we teach the purpose of it, we teach it in te reo, and when you use your hands like this, I don't know if you have a bird yet, but you know, brush your teeth with your non-dawn and hand, it's really amazing for your brain. This game is like that on steroids, and for people particularly with dementia, sometimes the movement of hands becomes incredibly difficult, so if you can teach activities, it's beautiful work for the brain, and then we ask people to build with their vines closed, and it doesn't matter what you've got, it's just about feeling it because we are embodied practice, and then when we've got it, we ask you to speed it up so you do it super fast to the point where there's cognitive chaos, the brain has tried too hard and now I can't do it. We create spaces in the work that we do for a lot of that. People who are living with dementia struggle with that experience all of the time, and they feel out in the world that there is judgement attached to that, and try to create that same experience of working the brain, but when you get that onto chaos, you celebrate it. Somebody, a lovely woman in one of our classes, young onset dementia, described it like catching a ball, if you throw in your ball and I catch it, I put the ball and I feel good because I put the ball, but if you throw in your ball and it goes over and I have to lean my body and move my hand and I go like this and onto the floor and the ball drops just past my hand, I did not get to the ball. But look what I've done in my body, look at the stretch and look at the energy that I have used, and if you can make the not getting the ball a celebration which you constantly will do, then there is beauty in that and a space where people really work their brains in ways that they don't in other spaces because it's safe. We like to say that if everybody does this right, it's very boring, so please don't. The third thing, I think I've only got a couple of minutes to speak to her quickly, the third thing that we did, and this just wasn't in prostitution, this was across the wall where people were asking for a service that travels the length of the disease. We really nice that we were doing a lot of work with people with young onset in those first mild dementia stages that as they advanced with the disease and to advance, Mātia Waiwai, that the work that we were doing just wasn't a line of cognitive gains and exercises. They were no longer able to participate in, but what they could still do and love to do was to perform. And so we did a pilot project last year where we ditched all of the games and exercises and we simply went in as improvisers and all we facilitated was scene work because we know how to make our scene partners look good, how to keep them safe, how to follow them on a journey to go wherever they need to be in that moment and that's an incredibly powerful project to be involved in because no matter where you are on this journey of life, or Mātia Waiwai, the capacity to be playfully performative never goes away and it was beautiful to see the agency awarded to those people by coming in and working as improvisers. Final slide, I just want to talk very briefly on the fact that when we did that pilot project we also wanted to get some dada, daga, daga, dada, dada and it's really hard to have a whole lot of money and a lot of time which we didn't, but what we used was we used clinical observations where we had clinicians come in and sit with us and observe the participants of five key things. Did they witness joy, the use of imagination, social connection, the use of physical body, overall engagement? We agreed that three was the average, three was a good day for people and anything over three was an extension brought on by the engagement in the program and that piece of dada, dada, for the first time got our organisation Health Funding from Tofashima Wai so now we sit very firmly on the crossroads which we've always knew we did the crossroads of art, social education and health and it's a hellishly difficult place to be in but an incredibly important place to be in so I just do not want you to be at crossroads they want you to be one or the other but we are holding firmly on to this case.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspeyscasewrakes.com coming at you with 2020, 2021 Panini Prism Premier League, English Premier League, the EPL, soccer, two box, random country break, or random club break number 20. Big thanks to these folks right here. There's all the clubs right there. Let's roll it, let's randomize it. Four and a six, 10 times for names and clubs. One, two, three, four, and a 10th and final time. After 10, we've got Robert down to Brenton. 10 times for the clubs, and a 10th and final time. There we go. Liverpool, that's my club on top. Down to Fulham in the 18th spot right there. All right, so Robert with Liverpool. Taylor with Tottenham, Robert with Manchester United. Nick with Wolverampton. Aston Villain Burnley for Robert. Brenton with Westham United. Robert with Leicester, Arsenal, Crystal Palace Leeds. Chelsea Everton, Matthew with Newcastle. Robert with Brighton in Man City. Taylor with Southampton. Michael with Sheffield. And Westbrom and Bretton with Fulham. Let's sort this by club right here. Let me know if there's any trades while I select a couple random boxes from the back. All right, that's about as random as it's gonna get. All right, TWC, trade with no clothes. Looks like not even a whisper of a trade. Let's print and rip. Lot of great value in this soccer, boys and girls. All right, so remember, kind of put some X's over that line right there. So you know it's from the same case. And there's the final printout right there. Thanks for getting in, hanging with me on a Thursday night, everybody. It's not Thursday? Oh, there's a Bukai Osaka already. That's for Arsenal, that'll be for Robert. Nice. Is that hanger box flying now? Oh, down to seven. All right, well, maybe I will post another, another hanger box. So if you're listening, if you've been kind of eyeballing that super expensive random hit spot in Eminence, ladies and gentlemen, now's the time to get it before I take it out for another, for another, for the last film. So time to act now. Right, Bukai Osaka is one of the big names in this Premier League soccer, young up and coming star for Arsenal, Robert with that one. And remember, all card ship, and for those of you not too familiar with soccer, it's worth probably looking up every one of these because you might be surprised at how some of these may sell. 99 out of 99, Tyrick Mitchell for Crystal Palace. Paul Pogba, we got Harvey Barnes in Sin Impact, John Flett, 79 out of 135 for Sheffield. Gonna be Michael Golder with Blades. Man United, Robert. Phil Foden playing some good football, so is Bruno Fernandez. Nice one for Man United. My rivals, Manchester City, running away with the league. There's Ainsley, Maitland Niles for Arsenal, Robert. And another, Daniel Poditz, another numbered card right here to 149, that's for Nick Coba, and the Wolverhampton Wanderers. I guess Chris Basham wanted to make an appearance. There he is, to 199, another one for Sheffield, Michael. And got a Silver Jaumatinho. Nice Silver for the Wolves. Let's say one of those Harry Canes, too. Nice Curtis Jones for Liverpool. One of the young up and coming stars for Liverpool Football Club. And Robert Runkel has Liverpool. Here's another rookie hyper, Vatinha. Wolves, Nick Coba. We've got Josh Onoma for Fulham, Retton with Fulham. And we've got, for Westham, nine out of 25, Andre Jarmalenko. Second half of this box. We've got a Douglas-Louise to 135 for Aston Villa. Robert, Marcus Rashford for Man United. There's Mohammed Salah for Liverpool. All of these are Robert Runkel teams. David McGoldrick, Pink Wave. Southampton is Taylor. Reese Nelson to 149, Arsenal. There's Obama Yang. And there's the Otto. The autograph's gonna be Casper Schmeichel. Robert with Leicester City. Nice. Of course, his dad, famous keeper as well, Peter Schmeichel. 59, check that, 69. Nice, out of 99. We've got a couple of other things right here, too. We've got a Silver Rookie, Brandon Williams. Manchester United, one to hold on to. Hellman Sun, fireworks insert. Tottenham, Taylor with Tottenham. We've got Johnny Evans for Leicester. Issa Diop to 199. Westham United, Timo Werner, and Tammy Abram. Chelsea. All right, second box. Ooh, okay, so that hanger box is sold out. I guess we've given the high rollers enough time. Here, a standby on the soccer break. If you're rewatching this on the replay, you can just fast forward through this part. All right, so I'm taking out that final spot. We're gonna post our last filler for Eminence. So 33 and 34, okay. All right, the last one is loaded up on the site right now, break 34. If we can do that by the end of, if we, I'll do this break, the next pack break, and if that other one sells out by the end of that, we'll be able to do Eminence tonight. In fact, I think I'm gonna say that all other breaks will go tomorrow. Let's just focus on that last pack. Let's just everybody focus on that pack and let's close out the night with Eminence. Even if you're not involved in Eminence, it's a fun break to watch. Fun spectator break too. We got Gundogan for Manchester City, Robert. With that one, we've got a couple nice cards here. We got Tomas Susek for Westham United, Britain. We've got the Patrick Bamford to 149 for the Leeds. That'll be for the Crystal Pass Leeds combo for Robert. And here's a nice Hyunmin Son card. It's a regular base card, but for him, these will do pretty well on the secondary market. That goes to Taylor and Tottenham. Maybe we can find a little color, a little parallel for him. That'd be even better. Christian Polisik, Paul Pogba, and Anwar Al Ghazi for Aston Villa, 008 out of 199. What if impeccable fills? I mean, we could do it, I guess, but we still need to do that impeccable in like three more fillers. My guess that probably won't happen in the next 30 minutes. But if that happens, sure, why not? That's a fat, that's a pretty quick break. I'll do it. There's Takumi Minamino who's out on loan to another club right now, I forget which. Mason Mount for Chelsea. Ooh, and we got some gold coming up. Let's see who it's gonna be. It is Antonio Rudiger, three out of 10 for Chelsea. That's for Robert. You went to high school with Christian Polisik, says Dante. Out in Pennsylvania, Hershey. Ready? There's Nice Fulham, there's Craven Cottage, that's where they play. It's for Brenton. And here's a Fireworks Bukayo Saka for Arsenal, nice. Yeah, he may be our best chance Christian Polisik for a success in American soccer. There's a rookie Sam Johnstone, Fireworks Silver for West Brom for Michael. Hershey, hi, there he is.  Did you recognize that he was something special? There's Tres Guzzette, Trey Guzzette for Aston Villa. And we've got Leandro Toussard, Trosard 58 out of 99. That's Brighton, Robert. There's Rookie Emil Kraft for Newcastle, Matthew. Rookie Silver, you're rooting for him now. There's John Ludström for Sheffield and Romain Sawyers for West Brom. It's for Michael Golder, with both actually. West Brom is comboed with Blade Sheffield. Gotcha, you're not huge in soccer, but everyone was aware of him. It was pretty much a given he was gonna be special. Nice. There's Thomas Susek to 135. I think that's gonna be, that one Jay is gonna be probably be tomorrow. We're trying to focus on knocking out that Eminence tonight, which might be one of our last breaks of the evening. Well, not a single spot taken on the last filler. We're gonna need more work than that, folks. There's John Egan, if we wanna get that done tonight. And Allen for Everton. And the final autograph in this break is Patrick Vieira. 10 out of 15, nice low number autograph for Man City. That's gonna be for Robert. 10 out of 15, nice. And then we've got Incident Impact Christian Polisic, right back here for Chelsea. And that is that, my friends. There you go. That was quick little two box random club break number 20 of 2020. Panini Prism Premier League. Some nice soccer right here, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Hello, this is Hans van der Kwas, Senior Lecturer at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education. In this video I'm going to show you how to mosaic raster images that are in different UTM projections, different UTM zones. Often when we download global data it's in the geographic coordinate system, but sometimes the tiles are in UTM coordinates. In this example we have 12 images from the globlant 30 dataset, and we see in the layer properties that some are in zone 42, some in 43 and some in 44, and that poses a problem when we want to mosaic. The easiest way to mosaic large raster datasets is to build a virtual raster.  So here we select all, click OK, and always make sure that place each input file into a separate band is unchecked, and for the rest we can use the defaults, and in this case I don't save it to a disk but keep it as a temporary layer, and here we see the result and this doesn't look like the mosaic that we want because it should look exactly the same as the input. So let's remove this layer and do it in the correct way, and that is that we convert all these layers to the geographic coordinate system, EPSG4326, and that would be a lot of work if we would go clicking, so I made a little batch file here, and it says that for each file in and then all the TIFF files that it finds in the folder do, and then echo means print the name of the file, the TIFF part is the part of the file name before the dot, and then execute GDOLWARP which is the reprojection, T underscore SRS is the projection to which we want to reproject, which is EPSG4326, and I define a no data value that's needed to mask the filled up areas after reprojection, and I use the value 0, and then the input file is %f, that is the file, and then I save it to a folder reprojected, and I use %tildeNF for the part before the dot, and then I add underscore GCS.TIFF, and that forms then the output file name. So in order to execute this GDOL command, GDOLWARP, we need to run it in the OSGO4W shell that you can find with your QGIS installation. I go to the ZDRIVE where I stored it into the folder merge, and there I find all the TIFF files, and the world files, the world files are the TFW files, and I made a folder reprojected, and then I simply run the batch file, and go for a coffee because that will take a while, and here I have done it 10 times faster, but it's still faster than doing this for 12 layers manually in the QGIS interface, so these kind of scripts are always very useful. So let's see the result, go to the reprojected folder, and there I see my reprojected files. Let's open them in QGIS, I remove the original ones, not to get confused when I want to later mosaic it, select it, and there it is, and it looks good. So now we can build the virtual raster again, select all, okay, and then I can run it. You see it's pretty fast, this virtual layer, and there it is, and you can further process it from here as one layer.


This will be an experiment to measure the speed of sound. Now we know the speed is the change in distance over the change in time. So our method is going to be to measure how far sound travels in a certain amount of time, and then take the distance it traveled and divide it by the amount of time. Now the way this experiment is usually done is over a much greater distance than we're going to be using in the laboratory here. For example, you might use, you might station people at opposite ends of a football field. And at one end of the field you have somebody smashing two trash can lids together. And at the other end of the field you have someone with a stopwatch who times how long it takes from when that person sees the trash can lids actually contact each other to when they actually hear the sound. And there is a noticeable time delay there. Now since we're just going to be working over the space of this table we don't have those long distances. We're going to have a much shorter period of time which you won't be able to use a stopwatch. We'll have to use a different way to measure the time. But we will be able to do that successfully. Here's some of the equipment that we'll be using. One piece is this flash unit. This is just a standard flash that you might put on top of a camera. Let's give it a flash here. This device is not quite so standard. It's a sound-actuated trigger. It's composed of a microphone right here inside this little audio amplifier. And the way it works is I'll turn it on here and when it receives a sound it automatically sets off that flash. Okay. And we have two of those. Over here is another flash with its own sound trigger. I'll turn that one on. Okay. Now here's basically the plan of the experiment.  And then the sound will take some time to travel along here and it will set off the second one. Let's try that right now. You keep an eye on the two flashes. Once more. Now I'm sure you couldn't tell that there was a time delay between those two flashes. The time interval is just too short. So that means we're going to have to have another piece of equipment in order to measure that short time interval. So I'll show you that piece of equipment next. This is a device that I'll use to measure the short time intervals that we're going to have in this experiment. Now there's nothing special about it. It used to be a fan. One of these clip fans that clipped to the table. I took off the fan blades and replaced it with this cardboard disc painted black with a white line on it. And you can think of this as a high speed clock. And so the white line is the hand of our clock and let's see how fast it goes. It goes so fast that normally you can't actually see it turning. But with the flashes we will be able to see the line at a particular instance of time. Let's see that right now. So I'll begin by turning the flashes around now to face the disc. I'll turn on this trigger. And you can see that when the flash goes off you get a very sharp image of the line on the disc. And that's because this flash is only lasting about a 30,000th of a second. Let me turn the other one on. And now if I make a sound right here you'll see two images of a hand on the clock. And that's because when the sound reaches this microphone the flash goes off and you get one image. And then time passes and it reaches the other microphone and that flash goes off and you get the second image and the disc will have turned during that time. Far enough so that you can see the angle between them. And that angle we will find will be a measure of the amount of time that passed from one sound trigger to the other one. In order to use the clock to measure the amount of time we will need to know the angle between the two images of the clock hand but we need to know something else. We need to know how fast that clock is turning. To find that out we'll use a stroboscope and use a method like was shown to you in a previous clip. I'm going to set the stroboscope for a frequency of 50 flashes per second because I want to make the disc go around 50 times per second. I've got a variable speed control here and I'll adjust that and I get that should be pretty nearly 50 rotations per second. It's a little bit different but it's close enough for what we're doing here. It'll change slightly. So now we know the frequency of the motor. I'll make one more addition to the equipment. I'll put colored filters on the flash units. Green filter for the left flash and a red filter for the right flash. The reason for this is that the hand that shows up on the clock for each of the flashes will be a different color and so we'll easily be able to distinguish between the flashes and see which one went off first. Let's just take a look at that. I'll make a sound here and you can see both the red and the green image on the disc. You can also tell which one went off first because the disc is rotating clockwise and when you look at the hands, the green one appears in that particular case at about the 1 o'clock position and the red at about the 2 o'clock position. The red one went off a little bit later because sound had to travel further to reach it. Now to test the triggers to make sure that they respond in the same way, I put them both together and make the sound out front so that the sound travels the same distance to each microphone. In that case, the two images of the hand should be on top of each other and they should look neither red nor green but maybe probably white and you can see that's the case. Now we're ready to do the experiment. I'll begin by placing the left trigger at the 10 centimeter mark on the meter stick and the right trigger at the 70 centimeter mark that means the distance between them is 60 centimeters. I'll produce a sound with the two blocks out here on the end in line with the two microphones that's so that the time between the flashes will correspond to the distance between the microphones. Here it goes. Now you can see the angle is quite a bit less than the 90 degrees that we're trying to achieve so what I need to do is move the triggers farther apart so I'm going to put this one right in the middle there now at 100 centimeters so the distance between them now is 90 centimeters. Here we go again. Still quite a bit less than 90 degrees. Let's make a bigger change. I'll go out to 140 centimeters there so the distance now is 130 centimeters between sound triggers. Still a little bit less than 90 but we're getting close. Let's try almost the other end of the table, 180. So the difference between them now is 170 centimeters. That looks pretty close to 90 degrees so let's use those particular results. So our data then is the distance between the sound triggers is 1.70 meters. The angle on the disc is 90 degrees and the frequency of the disc is 50 rotations per second so we'll now use that information to calculate the speed of sound.


I'm First Lieutenant Mark Andrew Badilia, Filipinaibi Marines. I'm the commanding officer of the 17th Marine Company Field Artillery Battalion. The training that we have done in previous days, so we conducted training with the other US Marines who are from the artillery. So we just visited their fire base and then conducted a kind of across training with them.  So my unit, the 17th Marine Company, we conducted a registration fire. So we are using the 105 M101A1 Hawitzer. So together with the other Philippine Marine personnel, the Marine amphibious ready unit. So for the integration of the call for fire and observed fire procedure. So training with the US Marines, especially the artillery men, so our counterpart. So we have been familiarized with their capabilities. We can integrate with them during combat operations. And then we have also learned how they operate their system and the same goes with them to us. And we have shared different tactics, techniques and procedures and other best practices in implementing and being proficient in our training. Balikatan, a yearly training with the other Allied forces like the US Marines. So it is an important training with us so that we can test our TTPs, our dog trains, our SOPs. And then applied improvement and integrate in our system and maybe enhance our combat operations in the future. So it's kind of great working with other Marines, especially the US Marines. So it's kind of like brothers from other nations. So we kind of integrate our system then having to know each other, building a good camaraderie with one another. The Philippine Marines was patterned in the US Marines. So it's really an important factor that we can train with them so that we can upgrade our system, improve our techniques in applying in combat operations and introduce to different system that they are using right now. One of the challenges is that this year's Balikatan is the biggest Balikatan I've known so far. So there are a lot of participants not only in the US Marines but also in different plans of service in the US. So it's really kind of challenging because we need to work with different units. But basically we have heard of those challenges by helping one another. Working with the US Armed Forces help us better our training, be proficient in our operations. And as a soldier, we have a compelling mandate to protect our country, protect our nations. So working alongside with the US Armed Forces sends a message that we are committed to defending and instilling these regions to be more stable and secure. The greatest success of this Balikatan is working alongside with our US counterpart. So it really gives us great privilege of working with them, especially sharing the knowledge and the skills that they have because I believe they are very proficient in their task as soldiers. So it helps us promote and poster a good camaraderie with them and hopefully continue working with them in the future. I am very privileged and honored to work with the US Marines especially. So we have a great time here and looking forward for the upcoming activities here in Balikatan. Thank you.


Felly, rhai gwnaeth ymrheiddi Serene Rabasi, a dyna'r CEO i'r Galdan. Galdan was created just to showcase the stories of people that are of colour. Could you describe what you do in 15 words or fewer? We are committed to making sure that we showcase the voices of those that are typically underrepresented within the media industry. We are super proud also because we give many people their first byline. Cyfw cook although we were known for our magazine But we are actually so much more of that We are actually a media company What advice would you give to a 10-year-old you? I would give the advice of back yourself I think backing yourself is really important To be fair I kind of did that, as a 10-year-old I was very very confident And I would also give the advice of ask for what you want Who would play you in the movie of your life? Who would play me in a movie of my life? Can I play myself? Is that possible? There's no kind of actor that's really standing out to me that I feel is worthy enough. Is there anything that you'd like to achieve that you haven't yet? I'd love for us to get to a point where we've got local voices in every single territory across the globe. That is kind of like the goal.  The people that need to have access to us because they just feel like they don't see themselves represented. I'm not just talking about like phenotypically, you know, I think we have to kind of get away from that notion of kind of representation literally just being like ethnicity or gender. I'm also like talking in regards to like actually do I see someone that has the same ethos? Where we want to get to is where we actually change policies from a standpoint where we're not actually working with the government, but we can create such a huge noise where, you know, a bit like a Marcus Rashford, for instance, where we can actually change people's lives because the government actually start paying attention. If you could immediately put right one injustice in the UK, what would it be and why? It would be about us having more of a conversation around class. You know class isn't even a protected characteristic in the UK and because of that people can actually discriminate against people based on their class and there's nothing legally to protect them. I think a lot of the conversations that were born out of the Black Lives Matter movement have had a direct result in us having more of a conversation around class within the mainstream actually. Even like the reframing of like the working class, it's now being framed as working people and there's more of a discourse than there definitely was two, three years ago. Which is the most important human right to you? There's no universal human right. It doesn't exist because if it did exist, people wouldn't be drowning in, you know, the channel trying to get over here. So I couldn't like wouldn't be able to pinpoint one human right in particular. I think it's just us acknowledging each other as full humans as we all are. And with that comes the full breadth of what human rights should be. Do you have any ideas about how to heal the divisions in society right now? I think actually it starts with the conversations around class. I do believe that class is one of the few identities that sit across all different walks of people. Class exists in three ways. You've got your economic, you've got your social and you have got your cultural. Now what we do at Galdam, we give people opportunities that don't have that inherited, you know, black book that some people acquire from their families. And I think if we can unite, which we're seeing, you know, with, you know, obviously trade unions have always existed. We've just unionized, which I'm feeling so proud about. And so yeah, I think it's us acknowledging how class is the governing tool that has suppressed the vast majority of us with the exception of the landed elite class.